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Summary

Follow-up to the 2026-06 validation-rule liveness audit (docs/audits/2026-06-validationschema-property-liveness.md), completing its two remaining recommendations after #3106 / #3184. No runtime behavior change — documentation, a form-schema cleanup, and one docs pointer. Both audit recommendations were investigated and resolved the non-breaking way (document, not delete/merge), because the evidence showed the aggressive versions carry real cost:

  • label / description / tags are not dead — they're surfaced to the Studio validation-rule editor form (via the /meta/types form schema) and to rule listings, and are set by nearly every example rule. Deleting them would be a breaking TS change to authored metadata. Documented as governance/editor metadata (declared on purpose, not evaluated on the write path) instead of removed.
  • cross_field is script + a fields[0] error-label hint — same CEL predicate path. A merge would break discriminated-union parsing of existing cross_field metadata and drop a capability script can't express (script has no fields). Documented the overlap on the schema, its fields.describe(), and the validation docs so authors can choose; kept the variant.

Changes

  • packages/spec/src/data/validation.zod.ts — doc block on BaseValidationSchema clarifying label/description/tags are governance/editor metadata, not write-path-evaluated; a note + fields.describe() on CrossFieldValidationSchema documenting the script overlap and fields[0]-only semantics.
  • packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts — removed dead entries (scope, caseSensitive, url, handler) and the stale type=unique hint from the hand-written HAND_CRAFTED_SCHEMAS['validation'] form fallback (leftovers from the removed unique/async/custom variants; the type/events enums there were already fixed in fix(spec): trim dead 'delete' member from validation-rule events enum #3189).
  • content/docs/data-modeling/validation.mdx — added the missing beforeDelete pointer to the "not a rule type" callout (delete-time guards) and a cross_field-vs-script overlap callout.
  • content/docs/references/data/validation.mdx — regenerated.
  • .changeset/ — patch.

Related — issues filed from the same PD #10events-enum audit

This follow-up also ran a broader "declared ≠ enforced" sweep of every events-style enum in the spec. Findings filed as separate issues (out of scope here):

Verification

spec suite 256 files / 6885 tests green, objectql suite 71 files / 954 tests green, check:docs 256 generated files in sync, spec + metadata-protocol builds green, eslint clean.

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…t overlap; tidy stale form mirror
Follow-up to the 2026-06 validation liveness audit (#3106 / #3184). No runtime
behavior change — documentation, a form-schema cleanup, and a docs pointer:
- Document that label/description/tags are governance/editor metadata (surfaced
to the Studio rule editor, not evaluated on the write path). Kept, not removed:
they're set by nearly every example rule and feed the /meta/types editor form,
so they're declared on purpose rather than silent no-ops.
- Document that cross_field evaluates identically to script (same CEL predicate);
only fields[0] is read, to target the violation at a field. Noted on the schema,
its fields .describe(), and the validation docs. Variant kept for the
field-targeting affordance + backward compatibility (removing it would break
discriminated-union parsing of existing cross_field metadata).
- Remove dead form-field entries (scope/caseSensitive/url/handler) and the stale
type=unique hint from the hand-written HAND_CRAFTED_SCHEMAS['validation'] fallback
in metadata-protocol — leftovers from the removed unique/async/custom variants.
- Add the missing beforeDelete pointer to the docs' "not a rule type" callout so
delete-time guards aren't stranded (validation has no delete event since #3184).
Regenerated content/docs/references/data/validation.mdx.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VCUSMJBsX14C3RQdWFw7N7
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📓 Docs Drift Check

This PR changes 2 package(s): @objectstack/metadata-protocol, @objectstack/spec.

102 hand-written doc(s) reference the affected code and may need an implementation-accuracy re-verification:

  • content/docs/ai/agents.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ai/skills-reference.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ai/skills.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/api/client-sdk.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/api/environment-routing.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/api/error-catalog.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/api/error-handling-client.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/api/error-handling-server.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/api/index.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/automation/approvals.mdx(via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/automation/flows.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/automation/hook-bodies.mdx(via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/automation/hooks.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/automation/index.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
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  • content/docs/concepts/architecture.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/design-principles.mdx(via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/index.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/metadata-driven.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/metadata-lifecycle.mdx(via @objectstack/metadata-protocol, packages/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/north-star.mdx(via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/analytics.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/drivers.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/external-datasources.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/field-types.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/fields.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/formulas.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
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  • content/docs/data-modeling/validation-rules.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
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  • content/docs/deployment/troubleshooting.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/getting-started/build-with-claude-code.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
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  • content/docs/getting-started/examples.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
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  • content/docs/getting-started/quick-start.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/getting-started/validating-metadata.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
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  • content/docs/kernel/contracts/data-engine.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
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  • content/docs/kernel/contracts/metadata-service.mdx(via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/kernel/contracts/storage-service.mdx(via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/kernel/index.mdx(via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/kernel/runtime-services/email-service.mdx(via packages/spec)
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  • content/docs/kernel/runtime-services/storage-service.mdx(via packages/spec)
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  • content/docs/plugins/adding-a-metadata-type.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
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  • content/docs/plugins/index.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/plugins/packages.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/backward-compatibility.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/diagram.mdx(via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/kernel/config-resolution.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/kernel/i18n-standard.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/kernel/lifecycle.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/kernel/plugin-spec.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/kernel/runtime-capabilities.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/knowledge.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectql/index.mdx(via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectql/query-syntax.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectql/schema.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectql/security.mdx(via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectql/state-machine.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectui/actions.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectui/concept.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectui/index.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
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  • content/docs/ui/actions.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ui/create-vs-edit-form.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ui/dashboards.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
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  • content/docs/ui/index.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ui/public-data-collection.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ui/setup-app.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ui/translations.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ui/views.mdx(via @objectstack/spec)

Advisory only. To re-verify, run the docs-accuracy-audit workflow scoped to these files:
node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs origin/main → pass the list as args.docs.

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