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Part of #5320. Part of #8070. (Deliberately not Fixes — this PR lands only the vocabulary half; the tighten and the producer adoption land in the follow-up PR, which closes both cards.)

What this is (step 1 of the ruled sequence)

The 2026-08-12 fork ruling on #5320 adopted option B plus A's mechanical half: before the runtime registration loop tightens views: to the declared container-only contract, runtime-assembled manifests need a declared way to carry the three artifact classes the fork measured as stack-schema-refused yet metadata-door-legal — expanded viewKind items, tenant-authored standalone ViewItems, and flattened overlays.

This PR declares that home in packages/spec:

  • AssembledViewArtifactSchema (src/ui/assembled-views.zod.ts) — one entry of an assembled manifest's viewItems: collection. Built from VIEW_METADATA_MEMBERS minus container, so the assembled channel and the metadata door cannot drift into two vocabularies. Strictly schema'd (the wire members .strip(); no passthrough bags).
  • partitionAssembledViewArtifacts — the producer-side re-aggregation (A's mechanical half), shared by every manifest assembler for the same reason expandViewContainer lives in spec: the derivability question ("will the import side's expansion of this container reproduce this item exactly?") must run the expansion, not a re-implementation. Containers travel in views:; exactly-derivable expanded items fold away (reported in folded); standalone items, overlays, and edited/personalised expanded items always travel in viewItems:.
  • ObjectStackDefinition.viewItems — declared as an always-refusing key (the retiredKey() mechanism applied to a machine-only key): a hand-authored viewItems: fails tsc (input type never) and fails parse with the prescription, instead of being silently stripped by the non-strict stack root. Decision documented in the module header: the channel is machine-assembled, not a second authoring spelling.

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api-surface/ui.json and export-origins/ui.json regenerated (additions only — the new exports). check:generated green; check:authorable-surface green with no manifest/surface churn (the new export is a union, which mints no authorable object keys). check:stack-collection-maps green with no new waivers (the viewItems key is deliberately not a z.array(XSchema) collection, so no enumeration site owes it a row).

Verification

For the landing relay

This PR carries regenerated spec artifacts — it should enter the spec landing relay ahead of the follow-up PR (claude/issue-5320-views-vocabulary-and-tighten), which consumes these exports in packages/runtime (export partition), packages/objectql (the tighten), and packages/lint (third-gate alignment).

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…facts in assembled manifests (#5320)
Option B of the 2026-08-12 fork ruling on #5320: runtime-assembled manifests
(package export, environment artifacts) get a DECLARED home for the view
artifacts the authored stack vocabulary refuses — expanded viewKind items,
tenant-authored standalone ViewItems, flattened overlays.
- AssembledViewArtifactSchema: the non-container branches of the view metadata
vocabulary, built from VIEW_METADATA_MEMBERS minus container (no drift).
- partitionAssembledViewArtifacts: producer-side re-aggregation (A's mechanical
half) — containers travel in views:, exactly-derivable expanded items fold
away, everything else travels in viewItems:.
- ObjectStackDefinition.viewItems: declared always-refusing (machine-assembled
only) so a hand-authored viewItems fails tsc and parse with the prescription
instead of being silently stripped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012MNV7ZSCjNfA38eDCjsXQL
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@github-actionsgithub-actionsBot added documentation Improvements or additions to documentation tests protocol:ui tooling labels Aug 13, 2026
…lias, root re-exports, INVALID_METADATA provenance row (#5320)
- isViewContainerShaped: ONE classifier for producers (partition) and the
consumer (the registration loop's views: tighten) — two classifiers would let
an assembler emit an entry the importer refuses.
- AssembledViewArtifactParsed (ADR-0122 alias convention).
- Root index re-exports the assembled-views vocabulary (the engine imports
from the package root).
- ERROR_CODE_LEDGER: INVALID_METADATA provenance row under @objectstack/objectql
(third emitter — the views: tighten and the viewItems: channel refuse 422).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012MNV7ZSCjNfA38eDCjsXQL
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