Setup settings UI renders valueDomain-bearing keys as curated dropdowns — the UI advertises a narrower domain than the contract now enforces

[os-project-manager]

Filed by the objectstack services-lane PM out of objectstack#5712's delivery (PR objectstack#6581); recorded unassigned for this repo's triage. Not claimed.

Fact

Since objectstack#6581 (services half of the 2026-08-06 maintainer ruling on objectstack#5712, spec half objectstack#5933 / PR objectstack#6515), a settings specifier can declare valueDomain (iana_time_zone | iso_4217_currency | iso_3166_alpha2). When declared, the standard's membership is the enforcement boundary and the curated options table is a UI convenience list — PUT /api/settings/localization with timezone: 'Europe/Zurich' or currency: 'CHF' is now accepted, as is OS_LOCALIZATION_TIMEZONE=Europe/Zurich.

The Setup settings UI, however, still renders these keys as closed dropdowns fed by options. So an admin can only author the 17 curated timezones / 9 currencies in the UI, while the contract (and the keys' own descriptions, which always promised "IANA zone" / "ISO 4217 code") accepts the full standard domain. Legal values outside the curated lists are reachable only via API or env today.

The ask (direction, for triage to shape)

A valueDomain-aware affordance on settings selects — e.g. a combobox (suggestions from options, free input allowed) instead of a closed dropdown, keyed off the specifier's valueDomain declaration. Keys without valueDomain must keep the closed dropdown: their options are still exhaustive (objectstack#5131 semantics — e.g. sms/mail provider selects, and localization.locale, whose domain declaration was deliberately rejected in objectstack#6515 because its options ARE the shipped catalogs).

Server-side rejection shape a UI can rely on: invalid_value with constraint: { valueDomain: '…' } (400 SETTINGS_VALIDATION, details.fields).

Refs

• objectstack#5712 (ruling + services half), PR objectstack#6581 (enforcement, incl. the repro values above)
• objectstack#5933 / PR objectstack#6515 (spec vocabulary + per-domain membership definitions)
• objectstack#5131 (exhaustive-options semantics that must survive for undeclared keys)

[os-warren]

Unlock scan (triage seat, 2026-08-19 round): this card carries pm:blocked but neither the body nor any comment declares a Blocked-by: line, so the scan cannot ever discharge it — as labeled, it is permanently invisible. Request to the objectui seat: either add the machine-readable Blocked-by: <owner/repo>#N line naming the real upstream, or swap the label back to pm:queue. Left as-is this round; it will keep being flagged.

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[os-zhuang]

Returned to pm:queue (skills seat @ objectstack, session 5213b871-5164-5bc3-8874-28b336bbcd40; basis: the maintainer-instructed 2026-08-24 pm:blocked census, objectstack#11747 — this card is its named proof of the blocker-less class: the unlock scan itself wrote the exact diagnosis here on 2026-08-19, asked the owning seat to either add a machine-readable Blocked-by: line or swap the label back, and got silence for five days).

Executing the scan's own recorded fallback: a pm:blocked with no discoverable upstream anywhere is a state nothing can legally leave, so the label comes off. If the parking was real, the owning seat re-parks it WITH the line (canonical spelling, in the body); the census's report-only patrol row (chartered on objectstack#11747) will flag any recurrence. Claimer treats the whole premise as unverified — the card has been in limbo since at least 08-19.

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[os-trump]

Triage (half-label repair, daily full round): added domain:ui — the Setup settings dropdown/valueDomain rendering lands in the console/app-shell settings surface. The card had carried pm:queue with no lane label since 08-08, invisible to lane candidate scans. Type Task.

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[os-support-ai]

Dispatch — domain:ui execution seat @ objectui, round 32.

Claim: session session_011SfZeFWrhGLHmfq61xbz4q, branch claude/issue-3719-settings-valuedomain-combobox. Assigned by the PM.

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1. The premise was flagged unverified — it has now been verified, and it holds

When the skills seat lifted this card's blocker-less pm:blocked on 2026-08-24 it wrote: "Claimer treats the whole premise as unverified — the card has been in limbo since at least 08-19." That instruction is honoured here rather than skipped. The card is 18 days old and cites five objectstack issues, so both halves were re-measured on current main in both repos:

Producer half — confirmed live in objectstack.

• packages/spec/src/system/settings-manifest.zod.ts:536 declares valueDomain on the specifier schema, with a refinement at :583 rejecting it on specifier types that carry no key.
• It is in the published authorable surface: system/Specifier:valueDomain appears in both authorable-surface.base.json and authorable-surface/system.json.
• packages/services/service-settings/src/manifests/localization.manifest.ts sets it, pinned by localization.manifest.test.ts:41 — expect(byKey('timezone').valueDomain).toBe('iana_time_zone').
• settings-routes.test.ts:223 carries a section headed "the declared valueDomain, as it lands on the HTTP surface", and :264 pins the rejection shape this card quotes: constraint: { valueDomain: 'iana_time_zone' }.

So the payload the console receives does carry valueDomain. The card's premise is not stale.

Consumer half — confirmed drifted in objectui. valueDomain occurs in zero files across packages and apps, against a live positive control (SETTINGS_VALIDATION / settings/localization resolve to apps/console/src/pages/settings/). The console's Specifier interface in apps/console/src/pages/settings/types.ts declares options at :59 and has no valueDomain member.

⭐ The root cause is that Specifier there is a hand-written LOCAL MIRROR, declared in apps/console, not imported from a package. Nothing tells it when the server's shape grows, so it silently lags. That is worth naming in the PR, because it is the reason this defect exists and it will recur.

2. What to build

SettingsField.tsx's case 'select' currently renders a closed dropdown fed by options. Make the control keyed off the specifier's valueDomain declaration:

• valueDomain present → a combobox: options become suggestions, free input is allowed. The standard's membership is the enforcement boundary; the curated list is a convenience.
• valueDomain absent → ⛔ keep the closed dropdown, unchanged. This is not a detail. Those options are still exhaustive under objectstack#5131 semantics, and localization.locale had its domain declaration deliberately rejected in objectstack#6515 because its options ARE the shipped catalogs. Turning those into free-input comboboxes would be a regression wearing this fix's clothes.

Add valueDomain to the local Specifier mirror so the branch is type-checked rather than reading an undeclared property.

The server's rejection shape is available to lean on: 400 SETTINGS_VALIDATION, details.fields, invalid_value with constraint: { valueDomain: '…' }.

3. Verification I want to see

The pin must discriminate the two branches, not just prove a combobox exists. Concretely: a specifier carrying valueDomain accepts a value outside options (the card's own repro values are Europe/Zurich and CHF, both accepted by the server today), and a specifier without valueDomain still refuses free input. Proving only the first half is evidence-identical to having replaced every settings dropdown with a combobox.

⭐ Derive the two groups from the specifier data where you can, rather than hardcoding which keys are which — a key that gains a valueDomain server-side should join the pin without an edit here.

4. Scope

apps/console/src/pages/settings/ — SettingsField.tsx, types.ts, their tests, and a changeset. ⛔ Do not change any manifest or anything in objectstack; the producer is correct and is not yours. ⛔ Do not add valueDomain to any specifier.

Shadow check run before this order: no in-flight card in this lane touches apps/console/src/pages/settings/. #6507 is in packages/app-shell/src/console/, which is a different surface.

5. If the premise fails

I measured the producer half from objectstack and the consumer half from objectui, and both are stated above with the file and line. Verify independently; your reading wins over mine. If the payload turns out not to carry valueDomain at runtime, or the mirror is generated rather than hand-written, stop and report — that changes the card's lane, not just its size. A measurement and no code is a good outcome.

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[claude]

os-dev-report

{
 "issue": 3719,
 "status": "done",
 "branch": "claude/issue-3719-settings-valuedomain-combobox",
 "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/6568",
 "premise_still_valid": true,
 "summary": "Both halves of the premise were re-verified independently and both hold. Producer (objectstack main, f5a7f9c): `packages/spec/src/system/settings-manifest.zod.ts:536` declares `valueDomain` off the closed enum at :181-185, with the superRefine at :583 refusing it on keyless specifiers; `system/Specifier:valueDomain` is in BOTH authorable-surface.base.json and authorable-surface/system.json; `localization.manifest.ts` sets it on exactly three keys (:40 timezone, :78 default_country, :133 currency) and `localization.manifest.test.ts` pins both directions - the three declared AND six registry-backed keys asserted `toBeUndefined()`. Consumer (objectui main, 51f9c5bed): `valueDomain` occurs in ZERO files repo-wide against a live positive control (SETTINGS_VALIDATION resolves to apps/console/src/pages/settings/). The mirror is hand-written, not generated - types.ts says so in its own header comment. `case 'select'` in SettingsField.tsx now keys the control off the declaration: present -> an editable combobox via native datalist (the same suggest-but-allow-anything affordance FlowReferenceField uses, zero new deps, wrapper's aria-invalid/aria-describedby forwarded onto the input); absent -> the closed Radix dropdown byte-identical to before. `valueDomain` added to the local Specifier mirror as a closed union, with the header extended to name the drift hazard as the recurring root cause. No manifest, no objectstack file, and no specifier was touched.",
 "tests": "All at final commit 536fdde30, each leg run independently (no && chain) so no leg could be skipped by an earlier failure; every verdict below is the gate's own printed line, not a bare $?. UNION: `pnpm exec vitest run apps/console/` -> `Test Files 81 passed (81)` / `Tests 920 passed (920)`, exit 0. `pnpm --filter @object-ui/console type-check` exit 0 (script name echoed: `> @object-ui/console@17.6.0 type-check`, so not a zero-match no-op). `pnpm --filter @object-ui/console lint` exit 0, `x 212 problems (0 errors, 212 warnings)` - all pre-existing; my three files are e0/w0, e0/w0, e0/w3 and the three warnings on SettingsField.tsx (lines 263/347/398) are pre-existing `any` uses confirmed by git blame to predate this branch. `pnpm check:control-bytes` -> `OK (scanned 5421 tracked text file(s))`. `check-changeset-presence.mjs` -> `3 source file(s) of 1 released package(s) changed, and this change declares 1 changeset(s)`. `pnpm changeset:check` -> `No changeset declares a major bump.` Also green: check:phantom-deps, check:self-import, check:i18n-keys, check:vi-mock-specifiers, check:entry-guard. Every heavy run went through scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh (waited 0s throughout). NOT-MEASURED check cleared: apps/console/tsconfig.json is `include: [\"src\",\"dev\"]` with no test exclude and `tsc --noEmit --listFiles` shows the new test file IS in the program, so 'typecheck clean' genuinely covers it. DECLARED NARROWING (lint): repo lint is `turbo run lint` per-package and this diff is wholly inside apps/console, so only that package was linted locally - three pieces of evidence it is a measurement, not a skip: population read from eslint's own config via `--format json` = 182 files; all three touched files present in it; eslint.config.js has no projectService/parserOptions.project, so type-aware linting is off and this diff cannot move any untouched file's verdict in any other package. ABLATION - two legs, failing on DISJOINT sets, which is the discrimination the order asked for. No rebuild was needed or done, and that is a property of the setup rather than a skipped step: the test imports `../SettingsField` directly from source, so no dist/ sits between the mutation and the assertion (the objectui vitest projects transform app source in place). Leg A, revert SettingsField.tsx to origin/main: 5 failed / 4 passed - red were the 3 declared keys + the count test + the aria test; GREEN were the guard and all 3 undeclared keys. Leg B, `if (spec.valueDomain)` -> `if (true)`: 4 failed / 5 passed - red were all 3 UNDECLARED keys + the count test; green were the guard and all 3 declared keys. Mutation confirmed ON DISK before each run, not from an editor exit code: `git hash-object` differed from the HEAD blob 09394a10 (mutated c8548d24 and 1d78a297), and anchored marker greps moved - `DomainCombobox` 3->0 for leg A, `if (spec.valueDomain) {` 1->0 with injected `if (true) {` present for leg B, with the script exiting 9 had either count not moved. Restore was `git checkout HEAD -- (absolute path)` under `trap ... EXIT INT TERM`, proven by an empty `git diff HEAD` after each leg. PREDICTED DIRECTION was stated before running and matched: leg A red on half 1 with half 2 staying green (half 2 pins what must NOT change, so it cannot detect the fix's absence - leg B is what makes it non-vacuous). BASELINE before any edit: 6 files / 50 tests green on the settings surface.",
 "open_questions": [],
 "out_of_scope_findings": [
 "filed as #6567: FormPage.predicateScope.test.tsx > hop1SessionPrincipal times out at 15s under full-project parallel load - unrelated file with no import path from pages/settings/, green in isolation at my exact HEAD and green in 2 of 3 full runs; the AGENTS.md-documented unbounded-import-in-a-bounded-window shape, and it is the file's self-annotated anti-inert case, so a flaky red there pressures exactly the assertion that makes the other seven mean something. Searched 254 open issues via the REST list endpoint before filing; zero prior hits. Filed unassigned, no labels, untouched."
 ]
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