`useRowColor` throws a TypeError when a record's colour field holds an `Object.prototype` member name (`constructor`, `toString`, …)

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Found while measuring sibling colour keys for objectui#6178 (useRowColor is the sibling that fix mirrors). Not touched there — different package, outside that PR's file surface.

packages/plugin-grid/src/useRowColor.ts indexes two plain object literals with a string that comes from record data, with no own-property guard:

const value = String(row[config.field] ?? '');
const color = config.colors[value]; // author-declared map, indexed by a record value
if (!color) return undefined;
return colorToClass(color); // -> color.startsWith('bg-')

Both config.colors (an authored object) and COLOR_TO_CLASS (the module's literal) inherit Object.prototype, so a record whose colour field holds constructor, toString, valueOf, hasOwnProperty, … resolves to an inherited function rather than undefined. The if (!color) guard passes it (a function is truthy), and colorToClass then calls .startsWith on it.

Reproduction of the exact expression chain:

open colors[value] => string | result: bg-green-100
constructor THROWS: TypeError: color.startsWith is not a function
toString THROWS: TypeError: color.startsWith is not a function
valueOf THROWS: TypeError: color.startsWith is not a function

Consequence: the throw happens inside the row-className resolver during render, so it is a render crash of the grid, triggered by data rather than by metadata. A status/stage/category field that legitimately stores the string constructor is unusual but entirely representable — nothing in the schema forbids it, and the author's colors map does not have to mention the value for the crash to happen (the inherited member is found whether or not the author declared anything).

COLOR_TO_CLASS[lower] on line 52 has the same shape one call deeper: it would hand an Object.prototype member back as the row's className. That one does not throw — it reaches React as a class attribute — so it is the quieter half of the same defect.

Suggested shape, matching what objectui#6178 did for the analogous lookup in packages/plugin-detail/src/headerColor.ts: guard both indexes with Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(map, key) (the workspace compiles against the ES2020 lib, so Object.hasOwn is not available), and pin a case whose field value is constructor.

Filed as an observation from adjacent work, unassigned — severity and disposition are a triage call. Back-link: objectui#6178, PR objectui#6294.

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Triage: promoted finding → pm:queue, routed domain:ui (lands in packages/plugin-grid/src/useRowColor.ts), type Bug — a grid render crash triggered by representable record data (constructor, toString, … in a colour field), with a reproduced TypeError chain. Fix as the card suggests, matching the #6178 precedent one package over: guard both index reads with Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call (ES2020 lib, no Object.hasOwn), cover the quieter COLOR_TO_CLASS half in the same pass, and pin a case whose field value is constructor. Size/model suggestion: S, sonnet.

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Claim: PM session session_011SfZeFWrhGLHmfq61xbz4q (domain:ui execution seat) — branch claude/issue-6295-rowcolor-prototype-guard. pm:queue → pm:dispatched in the same label write.

Pre-dispatch gate

1. Thread read. Triage direction (18:04:37Z) read and adopted verbatim.

2. Shadow check. Two PRs of this seat's are in the merge queue touching packages/plugin-grid/ — #6370 (ObjectGrid.tsx, data-table.tsx) and #6377 (ObjectGrid.tsx, bulkEligibility.ts, BulkActionDialog.tsx, rowCrudAffordances.ts). Neither touches useRowColor.ts. No hold. Merge origin/main again before you push.

3. Premise re-measured live @ origin/main:

packages/plugin-grid/src/useRowColor.ts:52 return COLOR_TO_CLASS[lower];
packages/plugin-grid/src/useRowColor.ts:67 const color = config.colors[value];

Both unguarded index reads are still there.

Scope

packages/plugin-grid/src/useRowColor.ts. Both object literals inherit Object.prototype, so a record whose colour field holds constructor / toString / valueOf / hasOwnProperty resolves to an inherited function. if (!color) passes it (functions are truthy) and colorToClass then calls .startsWith on it — a render crash of the grid, triggered by record data rather than by metadata.

Guard both reads with Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(map, key).

⚠️ The workspace compiles against the ES2020 lib, so Object.hasOwn is NOT available. Reaching for it is the obvious move and it will not typecheck. Verify the lib setting yourself rather than taking my word for it — but do not spend the run rediscovering this.

Cover the quieter half in the same pass. COLOR_TO_CLASS[lower] at :52 has the same shape one call deeper. It does not throw — it hands an Object.prototype member back as the row's className and reaches React as a class attribute. Silent, not loud, and the same defect. Fixing only the thrower leaves it.

Precedent to match: #6178 / PR #6294 did the analogous lookup guard in packages/plugin-detail/src/headerColor.ts. Read it and mirror it rather than inventing a second shape.

Tests

• Pin a case whose field value is literally constructor — the card reproduced the exact expression chain, so encode that.
• Cover the quiet half too: assert COLOR_TO_CLASS cannot emit an inherited member as a className.
• ⛔ Ghost-assertion guard (mandatory): run each new assertion against unmodified origin/main first, capture it failing (the constructor case should throw the TypeError), then capture it passing. Both readings in the PR body.
• ⛔ Degenerate-control guard: keep a normal case (open → bg-green-100) so the guard is shown not to have broken ordinary lookups. Say which fixture is the control.

Boundaries

⛔ Scope is these two index reads. Do not refactor the colour resolution, do not change the authored colors map shape, do not touch plugin-detail's already-fixed sibling.

Ground rules

Worktree-first: git worktree add ../objectui-6295 -b claude/issue-6295-rowcolor-prototype-guard main && cd ../objectui-6295 && pnpm install. ⛔ Never git stash — the stack lives in the common .git dir and is shared across every worktree of this repo. ⛔ Never touch content/docs/releases/. Changeset: patch, @object-ui/plugin-grid. Run the repo's fast checks before pushing. Open the PR as draft with Fixes #6295 and report back — the PM lands it, ⛔ never self-merge.

Size: S. Model: opus (this seat's default tier; the triage note suggested sonnet, but the tier order stands).

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 "issue": 6295,
 "status": "done",
 "branch": "claude/issue-6295-rowcolor-prototype-guard",
 "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/6381",
 "premise_still_valid": true,
 "summary": "Premise confirmed on origin/main: both unguarded index reads were present at useRowColor.ts:52 and :67. Guarded both with Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call, mirroring the headerColor.ts precedent from #6178 / PR #6294. The loud half (config.colors[value], indexed with record data) threw TypeError: color.startsWith is not a function during render; the quiet half (COLOR_TO_CLASS[lower], indexed with the authored colour value) silently returned an Object.prototype member as the row className. Both now resolve to undefined. Verified the ES2020 lib claim independently rather than taking it on trust: root tsconfig.json sets lib ES2020 and plugin-grid extends it without override, so Object.hasOwn is unavailable in shipped source; noted in the PR that plugin-grid/tsconfig.test.json sits at ES2022, so Object.hasOwn would have compiled in a test while failing in source. Merged origin/main before pushing as instructed (clean, no conflicts); rebuilt the dependency closure afterwards because the merge moved types/core/components and stale dist d.ts lies in both directions. PR is draft and stays draft.",
 "tests": "Ghost-assertion guard, both readings, same file and same command. BEFORE (new test against unmodified origin/main, fix not applied): 'Test Files 1 failed (1) / Tests 13 failed | 3 passed (16)'; the loud half read 'AssertionError: expected [Function] to not throw an error but TypeError: color.startsWith is not a ... was thrown' (that TypeError appears 4x in the run), the quiet half read 'expected [Function Object] to be undefined' and 'expected { ...(12) } to be undefined / + Received: {}'. All 13 failures were in the two defect describes; the 3 passing were the control. AFTER (with fix): 'Test Files 1 passed (1) / Tests 16 passed (16)'. Degenerate control is CONTROL_CONFIG = { field: 'status', colors: { open: 'green', closed: 'red', urgent: 'bg-red-200' } } in the describe 'ordinary lookups still work (degenerate control)' -- open resolves to bg-green-100, closed to bg-red-100, bg-red-200 passes through, undeclared returns undefined; those are exactly the 3 green both before and after. Deliberate asymmetry declared in the PR: the quiet half pins only constructor and __proto__ because colorToClass lower-cases before indexing, so toString becomes tostring etc. and is not an inherited member -- measured on unmodified main, those six return undefined there too, so asserting them would have been a ghost. The loud half indexes verbatim, so all eight are pinned there. FINAL UNION, all from final commit e9f263574 after the merge: vitest packages/plugin-grid/ 'Test Files 91 passed (91) / Tests 853 passed (853)' exit 0; type-check exit 0 running both tsc --noEmit and tsc -p tsconfig.test.json, with the script name echoed so it was not a zero-match pass; lint verdict line 'x 691 problems (0 errors, 691 warnings)' exit 0; check-changeset-presence.mjs verdict line 'OK 2 source file(s) of 1 released package(s) changed, and this change declares 1 changeset(s)'. Lint delta measured not assumed: eslint --format json on useRowColor.ts at origin/main and at this branch returns identical per-rule counts (preserve-manual-memoization 1, no-explicit-any 1, errorCount 0 both), so the two warnings naming my file are pre-existing and this change adds no new finding; that comparison used a committed anchor, restore was git checkout HEAD -- with an absolute path, and it was proven by git diff HEAD being empty and the guarded-read count returning to 2. Typecheck coverage proven not inferred: plugin-grid/tsconfig.json excludes __tests__, so tsc --listFiles was used to confirm both changed files are real program inputs (the test file in the tsconfig.test.json program, useRowColor.ts in the build program). DECLARED NARROWING: local verification is scoped to @object-ui/plugin-grid plus the repo-wide changeset-presence check, not a repo-wide pnpm lint / pnpm test; CI runs the full farm regardless. No ablation was needed for this card. CI status at report time: in_progress -- reporting at draft-PR time per the dispatch contract, not waiting for CI convergence.",
 "open_questions": [],
 "out_of_scope_findings": []
}

Notes for the PM, outside the machine-parsed block:

• No skip-changeset label touched. This PR ships a real patch changeset for @object-ui/plugin-grid, so the label is moot — and that label mechanism does not exist in this repo, so applying one would have minted a repository label the next agent could misread as real.
• Bounded adjacent scan, nothing filed. I checked whether the same defect class appears elsewhere: a module-level literal map indexed by a variable across packages/plugin-*/src. Six other sites, none of them the same defect. The plugin-chatbot and plugin-form sites are numeric-keyed, so no prototype member name can reach them. plugin-view/src/ViewSwitcher.tsx (DEFAULT_VIEW_LABELS[view.type], DEFAULT_VIEW_ICONS[view.type]) is typed Record<ViewType, ...> against a union, and its icon path runs the string through toPascalCase first, which neutralises every lower-case prototype member exactly as the lower-casing does in this card's quiet half. I deliberately did not file an issue there: the only residual exposure is off-spec authored metadata, and filing it would invite a lenient renderer-side fallback, which AGENTS.md #0.1 bans in favour of rejecting at the producer. Flagging the reasoning rather than the ticket so you can overrule it if you disagree.

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