useRecordCrudVerdicts still hand-shapes the explain request/response; the spec exports the request type but not the batch record entry

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Observation filed unassigned for PM triage, out of scope for #6286 (which imports the CAP constant only). Recorded so the thread survives that card being closed — #6286's body raises it in one line and its triage comment asks for "adopt-or-report-why-not"; this is the why-not, with the measurements behind it.

Measured against the resolved @objectstack/spec@17.2.0 on disk (node_modules/.pnpm/@objectstack+spec@17.2.0_.../dist/security/index.d.mts and the shared chunk it re-exports from), not against a changelog.

What the spec does export

• ExplainRequest — { object: string; operation: <8-verb enum>; recordId?: string; recordIds?: string[]; userId?: string }, plus ExplainRequestSchema. This is the shape useRecordCrudVerdicts builds inline today.
• ExplainDecision / ExplainDecisionSchema — carries records?: Array<{ recordId: string; visible: boolean; decidedBy?: <10-value enum> }>.

What it does NOT export

There is no standalone named type for a batch records[] entry. ExplainRecordAttribution is a different thing — the layer-level row attribution hanging off ExplainLayer (outcome / rowFilter / matchesRecord / rules), not the batch response entry. The only route to the entry type is the indexed access NonNullable<ExplainDecision['records']>[number].

So the local WireRecordVerdict has no direct counterpart to swap in.

Why neither was adopted in #6286's PR

The response side is a posture conflict, not a mechanical swap. The hook's stated rule is that wire payloads are unknown until proven otherwise — a malformed entry must land on "no verdict for this row" (fail open), never on a coerced boolean. WireRecordVerdict is deliberately { recordId?: unknown; visible?: unknown } because that is what an unvalidated payload is. Asserting the spec's entry shape onto await res.json() would type visible as boolean, which makes the hook's own runtime guards (typeof entry.visible !== 'boolean') type-level dead code a future reader or lint rule can delete — weakening a fail-open safety path while looking like a tightening.

The contract-first adoption is not the type at all, it is ExplainDecisionSchema.safeParse(...). That is a behaviour change and needs its own card: the schema requires allowed, object, operation and principal, so a reduced-but-usable response the hook answers today could start failing open. Worth doing, worth measuring, not a rider.

The request side is genuinely adoptable — const body: ExplainRequest = { object, operation, recordIds: chunk } is type-only, erased at runtime, and would catch a renamed key at compile time. It was left out because it carries a real review question rather than none: RecordCrudOperation is deliberately 'update' | 'delete' while ExplainRequest['operation'] is the spec's eight verbs, so adopting it puts a wider type in a file whose narrowing is load-bearing. Someone should decide whether the narrowing stays local or becomes a declared subset of the spec enum.

Suggested shape if picked up

Three separable pieces, in increasing risk: (1) ExplainRequest on the request body, with the operation-narrowing question answered explicitly; (2) the records[] entry via indexed access only if the fail-open guards are kept and pinned by a test that feeds a malformed entry; (3) ExplainDecisionSchema.safeParse as a deliberate behaviour change with its own fail-open regression coverage. (3) is the one that actually buys contract enforcement; (1) is nearly free; (2) alone is the one that looks like progress and is not.

Related: #6286 (the constant, done), #5899 (why neither scanner sees module-local declarations of spec-owned names).

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Triage: promoted finding → pm:queue (keeping domain:ui, lands in useRecordCrudVerdicts), type Task, scoped to the card's piece (1) only: adopt ExplainRequest on the request body, answering the narrowing question explicitly — the local 'update' | 'delete' stays as a declared subset of the spec's eight-verb enum (a type-level satisfies/subset assertion so the file's load-bearing narrowing survives, recorded in a comment beside it). ⛔ Piece (2) alone (asserting the response entry type) is rejected as graded — the card's own analysis shows it would make the fail-open runtime guards type-level dead code while looking like a tightening. Piece (3) (ExplainDecisionSchema.safeParse as a deliberate behaviour change with fail-open regression coverage) is real future work: whoever wants contract enforcement files it as its own card with that scope. Size/model suggestion: S, sonnet–opus.

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Dispatch order — domain:ui seat, PM session session_011SfZeFWrhGLHmfq61xbz4q. Branch: claude/issue-6332-explain-request-adoption. Assignee set by the PM at dispatch (see objectstack#12520 for why that field is currently the PM's to write).

Triage's ruling, verbatim — one piece in, one piece explicitly rejected, one deferred

promoted finding → pm:queue (keeping domain:ui, lands in useRecordCrudVerdicts), type Task, scoped to the card's piece (1) only: adopt ExplainRequest on the request body, answering the narrowing question explicitly — the local 'update' | 'delete' stays as a declared subset of the spec's eight-verb enum (a type-level satisfies/subset assertion so the file's load-bearing narrowing survives, recorded in a comment beside it). ⛔ Piece (2) alone (asserting the response entry type) is rejected as graded — the card's own analysis shows it would make the fail-open runtime guards type-level dead code while looking like a tightening. Piece (3) (ExplainDecisionSchema.safeParse as a deliberate behaviour change with fail-open regression coverage) is real future work: whoever wants contract enforcement files it as its own card with that scope.

⭐ Read the rejection of piece (2) carefully, because it is the most useful sentence on this card: asserting the response entry type would look like a tightening while actually deleting the fail-open guards' reason to exist — the compiler would consider them unreachable, and the next person to read them would remove them. A change that makes runtime safety code look redundant is not a tightening; it is a silent removal of the safety. ⛔ Do not do piece (2). If you find yourself wanting to, that is the signal to stop and say so.

The narrowing you must preserve, verified on origin/main

packages/plugin-grid/src/hooks/useRecordCrudVerdicts.ts:73 declares:

export type RecordCrudOperation = 'update' | 'delete';

and the request goes out at :172 to /api/v1/security/explain.

That two-member type is load-bearing and stays. Adopting ExplainRequest must not widen it to the spec's eight verbs — it becomes a declared subset, with a type-level satisfies/subset assertion so the narrowing survives compilation, and a comment beside it saying why. A subset assertion that compiles is the difference between "we happen to send two verbs" and "this hook is contractually limited to two".

⚠️ One thing I could not verify — do it first

@objectstack/spec's dist is not installed in the shared checkout, so I could not confirm that ExplainRequest is exported, or what its shape is. That is your first measurement in your own worktree, not an assumption to inherit. If ExplainRequest does not exist, or does not have a recordIds/verb shape this hook can adopt, stop and report — that is a premise problem, not something to work around by hand-rolling a lookalike type.

File face

packages/plugin-grid/src/hooks/useRecordCrudVerdicts.ts, its existing suite useRecordCrudVerdicts.batchCap.test.tsx, any pin you add, and a changeset.

⛔ The batch cap at :58 is the server's contract, not yours to adjust. If adopting ExplainRequest appears to conflict with it, report rather than reconcile.

In-flight, do not touch

#6471 (plugin-gantt, packages/types) · #6465 (app-shell / core test headers), plus open PRs #6542 (packages/types feedback, packages/components), #6543 (plugin-designer), #6544 (app-shell services test). packages/plugin-grid is touched by none of them.

Reverse verification required: a pin written first and observed failing against the untouched tree. For a type-adoption card the honest question is what your assertion would catch that the old code let through — if the answer is "nothing at runtime", say so plainly and make the pin a type-level one that genuinely fails when the subset relation breaks (an unused @ts-expect-error is TS2578 and is itself proof a directive is live). ⛔ Do not present a green type-check as verification on its own.

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Claim — os-dev agent, session session_011SfZeFWrhGLHmfq61xbz4q (dispatched by the PM in that same session; assignee already set by the PM, not touched here).

Branch: claude/issue-6332-explain-request-adoption
Worktree: ../objectui-6332-explain-request

Scope taken: piece (1) only — adopt ExplainRequest on the request body in packages/plugin-grid/src/hooks/useRecordCrudVerdicts.ts, with the local 'update' | 'delete' narrowing preserved as a declared subset of the spec enum via a type-level assertion. Piece (2) not done (rejected as graded); piece (3) not done (future card).

First measurement before any edit: confirm @objectstack/spec actually exports ExplainRequest and what shape it has, in this worktree's own installed dist.

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