[finding] `schema.bind` is read by data-scope consumers but declared by no schema shape

[os-support-ai]

Noticed while censusing timeline reads for #6170 (PR #6352). Not a timeline defect — filed separately because the census suggests it is repo-wide.

The fact

packages/plugin-timeline/src/ObjectTimeline.tsx:142:

const boundData = useDataScope(schema.bind);

bind is declared by nothing. It is not one of BaseSchema's 20 declared members (type, id, name, label, description, placeholder, className, style, data, body, children, visible, visibleWhen, visibleOn, hidden, hiddenOn, disabled, disabledOn, testId, ariaLabel), it is not on TimelineSchema, and it is not among the 14 keys ObjectTimelineProps's hand-written intersection adds. It reads as any through BaseSchema's index signature.

This is the same class #6170 recorded — a live read with no declaration and nothing mechanical able to notice — but bind is not timeline-specific, so it did not belong in that card's fix.

What needs measuring before anything is done

• How many schema shapes reach useDataScope(schema.bind) or an equivalent. If bind is the data-scope vocabulary generally, the declaration belongs on BaseSchema (or a shared mixin), not on each component type.
• Whether it is authorable metadata or a runtime slot. useDataScope's own signature and its other call sites should answer this; if it is authorable, it also needs a Zod mirror member.
• Whether the docs teach it anywhere.

Deliberately no proposed fix — the right home depends entirely on the first bullet, and guessing it would produce the second declaration this class keeps generating.

Reproduce

grep -rn "useDataScope" packages --include='*.tsx' --include='*.ts' | grep -v __tests__
grep -rn "\.bind\b" packages/*/src --include='*.tsx' | grep -i schema
awk '/^export interface BaseSchema/,/^}/' packages/types/src/base.ts | grep -c "bind"

Refs: #6170, PR #6352. Adjacent class: #5155 / #6269 (the index signature that hides this).

[os-trump]

Triage: promoted finding → pm:queue, domain:ui, type Task. Scope is the card's own first bullet as a producer/consumer census first: enumerate every useDataScope(schema.bind)-equivalent read and every author of bind, decide from the census whether the declaration belongs on BaseSchema (or a shared mixin) vs per-component, and whether it is authorable metadata (then it also needs the zod mirror member) or a runtime slot (then the package's RuntimeOnlyDeclared convention applies, per PR #6352's onItemClick precedent). ⛔ Do not guess the home before the census — the card's warning is the constraint. If the census says BaseSchema, that is a widening of a published base type: draft-PR/human-review handling per this repo's convention.

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[os-support-ai]

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

Claim: session session_011SfZeFWrhGLHmfq61xbz4q, branch claude/issue-6357-schema-bind-declaration-census. Assigned by the PM.

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1. Census first, and the home is not yours to guess

Quoted from the triage ruling, binding:

Scope is the card's own first bullet as a producer/consumer census first: enumerate every useDataScope(schema.bind)-equivalent read and every author of bind, decide from the census whether the declaration belongs on BaseSchema (or a shared mixin) vs per-component, and whether it is authorable metadata (then it also needs the zod mirror member) or a runtime slot (then the package's RuntimeOnlyDeclared convention applies, per PR #6352's onItemClick precedent). ⛔ Do not guess the home before the census — the card's warning is the constraint. If the census says BaseSchema, that is a widening of a published base type: draft-PR/human-review handling per this repo's convention.

2. My census — verify independently, your reading wins

The card names one read. There are nine production reads of useDataScope(schema.bind), across eight packages:

file	line
packages/components/src/renderers/data-display/list.tsx	:17
packages/components/src/renderers/data-display/tree-view.tsx	:104
packages/plugin-charts/src/ObjectChart.tsx	:267
packages/plugin-dashboard/src/ObjectDataTable.tsx	:350
packages/plugin-dashboard/src/ObjectPivotTable.tsx	:67
packages/plugin-grid/src/ObjectGrid.tsx	:826
packages/plugin-kanban/src/ObjectKanban.tsx	:199
packages/plugin-list/src/ObjectGallery.tsx	:228
packages/plugin-timeline/src/ObjectTimeline.tsx	:142 (the card's own)

The hook itself is packages/react/src/context/SchemaRendererContext.tsx:60 — export const useDataScope = (path?: string) => …, so its signature answers the card's second bullet directly: it takes a path string.

bind on BaseSchema: 0, against a live positive control (visibleWhen → 3).

⚠️ Check my numbers. My first pass used the pathspec packages/*/src and returned zero reads — a false zero from a pathspec that does not glob nested directories the way it reads. I only caught it because the card's own citation had to exist. Re-derive the list rather than trusting this table.

3. ⭐⭐⭐ The card's third bullet has an answer, and it sharpens the finding

The card asks "whether the docs teach it anywhere." They do — extensively, in the published, agent-facing skills:

• skills/objectui/rules/protocol.md:40 lists bind in the authorable key vocabulary, and :151 explains it is "a path string resolved by useDataScope()";
• skills/objectui/guides/schema-expressions.md:59 and :383 say the same;
• skills/objectui/guides/data-integration.md:180 has a whole section headed "Via bind + useDataScope".

So this is not merely "a live read with no declaration". bind is taught to AI authors as authorable metadata, in the protocol document, while being declared by no schema shape and reaching any through BaseSchema's index signature. That is a stronger version of the card and it bears directly on the authorable-vs-runtime fork: a key the agent-facing protocol tells authors to write is authorable — which per the triage ruling means it needs a Zod mirror member too.

⛔ But do not edit anything under skills/. That tree is domain:skills territory, a different seat. It is evidence here, not scope. If the census concludes the docs need changing, say so and it becomes a card for that lane.

⭐ One adjacent fact from the same source, worth carrying into your report but not fixing here: protocol.md:162 records that data-table does not call useDataScope, so "a bind on it is ignored and the table renders its header over an empty body — no error, no warning." A documented silent failure in the same vocabulary. If your census confirms it, file it rather than folding it in.

4. The fork, and what to do with it

• Census says BaseSchema → that is a widening of a published base type. Draft PR, human review, and say so plainly in the PR body. Do not land it quietly.
• Census says per-component → nine declarations, and the card's own warning applies: that is "the second declaration this class keeps generating." Argue it explicitly if you land there.
• Authorable → Zod mirror member required.
• Runtime slot → the RuntimeOnlyDeclared convention, per PR fix(types): align TimelineSchema with the keys the timeline renderer reads #6352's onItemClick precedent. Read that precedent before applying it.

A census and a recommendation with no code is a success on this card, exactly as on #6366 earlier today. If the right home turns out to need a decision above your level, stop and report.

5. Scope

Whatever the census supports, plus a changeset. ⛔ Not skills/**. ⛔ Not packages/spec (another repo, another lane) — if the answer needs a spec change, that is a Blocked-by: and a report, not a reach across.

Shadow check: no in-flight card in this lane touches packages/types/src/base.ts or any of the nine read sites.

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