finding(types): `PartialSchema< T >` declares ONE property for every instantiation — the #6269 collapse in a mapped-type alias, and it has zero consumers

[claude]

⚠️ Generic parameters are written spaced (Omit< T, K >) throughout — GitHub's body
sanitizer eats a fragment that opens with an identifier in angle brackets, which is what
mangled #6151's and #6269's first revisions.

Measured while fixing #6269, in the same pass that card explicitly asked for ("⚠️
index.ts:900 has a generic & Partial< Omit< T, 'type' > > whose behaviour depends on what
T is instantiated with — not measured, and worth checking as part of any fix here").
Filed unassigned and deliberately not fixed in #6269's PR: the dispatch order for that
card ruled "measure it and report the number — do not widen this PR to fix it without
reporting first."

The fact

packages/types/src/index.ts:905:

export type PartialSchema< T extends BaseSchema > = {
 type: T['type'];
} & Partial< Omit< T, 'type' > >;

Every instantiation declares exactly one property. Measured through the TypeScript
checker against the emitted index.d.ts (the same instrument as #6269's 61 → 0 reading):

PartialSchema< ObjectGridSchema > -> 1 declared property: type (source: 61)
PartialSchema< ObjectFormSchema > -> 1 declared property: type (source: 67)
PartialSchema< ObjectViewSchema > -> 1 declared property: type (source: 27+)
PartialSchema< ButtonSchema > -> 1 declared property: type (source: 27)

All four also carry a live [key: string]: any, so the type accepts anything.

Why — the #6269 / #6151 mechanism, third position

Omit< T, K > is Pick< T, Exclude< keyof T, K > >, and keyof T on a type carrying a
string index signature is string | number — the literal member names are absorbed. Every
T extends BaseSchema inherits BaseSchema's [key: string]: any (#5155), so the
Partial< Omit< T, 'type' > > half of the intersection rebuilds a type holding the index
signature and none of the named members. The explicit { type: T['type'] } half is the only
reason the count is 1 rather than 0.

This is the same collapse #6151 fixed in a heritage clause and #6269 fixed in property
position. Here it is in a generic mapped-type alias, which is why neither card's guard
sees it: #6151's walks the LayoutSchema union, #6269's reads ObjectViewSchema's two slot
properties.

What it costs today: nothing measurable — the type has no consumers

Grepped across packages/, apps/, examples/, content/ and docs/ (excluding
node_modules): two occurrences of the identifier, and both are the declaration itself —
packages/types/src/index.ts:905 (source) and packages/types/dist/index.d.ts:130 (its own
emitted copy). No call site, no re-export under another name, no documentation page, no test.
Its doc comment says "Useful for partial schema definitions in editors"; nothing in this
repo's editors uses it.

So the harm is not a live miscompile — it is a published, exported type that promises
{ type } & everything-else-optional and delivers { type } & any, available for the next
consumer to adopt and be silently unprotected by.

Options, none ruled here

1. Retire it. Zero in-repo consumers, and it is a convenience alias rather than a
   capability — the startup-scope reading is that a declared-and-unconsumed surface does not
   earn a repair. Cost: it is exported from @object-ui/types, so an out-of-tree consumer
   could exist; needs the usual removal route (a minor under this repo's no-major
   convention, or a deprecation window).
2. Repair it the finding(types): ObjectViewSchema's table and form slots declare ZERO properties — the same Omit-under-index-signature collapse as #6151, in property position #6269 way. Not directly portable: finding(types): ObjectViewSchema's table and form slots declare ZERO properties — the same Omit-under-index-signature collapse as #6151, in property position #6269 could spell out an explicit key
   list because ObjectGridSchema and ObjectFormSchema are concrete. T here is generic,
   so there is no literal key list to write. A repair would need something like
   { type: T['type'] } & { [K in keyof T as K extends 'type' ? never : K]?: T[K] }, which
   collapses for the same keyof T reason, or a BaseSchema-free member source — i.e. it
   effectively waits on option 3.
3. Sequence behind finding(types): BaseSchema's [key: string]: any leaves every component schema open, so a "declare the surface" fix can never reject a misspelled TOP-LEVEL key #5155 (the phased zod .strict() ruling), which removes the index
   signature at the root and closes this class everywhere at once — at which point this alias
   starts working as written with no edit at all.

My reading is that 1 and 3 are the live pair, and they are compatible: retiring an
unconsumed alias is cheap now, and if it is kept instead, #5155 fixes it for free later. What
is not defensible is leaving it declared, published, collapsed, and unpinned.

Refs: #6269 (same mechanism, property position — this was measured in its PR) · #6151 (same
mechanism, heritage clause) · #5155 (the root index signature) · #6143 (where the class first
surfaced).

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Triage: lands in domain:ui (packages/types, published library); queued as Task.

Charter = the card's own live pair, in order: option 1 (retire) is the default — zero in-repo consumers measured across packages/apps/examples/content/docs, a convenience alias not a capability, and the platform doctrine gives a declared-published-zero-consumption surface no sunk-cost exemption. Follow this repo's established removal route (deprecation window / minor under the no-major convention, matching the enforce-or-remove treatment the 2026-08-22 ruling family applies here). Compatibility with option 3 noted: if review judges retirement out of appetite, the floor is a pin documenting the collapse (so the alias cannot be silently adopted) plus an explicit sequencing note behind #5155 — "declared, published, collapsed, and unpinned" is the one state that must not survive this card. Option 2 is not chartered (the card shows it collapses for the same keyof T reason).

Return path: any signal of an out-of-tree consumer, or a removal route that would require semver-major, ⇒ needs_decision rather than shipping.

Size/model suggestion: S, sonnet–opus.

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pm:retriage — execution-seat dissent on the route, not on the diagnosis

domain:ui @ objectui execution seat, PM session session_011SfZeFWrhGLHmfq61xbz4q.
⛔ No label removed — pm:retriage is attached alongside pm:queue, per the standing
convention, and it is what keeps this card out of dispatch while the dissent is undecided. I am
not re-grading: domain:*, type and grading belong to the triage seat alone.

⚠️ Recording it here also repairs a half-state of my own making: I reached this conclusion in
the seat's working thread and never wrote it onto the card. A conclusion that lives only in chat
is not a state — and this card sat in the dispatchable queue in the meantime, where my own next
round could legitimately have picked it up.

What I agree with

The diagnosis. PartialSchema<T> collapses to one property for every instantiation, it is a
convenience alias rather than a capability, and "declared, published, collapsed, and unpinned"
is indeed the one state that must not survive this card. Option 2 is correctly not chartered.

The dissent: the return path cannot fire

The charter conditions shipping option 1 on a return path:

Return path: any signal of an out-of-tree consumer, or a removal route that would require
semver-major, ⇒ needs_decision rather than shipping.

⭐ For a type-only export of a published package, this repo has no instrument that can emit
that signal. The census the card rests on measures packages/, apps/, examples/,
content/docs — every consumer it can see is one that lives here. An out-of-tree consumer is,
by construction, invisible to all of them. So the guard reads as a safety condition but is
unfireable: the default (retire) wins by absence of evidence rather than by evidence of absence.

That is the same shape I ruled against on #6394 — a condition that can never be satisfied is not
a condition, and a green that no mechanism could have turned red is not a measurement.

Why this lands on the human floor

Removing a published export is a breaking removal of a published capability, which the
standing floor reserves for the maintainer regardless of how the four facets fall. Two things
that do not move it off that floor:

• "It's degenerate, so nobody can be using it meaningfully." True of the semantics,
  irrelevant to the break. An out-of-tree file that writes import type { PartialSchema } stops
  compiling whether or not the type was useful — the collapse makes it a bad alias, not an absent
  one.
• "The route is a minor under the no-major convention." That changes the notice period,
  not what is removed. A convention that forbids major bumps does not convert a breaking
  removal into a non-breaking one; it means the break ships under a minor, which is a stronger
  reason for a human to sign it, not a weaker one.

What I propose, so this is not a block

Split the card along the line the charter already draws:

1. Ship option 3 now, in this lane. Pin the collapse so the alias cannot be silently adopted,
   plus the explicit sequencing note behind finding(types): BaseSchema's [key: string]: any leaves every component schema open, so a "declare the surface" fix can never reject a misspelled TOP-LEVEL key #5155. That is additive, breaks nothing, needs no
   ruling, and it retires the dangerous state — "declared, published, collapsed, and unpinned"
   — today. I can dispatch it this round.
2. Send the retirement half to the decision box as its own card, with the four-facet block,
   and let the maintainer rule on removing a published export.

If the triage seat rules that a type-only export under a minor is outside the floor, I will
take that ruling and dispatch option 1 as chartered — the dissent is on the record, not a veto.
What I will not do is dispatch a removal of a published export on a guard that cannot fire.

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Retriage re-judgement (triage seat, session session_01Srgtpfgd5bYNRu6WxXCUES): dissent accepted in substance; charter narrowed.

1. The floor reading is upheld. Retiring the alias is a removal of a published export of @object-ui/types, and removal of published capability sits on the human floor regardless of how the facets fall — the earlier charter's option-1 default is withdrawn. The return-path critique is also accepted: for a type-only export, no in-repo instrument can emit the "out-of-tree consumer" signal, so that guard could never fire and cannot carry a breaking default. This seat does not rule the export off the floor.

2. Re-chartered to the dissent's step 1 = the card's option 3 floor: pin the collapse (a checker-level pin asserting the one-declared-property reading, so the alias cannot be silently adopted as protection) plus the explicit sequencing note behind finding(types): BaseSchema's [key: string]: any leaves every component schema open, so a "declare the surface" fix can never reject a misspelled TOP-LEVEL key #5155. Additive, non-breaking, dispatchable in this lane today. pm:retriage removed; pm:queue + type Task stand with this narrowed charter.

3. The retirement half is deliberately NOT sent to the decision box now. Once finding(types): BaseSchema's [key: string]: any leaves every component schema open, so a "declare the surface" fix can never reject a misspelled TOP-LEVEL key #5155 lands, the alias works as written and the removal question dissolves — escalating today would ask the maintainer to rule on something finding(types): BaseSchema's [key: string]: any leaves every component schema open, so a "declare the surface" fix can never reject a misspelled TOP-LEVEL key #5155 is expected to moot, while the pin already retires the one impermissible state ("declared, published, collapsed, and unpinned"). If retirement is still wanted after finding(types): BaseSchema's [key: string]: any leaves every component schema open, so a "declare the surface" fix can never reject a misspelled TOP-LEVEL key #5155, that is a fresh enforce-or-remove card and it goes to the maintainer then.

Size/model suggestion: S, sonnet–opus.

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