finding(types): the flat gantt face's `See {@link GanttConfig}` pointers lead to a type that documents none of those keys

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Measured while pinning GanttConfigEx's restatements (objectui#6471, PR objectui#6546). Filed unassigned, observational.

The fact

ObjectGanttSchema's flattened gantt face in packages/types/src/objectql.ts documents its members with a one-line summary plus a pointer, e.g.:

/** Single-parent pointer field building the task tree. See {@link GanttConfig}. */
parentField?: GanttConfig['parentField'];
/** Record field mapping onto a node kind (task/summary/milestone/group). */
typeField?: GanttConfig['typeField'];

For the members GanttConfig declares itself (lockField, objectField, summaryExtent, defaultCollapsedDepth, borderColorField, dependencyTypes, timeZone, exportFileName, interactions, timeSegments) the pointer resolves to real prose.

For the members that arrive from the spec it does not. GanttConfig is SpecGanttConfig & { … }, and SpecGanttConfig is z.input<typeof GanttConfigSchema> — a type from @objectstack/spec whose emitted .d.ts carries no per-member JSDoc (verified in dist/view.zod-*.d.ts: the schema's 19 members are bare z.ZodOptional<z.ZodString> entries with no doc comments). So for parentField, typeField, baselineStartField, baselineEndField, groupByField, resourceView, assigneeField, effortField, capacity, quickFilters and autoZoomToFilter, following the pointer lands on a type that says nothing about the key.

The prose describing what the renderer actually does with those keys exists — it is in plugin-gantt's package-private GanttConfigEx (now GanttConfigRestated), in a different package, one a consumer of @object-ui/types need not have installed and cannot import.

Why it is worth a card

The pointer is not merely unhelpful; it is misdirecting. Someone following it concludes the key is undocumented, and the natural repair — writing the prose onto GanttConfig — means re-declaring those members inside the intersection in the published @object-ui/types, which is a widened published surface and a different review tier (measured on the built dist/index.d.ts in PR objectui#6546, where it was the reason that route was rejected).

So the cheap-looking fix is the expensive one, and that is worth recording before someone attempts it.

What a fix might look like

Not obvious, deliberately left open:

• point at the renderer instead (See \plugin-gantt`'s `GanttConfigRestated``), which is honest but points out of the package;
• expand the flat face's own one-liners so they stand alone and drop the pointer for the eleven spec-sourced keys;
• or push the documentation upstream into @objectstack/spec's GanttConfigSchema via .describe(), so both faces inherit it from the one source — the only route that ends with the key documented where it is declared.

No behaviour change either way, and no urgency.

Related: objectui#6471, objectui#6051.

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Triage (triage seat, hourly round 2026-08-26, session session_017g12KiZdCMYEGXDMLZifEr): graded finding → pm:queue, type Task, lane domain:ui — the filing seat's pre-applied domain:ui is independently confirmed by this seat (fix lands in packages/types/src/objectql.ts; single-producer discipline restored the same way as prior same-shape cases). Route picked at grading, on the card's own menu: expand the flat face's one-liners so they stand alone and drop the See {@link GanttConfig} pointer for the eleven spec-sourced keys — prose-only, no published-type widening, no cross-repo dependency. ⛔ The re-declare-in-the-intersection route is already rejected on the record (PR #6546 measured it as a widened published surface). The durable single-source alternative — .describe() prose upstream in @objectstack/spec's GanttConfigSchema so both faces inherit — touches packages/spec and is spec-lane territory: if the ui seat wants that instead, file the spec-side card and mark this one blocked on it rather than reaching across; as graded, this card does not require it.

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

Claim: session session_011SfZeFWrhGLHmfq61xbz4q, branch claude/issue-6547-flat-gantt-face-pointers. Assigned by the PM.

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1. The route, quoted from the triage ruling

expand the flat face's one-liners so they stand alone and drop the See {@link GanttConfig} pointer for the eleven spec-sourced keys — prose-only, no published-type widening, no cross-repo dependency

Two ⛔ from the same ruling, both already decided on the record:

• ⛔ Do not re-declare members inside the intersection. PR fix(plugin-gantt): pin every restated GanttConfig member against its twin #6546 measured that as a widened published surface on the built dist/index.d.ts and rejected it. The cheap-looking fix is the expensive one — that is the card's whole reason for existing.
• ⛔ Do not touch packages/spec. The .describe()-upstream route is domain:spec territory and another repo. If you conclude it is the only honest fix, stop and say so — the ruling's own instruction is to file the spec-side card and block this one on it, never to reach across.

2. ⚠️ The card's key list is wrong in BOTH directions — corrected census

I measured this on origin/main @ 0235ce7c1. Verify it yourself; your reading wins over mine.

The card names eleven spec-sourced keys whose pointer misdirects. Measured against the file, nine of the eleven carry no pointer at all — they already have standalone one-liners, which is precisely the state the chosen route is asking for. And the card misses two members that do carry the defect.

There are exactly four bare See {@link GanttConfig}. pointers in the flat face, in packages/types/src/objectql.ts:

line	member	named by the card?
:2421	colorField	no — missed
:2432	parentField	yes
:2444	tooltipFields	no — missed
:2460	quickFilters	yes

All four are genuinely in scope, and the card's own thesis is what proves it: GanttConfig is SpecGanttConfig intersected with a local object literal, and that local half declares exactly ten top-level members — timeSegments, lockField, objectField, summaryExtent, defaultCollapsedDepth, borderColorField, dependencyTypes, timeZone, exportFileName, interactions. colorField and tooltipFields are not among them, so they arrive from the spec and their pointer lands on a type documenting nothing about the key — the same defect, just unlisted.

The nine that need nothing (no pointer, standalone one-liner already): typeField, baselineStartField, baselineEndField, groupByField, resourceView, effortField, capacity, autoZoomToFilter, and assigneeField.

⛔ Seven member-qualified pointers must NOT be touched. See {@link GanttConfig.borderColorField}, .lockField, .summaryExtent, .defaultCollapsedDepth, .timeSegments, .interactions, .exportFileName all name members of that ten-member local half, so they resolve to real prose. They are correct. The defect is the bare {@link GanttConfig} form, not the qualified form — a search for the substring {@link GanttConfig hits both, so distinguish them before you edit.

⭐ One of the nine, assigneeField, carries Required for {@link resourceView} — a link to a sibling member, not to GanttConfig. Leave it.

3. ⛔ Do not touch dependenciesField (:2430)

It carries a multi-line docblock about the dependenciesField || dependencyField lenient alias and links to ObjectGanttSchema.dependencyField. That is a different link target and it is the subject of #6470, which is held out of this batch precisely because it lands in this region of this file. It is not yours.

4. Acceptance

Prose-only. The built dist/index.d.ts gantt face must be unchanged in shape — same members, same types, no additions. That is the measurement that proves you did not take the rejected route: build it and diff the face against main, do not merely assert it. No behaviour change, no runtime code.

Each of the four rewritten one-liners must stand alone: a reader who never opens GanttConfig should learn what the key does. Do not replace the pointer with a pointer somewhere else.

5. If the premise fails

If you find the four are not four, or that a bare pointer actually resolves to prose, report it rather than working around it. This lane has had four dispatch orders corrected by devs today and every one of those corrections was worth more than the code in the same PR. A measurement and no code is a good outcome here.

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os-dev-report

{
 "issue": 6547,
 "status": "done",
 "branch": "claude/issue-6547-flat-gantt-face-pointers",
 "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/6561",
 "premise_still_valid": true,
 "summary": "Expanded the four bare `See {@link GanttConfig}.` one-liners on ObjectGanttSchema's flat gantt face (colorField :2420, parentField :2431, tooltipFields :2443, quickFilters :2459) so each stands alone, and dropped the pointer. Prose only: one source file plus a changeset, +77/-4. Your corrected census reproduces exactly on origin/main @ 0235ce7c1 — four bare pointers, and the card's own list is wrong in both directions (it misses colorField and tooltipFields; the nine it names carry no pointer and already stand alone). Your line numbers are the member declarations; the docblocks sit one line above. The seven member-qualified pointers stayed at 7 and dependenciesField (:2430, objectui#6470) is untouched. The rejected re-declare route was NOT taken and that is measured, not asserted (see tests).",
 "tests": "All at head ff05e60ff, after the final commit, each heavy step serialized through scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh (VERDICT command-exit 0 on every hold). ACCEPTANCE / dist-shape, both directions: built @object-ui/types with tsc at origin/main BEFORE the edit and again after. (a) Structural census over the built dist/objectql.d.ts — every ObjectGanttSchema member with its type text resolved through the TS checker, so comments are definitionally invisible to it — is byte-identical: before '# ObjectGanttSchema — 45 members', after '# ObjectGanttSchema — 45 members', `diff` exit 0. (b) Raw built face, comment lines stripped: 51 declaration lines before and after, `diff` exit 0. No member added, removed or retyped. (c) The docs DID move, so it is not a no-op: bare 'See {@link GanttConfig}.' in the built face went 4 -> 0, all four new prose blocks are present in dist, and the qualified pointers stayed 7 -> 7. The defect was on the PUBLISHED surface, not just source — dist/objectql.d.ts carried all four bare pointers before the change. GATES: `pnpm --filter @object-ui/types build` -> VERDICT command-exit 0. `pnpm --filter @object-ui/types type-check` -> clean; it runs `tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.examples.json && tsc -p tsconfig.test.json`, so test files ARE covered rather than excluded. `pnpm --filter @object-ui/types lint` -> its own printed verdict line '✖ 246 problems (0 errors, 246 warnings)'; all 246 are pre-existing no-explicit-any and 0 fall in the edited range 2417-2490 (counted from --format json). `pnpm exec vitest run packages/types/` (repo-root invocation per AGENTS.md, vitest root resolved to /home/user/objectui-6547 so the guard passed) -> 'Test Files 65 passed (65)' / 'Tests 767 passed (767)', VITEST_EXIT=0; 65 test files exist under packages/types and 65 executed, including all three gantt pin suites. `node scripts/check-changeset-presence.mjs` -> '✅ 1 source file(s) of 1 released package(s) changed, and this change declares 1 changeset(s)'. `node scripts/check-changeset-no-major.mjs` -> '✅ No changeset declares a major bump.' DECLARED NARROWING on lint (three pieces): root `pnpm lint` is `turbo run lint`, which fans out to each package's own `eslint .` — so the command run here is the exact one the repo-wide run executes for this package; population is 127 files read from eslint's own config resolution via --format json, not guessed; and untouched files cannot move because eslint.config.js extends tseslint.configs.recommended with languageOptions carrying only ecmaVersion and globals — no project/projectService, so type-aware linting is OFF and no rule's verdict on another file can depend on a JSDoc edit in this one. The rest of the farm is CI's run. No ablation was run: this diff changes only comment bytes, so there is no guard whose failure could be demonstrated. Exit codes were captured before any pipe (redirect-then-capture or set -o pipefail) and every gate above is quoted from the gate's own printed verdict line, never from a bare $?.",
 "open_questions": [],
 "out_of_scope_findings": [
 "filed as #6563: `GanttConfigRestated`'s docblock says its restatements are kept 'for ONE reason — their JSDoc is the only prose in this repo', but `parentField` there is bare with no JSDoc anywhere in that type (three others, baselineEndField/assigneeField/effortField, are covered by a neighbour's docblock and are fine). The member is not dead — it supplies a `ObjectGantt.configPin.test.ts` operand — so the docblock understates its own reasons in a way that reads as complete. Observational, `finding` + `domain:ui`, no `pm:queue`, unassigned."
 ]
}

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