docs(plugin-list): correct the stale sort advice and the misattributed docblock (#4559) (#4966)

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Fixes#4559
Fixes#4966

A triage-designated pair: two comment corrections in the same file, same class, shipped
in one PR. Prose only — zero non-comment lines change.

All coordinates were re-anchored on the declarations rather than the line numbers in the
cards, because #4965 (#3950) moved this region and moved UNSORTABLE_FIELD_TYPES out of
the file entirely (it now lives in @object-ui/core as UNMATERIALIZED_FIELD_TYPES).
Line numbers below are the ones actually found on main at 6606337e3.

Edit 1 — #4559: the sort rationale stopped prescribing a formula field

packages/plugin-list/src/ListView.tsx, in the comment block above the
sortHasRelationalField / sortFields memo, lines 2309-2310.

Before:

 // below points at the supported alternative (a formula field that
// denormalizes the name onto this object, which sorts like any text column).

After:

 // below points at the supported alternative (a stored field that
// denormalizes the name onto this object, written when the source changes).

Both claims verified at source before writing, as the card required

The hint string, quoted as it reads today (ListView.tsx:608-609, the provider-less
fallback table):

Columns that link to another record are not listed: they can only be sorted by the
stored ID, not by the name shown in the cell. To sort by that name, denormalize it onto
this object as a stored field, written when the source changes, and sort by that. Not
a formula field: it is virtual, so no column is stored for it and the server refuses
to sort by one.

The filtering predicate, quoted as it reads today (ListView.tsx:2338):

if(!relational&&!UNMATERIALIZED_FIELD_TYPES.has(field.type)){

UNMATERIALIZED_FIELD_TYPES (packages/core/src/utils/unmaterialized-fields.ts) is
bound to SEARCH_VIRTUAL_TYPES from @objectstack/spec/data, which is
new Set(['formula']) (packages/spec/src/data/search-fields.ts:77, pinned by that
package's own test). So the memo does withhold formula, the string does refuse it, and
the parenthetical was still recommending it. Neither had changed in a way that would
make the parenthetical correct, so the edit proceeded.

The new wording is the one the hint and packages/plugin-list/README.md:229-232 already
share ("a stored field, written when the source changes"), and
"which sorts like any text column" is dropped, as the card asked.

Edit 2 — #4966: formatActionLabel's docblock now sits above formatActionLabel

Same file. The block moved from lines 278-281 (where it stacked above
parseSortConfig's own docblock) down to lines 309-312, directly above
formatActionLabel at line 313.

Before:

/** * Format an action identifier string into a human-readable label. * e.g., 'send_email' → 'Send Email' *//** * Normalize a view's `sort` declaration to SortItem[]. … */exportfunctionparseSortConfig(sort: unknown): SortItem[]{…}functionformatActionLabel(action: string): string{…}

After:

/** * Normalize a view's `sort` declaration to SortItem[]. … */exportfunctionparseSortConfig(sort: unknown): SortItem[]{…}/** * Format an action identifier string into a human-readable label. * e.g., 'send_email' → 'Send Email' */functionformatActionLabel(action: string): string{…}

This one turned out to be more than tidiness, and the measurement below is why.
Because parseSortConfig is exported, vite-plugin-dts copied the misattributed block
straight into dist/ListView.d.ts — so every consumer's editor hover and TypeDoc
introduced the sort parser with a sentence about action labels. The card predicted the
adjacency cost to the next reader; it also shipped.

The diff is comment-only, verified rather than asserted

git diff --numstat is 6 6 packages/plugin-list/src/ListView.tsx (plus the changeset).
Every added and removed line, with the +/- stripped, filtered for anything that is
not comment syntax:

git diff -U0 -- packages/plugin-list/src/ListView.tsx \
| grep -E '^[+-]' | grep -vE '^(\+\+\+|---)' | sed -E 's/^[+-]//' \
| grep -vE '^[[:space:]]*(//|/\*\*|\*/|\*([[:space:]]|$))'

returns 0 lines. No strings, no code, no tests — and no test or ablation is possible
on a comment edit, so none is offered rather than manufactured.

Changeset form: a real patch, decided by measurement

The dispatch note's stated mechanism does not hold for this package, and the measurement
says so. packages/plugin-list is not built by plain tsc — its build is vite build
(rolldown for the bundle, vite-plugin-dts for the types); tsc appears only as
--noEmit in type-check, so tsconfig.base.json's removeComments: false never
governs this package's emitted JS.

Measured with the package's real build, before and after the edit:

artifact	result
dist/index.js	byte-identical, sha256 639a0310d7ab0b88… both sides
dist/index.umd.cjs	byte-identical, sha256 d9db44da63c753a5… both sides
dist/ListView.d.ts	changes — the misattributed block is removed
dist/ListView.d.ts.map	changes (follows the above)

The bundler strips these comments entirely: grep -c "Format an action identifier" over
both emitted bundles returns 0. The .d.ts delta is exactly:

 export declare function normalizeFilterCondition(condition: any[]): any[];
/**
- * Format an action identifier string into a human-readable label.- * e.g., 'send_email' → 'Send Email'- */-/**
* Normalize a view's `sort` declaration to SortItem[]. @objectstack/spec

Consumer-visible API documentation changes, so this gets a real patch changeset rather
than an empty frontmatter. Edit 1 lives inside a function body and reaches no .d.ts;
formatActionLabel is module-private, so its now-correct docblock does not appear there
either — the whole .d.ts delta is the removal above.

Gates

Re-derived from .github/workflows/ against the actual diff rather than taken from the
dispatch list. Every exit code was captured before any pipe; each verdict line is the
gate's own.

gate	exit	its own verdict line
pnpm --filter @object-ui/plugin-list type-check	0	ran tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.test.json, no diagnostics
pnpm --filter @object-ui/plugin-list lint	0	✖ 388 problems (0 errors, 388 warnings) — all pre-existing
pnpm exec vitest run packages/plugin-list/ (repo root)	0	Test Files 44 passed (44) · Tests 652 passed (652)
check-control-bytes	0	OK (scanned 4665 tracked text file(s); skipped 85 binary)
check-changeset-presence	0	1 source file(s) of 1 released package(s) changed, and this change declares 1 changeset(s)
check-changeset-no-major	0	No changeset declares a major bump.
check-changeset-fixed	0	All workspace packages are in the changeset fixed group.
check-type-check-coverage	0	45/46 via type-check, 0 known-broken, 1 not compiled
check-lint-coverage	0	lint coverage: 46/46 packages linted, 0 with outstanding errors
check-spec-symbol-derivation	0	1290 files scanned against 4912 spec export names
check-i18n-call-site-keys	0	every in-scope call-site key resolves against the en pack
check-i18n-en-drift	0	0 en value(s) changed — independent confirmation no string moved
check-action-forward-parity	0	action:menu owes 24, forwards 18
check-package-self-import	0	No package names itself inside its own src/.
check-phantom-dependencies	0	Every in-scope import is declared by the package that publishes it.

The last twelve were re-run on the final commit d05c0f2b8 with a clean tree, so the
three heavy gates above them ran on a byte-identical tree.

Narrowing, declared. The repo-wide pnpm lint and pnpm check were not run whole;
eslint . was run scoped to this package, which is the only package whose files changed.
That cannot hide a failure here: the diff adds zero non-comment lines, so no rule with a
code-shaped target can newly fire, and this repo does not enable type-aware linting
across package boundaries, so a comment in plugin-list cannot move any verdict on an
untouched file. performance-budget.yml triggers on packages/** and so will run — it
cannot move, because both emitted bundles are byte-identical by sha256.

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✅ Console Performance Budget

Metric	Value	Budget
Eager closure (gzip, 52 chunks)	3785.7 KB	3867.2 KB
Main entry chunk (gzip)	151.5 KB	350 KB
Entry file	index-avY7FpUW.js	—
Status	PASS	—

The eager closure is every chunk the entry reaches through static imports — what the browser fetches and parses before the app renders. The entry chunk on its own is a small fraction of it.

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PM review — ACCEPT (cards #4559 + #4966)

Gates. 22 named check runs read individually for completed + success at d05c0f2b8: 19 success, 3 skipped — Test (coverage), the unexpanded Test (coverage shard …/4) matrix placeholder, and dependabot. All four real shards, Type Check, Lint, Build & E2E, Build Docs, Bundle Analysis, Live E2E, both doc type checks, Control Byte Scan, Skill Guide Path Check, Internal Docs Link Check and all three changeset checks green.

Both cards close here, as the triage note designated — one PR, two edits, itemized.

#4966 was not cosmetic, and the measurement is what showed that

The card and the triage grade both read this as a tidiness fix: a docblock two declarations away from the function it describes. Measured against the package's real build, it was reaching the publisheddist/ListView.d.ts on the exported parseSortConfig — so consumer editor hover and TypeDoc really were introducing the sort parser with a sentence about action labels. Moving it changes what ships.

That is what decided the changeset form: a real patch, not the empty frontmatter. dist/ListView.d.ts changes; dist/index.js and dist/index.umd.cjs are byte-identical by sha256, with grep -c 'Format an action identifier' returning 0 in both bundles.

My dispatch's mechanism was wrong, and you said so instead of working around it

I told you this repo builds packages with plain tsc under a deliberate removeComments: false, so a comment edit changes emitted dist/*.js bytes. That is false for this package.packages/plugin-list is built by vite build (rolldown bundle plus vite-plugin-dts); tsc appears only as --noEmit inside type-check, so removeComments never governs its emitted JS and the bundler strips these comments entirely.

Reporting that rather than quietly routing around it is the right call, and it is now a lane fact: the build system varies per package, so no repo-wide claim about emitted output holds. Four packages measured today, four different behaviours — react and core ship comments through plain tsc; types emits near-empty JS so only the .d.ts matters; plugin-list bundles and strips. The criterion I gave you — does consumer-visible API documentation change — is the one that survived all four, which is why it is the criterion.

#4559

The parenthetical now names the stored-field remedy. Both load-bearing claims were quoted as they read today rather than inherited: the hint string at :608-609 ("Not a formula field: it is virtual, so no column is stored for it and the server refuses to sort by one") and the filter at :2338. The membership chain was resolved to its source rather than stopped at the rename — UNMATERIALIZED_FIELD_TYPES → SEARCH_VIRTUAL_TYPES from @objectstack/spec/data → new Set(['formula']), pinned by that package's own test. Formula is withheld and is refused, so the parenthetical was still wrong and there was nothing to stop for.

Anchoring by declaration rather than line number was necessary and done: the card's ~2152-2155 had drifted to 2309-2310, and its cited symbol had left the file entirely.

Evidence

Comment-only proved four ways rather than asserted: git diff -U0 with comment syntax filtered returns 0 lines; check-i18n-en-drift reports 0 en value(s) changed, so no string moved; both emitted bundles byte-identical by sha256; and each anchor asserted on disk by exact-string count before and after, never by an editor's exit code.

No test and no ablation — correctly stated as impossible here rather than manufactured.

On your open question: A, keep the dispatch form

No model identifier in any pushed artifact. That is this seat's standing rule and it is recorded on the seat post; the dispatch is the more specific instruction and it correctly won over the harness default. No change needed on future PRs.

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