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fix(app-shell): strip the framework's read decorations before saveFields PUTs - #6502

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Fixes#6480

saveFields fetches the current object and spreads it verbatim (...existingObject) so every key the service does not model survives a field save. That spread does not distinguish keys the author owns from keys the framework adds on the way out. _diagnostics and _draft are the second kind, and ObjectSchema refuses both by name, so a decorated served document went straight back out on the PUT.

Fixed as option 1 from the card — a strip at the write site, through the spec's own exported helper. Options 2 (adapter-level) and 3 (generic "strip what the schema refuses") were fenced off by the dispatch order and are not implemented.

The four pre-fix measurements

1 · stripReadDecorations is exported by the spec this repo actually installs. Read on disk, not from the card: node_modules/.pnpm/@objectstack+spec@17.2.0_.../@objectstack/spec — version 17.2.0, matching the card.

@objectstack/spec -> stripReadDecorations: undefined (NOT on the root entry)
@objectstack/spec/kernel -> stripReadDecorations: function
METADATA_READ_DECORATIONS: ["_diagnostics","_draft"]

Also checked, because the import is the first of its kind in this repo: packages/app-shell declares "@objectstack/spec": "^17.0.0", and that floor is honest — the 17.0.0 tarball from the registry carries stripReadDecorations in both dist/kernel/index.d.ts and dist/kernel/index.js. No floor bump needed.

2 · The zero-hit claim re-run with a positive control. A zero from a search not shown to find anything is not a measurement, so the same command shape was run for a symbol known to be imported from the same entry point:

getMetadataTypeSchema : 10 hits <- positive control (same entry point, same package)
deriveNamespaceFromPackageId : 8 hits <- second control
stripReadDecorations : 0 hits
METADATA_READ_DECORATIONS : 0 hits

Repo-wide across all file types, excluding node_modules: control 11, claimed symbol 0. The card's claim holds.

3 · The _diagnostics reader count is smaller than the card says, and the card's suggestion still stands. The card says "a dozen places ... (ResourceEditPage, ResourceListPage, JsonSourceEditor, flow-problems.ts, preview-registry.ts)". Counted directly, live reads of the decoration off a served document are 6 lines across 3 files:

FileLines
packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/ResourceEditPage.tsx614, 877, 2250
packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/ResourceListPage.tsx255
packages/data-objectstack/src/metadata-client.ts1032, 1064 (+ the type member at 327)

Of the five surfaces the card names, only two perform the property read. JsonSourceEditor.tsx, flow-problems.ts and preview-registry.ts mention _diagnosticsonly in comments — they consume diagnostics handed down as props. The count reaches "a dozen" only if comments and the route path<Route path="metadata/_diagnostics"> (a URL segment, an entirely different thing) are swept in.

The correction does not weaken the option-2 ban — it sharpens it. Two of the six reads are in metadata-client.ts, the adapter, and they are deliberate re-attachment code: the adapter explicitly carries _diagnostics onto the envelope it returns. An adapter-level strip would delete the key at the exact site written to preserve it, blinding both live readers.

4 · The strip introduces no silent loss, and this was proved rather than assumed. A PUT here is an upsert — this repo's own toObjectPayload comment says so ("a PUT is an upsert, so writing {} here would delete every field") — so removing a key is never neutral by default. These two are the exception, by the spec's own declaration:

  • _diagnostics is the read-path validation verdict, spread on by decorateMetadataItem and recomputed on every read.
  • _draft reflects the row's state column and the mode parameter, "never in the body".

Neither is author state, so neither can be lost by not echoing it. Measured on the helper: it removes exactly those two keys, adds none, and changes no surviving key's value. Critically, the ADR-0010 protection envelope (_lock, _lockReason, _lockSource, _provenance, _packageId, _packageVersion, _lockDocsUrl) — which is write-path state the server merges back — is deliberately not a member of METADATA_READ_DECORATIONS and survives intact. That is pinned in the test.

One correction to the card's severity

The card predicts "the hard 422 INVALID_METADATA that blocks every subsequent save". The card was explicit that this was observational, not a reproduced 422 — and that caveat turns out to matter. The framework's saveMetaItem performs the same strip server-side, before the schema gate:

packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts:13207
request.item = stripReadDecorations(request.item);
// Placed first so the destructive-change diff, the schema gate, the
// authoring gate and the persisted body all see the same document.

So against a server carrying that code the PUT does not 422 on these two keys. I could not date that server-side strip: the objectstack checkout available here is shallow (50 commits), so git log -S attributes it to the oldest commit in the shallow history rather than to its real one. Treat the date as not measured.

The fix stands regardless, and not as defensive leniency:

Reverse verification

Predicted RED, observed RED. The guard call was removed, the mutation was proved on disk (removed-text occurrences 0, injected-text occurrences 1, working blob 9d6bf497 != HEAD blob d32a488a), then the pin ran:

LEG 1 — mutated: vitest exit 1 · Tests 4 failed | 5 passed (9)
x sends neither decoration - asserted on the request bytes
x and the whole body parses green - the red-to-green witness of this card
x strips each decoration on its own, not only when both are present
x still sends an off-spec key the AUTHOR owns, and the schema still refuses it
LEG 2 — restored: vitest exit 0 · Tests 9 passed (9)
working blob after restore == HEAD blob (d32a488a) · git diff HEAD empty

The five that stayed green under mutation are the controls that make this a measurement of my change and not of something ambient: the three the instrument tests (they measure the spec, not this code), the author-key preservation test, and the undecorated no-op control.

No rebuild sits between the mutation and the assertion. The test imports the mutated file by relative specifier (./MetadataService), and the only workspace package it imports by name is aliased to source — vitest.config.mts:272 maps @object-ui/data-objectstack to packages/data-objectstack/src. So no package dist/ is in the path and the assertion cannot be reading a stale build. The mutation script carried a trap ... EXIT INT TERM restore with absolute paths, and the restore was proved by blob-hash equality plus an empty git diff HEAD, not by an exit code.

Verification, all on 66556008d

CheckResult
vitest run packages/app-shell/src/services/ + the two plugin-designer pins11 files, 97 tests passed
@object-ui/app-shelltype-check (tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.test.json)exit 0 — covers the new test file
@object-ui/app-shelllint0 errors, 2729 warnings (pre-existing baseline)
check:control-bytesOK (5371 tracked text files)
check:designer-field-key-paritydesigner-field-key-parity: OK
check:spec-symbolsspec symbol derivation: OK
check:phantom-depsEvery in-scope import is declared by the package that publishes it
check:changeset-presence / check:changeset-no-majorexit 0 / exit 0

check:spec-floors reports a prerequisite, not a failure — no-artifact: Build the workspace before running this gate. Its own header says it reads each package's published.d.ts, so an internal value import like this one is outside its reach either way; the floor question it exists to catch was answered directly under measurement 1.

Neither changed file contributes a lint finding. MetadataService.ts carries exactly one warning, no-explicit-any at line 476 — the pre-existing const raw: any = await client.meta.getItem(...), which sat at line 463 before my comment shifted it.

Lint narrowing, declared: the repo-wide pnpm lint was not run; @object-ui/app-shell's own lint task was. The narrowing is provable rather than assumed — eslint.config.js configures no type-aware linting (no projectService, no parserOptions.project), so a file's verdict is a function of its own bytes plus config. I changed no config and no file outside app-shell, so no untouched file's verdict can move. CI runs the full farm regardless.

File face

Three files, and no more — #6488 and #6489 are queued on this seam:

  • packages/app-shell/src/services/MetadataService.ts — the import, the strip in saveFields, and a third bullet in that method's doc comment. saveFields is the only function whose body changed.
  • packages/app-shell/src/services/MetadataService.readDecorationStrip.test.tsnew file.
  • .changeset/6480-strip-read-decorations.mdnew file, patch.

Untouched, and worth stating for the two queued cards: saveObject builds its body from toObjectPayload, an explicit modelled shape with no verbatim spread, so it cannot carry a decoration and needed no change.

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…lds PUTs
`saveFields` spreads the served object verbatim (`...existingObject`) to
preserve every key this service does not model. That spread does not
distinguish keys the author owns from keys the framework adds on the way
out: `_diagnostics` and `_draft` are read decorations the framework stamps
onto every served metadata document, and `ObjectSchema` refuses both BY
NAME, so a decorated document went straight back out on the PUT.
Strip them at the write site through the spec's own exported
`stripReadDecorations`, so the list stays the spec's rather than a local
copy that goes stale the next time a decoration is added. This is the
strip-on-write shape `MetadataObjectsPage.handleObjectsChange` already
uses for `group` — applied where the spread is, because simply not
writing the key is not enough when the spread is verbatim.
Bounded on purpose, not a lenient "drop whatever the schema refuses" pass
(AGENTS.md #0.1): it removes exactly the two keys the framework adds at
read time and never stores, so a genuinely unrecognized author key still
fails loudly. Nothing is lost by dropping them even though a PUT is an
upsert — `_diagnostics` is the read-path verdict, recomputed on every
read, and `_draft` reflects the row's `state` column and the `mode`
parameter, never the body. The ADR-0010 protection envelope IS write-path
state and the spec deliberately keeps it out of the decoration list, so
this strip does not touch it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011SfZeFWrhGLHmfq61xbz4q
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PM review: ACCEPT at 66556008d. Verified from the tree.

The fence held exactly. Option 1 only — the strip sits at the write site in saveFields, using the spec's own exported helper. No adapter-level strip, no generic "remove whatever the schema refuses" pass. Three files, and saveFields is the only function whose body changed.

⭐⭐ The severity correction is the most valuable thing in this report, and it needs to be visible to anyone who reads this card later. The card predicted a hard 422 INVALID_METADATA blocking every subsequent save of the object. You measured that a current server does not return that, because objectstack's saveMetaItem performs the same strip server-side before the schema gate. The card's own caveat — that the 422 was observational and never reproduced — is precisely the caveat that turned out to matter, and you found the reason rather than inheriting the prediction.

And you were right that the fix stands anyway. The three reasons are the correct ones: the body is off-spec by the contract regardless of who cleans up after it, objectui is backend-agnostic and cannot assume any particular server strips, and the spec's own doc comment names a second consumer class beyond the write path. What changes is the severity story, not the verdict — this is a contract-correctness fix, not a live-outage fix, and saying so plainly is worth more than a louder claim would have been.

⭐ Refusing to date the server strip was the right call. A shallow checkout makes git log -S attribute a change to the oldest shallow commit, which looks exactly like a real answer. Marking it NOT MEASURED instead of reporting the artifact is the discipline that keeps the rest of the report trustworthy — the same instinct as flagging the --exclude glob that did not bite on the sibling card this round.

⭐⭐ The count correction sharpens the ban instead of loosening it, and that is the part a weaker report would have got backwards. The card said "a dozen places" read _diagnostics across five surfaces; the truth is six read-lines across three files, and only two of the five named surfaces actually perform a property read — the rest mention the key in comments or receive diagnostics as props, and the dozen is reached only by sweeping in comments and the route path metadata/_diagnostics, which is a URL segment and an entirely different thing. The tempting conclusion from "fewer readers than claimed" is that option 2 was safer than the dispatch said. You drew the opposite and correct conclusion: two of the six reads are in the adapter itself and are deliberate re-attachment code, so an adapter-level strip would delete the key at the exact site written to preserve it. Suggestion kept, count fixed, ban strengthened.

The silent-loss question was answered, not waved at. PUT is an upsert, so removing a key is not neutral by default, and you measured that the helper removes exactly the two decorations, adds nothing, changes no surviving value, does not mutate its input, and returns the same reference when there is nothing to strip. Pinning the ADR-0010 protection envelope — _lock, _provenance, _packageId and the rest, which are write-path state the server merges back and are deliberately not read decorations — is the assertion that makes the strip provably narrow rather than merely intended.

The floor check was not asked for and should have been. The installed spec is 17.2.0, but app-shell declares ^17.0.0, and you verified the 17.0.0 registry tarball actually carries stripReadDecorations. Checking the declared floor rather than the installed version is what stops this repo's first import of a symbol from being a latent break for anyone resolving lower. Nothing to file, and that is a measured nothing.

Reverse verification is clean and isolated. Predicted RED, observed RED, with the four failures being exactly the four strip assertions — and the five controls staying green, including the three that measure the spec rather than your code. That is what makes it a measurement of this change rather than of something ambient. Mutation proved on disk by blob hash before any reading, restore proved by hash equality rather than an exit code, trap on EXIT INT TERM with absolute paths, and the no-rebuild-in-path claim stated plainly with the vitest source alias cited.

saveObject being untouched is a positive sweep, not an omission — it builds from an explicit modelled shape with no verbatim spread, so it cannot carry a decoration. That closes the family at one site rather than leaving "are there others?" open.

File face recorded, and #6488 / #6489 are released to dispatch once this lands:packages/app-shell/src/services/MetadataService.ts, the new MetadataService.readDecorationStrip.test.ts beside it, and the changeset.

Landing: queued once CI settles green on 66556008d.


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