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@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+'@objectstack/platform-objects': patch
+---
+
+The `sys_email` field help for Headers (JSON) and Status no longer names the `IEmailService.send` service interface (#22093)
+
+Clause-②: no
+
+Studio shows these descriptions as field help in the object forms. They now say what the field holds and when it is set, in product words: Headers (JSON) holds the custom headers supplied with the message when it was sent, and Status is `queued` when the message is submitted for sending, before the first delivery attempt. Every other fact the help states is unchanged. The `en` bundle is regenerated from the source, and the `zh-CN`, `ja-JP` and `es-ES` translations of the two leaves are re-translated in place. Wording only: no field, option, key or type changes.
@@ -1499,7 +1499,7 @@
       "title": "os plugin build enforces the manifest at the packaging boundary: an invalid manifest is refused with located errors, `packaging` forks the artifact, and the compiled manifest the artifact carries is readable back",
       "since": "v15",
       "status": "active",
-      "revision": 2,
+      "revision": 3,
       "priority": "P2",
       "surface": "cli",
       "personas": [
@@ -1536,7 +1536,7 @@
           "evidence": "each refusal's full output with its exit code, plus the directory listing taken after it"
         },
         {
-          "clause": "identity is guarded at the SCHEMA, with located errors for every shape: `id` and `version` are required by ManifestSchema (an absent one fails safeParse with a located error), a non-semver version fails its SemVer regex, and `id: \"\"` fails manifest.id's reverse-domain rule — a located Zod error ('Invalid package id '' on `manifest.id`. Expected reverse-domain notation …'), not the build's post-parse 'must declare both \"id\" and \"version\"' guard. That guard (build.ts) is now unreachable from a manifest that passed safeParse; an empty id never reaches it, and it is not scored",
+          "clause": "identity is guarded at the SCHEMA, with located errors for every shape: `id` and `version` are required by ManifestSchema (an absent one fails safeParse with a located error), a non-semver version fails its SemVer regex, and `id: \"\"` fails manifest.id's reverse-domain rule — a located Zod error ('Invalid package id ''. A package id (`manifest.id`) is written in reverse-domain notation, like …'), not the build's post-parse 'must declare both \"id\" and \"version\"' guard. That guard (build.ts) is now unreachable from a manifest that passed safeParse; an empty id never reaches it, and it is not scored",
           "oracle": "log",
           "verify": "probes 6b, 6c and 6d, each read as its OWN located refusal under 'objectstack.plugin.json is invalid:' — 6b the missing key, 6c the version regex, 6d the reverse-domain refusal naming manifest.id with the received '' — each exiting nonzero with no artifact. 6d printing 'must declare both \"id\" and \"version\"' instead would mean the schema rule regressed. Collapsing the three into one 'it refuses' observation cannot tell which rule answered",
           "evidence": "the three refusals side by side, each with its exit code"
@@ -1593,6 +1593,12 @@
           "date": "2026-10-04",
           "change": "A2 and refusal probe (d) re-pointed: `id: \"\"` is now a located Zod error at safeParse — manifest.id enforces the reverse-domain rule (MANIFEST_ID_PATTERN / manifestIdRefusal, manifest.zod.ts) — so the build.ts post-parse 'must declare both \"id\" and \"version\"' guard is unreachable from it and is no longer scored. Stale clause. Source 097d26859 (#18319)",
           "ref": "#21735"
+        },
+        {
+          "revision": 3,
+          "date": "2026-10-08",
+          "change": "text refresh only, no property change: A2 quoted the package-id refusal headline as 'Invalid package id '' on `manifest.id`. Expected reverse-domain notation …', which manifestIdRefusal (manifest.zod.ts) no longer prints — the headline now names the package id in product words and the key rides in the second sentence as a parenthetical locator. Requoted from the source at 6729e107e. The scored property is unchanged: probe (d) is still a located reverse-domain refusal at safeParse that names manifest.id and echoes the received ''",
+          "ref": "#22093"
         }
       ]
     },
 
@@ -2500,15 +2500,15 @@ export const enObjects: NonNullable<TranslationData['objects']> = {
       },
       headers_json: {
         label: "Headers (JSON)",
-        help: "Custom headers supplied to IEmailService.send, as a JSON object of name → value. Written in both delivery modes (it is audit evidence as much as delivery input). Absent on rows written before this column existed, which read back as \"no custom headers\". Never returned on the generic data path — headers are the ordinary place a credential goes; the delivery paths recover it through the engine's privileged accessor."
+        help: "Custom headers supplied with the message when it was sent, as a JSON object of name → value. Written in both delivery modes (it is audit evidence as much as delivery input). Absent on rows written before this column existed, which read back as \"no custom headers\". Never returned on the generic data path — headers are the ordinary place a credential goes; the delivery paths recover it through the engine's privileged accessor."
       },
       attachments_json: {
         label: "Attachments (JSON)",
         help: "Attachments as a JSON array of { filename, contentType?, size, hash, cid?, contentForm, inline?, storageKey?, contentReclaimedAt? }. Content up to the plugin-email budget (SYS_EMAIL_ATTACHMENT_LIMIT_BYTES, 256 KiB combined raw — ~350 KB of base64 at worst) is base64 in `inline`; larger content goes to the file-storage capability and the element carries `storageKey` instead, so the row stays bounded either way. filename/contentType/size/hash are PERMANENT audit evidence; out-of-row content is a delivery artifact and is deleted a grace window after the row reaches a terminal state, at which point `storageKey` is replaced by `contentReclaimedAt`."
       },
       status: {
         label: "Status",
-        help: "Lifecycle state — queued by IEmailService.send before transport call",
+        help: "Lifecycle state — queued when the message is submitted for sending, before the first delivery attempt",
         options: {
           queued: "queued",
           sent: "sent",
 
@@ -2500,15 +2500,15 @@ export const esESObjects: NonNullable<TranslationData['objects']> = {
       },
       headers_json: {
         label: "Cabeceras (JSON)",
-        help: "Cabeceras personalizadas facilitadas a IEmailService.send, como un objeto JSON de nombre → valor. Se escriben en ambos modos de entrega (son tanto evidencia de auditoría como entrada de la entrega). Ausentes en las filas escritas antes de que existiera esta columna, que se leen como «sin cabeceras personalizadas»."
+        help: "Cabeceras personalizadas facilitadas con el mensaje al enviarlo, como un objeto JSON de nombre → valor. Se escriben en ambos modos de entrega (son tanto evidencia de auditoría como entrada de la entrega). Ausentes en las filas escritas antes de que existiera esta columna, que se leen como «sin cabeceras personalizadas»."
       },
       attachments_json: {
         label: "Adjuntos (JSON)",
         help: "Adjuntos como un array JSON de { filename, contentType?, size, hash, cid?, contentForm, inline?, storageKey?, contentReclaimedAt? }. El contenido que cabe en el presupuesto de plugin-email (SYS_EMAIL_ATTACHMENT_LIMIT_BYTES, 256 KiB brutos combinados — ~350 KB de base64 en el peor caso) va en base64 en `inline`; el contenido mayor se guarda en la capacidad file-storage y el elemento lleva `storageKey` en su lugar, de modo que la fila permanece acotada en ambos casos. filename/contentType/size/hash son evidencia de auditoría PERMANENTE; el contenido fuera de la fila es un artefacto de entrega y se elimina tras un periodo de gracia una vez que la fila alcanza un estado terminal, momento en el que `storageKey` se sustituye por `contentReclaimedAt`."
       },
       status: {
         label: "Estado",
-        help: "Estado del ciclo de vida; se pone en cola mediante IEmailService.send antes de la llamada al transporte.",
+        help: "Estado del ciclo de vida; queda en cola al solicitarse el envío del mensaje, antes del primer intento de entrega.",
         options: {
           queued: "En cola",
           sent: "Enviado",
 
@@ -2500,15 +2500,15 @@ export const jaJPObjects: NonNullable<TranslationData['objects']> = {
       },
       headers_json: {
         label: "ヘッダー（JSON）",
-        help: "IEmailService.send に渡されたカスタムヘッダーを、name → value の JSON オブジェクトとして保持します。両方の配信モードで書き込まれます（配信の入力であると同時に監査証跡でもあるため）。この列が存在する前に書き込まれた行には値がなく、「カスタムヘッダーなし」として読み戻されます。"
+        help: "メッセージの送信時に指定されたカスタムヘッダーを、name → value の JSON オブジェクトとして保持します。両方の配信モードで書き込まれます（配信の入力であると同時に監査証跡でもあるため）。この列が存在する前に書き込まれた行には値がなく、「カスタムヘッダーなし」として読み戻されます。"
       },
       attachments_json: {
         label: "添付ファイル（JSON）",
         help: "添付ファイルの JSON 配列で、要素は { filename, contentType?, size, hash, cid?, contentForm, inline?, storageKey?, contentReclaimedAt? } の形をとります。plugin-email の予算（SYS_EMAIL_ATTACHMENT_LIMIT_BYTES、合計生サイズ 256 KiB —— 最悪でも base64 で約 350 KB）以内の内容は base64 で `inline` に格納され、それを超える内容は file-storage ケイパビリティに置かれて要素は代わりに `storageKey` を持つため、いずれの場合も行のサイズは有界に保たれます。filename/contentType/size/hash は**恒久的な**監査証跡です。行外の内容は配信用の成果物であり、行が終端状態に達してから猶予期間を過ぎると削除され、その時点で `storageKey` は `contentReclaimedAt` に置き換わります。"
       },
       status: {
         label: "ステータス",
-        help: "ライフサイクル状態 — トランスポート呼び出し前に IEmailService.send がキューに入れます",
+        help: "ライフサイクル状態 — 送信が要求された時点で、最初の配信試行の前にキューに入ります",
         options: {
           queued: "キュー済み",
           sent: "送信済み",
 
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2026 ObjectStack. Licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.
+//
+// #22093 — object field help is product guidance, in every locale.
+//
+// Studio renders a field's `help` (its source `description`) in the object
+// forms. A service-interface name there (`IEmailService.send`) tells an author
+// nothing they can act on; where the field is written from belongs in the code
+// comment beside the field. The four `objects` bundles are walked whole, so a
+// leaf added later with the same shape is caught too, in the locale it lands in.
+
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+
+import { SysEmail } from '../../audit/sys-email.object.js';
+import { enObjects } from './en.objects.generated.js';
+import { esESObjects } from './es-ES.objects.generated.js';
+import { jaJPObjects } from './ja-JP.objects.generated.js';
+import { zhCNObjects } from './zh-CN.objects.generated.js';
+
+/** The same shape the notify Template help pin uses (service-automation). */
+const SERVICE_INTERFACE = /\bI[A-Z]\w*Service\b/;
+
+const BUNDLES = { en: enObjects, 'es-ES': esESObjects, 'ja-JP': jaJPObjects, 'zh-CN': zhCNObjects };
+
+function stringLeaves(node: unknown, path: string, out: Map<string, string>): Map<string, string> {
+  if (typeof node === 'string') out.set(path, node);
+  else if (node && typeof node === 'object') {
+    for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(node)) stringLeaves(value, path ? `${path}.${key}` : key, out);
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+describe('objects bundles: field help names no service interface', () => {
+  it('the pattern recognises the interface spelling it exists to keep out', () => {
+    expect('Custom headers supplied to IEmailService.send').toMatch(SERVICE_INTERFACE);
+  });
+
+  for (const [locale, bundle] of Object.entries(BUNDLES)) {
+    it(`${locale}: no string leaf carries a service-interface name`, () => {
+      const leaves = stringLeaves(bundle, '', new Map());
+      // Positive control: the walk reaches the two leaves this card rewrote.
+      expect(leaves.get('sys_email.fields.headers_json.help')).toEqual(expect.any(String));
+      expect(leaves.get('sys_email.fields.status.help')).toEqual(expect.any(String));
+      const offenders = [...leaves].filter(([, text]) => SERVICE_INTERFACE.test(text)).map(([p]) => p);
+      expect(offenders).toEqual([]);
+    });
+  }
+
+  it('the sys_email source descriptions the en bundle is generated from name none either', () => {
+    for (const name of ['headers_json', 'status'] as const) {
+      const description = SysEmail.fields[name]?.description;
+      expect(description).toEqual(expect.any(String));
+      expect(description).not.toMatch(SERVICE_INTERFACE);
+    }
+  });
+});
@@ -2500,15 +2500,15 @@ export const zhCNObjects: NonNullable<TranslationData['objects']> = {
       },
       headers_json: {
         label: "邮件头（JSON）",
-        help: "传给 IEmailService.send 的自定义邮件头，以 name → value 的 JSON 对象存储。两种投递模式下都会写入（它既是投递输入，也是审计证据）。在该列出现之前写入的行没有此值，读回时按「无自定义邮件头」处理。"
+        help: "发送邮件时随附的自定义邮件头，以 name → value 的 JSON 对象存储。两种投递模式下都会写入（它既是投递输入，也是审计证据）。在该列出现之前写入的行没有此值，读回时按「无自定义邮件头」处理。"
       },
       attachments_json: {
         label: "附件（JSON）",
         help: "附件的 JSON 数组，元素形状为 { filename, contentType?, size, hash, cid?, contentForm, inline?, storageKey?, contentReclaimedAt? }。在 plugin-email 预算（SYS_EMAIL_ATTACHMENT_LIMIT_BYTES，合计原始大小 256 KiB —— 最坏约 350 KB 的 base64）以内的内容以 base64 存放在 `inline`；超出的内容存入 file-storage 能力，元素改为携带 `storageKey`，因此两种情况下行体积都有界。filename/contentType/size/hash 是**永久**审计证据；行外内容属于投递工件，在行到达终态并经过宽限窗后被删除，届时 `storageKey` 由 `contentReclaimedAt` 取代。"
       },
       status: {
         label: "状态",
-        help: "生命周期状态——在调用传输层之前由 IEmailService.send 排队",
+        help: "生命周期状态——邮件提交发送时即进入排队，早于首次投递尝试",
         options: {
           queued: "排队中",
           sent: "已发送",
 
@@ -150,12 +150,17 @@ export const SysEmail = ObjectSchema.create({
     // `sys_secret` row per delivery with no cascade or retention, a
     // boot-window fail-open, a per-row decrypt on every tick); this card
     // adopts that decision rather than re-deciding it.
+    //
+    // The description below is this field's help in Studio's object forms, so
+    // it reads as product guidance (#22093): the headers are the ones the
+    // caller of `IEmailService.send` passed (its `headers` option, stored
+    // through `encodeHeadersForRow`) — recorded here, not in the help text.
     headers_json: Field.textarea({
       label: 'Headers (JSON)',
       required: false,
       internal: true,
       description:
-        'Custom headers supplied to IEmailService.send, as a JSON object of name → value. '
+        'Custom headers supplied with the message when it was sent, as a JSON object of name → value. '
         + 'Written in both delivery modes (it is audit evidence as much as delivery input). '
         + 'Absent on rows written before this column existed, which read back as "no custom headers". '
         + 'Never returned on the generic data path — headers are the ordinary place a '
@@ -184,7 +189,9 @@ export const SysEmail = ObjectSchema.create({
         label: 'Status',
         required: true,
         defaultValue: 'queued',
-        description: 'Lifecycle state — queued by IEmailService.send before transport call',
+        // Studio form help, so product words (#22093): `IEmailService.send`
+        // writes the row as `queued` before its first transport call.
+        description: 'Lifecycle state — queued when the message is submitted for sending, before the first delivery attempt',
         group: 'State',
       },
     ),