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@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ The user spellings are told to write `current_user`, with the guard for a flow t
   - a `type: 'flow'` action launching the flow on an undeclared object;
   - a `map` node feeding the flow whose `itemObject` is undeclared or absent;
   - a `subflow` or `map` parent that is itself such a flow.
-- **The runtime publish gate:** a flow write there is not judged for unbound roots yet. Its per-write snapshot carries no actions or other flows, so it cannot see those entrances. Every other expression verdict at that door is unchanged.
+- **The runtime publish gate:** a flow write there is not judged for unbound roots, by design (rulings `5791822697` item 3 and `6104584601`). Its per-write snapshot carries no actions or other flows, so it cannot see those entrances. Every other expression verdict at that door is unchanged.
 
 A `$` name has no CEL spelling (`$runId == "x"` does not parse), so the `$` roots stay the text-slot rule's.
 
 
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+---
+'@objectstack/lint': minor
+---
+
+A flow whose `record-*` trigger names no start `config.objectName` is no longer judged for unbound flow CEL roots by `objectstack validate`. With no object named, the record-change trigger registers its hook with no object filter, so it fires on a write to any object, one the stack does not declare included, and hands that row to the run as `record`, its fields flattened beside it. The build door cannot know that record's keys, so it leaves the flow unjudged, as it already does for a record trigger on an object the stack does not declare. The trigger shape itself is not refused.
+
+Clause-②: yes (widening: a flow whose `record-*` trigger names no start `config.objectName` opens, so `validate` no longer reports an unbound flow CEL root there)
+
+**What changes.** On such a flow, `expression-invalid` no longer reports a root the flow does not bind (`user.id`, `foo.bar`, a field name no declared object has). The same flow with a declared `config.objectName` is judged exactly as before.
+
+**The runtime publish gate, by design.** That gate does not judge unbound flow CEL roots on a flow write, and is not going to: who launches a flow and what record it is handed are read from other items of the stack, which makes this a whole-stack judgment that belongs to `objectstack validate`, and the gate's per-write snapshot is not widened to carry flows and actions. The stand-down there is the intended boundary, not a gap waiting on a wider snapshot.
+
+**Who is affected.** Every shipped `record-*` trigger names its object, so no example app changes: `objectstack validate` over `app-crm`, `app-todo`, `app-multi-package` and `app-showcase` reports the same findings before and after.
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Clause-②: no (narrowing)
 
 A start `config.objectName` alone is no entrance: with no `record-*` trigger nothing hands the run a row. A parent's own `record` variable is not handed on either: a child gets its parent's context, not its variables. Everywhere else `record.X` is refused as `expression-invalid`, `error`, with the remedy below.
 
-**Not judged.** The stand-downs of the unbound-root rule are unchanged. At the runtime publish gate this judgment still stands down: its per-write snapshot carries no actions and no other flows, so it cannot see an entrance, and a flow write there is not refused for `record` until that snapshot carries them.
+**Not judged.** The stand-downs of the unbound-root rule are unchanged. At the runtime publish gate this judgment still stands down: its per-write snapshot carries no actions and no other flows, so it cannot see an entrance, and a flow write there is not refused for `record`, by design (rulings `5791822697` item 3 and `6104584601`).
 
 ## FROM → TO
 
 
@@ -82,6 +82,11 @@
  *
  *  - **a record trigger** — the start node's `config.objectName` (the trigger
  *    object a record-change run's row belongs to) names an undeclared object;
+ *  - **a record trigger that names no object** — the trigger kind is
+ *    `record_change` and the start node names no `config.objectName`: the
+ *    record-change trigger then registers its hook with no object filter
+ *    (`record-change-trigger.ts`), so it fires on a write to ANY object, one the
+ *    stack does not declare included, and hands that row;
  *  - **a time-relative sweep** — the start node's `config.timeRelative.object`
  *    (`TimeRelativeTriggerSchema`; its own key, independent of `objectName`, and
  *    the object whose rows the sweep hands each run) is undeclared;
@@ -130,7 +135,7 @@
  *    its `context.record`. A parent's own `record` VARIABLE is not handed on —
  *    the child gets the parent's context, not its variables. Read to a fixpoint.
  *
- * ## The runtime publish gate stands down (#22636 is the carrier)
+ * ## The runtime publish gate stands down, by design
  *
  * The same pass runs at the runtime publish gate on a flow write, and there the
  * per-write snapshot carries the written flow alone beside `objects` /
@@ -139,9 +144,16 @@
  * `map` node could hand this flow any record. A false 422 on the only door a
  * Studio tenant has is worse than the gap, so this one judgment stands down there
  * ({@link perWriteSnapshotEntrance}); every other expression verdict at that door
- * is unchanged, and `objectstack validate` judges under the rule above. #22636
- * widens that snapshot to carry flows and actions; when it lands, this
- * stand-down goes.
+ * is unchanged, and `objectstack validate` judges under the rule above.
+ *
+ * ⛔ Not a hold-out awaiting a wider snapshot. Who launches a flow and what
+ * record it is handed are read from OTHER items of the stack, so this is a
+ * whole-stack judgment, and it belongs to `objectstack validate` (ADR-0109
+ * Decision §3's boundary); the runtime publish gate judges the written item
+ * against the four collections it carries. The snapshot stays as it is: ruling
+ * `5791822697` on #19527 (item 3: `RuntimeStackContext` / `CONTEXT_STACK_KEYS`
+ * are unchanged, because every gated write pays for what they carry), held for
+ * this judgment by ruling `6104584601` on #22636 (letter B).
  */
 
 import { firstUndeclaredReference, parseCelToAst, SCOPE_ROOTS } from '@objectstack/formula';
@@ -380,6 +392,10 @@ export function flowCelEntrances(
     if (triggerObject && undeclared(triggerObject)) {
       open(name, `its trigger object '${triggerObject}' (start config.objectName) is not declared in this stack, so the record's keys are not in hand`);
     }
+    if (kind === 'record_change' && !triggerObject) {
+      // No object filter on the hook: any object's write fires it and hands its row.
+      open(name, `its record trigger '${String(config.triggerType)}' names no object (start config.objectName), so it fires on a write to any object and the record's keys are not in hand`);
+    }
     const sweep = config.timeRelative && typeof config.timeRelative === 'object' ? (config.timeRelative as AnyRec) : undefined;
     const sweepObject = sweep ? nameOf(sweep.object) : undefined;
     if (sweepObject && undeclared(sweepObject)) {
@@ -466,7 +482,9 @@ export function flowCelEntrances(
 /**
  * The runtime publish gate's entrance: none visible. Its per-write snapshot
  * carries the written flow alone (module note), so this one judgment stands down
- * there until #22636 widens the snapshot.
+ * there, by design: it is a whole-stack judgment, `objectstack validate`'s, and
+ * the snapshot is not widened for it (rulings `5791822697` item 3 and
+ * `6104584601`, module note).
  */
 export function perWriteSnapshotEntrance(): FlowCelEntrance {
   return {
 
@@ -294,6 +294,22 @@ describe('the entrances the stack declares (A′)', () => {
     expect(userRefusals(flowStack({ edgeCondition: USER, objectName: 'acct' }))).toHaveLength(1);
   });
 
+  it('a record trigger that names no start config.objectName stands down; the same trigger on a declared object is judged', () => {
+    // With no `objectName` the record-change trigger registers its hook with no
+    // object filter (`record-change-trigger.ts`), so it fires on a write to ANY
+    // object — one this stack does not declare included — and hands that row.
+    expect(userRefusals(flowStack({ edgeCondition: USER, triggerType: 'record-after-update' }))).toEqual([]);
+    expect(userRefusals(flowStack({ edgeCondition: USER, triggerType: 'record-after-update', objectName: 'acct' }))).toHaveLength(1);
+    // And with no `record-*` trigger there is no such entrance: the flow is judged.
+    expect(userRefusals(flowStack({ edgeCondition: USER }))).toHaveLength(1);
+    const entrance = flowCelEntrances(
+      { flows: [{ name: 'f', type: 'autolaunched', nodes: [{ id: 'start', type: 'start', config: { triggerType: 'record-after-create' } }] }] },
+      new Map([['acct', ['status']]]),
+    ).get('f');
+    expect(entrance?.openedBy).toContain("'record-after-create'");
+    expect(entrance?.bound).toEqual(['record']);
+  });
+
   it('a time-relative sweep: an undeclared config.timeRelative.object stands down; a declared one is judged', () => {
     const sweep = (object: string): AnyRec => {
       const stack = flowStack({ edgeCondition: USER });
@@ -361,6 +377,25 @@ describe('the entrances the stack declares (A′)', () => {
     expect(userRefusals(withFlows(flowStack({ edgeCondition: USER }), judgedParent))).toHaveLength(1);
   });
 
+  it('a parent that is itself open: its `map` child stands down, to a fixpoint; a judged parent leaves the child judged', () => {
+    // `map-node.ts` sets the child's `record` only for an id-bearing item; any
+    // other item leaves the child holding the parent's record. The declared
+    // `itemObject` keeps the node from opening `f` itself, so only the parent's
+    // openness can.
+    const each = (child: string): AnyRec => ({ id: 'each', type: 'map', config: { collection: '{rows}', flowName: child, itemObject: 'acct' } });
+    const openParent = parentFlow({ type: 'api', node: each('f') });
+    expect(userRefusals(withFlows(flowStack({ edgeCondition: USER }), openParent))).toEqual([]);
+    expect(flowCelEntrances(
+      { flows: [{ name: 'f', type: 'autolaunched', nodes: [{ id: 'start', type: 'start' }] }, openParent] },
+      new Map([['acct', ['status']]]),
+    ).get('f')?.openedBy).toMatch(/^map node 'each' in flow 'g' .*'g' is itself open$/);
+    // Two levels: g (the inbound hook) → map → h → map → f.
+    const middle = { ...parentFlow({ node: each('f') }), name: 'h', label: 'H' };
+    expect(userRefusals(withFlows(flowStack({ edgeCondition: USER }), parentFlow({ type: 'api', node: each('h') }), middle))).toEqual([]);
+    // RED CONTROL — the same `map` node in a parent no entrance opens leaves the child judged.
+    expect(userRefusals(withFlows(flowStack({ edgeCondition: USER }), parentFlow({ node: each('f') })))).toHaveLength(1);
+  });
+
   it('the reader names the entrance', () => {
     const entrances = flowCelEntrances(
       {
@@ -377,9 +412,14 @@ describe('the entrances the stack declares (A′)', () => {
  * S (triage `6094850599`): at the runtime publish gate the per-write snapshot
  * holds the written flow alone, so no entrance is visible and this one judgment
  * stands down there. Every other expression verdict at that door is unchanged.
- * #22636 widens the snapshot; when it lands, this stand-down goes.
+ * By design, not a hold-out: who launches a flow and what record it is handed
+ * are read from other items of the stack, a whole-stack judgment that belongs to
+ * `objectstack validate` (ADR-0109 Decision §3's boundary), and the snapshot
+ * stays as it is (ruling `5791822697` on #19527, item 3; ruling `6104584601` on
+ * #22636, letter B). These pins hold the asymmetry: the gate stands down, the
+ * build door refuses.
  */
-describe('the runtime publish gate (S)', () => {
+describe('the runtime publish gate stands down by design (S)', () => {
   const written = {
     name: 'f',
     label: 'F',
@@ -415,7 +455,8 @@ describe('the runtime publish gate (S)', () => {
  * binds `context.record` and `celScope` binds no `record` of its own. So the
  * build door binds it only where an entrance the stack declares hands the flow a
  * record, or the flow binds a variable named `record`; otherwise `record.X` is
- * refused. The runtime publish gate's stand-down (S) covers it until #22636.
+ * refused. The runtime publish gate's stand-down (S) covers it, by design (the S
+ * block above).
  */
 describe('`record` — bound only where an entrance hands the flow a record (#22677)', () => {
   const READ = 'record.status == "open"';
 
@@ -2169,8 +2169,10 @@ export function runStackExpressionPasses(stack: AnyRec, options: StackExpression
   // another flow's `subflow` / `map` node). At the runtime publish gate
   // (`runtimeWriteType` set) the per-write snapshot holds the written flow alone,
   // so no entrance is visible there and the judgment stands down
-  // (`perWriteSnapshotEntrance`) until #22636 widens that snapshot; every other
-  // verdict this pass gives at that door is unchanged.
+  // (`perWriteSnapshotEntrance`), by design: a judgment that reads other items of
+  // the stack is `objectstack validate`'s, and that snapshot is not widened for
+  // it (rulings `5791822697` item 3 and `6104584601`; `flow-cel-root-scope.ts`'s
+  // module note). Every other verdict this pass gives at that door is unchanged.
   const runtimeGateWrite = options.runtimeWriteType !== undefined;
   const flowEntrances: ReadonlyMap<string, FlowCelEntrance> =
     objectWrite || runtimeGateWrite ? new Map() : flowCelEntrances(stack, fieldIndex);