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@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+---
+"@objectstack/spec": patch
+---
+
+`SelectOptionSchema`'s six row properties carry a JSON Schema `title`, so Studio's property panel stops printing raw machine keys as the column headers of a field's `options` table (#17506).
+
+Clause-②: no
+
+Studio renders a `type: 'repeater'` form field as a table whose column headers read `items.properties[k].title ?? k` off the JSON Schema derived from the metadata type schema. `SelectOptionSchema` carried no `title` on any row property, so the fallback arm ran and the maker saw `label` / `value` / `description` / `color` / `default` / `visibleWhen` inside an otherwise translated panel — **in every locale, English included**. Titles are hard-coded English by design: `system/translation.zod.ts` states that a row property renders from `items.properties[k].title`, and `resolveMetadataFormSchemaTitles` only ever REPLACES a title that is already there, so an untitled property has no layer for a translation to overlay.
+
+- **One edit clears two carriers.** `field:options` and `object:fields.options` resolve to the *same* `SelectOptionSchema` object — `FieldSchema.options` is `z.array(SelectOptionSchema)` and `object.fields` is a `z.record(..., FieldSchema)` of that same `FieldSchema` — verified by object identity (`===`) against the schemas `getMetadataTypeSchema('field')` and `getMetadataTypeSchema('object')` actually return, with `FormSelectOptionSchema` as the firing control that the probe can tell two schemas apart. Both entries are deleted from the shrink-only `repeater-item-titles` ledger in the same change; `object.zod.ts` needed no edit.
+- **Nothing the schema accepts or refuses moved.** `.meta({ title })` is presentation metadata: the generated `authorable-surface/` artifacts are byte-identical, and the pinned accept/refuse suites for this shape (`editability-boundary`, `visible-when-alias-guidance`, `form-select-option`, `evaluated-slot-population`) pass unchanged.
+- **The form-view face inherits the titles for free.** `FormSelectOptionSchema` is a shape-level Omit that reuses the same property schema instances, so the five keys it keeps arrive titled too, and its `default`-refusal is untouched.
@@ -335,8 +335,8 @@ export const SelectOptionSchema = lazySchema(() => strictObject({
   // no existing pointer is shadowed (`alias-integrity.test.ts`, #7889).
   guidanceSets: [SELECT_OPTION_EDITABILITY_GUIDANCE],
 }, {
-  label: z.string().describe('Display label (human-readable, any case allowed)'),
-  value: SystemIdentifierSchema.describe('Stored value (lowercase machine identifier)'),
+  label: z.string().describe('Display label (human-readable, any case allowed)').meta({ title: 'Label' }),
+  value: SystemIdentifierSchema.describe('Stored value (lowercase machine identifier)').meta({ title: 'Value' }),
   /**
    * Optional secondary text for the option (objectui#6153, inheriting the
    * objectui#6140 ruling frame — maintainer 2026-08-25: a key that is
@@ -356,9 +356,9 @@ export const SelectOptionSchema = lazySchema(() => strictObject({
    * spelling on its own metadata type (maintainer ruling 2026-09-02 on
    * objectui#6153).
    */
-  description: z.string().optional().describe('Optional secondary/help text for this option. Lookup option search matches it in addition to the label; renderers may show it as supporting text.'),
-  color: z.string().optional().describe('Color code for badges/charts'),
-  default: z.boolean().optional().describe('Is default option'),
+  description: z.string().optional().describe('Optional secondary/help text for this option. Lookup option search matches it in addition to the label; renderers may show it as supporting text.').meta({ title: 'Description' }),
+  color: z.string().optional().describe('Color code for badges/charts').meta({ title: 'Color' }),
+  default: z.boolean().optional().describe('Is default option').meta({ title: 'Default' }),
   /**
    * Per-option visibility predicate (CEL) — the option is offered only when this
    * evaluates TRUE. Omit = always available. Evaluated against the live `record`
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ export const SelectOptionSchema = lazySchema(() => strictObject({
    * rule-validator evaluates the picked value's `visibleWhen`) — hiding it in the
    * dropdown alone is bypassable.
    */
-  visibleWhen: EvaluatedExpressionInputSchema.optional().describe("Per-option visibility predicate (CEL) — option is offered only when TRUE (else omitted). Env: the live `record` plus the host predicate scope, which binds `current_user`. The one VISIBILITY predicate the SERVER also enforces — the rule validator refuses a write of a value whose predicate is false — so a user-gated CHOICE belongs here. e.g. P`record.country == 'cn'` or P`'admin' in current_user.positions`"),
+  visibleWhen: EvaluatedExpressionInputSchema.optional().describe("Per-option visibility predicate (CEL) — option is offered only when TRUE (else omitted). Env: the live `record` plus the host predicate scope, which binds `current_user`. The one VISIBILITY predicate the SERVER also enforces — the rule validator refuses a write of a value whose predicate is false — so a user-gated CHOICE belongs here. e.g. P`record.country == 'cn'` or P`'admin' in current_user.positions`").meta({ title: 'Visible When' }),
 }));
 
 /**
 
@@ -84,19 +84,19 @@ const FORMS: ReadonlyArray<readonly [string, unknown]> = [
  * Carriers still owed titles, as measured on `origin/main` at
  * e758131b3900eb13260f03643e295ca6d625c42b. SHRINK-ONLY — see the header.
  *
- * The remaining `view.*` / `field.*` entries were fenced out of #17232's
- * round by in-flight PRs on their carrier files (#17360 `view.zod.ts`,
- * #17477 `field.zod.ts` — `field.options` and `object.fields.options` are
- * the same `SelectOptionSchema`). This pin OBSERVES them without editing
- * them, which is why the set below is the rest of the class and not the
- * slice one PR could reach.
+ * The remaining `view.*` entries were fenced out of #17232's round by an
+ * in-flight PR on their carrier file (#17360 `view.zod.ts`). This pin
+ * OBSERVES them without editing them, which is why the set below is the rest
+ * of the class and not the slice one PR could reach.
  *
- * `dashboard:widgets` and `dashboard:globalFilters` were paid by #17505 and
- * DELETED from this set — a paid debt leaves no entry behind.
+ * `dashboard:widgets` and `dashboard:globalFilters` were paid by #17505,
+ * `field:options` and `object:fields.options` by #17506 — one edit for both,
+ * because the two carriers resolve to the SAME `SelectOptionSchema` object
+ * (`FieldSchema.options` is `z.array(SelectOptionSchema)` and `object.fields`
+ * is a record of that same `FieldSchema`). All four are DELETED from this set
+ * — a paid debt leaves no entry behind.
  */
 const LEDGER: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set([
-  'field:options',
-  'object:fields.options',
   'view:columns',
   'view:sort',
   'view:tabs',