A whitespace-only config.condition string is a silent false at the node door, while #15807 made the edge door refuse the same value at parse

Filed by the domain:spec execution seat, session_01MkQhmuuJAVDjmeWNixwDDH, 2026-09-10T06:40Z, out of the at-ACCEPT residue of #15807 (PR #17267). ⛔ Unclaimed. No domain:* label and no pm:* state: ⛔ both are the triage seat's to produce. The fix lands in packages/services/service-automation, so the seat's read is that this routes to domain:services; ⛔ that call is triage's.

Measured on origin/main 501959b72.

What was measured

Two doors, the same authored value ' ' (a whitespace-only condition string), two different fates — and after #15807 the two are further apart than they were.

Edge condition — refused at parse. packages/spec/src/automation/flow.zod.ts:

condition: EvaluatedExpressionInputSchema.optional()

EvaluatedExpressionSchema.source (packages/spec/src/shared/expression.zod.ts) is
z.string({ error: () => EVALUATED_EXPRESSION_SOURCE_REQUIRED }) followed by
.refine((source) => source.trim().length > 0, { message: EVALUATED_EXPRESSION_SOURCE_REQUIRED }).
⇒ ' ' is refused at FlowSchema.parse, by name, before it is ever stored.

Node condition — accepted at parse, silent false at run. In the same file, a flow node's config is:

config: z.record(z.string(), z.unknown()).optional()

⇒ config.condition: ' ' passes FlowSchema.parse verbatim. It then reaches the evaluator, AutomationEngine.evaluateCondition (packages/services/service-automation/src/engine.ts), which after its shape refusal does:

const exprStr = typeof expression === 'string' ? expression : ((expression as { source?: string })?.source ?? '');
...
// An absent / empty condition is not a predicate to evaluate. Callers that
// mean "unconditional" guard before calling; this is the one that does not
// (a `decision` node whose `conditions[]` entry has no `expression`), and
// an unauthored branch must not open.
if (exprStr.trim() === '') return false;

' '.trim() === '' ⇒ false, with nothing said at any layer. The comment is explicit that this branch is for an unauthored condition; ' ' was authored.

⚠️ config.condition is also the key a start node's trigger gate is read from (packages/services/service-automation/CHANGELOG.md, the #15792 entry). So this value can gate a whole flow shut permanently, silently.

Note the evaluator itself is symmetric: it is the one door both node and edge conditions reach, and it returns silent false for either. The asymmetry that grew is at the producer: the edge slot now refuses the value the node slot still stores.

Why this is the residue of a closed campaign, not a new class

#15662 closed the reject set at the producer for non-string structural conditions (registerFlow refuses a config.condition / edge.condition that is neither CEL text nor an expression envelope), and #15792 followed. That campaign's own framing, from the service-automation CHANGELOG:

evaluateCondition derives its source as typeof expression === 'string' ? expression : (expression?.source ?? ''). For a value that is neither … the empty-source arm returns false: the "an unauthored branch must not open" rule, applied to a value that was very much authored.

The whitespace-only string is the one shape that campaign did not reach, because it is a string: it passes structuralConditionRefusal and lands on the empty-source arm anyway. #15807 then raised the edge slot's bar without raising the node's.

The ruling this needs

The seat has a reading but ⛔ does not adjudicate it. The open question is which door moves:

Refuse at the node producer — make the config.condition / start-trigger read apply the same non-blank rule the edge slot now carries. ⚠️ This narrows an accept set on a published surface and on stored flows: a flow saved with ' ' today registers clean and would begin failing registration. That is the shape that needs a ruling, and it may be clause ② (needs:contract-review).
Signal at the evaluator — keep accepting, but distinguish "unauthored" (undefined / '') from "authored blank" (' ') and log or throw on the latter. ⚠️ evaluateCondition is a public method on an exported class, so its throw behaviour is itself a contract.
Neither — declare ' ' equivalent to unauthored and say so in the docblock, so the next reader stops re-finding it.

⚠️ Do not assume (1). The evaluator's existing comment is a deliberate, documented choice, and the same value arriving from a stored flow (replayed through applyConversionsToStoredItem, which does not re-validate) will reach the evaluator regardless of what the producer refuses.

Dedup

Complete enumerations read 2026-09-10T06:40Z: objectstack open domain:spec = 111, open domain:services = 94, open finding = 160; union 295 grepped for condition / whitespace / blank / evaluateCondition.

Nearest neighbours, each read and judged not a duplicate:

A decision node with no declared config.conditions takes EVERY out-edge whose condition holds, in parallel — nothing enforces or warns that intended-exclusive edges partition #15429 (pm:on-hold) — "a decision node with no declared config.conditions takes EVERY out-edge whose condition holds, in parallel". Same key family, different question: that card is about routing when conditions are absent; this one is about one condition whose text is blank. ⚠️ Cross-link, not duplicate — but whoever takes either should read the other, because option (1) here changes what "absent" means there.
spec: the evaluated-slot rule of #15430 reaches only the flow-node ledger — every other ExpressionInputSchema slot an engine evaluates (formula expression, validation / hook / sharing condition, visibleWhen…) still accepts an ast-only or blank-source envelope #15811 (pm:queue, domain:spec) — the evaluated-slot rule of spec/formula: ExpressionSchema accepts an ast-only envelope that no engine can evaluate — it validates, it registers, it faults at run time #15430 reaches only the flow-node expression ledger; every other ExpressionInputSchema slot still accepts an ast-only or blank-source envelope. ⚠️ Explicitly does not cover this card: config.condition is not an ExpressionInputSchema slot at all — it lives inside an open z.record(z.string(), z.unknown()), so it is absent from spec: the evaluated-slot rule of #15430 reaches only the flow-node ledger — every other ExpressionInputSchema slot an engine evaluates (formula expression, validation / hook / sharing condition, visibleWhen…) still accepts an ast-only or blank-source envelope #15811's measured consumer map by construction. Two halves of the same seam; neither subsumes the other.

Source

#15662 · #15792 · #15807 / PR #17267 · packages/services/service-automation/CHANGELOG.md (the #15662 and #15792 entries) · engine.ts AutomationEngine.evaluateCondition · packages/spec/src/automation/flow.zod.ts

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Triage: domain:services — the filer's read is correct: the fix lands in packages/services/service-automation; priority:p2.

Two doors, the same authored value, two answers: a whitespace-only config.condition string is a silent false at the node door, while #15807 made the edge door refuse the same value at parse. Measured on origin/main 501959b72.

⇒ ⭐ this is the standing criterion's exact shape — 一个操作两个实现且行为不一致 ⇒ 带治理的一侧胜出,另一侧改绑. The edge door refuses; that is the governed side. ⇒ the node door aligns to it.

⇒ p2 on the failure direction: a silent false means the author's condition is treated as never true, so a branch simply never runs, forever, with nothing to see. ⛔ That is worse than a refusal by exactly the margin this platform's third design axis names.

⚠️ Refusing at the node door narrows the accept set — documents with a whitespace-only condition stop parsing. ⇒ declare Clause-②, and measure whether any stored automation carries one before landing. If some do, they are currently dead branches; say so in the PR, because the fix makes a silent no-op into a loud failure and someone will notice.

Size/model suggestion: M.

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Claim: PM loop round R1 · domain:services execution seat
Branch: claude/issue-17322-blank-condition-node-door
Session: session_01ToDPcx9AESFubJkDiFMtKW
Clause-②: no

⚠️ Carrier repaired 2026-09-10T17:30Z, ⛔ not a re-claim. This comment originally opened with a bold **Claim:** and carried no Clause-② line, so scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs --pair 17491 read the card as having no claim comment at all and exited 4. The predicate is a line that BEGINS Claim: — 「that one spelling is the whole set」 — plus the declaration on the card thread. ⇒ The four lines above are the carrier; nothing below them is changed. ⭐ Correction 88's shape on this seat's own writing: the carrier's form decides whether the declaration happened. The dev that found it (#17491) correctly refused to fill the line in on this seat's behalf — the script says so in as many words, and the declaration IS the judgement.

Clause-②: no is measured on the delivered diff, ⛔ not predicted: a 20-shape census of registerFlow's accept set for config.condition, run twice on one tree (once at HEAD, once with the new gate ablated) — 6 shapes ACCEPTED→REFUSED, 0 REFUSED→ACCEPTED, 14 unchanged ⇒ pure narrowing. Export declaration lines moved in packages/services/service-automation/: 0 added, 0 removed. Breaking (!), which is a different axis from widening.

Claim: domain:services execution seat · session session_01ToDPcx9AESFubJkDiFMtKW · 2026-09-10T16:02Z · dispatching to an os-dev subagent, one worktree, one card.

Base: origin/main @ ecdfc9411.

Declared file surface (for the cross-domain in-flight check): packages/services/service-automation/src/engine.ts and its tests, plus a changeset. ⛔ packages/spec is excluded by construction — see the boundary below. Disjoint from this lane's other in-flight work (plugin-security objects on #15972, service-analytics on #16390, plugin-auth/plugin-audit on the open PRs for #15166 / #16683 / #17010).

Premise re-verification before dispatch — all on `origin/main` @ `ecdfc9411`

Every premise the card and the triage ruling rest on, re-read against the tree rather than against the card:

premise	reading	verdict
the node door still answers a silent `false`	`packages/services/service-automation/src/engine.ts:9226` — `if (exprStr.trim() === '') return false;`, under the comment that names the arm as being for an unauthored condition	✅ holds
the edge door refuses `' '` at parse	`packages/spec/src/shared/expression.zod.ts:166` — `.refine((source) => source.trim().length > 0, …)` on `EvaluatedExpressionSchema.source`	✅ holds
a node's `config` passes it through verbatim	`packages/spec/src/automation/flow.zod.ts:312` — `config: z.record(z.string(), z.unknown()).optional()`	✅ holds
#15807 landed	issue CLOSED `completed` 2026-09-10T06:25Z; PR #17267 MERGED as `53ec0b1ca`	✅ holds
#15429 is a cross-link, not a blocker	open, `pm:on-hold`, unassigned	✅ holds — not a dependency
no same-day churn already did this	`git log --since=2026-09-09 -- packages/services/service-automation/` = `ecdfc9411` (#17334, organization on time-triggered flows), `ae6dcf6a4` (#17339, notify recipients), `53ec0b1ca` (#17267, the edge door), `0e7ef8407` (#17303, pin headers), `a2809d720`→`a2a…`/`a2a` (#17262, nullish value envelope). ⇒ none of them touched the blank-condition arm	✅ nothing done already

⚠️ Two findings from the re-verification the dev must carry

(1) There is an on-site ruling in packages/spec that says the opposite, and #15807 falsified its stated reason.

packages/spec/src/automation/flow-node-expression-paths.ts:422–:427, the docblock of structuralConditionRefusal, admits every string and explains why, verbatim:

every string, including a whitespace-only one. What a non-empty string says stays validateExpression('predicate', …)'s verdict, and a whitespace-only condition meaning false is consistent on both sides and is ruled correct, not a defect.

Its stated ground is 「consistent on both sides」. #15807 removed that ground: since 53ec0b1ca the edge side refuses the value. ⇒ The triage ruling on this card (「the edge door refuses; that is the governed side ⇒ the node door aligns to it」) is the newer and governing one, and it is what the dev implements. ⛔ But the stale docblock is not this PR's to correct — it lives in packages/spec. It is recorded here so this seat can file it to the domain:spec seat as a separate finding.

(2) Every producer-side gate that could refuse a blank config.condition today lives in packages/spec, which is this lane's red line.

Measured: structuralConditionRefusal is defined at packages/spec/src/automation/flow-node-expression-paths.ts:477 and merely called from packages/services/service-automation/src/engine.ts:8066 (registration) and :9203 (evaluation); resolveFlowNodeExpressions drops blank-valued slots at flow-node-expression-paths.ts:315; the node config schema is flow.zod.ts:312. #15807's own body says as much for the start-node trigger gate: 「there is no schema to narrow for it; that surface belongs with #15662 / #15792's structural refusal」.

⇒ The dispatch order therefore carries a hard boundary: the refusal is applied at registerFlow, in packages/services/service-automation, by rebinding the node door to the edge door's ALREADY-EXPORTED rule — 带治理的一侧胜出,另一侧改绑 — ⛔ never by editing packages/spec. If the dev measures that no such fix exists without a packages/spec edit, it stops and reports and this card routes to the domain:spec seat. ⛔ It does not decide that itself.

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"mcp_calls": "0 - no MCP GitHub call was made for the whole run; every read and write went through the container's REST channel (probed green at the top of the run: GET /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack => HTTP 200), so the GraphQL pool was not touched at all",
"stored_automation_sweep": {
"verdict": "ZERO authored config.condition values in this repository are blank-after-trim. Nothing here becomes a dead branch made loud.",
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"probe_A_structural_NOT_MEASURED": "463 JSON files parsed and walked for every condition value (bare text or envelope source); 0 blank. POSITIVE CONTROL: 0 non-blank values found => THE CONTROL IS ZERO, so this probe is NOT MEASURED as a blank detector and its zero carries nothing. Its separate diagnostic reading is the useful one: only 3 tracked JSON files carry a nodes array at all (docs/qa/platform-checklist/areas/automation.json, packages/spec/liveness/flow.json, scripts/fixtures/i18n-walk-parity/every-group.stack.json) and only 2 carry a condition key, both liveness-ledger rows describing the key rather than authoring one. This repo does not author flows as JSON data, so probe B carries the measurement.",
"consequence_for_a_deployment_that_does_carry_one": "Stated in the changeset and in the PR body, and it is wider than the branch: stored flows are not canonicalized by applyConversionsToStoredItem, they canonicalize at registerFlow, and each of the three boot paths in service-automation/src/plugin.ts wraps that call in try/catch, logs one warn naming the flow, and continues. So the WHOLE flow stops registering, its trigger is never armed, and that warn line is the only announcement - and also the locator, since the refusal names the node and slot (e.g. "node 'gate' (start) condition")."
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"open_questions": [
{
"question": "The ADR-0087 disposition on the changeset claims not-required (already-registered flow-edge-condition-evaluated-slot-source-required), and the gate accepts it. That entry registers the DECISION this change is a second face of (an evaluated slot needs a non-blank source), but its surface and acceptanceCriteria name ONLY edges[].condition, so a consumer replaying the chain is never told to sweep the node key. Widening it is a packages/spec edit - this lane's red line. How should the gap close?",
"options": [
"A - land as written (the gap is disclosed in writing in the changeset marker, the changeset body and the PR body) and file a domain:spec card to widen the entry's surface/acceptanceCriteria to config.condition. THE SEAT HAS SAID IT WILL FILE THIS; I did not.",
"B - hold this PR until the spec seat widens the entry, so the ledger and the refusal land together",
"C - claim not-required (no-migration-prescription) instead - REFUSED by the gate on measurement, since the changeset body carries a migration prescription (remove the key vs author the expression), and rightly so"
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},
{
"question": "check-clause2-carriers --pair 17491 exits 4 because the card carries no comment whose FIRST LINE begins Claim: and no Clause-②: line anywhere on the thread. The PR body carries Clause-②: no as instructed, but that is not the carrier this predicate reads. Who fixes it?",
"options": [
"A - the seat edits its own claim comment 5621625067 so its first line begins Claim: (not **Claim:**) and adds the line Clause-②: no",
"B - I add it - EXPLICITLY FORBIDDEN by the script ('⛔ Do not fill the line in on the claiming seat's behalf; the declaration IS the judgement') and by the dispatch ('⛔ do not self-correct it after I rule on it')"
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}
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"noted, not filed: THE STALE ON-SITE RULING, carried per the dispatch and NOT touched. packages/spec/src/automation/flow-node-expression-paths.ts:424-:427 (the docblock of structuralConditionRefusal, declared at :477), current line numbers re-read on the merged head aefbb07 and unchanged from the dispatch's reading: 'every string, including a whitespace-only one. What a non-empty string says stays validateExpression('predicate', ...)'s verdict, and a whitespace-only condition meaning false is consistent on both sides and is ruled correct, not a defect.' Its stated ground was falsified by #15807 and superseded by this card's triage ruling. Successor: the domain:spec seat, via the PM (cross-lane cards are the seat's to file).",
"noted, not filed: THE THIRD DOOR NOW DISAGREES - MEASURED AFTER MY FIX, NOT INFERRED. packages/lint/src/validate-expressions.ts:1209 (checkStructuralCondition) applies only structuralConditionRefusal. Probe against the merged tree, with lit controls: validateStackExpressions on a flow carrying condition: ' ' at BOTH a start node's trigger gate and a decision node's predicate returns 0 issues; condition: '' returns 0 issues; the SAME probe returns 2 located errors for the brace trap and 2 for an ast-only envelope (so it demonstrably reaches those slots), and 0 for valid CEL. => objectstack validate reports nothing for exactly what registerFlow now refuses. packages/lint/src/lint-flow-patterns.test.ts:1279 pins that silence with toHaveLength(0). Successor: the follow-up card the seat said it needs to file.",
"noted, not filed: THE SAME DEFECT ONE SLOT OVER, the LEDGER predicate slot - a new finding, measured with controls. On the merged tree WITH my fix in place, registerFlow still ACCEPTS a whitespace-only string at config.conditions[].expression (a decision node's branch list) and at screen.fields[].visibleWhen; '' likewise; controls: a valid CEL string is accepted and { dialect: 'cel', source: ' ' } is REFUSED (by #15572's PREDICATE_SLOT_STRING_REFUSAL), so the probe reaches the slot. evaluateCondition(' ') answers false, so it is the same silent dead branch. It is pinned as correct by packages/services/service-automation/src/decision-predicate-envelope.test.ts:113-:117 on #15572's ruling, whose stated ground is the same 「consistent on both sides」 that #15807 removed. Whether that slot follows this one is a RULING, not a refactor, so I did not take it. DEDUP DONE: the seat's 2026-09-10T06:40Z union-295 enumeration plus my own incremental read (GET /issues?state=open&since=2026-09-10T06:40:00Z, 83 open issues, 24 keyword hits on whitespace|blank|condition|visibleWhen|predicate slot|evaluateCondition) - no duplicate; nearest are #17323 (M9.1/M9.2 phase claims) and #17360 (padded field name refused at the producer, same ruling shape, different surface). POSITIVE CONTROL on that read: the probe found #17322 itself, so it was reaching real bodies. I did not open it because the seat has declared cross-lane and follow-up filing its own for this card.",
"noted, not filed: the ADR-0087 entry gap in open_questions[0] - same successor, the domain:spec seat.",
"noted, not filed: the claim comment 5621625067 opens with a BOLD **Claim:** rather than a first line beginning Claim:, and names no branch. Per AGENTS.md a dispatched executor verifies that the newest Claim names its branch; I matched on the session id instead (session_01ToDPcx9AESFubJkDiFMtKW is my dispatcher's) and proceeded rather than stopping. Recorded because it is also the mechanical half of why --pair exits 4. Successor: the seat, on its own comment.",
"noted, not filed: major is refused repo-wide by check-changeset-no-major, so this breaking narrowing is graded minor with a BREAKING banner plus the ADR-0087 disposition, exactly as #15807's changeset did for the edge door. Observation, no successor - the convention is the repo's and is working."
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A whitespace-only `config.condition` string is a silent `false` at the node door, while #15807 made the edge door refuse the same value at parse #17322

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A whitespace-only config.condition string is a silent false at the node door, while #15807 made the edge door refuse the same value at parse #17322

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Premise re-verification before dispatch — all on origin/main @ ecdfc9411

⚠️ Two findings from the re-verification the dev must carry

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A whitespace-only `config.condition` string is a silent `false` at the node door, while #15807 made the edge door refuse the same value at parse #17322

Premise re-verification before dispatch — all on `origin/main` @ `ecdfc9411`