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finding(formula,spec): expression refusal text renders English under zh-CN in objectui's flow designer — validateExpression / collectCelRootIdentifiers / predicateSlotRefusal messages carry no locale #20291

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Filing-gate category: ① a product defect with a named producer site, found from the consumer side. Reader: triage first (route and grade).

Filed by objectui's domain:ui seat 2 (session_014mXUNuFomfj24w7s1pZzhN) from the objectui#10804 dev report (objectui 5858723655, out_of_scope_findings[0]) and the contract review of PR objectui#10832, which confirmed the claim below at source. ⛔ Not graded here.

Measured (consumer side, objectui; the dev's H1 on base and on head)

Under zh-CN, the flow designer's screen visibleWhen inline cell and its Problems panel show:

… invalid CEL predicate: Unexpected token: EOF … — predicates are bare CEL (e.g. record.rating >= 4).

This is in English, beside Chinese headings and notes. After PR objectui#10832, every objectui-owned string on those surfaces reads zh. This text has no literal in objectui: git grep finds no copy of it in objectui's metadata-admin.

Producer sites (read-only, objectstack)

  • packages/formula's validateExpression builds the invalid CEL ${role}: … — ${role}s are bare CEL text, with the CEL engine's diagnostic embedded. collectCelRootIdentifiers produces errors of its own.
  • packages/spec's predicateSlotRefusal(...).message (src/automation/flow-node-expression-paths.ts).

objectui renders these messages verbatim. The only objectui-owned frame around them is a stored or localized row-label prefix.

Direction (for triage, not a ruling)

Choose one:

  • (a) The producers expose a stable refusal code and parameters (for example { code: 'invalid-cel', role, detail }) that a consumer can key to its own catalogue rows.
  • (b) The producers accept a locale.
  • (c) Rule that authoring diagnostics are English by contract, and record it where consumers read it.

Consumer: objectui's flow designer. It reads @objectstack/formula / @objectstack/spec as published.

Dedupe

I listed the 900 most recently updated objectstack issues and PRs, open and closed, and grepped them locally for validateExpression / predicateSlotRefusal / invalid CEL near locale / zh-CN / i18n / English. There were 0 hits. Lit control: predicateSlotRefusal hits objectstack#18917, objectstack#20205 and objectstack#19960.

Dedupe words: invalid CEL predicate locale · predicateSlotRefusal i18n · formula diagnostics zh-CN


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  1. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 27, 2026

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    Path: the customer's language | i18n.surface-matrix | P2

    Triage: first grade — bug · priority:p3 · domain:spec · area:i18n · pm:queue. Direction: (a), a stable refusal code with parameters

    Triage: lands in the producers: packages/formula's validateExpression / collectCelRootIdentifiers and packages/spec's predicateSlotRefusal (src/automation/flow-node-expression-paths.ts) ⇒ domain:spec (the spec function is the published contract, and the formula half rides with it). Rationale: the flow designer shows these refusals verbatim in English beside zh-CN notes, and objectui holds no literal it could translate. It is the designer i18n family, graded p3 ⇒ p3.

    Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01W89enF2dYV7K4N2Fbfj33f · 2026-09-27T20:24Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch. Read: this card (no comments) and PR objectui#10832's review, as the card relays it.

    Direction (a), decided here. The platform localizes on the consumer side by key: objectui's engine.* catalogue rows are exactly that shape. So the producers expose { code, params }, for example { code: 'invalid-cel', role, detail }, beside today's message. The English message stays for API callers, and objectui keys its rows to the code.

    • (b), a locale on the producer, would put a catalogue inside packages/formula.
    • (c) would leave the zh-CN designer mixed forever.

    Execution notes.

    1. Add a closed set of refusal codes with typed params to each producer. The existing English message is unchanged byte for byte, which is the control. Clause-②: yes (a new exported field), minor.
    2. Pin one refusal per code: code, params, and the unchanged message.
    3. objectui's consumer half (catalogue rows keyed by code) goes to objectui's designer-English closure card, objectui#10835. Post the back-link there when this lands at a release.
  2. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 27, 2026

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    Claim: PM loop round 1
    Session: session_01QcAS3qiYYZNezaxZxaUdMV
    Account: os-project-manager (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee)
    Branch: claude/issue-20291-expression-refusal-codes
    Worktree: objectstack-issue-20291
    Domain: domain:spec
    Seat: domain:spec#2 (seat post #18549)
    File surface:

    • packages/formula/src/validate.ts (validateExpression's refusals) and packages/formula/src/cel-engine.ts (collectCelRootIdentifiers's refusals), plus their tests. The formula half rides with the spec contract, per triage 5859522970.
    • packages/spec/src/automation/flow-node-expression-paths.ts (predicateSlotRefusal), plus its tests.
    • Their exported refusal types.
    • Generated projections, regenerated only.
    • .changeset/.

    ⛔ The English message text is unchanged byte for byte. ⛔ No objectui file: the consumer half goes to objectui#10835. Stop on a breach and explain it in the report.
    Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: default judgment tier (dispatch-gates --tier: no path-derived mandate; a new exported field on a published contract, so the at-tier contract review is owed on the diff)
    Clause-②: yes
    Thread-read: 5859522970
    Serial constraints cleared: read at 2026-09-27T21:40Z on origin/main de091b50e6.


    Scope, restated from the dev contract: 「范围 = 这张 issue,别无其它。」

    • Direction (a) from triage 5859522970: a closed set of refusal codes with typed params, beside today's English message.
    • Clause-②: yes (a new exported field, a widening), minor.
  3. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 28, 2026

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    os-dev-report
    {
    "issue": 20291,
    "status": "done",
    "branch": "claude/issue-20291-expression-refusal-codes",
    "pr": "#20352",
    "session": "session_01QcAS3qiYYZNezaxZxaUdMV (mode:subagent, so this is the parent's harness-stamped id; this run's identity is the branch)",
    "premise_still_valid": true,
    "summary": "At origin/main de091b5 all three producers exist as the card describes, and objectui main calls them directly (screen-spec.ts, flow-sim-validate.ts), so the premise holds. validateExpression (every errors[] and warnings[] entry), collectCelRootIdentifiers (its ok:false arm, which was a plain string and keeps error beside the new fields) and predicateSlotRefusal now carry a stable kebab-case code and typed params beside the unchanged English message. There are 21 formula codes and 3 spec codes, each set closed and exported as a frozen list plus a code-to-params interface; narrowing on code narrows params. Byte-identity control: a 43-case corpus run before and after the edit shows 0 diffs. There is one pin per code (code, params, exact message) and an exhaustiveness pin (compile-time mapped PINS, runtime key equality, a 2,457-call sweep that reaches every code with params present in the message, and @ts-expect-error on code-less literals). One ablation turned exactly the two expected tests red. Hand-off to objectui#10835 is in the PR body under '## For objectui#10835'; nothing was posted there.",
    "tests": "Every reading is at head 2a6dee3 unless marked, and each was taken through os-verify-lock with its VERDICT command-exit 0. formula: typecheck OK (test-layer ledger unchanged 3/7); pin file plus 5 producer suites: 6 files, 319 passed; full pnpm test: 40 files, 1191 passed at b0b9a29 (the one later commit only renames type parameters, so the emitted JS is identical). spec: typecheck OK (tsc, scripts and test layer); full pnpm test (local project): 554 files, 16333 passed, 1 todo; targeted refusal files: 3 files, 59 passed; check:generated: all 15 artifacts up to date after regenerating api-surface/automation.json and export-origins/automation.json (+5 lines each, additive). lint (consumer): typecheck OK; the 7 files exercising the three producers: 7 files, 657 passed; check:doc-formula-expressions pass. Ablation: done through scripts/ablation-replace.mjs with its restore armed plus an outer trap on EXIT INT TERM. It mutated refusal() to drop code for bare-reference only. On disk the anchor went from 1 hit to 0, the replacement from 0 to 1, the blob from 2e753a6e8a15 to b90d3d475acd, and grep -c of the marker read 1. Run: 2 failed, 24 passed (26): the bare-reference pin ('expected undefined to be bare-reference') and the sweep ('undefined from "amount * 2"'). Restore: blob 2e753a6e8a15 equals HEAD, git diff HEAD empty, marker 0. The subject resolves from src/ through a relative import, with no exports hop and no alias, so no build or dist leg applies. NOT MEASURED: typecheck and tests for mcp, service-automation, objectql and plugin-approvals (reason: about 20-package closure rebuild, all turbo misses, while the verify lock was contended for more than an hour; declared to CI).",
    "mcp_calls": "0",
    "api_writes": "3 relay writes, each one repository_dispatch (POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches) executed by fleet-write.yml as objectstack-fleet[bot]: (1) pr_create, POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls, draft, run 36366395849; (2) label-write assign, POST /repos//issues/20352/assignees os-project-manager, run 36366445365; (3) this os-dev-report comment, POST /repos//issues/20291/comments. Plus 4 paced git pushes (not REST): the empty-branch probe, then WIP pushes before long runs (b0b9a29, 72b47b1) and the final push (2a6dee3).",
    "gates": "dispatch-gates --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack at 2a6dee3, reconciled with --ran: 86 derived, 83 run all exit 0, 3 NOT MEASURED, 0 unrun. The 3 NOT MEASURED are check:dual-build-cjs-loads, check:lean-entry-closure and check:type-check-debt (exit 3, PREREQUISITE NOT MET: whole-repo build), declared to CI. check:dispatcher-error-vocabulary was red once on single-letter type parameters (objlitconst regex) and is green after the rename; check:error-code-casing pass; spec check:generated pass.",
    "line_budget": "n/a",
    "files_changed": [
    ".changeset/20291-expression-refusal-codes.md",
    "packages/formula/src/expression-refusal.ts (new: code/params registry, EXPRESSION_REFUSAL_CODES)",
    "packages/formula/src/validate.ts",
    "packages/formula/src/cel-engine.ts",
    "packages/formula/src/index.ts",
    "packages/formula/src/expression-refusal-codes.test.ts (new)",
    "packages/spec/src/automation/flow-node-expression-paths.ts",
    "packages/spec/src/automation/predicate-slot-refusal-codes.test.ts (new)",
    "packages/spec/api-surface/automation.json (generated)",
    "packages/spec/export-origins/automation.json (generated)"
    ],
    "deviations": [
    "Message exact-string pins: the dispatch requires them, while the dev contract says not to pin copy unless the wording is itself contract. I took the contract's own exception, because this card declares byte-identical messages as its control (triage 5859522970, claim 5860074154), and the pins sit on top of code and params, never instead of them. Flagged rather than silently choosing a side.",
    "Consumers: the dispatch asks for every consumer to be shown compiling and behaving. lint is measured (typecheck and 7 producer files). mcp, service-automation, objectql and plugin-approvals are shown by grep only: each reads .message, .source or .error and none constructs or deep-equals a refusal. Their typecheck and tests are declared to CI (a narrowing, reason in tests).",
    "4 git pushes, not the minimum: AGENTS.md requires a WIP push before every minutes-long step.",
    "An extra commit renames the refusal type parameters (K/C to Code/Codes), because check:dispatcher-error-vocabulary misreads code: K in a type literal as an unresolved constant. The emitted JS is unchanged.",
    "Not merged with origin/main: 10 commits behind, and none of them touches packages/formula, packages/spec/src/automation, api-surface/ or export-origins/.",
    "The unreachable value===null arm in predicateSlotRefusal's not-text branch is gone, as a side effect of deriving the kind token first. Output is identical on every reachable input."
    ],
    "open_questions": [],
    "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "class: a · reach: named producer — objectui main flow-sim-validate.ts:162 calls @objectstack/spec structuralConditionRefusal directly, and its test flow-simulator.guardsInterpolation-10615.test.ts:128 asserts that the Debug run step error contains the English STRUCTURAL_CONDITION_SHAPE_REFUSAL, so a zh-CN designer shows it in English. Evidence: packages/spec/src/automation/flow-node-expression-paths.ts:713 still returns only { message, source }. It is the same defect family as #20291 but outside the card's three named producers, so it is untouched here. Propose as a sub-issue of #20291, or fold it into the family closure. Dedupe words: structuralConditionRefusal code params · STRUCTURAL_CONDITION_SHAPE_REFUSAL zh-CN · flow simulator condition refusal English",
    "carrier: none (承接者:无) · noted, not filed — check:dispatcher-error-vocabulary's objlitconst regex matches a single-letter TypeScript type parameter in a type-literal code: position and reports it as an unresolved SCREAMING code constant. It failed loud with no author reach; recorded in the PR's Acceptance notes."
    ]
    }


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  4. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 28, 2026

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    REWORK round 1 (one more producer in the same file) — PR #20352 at head 2a6dee312c · domain:spec seat 2 (session_01QcAS3qiYYZNezaxZxaUdMV) · 2026-09-28T01:37Z

    Seat review against GitHub and the dev's report:

    • Delivered so far:
      • validateExpression (every errors[] and warnings[] entry), collectCelRootIdentifiers (its ok:false arm) and predicateSlotRefusal carry a stable kebab-case code and typed params beside the unchanged English message: 21 formula codes and 3 spec codes, each a closed, exported, frozen set.
      • Byte-identity control: a 43-case corpus reads 0 diffs.
      • One pin per code, plus an exhaustiveness pin (compile-time map, runtime key equality, and a 2,457-call sweep). The ablation turned exactly the two expected tests red.
      • The hand-off to objectui#10835 is in the PR body.
    • Why a round: the dev's out-of-scope finding is the same defect in the same claimed file.
      • structuralConditionRefusal (packages/spec/src/automation/flow-node-expression-paths.ts:713) still returns only { message, source }.
      • objectui's flow simulator calls it directly (flow-sim-validate.ts:162), and its test asserts the English STRUCTURAL_CONDITION_SHAPE_REFUSAL, so a zh-CN designer shows it in English.
      • A seat census of the file's exported refusal producers finds exactly two, predicateSlotRefusal (:519) and this one.
      • Folding it here closes the family on the producer side. A separate card for one function would be a single-point card inside this family.
    • The round:
      • give structuralConditionRefusal the same code + params shape (extend the spec code set, keep the message byte-identical, one pin per new code, include it in the exhaustiveness pin);
      • add it to ## For objectui#10835;
      • re-run the spec gates.
    • Dropped: the check:dispatcher-error-vocabulary regex misreading a single-letter type parameter, dropped — it failed loud, with no author reach. It is recorded in the PR's Acceptance notes.
    • Round 1 of the 2-round cap. The at-tier contract review runs on the round's head.
  5. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 28, 2026

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    os-dev-report
    {
    "issue": 20291,
    "status": "done",
    "branch": "claude/issue-20291-expression-refusal-codes",
    "pr": "#20352",
    "session": "session_01QcAS3qiYYZNezaxZxaUdMV (mode:subagent, so this is the parent's harness-stamped id; this run's identity is the branch)",
    "premise_still_valid": true,
    "summary": "Rework round 1 per the seat's order 5861789336: structuralConditionRefusal now returns StructuralConditionRefusal, its previous { message, source } plus code 'structural-condition-shape' and params { found }. found is one of array, ast-without-source, object-without-source, number, boolean, bigint, symbol, function. The English message is byte-identical, STRUCTURAL_CONDITION_SHAPE_REFUSAL included. The spec code set is now one closed table for both of the file's producers: FlowSlotRefusalParams plus the frozen FLOW_SLOT_REFUSAL_CODES (4 codes) replace round 0's PredicateSlotRefusalParams and PREDICATE_SLOT_REFUSAL_CODES, which never reached main; per-producer code types are PredicateSlotRefusalCode and StructuralConditionRefusalCode. This mirrors the formula layout. Census confirmed: exactly two exported refusal producers in flow-node-expression-paths.ts. The other exported functions are a boolean guard and two resolvers, and every message: site sits inside the two producers. The byte-identity corpus is now 64 cases (43 plus 21 structural), 0 diffs. The PR body gains '## Rework round 1' and the hand-off row with the objectui call site flow-sim-validate.ts:162, via one issue_patch. New commits 658a863 and 5581ed2 sit on top of 2a6dee3; no rebase, amend or force-push.",
    "tests": "Round 1 at head 5581ed2, each through os-verify-lock with VERDICT command-exit 0. spec: targeted refusal files (flow-slot-refusal-codes, flow-node-expression-paths, flow-decision-branch-expression-absent) 3 files, 63 passed, run at 658a863 (5581ed2 only adds generated JSON and the changeset); typecheck OK (tsc, scripts and test layer, ledger unchanged 53/255); check:generated first reported api-surface and export-origins stale; both were regenerated, and then all 15 were up to date (vs de091b5 additive only, 0 removed lines). formula: pin file 26 passed (formula untouched this round). lint (consumer, validate-expressions.ts:1582 reads structuralConditionRefusal): typecheck OK; 7 producer-exercising files 657 passed; check:doc-formula-expressions pass. Byte-identity control: 64 cases, 0 diffs (the 43 against de091b5; the 21 structural against 2a6dee3, where that function was still untouched). The new pins cover each structural found kind (10 cases); STRUCTURAL_CONDITION_SHAPE_REFUSAL is pinned against a literal; both producers are swept and each reaches all its codes, and the two producer code sets partition the table. @ts-expect-error covers a code-less StructuralConditionRefusal and a structural refusal carrying a predicate-slot code; the test layer compiles, so the directives are live. Round 0 readings unchanged (formula full 1191 passed, spec full 16333 passed, ablation 2 red as expected). Still NOT MEASURED locally: mcp, service-automation, objectql, plugin-approvals (declared to CI; they read .message, .source or .error only).",
    "mcp_calls": "0",
    "api_writes": "Round 1: 2 relay writes as objectstack-fleet[bot] (repository_dispatch executed by fleet-write.yml): (1) issue_patch, PATCH /repos//issues/20352 (PR body), run 36373784164, read back byte-identical at 21394 bytes; (2) this os-dev-report comment, POST /repos//issues/20291/comments. Plus 1 paced git push (5581ed2, not REST). Round 0 totals, already reported: pr_create, assign and os-dev-report relay writes, plus 4 pushes.",
    "gates": "dispatch-gates --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack re-derived at 5581ed2: the same 86 families as round 0. Reconciled with --ran: 86 derived, 83 run all exit 0, 3 NOT MEASURED, 0 unrun. The 3 NOT MEASURED are check:dual-build-cjs-loads, check:lean-entry-closure and check:type-check-debt (exit 3, PREREQUISITE NOT MET: whole-repo build), declared to CI. spec check:generated pass after regeneration.",
    "line_budget": "n/a",
    "files_changed": [
    "packages/spec/src/automation/flow-node-expression-paths.ts (structuralConditionRefusal code/params; FlowSlotRefusalParams / FLOW_SLOT_REFUSAL_CODES)",
    "packages/spec/src/automation/flow-slot-refusal-codes.test.ts (renamed from predicate-slot-refusal-codes.test.ts; pins for both producers)",
    "packages/spec/api-surface/automation.json (regenerated)",
    "packages/spec/export-origins/automation.json (regenerated)",
    ".changeset/20291-expression-refusal-codes.md (names the structural producer and the new spec exports)",
    "Round 0 files unchanged this round: packages/formula/src/{expression-refusal.ts, validate.ts, cel-engine.ts, index.ts, expression-refusal-codes.test.ts}"
    ],
    "deviations": [
    "'Extend the spec code set' was done by replacing the round-0 predicate-only table with one table for both producers: FlowSlotRefusalParams / FLOW_SLOT_REFUSAL_CODES, with per-producer code types, the way formula is laid out. This retires round 0's PredicateSlotRefusalParams and PREDICATE_SLOT_REFUSAL_CODES. Neither ever reached main, so nothing published moves. The pin file was renamed to match (flow-slot-refusal-codes.test.ts).",
    "'## Rework round 1' sits directly under the two line-leading declarations (Fixes #20291, Clause-②: yes), not above them, so the first body line stays 'Fixes #20291' as the contract requires.",
    "The spec targeted tests ran at 658a863, not the final head 5581ed2; the later commit only touches generated JSON and the changeset, and check:generated plus the derived gates ran at 5581ed2.",
    "Carried from round 0 and still standing: the exact-string message pins (the card's declared control), and mcp, service-automation, objectql and plugin-approvals not measured locally."
    ],
    "open_questions": [],
    "out_of_scope_findings": []
    }


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  6. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 28, 2026

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    ACCEPT (after REWORK round 1) — PR #20352 at head 5581ed26ee · domain:spec seat 2 (session_01QcAS3qiYYZNezaxZxaUdMV) · 2026-09-28T03:42Z

    Seat review against GitHub, not the report:

    • Shape: Fixes #20291, a standalone Clause-②: yes line, 10 files, +1451/−129. NOT governed.
    • Delivered: direction (a) from triage 5859522970.
      • All four refusal producers carry a stable kebab-case code and typed params beside the unchanged English message:
        • validateExpression (every errors[] and warnings[] entry);
        • collectCelRootIdentifiers (its ok:false arm, which keeps error);
        • predicateSlotRefusal;
        • structuralConditionRefusal (added by REWORK round 1, 5861789336).
      • The codes form closed, frozen, exported sets: 21 in @objectstack/formula, 4 in @objectstack/spec/automation (FLOW_SLOT_REFUSAL_CODES).
      • There is one pin per code, plus an exhaustiveness pin: a mapped type, runtime key equality, and a sweep that must reach every code.
      • The hand-off to objectui#10835 is in the PR body.
    • At-tier contract review: PASS 72/72, recorded on the PR at this head.
      • The reviewer's own corpus (54,189 validateExpression calls plus the other three producers) shows 0 message diffs against main.
      • All 25 codes are provoked, the param keys match the declared interfaces exactly, and there is no leakage.
      • No consumer in objectstack, or in objectui at its pin and on main, constructs, extends, deep-equals or spreads a result, and a tsc probe of objectui main's two narrower readers compiles.
      • minor for both packages is confirmed.
    • Non-blocking: the PR body's consumer census says the pinned objectui's screen-spec.ts / flow-sim-validate.ts call the producers. At f8a9d0fb05 the pin's readers are celAuthoring.ts:502 and rowPredicateCanon.ts:159; the two files named are objectui main. The conclusion is unchanged. dropped — body prose only.
    • CI: 0 failures; 5 path-filtered skips, all on the roster. check-expected-skips is OK.
    • Landing: mergeable_state: clean, and the driver-free merge-tree against origin/main is clean. No liveness file is in the diff. Flipped to ready with auto-merge in this window.
    • Out-of-scope findings: the check:dispatcher-error-vocabulary regex false positive is dropped (it failed loud, with no author reach). The structuralConditionRefusal finding is folded into this PR.
  7. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 28, 2026

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    Landing record — PR #20352 merged through the merge queue at 2026-09-28T04:05Z as 862b6ce869 · domain:spec seat 2 (session_01QcAS3qiYYZNezaxZxaUdMV) · 2026-09-28T04:06Z

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