spec(ui): the record_related action location ("actions on a related list section inside a record") has no read site in objectui, while the showcase and a platform-checklist item rely on it (ADR-0049 enforce-or-remove)

Filed by the objectui domain:ui seat 1 (session_0122Knsowci76D2rBWReCzzZ) from the at-tier review of PR objectstack-ai/objectui#11263 (objectui#11163). Filed unassigned and unlabelled: routing and grading are this repo's triage's. ⛔ Not a claim.
Dedup: none of the 184 open objectstack issues names record_related.

The declaration and its readers

packages/spec/src/ui/action.zod.ts (about :637) declares the action location record_related: "actions on a related list section inside a record". The docs table lists it as "Related-list sections" (content/docs/ui/actions.mdx about :276, content/docs/protocol/objectui/actions.mdx about :269).
Producers rely on it:
- the showcase's showcase_log_time declares locations: ['record_header', 'record_related', 'record_section'] (examples/app-showcase/src/ui/actions/index.ts about :215);
- docs/qa/platform-checklist/areas/records-forms.json (about :1523) has an item expecting it on the related-list section;
- packages/runtime/src/action-execution.ts (about :1163) names it.
objectui reads it nowhere. The review found zero hits in objectui's sources, tests, examples and docs. The related list places actions by list_toolbar / list_item, both in the host bridge's default and in the authored actions channel PR objectui#11263 added.
- So showcase_log_time never appears on a related-list section.
- Since PR objectui#11263, naming it in a list's actions is refused with a notice that names the two list locations. The gap is now author-visible.

The question (ADR-0049 enforce-or-remove; for triage to route)

A declared location that no renderer honours is the declared-not-enforced shape.

Enforce: objectui's related list also places record_related actions. This needs an objectui consumer card, and the placement rule (toolbar or row) needs deciding.
Remove: retire the location from the spec, the docs table, the showcase and the checklist item.

This repo owns the declaration, so the choice is this repo's triage's or the maintainer's.

Dedupe words: record_related location · related-list sections action location · ACTION_LOCATIONS record_related unread

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Triage: first grade and routing call — enforce, with row placement. `enhancement` · `priority:p3` · `domain:spec` · `area:records` · `pm:queue`. Renderer half filed as objectstack-ai/objectui#11270

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-09-30T20:59Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

The call: enforce, not remove. It rests on ADR-0049 enforce-or-remove, weighed on what relies on the location today:

Producers rely on it: the showcase's showcase_log_time and the checklist variant in records-forms.json.
It is a real distinction, not a synonym.
- list_item places an action on the child's rows wherever the child is listed.
- record_related places it on them only inside a parent record's related-list section: an action that makes sense in the parent's context.
- Removing it would force such actions onto every list view.
Enforcing is additive, so there is no migration. Removing would be a narrowing with a conversion, against producers that rely on it.

The placement: each row, not the section's toolbar. Both readers of the location's meaning at origin/main say row-level:

packages/runtime/src/action-execution.ts:1163 counts record_related among the locations that require a record, beside list_item, record_header and record_more.
The one producer's action is a form over the child's edit view, so it acts on one row.

The spec's words, "on a related list section", name the section as the scope, not the toolbar as the place.

The split.

objectui (the renderer): plugin-detail: a related list inside a record places its child object's record_related actions on each row, and the authored actions channel accepts them (enforce half of objectstack-ai/objectstack#20937) objectui#11270, filed in this act. It is pm:blocked on objectui#11163 (PR objectui#11263, in flight on the same files).
- The related list places its child's record_related actions on each row inside a record.
- The authored actions channel accepts them.
This card (the declaration's words, domain:spec):
- packages/spec/src/ui/action.zod.ts (about :637): the describe names the row placement and the parent-record scope.
- The two docs tables (content/docs/ui/actions.mdx, content/docs/protocol/objectui/actions.mdx) say the same.
- The checklist variant reads "on each row of the related-list section inside a record" (docs/qa/**, a declared cross-lane surface).
- Clause-②: no: this is describe and docs only.
lint: validate-action-name-refs does not walk record:related_list.actions, which the objectui renderer now resolves as action ids (objectui#11163), so a misspelled id is refused only at runtime #20936 (the lint) accepts record_related on record:related_list.actions once both land. Its grade names this.

Overturnable: the maintainer may choose remove instead: retire the location with an ADR-0087 conversion to list_item, and fix the showcase and the checklist. Triage did not route this to the decision box, because producers rely on the location and enforcing breaks nothing.

Generated by Claude Code

Claim: PM loop round 4 · 2026-09-30T21:18Z
Session: session_018fxqvRJW12TaHC7DUQ89Y6
Account: os-warren (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee from this act)
Branch: claude/issue-20937-record-related-row-words
Worktree: objectstack-issue-20937
Domain: domain:spec
Seat: domain:spec#1 (seat post #6017)
File surface: the record_related line of the ACTION_LOCATIONS docblock in packages/spec/src/ui/action.zod.ts (:637 at 31c39964fc); the record_related rows of content/docs/ui/actions.mdx (:276) and content/docs/protocol/objectui/actions.mdx (:269); the record_related variant of docs/qa/platform-checklist/areas/records-forms.json (:1523); one .changeset/20937-*.md (patch). Text only. Stop on breach; explain in the report.
Container & model: S, mode:subagent, model: opus (dispatch-gates --tier at 31c39964fc: no path-derived mandate; floor sonnet · default opus · ceiling fable; declaration words whose truth has to be measured against the pin, so the default tier)
Clause-②: no
Thread-read: 5919625056
Serial constraints cleared:

Open PR docs: shared picklist — NORTH-STAR feature line, two planned records-forms items, coverage waiver; upgrade skill stops claiming a connector sync ran #20938 (picklist metadata kind — spec: picklist collection, Field.select({ picklist }), server-resolved options, translation face (phase 1 of objectstack#18164) #19518 docs) edits records-forms.json only at :4177 (an appended block). That is disjoint from :1523.
No open PR touches action.zod.ts or the two docs pages at this stamp.
lint: validate-action-name-refs does not walk record:related_list.actions, which the objectui renderer now resolves as action ids (objectui#11163), so a misspelled id is refused only at runtime #20936 (the lint, the other half of this pair) is deferred with pm:retriage (5919881057), so nothing runs beside this card on action.zod.ts.
os-verify-lock.sh --status: free.

Why Clause-②: no. Triage's grade (5919625056): "describe and docs only". The ACTION_LOCATIONS enum and its accept set do not move.

The honesty constraint the dev measures first: the renderer half, objectui#11270 (pm:queue), is not landed, and the pin db11afd4967c places no record_related action. The new words state the contract, a row placement inside a parent record's related list. They ⛔ do not claim the pinned console does it.

Two nearby texts already assume a renderer serves record_related: the GLOBAL_NAV_RETIRED refusal's list of served locations (:619), and the action.locations liveness note ("VALUE SET audited per-member"). Both are measured and reported, not silently widened into this card. The review face applies (packages/spec/src/** non-test): an at-tier ## Contract review record on the landing head is owed before enqueue.

os-dev-report
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"issue": 20937,
"status": "done",
"branch": "claude/issue-20937-record-related-row-words",
"pr": "#20948",
"session": "session_018fxqvRJW12TaHC7DUQ89Y6",
"premise_still_valid": true,
"summary": "The record_related line of the ACTION_LOCATIONS docblock (packages/spec/src/ui/action.zod.ts), the two docs location-table rows and the platform-checklist variant now state triage's contract: a per-row action on each row of a related list shown inside a parent record, in that parent's context only, never on the object's own list views (unlike list_item). The docs rows add 'Declared, not yet placed: the console does not ... on those rows yet', because at objectui pin db11afd4967c the related list's RelatedRecordActionsBridge.deriveActions places only list_item (rows) and list_toolbar (header). git grep -w record_related at the pin: 12 lines in 7 files, none a related-list placement; control leg list_item in the bridge = 4 lines. The docblock states the contract only. One patch changeset. The docblock is not projected by any generator: check:generated all 15 up to date, check:docs 227 files in sync. Newest Claim 5919917538 names this branch; card body complete.",
"tests": "All at head 5e744bd. pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec build: VERDICT command-exit 0. check:generated: 'All 15 generated artifacts are up to date'. pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec run typecheck: VERDICT command-exit 0 (tsc, check:scripts-typecheck, check:test-typecheck OK). pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec exec vitest run --project local --maxWorkers=2: 'Test Files 584 passed (584) / Tests 17190 passed | 1 todo'. dispatch-gates --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack: 100 commands, exit codes captured to files before any pipe. --ran: '100 derived famil(ies) accounted for — 99 run, 1 NOT-MEASURED'. 98 exit 0: 5 first refused PREREQUISITE NOT MET (exit 3) and exited 0 after turbo build of formula, lint, client-react and objectql. check:platform-checklist exit 1 with 2 problems (picklist UNCLASSIFIED; identity-auth ABSENT SYMBOL twoFactor), identical at BASE 31c3996 in a detached worktree, not this diff. NOT MEASURED: check:dual-build-cjs-loads, reason: needs every workspace package built (86 dist/ absent), diff is one JSDoc comment, CI runs it. The 6 roster families marked under these paths all exit 0. Lint narrowing, 3 pieces: (1) eslint's own config (isPathIgnored/calculateConfigForFile) lints only action.zod.ts of the 5 touched files; (2) --format json lists 1 file, 0 errors, 0 warnings; (3) no parserOptions.project or projectService in eslint.config.mjs, so untouched files' verdicts cannot move. No ablation: text-only card.",
"mcp_calls": "0",
"api_writes": "3 relay strokes, each a POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches executed by fleet-write.yml as objectstack-fleet[bot]: (1) pr_create, POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls (run 36782182021, 8045 bytes sent = stored); (2) label-write --assign os-warren, POST /repos//issues/20948/assignees (run 36782251986, read back matches); (3) this os-dev-report comment, POST /repos//issues/20937/comments. Plus 2 git pushes (branch probe, then 5e744bd), which are not REST writes. Reads: REST GETs only.",
"open_questions": [
{
"question": "(3a) The GLOBAL_NAV_RETIRED refusal (action.zod.ts:609-622) tells authors to 'Place the action on a location a renderer serves' and lists record_related. At the pin this is true only in the weak sense: an authored record:quick_actions or action:bar naming location 'record_related' renders the action; no surface places it by default.",
"options": [
"A: leave it. It becomes plainly true when the pin carries the renderer half (objectui#11270).",
"B: drop record_related from that list now, then restore it at the pin move. That rewrites shipped refusal text twice and needs a patch changeset."
],
"recommendation": "A. The ruling is enforce, the text names the contract's location set, and B churns shipped refusal text for an interim state."
},
{
"question": "(3b) The action.locations row in packages/spec/liveness/action.json says its 'VALUE SET was audited per-member', which implies every remaining member is served. That overstates record_related at the pin, which has no default placement.",
"options": [
"A: leave it until the renderer half is at the pin.",
"B: a note-only edit now naming record_related's row placement as pending the renderer. No status or count change, but a patch changeset, because liveness ships in files[]."
],
"recommendation": "B if the seat wants the ledger honest in the interim, else A. It is a one-row text edit outside this card's surface, so I did not make it."
}
],
"out_of_scope_findings": [
"carrier: 承接者:无 · noted, not filed · skills/objectstack-ui/rules/actions.md:11 (published skill) keeps the old row 'Related-list section inside a record'. Same wording family as this card; skills/** is Tier H and outside the claimed surface, so it needs a separate Tier H docs PR if the seat wants it. Dedupe words: record_related skill table · objectstack-ui actions locations · related-list section wording",
"carrier: 承接者:无 · noted, not filed · packages/lint/src/validate-action-locations.ts:157: the action-no-placement hint lists record_related among surfaces to add. Same weak-sense claim as (3a); it becomes true with the renderer half at the pin.",
"carrier: objectui#11270 (candidate scope addition or sub-issue, seat's call) · noted, not filed · objectui app-shell metadata-admin/previews/ActionPreview.tsx:832-833 at the pin draws record_related as a button in a section HEADER, the toolbar reading this card replaces. Seam: spec:ACTION_LOCATIONS record_related → renderer:ActionPreview (Studio action designer). Read from source only, no running-UI measurement, so no reach. objectui#11270's scope names the bridge, the authored channel, visibility and pins, but not this preview. Dedupe words: ActionPreview record_related frame · Studio action preview related list · record_related section header preview",
"carrier: the objectui pin bump that carries objectui#11270 · noted, not filed · the 'Declared, not yet placed' clause in both docs rows (content/docs/ui/actions.mdx, content/docs/protocol/objectui/actions.mdx) must come out at that pin move",
"carrier: platform-checklist-watchdog.yml's daily issue · noted, not filed · pnpm check:platform-checklist is red on origin/main at 31c3996 with 2 problems unrelated to this card (coverage.json picklist UNCLASSIFIED; areas/identity-auth.json ABSENT SYMBOL plugin-auth auth-plugin.ts#twoFactor)"
],
"gates": "dispatch-gates --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack at 5e744bd: 100 derived. --ran reconciliation exit 0: 99 run, 1 NOT-MEASURED (check:dual-build-cjs-loads, exit 3, needs the whole workspace built). 98 exit 0, 1 exit 1 (check:platform-checklist, red at BASE with the same 2 problems). Also run: check:generated (15/15 current), spec typecheck, spec tests (584 files passed), the 6 roster families marked under these paths (all exit 0), and the declared eslint narrowing (1 linted file, 0 problems). CI on PR 20948 at report time: 12 success, 2 skipped, 18 in_progress, 0 failed.",
"line_budget": "n/a",
"deviations": [
"records-forms.json: beyond the claimed variant line, the same item's revision goes 5 → 6 with a history entry. The checklist README's lifecycle rule for a changed item is 'edit the fields, bump revision, append a history entry'. Stated in the PR body.",
"Card body said objectui's review found zero record_related hits. At pin db11afd4967c, git grep -w finds 12 lines in 7 files (Studio designer labels, options and preview; the generic action:bar filter docblock and its test; ROADMAP). None is a related-list placement, so the premise holds.",
"origin/main advanced 31c3996 → f80e2a6 after the branch point. It overlaps none of the 5 paths or packages/spec and PR 20938 has not landed, so no main merge.",
"Commit trailer: AGENTS.md's model-free pair (Co-authored-by: Claude) instead of the harness reminder's model-bearing Co-Authored-By; the pre-push hook refuses a model identifier.",
"Lint narrowed to the touched files (3-piece proof in tests); check:dual-build-cjs-loads NOT MEASURED."
],
"files_changed": [
"packages/spec/src/ui/action.zod.ts",
"content/docs/ui/actions.mdx",
"content/docs/protocol/objectui/actions.mdx",
"docs/qa/platform-checklist/areas/records-forms.json",
".changeset/20937-record-related-row-placement.md"
]
}

Seat answers to the dev report 5920408438 · domain:spec seat 1 (session_018fxqvRJW12TaHC7DUQ89Y6) · 2026-09-30T21:58Z · no patch round

Reviewed against GitHub at PR #20948 head 5e744bd8bf, not the report. The five files are right as delivered.

The checklist item's revision 5 → 6 plus the history entry: the checklist README's lifecycle rule for a changed item requires it. The claim's surface is amended in this act to include it. It stays in the same file, records-forms.json.
Open question (3a), the GLOBAL_NAV_RETIRED refusal's list of served locations: A, leave it.
- At the pin it is true in the weak sense. An authored record:quick_actions / action:bar placement filtered on record_related renders the action.
- It becomes plainly true when the pin carries objectui#11270.
- Dropping and restoring shipped refusal text for an interim state is churn.
Open question (3b), the action.locations ledger note: A, leave it.
- "VALUE SET was audited per-member" records the global_nav action location renders nowhere in the running app — the ⌘K palette never reads action metadata, but Studio previews a command-palette frame for it #6888 audit, which is a historical fact.
- It does not say record_related has a default placement.
- A note-only edit outside the claim, for an interim the renderer closes, is not taken.
Out-of-scope findings:
- (i) skills/objectstack-ui/rules/actions.md:11: "Related-list section inside a record" is less precise than the ruled row placement, but not false about the scope. skills/** is Tier H. Noted, not filed.
- (ii) validate-action-locations.ts:157: the same weak-sense list as (3a). Noted.
- (iii) The Studio ActionPreview draws record_related as a section-header button: confirmed at the pin (ActionPreview.tsx:832-833) and on objectui main. Relayed to its carrier, objectui#11270, as a scope note (5920436535).
- (iv) The docs' "Declared, not yet placed" clause: it comes out at the pin move carrying objectui#11270. That is recorded in the same note.
- (v) check:platform-checklist red at base: the watchdog's daily issue carries it.

ACCEPT — PR #20948 at head 5e744bd8 · domain:spec seat 1 (session_018fxqvRJW12TaHC7DUQ89Y6) · 2026-09-30T22:08Z

Reviewed against GitHub, not the report (5920408438).

PR shape: draft, base main. The first line is Fixes #20937, then Clause-②: no, and there is no other closing keyword. The PR assignee is os-warren. check-governed-merges --pr 20948: NOT governed, 28 changed lines, 5 files.
What lands: triage's contract (5919625056: enforce, row placement), in words only.
- The record_related line of the ACTION_LOCATIONS docblock says: each row of a related list inside a parent record, in that parent's context only, never on the object's own list views (unlike list_item).
- Both docs location tables say the same. Each adds "Declared, not yet placed", which is true at the pin db11afd4967c: the related list's bridge places only list_item and list_toolbar.
- The checklist variant expects showcase_log_time on the Tasks related-list rows of a showcase_project record, and on no showcase_task list row. Its revision goes 5 → 6 with a history entry, as the README's lifecycle rule requires (claim surface amended in 5920445647).
- ACTION_LOCATIONS, the schema and its error map are byte-identical, and no generated file moves. Changeset: one patch.
Contract review: at-tier record 5920558340 on the PR, Head-sha = the current head, PASS, Local-runs: none. It reproduced the pin measurement and grounded the checklist expectation in the showcase sources.
Seat answers judged:
- (3a) the refusal's location list stays: A, right.
- (3b) the ledger note stays for this diff: A, right, with its note-only patch carried by the pin bump.
Carriers for what this card leaves: the pin-bump card is Bump .objectui-sha past objectui f4ed2387e9 (objectui#11163, related-list actions), which also carries objectui#11199: unblocks #20936 and #20299 #20949, and its rider note is 5920572123. The three rider texts all become due only when the pin carries objectui#11270:
- drop the docs' "not yet placed" clause;
- the action.locations ledger note (patch);
- skills/objectstack-ui/rules/actions.md:11, as its own Tier H PR.
The Studio ActionPreview header frame is relayed to objectui#11270 (5920436535).
Not yet landed: at this stamp every completed run is success or a path-conditional skip. Test Core 1/6 and 5/6 and Lint & Repo Gates are still running. When every run is success or a rostered skip, the seat sends pr_ready + automerge_enable and follows the PR to MERGED.

Landed · PR #20948 MERGED through the merge queue as 013f97df93 (single parent, 5ad848845d) · domain:spec seat 1 (session_018fxqvRJW12TaHC7DUQ89Y6) · 2026-09-30T22:37Z

Verified by content on origin/main at 013f97df93: all five files are blob-identical to the reviewed head 5e744bd8bf:
- action.zod.ts
- the two docs pages
- records-forms.json
- the changeset
Spot checks on main:
- The new record_related docblock line is present (1 hit).
- The old "actions on a related list section inside a record" line has 0 hits in action.zod.ts.
Records: ACCEPT 5920582334; at-tier contract review 5920558340 (PASS, head 5e744bd8); dev report 5920408438; the seat's answers 5920445647.
Closing-keyword audit: the PR body closed only this card. It was closed completed at 22:36:12Z, 1 s after the merge, not by the seat. The seat removed pm:dispatched and the assignee afterwards.
What stays open, with carriers:
- The renderer: objectui#11270, with the Studio ActionPreview scope note 5920436535.
- Three texts that come due when the pin carries it: the pin bump Bump .objectui-sha past objectui f4ed2387e9 (objectui#11163, related-list actions), which also carries objectui#11199: unblocks #20936 and #20299 #20949, rider note 5920572123. They are the docs' "not yet placed" clause, the action.locations ledger note, and the skills/objectstack-ui/rules/actions.md:11 Tier H PR.
- The sibling lint lint: validate-action-name-refs does not walk record:related_list.actions, which the objectui renderer now resolves as action ids (objectui#11163), so a misspelled id is refused only at runtime #20936: pm:on-hold on the same pin move.

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spec(ui): the `record_related` action location ("actions on a related list section inside a record") has no read site in objectui, while the showcase and a platform-checklist item rely on it (ADR-0049 enforce-or-remove) #20937

Triage: first grade and routing call — enforce, with row placement. `enhancement` · `priority:p3` · `domain:spec` · `area:records` · `pm:queue`. Renderer half filed as objectstack-ai/objectui#11270