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Hot install via os package install leaves record-change flows unbound and the package's permission sets unprojected until a restart, and says nothing #21322

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QA-source: #21318 · platform-core.marketplace-install-local-lifecycle · clause 2

Summary

After os package install ./dist/objectstack.json into a running runtime (17.6.0, OS_CLOUD_URL=off), the CLI reports ✓ Package installed into the running kernel and the app's objects serve, but two of the app's declared behaviours do not exist until the runtime is restarted:

  1. record-change flows do not fire. The app's active flow task_completed_note (record_change, tasks_app_task after-update, condition record.status == 'done' → create_record on a note object) does nothing on the hot-installed runtime; after a restart the same update writes the note.
  2. the package's permission set is not projected into sys_permission_set. GET /api/v1/meta/permission lists tasks_app_task_user right after install, but GET /api/v1/data/sys_permission_set does not; it appears only after a restart. Grants (sys_user_permission_set.permission_set_id) need that row, so an admin cannot give members access to the installed app until then — and under the 17.6.0 deny baseline those members are refused every app object meanwhile.

Neither the CLI output nor the install response mentions that a restart is needed (the DELETE path does document its restart coupling).

Reproduction

  1. Build an app with an active record_change flow and a permission set (definePermissionSet, wired as permissions: in defineStack); npx os build.
  2. OS_CLOUD_URL=off npx os start -p 4340 --home ./home --auth-secret <32+ chars>; sign up the first owner.
  3. npx os package install ./dist/objectstack.json --runtime http://localhost:4340 --email … --password ….
  4. GET /api/v1/data/sys_permission_set?select=name → the package's set is absent; GET /api/v1/meta/permission → present.
  5. POST /api/v1/data/tasks_app_task {"name":"flow probe"}, then PATCH …/<id> {"status":"done"} → 200; GET /api/v1/data/tasks_app_note → 0 rows (expected 1, Completed: flow probe).
  6. Restart the runtime with the same home. Step 4 now lists the set; step 5 on a new task writes the note.

Expected

A hot install leaves the runtime in the same state a restart would — flows bound to their triggers, permission sets projected — or the install response and CLI say plainly which parts take effect only after a restart.

Related, separate card: install-local never registers script action bodies even after a restart (see the run record).


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  1. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 2, 2026

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    Triage: first grade — bug · priority:p2 · domain:services · area:devpath · pm:queue. A hot install binds what a boot binds

    Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-02T05:01Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

    Why p2. It is the same install path as #21321, but a restart repairs it. Until that restart it fails silently: record-change flows do not fire, and the package's permission set is not projected, so members cannot be granted access.

    Routing. It is the package-install family, in this lane. The flow binding and the permission-set projection are its consumers.

    Direction.

    • A hot install runs the same registration steps the boot runs for the installed package's flows and permission sets. ⛔ No install-only second path.
    • If a behaviour genuinely cannot bind hot, the install response and the CLI name it, and the restart it needs. That is an exception that is measured and named, not the fix.

    Pins: right after a hot install, the record-change flow fires and the permission set row exists. The restart path is unchanged (the control).


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  2. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 2, 2026

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    Triage: re-route domain:services → domain:cli, and pm:queue → pm:blocked on #21321. It is the same applySideEffects seam

    Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-02T06:54Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

    Blocked-by: #21321


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  3. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 2, 2026

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    A carrier note from #21321's landing window · domain:cli seat · session_01VvcEokUG1tvVxkceYfR5XB · 2026-10-02T11:59Z. ⛔ Not a claim.

    PR #21401 (#21321, queued to land) exports bindAppArtifactHandlers(ql, bundle, { appId, logger, source }) and appArtifactHandlerOwner(appId) from @objectstack/runtime. Both install-local paths, install and rehydrate, now call the binder for action and hook bodies under app:APPID. Per triage, this card reuses that seam.

    One more registration step to measure when this card is claimed. Both PR #21401's dev and its contract review (5951839992) named it, from a source read only, and it is NOT MEASURED:

    • AppPlugin.start schedules an artifact's defineStack jobs on kernel:ready.
    • The install-local path has no equivalent, so an installed package's jobs would never be scheduled.

    This card's direction ("a hot install runs the same registration steps the boot runs") covers jobs in spirit, but its body names flows and permission sets only. The claim should measure jobs and either fold them in or report them with a measured reach.


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  4. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 2, 2026

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    Triage: unlock — pm:blocked → pm:queue. The seam this card extends has landed

    Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-02T12:58Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.


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  5. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 2, 2026

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    Claim: PM loop round 1
    Session: session_016GiHYRmLSNWTfbX9gVQkpz
    Account: os-bill (the seat's linked user as get_me answers it; the card's assignee)
    Branch: claude/issue-21322-hot-install-binds-boot-steps
    Worktree: objectstack-issue-21322
    Domain: domain:cli
    Seat: domain:cli#1
    File surface: packages/cloud-connection/src/marketplace-install-local-plugin.ts (the install and rehydrate paths) · packages/runtime/src/app-artifact-handlers.ts (the one binder from PR #21401) · packages/runtime/src/app-plugin.ts (only to share the boot's registration step with the binder) · their tests · one packages/qa/dogfood/test pin if a booted-app pin is needed · .changeset/. If the measured producer of the flow binding or the permission-set projection lives in another package, the fix goes to that producer and the report names it; the seat then declares the cross-lane path before the PR enqueues (stop on any other breach; explain in the report). Amended at the ACCEPT, the measured landing: packages/cloud-connection/src/marketplace-install-local-plugin.ts + marketplace-install-local-hot-resync.test.ts · packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/security-plugin.ts + declared-permission-reload-projection.test.ts (cross-lane, the measured producer; declared on #21118) · packages/cli/test/package-install-local-boot-steps.integration.test.ts · scripts/engine-double-contract.pinned.json (the gate's required --write) · .changeset/. packages/runtime is untouched
    Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: default (opus) — dispatch-gates --tier --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack at 6210f887: no path-derived mandate, the tier is the PM's per-card call; a runtime registration seam with a measurement (jobs) and a design judgment, so the default tier
    Clause-②: no
    Thread-read: 5952901045
    Serial constraints cleared: same package, other file: PR #21447 (#21329, domain:services) edits packages/runtime/src/domains/share-links-enforcement-context.test.ts only, disjoint from this surface (same-package exempt, same-file serial). No open PR and no in-flight claim names marketplace-install-local-plugin.ts, app-artifact-handlers.ts or app-plugin.ts (7 open PRs' file lists and 14 pm:dispatched claims read 2026-10-02T21:09Z). The blocker #21321 landed as 1d0600bf66 (PR #21401), the last change to the install-local file on origin/main 6210f887.

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  6. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 2, 2026

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    os-dev-report
    {
    "issue": 21322,
    "status": "needs_decision",
    "branch": "claude/issue-21322-hot-install-binds-boot-steps",
    "pr": "#21488",
    "session": "session_016GiHYRmLSNWTfbX9gVQkpz",
    "premise_still_valid": true,
    "summary": "Premise reproduced at the public door on main 4c8363f, after PR #21401. Hot install: sys_permission_set has 0 rows for tasks_app_task_user, and the record-change flow writes 0 notes. Restart and the --artifact control: 1 row and 1 note each. The boot producers were measured from their symbols. Flows: service-automation syncFlowsFromProtocol on kernel:ready, resyncFlowsFromProtocol on metadata:reloaded. Permission-set projection: plugin-security runBootstrap, then seedCatalogPermissions, then bootstrapDeclaredPermissions, on kernel:ready. Neither is an AppPlugin.start step. Fix: the install-local install route (not the rehydrate) announces metadata:reloaded as its last step, after the seed. This is the one post-boot re-sync signal that publish-drafts, per-item publish and the artifact reload already announce. plugin-security now re-runs its declared-permission seeding on that event, once the boot pass has run. Readings after the fix: 1 row and 1 note right after the install; restart and control unchanged. Each half was proven separately by ablation. Jobs (ruled to fold in) were measured as never scheduled by install-local, hot or after a restart, while the control schedules them. The cause is the job handler: it is code in the artifact runtime module, which an inline install never carries. The ruled exception arm widens the response and CLI surface, so the work stopped there and the decision is in open_questions. PR is "Part of #21322" for that reason.",
    "tests": "HEAD f1fefdf; code and tests last changed at ed91d99 (f1fefdf adds one comment line). Integration pin packages/cli/test/package-install-local-boot-steps.integration.test.ts (new) plus the #21321 sibling package-install-local-handlers.integration.test.ts, run with pnpm --filter @objectstack/cli exec vitest run --project integration --maxWorkers=1 at ed91d99: Test Files 2 passed, Tests 24 passed (7 + 17). The sibling stays green, so the announce double-binds no installed hook or action. Pre-fix reading (scratch measure at 4c8363f): install ps=[] notes=[] job=[]; restart ps=[tasks_app_task_user] notes=[1] job=[]; control ps=[1] notes=[1] job=[tasks_app_tick]. Post-fix: install ps=[1] notes=[1] job=[]; restart and control unchanged. Unit: cloud-connection marketplace-install-local-hot-resync.test.ts (5) and plugin-security declared-permission-reload-projection.test.ts (3), both new and green. Full suites: cloud-connection 32 files/406 tests green; plugin-security 163 files/3522 green, 45 skipped; cli --project unit 248 files green (2 published-subpath pins were PREREQUISITE NOT MET until the CLI build, then green); typecheck green for cloud-connection, plugin-security and cli. Ablations via scripts/ablation-replace.mjs, with marker proven in dist by ablation-dist-preflight.mjs and an absent-marker preflight plus a clean tree on each restore. Leg A (install announce replaced): pin 2 failed / 5 passed, install phase only, both pins red; the DTS step exited 1 with TS6133 (unused private method), JS was emitted and the marker was proven in dist; unit 4 red, rehydrate green. Leg B (security subscriber renamed): pin 1 failed / 6 passed, only the install-phase permission-set pin red, flow green; unit 2 red, before-boot control green. Lint (CI-owned) as a proven narrowing at ed91d99: ESLint isPathIgnored says all 5 changed TS files are linted; --format json gives 5 files, 0 errors, 0 warnings (1/0/0 on f1fefdf); eslint.config.mjs has no parserOptions.project, no typed rules and no cross-file import rules, so untouched files cannot change verdict. Uninstall symmetry (this change makes it reachable): after a hot install, DELETE install-local answers 200; the flow still fires and the row stays (documented until-restart coupling); after a restart the object answers 404 and the row stays, same as the pre-existing install, restart, DELETE, restart path.",
    "gates": "dispatch-gates --commands re-derived with no paths after the last code commit (ed91d99, then f1fefdf). --ran reconciliation: 76 derived, 76 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED, each with a recorded exit 0. check:dual-build-cjs-loads first exited 3 (PREREQUISITE NOT MET) and was green after building 9 unbuilt packages. check:engine-double-contract first exited 1 until --write recorded the new double, as the gate instructs. The comment-reading gates and check:adr-anchors were re-run on f1fefdf, exit 0. CI: in_progress at report time.",
    "line_budget": "n/a",
    "files_changed": [
    "packages/cloud-connection/src/marketplace-install-local-plugin.ts",
    "packages/cloud-connection/src/marketplace-install-local-hot-resync.test.ts",
    "packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/security-plugin.ts",
    "packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/declared-permission-reload-projection.test.ts",
    "packages/cli/test/package-install-local-boot-steps.integration.test.ts",
    "scripts/engine-double-contract.pinned.json",
    ".changeset/21322-hot-install-binds-boot-steps.md"
    ],
    "deviations": [
    "Cross-lane: the permission-set producer is plugin-security (SecurityPlugin.runBootstrap / bootstrapDeclaredPermissions). Its new metadata:reloaded subscriber is the producer-side edit; the seat declares the cross-lane path. packages/runtime (app-artifact-handlers.ts, app-plugin.ts) is untouched. Changeset bumps cloud-connection and plugin-security, not runtime.",
    "Ruling conflict, reported rather than resolved silently. 5952901045 says flows and permission-set projection "extend that one binder". Measurement shows neither is a step of AppPlugin.start or of bindAppArtifactHandlers (synchronous, ql-only, runs before kernel:ready). Putting flow binding or projection there would be the second path the same ruling forbids. Followed the "no second path" intent: the hot install re-runs the consumers own boot sweeps via metadata:reloaded.",
    "Jobs fold-in from 5952901045 not delivered: measured unschedulable on install-local (code does not travel). The ruled exception arm widens the response and CLI (Clause 2 hazard), so the work stopped before writing it. PR says Part of #21322.",
    "scripts/engine-double-contract.pinned.json committed outside the claimed file surface, because check:engine-double-contract requires --write and commit for a new test double. Only 2 rows for the new test were added.",
    "Base 4c8363f, not the dispatch tip 6210f88 (main had moved before the worktree was created). main moved 3 more commits during the run, none touching the affected packages; not merged forward.",
    "Pins and ablations ran at ed91d99. Final head f1fefdf only adds an ADR-0086 D5 anchor to one comment; the comment-reading gates were re-run on it.",
    "Ablation leg A build exited 1 at the DTS step (TS6133, the now-unused private method). The JS bundles carried the mutation, proven by preflight, so the reading stands."
    ],
    "mcp_calls": "0",
    "api_writes": "3, all through scripts/pm fleet-write relay as objectstack-fleet[bot] (one repository_dispatch each): (1) pr_create POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls, draft #21488; (2) label-write POST /repos//issues/21488/assignees [os-bill], no labels written, none named and skip-changeset not applicable; (3) this os-dev-report POST /repos//issues/21322/comments. git push is not counted.",
    "open_questions": [
    {
    "question": "Jobs on install-local. A package defineStack({ jobs }) is never scheduled by install-local, hot or after a restart (sys_job 0 rows; the --artifact control with its runtime module gives 1 active row). JobSchema.handler names a functions entry; a compiled artifact carries only the lowered string ref, and the callable lives in objectstack-runtime.HASH.mjs, which only os start --artifact imports (mergeRuntimeModule). normalizeFlowFunctionEntry drops a string ref, so no shared job step can resolve a handler from an inline install. What should the platform do?",
    "options": [
    "A: ruled exception arm. The install response names each declared job that did not bind (e.g. a notBound list with kind, name, reason and remedy os start --artifact), and os package install prints it. Clause 2 becomes yes (widening), minor changeset, CLI tests owed. Axes: business need is thin (only examples/app-showcase declares jobs, and it boots by config, not install-local); long-term it names the gap without closing it; AI safety is good (a remote installer, human or AI, reads the response and CLI output, which never show server logs); scope is small, one response field and one CLI block, no new gate.",
    "B: log-only. Warn at install and rehydrate naming each unschedulable job and the remedy. Clause 2 stays no. Axes: no public surface change and lowest cost, but the remote installer never sees the warn, so declared-but-not-enforced stays invisible to AI. It also falls short of the ruled "the install response and the CLI name it".",
    "C: refuse at install. install-local answers a 4xx with a code and remedy for a package declaring enabled jobs. A narrowing, so breaking. Axes: loudest and contract-first, but it blocks installing every other working part of such a package; zero measured users ask for it.",
    "E: long-term contract fix. Make job handlers declarable as sandboxed bodies (like script actions and body hooks), so install-local can run the shared job step. Needs a packages/spec change (spec seat), a runtime job step shared with AppPlugin, and an ADR touch. Axes: the right long-term shape (self-describing metadata), but capability expansion with no measured pull at the startup stage."
    ],
    "recommendation": "A, because it is the exception shape triage already ruled. It is the only option that tells the remote installer, which is where an AI installer reads its result, and it costs one response field plus one CLI block. E stays deferred until a named user installs a jobs-bearing package. B fails the visibility axis. C over-refuses. Needs the seat to re-declare Clause 2 as yes (widening) before any code."
    }
    ],
    "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "class: a · reach: public door measured. After a hot install, DELETE /api/v1/marketplace/install-local/com.example.tasksapp answers 200; after a restart the package object answers 404 but GET /api/v1/data/sys_permission_set?name=tasks_app_task_user still returns the managed_by package row. The pre-existing path (install, restart, DELETE, restart) gives the same orphan row on main 4c8363f. Evidence: install-local handleUninstall removes only the ledger file and never runs the protocol uninstall cleanups, although plugin-security registers registerUninstallCleanup(security.package-permissions) for exactly this ("no ghost grants", ADR-0090 D5). Dedupe words: install-local uninstall orphan permission set; registerUninstallCleanup install-local; ghost grants after package DELETE; sys_permission_set survives uninstall",
    "carrier: none · noted, not filed. Same family, not measured: a hot-installed package declared positions and capabilities, and the ADR-0090 audience-binding suggestion for an isDefault set, are also seeded only by the kernel:ready bootstrap. This PR re-runs only the permission-set seeding the card names (PR Acceptance notes).",
    "carrier: none · noted, not filed. Inference: os package install cannot add capabilities to a running runtime, so a package whose flows need automation and triggers installs green into a runtime booted without them and its flows never fire. Measured only for a package with no requires on an empty kernel, where flows never fire even after a restart (PR Acceptance notes).",
    "carrier: none (spec-seat file) · noted, not filed. Docs drift: the metadata:reloaded description in packages/spec/src/contracts/plugin-lifecycle-events.ts names only the artifact watcher as emitter; there are now four emitters."
    ]
    }

  7. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 2, 2026

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    ACCEPT (partial: Part of) — PR #21488 at f1fefdf6e9

    domain:cli seat · session_016GiHYRmLSNWTfbX9gVQkpz · review of record, read on GitHub 2026-10-02T23:13Z

    Shape. Draft, base main. The first line is Part of #21322, and no closing keyword sits next to any card number. Clause-②: no is line-initial and bare. Not governed: check-governed-merges --pr 21488 read 0 of 7 paths. +827 / −0.

    Surface. The claim 5961531449 is amended in place to the measured landing:

    • cloud-connection: the install route plus a unit pin;
    • plugin-security: the measured producer of the permission-set projection. It is cross-lane and declared on [PM seat] domain:services · seat 2 — ⏳ vacant #21118 in this act;
    • one packages/cli integration pin;
    • scripts/engine-double-contract.pinned.json, two rows, the gate's required --write for the new test double;
    • the changeset.

    packages/runtime is untouched.

    The seat's premise, corrected in public. Triage's 5952901045 said flows and the permission-set projection "extend that one binder", and the seat's dispatch A2 assumed the same. The dev measured both producers from their symbols. Neither is an AppPlugin.start step, and neither is in bindAppArtifactHandlers:

    • flows: service-automation binds at kernel:ready and re-syncs on metadata:reloaded;
    • permission sets: plugin-security's runBootstrap → seedCatalogPermissions → bootstrapDeclaredPermissions, at kernel:ready.

    Writing either one into the binder would itself be the install-only second path the same ruling forbids. The PR instead satisfies the direction in 5945898119 ("the same registration steps the boot runs … ⛔ No install-only second path"):

    • install-local announces metadata:reloaded, the platform's existing post-boot re-sync signal, as its last step after the seed;
    • the two consumers re-run their own boot sweeps on it.

    The PR body records the measurement. ⛔ This is not a new path: publish-drafts, per-item publish and the artifact reload already announce the same event.

    Read on the diff:

    • plugin-security's new metadata:reloaded subscriber runs only after the boot pass (bootstrapRanOnce), and only the same seedCatalogPermissions over the same catalogSeedPasses(). On origin/main that is the exact step every boot, and the organization-creation hook, already runs. So it adds no write behaviour a restart does not already have. It never throws.
    • install-local's announceHotInstall runs after the seed, never fails the install, and is not called by the rehydrate.

    Pins and reverse verification. The new integration pin (7 cases) plus the #21321 sibling (17) were green together at ed91d99506, so the announce double-binds no installed hook or action.

    • Leg A replaced the announce: the install-phase pins went red.
    • Leg B renamed the subscriber: only the permission-set pin went red, and the flow pin stayed green.
    • Both restored clean.
    • Before the fix: install ps=[] notes=[]. After: ps=[1] notes=[1]. The restart path and the --artifact control are unchanged.

    Changeset (cloud-connection, plugin-security, patch). Each sentence was checked against the diff:

    Gates. The dev derived 76 families with no paths after the last code commit and ran all 76. pnpm lint was a proven narrowing. CI on this head at review time: 16 success, 3 skipped, 12 in progress. The landing waits for every check to be green.

    The jobs half → #21489 (needs-user-decision, the decision box). Measured: install-local can never schedule a function-ref job handler, hot or after a restart. Triage's exception arm was written for what a restart repairs, and naming jobs in the response would widen a public surface. So it is a contract-shape fork, analysed there with the four axes. At this PR's merge, #21322 closes completed, its remaining half being #21489.

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  8. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 2, 2026

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    Landed: PR #21488 → ab52182b4a. Closing completed: the jobs half lives on #21489

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