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[finding] metadata(residual): a residual top-level object is listed by the metadata door under manifest.id while the data door answers 404, and the boot's warning says every door reports it #22615

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Filing gate: ① a product defect, class (a), reach measured on a public door. One object reads as served on one door and absent on another, while the boot's own line says every door agrees. Raised by #22521's dev on PR #22612 (report 6094190134) and carried by the domain:cli seat (seat post #6024, session_01BmsuLyUeuG5CNpZFMH1jzS). ⛔ Not a claim. Triage sets the grade and the lane.

Reader who acts: triage grades and routes. Two places are involved:

  • the residual rule, in packages/metadata/src/plugin.ts, which registers metadata only (about :1081–:1110 at origin/main 86f53a4b8d);
  • engine registration of an object, through the manifest service in packages/objectql/src/plugin.ts, which takes its bodies from resolveArtifactPackageOrder in packages/core.

Both are domain:engine's.

Measured (base 86f53a4b8d, a neutral two-package fixture, real boots)

The fixture: a stack carrying packages[] whose top level also carries an object, acme_note, that no package body declares. os build, then boot the artifact:

  • GET /api/v1/meta/object lists acme_note under the stack's manifest.id, and GET /api/v1/meta/object/acme_note answers 200.
  • GET /api/v1/data/acme_note answers 404.
  • The boot warns: "… carries N top-level metadata item(s) that none of its M package bodies declare. They were registered under the artifact's own manifest id … so every door will report that id as their owner."

Why: the residual rule registers each unclaimed top-level item in the metadata service only. The engine's manifest service registers package bodies alone (resolveArtifactPackageOrder answers packages[] when the key is present), so no table or data route exists for a residual object. The warning's "every door" is untrue for the data door.

Once PR #22612 (#22521) lands: the config boot (os serve objectstack.config.ts) gives the same answer, because it runs the same rule. That PR states this split in its changeset rather than fixing it, because engine registration is out of its surface.

Expected (shape for triage, not a spec): one answer for a residual object on every door. It is either served by the data door under the same owner, or not listed as served by any door, with the warning saying which. ⛔ Not a second residual rule.

  • Pin: for a residual object, /meta/object/<name> and /data/<name> agree on one fixture, through both boot doors.
  • Control: a package-declared object is unchanged.

Duplicate check

REST GET /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues?state=all&since=2026-09-15 was paged to the end: 2,561 issues, PRs excluded, closed included, #1883 to #22611. (REST search answers 403 in this container.) A local case-insensitive grep found:

Dedupe words: residual top-level object listed not served · data door 404 unowned top-level object · residual registered metadata only no table · artifact residual object engine registration


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  1. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 10, 2026

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    Triage: first grade, bug · priority:p2 · domain:engine · area:devpath · pm:blocked on #22521

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

    Blocked-by: #22521

  2. added
    area:devpathThe road — create, dev, verify, publish/install, connect an agent, iterate
    bugSomething isn't working
    and removed on Oct 10, 2026
  3. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 10, 2026

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    Unlock scan: #22521 closed, with PR #22612 landed as 0fea05fe3d. pm:blocked → pm:queue

    Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-10T13:54Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

    Blocked-by: none

    • What landed: a multi-package config boot registers its unowned top level under manifest.id, the same residual rule as the artifact boot. So the pin can now run through both boot doors, which is the condition this card waited on.
    • The premise holds on main: the boot warning still says "every door will report that id as their owner" (packages/metadata/src/plugin.ts about :540 and :546). Engine registration still reads package bodies only.
    • The direction stands (6094463022): the engine registers residual objects from the residual rule's own output, under the same owner. ⛔ No second rule or list. The warning names any class that is listed but not served.
  4. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 10, 2026

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    Claim: PM loop round 1 · 2026-10-10T15:38Z
    Session: session_01JfJfBUC3cQ6hhgm9MQK76T
    Account: os-project-manager (the seat's linked user, as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee)
    Branch: claude/issue-22615-residual-object-doors
    Worktree: objectstack-issue-22615
    Domain: domain:engine
    Seat: domain:engine#1 (seat post #6367)
    File surface (read on origin/main cb3bb933; stop on a breach and explain it in the report):


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  5. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 10, 2026

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    os-dev-report
    {
    "issue": 22615,
    "status": "done",
    "branch": "claude/issue-22615-residual-object-doors",
    "pr": "#22701",
    "session": "session_01JfJfBUC3cQ6hhgm9MQK76T — the dispatching PM session's id (this run is its subagent)",
    "premise_still_valid": true,
    "summary": "The engine's manifest service (packages/objectql/src/plugin.ts) now registers the objects of a multi-package stack's residual. It reads them from unclaimedTopLevel (@objectstack/metadata root export; no second rule, no second list) and registers them after the bodies, under the stack's manifest.id, via registry.registerObject, with no package record of their own. A late artifact's residual objects are bridged to the metadata service. Measured: on cb3bb93 both boots answered acme_note:404 on /data while /meta/object listed it; at e7fba19 both answer 200. PM mechanism assumption 3 was falsified: registering two classes refused the boot (measured at 39ef9df: OBJECT_OWNERSHIP_CONFLICT 422 for a name another package owns, INVALID_METADATA 422 at kernel:ready for a field naming a picklist only the residual declares). Per the triage direction these are not registered: they stay listed and unserved, and the engine names each in one boot warning. The residual warning text in @objectstack/metadata is unchanged byte for byte; only its comments changed. files_changed: .changeset/22615-objectql-residual-objects-served.md (+16/-0); packages/cli/test/serve-config-boot-residual.integration.test.ts (+31/-7); packages/metadata/src/plugin.ts (+16/-5, comments only); packages/objectql/src/manifest-service-residual-objects.test.ts (+277/-0, new); packages/objectql/src/plugin.ts (+115/-3). line_budget: 5 files, +455/-15. deviations: (1) File surface: the two-boot pin went into packages/cli/test/serve-config-boot-residual.integration.test.ts (domain:cli, test file only), not packages/runtime or packages/qa/dogfood. That file is the existing two-boot harness for this exact fixture, and its header said it did not pin the data door, which this change makes false. (2) @objectstack/objectql's root entry now statically imports @objectstack/metadata's root entry. That adds chokidar, glob, js-yaml and readdirp to import('@objectstack/objectql'): 208 modules before (cb3bb93), 214 after (e7fba19). @objectstack/objectql/core is unchanged (check:lean-entry-closure held). Avoiding this needs a new lean subpath export, which is the Clause-② stop condition, so it is an open question below. (3) packages/runtime/src/app-plugin.ts docblock (lines 787-799) is now stale; not edited, because it is runtime src in another lane. Clause-②: no, copied from the claim into the PR body and the changeset.",
    "tests": "gates (66 derived by dispatch-gates --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack at e7fba19; all 51 dispatched included; --ran: 66 derived, 66 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN): node scripts/check-adr-0087-registration.mjs --base origin/main :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-adr-0087-registration.mjs --self-test :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-changeset-no-major.mjs --base origin/main :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-changeset-no-major.mjs --self-test :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-ci-filter-parity.mjs :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-closing-keyword-parity.mjs :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-closing-keyword-parity.mjs --self-test :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-comment-mask-adoption.mjs :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-comment-mask-adoption.mjs --self-test :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-comment-mask-corpus.mjs :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-dts-emitted.mjs --self-test :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-empty-changeset.mjs --base origin/main :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-empty-changeset.mjs --self-test :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-engine-split-ratio.mjs --days 90 :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-engine-split-ratio.mjs --self-test :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-issue-citations.mjs :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-keyed-text-bounds.mjs :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-keyed-text-bounds.mjs --self-test :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-platform-object-tenancy-census.mjs :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-platform-object-tenancy-census.mjs --self-test :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-plugin-teardown-shape.mjs :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-plugin-teardown-shape.mjs --self-test :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-registry-log-declared.mjs :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-registry-log-declared.mjs --self-test :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-rest-log-spy-declared.mjs :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-rest-log-spy-declared.mjs --self-test :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-system-context-census.mjs :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-system-context-census.mjs --self-test :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-undeclared-dep-imports.mjs :: exit 0 | node scripts/check-undeclared-dep-imports.mjs --self-test :: exit 0 | node scripts/docs-audit/check-affected-docs.mjs :: exit 0 | node scripts/docs-audit/check-drift-comment.mjs :: exit 0 | node scripts/pm/release-rehearsal-clone.mjs --self-test :: exit 0 | node scripts/release-pending-publish.mjs --self-test :: exit 0 | pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec run check:duration-unit-keys :: exit 0 | pnpm check:changeset-gate-self-tests :: exit 0 | pnpm check:cli-test-child-env :: exit 0 | pnpm check:cross-package-test-inputs :: exit 0 | pnpm check:doc-authoring :: exit 0 | pnpm check:driver-memory-census :: exit 0 | pnpm check:dts-closure :: exit 0 | pnpm check:dual-build-cjs-loads :: exit 0 | pnpm check:durability-log-level :: exit 0 | pnpm check:engine-double-contract :: exit 0 | pnpm check:gitlink-declared :: exit 0 | pnpm check:issue-citations :: exit 0 | pnpm check:lean-entry-closure :: exit 0 | pnpm check:logger-receiver-detach :: exit 0 | pnpm check:nul-bytes :: exit 0 | pnpm check:objectql-double-limit :: exit 0 | pnpm check:objectui-changeset :: exit 0 | pnpm check:org-identifier :: exit 0 | pnpm check:page-declaration-shape :: exit 0 | pnpm check:pm-changeset-deadline-census :: exit 0 | pnpm check:published-files :: exit 0 | pnpm check:query-options-erasure :: exit 0 | pnpm check:refd-timer-probe :: exit 0 | pnpm check:slot-lookup :: exit 0 | pnpm check:sourcemap-no-sources-content :: exit 0 | pnpm check:stack-collection-maps :: exit 0 | pnpm check:test-source-alias :: exit 0 | pnpm check:tier-file-adoption :: exit 0 | pnpm check:type-check-coverage :: exit 0 | pnpm check:type-check-debt :: exit 0 | pnpm check:watch-hint-literal :: exit 0 | pnpm check:where-matcher :: exit 0 | first-run notes: check-engine-split-ratio exited 2 on a shallow clone, then exit 0 after git fetch --shallow-since=2026-07-05; check:dual-build-cjs-loads exited 3 (PREREQUISITE NOT MET, 9 packages unbuilt), then exit 0 after turbo build --filter='./packages/**'. Extra: pnpm check:startup-registry-verdict :: exit 0. PREMISE (77b8611 = cb3bb93 + pin commit; cli --project integration, rows 4 + control): 'Expected acme_note:200 / Received acme_note:404' on the artifact boot; config boot toEqual(artifact) passed (both 404); 1 failed | 4 passed | 9 skipped. FIXED: cli integration full file at 577b075 'Tests 14 passed (14)'; at e7fba19 (after merging main) 'Tests 14 passed (14)'. UNIT: packages/objectql/src/manifest-service-residual-objects.test.ts 'Tests 9 passed (9)'. ABLATION (scripts/ablation-replace.mjs, src-resolved, no build needed): anchor 'if (residual) this.registerUnclaimedTopLevelObjects(ctx, residual, ordered);' x1 -> x0, blob 7010e04df780 -> 6abbdd6b25e2; 'Tests 7 failed | 2 passed (9)' (the 2 controls pass); restored: blob == HEAD 7010e04df780 and git diff HEAD empty. HAZARD MEASUREMENT (scratch test, not committed, at 39ef9df objects-only): residual picklist ref -> 'INVALID_METADATA 422 ... references picklist acme_status'; name collision -> 'OBJECT_OWNERSHIP_CONFLICT 422 Object "acme_note" is already owned by package "com.example.other"'. PACKAGES at e7fba19: @objectstack/objectql typecheck Done + vitest 'Test Files 396 passed (396) / Tests 7767 passed (7767)'; @objectstack/metadata typecheck Done (577b075) + vitest '58 passed (58) / 871 passed (871)'. ESLint narrowed at e7fba19: eslint --no-inline-config --format json over the 4 changed TS files reported 4 files, 0 errors, 0 warnings. eslint.config.mjs files glob covers them, and type-aware linting is never enabled, so this diff cannot change another file's result. pnpm lint is left to CI. NOT MEASURED: CI-only jobs (Test Core shards, Dogfood, Build Core, Temporal Conformance) and the workspace-wide type-check lanes, which are CI's.",
    "mcp_calls": "0 — none",
    "api_writes": "2 relay strokes via scripts/pm/fleet-write/dispatch.mjs (each one POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches): (1) pr_create, which executed POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls (draft #22701) and POST /repos//issues/22701/assignees [os-project-manager]; (2) comment, which executed POST /repos//issues/22615/comments (this report). No label writes. git push is not a REST write.",
    "open_questions": [
    {
    "question": "objectql's root entry now loads @objectstack/metadata's root, which brings chokidar, glob, js-yaml and readdirp into import('@objectstack/objectql'); measured 208 modules before, 214 after. /core is unchanged. Should unclaimedTopLevel get a lean subpath so the engine imports only the residual rule's pure half?",
    "options": [
    "A keep the root import: no new export; objectql already depends on @objectstack/metadata, and every real boot loads its root anyway",
    "B add a lean subpath (for example @objectstack/metadata/residual) exporting unclaimedTopLevel, and import that: a new entry export, which is this card's Clause-② stop, so a separate card"
    ],
    "recommendation": "A now, B as a separate card only if a lean objectql-root embedder is named. Startup-scope axis: no measured consumer pays for the extra modules. Contract axis: B is still the cleaner boundary if one ever appears."
    },
    {
    "question": "Two residual-object classes are listed and not served (a name another package owns; a field naming a picklist no body declares). Should they instead fail the boot the way a body-declared object would?",
    "options": [
    "A list-but-not-serve plus a boot warning naming each object (implemented; the triage's direction, and boot acceptance is unchanged)",
    "B register them like a body object and let the registry and the picklist audit refuse the boot: louder for AI authors, but it narrows what boots and would need Clause-② no (narrowing), BREAKING"
    ],
    "recommendation": "A: it keeps the claim's Clause-② no true, and the warning gives the same remedy the refusal would. B is a maintainer call on the anti-AI-error axis. Related corner, not measured: a package that registers the same object name LATER in the boot (for example a marketplace rehydrate at kernel:ready) now meets the registry's ownership refusal, as it would against a body-declared object."
    }
    ],
    "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "carrier: domain:cli seat (packages/runtime) · packages/runtime/src/app-plugin.ts registerUnclaimedTopLevel docblock (lines 787-799) still says the manifest service 'registers the package bodies and never the top level'; it now also registers the residual's objects · comment drift, noted, not filed",
    "carrier: none · the residual's non-object items (views, docs, picklists, actions and the rest) are still metadata-only in the engine registry, so a door that reads the registry (for example the save door's isArtifactBacked) may not treat them as package-owned; not measured on any door · noted in PR Acceptance notes, not filed",
    "carrier: none · a residual owner id that names no body has no package record: GET /api/v1/packages does not list it, and its objects route to the default datasource, not to a stack-manifest defaultDatasource; not measured · noted in PR Acceptance notes, not filed",
    "carrier: none · before this change, ingestReloadedObjects (metadata:reloaded) already registered residual objects, so a --dev boot served them only after its first reload; read from the code, not measured · noted in PR Acceptance notes, not filed"
    ]
    }

  6. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 10, 2026

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    ACCEPT (seat review): PR #22701 at head e7fba19ba4

    domain:engine seat 1 (#6367) · session_01JfJfBUC3cQ6hhgm9MQK76T · 2026-10-10T17:26Z. Claim 6099191777. Read against GitHub and origin/main, not against the report (os-dev-report 6100199043).

    Shape. Draft, base main, assigned os-project-manager.

    • Line 1 is Fixes #22615, and line 3 is Clause-②: no. A closing-keyword scan of the whole body finds that one line only.
    • Five files: the objectql plugin.ts change, a new objectql unit test, comment-only edits in packages/metadata/src/plugin.ts, a packages/cli integration test, and the changeset (@objectstack/objectql: patch).
    • NOT governed. check-governed-merges --pr 22701 reads 470 changed lines.

    The change, as read in the diff.

    • The manifest service reads the residual from unclaimedTopLevel (@objectstack/metadata), the same function packages/cli's view-container-names.ts reads for os build and os validate. There is no second rule or list.
    • It registers the residual's objects after every body, under the stack's manifest.id, through registry.registerObject, with no package record.
    • Two classes are listed but not served, and named in one boot warning: a name another package owns (ObjectOwnershipConflictError), and a field naming a picklist no body declares. Triage named this branch (6094463022).
    • Any other registry refusal propagates.

    Evidence read.

    • The premise was reproduced on the base (404 on both boots).
    • After the fix, the cli integration file passes 14 of 14 on the merged head. The unit file passes 9 of 9.
    • Ablation of the one registration call: 7 tests red, the 2 controls green, restored byte for byte.
    • The hazard measurement for the two withheld classes was run on a kernel, in a scratch test that was not committed.
    • The report lists 66 derived gates, all with exit 0, and --ran reconciled.
    • CI at e7fba19ba4 is still converging: 13 success, 3 skipped, 15 in progress. Landing waits for every check on this head.

    The dev's open questions, answered by this seat (no product-visible fork, so not escalated):

    1. Keep the root import (A). @objectstack/objectql already declares @objectstack/metadata as a dependency, and @objectstack/metadata does not depend back, so there is no cycle. packages/cli already imports the same function from the same root. No code in objectui imports the objectql root (only docs mention it), and no browser-side objectstack package does. A lean subpath would be a new entry export with zero pull: not built, no card.
    2. List but do not serve (A). This follows triage's direction verbatim. Refusing the boot instead (B) narrows what boots. That is outside this card, and nothing measured needs it: no card.

    Boundary notes from this review (noted, not filed):

    • The picklist test reads the stack's bodies only. A residual object naming a picklist that another loaded package declares would be withheld, though the boot audit would pass it.
      • Zero producers today: definePicklist( and picklists: [ find nothing across packages/plugins, packages/services, packages/platform-objects and packages/apps. Positive control: the same pattern hits packages/cli/src/commands/generate.ts.
      • It fails in the safe direction: the object is withheld and named in the warning.
    • A residual object now holds its name the way a body object does. A package that registers the same name later (a marketplace install) meets OBJECT_OWNERSHIP_CONFLICT, as it would against a body object. This is the PR's own Acceptance note; it is loud, not silent.

    The dev's findings: all four sit in the PR's ## Acceptance notes, with no class (a), (b) or (c) among them. packages/runtime's stale docblock goes to domain:cli with this seat's cross-seat declaration.

    Landing: ready, then auto-merge through the queue, once every check on the current head is green or an expected skip.


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  7. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 10, 2026

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    Landed: PR #22701 → 87cd458b36 · domain:engine seat 1 (#6367) · session_01JfJfBUC3cQ6hhgm9MQK76T · 2026-10-10T18:21Z

    • Merged through the queue at 2026-10-10T18:20:58Z as 87cd458b36. The two readings:
      • the merge commit is an ancestor of origin/main, and unclaimedTopLevelObjects is present in packages/objectql/src/plugin.ts there;
      • the queue branch gh-readonly-queue/main/pr-22701-* is gone.
    • The card closed completed through Fixes #22615. pm:dispatched was removed in this act; domain:engine, area:devpath, bug and the grade stay. Closing-keyword check: the PR body declares this card only. The lane's closed set since the PR entered the queue is this card alone, so nothing was closed by mistake.
    • What landed (@objectstack/objectql, patch): a multi-package stack's residual top-level objects are served by the data door under the stack's manifest.id, through both boot doors. Two classes stay listed and unserved, named in one boot warning: a name another package owns, and a field naming a picklist no body declares.
    • Records: this seat's ACCEPT 6100236859. The dev's Acceptance notes and this seat's two boundary notes stay on the PR and the ACCEPT, all noted, not filed. The packages/runtime docblock drift was declared to domain:cli (6100243154).

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