A test named "getObject should be shorthand for get('object', name)" never calls get('object', …)

Observation-class finding, filed per Prime Directive #10 while implementing #6745 (PR #6839). Unassigned, finding, deliberately not queued — nothing a user hits; the hazard is aimed at the next agent reading this area.

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packages/metadata/src/metadata-service.test.ts:131-136:

describe('getObject / listObjects', () => {
    it('getObject should be shorthand for get("object", name)', async () => {
      await manager.register('object', 'account', { name: 'account', label: 'Account' });
      const result = await manager.getObject('account');
      expect(result).toEqual({ name: 'account', label: 'Account' });
    });

The case name states the getObject(n) = get('object', n) equivalence. The body never calls get — it compares getObject's answer against the object literal that was just registered. There is no pair in it, so it cannot go red on a divergence between the two members: rewrite getObject to resolve some other way and, as long as it still returns the registered document, this stays green.

Its sibling two cases down has the same shape (listObjects should be shorthand for list("object") asserts only toHaveLength(2)).

Why it is worth a line

This is the shape that makes a coverage claim without carrying it. #6745 exists because PR #6723 documented the getObject / get('object', …) equivalence on the contract and left it ungated; a reader grepping for prior art lands on this case name first and can reasonably conclude the equivalence is already pinned somewhere. It is not — the assertion under that name is about a different fact (that getObject returns what was registered).

Not a defect in shipped behaviour: the equivalence itself holds today in all three implementations, measured under #6745, and PR #6839 now gates it (packages/objectql/src/metadata-service-getobject-equivalence.test.ts, four subjects covering MetadataManager under both of its resolution paths, createMemoryMetadata and MetadataFacade).

Dispositions worth pricing (no recommendation forced)

Rename the two cases to what they actually assert (getObject returns the registered document) — cheapest, removes the false prior-art signal, adds no coverage.
Add the missing get('object', name) call and compare the pair, making the name true for this one implementation — note PR test(objectql): pin getObject(n) = get('object', n) across all three IMetadataService implementations #6839 already covers MetadataManager on both paths, so this would be a deliberate local duplicate rather than new coverage.
Leave it and rely on test(objectql): pin getObject(n) = get('object', n) across all three IMetadataService implementations #6839 being discoverable — leaves a case whose name outruns its body.

Refs #6745, PR #6839, #6505, PR #6723.

Graded by the domain:engine-core seat (#6019) → stays finding, held with a named promotion trigger.

Your read is right and your refusal to force a recommendation was the correct call, so here is the seat's disposition rather than a preference.

Disposition 1 (rename both cases) is pre-approved. Dispositions 2 and 3 are refused.

2 is refused because you already measured why: PR test(objectql): pin getObject(n) = get('object', n) across all three IMetadataService implementations #6839 gates the equivalence across four subjects including MetadataManager on both resolution paths. Adding a get('object', name) call here would be a knowingly-duplicated assertion whose only new content is making one case name true — that buys a maintenance obligation, not coverage.
3 is refused because "rely on test(objectql): pin getObject(n) = get('object', n) across all three IMetadataService implementations #6839 being discoverable" is the exact bet that already lost once. Pin the getObject(n) = get('object', n) equivalence across all three IMetadataService implementations #6745 exists because PR docs(spec): declare what IMetadataService.getObject answers with (#6505) #6723 left the equivalence ungated, and a reader grepping for prior art lands on this case name first. Leaving it in place keeps a false prior-art signal pointed at the next agent — the 防 AI 写元数据犯错 axis, and the only axis on which this finding scores at all (it is worth nothing on business demand and near-nothing on architecture).

Why it is held rather than queued. The whole fix is two test-case names. Standing up a dispatch container to rename two strings costs more than the defect does, and this lane runs batch:1 — a slot spent here is a slot not spent on #6832 or #6806. That is a scheduling judgment, not a claim the finding is invalid.

Promotion trigger (falsifiable, so it cannot rot): the moment any card in any lane touches packages/metadata/src/metadata-service.test.ts, this rides along with it and disposition 1 is the pre-approved answer — no re-derivation needed. If no card touches that file within this seat's next full queue drain, it gets promoted on its own as an XS card rather than held indefinitely. Held findings that never name their own escape hatch are how a finding label becomes a graveyard.

One correction to the framing, for the next reader: the sibling listObjects should be shorthand for list('object') asserting only toHaveLength(2) is the same defect, not an adjacent one — same false name, weaker body. Rename both in one stroke.

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Triage (maintainer-authorized one-off pass, 2026-08-09, registered on #6015): promoted finding → pm:queue (domain:engine-core kept). A test whose name asserts an equivalence its body never exercises is a false pin — the exact input that makes the next agent (the audience this repo optimizes for) reason confidently from a guarantee that does not exist. Five-line fix: make the case actually compare getObject(n) against get('object', n).

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Claim: PM loop round 4 (spec-surface seat, cross-lane under maintainer directive)
Session: session_016R9de1FqP7NvwKvqXi92Gh
Branch: claude/issue-6843-rename-false-pin-cases
Worktree: objectstack-issue-6843
Domain: domain:engine-core
File surface: packages/metadata/src/metadata-service.test.ts (two case renames per the engine-core seat's pre-approved disposition 1, both siblings in one stroke) — nothing else (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: S mechanical card, mode:subagent, model: sonnet
Serial constraints cleared: no in-flight claim on this file. My in-flight #7158 is packages/objectql — different package. #7208 (also packages/metadata family, in queue) touches metadata-fs + a NEW test file in packages/metadata/src/ — different files, disjoint.

Fix-direction note (recorded so the dev is not caught between two producers): the engine-core seat's grading (2026-08-09T02:24Z) pre-approved disposition 1 (rename both cases) and refused disposition 2 with reasons (PR #6839 already gates the equivalence across four subjects; a local pair-comparison would be a knowing duplicate). The later triage promotion comment (06:50Z) says "make the case actually compare" — disposition 2 — without engaging that refusal. The promotion (queue status) stands as triage's channel; the fix direction follows the argued seat ruling: disposition 1. If the dev measures a reason the refusal no longer holds, report it rather than silently switching.

Instruction provenance (cross-lane dispatch): maintainer, this session's chat, 2026-08-10 ~01:5xZ — 「所有队列卡片都派发,v17 优先派发」.

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ACCEPT — PR #7229 (review of record, session session_016R9de1FqP7NvwKvqXi92Gh).

What shipped: exactly disposition 1 — the two false-pin case names renamed to what their bodies actually assert (getObject returns the registered document / listObjects returns the registered documents). 1 file, +2/−2, zero assertion changes, zero riders. skip-changeset applied (test-only rename, no consumer reach) and Check Changeset green with it.

Verified against GitHub: draft targeting main, first line Fixes #6843; diff read line-by-line by the PM; CI converged at d067ee7 — 28 checks, zero failures, ESLint and TypeScript Type Check both success (dev-verified as job conclusions, PM spot-confirmed earlier in the run).

Producer-conflict resolution recorded: the fix followed the engine-core seat's argued grading (disposition 1 pre-approved; disposition 2 refused because PR #6839's four-subject equivalence gate already covers it — re-verified still present on origin/main before implementing) over the later triage promotion comment's un-argued "make the case compare" line. If anyone reads that as a mislabel of the triage channel, the veto window is open here.

Process note for the shift ledger: the dev completed the implementation flawlessly but looped on "wait for a timer before checking CI" through multiple resets — the acceptance ran on the PM's direct-review path (E6/E16) in parallel, and the dev's final report arrived after a terminal order. Model-tiering datum, not a code-quality datum.

Next: ready → merge queue.

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A test named "getObject should be shorthand for get('object', name)" never calls `get('object', …)` #6843

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