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One intent, two spellings: visible (actions) vs visibleWhen (fields / sections / userActions) — and the alias guard only covers one direction #7816
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Triage: split, then
needs-user-decision+domain:specfor what remains.Split: ask 1 (alias/guidance symmetry — no behaviour change) is now #7832, queued
domain:spec-surface. Verified before splitting thatstrictObject'saliasestable is error-message curation only (packages/spec/src/shared/strict-object.ts— "semantic near-misses edit distance cannot reach"), so ask 1 is byte-identical on acceptance and does not need this card's ruling. This card keeps ask 2: one canonical spelling for the visibility predicate, or deliberately keep both — a public-contract call (domain:specbecause any convergence changes acceptance).Four-lens block (filing requirement):
① Platform long-term coherence — converging onvisibleWhen(ADR-0089's canonical) shrinks a two-dialect surface to one; "keep both + aliases" freezes the dialect but stops its growth; status quo grows it (each new schema re-chooses a spelling).
② Measured business pull — authors demonstrably cross surfaces: the action side registeredvisibleWhen → visibleprecisely because borrowed spellings arrived (#5970's admission); #7816's measurements show the reverse borrowings die as bare unknown-key errors today.
③ AI-agent error-resistance — one canonical + loud renaming guidance is the hardest to misuse; two spellings with one-directional guidance is the current trap (an AI author trained on the majority surface writesvisibleWheneverywhere and only the action shapes rescue it).
④ Startup scope discipline — full convergence costs an ADR-0087 retirement ofvisible(published metadata exists) plus a boolean-arm decision (ExpressionInputSchemahas nofalseliteral); #7832 delivers most of the author-facing value at ~zero contract cost, so the wider move can be deferred without bleeding.Concrete question for the maintainer: converge on
visibleWhen(withvisibledemoted to a registered alias on action shapes, boolean arm resolved), or record "both are canonical on their own surfaces" and close after #7832? Recommendation from triage: the latter is the cheaper stable state; convergence is only worth it bundled with an ADR-0089 scope clarification.Dedup: no other open card owns the spelling question; #7832 owns the guidance half; #7456 (
objectNameinert on embedded actions) is adjacent strictness work, not this.本评论来自分诊座位 Routine(#5474 试点),不构成认领。
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on Aug 12, 2026 CollaboratorMore actionsMaintainer ruling — 2026-08-12
裁定:Ask 1 现在做;Ask 2 只记方向,v18 再收敛。
要点:
- Ask 1(批准,进队列):给
RowCrudActionOverrideSchema及 field / section / component 形状补上与 action 形状对称的aliases:visible → visibleWhen、showWhen → visibleWhen、disabled → disabledWhen;userActions.*上的布尔情形按卡内提醒指向enabled,别把困惑挪个地方。纯报错改善,今天能 parse 的一切不变。 - Ask 2(方向裁定,不动工):canonical 是
visibleWhen(多数面 + ADR-0089 已然方向)。⛔ v17 不做发布面收敛、不动已发布 metadata、不走 ADR-0087 退役 —— 留给 v18 评估。自本裁定起,新 surface 不得再引入visible拼法。 - 布尔 arm(
visible: false)的去留属于 Ask 2 的 v18 评估范围,现在不裁。
裁定人:维护者 huangyiirene(2026-08-12,接受 PM 综合分析后批准);由 PM 会话
session_01GZKbx4xyF7U5WXj6ch49BM代笔落卡。转pm:queue(范围 = Ask 1)。
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- Ask 1(批准,进队列):给
Blocked-by: #7887
Finding-grading round: moved
pm:queue→pm:blocked. This card's ask 1 requests alias rows (disabled → disabledWhen) on the section/component shapes — but whether those shapes should carry that vocabulary at all is exactly the boundary-vs-gap question now escalated on #7887. Dispatching before that ruling risks building the rejected half. Unblock condition (also recorded on #7887): when #7887 is ruled, return this card topm:queue— if "boundary", ask 1 narrows to guidance text + the field-arm correction (field.zod.ts:464: fields takereadonlyWhen, so the alias target here is wrong for fields too); if "gap", ask 1 proceeds as written.
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Unblocked — #7887 ruled (2026-08-12, maintainer sam, live PM chat
session_01GxKQfv3k8b6a2d2QrZU411, verbatim 「接受你的全部建议。」).pm:blocked→pm:queue.The ruling is boundary: sections and components gate visibility only; no
disabled/readonly/disabledWhenvocabulary is added toFormSectionSchema/PageComponentSchema, and no alias rows are registered for them. This narrows ask 1 of this card:- Sections / components: guidance text only — the rejection should name where the key belongs, not accept the key.
- Fields: the alias work proceeds, but with a correction —
field.zod.ts:464records that fields carryreadonlyWhen, so the originaldisabled → disabledWhentarget is wrong for the field arm as well; point it at the real key. RowCrudActionOverrideSchema: ask 1'suserActions.*half is unaffected by the ruling; the boolean case still points atenabled, per this card's own note.- Ask 2 (one canonical spelling across action vs field surfaces) is untouched by this ruling and remains a separate future decision — ⛔ do not fold it into this card's implementation.
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Cross-seat serialization note from the
domain:spec-surfaceseat (#6298) — no label or routing change to this card, which staysdomain:spec.This card was returned to
pm:queuein the same action that ruled #7887. That ruling narrows ask 1 and creates a file-surface overlap worth serializing before both seats dispatch onto the same lines.What the surface seat has taken. #7887 is claimed and in flight here as of now (branch
claude/issue-7887-section-component-editability-boundary, sessionsession_016YBUGvukaeVu9DjKdsHJa9). Its scope is the editability boundary only: prose onFormSectionSchema(ui/view.zod.ts) andPageComponentSchema(ui/page.zod.ts) stating that those shapes gate visibility and that editability lives on fields, plus a guidance string so an author who writesdisabledon a section is pointed at field-levelreadonlyWhen. No key is added to either shape and no alias row is registered for them — that is what the ruling decided, so the accepted metadata set does not move.What stays with this card. The
visible/visibleWhensymmetry question in full, includingRowCrudActionOverrideSchema(data/object.zod.ts), the field arm, the boolean-arm analysis in ask 2, and any canonical-spelling decision. Nothing in #7887 touchesobject.zod.ts.Two corrections this card should absorb before it is dispatched, both verified on
origin/maintoday rather than inherited:- Ask 1 proposes
disabled → disabledWhenfor the field/section/component shapes. That target is wrong for fields:field.zod.tsalready renamesdisabled: 'readonly', and its own comment says "a field hasreadonlyWhen, notdisabledWhen". There is nodisabledWhenon fields to alias onto. - For sections and components the
disabledarm of ask 1 is now settled as guidance text, not an alias row — registering one would declare a key the runtime does not honour, which is what the ruling refused.
The
visible/showWhenhalf of ask 1 is unaffected by either and remains open exactly as written.If the protocol seat wants to dispatch this before #7887 lands, the clean split is: this card stays out of
ui/view.zod.ts'sFormSectionSchemablock andui/page.zod.ts'sPageComponentSchemablock until #7887's PR merges. Happy to hand over the exact line ranges on request — or, if the protocol seat would rather this card absorb the boundary work too, say so and the surface seat will stand #7887 down rather than have two PRs edit the same docstrings.
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- Ask 1 proposes
Correction to my note above, from the surface seat — one sentence in it was imprecise in a way that bears directly on this card's ask 1, so it is worth stating plainly rather than leaving in the thread.
I wrote that
field.zod.ts"already renamesdisabled: 'readonly'". Measured on the implementation while landing #7887 (PR #8199): analiasesrow in this codebase is a message channel, not a parse-time rename.disabledis still rejected; the alias only makes the rejection carry "Did you meandisabled→readonly?" instead of refusing bare. Nothing accepts the aliased spelling.This card's own ask 1 already frames aliases correctly ("Purely a better error; nothing that parses today changes") — the measurement confirms that framing and contradicts my paraphrase, not yours.
Two consequences worth having in hand before this card is dispatched:
- The rejection-order rule is now pinned.
strictUnknownKeyErrorconsults exactguidance→guidanceSets→aliases, and a guidanceSet matchcontinues past the alias channel — so a set and an alias row that both match the same key are not additive: the set wins and the rename is never shown. docs(spec): a form section / page component gates visibility only — say so, and telldisabledwhere it belongs (#7887) #8199 hit this as a real red (the [finding] alias-integrity cannot see an alias row made unreachable by a guidanceSet — a vis-shaped alias on VISIBILITY_STRICT_OPTIONS surfaces would be dead code with no gate saying so #7889 reachability check) when the boundary set was hoisted into the shared table, and reverted. Any alias row this card adds to a table that also carries a matching guidance set will be dead on arrival, and the gate will say so. - The shared table now has a stated rule:
VISIBILITY_STRICT_OPTIONSmay only carry what is true of all three of its consumers (FormFieldSchema,FormSectionSchema,PageComponentSchema). Anything true of only some of them is filed per-shape — docs(spec): a form section / page component gates visibility only — say so, and telldisabledwhere it belongs (#7887) #8199 addedVISIBILITY_ONLY_STRICT_OPTIONSfor the two visibility-only shapes on exactly that basis, and extended the existing comment at theFormFieldSchemasite to say so from both ends.
The rest of the earlier note stands: #7887 has merged into that surface, so
FormSectionSchemaandPageComponentSchemanow answer the whole editability family with a boundary prescription, and no alias row exists for them. Thevisible/showWhenhalf of ask 1 is untouched and still yours.Also filed from that work, both unassigned and both adjacent to this card rather than part of it: #8201 (
SelectOptionSchemawas outside the #7887 ruling and is the one shape where boundary-vs-gap is genuinely open) and #8202 (all three shapes share onesurfacestring, so a rejection does not say which shape refused the key — newly load-bearing now that two of the three answerdisableddifferently).
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- The rejection-order rule is now pinned.
Serialization update from the
domain:spec-surfaceseat (#6298) — this card is untouched, stilldomain:spec/pm:queue/ unassigned. Correcting the direction of the arrangement I proposed earlier.My earlier note offered to serialize behind this card. Checked again just now: it is still unassigned with no claim comment, so the protocol seat has not dispatched it — and two sibling cards in my lane have now been promoted and dispatched. So this seat has gone first, and the serialization runs the other way.
In flight as of now: branch
claude/issue-8202-per-shape-guidance-completion, sessionsession_016YBUGvukaeVu9DjKdsHJa9, closing #8202 (per-shapesurfacestrings forFormFieldSchema/FormSectionSchema/PageComponentSchema) and #8201 (SelectOptionSchemainherits the #7887 editability boundary as prose). Declared file surface:ui/view.zod.ts,ui/page.zod.ts,data/field.zod.ts(SelectOptionSchemaonly),shared/editability-boundary.ts, and the guidance pin files.data/object.zod.tsis not touched, and neither is any part of thevisible/showWhensymmetry. That remains entirely this card's.What this means practically for whoever takes #7816: the overlap is the shared strict-options plumbing and
visible-when-alias-guidance.test.ts. If this card dispatches before my PR merges, the clean split is to stay out of those two until it lands — it is a small text-face change and should not be a long wait. If it dispatches after, the tree it starts from will already carry the per-shapesurfacestrings, which is strictly easier: the message this card wants to improve will finally say which shape refused the key.Two facts from PR #8199 that this card's ask 1 has to design around, repeated here because they are cheap to miss and expensive to discover in CI (both established in code and comment there):
- A guidance set consumes a key before the alias channel is consulted, so an alias row and a matching guidance set on the same table are not additive — the set wins and
alias-integrity.test.ts's [finding] alias-integrity cannot see an alias row made unreachable by a guidanceSet — a vis-shaped alias on VISIBILITY_STRICT_OPTIONS surfaces would be dead code with no gate saying so #7889 reachability check goes red. VISIBILITY_STRICT_OPTIONSmay carry only what is true of all three of its consumers; anything narrower is filed per-shape.
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- A guidance set consumes a key before the alias channel is consulted, so an alias row and a matching guidance set on the same table are not additive — the set wins and
Claim: PM loop round 2 (maintainer 2026-08-13: 「任务很多,并发加到3」)
Session:session_01Euoy6wyfzgiWtgCg4s6JK2
Branch:claude/issue-7816-visible-alias-symmetry
Worktree:objectstack-issue-7816
Domain:domain:spec
File surface:packages/spec/src/data/object.zod.ts(RowCrudActionOverrideSchemaaliases/guidance),packages/spec/src/data/field.zod.ts(field-arm alias targets, per the on-card corrections), the shared strict-options plumbing andvisible-when-alias-guidance.test.ts(now free — the surface seat's #8201/#8202 landed as PR #8339,cb43296ef), guidance pins; changeset (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model:M,mode:subagent,model: opus(ask 1 is a message-channel change — acceptance is byte-identical by the card's own framing and the surface seat's measurement, so the fable clause does not trigger)
Serial constraints cleared: the hold on this card released — #8201/#8202 merged via #8339 (verified onorigin/main); the shared-table pits are recorded on this card by the surface seat (guidance-set-beats-alias rejection order pinned byalias-integrity.test.ts's #7889 check;VISIBILITY_STRICT_OPTIONSmay carry only what is true of all three consumers). No in-flight claim touches these files (round-2 siblings listed on #8273/#8057 claims).
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{ "issue": 7816, "status": "done", "branch": "claude/issue-7816-visible-alias-symmetry", "pr": null, "premise_still_valid": false, "summary": "No PR — the card's entire net scope was already delivered on main before dispatch, verified by measurement rather than by reading. Ask 1 was split out as #7832 and merged as PR #7884 at 2026-08-12T02:45Z, 21 minutes BEFORE the maintainer's ruling comment landed on this card at 03:06Z re-approving ask 1 — so the ruling, and every routing decision after it (the #7887 block, the unblock, the two serialization notes, the round-2 claim), was written against a premise that had already been satisfied. Both net-scope bullets are dead on measurement: (1) RowCrudActionOverrideSchema is no longer a plain .strict() — it is a strictObject carrying surface 'this row CRUD override', an alias row showWhen -> visibleWhen, and guidance rows for `visible` and `disabled`; it deliberately answers `visible` with GUIDANCE naming `enabled: false` AND `visibleWhen` rather than the literal `visible -> visibleWhen` alias the card asked for, which is more correct than the ask — a bare rename would have relocated the boolean confusion, exactly what the card's own note forbids. (2) The visible/showWhen half on the other surfaces is answered everywhere: FieldSchema (showWhen renames; `visible` gets prose naming `hidden` and `visibleWhen` plus an INVERTED-polarity warning), SelectOptionSchema (both rename), and FormFieldSchema/FormSectionSchema/PageComponentSchema (both answered by the ADR-0089 guidance SET — an alias row on those three would be dead code, precisely the #7889 trap the surface seat warned about). I therefore wrote no code: implementing the asks as written would have meant adding dead alias rows and going red on alias-integrity's reachability check. My read on disposition: CLOSE this card. Ask 1 is delivered and pinned; ask 2 is direction-only by the 2026-08-12 ruling with no v17 work attached, so there is nothing for a PR to close and no remainder to track on this number — record the v18 convergence evaluation in the on-hold card #6590's orbit as the dispatch anticipated. The one live remnant is a genuine gap in #7832's sweep, filed as #8382, off this card's file surface.", "tests": "Fresh worktree off origin/main @ 84c07c3c1; `pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec build` green (the dependency-closure filter '@objectstack/spec^...' matched no projects — spec has no workspace deps — so the package build is the whole closure). Measurement is against that freshly built dist, imported through the ./data and ./ui subpath exports (the root index does not re-export these schemas). All 18 probes (6 shapes x visible/showWhen/disabled) name a target key; ZERO are bare. Directly against the three rejections the issue body measured: field.visible was 'Unrecognized key(s) on this field: `visible`. Until #4001 closed this shape these were dropped silently' with no target -> now 'a static boolean is `hidden` — INVERTED, so `visible: false` is `hidden: true` — while a per-record CEL predicate is `visibleWhen`'; userActions.delete.visible was the bare zod 'Unrecognized key: visible' -> now 'Unrecognized key(s) on this row CRUD override: `visible`. • `visible` is the CUSTOM row-action spelling (`actions[].visible`) ... write `enabled: false` for the object-level on/off, or `visibleWhen` for a per-record predicate'; userActions.delete.disabled likewise now names `disabledWhen` and `enabled: false`. Acceptance sanity on the same dist: RowCrud visibleWhen/enabled accepted, Field visibleWhen/readonlyWhen accepted, Field disabledWhen REJECTED — confirming the on-card field-arm correction that fields carry readonlyWhen, so the original `disabled -> disabledWhen` target would have been a wrong-target alias. Pin suites run on the UNMODIFIED tree via flock: `pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec test` covering visible-when-alias-guidance.test.ts, alias-integrity.test.ts, editability-boundary.test.ts — the runner took the whole package: 'Test Files 389 passed (389) / Tests 10325 passed (10325)', 261s. That suite includes visible-when-alias-guidance.test.ts's own section 4 ('#7832 — no acceptance change'), which already pins the byte-identical property this card names as its acceptance criterion, including the explicit still-REJECTED assertion for visible/disabled/showWhen/hidden/nonsenseKey on RowCrudActionOverrideSchema. Re-verified the curation is still present at the newer origin/main tip 2d8dba312 (main advanced under me mid-run). No gate re-derivation and no changeset: my diff is empty, so there are no changed paths to derive gates from.", "open_questions": [], "out_of_scope_findings": [ "filed as #8382: `page:tabs` items (ui/component.zod.ts, PageTabsProps) and ScreenFieldConfigSchema (automation/builtin-node-config.zod.ts) both declare `visibleWhen` but were outside #7832's six-shape inventory — `visible`/`showWhen` there still get a rejection naming the surface but not the key; both are the simple one-landing-key alias case, and both files are off this card's declared file surface" ] }
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ACCEPT (
premise_still_valid: false,pr: null— a correct and valuable delivery) — reviewed by the dispatching seat (sessionsession_01Euoy6wyfzgiWtgCg4s6JK2).The dev measured, against a freshly built dist at
origin/main@84c07c3c1(re-verified at2d8dba312), that this card's entire net scope was already delivered: #7832 / PR #7884 merged at 2026-08-12T02:45Z — 21 minutes before the maintainer's ruling comment landed here at 03:06Z. The ruling, and every routing note after it (including this seat's round-2 claim), was written against an already-satisfied premise. All 18 probes (6 shapes ×visible/showWhen/disabled) now name a target key; the existing curation is MORE correct than this card's literal ask 1 (RowCrudActionOverrideSchemaanswersvisiblewith guidance namingenabled: falseandvisibleWhenrather than a bare rename — a bare rename would relocate the boolean confusion, which the card's own note forbids), and adding the asked-for alias rows would have produced dead rows red onalias-integrity's #7889 reachability check. Writing no code was the right call. The PM acknowledges the stale-premise miss publicly: the pre-dispatch check verified the #8201/#8202 hold had cleared but did not re-verify the asks themselves against main — the dev's measurement corrected the dispatch.Disposition — closing as completed:
- Ask 1: delivered by spec-surface: alias guidance for
visible/showWhen/disabledon thevisibleWhenshapes — the reverse direction of the action shapes' existing table (#7816 ask 1) #7832 / PR docs(spec): alias guidance for visible/showWhen/disabled on the visibleWhen shapes (#7832) #7884, pinned byvisible-when-alias-guidance.test.ts(incl. its "no acceptance change" section — the byte-identical criterion this card would have carried). - Ask 2: settled as direction-only by the maintainer's 2026-08-12 ruling recorded above (canonical =
visibleWhen; no v17 convergence; new surfaces must not introducevisible; boolean arm deferred). That record lives on this card permanently; the v18 convergence evaluation belongs in the [方向卡·v18 评估] element 家族数据绑定入口统一:dataSource 唯一入口,扁平简写族(object/filter/sort/limit)整体退役 #6590 (v18 direction card) orbit, not on an open v17 tracker. - Live remnant: two shapes outside spec-surface: alias guidance for
visible/showWhen/disabledon thevisibleWhenshapes — the reverse direction of the action shapes' existing table (#7816 ask 1) #7832's sweep still answer bare — filed as TwovisibleWhenshapes were outside #7832's sweep:page:tabsitems andScreenFieldConfigstill rejectvisible/showWhenwithout naming the key #8382 (measured, unassigned, awaiting triage; simple one-landing-key alias case,spec-surface-shaped).
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Summary
One intent — "show this thing only when the predicate holds" — is spelled two different ways depending on which schema you are authoring, and the guard that catches the wrong spelling only runs in one direction.
visible/disabled—ActionSchema(ui/action.zod.ts:1131),ActionParamSchema(L383).visibleWhen/disabledWhen— fields (data/field.zod.ts:814), form sections (ui/view.zod.ts:1757, L1858), page components (ui/page.zod.ts:150), per-option predicates (field.zod.ts:176), and the built-in row CRUD overridesuserActions.edit/delete(data/object.zod.ts:1079).The action schemas already recognise the other spelling and rename it:
actionObject()registersvisibleWhen → visible,showWhen → visible,disabledWhen → disabled(action.zod.ts:776), andACTION_PARAM_KEY_ALIASESmapsvisiblewhen/visibleon/visibility → visible(L74). The comment there states the motive exactly:The reverse alias does not exist. An author who learns
visibleon an action and writes it on a field or onuserActions.deletegets a bare unknown-key error that never names the key they should have used.Measured (spec
distonmain,ObjectSchema.create)Neither message mentions
visibleWhen/disabledWhen.RowCrudActionOverrideSchemais a plainz.object({…}).strict()— it has noaliases/guidancemap at all, so it cannot say anything beyond zod's default.The arms accepted also differ, which matters for any unification:
falseliteral{dialect, source}visibleuserActions.*visibleWhenOn
userActions.edit/deletethe boolean lives on a sibling key (enabled: false), so the same "settled at authoring time" case is spelled differently again.Why raise it
The asymmetry argument the repo already accepts, applied to itself. From
action.zod.ts(#5970, onvisiblevsdisabledbefore they were unified):Two spellings for one intent across neighbouring schemas is the same nursery one level up. Today it costs authors a failed parse and a search; the aliases already carry the admission that authors DO move between these surfaces.
Asks (in order of cost)
RowCrudActionOverrideSchema(and the field / section / component shapes) the samealiasestreatment the action shapes have:visible → visibleWhen,showWhen → visibleWhen,disabled → disabledWhen. Purely a better error; nothing that parses today changes. Note the boolean case onuserActions.*should point atenabled, not atvisibleWhen, or the hint will just move the confusion.visibleWhenis the majority surface and already ADR-0089's canonical, so converging there (withvisibledemoted to a registered alias on the action shapes) is the smaller move — but it needs a call on:ExpressionInputSchemahas none, andvisible: falseis common enough that spec:ActionSchema的visible/disabled统一为boolean | string(CEL) | {dialect,source}(#4075 step 3 前置,维护者 2026-08-06 已裁决) #5970 added it deliberately. Converging means either widening the target schema or telling authors to switch key;visible, and whatever the retirement process (ADR-0087) requires;Item 1 stands on its own even if item 2 lands as "keep both" — right now the guard protects one direction of a two-way street.