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fix(spec): gen:schema io:'input' fallback + disappearance ratchet — restore PageTabsProps (#2978) - #3012

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Fixes #2978.

Problem

#2967 added an ExpressionInputSchema field (items[].visibleWhen) to PageTabsProps. That schema contains a .transform (string shorthand → {dialect, source} envelope), which zod's toJSONSchema cannot represent in the default output mode, so build-schemas.ts silently skipped it. json-schema/ui/PageTabsProps.json disappeared, and the next full gen:docs run would have deleted the published PageTabsProps section from content/docs/references/ui/component.mdx.

It turned out to be a whole class, not a one-off: 150 schemas (ObjectSchema, FieldSchema, FlowSchema, PageSchema, ActionSchema, …) were already transform-blocked and absent from json-schema/ — delivered but not declared.

Fix (packages/spec/scripts/build-schemas.ts)

  1. io: 'input' fallback — when output-mode conversion fails on a transform, retry with io: 'input'. These JSON Schemas describe what authors write, and the input side of a transform pipe is plain data, so it is representable. For PageTabsProps.visibleWhen this emits the correct authoring shape: anyOf: [string (CEL shorthand), expression envelope]. Rescued schemas carry an x-io: "input" marker (author-time shape: parse-time transforms/defaults not applied). Result: 1849 schemas generated (150 as input shape); only 18 truly unrepresentable ones (function/Date/BigInt/custom) remain skipped.

  2. Disappearance ratchet — json-schema/ is a gitignored build artifact, so a new committed packages/spec/json-schema.manifest.json records every schema key ever emitted (mirrors the spec-liveness ratchet pattern). A key present in the manifest but not emitted by a build now fails gen:schema loudly with remediation steps; deliberate retirements must remove the key in the same PR. New schemas are auto-appended (commit the manifest change). Silent skip is now reserved for types that have never been representable — exactly the boundary gen:schema silently drops PageTabsProps since #2967 — references regen would delete real docs #2978 asked for.

  3. build-docs.ts pipe escaping — rescued schemas surfaced descriptions containing literal |, which split GFM table cells (the type column already escaped pipes; the description column didn't). Descriptions in property tables are now escaped.

Docs regen (content/docs/references/)

Full gen:docs over the fixed output (the regen that was unsafe before this fix):

  • PageTabsProps keeps its section — the regression the issue predicted is gone;
  • the 150 rescued contracts gain reference sections (4 new pages: automation/control-flow, integration/connector-auth, integration/mapping, shared/mapping);
  • previously-broken table rows with raw pipes are re-emitted escaped.

Verification

  • pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec gen:schema → Generated: 1849 (150 as input shape), json-schema/ui/PageTabsProps.json present with anyOf authoring shape for visibleWhen;
  • ratchet tested: adding a ghost key to the manifest fails the build with exit 1 and a pointed error message; re-runs are idempotent (no manifest churn);
  • pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec gen:openapi unaffected;
  • pnpm docs:build compiles all regenerated MDX.

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claude added 2 commits July 16, 2026 04:42
…hemas (#2978)

PageTabsProps vanished from json-schema/ when #2967 added an
ExpressionInputSchema (.transform) field — zod's toJSONSchema cannot
represent transforms in the default output mode, and build-schemas.ts
silently skipped it, so the next gen:docs run would have deleted the
published PageTabsProps reference section.

Two-part fix:

1. io:'input' fallback — when output-mode conversion fails on a
   transform, retry with io:'input'. These JSON Schemas describe what
   authors WRITE, and the input side of a transform pipe is plain data,
   so it is representable (for PageTabsProps.visibleWhen it emits the
   correct `anyOf: [string, expression envelope]` authoring shape).
   Rescued schemas are marked `x-io: "input"`. This restores
   PageTabsProps and 149 other transform-blocked public contracts
   (ObjectSchema, FieldSchema, FlowSchema, PageSchema, ActionSchema, …);
   only 18 truly unrepresentable schemas (function/Date/BigInt/custom)
   remain skipped.

2. Disappearance ratchet — json-schema/ is gitignored, so the committed
   json-schema.manifest.json records every schema key ever emitted.
   A key present in the manifest but absent from a build now fails
   gen:schema loudly with remediation steps; deliberate retirements must
   remove the key in the same PR. Silent skip remains only for types
   that have never been representable.

Also escape literal `|` in the description cell of generated property
tables (build-docs.ts) — rescued schemas surfaced descriptions with
pipes that split GFM table rows.

Closes #2978

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fn6qMKtJeVbs2KzouWDHhB
gen:docs over the post-fix json-schema/ output. PageTabsProps keeps its
section (now including the visibleWhen items shape from #2967), and the
149 schemas rescued by the io:'input' fallback gain reference sections —
previously delivered-but-undeclared contracts (Prime Directive #10).
Existing table rows with literal pipes in descriptions are re-emitted
with GFM escaping.

Verified: `pnpm docs:build` compiles all regenerated MDX.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fn6qMKtJeVbs2KzouWDHhB
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This PR changes 1 package(s): @objectstack/spec.

97 hand-written doc(s) reference the affected code and may need an implementation-accuracy re-verification:

  • content/docs/ai/agents.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ai/skills-reference.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ai/skills.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
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Advisory only. To re-verify, run the docs-accuracy-audit workflow scoped to these files:
node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs origin/main → pass the list as args.docs.

Comment thread packages/spec/scripts/build-docs.ts Fixed
Comment thread packages/spec/scripts/build-schemas.ts Fixed
- build-schemas.ts: read the ratchet manifest directly and treat ENOENT
  as first-run bootstrap instead of existsSync-then-read (TOCTOU).
- build-docs.ts: escape backslashes before pipes in table-cell
  descriptions — an existing `\|` would otherwise decay into an escaped
  backslash followed by a live pipe, splitting the GFM cell.

No output changes: regenerated json-schema/ and references/ are
byte-identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fn6qMKtJeVbs2KzouWDHhB
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os-zhuang deleted the claude/gen-schema-pagetabsprops-drop-g3bp4k branch July 16, 2026 05:09
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Conflict resolution: content/docs/references/ui/view.mdx (auto-generated)
regenerated via gen:docs on the merged tree; api-surface.json auto-merge
verified identical to regenerated output; json-schema.manifest.json
(disappearance ratchet, #3012, new on main) picks up +ui/FormButtonConfig.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013Ue47V8zZ5QhcYMPiRQDA7

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