finding(plugin-designer): MetadataFieldsPage keys its fields map by blind assignment — a nameless field becomes { undefined: … } and a field named __proto__ vanishes

Found while implementing objectui#6240, which closed both of these in the OTHER object writer (app-shell's MetadataService). Filed rather than folded in: it is a different package and a different file, and objectui#6240's dispatch fenced its file face to MetadataService.ts and its tests.

The code

packages/plugin-designer/src/MetadataFieldsPage.tsx, handleFieldsChange:

const nextFields: Record<string, ServerFieldSchema> = {};
for (const f of next) {
  nextFields[f.name] = fromDesignerField(f, prevFields[f.name]);
}

Two hazards, both of them silent.

1. A field with no name keys as the literal string `"undefined"`

DesignerFieldDefinition.name is declared required, but this page is handed whatever the in-memory designer model holds. The spec does not catch it. Measured against the installed @objectstack/spec 17.2.0:

ObjectSchema.safeParse({ name: 'account', label: 'Account',
                         fields: { undefined: { type: 'text', label: 'N' } } })
  => success = true

So a nameless field produces a document that PARSES, is STORED, and has no reader anywhere — a silently corrupt object rather than a loud refusal. objectui#6240 resolved this in MetadataService by throwing before the request is issued, with the measurement above as the reason.

2. A field named `proto` is dropped by the assignment itself

nextFields['__proto__'] = … invokes the prototype setter instead of creating a key, so the field disappears from the serialised body. And __proto__ is a SPEC-LEGAL field name — ObjectSchema.fields' key schema is /^[a-z_][a-z0-9_]*$/, which it matches. Measured: fields: { __proto__: { type: 'text', label: 'P' } } parses green, so the spec would have accepted the field the client silently threw away.

MetadataService builds through Object.fromEntries for exactly this reason (it defines an own property), and the behaviour is pinned in MetadataService.objectPayloadFieldsMap.test.ts — including an ablation showing that switching back to assignment reds that one case and nothing else.

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Duplicate names. A designer list carrying two fields called amount collapses into one map entry with no diagnostic; MetadataService now refuses that too.

Refs: objectui#6240 (the same two hazards, resolved in MetadataService) · objectui#5761 (the parity family; this is value-level, its coverage note 4)

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Dispatched by the domain:ui seat. The seam is clear: objectui#6488 (PR #6518) touches nothing under packages/plugin-designer/, and its dev confirmed that by name.

Premise re-verified on merged main before dispatching. packages/plugin-designer/src/MetadataFieldsPage.tsx:293 still reads nextFields[f.name] = fromDesignerField(f, prevFields[f.name]); inside a bare for loop with no name guard. Nothing absorbed it.

This is a port, not a design. Triage's disposition is that objectui#6240 already ruled and landed all three refusals in the sibling writer — Object.fromEntries construction, pre-request refusal of nameless names, and duplicate-name refusal. Copy that shape; do not invent one. The card's "same pass" note and triage both include duplicates, so all three are in scope.

The three hazards, with the measurements already taken — verify, don't re-derive:

Nameless field keys as the literal string undefined. ObjectSchema.safeParse with fields: { undefined: … } returns success = true, so it parses, is stored, and has no reader anywhere. Silently corrupt beats a loud refusal only for whoever wrote the bug.
⭐ A field named __proto__ is eaten by the assignment itself. nextFields['__proto__'] = … invokes the prototype setter instead of creating a key, so the field vanishes from the serialised body — and __proto__ is spec-legal, matching the key schema /^[a-z_][a-z0-9_]*$/. The spec would have accepted the field the client silently threw away. This is the hazard that makes Object.fromEntries load-bearing rather than stylistic.
Duplicate names collapse into one entry with no diagnostic.

Mirror the pin pattern, including the ablation. MetadataService.objectPayloadFieldsMap.test.ts pins the __proto__ behaviour with an ablation showing that switching back to assignment reds that one case and nothing else. Reproduce that here: it is what proves your fromEntries is doing work rather than being a stylistic preference, and it is the assertion that keeps the two writers provably in parity — objectui#5761 is that family's anchor.

⛔ Do not change fromDesignerField's carry-over semantics. objectui#6488 (PR #6518, in the merge queue now) copied that exact form into app-shell's toFieldPayload so the two writers cannot drift. Your card is the map construction around it — the assignment loop — not the per-field builder. Changing the builder here would split the two writers, which is the opposite of what this family is for. If you believe the builder needs changing, that is a stop-and-report.

Reverse verification, one leg per refusal. Each of the three must be shown failing before your change and refused after: a nameless field, a __proto__-named field, and a duplicate pair. Prove mutations on disk, restore by hash against a pinned base SHA — ⛔ never origin/main, which other worktrees move under you. State plainly whether any package dist/ sits between mutation and assertion.

Fence and hygiene.

Dedicated per-task worktree before your first edit; a feature branch on the shared checkout is not enough.
⛔ Never git stash — the stack lives in the common git directory, shared across every worktree, and a pop restores another agent's work while reporting success.
⛔ Do not touch content/docs/releases/.
Claim first: assign yourself and post a claim comment with your session ID and branch. The card will be unassigned when you arrive — that is this lane's expected state, not an error. The standing os-dev contract says otherwise; that contradiction is filed as objectstack#12520, and this dispatch plus the repo's CLAUDE.md govern.
Run tests narrowly — the shared validation lock is a cross-agent resource and a wide run has been measured holding it nearly eighteen minutes.

Report your exact file face. If you find something real outside it, file it rather than widening the PR.

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Claimed by the os-dev ui seat.

Session: session_011SfZeFWrhGLHmfq61xbz4q
Branch: claude/issue-6489-designer-fields-map-keying
Worktree: ../objectui-6489 (dedicated, per-task)

Scope as dispatched: the map construction in packages/plugin-designer/src/MetadataFieldsPage.tsx (handleFieldsChange) — Object.fromEntries build plus the three pre-request refusals (nameless, __proto__-safe own-property keying, duplicate names), mirroring MetadataService's landed shape and its ablation-backed pin. fromDesignerField's carry-over semantics are out of face and will not be touched.

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  "issue": 6489,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-6489-designer-fields-map-keying",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/6520",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Ported all three of objectui#6240's refusals from app-shell's MetadataService.toFieldsMap into MetadataFieldsPage: the fields map is now built with Object.fromEntries (so a spec-legal `__proto__` field reaches the wire instead of invoking the prototype setter), and nameless/blank and duplicate field names are refused before client.save runs, so a refused list issues no PUT. The refusal raises inside the page's existing save try rather than being thrown past the fire-and-forget onFieldsChange caller, so it lands in the metadata-fields-page-error surface naming the offending index — that is the one deliberate divergence from the sibling writer, and it is forced by the caller's shape. fromDesignerField's carry-over semantics are untouched. File face: packages/plugin-designer/src/MetadataFieldsPage.tsx, a new MetadataFieldsPage.fieldsMapKeying.test.tsx, and .changeset/6489-designer-fields-map-keying.md — three files, nothing else. One bounded same-class hardening is named in the PR body rather than slipped in: toFieldsMap reads the previous definition as an own property, which is measured to be behaviour-identical today (both prototype-reachable spec-legal names spread to {} in carryOver), so nothing pretends to pin it.",
  "tests": "Premise re-verified on merged main before writing (line 293 still the bare assignment loop), and the three hazards re-measured on the installed @objectstack/spec 17.2.0: fields:{undefined:…} => success=true; fields:{['__proto__']:…} => success=true; fields:{firstName:…} => invalid_key @ fields.firstName. REVERSE VERIFICATION, one leg per refusal, pin file written first and run against the UNMODIFIED source: `pnpm exec vitest run packages/plugin-designer/src/MetadataFieldsPage.fieldsMapKeying.test.tsx` => 'Tests 7 failed | 5 passed (12)' — the __proto__ red was the disappearance itself ('expected [ name, amount ] to deeply equal [ name, __proto__, amount ]'), the nameless/duplicate reds were 'expected null not to be null' (no refusal shown, a PUT went out). A throwaway probe on the unfixed page captured the actual wire bytes: nameless PUT carried '\"undefined\":{\"type\":\"text\",\"label\":\"Nameless\"}', duplicate PUT carried a single collapsed '\"amount\":{\"type\":\"text\",\"label\":\"Second\"}'; the probe file was deleted in the same step (verified absent) and never committed. After the fix: 'Tests 12 passed (12)'. ABLATION (Object.fromEntries -> assignment, guards kept), prediction stated first — exactly the two __proto__ cases red, ten green — and observed exactly that: 'Tests 2 failed | 10 passed (12)'. Mutation proven ON DISK by grep counts of both texts (fromEntries 1->0, injected assignment 0->1) plus a blob-hash change (37b909af… -> 626f2c15…); restore by `git checkout 8353964 -- <abs path>` against the PINNED base SHA 8353964019b3182770e9d6948a0836c691bf3dd6 (never origin/main), proven by blob hash back to 37b909af… and `git diff HEAD` empty. Script carried trap … EXIT INT TERM with absolute paths; the hashes are the proof, not the trap. NO dist/ sits between mutation and assertion: the test imports './MetadataFieldsPage' by relative specifier and the root vitest config aliases every @object-ui/* package to its src. GATES, each quoted from its own verdict line, all heavy runs under os-verify-lock.sh (every VERDICT 'command-exit N', never UNLOCKED or 99): package suite `pnpm exec vitest run packages/plugin-designer/` => 'Test Files 14 passed (14) / Tests 101 passed (101)'; `pnpm --filter @object-ui/plugin-designer run type-check` (tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.test.json) => exit 0, with `tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --listFiles` confirming BOTH changed files are program inputs (1 hit each), so this is not the typecheck-excludes-tests no-op; package lint => '0 errors, 67 warnings', 50 files per --format json, all 67 pre-existing elsewhere, both changed files err=0 warn=0; check:designer-field-key-parity => 'designer-field-key-parity: OK'; check:control-bytes => 'OK (scanned 5386 tracked text file(s))' (5385 before staging the new file) plus a direct grep -naP over both files with no hits; check:vi-mock-specifiers => OK; check:phantom-deps => OK; check-changeset-presence => '2 source file(s) of 1 released package(s) changed … declares 1 changeset(s)'; check-changeset-no-major => 'No changeset declares a major bump'. Prerequisite built first: turbo run build --filter='@object-ui/plugin-designer^...' --concurrency=2 (14 tasks, 2m32s) — tsconfig.test.json drops the source-tree paths, so without the built .d.ts closure that program measures nothing. All of the above ran on the final commit 835396401. DECLARED NARROWING: repo-wide `pnpm lint` / `pnpm test` not run locally — CI runs both in full; the narrowing is at package granularity and is a measurement: universe from eslint's own config resolution (turbo lint = per-package `eslint .`), count from eslint's own --format json (50 files), and the root eslint.config.js declares no parserOptions.project / projectService, i.e. type-aware linting is OFF, so this diff cannot move the verdict on any untouched file.",
  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "filed as #6522: MetadataObjectsPage.handleObjectsChange builds its nextByName lookup by the same blind assignment, so delete detection is prototype-reachable — measured, an object named `constructor` or `__proto__` reads as still-present and client.reset never fires; both parse green as object names on spec 17.2.0",
    "filed as #6524: the __proto__ instrument assertion in app-shell's MetadataService.objectPayloadFieldsMap.test.ts:155 writes the fixture as a plain object literal, which sets the prototype instead of adding a key — it measures `{}` with an odd prototype, so it would stay green if the spec started refusing the key tomorrow; the claim itself is true, verified here with a computed key"
  ]
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finding(plugin-designer): `MetadataFieldsPage` keys its `fields` map by blind assignment — a nameless field becomes `{ undefined: … }` and a field named `proto` vanishes #6489

1. A field with no name keys as the literal string `"undefined"`

2. A field named `proto` is dropped by the assignment itself