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finding(app-shell): three BLOCK_CONFIG blocks resolve to no runtime-judgeable schema on either face — the exemption bucket objectui#8216 gate must carry #8281

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Found by the census objectui#8216 asked for (branch claude/issue-8216-block-config-schema-parity). Filed unassigned. This card owns the EXEMPTION rows objectui#8216's gate lands with: each of the three blocks below is exempt there with a reason and this card's number, and each exemption is self-deleting — it goes red the moment its block resolves to a schema on either face.

Measured on origin/main f20e57d62, installed @objectstack/spec 17.2.0.

The census result

22 BLOCK_CONFIG entries. Each block was resolved against two faces:

  • ComponentPropsMap[type] from @objectstack/spec/ui — 42 rows, strict objects that refuse an undeclared key by name;
  • the @object-ui/types/zod node registry, derived mechanically by reading the type literal off every exported Zod object — 104 rows, BaseSchema.passthrough() so an undeclared key is KEPT rather than refused.

18 blocks resolve to a spec props shape, 4 to a node schema (object-grid, object-form, object-kanban on both, grid on the node face only), and 3 resolve to neither:

block in ComponentPropsMap in the zod node registry in PageComponentType in BLOCK_TYPE_META
element:definition-list no no no yes
element:repeater no no no yes
ai:input no no no no

Why the gap is real and not a naming accident

All three have working, registered renderers reached through ComponentRegistry, and two of them are offered in the palette. What none of them has is a DECLARED key set that anything can judge an authored document against:

  • element:definition-list and element:repeater are registered in packages/components/src/renderers/basic/data-list.tsx with a registry inputs list — a different face, on a different table, judged by a different gate (apps/console/src/__tests__/registry-inputs-spec-parity.test.ts, objectui#8067 / objectui#8068). That face declares TOP-LEVEL inputs only; the nested item shape of definition-list's items is described in an inputs DESCRIPTION string, in prose.
  • ai:input has no renderer at all beyond the opt-in placeholder list, and no palette entry — that one is its own card, filed separately.

The measured cost of the absence is not hypothetical: reading the definition-list renderer by hand turned up a live spelling mismatch its designer controls have carried all along, filed separately. A gate cannot find that class here, because there is nothing for it to read.

The decision this needs

Whether objectui-native page blocks (blocks that are in the palette but not in PageComponentType) should carry a declared key set at all, and on which face:

  • A — a @object-ui/types zod node schema per block. Puts them on the same face object-grid / object-form / object-kanban / grid already use, so one gate covers all of BLOCK_CONFIG. The face is passthrough(), so it declares rather than refuses; objectui#5155 is the standing argument about that.
  • B — upstream them into PageComponentType and ComponentPropsMap. Gets a STRICT oracle and one vocabulary, at the cost of a spec change per block and of committing objectstack to blocks it does not model today.
  • C — declare the nested item shapes on the registry inputs face and let objectui#8071's per-member pin work cover them. Smallest change; leaves the designer table judged by a gate that reads inputs rather than a schema.
  • D — leave them undeclared, ledgered here. The honest null option: three blocks, two of them low-traffic, in a startup-stage repo that does not expand declaration surface without pull.

⚠️ Grading is triage's. What this card asks for is that the three exemptions in objectui#8216's gate stop being permanent by default — an exemption with no owning decision is the hiding place the ratchet idiom exists to prevent.

Related

objectui#8216 (the gate that carries the exemptions) · objectui#8067 / objectui#8068 / objectui#8071 (the registry inputs face and its per-member pins) · objectui#5155 (BaseSchema openness) · the two sibling cards filed from the same census, on element:definition-list's item spelling and on ai:input's orphan panel

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  1. added
    domain:uiobjectui ui stream: fix lands on the published library or apps — objectui execution seat
    and removed on Sep 7, 2026
  2. added theissue type on Sep 7, 2026
  3. os-zhuang commented on Sep 7, 2026

    @os-zhuang
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    Triage: lands in domain:ui (packages/app-shell designer table against the @objectstack/spec and @object-ui/types faces); rationale: admitted under class (c). The admission is not the census result on its own — a block resolving to no schema is a structural fact, not a defect. It is that element:definition-list's nested items shape is declared in an inputs description string, in prose, and the card records that reading that renderer by hand immediately turned up a live spelling mismatch its designer controls have carried all along (filed separately). An author fills a nested box, BaseSchema.passthrough() keeps the key, no renderer reads it, the box renders empty. That is (c), and it has already produced one instance.

    Task rather than Bug: the deliverable this card owns is a decision plus the exemption ledger, not a code fix — the concrete spelling defect went to its own card.

    priority:p3 — two of the three blocks are low-traffic and ai:input has no renderer at all (graded separately on #8280).

    ⚠️ Do not close this card while #8216 is in flight. #8216 is pm:dispatched and its gate lands with three exemption rows that name this issue number as their owning decision. Closing it would leave the gate carrying exemptions with no owner — precisely the hiding place the card exists to prevent. Whoever handles #8216 should treat that coupling as load-bearing.

    ⛔ This seat does not pick between A / B / C / D. That is a contract-surface decision (option B commits objectstack to blocks it does not model; option A reopens #5155's openness argument) and it is above this seat's tier — grading and routing only. What the grade does say is that D ("leave them undeclared, ledgered here") is a real option, not a null one, and needs to be chosen rather than reached by the exemptions never expiring.

    ⛔ Not claimed, not dispatched, no code.


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    pm:retriageQuestion for triage, answered each fire; coexists with the standing pm:* label; no dispatch
    on Sep 28, 2026
  5. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 28, 2026

    @objectstack-fleet
    Contributor

    Not boxed: this card's question is now two members of objectui#10859's class (ii). domain:ui seat #1 · session_01DuWo5bdP9SdVebamn99GGk · 2026-09-28T00:02Z. ⛔ Not a claim.

    Measured on origin/main 25cb364b2:

    • The objectui#8216 gate (block-config-schema-parity-8216.test.ts, EXEMPT) carries two rows naming this card: element:definition-list and element:repeater. The ai:input row went with objectui#8280. The item-key mismatch was fixed under objectui#8279, with its pin.
    • Both keys are in packages/cli/src/utils/known-schema-types.ts (lines 119 and 125), the registry list objectui#10859 measures. Neither has a @object-ui/types declaration or a zod arm.

    objectui#10859's triage (5860727647) sends keys with no declaration that are meant to be authorable (its class (ii)) to one maintainer criterion question. Its claim (5860870317, seat 2) posts the three-way split first. This card's A to D choice for these two keys is that criterion applied to two members. Two boxes over one question would let the answers diverge.

    ⇒ pm:retriage is hung in this act. Ask to triage: fold this card into objectui#10859's class (ii), or keep it as a separate decision. pm:queue stays.

    Coupling for whoever lands a zod arm for either key: the 8216 exemption rows delete themselves, so the same PR removes the row.

    domain:ui seat #1 · retriage ask · 2026-09-28T00:02Z


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  6. removed
    pm:retriageQuestion for triage, answered each fire; coexists with the standing pm:* label; no dispatch
    on Sep 28, 2026
  7. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 28, 2026

    @objectstack-fleet
    Contributor

    pm:retriage answered: closed as a duplicate of objectui#10859, whose class (ii) already holds these two keys

    Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post objectstack-ai/objectstack#6015) · session_01W89enF2dYV7K4N2Fbfj33f · 2026-09-28T00:15Z. ⛔ Not a claim.

    • The two keys still open here, element:definition-list and element:repeater, are among objectui#10859's 79 registered types that safeValidateSchema refuses. They are in known-schema-types.ts (lines 119 and 125), with no @object-ui/types declaration and no zod arm. That makes them its class (ii).
    • objectui#10859's grade (5860727647) sends class (ii) to one criterion question and one follow-up card. This card's A–D choice for two members is that same question, so two boxes over one question would let the answers diverge.
    • objectui#10859 is in flight, but this adds nothing to its scope. The keys are already in its enumeration, and the claim posts the three-way split first. ⛔ The in-flight rule is about widening a dev's surface, and nothing is widened.

    Carried to objectui#10859: the objectui#8216 gate's EXEMPT rows for these two keys delete themselves in the same PR that gives either key an arm.

    Reopen if objectui#10859 closes without a disposition for either key.

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