docs(agent-context): teach granular codegen control and the runtime→Fastify mount API

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Intent

Teach the agent that MetaObjects codegen is granular, not all-or-nothing — the next layer after the meta-types fix. Benchmark validation (Recipes, npm 0.12.2) showed the agent now SEARCHES the vocabulary (meta types) and declares identity.reference FKs, but still hand-wrote the joins + AVG() because it treated codegen as all-or-nothing (abandoned data-layer codegen when generated routes didn't fit the custom API) and reverse-engineered node_modules for the runtime->Fastify wiring (an old, still-unfixed docs gap). Three skill/docs fixes, all documenting REAL verified APIs (no fabrication): (1) metaobjects-codegen SKILL.md — a 'you don't have to generate everything, pick your layers' section: omit routesFile() from the generators array to generate the data layer (entityFile/queriesFile/barrel) and hand-write only the routes; mix generated + hand-written routes; declare an object.projection with origin.aggregate AND consume its generated query from your route (the missing consumption half); copy/customize a @generated file or write your own Generator; meta gen --list for stable names. (2) metaobjects-runtime-ui/references/typescript.md — document the real @metaobjectsdev/runtime-ts/drizzle-fastify mount API (verified from source): mountCrudRoutes({fastify,path,db,table,insertSchema,updateSchema, expose?, routeOptions?, updateMethod?}), individual mountListRoute/mountGetRoute/mountReadOnlyCrudRoutes — so the agent mounts the standard verbs + hand-writes only the custom routes instead of reading node_modules. Regenerated the agent-context conformance fixtures (the assembled skills are byte-gated cross-port); verified locally: agent-context-conformance + content-root byte-identity green (7/7). Pure docs/skills change — no code, no metaobjects feature added to win the benchmark; teaches using existing capabilities with the right granularity. CI must keep the cross-port agent-context fixtures byte-identical.

What Changed

• Added a "pick your layers" section to the metaobjects-codegen skill: codegen is granular, not all-or-nothing — omit routesFile() to generate only the data layer (entityFile/queriesFile/barrel) and hand-write routes, mix generated and hand-written routes, declare an object.projection with origin.aggregate/passthrough/collection children and consume its generated query from a custom route, copy/customize a @generated file or write a custom Generator, and use meta gen --list for stable names.
• Documented the real @metaobjectsdev/runtime-ts/drizzle-fastify mount API in the metaobjects-runtime-ui TypeScript reference (mountCrudRoutes, mountListRoute, mountGetRoute, mountReadOnlyCrudRoutes) so the agent mounts standard verbs and hand-writes only custom routes instead of reverse-engineering node_modules; clarified in the metaobjects-authoring skill that projection codegen requires a read-only source.rdb (@kind: view) child.
• Regenerated the byte-gated cross-port agent-context skill fixtures (all 5 port copies) to stay byte-identical to the source skill files, keeping the conformance gate green.

Risk Assessment

✅ Low: Pure docs/skills change with all cited APIs verified accurate against source and conformance fixtures byte-identical; the single finding is a minor doc-example option-shape mismatch, not a code or behavior risk.

Testing

Ran the cross-port agent-context-conformance suite plus the full agent-context sdk tests (37 pass) after fixing two environment prerequisites (workspace bun install for the jsdom test preload, and running the bundle-agent-context build step that copies content into the sdk package — neither a product defect). Independently confirmed byte-identity of the changed codegen and runtime-ui skill files across the source and all four port fixtures via md5, demonstrating the CI byte-gate holds. Verified the documented runtime mount API (mountCrudRoutes/mountListRoute/mountGetRoute/mountReadOnlyCrudRoutes and every CrudRoutesOptions field) exists verbatim in drizzle-fastify source, confirming the docs describe real, non-fabricated APIs. Captured the as-delivered skill sections (what a consumer's .claude/skills receives) as reviewer-visible artifacts. This is a docs-only change with no rendered UI surface, so evidence is the delivered markdown content plus source-verification transcripts rather than screenshots. All checks green; transient build/install artifacts removed and the worktree is clean.

Evidence: agent-context tests pass (conformance + content-root byte-identity)

37 pass 0 fail 175 expect() calls Ran 37 tests across 9 files.

bun test v1.3.8 (b64edcb4)

 37 pass
 0 fail
 175 expect() calls
Ran 37 tests across 9 files. [329.00ms]

Evidence: New 'pick your layers' codegen-skill section as delivered to a consumer's .claude/skills (byte-identical in every port fixture)

### As delivered to a Python-port consumer at .claude/skills/metaobjects-codegen/SKILL.md
### (new 'pick your layers' section — byte-identical in every port fixture, md5 3876ad4c...)

## You don't have to generate everything — pick your layers

Codegen is **granular and à la carte, not all-or-nothing.** The most powerful
pattern when an app's API doesn't match generated CRUD: **generate the data layer,
hand-write only the API layer** — never abandon codegen wholesale and hand-write
the data access too.

- **Generate the data layer, skip the routes.** Omit `routesFile()` from the
  `generators` array (keep `entityFile()` + `queriesFile()` + `barrel()`): you get
  the typed entity/table, schemas, and query/finder helpers, then write your own
  routes by hand — *calling the generated queries*. Do this whenever the API shape
  (custom paths, HTML responses, nested payloads) doesn't fit generated REST CRUD.
- **Mix generated and hand-written routes.** Even with custom paths, mount the
  standard verbs with the runtime helpers and hand-write only the custom ones (see
  the runtime skill's `mountCrudRoutes` / `mount<Verb>Route` / `expose`). You are
  never forced into all-generated or all-hand-written.
- **Derived/aggregate data → declare a projection, then USE its generated query.**
  Don't hand-write a join or an `AVG()`/`COUNT()`. Declare an `object.projection`
  with `origin.aggregate` / `origin.passthrough` / `origin.collection` children
  **and a read-only `source.rdb` `@kind: view` child** (codegen detects a
  projection by that read-only source, not by the subtype alone — omit it and
  nothing is generated). `meta gen` emits a read-only query for it (and
  `meta migrate` its DB view), and you **call that generated query from your
  route**. Declaring the projection is only half the win — *consuming* its
  generated query is the other half.
- **Codegen is yours to extend.** A generated file carries the `@generated` header
  and is a normal source file: copy it and customize the copy (three-way merge
  preserves your edits on regen), or write your own `Generator` (the plugin
  interface) and add it to the `generators` array for an artifact the built-ins
  don't cover.

`meta gen --list` prints every generator by stable name; the `generators` array in
`metaobjects.config.ts` is where you opt each one in or out.

## Dialects

Evidence: New runtime mount-API doc section as delivered (java-react fixture copy)

### Granular routes — mount some, hand-write the rest (don't read `node_modules`)

When the API doesn't match generated CRUD, you don't have to choose all-generated
or all-hand-written, and you never need to reverse-engineer the runtime package.
`@metaobjectsdev/runtime-ts/drizzle-fastify` exports the mount helpers the generated
routes are built from — call them directly:

`` `ts
import {
  mountCrudRoutes, mountGetRoute, mountListRoute, mountReadOnlyCrudRoutes,
} from "@metaobjectsdev/runtime-ts/drizzle-fastify";
import { RecipeInsertSchema, RecipeUpdateSchema } from "./generated/Recipe.js";

// all five verbs:
mountCrudRoutes({ fastify: app, path: "/recipes", db, table: recipes,
  insertSchema: RecipeInsertSchema, updateSchema: RecipeUpdateSchema });

mountCrudRoutes({ ...opts, expose: ["list", "get"] }); // only some verbs
mountReadOnlyCrudRoutes({ ...opts });                  // list + get only
mountGetRoute({ ...opts });                            // a single verb
`` `

`CrudRoutesOptions` = `{ fastify, path, db, table, insertSchema, updateSchema }`
plus `expose?` (limit verbs), `routeOptions?` (Fastify hooks — e.g.
`{ preHandler: requireAuthHook }` for auth), and `updateMethod?` (`"patch"` default
/ `"put"`). So **mount the standard verbs with these helpers and hand-write only the
custom routes** (HTML pages, nested resources, computed fields) — calling the
generated query helpers, and a projection's generated query for derived/aggregate
data. Generate the data layer; hand-write only what's genuinely custom.

Evidence: Source verification: every documented mount symbol/option exists in drizzle-fastify (no fabrication)

Verifying every symbol/option the runtime doc claims exists in @metaobjectsdev/runtime-ts/drizzle-fastify source:

  mountCrudRoutes            server/typescript/packages/runtime-ts/src/drizzle-fastify/index.ts:90:export function mountCrudRoutes(opts: CrudRoutesOptions): void {
  mountListRoute             server/typescript/packages/runtime-ts/src/drizzle-fastify/index.ts:105:export function mountListRoute(opts: VerbOptions): void {
  mountGetRoute              server/typescript/packages/runtime-ts/src/drizzle-fastify/index.ts:178:export function mountGetRoute(opts: VerbOptions): void {
  mountReadOnlyCrudRoutes    server/typescript/packages/runtime-ts/src/drizzle-fastify/mount-read-only.ts:91:export function mountReadOnlyCrudRoutes(opts: MountReadOnlyOptions): void {
  CrudRoutesOptions          server/typescript/packages/runtime-ts/src/drizzle-fastify/index.ts:39:export interface CrudRoutesOptions {

CrudRoutesOptions fields documented (fastify,path,db,table,insertSchema,updateSchema,expose?,routeOptions?,updateMethod?):
40:  fastify: FastifyInstance;
42:  path: string;
44:  db: AnyDrizzle;
46:  table: AnyTable;
48:  insertSchema: ZodTypeAny;
50:  updateSchema: ZodTypeAny;
52:  expose?: readonly CrudVerb[];
58:  routeOptions?: RouteShorthandOptions;
63:  updateMethod?: "patch" | "put";
125:          table: opts.table,

Pipeline

Updates from git push no-mistakes

✅ **intent** - passed

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✅ **Rebase** - passed

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⚠️ **Review** - 2 issues (1 warning, 1 info)

• ⚠️ agent-context/skills/metaobjects-codegen/SKILL.md:81 - The new projection bullet tells the agent to 'declare an object.projection with origin.aggregate/passthrough/collection children' and says 'meta gen emits a read-only query for it (and meta migrate its DB view).' But codegen's projection detection and view emission key off a read-only SOURCE child, not the object.projection subtype or origin children: isProjection (codegen-ts/src/projection/projection-detector.ts:16-18) returns true only when the object has a read-only MetaSource and no writable one, and extractViewSpec (extract-view-spec.ts:55-57) derives the view name from that read-only source. An object.projection declared with only origin.* children and no read-only source.rdb (@kind: view) child will not be detected as a projection, so meta gen emits no query/view — re-triggering the exact 'codegen didn't fit so I hand-wrote it' failure the skill aims to fix. The guidance should include the required read-only source.rdb @kind: view child. (The companion authoring SKILL.md describes object.projection as 'a derived read model over a view/proc' but its example also omits the explicit source child, so the requirement is under-documented in both.)
• ℹ️ agent-context/skills/metaobjects-codegen/SKILL.md:64 - Pure docs/skills change; mount API, --list, three-way-merge, and origin subtypes were all verified against source as accurate, and all 12 cross-port fixture copies are byte-identical to their source skill files, so the agent-context byte-identity conformance gate should pass.

🔧 Fix: document required read-only source.rdb view child for projection codegen
2 issues (1 warning, 1 info) still open:

• ⚠️ agent-context/skills/metaobjects-runtime-ui/references/typescript.md:113 - The example mounts mountReadOnlyCrudRoutes({ ...opts }) reusing the same opts object the preceding lines build for mountCrudRoutes ({ fastify, path, db, table, insertSchema, updateSchema }). But mountReadOnlyCrudRoutes takes a different options type, MountReadOnlyOptions (mount-read-only.ts:19), which requires a Drizzle view (plus optional idColumn/filterAllowlist/sortAllowlist/dialect) and has NO table/insertSchema/updateSchema. An agent copying the { ...opts } spread verbatim would pass table and omit the required view, producing the wrong call — which undercuts the doc's stated goal of letting the agent call the helpers without reverse-engineering node_modules. The mountCrudRoutes({ ...opts, expose: ["list","get"] }) line directly above already covers the table-based read-only case, so this line conflates two distinct option shapes. Clarify that mountReadOnlyCrudRoutes is the view/projection-backed helper with its own { ...path, db, view, idColumn? } shape.
• ℹ️ agent-context/skills/metaobjects-codegen/SKILL.md:64 - Pure docs/skills change. Every cited API (mount helpers, CrudRoutesOptions fields, drizzle-fastify export subpath, generator factory names, origin subtypes, meta gen --list, projection read-only-source requirement) was verified against source — no fabrication. All 12 cross-port agent-context fixture copies are byte-identical to their source skill files, so the byte-identity conformance gate should pass.

✅ **Test** - passed

✅ No issues found.

• cd server/typescript && bun test packages/sdk/test/agent-context-conformance.test.ts (4 per-port byte-identity cases pass)
• bun test packages/sdk/test/agent-context/ packages/sdk/test/agent-context-conformance.test.ts (37 pass after running the bundle-agent-context build step)
• md5sum of metaobjects-codegen/SKILL.md and runtime-ui/references/typescript.md across source + all 4 port fixtures — all identical
• grep-verified every documented symbol (mountCrudRoutes/mountListRoute/mountGetRoute/mountReadOnlyCrudRoutes, CrudRoutesOptions + its fields) exists in runtime-ts/src/drizzle-fastify source
• Setup fixes: workspace bun install + bun run bundle-agent-context to satisfy the jsdom preload and bundle prerequisites

✅ **Document** - passed

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✅ **Lint** - passed

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✅ **Push** - passed

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