[finding] Two residual audit ↔ router asymmetries after #14123: the audit's third source is `loadMany` while the router's is `load` by name, and `unboundDeclarations` still reads two sources where the undeclared-handler half now reads three

[os-musk]

Filed by the domain:engine execution seat on behalf of the #14123 dev seat (PR #14421), whose own dedup channel returned a zeroed control and therefore correctly declined to file blind. Recording only — no severity asserted; routing and grading are triage's. Both asymmetries are deliberate residues of PR #14421, declared there, not defects it introduced.

(a) Third source: meta.loadMany('action') vs meta.load / loadDiagnosed by name

runActionGovernanceInventory builds its metadata-service source with loadStandaloneActions = meta.loadMany('action') (bulk); resolveRouteActionDeclaration's third rung resolves meta.loadDiagnosed('action', name) / meta.load('action', name) — by name. A plane that serves a name to load but does not enumerate it in loadMany (the measured shape is an env-scoped kernel where enumeration and by-name reads answer from different scopes) can still make the audit and the router disagree about whether that declaration exists. PR #14421 closed the registry rung (the card's measured case); this one is unmeasured — nobody has produced a fixture where loadMany omits a name load serves.

(b) unboundDeclarations (ADR-0078 half) reads two sources; undeclaredHandlers (ADR-0110 D3 half) now reads three

The undeclared-handler finding is filtered through the registry rung by name (PR #14421). The other D5 finding — declared script actions with NO handler — is still computed from the collected declaration set only (object-embedded + loadMany), so a registry-only declared script action with no handler is invisible to it. PR #14421 kept that warning byte-identical on purpose (its population was pinned by the dispatch); folding the registry into the declaration set would have changed it, which is a separate decision.

Suggested direction (not a decision)

Either give the audit the router's by-name third rung too (injected like the registry rung) and enumerate the registry for the ADR-0078 half — making both halves of the D5 bijection read the same three sources — or state the narrower invariant PR #14421 already wrote ("the inventory reports a handler as undeclared only when EVERY source the router resolves through answered nothing for it") as the ceiling and leave (b) documented. Measure (a) with a fixture before choosing.

Re-check: git grep -n "loadStandaloneActions\|lookupRegistryAction\|unboundDeclarations" origin/main -- packages/objectql/src/action-governance.ts packages/objectql/src/plugin.ts.

Dedup

search_issues "action governance audit loadMany versus load by name env-scoped kernel unboundDeclarations declared script actions NO handler registry-only invisible asymmetry" → 6 results (#14123 the parent, #14382, #14124, #13866, #3935 closed, #12540 closed) — none names either residue; the parent card ranking first is the firing control.

Refs: #14123 / PR #14421 (the fix that leaves these two residues, both declared in its report) · #14422 (sibling finding: the owner-key ladder spelled three times) · #3863 (errorClass / D5 vocabulary).

Back-link: issue 14123, PR 14421.

[huangyiirene]

Triage — graded. Ran the card's own re-check at origin/main d80140c4c7; both asymmetries are where it says, and the file documents them as residues rather than hiding them (action-governance.ts:264 already narrates unboundDeclarations' narrower source set, and :41-47 states the ceiling invariant the card quotes).

This is an unusually honest card: it says (a) is unmeasured and it says (b) was kept byte-identical on purpose. Both of those shape the grade more than the findings do.

Scope ruled — this card is (a)'s measurement, and nothing else ships on it

pm:queue, scoped to one deliverable: a fixture attempt for (a), then stop and report on this card.

Build the shape the card names — an env-scoped kernel where enumeration and by-name reads answer from different scopes — and determine whether meta.loadMany('action') can omit a name that meta.load / loadDiagnosed serves.

• Reproduces ⇒ the audit and the router really can disagree about whether a declaration exists, and (a) becomes a defect with a measured population. Report it here; the card re-grades and (a) is then fixable on its own terms.
• Does not reproduce ⇒ say so with the commands. (a) is then a theoretical asymmetry, and the honest disposition is the card's second option: state the ceiling invariant PR fix(objectql): the action-governance audit resolves declarations through the router's rungs #14421 already wrote as the ceiling.

⛔ No behaviour change ships on this card. Not the injected by-name rung, not the registry enumeration for the ADR-0078 half. The card asks for exactly this order — "Measure (a) with a fixture before choosing" — and it is right.

Why (b) is not in this card's scope

(b) changes which findings a governance audit reports. PR #14421 deliberately kept that warning's population byte-identical because it was pinned by the dispatch, and the card correctly calls folding the registry into the declaration set "a separate decision". Changing a gate's output population is governance, not mechanics.

So (b) waits for (a)'s reading, and then the two are put together — because the choice the card frames is genuinely one choice (make both halves of the D5 bijection read the same three sources, or declare the narrower invariant the ceiling), and answering it without (a)'s number would be choosing blind. When the measurement lands, this card re-grades to needs-user-decision carrying both halves.

⚠️ Note for whoever takes it: do not put (b) to the maintainer on the strength of this comment alone. The measurement is the input that makes the question answerable.

Routing

domain:engine — packages/objectql/src/action-governance.ts and plugin.ts, one lane. The router half lives in packages/runtime but nothing in this card's scope edits it.

priority:p3: no measured defect. Both residues are declared in PR #14421's own report, (a) has no fixture behind it, and (b) is a warning that is deliberately unchanged. The sibling #14422 (the owner-key ladder in three places) is the one of this pair that has real work behind it today.

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[os-musk]

Claim — domain:engine execution seat, executing the triage scope ruling in 5511394006.

• Session: session_0112hMx9hjJ9BgB28X97DS68
• Branch: claude/issue-14423-loadmany-vs-byname-fixture
• Worktree: a dedicated per-task worktree off origin/main
• Domain: domain:engine
• Deliverable — one, and it is a READING, not a change: a fixture attempt for asymmetry (a), then stop and report on this card. ⛔ No behaviour change ships: not the injected by-name third rung, not the registry enumeration for the ADR-0078 half. The card asks for "Measure (a) with a fixture before choosing" and triage ruled that order binding.
• (b) is explicitly OUT. It changes which findings a governance audit reports, which is governance rather than mechanics; it waits for (a)'s reading, and then both halves go to the maintainer together. ⚠️ Carried verbatim into the dispatch: do not put (b) to the maintainer on the strength of the triage comment alone — the measurement is the input that makes the question answerable.
• File surface (declared): packages/objectql/src/action-governance.ts and packages/objectql/src/plugin.ts read-only, plus at most one new fixture/test file if (a) reproduces. packages/runtime holds the router half and nothing in scope edits it.
• Container & model: os-dev subagent, one issue, one worktree.
• Clause-②: no — nothing published moves, because nothing executable moves at all. Re-read on the final diff; if the work would change what any door answers, that is a stop-and-report.
• Serial constraints cleared: action-governance.ts and plugin.ts were held by [finding] The standalone-action owner-key ladder (objectName → object → global) is spelled three times — engine module, runtime, and a private ObjectQLPlugin copy — held in lockstep only by docblocks #14422, whose PR refactor(objectql,runtime): give the standalone-action owner-key ladder one spelling #14667 landed as dc7c226b9 — verified by content (actionObjectKey now returns 0 in plugin.ts). The files are free, and this card only reads them. ⛔ A multi: true update applies one hook-mutated payload to every matched row, so a transition-stamping hook corrupts rows that did not transition #14099 holds packages/objectql/src/engine.ts; this card does not touch it.

Both outcomes are success, and the dispatch says so up front so the dev has no incentive to manufacture a defect:

• Reproduces ⇒ the audit and the router really can disagree about whether a declaration exists; (a) has a measured population and re-grades to a fixable defect.
• Does not reproduce ⇒ say so with the commands, and (a) is a theoretical asymmetry whose honest disposition is the ceiling invariant PR fix(objectql): the action-governance audit resolves declarations through the router's rungs #14421 already wrote at action-governance.ts:41-47.

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[os-musk]

Measurement — asymmetry (a) REPRODUCES. meta.loadMany('action') can omit a name that meta.load / loadDiagnosed serves, and the audit and the router then disagree about whether the declaration exists. Four positive configurations, two controls, all six green.

Fixture: packages/runtime/src/action-governance-scope-divergence.test.ts on claude/issue-14423-loadmany-vs-byname-fixture, measured at 99ff95c17 off origin/main 4d0d9445a. Nothing here is a behaviour change: the file pins a CURRENT DIVERGENCE and says so in its own header. ⛔ Neither the injected by-name rung nor the ADR-0078 registry enumeration was written.

The mechanism, in one sentence

loadMany is the unkeyed plural read. Identity in the metadata plane is the key the store holds an item under, not body.name — that is #14205's rule, and MetadataManager.admitLoaderItems / MetadataLoader.loadManyKeyed were built to honour it. loadStandaloneActions is wired to loadMany, and collectEngineActionDeclarations then requires typeof action.name === 'string', so a name whose identity lives only in the store's key never reaches the audit — while the router's third rung asks load for that exact name and is served. The plane is not short of the name: listNames('action') returns it in both shipped loaders. So (a) is not merely "bulk versus by-name"; it is unkeyed bulk versus by-name.

The four positive configurations

C6 — the shipped filesystem plane. No failure injection, no scoping. A real NodeMetadataManager over a real FilesystemLoader (what the in-process os dev boot runs) over a temp dir holding action/promote_lead.json whose body carries no name. FilesystemLoader.load composes a path (findFile builds ROOT/action/NAME.json), so identity is path-derived and the name IS served; loadMany globs the directory and returns bodies, so the name comes back undefined. Audit: "registered handlers with NO declaration". Router: dispatches it. listNames('action') contains it.

C2 — the same shape in DatabaseLoader. A sys_metadata row keyed by the name COLUMN whose body has none. rowToData returns the body without folding the column in, deliberately and unchanged (the loader's own docblock says so, citing #14205 measured there for view). load serves it, loadMany returns it unnamed, collectEngineActionDeclarations yields 0. That C2 and C6 agree is what makes this a rule rather than one loader's quirk.

C3 — the plural read down, the by-name read up. One plane, one instance, one scope. An engine whose list read throws ECONNREFUSED while its point read answers. MetadataManager.loadMany catches the per-loader plural failure, reports it through reportLoaderReadFailure and CONTINUES; loadDiagnosed walks loader.load and is served, reporting degraded: false. The enumeration is empty, the by-name read answers, the audit accuses, the router dispatches. loadMany's own log line is the exact description: "every list served from now on is a PARTIAL set presented as a complete one, and the server keeps reporting healthy."

C4 — the shape the card names: an env-scoped kernel. metadata registered SCOPED, only env_a holding the declaration. PluginLoader.getScopedService writes into scopedServices; the audit's accessor (ObjectKernel.getService to context.getService) reads the static services map and PluginLoader.getServiceInstance, and the latter reads serviceInstances — never scopedServices. So the audit's lookup throws and plugin.ts swallows it into loadStandaloneActions === undefined, while the router's getServiceAsync('metadata', envId) gets the env's own plane. The divergence here is one level ABOVE loadMany: the audit gets no metadata plane at all.

The two controls

C1 — same plane, one scope, name column and body.name agreeing: both reads answer and audit and router AGREE. Without this the disagreements would be unreadable.
C5 — metadata a SINGLETON, one scope: both lookups return the SAME instance and nothing diverges. DatabaseLoader.baseFilter applies organization_id identically to load and loadMany, and environmentId is accepted-but-ignored (ADR-0008 §0), so there is no env dimension INSIDE a plane to diverge on. Every configuration above collapses here — which is why the shapes that DO reproduce had to come from the key rule (C2/C6), a partial read (C3), or a scope boundary (C4), and not from the plane's own filtering.

What I did NOT measure — read these before grading

1. C4's registration is not this repo's composition. ServiceLifecycle.SCOPED, clearScope, EnvironmentScopeManager and HttpDispatcher.resolveService's scoped first branch all exist for exactly this, but no in-repo registration of metadata uses SCOPED — packages/metadata/src/plugin.ts:374 registers a static instance. C4 measures a shape the platform's seams are written for (and which plugin.ts's own "per-project kernels in cloud / project mode" note points at) rather than one this checkout's composition produces today. C2, C3 and C6 need no scoping at all, and that is where the measured population is.
2. Field population is not counted. The mechanism is real and shipped in both loaders; I did not measure how many deployed action rows or files actually carry a body without name. C6 shows it takes one flat file written without a name key.
3. What is doubled: the row store under DatabaseLoader in C1-C5, and deps.resolveService (a transcription of HttpDispatcher.resolveService's scoped branch, quoted in the fixture header because the method is private). Everything else is real — runActionGovernanceInventory, collectEngineActionDeclarations, resolveRouteActionDeclaration, MetadataManager, DatabaseLoader, FilesystemLoader, NodeMetadataManager, ObjectKernel + PluginLoader scoping. C6 uses no engine double at all.

Commands

pnpm --filter '@objectstack/runtime^...' build
pnpm --filter @objectstack/runtime exec vitest run --maxWorkers=2 src/action-governance-scope-divergence.test.ts
  -> Test Files 1 passed (1) · Tests 6 passed (6)

Both under scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh -c. Gates run on the diff: check:engine-double-contract OK (755 pinned; the fixture's findOne routes through assertEngineFindOnePredicate and the RETAINED ledger records it), check:objectql-double-limit OK (308 graded, none new), check:where-matcher OK (331 matchers, none new), check:test-source-alias OK, check:cross-package-test-inputs OK.

Re-check on this branch's base, post-#14667

git grep -n "loadStandaloneActions|lookupRegistryAction|unboundDeclarations" origin/main -- packages/objectql/src/action-governance.ts packages/objectql/src/plugin.ts at origin/main 4d0d9445a (which contains #14667 dc7c226b9): both sites are still exactly where the card puts them. plugin.ts:2478-2483 still builds loadStandaloneActions from loadMany.call(meta, 'action') inside the try/catch that swallows a failed ctx.getService('metadata'); plugin.ts:2531 still injects lookupRegistryAction; action-governance.ts:178/205/211/214/366-372 still computes unboundDeclarations from the declaration set only. #14667 refactored these files without moving either residue.

What this hands the re-grade

(a) has a measured population and is a fixable defect on its own terms. The remedy shape already exists in-repo and is NOT written here: the plane can answer keyed (loadManyKeyed, listNames), which is how #14205 repaired list() for the sibling defect — a persisted view container that "vanished from list('view') after a restart", and a nameless api row that "fell out of the endpoint index, where a miss reads as nothing declares this route". The audit's third source is the read that did not get that repair. C3 and C4 are a second, separate class that keying does not reach (a partial read and a scope boundary), so a fix chosen from C2/C6 alone would not close them — worth carrying into whichever option the maintainer takes.

⚠️ Per the triage note, (b) is untouched here and is not put to the maintainer on the strength of this comment.

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