feat(lint): ratchet the relationship carrier shape at field-def positions

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Fixes #13103

Builds the one guard the card proved viable — the NARROW relationship-carrier ratchet — and drops the broad one the card had already refused.

The predicate

a reference whose value is a LITERAL must be a STRING literal, at a field-def carrier position.

Both qualifiers are load-bearing, and each has its own self-test cases.

• LITERAL, not "must be a string". Identifiers holding string constants, runtime pass-throughs, template expressions with substitutions, the Zod declarations that DEFINE the key, and reference: null all stay unjudged — counted in the census, never dropped silently.
• POSITION. reference is an ordinary English word: judging by key name alone reds four generated i18n bundles and three driver assertions on the day it lands.

New gate: packages/lint/scripts/check-reference-carrier-shape.mjs, wired into the required Lint & Repo Gates job. It reads source with scripts/ts-parse.mjs, needs no build and no package import, runs in ~5s.

Re-measured on this tree, not relayed from the card

The card's census was re-run rather than inherited (its numbers predate PR #13102 and five further commits). On 90aa24e4c6:

check-reference-carrier-shape: OK — 5420 file(s) scanned, 504 `reference` site(s).
  field-def carrier position:  443 string literal(s), 0 non-string literal(s) — 10 unjudged (6 non-literal, 4 null/undefined).
  provably not a carrier:      19 site(s), 7 of them non-string literals (excluded by SHAPE, not by path).
  position unresolved:         27 site(s) + 5 conflicting — 0 material (a refusal here is scoped to a non-string literal, where the readings disagree).

object-valued: 0. array-valued: 0. The zero-baseline ratchet holds, so there is no grandfathering file and nowhere to park the next defect.

Why not the broad guard

Whole-fixture ObjectSchema.safeParse was measured at 838 fixtures across 303 files going red, and they are invalid ON PURPOSE — a fixture that parses cleanly cannot drive a rule that fires on malformed input. This repo already adjudicated that carve-out in check:query-options-erasure's own printed text. So the population judged here is the CARRIER, never the fixture.

How a field-def carrier position is identified — and how it REFUSES

Two positive rules say a holder object literal IS one; three say it provably is not. Every one is derived from the spec at run time, never copied into the gate:

rule	says	source
R1	holder is a value in a fields map, or an element of a fields array	structural — the exact shape of #13053
R2	holder declares type as a string literal that is a FieldType	FieldType read from packages/spec/src/data/field.zod.ts
N1	reference is itself a key of a fields map, so it NAMES a field	structural
N2	holder declares a key data/Field does not — FieldSchema is a strictObject	key set read from packages/spec/authorable-surface/data.json
N3	holder declares type as a string literal that is NOT a FieldType	the enum would refuse it

Neither side firing — or both — makes the position UNRESOLVED, and that is where the gate refuses rather than guessing. The refusal is scoped to the ambiguity that changes the verdict: a string literal passes under either reading, a non-literal is unjudged under either reading, and a non-string literal is where the readings disagree, so that one exits 3. Today: 27 unresolved plus 5 conflicting positions, every one holding a string literal — green, with the refusal branch live.

reference: null (4 sites in packages/spec/src/ai/solution-blueprint.test.ts) stays green and is verified against the source rather than assumed: StrictField, the shape behind SolutionBlueprintStrict, declares reference: z.string().nullable() at packages/spec/src/ai/solution-blueprint.zod.ts:281. null and undefined express ABSENCE of a target, not a target spelled wrongly, and they get their own census bucket so the exemption is visible.

Exclusions by SHAPE, not by path — and the path spellings were already stale

The card excluded three paths because reference there is a map KEY. Each was re-verified rather than inherited, and none survives as a path rule:

• packages/spec/json-schema/** does not exist under that name; the sharded packages/spec/json-schema.manifest/ that replaced it contains the string reference zero times.
• packages/spec/liveness/** is JSON, outside a TS/JS source scan entirely. Its reference really is a props-map key: in liveness/field.json it sits under props and under props then inlineColumns then children, never under fields.
• The generated i18n maps are real and really do write reference: with an object value — four of them, and they are the only object-valued reference in the tree. N1 and N2 both exclude them by shape, which also covers the bundle nobody has generated yet and an object that legitimately declares a field NAMED reference.

Refusal when nothing was measured

A guard whose success condition equals its total-failure condition must refuse. A run that finds no field-def carrier — or no files — exits 3 saying "This is NOT a pass: nothing was measured", the shape check:dual-build-cjs-loads shipped. That branch is not theoretical here: ablating R2 over the real tree produced exactly that refusal (below).

Ablation — predictions named first, every mutation confirmed on disk, every restore proven byte-identical

Run from the committed state, one mutation at a time, each with an absolute-path trap restore, git hash-object compared against the HEAD blob, and git diff HEAD clean after each leg.

#	mutation	predicted	observed
A1	reintroduce the #13053 defect at packages/lint/src/runtime-gate.object-writes.test.ts:358	exit 1, 1 finding at that line	exit 1, 1 finding at that line
A2	ablate N1 alone	exit 3, 4 i18n sites	exit 0 — prediction WRONG, see below
A3	ablate N2 alone	exit 3, 3 driver-array sites	exit 3, exactly those 3
A4	a non-string literal at an unresolvable position	exit 3, 1 site	exit 3, 1 site
A5	ablate N1 and N2 together	exit 3, 7 sites	exit 3, exactly the 4 i18n plus the 3 driver arrays
A6	ablate N1, then run the self-test	self-test exit 1	exit 1, failing not-i18n-map and conflict
A7	ablate R2	exit 0, string count falls toward 344	exit 3, "found ZERO carriers … This is NOT a pass"

Two of the seven readings contradicted the prediction, and both are recorded rather than smoothed:

• A2. N1 alone is NOT what keeps the four real i18n bundles green — the census shows they fire N1+N2, so N2 subsumes N1 on today's tree. N1's own coverage is a shape N2 cannot reach (a map whose keys are all Field keys), and its instrument is therefore the self-test, which A6 shows going red. A5 is the reading that answers the real question: with both rules gone the gate refuses on exactly those 7 sites, so the shape-based exclusion is doing work.
• A7. The mutation collapsed the field-def population to zero rather than to the R1-only 344, because the ablated branch made N3 fire unconditionally and conflict with R1. The prediction mis-modelled the mutation; the observed direction is the stronger evidence — the empty-measurement refusal firing over the real tree.

Verification

All of the below ran on 90aa24e4c6, the commit this PR pushes.

• node packages/lint/scripts/check-reference-carrier-shape.mjs --self-test — exit 0: 20 classified-site cases plus 9 direct assertions, including the empty-vs-seeded tree control on disk.
• node packages/lint/scripts/check-reference-carrier-shape.mjs — exit 0, output quoted above.
• Gate family derived with node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack on the synced tree (the first derivation printed STALE TREE, so origin/main was merged in and it was re-derived). 32 families, all run, all exit 0, including check:self-test-wired, check:comment-mask-adoption, check:parse-guard, check:entry-guard, check:required-contexts, check:aggregator-roster, check:published-files, check:pnpm-filter-targets, check:nul-bytes, check:cross-package-test-inputs, plus the convention pair scripts/pm/bare-root-worklist.mjs --self-test and check:pm-dispatch-gates.
• pnpm lint (full repo ESLint, not narrowed) — os-verify-lock: VERDICT command-exit 0, 68s under the shared verify lock.
• Three gates answered with a REFUSAL, not a finding, and are recorded as NOT MEASURED: check-test-completeness.mjs (exit 1 + usage), check:type-check-debt (--re-measure cannot run: 56 workspace dependencies have no built type entry point), check:dual-build-cjs-loads (exit 3, "nothing was measured" — wants pnpm build).

No changeset

check:published-files reports packages/lint's files whitelist as dist, README.md, CHANGELOG.md. This diff adds an unpublished packages/lint/scripts/ file and a workflow step, touches no package.json, and changes no published byte — so it carries the skip-changeset label rather than a changeset.

Landing site

Hosted under packages/lint/scripts/ beside the two gates that already follow this shape, rather than as a new top-level scripts/ gate. Neither existing self-test was the right host: both judge the docs and skills corpus through a verdict imported from @objectstack/lint, while this one judges the whole source tree against packages/spec's FieldSchema, and folding it into either would make that gate's name lie about what it reads. It sits in the pre-build Lint & Repo Gates job rather than its siblings' post-build lane because it needs no build.

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📓 Docs Drift Check

Nothing in this diff resolved to a documentable surface (no symbol, route or SDK anchor derived from 0 changed package(s)), so this run has no opinion about the docs.

What this run could not see

• a page that states a rule by its inputs shares no identifier with the emitter that implements the rule, so an emitter-only diff cannot list it — not on this run and not on any run. Measured on fix(driver-sql): emit varchar(maxLength) for a text field a declared index keys on #11430: content/docs/protocol/objectql/types.mdx documents the text-family column mapping by the ObjectQL type names it maps FROM (text / textarea / html) while the diff changed createColumn; it went unlisted, and it was the page that diff falsified, in four places. No shared token exists to detect this on, so a rule your change carries has to be re-read by hand in the pages that restate it.

Coarse fallback — 0 page(s) merely mention a changed package (the pre-#9192 predicate, kept for the deliberately-wide backstop): node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs --json 1a540e82b1421c26ea036ff67e381689075b501c → packageMentionDocs.

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⛔ merge queue 构建失败 — 先分诊，再决定要不要重排

队列构建 33244436318 红了。队列跑的是全量套件（PR 侧 CI 只跑 affected 子集），
所以失败的测试可能在本 PR 没碰过的包里 —— 那不是重排能修的。每次盲目重排都会让排在后面的所有 PR 重建一轮。

失败的 job（日志抽取，best effort）：

• Test Core (1/6) — 失败步骤: Run this shard's tests

  @objectstack/cli:test:  FAIL  test/serve-publishes-bound-port.e2e.test.ts > #13062 the non-zero half — nothing an ordinary boot publishes may move > follows the DEV AUTO-SHIFT onto the port it really 
    ↳ 失败原因: (这条 FAIL 之后 12 行内没有可识别的原因行 —— 点进 job 看)
  

↳ 失败原因 是判读的关键：超时（Test timed out in … / Hook timed out in …）多半是负载/时序，不是本 PR 的回归；
断言（AssertionError: …）才指向真实的行为改变。两者的 FAIL 行长得一模一样，只有这一行能区分。

跨 PR 相同签名（24h，按失败测试文件聚合）：

• test/serve-publishes-bound-port.e2e.test.ts — 24h 内已弹出 14 个 PR（Hold the isSystem census page to the code: committed AST census, population gate, converted anchors #13051、fix(ci): count speculative-stack inheritance as one hit in merge-queue triage #13107、fix(rest): the /data declared-4xx body carries human language in error, not the ADR-0111 CODE: prefix #13124、feat(metadata): the artifact door registers stack-declared capabilities (#12892 step 1) #13125、fix(tooling): declare kebab-case diagnostic codes a separate vocabulary, in one place #13130、docs(kernel): teach the dot-qualified view item name in metadata-service.mdx #13133、docs(devx): correct the stale collector claim on the js-comment-mask entry #13140、fix(scripts): close an ADR-0087 framed region at the same or a shallower heading, not at any heading #13142、feat(pm): record a passive boot marker on every verify-lock invocation, so cross-restart evidence about /tmp accumulates by itself #13145、fix(client): declare the response the meta reset door actually sends on both deleteItem twins #13148、fix(scripts): refuse a logless check-test-completeness run instead of answering exit 1 #13152、chore(pm): unstale the release-aftercare ceiling comment in the line ratchet #13161、docs(objectui): repair the section-tier and action-tier visibility examples on the two protocol pages #13162、feat(lint): ratchet the relationship carrier shape at field-def positions #13174），分属 10 条投机栈 ⇒ 10 次独立命中。汇总 issue：Queue-flake anchor: test/serve-publishes-bound-port.e2e.test.ts #13187（已刷新）
• ⚠️ 24h 评论账本没读完（超过 5 页仍未读到窗口尽头），所以上面的「不同 PR 数」是下界，不是全量。

历史信号：

• 本 PR 过去 24h 无队列失败记录（首次）。
• 过去 24h 队列共有 14 个失败构建（不含本次）。

分诊清单：

1. 失败测试在本 PR 改动的包里 → 真回归，修 PR。
2. 失败测试与本 PR 无关 → 看上面的「跨 PR 相同签名」；已有汇总 issue ⇒ flaky/环境问题实锤，去那张 issue 上谈，修好前重排只会再烧一轮全队列。
3. 两者都不是 → 可能与同组 PR 语义冲突；等前面的 PR 落地或失败出队后再重排一次即可，不要连续重排。

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