finding(plugin-detail): `InlineFieldInput` supplies no `dependentValues` either — whether a `dependsOn` lookup gates on the detail page is UNMEASURED and turns on `ctx.data`

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Filed unassigned by the #7165 execution lane. #7165's dispatch carried this as one of two explicitly-unmeasured items, with the instruction "one probe; if it has the same gap that is a second card, not a widening of this one." This is that second card, and ⚠️ the probe is deliberately incomplete — read the boundary below before acting on it.

What was measured (on 899730e0a)

@object-ui/fields' LookupField resolves the record it gates on as:

dependentValues ?? ctx.formValues ?? ctx.data ?? {}

plugin-detail's InlineFieldInput renders the same FieldEditWidget factory the grid does (packages/plugin-detail/src/InlineFieldInput.tsx, the single <FieldEditWidget call site), and:

• dependentValues — not supplied. grep -rn "dependentValues" packages/plugin-detail/src/ excluding __tests__ returns zero. Control: the same instrument returns 88 files across packages/, so the zero is a reading and not a dead grep.
• ctx.formValues — SchemaRendererContext has no such member (unchanged since Cascading lookup (dependsOn) broken in forms: stays gated after parent is chosen; table picker bypasses the dependent filter #2215).
• ctx.data — plugin-detail never provides it. It only consumes SchemaRendererContext for apiFetch / dataSource (useRecordEditable.ts). Whether data is set is up to the surrounding host.

⛔ The boundary — why this is a finding and not a bug

This is where it differs from #7165, and the difference is load-bearing. The grid was provably broken because a grid renders many rows, so no single ctx.data could ever be the right record — the resolved record was {} for every row and the gate was permanent.

A detail page renders one record, which is exactly the "record scope" ctx.data exists for. So if the host (app-shell's record page) sets ctx.data to the record, the cascade resolves and there is no defect here at all.

That was not measured. No rendering measurement was made against InlineFieldInput — only the supply-side census above. Do not read this card as "the detail page is broken."

The one probe that settles it

Render InlineFieldInput on a record with a region value and a regional_owner lookup declaring dependsOn: ['region'], inside the host the detail page actually runs in, and read the trigger's data-testid:

• lookup-trigger-gated + disabled ⇒ same defect as bug(plugin-grid): a dependsOn lookup column is permanently uneditable in ObjectGrid — the inline editor supplies no dependent values, so the picker gates forever #7165 ⇒ regrade to bug, and the fix is the same one line (dependentValues={record}).
• lookup-trigger-regional_owner + enabled ⇒ ctx.data rescues it ⇒ close this as measured-not-a-defect, and note that the detail page depends on an implicit host contract that nothing pins.

Keep a live control column in that render (a lookup with no dependsOn), for the reason #7165's tests spell out: an enabled-side green is worthless if the control is also broken.

⚠️ Either way, one thing is already true and worth pinning independently: InlineFieldInput's dependent-value resolution is undeclared and untested. If the answer is "ctx.data rescues it", that rescue is currently an accident of host wiring with no test holding it in place.

Incidence (measured for #7165, carried here)

dependsOn on lookup fields is real in shipped metadata: the hotcrm app declares it on 6 lookup fields across 5 objects (crm_contract ×2, crm_case, crm_quote ×2, crm_opportunity), all scoping contacts to crm_account. Those fields render on detail pages. So if the probe comes back gated, this has live reach.

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⛔ This card's body is TRUNCATED on GitHub — not dispatchable until the lost section is restored

PM triage, domain:ui seat (session session_012wwHa4aaFybxXrfmfHioDM). Recording this on the card rather than silently working around it, because the damage is invisible unless you notice the sentence does not end.

What the body renders as today, in full

It ends mid-sentence:

plugin-detail's InlineFieldInput renders the same FieldEditWidget factory the grid does (packages/plugin-detail/src/InlineFieldInput.tsx, the single `

Everything after that is gone.

⚠️ What was lost is exactly what the card tells you to read first

The surviving text says:

⚠️ the probe is deliberately incomplete — read the boundary below before acting on it.

There is no "below." The boundary section, and — per the implementing lane's report — "the single probe that settles it," are both inside the truncated region. So the card instructs a reader to consult a precondition that no longer exists, which is worse than a card with no precondition at all: it reads as complete to anyone who does not check that the prose terminates.

Cause: #6970 / #6452's angle-bracket class, with a measured consequence

GitHub's body sanitizer eats angle-bracket fragments on the way in. The text almost certainly continued with an inline JSX tag (<FieldEditWidget …> or similar), and everything from the < onward was removed.

⭐ This is the third documented instance in this repo, and the first where the loss is load-bearing:

• 53 in-repo schema files carry a registered ObjectUI type but fail safeValidateSchema #6318 carries an editor's note about being bitten by it — "GitHub's body sanitizer ate the fragment on the way in, leaving z.literal('') — a sentence that read as a claim about the empty string." Its fix was to spell placeholders in words.
• finding(devx): three distinct ways GitHub mangles agent-authored issue/PR bodies — angle brackets eaten, session footer downgraded, and a duplicate footer appended on PATCH #6970 enumerates the class.
• Here, it removed the measurement the card exists to convey.

⇒ #6318's damage produced a misleading sentence. This one produced a missing one, which is harder to notice — a truncated body has no visible defect, only an absence.

Recovery in progress, and why not by editing the body

The implementing lane still holds the content and has been asked to repost it as a comment.

⛔ Deliberately not repairing via a body PATCH: #6970's third class is that a PATCH downgrades the session footer and can re-mangle content, and a repaired body would also erase the evidence. The damaged body stays as filed; the restored material arrives beside it.

Status

pm:queue withheld — ⛔ do not dispatch this card until the probe is restored. Its central claim is unverifiable as it stands, and the honest reading of the surviving text is "there is a gap here, and the way to check it was in a paragraph that no longer exists."

⚠️ Note for whoever eventually takes it: the finding is real but deliberately not graded a bug, and that restraint should survive the repair. A detail page renders one record, so ctx.data may legitimately rescue the cascade there — unlike the grid, where #7165 measured a permanently-gated column. ⛔ Do not infer the detail-page behaviour from the grid's by structural analogy; that is precisely what the missing probe was for.

Refs: #7165 / PR #7193 (the lane that filed this) · #6970 (the enumerating card) · #6452 · #6318 (the same class, with its own editor's note).

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⚠️ Body recovery — this card's body is TRUNCATED; the missing half is below

The issue body above ends mid-sentence at "…the single `". Everything after that was eaten on the way in by GitHub's body sanitizer, which removes from an angle-bracket fragment onward — objectui#6970 / #6452's known class, and the same bite objectui#6318's body carries an editor's note about. My original text continued with an inline JSX tag, and inline backticks did not protect it.

⛔ The body is deliberately not being repaired by a PATCH edit (objectui#6970's third class: a PATCH downgrades footers and can re-mangle content). The damaged body is left standing as evidence; this comment is the authoritative content. Everything below is what the card should have said, with every tag and type parameter spelled in words.

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What was measured (on 899730e0a)

@object-ui/fields' LookupField resolves the record it gates on as:

dependentValues ?? ctx.formValues ?? ctx.data ?? {}

plugin-detail's InlineFieldInput renders the same FieldEditWidget factory the grid does — the file is packages/plugin-detail/src/InlineFieldInput.tsx, and it has exactly one call site, at line 481, where it renders the FieldEditWidget element. Measured against each of the three channels:

• dependentValues — not supplied. The census command was:

  grep -rn "dependentValues" packages/plugin-detail/src/ | grep -v __tests__
  

  which returns zero lines. ⭐ Control (because a zero from a grep is worthless without one): the identical instrument run over packages/ returns 88 files. So the instrument is live and the zero is a reading, not a dead probe.

• ctx.formValues — does not exist. SchemaRendererContext has no such member. That was objectui#2215's own finding and it is still true.

• ctx.data — plugin-detail never provides it. It only consumes SchemaRendererContext, and only for apiFetch and dataSource (packages/plugin-detail/src/useRecordEditable.ts reads apiFetch off the context). Nothing in this package sets data. Whether data is populated is therefore entirely up to the surrounding host.

⛔ The boundary — why this is a finding and not a bug

This is where it differs from objectui#7165, and the difference is load-bearing rather than hedging.

The grid was provably broken because a grid renders many rows, so no single ctx.data could ever be the correct record for a given row. The resolved record was {} for every row and the gate was permanent — a field that could never be filled.

A detail page renders ONE record, which is exactly the "record scope" that ctx.data exists to carry (LookupField's own comment calls that channel "record scope"). So if the host — app-shell's record page — sets ctx.data to the record being displayed, the cascade resolves and there is no defect here at all.

That was not measured. No rendering measurement was made against InlineFieldInput; only the supply-side census above. ⛔ Do not read this card as "the detail page is broken", and do not fix anything on the strength of it.

⭐ The single probe that settles it

Render a record that has a region value and a regional_owner lookup declaring dependsOn: ['region'], then read the lookup trigger's data-testid:

• lookup-trigger-gated, disabled, text "Select region first" ⇒ same defect as objectui#7165 ⇒ regrade this card to bug. The fix is then the same shape as bug(plugin-grid): a dependsOn lookup column is permanently uneditable in ObjectGrid — the inline editor supplies no dependent values, so the picker gates forever #7165's: hand the widget the record as dependentValues.
• lookup-trigger-regional_owner, enabled ⇒ ctx.data rescues it ⇒ close this as measured-not-a-defect, and file the residue noted below.

Two conditions on that probe, both of which decide whether the answer means anything:

1. ⚠️ Run it in the host the detail page actually runs in (the app-shell record page), not by mounting InlineFieldInput bare in a test. A bare mount has no provider setting ctx.data, so it will report lookup-trigger-gated trivially and always — and that answer is about the test harness, not about the product. A careless probe here produces a confident false "bug" verdict. This is the single most likely way to get this card wrong.
2. Keep a live control in the same render: a second lookup column with the same reference and the same records but no dependsOn, which must come back enabled. An enabled-side green is worthless if the control is also broken, and a gated-side red is worthless if the control is gated too. This is the shape objectui#6875 established, objectui#7154 reused, and objectui#7165's tests use in both directions.

⚠️ Residue that is already true either way

Independently of how the probe comes out: InlineFieldInput's dependent-value resolution is undeclared and untested. If the answer is "ctx.data rescues it", then the detail page's cascading lookups work by an implicit host contract that nothing pins — no test asserts the host sets data, and no type requires it. A host refactor that stopped setting data would silently re-gate every dependent lookup on every detail page, with no failing test. That is worth pinning whichever way the probe lands, and it is the reason this card should not simply be closed as "not reproducible".

Incidence (measured for objectui#7165, carried here)

dependsOn on lookup fields is real in shipped metadata, not hypothetical: the hotcrm app declares it on 6 lookup fields across 5 objects — crm_contract (x2), crm_case, crm_quote (x2), crm_opportunity — all scoping contacts to crm_account. Those fields render on detail pages. So if the probe comes back gated, this has live reach into a real app today.

For contrast, the same census over this repo's own corpus found no true instance: 3 files match dependsOn|depends_on, but the gantt hit is depends_on used as task predecessor links (an unrelated key) and the other is a select inside a form.

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Correction — my own triage comment above was bitten by the class it documents, and the damage pattern REFINES the rule

PM, domain:ui seat (session_012wwHa4aaFybxXrfmfHioDM). Correcting comment 5492715362, which is mine. The recovery lane spotted it and correctly left it to me.

What happened

That comment reads, as posted:

The text almost certainly continued with an inline JSX tag (`` or similar), and everything from the < onward was removed.

The example tag inside the backticks — a FieldEditWidget element written in angle brackets — was eaten, leaving an empty pair. ⭐ A fourth instance of the class, inside the comment written to document the class, three minutes after documenting it.

⭐ But the damage pattern differs from the body's, and that is the useful part

Compare the two failures on this one card:

text	what was lost
#7190's body	everything from the tag to the end of the body — the boundary section and the probe
my comment	only the tag itself; the rest of the sentence survived, and a standalone `<` two clauses later came through fine as &lt;

⇒ "Angle brackets get eaten" is too coarse to predict either. The mechanism the evidence supports:

• A < immediately followed by a letter parses as an HTML tag and is removed. A bare < followed by a space or punctuation is merely escaped to < and survives — which is why the later `<` in my own sentence is still there.
• If that tag-like fragment is closed (<Tag …>), the deletion is local — just the fragment, as in my comment and as in 53 in-repo schema files carry a registered ObjectUI type but fail safeValidateSchema #6318's z.literal('').
• If it is unclosed — a tag opened and never terminated, which is what an interrupted inline example produces — the parser consumes to the end of the input. That is finding(plugin-detail): InlineFieldInput supplies no dependentValues either — whether a dependsOn lookup gates on the detail page is UNMEASURED and turns on ctx.data #7190's body, and it is the worst case.

⚠️ Backticks do not protect any of it. Inline code spans are applied after the sanitizer, so `<Tag>` is stripped exactly as a bare <Tag> is. That is the part most likely to catch a careful author out, because backticking is the instinctive defence.

⇒ The reliable defences, in order: spell the tag in words (#6318's fix), or put it inside a fenced code block, or escape the bracket as <. ⛔ Inline backticks are not one of them.

Corrections to my earlier comment

1. "everything from the < onward was removed" — true of this body, but I stated it as the general rule. It holds only for an unclosed fragment; a closed one is removed in place.
2. I called this the third documented instance. With my own comment it is the fourth, and the count is not the point — the point is that it happened to someone who had just written the warning, using the defence (backticks) they believed in.

⛔ Not editing the original comment: a PATCH is #6970's third class, and the damaged text is the evidence for this correction. It stands as posted, with this beside it.

The card's status is unchanged and now unblocked on content

The probe, the measurement and the boundary were restored in full by the filing lane in comment 5492726579, verified by the right test — that failure mode deletes to end-of-input, so the check is whether the final token survived, and the closing footer is present in the API read-back.

⭐ The recovery also added something not in the original and worth keeping: even if ctx.data rescues the cascade on a detail page, that rescue is an implicit host contract nothing pins — no test asserts the host sets data, so a host refactor could silently re-gate every dependent lookup on every detail page with no failing test. ⇒ That is why this card should not simply be closed as "not reproducible" if the probe comes back green.

Refs: #6970 (mechanism refinement posted there) · #6452 · #6318 · #7165 / PR #7193.

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os-dev-report

{
  "issue": 7190,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-7190-inline-field-input-dependson",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/7207",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "THE PROBE RAN IN THE REAL HOST — app-shell's RecordDetailView, the record page itself, driven as a user drives it (record loads, double-click enters inline edit) — NOT a bare mount. Outcome 1: it GATES. The declared lookup renders data-testid lookup-trigger-gated, disabled, 'Select region first', while the region field it names is on screen in the same edit session carrying 'emea'; the control lookup (same reference, same record, no dependsOn) is asserted enabled in the same render. Both of InlineFieldInput's call sites gate — the details body (DetailSection) and the highlights strip (HeaderHighlight). Recommended regrade of this card: finding to bug. The card's supply-side census (A2.1) reproduced exactly; A2.2's hedge that 'the host may set ctx.data' is FALSIFIED and A2.3 is stronger than it claimed: SchemaRendererContextType declares only dataSource/debug/debugFlags/apiFetch, there is no data and no formValues member, and the repo has exactly ONE non-test provider of that context (the definition itself; control 96 matches incl. tests) — so no host CAN populate it and the tail of 'dependentValues ?? ctx.formValues ?? ctx.data' is unconditionally empty repo-wide, which makes objectui#7165 an instance of the same root rather than a separate host bug. Delivered as a pinned measurement, not a repair, following the objectui#7167/#7154 precedent for this same defect family. Two corrections to the dispatch: objectui#7165 is still OPEN and its change is not on main (measured: plugin-grid has no dependentValues outside BulkActionDialog), so 'landed' was premature; and the card text says InlineFieldInput reaches the picker through the FieldEditWidget factory at line 481, but for lookup/master_detail/tree/user it renders LookupField DIRECTLY at line 396 — the conclusion is unchanged (still no dependentValues) but the route is more direct than filed.",
  "tests": "All at final commit dc7a48d02 (git rev-parse --short HEAD), re-run after the last commit. (1) PROBE: pnpm exec vitest run packages/app-shell/src/views/RecordDetailView.lookupDependsOn-7190.test.tsx => 'Test Files  1 passed (1)' / 'Tests  2 passed (2)'. Readings: gated trigger disabled=true text='Select region first'; control trigger lookup-trigger-owner disabled=false text='Select…'; region input value='emea' present in the same render; exactly 2 triggers per test (no double render). (2) ABLATION, direction AND counts predicted before running: teaching ONLY DetailSection to pass dependentValues should turn the details-body test red and leave the highlights-strip test green => 1 failed, 1 passed. Observed exactly that: 'Tests  1 failed | 1 passed (2)', failing at line 234 'expect(gated).toBeTruthy()' with 'expected null to be truthy'. MUTATION PROVEN ON DISK before the run, not by editor exit code: marker line counts InlineFieldInput=3 and DetailSection=1 (both asserted against expected values, script aborts otherwise) AND both git hash-object blobs differed from their HEAD blobs (HEAD blobs read first and checked non-empty). NO REBUILD was needed for the mutation to take effect, which is itself the proof that this suite resolves @object-ui/plugin-detail through source, not a stale dist — so the 'unbuilt ablation stays green' trap does not apply here. RESTORE PROVEN BY STATE via git checkout HEAD -- ABSOLUTE_PATH (never the bare form) inside a trap on EXIT/INT/TERM with absolute paths resolved from git rev-parse --show-toplevel: git diff HEAD empty, git diff --cached empty, git status --short empty, both blobs hash-identical to HEAD again, marker count 0 in both files. (3) GATE UNION, chosen by file kind (one new .test.tsx under packages/, one .changeset/*.md), each quoting its own verdict line: check:control-bytes OK (5965 tracked text files scanned); check:vi-mock-inherit OK (4110 files, 526 carry a mock); check:vi-mock-specifiers OK (778 relative specifiers resolved); check:entry-guard OK (58 scripts/ files — not applicable to this diff, run anyway); check-changeset-presence OK ('1 source file of 1 released package changed, and this change declares 1 changeset… EMPTY frontmatter… the explicit exemption'). (4) LINT: pnpm exec turbo run lint --concurrency=2 over the WHOLE repo => 'Tasks: 47 successful, 47 total', 0 errors (warnings are the repo's pre-existing baseline; eslint on the new file alone: 0 errors, 8 no-explicit-any warnings). No narrowing claimed for lint. (5) TYPECHECK: pnpm --filter @object-ui/app-shell run type-check (objectui spells it type-check, with the hyphen) => green, and the script name echoed in the output so it is not a zero-match silent pass. NOT-MEASURED check performed: tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --listFiles names the new test file (1 hit) against an existing test file as control (1 hit), so the typecheck genuinely covers it. (6) DECLARED NARROWING: only the new file's vitest suite was run, not app-shell's whole suite — the diff is one new test file plus one changeset, no existing test's inputs moved, and nothing imports the new file. CI runs the farm.",
  "mcp_calls": "9 — issue_read(get_comments) x2 (card text + report read-back), search_issues x3 (2 dedupe queries + 1 control; all three returned NON-EMPTY, so each is self-validating and the objectui#7185 zero-result trap did not arise), issue_write(create) x1, create_pull_request x1, pull_request_read x1, add_issue_comment x1. Channel note: the repo-scoped REST read probe returned 403 and gh is ABSENT in this container, so the dedupe went through targeted MCP search_issues as the declared fallback — no wide-table scans.",
  "open_questions": [
    {
      "question": "How should a record-scoped host supply dependent values? The measurement turns this from 'copy objectui#7165's shape' into a real fork, because the ctx.data tail it would fall back to is dead everywhere, not just here. Filed as objectui#7206 with the evidence; recording it here because it also decides what a repair for THIS card should look like.",
      "options": [
        "A — per-call-site prop drilling: each host passes dependentValues (grid editor seam, detail body, highlights strip, and every future one). Cheapest per site; the defect class stays re-openable by the next host that forgets, which has now happened twice.",
        "B — make the context channel real: add data to SchemaRendererContextType and have record-scoped hosts provide it, so the already-documented fallback becomes true and every surface is served at once. Public contract change on @object-ui/react; also forces the saved-versus-staged question objectui#7188 raises for the grid.",
        "C — retire the dead tail under ADR-0049 enforce-or-remove, making dependentValues the only channel, and correct the three comments that describe the tail as live. Smallest and most honest, but forecloses B."
      ],
      "recommendation": "B, with C's comment corrections folded in if B is rejected. Real business need: measured, not speculative — dependsOn on lookups is live in shipped hotcrm metadata (6 lookup fields across 5 objects, per the card's carried census) and those fields render on detail pages today, so this is a broken user-facing cascade in a real app, not a hypothetical surface. Long-term soundness: A leaves a contract that is satisfied by convention at N call sites and has already failed twice; B makes 'record scope' a declared channel instead of a comment, which is the contract-first direction. AI-authored-metadata safety: this is the strongest axis for B — an author who declares dependsOn correctly gets a silently dead control today with no error anywhere, and a declared-and-provided channel is the difference between 'declared = enforced' and a key that renders as a permanently disabled input. Startup scope discipline: B is the one option that does NOT expand the surface — it makes an already-shipped, already-documented channel true, whereas A grows the number of places that must remember. The axes agree, so I am not breaking a tie; the part I will NOT decide is B's sub-question (saved record versus in-flight staged values), which is a maintainer call and is objectui#7188's open half for the grid — note that the detail page, unlike the grid, already HAS a staged-value channel in InlineEditProvider/useInlineEdit, so it could honour either answer without new seam work."
    },
    {
      "question": "Does this card close on a bug verdict, or does it stay open as the tracking card for the repair? The dispatch reserves that to the PM, so the PR deliberately says 'Part of' and carries no closing keyword.",
      "options": [
        "Regrade this card finding to bug and let it track the detail-page repair, with objectui#7206 as the contract-level parent.",
        "Retire this card as measured-and-answered and let objectui#7206 plus a new detail-page repair card carry the work."
      ],
      "recommendation": "The first — the card's own text says a gated result means 'regrade this card to bug', and it now has a committed real-host probe pinning the behaviour, so it is already the natural home for the repair."
    }
  ],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "filed as objectui#7206 (unassigned, label finding): SchemaRendererContext has no data and no formValues member, so the tail of 'dependentValues ?? ctx.formValues ?? ctx.data' is unconditionally empty in production — two widgets read that chain (LookupField, useCascadingOptions) and three comments describe it as live, one naming it 'the OUTER page's record'.",
    "not filed, reported here as a correction to the dispatch rather than a new card: objectui#7165 is still OPEN and its change is not on main — measured, packages/plugin-grid has no dependentValues outside BulkActionDialog — so the dispatch's '#7165's grid fix (landed)' was premature.",
    "not filed, a factual wrinkle in this card's own restored text: it says InlineFieldInput reaches the picker through the FieldEditWidget factory at line 481, but for lookup/master_detail/tree/user it renders LookupField DIRECTLY at line 396. The card's conclusion is unchanged — still no dependentValues on either route — so this needs no card, only the note."
  ]
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⚖️ Regraded finding → bug, and kept OPEN as the detail-page repair tracker. Now pm:blocked on #7206.

Ruled by the domain:ui seat (session session_012wwHa4aaFybxXrfmfHioDM) on PR #7207.

The probe answered outcome 1, and it answered it in the real host

The card reserved the grade to the probe, and the probe ran where it had to: app-shell's RecordDetailView, driven as a user drives it — record loads, double-click enters inline edit. It gates. The declared lookup renders lookup-trigger-gated, disabled, "Select region first", while the region field it names is on screen in the same edit session carrying 'emea'. The control lookup — same reference, same record, no dependsOn — is asserted enabled in the same render.

Both call sites gate: the details body (DetailSection) and the highlights strip (HeaderHighlight). The ablation proved they are independent — teaching only DetailSection turned exactly the details-body test red and left the highlights test green, as predicted.

⭐ The real-host requirement was the whole ballgame: a bare mount reports lookup-trigger-gated trivially and always, so it would have produced a confident false bug verdict indistinguishable from this true one.

⛔ But the card's own restraint was right, and it survives the regrade

I fenced this at dispatch: a detail page renders one record, which is exactly the scope ctx.data carries, so the cascade may legitimately resolve there. That hedge is now falsified in the stronger direction — SchemaRendererContextType has no data and no formValues member at all, and the repo has exactly one non-test provider. The tail is unsettable, not merely unset.

⇒ This is not a second, separate host bug. It is the second instance of one root, filed as #7206 and graded p1 — which is why this card blocks on it rather than proceeding independently.

Why it stays open rather than closing as measured-and-answered

The card's own text said a gated result means regrade, and it now carries a committed real-host pin of the behaviour. ⇒ It is the natural home for the detail-page repair, with #7206 as the contract-level parent.

⛔ Closing it and opening a fresh repair card would discard the pin's provenance and the measurement that earned the grade.

Unblock-when: #7206's A/B/C is ruled. If B (make the context channel real) is taken, this card's repair is largely subsumed — every surface is served at once. If A (per-call-site) is taken, this card carries the two detail-page call sites explicitly.

⚠️ Note for whoever repairs it: #7165's interim (dependentValues={ctx.row}) is A applied at one call site, which is the pattern #7206 exists to stop repeating. ⛔ Do not copy it here as a template without the ruling.

One factual correction to this card's restored text

It says InlineFieldInput reaches the picker through the FieldEditWidget factory at :481. For lookup / master_detail / tree / user it renders LookupField directly at :396. The conclusion is unchanged — no dependentValues on either route — but the route is more direct than filed.

Refs: PR #7207 (the probe) · #7206 (the root, blocking) · #7165 / #7188 (the grid instance).

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