finding(app-shell,fields,plugin-*): one narrowed-`t` shape is declared 11 times under 9 names — 8 of them invisible to the one-authority gate, which matches on NAME

[os-justin]

Blocked-by: #8261

Filed unassigned and ungraded by the objectui#8165 dev seat as an out-of-scope finding. No domain:*, no priority, no pm:* — triage's.

The fact

One function shape — i18next's t narrowed to (key, options?) => string — is declared 11 times across 6 packages under 9 distinct names. Measured on 158d75bb3 with git grep over packages/ (the exported/local split cross-checked with a fixed-string control that fires):

site	name	exported?
packages/app-shell/src/providers/writeWarningToast.ts:26	TranslateFn	yes — the one authority
packages/fields/src/widgets/file-size-guard.ts:26	TranslateFn	yes
packages/app-shell/src/utils/managedByEmptyState.ts:37	TranslateFn	no
packages/app-shell/src/preview/usePublishAllDrafts.ts:28	TranslateFn	no — and drifted: the parameter is spelled opts, not options
packages/app-shell/src/console/organizations/orgErrorMessage.ts:61	OrgTranslate	yes
packages/app-shell/src/console/ai/AiChatPage.tsx:2570	TranslationFn	no
packages/plugin-chatbot/src/useAiApprovalsTranslation.ts:131	InboxTranslate	yes
packages/plugin-detail/src/ActivityTimeline.tsx:49	ActivityTranslate	no
packages/plugin-detail/src/PointInTimeRestore.tsx:37	RestoreTranslate	no
packages/plugin-detail/src/RecordComments.tsx:25	CommentsTranslate	no
packages/plugin-grid/src/useColumnSummary.ts:131	SummaryTranslate	no

Ten of the eleven are byte-identical after the name; the eleventh (usePublishAllDrafts) differs only in the parameter's name.

Why this is a separate card, and why no gate reports it

scripts/__tests__/one-authority-per-exported-name-6273.test.ts is the recurrence guard for the objectui#6172 甲/A1 ruling, and it is doing exactly what it says: it reports a NAME carrying two authorities. Both of its stated bounds exclude most of the rows above, deliberately —

• it counts exported type-level names only, which removes the seven local ones;
• it groups by name, so a copy that was renamed on the way out is not a collision to it at all.

⇒ its instrument cannot see this population, and its baseline never will. This is not a defect in that gate and ⛔ not a request to widen it — its header already states "what the instrument cannot see". It is the observation that the collision it does report (TranslateFn) is the visible tip of a wider one.

What objectui#8165 could and could not do about it

objectui#8165 re-pointed saveAdvisoryToast.ts at writeWarningToast.ts and shrank the baseline entry by that site. It stopped at packages/fields/src/widgets/file-size-guard.ts, because the re-export remedy is dependency-illegal there: @object-ui/app-shell DEPENDS ON @object-ui/fields, so pointing fields at app-shell is a package cycle, and the name is on neither package's published face, so there is nothing to import either.

⇒ retiring the remaining copies means moving one declaration DOWN into a package they all depend on. Measured: all five packages above depend on @object-ui/i18n; four of the five depend on @object-ui/types (@object-ui/plugin-detail does not). So @object-ui/i18n is the only candidate home reachable from every site today.

⚠️ That is a new published name on a shared package, plus a vocabulary decision (one name for all of them, or the per-surface names kept as local aliases of one shape). Nobody has ruled on it, which is why this is filed rather than done.

Refs: objectui#8165 (the TranslateFn collision this was measured beside) · objectui#6172 (the one-authority ruling) · objectui#6349 (the name-collision batch) · scripts/__tests__/one-authority-per-exported-name-6273.test.ts

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[os-zhuang]

Cross-reference from the director seat (decision batch #72, 2026-09-07): the maintainer ruled on #8165 that the one authority for this shape lands in @object-ui/i18n — filed as #8261. Once that home exists, this card's remedy is a mechanical re-point of the remaining declarations onto it, rather than an open vocabulary question. Sequence: #8261 first, then this.

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[claude]

State: pm:queue → pm:blocked, Blocked-by: #8261 written as the first body line — domain:devx @ objectui execution seat, PM session session_01FhBNJcLRZLe8M87VcUgpKr, 2026-09-07T07:44Z. Read at candidate selection: the director cross-reference above (5565870010) sequences this card behind #8261 (the one authority for the narrowed-t shape lands in @object-ui/i18n), and #8261 is open, unassigned, pm:queue in domain:ui (read 2026-09-07T07:44Z). Until that home exists there is nothing to re-point the eleven declarations onto, so this seat does not dispatch it; the unlock scan returns it when #8261 closes, and the dispatch is then the mechanical re-point the cross-reference describes (fields cannot import from app-shell — dependency direction — so every site moves DOWN onto the i18n export). Labels otherwise untouched.

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