metadata: a flow whose loop / parallel / try_catch region is malformed or cyclic reads valid as a draft and publishes, then the engine refuses to register it

domain:server#2 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmQxwoGb5fSnrFkpxmt

立卡门: ① 产品缺陷，具名落点 + 复现（finding class a · reach: 公开入口 HTTP 实测一次错误结果，stock showcase 启动于 origin/main 2f29c84d9，由 #29025 的开发测得，见下方读数）
业务理由: 流程作者在 Studio 或 /meta 存一个循环体自成环的流程，草稿显示有效、发布说成功，可流程从来不会运行；作者看不到任何错误，只能在运行时发现它没触发。不修，发布门对这类流程的「成功」是假的。
动手的读者: domain:server 席，packages/metadata-protocol/src/runtime-authoring-gate.ts（发布门的判定），调用引擎注册时已在用的 validateControlFlow（canonicalizeFlow 里跑）；与 #29025（PR #29226，同一个门的顶层环规则）串行，排在它落地之后。
查重: validateControlFlow publish 12 命中、loop body cycle draft valid 333、region contains a cycle publish 50（均含已关）；前列只有 #29025（顶层环，在飞）与 #28893（CLI 一侧的 try_catch 多出口，已关）是同族，没有发布门一侧的区域校验卡。

Family: #29025 (top-level undeclared cycle at the publish gate, PR #29226), #29051 (the same judge on os validate / build), #28893 (the CLI side of region shape, closed). This card is the publish gate's twin of #28893.

What happens

Measured on a stock showcase boot of origin/main 2f29c84d9, through REST. Flow rgnprobe_loop in package app.rgnprobe: start → loop lp → end, where the loop body is a → b → a.

Step	Answer
`POST /packages`	201
`PUT /api/v1/meta/flow/rgnprobe_loop?mode=draft&package=app.rgnprobe`	200, state draft
`GET …?state=draft&package=app.rgnprobe`	200, `_diagnostics: {"valid": true}`
`POST /packages/app.rgnprobe/publish-drafts`	200, `outcome: "published"`, `publishedCount: 1`, `failedCount: 0`
`GET /api/v1/meta/flow/rgnprobe_loop`	200, `registration.state: "refused"`, "loop 'lp' body: region has no entry node …; region has no exit node …; region contains a cycle (region bodies must be acyclic)"

Where

evaluateRuntimeAuthoringGate({ type: 'flow', state: 'active' }) never runs validateControlFlow, which the engine runs at registration (canonicalizeFlow). So every region-shape refusal the engine makes (loop, parallel, try_catch bodies) is missed at the draft read and at every publish door.

Acceptance

The draft read reports the engine's region-shape refusal in _diagnostics (valid: false, the engine's sentence), and every publish door, publish-drafts included, refuses such a flow before any write.
One judge: the gate calls the same validateControlFlow the engine calls, ⛔ not a second copy. A flow the engine registers today still publishes.
Red-first pin through the real door, plus a control (a well-formed loop region publishes and registers).
This narrows a publish door: ! title, BREAKING banner, adr-0087: marker, dogfood.

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triage#1 · os-zhuang · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U

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Triage: p2 · `domain:server` · `area:automation` · `pm:queue` · 2026-11-02T11:01Z

⛔ Not a claim.

Read fresh. Measured through REST: a flow with a malformed or cyclic region reads valid: true as a draft and publishes as published, then the engine refuses to register it. The publish door reports a false success, so p2. Serialize after metadata: a flow with an undeclared cycle (loop edge not typed back) reads valid as a draft and publishes, then the engine refuses to register it — a dead flow goes live #29025 (PR fix(metadata)!: refuse a flow with an undeclared cycle at publish, as the engine refuses it at registration #29226, same gate); do not dispatch until that PR merges.

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domain:server#2 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmQxwoGb5fSnrFkpxmt

Claim: PM loop round 1 · card thread · 2026-11-02T15:11Z
Session: session_01ADHkmQxwoGb5fSnrFkpxmt (the seat); the card thread is session_01ADHkmSfgX3fNF6rAXudbtz
Account: os-steve (the seat's linked user; the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/project-thread-qv2l74 (the card thread's harness-pinned branch; it names no issue, so this claim is the identity record)
Worktree: the card thread's own container checkout
Domain: domain:server
Seat: domain:server#2
Ruling-ref: 6580265584 — the director record on #29025 (batch #458 item 3, letter A, the maintainer's 「同意」 2026-11-02T14:54Z) names this finding as the seat's to file beside #29051; this card is it. Filed p2 by domain:server#2.
File surface: packages/metadata-protocol/src/runtime-authoring-gate.ts; tests; a dogfood file; changeset. ⛔ No packages/spec/**, no ui/**, no packages/cli/** (#29051 holds flow-region-shape.ts).
Container & model: M, mode:thread, model: opus (TIER_DEFAULT; --tier names no path mandate: PM's call), effort: high
Clause-②: no (narrowing, expected: a publish door refuses what the engine already refuses at registration)
Metadata-protocol: narrowed (expected, as #29226)
Responsibility: the code is the publish gate in @objectstack/metadata-protocol · the platform path is a flow whose loop / parallel / try_catch region is malformed or cyclic, which reads valid and publishes and then never registers · reached by every author who saves a flow through Studio, MCP or /meta
Thread-read: none
Premise: holds (measured on a stock showcase boot by the #29025 dev, reproduction table on the card); the dev re-measures red first
Serial constraints cleared: NOT YET — PR #29226 (#29025) edits runtime-authoring-gate.ts and is in the merge queue (enqueued 2026-11-02T15:06Z); the thread reads and plans only, with no edit, until it merges, then merges origin/main. No other open PR or pm:dispatched claim names the file (read this act).
Resume-from: none — fresh from origin/main

State: pm:queue → pm:dispatched, assigned to os-steve, recorded by this claim.

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domain:spec#4 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmQNap7ryQcyQXocWct

Carry from #29049 (PR #29495, contract review #29495 (comment), should-fix 2):

#29495 adds the @objectstack/lint authoring rule flow-region-shape-invalid. It runs FlowSchema, then the spec's validateControlFlow, on each flows[] record. It is registered on os lint, os validate and os build, and is surfaced CLI_ONLY with a surfaceReason naming this card. When this card wires the publish door, read it through that registry row (surfaces: CLI_AND_RUNTIME, runtimeTypes: ['flow'], the way lintFlowPatterns is) rather than adding a parallel validateControlFlow call at the gate. Retire the row's surfaceReason in the same stroke. This is advice for whoever holds this card; nothing in it is a claim.

Stamped 2026-11-02T17:21Z.

domain:server#2 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmSfgX3fNF6rAXudbtz
os-dev-report

{
  "issue": 29233,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/project-thread-qv2l74",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/29526",
  "session": "session_01ADHkmSfgX3fNF6rAXudbtz",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Gate-local rule flow-region-malformed in runtime-authoring-gate.ts beside #29226's flow-undeclared-cycle: the gate parses the flow body through FlowSchema and asks validateControlFlow (@objectstack/spec/automation, the engine's canonicalizeFlow judge) one top-level node at a time, so a malformed loop/parallel/try_catch region reads valid:false on the draft read and is refused 422 at publish-drafts, the per-item publish and a live save, in the engine's sentence, located on the container at fault (nested containers anchored by sentence-tail match, never a second judgement). Well-formed regions still publish and register. No new package edge, no packages/spec edit. The PR has no assignee or reviewer: the standard order forbids MCP writes and os-dev forbids PR assignees, so the session-context request to assign os-steve was not followed.",
  "tests": "Red first on a37c2885 (tests only): 8 failed | 38 passed (gate answers nothing). Green after fix: 56/56 (flow-region, draft-publish-verdict, flow-cycle). Ablations: (1) drop flowRegionGaps from localIssues -> the same 8 fail, restored blob==HEAD; (2) drop nested anchor -> 2 location pins fail, restored; (3) dist leg for dogfood: marker present in 2 dist files, card + per-item/live dogfood cases fail, control passes; restored, rebuilt, preflight --absent clean. metadata-protocol suite on c99e6d59: 307 files passed | 4 skipped, 22205 tests passed. typecheck exit 0. spec check:generated exit 0.",
  "gates": "On 81330521: dispatch-gates --commands listed 64; all 64 exit 0; --ran reconciliation: 64 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED (DERIVED zero). Lint: root eslint --no-inline-config on the 4 touched TS files exit 0. CI check-runs not yet concluded (in_progress at report time).",
  "dogfood_battery": "81330521 · VERDICT command-exit 0 · Test Files 398/398 (3 skipped of 401) · Tests 3280/3280 (28 skipped of 3308) · no failures. Earlier: c99e6d59 had 1 failure (this PR's control timing out at vitest's 5 s default under battery load; fixed by per-test budgets, no assertion changed). 96cbfc79 had the 4 known main-red (flow-runas x3, declarative-endpoint-anonymous-guest x1), same 4 on origin/main 8ca9dd7b (4 failed | 11 passed); main repaired them (#29451).",
  "mcp_calls": "0",
  "api_writes": "2 — relay pr_create (#29526), relay comment (this os-dev-report on #29233)",
  "files_changed": [
    ".changeset/29233-flow-region-malformed-publish.md",
    "packages/metadata-protocol/src/runtime-authoring-gate.ts",
    "packages/metadata-protocol/src/runtime-authoring-gate.flow-region.test.ts",
    "packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.draft-publish-verdict.test.ts",
    "packages/qa/dogfood/test/flow-region-malformed-publish.dogfood.test.ts"
  ],
  "line_budget": "562 insertions, 2 deletions across 5 files (src +106/-2)",
  "deviations": [
    "origin/main moved 19 commits after the c99e6d59 merge, none touching runtime-authoring-gate.ts; the PR was opened without a third merge (AGENTS §10: merge after opening only on conflict, main-caused red or queue removal).",
    "One dogfood battery leg queued behind the lock timed out (exit 99) and was re-run; a mis-launched OS_SKIP_DTS full build was killed while still queued (never acquired the lock)."
  ],
  "open_questions": [],
  "security_findings": "none",
  "out_of_scope_findings": []
}

Stamped 2026-11-02T17:44Z.

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domain:server#2 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmQxwoGb5fSnrFkpxmt

Claim amendment to 6580640709 · 2026-11-02T17:55Z · file surface increment, declared; one judge, one spelling

PR #29526 (head 81330521, contract review PASS 6584290147) adds a gate-local rule flow-region-malformed. PR #29495 (#29049, in the merge queue) adds the @objectstack/lint authoring rule flow-region-shape-invalid over the same judge, registered CLI_ONLY with a surfaceReason naming this card. The spec seat's carry 6583607752 asks the publish door to read it through that row. Landing both would publish two spellings and two call sites for one finding.

The seat rules: one rule, one spelling.

After feat(lint)!: os lint refuses a flow region the engine refuses to register (flow-region-shape-invalid) #29495 merges, fix(lint)!: refuse a flow whose loop, parallel or try_catch region is malformed at publish #29526 drops the gate-local rule. feat(lint)!: os lint refuses a flow region the engine refuses to register (flow-region-shape-invalid) #29495's registry row moves to surfaces: CLI_AND_RUNTIME, runtimeTypes: ['flow'], and its surfaceReason is retired.
The door pins and the dogfood file stay, with the rule id flow-region-shape-invalid.
File surface adds packages/lint/src/authoring-rules.ts, that row only.
Serial: behind PR feat(lint)!: os lint refuses a flow region the engine refuses to register (flow-region-shape-invalid) #29495. Overlap read this act: no other open PR edits the row.
Clause-②: no (narrowing) and Metadata-protocol: narrowed are unchanged.

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domain:server#2 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmQxwoGb5fSnrFkpxmt

Claim amendment to 6580640709 · 2026-11-02T18:30Z · file surface increment, declared (second)

Moving the region check onto #29495's registry row (amendment 6584332282) makes the runtime gate run validateFlowRegionShape for flows. That rule gives a body FlowSchema refuses a gating "could not be judged" finding. Six lint runtime-gate tests used schema-invalid flow fixtures and go red. The card thread repairs those fixtures (adding a type, labels and edges, with no top-level trigger) as forced test edits, and no assertion moves.

File surface adds two test files only: packages/lint/src/runtime-gate.test.ts and packages/lint/src/validate-flow-trigger-readiness.test.ts.
The seat accepts the measured differences from the gate-local rule, under one judge and one spelling:
- The finding anchors the flow, not the container at fault.
- The message carries the rule's prefix before the engine's sentence.
- There is one finding per flow.
  The finer location goes on a follow-up card for the registry rule. No second call is added.
Owed before landing: a measurement that the engine refuses, at registration, a stored body FlowSchema refuses. That shows the new publish refusal only matches what never registers.
Clause-②: no (narrowing) is unchanged.

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domain:server#2 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmQxwoGb5fSnrFkpxmt

Claim amendment to 6580640709 · 2026-11-02T18:37Z · seat ruling on the publish-door difference

The card thread measured the owed item from amendment 6585054494. The engine refuses at registration every flow body FlowSchema refuses, except legacy D2 spellings, which applyConversionsToFlow accepts and canonicalizeFlow registers. Both publish doors (publishMetaItem, publishPackageDrafts) gate the RAW stored draft, so such a draft is refused at publish with expression-invalid and flow-region-shape-invalid. On the measured spelling expression-invalid already refuses it, so the moved rule adds no new refusal there. Whether any legacy spelling is refused by the moved rule alone is not measured.

Ruling: A. The PR lands as declared. The raw-body seam is the publish doors' own, shared by every rule, and is fixed at its root on a follow-up card: the publish doors judge the converted body, as the save door already does (build: a script node's undeclared config key passes objectstack validate, compile and registerFlow, then fails every run — the key half of #21898's class (subflow by reading) #21982).
Not taken: a runtime arm that skips schema-refused bodies on the registry rule (a skip, and lint: os lint stays blind to a flow region the engine refuses to register; validate and build refuse it since #28893 through a CLI-only gate #29049's file), or keeping the gate-local rule (two judges).
The delta report carries the measurement above.
Clause-②: no (narrowing) is unchanged. Serial behind PR feat(lint)!: os lint refuses a flow region the engine refuses to register (flow-region-shape-invalid) #29495 is unchanged.

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domain:server#2 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmSfgX3fNF6rAXudbtz
os-dev-report

{
  "issue": 29233,
  "status": "done",
  "round": "rework r2 (seat ruling: route through #29495's registry row; difference 4 ruling A, amendment 6585210573)",
  "branch": "claude/project-thread-qv2l74",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/29526",
  "head": "2cb755ef",
  "session": "session_01ADHkmSfgX3fNF6rAXudbtz",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "The gate-local rule flow-region-malformed is dropped (runtime-authoring-gate.ts == main). #29495's registry row validateFlowRegionShape (flow-region-shape-invalid) moves to surfaces: CLI_AND_RUNTIME, runtimeTypes: ['flow'], surfaceReason retired; no second call, no skip or runtime arm. The draft read reports valid:false and publish-drafts, the per-item publish and a live save refuse 422 with \"Flow 'NAME' would be refused at registration: <engine sentence>\". Door pins and the dogfood file re-pointed to flow-region-shape-invalid. Differences vs the gate-local version: (1) flow-level anchor (path flows[i], draft read path ''), (2) prefixed message, (3) one finding per flow, all accepted; (4) publish doors judge the raw stored draft, the engine the converted body, landed as declared under ruling A (#29557 converted body, #29558 finer location, not mine). Updated PR body and title are at /mnt/project-files/server-seat2/29526-body-r2.md; proposed title: fix(lint)!: refuse a flow whose loop, parallel or try_catch region is malformed at publish.",
  "forced_test_edits": "packages/lint/src/runtime-gate.test.ts (brokenApprovalFlow/cleanApprovalFlow) and packages/lint/src/validate-flow-trigger-readiness.test.ts (apiFlow, startSecond), claim amendment 6585054494: their runtime-gate fixtures were schema-refused flows (no flow label, unlabelled nodes, top-level trigger, no edges) that the rule now reports on the gate; fixtures made schema-valid, no assertion changed.",
  "registration_publish_measurement": "Stored bodies FlowSchema refuses raw and after conversion (no flow label, unlabelled node, top-level trigger key, unknown flow type, edges missing): registerFlow refuses them too. Legacy D2 spelling (get_record config.filters): FlowSchema refuses raw, passes converted, registerFlow REGISTERS it; a seeded stored legacy draft is refused at publishMetaItem and publishPackageDrafts with [expression-invalid, flow-region-shape-invalid], and expression-invalid already refuses it on main, so no new refusal on that spelling. NOT MEASURED: whether some other legacy spelling is refused by this rule alone. A new draft cannot carry a retired spelling (the draft save refuses it).",
  "tests": "Ablation through lint dist on 2cb755ef: row back to surfaces: CLI_ONLY with a marked surfaceReason, lint rebuilt, preflight marker present in 4 built files -> flow-region + draft-publish-verdict: 8 failed | 37 passed (the 6 pure-gate refusals, the CASES row, the location pin); dogfood file: 2 failed | 1 passed (card + per-item/live fail, control passes); restored blob == HEAD 488c91a8, lint rebuilt, preflight --absent clean (20 files), git status --porcelain empty. lint typecheck+test: 192 files, 7885/7885. metadata-protocol typecheck+test: 308 passed | 4 skipped files, 22240 passed | 26 skipped. Full packages build 78/78 after pnpm install --frozen-lockfile.",
  "gates": "On 2cb755ef: dispatch-gates --commands listed 63; all 63 exit 0; --ran reconciliation: 63 derived, 63 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN (a DERIVED zero). Lint: root eslint --no-inline-config (the pnpm lint command) on the 6 touched TS files exit 0. CI not read at report time.",
  "dogfood_battery": "2cb755ef · VERDICT command-exit 0 · Test Files 398 passed | 3 skipped (401) · Tests 3280 passed | 28 skipped (3308) · no failures.",
  "mcp_calls": "0",
  "api_writes": "3 so far — relay pr_create (#29526), relay comment (first os-dev-report on #29233), relay comment (this report). PR body not PATCHed by the dev.",
  "files_changed": [
    ".changeset/29233-flow-region-shape-publish.md",
    "packages/lint/src/authoring-rules.ts",
    "packages/lint/src/runtime-gate.test.ts",
    "packages/lint/src/validate-flow-trigger-readiness.test.ts",
    "packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.draft-publish-verdict.test.ts",
    "packages/metadata-protocol/src/runtime-authoring-gate.flow-region.test.ts",
    "packages/qa/dogfood/test/flow-region-malformed-publish.dogfood.test.ts"
  ],
  "line_budget": "479 insertions, 12 deletions across 7 files vs merge base 2789ba7d (src: authoring-rules.ts +6/-5; rest tests and changeset)",
  "deviations": [
    "The PR title and body on GitHub still describe the gate-local version; the dev does not PATCH them, the r2 body is staged for the seat.",
    "The changeset file was renamed (29233-flow-region-malformed-publish.md -> 29233-flow-region-shape-publish.md) and now bumps @objectstack/lint, not @objectstack/metadata-protocol."
  ],
  "open_questions": [],
  "security_findings": "none",
  "out_of_scope_findings": []
}

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domain:server#2 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmQxwoGb5fSnrFkpxmt

Landing record · PR #29526

domain:server seat 2 · session_01ADHkmQxwoGb5fSnrFkpxmt · 2026-11-02T20:35Z · card #29233

Reading	Probe	Result
Merged	PR #29526 state	merged through the queue at 2026-11-02T20:27:21Z, merge commit `0814b8928c`
On main	`git merge-base --is-ancestor 0814b8928c origin/main`	yes
Queue refs	`git ls-remote origin refs/heads/gh-readonly-queue/*` matching 29526	0
Content	`git grep -n "validateFlowRegionShape" origin/main -- packages/lint/src/authoring-rules.ts`	the row reads `surfaces: CLI_AND_RUNTIME`, `runtimeTypes: ['flow']`

Landed: the runtime authoring gate now refuses at publish a flow whose loop, parallel or try_catch region is malformed, through feat(lint)!: os lint refuses a flow region the engine refuses to register (flow-region-shape-invalid) #29495's one rule flow-region-shape-invalid, with the engine's own sentence. Draft saves are unchanged. Clause-②: no (narrowing); @objectstack/lint minor, BREAKING.
Card: metadata: a flow whose loop / parallel / try_catch region is malformed or cyclic reads valid as a draft and publishes, then the engine refuses to register it #29233 closed by the merge. pm:dispatched and the assignee come off in the same stroke as this record.
Follow-up: server(metadata): the publish doors gate the raw stored flow draft, while the live save gates its D2-converted body (#21982), so a legacy spelling the engine registers is refused at publish #29557 (the publish doors judge the converted body, as the save door does per build: a script node's undeclared config key passes objectstack validate, compile and registerFlow, then fails every run — the key half of #21898's class (subflow by reading) #21982; carries the reader-note in the rule's docblock) and lint: flow-region-shape-invalid anchors the whole flow; point the finding at the region container at fault #29558 (the finding names the container at fault). Both are domain:server, pm:queue.

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Triage: p2 · `domain:server` · `area:automation` · `pm:queue` · 2026-11-02T11:01Z