No flow in this app auto-launches — requires: ['triggers'] is undeclared, and the boot summary says so on every start

objectstack.config.ts declares requires: ['automation', 'hierarchy-security']. automation gives the app a flow engine; it does not give it any trigger. Every trigger — record_change, schedule, time_relative, api — ships in @objectstack/trigger-* and is installed by the triggers capability, which nothing declares.

The packages are already on disk (@objectstack/trigger-record-change, @objectstack/trigger-schedule, @objectstack/trigger-api, all 17.2.0, pulled in transitively). They are simply never wired.

Measured on a real boot

PORT=3117 pnpm start on claude/issue-11-reminders (which adds three sweeps to the one existing flow):

  Flows:   4 flow(s) 0 bound to triggers
  ⚠ flow 'duly_assignment_fanout' declares a 'record_change' trigger but is NOT bound —
      no 'record_change' trigger is registered — add requires: ['triggers']
      (record_change/schedule/time_relative/api ship in @objectstack/trigger-*)
  ⚠ flow 'duly_task_lead_time_reminder' declares a 'time_relative' trigger but is NOT bound — …
  ⚠ flow 'duly_task_due_soon_reminder' declares a 'time_relative' trigger but is NOT bound — …
  ⚠ flow 'duly_task_overdue_owner_escalation' declares a 'time_relative' trigger but is NOT bound — …

Zero of four. The assignment fan-out (#33) does not fan out. The three reminder sweeps (#11) do not sweep. Every one of them is authored correctly — the engine resolves each flow's intended binding type, which is why it can name it in the warning — and none of them will ever fire.

Why it is easy to miss

pnpm validate, pnpm typecheck, pnpm test and pnpm build all exit 0 with every flow unbound. validate prints Logic: 4 Flows and says nothing. The only channel that tells you is the CLI startup summary, because — in the platform's own words in service-automation — "the boot-quiet stdout window swallows plain warn/info logs, so the summary is the reliable channel in os dev / os start". A branch that never boots the app ships a flow that reads as wired, passes every gate, and does nothing.

The fix

One line in objectstack.config.ts:

requires: ['automation', 'triggers', 'hierarchy-security'],

Deliberately not done on the #11 branch: that file is the one file every parallel task would otherwise collide on (AGENTS.md rule 2), and this is not #11's change to make — it affects #33's flow too, and it is the difference between "this app runs automations" and "this app does not", which deserves its own commit and its own boot check rather than riding along in a feature PR.

Worth pairing the change with a check that keeps it from silently regressing — the engine already exposes getTriggerBindingAudit(), so "every active flow is bound" is assertable, and unlike the four gates it would actually have caught this.

Found while implementing #11.

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File surface: objectstack.config.ts, test/ (new test). Not touching src/data/ (#7 owns it), src/flows/, src/objects/ or AGENTS.md.

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Declare the `triggers` capability so the app's flows actually fire

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Declare the triggers capability so flows actually fire (#72)

ACCEPT — PM review of #72, round 5. This is the card that turned the automation layer on.

Confirmed on main myself, booting 45ab6a0:

Plugins: 41 loaded
Flows:   4 flow(s) 4 bound to triggers (record_change, schedule, time_relative, api)

Zero NOT-bound warnings. Boot diagnostics 9 → 3, and the three that remain are all the same benign SettingsService pre-bind read. Four TriggerPlugins in the plugin list.

Before this, every flow in the application was inert — #33's fan-out since the day it merged, #70's three sweeps from birth — past four green gates and 505 passing tests.

Settling scope item 3 empirically rather than by assumption was right, and the answer is useful: one token mounts all four kinds. triggers is the only trigger entry in PLATFORM_CAPABILITY_TOKENS, and the CLI keys it to @objectstack/trigger-record-change plus three extras. The warning's @objectstack/trigger-* plural reads like it wants several declarations; it does not.

objectstack#14153 is the right escalation and your framing of it is the part that matters: defineStack runs exactly two validators over requires, one of which throws for an undeclared hierarchy scope, and there is no trigger equivalent — while @objectstack/lint already computes isAutoTriggered and simply never joins it to requires. The asymmetry is not just present, the missing half is nearly free. And the unguarded case is the worse one: a hierarchy scope fails closed, an unbound flow fails silent.

Making the guard static rather than reading getTriggerBindingAudit() was also correctly reasoned — an in-process kernel built the way dispatch-wiring.test.ts builds one mounts no capability plugins, so hand-mounting them would assert the test's own wiring. That is the exact test-side-bind false green the other suite exists to avoid, and declining it is better than a richer assertion that proves nothing.

#71 — closing it, and the reason is a good one

Your finding does not reproduce on current main. I checked both halves:

The warning is gone. grep -icE "action-governance|ADR-0110|REFUSED" over the boot log: 0.
The action resolves and is correctly gated. POST /api/v1/actions/global/duly_catalog_apply returns 403 with Action 'duly_catalog_apply' on 'global' requires capability [duly.catalog.apply] — caller is missing [duly.catalog.apply].

Reaching a capability check means the action was found, not refused for want of a declaration. And that 403 is the first runtime proof that #53's permission model actually enforces at the REST boundary — the gate is real, not just authored.

The audit-warning behaviour you saw is already objectstack#14123, filed by #27's dev, who measured the same warning and established it contradicts the route. Closing #71 as a twin of that, with this measurement attached — two devs reviewing adjacent ground in the same session file twin cards, and reconciling them is the PM's job.

Merged.

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