docs: the organization-ownership passages say what 18.0 supports for a v17 database (#24678)

Fixes #24653
Refs #24637 (the 18.0 release-text family parent; this PR is its
`domain:devx` row and leaves the parent open)
Clause-②: no — docs prose only; no authorable key, flag, exit code or
JSON key moves.

Four hand-written pages walked an operator through `os migrate
organization-ownership` plan and apply with no 18.0 qualifier, and 18.0
refuses that command on every database (`NOT_IMPLEMENTED`). Each passage
now does one of the two things the card's Done line allows, in the terms
PR #24635 landed (`f89d29e382`):

- **(a)** where it tells an 18.0 reader what happens now: "18.0 supports
fresh installs only and does not upgrade a v17 database: keep a v17
database on a 17.x release until the 18.x release that carries the
upgrade path."
- **(b)** where it teaches the ceremony's mechanics (plan, apply, the
drop gate's way on): the mechanics stay, under an explicit "In the 18.x
release that carries the upgrade path" qualifier.

Docs only: no package code, no new gate, label `skip-changeset` (see
Changeset).

## Census

`git grep -n -E "organization-ownership
(--apply|--out|--dev)|--plan-file" -- content/docs` — 8 hits at `BASE`
`bfc1539fe0`, 8 hits at head `d989786746`. Every hit after the change
sits under an (a) or (b) sentence:

| before | after | passage | choice | the sentence it sits under |
|:--|:--|:--|:--|:--|
| `concepts/metadata-lifecycle.mdx:109` | `:109` | ADR-0131 D6 overlay
note: a v18 `os serve` refuses a database still holding an organization
overlay row | (a) + (b) | the landed sentence verbatim, then "In that
release, the v18 migration ceremony (ADR-0131 C7: `--out PLAN`, then
`--apply --plan-file PLAN`) carries such a row to the environment
layer…" |
| `deployment/cli.mdx:213` | `:220` | `os dev`, step 2
(`organization-ownership --dev`) | (b), under an (a) callout | callout
`:205–213` ("18.0 does not upgrade a v17 database: keep a v17 database
on a 17.x release until the 18.x release that carries the upgrade path",
plus what `os dev` does in 18.0); the steps open with "In the 18.x
release that carries the upgrade path, `os dev` runs that ceremony for
you…" (`:215`) |
| `deployment/cli.mdx:1029` | `:1047` | `os migrate apply
--allow-destructive`, the `organization_id` drop gate | (a) + (b) |
`:1043–1046`: "18.0 itself never records a verified run, so on a v17
database this refusal holds on every run." plus the landed sentence
verbatim; then "In that release, the ceremony's `--apply --plan-file
FILE` run drops these columns itself…" |
| `deployment/cli.mdx:1492` | `:1507` | the ceremony's fence, `--out
plan.json` | (b), under the (a) callout | callout `:1498–1504`: refused
in 18.0 with `NOT_IMPLEMENTED`, "Keep a v17 database on a 17.x release
until the 18.x release that carries the upgrade path. The invocations
below, and what the list after them says the ceremony does, are that
18.x release's." |
| `deployment/cli.mdx:1493` | `:1508` | the fence, `--apply --plan-file
plan.json --backup-taken` | (b) | the same callout |
| `deployment/cli.mdx:1494` | `:1509` | the fence, `--dev …` | (b) | the
same callout |
| `permissions/capabilities.mdx:220` | `:223` | what `--apply` does with
`sys_capability` rows | (b) | `:220–222`: "In the 18.x release that
carries the upgrade path (18.0 does not upgrade a v17 database: see `os
migrate organization-ownership`)", linking the CLI page's callout |
| `permissions/permission-sets.mdx:399` | `:402` | what `--apply` does
with `sys_permission_set` rows | (b) | `:399–401`: the same qualifier
and link |

Other edits inside the same passages:

- Heading `A 17.x development database is upgraded in place` is now `A
17.x development database`: in 18.0 nothing is upgraded. Nothing in the
repo links the old anchor (`git grep` over `content`, `apps`, `docs`: 0
hits), and `check:doc-anchors` is green.
- `os serve` / `os start`: "they refuse and name the command" is now
"they refuse to start, and on a v17 database their 18.0 refusal says
that 18.0 does not upgrade it". The runtime boot refusal's v17-shape
branch (`organizationOwnershipRefusalMessage`,
`packages/runtime/src/organization-ownership-boot-guard.ts`) says "18.0
does not upgrade a v17 database: keep this one on a 17.x release…" at
`BASE`. It also still names the 18.x steps, which is the `domain:cli`
row (#24651), so this sentence holds whichever way that row lands.
- The `os migrate organization-ownership` intro: "Under `os dev` it runs
on its own" now carries the 18.x qualifier.
- The drop gate's population. The page said "These tables are the
ADR-0131 D7 tables and the `sys_metadata` family", which is narrower
than the code: `ceremonyOrganizationColumnDrops`
(`packages/cli/src/utils/organization-ownership-drop-gate.ts`) holds
back every `drop_column organization_id` in the intended drift, its
header says why ("the ceremony plans each table that carries the
column"), and PR #24635 measured an application object (`acme_note` with
`systemFields: { tenant: false }`) refused by it. The page now says "on
every table the drift offers to drop it from: the ceremony plans every
table that still carries the column, the ADR-0131 D7 tables and the
`sys_metadata` family among them".

## The two facts, measured at `BASE`

- **The drop gate still withholds the drops.** `MigrateApply.run()`
(`packages/cli/src/commands/migrate/apply.ts:555–611`): when the
intended drift holds an `organization_id` drop and
`readOrganizationOwnershipMarker` answers not verified, it refuses the
whole `--allow-destructive` run, exit 1 (`--json`: `message:
refused_organization_ownership_unmigrated`, `tables`, `detail`,
`marker`). Only the ceremony's apply writes that marker
(`utils/organization-ownership-apply.ts`), and the registered 18.0
command is the refusing `MigrateOrganizationOwnership`, so 18.0 records
no verified run and the drops stay withheld on a v17-shaped database.
The page says so.
- **The refusal code is `NOT_IMPLEMENTED`.**
`ORGANIZATION_OWNERSHIP_UPGRADE_UNAVAILABLE_CODE = 'NOT_IMPLEMENTED'`
(`packages/cli/src/commands/migrate/organization-ownership.ts:1115`).
`MigrateOrganizationOwnership.run()` (`:1147`) answers `error:
plan_refused | apply_refused`, `reason: upgrade-unavailable`, `code:
NOT_IMPLEMENTED` and `detail` under `--json`, otherwise the message plus
`(NOT_IMPLEMENTED)`, exit 1, before it opens anything. Its flags are
plain strings, so parsing reads no file. The page's "exits `1` with
`NOT_IMPLEMENTED` (under `--json`, `code` beside `error`) and reads and
writes nothing" was already right and is kept.

## Dispatch hypotheses

1. **`os dev` on a v17-shaped database at `BASE`: the step still runs,
and it refuses.** The `recover` hook in
`packages/cli/src/commands/dev.ts` calls `upgradeDevelopmentDatabase`
(`utils/dev-organization-ownership-upgrade.ts`). For a local SQLite file
it copies the file and its `telemetry` sibling into the backups
directory, then spawns `migrate organization-ownership --dev
--database-url URL --out PLAN`. The registered 18.0 command refuses that
with `NOT_IMPLEMENTED` and writes no plan. `os dev` then prints the
refusal, "The upgrade plan was refused, and nothing was changed", where
the copy is, and the 18.0 sentence, and exits with the refused child's
code. The apply step is never reached. For any other database it takes
no copy, runs nothing, and prints the 18.0 sentence. The callout now
says this. Measured from source and from
`src/utils/dev-organization-ownership-upgrade.test.ts`: 6 of 6 passed,
and its refused-plan case asserts one call, "nothing was changed", the
copy's location, "17.x release" and no `--plan-file`. Not run live: this
is a docs-only card, and a live run needs the CLI's dependency closure
built (63 build tasks, 49 cache misses at this base).
2. **Docs gates reading the fence: falsified, because no gate reads
it.** `check:cli-examples-parity` compares one declared pair only (`os
package publish`; `--list` prints "1 row(s) read"), and
`check-cli-command-ids` keeps out of `content/docs` by its own header.
The qualified fence names only flags the registered command declares,
inherited from the ceremony class. All 45 derived gates exit 0 with the
fence in place.
3. **The release page states the rule: falsified.**
`content/docs/releases/v18/index.mdx` has no hit for "fresh install",
"17.x release" or "upgrade path". So the (a) passages carry the
sentence, and the two permissions pages link to the CLI page's `os
migrate organization-ownership` callout rather than restate it again.
The release page is not touched.

## Overlap with an open PR

Open draft PR #24667 (the 18.x walled lift) rewrites the first line of
both `cli.mdx` callouts and the `:1205` table row. This diff leaves
those three lines byte-identical and puts the 18.0 sentence and the 18.x
qualifier on the lines after them. I applied #24667's three hunks to
`BASE` as a scratch commit and trial-merged it with this head: `git
merge-tree --write-tree` exit 0, a tree id, no conflict. Control leg:
the same against this branch's first commit (`5da97c5952`), which edited
those lines, exit 1 with `CONFLICT (content)`. `cli.mdx` has no merge
driver (`git check-attr merge`: unspecified), so the local reading is
the one GitHub makes.

## Tests and gates (head `d989786746`)

- `node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack
--commands` (no paths): 4 paths, 57 changed lines (+39 / -18) against
merge base `bfc1539fe`, 45 commands (31 pnpm, 14 node). **All 45 exit
0**, with each exit code captured before any pipe. The `--ran`
reconciliation: `Run reconciliation — 45 derived, 45 run, 0
NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN.`
- At the first head (`5da97c5952`), five first attempts exited 3 with
PREREQUISITE NOT MET: `check:doc-formula-expressions`,
`check:doc-security-posture`, `check:skill-examples` and
`check:docs-transcript-drift` (no `dist`), and `check:docs` exited 1
(`packages/spec/json-schema` missing). They measured nothing. After
`turbo run build` of `spec`, `lint`, `formula` and `sdui-parser` (4
cache hits), then `core`, `client` and `client-react`, all five re-ran
exit 0. At `d989786746` every one of the 45 exited 0 on its first
attempt.
- Verdict lines: `✓ check-cli-examples-parity: 1 declared pair(s) agree
as SETS` · `✅ check-doc-anchors: 538 internal #fragment link(s) across
423 source file(s) all resolve to a real heading` · `✓
check-docs-transcript-drift: 4 declared transcript value(s) across 417
page(s)` · `✓ content/docs/concepts/metadata-lifecycle.mdx: the overlay
whitelist table AND the counts in the sentence under it agree with
DEFAULT_METADATA_TYPE_REGISTRY` · `✅ 227 generated files in sync with
packages/spec` · `check-nul-bytes: OK`.
- I compiled the four pages with `@mdx-js/mdx` 3.1.1 and `remark-gfm`: 4
OK. Negative control (an unclosed expression): FAIL, exit 1. CI's `Build
Docs` is the authority here.
- `pnpm --filter @objectstack/cli exec vitest run --maxWorkers=2
src/utils/dev-organization-ownership-upgrade.test.ts` under
`scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh`: `Tests 6 passed (6)`, `VERDICT
command-exit 0`. This is the measurement for hypothesis 1, not a test of
this diff.
- The control-byte self-scan of the four files found none.
- No ablation and no reverse verification: this is docs prose, and no
tested behaviour changed.
- Left to CI: the full farm, `pnpm lint`, the 11 declared-wide families,
`Build Docs` and `Test Core`.

## Changeset

`skip-changeset`. No published package ships `content/docs`. No
`files[]` entry in any non-private workspace `package.json` names
`content`, `docs` or a parent path: 0 hits, with a positive control (a
`dist` entry) at 73 packages. `apps/docs` is private.

## Acceptance notes

- `content/docs/kernel/contracts/metadata-service.mdx:415–419` says "an
18.x `os serve` refuses to start on a database still holding one until
the v18 migration ceremony (ADR-0131 C7) has carried it to the
environment layer", with no 18.0 sentence. It is the twin of the
metadata-lifecycle note above. It names no command, so the card's census
does not reach it, and it is outside this claim's file surface, so it is
not edited here. Reported to the seat for the #24637 family.
- `cli.mdx:1205`, the command table row, already says "In 18.0 the
command refuses" and names no plan or apply invocation. It is not a
census hit and is not edited (see the overlap above).
- When #24667's wording lands, the `os dev` callout's first line will
say "Until then the ceremony refuses", and the lines after it will still
say what 18.0 does. The two read together.

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content/docs/concepts/metadata-lifecycle.mdx

@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ later ships. See [ADR-0070](https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/blob/m
 
 **Most metadata types must not be overlaid by an environment** — overlaying a packaged item would break the physical schema or the behaviour its package ships. The whitelist lives in **one** place: `MetadataTypeRegistryEntry.allowEnvironmentOverlay` in `packages/spec/src/kernel/metadata-plugin.zod.ts` (spelled `allowOrgOverride` before protocol 18; `GET /api/v1/meta/types` serves it per entry as `allowEnvironmentOverlay`).
 
-> **ADR-0131 D6 — the per-organization overlay axis is retired.** The `/meta` doors (REST and the runtime dispatcher) carry no organization into a metadata write or read: a Studio or `PUT /api/v1/meta/...` write of the five ✅ types below lands **environment-wide** (since ADR-0131 D7 the `sys_metadata` family declares no organization column) and is served to every organization, and an organization admin holding only the retired `manage_org_presentation` capability is refused (`403`). The protocol itself refuses every organization-scoped write, and every read — item, list, layers, cached, history, diff, audit, drafts and the commit timeline — is environment → code, whatever organization a caller names. An overlay row an earlier release stored under an organization — under the `single` posture, every Studio save of these types, filed under the Default Organization — is served by no read, and an 18.x `os serve` refuses to start on a database still holding one until the v18 migration ceremony (ADR-0131 C7: `os migrate organization-ownership --out PLAN`, then `--apply --plan-file PLAN`) has carried it to the environment layer and dropped the column; nothing deletes or rewrites it before then. The anonymous form doors read the environment alone too: the ceremony carries every organization-layer public-form withdrawal onto the environment, fail-closed. The table still records which types take an overlay of a shipped item.
+> **ADR-0131 D6 — the per-organization overlay axis is retired.** The `/meta` doors (REST and the runtime dispatcher) carry no organization into a metadata write or read: a Studio or `PUT /api/v1/meta/...` write of the five ✅ types below lands **environment-wide** (since ADR-0131 D7 the `sys_metadata` family declares no organization column) and is served to every organization, and an organization admin holding only the retired `manage_org_presentation` capability is refused (`403`). The protocol itself refuses every organization-scoped write, and every read — item, list, layers, cached, history, diff, audit, drafts and the commit timeline — is environment → code, whatever organization a caller names. An overlay row an earlier release stored under an organization — under the `single` posture, every Studio save of these types, filed under the Default Organization — is served by no read, and on a SQL database (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL) still holding one a v18 `os serve` refuses to start. 18.0 supports fresh installs only and does not upgrade a v17 database: keep a v17 database on a 17.x release until the 18.x release that carries the upgrade path. In that release, the v18 migration ceremony (ADR-0131 C7: `os migrate organization-ownership --out PLAN`, then `--apply --plan-file PLAN`) carries such a row to the environment layer and drops the column; nothing deletes or rewrites it before then. The anonymous form doors read the environment alone too: in that release the ceremony carries every organization-layer public-form withdrawal onto the environment, fail-closed. The table still records which types take an overlay of a shipped item.
 
 | Type | `allowEnvironmentOverlay` | Rationale |
 | :--- | :---: | :--- |

content/docs/deployment/cli.mdx

@@ -196,31 +196,40 @@ os dev --database file:./data/test.db --auth-secret $(openssl rand -hex 32)
 | `--seed-admin` / `--no-seed-admin` | — | Seed a dev admin (`admin@objectos.ai` / `admin123`) on an empty DB — default on; override with `--admin-email` / `--admin-password` |
 | `-v, --verbose` | — | Verbose output |
 
-##### A 17.x development database is upgraded in place
+##### A 17.x development database
 
 A v18 server refuses to start on a database still in the v17
 organization-ownership shape until the [ownership ceremony](#os-migrate-organization-ownership)
-has run on it. `os dev` runs that ceremony for you when the database is a local
-SQLite file:
+has run on it.
 
 <Callout type="warn">
 18.0 supports fresh `single` installs; upgrades and walled postures arrive in 18.x. In 18.0 the ceremony refuses, so `os dev` stops at step 2 with its
 refusal and changes nothing.
+18.0 does not upgrade a v17 database: keep a v17 database on a 17.x release
+until the 18.x release that carries the upgrade path. For a local SQLite file,
+`os dev` in 18.0 still takes step 1's copy first and prints where it is,
+beside the ceremony's `NOT_IMPLEMENTED` refusal; any other database gets no
+copy and the same answer.
 </Callout>
 
+In the 18.x release that carries the upgrade path, `os dev` runs that ceremony
+for you when the database is a local SQLite file:
+
 1. It copies the database file and its `telemetry` sibling (each with its
    `-wal` / `-shm`) into `<data dir>/backups/organization-ownership-<timestamp>/`.
 2. It runs `os migrate organization-ownership --dev` (the plan), then applies
    that plan. The plan, the apply report and the ceremony's log are kept
    beside the copy.
 3. It prints the ceremony's warnings and starts the server again.
 
-If a step blocks, or the post-check still holds rows (a row whose owner cannot
+In that release, if a step blocks, or the post-check still holds rows (a row whose owner cannot
 be derived, named per table with its remedy), `os dev` stops and prints what
 holds it, where the copy is, and the command that resumes the run. It tries once per session. A database that is
 not a local SQLite file (PostgreSQL, a remote libSQL, `:memory:`) is not
-upgraded in place: run the ceremony yourself. `os serve` and `os start` never run
-it; they refuse and name the command.
+upgraded in place: run the ceremony yourself.
+
+`os serve` and `os start` never run the ceremony: they refuse to start, and on
+a v17 database their 18.0 refusal says that 18.0 does not upgrade it.
 
 ##### Serving dev over https
 
@@ -1025,13 +1034,18 @@ safe. No flag skips these refusals:
 - `sys_account.issuer` is dropped only when its retirement pre-flight reads the
   table clean (`os migrate account-issuer` reports the colliding rows).
 - `sys_comment.reactions` waits for a verified `os migrate comment-reactions --apply` run.
-- `organization_id` on any table the organization-ownership ceremony covers
-  waits for a verified `os migrate organization-ownership --apply --plan-file FILE`
-  run. These tables are the ADR-0131 D7 tables and the `sys_metadata` family.
-  The ceremony drops those columns itself, in its column-drops step, before it
-  records the run verified. Dropping one first would turn every legacy
+- `organization_id` waits for a verified run of the organization-ownership
+  ceremony, on every table the drift offers to drop it from: the ceremony plans
+  every table that still carries the column, the ADR-0131 D7 tables and the
+  `sys_metadata` family among them. Dropping one first would turn every legacy
   organization row into an environment row. Under `--json` the refusal answers
   `message: 'refused_organization_ownership_unmigrated'` and lists the `tables`.
+  18.0 itself never records a verified run, so on a v17 database this refusal
+  holds on every run. 18.0 supports fresh installs only and does not upgrade a
+  v17 database: keep a v17 database on a 17.x release until the 18.x release
+  that carries the upgrade path. In that release, the ceremony's
+  `os migrate organization-ownership --apply --plan-file FILE` run drops these
+  columns itself, in its column-drops step, before it records the run verified.
 
 Each refusal holds the whole `--allow-destructive` run: nothing in it is
 created, applied or dropped, the run's other changes included. A run without
@@ -1478,14 +1492,15 @@ reports the failed read and exits `1`. A failed read or write exits `1`.
 
 The v18 ownership ceremony (ADR-0131 D10). A v18 `os serve` / `os start` refuses
 to start on a database still in the v17 organization-ownership shape until this
-has run. Under `os dev` it runs on its own for a local SQLite database (see
-[`os dev`](#os-dev)).
+has run. In the 18.x release that carries the upgrade path, `os dev` runs it on
+its own for a local SQLite database (see [`os dev`](#os-dev)).
 
 <Callout type="warn">
 18.0 supports fresh `single` installs; upgrades and walled postures arrive in 18.x. In 18.0 this command refuses, plan and apply alike: it exits `1` with
 `NOT_IMPLEMENTED` (under `--json`, `code` beside `error`) and reads and
 writes nothing. Keep a v17 database on a 17.x release until the 18.x release
-that carries the upgrade path.
+that carries the upgrade path. The invocations below, and what the list after
+them says the ceremony does, are that 18.x release's.
 </Callout>
 
 ```bash

content/docs/kernel/contracts/metadata-service.mdx

@@ -412,11 +412,16 @@ overlay axis is retired: the doors carry no organization, so the overlay is
 column, ADR-0131 D7) and served to every organization
 of the deployment, whatever the author's active organization. Every protocol
 read is environment → code, whatever organization a caller names. An overlay
-row an earlier release stored under an organization is served by no read, and
-an 18.x `os serve` refuses to start on a database still holding one until the
-v18 migration ceremony (ADR-0131 C7) has carried it to the environment layer. The anonymous form doors read the environment alone too: the ceremony carries
-every organization-layer public-form withdrawal onto the environment,
-fail-closed. The per-user,
+row an earlier release stored under an organization is served by no read. On a
+SQL database (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL) still holding one, a v18 `os serve`
+refuses to start, because the `sys_metadata` family there still carries its
+`organization_id` column. 18.0 supports fresh installs only and does not
+upgrade a v17 database: keep a v17 database on a 17.x release until the 18.x
+release that carries the upgrade path. In that release, the v18 migration
+ceremony (ADR-0131 C7) carries such a row to the environment layer. The
+anonymous form doors read the environment alone too; in that release the
+ceremony carries every organization-layer public-form withdrawal onto the
+environment, fail-closed. The per-user,
 per-field patch overlay a previous revision of this page taught here was
 removed in #13135 — it was never served by any route.
 

content/docs/permissions/capabilities.mdx

@@ -217,8 +217,11 @@ and resource `requiredPermissions` match capability names **as strings**. The
 boot writes no row for a capability, declared or curated: both are served by
 the registry. The `sys_capability` object itself is retired and no longer
 registered (ADR-0131 D3): a row an older database still holds is served by no
-route and read by nothing, and `os migrate organization-ownership --apply`
-reports the authored rows and deletes the seeded copies (ADR-0131 D10).
+route and read by nothing. In the 18.x release that carries the upgrade path
+(18.0 does not upgrade a v17 database: see
+[`os migrate organization-ownership`](/docs/deployment/cli#os-migrate-organization-ownership)),
+`os migrate organization-ownership --apply` reports the authored rows and
+deletes the seeded copies (ADR-0131 D10).
 Withdraw a capability by withdrawing the **grant**.
 </Callout>
 

content/docs/permissions/permission-sets.mdx

@@ -396,7 +396,10 @@ posture, the platform operator. This has three author-visible consequences:
   package. Uninstall the owning package to remove a packaged set entirely.
 
 An older database keeps the `sys_permission_set` table and its rows, and
-nothing serves or reads them. `os migrate organization-ownership --apply`
+nothing serves or reads them. In the 18.x release that carries the upgrade
+path (18.0 does not upgrade a v17 database: see
+[`os migrate organization-ownership`](/docs/deployment/cli#os-migrate-organization-ownership)),
+`os migrate organization-ownership --apply`
 (ADR-0131 D10) converts the sets an organization authored in Setup into
 environment metadata under `single` and deletes the seeded copies. The shipped
 sets that an install created before 2026-08-15 stored as `managed_by: 'admin'`