@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2026 ObjectStack. Licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.
+
+/**
+ * [#25467 cut 10] The served lock state and the stored-row decline of
+ * `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation` — the read envelope's lock derivation
+ * (`servedLockState`), the shipped-flow-name predicate and its registry half
+ * (`isShippedFlowName`, `isStoredFlowEntryOfShippedName`), the one by-name
+ * decision the active reads take before they serve a stored row
+ * (`declinesStoredRow`), its sealed-overlay limb (`isUnservedSealedOverlay`)
+ * and its registry half (`isStoredEntryOfDeclinedName`) — moved out of
+ * `protocol.ts` whole.
+ *
+ * A MOVE, not a redesign. Each function below is the body of the
+ * `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation` method of the same name as it stood,
+ * re-indented one level and otherwise unedited: the same reads, in the same
+ * order, throwing exactly where they did with the same message.
+ *
+ * ## How the moved bodies reach the class
+ *
+ * The shape #23050 set for `rest-server.ts` (its `data-action-routes.ts`
+ * header carries the full reasoning), as `protocol-batch-data.ts` applies it.
+ * The class keeps every method — the published `dist/*.d.ts` lists each one's
+ * name, docblock and declared signature — and each body is one literal of
+ * exactly the {@link LockStateHost} members that method reads, plus a
+ * `.call`. A method is handed over as a closure that calls it on the protocol
+ * at call time, so a test double or spy set on the instance is still the one
+ * the body reaches, and the moved bodies that call one another do so through
+ * the protocol, exactly as before. Every other reader of these six methods
+ * keeps calling the class method, the REST and runtime published doors among
+ * them.
+ *
+ * The bodies read no field, so the host carries no getter.
+ *
+ * The one module-level declaration of `protocol.ts` the bodies read,
+ * `canonicalMetaType`, stays there, where code that did not move reads it too,
+ * and is imported from there: the module cycle is evaluation-safe because it
+ * is read only inside a function body, never while the two modules are first
+ * evaluated. Everything else is imported from the module `protocol.ts`
+ * imports it from. Nothing re-exports this module, so the published surface
+ * does not move.
+ */
+
+import type { ObjectStackProtocolImplementation } from './protocol.js';
+import { canonicalMetaType } from './protocol.js';
+import type { ItemLock } from './item-lock.js';
+import { isOriginGatedType } from './packaged-base-regime.js';
+import { isCodeArtifactBody } from '@objectstack/metadata-core';
+import { PLURAL_TO_SINGULAR } from '@objectstack/spec/shared';
+import {
+    extractProtection,
+    evaluateLockForWrite,
+    evaluateLockForDelete,
+    MetadataLockSchema,
+} from '@objectstack/spec/kernel';
+import type { resolveLockState } from '@objectstack/spec/kernel';
+
+/**
+ * The `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation` members the functions below read —
+ * every one of them, and no other; each function's `this` is the `Pick` of the
+ * members IT reads. Each is typed AS the class member (an indexed access on
+ * the class), so a change to a member's signature on the class is a change
+ * here too, and naming a member the class does not have is a compile error.
+ */
+export interface LockStateHost {
+    declinesStoredRow: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['declinesStoredRow'];
+    isDeclaredCodeDatasource: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['isDeclaredCodeDatasource'];
+    isSealedManagedItem: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['isSealedManagedItem'];
+    isShippedFlowName: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['isShippedFlowName'];
+    isUnservedSealedOverlay: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['isUnservedSealedOverlay'];
+    packagedArtifactOwner: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['packagedArtifactOwner'];
+    packagedBaseRefusal: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['packagedBaseRefusal'];
+}
+
+/** The body of `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation#servedLockState`; the method's docblock there is its contract. */
+export function servedLockState(
+    this: Pick<LockStateHost, 'packagedBaseRefusal'>,
+    type: string,
+    name: string,
+    document: unknown,
+    artifactBacked: boolean,
+    itemLock: ItemLock,
+    storedRowServed = false,
+): ReturnType<typeof resolveLockState> {
+    const { provenance, packageId, packageVersion } = extractProtection(document);
+    const editable = evaluateLockForWrite(itemLock.lock) === null
+        && this.packagedBaseRefusal({ type, name, operation: 'save' }) === null;
+    const removalRefusal = this.packagedBaseRefusal({ type, name, operation: 'delete' });
+    const deletable = evaluateLockForDelete(itemLock.lock) === null
+        && (removalRefusal === null || (storedRowServed && isOriginGatedType(type)));
+    const lock = MetadataLockSchema.options.find((state) =>
+        (evaluateLockForWrite(state) === null) === editable
+        && (evaluateLockForDelete(state) === null) === deletable);
+    if (lock === undefined) {
+        // Unreachable while the lock algebra covers all four verdict pairs;
+        // a state added to it without a write/delete answer must fail here,
+        // loudly, not publish a guessed lock.
+        throw new Error(
+            `No ADR-0010 lock state answers editable=${editable}, deletable=${deletable}.`,
+        );
+    }
+    return {
+        lock,
+        lockReason: itemLock.lockReason,
+        lockSource: itemLock.lockSource,
+        lockDocsUrl: itemLock.lockDocsUrl,
+        provenance,
+        packageId,
+        packageVersion,
+        editable,
+        deletable,
+        resettable: artifactBacked,
+    };
+}
+
+/** The body of `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation#isShippedFlowName`; the method's docblock there is its contract. */
+export function isShippedFlowName(
+    this: Pick<LockStateHost, 'packagedArtifactOwner'>,
+    type: string, name: unknown): boolean {
+    if ((PLURAL_TO_SINGULAR[type] ?? type) !== 'flow') return false;
+    if (typeof name !== 'string' || name === '') return false;
+    return this.packagedArtifactOwner({ type: 'flow', name }) !== undefined;
+}
+
+/** The body of `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation#isStoredFlowEntryOfShippedName`; the method's docblock there is its contract. */
+export function isStoredFlowEntryOfShippedName(
+    this: Pick<LockStateHost, 'isShippedFlowName'>,
+    type: string, item: unknown): boolean {
+    return this.isShippedFlowName(type, (item as { name?: unknown } | null | undefined)?.name)
+        && !isCodeArtifactBody(item);
+}
+
+/** The body of `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation#declinesStoredRow`; the method's docblock there is its contract. */
+export function declinesStoredRow(
+    this: Pick<LockStateHost, 'isDeclaredCodeDatasource' | 'isShippedFlowName' | 'isUnservedSealedOverlay'>,
+    type: string, name: unknown): boolean {
+    if (this.isShippedFlowName(type, name)) return true;
+    if (typeof name !== 'string' || name === '') return false;
+    return this.isDeclaredCodeDatasource(type, name) || this.isUnservedSealedOverlay(type, name);
+}
+
+/** The body of `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation#isUnservedSealedOverlay`; the method's docblock there is its contract. */
+export function isUnservedSealedOverlay(
+    this: Pick<LockStateHost, 'isSealedManagedItem'>,
+    type: string, name: string): boolean {
+    if (canonicalMetaType(type) === 'permission') return false;
+    return this.isSealedManagedItem(type, name);
+}
+
+/** The body of `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation#isStoredEntryOfDeclinedName`; the method's docblock there is its contract. */
+export function isStoredEntryOfDeclinedName(
+    this: Pick<LockStateHost, 'declinesStoredRow'>,
+    type: string, item: unknown): boolean {
+    return this.declinesStoredRow(type, (item as { name?: unknown } | null | undefined)?.name)
+        && !isCodeArtifactBody(item);
+}
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ const PRODUCERS: Readonly<Record<string, number>> = {
   'protocol-save-door-refusals.ts': 5,
   // Package install and update, moved out of `protocol.ts` whole on the same terms.
   'protocol-package-install.ts': 3,
+  // The served lock state and the stored-row decline, moved out of `protocol.ts`
+  // whole on the same terms.
+  'protocol-lock-state.ts': 1,
   'sys-metadata-repository.ts': 5,
   'runtime-authoring-gate.ts': 1,
 };
 
@@ -195,11 +195,7 @@ export type { FormFieldInput };
 import { METADATA_FORM_REGISTRY, CORE_SERVICE_PROVIDER, serviceUnavailableMessage, inProcessServiceMessage } from '@objectstack/spec/system';
 import { DEFAULT_METADATA_TYPE_REGISTRY, getMetadataTypeSchema, getMetadataTypeActions, getMetadataCreateSeed, PROTOCOL_VERSION } from '@objectstack/spec/kernel';
 import {
-    extractProtection,
-    evaluateLockForWrite,
-    evaluateLockForDelete,
     resolveLockState,
-    MetadataLockSchema,
     type MetadataLock,
     type MetadataLockSource,
     type MetadataProvenance,
@@ -381,6 +377,15 @@ import {
     restoredCredentialPathsFor,
     storedBodyForCarryForward,
 } from './protocol-credential-carry-forward.js';
+// [#25467 cut 10] The served lock state and the stored-row decline.
+import {
+    declinesStoredRow,
+    isShippedFlowName,
+    isStoredEntryOfDeclinedName,
+    isStoredFlowEntryOfShippedName,
+    isUnservedSealedOverlay,
+    servedLockState,
+} from './protocol-lock-state.js';
 
 /**
  * Canonical Zod schema per metadata type lives in
@@ -15898,35 +15903,11 @@ export class ObjectStackProtocolImplementation implements
         itemLock: ItemLock,
         storedRowServed = false,
     ): ReturnType<typeof resolveLockState> {
-        const { provenance, packageId, packageVersion } = extractProtection(document);
-        const editable = evaluateLockForWrite(itemLock.lock) === null
-            && this.packagedBaseRefusal({ type, name, operation: 'save' }) === null;
-        const removalRefusal = this.packagedBaseRefusal({ type, name, operation: 'delete' });
-        const deletable = evaluateLockForDelete(itemLock.lock) === null
-            && (removalRefusal === null || (storedRowServed && isOriginGatedType(type)));
-        const lock = MetadataLockSchema.options.find((state) =>
-            (evaluateLockForWrite(state) === null) === editable
-            && (evaluateLockForDelete(state) === null) === deletable);
-        if (lock === undefined) {
-            // Unreachable while the lock algebra covers all four verdict pairs;
-            // a state added to it without a write/delete answer must fail here,
-            // loudly, not publish a guessed lock.
-            throw new Error(
-                `No ADR-0010 lock state answers editable=${editable}, deletable=${deletable}.`,
-            );
-        }
-        return {
-            lock,
-            lockReason: itemLock.lockReason,
-            lockSource: itemLock.lockSource,
-            lockDocsUrl: itemLock.lockDocsUrl,
-            provenance,
-            packageId,
-            packageVersion,
-            editable,
-            deletable,
-            resettable: artifactBacked,
+        // [#25467 cut 10] The body moved to `protocol-lock-state.ts` (see `LockStateHost`).
+        const host: ThisParameterType<typeof servedLockState> = {
+            packagedBaseRefusal: (...a) => this.packagedBaseRefusal(...a),
         };
+        return servedLockState.call(host, type, name, document, artifactBacked, itemLock, storedRowServed);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -15970,9 +15951,11 @@ export class ObjectStackProtocolImplementation implements
      * the code definition too.
      */
     isShippedFlowName(type: string, name: unknown): boolean {
-        if ((PLURAL_TO_SINGULAR[type] ?? type) !== 'flow') return false;
-        if (typeof name !== 'string' || name === '') return false;
-        return this.packagedArtifactOwner({ type: 'flow', name }) !== undefined;
+        // [#25467 cut 10] The body moved to `protocol-lock-state.ts` (see `LockStateHost`).
+        const host: ThisParameterType<typeof isShippedFlowName> = {
+            packagedArtifactOwner: (...a) => this.packagedArtifactOwner(...a),
+        };
+        return isShippedFlowName.call(host, type, name);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -15985,8 +15968,11 @@ export class ObjectStackProtocolImplementation implements
      * envelope ({@link hydrateOverlayIntoRegistry}), so it never passes it.
      */
     private isStoredFlowEntryOfShippedName(type: string, item: unknown): boolean {
-        return this.isShippedFlowName(type, (item as { name?: unknown } | null | undefined)?.name)
-            && !isCodeArtifactBody(item);
+        // [#25467 cut 10] The body moved to `protocol-lock-state.ts` (see `LockStateHost`).
+        const host: ThisParameterType<typeof isStoredFlowEntryOfShippedName> = {
+            isShippedFlowName: (...a) => this.isShippedFlowName(...a),
+        };
+        return isStoredFlowEntryOfShippedName.call(host, type, item);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -16046,9 +16032,13 @@ export class ObjectStackProtocolImplementation implements
      * ask it; the writes keep their own refusals.
      */
     declinesStoredRow(type: string, name: unknown): boolean {
-        if (this.isShippedFlowName(type, name)) return true;
-        if (typeof name !== 'string' || name === '') return false;
-        return this.isDeclaredCodeDatasource(type, name) || this.isUnservedSealedOverlay(type, name);
+        // [#25467 cut 10] The body moved to `protocol-lock-state.ts` (see `LockStateHost`).
+        const host: ThisParameterType<typeof declinesStoredRow> = {
+            isDeclaredCodeDatasource: (...a) => this.isDeclaredCodeDatasource(...a),
+            isShippedFlowName: (...a) => this.isShippedFlowName(...a),
+            isUnservedSealedOverlay: (...a) => this.isUnservedSealedOverlay(...a),
+        };
+        return declinesStoredRow.call(host, type, name);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -16068,8 +16058,11 @@ export class ObjectStackProtocolImplementation implements
      * operator's act, so it keeps that ruling's disposition.
      */
     private isUnservedSealedOverlay(type: string, name: string): boolean {
-        if (canonicalMetaType(type) === 'permission') return false;
-        return this.isSealedManagedItem(type, name);
+        // [#25467 cut 10] The body moved to `protocol-lock-state.ts` (see `LockStateHost`).
+        const host: ThisParameterType<typeof isUnservedSealedOverlay> = {
+            isSealedManagedItem: (...a) => this.isSealedManagedItem(...a),
+        };
+        return isUnservedSealedOverlay.call(host, type, name);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -16082,8 +16075,11 @@ export class ObjectStackProtocolImplementation implements
      * MetadataService's), so every entry it matches is a hydrated row.
      */
     private isStoredEntryOfDeclinedName(type: string, item: unknown): boolean {
-        return this.declinesStoredRow(type, (item as { name?: unknown } | null | undefined)?.name)
-            && !isCodeArtifactBody(item);
+        // [#25467 cut 10] The body moved to `protocol-lock-state.ts` (see `LockStateHost`).
+        const host: ThisParameterType<typeof isStoredEntryOfDeclinedName> = {
+            declinesStoredRow: (...a) => this.declinesStoredRow(...a),
+        };
+        return isStoredEntryOfDeclinedName.call(host, type, item);
     }
 
     /**