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+---
+"@objectstack/spec": minor
+---
+
+feat(spec): a metadata save declares its authoring surface — `SaveMetaItemRequestSchema.surface`, in one exported closed set shared with `draftChanges[].by`
+
+Clause-②: yes (widening)
+
+- **One closed set, one name.** `MetadataAuthoringSurfaceSchema` (`copilot | studio | api`) is exported from `@objectstack/spec/api`, with its type `MetadataAuthoringSurface`. `GetMetaItemResponseSchema.draftChanges[].by` now reads it instead of an inline enum: the accepted values are unchanged.
+- **The save states its surface.** `SaveMetaItemRequestSchema` gains an optional `surface` from that set. A draft save stamps it as `by` on each key path it changes; an absent `surface` stamps `api`. On the REST door and the runtime dispatcher it is the `?surface=` query parameter, which takes `studio` or `api` only: `copilot` is stated by an in-process AI tool, never over HTTP.
+- **The writer exists.** The `draftChanges` describe no longer says no server writes it: it states the writer's rules (the first draft save is compared with the stored published row, an item with no stored published row is recorded as `[]`, and a `migrate-stored` rewrite records nothing). `18.0.0-next.4`'s note said no server writes `draftChanges` yet; from this release the draft save writes it.
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+---
+"@objectstack/metadata-protocol": minor
+"@objectstack/metadata-core": minor
+"@objectstack/platform-objects": minor
+---
+
+feat(metadata-protocol): the draft save records `draftChanges` — which surface, actor and instant last changed each key path of a pending draft — and the strict draft read serves it
+
+Clause-②: yes (widening)
+
+- **Recorded by the draft save.** `saveMetaItem({ mode: 'draft', surface })` compares the body it writes with the body it replaces, inside the write's own transaction: the draft row, else (the draft's first save) the active row its publish would replace, else nothing, which records `[]`, the whole body. A path is the object keys from the body root to the deepest changed key; an array is one leaf, with no index. Each changed path is stamped `{ by: surface ?? 'api', actor, at }`, where `actor` is the value the save's history event carries (or `null`) and `at` is the write's instant as `toISOString()`.
+- **Kept until publish or discard.** No two entries share a path: a save replaces every entry at or under each path it changes, so the longest prefix answers for a key. A save that changes no key path leaves the entries as they were. Publish and discard delete the draft row, and the entries with it, so the next draft starts clean. A `migrate-stored` rewrite and an active save record nothing.
+- **Served on the strict draft read only.** `getMetaItem({ state: 'draft' })` answering a stored draft row carries `draftChanges` beside `item`. It is absent on the active read, the cached branch, the `?preview=draft` read, and a draft row whose saves recorded none (one saved before this release) — never `[]`.
+- **Stored on the row.** `sys_metadata` gains a nullable `draft_changes` column (`@objectstack/metadata-core`'s `SysMetadataObject`), never inside the stored body. Schema sync adds it to an existing table on boot with no manual step (measured on SQLite and the memory driver).
+- **Translated labels.** `@objectstack/platform-objects`' translation bundles carry the new column's label and help text in every shipped locale.
+- **An unknown `surface` is refused.** In-process, a value outside `copilot | studio | api` is refused `400 INVALID_REQUEST` before anything is written.
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+---
+"@objectstack/rest": minor
+"@objectstack/runtime": minor
+---
+
+feat(rest,runtime): `PUT /meta/:type/:name?surface=studio|api` declares the save's authoring surface on both HTTP save doors; `?surface=copilot` is refused
+
+Clause-②: yes (widening)
+
+- **The spelling.** `?surface=` joins the save door's closed query set on `RestServer` and on the runtime dispatcher (`META_ITEM_SAVE_PARAMS`), read once through `metaSaveRequestOptions` beside `?mode=`. A draft save stamps it on each key path it changes (`draftChanges[].by` on the strict draft read); without it the save is recorded as `api`. `?surface=studio` is the spelling for a person's save in Studio.
+- **The refusals.** `?surface=copilot` is `400 VALIDATION_ERROR`: it marks a write as the AI copilot's, which only an in-process tool calling `saveMetaItem` may state. Any other value, a case variant included, is the same `400`, never read as `api`; a repeated `?surface=` is refused by the arity rule. Each refusal writes nothing.
+- **Why a query parameter.** It is what the save is asked to do, as `?mode=` and `?force=` are, beside the HTTP preconditions the headers carry; and it needs no CORS allow-list entry, which a custom request header would.