@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+---
+'@objectstack/spec': minor
+'@objectstack/lint': patch
+'@objectstack/cli': patch
+---
+
+feat(spec): one list of page-component slot positions, derived from the component rows and read by every page walk — `page:card`'s `footer` is now walked by all three (#20940)
+
+The platform has three walks that descend into a page component's `properties` bag, and each kept its own list of where child components hang: the ADR-0087 conversion walker (`children`, `body`, `footer`, `items[].children`), `@objectstack/lint`'s `walkPageComponents` (the same four) and the exported `walkAddressedPageComponents` (`children`, `items[].children`). So a node in a card's `footer` — a declared, rendered slot ("Card footer components (slot)") — was judged by `os lint` and skipped by every consumer of the exported walk: `translatePage` left its copy untranslated, `os i18n extract` offered no key for it, and objectui's validator passed it unjudged.
+
+**`@objectstack/spec` — new exports `pageComponentSlotPositions()` and `PageComponentSlotPosition` (`@objectstack/spec/ui`).** The component rows now mark each composition slot at its declaration, and `pageComponentSlotPositions()` derives the one list from `ComponentPropsMap`: `children`, `footer` and the panel position `items[].children`, plus the tombstoned `body` flagged `retired: true`. The marker changes nothing about the schema it marks — the parse, the JSON Schema and the authorable surface are unchanged. The list is derived on first call and memoized, never at import. `minor` because the package's public surface grows by these two exports.
+
+**`walkAddressedPageComponents` descends `properties.footer`.** It reads the list's authorable entries, in the list's order (`children`, `footer`, then `items[].children`); signature and return shape are unchanged. What follows from it:
+
+- `translatePage` translates the copy of a component in a card footer through `pages.<name>.components.<id>`, like any other nested component.
+- `os i18n extract` offers those keys, and `os i18n check` counts them, for a stack whose card footers hold components with an `id` and copy.
+- objectui's validator, which judges the nodes this walk visits, now judges a card footer's nodes.
+
+`page:card.body` stays undescended, as #5775 ruled: it is not an authorable spelling.
+
+**The conversion walker reads every entry, the retired one included.** Its reach does not change: it descends `children`, `body`, `footer` and `items[].children`, as before. Stored documents still carry `body`, the renderers still draw it, and a conversion that runs before `page-card-body-to-children` meets the sub-tree there. Within one component the visit order is now `children`, `body`, `footer`, then the panels. That order is observable only as the order of the notices for a component that carries both a direct slot and panels.
+
+**`@objectstack/lint` — `walkPageComponents` reads the list's authorable entries.** It walks `footer` as before, and it stops walking the retired `body` spelling. The walk matches by shape, so this drops a `body` array on any component, not only on `page:card`. #5775 (maintainer ruling 2026-08-06, direction A) made `children` the one composition key. The renderers keep reading `body` only as a back-compat fallback for stored documents. On `page:card` the tombstone's rename prescription still refuses `body`, and so does the thin containers' guidance; the sub-tree is judged once it sits under `children`. So the rules built on this walk no longer report findings about nodes under any component's `body` array. The conversion walker keeps reaching them for stored documents.
+
+**`@objectstack/cli`:** no code change. `os i18n extract` and `os i18n check` pick up the `footer` component keys through the shared walk. The extractor's object-section pass stops reading `record:details` sections under a retired `body`, through lint's walk.
+
+**Why no ADR-0087 ledger entry.** Nothing an author writes moves: no spec key is retired or renamed, no stored `sys_metadata` shape changes, and no conversion or migration id is touched. `objectstack migrate meta` has nothing to act on.
@@ -932,9 +932,10 @@ function walkObjectSections(config: any, out: ExpectedEntry[]): void {
   // private copy. That walk exists precisely because duplicating it produced a
   // dead rule once already (#3583): components hang off `regions[].components`
   // AND `slots.<slot>` (which may be a bare component, not an array), sub-trees
-  // live inside the untyped `properties` bag (`page:tabs` →
-  // `properties.items[].children`, `page:card` → `properties.body`/`.footer`),
-  // and source-authored pages (`kind: 'html' | 'react' | 'jsx'`) hold only a
+  // live inside the untyped `properties` bag at the positions spec's
+  // `pageComponentSlotPositions()` derives (`page:tabs` →
+  // `properties.items[].children`, `page:card` → `properties.footer`, every
+  // container → `properties.children`), and source-authored pages (`kind: 'html' | 'react' | 'jsx'`) hold only a
   // DERIVED region cache that the author never wrote — scaffolding translation
   // keys off that cache would invent an authoring surface.
   //
@@ -1099,8 +1100,10 @@ export function authorWarnedTranslationGroups(): ReadonlySet<string> {
  * WALK — which components carry those keys — is `walkAddressedPageComponents`,
  * the same traversal `translatePage` itself runs (commit c45d8e6b4, completing the key
  * list's precedent). The walk owns the roots (`regions[].components[]` AND
- * `slots.<slot>`), the descent (`properties.children` AND a panel's
- * `properties.items[].children`, depth-capped, cycle-guarded) and the ruled
+ * `slots.<slot>`), the descent (the authorable slot positions spec derives
+ * from the component rows — `properties.children`, a card's
+ * `properties.footer`, a panel's `properties.items[].children` — depth-capped,
+ * cycle-guarded) and the ruled
  * collision arbitration (commit 901355c3b: root level wins outright; among nested
  * components, document-order first sighting) — this function used to
  * hand-mirror all five and now owns none of them. What it still owns:
@@ -1113,15 +1116,14 @@ export function authorWarnedTranslationGroups(): ReadonlySet<string> {
  *   - the `label` either/or: `label` may be authored on the component itself
  *     or in its props — the same either/or `translatePage` resolves back onto.
  *
- * ⛔ Deliberately NOT `@objectstack/lint`'s `walkPageComponents`, which is
- * WIDER than the resolver in two ways (`properties.body`, `properties.footer`
- * — `page:card`'s slots, which the resolver leaves undescended as a renderer
- * back-compat fallback rather than an authorable spelling; `slots.<slot>`
- * roots and `properties.items[].children` were the other two until #16772
- * brought both into the shared walk) and NARROWER in one (it skips
- * `kind: 'html' | 'react' | 'jsx'` pages, which `translatePage` walks) —
- * either direction of that mismatch is one half of the failure pair
- * `PAGE_COMPONENT_COPY_KEYS`' own JSDoc names.
+ * ⛔ Deliberately NOT `@objectstack/lint`'s `walkPageComponents`. Its descent
+ * is no longer WIDER than the resolver's — since #20940 both read spec's one
+ * derived slot list, and `page:card`'s `properties.body` / `.footer` were the
+ * last positions lint walked and the resolver did not (`slots.<slot>` roots
+ * and `properties.items[].children` closed at #16772) — but it is still
+ * NARROWER in one way (it skips `kind: 'html' | 'react' | 'jsx'` pages, which
+ * `translatePage` walks), and a mismatch in either direction is one half of
+ * the failure pair `PAGE_COMPONENT_COPY_KEYS`' own JSDoc names.
  */
 function emitPageComponentCopy(out: ExpectedEntry[], page: any, name: string): void {
   walkAddressedPageComponents(page, (component, { id, nested, addressed }) => {
 
@@ -288,10 +288,13 @@ const walkParityPage = (): Record<string, any> => ({
               'bare-component-id-string',
               null,
             ],
-            // NOT descended by `translatePage`: `body`/`footer` are a
-            // renderer-side back-compat fallback, not an authorable
-            // composition spelling.
+            // NOT descended by `translatePage`: `body` is the retired
+            // spelling (#5775) — a renderer-side back-compat fallback, not an
+            // authorable composition spelling.
             body: [{ id: 'card_body_child', type: 'object-metric', properties: { title: 'Body child' } }],
+            // DESCENDED since #20940 — `footer` is a declared, rendered slot,
+            // one of the positions spec's `pageComponentSlotPositions()`
+            // derives from the component rows.
             footer: [{ id: 'card_footer_child', type: 'object-metric', properties: { title: 'Footer child' } }],
             // DESCENDED since #16772 — a `page:tabs` / `page:accordion`
             // panel's `items[].children`, one level below the container.
@@ -375,19 +378,21 @@ describe('i18n-extract ↔ translatePage walk parity (#13109)', () => {
   it('pins the two sets by name, so a shape that stops being reachable is visible', () => {
     const page = walkParityPage();
     expect([...idsExtractorOffers(page)].sort()).toEqual([
-      'card', 'inner_flex', 'kpi_1', 'kpi_deep', 'kpi_label', 'nested_header', 'region_metric',
-      'slot_child', 'slot_list_child', 'tab_child',
+      'card', 'card_footer_child', 'inner_flex', 'kpi_1', 'kpi_deep', 'kpi_label', 'nested_header',
+      'region_metric', 'slot_child', 'slot_list_child', 'tab_child',
     ]);
-    // `card_body_child` and `card_footer_child` are absent from BOTH sides —
-    // the shapes `translatePage` does not descend. `tab_child`, `slot_child`
-    // and `slot_list_child` are present on BOTH sides since #16772 widened
-    // the shared walk to `items[].children` and to the `slots.<slot>` roots.
+    // `card_body_child` is absent from BOTH sides — the retired spelling
+    // `translatePage` does not descend. `card_footer_child` is present on BOTH
+    // sides since #20940 moved the shared walk onto the rows' one derived slot
+    // list, which names `footer`. `tab_child`, `slot_child` and
+    // `slot_list_child` are present on BOTH sides since #16772 widened the
+    // shared walk to `items[].children` and to the `slots.<slot>` roots.
     // `hdr` — the region-level `page:header` — is absent from BOTH sides since
     // the ruling. `nested_header` stays: a `page:header` inside a container is
     // reached by the id route only, so the id key is the only key it has.
     expect([...idsResolverApplies(page)].sort()).toEqual([
-      'card', 'inner_flex', 'kpi_1', 'kpi_deep', 'kpi_label', 'nested_header', 'region_metric',
-      'slot_child', 'slot_list_child', 'tab_child',
+      'card', 'card_footer_child', 'inner_flex', 'kpi_1', 'kpi_deep', 'kpi_label', 'nested_header',
+      'region_metric', 'slot_child', 'slot_list_child', 'tab_child',
     ]);
   });
 
 
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
  * | door | parses | reaches | blind to |
  * |:--|:--|:--|:--|
  * | 1 `PageSchema` | the whole page | every schema-typed position (component `visibleWhen`, and any expression key nested in a typed sub-schema) | anything inside `properties` |
- * | 2 `PageComponentSchema` | each walked component | components nested INSIDE `properties` (`page:tabs` → `items[].children[]`, `page:card` → `body`/`footer`) | the `properties` bag itself |
+ * | 2 `PageComponentSchema` | each walked component | components nested INSIDE `properties` (`page:tabs` → `items[].children[]`, `page:card` → `footer`) | the `properties` bag itself |
  * | 3 `ComponentPropsMap[type]` | each component's `properties` | expression keys the per-type props schema declares (`record:alert.properties.visible`) | types absent from the map |
  *
  * Door 2 exists because `PageComponentSchema.properties` is
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`56`	`56`	`* \| door \| parses \| reaches \| blind to \|`
`57`	`57`	`* \|:--\|:--\|:--\|:--\|`
`58`	`58`	* \| 1 `PageSchema` \| the whole page \| every schema-typed position (component `visibleWhen`, and any expression key nested in a typed sub-schema) \| anything inside `properties` \|
`59`		- * \| 2 `PageComponentSchema` \| each walked component \| components nested INSIDE `properties` (`page:tabs` → `items[].children[]`, `page:card` → `body`/`footer`) \| the `properties` bag itself \|
	`59`	+ * \| 2 `PageComponentSchema` \| each walked component \| components nested INSIDE `properties` (`page:tabs` → `items[].children[]`, `page:card` → `footer`) \| the `properties` bag itself \|
`60`	`60`	* \| 3 `ComponentPropsMap[type]` \| each component's `properties` \| expression keys the per-type props schema declares (`record:alert.properties.visible`) \| types absent from the map \|
`61`	`61`	`*`
`62`	`62`	* Door 2 exists because `PageComponentSchema.properties` is