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+// Copyright (c) 2026 ObjectStack. Licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.
+
+/**
+ * objectstack-ai/objectstack#26743 — the Interfaces nav editor's target picker
+ * offers a draft-only page only when its draft body can be a nav target.
+ *
+ * A `page` nav entry opens a static page URL with no record id, so a record
+ * page is never a valid target (`isStaticPageOption`). The picker filtered the
+ * published rows by the body's `type`, but added every draft-only row
+ * unfiltered: a `_drafts` header names the metadata type (`page`), not the
+ * body's `type`. A draft record page was offered, and picking it gave a dead
+ * entry once the app was published. The picker now reads a draft-only row's
+ * draft body and judges it as it judges a published row:
+ *
+ *  - a draft record page is not offered;
+ *  - a draft static page is offered;
+ *  - a published record page is still not offered;
+ *  - a draft action bound to an object is not offered (the nav runs global
+ *    actions only), a draft global action is;
+ *  - CONTROL: a draft whose body cannot be read is still offered, as a row
+ *    with no `type` is.
+ */
+
+import '@testing-library/jest-dom/vitest';
+import * as React from 'react';
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+import { cleanup, fireEvent, render, screen, within } from '@testing-library/react';
+import { MetadataCtx } from '@object-ui/react';
+
+const PKG = 'com.acme.app';
+
+/** Published pages, as `client.list('page')` serves them: bodies, with `type`. */
+const PUBLISHED_PAGES = [
+  { name: 'ops_home', label: 'Ops home', type: 'app' },
+  { name: 'ticket_detail', label: 'Ticket detail', type: 'record' },
+];
+
+/** Draft bodies the `?state=draft` read serves, keyed `type:name`. */
+const DRAFT_BODIES: Record<string, Record<string, unknown> | undefined> = {
+  'page:case_record': { name: 'case_record', label: 'Case record', type: 'record' },
+  'page:case_board': { name: 'case_board', label: 'Case board', type: 'list' },
+  'action:close_case': { name: 'close_case', label: 'Close case', objectName: 'repairs_case' },
+  'action:open_inbox': { name: 'open_inbox', label: 'Open inbox' },
+};
+
+const mockClient = vi.hoisted(() => ({
+  list: vi.fn(async (): Promise<unknown[]> => []),
+  // The `_drafts` headers: metadata type and name, never the body's `type`.
+  listDrafts: vi.fn(async (options?: { packageId?: string; type?: string }): Promise<unknown[]> => {
+    if (options?.type === 'page') {
+      return [
+        { type: 'page', name: 'case_record', packageId: 'com.acme.app', label: 'Case record' },
+        { type: 'page', name: 'case_board', packageId: 'com.acme.app', label: 'Case board' },
+        { type: 'page', name: 'case_unread', packageId: 'com.acme.app', label: 'Case unread' },
+      ];
+    }
+    if (options?.type === 'action') {
+      return [
+        { type: 'action', name: 'close_case', packageId: 'com.acme.app', label: 'Close case' },
+        { type: 'action', name: 'open_inbox', packageId: 'com.acme.app', label: 'Open inbox' },
+      ];
+    }
+    return [];
+  }),
+  getDraft: vi.fn(async (): Promise<unknown> => null),
+  get: vi.fn(async () => undefined),
+  withPreviewDrafts: vi.fn((): unknown => mockClient),
+}));
+
+vi.mock('../metadata-admin/useMetadata', async (importOriginal) => {
+  const mod = await importOriginal<typeof import('../metadata-admin/useMetadata')>();
+  return {
+    ...mod,
+    useMetadataClient: () => mockClient,
+    useMetadataTypes: () => ({ loading: false, error: null, entries: [] }),
+  };
+});
+
+vi.mock('@object-ui/react', async (importOriginal) => {
+  const mod = await importOriginal<typeof import('@object-ui/react')>();
+  return { ...mod, useAdapter: () => ({}) };
+});
+
+vi.mock('sonner', () => ({
+  toast: { success: vi.fn(), error: vi.fn(), info: vi.fn(), dismiss: vi.fn() },
+  Toaster: () => null,
+}));
+
+vi.mock('../../components/SuggestedBindingsPanel', () => ({ SuggestedBindingsPanel: () => null }));
+vi.mock('../metadata-admin/AccessExplainPanel', () => ({ AccessExplainPanel: () => null }));
+vi.mock('./StudioAiCopilot', () => ({ StudioChatDock: () => null }));
+vi.mock('../../preview/DraftChangesPanel', () => ({ DraftChangesPanel: () => null }));
+
+import { StudioNavItemInspector } from './StudioDesignSurface';
+
+window.matchMedia = ((query: string) => ({
+  matches: false,
+  media: query,
+  onchange: null,
+  addEventListener: () => {},
+  removeEventListener: () => {},
+  addListener: () => {},
+  removeListener: () => {},
+  dispatchEvent: () => false,
+})) as unknown as typeof window.matchMedia;
+(globalThis as unknown as { ResizeObserver: unknown }).ResizeObserver =
+  (globalThis as unknown as { ResizeObserver?: unknown }).ResizeObserver ??
+  class {
+    observe() {}
+    unobserve() {}
+    disconnect() {}
+  };
+
+const METADATA = {
+  apps: [],
+  objects: [],
+  dashboards: [],
+  reports: [],
+  pages: [],
+  loading: false,
+  error: null,
+  refresh: async () => {},
+  invalidate: () => {},
+  ensureType: async () => [],
+  getItem: async () => null,
+  getItemsByType: () => [],
+  getTypeStatus: () => 'ready' as const,
+};
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  for (const fn of Object.values(mockClient)) (fn as unknown as { mockClear: () => void }).mockClear();
+  mockClient.list.mockImplementation(async (type?: unknown) => (type === 'page' ? PUBLISHED_PAGES : []));
+  mockClient.getDraft.mockImplementation(async (type?: unknown, name?: unknown) => {
+    if (name === 'case_unread') throw new Error('draft read failed');
+    const body = DRAFT_BODIES[`${String(type)}:${String(name)}`];
+    // The served envelope, decorated as the framework serves it.
+    return body ? { type, name, item: { ...body, _draft: true } } : null;
+  });
+});
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  cleanup();
+});
+
+async function openPicker(navigation: unknown[], name: string) {
+  render(
+    <MetadataCtx.Provider value={METADATA as never}>
+      <StudioNavItemInspector
+        navId="navigation[0]"
+        appDraft={{ navigation }}
+        objects={[]}
+        packageId={PKG}
+        onNavPatch={vi.fn()}
+        onClear={vi.fn()}
+      />
+    </MetadataCtx.Provider>,
+  );
+  fireEvent.keyDown(screen.getByRole('combobox', { name }), { key: 'ArrowDown' });
+  return screen.findByRole('listbox');
+}
+
+describe('objectstack-ai/objectstack#26743 — the nav page picker judges a draft-only page on its draft body', () => {
+  it('a draft record page is not offered', async () => {
+    const listbox = await openPicker([{ id: 'nav_page', type: 'page' }], 'Page');
+    // Wait for the draft static page, read in the same pass, before asserting an absence.
+    await within(listbox).findByRole('option', { name: 'Case board (case_board)' });
+    expect(within(listbox).queryByRole('option', { name: /case_record/ })).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('a draft static page is offered', async () => {
+    const listbox = await openPicker([{ id: 'nav_page', type: 'page' }], 'Page');
+    expect(await within(listbox).findByRole('option', { name: 'Case board (case_board)' })).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('a published record page is still not offered, a published static page is', async () => {
+    const listbox = await openPicker([{ id: 'nav_page', type: 'page' }], 'Page');
+    expect(await within(listbox).findByRole('option', { name: 'Ops home (ops_home)' })).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(within(listbox).queryByRole('option', { name: /ticket_detail/ })).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('CONTROL: a draft whose body cannot be read is still offered', async () => {
+    const listbox = await openPicker([{ id: 'nav_page', type: 'page' }], 'Page');
+    expect(await within(listbox).findByRole('option', { name: 'Case unread (case_unread)' })).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('a draft action bound to an object is not offered, a draft global action is', async () => {
+    const listbox = await openPicker([{ id: 'nav_action', type: 'action' }], 'Action');
+    expect(await within(listbox).findByRole('option', { name: 'Open inbox (open_inbox)' })).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(within(listbox).queryByRole('option', { name: /close_case/ })).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('a draft body is read only for a type whose verdict reads the body', async () => {
+    await openPicker([{ id: 'nav_page', type: 'page' }], 'Page');
+    await screen.findByRole('option', { name: 'Case board (case_board)' });
+    expect(mockClient.getDraft).toHaveBeenCalledWith('page', 'case_record', { packageId: PKG });
+    // A published row is never re-read as a draft.
+    expect(mockClient.getDraft).not.toHaveBeenCalledWith('page', 'ops_home', expect.anything());
+  });
+});
@@ -2980,16 +2980,45 @@ const NAV_TARGET_KEY = {
  * Whether a listed row can be a nav target. A record page needs a record id a
  * `page` entry cannot pass (`isStaticPageOption`), and an action bound to an
  * object is not addressable from the nav, which runs GLOBAL actions only
- * (`useNavActionDispatch`). Only a CONFIRMED one is left out: a draft header
- * carries no body, so a draft-only row is kept, as `isStaticPageOption` keeps
- * a row with no `type`.
+ * (`useNavActionDispatch`). Only a CONFIRMED one is left out, as
+ * `isStaticPageOption` keeps a row with no `type`.
+ *
+ * objectstack-ai/objectstack#26743 — a `_drafts` header names the METADATA
+ * type (`page`), never the body's own `type` (`record`), so a draft-only row
+ * is judged on its draft body instead ({@link NAV_TARGET_BODY_KEYED}). A draft
+ * record page is still a record page once it is published with the app.
  */
 function isNavTargetRow(metaType: string, row: Record<string, unknown>): boolean {
   if (metaType === 'page') return isStaticPageOption(row as { type?: string });
   if (metaType === 'action') return !row.objectName;
   return true;
 }
 
+/** The types whose {@link isNavTargetRow} verdict reads a body key, so a draft-only row's body is read for it. */
+const NAV_TARGET_BODY_KEYED: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set(['page', 'action']);
+
+/**
+ * Whether a draft-only row can be a nav target, judged on its draft body. A
+ * body that cannot be read (no draft served, a failed read) leaves the row in,
+ * as a published row with no `type` is left in: only a confirmed non-target
+ * is dropped.
+ */
+async function isDraftNavTarget(
+  client: MetadataClient,
+  metaType: string,
+  name: string,
+  packageId: string,
+): Promise<boolean> {
+  if (!NAV_TARGET_BODY_KEYED.has(metaType)) return true;
+  let body: Record<string, unknown> | null;
+  try {
+    body = extractDraftBody(await client.getDraft(metaType, name, { packageId }));
+  } catch {
+    return true;
+  }
+  return !body || isNavTargetRow(metaType, body);
+}
+
 /**
  * The package's items of `metaType`, published ∪ draft by name (the published
  * row wins, for its label), as the pillar's object list is read
@@ -3021,10 +3050,19 @@ function usePackageNavTargets(
         // objectui#11862 — a draft-only target carries the label its `_drafts`
         // row serves (objectstack-ai/objectstack#22200), so the picker offers
         // it by that label, as it offers a published one.
+        const draftOnly: NavTargetRow[] = [];
         for (const draft of (drafts ?? []) as Array<{ name?: string | null; label?: I18nLabel | null }>) {
           const name = typeof draft?.name === 'string' ? draft.name : '';
-          if (name && !byName.has(name)) byName.set(name, { name, label: draft.label ?? undefined });
+          if (name && !byName.has(name) && !draftOnly.some((row) => row.name === name)) {
+            draftOnly.push({ name, label: draft.label ?? undefined });
+          }
         }
+        const verdicts = await Promise.all(
+          draftOnly.map((row) => isDraftNavTarget(client, metaType, row.name, packageId)),
+        );
+        draftOnly.forEach((row, i) => {
+          if (verdicts[i]) byName.set(row.name, row);
+        });
       } catch {
         /* non-fatal — the picker just stays empty */
       }