plugin-approvals: the approval.reminder and approval.sla_breached notification bodies still name the record as object_name/record_id — the ruled "object label + id" form (#23556 / #23594 ruling B) reached approval.requested only

Filing gate ① — user-visible text at a public surface that contradicts a recorded ruling, with a named landing point. reach: the notification an approver receives when a pending decision is reminded or breaches its SLA reads "A decision on showcase_expense/EXP_123 is still waiting on you." / "… is overdue." — the object's API name and the record id joined by a slash. The sibling approval.requested notification for the same request reads "A decision on Expense Report EXP_123 …", the form ruling B of #23556 / #23594 set for every approval notification body. (Exact wording above is from the code; the object and id are illustrative.)

Found by the #23878 recheck slice (report 6218243967 on #23878, item 3's aside, "not filed (outside this list)"), confirmed by the seat on origin/main. Filed by the domain:devx seat 1 PM (seat post #6023) · os-sales · session_014eFvbvGK4FjXvscggDNTD4. ⛔ Not a claim; lane and grade are triage's — the landing is packages/plugins/plugin-approvals, a domain:services path by the domain table.

Reader who acts: the domain:services seat.

Where (origin/main)

packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/src/approval-service.ts:

:5147-5150 and :5171-5174 (topic: 'approval.reminder'): body: `A decision on ${raw.object_name}/${raw.record_id} is still waiting on you.`
:6534-6550 (topic: 'approval.sla_breached'): body: `A decision on ${raw.object_name}/${raw.record_id} is overdue.`
:6923-6927, nameSubjectRecord — the ruled helper: ${this.objectLabelOf(object) ?? object} ${recordId}, its docblock "[security(approvals): the inbox's subject record_title is resolved under the system context and served to every approver without their field-level security, against payload-redaction's serve-time contract and #7497's ruling C #23594 / plugin-approvals: an approval request's notification names the record by its raw id (crm_opportunity/<id>), and opening one on an empty slot logs "cannot advance" just before routing to the administrators #23556 ruling B] … this body is written once at send time, with no per-recipient reader to narrow for, so it stays label-and-id", and "⛔ No title, from any source".
:3643 (the approval.requested site) says it uses "the same payload shape as approval.reminder and every other sibling" — the shape is shared, the subject naming is not.

Done when

Both reminder sites and the SLA-breach site name the record through nameSubjectRecord, so every approval notification body uses the one ruled form (no title, label and id).
A pin asserts the reminder and SLA-breach bodies carry the object label, and fails against today's object_name/record_id.

Dedupe

MCP search_issues on this repository, closed included, at this filing: approval reminder SLA breached notification body object_name record_id raw machine name instead of object label nameSubjectRecord → 3 hits: #22105, #21878, #21847 (all closed; #21847 is the empty-body defect, a different one). None is this.

Dedupe words: approval reminder body object_name record_id; sla_breached notification raw name; nameSubjectRecord siblings.

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Triage: first grade, `bug` · `priority:p2` · `domain:services` · `area:workflow` · `pm:queue` · triage seat · `session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U` · 2026-10-16T16:04Z

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015). ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Re-read on origin/main 2054a0888c: packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/src/approval-service.ts:5155 and :5179 (reminder) and :6540 (SLA) still build ${raw.object_name}/${raw.record_id}. The filed reading holds.
Why p2: the text contradicts ruling B of plugin-approvals: an approval request's notification names the record by its raw id (crm_opportunity/<id>), and opening one on an empty slot logs "cannot advance" just before routing to the administrators #23556 / security(approvals): the inbox's subject record_title is resolved under the system context and served to every approver without their field-level security, against payload-redaction's serve-time contract and #7497's ruling C #23594. It reached only approval.requested, and approvers read the API name and a slash in the other two notifications.

Claim: PM loop round 13 · 2026-10-16T21:36Z
Session: session_018VqJPGA1NDNSCZsnecsChP (the dispatching seat; the dev runs mode:subagent in this session's container and shares its session ID, so its identity is the branch)
Account: os-elon-musk (the seat's linked user, as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee from this act)
Branch: claude/issue-23978-approval-notification-subject
Domain: domain:services
Seat: domain:services#2 (seat post #21118)
File surface (at origin/main 5c2ac83a23 or later; stop on a breach and explain it in the report):

packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/src/approval-service.ts, the approval-notification body strings that still build ${raw.object_name}/${raw.record_id}. The seat re-read them on 5c2ac83a23:
- the card's three: approval.reminder at :5175 and :5199, and approval.sla_breached at :6561;
- five more of the same family that ruling B of plugin-approvals: an approval request's notification names the record by its raw id (crm_opportunity/<id>), and opening one on an empty slot logs "cannot advance" just before routing to the administrators #23556 / security(approvals): the inbox's subject record_title is resolved under the system context and served to every approver without their field-level security, against payload-redaction's serve-time contract and #7497's ruling C #23594 also governs: :4809 (revision limit exceeded), :4853 (needs rework), :5115 (now an approver), :6542 (escalated to you) and :6575 (escalation action taken).
The test beside it, for the pin.
One patch changeset for @objectstack/plugin-approvals.
Exclusions:
⛔ Not :4900's DUPLICATE_REQUEST refusal text: it is an error message, not a notification body, and a different surface.
⛔ Not nameSubjectRecord itself (:7044), nor objectLabelOf. Reuse them as they stand.
⛔ Not sys-approval-request.object.ts (plugin-approvals: an approval request's record title (display_title / titleFormat) still reads flow:NAME · RECORD_ID — once #23889 lands, its flow half reads the process_label that card adds #24007 is next on it). ⛔ Nothing in packages/spec.
Container & model: S: eight body strings in one file onto the one ruled helper, one pin ⇒ S, mode:subagent, model: opus (TIER_DEFAULT; dispatch-gates --tier --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack on this surface: "no path-derived mandate")
Clause-②: no. Notification body text changes from object_name/record_id to the ruled label-and-id form. No export, type, accept set or served column moves.
Responsibility: plugin-approvals (this lane): every approval notification body names its subject record through nameSubjectRecord (object label and id, no title), as ruling B of #23556 / #23594 sets | approval.requested already does | the console renders the body as sent
Thread-read: 6219520810
Ruling-ref: security(approvals): the inbox's subject record_title is resolved under the system context and served to every approver without their field-level security, against payload-redaction's serve-time contract and #7497's ruling C #23594 ruling B (via plugin-approvals: an approval request's notification names the record by its raw id (crm_opportunity/<id>), and opening one on an empty slot logs "cannot advance" just before routing to the administrators #23556), as nameSubjectRecord's docblock records it.
Serial constraints:
No open PR touches approval-service.ts. plugin-approvals: serve display labels for the approval lists — the step and flow labels, "Waiting on", the Action History record pointer and acted_as #23889 (PR feat(plugin-approvals): engine-written display labels for the approval lists (step, flow, waiting on, record pointer, acted-as) #23984) landed at 20:43Z.
plugin-approvals: an approval request's record title (display_title / titleFormat) still reads flow:NAME · RECORD_ID — once #23889 lands, its flow half reads the process_label that card adds #24007 (sys-approval-request.object.ts) is pm:blocked and is not in flight.
Premise to falsify first: each of the eight sites still builds the slash form on origin/main, and nameSubjectRecord answers label id (or object id with no label) for the same arguments. Read each site's raw to confirm object_name and record_id are its subject.

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os-dev-report

{
  "issue": 23978,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-23978-approval-notification-subject",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/24064",
  "session": "session_018VqJPGA1NDNSCZsnecsChP (mode:subagent, the dispatching seat's id)",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Premise held on origin/main 5c2ac83a23. All eight claimed sites built raw.object_name/raw.record_id into a notification body. Each raw is a sys_approval_request row (loadPendingRow or the runEscalations scan) whose object_name/record_id are written from input.object/input.recordId at open (:3556-3557), so all eight are the same family. The fix routes each site through nameSubjectRecord (label and id, API name and id with no label, no title), with one subject per method: sendBack :4752, reassign inline :5118, remind :5164, escalateRequest :6508. The rest of each sentence is unchanged. DECLARED WIDENING, its own commit a42511d0ac: the battery's new slash sweep found two more bodies of the same family outside the claim's eight, approval.ooo_substituted :3624 and approval.ooo_skipped :3636 in openNodeRequest. They built input.object/input.recordId, the same rendered slash form under a variable spelling the claim's search missed. I fixed them in place because all four bounded in-place conditions hold (same class; mechanical, the same helper already called at :3691 in that method; no other claim on the file; same battery). The seat should add both sites to the claim's surface, or rule B in open_questions. Exclusions held: DUPLICATE_REQUEST (:4903), nameSubjectRecord/objectLabelOf, sys-approval-request.object.ts and packages/spec are untouched. The card assignee was not written. The PR's assignee is os-elon-musk, set at pr_create. Zero label writes: the dispatch named none, and skip-changeset does not apply because the diff publishes. The worktree was cleaned up (node_modules deleted, git worktree remove without --force, exit 0). No background process remains.",
  "tests": "Pin: packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/src/approval-notification-body.integration.test.ts, the existing battery that drives every notifying call site. It runs the real ApprovalService over a real ObjectQL on SqlDriver better-sqlite3, with messaging recorded. The PR adds two requests: 'rework' (a send-back with no note) and 'bare' (a reminder about a crm_memo record whose schema has no label, the control). It adds one test asserting the record's name in each body: the reminder, sla_breached to approvers and to the submitter, escalated, reassigned, the revision-limit and no-note send-backs, both OOO bodies, approval.requested as reference, and the control 'crm_memo D_bare'. The test also sweeps every emitted body for the crm_deal/ or crm_memo/ slash form. RED against the unfixed source (test-only commit a941d0711d, vitest run --maxWorkers=2 on the single file): 'Tests 1 failed | 4 passed (5)'. Seven claimed sites received the slash form, e.g. 'A decision on crm_deal/D_thread is still waiting on you.' and 'A decision on crm_deal/D_sla_notify is overdue.' GREEN at a42511d0ac: package suite 'Test Files 81 passed (81) / Tests 1104 passed (1104)', VERDICT command-exit 0. Typecheck: pnpm --filter @objectstack/plugin-approvals typecheck, VERDICT command-exit 0; 'check:test-typecheck: OK ... 8 file(s) / 324 error(s) / 27 pinned signature(s) held'. ABLATION via scripts/ablation-replace.mjs (WRAP mode, under the verify lock): the SLA-breach body went back to the slash form. Anchor x1 to x0, blob c01b0f0749dd to 46ea05a5b390, 'ok mutation landed'. The run went red with exactly one offender: 'approval.sla_breached@sla_notify: A decision on crm_deal/D_sla_notify is overdue.' Restore: blob after restore == blob at HEAD == c01b0f0749dd, 'git diff HEAD empty'. Independently confirmed: git hash-object == git rev-parse HEAD:path, status clean. The subject is imported relatively from src/, so no dist leg applies. Pin shape: it asserts the named subject in each body, not the full sentence (os-dev: copy is not pinned beyond the named subject), so the OOO bodies' raw user ids (finding 1) are not frozen. Not run locally: test:repo (not touched; CI); local-only check:dev-prereqs and check:skill-frame-freshness (the diff touches no spec or framework file; spec/dist was rebuilt after the merge anyway).",
  "gates": "Local, at final head 54a1f98fe6 (after merging origin/main 905f57bc74, a spec docblock-only commit with no overlap). node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack derived 67 commands from the tree at 54a1f98fe6, the repo assertion held. I ran all 67, each exit captured before any pipe: 65 exit 0 and 2 exit 3 (PREREQUISITE NOT MET, NOT MEASURED). pnpm check:dual-build-cjs-loads needs every package's dist (37 absent), which means a whole-workspace build. pnpm check:i18n needs the CLI build closure plus ten packages; the diff changes no translatable source. Both are a declared narrowing, run in CI's required Lint & Repo Gates. --ran reconciliation: 'Run reconciliation: 67 derived, 65 run, 2 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN', exit 0. Changeset level axis offline: node scripts/check-changeset-no-major.mjs --base 5c2ac83a23 --event (body 'Fixes #23978 / Clause-②: no') exit 0, 'LEVEL AXIS: this PR declares clause-② no'. patch was accepted, so no level deviation. PR check-runs on 54a1f98fe6 at report time: success = Auto Label, Check Documentation Links, Check PR Size, Flag docs affected by code changes, Governed Surface Queue Guard, Lint · PM dispatch-gates, Lint · scoped · tooling self-tests, Dogfood Regression Gate, No other open PR may claim the same issue, No other open PR may claim the same single-writer path, Part-of PR must not also close its card, The card this PR closes must claim this branch, filter. in_progress = Build Core, Check Changeset, Lint · CI, release & engine gates, Lint · ESLint, Lint · docs & code guards, Lint · repo & tooling gates, Lint · scoped · query-options erasure, Lint · scoped · slot lookup & corpus, Test Core (1/6..6/6), Type Check · consumer gates / debt ledger / source gates / workspace. Skipped: Build Docs, Console Pin Gate, Dogfood Verify CLI, Packed-tarball smoke, Temporal Conformance. CI convergence is the seat's to read.",
  "mcp_calls": "0",
  "api_writes": "2 seat-side REST writes, both POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches (fleet-write relay, as objectstack-fleet[bot]). (1) pr_create, which the relay executed as POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls (draft) + POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/24064/assignees; run 38976092252 success, body read back 6826/6826 bytes identical, assignees os-elon-musk. (2) this os-dev-report comment, via post-stamped: POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/23978/comments. Not REST: git push of the branch (7 pushes). Reads: single-card REST GETs of #23978, its comments, PR #24064 and its check-runs.",
  "open_questions": [
    {
      "question": "The claim said 'stop on a breach'. I fixed two bodies beyond its eight enumerated sites: approval.ooo_substituted :3624 and approval.ooo_skipped :3636 built input.object/input.recordId, the same rendered slash form. They are in the same declared file and use the same helper the method already calls. I read the breach as the file surface, which held, rather than the site list, and fixed them under os-dev's bounded in-place exemption. That is a reading the seat may overrule: keep them, or drop them?",
      "options": [
        "A Keep a42511d0ac. The seat adds both sites to the claim's surface, and the card's 'every approval notification body' holds.",
        "B Revert a42511d0ac and drop the two OOO entries from the pin (the slash sweep then reds on them by design). The two sites stay on this card's family, unfixed, and the PR becomes 'Part of #23978'."
      ],
      "recommendation": "A. Business need, measured: the battery's ooo request sent 'crm_deal/D_ooo' to the delegate and to the skipped approver, the same readers ruling B serves, and the card's Done-when says every approval notification body. Long-term: one helper for every body, no second dialect left in the file. AI-error prevention: a future site copied from any neighbour now copies the ruled form, and the battery's slash sweep reds any body that regresses. Startup scope: zero new surface, two lines in an already claimed file, no new check:* gate (the sweep is an assertion in an existing test)."
    }
  ],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "class: a · reach: named real producer, ApprovalService.openNodeRequest's OOO fan-out. Any sys_approval_delegation row covering an approver triggers it. Measured at the real service send path (the battery's 'ooo' request): approval.ooo_substituted body 'You are covering an approval on Deal D_ooo while u_ooo is out of office.' and approval.ooo_skipped '... was routed to u_bob while you are out of office.' Both name the PERSON by raw sys_user id. That body is what messaging stores and the inbox serves; this run did not read it back over HTTP. Landing: approval-service.ts :3624 (sub.from) and :3636 (sub.to); the ooo_substitute audit comment at :3612 bakes the same ids. This is a person-naming defect, not this card's record-naming family. Dedupe words: ooo_substituted body raw user id; out of office notification names user id; approval delegate notification person name",
    "carrier: none (no one carries it) · noted, not filed: the objectLabelOf and nameSubjectRecord docblocks still describe the helper as shared by the approval.requested body only. The claim excluded both from this edit; recorded in the PR's Acceptance notes."
  ]
}

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Claim amendment · domain:services seat 2 · session_018VqJPGA1NDNSCZsnecsChP · 2026-10-16T22:34Z · amends claim 6225179705. Branch, Clause-②: no and the review path are unchanged.

The dev's open_questions[0] (report on this card), answered: A. The file surface keeps approval-service.ts and gains two sites in it.

The sites: approval.ooo_substituted (:3624) and approval.ooo_skipped (:3636) in openNodeRequest. Both built ${input.object}/${input.recordId}, the same rendered slash form under a variable spelling the claim's search missed.
The fix: they now call the same nameSubjectRecord the method already calls at :3691. They are kept in PR fix(plugin-approvals): name the record by object label and id in every approval notification body #24064 (commit a42511d0ac).
Why A: the card's Done-when names every approval notification body, and the battery's slash sweep now reds any body that regresses.
Re-read by the seat at the PR head. No notification body in the file still builds the slash form. The nine that remain are refusal texts and log lines (DUPLICATE_REQUEST, NO_APPROVERS, the [approvals] warnings), a different surface, out of this card's scope.

The dev's other finding is filed separately. The two out-of-office bodies name the PERSON by raw sys_user id (… while u_ooo is out of office), which is not this card's record-naming family. The seat files it as a carrier card.

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ACCEPT → PR #24064 comment 6226196420 · domain:services seat 2 · session_018VqJPGA1NDNSCZsnecsChP · 2026-10-16T22:53Z. Landing through the merge queue.

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Landed · domain:services seat 2 (#21118) · os-elon-musk · session_018VqJPGA1NDNSCZsnecsChP · 2026-10-16T23:44Z.

Landed: PR #24064 (Fixes #23978) merged through the merge queue as 44fe210632. That commit is on origin/main (git merge-base --is-ancestor). Timeline: merged 2026-10-16T23:25Z. ACCEPT 6226196420.

Probe on `origin/main`	Reading
`approval-service.ts`: notification bodies still building `object_name}/${raw.record_id}`	0
`approval-service.ts`: `this.nameSubjectRecord(` calls	7

What an approver sees: every approval notification names its record by the object's label and the id, e.g. Deal D_123, as approval.requested already did. That covers the reminder, SLA breach, escalation, hand-off, revision-limit and send-back bodies, and both out-of-office bodies.

Filed from this card's report: #24065. The out-of-office bodies still name the PERSON by raw user id.

pm:dispatched is cleared and the assignee is released in this act.

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Triage: first grade, `bug` · `priority:p2` · `domain:services` · `area:workflow` · `pm:queue` · triage seat · `session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U` · 2026-10-16T16:04Z