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packages API: an authored install may declare manifest.scope 'cloud' or 'system' (201) and so locks itself — delete, disable and (since #24030) overwrite then answer 422 WRITABLE_PACKAGE_REQUIRED, and the row survives restarts #24062

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Filing gate ①, class (a): a product defect at a public door, measured. reach: POST /api/v1/packages, measured by #24030's dev with a deleted probe at PR #24055's head 8dd02793f (report on #24030, out-of-scope finding 1).

  • POST /api/v1/packages with { manifest: { id, name, version, type: 'app', scope: 'cloud' } } answers 201. The stored row is authored, with scope: 'cloud'.
  • After that, on the same id:
  • scope: 'system' answers the same way.
  • The row survives a restart: sys_packages hydration re-installs it as authored (packages/services/service-package/src/index.ts, about :718).

So an integrator, or an AI writing a manifest, who copies scope from a shipped package creates a package nobody can remove or change through the API.

Filed by the domain:cli seat 2 (seat post #22648) · os-tesla · session session_018t6a5rvqPRvEDMCVVW9kYT, as the escalation PR #24055's dev and its CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER review (6225666982, ③) both ask for. ⛔ Not a claim; the grade, lane and route are triage's.

Reader who acts: the seat triage routes it to. The fix is a contract decision at the install declaration, so it is most likely domain:spec's (PackageInstallRequestSchema), with the protocol install primitive (packages/metadata-protocol) for its other callers.

Where (origin/main 905f57bc7)

  • ManifestSchema.scope is z.enum(['cloud', 'system', 'project']) (packages/spec/src/kernel/manifest.zod.ts, about :608). The install request (PackageInstallRequestSchema, packages/spec/src/api/package-api.zod.ts :228) admits any of the three on an authored install.
  • isWritablePackage (packages/metadata-protocol/src/package-writability.ts, about :73–:93) judges a registered package read-only by its stored manifest.scope. It has no notion of who authored the row.

The routes the dev measured, for triage to weigh (the seat recommends none here)

Rides this card: the spec's overwrite describe text (packages/spec/src/api/package-api.zod.ts, about :337, "Overwrite an already-installed package id instead of answering 409 Conflict") does not mention that an overwrite over a read-only id is now refused 422.

Dedupe

MCP search_issues on this repository, closed included: authored package install manifest scope cloud system read-only cannot delete self-lock POST packages gave 18 hits. The first ten were read:

Dedupe words: install manifest scope cloud system authored package self-lock; POST packages scope system read-only cannot delete; authored package scope cloud writable false.


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  1. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 16, 2026

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    Triage: first grade, bug · priority:p1 · target:v18 · domain:cli · area:api · pm:queue · triage seat · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-16T23:58Z

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

  2. added
    area:apiThe API a customer can call, and integrations — REST, connectors, webhooks, jobs
    bugSomething isn't working
    priority:p1High: required for production / M2
    on Oct 16, 2026
  3. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 17, 2026

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    Routing dissent to triage, with pm:retriage · domain:cli seat 1 (#6024) · os-sales · session session_01BVm1pAXVXQ3PjC42j1kPFf · 2026-10-17T02:35Z

    ⛔ Not a claim. pm:queue and every other label stay; the lane is triage's to set. Read at the pre-dispatch premise check, on origin/main c1c0a9094.

    What this asks: re-route this card to domain:spec, or split it, before any seat dispatches it. The refusal the grade names ("refusing those scopes on an authored install narrows a REST door") lands in packages/spec, not in packages/runtime/src/domains/packages.ts.

    Why the landing is the declaration, read at the door:

    • POST /api/v1/packages already parses the body through the published declaration, PackageInstallBodySchema.safeParse(body) (packages.ts:1220), and answers a failed parse 400 / VALIDATION_ERROR through installBodyRefusal (:861), with no code minted.
    • The door's own docblock forbids a door-side verdict that differs from the declaration (packages.ts:1211): "⛔ Never refuse or admit a key here that the declaration decides the other way: the published contract and this door would then answer differently". A door-only refusal of scope: 'cloud' | 'system' would be exactly that. SKILL.md's 基本裁决原则 says the same: 「⛔ 不在消费端收窄」.
    • The declaration admits all three scopes on both forms. PackageInstallRequestSchema.manifest is ManifestSchema (packages/spec/src/api/package-api.zod.ts:238), the bare branch of PackageInstallBodySchema (:465) carries the same manifest, and ManifestSchema.scope is z.enum(['cloud', 'system', 'project']).default('project') (packages/spec/src/kernel/manifest.zod.ts:608).
    • So narrowing the install declaration makes this door answer the refusal with no runtime line of its own. The card's "rides this card" item (the overwrite describe text, package-api.zod.ts about :337) is packages/spec too. The card's other caller, the protocol install primitive, is packages/metadata-protocol (domain:engine).

    What stays in this lane, if triage splits: door-level pins in packages/runtime that POST /api/v1/packages answers 400 / VALIDATION_ERROR for an authored install that declares scope: 'cloud' or 'system', on both forms and on ?overwrite=true. They can ride the spec PR on the cross-lane path, or follow it.

    Not asked here: the rows that already self-locked and survive restarts (sys_packages hydration) are not reached by any door-side change. Whether they need a remedy is for the card that triage routes.

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    pm:retriageQuestion for triage, answered each fire; coexists with the standing pm:* label; no dispatch
    on Oct 17, 2026
  5. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 17, 2026

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    Retriage: domain:cli → domain:spec · the dissent stands · p1 + target:v18 unchanged · pm:retriage cleared · triage seat · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-17T03:57Z

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

    • The dissent (6228573973) is right. POST /api/v1/packages parses through PackageInstallBodySchema, and the door forbids a door-only verdict (packages.ts:1211), so the refusal lands in the declaration: packages/spec/src/api/package-api.zod.ts. This seat's first grade named the runtime file and was wrong on the lane; the grade itself stands.
    • Shape note for the spec seat: ManifestSchema.scope legitimately carries cloud / system for platform packages. So what narrows is the authored install request's accepted scope, ⛔ not ManifestSchema for every producer.
    • What rides: the door-level 400 / VALIDATION_ERROR pins in packages/runtime ride the spec PR on the cross-lane path, as the dissent offers. The overwrite describe text is packages/spec too.
    • Neighbour: metadata-protocol installPackage parses only the manifest id, so the primitive stores manifests the public install door refuses (type 'application', scope 'environment' from cloud's AI authoring) #24086 (domain:engine) makes the protocol's installPackage parse what the door parses. If it reads the same install declaration, it inherits this narrowing with no line of its own. Landing this card first is the natural order. Not a block.
    • Rows that already self-locked: the spec seat says, in its PR, whether they need a remedy (a startup re-scope or a documented operator delete). That is in scope for this card.

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  6. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 17, 2026

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    Claim: PM loop round 3 (takeover shift, serial) · 2026-10-17T06:11Z · #24062: an authored install that declares manifest.scope cloud or system is refused at the install declaration, so it can no longer lock itself; triage's route (grade 6226980977, retriage 6229341285)
    Session: session_01HSDGREvqxQUt7K7pjHXMyC (the seat; the dev is a cloud session whose draft PR carries its own session link, named on the seat post)
    Account: huangyiirene (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; always the card's assignee)
    Branch: claude/issue-24062-authored-install-scope
    Worktree: objectstack-issue-24062
    Domain: domain:spec (retriaged from domain:cli, 6229341285; the runtime door pins ride this PR on the cross-lane path that retriage names)
    Seat: domain:spec#2 (seat post #18549)
    File surface (paths on origin/main 9f024d8a2c or later; stop on a breach and explain it in the report):


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  7. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 17, 2026

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    os-dev-report
    {
    "issue": 24062,
    "status": "done",
    "branch": "claude/issue-24062-authored-install-scope",
    "pr": "#24160",
    "session": "session_015p3xNTnaiNHYkAHoQ4y5Cg",
    "premise_still_valid": true,
    "summary": "The install declaration now narrows manifest.scope to project: new export PackageInstallManifestSchema (ManifestSchema.extend with scope z.enum(['project']).default('project') and a prescribing error, packageInstallScopeRefusal) is the manifest of PackageInstallRequestSchema and the bare branch of PackageInstallBodySchema; ManifestSchema is untouched. POST /api/v1/packages answers 400 VALIDATION_ERROR, nothing installed, for scope cloud/system on both forms and both overwrite spellings; project/absent still 201, stored as sent. The overwrite describe now names the 422 WRITABLE_PACKAGE_REQUIRED refusal. DEVIATION (measured, not silent): A2 held for the verdict but not the sentence: installBodyRefusal re-parsed bare bodies with ManifestSchema, which passes scope cloud, so the bare refusal read '(body): Invalid input'; packages/runtime/src/domains/packages.ts now re-reads the union's own bare branch (one line + import + comment), proven load-bearing by ablation. Self-locked rows: hydration replays the stored scope, so they stay read-only; recommended remedy is the documented operator delete (in the changeset), no code remedy. files_changed: .changeset/24062-authored-install-scope-project.md, content/docs/references/api/package-api.mdx (gen), content/docs/references/index.mdx (gen), packages/runtime/src/domains/packages.ts, packages/runtime/src/domains/packages-install-body-contract.test.ts, packages/spec/src/api/package-api.zod.ts, packages/spec/src/api/package-api.test.ts, packages/spec/dropped-refinements.baseline.json (entry printed by the build + header totals), packages/spec/{api-surface,authorable-surface,authorable-defaults,json-schema.manifest,declaration-map,export-origins}/api.json (gen). Container fixed overhead, measured: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile 26 s wall (pnpm: 22.8 s), worktree checkout not timed separately; first spec build 104 s, runtime+client dependency closure build (33 turbo tasks, 0 cached) 255 s, all under the verify lock with 0 s wait.",
    "tests": "head b78d15a. Spec build VERDICT command-exit 0. Spec vitest --project local --maxWorkers=2 full: first run 690/692 files, 2 red were generated-ledger freshness (dropped-refinements header totals 235->236 / 766->767; export-origins missing PackageInstallManifestSchema, packageInstallScopeRefusal), regenerated, then scripts/dropped-refinements.test.ts + scripts/export-origins.test.ts 51/51 passed; src/api/package-api.test.ts + package-install-one-authority.test.ts 105/105. check:generated: 'All 14 generated artifacts are up to date' (after --fix regenerated exactly api-surface, declaration-map, docs). Spec typecheck + runtime typecheck VERDICT command-exit 0. Runtime all 28 src/domains/packages*.test.ts: 559 passed. Client readme-package-install-example + client.test + return-type-precision: 220 passed. Ablation 1 (runtime line back to ManifestSchema, scripts/ablation-replace.mjs, runtime src resolved directly): 4 failed / 40 passed, exactly the 4 BARE section-9 cases; restore blob == HEAD 3168f2e89ab3, git diff HEAD empty. Ablation 2 / reverse verification (enum widened back with marker abl_24062_cloud, spec rebuilt): ablation-dist-preflight 'marker present in 10 built files'; runtime contract 11 failed / 33 passed, spec 2 failed / 90 passed; restored, rebuilt, --absent preflight exit 0, 'working tree clean against HEAD'. Downstream direction: the only consumers of the changed symbols outside spec are packages/runtime (door + its tests) and packages/client (README/SDK tests), both run green above; no TS consumer of the PackageInstall* types exists outside packages/spec (git grep). test:repo not run locally (declared to CI).",
    "gates": "Local, derived by dispatch-gates --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack (110 families, tree b78d15a, merge base 9f024d8), exit captured before any pipe: 108 exit 0; 2 exit 3 PREREQUISITE NOT MET = NOT MEASURED, left to CI: pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec run check:skill-examples (packages/client-react/dist not built), pnpm check:dual-build-cjs-loads (dists outside this closure). check-plugin-teardown-shape --self-test first exit 3 on the shallow clone, then exit 0 ('48 cases pass') after git fetch of its pinned fixture commit 621a487. --ran reconciliation (command :: exit N form): '110 derived famil(ies) accounted for — 108 run, 2 NOT-MEASURED (2 DERIVED from a recorded exit 3)'. Also: check-adr-0087-registration exit 0 ([BREAKING+bang+clause-②-narrowing] not-required (no-migration-prescription)); check-changeset-no-major exit 0; check-dev-prereqs exit 0 (local-only family); check-governed-merges --branch: '0 of 14 path(s) hit the register ... NOT governed', 412 changed lines, no skills/** path moved. CI check-runs on PR 24160: in_progress at report time, not awaited (per os-dev contract).",
    "mcp_calls": "2 — mcp__github__issue_read (get, get_comments) on #24062, read-only, used because with-fleet.sh --read refused in this container (exit 3: fleet identity cannot be minted here); zero MCP write tools",
    "api_writes": "2 — both through the fleet-write relay (POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches): (1) pr_create, executed as POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls + POST /repos//issues/24160/assignees (run 39012763352, success, body read back identical); (2) comment on #24062, this report. git push is not a REST write. Zero label writes (none required).",
    "open_questions": [
    {
    "question": "Keep the one-line runtime change in packages/runtime/src/domains/packages.ts (installBodyRefusal re-reads the union's bare branch, PackageInstallManifestSchema, instead of ManifestSchema), which the claim expected not to be needed?",
    "options": ["A keep it: the bare-form refusal names scope, the value and the remedy; the door adds no verdict of its own", "B drop it: the bare form still answers 400 VALIDATION_ERROR but with '(body): Invalid input' and no prescription"],
    "recommendation": "A, because A4 requires the refusal to say what to write instead, and the door's header already says the re-read schemas are the spec's published branches — ManifestSchema no longer is that branch; ablation 1 shows it is load-bearing"
    }
    ],
    "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "carrier: #24086 · noted, not filed — if the protocol's installPackage is made to parse what the door parses, it inherits this narrowing only by parsing PackageInstallManifestSchema (or PackageInstallBodySchema), not ManifestSchema",
    "carrier: the seat / maintainer · noted, not filed — rows that already self-locked stay read-only after this PR (service-package hydration replays the stored scope; isWritablePackage reads it); remedy documented in the changeset as an operator DELETE FROM sys_packages + restart; a code remedy (startup re-scope) would be its own card on service-package and is not recommended (silent stored-row rewrite, no evidence of a real affected row)",
    "carrier: none · Studio (objectui) as a producer of POST /api/v1/packages: NOT MEASURED — sibling checkout absent from this container"
    ]
    }


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  8. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 17, 2026

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    Landed: PR #24160 → eda6f14b7b (Fixes #24062) · domain:spec seat 2 · huangyiirene · session session_01HSDGREvqxQUt7K7pjHXMyC · 2026-10-17T08:51Z

    probe reading
    PR object merged 2026-10-17T08:49Z out of the merge queue (enqueued 2026-10-17T08:18Z); squash eda6f14b7b on parent 2ac0616529
    origin/main git merge-base --is-ancestor eda6f14b7b origin/main → exit 0
    merged vs reviewed head the squash tree 429c589ed2 equals git merge-tree --write-tree 2ac0616529 b78d15a5b1 (the reviewed head)
    queue branch no gh-readonly-queue/main/pr-24160-* ref remains
    mis-close scan the body's only closing keyword is Fixes #24062; this card closed completed, and no other lane card left the open set
    chain claim 6230547268 (mode:cloud, dev session session_015p3xNTnaiNHYkAHoQ4y5Cg) · report 6231085714 · ACCEPT → PR #24160 comment 6231440359 (the dev's open question answered A; the claim's file surface amended to the one packages.ts line) · contract review PASS → PR #24160 comment 6231622048 (CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER, adopted after spot-checks)
    • What now holds on main: POST /api/v1/packages refuses an install whose manifest declares scope cloud or system with 400 / VALIDATION_ERROR, on both body forms and on either overwrite spelling, and the refusal says to drop scope or write 'project'. ManifestSchema is unchanged for every other producer. Rows that already locked themselves stay read-only; the changeset documents the operator delete.
    • State: pm:dispatched is removed in the write after this comment; the card stays closed. The dev's cloud session is archived in the same act.
    • Carried: metadata-protocol installPackage parses only the manifest id, so the primitive stores manifests the public install door refuses (type 'application', scope 'environment' from cloud's AI authoring) #24086 gets the inheritance line (parse PackageInstallManifestSchema / PackageInstallBodySchema, not ManifestSchema). Studio's create form offers scope cloud / system from ManifestSchema (objectui package-schema.ts); the objectui follow-up card is filed separately.
    • Cloud overhead, measured by the dev: install 26 s; first spec build 104 s; runtime and client closure build 255 s (33 turbo tasks, none cached).

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