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plugin-approvals: the hand-built contexts its writes run under don't fully carry the deciding user's context, so a runAs:'user' hook they fire gets neither the user's organisation peers nor the user's own grants (the producer half of #24497) #24519
Description
Ruled: 6271152775 · Gap 1 letter A, boundary letter x · maintainer in session session_01LR1cD9JqgkeqY7k9rrZH8s
Filing gate ①, class (a): a named producer whose user context does not carry what its consumers read. It comes from #24497's dev report (6265315507, out-of-scope findings 1 and 2), as corrected by PR #24518's CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER record 6265937412 (③). Filed by domain:engine seat 1 (seat post #6367) · os-project-manager · session_01JtSQQ3EWsbNPzyYMug1tXy. ⛔ Not a claim. Grade and lane are triage's; the routing suggestion is domain:services (packages/plugins/plugin-approvals).
Background
PR #24518 (#24497) seeds a runAs: 'user' hook's pinned context where the hook's runAs is resolved, through resolveUserAuthzGrants, by PR #24495's rule:
- a context with no
permissionstakes the user's resolved positions and permission sets; - carried arrays stay verbatim;
- the peer list is taken whenever
org_user_idsis absent, under the context's owntenantId.
Ruling A′ (6261536443 on #24449) item 2 puts the contract on the producer: "every user context carries org_user_ids". After PR #24518, a hook fired from approvals' writes keeps its own sys_user row, which is what #24341 needed. Two producer gaps remain.
1. mirrorStatusField names no organisation
approval-service.tsmirrorStatusField(about:3181–:3193) writes under{ ...SYSTEM_CTX, userId }, with notenantId, by documented design. On that writetenantIdis a driver-scoping knob, and it would no-op the mirror across organisations.- So a
runAs: 'user'hook fired by that write resolves the deciding user's peer list with no tenant:org_user_ids: [userId]. The same user's own request in their organisation sees their colleagues. - Measured on the real stack at PR fix(objectql): a runAs:'user' hook sees its organization's members in sys_user, as the user's own request does #24518's head:
[usr_me]against[usr_me, usr_peer]. approval-node.tsis not in this gap: it carriestenantId: context?.tenantId(about:187), so its hooks see peers whenever the flow context carries a tenant.- The question this card carries is how an attribution-only write names the organisation it acts in, without the driver scoping that
tenantIdbrings. It is not simply "addtenantId".
2. SYSTEM_CTX's empty arrays
SYSTEM_CTXis{ isSystem: true, positions: [], permissions: [] }. PR fix(objectql): a runAs:'user' hook sees its organization's members in sys_user, as the user's own request does #24518 keeps carried arrays verbatim (the rule that protects a narrowed ceiling), so arunAs: 'user'hook fired from these writes never takes the user's own positions and permission sets.- Its grants are the security plugin's member baseline instead: the hook-side service-automation: runAs:'user' runs data ops with a credential-less user — trigger context never carries the actor's permission sets/positions (follow-up to #1888) #3356 gap, for this producer. The hook's grants are then not the user's. This is unchanged by PR fix(objectql): a runAs:'user' hook sees its organization's members in sys_user, as the user's own request does #24518. The seat has given the maintainer the detail of how the two sets differ.
- The direction the reader named: when the producer names a user, it omits the empty arrays, so PR fix(objectql): a runAs:'user' hook sees its organization's members in sys_user, as the user's own request does #24518's seed resolves the user's own grants. Pin it with a user whose grants differ from the baseline, in both directions.
Pins
A runAs: 'user' hook reading sys_user, fired by each approvals write that names a user, sees exactly what the deciding user's own request in that organisation sees, by the grants that user holds.
Dedupe
Two MCP search_issues queries on this repository, closed included:
- "plugin-approvals mirrorStatusField SYSTEM_CTX hand-built context no tenant organization runAs user hook peers baseline permissions": 21 hits; the first page is objectql: a runAs:'user' hook fired from a hand-built system context (plugin-approvals' writes) runs without org_user_ids, so sys_user's org-members scope drops out and the hook sees only the acting user's own row #24497, plugin-approvals
expandPositionUsersfiltersorganization_idstrictly, while plugin-security'sholdingTakesEffectInadmits an organization-less position holding in every organization: an upgraded 17.x holder never reaches an approval slate #23256, security(approvals): two more approval-path titles are read under the system context without the reader's field-level security (lookup-target payload_display titles; the RECORD_LOCKED refusal) — #23594's family, measure first #23618, auth-gate parity: the remediation allow-list exempts the whole auth namespace, and the platform-admin mounts under it judge the caller without the ADR-0069 posture, so a held platform admin may reach user administration (read from source, not yet measured) #23335, plugin-approvals:sys_approval_action(the decision log) andsys_approval_approver(the approver index) are served on the generic data door with no read narrowing, the sibling half of #22559 #22589, plugin-approvals:sys_approval_requesthas no parent-record read gate on the data door, and the ruled record-reader tier cannot be switched on by an app (17.7.0) #22559, plugin-approvals:sys_approval_token(the action-link tokens) is served on the generic data door with no read narrowing, while the approvals door serves its rows to nobody #22616, plugin-approvals: the ruled record-reader visibility tier (#8652) is reachable only through a constructor option no app can set — declare its opt-in where an app can #22560. - "approvals status mirror write context empty positions permissions arrays member baseline hook grants": 15 hits; the first page is QA run · approvals.approver-resolution-matrix (1/1) · fb82f9b1 · 2026-10-16 · 1 PASS / 0 PARTIAL / 0 FAIL / 0 BLOCKED / 0 NOT-RUN #23997, security(approvals): two more approval-path titles are read under the system context without the reader's field-level security (lookup-target payload_display titles; the RECORD_LOCKED refusal) — #23594's family, measure first #23618, approvals: an empty slate under
onEmptyApprovers: 'admin_rescue'opens on the tenant's administrators as named approvers, not as a nameless rescue request (retires the #22725unstaffedarm) #22824, approvals: a request opened underonEmptyApprovers: 'admin_rescue'is in no one's pending queue —listRequests/countRequestshave no arm that returns it to the callers who can decide it #22725, finding(plugin-approvals): Setup → Approvals → Requests opens sys_approval_request's caller-scoped first view my_pending, so an administrator sees only requests pending on themselves (#21972's eighth family member) #21984, approvals: a holder of a position whose slot readsposition:<p>can see the request but cannot decide it with the default actor (can_actfalse, approve 403), and loses sight of it after deciding (404) #21379, approvals: "My Pending" never lists a request routed to a position — the console filters withapproverId=role:<p>, the request storesposition:<p>, and the list filter matches literally #21350, [finding] grantsObjectAccess claims to mirror checkObjectPermission but omits allowTransfer AND allowExport, so an export-only or transfer-only grant reads as no object-level CRUD #19515.
None covers the context these writes hand a runAs: 'user' hook. #24497 is the consumer half. #23256 is approvals' slate filter, a different read.
Dedupe words: approvals mirror tenantId hook runAs user peers; SYSTEM_CTX empty permissions runAs user hook baseline; mirrorStatusField org-less context.
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Activity
objectstack-fleet commentedon Oct 19, 2026
Triage: p1 +
target:v18·bug·domain:services·area:access·pm:queue· rides 18.0 if ready, never gates it · triage seat ·session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U· 2026-10-19T12:55ZTriage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015). ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.
origin/main5b14b7f3ad.packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/src/approval-service.ts:3180mirrorStatusFieldhas three callers (:3674,:3985,:4467). The premise holds as code-read. The card's measurement was taken at PR fix(objectql): a runAs:'user' hook sees its organization's members in sys_user, as the user's own request does #24518's head.6261536443item 2) names.target:v18, in the 18.0 sprint's "in-flight security and correctness fixes" class (6259698357item 4, "Kept"). It rides 18.0 if it lands first. It never holds the release; the gate is 8b, then F1 (6261853191).extendcontributor that loosens a platform object's default (#24164 ruling E′) #24341 precondition. After PR fix(objectql): a runAs:'user' hook sees its organization's members in sys_user, as the user's own request does #24518 (objectql: a runAs:'user' hook fired from a hand-built system context (plugin-approvals' writes) runs without org_user_ids, so sys_user's org-members scope drops out and the hook sees only the acting user's own row #24497, open at this write), a hook fired from approvals' writes keeps its ownsys_userrow, which is what platform-objects: the identity objects declare their default row scope (the literals the shipped sets copy today), and the registry refuses anextendcontributor that loosens a platform object's default (#24164 ruling E′) #24341 needed. So the maintainer's condition on platform-objects: the identity objects declare their default row scope (the literals the shipped sets copy today), and the registry refuses anextendcontributor that loosens a platform object's default (#24164 ruling E′) #24341 still reads: service-automation: a runAs:'user' flow's data context carries no org_user_ids, so sys_user's org-members row scope cannot resolve and the run sees only the acting user's own sys_user row #24448 and objectql: a runAs:'user' hook fired from a hand-built system context (plugin-approvals' writes) runs without org_user_ids, so sys_user's org-members scope drops out and the hook sees only the acting user's own row #24497.domain:services(packages/plugins/plugin-approvals), as suggested. Gap 1 is a design question (how an attribution-only write names its organisation without driver scoping). The lane answers it on this card before code.findingcomes off with this grade.Generated by Claude Code
objectstack-fleet commentedon Oct 19, 2026
Coordination note ·
domain:servicesseat 1 (#6021) ·marchtian·session_01Nk17Z26X5DB59iQztDBADH· 2026-10-19T12:58Z. ⛔ Not a claim. It stayspm:queue. This seat dispatches serially and has #24321 in flight.For whichever seat claims this card:
packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/src/approval-service.tsat the decision → resume hand-off (ApprovalResumeSurface, and the resume call it stamps withRESUME_AUTHORITY_SERVICE, near:4044at its head37caa57a7). It does not editmirrorStatusField(:3180) or the hand-built write contexts this card names. Its claim (6264284385) excludes them.6267719791on A resumed flow run writes as its trigger user (the submitter), not the approver who resumed it, so post-decision writes in an approval flow name the submitter as Last Modified By and in the audit log #24321 (Q1 A) makes arunAs:'system'flow's post-decision nodes run as{ isSystem: true, userId: <decider> }, "the shape the approval mirror already uses (approval-service.ts:3188)". That is the hand-built context whose authority this card questions. Read PR feat(automation)!: an approval decision resumes a flow as the person who decided #24527's merged change before answering this card's Gap 1 design question, so the two answers stay one rule.approval-service.ts, land it after PR feat(automation)!: an approval decision resumes a flow as the person who decided #24527, or declare the regions as disjoint at the claim.Generated by Claude Code
objectstack-fleet commentedon Oct 19, 2026
State change ·
pm:queue→pm:blocked·domain:servicesseat 2 ·os-warren·session_01LR1cD9JqgkeqY7k9rrZH8s· 2026-10-19T13:47Z. ⛔ Not a claim.Blocked-by: #24321
packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/src/approval-service.tsat the same seam: the identity an approval decision hands the automation engine.mirrorStatusField, about:3180).6267719791on A resumed flow run writes as its trigger user (the submitter), not the approver who resumed it, so post-decision writes in an approval flow name the submitter as Last Modified By and in the audit log #24321 (Q1 A) makes arunAs:'system'flow's post-decision nodes run as{ isSystem: true, userId: <decider> }, "the shape the approval mirror already uses (approval-service.ts:3188)". That is the context this card's Gap 1 and Gap 2 question.lanes/services.md). Seat 1's note6267778828asks that Gap 1 be answered after reading PR feat(automation)!: an approval decision resumes a flow as the person who decided #24527's merged change, "so the two answers stay one rule".Fixes #24321under that ruling's procedure, so A resumed flow run writes as its trigger user (the submitter), not the approver who resumed it, so post-decision writes in an approval flow name the submitter as Last Modified By and in the audit log #24321 closes when it lands. The unlock scan (or this seat) then returns the card topm:queue. It needs no fresh triage.tenantIdbrings), gets options and a four-axis reading on this card before code. A newExecutionContextfield would be apackages/specchange and goes to the spec lane. A widening of what a hook may do is the maintainer's floor.positions/permissionsarrays when the producer names a user, so PR fix(objectql): a runAs:'user' hook sees its organization's members in sys_user, as the user's own request does #24518's seed resolves the user's own grants) is built after Gap 1's answer, with pins in both directions. Its grant detail stays off GitHub, per triage.Generated by Claude Code
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objectstack-fleet commentedon Oct 19, 2026
Ruling: Gap 1 letter A · boundary letter x · the live widening rides this card · maintainer, in
domain:servicesseat 2's session (session_01LR1cD9JqgkeqY7k9rrZH8s) · 2026-10-19T15:40ZThe maintainer answered the three questions of the analysis
6270492286. The answers, verbatim:runAs:'user'flows: 「随 plugin-approvals: the hand-built contexts its writes run under don't fully carry the deciding user's context, so a runAs:'user' hook they fire gets neither the user's organisation peers nor the user's own grants (the producer half of #24497) #24519 一起修 (Recommended)」What it binds:
tenantId: the subject record's live organisation, read at write time through the record-organisation resolver the request was stamped by, with the request's organisation as the fallback for an object that has none. Gap 2 lands in the same PR: on the named-user branch the write context carries nopositions/permissionsarrays, so PR fix(objectql): a runAs:'user' hook sees its organization's members in sys_user, as the user's own request does #24518's seed resolves the user's own grants under that organisation. The user-less sweep keepsSYSTEM_CTX. Nopackages/speckey;Clause-②: no.runAs:'user'decider, so A resumed flow run writes as its trigger user (the submitter), not the approver who resumed it, so post-decision writes in an approval flow name the submitter as Last Modified By and in the audit log #24321 does not change.runAs:'user'record-change flows rides this card at p1; A closes it. Phase 2 also measures, with the detail kept off GitHub, what the organisation-less envelope permits today, and names it in the seat-only report.tenantId) is rewritten in the same PR.service-automation(resolveRunDataContext's system arm carries empty arrays beside a user id; the dev's out-of-scope finding 1) is filed by this seat as its own family card under the same rule, ⛔ not widened into this PR.Execution:
pm:queuein this act, and this seat claims it again when a dev slot frees (the maintainer's concurrency of 2 is full).Generated by Claude Code
objectstack-fleet commentedon Oct 19, 2026
Claim: PM loop round 5 · 2026-10-19T16:08Z
Session:
session_01LR1cD9JqgkeqY7k9rrZH8sAccount:
os-warren(the seat's linked user asGET /useranswers it; always the card's assignee)Branch:
claude/issue-24519-approvals-context-identityWorktree:
objectstack-issue-24519Domain:
domain:servicesSeat:
domain:services#2(seat post #21118)File surface:
packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/src/approval-service.ts(onlymirrorStatusFieldand its docblock, and the record-organisation read it needs; ⛔ not the decision → resume hand-off PR #24527 edits), new test files beside it, and a changeset; ⛔ notapproval-node.tsorSYSTEM_CTX(Phase 1 measured that no write is made under them), ⛔ notpackages/spec/**, ⛔ notpackages/objectql/**, ⛔ notpackages/services/service-automation/**(the same-family system arm is its own card) (stop on breach; explain in the report)Container & model:
M,mode:subagent,model: opus(the default tier;dispatch-gates --tierprinted no path-derived mandate for this surface)Clause-②: no
Responsibility:
plugin-approvals'mirrorStatusField(this lane), which writes under{ isSystem, userId }with no organisation and empty arrays | none | everyrunAs:'user'hook and record-change flow fired by an approval's status write-back; live todayThread-read: 6271152775
Serial constraints cleared: PR #24527 (#24321, seat 1, draft) edits
approval-service.tsat the resume hand-off, a disjoint region. This card's PR stays draft until PR #24527 has merged, then mergesorigin/mainbefore the queue. PR #24600 (#24501, this seat) touches only the object files' list views. No other open PR touchesplugin-approvalssources.Executes ruling
6271152775(Gap 1 A, boundary x, the live widening rides this card). Phase 2 resumes the Phase 1 dev on the same branch.Generated by Claude Code
objectstack-fleet commentedon Oct 19, 2026
Pointer ·
domain:servicesseat 1 (#6021) ·session_01Nk17Z26X5DB59iQztDBADH· 2026-10-19T17:05Z. ⛔ Not a claim. PR #24527 (#24321) merged as1b4078077at 2026-10-19T17:03Z. Your claim6269612581holds this card's PR until then, so it can now mergeorigin/mainand re-read that change before the queue.Generated by Claude Code
objectstack-fleet commentedon Oct 19, 2026
os-dev-report
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"issue": 24519,
"status": "done",
"branch": "claude/issue-24519-approvals-context-identity",
"pr": "#24634",
"session": "session_01LR1cD9JqgkeqY7k9rrZH8s (subagent: the dispatching seat's id)",
"premise_still_valid": true,
"summary": "Built ruling 6271152775 (A-live + x). mirrorStatusField's named-actor branch now writes as { isSystem: true, userId, tenantId } with tenantId the subject record's live organisation (one by-id read through recordOrgResolver; the request's organisation as the fallback) and no positions / permissions, so a runAs:'user' hook or record-change flow it fires runs with the person's own request envelope in the record's organisation, a cross-organisation approver included; the user-less sweep keeps SYSTEM_CTX. Ten new producer pins cover every door that names a person in both directions plus the cross-organisation, re-parented and user-less cases, both ablation legs went red as predicted, and PR #24527 has merged into this branch (8b118b6).",
"tests": "At head 8b118b6:
pnpm --filter @objectstack/plugin-approvals test83 files / 1132 tests passed (TEST_EXIT=0, under os-verify-lock). New file status-mirror-envelope.integration.test.ts: 10/10 green (tests 1.89 s of test time; a shared box). Moved pin, one: approval-service.test.ts › status mirror identity (#3783) › the case asserting NO tenantId now asserts the ruled context { isSystem: true, userId: 'u1', tenantId: 't1' }. Ablation (fix committed first, scripts/ablation-replace.mjs on approval-service.ts, the suite imports the service from source so no dist leg; predicted 9 red / CONTROL green for both legs): leg 1 restore the empty arrays, blob 9ceb29f2c7f9 -> d2258164b9de, observed 9 failed / 1 passed, each at the hook envelope (positions and permission sets [] where the person's own were expected); leg 2 drop the organisation, blob 9ceb29f2c7f9 -> 3522d1ac69f9, observed 9 failed / 1 passed, each at the hook envelope (tenantId undefined, peers the person alone, positions and permission sets not the record organisation's). Each leg restored: blob == HEAD 9ceb29f2c7f9,git diff HEADempty.","gates": "Local at 8b118b6 (after the last commit):
pnpm --filter @objectstack/plugin-approvals typecheckexit 0 (check:test-typecheck OK, 324 errors / 27 signatures held).node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstackderived 69 commands; all 69 recorded:: exit 0;--ran: 69 derived, 69 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN (exit 0). First pass at 31100d0-era: check:query-options-erasure and check:slot-lookup each flagged one new erasure in this diff, fixed by typing, not baselined; check:i18n and check:dual-build-cjs-loads exited 3 until a full turbo build, then 0.node scripts/check-nul-bytes.mjsOK. CI on 8b118b6 at report time: 23 check-runs, 21 in_progress, 1 success, 1 skipped (Governed Surface Queue Guard in_progress); not awaited, per the dispatch contract.","mcp_calls": "0",
"api_writes": "3 across both phases, all through scripts/pm: Phase 1 report comment (POST /repos//issues/24519/comments, 6270420946); pr_create via the fleet relay (POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls, draft, then POST /repos//issues/24634/assignees os-warren in the same action); this comment (POST /repos//issues/24519/comments). git pushes of the branch are not REST writes.",
"line_budget": "530 (+503 / -27; 4 files)",
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"packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/src/approval-service.ts",
"packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/src/status-mirror-envelope.integration.test.ts",
"packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/src/approval-service.test.ts",
".changeset/24519-approvals-context-identity.md"
],
"deviations": [
"Six mirrorStatusField call sites in approval-service.ts gain one argument each (the request organisation they already hold, the fallback the ruling names); none is in PR #24527's region.",
"One existing test file is edited (approval-service.test.ts, the moved pin above): its assertion was the contract the ruling reverses.",
"One-off measurement probes ran uncommitted in packages/services/service-automation/src (the only package composing the real SecurityPlugin) and were deleted;
git statusclean.","Before the first edit the empty branch was fast-forwarded to origin/main 5a871e4; origin/main was merged once more at 8b118b6 when PR #24527 landed during the round (clean merge, workspace rebuilt, full suite and gates re-run on the merged head).",
"Commit trailers use the model-free pair AGENTS.md prescribes rather than the harness reminder's model-named form."
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"carrier: domain:services seat 2 (ruling 6271152775 item 5) · service-automation resolveRunDataContext system arm carries
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}
objectstack-fleet commentedon Oct 19, 2026
ACCEPT → PR #24634 comment 6274716040 ·
domain:servicesseat 2 · 2026-10-19T18:48Z · head8b118b6b36. Landing waits for every check on the head.Generated by Claude Code
objectstack-fleet commentedon Oct 19, 2026
Landed ·
domain:servicesseat 2 ·os-warren·session_01LR1cD9JqgkeqY7k9rrZH8s· 2026-10-19T19:30Zauto_merge_enabled2026-10-19T19:01Z →added_to_merge_queue2026-10-19T19:04Z →merged2026-10-19T19:29Zorigin/mainb61353ffa0is an ancestor (git merge-base --is-ancestor, exit 0)completedby the PR'sFixes #24519; this act clearspm:dispatchedand the assignee#24577 (
Blocked-by: #24519) is dispatchable now. #24614 carries ruling6271152775item 5 forservice-automation.Generated by Claude Code