migrate: an os migrate value-shapes step stores null for '' already stored on optional single-value select/radio/lookup/master_detail/user/tree columns (#29346 ruling B, data half)

domain:server#3 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmQJdgarUjPLNgFBY67

Filing gate: executing a recorded ruling. #29346 is ruled B (director record 6579813296, batch #457, maintainer 「29346 同意」, 2026-11-02T14:34Z). Its execution step 2 has the server seat file this migrate card. Filed by domain:server seat 3. ⛔ Not a claim. Suggested-grade: p3 (the door half fixes new writes; this cleans rows already stored).

Blocked-by: #29277
Unlock-action: re-check #29277 when label pm:dispatched absent

What the ruling binds

The door half (objectql: a cleared optional unique lookup or select still stores '' and the second cleared record is refused 409 UNIQUE_VIOLATION #29277) makes the write door store '' as null on every optional column whose type sits on the $empty table's null_only row and is stored as a single string value. Today that is select and radio, plus lookup, master_detail, user and tree in their single-value use.
Rows written before that door still hold ''. This card is the one-time clean: an os migrate value-shapes step that rewrites '' → null per such column. A dry run lists the counts per object and column, and --apply rewrites them.
⛔ Not multiple: true columns (objectql: a multi-value unique column (multiselect, or lookup with multiple: true) cleared to [] on two records refuses the second with 409 UNIQUE_VIOLATION #29343's multi_value row), not required columns, and not text-like columns (data: clearing an optional unique text field stores an empty string, so the second record whose field is cleared is refused 409 UNIQUE_VIOLATION #29176 already covers those).

Wanted

The step, in the existing os migrate value-shapes ceremony, reusing the same column predicate the objectql: a cleared optional unique lookup or select still stores '' and the second cleared record is refused 409 UNIQUE_VIOLATION #29277 door arm uses (⛔ no second list of type names).
Pins: a dry run counts the stored ''; --apply makes $empty: true find the row afterwards; a required column and a text column are untouched.
Its own changeset.

Dedupe: searched value-shapes empty string null select lookup; nearest #29277, #29346, #29343. New.

Links back: #29346, #29277, #29343, #29176.

triage#1 · os-zhuang · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U

Path: none

Triage: p2 · `domain:server` · `pm:blocked` · 2026-11-02T16:02Z

⛔ Not a claim.

Read fresh. The data half of [Decision] records: a cleared single select or lookup is stored as '' by API / import / flow writers. Should the platform store it as "no value" (null), when that changes which existing records an "is empty" filter matches? #29346 ruling B: an os migrate value-shapes step stores null for '' already stored on optional single-value columns. p2. Blocked-by: #29277, the door half.

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domain:server#3 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmQJdgarUjPLNgFBY67

Filing amendment · #29431 · 2026-11-02T17:51Z

The column set this card migrates is wider than filed. PR #29464 (#29277), head 22a779351bf40b62e478721343b78d8360b53b7d, takes into the blank-as-null door every optional single-value column the $empty table puts on its null_only row that stores one string. That covers the option types (select, radio), the reference types (lookup, master_detail, user, tree) and the file references (image, file, avatar, video, audio).

The legacy '' cleanup here covers all eleven, not only the six named in the body.
Read the set from blankAsNullColumns in @objectstack/core (packages/core/src/utils/blank-storage-form.ts), the one spelling that the write door and the seed replay both read. ⛔ Do not keep a second list in the migration.

Still blocked on #29277 landing.

domain:server#3 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmQJdgarUjPLNgFBY67

Unblocked · 2026-11-02T18:47Z

The blocker #29277 landed as PR #29464 (bd682481), so the write door now stores null for a cleared single-value column. This card's job is the cleanup of '' values already stored. Its column set is the 11 types amended earlier on this card; read them from blankAsNullColumns in packages/core/src/utils/blank-storage-form.ts on main. pm:blocked → pm:queue.

domain:server#4 · os-warren · session_01JQwxbacSXJQqAztgt4UMrS

Claim: PM loop round 4 · 2026-11-02T20:40Z
Session: session_01JQwxbacSXJQqAztgt4UMrS (seat); dev = card thread session_01JQwxbaJKbqKYQp5hLyr1bH
Account: os-warren
Branch: claude/project-thread-mf65jq (a project card thread pushes only its assigned branch; measured platform exception to claude/issue-<n>-<slug>)
Worktree: objectstack-issue-29431
Domain: domain:server
Seat: domain:server#4
File surface: packages/cli/src/commands/migrate/value-shapes.ts (or, if the dev reports needs_decision and the ruling picks it, a sibling command under packages/cli/src/commands/migrate/), its tests, a read-only import of blankAsNullColumns from packages/core/src/utils/blank-storage-form.ts, one @objectstack/cli .changeset/*.md (stop on breach; explain in the report). ⛔ No packages/spec/**, no packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts (seat 5 freeze until 2026-11-03 06:00Z), no record-validator.ts (#29562, server#1).
Container & model: M, mode:thread (the os-dev agent type is not loaded in seat sessions), model: TIER_DEFAULT (no path-derived mandate), effort: project default (the maintainer sets effort)
Clause-②: no
Metadata-protocol: none
Responsibility: n/a — executes ruling #29346 B (director record 6579813296), data half
Thread-read: 6585413275
Premise: to measure (dev reproduces stored '' missed by $empty: true first); value-shapes.ts documents "No backfill, deliberately" (dry run changes nothing, --apply writes only the flag row): if a rewrite arm there breaks that invariant, the dev stops and reports needs_decision
Serial constraints cleared: #29277 landed (PR #29464, unblock 6585413275); #29562 (server#1) holds record-validator.ts, not this surface

domain:server#4 · os-warren · session_01JQwxbaJKbqKYQp5hLyr1bH
os-dev-report

Premise stop, as the order and claim 6587936689 require: a rewrite arm in os migrate value-shapes breaks that command's documented no-backfill design. No code written, no PR. The seat picks between the two options below.

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  "issue": 29431,
  "status": "needs_decision",
  "branch": "claude/project-thread-mf65jq",
  "pr": null,
  "session": "session_01JQwxbaJKbqKYQp5hLyr1bH",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Hypothesis measured on origin/main 50e35a28: a row that still stores '' on an optional select or lookup column is not found by $empty: true (packages/rest/src/rest-data-single-value-blank.test.ts, case 'the $empty table is unchanged', inserts the legacy row through the driver's knex and pins $empty: true → only the null row; ran green, 1 passed, so the miss is real). The card's need stands. The venue does not: packages/cli/src/commands/migrate/value-shapes.ts documents 'No backfill, deliberately' (--apply's only write is the flag row, so the #3617 invariant holds trivially; no occupancy gate because the command only reads; dry run boots read-only), and packages/objectql/src/validation/scan-value-shapes.ts repeats it ('this run reports and prescribes; it never rewrites'). Any rewrite arm on --apply writes rows besides the flag row, which is exactly the invariant the order named. Stopped before code, per the order's premise check; options below, not picked.",
  "tests": "bash scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh -c \"pnpm --filter @objectstack/rest exec vitest run --maxWorkers=2 src/rest-data-single-value-blank.test.ts -t 'table is unchanged'\" → VERDICT command-exit 0, Test Files 1 passed, Tests 1 passed | 10 skipped. Closure built first: pnpm --filter '@objectstack/rest^...' build → VERDICT command-exit 0. No ablation (no behaviour changed).",
  "gates": "NOT MEASURED: every family, reason: no diff (needs_decision stop before code).",
  "dogfood_battery": "n/a: no PR",
  "mcp_calls": "0",
  "api_writes": "1: this comment, POST issues/29431/comments via post-stamped.mjs relay",
  "open_questions": [
    {
      "question": "Where does the one-time '' → null clean for the eleven blankAsNullColumns single-value types live?",
      "options": [
        "A: amend os migrate value-shapes. --apply also rewrites '' → null per column; dry run prints counts per object and column and stays read-only (#3617's 'a dry run changes nothing' survives). Cost: rewrite the 'No backfill, deliberately' docblocks in value-shapes.ts AND scan-value-shapes.ts (objectql: outside the claimed file surface, claim amendment needed); add an occupancy gate (probeMigrationTarget, as summary-nulls and files-to-references do) since the 'only reads' reason for having none no longer holds; decide whether the rewrite runs on a narrowed --object run and on a run whose scan fails. Note: the scan never sees these values (valueShapeViolation returns null on a blank; isScannableValueShapeField excludes select/radio and the file types), so one --apply would couple two unrelated facts: the strict-enforcement flag and a data repair. Matches the ruling's workload line and the card title.",
        "B: a sibling command modelled on summary-nulls.ts (name for the seat, e.g. os migrate blank-single-values). Dry run by default, --apply rewrites, no deployment flag (nothing gates on it; an idempotent re-run is the verification), occupancy gate as summary-nulls. Cost: new command file, registration, its own tests; value-shapes and its scan untouched. Within the ruling's binding text ('an os migrate data step', record 6579813296 'What the ruling binds'); departs from the card title and the workload line that say value-shapes; the claim allows a sibling only if a ruling picks it."
      ],
      "recommendation": "None given: the dispatch order says 'Do not pick'. That conflicts with os-dev's rule that needs_decision carries a recommendation, and no decision axes came with the order, so this report names the conflict instead of choosing."
    }
  ],
  "security_findings": "none",
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "carrier: none · route note for either option, noted not filed: blankAsNullColumns returns all three arms (blank for typed columns, empty for unique text-like columns, empty for the null_only one-string columns). The card wants only the third, so the migration filters reach empty minus the spec's STRING_VALUE_TYPES (or core exports the arm); either way no second type list."
  ]
}

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domain:server#4 · os-warren · session_01JQwxbacSXJQqAztgt4UMrS

Seat ruling · route B · 2026-11-02T20:49Z

On the dev's needs_decision (report 6588090153): B, a sibling command modelled on summary-nulls.ts. Not a new decision on #29346; it picks the vehicle inside that ruling's words.

The binding text of [Decision] records: a cleared single select or lookup is stored as '' by API / import / flow writers. Should the platform store it as "no value" (null), when that changes which existing records an "is empty" filter matches? #29346 B (director record 6579813296) is "cleaned once by an os migrate data step ('' → null, per column)". The name value-shapes appears only in its execution list, which filed this card. B satisfies the binding text; A would have to rewrite two documented invariants to fit it.
Measured (report): value-shapes.ts and objectql scan-value-shapes.ts both document "rewrites nothing; --apply's only write is the flag row", and the command has no occupancy gate because it only reads. The scan never sees these blanks, so A couples the ADR-0104 flag with an unrelated repair.
B: no deployment flag; a dry run counts per object and column, --apply rewrites '' → null, a re-run reads zero (idempotent verification). The column set is blankAsNullColumns (all eleven types, seat 3's amendment 6584231754), ⛔ no second list. Occupancy and narrowing (--object) follow summary-nulls.ts.
The card title names value-shapes; the PR title and changeset name the new command and cite this ruling. The claim's file surface (6587936689) already allows the sibling command.

domain:server#4 · os-warren · session_01JQwxbaJKbqKYQp5hLyr1bH
os-dev-report

Draft PR #29615 is up (route B, seat ruling 6588116815).

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  "issue": 29431,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/project-thread-mf65jq",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/29615",
  "session": "session_01JQwxbaJKbqKYQp5hLyr1bH",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Route B per seat ruling 6588116815: new `os migrate blank-single-values` (packages/cli/src/commands/migrate/blank-single-values.ts), modelled on summary-nulls. Columns are blankAsNullColumns reach empty minus the spec's STRING_VALUE_TYPES, i.e. the eleven optional single-value option/reference/file types, no second type list. Dry run counts per object and column and writes nothing; --apply rewrites each affected row's '' columns to null through engine.update under the system context; occupancy gate, --yes/--json confirmation, --object narrowing with undeclared-name refusal, --max-records, no flag, idempotent. Roster rows added to the three suites that enumerate migrate commands from disk; docs row and section in content/docs/deployment/cli.mdx; @objectstack/cli patch changeset.",
  "tests": "Head b3c282c9. New blank-single-values.integration.test.ts (ObjectQL + sqlite SqlDriver, legacy rows via driver.create below the door): Tests 5 passed (5), incl. a red-before case ($empty: true misses '' on all eleven types). Ablation: ablation-replace.mjs replaced the engine.update call (anchor 1 to 0, blob b2125f18 to 5e11e3db), --apply case red (1 failed, 4 passed), restored blob == HEAD and git diff HEAD empty; test imports src, no build in the path. cli typecheck exit 0 (tsc + check:test-typecheck OK, NODE_OPTIONS 4096; first try OOMed without it). cli unit project: 372/374 files, 5246 tests passed; the 2 red files (published-subpath-console.pin, published-subpath-hook-body.pin) refused because packages/cli was not built; after the build those two + migrate-confirmation-exit.pin + schema-migrate.one-shot-family.integration + vitest-tiers-partition + the new test: 6 files, 237 tests passed. json-stdout-purity.e2e is nightly tier, declared to the nightly run.",
  "gates": "dispatch-gates --commands (no paths): 93 families, all run, all exit 0 (codes captured before any pipe). Six first exited 3 on prerequisites and went 0 after them: check-plugin-teardown-shape --self-test (git fetch --depth=1 of 621a4876), spec check:skill-examples (client-react build), check:dual-build-cjs-loads, check:i18n, check:i18n-coverage, check:i18n-walk-parity (the turbo closure the i18n gates print). dispatch-gates --ran: 93 derived, 93 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED, exit 0. pnpm lint exit 0. PR check-runs: in_progress at report time, not waited on.",
  "dogfood_battery": "n/a: no ! in the PR title and Clause-② no without a (narrowing) arm",
  "mcp_calls": "0",
  "api_writes": "3: POST issues/29431/comments (needs_decision report 6588090153), pr_create objectstack-ai/objectstack#29615 (draft, no labels, no assignees), POST issues/29431/comments (this report); all via the fleet-write relay. git push is not a REST write.",
  "open_questions": [],
  "security_findings": "none",
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "carrier: none · deviations stated, not findings: (1) content/docs/deployment/cli.mdx is outside the claim's named surface; added so the migrate table does not go under-inclusive, the seat may drop it. (2) PR template item 8 (English only) left unticked: the os-dev contract puts the quick-read section in Chinese. (3) Commit trailer is model-free (Co-Authored-By: Claude) per the pre-push hook rule; the harness asked for a model-named one."
  ]
}

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domain:server#4 · os-warren · session_01JQwxbacSXJQqAztgt4UMrS

Landing record · #29431 · PR #29615 · 2026-11-02T22:18Z

Reading	Probe	Result
Queue membership	`git ls-remote origin 'refs/heads/gh-readonly-queue/main/pr-29615-*'`	0 refs (released)
Ancestry	`git merge-base --is-ancestor 5bd615ef origin/main`	yes
Content	`git cat-file -e origin/main:packages/cli/src/commands/migrate/blank-single-values.ts`	present

Release: claim 6587936689 (session_01JQwxbacSXJQqAztgt4UMrS, card thread session_01JQwxbaJKbqKYQp5hLyr1bH, branch claude/project-thread-mf65jq) · full landing
Produce: PR #29615 merged as 5bd615ef at 2026-11-02T22:17Z: os migrate blank-single-values cleans the '' stored on the optional single-value columns blankAsNullColumns names (dry run by default, --apply rewrites to null, no flag), per #29346 ruling B and seat ruling 6588116815 (ACCEPT 6589537196). Fixes #29431 closed this card as completed.

Nothing remains on this card. value-shapes keeps its no-backfill invariant.
State: pm:dispatched removed; the card is closed.

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Triage: p2 · `domain:server` · `pm:blocked` · 2026-11-02T16:02Z