docs(qa): 18.0 sweep anchor round 15 — QA round 4's ref-accuracy findings, scored per RUNNER rule 6 (a pin scores only the layer it drives)

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Refs #24579
Clause-②: no

Round 15 of the 18.0 sweep's wave anchor (claim 6290925424, PM loop round 25). It applies the "Checklist-accuracy findings / fixture gaps" section of QA round 4's Tier 1 record (#24840, framework 307ce4c4) under RUNNER rule 6, "A pin scores only the layer it drives" (RUNNER.md rule 6, landed by PR #24811), and round 6's theme-B rule (PR #24697).

Only checklist text changes. 21 items in 9 area files each take one revision bump and one history row, and each row names #24840 and the finding. There is no product code, test, pin, changeset text or RUNNER.md change. records-forms.record-discussion-mentions is untouched.

• Base b1676441ba, which is PR qa(checklist): records-forms.record-discussion-mentions — @mention recipients gated on read access (the clause #24802 deferred) #24869's merge commit. origin/main 98c3d00447 is merged in c4da0e622b and touches no docs/qa/** path.
• Every item and every pin named below was re-read at the base before it was written. Rounds 12 to 14 edited several of these items after QA run · tier1:24681-touched (63/82) · 307ce4c4 · 2026-10-20 · 10 PASS / 53 PARTIAL / 0 FAIL / 0 BLOCKED / 19 NOT-RUN #24840's base, and the items they settled are listed under "Items left alone".
• A scripted span editor made every edit. It never re-serialises a file. For each area file it re-parses the result and asserts four things: the new document equals the old one with the declared ops applied; every other item and top-level key is value-equal; each edited item's changed paths are inside its declared fields plus revision and the one new history row; and the text outside the edited items is byte-identical. A whole-branch check against the base agrees: 21 items changed, each with revision +1 and exactly one appended row.
• The new history rows carry the placeholder ref #PENDING-24579R15, because a row's ref names this PR and the PR had no number yet. The next commit on this branch swaps in this PR's number and changes nothing else.

How rule 6 was applied

• A pin scores a clause only when it drives the layer the clause's oracle sits at: unit, driver, engine, HTTP door, boot log or CLI exit. The layer is read off the pin's own harness, never off its file name.
• A ref that claims more is narrowed per clause (theme-B). Where no pin holds a full clause, automated is removed and a fixtures.knownGaps line says what the pin does assert and when automated may return. That happened on 6 items.
• Item text that told a runner to score an api or log clause from a lower pin ("Unit fallback", "score from the pin", "unit-pin verdict") now cites that pin as evidence of its own layer only. Where the live leg cannot be staged on stock, the clause is recorded blocked(fixture) with the pin beside it. It is never scored pass.
• Negatives are read the same way. A negative whose FAIL condition is a door's answer (a 2xx, an envelope, a row the door left) is scored at that door. A negative whose FAIL condition is a state the pin's own layer owns and reads directly (a spawn the provider never reaches, a DDL change the driver's sync makes, a background task that throws) can be scored at that layer. Three QA round 4 verdicts read differently under this rule, and they are listed under "Items left alone".
• A missing pin was added only after reading that it asserts the named clause's whole oracle at that clause's layer. Where it asserts half, the item says which half instead.

Changes

finding (#24840)	item	field	old → new	pin read at b1676441ba (test, layer)
ref claims more: a2	cli.migrate-plan-apply-json	automated removed; fixtures.knownGaps[0] added	"covers acceptance[2] ONLY" → no ref; the knownGap names the pin as unit evidence for acceptance[2]	packages/cli/src/utils/format.exit-code.test.ts: emitJson / emitText in-process (unit). acceptance[2] scores echo $? after each subcommand
ref claims more: a4	cli.verify-verdict-exit-mapping	automated removed; fixtures.knownGaps[1] added	"covers acceptance[4] ONLY" → no ref	verify-tenancy-posture.test.ts: resolveVerifyMultiTenant only (unit; its docblock says it is not an end-to-end os verify run)
defective pin; missing pin a4/n2	cli.dev-automigrate-policy	automated.ref; fixtures.knownGaps[2] added	bare sql-driver-schema-drift.test.ts → sql-driver-unique-tenancy.test.ts for acceptance[4] and negative[2], plus sql-driver-schema-drift.test.ts for negative[0] only; the production force-off case scores nothing (knownGap)	unique-tenancy "auto-tightens at boot under autoMigrate: safe when the probe is clean" and "BLOCKS the tightening on duplicate NULL-organization rows — old index kept, rows reported" (driver over better-sqlite3); schema-drift "does NOT auto-apply destructive drift (orphan column kept; warned instead)" (driver)
"409 UNIQUE_VIOLATION over real REST"; sweep-wide a1–a3	records-forms.field-unique-enforcement	automated.ref; acceptance[1..3].verify; steps[4]	"SQL family, 409 UNIQUE_VIOLATION over real REST" → per-clause ref (acceptance[4] and [5], negative[2] and [3]); "pin" / "score from the pin" / "score clause 4 from its unit pin" → driver-level evidence only, and an undrivable updateMany door is recorded blocked(fixture)	both SQL pins drive SqlDriver and map the refusal through a test-local createAsApi helper (driver); memory-unique-constraint.test.ts (memory driver)
a2/a4 engine-only	records-forms.encrypted-field-behavior	automated.ref; acceptance[3].verify; fixtures.knownGaps[1]	bare two-pin ref → dogfood scores acceptance[0] (its API oracle), [1] and negative[0]; secret-fields.test.ts scores no api clause. acceptance[3] "unit-pin verdict" → blocked(fixture) on stock, pin beside it	field-zoo-roundtrip.dogfood.test.ts (HTTP door, showcase in-process); secret-fields.test.ts (engine over a stub driver)
sweep-wide a1	records-forms.cascading-multilevel-and-clear	automated.ref; acceptance[1].verify	objectql pin "acceptance[1], and acceptance[2]'s unwritten child" → scores no clause; acceptance[1] → the objectui spec's live-API case	objectui e2e/live/cascading-options.spec.ts "the server rejects an out-of-set option value, and accepts an in-set one" (HTTP door, live backend), blob 5f65228948b7 at the console pin 616df6598b42; rule-validator.option-visibility.test.ts (unit)
bare ref	integration-system.connector-stdio-default-deny	automated.ref	bare → negative[0] ONLY	mcp-provider.test.ts "DENIES a declarative stdio transport by default, as a plain (non-retryable) fault" (provider unit over a fake client factory)
bare ref	integration-system.webhook-lifecycle	automated removed; fixtures.knownGaps[2] added	bare → no ref	webhook-materialization.dogfood.test.ts: acceptance[0]'s no-row half on its own fixture stack (engine); no activation door
sweep-wide a0, a3	integration-system.external-schema-drift-gate	automated.ref; acceptance[0] and acceptance[3] (verify, evidence); fixtures.knownGaps[0]	"Unit fallback" / "Unit pins" / "the unit pins are the fallback evidence" → plugin-layer evidence beside a blocked(fixture) verdict; the ref names acceptance[4]–[6] and negative[2] and [4]	the three runtime pins drive ExternalValidationPlugin over stubbed services (plugin unit)
ref misses own pin	integration-system.datasource-admin-lifecycle	automated.ref	"(+ tests/envelope.conformance.test.ts)" → " + packages/services/service-datasource/src/tests/envelope.conformance.test.ts"	scope unchanged
bare ref	dashboards.dataset-report-authoring	automated.ref	bare → acceptance[0] ONLY	dashboard-designer-roundtrip.dogfood.test.ts: draft PUT 200, publish 200 (HTTP door); the read-back checks widget count and missing layout, not acceptance[1]
ref misses own pin: a4	dashboards.empty-null-bucket-boundaries	automated.ref	adds empty-group-bucket-parity.test.ts for acceptance[4]	"keys the empty bucket identically on both paths" on driver-sql and driver-sqlite-wasm (driver, the clause's test oracle)
bare ref	platform-core.protocol-18-handshake-and-stored-replay	automated.ref	bare five pins → acceptance[0] ONLY, with each pin's layer named for acceptance[1]–[3]	packages-install-protocol-incompatible.test.ts (HttpDispatcher.handlePackages over a fake kernel); artifact pin (mocked logger); the rest in-process
a3 dogfood is in-process	platform-core.metadata-authoring-roundtrip	automated.ref; acceptance[3].verify	dogfood pin bare / "(pinned by …)" → scores no clause; protocol-layer evidence for acceptance[3]	package-first-authoring.dogfood.test.ts: protocol.saveMetaItem in-process on a booted CRM stack, no /api/v1/meta door
sweep-wide a0–a4	platform-core.settings-audit-secret-fingerprint	automated.ref	seven cases listed with no clause → acceptance[5] and negative[2]–[3] ONLY	settings-audit-secret-digest.test.ts: SettingsService over stub audit sinks (service unit)
a5 is the enumSource gate	platform-core.lifecycle-retention-sweep	automated.ref; acceptance[5].verify	feature list → per clause; "the enumSource pin below" → the enumSource variants-freshness ratchet of check:platform-checklist, which counts LifecycleClassSchema only	lifecycle-service.test.ts over a fake engine
Tier 1 in name only	automation.flow-node-type-matrix	automated removed; fixtures.knownGaps[2] added	"covers ONE variant of acceptance[1] only" → no ref	flow-node.dogfood.test.ts: one update_record node
ref misses own pin: n0	automation.trigger-type-matrix	negative[0]	"(pinned by …)" → "its 401 half is pinned …; the no-run-row half is driven by hand"; ref unchanged	showcase-anonymous-deny-surfaces.dogfood.test.ts "anonymous POST /automation/:name/trigger is denied (401)" (HTTP door), which reads no run rows
ref disclaims the wired lane	attachments-storage.field-accept-maxsize-server-enforced	automated removed; fixtures.knownGaps[3] added	handler-direct ref for clauses 0/1/3/4/5/6 → no ref	file-reference-lifecycle.test.ts "accept / maxSize enforcement" (handler-direct over a fake engine), round 12's update-path case included
ref misses own pin: a5/n3	identity-auth.admin-lifecycle-operations	automated.ref	adds the plugin-security case: negative[3] whole, acceptance[5]'s exemption half	security-plugin.test.ts "[#3023] an engine referential FK clear (__referentialFieldClear) is exempt — owner_id:null cascade is allowed for a plain member" (plugin unit)
sweep-wide a9; pin also asserts n1	approvals.decision-action-matrix	automated removed; fixtures.knownGaps[0] rewritten, [1] added; acceptance[9].verify	"acceptance[9] ONLY" and "that pin is how acceptance[9] is scored" → blocked(fixture) on stock, two lower pins beside it; negative[1] joins no ref	approval-service.test.ts #12769 describe and its remind THROTTLED cases (service over a fake engine); rest-approvals-wire-codes.test.ts (route handler over a mocked service)

The defective pin, for the PM to file

packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-schema-drift.test.ts, the case "is force-disabled under NODE_ENV=production (warns, does not alter)", stages relax_not_null. ADR-0113 made that op needs_confirm, and a safe reconcile applies only safe ops. So the column stays NOT NULL with or without the production branch of reconcileAndWarnDrift (packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver.ts). The sibling case "does NOT auto-relax a stray NOT NULL — needs_confirm survives dev auto-reconcile" asserts the same outcome with no NODE_ENV set. The case also asserts no warning. #24840 names the repair: stage replace_unique_index and assert the warning. This PR does not touch the test. The ledger now scores nothing from that case and records it in the item's knownGaps[2].

Items left alone, with reasons

• records-forms.list-view-capabilities (Tier 1 in name only): no longer holds. Round 14 (PR docs(qa): 18.0 sweep anchor round 14 — drop the eleven automated.stale markers objectui 0b36ffa repaired, re-read at the console pin 616df6598b42 #24857) removed the stale marker, and the ref claims acceptance[1] from objectui saved-view-filter.spec.ts (blob 94a201c63a0a at 616df6598b42). That spec opens the shipped in_progress view on the live stack, asserts the count bar reads 2, and asserts that no data request was refused. A rule-array filter is refused 400, so the green is the AST filter being accepted.
• records-forms.related-list-server-pagination ("its only pin is stale"): no longer holds. Round 14 removed the stale marker after reading the repaired spec, and the ref claims acceptance[2] only.
• attachments-storage.field-accept-maxsize-server-enforced: the finding still holds, so it was applied above. Round 12 added an acceptance[3] case at the same handler-direct layer, which did not settle it.
• automation.trigger-type-matrix ref: the dogfood case asserts the 401 but not "with NO run row created", so it is not added to the ref. negative[0] says which half it pins.
• approvals.decision-action-matrix negative[1]: not added. The service pin throws THROTTLED and the route pin maps a mocked rejection to 429, but neither drives the remind door. "A silent second success" is that door's answer.
• identity-auth.admin-lifecycle-operations acceptance[5]: the added case is its exemption half. Its refusal half stays partly by hand, because admin-platform-admin-standing.dogfood.test.ts re-reads the target sys_user but never the rows that user owns.
• records-forms.field-unique-enforcement acceptance[4]'s clause still says "the same 409 UNIQUE_VIOLATION over REST". Its oracle is test, and the ref now says that wording rests on the createAsApi mapping. Clause text was not changed in this round.
• integration-system.datasource-admin-lifecycle: only respelled, as QA run · tier1:24681-touched (63/82) · 307ce4c4 · 2026-10-20 · 10 PASS / 53 PARTIAL / 0 FAIL / 0 BLOCKED / 19 NOT-RUN #24840 asked. Its ref's scope ("pins route behavior + envelope") is not narrowed per clause.
• platform-core.metadata-authoring-roundtrip keeps automated.kind "api", although its remaining full-clause pin is an objectui live spec. kind is free text that no gate reads.
• QA round 4 verdicts this round reads differently. The record scored them pass from lower pins: encrypted-field-behavior acceptance[3] and negative[1] (engine), settings-audit-secret-fingerprint negative[0]–[1] (rows on stub sinks), and approvals.decision-action-matrix negative[1] (service). Under the rule above, each is now evidence beside a hand-driven or blocked(fixture) verdict.

PM hypotheses, measured

1. "Rounds 12–14 already settled list-view-capabilities, related-list-server-pagination and field-accept-maxsize's a3." This holds for the first two. It does not hold for the third: round 12's case is handler-direct, so the item's ref still scores no clause, and the finding was applied.
2. "Most bare-ref rows narrow rather than drop." This holds 3 of 4. connector-stdio, dataset-report and protocol-18 narrow. webhook-lifecycle drops, because its one pin holds only half of acceptance[0].

Acceptance notes

• Located beyond QA run · tier1:24681-touched (63/82) · 307ce4c4 · 2026-10-20 · 10 PASS / 53 PARTIAL / 0 FAIL / 0 BLOCKED / 19 NOT-RUN #24840's list, inside items it names, and applied because they are the same rule-6 class:
  • encrypted-field-behavior acceptance[3] was a "unit-pin verdict". It is now blocked(fixture) on stock.
  • approvals.decision-action-matrix acceptance[9].verify said READ_BACK_FAILED rides the generic template-generated 500 and is deliberately absent from handleApprovalError's prefix map. It has been a named 500 row there since 5b3ff63cc (packages/rest/src/approvals-routes.ts), and rest-approvals-wire-codes.test.ts pins it. The verify now says so, because the rewritten knownGap would otherwise contradict it.
• The same "score from the pin" spelling appears outside this round's file surface. These items were not edited, and the anchor carries them. Likely rule-6 contradictions, where an api, log or network clause is scored from a lower pin:
  • api-backend.packaged-action-disabled-dispatch knownGaps[0] (the MCP clause's unit fallback);
  • automation.packaged-flow-subflow-disable-refusal knownGaps[0] (engine-pinned arms of api clauses);
  • cli.datasource-introspect-codegen acceptance[0].verify (a log clause's half);
  • integration-system.connector-auth-kind-application acceptance[0].verify and knownGaps[0] (wire-shape clauses);
  • approvals.email-action-token-door knownGaps[0] and approvals.act-door-and-admin-rescue-slate requires[1] (legs scored from pins; their clause oracles are mixed).
• These read as legitimate, because the clause they score is test-oracle: access-security.activation-write-operator-gate, identity-auth.implicit-account-linking-ownership, records-forms.delete-behavior-matrix and records-forms.field-history-tracking.
• The objectui specs cited here were read at the console pin 616df6598b42. No live run exists at that pin, so their verdicts there are NOT MEASURED. objectui measured the live suite green at 0b36ffa (61 passed), and the blobs are identical at both commits.
• Whether some other dogfood suite asserts one of approvals.decision-action-matrix's clauses whole, on a booted showcase, was not measured. The approval dogfood suites in the tree pin other items' fixture stacks.

Gates

The derived list is node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack, computed on the actual change set: 9 paths against merge base 98c3d0044, at head c4da0e622b. It gives 13 commands. Each one ran at that head with its exit code captured before any pipe, and each exited 0:

node scripts/check-ci-filter-parity.mjs · node scripts/check-closing-keyword-parity.mjs · node scripts/check-closing-keyword-parity.mjs --self-test · node scripts/check-comment-mask-corpus.mjs · pnpm --filter @objectstack/lint run check:doc-formula-expressions · pnpm check:cross-package-test-inputs · pnpm check:doc-authoring · pnpm check:driver-memory-census · pnpm check:gitlink-declared · pnpm check:nul-bytes · pnpm check:platform-checklist · pnpm check:refd-timer-probe · pnpm check:watch-hint-literal

The first run of check:doc-formula-expressions refused with exit 3, a prerequisite, because @objectstack/formula and @objectstack/lint were not built. Both were built under the shared verify lock (VERDICT command-exit 0), and the rerun exited 0. The --ran reconciliation reads "13 derived, 13 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN".

No per-PR CI job runs pnpm check:platform-checklist, so this local reading is its evidence:

reading	base b1676441ba	head c4da0e622b
items	16 areas, 328 items (323 active, 1 planned)	16 areas, 328 items (323 active, 1 planned)
line citations	0 survive across 21 swept documents	0 survive across 21 swept documents
symbol anchors	965/975 against 430 cited sources, 10 on the named residual (#16898), 18 file floors held	965/975 against 430 cited sources, 10 on the named residual (#16898), 18 file floors held

PR #24869 merged as b1676441ba, this branch's base. git merge-tree --write-tree of this head against its head 45f8e20bca still exited 0.

There is no ablation, because no tested behaviour changed. skip-changeset was re-measured: docs/qa/** appears in none of the 86 package manifests' files[], and the repo root is private.

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Seat review

ACCEPT · domain:devx seat 1 · os-warren · session_01FM29ZqLTrnPNXxijioZwMp · 2026-10-20T13:38Z · head d2ffee58e5 · card #24579, round 15 (claim 6290925424)

• Form. Draft, base main. The first line is Refs #24579, then Clause-②: no. Assignee os-warren, labels size/m and skip-changeset. node scripts/pm/check-governed-merges.mjs --pr 24891 → NOT governed. git merge-tree against main fcb40ad673 is clean. No other open PR touches docs/qa/platform-checklist/, and records-forms.record-discussion-mentions is untouched.
• Ledger invariants, parsed, merge base 98c3d00447 vs head.
  • 9 area files, 21 items. Each has exactly one revision bump and one appended history row with ref: "#24891". All 21 placeholder refs were swapped in, and #PENDING-24579R15 survives nowhere.
  • No item is added, removed or reordered, and no top-level key changes.
• The ruling the dev asked for: negatives keep the door reading. RUNNER rule 6 (RUNNER.md ≈:114) governs any clause "whose oracle is a public door's answer (an HTTP status, an error envelope, a row the door left behind)". The rule does not distinguish acceptance from negative. A pin that stops above that layer "scores that clause partial … It never scores pass."
  • So the PR's split stands. A negative whose FAIL condition is a door's answer is scored at that door. A negative whose FAIL condition is a state the pin's own layer owns can be scored at that layer.
  • The three QA round 4 PASS verdicts the PR reads differently become partial under the rule's own text:
    • encrypted-field-behavior acceptance[3] and negative[1];
    • settings-audit-secret-fingerprint negative[0]–[1];
    • approvals.decision-action-matrix negative[1].
  • No maintainer escalation is owed, because the governing text settles it.
• The defective pin is filed as driver-sql test: "is force-disabled under NODE_ENV=production (warns, does not alter)" stages needs_confirm relax_not_null, which auto-reconcile never applies anyway — it passes with the production guard deleted and asserts no warning #24903 (domain:engine): "is force-disabled under NODE_ENV=production (warns, does not alter)".
  • The seat read the case at sql-driver-schema-drift.test.ts:202. It stages relax_not_null, which ADR-0113 made needs_confirm. Auto-reconcile applies only safe drift (sql-driver.ts:14210).
  • The sibling case at :156 asserts the same NOT NULL survives with no NODE_ENV. So the case passes with the production guard deleted, and it asserts no warning.
  • cli.dev-automigrate-policy's ref now scores nothing from it (knownGaps[2]). The case returns to the ref when driver-sql test: "is force-disabled under NODE_ENV=production (warns, does not alter)" stages needs_confirm relax_not_null, which auto-reconcile never applies anyway — it passes with the production guard deleted and asserts no warning #24903 lands.
• A spot-check of the dev's one fact beyond QA run · tier1:24681-touched (63/82) · 307ce4c4 · 2026-10-20 · 10 PASS / 53 PARTIAL / 0 FAIL / 0 BLOCKED / 19 NOT-RUN #24840. approvals-routes.ts:127 maps READ_BACK_FAILED to a named 500 row, registered by 5b3ff63ccd (feat(spec,rest): register READ_BACK_FAILED as a named wire row mapped in handleApprovalError #13296). rest-approvals-wire-codes.test.ts:202 pins it ("an org-filtered read-back on approve answers 500 READ_BACK_FAILED — named, not the template fallback"). The rewritten acceptance[9].verify is right, and the old text was stale.
• Gates.
  • The seat ran node scripts/check-platform-checklist.mjs at the head. Exit 0: 16 areas, 328 items (323 active, 1 planned), line citations: 0 survive across 21 swept documents, symbol anchors: 965/975 resolved, 18 file floors held. The base reading is identical.
  • The dev's dispatch-gates union is 13 derived, 13 run, all exit 0. --ran reconciles: 0 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN.
  • Check-runs at d2ffee58e5: 40, 31 success, 9 skipped, 0 failing or pending. node scripts/pm/check-expected-skips.mjs --pr 24891 → OK. No review, no comment.
• Carried to qa(checklist): 18.0 release sweep anchor at 5b14b7f3 — re-point 5 red-row clauses + the wave's checklist-accuracy findings, fixture gaps and not-run handover (18 records) #24579's next round (the dev's out-of-scope findings):
  • the same "score from the pin" spelling outside this round's surface:
    • api-backend.packaged-action-disabled-dispatch knownGaps[0];
    • automation.packaged-flow-subflow-disable-refusal knownGaps[0];
    • cli.datasource-introspect-codegen acceptance[0].verify;
    • integration-system.connector-auth-kind-application acceptance[0].verify and knownGaps[0];
    • approvals.email-action-token-door knownGaps[0];
    • approvals.act-door-and-admin-rescue-slate requires[1];
  • integration-system.datasource-admin-lifecycle's ref: its scope ("pins route behavior + envelope") is not narrowed per clause;
  • records-forms.field-unique-enforcement acceptance[4]'s clause text, which still says "over REST" with a test oracle.

This seat readies the PR and queues it with auto-merge.

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