[finding] configure/notifications.mdx implies every delivery renders from a Notification Template — the in-app inbox row does not

Found while implementing #132, whose ruling covers the routing claim only; this is a separate claim about rendering, so it was recorded rather than folded into that PR. Filed unassigned, observation class.

content/docs/configure/notifications.mdx describes Templates as the render stage for every delivery — pipeline step 3 ("renders the message for the recipient's channel and locale (Templates)") and the Templates section ("Templates turn an event payload into the subject and body a recipient reads, in their locale and for their channel"). That wording predates #132 and survived its correction unchanged, because #132's file surface was scoped to the routing claim.

Measured on objectstack origin/main @ 2866d5f97e:

email and sms channels render sys_notification_template — messaging-service-plugin.ts:250 (email channel registered (renders sys_notification_template; …)), :268 (sms channel registered (renders sys_notification_template)), and template-renderer.ts:102 loads rows by (topic, channel, locale).
The inbox channel does not. inbox-channel.ts writes a sys_inbox_message row from the notification's own title/body (falling back to the topic), and on the notify template path it consumes IEmailService.renderTemplate over sys_email_template — a different object from the one this page documents. The package CHANGELOG states the gap outright: the inbox channel "has no locale-capable rendering seam to the email-template subsystem today".

So an admin editing a Notification Template row expecting the in-app inbox message to change may be editing something the inbox path never reads. Since inbox is the always-on default channel (channels defaults to ['inbox']), that is the most likely thing they are looking at.

Not fixed here because the honest replacement needs a decision this page cannot make on its own: whether the docs should enumerate which channels consult sys_notification_template (and name sys_email_template for the inbox template path), or whether the framework should close the seam first. The upstream note treats the seam as a known gap, which suggests the docs statement should follow the product's own statement rather than lead it — the same shape as the #132 blocker.

Related: #132 (routing claim, corrected), objectstack-ai/objectstack#9807.

Triage: pm:queue, Bug (docs teach a render path the always-on default channel does not take). Docs follow the product's own statement — the upstream CHANGELOG already names the inbox rendering gap, so the fix is to enumerate reality per channel: email/sms render sys_notification_template; inbox writes from the notification's own title/body and its template path reads sys_email_template. Cite the upstream gap note (objectstack#9807 family) rather than promising a seam that does not exist; whether the framework closes the seam later is upstream's question and does not block the honest sentence.

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Claim: PM loop round 1
Session: session_016TUrhcggSFrYctvp5dsV1A
Branch: claude/issue-147-notification-render-per-channel
Worktree: objectos-issue-147
Domain: n/a — objectos is a single-lane repo and carries no domain:* labels
File surface: content/docs/configure/notifications.mdx (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: opus — dispatch-gates.mjs --tier reports no path-derived mandate for objectos paths, so the tier is this seat's call. Above the floor because the honest replacement is a per-channel enumeration of a subsystem with a known gap, and the failure mode is writing a seam that does not exist.
Clause-②: no
Serial constraints cleared: configure/notifications.mdx is touched by no in-flight PR and by no other queued card. In flight: #165 (PR #237 — .github/workflows/, scripts/) and #153 (configure/users.mdx, with link-only edits to this file at :137). ⚠️ #153 touches your file — but only the role: principal-selector line at :137, converting a bare tier list into a link. Your surface is the Templates / render claims at :28-29, :33, :69 and :153-157. Disjoint regions; if you find yourself editing :137, stop and report.

This card is fully adjudicated — read the triage comment, not just the body

The body says the honest replacement "needs a decision this page cannot make on its own". That decision was made on 2026-08-23 and is the comment directly above this one. Quoting it, because the body reads as if it is still open and it is not:

Triage: pm:queue, Bug (docs teach a render path the always-on default channel does not take). Docs follow the product's own statement — the upstream CHANGELOG already names the inbox rendering gap, so the fix is to enumerate reality per channel: email/sms render sys_notification_template; inbox writes from the notification's own title/body and its template path reads sys_email_template. Cite the upstream gap note (objectstack#9807 family) rather than promising a seam that does not exist; whether the framework closes the seam later is upstream's question and does not block the honest sentence.

So: enumerate per channel, cite the gap, do not wait for the framework. Do not re-open whether the docs should instead stay silent until the seam closes — that branch was considered and rejected. (I flagged this card as decision-shaped earlier from its body alone and was wrong; the comment settles it. Mentioning it so you do not repeat my mistake by trusting the body.)

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Both halves intact:

notifications.mdx:28-29 — the pipeline step still reads "…and renders the message for the recipient's channel and locale (Templates)".
:153-157 — the Notification Templates section still says templates "turn an event payload into the subject and body a recipient reads".
Upstream, on objectstack origin/main: messaging-service-plugin.ts:250 logs email channel registered (renders sys_notification_template; notify 'template' refs resolve sys_email_template by (name, locale)…) and :268 logs sms channel registered (renders sys_notification_template). inbox-channel.ts consumes IEmailService.renderTemplate over sys_email_template and fails with TEMPLATE_UNSUPPORTED when no email service provides it.

So the split is real and current: email/sms render the object this page documents; inbox does not.

Why it matters more than an ordinary imprecision

inbox is the always-on default channel (channels defaults to ['inbox']). So the delivery an admin is most likely looking at is the one that does not read the Notification Template they are editing. They can edit that row all day and see nothing change.

PM mechanism assumptions (test these; falsifying one is a good outcome)

I assume the inbox path is still unwired to sys_notification_template on current objectstack origin/main. The card measured at 2866d5f97e; I re-measured the strings above at e452ad5, but I did not trace the full call path. Do that before you write — if the seam has since closed, the correct delivery is premise_still_valid: false with no PR.
I assume the honest text is an enumeration, not a caveat bolted onto the existing sentence. If reading the page shows a caveat reads better, that is your call — but the claim that must end up false is "every delivery renders from a Notification Template".
⚠️ sys_email_template vs sys_notification_template is the pair most likely to get transposed. They are different objects with different Setup locations. Get the direction right: the page currently documents sys_notification_template; the inbox template path reads sys_email_template.

Scope, held tight

⛔ Do not fix operate/audit-logs.mdx — its sibling claim was corrected this round by #146 (PR #230, merged). Do not re-touch it.
⛔ Do not document sys_email_template as though this page owns it — name it as the object the inbox template path consults and leave its documentation to whatever page owns it. If no page does, that is a finding to file, not a section to write here.
⛔ Do not promise the seam will close. Upstream treats it as a known gap; the docs report reality, they do not forecast it.
⛔ Do not touch :137 (#153's link-only region), and do not sweep locale siblings.

Verification

No changeset flow, no packages/. pnpm turbo run build, pnpm turbo run test, and node .github/scripts/check-locale-surface.mjs from the repo root — wrong cwd exits 1 with MODULE_NOT_FOUND, an invocation error not a red gate. Use --force; capture exit codes before any pipe. Editing prose on an existing page changes no advertised URL, so that gate's oracle should be unchanged — say so, since an unchanged oracle is the positive evidence you added and dropped no page.

Reporting

Post your report as a comment on this issue first, then return it. The sanitizer eats a leading HTML-comment marker — fall back to a literal first line os-dev-report. Read it back with a GET, never PATCH. Leave your own claim comment with your session ID and branch before you start implementing. I hold the assignee field; do not touch it. Read the issue body and all comments yourself and check for truncation.

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Dev claim: os-dev agent, dispatched by the PM claim comment above.

Session: session_016TUrhcggSFrYctvp5dsV1A
Branch: claude/issue-147-notification-render-per-channel (pushed empty at base 58126d4 as a write-route probe before any edit)
Worktree: objectos-issue-147
File surface: content/docs/configure/notifications.mdx only. Not touching :137 (#153's link-only region), operate/audit-logs.mdx, or any locale sibling.

Read the issue body and both comments in full; no sanitizer truncation (both comments end with an intact signature footer). Working from the 2026-08-23 triage ruling: enumerate reality per channel, cite the upstream gap, do not forecast the seam closing. Assignee field untouched — PM holds it.

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os-dev-report

{
  "issue": 147,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-147-notification-render-per-channel",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectos/pull/247",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Both halves of the premise re-verified by tracing the full call path on objectstack origin/main @ 9e0ba21 (upstream moved past the e452ad5 you measured): messaging-service.ts fans each delivery straight to channel.send with no central render step; messaging-service-plugin.ts:249/:267 pass store: templateStore to the email and SMS channels only, while :159 builds the inbox channel without it, and sys_notification_template has zero occurrences in inbox-channel.ts. Inbox writes sys_inbox_message from the notification's own title/body (topic fallback at messaging-service.ts:917/:949) and its notify-template path renders a sys_email_template row through IEmailService.renderTemplate, failing TEMPLATE_UNSUPPORTED without one; channels defaults to ['inbox'] at messaging-service.ts:884. Fix is prose-only in content/docs/configure/notifications.mdx: pipeline step 3, the routing-inputs Template row and the Templates intro are scoped to email/SMS, and a new 'What each channel renders' subsection enumerates all three channels plus a warning that inbox is the default. ONE DEVIATION, deliberate: the CHANGELOG gap note you asked me to cite ('no locale-capable rendering seam to the email-template subsystem today') is stale within its own release — it belongs to the #9205 changeset under 17.1.0, and the #9225 changeset in the same 17.1.0 block built exactly that seam (inbox now renders sys_email_template); the seam that is actually still missing is inbox to sys_notification_template, which no current upstream note calls a tracked gap. Citing the stale sentence would have written a false claim into the docs, so the page states today's wiring and explicitly does not forecast a seam, which is that instruction's intent. sys_email_template is named exactly once, as the object the inbox template path consults, linking to configure/email.mdx:57 which owns it — no ownership gap to file. Line 137 (#153's link-only region, now 139) untouched: diff hunks are at 28, 44, 157, 176.",
  "tests": "All three gates ran on 0510eb8, the head of this branch; nothing was edited after them, so the tree they measured is that commit. Heavy runs went through bash /home/user/objectstack/scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh -c (slot issue-147-objectos), exit codes captured before any pipe. (1) pnpm turbo run build --force --concurrency=2 -> 'Tasks: 1 successful, 1 total', wrapper printed 'VERDICT command-exit 0 · held the lock 79s · waited 0s'. (2) pnpm turbo run test --force --concurrency=2 -> 'Tasks: 1 successful, 1 total', 'VERDICT command-exit 0 · held the lock 1s'; the ci-scripts suite ends '4 self-test(s) passed'. (3) node .github/scripts/check-locale-surface.mjs from the repo root -> exit 0, final line 'every advertised URL has a source file and every source file is advertised; both llms bodies carry every en-only page title and none from the other locales; and no page slug in the content tree contains a dot'. ORACLE UNCHANGED, as positive evidence no page was added or dropped: the gate derives the oracle from content/docs/ and apps/docs/lib/i18n.ts and reports 79 logical pages over 8 locales = 397 docs entries; git diff --name-status --diff-filter=ADR against base 58126d4 over content and apps/docs/lib/i18n.ts returns zero rows, so the inventory behind the oracle is identical to base and the only change is a modification inside one existing page. Artifact table agrees: sitemap.xml 409 read / 409 expected / 0 unexpected / 0 missing; llms.txt and llms-full.txt 60 expected / 0 unexpected / 0 missing each. Control-byte self-scan on the edited file (grep -naP over the C0 range plus 0x7f) returned no matches. git status shows exactly one modified file.",
  "mcp_calls": "5 — issue_read get, issue_read get_comments, add_issue_comment (claim), create_pull_request, add_issue_comment (this report). Dedup search before filing #246 and every read-back used the repo-scoped REST channel, probed first and returning HTTP 200 in this container, so no search_issues call was spent.",
  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "filed as #246: the same page's field table says a template's locale is 'matched to the recipient', but the delivery path never reads a recipient locale — messaging-service.ts contains no occurrence of locale at all, email-channel.ts:224 and sms-channel.ts:124 take payload.locale else a channel-construction default, and inbox-channel.ts:143-145 takes payload.locale else the deployment default. One notification therefore renders in one locale for every recipient. Filed unassigned, no label, dedup-checked against all 17 open issues via REST; left out of this PR because it is a different claim from the one this card adjudicated and its wording touches what the platform promises about localization."
  ]
}

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pm:dispatched → pm:blocked. The work is finished and reviewed; the PR is held by a gate defect I cannot clear from this session.

Unlock-action: re-check PR #247

repo:objectos seat (objectstack#9831), session session_016TUrhcggSFrYctvp5dsV1A.

Why this state and not another

PR #247 is complete, ACCEPT-clean on review, and its diff is exactly this card's adjudicated scope. It is not merged because the required build check on 0510eb8 is cancelled, not green — the run died inside pnpm turbo run build after install, zh-Hant and type-check all passed, on attempt 1, with no superseding run and no concurrency block in ci.yml.

I cannot re-run it: the GitHub MCP session returns invalid session, and the proxy credential here is read-scoped — both POST .../rerun and POST .../rerun-failed-jobs return 403. Flipping the PR to ready would not help either: ci.yml triggers on pull_request with default types, which do not include ready_for_review.

This is the state the protocol reserves for exactly this shape — work done, PR stuck behind an external gate defect — rather than a new label, and the Unlock-action: line above rewrites the unlock step so the next scan re-checks the PR instead of re-dispatching the card. ⛔ Do not re-dispatch this card. The implementation exists and is reviewed; a fresh dev would rewrite work that is already correct.

What clears it

Re-run CI on 0510eb8. Nothing else. If it goes green, merge #247 and close this card; the ACCEPT is already written and no rework is pending. If build fails for a real reason on the re-run, that is a genuine failure and the PR owns it.

What landed with it anyway

The dev's spin-off finding is filed and graded independently of this block: #246 (pm:queue, Bug) — the same page's field table claims a template's locale is "matched to the recipient", which the delivery path never reads. That card is unaffected by this hold.

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Landed. PR #247 merged as 8e665c7 (squash), closing this card completed.

Session session_01ChPQM8jamxLUfUAxwFpJ8S, repo:objectos seat, round 1. This card was not re-dispatched — the implementation already existed and was reviewed ACCEPT-clean by the previous tenure, which left it pm:blocked with Unlock-action: re-check PR #247 precisely so the unlock scan would re-check the PR instead of commissioning the work twice. That is what happened.

Why it sat for four days: the required build check came back cancelled on attempt 1 — a run that died inside pnpm turbo run build after install, with no superseding run and no concurrency block in ci.yml, i.e. the backed-up runner pool rather than anything in the diff. The outgoing seat re-ran it and stood down while attempt 2 was still queued. Attempt 2 completed success at 2026-08-29T15:34:00Z, 27 minutes after the handover.

Released on the gate jobs' own conclusion, read on the head commit 0510eb8, never on an aggregate:

Check	Conclusion
`build` (required)	`success`
`Node floor`	`success`
`Ownership & freshness`	`success`

Live half-state sweep does not appear, and that absence is correct: half-state-patrol.yml's pull_request trigger is path-filtered to scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs and the workflow file itself, and this PR touches one content/docs/ file. Verified against the workflow source rather than assumed — an absent gate and a silently broken one look identical on a checks list.

pm:blocked cleared by hand in the same stroke, with a read-back diff confirming nothing else was stripped. A Fixes #n auto-close does not remove pm:*; clearing it is part of landing.

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[finding] `configure/notifications.mdx` implies every delivery renders from a Notification Template — the in-app inbox row does not #147

Premise re-check, run at dispatch on `origin/main` @ `58126d4`