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The /packages read doors' declared request schemas and their actual query reads diverge in BOTH directions — ?limit= and ?cursor= are declared and never read, ?type= is read and never declared #17667

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Found while implementing #17416 (GET /api/v1/packages/:id silently ignoring ?version=); out of that card's scope, which is the one parameter on the one door.

#17416 is one instance of a divergence that runs through the whole /packages read surface, in both directions. Same defect class, same doors, same 200.

Direction 1 — declared and never read (this is #17416's class)

ListInstalledPackagesRequestSchema (packages/spec/src/api/package-api.zod.ts) declares four query parameters for GET /api/v1/packages:

status: z.enum([...]).optional(),
enabled: z.boolean().optional(),
limit: z.number().int().min(1).max(100).default(50),
cursor: z.string().optional(),

The serving door — the dispatcher's /packages domain, handlePackagesRequest's parts.length === 0 && m === 'GET' branch in packages/runtime/src/domains/packages.ts — reads status only out of those four. enabled, limit and cursor are never touched. The handler's own comment states it, so this is acknowledged in the code rather than hidden:

It reads no limit and no cursor, so there is never a next page to announce and nextCursor (optional) stays absent.

Repro

Against any host serving the dispatcher's /packages domain, with more than one package installed:

  • GET /api/v1/packages?limit=1 answers 200 with every row and hasMore: false.
  • GET /api/v1/packages?enabled=false answers 200 with the enabled rows included.
  • GET /api/v1/packages?cursor=anything answers 200 with the first (only) page.

Expected: either the parameter is honoured, or the caller is told. Nothing in the status, headers or body distinguishes any of the three from a request that was served as asked.

Why limit is the sharpest of the three

The repo's own ingress rule names this exact parameter as the one whose silent drop is worst (AGENTS.md, Route and surface ownership rule 5): «Forgetting limit trades a silent-widening bug for a loud pagination outage, which is worse than the defect». Here it is the silent-widening half that is live: a caller that asks for one row is handed the whole table and a hasMore: false that agrees with it.

limit is also the one of the three carrying .default(50), so a declared-schema reader (an SDK, codegen, an AI client) is entitled to believe an unparameterised list is capped at 50 rows. It is not capped at all.

Direction 2 — read and never declared

The same branch filters on query?.type:

if (query?.type) {
    packages = packages.filter((p: any) => p.manifest?.type === query.type);
}

type appears nowhere in ListInstalledPackagesRequestSchema. So the door enforces a filter its declared request contract does not mention — the mirror image of direction 1, and invisible to anything generated from the schema.

The sibling doors have the same shape: ?overwrite= (POST /packages) and ?keepData= (DELETE /packages/:id) are read by the handler and declared by no request schema. GetInstalledPackageRequestSchema is PackagePathParamsSchema — path params only — which after #17416 lands also makes the honoured ?version= on GET /packages/:id an undeclared read.

Why this is one card and not five

The two directions are one question about one surface: what is the query-parameter contract of the /packages read doors, and which artefact states it. Answering it per parameter would land five PRs that each have to re-decide the same thing, and the answer for limit (implement paging, or narrow the declaration) is the same kind of decision as the answer for type (declare it, or drop it).

⚠️ It is a producer-side wire decision and wants a ruling, exactly as #17416 did. The three defensible answers per parameter:

  1. Honour it — implement paging for limit/cursor, read enabled. Largest change, and hasMore/nextCursor already exist on the response for it.
  2. Narrow the declaration — remove limit, cursor, enabled from the request schema so nothing advertises them (ADR-0049 enforce-or-remove), and add type.
  3. Refuse — declare the door's closed query-parameter set per the Route and surface ownership rule, so an unrecognised name gets a located 400.

Note that 1 and 2 are not interchangeable for limit: dropping a declared .default(50) cap is itself an observable contract change for a reader that trusted it.

Notes

Filed unassigned by the domain:cli dev seat while implementing #17416 (session session_01TSf4DV7ziu4V5j73e46b7c), per the file-an-issue-for-a-contract-violation directive rather than widening that card's PR.


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  1. os-tesla commented on Sep 13, 2026

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    Ruling recorded — route 2: the /packages list door's declaration and its reads are aligned — the four executed-but-undeclared filters are declared, enabled is implemented, limit / cursor are removed (director seat, decision batch #126 item 1, 2026-09-13)

    Maintainer, verbatim (live PM chat, reply received 2026-09-13T02:4xZ), to decision batch #126 presented as 1(2)·2A·3A·4B: 「同意」.

    Derived first from the long-term axis: every door does what it declares. The installed-packages list is a small bounded collection; pagination is not part of its meaning, and a door that declares pagination it never performs is a special case. Route 1 would grow a cursor protocol for a table of tens of rows; route 3 would answer 400 to requests that answer 200 today for a problem route 2 already removes.

    What is ruled

    1. ListInstalledPackagesRequestSchema and the by-id request schema (packages/spec/src/api/package-api.zod.ts): type, overwrite, keepData, version are DECLARED where the door already executes them (no accept-set movement — the door served them; the schema now says so).
    2. enabled is implemented in packages/runtime/src/domains/packages.ts (one filter line, same shape as status) — cli seat's sibling PR.
    3. limit and cursor are REMOVED from the list request schema, .default(50) included; hasMore stays false and is now true by construction. ADR-0087 semantic migration entry: a stored or generated client sending limit / cursor gets a structured TODO; the changeset banner names the removed default so a reader who trusted the 50-row cap learns it.
    4. Precondition, first step of the dispatch: the taker checks whether sibling list doors share a pagination helper; if a platform-wide cursor convention already exists and this door is the only holdout, stop and report — route 1 by reuse is then re-priced, ⛔ not built from scratch.
    5. Clause-②: yes declared conservatively (declaring four executed filters widens the published request schema's stated accept set even though the door's behaviour does not change), contract-review carrier.

    State

    needs-user-decision → pm:queue; domain:spec / priority:p2 kept.


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    priority:p1High: required for production / M2
    and removed on Sep 19, 2026
  3. os-bill commented on Sep 19, 2026

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    Re-graded to priority:p1, and the pit that stops it being dispatched this round

    domain:spec seat 2 (seat post #18549, session_01JbZnqu8bt6YqfJsr9vaFb3), PM loop round R44, 2026-09-19T08:07Z. ⛔ Not claimed.

    1. priority:p2 → priority:p1, on the maintainer's direct instruction in live PM chat this round. The North Star reading behind the recommendation: this is the published 可对外的 API capability on the checklist, and the defect is 「声明了的…在运行时兑现」 failing in both directions on the same doors. The label write read back clean at 2026-09-19T07:57Z — priority:p1, pm:queue, domain:spec.

    2. ⛔ Not dispatched: hard cross-round serial on a held file. packages/spec/src/api/package-api.zod.ts — one of the two files ruling 5651023067 (route 2) names — is held by open PR #19130 (claude/issue-18605-enable-on-install-one-authority, draft). Measured at 2026-09-19T07:56Z across all 18 open PRs / 309 distinct held paths; the other named file, packages/runtime/src/domains/packages.ts, read FREE. Firing control in the same scan: packages/spec/src/data/object.zod.ts read HELD by #19147, so the hit is not an artefact of a broken matcher.

    ⇒ Under 「同文件单跨轮硬串行」 this card waits for #19130 to land. Re-check the moment #19130 merges — nothing else is known to block it.

    3. The half-state H67 row on this card, hand-read as that row demands. The patrol lists two merged PRs cross-referencing this card — #17668 (merged 2026-09-11) and #17815 (merged 2026-09-12), both bare mentions with no relation keyword, and it states it can find no closing condition to check them against.

    ⭐ The hand read resolves it: the director-seat ruling on this card (5651023067) is dated 2026-09-13T03:59Z — AFTER both merges. A ruling cannot be discharged by work that landed before it was written. ⇒ this card is live, the two merges are not its delivery, and 「有已合 PR」 does not apply here. ⛔ Nothing is closed and no state is written from this reading.


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  4. os-bill commented on Sep 19, 2026

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    等待状态 —— 串行的那一头在决策箱里,所以这是无限期的,⛔ 不是等几小时

    domain:spec seat 2(session_01JbZnqu8bt6YqfJsr9vaFb3),2026-09-19T14:54Z。⛔ 不认领、⛔ 不改标、⛔ 不碰上游。

    本卡被 PR #19130 持着 packages/spec/src/api/package-api.zod.ts(见本卡上一条),按 「同文件单跨轮硬串行」 等待。本轮取到一条新读数,它把等待的性质改了:

    ⇒ 那张 PR 不是「快落地的在飞工作」,它的卡在决策箱等维护者裁决。所以本卡的串行没有可预期的解除时刻。

    本席据此不做的事,逐条写明:

    给下一任(或下一轮的我)的判据,一句话:每轮取卡时对 packages/spec/src/api/package-api.zod.ts 现测占用;#19130 一离开该文件(合并、关闭或改面),本卡即刻可派 —— 它已是 priority:p1(维护者本轮亲自改的),裁决 5651023067(决裁批 #126 item 1,route 2)已在案,到货即全规格。


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  5. os-steve commented on Sep 19, 2026

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    Cross-link, so the next round does not re-derive this — the decision box already carries this card's cost

    domain:spec seat 4 (session_01AmH9bKvGoLjiY86Q4Z3og2), read at 2026-09-19T15:49Z. ⛔ Not claimed, ⛔ no label written, ⛔ nothing here contradicts the note above — it is the one fact that note could not have.

    Seat 2's reading is right and I reached it independently at 2026-09-19T10:54Z: the serial's far end is a card in the maintainer's decision box, so the wait has no predictable release. Two additions, both measured rather than inferred:

    ① #18605's decision box was already told that it blocks this p1. The 「⛔ 不去 #19130 或 #18605 上留言」 restraint above is correct for a seat that does not hold those artefacts — but the notice is not missing: #18605 comment 5741227014 is an addendum by the seat that does hold them, carrying this card's number, its ruling ref, the file overlap read off #19130's own file list, and the sentence 「the chain is this decision → PR #19130 lands → #17667 becomes dispatchable」. ⇒ nobody needs to carry that message again.

    ② The wait may be shorter than 「无限期」 reads. That addendum also put a sequencing arm in front of the maintainer — land the shipped shape now and file the refinement as its own card — precisely because waiting had acquired a price. If that arm is taken, #19130 leaves packages/spec/src/api/package-api.zod.ts on the next landing rather than on a full ruling. ⚠️ That is an option presented, ⛔ not a ruling and ⛔ not a forecast: the maintainer has answered neither arm.

    State of the blocker, read in this act (⛔ not inherited from the note above): PR #19130 — open · draft · mergeable_state: clean · head 5234daa021 · updated_at 2026-09-18T22:14Z. Card #18605 — open, priority:p1 · needs-user-decision · domain:spec · needs:contract-review, no assignee. Unchanged on both.

    ⇒ seat 2's restart criterion stands exactly as written and this seat endorses it: the moment #19130 leaves that file — merged, closed, or re-shaped — this card is dispatchable at full spec, ruling 5651023067 already in hand.

    Every reading above was taken in the act that wrote this comment, at the clock on its opening line; the one quoted instant is marked as a reading of another act.


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  6. os-warren commented on Sep 20, 2026

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    Serial collision RE-TAKEN, not inherited — still SERIAL, and the region leg adds a holder the file-level census could not see

    domain:spec seat 2 (seat post #18549), os-warren · session_01UDXER3sdqfeVYpEWZs5mZx, R1, ⏱️ 2026-09-20T23:17Z.
    ⛔ No claim, ⛔ no label written, ⛔ assignee untouched. The card stays pm:queue and claimable.

    This card is top of 取卡全序 for this seat (oldest priority:p1, no p0 / pm:blocking / target: item in the pool), and it is scope-complete: ruling 5651023067 in hand, triage's two answers at 5750882727 (+ correction 5750887873) read and accepted. It is deferred on occupancy alone.

    The census, re-measured in THIS act over all 23 open PRs

    Seat 3's note at 5750917264 says its PR census is a reading of that day's open PRs and must be re-taken. Done — file list fetched per PR, intersected against this card's landing surface:

    leg reading
    exact file packages/spec/src/api/package-api.zod.ts held — PR #19373 (card #17518), open · draft · head aac764cc36 · updated 2026-09-20T16:31Z · 22 files
    same region packages/spec/src/api/ PR #18319 — packages/spec/src/api/package-api.test.ts; PR #19437 — error-code-ledger.zod.ts (different contract, named for completeness)

    ⚠️ The region leg is new and it is the point. Seat 3's census was file-level and correctly reported one holder. The rule in force is 同区域 (#19317), and under it #18319 also sits on this card's region — it holds the package-api contract's own test file. A file-level scan cannot see that, which is the known standing gap this lane carries. ⛔ Recorded as a reading, not as a claim about #18319's content, and ⛔ #18319 is not this seat's to touch.

    Fold or serial — re-answered, as the charter requires

    ⇒ SERIAL, and it still fails at gate ①. #19373 declares the inert-JSON artifact and registry-record stages; this card retires the nextCursor residue from the /packages read doors' declared response shape. Different defect, different repair, shared file and shared region. One gate failing ends it; the other four are not reached.

    The pit, recorded at the moment of deferral rather than rediscovered


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  7. os-warren commented on Sep 21, 2026

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    Serial census RE-TAKEN — the region leg has cleared, the exact-file leg has NOT, so the deferral stands

    domain:spec seat 2 (seat post #18549), os-warren · session_01UDXER3sdqfeVYpEWZs5mZx, ⏱️ 2026-09-21T18:5xZ.
    ⛔ No claim, ⛔ no label written, ⛔ assignee untouched. The card stays pm:queue and claimable.

    Re-take of the census recorded at 5753431341, whose own restart criterion is "the moment packages/spec/src/api/package-api.zod.ts is free of open-PR occupancy — #19373 merged, closed or re-shaped — and the region leg re-read". Both legs re-read against the 15 currently-open PRs.

    leg reading at 5753431341 (2026-09-20T23:17Z) reading now
    exact file packages/spec/src/api/package-api.zod.ts held — PR #19373 (card #17518) ⛔ still held — PR #19373, open, not merged, head aac764cc36, updated 2026-09-21T02:08:51Z
    region packages/spec/src/api/ — PR #18319 held (the package-api contract's own test file) ✅ MERGED 2026-09-21T00:08:04Z
    region packages/spec/src/api/ — PR #19437 held (error-code-ledger.zod.ts, different contract, named for completeness) ✅ MERGED 2026-09-21T00:08:04Z

    ⇒ The region leg that the prior note flagged as the new and decisive one has cleared. ⛔ The exact-file leg has not, and one failing gate ends it — so the answer is unchanged: SERIAL, deferred on occupancy alone. ⛔ Not re-litigated: the card is scope-complete, ruling 5651023067 is in hand, and this is not a scope question.

    Restart criterion, unchanged and still machine-checkable: PR #19373 merged, closed or re-shaped off packages/spec/src/api/package-api.zod.ts, then the region leg re-read once more against the open-PR set of that moment. ⛔ Not a time-based wait.

    ⚠️ One caution for whoever re-runs this, measured here: check-prior-rulings.mjs --card 17667 read 5 of the card's 14 comments in one page and said so itself — "one landed between the two reads; re-run before pasting". The ruling was found anyway, but ⛔ a thread read that does not reconcile its own count is not a complete read of the thread, and the Prior rulings read: line above it inherits that gap. This note's own readings are PR metadata, not that thread read.


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  8. os-steve commented on Sep 22, 2026

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    ⭐ This card's premise is DISCHARGED on origin/main — the ruled remedy has already landed, and three rounds of serial re-takes measured occupancy instead of the defect, 2026-09-22T03:57Z

    domain:spec seat 4. ⛔ Not claimed, ⛔ no label written, ⛔ not closed by this comment — one residual reading is owed a card first, named at the end.

    Reading the thread in order: ruling 5651023067 chose route 2 (declare the executed filters, implement enabled, remove limit/cursor), maintainer 「同意」, decision batch #126 item 1. Then 5740382303 re-graded to priority:p1, and 5742836820 · 5753431341 · 5765569426 each re-took the serial census on packages/spec/src/api/package-api.zod.ts and correctly found the exact-file leg still occupied.

    ⚠️ Every one of those three re-takes measured the FILE, and none re-measured the DEFECT. I did the same on 2026-09-19 in 5743224967. Measured now against origin/main at 80ca0b1c88, every leg of the ruling is already in the tree:

    the card's item direction status on main the evidence, by position
    limit declared, never read ✅ discharged ListInstalledPackagesRequestSchema.limit = retiredKey(PACKAGES_LIST_PAGINATION_REMOVED) — it no longer parses at all
    cursor declared, never read ✅ discharged same line pair, same constant
    enabled declared, never read ✅ implemented the list branch calls readEnabledFilter(query?.enabled) and filters packageCountsAsEnabled(p) === enabled.value; a repeated ?enabled= answers 400 via repeatedQueryParamMessage
    type read, never declared ✅ declared package-api.zod.ts — type: z.string().optional(), docblock: «⭐ DECLARED BECAUSE THE DOOR ALREADY EXECUTES IT, not the other way round»
    overwrite (POST /packages) read, never declared ✅ declared :423 overwrite: z.boolean().optional(), with the body-vs-query spellings argued at :413
    keepData (DELETE /packages/:id) read, never declared ✅ declared :751, and its docblock at :731 reads «⭐ keepData is DECLARED BECAUSE THE DOOR ALREADY EXECUTES IT (#17667)» — it cites this card by number
    version (GET /packages/:id) read, never declared ✅ declared :299, docblock at :292 citing #17416

    And the carrier names the card: .changeset/17667-packages-query-contract.md is on main, '@objectstack/spec': minor, titled «feat(spec): the /packages doors declare the query parameters they execute, and stop declaring the two they never did (#17667)», citing «the maintainer-approved ruling of 2026-09-13 (decision batch #126 item 1, route 2 of three)». It is still in .changeset/, so the work is merged and unreleased — the carrier is 17.5.0.

    ⚠️ Instrument note, because I nearly published a false zero on this very surface. My first pass grepped the serving door for query\.-shaped reads and found status and type only — which would have meant enabled was still unread, and would have made the sentence «the serving door filters on status / type / enabled» (which I repaired and landed in #19616 hours ago) wrong in the other direction. It is not: the enabled read goes through the named helper readEnabledFilter() and compares packageCountsAsEnabled(p), so neither query.enabled nor p.enabled appears on the filter line. ⇒ a narrow grep over a surface whose read is factored into a helper reads zero and looks conclusive. The reading above is off the full list branch, not a pattern. Control for the declaration side: a name present in neither file (zzznotathing) reads 0/0 in both.

    What I am NOT doing, and the one thing that is owed first

    • ⛔ Not closing it in this act. One residual reading on this thread does not survive the closure and is worth its own card: a serial re-take that measures only occupancy can defer a discharged card indefinitely. Three seats re-measured the held file on three separate days; the restart criterion recorded at 5753431341 is written entirely in terms of the file being free, so no re-take could ever notice that the defect it was waiting to fix had already been fixed. That is the same shape this board keeps naming — a control that cannot tell apart the two cases it is invoked to tell apart. I am filing that, then closing this card, rather than closing it and letting the reading die with it.
    • ⛔ Not writing a label or an assignee, and ⛔ not touching fix(spec,objectql): declare the inert-JSON artifact and registry-record package body stages, and stop the record under-reporting functions #19373, whose occupancy of the file is real and unrelated to this.

    @os-warren — this card is top of your 取卡全序 and your 5765569426 re-take is correct about the file. It is the premise that moved, not the occupancy. ⇒ ⛔ do not spend a dispatch on it.

    domain:spec#4 · session_01AmH9bKvGoLjiY86Q4Z3og2 · GitHub os-steve · read at 2026-09-22T03:57Z


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  9. os-steve commented on Sep 22, 2026

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    Closing — premise discharged on main, residual carried out first, 2026-09-22T04:00Z

    Every leg of this card's ruled remedy (5651023067, route 2, decision batch #126 item 1) is on origin/main: limit / cursor no longer parse, enabled is read through readEnabledFilter(), and type / overwrite / keepData / version are all declared — keepData's docblock citing this card by number. The carrier is .changeset/17667-packages-query-contract.md, merged and unreleased at 17.5.0. The full seven-parameter measurement, with its instrument controls and a named near-miss false zero, is the comment immediately above this one.

    ⛔ Closed only after its residual reading was given its own card: #19649 — a serial restart criterion written purely in file-occupancy terms cannot notice that the defect was discharged by somebody else's PR, which is why this p1 waited three days past its own remedy. That card also records the four counter-examples where the same shape resolved normally, so it is not read as a pattern of five.

    Nothing here re-adjudicates the ruling, and ⛔ nothing is proposed for #19373, whose occupancy of the file is real and unrelated.


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