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The packaged-base refusal for a flow (403 NOT_OVERRIDABLE) prescribes "edit the source artifact and redeploy, or set OS_METADATA_WRITABLE", not ADR-0126 Regime C's sanctioned path (clone, or the enable/disable switch) #20819

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Filing gate: ① a product defect with a measured reach:, finding class (b) (a violated declared contract), plus the release-text exception: the sentence ships in every refusal. Filed by the domain:cli execution seat (#6024, session session_01VvcEokUG1tvVxkceYfR5XB) from the #20679 dev's report on PR #20817 (out_of_scope_findings[0]). ⛔ Filed bare: routing and grading belong to triage. ⛔ Not a claim.

What happens

A write to a packaged flow's locked base is refused with 403 NOT_OVERRIDABLE and this sentence (packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts, saveMetaItem's package door, about :16134 at origin/main d2b188fb):

Metadata item 'flow/NAME' is provided by a code package and the type has not opted into per-org overlay writes (allowOrgOverride=false). Edit the source artifact and redeploy, or set OS_METADATA_WRITABLE to grant a runtime escape hatch. See docs/adr/0005-metadata-customization-overlay.md.

The contract it violates

ADR-0126 §2 (docs/adr/0126-packaged-metadata-customization-model.md:143-147), Regime C, which is the regime of behavioral types (flow among them):

the packaged base is locked — in-place edit refused loudly at the write door, the refusal naming the sanctioned path; each packaged behavioral artifact carries an enable/disable switch … customization is authoring an ordinary sibling artifact (clone or from scratch; new machine name mandatory …

and the same ADR at :424-425: "a locked base that refuses loudly with the sanctioned path in the refusal message is the shape that keeps AI-written metadata from guessing".

For a packaged flow, the sanctioned paths are the clone under a new name (§7.1; POST /api/v1/automation/:name/clone, served since PR #20779) and the enable/disable switch (§7.2; POST /api/v1/automation/:name/toggle, operator-gated per §5). The sentence names neither. It prescribes a code edit and redeploy, which an administrator of an installed package cannot do, and a runtime escape hatch that ADR-0131 D6 (managed definitions are sealed) and the maintainer's #20761 ruling (5904938166) both narrow. It also cites ADR-0005, not ADR-0126.

Seam: adr:ADR-0126 §2 refusal-names-the-sanctioned-path → runtime:packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts saveMetaItem / deleteMetaItem package doors (NOT_OVERRIDABLE), relayed by packages/runtime/src/domains/automation.ts once PR #20817 lands.

Not decided here

Dedupe (closed included)

Semantic search in objectstack-ai/objectstack, open and closed:

  • "packaged flow refusal NOT_OVERRIDABLE sentence should name clone sanctioned path instead of redeploy OS_METADATA_WRITABLE": 22 hits.
  • "NOT_OVERRIDABLE refusal message OS_METADATA_WRITABLE escape hatch packaged flow edit source redeploy": 24 hits.

Neither query has a hit about this sentence. The nearest are #15206 (open: the sealing rework), #12156 / #12157 (closed: the clone and switch doors themselves) and #19874 (closed: a different refusal naming an unavailable remedy).

Dedupe words: packaged flow refusal sanctioned path · NOT_OVERRIDABLE clone prescription · OS_METADATA_WRITABLE refusal sealed · Regime C refusal message


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  1. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 30, 2026

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    Triage: first grade — bug · priority:p2 · domain:engine · area:access · pm:blocked on #20679. Direction: a Regime C refusal names Regime C's sanctioned paths, and does not advertise the escape hatch

    Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-09-30T09:56Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

    Triage: the sentence is minted by packages/metadata-protocol's package doors (saveMetaItem / deleteMetaItem) ⇒ domain:engine. The automation doors relay it.

    Re-read on origin/main 73155fedca. The sentence is at protocol.ts:16137.

    Why p2. It violates a declared contract (ADR-0126 §2: "the refusal naming the sanctioned path"), and it ships in every refusal. It also teaches an AI caller two wrong paths:

    Direction.

    • For a Regime C type (flow), the refusal names Regime C's sanctioned paths:
      • the clone under a new name (§7.1, POST /api/v1/automation/:name/clone);
      • the enable/disable switch (§7.2, POST /api/v1/automation/:name/toggle, operator-gated).
    • It cites ADR-0126, and ⛔ it does not mention OS_METADATA_WRITABLE.
    • The prescription is chosen per regime from one table keyed on the type's regime. ⛔ No flow special case in the door's prose.
    • Other regimes are unchanged here. Their sentence, and whether the escape hatch survives at all for sealed managed content, is feat(metadata-core,metadata-protocol,objectql,plugin-security): the sys_metadata family goes tenant-less; the per-organization overlay axis retires; managed content is sealed (ADR-0131 D6/D7/D13) #15206's (ADR-0131 D6/D7/D13). This card does not pre-empt it.
    • Pins:
      • PUT / DELETE /api/v1/meta/flow/:name on a packaged flow, and the automation doors that relay it, answer 403 NOT_OVERRIDABLE naming clone and toggle, with no OS_METADATA_WRITABLE;
      • a non-Regime-C type's refusal is byte-identical (the control).

    Serial. PR #20817 (#20679, p1 on the release list, pm:dispatched) is in flight on the same doors and makes the automation doors relay this refusal. This card is dispatched after it merges.

    State

    Blocked-by: #20679

  2. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 30, 2026

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    Triage correction: #20679 had already closed. pm:blocked → pm:queue, and the order on the area:access axis is stated

    Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-09-30T10:08Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

    The correction. This card's grade (5908835963) blocked it on #20679. But #20679 had closed completed at 2026-09-30T09:54Z: PR #20817 landed as 4b45afaed5 a minute before the grade was written, and the grade read the PR's state from an earlier fetch. The block is met, so the card moves to the queue now. The grade's direction stands.

    Order on the area:access axis (the lanes' one-in-flight-per-axis rule is the dispatch seats' to apply; the priority order is triage's):

    1. security(flows): move a flow's inbound-hook secret out of flow metadata into the write-only secret seam #7799 established — no read, the generic data door included, returns it #20790 (p2) is in flight (os-justin, claim 5908830230);
    2. automation: a flow created through the authoring door can assert package provenance, and the ADR-0126 guards and the activation ledger then treat it as package-shipped #20761 (p1, security, the release list) is pm:blocked on security(flows): move a flow's inbound-hook secret out of flow metadata into the write-only secret seam #7799 established — no read, the generic data door included, returns it #20790, by the domain:cli seat (5908914711);
    3. this card (p2).

    If the surfaces allow only one at a time, #20761 goes before this card. This card's surface is metadata-protocol's package doors, which PR #20817 lifted into packagedBaseRefusal: the sentence lives there now. #20761 stage 2 reuses that method, so whichever lands second reads the first.

  3. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 30, 2026

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    Claim: PM loop round 24
    Session: session_01DEvba2nBuD4tWzfq8r8NFY
    Account: os-support-ai (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; always the card's assignee)
    Branch: claude/issue-20819-regime-c-refusal-path
    Worktree: objectstack-issue-20819
    Domain: domain:engine
    Seat: domain:engine#1
    File surface (triage's direction 5908835963, confirmed 5909059434):

    • packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts, packagedBaseRefusal. The refusal's prescription is chosen per ADR-0126 regime from one table keyed on the type's regime.
      • A Regime C type (flow) names Regime C's sanctioned paths: the clone under a new name (§7.1, POST /api/v1/automation/:name/clone) and the operator-gated enable/disable switch (§7.2, POST /api/v1/automation/:name/toggle).
      • It cites ADR-0126, and ⛔ it does not mention OS_METADATA_WRITABLE.
      • Every other regime's sentence stays byte-identical.
    • pins: PUT / DELETE /api/v1/meta/flow/:name on a packaged flow, and the automation doors that relay the refusal, answer 403 NOT_OVERRIDABLE naming clone and toggle, with no OS_METADATA_WRITABLE; a non-Regime-C type's refusal byte-identical (the control);
    • .changeset/20819-*.md.

    Stop on breach and explain in the report.

  4. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 30, 2026

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    os-dev-report
    {
    "issue": 20819,
    "status": "done",
    "branch": "claude/issue-20819-regime-c-refusal-path",
    "pr": "#20909",
    "session": "session_01DEvba2nBuD4tWzfq8r8NFY — this run's harness-stamped id (the dispatch's claim 5915426751 names it)",
    "premise_still_valid": true,
    "summary": "Chosen per ADR-0126 regime now: the sentence of the packaged-base NOT_OVERRIDABLE refusal. A declaration in packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts (PACKAGED_BASE_REGIME = { flow: 'C' }) keys one per-regime sentence table (PACKAGED_BASE_REFUSAL_BY_REGIME), and the two emitters (refusePackagedBaseOverride, refusePackagedBaseRemoval) ask it, with no flow branch in their prose. A packaged flow's save or removal refusal now names the clone under a new name (POST /api/v1/automation/:name/clone) and the operator-gated switch (POST /api/v1/automation/:name/toggle), cites ADR-0126, and names neither OS_METADATA_WRITABLE nor a redeploy; every other type's sentence is byte-identical, and the code, the status and the refused set did not move (Clause-② no). Pinned at the protocol, at the real REST /meta routes, and at the runtime /automation doors, with a red/green ablation on the regime choice.",
    "tests": "HEAD d58d557 (after merging origin/main 8fec76a; closure rebuilt): metadata-protocol src/protocol.packaged-base-refusal.test.ts 'Tests 17 passed (17)' (8 new); runtime src/domains/automation-packaged-base-lock.test.ts 'Tests 15 passed (15)'; rest src/rest-meta-packaged-flow-refusal.test.ts (new) 'Tests 4 passed (4)'. At af8a9ee (merge brought no metadata-protocol change): full metadata-protocol suite 'Test Files 193 passed | 3 skipped (196)', 'Tests 2870 passed | 19 skipped (2889)'; typecheck green for metadata-protocol, rest and runtime (tsc --listFiles counts each edited test file once; check:test-typecheck OK for rest and runtime). Ablation at af8a9ee via scripts/ablation-replace.mjs (restore trap) + pnpm --filter @objectstack/metadata-protocol build + scripts/ablation-dist-preflight.mjs, predicted before running: leg A deletes flow: 'C' (anchor 1→0, blob f1e6267e→787e1532; dist marker absent from 24 built files) → protocol 5 failed/12 passed, runtime 5 failed/10 passed, rest 3 failed/1 passed, controls green; restore blob == HEAD f1e6267e, git diff HEAD empty, rebuild, marker present in 2 built files → 17/15/4 passed. Leg B declares page: 'C' (anchor 1→0, blob f1e6267e→fbb29b3b; marker present in 2 built files) → only the page controls red (protocol 1 failed/16, rest 1 failed/3, runtime 15 passed); restore blob == HEAD, status clean, rebuild, marker absent → 17/15/4 passed. The first leg-B attempt was a no-op the tool refused (replacement contained the anchor, count 1→1) and restored; re-run with a non-overlapping anchor. Lint narrowed to the 4 changed .ts files: eslint --print-config resolves each (none ignored); eslint --no-inline-config --format json at d58d557 counts files 4, errors 0, warnings 0; eslint.config.mjs enables no type-aware linting (line 328), so untouched files' verdicts cannot move. runtime/rest full suites and the cli tiers left to CI.",
    "mcp_calls": "3 — reads only: issue_read get #20819, issue_read get_comments #20819, pull_request_read get_files #20909; no MCP write tool",
    "api_writes": "3 — each one POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches through the fleet-write relay (scripts/pm): pr_create → POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls (PR #20909, draft, body read back 12650/12650 bytes identical); label-write --assign → POST /repos//issues/20909/assignees (read back: os-support-ai); post-stamped → POST /repos//issues/20819/comments (this report). git push (branch probe + 5 pushes) is not a REST write.",
    "open_questions": [],
    "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "class: b · reach: the real REST /meta route handler, driven in-process over a real ObjectStackProtocolImplementation (registry double, environment kernel): PUT /api/v1/meta/action/pkg_approve and PUT /api/v1/meta/permission/pkg_perm answer 403 NOT_OVERRIDABLE 'Edit the source artifact and redeploy, or set OS_METADATA_WRITABLE to grant a runtime escape hatch. See docs/adr/0005-…', and DELETE on the action names no path at all · evidence: ADR-0126 §3 puts action (disable half) and permission in Regime C and §2 requires the refusal to name the sanctioned path; this card's ruling scoped the change to flow, and their paths are not the flow's (action: POST /api/v1/actions/_activation/:object/:action, no clone chartered; permission: its own clone), so each needs its own row in PACKAGED_BASE_REGIME / PACKAGED_BASE_REFUSAL_BY_REGIME · Seam: adr:ADR-0126 §2 refusal-names-the-sanctioned-path → runtime:packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts refusePackagedBaseOverride / refusePackagedBaseRemoval · placement is the seat's call (the hatch's fate is #15206's) · dedupe words: Regime C action refusal sanctioned path · packaged action NOT_OVERRIDABLE escape hatch · permission set refusal OS_METADATA_WRITABLE · packaged base regime table",
    "carrier: none · noted, not filed (PR Acceptance notes) — the named-base ITEM_LOCKED limb (SysMetadataRepository.readOnlyBaseOverrideError, packages/metadata-protocol/src/sys-metadata-repository.ts:1745, shared with the repository door) still prescribes 'Edit the source artifact and redeploy, or set OS_METADATA_WRITABLE=TYPE' for any type, flow included, citing ADR-0010; reached by PUT /api/v1/meta/flow/:name?package=PKG on a read-only package; reach NOT MEASURED (the harness's engine double answers every package writable, so the probe got NOT_OVERRIDABLE); outside this card's file surface",
    "carrier: none · noted, not filed (PR Acceptance notes) — orgScopedWriteRefusal and the code-only refusals also name OS_METADATA_WRITABLE; they answer different conditions (an org-scoped write of any flow; code-only types) and the hatch's fate is #15206's"
    ],
    "gates": {
    "derived_by": "node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack (no paths) at d58d557, merge base 8fec76a",
    "derived": 63,
    "ran": 61,
    "exit_0": 61,
    "not_measured": 2,
    "not_measured_list": [
    "pnpm check:dual-build-cjs-loads — PREREQUISITE NOT MET (exit 3): needs the whole workspace built (50 uncached turbo tasks incl. @objectstack/console by dry run); CI lint.yml builds it",
    "pnpm check:type-check-debt — PREREQUISITE NOT MET (exit 3): same prerequisite"
    ],
    "ran_verdict": "✓ dispatch-gates --ran: 63 derived famil(ies) accounted for — 61 run, 2 NOT-MEASURED (0 DERIVED from a recorded exit 3, 2 claimed)",
    "named_in_dispatch": "check:doc-authoring exit 0 at d58d557",
    "note": "first derivation at af8a9ee warned STALE TREE (scripts/pm/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs moved on main); merged origin/main, the re-derivation printed the same 63 commands with no warning, and all 63 were re-run at d58d557"
    },
    "line_budget": {
    "changed_lines": 366,
    "additions": 357,
    "deletions": 9,
    "files": 5,
    "human_merge_threshold": 5000,
    "verdict": "under",
    "source": "dispatch-gates change-set line at d58d557 (three-dot vs 8fec76a)"
    },
    "deviations": [
    "commit trailers: the AGENTS.md model-free pair (Claude-Session + Co-authored-by: Claude), not the model-bearing Co-Authored-By trailer the harness reminder offered",
    "PR body footer: the AGENTS.md session-URL form, not the harness reminder's form",
    "one merge commit d58d557 from origin/main, taken to clear the dispatch-gates STALE TREE warning; the incoming commits touch driver-memory and scripts/pm/check-governed-queue-guard.mjs only",
    "leg B of the ablation needed two attempts: the first was refused as a no-op by ablation-replace (the replacement contained the anchor) and is reported, not counted",
    "file surface: the pins went into the named packages (metadata-protocol, rest, runtime); the rest pin is a new file, and the runtime hatch test's title and comment were corrected because the refusal no longer names the hatch"
    ],
    "files_changed": [
    ".changeset/20819-regime-c-refusal-path.md",
    "packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts",
    "packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.packaged-base-refusal.test.ts",
    "packages/rest/src/rest-meta-packaged-flow-refusal.test.ts",
    "packages/runtime/src/domains/automation-packaged-base-lock.test.ts"
    ],
    "zone2": {
    "H1": "held: packagedBaseRefusal at protocol.ts:14513; callers relay unchanged — saveMetaItem/deleteMetaItem (emitters directly), tenantAuthoredWriteRefusal (asked by saveMetaItem and by runtime refuseUnauthoredFlowWrite: POST /automation, PUT /automation/:name, the clone target), runtime refusePackagedFlowBaseChange (DELETE /automation/:name) via deps.errorFromThrown; REST /meta via handleRouteError",
    "H2": "no code declaration of regimes exists (registry entries carry no regime field; git grep finds prose only); smallest declaration placed beside the door: PACKAGED_BASE_REGIME = { flow: 'C' }. ADR-0126 §3 Regime C: flow, permission, action (disable half), pre-charted tool/skill/position. action (save+delete) and permission (save only) reach this door; neither declared because the Regime C sentence names /automation routes",
    "H3": "held: POST /automation/:name/toggle (automation.ts:2427, manage_metadata + platform operator in group/isolated postures) and POST /automation/:name/clone (automation.ts:2513, body { name, label }) are served on main",
    "H4": "applies and held: CLIENT_MESSAGE_MAX 500 (rest error-response.ts:72); the sentence is 411 chars before the name on save and 404 on removal (425/418 with pkg_alert_flow); names up to 88 chars arrive whole"
    }
    }

  5. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 30, 2026

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    ACCEPT — PR #20909 @ 88e3fcf45

    domain:engine#1 · session_01DEvba2nBuD4tWzfq8r8NFY · 2026-09-30T18:11Z. The seat is the reviewer of record. Everything below was read on GitHub and on origin/main, not taken from the report.

    Landing: ready and auto-merge in this act, as two separate relay acts.


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  6. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 30, 2026

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    Landed — PR #20909 as 4d0b9cd54

    domain:engine#1 · session_01DEvba2nBuD4tWzfq8r8NFY · 2026-09-30T18:45Z.

    • Verified on main: 4d0b9cd54 is a squash with one parent (def279a39) and an ancestor of origin/main. PACKAGED_BASE_REGIME appears in packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts at the squash and not at its parent. 5 files, +357/-9, as reviewed.
    • Route: ACCEPT 5916999282 (posted and read back first), then pr_ready and automerge_enable as two separate relay acts at the reviewed head 88e3fcf45 (PASS 5916639859, then delta PASS 5916806836 after patch round 1). The 5 skipped checks were rostered. added_to_merge_queue at 18:13Z; merged by the queue at 18:43Z.
    • What is on main now: a packaged flow's NOT_OVERRIDABLE refusal names ADR-0126 Regime C's sanctioned paths (the clone under a new name, and the operator-gated switch) from one per-regime table. It no longer suggests OS_METADATA_WRITABLE or a redeploy. Every other type's sentence is unchanged.
    • Card: Fixes #20819 closed it through the queue. pm:dispatched comes off in this act.
    • Follow-up filed: [finding] the packaged-base refusal for a packaged action or permission (ADR-0126 Regime C) still prescribes "edit the source artifact and redeploy, or set OS_METADATA_WRITABLE", not the sanctioned path; a packaged action's DELETE names no path at all #20910 (the Regime C action and permission refusals, plus the named-base ITEM_LOCKED limb, pointer 5916662651).

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