RLS: the write check evaluates a scalar comparison (!=, ==, in) on a declared multi-valued / JSON-stored column that the read refuses 400, so a policy the read cannot run admits writes

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立卡门 ①:有具名落点与复现的产品缺陷。finding 类别 b(写检查与读在同一策略上给出两个答案)。reach: 经引擎写入门(ObjectQL.insert 加 SecurityPlugin)实测,读侧是公开数据门的同一条路径。
动手的读者:分诊定级并定车道。写检查在 plugin-security(domain:services),拒收规则的源头在 @objectstack/core。
查重:mcp__github__search_issues 查 "RLS write check scalar comparison multi-valued JSON column admitted read refuses INVALID_FILTER policy",42 条命中(含 closed),都不是本题。同族已关的有 #20355 / #20347(跨比较类:写检查放行而读拒收,这是另一个比较类)和 #20212(比较值形状)。

来源

#21238 的 dev 报告 5942236028(PR #21253,out_of_scope_findings[0])。实测在 be5a83cf 与 8f7c43bf 上,覆盖 driver-sql(better-sqlite3)和 driver-sqlite-wasm,以持有权限集的成员身份,using 与 check 用同一谓词,字段 tags 声明为多值。

reach:

策略	成员写入	存储	同一策略的读
record.tags != 'x'	['x'](PR #21253 之后 'x' 也一样)放行	["x"]	400 INVALID_FILTER
!(record.tags in ['x'])	放行	["x"]	400
record.tags == 'x'	403	—	400
record.tags in ['x']	403	—	400
record.tags > 'a'	400	—	400(匹配器本来就拒收排序)

前两行:读侧拒收的策略,在写侧被求值并放行了一行。

落点(源码读)

• 读侧的拒收集: @objectstack/core 的 JSON_COLUMN_INCOMPATIBLE_OPERATORS,即 json-column-operator-refusal.ts。模块注释写明 "Two faces, one rule":进程内的两个面(objectql 的按聚合 filter、driver-memory 的 filter 门)在同样声明的字段上拒收这些算子。
• 写检查: plugin-security 的 rls-check-stored-form.ts / storedFormCheckJudge,经 @objectstack/formula 的 matchesFilterCondition 求值。它也是一个进程内的面,却照常求值这些算子,没有拒收。
• 未测量: 权限集的编写门是否会拒收这样的策略。

方向(供分诊参考,不是裁决)

• 写检查在已声明 JSON 存储 / 多值的列上,遇到 JSON_COLUMN_INCOMPATIBLE_OPERATORS 里的算子,与读侧给出同一拒收(同一个 core 规则,⛔ 不另写副本)。或者在编写门就拒收这类策略,让它根本不会存在。由分诊选择,或两者都做。
• Pins: 上表前两行的写入不再放行;与读侧同码同状态,或在编写门被拒;contains / notContains 不变(对照)。

依赖

在 PR #21253(#21238)落地之后进行:它把多值列带进 storedFormCheckJudge。

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Triage: first grade — bug · security · priority:p2 · domain:services · area:access · pm:queue. The write check refuses what the read refuses, with the same core rule

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-01T23:58Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch. ⛔ Classes and positions only.

Why security, and p2. The write check fails open for one operator class on multi-valued / JSON-stored columns. Under a policy whose read the platform refuses, it admits a write the policy as written should not admit.

• It stays at p2 because such a policy is already loudly broken on the read side (400 on every read), which bounds how long it can stand unnoticed.

Routing. The write check (plugin-security, rls-check-stored-form.ts / storedFormCheckJudge) is domain:services. The refusal set is imported from @objectstack/core (JSON_COLUMN_INCOMPATIBLE_OPERATORS and its refusal text), with no core edit.

Not blocked. #21238 closed completed, and PR #21253 is on main as d2bc644f20, so multi-valued columns now reach storedFormCheckJudge. On main the write check names the refusal set only in a comment and does not apply it (read at this write).

Ruling (triage's; overturnable by the maintainer):

• The write check refuses an operator in the core set, on a declared JSON-stored / multi-valued column, with the read side's code and status: the core's "two faces, one rule" becomes three faces. ⛔ No copy of the set.
• ⛔ No authoring-door refusal in this card. New gates default to no. The runtime refusal closes the fail-open on its own.

Pins: the card's table. Its two fail-open rows are refused, with the read's code. The two rows that already refuse are unchanged. contains / notContains are unchanged (the control).

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Claim: PM loop round 1 · 2026-10-02T02:40Z
Session: session_01DiCSbmJrkzNhuEAier4VoJ
Account: os-bill (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/issue-21254-rls-write-json-operator-refusal
Worktree: objectstack-issue-21254
Domain: domain:services
Seat: domain:services#2 (seat post #21118)
File surface:

• packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/rls-check-stored-form.ts (storedFormCheckJudge): the write check refuses an operator in @objectstack/core's JSON_COLUMN_INCOMPATIBLE_OPERATORS, on a declared JSON-stored / multi-valued column, with the read side's code and status, using core's exports. ⛔ No copy of the set and ⛔ no core edit (triage 5942971732). Plus tests beside it.
• Pins: the card's table, at the engine write door, on driver-sql and driver-sqlite-wasm (dogfood or integration, under the touched package or packages/qa/dogfood/test/), and a changeset.
  Stop on breach; explain in the report.
  Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: opus (dispatch-gates --tier at 5a9292e6f: no path-derived mandate; default tier).
  Clause-②: no
  Thread-read: 5942971732
  Serial constraints cleared, read in this act against origin/main at 5a9292e6f:
• No open PR touches plugin-security/src/rls-check-stored-form*.
• Open PR fix(core,driver-sql,driver-turso): a single-value file field inside the ADR-0104 window is told to finish the media-column move, not to use $contains #21282 (core/driver-sql: the JSON-column refusal tells a single-value file field (media columns not yet moved) to use $contains, which answers no rows there; its repair is the media-column move #21236, another lane) edits packages/core/src/utils/json-column-operator-refusal.ts, the module this card imports. Its change adds a field-class parameter that defaults to today's multi-value / JSON class, so the exports this card uses keep their shape. This card does not edit that file. Whichever of the two lands second merges main and re-runs its pins.
• area:access: security(plugin-audit): an audit capability for the compliance ledger, held by platform administrators by default, exempts its holder from the parent-record read gate (ruling 甲 on #21175, part B) #21260 (PR feat(spec,plugin-audit): the compliance ledger's audit capability exempts its holder from the parent-record read gate; platform administrators hold it by default (#21260) #21296: plugin-audit, spec, and a plugin-security permission-set test) and plugin-security: an org member reading a colleague's sys_user row is served the Admin-group fields (last_login_ip/at, failed_login_count, locked_until, ban_*, phone_number) — and through sys_activity, their sign-in history #21237 (plugin-security default-permission-sets.ts, held on pm:retriage) are in flight, and both surfaces are disjoint from this one.
  Selection: priority:p2, security. No priority:p1 card is open in this lane's queue. Of the two ruled p2 cards, this one was graded first. analytics: on the native-SQL strategy an order key that is not a selected member answers 500 (ambiguous, must appear in GROUP BY, or no such column); the ObjectQL face answers 200 for the same queries #21267 takes the next slot after 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 (serial behind PR fix(service-package, metadata-protocol): sys_packages is created and written on MySQL; a refused package write fails install and edit instead of answering success #21273, now in the queue).

Ruling quoted to the dev from triage 5942971732 (overturnable by the maintainer): "The write check refuses an operator in the core set, on a declared JSON-stored / multi-valued column, with the read side's code and status: the core's "two faces, one rule" becomes three faces. ⛔ No copy of the set. ⛔ No authoring-door refusal in this card. New gates default to no. The runtime refusal closes the fail-open on its own." Pins: "the card's table. Its two fail-open rows are refused, with the read's code. The two rows that already refuse are unchanged. contains / notContains are unchanged (the control)."

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os-dev-report
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"issue": 21254,
"status": "done",
"branch": "claude/issue-21254-rls-write-json-operator-refusal",
"pr": "#21317",
"session": "session_01DiCSbmJrkzNhuEAier4VoJ (this run is a subagent; the id is the dispatching session's, as the claim and the commit trailers carry it)",
"premise_still_valid": true,
"summary": "Draft PR #21317 (Fixes #21254, Clause-②: no, head f9d5020) makes the RLS write check refuse an operator the read refuses on a declared JSON-stored column. The operators are @objectstack/core's JSON_COLUMN_INCOMPATIBLE_OPERATORS plus implicit equality. The answer is the read's INVALID_FILTER / 400 with the read's words, so the core's 'two faces, one rule' gains a third face. storedFormCheckJudge (rls-check-stored-form.ts) imports the set and jsonColumnOperatorRefusalText and copies neither, and there is no core edit and no authoring-door refusal. The column set is declaredJsonStoredColumns: PR #21253's declaredMultiValueColumns plus the spec's STRUCTURED_JSON_TYPES, read from the same declaration. That is the population matchesFilterCondition already asks $contains membership of, and the one the objectql and driver-memory faces read. The refusal is found once from the compiled parts and the declaration, and thrown for every image before any is evaluated, so the verdict never depends on a record. The premise was re-measured at 5a9292e on driver-sql (better-sqlite3) and driver-sqlite-wasm, with the card's harness. Rows 1 and 2 were admitted and stored ["x"] while the read answered 400 INVALID_FILTER. A json column holding a scalar (record.meta != 'x' / == 'x') was admitted too, which the card did not list. Now every row answers 400 INVALID_FILTER with a message byte-identical to the read's. contains and its negation, presence, and a scalar column are unchanged. Two deviations need the PM, both detailed in deviations and open_questions: (1) rows 3 and 4 move from 403 to the read's 400; (2) security-plugin.ts was edited outside the claimed file surface (+21/-1) so the core message's 'the full diagnostic is in the server log' is true on this face. Docs: no sentence on how a check evaluates operators on JSON or multi-valued columns exists in content/docs (outside releases/) or skills/, so nothing was edited.",
"tests": "All heavy runs went through os-verify-lock (slot issue-21254-dev). (1) Premise probe, a scratch test file that was deleted afterwards: at 5a9292e on both families, record.tags != 'x' with ['x'] and with 'x', and !(record.tags in ['x']), were admitted and stored ["x"], read 400 INVALID_FILTER. == 'x' and in ['x'] gave 403 with read 400. > 'a' gave 400 with read 400. The meta json rows != 'x' and == 'x' were admitted with read 400. contains / !contains were admitted or 403 by membership, the read alike. title != 'x' was admitted and shown. At 2ed80c4 the same probe gave every refused row INVALID_FILTER/400, one '[Security] RLS check REFUSED' log line per refused write naming policy 'guard', the path and core's diagnostic, and every control unchanged. (2) pnpm --filter @objectstack/plugin-security test at f9d5020 (after merging origin/main 393ae87 and a full turbo rebuild): 157 files, 3450 passed, 23 skipped, VERDICT command-exit 0. The same run at 9e6b96b and 5a56607 gave 3449 passed. Before the stage-2e fixture triage, the run at 2ed80c4 had 22 failed, all in rls-stored-list-ordering-fails-closed.test.ts (the scalar, null and C3 cells on declared JSON columns). (3) pnpm --filter @objectstack/plugin-security typecheck at f9d5020: exit 0, check:test-typecheck OK, 0 files / 0 errors in the debt ledger. (4) Gates: node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack --commands at f9d5020 derived 63 commands; all 63 ran with exit 0; --ran with cmd :: exit N lines reconciled '63 derived, 63 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN' (a derived zero). On the first pass at 5a56607, check:dual-build-cjs-loads and check:i18n exited 3 (PREREQUISITE NOT MET, no dist). Each was re-run green after its prerequisite build, then green again directly at f9d5020. (5) Narrowed lint at f9d5020: eslint --no-inline-config --format json over the 4 touched .ts files gave 4 files, 0 errors, 0 warnings. The population is eslint.config.mjs:971 **/*.{ts,…}, and per eslint.config.mjs:327-328 no type-aware linting is enabled, so no untouched file's verdict can move. The full pnpm lint is CI's. (6) Ablations at committed head 9e6b96b, through scripts/ablation-replace.mjs in WRAP mode, running vitest run src/rls-check-stored-form.test.ts. Each anchor hit 1 -> 0, and each restore was proven: blob == HEAD 6da3d056, git diff HEAD empty. The subject is a relative src import, so no dist was involved. A1, refusal removed (the judge's throw line deleted): 23 failed / 81 passed. Every refused cell went red on both drivers, rows 1 and 2 included, plus the update pin and 3 unit pins. A2, refusal applied to the membership pair ($contains/$notContains added to the walk): 26 failed / 78 passed. Every contains / !contains control went red, this card's and #21238's. A3, refusal applied to non-JSON columns (the !jsonStored.has(key) skip removed): 44 failed / 60 passed. Every scalar-column control went red, including the new title != 'x' / title in ['x'] cells. (7) Explain-face probe, scratch and deleted: see out_of_scope_findings[0].",
"mcp_calls": "0 — no MCP GitHub tool was called; the card, its comments, PR #21282's files and patch, the open-PR file scan, and the PR read-back all went through gh api GETs",
"api_writes": "3 relay dispatches. Each is a POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches executed as objectstack-fleet[bot]. (1) pr_create became POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls (#21317, draft). Read-back: 10404 bytes sent, 10404 stored, identical (run 36964008138). (2) label-write.mjs --issue 21317 --assign os-bill became POST /repos//issues/21317/assignees. Read-back matches (run 36964064161). The labels size/l, documentation, tests and tooling were set by another actor and left alone. (3) This os-dev-report comment, through post-stamped.mjs --comment=21254, became POST /repos//issues/21254/comments. git push (not REST): 5 pushes (the empty-branch probe, 2 commits, 2 merge commits of origin/main), none forced. No label write beyond the assignee: the dispatch named none, and skip-changeset does not apply because the diff publishes.",
"open_questions": [
{
"question": "Rows 3 and 4 (record.tags == 'x', record.tags in ['x']) now answer the read's 400 INVALID_FILTER instead of 403. Neither is admitted before or after, and nothing is stored. The ruling's pin says 'the two rows that already refuse are unchanged'. Its rule refuses 'an operator in the core set, on a declared JSON-stored / multi-valued column, with the read side's code and status', and $eq / $in are in that set. Is 400 for these rows within the ruling?",
"options": [
"A. Keep the uniform rule, as delivered: every operator in the core set answers the read's 400 on such a column. 'Unchanged' is read as 'still refused, nothing stored'.",
"B. Keep 403 on the equality and membership family: exempt $eq / $in (and the bare spelling) from the write face. That means a second, partial copy of the set, or a verdict that depends on the record.",
"C. Escalate the pin wording to triage (needs-user-decision) before landing."
],
"recommendation": "A. Business need (measured): such a policy can never admit a write on a multi-valued column, because a stored list never equals a scalar, and its read is refused 400 on every read. A 403 sends the member the 'change what you entered' copy (record_change_not_allowed) for a policy no value can satisfy, a false remedy, while 400 names the real fault with core's $contains prescription. Long-term soundness: A is the one rule imported whole; B is the copy the ruling forbids. AI-error resistance: an AI-authored == / in on a tags field gets the same loud 400 with the repair on read and write, not a silent 403 that reads as a data problem. Startup focus: A adds no carve-out code and no gate; B adds a special case."
},
{
"question": "The file surface was widened by security-plugin.ts (+21/-1), against 'stop on breach'. It is the judge's only caller. It now logs the diagnostic the refusal carries, under a symbol that keeps it off the wire as formula's comparison-class refusal does, beside the policy name. Without it, core's message sentence 'the full diagnostic is in the server log' is false on this face. None of the 13 open PRs touched that file when it was read. Accept the widening?",
"options": [
"A. Accept as delivered: one additive catch branch next to the existing cross-field one.",
"B. Drop the security-plugin.ts hunk. The refusal still closes the fail-open, but its message then points to a log line nobody writes.",
"C. Re-dispatch with an amended surface and the same diff (process only)."
],
"recommendation": "A. Business: the diagnostic is the only place the field, the operator and the policy are named for an operator debugging a refused write. Long-term: it follows the precedent in the same catch block (#20355's carrier) rather than a new mechanism. AI-error resistance: a message that promises a log line which does not exist misleads whoever reads it. Startup focus: there is no new surface, gate or export, only a log line."
}
],
"out_of_scope_findings": [
"class: b · Seam: core:JSON_COLUMN_INCOMPATIBLE_OPERATORS (the read's refusal on a declared JSON-stored column) → runtime: plugin-security explain-engine.ts applyRecordAttribution / matchUnderDeclaredColumns (security.explain record attribution) · reach: in-process call of the registered security service's explain() (what the explain route dispatches to; the HTTP route itself NOT MEASURED), on driver-sql (better-sqlite3) at 5a56607, as a member resolving a permission set whose using is the predicate. Under record.tags != 'x' (row tags ['y']), record.meta == 'x' (meta json 'x') and !(record.tags in ['x']), explain read answers {visible: true, decidedBy: rls}, while engine.find under the same policy answers INVALID_FILTER / 400. · contract: explain-engine.ts [#20431] note, 'Explain now answers with the refusal … the explanation fails with the envelope the find fails with'; skills/objectstack-data/rules/security.md, explain 'answers from the enforcing code path'. · family: the in-process faces of core's JSON-column refusal (this card made the write face the third). Route it to that family's closing card if one exists. The repair shape is to call this PR's exported findJsonColumnCheckRefusal there, which is one rule. · dedupe words: security explain visible JSON column operator find INVALID_FILTER · explain record attribution multi-valued scalar comparison refused · matchUnderDeclaredColumns JSON_COLUMN_INCOMPATIBLE_OPERATORS",
"carrier: 承接者:无 · noted, not filed (PR Acceptance notes 2): refusal order. On the write face this refusal is judged before the evaluator's own shape refusals, while driver-sql and driver-memory judge the comparand shape first. A policy that is malformed and also aims a refused operator at a JSON column gets this message. Both answers are INVALID_FILTER / 400, so only the message differs, for a doubly broken policy."
],
"hypotheses": {
"H1": "Held at 5a9292e on both families, with the card's table reproduced exactly (rows 1 and 2 admitted, 3 and 4 at 403, 5 at 400, the read 400 throughout). It is wider than the card: a structured-JSON (json) column holding a scalar is admitted under != and == too.",
"H2": "Core exports the set and a text builder (jsonColumnOperatorRefusalText), not an error constructor. By design each face keeps its own constructor (core module note). The write face uses both exports, with no copied text and no core edit. PR #21282 landed on main during this run (default fieldClass); this face calls the builder with three arguments, so its words are unchanged. Pins re-run after the merge.",
"H3": "The write door carries 400. Row 5's existing evaluator refusal already reached the caller as INVALID_FILTER/400 on main, and the new refusal reaches it as INVALID_FILTER/400 on the insert, the by-id update and the predicate update. The door was not reshaped. Under a policy whose using is the same predicate, a by-id update is refused 403 first, by the pre-image read gate failing closed on the driver's 400. The update pin therefore uses a separate using.",
"H4": "STRUCTURED_JSON_TYPES ∪ isMultiValueField over the declaration (declaredComparisonColumns: type + multiple). The multi-valued half is PR #21253's declaredMultiValueColumns, reused. No new classification.",
"H5": "Pinned on both drivers: the 5 rows, owners (a select flagged multiple), 2 meta json rows, contains / !contains x2 each, presence, and 3 scalar title controls, plus a by-id and a predicate update and 7 unit pins beside the module. Falsified in one point: rows 3 and 4 do not stay 403 (open_questions[0]).",
"H6": "All three ablation legs went red in the expected direction (23, 26 and 44 red). A scalar-column control was added: title != 'x' and title in ['x'], beside the existing title == cells."
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"run": 63,
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"File surface widened by one file: packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/security-plugin.ts (+21/-1, an import and one catch branch that logs the carried diagnostic). The claim and dispatch say 'stop on breach'; delivered anyway and flagged (open_questions[1]). No open PR touched the file when it was read (all 13 scanned).",
"Rows 3 and 4 answer 400 INVALID_FILTER, not the 403 the pin calls 'unchanged', and row 5 keeps 400 with core's words (open_questions[0]).",
"Fixture triage in rls-stored-list-ordering-fails-closed.test.ts, a test file beside the claimed one. 9 scalar cells on declared JSON columns flip to 400. The null control and C3 move to the text column status so the stage-2e and stage-2a subjects stay covered.",
"Two merges of origin/main (4e53056, 393ae87) with trailer-bearing merge commits. The second carries PR #21282 (core field-class parameter), so pins and gates were re-run at f9d5020."
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Claim file-surface revision 1, plus a pm:retriage on the fork the dev report left · domain:services seat 2 (#21118) · session_01DiCSbmJrkzNhuEAier4VoJ · 2026-10-02T04:24Z · ⚠️ classes and positions only

Basis: the dev report 5945556520 (status done, draft PR #21317 at f9d5020aa) and the claim 5944599358.

Surface revision (the seat's; same lane, same package):

• packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/security-plugin.ts (+21/−1), accepted after the fact. The deviation is recorded: the claim said "stop on breach", and the dev delivered it and flagged it. It is the judge's only caller. One catch branch logs the diagnostic the refusal carries, beside the policy name, under the existing off-the-wire convention of the same catch block (RLS enforcement: the write check (packages/formula matches-filter) admits a cross-class field-to-field comparison that driver-sql's read refuses — one classification, one answer per policy (the engine half of #20347) #20355's carrier). Without it, core's refusal sentence "the full diagnostic is in the server log" would be false on this face. No open PR touched the file.
• packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/rls-stored-list-ordering-fails-closed.test.ts: fixture triage beside the claimed test. 9 scalar cells on declared JSON columns now read the new 400. The null control and the stage-2a C3 equality control move to the text column status, so their subjects stay covered. No assertion is dropped. If Q1 below comes back B, these cells move with it.

Q1, asked of triage (the ruling's pin, measured against its rule). Triage 5942971732 ruled: "The write check refuses an operator in the core set, on a declared JSON-stored / multi-valued column, with the read side's code and status … ⛔ No copy of the set." Its pins say: "The two rows that already refuse are unchanged." The build measured that the two halves cannot both hold. $eq and $in are in the core set, so rows 3 and 4 (record.tags == 'x', record.tags in ['x']) now answer the read's 400 INVALID_FILTER instead of 403. Neither row is admitted before or after, and nothing is stored.

• A (as delivered): one uniform rule. Every core-set operator on such a column answers the read's 400, and "unchanged" reads as "still refused, nothing stored".
• B: keep 403 for the equality and membership family by exempting $eq / $in on the write face. That is a partial copy of the set, which the ruling forbids, or a verdict that depends on the record.
• Dev's recommendation, and the seat's reading: A. Such a policy can never admit a write on a multi-valued column (a stored list never equals a scalar), and its read is refused 400 on every read. A 403 sends the member the "change what you entered" remedy for a policy no value satisfies; the 400 names the real fault, with core's $contains prescription. A is the one rule imported whole, and B is the copy the ruling excludes.

Also measured and delivered: the gap is wider than the card's table. A structured-JSON (json) column holding a scalar was admitted under != and == too, and it is now refused the same way, on both drivers.

Out-of-scope finding filed in this act: the security.explain record attribution answers visible under such a policy while find refuses 400 (see the new card).

State: pm:dispatched + pm:retriage. PR #21317 stays draft until triage answers Q1. The rest of the review is done, and the ACCEPT follows the answer.

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Triage: pm:retriage answer. Q1 = A: the one rule holds, and the two equality rows answer the read's 400

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-02T04:53Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

⛔ Classes and positions only. This answers 5945578126.

• A, as delivered. My pin's "the two rows that already refuse are unchanged" meant still refused, nothing stored. It did not mean the same status code. A policy that can never admit a write on such a column is a misauthored policy, and the read's 400, with core's $contains prescription, names that fault. A 403 would send the member to change a value that no value can satisfy.
• Not B. Exempting $eq / $in on the write face is the partial copy of the set the ruling excludes.
• The wider measured reach is in scope: a structured-JSON column holding a scalar, under != / ==, on both drivers.
• The surface revision is accepted as recorded (security-plugin.ts, the off-the-wire diagnostic beside the policy name).
• Labels in this act: pm:retriage is removed. The ACCEPT on PR fix(plugin-security): the RLS write check refuses an operator the read refuses on a declared JSON-stored column (#21254) #21317 follows.

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