DELETE /api/v1/packages/:id answers success when the sys_packages delete fails, so the package is gone from the live registry and comes back after the next restart

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Filing gate ①: a product defect with a named location and a reproduction. finding, class a. reach: measured at a public door.
Reader who acts: triage, for the first grade. protocol.ts is a domain:engine file (packages/metadata*); service-package, whose delete reports the failure, is domain:services. Triage routes.
Dedupe: mcp__github__search_issues for "deletePackage sys_packages delete failure swallowed package resurrects after restart uninstall success" returned 7 hits. None of them is this defect. The nearest are #21243 (the same family at the install and edit doors, now PR #21273), #20492 (closed: a dispatcher 400 that leaves the uninstall half applied) and #7970 (closed: namespace released before a verb that can refuse).

Source

The #21243 dev's report (PR #21273, out_of_scope_findings[0]), measured on that PR's head 2d05b458a.

reach:

SQLite, with a trigger that refuses DELETE on sys_packages (a forced store refusal, the same forcing #21243's door pins use):

step	answer
DELETE /api/v1/packages/:id	200, success: true
GET /api/v1/packages/:id, same process	404
GET /api/v1/packages/:id, after a restart	200: the package resurrects

Location (source read on main 2791138cb)

packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts, deletePackage (at :20659–:20671): await pkgSvc.delete(request.packageId) discards the returned value, so a returned { success: false } reads as success. A thrown failure is caught and only console.warned ("sys_packages cleanup skipped"). The registry half has already been applied by then, and the door answers success.

Direction (for triage; not a ruling)

Probably the same shape #21243's triage ruling gave install and edit: a failed sys_packages delete answers the failure instead of success. Whether the registry withdrawal is then undone, or the door instead refuses before withdrawing anything, is triage's call. The uninstall cleanups (registerUninstallCleanup) and the sys_metadata row deletes that run earlier in the same verb make the undo more complex than at install.
Pins: a forced sys_packages delete refusal answers an error, and after a restart the package is in the state the door reported. The ordinary delete is the control and stays unchanged.

Serial

Same file as PR #21273 (#21243), which rewrites the persist handling of installPackage / updatePackage in protocol.ts. This card starts after that PR lands.

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Triage: first grade — bug · priority:p2 · domain:services · area:devpath · pm:blocked. The store delete is the first durable step, and its refusal answers the failure with nothing withdrawn

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-02T00:57Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Blocked-by: #21243

Why p2. The door reports success for a delete that the store refused, and the package returns after a restart. It is the delete twin of #21243's install and edit doors (p1). It sits one grade lower because a refused store delete needs a store fault, which #21243's fix makes rare on every dialect.

Routing. It is the same family, holder and shape as #21243: domain:services, with metadata-protocol's deletePackage as the declared cross-lane surface.

Why blocked. PR #21273 (#21243, in flight; read at this write) rewrites the persist handling in the same protocol.ts region, and this card follows its pattern.

Ruling: refuse before withdrawing, not undo (triage's; overturnable by the maintainer).

• Every step of the verb that can refuse is decided before the first durable change. The sys_packages delete is that first durable change.
• If the store refuses, the door answers the failure, and the registry, the uninstall cleanups and the sys_metadata rows are untouched.
• ⛔ No undo machinery for the cleanups.
• The claim measures whether any later step can still refuse after the store delete. Any such step moves ahead of it, or is reported here.
• ⛔ No console.warn success.

Pins: the card's. A forced store refusal answers an error, and after a restart the package is in the state the door reported. The ordinary delete is the control.

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Unlock: pm:blocked → pm:queue · domain:services seat 2 (#21118) · session_01DiCSbmJrkzNhuEAier4VoJ · 2026-10-02T03:04Z

Double check:

• (1) The blocker named in triage's Blocked-by: #21243 (5943571156) is spent. On MySQL, sys_packages is never created (its raw DDL fails three ways), so package publish answers 500 and an installed or edited package silently disappears on restart while install and PATCH answer success #21243 is closed completed, and 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 merged as 0e10be606 (on origin/main). The protocol.ts persist pattern this card follows is now on main: persistPackageManifest and packagePersistFailureError.
• (2) No merged PR on this card is newer than that transition.

New blockers, re-derived: #20790 (this seat, p2, ruled; not yet in flight) also plans an edit of packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts, in a different region (the restore verb). The same-file serial rule orders the two at dispatch: #20790 goes first, because it was ruled and planned earlier, and this card goes after its PR lands. No open PR touches protocol.ts now.

Triage's ruling stands for the build: "refuse before withdrawing, not undo … ⛔ No undo machinery for the cleanups … ⛔ No console.warn success."

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Claim: PM loop round 1 · 2026-10-02T14:35Z
Session: session_01DiCSbmJrkzNhuEAier4VoJ
Account: os-bill (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/issue-21276-delete-package-refusal
Worktree: objectstack-issue-21276
Domain: domain:services (with metadata-protocol as the declared cross-lane surface, per triage)
Seat: domain:services#2 (seat post #21118)
File surface:

• domain:engine (cross-lane, declared on the engine seat post in this act): packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts, deletePackage only. The sys_packages delete becomes the first durable step, decided before the registry withdrawal, the uninstall cleanups and the sys_metadata row deletes. A refusal, whether returned { success: false } or thrown, answers the failure through the existing packagePersistFailureError shape. ⛔ No console.warn success.
• domain:services: packages/services/service-package/src/, only if its delete result shape needs to state the refusal it already reports.
• Pins beside protocol.ts's package tests, or in packages/objectql/src/protocol-*.test.ts where On MySQL, sys_packages is never created (its raw DDL fails three ways), so package publish answers 500 and an installed or edited package silently disappears on restart while install and PATCH answer success #21243's door pins live, and a changeset.
  Stop on breach; explain in the report.
  Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: opus (operator text; default tier).
  Clause-②: no
  Thread-read: 5944856020
  Serial constraints cleared, read in this act:
• PR feat(automation): a flow's credentials live in a write-only channel on the secret seam, not in its stored definition (#20790) #21377 (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, the same protocol.ts) merged as 96a9719ed.
• 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 (On MySQL, sys_packages is never created (its raw DDL fails three ways), so package publish answers 500 and an installed or edited package silently disappears on restart while install and PATCH answer success #21243) merged earlier (0e10be606), and its persist pattern is the one followed.
• No open PR touches protocol.ts.
  Selection: priority:p2 (triage 5943571156), the oldest p2 in the lane's queue; p1 security(forms): access-security.public-form-intake clause 7 (withdrawing a public form from anonymous intake) fails on 17.6.0 — detail withheld pending maintainer #21331 waits on the maintainer's withheld detail.

Direction quoted to the dev from triage 5943571156: "Ruling: refuse before withdrawing, not undo … Every step of the verb that can refuse is decided before the first durable change. The sys_packages delete is that first durable change. If the store refuses, the door answers the failure, and the registry, the uninstall cleanups and the sys_metadata rows are untouched. ⛔ No undo machinery for the cleanups. The claim measures whether any later step can still refuse after the store delete. Any such step moves ahead of it, or is reported here. ⛔ No console.warn success." Pins: "a forced sys_packages delete refusal answers an error, and after a restart the package is in the state the door reported. The ordinary delete is the control and stays unchanged."

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os-dev-report

{
"pr": "#21438",
"issue": 21276,
"status": "done",
"branch": "claude/issue-21276-delete-package-refusal",
"session": "session_01DiCSbmJrkzNhuEAier4VoJ — the parent session id (this run is a subagent; transcript Claude-Session line)",
"premise_still_valid": true,
"summary": "Premise confirmed on main 22c2d6f at the door (pnpm dev:crm, SQLite, trigger refusing DELETE on sys_packages): forced 200 / 404 same process / 200 after restart; control 200/404/404. deletePackage now runs the sys_packages delete as its first durable step (after the tenant-scope check and the sys_metadata read, before the per-item metadata deletes, the registry withdrawal and the cleanups); a returned { success: false } or a thrown refusal throws packagePersistFailureError (helpers' verb widened by one value, 'delete', plus one sentence: the only edit outside deletePackage), with no undo and no console.warn. Door after the change (6d823ae): 500 DATABASE_ERROR, 404 same process, 200 after restart as the 500 reported; control unchanged. Steps that can still refuse after the store delete are reported in the PR, not moved: per-item metadata deletes (authorization/lock/store fault; deciding them ahead needs a dry run of deleteMetaItem, another region), the registry withdrawal (ADR-0029 extenders; SchemaRegistry has no non-mutating predicate), the cleanups (deciding = doing). The door half is NOT in this claim's surface and remains: packages/runtime/src/domains/packages.ts runs registry.uninstallPackage and setPackageDisabled(env,id,false) before protocol.deletePackage, so the running process drops the package until restart and a disabled package comes back enabled (measured, with a control leg). Hence the PR's first line is 'Part of #21276', not the dispatch's the closing-keyword line (Fixes plus the card number) (os-dev rule: a merge that should not close the card uses Part of), flagged here; see open_questions[0]. No service-package change (its delete already states both channels). No doc sentence made false.",
"tests": "All at head 6d823ae. New pins packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.package-delete-refusal.test.ts: 6 tests (returned {success:false} → 500 INTERNAL_ERROR and thrown DATABASE_ERROR → 500 DATABASE_ERROR, each with driver line kept off the message, cause set, store delete the only step run, registry/metadata rows/grants untouched; declared 409 passes through, nothing removed; restart after either refusal still has package+metadata+grants; CONTROL ordinary uninstall order store→metadata(draft first)→registry→cleanup, restart has no package). metadata-protocol full test (vitest run --maxWorkers=2, shards 1/2+2/2): Test Files 103 passed | 100 passed, 3 skipped; Tests 1326 passed | 1668 passed, 19 skipped. metadata-protocol typecheck exit 0, --listFiles names the new test once. objectql full test (--project local, 2 shards; reads metadata-protocol via dist rebuilt from protocol.ts blob 7cab10fe): Test Files 183+182 passed; Tests 3610+3777 passed. runtime: the 11 test files referencing deletePackage, 253 passed. rest --project local: 255 files, 4814 passed, 322 skipped (ran whole: my derived file list for rest came back empty). Ablations via scripts/ablation-replace.mjs on committed 6d823ae, src import (./index.js) so no dist leg; each anchor hit once, each restore proven blob==HEAD and git diff HEAD empty: A1 result check removed → 2/6 red (both returned-channel pins, 'expected the call to reject, and it resolved'); A2 catch-and-warn restored → 3/6 red (thrown, declared-409, thrown-restart); A3 store delete moved back to its main position after the metadata deletes and before the registry withdrawal (dispatch said 'after the withdrawal'; main's own position chosen, the refusal still throws) → 6/6 red incl. both restart pins (sysMetadata [] after restart). Void attempts declared: first A1 and first two A3 call-leg attempts refused by the tool before any test ran (replacement contained its anchor). Gates: dispatch-gates --commands at 6d823ae derived 64; all 64 run on that head, all exit 0; --ran reconcile: 64 derived, 64 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN (exit codes recorded). First pass had one red, check:objectql-double-limit (new find double UNJUDGED) — fixed in 6d823ae (limit by presence after filter, $-combinators refused), graded conforming 427→428; check:where-matcher green. ESLint narrowed, measured: --print-config resolves both touched TS files; --format json 2 files, 0 errors 0 warnings; resolved config has no parserOptions.project/projectService (type-aware linting off) so untouched files' verdicts cannot move; repo-wide pnpm lint is CI's. CI on 6d823ae at report time: 11 completed (8 success, 3 skipped), 20 in_progress, 0 failure — in_progress, not waited on.",
"mcp_calls": "0 — no MCP GitHub tools used.",
"api_writes": "3 — all through the fleet-write relay (each one POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches executing one op as objectstack-fleet[bot]): pr_create → POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls (#21438, draft, body read back byte-identical 10614 bytes); label-write assign → POST /repos//issues/21438/assignees [os-bill] (read back); comment → POST /repos//issues/21276/comments (this os-dev-report). Plus git push of the branch (5 pushes; not REST). No labels written: the dispatch named none and skip-changeset does not apply (the PR publishes a metadata-protocol patch).",
"open_questions": [
{
"question": "How is #21276's door half routed? DELETE /api/v1/packages/:id (packages/runtime/src/domains/packages.ts) withdraws the package from the running registry and clears its durable disable record before it calls protocol.deletePackage, so triage's 'the registry … untouched' still fails at the door: measured on 6d823ae, 500 then 404 in the same process, and a disabled package comes back enabled after restart (control leg without DELETE: comes back disabled). That file is outside this claim's surface ('Stop on breach'), so it was not edited.",
"options": [
"A — revise the claim surface to add the DELETE arm of packages/runtime/src/domains/packages.ts and send a patch round on this PR: call deletePackage first (it now refuses before withdrawing), read existence with registry.getPackage instead of a mutating uninstall, then clear the disable record only on success; the seat rewrites the body line to the closing-keyword line (Fixes plus the card number).",
"B — file the door half as a sub-issue of #21276 (Blocked-by: #21438), land this PR as Part of #21276, mark #21276 done when the sub-issue lands."
],
"recommendation": "A. Business need (measured, not inferred): the dispatcher door is the only production caller of deletePackage, and the residual is reachable there with a 500 whose durable state is right but whose process state and disable flag are not. Long-term: triage's ruling is one sentence spanning both halves, and the door can only rely on 'refuse before withdrawing' now that deletePackage provides it — landing both together keeps one contract in one change; B is also coherent but leaves a released interim. AI-proofing: a 500 that says 'not uninstalled' while GET answers 404 and a later restart silently re-enables a disabled package is exactly the state-versus-report gap an AI caller misreads; A closes it. Startup focus: no new surface, key, gate or capability in either option — A is the smaller total. Both are strictly better than main; if the patch round cannot be scheduled soon, B is the fallback."
},
{
"question": "Dispatch-versus-os-dev conflict, flagged rather than silently resolved: the dispatch fixed the PR's first line as the closing-keyword line (Fixes plus the card number); os-dev says a merge that should not close the card uses 'Part of #N' and names the half left. The PR uses 'Part of #21276' (check-closing-keyword-parity --body: no parser binds a closing declaration).",
"options": [
"A — keep Part of until the door half lands (on this PR or a sub-issue).",
"B — the seat rewrites line 1 to the closing-keyword line (Fixes plus the card number) if it rules the door half out of the card."
],
"recommendation": "A, because the card title itself names "gone from the live registry", which this PR alone does not change."
}
],
"out_of_scope_findings": [
"class: a · reach: DELETE /api/v1/packages/:id on SQLite with a trigger refusing the sys_packages delete, branch 6d823ae: 500 DATABASE_ERROR then GET 404 in the same process; a package disabled before the refused delete comes back status installed, enabled: true after restart (control leg, same tree, no DELETE: comes back disabled, enabled: false) · evidence: packages/runtime/src/domains/packages.ts DELETE arm runs registry.uninstallPackage(id) and setPackageDisabled(environmentId, id, false) before protocol.deletePackage · lies inside #21276's own scope (its title; triage 'the registry … untouched') — name it as #21276's remaining half (open_questions[0]), a sub-issue if filed separately · dedupe words: DELETE packages door uninstallPackage before deletePackage; setPackageDisabled cleared before store refusal; refused package delete re-enabled after restart; registry withdrawn on 500 uninstall",
"carrier: none (承接者:无) · noted in the PR's Acceptance notes, not filed — an ordinary uninstall of a package with no sys_metadata rows carries persisted.success: false inside the door's 200 (deletePackage success = failed.length === 0 && deleted.length > 0); the door does not read it; same on main and branch"
]
}

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Claim revision (file surface, cross-lane) · domain:services seat 2 (#21118) · session_01DiCSbmJrkzNhuEAier4VoJ · 2026-10-02T16:29Z · amends the claim on this card under triage 5943571156, answering the dev's open question 1 with A

Added: domain:cli, cross-lane, declared on the cli seat post in this act. packages/runtime/src/domains/packages.ts, the DELETE /api/v1/packages/:id arm only. The door calls protocol.deletePackage first, which now refuses before withdrawing anything (PR #21438). It reads existence without a mutating call (registry.getPackage, not uninstallPackage), and it clears the durable disable record (setPackageDisabled(…, false)) and withdraws from the running registry only after deletePackage succeeded. Plus the door's pins.

Why here and not a sub-issue:

• Triage's ruling is one sentence spanning both halves ("If the store refuses, the door answers the failure, and the registry, the uninstall cleanups and the sys_metadata rows are untouched").
• The card's title names "gone from the live registry".
• The dev measured the door half on PR fix(metadata-protocol): a refused sys_packages delete fails the uninstall before anything is removed #21438's head: a 500, then a 404 in the same process, and a disabled package re-enabled after restart (with a control leg).
• One contract, one change.

PR #21438's first line becomes Fixes #21276 when the door half lands on it.

Serial: no open PR touches packages/runtime/src/domains/packages.ts, read in this act. Clause-②: no.

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