approvals: `sys_approval_action.actor_id` (a `sys_user` lookup) records the slot literal (`position:<p>`, or an email) instead of the deciding user, so the person who decided is on no column (ADR-0118 D1)

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Filed by the domain:services seat 2 (seat post #21118) · session_01DiCSbmJrkzNhuEAier4VoJ · from the os-dev report on #21379 (PR #21410), its open_questions[0] and out_of_scope_findings[0]. Bare, for triage's first grade.

What was measured

On a booted app on main (ecb6ca025), a holder approved a request whose slot reads position:<p> by naming the slot: POST /api/v1/approvals/requests/:id/approve with actorId: position:<p>. The stored sys_approval_action.actor_id then read position:<p>. A slot authored as an email records the email the same way.

PR #21410 (#21379) makes the default actor (the console's approve) reach the same slot, so it records the same value. It must, because the multi-approver tally and decision_progress match actor_id against the slate's stored spelling. So on every position-routed or email-routed decision, the audit row names a slot, not a person. Every one of HotCRM's approvals routes to positions (#21350's report).

listActions skips an actor_id containing : when it resolves actor_name, so the action log shows the raw literal.

Governing text

ADR-0118 D1: every actor column that points to sys_user carries an id or null. It forbids sentinel strings ('system', 'unknown', or any other non-id value). actor_id is declared as a Field.lookup to sys_user.

Options (the dev's; triage or the decision box rules)

• A: keep it as is. actor_id records the slot, and the human stays unrecorded on position-literal and email slots.
• B (the dev's recommendation):
  • add a plugin-object field on sys_approval_action (for example acted_as) and write the slot to it;
  • write the human's user id to actor_id;
  • the tally, decision_progress and the already-acted probe read acted_as;
  • a one-shot backfill moves the stored slot literals (actor_id values containing : or @) into acted_as, with no ?? fallback in any reader;
  • no packages/spec edit.
• C: write the human to actor_id and recover the slot from the open-time snapshot. Rejected by the dev: one person can hold several slots, so the mapping is ambiguous.

四棱 (dev's B):

• ① Long-term: actor_id becomes the id-or-null column ADR-0118 D1 requires, and the slot gets its own declared column, as via_override did for the override fact.
• ② Pull: measured. Every staffed-after-open position decision now records a literal.
• ③ AI safety: a sys_user lookup that silently holds non-ids is a trap, because a join or report on it drops those rows with no error.
• ④ Scope: one plugin-local field, one backfill, three reader edits with pins, no dual-read window.
• Out of scope: the SLA and dead-run sentinel ids in the same column, a separate pre-existing case.

Not blocking PR #21410, which only extends an existing recording rule to the default actor.

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Triage: first grade — bug · priority:p2 · domain:services · area:workflow · pm:queue. Ruling B: actor_id is the person, and the slot gets its own column

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-02T13:57Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Why p2. It violates ADR-0118 D1, which says a sys_user actor column carries an id or null, never a sentinel. Every position-routed or email-routed decision names a slot instead of the person who decided. A join or report on the lookup drops those rows with no error.

Raise rule: if the claim's first measurement shows that no other record names the deciding user (the audit ledger row for the write included), the attribution is lost for good on each new decision, and this goes to p1.

Routing. plugin-approvals is domain:services. Its blocker's context, #21379 (PR #21410), closed at 2026-10-02T13:41Z, so it builds on main.

Ruling: B. Triage rules it here because all four prongs point the same way, and it executes ADR-0118 D1 rather than setting a new boundary:

• ① long-term: the lookup holds ids only, and the slot is its own declared fact, as via_override is;
• ② the pull is measured;
• ③ it removes a silent-join trap;
• ④ it is one plugin-local field, with no spec edit.

A keeps the violation. C is ambiguous, because one person can hold several slots.

What the change does:

• A plugin-object field on sys_approval_action records the slot (acted_as or the claim's name), and actor_id records the deciding user's id.
• The tally, decision_progress and the already-acted probe read the slot field. ⛔ No ?? fallback to actor_id in any reader, and no dual-read window.
• A one-shot backfill moves stored slot literals out of actor_id.
  • Historical rows whose person is unknown get null, the ADR's own value, not a guess.
  • If the session's permission layer refuses the backfill as a bulk write, it goes to the maintainer, as on [security] The compliance ledger stores a JWT signing-key row's key material in its create snapshot, and an admin is served it through the ledger's by-id door while the key object itself declares no API door #21197. ⛔ No agent works around a refusal.
• listActions resolves actor_name from the id, and shows the slot separately.

Out of scope, as the card says: the SLA and dead-run sentinel ids in the same column. That is a separate pre-existing case. If it is not filed, the claim's report names it.

Pins:

• position, email and user slots each record the person in actor_id and the slot in the new field;
• the multi-approver tally is unchanged;
• the backfill is idempotent;
• an enumeration pin finds no reader matching slots against actor_id.

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Claim: PM loop round 2 · 2026-10-02T18:27Z
Session: session_01DiCSbmJrkzNhuEAier4VoJ
Account: os-bill (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/issue-21411-approval-actor-person
Worktree: objectstack-issue-21411
Domain: domain:services
Seat: domain:services#2 (seat post #21118)
File surface:

• packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/src/**: the sys_approval_action object gains a plugin-object field recording the slot, and the decision write records the deciding user's id in actor_id. The tally, decision_progress and the already-acted probe read the slot field. listActions resolves actor_name from the id and shows the slot separately.
• The one-shot backfill of stored slot literals, wherever this plugin's own data migrations already live; the dev names the location before writing it.
• Pins beside them.
• A changeset (@objectstack/plugin-approvals).
  ⛔ No packages/spec edit. Stop on breach; explain in the report.
  Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: opus (operator text; default tier).
  Clause-②: no
  Thread-read: 5954022700
  Serial constraints cleared, read in this act: no open PR touches packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/. approvals: a holder of a position whose slot reads position:<p> can see the request but cannot decide it with the default actor (can_act false, approve 403), and loses sight of it after deciding (404) #21379 (PR fix(plugin-approvals): every slot reader takes the caller's acting addresses — can_act, the decision slot test, the already-acted probe and the email-keyed slot #21410, 5e5819333) and approvals: "My Pending" never lists a request routed to a position — the console filters with approverId=role:<p>, the request stores position:<p>, and the list filter matches literally #21350 (PR fix(plugin-approvals): My Pending lists a position-routed request under either address spelling #21378, 6d487d209) are both on origin/main.
  Selection: priority:p2 (triage 5954022700, ruling B). No priority:p1 card is queued in the lane. #5930 step 4 (domain:services): the analytics faces delete their hand-copied filter meaning — the read scope (F9), the where tree and its compilers (F10), the draft preview (F11) — each naming its typed column reader #21417 (p2, target:v18) is serial behind PR fix(service-analytics): native SQL judges a comparand against a declared number column by the spec's verdict, as the comparand walk's second arm #21446 (native-sql-strategy.ts, in the queue) and takes the next slot after it lands.

Direction (triage 5954022700, ruling B): "actor_id is the person, and the slot gets its own column." ⛔ No ?? fallback to actor_id in any reader, and no dual-read window. Historical rows whose person is unknown get null, the ADR's own value. The raise rule is triage's: if the first measurement shows no other record names the deciding user, this goes to p1.

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os-dev-report
{"pr": null, "raise_rule": "NONE. After a position-slot decision on a booted showcase at main 53fd35e, 0 of the 8 rows written across both databases name the deciding user, by id or by email. The audit ledger rows for the write carry user_id null and actor null; the activity rows carry actor_id null; the action row carries actor_id position:finance. Triage's raise rule fires: p1.",
"issue": 21411,
"status": "needs_decision",
"branch": "claude/issue-21411-approval-actor-person",
"session": "session_01DiCSbmJrkzNhuEAier4VoJ (subagent: the parent's id, from CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE_SESSION_ID)",
"premise_still_valid": true,
"summary": "STOPPED BEFORE WRITING CODE, as the dispatch requires. Two of its stop rules fired.\n\n(1) packages/spec: the ruled bullet 'listActions shows the slot separately' needs a new optional member on ApprovalActionRow (packages/spec/src/contracts/approval-service.ts). rowFromAction returns that type. The REST route passes it through verbatim as { data: rows }, and the client SDK types it. Without the member, the slot cannot reach the action log except as an undeclared wire member, and I rejected that as a workaround.\n\n(2) A reader outside the claim's surface: packages/qa/dogfood/test/position-address-readers.dogfood.test.ts. It reads sys_approval_action.actor_id and pins actor_id === SLOT and actor_id === EMAIL_APPROVER. It runs in the required Dogfood Regression Gate, and the ruled change makes it fail.\n\nThe branch holds only the empty claim-marker push. No PR is open, the worktree is clean, and no code was written. The dispatch also put a probe-semantics question in scope (open_questions[2]), so I wrote no speculative code.\n\nEverything Zone 2 asked for that does not need the implementation was measured; see 'measurements'. 'plan_on_yes' gives the full change, so the patch round is mechanical once the questions are answered.",
"measurements": {
"1_raise_rule": "Run on a booted showcase at main 53fd35e (pnpm dev, --fresh, port 38741; server stopped and its temp dir deleted afterwards). Setup: the seeded admin was unstaffed from finance and legal. A member, Hana Holder, was invited, signed up, and accepted the invitation. An invoice was marked sent, which opened showcase_invoice_signoff (unanimous) with slate [position:finance, position:legal]. The holder was staffed into finance AFTER open. Then, as the holder: POST /api/v1/approvals/requests/ID/approve with { actorId: position:finance } answered 200 and left [position:legal] pending. Every row written at or after T0, in objectstack.db and objectstack.telemetry.db: sys_approval_request (update), sys_approval_action (insert), 3 sys_audit_log rows and 3 sys_activity rows. The ledger rows are create sys_approval_action, update sys_approval_request and delete sys_approval_approver, and each carries user_id null, actor null, created_by null. The activity rows carry actor_id null and actor_name null. Rows naming the holder's id: 0. Rows naming the holder's email: 0. No notification or resume ran, because the vote was mid-tally. So nothing else records who decided.",
"2_cell": "Confirmed on the same boot. Position slot: the action row reads approve, actor_id position:finance, via_override 0. Email slot: the admin reassigned position:legal to the holder's email (200), then the holder approved with the default actor (200). That row reads approve, actor_id equal to the holder's email. One nuance against the card's text. The action log (GET /approvals/requests/ID/actions) shows the RAW literal for the position row only (actor_name absent). For the email row it shows actor_name 'Hana Holder', because resolveUserNames falls back to an email lookup. Second shape, from a first run on the same boot: a platform admin who holds finance under a user-id slot named position:finance. That missed the slate, was admitted by the override, and recorded actor_id position:finance with via_override 1. This is the slot ?? actorId arm writing a NAMED literal, and the same fix covers it.",
"3_backfill_location": "Two mechanisms exist inside plugin-approvals. (i) The boot-time repair: ApprovalsServicePlugin.start() hooks backfillApproverIndex on kernel:ready, which calls ApprovalService.rebuildApproverIndex(). It is idempotent, runs every boot, and logs counts. (ii) The operator-run one-off module src/backfill-platform-row-organizations.ts: dry-run by default, not exported, not wired. I would use (i), with reasons in plan_on_yes.backfill. Under (i), no agent runs a bulk write against live data; it ships as code. So the permission-layer clause does not arise.",
"4_literal_mapping": "No stored literal can be mapped to a person without guessing. A decision writes no record naming the person (measurement 1). The request snapshot (node_config_json.__approverGroups, __resolvedFrom) records slots, not deciders. sys_approval_token.approver_id is minted only for concrete slots, so a literal never has one. An email literal maps only through TODAY's account carrying that email, and an email can change or be re-used, so that is a guess. Literal rows therefore get actor_id null, as ruled. User-id slot rows already carry the person (the slot IS the user id) and keep it.",
"5_readers": "Readers of sys_approval_action.actor_id across the repo, all in packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/src/approval-service.ts unless noted. Moving to the slot field: the decideNode tally (approved set), attachDecisionProgress (approved set), and the visibleRequestIds already-acted probe (see open_questions[2]). Staying on actor_id as the person: listActions' actor_name resolution (works unchanged once actor_id is an id), rowFromAction (DTO mapping), and sys-approval-action.object.ts highlightFields plus the recent / by_actor / all_actions list views (by_actor then groups by person, which is correct). REST (packages/rest/src/rest-server.ts GET .../actions) and the client SDK pass rows through. packages/client/src/client.test.ts uses an inert fixture. No analytics, example or console-route reader exists in this repo; objectui is not in this container. OUTSIDE the surface: packages/qa/dogfood/test/position-address-readers.dogfood.test.ts (stop rule, open_questions[1]). Docs: content/docs/automation/approvals.mdx lines 512-514 ('recorded in sys_approval_action.actor_id under the slot it took ... the tally counts approvals by matching that value') becomes false; it is a declared docs addition for the patch round. skills/** and docs/qa have no sentence this makes false.",
"6_ablations": "NOT MEASURED. Reason: no implementation, because of the stop. Predicted directions are in plan_on_yes.ablations."
},
"plan_on_yes": {
"column": "sys-approval-action.object.ts gets acted_as: Field.text, maxLength 255 (like sys_approval_approver.approver), optional, group Action, with a describe. It records the pending-approver slot the action was taken under, in its stored spelling; it is empty on actions no slot gated and on an admin override. actor_id gets the ADR-0118 D1 describe: a sys_user id; empty means no person is recorded, either a system action or, with acted_as set, a decision recorded before the person was captured. acted_as is added to highlightFields and to the recent and all_actions columns, as via_override was. The i18n bundles are regenerated (node scripts/check-i18n-bundles.mjs --write), and the zh-CN, ja-JP and es-ES values are written by hand.",
"writes": "One helper, recordedActor(actorId, context). It returns actingUserId(context), the person the context vouches for. Its one exception: the SLA sweep's reserved SLA_ACTOR_ID is returned as is, because it is out of scope and a named D1 debt. Every sys_approval_action insert in decideNode, sendBack (revise and auto-reject), reassign, requestInfo, comment, recall, resubmit and remind writes actor_id from it. The slot-gated ones also write acted_as: slot ?? null. Submit, ooo_substitute, cancel, escalate and dead-run are unchanged. The action link: redeemActionToken resolves an email-bound token to the one account carrying that email, and puts that id (or no userId when there is none) on the context. The slot test is unchanged, because takenSlot still takes the token's slot. This also stops the status mirror running under an email as the acting user. Test fixtures that drive decisions from a bare system context and assert actor_id move to a vouching context.",
"readers": "Tally and attachDecisionProgress read a.acted_as; there is no ?? to actor_id anywhere. The already-acted probe follows open_questions[2] (recommended: $or of acted_as in acting addresses and actor_id equal to the caller's user id). listActions: actor_name from the person id. The acted_as DTO member waits on open_questions[0].",
"backfill": "Mechanism (i): ApprovalService.backfillActionSlots() (or a sibling module), hooked on kernel:ready beside backfillApproverIndex, before readers depend on it. There is no window: with operator-run (ii), in-flight unanimous, quorum and per_group tallies would drop votes already given between deploy and the run (the slot reappears pending), and holders would lose sight of position-slot history. Pass 1, the whole history: rows whose actor_id contains '@', or contains ':' and is not a reserved system: machine actor (SLA, dead-run), get acted_as := actor_id and actor_id := null. Pass 2, keyset over pending requests: approve rows at step_index 0 with acted_as empty get acted_as := actor_id. This is exact without guessing: an approve on a still-pending request can only be a non-finalizing slot vote, because an override finalizes. Both predicates are empty after one run, so it is idempotent. Cost: Pass 1 is one substring scan of the action table per boot and finds 0 after the first run; Pass 2 is bounded by the pending queue, the same as rebuildApproverIndex. A failure logs at error with the consequence and the fix, the durability class: legacy votes would be missing from tallies, and a restart retries.",
"pins": "Position, email and user slots each record the person in actor_id and the slot in acted_as. This covers the REST default actor, the named slot and the email-bound action link. The existing #21379 tests in approval-service.test.ts switch to {actor_id: person, acted_as: SLOT}. The unanimous tally is unchanged. The backfill pin runs on a real ObjectQL with SqlDriver(better-sqlite3 :memory:), like record-delete-cancel.integration.test.ts. It proves literal rows are moved, user-id rows are kept, sentinels are untouched, pending votes are stamped, and a second run writes 0. approver-address-readers.test.ts: acted_as replaces actor_id in SLOT_COLUMNS, plus an enumeration that every .actor_id read and every actor_id predicate is classified, with no slot comparison against actor_id. Out of surface: the dogfood pin's recorded() reads {actor_id, acted_as, via_override}.",
"ablations": "Each one is committed first, mutated with a trap restore, and has its direction predicted. (a) Remove acted_as from the decideNode insert: the slot pins go RED, and so does the unanimous tally pin (more diagnostics, not fewer). (b) Point the tally's approved set back at a.actor_id: the tally pin goes RED, because the position vote no longer consumes its slot (pending stays [SLOT, u9]). (c) Remove Pass 2, or the hook: the backfill pin goes RED (a legacy pending vote is uncounted, and a second-run count of 0 proves nothing). (d) Remove Pass 1: the backfill pin goes RED (the literal stays in actor_id).",
"changeset": "A patch changeset for @objectstack/plugin-approvals with the line 'Clause-②: no'. It states that it supersedes the unreleased '.changeset/21379-position-address-readers.md' sentence ('actor_id holds the slot'), which this PR may not edit. Both ship in one release, so the newer text must say the older is replaced.",
"gates": "dispatch-gates --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack --commands on this empty branch answered: changes nothing against origin/main (merge base 53fd35e), nothing to derive. Exit 0. Gates are owed in the patch round."
},
"tests": "No code, so no test or typecheck run was owed or made. Commands that did run: pnpm turbo run build for the showcase closure plus 8 unbuilt workspace packages, under os-verify-lock (VERDICT command-exit 0 both times); pnpm dev --fresh -p 38741 (stopped by its recorded listener pid; temp dir confirmed gone); node measure2.mjs, a scratchpad script that drives the public REST doors and reads both sqlite files read-only (output quoted in measurements 1-2); node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack --commands (exit 0, empty change set). Ablation: NOT MEASURED, reason: stop before implementation.",
"mcp_calls": "0",
"api_writes": "1: POST repos//issues/21411/comments (this os-dev-report, through scripts/pm/post-stamped.mjs and the fleet-write relay). git push of the empty branch is not a REST write. No pr_create and no label-write were spent.",
"open_questions": [
{
"question": "Q1 (packages/spec): may the patch round add one optional member, acted_as?: string, to ApprovalActionRow in packages/spec/src/contracts/approval-service.ts, so that listActions shows the slot separately as ruled?",
"options": [
"A: yes. The member is additive and optional, and its docblock follows via_override's; it lands in this card's PR together with the plugin half. Console rendering of the slot is an objectui follow-up.",
"B: drop the sub-bullet. listActions shows only the person; the slot is readable on the object's own data door and list views.",
"C: land the plugin half now and the DTO member as a separate card."
],
"recommendation": "A. Real business need, measured: the action log is the console's timeline. Today it shows the raw position:finance. After the change, new rows show the person (better). But Pass 1 nulls actor_id on historical literal rows, so without the member those rows show NO actor and NO slot. B and C regress the history view; C opens exactly that window. Long-term: the spec declares the wire (contract-first), and via_override is the precedent. AI-safety: an undeclared wire member is a trap, so the plugin-local 'ApprovalActionRow & {acted_as}' route was rejected; a declared optional member is the strict form. Scope: one optional member, no new capability, no Zod or authorable surface."
},
{
"question": "Q2 (surface): may the claim's file surface take packages/qa/dogfood/test/position-address-readers.dogfood.test.ts? It is the booted-app pin of #21379 for this plugin. It asserts actor_id === SLOT and actor_id === EMAIL_APPROVER, which the ruled change makes false, and it runs in the required Dogfood Regression Gate.",
"options": [
"A: widen the surface to this one file. Its recorded() helper reads {actor_id, acted_as, via_override} and asserts person plus slot.",
"B: keep it out; the required gate goes red on the PR."
],
"recommendation": "A. It is this plugin's own pin, in another package. The ruled change makes its assertion false by construction. A booted-app pin of 'person in actor_id, slot in acted_as' is the strongest evidence the card can carry; dropping it would remove coverage, not scope. No new gate."
},
{
"question": "Q3 (probe semantics, adjusts a ruled bullet): the ruling has the already-acted probe read the slot field, with no dual-read. Most historical decisions were taken under USER-ID slots (every staffed slate resolves to ids), and their rows have actor_id = the decider and no acted_as. A slot-only probe hides every finalized request from the person who decided it, unless the backfill stamps acted_as on ALL historical slot-kind user-id rows. That needs guesses: pre-#4466 override rows carry via_override null; submitter comments; system callers.",
"options": [
"A: probe = acted_as in actingAddresses(caller) OR actor_id = caller.userId. These are two facts, each matched against its own identity kind (slot vs person); neither column is read in place of the other. Backfill as planned (literals plus pending votes), with no guessing. One widening: a person who decided under a position they later lost keeps sight of that request; old behaviour hid it.",
"B: probe reads acted_as only; the backfill also stamps acted_as := actor_id on every historical approve, reject, revise, request_info, comment or reassign row with a user id, mislabelling pre-#4466 overrides as slot votes.",
"C: probe reads acted_as only and the backfill stays narrow. Every historical decider loses sight of what they decided (a regression)."
],
"recommendation": "A. Business need, measured in code: visibleRequestIds is the only way a past approver of a finalized request still sees it (the 'already acted' arm); B guesses and C breaks it. Long-term: once actor_id is the person, 'did the caller act on it' IS actor_id = uid, and 'did someone act under a slot the caller holds' IS acted_as; neither is a fallback. AI-safety: the enumeration pin can then state the rule exactly: slots are compared only with acted_as, and actor_id only with a caller's user id. Scope: no extra column or pass."
}
],
"out_of_scope_findings": [
"class: b · reach: named producer: approval-service.ts escalateRequest writes actor_id SLA_ACTOR_ID ('system:sla') on the escalate row and passes it to decide() for auto_approve/auto_reject; abandonForDeadRun writes actor_id DEAD_RUN_ACTOR_ID ('system:dead-run'); content/docs/automation/approvals.mdx documents the latter · evidence: ADR-0118 D1 forbids sentinels in a sys_user actor column; this card's text puts them out of scope · same ADR-0118 D1 family as this card: named for the family's closing card, not filed alone · dedupe words: system:sla, system:dead-run, SLA_ACTOR_ID, sentinel actor_id, ADR-0118 D1",
"class: b · reach: public door POST /api/v1/approvals/requests/ID/reassign answered 200 for { from: position:legal, to: an email } on the booted showcase (main 53fd35e); the row is written as reassign_from: from, reassign_to: to (approval-service.ts reassign), and approval-service.test.ts pins reassign_from === 'position:sales_manager' · evidence: both columns are Field.lookup('sys_user') and hold a slot literal or an email, which ADR-0118 D1 forbids · same ADR-0118 D1 family; this card's fix does not touch them · dedupe words: reassign_from, reassign_to, slot literal, sys_user lookup, ADR-0118",
"class: b · reach: named producer: approval-service.ts notify({ actorId }) forwards SLA_ACTOR_ID on every SLA notify, and a NAMED slot literal on reassign, remind, requestInfo and comment when the caller names one; service-messaging messaging-service.ts writes it as sys_notification.actor_id (a sys_user lookup) · evidence: ADR-0118 D1 · same family · dedupe words: sys_notification actor_id, notify actorId, system:sla, approvals notify",
"carrier: this card's patch round · noted, not filed: '.changeset/21379-position-address-readers.md' (unreleased) states that actor_id holds the slot. The patch round's changeset must say it supersedes that sentence; ⛔ that file is not edited (#17712)."
],
"conflicts_noted": [
"The dispatch asks for 'pr' as the FIRST key and the raise-rule on the FIRST line. Both are on this JSON's first line; the comment's first line stays the os-dev-report marker.",
"The dispatch says that if no card covers the SLA and dead-run sentinels, name them. Dev may not scan open issues, so they are named with dedupe words and the coverage check is the seat's.",
"The dispatch's PR first line ('Fixes #21411') does not apply: no PR was opened. When a PR does open, it uses 'Fixes #21411' only if Q1-Q3 are settled; otherwise 'Part of #21411', since this card must not be closed while it sits in the decision box."
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Raise to p1, plus pm:retriage for two ruled bullets the measurement contradicts · domain:services seat 2 (#21118) · session_01DiCSbmJrkzNhuEAier4VoJ · 2026-10-02T18:58Z · on the os-dev report 5959282267 (no code written; the dev stopped on two of the dispatch's stop rules).

Raise to p1 (triage's own raise rule, 5954022700). The rule fires. On a booted showcase at main 53fd35e3e, a position-slot approve wrote 8 rows across both databases, and 0 name the deciding user by id or by email:

• the 3 audit-ledger rows carry user_id / actor / created_by null;
• the 3 activity rows carry actor_id null;
• the action row carries actor_id position:finance.

The attribution is lost for good on each new decision. priority:p2 → priority:p1 in this act.

Q2 (file surface): the seat answers A. packages/qa/dogfood/test/position-address-readers.dogfood.test.ts joins the surface, as a cross-lane domain:cli addition declared on the cli seat post #6024 in this act. It is this plugin's own booted-app pin from #21379. It asserts actor_id === SLOT, which the ruling makes false by construction, and it runs in the required Dogfood Regression Gate. It moves to "person in actor_id, slot in the slot field". No coverage is dropped.

pm:retriage: two questions for triage, because each adjusts a bullet of ruling B.

Q1. The "no spec edit" premise and "listActions shows the slot separately" cannot both hold.

• listActions returns ApprovalActionRow (packages/spec/src/contracts/approval-service.ts). REST passes the rows through verbatim, and the client SDK types them.
• Showing the slot needs one optional member there (acted_as?: string, docblock in via_override's form). Otherwise the slot reaches the wire only as an undeclared member, and the dev rejected that as a workaround.
• Options:
  • A: add the optional member in this PR. It becomes Clause-②: yes (widening), so a contract-tier review is owed and the spec seat gets a notice.
  • B: drop the bullet. Then the backfill's nulled historical literal rows show no actor and no slot in the action log, which regresses the timeline.
  • C: split the DTO member into a separate card. That opens the window B describes.
• Seat reading: A (contract-first, via_override precedent, no authorable surface).

Q2 of this section (the already-acted probe). Ruling B has the probe read the slot field only, with no dual-read. Most historical decisions were taken under user-id slots, whose rows hold the decider in actor_id and nothing in a slot field. A slot-only probe therefore hides every finalized request from the person who decided it, unless the backfill guesses slot values for pre-#4466 override rows, submitter comments and system callers.

• Options:
  • A: the probe reads slot field ∈ actingAddresses(caller) or actor_id = caller.userId. These are two facts, each matched against its own identity kind; it is not a ?? fallback of one column for the other. The backfill stays narrow (literals plus pending votes, no guessing).
  • B: slot-only, with the backfill stamping every historical user-id row. This guesses, and mislabels old overrides as slot votes.
  • C: slot-only with a narrow backfill. Every past decider loses sight of what they decided.
• Seat reading: A. The enumeration pin can then state the exact rule: slots are compared only with the slot field, and actor_id only with a caller's user id.

The rest of the dev's plan (plan_on_yes in 5959282267) is mechanical once triage answers. That includes the boot-time backfill on kernel:ready beside backfillApproverIndex, which ships as code: no agent runs a bulk write. The card stays claimed by this seat and is re-dispatched on triage's answer.

Findings: the ADR-0118 D1 family outside this card (the SLA and dead-run sentinels, reassign_from / reassign_to holding slot literals, sys_notification.actor_id fed by notify) is filed as one family card, linked below once it exists.

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