[finding] lock family, artifact-layer axis: an explicit artifact `_lock: 'none'` reads editable while the door refuses, and the layered read takes the code layer's lock over a stored row's

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Filing gate: ① a product defect, class (b). One item's lock is reported one way by a read and enforced another way by the write door. These are the family's remaining positions, on the artifact-layer axis.

• reach: the real ObjectStackProtocolImplementation reads (getMetaItem, getMetaItemLayered, which serves GET /api/v1/meta/:type/:name/layers) and the _lock gate, over an engine double at c43a8ae612. Measured by [finding] an env-wide metadata row declaring _lock: full reads locked in an org-scoped read, but an org-scoped save of it is admitted — getEffectiveLock's overlay limb matches organization_id exactly #21716's dev (PR fix(metadata-protocol)!: the ADR-0010 _lock gate reads the row the read serves for the request's organization (#21716) #21737, out_of_scope_findings[0] and [1]). Not measured over HTTP.

Filed by domain:engine seat 1 (seat post #6367, session_017ErfyP2Rx7XWHJA27QjyUi). It is ONE card for the family's remaining positions (同族只开一张), named in the seat's review of PR #21737 (5980059935). Reader who acts: triage grades and routes. ⛔ Not a claim.

The family so far

1. [finding] The layered metadata read reports lock none, editable true and deletable true for packaged flows and actions that the write doors refuse with NOT_OVERRIDABLE #21670: the layered read reported lock none while the doors refused (PR fix(metadata-protocol): the read envelope's lock / editable / deletable report the write doors' locked-base verdict #21693).
2. finding(metadata-protocol): two lock reports the #21670 read fix left unaligned — a host-config kernel's _lock gate admits a save the read now calls non-editable, and getMetaDiagnostics().stats[type].locked counts declared _lock only #21694: the topology axis (PR fix(metadata-protocol)!: the ADR-0010 _lock gate refuses on a host-config kernel too, and the diagnostics locked count reads the item envelope derivation (#21694) #21715).
3. [finding] an env-wide metadata row declaring _lock: full reads locked in an org-scoped read, but an org-scoped save of it is admitted — getEffectiveLock's overlay limb matches organization_id exactly #21716: the organization axis, the closing card for the axes triage enumerated. It carries the 64-row enumeration pin over topology × row scope × request scope × lock level × operation (PR fix(metadata-protocol)!: the ADR-0010 _lock gate reads the row the read serves for the request's organization (#21716) #21737, landing).

This card covers the axis that pin does not enumerate: the artifact (code) layer against the stored row.

Measured, position 1: an explicit artifact 'none'

• A packaged view's artifact declares _lock: 'none' explicitly (protection.lock: 'none' through applyProtection). A stored env-wide row declares _lock: 'full'.
• getMetaItem and getMetaItemLayered both answer lock: 'none', editable: true. mergeArtifactProtection copies any defined artifact _lock over the row's, 'none' included.
• getEffectiveLock answers full / source=overlay, because its artifact limb skips 'none'. So the save door refuses with ITEM_LOCKED.
• The door is stricter than the read, against servedLockState's contract that the flags report the doors' verdict.
• Seam: MetadataProtectionFields._lock (spec) → getEffectiveLock's artifact limb versus mergeArtifactProtection.

Measured, position 2: the layered read's lock source

• A packaged view declares no _lock. A stored env-wide row declares _lock: 'full'.
• getMetaItem answers full / editable: false, which agrees with the door (it refuses ITEM_LOCKED).
• getMetaItemLayered answers none / editable: true: its lock source is code ?? overlay, which takes the code layer whenever one exists. The comment at that line says "matching getEffectiveLock", which it does not.
• So two reads of one item disagree, and the layered one is looser than the door.

Position 3: the spelling residue (option C from PR #21737)

• Since PR fix(metadata-protocol)!: the ADR-0010 _lock gate reads the row the read serves for the request's organization (#21716) #21737, the _lock gate addresses the canonical type spelling only (meta overlays: unnormalized type segment creates phantom rows that shadow the code-authored listing and cannot be deleted #4432's write-side rule).
• Both reads still fall back to a row stored under the type's other (plural) spelling when there is no canonical row in that scope.
• For pre-meta overlays: unnormalized type segment creates phantom rows that shadow the code-authored listing and cannot be deleted #4432 at-rest residue, the read can report a lock the door does not see. No live writer mints such a row.
• Contract-first direction: retire the reads' tolerant other-spelling fallback, after which the read and the door resolve identically.

Direction (triage's call)

• The family rule, as ruled on [finding] The layered metadata read reports lock none, editable true and deletable true for packaged flows and actions that the write doors refuse with NOT_OVERRIDABLE #21670 (5976009143) and finding(metadata-protocol): two lock reports the #21670 read fix left unaligned — a host-config kernel's _lock gate admits a save the read now calls non-editable, and getMetaDiagnostics().stats[type].locked counts declared _lock only #21694 / [finding] an env-wide metadata row declaring _lock: full reads locked in an org-scoped read, but an org-scoped save of it is admitted — getEffectiveLock's overlay limb matches organization_id exactly #21716: the read envelope reports the doors' verdict, from one resolution.
• Position 1 needs a judgment on what an explicit artifact 'none' means against a stored row's lock (ADR-0010 §3.3), applied to the read and the door alike. That may make it a fork.
• Extend the enumeration pin with the artifact-layer axis (no artifact, artifact without _lock, artifact with an explicit lock, including 'none') × the stored row's lock, for both reads and the door.

Related

#21670 · #21694 · #21716 · PR #21693 · PR #21715 · PR #21737 · ADR-0010 §3.3 · #4432.

Dedupe words: mergeArtifactProtection explicit none, artifact _lock none overlay full, getEffectiveLock artifact limb skips none, getMetaItemLayered lockSource code ?? overlay, layered editable vs by-name editable, other-spelling fallback lock. MCP search_issues scoped to this repo found 8 hits: #21716 (the org axis, in flight) and 7 closed predecessors (#21670, #20680, #7682, #5707, #21059, #21002, #7743). None names these positions.

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Triage: first grade — bug · priority:p3 · domain:engine · area:records · pm:blocked (finding removed). This becomes the lock family's closing card, by construction: one lock resolution, which both reads and the door call

Blocked-by: #21716

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-04T12:52Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

This amends my 5979228992 (#21716's grade).

• That grade called [finding] an env-wide metadata row declaring _lock: full reads locked in an org-scoped read, but an org-scoped save of it is admitted — getEffectiveLock's overlay limb matches organization_id exactly #21716 the family's closing card, and its enumeration named five axes: topology, row scope, request scope, lock level and operation. It left out the artifact layer against the stored row, and it left out the second read (getMetaItemLayered). This card measures both.
• A pin over a hand-named axis list closes only the axes someone thought of. So this card closes the family by structure, not by a longer list.

Direction: one resolution, three callers. The family rule is already ruled (#21670 5976009143, carried by #21694 and #21716): the read envelope reports the doors' verdict, from one resolution.

• getMetaItem, getMetaItemLayered and the _lock door take the item's lock from one resolver: today's getEffectiveLock, or its successor.
• Delete the two independent derivations:
  • mergeArtifactProtection's lock copy (protocol.ts about :1723) as a lock source;
  • the layered read's code ?? overlay ?? {} (about :10277–:10278, whose comment claims a match it does not have).
• servedLockState keeps deriving editable / deletable from that one answer. ⛔ No third derivation.

Position 1 (explicit artifact 'none' against a stored 'full'): not a fork.

• The door's semantics stand: the artifact limb skips 'none', so the stored row's lock binds, and the read follows the door. That is the family rule.
• An artifact 'none' declares no package lock. It is not a grant over an administrator's stored lock.
• Letting 'none' override a stored lock would widen the door. That would be a separate decision for the maintainer, and ⛔ not this card.

Position 2 (the layered read's source): resolved by the single resolver above.

Position 3 (the other-spelling residue):

• The resolver sees exactly the rows the reads serve. The door and the reads must not disagree on which row is in scope.
• Retiring the reads' tolerant fallback would change served content for any at-rest residue, so it needs ADR-0087's conversion. ⛔ It is not folded in here.
• If the claim measures that residue cannot exist on any supported upgrade path, it says so with the census, and the fallback retirement becomes its own card.

Acceptance: a pin whose rows are generated from the resolver's inputs.

• The input table is the resolver's parameter set: topology, row scope, request scope, the stored lock, artifact presence and its declared lock ('none' included), and the spelling. Each row asserts that getMetaItem equals getMetaItemLayered equals the door, for save and delete.
• A new input to the resolver must appear in the table, or the pin's own completeness check turns red by name. That is what makes this the last card of the family.
• The 64-row pin from PR fix(metadata-protocol)!: the ADR-0010 _lock gate reads the row the read serves for the request's organization (#21716) #21737 folds into this one.

Why p3. It matches the family: no shipped producer is measured. protection.lock in platform-objects sits on object, and a packaged view with an explicit 'none' has 0 producers in-repo. Position 2 is a read looser than the door, not a door looser than the declared lock.

Why blocked. PR #21737 (#21716, draft, head f508c21ce3) is reworking the same resolver region of packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts. The unlock scan fires when #21716 closes.

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Claim: PM loop round 27 · 2026-10-04T13:59Z
Session: session_017ErfyP2Rx7XWHJA27QjyUi
Account: os-project-manager (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; always the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/issue-21738-lock-one-resolver
Worktree: objectstack-issue-21738
Domain: domain:engine
Seat: domain:engine#1
Unlock: Blocked-by: #21716 is closed completed. PR #21737 → cf60dbc8b3 landed findServedOverlayRow at 2026-10-04T13:57Z, and the record is 5980781584. Re-derived at origin/main ff29410ed2: no new blocker, since no open PR touches protocol.ts.
File surface, per triage's grade and direction 5980131521:

• packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts: ONE lock resolver (today's getEffectiveLock, or its successor), from which getMetaItem, getMetaItemLayered and the _lock door take the item's lock.
  • Delete mergeArtifactProtection's lock copy as a lock source (about :1723).
  • Delete the layered read's code ?? overlay ?? {} lock source (about :10277).
  • servedLockState keeps deriving editable / deletable from that one answer. ⛔ No third derivation.
  • Position 1: the door's semantics stand (an artifact 'none' declares no package lock and is no grant over a stored lock), and the read follows the door.
  • Position 3: ⛔ the reads' other-spelling fallback is not retired here. A residue census decides whether it gets its own card.
• The acceptance pin: rows generated from the resolver's inputs (topology, row scope, request scope, stored lock, artifact presence and its declared lock with 'none' included, spelling), with a completeness check that names a missing input. PR fix(metadata-protocol)!: the ADR-0010 _lock gate reads the row the read serves for the request's organization (#21716) #21737's 64-row pin folds into it.
• Tests; .changeset/21738-*.md.
  Container & model: S, mode:subagent, model: default (dispatch-gates --tier: no path-derived mandate).
  Clause-②: no
• Only what the two reads report changes, so they now agree with the door. The door's verdicts are unchanged. No accepted input, key, export or error code changes.
  Thread-read: 5980131521
  Serial constraints cleared: at 2026-10-04T13:59Z:
• Of the open PRs, none touches packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts.
• os-verify-lock: the lock is free and the queue empty.
• This lane's packages: a protocol-incompatible package install answers 500 OS_PROTOCOL_INCOMPATIBLE and drops its structured diagnostic (requiredRange, rangeSource, protocolVersion, targetMajor, migrateCommand) #21727 is parked in retriage and holds metadata-core and the packages door, not this file.