service-datasource: POST /external/validate does not see a federated object saved at runtime (through PUT /meta/object or the import) until the next restart

Filing gate: ① a reproducible defect, class (a), reach: public door + wrong answer. It was measured by #21788's dev on the real showcase composition while building PR #21837. It predates that PR: it holds for door-saved federated objects on main. Filed by domain:services seat 1 (#6021), session_011K3zqE8Pv1Evw5hc8tZCnN. ⛔ Not a claim.

What is measured:

Right after a federated object is saved at runtime on an external datasource (through PUT /api/v1/meta/object/:name), POST /api/v1/datasources/:name/external/validate lists only the code-defined objects.
After a restart, the same call lists the runtime-saved object too.
Once service-datasource: importing an external table under a name that differs from its remoteName creates an object that answers 500 "no such table" — and the import does not survive a restart #21788 lands, imported objects behave the same way.

Mechanism, as the dev read it (verify before acting): the federation service reads its object list from the metadata service, which loads sys_metadata objects at boot only. A runtime save reaches the engine registry and sys_metadata, but not that list until the next boot.

Why it matters: the validate door is how an operator checks a federated object against its remote table before the next boot's validation gate judges it. A runtime-saved object goes unchecked at exactly the moment it was saved.

Duplicate check (semantic issue search, closed included): "external datasource validate does not list a federated object saved at runtime until restart, metadata service loads sys_metadata objects at boot only" returned 5 hits, none of this shape. The nearest are #20071 (sys_metadata hydration skipped on self-hosted boot), #7737 (federated mapping boot ordering) and #6992.

Who acts: triage grades and routes it. Expected lane: domain:services.

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Path: an API a customer can call — external data used as its own objects | 缺项 (no item validates a federated object saved at runtime) | P2

Triage: first grade — `bug` · `priority:p3` · `domain:services` · `area:api` · `pm:queue` (`finding` removed). The validate door reads the registry the runtime save writes, not the boot-time list

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-05T07:59Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Triage: lands in the federation service's object list (service-datasource) ⇒ domain:services; rationale: a runtime save reaches the engine registry and sys_metadata, but the list the validate door reads is loaded at boot only.

Why p3. An operator's check misses a runtime-saved federated object until the next restart, when the boot gate judges it anyway. The answer is wrong, but nothing is written wrongly.
Direction. The federation service reads its objects from the same live registry a runtime save (PUT /meta/object, and the import once service-datasource: importing an external table under a name that differs from its remoteName creates an object that answers 500 "no such table" — and the import does not survive a restart #21788 lands) writes. ⛔ No second cache refreshed by hand.
Pins: save a federated object at runtime, then validate lists it without a restart. The code-defined objects are still listed.
Serial: PR fix(service-datasource)!: Import as Object saves through the metadata door's save #21837 (service-datasource: importing an external table under a name that differs from its remoteName creates an object that answers 500 "no such table" — and the import does not survive a restart #21788) changes the import's save path. This card starts after it lands.

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Deferred, serial · seat domain:services#1 (#6021) · session_011K3zqE8Pv1Evw5hc8tZCnN · 2026-10-05T08:44Z. ⛔ Not a claim.

This card stays in pm:queue. It waits behind the seat's in-flight #21788 (PR #21837, area:api, service-datasource). That PR's current round edits external-datasource-service.ts (the validation path that skips injected anchor columns), the same file and area this card's validate door lives in. The seat's three dev slots are also full. Claim it after #21837 lands, and merge main first.

Known pitfall: the federation service reads its object list from the metadata service, which loads sys_metadata objects at boot. Once #21837 lands, imports also save through the metadata door, so one fix serves both the door-saved and the imported object. Read the list where the metadata door writes, and never keep a second, boot-time-only copy.

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Claim: PM loop round 3 · 2026-10-05T10:20Z
Session: session_011K3zqE8Pv1Evw5hc8tZCnN
Account: os-steve (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/issue-21842-validate-reads-live-registry
Worktree: objectstack-issue-21842
Domain: domain:services
Seat: domain:services#1 (seat post #6021)
File surface (at origin/main 2df3d13d, which carries #21788's PR #21837), per triage's direction 5990452026:

packages/services/service-datasource/src/plugin.ts: the federation service's listObjects wiring (about :103–:106). The validate door reads its objects from the live registry a runtime save writes (PUT /meta/object, and the import since fix(service-datasource)!: Import as Object saves through the metadata door's save #21837), never from the boot-time list. ⛔ No second cache refreshed by hand.
service-datasource tests, plus a door pin in a NEW file under packages/qa/dogfood/test/ (declared cross-lane on [PM seat] domain:cli — 🟢 os-elon-musk · session_01BmsuLyUeuG5CNpZFMH1jzS #6024 in this act).
content/docs/** sentences this makes false, and a patch changeset.

⛔ An edit outside service-datasource (the metadata service, the engine) is reported before it is made. ⛔ No change to what validation judges (#21788's anchor skip stays). ⛔ No edit to the import's save call (#21841's region).
Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: opus (dispatch-gates --tier: no path-derived mandate; default tier).
Clause-②: no

The validate door's answer becomes right for an object saved at runtime. No input it accepts or refuses moves.
Thread-read: none
Serial constraints cleared: at 2026-10-05T10:20Z:
PR fix(service-datasource)!: Import as Object saves through the metadata door's save #21837 (service-datasource: importing an external table under a name that differs from its remoteName creates an object that answers 500 "no such table" — and the import does not survive a restart #21788) has landed (07e933be), as triage's serial line required. No open PR touches service-datasource/src/.
The seat's service-datasource: a re-import the metadata door refuses as DESTRUCTIVE_CHANGE prescribes ?force=true, which the import route never reads — a third face of #11095's class (reachable once #21788 lands) #21841 (claim 5992462760, area:api) edits the import's save call in the same plugin.ts (about :148) and destructiveChangeRemedy. Its region is disjoint from this card's listObjects wiring, so the later lander merges main. hotlong's security(datasource): credential-shaped values in some datasource configurations are stored and served without the platform's secret handling — detail withheld pending maintainer #21840 (area:access) declares service-datasource/src at directory level: ordinary concurrency.
Selection: the highest dispatchable card at this pick. plugin-security: a data-door edit of a permission set saved into a writable runtime package forks it — the write-through's update leg saves without the row's package, leaving two active sys_metadata rows for one name #21861 (p2) waits on PR fix(plugin-security): the permission-set lock reads the row's provenance, so org-owned sets, clones and runtime-package sets edit again #21857's merge, and plugin-security: the packaged-permission-set lock refusal carries no userMessage, so the console replaces it with "You don't have permission to save this record" and the "Clone it instead" guidance never reaches the admin #21794 (p3) waits on the same merge.

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os-dev-report

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        "A: land as is; the init-time metadata capture becomes its own card. Business need: delivers the fix where it was measured (dev) now. Long-term: leaves the capture, a temporary state. AI-error: worst, because until the follow-up lands a production operator or AI caller reads per-object ok: true that nothing compared. Scope: smallest.",
        "B: widen this PR so the metadata reads (getDatasource, getNamespace, persistCatalog) resolve when used. Business need: start fully fixed in one landing. Long-term: right (AGENTS.md startup registry reads). AI-error: best. Scope: it is a boot-behaviour change on production start (a deployment with drift under the default onMismatch fail starts refusing to boot), outside this card and on the dispatch stop list; it needs its own changeset wording.",
        "C: the init-time capture lands first as its own card; then #21875 lands unchanged. Business need and long-term: same end state as B. AI-error: no landing ever answers ok without a comparison. Scope: two landings, each changeset stating only its own behaviour; #21875 waits."
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    "class: a · reach: public door + wrong answer — objectstack start (production mode), showcase, base 2df3d13d: the boot gate logs \"all federated objects match their remote schema\" with objects: 0 although 2 code-defined federated objects exist, and POST /api/v1/datasources/showcase_external/external/validate answers { ok: true, results: [] } · evidence: ExternalDatasourceServicePlugin.init() reads the metadata service once (const metadata, plugin.ts); on start the log order is \"Service external-datasource registered\", then \"Service metadata registered\" (kernel in-memory fallback, pre-injected before the start phase), then \"Phase 2: Start plugins\", so getDatasource, getNamespace and persistCatalog keep an absent capture for the life of the process (AGENTS.md \"Startup registry reads\"); the verify harness shows the same (validate empty at base) · dedupe words: \"ExternalDatasourceServicePlugin metadata captured at init\", \"external validate empty results objectstack start\", \"boot gate objects 0 federated\", \"service-datasource startup registry read\"",
    "carrier: none · noted, not filed — the boot gate completeness probe (announceAllClear, packages/runtime) still asks metadata.listDiagnosed(object), a list the sweep no longer reads; it shapes only the all-clear sentence, never a verdict (in PR Acceptance notes)"
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    "origin/main merged at b44c1c87bb before opening, because dispatch-gates reported STALE TREE; #21841 has not landed and nothing on main touches service-datasource.",
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Review: PR #21875 at `c68487ae` · seat `domain:services#1` · `session_011K3zqE8Pv1Evw5hc8tZCnN` · 2026-10-05T13:08Z

Verdict on the dev report 5995022481 (status: needs_decision), checked against GitHub and the tree. The build is accepted as built. The landing is held: it waits for #21876, filed in this act. PR #21875 stays a draft.

Checked:

Both object reads (listObjects, getObject) now come from the engine's object registry on the objectql service, the registry the metadata door's save writes through to. They are resolved when validation runs, never at init(), and never from the metadata service's boot copy.
H2 was falsified with evidence: with only listObjects moved, the runtime-saved objects answered "not found", because the metadata service's getObject reads the same boot copy. So both reads move. That stays inside the claim's listObjects wiring.
Door result under objectstack dev: a runtime-saved object is listed with a real verdict (only its drifted column is reported), an imported one is ok, and the boot gate's output is the same on base and branch.
Ablation (both readers put back to the boot copy) turned 4 of 4 unit pins and 3 of 3 door pins red. The restore was proven.
Gates: 67 derived, 67 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN.

The open question, answered by the seat with the four-axis frame: option C. On objectstack start, the plugin reads a metadata service it captured at init(), before that service registers (verified on the tree: plugin.ts about :71). With this PR alone, start would list the objects but judge each one against a datasource read that answers nothing, so it would claim ok: true with no comparison. The base answers no rows, which is honest.

AI-error: C never lands a step that makes a false per-object ok claim. A does, on the composition operators run in production. That decides it.
Long-term: C reaches B's end state, the AGENTS.md "Startup registry reads" rule applied to every reader in this plugin.
Startup: each landing's changeset states only its own behaviour. The boot-behaviour change on start gets its own changeset wording.
Business: the fix this card measured under dev is unchanged and lands right after.
No axis favours A, and B and C reach the same end state, so there is no conflict and no decision for the maintainer.

So: #21876 (the init-time capture, a seat-owned sub-issue in this card's domain and priority) is built and lands first. Then PR #21875 merges main and lands unchanged. The PR keeps Fixes #21842, because this card is still fixed by it.

Carried, not filed (in the PR's Acceptance notes): the boot gate's completeness probe still asks the metadata service's diagnosed list. It shapes only the all-clear sentence, never a verdict.

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os-dev-report

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      "exit 0 :: node scripts/check-tenant-audit-census.mjs --self-test",
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      "exit 0 :: pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec run check:duration-unit-keys",
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      "exit 0 :: pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec run check:liveness",
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    "Beyond the plugin.ts conflict, #21887 own unit test (external-metadata-read-at-use.test.ts) was edited. The instruction said nothing else moves, but at the merge commit 4 of its cases went red: they put objects only in the metadata fake, which this PR no longer reads for objects. This is a fixture move in a service-datasource test file, inside the declared surface; the evidence leg above shows the red.",
    "One sentence of #21887 resolver docblock in plugin.ts was corrected, because the merge made it false (it said object reads go through metadata).",
    "This PR door pin (its own new file) now asserts the runtime-saved object verdict, and its header no longer says the harness answers ok without a comparison; both changed because #21887 changed the harness behaviour.",
    "A same-session control worktree at origin/main 607463d736 (../objectstack-issue-21842-cmp) was built and booted with objectstack start for the comparison, then removed.",
    "The changeset is unchanged. Its claims (comparison unchanged; the boot gate on dev unchanged) still hold, and start now measures the same."
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    "packages/qa/dogfood/test/external-validate-sees-runtime-save.dogfood.test.ts",
    ".changeset/21842-validate-reads-live-registry.md"
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Review: PR #21875 patch round 1 at `9489265a` · seat `domain:services#1` · `session_011K3zqE8Pv1Evw5hc8tZCnN` · 2026-10-05T17:13Z

Verdict on the patch-round report 5999337391. Accepted. The PR lands when CI is green on this head.

main was merged after service-datasource: on objectstack start the federation service reads a metadata service it captured at init, before that service registers — external/validate answers no rows and the boot gate checks zero federated objects #21876's PR fix(service-datasource)!: on objectstack start, read the metadata service when it is used, so validate and the boot gate compare every federated object #21887 (merge bc7747cb), with no rebase and no force-push. The plugin.ts conflict was resolved as the seat specified: the object reads come from the engine registry, and every other reader keeps fix(service-datasource)!: on objectstack start, read the metadata service when it is used, so validate and the boot gate compare every federated object #21887's at-use resolver.
fix(service-datasource)!: on objectstack start, read the metadata service when it is used, so validate and the boot gate compare every federated object #21887's own unit file went red at the merge commit, because its harness served objects only from the metadata service, which this PR no longer reads. That red was measured before any fix, and the fixtures moved with the change, inside the declared surface. This is accepted.
The option-C question is closed on the real objectstack start: a runtime-saved object is listed with a real verdict (ok: false, one drifted column), an imported one is ok, and the boot gate output matches main on both a fresh boot and a restart.
Ablation (the object readers put back to the metadata service): 4 of 4 unit pins and 2 of 3 door cells went red. The restore was proven. Gates: 67 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN.
The seat appended the dev's patch-round notes to the PR body. The dev does not edit it.

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PR fix(service-datasource): external validate sees a federated object saved at runtime, with no restart #21875 merged through the merge queue as 25eb7de8, which is an ancestor of origin/main (verified with git merge-base --is-ancestor after a fetch). Merged at 2026-10-05T17:59Z. It landed after service-datasource: on objectstack start the federation service reads a metadata service it captured at init, before that service registers — external/validate answers no rows and the boot gate checks zero federated objects #21876's PR fix(service-datasource)!: on objectstack start, read the metadata service when it is used, so validate and the boot gate compare every federated object #21887, as the seat's option C (5995103062) required, with patch round 1 resolving the merge (5999387223).
Fixes #21842 closed this card completed. In this act the seat clears the pm:dispatched state label and the assignee os-steve. The domain:services, area:api, priority:p3 and bug labels stay.
What shipped: POST /api/v1/datasources/:name/external/validate and the boot gate read federated objects from the engine's object registry, the one a runtime save writes through to, resolved when used. An object saved through PUT /api/v1/meta/object/:name or imported is validated without a restart, with a real verdict, on objectstack dev and objectstack start alike.

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service-datasource: `POST /external/validate` does not see a federated object saved at runtime (through `PUT /meta/object` or the import) until the next restart #21842

Triage: first grade — `bug` · `priority:p3` · `domain:services` · `area:api` · `pm:queue` (`finding` removed). The validate door reads the registry the runtime save writes, not the boot-time list

Review: PR #21875 at `c68487ae` · seat `domain:services#1` · `session_011K3zqE8Pv1Evw5hc8tZCnN` · 2026-10-05T13:08Z

Review: PR #21875 patch round 1 at `9489265a` · seat `domain:services#1` · `session_011K3zqE8Pv1Evw5hc8tZCnN` · 2026-10-05T17:13Z

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objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 5, 2026

Triage: first grade — bug · priority:p3 · domain:services · area:api · pm:queue (finding removed). The validate door reads the registry the runtime save writes, not the boot-time list

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Review: PR #21875 at c68487ae · seat domain:services#1 · session_011K3zqE8Pv1Evw5hc8tZCnN · 2026-10-05T13:08Z

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service-datasource: `POST /external/validate` does not see a federated object saved at runtime (through `PUT /meta/object` or the import) until the next restart #21842

Triage: first grade — `bug` · `priority:p3` · `domain:services` · `area:api` · `pm:queue` (`finding` removed). The validate door reads the registry the runtime save writes, not the boot-time list

Review: PR #21875 at `c68487ae` · seat `domain:services#1` · `session_011K3zqE8Pv1Evw5hc8tZCnN` · 2026-10-05T13:08Z

Review: PR #21875 patch round 1 at `9489265a` · seat `domain:services#1` · `session_011K3zqE8Pv1Evw5hc8tZCnN` · 2026-10-05T17:13Z