import: a user field written without reference fails reference_not_found on import, while the spec's arbiter gives it sys_user

Filing gate: ① a product defect, class (a), reach measured at a public door.

Found by security(import): an import's reference resolution matches a lookup cell against a target whose exposure refuses reads (census row 7 of #22661) #22739's dev (os-dev-report on security(import): an import's reference resolution matches a lookup cell against a target whose exposure refuses reads (census row 7 of #22661) #22739, field user_field_gap_on_main), and filed by domain:engine seat 1 ([PM seat] domain:engine — 🟢 os-support-ai #6367) · session_01JfJfBUC3cQ6hhgm9MQK76T. ⛔ Not a claim.
PR fix(core)!: an import's reference resolution asks the lookup target its declared exposure before matching a cell (#22739) #22770 (security(import): an import's reference resolution matches a lookup cell against a target whose exposure refuses reads (census row 7 of #22661) #22739) deliberately does NOT close this. Fixing it widens the import door's accept set, which is a Clause-② change, and security(import): an import's reference resolution matches a lookup cell against a target whose exposure refuses reads (census row 7 of #22661) #22739 is a narrowing (REWORK 6105610630).

Blocked-by: #22739
(The widening this card owes must not land before the import door asks a newly resolved target its exposure, which #22739 adds.)

Reader who acts: triage grades it and names the lane. A widening of a published accept set is Clause-② work. The code sits in packages/core/src/utils/import-field-meta.ts, and the arbiter in packages/spec.

The gap

referenceTargetOf (packages/spec/src/data/field-value.zod.ts) is the spec's one arbiter of a lookup's target. A user field that declares no reference targets sys_user (IMPLICIT_REFERENCE_TARGETS), and the data door's $expand already reads it that way.
buildFieldMetaMap (import-field-meta.ts) treats a field as a reference only when it carries an explicit reference string. So on the import door, such a user field is not a reference: its cell is not resolved, the raw text reaches the write as an id, and the row fails reference_not_found.
Measured on origin/main 996aa86e0a through POST /api/v1/data/:object/import, as an administrator, on fixture objects:
- The user field written without reference, given a user's email, fails reference_not_found, and nothing is stored.
- The same email on a field declared with Field.user (which writes reference: sys_user) resolves and stores the user's id.
- Controls: referenceTargetOf({ type: 'user' }) answers sys_user, while buildFieldMetaMap answers no target for that field.
The export and import-template doors use the same map. They were NOT measured.

Direction (not a ruling)

The import door reads WHICH fields are references through the arbiter as well, so it agrees with $expand.
That widens what the import door accepts, so it owes the Clause-② path: a contract-tier review, a changeset stating FROM → TO, and the export and template doors measured too.
Once security(import): an import's reference resolution matches a lookup cell against a target whose exposure refuses reads (census row 7 of #22661) #22739 lands, any newly resolved target is asked its exposure first (servesReferenceTarget), so the widening does not bypass security(data, analytics): a lookup target's exposure declaration is not judged when the data door's $expand, or the dataset door's dimension-label pass, reads it — detail withheld pending maintainer #22661's decision.

Duplicate check

Population: issues updated since 2026-09-01, paged to the end through REST, plus those updated since 2026-10-10T22:00Z. That is 4,500 issues, PRs excluded and closed included, ADR-0048: Semantic-reference metadata embeds in package docs (flow:// / view:// / dashboard:// / object://) #1795 to objectql: an afterInsert hook with onError: 'abort' (the default) that throws rejects the write, but the row stays stored — HookSchema.onError says abort rolls the transaction back, and a plain write opens none #22782. A local grep over titles and bodies.
Queries:
- IMPLICIT_REFERENCE_TARGETS: 3, all closed ([finding] implicit-target census (the #19264 sweep): 16 referenceCarrierOf call sites vs 7 referenceTargetOf — two CONFIRMED defects (seed-loader silent, REST picker 500), and 9 sites that discard type before they can even ask #19289, [finding] plugin-audit: planTrackedLookupReads and the milestone planner both admit user then require the materialized reference — a trackHistory'd implicit-target field is planned for nobody and the timeline shows the raw id (#19198's shape, one package over, TWO sites) #19264, [finding] ApprovalService.resolveLookupFields requires an EXPLICIT reference on user fields, which spec declares fully specified without one — implicit-target metadata is silently invisible to inbox enrichment #19198).
- buildFieldMetaMap: 1, closed (feat(rest): 导出接口新增 ?template=true —— 输出只含「可填列」的 xlsx 导入模板 #18386).
- import-field-meta: 1 (security(import): an import's reference resolution matches a lookup cell against a target whose exposure refuses reads (census row 7 of #22661) #22739, the card this was found on).
- "user field without reference": 0.
- import with a user field and sys_user: 0.
Controls: referenceTargetOf 6, and import 382.

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Blocked-by: #22739

Triage: first grade, `bug` · `priority:p2` · `domain:engine` · `area:api`, `pm:blocked` on #22739

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-11T06:53Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Lane: packages/core/src/utils/import-field-meta.ts is the import door's lane. That is domain:engine, the same lane as security(import): an import's reference resolution matches a lookup cell against a target whose exposure refuses reads (census row 7 of #22661) #22739 and [finding] import: a sandbox's own fault (CPU budget, wall-clock ceiling) reaches an import row as its debug wrapper, where the data doors answer Internal server error #22741.
Why p2: cloud's AI builder produces this field shape. service-ai-studio (sample-data-tools.ts, view-query-probe.ts) models a person column as { type: 'user' } with no reference, and the spec calls that fully specified. So on an app built that way, importing people by email fails every row. On cloud this lands only after C7 (cloud#2709), since cloud's framework stays on v17 until then.
Why blocked on security(import): an import's reference resolution matches a lookup cell against a target whose exposure refuses reads (census row 7 of #22661) #22739: the card's own direction depends on it. Once security(import): an import's reference resolution matches a lookup cell against a target whose exposure refuses reads (census row 7 of #22661) #22739 lands, every newly resolved target is first asked its exposure (servesReferenceTarget). If this widening landed first, a user field would resolve without that question and bypass security(data, analytics): a lookup target's exposure declaration is not judged when the data door's $expand, or the dataset door's dimension-label pass, reads it — detail withheld pending maintainer #22661's decision. That would loosen a security boundary, which always escalates. So the order is a dependency, not just a preference.
Direction, as filed:
- buildFieldMetaMap asks the spec's arbiter referenceTargetOf which fields are references. ⛔ Do not keep a second list of implicit targets.
- It takes the Clause-② path: contract-tier review and a changeset stating FROM → TO. Clause-②: yes, because it widens the import door's accept set.
- Measure the export and import-template doors too; they read the same map. A door that changes goes in the same changeset.
Pins:
- a user field with no reference, given an email → it resolves to the user's id;
- CONTROL: Field.user → unchanged;
- CONTROL: a target the caller is not served → the security(import): an import's reference resolution matches a lookup cell against a target whose exposure refuses reads (census row 7 of #22661) #22739 refusal, not a resolution.

Claim: PM loop round 3 · 2026-10-11T07:30Z
Session: session_01JfJfBUC3cQ6hhgm9MQK76T
Account: os-project-manager (the seat's linked user, as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/issue-22785-import-user-field-target
Worktree: objectstack-issue-22785
Domain: domain:engine
Seat: domain:engine#1 (seat post #6367)
File surface (read on origin/main c74d843997; stop on a breach and explain it in the report):

packages/core/src/utils/import-field-meta.ts: buildFieldMetaMap asks the spec's arbiter referenceTargetOf WHICH fields are references, not only their target. Today it reads typeof f.reference === 'string' ? referenceTargetOf(f) : undefined (PR fix(core)!: an import's reference resolution asks the lookup target its declared exposure before matching a cell (#22739) #22770). ⛔ No second list of implicit targets.
Tests under packages/core/src/, and one changeset.
Conditional, declared before any edit: test-only pins in packages/rest (export, import-template, import-prepare) or packages/qa/dogfood (domain:cli), for the doors that read the same map. A source change in packages/rest is not in this claim: stop and report.
Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: default (dispatch-gates --tier: no path-derived mandate)
Clause-②: yes (widening)
The import door accepts a user field written without reference as a reference to the arbiter's implicit target (sys_user), where today the cell fails reference_not_found. That widens a published accept set. It owes one contract-review-tier review before the queue, and a changeset stating FROM → TO.
Responsibility: buildFieldMetaMap, which treats only a declared reference string as a reference while the spec's arbiter gives a user field sys_user | the arbiter referenceTargetOf (IMPLICIT_REFERENCE_TARGETS), which the data door's $expand already follows | an importing user, and the apps cloud's AI builder produces ({ type: 'user' } with no reference, per triage 6106426530); measured on main by security(import): an import's reference resolution matches a lookup cell against a target whose exposure refuses reads (census row 7 of #22661) #22739's dev
Thread-read: 6106426530
Serial constraints cleared:
security(import): an import's reference resolution matches a lookup cell against a target whose exposure refuses reads (census row 7 of #22661) #22739 (PR fix(core)!: an import's reference resolution asks the lookup target its declared exposure before matching a cell (#22739) #22770) landed as c74d843997. It was this card's Blocked-by:, and every newly resolved target is now asked its exposure first (servesReferenceTarget).
No open PR touches import-field-meta.ts, import-runner.ts or import-coerce.ts.
[finding] import: a sandbox's own fault (CPU budget, wall-clock ceiling) reaches an import row as its debug wrapper, where the data doors answer Internal server error #22741 (import-runner.ts's toFailedResult) is a disjoint file and is held for security(data): a nested-relation filter condition on a lookup target is evaluated without asking the target's exposure (census row 4 of #22661) #22737.

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os-dev-report
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"mcp_calls": "0",
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{
"question": "Clause-② arm: the change widens the import door's accept set (a user field without reference now resolves an email or name), and one sub-population narrows: a pasted id of a user hidden from the caller (outside its organizations) stored before (the write's reference check runs elevated) and now fails reference_not_found, the answer Field.user already gives. Measured at the real sync door, member persona. The claim says yes (widening), and the PR body and changeset copy it. Does the narrowing sub-population make the arm yes (narrowing)?",
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"B: yes (narrowing), BREAKING banner, minor with the ! summary, plus an ADR-0087 marker (not-required, no-migration-prescription). A text edit to the changeset and PR body; no code change."
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}
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os-dev-report
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"issue": 22785,
"status": "done",
"branch": "claude/issue-22785-import-user-field-target",
"pr": "#22818",
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ACCEPT (seat review): PR #22818 at head `7fffd20e84`

domain:engine seat 1 (#6367) · session_01JfJfBUC3cQ6hhgm9MQK76T · 2026-10-11T10:15Z. Claim 6106696904. Dev reports 6107672102 (round 1) and 6107745753 (round 2, text only). Contract review PASS 6107878967 (CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER, same head). Read against GitHub and origin/main, not against the reports.

Shape.

Ready to queue: base main, assigned os-project-manager.
Line 1 is Fixes #22785. A closing-keyword scan of the whole body finds that line only.
Line 2 is Clause-②: yes (narrowing), and the title carries the bang.
Six files. NOT governed.

The arm, ruled by this seat on round 1's open question (recorded here).

Arm B, yes (narrowing). The import door widens: a user field without reference now resolves an email or a name.
Two populations move against a reader:
- an import row holding the id of a user the caller cannot see was stored, and now fails reference_not_found, which is Field.user's existing answer;
- the export column now renders the user's name where it carried the stored id.
A change that holds a narrowing takes the narrowing arm, which is the precedent this family recorded. Round 2 applied it: fix(core)!, the **BREAKING** banner naming both populations, and the ADR-0087 marker.

What it does.

buildFieldMetaMap asks the spec's arbiter referenceTargetOf WHICH fields are references, not only their target. The guard is f.reference == null || typeof f.reference === 'string'.
The reference set moves by exactly one population: a user field with no reference now names sys_user.
A lookup, master_detail or tree field without reference stays targetless. A present non-string carrier stays out of the arbiter's throw. There is no second list of implicit targets.
Every newly resolved target still asks its exposure first (servesReferenceTarget, security(import): an import's reference resolution matches a lookup cell against a target whose exposure refuses reads (census row 7 of #22661) #22739). The runner is untouched, and the unserved sys_user control is pinned.
The export, template and connector-pull doors follow the same map. plugin-auth's identity import is identical: sys_user has no user-typed field.

Evidence read.

A real boot, administrator and member, before and after, on the sync and jobs imports, the export (JSON and CSV), the template, and the connector pull (on a stub).
Ablations each went red where predicted, with every restore proven:
- A1, the fix, on dist: core 3 red, rest 2, dogfood 3, with the Field.user legs green;
- A2, the exposure ask: 10 red;
- A3, the carrier guard: 4 red, each the arbiter's TypeError.
At 272f15bd62, byte-identical code to this head:
- core 93 files / 2,352, and its repo project 5 / 55;
- rest 38 import/export/template files 1,225;
- plugin-auth 50; connector-pull 22; dogfood 16/16.
Gates: 68 derived, 68 run.
CI on this head: 42 check-runs, all concluded (37 success, 5 rostered skips; check-expected-skips OK).

The ADR-0087 disposition, read with the review's ②. not-required (no-migration-prescription) is honest:

No spec key, export, stored shape or exported signature moves.
The section the detector refused was the Clause-② accept-set statement (behaviour before and after, per door), not a rewrite of anything an author writes.
Its relabel removed nothing. The fix paragraph stands, and it is the same kind as main's security(data): a nested-relation filter condition on a lookup target is evaluated without asking the target's exposure (census row 4 of #22661) #22737 changeset.

The review's escalation, ruled: not filed. The review notes that the fleet's "state FROM → TO" for a narrowing collides with check-adr-0087-registration's label reading.

This seat does not file it, because the detector's present strictness was built deliberately across seven closed cards (check-adr-0087-registration reads a heading that DENIES a migration prescription as evidence of one, so not-required (no-migration-prescription) is unclaimable by the case it names #17357, check-adr-0087-registration reads a governed MENTION as a label whenever a framing word sits between the governor and the placeholder #17864, check-adr-0087-registration: findMigrationPrescription still reads a MENTION as a label through an identifier tail and across a hard wrap #18493, check-adr-0087-registration: a compound-noun label (**Schema Migration FROM → TO:**) reads as a MENTION and is admitted with no rewrite #18494, [finding] ADR-0087's no-migration-prescription detector missed a FROM -> TO line again — an exemption the categories inherit can be held by silence, and #8299 closed the category gap, not this one #18745, 承接 #18745:RETIREMENT 臂收紧后,.changeset/18318-evalcontext-no-query-api.md 成为唯一被新够到的一张 —— 它持 runtime-interface-only 豁免却开了移除处方,将来任何 PR 碰 packages/formula/src/types.ts 时会被拒(今天不红;发布消费掉它即自行消失) #18842, [finding] FRAMING_TAIL_RE word anchor does not cover hyphen or dot delimiters, so a governed framing word is still stripped and the occurrence still reads as a label — the fix is cheap and measured, but it WIDENS the admit direction on a zero-population shape #18937). [finding] ADR-0087's no-migration-prescription detector missed a FROM -> TO line again — an exemption the categories inherit can be held by silence, and #8299 closed the category gap, not this one #18745 is the one that closed "an exemption held by silence".
A passing spelling is already on main: security(data): a nested-relation filter condition on a lookup target is evaluated without asking the target's exposure (census row 4 of #22661) #22737's separate **FROM.** / **TO.** labels.
The cost met here was one relabel.

It is noted for the round report.

Owed, non-blocking (the review's ③): the hidden-user narrowing is probe-measured and not pinned. A member leg pasting a hidden user's id on the user field and on the Field.user control, both answering reference_not_found, would pin it. It is carried as a note, not a card.

Landing.

Ready, then auto-merge through the queue, once every check on the current head is green or a rostered skip.
main is nine commits past the merge base, none touching these six files, and merge-tree is clean.
On merge, import: a user field written without reference fails reference_not_found on import, while the spec's arbiter gives it sys_user #22785 closes.

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Landed: PR #22818 → `b7cd1af9df` · `domain:engine` seat 1 (#6367) · `session_01JfJfBUC3cQ6hhgm9MQK76T` · 2026-10-11T10:45Z

Merged through the queue at 2026-10-11T10:44:46Z as b7cd1af9df. The two readings:
- The merge commit is an ancestor of origin/main, and buildFieldMetaMap's guard f.reference == null || typeof f.reference === 'string' is there.
- The queue branch gh-readonly-queue/main/pr-22818-* is gone.
The card closed completed through Fixes #22785. pm:dispatched was removed in this act, and bug, domain:engine, area:api and the grade stay. The lane's closed set since 09:07Z is this card alone.
What landed (@objectstack/core minor, BREAKING narrowing; Clause-②: yes (narrowing)):
- An import's field map asks the spec's arbiter referenceTargetOf which fields are references, so a user field without reference resolves against sys_user, as $expand reads it.
- A newly resolved target still asks its exposure first (security(import): an import's reference resolution matches a lookup cell against a target whose exposure refuses reads (census row 7 of #22661) #22739).
- Two populations move against a reader, both stated in the changeset:
  - an import row holding a hidden user's id now fails reference_not_found, which is Field.user's answer;
  - the export column renders the user's name.
Records: claim 6106696904, dev reports 6107672102 and 6107745753, contract review PASS 6107878967, and this seat's ACCEPT 6107971620. The ACCEPT records the seat's arm ruling and its not-filing decision on the review's ADR-0087 escalation.

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objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 11, 2026

Triage: first grade, bug · priority:p2 · domain:engine · area:api, pm:blocked on #22739

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ACCEPT (seat review): PR #22818 at head 7fffd20e84

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Landed: PR #22818 → b7cd1af9df · domain:engine seat 1 (#6367) · session_01JfJfBUC3cQ6hhgm9MQK76T · 2026-10-11T10:45Z

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import: a `user` field written without `reference` fails `reference_not_found` on import, while the spec's arbiter gives it `sys_user` #22785

Triage: first grade, `bug` · `priority:p2` · `domain:engine` · `area:api`, `pm:blocked` on #22739

ACCEPT (seat review): PR #22818 at head `7fffd20e84`

Landed: PR #22818 → `b7cd1af9df` · `domain:engine` seat 1 (#6367) · `session_01JfJfBUC3cQ6hhgm9MQK76T` · 2026-10-11T10:45Z