fix(plugin-audit): drop record_views' always-empty ip_address column, replace with actor

[os-warren]

Fixes #9539

What was wrong

sys_audit_log's record_views list view (the "who viewed this record" screen shipped by
#8992) declared an ip_address column, but buildRow in read-audit.ts never stamps that
key on a read row — client-fingerprint fields are populated on auth events only. The
column was structurally empty on every row this view can ever show. On a compliance
screen that reads as "we captured the fingerprint and this request had none" rather than
"not captured" — a stronger and wrong claim, and the same 审计面宁窄勿谎
(narrow-not-untruthful) defect class #7675 / #8147 / #8315 retired from this object's
action enum, one layer down on a column instead of an enum value.

Fix (Option 1, per both rulings)

• Dropped ip_address from record_views's column list in sys-audit-log.object.ts.
• Replaced it with actor, which the read writer DOES stamp on every row (conditionally
  present, always populated when the field is declared) and which is the one column that
  attributes a service principal (svc:<name>) rather than falling back to a null
  user_id — endorsed by both rulings as a good same-line improvement, dev's call taken.
• Option 2 (stamping viewer IP) is explicitly not commissioned here.

Maintainer ruling 2026-08-18 + triage auto-adjudication 2026-08-19 — both Option 1.

Pin

sys-audit-log-record-views-columns.test.ts derives the read writer's actually-stamped
key set at runtime, from a real ObjectQL engine run of installReadAuditWriter
(never a hand-copied list that can drift from buildRow), then asserts every
record_views column is a member of that set. A principal carrying both userId and a
service actor label, on a record carrying organization_id, makes every conditionally-
stamped key present at once so the derived set is the writer's full vocabulary, not just
today's default path through it.

Ablation (standing lane clause): put ip_address back into the column list, confirmed
the pin goes RED with the exact predicted signature (record_views declares column 'ip_address', but the read writer's buildRow() ... never sets that key), then restored
the file byte-identically (sha256 hash-verified pre/post).

Docs coupling

Deleted the one README bullet (from #9517 / PR #9541) that documented the shipped
record_views view as carrying an always-empty ip_address column — it no longer
applies. The ip_address/user_agent-populated-on-auth-events-only note itself is
unchanged (still true). The separate docs page from PR #9860 ("No IP address and no user
agent") was not touched — it becomes correct by construction, per the
auto-adjudication.

Tests run

• pnpm --filter @objectstack/plugin-audit test — 285/285 passed (18 test files,
  including the new pin, 7 assertions).
• pnpm --filter @objectstack/plugin-audit typecheck — clean.
• node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs (re-derived against the actual diff) — every named
  local gate + convention-triggered gate green: check:cross-package-test-inputs,
  check:slot-lookup, check:test-source-alias, check:type-source-resolution,
  check:changeset-gate-self-tests, check:objectui-changeset,
  check-adr-0087-registration, check-changeset-no-major, check-empty-changeset,
  scripts/docs-audit/check-affected-docs.mjs, check:i18n, check:query-options-erasure,
  check:engine-double-contract, check:where-matcher,
  check:type-check-coverage (structural + --re-measure ratchet, full workspace closure
  built first — 33 ledger entries re-measured, none above their recorded number).
• node scripts/check-nul-bytes.mjs — clean.

Gate + test run at 633841efd (this PR's HEAD).

Changeset

@objectstack/plugin-audit patch — published package, user-visible list-view column
change.

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📓 Docs Drift Check

This PR changes 1 package(s): @objectstack/plugin-audit, touching 5 documentable anchor(s).

19 hand-written doc(s) name something this change touched — list omitted above 15 rows. Re-derive on the tree named below: node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs --json 420804d1099bfac80e8572fbd97157c849f75ae3.

⛔ 1 release-owned page(s) also affected — read-only, see AGENTS.md Documentation Guardrails.

What this run could not see

• 1 changed file(s) yielded no anchor (packages/plugins/plugin-audit/README.md) — pages documenting those are invisible to this run
• 1 anchor(s) matched too much of the corpus to be a work list: created_at (literal, 33 pages)
• the SDK route bridge reached 45 of 221 client-bound route-ledger rows — the other 176 have no registrar path: tail to select them, so pages documenting THEIR client methods cannot appear above, on this or any run: node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs --bridge-coverage

Coarse fallback — 6 page(s) merely mention a changed package (the pre-#9192 predicate, kept for the deliberately-wide backstop): node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs --json 420804d1099bfac80e8572fbd97157c849f75ae3 → packageMentionDocs.

Which tree this was computed on

This run read content/docs from 98a5f770b0b850b931f1642e0b089f07f7f6d89d — the merge of head 633841efddb7a8438ec4de7f6ee0b63dc0504a41 into base 420804d1099bfac80e8572fbd97157c849f75ae3, which is what actions/checkout gives a pull_request run. Not the PR head.

A worktree cut from an older main holds a different content/docs, so re-deriving there can legitimately return a different list — that is a different tree, not a wrong row. To answer on the same tree:

# while this PR is open — GitHub drops the merge commit once it closes
git fetch origin 98a5f770b0b850b931f1642e0b089f07f7f6d89d && git checkout 98a5f770b0b850b931f1642e0b089f07f7f6d89d
# afterwards, rebuild it from the two parents, which stay fetchable
git fetch origin 420804d1099bfac80e8572fbd97157c849f75ae3 633841efddb7a8438ec4de7f6ee0b63dc0504a41 && git checkout -B drift-repro 420804d1099bfac80e8572fbd97157c849f75ae3 && git merge --no-ff 633841efddb7a8438ec4de7f6ee0b63dc0504a41

node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs --json 420804d1099bfac80e8572fbd97157c849f75ae3

⚠️ That checkout carried uncommitted changes, so the commit above does not fully identify what was read.

Advisory only, and a precision-first one (#9192): a page is listed because it names a
symbol, wire route or SDK method this diff touched — not because it mentions a changed
package. Each row says which anchor put it there, so a wrong row is reportable rather than
merely annoying. To re-verify, run the docs-accuracy-audit workflow scoped to these files:
node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs 420804d1099bfac80e8572fbd97157c849f75ae3 → pass the list as
args.docs, on the commit named under Which tree this was computed on.