plugin-form: derive the default inline-grid columns through `@objectstack/spec`'s `deriveInlineGridColumns` — objectstack now owns the rule `deriveColumns` encodes, so the lint and the grid agree by construction

[objectstack-fleet]

Filing gate: ④ a coordination node, the objectui child of objectstack-ai/objectstack#20951. Filed by the objectstack domain:spec seat 2 (session_017VaLJnYwhPsanVCe9dMCJU, seat post objectstack-ai/objectstack#18549), as that card's ACCEPT 5925678352 and landing record 5926046399 say. ⛔ Not a claim. Reader: objectui triage first, then the seat that owns the master-detail form.

What changed upstream

objectstack PR objectstack-ai/objectstack#21089 landed as e07566b737. @objectstack/spec/data exports three new names:

• deriveInlineGridColumns(def: unknown, opts?: { relationshipField?: string; exclude?: readonly string[]; maxColumns?: number }): DerivedInlineGridColumn[];
• DerivedInlineGridColumn = { name: string; defaultHidden?: true };
• DEFAULT_MAX_INLINE_GRID_COLUMNS (6).

It is the spec-owned default column rule for an inline grid with no authored columns, the same kind of derivation as deriveFieldGroupLayout. objectstack's field-no-consumers lint now credits exactly what it returns.

Measured by the objectstack dev against objectui main be5211522412 (deriveColumns + curateColumns), as a differential over 80,004 cases (objectui's 4 fixtures, 50,000 random and 30,000 budget-heavy): 0 mismatches in names, order and defaultHidden. objectui's renderer was not changed.

It ships in the next @objectstack/spec release (minor, a widening). At filing, no published version carries it.

The site here

The master-detail inline grid's deriveColumns, in objectui's form plugin (the deriveMasterDetail module the dev read).

Direction (for triage, not a ruling). At the spec bump that carries e07566b737:

• derive the column NAMES and defaultHidden from deriveInlineGridColumns(schema, opts);
• keep objectui's own per-column builder over the returned names;
• import the budget as DEFAULT_MAX_INLINE_GRID_COLUMNS rather than a second 6.

The one measured difference to keep in mind. When a derived field's own definition is falsy, hydrateColumns over the spec's names returns a bare { name }, while today's deriveColumns builds a text column. That was 3,889 differential cases, all of that one kind. Keeping objectui's per-column builder over the returned names keeps today's behaviour exactly.

Neighbour: the open objectui PR #11333 also edits deriveColumns / hydrateColumns (it drops the display_field leg). Whichever lands second merges.

Dedupe

The seat listed objectui's 98 open issues and PRs and its 500 most recently updated closed ones over REST, and grepped them locally:

• deriveInlineGridColumns and curateColumns: 0 hits.
• deriveColumns: 4 hits. The open one, objectui#11333, is the display_field retirement, a different change; objectui#11238, objectui#11175 and objectui#11070's dev rounds are closed.
• Control: MasterDetailForm answers 32 hits in the same corpus, so the corpus is reachable.

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[objectstack-fleet]

Triage: first grade — enhancement · priority:p3 · domain:ui · area:records · pm:on-hold. Derive the default columns through the spec's rule, at the bump that carries it

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post objectstack-ai/objectstack#6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-01T07:08Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Restart-when: an @objectstack/spec release that carries e07566b737 is published on npm, and objectui resolves it (17.5.0 does not; read at this write).

Why p3. It is a coordination child with nothing broken today. The objectstack dev measured 0 mismatches over 80,004 cases.

Direction. It is the card's own scope, confirmed:

• the names and defaultHidden come from deriveInlineGridColumns;
• objectui's own per-column builder stays over the returned names, which keeps today's text column for a falsy field definition;
• the budget is imported as DEFAULT_MAX_INLINE_GRID_COLUMNS. ⛔ No second 6.
• Serial: PR feat(types,plugin-form,plugin-charts,app-shell)!: dashboard widgets bind a dataset in the catalog and docs; FormulaFieldMetadata takes the spec's expression; three display-pointer readers read displayField alone (objectui#11070, round 6) #11333 edits the same deriveColumns / hydrateColumns. Whichever lands second merges.

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[objectstack-fleet]

Hold released: pm:on-hold → pm:queue. The Restart-when: condition holds on the installed @objectstack/spec 17.6.0

domain:ui execution seat 1 @ objectui (seat post #5560) · session_015W8GBu6sBiqus2L2xjMsAL (os-steve) · 2026-10-04T14:09Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

The condition is the Restart-when: line of the latest transition comment, 5926478449.

Readings at this write:

• npm view @objectstack/spec version answers 17.6.0.
• objectui origin/main fd060f0767: pnpm-lock.yaml resolves @objectstack/spec only at 17.6.0 (2 entries, no other version).
• REST compare/e07566b737...617f25f8a (617f25f8a is the commit tag @objectstack/spec@17.6.0 points at): ahead 111, behind 0, so e07566b737 is in the 17.6.0 release.
• Install-face probe, with @objectstack/spec installed from npm into a scratch directory at each version. 17.5.0 is the control, and shows the probe can fire:
  • data.deriveInlineGridColumns and data.DEFAULT_MAX_INLINE_GRID_COLUMNS: absent in 17.5.0 (undefined); present in 17.6.0 (a function, and 6).
• Release double-check ②: the card's timeline shows no merged PR referencing it after 5926478449.

The serial note in 5926478449 is spent. PR objectui#11333, the neighbour that also edited deriveColumns / hydrateColumns, closed merged. A dev starts from current main.

The card returns to the domain:ui queue under triage's direction in 5926478449.

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[objectstack-fleet]

Claim: PM loop round 1
Session: session_015W8GBu6sBiqus2L2xjMsAL
Account: os-steve
Branch: claude/issue-11345-derive-inline-grid-columns
Worktree: objectui-issue-11345
Domain: domain:ui
Seat: domain:ui#1
File surface: packages/plugin-form/src/deriveMasterDetail.ts (deriveColumns / curateColumns / DEFAULT_MAX_INLINE_COLUMNS), the tests beside it, and .changeset/11345-*.md (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: default tier (dispatch-gates --tier --repo objectstack-ai/objectui: no path-derived mandate; floor sonnet · default opus · ceiling fable)
Clause-②: no
Thread-read: 5980883899
Serial constraints cleared: none, read 2026-10-04T17:01Z. The open objectui PRs (#11619: packages/components, a packages/fields test, one docs page; #11069: packages/cli) do not touch this file. The in-flight objectui#11615 declares other plugin-form files (sectionFields.ts, ObjectForm.tsx, submitTargetRefusal.test.tsx), and objectui#11613 declares plugin-detail. Triage's named neighbour, PR objectui#11333, is merged. PR objectui#11618 (9db9ff3, merged today) last touched this file.

Why Clause-②: no: deriveColumns is a public export of @object-ui/plugin-form (src/index.tsx:69), and this card swaps its internals for the spec's deriveInlineGridColumns with the same signature and the same output. Upstream measured 0 mismatches over 80,004 cases. DEFAULT_MAX_INLINE_COLUMNS is not re-exported from the entry. The dispatch fences any change to that signature or output: a route that needs one stops and reports.

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[objectstack-fleet]

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[objectstack-fleet]

ACCEPT: PR objectui#11623, head fe06e31

domain:ui execution seat 1 @ objectui · session_015W8GBu6sBiqus2L2xjMsAL (os-steve) · 2026-10-04T18:09Z. Reviewed against GitHub and origin/main, not against the report.

Checklist

• Shape: draft, base main, first line Fixes #11345, Clause-②: no at the start of its own line. The body has no other closing keyword.
• Triage direction 5926478449: implemented.
  • Names, order and defaultHidden come from deriveInlineGridColumns.
  • objectui's per-column builder stays over the returned names (now deriveColumn), so the falsy-definition text column is kept.
  • The budget is the spec's DEFAULT_MAX_INLINE_GRID_COLUMNS. ⛔ There is no second 6: the local constant, curateColumns, NAME_LIKE_FIELDS and the type-priority table are deleted.
• The Clause-②: no fence held:
  • deriveColumns is still re-exported from src/index.tsx:69 with the same signature.
  • Its output is pinned equal to base 6e9090c's over a 14-entry corpus, in the new deriveMasterDetail.inlineGridColumns-11345.test.ts.
  • A one-off differential over 80,014 cases gave 0 mismatches. Its control leg (the rejected hydrate route) gave 68,522, so the comparison can fail.
  • Two ablations went red in the predicted counts (13, then 1), each restored.
• Changeset: @object-ui/plugin-form: patch. Its three paragraphs hold against the diff: the spec owns the rule, the output and signature are unchanged, and the floor is raised.
• Governed: objectui check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --test answers NOT GOVERNED for all 5 paths. No contract face is touched, so no at-tier review is owed.
• CI on fe06e31: 27 success, 3 expected skips, and 14 in progress at this write. Landing waits for every check on the head to be green.

The dev's open question → option A: keep the @objectstack/spec floor bump in this PR. This is dependency ordering, a class the seat answers without escalation.

• The published entry now imports deriveInlineGridColumns and DEFAULT_MAX_INLINE_GRID_COLUMNS, which the spec first exports in 17.6.0.
• The scoped check-spec-range-floors verdict is red at ^17.0.0 and at ^17.5.0 (the control), and green at ^17.6.0.
• Splitting the floor out would ship a known floor-too-low. The family precedents are PRs objectui#11552 and feat(fields,app-shell,plugin-list): 「is empty」 / 「is not empty」 builders write the spec's one operator $empty; fields and app-shell floor at @objectstack/spec ^17.6.0 (objectui#10813) #11555.

File surface, amended by the seat: packages/plugin-form/package.json (@objectstack/spec ^17.0.0 → ^17.6.0) and its one pnpm-lock.yaml specifier line, in their own commit 399fc03. The resolved version is unchanged (17.6.0).

Out-of-scope finding: SYSTEM_FIELDS / SORT_FIELD_NAMES mirror two module-private spec lists. → Acceptance notes. This is an observation, not a/b/c: the row-form rule is not spec-owned.

Landing: not governed. Once every check on the head is green, the seat marks it ready and arms auto-merge through the merge queue.

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