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@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+---
+"@objectstack/service-analytics": minor
+---
+
+fix(service-analytics)!: the read-scope compiler refuses a list under `$eq` instead of binding it (#19975)
+
+Clause-②: no (narrowing)
+
+<!-- adr-0087: not-required (no-migration-prescription) a compile-time refusal in the read-scope compiler: no authorable key, spelling or stored shape moves, and an authored policy never emits this spelling (the CEL lowering writes `$eq` only around a `{ $field }` reference), so a stored `sys_metadata` row needs no conversion. The remedy for a host-supplied read scope is to write the list under `$in`. -->
+
+**BREAKING**: this narrows what `compileScopedFilterToSql`, exported from `@objectstack/service-analytics`, accepts. A read scope carrying `{ field: { $eq: [...] } }` compiled before this change and is refused after it. It ships as `minor` under the launch-window convention for accept-set narrowings. The remedy is `{ field: { $in: [...] } }` for "one of these values".
+
+`compileScopedFilterToSql` compiles a row-level read scope into the SQL the analytics NativeSQL path and the `/analytics/sql` echo run. It already refused a list in the implicit equality slot (`{ field: [...] }`). The explicit spelling, `{ field: { $eq: [...] } }`, was compiled to an equality with the whole list bound as one parameter, so what the scope selected depended on how the executing database read a list, not on what the scope said.
+
+It is now refused, at any depth under `$and` / `$or` / `$not`, with the envelope every other refusal of this compiler carries: `READ_SCOPE_COMPILE_FAILED` / 500, with the message kept for the server log. This applies ruling 乙 of #19757, which the shared comparand-shape face in `@objectstack/spec` already enforces, to a compiler that face never sees. `$ne` with a list is not part of that ruling and is not judged here.
+
+No policy authored as metadata produces this shape. The refusal therefore reaches only a host-supplied `getReadScope` or a direct caller of `compileScopedFilterToSql`. A scalar, `null` or a `Date` under `$eq` compiles exactly as before, and a `{ $field }` reference there keeps its existing answer.
@@ -150,10 +150,15 @@ const MATRIX: readonly Row[] = [
     bindable: false, renderable: false,
     whereLike: REFUSED_WHERE, whereIn: REFUSED_WHERE, whereEq: OK,
     scopeLike: REFUSED_SCOPE, scopeIn: REFUSED_SCOPE, scopeEq: OK },
+  // [#19975] One cell of this row moved AFTER the #8186 measurement, on
+  // purpose: ruling 乙 (#19757) refuses a list in the equality slot, and the
+  // read-scope lowering now refuses it under `$eq` instead of binding the list
+  // as one parameter (`read-scope-eq-array-refusal.test.ts`). The `where`
+  // door's `$eq` cell is not that change's and keeps its measured answer.
   { label: 'array', value: ['al', 'be'],
     bindable: false, renderable: false,
     whereLike: REFUSED_WHERE, whereIn: REFUSED_WHERE, whereEq: OK,
-    scopeLike: REFUSED_SCOPE, scopeIn: REFUSED_SCOPE, scopeEq: OK },
+    scopeLike: REFUSED_SCOPE, scopeIn: REFUSED_SCOPE, scopeEq: REFUSED_SCOPE },
   // A `$field` scalar comparand is SERVED on the `where` door since the
   // 2026-08-12 ruling (NativeSQLStrategy declines, the engine path runs it) and
   // refused by the read-scope lowering, which cannot honestly render it (#7598).
 
@@ -0,0 +1,247 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2026 ObjectStack. Licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.
+
+/**
+ * [#19975] The read-scope compiler never binds a LIST into an equality — in
+ * either spelling of the equality slot, at any depth.
+ *
+ * Ruling 乙 on #19757 refuses a list in the equality slot at the shared
+ * comparand-shape face, for every driver at once. `compileScopedFilterToSql`
+ * never meets that face (a read scope arrives through `getReadScope`), so the
+ * ruling is pushed down to it here:
+ *
+ *   - the EXPLICIT spelling, `{ f: { $eq: [...] } }`, used to compile to
+ *     `col = ?` with the whole list bound as one parameter, and what that
+ *     predicate selected was the executing engine's reading of a list. It is
+ *     now refused ({@link assertNoListInEqualitySlot} in `read-scope-sql.ts`);
+ *   - the IMPLICIT spelling, `{ f: [...] }` — the shape a CEL `field == <list>`
+ *     policy lowers to — was already refused; the depth pins below hold it.
+ *
+ * Both refusals carry this module's envelope, `READ_SCOPE_COMPILE_FAILED` / 500
+ * (the #5367 ruling), never the shared face's `INVALID_FILTER` / 400: the
+ * producer is a policy the caller cannot author.
+ *
+ * Four blocks: the explicit spelling at every depth, the implicit spelling at
+ * every depth, the neighbouring shapes that must keep compiling exactly as
+ * before, and the two strategy faces that reach this compiler, driven over a
+ * real engine — where the refusal must land before any statement runs.
+ */
+
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'vitest';
+import { SqliteWasmDriver } from '@objectstack/driver-sqlite-wasm';
+import type { Cube, FilterCondition } from '@objectstack/spec/data';
+import type { AnalyticsQuery, StrategyContext } from '@objectstack/spec/contracts';
+
+import { compileScopedFilterToSql } from '../read-scope-sql.js';
+import { NativeSQLStrategy } from '../strategies/native-sql-strategy.js';
+import { ObjectQLStrategy } from '../strategies/objectql-strategy.js';
+
+interface Refusal extends Error {
+  code?: unknown;
+  status?: unknown;
+}
+
+function refusalOf(scope: unknown): Refusal {
+  try {
+    const out = compileScopedFilterToSql(scope as FilterCondition, 't');
+    throw new Error(`expected a refusal, but the scope compiled to ${JSON.stringify(out)}`);
+  } catch (e) {
+    return e as Refusal;
+  }
+}
+
+function expectEnvelope(err: Refusal): void {
+  expect(err.code).toBe('READ_SCOPE_COMPILE_FAILED');
+  expect(err.status).toBe(500);
+}
+
+// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+describe('[#19975] a list under $eq is refused, never bound', () => {
+  const CASES: Array<[string, unknown]> = [
+    ['two members', { status: { $eq: ['open', 'pending'] } }],
+    ['one member', { status: { $eq: ['open'] } }],
+    ['the empty list', { status: { $eq: [] } }],
+    ['beside another operator, listed first', { status: { $eq: ['open'], $ne: 'closed' } }],
+    ['beside another operator, listed last', { status: { $ne: 'closed', $eq: ['open'] } }],
+    ['under $and', { $and: [{ team_id: 't1' }, { status: { $eq: ['open'] } }] }],
+    ['under $or', { $or: [{ team_id: 't1' }, { status: { $eq: ['open'] } }] }],
+    // The widening direction: a negated equality that can never hold is
+    // constant TRUE, so this is the spelling that used to admit every row.
+    ['under $not', { $not: { status: { $eq: ['open'] } } }],
+    ['under $not over $or', { $not: { $or: [{ team_id: 't1' }, { status: { $eq: ['open'] } }] } }],
+  ];
+
+  for (const [name, scope] of CASES) {
+    it(`${name}: READ_SCOPE_COMPILE_FAILED / 500, naming the field and $eq`, () => {
+      const err = refusalOf(scope);
+      expectEnvelope(err);
+      expect(err.message).toContain('"status".$eq');
+    });
+  }
+
+  it('a list is diagnosed as the list, not by one of its members', () => {
+    // The member gates (#6125's undefined comparand, #7598's field reference)
+    // would otherwise answer first and send the operator to the wrong repair.
+    for (const scope of [
+      { status: { $eq: [undefined] } },
+      { status: { $eq: [{ $field: 'prior_status' }] } },
+    ]) {
+      const err = refusalOf(scope);
+      expectEnvelope(err);
+      expect(err.message).toContain('"status".$eq');
+      expect(err.message).not.toMatch(/is undefined|field reference/);
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+describe('[#19975] the implicit spelling — what a CEL `field == <list>` lowers to — stays refused at every depth', () => {
+  const CASES: Array<[string, unknown]> = [
+    ['top level', { status: ['open', 'pending'] }],
+    ['the empty list', { status: [] }],
+    ['under $and', { $and: [{ team_id: 't1' }, { status: ['open'] }] }],
+    ['under $or', { $or: [{ team_id: 't1' }, { status: ['open'] }] }],
+    ['under $not', { $not: { status: ['open'] } }],
+  ];
+
+  for (const [name, scope] of CASES) {
+    it(`${name}: READ_SCOPE_COMPILE_FAILED / 500, as a bare array`, () => {
+      const err = refusalOf(scope);
+      expectEnvelope(err);
+      expect(err.message).toContain('bare array value for "status"');
+    });
+  }
+});
+
+describe('[#19975] the neighbouring shapes keep compiling exactly as before', () => {
+  const ACCEPTED: Array<[string, unknown, string, unknown[]]> = [
+    ['a scalar under $eq', { status: { $eq: 'open' } }, '"t"."status" = ?', ['open']],
+    ['a number under $eq', { amount: { $eq: 0 } }, '"t"."amount" = ?', [0]],
+    ['null under $eq — the has-no-value predicate', { status: { $eq: null } }, '"t"."status" IS NULL', []],
+    ['the implicit scalar', { status: 'open' }, '"t"."status" = ?', ['open']],
+    ['a list under $in — the prescribed spelling', { status: { $in: ['open', 'pending'] } }, '"t"."status" IN (?, ?)', ['open', 'pending']],
+    ['the empty $in — the FALSE constant (#5243)', { status: { $in: [] } }, '1 = 0', []],
+  ];
+
+  for (const [name, scope, sql, params] of ACCEPTED) {
+    it(name, () => {
+      const out = compileScopedFilterToSql(scope as FilterCondition, 't');
+      expect(out.sql).toBe(sql);
+      expect(out.params).toEqual(params);
+    });
+  }
+
+  it('a Date under $eq still binds', () => {
+    const at = new Date('2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z');
+    const out = compileScopedFilterToSql({ created_at: { $eq: at } } as FilterCondition, 't');
+    expect(out.sql).toBe('"t"."created_at" = ?');
+    expect(out.params).toEqual([at]);
+  });
+});
+
+// ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+const OBJECT = 'ticket';
+const ROWS = [
+  { id: 'r1', status: 'open' },
+  { id: 'r2', status: 'pending' },
+  { id: 'r3', status: 'closed' },
+  { id: 'r4', status: null },
+];
+const CUBE: Cube = {
+  name: 'tickets',
+  sql: OBJECT,
+  measures: { n: { sql: '*', type: 'count', title: 'n' } },
+  dimensions: Object.fromEntries(
+    ['id', 'status'].map((n) => [n, { name: n, label: n, type: 'string', sql: n }]),
+  ),
+  public: false,
+} as unknown as Cube;
+const QUERY = { cube: 'tickets', dimensions: ['id'], measures: ['n'] } as AnalyticsQuery;
+
+describe('[#19975] both faces that reach the compiler refuse before any statement runs (real engine)', () => {
+  let driver: SqliteWasmDriver;
+  let statements = 0;
+
+  const runRawSql = async (sql: string, params: unknown[]): Promise<Record<string, unknown>[]> => {
+    statements++;
+    const result = await driver.execute(sql.replace(/\$\d+/g, '?'), params);
+    if (Array.isArray(result)) return result as Record<string, unknown>[];
+    if (result && typeof result === 'object' && 'rows' in (result as Record<string, unknown>)) {
+      return (result as { rows: Record<string, unknown>[] }).rows;
+    }
+    return [];
+  };
+
+  const ctxFor = (scope: unknown, nativeSql: boolean): StrategyContext =>
+    ({
+      getCube: (name: string) => (name === 'tickets' ? CUBE : undefined),
+      queryCapabilities: () => ({ nativeSql, objectqlAggregate: !nativeSql, inMemory: false }),
+      getReadScope: () => (scope ?? undefined) as FilterCondition | undefined,
+      executeRawSql: (_object: string, sql: string, params: unknown[]) => runRawSql(sql, params),
+      sqlDialect: () => 'sqlite',
+    }) as unknown as StrategyContext;
+
+  /** NativeSQL EXECUTE: `applyReadScope` → `ctx.executeRawSql`. */
+  const nativeIds = async (scope: unknown): Promise<string[]> => {
+    const result = await new NativeSQLStrategy().execute(QUERY, ctxFor(scope, true));
+    return result.rows.map((r) => String(r.id)).sort();
+  };
+
+  /** The `/analytics/sql` echo, its SQL then run on the same engine. */
+  const echoIds = async (scope: unknown): Promise<string[]> => {
+    const { sql, params } = await new ObjectQLStrategy().generateSql(QUERY, ctxFor(scope, false));
+    const rows = await runRawSql(sql, params);
+    return rows.map((r) => String(r.id)).sort();
+  };
+
+  const FACES = [
+    ['native execute', nativeIds],
+    ['echo', echoIds],
+  ] as const;
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    driver = new SqliteWasmDriver({ filename: ':memory:' });
+    await driver.initObjects([
+      {
+        name: OBJECT,
+        fields: { id: { type: 'text', name: 'id' }, status: { type: 'text', name: 'status' } },
+      } as never,
+    ]);
+    for (const row of ROWS) await driver.create(OBJECT, { ...row });
+  });
+
+  afterAll(async () => {
+    await driver?.disconnect?.();
+  });
+
+  it('CONTROL: no scope serves every row, and the prescribed $in serves exactly the named rows', async () => {
+    // Without this, the refusals below could pass on a harness that serves nothing.
+    for (const [face, run] of FACES) {
+      expect(await run(null), `${face}: no scope`).toEqual(['r1', 'r2', 'r3', 'r4']);
+      expect(await run({ status: { $in: ['open', 'pending'] } }), `${face}: $in`).toEqual(['r1', 'r2']);
+    }
+  });
+
+  for (const [name, scope] of [
+    ['a list under $eq', { status: { $eq: ['open', 'pending'] } }],
+    ['a list under $eq, negated', { $not: { status: { $eq: ['open'] } } }],
+    ['the implicit list', { status: ['open', 'pending'] }],
+  ] as const) {
+    for (const [face, run] of FACES) {
+      it(`${face}: ${name} is refused, and no statement reaches the engine`, async () => {
+        statements = 0;
+        let err: Refusal | undefined;
+        let served: string[] | undefined;
+        try {
+          served = await run(scope);
+        } catch (e) {
+          err = e as Refusal;
+        }
+        expect(served, `${face}: expected a refusal, got rows`).toBeUndefined();
+        expect(err).toBeInstanceOf(Error);
+        expectEnvelope(err as Refusal);
+        expect(statements).toBe(0);
+      });
+    }
+  }
+});
@@ -91,9 +91,10 @@ function refusalFor(filter: unknown, alias = 'crm_opportunity'): Refusal | undef
 }
 
 /**
- * Every refusing site in `read-scope-sql.ts`, in source order.
+ * Every refusing site in `read-scope-sql.ts`, in source order — except row ⑯,
+ * appended when it was added (its row says where it runs).
  *
- * FIFTEEN rows over THIRTEEN throw sites: TWO sites are each reached by two
+ * SIXTEEN rows over FOURTEEN throw sites: TWO sites are each reached by two
  * triggers, and every trigger is listed on purpose.
  *
  *   - `quoteIdent`, with two `kind` values. That alias-vs-field split was option
@@ -233,6 +234,18 @@ const REFUSALS: Array<{
     message: /unsupported operator "\$regex" on "owner_email" \(fail-closed\)/,
     sensitive: 'owner_email',
   },
+  {
+    // [#19975] Ruling 乙 (#19757) pushed down to this compiler: the explicit
+    // spelling of the equality slot, whose implicit spelling is row ⑨. Listed
+    // last because it was added last; in `compileField` it runs FIRST, ahead
+    // of row ⑥, so a list under `$eq` is diagnosed as the list and never by
+    // one of its members.
+    name: '⑯ a list under $eq',
+    site: 'compileField: list in the equality slot',
+    filter: { region_code: { $eq: ['emea', 'apac'] } },
+    message: /array value for "region_code"\.\$eq — an equality compares one value, so a list is refused rather than bound; use \{ \$in: \[\.\.\.\] \} \(fail-closed\)/,
+    sensitive: 'region_code',
+  },
 ];
 
 /**
@@ -323,14 +336,15 @@ describe('[#5367] every read-scope refusal carries the ADR-0112 envelope (READ_S
     // #5352's lesson, stated as a guard: seven of `filter-normalizer.ts`'s nine
     // sites carrying an envelope was indistinguishable from none of them at the
     // HTTP boundary, because the commonest input hit one of the two bare ones.
-    // Fifteen inputs over the module's THIRTEEN throw sites (see the table's
+    // Sixteen inputs over the module's FOURTEEN throw sites (see the table's
     // note on the two sites with two triggers each), and every one of them
-    // enveloped. [#6125] added the eleventh site, [#6387] the twelfth, and
-    // [#13571] the thirteenth (the empty-`$nin` refusal); these two numbers
-    // are the ratchet that makes a future unenveloped `throw` fail HERE instead
-    // of at an HTTP boundary.
-    expect(REFUSALS).toHaveLength(15);
-    expect(new Set(REFUSALS.map((c) => c.site)).size).toBe(13);
+    // enveloped. [#6125] added the eleventh site, [#6387] the twelfth,
+    // [#13571] the thirteenth (the empty-`$nin` refusal) and [#19975] the
+    // fourteenth (a list under `$eq`); these two numbers are the ratchet that
+    // makes a future unenveloped `throw` fail HERE instead of at an HTTP
+    // boundary.
+    expect(REFUSALS).toHaveLength(16);
+    expect(new Set(REFUSALS.map((c) => c.site)).size).toBe(14);
     for (const c of REFUSALS) {
       expect(refusalFor(c.filter, c.alias)?.code, `${c.site} is still bare`).toBe('READ_SCOPE_COMPILE_FAILED');
     }