[finding] a connector_action flow node with no connectorConfig passes all three build doors and fails every run

Filing-gate category: ① a product defect with a measured reach. Reader: triage first (grade and route; the landing site is packages/spec/src/automation/flow.zod.ts), then the seat that dispatches it. Filed by domain:spec seat 2 (session_01QcAS3qiYYZNezaxZxaUdMV), from the #20316 dev's report and the at-tier review of PR #20416. ⛔ Not graded here, ⛔ not a claim.

Measured

reach: the public door, measured on origin/main a88a1bb399. A flow with a connector_action node that carries no connectorConfig:

objectstack validate --json answers valid: true and exits 0;
registerFlow registers it;
every run fails at the node with connector_action n: connectorConfig.connectorId and .actionId are required.

So the build doors admit a node that the runtime refuses every time. It is the same family as #20316 (node config the build doors admit and the runtime refuses). It sits outside #20316's census by definition, because connectorConfig is a sibling block on the flow node rather than a parseNodeConfig config key. The at-tier review measured the precedent: wait's sibling waitEventConfig is already required by FlowSchema (custom issue at nodes.1.waitEventConfig).

Direction (for triage to grade)

Require connectorConfig (with connectorId and actionId) on a connectorAction node at FlowSchema, the same way waitEventConfig is required for wait.
registerFlow and os validate then meet the refusal through their parse, as PR fix(spec)!: refuse a flow node config its executor cannot run — a required key left out, or a decision branch list it cannot read — at all three doors (#20316) #20416's refusals do.
Measure the producers first: examples, packages, cloud, and objectui's flow designer, which seeds unconfigured nodes through defaultNodeExtras.
Rider, same code table (from PR fix(spec)!: refuse a flow node config its executor cannot run — a required key left out, or a decision branch list it cannot read — at all three doors (#20316) #20416's review, non-blocking there): the node-config-key-missing message in FLOW_SLOT_REFUSAL_CODES says "so the flow registers, and then every run … fails there". That is present tense, at a door that now refuses the flow. Change it to "used to register" in the PR that touches this table next.

Dedupe

The local filter connectorConfig|connector_action over title and body gave 0 hits across 193 open and the 100 most recently updated closed objectstack issues. The nearest card is #20316 (its family, scoped to parseNodeConfig keys; closes with PR #20416).

_{domain:spec seat 2 · finding · 2026-09-28}

Path: approvals and automation | 缺项 (no item saves a connector_action node without its connectorConfig; automation.connector-dispatch-matrix configures the node before it runs) | P2

Triage: first grade — `bug` · `priority:p2` · `domain:spec` · `area:workflow` · `pm:queue` (`finding` removed)

Triage: lands at FlowSchema in packages/spec/src/automation/flow.zod.ts, next to the wait / waitEventConfig requirement at :374-385 on origin/main 24b70859 ⇒ domain:spec.

Rationale:

What goes wrong. The build doors answer "valid", while the runtime refuses every run:
- objectstack validate --json returns valid: true;
- registerFlow registers the flow;
- every run fails at the node.
p2. This is the family of [finding] a decision branch with no label registers and validates clean, then at run time the decision takes EVERY out-edge; a non-object conditions element also registers #20316 (graded p2, closed by PR fix(spec)!: refuse a flow node config its executor cannot run — a required key left out, or a decision branch list it cannot read — at all three doors (#20316) #20416, merged 2026-09-28T10:46Z) and of the [finding] A decision branch with no expression key registers and validates clean, although DecisionConditionSchema declares it required and the executor throws on the source-less envelope #19961 grade.
Outside [finding] a decision branch with no label registers and validates clean, then at run time the decision takes EVERY out-edge; a non-object conditions element also registers #20316's census by definition. connectorConfig is a sibling block on the node, not a parseNodeConfig key.

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-09-28T11:08Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Direction, as filed.

Require the block at FlowSchema. Require connectorConfig with connectorId and actionId on a connector_action node, the way waitEventConfig is required for wait. registerFlow and os validate then refuse it through their parse.
Measure the producers first:
- examples, packages and cloud;
- objectui's flow designer, which seeds unconfigured nodes through defaultNodeExtras.
If the designer saves a draft with an unconfigured connector node, the refusal would stop that save. Report that finding before tightening. ⛔ Don't paper over it.
Rider, same code table. The node-config-key-missing text in FLOW_SLOT_REFUSAL_CODES still says the flow "registers". Now that PR fix(spec)!: refuse a flow node config its executor cannot run — a required key left out, or a decision branch list it cannot read — at all three doors (#20316) #20416 refuses at that door, change it to past tense in this PR.

Duplicate check. A local corpus of 3,418 issues matched connectorConfig|connector_action|connectorAction 7 times. The only open product hit is #20287 (p3, connector triggers and outputSchema reaching the designer). It is a different mechanism, but it is the same area, so check it at claim time for a file overlap.

Claim: PM loop round 1
Session: session_014EJ1ED8X4MMrT18BhVx4tx
Account: os-tesla (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/issue-20418-connector-action-config-required
Worktree: objectstack-issue-20418
Domain: domain:spec
Seat: domain:spec#2 (seat post #18549)
File surface: packages/spec/src/automation/flow.zod.ts (a connector_action node with no connectorConfig is refused beside the wait / boundary_event block requirement in requireTypeScopedConfig); packages/spec/src/automation/flow-node-config-refusals.ts (the rider: the node-config-key-missing text's tense) and the pins that quote it; the flow tests; the ADR-0087 D3 entry this narrowing owes (packages/spec/src/migrations/entries/semantic/ plus the step-18 tails of packages/spec/src/migrations/registry.ts); regenerated artefacts; .changeset/20418-*.md. In-repo producers that author the refused shape are fixed at the producer in the same PR. objectui's flow designer is measured and reported, not edited. (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: opus (dispatch-gates --tier at e01d347305: no path-derived mandate; clause-② suspect surface packages/spec/src/**). Built at the default tier; the at-tier contract review is owed before enqueue.
Clause-②: no
Thread-read: 5868663574
Serial constraints cleared: read at 2026-09-28T11:50Z against origin/main e01d347305. No open PR and no live Claim: names packages/spec/src/automation/**; PR #20401 touches only the generated content/docs/references/automation/*.mdx (merge=os-regen). The step-18 tails of migrations/registry.ts are also appended by open PRs #20357 (#20301) and #20427 (#20355), and by in-flight #20300 and #20390: ordinary concurrency, every base merge through bash scripts/pm/os-regen-merge.sh. #20287 (same area, pm:queue, not in flight) was read for overlap: none today.

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    "File surface beyond the claim's listed landing site, two items. (1) packages/spec/src/conversions/registry.ts: comment-only. The flow-node-connector-config-lift guard comment said an incomplete pair keeps failing at run time rather than fails to load, which this change makes false. (2) Two service-automation test files: flips of fixtures that registered the now-refused shape (consumer tests, not producers).",
    "Bounded in-place fix in flow.zod.ts: FlowSchema's @example also had an update_record with no objectName, already refused since #20416. It was fixed in the same literal as the connector node (same family, mechanical, file in claim, no new gate); the corrected literal parses success=true.",
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    "carrier: 承接者:无 · noted in the PR's Acceptance notes, not filed. lint validateStackExpressions carries flowNodeConfigRefusals for a stack handed to it with no parse in front, but has no copy of the connector_action block rule. The wait / boundary_event block rule has none either, and every named door parses first.",
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    "carrier: 承接者:无 · noted, not filed. packages/lint/src/lint-flow-patterns.test.ts:2077 uses connector_action with config: { connectorId: 'c', action: 'a' }, which is off-spec (no block, 'action' rather than actionId). It is a lint-pattern fixture that never meets FlowSchema; the lint suite is green."
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REWORK round 1 — PR #20453 at head 992656cea5 · domain:spec seat 2 (session_014EJ1ED8X4MMrT18BhVx4tx) · 2026-09-28T13:43Z

The seat reviewed the dev report 5871041819 against GitHub and the diff, not against the report's prose. Everything below stands, except one must-fix item.

Must fix (sent to the same dev, same claim and branch):

content/docs/automation/flows.mdx:142 documents connectorConfig as optional "for a connector_action node". This PR makes it required on that node type: absence and blank ids are both refused. A published text the change falsifies is fixed in the same PR, not noted. The dev's out_of_scope_findings[2] had it as "noted, not filed".
The same table's waitEventConfig row (~:146) has the same defect class: a node-type-required block documented as optional (FlowSchema refuses a block-less wait). It is corrected in the same round as a bounded in-place fix: same class, mechanical, no other claim on the file, same gate family.

Checked and standing:

PR shape: draft, base main, first line Fixes #20418 (the card is not in the decision box), the body's Clause-②: no line at line start, assignee os-tesla. The closing-keyword scan finds only #20418.
Route deviation, accepted: the rule lives in the FlowSchema superRefine walk (collectFlowGraphs), not in requireTypeScopedConfig. The dev measured that a node-level refusal leaves a region-nested node admitted (control: a block-less boundary_event in a loop body parses success: true). The seat read the diff: the refusal texts carry prescriptions and no tracker number, and the blank rule reuses NON_BLANK_STRING, the rule fix(spec)!: refuse a flow node config its executor cannot run — a required key left out, or a decision branch list it cannot read — at all three doors (#20316) #20416 applies to decision labels.
File surface amended (declared by the dev, adopted here): packages/spec/src/conversions/registry.ts (comment only: the lift conversion's guard sentence this change falsifies); packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/connector-nodes.test.ts and src/guard-refusal-inventory.test.ts (consumer fixtures that registered the refused shape, flipped); and the FlowSchema @example in-place fix (an update_record with no objectName, refused since fix(spec)!: refuse a flow node config its executor cannot run — a required key left out, or a decision branch list it cannot read — at all three doors (#20316) #20416). With round 1, content/docs/automation/flows.mdx joins.
Evidence: before and after at all three doors (absent, blank, nested), one ablation with a byte-proven restore, and full suites for spec, service-automation, lint, four connectors, example-showcase and dogfood. dispatch-gates: 90 derived, 90 run, all exit 0. CI at 992656cea5 was in progress at this stamp; the seat reads it on the round-1 head.
Contract review (owed before enqueue): the at-tier reviewer could not run. The CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER model answered HTTP 429 (usage limit). ⛔ No lower-tier review is substituted for it. The PR stays draft, and the at-tier review is retried on the round-1 head.

Finding dispositions (one line each):

[0] objectui designer seed connectorConfig: { connectorId: '', actionId: '' } refused at save after the bump → folds into objectui#10948 (the family's carrier: seeded nodes that become save errors), noted there at ACCEPT.
[1] lint validateStackExpressions has no copy of the block rule (every named door parses first) → PR Acceptance notes.
[2] flows.mdx optional rows → fixed in this PR (round 1 above), not noted.
[3] the lint-flow-patterns.test.ts:2077 off-spec fixture that never meets FlowSchema → dropped: a test-only fixture outside the three filing classes, and the lint suite is green.

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  "tests": "Round 1 at head c23d0a3211 (the only change since 992656cea5 is content/docs/automation/flows.mdx).\nEvidence for the three rows, FlowSchema.safeParse on spec src (tsx):\n- connector_action with no block → custom at nodes.1.connectorConfig; with blank ids → custom at .connectorId and .actionId; complete → success.\n- wait with no block → custom at nodes.1.waitEventConfig; timer with no timerDuration → custom at nodes.1.waitEventConfig.timerDuration; timerDuration 60000 (a number) → invalid_type; '60000' and 'PT1H' → success.\n- boundary_event with no block → custom at nodes.1.boundaryConfig; complete → success.\nMDX: the page compiles with @mdx-js/mdx 3.1.1 + remark-gfm 4.0.1 and renders the three \"✅ on \" cells; the new rows hold no bare braces or angle brackets outside code spans.\nMergeability: a driver-free probe (a bare --shared clone with no os-regen driver) ran merge-tree --write-tree origin/main 7fa3e3e07c against c23d0a3211 and exited 0 with tree fbd3b978. That tree's packages/spec/src/migrations/registry.ts passes build-migration-registry --check (309 semantic, holding both this entry and main's list-view-tabs-retired), so no merge was made. A first attempt at that check ran on the wrong tree (commit-tree could not see the probe clone's objects, so the worktree fell back to my own head); that reading was discarded, and the check was redone on an archive of the real merge tree. Round 0 test readings stand: Before, on origin/main e4d3f2ca, by probe (spec dist; registerFlow with installBuiltinNodes then execute; the built CLI validate --json):\n- no block, designer-seed blank ids, and nested-in-loop no block: door1 success=true, door2 registered, door3 valid:true exit 0; every run success=false with 'connector_action 'call': connectorConfig.connectorId and .actionId are required'.\n- whitespace ids: admitted, run fails 'no handler for ' . ''.\n- controls: success.\nAfter, by the same probes:\n- door1: custom at nodes.1.connectorConfig, or .connectorId / .actionId, or nodes.1.config.body.nodes.0.connectorConfig.\n- door2: throws ZodError with the same issues.\n- door3: valid:false, exit 1, custom at flows.0.nodes.1.connectorConfig (and the nested and blank paths).\n- controls: success / registered and run success=true / valid:true exit 0.\n- pre-conversion config.{connectorId,actionId}: door1 refused, door2 registers (the D2 lift).\nAt final head 992656cea5:\n- spec, targeted on src/automation src/conversions src/migrations: 39 files, 1484 passed.\n- service-automation, targeted on connector-nodes, guard-refusal-inventory, run-summary, node-config-required-keys, connector-materialization and engine: 6 files, 324 passed.\n- eslint --no-inline-config --format json over the 10 changed .ts files: 10 reported, 0 errors, 0 warnings. The population is eslint.config.mjs's **/*.{ts,...} minus NEVER_LINTED; the config never enables type-aware linting, so the verdicts of untouched files cannot move.\nFull suites at the pre-merge heads (the merge touched none of these packages):\n- spec vitest --project local: 565 files, 16651 passed, 1 todo. spec typecheck: exit 0.\n- service-automation: 149 files, 1837 passed. typecheck: exit 0.\n- lint: 115 files, 5331 passed.\n- connector-slack 3/10, connector-rest 4/26, connector-mcp 3/23, connector-openapi 4/36 (files/tests), all passed.\n- example-showcase: 29 files, 385 passed. The first attempt failed to resolve an unbuilt connector-slack dist (not a reading); rerun after building the closure.\n- dogfood showcase-declarative-mcp: 2 passed.\n- spec check:generated: 15/15 up to date.\nAblation, one-shot, via scripts/ablation-replace.mjs on the committed tree with a trap restore:\n- The walk's connectorActionConfigRefusals(node) became (null): anchor 1 to 0, replacement 0 to 1, blob bae1a5cc to 20017fad.\n- connector-action-config-required.test.ts then read 7 failed, 4 passed: every refused row red, the controls green.\n- Restored: blob equals HEAD bae1a5cc, and git diff HEAD is empty.\nNo dist leg is needed: the spec test imports src.",
  "mcp_calls": "0",
  "api_writes": "Round 1: 1 relay stroke, the new os-dev-report comment, POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/20418/comments via POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches (fleet-write.yml as objectstack-fleet[bot]). 1 git push (c23d0a3211). The PR body is untouched. Round 0: 3 relay strokes, each one POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches executed by fleet-write.yml as objectstack-fleet[bot]:\n(1) pr_create → POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls (#20453, draft; run 36429753675).\n(2) label-write assign → POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/20453/assignees, os-tesla (run 36429882914). No label was named by the dispatch, so zero labels were written; size/l, documentation, tests and tooling came from the path labeler.\n(3) this report → POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/20418/comments.\nNot REST: 5 git pushes (the empty-branch probe, 3 commits, the main merge).",
  "gates": "Round 1 at c23d0a3211: dispatch-gates --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack --commands derived 112 commands, the round-0 90 plus 22 for the docs path. All 112 were run, each exit captured before any pipe, and all exit 0; --ran with recorded codes reports 112 derived, 112 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED (derived zero). The named gates: node scripts/docs-audit/check-affected-docs.mjs exit 0; pnpm check:doc-authoring exit 0 (16566 strings clean, sibling prose ids at baseline); check-issue-citations exit 0 (3 resolve); pnpm check:nul-bytes exit 0 (9960 files). The 22 docs-path additions, all exit 0: check-doc-frontmatter, check-doc-route-spelling --advisory, check-docs-section-name, check-section-landing-index (each with --self-test), lint check:doc-security-posture, spec check:skill-examples, check:corpus-claim-drift, check:doc-anchors, check:docs-audit-scope, check:docs-redirects, check:docs-single-h1, check:docs-spec-enumerations, check:docs-transcript-drift, check:published-readme-links, check:react-page-adapter-contract, check:role-word, check:skill-identifier-liveness, check:vendor-version-stamps. Builds were replayed from the turbo cache before the run (72 tasks, 71 cached), so the dist-reading gates read a current dist. Outside the derived total and left to CI: the docs-site build and check-links.yml (lychee); the edit adds no link. Round 0: At 992656cea5, node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack --commands derived 90 commands. All 90 were run, each exit captured before any pipe, and all exit 0. check:dual-build-cjs-loads and check:type-check-debt first answered PREREQUISITE NOT MET (exit 3, 9 unbuilt packages); they exited 0 after those were built. --ran with recorded codes: 90 derived, 90 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED (derived zero). Named families all green: check:authorable-surface, check:docs, check:api-surface, check:liveness, check:strictness-ledger, check:migration-registry, check:spec-changes, check:upgrade-guide, check:adr-0087-registration ([BREAKING+bang+clause-②-narrowing] registered connector-action-config-required), check-changeset-no-major, check:doc-authoring, check:issue-citations (3 resolve), check:nul-bytes. The first derivation at c81e639dbd printed STALE TREE (main 6 commits ahead, 4 derivation files changed), so main was merged through os-regen-merge.sh (no spec, service-automation or lint overlap) and the list re-derived: the same 90.",
  "line_budget": "542 changed lines (+514 / -28) over 12 files vs origin/main merge base 0fcb10184c; round 1 adds 3 / removes 3 in one file. Under the 5000 threshold; no governed surface.",
  "files_changed": [
    ".changeset/20418-connector-action-config-required.md",
    "packages/spec/src/automation/flow.zod.ts",
    "packages/spec/src/automation/flow-node-config-refusals.ts",
    "packages/spec/src/automation/connector-action-config-required.test.ts",
    "packages/spec/src/automation/flow-slot-refusal-codes.test.ts",
    "packages/spec/src/automation/flow.test.ts",
    "packages/spec/src/conversions/registry.ts",
    "packages/spec/src/migrations/entries/semantic/18.connector-action-config-required.ts",
    "packages/spec/src/migrations/registry.ts",
    "packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/connector-nodes.test.ts",
    "packages/services/service-automation/src/guard-refusal-inventory.test.ts",
    "content/docs/automation/flows.mdx"
  ],
  "deviations": [
    "Round 1: the boundaryConfig row is corrected too, one row past the two the rework named. It is the same defect class (a node-type-required block documented as optional) in the same table, and FlowSchema refuses a block-less boundary_event (custom at nodes.1.boundaryConfig). Left alone, it would have been the table's one remaining \"optional\" among the three sibling blocks. Please name it in the seat's PR-body line with the other two.",
    "Round 1: in the waitEventConfig row, \"`timerDuration` accepts a bare number as milliseconds\" was false, and it sat in the row being rewritten. It now says timerDuration is a string and a quoted bare number is read as ms. Measured: timerDuration 60000 is invalid_type; '60000' parses.",
    "Round 1: the pre-existing \"(#4158)\" in the waitEventConfig row is kept verbatim. The new prose carries no tracker number.",
    "Round 1: no merge of origin/main; the driver-free probe says the head is mergeable. Worktree recreated on the existing local branch (the git worktree add --track -b spelling was refused because the branch name already existed locally at the same sha 992656cea5), then removed again after the push.",
    "Route: the rule runs in the FlowSchema superRefine's collectFlowGraphs walk, not in requireTypeScopedConfig as ③ suggested. Measured reason: a node-level refusal leaves a region-nested node admitted at all three doors (boundary_event control: nested success=true). Side effect, pinned by a test: FlowNodeSchema alone still parses the designer seed.",
    "File surface beyond the claim's listed landing site, two items. (1) packages/spec/src/conversions/registry.ts: comment-only. The flow-node-connector-config-lift guard comment said an incomplete pair keeps failing at run time rather than fails to load, which this change makes false. (2) Two service-automation test files: flips of fixtures that registered the now-refused shape (consumer tests, not producers).",
    "Bounded in-place fix in flow.zod.ts: FlowSchema's @example also had an update_record with no objectName, already refused since #20416. It was fixed in the same literal as the connector node (same family, mechanical, file in claim, no new gate); the corrected literal parses success=true.",
    "Clause-② line: the PR body carries the claim's line verbatim ('Clause-②: no'). The changeset carries 'Clause-②: no (narrowing)' per the dispatch, where check:adr-0087-registration reads the arm. Same value, arm only in the changeset.",
    "Commit trailers: the harness reminder asked for a model-named Co-Authored-By. Every pushed commit uses the model-free pair per AGENTS.md; the first local commit was amended before any push.",
    "Door 3 (CLI) was probed for 4 shapes (absent, complete, blank ids, nested absent). The actionId-only, whitespace, nested-control and pre-conversion rows were measured at doors 1 and 2 only.",
    "Not measured: objectui at the .objectui-sha pin f8a9d0fb (object absent from this container's shallow clone; measured at objectui origin/main 328abeb and b120b66 instead); cloud (no checkout)."
  ],
  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "carrier: objectui#10948 (the family's carrier, per dispatch) · class: b · reach: named producer. objectui defaultNodeExtras('connector_action') (packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/previews/flow-canvas-parts.tsx:397 at objectui origin/main 328abeb and b120b66) seeds connectorConfig { connectorId: '', actionId: '', input: {} }. Once objectui takes this spec, a connector node added and saved before it is configured is refused at save: the server registerFlow door, and the designer's live FlowSchema pass (clientValidation.ts:681) at nodes.N.connectorConfig.connectorId / .actionId. objectui's seed ratchet (FlowNodeSchema.safeParse per seed) stays green by construction. Seam: spec:FlowSchema connectorActionConfigRefusals → renderer:FlowCanvas defaultNodeExtras. Same posture #20416 took for the http / notify seeds; fold into the carrier, no single-point card. Dedupe words: defaultNodeExtras connector_action seed; connectorConfig blank connectorId designer; flow designer unconfigured connector node save refused.",
    "carrier: 承接者:无 · noted in the PR's Acceptance notes, not filed. lint validateStackExpressions carries flowNodeConfigRefusals for a stack handed to it with no parse in front, but has no copy of the connector_action block rule. The wait / boundary_event block rule has none either, and every named door parses first.",
    "carrier: 承接者:无 · noted, not filed. packages/lint/src/lint-flow-patterns.test.ts:2077 uses connector_action with config: { connectorId: 'c', action: 'a' }, which is off-spec (no block, 'action' rather than actionId). It is a lint-pattern fixture that never meets FlowSchema; the lint suite is green."
  ],
  "round_1": {
    "head": "c23d0a32119f795ef7c1344981d542bb0c5f66c2",
    "previous_head": "992656cea5ceaa72eddae7a73747d40e29702daa",
    "rows": [
      {
        "key": "connectorConfig",
        "before": "| `connectorConfig` | `object` | optional | `{ connectorId, actionId, input }` for a `connector_action` node |",
        "after": "| `connectorConfig` | `object` | ✅ on `connector_action` | `{ connectorId, actionId, input }` — the only input a `connector_action` node's executor reads. `FlowSchema` refuses a `connector_action` node without it, and one whose `connectorId` or `actionId` is blank (empty or whitespace only), at any depth including a region body. `connectorId` is the registered connector's `name`, `actionId` one of the action keys it declares; `input` is optional |"
      },
      {
        "key": "waitEventConfig",
        "before": "| `waitEventConfig` | `object` | optional | `wait`-node event descriptor (`eventType`, `timerDuration`, `signalName`). `timeoutMs` / `onTimeout` were removed in 17 (#4158) — `wait` has no timeout; `timerDuration` accepts a bare number as milliseconds |",
        "after": "| `waitEventConfig` | `object` | ✅ on `wait` | `wait`-node event descriptor (`eventType`, `timerDuration`, `signalName`). `FlowSchema` refuses a `wait` node without it; `eventType` has no default, and `eventType: 'timer'` requires a non-blank `timerDuration`. `timeoutMs` / `onTimeout` were removed in 17 (#4158) — `wait` has no timeout; `timerDuration` is a string, and a quoted bare number (`'60000'`) is read as milliseconds |"
      },
      {
        "key": "boundaryConfig",
        "before": "| `boundaryConfig` | `object` | optional | BPMN boundary-event descriptor (interop) |",
        "after": "| `boundaryConfig` | `object` | ✅ on `boundary_event` | BPMN boundary-event descriptor (interop). `FlowSchema` refuses a `boundary_event` node without it |"
      }
    ]
  }
}

ACCEPT (after REWORK round 1) — PR #20453 at head c23d0a3211 · domain:spec seat 2 (session_014EJ1ED8X4MMrT18BhVx4tx) · 2026-09-28T14:11Z

Round 1 (dev report 5871627766) closes the one must-fix item. The seat read the delta: git diff 992656cea5 c23d0a3211 touches exactly one file, content/docs/automation/flows.mdx, with 3 rows changed.

connectorConfig: ✅ on connector_action, stating the absent-block and blank-id refusals at any depth.
waitEventConfig: ✅ on wait, with no eventType default; timer needs a non-blank timerDuration. The row's false "timerDuration accepts a bare number" is corrected: a number is invalid_type and a quoted numeric string is read as milliseconds, measured by the dev.
boundaryConfig: ✅ on boundary_event. This is one row past the two named in round 1, but it is the same class in the same table, and the seat adopts it as part of the bounded in-place fix.
Each new row states a refusal the dev measured with FlowSchema.safeParse, and the new prose carries no tracker number (the pre-existing (#4158) is kept verbatim). dispatch-gates at the new head: 112 derived, 112 run, all exit 0.

CI at c23d0a3211: 35 check runs, 33 success and 2 skipped, with no failure. The earlier reds on 992656cea5 were that run's shards and lanes being cancelled by the round-1 push; they were superseded, not failures.

The review of record 5871117099 (round 0) stands for everything else: route, file-surface amendment, evidence, and the finding dispositions [1] and [3]. Disposition [2] is now fixed in this PR. Disposition [0] (the objectui designer seed with blank ids) is folded into objectui#10948 in this act.

Landing waits on one thing: the at-tier contract review (Clause-② path limb: packages/spec/src/**). CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER answered HTTP 429 twice this round. ⛔ No lower-tier record substitutes. The PR stays draft, and the seat retries at each wake. Landing then also needs check-expected-skips OK on the head.

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Landing record — PR #20453 MERGED · domain:spec seat 2 (session_014EJ1ED8X4MMrT18BhVx4tx) · 2026-09-28T14:59Z

Merged through the merge queue at 2026-09-28T14:58Z as 2304b16086, on the at-tier PASS 5872108783 at c23d0a3211 (review chain: REWORK 5871117099 → ACCEPT 5871673454 → at-tier PASS). Fixes #20418 closed this card as completed; pm:dispatched is removed in this act (domain, area and type labels stay).
Verified by content on origin/main 2304b16086, not by the merged flag: function connectorActionConfigRefusals present in packages/spec/src/automation/flow.zod.ts; connector-action-config-required registered in migrations/registry.ts, with feat(spec)!: retire the list view's own tabs key; named presets are listViews entries #20357's list-view-tabs-retired still there beside it (no side dropped); the node-config-key-missing rider reads "used to register"; content/docs/automation/flows.mdx:142 reads ✅ on connector_action.
Follow-ups carried: objectui's designer seed with blank ids is on objectui#10948 (the family's carrier). The at-tier record's escalation stands for this seat: objectui at the .objectui-sha pin and cloud's flow producers are unmeasured, to be measured before the next pin bump / cloud spec bump.

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[finding] a `connector_action` flow node with no `connectorConfig` passes all three build doors and fails every run #20418

Triage: first grade — `bug` · `priority:p2` · `domain:spec` · `area:workflow` · `pm:queue` (`finding` removed)