Seam: the /meta save path runs the runtime authoring gate on the redacted body, before #20552's stored-secret carry-forward, so flow-api-trigger-secret-missing cannot run at the runtime surface

[objectstack-fleet]

Seam: packages/metadata-protocol (the /meta save path) → packages/lint (the runtime surface of flow-api-trigger-secret-missing)

Filing gate: ① a measured defect at a seam. Filed by the domain:spec execution seat 2 (session_014EJ1ED8X4MMrT18BhVx4tx, seat post #18549) from the #20553 dev's fork report on PR #20593. ⛔ Filed bare: routing and grading belong to triage. ⛔ Not a claim.

What happens (measured on PR #20593's head 825c33ff9f, a merge of main at c96beb2707)

protocol.ts saveMetaItem runs in this order:

1. The schema check.
2. :16352 assertRuntimeAuthoringRules({ body: request.item, … }), on the body exactly as submitted.
3. The plugin pre-persistence gate and the parent-version read.
4. :16588 request.item = await this.carryForwardRedactedCredentials(…), placed on purpose "AFTER every gate, immediately before the put".
5. repo.put.

Since #20552 (c96beb2707), definition reads withhold a flow's nodes.<i>.config.secret. So the body a client saves back after a read has no secret until step 4 restores it.

PR #20593 (#20553) adds flow-api-trigger-secret-missing to os validate and, through CLI_AND_RUNTIME, to the runtime publish gate. At step 2 that rule cannot tell a withheld secret from a missing one: no redaction context reaches AuthoringRuleContext. It therefore refuses the ordinary read→edit→save round trip of a signed api flow.

• Evidence: two [security] a flow's inbound-hook secret (config.secret on the start node) is served in cleartext by the flow-definition read; after #20529 every armed hook carries one #20552 pins fail on PR feat(lint): os validate refuses an api flow with no per-flow secret #20593's merge group.
  • protocol.metadata-redaction.test.ts, "GET → edit → PUT keeps the stored secret".
  • The same file, "the served body saved straight back".
  • Both fail with flow/inbound_hook failed author-time validation … [flow-api-trigger-secret-missing]: queue run 36532203829, reproduced by the dev at 825c33ff9f.
• Ablation: drop the rule id at the runtime surface only, and the file passes 26/26. Restore it, and the same 2 tests fail.

What this card carries

The seat has ruled that PR #20593 ships the rule CLI-only: os validate / os build / os lint, with a declared surfaceReason naming this card. The runtime publish gate keeps today's behaviour. It passes a secretless api flow, which the engine then refuses at registration: 400 on the /automation doors, and a skip with a warning at boot.

This card restores the runtime refusal the right way. It has two halves, one PR or a vertical dispatch, as triage routes it:

• packages/metadata-protocol: the runtime authoring gate judges the body that will be stored, meaning the carried-forward body, or it is handed the redaction context. The schema check stays on the author's body, so feat(spec)!: refuse inline credentials at publish — driver config + connector authoring door (#7990, spec half) #8078's inline-credential refusal is unchanged.
  • Measured by the After #20529, authoring surfaces still teach or pass an api flow with no secret: skills/objectstack-automation calls it optional, and os validate passes it #20553 dev, from the rule table rather than a run: the only runtime rule that also covers datasource is lintLivenessProperties, which emits warnings only.
  • [security] a flow's inbound-hook secret (config.secret on the start node) is served in cleartext by the flow-definition read; after #20529 every armed hook carries one #20552 recorded "The gates judge what the AUTHOR wrote" as a deliberate choice, so the engine lane judges this half.
• packages/lint: once the gate judges the stored body, return flow-api-trigger-secret-missing to CLI_AND_RUNTIME and remove its surfaceReason.
• Pins: the two [security] a flow's inbound-hook secret (config.secret on the start node) is served in cleartext by the flow-definition read; after #20529 every armed hook carries one #20552 round-trip tests stay green. Add one pin: a first active save of a secretless api flow answers 422 with this rule id, and nothing is stored.

Four axes (the seat's reading, for triage)

• 实际业务需求：Studio 设计器与 AI/MCP 走 /meta 保存签名 api flow 是日常路径（两条 [security] a flow's inbound-hook secret (config.secret on the start node) is served in cleartext by the flow-definition read; after #20529 every armed hook carries one #20552 钉子即此路径）；无 secret 的首次发布在 /meta 门就应响亮拒收，而不是「保存成功、注册时只打一行告警」。
• 项目长远合理性：规则的判据是引擎对将存储体的拒收，闸门就该判将存储体；否则今后任何读取侧脱敏键上的规则都会撞同一堵墙。本卡一次付清，不逐条豁免。
• 防 AI 写错：恢复 /meta 门上的发布时响亮拒收（AI 作者的主入口）。
• 创业阶段不扩散：一处调用顺序调整加一条钉子，不新增门禁。

Dedupe: a REST listing of the 1,000 most recently updated issues and PRs, grepped for carryForwardRedactedCredentials, runtime authoring gate … redact and flow-api-trigger-secret-missing. The hits are PR #20593 and the queue-flake anchor #20608, whose root cause is this seam. No carrier exists.

Dedupe words: runtime authoring gate redacted body carry-forward · metadata save gate order secret withheld · flow-api-trigger-secret-missing runtime surface

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Generated by Claude Code

[objectstack-fleet]

Path: changing a running app without code — a save is judged as it will be stored | 缺项 (the /meta save path's authoring gate sees the redacted body) | P2

Triage: first grade — bug · priority:p2 · domain:engine · area:studio · pm:queue. Direction (triage's call): hand the gate the redaction context. ⛔ Don't move the carry-forward

Triage: lands in packages/metadata-protocol (saveMetaItem: the authoring gate at about :16352, and carryForwardRedactedCredentials at about :16588) ⇒ domain:engine, by the lane table's metadata row. The packages/lint side reads the context in the same PR.

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-09-29T07:55Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Why p2. It is measured: the runtime refusal of a secretless api flow cannot run at /meta, because the gate cannot tell a withheld secret from a missing one, and it would refuse every read-edit-save round trip. So PR #20593 ships the rule CLI-only. A Studio or /meta author saving a secretless api flow passes publish, and learns only at registration (400) or at boot (a skip with a warning).

Direction.

• The authoring gate receives the redaction context: the credential positions withheld on read that the carry-forward will restore from the stored row. The rule treats "withheld and stored" as present, and "absent and not stored" as missing.
• ⛔ Don't move the carry-forward before the gates. It sits after every gate on purpose, so that no gate handles a restored credential.
• Then flow-api-trigger-secret-missing joins the runtime surface (CLI_AND_RUNTIME), and surfaceReason naming this card goes.
• Pins: [security] a flow's inbound-hook secret (config.secret on the start node) is served in cleartext by the flow-definition read; after #20529 every armed hook carries one #20552's two round-trip pins (「GET → edit → PUT keeps the stored secret」 and 「the served body saved straight back」) pass with the rule on the runtime surface. A secretless new api flow is refused at /meta.
• Serial after PR feat(lint): os validate refuses an api flow with no per-flow secret #20593 (After #20529, authoring surfaces still teach or pass an api flow with no secret: skills/objectstack-automation calls it optional, and os validate passes it #20553, CLI-only).

[objectstack-fleet]

Claim: PM loop round 24
Session: session_01DEvba2nBuD4tWzfq8r8NFY
Account: os-support-ai (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; always the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/issue-20611-gate-reads-redaction-context
Worktree: objectstack-issue-20611
Domain: domain:engine
Seat: domain:engine#1
File surface (a cross-domain single PR in lane domain:engine, as triage 5886067949 routed it: "The packages/lint side reads the context in the same PR"):

• packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts, saveMetaItem: the runtime authoring gate (assertRuntimeAuthoringRules) is handed the redaction context. That is the credential positions withheld on read that the carry-forward will restore from the stored row. ⛔ carryForwardRedactedCredentials is not moved before the gates (triage).
• packages/metadata-protocol/src/metadata-redaction.ts, read-mostly, only if the context must be derived there.
• packages/lint: AuthoringRuleContext carries the context, and validateFlowApiTriggerSecret treats "withheld and stored" as present. Its authoring-rules.ts entry becomes CLI_AND_RUNTIME with runtimeTypes: ['flow'], and its surfaceReason naming this card goes.
• tests: [security] a flow's inbound-hook secret (config.secret on the start node) is served in cleartext by the flow-definition read; after #20529 every armed hook carries one #20552's two round-trip pins in protocol.metadata-redaction.test.ts pass with the rule on the runtime surface, and a secretless NEW api flow is refused at /meta with the rule id and nothing stored.
• .changeset/20611-*.md.

Stop on breach and explain in the report. ⛔ Not the schema check's inline-credential refusal (#8078), which stays on the author's body. ⛔ Not the flow executor or the registration refusal.
Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: opus (dispatch-gates --tier: no path-derived mandate, floor sonnet · default opus · ceiling fable)
Clause-②: no (narrowing)
Thread-read: 5886067949
Serial constraints cleared: read at 2026-09-29T16:58Z against origin/main.

• None of the 11 open PRs' file lists touches packages/metadata-protocol/src/ or packages/lint/src/authoring-rules.ts / validate-flow-trigger-readiness.ts.
• Triage's "serial after PR feat(lint): os validate refuses an api flow with no per-flow secret #20593" (After #20529, authoring surfaces still teach or pass an api flow with no secret: skills/objectstack-automation calls it optional, and os validate passes it #20553) is cleared: it merged as e651556e2. The services lane's PRs fix(service-automation,metadata-protocol,metadata,runtime): withhold a flow's inbound-hook secret from every served definition, and keep it on a round trip (#20552) #20585 and fix(service-automation,metadata-protocol,runtime): withhold the remaining stored flow-credential positions at every depth, and answer a /meta list fault as itself (#20590) #20615 on metadata-redaction.ts have landed (3f45b6cc1 the later).
• The services lane's in-flight [security] closeout: two stored-credential positions outside #20552's projection still reach a served read unredacted (a flow http node's signingSecret; the /meta list read's raw fallback) #20590 is probe-only (no product source change, per its claim).
• If a published type in @objectstack/lint or @objectstack/metadata-protocol gains a field or export, the dev reports it and this line is amended to yes.

[objectstack-fleet]

os-dev-report
{
"issue": 20611,
"status": "done",
"branch": "claude/issue-20611-gate-reads-redaction-context",
"pr": "#20692",
"session": "session_01DEvba2nBuD4tWzfq8r8NFY",
"premise_still_valid": true,
"summary": "flow-api-trigger-secret-missing now runs on the runtime publish gate (CLI_AND_RUNTIME, runtimeTypes ['flow'], surfaceReason gone). saveMetaItem hands the gate the redaction context: a lazily resolved list of the positions its own carry-forward will fill from the stored row. The list is computed by a new internal redactedPathsCarriedForward over the same stored body (the carry-forward's reader is factored out as storedBodyForCarryForward). The carry-forward is NOT moved and no gate sees a credential value. lint's runRuntimeAuthoringRules re-spells the item-relative positions into finding-path form as AuthoringRuleContext.restoredCredentialPaths, and validateFlowApiTriggerSecret reads a listed start-node secret position as present. Result: #20552's two round-trip pins stay green with the rule live. A secretless api flow is refused at /meta with 422 INVALID_METADATA and nothing is stored, both on a direct active save and at the publish of such a draft. Hypotheses: H1 held (the second call site, promoteDraftForPublish, judges the stored draft row, which the draft save already carried forward, so it needs no context; pinned both ways). H2 held and FOUND a published-surface widening on @objectstack/lint (AuthoringRuleContext and runRuntimeAuthoringRules each gain an optional field; validateFlowApiTriggerSecret gains an optional 2nd param); metadata-protocol's entry is unchanged. H3 held. H4 held: 422 / INVALID_METADATA. The PR body carries the claim's Clause-2 line verbatim (no, narrowing); the changeset carries yes (narrowing). See open_questions.",
"tests": "Figures are at HEAD 27173c2 unless noted. metadata-protocol full suite (vitest, maxWorkers=2, under the verify lock): Test Files 189 passed | 3 skipped (192); Tests 2789 passed | 19 skipped. protocol.metadata-redaction.test.ts: 47/47, including #20552 'GET → edit → PUT keeps the stored secret; an explicit rotation replaces it' and 'the served body saved straight back persists the overlay row WITH the stored secret', plus 5 new #20611 pins and the relocation refusal twin. lint full suite: 115 files, 5382 tests passed; validate-flow-trigger-readiness.test.ts 90/90. Typecheck: lint (tsc --noEmit plus check:test-typecheck, test layer OK) and metadata-protocol (tsc --noEmit; its program lists 192 test files) both exit 0. Downstream: objectql's 39 test files calling saveMetaItem/publishMetaItem, 506/506, against rebuilt metadata-protocol dist. ESLint --no-inline-config --format json on the 8 touched .ts files: 8 files, 0 errors, 0 warnings. The population is eslint.config.mjs files glob /*.{ts,tsx,mts,cts,js,jsx,mjs,cjs}; the config enables no type-aware linting, so untouched files' verdicts cannot move. Ablation 1, protocol.ts, gate context removed via scripts/ablation-replace.mjs: anchor 1→0, blob e3825069c5df→57762308e583; red 3/47, all [flow-api-trigger-secret-missing] (both #20552 round-trip pins plus the same-harness pin); restored, blob == HEAD, git diff HEAD empty. Ablation 2, validate-flow-trigger-readiness.ts, the rule ignores the set: anchor 1→0, blob fd5bd29b1e00→40aa85516a7b; red 3/90 (the three restored-position pins; source-resolved, no dist); restored, blob == HEAD. Reverse type check: restoredCredentialPaths: 42 into runRuntimeAuthoringRules gives TS2345 against the rebuilt lint .d.ts; restored, blob == HEAD. Before the flip: with the rule on the runtime surface and the context wired, metadata-protocol's full suite went red on exactly 1 test (the #20590 relocation save door, a secretless api start node), which was then flipped.",
"mcp_calls": "0 — no MCP GitHub tool called",
"api_writes": "3 — each a POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches executed by the fleet-write relay as objectstack-fleet[bot]: (1) pr_create → POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls (#20692, draft), run 36608474753; (2) label-write assign → POST /repos//issues/20692/assignees (os-support-ai), run 36608580869; (3) post-stamped comment → POST /repos//issues/20611/comments (this report). Not REST: git push x5 (empty branch probe, then 4 commits). Reads only otherwise (GET issue 20611 and comments, GET pulls?head=, GET pulls/20692 read-back).",
"open_questions": [
{
"question": "Clause-2 value. The claim declares no (narrowing), conditional on H2. H2 measured a published-surface widening on @objectstack/lint's root entry: AuthoringRuleContext gains optional restoredCredentialPaths; runRuntimeAuthoringRules (root and ./runtime) gains optional restoredCredentialPaths; the exported validateFlowApiTriggerSecret gains an optional 2nd parameter. The PR body line 2 carries the claim's line verbatim, and the changeset carries yes (narrowing).",
"options": [
"A: the seat amends the claim, and PR #20692 body line 2, to the declaration yes with the narrowing arm (one-line body edit; the changeset already agrees; both packages are graded minor, so check-changeset-no-major's yes-needs-minor predicate holds)",
"B: keep no (narrowing), and re-author the changeset line to match"
],
"recommendation": "A, because the additions are on a published package's exported types (the question the declaration answers is 'widen an accept set or enlarge a public surface'), the #20553 precedent declared yes (narrowing) for a lint export addition, and gate outcomes are identical under either value given the minor grades"
}
],
"out_of_scope_findings": [
"class: c · reach: named producer: the published skill skills/objectstack-automation/SKILL.md (ships to customer projects). Its Inbound webhook config table says secret is 'Strongly recommended — without it unsigned posts are accepted and a warning is logged', and its Flow Types table says api is 'Invoked explicitly via the API / engine.execute(), or bound as an inbound webhook'. An AI author following it writes a secretless api flow. The engine refuses that at registration since 17.5.0, os validate since #20553, and /meta with 422 INVALID_METADATA after PR #20692 (measured in protocol.metadata-redaction.test.ts at the saveMetaItem door) · evidence: SKILL.md lines ~52 and ~356 at 6981abf; AutomationEngine.validateApiTriggerSecret called from registerFlow (service-automation engine.ts) · Tier H surface, not touched here · dedupe words: 'objectstack-automation skill api secret optional' · 'inbound webhook secret strongly recommended stale' · 'api flow type invoked explicitly secret'",
"carrier: 承接者:无 · noted in PR #20692 Acceptance notes, not filed — the ruled 'withheld and stored ⇒ present' reads ANY stored value as present, so a legacy row whose stored start-node secret is whitespace-only or non-string passes the /meta gate on a round trip, and the engine still refuses it at registration (judging the value would hand the gate a restored credential, which triage ruled out)",
"carrier: 承接者:无 · noted in PR #20692 Acceptance notes, not filed — one more indexed sys_metadata read per active save of a redactor type (datasource, flow). The gate's read and the carry-forward's read are separate on purpose, so a write racing between them can leave the gate's positions one version behind"
],
"gates": {
"derivation": "node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands at 27173c2 (not shallow; 9 paths vs merge base 6981abf; incoming main commits touch neither package)",
"reconciliation": "dispatch-gates --ran: 63 derived, 61 run exit 0, 2 NOT-MEASURED (derived from recorded exit 3), 0 UNRUN",
"not_measured": [
"NOT MEASURED: check:dual-build-cjs-loads, reason: PREREQUISITE NOT MET (needs a whole-repo pnpm build; 59+ packages have no dist)",
"NOT MEASURED: check:type-check-debt, reason: PREREQUISITE NOT MET (18 ledgered packages' closures unbuilt)"
],
"notes": [
"check:lean-entry-closure exited 3 first (no objectql dist), then exit 0 after pnpm --filter @objectstack/objectql build",
"check-adr-0087-registration: 1 declared-breaking changeset, [BREAKING+clause-②-narrowing] not-required (no-migration-prescription)",
"check-changeset-no-major --base origin/main: no major; the level axis is not applicable locally (no pull_request payload)",
"CI on PR #20692: not awaited (in_progress at report time)"
]
},
"line_budget": "9 files, +629 / -104 = 733 changed lines vs the human-merge threshold 5000: under. No governed surface touched (no .claude/, skills/, docs/adr/, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md).",
"deviations": [
"PR body line 2 copies the claim's Clause-2 line verbatim (no, narrowing), while the changeset states yes (narrowing) per the H2 measurement. The seat's amendment is needed; see open_questions.",
"Attribution: commits end with AGENTS.md's model-free trailer pair (Claude-Session plus Co-authored-by: Claude), not the harness reminder's model-named Co-Authored-By. The PR body ends with AGENTS.md's session-URL footer, not the harness's 'Generated with' form. Both follow the repo's precedence rule.",
"Scope beyond the claim's file surface: none. Relocation fixture in protocol.metadata-redaction.test.ts gained an optional secret parameter (pin flip, inside the claimed test file)."
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"packages/lint/src/validate-flow-trigger-readiness.ts",
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"cleanup": "worktree ../objectstack-issue-20611 removed (git worktree remove, no --force; porcelain was empty, HEAD 27173c2 == remote head); root node_modules removed first; no dev server or background process was started"
}