@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+---
+
+Tooling-only change (objectstack#25733): three tests no longer assume this tree is the pnpm workspace root. `check-doc-snippet-types` finds installed copies in the workspace root's `node_modules/.pnpm` (`virtualStorePath()` in `scripts/workspace-root.mjs`), the Console vendor-chunk tests read their standalone and merged arms off fixture layouts, and the CLI generator test runs its in-workspace case from a fixture workspace. `@object-ui/cli`'s `currentContext()` now asks `isWorkspaceRoot(cwd)`, the predicate `dev`, `serve` and `build` already use: the same expression, so no published behaviour changes.
@@ -1380,15 +1380,46 @@ describe('generation onto disk', () => {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * A workspace root this file builds itself: a directory holding its own
+   * `pnpm-workspace.yaml`, with one member below it. Not `REPO_ROOT`: the
+   * objectui tree is a workspace root only standalone, and under the
+   * objectstack monorepo it is `ui/`, a member whose workspace file is one
+   * level up (objectstack#25733). A fixture names the branch in both layouts.
+   */
+  function withWorkspace(run: (root: string, member: string) => void): void {
+    withTempDir((root) => {
+      writeFileSync(join(root, 'pnpm-workspace.yaml'), "packages:\n  - 'packages/*'\n");
+      const member = join(root, 'packages', 'app');
+      mkdirSync(member, { recursive: true });
+      run(root, member);
+    });
+  }
+
   it('writes the IN-WORKSPACE map when the generator runs at a workspace root', () => {
-    // `REPO_ROOT` walks up from `import.meta.url`, so this pins the same branch
-    // whatever directory the run was launched from — and `IN_WORKSPACE` is that
-    // same file-derived root, which is what keeps the expectation independent
-    // too. Put either side back on `process.cwd()` and this case silently
-    // becomes a third copy of the ambient mirror.
-    withTempDir((dir) => {
-      writingFrom(REPO_ROOT, () => createTempApp(dir, SCHEMA));
-      expect(filesOnDisk(dir)).toEqual(buildAppFiles(SCHEMA, IN_WORKSPACE));
+    // The fixture root is derived here, not from `process.cwd()`, so this pins
+    // the same branch whatever directory the run was launched from, and the
+    // expectation names that same root. Put either side back on
+    // `process.cwd()` and this case silently becomes a third copy of the
+    // ambient mirror.
+    withWorkspace((root) => {
+      withTempDir((dir) => {
+        writingFrom(root, () => createTempApp(dir, SCHEMA));
+        expect(filesOnDisk(dir)).toEqual(buildAppFiles(SCHEMA, { cwd: root, isMonorepo: true }));
+      });
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('writes the STANDALONE map from a workspace MEMBER — the generator does not walk up', () => {
+    // `currentContext()` asks `isWorkspaceRoot(cwd)`, the predicate `dev` and
+    // `serve` alias by: a `pnpm-workspace.yaml` ABOVE cwd makes no alias table,
+    // so it must not make empty dependency maps either. This is a user's
+    // package inside their own monorepo, and the objectui tree under `ui/`.
+    withWorkspace((_root, member) => {
+      withTempDir((dir) => {
+        writingFrom(member, () => createTempApp(dir, SCHEMA));
+        expect(filesOnDisk(dir)).toEqual(buildAppFiles(SCHEMA, { cwd: member, isMonorepo: false }));
+      });
     });
   });
 
 
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
  */
 
-import { readFileSync, writeFileSync, mkdirSync, readdirSync, statSync, existsSync } from 'fs';
+import { readFileSync, writeFileSync, mkdirSync, readdirSync, statSync } from 'fs';
 import { dirname, join } from 'path';
 import chalk from 'chalk';
 import * as yaml from 'js-yaml';
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import {
   REACT_RANGE,
   SCAFFOLD_DEV_DEPENDENCIES
 } from './scaffold-dependencies.js';
+import { isWorkspaceRoot } from './workspace-vite.js';
 
 export interface RouteInfo {
   path: string;
@@ -281,10 +282,25 @@ export interface AppGeneratorContext {
   isMonorepo: boolean;
 }
 
-/** The context the CLI commands themselves generate under. */
+/**
+ * The context the CLI commands themselves generate under.
+ *
+ * "Runs at a workspace root" means `cwd` ITSELF holds a `pnpm-workspace.yaml`,
+ * and nothing wider: the answer is `isWorkspaceRoot(cwd)`, the same predicate
+ * `dev`, `serve` and `build` use to skip `npm install` and to build the alias
+ * table from that file's globs (`utils/workspace-vite.ts`). The two must agree,
+ * because this branch writes both dependency maps EMPTY on the promise that the
+ * command will alias the platform packages instead. So a directory that is only
+ * a workspace MEMBER is not a workspace root, whatever lies above it: a user's
+ * package inside their own monorepo, and equally the objectui tree when it is
+ * `ui/` of the objectstack monorepo (objectstack#25733), get the standalone map.
+ * Walking up to the nearest `pnpm-workspace.yaml` would hand them empty maps
+ * that no alias table backs. A user's project behaves as it always has: the
+ * file in `cwd` means in-workspace, no file means standalone.
+ */
 function currentContext(): AppGeneratorContext {
   const cwd = process.cwd();
-  return { cwd, isMonorepo: existsSync(join(cwd, 'pnpm-workspace.yaml')) };
+  return { cwd, isMonorepo: isWorkspaceRoot(cwd) };
 }
 
 /**
 
@@ -503,7 +503,9 @@ describe("objectui#8397 — the manifest the emitted file's reader installs", ()
       [`node_modules/${ROOT_DECLARED_CONTROL}/index.d.ts`]: 'export declare const control: number;\n',
       // The gate reads "is it installed?" from pnpm's virtual store, so the
       // fixture lays one out: an UNINSTALLED control produces TS2307 whether the
-      // bound ran or not, and would pin nothing.
+      // bound ran or not, and would pin nothing. The store is the WORKSPACE
+      // root's (objectstack#25733), so the fixture is one.
+      'pnpm-workspace.yaml': "packages:\n  - 'packages/*'\n",
       [`node_modules/.pnpm/${ROOT_DECLARED_CONTROL}@4.0.0/node_modules/${ROOT_DECLARED_CONTROL}/package.json`]:
         JSON.stringify({ name: ROOT_DECLARED_CONTROL, version: '4.0.0', types: './index.d.ts' }),
       [`node_modules/.pnpm/${ROOT_DECLARED_CONTROL}@4.0.0/node_modules/${ROOT_DECLARED_CONTROL}/index.d.ts`]:
 
@@ -1376,6 +1376,34 @@ describe('third-party resolution reaches exactly as far as the imported packages
       ).toBeTruthy();
     });
 
+    it('finds an installed copy in the WORKSPACE root store, in both layouts (objectstack#25733)', () => {
+      // Standalone the tree is the workspace root; under the monorepo it is
+      // `ui/`, whose node_modules has no `.pnpm`, and the store is one level up.
+      // A tree no workspace governs has nothing installed in it.
+      const store = 'node_modules/.pnpm/@scope+pkg@1.0.0/node_modules/@scope/pkg/package.json';
+      const workspace = "packages:\n  - 'packages/*'\n";
+      const root = tempTree({
+        'ws/pnpm-workspace.yaml': workspace,
+        [`ws/${store}`]: '{}',
+        'mono/pnpm-workspace.yaml': workspace,
+        [`mono/${store}`]: '{}',
+        'mono/ui/node_modules/other/package.json': '{}',
+        [`loose/${store}`]: '{}',
+      });
+      try {
+        expect(findInstalledCopy(path.join(root, 'ws'), '@scope/pkg')).toBe(
+          'node_modules/.pnpm/@scope+pkg@1.0.0/node_modules/@scope/pkg',
+        );
+        expect(findInstalledCopy(path.join(root, 'mono/ui'), '@scope/pkg')).toBe(
+          '../node_modules/.pnpm/@scope+pkg@1.0.0/node_modules/@scope/pkg',
+        );
+        expect(findInstalledCopy(path.join(root, 'mono/ui'), 'absent')).toBeNull();
+        expect(findInstalledCopy(path.join(root, 'loose'), '@scope/pkg')).toBeNull();
+      } finally {
+        fs.rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+      }
+    });
+
     it('neither control specifier is declared by any workspace package, in EITHER field the map reads', () => {
       // Widened with the map (objectui#8919). A control that stays green only
       // because the suite asks about one of two fields is a control that can be
 
@@ -39,6 +39,16 @@ describe('check-ui-root-lookups (objectstack ruling D1)', () => {
     expect(data).toEqual([]);
   });
 
+  it('reads the store joined to the tree once, where the path first names it, and the root from the file it is in (objectstack#25733)', () => {
+    const head = "import { join, resolve } from 'node:path';\nimport { uiRoot } from './ui-root.mjs';\n";
+    const nested = lookupsIn('scripts/x.mjs', `${head}const store = join(uiRoot(), 'node_modules', '.pnpm');\nconst entry = join(store, 'x@1.0.0', 'node_modules');`);
+    expect(nested.map((h) => [h.shape, h.text])).toEqual([['workspace-file-at-ui-root', "join(uiRoot(), 'node_modules', '.pnpm')"]]);
+    // The same climb lands on the tree from one file and on `scripts/` from another.
+    const climb = "const root = resolve(__dirname, '../..');\nconst store = join(root, 'node_modules', '.pnpm');";
+    expect(lookupsIn('scripts/__tests__/x.test.ts', `${head}${climb}`).map((h) => h.shape)).toEqual(['workspace-file-at-ui-root']);
+    expect(lookupsIn('scripts/__tests__/deeper/x.test.ts', `${head}${climb}`)).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
   it('finds no lookup outside the helper in this tree, and every allowlist entry is live', () => {
     const result = scan(repoRoot);
     expect(result.scanned).toBeGreaterThan(100);
 
@@ -95,14 +95,46 @@ function makeFixtureRoot(): string {
  * A copy of the installed client placed outside the workspace — manifest and
  * `dist/` intact, no reachable `node_modules` for its two dependencies.
  *
- * This is the card's reproduction, reduced to a fixture.
+ * This is the card's reproduction, reduced to a fixture. The package's OWN
+ * `node_modules` stays behind: a store copy has none (its dependencies are its
+ * siblings in the store), but under the objectstack monorepo the installed
+ * client is a workspace link to a package that carries one, and copying that
+ * would carry the dependencies along (objectstack#25733).
  */
 function outOfTreeClientCopy(): string {
   const dest = path.join(makeFixtureRoot(), 'client');
-  fs.cpSync(fs.realpathSync(installedClientDir), dest, { recursive: true, dereference: true });
+  const source = fs.realpathSync(installedClientDir);
+  const ownNodeModules = path.join(source, 'node_modules');
+  fs.cpSync(source, dest, { recursive: true, dereference: true, filter: (src) => src !== ownNodeModules });
   return dest;
 }
 
+/**
+ * pnpm's store layout, on disk: the client in
+ * `.pnpm/@objectstack+client@1.0.0/node_modules/@objectstack/client` with its
+ * dependency as a sibling there, and a console whose `node_modules` holds only
+ * a SYMLINK to it. That is how a standalone checkout installs the client; under
+ * the objectstack monorepo it is a workspace link instead, so the realpath
+ * measurement below builds this layout rather than reading the checkout's
+ * (objectstack#25733).
+ */
+function storeLayoutClient(): { linked: string; real: string } {
+  const root = makeFixtureRoot();
+  const storeModules = path.join(root, 'node_modules/.pnpm/@objectstack+client@1.0.0/node_modules');
+  const real = path.join(storeModules, '@objectstack/client');
+  fs.mkdirSync(real, { recursive: true });
+  fs.writeFileSync(
+    path.join(real, 'package.json'),
+    JSON.stringify({ name: CLIENT_PACKAGE_NAME, dependencies: { '@objectstack/core': '1.0.0' } })
+  );
+  fs.mkdirSync(path.join(storeModules, '@objectstack/core'), { recursive: true });
+  fs.writeFileSync(path.join(storeModules, '@objectstack/core/package.json'), '{"name":"@objectstack/core"}');
+  const linked = path.join(root, 'console/node_modules/@objectstack/client');
+  fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(linked), { recursive: true });
+  fs.symlinkSync(real, linked, 'dir');
+  return { linked, real: fs.realpathSync(real) };
+}
+
 /**
  * The walk `packageResolvesFrom` performs, re-stated here as a MEASUREMENT
  * rather than an import: these cases exist to show what the production walk
@@ -190,22 +222,23 @@ describe('objectui#6094: a VALID override is still injected — all three spelli
   });
 
   it('resolves the dependency walk through the pnpm symlink, not around it', () => {
-    // Skipped only where the installed client is NOT a symlink (a hoisted,
-    // non-pnpm install), because then there is no symlink for the realpath to
-    // make a difference to and the counter-probe would be measuring nothing.
-    if (fs.realpathSync(installedClientDir) === installedClientDir) return;
-
     // The measurement that makes `realpathSync` load-bearing rather than
-    // tidy: from the symlink path, the client's own dependency is NOT found —
-    // the walk climbs `apps/console/node_modules` → `apps/console` → the repo
-    // root, none of which carry `node_modules/@objectstack/core`. From the
-    // store path it is found, beside the store copy of the client.
-    expect(walkResolves(installedClientDir, '@objectstack/core')).toBe(false);
-    expect(walkResolves(fs.realpathSync(installedClientDir), '@objectstack/core')).toBe(true);
+    // tidy, on the store layout: from the symlink path, the client's own
+    // dependency is NOT found — the walk climbs `console/node_modules` →
+    // `console` → the fixture root, none of which carry
+    // `node_modules/@objectstack/core`. From the store path it is found,
+    // beside the store copy of the client.
+    const { linked, real } = storeLayoutClient();
+    expect(real).not.toBe(linked);
+    expect(walkResolves(linked, '@objectstack/core')).toBe(false);
+    expect(walkResolves(real, '@objectstack/core')).toBe(true);
     // …so the injection, which walks from `packageDir`, must be reading the
     // store path. Without this the check would reject the installed client —
     // the one input it must accept.
-    expect(resolveClientDistInjection(installedClientDir)!.packageDir).not.toBe(installedClientDir);
+    expect(resolveClientDistInjection(linked)!.packageDir).toBe(real);
+    // And this checkout's own installed client, store copy or workspace link,
+    // is judged at its real path too.
+    expect(resolveClientDistInjection(installedClientDir)!.packageDir).toBe(realClientDir());
   });
 
   it('does not demand `peerDependencies` — they come from the consuming app', () => {
 
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import {
   versionSatisfiesRange,
   zodPackageDirOf,
 } from '../vite-objectstack-spec-dist';
+import { BASELINE_CHUNK_TESTS, frameworkPackagesDir, workspaceChunkTests } from '../vite-objectstack-workspace.ts';
 
 /**
  * objectui#4854 — `apps/console/vite.config.ts` honours `OBJECTSTACK_SPEC_DIST`,
@@ -93,6 +94,16 @@ const repoRoot = path.resolve(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '../
 const BASE_VENDOR_TEST =
   /([\\/]node_modules[\\/]@objectstack[\\/](?!lint[\\/])|[\\/]@objectstack\+(?!lint@))/;
 
+/**
+ * The vendor test the console config builds in THIS checkout's layout with no
+ * override set: `BASE_VENDOR_TEST` standalone, the same arms plus the
+ * framework's `packages/` when the tree is `ui/` of the objectstack monorepo
+ * (objectstack#25733). "Inert" means "unmoved from this", in either layout;
+ * that the standalone arm IS the baseline literal, byte for byte, is pinned on
+ * a fixture layout in `vite-objectstack-workspace.test.ts`.
+ */
+const LAYOUT_VENDOR_TEST = workspaceChunkTests(frameworkPackagesDir(path.join(repoRoot, 'apps/console'))).vendor;
+
 /**
  * The baseline "this module id is the spec" test, as the console config spells it.
  *
@@ -930,11 +941,13 @@ describe('objectui#4854: the four flagged surfaces in the console config', () =>
       'react-map-gl/maplibre',
     ]);
 
-    // 3. the vendor-objectstack chunk test — the literal, unwidened.
+    // 3. the vendor-objectstack chunk test — the layout's own, unwidened. The
+    //    mirror above is still the helper's baseline, so it cannot drift alone.
     const groups = config.build.rollupOptions.output.advancedChunks.groups as { name: string; test: RegExp }[];
     const vendor = groups.find((g) => g.name === 'vendor-objectstack');
     expect(vendor).toBeDefined();
-    expect(vendor!.test.source).toBe(BASE_VENDOR_TEST.source);
+    expect(BASE_VENDOR_TEST.source).toBe(BASELINE_CHUNK_TESTS.vendor.source);
+    expect(vendor!.test.source).toBe(LAYOUT_VENDOR_TEST.source);
     // …and what that literal MEANS, so a future rewrite that keeps the shape
     // but changes the membership cannot pass by pasting a new string in.
     // Reads off the live config's own regex, never the mirror above.
@@ -990,7 +1003,7 @@ describe('objectui#4854: the four flagged surfaces in the console config', () =>
       (config.build.rollupOptions.output.advancedChunks.groups as { name: string; test: RegExp }[]).find(
         (g) => g.name === 'vendor-objectstack'
       )!.test;
-    expect(vendorOf(injected).source.startsWith(BASE_VENDOR_TEST.source)).toBe(true);
+    expect(vendorOf(injected).source.startsWith(LAYOUT_VENDOR_TEST.source)).toBe(true);
     expect(vendorOf(injected).test(`${fs.realpathSync(installedSpecDir)}/dist/ui/index.mjs`)).toBe(true);
     // Widening appends an arm; it must not resurrect the lint exclusion the
     // baseline arms carry, or a spec-dist build would silently re-eagerize the
-Original file line number
+Diff line change
@@ @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ @@
 +---
 +---
++
 +Tooling-only change (objectstack#25733): three tests no longer assume this tree is the pnpm workspace root. `check-doc-snippet-types` finds installed copies in the workspace root's `node_modules/.pnpm` (`virtualStorePath()` in `scripts/workspace-root.mjs`), the Console vendor-chunk tests read their standalone and merged arms off fixture layouts, and the CLI generator test runs its in-workspace case from a fixture workspace. `@object-ui/cli`'s `currentContext()` now asks `isWorkspaceRoot(cwd)`, the predicate `dev`, `serve` and `build` already use: the same expression, so no published behaviour changes.