@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+---
+'@object-ui/components': minor
+---
+
+`element:number` reads its object from the node-level `dataSource` binding, as the spec declares it (objectui#10909).
+
+`PageComponentSchema.dataSource` is the spec's per-element data binding, and the spec lint gate waives a missing `properties.object` when `dataSource.object` names one. `ElementNumberRenderer` read its object only from `properties.object`, so a metric written `{ type: 'element:number', dataSource: { object: 'contact' }, properties: { aggregate: 'count' } }` — which the spec lint gate accepts, as `objectui validate` will once objectui#10908 arms the type — issued no query and painted the empty dash, with nothing to tell the author why.
+
+The renderer now resolves the binding the way `element:record_picker` does:
+
+- `object` is `dataSource.object ?? properties.object`, resolved once and used for the fetch guard, the `aggregate` / `find` call and the data-invalidation bus key. The binding wins when both are set.
+- A named `view` is honoured: its filter scopes the aggregate. A view that cannot be resolved renders the shared "data source could not be resolved" panel and aggregates nothing, rather than counting every record of the object.
+- `properties.filter` is AND-combined with the binding's `filter` and with its view's, the rule every block behind `ElementDataSourceGate` applies: neither is dropped, so a validated `properties.filter` can never be discarded and widen the count. A filter the converter refuses while combining them renders the same configuration-error panel, naming the refused rule, and aggregates nothing.
+- The binding's `sort` and `limit` are not read: an aggregate has no ordering, and a capped count would be a wrong number.
+
+A metric with no `dataSource` behaves exactly as before.
+
+**The registration's declared inputs move.** `element:number` is now registered through `elementDataSourceBlock`, so its registration and the published manifest declare the `dataSource` input (the one injected declaration every reader of the binding carries), and the html tier no longer reports `has no prop "dataSource"` on the node. `object` is no longer `required`, because the binding can supply it; its description, and a new `filter` description, say how each combines with the binding.
+
+**Clause-②: yes (widening)** — no export moves, but the published `element:number` entry in `sdui.manifest.json` widens: it declares `dataSource`, and `object` is no longer `required`. The html tier, and the objectstack CLI's JSX gate that reads this manifest, therefore accept a node bound through `dataSource` alone — and also one that names neither `object` nor a binding, which no longer draws `missing-required-prop` and paints the empty dash.
@@ -2301,6 +2301,10 @@ const MEMBER_PINS: Record<string, MemberPin> = {
     file: 'apps/console/src/__tests__/component-input-union-specimens.test.ts',
     pins: 'The `object` arm is the inline translation map `{ en, "zh-CN" }` and nothing else — driven through the real `manifestFromConfigs` + `validateTree` pair the JSX-page compiler and the save gate use, each positive paired with a value matching NEITHER arm that must still be reported (objectui#4970).',
   },
+  'element:number.dataSource': {
+    file: 'packages/components/src/renderers/basic/__tests__/elementNumber.dataSourceBinding-10909.test.tsx',
+    pins: 'The per-element binding\'s members as this METRIC reads them, through the REAL renderer and asserted at the call it fires, with the whole options bag compared so a member forwarded by accident is red. Read: `object` is what gets aggregated and OUTRANKS `properties.object` (`dataSource.object ?? properties.object`, one value for the fetch guard, `aggregate` / `find` and the `useDataInvalidation` key — a bus event for the outranked flat object does not re-read, one for the bound object does), and while a named `view` is unresolved there is NO object, so a flat `properties.object` beside an unresolvable view aggregates nothing; a named `view`\'s `filter` scopes the aggregate, and an unresolvable `view` REPORTS and aggregates nothing; `filter` is AND-combined with `properties.filter` — the `ElementDataSourceGate` rule, lowered and merged the same way — so a binding filter and the flat one both reach the aggregate, a view filter and the flat one both reach it, and a merge the converter refuses REPORTS on the error panel and aggregates nothing. Not read: `sort` and `limit`, from the binding or from the view, never reach `aggregate()` or the `find()` fallback, because an aggregate has no ordering and a capped count is a wrong number. A binding naming no object supplies nothing and the flat object stands, and the `properties` form with no binding is the control. ⚠️ The key is INJECTED by `Registry.register` (`ELEMENT_DATA_SOURCE_INPUT`), not written by the block: the declaration lists the binding\'s five members generically (`{ object, view, filter, sort, limit }`) and does not say which of them THIS block reads — that per-block half is what this pin carries (objectui#10909).',
+  },
   'element:number.filter': {
     file: 'packages/components/src/renderers/basic/__tests__/elementNumberFilterMembers-8071.test.tsx',
     pins: 'The TWO wire spellings one authored predicate takes, chosen by an adapter capability the author cannot see, plus the re-query rule — asserted through the real renderer on a stubbed adapter. `aggregate()` receives it FLAT under its own name and beside the members that make the call an aggregate (`field`, `function`, `groupBy: \'_all\'`), asserted as the whole options bag rather than the one key; the `find()` fallback receives it WRAPPED as `$filter`; and an unfiltered metric sends `undefined` rather than an empty envelope some adapters read as "match nothing". Collapsing the two spellings into one drops the predicate silently and the metric paints a confidently wrong number over every row, with no diagnostic and no empty state. The third half is that the key is read BY VALUE, not by identity (`filterKey` is a `JSON.stringify` memo): a deep-equal filter rebuilt by a re-rendering parent must NOT re-probe, while a changed comparand MUST and carries the new predicate — each arm the other\'s control, so a dependency array "simplified" to the raw object (a per-render fetch storm) is red. New file (objectui#8071 slice 7).',
 
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ ignores would be accepted and dropped, which is the defect this binding removes.
 | `list-view` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
 | `object-grid` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
 | `element:record_picker` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
+| `element:number` | ✅ | filter | ✅ | — single value | — single value |
 | `record:related_list` | ✅ | columns / filter / sort / limit | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
 | `object-calendar` | ✅ | filter / sort | ✅ | ✅ | — platform ceiling |
 | `object-kanban` | ✅ | filter / limit | ✅ | — no ordering | ✅ (`limit`) |
@@ -279,6 +280,19 @@ of the binding and stays the author's — it has to name a field on the bound ch
 object, so rebinding `object` without updating it is an authoring error the panel
 cannot paper over.
 
+The two `element:*` rows keep their configuration in the node's `properties` bag,
+so the binding does not land on a schema key there: each reads it directly, and
+`dataSource.object` wins over `properties.object`. They differ on `filter`.
+`element:record_picker` takes the binding's (or its view's) filter in place of
+`properties.filter`, which applies only when neither supplies one.
+`element:number` AND-combines `properties.filter` with the binding's filter and
+its view's — the rule the gate-wrapped blocks above follow — so neither is
+dropped, and a filter refused while combining them shows the configuration-error
+panel instead of a count. On `element:number`,
+`{ "dataSource": { "object": "contact" }, "properties": { "aggregate": "count" } }`
+is a complete metric; its `sort` and `limit` are not read, because an aggregate
+has no ordering and a capped count would be a wrong number.
+
 On `record:related_list` and `record:line_items` the composed filter is
 AND-combined with the parent relationship condition, never substituted for it: a
 child panel is always scoped to the record it appears on, and an *additional*