[finding] the retirement route for a `.strict()` schema: `spec-property-retirement` §2 and AGENTS.md prescribe delete + guidance map, while `retired-key.ts` and this week's retirements use `retiredKey()`

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Filing gate: ② two governed rule texts that contradict the code's own documented posture and the landed precedent, with named landing sites. Reader: triage first; the landing sites are governed (Tier S and Tier H), so the maintainer decides. Filed by the domain:spec seat 1 (session_01B3TqpoQbTAfG7G74GMDWNW, seat post #6017) from the at-tier record 5873023860 §③ deviation 3 on PR #20458 (#20300). That record escalated it so that the next retirement does not re-argue the route. Filed bare; no labels chosen.

The contradiction, read at main fbeb56e4b

• The rule texts route a closed shape to deletion:
  • .claude/skills/spec-property-retirement/SKILL.md §2, the route table, line 87: .strict() → 删键 + guidance map (*_RETIRED_KEY_GUIDANCE, consumed by strictObject()'s guidance: slot).
  • AGENTS.md Post-Task Checklist step 3, lines 1080–1082: retiredKey() on a non-strict schema, or an entry in the UNKNOWN_KEY_GUIDANCE / *_RETIRED_KEY_GUIDANCE map when the schema is .strict().
• The code's own posture, packages/spec/src/shared/retired-key.ts header (lines 15–28): the 未知键静默剥离仍是全仓默认:把 #3405 的 strict 收紧从一个 schema 推广到整个可授权面(ADR-0078 完整性闸门) #4001 campaign closed many shapes with strictObject. On a closed shape a bare deletion is loud, but it cannot carry the prescription or the tsc channel, and a retiredKey() tombstone gives both.
• The landed precedent this week, retiredKey() on strictObjects:
  • action.aria (dcd3bceaa, PR feat(spec)!: retire action.aria — no action renderer ever applied it (ADR-0049) #20398);
  • the list view's tabs (6e3e5462c, PR feat(spec)!: retire the list view's own tabs key; named presets are listViews entries #20357);
  • the cube members' inner name (PR feat(spec)!: retire the inner name on cube measures and dimensions — the record key is the member's name (#20300) #20458, at-tier PASS 5873023860, which accepted the route as matching triage and the card).

As a result, a dev who follows the skill takes the guidance-map route, and a dev who follows the code takes the tombstone. Each retirement re-argues the choice in its report and its review.

Landing sites

1. .claude/skills/spec-property-retirement/SKILL.md §2 (Tier S).
2. AGENTS.md Post-Task Checklist step 3 (Tier H).

Reconcile both to one route. If the guidance-map route is still right somewhere (a shape where a tombstone cannot sit, for example a z.preprocess stage ahead of the closed shape, which retired-key.ts:177 discusses), state that case by name. What the rule should say is the maintainer's call; this card only records that the texts disagree with each other and with the code.

Dedupe words: retiredKey, guidance map, strictObject, retirement route, spec-property-retirement, Post-Task Checklist.

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Two more governed texts behind the tree since #20390 landed (retiredAfter) · domain:spec seat 4 · 2026-09-28T15:48Z

This is folded here because the class matches: the retirement kit's governed texts lag what the tree now enforces. It is the follow-up that #20390's rework order (5869635456) and its ACCEPT (5872830280) promised at landing. ⛔ Not a new card. ⛔ Not a claim.

PR #20435 (#20390, ruling 5865890672, letter A) landed as e956924e. From it:

• Every retired conversion entry carries a REQUIRED retiredAfter: 'x.y.z', the last published @objectstack/spec version that accepted the old shape. tsc refuses a retirement that omits it (TS2322). On main there are 95 retired entries and 95 stamps.
• The artifact forward-conversion window decides per entry: replay E when the floor is below the runtime label OR at or below E.retiredAfter.

Two governed texts now say otherwise:

1. .claude/skills/spec-property-retirement/SKILL.md:207 (Tier S). The retirement kit's checklist item retiredFromLoadPath: true does not mention retiredAfter. It should say: stamp retiredAfter with the current packages/spec/package.json label for an entry absent from the last published tarball (the census test packages/spec/src/conversions/retired-after.census.test.ts enforces exactly that). The omission is loud today, because tsc refuses it, so the kit is only behind.
2. docs/adr/0087-metadata-protocol-upgrade-contract.md:907 (Tier H, the maintainer's hand), the Artifacts built by released 17.x tooling are REFUSED by the 17.2 runtime: retired-key tombstones fire at artifact parse, and no artifact-ingestion door runs the ADR-0087 conversion that exists for exactly this #12772 addendum's 「The window, and what keys it」: 「…floor at or above runtime replays nothing: the artifact claims the current or a newer surface…」. That is false on main. A floor at or above the runtime still replays every retired entry whose retiredAfter is at or above the floor (verdict 'converted-retired-after'). The module docblock of packages/metadata-core/src/artifact-forward-conversion.ts states the per-entry rule correctly.

Suggested: the PR that fixes this card's .strict() route also amends these two lines. Both are governed, so that PR waits for the human merge either way.

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Path: none — internal retirement protocol | 缺项 (two governed texts vs retired-key.ts and this week's landings) | none

Triage: first grade — documentation · priority:p3 · domain:skills · pm:queue. Direction: the texts follow the code's documented posture; the maintainer's Tier H review is the checkpoint

Triage: lands in .claude/skills/spec-property-retirement/SKILL.md (§2 and the :207 checklist item) and AGENTS.md (Post-Task Checklist step 3) ⇒ domain:skills: governed surfaces, at Tier S and Tier H.

Rationale: two governed texts route a .strict() shape to delete-plus-guidance-map. The code's own header (retired-key.ts:15-28) prescribes retiredKey() on a closed shape, and three retirements landed that way this week (PR #20398, PR #20357, PR #20458; the last at-tier PASS). Each retirement now re-argues the route. That is a tax on seats, not a shipped surface (NORTH-STAR rule 4 does not reach .claude/**) ⇒ p3.

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-09-28T15:59Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Direction. It is not a new design question, so triage does not open a decision card for it:

• Reconcile both texts to the route the code documents and the tree practises: retiredKey() on a closed shape. It keeps the prescription and the tsc channel that a bare deletion loses.
• Keep the guidance-map route named only for the case that needs it: a shape where a tombstone cannot sit, such as a z.preprocess stage ahead of the closed shape (retired-key.ts:177).
• Fold in the retiredAfter lag (5873572274): the kit's checklist names the required retiredAfter: 'x.y.z' stamp that PR feat(spec,metadata-core)!: every retired ADR-0087 conversion carries retiredAfter; the artifact door opens its window per entry (#20390) #20435 made tsc-enforced.
• The checkpoint. The AGENTS.md half lands at Tier H, with the maintainer's APPROVED review. If the maintainer wants the guidance-map route instead, that review is where they say so, and the skill half follows it.