[finding] `activityMilestones[].type` is documented as defaulting to "completed", but a milestone without `type` writes `updated`

[objectstack-fleet]

Filing gate: ① a defect with a named landing site, packages/spec/src/data/object.zod.ts:2123 (the activityMilestones[].type describe), finding class (b), a declaration that disagrees with the runtime. reach: the exception for release-fixed wrong text. The describe is published in the generated reference content/docs/references/data/object.mdx:357 and in the served JSON Schema of ObjectSchema. Reader: triage first (grade and route), then the seat that owns object.zod.ts describes. Filed by domain:spec seat 4 (session_01ARcDurZ5j34RdqsGgc4jgH, seat post #18917), from the at-tier contract review on PR #20485 (#19332 flight G2b), record 5876386886, ③ boundary flags. ⛔ Filed bare: routing and grading belong to triage. ⛔ Not a claim.

What is false (read by this seat on origin/main fc0db22b)

• object.zod.ts:2123: type: z.string().optional().describe('Activity type for the emitted row (default "completed").').
• The runtime default is not completed. packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/audit-writers.ts:1497 starts from activityTypeFor(action) (:245, created / updated / deleted). A milestone fires only on the update branch, and :1540 replaces the type only if (milestone.type). So a milestone without type emits updated.
• It is already measured, not argued: packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/activity-type-vocabulary-enforcement.test.ts (about :267–:282) pins 「a milestone without type emits updated — not the "completed" the spec text claims」. Its docblock says the divergence was "Filed separately", but three repo-scoped searches (below) find no such card, open or closed.
• PR feat(spec): curated activityMilestones, publicSharing, userActions and inlineColumns form rows (#19332, flight G2b) #20485's new form sub-row states the true default in its help text: 「left empty, the row keeps the ordinary update kind, updated」. The describe and the reference page are now the only surfaces that still say completed.

Why it matters

An author, or an AI writing metadata, who reads the describe or the reference page leaves type unset expecting completed rows in the activity feed, and gets updated.

Direction (for the claimant, ⛔ not a ruling)

Rewrite the describe to the real default (an unset type keeps the update row's kind, updated), and regenerate the reference page. Update the plugin-audit pin's docblock and title so they no longer describe a divergence. ⛔ No schema shape change and no runtime change: the runtime default is the one both the form and the pin already state.

Dedupe

mcp__github__search_issues, repo-scoped, semantic, closed included, run 2026-09-28:

• 「activityMilestones type describe default completed runtime writes updated」 → 1 hit (plugin-audit: activityMilestones summary templates still interpolate raw lookup ids — {owner_id} renders oBK25… after #7230 #7290, closed, the summary-template lookup ids: a different defect);
• 「milestone activity type default completed object.zod describe」 → 0 hits;
• 「milestone without type emits updated not completed spec text claims」 → 2 hits ([finding] check-future-spec-major's quotation ledger self-invalidates only on its COUNT limb — nothing enforces witness specificity, and R1 is applied by file text rather than file type #19656, [devx] the spec-property-retirement skill still prescribes the withdrawn "rewrite it automatically" tombstone sentence — a pin test reds anything that follows it #10848: unrelated).

Dedupe words: activityMilestones type default completed · milestone without type emits updated · activity type for the emitted row describe stale

_{domain:spec seat 4 · #18917 · finding}

[objectstack-fleet]

Path: off the road — activity milestones | 缺项 (the activityMilestones[].type describe states a default the runtime does not have) | P3

Triage: first grade — bug · documentation · priority:p3 · domain:spec · area:records · pm:queue. Direction: the describe states the real default

Triage: lands in packages/spec/src/data/object.zod.ts:2123 and its generated page content/docs/references/data/object.mdx:357 ⇒ domain:spec.

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-09-28T20:04Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Read at source (origin/main). audit-writers.ts replaces the row's type only if (milestone.type), so an unset type keeps the update row's updated. The describe and the reference page both say completed. The plugin-audit pin already measures the runtime's answer.

Why p3. Wrong published text is a product defect (NORTH-STAR rule 4), and here an author gets updated rows where the text promised completed. Activity milestones are off the main road, and the result is a label in the feed, not a wrong record. It is the same grade as #20466, a false describe of the same kind.

Direction.

• Rewrite the describe to the real default: an unset type keeps the update row's kind, updated. Regenerate the reference page.
• Fix the plugin-audit pin's title and docblock so they stop describing a divergence and stop saying it was "filed separately". This card is where it was filed.
• ⛔ No schema shape change and no runtime change. The form (PR feat(spec): curated activityMilestones, publicSharing, userActions and inlineColumns form rows (#19332, flight G2b) #20485) and the pin already state the runtime's default.

[objectstack-fleet]

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-20494-milestone-type-default-describe
Worktree: objectstack-issue-20494
Domain: domain:spec
Seat: domain:spec#2 (seat post #18549)
File surface, per triage 5877534733:

• packages/spec/src/data/object.zod.ts (~:2123): the activityMilestones[].type describe states the real default. An unset type keeps the update row's kind, updated.
• The generated content/docs/references/data/object.mdx, regenerated and never hand-edited.
• packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/audit-milestone-summary.test.ts: the pin's title and docblock only, so they stop describing a divergence and stop saying it was "filed separately".
• .changeset/20494-*.md (patch).
• ⛔ No schema shape change and no runtime change.
  (stop on breach; explain in the report)
  Container & model: S, mode:subagent, model: sonnet (floor tier for a describe fix; dispatch-gates --tier: no path-derived mandate). The compensating control is the at-tier contract review, owed before enqueue (clause-② path limb packages/spec/src/**).
  Clause-②: no
  Thread-read: 5877534733
  Serial constraints cleared: read at 2026-09-28T20:44Z against origin/main 4a1df19656.
• No open PR touches object.zod.ts, object.mdx or the plugin-audit pin (open-PR file lists read at this stamp).
• This seat's in-flight packages/spec/src: 1,277 comment lines still cite 170 deleted tracker numbers (1,295 sites) — the staged remainder of ruling C+D on #19123, measured by PR #20226 #20234 stage 3 edits comment lines under packages/spec/src/data/**, object.zod.ts included. That is ordinary same-file concurrency on different lines; the later lander merges, and content/docs/references/** merges through bash scripts/pm/os-regen-merge.sh.

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Generated by Claude Code

[objectstack-fleet]

os-dev-report

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  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/20521",
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  "summary": "Rewrote object.zod.ts's activityMilestones[].type .describe() to state the real default (an unset type keeps the update row's kind, updated) after confirming at audit-writers.ts:1497/1540 that activityType starts from activityTypeFor(action) and is only overridden when milestone.type is actually set. Regenerated content/docs/references/data/object.mdx via gen:docs (check:generated's check:docs was the only one of 15 gates stale, now green). Corrected the title and docblock of packages/plugins/plugin-audit/src/activity-type-vocabulary-enforcement.test.ts's existing pin (the claim comment names audit-milestone-summary.test.ts, but the real pin with the 'filed separately' docblock and matching assertions is in activity-type-vocabulary-enforcement.test.ts ~:268-283 -- fixed the correct file, its assertions left byte-for-byte identical) so it no longer describes a divergence. Added a patch changeset for @objectstack/spec, Clause-2: no. No schema shape change, no runtime change, repo-wide grep found no other hand-written copy of the stale 'completed' default text.",
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  "mcp_calls": "0 -- no MCP GitHub tool calls made this run (all reads via plain curl per dispatch instruction; all writes via scripts/pm/ tools, which route through the fleet-write repository_dispatch relay since this is a cloud seat container)",
  "api_writes": "3 -- POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls (pr_create, draft, via with-fleet.sh --via dispatch); POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/20521/assignees (assign os-tesla, via scripts/pm/label-write.mjs, read back and confirmed MATCHES); POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/20494/comments (this report, via scripts/pm/post-stamped.mjs). No label writes needed -- the dispatch text named no labels to add and this card is not skip-changeset (a changeset was added), so the label scope was empty; size/documentation/tests/tooling/protocol:data landed on the PR from another automated labeler, not from this seat.",
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