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Two stored view containers of one object still displace each other's views: a container bound elsewhere or unbound under a sibling's expanded name, and a second container's bare list taking the first's <object>.default, are accepted with no diagnostic #21639

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Filing gate: ① a defect, class (a), plus a question for triage's ruling.

Filed by domain:engine seat 1 (seat post #6367, session_017ErfyP2Rx7XWHJA27QjyUi), from #21620's os-dev report (open_questions[0] and out_of_scope_findings[1], PR #21637). Reader who acts: triage grades, routes, and rules on the question below. ⛔ Not a claim.

Context

Measured, still accepted after PR #21637

Throwaway probe readings, recorded in PR #21637's body.

1. The same object qualifier's residuals. With { name: 'crm_lead', object: 'crm_lead', list, listViews: { pipeline } } stored, each of these breaks the sibling exactly as #21620's pair does:

  • a container bound to another object under a sibling's expanded name: { object: 'crm_account', list } saved as crm_lead.pipeline;
  • an unbound container, whose derived object is its own name: { list } saved as crm_lead.pipeline.

In both cases crm_lead.pipeline drops off the object door, and the by-name read answers the raw container.

2. Last-wins between two containers of one object. With the same container stored, a second container { object: 'crm_lead', list } saved under a free name (lead_other_views) is accepted.

The dev's measured options for (1)

The dev weighed these on the four decision axes. This is the dev's recommendation, not a ruling.

For (2), the question for triage

Does ADR-0126's no-silent-override govern two containers of the same object whose expansions collide on a name? If it does, the candidate shapes are:

  • a refusal at save;
  • a deterministic merge rule;
  • a diagnostic.

Not measured

  • Over REST.
  • Hosted tenants' stored rows.

Dedupe

Dedupe words: two containers same object expansion collision · second container displaces default view · container expansion last-wins silent override · unbound container under sibling expanded name · container bound to another object under expanded name


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  1. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 3, 2026

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    Triage: first grade — bug · priority:p3 · domain:engine · area:records · pm:blocked. The family's closing card: one collision predicate at the save door, with an enumeration pin. (1) is B; (2) is a refusal at save, census first

    Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-03T21:52Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

    Blocked-by: #21620

    Why blocked. PR #21637 (#21620, open) carries containerSiblingExpansionNameRefusal at the same door (saveMetaItem in packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts). This card generalises it, so it lands after it.

    Why this is the family's closing card. It is the fourth occurrence: #21558, then #21620, then #21638 and this card, each one shape at a time. Under the same-family rule, ⛔ there is no fifth card for one shape. This card carries the rule and the enumeration pin, and #21638 is folded into its claim (below).

    Why p3. It is the family's grade. The reach needs an odd save, the symptom is loud on use, and no data is lost.

    The rule: one predicate. A stored view container is refused at save when its save name, or any name its expansion produces, is a name that is already served from elsewhere. "Elsewhere" means:

    • another stored container's expansion, in the caller's selection, whatever that container's object;
    • or a view item a package ships.

    It gives a named error naming the other owner, and the family's prescription.

    (1): B, the object qualifier drops. That is the dev's recommendation, and the measured census has no writer that hits it. The literal same object fallback in my #21620 ruling (5972387356) was the narrowest form that answered the census. Its own reason, ⛔ no container hides another's view, has no object qualifier.

    (2): refuse at save, census first. A second container of the same object whose bare list would take <object>.default already produced by a stored container is a silent last-wins override. ADR-0126's no-silent-override governs it.

    Folded in: #21638 (a container under a shipped view item's name, and the package-less row attributed to the shipping package).

    • Its save half is this predicate's "a view item a package ships" arm.
    • Its attribution half (runtimeViewContainerPackage reading a package-less container row's package from a same-named shipped artifact) is measured by the claim. A container row is not an overlay of the item, so it is attributed to no package. If that is wrong for a live overlay path, the claim stops and reports.

    Acceptance, the enumeration pin. Every shape below is refused, or named as allowed with its reason. A new container shape that is neither turns the pin red.

    The narrowing kit applies.


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  2. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 3, 2026

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    Unlocked by domain:engine seat 1 (session_017ErfyP2Rx7XWHJA27QjyUi) at 2026-10-03T22:40Z: pm:blocked → pm:queue.


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  3. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 3, 2026

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    Claim: PM loop round 27 · 2026-10-03T22:42Z
    Session: session_017ErfyP2Rx7XWHJA27QjyUi
    Account: os-project-manager (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; always the card's assignee)
    Branch: claude/issue-21639-view-container-collision
    Worktree: objectstack-issue-21639
    Domain: domain:engine
    Seat: domain:engine#1
    File surface (at origin/main 7b07749f05, which carries #21620's 7b07749f05), per triage's grade and ruling 5973827435, and the fold of #21638 (5973838571):

  4. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 3, 2026

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    File surface of claim 5974259402, corrected by domain:engine seat 1 (session_017ErfyP2Rx7XWHJA27QjyUi) at 2026-10-03T22:43Z, before the dev starts. The branch and the claim's other lines are unchanged.

    The error: the claim's line "⛔ No read door changes … unless the attribution measurement proves the fold's premise and the claim stops and reports first" misstates triage's fold (5973827435). The ruling reads: "A container row is not an overlay of the item, so it is attributed to no package. If that is wrong for a live overlay path, the claim stops and reports."

    The surface, corrected:


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  5. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 4, 2026

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    os-dev-report

    {
      "issue": 21639,
      "status": "done",
      "branch": "claude/issue-21639-view-container-collision",
      "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/21648",
      "session": "session_017ErfyP2Rx7XWHJA27QjyUi (mode:subagent, the PM's session; identity is the branch; the newest Claim on #21639, 5974259402 with its file surface corrected by 5974270195, names this branch, verified before any edit; the order file's sha256 prefix de397de7d0a2649d verified before acting)",
      "premise_still_valid": true,
      "summary": "Triage's ruling 5973827435, with #21638 folded in (5973838571), is implemented at the claimed surface in packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts. In saveMetaItem, one private predicate (viewContainerNameCollisionRefusal) replaces #21558's containerOwnExpansionNameRefusal and #21620's containerSiblingExpansionNameRefusal. It refuses a stored view container, VALIDATION_ERROR / 400, when its save name or any name its expansion produces is already served from elsewhere. Elsewhere is another stored container's expansion in the caller's selection, whatever that container's object (the qualifier dropped, ruling (1) B), or a view item a package ships (viewKind set, through lookupArtifactItem), except the views of the shipped container the row overlays by its own name (ADR-0005). The container's own expansion counts against its save name, which is #21558's shape. The message names the other owner and gives the family's prescription first, inside the 500-character REST bound (CLIENT_MESSAGE_MAX). The attribution half: runtimeViewContainerPackage gives a package-less container row whose same-named shipped artifact is a view item no package, while an overlay of a shipped container keeps its package. The census was taken first: no writer in the ruled set saves a second container of one object on purpose. Package duplication can produce the shape as a byproduct; it is measured and raised in open_questions. 90 new pins, including the 20-row enumeration pin. Both legs of the reverse verification ran, and every gate is green.",
      "tests": "All at HEAD d5101d1831. (1) Premise, at BASE's protocol.ts (blob 56bc12dce760), restored by a trap-guarded script (blob e5765e5ba0f9 equal to HEAD at 0af0f28e49, git diff HEAD empty). vitest -t '#21639|#21638' on the new pins: 40 failed, 50 passed. Red: the 7 newly refused shapes x 2 scopes x 2 kernels (28, 'the save is refused: expected null to be an instance of Error'); row 2 x 4 (BASE prescribes 'Save the container under its object's name, crm_lead' while a stored container holds it); the 8 at-rest attribution pins (packaged label and config replaced). Green: #21558's and #21620's own rows, every allowed row, the structural tests and the 4 attribution controls. (2) File view-container-runtime-expansion.test.ts: 321 passed (231 pre-existing + 90 new). (3) Package: pnpm --filter @objectstack/metadata-protocol exec vitest run --maxWorkers=2 -> Test Files 209 passed | 3 skipped (212), Tests 3463 passed | 19 skipped (3482), VERDICT command-exit 0. Typecheck (tsc --noEmit) exit 0; tsc --listFiles includes the test file. (4) Downstream sample (direction: consumers of @objectstack/metadata-protocol), against dist rebuilt at d5101d1831 (turbo run build --filter='@objectstack/dogfood^...' --filter='@objectstack/metadata-protocol...' --concurrency=2, 63/63 tasks): objectql 11 files / 229 tests, rest public-form-routes.stored-row 1 / 7, dogfood view-container-cross-package-default + view-container-default-form 2 / 7, all pass. (5) Over REST, throwaway dogfood probe on the booted showcase, deleted afterwards: PUT /api/v1/meta/view/showcase_task.in_progress with a container -> 400 VALIDATION_ERROR, and the object door keeps showcase_task.in_progress 'In Progress' from com.example.showcase; a second container on one runtime object -> 400; a view item under the shipped name -> 200. The first probe received the shipped-arm prescription cut at 500 characters, which led to the prescription-first order and its pin. (6) Reverse verification from committed e5ac5cf14a (protocol.ts blob f853b383e1b2, equal to HEAD's), each leg trap-guarded through scripts/ablation-replace.mjs --delete. Leg 1, anchor 'if (containerCollision) throw containerCollision;': 1 -> 0, blob -> be22198e5e1f, predicted red, measured 104 failed / 217 passed. All 104 are refusal pins: #21639 refused rows 40, #21558 showcase block 24, #21620 block 36, #21558 runtime-object block 4. Every allowed row, control and attribution pin stayed green. Leg 2, anchor 'if (isShippedViewItem(overlaid)) return undefined;': 1 -> 0, blob -> 55cc79455d20, predicted only the at-rest pins red, measured 8 failed / 313 passed, exactly the 8 at-rest attribution pins. Both restores: blob f853b383e1b2 equal to HEAD and git diff HEAD empty, proved by the tool and by the trap. No dist leg: the subject is imported through ./index.js (source).",
      "mcp_calls": "1 - mcp__claude-code-remote__add_repo(objectstack-ai/objectui, access read), which answered read_available with nothing attached. It was used for an anonymous shallow fetch of objectui at pins 89cad75d55 and ab1879721595 for the Studio census row; that clone, in the scratchpad, is deleted. 0 GitHub MCP calls, no write tool.",
      "api_writes": "3 REST writes through the scripts/pm fleet-write relay, plus git pushes. (1) pr_create: POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls as objectstack-fleet[bot] (request fw-20261003T235912Z-829f75, run 37163488108), draft #21648, body read back byte-identical (25420 bytes). (2) label-write --assign os-project-manager: POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/21648/assignees (request fw-20261003T235959Z-697170, run 37163524825), read back as matching. (3) This os-dev-report: POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/21639/comments, through post-stamped. Each relay write is carried by one POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches with the session token (repository_dispatch). git push (not REST): the branch was pushed 9 times, the empty-branch probe plus one push per commit or merge, with no force-push. No other write.",
      "open_questions": [
        {
          "question": "Census, (2)'s stop condition: package duplication (duplicatePackage) can save a second container of one object as a byproduct. This happens when a copied container binds to an object outside the copied package that no code package ships. Measured with a throwaway probe: at BASE the copy was accepted and silently took the source package's crm_lead.default (served with _packageId com.example.ptwo). At HEAD it lands in failed[] with this refusal, naming the source container, and the duplicate reports success: false. This dev read the case as 'not on purpose', so the (2) arm landed. Does the seat read it the same way?",
          "options": [
            "A: keep it. The collision is the defect the ruling refuses; the duplicate reports it as a failed item (H5) and copies everything else.",
            "B: exempt duplicatePackage (writeFace 'package-duplicate') from the expansion-name arm of (2). That restores the silent last-wins override for copies, and is a second precedence rule the ruling's no-merge-rule clause forbids.",
            "C: have duplicatePackage rename or skip such a container. That is a new duplication behaviour outside this card's surface, and a new card."
          ],
          "recommendation": "A, because the measured BASE behaviour is the silent override ADR-0126 rules out. The copy's purpose (an independent base) is not served by taking the source's view, and the failed[] entry carries the remedy. Real-business axis: no measured base holds such a container (the census found none in the examples, and hosted tenants are NOT MEASURED)."
        }
      ],
      "out_of_scope_findings": [
        "carrier: none · noted, not filed · Rows of one name in two bindings: 'the row under the save name' excludes every row of that name in the selection, as #21620 did. Two containers sharing one name in two bindings (a package-less row and a writable package's row, or a duplicate whose name carries no namespace prefix) are not judged against each other. Read, not measured. Dedupe words: same-name container two bindings not judged · save name exclusion every binding",
        "carrier: none · noted, not filed (PR Acceptance notes) · The restore and publish doors (rollbackMetaItem, revertCommit, draft promotion) do not run the predicate, the same family note PRs #21618 and #21637 carried. A draft saved before its sibling existed can be promoted into a collision. Dedupe words: restore door bypasses container collision predicate · draft promotion container collision",
        "carrier: none · noted, not filed · A disabled package's shipped view item still counts as served, because lookupArtifactItem does not ask whether the package is enabled. Read, not measured. Dedupe words: disabled package shipped view item collision"
      ],
      "deviations": [
        "Message order. All family messages now name the owner and give the prescription before the explanation, #21558's and #21620's included. A 4xx message crosses REST cut at 500 characters (CLIENT_MESSAGE_MAX), and the first REST probe received the shipped-arm prescription cut mid-word, so the order follows the #17584 rule in this file. The pin asserts the owner and the view-item prescription inside the first 500 characters. The prescriptions' content is the family's, as H1 asks; #21558's own-expansion first arm now names the stored container under the object's name instead of prescribing a save there.",
        "Existing pins touched. In the #21558 showcase block, expectRefused's label changed and it asserts the shipping package as the named owner, because every name those pins save under is a name the showcase ships. The #21620 block's doc comment gained a one-paragraph note. Envelopes and intents are unchanged, and leg 1 turns all of them red.",
        "H3, first spelling. 'A view item' was first tested as 'not a container'. That refused sys-metadata-repository.package-writability.test.ts's ADR-0005 overlay preservation pin, whose artifact stub is neither a container nor a view item. It is now positive (viewKind set), the same predicate in the attribution guard, and that pin is green.",
        "Throwaway probes. A duplicatePackage census probe and two REST dogfood probes were created under the package test directories, run, and deleted. The tree was clean before every commit.",
        "One MCP call (add_repo, read) for the objectui census, as listed in mcp_calls.",
        "origin/main was merged twice (f30588ceb7, d5101d1831). It moved the objectui pin to ab1879721595, so the Studio census was re-read there. Neither merge touched packages/metadata-protocol."
      ],
      "gates": "dispatch-gates --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack, with no paths, at d5101d1831: 64 families. That is the dispatch lead's 56 plus 8 from the changeset (check-adr-0087-registration x2, check-empty-changeset x2, release-rehearsal-clone --self-test, release-pending-publish --self-test, check:objectui-changeset, check:pm-changeset-deadline-census). All 64 exited 0. pnpm check:dual-build-cjs-loads first exited 3 (PREREQUISITE NOT MET: 8 packages had no dist) and exited 0 after they were built through the lock. check:dual-build-cjs-loads and check:type-check-debt ran through the verify lock. --ran: '64 derived, 64 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN'. check-adr-0087-registration accepts the changeset's not-required (no-migration-prescription) disposition. Lint, declared narrowed: eslint --no-inline-config --format json over the 2 changed .ts files gives 2 files, 0 errors, 0 warnings and no ignored-file message. Type-aware linting is off (eslint.config.mjs:328; --print-config shows parserOptions.project and projectService null), so no untouched file can change verdict. Repo-wide pnpm lint is CI's. CI status at report time: in_progress (not awaited).",
      "line_budget": "n/a",
      "files_changed": [
        "packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts +231 -181 (saveMetaItem's view save door: viewContainerNameCollisionRefusal and overlaidShippedContainerViewNames replace the two checks; runtimeViewContainerPackage's package-less branch; the module-level isShippedViewItem; the unused deriveViewContainerObject import removed)",
        "packages/metadata-protocol/src/view-container-runtime-expansion.test.ts +487 -2 (the #21639 enumeration block, the #21638 attribution block, #21558's owner assertion, #21620's doc note)",
        ".changeset/21639-view-container-name-collision.md +28 (metadata-protocol minor, Clause-②: no (narrowing), BREAKING banner, adr-0087 not-required (no-migration-prescription), before/after per shape)"
      ],
      "census": {
        "taken": "Before either arm was relied on. objectstack at BASE 7b07749f05, re-read at d5101d1831; objectui at pins 89cad75d55 and ab1879721595.",
        "verdict_2": "Decidable, and no live writer in the ruled set saves a second container of one object on purpose, so the refusal landed. Package duplication produces the shape as a byproduct and is raised in open_questions.",
        "1_issue_13407_authoring_path": "No. Checklist item studio-authoring.view-authoring-live (P1, revision 2) saves one container, qa_repair_asset_views { object: 'repair_asset', list, form }, on a runtime object, and no other checklist item stores a container on repair_asset. #13407's repro (per PR #21637's census) is one container bound to note.",
        "2_issue_21412_P2_P2b": "No. One container, lead_views, bound to crm_lead; the #21412 block stays green.",
        "3_issue_21334_arm": "No. It expands under the container's own name, OBJECT.CONTAINER_NAME[.KEY]; pinned as allowed rows 17-18.",
        "4_studio_metadata_editor_resave": "No. Creators write view items: metadata-admin createBuildBody (anchors.ts:291), the spec create seed for view (metadata-create-seeds.ts:62), and data-objectstack createView and setViewConfig. Re-savers save the loaded body under its name: ResourceEditPage :1477, StudioDesignSurface :2475 (new at ab1879721595), and updateView. A re-save collides only where the store already does, and is then refused until its body changes.",
        "5_duplicatePackage": "Yes, as a byproduct (measured, see open_questions). BASE: the copy silently took the source's view. HEAD: failed[] with this refusal.",
        "6_migrateStoredMetadata": "Not a creator. It records the refusal as outcome failed, by construction.",
        "7_ai_author": "In-repo: none (the MCP tools have no metadata write; skills/objectstack-ui teaches defineView in source). Cloud AI author: NOT MEASURED, and outside the ruled set.",
        "8_packaged_and_stored": "The source registrars never reach this door. The example apps seed no sys_metadata view rows. Hosted tenants: NOT MEASURED.",
        "attribution_half": "No live overlay path depends on a package-less container row taking a shipped view ITEM's package. The callers are expandRuntimeViewContainer and overlaidShippedContainerViewNames. The overlay that takes a package (a package-less row under the package's own container name; the checklist's packaged-display-class-direct-edit) is unchanged and pinned as a control. Rows stored before the change: such a row expands under its own name with no package and no default, and the packaged views it replaced are served again; the row still takes its own name's slot, which is out of surface."
      },
      "enumeration_pin": [
        "1 REFUSED - a container under a name its own expansion produces (#21558) - owner: its own expansion",
        "2 REFUSED - the same, while a stored container holds its object's name - owner: its own expansion; the prescription names that container",
        "3 REFUSED - a container of the same object under a name a stored container expands (#21620) - owner: stored container crm_lead",
        "4 REFUSED - a container bound to another object under that name ((1) other-object) - owner: stored container crm_lead",
        "5 REFUSED - an unbound container under that name ((1) unbound) - owner: stored container crm_lead",
        "6 REFUSED - a second container of one object, free name, bare list on OBJECT.default ((2)) - owner: stored container crm_lead",
        "7 REFUSED - a container under its object's name after a free-named container took OBJECT.default - owner: stored container lead_other_views",
        "8 REFUSED - a package-less container under a shipped view item's name (#21638) - owner: package com.example.showcase",
        "9 REFUSED - a writable-package container under a shipped view item's name - owner: package com.example.showcase",
        "10 REFUSED - an overlay of the package's container whose new member takes a view item the package ships on its own - owner: package com.example.showcase",
        "11 ALLOWED - a view item under a stored container's expanded name (#21510's sanctioned override) - reason: a view item is not a container",
        "12 ALLOWED - a view item under a shipped view item's name - reason: the sanctioned override by name",
        "13 ALLOWED - a container under its object's name - reason: the contract's own name (ADR-0017 §3.2), and nothing it expands is served elsewhere",
        "14 ALLOWED - a container's own re-save - reason: the row under the save name is the row this save replaces",
        "15 ALLOWED - a container under a name of its own beside a sibling, with names the sibling does not expand - reason: the census writers' shape, colliding with nothing",
        "16 ALLOWED - an overlay of the package's own container by its own name - reason: ADR-0005, the row stands in for the shipped container and its views",
        "17 ALLOWED - a package-less container on another package's object - reason: #21334's arm",
        "18 ALLOWED - the same in a writable package - reason: #21334's arm",
        "19 ALLOWED (organization scope) - under another organization's container's expanded name - reason: the caller's selection decides",
        "20 ALLOWED (environment scope) - an environment-wide container under an organization's container's expanded name - reason: the caller's selection decides; reading every organization's rows would be a cross-tenant read",
        "Structure: each row runs on 2 kernels x 2 scopes unless it names one scope. The structural tests fail on a row that is neither refused nor allowed, or both, on a ruled shape with no row, and on a predicate cell (save name or expansion name x own expansion, stored container or shipped item) with no refused row."
      ],
      "cleanup": "Done before this comment. rm -rf the worktree's node_modules, then git worktree remove ../objectstack-issue-21639 (no --force, exit 0; git status was clean and the local head d5101d1831 equalled the remote branch). The scratch objectui clone was deleted. No dev server, background job or monitor was started; the REST probes booted and stopped their own in-process stack inside vitest."
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  6. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 4, 2026

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    Landed: PR #21648 → eea82af677 on main (merged 2026-10-04T01:09Z through the merge queue, entered 2026-10-04T00:46Z), verified at 2026-10-04T01:09Z. domain:engine#1 · session_017ErfyP2Rx7XWHJA27QjyUi.


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