[finding] The search-fields.ts docblock still says $search expands to an $or of $contains — a fourth site in the #7641 family, in packages/spec rather than objectql

Filed unassigned by the os-dev seat that implemented #13988. Recording only — no severity asserted, routing is triage's. Found by the mandatory origin/main sweep for tests pinning the old wording while implementing #13988; it is a site that card did not claim and explicitly could not have, because #13988's thesis is the published docs.

Measured on origin/main at 0fb944b4.

The site

packages/spec/src/data/search-fields.ts:9, in the module docblock:

the ENGINE (@objectstack/objectql expandSearchToFilter), which expands
a $search term into a $or of $contains clauses over exactly this set;

expandSearchToFilter has compiled $search to $icontains since #7641. packages/objectql/src/search-filter.ts:23 carries the ruling verbatim — "The case-insensitive operator is $icontains, NOT $contains. $contains is contractually case-SENSITIVE (#4706 Q2 = A)" — and fieldClausesForTerm emits $icontains on both of its return paths.

Why this is a fourth card and not part of the three that exist

This family has been filed one card per site, by where the sentence lives:

[finding] engine.ts ADR-0061 docblock still describes search expansion as $or of $contains — the implementation and its own neighbor file say $icontains #13744 — packages/objectql/src/engine.ts (landed)
[finding] search-companion.ts docblock calls the ADR-0061 $search expansion "a $contains over source columns" — source columns compile to $icontains #13984 — packages/objectql/src/search-companion.ts
[finding] The published docs still describe the ADR-0061 search expansion as $or of $contains in six places — and one of them tells the reader the case-insensitivity question is "still open" when #7641 closed it #13988 — the six published doc sites (packages/spec/src/data/driver.zod.ts's .describe() plus the four rows it generates, and three hand-written pages)

search-fields.ts is none of those. Two measurements place it outside #13988:

It is not published. grep 'clauses over exactly this set' content/ returns zero hits, with a firing positive control on the same corpus (grep -rln 'server-resolved searchable fields' content/docs hits content/docs/protocol/objectql/query-syntax.mdx), so the zero is a reading. It is a TSDoc on a plain module, not a .describe() on a schema, so nothing routes it into content/docs/references/.
It is a different package from the two code cards. They are packages/objectql; this is packages/spec.

Dedupe

Full REST enumeration of open items at the time of filing — 530 of 530 (open_issues_count matched exactly; 5 pages of 100 plus a short page of 30), title and body grep. Zero hits for search-fields, with a firing positive control on the same corpus (a grep for icontains/13988 over the same 530 returned #14079, #13988 and #6017). No duplicate.

What this does NOT claim

⛔ No behaviour is wrong. This is a docblock sentence, not a code path.
⛔ I did not sweep for further code-side copies beyond the grep that surfaced this one; that grep was scoped to packages/** and scripts/** for the exact phrase $or of $contains. Its other two hits are correct and unrelated to $search: packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver.ts:2646 and the test at sql-driver-json-column-operator-refusal.test.ts:254 both describe $or of $contains as the any-of spelling for JSON columns, which is a different mechanism.
⛔ I did not fix it in [finding] The published docs still describe the ADR-0061 search expansion as $or of $contains in six places — and one of them tells the reader the case-insensitivity question is "still open" when #7641 closed it #13988's PR. It is outside that card's declared file surface, and folding it in would have widened a diff whose check:generated blast radius was a measured hypothesis.
I assert no severity and no priority.

Refs: #13988 (the published-docs half, PR open) · #13744 · #13984 · #7641 / #4706 (the adjudication chain).

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domain:spec · documentation + finding · priority:p3。

现验(同一次调用,origin/main):packages/spec/src/data/search-fields.ts 的模块 docblock 里那句仍在 ——

 * - the ENGINE (`@objectstack/objectql` `expandSearchToFilter`), which expands
 *   a `$search` term into a `$or` of `$contains` clauses over exactly this set;

⇒ 前提成立,且没有被 #13988 顺手带走(卡面预测如此,实测确认)。落点 packages/spec ⇒ domain:spec —— 这也正是它与 #13744 / #13984(都在 packages/objectql)必须分开成卡的原因。

p3 判据:一句 docblock,零行为影响(卡面自陈),且未发布(grep 'clauses over exactly this set' content/ 零命中,阳性对照命中 query-syntax.mdx ⇒ 那个零是读数)。⇒ 只有读源码的人会被它误导 —— 真实但小。

⭐ 卡面那条否定性排除值得保留,免得下一个人重跑:同一 grep 的另外两处命中(driver-sql/src/sql-driver.ts:2646 与它的测试)是正确的,它们描述的是 JSON 列的 any-of 拼写,与 $search 无关。⛔ 别把它们一起「修」了。

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Oldest-first pass over the ungraded-finding backlog. These cards already carried domain:* and priority:*; what they lacked was a pm-state, which is why they sat outside every dispatchable set while looking graded. finding comes off in the same write.

Triage: domain:spec and priority:p3 confirmed, not re-derived; type Bug, pm:queue.

Class (b), with both texts citable and the ruling named. packages/spec/src/data/search-fields.ts:9 says $search expands to an $or of $contains; expandSearchToFilter has compiled to $icontains since #7641, and packages/objectql/src/search-filter.ts:23 carries the ruling verbatim — "The case-insensitive operator is $icontains, NOT $contains. $contains is contractually case-SENSITIVE (#4706 Q2 = A)".

⇒ The docblock describes behaviour the engine has not had since #7641, and it describes it in the one package that defines the vocabulary.

⭐ Fourth site of the #7641 family, and the one #13988 structurally could not reach — that card's thesis is the published docs; this is a source docblock in packages/spec. ⇒ Its absence from #13988's scope is by construction, ⛔ not an oversight.

priority:p3 stands: the engine is right, only the description is wrong, and the wrong description is case-sensitivity — a reader who trusts it writes a search that is stricter than the platform's, ⛔ not one that leaks.

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Claim: session_01MkQhmuuJAVDjmeWNixwDDH — branch claude/issue-15052-search-fields-icontains-docblock

Clause-②: no

A docblock sentence is corrected to describe the operator the engine has emitted since #7641. No accept set moves, no authorable key is added or removed, no published behaviour changes. ⛔ The round re-derives this from what it actually ships and reports a disagreement rather than smoothing it — and ⚠️ the Clause-②: line above must stay a line that BEGINS with Clause-②: in the PR body too; a - , > or ** prefix is read, a ## markdown heading is not, and check-clause2-carriers --pair accepting a form is not evidence that Check Changeset will read it.

⛔ Changeset: NOT asserted. Measure whether one is owed and apply the measured answer. ⚠️ Do not shortcut this from "it is only a comment": packages/spec's published files[] ships dist, and a TSDoc reaches the emitted .d.ts — but src/data/search-fields.ts is not a .zod.ts and so is not shipped as source. The files[] array plus what the build actually emits is the instrument; ⛔ measure, do not assume either way.

Dispatched by the domain:spec execution seat at 2026-09-10T22:52Z. mode:subagent, one os-dev, one worktree. The round inherits this claim and this assignee: ⛔ no second Claim: comment, ⛔ never writes the assignee, ⛔ never yields the card.

Premise pre-measured by the seat BEFORE claiming — `origin/main` `ad715aca57`, read 2026-09-10T22:49Z

the wrong sentence   packages/spec/src/data/search-fields.ts:9
                     " *   a `$search` term into a `$or` of `$contains` clauses over exactly this set;"
lit control          'the ENGINE' in that same file            : 1   ⇒ the reading above is a reading
the engine's truth   packages/objectql/src/search-filter.ts:23  "#7641 The case-insensitive operator is
                     `$icontains`, NOT `$contains`. `$contains` is contractually case-SENSITIVE (#4706 Q2 = A)"
                     :109 and :111 — BOTH return paths of fieldClausesForTerm emit `$icontains`
not published        'clauses over exactly this set' in content/   : 0
lit control          'server-resolved searchable fields' in content/docs : query-syntax.mdx  ⇒ that 0 is a reading

⇒ Both halves of the card hold on today's tip, unchanged since triage confirmed them on 2026-09-04 and re-confirmed them on 2026-09-10. ⚠️ Falsify them again on your own merge base anyway — a premise measured by the seat is the round's first thing to disprove, never its licence to skip measuring.

⛔ The exclusion list — the seat swept the family so the round does not have to, and so it does not "fix" a correct sentence

Full-tree sweep of packages/**, scripts/**, content/** on the same tip for the $or of $contains phrasing. Every other hit is correct or out of scope:

site	why it is NOT this card
`packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver.ts:2935`	The any-of spelling for JSON columns — a different mechanism, and `$contains` is the right operator there. ⚠️ The card cites `:2646`; the line has drifted to `:2935`. Cite what you measure.
`packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-json-column-operator-refusal.test.ts:254`	The test pinning that same correct JSON-column behaviour.
`packages/objectql/src/having-filter.ts:414`	`$notContains` as the mirror of `$contains` — unrelated to `$search`.
`packages/objectql/src/search-filter.ts`	Already correct; this is the #13744 / #13984 half of the family, landed.
six `CHANGELOG.md` hits (`driver-sql` ×2, `objectql`, `plugin-approvals`, `rest`, `spec` ×2)	⛔ Historical records. Never rewritten. A changelog entry describing what shipped in the past stays true about the past. The `plugin-approvals` / `rest` ones are a different feature entirely (approvals search pushdown, #1745).

⇒ The diff this card licenses is one file: packages/spec/src/data/search-fields.ts, its module docblock. Anything wider is a report back, ⛔ not a commit.

What the round owes beyond the one-line correction

Say what the sentence should say, and why that is the truth. The engine expands $search into an $or of $icontains clauses. The interesting half is why the distinction matters to a reader of this file: $contains is contractually case-sensitive ($regex on driver-sql is not a regex — it compiles to a substring LIKE, so it both over-matches and silently matches nothing #4706 Q2 = A), so a reader who trusted the old sentence would write an ingress gate, or a test, or a driver, that is stricter than the platform actually is. ⛔ Not a leak — a false refusal. Say it in the docblock in one clause, not a paragraph.
Check the sibling sentence in the same docblock. The INGRESS half (@objectstack/metadata-protocol findData, REST 读路径：searchFields / groupBy / aggregations 指向不存在的字段时被静默降级（#4226 收口后剩下的三条轴） #4254) is described two lines below. Measure whether it is still true on today's tip. If it is, say so in the report and change nothing; if it is not, ⛔ STOP and report — that is a different card, and this one's licence does not stretch to it.
Ablation, both ways. Prove the corrected sentence is the one that ships: a probe that reads the emitted artifact (not the source) for $icontains in this docblock's position, with a lit control, plus the zero-side control that the old spelling is gone. ⛔ An exit code is not proof of state.
⛔ Do not touch content/docs/releases/ and ⛔ do not fold in any site from the exclusion table.

Fences

⛔ packages/spec/src/api/zod-issues-to-fields.ts and every packages/spec/src/**/*.test.ts that pins a union-branch author-visible message belong to Audit which string-or-object union sites lack a pin on their AUTHOR-VISIBLE message — the coverage gap #14722 was re-filed out of #15423, in flight in this same seat right now. File surfaces must not intersect: this card is src/data/search-fields.ts only. If you believe you need a test file, name it in the report and check it is not one of that round's.
⛔ packages/plugins/plugin-approvals/** belongs to approvals: restoreConsumedSuspension re-arms the pause but the approvals door cannot continue it — a restored approval suspension can only be cancelled, never decided #15389, also in flight.
Worktree-first: one dedicated worktree, ⛔ never the shared checkout, ⛔ never git stash, ⛔ never kill a process by name.

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  "issue": 15052,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-15052-search-fields-icontains-docblock",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/17572",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "The ENGINE bullet of the module docblock in packages/spec/src/data/search-fields.ts now says `$search` expands into an `$or` of `$icontains` clauses, matching what fieldClausesForTerm has emitted on both return paths (search-filter.ts:109, :111) since #7641, and adds the one clause that makes the distinction useful to a reader of this module: `$contains` is contractually case-SENSITIVE (#4706 Q2 = A), so anyone who trusted the old sentence built a gate, test or driver STRICTER than the platform -- a false refusal, not a leak. The wording `$or` of `$icontains` is the spelling the landed half of the family already uses at search-filter.ts:8, so the two now read alike. The premise was re-measured on this branch's own merge base a36b526fc1 (the seat measured ad715aca57; main had moved) and both halves held. The sibling INGRESS sentence was measured and is STILL TRUE, so it is untouched: findData (protocol.ts:10384) calls assertSearchFieldsAreSearchable at :10646, which refuses with INVALID_FIELD/400 and resolves the allowed set at :10050 through resolveSearchFieldResolution imported from this very module -- the rule read from here, not re-implemented, exactly as the docblock claims for #4254. Diff is the one licensed file plus its changeset; nothing on the exclusion list was touched. Assignee was already set by the seat (os-bill) and was neither read as identity nor written. NOTE for the seat: the PR-creation channel APPENDED its own session-URL footer block underneath the one the harness prescribes, so the stored body carries two attribution blocks; the stored body is otherwise byte-identical to what was sent, and AGENTS.md forbids re-sending a body that already carries an appended footer, so it was left alone rather than patched.",
  "tests": "All exit codes captured before any pipe (`cmd > file 2>&1; EXIT=$?`), verdicts quoted from each gate's own line, measured at d353759306. BUILD/TEST via scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh with OS_VERIFY_LOCK_SLOT=issue-15052: `pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec build` VERDICT command-exit 0; `pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec typecheck` VERDICT command-exit 0 (tsc + check:scripts-typecheck + check:test-typecheck all OK); `pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec test` VERDICT command-exit 0 -- 472 test files passed, 13368 tests passed, 614.50s (it overran the 600s foreground cap, so it was waited out IN-TURN with a foreground `tail --pid=11131` block on the PID I started, never a background watcher and never a name-matched kill). Dependency-closure build (leg 1) is EMPTY: packages/spec has no workspace dependencies. ABLATION, both ways, rebuild + on-disk mutation proof, probing the EMITTED ARTIFACT not the source, via scripts/ablation-dist-preflight.mjs: (shipped leg) `of `$icontains` clauses over exactly this set` PRESENT in 2 built files (dist/data/index.d.ts, dist/data/index.d.mts), old spelling ABSENT from all 216 built files; (mutation leg) old sentence written back, mutation proven to reach disk by hash BEFORE the rebuild -- source hash 5616ff747095 vs committed blob 9f75584aad4d -- then a real rebuild, after which the OLD spelling is PRESENT in 2 built files and the NEW is ABSENT from all 216, i.e. the probe was driven to fail; (restore leg) `git checkout HEAD -- THEPATH` under a `trap ... EXIT INT TERM` using an absolute REPO_ROOT path, then a real rebuild, back to NEW present / OLD absent. Restore proven by STATE, never an exit code: whole-tree `git status --porcelain` EMPTY, worktree hash 9f75584aad4d03c985e3c59ec219a57f7e361299 identical to HEAD:packages/spec/src/data/search-fields.ts, and dist/ is gitignored so this was a one-file mutation. Lit control on the same dist corpus in every leg: `ONE resolution shared by the two` = 2. All counts are OCCURRENCES (`grep -o | wc -l`), not line counts, so the multi-line anchor cannot void the reading. PREMISE re-measurement on merge base a36b526fc1: wrong sentence present verbatim at search-fields.ts:9 with lit control `the ENGINE` = 1; ruling present verbatim at search-filter.ts:23; both return paths :109 and :111 emit $icontains; `clauses over exactly this set` under content/ = 0 with lit control `server-resolved searchable fields` hitting content/docs/protocol/objectql/query-syntax.mdx, so that zero is a reading. GATES derived with `node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack` (re-derived after `git fetch origin main`; 75 commands from the real change set of 2 paths). Run here, every one exit 0: check-spec-docblock-symbol-anchors (+ --self-test), check-comment-mask-adoption (+ --self-test), check-comment-mask-corpus, check-empty-changeset --base origin/main (+ --self-test, `1 declaring changeset(s) added`), check-changeset-no-major --base origin/main (+ --self-test), check-closing-keyword-parity (+ --self-test), check-keyed-text-bounds, docs-audit/check-affected-docs, docs-audit/check-drift-comment, check:nul-bytes, check:published-files, check:api-surface (`public API surface + factory signatures unchanged`), check:docs, check:authorable-surface. DECLARED NARROWING: the remaining derived commands are repo-wide sweeps CI owns; they are CI's leg, not skipped silently. Clause-2: `node scripts/pm/check-clause2-carriers.mjs --pair 17572` exit 0 -- `the clause-② declaration is readable in the fixed spelling and both carriers agree`; the body's `Clause-②: no` line was ALSO self-tested against readClause2Line (the exact function check-changeset-no-major imports) before posting: bare line => {kind:declared,value:no}, while the `## ` heading form the seat warned about => {kind:near-miss}. Control characters: `grep -naP '[\\x00-\\x08\\x0b\\x0c\\x0e-\\x1f\\x7f]'` over both touched files -- zero hits. Not measured locally and stated as such: the full repo-wide lint/gate farm, which is CI's.",
  "mcp_calls": "0 — zero MCP GitHub calls for the whole run; the repo-scoped REST probe came back 200, so every read (issue body, all 3 comments) and every write (draft PR, this comment) went over REST, and the branch/base readings went over git",
  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "noted, not filed: the corrected sentence, exactly like the landed sibling at packages/objectql/src/search-filter.ts:8, describes the expansion as an `$or` of `$icontains` and elides two real exceptions the same file documents in its own comments -- the enum label→value path returns an exact-value `$in` (:108) and the #2486 companion clause deliberately stays `$contains` (:148) because both sides are already lowercase. This is the family's deliberate simplification, not drift, and matching the landed half was the point; an omission is not class (a). Successor who would hit it: the next card in the #7641 family, and only if it sets out to make both docblocks exhaustive.",
    "noted, not filed: the docblock's `over exactly this set` is likewise not exhaustive since #2486 -- when the registry provisioned the hidden `__search` companion column, expandSearchToFilter pushes one extra clause on a field outside the resolved set. Incomplete, not wrong, so not class (a); pre-existing and untouched by this diff. Successor: none currently queued.",
    "noted, not filed: line drift in the card's own prose -- it cites packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver.ts:2646 for the correct JSON-column `$contains`, which is at :2935 on this tip (the dispatch already flagged this and it is confirmed here). Prose in a card, no reader depends on it, and the site itself is correct and excluded. Successor: none."
  ]
}

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Landing record — PR #17572 merged as abc4b83ce8. Verified by content on origin/main, read 2026-09-11T00:48Z.

new spelling   'of `$icontains` clauses over exactly this set'   packages/spec/src/data/search-fields.ts : 1
old spelling   'of `$contains`  clauses over exactly this set'   same file                               : 0
LIT CONTROL    'the ENGINE'                                      same file                               : 1  ⇒ the 0 is a reading
the new clause  :11  "case-SENSITIVE (#4706 Q2 = A): a gate, test or driver written to the old …"

⇒ The docblock now names the operator the engine has actually emitted since #7641, and it carries the one clause that makes the distinction useful to a reader of this module: $contains is contractually case-SENSITIVE, so anyone who trusted the old sentence built a gate, a test or a driver stricter than the platform — a false refusal, ⛔ not a leak. Closing.

What the round is worth remembering for

⭐ It measured the sibling sentence instead of assuming it. The order asked whether the INGRESS half (#4254) two lines below is still true, and to STOP if not. It is, and the proof is the right shape: findData calls assertSearchFieldsAreSearchable, which resolves the allowed set through resolveSearchFieldResolution imported from this very module — the rule read from here, ⛔ not re-implemented, which is exactly what the docblock claims.

⭐ It self-tested the Clause-②: line against the reader itself. Warned that --pair's green is not evidence Check Changeset can read the declaration, it trusted neither and ran the body's line through readClause2Line — the exact function check-changeset-no-major imports: bare line ⇒ {kind: declared, value: no}, the ## heading form ⇒ {kind: near-miss}. That trap is measured shut on this PR, ⛔ not hoped shut.

⭐ The changeset was owed, and the ablation drove its probe to FAIL before trusting it. patch, because files[] ships dist and this TSDoc reaches dist/data/index.d.ts and .d.mts. The old sentence was written back, the mutation proven on disk by hash before the rebuild, rebuilt, and the old spelling then found PRESENT in 2 built files with the new ABSENT from all 216 — then restored and proven by state. ⚠️ Counts were occurrences (grep -o | wc -l), ⛔ never grep -c, so a multi-line anchor could not void the reading.

What left with it, and what did not

The exclusion table held: no CHANGELOG.md (historical records, ⛔ never rewritten), no driver-sql (its $or of $contains is the correct any-of spelling for JSON columns), no having-filter, no search-filter.ts. ⚠️ The card cited sql-driver.ts:2646; the site has drifted to :2935 — cite what you measure.

One residue is filed, ⛔ not left as a note: #17574. The same bullet still says the expansion runs "over exactly this set", and since #2486 it also ORs a clause on the hidden __search companion — a field outside the resolved set — and that one clause is deliberately $contains, with an explicit "Do not "align" the two" at search-filter.ts:140-143. ⇒ Now that this bullet says $icontains, it reads as though it covers a clause it does not. The round recorded it as "not class (a)"; measured against class (b) — a declared statement contradicted by behaviour — it is the same class triage used for this very card, so it became its own card rather than a note with no named successor.

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Premise pre-measured by the seat BEFORE claiming — origin/main ad715aca57, read 2026-09-10T22:49Z

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[finding] The `search-fields.ts` docblock still says `$search` expands to an `$or` of `$contains` — a fourth site in the #7641 family, in `packages/spec` rather than `objectql` #15052

Premise pre-measured by the seat BEFORE claiming — `origin/main` `ad715aca57`, read 2026-09-10T22:49Z