The other two sort-axis consumers still re-derive sortability from field type — ListView's sort picker and RelatedList

Found while implementing #5729 (the grid's consumer leg of objectstack-ai/objectstack#10235, maintainer ruling A). Filed unassigned; not fixed there, because both files sit outside that card's fenced surface (plugin-detail was explicitly fenced for the round, and plugin-list is a separate affordance from the grid header the card scopes).

#5729 gives the repo a served signal and one spelling of its contract: @object-ui/core's isPlatformSortableField(projection, name), true iff an entry EXISTS and says sortable: true. The grid header now reads it. Two other places that decide the same question still read UNMATERIALIZED_FIELD_TYPES off the field's type instead:

packages/plugin-list/src/ListView.tsx:2409 — the toolbar sort picker. Measured, and the reason this is not merely cosmetic: the picker deliberately keeps a refused field listed when the CURRENT sort already names it (the in-use exception, so a user can remove it). Editing anything else in that popover re-emits the whole sort array, refused entry included, and ObjectView's onSortChange turns that into a persistViewPatch({ sort }) — the personalization PUT carrying a column the platform answers 400 INVALID_SORT for. Consume the per-column sortability signal: no sort affordance on columns the platform declares unsortable — downstream leg of objectstack#10235's ruling #5729 closed that leak at the grid seam (it filters both what it renders and what it emits); this picker is a second door onto the same stored state and is not behind that filter.
packages/plugin-detail/src/RelatedList.tsx:1146,1391 — both related-list sort entry points.

Both read the same @objectstack/spec set the platform computes its own projection from, so they are not currently WRONG about formula. What they cannot see is the rest of the closed category set the projection encodes as absence — an unknown name, a dotted path, an unprovisioned audit column, and any future verdict the runtime doors add — and they will not follow the platform when it moves.

Scope when picked up: replace the type read with readObjectSortability + isPlatformSortableField, keeping the branch for a deployment that served no projection (undefined means "no signal was served", not "nothing is sortable"), and keeping the relational carve-out separate — the platform answers sortable: true for a lookup, and the UI withholds it for a different reason.

Refs: #5729 · objectstack-ai/objectstack#10235 · #3950 (where the local set was consolidated into core).

Concentrated triage batch: finding → pm:queue + domain:ui, Task, M — inherits maintainer ruling A (objectstack#10235) via #5729's landed contract spelling: converge the two remaining sort-axis consumers (ListView.tsx:2409 sort picker, RelatedList) onto isPlatformSortableField, deleting their UNMATERIALIZED_FIELD_TYPES re-derivations. Preserve the picker's deliberate keep-current-sort behaviour (the body's tail documents it — read before editing); pin each surface.

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(a) Whole thread read — one record, triage's grading of 2026-08-25T04:13Z. No prior claim.
(b) Shadow check, in-flight and batch. In flight: [Decision] What diagnostic budget should production carry for a faulting visibleWhen? Today a node-gate fault is entirely silent in a production bundle #6038, plugin-report registers under namespace report while the console and the CLI whitelist declare plugin-report — bare report is double-claimed and three plugin-report:* keys are unrenderable #6416 (plugin-report +
apps/console + CLI), finding(plugin-view): ObjectView's non-grid fetch NEVER injects $expand — the ref it reads the schema from is empty on the one run it makes #6419 (plugin-view), finding(plugin-grid): ObjectGrid's generateColumns() is untyped (any[]), so nothing type-checks what it writes into DataTableSchema.columns: TableColumn[] — the hole that hid #5853 and #5453 #6004 (plugin-grid). ⚠️ finding(plugin-grid): ObjectGrid's generateColumns() is untyped (any[]), so nothing type-checks what it writes into DataTableSchema.columns: TableColumn[] — the hole that hid #5853 and #5453 #6004 holds
ObjectGrid.tsx — which is this card's precedent consumer, to be read, never edited.
⛔ Do not touch packages/plugin-grid/**; if your convergence seems to need a change there,
stop and report instead.
(c) Call-site census on origin/main fdefd4b01 — and it did not come out as the card
describes:

The landed contract (inherits maintainer ruling A, objectstack#10235, via #5729):

packages/core/src/utils/column-sortability.ts:201  export function isPlatformSortableField(…)
packages/plugin-grid/src/ObjectGrid.tsx:2506       // `isPlatformSortableField` is the contract: an entry must EXIST and say …

The re-derivation I can see:

packages/plugin-list/src/ListView.tsx:2438  // Second rule — `UNMATERIALIZED_FIELD_TYPES` …
packages/plugin-list/src/ListView.tsx:2464  if (!relational && !UNMATERIALIZED_FIELD_TYPES.has(field.type)) {

⚠️ Two discrepancies with the card, both yours to resolve before writing:

The card names the picker at ListView.tsx:2409; today the re-derivation reads at :2464.
Line drift — ⛔ do not trust either number, re-derive.
⭐ My grep for UNMATERIALIZED_FIELD_TYPES surfaced ListView but NOT RelatedList. The card
names RelatedList as the second consumer. So either it re-derives sortability by a different
spelling, or the card's claim needs re-checking. Census the shape — "re-derives sortability
from field type" — not the symbol UNMATERIALIZED_FIELD_TYPES. A second consumer that
matches no symbol you already know is exactly the miss this lane keeps making.

If RelatedList turns out not to re-derive at all, that is a finding to report and the card
shrinks to one surface. Say so rather than converging something that was already converged.

Preserve the deliberate behaviour

Triage: "Preserve the picker's deliberate keep-current-sort behaviour (the body's tail documents
it — read before editing)." ⛔ That is not incidental: converging the predicate must not
change what the picker does with a sort already applied.

Pin each surface

Triage asked for a pin per surface, not one covering pin. Whatever you pin, prove it fails: put
back the UNMATERIALIZED_FIELD_TYPES re-derivation, observe red, quote both readings, restore by
hash rather than exit code, and state the predicted direction before each run.

⚠️ Note the shape of the vacuity risk here: isPlatformSortableField and the deleted re-derivation
agree on most inputs — that is why the drift went unnoticed. A pin over inputs where the two
agree proves nothing. Find the inputs where they disagree (the card's body documents the
family the re-derivation gets backwards) and pin those.

Deliver a draft PR with Fixes #6108. ⛔ Do not mark ready, ⛔ do not self-merge, ⛔ do not
enable auto-merge — the PM lands it.

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  "issue": 6108,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-6108-sort-axis-convergence",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/6454",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "All three remaining sort-axis surfaces now read the served projection through isPlatformSortableField instead of re-deriving sortability from the field's type: ListView's toolbar sort picker (UNMATERIALIZED_FIELD_TYPES deleted) and BOTH of RelatedList's sort entry points, which now share one withheldFromServerSort predicate (isUnmaterializedFieldType deleted). BOTH DISPATCH DISCREPANCIES RESOLVED. (1) Line drift confirmed: the picker reads at ListView.tsx:2464 on origin/main fdefd4b01, not :2409; re-derived, never trusted. (2) The important one: the card's RelatedList claim is CORRECT, not stale - the PM's grep missed it because RelatedList never mentions UNMATERIALIZED_FIELD_TYPES. It re-derived through isUnmaterializedFieldType(fieldDef), the same judgement under a different name, at both sites the card named (RelatedList.tsx:1146 sortableColumns and :1391 the data-list sort-button row). Censusing the SHAPE rather than the symbol is what found it, so this card covers three surfaces, not one. Three behaviours deliberately preserved and separately pinned: the relational carve-out stays OUT of the signal (the projection answers sortable:true for a lookup; the UI withholds for its own reason), the picker's keep-current-sort exception still lists a field the CURRENT sort names (now covering platform-refused fields, not just formulas), and the no-signal-served branch keeps the type read as a compatibility floor. plugin-grid/** untouched as fenced - ObjectGrid was read as the precedent consumer and needed no change.",
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RESTORE PROVEN BY HASH, not by exit code: 'git checkout HEAD -- <abs path>' (never a bare 'git checkout -- <path>', which reads from the polluted index), then the worktree blob hash compared against the HEAD blob hash, with an empty or missing hash treated as FAILURE - printed 'RESTORE-PROOF OK: ListView.tsx == HEAD blob a4ff10e1e778add955005adefcdd967505aa5651' and 'RESTORE-PROOF OK: RelatedList.tsx == HEAD blob 045d0d3e6bdb17ba5663c97d7ced417d619a460a, git diff HEAD empty'. Both scripts carried trap '<restore>' EXIT INT TERM with REPO_ROOT resolved absolutely via git rev-parse --show-toplevel. Final 'git status --short' empty. REBUILD: no dist is in the ablation's path and none was needed for it - the tests import ../ListView and ../RelatedList directly, and the root vitest.config.mts aliases '@object-ui/core' -> packages/core/src (line 257), so the run reads the mutated SOURCE. 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OBSERVED EXACTLY THAT: 'Tests 8 failed | 5 passed (13)' - 5 header-surface failures and 3 button-row failures, e.g. 'expected true to be false' on absence / dotted path / reasonless refusal, 'expected false to be true' on the platform-moved formula, and 'expected [ Name, Remote Status, ...(2) ] to include Rolled Total'. Baseline on the same tree immediately before: 'Tests 13 passed (13)', EXIT=0. === WHY THE PINS ARE NOT VACUOUS === isPlatformSortableField and the deleted re-derivation agree on most inputs (both refuse 'formula', since the platform computes its projection from the same @objectstack/spec storage fact) - which is why the drift went unnoticed across two cards, and why a pin over an agreement input would prove nothing. 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    "filed as #6455: ListView's sort picker still PERSISTS a platform-refused sort - the in-use exception (which this card was told to preserve) re-emits the refused entry through onSortChange -> persistViewPatch({sort}), and filterPlatformSortableSort, core's emit-side half of the same ruling, has exactly ONE consumer (ObjectGrid). Needs the render seam split from the persist seam, so it is a card and not a rider; no labels, left for PM triage.",
    "filed as #6456 (finding, domain:ui): the pre-objectstack#10235 compatibility floor (undefined projection -> fall back to the type read) is now duplicated across three files / four call sites, and its coordinated deletion is scheduled only in source comments - nothing will notice when the supported backend floor passes that release. Explicitly not a request to delete it now."
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PR #6454, head 27f9d10f6. domain:ui @ objectui execution seat, PM session
session_011SfZeFWrhGLHmfq61xbz4q. Verified on a pinned ref (refs/pmtmp/6108).

⭐ Both dispatch discrepancies resolved — and the important one went against my reading

I flagged at claim: "my grep for UNMATERIALIZED_FIELD_TYPES surfaced ListView but NOT
RelatedList — so either RelatedList re-derives under a different spelling, or the card's claim is
stale."

The card was right. My grep was too literal. Verified on origin/main:

packages/plugin-detail/src/RelatedList.tsx:1146  return isExpandableFieldType(fieldDef) || isUnmaterializedFieldType(fieldDef)
packages/plugin-detail/src/RelatedList.tsx:1391  if (windowed && (isExpandableFieldType(fieldDef) || isUnmaterializedFieldType(fieldDef))) {

UNMATERIALIZED_FIELD_TYPES appears zero times in plugin-detail — RelatedList re-derives
through isUnmaterializedFieldType(fieldDef), the same judgement under a different name, at
exactly the two sites the card named. ⭐ Censusing the shape rather than the symbol is what found
it, which was the instruction, and it means this card covers three surfaces rather than one.

Line drift also confirmed: the picker reads at :2464, not the card's :2409. Re-derived, not
trusted.

⭐⭐ Why the pins are not vacuous — this is the part that makes the PR

The dispatch warned that the two predicates agree on most inputs, which is precisely why the
drift survived two cards, and that a pin over an agreement input proves nothing. The dev built
every load-bearing cell on an input where they disagree, one per family:

family	contract (`isPlatformSortableField`)	the deleted type read
absence — unprovisioned audit column; dotted path `account.name`	withholds	finds no field def → offers
a refusal carrying no `reason:'virtual-type'` on a text field	withholds	offers
⭐ the platform moving — a formula the projection answers `sortable: true` for	offers	withholds on the type alone, forever

⭐ That last cell runs the opposite direction from all the others, which is what makes an
accidentally-passing pin impossible. A pin whose cells all fail the same way can be satisfied by
one broken axis; a pin with a reversed cell cannot. That is the asymmetry discipline applied to a
convergence rather than to a deletion, and I had not asked for it in that form.

And the fixtures are generated by the platform's own resolveObjectSortability from
@objectstack/spec/api — the resolver the REST layer serves the projection from — rather than a
copied table, with the base asserted before anything is measured against it.

The ablations, predicted then measured

Leg A (ListView reverted): predicted red on drift cells, green on the floor → 7 failed | 2 passed, and ⭐ the 2 still green are exactly the predicted ones — the
served-no-projection floor and the relational carve-out.
Leg B (RelatedList reverted): predicted 8 of 13 red → 8 failed | 5 passed, observed exactly.

Mutation proven on disk by grepping injected and deleted text at the anchor, with the replacer
asserting count == 1 and exiting 93 on an anchor miss — so a no-op edit could not be read as a
run. Restore proven by blob hash against HEAD, empty hash treated as failure, absolute paths
under a trap.

Three behaviours deliberately preserved, each separately pinned

The relational carve-out stays out of the signal (the projection answers sortable: true for a
lookup; the UI withholds for its own reason); the picker's keep-current-sort exception survives
and now covers platform-refused fields rather than only formulas — that was the "preserve the
deliberate behaviour" instruction, and it was widened correctly rather than preserved narrowly; and
the no-signal-served branch keeps the type read as a compatibility floor.

Fence respected

⛔ plugin-grid/** untouched — verified, zero files in the diff. ObjectGrid was read as the
precedent consumer and needed no change, exactly as fenced.

Out of scope, filed not fixed

#6455 — the in-use exception this card was told to preserve re-emits the refused entry
through onSortChange → persistViewPatch({sort}), and filterPlatformSortableSort (core's
emit-side half of the same ruling) has exactly one consumer. ⭐ Correctly a card and not a
rider: it needs the render seam split from the persist seam. #6456 — the compatibility floor is
now duplicated across three files / four call sites with its coordinated deletion scheduled only in
source comments.

⚠️ #6455 carries no labels; #6456 carries finding + domain:ui. Both land in the triage sweep;
grading is that seat's, not mine.

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⭐ Both dispatch discrepancies resolved — and the important one went against my reading

⭐⭐ Why the pins are not vacuous — this is the part that makes the PR

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⭐ Both dispatch discrepancies resolved — and the important one went against my reading

⭐⭐ Why the pins are not vacuous — this is the part that makes the PR

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