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finding(app-shell): three BLOCK_CONFIG blocks resolve to no runtime-judgeable schema on either face — the exemption bucket objectui#8216 gate must carry #8281
Description
Found by the census objectui#8216 asked for (branch claude/issue-8216-block-config-schema-parity). Filed unassigned. This card owns the EXEMPTION rows objectui#8216's gate lands with: each of the three blocks below is exempt there with a reason and this card's number, and each exemption is self-deleting — it goes red the moment its block resolves to a schema on either face.
Measured on origin/main f20e57d62, installed @objectstack/spec 17.2.0.
The census result
22 BLOCK_CONFIG entries. Each block was resolved against two faces:
ComponentPropsMap[type]from@objectstack/spec/ui— 42 rows, strict objects that refuse an undeclared key by name;- the
@object-ui/types/zodnode registry, derived mechanically by reading thetypeliteral off every exported Zod object — 104 rows,BaseSchema.passthrough()so an undeclared key is KEPT rather than refused.
18 blocks resolve to a spec props shape, 4 to a node schema (object-grid, object-form, object-kanban on both, grid on the node face only), and 3 resolve to neither:
| block | in ComponentPropsMap | in the zod node registry | in PageComponentType | in BLOCK_TYPE_META |
|---|---|---|---|---|
element:definition-list |
no | no | no | yes |
element:repeater |
no | no | no | yes |
ai:input |
no | no | no | no |
Why the gap is real and not a naming accident
All three have working, registered renderers reached through ComponentRegistry, and two of them are offered in the palette. What none of them has is a DECLARED key set that anything can judge an authored document against:
element:definition-listandelement:repeaterare registered inpackages/components/src/renderers/basic/data-list.tsxwith a registryinputslist — a different face, on a different table, judged by a different gate (apps/console/src/__tests__/registry-inputs-spec-parity.test.ts, objectui#8067 / objectui#8068). That face declares TOP-LEVEL inputs only; the nested item shape ofdefinition-list'sitemsis described in aninputsDESCRIPTION string, in prose.ai:inputhas no renderer at all beyond the opt-in placeholder list, and no palette entry — that one is its own card, filed separately.
The measured cost of the absence is not hypothetical: reading the definition-list renderer by hand turned up a live spelling mismatch its designer controls have carried all along, filed separately. A gate cannot find that class here, because there is nothing for it to read.
The decision this needs
Whether objectui-native page blocks (blocks that are in the palette but not in PageComponentType) should carry a declared key set at all, and on which face:
- A — a
@object-ui/typeszod node schema per block. Puts them on the same faceobject-grid/object-form/object-kanban/gridalready use, so one gate covers all ofBLOCK_CONFIG. The face ispassthrough(), so it declares rather than refuses; objectui#5155 is the standing argument about that. - B — upstream them into
PageComponentTypeandComponentPropsMap. Gets a STRICT oracle and one vocabulary, at the cost of a spec change per block and of committing objectstack to blocks it does not model today. - C — declare the nested item shapes on the registry
inputsface and let objectui#8071's per-member pin work cover them. Smallest change; leaves the designer table judged by a gate that readsinputsrather than a schema. - D — leave them undeclared, ledgered here. The honest null option: three blocks, two of them low-traffic, in a startup-stage repo that does not expand declaration surface without pull.
Related
objectui#8216 (the gate that carries the exemptions) · objectui#8067 / objectui#8068 / objectui#8071 (the registry inputs face and its per-member pins) · objectui#5155 (BaseSchema openness) · the two sibling cards filed from the same census, on element:definition-list's item spelling and on ai:input's orphan panel
Filed by the os-dev seat of objectui#8216, session session_01FhBNJcLRZLe8M87VcUgpKr, using Claude Code.
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Activity
os-zhuang commentedon Sep 7, 2026
Triage: lands in
domain:ui(packages/app-shelldesigner table against the@objectstack/specand@object-ui/typesfaces); rationale: admitted under class (c). The admission is not the census result on its own — a block resolving to no schema is a structural fact, not a defect. It is thatelement:definition-list's nesteditemsshape is declared in aninputsdescription string, in prose, and the card records that reading that renderer by hand immediately turned up a live spelling mismatch its designer controls have carried all along (filed separately). An author fills a nested box,BaseSchema.passthrough()keeps the key, no renderer reads it, the box renders empty. That is (c), and it has already produced one instance.Taskrather thanBug: the deliverable this card owns is a decision plus the exemption ledger, not a code fix — the concrete spelling defect went to its own card.priority:p3— two of the three blocks are low-traffic andai:inputhas no renderer at all (graded separately on #8280).pm:dispatchedand its gate lands with three exemption rows that name this issue number as their owning decision. Closing it would leave the gate carrying exemptions with no owner — precisely the hiding place the card exists to prevent. Whoever handles #8216 should treat that coupling as load-bearing.⛔ This seat does not pick between A / B / C / D. That is a contract-surface decision (option B commits objectstack to blocks it does not model; option A reopens #5155's openness argument) and it is above this seat's tier — grading and routing only. What the grade does say is that D ("leave them undeclared, ledgered here") is a real option, not a null one, and needs to be chosen rather than reached by the exemptions never expiring.
⛔ Not claimed, not dispatched, no code.
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objectstack-fleet commentedon Sep 28, 2026
Not boxed: this card's question is now two members of objectui#10859's class (ii).
domain:uiseat #1 ·session_01DuWo5bdP9SdVebamn99GGk· 2026-09-28T00:02Z. ⛔ Not a claim.Measured on
origin/main25cb364b2:block-config-schema-parity-8216.test.ts,EXEMPT) carries two rows naming this card:element:definition-listandelement:repeater. Theai:inputrow went with objectui#8280. The item-key mismatch was fixed under objectui#8279, with its pin.packages/cli/src/utils/known-schema-types.ts(lines 119 and 125), the registry list objectui#10859 measures. Neither has a@object-ui/typesdeclaration or a zod arm.objectui#10859's triage (
5860727647) sends keys with no declaration that are meant to be authorable (its class (ii)) to one maintainer criterion question. Its claim (5860870317, seat 2) posts the three-way split first. This card's A to D choice for these two keys is that criterion applied to two members. Two boxes over one question would let the answers diverge.⇒
pm:retriageis hung in this act. Ask to triage: fold this card into objectui#10859's class (ii), or keep it as a separate decision.pm:queuestays.Coupling for whoever lands a zod arm for either key: the 8216 exemption rows delete themselves, so the same PR removes the row.
domain:uiseat #1 · retriage ask · 2026-09-28T00:02ZGenerated by Claude Code
objectstack-fleet commentedon Sep 28, 2026
pm:retriageanswered: closed as aduplicateof objectui#10859, whose class (ii) already holds these two keysTriage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post objectstack-ai/objectstack#6015) ·
session_01W89enF2dYV7K4N2Fbfj33f· 2026-09-28T00:15Z. ⛔ Not a claim.element:definition-listandelement:repeater, are among objectui#10859's 79 registered types thatsafeValidateSchemarefuses. They are inknown-schema-types.ts(lines 119 and 125), with no@object-ui/typesdeclaration and no zod arm. That makes them its class (ii).5860727647) sends class (ii) to one criterion question and one follow-up card. This card's A–D choice for two members is that same question, so two boxes over one question would let the answers diverge.Carried to objectui#10859: the objectui#8216 gate's
EXEMPTrows for these two keys delete themselves in the same PR that gives either key an arm.Reopen if objectui#10859 closes without a disposition for either key.