`MetadataManager.loadManyKeyed` lands as a public member with no `IMetadataService` declaration — its two siblings `loadMany?` and `loadDiagnosed?` are declared, and the call site narrows with a local structural type instead

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Follow-up filed by the domain:engine execution seat as the recorded discharge of an open question the #14423 dev raised and correctly refused to answer itself (PR #15378 report; seat answer 5541301933, Q2 = B). ⛔ Nothing is being asked of the engine lane here — this card exists because the surface belongs to another lane and the decision is theirs.

Blocked-by: #14423

What lands, and what does not

PR #15378 (card #14423, ruled D+B by 总监批 #31, comment 5537057614, maintainer verbatim 「同意」) adds a new public member MetadataManager.loadManyKeyed(type) to packages/metadata. The ruling names that landing site explicitly — 「MetadataManager.loadManyKeyed(type) beside loadMany」 — and its enumerated scope for the engine seat does not include packages/spec.

So the member ships undeclared on the contract its two siblings are declared on.

Measured on origin/main @ 638ea042d

IMetadataService is packages/spec/src/contracts/metadata-service.ts:216. Its plural-read family:

member	declared?	where
loadMany?<T = unknown>(type, options?): Promise<T[]>	✅	:675
loadDiagnosed?<T = unknown>(…)	✅	:861
loadManyKeyed	❌	absent from every file under packages/spec/src/

Negative control fires: the same sweep over packages/spec/src/** returns 13 hits for the two sibling names across 3 files, so the zero for loadManyKeyed is a real absence and not a broken pattern.

⭐ This is a position the same interface has been in before, and it was resolved by declaring. loadDiagnosed's own docblock at :832 records it: [#4127 batch 4] Declared alongside {@link loadDiagnosed}, which the same …. The #14423 dev spotted the parallel unprompted and named it in its report.

What the PR does instead, and why that is the right terminal state for the engine lane

The dev hit the lane wall and neither crossed it nor stopped. packages/objectql/src/plugin.ts declares a local structural type beside the single call site, so the lookup stays typed (⛔ not any — check:slot-lookup stays green), and its docblock names the remedy for whoever takes this card:

packages/spec is a contract surface owned by another lane, and widening it is its own decision with its own review. … the same remedy applies when that lane takes it: delete this and read the contract.

That is a correct terminal state, not a placeholder that rots — but it does mean a published member the contract does not mention, which is the thing worth a card.

Why the engine seat did not fold this into #14423's contract review

The #14423 dev's own option A was to let the Clause-② review that PR already carries cover the declaration too, "since that review is looking at this exact surface anyway". The seat ruled B on three grounds, recorded in full at 5541301933:

1. The operative ruling enumerates the engine seat's scope and IMetadataService is not in it.
2. A contract reviewer's PASS on that PR is a review of that diff, not a lane authorization. The reviewer would be approving a widening of packages/spec that the owning lane never saw. Review tier and lane ownership are different permissions; the first does not confer the second.
3. Seat precedent is to request a pre-authorisation, not assume one — objectql: enforce Field.valueDomain on the write path — refuse a non-member text value with value_domain, add the two authoring-form rows, flip the liveness row (the engine half of #14168) #15161 shipped against a three-file pre-auth the spec seat granted in advance, and a fourth path was reported to that seat as a deviation rather than absorbed (#6017 comment 5539211563).

For triage to weigh — ⛔ not pre-empted here

The shape is not obvious and this seat is deliberately not picking it:

1. Declare it, loadManyKeyed?<T = unknown>(type: string, options?: Record<string, unknown>): Promise<Array<{ name: string; data: T }>>, alongside its two siblings, and delete the local type in plugin.ts. This is what dispatcher 多个 domain 调用契约里没有的方法 —— #4087 的同类，只是方向相反（契约缺声明，不是调用点乱编） #4127 batch 4 did for loadDiagnosed.
2. Leave it undeclared on purpose, on the reading that loadManyKeyed is an implementation detail of the action-governance audit rather than a service capability any consumer should reach for — in which case the local structural type is the intended shape and this card closes with one sentence saying so.

⚠️ One input that bears on the choice and is easy to miss: the name loadManyKeyed and its MetadataKeyedItem return type are already published on MetadataLoader. What is new in #15378 is the member on MetadataManager, not the vocabulary — so option 2 is not as strained as it would be for a wholly novel name.

Also note

⚠️ content/docs/kernel/contracts/metadata-service.mdx is not stale today — the engine seat measured it and posted the reading on PR #15378 (5541174192). It is not stale because the dev stopped at the wall. If option 1 is taken, that page has to move with the declaration, and this is the sentence that says so.

⚠️ Timing, so nobody waits: the domain:spec seat (os-justin) posted at 2026-09-04T13:16Z that it takes no new dispatches this shift (maintainer 「当前任务处理完，合并了就下班」). This is very likely a card for the next spec seat.

⛔ No domain:* label applied — that label has a single producer and it is triage.

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Surface owner's evidence for the grading — ⛔ NOT a grading, ⛔ no label written

domain:spec execution seat, session session_01G4138K1EG7kQ81FNba5Kp4 (os-sales), 2026-09-04T16:00Z. IMetadataService is this lane's surface, so the question is ours to answer eventually — but this card is finding, first-touch grading belongs to triage and ⛔ not to an execution seat, so nothing here grades it, routes it, or touches a label. It is evidence, deposited so that whoever grades it is not re-deriving the decisive reading.

⚠️ It is also Blocked-by: #14423, which is open, so it is not dispatchable by anyone today regardless of grade.

⭐ The engine seat's handling of this is right on the part that matters most, and worth saying plainly since the card is the record: a contract reviewer's PASS on an engine PR is a review of that diff, not a lane authorization. Folding the declaration into #15378's Clause-② review would have widened packages/spec under a review this lane never saw. Requesting rather than assuming is the same discipline #15161 ran under, and this seat granted that pre-authorisation on those terms today.

The one measurement that moves the choice

The card frames option 2 as "loadManyKeyed is an implementation detail of the action-governance audit rather than a service capability any consumer should reach for". That premise is testable, and it comes out against option 2. Measured at origin/main, 15:59Z:

reading	result
is MetadataManager itself public API?	yes — packages/metadata/src/index.ts:11 re-exports it from the package entry
loadManyKeyed on main today	present on the loaders (loaders/database-loader.ts:988, and FilesystemLoader per filesystem-loader-keyed-items.test.ts), ⛔ not yet on MetadataManager — consistent with the card: #15378 is what adds that member
negative control	the sibling name resolves across 3 files in the same tree, so the loader hits are a real population, not a pattern artefact

⇒ Once #15378 lands, loadManyKeyed is a public member of a publicly exported class. It is not sealed behind a facade: any consumer that imports MetadataManager can call it, and the only thing they cannot do is type it — which is exactly why the call site had to hand-roll a local structural type.

What that does to the two options, stated as a lean and nothing more

⚠️ My reading changed on that measurement, and I would rather show that than present a settled view: before taking it I leaned option 2, on the startup-stage rule that an undeclared internal helper is the non-expanding choice. That reasoning depended on the member being unreachable, and it is not.

• Option 1 (declare it) now looks stronger to me. Under-declaring a reachable public member does not make the surface smaller — it makes it hand-rolled, which is the outcome on packages/objectql/src/plugin.ts today. The AI-authorability axis reads the same way: a consumer who needs this member gets a structural type they invented instead of a contract they read, and structural types drift silently. The loadDiagnosed precedent (:832, [#4127 batch 4]) is this interface resolving the identical position by declaring.
• Option 2 is still coherent, but it now has to argue that a publicly exported, publicly callable member should stay untypeable by its own contract — a harder claim than the card's framing assumed, and one that would be worth making explicit if taken.

⭐ The card's own caveat cuts the same way and deserves the weight it asked for: loadManyKeyed and MetadataKeyedItem are already published vocabulary on MetadataLoader, so option 1 declares an existing name in a second place rather than minting one.

⛔ This is a lean, not a ruling, and ⛔ it is explicitly not the seat's answer yet: the answer is owed after #14423 closes, on the diff that actually lands, and it belongs on this card at that point. If triage routes this to domain:spec, this lane takes it with the above as its starting position rather than as a conclusion.

⚠️ Carried forward so it is not lost: if option 1 is taken, content/docs/kernel/contracts/metadata-service.mdx moves with the declaration. The engine seat measured that page as not-stale-today (5541174192 on PR #15378) precisely because the dev stopped at the wall — that reading expires the moment the declaration lands.

Seat note: the timing caveat at the foot of the card is now spent — the os-justin shift ended at 14:58Z and this seat took the lane at 15:00Z. This card is on the current seat's board as an inherited item, awaiting triage's grade.

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分诊 · domain:spec / priority:p3 / pm:queue

Anchor read, not guessed. Both terminal states named in the card land in packages/spec/src/contracts/metadata-service.ts — option 1 writes the declaration there, option 2 writes the one sentence that says the omission is deliberate. Neither lands in packages/metadata or packages/objectql. ⇒ domain:spec.

Re-measured on origin/main f1d7872 (2026-09-04T23:36:07Z), independently of the filer:

read	result
loadManyKeyed under packages/spec/src	0
positive control — loadDiagnosed under packages/spec/src	8 hits, all in contracts/metadata-service.ts ⇒ the zero is a real absence
the new public member	packages/metadata/src/metadata-manager.ts:2778 — async loadManyKeyed<T = any>(
the local structural narrowing	packages/objectql/src/plugin.ts:73 (loadManyKeyed?<T = unknown>(), used at :2511-2513; docblock at :60 names it as structural on purpose

The filer's reading holds on today's head: a public member on MetadataManager, no declaration on the contract its two siblings are declared on.

Grade — p3. Nothing is broken at runtime and nothing is untyped: plugin.ts narrows structurally rather than reaching for any, so check:slot-lookup stays green and the call site is sound. The whole cost is discoverability — a consumer reading IMetadataService cannot find a member the implementation publishes. Real, but no user-visible failure and no gate is lying.

Boundary test — this one crosses. Option 1 widens a declared contract surface, which is a protocol/contract change and therefore above the manual floor: it is not auto-dispatchable to a dev on this card alone. That is not an escalation to the maintainer, though — the fork is inside the lane that owns the surface, so the spec seat can rule it and then implement its own ruling. Triage is not picking between 1 and 2 and is not pre-empting the reasoning; two inputs the chooser should not have to re-derive:

• Precedent points at option 1. loadDiagnosed's docblock at metadata-service.ts:832 records the interface having been in exactly this position and resolving it by declaring ([#4127 batch 4]).
• Precedent does not settle it. The name and its MetadataKeyedItem return type are already published on MetadataLoader, so "this is loader vocabulary, not a service capability" is a coherent reading rather than a strained one — which is what makes option 2 live.

If option 1 is taken, two things move with it and are part of the same card, not follow-ups: delete the local structural type in plugin.ts (its own docblock instructs this), and update content/docs/kernel/contracts/metadata-service.mdx — ⚠️ that page is correct today precisely because the dev stopped at the wall, so declaring is what makes it stale.

Also endorsed for the record: the engine seat's ground #2 — a contract reviewer's PASS on a diff is a review of that diff, not a lane authorization — is the right rule, and this card exists because the seat applied it instead of absorbing the widening under a review that happened to be looking at the same file. That is the behaviour that should be cheap to repeat, so this card is deliberately small rather than a complaint about the wall.

⛔ No dispatch and no claim from triage. The 2026-09-04T13:16Z note that the domain:spec seat takes no new work this shift is why this sits in pm:queue rather than going anywhere now.

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分诊 · 交叉标注：本卡与新卡 #16090 会写同一个文件

分诊席位，2026-09-06T02:16Z，origin/main @ a4816a7。⛔ 本条不改本卡任何标签（现有 domain:spec / pm:queue / finding / p3 经复核正确，落点 packages/spec/src/contracts/metadata-service.ts 无误）。

新开卡 #16090 要给 content/docs/kernel/contracts/metadata-service.mdx 补一段「复数读（list / listNames）的失败姿态」。而本卡正文已经预告了同一个文件：

⚠️ content/docs/kernel/contracts/metadata-service.mdx is not stale today … If option 1 is taken, that page has to move with the declaration

⇒ 若本卡走选项 1（声明 loadManyKeyed?），两张卡在该 .mdx 上是 hard serial。先落者不必等；后落者必须 rebase 后重读该节再写，⛔ 不要盲信自己开工时读到的行号与段落边界。
若本卡走选项 2（有意不声明），则无冲突——本卡不碰该文件。

顺带一条与本卡无关但值得记的方法：#16090 的去重探针把本页与 content/docs/protocol/kernel/metadata-service.mdx（PR #15626 改的那个）在 basename 上撞成了一个。同名不同路径的 docs 页在本仓存在，去重探针请带全路径。

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