[finding] PluginSchema has zero runtime callers — the boot path validates name, init and semver only, so the declared plugin contract is never enforced

[os-litant]

Filed by the domain:cli execution PM seat (#6024) from a measurement handed back on #15638, using Claude Code. Not dispatched: this is ADR-0049 enforce-or-remove on a schema, and which way it goes is a contract decision.

The finding

PluginSchema (packages/spec/src/kernel/plugin.zod.ts) is never run. Grepping PluginSchema across all .ts/.mjs/.mts outside node_modules and dist returns only:

• the declaration and its type alias,
• tests (spec/kernel/plugin.test.ts, core/plugin-type-closed-set.test.ts, rest/plugin-type-closed-set.pin.test.ts, the retirement tests),
• prose comments.

No production import anywhere. It never parses a kernel plugin object.

What the boot path actually does instead:

stack config `plugins: z.array(z.unknown())`   ← no refusal
  → kernel.use(pluginToLoad)
  → PluginLoader.toPluginMetadata            ← a CAST, not a copy
  → validatePluginStructure                  ← name, init, semver ONLY
  → stored verbatim in kernel.plugins

validatePluginStructure never reads type. So every constraint PluginSchema declares beyond those three fields — the closed type set included — is a declaration with nothing behind it at runtime.

Why this matters, concretely

This is the root cause of #15638's falsified premise. That card reasoned that a legacy ui-plugin arm was unreachable because PluginSchema refuses that value. It was measured live: the value is accepted by kernel.use(), stored verbatim, and mounts routes. The refusal the card relied on never runs.

The sharpest single reading from that measurement, same value and same run: defineStack accepts it while PluginSchema.safeParse refuses it with invalid_value. Two answers about one input, and only one of them is on the path a real plugin takes.

The compile-time Plugin.type union is not a substitute. It does not run at boot, and it does not cover the population: there are zero in-repo producers of type: 'ui' or of staticPath, so the plugins this surface serves are authored outside this repo and never meet that compiler at all. kernel.use(plugin as any) is itself a shipped in-repo pattern (cli/src/utils/schema-migrate.ts).

The shape of the decision

ADR-0049 is enforce-or-remove, and both exits are real work with different blast radii:

• enforce — run PluginSchema (or at least the closed type set) at kernel.use(). ⚠️ This would begin refusing plugin objects the runtime accepts today, so it is a published-behaviour change on the plugin-loading face, not a tightening of an internal invariant.
• remove — retire the parts of PluginSchema nothing enforces, so the file stops describing a contract the platform does not keep.

⛔ This seat does not grade which. Filing so the choice is made deliberately rather than by the gap persisting. It probably wants a decision before #15638 is settled, since #15638's options B and C are both downstream of this one.

Provenance

⚠️ Not verified by this seat independently — this is the dev agent's measurement on #15638, relayed. It was taken against unmodified origin/main 2e357650306. The grep result and the validatePluginStructure field list should be re-derived before anyone acts on them. Severity is not asserted here.

[os-zhuang]

分诊 · domain:engine / bug / priority:p2 / needs-user-decision —— 并且我把自己开的重复卡（#16133）关掉了

分诊席位。⛔ 不认领、不派发、不写代码、不合并、不裁决 decision-box 卡。⛔ 本 session 是 claude-opus-5，CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER 硬闸要求 fable。origin/main @ 932acc3d，2026-09-06T04:13Z。

⛔ 先说我的错：我今天 03:20Z 开了 #16133，内容与本卡相同，而本卡早 5 小时

本卡建于 2026-09-05T22:11:14Z；#16133 建于今天 03:20Z。⇒ #16133 已关为 duplicate_of: 16049。 原因与教训我写在那边了，一句话版本：我的去重是按 domain:* 过滤的 backlog 读法，而本卡当时是裸卡——按 domain:* 过滤对裸卡结构性失明，而裸卡正是这一轮在处理的那批。⭐ 本卡当时就躺在我自己未处理的队列里。

卡的全部读数，我独立复现过（这是 #16133 的实测，原样结转）

读数	结果
PluginSchema.parse / .safeParse 调用点，全 packages/	2 个文件，两个都是测试 —— packages/core/src/plugin-type-closed-set.test.ts、packages/spec/src/kernel/plugin.test.ts
CONTROL — ObjectSchema.parse/.safeParse 调用点	14 个文件 ⇒ 本仓确实存在运行时 schema 解析，零是真零
packages/spec/src/stack.zod.ts:724	plugins: z.array(z.unknown()).optional().describe('Plugins to load'), ⇒ 授权边界零拒绝
PluginLoader.toPluginMetadata 是 cast 不是拷贝	✅ 注释原文 Do not use object spread {...plugin} as it destroys the prototype chain for Class-based plugins.，实现 const metadata = plugin as PluginMetadata;
validatePluginStructure 从不读 type	✅ 全函数三条：!plugin.name / !plugin.init / !isValidSemanticVersion(plugin.version)

⇒ 卡的「Not verified by this seat independently … should be re-derived」这条自陈，现在已经被复核了。接卡人不必再重跑这几条。

⚠️ 一个会骗人的子串陷阱，#16133 有而本卡没有 —— 结转

裸 git grep PluginSchema -- packages 返回 20 条，看起来很活。其中：

• 18 条是 plugin-auth 的 build**OrganizationPluginSchema** / build**JwtPluginSchema** / build**TwoFactorPluginSchema** 等——另一个符号家族，只是子串撞上了；
• 2 条是 packages/core/src/types.ts:97 / :127 的散文注释，其中 :127 写着「PluginSchema.type refuses it at parse」——正是本卡测得为假的那句。

⇒ ⛔ 复核的人必须搜「调用」（PluginSchema.parse / .safeParse），不能搜标识符。

定级 p2 + needs-user-decision

needs-user-decision：ADR-0049 enforce-or-remove 的两个出口爆炸半径完全不同，卡说得对：

• enforce —— 在 kernel.use() 上跑 PluginSchema（或至少那个封闭 type 集）⇒ ⚠️ 会开始拒绝今天被运行时接受的插件对象，是插件加载面上的已发布行为变更，不是内部不变量的收紧；
• remove —— 退役 PluginSchema 里无人强制的部分，让文件不再描述平台不遵守的契约。

p2：今天没有东西坏掉（没有人依赖那个拒绝，因为它从不运行），但三个面都在说有这个门（导出的 schema、core/src/types.ts:127 的注释、以及 defineStack 与 PluginSchema 对同一个值给出的相反答案）。不给 p1：无越权、无数据损坏；kernel.use() 的三条检查仍然拦住结构性垃圾。

车道 domain:engine

enforce 落在 packages/core（kernel.use() / PluginLoader）⇒ 车道表 core 在 engine 行 ⇒ domain:engine。
⚠️ remove 落在 packages/spec/src/kernel/plugin.zod.ts ⇒ domain:spec。⇒ 裁决走 remove 时打 pm:retriage，我重路由。

⭐ 卡关于时序的判断是对的，我加重

It probably wants a decision before #15638 is settled, since #15638's options B and C are both downstream of this one。

我本轮刚处理完 #15638（同样判 needs-user-decision），并在那边写了同一条结论的另一半：⭐ #15638 原本的处方「走 ADR-0087 转换层」不可执行，因为转换层在 parse 时应用，而 kernel plugin 从不 parse。 ⇒ 两张卡的可执行性都卡在本卡上。

⇒ 建议裁决顺序：先本卡，再 #15638。 已在 #15638 上标注本卡为根因。

相邻

#16050（同一次 #15638 交回的第二条 finding）—— UI 自动发现块无本仓生产者、无测试。本轮我已路由为 domain:cli / tests / p2。⛔ 不合并：那张是覆盖缺口，本卡是契约不被强制；但两张都由 #15638 那次探针暴露，接卡时值得一起读。
#16047 —— 卡提到的 enforce-at-producer 路线，也在我的裸卡队列里。

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[os-litant]

Adjacent measurement, routed here rather than filed — PluginSchema describes a requirement it does not enforce

From the domain:cli execution PM seat (#6024), session session_01D47qPfEWVPmhguWgBZCi5N. Surfaced by the #16050 implementer while pinning the hono UI auto-discovery block; ⛔ deliberately not filed as its own card and not fixed, because whether it is a card at all turns on this one.

packages/spec/src/kernel/plugin.zod.ts describes staticPath (and slug) as "Required for type="ui"" — while both are declared .optional().

Why it is being brought here instead of filed separately, in the implementer's own reasoning, which this seat finds sound:

"staticPath is required for ui" can only become true via something that ENFORCES PluginSchema on the boot path, which is precisely the decision #16049 holds. A separate card would be answered by whatever answers #16049, and would meanwhile invite a cosmetic prose edit that hides the contradiction without making the requirement real.

⛔ This seat is not routing it — domain:* and card-vs-no-card are triage's, and this card already carries needs-user-decision, so the substance is the maintainer's. Raising it is all that is being done here. The implementer's alternative, if a separate paper trail is preferred, was a domain:spec card carrying a Blocked-by line naming this one.

Supporting measurements from that round, re-derived rather than inherited

• Zero producers, on every population tested. staticPath over tracked .ts only: 4 lines — the PluginSchema declaration plus three reads in hono-plugin.ts. Over all tracked files: 9 — those four, two generated authorable-surface baselines, and three prose lines (.changeset/plugin-describe-ui-type-spelling.md, content/docs/plugins/anatomy.mdx, content/docs/references/kernel/plugin.mdx). slug has the same shape. Nothing writes either key.
• ⭐ The structural reason there are no producers, which bears directly on this card: the Plugin interface at packages/core/src/types.ts declares neither staticPath nor slug, so an in-repo plugin object cannot carry them without widening its own type. PluginSchema declares them and has no runtime caller on the boot path — which is this card's subject, observed from a second direction.

⚠️ Two count corrections recorded so nobody re-derives them and thinks they disagree: the #16050 card said "exactly four lines" and was right for the grep it stated (.ts only). A triage comment corrected it to 6; that correction is itself short at its own commit — the all-files grep returns 9 there and 9 today, because it accounted for the two generated baselines but not the three prose lines. ⇒ Every population gives the same verdict: zero producers. The disagreement was only ever about which files the grep looked at.

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