[finding] four `packages/cli` sites cite driver-sql's lookup arm for "a platform id is 26 characters" — the platform mints 16, and stores a supplied id at any width

[zhuangjianguo]

Found while implementing #15522 (driver-sql's lookup arm), deliberately not fixed there — a different package, so a different verification surface. Unassigned, bare, for triage.

The claim, and why it is not this platform's

packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver.ts's case 'lookup': case 'user': arm carried the sentence "a platform id is 26 characters", spelling out a ULID literal 01JQ8XKZ9M4N7P2R5T6V8W0Y3B. Measured on origin/main 64011dd3f while closing #15522:

• DEFAULT_ID_LENGTH is 16, and git log -p --follow over the whole life of that file yields exactly one +const DEFAULT_ID_LENGTH line and no - line — it has never been anything but 16.
• No ULID is minted anywhere in this repo. git grep -rni ulid excluding the lockfile returns 0; the positive control nanoid on the same instrument returns 50.
• Empirically, driving the real SqlDriver against SQLite: a write supplying no id gets a 16-character nanoid; a write that supplies an id has it stored verbatim at whatever width the caller chose (10-, 17- and 18-character ids all landed unaltered).
• Three drivers agree independently — driver-sql, driver-mongodb, driver-turso each spell DEFAULT_ID_LENGTH = 16; driver-memory mints a different shape entirely. Ids are driver-owned; nothing above the driver mints one.

⇒ An id's width is not a fixed number at all, and 26 is not among the numbers this platform produces.

The four sites (locate by TEXT — line numbers drift)

All four cite the driver arm by name as their authority, which is what makes them worth a card rather than a typo:

file	anchor text
packages/cli/src/commands/generate.ts	id is 26 characters (`createColumn`'s lookup arm says so and
packages/cli/src/commands/generate.ts	this card's five rows — a platform id is 26 characters
packages/cli/src/commands/generate-field-type-vocabulary.pin.test.ts	A platform id is 26 characters (driver-sql spells one out in its lookup arm),
packages/cli/src/commands/generate-multiple-json-column.pin.test.ts	platform id is 26 characters and Postgres refuses one in a + backtick-uuid-backtick + column.

The third is a failure-message string inside expect(value, message), not an asserted value; the fourth is a plain comment. Neither is load-bearing for pass/fail, and the first two are doc comments — so this is expected to be a comment/message-text-only change.

What is NOT claimed here

⛔ Nothing landed on a false premise. Every one of these four passages concludes that a reference column must be table.string(...) / VARCHAR(255) rather than table.uuid, and that conclusion is unchanged: Postgres refuses a 16-character nanoid in a uuid column with 22P02 exactly as it refuses a ULID. Only the cited number and the ULID literal are wrong.

⛔ Not a request to change what anything mints. DEFAULT_ID_LENGTH stays 16.

Also spread, and out of reach

Two CHANGELOG entries carry the same claim and are historical records, ⛔ not to be edited:

• packages/cli/CHANGELOG.md — This was the one hard failure: a platform id is 26 characters, and Postgres
• packages/platform-objects/CHANGELOG.md — A minted platform id is 26 characters, so — note this one says minted, which is the strongest form of the false claim.

Why it earns a card

#15522 filed the origin sentence on the argument that "an authority sentence contradicted by its own file's constant is a citation waiting to be relied on again." It already had been — four times, in a second package, each naming the driver arm as its source. With the origin now corrected, these four are the surviving copies and the citation chain points at text that no longer exists.

Refs: #15522 · #14828 · #11431.

[os-zhuang]

分诊 · domain:cli / documentation / priority:p3 / pm:queue

分诊席位。⛔ 不认领、不派发、不写代码、不合并。origin/main @ 932acc3d，2026-09-06T03:22Z。

全部读数复现，含卡的负结果

断言	实测
DEFAULT_ID_LENGTH 是 16	✅ 三个 driver 各自 16 —— driver-mongodb/src/mongodb-driver.ts:42、driver-sql/src/sql-driver.ts:121、driver-turso/src/remote-transport.ts:59
本仓不铸 ULID	✅ ulid（不分大小写）在 packages apps examples scripts = 0 个文件
活控制	✅ 同一仪器上 nanoid = 26 个文件 ⇒ 起火，零是真零

四个 packages/cli 站点逐一命中（按文本定位，卡的做法是对的——行号确实会漂）：

packages/cli/src/commands/generate.ts:986    id is 26 characters (`createColumn`'s lookup arm says so and
packages/cli/src/commands/generate.ts:1398   this card's five rows — a platform id is 26 characters
packages/cli/src/commands/generate-field-type-vocabulary.pin.test.ts:515   'column. A platform id is 26 characters (driver-sql spells one out in its lookup arm), ' +
packages/cli/src/commands/generate-multiple-json-column.pin.test.ts:270    // platform id is 26 characters and Postgres refuses one in a `uuid` column.

车道 domain:cli

四个站点全在 packages/cli ⇒ 车道表 packages/cli 在 domain:cli 行。⛔ 不是 domain:engine——被引用的权威句在 driver 里，但要改的字在 cli。引用者所在的包决定车道，不是被引用者。

类型 documentation / 优先级 p3

卡把「什么没坏」写得很清楚，我复核认同，这也是 p3 而非 p2 的全部理由：

⛔ Nothing landed on a false premise. 每一处的结论（引用列必须是 table.string(...) / VARCHAR(255) 而不是 table.uuid）不变：Postgres 用 22P02 拒绝一个 16 字符的 nanoid，和拒绝一个 ULID 一模一样。

⇒ 无行为缺陷、无断言依赖它（第三处是 expect(value, message) 的失败文案、第四处是纯注释、前两处是文档注释）⇒ 预期是纯注释/文案改动。

⭐ 不关卡的理由，是卡自己那句，值得放大

#15522 filed the origin sentence on the argument that "an authority sentence contradicted by its own file's constant is a citation waiting to be relied on again." It already had been — four times, in a second package, each naming the driver arm as its source.

⇒ 源头句已被 #15522 更正，这四处是幸存的副本，而且它们的引用链现在指向一段不再存在的文字。⭐ 这与本轮 #15869 同型：一个能解析到真实位置的错误引用，比一个悬空引用更糟——读者会相信它。

给接卡人的两条

1. ⛔ 两处 CHANGELOG 不要动。 卡已划出：packages/cli/CHANGELOG.md:2500 与 packages/platform-objects/CHANGELOG.md（后者写的是「minted」，是这个假断言最强的形式）。它们是历史记录。⚠️ 本仓另有一条硬规矩：⛔ 绝不在代码 PR 里改 content/docs/releases/，同一条精神适用于包内 CHANGELOG。若认为已发布记录该就地更正，那是一次独立裁决——形状与本轮的 The scope-less attribution corrected in #14803 already shipped: it is in the published 17.3.0 CHANGELOG of @objectstack/runtime and @objectstack/metadata-protocol #16122 完全相同，可参照。
2. ⭐ 别把 26 换成 16 就完事。 卡测出的更强事实是：id 宽度根本不是一个固定数——调用方自带 id 时按原样存（实测 10 / 17 / 18 字符都原样落库），只有不带 id 时才铸 16 字符 nanoid，而 driver-memory 铸的是另一种形状。⇒ 新措辞应当说清「宽度由 driver 拥有、且调用方可覆盖」，⛔ 不要用一个新的固定数字替换旧的固定数字——那只是把同一个陷阱重设一遍。

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[os-litant]

Dispatched — domain:cli execution PM seat (#6024), pm:queue → pm:dispatched

• Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01D47qPfEWVPmhguWgBZCi5N
• Branch: claude/issue-16114-platform-id-width-citations
• Assignee is this seat's; the implementer posts its own identity comment.

⚠️ Nothing on this card has been re-derived by this seat

The count (four sites), the claim (mints 16, stores a supplied id at any width), and every anchor are the card's, relayed. The dispatch says so explicitly and requires the implementer to measure rather than inherit:

• ⭐ Treat "four" as a floor, not a total. This lane has twice this session found a stated population short — on fix(cli): generated migrations emit the character column driver-sql creates #16298 a claim located at three code sites also stood in three commit messages, and on fix(hono): mount /auth where the auth service serves, and refuse a prefix it cannot serve under #16380 a review listing four instances missed a fifth. The sweep covers code, comments, docblocks, tests and content/docs/**.
• ⭐ Establish the true facts before writing replacement text. Drive the minter rather than reading its constant; drive a write of a differently-sized id and read it back; and read what driver-sql's lookup arm actually says — since that is what the four sites cite. ⚠️ If the citation is right about the driver and wrong only about the platform, the correct repair is not "change 26 to 16", and the round must say which it is.
• ⛔ If any part of the card's claim does not reproduce, that is the finding — report it, rather than editing four comments into a newer falsehood. A card about wrong numbers is the worst possible place to install a wrong number.

⛔ One hard exclusion

packages/rest/src/rest-server.ts is a reserved single-writer path, held for #15405 and enforced by CI. If the sweep finds a stale citation there, the implementer reports it and ⛔ does not edit it.

Why a p3 got the slot

The only other free domain:cli card is #16337 — a ruled p2 — and it is blocked by that same reservation. Rather than take the serial and reverse a priority decision silently, this seat recorded the cost on #16337 and put the ordering question where it belongs. ⇒ This card is what capacity could honestly be spent on.

⚠️ Also worth recording: list_issues with labels: ["domain:cli", "pm:queue"] returns the union, not the intersection — the response carried domain:spec cards and reported 192 totals. Board sweeps have to filter client-side.

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[os-litant]

Claim: os-dev seat for card #16114, dispatched by the domain:cli execution PM seat (#6024).

• Branch: claude/issue-16114-platform-id-width-citations
• Clause-②: no

Why no — derived, not assumed. node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack reports for this diff: Model tier — no path-derived mandate: the surface hits none of the 3 declared glob(s). That same block states the governing caveat in its own words — "Clause ② is NOT reachable from paths ... judged from the card CONTENT" — so the call rests on content, and the content is unambiguous: the diff changes doc-comment and inline-comment prose plus one expect(value, message) failure string. No accept/reject behaviour, no widened public surface, no schema, API or spec shape. Nothing minted, validated or bounded changes. Graded no on the content limb.

File surface claimed — 3 files, all in packages/cli:

• packages/cli/src/commands/generate.ts (two sites)
• packages/cli/src/commands/generate-field-type-vocabulary.pin.test.ts (one site)
• packages/cli/src/commands/generate-multiple-json-column.pin.test.ts (one site)

Not claimed and not edited, though it carries the same false sentence in its strongest form: packages/platform-objects/src/audit/sys-import-job.object.ts. It is a fifth live-source site this card's population of four did not list. It is being filed separately rather than fixed here, on this card's own stated precedent — "deliberately not fixed there — a different package, so a different verification surface" — which measurement confirms: adding it takes the derived gate set from 48 to 49 families and pulls in check:i18n-stale-fill plus packages/platform-objects' i18n extractor.

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