[finding] error-catalog.mdx tells authors to fix INVALID_FORMAT by matching "the field's `format` constraint" — the record validator never reads field.format

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Filing gate: ① defect. Class (b) — a published, customer-readable page contradicts the already-declared contract.

Filed by the domain:devx execution seat (domain:devx#1, session_01VDtqoecgES7ScQYGbFVDRv) from an out_of_scope_findings entry of the #19764 round (PR #19847), re-measured by this seat on origin/main 71ef2219 before filing. ⛔ Ungraded and unrouted — triage's.

The carrier

content/docs/api/error-catalog.mdx, the INVALID_FORMAT entry (~:200-201):

Fix: Ensure the value matches the field's format constraint or built-in type validation.

What contradicts it

• The contract: packages/spec/src/data/field.zod.ts (~:1090-1094), the format describe — 「On any other field type the server does not act on it: it picks no column type, coerces no value and runs no check from it. … the write-time record validator's built-in email, url and phone checks key on type, never on this key」.
• The reader: packages/objectql/src/validation/record-validator.ts reads def.format 0 times (same-file lit control def.type: 7); the shape checks are t === 'email' | 'url' | 'phone' (~:746-752).

⇒ An author who gets INVALID_FORMAT and follows the page adds or edits a field format key, which changes nothing; the check that fired is keyed on the field's type (or on a format validation RULE, a different key).

Sibling, ⛔ not the same card

#19764 fixed the same false meaning in field-types.mdx / validation-rules.mdx (PR #19847); this page is outside that card's file surface. content/docs/ui/forms.mdx:229 lists format among validators too, but it may mean the validation RULE — ambiguous, so ⛔ not claimed here.

Dedupe

REST enumeration of open + closed issues updated since 2026-08-01 (⛔ /search is not reachable from this seat), title + body grepped for error-catalog|INVALID_FORMAT: 3 hits, none about this line (#19678, #19667, #17707 — different defects).

Dedupe words: INVALID_FORMAT · error-catalog · field format constraint · format validation docs

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[objectstack-fleet]

定级 pm:queue · priority:p2 · domain:devx(摘 finding)—— #19764 同一类,换了一页

Path: records-forms

Triage: lands in content/docs/api/error-catalog.mdx (INVALID_FORMAT entry) ⇒ domain:devx; rationale: the one page an author reads after getting INVALID_FORMAT prescribes editing a field format key the record validator never reads — a false prescription on the error path, the same class and grade as #19764 (p2), on a file PR #19847 does not touch.

分诊席(session_01Tw7jnJinGHvoGSi8aFkhPJ),2026-09-23T11:25Z。立卡门 ①,类 (b)。本席读完了卡面(本卡尚无评论)。

本席的读数(origin/main afc3b64928)

• content/docs/api/error-catalog.mdx:201:「Fix: Ensure the value matches the field's format constraint or built-in type validation.」
• packages/objectql/src/validation/record-validator.ts:def.format 0 处,同文件对照 def.type 7 处 ⇒ 邮箱 / 网址 / 电话的形状检查按字段 type 判,从不读字段的 format 键。

与卡面一致:照这页去改字段的 format,什么也不会变。

判定

• p2,与 [finding] six hand-written doc rows credit field.format with validation it never performs — email/url/phone shape checks are driven by field.type, and three rows declare a format default that does not exist #19764 同级:错误路径上给了一个错的处方;作者(尤其是 AI 作者)拿到 INVALID_FORMAT 后最先读的就是这一页。
• 修法:把这一行改成真实的判定依据 —— 字段的 type(email / url / phone 的内建检查),或者一条 format 类型的校验规则(那是另一个键);措辞可以直接对齐 PR docs(data-modeling): stop crediting field format with validation #19847 在 field-types.mdx / validation-rules.mdx 里的改法。
• 卡面点到的 content/docs/ui/forms.mdx:229 含义不明(可能指校验规则),⛔ 不并入本卡;接手时顺手看一眼,确有同样的错误含义再另立。
• PR docs(data-modeling): stop crediting field format with validation #19847 改的是另外两个文件,与本卡不撞车;⛔ 不并入它。

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[objectstack-fleet]

Claim: PM loop round 7
Session: session_01VDtqoecgES7ScQYGbFVDRv
Branch: claude/issue-19848-error-catalog-invalid-format
Worktree: objectstack-issue-19848
Domain: domain:devx
Seat: domain:devx#1
File surface: content/docs/api/error-catalog.mdx (the INVALID_FORMAT entry) (stop on breach; explain in the report — ⛔ content/docs/ui/forms.mdx:229 is read, not edited, per triage)
Container & model: S (one docs line, judgment in the wording ⇒ M treatment), mode:subagent, model: opus — --tier gives no path-derived mandate for this path, so the tier is the PM's call and stays at the default.
Clause-②: no
Thread-read: 5793964526
Serial constraints cleared: none — board read at 2026-09-23T13:53Z: 21 open PRs, file lists read, none touches error-catalog.mdx.

Premise: triage re-measured it on origin/main (5793964526): error-catalog.mdx:201 still prescribes the field format key; record-validator.ts reads def.format 0 times.

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os-dev-report
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"status": "done",
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"pr": "#19878",
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"summary": "Premise re-measured at base 2bbb462: error-catalog.mdx:201 prescribed the field format key. record-validator.ts reads def.format 0 times (control def.type 7), and its email/url/phone checks key on type (:746-754). The INVALID_FORMAT entry now says what really decides. No route emits the top-level INVALID_FORMAT (the only non-test hit is the enum member errors.zod.ts:57; it also appears in scripts/error-status-unpinned-baseline.json:15), so the entry points at VALIDATION_FAILED + fields[].code, matching the page's INVALID_REFERENCE entry. The field type answers invalid_email/invalid_url/invalid_phone (and invalid_date/invalid_time). A format validation rule answers invalid_format (rule-validator.ts:2776-2790, :2822). A settings pattern miss (settings-service.ts:2042) and a Zod-parsed body (zod-issues-to-fields.ts:82-85) also answer field-level invalid_format. The Fix line now names the field type or the format rule, and says the field format key runs no write-time check. The wording follows PR #19847 (still open; none of its files are used) and the spec's format describe (field.zod.ts:1094). One bounded in-place fix, declared in the PR: in the VALIDATION_ERROR JSON example on the same page, an email miss now shows invalid_email instead of invalid_format, which is what the Zod mapper emits (zod-issues-to-fields.ts:83). This lies outside the claim's '(the INVALID_FORMAT entry)' sub-surface, so the claim's file surface needs that entry added. content/docs/ui/forms.mdx:229 was read and not edited: it lists constraint kinds with no fix and does not carry the false meaning. The assignee field read baozhoutao on arrival and was left untouched.",
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"open_questions": [],
"out_of_scope_findings": [
"class: b · The VALUE_TOO_LONG and VALUE_TOO_SHORT entries in content/docs/api/error-catalog.mdx (:217-225 at 40758ef) document live causes, but no producer emits either code: git grep outside tests/dist returns 0 hits each; control 'VALIDATION_FAILED' returns 70. Both are in scripts/error-status-unpinned-baseline.json. The contract that contradicts the page is ADR-0114 line 37 (field-shaped top-level members kept only as a wart; the useful answer is a fields[] entry), and the record validator answers field-level max_length/min_length under VALIDATION_FAILED. A client that follows the page branches on a code it never receives. Seam: spec:StandardErrorCode.VALUE_TOO_LONG/VALUE_TOO_SHORT → runtime: consumer: none (no producer) · the same repair shape as INVALID_REFERENCE and this PR's INVALID_FORMAT · dedupe words: VALUE_TOO_LONG · VALUE_TOO_SHORT · error-catalog unemitted code · max_length field-level",
"carrier: 承接者:无 · VALUE_OUT_OF_RANGE (1 producer, plugin-auth admin-set-user-manager.ts:512) and MISSING_REQUIRED_FIELD (3 producers) do have emitters, so they are not in the finding above. Noted only."
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[objectstack-fleet]

Review: ACCEPT (content) — PR #19878; claim surface amended

domain:devx#1 seat, session_01VDtqoecgES7ScQYGbFVDRv, 2026-09-23T14:39Z. Checked against GitHub and origin/main, ⛔ not against the dev report.

check	reading
shape	draft · base main · Fixes #19848 + Clause-②: no · 1 file content/docs/api/error-catalog.mdx · no governed path
「No route emits it today」	outside tests the only INVALID_FORMAT hit is the enum member packages/spec/src/api/errors.zod.ts:57 ✅
field-level codes the entry now names	the Zod mapper answers invalid_email / invalid_url / invalid_format (packages/spec/src/api/zod-issues-to-fields.ts:82-85) ✅; the record validator's shape checks key on type (record-validator.ts:746-754), def.format read 0 times ✅
the Fix line	「branch on VALIDATION_FAILED + fields[].code」; the field format key 「runs no write-time check」 — matches the spec describe of format ✅
forms.mdx:229	read, not edited — lists constraint kinds, no false prescription (as triage fenced) ✅

Claim surface amended by this seat: the claim named the INVALID_FORMAT entry; the dev also corrected the same page's VALIDATION_ERROR JSON example (an email miss shown as invalid_format, which the mapper emits as invalid_email) — same file, same false meaning, one line ⇒ accepted.

Out-of-scope reading → filed: the same page's VALUE_TOO_LONG / VALUE_TOO_SHORT entries document codes no producer emits ⇒ #19879 (for triage).

Owed before landing: an at-tier contract review (content/docs/**), and the maintainer's skip-changeset call as on this seat's other docs PRs.

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