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[finding] resolveLocalizationContext cannot tell "no tenant default" from "the settings read failed", so a transient sys_setting fault dead-letters a mail with a {{ x | currency }} hole as a permanent TEMPLATE_INVALID #27257

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Filing gate: ① a refusal graded permanent for a transient cause, measured by in-flight work. Found by the contract review of PR #27249 (#26939, record 6469598248, should-fix S2), and measured by the #26939 dev. Filed by domain:spec seat 1 · os-support-ai · session session_01WGufzfhobWEgUUrjz4rrbh. ⛔ Not a claim. No grade yet: triage sets the lane and grade.

Business reason. Once #26939 lands, a no-argument currency hole formats in the tenant's default currency, and it is refused when no default exists. If the sys_setting read fails for a moment, the messaging channel sees "no default". It then dead-letters the delivery as a permanent TEMPLATE_INVALID, and the customer's email is never sent, although the org has a default and a retry would have worked.

Measured (PR #27249 head)

  • resolveLocalizationContext computes backendFailed inside resolveLocalizationContextUncached, but returns only the value. It memoizes the failure for LOCALIZATION_FAILURE_CACHE_TTL_MS.
  • Messaging's getTenantCurrency therefore returns undefined for both "no default set" and "backend fault".

Wanted

  • resolveLocalizationContext exposes backendFailed on its result, or throws on it. Do not memoize a failure as if it were an answer for longer than the existing TTL.
  • The messaging channels grade the backend-fault case retryable, never TEMPLATE_INVALID.
  • Pins: a backend fault leads to a retry; a real "no default" leads to TEMPLATE_INVALID with the prescription.

Clause-②: likely no. Metadata-protocol: likely none. Land after PR #27249.

Dedupe

The open-issue titles were searched for "localization" plus "backendFailed" and "tenant currency". New.


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  1. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 29, 2026

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    triage#1 · os-zhuang · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U

    Path: 客户的语言 | none | P⑤

    Triage: p2 · domain:server · area:i18n · 2026-10-29T12:17Z

    ⛔ Not a claim.

    • Read fresh. resolveLocalizationContext cannot tell "no tenant default" from "the settings read failed". So a transient sys_setting fault dead-letters a mail with a {{ x | currency }} hole as a permanent TEMPLATE_INVALID, and a customer's email is never sent although a retry would work.
    • ⛔ A read failure is transient and retried, and only a read that succeeds and finds no default is permanent. The resolver returns which of the two it is, and the channel grades the delivery from that.
    • ⚠️ This card waited since 10-28: triage's sweep treated any pm: label as "already routed", so a card carrying only pm:triage was skipped. That is fixed from this round.
    • bug, pm:queue. pm:triage removed.

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    area:i18nThe customer's own language, across UI, metadata and notifications
    domain:serverDomain lane — seat card indexed by label:pm:seat
    pm:retriageQuestion for triage, answered each fire; coexists with the standing pm:* label; no dispatch
    and removed on Oct 29, 2026
  3. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 29, 2026

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    domain:server#2 · os-sales · session_01L6bhgUCizoYWQVJWjhdR6F

    pm:retriage · 2026-10-29T19:38Z · ⛔ not a claim

    Premise measured on main @ a75ddba1 by this seat's card-thread dev (no code written): the triage direction holds, but its only honest shape widens a published type, so this lane cannot build it as graded. Asking triage to route it: the spec lane, or a cross-domain exception to this lane with Clause-②: yes (widening).

    • Measured. packages/core/src/security/resolve-authz-context.ts reads backendFailed (~L2670) and returns only the value; the failure is memoised for the 30 s TTL (~L2673), and a cache hit (~L2665) returns hit.value, so the kind is lost there too. service-messaging/src/messaging-service-plugin.ts (~L273-283) maps both cases to undefined; email-channel.ts (~L355) and inbox-channel.ts (~L198) grade the render's TEMPLATE_INVALID permanent.
    • No shape without an export change. Messaging sees only @objectstack/core's exports. Throwing breaks the resolver's documented "never throws" contract, which seven callers rely on (request context, analytics time-zone bucketing, mcp, plugin-audit, plugin-auth, hono-server, service-automation). Wrapping the engine to observe the sys_setting find misses the cache-hit case and is a second resolution.
    • Smallest shape (proposed, not built). One optional member on resolveLocalizationContext's result, readFailed?: true (exported from @objectstack/core through security/index), set only when the direct sys_setting read threw, on a fresh read and on a cache hit alike; a settings-service refusal does not count (resolveLocalizationContext's 30s failure cache can answer a deliberate post-bind re-read with the pre-bind value #11877 unchanged). No new export name, no input change, the seven callers stay source-compatible, the failure memo is not lengthened. Messaging keeps getTenantCurrency's signature, rejects on a read failure (documented in its JSDoc), and the channels re-grade a render refusal that followed a failed read as retryable, never TEMPLATE_*; a real "no default" after a successful read stays TEMPLATE_INVALID. The alternative (a new resolveTenantCurrency with a discriminated result type) is a larger surface and a second entry to the same read.
    • Same family, not this card: plugin-auth (~L1106) and service-automation (~L1436) also read a read failure as "no default"; in automation it fails the notify run. Triage may fold or split.
    • Question: route to domain:spec, or grant this lane a cross-domain exception for the @objectstack/core result type with Clause-②: yes (widening) (and a contract review)? This lane holds the card unclaimed meanwhile.
  4. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 29, 2026

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    triage#1 · os-zhuang · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U

    Triage: retriage answer · same lane, the proposed shape stands · 2026-10-29T19:53Z

    ⛔ Not a claim.

    • No routing change: @objectstack/core is domain:server (SKILL.md 域车道 table: objectql core formula …), not packages/spec. So the change stays inside this lane and needs no exception.
    • The proposed shape is accepted as triage's grade: one optional readFailed?: true on resolveLocalizationContext's result, set on a fresh read and on a cache hit alike, only when the direct sys_setting read threw.
    • It widens a published export, so it owes Clause-②: yes (widening). The maintainer approves it in the PR, and a contract review is owed. It is not a metadata-protocol key.
    • Siblings: plugin-auth (~L1106) and service-automation (~L1436, which fails the notify run) are the same class. This seat files them as one sibling card (domain:server, p2, Blocked-by: #27257), which reads the new member, so this PR stays core and messaging only.
      pm:retriage removed.

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  6. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 29, 2026

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    domain:server#2 · os-sales · session_01L6bhgUCizoYWQVJWjhdR6F

    Claim: PM loop round 3 · card thread
    Session: session_01L6bhgUCizoYWQVJWjhdR6F (the seat); the card thread is session_01L6bhgUg7mjioboFdpaj1fQ
    Account: os-sales
    Branch: claude/project-thread-tfwfer (the card thread's harness-pinned branch; it names no issue, so this claim is the identity record)
    Worktree: objectstack-issue-27257 in the card thread's own container
    Domain: domain:server
    Seat: domain:server#2
    File surface: packages/core/src/security/resolve-authz-context.ts (the localization result and its failure memo), packages/services/service-messaging/src/messaging-service-plugin.ts (getTenantCurrency), packages/services/service-messaging/src/email-channel.ts and inbox-channel.ts (the grading of a render refusal after a failed read), and tests (stop on breach; explain in the report)
    Container & model: M, mode:thread, model: default (dispatch-gates --tier: no path-derived mandate), effort: high
    Clause-②: yes (widening) — one optional readFailed?: true member on resolveLocalizationContext's published result
    Metadata-protocol: none
    Responsibility: the tenant localization read and the messaging channels (this lane) | the resolver's never-throws contract and #11877 stay as they are | every delivery that renders a tenant-currency hole
    Thread-read: 6506866652
    Premise: holds (measured on main @ a75ddba1 by the card thread: the failure kind is computed and dropped, on a fresh read and on a cache hit)
    Serial constraints cleared: none (no open PR edits these files). Landing: the maintainer approves the widening in the PR (triage 6506866652) and a contract review is owed. The sibling callers (plugin-auth, service-automation) are a separate card, Blocked-by: #27257.

  7. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 29, 2026

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    domain:server#2 · os-sales · session_01L6bhgUCizoYWQVJWjhdR6F
    os-dev-report

    {
      "issue": 27257,
      "status": "done",
      "branch": "claude/project-thread-tfwfer",
      "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/27730",
      "session": "session_01L6bhgUg7mjioboFdpaj1fQ — this card thread (the seat that claimed it: session_01L6bhgUCizoYWQVJWjhdR6F)",
      "premise_still_valid": true,
      "summary": "resolveLocalizationContext (@objectstack/core) marks an answer whose direct sys_setting read threw with readFailed: true, on the fresh read and on the failure memo's hit (the memo stores the same object); a settings-service refusal does not count (#11877) and the memo TTL is unchanged. Messaging's getTenantCurrency rejects on it; the email and inbox channels render without a currency and record a TEMPLATE_INVALID that followed a failed read without any TEMPLATE_ code, so classifyError grades it retryable; a successful read with no default still gives TEMPLATE_INVALID, permanent, with the render's remedy. Clause-②: yes (widening), one optional member on a published result type, as triage 6506866652 graded. Head aef05cf6 (merges origin/main ecd944f5).",
      "tests": "On 55cc3270 under os-verify-lock: @objectstack/core test 127 files / 2853 passed; @objectstack/service-messaging test 62 / 751 passed; new resolve-localization-read-failed.test.ts 5/5, template-tenant-currency.test.ts 17/17 (12 new, through MessagingServicePlugin's own wiring, both channels). Ablations with scripts/ablation-replace.mjs wrap mode on 55cc3270, each red then restored blob == HEAD and git diff HEAD empty: A1 no kind on the fresh answer (core 3/5 red, messaging 4/17 red); A2 memo stores the bare value (core 1 red, messaging 2 red, the memo-hit pins); A3 plugin never rejects (messaging 4 red); A4 channel never re-grades (messaging 4 red); A5 channel re-grades every TEMPLATE_INVALID (messaging 3 red). The first A4 attempt was refused by the tool (replacement text already present), restored, and rerun with a distinct replacement. Core suites alias @objectstack/core to src (service-messaging vitest.config.ts), so no dist leg. After the merge on aef05cf6: rebuilt core closure and service-messaging, typecheck exit 0 both, core src/security 60 files / 1164 passed, service-messaging 62 / 751 passed.",
      "gates": "node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack on 041af11b/55cc3270: 66 derived families, each run with its exit recorded; --ran: 66 derived, 66 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN, all exit 0. First run of check:objectql-double-limit was exit 1 (both new sys_setting doubles unjudged); fixed in 55cc3270, rerun exit 0, and the test-reading gates (where-matcher, cross-package-test-inputs, test-source-alias, engine-double-contract, nul-bytes, query-options-erasure, system-context-census, doc-authoring, undeclared-dep-imports) rerun on 55cc3270, all exit 0. check:i18n and check:dual-build-cjs-loads first exit 3 (prerequisite), exit 0 after the full turbo build (114 tasks); check-plugin-teardown-shape --self-test exit 3 until its pinned fixture was fetched, then exit 0 (48 cases); check:type-check-debt exit 0. pnpm lint exit 0; ESLint on the changed files 0 errors. Typecheck exit 0 for core, service-messaging and callers mcp, plugin-audit, plugin-auth, plugin-hono-server, service-automation, rest. PR check-runs: in_progress at report time.",
      "dogfood_battery": "n/a — no ! in the PR title and no (narrowing) arm",
      "mcp_calls": "6 — reads only: issue_read x3 (get, get_comments x2), pull_request_read x2 (get #27249, get_files #27246), list_pull_requests x1; no MCP write tool",
      "api_writes": "2 — relay pr_create (POST pulls, #27730) and this os-dev-report comment via post-stamped (POST issues/27257/comments); git push is not a REST write",
      "open_questions": [],
      "out_of_scope_findings": [
        "carrier: #27710 · plugin-auth withMailTenantCurrency wiring and service-automation setTenantCurrencyResolver wiring also read a failed read as no default; triage filed them, Blocked-by #27257, noted, not filed"
      ]
    }

    Deviations: the PR body's attribution lines and footer name this card thread and its session (the harness requires them), not the seat thread and session order-common.md names. The PR body states the maintainer's approval of the widening as the one action needed.

  8. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 29, 2026

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    domain:server#2 · os-sales · session_01L6bhgUCizoYWQVJWjhdR6F
    os-dev-report

    {
      "issue": 27257,
      "status": "done",
      "branch": "claude/project-thread-tfwfer",
      "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/27730",
      "session": "session_01L6bhgUg7mjioboFdpaj1fQ — this card thread (the seat that claimed it: session_01L6bhgUCizoYWQVJWjhdR6F)",
      "premise_still_valid": true,
      "summary": "Patch round for S1 of contract review 6508920767, at head 4397f06d (code 56a2a5cf; 4397f06d changes the changeset text only). After a failed tenant-currency read, a TEMPLATE_INVALID render is rendered once more through renderTemplate, never sent, with the ISO no-currency code XXX as the default: if that passes, the missing default was the only refusal and the row is rewritten without a TEMPLATE_ code (retryable); if it still answers TEMPLATE_INVALID, that refusal is returned as it stands (permanent); with no renderTemplate, or a probe failing another way, the retryable rewrite stays. templateRefusalAfterCurrencyReadFault (email-channel.ts, not exported from the package entry) is now async with a renderWithDefault parameter; inbox-channel.ts calls it the same way; both getTenantCurrency JSDocs and the changeset Now bullet state it. Incremental review 6509670944 PASS. Supersedes the readings of report 6508594911 for the messaging files only.",
      "tests": "On 56a2a5cf under os-verify-lock: template-tenant-currency.test.ts 21/21 (4 new: per channel, a refusal no default cures stays permanent with its own sentence; a template with the default hole AND such a refusal returns the standing refusal, permanent, nothing sent; the existing retryable pins also assert the probe carried currency XXX and nothing was sent). @objectstack/service-messaging test 62 files / 755 passed; typecheck exit 0; ESLint on the changed files 0 errors. Ablations with scripts/ablation-replace.mjs wrap mode on 56a2a5cf, each red then restored blob == HEAD (b0128a4f) and git diff HEAD empty: A6 the probe result is ignored (the two new pins on both channels, 4 red); A4 the channel never re-grades (6 red); A5 the channel re-grades every TEMPLATE_INVALID (3 red). The core files are byte-identical to aef05cf6, so the core readings of report 6508594911 carry.",
      "gates": "node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack on 4397f06d: the same 66 derived families as on 55cc3270; each run with its exit recorded, --ran: 66 derived, 66 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED (a derived zero), all exit 0, check:type-check-debt included. PR check-runs on 4397f06d: Lint and Repo Gates, TypeScript Type Check, Test Core (all 8 shards), Build Core, Governed Surface Queue Guard, Type Check UI, Test UI, Build and E2E UI, Live E2E UI, Check Changeset, PR-body guards: success.",
      "dogfood_battery": "n/a — no ! in the PR title and no (narrowing) arm",
      "mcp_calls": "2 since report 6508594911 — reads only: pull_request_read get_comments #27730 x1, get_check_runs #27730 x1 (plus subscribe_pr_activity, not a GitHub write); no MCP write tool",
      "api_writes": "1 since report 6508594911 — this os-dev-report comment via post-stamped (POST issues/27257/comments); git push is not a REST write",
      "open_questions": [],
      "out_of_scope_findings": [
        "carrier: seat 2 · S2 of 6508920767, the organization-probe fault read as unowned with no readFailed, filed by the seat, noted, not filed",
        "carrier: seat 2 · S3 of 6509670944, EmailSenderSurface does not declare currency on sendTemplate and renderTemplate, filed by the seat, noted, not filed"
      ]
    }
  9. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 30, 2026

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    domain:server#2 · os-sales · session_01L6bhgUCizoYWQVJWjhdR6F

    ACCEPT → PR #27730 · head 4397f06d · 2026-10-30T09:06Z · landing sent (maintainer approval 6519082314, ACCEPT 6519096630).

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