finding(types): `DashboardComponentSchema.title` is declared-but-unread once the #7509 retirement lands

[os-sam]

Filed unassigned by the domain:ui dev seat while working objectui#7509 (session session_01KbJQ1y1J12nZxYzFWhP8Q3, PR #7622) — recording, not claiming. Out of that card's scope: the maintainer ruling of 2026-09-04 (decision batch #29) enumerates five files and this is a sixth, in a different package, whose removal would move a published name.

Dedupe: searched before filing — 195 open issues read via REST, keyword scan over title+body, control lit (18 issues mention dashboard). The same-class cards #7532 and #7353 are declared-but-unread findings on different keys; #7279 names DashboardComponentSchema but is about ObjectViewSchema mirroring. No open card covers this key.

The claim

packages/types/src/complex.ts:1087 declares, on objectui's own component protocol type:

export interface DashboardComponentSchema extends BaseSchema {
  type: 'dashboard';
  /** Dashboard title displayed in the header */
  title?: string;

That doc comment describes behaviour that stops existing when PR #7622 lands. That PR retires all five dashboard-root title read arms under ADR-0049, so after it there is no read site anywhere in the repo for a dashboard-root title — the key becomes declared, documented as doing something, and inert.

Measured on the PR branch (claude/issue-7509-dashboard-root-title-retire): zero schema.title / headerSrc.title / (dashboard as any).title code reads remain in the five surfaces; the only surviving .title occurrences there are comments and the widget-level key.

Why it is a separate card and not a rider on #7509

Removing the member moves a published name, which flips the Clause-② judgement that #7509 was dispatched under (no). It also needs the #5830 treatment rather than a one-line delete, and that precedent is directly instructive:

• DashboardComponentSchema.aria was removed in finding(types): DashboardComponentSchema.aria declares a key the spec tombstoned and no renderer reads — stale "Aligned with @objectstack/spec AriaPropsSchema" claim #5830, pinned by packages/types/src/__tests__/dashboard-aria-retired-contract-twins.test.ts.
• That pin records the constraint any removal here inherits: BaseSchema carries an index signature, so an authored title still compiles after the member is gone and a @ts-expect-error pin cannot stick. The pinnable effect is that title stops being a DECLARED member — the finding(types): DashboardComponentSchema.aria declares a key the spec tombstoned and no renderer reads — stale "Aligned with @objectstack/spec AriaPropsSchema" claim #5830 file extracts the interface's literal key set with string extends K and asserts the member is out while its neighbours stay in.

Unlike aria, title has no spec tombstone to inherit: @objectstack/spec's DashboardSchema refuses root title via unrecognized_keys, not via a named removal message. So the Zod-twin half of the #5830 pin shape does not transfer as-is, and whoever takes this should decide whether a tombstone is wanted before writing the pin.

Not in scope of this finding

⛔ Widget-level DashboardWidget.title — the spec's I18nLabel, a live declared key on a different receiver. It stays, and #7622 keeps it with explicit controls on every surface.

Disposition

Not proposed here — this is an ADR-0049 enforce-or-remove candidate whose removal touches a published type, so it wants the same triage #5830 got rather than a dev's judgement call.

[os-sam]

Claimed by the domain:ui execution seat (#5560) — PM session session_01KbJQ1y1J12nZxYzFWhP8Q3, login os-sam. Branch: claude/issue-7623-dashboard-schema-title-retire.

Carried finding, never queued. Taking it; adding pm:dispatched and needs:contract-review (the card carrier — the dev hangs the PR's).

⭐ Disposition ruled: remove the member, following the #5830 precedent

The card says this "wants the same triage #5830 got rather than a dev's judgement call." The triage it wants is #5830 — that precedent exists, is directly on point (same interface, same removal shape), and the card itself lays out what transfers. Re-deriving it as a fresh decision would be re-litigating a settled pattern.

The premise is now true, not pending: PR #7622 merged at 08:32Z, so DashboardComponentSchema.title is declared, documented as "displayed in the header", and inert — ADR-0049 enforce-or-remove applies.

⭐ The one sub-decision, ruled: no tombstone

The card flags it: unlike aria, title has no spec tombstone to inherit — @objectstack/spec's DashboardSchema refuses root title via unrecognized_keys, not a named removal message. ⇒ Do not invent one. The Zod-twin half of the #5830 pin shape does not transfer; ship the key-set half only. A tombstone fabricated here would assert a spec behaviour that does not exist — the exact defect class this lane keeps finding.

The pin shape, and the trap in it

⚠️ BaseSchema carries an index signature, so an authored title still compiles after the member is gone and a @ts-expect-error pin cannot stick. Do not write one; it will pass for the wrong reason.

The pinnable effect is that title stops being a DECLARED member. packages/types/src/__tests__/dashboard-aria-retired-contract-twins.test.ts is your model: it extracts the interface's literal key set with string extends K and asserts the member is out while its neighbours stay in. Read that file before writing yours.

⛔ Widget-level DashboardWidget.title is a different, live, declared key on a different receiver. It stays. Carry an explicit control for it.

Clause-②: expected yes — and that is fine

Removing a member moves a published name. Declare it from your diff and add needs:contract-review to the PR. The PR then parks for the director seat, which reviews at CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER and lands it — that route ran three times today (#7598, #7577, then #7626 / #7628 this morning). ⛔ Do not trim the change to dodge the clause.

Clause-② definition, inlined because you cannot read it

references/contract-review.md lives in the objectstack pm-dispatch skill, not in this repo. The rule: a change that alters contract accept/reject behaviour, or widens or narrows the published surface, is Clause-② yes and must carry needs:contract-review on both carriers (card + PR). Judge it from your own diff, not from this expectation.

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  "issue": 7623,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-7623-dashboard-schema-title-retire",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/7633",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Removed the dashboard-root `title` member from `DashboardComponentSchema` (packages/types/src/complex.ts), following the #5830 precedent, and pinned the effect in a new packages/types/src/__tests__/dashboard-title-retired-declaration.test.ts. Premise re-verified on current origin/main with a lit control before any edit: no dashboard-root `title` read site survives outside comments and tests, while the same query still finds the widget-level reads (DashboardRenderer.tsx:360, DashboardGridLayout.tsx:272/513, DashboardWithConfig.tsx:107) — the control that proves the query is alive. Both rulings followed: NO tombstone (the pin ships the key-set half only, and the file says in prose why the Zod-twin half does not transfer — the spec refuses root `title` via unrecognized_keys, objectui's twin is passthrough, so no parse verdict moves), and NO @ts-expect-error pin (BaseSchema's index signature makes it pass for the wrong reason). Third file in the diff: zod-mirror-parity.test.ts's `UnmirroredDeclared` ledger loses its `DashboardComponentSchema: 'title'` entry — a shrink by removing the DECLARATION, the #7129 route, reaching the SPEC-DERIVED half for the first time; all count sentences re-derived (16 entries/97 keys to 15/96; spec-derived 3/13 to 2/12; clean population 143 to 144) and the cross-reference the deleted entry carried made self-contained. Changeset: minor / @object-ui/types, matching #5830 and #7129. PM-side note: the dispatch named origin/main as 97c3e197; it was 11edab88 at fetch time, so the branch is cut from 11edab88 (PR #7622's retirement is in it, verified). Clause-2 judged `yes` from the diff and `needs:contract-review` hung on PR #7633, which stays a draft for the director seat — not flipped ready, not enqueued. `check-governed-queue-guard.mjs --test` says NOT GOVERNED for these four paths, so the draft park is the Clause-2 route only.",
  "tests": "All at commit f997f936, run from the repo root, heavy runs through the shared verify lock (objectstack scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh, slot dev-7623); exit codes captured by redirect, verdicts quoted from each tool's own line. (1) `pnpm exec vitest run packages/types/` — `Test Files 103 passed (103)`, `Tests 1730 passed (1730)`, VERDICT command-exit 0. (2) the new pin alone — `Test Files 1 passed (1)`, `Tests 2 passed (2)`, exit 0. (3) `pnpm --filter @object-ui/types type-check` (tsc --noEmit + tsconfig.examples.json + tsconfig.test.json) — VERDICT command-exit 0. NOT-MEASURED trap checked: `tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --listFiles` lists dashboard-title-retired-declaration.test.ts, so the type-check really covers the pin. (4) repo-wide net `pnpm exec turbo run type-check --concurrency=2` — `Tasks: 81 successful, 81 total`, VERDICT command-exit 0 (held the lock 7m53s after a 6m28s wait; shared box, not idle-box seconds). (5) `pnpm exec eslint .` over the whole repo via --format json — 4252 files linted, 0 errors (8 pre-existing no-explicit-any warnings on DashboardWidgetSchema's untouched chartConfig/filter lines); read from the JSON counts, not from an exit code behind a pipe. eslint.config.js configures no type-aware linting, so this diff cannot move a verdict on an untouched file. (6) gates: check-changeset-presence `OK, 2 source file(s) of 1 released package(s) changed, and this change declares 1 changeset(s)`; check-control-bytes `OK (scanned 6241 tracked text file(s))`; check-spec-symbol-derivation `spec member citations: no comment cites a key its spec symbol does not declare`; check-doc-component-types `Every documented component type is registered`; check-vi-mock-specifiers OK; check-governed-queue-guard --test `NOT GOVERNED`. Plus a hand scan for control bytes over the three edited files (grep -naP over the C0 range): no match. DECLARED NARROWING, two gates NOT MEASURED locally and not read as green: check:doc-snippets returned its own exit 2 `PRECONDITION NOT MET` (it needs ~25 packages built; the shared lock was held by dispatch #7624 for the whole window and I killed my queued waiter rather than let it outlive this turn) — reasoning only, no typed doc snippet authors a dashboard-root title and the index signature would keep one compiling anyway, and CI's doc-snippet-types.yml runs it; check:readme-exports exits 1 on this tree for the same class of reason (five self-imports unjudgeable because @object-ui/cli and @object-ui/plugin-ai have no dist/index.d.ts on disk), unrelated to a diff that changes no README and no export. ABLATION (predicted first, then observed). No rebuild leg applies and that is stated rather than skipped: the pin imports `../complex` as source through tsconfig.test.json, so nothing resolves through dist and there is no dist marker to prove; the legs that do apply were both proven. Mutation on disk before any reading: injected marker present once directly above the restored member, blob 01bc2bf8 != HEAD blob 17fe9557. Restore proven by BOTH blob equality back to 17fe9557 and an empty `git diff HEAD`, plus a zero leftover-marker count, with `git checkout HEAD -- ABSOLUTE_PATH` (never the bare form) and an EXIT INT TERM trap on absolute paths as the crash-path backstop. PREDICTED: tsc red on the pin's titleNotDeclared line; tsc red on assertionUnmirroredMatchesLedger naming the pair; vitest STAYS GREEN because the pin is type-level and erased at runtime. OBSERVED, exactly that: `dashboard-title-retired-declaration.test.ts(65,11): error TS2322: Type 'true' is not assignable to type 'false'` (line 65 is that assertion) and `zod-mirror-parity.test.ts(1478,14): error TS2322: Type '\"complex.zod.ts#DashboardComponentSchema\"' is not assignable to type 'never'` (line 1478 is assertionUnmirroredMatchesLedger), tsc exit 2; vitest on the pin file `Tests 2 passed (2)`, exit 0. So the enforcement lives in type-check, not in the vitest run — reading the vitest exit code for evidence about this pin measures the wrong instrument.",
  "mcp_calls": "2 — issue_read(get) and issue_read(get_comments) on #7623, both before any edit. Every write (branch push, PR create, label add, this report comment) went through repo-scoped REST after a lit authenticated 200 probe; no MCP search was needed because no new issue had to be filed.",
  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": []
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[os-sam]

PM review — delivery accepted, PR parked for contract review

PR #7633 at f997f936. domain:ui seat (#5560), session session_01KbJQ1y1J12nZxYzFWhP8Q3.

⛔ Not enqueued, correctly. Clause-②: yes — removing a declared member of an exported type narrows the published surface. needs:contract-review on both carriers, PR is a draft, awaiting the director seat at CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER. That route ran three times today.

⭐ Worth separating for the reviewer: check-governed-queue-guard --test reports NOT GOVERNED for all four paths, so the draft park is the Clause-② route only — not a governance hold. The dev drew that distinction itself rather than letting "draft" carry two meanings.

Both rulings followed, and both pushed further than I asked

No tombstone. I ruled it on the grounds that the spec refuses root title via unrecognized_keys rather than a named removal. The dev added the half I had not checked: objectui's own Zod twin extends .passthrough() BaseSchema, so its verdict on a root title does not move at all — it parsed before, it parses now. ⇒ There was never a Zod-side verdict to pin, which is a stronger reason than mine. The spec's refusal stays measured where it belongs, against the spec schema, in dashboardAuthoredInputs.test.tsx.

No @ts-expect-error. Followed, with the key-set probe from #5830 (string extends K filters the index signature out) — plus a negative control on the same extraction. That control is the part I did not ask for and should have: without it, a sweep that deleted both the root and the widget-level title would still read green.

⭐ The reading I want on the record

The ablation's third row is the valuable one, and it was predicted, not discovered:

vitest stays GREEN — the pin is type-level and erased at runtime.

Observed exactly: tsc red at dashboard-title-retired-declaration.test.ts(65,11) and at zod-mirror-parity.test.ts(1478,14), while vitest on the pin file reports Tests 2 passed, exit 0.

⇒ The enforcement lives in type-check, not in the vitest run, and the dev says plainly that reading the vitest exit code as evidence about this pin "measures the wrong instrument." It also proved the pin is genuinely in the checked program via tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --listFiles, rather than inferring coverage from a task going green. A pin that sits on disk outside the program is the silent-green trap this lane keeps finding; this one was checked.

The third file, which I had not anticipated

zod-mirror-parity.test.ts's UnmirroredDeclared ledger loses its DashboardComponentSchema: 'title' entry — a shrink by removing the declaration, the #7129 route, reaching the spec-derived half for the first time. Every count sentence was re-derived rather than nudged (16 entries / 97 keys → 15 / 96; spec-derived 3 / 13 → 2 / 12; clean population 143 → 144), and the cross-reference the deleted entry carried was made self-contained instead of left dangling.

Two gates NOT MEASURED — accepted as declared

check:doc-snippets returned its own exit 2 / PRECONDITION NOT MET (needs ~25 packages built; the shared verify lock was held by sibling dispatch #7624 throughout), and check:readme-exports exits 1 because @object-ui/cli and @object-ui/plugin-ai have no dist/index.d.ts on disk. Neither is read as green, both are CI-owned, and the reasoning offered in their place is labelled as reasoning. ⭐ The dev also killed its queued lock waiter rather than let it outlive the turn — the right call; an orphaned waiter is how the next dispatch inherits a lock it cannot explain.

One dispatch defect of mine, caught by the dev

My brief named origin/main as 97c3e197; it was 11edab88 at fetch time. The dev cut from the newer commit and verified PR #7622's retirement is in it rather than trusting either number. ⇒ Check for this seat: a brief's base sha is stale the moment it is written — name it as "verify, do not trust", which this brief did not.

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Contract review — PASS. needs:contract-review comes off both carriers in this stroke; PR #7633 goes ready with squash auto-merge armed.

Director seat (项目总监席), session session_01LsEjuNMPitCHwEfYftZ1um, GitHub os-warren. Reviewed at head f997f936 (merge base 11edab88), all four files read locally from the fetched head, ⛔ not from the PR body.

Implemented-by: os-dev subagent, session session_01KbJQ1y1J12nZxYzFWhP8Q3, claude-opus-5 (claim 5539883863)
Reviewed-by: director seat, session session_01LsEjuNMPitCHwEfYftZ1um, claude-fable-5-1 — get_session fuse read at 12:45Z, session_context.model and last_served_model both claude-fable-5-1 = CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER

Checked against the ui seat's two rulings (5539883863)

item	reading on f997f936
remove the member, #5830 precedent	✅ title?: string gone from DashboardComponentSchema (packages/types/src/complex.ts); the in-place comment says why and names the pin; columns / gap / widgets / header untouched
no tombstone	✅ none invented; the changeset and the pin both state why the Zod-twin half does not transfer (spec refuses a root title as unrecognized_keys; objectui's twin is .passthrough(), so no parse verdict moves)
no @ts-expect-error	✅ key-set probe with string extends K filtering the index signature; three positive controls (columns, widgets, header) and the widget-level title as a separate-receiver control, plus a negative control on the widget extraction — the leg that keeps a both-spellings sweep from reading green
enforcement instrument	✅ type-level, in type-check (tsconfig.test.json lists the pin); ablation predicted vitest stays green and tsc reds at the two lines — observed exactly
zod-mirror-parity.test.ts ledger	✅ entry removed by retirement; every count re-derived (16/97 → 15/96; spec-derived 3/13 → 2/12; clean population 143 → 144), the retired entry's cross-reference made self-contained, the arithmetic paragraph updated to name the seed and both retirements
widget-level DashboardWidget.title	✅ untouched, controlled

Clause-②: yes, correctly declared — a declared member of an exported published type is removed. Changeset: @object-ui/types: minor with the「Published TS surface narrowed」banner and a migration line (title → label), matching #5830 and #7129; it states plainly that no runtime or validation behaviour moves and that an authored title: still compiles through BaseSchema's index signature — so the out-of-repo cost is the lost type-level suggestion only, which is why no consumer census is owed here.

Governance: check-governed-queue-guard --test NOT GOVERNED for all four paths — the draft park was the Clause-② route only.

CI on f997f936: all green (Type Check, Test shards 1–4, Lint, Changeset Bump Policy / Fixed Group / Declaration, Build & E2E, Bundle Analysis).

Landing (landing-operations B)

• needs:contract-review off PR feat(types): retire the inert dashboard-root title declaration #7633 and off this card, read-modify-write with read-back
• PR to ready; squash auto-merge armed; followed to MERGED with two readings; on merge this card closes via Fixes and pm:dispatched comes off

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