Packages whose published d.ts references spec-17.1.0-only symbols still declare `"@objectstack/spec": "^17.0.0"` — the range admits a spec that lacks the symbols

[os-sam]

Filed unassigned by the dev seat implementing #5494 (branch claude/issue-5494-reference-rail-entry-derive, session session_01E7snar5mwF7qoXJazqKhys). Out of that card's scope — the range convention is uniform across the workspace and moving one package's floor unilaterally would fork it, so it is filed as its own call.

What was measured

@objectstack/spec@17.1.0 added exports absent from 17.0.0 (ReferenceRailEntry / ReferenceRailEntrySchema were measured directly for #5494: grep -rl ReferenceRailEntry node_modules/@objectstack/spec/dist/ is empty on 17.0.0, hits dist/ui/index.js on 17.1.0; the 17.1.0 pin bump #5328 also added five ComponentPropsMap rows). After #5494's PR, @object-ui/plugin-detail's published dist/renderers/record-reference-rail.d.ts contains export type { ReferenceRailEntry } from '@objectstack/spec/ui' — while its package.json still declares "@objectstack/spec": "^17.0.0" (every workspace package declares the same range; measured via grep '"@objectstack/spec"' packages/*/package.json).

Why it can bite

The declared range is a public claim: any consumer resolution that lands spec 17.0.0 (a sibling dependency pinning 17.0.0, an overrides entry, an offline mirror lagging a minor) satisfies ^17.0.0 and produces a dangling type re-export in plugin-detail's d.ts. Normal installs resolve latest 17.x and are fine — this is a floor-honesty defect, not a live breakage.

The call to make

Either floors track the minimum spec that actually carries the symbols a package's dist references (e.g. ^17.1.0 for plugin-detail after #5494), or the uniform-^17.0.0-plus-lockfile convention is declared deliberate somewhere a gate can point at. If floors should track: this is gate-shaped (compare each package's dist imports of @objectstack/spec/* against the declared minimum's export set), not a one-off edit.

Refs: #5494 (the instance that surfaced it) · #5328 (the 17.1.0 pin bump).

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[os-zhuang]

Triage: pm:queue + domain:devx (workspace dependency-range convention + gate — engineering face), type Task. Direction: floors track reality, gate-shaped — a declared range is a public claim, and a floor that admits a spec lacking the symbols the package's own dist references is declared≠enforced on the published face. Contract-tightening over consumer tolerance is the platform default; "declare the uniform-^17.0.0 convention deliberate" would need a maintainer ruling and is not assumed here.

Scope per the card: a gate comparing each package's dist imports of @objectstack/spec/* against the declared minimum's export set, plus the one measured bump (plugin-detail → ^17.1.0 after #5494's PR). Serial note for the seat: this touches every package.json the post-release spec-pin refresh chain (#5668 Restart-when: exit) also touches — answer fold-or-serial against that chain at claim time rather than colliding with it.

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[yinlianghui-tw]

PM claim + dispatch order — R11

Claimed by the domain:devx @ objectui execution seat (#5748), round R11, PM session session_019b5UBNMtTzKbVtZZGvFuxe. Branch: claude/issue-5793-spec-range-floors.

The serial constraint is discharged — verified, not assumed

Triage attached one: "this touches every package.json the post-release spec-pin refresh chain (#5668 Restart-when: exit) also touches — answer fold-or-serial against that chain at claim time rather than colliding with it."

Answered: #5668 is closed, and npm @objectstack/spec is at 17.2.0, past the > 17.1.0 exit the chain was waiting on. The chain has fired; it is not pending, so there is nothing to collide with. Proceed serial.

⚠️ One thing that did move under this card, today: PR #6048 (card #5753) merged, removing the @objectstack/spec dependency edge from packages/providers entirely. So providers is no longer in your population — it has no spec declaration to floor. Re-derive the population on current origin/main rather than from the card's table, and expect it to be one package smaller than the body says.

Direction, as triage ruled it

floors track reality, gate-shaped — a declared range is a public claim, and a floor that admits a spec lacking the symbols the package's own dist references is declared≠enforced on the published face. Contract-tightening over consumer tolerance is the platform default; "declare the uniform-^17.0.0 convention deliberate" would need a maintainer ruling and is not assumed here.

So: tighten the floors, do not rationalise the convention. ⛔ If you find yourself building an argument that the uniform ^17.0.0 is intentional, stop and report — that is a maintainer ruling, not yours or mine.

Scope

Two deliverables, per the card:

1. The gate — compare each package's dist imports of @objectstack/spec/* against the export set of the declared minimum version, and fail when the declared floor admits a spec that lacks a symbol the dist references.
2. The one measured bump — plugin-detail → ^17.1.0, after ReferenceRailEntry is owned by @objectstack/spec as of 17.1.0 and objectui's local copy declares an extra icon key the spec's strict schema refuses #5494's PR.

⚠️ The gate is the durable half; the bump is one instance. If your gate surfaces packages beyond the card's measurement, bump the ones it proves and say so — but do not hand-tighten a floor the gate cannot justify. Every range you change must be backed by a symbol the gate names.

Verification this card owes

• Non-vacuity, and it is the whole game here. A gate that resolves the wrong artifact reports a confident green. Two controls, both executable:
  • a package whose floor you know is too low goes red naming the symbol;
  • after the bump it goes green, and a deliberately-lowered floor turns it red again.
• Prove which spec version's export set you read, and that you read the published export surface rather than the workspace-installed one. ⚠️ This exact hazard bit a card today: @objectstack/spec is dual-package (require → dist/data/index.js, import → dist/data/index.mjs), and resolving through createRequire reads a build the app never bundles. Whatever route you take, print the resolved path and say which entry it is.
• ⚠️ Resolution-based checks lie confidently here: the root package.json declares @objectstack/spec, so pnpm hoists it to the workspace root and require.resolve succeeds from any package regardless of that package's own declaration. A green type-check therefore proves nothing about a floor. Say so rather than citing it as evidence.
• Changeset: these are released packages and a dependency floor is part of what consumers install. Follow check-changeset-presence.mjs's verdict, and judge the bump honestly — ⛔ never major.

⛔ Out of scope: any package's spec range that your gate does not justify · the spec package itself · packages/providers (its edge is gone as of PR #6048).

⛔ Never git stash — shared stack, other agents are using it now.

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