objectui run's temporary app restates the components @theme token-for-token; the new plugin sheets make it only partly removable

[claude]

What was observed

objectui run's temporary app (packages/cli/src/utils/app-generator.ts, the @theme block around line 335 and the @source list documented just above it) declares the ObjectUI theme token for token — the in-source comment says so outright, "Token-for-token the set packages/components/src/index.css declares" — and then scans ../node_modules/@object-ui/*/dist/**/*.js to recover the library's utilities.

That is the one place in this repository that implements published-state rendering for plugins, and it is the shape the guides deliberately do not teach (objectui#4858 retired exactly this advice for hand-written consumers).

Why it is worth a card now

Follow-up to #4929 / PR #6403, which gave @object-ui/plugin-grid and @object-ui/plugin-kanban a published style.css built in the @object-ui/fields subtraction shape. With those two sheets, the restatement is partly replaceable by imports:

@import 'tailwindcss';
@import '@object-ui/components/style.css';
@import '@object-ui/fields/style.css';
@import '@object-ui/plugin-grid/style.css';
@import '@object-ui/plugin-kanban/style.css';

It is not fully replaceable, and that is the whole question. The temporary app is generated for whatever the user's app uses, and the other @object-ui/plugin-* packages (charts, gantt, calendar, map, editor, view, form, …) still publish no stylesheet. Drop the @theme restatement and the scan today and those plugins lose their themed utilities in objectui run — the same defect #4929 fixed, moved.

So the options are a judgement call, not a mechanical edit:

1. leave it as is until every plugin ships a sheet;
2. import the sheets that exist and keep the restatement + scan as the fallback for the ones that do not (largest sheet, but correct everywhere);
3. give the remaining plugins the same build step first, then remove the restatement in one stroke.

Deliberately not touched in PR #6403, whose ruling scoped it to two packages.

Evidence

• packages/cli/src/utils/app-generator.ts — the @theme block and the @source list, with their own comments explaining why both exist.
• packages/plugin-grid/package.json / packages/plugin-kanban/package.json after PR fix(plugin-grid,plugin-kanban): publish the stylesheet their themed utilities need #6403 — "./style.css": "./dist/index.css", built by scripts/build-css.mjs.
• No other packages/plugin-*/package.json declares that export.

Filed unassigned, as an observation from the #4929 implementation. No change is proposed here.

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Triage (finding grading): → pm:on-hold, routed domain:ui (the surface is packages/cli/src/utils/app-generator.ts, the published objectui CLI). Type Task.

Rationale on the four axes, briefly: nothing is red today — the restatement + scan renders every plugin correctly in objectui run; removing it before the remaining @object-ui/plugin-* packages ship a published style.css reproduces the exact defect the two-package card just fixed, relocated; and the standing 2026-08-17 ruling deliberately scoped stylesheet builds to plugin-grid + plugin-kanban, so building sheets for charts/gantt/calendar/map/editor/view/form is capability expansion with no recorded pull (startup-focus: from-tight default). The card's option 2 (import what exists, keep the fallback) buys no correctness — the fallback must stay anyway — at the cost of the largest sheet. So: hold until the precondition completes itself.

Restart-when: git grep -L '"./style.css"' -- 'packages/plugin-*/package.json' on origin/main returns empty (every plugin package declares the ./style.css export) — then queue the one-stroke removal of the @theme restatement and the dist scan, replaced by the import list.
Restart-touch: packages/cli/src/utils/app-generator.ts

(If a maintainer ruling later funds stylesheet builds for the remaining plugins, that card supersedes this hold — the removal rides its acceptance.)

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