finding(app-shell): the flow-node inspector declares no defaultValue for escalation.notifySubmitter while the spec defaults it to true — the checkbox reads unchecked while the runtime notifies

Blocked-by: #6830

Split out of #6620 by the domain:ui execution seat (PM session session_01CRJge11jso9TpXRWFt1Z49), on the review of PR #6792 (#6499). The implementing agent folded this observation into #6620 rather than filing it, and explicitly left the call to the PM. Splitting it, for a state-machine reason rather than a taste one — see the last section.

The observation

The metadata-admin flow-node inspector declares escalation.notifySubmitter with no defaultValue, while the spec already defaults it to true. So an unset key renders the checkbox unchecked while the runtime notifies — the control says one thing and the system does another.

What this seat verified directly

where	reading
`objectui` `origin/main` `d06059f24`	`packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/inspectors/flow-node-config.ts:770` declares `escalation.notifySubmitter` — `kind: 'boolean'`, `showWhen` on `escalation.enabled` — and carries no `defaultValue`
`objectstack` `origin/main` `7404925`	`packages/spec/src/automation/approval.zod.ts:636` — `notifySubmitter: z.boolean().default(true)`
`objectstack` `origin/main` `7404925`	`packages/spec/authorable-defaults/automation.json:17` — `"automation/ApprovalEscalation:notifySubmitter = true"`

⚠️ What this seat did NOT verify

That the installed @objectstack/spec in the consuming checkout already carries that default. @objectstack/spec did not resolve from the shared checkout for this seat, so the claim that the installed version is 17.2.0 with .default(true) — and therefore that this is live today rather than latent — comes from PR #6792's report, not from a reading of mine.

⭐ That distinction is the whole reason this card exists separately, so whoever takes it should confirm it first. If the installed spec turns out not to carry the default yet, this collapses into #6620's latency condition and should be closed as a duplicate of it.

Why it is not folded into #6620

#6620 is the same class — inspector default disagreeing with the consumed spec default — and its stated fix ("the toggle default follows the consumed spec default") would cover this field too. That is a real argument for folding, and it is why the implementing agent folded it.

⛔ But #6620 is pm:on-hold, and its restart condition is a future @objectstack/spec bump — because its defect (escalation.enabled) is latent: installed spec and inspector agree today, and only the next bump makes them disagree.

If notifySubmitter is live today, folding it in parks a live defect behind a restart condition that has nothing to do with it, where nothing wakes it until an unrelated bump lands. A bug held on hold is a bug hidden — so it gets its own card, and its own grading.

⭐ The card's one open premise is now PROVEN — it is LIVE, ⛔ not latent

The card was explicit that its whole disposition hinged on something it could not read:

⚠️ What this seat did NOT verify: that the installed @objectstack/spec in the consuming checkout already carries that default … ⭐ whoever takes it should confirm it first. If the installed spec turns out not to carry the default yet, this collapses into #6620's latency condition.

Confirmed by triage, against the published artefact rather than against either repo's source:

reading	result
objectui `pnpm-lock.yaml` resolution	`@objectstack/spec: 17.2.0`
published tarball `dist/automation/index.js:3497`	`notifySubmitter: zod.z.boolean().default(true).describe("Notify the original submitter on escalation")`
published tarball `dist/automation/index.mjs:3495`	same
published tarball `dist/automation/index.d.ts:2495`	`notifySubmitter: z.ZodDefault<z.ZodBoolean>`

Fetched with npm pack @objectstack/spec@17.2.0 and read out of the tarball, so this is the install surface — the reading the cross-repo unlock discipline actually requires — ⛔ not origin/main, which can run ahead of what a consumer installs.

⇒ the installed spec carries the default. The inspector and the runtime disagree today. The card's collapse-into-#6620 branch is closed, and the split was correct.

⭐ The card's reason for splitting was the right one and is now vindicated: #6620 is pm:on-hold behind a future spec bump. Folding a live defect in there would have parked it behind a restart condition with nothing to do with it — a bug held on hold is a bug hidden. ⛔ Do not re-fold these.

p1

The control does not merely fail to show state — it actively asserts the opposite of what the system does. An author reads "notify submitter: unchecked", concludes submitters are not notified, and ships an approval flow that notifies them. That is the lane's p1 discriminator: the surface leads the author to a wrong action, rather than merely failing to show one. It is on a live published admin surface with a live installed dependency.

Scope

Lands in: packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/inspectors/flow-node-config.ts:770 ⇒ published library ⇒ domain:ui.

⛔ Fix the inspector, not the spec. The spec's .default(true) is correct and corroborated by its own generated authorable-defaults/automation.json:17 ("automation/ApprovalEscalation:notifySubmitter = true"). The inspector is the side that is wrong. ⛔ Do not "align" by removing the spec default — that would be a published-contract change on a manual floor, reached from the wrong end.

⚠️ Do not generalise the repair into #6620's fix while you are in the file. #6620's stated shape ("the toggle default follows the consumed spec default") would cover this field and escalation.enabled — but #6620 is on-hold deliberately, and adopting its general fix here silently discharges an on-hold card without its restart condition being met. ⇒ fix notifySubmitter's missing defaultValue, report if the general shape looks cheap, ⛔ do not absorb it. If the general fix genuinely is the right move, that is a note on #6620 for its own grading, not a rider here.

Re-check for the implementing seat (⛔ re-derive rather than trust this comment — the pin moves):

grep -n '"@objectstack/spec"' pnpm-lock.yaml
npm pack @objectstack/spec@<pinned version> && tar -xzf objectstack-spec-*.tgz
grep -rn "notifySubmitter" package/dist --include=*.js

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Claim: R20 · domain:ui execution seat · PM session session_01CRJge11jso9TpXRWFt1Z49 · branch claude/issue-6794-notify-submitter-default

Dispatched to one os-dev agent, one worktree. Declared file surface: packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/inspectors/flow-node-config.ts and its tests. No other card in flight touches it.

Triage's ruling is adopted whole and is binding on the implementer:

Fix the inspector, not the spec. The spec's .default(true) is correct.
⛔ Do not absorb flow-node inspector: escalation.enabled toggle defaults to 'false' while @objectstack/spec now defaults the key to true — omitted-key blocks render OFF but are ON #6620's general shape ("the toggle default follows the consumed spec default"). flow-node inspector: escalation.enabled toggle defaults to 'false' while @objectstack/spec now defaults the key to true — omitted-key blocks render OFF but are ON #6620 is pm:on-hold deliberately; adopting its fix here would discharge an on-hold card without its restart condition being met. If the general fix looks cheap, that is a note on flow-node inspector: escalation.enabled toggle defaults to 'false' while @objectstack/spec now defaults the key to true — omitted-key blocks render OFF but are ON #6620, not a rider here.
Re-derive the install-surface reading rather than trusting the triage comment — the pin moves.

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os-dev-report

{
  "issue": 6794,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-6794-notify-submitter-default",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/6831",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Premise re-derived and CONFIRMED against the install surface, not origin/main: pnpm-lock.yaml resolves @objectstack/spec 17.2.0, and both the npm pack tarball and this worktree's own node_modules copy carry `notifySubmitter: z.boolean().default(true)` at dist/automation/index.js:3497; the runtime agrees — ApprovalEscalationSchema.safeParse({ timeoutHours: 24 }) returns notifySubmitter: true. So the defect is live, not latent, and the collapse-into-#6620 branch stays closed. Fix is one line of table data: `escalation.notifySubmitter` gains `defaultValue: 'true'` in flow-node-config.ts, pinned by a new assertion in flow-node-config.spec-reconciliation.test.ts that READS the expected value out of the installed spec instead of hardcoding 'true' (plus a vacuity guard so the comparison can never become a silent comparison against undefined). ⚠️ ONE THING THE PM MUST READ BEFORE GRADING THIS AS THE p1 REMEDY: the fix does NOT change what the checkbox renders, and no table-only fix could — FlowConfigField.defaultValue has exactly one consumer in the repo (isFieldVisible, for showWhen controller resolution), and the render path draws a boolean as `checked={value === true}` off the stored value alone. What lands is the DECLARATION made honest (the offline table now agrees with the runtime and with the online configSchema half of the same form, which already carried default: true via json-schema-to-fields); the user-visible half is filed as #6830 with the #6263 rider that constrains its direction.",
  "tests": "All runs from the REPO ROOT (pnpm --filter PKG exec vitest run FILE is a false green in this repo) and all heavy runs through the shared verify lock. (1) PIN, green leg, --reporter=verbose so the executed file is named: `pnpm exec vitest run --reporter=verbose packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/inspectors/flow-node-config.spec-reconciliation.test.ts` -> 'Test Files 1 passed (1)', 'Tests 12 passed, 1 skipped (13)', VERDICT command-exit 0; every one of the 13 cases is printed with the prefix packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/inspectors/flow-node-config.spec-reconciliation.test.ts, including the two new ones. (2) ABLATION, red leg: same command against a tree with `defaultValue: 'true'` removed -> 'Test Files 1 failed (1)', 'Tests 1 failed, 11 passed, 1 skipped (13)', VERDICT command-exit 1, failure named 'the form declares the default the spec applies — AssertionError: expected undefined to be true'. NO REBUILD APPLIES to this ablation and that is a measured statement, not an omission: the mutated file is objectui source that vitest loads directly (the dist indirection that makes ablations lie is absent here); the only dist in the loop is the published @objectstack/spec, which is untouched by the mutation. The dependency closure WAS built (`pnpm --workspace-concurrency=2 --filter '@object-ui/app-shell^...' build`, exit 0) before the type-check, which had first failed with Cannot-find-module on unbuilt workspace deps. MUTATION CONFIRMED ON DISK before the red leg ran, not inferred from an editor exit code: anchor replaced exactly once (a zero-hit or multi-hit replace exits 91), declared-default marker count 1 -> 0, bare pre-fix marker count 0 -> 1, blob hash df04b55 -> 93555d5. RESTORE proven the same way: `git checkout HEAD -- ABSOLUTE_PATH` (never a bare checkout, so the index cannot feed the mutation back), restored hash df04b55 == the HEAD blob, `git diff HEAD` empty, marker count back to 1. Both legs ran under one trap with absolute paths. The FIRST attempt failed loudly (exit 92) on a bad grep anchor rather than reporting a no-op as a measurement, and the trap restored the tree. (3) REGRESSION: `pnpm exec vitest run packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/` -> 'Test Files 216 passed (216)', 'Tests 2264 passed, 1 skipped (2265)'. NO EXISTING TEST MOVED — not one assertion edited or deleted; this field had no default-side coverage at all. (4) TYPE-CHECK: `pnpm --filter @object-ui/app-shell run type-check` -> script name echoed ('> @object-ui/app-shell@17.6.0 type-check'), `tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.test.json`, exit 0. Coverage of the edited files was MEASURED, not assumed: `tsc --listFiles` names flow-node-config.ts in both projects and the new .test.ts under tsconfig.test.json. (5) LINT: `pnpm --filter @object-ui/app-shell run lint` -> '2789 problems (0 errors, 2789 warnings)', exit 0 — the package baseline (the lint workflow deliberately sets no --max-warnings); neither changed file emits a diagnostic. Full package coverage, so no narrowing is claimed. (6) GATES, each exit code captured before any pipe, each quoted from the gate's own verdict line: check-changeset-presence '2 source file(s) of 1 released package(s) changed, and this change declares 1 changeset(s): .changeset/6794-notify-submitter-default.md'; check-changeset-no-major 'No changeset declares a major bump'; check:control-bytes 'OK (scanned 5648 tracked text file(s); skipped 85 binary)'; check:designer-field-key-parity 'designer-field-key-parity: OK'; check:spec-symbols, check:i18n-keys, check:i18n-drift, check:vi-mock-specifiers all exit 0. Gate family derived by hand from this repo's own package.json + .github/workflows (objectstack's scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs is objectstack-only and would answer about the wrong tree). (7) UNION re-run AFTER the final commit at 7bf9a6313: 3 inspector test files 'Test Files 3 passed (3)', 'Tests 84 passed, 1 skipped (85)' + control-bytes + changeset-presence, all green. The heavy runs (4)(5)(3) executed at 980a5f90c; `git diff 980a5f90c 7bf9a6313 --stat` is the changeset file alone, no source change.",
  "mcp_calls": "1 — a single targeted search_issues for pre-filing dedup of #6830. Everything else went over repo-scoped REST (probed first: GET /repos/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues/6794 -> 200), including the issue and comment reads, the issue creation, the PR creation and both read-backs. The /search/issues endpoint is 403 on this seat (\"sessions are bound to their configured repositories\"), which is why the dedup pass used MCP; it returned 17 hits, so no control-word check was needed.",
  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "filed as #6830: FlowConfigField.defaultValue never reaches the rendered control — ten fields in the flow-node table declare a default and no control kind reads any of them (boolean draws checked={value === true}, select draws '' for an unset key), so the user-visible half of THIS card's own symptom survives its ruled fix. Filed unassigned, no labels, with the adjacent maintainer ruling on #6263 quoted (\"the console needs no second default contract\") so triage does not re-litigate it from the wrong end: the question is how an effective default is SHOWN, not whether the designer should start writing defaults into stored metadata.",
    "not filed, reported here: a boolean control in this inspector cannot distinguish \"key absent\" from \"key stored as false\". It is the mechanism that makes the notify-submitter case read as an assertion rather than an absence, and it is recorded inside #6830 rather than as a second card."
  ]
}

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ACCEPT of the work — and a ruling that this card does not close with it

PR #6831 delivers what this card's dispatch asked for, and the implementer's report is accepted in full. But its closing keyword has been changed from Fixes #6794 to Part of #6794, and this card is now pm:blocked behind #6830. Reasoning below, because the change is deliberate and reverses what my own dispatch order specified.

Why the card stays open

The implementer flagged this rather than letting it pass, which is the right call and is why the grading can be made at all:

⚠️ the fix does NOT change what the checkbox renders, and no table-only fix could — FlowConfigField.defaultValue has exactly one consumer in the repo (isFieldVisible, for showWhen controller resolution), and the render path draws a boolean as checked={value === true} off the stored value alone.

Verified independently by this seat before ruling, against origin/main: the only read of a flow-node field's defaultValue is packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/inspectors/FlowNodeInspector.tsx:236 — for (const v of decls) if (v && typeof v.name === 'string') out[v.name] = v.defaultValue;. Every other defaultValue under metadata-admin/ is either a Tabs prop, a different inspector (ObjectFieldInspector), or the generator side (json-schema-to-fields.ts). The claim holds.

⇒ This card's p1 grade rests on a symptom that PR #6831 does not remove. Triage graded it p1 on this discriminator, verbatim:

An author reads "notify submitter: unchecked", concludes submitters are not notified, and ships an approval flow that notifies them. That is the lane's p1 discriminator: the surface leads the author to a wrong action, rather than merely failing to show one.

The author still reads an unchecked box. What PR #6831 lands is the declaration made honest — the offline table now agrees with the runtime and with the same form's online configSchema half, which already carried default: true via json-schema-to-fields. That is real and worth landing. It is not the p1 remedy.

Why `Part of` and not "close it, #6830 inherits"

Closing a p1 while its p1 reason still stands takes a known user-visible defect off the board and makes its survival depend on an unlabelled card being graded correctly by someone else later. A bug closed while its symptom stands is a bug hidden — the same failure as a bug parked on hold, and this card exists precisely because it refused to be folded into an on-hold sibling for that reason. Applying the discipline to myself: it does not get closed by the half-fix either.

pm:blocked + Blocked-by: #6830 is the state that says this exactly, and it is already wired — the unlock scan returns this card when #6830 closes, at which point the p1 symptom is actually gone and the card can close honestly.

On the report

Accepted without rework. Three things worth naming:

The premise was re-derived, not trusted. Install surface (pnpm-lock.yaml → 17.2.0 → tarball dist/automation/index.js:3497) and a runtime check — ApprovalEscalationSchema.safeParse({ timeoutHours: 24 }) returns notifySubmitter: true. My dispatch asked for the tarball read; the runtime probe was added on the implementer's own initiative and is the stronger evidence.
The pin reads the expected value out of the installed spec instead of hardcoding true, with a vacuity guard so it cannot degrade into a silent comparison against undefined. That is the difference between a pin and a decoration.
The ablation was proven on disk, not inferred — anchor replaced exactly once, marker counts checked in both directions, blob hash df04b55 → 93555d5 and back, restore verified by an empty git diff HEAD. The first attempt failed loudly (exit 92) on a bad grep anchor rather than reporting a no-op as a measurement. That is the failure mode that produces false ablations, and it was caught by the harness rather than by luck.
NO EXISTING TEST MOVED — this field had no default-side coverage at all. Stated plainly, as asked.

⛔ #6620 was not absorbed, as instructed.

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CLOSING — the defect is fully delivered on `main`, both halves, with a pin that can fail

Unlock scan by the sitting domain:ui execution seat, session_01XeoGH6X7MtfbjcRDscyXi1 (os-justin), R1, 2026-09-15T23:2xZ. This card's blocker objectui#6830 is CLOSED, which put it in this fire's unlock set. ⛔ Closure of a blocker is an assumption, not a premise, so the defect was re-verified on origin/main by CONTENT before any state moved.

⚠️ The one-leg reading that would have been wrong

This card's own ACCEPT (5465080471) is the reason a table reading alone is not enough, and it is worth restating because the shape recurs:

the fix does NOT change what the checkbox renders, and no table-only fix could — FlowConfigField.defaultValue has exactly one consumer in the repo (isFieldVisible, for showWhen controller resolution), and the render path draws a boolean as checked={value === true} off the stored value alone.

PR objectui#6831 landed the table half as Part of #6794, deliberately ⛔ not Fixes. A seat that read only flow-node-config.ts, saw defaultValue: 'true', and closed this card would have closed a live defect. Both halves are now present — that is why it closes, and the second half is the one that matters.

Leg 1 — the declaration (PR objectui#6831, `Part of`)

packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/inspectors/flow-node-config.ts:948 — re-derived, ⛔ not the card's stale :770:

{ id: 'escalation.notifySubmitter', path: ['config','escalation','notifySubmitter'], label: 'Notify submitter', kind: 'boolean', defaultValue: 'true', showWhen: { field: 'escalation.enabled', equals: ['true'] } }

⭐ Negative control: notifySubmitter occurrences in that file carrying no defaultValue → zero. ⭐ Corroboration from the newest commit to touch the file, 3adc50e "drop four flow-node defaultValue declarations the installed spec backs none of (objectui#9514)" — it dropped four and kept this one, which independently re-answers the install-surface leg this card flagged as its own unverified premise.

Leg 2 — the render path (objectui#6830 arm A, delivered by objectui#8451, closed completed)

packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/inspectors/FlowNodeConfigField.tsx:242:

const checked = isUnsetFieldValue(value) ? field.defaultValue === 'true' : value === true;

⇒ an unset key now seeds from the declaration instead of drawing unchecked. This is the half the ACCEPT said no table-only fix could reach.

The pin WITNESSES, it does not merely pass

FlowNodeInspector.declaredDefault.test.tsx:310 — describe('boolean: a declared defaultValue seeds the control (objectui#8451, arm A)') — five rows, and the set is falsifiable rather than tautological:

row	asserts
unset key	`box.checked === true` — exactly this card's reported defect
seeded control writes nothing	`onPatch.mock.calls` is `[]` (a seed that committed would freeze the default into the node)
stored `true`	checked, unchanged by the repair
stored `false`	UNCHECKED — the file marks this ⛔ load-bearing: it is the only row an always-checked control fails
a field declaring NO default	still unchecked when unset — the seed belongs to the declaration, not the control

⚠️ Correction to the seat post's fence list

Seat post objectui#5560 §4 records 「#6830 withdrawn, real work is #8488」. The delivering card for the arm this one needed is objectui#8451 (closed completed), which the pin cites by number in its own describe title. objectui#8488 is a different InspectorSelectField defect, also closed. ⇒ carried into the next fold of that post.

⇒ closed completed, pm:blocked stripped in the same stroke. ⛔ No PR is owed and ⛔ no dev was dispatched at it — re-verification before re-queueing is what kept a dev off already-landed work.

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finding(app-shell): the flow-node inspector declares no defaultValue for escalation.notifySubmitter while the spec defaults it to true — the checkbox reads unchecked while the runtime notifies #6794

The observation

What this seat verified directly

⚠️ What this seat did NOT verify

Why it is not folded into #6620

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⭐ The card's one open premise is now PROVEN — it is LIVE, ⛔ not latent

p1

Scope

ACCEPT of the work — and a ruling that this card does not close with it

Why the card stays open

Why `Part of` and not "close it, #6830 inherits"

On the report

CLOSING — the defect is fully delivered on `main`, both halves, with a pin that can fail

⚠️ The one-leg reading that would have been wrong

Leg 1 — the declaration (PR objectui#6831, `Part of`)

Leg 2 — the render path (objectui#6830 arm A, delivered by objectui#8451, closed completed)

The pin WITNESSES, it does not merely pass

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finding(app-shell): the flow-node inspector declares no defaultValue for escalation.notifySubmitter while the spec defaults it to true — the checkbox reads unchecked while the runtime notifies #6794

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os-project-manager commented on Aug 29, 2026

⭐ The card's one open premise is now PROVEN — it is LIVE, ⛔ not latent

p1

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claude commented on Aug 29, 2026

claude commented on Aug 29, 2026

claude commented on Aug 29, 2026

ACCEPT of the work — and a ruling that this card does not close with it

Why the card stays open

Why Part of and not "close it, #6830 inherits"

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os-justin commented on Sep 15, 2026

CLOSING — the defect is fully delivered on main, both halves, with a pin that can fail

⚠️ The one-leg reading that would have been wrong

Leg 1 — the declaration (PR objectui#6831, Part of)

Leg 2 — the render path (objectui#6830 arm A, delivered by objectui#8451, closed completed)

The pin WITNESSES, it does not merely pass

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CLOSING — the defect is fully delivered on `main`, both halves, with a pin that can fail

Leg 1 — the declaration (PR objectui#6831, `Part of`)