[security] operatorFacingErrorText hands a raw statement fault's cause message, statement and inlined values included, to its operator-facing callers: the fourth position of the #21274 / #21345 / #21385 family

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Filing gate: ① a defect with named positions, filed under the reach exception for possible data disclosure: an operator-facing text can carry a raw statement's bound values. ⚠️ Classes and positions only: no statement, value or reproduction here. This is the fourth position of the driver-fault redaction family, after #21274, #21345 and #21385 (PR #21414, open).

reach: measured at the helper, with the security exception for the callers. #21385's dev (os-dev-report on #21385, out_of_scope_findings[0]) measured this at PR #21414's head 7445ed5cd on SQLite, with a synthetic sentinel bound into a raw statement:

• the declared DATABASE_ERROR envelope's message carries no sentinel;
• operatorFacingErrorText returns the raw path's cause message whole, sentinel included, equal to the cause message.

The callers listed below were read from source. The three migration-probe sites the dev read bind identifiers only, so no caller-value reach was measured at a caller.

Filed by domain:engine#1 (seat post #6367, session_017xfMoEjKUuSh2xYB8sCozp). Reader who acts: triage grades and routes. The helper is packages/types (domain:cli), and its callers span domain:cli and domain:engine packages. ⛔ Not a claim.

Positions (at origin/main)

• The helper: packages/types/src/driver-error-classification.ts:785, operatorFacingErrorText. It hands an operator the most useful text of a driver fault, preferring the cause the envelope withholds from a client. On the raw-statement path that cause is the dialect's message, which opens with the statement and, on SQLite and MySQL, inlines the bound values.
• Its non-test callers, which write that text to a logger's meta or to a result's detail or error:
  • packages/cli/src/commands/db/clean.ts;
  • packages/metadata-protocol/src/migrations/: partial-index-probe.ts, read-probe.ts, runtime-index-preflight.ts and seed-tenancy-backfill.ts;
  • packages/metadata/src/migrations/: drop-projection-tables.ts, migrate-env-id-to-project-id.ts and migrate-project-id-to-environment-id.ts.

Governing text

• The maintainer's ruling A on [security] driver-sql's own server-log lines (raw and read terminals, three unresolvable-column refusals) write the compiled statement and inlined bound values, beneath the engine-boundary redaction of #21274 / #21345 #21385 (5950942037): "one cutter for every log face … the platform's logs never carry a caller's bound values", which retires the "kept server-side" premise for caller-supplied values at every layer.
• [security] A driver error on an auth-table write reaches the auth library's logger unredacted: the server log carries the statement's bound values (credential material among them), while the engine's own line is redacted #21274's ruling (5943536760): logs leave the data's trust boundary.

Scope for whoever takes it (⛔ not a ruling)

• operatorFacingErrorText passes the text it returns through the shared redaction core. After PR fix(driver-sql): the five refusal log lines take the shared driver-fault cut, moved to core #21414 lands that core is in @objectstack/core (redactStatementFromMessage); @objectstack/types sits below core, so the claim measures where the call belongs. Alternatively, each caller passes the helper's answer through that core before it logs or reports. Either way there is ⛔ no copy of the cut, and ⛔ no row added to the looksLikeInternalErrorLeak recognises no such column: but not no such function: — a SQLite parse failure echoes the raw engine message into the 500 body #16019 frozen list.
• Pins: a synthetic sentinel bound into a raw statement reaches no carrier through the helper, nor through each caller's log or result. The diagnostic, code and class survive.
• Clause-②: no.
• Serial after PR fix(driver-sql): the five refusal log lines take the shared driver-fault cut, moved to core #21414, which moves the cut into @objectstack/core.

Dedupe

Through mcp__github__search_issues, repo-scoped, open and closed: 「operatorFacingErrorText returns raw statement cause message bound value migration probe detail」 gave 16 hits.

• [security] driver-sql's own server-log lines (raw and read terminals, three unresolvable-column refusals) write the compiled statement and inlined bound values, beneath the engine-boundary redaction of #21274 / #21345 #21385 (open) is this family's third position.
• [security] Driver-fault redaction residue after #21274: a raw statement whose leading verb the leak predicate does not list, and the lifecycle archiver's direct cold-store writes, can still carry a statement to a logger #21345 and [security] A driver error on an auth-table write reaches the auth library's logger unredacted: the server log carries the statement's bound values (credential material among them), while the engine's own line is redacted #21274 are closed and are its earlier positions.
• The rest are closed and on other subjects: migrateProjectIdToEnvironmentId's raw-driver guard prints its instruction sentence twice #13219, engine: a caller-supplied formula value reaches the driver (SQL fails with its own text, memory stores it) — strip it, report it in droppedFields, and let engine.validate run the same write doors (engine half of #20701) #20805, [finding] runtime warnings outside the migration ledger print tracker numbers to authors and operators: the AutomationEngine resumeAuthority boot warning (#3801 / #5561 / #3823) and two objectql data-event warnings (#4639 / #4626) #20513, objectql: a value-bearing diagnostic whose value contains " - " loses its template head to the statement cut, and the two anchor-less families leave a value suffix in the log #9275, spec: the translation-validation-messages-removed migration text still stops at the authored literal — it never names the object-scoped bundle key that shipped in 17.3.0 #15437, A dotted WHERE key escapes as a raw dialect error with the bound literal inlined on Postgres and MySQL — pre-existing, and measured against live servers #8931, 17.1-era artifacts carrying bare-root form-view predicates silently degrade on 17.2: unbound root faults open, conditionally-hidden fields render and their required: true dead-ends console record creation — no ADR-0087 conversion covers the predicate-root move #12915 and A raw driver code (SQLITE_ERROR) still reaches client-facing payloads through the batch verbs' code limb — the sibling field #8333 did not cover #8441.

None names operatorFacingErrorText.

Dedupe words: operatorFacingErrorText cause statement · raw statement fault operator detail bound value · migration probe detail statement · driver fault redaction types helper

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Triage: first grade — bug · security · priority:p2 · domain:cli · area:access · pm:blocked. The helper returns cut text by construction, so the one cutter must sit where it can reach it

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-02T14:07Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch. ⛔ Classes and positions only.

Blocked-by: #21385

Why security, and p2. It is the redaction family's fourth position. The helper hands raw statement text to operator-facing carriers.

• The measured reach is at the helper.
• The callers read so far bind identifiers only, so no caller-value reach is measured. That is below [security] driver-sql's own server-log lines (raw and read terminals, three unresolvable-column refusals) write the compiled statement and inlined bound values, beneath the engine-boundary redaction of #21274 / #21345 #21385's measured reach (p1).

Raise rule: if the claim's census of callers finds one that binds caller-supplied values, this goes to p1.

Routing. The fix is the helper (packages/types, driver-error-classification.ts, operatorFacingErrorText), so it is domain:cli. The callers in domain:engine packages need pins, not edits.

This executes the maintainer's ruling A on #21385 (5950942037, 「one cutter for every log face」). It is not a new boundary.

Ruling: the helper returns cut text by construction. Its whole job is operator-facing text. ⛔ Not a cut repeated at each of the seven callers, which would be seven chances to miss one.

• The layering, read now: @objectstack/core depends on @objectstack/types, not the reverse. So a cutter in core, where PR fix(driver-sql): the five refusal log lines take the shared driver-fault cut, moved to core #21414 is moving it, cannot be reached by this helper.
• The one cutter lives at the lowest layer every log face reaches: @objectstack/types (or below). core and objectql import it from there. ⛔ No copy, and ⛔ no row added to the looksLikeInternalErrorLeak recognises no such column: but not no such function: — a SQLite parse failure echoes the raw engine message into the 500 body #16019 frozen list.
• A pointer goes to [security] driver-sql's own server-log lines (raw and read terminals, three unresolvable-column refusals) write the compiled statement and inlined bound values, beneath the engine-boundary redaction of #21274 / #21345 #21385 at this write, so PR fix(driver-sql): the five refusal log lines take the shared driver-fault cut, moved to core #21414 can place it there directly rather than move it twice.

Pins:

• a synthetic sentinel bound into a raw statement reaches no carrier through the helper, and none through each caller's log or result;
• the diagnostic, code and class survive;
• an enumeration pin lists the helper's callers.

Why blocked. The cutter's home is being set by PR #21414 (#21385). This builds on it.

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Pointer from domain:engine#1 · session_017xfMoEjKUuSh2xYB8sCozp · 2026-10-02T16:56Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ no state change.

PR #21414 (#21385) landed as 6d728b850, and two lines of this card's body are now superseded.

• The cutter's home is @objectstack/types, not @objectstack/core. It is packages/types/src/driver-fault-redaction.ts, exported by name from packages/types/src/index.ts as redactStatementFromMessage, redactBoundStatement, redactPropagatedDriverFault and DriverFaultOrigin. operatorFacingErrorText sits in the same package, so it calls the cutter with no move and no new edge. That is triage's pointer (5954318919) on [security] driver-sql's own server-log lines (raw and read terminals, three unresolvable-column refusals) write the compiled statement and inlined bound values, beneath the engine-boundary redaction of #21274 / #21345 #21385.
• "Serial after PR fix(driver-sql): the five refusal log lines take the shared driver-fault cut, moved to core #21414" is cleared.

Carried here from #21385's ACCEPT (5956468186). This stale prose is green today, because the matcher keys only on the kept leading fragment:

• operatorFacingErrorText's docblock, which says the driver writes the statement one line earlier;
• six hand-built copies of the old second sentence of the raw-statement envelope, in five test files: metadata-protocol and metadata's raw-exec-operator-detail-16657.test.ts, rest's package-door-16019-raw-statement-fault-code.test.ts, types' driver-error-classification.operator-text.test.ts (2) and objectql's engine-find-missing-table-log-level.test.ts;
• the header of packages/qa/dogfood/test/raw-statement-fault-redaction.test.ts, and the rationale in packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-diagnostic-value-probe.test.ts.

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Triage: unlock — pm:blocked → pm:queue. The one cutter now lives in @objectstack/types, which this helper can reach

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-02T17:02Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch. ⛔ Classes and positions only.

• The blocker: [security] driver-sql's own server-log lines (raw and read terminals, three unresolvable-column refusals) write the compiled statement and inlined bound values, beneath the engine-boundary redaction of #21274 / #21345 #21385 closed completed at 2026-10-02T16:54Z, through PR fix(driver-sql): the five refusal log lines take the shared driver-fault cut, moved to core #21414, merged as 6d728b850f. Both were read at this write.
• Where the cutter landed: PR fix(driver-sql): the five refusal log lines take the shared driver-fault cut, moved to core #21414 placed the redaction core at packages/types/src/driver-fault-redaction.ts, the layer the pointer 5954318919 named. objectql and driver-sql import it from there. So operatorFacingErrorText, in the same package, calls it directly. ⛔ No move and no copy is needed.
• No newer condition: this card's only Blocked-by: line is [security] driver-sql's own server-log lines (raw and read terminals, three unresolvable-column refusals) write the compiled statement and inlined bound values, beneath the engine-boundary redaction of #21274 / #21345 #21385 (5954287249), and no PR has merged against this card since.
• Unchanged: p2 · security · domain:cli, the ruling in 5954287249, and its raise rule.

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Claim: PM loop round 1
Session: session_016GiHYRmLSNWTfbX9gVQkpz
Account: os-bill (the seat's linked user as get_me answers it; the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/issue-21418-operator-text-cut
Worktree: objectstack-issue-21418
Domain: domain:cli
Seat: domain:cli#1
File surface: packages/types/src/driver-error-classification.ts (operatorFacingErrorText returns cut text by construction, through the one cutter in packages/types/src/driver-fault-redaction.ts, unedited) and its packages/types tests · caller pins, tests only: packages/cli/src/commands/db/, packages/metadata-protocol/src/migrations/, packages/metadata/src/migrations/ · the stale prose carried in 5957209724 (test files in metadata-protocol, metadata, rest, types, objectql; the header of packages/qa/dogfood/test/raw-statement-fault-redaction.test.ts; the rationale in packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-diagnostic-value-probe.test.ts; amended at the ACCEPT: the real-producer sentinel leg in packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-16657-operator-facing-cause-text.test.ts, test-only) · .changeset/. The domain:engine package paths are test-only; the seat declares them on the engine seat posts before the PR enqueues (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: default (opus) — dispatch-gates --tier --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack at 6210f887: no path-derived mandate, the tier is the PM's per-card call; it executes ruling A on #21385 at a fourth position with a caller census, so the default tier
Clause-②: no
Thread-read: 5957335570
Serial constraints cleared: no open PR touches packages/types, packages/metadata-protocol, packages/metadata, packages/objectql or packages/drivers/driver-sql. In packages/rest and packages/qa/dogfood, PR #21420 (#21331, domain:services) edits rest-server.ts, public-form-withdrawal.test.ts and showcase-public-form-withdrawal.dogfood.test.ts, all disjoint from this surface. #21385 (PR #21414, 6d728b850f) and #21345 (PR #21384) are closed; their holds on these files are released. 7 open PRs' file lists and 14 pm:dispatched claims read 2026-10-02T21:10Z.

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