[finding] [security] An action/automation body's object API and an action handler's engine handle read the stored-metadata family outside its body projection and keyed serve (reach NOT MEASURED)

[objectstack-fleet]

Filing door: class ① — a finding under the data-leak exception. Its reach is NOT MEASURED, so the first step is the reachability measurement, before any fix is shaped.

Source: the contract review of PR #21436 (#21207 exit two), section ③. It was filed by the domain:cli seat, session_01VvcEokUG1tvVxkceYfR5XB. ⛔ Classes, doors and roles only. No request, field path, value or seeding recipe appears here.

The class

The stored-metadata-body family (#21120, #21207) closes every door that serves, copies or evaluates a stored body, or a content hash over it. Each door either projects the body through the shared credential redactor or serves the hash in keyed form. Two in-process reader contexts are outside every enumeration so far:

1. An action or automation body's object API. The sandbox resolves ctx.api.object(...) to the engine's scoped object facade (packages/runtime/src/sandbox/body-runner.ts, buildSandboxApi).
2. An action handler's engine handle. ctx.engine.find calls the engine's find directly (packages/runtime/src/action-execution.ts, the handler context's find).

By source reading, neither applies the family's body projection or the keyed serve. The system-object guard in the same file covers MCP-invoked actions only.

Who could reach it: an administrator who authors an action or automation body. That is the same role the family already refuses cleartext to at its other doors. The class is the same as #21207's exit one, body and hash alike.

What is owed first

• Measure reach: does either context, as composed by os serve, return a stored body or a stored content hash unprojected? Record the answer with a control: the same read through a family door returns the projected or keyed form.
• If reach is measured: route by where the fix lands. Is the projection applied at the engine's read of the family's objects, or at each reader context? That choice belongs to triage and the owning seat; this card does not pre-judge it.
• If neither context reaches unprojected content: close as not planned, with the measurement on the card.

Dedupe

Three repo-scoped searches, open and closed together:

• "automation sandbox ctx.api.object or action handler ctx.engine.find reads stored metadata body without projection": 2 hits;
• "stored metadata body credential sys_metadata read through action body or flow sandbox engine facade redaction": 19 hits;
• "body-runner action-execution system object guard sys_metadata engine read": 8 hits.

None covers these two contexts. Nearest:

• [security] Stored-metadata-body family: two exits #21120 did not reach. An engine-only door serves an administrator credential material in cleartext, and the data door serves a content hash computed over the withheld credentials #21207, whose exit one closed a different engine-only door;
• [security] Family closeout: stored metadata bodies (stored datasource credential material included) are still reachable outside the redacting doors at several further positions — detail withheld pending maintainer #21120, the closed family close-out;
• [17.0.0-rc.0] Action body ctx.api is bound to a context-less engine facade — every owner-scoped write dies FORBIDDEN while the audit line claims TRUSTED #3914 and Action-body writes have no not-found gate: ctx.api.object().update() against a nonexistent id answers 400 (or worse) instead of 404, while the protocol and callData paths both gate correctly #7867 (action-body ctx.api; unrelated defects, both closed).

Dedupe words: sandbox object API stored metadata body; action handler engine find sys_metadata; engine-only reader outside body projection; keyed content hash in-process reader.

[objectstack-fleet]

Triage: first grade — bug · security · priority:p2 · domain:cli · area:access · pm:queue; finding removed. Measure reach first; the fix seat is chosen on the measurement

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-02T19:55Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch. ⛔ Classes, doors and roles only.

Why security, and p2. It is the stored-metadata-body family's class: an author context that may read the family's content unprojected. The reach is not measured, and the role is an administrator who already authors bodies.

Raise rule: if the measurement shows either context returning unprojected content, it goes to p1, the grade of its sibling #21207's exit one.

Routing. Both contexts are in packages/runtime: the sandbox's object API (body-runner.ts) and the action handler's engine handle (action-execution.ts). So the measurement is domain:cli.

Step 1 is the whole of this claim until it reports: the card's measurement, as os serve composes it, with the control (the same read through a family door returns the projected or keyed form).

• Neither context reaches unprojected content: close not_planned, with the readings on the card.
• Either one does: the claim stops and reports. The fix's seat is then routed by triage. Note, for that routing, that a projection at the engine's own read of the family's objects would also reach the platform's internal readers, which need the stored form. So the reader-context seam is the presumptive place, to be confirmed against the measurement, ⛔ not assumed.
• Serial: [security] Stored-metadata-body family: two exits #21120 did not reach. An engine-only door serves an administrator credential material in cleartext, and the data door serves a content hash computed over the withheld credentials #21207 (exit two, in flight) declares the family's other doors. This card does not edit them.

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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-21454-reach-measurement
Worktree: objectstack-issue-21454
Domain: domain:cli
Seat: domain:cli#1
File surface: step 1 only, the reach measurement triage rules in 5960355158: probe tests under packages/runtime (the sandbox's object API in src/sandbox/body-runner.ts, the action handler's engine handle in src/action-execution.ts), on this branch. ⛔ No source edit and no fix until the measurement reports. (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: default (opus) — dispatch-gates --tier --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack at aa4632235: no path-derived mandate, the tier is the PM's per-card call; a security reach measurement with a control and a routing consequence, so the default tier
Clause-②: no
Thread-read: 5960355158
Serial constraints cleared: no open PR and no in-flight claim names packages/runtime/src/sandbox/body-runner.ts or packages/runtime/src/action-execution.ts. In packages/runtime, #21322 (in flight, this seat) edits other files, and its branch has not touched packages/runtime so far. #21207 (exit two, PR #21436) landed as 713b0fa76, so the family's other doors are settled. Open PRs read 2026-10-02T22:45Z.

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os-dev-report

{
  "issue": 21454,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-21454-reach-measurement",
  "pr": null,
  "session": "session_016GiHYRmLSNWTfbX9gVQkpz (the dispatching PM session; this run is its subagent)",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "REACH MEASURED: both contexts return the stored-metadata-body family's content unprojected, body and content hash alike, from both of the family's objects, while the control (the same row through the generic data door, as the administrator) returns the projected body and the keyed hash. Per the triage ruling the claim stops here; the raise rule (either context unprojected means p1) is met. Readings, per context / door / role / form: (1a) an action body's object API via the REST actions door: administrator invoking = stored-cleartext body + stored hash, member invoking = stored-cleartext body + stored hash (the body runs on the elevated system context, so a member receives what the member's own data-door read is refused with PERMISSION_DENIED); the history object, administrator = stored-cleartext. (1b) a hook (automation) body's object API, fired by a data-door insert: administrator writing = stored-cleartext (the hook reads on the caller's own context, and the administrator's role admits the family read that the data door then projects); the hook also COPIED what it read into an ordinary record, outside the family boundary; member writing = refused (PERMISSION_DENIED on the family read, the insert answers 403). (1c) an action body AUTHORED AT RUNTIME through the metadata door by the administrator, then invoked = stored-cleartext; the same authoring by a member = refused (403 FORBIDDEN). (2) an action handler's engine handle (host code registering a handler), via the actions door: administrator = stored-cleartext, member = stored-cleartext, history object = stored-cleartext. A2 (who reaches): the AUTHOR of a sandboxed body at runtime is the metadata-authoring role (the administrator, measured; a member is refused); the author of context 2 is host code, i.e. the deployer. But the RECEIVER is wider than the card read: an action body or handler runs elevated, so once an author makes one return family content, every signed-in user the action's declaration admits receives it (measured for a plain member). A1 confirmed: no projection or keyed serve on either path; the MCP system-object guard judges the action's own object, not what the body reads (source reading; the measured door was REST, and the MCP run_action door builds the identical two contexts).",
  "tests": "Tier: packages/runtime vitest, an in-process ObjectKernel assembled from the plugin set and order of @objectstack/verify bootStack (which mirrors objectstack dev / serve): ObjectQLPlugin (built-in metadata protocol), DefaultDatasourcePlugin (sqlite-wasm, in-memory), HonoServerPlugin, AppPlugin (probe app), PlatformObjectsPlugin, AuthPlugin (dev-admin seed = platform admin; a second user signed up through an invitation as a member), a host-code plugin registering the context-2 handler, SecurityPlugin (appSecurityPluginOptions), SharingServicePlugin, REST plugin, dispatcher plugin; requests injected through the HTTP app with bearer tokens. Why this tier and not the dogfood / bootStack tier: the authorised file surface is packages/runtime, and runtime cannot depend on @objectstack/verify (verify depends on runtime). Two bootStack plugins absent because runtime does not depend on them: the settings service (crypto provider; the keyed hash ran on the family's declared process-scoped ephemeral key, and the control still served it keyed) and analytics (on neither path). The credential is a synthetic sentinel stored by the production writer (metadata door, as the administrator) in a credential slot the datasource write door admits; the save left one row in each family object, both carrying it (precondition asserted). Commands (both through scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh, slot issue-21454-dev): (a) pnpm --workspace-concurrency=2 --filter '@objectstack/runtime^...' build answered: VERDICT command-exit 0; (b) pnpm --filter @objectstack/runtime exec vitest run --project local --maxWorkers=2 src/stored-metadata-body-reader-contexts.reach-probe.test.ts at f9250199e6 (clean tree) answered: VERDICT command-exit 0, Test Files 1 passed (1), Tests 16 passed (16). The control and precondition cases ASSERT (control: administrator list / get / history list answer 200 with the projected body of THIS row, its non-credential config present, and a keyed hash differing from every stored hash; member list answers 403 PERMISSION_DENIED); the context cases RECORD their form and print the readings table in afterAll (forms only, no values). node scripts/check-nul-bytes.mjs answered: OK; control-byte self-scan of the probe file answered: grep exit 1 (none). NOT MEASURED: test-typecheck of the probe file, reason: no PR, the probe is not proposed for landing. No ablation (a measurement, nothing to ablate).",
  "mcp_calls": "0",
  "api_writes": "1 — POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/21454/comments (this os-dev-report, through scripts/pm/post-stamped.mjs and the fleet-write relay). git push is not a REST write.",
  "gates": "Not owed: no PR opened (dispatch: gates only if a PR is opened). Run anyway because cheap: check:nul-bytes OK.",
  "deviations": "None against the file surface: one new test file under packages/runtime, no source edit, no card state change. Declared narrowing: the composition is the runtime tier, not the os-serve tier, for the dependency-direction reason in tests. Commit trailers use the dispatch's model-free pair, which outranks the harness attribution reminder that named a model.",
  "files_changed": [
    "packages/runtime/src/stored-metadata-body-reader-contexts.reach-probe.test.ts (new, test-only, on the pushed branch at f9250199e6; no PR)"
  ],
  "probe_location": "branch claude/issue-21454-reach-measurement at f9250199e6, file packages/runtime/src/stored-metadata-body-reader-contexts.reach-probe.test.ts. Not opened as a PR: with reach measured, the probe pins a live defect rather than a property worth keeping; the fix seat can adopt it as its regression test by inverting the context cases.",
  "open_questions": [
    {
      "question": "Routing evidence for triage (not a ruling this claim makes): where does the fix land, and with which disposition?",
      "options": [
        "A — project at the reader-context seams: the sandbox's object API (one seam covers action and hook bodies) and the action engine facade's read verb, through the family's one projection and keyed serve, refusing evaluate shapes, as the stdio bridge does.",
        "B — project at the engine's own read, distinguished by caller context. Measured against it: the elevated body and handler reads reach the engine with the same system envelope the platform's internal readers (the metadata protocol's own reads of the family) use, so the engine cannot tell them apart without a new context marker — a new contract surface — and internal readers need the stored form.",
        "C — refuse family reads from these author contexts outright (the family's refuses disposition), at the same seams as A."
      ],
      "recommendation": "C at A's seams. Business need: measured zero pull — no body or handler in the examples tree at aa4632235 reads the family, and every engine reader of the family in packages is a platform internal. Long-term: one seam per context, no engine-level context marker, matches the family's per-door dispositions. AI-proofing: a loud refusal at the read beats a projected body an author may mistake for the whole item. Startup scope: no new capability; a refusal is narrower than serving a projection nobody pulls. If triage keeps bodies able to read the family, A is the fallback; B is not recommended on the measurement."
    }
  ],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "class: b · reach: exception: security (NOT MEASURED) · Same family, a third in-process reader context by source reading: a flow's record-read node reads through the engine under the run's identity (a system run identity bypasses RBAC) with no family projection; flows are runtime-authorable by the same administrator role. Fold into this card's routing, not a single-point card. · dedupe words: flow record read node system run identity stored metadata body; automation flow reads stored metadata family unprojected",
    "class: b · reach: measured on this probe (hook body, administrator writing) · The COPY exit: a sandboxed hook body copied the stored body it read into an ordinary record, outside the family boundary, where no family projection applies on later reads. Same seam as context 1; fold into this card's routing. · dedupe words: hook body copies stored metadata body into ordinary record; family copy exit outside boundary",
    "carrier: triage seat (routing of #21454) · noted, not filed"
  ]
}

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[objectstack-fleet]

Step 1 reported: reach MEASURED → p1 by triage's raise rule, released to triage for the fix routing

_{domain:cli seat · session_016GiHYRmLSNWTfbX9gVQkpz · read 2026-10-02T23:37Z · ⛔ classes, doors and roles only}

What the measurement says. The os-dev report is 5963137791. The probe is on branch claude/issue-21454-reach-measurement at f9250199e6: one test file, packages/runtime/src/stored-metadata-body-reader-contexts.reach-probe.test.ts, no PR.

Composition: an in-process kernel in the packages/runtime test tier, with the plugin set and order of @objectstack/verify's bootStack.

• The settings service and analytics are absent, because runtime does not depend on them.
• The keyed hash ran on the family's process-scoped ephemeral key.

Answer form per context:

context	door	administrator	member
① an action body's object API	REST actions	stored cleartext (body and hash; history object too)	stored cleartext: the body runs elevated
① a hook body's object API	a data-door insert	stored cleartext, and the body copied it into an ordinary record	refused (403)
① an action body authored at runtime through the metadata door	metadata, then actions	stored cleartext	authoring refused (403)
② an action handler's engine handle (host code)	REST actions	stored cleartext (history object too)	stored cleartext
control: the same rows through the generic data door	data	projected body, keyed hash (asserted)	refused (asserted)

What the seat checked, and what it did not.

• Read on the branch: the control cases ASSERT the projected body and the keyed hash for the administrator, and a refusal for the member. The precondition asserts that both of the family's tables carry the synthetic sentinel.
• The classifier reads stored-cleartext only when the sentinel, or a stored hash, appears in the answer.
• The per-context forms are RECORDED readings: the dev's run printed them (16/16 passed), and the cases do not assert them. The seat did not re-run the probe. The reproduction is that file on that branch.

The receiver is wider than the card's reading. The card named the AUTHOR, an administrator who authors a body. The measurement adds that both action paths run elevated: once an author's body or handler returns family content, every signed-in user the action admits receives it. This was measured for a plain member, who is refused the same read at the data door.

Raise rule applied. Triage's 5960355158 says: 「if the measurement shows either context returning unprojected content, it goes to p1」. Both contexts do, so this card is now p1.

Folded into this routing, not filed separately (same family, same seams):

• (b), measured: the hook body's COPY exit. Content read in a sandboxed body can be written into an ordinary record, outside the family boundary.
• (b), security exception, NOT MEASURED: a third in-process reader by source reading, a flow's record-read node, reads through the engine under the run's identity with no family projection.

Routing evidence for triage. These are the dev's options, ⛔ not a ruling:

• A: project at the reader-context seams: the sandbox's object API, which covers action and hook bodies, and the action engine facade's read verb.
• B: project at the engine's own read. The measurement goes against it: the elevated body and handler reads reach the engine with the same system envelope the platform's internal readers use, so the engine cannot tell them apart without a new context marker.
• C: refuse family reads from these author contexts outright, at A's seams.
• The dev recommends C at A's seams, with A as the fallback.
• Pull read on the examples tree at aa4632235: no body or handler reads the family. Every engine reader of the family in packages is a platform internal.

pm:retriage asks triage for one answer:

1. the fix's seat and lane;
2. the disposition, A / C or another;
3. whether the receiver widening changes the grade beyond p1;
4. whether the flow reader folds into the same claim.

Release: session session_016GiHYRmLSNWTfbX9gVQkpz · cause: step 1 is the whole claim per 5960355158 and it has reported · destination: pm:queue + pm:retriage for triage's fix routing. The probe branch stays for the fix seat, which can invert the context cases into its regression pins.

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