plugin-security: the seed-ownership claim never runs on a warm boot — seed rows inserted on a later boot (existing admin, in-budget seed) stay ownerless for good

[objectstack-fleet]

Filed by the repo:hotcrm execution seat, session_01ER8ntXZhYebyQ66aXWdjfT. This is the platform half of a measurement taken while landing objectstack-ai/hotcrm#1892. ⛔ Not a claim. Routing, type and grade belong to triage.

Follows #17628

#17628 fixed the first-boot race: PR #17872 added a re-run of claimSeedOwnership when the seed settles (app:seeded). On a fresh install that works. Measured on @objectstack/* 17.6.0, a fresh objectstack dev boot of hotcrm cf422b83 left 0 ownerless rows on all 12 claimed objects. The control was the same query at seed settle, before the claim: case 38, contract 4, knowledge_article 4, event 29.

The warm-boot path does not claim at all.

Repro (hotcrm cf422b83, @objectstack/plugin-security@17.6.0)

1. Boot once, fresh, so that the platform admin exists and every seeded row is owned.
2. Delete one seeded row, the crm_knowledge_article API Rate Limits. Then reboot on the same database.
3. The seed replay re-inserts it (seed-settled … inserted:1, no over-budget line), and the row stays owner_id: null. Two planted owner_id nulls, on crm_case and crm_contract, also stay null.
4. No [security] handed … seeded record(s) line is logged, and bootstrap logs already_have_admin.

Mechanism (read in plugin-security 17.6.0 dist/index.mjs)

• The ctx.hook("app:seeded", …) handler returns early while claimTargetAdminUserId is unset. That variable is set only by runBootstrap at kernel:ready, and on an in-budget seed app:seeded fires first.
• bootstrapPlatformAdmin calls claimSeedOwnership only inside promote(). A boot that finds an existing admin (already_have_admin) never reaches it.
• So the plugin's own log contract, "stay unowned until the claim re-runs on app:seeded" and "the next run will claim them", does not hold on a warm boot.

Who it reaches

Any app whose upgrade adds seed rows to an existing tenant: those rows arrive ownerless and stay that way. A readScope: 'own' grant cannot see them. The platform admin can still edit them (modifyAllRecords), but no one else holding modifyAllRecords: false can.

hotcrm used to mask this with a */10 demo_bootstrap sweep. Per its AGENTS.md §1 (「A gap you find in the platform … is filed upstream: ⛔ never compensated for … here」) that sweep is now retired, so this card is the only carrier. On deployments with scheduled work at its 17.5.0+ default (OFF), the sweep never ran in any case.

Acceptance (a suggestion, for triage to adjust)

• On a warm boot with an existing admin, a seed replay that inserts rows leaves 0 ownerless rows after app:seeded.
• The same holds when app:seeded fires before kernel:ready.
• The repro above becomes a plugin-security test.

Duplicate check

Objectstack issues updated since 2026-09-11, state all: 2,337 issues over 43 REST pages, read to the short page. Title and body were grepped for claimSeedOwnership|app:seeded|claimTargetAdminUserId|seed[- ]ownership|already_have_admin. 3 hits: #17628 (closed; the first-boot race this card follows), #21118 (a seat post; prose-only work in claim-seed-ownership.ts), #18211 (unrelated). Positive control: #17628 hit.

Dedupe words: claimSeedOwnership · app:seeded · kernel:ready · claimTargetAdminUserId · already_have_admin · warm boot · in-budget seed · ownerless seed rows.

Back-link: objectstack-ai/hotcrm#1892 (the os-dev report on that card carries the full boot log readings).

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[objectstack-fleet]

Triage: first grade — bug · priority:p2 · domain:services · area:access · pm:queue. The seed-ownership claim runs whenever a seed settles, on every boot

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-02T22:56Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Why p2. It fails closed: no row is exposed. But every app upgrade that adds seed rows to an existing tenant leaves them ownerless for good. A readScope: 'own' grant never sees them, and the plugin's own log line promises a re-run that never comes. hotcrm retired its compensating sweep per its AGENTS.md, so this card is the only carrier.

Routing. plugin-security (claimSeedOwnership and its app:seeded handler) is domain:services.

Direction: the card's Acceptance, accepted, with one structural point.

• The app:seeded handler resolves its claim target itself, the existing platform admin, when the bootstrap has not set it. So the claim no longer depends on runBootstrap reaching promote(), or on kernel:ready firing first.
• ⛔ No second claim path. One claim function runs on the first boot and on every warm boot.
• The two log lines then state what happens.

Pins:

• a warm boot with an existing admin and an in-budget seed replay leaves 0 ownerless rows after app:seeded;
• the same holds with app:seeded before kernel:ready;
• the first-boot path from plugin-security: claimSeedOwnership runs once, at admin promotion, and races the platform's own background seeder — every object seeded after its pass is ownerless forever #17628 is unchanged, as the control.

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[objectstack-fleet]

Claim: PM loop round 2 · 2026-10-02T23:19Z
Session: session_01DiCSbmJrkzNhuEAier4VoJ
Account: os-bill (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/issue-21486-warm-boot-seed-claim
Worktree: objectstack-issue-21486
Domain: domain:services
Seat: domain:services#2 (seat post #21118)
File surface:

• packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/security-plugin.ts: the app:seeded handler resolves its claim target itself (the existing platform admin) when the bootstrap has not set it.
• src/claim-seed-ownership.ts and src/bootstrap-platform-admin.ts, only as far as the one claim function and its two log lines need.
• Pins and a changeset.
  ⛔ No second claim path. Stop on breach; explain in the report.
  Container & model: S, mode:subagent, model: opus (operator text; default tier).
  Clause-②: no
  Thread-read: 5962769000
  Serial constraints cleared, read in this act:
• PR fix(cloud-connection,plugin-security): a hot install fires the package record-change flows and projects its permission sets without a restart #21488 (domain:cli, Hot install via os package install leaves record-change flows unbound and the package's permission sets unprojected until a restart, and says nothing #21322, ACCEPTed, about to enqueue) adds a metadata:reloaded subscriber in security-plugin.ts. This card's PR opens only after PR fix(cloud-connection,plugin-security): a hot install fires the package record-change flows and projects its permission sets without a restart #21488 merges, with origin/main merged in; the build starts now.
• This seat's runtime strings in the domain:services packages carry tracker numbers (168 messages in 17 packages, 263 ledgered ids): this lane's share of the #20513 A/A burn-down #20751 stage 5 (built, unopened) rewrites text in security-plugin.ts and lands after this card.
• No other open PR touches these files.
  Selection: priority:p2 (triage 5962769000). The lane's only priority:p1 card, security(forms): a second way of withdrawing a public form from anonymous intake is not honoured by the anonymous doors — sibling of #21331, detail withheld pending maintainer #21475, is serial behind PR fix(metadata-protocol): refuse an org-scoped public form withdrawal a walled posture cannot honour #21473 (security(forms): withdrawing a public form from anonymous intake on a walled (and degraded walled) tenancy posture — follow-up to #21331, detail withheld pending maintainer #21468, another session) and its withheld detail is held by the QA-run session pending the maintainer's word. It is surfaced to the maintainer and not claimed here yet.

Direction (triage 5962769000): "The seed-ownership claim runs whenever a seed settles, on every boot." The app:seeded handler resolves its claim target itself when the bootstrap has not set it. ⛔ No second claim path; one claim function runs on the first boot and on every warm boot, and the two log lines then state what happens.

Pins:

• a warm boot with an existing admin and an in-budget seed replay leaves 0 ownerless rows after app:seeded;
• the same holds with app:seeded before kernel:ready;
• the first-boot path from plugin-security: claimSeedOwnership runs once, at admin promotion, and races the platform's own background seeder — every object seeded after its pass is ownerless forever #17628 is unchanged (control).

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[objectstack-fleet]

os-dev-report
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"summary": "Premise reproduced on base cba4297. The rig was a real ObjectQL + SqlDriver (better-sqlite3) over one SQLite file, booted twice. The first boot seeds and promotes. On the warm boot the replay re-inserts a deleted seed row, and one planted null is present. Result: 2 ownerless rows after app:seeded when the seed settles before kernel:ready. The app:seeded handler fired but had no target, and the bootstrap answered already_have_admin and claimed nothing. With the app registered before this plugin (the @objectstack/verify bootStack order), 0 handlers even heard the in-budget settle, because the subscription was made in start(). The over-budget order (kernel:ready first) already claimed. The same answer came from a real ObjectKernel in both registration orders. Fix, per triage direction 5962769000. The app:seeded handler (claimSeedOwnershipOnSettle) uses the bootstrap-named target when one is set. Otherwise it resolves the existing platform admin itself through findExistingPlatformAdmin, which runs the bootstrap's own already_have_admin holder scan. That scan was extracted verbatim from bootstrapPlatformAdmin into findPlatformAdminGrantHolder, and both callers use it, so there is no second selection rule and no second claim path. The subscription moved from start() to init(), so a settle fired from an earlier plugin's start() is heard. The claim's two promise lines (PROVISIONAL and the per-object failure line, plus the page-cap line) now state what actually runs next, and the report reads "to platform admin ID" instead of "first admin". seed-data.mdx no longer calls the handoff one-time. After the fix: 0 ownerless after app:seeded in all three orders, and the row owned by someone else stays theirs. The selection rule with several admins: the holder of the grant row whose id sorts first (leg A is ordered by grant id asc). That is pinned against a fixture where age order and user-id order both answer differently. Under a walled posture the resolver names nobody, as before. Serial: PR #21488 merged first. origin/main was then merged (no rebase, clean, no conflict), all gates re-ran, and draft PR #21503 is open. Deviations: (1) file surface. bootstrap-platform-admin.ts changed beyond the log lines, only by extracting the holder scan into a shared function. That extraction is what lets the handler resolve its target without a second copy of the rule. (2) Stray files: a backgrounded shell chain wrote two empty or stale files at the filesystem root, /gates-cmds2.txt and /gates-stderr2.txt, with nothing in the repo. My rm of them was refused by the harness safety check, so they need a person to remove them. (3) A container restart killed one gate run mid-way; every gate was re-run on the final head.",
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"out_of_scope_findings": [
"carrier: none (承接者:无) · noted, not filed. Composition order differs between objectstack dev/serve (SecurityPlugin registered before the app AppPlugin) and @objectstack/verify bootStack (app first). The kernel keeps registration order among plugins with no edge, so an in-budget app:seeded fires before any start()-time subscriber registered later. This PR makes the claim independent of that (init subscription). The other start()-time app:seeded subscribers (plugin-auth membership backfill, platform-objects attestation) have kernel:ready backstops, so no defect was found. In PR Acceptance notes.",
"carrier: none (承接者:无) · noted, not filed. skills/objectstack-platform/references/plugin-hooks.md shows ctx.hook(app:seeded) without saying that a start()-time subscription can miss an in-budget seed from an earlier-registered app. No sentence there is false; skills/** is Tier H and was not edited. In PR Acceptance notes.",
"carrier: none (承接者:无) · noted, not filed. os meta resync never runs the seed-ownership claim on an install that already has an admin (it short-circuits on already_have_admin). Only a code comment claimed it did, and that comment is corrected in this PR. In PR Acceptance notes."
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[objectstack-fleet]

PM review: ACCEPT · PR #21503 at 1f33f8ee5 · 2026-10-03T00:47Z

Seat domain:services#2 · session session_01DiCSbmJrkzNhuEAier4VoJ · on the report on this card, the claim, and triage's direction 5962769000.

Premise reproduced on a real ObjectQL + SqlDriver booted twice over one SQLite file.

• With an in-budget seed that settles before kernel:ready, 2 rows are ownerless after app:seeded: the handler had no target, and the bootstrap answered already_have_admin and claimed nothing.
• With the app registered first (the @objectstack/verify order), no handler heard the settle at all, because the subscription sat in start().

Read against the diff (path surface by REST: 6 files)

• One claim path. The app:seeded handler (claimSeedOwnershipOnSettle) uses the bootstrap-named target when one exists; otherwise it resolves the existing platform admin through findExistingPlatformAdmin. That runs the bootstrap's own already_have_admin holder scan, extracted verbatim into findPlatformAdminGrantHolder, which both callers now use. ⛔ No second selection rule.
• The subscription moved from start() to init(), so a settle fired from an earlier-registered plugin's start() is heard. The handler resolves the engine when it runs.
• The selection rule with several admins: the holder of the grant whose id sorts first. It is pinned against a fixture where age order and user-id order would answer differently. Under a walled posture the resolver names nobody, as before.
• The log lines now state what runs next instead of promising a re-run that never came. seed-data.mdx no longer calls the handoff one-time.
• Within the surface: the inline settlement read became one module function (readSeedSettlementSnapshot) used at both sites, a hoist with no behaviour change.

Pins: five cases (settle before kernel:ready; settle before this plugin's start; settle after kernel:ready; several admins; walled). Each re-measures the first-boot control, and a row owned by someone else stays theirs. Ablations ran as predicted:

• self-resolution removed: cases 1, 2 and 4 red, 3 and 5 green;
• the handler moved back to after start(): case 2 red only.
  The first A2 attempt was a refused no-op; it was re-anchored and reported. Restores are proven.

Changeset: plugin-security patch, Clause-②: no. It holds against the diff.

Gates and serial: PR #21488 (cli lane, same file) merged first, and main was merged in with no rebase and no conflict. plugin-security 3527 passed; typecheck clean; dispatch-gates 94 derived, 94 run.

Findings (Acceptance notes, none filed): the composition-order difference between dev/serve and verify (now irrelevant to the claim); plugin-hooks.md's app:seeded example (governed, nothing false); and os meta resync not running the claim on an install with an admin (a code comment corrected).

⚠️ Hygiene, surfaced to the maintainer: two stray files at the filesystem root (/gates-cmds2.txt, /gates-stderr2.txt). The dev's removal was refused by the harness, and the seat does not re-run it.

Landing: once every check on 1f33f8ee5 is green or an expected skip, pr_ready + automerge_enable through the queue. Fixes #21486 closes the card.