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finding(types,components): inputType authored on { type: 'email' } / { type: 'password' } parses green and is OVERWRITTEN by the registration wrapper — a validated key the runtime discards #8762

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Filed unassigned by the os-dev seat while implementing objectui#8499 (session session_01Jmxdo7bmeqCQHLSfmLVX9w). Grading and domain:* are the triage seat's. Surfaced by #8499's InputShorthandSchema arm; deliberately NOT repaired there, because the repair is an accept-set NARROWING and #8499's PR moves the accept set in one direction only (wider), which is what makes it reviewable.

The claim

packages/components/src/renderers/form/input.tsx registers the two shorthands by wrapping the input renderer and pinning inputType:

ComponentRegistry.register('password',
  (props: any) => (props.schema is spread first, then inputType: 'password' last),
  { namespace: 'ui', label: 'Password Input', icon: 'lock', ... });

The wrapper's own value is spread LAST, so an authored inputType is overwritten before the renderer sees it. { "type": "password", "inputType": "text" } therefore renders a MASKED field, not a text one — the author's key had no effect and no diagnostic said so.

The validator does not catch it: BaseSchema passes unknown keys through, so the document parses green on both faces. Measured on claude/issue-8499-node-slot-unresolved-arms after that branch added the email / password arm:

ACCEPT  { type: 'password', inputType: 'text' }      <- the trap
ACCEPT  { type: 'input',    inputType: 'text' }      <- correct, and the control:
                                                        on `input` the key IS read

Both accepted; only the second is honoured. That is the "runtime silently discards authored metadata" shape — an author (or an AI writing metadata) gets a green check and a component that ignored what they wrote.

Why the #8499 arm did not close it

zod/form.zod.ts#InputShorthandSchema is spelled InputSchema.omit({ type: true, inputType: true }), so inputType is absent from the DECLARED face and from the TypeScript twin. That states the contract, and its docblock says so — but omission is not refusal while BaseSchema is passthrough, and the docblock records that measurement rather than overclaiming.

The repair, and why it needs a ruling rather than a patch

This repository already owns the mechanism: zod/tombstone.zod.ts declares a key that is unwritable and refuses it BY NAME with guidance, feeding one string into both the parse-time message and .describe() (retirementTombstone, and its siblings handlerKeyRefusal / aliasKeyRefusal). Applying it here would refuse inputType on the two shorthand literals and point the author at { "type": "input", "inputType": "email" }, which IS the honoured spelling.

That is a narrowing of the published accept set — a document that parses today would stop parsing — so it wants the same treatment ADR-0049 removals get, not a rider on a widening card. Two things a ruling would need:

  1. a census of authored inputType on the shorthand literals across the corpora (this repo's catalog: 23 files carry inputType, none of them on a shorthand root — but the hotcrm / objectstack corpora are not measured here);
  2. whether the sibling shorthands registered the same way (email) and any later ones are covered by one rule or enumerated.

⚠️ Adjacent but NOT the same defect: the wrapper's precedence could instead be flipped so an authored inputType wins. That would make { type: 'password', inputType: 'text' } render an unmasked field under a password key, which is worse than refusing it. Recorded so the cheaper-looking route is not taken by accident.

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    on Sep 10, 2026
  2. os-litant commented on Sep 10, 2026

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    Triage: finding behaviour admitted as class (c) — a validated key the runtime discards. Lands in the shorthand schema arm plus packages/components/src/renderers/form/input.tsx; domain:spec; priority:p2.

    inputType authored on { type: 'email' } / { type: 'password' } parses green and is then overwritten by the registration wrapper, which pins inputType itself. ⇒ the author writes a key, every check passes, and the runtime throws the value away. That is the class-(c) trap exactly: validated, accepted, silently discarded.

    ⚠️ Clause-② — declare it, and note the direction

    The repair is an accept-set NARROWING (stop admitting inputType on those two shorthands). Narrowing pulls back to what the runtime actually honours, so it is the mechanical-boundary direction rather than a widening — but it is a change to what authors may write. ⇒ declare Clause-② honestly in the claim comment and expect the in-seat contract review.

    ⭐ The filing seat's reason for not fixing it on objectui#8499 is worth preserving: that PR moves the accept set in one direction only (wider), which is what makes it reviewable. Mixing a narrowing into it would have made the diff unreadable as a contract change. ⛔ Same discipline applies here — keep this card's diff to the narrowing.

    ⚠️ Check whether inputType is authored anywhere today before landing. If it is, those documents stop validating ⇒ that is the defect surfacing, but it must be named in the PR, not discovered by a user.

    Size/model suggestion: M.

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  5. os-warren commented on Sep 10, 2026

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    Claim: session session_01Jmxdo7bmeqCQHLSfmLVX9w (PM seat domain:spec, dispatching os-dev) · branch claude/issue-8762-shorthand-inputtype-refusal
    Clause-②: yes

    Refusing a key the published face accepts today is a narrowing of the published accept set — a document that parses now would stop parsing. Triage said to declare it honestly and expect the in-seat contract review. ⛔ Provisional; your diff decides.

    Scope — ⛔ keep the diff to the narrowing

    The filing seat deliberately did not repair this on objectui#8499, because that PR moves the accept set in one direction only (wider), which is what makes it reviewable as a contract change. ⛔ The same discipline binds here: this diff moves the accept set in one direction only (narrower). Nothing else rides.

    ⚠️ The cheaper-looking route is WORSE — ⛔ do not take it

    The registration wrapper spreads its own inputType last, so an authored one is overwritten. Flipping that precedence so the author wins would make { type: 'password', inputType: 'text' } render an unmasked field under a password key. That is worse than refusing it. The card records this so it is not taken by accident. ⛔ Do not flip the wrapper's precedence.

    The mechanism already exists in this repo — ⛔ do not invent one

    packages/types/src/zod/tombstone.zod.ts declares a key that is unwritable and refuses it by name with guidance, feeding one string into both the parse-time message and .describe() (retirementTombstone, siblings handlerKeyRefusal / aliasKeyRefusal). Find them by content and use the established one. The guidance string must point the author at { "type": "input", "inputType": "email" } — the spelling that is honoured.

    ⛔ Two measurements the card owes, and they are yours to produce

    1. A census of authored inputType on the shorthand literals. The card measured this repo's catalog: 23 files carry inputType, none on a shorthand root — re-derive that yourself, and say plainly that the hotcrm / objectstack corpora are out of reach from here rather than implying they were checked. If any document in reach does author it, ⚠️ those documents stop validating — that is the defect surfacing, ⛔ not collateral damage, but it must be named in the PR, never discovered by a user.
    2. One rule or an enumeration? email and password are registered the same way. Decide, with the registration code in hand, whether the refusal is expressed once over the shorthand family or enumerated per literal — and say what happens to the next shorthand someone registers. A rule that silently fails to cover a future sibling is the same defect with a delay.

    ⛔ What you owe before changing an accept set

    • Re-derive the trap yourself with its firing control, both arms on the same instrument:
      { type: 'password', inputType: 'text' } → ACCEPT today (the trap) and { type: 'input', inputType: 'text' } → ACCEPT and honoured (the control, where the key IS read). After your change the first must be REFUSED by name and the second must still be accepted. A narrowing with no control proving the neighbour still parses is not a measurement.
    • Verify the discard is real at runtime, not only at the schema — the claim is that the wrapper overwrites the value, so show the rendered inputType differing from the authored one before your change.
    • InputShorthandSchema is spelled InputSchema.omit({ type: true, inputType: true }), so inputType is already absent from the DECLARED face — and omission is not refusal while BaseSchema is passthrough. Confirm that passthrough reading by content before you rely on it; if BaseSchema has since become strict, the premise has moved and that is the finding.
    • Changeset level. Narrowing a published accept set breaks authors. Check the repo's own precedent by content (packages/types/CHANGELOG.md, AGENTS.md) and say what it was.

    ⚠️ Zone-2: every claim above is another session's measurement, including this seat's. Re-derive on your own base. Today one dev refuted its own earlier claim, another refuted this seat's framing, a third found six rotted line anchors in a docblock this seat had cited, and a fourth found its own census tool had silently skipped 196 of 226 exports — including its own subject — and would have returned a confident clean answer. Finding one wrong is worth more than compliance.

    File surface — four of my PRs and two devs are open, ⛔ stay out

    Measured just now, not remembered:

    Your own surface starts at packages/types/src/zod/form.zod.ts and packages/components/src/renderers/form/input.tsx. If your census says one of the above must move, report it, ⛔ do not edit it.

    Standing rules

    ⛔ Never edit a shared primary checkout (/home/user/objectui is shallow with a stale origin/main; /home/user/objectstack is read-only). Clone fresh; report both HEADs and clean state at start and finish.
    ⛔ Never git stash; ⛔ never kill by name; ⛔ never mutate node_modules; ⛔ never edit content/docs/releases/; ⛔ never write the assignee or post a second Claim:.
    ⛔ Commit before you ablate. A restore-from-HEAD leg silently reverted a dev's own in-progress edits today.
    Capture every rc to a file before any pipe. Read lint counts from --format json, ⚠️ not from grepped text — repo-wide lint is red on the base and a text grep will hand you someone else's errors.
    ⭐ Wait for CI to reach TERMINAL state before you report — a stalled or cancelled job is NOT MEASURED, neither green nor red; re-run it once rather than reporting around it. Check the reported total against the returned array length so nothing hides behind pagination.
    ⭐ Read the stored body back after every GitHub write. Use REST — the MCP issue-create path silently strips the attribution footer. ⚠️ Known and harmless: the REST PATCH path on a PR body server-appends a second bare footer; note it, ⛔ do not loop trying to remove it.
    ⛔ PR stays draft — landing is the seat's act. GitHub content in English.


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  6. os-warren commented on Sep 10, 2026

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    os-dev-report

    {
      "issue": 8762,
      "status": "done",
      "branch": "claude/issue-8762-shorthand-inputtype-refusal",
      "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/9051",
      "premise_still_valid": true,
      "summary": "InputShorthandSchema now refuses `inputType` BY NAME on the `email` / `password` node shorthands via `retirementTombstone` (the established `zod/tombstone.zod.ts` mechanism), with one guidance string feeding both the parse-time message and `.describe()` and pointing at { \"type\": \"input\", \"inputType\": \"email\" }. The TS twin declares `inputType?: never` so both published faces move together. Two pins added: the types-side refusal/control/registration-parity file and a components-side runtime file proving the wrapper still wins. The wrapper's precedence is deliberately NOT flipped. Diff is 2 modified + 3 added files; no lockfile, no dependency bump, no held file touched.",
      "tests": "ALL rc captured to a file before any pipe. LOCAL: `pnpm exec vitest run packages/types/` rc=0 (170 files / 3369 tests, includes zod-mirror-parity.test.ts which is held by #9017 and was read+run, never written); `pnpm exec vitest run packages/components/src/renderers/form/` rc=0 (60 files / 416 tests); form-renderers + text-input rc=0 (42 tests); new pins at final HEAD 691aa71ba rc=0 (88 tests across 4 files). type-check: @object-ui/types rc=0 (3 tsconfigs), @object-ui/components rc=0 (the first run's 9 errors were ENTIRELY the unbuilt-dist artefact and are not reported as a result). Gates rc=0 each: control-bytes, new-line-citations, handler-key-reads, sdui-registration-pins (after building the console; it reports PREREQUISITE NOT MET otherwise, which is NOT a red), unreferenced-sources, published-tsconfig-exclude, lint-rule-coverage, self-import, esm-specifiers, doc-types, doc-fences, doc-snippets (639 blocks against the BUILT narrowed types), doc-examples, doc-example-ids, skill-examples, changeset-presence, changeset-no-major, and `pnpm check` (CLI over 629 repo files). LINT: counts read from --format json, not grepped text - the 4 changed files are 0 errors; the 10 warnings are pre-existing no-explicit-any at form.ts lines 883-1233, ABOVE my edit point (1640+) so their line numbers are unshifted. DECLARED NARROWING: the full packages/components suite did not fit the 10-minute foreground cap (killed at 560s with no test output, so NOT MEASURED - neither green nor red); narrowed to the form-renderer directory where the diff and the new test live. CI ran the full farm. TRAP+CONTROL (re-derived on base 681d3f10e, one instrument): BEFORE - {type:password,inputType:text} ACCEPT and inputType survived into safeParse output; {type:email,inputType:text} ACCEPT; {type:input,inputType:text} ACCEPT (control). AFTER - the first two REFUSED at path ['inputType'], code invalid_type, message naming the key and the honoured spelling; the control still ACCEPT at every value. RUNTIME DISCARD (DOM, before the change): password+text rendered type=password, email+text rendered type=email (DISCARDED); input+text rendered type=text (HONOURED). PASSTHROUGH re-confirmed by content (base.zod.ts BaseSchemaCore ends `.passthrough()`) AND by measurement (an undeclared key still rides through after the change) - so omission really was not refusal and the premise has not moved. REVERSE VERIFICATION on the published TS face against the BUILT dist/form.d.ts: leg 1 (trap) RED with TS2322 at the inputType position while the InputSchema control in the same file compiled; leg 2 (trap removed) rc=0 clean - proving the read came from the rebuilt d.ts, not a cache. ABLATION (committed BEFORE ablating; each leg mutate, prove on disk by blob hash, run, restore, prove restore by hash AND empty `git diff HEAD`; all three restored clean): A remove the refusal member gives 9 failed / 8 passed; B flip the wrapper precedence in input.tsx gives 4 failed / 9 passed, exactly the four precedence assertions (this is the forbidden cheaper route, and the pin catches it); C register a third shorthand without arming it gives 2 failed / 15 passed, the comparison instrument and its fail-closed control. CI at head 691aa71ba: TERMINAL - 35 checks, total_count 35 equals returned 35 (nothing hiding behind pagination), 32 success / 3 skipped (dependabot, Test (coverage), Test (coverage shard)) / 0 failed, 0 cancelled, 0 stalled.",
      "mcp_calls": "1 - one targeted search_issues, after the REST /search/issues endpoint returned 403 for this token (channel switch declared). Every other GitHub read and write on this run went through REST curl.",
      "censuses": {
        "authored_inputType_on_shorthand_literals": "ZERO in reach, by four independent readings. (1) Every tracked JSON document: 632 files, 546 parsed (the 86 excluded are tsconfig*.json, which are JSONC); six nodes carry a shorthand `type` and NONE authors inputType - and five of those six sit at a fields[] position, which is FormFieldSchema, not this arm. (2) Every fenced JSON block in all 1691 tracked .md/.mdx: zero shorthand nodes, and zero blocks containing both inputType and a shorthand type literal. (3) Text scan of all 81 files carrying inputType anywhere: 13 co-occurrence windows, every one prose / docblock / CHANGELOG / a form FIELD - zero component-node authorings. (4) The repo's own gates agree independently: `pnpm check` rc=0 over 629 files, check:doc-types rc=0, check:doc-snippets rc=0 (639 blocks compiled against the built narrowed types), check:doc-examples rc=0. OUT OF REACH: the hotcrm and objectstack corpora are outside this repository and were NOT measured - this PR makes no claim about them. CARD FIGURE DID NOT REPRODUCE: '23 files carry inputType' matches no spelling I could construct - repo-wide 81, tracked JSON 17, catalog schemas 15, content/** 5. The card's CONCLUSION (none on a shorthand root) does reproduce, and is strengthened here to none at any depth in any parsed document.",
        "one_rule_or_an_enumeration": "ONE RULE. InputShorthandSchema is a single arm over a `type` enum, so the refusal is one member covering both literals; enumerating per literal would have meant splitting the arm. The NEXT shorthand, all three cases measured: (a) added to the enum - inherits the refusal with no second edit, covered by construction; (b) registered but NOT added to the enum - AnyComponentSchema refuses the literal WHOLE because no arm claims it (measured: tel, url, search, number all REFUSE today), so it fails in the loud direction and the class-(c) trap cannot recur through this path; (c) given its own new arm that omits inputType - the only way to recreate the defect, so the new types pin reads input.tsx, collects every register() call whose wrapper pins a matching inputType, and asserts set equality with a non-vacuity guard and a fail-closed control (the shape objectui#8499 established for the two family arms). Ablation leg C fires it.",
        "changeset_level": "minor, from precedent read by content. .changeset/7694-chart-series-chart-type-alias-refusal.md - also a named refusal narrowing a published accept surface - says it in the same words: 'Shipped as minor, not patch, because this is a NARROWING of a published accept surface'. major is not available at all: AGENTS.md 版本号策略 keeps this repo's major aligned with @objectstack and states objectui's own breaking changes ship as minor with the breaking semantics in the body, mechanically enforced by scripts/check-changeset-no-major.mjs (rc=0)."
      },
      "open_questions": [
        {
          "question": "`needs:contract-review` is a DUAL-carrier gate and the PR carrier is missing. scripts/pm/check-half-states.mjs H31 states the label must sit on BOTH the card and the delivering PR, hung in one stroke; card #8762 carries it, PR #9051 does not. My standing dev rule says to hang it on the PR in the same stroke as opening it, but this dispatch says: do not touch labels beyond what the repo's labeler does on its own. I did NOT write the label and am reporting the conflict rather than silently choosing a side. Nothing is let through by this: the card carrier still stands (stripping the CARD is the dangerous direction, per H31), the PR is draft, and I neither enqueued nor flipped ready.",
          "options": [
            "A - PM completes the PR carrier now, which is what references/contract-review.md prescribes ('PR 一存在即挂')",
            "B - PM completes it at ACCEPT, the other branch that same document makes legal",
            "C - Lift the dispatch's label prohibition for gate-semantic labels specifically, so a dev can hang the PR carrier in one stroke and H31 never sees a half-write"
          ],
          "recommendation": "A, because H31 begins comparing the two carriers the moment a delivering PR exists, so the pair reads as a half-write from now until it is completed; and C for the next dispatch, since the prohibition and the dual-carrier rule will collide again on every Clause-2 card."
        },
        {
          "question": "The TypeScript face refuses the key but does not NAME it. Against the built dist/form.d.ts the trap reports 'TS2322: Type string is not assignable to type undefined' - the position identifies the key, the message does not, and the guidance lives only in the member's JSDoc (which editors surface on hover). This is inherent to the `?: never` twin the retirementTombstone family uses everywhere, so it is not specific to this card.",
          "options": [
            "A - Accept it: the zod face is the one that names the key with guidance, and this matches every existing tombstone twin",
            "B - File a separate finding about the whole tombstone family's TS-face message quality"
          ],
          "recommendation": "A - it is family-wide, not this arm's, and B would be a card about ergonomics with no measured user harm. Recorded so the reviewer is not surprised by the bare TS message."
        }
      ],
      "out_of_scope_findings": [
        "noted, not filed: `z.toJSONSchema` throws on the form component schemas under bare options - measured THROW on InputSchema and FormSchema too, which this card did not touch, so it is pre-existing and not a regression. Cause: handlerKeyRefusal is a z.custom ('Custom types cannot be represented in JSON Schema') plus a ZodUndefined member. NOT a live defect: every caller in this repo (app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/*-schema.ts, five files) passes `unrepresentable: 'any'`. This corrected my own first draft of the test, which had asserted a property that never held. Successor: the metadata-admin schema files - if any of them ever drops that option, it throws.",
        "noted, not filed - already covered by #6939 (open, pm:blocked, p2): `pnpm check` reports 3 documents that carry a registered component type and do not validate - examples/schema-catalog/src/schemas/components-complex-filter-builder/with-conditions.json and product-search.json, plus packages/vscode-extension/schemas/objectui-schema.json. Pre-existing, unrelated to inputType, and exactly #6939's class ('24 catalog entries fail safeValidateSchema because the Zod mirror names a key its renderer never reads'). Searched before deciding; no new card minted.",
        "noted, not filed: the same two spellings mean two different things at two positions, and nothing in the tree said so before this PR. { type: 'email', inputType: 'text' } is DISCARDED as a component node and HONOURED as a form field (form.tsx resolves inputType first, then NATIVE_INPUT_FIELD_TYPES, then 'text'). Not a defect - both behaviours are deliberate and separately tested - but it is a trap for anyone reading either half alone, so the refusal's guidance now states the carve-out and both sides pin the sentence. Successor: this PR itself; no card needed.",
        "noted, not filed: the card's '23 files carry inputType' figure does not reproduce under any spelling (repo-wide 81, tracked JSON 17, catalog 15, content/** 5). Its conclusion does reproduce and is strengthened. Recorded in the PR body rather than as a card, since the artefact is a sentence on the card, not code."
      ]
    }

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  7. os-warren commented on Sep 10, 2026

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    Release: MERGED — objectui#9051

    inputType is refused by name on the email / password node shorthands, on both published faces on main.

    Landing commit c3a42737891c6f07925f5f46cb99e5ba33683f35 · merged 2026-09-10T22:24:00Z · squash, parent 4ffc333dfa.

    Two readings, ⛔ never a single API field

    1. Timeline, and it records the whole story rather than just the end:
    added_to_merge_queue     21:35:12Z
    removed_from_merge_queue 21:48:55Z   <- dequeued, CI_FAILURE
    added_to_merge_queue     21:52:08Z   <- re-投, head unchanged
    removed_from_merge_queue 22:23:59Z
    merged                   22:24:00Z
    
    1. origin/main by content —
    git merge-base --is-ancestor c3a42737891c6f07925f5f46cb99e5ba33683f35 origin/main   rc=0
    git merge-base --is-ancestor 691aa71ba09d8fa24d39bec4d9df41f8cf6764f8 origin/main   rc=1   <- the control, and it FIRES
    

    Behaviour verification — ⛔ not commit presence

    reading on main @ c3a4273789 value
    zod/form.zod.ts:772 inputType: retirementTombstone(SHORTHAND_INPUT_TYPE_REFUSAL) — refused by name, one string feeding both the parse message and .describe()
    types/src/form.ts:1675 inputType?: never; — the TS twin moves with it
    CONTROL inputType still occurs 16 times in form.ts — it remains a live key on the plain input face, so the refusal is scoped to the shorthands and did not delete the key wholesale
    new pins shorthand-input-type-refusal-8762.test.ts and shorthand-input-type-discarded-8762.test.tsx both present

    The dequeue, and why the re-投 was the right call

    The 21:48:55Z dequeue was not this PR's failure: CI / Test (shard 2/4) reddened on plugin-grid's formatHintedColumnRenderer-8920 case P, a package this PR's five changed paths do not touch, and the same shard was green on this PR's own head. The signature was already anchored at objectui#9035 with fix PR objectui#9066 open, so it was 已知 flaky ⇒ 原样重投, head unchanged. Two further occurrences were recorded on the anchor rather than filed as a second card.

    ⛔ objectui#9066's fix was deliberately not ported in: it is another seat's test file, and any push here would have moved the head and voided the review record. That trade was stated on the PR at the time, not reconstructed now.

    Review

    Round 1 VERDICT: PASS — record 5625725682, ceiling tier verified 82/82 → 86/86, independence NOT self-review.

    ⭐ It resolved a number two parties had reported differently: the card said "23 files carry inputType", the dev reported that figure reproduces under no spelling it could construct, and the reviewer found it reproduces as 23 nodes across 15 files — a node count mislabelled as a file count. Neither party was wrong about the number; the unit was wrong. The conclusion — zero authored inputType on a shorthand literal, by four independent readings — survives either way. It also ran a hostile variant of the dev's third ablation leg (a differently-named wrapper), which the count guard still caught.

    Card closed by the PR's keyword; pm:dispatched stripped in this same act.


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