@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+---
+'@object-ui/app-shell': patch
+'@object-ui/data-objectstack': patch
+---
+
+perf(console): an app page reads its views, its page and its nav dashboards from the app bundle, and reads the `/meta/view`, `/meta/page` and `/meta/dashboard` lists only for what the bundle does not hold
+
+Clause-②: yes (widening)
+Metadata-protocol: none
+
+Since the app metadata bundle landed, entering an app downloads the app, its objects and their views, pages and dashboards in one request. The console still read the per-type lists beside it. Now:
+
+- **`view` is no longer read at mount.** An object the bundle holds is composed with the bundle's views. A route's object scope reads the `/meta/view` list only when a name it asks is outside the bundle, and then only for the objects the bundle does not hold; such a scope waits for the list before it answers. The whole object registry still reads the list beside it.
+- **The console enters the app's bundle once, at its root**, as soon as the app list names the app, and `AppContent` reuses that entry instead of asking the bundle again. Leaving the app ends the entry, so coming back revalidates it.
+- **Whether an object exists** (the presence check of the bell and activity surfaces) is asked without views, so it never reads the `/meta/view` list.
+- **The page a page route opens** (`/apps/APP/page/NAME`), the phone bar's page or dashboard title, a dashboard nav entry's label and a recent page's label are read from the bundle first. A name the bundle does not hold, or a same-named item another package owns, is read from the list as before, prefer-local resolution included. The page route no longer waits for the page list to load.
+- **The app bar reads views only on an object's view route**, the one title that labels a view.
+- **New in `@object-ui/data-objectstack`:** `ObjectStackAdapter.peekAppBundle()` reads the active app bundle without waiting (`none` before an app is entered, `pending` while its first answer is on the wire, `ready` with its items), and the types `AppBundlePeek`, `AppBundleItems` and `AppBundleEntry` are exported. A stale bundle is revalidated with `If-None-Match` and keeps answering from what it holds until the revalidation lands.
+
+Navigation sync still reads the page and dashboard lists after the first paint; that read is not changed here.
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import { useObjectTranslation, useObjectLabel, recordSaveMessage as buildRecordS
 import type { AppAccessVerdict, ConnectionState } from '@object-ui/data-objectstack';
 import { useAuth, useWorkspaceAdminStatus } from '@object-ui/auth';
 import { useMetadata } from '../providers/MetadataProvider.js';
+import { useBundledReads } from '../providers/bundledReads.js';
 import { useAdapter } from '../providers/AdapterProvider.js';
 import { usePreviewDrafts } from '../preview/PreviewModeContext.js';
 import { PreviewDraftEmptyState } from '../preview/PreviewDraftEmptyState.js';
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ import {
 } from '../hooks/useNavMemberGates.js';
 import { resolveSetupAppPath } from './ConsoleShell.js';
 import { APP_ROUTE_METADATA_READS, collectRoutePaths, metadataReadsForAppRoute, type LazyMetadataType } from './appRouteMetadataReads.js';
-import { readAppObjectScope } from './appObjectScope.js';
+import { enterAppBundle, readAppObjectScope } from './appObjectScope.js';
 import { preferLocal } from '../utils/preferLocal.js';
 import { SkeletonDashboard, SkeletonDetail, SkeletonGrid } from '../skeletons/index.js';
 
@@ -318,6 +319,9 @@ export function AppContent({ extraRoutes, extraRoutesNoApp }: AppContentProps =
   // (objectui#12811). It is read below only on a route that needs all of it.
   const metadata = useMetadata();
   const { apps, loading: metadataLoading, ensureType, getTypeStatus, error: metadataError, refresh: refreshMetadata, readObjectScope } = metadata;
+  // objectstack#28645 — what the app bundle answers in render (null outside a
+  // `MetadataProvider`): the page a page route opens is read there first.
+  const bundledReads = useBundledReads();
   // objectui#7373 — where this file's two "you cannot be here" exits land. Both
   // sit BELOW the readiness gate further down (`metadataLoading` &c), so the
   // list they resolve against has settled; an app list that failed to load is
@@ -395,10 +399,9 @@ export function AppContent({ extraRoutes, extraRoutesNoApp }: AppContentProps =
   // Only the app the URL names: a pseudo-route's fallback app is not entered.
   // A host adapter without the bundle keeps every by-name read.
   const bundleAppName: string | undefined = typeof matchedApp?.name === 'string' ? matchedApp.name : undefined;
+  // objectstack#28645 — the console root entered it first (`enterAppBundle`).
   useEffect(() => {
-    const load = dataSource?.loadAppBundle;
-    if (!bundleAppName || typeof load !== 'function') return;
-    void load.call(dataSource, bundleAppName);
+    enterAppBundle(dataSource, bundleAppName);
   }, [dataSource, bundleAppName]);
 
   // objectstack-ai/objectstack#26183 — a URL that reached the app through its
@@ -456,6 +459,11 @@ export function AppContent({ extraRoutes, extraRoutesNoApp }: AppContentProps =
     location.search,
     hostRoutePaths,
     (pageName) => {
+      // objectstack#28645 — the bundle's page when it holds this package's;
+      // the `/meta/page` list, prefer-local, for a page it does not hold.
+      const bundled = bundledReads?.item('page', pageName, (activeApp as any)?._packageId);
+      if (bundled?.state === 'hit') return { page: bundled.value, settled: true };
+      if (bundled?.state === 'pending') return { page: undefined, settled: false };
       const status = getTypeStatus?.('page');
       return {
         page: preferLocal(metadata.pages as any[], pageName, (activeApp as any)?._packageId),
@@ -493,8 +501,15 @@ export function AppContent({ extraRoutes, extraRoutesNoApp }: AppContentProps =
   const allObjects: any[] = objectScope
     ? scopeWithRegistry ?? objectScope.objects
     : readsWholeRegistry ? metadata.objects : NO_OBJECTS;
+  // objectstack#28645 — a page route reads its page bundle-first (`PageView`,
+  // the page scope above), so it does not wait for the `/meta/page` list: a
+  // page outside the bundle is read from the list by those readers, which
+  // wait for it themselves.
+  const pageRouteReadsBundle = !!bundledReads && /^page\/[^/]+$/.test(appSubPath);
   const routeReadsKey = [
-    ...routeReads.filter((type) => type !== 'object' || readsWholeRegistry),
+    ...routeReads.filter(
+      (type) => (type !== 'object' || readsWholeRegistry) && !(type === 'page' && pageRouteReadsBundle),
+    ),
     ...(searchParamsHasRecordForm(location.search) && !routeReads.includes('object') ? ['object'] : []),
   ].join(',');
   const bucketsSettled = useLazyMetadataSettled(routeReadsKey, ensureType, getTypeStatus);
 
@@ -14,10 +14,13 @@
  *   - auth pending  → zero metadata requests;
  *   - auth resolved → the eager requests, once each.
  *
- * objectui#12811: the eager requests are `app` and `view`. The third,
+ * objectui#12811: the eager requests were `app` and `view`. The third,
  * `object`, was the whole object registry, which the root's action runtime
  * (`useActionModal`) loaded on every open by reading `objects`; it now loads
  * only where a route or an action reads it, and this shell renders neither.
+ * objectstack#28645: `view` is no longer eager either — it is read beside the
+ * whole registry, or for objects outside the app bundle — so the one eager
+ * request is `app`.
  */
 
 import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach } from 'vitest';
@@ -110,7 +113,7 @@ describe('ConnectedShell session gate (objectui#4042)', () => {
     await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 100));
 
     expect(metaCalls.filter((c) => c === 'object')).toHaveLength(0);
-    expect(metaCalls.filter((c) => c === 'view')).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(metaCalls.filter((c) => c === 'view')).toHaveLength(0);
     expect(metaCalls.filter((c) => c === 'app')).toHaveLength(1);
     expect(getByTestId('route-content')).toBeTruthy();
   });
 
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@
 import { describe, it, expect, vi, afterEach } from 'vitest';
 import { cleanup, render, waitFor } from '@testing-library/react';
 import { MemoryRouter } from 'react-router-dom';
+import { AdapterCtx } from '@object-ui/react';
 import { MetadataProvider } from '../../providers/MetadataProvider';
-import { useAppObjectScopePrefetch } from '../appObjectScope';
+import { enterAppBundle, useAppObjectScopePrefetch } from '../appObjectScope';
 
 const CRM = 'app.crm';
 const OBJECTS = [
@@ -96,12 +97,45 @@ describe('the console root starts the app object scope (objectui#12811)', () =>
     expect(objectCalls(calls)).toEqual([`object?package=${CRM}`, 'object/sys_user']);
   });
 
+  it('objectstack#28645 — enters the app\'s metadata bundle as it starts the scope, once the app list names the app', async () => {
+    sessionStorage.clear();
+    const calls: string[] = [];
+    const entered: string[] = [];
+    const adapter = Object.assign(makeAdapter(calls, APPS) as object, {
+      loadAppBundle: (app: string) => { entered.push(app); return Promise.resolve(); },
+    }) as Parameters<typeof MetadataProvider>[0]['adapter'];
+    render(
+      <AdapterCtx.Provider value={adapter as any}>
+        <MetadataProvider adapter={adapter}>
+          <MemoryRouter initialEntries={['/apps/crm/crm_account']}>
+            <Prefetch />
+          </MemoryRouter>
+        </MetadataProvider>
+      </AdapterCtx.Provider>,
+    );
+    await waitFor(() => expect(entered).toEqual(['crm']));
+    expect(calls).toContain(`object?package=${CRM}`);
+    // `AppContent` reuses the root's entry rather than asking the bundle again;
+    // another app, or the app after the root has left it, is entered.
+    enterAppBundle(adapter, 'crm');
+    // The console hands `AppContent` a wrapper of the same adapter.
+    const wrapper = { loadAppBundle: (app: string) => (adapter as any).loadAppBundle(app) };
+    enterAppBundle(wrapper, 'crm');
+    expect(entered).toEqual(['crm']);
+    enterAppBundle(adapter, 'hr');
+    expect(entered).toEqual(['crm', 'hr']);
+    cleanup();
+    enterAppBundle(adapter, 'crm');
+    expect(entered).toEqual(['crm', 'hr', 'crm']);
+  });
+
   it('CONTROL: outside an app, on a record form overlay, or for an app without a package id, it asks nothing', async () => {
     const outside = mount('/home', APPS);
     const overlay = mount('/apps/crm/crm_account?form=new', APPS);
     const noPackage = mount('/apps/crm/crm_account', [{ name: 'crm', navigation: [] }]);
-    await waitFor(() => expect(overlay).toContain('view'));
-    await waitFor(() => expect(noPackage).toContain('view'));
+    // objectstack#28645 — the provider's one eager read is the app list.
+    await waitFor(() => expect(overlay).toContain('app'));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(noPackage).toContain('app'));
     await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 50));
     expect(objectCalls(outside)).toEqual([]);
     expect(objectCalls(overlay)).toEqual([]);
 
@@ -58,8 +58,9 @@
  * permission read rather than after it, as the whole list used to.
  */
 
+import { useEffect } from 'react';
 import { matchRoutes, useLocation } from 'react-router-dom';
-import { isRecordPageOf, useMetadata, type MetadataContextValue } from '@object-ui/react';
+import { isRecordPageOf, useAdapter, useMetadata, type MetadataContextValue } from '@object-ui/react';
 import { defaultRecordPageObject } from '@objectstack/spec/ui';
 import { APP_ROUTE_METADATA_READS } from './appRouteMetadataReads.js';
 import { matchAppBySegment } from '../utils/appRoute.js';
@@ -437,17 +438,58 @@ export function readAppObjectScope(
   };
 }
 
+/** An adapter that loads app metadata bundles (`ObjectStackAdapter.loadAppBundle`). */
+type BundleHost = { loadAppBundle?: (appName: string) => unknown };
+
+/**
+ * objectstack#28645 — the app the console root entered, while it stays
+ * entered (one at a time: the root enters the app its route names). Kept by name, not by adapter: below the root, `AppContent` reads a
+ * wrapper of the same adapter (the console's approval record reads), so the
+ * adapter's identity does not say whether the root entered it.
+ */
+const rootEnteredApps = new Set<string>();
+
+/**
+ * Enter `appName`'s metadata bundle (objectstack#27627), unless the console
+ * root already entered it ({@link useAppObjectScopePrefetch}): `AppContent`
+ * mounts below the session's permission read, and entering again there would
+ * ask the bundle a second time. A host adapter without bundles is left alone.
+ */
+export function enterAppBundle(dataSource: unknown, appName: string | undefined): void {
+  const host = dataSource as BundleHost | null | undefined;
+  const load = host?.loadAppBundle;
+  if (!host || !appName || typeof load !== 'function') return;
+  if (rootEnteredApps.has(appName)) return;
+  void load.call(host, appName);
+}
+
 /**
  * The console root's half: on an app route, start the app's object scope as
  * soon as the app list names the app, before `AppContent` mounts (it mounts
- * below the session's permission read). It reads nothing else and renders
- * nothing; `AppContent` reads the same scope entry when it renders.
+ * below the session's permission read). It renders nothing; `AppContent` reads
+ * the same scope entry when it renders.
+ *
+ * objectstack#28645 — it enters the app's metadata bundle at the same moment,
+ * once, and `AppContent` reuses that entry ({@link enterAppBundle}), so the
+ * scope composes its views from the bundle instead of reading the
+ * `/meta/view` list before the app was entered. Leaving the app ends the
+ * entry, so coming back revalidates the bundle as entering it always has.
  */
 export function useAppObjectScopePrefetch(): void {
   const { apps, readObjectScope } = useMetadata();
+  const dataSource = useAdapter() as BundleHost | null;
   const { pathname, search } = useLocation();
   const segments = pathname.split('/').filter(Boolean);
-  if (segments[0] !== 'apps' || !segments[1] || !readObjectScope) return;
-  const app = matchAppBySegment(apps, segments[1]);
-  if (app) readAppObjectScope(readObjectScope, app, segments.slice(2).join('/'), search);
+  const app = segments[0] === 'apps' && segments[1] ? matchAppBySegment(apps, segments[1]) : undefined;
+  const bundleAppName = typeof app?.name === 'string' && app.name ? app.name : undefined;
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const load = dataSource?.loadAppBundle;
+    if (!dataSource || !bundleAppName || typeof load !== 'function') return;
+    void load.call(dataSource, bundleAppName);
+    rootEnteredApps.add(bundleAppName);
+    return () => {
+      rootEnteredApps.delete(bundleAppName);
+    };
+  }, [dataSource, bundleAppName]);
+  if (app && readObjectScope) readAppObjectScope(readObjectScope, app, segments.slice(2).join('/'), search);
 }
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ import { resolveViewId } from '@object-ui/core';
 import { useObjectLabel, useObjectTranslation } from '@object-ui/i18n';
 import type { NavLabelTarget, NavTargetLabelResolver } from '@object-ui/layout';
 import { useMetadata } from '../providers/MetadataProvider.js';
+import { bundledFirst, useBundledReads } from '../providers/bundledReads.js';
 
 /**
  * A metadata label (plain string or inline locale map) as display text, or
@@ -139,6 +140,7 @@ function listViewsOf(def: LabelledRecord | undefined): Record<string, LabelledRe
 
 export function useNavTargetLabel(): NavTargetLabelResolver {
   const metadata = useMetadata();
+  const bundledReads = useBundledReads();
   const { objectLabel, viewLabel, dashboardLabel } = useObjectLabel();
   const { language, t } = useObjectTranslation();
   const drafts = useContext(DraftTargetLabels);
@@ -159,7 +161,9 @@ export function useNavTargetLabel(): NavTargetLabelResolver {
           return nonEmpty(viewLabel(target.objectName, target.viewName, text ?? ''));
         }
         case 'dashboard': {
-          const def = findByName(metadata.dashboards, target.dashboardName);
+          // objectstack#28645 — the app bundle holds every dashboard its
+          // navigation names; the list is read only for one it does not hold.
+          const def = bundledFirst(bundledReads, 'dashboard', target.dashboardName, () => metadata.dashboards);
           const text =
             metadataText(def?.label, language) ?? draftText(drafts, 'dashboard', target.dashboardName, language);
           return nonEmpty(dashboardLabel({ name: target.dashboardName, label: text ?? '' }));
@@ -170,6 +174,6 @@ export function useNavTargetLabel(): NavTargetLabelResolver {
           return undefined;
       }
     },
-    [metadata, objectLabel, viewLabel, dashboardLabel, language, t, drafts],
+    [metadata, bundledReads, objectLabel, viewLabel, dashboardLabel, language, t, drafts],
   );
 }
@@ -107,8 +107,14 @@ export function useObjectPresence(name: string): ObjectPresenceReading {
   const { app } = useExpressionContext();
   const packageId = typeof app?._packageId === 'string' && app._packageId ? app._packageId : undefined;
   const inApp = typeof app?.name === 'string' && app.name !== '';
+  //
+  // objectstack#28645 — it asks with `views: false` (the provider's hand-off,
+  // `MetadataProvider`): whether an object is there reads no views, so this
+  // question never reads the `/meta/view` list.
   if ((packageId || inApp) && readObjectScope && getTypeStatus?.('object') === 'idle') {
-    const scope = readObjectScope(packageId ? { packageId, names: [name] } : { names: [name] });
+    type ReadScope = NonNullable<typeof readObjectScope>;
+    const readNames = readObjectScope as (scope: Parameters<ReadScope>[0] & { views: false }) => ReturnType<ReadScope>;
+    const scope = readNames(packageId ? { packageId, names: [name], views: false } : { names: [name], views: false });
     const presence: ObjectPresence = !scope.settled
       ? 'unknown'
       : scope.objects.some((o) => (o as { name?: unknown } | null | undefined)?.name === name)
 
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ import { useMemo } from 'react';
 import { useObjectLabel, useObjectTranslation } from '@object-ui/i18n';
 import type { RecentItem } from '../context/RecentItemsProvider.js';
 import { useMetadata } from '../providers/MetadataProvider.js';
+import { bundledFirst, useBundledReads } from '../providers/bundledReads.js';
 import { findByName, metadataText, useNavTargetLabel, type LabelledRecord } from './useNavTargetLabel.js';
 
 /** Answers the display text of a recent entry, in the current language. */
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ export function useRecentItemLabel(
   const { packages } = sources;
   const targetLabel = useNavTargetLabel();
   const metadata = useMetadata();
+  const bundledReads = useBundledReads();
   const { objectPluralLabel, pageLabel, reportLabel } = useObjectLabel();
   const { language } = useObjectTranslation();
 
@@ -102,7 +104,7 @@ export function useRecentItemLabel(
         case 'dashboard':
           return targetLabel({ kind: 'dashboard', dashboardName: item.name }) ?? item.name;
         case 'page': {
-          const text = metadataText(findByName(metadata.pages, item.name)?.label, language);
+          const text = metadataText(bundledFirst(bundledReads, 'page', item.name, () => metadata.pages)?.label, language);
           return nonEmpty(pageLabel({ name: item.name, label: text ?? '' })) ?? item.name;
         }
         case 'report': {
@@ -115,6 +117,6 @@ export function useRecentItemLabel(
           return item.label;
       }
     },
-    [targetLabel, metadata, objectPluralLabel, pageLabel, reportLabel, language, packages],
+    [targetLabel, metadata, bundledReads, objectPluralLabel, pageLabel, reportLabel, language, packages],
   );
 }