@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+---
+'@objectstack/metadata-protocol': patch
+'@objectstack/spec': patch
+---
+
+refactor(metadata-protocol): `findData` hands its body to its facet
+
+Clause-②: no
+Metadata-protocol: none
+
+- `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation#findData` keeps its signature and docblock on the class and delegates in one line to `ProtocolDataCrudFacet`, which now holds the body, moved unchanged. The built `index.d.ts` and `index.d.cts` are byte-equal before and after, and no behaviour changes. Nothing to do on upgrade.
+- `getDiscovery` stays on the class: its body reads `typeof this.searchAll === 'function'`, which a forwarded host method would always answer true. The move tool now refuses a method read as a value.
+- `@objectstack/spec`'s published liveness ledger (`liveness/query.json`) cites `findData` at its new file.
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@
       "source": [
         "packages/spec/src/data/filter.zod.ts#AST_OPERATOR_MAP (AST_OPERATOR_MAP / FieldOperatorsSchema — the operator variant source)",
         "packages/spec/src/data/query.zod.ts#QueryAST (QueryAST keys)",
-        "packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts#UNSUPPORTED_QUERY_PARAM (supported $-params + UNSUPPORTED_QUERY_PARAM #2926 ⑩, INVALID_FIELD #4134)",
+        "packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol-data-crud.ts#UNSUPPORTED_QUERY_PARAM (supported $-params + UNSUPPORTED_QUERY_PARAM #2926 ⑩, INVALID_FIELD #4134)",
         "packages/spec/src/data/filter.zod.ts#checkFilterConditionComparands (the request-schema refusal of a scalar list comparand on the POST door, #20116 — the $-object spelling, located at query.where.<field>.$nin)",
         "packages/spec/src/data/data-engine.zod.ts#lowerFoldedTransportValues (the AST/FilterArray spelling on the POST door, refused at query.where when it cannot be lowered)",
         "packages/spec/src/data/data-engine.zod.ts#QueryTransportParamsSchema (`filter` is a declared transport spelling of `where` — why negative[0] no longer probes with it)",
 
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
         "examples/app-showcase/src/security/permission-sets.ts#invoice_own_rows (invoice_own_rows: owner == current_user.email, positions ['contributor'])",
         "examples/app-showcase/src/data/seed/index.ts (INV-1001..1012 owner spread; 'ada sees INV-1001/1002's lines but never linus's INV-1003')",
         "packages/objectql/src/engine.ts#expandSearchOnAst (expandSearchOnAst ANDs into ast.where; count() rides the read middleware — the #2737 total-leak fix)",
-        "packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts#findData (the paged arm counts a searched list: engine.count is handed the query's search and searchFields, so total is the counted number of matches and hasMore agrees with it; the `countable` exception and its page-local estimate were deleted by #22790, PR #22857) + packages/rest/src/list-search-total-door.test.ts ('[#22790] a paged search reports the counted total', including 'a member counts only the matches it can read')"
+        "packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol-data-crud.ts#findData (the paged arm counts a searched list: engine.count is handed the query's search and searchFields, so total is the counted number of matches and hasMore agrees with it; the `countable` exception and its page-local estimate were deleted by #22790, PR #22857) + packages/rest/src/list-search-total-door.test.ts ('[#22790] a paged search reports the counted total', including 'a member counts only the matches it can read')"
       ],
       "history": [
         { "revision": 1, "date": "2026-08-07", "change": "new item: RLS × $search both-personas contract; total-leakage clause grounded in the protocol's page-local total for searched lists and the #2737 count middleware fix, persona provisioning gap recorded honestly", "ref": "claude/platform-test-checklist-ocwugl" },
 
@@ -186,6 +186,10 @@ export function rewriteSites(sf, method, table, className = CLASS_NAME) {
                 const member = table.instance.get(name);
                 if (!member) { refuse(node, `\`this.${name}\` names no declared instance member`); return; }
                 if (table.statics.has(name)) { refuse(node, `\`${name}\` is both an instance and a static member: the host cannot carry both`); return; }
+                // [#30518] A method's host entry is a forwarding closure, always a function, so a
+                // method read other than as a callee (`typeof this.m`, `const f = this.m`) would
+                // read the closure, not the instance's member. Same rule as a private static below.
+                if (member.kind === 'method' && !isCallee(p)) { refuse(node, `instance method \`${name}\` read as a value: the host carries a method as a forwarding closure, so only a call is in the closed set`); return; }
                 sites.push({ start: node.getStart(sf), end: node.getEnd(), text: HOST_PARAM, kind: 'member', member: name });
                 useInstance(name, isAssignmentTarget(p) ? 'write' : isCallee(p) ? 'call' : 'read');
                 ts.forEachChild(p, (c) => { if (c !== node) visit(c); });
 
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ line two \${k}\`;
     namedHost() { const host = 1; return host; }
     staticField() { return ${C}.LIMIT; }
     staticAsValue() { const f = ${C}.helper; return f(1); }
+    probesMethod() { return { search: typeof this.read === 'function' }; }
+    methodAsValue() { const f = this.read; return f('k'); }
     bareConstructor() { return this.constructor; }
     undeclared() { return this.nope; }
     *generator() { yield this.count; }
@@ -142,6 +144,9 @@ describe('host-split: the move', () => {
         ['namedHost', 'already named `host`'],
         ['staticField', 'private static `LIMIT` (field) read'],
         ['staticAsValue', 'private static `helper` (method) read as a value'],
+        // [#30518] `getDiscovery`'s shape: a host entry forwards a method through a closure, always a function.
+        ['probesMethod', 'instance method `read` read as a value'],
+        ['methodAsValue', 'instance method `read` read as a value'],
         ['bareConstructor', '`this.constructor` not followed by `.<static>`'],
         ['undeclared', '`this.nope` names no declared instance member'],
         ['generator', 'a generator method'],