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+// Copyright (c) 2026 ObjectStack. Licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.
+
+/**
+ * [#25467 cut 33] Two degradations said out loud, from
+ * `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation`, moved out of `protocol.ts` whole:
+ *
+ *  - `throwMetadataServiceUnavailable` — a degraded MetadataService read
+ *    turned into the same 503 the overlay half of the reads throws;
+ *  - `warnClosureReadUnavailable` — why the batch closure degraded, once per
+ *    process.
+ *
+ * A MOVE, not a redesign. Each function below is the body of the
+ * `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation` method of the same name as it stood,
+ * re-indented one level and otherwise unedited.
+ *
+ * ## How the moved bodies reach the class
+ *
+ * The shape #23050 set for `rest-server.ts` (its `data-action-routes.ts`
+ * header carries the full reasoning), as `protocol-batch-data.ts` applies it.
+ * The class keeps each method — the published `dist/*.d.ts` lists its name,
+ * docblock and declared signature — and its body is one literal of exactly
+ * the {@link LoudDegradationsHost} members it reads, plus a `.call`; a body
+ * that reads no member is called as a plain function. The warned-once flag is
+ * handed over as a getter and a setter, so the read and the write reach the
+ * class field as it stands at call time. Every caller keeps calling the class
+ * methods.
+ *
+ * What the bodies read from elsewhere, they import from where `protocol.ts`
+ * imports it; `metadataStoreUnavailableError` is `protocol.ts`'s own and is imported from there. Nothing re-exports this module, so the published surface does
+ * not move.
+ */
+
+import type { ObjectStackProtocolImplementation } from './protocol.js';
+import { metadataStoreUnavailableError } from './protocol.js';
+
+/**
+ * The `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation` members the functions below read —
+ * every one of them, and no other; each function's `this` is the `Pick` of
+ * the members it reads. Each is typed AS the class member (an indexed access
+ * on the class), so a change to a member's signature on the class is a change
+ * here too, and naming a member the class does not have is a compile error.
+ */
+export interface LoudDegradationsHost {
+    closureReadWarned: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['closureReadWarned'];
+}
+
+/** The body of `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation#throwMetadataServiceUnavailable`; the method's docblock there is its contract. */
+export function throwMetadataServiceUnavailable(errors: string[]): never {
+    throw metadataStoreUnavailableError(
+        new Error(
+            `The metadata service could not read every loader: ${
+                    errors.length > 0 ? errors.join('; ') : 'no loader detail reported'
+                }`,
+        ),
+    );
+}
+
+/** The body of `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation#warnClosureReadUnavailable`; the method's docblock there is its contract. */
+export function warnClosureReadUnavailable(this: Pick<LoudDegradationsHost, 'closureReadWarned'>, type: string, name: string): void {
+    if (this.closureReadWarned) return;
+    this.closureReadWarned = true;
+    console.warn(
+        `[Protocol] publishPackageDrafts: this overlay repository declares no 'get', so the batch's own `
+        + `pending drafts cannot be read (first reached at ${type}/${name}). Author-time validation falls `
+        + `back to the LIVE declarations only, without this batch's own drafts in the closure, so a draft that references a `
+        + `sibling drafted in the SAME batch may be refused as unresolved. Nothing is published unchecked: `
+        + `the gate still runs, with strictly less resolution context.`,
+    );
+}
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+// Copyright (c) 2026 ObjectStack. Licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.
+
+/**
+ * [#25467 cut 33] `sys_metadata`'s overlay-uniqueness indexes and the
+ * bundle-member backfill they need first, each run once per process, from
+ * `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation`, moved out of `protocol.ts` whole:
+ * `ensureOverlayIndex` and `ensureOverlayMembersBackfilled`.
+ *
+ * A MOVE, not a redesign. Each function below is the body of the
+ * `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation` method of the same name as it stood,
+ * re-indented one level and otherwise unedited.
+ *
+ * ## How the moved bodies reach the class
+ *
+ * The shape #23050 set for `rest-server.ts` (its `data-action-routes.ts`
+ * header carries the full reasoning), as `protocol-batch-data.ts` applies it.
+ * The class keeps each method — the published `dist/*.d.ts` lists its name,
+ * docblock and declared signature — and its body is one literal of exactly
+ * the {@link OverlayIndexHost} members it reads, plus a `.call`; a body that
+ * reads no member is called as a plain function. The `engine` field and the
+ * two run-once flags are handed over as getters (and the flags as setters),
+ * so each read and write reaches the class field as it stands at call time;
+ * the call to `ensureOverlayMembersBackfilled` is a closure, so it still
+ * reaches the class method. Every caller keeps calling the class methods.
+ *
+ * What the bodies read from elsewhere, they import from where `protocol.ts`
+ * imports it. Nothing re-exports this module, so the published surface does
+ * not move.
+ */
+
+import { driverCanRunSql, resolveDriverExec } from './migrations/driver-exec.js';
+import { backfillOverlayBundleMembers, ensureMetadataOverlayIndexes } from './migrations/overlay-index.js';
+import type { ObjectStackProtocolImplementation } from './protocol.js';
+
+/**
+ * The `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation` members the functions below read —
+ * every one of them, and no other; each function's `this` is the `Pick` of
+ * the members it reads. Each is typed AS the class member (an indexed access
+ * on the class), so a change to a member's signature on the class is a change
+ * here too, and naming a member the class does not have is a compile error.
+ */
+export interface OverlayIndexHost {
+    readonly engine: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['engine'];
+    readonly ensureOverlayMembersBackfilled: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['ensureOverlayMembersBackfilled'];
+    overlayIndexEnsured: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['overlayIndexEnsured'];
+    overlayMembersBackfilled: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['overlayMembersBackfilled'];
+}
+
+/** The body of `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation#ensureOverlayIndex`. */
+export async function ensureOverlayIndex(this: Pick<OverlayIndexHost, 'engine' | 'ensureOverlayMembersBackfilled' | 'overlayIndexEnsured'>): Promise<void> {
+    if (this.overlayIndexEnsured) return;
+    this.overlayIndexEnsured = true;
+    // [#22877] Rows stored before the member column existed get their
+    // body's member before the first write can address them.
+    await this.ensureOverlayMembersBackfilled();
+    try {
+        const engineAny = this.engine as any;
+        let driver: any = engineAny?.driver ?? engineAny?.getDriver?.();
+        if (!driver && engineAny?.drivers instanceof Map) {
+            for (const candidate of engineAny.drivers.values()) {
+                if (driverCanRunSql(candidate)) {
+                    driver = candidate;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        if (!driver) return;
+        const resolved = resolveDriverExec(driver);
+        // The refusal stays INSIDE the seam rather than becoming an early
+        // return: a driver taken from `engineAny?.driver` is not
+        // capability-checked above, and when it offers neither surface it is
+        // the migration that classifies and reports the failure — an early
+        // return here would put that back into the silent `catch` below.
+        const exec = async (sql: string): Promise<void> => {
+            if (!resolved) throw new Error('driver has neither raw nor execute');
+            await resolved(sql);
+        };
+        // `console` satisfies the logger surface structurally; this class
+        // carries no injected logger, and its own diagnostics go to
+        // `console.warn` throughout (see `emitMetadataMutation`).
+        await ensureMetadataOverlayIndexes(exec, console);
+    } catch {
+        // A boot must never fail over an index. Note this arm is now only
+        // reachable for driver RESOLUTION failures: every DDL failure past
+        // this point is classified and reported by the migration itself,
+        // instead of vanishing into an empty catch (#6418).
+    }
+}
+
+/** The body of `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation#ensureOverlayMembersBackfilled`. */
+export async function ensureOverlayMembersBackfilled(this: Pick<OverlayIndexHost, 'engine' | 'overlayMembersBackfilled'>): Promise<void> {
+    if (this.overlayMembersBackfilled) return;
+    this.overlayMembersBackfilled = true;
+    await backfillOverlayBundleMembers(this.engine as any, console);
+}
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+// Copyright (c) 2026 ObjectStack. Licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.
+
+/**
+ * [#25467 cut 33] The ADR-0067 commit row that groups a turn's published
+ * artifacts, from `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation`, moved out of
+ * `protocol.ts` whole: `recordPackageCommit` and the named INSERT it calls,
+ * `persistPackageCommitRow` (named so the durability log-level rule can
+ * declare it).
+ *
+ * A MOVE, not a redesign. Each function below is the body of the
+ * `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation` method of the same name as it stood,
+ * re-indented one level and otherwise unedited.
+ *
+ * ## How the moved bodies reach the class
+ *
+ * The shape #23050 set for `rest-server.ts` (its `data-action-routes.ts`
+ * header carries the full reasoning), as `protocol-batch-data.ts` applies it.
+ * The class keeps each method — the published `dist/*.d.ts` lists its name,
+ * docblock and declared signature — and its body is one literal of exactly
+ * the {@link PackageCommitRecordHost} members it reads, plus a `.call`; a
+ * body that reads no member is called as a plain function. The `engine` field
+ * and the noted-once flag are handed over as getters (and the flag as a
+ * setter), so each read and write reaches the class field as it stands at
+ * call time; the call to `persistPackageCommitRow` is a closure, so it still
+ * reaches the class method. Every caller keeps calling the class methods.
+ *
+ * What the bodies read from elsewhere, they import from where `protocol.ts`
+ * imports it. Nothing re-exports this module, so the published surface does
+ * not move.
+ */
+
+import { isMissingTableError } from '@objectstack/metadata/errors';
+import type { CommitPlanItem, ObjectStackProtocolImplementation } from './protocol.js';
+
+/**
+ * The `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation` members the functions below read —
+ * every one of them, and no other; each function's `this` is the `Pick` of
+ * the members it reads. Each is typed AS the class member (an indexed access
+ * on the class), so a change to a member's signature on the class is a change
+ * here too, and naming a member the class does not have is a compile error.
+ */
+export interface PackageCommitRecordHost {
+    commitStoreUnprovisionedNoted: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['commitStoreUnprovisionedNoted'];
+    readonly engine: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['engine'];
+    readonly persistPackageCommitRow: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['persistPackageCommitRow'];
+}
+
+/** The body of `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation#persistPackageCommitRow`; the method's docblock there is its contract. */
+export async function persistPackageCommitRow(this: Pick<PackageCommitRecordHost, 'engine'>, row: Record<string, unknown>): Promise<void> {
+    // [#21911] The explicit system opt-in — see recordMetadataAudit.
+    await this.engine.insert('sys_metadata_commit', row, { context: { isSystem: true } });
+}
+
+/** The body of `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation#recordPackageCommit`; the method's docblock there is its contract. */
+export async function recordPackageCommit(this: Pick<PackageCommitRecordHost, 'commitStoreUnprovisionedNoted' | 'persistPackageCommitRow'>, args: {
+    packageId: string;
+    operation: 'apply' | 'revert';
+    message?: string;
+    actor?: string;
+    aiModel?: string;
+    parentCommitId?: string;
+    items: CommitPlanItem[];
+    eventSeqStart?: number;
+    eventSeqEnd?: number;
+}): Promise<{ commitId: string } | null> {
+    try {
+        const commitId = 'cmt_' + (typeof crypto !== 'undefined' && typeof crypto.randomUUID === 'function'
+            ? crypto.randomUUID()
+            : `${args.eventSeqEnd ?? 0}-${args.items.length}-${args.packageId}`);
+        await this.persistPackageCommitRow({
+            id: commitId,
+            package_id: args.packageId,
+            operation: args.operation,
+            ...(args.message ? { message: args.message } : {}),
+            ...(args.actor ? { actor: args.actor } : {}),
+            ...(args.aiModel ? { ai_model: args.aiModel } : {}),
+            ...(args.parentCommitId ? { parent_commit_id: args.parentCommitId } : {}),
+            ...(args.eventSeqStart !== undefined ? { event_seq_start: args.eventSeqStart } : {}),
+            ...(args.eventSeqEnd !== undefined ? { event_seq_end: args.eventSeqEnd } : {}),
+            items: JSON.stringify(args.items),
+            item_count: args.items.length,
+            created_at: new Date().toISOString(),
+        });
+        return { commitId };
+    } catch (error) {
+        // [#9066] The publish keeps its outcome — `null` still comes back
+        // and the caller still reports success — but the silence is over.
+        //
+        // BENIGN: `sys_metadata_commit` was never provisioned. That is a
+        // real deployment state (a first boot, or an env kernel composed
+        // without the commit log — the exact case
+        // `@objectstack/metadata`'s plugin note records), and it is a
+        // CONFIGURATION fact, not a store that broke: it is the same on
+        // every publish and it is fixed in one place. Stated once per
+        // instance, at `info`, per this card's ruling that an unprovisioned
+        // commit store stays silent or informational.
+        //
+        // EVERYTHING ELSE — a connection drop, a timeout, a permission
+        // denial, schema drift on that one table — is a write that was
+        // supposed to land and did not, while the publish it describes DID.
+        // `error`, per AGENTS.md "Degradation log levels", and the line
+        // owes the two things that rule requires: the CONSEQUENCE (this
+        // turn is not revertible, and the system will keep looking healthy)
+        // and the FIX (repair write access to the commit store).
+        //
+        // NOT rethrown, and not surfaced to the caller: the artifacts are
+        // already live and unwinding them over a missing history row would
+        // be strictly worse than losing the row. Telling the CALLER that
+        // the turn is unrevertible is a separate question (a response-field
+        // change the #8896 ruling forbids for this family) and deliberately
+        // NOT decided here.
+        if (isMissingTableError(error, 'sys_metadata_commit')) {
+            if (!this.commitStoreUnprovisionedNoted) {
+                this.commitStoreUnprovisionedNoted = true;
+                console.info(
+                    '[Protocol] sys_metadata_commit is not provisioned — publishes and reverts '
+                    + 'succeed but record no ADR-0067 commit row, so no turn can be reverted '
+                    + '(the revert plan of every turn is dropped). Fix: provision the commit '
+                    + 'store — it is registered alongside sys_metadata_history by '
+                    + "@objectstack/metadata's plugin; run schema sync. Said once per protocol instance.",
+                );
+            }
+            return null;
+        }
+        const reason = (error as { message?: string } | undefined)?.message ?? String(error);
+        console.error(
+            `[Protocol] sys_metadata_commit write FAILED for package '${args.packageId}' `
+            + `(${args.operation}, ${args.items.length} item(s)): ${reason}. `
+            + 'The publish itself SUCCEEDED and reports success, so nothing looks broken — but '
+            + "this turn's revert plan was not persisted: the turn is absent from the package "
+            + 'commit timeline and can never be reverted, and every further publish loses its '
+            + 'own the same way until this is repaired. Fix: restore write access to '
+            + 'sys_metadata_commit (connectivity, permissions, or schema drift on that table).',
+        );
+        return null;
+    }
+}