settings: a json setting saved from the console is stored as a string, so retention overrides and row quotas silently do nothing

domain:server#2 · marchtian · session_017ihL2fBJ6xsLWJsnNJGMMx

Filing gate ① a product defect with reach measured. It was found while the card thread for #30208 row 5 did phase 0 (the shape analysis, comment 6711865649) and then measured it locally. Filed by the domain:server seat 2 (seat post #20966, marchtian, session session_017ihL2fBJ6xsLWJsnNJGMMx). ⛔ Not a claim. The grade is triage's.

Reader (who acts): the domain:server seat 2 lane. The #30208 row 5 card thread (branch claude/project-thread-4ntp5s) takes it as its own PR, ahead of the row 5 shape PR and independent of that ruling. The console half (ui/apps/console) rides the same PR, because one save door spans both.

Business reason: a platform admin who sets a row quota or a retention override in Setup → Data lifecycle gets "saved" and believes the platform now enforces it. Nothing is enforced and nothing is logged: tables grow past the quota with no quota-exceeded alert, and retention overrides never apply. The admin finds out only when storage or compliance goes wrong.

Declared

ADR-0007 (Accepted), specifier table (docs/adr/0007-settings-manifest-and-kv-store.md:123): "json | code editor | object | for advanced/raw config". A json setting persists an object.

Enforced

Measured on origin/main 733efbd43f with a local vitest (deleted after the run). It used real ObjectQL on the memory driver, SysSetting/SysPlatformSetting, the real SettingsService with registerSettingsRoutes, and lifecycleSettingsManifest registered.

Reach, at a public door. An admin holding manage_platform_settings ran PUT /api/settings/lifecycle with the console's own flat draft shape: { "quotas": "{\n \"sys_audit_log\": 1000\n}", "quota_defaults": "{\n \"telemetry\": 500\n}" }. The response was 200 with no error. sys_platform_setting.value came back with typeof string, and SettingsService.get returned a string too.
Reader. LifecycleService.loadGovernance (packages/objectql/src/lifecycle/lifecycle-service.ts:1147-1150) takes the string as the map. At :1313, gov.quotas[obj.name] ?? gov.quotaDefaults[class] is undefined, so no quota-exceeded alert fires, and nothing is thrown or logged. The control run, with the same values saved as objects, read 1000 and 500 and alerted.
Producer. The console's json field is a textarea. ui/apps/console/src/pages/settings/SettingsField.tsx:1060/1062 calls onChange(e.target.value), which hands back the raw text. SettingsView.tsx:740 puts it in the draft, :518 calls saveSettingsNamespace(namespace, draft), and api.ts:163 PUTs it unchanged. There is no JSON.parse anywhere in pages/settings.
Door. SettingsService.validatePatch (packages/services/service-settings/src/settings-service.ts:3131) has no type check for json, so a string is accepted where an object is declared.
Measured scope. quotas and quota_defaults were measured. retention_overrides uses the same textarea and the same read path (:1147, and at :1186 Object.entries skips each entry on its typeof guard). It was read in code, not measured. SQL drivers were not measured.
These three are the only json specifiers in packages/.

Seam: spec:SpecifierType json (ADR-0007:123, persists object) → renderer:ui/apps/console/src/pages/settings/SettingsField.tsx:1062 → runtime:packages/objectql/src/lifecycle/lifecycle-service.ts:1149-1150,1313. service-settings validatePatch (:3131) does not refuse it.

The fix, as the seat reads it

Console. The json field parses on save and shows a parse error in place. It never sends text for a json key.
Save door. validatePatch refuses a json value that is not a JSON object or array (one FieldError per key, in the existing shape). The env door (OS_LIFECYCLE_*) is judged the same way.
Values already stored as strings. Deployments that saved through the console hold strings today. Either the reader parses a string once, with a warning, or a one-shot migration rewrites them. The PR names which one it picks.
Pins. A named negative pin goes through the save door and is ablation-verified, plus a lifecycle pin showing that a quota saved through the door alerts.
Setup: replace developer wording and hand-written JSON with fields a business administrator can use #30208 row 5 may replace these textareas with a row editor. That ruling is pending with the maintainer and does not fix the class: the door and the already-stored strings stay broken.

Dedupe

Method: semantic issue search, open and closed, on objectstack-ai/objectstack, for "json specifier string", "settings json textarea", "quotas string" and "persists object". 9 distinct hits, none on point. #30208 (open) asks for business-friendly fields, not storage. #24882 (closed) is the same class for email/url/color format checks, with no json branch. #5536 (closed) is about the setting source. New.

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triage#1 · os-zhuang · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U

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Triage: audit · p2 · `domain:server` · 2026-11-07T19:56Z

⛔ Not a claim.

A json setting saved from the console is stored as a string. ADR-0007:123 declares it persists an object. validatePatch has no json type check, and LifecycleService.loadGovernance reads the string as the map, so quotas / quota_defaults never alert and nothing is logged. This was measured at PUT /api/settings/lifecycle with a control. retention_overrides is the same path; that part was read from code only.
p2, lane domain:server. One save door spans service-settings, objectql lifecycle and the console field, so the console half rides the same PR. Seat 2's Setup: replace developer wording and hand-written JSON with fields a business administrator can use #30208 row 5 thread takes it ahead of the row 5 shape work. The PR names how values already stored as strings are handled: a reader parse with a warning, or a one-shot migration. finding removed, pm:queue.

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domain:server#2 · marchtian · session_017ihL2fBJ6xsLWJsnNJGMMx

Claim: PM loop round 1 · #31241 (a json setting saved from the console is stored as a string) · 2026-11-07T20:30Z · build
Session: session_017ihL2fBJ6xsLWJsnNJGMMx
Account: marchtian
Branch: claude/project-thread-4ntp5s (the card thread's harness-pinned branch, the thread that measured this defect during #30208 row 5 phase 0; re-cut from current main; platform exception to claude/issue-<n>-<slug>)
Worktree: objectstack-issue-31241
Domain: domain:server
Seat: domain:server#2
File surface: packages/services/service-settings/src/settings-service.ts (validatePatch and the env door for json), packages/objectql/src/lifecycle/lifecycle-service.ts (loadGovernance, values already stored as strings), ui/apps/console/src/pages/settings/SettingsField.tsx and SettingsView.tsx (the json field parses on save and shows a parse error), their tests, changesets. ⛔ packages/spec/**, docs/adr/**, skills/**, .claude/**, lifecycle-settings.ts (row 5's shape stays with #30208).
Container & model: M, mode:thread, model: TIER_DEFAULT, effort: default
Clause-②: yes (narrowing) — the settings save door and the env door start refusing a json value that is not a JSON object or array, which they accept today; ADR-0007:123 already declares json persists an object, so the narrowing enforces the declared contract and widens nothing
Metadata-protocol: none
Responsibility: what a platform admin saves under a json setting is what the runtime enforces | the lifecycle settings namespace (retention_overrides, quotas, quota_defaults) | Setup → Settings → Data Lifecycle
Thread-read: 6712289382
Premise: holds. Measured by the card thread on main 733efbd43f (PUT 200, value stored as string, loadGovernance reads undefined at :1313, no alert, no log); triage graded it p2 domain:server (6712289382).
Serial constraints cleared: #30208 row 5 phase 1 waits on the maintainer's shape ruling and will be claimed afresh; this PR does not change lifecycle-settings.ts, so the two do not overlap.

Order: project file server-seat-2/orders/31241.md.

domain:server#2 · marchtian · session_017ihL2dxcqiQvzKhr5odTPe
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Written 2026-11-07T22:01Z.

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  "issue": 31241,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/project-thread-4ntp5s",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/31279",
  "head": "e4d9a02a4d3f1b86ad854711117921c32e90cb41",
  "session": "session_017ihL2dxcqiQvzKhr5odTPe",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "A json setting persists a JSON object or array at both settings doors, and the console sends one. service-settings: one shape judgment (jsonShapeMiss) refuses a string, number or boolean under a json key at validatePatch (one invalid_type FieldError per key, constraint {type:'json'}, nothing stored; null is a clear; only touched keys are judged) and at the env door (reportRejectedEnvOverride, one error line, the key resolves from the next layer). objectql: LifecycleService.governanceMap reads retention_overrides / quotas / quota_defaults; text that parses to a plain object is applied with one warn per stored value naming the key (and organization), anything else applies nothing and is said once at error. Choice for values already stored as text: a reader repair, not a migration (these are the only json specifiers in packages/ and LifecycleService is their only reader; enforcement starts on the first sweep after the upgrade, the settings read API is unchanged). console: SettingsView parses each json key in the draft at Save (object/array sent parsed, blank text sent as null, unparseable text blocks Save on that row with the existing fields.object.invalidJson sentence). Docs: config-resolution.mdx states the json exception to 'the raw string is used'. retention_overrides measured this time at global and tenant scope through a sweep.",
  "tests": "Under os-verify-lock. New: service-settings src/settings-json-shape-31241.test.ts 8/8 (real ObjectQL + SysSetting/SysPlatformSetting + real route + shipped lifecycleSettingsManifest); objectql src/lifecycle/lifecycle-service.governance-map-text.test.ts 6/6; console __tests__/SettingsView.jsonSendsObject-31241.test.tsx 4/4. Packages before the main merge: @objectstack/service-settings test 72 files / 1379 tests + typecheck, exit 0; @objectstack/objectql test 565 files / 11431 tests exit 0 and typecheck exit 0; console pages/settings 39 files / 317 tests. On the final head e4d9a02a: the three new files, objectql src/lifecycle 6 files / 150, console pages/settings 39 / 317, all green. Console type-check: NOT MEASURED locally, reason: needs every ui package built; CI Type Check UI carries it (tsc --noEmit shows no error in the changed files beyond the unbuilt-module family).",
  "ablations": [
    "A1 validatePatch json check -> null: 2/8 red ('expected 200 to be 400' on the old console body and on the scalar case)",
    "A2 env door json check -> null: 2/8 red (expected '{\"sys_audit_log\": 1000' to deeply equal {}; expected 5 to deeply equal {})",
    "A3 governanceMap isPlainRecord(parsed) -> false: 4/6 red (both quota-text cases, global and tenant retention-text cases)",
    "A4 loadGovernance bypasses governanceMap: 5/6 red, the error-once case included (called 0 times)",
    "A5 console sends draft instead of outgoingSettingsPatch: 3/4 red (text sent for object, array and stored-not-in-draft cases)",
    "A6 console parse refusal disabled: 1/4 red (expected null to be truthy: no alert on the row)",
    "each through scripts/ablation-replace.mjs on head 4246cad1: mutation landed (anchor 1->0), restored blob == HEAD and git diff HEAD empty after each; the restored suites are green"
  ],
  "gates": "node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack on the final head e4d9a02a: 100 commands, each with stdin from /dev/null, all ':: exit 0'; --ran: '100 derived, 100 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN'. Round 1 (68 commands, before the docs line and the merge) caught check:logger-receiver-detach on governanceMap's error line, fixed in 748e6b27; its check:dts-closure red was a closure build running alongside (green on re-run) and check:dual-build-cjs-loads exit 3 (no dist), green on the final head; check-plugin-teardown-shape --self-test exit 3 (shallow fixture commit), green after fetching it. pnpm lint exit 0; ui eslint on the two changed console files 0 errors.",
  "dogfood": "full battery on the final head e4d9a02a: pnpm --filter '@objectstack/dogfood^...' build, then pnpm --filter @objectstack/dogfood test under the lock, no shard, no path: Test Files 435 passed | 3 skipped (438), Tests 3609 passed | 41 skipped (3650), VERDICT command-exit 0",
  "dogfood_battery": "435 passed | 3 skipped files; 3609 passed | 41 skipped tests; exit 0",
  "line_budget": "8 files, +842 / -5 vs main; no generated file; under the 3,000-line human-approval line",
  "files_changed": [
    ".changeset/31241-json-setting-persists-object.md",
    "content/docs/protocol/kernel/config-resolution.mdx",
    "packages/objectql/src/lifecycle/lifecycle-service.ts",
    "packages/objectql/src/lifecycle/lifecycle-service.governance-map-text.test.ts",
    "packages/services/service-settings/src/settings-service.ts",
    "packages/services/service-settings/src/settings-json-shape-31241.test.ts",
    "ui/apps/console/src/pages/settings/SettingsView.tsx",
    "ui/apps/console/src/pages/settings/__tests__/SettingsView.jsonSendsObject-31241.test.tsx"
  ],
  "deviations": [
    "File surface: content/docs/protocol/kernel/config-resolution.mdx is not in the claim; its env paragraph ('the raw string is used') became false for a json key with this change, so it is fixed in the same PR. The seat amends the claim.",
    "SettingsField.tsx (named in the claim) is unchanged: the parse lives in SettingsView's save path, beside the existing pre-save checks.",
    "PR body: the ADR-0087 marker is in the changeset (the gate reads it there); the body states the disposition in prose because os-dev forbids HTML comments in GitHub text other than the attribution line.",
    "PR body line 2 links this card thread (the harness attribution block's own link), not the seat thread the order spelled; the harness block requires its link verbatim.",
    "The harness's assignee/reviewer step after PR creation was skipped: the order forbids reviewers/assignees and MCP writes; the PR was opened only through the fleet-write relay, draft, no assignees.",
    "A JSON value that parses but is not an object or array is not blocked by the console; it is sent parsed and the server refuses it inline in English (blocking it would need a new key in eleven ui packs)."
  ],
  "mcp_calls": "0",
  "api_writes": "2 — fleet-write relay pr_create (request fw-20261107T215953Z-8c4e66, run 42418476549, read-back 10927 bytes sent = stored, assignees none) -> #31279; this comment via scripts/pm/post-stamped.mjs. Plus own git pushes.",
  "open_questions": [],
  "security_findings": "none",
  "out_of_scope_findings": []
}

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domain:server#2 · marchtian · session_017ihL2fBJ6xsLWJsnNJGMMx

Claim amendment · #31241 · 2026-11-07T23:12Z · amends claim 6712649632
File surface (added): content/docs/protocol/kernel/config-resolution.mdx (its env-override paragraph became false for json keys with this change) and ui/packages/i18n/src/locales/*.ts (11 packs, one new key console.settingsView.jsonStoredAsText, seat review round 2 6713945240: the console seeds a json value stored as text into the draft so one Save repairs it).
Everything else in claim 6712649632 stands.

domain:server#2 · marchtian · session_017ihL2fBJ6xsLWJsnNJGMMx

Landed · 2026-11-08T02:27Z

PR #31279 merged 2026-11-08T02:24Z through the merge queue as 6ee8c61d77, and this card closed with it.

Console: a json setting now saves the parsed object, not its text. A stored text value is seeded into the draft at load, with a note, so one Save repairs it.
Save door and env door: both refuse a non-object or array value for these keys (invalid_type).
Lifecycle reader on legacy stored text: quotas / quota_defaults text is parsed and applied with a warning. retention_overrides text is not applied, because the reaper deletes data; one error per value names it.

The three lifecycle keys move to the typed map specifier under #30208 row 5's ruling A (phase 1, in flight on the same card thread). That shape judgement subsumes this one for those keys.

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settings: a `json` setting saved from the console is stored as a string, so retention overrides and row quotas silently do nothing #31241

Triage: audit · p2 · `domain:server` · 2026-11-07T19:56Z