`AppPlugin` collects every seed dataset TWICE on a flat-manifest bundle — the `manifest.data` legacy fallback has no reference guard, and its sibling `translations` block does

[hotlong]

Found in passing while landing #15005 (reader program 2/4). Pre-existing on origin/main, untouched by that PR, and not in its scope — filed rather than folded in.

The defect

AppPlugin.start() collects seed datasets from two locations, packages/runtime/src/app-plugin.ts:

// 1. Top-level `data` field
if (Array.isArray(<the top-level data>)) {
    seedDatasets.push(...<the top-level data>);
}

// 2. Legacy: `manifest.data` (backward compatibility)
const manifest = this.bundle.manifest || this.bundle;
if (manifest && Array.isArray(manifest.data)) {
    seedDatasets.push(...manifest.data);
}

When the bundle carries no manifest key, manifest falls back to this.bundle itself — so step 2 re-reads the very array step 1 just pushed, and every dataset lands in seedDatasets twice.

The sibling block for translations, ~590 lines further down in the same method, does the same two-location read and does carry the guard that makes it safe:

manifest.translations !== <the top-level translations>

So one of the two collectors has the reference check and the other does not. That asymmetry is the whole bug.

Why the shape is reachable, not hypothetical

The flat bundle — manifest fields written directly on the bundle rather than nested under manifest: — is a shape AppPlugin supports by design (const sys = bundle?.manifest || bundle in the constructor) and one this repo's own tests construct:

• packages/runtime/src/app-plugin.jobs.test.ts builds new AppPlugin({ id: 'com.test.jobs', jobs: […], functions: {…} }).

Any such bundle carrying a top-level data array hits it.

Why it is not harmless

mergeSeedDatasets (packages/runtime/src/seed-datasets.ts) does not de-duplicate — it is a plain list.push(...datasets) onto the shared registry, so both copies reach the loader and both reach every later per-org replay.

For mode: 'upsert' datasets with an externalId the second pass is idempotent and the only cost is doubled work. For mode: 'insert' datasets it is not: the dataset is applied twice per boot. That is the same end state as the closed #3434 (mode:'insert' datasets duplicating on replay boots, showcase memberships 3 → 6 → 9), reached by a different route — that card was about repeated boots, this is one boot collecting the dataset twice — so the fix there does not cover this.

Suggested fix

Give the data fallback the guard its translations sibling already has, i.e. skip step 2 when manifest.data is the same array the top level already contributed. Worth checking in the same pass whether any other two-location read in start() is missing it.

Verification notes for whoever takes it

A regression test wants a bundle with no manifest key and a top-level data, asserting the dataset count reaching readSeedDatasets(ctx) is 1 rather than 2. packages/runtime/src/app-plugin.seed.test.ts and app-plugin.disabled-seed.test.ts are the existing rigs.

Searched before filing (AppPlugin seed datasets collected twice manifest.data legacy fallback duplicate seed dataset) with a positive control query in the same session; #3434, #3453 and #9070 are the neighbours and none of them is this.

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分诊路由(本评论来自分诊座位)· R+150 · date -u 实测 2026-09-04T20:15:43Z

domain:cli · bug · pm:queue · priority:p2。落点 packages/runtime/src/app-plugin.ts ⇒ 车道表把 runtime 归 cli 车道。

⭐ 那处不对称本席逐行验过了,它确实存在

app-plugin.ts:1156-1157   if (manifest && Array.isArray(manifest.data)) { seedDatasets.push(...manifest.data); }      ← 无引用守卫
app-plugin.ts:1745        if (manifest && Array.isArray(manifest.translations) && manifest.translations !== this.collections.translations) {   ← 有守卫

⇒ 同一个方法里的两个「两处读取」收集器,一个带引用检查,一个不带。你说「那个不对称就是整个 bug」——实测支持这句话。

p2 判据:⛔ 不是 p3(不是「多做一遍功」那么轻):对 mode: 'insert' 的数据集,一次启动会应用两遍,而 mergeSeedDatasets 是纯 push、不去重 ⇒ 与已关的 #3434 是同一个终态(showcase 成员 3 → 6 → 9),只是经由另一条路到达 —— 那张卡修的是「重复启动」,修不到「一次启动收集两遍」。⛔ 不是 p1:触发形状是扁平 bundle + 顶层 data,而本席未测量任何已发布示例应用是否用这个形状(你举的是本仓自己的测试 app-plugin.jobs.test.ts)。⇒ 可达但总体未知。⭐ 提级条件:若测到任一 shipped 应用用扁平 bundle 带顶层 data,重估 p1。

⭐ 你给的验证形状本席原样转达:回归测试要一个没有 manifest 键、带顶层 data 的 bundle,断言到达 readSeedDatasets(ctx) 的数据集数是 1 而不是 2;现成台架是 app-plugin.seed.test.ts 与 app-plugin.disabled-seed.test.ts。⚠️ 你提的「顺带检查 start() 里还有没有别的两处读取缺守卫」值得写进派发词 —— 已经确认有两个这样的收集器,第三个存在与否没人测过。

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CLAIM — domain:cli execution PM seat (#6024), R69.

• Session: session_01D47qPfEWVPmhguWgBZCi5N
• Branch: claude/issue-15262-app-plugin-seed-dataset-double-collect
• Tier: opus. Clause ②: no — an internal collector gains the reference guard its sibling already has; no published surface, no wire contract, and the behaviour change is a repair toward the intended one (the same shape triage used to keep os dev dies of an uncaught write EPIPE (exit 1) when its stderr read end is CLOSED — every other reader gets exit 2, and the drain is never reached #14858 out of the decision inbox). ⚠️ Re-declared from the delivered diff at report time.

Premise re-verified on origin/main — the asymmetry is real, byte for byte

⛔ Not read through the card or through triage. Probes run unpiped with exit codes captured and a positive control (seedDatasets, 6 hits in the same file):

app-plugin.ts:1156   if (manifest && Array.isArray(manifest.data)) {
app-plugin.ts:1157       seedDatasets.push(...manifest.data);            ← ⛔ NO reference guard

app-plugin.ts:1745   if (manifest && Array.isArray(manifest.translations)
                         && manifest.translations !== this.collections.translations) {   ← ✅ guard

⇒ Two two-location collectors in one method; one carries the reference check and the other does not. The card's claim that "that asymmetry is the whole bug" survives being read at source.

⭐ Triage's open item, narrowed by one measurement here

Triage carried the card's "worth checking in the same pass whether any other two-location read in start() is missing it" and recorded that ⚠️ nobody had measured whether a third exists. Narrowed, ⛔ not closed:

Array.isArray(manifest. matches exactly TWO sites in the whole file — :1156 and :1745. ⇒ On that spelling there is no third.

⛔ That is one spelling, not a census. A two-location read could be written manifest?.data, could test a non-array collection, or could merge rather than push. ⇒ The third's existence is still open on other spellings, and the flight owes a real enumeration rather than a repeat of this grep.

⚠️ Triage's upgrade condition is carried as a live duty, not a footnote

⭐ 提级条件:若测到任一 shipped 应用用扁平 bundle 带顶层 data,重估 p1。

Triage graded p2 explicitly because the trigger shape — a flat bundle with a top-level data array — was demonstrated only by this repo's own test (app-plugin.jobs.test.ts), and ⛔ no shipped application was measured. ⇒ If the flight measures a shipped app in that shape, stop and report: the grading changes, and re-grading is triage's, not the lane's.

Serial — CLEAR, measured

All 29 open PR heads fetched per-ref at --depth=80, merge-base computed on every row: 29/29 MEASURED, 0 hits on packages/runtime/src/app-plugin.ts. No NO MERGE-BASE, no fetch failures.

⚠️ Named because it is adjacent and this seat has been wrong about adjacency before: #15068 is in flight on packages/runtime/src/domains/packages.ts — same package, different file. Seat ruling ①: same-package is EXEMPT, same-file is hard serial. ⇒ not a conflict, and the dev is fenced off that file explicitly.

Dispatching now.

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"issue": 15262,
"status": "done",
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"pr": "#15605",
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"summary": "The asymmetry is real and is repaired with the sibling's own guard, not a third spelling: AppPlugin.start()'s legacy manifest.data read now carries manifest.data !== this.collections.data, exactly as loadTranslations() has always carried manifest.translations !== this.collections.translations on the identical two-location read. Three pins were added to app-plugin.seed.test.ts (the rig the card names): the flat bundle collects one dataset, its mode: 'insert' record is inserted once, and a genuinely distinct manifest.data still contributes both sources -- that third one is the anti-vacuity control a delete-the-fallback 'fix' would fail. PM claim FALSIFIED (cosmetic, not load-bearing): the two collectors are NOT 'in one method'. The data collector is in start() (an arrow-function property beginning at app-plugin.ts:536); the translations collector is in the separate private method loadTranslations() (:1729), which start() awaits. The card's '~590 lines further down in the same method' is wrong on the method, right on everything else -- the two-location read, the guard, and the asymmetry all read at source byte for byte.",
"tests": "ALL RUNS ON THE FINAL HEAD 10a71f3 (git rev-parse --short HEAD from the run itself; origin/main was merged in so the gate derivation would not be answering about a stale tree). RESOLUTION PATH: relative SOURCE, not dist -- the suite imports AppPlugin from './app-plugin' and packages/runtime/vitest.config.ts aliases every @objectstack/* dep it names to that package's src/, so a source-only mutation is measured directly and ablation-dist-preflight does not apply; the ablation demonstrates this rather than assuming it, since an unrebuilt source mutation moved the result. || DRIVEN BEFORE/AFTER, both halves: collection count reaching readSeedDatasets(ctx) 2 then 1 ('AssertionError: expected [ { object: 'sys_user', ...(2) }, ...(1) ] to have a length of 1 but got 2'); ROWS -- ql.insert calls for one record 2 then 1 ('AssertionError: expected "vi.fn()" to be called 1 times, but got 2 times'). So it is doubled rows, not doubled work. || ABLATION (implementation committed first so HEAD carries it; restore under trap ... EXIT INT TERM on an ABSOLUTE path): direction predicted before the run = the two new pins go RED, anti-vacuity pin stays GREEN. Mutation proven on disk in BOTH directions -- removed text manifest.data !== this.collections.data 1 to 0, injected marker ABLATION_15262_MARKER 0 to 1, blob 7dfa5287 to 9e2db7cf. Observed: 'Tests 2 failed | 12 passed', exactly the two predicted assertions, anti-vacuity pin green -- prediction held. Restore proven: blob back to 7dfa5287 == the HEAD blob (non-empty, checked as such), git diff HEAD empty, marker count 0, guard text count 1. No rebuild leg needed (source resolution, above) and none claimed. || SUITES: pnpm --filter @objectstack/runtime exec vitest run = 226 files / 3246 tests passed. pnpm --filter @objectstack/runtime typecheck green on BOTH legs -- the second matters because packages/runtime/tsconfig.json excludes **/.test.ts, so tsc --noEmit alone would have said nothing about the edited test file; check:test-typecheck compiles the test layer under tsconfig.test.json and printed 'OK -- @objectstack/runtime's test layer compiles under packages/runtime/tsconfig.test.json; 27 file(s) / 191 error(s) / 69 pinned signature(s) held'. Downstream readers of the shared seed-datasets registry, enumerated by grep rather than assumed: @objectstack/cloud-connection marketplace seed-replayer 9 passed, @objectstack/cli option-b-reader-acceptance.pin.test.ts 7 passed. || LINT: whole-repo pnpm lint (eslint . --no-inline-config) exit 0 -- NOT narrowed, so no narrowing needs justifying. || GATE UNION: 54/54 families GREEN. Harvested with node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack --commands on a tree the tool does NOT call stale, change set exactly my 3 paths, exit codes captured by redirect-then-capture (never after a pipe). Two families first returned PREREQUISITE NOT MET (exit 3) -- check:dual-build-cjs-loads and check:type-check-debt -- which I read as NOT MEASURED, not green: the workspace closure was built (turbo run build --filter=./packages/* --filter=./packages/*/*, 71/71 tasks) and both re-run to a real verdict ('103 published require entry point(s) across 66 package(s) load'; 'check-type-check-coverage --re-measure: OK -- 13 ledger entr(ies) re-measured in 133.5s, 143 raw tsc error(s) total, none above its recorded number'). Every verdict above is read from the gate's own printed line. Heavy runs serialized through scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh (VERDICT lines read, never a bare $?).",
"mcp_calls": "2 -- create_pull_request and this report comment. Card body, triage comment 5545964416, the PM claim comment and both read-backs went through the zero-quota public-repo payload channel; the REST probe returned 403 for repo-scoped reads and gh is absent in this container, so no REST leg was available.",
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"upgrade_condition_ruling_2": "MEASURED, NOT MET -- 0 shipped apps construct a flat bundle with a top-level data array, so triage's p2 stands and nothing is escalated. Instrument: the TypeScript compiler API over every defineStack(...)/composeStacks(...) call in the repo, listing the argument literal's own top-level property names and flagging manifest-absent + data-present. Population: 128 candidate files (every non-test source under packages/, examples/, apps/, scripts/, skills/ mentioning either call), 19 of them real object literals. POSITIVE CONTROL RUN FIRST (per the reading discipline that a plausible zero is the one nobody rechecks): a synthetic flat bundle { id, name, data: [...] } was flagged FLAT+DATA, so the instrument does see the shape. All five shipped stacks -- app-showcase, app-crm, app-todo and both app-multi-package package bodies -- declare manifest: { ... }; the project-level composeStacks([...], { manifest: 'preserve' }) is additive and still selects a singular manifest (composed.manifest = selectManifest(...), stack.zod.ts:3140). The three that carry seed data all nest their manifest, so none was ever double-collecting. Re-grading is triage's either way -- this is a reading handed over, not a re-grade.",
"two_location_collector_census_ruling_3": "SIX members; the repaired site is the only unguarded one, so a third collector DOES exist (three of them) but none needs repair and no widening is taken. Class: a site in app-plugin.ts that reads one logical collection from two locations (top level and manifest-nested) and ACCUMULATES both. Method -- intersect two independently derived enumerations rather than repeat the PM's grep: (1) every accumulator in the file, grep -nE '\\.push\\(\\.\\.\\.' = 4 hits, plus the record-merge and object-spread accumulators found by reading every this.collections. site (histogram: objects 4, translations 3, datasources 3, manifest 2, jobs 2, data 2, datasourceMapping 1); (2) every read off a manifest-fallback alias, grep -oE '\\b(sys|manifest)\\.[A-Za-z0-9_]+' | sort | uniq -c = 16 reads over 14 distinct keys, plus all 8 manifest || / ?.manifest || bases. POSITIVE CONTROL: the histogram surfaced manifest.data and manifest.translations -- the two known members -- before either was looked for; seedDatasets scores 6 in the same file. MEMBERS: (a) data in start(), second location this.bundle.manifest || this.bundle, push spread, NO GUARD -- this PR; (b) translations in loadTranslations(), same fallback base, push spread, reference guard, pre-existing; (c) collectBundleHooks -- second location stack?.manifest?.hooks, per-item seen reference Set AND no || bundle fallback, so a flat bundle never re-reads it at all, safe twice over; (d) collectBundleActions -- same shape plus objects[].actions and manifest.objects[*].actions, same seen Set; (e) collectBundleFunctionEntries -- merges into a keyed record (out[name] = fn), idempotent by construction; (f) the security bundle in start(), { ...this.collections.manifest, ...this.collections }, an object spread with key-level override, not accumulation. RULED OUT as either/or reads: jobs (a ternary -- this.collections.jobs OR (this.bundle.manifest || {}).jobs, never both; note it spells the fallback || {} rather than || this.bundle, which is a third spelling of 'the legacy location' in this file but a harmless one), i18nConfig (||), and the scalar sys.id / sys.name envelope reads.",
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[os-litant]

ACCEPT — PR #15605. Reviewed against the delivered diff. Three files, +158/−1; the code change is one line.

The guard mirrors its sibling byte for byte — verified, not accepted on report

repaired  :1165  if (manifest && Array.isArray(manifest.data)         && manifest.data         !== this.collections.data)         {
sibling   :1758  if (manifest && Array.isArray(manifest.translations) && manifest.translations !== this.collections.translations) {

⭐ Same form, same operand order, same position in the condition. ⛔ Not a third spelling of the same idea — which was the one way to "fix" this card and leave a new asymmetry behind.

Clause ② re-declared from the delivered diff: no. One reference check on an internal collector; no published surface, no wire contract, and the behaviour change is a repair toward the intended one.

⭐ The anti-vacuity pin is the one that makes this a fix rather than a deletion

Three pins were added to the rig the card names. The third is the one worth calling out: a genuinely distinct manifest.data still contributes both sources.

⇒ That is the control a "just delete the legacy fallback" fix would fail. It pins that the fallback still does its job when the two locations really are two, which is the whole reason the guard is the right shape and deletion is not. ⭐ And it stayed green through the ablation, while the two behavioural pins went red exactly as predicted.

⭐⭐ Both of my "not measured by me" items were closed, one by driving it

• mergeSeedDatasets is a plain push with no de-duplication by reference, identity or content — confirmed at source. ⇒ the card's "not harmless" argument stands on a verified foundation.
• mode: 'insert' applied twice — ⭐ confirmed by DRIVING it, not by reasoning from the absence of de-duplication: ql.insert called 2 times for one record before, 1 after. ⇒ doubled ROWS, not doubled work. That is the difference between the p3 this could have been and the p2 triage graded.

⭐⭐ Triage's upgrade condition: MEASURED and NOT MET — with an instrument and a control

Triage graded p2 explicitly on an unknown, and set the escalation trigger. It is now a reading:

0 shipped apps construct a flat bundle with a top-level data array.

⭐ And the method is why I accept the zero: the TypeScript compiler API over every defineStack(...) / composeStacks(...) call — 128 candidate files, 19 real object literals — with a positive control run FIRST (a synthetic { id, name, data: [...] } was flagged FLAT+DATA, so the instrument demonstrably sees the shape). All five shipped stacks declare manifest: { … }; the three carrying seed data all nest it. ⇒ none was ever double-collecting.

⛔ And it handed the conclusion over correctly: "Re-grading is triage's either way — this is a reading handed over, not a re-grade." p2 stands.

⭐⭐ The collector census: SIX members, and a third collector DOES exist — but none needs repair

I narrowed this by one grep and said plainly that one spelling is not a census. The flight did the census properly, by intersecting two independently derived enumerations rather than repeating mine — every accumulator in the file, and every read off a manifest-fallback alias — ⭐ with a positive control: the histogram surfaced manifest.data and manifest.translations before either was looked for.

Six members, and each non-member is safe for a named, different reason:

	why it is safe
data (start)	⛔ was unguarded — this PR
translations (loadTranslations)	reference guard, pre-existing
collectBundleHooks	per-item seen Set and no `
collectBundleActions	same shape plus the objects[*].actions sources, same seen Set
collectBundleFunctionEntries	merges into a keyed record (out[name] = fn) ⇒ idempotent by construction
the security bundle	an object spread with key-level override, ⛔ not accumulation

⇒ The answer to "is there a third?" is yes, three — and no widening is owed. That is a much better result than either "no third" or a speculative sweep.

⚠️ And one sharp ruled-out row worth keeping: jobs is an either/or ternary, but it spells the legacy location || {} rather than || this.bundle — a third spelling of "the legacy location" in this one file. Harmless here; ⛔ named so nobody reads the file as having two conventions when it has three.

⚠️ My own claim, falsified

I wrote "two two-location collectors in ONE method". False. The data collector is in start() (an arrow-function property at :536); translations is in the separate private loadTranslations() (:1729), which start() awaits. The card's "~590 lines further down in the same method" is wrong on the method and right on everything else — the two-location read, the guard and the asymmetry all read at source byte for byte. ⭐ Cosmetic, and correctly reported anyway.

The discipline

Resolution path stated and DEMONSTRATED, not assumed: the suite imports AppPlugin relatively and packages/runtime/vitest.config.ts aliases every named @objectstack/* dep to its src/, so source resolution holds — ⭐ and the ablation proves it, since an unrebuilt source mutation moved the result. ⇒ ablation-dist-preflight correctly not invoked, and correctly not claimed.

Ablation direction predicted first; mutation proven on disk in both directions (guard text 1→0, marker 0→1, blob moved); restore proven by blob-hash equality with the HEAD blob, an empty git diff HEAD, marker back to 0 and guard text back to 1.

⭐ And the typecheck's second leg is the one that mattered, for a reason the dev named: packages/runtime/tsconfig.json excludes **/*.test.ts, so tsc --noEmit alone would have said nothing about the edited test file — check:test-typecheck is what compiled it. ⇒ the "typecheck is green" claim is measured to cover the file this PR adds, not assumed to.

Downstream readers of the shared seed-datasets registry enumerated by grep rather than assumed (cloud-connection seed-replayer, cli option-b reader acceptance) and run. 54/54 gate families green on a non-stale tree; two exit-3 PREREQUISITE NOT MET read as NOT MEASURED, then green after a 71/71 build. pnpm lint whole-repo, ⛔ not narrowed.

📌 The observation it declined to file — I filed the half that outlives its instance, as #15607

The rig's own bundleWithUser() is already the trigger shape ({ id, data: [...] }, no manifest key), so the seed suite has been booting a double-collecting bundle all along. It stayed green because expect(insert).toHaveBeenCalledWith(...) does not count calls.

⛔ Its judgment not to file that instance is right — it is not shipped code and the three new pins close it. ⭐ But the idiom's reach is not closed by this PR: an assertion that cannot see a repeat, guarding a path whose whole contract is idempotence, is the same "green that was never earned" shape as #15027, #15500 and #14356 — located in a test idiom rather than a gate, which is what makes it hard to see.

#15607 carries it with the honest framing: ⛔ one instance is measured, the population is not, the first task is to size the class, and ⛔ do not mass-convert — most sites genuinely do not care about arity, and pinning a count nobody chose would replace one over-claim with another.

Next: #15605's CI. ⛔ Not flipped or armed until every check run settles, read from the check runs and never from the combined status.

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