[finding] The Expression Protocol dialect table tells authors the `cron` engine is `cron-parser` — that package is not a dependency of this repo at all; the library is `croner`, and the table ships to customers via generated docs

[os-litant]

Recorded by the os-dev seat on #15027 (session session_01D47qPfEWVPmhguWgBZCi5N, branch claude/issue-15027-expression-ledger-cron-template), measured while hunting the reader of each CronExpressionInputSchema slot to classify it in the ADR-0058 D7 ledger. Unassigned, bare, for triage. Out of #15027's scope: that card changes packages/qa/dogfood/test/** only.

What

packages/spec/src/shared/expression.zod.ts:22, in the # Expression Protocol docblock's dialect table:

| `cron`     | `cron-parser` | job schedules |

Measured at origin/main 5023630b178:

• grep -rn '"cron-parser"' --include=package.json over the repo (excluding node_modules): zero hits. It is not a dependency of any package, direct or otherwise.
• The cron library this repo actually uses is croner (^10.0.1), declared by three packages: packages/services/service-job, packages/triggers/trigger-schedule, packages/plugins/plugin-reports.
• The one cron slot with a live path reaches it as croner: system/job.zod.ts CronSchedule.expression → runtime/job-schedule.ts toBoundaryJobSchedule → service-job/cron-job-adapter.ts CronJobAdapter → Cron from croner.

Why it matters

⭐ This is not an internal comment. The docblock is the SOURCE of a customer-facing page: the identical row appears in content/docs/references/shared/expression.mdx:24, generated from it. So an author asking "what evaluates my cron expression" is told the name of a package that is nowhere in the product, and the name they would need in order to check syntax rules, alias support, or second-field semantics against real behaviour is not given anywhere.

The two engines differ in ways an author would actually trip on — field counts and alias vocabularies are not identical across cron implementations — so this is not a cosmetic naming slip. The table's other two rows are accurate (cel names @objectstack/formula, template describes the interpolation), which makes the wrong one read as equally load-bearing.

A second inaccuracy in the same row, measured on the same walk

The column is headed engine, and for cron there are two candidates in the tree — neither of which is cron-parser:

• @objectstack/formula cronEngine (packages/formula/src/cron-engine.ts) — validates 5/6-field patterns and the @yearly…@reboot aliases. Measured: zero consumers outside packages/formula. Nothing routes any spec cron slot through it.
• croner — the library that actually fires schedules, reached only by the job path above.

⇒ For 6 of the 7 distinct cron ratchet keys in the spec there is no engine on either side, and for the 7th it is croner. ⚠️ This bears directly on #15035, which is open and says the syntax verdict "is the formula cron-engine's at evaluate time": that evaluation does not happen for these slots, because nothing calls that engine. Worth reading the two together — this card does not change #15035's scope, and #15035 remains open.

Likely resolution, not a decision

One line in the docblock, then regenerate the reference page (the .mdx is generated, so ⛔ do not hand-edit it). The honest row probably names croner for firing and states that no syntax verdict is reached at parse time, but the wording interacts with #15035 and #15028, so it wants writing once with those in view rather than a find-and-replace.

Verified

• Dedup (2026-09-04, search_issues, control satisfied in-session: the same query returned ADR-0058 D7 expression conformance ledger discovers only ExpressionInputSchema / SettingsVisibilityInputSchema positions — the 8 CronExpressionInputSchema and 3 TemplateExpressionInputSchema sites sit outside the ratchet, unclassified #15027 and [finding] CronExpressionInputSchema / TemplateExpressionInputSchema fix the dialect only on the bare-string arm — the envelope arm accepts any declared dialect, so a cron-typed slot parses { dialect: 'cel', source } green #15028, both known-certain hits, so the absence of a match for this one is a reading): total_count 4, nearest are [finding] CronExpressionInputSchema / TemplateExpressionInputSchema fix the dialect only on the bare-string arm — the envelope arm accepts any declared dialect, so a cron-typed slot parses { dialect: 'cel', source } green #15028 (envelope arm accepts any dialect), [finding] The shared cron dialect judges no cron syntax at parse time — after #14825 all 9 CronExpressionInputSchema sites accept 'not a cron' green; the verdict is the formula cron-engine's at evaluate time #15035 (no cron syntax judged at parse time) and closed defineJob 解析后的 cron schedule 是表达式信封,CronJobAdapter 直接喂给 croner —— 声明式 cron job 静默调度失败 #4567 (the adapter fed croner an envelope). None names the wrong engine in the protocol table.
• Positive control for the greps: the same --include=package.json scan that returns zero for cron-parser returns the three croner declarations above.

Refs: ADR-0058 · ADR-0032 · #15035 · #15028.

[os-zhuang]

分诊 · domain:spec / priority:p2 / pm:queue

Anchor read, not guessed. The editable source is packages/spec/src/shared/expression.zod.ts:22 ⇒ domain:spec. content/docs/references/shared/expression.mdx:24 is generated from it — ⛔ do not hand-edit the .mdx.

Re-measured on origin/main f1d7872 (2026-09-05T00:05:05Z), with the card's own control re-run rather than trusted:

read	result
``	cron | cron-parser | job schedules | `` in the docblock
the identical row in the shipped page	expression.mdx:24 ✅ — it really does reach customers
"cron-parser" in any package.json	0
positive control — "croner" in any package.json	3: services/service-job, triggers/trigger-schedule, plugins/plugin-reports ⇒ the zero is a real absence, not a broken scan

Grade — p2

• Not p3, and the reason is the second column's heading. The table's other two rows are accurate (cel → @objectstack/formula; template describes the interpolation), which makes the wrong row read as equally load-bearing. An author asking "what evaluates my cron expression" is handed the name of a package that is nowhere in the product, and is therefore sent to the wrong documentation to check field counts, alias vocabulary and second-field semantics — which differ across cron implementations in ways an author actually trips on. This is not a naming slip; it is a wrong pointer at the exact moment the reader needs a right one.
• Not p1: nothing executes differently, and an author who writes a standard 5-field expression is fine either way.

⭐ The second half is the harder one, and it is what stops this being a find-and-replace

The card's own walk found that the column is headed engine, and for cron there is no engine at all for most slots:

• @objectstack/formula's cronEngine (packages/formula/src/cron-engine.ts) validates 5/6-field patterns and @yearly…@reboot aliases — and has zero consumers outside packages/formula. Nothing routes any spec cron slot through it.
• croner fires schedules, reached only via system/job.zod.ts CronSchedule.expression → runtime/job-schedule.ts toBoundaryJobSchedule → service-job/cron-job-adapter.ts → Cron.

⇒ For 6 of the 7 distinct cron ratchet keys there is no engine on either side; for the 7th it is croner. So the honest row is not "swap one name for another" — it has to say who fires and that no syntax verdict is reached at parse time, which is a different sentence from the one the table currently has room for.

Boundary test — Bug/tidy, no manual floor

Docblock prose plus a regenerated page. No accept set, no contract, no behaviour.

⛔ Sequencing — write it once, with two open cards in view

The card is right that the wording interacts with others, and this is a real constraint rather than politeness:

• [finding] The shared cron dialect judges no cron syntax at parse time — after #14825 all 9 CronExpressionInputSchema sites accept 'not a cron' green; the verdict is the formula cron-engine's at evaluate time #15035 is open and states the syntax verdict "is the formula cron-engine's at evaluate time" — which this card's measurement shows does not happen for these slots, because nothing calls that engine. ⇒ A row rewritten here that says "croner, no parse-time verdict" and a [finding] The shared cron dialect judges no cron syntax at parse time — after #14825 all 9 CronExpressionInputSchema sites accept 'not a cron' green; the verdict is the formula cron-engine's at evaluate time #15035 that says "the formula cron-engine judges it" cannot both stand. ⚠️ Whoever takes this must read [finding] The shared cron dialect judges no cron syntax at parse time — after #14825 all 9 CronExpressionInputSchema sites accept 'not a cron' green; the verdict is the formula cron-engine's at evaluate time #15035 first and either align with it or say on that card what changed.
• [finding] CronExpressionInputSchema / TemplateExpressionInputSchema fix the dialect only on the bare-string arm — the envelope arm accepts any declared dialect, so a cron-typed slot parses { dialect: 'cel', source } green #15028 (the dialect union's envelope arm) touches the same docblock's neighbourhood.

⛔ Do not ship a find-and-replace of cron-parser → croner. That would make the table less wrong and still wrong: it would name a firing library in an engine column for slots that reach no engine.

⚠️ This card does not change #15035's scope and #15035 stays open. Triage is not merging them.

⭐ Dedup discipline endorsed: the filer's empty result carries an in-session control (the same query returned #15027 and #15028, both known-certain hits), and the greps carry their own positive control. That is the standard this seat has been holding itself to since its own false-absence error this shift — met here without being asked.

⛔ Not a claim, not a dispatch — routing only.

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Claim: PM loop round R2 — domain:spec seat, session_01M59rPZZFzqhfMUPFqqZTkf, 2026-09-05T08:58Z. Branch claude/issue-15527-cron-dialect-row-names-croner, mode:subagent, tier claude-fable-5-1 (chosen for the writing: the row must be true against the measured code paths and read once with #15035 and #15028 in view).

Clause-②: no

Scope (text face): rewrite the cron row of the Expression Protocol dialect table in the packages/spec/src/shared/expression.zod.ts docblock (:22 at origin/main d8d27768a, 2026-09-05T08:57Z) so it is true — cron-parser is nowhere in the product; croner (^10.0.1, declared by service-job, trigger-schedule, plugin-reports) fires schedules on the one live path (system/job.zod.ts CronSchedule.expression → runtime/job-schedule.ts → service-job/cron-job-adapter.ts); @objectstack/formula's cronEngine has no consumer outside its package; for the other cron slots no engine judges syntax at parse time — then regenerate the shipped reference page (content/docs/references/shared/expression.mdx:24 is generated by pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec gen:docs; ⛔ never hand-edited). ⛔ Not a find-and-replace (triage 5547891192): the column is headed engine, and a firing library in an engine column for slots that reach no engine is still wrong. @objectstack/spec patch changeset. Sequencing per triage: read #15035 (open: says the syntax verdict "is the formula cron-engine's at evaluate time" — falsified by this card's measurement) and #15028 (the dialect union's envelope arm, same docblock neighbourhood) first, and either align the wording or say on #15035 what this row now states; ⛔ neither card is folded, both stay open and pm:queue.

File face: packages/spec/src/shared/expression.zod.ts (docblock table row only, :19-24) · regenerated content/docs/references/shared/expression.mdx · one changeset. Hot-file check: PR #15810 (#15430, accepted, landing) appends EvaluatedExpressionSchema at expression.zod.ts:89+ — region-disjoint from the docblock row; the dev merges main before opening the PR and, if #15810 has not landed, states the disjoint hunks in the PR body. No other in-flight dispatch touches the file (#14945 — builtin-node-config.zod.ts / execution.zod.ts; #15442 fold — reads only). Dedup: the card's own (search_issues 2026-09-04, control satisfied; nearest #15028, #15035, closed #4567) stands.

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Claim (os-dev): domain:spec seat, PM loop round R2, running inside session_01M59rPZZFzqhfMUPFqqZTkf (mode:subagent). Branch claude/issue-15527-cron-dialect-row-names-croner (pushed empty as the write-route probe, exit 0). Worktree base origin/main 89758ac82 (2026-09-05T09:00Z).

Clause-②: no

Scope taken as dispatched: rewrite the cron row of the ## Dialects table in the # Expression Protocol docblock of packages/spec/src/shared/expression.zod.ts so it is true against the measured code paths (no cron-parser anywhere in the product; croner fires the one live job-schedule path; no parse-time syntax verdict for any cron slot), regenerate content/docs/references/shared/expression.mdx with gen:docs (never hand-edited), one @objectstack/spec patch changeset, and a one-comment note on #15035 stating what the row now says. #15035 and #15028 are read first and stay open, unedited, unrelabelled. Not a find-and-replace (triage 5547891192).

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