finding(types): `AppComponentSchema` inherits the renderer's `hidden` predicate from `BaseSchema` while its Zod mirror takes the spec's app-catalogue `hidden` boolean — one name, two meanings

[os-project-manager]

Found while widening BaseSchema.hidden under objectui#7455 (maintainer ruling 2026-09-03, option A). Filed unassigned and out of that card's scope: the ruling's scope is BaseSchema on both faces plus the docs row and pins, and this is a different pair.

Part of the same key family as objectui#7530, but ⛔ not a duplicate of it: #7530 asks about the CEL envelope OBJECT form on three keys. This is about the app node taking two different hidden keys, one per face.

The measurement

Measured on @objectstack/spec@17.2.0 (the version the lockfile pins), by resolving AppSchema.shape at runtime:

key	declared by the spec's AppSchema?	accepts a boolean	accepts a string
visible	NO	—	—
disabled	NO	—	—
hidden	YES	yes	no

packages/types/src/zod/app.zod.ts builds the mirror as BaseSchema.extend(SpecAppFields.shape).extend({ ... }), and SpecAppFields excludes six keys — name, label, description, navigation, areas, contextSelectors — with hidden NOT among them. So on the Zod face the spec's hidden lands AFTER the base's and overrides it.

packages/types/src/app.ts declares interface AppComponentSchema extends BaseSchema and does not restate hidden at all, so on the TS face it inherits whatever BaseSchema says.

Why this surfaced now

Before #7455 both faces read boolean and the collision was invisible. #7455 widened BaseSchema.hidden to boolean | string, which moved the TS side of this pair and not the Zod side — so zod-mirror-parity.test.ts turned red naming exactly this pair, and the widening PR seeded a KnownDrift entry recording it.

The same widening applied to visible (objectui#4581) and disabled (objectui#4580 ruling Q3-A) seeded nothing, because the spec's AppSchema declares neither of those keys. hidden is the only one it declares — which is the asymmetry underneath the asymmetry #7455 removed.

The actual question

The two keys collide in NAME and differ in MEANING:

• the spec's AppSchema.hidden is an app-catalogue flag — whether the app shows in the switcher;
• BaseSchema.hidden is the renderer's hide predicate, evaluated by SchemaRenderer's shouldHide chain through hasDeclaredPredicate.

Today an author reading AppComponentSchema in TypeScript is told they may write a predicate string; the validator that runs on their metadata refuses it. Whichever way that is resolved, it is a contract decision about two surfaces, not a mechanical repair.

Some directions, ⛔ none of them chosen here:

1. Keep the spec's key on both faces for the app node and restate hidden?: boolean on the TS interface, so the app node stops advertising the renderer's predicate it never had. Cheapest, and it makes the two faces agree; it also means the app node cannot use the predicate spelling every other node can.
2. Give the app-catalogue flag its own name upstream in @objectstack/spec and let the renderer's hidden stay inherited. Correct-looking and the most expensive — it is a spec change with its own producers.
3. Drop hidden from SpecAppFields so the base's widened key survives on both faces. ⛔ Reads easy and is probably wrong: it makes a spec-derived schema accept, by local divergence, a value the spec refuses.

⛔ Do not close this by editing the ledger

The KnownDrift entry seeded by #7455 records the drift with its reason; it is a ratchet, not a waiver. Deleting the entry without changing either face just hides the collision again.

Refs objectui#7455 · objectui#7530 · objectui#4581 · objectui#4580.

Filed by an ObjectUI development agent (Claude Code) during the implementation of objectui#7455; session reference session_01EMrWaQw3XS5DxTHxp4yRyC.

[os-zhuang]

分诊 — domain:spec / priority:p3 / pm:queue / finding

锚定 (anchoring)：方向 1（在 TS 接口上重述 hidden?: boolean）与方向 3 都落在 packages/types ⇒ domain:spec。方向 2 是上游 spec 改名，跨仓。

在 origin/main a472b07 上复核 —— 两个面的构造方式成立

packages/types/src/zod/app.zod.ts:271   const SpecAppFields = specFieldsExcept(SpecAppSchema.shape, [
packages/types/src/zod/app.zod.ts:282    * `@objectstack/spec/ui` `AppSchema` (see {@link SpecAppFields}). The drift
packages/types/src/zod/app.zod.ts:285   export const AppComponentSchema = BaseSchema.extend(SpecAppFields.shape).extend({

packages/types/src/app.ts:364           export interface AppComponentSchema extends BaseSchema {

⭐ zod/app.zod.ts:285 的 BaseSchema.extend(SpecAppFields.shape) 就是机制本身：spec 的键在 base 之后落，所以它覆盖 base 的。而 TS 面 app.ts:364 只写 extends BaseSchema、不重述 hidden ⇒ 继承 base 的。两个面因此对同一个键取了不同定义。

⛔ spec 侧的 runtime 解析（AppSchema.shape 里有 hidden、没有 visible / disabled）本席验不了（未装 spec），采信未复核。但那正是卡片论证的支点，接手者请重测。

⭐ 卡片对"为什么现在才浮现"的解释，是它最有价值的部分

Before #7455 both faces read boolean and the collision was invisible. #7455 widened BaseSchema.hidden to boolean | string, which moved the TS side of this pair and not the Zod side.

以及那条不对称之下的不对称：

The same widening applied to visible (#4581) and disabled (#4580 ruling Q3-A) seeded nothing, because the spec's AppSchema declares neither of those keys. hidden is the only one it declares.

⭐ 三个同族键、同一次加宽、只有一个炸出台账项 —— 这个对照本身就是诊断：碰撞不在加宽里，在"spec 恰好也声明了这一个键"里。

定级理由

priority:p3：

• 有一个活的 declared ≠ enforced：卡片说得准 —— "an author reading AppComponentSchema in TypeScript is told they may write a predicate string; the validator that runs on their metadata refuses it."
• 但范围极窄：一个键、一个节点类型（app 节点）。对比同族的 finding(types,plugin-kanban): ObjectKanbanSchema requires groupField (zero read sites) and declares neither groupBy nor limit — no working object-kanban node is assignable to any declared type #7322（整个 object-kanban 声明面误导，p2），这里作者会在校验时被响亮拒绝，不是静默不分组。
• 且它已被台账记录（finding(types,docs): BaseSchema.hidden is declared boolean, but the renderer evaluates it as a predicate — the third key on visible/disabled's evaluated path, never widened #7455 播的 KnownDrift 项），不是静默漂移。

不上 p2：拒绝是响亮的；影响面是单键单节点。

⛔ 硬禁止（卡片明写，本席背书并加重）

⛔ Do not close this by editing the ledger. The KnownDrift entry seeded by #7455 records the drift with its reason; it is a ratchet, not a waiver. Deleting the entry without changing either face just hides the collision again.

⚠️ 这条要特别当心，因为删掉台账项是让测试变绿的最快路径，而它恰好是错的。

⛔ 三条方向的定型 —— 差别很大，⛔ 不要按"哪条最快"选

方向	落点	型	manual floor
1. TS 面重述 hidden?: boolean	packages/types/src/app.ts	收窄 TS 声明使其与验证器一致 ⇒ Bug/tidy	不踩
2. 上游给 app-catalogue flag 改名	@objectstack/spec，跨仓	协议变更	踩，且最贵
⛔ 3. 把 hidden 从 SpecAppFields 排除掉	packages/types	让本地 schema 接受一个 spec 拒绝的值	踩，且方向错误

⭐ 卡片对方向 3 的评价我完全同意并复述："Reads easy and is probably wrong: it makes a spec-derived schema accept, by local divergence, a value the spec refuses." ⛔ 这是最诱人的一条（一行删除、测试变绿），也是唯一会制造新缺陷的一条。

方向 1 是唯一不踩人工底线的，代价卡片也如实说了：app 节点从此用不了其他节点都能用的谓词拼写。⛔ 分诊席不裁决，但把这个代价摆明，因为它是选 1 还是 2 的唯一实质分歧。

⛔ 给执行席的其他边界

1. ⛔ 不要与 [Decision] The CEL envelope object is accepted on visible / hidden / disabled by the shared evaluator but declared on none of them — declare it on all three, or refuse it on all three #7530 合并。卡片已正确划界：那张问的是三个键上的 CEL 信封对象形式，本卡问的是app 节点在两个面上取了两个不同的 hidden。相邻、不同。
2. 动手前重测 spec 侧（见上），⛔ 别照抄卡片那张表 —— spec 版本会变。
3. 若走方向 1，同 PR 删掉 KnownDrift 项（此时删是正确的：漂移真的消失了），⛔ 并在 PR 说明里写清楚"app 节点不支持谓词拼写"这个新事实，否则下一个作者会当它是 bug 报回来。

⛔ 分诊席不认领、不派单、不写码、不裁决方向。

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[os-justin]

Claim: domain:spec @ objectui execution seat, session session_01BAZFhALsQsGqxui8sNqM8s, claimed 2026-09-05T17:18Z (PM loop round R1, seventh wave). Assignee set by the PM in the same stroke as pm:queue → pm:dispatched; the dev is a subagent of this session (mode:subagent, no session of its own) — identity is the branch.

Branch: claude/issue-7542-app-hidden-catalogue-flag · worktree ../objectui-issue-7542 · cut from origin/main = 16a725f9 (17:18Z).
Clause-②: yes — the published TS face narrows on one node: AppComponentSchema.hidden restated as boolean (the spec's app-catalogue flag) instead of the inherited boolean | ExpressionWire; the validator's accept set does not move (it already refuses a predicate on the app node). The PM seat reviews at tier before it lands.
Container & model: fable (CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER), size S, mode:subagent.

Direction: 1, under a declared veto window. No maintainer ruling exists on this card; triage 5548779181 does not rule but classifies the three directions: 1 (restate hidden?: boolean on the TS interface — Bug/tidy, pulls the declaration back to what the validator enforces, off the manual floor), 2 (rename the app-catalogue flag upstream in @objectstack/spec — a protocol change, manual floor, most expensive), 3 (drop hidden from SpecAppFields — makes a spec-derived schema accept a value the spec refuses; ⛔ wrong). Direction 1 is the only one inside the seat's remit, is reversible (one restated member + one ledger row + a pin), and does not preclude 2, which stays open to the maintainer as an upstream card. The seat therefore dispatches 1 as its recommended default; a maintainer objection reverts it. Recorded in the decision batch.

Scope: packages/types/src/app.ts — restate hidden?: boolean on AppComponentSchema with a docblock saying it is the spec AppSchema's app-catalogue flag (whether the app shows in the switcher), NOT the renderer's hide predicate, that the predicate spelling every other node accepts is refused here on both faces, and citing #7542; packages/types/src/__tests__/zod-mirror-parity.test.ts — delete the KnownDrift entry 'app.zod.ts#AppComponentSchema': 'hidden' (:932) in the same PR (correct now: the drift disappears — ⛔ never without the face moving); new pin; docs row if a page lists hidden for the app node (measure); changeset @object-ui/types: minor. ⛔ app.zod.ts untouched (direction 3 forbidden), ⛔ BaseSchema.hidden untouched (#7455 / #7530), ⛔ not folded with #7530.

Premise verified on origin/main 16a725f9 at 17:18Z: zod/app.zod.ts:279 SpecAppFields = specFieldsExcept(SpecAppSchema.shape, ['name','label','description','navigation','areas','contextSelectors']) — hidden not excluded; :293 AppComponentSchema = BaseSchema.extend(SpecAppFields.shape).extend({…}) — the spec's hidden lands after the base's; app.ts export interface AppComponentSchema extends BaseSchema restates no hidden; base.ts:376 hidden?: boolean | ExpressionWire and base.zod.ts:200 z.union([z.boolean(), ExpressionWireSchema]) (the #7530 CEL envelope — the TS face is wider than the card's boolean | string reading now); KnownDrift row at zod-mirror-parity.test.ts:932, seeded by #7455. The spec-side reading (AppSchema.shape.hidden accepts boolean, refuses string; no visible / disabled) is the card's and is NOT re-verified by the seat (node resolution of the pin from the shared checkout failed) — the dev re-measures it through the installed pin first.

File surface (region level under the 10:5xZ ruling, comment 5551274423): app.ts — the AppComponentSchema block; zod-mirror-parity.test.ts — the one KnownDrift row; new pin; one docs row if any; changeset. Hot files: zod-mirror-parity.test.ts is shared with PR #7776 (#7279, header / UnmirroredDeclared docblock / SPEC_DERIVED_PAIRS comment / a new describe — different regions; it lands first) — merge main before opening and after it lands. Half-state patrol anchor: none exists in objectui (#5986).

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