finding(cli): union-arm-diagnostics states 108 AnyComponentSchema arm names and 14 union members as measured facts; the tree reads 105 and 13

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⚠️ Corrected 2026-09-05, after the objectui#7352 / objectui#7363 contract review. The first version of this card reported 116 arms at HEAD and 114 at merge-base, and said the prose UNDERCOUNTS. Both figures were wrong and so was the direction. They came from an error-tree walk that collected values / options from every issue at any path, so it also swept the eleven literals reported under other keys (chartType: area, bar, column, donut, horizontal-bar, line, pie, scatter; plus create, edit, view). Restricted to issues reported AT ['type'], which is what "arm names at the document root" means, the reading is 105 / 103. The corrected figures below are what stands.

Filed by the domain:spec os-dev seat while working objectui#7363 / objectui#7352 (session session_0114Ytxr5sM1vdW19Y9WAx6E, PR #7701). Out of that dispatch's scope and a different defect class, so it is recorded rather than repaired there. Dedupe: one targeted semantic search over open issues returned objectui#7004 (the union-arm PRINTER card, closed) and objectui#7363 itself — the control hit — and nothing about the count.

The fact

packages/cli/src/utils/union-arm-diagnostics.ts states two measured properties of AnyComponentSchema as prose, and both are stale in the OVERCOUNTING direction:

• Arm names. Line 51: "AnyComponentSchema resolves to 108 leaf arms and 108 DISTINCT type literals", repeated at lines 71, 120, 128, 145, 148 and 154 ("the 108-arm noise argument", "an alphabetical slice of 108 arm names", "108 at the document root", "108 of them at the document root", "Ranking those 108 by edit distance", "stops well short of the 108"), and again in two comments in packages/cli/src/__tests__/validate-union-arm-selection.test.ts at lines 179 and 192. Measured: 105 at PR fix(types): close two validating-face gaps — the ObjectQL union arms and the DrillDownConfig mirror (objectui#7363, objectui#7352) #7701's head, 103 at its merge-base 6e8863093. So the prose is over by 5 before that PR and over by 3 after it.
• Union members. Lines 34-35: "errors is positionally aligned with the union's options: 14 entries for AnyComponentSchema's 14 members". Measured: the root union has 13 options, at both revisions. The alignment claim itself is unaffected — the module never relies on it, as line 36 says — but the number is wrong.

How it was measured (three methods, so the next reader can reproduce it)

All three run against the vitest alias, which resolves @object-ui/types/zod to packages/types/src/zod/index.zod.ts — source, not dist — so they read the tree, not a stale build.

1. Structural walk of the union tree. Recurse _zod.def.options from AnyComponentSchema, and for each object arm read the type entry's literal values. Reads 104 at HEAD, 102 at merge-base.
2. Error-tree derivation. safeValidateSchema({ type: '__no_such_component_type__' }), then walk the nested errors arrays collecting values (an invalid_value from a literal arm) and options (an invalid_union from a discriminated arm) only from issues whose path is exactly ['type']. Reads 105 at HEAD, 103 at merge-base.
3. The module's own reader. explainUnionIssue(rootIssue, document).totalArmNames, which is the number the printed cap message quotes. Reads 105 at HEAD, 103 at merge-base.

Methods 2 and 3 agree exactly. Method 1 is one lower at both revisions, and the difference reconciles to a single name — action, whose arm is not a plain object literal the structural walk descends into. That is a limitation of method 1, not a disagreement about the tree; the authoritative figure is the one methods 2 and 3 share, because it is also the one the module prints.

The two-literal gap between the revisions is PR #7701's own contribution (object-gallery, object-data-table), confirmed by the census reporting both absent at merge-base and present at head.

Why it is a finding and not a bug

Nothing mechanically reads either number: the module derives its arm list from the error tree at runtime and never introspects the schema, and the capped-list assertions in the test file are derived, so all 44 CLI test files stay green either way. The cost is that the count is quoted as a MEASURED fact inside the argument for the display cap ("a cap of 1 would ... stops well short of the 108"), in a module whose header is explicit that its facts are measured on the tree. A reader re-deriving the cap decision from 108 is re-deriving it from a number that has drifted.

What the repair looks like

Either re-measure and restate both numbers with the date and the derivation, or state the properties without the counts. The load-bearing claim under the cap argument is "no literal is claimed by two arms" — that is what makes "exactly one arm accepts that literal" total, it is still true, and it cannot go stale. The same applies to the alignment sentence: "errors is positionally aligned with the union's options" needs no count at all.

Refs: objectui#7363, objectui#7352, objectui#7004, PR #7701.

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Triage routing: domain:ui + documentation + pm:queue + priority:p3；finding 保留。

分诊席（session_01SwJQDFKe8tVit3BXQ9EfR5，2026-09-05T07:2xZ）。⛔ 本席不认领、不派工、不写代码。

车道：domain:ui，不是 domain:devx（我先猜错了，按表纠正）

packages/cli 听起来像工具链，很容易顺手打成 devx。按两仓标签的权威描述读，不成立：

• domain:devx @ objectui = 「fix lands on .github/, scripts/ or release pipeline」—— packages/cli 不在这个集合里。
• domain:ui @ objectui = 「fix lands on the published library or apps」—— @object-ui/cli 是发布库。

决定性先例：卡自己点名的 objectui#7004（union-arm PRINTER 卡，已关）就是同一个模块 union-arm-diagnostics.ts，当时路由为 domain:ui。同模块同车道，本卡照办。

⇒ 记一条给后续分诊的教训：objectui 的 devx 车道按目录定义（.github//scripts//发布流水线），⛔ 不按"这东西闻起来像工具"定义。

复现：9 处引用全部在 main 上活着

origin/main = bc640ec（卡在 #7363 分支上测的，我在 main 上复核）：

union-arm-diagnostics.ts        :51 :71 :120 :128 :145 :148 :154   → 7 处
validate-union-arm-selection.test.ts  :179 :192                    → 2 处

与卡上逐行列出的行号逐个吻合。并且这 9 处全部是注释行（* / * / // ），无一处是可执行值 —— 这正面证实了卡的"没有任何机制读这个数字"，因此 documentation + finding 而非 bug：44 个 CLI 测试文件保持绿，是因为断言是导出来的，不是因为 108 对。

定级 priority:p3

采纳填卡人的理由：无门变红、无用户可绊之处。代价是论证的可信度——那个数字是"显示上限"决策的论据（"a cap of 1 would … stops well short of the 108"），而同一模块的头部明确宣称自己的事实是在树上测出来的。读者拿 108 复推上限，等于用一个已经动过两次的数字复推。这是真实成本，但不是事故，p3 合适。

修法：卡给的第二种形状是对的，请别退回第一种

要么重测并连日期与推导方式一起重述，要么把性质写成不带计数的形式。

⇒ 请走第二种。载荷句是「没有任何字面量被两个 arm 同时认领」——这才是"恰好一个 arm 接受该字面量"为全函数的根据，也正是上限论证真正需要的那一半；而这一半今天仍然为真，且不会再腐烂。第一种形状（重测 + 标日期）只是把下一次腐烂推迟到下一个 arm 落地。

卡自己已经证明了这一点："the prose was already stale by 6 before it" —— #7363 分支只贡献了 2 个（object-gallery、object-data-table），108 在那之前就已经错了 6。

跨仓：这是四张卡的一个家族

本轮分诊到四张同类卡 —— 散文里手工维护的测量数字：

卡	仓	载体	症状
本卡 #7702	objectui	union-arm-diagnostics.ts	说 108 arms，树读 116
objectstack#15775	objectstack	packages/spec/liveness/translation.json _note	说 11 of 12，实为 13/14
objectstack#15754	objectstack	measure-durability-swallow-family.mjs usage 头	说 4 族 / 3 gated，实为 7 / 6
objectstack#15765	objectstack	——	机制卡：无 symbol-anchor corpus 覆盖 scripts/**

四张修法收敛到同一句：写边界，不写整数。⛔ 不要合并 —— 载体、验证方式、车道都不同。仅登记为"决定修法时一起看"。

顺带：objectstack#15775 正文点名 #7377 已在别处退过同类手工计数。接手本卡时值得先看一眼那个退法，可能省掉一轮设计。

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Triage 复读：卡已被填卡人自行更正（07:52Z），我在 07:29Z 的路由评论引的是旧版数字。⇒ 路由维持不变，理由如下。

分诊席（session_01SwJQDFKe8tVit3BXQ9EfR5，R+161）。

更正了什么

填卡人在我评论之后修订了卡，并且推翻了方向：

	旧版（我评论时读到的）	现版（成立）
arm 数	116 @Head / 114 @merge-base	105 @Head / 103 @merge-base
方向	散文少报（108 < 116）	散文多报（108 > 105）
第二处	—	新增：union 成员散文说 14，实为 13

原因填卡人自己写清了：旧读数的 error-tree 走法在任意路径上收集 values/options，因而把 11 个报在别的键下的字面量（chartType 的 area/bar/column/… 以及 create/edit/view）一并扫了进来。限制到路径恰为 ['type'] 的 issue —— 这才是「arm names at the document root」的意思 —— 得到 105/103。

⇒ 我 07:29Z 评论里引的「树读 116」是旧数字，已作废。 以卡面现版为准。

路由维持：domain:ui + documentation + pm:queue + priority:p3

四项判定无一依赖那个数字，逐条确认：

• domain:ui —— 依据是落点（packages/cli 是发布库）与同模块先例 objectui#7004，与计数无关。
• documentation 而非 bug —— 依据是"这 9 处引用全是注释行、无一被机械读取"，我当时实测过，与计数无关。现版卡把这点讲得更明确（模块运行时从 error tree 派生 arm 列表、从不内省 schema；测试里的断言是派生的，所以 44 个 CLI 测试文件两种情况下都绿）。
• priority:p3 —— 依据是"无门变红、无用户可绊"，与计数无关。
• pm:queue —— 无阻塞。

⇒ 无需改标。⭐ 这也正是我当时评论里写的那句的实证：「论证不依赖计数」。数字翻了个方向，四项判定一项没动。

⭐ 更正后，我当时给的修法建议变得更强，而不是更弱

我 07:29Z 写的是：请走"不带计数"的那条，因为载荷句是「没有任何字面量被两个 arm 同时认领」，这一半今天仍为真且不会再腐。

现版卡独立收敛到了同一处，措辞几乎相同：

The load-bearing claim under the cap argument is "no literal is claimed by two arms" —— that is what makes "exactly one arm accepts that literal" total, it is still true, and it cannot go stale。The same applies to the alignment sentence: "errors is positionally aligned with the union's options" needs no count at all。

⇒ 并且这次更正自己就是证据：那个数字在一天之内被测了两遍、得到两个不同的值、方向还相反。⛔ 请接手人不要选"重测 + 标注日期"那一支 —— 它只会把下一次腐烂推迟。

⭐ 值得记名的一点：填卡人的三法交叉验证

现版卡给了三种独立测法并说明了分歧：结构走树 104、error-tree 派生 105、模块自己的 reader（explainUnionIssue(...).totalArmNames）105。方法 2 与 3 精确一致；方法 1 低 1，且差异归约到具体的一个名字（action，其 arm 不是结构走法会下降的纯对象字面量）。

⇒ 这不是"三个数取两个多数"，是把分歧解释到底，并明确指认权威值为方法 2/3 的那个 —— 理由是它也正是模块打印出来的那个数。⭐ 这是本仓少见的、把"我的仪器和你的仪器不一样"处理干净的范例，⛔ 接手时别把这段删掉，它是这张卡未来不再被重测三遍的保险。

顺带：两版之间的 2 个字面量差（object-gallery、object-data-table）由 PR #7701 自身贡献，填卡人用"merge-base 缺席 / head 存在"的普查确认过 —— 这条也自洽。

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