feat(low-code): fetch complete nested lists when RecordExpander input is truncated, warn when unrecoverable

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Overview

👉 TL;DR: When an API embeds only the first page of a nested list inside a parent record, the low-code record expander can now fetch the rest of the list from its own endpoint, and when no such endpoint exists it logs a warning instead of silently dropping the missing items. Specifically, this adds two optional fields to RecordExpander: truncation_indicator_path and truncated_list_retriever (SimpleRetriever | CustomRetriever), plus an optional message_repository for Connector Builder visibility.

Pairs with (connector consumer, stays in draft until a CDK release contains this change):

• fix(source-stripe): fetch complete invoice line item lists when event payloads are truncated airbyte#85087

Requested by Zane Hyatt (ZaneHyattAB); investigation in https://github.com/airbytehq/oncall/issues/12975.

record_expander:
  type: RecordExpander
  expand_records_from_field: [data, object, lines, data]
  truncation_indicator_path: [data, object, lines, has_more]   # NEW
  truncated_list_retriever:                                    # NEW, optional
    type: SimpleRetriever
    requester:
      path: invoices/{{ stream_slice['parent_record']['data']['object']['id'] }}/lines
      use_cache: true
    paginator: { ... }

Changes

• RecordExpander: when truncation_indicator_path is truthy and truncated_list_retriever is set, the retriever is invoked with the parent record as stream_slice['parent_record'] and its records (all pages via its own paginator) replace the embedded ones. Fetched items are handled like embedded ones: mappings get parent context, scalars are yielded as-is or wrapped as {"value": item, "original_record": ...} under remain_original_record.
• RecordExpander: truthy indicator with no retriever expands the embedded items as before and logs one WARNING per stream instance naming the expansion path, indicator path, embedded count and (when an integer total_count sibling exists) the expected total. No payload values. The sync never fails and no records are dropped.
• RecordExpander: a separate once-per-stream WARNING when a configured retriever returns fewer records than total_count (points at a missing paginator / wrong endpoint). Not emitted in Connector Builder test reads when the nested retriever's paginator is capped: create_record_expander sets suppress_incomplete_fetch_warning when the constructed SimpleRetriever.paginator is a PaginatorTestReadDecorator (a nested retriever without a paginator gets NoPagination, which is never capped, so its shortfall is real and still warns); for a CustomRetriever the paginator is opaque, so the flag falls back to bool(self._limit_pages_fetched_per_slice). The flag is inert outside test reads, and the no-retriever warning is unaffected.
• RecordExpander: warnings are emitted through one channel: as AirbyteLogMessage(level=WARN) via the MessageRepository when one is wired in (the factory always supplies one, so they reach the platform log stream and Connector Builder StreamRead.logs), otherwise through the stdlib airbyte logger. Never both, so a warning is not printed twice. The no-retriever warning is emitted before the embedded children are yielded, so a consumer that stops iterating early (e.g. the Connector Builder record limit) still sees it; fetched children stay streamed, so the shortfall warning is emitted once the retriever is exhausted (a consumer that stops early cut the fetch short itself, so no shortfall can be reported).
• RecordExpander: items yielded by the nested retriever are unwrapped from Record or AirbyteMessage(type=RECORD); other protocol messages a CustomRetriever may yield (LOG, TRACE, STATE, CONTROL, as AirbyteMessage envelopes or as bare AirbyteLogMessage-style payloads) are skipped rather than treated as child records.
• RecordExpander: falsy/missing indicator is unchanged (no request, no warning); an empty retriever result falls back to the embedded items; retriever request failures propagate through its error_handler and fail the stream.
• Validation: truncated_list_retriever requires truncation_indicator_path; dpath glob metacharacters (*, ?, [) are rejected in the indicator path always and in expand_records_from_field when a retriever is set, checked on the interpolated values at construction time; ValueError from dpath on a non-mapping segment is treated as not truncated.
• ModelToComponentFactory.create_record_expander: builds the nested SimpleRetriever with name record_expander_truncated_list, an auxiliary log_formatter (is_auxiliary=True), and message_repository; rejects partition_router / pagination_reset on it; builds CustomRetriever from model + config plus the same auxiliary log_formatter so manifest values survive and nested requests are still classified as auxiliary.
• Schema (declarative_component_schema.yaml) and generated model: field descriptions cover the warnings, glob restriction, request amplification and use_cache, paginator semantics, $parameters propagation, failure semantics, unsupported nested fields, Builder auxiliary/test-read behavior, and the older-CDK compatibility note.
• Tests: expander unit tests, factory tests, and a new HttpMocker end-to-end test module.

Review Spotlight

Reviewers with limited time, please review first:

• record_expander.py: expand_record, _fetch_complete_list, and the two warning paths
• model_to_component_factory.py create_record_expander: nested retriever wiring and rejections
• test_record_expander_http.py: end-to-end nested fetch with pagination

Risks

• One nested fetch per truncated parent record: request amplification on streams with many truncated parents. Mitigation documented: use_cache: true on the nested requester.
• Connector Builder test reads apply the page cap to each nested fetch independently, so the nested list can look truncated in a test read even though full syncs read every page. The incomplete-fetch warning is suppressed in test reads for that reason when the nested paginator is capped, so a test read does not surface a real shortfall from a paginated nested retriever either; a nested retriever without a paginator is not capped and still warns.
• Older CDK versions silently ignore the new fields; adopting connectors must pin a CDK version that includes them.
• Behavior with the new fields unset is unchanged; source-stripe is the only current RecordExpander consumer.

Open questions for maintainers

• Retriever failure tolerance: fail-loud is the default here. If opt-in tolerance (e.g. error_handler with IGNORE falling back to embedded items) is wanted, it should ship together with the incomplete-fetch warning so it cannot degrade into silent loss.
• Builder test-read cap: create_default_paginator wraps the nested paginator in PaginatorTestReadDecorator. A proper fix (feeding nested page counts into test_read_limit_reached or exempting this paginator) touches Builder plumbing outside this PR; this PR only suppresses the incomplete-fetch warning under the cap.
• Generated model: declarative_component_schema.py is hand-edited here, scoped to the RecordExpander additions plus RecordExpander.update_forward_refs(); the hand-edited RecordExpander class body is byte-identical to codegen output. Regenerating the file at the merge base (4855c2da) and at head (eba756f7) with bin/generate_component_manifest_files.py (datamodel_code_generator==0.26.3) reorders the same 9 top-level classes in both runs (BlockSimultaneousSyncsAction, DpathExtractor, HttpMethod, QuotaStatusSource, RateLimitedMultipleTokenAuthenticator, RecordExpander, RecordSelector, ScopesJoinStrategy, TokenQuota), and both runs emit OptionalScope + Scope where the checked-in file has OAuthScope. All of that divergence is pre-existing on main; this PR introduces none of it (the ~65 extra diff lines at head are this PR's own new content). Regenerating the file belongs in a separate PR against main. A poe assemble && git diff --exit-code gate cannot pass on this PR alone because the drift predates it; such a gate needs the regeneration PR to land first.
• Extend vs. new component: see design notes below; open to disagreement.

Follow-ups

• Thread the real stream name into the nested retriever's Builder log messages (needs create_record_selector plumbing).
• Optional per-sync cap / LRU on nested fetches, pending a policy for what happens when the cap is hit.

Test plan

• poetry run pytest unit_tests/sources/declarative/expanders/ (44 tests): retriever fetch / fallback / no-call paths; validation (missing indicator path, every glob metacharacter in both paths, interpolated-glob rejection, safe interpolated path accepted, wildcards still allowed without a retriever); dpath ValueError treated as not truncated; scalar fetched items with and without remain_original_record; retriever errors propagate; incomplete-fetch warning (once, counts only) and its no-warning cases (count matches, total_count missing/bool/string); no-retriever warning (once, counts/paths, no total when absent, none when falsy or when a retriever is configured); incomplete-fetch warning suppressed with suppress_incomplete_fetch_warning=True and still emitted without it, no-retriever warning unaffected by the flag; warnings through MessageRepository; HttpMocker end-to-end: truncated parent triggers GET /invoices/{id}/lines across two starting_after pages, one call per page, 15 fetched + untruncated parents' embedded items; outer request_parameters do not leak into the nested request.
• poetry run pytest unit_tests/sources/declarative/parsers/test_model_to_component_factory.py: SimpleRetriever wiring (name, message_repository, suppress_incomplete_fetch_warning false by default, and with limit_pages_fetched_per_slice=2 true for a capped DefaultPaginator and false for NoPagination), CustomRetriever preserves manifest name/primary_key, partition_router and pagination_reset rejected.
• poetry run ruff check ., poetry run ruff format --check ., poetry run mypy --config-file mypy.ini airbyte_cdk clean locally.
• End-to-end against a Stripe-shaped fixture lives in the dependent source-stripe PR's integration tests.

Design notes: why, survey results, extend vs. new component

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Why

Stripe's /v1/events payloads embed only the first page (10 items) of nested list objects, with lines.has_more: true and total_count reflecting the real size, verified by live measurement (invoices with 15/16/20 lines each embed exactly 10). RecordExpander (introduced in #859) had no way to follow that, so source-stripe's events-based invoice_line_items incremental path silently drops line items 11+ of any invoice with more than 10 lines. Stripe rejects expand[]=data.data.object.lines on /v1/events, so there is no request-side workaround.

Survey results (generality)

A survey of certified/GA connectors for the same embedded-list-truncation pattern found no other connector that can adopt the retriever path today: source-stripe is the only connector with an embedded nested list, a truncation flag, and a dedicated complete-list endpoint. The closest real data-loss cousin is source-intercom conversation_parts: Intercom embeds at most the 500 most recent parts of a conversation and exposes no endpoint to fetch the rest, so it can never use truncated_list_retriever. That unrecoverable case is what the warn-on-truncation path covers: it converts silent data loss into visible data loss, and it is what makes this change generally useful beyond Stripe. Safe contrasts (nested pagination correctly followed): source-monday items_page.cursor, source-github GraphQL pageInfo.hasNextPage, and any lazy_read_pointer / LazySimpleRetriever user.

Extend vs. new component

Patrick Nilan raised whether giving RecordExpander (previously a pure in-memory dpath transform) a retriever, and therefore HTTP capability, fundamentally changes what the component is, and whether a brand-new component would be better. This PR takes the extend position; that decision is open to disagreement:

• The component's contract ("given a parent record, yield the complete set of child records from its nested list") is unchanged; the retriever is a fallback for honoring it when the payload is incomplete. Both fields are optional and unset behavior is identical.
• The CDK already has declarative components composing retrievers/streams (SubstreamPartitionRouter, AsyncRetriever), so a component owning a retriever is not novel.
• Exactly one connector uses RecordExpander today (source-stripe), so a new component would duplicate nearly all of RecordExpander's surface for one user and add a deprecation/migration burden; the truncation config is generic (arbitrary dpath indicator + standard SimpleRetriever/CustomRetriever), not Stripe-specific.

If reviewers prefer a new component anyway, the natural shape is a TruncatedListExpander superset of RecordExpander in the same record_expander slot.

The alternative of rerouting the events path through SubstreamPartitionRouter/lazy_read_pointer (which does follow nested pagination) was rejected: lazy_read_pointer is coupled to parent-stream partitioning and full-refresh child reads, and forcing the events stream into that shape would break the events cursor/state semantics and remain_original_record transformations.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added support for detecting truncated nested lists and retrieving complete contents through configurable paginated requests.
  • Preserved request parameters and supported auxiliary handling for expanded records.
  • Added validation for unsupported truncated-list retrieval options.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved handling of empty or incomplete retrievals, protocol messages, and fallback logging.
  • Prevented duplicate warnings during concurrent record expansion.
  • Suppressed incomplete-fetch warnings during Connector Builder test reads only when a paginator is configured.

• Documentation

  • Clarified truncation behavior and Connector Builder test-read limitations.

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Pull request overview

Adds truncation-aware nested list expansion to the declarative RecordExpander, enabling it to detect when an embedded list is only a first page (e.g., Stripe has_more: true) and optionally re-fetch the complete list via a configured retriever (including the retriever’s own pagination).

Changes:

• Extend RecordExpander with truncation_indicator_path + truncated_list_retriever and fetching logic that exposes the parent record via stream_slice['parent_record'].
• Wire the new fields through the declarative model schema + YAML schema and component factory.
• Add unit tests covering truncation fetching, no-call cases, fallback behavior, and validation errors.

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File	Description
airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/expanders/record_expander.py	Implements truncation detection and optional re-fetch via a retriever; adds validation around configuration.
airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/parsers/model_to_component_factory.py	Creates and injects truncated_list_retriever into RecordExpander from the manifest model.
airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/models/declarative_component_schema.py	Adds the two new RecordExpander fields to the Pydantic model and updates forward refs.
airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/declarative_component_schema.yaml	Exposes the new fields in the declarative YAML schema.
unit_tests/sources/declarative/expanders/test_record_expander.py	New tests for truncation re-fetch, no-call cases, fallback, and validation.
unit_tests/sources/declarative/parsers/test_model_to_component_factory.py	Verifies YAML → model → runtime factory wiring for the new retriever field.
unit_tests/sources/declarative/expanders/__init__.py	Adds package marker for the new unit test module.

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RecordExpander now detects truncated nested lists, retrieves complete items with an optional retriever, filters protocol messages, preserves fallback behavior, and emits thread-safe warnings.

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RecordExpander truncation handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configuration model and retriever wiring airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/declarative_component_schema.yaml, airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/models/declarative_component_schema.py, airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/parsers/model_to_component_factory.py	The schema and generated model define truncation paths and retrievers. The factory builds supported retrievers, rejects unsupported options, applies auxiliary logging, and injects test-read warning suppression.
Truncation detection and expansion flow airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/expanders/record_expander.py	RecordExpander validates evaluated paths, checks indicators, retrieves complete lists, filters protocol messages, preserves embedded and non-mapping items, and emits deduplicated warnings through the repository or logger.
Expansion behavior validation unit_tests/sources/declarative/expanders/test_record_expander.py	Tests cover retrieval, fallback, path validation, scalar handling, protocol filtering, lazy streaming, concurrent warnings, zero-record fetches, and warning suppression.
HTTP and factory integration validation unit_tests/sources/declarative/expanders/test_record_expander_http.py, unit_tests/sources/declarative/parsers/test_model_to_component_factory.py, unit_tests/sources/declarative/expanders/__init__.py	Tests cover HTTP pagination, stream parameter propagation, custom retriever construction, auxiliary logging, option validation, and test-read suppression.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant RecordExpander
  participant TruncatedListRetriever
  participant MessageRepository
  RecordExpander->>RecordExpander: Evaluate truncation indicator and expansion path
  RecordExpander->>TruncatedListRetriever: Fetch paginated records with parent context
  TruncatedListRetriever-->>RecordExpander: Return records and protocol messages
  RecordExpander->>MessageRepository: Emit incomplete-fetch warning when counts differ
  RecordExpander-->>RecordExpander: Use embedded items when retrieval returns nothing

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airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/parsers/model_to_component_factory.py (1)

2509-2518: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider a more specific name for the truncated-list retriever, wdyt?

create_record_expander always names the nested retriever "record_expander_truncated_list". That's consistent with how other auxiliary retrievers in this file are named (e.g. "dynamic_properties"), so it's not a new problem. Still, if a manifest configures truncated_list_retriever on more than one stream or field, every one of them logs under that same identical name, which makes request logs and error messages ("Stream {name}: ...") hard to tell apart during troubleshooting.

model.parameters already carries the propagated $parameters (often including name). Would it help to fold that into the constructed name, something like:

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         truncated_list_retriever = None
         if model.truncated_list_retriever:
+            parent_name = (model.parameters or {}).get("name", "")
             truncated_list_retriever = self._create_component_from_model(
                 model=model.truncated_list_retriever,
                 config=config,
-                name="record_expander_truncated_list",
+                name=f"record_expander_truncated_list_{parent_name}" if parent_name else "record_expander_truncated_list",
                 primary_key=None,
                 stream_slicer=None,
                 transformations=[],
             )

Not blocking, just a thought for clearer debugging when this feature gets used across multiple Stripe streams. What do you think?

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In `@airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/parsers/model_to_component_factory.py` around
lines 2509 - 2518, Update create_record_expander so each
truncated_list_retriever receives a name derived from the current
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In `@airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/parsers/model_to_component_factory.py`:
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Re CodeRabbit's nitpick on the shared "record_expander_truncated_list" retriever name in create_record_expander: 🚫 Not fixing for now. Valid observation, but $parameters only carries name when a parent component propagates it, so the derived name would be unreliable, and exactly one stream (source-stripe invoice_line_items) configures this retriever today. Deriving the name from stream context is a reasonable follow-up if the feature spreads to multiple streams — happy to change now if a maintainer prefers.

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Direct protocol payload messages from nested retriever output must be skipped rather than treated as child records.

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airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/expanders/record_expander.py:297

• SimpleRetriever.read_records() can yield protocol payloads such as direct AirbyteLogMessage objects (the existing test_simple_retriever_with_request_response_logs exercises this), not only AirbyteMessage envelopes. This else treats any such non-Record item as a child, so nested request/response logs can be emitted as records and counted toward total_count, potentially suppressing the incomplete-fetch warning. Skip direct protocol payload messages as well (for LOG/TRACE/STATE/CONTROL), leaving only actual record data for expansion.

            elif isinstance(item, Record):
                data = item.data
            else:
                data = item

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Truncation warnings can be skipped when iteration stops at the Builder’s record limit.

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airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/expanders/record_expander.py:185

• This warning is emitted only after the nested iterator has yielded every fetched record. DeclarativePartition.read stops consuming the iterator as soon as the Builder max_records limit is reached, so a large fetched list can be cut off before this line executes and the promised incomplete-fetch warning never reaches StreamRead.logs. Emit or schedule the warning before yielding the fetched records (while retaining the count), or otherwise handle generator termination so the warning is not lost.

            self._warn_if_fetch_incomplete(parent_record, expand_path, fetched_count)

airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/expanders/record_expander.py:220

• The no-retriever warning is also placed after all embedded children have been yielded. When Connector Builder reaches its max_records cap in the middle of a large truncated list, the outer partition breaks without resuming this generator, so no warning is emitted even though the truncation is the behavior this option is meant to expose. Compute the embedded count and emit this warning before streaming the children, or guarantee it runs when the iterator is closed.

        if truncated and not self.truncated_list_retriever:
            self._warn_truncated_without_retriever(parent_record, expand_path, embedded_count)

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airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/expanders/record_expander.py:183

• _fetch_complete_list is a lazy page/record generator, but converting it to list materializes the entire nested list before emitting even the first child. A large truncated list (and every truncated parent in the stream) therefore incurs O(n) extra memory and loses the streaming behavior of SimpleRetriever; preserve the iterator and redesign the incomplete-count warning so it does not require buffering all children (for example, emit that warning after the iterator is exhausted).

            fetched = list(self._fetch_complete_list(parent_record))

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The broad retrieval, pagination, logging, factory, and schema changes warrant final human review.

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[Anatolii Yatsuk (tolik0)]

Re-review at 95b7b2ac (round 1 was 87ab6325). Verdict: fix before merge — one blocking regression, one line. Still non-breaking; feat(low-code): is the right type.

All 5 round-1 P1s and 6 of 9 P2s are genuinely resolved, and I checked each by running code at this head rather than reading the commit messages: the round-1 silent-loss repro now warns (records=10, warnings=1), all four glob bypasses are rejected at construction, Builder auxiliary_requests went 0 → 2, and the hand-edited class RecordExpander is byte-identical to pinned datamodel_code_generator==0.26.3 output. The expander suite went 12 → 44 with a 71% mutation kill rate on the new behaviour. Thank you for the two self-caught gaps (CustomRetrieverModel being Extra.allow, and the warning double-emission) and for escalating the three hard questions instead of silently deciding them.

One item blocks, and it is an own-goal from fixing my own round-1 nit: splitting the factory arms dropped name/primary_key/transformations from the CustomRetriever arm, so a CustomRetriever with any nested component no longer builds. Its test passes only because the shared fixture injects $parameters: {name: "lists"}.

Four non-blocking P2s are inline below, plus a reply in the concurrency thread. Two of them compound: in the manifest-server path a test read can truncate a fetch and suppress the warning about it.

Also worth relaying, not a CDK finding: airbytehq/airbyte#85087 bumps source-stripe to 6.0.16, which #85672 already took — it needs a rebase to 6.0.17.

A fresh /prerelease plus a pinned source-stripe run is the outstanding fleet validation: the round-1 prerelease predates all 10 commits in this round, and none of the six Test Connectors connectors exercise RecordExpander.

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airbyte_cdk/sources/declarative/parsers/model_to_component_factory.py:2535

• create_custom_component starts from retriever_model.dict() and lets these kwargs overwrite manifest fields, so passing name=name and primary_key=None here discards an explicit name or primary_key configured on a CustomRetriever. That contradicts the intended custom-retriever wiring (and prevents custom implementations from using those values); preserve the manifest values when present and only use the nested default name when no name was supplied.

                name=name,
                primary_key=None,
                transformations=[],

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[Anatolii Yatsuk (tolik0)]

Approving at 4332e3c2.

4332e3c2 is the fix I asked for, taken whole, and it closes round 2's P1 and P2-1 together: the isinstance branch is collapsed back into one _create_component_from_model call passing name/primary_key/transformations for both retriever types, the suppression seed drops from bool(self._limit_pages_fetched_per_slice) to False, and the fixture's $parameters: {name: "lists"} injection — the thing that masked the regression — is gone, with the assertions strengthened to check the nested requester and record_selector were actually built.

Verified by running it, not by reading the commit message:

• A genuinely non-SimpleRetriever custom retriever now builds with a nested RecordSelector and with a nested SimpleRetriever: BUILD OK -> MyLinesRetriever name='record_expander_truncated_list' in both cases, with no $parameters anywhere. That distinction matters because the in-tree TestingCustomRetriever subclasses SimpleRetriever, so the repo's own custom-retriever tests never leave the SimpleRetriever path.
• Suppression matrix now matches the intent: CustomRetriever → False at limit_pages both None and 5; SimpleRetriever → True only at limit_pages=5 and with a paginator, where it is a PaginatorTestReadDecorator, False with NoPagination.
• The regression is genuinely covered now: dropping primary_key/transformations from the single call fails 5 tests, dropping all three (the exact round-2 state) fails 8. Under round 2 the equivalent change failed nothing.
• CI at this head: every real gate green, including CodeRabbit, which was rate-limited last round, and Check: source-shopify at 1h4m. Check: destination-motherduck is the only red and is the same environmental MotherDuck-token failure seen on all 12 PRs sampled. Local sweep 313 passed / 1 failed, and that failure (test_full_resolve_manifest) is also red at the merge base.

Still non-breaking, and feat(low-code): is the right type — both fields are optional with None defaults and the unset path is byte-identical to base.

Not blocking, your call whether any of it rides along. Four P2s stay open from round 2, and none touches a production sync path of a shipped connector: build-time suppression decided from the paginator's type rather than whether the cap actually bit; the zero-record fetch that is still silent when the record has no total_count sibling; the manifest-server concurrency rationale; and the decorative concurrency test, which I re-checked at this head and it still passes with the lock replaced by nullcontext(). The zero-record one does not reach source-stripe — your live deleted-invoice test saw the warning fire on that path, which means Stripe's embedded lines object does carry the total_count sibling that finding depends on being absent.

Two one-liners if you want them in this PR rather than a follow-up:

1. Warn unconditionally when fetched_count == 0 while the indicator is truthy, keeping the total_count comparison for the partial case.
2. Qualify the schema sentence about test-read suppression to SimpleRetriever. After 4332e3c2 a CustomRetriever always keeps the warning, so the current wording is now wrong for that arm. Copilot flagged the same mismatch on :2542 and proposed the opposite cure — reverting to bool(self._limit_pages_fetched_per_slice) for opaque custom retrievers. I would not: a spurious warning in a test read costs a log line, a suppressed real shortfall costs the user data silently, and that asymmetry is why the broad seed was a finding in the first place.

One new low-severity note for whoever touches this next: the new isinstance(truncated_list_retriever, SimpleRetriever) guard is untested — dropping it entirely leaves all 211 tests green, because TestingCustomRetriever subclasses SimpleRetriever, so the custom_retriever parametrization added here never exercises the non-SimpleRetriever path. The behaviour is correct; nothing in the suite pins it. Relatedly, the seed at :2510 is now dead for every path that consults the flag, so forcing it to True is an equivalent mutant rather than a coverage gap.

Two things to line up outside this PR: the round-1 /prerelease predates all 11 commits since, so a fresh one plus a pinned source-stripe run is the fleet validation I would want before the connector release — none of the six Test Connectors connectors exercise RecordExpander. And airbytehq/airbyte#85087 still bumps to 6.0.16, which #85672 already took, so it needs a rebase to 6.0.17.

Thanks for the turnaround on this one, and for engaging with every finding on the merits across three rounds.