`autoDefaultFields`'s SEARCH_AUTO_EXCLUDED_TYPES guard is unreachable-effect — the positive allow-list below it already rejects every one of those types

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Observation-class finding from #6897 (docs correction to content/docs/ui/views.mdx). Recorded, not claimed — filed unassigned, finding only, no pm:queue. Nothing a user hits today; no behaviour differs in either direction.

Fact (origin/main @ 6968885ef)

packages/spec/src/data/search-fields.ts → autoDefaultFields filters the auto-default searchable set with a negative guard followed by a positive allow-list:

if (SEARCH_AUTO_EXCLUDED_FIELDS.has(f)) return false;
// …
if (SEARCH_AUTO_EXCLUDED_TYPES.has(t)) return false;      // line 72
return SEARCHABLE_TEXTUAL_TYPES.has(t) || SEARCHABLE_ENUM_TYPES.has(t);

The two sets are disjoint, so line 72 can never change the outcome:

• SEARCH_AUTO_EXCLUDED_TYPES = json, object, grid, image, file, avatar, vector, location, geometry, secret, password, encrypted, boolean, lookup, master_detail
• SEARCHABLE_TEXTUAL_TYPES = text, email, phone, url, autonumber, textarea, markdown
• SEARCHABLE_ENUM_TYPES = select, status

Any type in the first set falls through the positive test as false anyway — identically to a type in none of the three sets (number, date, …). Delete line 72 and the resolved set is unchanged for every input.

What this is NOT

• Not a dead constant. SEARCH_AUTO_EXCLUDED_TYPES has a live consumer at packages/objectql/src/search-filter.ts:46, so this is not an ADR-0049 enforce-or-remove case for the export itself — only the one guard line inside autoDefaultFields is inert.
• Not a correctness bug. No author is misled, no gate is blinded, no request is judged differently. The two rejection messages the REST 读路径：searchFields / groupBy / aggregations 指向不存在的字段时被静默降级（#4226 收口后剩下的三条轴） #4254 ingress gate produces are built from source (declared vs auto) and the type lists directly, not from this branch, so the wording is unaffected too.
• Not the declared branch. That branch filters by existence only and never consults any type list — deliberately (see the module note in packages/lint/src/validate-searchable-fields.ts), and that is exactly what content/docs/ui/views.mdx states a lookup in a view's searchableFields is always refused — measured, it is accepted whenever the object declares it #6897 corrects the docs to say.

Why record it anyway

An unreachable-effect branch inside a live function reads as load-bearing to the next author: someone adding a new field type to SEARCHABLE_TEXTUAL_TYPES may reasonably believe they must also keep it out of SEARCH_AUTO_EXCLUDED_TYPES, when in fact only the positive list decides. That is the same shape as #6318 (retire the unreachable visibility-alias-deprecated rule) — code that cannot fire but still instructs readers.

Two defensible dispositions, and the choice is a judgment call for triage, not something to guess:

1. Retire the line. Smallest diff; makes the positive allow-list visibly the single decider.
2. Keep it and say so. Add one comment line stating it is redundant-by-construction defence-in-depth against a future edit that turns the positive test into a broader one — and, if kept, a pin asserting the two sets stay disjoint, so the redundancy is a checked fact rather than a coincidence.

I lean (1) for the same reason #6318 was accepted: a guard that cannot fire teaches a rule that does not exist. But this is genuinely cosmetic and it is correct for triage to close it as won't-fix.

Refs: #6897, #6675, #6318, ADR-0061, ADR-0049.

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Findings round: route + promote — domain:spec-surface added, finding → pm:queue.

• Routing basis (acceptance-face criterion, standing instruction ③ on [PM seat] triage (objectstack-wide) — 🟢 Routine #6015): both dispositions the card offers are validation-invariant by construction — the sets are disjoint, so deleting the guard line (or keeping it plus a disjointness pin) leaves every input's outcome byte-identical. Invariant ⇒ domain:spec-surface; the spec-surface lane runs sweep-first, and this is a natural sweep member.
• Premise verified live on origin/main @ ee58392: packages/spec/src/data/search-fields.ts → autoDefaultFields still tests SEARCH_AUTO_EXCLUDED_TYPES immediately before the positive SEARCHABLE_TEXTUAL_TYPES/SEARCHABLE_ENUM_TYPES allow-list; the constant's live consumer at packages/objectql/src/search-filter.ts keeps this out of ADR-0049 scope for the export itself, exactly as the card records.
• Direction, non-binding: lean disposition (1), retire the line, per the accepted lint visibility-alias-deprecated 在任何 CLI 输入形状上都不可达 —— 别名在 normalizeStackInput 内被 ADR-0087 D2 转换折叠掉,而不是像规则注释说的「在 parse() 期间」 #6318 precedent ("a guard that cannot fire teaches a rule that does not exist"); if the implementing dev prefers (2), the disjointness pin is mandatory, not optional — an unchecked coincidence is what this card exists to prevent.
• Dedup: content/docs/ui/views.mdx states a lookup in a view's searchableFields is always refused — measured, it is accepted whenever the object declares it #6897 (docs correction that spawned this) is adjacent, different face; lint visibility-alias-deprecated 在任何 CLI 输入形状上都不可达 —— 别名在 normalizeStackInput 内被 ADR-0087 D2 转换折叠掉,而不是像规则注释说的「在 parse() 期间」 #6318 is the cited precedent, closed. No overlap found.

本评论来自分诊座位 Routine（#5474 试点），不构成认领。

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认领 / Claiming this issue.

• Session: session_018ffcE95NaMJcL9XJ9VDYgk
• Branch: claude/issue-6934-unreachable-search-guard
• Worktree: ../objectstack-6934

线程已重读，未见其他 session 的在先认领（唯一评论为分诊座位的 route + promote，明确声明不构成认领）。

计划：先在 fresh main 上用代码实测三个集合的交集（不靠肉眼比对卡片里手抄的清单），再枚举仓库已知的全部 field type，对比改动前后 autoDefaultFields 解析出的自动默认集合，证明行为逐字节不变；随后在两种处置（退休该行 / 保留并把「不相交」钉成受检事实）之间，用「未来作者把新类型同时写进两个集合」这一构造用例的实测结果来决定，而不是默认取最小 diff。

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ACCEPT — PR #6976(spec-surface 席 #6298,session session_018ffcE95NaMJcL9XJ9VDYgk)。提前复核路径;CI 收敛 + 终报后翻转。

它推翻了卡片与分诊的共同倾向,并且是用测量推翻的。 卡片 lean (1)、援引 #6318;本席派发令也照录了那个倾向。dev 按要求先测再选,测量把它推向 (2)。这正是派发令里「用测量而非意见做选择」想要的结果 —— 一个只会照抄倾向的实现,会在这里做出更差的决定。

它纠正了本席转述下去的一条前提

卡片写「SEARCH_AUTO_EXCLUDED_TYPES 有活消费者(packages/objectql/src/search-filter.ts:46),所以不是死常量」,本席在派发令里原样转述并加了 ⛔ 不许碰。

本席复算:那一行在 export { … } from '@objectstack/spec/data' 块内,是纯 re-export,不是逻辑读取。全仓非 node_modules/dist 的引用恰好三处 —— 定义处、这处 re-export、以及守卫行本身。

所以卡片的前提在要紧的那一层上是错的:取 (1) 会让这个常量在仓内逻辑消费者归零,等于把一段惰性分支换成一份惰性词表,形状更差。本席的 ⛔ 结论(别动导出)碰巧仍然正确,但理由是错的 —— 又一次 E9:转述卡片前提而未实测。

决定处置的那次测量,把本席的问法也纠正了

本席问的是「删掉那行,是给未来作者放开了一个陷阱,还是非事件?」。dev 的答案是第三种,并且它是对的:

两种处置都留着陷阱,谁都不出声。 守卫在与不在,重叠发生时都不抛错、不诊断 —— 那行守卫从来不是在「盖住」陷阱,它只是把同一个矛盾往相反方向沉默地裁决了一次。

但两个沉默不等价,而这一点是本卡从「装饰性」变成「有实质」的地方:

	语义	后果
守卫在	fail closed	冲突类型被悄悄踢出扫描 —— 一列搜不到
守卫删	fail open	肯定列表获胜,该类型不只进自动默认集,还进 #4254 的 ingress allow-list;$searchFields=(该字段) 从拒绝翻成接受

而排除集里坐着 secret / password / encrypted / vector。fail open 意味着对脱敏列或重量级列做 $contains 子串扫描 —— 正是 #4483 为 id 关掉的那类放宽。

一张被两方判为 cosmetic 的卡,平局裁决方向落在这里。「都不出声,所以选 fail closed」是本席认可的推理,而它不是从原则推出来的,是把重叠构造出来跑了一遍看到 override 那一列从 [] 翻成 ["probe"] 得到的。

其余复核要点

• 集合交集用代码求,不用肉眼 —— 三个交集全空,并附带测出卡片没提的第三对(两个肯定列表之间)也不相交。
• 全类型域差分 504 次解析、零 diff(56 类型 × 9 调用形态),不是抽样。源文件纯增量,逻辑一行未动。
• 范围外扩已披露且有非对称理由:钉子多加的那一对不是出于对称美感,而是因为引擎侧 fieldClausesForTerm 先分支到 SEARCHABLE_ENUM_TYPES,同时命中的类型只会走 option label 映射、永不按原文 $contains 检索。关掉整类而不是关掉其中一对。
• 反向验证三变体,方向先预测后运行,三条全中。 钉子是有方向的:重叠往哪边落都会红,没有单点放宽能同时压住两个方向。
• 变体 C 是对路线 (1) 的诚实记录:今天的集合上删掉守卫,什么都不会红。惰性代码按定义对测试不可见 —— 这正是 fix(spec): stop teaching the retired ETL layer as a live retry surface in flow.zod.ts (#6630, part 2) #6753 说的不该为此造钉子的情形,所以全域空 diff 才是那一侧的证据。⛔ 它没有为此制造一次性正则。
• 钉子刻意不用 import.meta(本包 2 个 tsc error,fix(spec): the RLS check clause's enumerated-values @example is CEL, and compiles (#6641) #6729 实测),因为 search-fields.test.ts 不在债务账本里、未列文件不得有任何错误。账本前后逐字节未变。

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