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feat(client,spec)!: delete 21 dead SDK methods + the four ghost route tables under them (#3612) - #3616

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Closes #3612 (a #3587 audit finding). Rides the open breaking-change window (#3562/#3581/#3593/#3595 precedent), shipped as minor per the launch-window convention.

What

Five client surface families built URLs that exist on no server surface — dispatcher, @objectstack/rest, and the autonomous service mounts were all checked in the #3587 audit. Every call was a guaranteed 404. Deleted:

Family Methods removed
permissions check, getObjectPermissions, getEffectivePermissions
realtime connect, disconnect, subscribe, unsubscribe, setPresence, getPresence (service-realtime registers zero HTTP routes; the dispatcher deliberately never advertises /realtime)
workflow getConfig, getState, transition
views list, get, create, update, delete (no /ui/views route anywhere)
notifications registerDevice, unregisterDevice, getPreferences, updatePreferences (ADR-0012's server side was never built)

Each family was underwritten only by an unconsumed spec DEFAULT_*_ROUTES table — the same disease DEFAULT_DISPATCHER_ROUTES had (#3586, deleted in #3595) — so DEFAULT_PERMISSION_ROUTES, DEFAULT_VIEW_ROUTES, DEFAULT_WORKFLOW_ROUTES, DEFAULT_REALTIME_ROUTES are deleted with them (tombstone at the old site); getDefaultRouteRegistrations() returns 9 registrations and its tests assert the removed categories stay gone. ApiRouteType loses its client-only 'views' | 'permissions' extras.

Kept, deliberately: client.events (explicitly local in-memory buffer, no HTTP), notifications.list/markRead/markAllRead (dispatcher-served, ledgered), approvals.* (ADR-0019 — the real decision API), meta.getLegalNextStates (the real FSM read).

Docs swept: client README (dead example, namespace list, usage snippets), content/docs/api/client-sdk.mdx (coverage table + snippets), CLIENT_SERVER_INTEGRATION_TESTS.md (dead sections 7–8 tombstoned — its TC-WF-004/005 were doubly stale, referencing workflow.approve/reject that ADR-0019 removed long ago). api-surface.json regenerated (−4 exports, gate green).

Consumer impact

Repo-wide and objectui-wide sweeps found one consumer: objectui's useClientNotifications hook delegates to the three dead device/preference methods (client: any-typed, every call try/catch-wrapped — runtime behavior today is already an error). A companion objectui PR trims those delegates; nothing consumes them downstream (barrel export only).

Re-adding any removed surface now requires the server route to exist and a route-ledger row proving it — the #3569/#3609 conformance guards make silent re-drift impossible, and the upcoming reverse-direction guard (#3587) can now land with zero exemptions.

Verification

  • @objectstack/spec: 255 files / 6689 tests pass; check:api-surface green.
  • @objectstack/client: 129 tests pass (21 dead tests removed with their methods); bare tsc -p clean.
  • ESLint clean on changed files.
  • Changeset: client minor + spec minor with feat(…)! marker.

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… tables under them (#3612)

Five client families built URLs no server surface mounts (dispatcher, REST,
and autonomous service mounts all checked in the #3587 audit): permissions
x3, realtime x6, workflow x3, views x5, notifications device/prefs x4.
Every call was a guaranteed 404. Each family was underwritten only by an
unconsumed spec DEFAULT_*_ROUTES table — the same disease
DEFAULT_DISPATCHER_ROUTES had (#3586) — so DEFAULT_PERMISSION/VIEW/
WORKFLOW/REALTIME_ROUTES go with them; getDefaultRouteRegistrations()
returns 9. ApiRouteType loses its client-only 'views'|'permissions' extras.

Kept: events (local buffer, no HTTP), notifications list/markRead/
markAllRead (dispatcher-served), approvals.* (ADR-0019), and
meta.getLegalNextStates (the real FSM read). Docs/README/integration-test
spec swept; api-surface.json regenerated (-4 exports).

Re-adding any of these surfaces now requires the server route to exist and
a route-ledger row proving it (#3569/#3609 guards). The one external
consumer (objectui useClientNotifications dead delegates) is trimmed in a
companion objectui change.

Closes #3612

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LX9ut3MK3KykE11S9bJmv5
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📓 Docs Drift Check

This PR changes 2 package(s): @objectstack/client, @objectstack/spec.

108 hand-written doc(s) reference the affected code and may need an implementation-accuracy re-verification:

  • content/docs/ai/agents.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ai/skills-reference.mdx (via packages/client, @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ai/skills.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/api/client-sdk.mdx (via @objectstack/client, @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/api/data-flow.mdx (via @objectstack/client)
  • content/docs/api/environment-routing.mdx (via @objectstack/client, @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/api/error-catalog.mdx (via @objectstack/client, @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/api/error-handling-client.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/api/error-handling-server.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/api/index.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/automation/approvals.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/automation/flows.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/automation/hook-bodies.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/automation/hooks.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/automation/index.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/automation/webhooks.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/automation/workflows.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/architecture.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/design-principles.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/index.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/metadata-driven.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/metadata-lifecycle.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/concepts/north-star.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/analytics.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/drivers.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/external-datasources.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/field-types.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/fields.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/formulas.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/index.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/objects.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/queries.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/schema-design.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/seed-data.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/validation-rules.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/data-modeling/validation.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/deployment/cli.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/deployment/troubleshooting.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/deployment/validating-metadata.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/getting-started/build-with-claude-code.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/getting-started/common-patterns.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/getting-started/examples.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/getting-started/quick-reference.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/getting-started/quick-start.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/getting-started/your-first-project.mdx (via @objectstack/client, @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/kernel/cluster.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/kernel/contracts/auth-service.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/kernel/contracts/cache-service.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/kernel/contracts/data-engine.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/kernel/contracts/index.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/kernel/contracts/metadata-service.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/kernel/contracts/storage-service.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/kernel/index.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/kernel/runtime-services/data-service.mdx (via packages/client)
  • content/docs/kernel/runtime-services/email-service.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/kernel/runtime-services/index.mdx (via packages/client, packages/spec)
  • content/docs/kernel/runtime-services/queue-service.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/kernel/runtime-services/sharing-service.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/kernel/runtime-services/sms-service.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/kernel/runtime-services/storage-service.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/kernel/services-checklist.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/permissions/authentication.mdx (via @objectstack/client)
  • content/docs/permissions/authorization.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/permissions/permission-sets.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/permissions/permissions-matrix.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/permissions/positions.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/permissions/rls.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/permissions/sharing-rules.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/plugins/adding-a-metadata-type.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/plugins/development.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/plugins/index.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/plugins/packages.mdx (via @objectstack/client, @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/backward-compatibility.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/diagram.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/kernel/config-resolution.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/kernel/i18n-standard.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/kernel/index.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/kernel/lifecycle.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/kernel/plugin-spec.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/kernel/realtime-protocol.mdx (via @objectstack/client)
  • content/docs/protocol/kernel/runtime-capabilities.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/knowledge.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectql/index.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectql/query-syntax.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectql/schema.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectql/security.mdx (via packages/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectql/state-machine.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectui/actions.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectui/concept.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectui/index.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectui/layout-dsl.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectui/record-alert.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/protocol/objectui/widget-contract.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/releases/implementation-status.mdx (via @objectstack/client, @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/releases/index.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/releases/v12.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/releases/v13.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/releases/v16.mdx (via @objectstack/client, @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/releases/v9.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ui/actions.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ui/create-vs-edit-form.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ui/dashboards.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ui/forms.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ui/index.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ui/public-data-collection.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ui/setup-app.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ui/translations.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)
  • content/docs/ui/views.mdx (via @objectstack/spec)

Advisory only. To re-verify, run the docs-accuracy-audit workflow scoped to these files:
node scripts/docs-audit/affected-docs.mjs origin/main → pass the list as args.docs.

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21 client SDK methods target routes no server surface mounts — delete on the open major train, or build the servers (#3587 finding)

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