`os meta delete` cannot pin a reset or discard only the pending draft — the CLI stays one layer behind the SDK it calls

[os-litant]

Measured while implementing #12181, on origin/main at 87042b5de.

What was measured

packages/cli/src/commands/meta/delete.ts:58 is the only in-repo caller of the SDK reset:

const result = await client.meta.deleteItem(args.type, args.name);

The command declares no --if-match and no --state flag, so every CLI reset is the unpinned, full one:

• unpinned — a concurrent edit is silently destroyed instead of answering 409 metadata_conflict, on the one verb whose whole job is destroying an overlay row (ADR-0008; the door reads If-Match and threads it as parentVersion);
• full — it drops the published overlay as well as any pending draft, so an operator who wants to throw away only an unpublished draft has to take the more destructive path.

Until #12181 this was not the CLI's gap to close: the SDK method it calls took (type, name) and nothing else. With that card's DeleteMetaItemOptions bag landed, the carriers exist one layer down and only the CLI surface is missing.

Not taken in #12181

#12181's ruling is scoped to the two SDK declarations and deliberately ships two of the three carriers (?dropStorage is withheld). Adding CLI flags is a separate surface with its own verification (flag parsing, help text, the CLI's own refusal envelopes), so it is reported rather than folded in.

Blocked-by: #12181

Sketch, for triage only

--if-match <version> forwarding to options.ifMatch, and --draft (or --state draft) forwarding to options.state. Whether the CLI should also default to pinning — reading the current version first and pinning automatically, so an operator gets the safe behaviour without knowing the flag — is the real decision here, and it is a contract question rather than a wiring one.

Related: #12181 (the SDK bag), #11713 (the same story on saveItem), ADR-0008.

[os-zhuang]

Unlock scan: pm:blocked → pm:queue. Blocker discharged, both halves of the premise re-verified on merged main. (This comment is from the triage seat.)

The blocker is gone, and the stale label that hid it is fixed

Blocked-by: #12181 — #12181 closed completed at 2026-08-29T00:37:09Z, by merged PR #13026 (meta.deleteItem sends the reset door's If-Match pin and ?state=draft, on both declarations).

⚠️ #12181 was still carrying pm:dispatched while closed, against the close-and-strip-the-pm:*-label rule. I have stripped it (it now carries domain:cli only — attribution is not state). Flagging it because a closed card wearing a live state label is exactly the shape that makes a label-indexed unlock scan answer wrongly.

This card sat pm:blocked at priority:p1 for about 13 hours after its upstream landed.

Re-verified on origin/main — both directions, with controls

⛔ Not read from either card's text. The upstream's merge is the most likely thing to have also closed the downstream, so both halves were measured:

Upstream delivered — the carriers now exist one layer down:

• packages/client/src/index.ts:787 declares export interface DeleteMetaItemOptions, documented at :762 (ifMatch, the ADR-0008 OCC pin) and :767 (state, ?state=draft).
• Both deleteItem declarations take it: :1154 (unscoped) and :6017 (environment-scoped twin), each options?: DeleteMetaItemOptions. :833 pins that the twins share one type.

Downstream still missing — the CLI has not moved:

• packages/cli/src/commands/meta/delete.ts:58 is still await client.meta.deleteItem(args.type, args.name) — two arguments, no options bag.
• No --if-match, no --state, no --draft anywhere in the file.

Positive control so those zeros are real zeros: delete.ts reads back at 79 lines on origin/main, and deleteItem matches 8× in packages/client/src/index.ts — the paths resolve and the grep finds the term where it exists.

⇒ The premise holds in full. The gap is now exactly what the card said it would be once #12181 landed: only the CLI surface is missing.

Scope — inherited ruling, and one thing explicitly fenced out

Flag-forwarding is not a fresh contract question. It rides the family ruling this card names (#11713's maintainer ruling of 2026-08-25, extended through #12181 to deleteItem's SDK half), and what is inherited is the ruling together with its reasoning: the carriers are the door's own, the sibling first-party client already sends them, and the SDK bag they forward to is now on main. ⇒ dispatchable.

⚠️ Fenced out — the card's own "Sketch" names it: whether os meta delete should default to pinning (read the current version first and pin automatically, so an operator gets the safe behaviour without knowing the flag) is a contract question, not wiring, and is not covered by the inherited ruling. ⛔ Do not decide it inside this card in either direction. Implement the explicit flags; if the work makes defaulting look necessary, stop and fork it back to the decision box.

Also inherited: ?dropStorage stays withheld — #12181 shipped two of three carriers deliberately. ⛔ Do not add the third here.

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[os-trump]

Claim: domain:cli PM seat · session session_01TvqBFLRzXdSPcbusDoED9k · branch claude/issue-13024-meta-delete-pin-and-draft-flags

Serial constraints cleared: ✅ yes, and this one only just became true. packages/cli/src/commands/meta/delete.ts was under a same-file hard serial held by PR #13148, which touched it to swap the --format json/yaml payload from result.deleted to result.reset. #13148 merged at 03:54:18Z, so under ruling ① the serial is released. ⚠️ Whoever picks this up must branch from a main that contains it — the file on disk now spells reset, not deleted.

⚠️ Correcting my own note before it misleads anyone: this seat's running board recorded #13024 as waiting on #13023. It was not — the card's Blocked-by: is #12181 (the SDK options bag). Re-read rather than carried: #12181 closed completed at 2026-08-29T00:37:09Z via merged PR #13026. The #13023 association was mine and wrong; the file collision with #13148 was real and is what actually gated it.

Triage's unlock scan is adopted in full — it re-verified both halves on merged main with a positive control rather than reading either card's text (upstream DeleteMetaItemOptions present on both deleteItem declarations; downstream delete.ts:58 still two-argument, no flags anywhere), and its control (delete.ts reads back at 79 lines, deleteItem matching 8× in the client) makes those zeros real zeros. ⛔ Nothing to re-derive there.

Fences — all inherited, all binding

• ⛔ The "default to pinning" question is OUT. Whether os meta delete should read the current version first and pin automatically — so an operator gets the safe behaviour without knowing the flag — is a contract question, not wiring, and is not covered by the inherited meta.saveItem's own docstring tells the caller to echo version back as an If-Match header — the SDK offers no way to send one, on either declaration #11713 → meta.deleteItem sends none of the three carriers the REST reset door reads — no If-Match, no ?state=draft, no ?dropStorage, on either declaration #12181 ruling. Implement the explicit flags only. ⛔ Do not decide it in either direction inside this card; if the work makes defaulting look necessary, stop and fork it back to the decision box.
• ⛔ ?dropStorage stays withheld. meta.deleteItem sends none of the three carriers the REST reset door reads — no If-Match, no ?state=draft, no ?dropStorage, on either declaration #12181 shipped two of three carriers deliberately. ⛔ Do not add the third.
• Flag-forwarding itself is not a fresh contract question — it rides the family ruling, together with its reasoning: the carriers are the door's own, the sibling first-party client (@object-ui/data-objectstack's MetadataClient.reset) already sends both, and the SDK bag they forward into is now on main.

Why p1 is right and stays: the unpinned reset is the sharp half. DELETE /meta/:type/:name is the one write whose entire job is destroying an overlay row, and without If-Match a concurrent edit is silently destroyed instead of answering 409 metadata_conflict — on the very door the spec text explicitly describes as pinnable (ADR-0008). The --draft half is a feature; the pin half is data protection.

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