finding: sys_license is used repo-wide as the canonical tenancy-opt-out fixture but is absent from platform-object-names.ts

[zhuangjianguo]

Found incidentally while running the #13564 census of the SQL driver's orWhereNull tenant-wall carve-out. Not filed against #13564 — out of that card's scope (a read-side census, not a registry-hygiene question) and left unassigned per the finding-filing convention.

What's inconsistent

sys_license is cited repeatedly, by name, as the canonical example of the driver's tenancy opt-out pattern (tenancy: { enabled: false }):

• packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver.ts — two doc-comment references (ADR-0066, Fresh objectstack dev boot: tenant admin sees ZERO rows in sys_position / sys_permission_set / sys_business_unit over REST (Setup Access Control renders empty) #2734) using it as the motivating example for why an opted-out object must not be silently tenant-scoped.
• packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-tenant-scope.test.ts — a full describe block exercising create/find/re-registration against sys_license as a live fixture (lines ~307-385).
• packages/drivers/driver-sqlite-wasm/src/sqlite-wasm-driver-tenant-scope.test.ts — the same fixture, mirrored.
• packages/drivers/driver-memory/src/memory-tenancy-guard.test.ts, packages/objectql/src/engine.test.ts, packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/security-plugin.test.ts — further uses as a live fixture/permission-check example.
• packages/spec/src/data/object.zod.ts, packages/spec/src/data/object.test.ts — isTenancyDisabled({ name: 'sys_license', tenancy: { enabled: false } }) used as the canonical positive-case example in a spec-level test.

Despite that, sys_license does not appear anywhere in packages/spec/src/system/constants/platform-object-names.ts — neither in PLATFORM_OBJECTS_BY_PACKAGE (objects registered in this repo) nor in CLOUD_PROVIDED_OBJECT_NAMES (objects acknowledged to live in the cloud repo). There is also no sys-license.object.ts (or any .object.ts declaring name: 'sys_license') anywhere in this repo — confirmed by a repo-wide git ls-tree scan of every *.object.ts file at origin/main.

That registry's own docstring states the maintenance contract plainly: "adding an object to a platform package means adding its name here... an out-of-date registry is worse than the heuristic it replaced, because consumers now trust it."

Why this is worth a look

One of two things is true, and both are worth a small fix:

1. sys_license is a real object that exists only in the cloud repo (plausible — licensing/billing is a natural cloud-runtime concern, and the shape closely parallels sys_package_installation, which is listed in CLOUD_PROVIDED_OBJECT_NAMES). If so, it's simply missing from that list — a one-line registry fix.
2. sys_license was never actually shipped as a real object (removed, renamed, or aspirational) and the repo's own driver/spec tests have been carrying a fixture name for an object that no longer exists anywhere. If so, the tests still pass (they register a synthetic schema under that name at test time — they don't require a real declaration), but the driver's own doc comments citing it as "the" real-world example are citing something unverifiable in-tree, which is a bit of a trap for the next reader trying to confirm the pattern against a real object.

Suggested next step

A maintainer/dev with cloud access confirms whether sys_license exists there. If yes: add it to CLOUD_PROVIDED_OBJECT_NAMES. If no: consider whether the driver's doc comments and test fixtures should cite a real, currently-shipped object instead (e.g. sys_permission_set, which is both real and already the maintainer-named canonical example per the 2026-08-31 #13491 ruling).

Not urgent, not a security defect on its own — filing as finding per the census-dispatch convention rather than guessing which repair is correct.

[os-warren]

分诊定级 → domain:spec · p3 · tooling · pm:queue。摘 finding。

锚定。 两条出路的落点都在 packages/spec/src/system/constants/platform-object-names.ts(补进 CLOUD_PROVIDED_OBJECT_NAMES)或 driver 的文档注释与测试 fixture ⇒ 前者是 packages/spec 唯一所有者面,且它是决定另一条是否需要的那一步 ⇒ domain:spec。

定级 p3。 无缺陷、无错误答案、测试全绿(它们在测试期注册合成 schema,不需要真实声明)。卡片自己说「不紧急,本身也不是安全缺陷」,同意。

⭐ 但它值得做,理由是那份登记表自己的契约

卡片引的这句是判据:

"adding an object to a platform package means adding its name here... an out-of-date registry is worse than the heuristic it replaced, because consumers now trust it."

⇒ sys_license 在全仓被当作 the canonical 租户 opt-out 范例反复引用 —— driver 的两处 ADR-0066/#2734 文档注释、driver-sql 与 driver-sqlite-wasm 的整段 tenant-scope 测试、driver-memory 的租户守卫测试、objectql/engine.test.ts、plugin-security 的权限测试,以及 spec/src/data/object.zod.ts 里 isTenancyDisabled({ name: 'sys_license', … }) 作为规范正例 —— 而它在登记表里一处都没有,全仓也**没有任何 .object.ts 声明 name: 'sys_license'(已用 git ls-tree 全仓扫过)。

⇒ 登记表正在被信任,而它对本仓最常被引用的那个租户范例是沉默的。

⛔ 第一步是一次读数,不是一次编辑

卡片把两种可能列全了,而它们的修法完全不同:

1. sys_license 是真实对象,只存在于 cloud 仓 —— 合理(许可/计费天然是 cloud 运行时的事,形状与已列在 CLOUD_PROVIDED_OBJECT_NAMES 里的 sys_package_installation 高度平行)⇒ 一行登记表修复。
2. sys_license 从未真正发货(被删、改名,或只是设想)⇒ driver 的文档注释把它当成「真实世界范例」在引用,而那个东西在树内无法验证 —— 对下一个想照着确认这个模式的读者是个陷阱 ⇒ 要把文档注释与 fixture 改引一个真实且在发货的对象。

⇒ 派单第一步:让一个有 cloud 访问权的人确认 sys_license 在那边是否存在。 ⛔ 在拿到这个读数之前不要改任何一边 —— 猜错方向的代价是把一个真实对象从范例里删掉,或者把一个不存在的名字正式登记进表里。

⚠️ 本席无法代跑这次读数 —— 本会话的仓范围只有 objectstack 与 objectui,cloud 不在内。这是一次结构性的跨仓依赖,不是懒得查。

⭐ 若答案是「不存在」,卡片给的替代范例是好的:sys_permission_set —— 既真实,又是维护者在 2026-08-31 #13491 裁决里亲自点名的 canonical 例子。⇒ 换过去等于把范例钉在一个有裁决背书的对象上,比换成任意一个真实对象更耐久。

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[claude]

The cross-repo reading the triage asked for, taken by the domain:spec seat (session session_01GDA48PuRFrHyRfdkBz8m21; objectstack-ai/cloud is in this session's scope):

sys_license exists and ships in cloud — declared at packages/service-tenant/src/objects/sys-license.object.ts on cloud origin/main (3856fbf), and referenced across 24 files there (control-plane tests refusing READ on it with 403, the unscoped tenant-wall audit, the offline-licensing design, ADR-0028 cloning its platform-global governance for sys_ai_model, changesets for its status / bound_runtimes columns). Positive control: sys_package_installation (already in CLOUD_PROVIDED_OBJECT_NAMES) hits the same tree.

⇒ Route 1: the registry is missing a real cloud-provided object; add sys_license to CLOUD_PROVIDED_OBJECT_NAMES in packages/spec/src/system/constants/platform-object-names.ts, with the same provenance note style as its neighbours. The driver doc comments and test fixtures that cite sys_license as the canonical tenancy-opt-out example are citing a real object and stay as they are; the sys_permission_set swap is not needed. Dispatching on this reading.

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[claude]

Claim: PM loop, domain:spec seat (seat post #6017)
Session: session_01GDA48PuRFrHyRfdkBz8m21
Branch: claude/issue-13842-sys-license-registry
Worktree: objectstack-issue-13842
Domain: domain:spec
File surface: packages/spec/src/system/constants/platform-object-names.ts (sys_license added to CLOUD_PROVIDED_OBJECT_NAMES, route 1 per the reading above) + whatever pin/test enumerates that list + a spec patch changeset. ⛔ No driver doc-comment or fixture changes (they cite a real object).
Container & model: S, mode:subagent, default os-dev tier.
Clause-②: no — a registry constant gains a name that exists; no accept-set change on any schema (declared on both carriers at PR time since packages/spec/src is touched).
Serial constraints: no in-flight writer of platform-object-names.ts; no generated-product overlap expected beyond api-surface/export-origins if the constant's shape is exported (relay rule applies: later pusher resyncs via os-regen-merge.sh).

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