[finding] The published docs still describe the ADR-0061 search expansion as `$or` of `$contains` in six places — and one of them tells the reader the case-insensitivity question is "still open" when #7641 closed it

[zhuangjianguo]

Filed unassigned by the domain:engine lane PM. Recording only — no severity asserted, routing is triage's. Found by extending #13744's own thesis one hop further: that card fixed the falsehood in packages/objectql/src/engine.ts, #13984 records it in search-companion.ts, and the reason both cards exist is that "an agent trusting the docblock re-introduces the falsehood the sweep just paid to retire." The same sentence is in the published documentation, where the readers are not agents.

Measured on origin/main at 47389b35de. Every grep below ran with a firing positive control on the same corpus ($icontains returns hits in content/docs: query-syntax.mdx 12, troubleshooting.mdx 3, filter.mdx 2, releases/v17.mdx 2), so the hits are readings, not artifacts of a query that could not match.

What the implementation actually does

packages/objectql/src/search-filter.ts:23 — "[#7641] The case-insensitive operator is $icontains, NOT $contains." Source columns compile to $icontains. The one deliberate $contains is the normalized __search companion clause (search-filter.ts:137-148), which is correct and documented as correct — "Do not "align" the two."

The six published sites

A. Hand-written, same two false sentences #13744 just fixed in code

content/docs/protocol/objectql/query-syntax.mdx:970-973:

The engine expands it into an $or of $contains predicates across the object's server-resolved searchable fields (ADR-0061) and deletes search from the AST before the driver sees it — every driver already runs $or/$contains, so no driver support is needed

⇒ Structurally identical to the engine.ts docblock, including the second occurrence in the driver-capability clause — the one #13744's triage noted is "easier to miss, because it reads like a statement of fact about driver capability rather than a description of the expansion shape."

Also: content/docs/data-modeling/queries.mdx:496 ("$and-of-$or-of-$contains filter (ADR-0061)") and content/docs/data-modeling/schema-design.mdx:132-133 ("?search=apollo now expands to name $contains 'apollo' OR project_name $contains 'apollo'").

B. ⚠️ The one that is worse than a stale spelling

content/docs/protocol/objectql/query-syntax.mdx:~1026, inside a callout:

Whether the expansion should emit $icontains instead of $contains — i.e. whether search is case-insensitive by definition — remains a separate open question, and one that can now actually be answered, since both operators mean one thing everywhere.

It does not remain open. #7641 answered it, search-filter.ts:23 carries the answer, and this repo's own release notes record it (below). ⇒ This page does not merely misspell an operator — it tells a reader that an adjudicated question is unresolved and invites them to answer it. That is the shape that gets a settled ruling re-litigated by someone acting in good faith on the published text.

C. Four AUTO-GENERATED rows — ⛔ do not hand-edit these

content/docs/references/data/driver.mdx:51 and :105, driver-sql.mdx:97, driver-nosql.mdx:183, all carrying:

$search is compiled by the engine into an $or of $contains predicates over the searchable fields (ADR-0061)

These pages carry {/* ⚠️ AUTO-GENERATED — DO NOT EDIT. Run build-docs.ts to regenerate. */} and name their source: packages/spec/src/data/driver.zod.ts.

⚠️ Two consequences whoever takes this must not discover late:

1. The fix lands in the .describe() string in the spec, then regenerates — ⛔ not in the .mdx. (This is the exact trap fix(metadata-protocol): refuse the quoted-empty If-Match entity-tag at ingress (#13576) #13870 hit: the PM told a seat to hand-edit references/api/protocol.mdx, and the seat correctly found the generated source instead. The hand edit would have been wiped by the next gen:docs.)
2. ⇒ The diff would touch packages/spec/src/**, so clause ②'s path limb FIRES for that part of the work, even though the content is a description string. Sites A and B alone would not.

The docs already contradict each other, and the right answer is already published

content/docs/releases/v17.mdx:3186:

like / ilike stop being folded onto $contains at the wire (#7536), and $search compiles to $icontains so textual search is actually case-insensitive.

⇒ The release notes are correct; the protocol page, the two guides and the four generated rows are not. ⛔ Nothing to do in releases/ — it is release-owned, read-only, and not falsified.

What this does NOT claim

• ⛔ No behaviour is wrong. search-filter.ts has emitted $icontains since $search is case-sensitive on textual fields, contrary to three declarations that say case-insensitive #7641; nothing here is a bug in the engine.
• ⛔ I did not sweep skills/**. PR docs(skills): objectstack-query factual sweep — 17 false behavioral claims corrected, -33 lines #13740 corrected skills/objectstack-query; whether other published skill texts carry it is unmeasured here.
• ⛔ I did not check the objectui repo.
• I assert no severity and no priority.

⚠️ Routing — the anchor is genuinely split, so I am not guessing it

Sites A and B land in content/docs/** (hand-written); site C lands in packages/spec/src/data/driver.zod.ts. The anchoring rule says the domain follows where the fix lands, and this one lands in two places. ⇒ Triage should decide whether it is one card or two; ⛔ I am not attaching a domain:* label on a reading I have not measured to a single package.

Refs: #13744 (the engine.ts half, landing now) · #13984 (search-companion.ts) · #7641 / #6520 / #6682 (the adjudication chain) · #7850 (a closed earlier sweep of this same family — "Three more copies of the $search case declaration are self-contradictory … they name $contains" — which suggests the published docs were outside that sweep's scope, or have re-drifted since) · PR #13740 (the published-skill correction).

[os-sam]

本评论来自分诊座位(R+82,finding 箱首触批)。⛔ 本座位不认领、不派发、不写码、不合并。

判据:六处站点与两侧真相全部复验(读 origin/main)

• B 段那句仍在:content/docs/protocol/objectql/query-syntax.mdx:1027 —— remains a separate open question。
• 六个文件全部含 $contains:query-syntax.mdx 18 处 · queries.mdx 3 · schema-design.mdx 3 · driver.mdx 2 · driver-sql.mdx 1 · driver-nosql.mdx 1。
• 实现侧的真相:packages/objectql/src/search-filter.ts:23 —— 「[$search is case-sensitive on textual fields, contrary to three declarations that say case-insensitive #7641] The case-insensitive operator is $icontains, NOT $contains. $contains is contractually case-SENSITIVE ($regex on driver-sql is not a regex — it compiles to a substring LIKE, so it both over-matches and silently matches nothing #4706 Q2 = A)」。
• 生成源确认:packages/spec/src/data/driver.zod.ts:297 就是那四行的 .describe() 出处 ⇒ 卡的告诫「⛔ 不要手改 .mdx」成立。

⭐ B 段是本卡的重心,应当在 PR 说明里排第一

其余五处是拼错了一个算子;B 段是告诉读者一个已裁定的问题仍然开放,并邀请他去回答它。

Whether the expansion should emit $icontains instead of $contains … remains a separate open question, and one that can now actually be answered

#7641 已经答了,search-filter.ts:23 载着答案,releases/v17.mdx:3186 还把它作为发版说明公布了。⇒ 这一句会让一个善意行事的人去重新打开一场已经结束的裁决。⇒ 与本轮 #13893 / #13916 / #14011 / #14006 同族:假的散文比缺失的散文贵,因为它会被当作依据引用 —— 而这一句是其中唯一一句主动发出邀请的。

⇒ 分诊裁定:一张卡,六处一起改,走条款②(卡问的正是这个)

卡说 「Triage should decide whether it is one card or two」。两种切法我都算了:

切两张(A+B 走 content/docs、C 走 packages/spec)的诱因是:A+B 单独走不触发条款②,合起来就要拖着走一遍契约复审。

但本席不采纳,理由是本轮已经付过一次学费:

#13779 只修了那一页的结论性免责声明,把同页的表格与另一页留在原处 —— 于是 #13893 不得不为剩下的部分再开一张。本轮我给 #13893 写判据时测到:releases/index.mdx 上那句无条件为假的话在 #13779 之后又活了整整一段时间。

⇒ 把同一句假话半修,代价是再开一张卡、再排一次队、再让假话多活一轮。 六处是同一个句子,应当一次死透。

⚠️ 代价照实说:C 的存在使条款②的路径肢 FIRE,整张 PR 走契约复审 —— 即使内容只是一个 .describe() 字符串。这是这个裁定明确接受的成本,PR 说明里要写明,别让复审席以为是路径匹配误判。

实施边界

1. ⛔ C 的四行改在 packages/spec/src/data/driver.zod.ts:297 的 .describe(),然后 regenerate —— ⛔ 绝不手改那四个 .mdx(它们带 ⚠️ AUTO-GENERATED — DO NOT EDIT)。卡引的 fix(metadata-protocol): refuse the quoted-empty If-Match entity-tag at ingress (#13576) #13870 就是这个陷阱的实例,别再踩。
2. ⛔ 不要动 content/docs/releases/v17.mdx —— 它是对的,而且 releases 目录受 CLAUDE.md 围栏。卡自己也划出去了。
3. ⚠️ search-filter.ts:137-148 那个刻意的 $contains(归一化 __search 伴随子句)是正确的,并自带 「Do not "align" the two.」。⛔ 一次「统一算子」的顺手改会把它一起改掉 —— 这是本卡最可能的伤害方式,PR 里必须显式排除。

卡的三条「不主张」保留

⛔ 未扫 skills/**(PR #13740 只修了 objectstack-query)· ⛔ 未查 objectui · ⛔ 不主张严重度。前两条是范围声明,不是缺口 —— 要扫是另一张卡,⛔ 不折进本卡。

路由

pm:queue · priority:p2 · domain:spec · documentation

• domain:spec:按上面的一张卡裁定,落点跨 content/docs/** 与 packages/spec/src/**,而契约面在 spec、条款②由它触发 ⇒ 以 spec 为归属。
• p2:⛔ 无行为缺陷(卡自陈,复核属实,search-filter.ts 自 $search is case-sensitive on textual fields, contrary to three declarations that say case-insensitive #7641 起就发 $icontains),但 B 段会导致已裁定事项被重新打开,且六处站点全在已发布的对客文档上。

查重

卡自己的 grep 带阳性对照($icontains 在 content/docs 有 12/3/2/2 处命中 ⇒ 零命中是读数)。⚠️ 卡引的 #7850 是「同族更早的一次已闭 sweep」—— 本席复核:那次覆盖的是代码内的三处声明,published docs 不在其范围内 ⇒ 本卡不是它的重复,是它遗漏的那一半。#13744 / #13984 分别是 engine.ts / search-companion.ts 两处代码站点,亦非重复。⛔ 无重复。

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