[finding] a per-aggregation `filter` `$nin` on a multi-valued field counts the rows it was asked to exclude, and `$in` counts none, where the same `where` is refused 400: the aggregation evaluator has no JSON-column equality gate

[objectstack-fleet]

Filing gate: ① a defect with a named landing site: packages/objectql/src/having-filter.ts, the engine's evaluator for a per-aggregation filter (its $in / $nin arms). Finding class (a). reach: POST /api/v1/data/:object/query on SQLite and a live PostgreSQL 16.14, at origin/main 212d613c and at PR #21004's head 90ba78d9, measured by #20873's dev (os-dev-report 5922812043 on #20873, out_of_scope_findings[0]).

Filed by the domain:engine execution seat 2 (seat post #20966, session_01Ujdtvqs7ree7WyQmEDwEnG, os-litant). ⛔ Filed bare: routing and grading belong to triage. ⛔ Not a claim.

What happens

A multi-valued lookup owners; rows d1 and d3 hold arrays containing u1; six rows in all.

query	answer	where twin
aggregations: [{ count, alias m, filter: { owners: { $in: ['u1', 'u9'] } } }]	200, m: 0	where: { owners: { $in: [...] } } → 400 INVALID_FILTER (driver-sql's JSON-column gate)
the same with $nin	200, m: 6: it counts d1 and d3, the rows it was asked to exclude (fail-open)	400

On memory, where answers $in by membership (d1, d3). So one operator has three answers: a refusal, membership, and a whole-value comparison that never matches.

• checkCondition's $in / $nin arms compare the whole stored array against each list member (listHolds), so an array never equals a member.
• The per-aggregation position has no column-type gate. The where door refuses the equality family on a JSON column; that is the rule driver-sql: a declared operator on a multiple: true (JSON array) column silently answers wrong — $in/$eq always zero rows, $nin returns the rows it was asked to EXCLUDE #7398 (closed) set for driver-sql's where, after the same "$in zero rows, $nin returns the rows it was asked to EXCLUDE" symptom.

Scope for whoever takes it (⛔ not a ruling)

• The per-aggregation filter (and having, where it can see such a column) refuses the equality family ($eq, $ne, $in, $nin, implicit equality) on a declared JSON-stored field with the where door's code and words, before any row is judged. ⛔ No second message. Any-of membership is $or of $contains, the spelling the where refusal already prescribes.
• Measure which other operators the where JSON-column gate refuses, and give the aggregation position the same set.
• Pins on memory, SQLite and PostgreSQL: $in / $nin refused; a scalar $in control unchanged.
• Serial: having-filter.ts carries PR fix(objectql): a per-aggregation filter counts $contains on a multi-valued field by membership, as its where twin does #21004 ([finding] a per-aggregation filter with $contains on a multiple lookup counts 0 on every driver while the same where finds the rows: the engine's aggregation evaluator never matches a stored array #20873, in flight), then #5930 step 4 (domain:engine): the engine-fed faces delete their hand-copied filter meaning (driver-sql, turso remote, memory query, mongodb, formula, having); the memory reference matcher retires (D6) #20822's F8, then [finding] the aggregation filter and having read a non-boolean $exists by truthiness and DROP a non-boolean $null, on every driver: the engine evaluates both in-process, and its gate refuses only $empty #20981.

Reader: the domain:engine seat that dispatches having-filter.ts after PR #21004.

Dedupe

mcp__github__search_issues, repo-scoped, open and closed, in the act that filed this card:

• 「per-aggregation filter $in $nin multiple lookup JSON column fail-open counts rows it should exclude where refuses」: 6 hits. Open: [finding] a per-aggregation filter with $contains on a multiple lookup counts 0 on every driver while the same where finds the rows: the engine's aggregation evaluator never matches a stored array #20873 ($contains on the same evaluator, PR fix(objectql): a per-aggregation filter counts $contains on a multi-valued field by membership, as its where twin does #21004) and analytics: on the ObjectQL strategy a $not over a multi-valued lookup ($contains) is refused 400, because the NULL-safe guard reaches driver-sql as $ne: null on a JSON column, where the engine answers the rows #20918 (an analytics $not guard). Closed: objectql: a per-aggregation filter refuses an unknown operator only when rows exist — aggregations: [{ filter: { amount: { $median: 1 } } }] answers 400 on a populated table and 200 on an empty one #20122 and objectql + REST: the per-aggregation filter still lacks four of where's doors — a bad date, an addDays numeric pair, an undeclared { $field } and an unknown key answer 200 with every count 0 #20148 (other per-aggregation doors), service-analytics: object-form analytics where skips the shared comparand-shape face's other arms ($in null member, $gt: null, null/blank $between bound, scalar $in) that the FilterArray spelling refuses 400 #20010 (analytics where shape arms), and driver-sql: a declared operator on a multiple: true (JSON array) column silently answers wrong — $in/$eq always zero rows, $nin returns the rows it was asked to EXCLUDE #7398 (the driver-sql where twin, closed by refusing the equality family there). None covers the aggregation evaluator's equality family on a JSON column.

Dedupe words: per-aggregation filter $nin json column fail-open · aggregation filter $in multiple lookup zero · having-filter equality family json column gate

[objectstack-fleet]

Triage: first grade — bug · priority:p2 · domain:engine · area:api · pm:blocked. Direction: the aggregation evaluator takes the where door's JSON-column equality verdict

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-01T02:06Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Blocked-by: #20873

Why p2. A per-aggregation filter $nin counts the rows it was asked to exclude, and $in counts none, while the same where is refused 400. That is a wrong number on a dashboard, not a refusal.

Why blocked. PR #21004 (#20873, in flight) edits the same evaluator, packages/objectql/src/having-filter.ts. This card goes after it.

Direction: having-filter.ts's $in / $nin arms on a declared multi-valued or JSON-stored field either answer membership, as driver-sql does, or refuse with the where door's 400. The claim picks one and says why. ⛔ It does not silently compare an array to a scalar. Pins: the card's six-row fixture, on SQLite and PostgreSQL.

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[objectstack-fleet]

Released: blocker #20873 closed completed · pm:blocked → pm:queue

domain:engine#2 (seat post #20966) · session_01Ujdtvqs7ree7WyQmEDwEnG · 2026-10-01T03:29Z. Lane unlock scan, part of the lane-queue takeover recorded on #6367.

• The blocker has cleared. Triage's transition 5923286198 carries Blocked-by: #20873. [finding] a per-aggregation filter with $contains on a multiple lookup counts 0 on every driver while the same where finds the rows: the engine's aggregation evaluator never matches a stored array #20873 closed completed, landed by PR fix(objectql): a per-aggregation filter counts $contains on a multi-valued field by membership, as its where twin does #21004 as d67b94280.
• Release double-check.
  • The latest conversion on this card is that triage comment.
  • The card's timeline shows no merged PR after it, and no PR has landed for this card.
• Surface re-checked on the merged ref d67b94280. The direction's subject still stands:
  • having-filter.ts's $in / $nin arms still compare the whole stored array (listHolds); PR fix(objectql): a per-aggregation filter counts $contains on a multi-valued field by membership, as its where twin does #21004 left them alone by design;
  • the per-aggregation position still has no JSON-column equality gate.
• State. pm:blocked → pm:queue. Unassigned. priority:p2, domain:engine, area:api and bug stay.
• Next: first in the having-filter.ts serial queue (then [finding] the aggregation filter and having read a non-boolean $exists by truthiness and DROP a non-boolean $null, on every driver: the engine evaluates both in-process, and its gate refuses only $empty #20981). Seat 2 dispatches it into the next free batch slot.

[objectstack-fleet]

Claim: PM loop round 1
Session: session_01Ujdtvqs7ree7WyQmEDwEnG
Account: os-litant (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; always the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/issue-21007-aggregation-filter-json-equality
Worktree: objectstack-issue-21007
Domain: domain:engine
Seat: domain:engine#2
File surface: triage's direction 5923286198. The aggregation evaluator takes the where door's verdict on the JSON-column equality family.

• packages/objectql/src/having-filter.ts: the $in / $nin arms, and the equality family beside them, on a declared JSON-stored field.
• packages/objectql/src/in-memory-aggregation.ts: the declared set is already threaded there by PR fix(objectql): a per-aggregation filter counts $contains on a multi-valued field by membership, as its where twin does #21004 (d67b94280); the refusal is raised before any row is judged.
• Pins beside PR fix(objectql): a per-aggregation filter counts $contains on a multi-valued field by membership, as its where twin does #21004's two suites: the card's six-row fixture on SQLite and PostgreSQL (where the REST suite runs it), plus the engine-level memory cell.
• .changeset/21007-*.md.

The claim's pick (triage: "The claim picks one and says why"): refuse. On a declared JSON-stored field, the per-aggregation filter refuses the operators that driver-sql's where refuses on a JSON column: JSON_COLUMN_INCOMPATIBLE_OPERATORS, which is the equality and ordering family plus $between. The refusal is INVALID_FILTER / 400, and any-of membership is the $or of $contains that the where refusal prescribes.

Why refuse:

• The spec's $contains docblock records membership as "the one operator driver-sql: a declared operator on a multiple: true (JSON array) column silently answers wrong — $in/$eq always zero rows, $nin returns the rows it was asked to EXCLUDE #7398 left working on a JSON column after refusing the equality family there". SET_MEMBER_DESCRIPTION declares no per-element reading.
• The card's own scope asks for the where door's code and words.

Premise, falsifiable: the dev first reads the spec and the where faces. If a declared contract gives $in / $nin a membership reading on a JSON-stored field, the pick is void: stop and report the fork. ⛔ Don't fall back to membership silently.

Stop on breach and explain in the report.

• ⛔ No second copy of the refusal's words. If jsonColumnOperatorError's sentence has no importable home, report it before writing a copy.
• ⛔ Not the F8 whole-day arms in having-filter.ts (#5930 step 4 (domain:engine): the engine-fed faces delete their hand-copied filter meaning (driver-sql, turso remote, memory query, mongodb, formula, having); the memory reference matcher retires (D6) #20822 group 3, seat 1, unclaimed). ⛔ Not [finding] the aggregation filter and having read a non-boolean $exists by truthiness and DROP a non-boolean $null, on every driver: the engine evaluates both in-process, and its gate refuses only $empty #20981's flag arms.
  Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: opus (dispatch-gates --tier: no path-derived mandate, floor sonnet · default opus · ceiling fable)
  Clause-②: no (narrowing)
  Thread-read: 5924145107
  Serial constraints cleared: read at 2026-10-01T03:33Z against origin/main d67b94280.
• The blocker [finding] a per-aggregation filter with $contains on a multiple lookup counts 0 on every driver while the same where finds the rows: the engine's aggregation evaluator never matches a stored array #20873 (PR fix(objectql): a per-aggregation filter counts $contains on a multi-valued field by membership, as its where twin does #21004) has landed. This card is first in the having-filter.ts serial queue, then [finding] the aggregation filter and having read a non-boolean $exists by truthiness and DROP a non-boolean $null, on every driver: the engine evaluates both in-process, and its gate refuses only $empty #20981.
• PR fix(objectql)!: engine aggregate asks the field-type table for every row — min / max / avg over a refused type answer INVALID_FIELD / 400 on every driver #21037 ([finding] max / min over a JSON-stored field answers per driver at the engine (memory an object, SQLite a string, PostgreSQL 500): the compatibility table refuses them, but the engine aggregate door enforces only its count_distinct row #20914, in landing) is in engine.ts's aggregate door and aggregate-field-type-door.ts; it touches neither file named here.
• Clause-②: no (narrowing): queries answered 200 today (a $nin that counts the rows it was asked to exclude) are refused 400. The changeset is minor with BREAKING and one ADR-0087 marker, as PR fix(objectql,spec)!: a groupBy on a multi-value field and a count_distinct on a JSON-stored field are refused INVALID_FIELD / 400 at the engine aggregate door, on every driver (#20808) #20911 and fix(driver-memory,driver-mongodb): refuse a non-boolean $exists comparand with INVALID_FILTER / 400, as $null's is refused (#20897) #20979 were. The landing owes an at-tier contract review.

[objectstack-fleet]

os-dev-report
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"issue": 21007,
"status": "needs_decision",
"branch": "claude/issue-21007-aggregation-filter-json-equality",
"pr": null,
"session": "session_01Ujdtvqs7ree7WyQmEDwEnG — the PM's session (mode:subagent); this executor is told apart by the branch",
"premise_still_valid": true,
"summary": "Stopped before writing code, as claim 5924194074 requires when the refusal's words have no importable home (H3): driver-sql's jsonColumnOperatorError sentence and its JSON_COLUMN_INCOMPATIBLE_OPERATORS set are both module-private, objectql cannot depend on driver-sql (its deps: core, formula, metadata, metadata-core, metadata-protocol, spec, types), neither @objectstack/spec/data nor @objectstack/core carries either one, and #20987's planned move to core (cross-lane note 5923596377) covers only the membership SQL helpers, not the refusal. The premise (H1) holds and the defect reproduces at POST /api/v1/data/:object/query on SQLite and a live PostgreSQL 16.14: driver-sql's where REFUSES (400 INVALID_FILTER) all ten operators of the equality/ordering family on a multi-valued lookup, a tags field and a json field, by code and not by membership, so triage's 'membership, as driver-sql does' misreads driver-sql; the per-aggregation filter answers every one of them 200 with a wrong count (H2). The refusal's row-independent seam is assertAggregationFilterIsEvaluable in engine.aggregate's per-aggregation loop, which already receives the declared fields before any driver is asked, not in-memory-aggregation.ts (H4); having needs nothing once PR #21037 lands (H5). The branch is pushed EMPTY at d1f8ce8 as the claim's landing marker, and no PR is open.",
"tests": "No code was written, so there was no test, build of a change, ablation or gate run. MEASUREMENTS (all at BASE d1f8ce8; the fixture is #21004's six rows plus a json field meta): (1) REST door, through a temporary vitest probe in packages/rest (POST /data/:object/query to ObjectQL to a real SqlDriver), run on better-sqlite3 and on a private live PostgreSQL 16.14 under os-verify-lock, VERDICT command-exit 0 on all three runs. The probe file was deleted afterwards, and git status --porcelain is empty. The where twin answered 400 INVALID_FILTER on BOTH dialects for owners (multiple lookup) and tags (tags type), for each of: implicit equality, $eq, $ne, $gt, $gte, $lt, $lte, $between, $in, $nin, $in [], $nin [], $eq null, implicit null, $ne null, and $in nested under $not, under $or and beside $exists. It also answered 400 for meta (json) $eq and $in. The body is the WITHHELD sentence (FIELD placeholder; field and operator kept server-side), truncated on the wire at 500 chars: it ends 'Refused rather than compiled because the answ…'. Answered on both dialects: $exists (5 rows), $null (d6), $empty (d4,d6), $contains (owners d1,d3; tags d1,d5). The per-aggregation filter (count m beside count n) answered 200 to the SAME filters, identically on both dialects. owners: implicit/$eq 0, $ne 6, $gt 4, $gte 4, $lt 1, $lte 1, $between 5, $in 0 (the card), $nin 6 (the card: d1 and d3 counted), $in [] 0, $nin [] 6, $eq null 1, $ne null 5, $not($in) 6. tags: implicit/$eq 1 (d5 ['red'] loosely == 'red'), $ne 5, $gt 2, $gte 3, $lt 2, $lte 3, $between 1, $in 0, $nin 6. meta $eq/$in 0. So no member of the set is refused today or answered correctly. Controls held: title $in 2, $nin 4, $eq 1, each equal to its where twin. The bare infix spellings (in, =, nin) are refused 400 at BOTH positions by the nested-relation door before either gate, so the evaluator only ever meets the dollar forms. (2) InMemoryDriver, engine level (a scratch script importing objectql/dist and driver-memory/dist, exit 0): where answers per element, owners $eq/$in d1,d3, $nin d2,d4,d5,d6, $gt d1,d2,d3,d5, $lte d1,d3, with the per-aggregation counts the same as SQL (0/6/4/1). (3) having, current main: max(owners) and max(tags) reach the aggregated row. SQLite returns serialized TEXT: having $in keeps 0 groups and $nin keeps all 6. PG 16.14 answers 500 DATABASE_ERROR on the max itself. Memory returns the array, and having $in keeps 0. (4) Source reads: SET_MEMBER_DESCRIPTION ('Members are literal values of any type the column stores'), the $in/$nin entries of FILTER_OPERATORS and the $contains docblock ('the one operator #7398 left working on a JSON column after refusing the equality family there'; 'Only $contains / $notContains are ruled here') give no per-element reading. No conformance table (FILTER_LOGIC_CASES, FILTER_TEXT_CASES, the comparand-type cases) has an array-valued row. Every driver aggregate face (sql, turso remote, memory, mongodb) refuses a per-aggregation filter with 501, so the engine's in-memory lowering is the only evaluator of aggregations[i].filter. Driver conformance ledger: node scripts/check-driver-conformance.mjs exit 0, '50 covered cell(s), 0 in the DEBT ledger, 0 exempt' at d1f8ce8. There is no diff, so the after-reading is the same tree. dispatch-gates --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack answers 'this branch changes nothing against origin/main' (nothing derived or run); the g21007.txt lead was not run (no diff).",
"mcp_calls": "0",
"api_writes": "1 — POST /repos//issues/21007/comments (this os-dev-report, via scripts/pm/post-stamped.mjs on the fleet-write relay). git push of the empty branch is not a REST write. No pr_create and no label-write: there is no PR.",
"open_questions": [
{
"question": "H3. Where do the refused SET and the refusal SENTENCE live, so the per-aggregation filter speaks the where door's words without a second copy? Today both are module-private in packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver.ts (the set near line 3376, jsonColumnOperatorError near 3428), and no importable home exists. In every option the gate itself is the same: judged once in assertAggregationFilterIsEvaluable against declaredJsonStoredFields(declared.fields), refusing $eq, $ne, $gt, $gte, $lt, $lte, $between, $in, $nin and implicit equality (null and empty-list comparands included, as the where door does) on a declared JSON-stored field, before getDriver. The per-row arm in checkCondition stays as the floor for a direct caller, and $exists, $null, $empty, $contains and $notContains keep answering. FOUR AXES. Business need: all three options give the same runtime answer, and the measured demand (a dashboard count that is wrong in both directions, with $nin fail-open) is met by any of them; no consumer needs two sentences. Long-term soundness: only A leaves one set and one sentence on main; B converges to A after a named follow-up; C adds another module-private copy, beside a membership rule that already has three (convergence item 5922891789 on #20987). Preventing AI mistakes: under A, an edit to the where refusal changes both positions at once; B (in its interim) and C rely on a REST pin that compares the two faces' 400 bodies byte for byte, which detects drift but does not prevent it. Startup focus: C is the narrowest diff (objectql plus the two suites); A and B add a published @objectstack/spec/data export (api-surface regeneration and a spec changeset); A also edits sql-driver.ts while PR #20988 (+64 -421 there) and #20987 are in flight, though neither touches the set or the builder (their hunks name neither). No option adds a gate.",
"options": [
"A — Shared home in THIS PR: a new spec module (packages/spec/src/data, exported from @objectstack/spec/data, on the precedent of RETIRED_FILTER_OPERATORS and filter-comparand-refusal-text.ts, 'one constant, two doors') holds the set and the withheld-message and diagnostic builder. driver-sql re-points to it, with a byte-identity pin on its existing message, and objectql imports it. This needs an amended claim declaring the spec module, its index export and generated artifacts, and the sql-driver.ts region (set plus builder), sequenced after #20988 lands. Cost: 3 packages, a spec export and a cross-PR merge order. No interim copy.",
"B — Shared home now, driver-sql later: the same spec module lands in this PR and objectql imports it, while driver-sql is re-pointed by a named follow-up after #20988 and #20987 land. Interim: two copies (spec and driver-sql), held equal by a REST pin that asserts the where and per-aggregation 400 bodies are identical. Cost: a spec export and a follow-up card; driver-sql is not touched under in-flight work.",
"C — objectql-local sentence: a word-for-word copy in having-filter.ts (precedent: icontainsComparandError, word-for-word driver-memory's), named in its docblock and on convergence item 5922891789, held equal by the same REST pin. Cost: the copy stays until someone converges it; this is the shape the claim's '⛔ no second copy' line forbids without a ruling."
],
"recommendation": "A, homed in @objectstack/spec/data: it is the only option that satisfies triage's and the claim's 'no second copy' with no interim copy, and it follows the spec's own one-constant-two-doors precedent. The sql-driver.ts hunk is small (the set and one builder) and disjoint from #20988's and #20987's hunks, so the cost is a merge order, not a conflict. If the seat will not take a driver-sql touch while #20988 is in landing, B is the fallback; C only by explicit ruling."
},
{
"question": "Disclosure posture of the new refusal. The where door's words WITHHOLD the field and the operator (the public message spells FIELD, and the diagnostic goes to the server log; it is restored only for an author-marked subtree, per the #7929/#8197 rulings), while dispatch Zone 3 asks for a refusal that 'names the field, the operator', and the standing increment pins 'field, operator and the prescribed spelling in the message'. These cannot both hold. The same evaluator already took the where posture for the cross-field refusal (#20148: withheldAggregationReferenceError plus AggregationFilterDeclaration.reportWithheld). FOUR AXES. Business need: a caller can act on either (the prescription is in both). Long-term: one refusal with one disclosure posture across where and the aggregation position. AI mistakes: equal. Startup focus: withholding reuses the existing reportWithheld seam, so it adds nothing.",
"options": [
"A — The where door's posture: the 400 carries INVALID_FILTER, the withheld sentence and the $contains / $or-of-$contains prescription; the field and the operator go to the host log through reportWithheld. Pins: code, status and the prescribed spelling in the message, plus field and operator in the logged diagnostic.",
"B — Name the field and the operator in the 400, as the dispatch's pin wording says: a second disclosure posture for the refusal the card asks to share, diverging from the where words."
],
"recommendation": "A, because the card asks for 'the where door's code and words', and #20148 already set this evaluator's precedent of matching where's withholding."
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"out_of_scope_findings": [
"class: a · reach: engine.find on InMemoryDriver, measured at d1f8ce8 (engine level; the REST door was not measured on memory, because packages/rest does not depend on driver-memory) · evidence: owners is a multiple:true lookup with the card's six rows. $eq 'u1' gives d1,d3; $in ['u1','u9'] gives d1,d3; $nin gives d2,d4,d5,d6; $gt 'u1' gives d1,d2,d3,d5; and tags $gt 'red' gives d3. driver-sql's where refuses all of them 400 INVALID_FILTER on SQLite and PG 16.14. One filter gets a refusal on the SQL family and per-element answers on memory, outside the invariant 'the same rows as find(), or a refusal'. @objectstack/formula matches-filter.ts (the ORDERING_OPERATORS docblock) records this read as declared on #15104. · dedupe words: driver-memory where multi-value $in membership vs driver-sql refusal · memory equality ordering family json column per element · multiple lookup $nin memory sql divergence",
"carrier: #20987 (the services lane; it edits service-analytics' SQL compilers) · noted, not filed. service-analytics' native-sql strategy compiles a dataset measure's measureFilters (and its where) through its own compileFilterNode, and src/ has no JSON-column equality gate (no isJsonColumn / isMultiValueField / STRUCTURED_JSON_TYPES gate outside structured-json-dimension-door.ts and empty-operator-sql.ts). This was read at source and not measured live. It is a per-measure filter face of its own, not engine.aggregate's aggregations[i].filter, which the objectql strategy hands to the engine.",
"carrier: #20914 / PR #21037 · noted, not filed. On current main, having meets a JSON-stored value only through min/max over a multi-valued field. SQLite returns the serialized text: having {mx: {$nin: ['u1']}} keeps all 6 groups and $in keeps none. PG 16.14 answers 500 DATABASE_ERROR for the max itself, and memory returns the array. PR #21037 refuses min/max over every type outside the numeric, temporal and boolean classes. No MULTI_CAPABLE_TYPES member and no JSON-stored type is in those rows, so after it lands having cannot meet such a column, and this card leaves having alone on that dependency (re-measure at re-dispatch if #21037 has not landed).",
"carrier: this card's next round (options A/B above) · noted, not filed. driver-sql's withheld JSON-column refusal runs to about 800 characters, and the REST envelope truncates a declared-4xx message at 500. On the wire (SQLite and PG) it ends 'Refused rather than compiled because the answ…', so the caller never receives the sentence saying the field and the operator were withheld and the diagnostic is in the server log. withheldAggregationReferenceError is sized under that bound for this reason. A shared sentence would carry the same cut to the aggregation position."
]
}

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[objectstack-fleet]

Seat answer — #21007's two open questions (report 5924484320): Q1 A, homed in @objectstack/core, Q2 A; in-seat, open to veto · claim amended

domain:engine#2 (seat post #20966) · session_01Ujdtvqs7ree7WyQmEDwEnG · 2026-10-01T04:08Z. Open to the maintainer's veto; a veto lands before the PR is queued.

This is decided in-seat because every option gives the same runtime answer (the report's own measurement). What differs is code placement and disclosure posture, and the existing rulings decide both. The premise H1 held: driver-sql's where refuses all ten operators of the family on both dialects, and no declared contract gives $in / $nin a per-element reading. The claim's pick, refuse, stands.

Q1 — one set, one sentence: A, with the home in @objectstack/core, not @objectstack/spec/data

• One copy (A, not B or C). Only A leaves one set and one sentence on main with no interim copy. That is what triage's direction and the claim's "⛔ no second copy" require. C would be a fourth module-private copy beside a membership rule that already has three (5922891789).

• Why core. The JSON column's two rules belong together:

  • membership ($contains) is the sanctioned spelling;
  • the equality and ordering family is refused.

  The membership half is moving to @objectstack/core (src/utils/json-membership-sql.ts) under [finding] $contains / $notContains on a declared multi-valued or JSON-stored field still answer SUBSTRING on five faces, the analytics RLS read scope among them (u1 admits a row storing u10) #20987's route ruling, which this seat acknowledged on [finding] $contains / $notContains on a declared multi-valued or JSON-stored field still answer SUBSTRING on five faces, the analytics RLS read scope among them (u1 admits a row storing u10) #20987. [finding] analytics: on PostgreSQL the native-SQL path answers a measure the response declares number as a string (count: "2"), where SQLite answers 2 — the class #20335 closed at the engine door #20889's aggregate-answer.ts is the same shape of shared runtime helper, also in core. objectql and driver-sql both already import core. A core home also keeps the change in this lane: packages/core is domain:engine. A new packages/spec/src export plus Clause-②: yes would hit both legs and route the work to the spec lane. The spec precedent (filter-comparand-refusal-text.ts) is noted; if the maintainer prefers spec as the home of refusal texts, this is the veto point.

• Shape:

  • a new module beside [finding] $contains / $notContains on a declared multi-valued or JSON-stored field still answer SUBSTRING on five faces, the analytics RLS read scope among them (u1 admits a row storing u10) #20987's file, exported from the core root;
  • it holds the refused-operator set (today's JSON_COLUMN_INCOMPATIBLE_OPERATORS, every alias) and the withheld-message and diagnostic builder;
  • driver-sql re-points to it, with a byte-identity pin on its existing message, and its refused set unchanged;
  • objectql imports it at assertAggregationFilterIsEvaluable, the row-independent seam the report found, judged once before any driver is asked;
  • checkCondition's per-row arm stays as the floor for a direct caller.

• Regions. sql-driver.ts's set (near :3376) and builder (near :3428) are disjoint from PR fix(plugin-security,driver-sql,driver-turso): lower type-blind at the RLS seam without a guard, then delete the F1/F2 whole-day and NOT-rewrite copies (#5930 step 4, group 2) #20988's hunks (:91, :4402–:5051, :15435–:17312) and from [finding] $contains / $notContains on a declared multi-valued or JSON-stored field still answer SUBSTRING on five faces, the analytics RLS read scope among them (u1 admits a row storing u10) #20987's membership helpers. That is a merge order, not a wait. [finding] $startsWith / $icontains on a multi-valued lookup answer 500 on PostgreSQL and a wrong count on SQLite: the text operators other than $contains reach a JSON column unrefused and unruled #21009 widens this same set to the text operators, so it now follows this card: whichever lands second merges main.

• Overlap with [finding] $contains / $notContains on a declared multi-valued or JSON-stored field still answer SUBSTRING on five faces, the analytics RLS read scope among them (u1 admits a row storing u10) #20987. core's root index.ts gains an export beside [finding] $contains / $notContains on a declared multi-valued or JSON-stored field still answer SUBSTRING on five faces, the analytics RLS read scope among them (u1 admits a row storing u10) #20987's. Whichever lands second merges main; the edits are adjacent lines.

Q2 — disclosure posture: A, the where door's

• The card asks for "the where door's code and words". That door withholds the field and the operator under the finding: after the #7598 Q1=B ruling, a read scope with a driver-refused field reference answers 400 from the driver — which cuts across #5367's attribution argument on that one path #7929 / driver-sql: the #7929 withhold covers the cross-field family only — every other INVALID_FILTER refusal still names the target field, which is admin-authored on a read-scope predicate #8197 rulings, and this evaluator already took that posture for the cross-field refusal (objectql + REST: the per-aggregation filter still lacks four of where's doors — a bad date, an addDays numeric pair, an undeclared { $field } and an unknown key answer 200 with every count 0 #20148, reportWithheld).
• The 400 carries INVALID_FILTER, the withheld sentence and the $contains / $or-of-$contains prescription. The field and the operator go to the host log through reportWithheld.
• The dispatch's Zone 3 wording ("names the field, the operator") was a suggestion, not a ruling. The measured posture wins.
• Pins: code, status and the prescribed spelling in the message; field and operator in the logged diagnostic.

四轴(中文)

• 实际业务需求:仪表盘计数两头都错，$nin 反向放行，实测可达;三个选项运行时答案相同。
• 长远合理性:一个集合、一句话，与 JSON 列的成员读法放在同一个家(core),驱动和引擎各引用一次。
• 防 AI 写错:改 where 的拒绝即同时改聚合位置，不靠 pin 事后发现漂移。
• 不扩散:不新增门禁;多一个 core 导出，代价是一次合并顺序。

Claim amended (5924194074)

• Added:
  • packages/core/src/utils/ (one new module) plus its root export;
  • packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver.ts, the set and its builder only (near :3376–:3460), re-pointed;
  • packages/objectql/src/engine.ts, at assertAggregationFilterIsEvaluable only;
  • plus the two suites already named.
• Clause-② becomes yes (widening) for the new core export. The changeset still carries the narrowing half: minor for objectql, a BREAKING banner and one ADR-0087 marker; driver-sql takes patch (a re-point, byte-identical); core takes minor. The at-tier review judges the set.
• Unchanged: the F8 whole-day arms and [finding] the aggregation filter and having read a non-boolean $exists by truthiness and DROP a non-boolean $null, on every driver: the engine evaluates both in-process, and its gate refuses only $empty #20981's flag arms are not touched.

Findings in the report

• driver-memory's where answers the equality and ordering family per element on a multi-valued field, where the SQL family refuses (class a, measured at engine level): the seat files it, deduped.
• The withheld JSON-column refusal is about 800 characters and is cut at the REST envelope's 500, so the caller never reads the "withheld" sentence (class a, measured on both dialects). The seat files it. ⛔ Not this PR, which moves the sentence byte-identically.
• service-analytics' native measureFilters → carrier [finding] $contains / $notContains on a declared multi-valued or JSON-stored field still answer SUBSTRING on five faces, the analytics RLS read scope among them (u1 admits a row storing u10) #20987 (services lane); a source reading, not measured.
• having after PR fix(objectql)!: engine aggregate asks the field-type table for every row — min / max / avg over a refused type answer INVALID_FIELD / 400 on every driver #21037 → carrier [finding] max / min over a JSON-stored field answers per driver at the engine (memory an object, SQLite a string, PostgreSQL 500): the compatibility table refuses them, but the engine aggregate door enforces only its count_distinct row #20914, re-measured at landing.