analytics: on a host whose engine cannot aggregate, the in-memory fallback buckets a time dimension over a formula field into one null group, with no date-bucket door in front

domain:server#3 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmQJdgarUjPLNgFBY67

Filing gate: ① should-fix finding of the CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER review of PR #29347 (#29167) at head cae03ff5, source reading only, not reproduced. Filed by domain:server seat 3. ⛔ Not a claim. Suggested-grade: p3 · reached only on hosts whose engine cannot aggregate.

Reach: a cube or analytics query with a bucketed time dimension over a formula field (or any non-date field), on a host where the ObjectQL strategy cannot serve and FallbackDelegateStrategy (priority 30) delegates to MemoryAnalyticsService.
Reader who acts: a domain:server seat (packages/services/service-analytics, packages/drivers/driver-memory/src/memory-analytics.ts).

What happens (source reading)

analytics: a date bucket over a formula field with no stored column renders strftime in the /analytics/sql dry run and serves one null group in the draft preview, while both live faces refuse from the driver #29167 (PR fix(objectql, service-analytics)!: a date bucket over a formula field is refused alike on every analytics face, instead of a driver error, one null group or a rendered statement #29347) refuses a date bucket over a virtual field at the engine door (aggregate-query-shape-door.ts) and at the service's copy (dataset-date-bucket-door.ts). Every face that goes through the engine or the service door answers that refusal.
FallbackDelegateStrategy hands a cube query to MemoryAnalyticsService, which folds time dimensions itself (memory-analytics.ts ~L1172 onward) with no field-type reading. Neither door sits in front of it, so a formula bucket there still lands in one null group. A text bucket answers whatever the fold makes of it.

Wanted

Measure first on a no-engine host. Then put the same door in front of the fallback (reuse dataset-date-bucket-door.ts; don't copy it), so this face answers the same refusal, field for field. If the fallback cannot read field types, say so and give options.

Dedupe: searched FallbackDelegateStrategy date bucket, memory-analytics time dimension formula; nearest #29167, #28977, #29304. New.

Links back: #29167, PR #29347, #29304.

triage#1 · os-zhuang · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U

Path: none

Triage: p3 · `domain:server` · `pm:queue` · 2026-11-02T14:58Z

⛔ Not a claim.

Read fresh. Read from source only: on a host that cannot aggregate, the in-memory fallback puts a time dimension over a formula into one null group. p3.

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domain:server#1 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmQjPiXgNoSaEpqeGvY

Claim: PM loop round 9 · 2026-11-02T15:41Z
Session: session_01ADHkmQjPiXgNoSaEpqeGvY (seat); dev = card thread (session named in its first report)
Account: os-steve
Branch: the card thread's harness-pinned branch, named in its first report (it names no issue, so this claim is the identity record)
Worktree: the card thread's own
Domain: domain:server
Seat: domain:server#1
Ruling-ref: none
File surface: the fallback strategy path in packages/services/service-analytics/src/ (FallbackDelegateStrategy → MemoryAnalyticsService), reusing dataset-date-bucket-door.ts (and an export from packages/objectql/src/aggregate-query-shape-door.ts only if a shared predicate is needed), packages/drivers/driver-memory/src/memory-analytics.ts only if the door must sit there, tests, a patch changeset. ⛔ No packages/spec/**, no new error code, no engine-door behaviour change
Container & model: S, mode:thread, model as the thread was opened, effort: medium
Clause-②: no (narrowing) (expected: a fallback date bucket over a formula/text field answered 200 with one null group is now refused, as the engine and service faces refuse it; the dev measures base and head)
Metadata-protocol: none (expected)
Responsibility: the code is the analytics fallback strategy · the in-memory fallback buckets a formula/text time dimension into one null group with no door in front · reached on every host whose engine cannot aggregate
Thread-read: none
Premise: as filed; the dev re-measures on current main first
Serial constraints cleared: no in-flight card of this seat touches service-analytics or memory-analytics; seat 3 handed this card over (#29167 merged ac4715a8)

Orders: the seat's standard order plus the card delta, in the project's shared folder (server-seat1/standard-order.md, server-seat1/29364-delta.md).

domain:server#1 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmQjPiXgNoSaEpqeGvY

Claim: PM loop round 9 (revised: branch and dev session named) · 2026-11-02T15:44Z (supersedes 6581347422)
Session: session_01ADHkmQjPiXgNoSaEpqeGvY (seat); dev = card thread session_01ADHkmNhTaQLPMwKLDKtX46
Account: os-steve
Branch: claude/project-thread-tieff9 (the card thread's harness-pinned branch; it names no issue, so this claim is the identity record)
Worktree: the card thread's own
Domain: domain:server
Seat: domain:server#1
Ruling-ref: none
File surface: the fallback strategy path in packages/services/service-analytics/src/ (FallbackDelegateStrategy → MemoryAnalyticsService), reusing dataset-date-bucket-door.ts (and an export from packages/objectql/src/aggregate-query-shape-door.ts only if a shared predicate is needed), packages/drivers/driver-memory/src/memory-analytics.ts only if the door must sit there, tests, a patch changeset. ⛔ No packages/spec/**, no new error code, no engine-door behaviour change
Container & model: S, mode:thread, model as the thread was opened, effort: medium
Clause-②: no (narrowing) (expected: a fallback date bucket over a formula/text field answered 200 with one null group is now refused, as the engine and service faces refuse it; the dev measures base and head)
Metadata-protocol: none (expected)
Responsibility: the code is the analytics fallback strategy · the in-memory fallback buckets a formula/text time dimension into one null group with no door in front · reached on every host whose engine cannot aggregate
Thread-read: none
Premise: as filed; the dev re-measures on current main first
Serial constraints cleared: no in-flight card of this seat touches service-analytics or memory-analytics; seat 3 handed this card over (#29167 merged ac4715a8)

Orders: the seat's standard order plus the card delta, in the project's shared folder (server-seat1/standard-order.md, server-seat1/29364-delta.md).

domain:server#1 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmNhTaQLPMwKLDKtX46
os-dev-report

{
  "issue": 29364,
  "status": "needs_decision",
  "branch": "claude/project-thread-tieff9",
  "pr": null,
  "session": "session_01ADHkmNhTaQLPMwKLDKtX46",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Step 0 measured on objectstack origin/main aca58cdb. The finding is real on the fallback face: with MemoryAnalyticsService behind FallbackDelegateStrategy, a month bucket over a formula field answers 200 with ONE null group holding every row (3 of 3), a text field answers a null group (2) plus whatever text happens to parse as a date ('2026-03', 1), and the datetime control answers correct buckets. But no shipped composition reaches that face: the auto-mounted AnalyticsServicePlugin (core capability-providers, cubes only) always wires an executeAggregate bridge, so its default capabilities advertise objectqlAggregate and ObjectQLStrategy (priority 20) takes every bucketed query to the engine, whose door already refuses both; a host with no data engine is refused 503 SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE at the API exposure door before any strategy runs; and no in-repo code registers MemoryAnalyticsService as the analytics service or sets objectqlAggregate false (git grep, non-test). The face is reached only by a host composition through public API: a pre-registered analytics service plus a queryCapabilities override with objectqlAggregate false, or new AnalyticsService with fallbackService. Per the delta's Step 0 stop rule this is needs_decision; no code written, no PR. Field types ARE in hand on that face when the host wires them: StrategyContext.declaredFieldType (the service's sourceFieldMeta; the plugin answers it from the data engine's getObject), so option A is a one-call fix with no third copy.",
  "tests": "Measurement only (scratch vitest file in service-analytics, deleted after; git diff HEAD empty, status clean at aca58cdb). Closure built under the lock: turbo build service-analytics^... + driver-memory (15/15, VERDICT command-exit 0). Readings, query = cube orders, measure count, timeDimensions month on the named field, rows {north, south, '2026-03-01'} in region and three datetimes: (1) new AnalyticsService({fallbackService: MemoryAnalyticsService}) with and without sourceFieldMeta: formula 200 [{calc:null,count:3}]; text 200 [{region:null,count:2},{region:'2026-03',count:1}]; datetime 200 [{2026-01:1},{2026-02:2}] (identical with and without types). (2) LiteKernel + MemoryAnalyticsService pre-registered + AnalyticsServicePlugin, no data engine: all three 503 SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE (read access could not be determined) at the exposure door, date control included. (3) Same plus a data engine, default caps: all three handed to engine.aggregate (ObjectQLStrategy), never the fallback. (4) Same plus queryCapabilities objectqlAggregate false: fallback reached, answers identical to (1).",
  "gates": "n/a: no diff (needs_decision stop before Step 1). dispatch-gates not run; nothing to reconcile.",
  "dogfood_battery": "n/a: no diff",
  "mcp_calls": "2: mcp__github__issue_read (get, get_comments) on #29364; no write tools",
  "api_writes": "1: this os-dev-report comment on #29364 via post-stamped.mjs (relay)",
  "open_questions": [
    {
      "question": "The fallback face (FallbackDelegateStrategy to a delegated analytics service) is reached by no shipped composition, only by a host that overrides queryCapabilities to objectqlAggregate false with a pre-registered analytics service, or constructs AnalyticsService with fallbackService. Fix it, close it, or retire the face?",
      "options": [
        "A: Fix as the delta's Step 1. In FallbackDelegateStrategy.execute call assertDatasetDateBucketsTemporal(aggregateObjectOf(cube), aggregateGroupKeys(query, cube), field => ctx.declaredFieldType(object, field)) before delegating (generateSql on the same face too). Reuses the service door, no third copy, no new code, no spec edit; judges only when the host wired sourceFieldMeta (the plugin always does, from the engine), exactly as the preview and dry-run faces. Clause-2 no (narrowing) on a non-protocol face, patch changeset with BREAKING banner and one ADR-0087 marker. Effort S, about 30 lines plus pins.",
        "B: Close as not reachable in any shipped composition. Record the reading on the card; the third-party fallback keeps answering one null group for a formula bucket. Effort zero; leaves one face answering differently from the other four.",
        "C: Retire the face: stop capturing a pre-registered analytics service as fallbackService and drop FallbackDelegateStrategy (and driver-memory's InMemoryStrategy twin). Touches the IAnalyticsService config contract in packages/spec/src/contracts (fallbackService), so it belongs to the spec seat and needs its own card and ruling. Effort M."
      ],
      "recommendation": "A, because the face is public API (AnalyticsService, MemoryAnalyticsService and the plugin's capture of a pre-registered service are all exported or documented), the fix is one call to the existing door with the types the context already carries, and it makes every face answer one refusal field for field, which is what #29167 set out to do. B is acceptable if the maintainer prefers zero change on an unshipped path; C is the root fix if the fallback face itself is unwanted, but it is a contract change outside this lane."
    }
  ],
  "security_findings": "withheld",
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "class: none (observation) · reach: no shipped composition · FallbackDelegateStrategy.generateSql passes the delegate's statement through unjudged, the same gap on the dry-run face; folded into option A · carrier: #29364"
  ],
  "files_changed": [],
  "line_budget": "0 (no diff)",
  "deviations": [
    "Stopped at Step 0 per the delta's own stop rule (fallback unreachable in any shipped composition); Step 1, pins, ablation, consumer suites and gates not run.",
    "Measurement used a scratch test file importing driver-memory dist by relative path (not a dependency of service-analytics); deleted, never committed."
  ]
}

Stamped 2026-11-02T15:52Z.

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domain:server#1 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmQjPiXgNoSaEpqeGvY

席位裁定 · #29364 · A · 2026-11-02T15:53Z

Report 6581581002 stopped at Step 0 under the delta's stop rule. The seat rules A and the card resumes.

Why A. No shipped composition reaches the fallback face. The public API does reach it: new AnalyticsService({ fallbackService }), or a queryCapabilities override with objectqlAggregate: false. The defect was measured there (a formula month bucket answers 200 with one null group, 3/3). The field types are in hand on that path (ctx.declaredFieldType). The card's Wanted is exactly this: one door, reused, so every face answers the same refusal. It changes no product direction and no spec, so no maintainer ruling is owed.
Not B (close as unreachable). The face is public API, and a host that composes it gets a wrong answer without being told.
Not C (retire the fallback face). That moves a spec contract (fallbackService), which belongs to the spec lane and is larger than this defect.
Build: one call to assertDatasetDateBucketsTemporal in FallbackDelegateStrategy, in both execute and generateSql. No third copy. Clause-②: no (narrowing), a BREAKING banner, one ADR-0087 marker, and pins reached through the public construction path.

domain:server#1 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmNhTaQLPMwKLDKtX46
os-dev-report

{
  "issue": 29364,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/project-thread-tieff9",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/29500",
  "session": "session_01ADHkmNhTaQLPMwKLDKtX46",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Seat ruling A (record 6581612223) implemented. FallbackDelegateStrategy.execute and .generateSql now call a module-local assertDelegatedDateBucketsTemporal(query, ctx), which makes the one call to the existing assertDatasetDateBucketsTemporal with aggregateGroupKeys(query, cube), aggregateObjectOf(cube) and the context's declaredFieldType (sourceFieldMeta). A formula or text month bucket on the fallback face is now refused on the query and the dry run with the engine face's refusal field for field (INVALID_FIELD / 400, groupBy.N.dateGranularity) and the delegate is never called; a datetime bucket is delegated as before; a host with no field types is not judged. No third copy, no new error code, no spec edit, no engine-door change. Draft PR #29500 at head 1074fbba.",
  "tests": "New fallback-delegate-date-bucket-type.test.ts, 9 cases: on new AnalyticsService({fallbackService}) and on AnalyticsServicePlugin with objectqlAggregate false, formula by month, text by month and formula after a datetime bucket (groupBy.1) refused on query AND dry run, toEqual the engine face's refusal (real ObjectQL + SqlDriver better-sqlite3, default composition), delegate.query and delegate.generateSql never called; datetime control delegated on both faces; no-sourceFieldMeta host delegated. 9/9 pass. Ablation via scripts/ablation-replace.mjs (suite imports src relatively, no dist leg): leg 1 whole door at 1074fbba, Tests 6 failed | 3 passed (9), 'fallback query: expected a refusal, but it resolved', restored blob == HEAD 362478fe16f5, git diff HEAD empty; leg 2 generateSql call only at cf460c16, 6 failed | 3 passed, 'fallback sql: expected a refusal, but it resolved', restored, diff empty. service-analytics full: Test Files 208 passed (208), Tests 4950 passed | 282 skipped; typecheck exit 0; driver-memory full: Test Files 74 passed, Tests 1767 passed. Base measurement in os-dev-report 6581581002 (formula 200 one null group 3/3; text null + '2026-03').",
  "gates": "Head 1074fbba. dispatch-gates --commands: 62 commands, all run; --ran reconciliation '62 derived, 62 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN' (exit 0). First-pass exit 3 (prerequisite) re-run green: check-plugin-teardown-shape --self-test (after fetching fixture 621a4876), check:dual-build-cjs-loads (after turbo build ./packages/** 78/78), check:type-check-debt (lock call had waited behind this card's dogfood run). Lint: package has no lint script; root eslint --no-inline-config packages/services/service-analytics exit 0. CI check-runs on #29500: in_progress at report time (not waited on).",
  "dogfood_battery": "1074fbba · VERDICT command-exit 1 · Test Files 2 failed | 395 passed | 3 skipped (400) · Tests 4 failed | 3261 passed | 28 skipped (3293) · failures: test/flow-runas.dogfood.test.ts (3, RECORD_NOT_FOUND 404 on flow trigger) and test/declarative-endpoint-anonymous-guest.dogfood.test.ts (1). Base leg with service-analytics src at aca58cdb and dist rebuilt (door absent): same 4 failed | 8 passed (12), so pre-existing; both files re-pointed on main by 6af3d2957 (#29451) after this base. Not caused by this diff.",
  "mcp_calls": "4: mcp__github__issue_read x3 (get, get_comments x2), mcp__github__pull_request_read x1 (get #29500); no write tools",
  "api_writes": "3 across the card: os-dev-report 6581581002 (needs_decision round), pr_create #29500 via fleet-write relay (10354 bytes sent = stored), this os-dev-report comment",
  "open_questions": [],
  "security_findings": "withheld",
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "class: none (observation) · reach: no shipped composition · the preview's column-asked-twice door (assertDatasetGroupColumnsDistinct) is also not in front of the fallback delegate; not added per the ruling's scope · carrier: none"
  ],
  "files_changed": [
    ".changeset/29364-fallback-date-bucket-refused-alike.md",
    "packages/services/service-analytics/src/__tests__/fallback-delegate-date-bucket-type.test.ts",
    "packages/services/service-analytics/src/analytics-service.ts",
    "packages/services/service-analytics/src/dataset-date-bucket-door.ts"
  ],
  "line_budget": "+281 / -0 (changeset 19, test 223, analytics-service.ts 32, door doc 7)",
  "deviations": [
    "No PR assignee or reviewer set: the standard order forbids GitHub MCP writes and os-dev forbids PR assignees.",
    "Full dogfood red on 2 files, measured red on base too (see dogfood_battery); declared, not fixed here.",
    "PR body says the second ablation leg ran at cf460c16; 1074fbba changed only a type cast (declaredFieldType read through DatasetScopedStrategyContext)."
  ]
}

Stamped 2026-11-02T16:37Z.

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domain:server#1 · os-steve · session_01ADHkmQjPiXgNoSaEpqeGvY

Landed · 2026-11-02T17:21Z

Probe	Reading
PR #29500	MERGED 2026-11-02T17:20Z, merge commit `a922779372`, through the merge queue
#29364	closed completed by `Fixes #29364`

pm:dispatched is removed. Seat records: seat ruling A 6581612223, review PASS 6583023230, ACCEPT 6583061387.

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