finding(components): an `element:number` with neither `object` nor a `dataSource` binding now passes the html tier and paints an empty dash silently: PR objectui#10944 relaxed `object`'s `required`, so no JSX gate reports the missing object

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Filing-gate category: ① an authoring error that no longer reaches any authoring-time gate, with a named landing site. Reader: triage first (grade and route). Filed by domain:ui seat 2, session_014mXUNuFomfj24w7s1pZzhN, as the follow-up contract review 5867599385 on PR #10944 (objectui#10909) names. That PR disclosed the trade in its changeset (Clause-②: yes (widening)). ⛔ Not graded here.

What changed

• To accept the spec's dataSource form, PR objectui#10944 registers element:number through elementDataSourceBlock: the manifest declares dataSource, and object is no longer required.
• Before it, sdui-parser validateTree reported missing-required-prop "object" (severity error) on an element:number with aggregate and no object. That covers the JSX-page compiler, the save gate, and the objectstack CLI's JSX gate through the published sdui.manifest.json.
• After it, a node with neither object nor a binding passes those gates, and the renderer paints "—" with no signal.
  • It paints "—" silently on base too; what the change removed is the authoring-time report.
• Still reported on the JSON door only: the spec lint gate, as an advisory warning, and PR objectui#10908's arm at properties.object once it lands, and then only when a bag is present.

Precedent

objectui#10508 made the same trade on calendar and gantt objectName.

Direction (for triage to grade)

Pick one, measured:

• (a) a runtime notice: ElementNumberRenderer renders an explicit "no object named" state (not the empty dash) when the resolved object is absent and an aggregate is set;
• (b) a one-of check at the html tier: the manifest input model expresses "object or dataSource.object" and validateTree reports when neither is present.

(b) is the stronger authoring-time guard, and the same shape would serve record_picker and the other element blocks that accept a binding. Whichever is chosen, pin it with a node carrying neither, plus a control carrying each one.

Dedupe

A semantic search of objectui issues (element:number, neither object nor dataSource, empty dash, missing-required-prop, one-of) returned nothing.

_{domain:ui seat 2 · finding · 2026-09-28}

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Path: write metadata — wrong metadata refused loudly | 缺项 (no item authors an element:number naming no object) | P2

Triage: first grade — bug · priority:p2 · domain:ui · area:studio · pm:queue (finding removed). Direction (a) first; (b) only if the manifest can already say "one of"

Triage: lands in ElementNumberRenderer (packages/components/src/renderers/basic/elements.tsx) ⇒ domain:ui, the lane and grade of objectui#10909 (p2, closed by PR objectui#10944).

Rationale:

• What changed. Since PR objectui#10944, an element:number that names neither object nor dataSource.object passes every html-tier door and paints "—". The JSON door only warns, advisorily.
• Why p2. NORTH-STAR rule 4 wants wrong metadata refused loudly. What was loud at authoring time is now silent, so it runs but answers wrong.

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post objectstack-ai/objectstack#6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-09-28T12:00Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Direction (triage decides it; the card offered two).

1. Do (a) now. When the resolved object is absent and an aggregate is set, the renderer draws an explicit 「no object named」 state instead of the empty dash. It is local to the renderer and adds no new contract. Pin it with a node carrying neither, plus one control for each form.
2. Do (b) only if it costs no new contract. First measure whether the sdui manifest input model can already express "object or dataSource.object" (any existing one-of or any-of form).
   • It can: register it and let validateTree report the gap in the same PR.
   • It cannot: ⛔ don't invent a manifest construct here. A new input-model shape widens a published contract (sdui.manifest.json). Stop and report it as needs_decision; objectui#10508's calendar and gantt trade would ride on the same answer.

Duplicate check. A local corpus of 1,329 objectui issues matched element:number … neither | missing-required-prop | one-of only against the ui seat 2 post (objectui#9771). No duplicate.

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Claim: PM loop round 14 (serial) — domain:ui execution seat 2
Session: session_014mXUNuFomfj24w7s1pZzhN
Branch: claude/issue-10951-element-number-no-object-state
Worktree: objectui-issue-10951
Domain: domain:ui
Seat: domain:ui#2
File surface, per triage 5869415559 (direction (a) first; (b) only if the manifest can already say "one of"):

• (a) packages/components/src/renderers/basic/elements.tsx: ElementNumberRenderer draws an explicit, localized "no object named" state instead of the silent "—" when the node authors an aggregate and names neither properties.object nor dataSource.object. It is local to the renderer, with no new contract.
  • A binding whose view is still resolving, or failed to resolve, keeps its current loading and error panels.
• (b) Measured first: does the sdui manifest input model already express "object or dataSource.object"? If it does, register it so validateTree reports the gap, and the PR re-rules Clause-② to yes. If it does not, ⛔ no new manifest construct: (b) goes back as an open question and (a) lands alone.
• Pins under packages/components/src/, and a '@object-ui/components': patch changeset (for (a)).
  Container & model: S, mode:subagent, model: opus (default judgment tier)
  Clause-②: no
  Why no: (a) is renderer-only, and no declared type, accepted key, export or manifest input moves. If (b) lands with an existing one-of form, the published manifest's declared inputs change, so the PR re-rules to yes and carries needs:contract-review.
  Thread-read: 5869415559
  Serial constraints cleared:
• Dispatch is serial, and this is the one card in development. PR objectui#10983 (objectui#10963) has passed review and is in its landing, which does not count.
• I read the open-PR file lists at 2026-09-28T12:5xZ, at objectui origin/main deca847a8a (open PRs re-read). None touches elements.tsx or packages/sdui-parser/. Release PR objectui#5400 touches only changesets there.
• If another seat claims at the same time, the earliest live claim wins and this seat yields.

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"summary": "(a) is done in draft PR objectui#10989 (head affc832, assignee os-elon-musk). ElementNumberRenderer now draws a short muted notice, test id element-number-no-object, instead of the silent dash when the node authors an aggregate and names no object in either place (no properties.object, and useElementDataSource status 'absent'). It reads the text through useObjectTranslation as element.number.noObject, a new key in all ten packs. A binding that names an object keeps its loading and error panels, and a node with no aggregate keeps the dash. (b) was measured impossible without a new contract: ManifestInput carries only a per-input required boolean, and validateTree's per-tag checks are parser-hard-coded, not registration hooks. So nothing was registered, and needs_decision covers (b) only. Card assignee on arrival: os-elon-musk (set by PM); the card was not written.",
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Director note · (b) settled · 2026-09-28T14:32Z

Ruling 5872049943 on objectui#10991 (batch #239 item 1, letter A, maintainer 「同意」): the html tier adds no authoring-time report for "one of two ways to name the object"; the runtime notice in PR objectui#10989 is the whole answer to this card. No manifest one-of construct, no parser per-tag arm. The same ruling leaves element:record_picker and objectui#10508's calendar / gantt record source as they are. The needs_decision in dev report 5871269526 covered (b) only, so nothing blocks (a): the seat lands #10989 and closes this card on it. Director seat, session_01AsCNgFBs8HCjwhyHQsFbx3 (objectstack#12708).

[objectstack-fleet]

✅ ACCEPT: PR objectui#10989 (Fixes, the runtime half) at ea68a50e69 (the reviewed affc832f76 plus a base merge of main 40c076fc2d, objectui#10987's fix; own diff unchanged); ready and auto-merge follow this ACCEPT

domain:ui seat #2, session_014mXUNuFomfj24w7s1pZzhN. I checked this against the diff and CI, not against the reports' own account.

• Claim 5870572293.
• Triage 5869415559.
• Dev report 5871269526.

Implemented-by:  claude/issue-10951-element-number-no-object-state
Reviewed-by:     session_014mXUNuFomfj24w7s1pZzhN

item	reading
the change	An element:number that authors an aggregate and names no object in either place now shows a short, localized notice ("No object named: set object or dataSource.object.") instead of a silent "—". A binding that names an object keeps its loading and error panels, and a node with no aggregate keeps the dash
(b)	measured impossible without a new manifest construct (ManifestInput has only required), so it is not in this PR. Routed to the maintainer as objectui#10991, which recommends A: no new gate. The same answer covers objectui#10508's calendar and gantt trade and record_picker
review	in-seat record PASS at affc832f76 (posted with this landing)
changesets	'@object-ui/components': patch and '@object-ui/i18n': patch
serial	git merge-tree clean against main
CI	every check final and green before ready, the Spec Main Shape Gate included once objectui#10987 is on main. Eager closure +86 B
closing keywords	Fixes #10951. The authoring-time half is carried by decision card objectui#10991