seed-loader: a dropped reference FIELD is invisible in the summary — totalErrored counts dropped records only, so the boot banner reads clean #3932

Split out of #3911 per Prime Directive #10 — out of scope for the fix in #3926, but it is the reason that bug felt silent to the reporter.

The gap

SeedLoaderService has two distinct failure outcomes, and only one of them is counted:

The field-drop paths (packages/metadata-protocol/src/seed-loader.ts) push a ReferenceResolutionError and log a warn, but never errored++. result.success does flip to false (it reads allErrors.length), so the load is not silent — but every count understates the damage.

Why it matters downstream

packages/runtime/src/app-plugin.ts feeds the CLI boot banner from the summary:

recordSeedOutcome(ctx, { source, inserted, updated, skipped, rejected: totalErrored });

A seed that writes 10 rows, 3 of which lost a lookup, reports rejected: 0. The banner (the one signal that survives os dev's boot-quiet window and the default warn log level — the whole point of #3415/#3430) reads clean. And the warn that does fire says:

[Seeder] Seed loading completed with 0 dropped record(s) and 1 error(s) for <app>

"0 dropped record(s)" is literally true and actively misleading: nothing was dropped — a field was.

Repro

Any invalid reference value on a lookup field, e.g. the wrapper form:

defineSeed(Contact, { externalId: 'email', records: [
  { email: 'a@example.com', account: { externalId: 'Acme' } },  // object, not a natural key
]});

→ row lands without account; summary.totalErrored === 0; banner shows rejected: 0.

Before #3926 a natural-key array on a multiple: true lookup hit the same path — which is exactly why #3911 was reported as "记录落库但整个关联字段缺失 … 仅在日志出现一条 warn".

Suggested direction

Not just errored++ on the field-drop paths — that would overstate the other direction (the row was written, so counting it as a rejected record makes inserted + updated + skipped + rejected stop reconciling against total). Probably a distinct counter, e.g. referencesDropped on SeedLoadResult / SeedLoaderSummary, surfaced by recordSeedOutcome as its own banner column so "wrote the row, lost the link" is a first-class, countable outcome rather than an inference from success: false.

Worth deciding deliberately since it touches the SeedLoaderResult contract in packages/spec/src/data/seed-loader.zod.ts.