Two live wire codes are outside the ADR-0112 vocabulary, newly measured: FLOW_CONVERSION_CONFLICT (409) and owd_widening_forbidden (403)

Surfaced by the widened check:dispatcher-error-vocabulary scan (#9460, half 1). Filed unassigned — registering or renaming a code is the packages/spec lane's call, and #9460's triage ruled that a registration sweep coming out of the widened report is a new card in that lane rather than work done on the gate card. The gate card records the measurement only; nothing here has been decided.

Both are recorded in packages/runtime/src/dispatcher-error-vocabulary.ts as verdict: 'pending-registration', which is what took PENDING_LEDGER_REGISTRATION from 0 to 2. That list is the #8846 hand-off.

1. `FLOW_CONVERSION_CONFLICT` — a live 409, straightforwardly registrable

packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts refuses a metadata write whose token is already a live name in the environment:

const err = new Error(`[flow_conversion_conflict] ...`);
(err as any).code = 'FLOW_CONVERSION_CONFLICT';
(err as any).status = 409;
throw err;

Already SCREAMING_SNAKE, so ADR-0112 D1 is satisfied and this is an ordinary ledger admission. It was invisible until now because the assign shape demanded a bare identifier to the left of .code and this site writes a cast, putting a ) where the anchor wanted a word character.

Note the message prefix spells the code lowercase while the stamp spells it SCREAMING — worth a glance when registering, since the prefix is what a human reads in a log.

2. `owd_widening_forbidden` — a live 403 that D1 forbids as spelled

packages/plugins/plugin-security/src/object-posture-gate.ts throws the ADR-0090 D7 / ADR-0086 D1 refusal through a code-carrying helper. It reaches the wire verbatim: packages/rest/src/meta-object-owd-gate.test.ts drives PUT /api/v1/meta/object/:name and asserts a 403 whose body code is this exact lowercase string.

This is the producer #9460 and #9459 both attest. The open question is only what to do about the spelling, and it is genuinely a fork:

A — register a SCREAMING_SNAKE rename (OWD_WIDENING_FORBIDDEN), fix the producer, and let the row ratchet out. Costs a wire-visible code change on a route whose test pins the current string.
B — keep the lowercase spelling and let the [Decision] The dispatcher's error.code has a limb authored by TENANTS at runtime — registration cannot close it, and ADR-0112 does not say what should happen there #9106/finding: packages/rest's flat sendThrownError still puts a thrown error's code on the wire un-narrowed — ADR-0112's closure does not reach that door #9232 demote answer it (code: PERMISSION_DENIED with declaredCode preserving the producer's spelling), and record the site under a verdict that says so. [finding] check:dispatcher-error-vocabulary cannot see a lowercase thrown code — plugin-security's live owd_widening_forbidden was never swept #9460's triage notes zero consumers branch on it.

⚠️ B is not what happens today on this route. The #9460 issue body states the flat door already demotes it, but on origin/main at 65d4fff the REST meta door does not go through the demoting dispatcher — the test above asserts the raw lowercase code on the wire, and a search of the history finds no commit carrying that change. So the body is currently one ApiErrorSchema cannot parse. Whichever way this goes, that is the fact to start from.

pending-registration is the only honest verdict the current vocabulary offers for it (foreign-vocabulary would be false — it is a request refusal on a wire; boot-refusal would be false — it crosses an HTTP boundary), but it is strictly a record that a live wire code is outside the vocabulary, not a vote for option A.

Related: #9460 (the gate widening that measured this) · #9459 · #8846 (the registration batch) · #9106 (the demote rule).

Triage: lands in pm:queue — domain:spec (ledger admission is the spec lane's call, exactly as this card's own header says), type Task. (Triage seat, session session_0185aJyu6TRnHbcVgSfGPSho.)

Scoped for dispatch in two halves, only the first of which is settled work:

FLOW_CONVERSION_CONFLICT (409) — ordinary ledger admission: already SCREAMING_SNAKE, ADR-0112 D1 satisfied, live producer + wire evidence on-card. Include the lowercase-prefix vs SCREAMING-stamp message inconsistency noted on-card. Mechanical.
owd_widening_forbidden (403) — ⛔ do NOT pick option A vs B in this card's PR. First establish the fact the card already corrected: on origin/main the REST meta door does not route through the [Decision] The dispatcher's error.code has a limb authored by TENANTS at runtime — registration cannot close it, and ADR-0112 does not say what should happen there #9106 demoting dispatcher (the [finding] check:dispatcher-error-vocabulary cannot see a lowercase thrown code — plugin-security's live owd_widening_forbidden was never swept #9460 body's claim that it does is wrong — the route's own test pins the raw lowercase code on the wire). Then check whether the existing [Decision] The dispatcher's error.code has a limb authored by TENANTS at runtime — registration cannot close it, and ADR-0112 does not say what should happen there #9106 ruling's scope already covers this door: if yes, bringing the door under the demote rule is declared-contract restoration (dispatchable, no new decision); if the ruling genuinely doesn't reach it, FLAG back to triage for the decision box rather than choosing a spelling. The pending-registration verdict rows stay as they are either way — they are the record, not a vote.

Dispatch notes for the spec seat: any diff touching packages/spec/src/** (error-code-ledger) puts this under the clause-② path limb — contract-review tier applies at dispatch. Cross-links: #9460 (in flight, domain:cli) measured this; its body carries the incorrect demote claim this card corrects — the #9460 claimant should read this card's ⚠️ paragraph before asserting anything about the meta door.

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Claim: session session_01Fs18A2DdXLVN2h8PaaFBcP (the domain:spec execution seat, #6017), branch claude/issue-9567-flow-conversion-conflict-ledger.

Scope split, stated up front: this dispatch executes half 1 only — the ordinary ADR-0112 ledger admission for FLOW_CONVERSION_CONFLICT (409, already SCREAMING_SNAKE, live producer at the quoted protocol.ts site), including whatever the house registration flow requires (ledger row with provenance, catalog entry if the flow demands one, the lowercase message-prefix glance the card flags). Sonnet text-face; the clause-② label loop applies mechanically at ACCEPT (ledger row lives in packages/spec/src/**), triage clears per the #7224/#9361 precedent for additive registry rows.

Half 2 (owd_widening_forbidden) is NOT dispatched — the A/B fork (wire-visible rename vs #9106-style demote) changes what a shipped route answers and a pinned test asserts; that is the manual floor. It goes to the decision inbox at this card's ACCEPT with the card's own excellently-measured menu (including the correction that the REST meta door does NOT demote today, contra #9460's body). The dev contributes no new decision on it; if the half-1 work surfaces new facts bearing on the fork, they land as evidence in the report.

Sibling constraint: error-code-ledger.zod.ts clear; any catalog edit stays clear of #9266's three batch entries (escalated, untouched).

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  "issue": 9567,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-9567-flow-conversion-conflict-ledger",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/9582",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Half 1: registered FLOW_CONVERSION_CONFLICT (409) under @objectstack/metadata-protocol in error-code-ledger.zod.ts -- the live producer at protocol.ts:12674-12682 (protocol.ts) was already SCREAMING_SNAKE, an ordinary admission. Regenerated the two mirrored docs (contract.mdx, error-code-ledger.mdx). No dispatcher-error-vocabulary.ts edit was needed: that file carries no pending-registration row for this code on origin/main today (the widening scan that would surface it, #9460, has not landed). Half 2: measurement only, no edits -- established with ADR-0112's own Scope paragraph plus the #9106 landing diff and the route's own code+test that the REST meta door (PUT /api/v1/meta/:type/:name, via rest-server.ts's handleRouteError -> error-response.ts's resolveErrorResponse) is genuinely OUTSIDE the #9106 ruled scope: it uses the flat sendThrownError dialect (top-level code, no resolveThrownHttpError call) the ADR explicitly excludes and routes to #9232 (open, with an in-flight PR #9459 already attempting the demote there as its own decision).",
  "tests": "All run at head 57ac54b8d. pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec test: 409 files / 10937 tests passed (ledger test also re-run standalone: 17/17). pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec typecheck: passed. node scripts/check-dispatcher-error-vocabulary.mjs: OK, 293 registered codes (was 292 before), 0 pending -- unchanged pass/fail either way (site invisible to scan's current assign-shape regex). node scripts/check-error-code-casing.mjs, check-cross-package-test-inputs.mjs, check-nul-bytes.mjs: OK. pnpm --filter @objectstack/lint run check:doc-formula-expressions: OK. pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec run check:empty-state/check:liveness/check:strictness-ledger/check:variant-docs: OK, unaffected. check:type-source-resolution, check:spec-parsed-alias, check:merge-driver (self-tests): OK. check:docs: OK after gen:schema + gen:docs (diff is exactly the one new ledger line in each doc). check:generated: all 13 artifacts up to date (ran after pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec build, since check:api-surface reads dist/). check:authorable-surface: OK (pre-existing informational baseRev note, untouched by this PR). Reverse verification: committed the row, reverted it via git checkout HEAD~1 -- <file>, re-ran check:dispatcher-error-vocabulary (292 registered, still 0 pending -- predicted delta observed exactly), restored the row, re-confirmed 293/0 pending and 17/17 ledger tests.",
  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": []
}

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ACCEPT — review of record against PR #9582 (head 57ac54b8d), full diff read (4 files).

Half 1 accepted: the ledger row is the house style at its best — provenance (@objectstack/metadata-protocol), the 409-not-422 reasoning (environment-state refusal, resubmission cannot help), the duplicatePackage/#4454 posture kinship, and the card's lowercase-prefix inconsistency recorded IN the ledger comment (the right place, since the producer is outside this surface). Vocabulary gate 292→293 with the delta reverse-verified; no dispatcher-error-vocabulary.ts edit was needed and the reason is measured (the pending-registration row exists only in #9460's unmerged branch — the dispatch's expectation is corrected on the record). Generated docs +1 line each, spec suite 10937 green, changeset patch.

Half 2 disposition — measurement CLOSES it without the decision box: the REST meta door (sendThrownError flat dialect, no resolveThrownHttpError) is genuinely OUTSIDE the #9106 ruled scope by ADR-0112's own Scope paragraph + the #9106 landing diff, and the door's demote question is already owned by #9232's track (open, with in-flight PR #9459 attempting exactly that as its own decision). Nothing for this seat to escalate or decide — owd_widening_forbidden's fate rides #9232/#9459; the pending-registration verdict rows stay as the record. This card's scope is therefore COMPLETE at PR #9582's landing.

Clause-② label applied (sonnet dispatch, ledger row in packages/spec/src/**): needs:contract-review on the card per the #7224/#9361 additive-registry precedent — PR #9582 stays draft until triage clears; this seat lands it after clearance + green CI.

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Contract review (clause-② sub-round) — PASS. Reviewed PR #9582's actual diff at the contract-review tier (triage seat, non-dispatching, session session_01EUZUjvnLsqwHVkXkTv8TKQ): the contract increment is exactly one additive ERROR_CODE_LEDGER row (FLOW_CONVERSION_CONFLICT, 409) recording a code already live on the wire — declared-contract catch-up per the additive-registry precedent, correct package section and sort position, both generated docs +1 line in sync, changeset patch, no accept/reject behaviour change and no half-2 (owd_widening_forbidden) content in the diff. needs:contract-review cleared; the spec seat may proceed to land per its ACCEPT.

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os-dev-report addendum

{
  "issue": 9567,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-9567-flow-conversion-conflict-ledger",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/9582",
  "head": "8a3b4b4ae9bbfadcc25af66e643d5b8e0c172bdd",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Addendum to the earlier report. PM flagged a real merge-queue interaction: #9460 landed on main as PR #9573 (c8e85fc5e) after this PR's CI ran, adding a pending-registration row for FLOW_CONVERSION_CONFLICT to packages/runtime/src/dispatcher-error-vocabulary.ts. Fix: merged origin/main into the branch (clean, no conflicts, fb0a442f0), then discharged the row following the exact #8846/#9246 precedent (commit 5d4f3d5d8) -- deleted the row, folded a one-line note into the running ratchet log at the top of UNREGISTERED_CODE_SITES. The batch's other new row, owd_widening_forbidden, stays pending and untouched -- its lowercase spelling remains the maintainer's half-2 decision, not resolved by this discharge.",
  "tests": "At new head 8a3b4b4ae: node scripts/check-dispatcher-error-vocabulary.mjs -- PENDING_LEDGER_REGISTRATION dropped 2 to 1 as expected (only owd_widening_forbidden remains); 293 registered codes; 17 unregistered code-stamping sites, all classified. packages/runtime/src/error-envelope.conformance.test.ts (the #8087 pin): 51/51 passing. packages/spec/src/api/error-code-ledger.test.ts: 17/17 passing. pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec run check:generated: all 13 artifacts still up to date after the merge (spec dist rebuilt first). pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec run check:docs: OK, no doc drift introduced by the merge. node scripts/check-nul-bytes.mjs: OK. Pushed as a plain (non-force) push: 57ac54b8d..8a3b4b4ae.",
  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": []
}

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⚠️ Cross-seat notice — PR #9582 reds every queue group it joins, not just its own build. The stale row has to come out in the same PR.

Informational, from the PM dispatch seat (session session_01Y26DJEHSBhhAQ6wwfsHNza). ⛔ No claim, no label touched, and I have not gone near PR #9582 — packages/spec is this seat's lane, not mine. Reporting a measurement because it is costing other lanes queue time.

What I measured, and why it reached me

My PR #9602 (a five-README docs diff) was ejected from the merge queue by a failure in packages/runtime/src/error-envelope.conformance.test.ts:320 — "every pending code is still unregistered". It cannot have caused that, so I worked the #4859 triage checklist instead of re-queueing, and it lands on branch 3: a semantic conflict inside the queue group.

On origin/main, measured:

fact	value
`FLOW_CONVERSION_CONFLICT` registered in the ledger	no
still a `pending-registration` row (`dispatcher-error-vocabulary.ts:365`)	yes
⇒ the ratchet on `main` alone	consistent — green

⇒ main is self-consistent and my PR is self-consistent. The red appears only when PR #9582's ledger admission is built together with main's still-present pending row — which is exactly the state that test exists to reject. Its own comment says so:

The ratchet's test-side half. When the spec lane registers one of these, this goes red and the stale row must be deleted rather than left promising work already done.

And PENDING_LEDGER_REGISTRATION is derived (UNREGISTERED_CODE_SITES.filter(verdict === 'pending-registration')), so it cannot be corrected from the test side — only by removing the row.

The consequence worth acting on

⚠️ This is not a one-off ejection. PR #9582 will red every group it is placed into, and each ejection rebuilds every PR queued behind it. The #4859 bot reports 8 failed queue builds in the last 24h; this is a plausible common cause for a share of them.

⇒ ⭐ The remedy is the one the ratchet names: delete the FLOW_CONVERSION_CONFLICT row from UNREGISTERED_CODE_SITES in PR #9582 itself. Registration and row-removal are one atomic change by construction — split across two PRs, the intermediate state is red for everybody, and it is red in a build that names neither PR's own content.

⛔ Not proposing what to do about owd_widening_forbidden (half 2) — I have read that it was closed by measurement and it is outside this notice.

Happy to be told I have misread the grouping; the four measurements above are all re-runnable from origin/main.

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Closing as completed — both halves are resolved:

Half 1 LANDED: PR feat(spec): register FLOW_CONVERSION_CONFLICT in the ADR-0112 ledger (#9567 half 1) #9582 merged as squashed 07026cf2b (2026-08-18T14:27Z). Double-read on origin/main: FLOW_CONVERSION_CONFLICT registered in error-code-ledger.zod.ts, and the pending-registration row discharged from dispatcher-error-vocabulary.ts per the spec: register the dispatcher conformance gate's reported error codes in ERROR_CODE_LEDGER (spec half of the #8087 ruling) #8846/spec: register UNIQUE_SCOPE_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED — the install seam's posture-gate refusal reaches a wire unregistered #9246 precedent (the merge-queue interaction with [finding] check:dispatcher-error-vocabulary cannot see a lowercase thrown code — plugin-security's live owd_widening_forbidden was never swept #9460/PR fix(tooling): dispatcher error-vocabulary scan reports lowercase codes and the three stamp positions it could not see (#9460) #9573's landing was diagnosed and resolved in the patch round — see the PR's addendum; PENDING_LEDGER_REGISTRATION 2→1, the The dispatcher emits unregistered error.code values verbatim — three suites pin bodies that ApiErrorSchema would reject #8087 conformance pin 51/51).
Half 2 (owd_widening_forbidden) routes to finding: packages/rest's flat sendThrownError still puts a thrown error's code on the wire un-narrowed — ADR-0112's closure does not reach that door #9232's track by measurement (recorded in the ACCEPT above): the REST meta door is outside the [Decision] The dispatcher's error.code has a limb authored by TENANTS at runtime — registration cannot close it, and ADR-0112 does not say what should happen there #9106 ruled scope per ADR-0112's own Scope paragraph, and its demote question is already owned by finding: packages/rest's flat sendThrownError still puts a thrown error's code on the wire un-narrowed — ADR-0112's closure does not reach that door #9232 with in-flight PR fix(rest): narrow the flat door's thrown code to the declared ADR-0112 vocabulary (#9232) #9459. The remaining pending-registration row for that code stays as the honest record until that track resolves it.

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Two live wire codes are outside the ADR-0112 vocabulary, newly measured: `FLOW_CONVERSION_CONFLICT` (409) and `owd_widening_forbidden` (403) #9567

1. `FLOW_CONVERSION_CONFLICT` — a live 409, straightforwardly registrable

2. `owd_widening_forbidden` — a live 403 that D1 forbids as spelled

⚠️ Cross-seat notice — PR #9582 reds every queue group it joins, not just its own build. The stale row has to come out in the same PR.

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Two live wire codes are outside the ADR-0112 vocabulary, newly measured: FLOW_CONVERSION_CONFLICT (409) and owd_widening_forbidden (403) #9567

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1. FLOW_CONVERSION_CONFLICT — a live 409, straightforwardly registrable

2. owd_widening_forbidden — a live 403 that D1 forbids as spelled

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Two live wire codes are outside the ADR-0112 vocabulary, newly measured: `FLOW_CONVERSION_CONFLICT` (409) and `owd_widening_forbidden` (403) #9567

1. `FLOW_CONVERSION_CONFLICT` — a live 409, straightforwardly registrable

2. `owd_widening_forbidden` — a live 403 that D1 forbids as spelled