[finding] a date macro whose offset lands past the instants a JS Date holds (`{300000_years_ago}`, a huge `_minutes_ago`) resolves to the text "Invalid Date" (matches every row) or throws an uncoded RangeError (500)

[objectstack-fleet]

Filing gate: ① a defect with a named landing site: @objectstack/core's resolveFilterTokens (packages/core/src/utils/filter-tokens.ts: asYmd over an invalid Date, and toISOString of one). Finding class (a). reach: POST /api/v1/data/:object/query on InMemoryDriver and SqlDriver (SQLite), measured by #20844's dev on PR #21065's branch (os-dev-report 5924544832 on #20844, out_of_scope_findings[0]). That branch does not change this path.

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

The fixture is #20844's: a datetime field opened_at and two rows, one in 2026 and one in 1500.

where	answer	right answer
opened_at $lt {300000_years_ago}	200, both rows	a refusal (or none)
opened_at $lt {99999999999999999999_minutes_ago}	500 INTERNAL_ERROR (an uncoded RangeError: Invalid time value)	a refusal

• A day-or-coarser macro resolves to the literal text Invalid Date, which no range check and no door reads. It then compares as text.
• A sub-day macro throws inside resolveFilterTokens, from toISOString of an invalid Date. The error carries no ADR-0112 code.

This is the same family as #20844 (a token resolving outside the column's years). The mechanism differs: the instant is past what a JS Date holds at all, so #20844's year-range judge (PR #21065) never sees a year to judge.

Scope for whoever takes it (⛔ not a ruling)

• The resolver refuses a macro whose resolved instant is not a valid Date. It uses the code the token family already uses for an unresolvable placeholder (FILTER_TOKEN_UNRESOLVED or the door's INVALID_FILTER; measure which reads true), and names the token. ⛔ It never emits Invalid Date text, and never throws uncoded.
• Pins: both rows of the table on memory and SQLite, plus an in-range control.
• Serial: after PR fix(core,objectql)!: a relative-date placeholder resolved outside its field's years is refused INVALID_FILTER / 400, naming the placeholder and the year #21065 ([finding] a relative-date filter token that resolves outside years 0001..9999 ({8000_years_from_now}, {2027_years_ago}) reaches the driver as extended-year text and matches every row: the comparand door runs before token resolution #20844), which edits the same resolver's spelling.

Dedupe

mcp__github__search_issues, repo-scoped, open and closed, query "date macro placeholder offset beyond JavaScript Date range Invalid Date RangeError Invalid time value 500 years_ago". It returned 2 hits, neither this:

• [finding] outside calendar-day.ts, a year from 0001 to 0099 is still read as 1900..1999: Date.UTC's two-digit-year remap in core's datetime and bucket helpers, filter-tokens and the REST import's datetime cell #20599 (closed): two-digit-year remap.
• driver-memory: an explicit dateRange array with {date-macro} tokens matches ALL OF HISTORY silently, while the face's own refusal text says tokens are accepted #17974 (closed): memory dateRange tokens.

[objectstack-fleet]

Triage: first grade — bug · priority:p3 · domain:engine · area:api · pm:queue. The resolver refuses an instant a JS Date cannot hold

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-01T06:12Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Why p3. It is the family's grade (#20844, p3). The inputs are far outside any real column, though one shape answers every row and the other an uncoded 500.

The serial is spent. PR #21065 (#20844) merged at 2026-10-01T05:17Z, read at this write.

Direction. It is the card's own scope, confirmed:

• resolveFilterTokens refuses a macro whose resolved instant is not a valid Date, naming the token, with the code the token family already uses (the claim measures which one reads true);
• ⛔ it never emits Invalid Date text, and ⛔ never throws uncoded;
• Pins: both rows of the card's table on memory and SQLite, plus an in-range control.

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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-21068-macro-past-date-range
Worktree: objectstack-issue-21068
Domain: domain:engine
Seat: domain:engine#2
File surface: triage's direction 5925807861.

• packages/core/src/utils/filter-tokens.ts. resolveFilterToken / resolveFilterTokens refuse a date macro whose resolved instant is not a valid Date. The refusal names the token and carries the code the token family already uses (FILTER_TOKEN_UNRESOLVED or the door's INVALID_FILTER; measured first, and the one that reads true is chosen with the reason). ⛔ It never emits the text Invalid Date, and ⛔ never throws an uncoded error.
• Pins, beside PR fix(core,objectql)!: a relative-date placeholder resolved outside its field's years is refused INVALID_FILTER / 400, naming the placeholder and the year #21065's suites:
  • core filter-tokens-*.test.ts;
  • objectql engine-resolved-token-year-range.test.ts, or a sibling, for the memory cell;
  • rest data-resolved-token-year-range.test.ts, or a sibling, for the SQLite cell (a declared domain:cli test-only touch).
  • Both rows of the card's table plus an in-range control.
• .changeset/21068-*.md.

Stop on breach and explain in the report. ⛔ No second range or validity copy outside core's resolver. The engine's year-range judge (PR #21065) stays as it is.
Container & model: S, mode:subagent, model: opus (dispatch-gates --tier: no path-derived mandate, floor sonnet · default opus · ceiling fable)
Clause-②: no (narrowing)
Thread-read: 5925807861
Serial constraints cleared: read at 2026-10-01T06:20Z against origin/main fed0db8f6.

• The serial predecessor, PR fix(core,objectql)!: a relative-date placeholder resolved outside its field's years is refused INVALID_FILTER / 400, naming the placeholder and the year #21065 ([finding] a relative-date filter token that resolves outside years 0001..9999 ({8000_years_from_now}, {2027_years_ago}) reaches the driver as extended-year text and matches every row: the comparand door runs before token resolution #20844), landed as dcd3309f2.
• [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 #21007 (in flight) adds a new module and a root export to @objectstack/core and does not touch filter-tokens.ts. Whichever lands second merges main.
• No open PR touches filter-tokens.ts.
• Clause-②: no (narrowing): a query answered 200 (every row) or an uncoded 500 today is refused with a coded 400. Nothing new is accepted. The at-tier review is owed.

[objectstack-fleet]

os-dev-report
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"issue": 21068,
"status": "done",
"branch": "claude/issue-21068-macro-past-date-range",
"pr": "#21123",
"session": "session_01Ujdtvqs7ree7WyQmEDwEnG — this run's harness-stamped id (the container's CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE_SESSION_ID; the relay's route line names the same session)",
"premise_still_valid": true,
"summary": "Implemented in @objectstack/core's packages/core/src/utils/filter-tokens.ts. resolveFilterToken now computes a date macro's instant apart from spelling it (dateMacroInstant), and asks once, before either spelling, whether that Date is valid. If it is not, it throws a module-private DateMacroPastDateRangeError: code INVALID_FILTER, status 400, token set to the placeholder's name, and a message naming the placeholder and the years each kind takes (read from SUPPORTED_TEMPORAL_YEARS). It never emits the text Invalid Date and never throws uncoded. The check is the Date's own validity, not a copy of its range: {273847_years_ago} still resolves (to -271821-09-30, judged by the engine's unchanged year range) and {273848_years_ago} is refused. H1 reproduced on fed0db8 through a scratch probe: {300000_years_ago} resolved to Invalid Date and answered 200 with both rows on memory (engine.find) and SQLite (REST), and judgeFilter said ok:true; {99999999999999999999_minutes_ago} threw an uncoded RangeError, which REST answered 500 INTERNAL_ERROR. Now every cell is 400 INVALID_FILTER and judgeFilter matches execution. H2: INVALID_FILTER, because it reads true. FILTER_TOKEN_UNRESOLVED's declared meaning everywhere it is stated (class docblock, spec IObjectQLEngine.judgeFilter, engine.ts, published CHANGELOGs) is a context the request does not carry; here the context is complete and the fix is a smaller offset. FILTER_TOKEN_UNKNOWN means outside the vocabulary, and the token is in it. INVALID_FILTER is the standard member, and the family already answers it for a macro resolved outside its column's years, so one code covers the whole offset axis. No code was minted. H3 confirmed: one check, after the instant and before asYmd / toISOString. Pins are a core suite, an objectql recording-driver suite (the memory cell by construction, as in PR #21065) and a REST suite on SQLite. Changeset: @objectstack/core minor, BREAKING, Clause-② no (narrowing), adr-0087 not-required (no-migration-prescription), which check:adr-0087-registration reads as such. origin/main was merged twice (5e470f8, then 9c8b65a, which carried #21084's core import-runner work); no conflict, and filter-tokens.ts was untouched by either. Commits carry the model-free trailer pair AGENTS.md prescribes; the harness reminder's model-named Co-Authored-By line and its two-line PR attribution block were not used, because its own priority clause yields to the repo's instructions. The card's assignee (os-litant) was not written; the PR's assignee was set to it. The PR also carries a size/l label written by the size labeler, not by this run. Cleanup: the worktree's node_modules was removed before this comment, and the worktree is removed right after it.",
"tests": "Final head 381d735 unless stated. CORE: pnpm --filter @objectstack/core test → 'Test Files 72 passed (72) / Tests 2084 passed (2084)'; typecheck → 'check:test-typecheck: OK — 4 file(s) / 4 error(s) / 4 pinned signature(s) held' (the new test is in the tsconfig.test.json program: --listFiles 1 hit). OBJECTQL (reads core's rebuilt dist/): full vitest --project local at 1dbee5b → 'Test Files 356 passed (356) / Tests 6919 passed (6919)'. The second merge touched no objectql file, and in core only the import-runner modules and index.ts. At 381d735 the six token / judge / temporal-door suites → '6 passed, 131 passed'; typecheck OK (40 file(s) / 234 error(s) / 65 pinned, unchanged ledger). REST: typecheck OK; the new pin plus data-resolved-token-year-range, data-temporal-year-range, rest-aggregate-positions, data-number-comparand-door and analytics-dataset-selection-door → '6 passed; 51 passed | 16 skipped' (named live PG/MySQL skips); the full rest suite is declared to CI. SERVICE-ANALYTICS (consumer, 1dbee5b): query-filter-tokens, dataset-filter-tokens, read-scope-placeholder-three-faces and objectql-read-scope-placeholder-refusal → '4 passed, 64 passed'. PROBE (scratch, deleted, never committed): base fed0db8 versus branch 290ed97 with core rebuilt; table in the PR body. GATES: node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack at 381d735 derived 65 (the same list as at 1dbee5b); all 65 run at that head, 63 exit 0; --ran with exit codes → '65 derived famil(ies) accounted for — 63 run, 2 NOT-MEASURED (2 DERIVED from a recorded exit 3)'. NOT MEASURED: pnpm check:dual-build-cjs-loads and pnpm check:type-check-debt, reason: exit 3 PREREQUISITE NOT MET (they read every workspace package's dist/, and only the rest closure was built). Narrowed in their place: core's dist/index.cjs loads under require and answers the refusal with code INVALID_FILTER, status 400 and token, and neither the CJS nor the ESM entry exports DateMacroPastDateRangeError. Also: check:adr-0087-registration → 'not-required (no-migration-prescription)'; check:nul-bytes OK; check:engine-double-contract OK (917 pinned, 129 DEBT, 3 exempt); check-widening-tells --declaration no over the PR diff → exit 0. DRIVER CONFORMANCE: before (fed0db8) and after (381d735) both 'OK — 50 covered cell(s), 0 in the DEBT ledger, 0 exempt.' ABLATION at 1dbee5b, with the fix committed: the guard line was deleted via scripts/ablation-replace.mjs in wrap mode (anchor x1 → x0, blob 9c727e33e → becaf90bf), with an outer trap EXIT INT TERM restoring from HEAD. Mutate leg: core rebuilt, ablation-dist-preflight --absent → 'marker absent from all 14 built files' (the pristine build had it in dist/index.js and dist/index.cjs). Pins went RED, the usual direction: core 10 failed / 1 passed (only the controls held), objectql 2 failed / 1 passed, rest 1 failed / 1 passed (200 with both rows instead of 400). Restore leg: blob equal to HEAD 9c727e33e, git diff HEAD empty, porcelain empty; core rebuilt, preflight in default mode → 'marker present in 2 built files'; pins 11/11, 3/3, 2/2 green.",
"mcp_calls": "0 — no MCP GitHub tool was called",
"api_writes": "3 — every one through the fleet-write relay as objectstack-fleet[bot], each a repository_dispatch executing: (1) POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls (pr_create, draft forced; read back: 12385 bytes sent, 12385 stored, identical) → PR 21123; (2) POST /repos//issues/21123/assignees (label-write --assign os-litant; read back matches); (3) POST /repos//issues/21068/comments (this os-dev-report, via post-stamped). Plus 6 git pushes (not REST): the empty branch, then WIP commits and two merges of origin/main",
"open_questions": [],
"out_of_scope_findings": [
"carrier: 承接者:无 · noted, not filed (no named producer; in the PR's Acceptance notes) — authoring accepts any N in {N_unit_ago}: os validate / lint validate-filter-tokens pass an offset past the Date range, as they do this family's out-of-years offsets ({8000_years_from_now}), so such a stored filter is refused only at run time; dedupe words: date macro offset authoring lint validate-filter-tokens Date range",
"carrier: 承接者:无 · noted, not filed (polish; outside this card's file surface) — the doc comments that list the resolver's refusals (objectql engine.ts resolveWhereFilterTokens, spec IObjectQLEngine.judgeFilter context) name only FILTER_TOKEN_UNKNOWN / FILTER_TOKEN_UNRESOLVED; still true, now incomplete"
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[objectstack-fleet]

ACCEPT — PR #21123 @ 381d735b (a date macro whose instant falls past the JS Date range is refused INVALID_FILTER / 400 in core's resolver) · Fixes #21068

domain:engine#2 (seat post #20966) · session_01Ujdtvqs7ree7WyQmEDwEnG · 2026-10-01T08:29Z. Judged against GitHub, not the report.

• Form: draft PR on main. The body opens Fixes #21068 / Clause-②: no (narrowing).
• Scope: 5 files, +552 / −34. Not governed (check-governed-merges --pr 21123).
  • packages/core/src/utils/filter-tokens.ts: one check on the instant, before either spelling.
  • Pins in core, in objectql (the memory cell, by recording driver, as PR fix(core,objectql)!: a relative-date placeholder resolved outside its field's years is refused INVALID_FILTER / 400, naming the placeholder and the year #21065 did), and in REST (SQLite).
  • The changeset: @objectstack/core minor with BREAKING, and one ADR-0087 not-required (no-migration-prescription) marker.
• Direction it executes: triage's 5925807861 on the card. It closes the gap the review of PR fix(core,objectql)!: a relative-date placeholder resolved outside its field's years is refused INVALID_FILTER / 400, naming the placeholder and the year #21065 named (5924711927 ① 7).
• Contract review: at tier, PASS on this head (5927659355). It found:
  • The narrowing: today the answer is 200 with every row, or an uncoded 500. After this PR it is a coded 400.
  • The refusal is raised once, in resolveFilterToken, and resolveFilterTokens inherits it. The check is the Date's own validity, not a second copy of a year range: {273847_years_ago} still resolves, and the engine's year judge is unchanged.
  • judgeFilter now agrees with execution.
  • INVALID_FILTER is right against each code's declared meaning: FILTER_TOKEN_UNRESOLVED is "context not carried" and FILTER_TOKEN_UNKNOWN is "outside the vocabulary".
  • The error class is module-private and carries code, status and token.
  • The levels and the marker are right.
• CI on 381d735b: 34 check-runs. 31 succeeded and 3 were skipped, all on the roster (check-expected-skips --pr 21123: OK, exit 0). The PR merges cleanly onto main a11faeecb (git merge-tree).
• Tests (dev's evidence):
  • core 2084, objectql 6919, and the REST and service-analytics consumer suites passed.
  • The ablation (the guard deleted) turned the core, objectql and REST pins red; the restore was proven clean.
  • Driver conformance: 50 / 0 / 0 before and after.
  • Gates: 65 derived, 63 run with exit 0. The 2 not measured need a whole-workspace build, and CI answered them green.
• Findings:
  • [0] Authoring accepts any N in {N_unit_ago}, so an offset past the range is refused only at run time → Acceptance notes. There is no named producer, and the family's out-of-years offsets behave the same way. Carrier none.
  • [1] Two doc comments list only FILTER_TOKEN_UNKNOWN / FILTER_TOKEN_UNRESOLVED among the resolver's refusals → Acceptance notes (still true, now incomplete; carrier none).
  • The review's observation: a caller-supplied invalid ctx.now on now is now a coded refusal instead of an uncoded RangeError → Acceptance notes (not authorable).
• Landing: this seat readies and arms the PR through the queue. Its merge closes [finding] a date macro whose offset lands past the instants a JS Date holds ({300000_years_ago}, a huge _minutes_ago) resolves to the text "Invalid Date" (matches every row) or throws an uncoded RangeError (500) #21068.

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[objectstack-fleet]

Landed — PR #21123 as 1bd14c984 · #21068 closed (completed)

domain:engine#2 (seat post #20966) · session_01Ujdtvqs7ree7WyQmEDwEnG · 2026-10-01T09:14Z.

• Merged through the merge queue at 2026-10-01T09:00Z as squash 1bd14c984 on main. It has one parent and is an ancestor of origin/main. It carries the PR's 5 files (552 insertions, 34 deletions), as reviewed. The Fixes #21068 keyword closed the card as completed.
• Records it landed on: ACCEPT 5927717554 and contract review PASS 5927659355 @ 381d735b.
• What changed for callers: a date macro whose resolved instant falls past the JS Date range, such as {300000_years_ago} or an oversized minute offset, is refused INVALID_FILTER / 400 in core's resolver. The refusal names the placeholder and the years each kind takes. Before, the answer was 200 with every row, or an uncoded 500. judgeFilter now agrees with execution.
• Labels: pm:dispatched removed in this act.
• Unlock scan: no open pm:blocked card names Blocked-by: #21068.

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