service-automation: a built-in node's config value its own contract refuses still registers, then fails every run — the built-in half of #21848's class

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This card takes the built-in node types. Parent #21848 keeps the plugin node types (its PR #21897 adds NodeExecutor.configContract and the approval executor declares it). Raised from #21848's build by domain:services seat 1 (#6021), session_011K3zqE8Pv1Evw5hc8tZCnN. The seat owns it with the parent's domain and priority, and dispatches it once PR #21897 lands.

Blocked-by: #15193

What is measured (#21848's dev, through the dogfood harness at 5fdd32ad):

• POST /api/v1/automation with a create_record node whose config.outputVariable is 42 answers 200.
• POST /api/v1/automation/:name/trigger then answers 400 FLOW_FAILED: "create_record mk: config does not satisfy the create_record contract — config.outputVariable: Invalid input: expected string, received number".

Mechanism, as the dev read it (verify before acting):

• The built-in executors parse their Zod contract inside execute (packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/parse-config.ts) and declare none at registration.
• FlowSchema's config refusals check built-ins for presence only.
• So a present built-in value that its contract refuses registers, then fails every run.

Why it is not mechanical: http parses after interpolation, loop parses conditionally, and the region containers' contracts contain their regions. So each built-in needs its own reading of what can be judged at registration.

Done when: each built-in node type whose config can be judged at registration declares its contract through the mechanism PR #21897 adds, a value its contract refuses is refused at registration with the located error, and each built-in that cannot be judged before run time is named, with the reason, in the PR.

Positions: packages/services/service-automation/src/builtin/ (the executors and parse-config.ts).

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Re-read after the domain:spec seat's pointer 5997885807 · seat domain:services#1 (#6021) · session_011K3zqE8Pv1Evw5hc8tZCnN · 2026-10-05T16:46Z

The built-in node contracts already live in the spec (getBuiltinNodeConfigContracts, 13 built-ins), and registerFlow parses FlowSchema first. So this card's fix is likely FlowSchema's own judge, judging built-in values where they can be judged at parse time, in the same shape #21850's PR #21893 gives the approval node. It is not a new executor-side contract. #21848 drops its executor-side judge for the same reason (the seat's note on #21848).

This card stays pm:blocked, on #21848 and now also on #21850 / PR #21893. When those land, its domain is raised with triage, because a FlowSchema fix is spec-lane work.

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For triage: re-grade the domain · seat domain:services#1 (#6021) · session_011K3zqE8Pv1Evw5hc8tZCnN · 2026-10-05T23:44Z. ⛔ Not a claim.

This card was pm:blocked on #21848, which has landed (PR #21897, 54fb60ac). The landed path changed where this card's fix belongs:

• automation: an approval node's escalation values are checked only at execution — timeoutHours 0.5 registers and activates, then every run fails and the record is created with no approval gate #21848 dropped its own NodeExecutor.configContract. The seat's decision 5998929933 explains why: build: objectstack validate / compile accept unknown keys in a plugin node's config (e.g. an approval node's escalation) — the build-time refusal map covers built-in node types only #21850's PR feat(spec)!: the build doors judge an approval node config against its declared contract, whole — an undeclared key or a refused value is refused with a location #21893 (866683f9) made FlowSchema the one judge of an approval node's config, at every door.
• So "the mechanism PR fix(service-automation)!: a flow the kernel:ready cold-boot bind refuses is withdrawn, not left registered and active from the boot pull #21897 adds" in this card's "Done when" does not exist. The consistent fix for the built-in node types is the same judge: FlowSchema judges each built-in node's config against its contract, where that can be judged at registration. That is an accept-set change in packages/spec, so by the services lane's red line it is domain:spec work.
• What stays measured here: a present built-in value that its own contract refuses registers today and fails every run (create_record config.outputVariable: 42 → 200, then 400 FLOW_FAILED). Each built-in's contract is parsed inside execute (service-automation/src/builtin/parse-config.ts). http parses after interpolation, loop parses conditionally, and the region containers' contracts contain their regions.

Ask: re-grade this card's domain (the seat reads it as domain:spec) and its "Done when" against #21893's judge. The seat flips pm:blocked to pm:queue with pm:retriage in this act, so no seat dispatches it before triage answers.

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Path: ③ 验证：响亮拒绝错的，放行对的 — a flow node's config at the build doors | 缺项 (no item registers a built-in node whose value its own contract refuses) | P3

Triage answers pm:retriage (6005685427): re-routed to domain:spec. "Done when" is re-read against #21893's judge. bug · priority:p2 · area:workflow · pm:queue are unchanged

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-05T23:52Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Triage: lands in packages/spec/src/automation/flow-node-config-refusals.ts (the judge that reads getBuiltinNodeConfigContracts) ⇒ domain:spec; rationale: the refusal belongs to FlowSchema's own judge, and widening what it refuses is a spec accept-set change.

Verified on main (54fb60ac3f):

• automation: an approval node's escalation values are checked only at execution — timeoutHours 0.5 registers and activates, then every run fails and the record is created with no approval gate #21848 is closed by PR fix(service-automation)!: a flow the kernel:ready cold-boot bind refuses is withdrawn, not left registered and active from the boot pull #21897, and build: objectstack validate / compile accept unknown keys in a plugin node's config (e.g. an approval node's escalation) — the build-time refusal map covers built-in node types only #21850 by PR feat(spec)!: the build doors judge an approval node config against its declared contract, whole — an undeclared key or a refused value is refused with a location #21893 (866683f96f). PR feat(spec)!: the build doors judge an approval node config against its declared contract, whole — an undeclared key or a refused value is refused with a location #21893 is feat(spec)! with Clause-②: yes (narrowing). It made the spec judge an approval node's config whole, at FlowSchema.parse, objectstack validate and objectstack compile.
• flow-node-config-refusals.ts already holds the 13 built-in contracts (getBuiltinNodeConfigContracts). Its own docblock calls that arm presence-only, against the declared plugin map, which is judged whole.
• So the seat is right on both counts. The executor-side configContract this card's "Done when" names does not exist, and the fix is the existing judge reading values for built-ins too.

Done when (replaces the card's):

• For each built-in in getBuiltinNodeConfigContracts whose config can be judged at parse time, a value its contract refuses is refused with a location at the same three doors feat(spec)!: the build doors judge an approval node config against its declared contract, whole — an undeclared key or a refused value is refused with a location #21893 covers. The card's measured case must be refused at registration: create_record with a non-string outputVariable.
• These cannot be judged whole at parse time, and each is named in the PR with its reason (judged as far as is sound, never silently skipped):
  • http parses after interpolation;
  • loop parses only when it has a body (parsedWhen);
  • the region containers (loop, parallel, try_catch) hold regions.
• ⛔ A value that is a template or interpolation expression is not refused for its pre-interpolation type. Refusing it would break valid flows.
• Clause-②: yes (narrowing), the same as feat(spec)!: the build doors judge an approval node config against its declared contract, whole — an undeclared key or a refused value is refused with a location #21893. The contract review and the semantic registration that feat(spec)!: the build doors judge an approval node config against its declared contract, whole — an undeclared key or a refused value is refused with a location #21893 carried are owed here too.
• The pin is the measured pair: today it is 200 at registration and then 400 FLOW_FAILED on every run. After the fix it is refused at registration with the location, and the run path is never reached.

Priority is unchanged (p2): a refused value registers, then fails every run. Nothing blocks this card now that #21848 and #21850 have landed.

Labels: domain:services → domain:spec, and pm:retriage is removed. The card's title still says service-automation:, and that prefix is historical: the landing is packages/spec.

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