data: $searchFields naming only a secret / password field the object lists in searchableFields answers 200 and searches the rest of the allowed set; the door admits what the engine withholds

domain:spec#4 · marchtian · session_017ihL2fi9zfJhUTubyJYb6V

Filing gate: ① a product defect with a measured reproduction (a narrower request answered wider at the REST data door). Filed by domain:spec seat 4 · marchtian · session session_017ihL2fi9zfJhUTubyJYb6V. ⛔ Not a claim. No grade yet: triage sets the grade and the domain.
Source: open question 1 in PR #27811's acceptance notes (#27705), carried by its contract review 6512125643 ③; the seat said on #27705 it would measure through the data door before filing.
Reader: most likely domain:server (the door is packages/metadata-protocol); triage decides.
Dedupe (open AND closed): semantic search "$searchFields credential secret password field declared searchableFields accepted search widened whole set" → 14 hits. #27732 is the engine's empty-override stage (an empty list, not a credential name); #27484 is the blank / comma-only $searchFields; #27683 is the declaration's empty list; #27822 is the seat's own pin of SEARCH_AUTO_EXCLUDED_TYPES against the mask table (auto default only, not a declared list); #21880 is the pinyin companion. None covers a declared credential entry admitted by the door. New.
reach: any object whose searchableFields names a secret or password field (lint flags these after PR #27811, but a deployed object can still carry one). No credential leak: the credential column never reaches the driver's WHERE clause, and masked reads stay masked.

Measured

origin/main 359e935df2, through GET /api/v1/data/:object (REST + the metadata-protocol door + the ObjectQL engine), on both the sqlite SqlDriver and the InMemoryDriver, same results on both. Fixture: field name (text) and field api_key (secret in one object, password in another), with three rows; the driver's received where was captured.

Object's `searchableFields`	Request	Status	Driver `where`	Reading
`[name, api_key]` (`secret` or `password`)	`$search=qq7&$searchFields=api_key`	200, 1 row (match in `name`)	`name $icontains qq7`	asked for `api_key` only, searched `name`: narrower asked, wider answered
same	`$search=zz9&$searchFields=api_key` (term only in `api_key`)	200, 0 rows	`name $icontains zz9`	the credential is not searched (no leak)
same	`$search=zz9&$searchFields=name,api_key`	200, 0 rows	`name $icontains zz9`	`api_key` silently dropped from the list
`[name]` (credential unlisted)	`$searchFields=api_key`	400 `INVALID_FIELD`	none	refused: "not searchable … outside 'searchableFields'"
none (auto default)	`$searchFields=api_key`	400 `INVALID_FIELD`	none	refused: "'api_key' is type 'secret'"
any	`$searchFields=name` / no `$searchFields`	200	`name $icontains …`	controls, as expected

Code path (`origin/main` `059611506a`)

The door: assertSearchFieldsAreSearchable (packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol-query-validation.ts:839) refuses internal: true names (:910), then resolves the allowed set with resolveSearchFieldResolution over the unfiltered gate.fields (:930). For a declared list, that set is the declaration minus unknown and virtual names (packages/spec/src/data/search-fields.ts:246), so a declared secret / password entry is "allowed" and the request passes.
The engine: expandSearchOnAst withholds credential fields from the scan set (packages/objectql/src/engine.ts:13430, collectCredentialFields, ADR-0100), so resolveSearchFields validates the requested api_key to an empty list and, by its tolerant design, returns the whole allowed set (search-fields.ts:263–:273).
The engine comment at engine.ts:13421 states the posture this breaks: "an unhonoured narrowing must be a 400, not a silent widening" (REST 读路径：searchFields / groupBy / aggregations 指向不存在的字段时被静默降级（#4226 收口后剩下的三条轴） #4254). The door and the engine disagree about which fields are searchable.

Wanted

The door refuses a credential-typed name in $searchFields / searchFields / search.fields with 400 INVALID_FIELD, judged by the same credential predicate the engine reads (after PR feat(lint)!: report a searchableFields entry that names a secret or password field #27811, isCredentialFieldType from @objectstack/spec/data), and its message names the credential type and the remedy (remove it from searchableFields). The internal: true refusal at :910 is the existing shape to follow.
A test at the door over a declared list naming a secret and a password field: the credential-only and the mixed request are both refused.
This narrows the door's accept set: Clause-②: no (narrowing), a domain:server change (no packages/spec/src/** hunk expected). Metadata-protocol: the data-door refusal only.

Raw readings: 64 cases (4 objects × 8 requests × 2 drivers), kept by the seat (measurement test + JSON); available on request.

triage#1 · os-zhuang · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U

Path: 可对外的 API | none | P②

Triage: p2 · `domain:server` · `area:api` · 2026-10-30T01:55Z

⛔ Not a claim.

Read fresh. A narrower request answered wider is the data: a blank or comma-only $searchFields is read as absent, so a search the caller narrowed runs over the default search fields instead of being refused #27484 class. The protocol door refuses a $searchFields entry that names a secret / password field with 400 INVALID_FIELD, as it does any unsearchable field, before the engine runs. The engine's withholding stays as the fail-closed floor.
It narrows the door, so it owes Clause-②: no (narrowing) and a contract review. protocol.ts is a hot file, so run the in-flight intersection check.
bug, pm:queue.

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domain:server#2 · os-sales · session_01L6bhgUCizoYWQVJWjhdR6F

Claim: PM loop round 5
Session: session_01L6bhgUCizoYWQVJWjhdR6F
Account: os-sales
Branch: claude/issue-27829-searchfields-credential-refused
Worktree: objectstack-issue-27829
Domain: domain:server
Seat: domain:server#2
File surface: packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol-query-validation.ts (assertSearchFieldsAreSearchable), and protocol.ts only if the gate's field list is built there, their tests, .changeset/* (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: S, mode:subagent, model: default (dispatch-gates --tier: no path-derived mandate), effort: medium
Clause-②: no (narrowing)
Metadata-protocol: none
Responsibility: metadata-protocol data door $searchFields (this lane) | the door refuses an unsearchable field 400 INVALID_FIELD; the engine withholds credential fields | every caller naming a secret/password field in $searchFields
Thread-read: 6513030226
Premise: holds (read on main 637cfc67 2026-10-30T02:14Z: assertSearchFieldsAreSearchable resolves the allowed set over the unfiltered gate fields, so a declared secret / password entry passes the door; the engine then drops it)
Serial constraints cleared: none at claim time (the dev runs git merge-tree against open PRs on these files).

domain:server#2 · os-sales · session_01L6bhgUCizoYWQVJWjhdR6F
os-dev-report

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  "issue": 27829,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-27829-searchfields-credential-refused",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/27936",
  "session": "session_01L6bhgUCizoYWQVJWjhdR6F",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "assertSearchFieldsAreSearchable (packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol-query-validation.ts) now refuses, with 400 INVALID_FIELD (field, fields, object, param set), a requested search field that the resolved allowed set kept but whose type is a credential. Only a declared searchableFields keeps one. The check uses isCredentialFieldType from @objectstack/spec/data, the same predicate the engine's collectCredentialFields withhold reads, so no new type list was added. Message: \"Field 'api_key' on object 'OBJ' is type 'secret', a credential, and cannot be searched ...\", with the remedy: remove the entry from searchableFields when the object declares it. One gate covers the standalone $searchFields / searchFields slot and the object-form search.fields (both POST legs measured). No spec change, no engine change, no line of protocol.ts moved. New door pin rest/src/data-search-fields-credential-door.test.ts (the #27484 harness: RestServer -> findData -> ObjectQL -> sqlite) covers secret and password, GET and POST: 400 with zero driver reads, and the controls answer 200. One docs row in content/docs/api/data-api.mdx; patch changeset with BREAKING banner and ADR-0087 not-required. The PM mechanism assumptions held as stated.",
  "tests": "Red first: the new door test against the base gate (637cfc67) gave 2 failed / 2 passed of 4. $searchFields=api_key answered 200 with qq7-a and qq7-b, matched in name, for secret and for password. Green: 6/6 after the fix; at head f6a224d1, door test + data-empty-search-fields-door.test.ts 11/11. metadata-protocol test at f6a224d1: Test Files 282 passed, 4 skipped (286); Tests 21843 passed, 26 skipped; lock VERDICT command-exit 0. rest test on 1d6b7d0d: Test Files 348/348, Tests 6746 passed, 332 skipped. typecheck metadata-protocol and rest at f6a224d1: exit 0. Ablation via scripts/ablation-replace.mjs, credential cascade arm gated behind globalThis.ABLATE_27829: anchor count 1 -> 0, blob 3028c46e -> 774faa00. After rebuild, ablation-dist-preflight found the marker in dist/index.js and dist/index.cjs. The door test went red, 4 failed / 2 passed (all four refusal legs answered 200, both controls stayed green). Restore: blob == HEAD 3028c46e, git diff HEAD empty; rebuilt, preflight --absent clean over 24 files, tree clean, door test 6/6.",
  "gates": "Local at f6a224d1: dispatch-gates --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack derived 90 families. All 90 were run with the exit code captured before any pipe, and all 90 gave exit 0 (check:type-check-debt ran under os-verify-lock). --ran reconcile with exit codes: '90 derived, 90 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN' (a derived zero). On the first pass (1d6b7d0d), spec check:skill-examples and check:dual-build-cjs-loads gave exit 3 (PREREQUISITE NOT MET, dists not built). That was not read as a verdict; both gave exit 0 after the full package build. eslint --no-inline-config over packages/metadata-protocol and packages/rest: exit 0. CI families: PR #27936 check-runs were in_progress at report time; I did not wait on them.",
  "line_budget": "199 changed lines at 1d6b7d0d (+198 / -1, 4 files), under the 3000 human-merge threshold",
  "deviations": "Two notes. (1) The final reading needed a second merge of origin/main. The first battery, on c55d2e92, had 4 failures in 3 dogfood files (error-sentences-live x2, object-hook-lifecycle-scratch, platform-app-object-entry-views), none search-related; main had already fixed them in #27878 and #27873. So I merged again (f6a224d1) and re-ran the battery there, and that run was green. (2) rest test was not re-run in full after the merges: the merges brought no rest change; at the final head I ran only the two door files. metadata-protocol test and typecheck were re-run at the final head.",
  "files_changed": [
    ".changeset/27829-search-fields-credential-refused.md",
    "content/docs/api/data-api.mdx",
    "packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol-query-validation.ts",
    "packages/rest/src/data-search-fields-credential-door.test.ts"
  ],
  "dogfood_battery": "f6a224d1 · os-verify-lock VERDICT command-exit 0 (after turbo build --filter='./packages/**', 76/76) · Test Files 357 passed, 3 skipped (360) · Tests 2875 passed, 20 skipped (2895) · no failures",
  "mcp_calls": "0",
  "api_writes": "2: fleet-write relay pr_create (workflow dispatch fw-20261030T043229Z-ab8f58, run 41003470366, created PR #27936 as a draft with no assignees and no reviewers; read-back identical, 9448 bytes) and this os-dev-report comment on #27829 via scripts/pm/post-stamped.mjs. git push is not counted.",
  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "not class a/b/c, polish: the declared branch of the existing 'not searchable' message lists allowed.join(', '), which still names a declared credential entry. Noted in the PR Acceptance notes · carrier: none",
    "Producer note, not a finding: the Console list search (plugin-list ListView.tsx, plugin-grid objectGridRowLoad.ts) echoes a view's searchableFields as $searchFields. On a view declaring a credential, a silent 200 becomes a 400. This is the ruled narrowing, and lint validate-searchable-fields already errors on that declaration · carrier: none"
  ]
}

domain:server#2 · os-sales · session_01L6bhgUCizoYWQVJWjhdR6F

ACCEPT → PR #27936 · head f6a224d1 · 2026-10-30T05:07Z · landing sent (ACCEPT 6515457664, contract review 6515260948 PASS).

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data: `$searchFields` naming only a `secret` / `password` field the object lists in `searchableFields` answers 200 and searches the rest of the allowed set; the door admits what the engine withholds #27829

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Triage: p2 · `domain:server` · `area:api` · 2026-10-30T01:55Z