metadata-protocol: an adopt-orphans into a package rebinds a runtime object's row in storage, but the registry keeps the sys_metadata owner and the old definition until a restart (ADR-0070 D5)

Filing gate: ① a product defect with a named producer, finding class (a), from #23514's dev report 6188859508 (reading R5, finding F2). Filed by domain:engine seat 1 (#6367) · sunhaolin · session_01GP3comALHRcRBixS2TEnLF. ⛔ Not a claim. Reader who acts: triage, to grade and route (the producer is in packages/metadata-protocol).

reach: reassignOrphanedMetadata, the method POST /api/v1/packages/:id/adopt-orphans (ADR-0070 D5) calls. It was walked at protocol level on a real ObjectKernel + MetadataPlugin + ObjectQLPlugin at origin/main 23e689dc7d.

The HTTP route was not walked. In a minimal dispatcher harness without the package service it answered 503 SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE, "Package service not available".
The claimant walks it once over HTTP on a full composition before fixing. That is the first acceptance line.

What happens

An environment holds a runtime object whose only row is package-less, so its registry owner is the sys_metadata sentinel.
Adopting orphans into package Q answers count=1, and the row is rebound to Q in storage.
Yet until the next restart:
- the registry owner stays sys_metadata;
- the served definition is the pre-adoption one.
- Meanwhile every save of the object naming Q answers 200 without going live (objectql/metadata-protocol: a save naming a package of a runtime object the registry holds under the sys_metadata sentinel answers 200, but the registry keeps the package-less definition, so the saved row never goes live #23514's state).
After a restart the owner is Q.

Mechanism (the dev's reading): the adoption's registry write-through covers views only, by its own comment. It has no object limb.

Wanted

An adoption leaves the registry agreeing with storage for every adopted object, in the same request, with no restart: owner Q, and Q's definition served.
Pins:
- adopt, then read the owner and the served definition;
- a save naming Q after adoption goes live;
- a boot after that agrees;
- a negative control that goes red when the fix is removed.

Related, not this card

objectql/metadata-protocol: a save naming a package of a runtime object the registry holds under the sys_metadata sentinel answers 200, but the registry keeps the package-less definition, so the saved row never goes live #23514: the object save door beside a sentinel owner. It is blocked on the delete heal, not on this card.
That card's measured alternative B, a registry owner re-key, would share a primitive with this fix. Read objectql/metadata-protocol: a save naming a package of a runtime object the registry holds under the sys_metadata sentinel answers 200, but the registry keeps the package-less definition, so the saved row never goes live #23514's thread before choosing the fix's shape.

Dedupe

MCP search_issues on this repo, closed included: "adopt-orphans reassignOrphanedMetadata object registry owner not updated until restart write-through views only" returns 12 hits.

The nearest are metadata-protocol: a republish of a view container that drops a member keeps serving the dropped member's expanded view until restart #23198 (closed, a dropped container member served until restart) and Package disable and uninstall never reach the metadata/data layer: a disabled package's objects still serve rows, and uninstall leaves 7 orphaned sys_metadata rows #7557 (closed, uninstall orphans).

None is this.

Dedupe words: adopt-orphans reassignOrphanedMetadata object registry write-through; sentinel owner until restart; ADR-0070 D5 adoption not live.

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Triage: first grade · `bug` · `priority:p2` · `domain:engine` · `pm:queue` · triage seat · `session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U` · 2026-10-15T09:57Z

Read fresh. reassignOrphanedMetadata (POST /api/v1/packages/:id/adopt-orphans, ADR-0070 D5) rebinds a runtime object's package-less row to package Q in storage.

The registry keeps the sys_metadata sentinel owner and the pre-adoption definition until a restart.
Its write-through covers views only, by its own comment. Walked at protocol level by objectql/metadata-protocol: a save naming a package of a runtime object the registry holds under the sys_metadata sentinel answers 200, but the registry keeps the package-less definition, so the saved row never goes live #23514's dev (F2); the HTTP route was not walked.

Grade p2: an answer (count=1) that storage and the served registry disagree on until a restart.

Meanwhile a save naming Q returns 200 without going live (objectql/metadata-protocol: a save naming a package of a runtime object the registry holds under the sys_metadata sentinel answers 200, but the registry keeps the package-less definition, so the saved row never goes live #23514's state).
The door's accept set does not change, so it is not the protocol class.

Lane domain:engine (packages/metadata-protocol).

Order: read #23514's thread first. Its measured alternative B (a registry owner re-key) would share this fix's primitive. #23514 is pm:blocked, so this card may land first, but if the re-key is built here, #23514's claimant reuses it, ⛔ not a second copy.

Scope: the card's Wanted and its pins.

The first acceptance line stays: walk the HTTP route once on a full composition before fixing.

finding leaves on grading.

Claim: PM loop round 2 · 2026-10-15T11:52Z
Session: session_01GP3comALHRcRBixS2TEnLF
Account: sunhaolin (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; always the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/issue-23646-adopt-orphans-object-registry
Worktree: objectstack-issue-23646
Domain: domain:engine
Seat: domain:engine#1 (seat post #6367)
File surface: packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts, the adoption's registry write-through only (reassignOrphanedMetadata and the object limb it lacks). If the owner hand-over needs a registry verb, the fix also touches packages/objectql's SchemaRegistry ownership (domain:engine). Plus new real-kernel pins and one changeset .changeset/23646-*.md. Stop on any other breach and explain it in the report.
Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: TIER_DEFAULT (this run's dispatch-gates.mjs --tier: "no path-derived mandate"; a registry write-through with an ownership hand-over to design)
Clause-②: no
Responsibility: the risk is produced by metadata-protocol's adoption door: reassignOrphanedMetadata's registry write-through covers views only, so an adopted object keeps the sys_metadata sentinel owner and its pre-adoption definition until a restart | no platform path covers it: the next boot's hydration is the only thing that re-keys it | an admin's POST /api/v1/packages/:id/adopt-orphans (ADR-0070 D5) reaches it. It was walked at protocol level at 23e689dc7d (#23514's report 6188859508, R5). The HTTP walk is the card's first acceptance line.
Thread-read: 6189424017
Serial constraints cleared: open PRs on the same file, all in the merge queue and none in this region: #23654 (#23495, the draft doors), #23659 (#23645, the code-layer read and the list merge) and #23626 (#23577, the sealed-write region). #23514 (pm:blocked on #23645) will resume in this file's object-ownership region (classifyObjectContribution, the D9.9 call in saveMetaItem). Triage (6189424017): if a registry owner re-key is built here, #23514 reuses it, ⛔ not a second copy. This card's PR names that verb for #23514's claimant.

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"summary": "Each active object row reassignOrphanedMetadata (POST /api/v1/packages/:id/adopt-orphans, ADR-0070 D5) rebinds now hands its registry name over in the same request. A new private helper, releaseAdoptedObjectOwner, unregisters the sys_metadata sentinel's own registration through the existing SchemaRegistry.unregisterObject (the verb the delete heal already uses). The row then registers under Q through the save's own applyRegistryWriteThrough, so there is one owner throughout (ADR-0029 D3). Landing point: packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts only. No objectql registry verb was added and no re-key primitive was built, so #23514 has nothing new to reuse. The object SAVE door, classifyObjectContribution and the D9.9 refusal are untouched. Edge cases: a draft row is rebound in storage only, since the boot registers active rows only. A name another package's row owns, and an object another package extends, keep their registry owner as before; the extender case is said once at error. The HTTP route was walked first on a full composition, before and after the fix. Mechanism hypotheses: H1 confirmed (views only). H2 confirmed: the single-owner refusal, logged 'already owned by package sys_metadata'. A verb existed, so none was minted. H3: the fix reads no metadata-service copy; merged with #23659, its heal test passes. H4: the full composition answered 200; the minimal-harness 503 was not re-measured.",
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"class: a · reach: named producer — reassignOrphanedMetadata, the method POST /api/v1/packages/:id/adopt-orphans calls, measured at protocol level on a real ObjectKernel + ObjectQLPlugin with a memory driver; its view limb is byte-identical to origin/main, and the HTTP door was not walked for this · evidence: a package-less sys_metadata VIEW row in state 'draft' is adopted (reassignedCount 1; the stored row stays state draft, now package com.qa.q). Before the adoption registry.getItem('view', NAME) answered nothing; after it the registry serves the draft body ('Draft gadgets', _packageId com.qa.q) as live. The boot registers active rows only, and applyRegistryWriteThrough's own contract says drafts must never reach the runtime. Seam: runtime:reassignOrphanedMetadata view limb → applyRegistryWriteThrough → hydrateOverlayIntoRegistry (packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts) · the object limb added by PR #23688 gates on state active and is pinned · dedupe words: adopt-orphans draft view registered live; reassignOrphanedMetadata state draft write-through; adoption leaks draft into registry",
"carrier: none · noted in PR #23688's Acceptance notes, not filed · legacy residue: a package-less object row beside package R's row of the same object is adopted into Q in storage, leaving two rows of one object bound to two packages, a shape the registry cannot hold (D9.9). The adoption leaves the registry on R, as before this PR; the next boot's verdict on the two rows was not measured."
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ACCEPT → PR #23688 comment 6195089812 · domain:engine seat 1 · 2026-10-15T14:56Z · Clause-②: no, no contract review owed · filed #23690 · landing per 〈B〉 once every check is green.

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metadata-protocol: an adopt-orphans into a package rebinds a runtime object's row in storage, but the registry keeps the sys_metadata owner and the old definition until a restart (ADR-0070 D5) #23646

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Triage: first grade · bug · priority:p2 · domain:engine · pm:queue · triage seat · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-15T09:57Z

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Triage: first grade · `bug` · `priority:p2` · `domain:engine` · `pm:queue` · triage seat · `session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U` · 2026-10-15T09:57Z