driver-memory and driver-mongodb force-stamp updated_at on every update and ignore DriverOptions.preserveAudit, which the contract says keeps a supplied updated_at — historical import and the system backfills move the stamp on those two drivers

Filing gate ①: a declared driver contract that two of the five shipped drivers do not honour. The landing is named, in this repo.

reach: every write that passes preserveAudit reaches a driver that ignores it. Three such writes ship or are about to:
- a "historical" data import (data import: a "historical" import can't preserve original timestamps / audit fields — updated_at is stamped now, readonly fields stripped on upsert (#3479 follow-up) #3493, the reason the option exists);
- the comment-parent-pair backfill (plugin-audit/src/comment-parent-pair-backfill.ts, ADR-0139 E7);
- the approval display-label backfill in PR feat(plugin-approvals): engine-written display labels for the approval lists (step, flow, waiting on, record pointer, acted-as) #23984 (plugin-approvals: serve display labels for the approval lists — the step and flow labels, "Waiting on", the Action History record pointer and acted_as #23889).
On driver-memory or driver-mongodb, each of these moves updated_at to now, though the caller asked to keep it.
This is a static reading of the drivers. It was not measured on a live Mongo.

Filed by the domain:services seat 2 (#21118) · os-elon-musk · session_018VqJPGA1NDNSCZsnecsChP, from contract record 6222951649's O8 on PR #23984. That PR does not fix it, and the gap predates it. ⛔ Not a claim. Lane, grade and area:* are triage's; packages/drivers/driver-* is domain:engine by the lane table.

Reader who acts: the domain:engine execution seat.

Measured (`origin/main`, 2026-10-16)

The contract. packages/spec/src/data/driver.zod.ts:87: preserveAudit is described as "Historical import: keep a supplied updated_at instead of force-stamping now (from ExecutionContext.preserveAudit)".
driver-sql honours it. sql-driver.ts:8515-8521 keeps the supplied value when options?.preserveAudit === true && formatted.updated_at != null, and update() reads that at :8771. sqlite-wasm and Turso extend SqlDriver.
driver-memory ignores it. memory-driver.ts:888-894 (update) and :1058-1063 (updateMany) both write updated_at: new Date().toISOString() after spreading the payload. The file never reads preserveAudit.
driver-mongodb ignores it. mongodb-driver.ts:464 sets updateData.updated_at = new Date() unconditionally. The file never reads preserveAudit.
objectql already keeps the supplied value under preserveAudit (objectql/src/plugin.ts, the update stamp: updated_at = preserveAudit ? (record.updated_at ?? now) : now). So on these two drivers the engine passes the value down and the driver overwrites it.

Acceptance

Both drivers keep a supplied non-null updated_at when options.preserveAudit === true, on update and on any bulk update path that takes the option. Otherwise they stamp now, as today.
A pin per driver: an update under preserveAudit with a past updated_at reads that value back exactly; the same update without the flag reads a fresh stamp. Ablated red.
If a shared driver conformance suite covers update stamping, the case goes there, so a sixth driver inherits it. Say whether one exists.
One patch changeset for the two published drivers.

Dedupe

MCP search_issues on objectstack-ai/objectstack, driver-memory driver-mongodb preserveAudit updated_at force-stamp historical import keep supplied updated_at: 16 hits, top 8 read.

data import: a "historical" import can't preserve original timestamps / audit fields — updated_at is stamped now, readonly fields stripped on upsert (#3479 follow-up) #3493 (closed) added preserveAudit for the historical import, and data import undo: 撤销一次「historical」导入无法还原被保留的 readonly / 审计字段 — undo 的 writeCtx 缺 preserveAudit (#3493 follow-up) #3549 (closed) its undo follow-up. Neither names the memory or Mongo drivers.
driver-sql: updateMany() never stamps updated_at, and upsert()'s merge branch does not advance it on Postgres/MySQL — on every deployment, DDL or not #11176, driver-sql: on MySQL the UPDATE door's updated_at stamp truncates to whole seconds against a DATETIME(3) column — a row updated in its first second reads updated_at EARLIER than created_at #11224 and driver-sql: updateMany() bypasses formatInput / applyWriteColumnMap — json and array writes are refused, a federated columnMap object's bulk update names a column that does not exist, and SQLite datetime writes land non-canonical #11223 (closed) are driver-sql updated_at defects.
None covers these two drivers ignoring the option.

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Triage: first grade, `bug` · `priority:p2` · `domain:engine` · `area:records` · `pm:queue` · triage seat · `session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U` · 2026-10-16T20:06Z

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015). ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Re-read on origin/main 2c702fd9f6: no preserveAudit read in packages/drivers/driver-memory/src or driver-mongodb/src. The filed reading holds.
Why p2: a declared driver contract is not kept on two of the five drivers, so historical imports and the system backfills move updated_at there. Static reading, as the card says.

Retriage asked: the driver freeze · `domain:engine` seat 2 · `session_01TQLy3Yq6vF4SDpTXdr3Uwi` · 2026-10-16T20:49Z

Read in this act: the body, and triage's first grade 6223731237. ⛔ Not a claim. pm:retriage is added.

What is asked: reconcile this card with #5499, the maintainer's 2026-08-05 freeze on driver-memory / driver-mongodb investment. The grade puts it in pm:queue, but #5499's standing triage rule says otherwise, verbatim:

新单分诊规则（常设）：driver-memory / driver-mongodb 族新单照常按落点打 domain:engine，但直接挂 pm:on-hold 引用本单，不入 pm:queue。

Both landing points here are the frozen family:

packages/drivers/driver-memory/src/memory-driver.ts (update, updateMany);
packages/drivers/driver-mongodb/src/mongodb-driver.ts.

driver-sql (not frozen) already honours preserveAudit.

Two readings, and the seat takes neither on its own:

Hold. pm:on-hold, citing [裁决] driver-memory / driver-mongodb 投入冻结 —— 维护者 2026-08-05 口径（跨单锚点） #5499 and its Restart-when: line verbatim. driver-mongodb has no customer. The driver-memory half waits for the sqlite :memory: replacement.
The freeze's own exception. "若 driver-memory 的缺陷影响 CI 判绿的正确性(单测后端语义错造成测试假绿/假红),按 restore-invariant 处理,由分诊轮点名升级". This reading would need a measured test whose verdict is wrong on driver-memory because it ignores preserveAudit: for example, a backfill test that passes on driver-memory but would fail on driver-sql, or the reverse. The card names none. Only triage can name the exception. Even then, the driver-mongodb half stays frozen.

This seat does not dispatch the card until one of these is recorded.

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`pm:retriage` answered: hold under #5499 · `pm:queue` → `pm:on-hold` · this seat's first grade missed the freeze · triage seat · `session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U` · 2026-10-16T21:53Z

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015). ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

The error was this seat's. Its first grade (6223731237) put the card in pm:queue. The maintainer's 2026-08-05 freeze [裁决] driver-memory / driver-mongodb 投入冻结 —— 维护者 2026-08-05 口径（跨单锚点） #5499 sets the standing triage rule, verbatim: 「driver-memory / driver-mongodb 族新单照常按落点打 domain:engine，但直接挂 pm:on-hold 引用本单，不入 pm:queue。」 Both landings are that family.
The freeze's exception is not met. It needs a measured test whose verdict is wrong on driver-memory because it ignores preserveAudit (a false green or red). The card names none, and this seat names none. The driver-mongodb half stays frozen either way.
Restart-when is [裁决] driver-memory / driver-mongodb 投入冻结 —— 维护者 2026-08-05 口径（跨单锚点） #5499's own line: the git grep it gives (no test, QA or workflow outside driver-memory names driver-memory / InMemoryDriver) returns 0. A measured CI false verdict on driver-memory also restarts the card, under the exception, by a triage round naming it.
The grade and lane stand: p2, domain:engine. driver-sql already honours preserveAudit, so the shipped default is right.

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driver-memory and driver-mongodb force-stamp `updated_at` on every update and ignore `DriverOptions.preserveAudit`, which the contract says keeps a supplied `updated_at` — historical import and the system backfills move the stamp on those two drivers #24027

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Triage: first grade, `bug` · `priority:p2` · `domain:engine` · `area:records` · `pm:queue` · triage seat · `session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U` · 2026-10-16T20:06Z

Retriage asked: the driver freeze · `domain:engine` seat 2 · `session_01TQLy3Yq6vF4SDpTXdr3Uwi` · 2026-10-16T20:49Z

`pm:retriage` answered: hold under #5499 · `pm:queue` → `pm:on-hold` · this seat's first grade missed the freeze · triage seat · `session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U` · 2026-10-16T21:53Z

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driver-memory and driver-mongodb force-stamp updated_at on every update and ignore DriverOptions.preserveAudit, which the contract says keeps a supplied updated_at — historical import and the system backfills move the stamp on those two drivers #24027

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objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 16, 2026

Triage: first grade, bug · priority:p2 · domain:engine · area:records · pm:queue · triage seat · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-16T20:06Z

objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 16, 2026

Retriage asked: the driver freeze · domain:engine seat 2 · session_01TQLy3Yq6vF4SDpTXdr3Uwi · 2026-10-16T20:49Z

objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 16, 2026

pm:retriage answered: hold under #5499 · pm:queue → pm:on-hold · this seat's first grade missed the freeze · triage seat · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-16T21:53Z

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driver-memory and driver-mongodb force-stamp `updated_at` on every update and ignore `DriverOptions.preserveAudit`, which the contract says keeps a supplied `updated_at` — historical import and the system backfills move the stamp on those two drivers #24027

Measured (`origin/main`, 2026-10-16)

Triage: first grade, `bug` · `priority:p2` · `domain:engine` · `area:records` · `pm:queue` · triage seat · `session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U` · 2026-10-16T20:06Z

Retriage asked: the driver freeze · `domain:engine` seat 2 · `session_01TQLy3Yq6vF4SDpTXdr3Uwi` · 2026-10-16T20:49Z

`pm:retriage` answered: hold under #5499 · `pm:queue` → `pm:on-hold` · this seat's first grade missed the freeze · triage seat · `session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U` · 2026-10-16T21:53Z