fix(spec): scope the modifyAllRecords bypass declaration to what sharing enforces (#6698)

`ObjectPermissionSchema.modifyAllRecords` promised a bypass of "Sharing Rules
and Ownership checks". On an object with NO owner field it bypasses neither:
record sharing does not enforce there at all (`checkEdit`/`checkDelete` answer
`abstain` before the bypass is probed, #6428), so the platform's own row-level
write floor `created_by == current_user.id` (#1985) survives and the by-id write
is refused — measured and pinned in plugin-security's
`row-write-widener-composition.test.ts` by #6684.

Option A on #6698: only the DECLARATION moves. The describe now scopes the
bypass to the objects record sharing enforces on and discloses the surviving
platform floor, while keeping legible that on an owner-bearing object — the
common case this bit is granted for — the bypass is real. No runtime change; the
accepted/rejected metadata set is byte-for-byte unchanged; no `plugin-sharing`
or `plugin-security` file is touched.

`content/docs/references/security/permission.mdx` is regenerated by
`pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec gen:docs` (two table cells).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018ffcE95NaMJcL9XJ9VDYgk

Author: claude

.changeset/modifyall-records-owner-less-declaration.md

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+---
+"@objectstack/spec": patch
+---
+
+fix(spec): `modifyAllRecords` 的声明不再承诺它在无 owner 字段对象上做不到的 bypass(#6698)
+
+`ObjectPermissionSchema.modifyAllRecords` 的 `.describe()` 此前只写
+`Modify All Data (Bypass Sharing)`,旁边的文档注释更进一步宣称它
+"Bypasses Sharing Rules and Ownership checks"。在**没有 owner 字段**的对象上,
+两样都不成立:记录共享在这类对象上根本不参与判定 —— `checkEdit` / `checkDelete`
+在探测 bypass 之前就返回 `abstain`(#6428 的三态),于是平台自己的行级写入底线
+`created_by == current_user.id`(#1985 的 `owner_only_writes` /
+`owner_only_deletes` 通配策略)继续生效,按 id 写别人创建的行仍然被 403 拒绝。
+这一格是 #6684 明确测量并钉住的既定行为(plugin-security 的
+`row-write-widener-composition.test.ts`),不是缺陷 —— 缺陷在于声明比实现讲得多,
+正是 ADR-0049 `declared ≠ enforced` 那一类残留。
+
+这次改的只有**声明**:describe 把 bypass 限定在"记录共享真正参与判定的对象"上,
+并披露 owner-less 对象上仍然生效的平台 `created_by` 写入底线。带 owner 字段的
+对象 —— 也就是授予这个位的常见场景 —— bypass 依旧是真的,措辞刻意保留了这一半,
+以免矫枉过正成相反的谎;新增的 pin 对两半都会变红。
+
+**没有任何运行时行为变化**,合法元数据集合逐字节不变(只有描述字符串变了),
+`plugin-sharing` / `plugin-security` 一个文件都没有碰。生成的
+`content/docs/references/security/permission.mdx` 随之重算。

content/docs/references/security/permission.mdx

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ const result = AdminScopeSchema.parse(data);
 | **allowRestore** | `boolean` | ✅ | [RBAC-gated; operation pending M2] Restore from trash (Undelete) |
 | **allowPurge** | `boolean` | ✅ | [RBAC-gated; operation pending M2] Permanently delete (Hard Delete/GDPR) |
 | **viewAllRecords** | `boolean` | ✅ | View All Data (Bypass Sharing) |
-| **modifyAllRecords** | `boolean` | ✅ | Modify All Data (Bypass Sharing) |
+| **modifyAllRecords** | `boolean` | ✅ | Modify All Data (Bypass Sharing) — bypasses sharing rules and ownership on the objects record sharing enforces on; on an object with NO owner field sharing abstains, so the platform created_by write floor still applies (#6698). |
 | **readScope** | `Enum<'own' \| 'own_and_reports' \| 'unit' \| 'unit_and_below' \| 'org'>` | optional | [ADR-0057 D1] Read depth: own\|unit\|unit_and_below\|org |
 | **writeScope** | `Enum<'own' \| 'own_and_reports' \| 'unit' \| 'unit_and_below' \| 'org'>` | optional | [ADR-0057 D1] Write depth: own\|unit\|unit_and_below\|org |
 | **apiOperations** | `Enum<'get' \| 'list' \| 'create' \| 'update' \| 'delete' \| 'upsert' \| 'bulk' \| 'aggregate' \| 'history' \| 'search' \| 'restore' \| 'purge' \| 'import' \| 'export'>[]` | optional | Server-resolved effective API operations for this object (#3391). Present only when the object tightens exposure via apiMethods; absent = default-allow. The frontend renders this effective set, never the raw whitelist. Vocabulary is the EFFECTIVE ApiOperation set (six primitives + eight derived verbs, #3543), not the authored six-value ApiMethod enum. |
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ const result = AdminScopeSchema.parse(data);
 | **allowRestore** | `boolean` | ✅ | [RBAC-gated; operation pending M2] Restore from trash (Undelete) |
 | **allowPurge** | `boolean` | ✅ | [RBAC-gated; operation pending M2] Permanently delete (Hard Delete/GDPR) |
 | **viewAllRecords** | `boolean` | ✅ | View All Data (Bypass Sharing) |
-| **modifyAllRecords** | `boolean` | ✅ | Modify All Data (Bypass Sharing) |
+| **modifyAllRecords** | `boolean` | ✅ | Modify All Data (Bypass Sharing) — bypasses sharing rules and ownership on the objects record sharing enforces on; on an object with NO owner field sharing abstains, so the platform created_by write floor still applies (#6698). |
 | **readScope** | `Enum<'own' \| 'own_and_reports' \| 'unit' \| 'unit_and_below' \| 'org'>` | optional | [ADR-0057 D1] Read depth: own\|unit\|unit_and_below\|org |
 | **writeScope** | `Enum<'own' \| 'own_and_reports' \| 'unit' \| 'unit_and_below' \| 'org'>` | optional | [ADR-0057 D1] Write depth: own\|unit\|unit_and_below\|org |
 

packages/spec/src/security/permission.test.ts

@@ -658,3 +658,55 @@ describe('unknown keys are rejected, not stripped (#4001)', () => {
     });
   });
 });
+
+/**
+ * [#6698] The `modifyAllRecords` `.describe()` is a published contract, not a
+ * code comment: it is the field help Studio renders inline, and it is the cell
+ * the generated `content/docs/references/security/permission.mdx` table carries
+ * — so an author (very often an AI maintainer, ADR-0033) deciding whether this
+ * bit covers their object reads THIS text and nothing else.
+ *
+ * It used to read `Modify All Data (Bypass Sharing)` beside a JSDoc block
+ * promising a bypass of "Sharing Rules and Ownership checks". On an object with
+ * NO owner field it bypasses neither: record sharing does not enforce there at
+ * all (`checkEdit` / `checkDelete` answer `abstain` before the bypass is ever
+ * probed, #6428), so the platform's own row-level write floor
+ * `created_by == current_user.id` (#1985) survives and the by-id write is still
+ * refused — measured and pinned in plugin-security's
+ * `row-write-widener-composition.test.ts`.
+ *
+ * The assertions read the text back OUT of the schema and match the FACTS it
+ * must carry rather than its wording: re-spell the qualification however reads
+ * best and this stays green; drop it — or empty the `.describe()`, which is why
+ * every assertion here is POSITIVE — and it goes red. Both halves are pinned on
+ * purpose: a declaration that forgot to say the bit is a genuine super-user
+ * bypass would be the opposite lie, since on the common owner-bearing object it
+ * does exactly what it says.
+ */
+describe('[#6698] modifyAllRecords declares its bypass AND the limit of that bypass', () => {
+  const description = ObjectPermissionSchema.shape.modifyAllRecords.description ?? '';
+
+  /** Idioms that SCOPE the bypass to the objects record sharing enforces on. */
+  const OWNERLESS_LIMIT =
+    /owner-?less|no owner field|without an owner|objects (that )?(record )?sharing enforces on|as (record )?sharing computes/i;
+  /** Idioms naming the gate that SURVIVES the bypass on such an object. */
+  const SURVIVING_FLOOR = /created_by|ownership floor|write floor|abstain/i;
+
+  it('still tells the author this is a super-user bypass, not an inert bit', () => {
+    expect(description, 'modifyAllRecords must carry a description — it is the form field help')
+      .not.toBe('');
+    expect(description, 'the capability must stay nameable in the text').toMatch(/modify all data/i);
+    expect(description, 'on an owner-bearing object the bypass is real and must stay legible')
+      .toMatch(/bypass/i);
+  });
+
+  it('scopes the bypass to the objects record sharing actually enforces on', () => {
+    expect(description, `no owner-less qualification found in: ${description}`)
+      .toMatch(OWNERLESS_LIMIT);
+  });
+
+  it('discloses the platform write floor that survives on an owner-less object', () => {
+    expect(description, `no surviving-floor disclosure found in: ${description}`)
+      .toMatch(SURVIVING_FLOOR);
+  });
+});

packages/spec/src/security/permission.zod.ts

@@ -164,12 +164,28 @@ export const ObjectPermissionSchema = lazySchema(() => strictObject(
    */
   viewAllRecords: z.boolean().default(false).describe('View All Data (Bypass Sharing)'),
 
-  /** 
-   * Modify All Records: Super-user write access. 
-   * Bypasses Sharing Rules and Ownership checks.
+  /**
+   * Modify All Records: Super-user write access.
+   * Bypasses Sharing Rules and Ownership checks — as RECORD SHARING computes
+   * them, i.e. on every object `ISharingService` enforces on, which is any
+   * object carrying an owner field (the common case, and the one this bit is
+   * granted for).
    * Equivalent to Microsoft Dataverse "Organization" level write access.
+   *
+   * [#6698] It is NOT a bypass of every ownership check the platform runs. On
+   * an object with NO owner field record sharing does not enforce at all —
+   * `checkEdit` / `checkDelete` answer `abstain` before the bypass is ever
+   * probed (#6428's tri-state) — so the platform's own row-level WRITE floor
+   * (`created_by == current_user.id`, shipped as the wildcard
+   * `owner_only_writes` / `owner_only_deletes` policies that answer #1985)
+   * stays in force, and a by-id write to another user's row is still refused.
+   * Measured and pinned in plugin-security's
+   * `row-write-widener-composition.test.ts`. Widening that cell would be a
+   * RUNTIME change in `plugin-sharing` (option B on #6698) and is deliberately
+   * not taken — what moved here is only the declaration, so that it stops
+   * over-claiming (ADR-0049 `declared ≠ enforced`).
    */
-  modifyAllRecords: z.boolean().default(false).describe('Modify All Data (Bypass Sharing)'),
+  modifyAllRecords: z.boolean().default(false).describe('Modify All Data (Bypass Sharing) — bypasses sharing rules and ownership on the objects record sharing enforces on; on an object with NO owner field sharing abstains, so the platform created_by write floor still applies (#6698).'),
 
   /**
    * [ADR-0057 D1] Read access DEPTH (Dataverse-style access level), layered on