MCP delete_record refuses a call without confirm: true (ACTION_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED), the run_action confirmation gate widened to deletes

epic:#3600#1 · hotlong · session_01Q4EjjPXwX1YfHyKJUh4agu

Filing-gate category: ② maintainer-directed task. Maintainer, verbatim (Claude Code session, 2026-11-06): 「同意」, then, after an isolated contract-review-tier re-read flagged that this is a breaking change for every MCP client that deletes and recommended deferring a data:delete scope split, again 「同意」. Option B of the seat's analysis. Routing, verbatim: 「能交给车队开发的你不要自己开发」.

Clause-②: yes (the confirmation contract in packages/spec/src/contracts/ai-service.ts widens to a second door; the error-code ledger gains a producer site).

Problem (customer-visible)

An AI agent connected over MCP can hard-delete a record with one call. delete_record (packages/mcp/src/mcp-http-tools.ts:1481-1499) carries only annotations.destructiveHint: true, a hint the client may ignore. Its server path (bridge.remove, packages/mcp/src/stdio-data-bridge.ts:1146-1166) enforces API exposure (apiOperations may exclude delete → 405) and credentials, but has no confirmation step. Deletes are hard (enable.trash retired, soft delete parked: packages/spec/src/data/object.zod.ts:82-83,168-175). An instruction injected into a record's text can therefore lead an agent to delete records the user may delete, with no human asked.

Decision context

run_action already refuses an author-gated action without confirm: true (ACTION_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED; #15942, PR #17486 +834/−15; contract #16293 / PR #16531). The runtime's own note (packages/runtime/src/action-execution.ts:2848-2860): the gate "makes forgetting loud. It does not prove a human", REST is outside, and "widening the set is its own decision, not a thing to infer". This card is that decision, for delete_record only.

Ask

delete_record refuses a call without confirm: true with ACTION_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED, reusing AI_ACTION_CONFIRMATION_MEMBER (closed boolean, packages/spec/src/contracts/ai-service.ts:240) and the same refusal shape and details as run_action. The tool description tells the agent to ask the human first, then retry. Nothing is deleted on a refused call.
Scope: the MCP delete_record tool only. REST DELETE /api/v1/data/... (the human path) stays outside, as in fix(runtime,mcp): enforce ai.requiresConfirmation at the AI-facing action door, and grow run_action the member that satisfies it #17486's changeset. update_record is not gated. No per-object exemption for now. Any future bulk-delete tool must take the same gate. State all four in the changeset.
Breaking change: every MCP client that deletes is refused until it sends confirm. Ship a minor changeset with a FROM → TO block (precedent .changeset/action-confirmation-gate-enforced.md).
Update the contract docblock in ai-service.ts to name the second door, and the error-code ledger's provenance for the new producer site.
Tests: refused without confirm, record intact; deleted with confirm: true; the refusal's code and details; REST delete unaffected.

Considered and not built now: an OAuth data:delete scope split (today data:write bundles create, update and delete, mcp-http-tools.ts:220; a real authorization lever, deferred for want of pull: a permanent new scope value); a record-bound confirmation token (adds nothing while confirm is an attestation); MCP elicitation (no support in packages/mcp today). Elicitation or client-side approval is the mainstream end state; this gate stays as the server-side backstop. Cloud's service-ai chat exposes no raw delete tool at all, so nothing to change there.

Size: S–M (mcp tool, tests, changeset, contract docblock); precedent #17486 +834/−15, which also carried the runtime gate.

Reader: the domain:server lane seat, from pm:queue.

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triage#1 · os-zhuang · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U

Path: none

Triage: audit · p1 kept · `domain:server` · 2026-11-06T04:50Z

⛔ Not a claim.

This answers domain:server#4's ask (6677200061). Read fresh: MCP delete_record takes the run_action confirmation gate and refuses a call without confirm: true (ACTION_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED). That is option B, which the maintainer agreed to twice, the second time after the breaking-change note (「同意」). The data:delete scope split is deferred.
p1 kept: the confirmation contract in packages/spec/src/contracts/ai-service.ts widens to a second door (Clause-②: yes), so it is p1 under the protocol-addition rule. It is a BREAKING change for every MCP client that deletes, so the PR carries the breaking changeset and the ledger producer site.
Lane domain:server (packages/mcp). The spec contract widening rides the same PR only if the spec seat's pre-approved ledger class covers it; otherwise it needs a domain:spec card first. No domain:spec seat is online now.

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domain:server#4 · os-elon-musk · session_016WV4czvZykUqhYxYXSSDt4

Claim: PM loop round 1 · 2026-11-06T05:18Z
Session: session_016WV4czvZykUqhYxYXSSDt4
Account: os-elon-musk (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee)
Branch: the card thread's designated claude/project-thread-* branch, named in a claim amendment once the thread reports it
Worktree: objectstack-issue-30813
Domain: domain:server
Seat: domain:server#4
File surface: the MCP delete_record tool and its server path (packages/mcp/src/mcp-http-tools.ts, packages/mcp/src/stdio-data-bridge.ts only where the refusal is raised, and the tool description), their tests; packages/spec/src/contracts/ai-service.ts (the confirmation contract's docblock names the second door; no shape change); packages/spec/src/api/error-code-ledger.zod.ts (the ACTION_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED member's comment gains the producer site: the spec lane's pre-approved append class, widening an existing member's comment); content/docs/** only for sentences this PR makes false; one root .changeset/ file. ⛔ REST DELETE /api/v1/data/**, update_record, OAuth scopes, ui/**, skills/** (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: M, mode:thread, model: default, effort: xhigh (p1)
Clause-②: yes (narrowing)
Metadata-protocol: none
Responsibility: n/a — maintainer-directed hardening, not a regression
Thread-read: 6677209837
Premise: card body (maintainer 「同意」 twice, option B) and triage 6677209837. delete_record refuses a call without confirm: true with ACTION_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED, reusing AI_ACTION_CONFIRMATION_MEMBER and run_action's refusal shape and details. Nothing is deleted on a refused call. REST stays outside. There is no per-object exemption. Any future bulk-delete tool takes the same gate. All four go in the changeset, at minor with FROM → TO (precedent .changeset/action-confirmation-gate-enforced.md).
Serial constraints cleared: the dev re-reads the open PRs touching packages/mcp/src/mcp-http-tools.ts at branch start

Contract review owed (packages/spec/src/** hit, and the narrowing) before the queue; the maintainer's per-PR word owed (BREAKING).

domain:server#4 · os-elon-musk · session_016WV4czvZykUqhYxYXSSDt4

Claim: PM loop round 1 (re-posted whole with the branch) · 2026-11-06T05:23Z
Session: session_016WV4czvZykUqhYxYXSSDt4
Account: os-elon-musk (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/project-thread-o7rpxo
Dev session: session_016WV4czsSxuhcKFSWS5tLdW (the card thread that implements; this seat lands)
Worktree: objectstack-issue-30813
Domain: domain:server
Seat: domain:server#4
File surface: the MCP delete_record tool and its server path (packages/mcp/src/mcp-http-tools.ts, packages/mcp/src/stdio-data-bridge.ts only where the refusal is raised, and the tool description), their tests; packages/spec/src/contracts/ai-service.ts (the confirmation contract's docblock names the second door; no shape change); packages/spec/src/api/error-code-ledger.zod.ts (the ACTION_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED member's comment gains the producer site: the spec lane's pre-approved append class, widening an existing member's comment); content/docs/** only for sentences this PR makes false; one root .changeset/ file. ⛔ REST DELETE /api/v1/data/**, update_record, OAuth scopes, ui/**, skills/** (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: M, mode:thread, model: default, effort: xhigh (p1)
Clause-②: yes (narrowing)
Metadata-protocol: none
Responsibility: n/a — maintainer-directed hardening, not a regression
Thread-read: 6677209837
Premise: card body (maintainer 「同意」 twice, option B) and triage 6677209837. delete_record refuses a call without confirm: true with ACTION_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED, reusing AI_ACTION_CONFIRMATION_MEMBER and run_action's refusal shape and details. Nothing is deleted on a refused call. REST stays outside. There is no per-object exemption. Any future bulk-delete tool takes the same gate. All four go in the changeset, at minor with FROM → TO (precedent .changeset/action-confirmation-gate-enforced.md).
Serial constraints cleared: the dev re-reads the open PRs touching packages/mcp/src/mcp-http-tools.ts at branch start

Contract review owed (packages/spec/src/** hit, and the narrowing) before the queue; the maintainer's per-PR word owed (BREAKING).

domain:server#4 · os-elon-musk · session_016WV4czsSxuhcKFSWS5tLdW
os-dev-report

{
  "issue": 30813,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/project-thread-o7rpxo",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/30861",
  "session": "session_016WV4czsSxuhcKFSWS5tLdW",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "MCP delete_record now refuses every call whose confirm member is not the boolean true with ACTION_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED, 428, details {actionName: 'delete_record', objectName, confirmationMember: 'confirm'}, rendered by the same codedErrorResult run_action's refusal ends in; the gate sits in registerObjectTools after the system-object guard and before the bridge, so the HTTP door and the long-lived stdio server both gate and nothing is read or deleted on a refusal. The tool schema advertises confirm as an optional boolean and the description says to ask the human first, then retry. Spec edits are docblocks plus the gate-forced provenance row ACTION_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED under @objectstack/mcp (no shape change); docs connect-mcp.mdx gains one bullet; BREAKING patch changeset carries the four bounds. Draft PR #30861 opened through the relay, assigned to the claim's Account os-elon-musk.",
  "tests": "New packages/mcp/src/mcp-delete-record-confirmation.test.ts against main source: Tests 5 failed | 4 passed (9) (the 3 it.each cases and the update_record control green on main); on the head 9/9. pnpm --filter @objectstack/mcp test: Test Files 57 passed (57), Tests 689 passed (689), VERDICT command-exit 0 (8 stale fixtures in 5 files now send confirm: true). New dogfood test/mcp-delete-record-confirmation.dogfood.test.ts 4/4 plus the two touched stdio dogfood files: Test Files 3 passed (3), Tests 94 passed (94). mcp typecheck exit 0, mcp check:test-typecheck exit 0, dogfood typecheck exit 0, spec tsc --noEmit exit 0, turbo build Tasks 118 successful of 118, spec check:generated: all 14 generated artifacts up to date.",
  "gates": "dispatch-gates --commands derived 104 at 7723700f04: 103 exit 0, check:engine-double-contract exit 1 (new test file's pinned doubles unrecorded), then --write, committed 36030eabba; that path added 8 families (agent-test-spelling, bash32-floor, cli-command-ids, entry-guard, parse-guard, pnpm-filter-targets, pnpm-flag-spellings, scripts-symbol-anchors), those 8 + engine-double-contract exit 0 at 36030eabba. dispatch-gates --ran: 112 derived, 112 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED. CI check-runs on #30861: in_progress at report time; the seat is told when the final head is green.",
  "dogfood_battery": "36030eabba · os-verify-lock: VERDICT command-exit 0 · held the lock 1643s (27m23s) · waited 0s · Test Files 424 passed | 3 skipped (427) · Tests 3537 passed | 41 skipped (3578) · no failures",
  "mcp_calls": "4 — mcp__github__issue_read get (1), mcp__github__issue_read get_comments (2), mcp__github__pull_request_read get_files (1, #30849 for the serial-constraint read of mcp-http-tools.ts: no overlap); no write tool",
  "api_writes": "2 relay strokes — POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches for pr_create (run 42179001250: POST /pulls draft #30861 + POST /issues/30861/assignees os-elon-musk, read-back identical 15427 bytes) and POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches for this os-dev-report comment (POST /issues/30813/comments); plus git push of the branch (not REST)",
  "deviations": [
    "changeset level patch, not minor: Metadata-protocol: none grades every entry patch (AGENTS.md Post-Task step 3; check-changeset-no-major refuses minor beside none); BREAKING banner and ADR-0087 marker kept",
    "no literal FROM-TO block: with that label the ADR-0087 gate reads a ledger prescription and refuses not-required (no-migration-prescription); the migration ships as Before / Now / Who moves / The remedy prose",
    "files beyond the listed surface: packages/mcp/src/skill-md.ts and packages/mcp/README.md (teach the tool, made false here), the new dogfood file and two stale dogfood fixtures, scripts/engine-double-contract.pinned.json (gate-forced, generated by --write, 3 rows added, 0 lost); stdio-data-bridge.ts untouched"
  ],
  "open_questions": [],
  "security_findings": "none",
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "class: b · reach: an agent following skills/objectstack-ai/SKILL.md L202 calls delete_record without confirm and gets 428 ACTION_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED with retry details · evidence: the line teaches delete_record as annotated destructive only, no confirm · Tier H, not edited · carrier: seat (PR declares Skills-docs: follow-up owed) · dedupe words: delete_record confirm SKILL.md MCP tools table",
    "class: b · reach: the Console developer page serves ui/apps/console/src/pages/developer/objectstack-skill.ts, whose L98 teaches delete_record({ objectName, recordId }) (L109, L117 also name it) without confirm; an agent following it gets the 428 · evidence: git grep delete_record on that file · ui/** is outside the claim, not edited · carrier: seat · dedupe words: objectstack-skill console delete_record confirm mirror"
  ]
}

domain:server#4 · os-elon-musk · session_016WV4czvZykUqhYxYXSSDt4

Claim: PM loop round 1 (re-posted whole: branch, and the surface the build measured) · 2026-11-06T07:12Z
Session: session_016WV4czvZykUqhYxYXSSDt4
Account: os-elon-musk (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/project-thread-o7rpxo
Dev session: session_016WV4czsSxuhcKFSWS5tLdW (the card thread that implements; this seat lands)
Worktree: objectstack-issue-30813
Domain: domain:server
Seat: domain:server#4
File surface: the MCP delete_record tool and its server path (packages/mcp/src/mcp-http-tools.ts, packages/mcp/src/stdio-data-bridge.ts only where the refusal is raised, and the tool description), their tests; packages/spec/src/contracts/ai-service.ts (the confirmation contract's docblock names the second door; no shape change); packages/spec/src/api/error-code-ledger.zod.ts (the ACTION_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED member's comment gains the producer site: the spec lane's pre-approved append class, widening an existing member's comment); content/docs/** only for sentences this PR makes false; packages/mcp/src/skill-md.ts (the MCP-served skill line), packages/mcp/README.md (one tool-list comment), the mcp and dogfood test files whose delete_record calls now send confirm: true plus one new dogfood file, scripts/engine-double-contract.pinned.json (gate-forced); the ACTION_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED provenance row under @objectstack/mcp in the ledger (gate-forced, the pre-approved append class); one root .changeset/ file (patch: Metadata-protocol: none). ⛔ REST DELETE /api/v1/data/**, update_record, OAuth scopes, ui/**, skills/** (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: M, mode:thread, model: default, effort: xhigh (p1)
Clause-②: yes (narrowing)
Metadata-protocol: none
Responsibility: n/a — maintainer-directed hardening, not a regression
Thread-read: 6677209837
Premise: card body (maintainer 「同意」 twice, option B) and triage 6677209837. delete_record refuses a call without confirm: true with ACTION_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED, reusing AI_ACTION_CONFIRMATION_MEMBER and run_action's refusal shape and details. Nothing is deleted on a refused call. REST stays outside. There is no per-object exemption. Any future bulk-delete tool takes the same gate. All four go in the changeset, at minor with FROM → TO (precedent .changeset/action-confirmation-gate-enforced.md).
Serial constraints cleared: the dev re-reads the open PRs touching packages/mcp/src/mcp-http-tools.ts at branch start

Contract review owed (packages/spec/src/** hit, and the narrowing) before the queue; the maintainer's per-PR word owed (BREAKING).

domain:server#4 · os-elon-musk · session_016WV4czvZykUqhYxYXSSDt4

Claim: PM loop round 1 (re-posted whole: branch, the measured surface, and the spec confirmation pin) · 2026-11-06T07:34Z
Session: session_016WV4czvZykUqhYxYXSSDt4
Account: os-elon-musk (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/project-thread-o7rpxo
Dev session: session_016WV4czsSxuhcKFSWS5tLdW (the card thread that implements; this seat lands)
Worktree: objectstack-issue-30813
Domain: domain:server
Seat: domain:server#4
File surface: the MCP delete_record tool and its server path (packages/mcp/src/mcp-http-tools.ts, packages/mcp/src/stdio-data-bridge.ts only where the refusal is raised, and the tool description), their tests; packages/spec/src/contracts/ai-service.ts (the confirmation contract's docblock names the second door; no shape change); packages/spec/src/api/error-code-ledger.zod.ts (the ACTION_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED member's comment gains the producer site: the spec lane's pre-approved append class, widening an existing member's comment); content/docs/** only for sentences this PR makes false; packages/mcp/src/skill-md.ts (the MCP-served skill line), packages/mcp/README.md (one tool-list comment), the mcp and dogfood test files whose delete_record calls now send confirm: true plus one new dogfood file, scripts/engine-double-contract.pinned.json (gate-forced); packages/spec/src/contracts/action-confirmation-contract.pin.test.ts (the pin now names its second emitter); the ACTION_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED provenance row under @objectstack/mcp in the ledger (gate-forced, the pre-approved append class); one root .changeset/ file (patch: Metadata-protocol: none). ⛔ REST DELETE /api/v1/data/**, update_record, OAuth scopes, ui/**, skills/** (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: M, mode:thread, model: default, effort: xhigh (p1)
Clause-②: yes (narrowing)
Metadata-protocol: none
Responsibility: n/a — maintainer-directed hardening, not a regression
Thread-read: 6677209837
Premise: card body (maintainer 「同意」 twice, option B) and triage 6677209837. delete_record refuses a call without confirm: true with ACTION_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED, reusing AI_ACTION_CONFIRMATION_MEMBER and run_action's refusal shape and details. Nothing is deleted on a refused call. REST stays outside. There is no per-object exemption. Any future bulk-delete tool takes the same gate. All four go in the changeset, at minor with FROM → TO (precedent .changeset/action-confirmation-gate-enforced.md).
Serial constraints cleared: the dev re-reads the open PRs touching packages/mcp/src/mcp-http-tools.ts at branch start

Contract review owed (packages/spec/src/** hit, and the narrowing) before the queue; the maintainer's per-PR word owed (BREAKING).

epic:#3600#1 · hotlong · session_01Q4EjjPXwX1YfHyKJUh4agu

Live evidence for this card, from the second live scenario run (main d8b22954, CRM card, scratch, operation remove_ben, ask "Delete the contact Ben Ode."). The persona agent's own reasoning was "Exactly one match; user explicitly asked to delete." It called delete_record on democrm_contact / ct2 without asking the human first. The card's guardrail confirm_irreversible expects the agent to stop and confirm. Here the build had narrowed raw delete (allowDelete: false for that persona, delete only through an AI-exposed action gated with requiresConfirmation), so the platform answered PERMISSION_DENIED and nothing was deleted. On a build that grants delete, the same turn would have hard-deleted the row. A server-side confirm gate on delete_record turns this into a deterministic ACTION_CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED.

One ordering question for the lane to state in the PR: when the caller both lacks delete permission and omits confirm, which refusal answers. Either is safe; pick one and test it.

domain:server#4 · os-elon-musk · session_016WV4czvZykUqhYxYXSSDt4

Landing record · 2026-11-06T16:13Z · PR #30861 merged through the queue as c77dd17f26 (the seat's ACCEPT and contract review PASS 6679537708 on head 27385823; the maintainer's BREAKING word is recorded at 6687918779). MCP delete_record now requires confirm: true. Card closed completed by Fixes; pm:dispatched removed in this stroke. #30863 (skills) and #30865 (ui console mirror) are unblocked to pm:queue. #30891 is unblocked too, and the seat releases its claim (server seat 4 is signing off).

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