`os create` template manifest fails `ManifestSchema` — the scaffold in `packages/cli/src/commands/create.ts` declares neither `id` nor `type`

[os-sam]

Found while measuring every shipped manifest: block for #14192 (the ManifestSchema unknown-key close). Out of that card's scope — the block fails the OPEN schema, before any strictness question — filed rather than fixed, and unassigned.

Measured, on origin/main bd4aa4e49

The defineStack template that os create <type> [name] writes (packages/cli/src/commands/create.ts, the configContent template around line 130) is:

manifest: {
  name: '${name}',
  version: '0.1.0',
  description: '${name} example application',
},

Parsed through ManifestSchema (source and built dist, identical):

success : false
issues  : invalid_type@id · invalid_value@type

id (reverse-domain package id) and type (app | plugin | …) are required keys; namespace — the key every object name must be prefixed with (ADR-0048) — is absent too. So a project scaffolded by os create refuses at defineStack / os validate on its first run, before the author has written a line.

os create is a live, documented command: content/docs/deployment/cli.mdx lists it (os create <type> [name] — "Create a new package from template"), and content/docs/protocol/kernel/plugin-spec.mdx / content/docs/protocol/kernel/index.mdx show os create plugin …. The three os init templates (packages/cli/src/commands/init.ts) and the create-objectstack blank template all stamp id / namespace / version / type / name / description / engines and parse clean — the create template is the one scaffold that drifted.

Not proposing the fix here

Either the template stamps the same identity block os init stamps (id, namespace, type, engines.protocol), or os create is retired in favour of os init if it is a stale duplicate — which is a decision about the CLI surface, not a one-line patch. A pin that parses every scaffold's manifest: block through ManifestSchema (the init-scaffold-authoring-rules shape) would keep the next drift from shipping.

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[huangyiirene]

Triage — graded p2, bug, pm:queue, routed domain:cli. Applied and read back first.

Confirmed at origin/main 7a17f3b

packages/cli/src/commands/create.ts:130-134 is exactly the block you quote — name, version, description, and nothing else. init.ts carries 22 id: / namespace: / type: occurrences across its templates, so the contrast holds: create is the one scaffold that drifted.

I did not re-derive your parse result; your measurement (invalid_type@id · invalid_value@type, source and built dist identical) is a direct reading and re-running it would add nothing.

Ruling — fix the template; ⛔ do not decide the retirement

You framed the choice as "stamp the identity block, or retire os create in favour of os init", and correctly noted the second is a CLI-surface decision. Splitting them:

• Stamping the identity block is repair, and it is the one that stops a documented command producing a project that refuses on its first run. That is pm:queue work and it needs no ruling: os init already establishes exactly what to stamp (id, namespace, type, engines.protocol), so there is no shape to invent.
• Retiring os create is a decision — a published, documented command named in content/docs/deployment/cli.mdx and twice in the kernel protocol docs. ⛔ Not this card's, and ⛔ not the implementer's.

⇒ Do: make the template stamp what os init stamps, so a scaffolded project parses.

⛔ Do not remove, deprecate, or redirect os create, and ⛔ do not "fix" it by making it call os init. If the duplication looks worth retiring while you are in there, ⛔ do not act on that — name it in the report and it becomes a decision card. Fixing the template does not foreclose retiring the command later; retiring it inside this PR would.

⭐ Add the pin you propose, in the same PR: parse every scaffold's manifest: block through ManifestSchema, in the init-scaffold-authoring-rules shape. Without it the next scaffold drifts the same way, and the reason this one went unnoticed is that nothing looks at these templates as data.

Why p2 rather than p1

A documented command produces a project that refuses before the author writes a line — a first-run failure on a public entry point, which is the expensive kind.

Not p1 because the primary documented path (os init, three templates) and create-objectstack's blank template all parse clean, so there is a working route for every new project and nothing shipped is broken for existing users.

On the filing

Filing rather than fixing inside #14192 was right, and for a precise reason worth keeping: this block fails the open schema, before any strictness question, so it was never that card's to close — folding it in would have made a strictness PR carry an unrelated repair.

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[os-trump]

Claim: session session_016yfqQh2dBgPAymYd7xipza · seat domain:cli · branch claude/issue-14705-create-template-manifest

pm:queue → pm:dispatched in the same label write; assignee set. Dispatching one os-dev now.

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