unwired: report placeholder refs ({} / null) as open slots instead of cryptic serde errors #195

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2026-07-03T16:52:02+02:00

Brummel commented

2026-07-03 16:52:02 +02:00

A drafting author cannot hold one campaign file that both validates-so-far and reports its open slots (fieldtest cycle-0106, F4): the ref open-slot hints fire only when the 'ref' key is OMITTED (which validate then fails with 'missing field ref'), while the natural placeholders ref: {} and ref: null produce cryptic serde errors ('expected map with a single key'; 'invalid type: null, expected string or map' — the latter falsely implying a bare-string ref works) and --unwired then claims 'no open slots'.

Likely shape: open_slots_* treat an empty-object or null ref value as the open slot they already know how to report; validate keeps refusing but with the same open-slot phrasing instead of raw serde prose.

depends on: nothing
context: fieldtest finding F4, fieldtests/cycle-0106-research-artifacts/FINDINGS.md (2026-07-03).

A drafting author cannot hold one campaign file that both validates-so-far and reports its open slots (fieldtest cycle-0106, F4): the ref open-slot hints fire only when the 'ref' key is OMITTED (which validate then fails with 'missing field ref'), while the natural placeholders ref: {} and ref: null produce cryptic serde errors ('expected map with a single key'; 'invalid type: null, expected string or map' — the latter falsely implying a bare-string ref works) and --unwired then claims 'no open slots'. Likely shape: open_slots_* treat an empty-object or null ref value as the open slot they already know how to report; validate keeps refusing but with the same open-slot phrasing instead of raw serde prose. - depends on: nothing - context: fieldtest finding F4, fieldtests/cycle-0106-research-artifacts/FINDINGS.md (2026-07-03).

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feat(research): draft placeholder refs ({} / null) read as open slots in the unwired probe

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Reference: Brummel/Aura#195