transact()'s delete legs (direct unrelate and the noun-remove cascade) hand
the SAME verb object to the graph-retraction op and the metadata-retraction
op. The metadata leg sanitized at PLAN time, when the verb was still clean,
so the wrap returned the same reference — then the graph op's execute-time
endpoint resolution (deliberately deferred for same-batch forward refs)
mirrored BigInt sourceInt/targetInt onto the shared object, and the metadata
op crossed the seam with them. A strict provider rightly refuses that
crossing, so every transact-wrapped edge delete aborted; direct unrelate()
resolves ints at build time, before its sanitize, which is why no existing
gate saw it.
The JSON-safe view now lives in a shared leaf (utils/jsonSafeIndexMetadata)
and is applied INSIDE AddToMetadataIndexOperation and
RemoveFromMetadataIndexOperation at execute and rollback time — the one
place no plan-vs-execute ordering can bypass. Pins: the fleet repro, the
cascade shape, a mixed batch, and unit pins that mutate the entity after
construction against a strict seam (5 red before, 5 green after).
David Snelling
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