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+# Data access
+
+Read this before writing code that reads or writes a database table, with or
+without screens. [Typed features](typed-features.md) covers how
+the code around it is shaped; this page covers how it reaches the data.
+
+## The resource is the only door
+
+Every table has exactly one **table resource**. Only the feature that owns the
+table reads or writes it, through the resource's handle. Ownership, the row
+policy, validation, ownership stamping, audits and change events run only on
+that path. Knex reaches the table past all of them, and putting it in a file
+named "repository" protects nothing.
+
+Bad: a repository raised a version counter on a record id it was handed, with
+no workspace predicate, so one workspace could change another workspace's
+booking.
+
+Good: the owner's repository calls `bookings.patch(id, { version }, options)`,
+which changes the row only when the caller's scope owns it.
+
+## The handle's calls
+
+One table, one table resource, one owner feature. The owner reaches its table
+through its handle's calls, and every call takes the call's `options` last:
+
+| Call | Does |
+| --- | --- |
+| `query({ filters, sort, page, include }, options)` | one page: `{ records, page }` |
+| `queryAll({ filters, sort, include }, options)` | every matching row, for jobs, id lists and one parent's rows |
+| `get(id, params, options)` | one record |
+| `aggregate({ measures, groupBy, filters, sort }, options)` | totals, grouped by fields or date buckets |
+| `create(data, options)`, `findOrCreate({ id, ...data }, options)` | one record; a keyed one, created once |
+| `patch(id, changes, options)`, `delete(id, options)` | one record |
+| `createMany(rows, options)` | many records, or an upsert with `onConflict` |
+| `patchMany(rows, options)` | many records, each with its own changes |
+| `patchWhere(filters, changes, options)`, `deleteWhere(filters, options)` | every matching row |
+| `lock(id, txOptions)`, `lockMany(ids, txOptions)`, `lockWhere(filters, txOptions)` | rows locked until the transaction ends |
+| `lockOrCreate({ id, ...initial }, options, work)` | a keyed record locked, created first when missing, for `work` |
+| `claim({ filters, sort, take }, txOptions)` | the next rows no other worker holds |
+| `withTransaction(options, work)` | one transaction; `work` gets its `txOptions` |
+| `changeHorizon(options)` | PostgreSQL's snapshot horizon, where a read of what changed since starts ([What changed since](#what-changed-since)) |
+| `scopedQuery(params, options)` | a read-only builder for a report ([Layer 5](#layer-5-reports-the-resource-cannot-express)) |
+
+```js
+// How many invoices of each status the workspace issued each month, and their total.
+function totalsByMonth(options) {
+  return invoices.aggregate({
+    groupBy: ["status", { field: "issuedAt", bucket: "month", as: "month" }],
+    measures: { invoices: { count: "*" }, amount: { sum: "amount" } },
+    sort: ["month"]
+  }, options);
+}
+```
+
+## Words
+
+| Word | Meaning |
+| --- | --- |
+| table resource | The one description of one table: fields and their columns, ownership, relationships, search and lock version. `defineTableResource()`, shared with the client. |
+| owner feature | The feature whose `owns` lists the table resource. It is the only feature that reads or writes the table. |
+| handle | What the owner gets for each resource it owns. Every method applies the scope of the call's `options.context`. |
+| repository | The owner's module that holds every query, built on its handles. Its methods have domain names. A plain CRUD feature's repository is its table's handle itself. |
+| service | Orchestration. It calls repositories (its own, or another feature's through that feature's capability: an owner API, or a CRUD feature's `repository`) and other features' services. It never builds a query (no Knex, no `scopedQuery`) and never reaches another feature's table any other way. |
+| owner API | The capability through which a table's owner lets other features read and write its records, such as `users.profiles`. |
+| CRUD contract | The optional HTTP and screen surface on a table resource: `defineCrudContract()`. |
+| CRUD feature | The feature `defineCrudFeature()` builds from a CRUD contract: its repository, service, actions, routes and screens. |
+| ownership | Who owns a row, required in every table resource: `public`, `workspace`, `user`, `workspace_user`, `workspace_or_shared` (a workspace's own rows, or rows shared with every workspace when the owner is empty), or `system` (rows of no workspace or user, which only the owning feature's system context reaches). |
+| row policy | A server-only rule narrowing which rows a context sees, applied to every statement, joins, includes and locks included. |
+| scoped query | The read-only Knex builder `scopedQuery()` returns, with ownership and the row policy already applied. |
+| system scope | Why a feature works across every workspace and user, declared with `systemScope`. |
+| system context | The context of that work, from `systemContext(reason)`; `forWorkspace`, `forUser` and `forWorkspaceUser` narrow it. |
+| `txOptions` | What `withTransaction(options, work)` hands `work`: only the call's context and its transaction, `{ context, trx }`, passed to every call inside. |
+| record | What a handle answers: `{ id, ...fields }`, relationships as ids, included records nested. |
+
+## Layer 1: the table resource
+
+Every table your app owns has one table resource. The feature that owns the
+table lists it in `owns`, and only that feature's setup receives its handle.
+Every read and write goes through the handle. On every statement the handle
+adds the ownership predicate and the row policy, validates what you write and
+stamps the workspace or user on new rows. A table whose schema stores
+`createdAt` and `updatedAt` as `dateTime` fields gets them stamped by every
+write: both on a create (`createMany` too), `updatedAt` on every change
+(`patch`, `patchMany`, `patchWhere`, an upsert merge, which keeps the stored
+`createdAt`). The stamps replace what any other caller sends, and a CRUD
+contract offers them as output only; only a system context (an import, a
+migration, a seed) sets its own. Pass the call's `options` (its context and
+transaction) to every handle call; a call without a context throws instead of
+guessing.
+
+```js
+// shared/receivalResource.js: the table's facts, shared with the client
+const receivalResource = defineTableResource({
+  name: "receivals",
+  tableName: "receivals",
+  ownership: "workspace",
+  schema: {
+    status: { type: "string", required: true, search: true },
+    arrivedAt: { type: "dateTime", nullable: true }
+  }
+});
+
+// server/ReceivalsFeature.js: the owner
+const ReceivalsFeature = defineFeature({
+  id: "receivals",
+  owns: [receivalResource, { resource: receivalNoteResource, rowPolicy: authorOrManager }],
+  provides: { receivals: "receivals" },
+  setup: ({ resources }) => ({ receivals: createReceivalsService(createReceivalsRepository(resources)) })
+});
+
+/**
+ * server/receivalsRepository.js: every query, by domain name.
+ * @param {{ receivals: import("@jskit-ai/resource-runtime/server/types").ResourceHandle }} handles
+ */
+function createReceivalsRepository({ receivals }) {
+  /**
+   * One page of the open receivals.
+   * @param {{ size: number, after?: string }} page
+   * @param {import("@jskit-ai/resource-runtime/server/types").ResourceCallOptions} options
+   */
+  function listOpen(page, options) {
+    return receivals.query({ filters: { status: "open" }, page }, options);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @param {string} id
+   * @param {string} arrivedAt
+   * @param {import("@jskit-ai/resource-runtime/server/types").ResourceCallOptions} options
+   */
+  function markArrived(id, arrivedAt, options) {
+    return receivals.patch(id, { status: "arrived", arrivedAt }, options);
+  }
+
+  return Object.freeze({
+    withTransaction: receivals.withTransaction,
+    listOpen,
+    markArrived
+  });
+}
+```
+
+A field's type says what its column holds, not the column's SQL type. A
+whole-number column that is not an id (a counter, a byte count, a position),
+BIGINT included, is `type: "integer"`. Every handle read answers it as a
+number on MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL alike, although both drivers read
+BIGINT as text. A column that holds another row's id is `type: "id"` and
+reads as text, as ids do. Past 2^53 − 1 a JavaScript number cannot hold a
+whole number exactly, so json-rest-api answers those digits as text rather
+than a rounded number. A value that can grow that large gets a decimal field
+(`precision` and `scale`), whose digits stay text.
+
+A package whose features own tables or declare `systemScope` lists
+`runtime.resources` in its descriptor's `capabilities.requires`, or boot
+refuses it; the feature never requires it itself, since it receives its
+handles.
+
+Reads take `(params, options)` and writes `(data, options)`: `get(id, {},
+options)`. A call's settings ride in its options, added on the call they are
+for and spread from the options the method received: `{ ...options, missing:
+"skip" }`, `{ ...options, returning: "id" }`. A method passes on only the
+options it received, never a setting it added for one of its own calls, and
+another table gets only `{ context, trx }`: `passedOn(options)` from
+`@jskit-ai/resource-runtime/server`. An owner API, called with another
+feature's options, hands each of its calls `passedOn(options)` plus the
+settings that call needs, never the caller's options whole. `withTransaction`
+hands its work only the context and the transaction, and so does a handle to
+its hooks and its own nested calls.
+
+`txOptions` is `{ context, trx }` and nothing else: every other key of the
+method's `options`, the application's own included (a flag that skips an
+email, a `limit`, a per-request cache), is gone inside the work. Read what the
+work needs from `options` itself, never from `txOptions`. A method that wraps
+a write on its own table in `withTransaction` passes that write `{ ...options,
+...txOptions }`, or the caller's `returning`, `missing` or `format` never
+reaches it and the method answers something its caller did not ask for.
+Another table's call still gets `txOptions`:
+
+```js
+const addLines = (rows, options) => lines.withTransaction(options, async (txOptions) => {
+  const added = await lines.createMany(rows, { ...options, ...txOptions });
+  await orders.patch(rows[0].orderId, { linesChangedAt: new Date() }, txOptions);
+  return added;
+});
+```
+
+A filter key is one of the resource's `search: true` fields or a
+`searchSchema` entry. `id` is every handle's own filter (a resource never
+declares an `id` search entry) and takes one id or a list; an empty list
+matches no row. Another list of values needs an entry with `filterOperator:
+"in"`. A `null` value matches the rows where the field is null: `filters: {
+archivedAt: null }`.
+
+A filter on another table's field (`searchSchema: { supplierName: { type:
+"string", actualField: "suppliers.name" } }`) needs that field declared
+`indexed: true` on its own table resource, with a database index on its column,
+even when the join is on the other table's id; `own()` refuses it at startup
+otherwise, naming both.
+
+A table keyed by a `uuid` or `string` primary key takes its ids as text; an
+`owns` entry's `normalizeId` is only for an id written some other way.
+
+A handle finds every row by one `id`. A table whose rows another key
+identifies (a workspace and a day, or one row per user keyed by the user's id)
+still gets an integer `id` primary key, and keeps that key as a unique index
+on exactly the columns its upsert names, the ownership column among them. The
+code reads by the key with a filter and writes by it with an upsert,
+`onConflict: { keys: ["workspaceId", "day"] }`
+([Layer 3](#layer-3-many-rows-at-once)). The [port
+guide](existing-application-migration.md#moving-hand-written-sql-behind-resources)
+has the migration for a table that exists already.
+
+A route that reads or writes without an action (a provider's callback, a
+download it streams) takes its options from `await request.callOptions()`: the
+context the same request's action would get, its user, workspace and route
+scope resolved by the same contributors. No action's permission runs, so the
+route's own `auth` and `permission` are its gate. Never build a request's
+context by hand.
+
+A `workspace_or_shared` table's shared rows (no workspace) belong to every
+workspace, so no request or job writes one: a create stamps the caller's
+workspace, a patch or delete of a shared row is refused, and many-row writes
+and locks leave shared rows out. When a request may change one (a permission
+says so, or the row is the person's own), the owner reads the row in the
+request's own context, which proves the caller reaches it, decides in code
+whether this caller may change it, and only then writes it in a system
+context, `systemContext(reason)` itself (one `forUser` or its kin derived is
+not a system context), naming the empty owner: `create({ ...fields,
+workspaceId: null }, …)`, or `patchWhere({ id: [id], workspaceId: null },
+changes, …)` and `deleteWhere` with the same filters, which never reach a
+workspace's row. `{ ...txOptions, context: systemContext(reason) }` joins
+the request's transaction.
+
+A read answers every field unless `fields` names the ones it needs (a
+belongs-to field by its own key, such as `customerId`, or its relationship);
+the locks (`lock`, `lockMany`, `lockWhere` and `claim`) take it in their
+options, `{ ...txOptions, fields }`.
+Each belongs-to field a read answers costs a check that its related record is
+visible, so a hot path names its fields. A collection relation with
+`hydrateOnList: false` or `hydrateOnView: false` loads its rows on that kind of
+read only when the read includes it.
+
+`foreignKeys` declares the table's real database foreign keys, in json-rest-api's
+shape: `foreignKeys: [{ columns: ["customerId"], referencedTableName: "customers" }]`,
+`columns` naming schema fields and `referencedColumns` the other table's columns
+when they are not its `id`. json-rest-api relies on a declared key to skip work,
+so a declaration the database lacks changes results: before any test runs,
+`jskit test --databases` compares every declaration with the test database's keys,
+fails on one the database lacks and lists the keys of your tables that nothing
+declares.
+
+A `hidden: true` field (an ownership id, a bearer token, a storage key) never
+reaches a request: no CRUD route or JSON:API document (`format: "jsonapi"`)
+carries it, even when `fields` names it. The owner's own code reads one by
+naming it in a handle read's `fields`, `get(id, { fields: ["publicToken"] },
+options)` or `{ ...txOptions, fields }` for a lock, which costs one more
+statement per 1,000 records, scoped as the read is; a read without `fields`
+never answers it. It may be an id, string, integer, number or boolean, and
+naming any other kind refuses the read. The repository a CRUD feature gives
+other features, and its own actions, refuses any call whose `fields` names a
+hidden field, whatever the method (`decorateRepository`'s included), and any
+`scopedQuery()` or answered builder other than a `joinSource()`'s (either can
+select every column), and every method it holds answers without the hidden
+fields of the tables its owner owns, unless the call runs in a system context.
+It tells hidden fields by name, so a feature whose tables hide a field in one
+and show it in another fails to start: hide it in both, or rename one. So the
+owner checks a token in a method `decorateRepository` adds, with the handle it
+receives, and answers only the outcome. Work in another feature that needs the
+value itself (a key it signs with, an address it sends to) calls a method the
+owner's `decorateService` adds: that receives the repository before the guard,
+so it reads the field, named in `fields`, in the caller's own context, with no
+system context. A test of such a path asserts the value the other feature uses,
+not only that the call succeeded: a hidden field left out of a record reads as
+`undefined`, not as an error. Never unhide a field to read it, and
+never read it with `scopedQuery`.
+
+`create` and `patch` answer the written record by default, read back through
+the row policy. Server code that does not use it passes `returning: "id"` or
+`"none"`, which skips that read; `delete` answers the id. One rule covers a
+record that is missing or outside the caller's scope: `get`, `patch`, `delete`
+and `lock` throw json-rest-api's not-found error (a 404), and with
+`missing: "skip"` they answer `null` instead, without failing the caller's
+transaction. A row keyed by an id the code computes (a fingerprint, a
+conversation id) is read or created once with `findOrCreate({ id,
+...attributes }, options)`, outside the transaction that then locks it: inside
+one, losing the race to create it fails the whole transaction. Compute such an
+id from the owner too (the workspace or user id in the fingerprint): an id
+another scope's row holds answers a missing record. That answer still says the
+id is taken, so `findOrCreate` and `lockOrCreate` take only ids the server
+computes or generates, never an id a request supplies.
+
+A write that the caller's row policy then hides fails, because its read-back
+finds nothing. The `create` or `patch` answers json-rest-api's 404
+(`REST_API_RESOURCE`, "Resource not found") and its transaction rolls back. A
+staff member who sees only the bookings they run cannot book a colleague this
+way. Decide which way the rule goes. Either the policy lets the writer see
+what they may write, or the action refuses the write before it runs, with a
+403 or 422 that says why.
+
+You never write `where workspace_id = ?`, so you cannot forget it. The row
+policy and write hooks go in the `owns` entry on the server, never in the
+shared definition, which ships to the browser. Another feature's contribution
+to a row policy can only narrow it. A row policy adds one predicate correlated
+with the row being read, on indexed columns, and reads the owner's other
+tables through `ownTable(name)`, a read-only subquery, never by table name. It
+never loads everything the subject was ever linked to into an `IN` list, and
+never calls another owner's check once per item: it runs on every read, write
+read-back and lookup, so every request pays what it costs. A policy is told
+who the call runs for as `caller`: `{ kind: "user", userId }` for a signed-in
+request, `{ kind: "anonymous" }` for one by no one, and `{ kind: "system" }` or
+`{ kind: "job" }` (a context `forWorkspace` and its kin derived), each with its
+`reason`, for background work. A job names a user only as `actorId`, the
+person it works for ([below](#background-work)), so never read a missing actor
+as an anonymous request.
+
+```js
+// good: one predicate on the row being read
+function noticeVisibilityPolicy({ query, caller, column, value, ownTable }) {
+  if (caller.kind !== "user") {
+    return caller.kind !== "anonymous";
+  }
+  query.where(column("recipientId"), value("recipientId", caller.userId)).whereExists(
+    ownTable("sources").select(1).whereColumn("sources.id", column("sourceId")).where("sources.status", "published")
+  );
+  return true;
+}
+
+// bad: every source the recipient was ever notified about, checked one by one
+async function noticeVisibilityPolicy({ query, caller, context, column, value }) {
+  const readable = [];
+  for (const sourceId of await noticeHistory.listSourceIds(caller.userId)) {
+    if (await sources.canRead(sourceId, context)) readable.push(sourceId);
+  }
+  query.whereIn(column("sourceId"), readable.map((id) => value("sourceId", id)));
+  return true;
+}
+```
+
+A rule that depends on the caller's role reads `context.permissions` with
+`hasPermission(context.permissions, "bookings.view-all")` from
+`@jskit-ai/kernel/shared/support`, never with `includes()`. A role may hold
+`*` (an owner does) or `bookings.*`, and `includes()` misses both, so the
+owner would see only the rows a narrower rule leaves.
+
+```js
+import { hasPermission } from "@jskit-ai/kernel/shared/support";
+
+// good: staff see the bookings they run; bookings.view-all, the owner's * included, sees them all
+function staffSeeTheirOwnBookings({ query, caller, context, column, value }) {
+  if (caller.kind !== "user") {
+    return caller.kind !== "anonymous";
+  }
+  if (hasPermission(context.permissions, "bookings.view-all")) {
+    return true;
+  }
+  query.where(column("staffUserId"), value("staffUserId", caller.userId));
+  return true;
+}
+
+// bad: an owner holding "*" sees only the bookings they run
+if (context.permissions.includes("bookings.view-all")) return true;
+```
+
+A policy trusts `caller`. In a workspace request it also trusts what the
+server resolved from the route's workspace slug and the caller's membership
+before any handle ran:
+- `context.workspace.id`;
+- `context.membership.roleSid`;
+- `context.permissions`, the role's permissions in that workspace.
+
+On a surface whose access policy sets `requireWorkspaceMembership: false`, a
+caller who is not a member has `context.membership` null and
+`context.permissions` empty. Never decide on a value from the request's input.
+
+A row policy hides a row everywhere, also as the target of a visible record's
+link: an order whose supplier the reader cannot see reads `supplierId: null`.
+A form that saves the order back sends that null, and the write keeps the
+stored link: a null for a link whose target exists but is hidden from the
+writer counts as unchanged. Send that null, never the hidden id: a write naming
+a target the writer cannot see is refused as a missing target, since accepting
+the right hidden id would tell the writer which record is linked. The link is
+still unreadable to that reader, so a row policy says who may see a row at all;
+narrowing what one screen lists is a filter on that screen's read.
+
+```js
+// bad: a row policy to list only the suppliers a user added; every order whose
+// supplier someone else added now reads supplierId: null for that user
+owns: [{ resource: supplierResource, rowPolicy: addedByActor }]
+
+// good: the screen's read filters; orders keep their suppliers
+function listAddedByMe(params, options) {
+  return suppliers.query({ ...params, filters: { ...params.filters, addedBy: resolveActorId(options.context) } }, options);
+}
+```
+
+## Layer 2: the CRUD surface
+
+When people list, view, create, edit or delete the rows over HTTP, add a CRUD
+contract to the same table resource. It says which operations exist and which
+fields each one takes and returns; `defineCrudFeature` builds the standard
+repository, service, actions, routes and screens from it. A table without
+screens skips this layer and still uses Layer 1. A table never gets a second
+resource for its CRUD. [CRUD operations](crud-operations.md)
+covers this layer in depth.
+
+```js
+const receivalCrud = defineCrudContract(receivalResource, {
+  namespace: "receivals",
+  apiAccess: "authenticated",
+  operations: ["list", "view", "create", "patch"],
+  fields: {
+    status: { output: "required", create: "required", patch: "optional" },
+    arrivedAt: { output: "optional" }
+  }
+});
+```
+
+A contract shows and accepts only the fields it names, and so does an included
+record: it shows its id, its relation's `labelKey`, and only what the including
+contract lists, a record it links to only when the list names that
+relationship, at any depth. Another table's contract never shapes it, since
+that contract may be served to another surface or behind another permission:
+
+```js
+fields: {
+  ownerId: { output: { required: false, includeFields: ["displayName"] } },
+  // ?include=pet,pet.breed shows the pet's name and its breed's name
+  petId: { output: { required: false, includeFields: ["name", { breed: ["name"] }] } }
+}
+```
+A `decorateService` that also needs the record it wrote (for an audit or a
+history row) reads it from its own answer, `simplifyJsonApiResult(answer)`
+from `@jskit-ai/http-runtime/shared`, never with a second read; a relationship
+whose field key is not its name plus `Id` passes
+`{ lookupFieldMap: { owner: "ownerUserId" } }`.
+A second surface on the same table (a customer's view beside the staff's) is
+a second CRUD contract on the same resource, never a second resource, with
+its own namespace. One plain feature owns the table and provides its handle.
+Each surface is a `defineCrudFeature` that serves its contract through that
+handle with `ownerRepository`. A CRUD feature that owns the table provides
+`{ repository, crud, service }` rather than a handle, so it cannot be another
+one's `ownerRepository`.
+
+```js
+const ServicesFeature = defineFeature({
+  id: "app.services",
+  owns: [serviceResource],
+  provides: { services: "app.services" },
+  setup: ({ resources }) => ({ services: resources.services })
+});
+const ServiceAdminFeature = defineCrudFeature({
+  crud: serviceAdminCrud,
+  surface: "admin",
+  ownerRepository: "app.services",
+  scope: WORKSPACE_CRUD_SCOPE,
+  relativePath: "/services"
+});
+const ServiceCatalogFeature = defineCrudFeature({
+  crud: serviceCatalogCrud,
+  surface: "app",
+  ownerRepository: "app.services",
+  scope: WORKSPACE_CRUD_SCOPE,
+  relativePath: "/service-catalog"
+});
+```
+
+`WORKSPACE_CRUD_SCOPE` is from
+`@jskit-ai/workspaces-core/server/support/workspaceCrud`; the two contracts'
+namespaces differ because `crud.contracts` refuses two contracts under one
+namespace. A field
+fragment several resources spread into their schemas carries only the field:
+each contract that shows it states its operations in its own `fields`.
+
+## Layer 3: many rows at once
+
+When one action creates, changes or deletes many rows, use the handle's
+many-row operations: `createMany`, `patchMany`, `patchWhere` and `deleteWhere`.
+Every filter takes `id`, one id or a list, so `patchWhere({ id: ids },
+changes, options)` and `deleteWhere({ id: ids }, options)` change a known
+list. Each checks every row against the resource first, reads which of the
+rows the caller may touch, then writes each chunk with one statement, in one
+transaction. Audits and change events run once for the batch, so the
+statements are the same for 10 rows as for 200. `patchWhere` and
+`deleteWhere` check the scope and filters on each row once they hold its lock,
+so a row gone meanwhile, or changed so that it no longer matches, is skipped,
+and they take no `missing`. That makes them a compare-and-set on their filters
+on every database: of two writers whose filters both matched a row (open to
+booked), only one writes it, and the other's answer says so
+(`returning: "ids"` lists only the rows it wrote). The one that waited for the
+other's lock leaves the row out; SQLite gets there by failing the second writer
+with `SQLITE_BUSY`, and MariaDB with `innodb_snapshot_isolation` fails the
+waiter with errno 1020 ("Record has changed since last read"), which a write
+that owns its transaction runs again. For one row,
+`patch(id, changes, { ...options, onlyIf: { status: "open" } })` does the same.
+A filter on another table (a search field whose `actualField` reaches a
+related table) is refused on MySQL and MariaDB (`RestApiValidationError`, rule
+`selection_cross_table`), even when it matches no row. A search entry's own
+`applyFilter` that reads another table through a subquery is not detected, and
+is no compare-and-set there either. Filter on the row's own columns instead, for example
+on the link after locking its targets with `lockMany` in the same transaction
+(Layer 4), or move the value onto the row itself for `onlyIf`, or use a
+`claim`. A many-row write answers
+nothing unless `returning` asks: `"ids"`, `"records"`, or `"count"`, which
+reads nothing back.
+
+Bad: a batch intake patched each record through the resource: 705 statements
+for 10 records, 11,915 for 200. Written with `patchMany`, it sends the same
+number at both sizes.
+
+An upsert (`createMany(rows, { ...options, onConflict })`) on an owned table
+names the ownership field among its conflict keys, or it throws: otherwise it
+could update or hide another workspace's row. `merge` is refused under a row
+policy; use `ignore`, then `patchMany`. A table with no owners and no row
+policy, keyed by a natural id such as an email, may key the upsert on the id
+alone: `onConflict: { keys: ["id"], action: "merge" }`, with an id on every
+row, creates the record or replaces the fields given in one statement. Of two
+upserts at once the later stays, so a counter that must count both is created
+plainly and its duplicate retried instead. Inserting and catching the
+duplicate works only outside a transaction: inside one, the failed insert
+fails the whole transaction, so use an upsert there.
+
+A transaction whose insert loses a race for a unique key (another request with
+the same idempotency key committed first) runs once more:
+`retryLostInsertRace(options, () => repository.withTransaction(options, work))`
+from `@jskit-ai/database-runtime/shared`. The database reports the duplicate
+only once the winner has committed, so the second run's lookup by the key
+finds the winner's row. A second duplicate is final, and inside a caller's
+transaction nothing runs again: the caller's transaction has failed, and the
+caller's own retry runs the whole of it. Never write this retry by hand.
+
+```js
+// A repeated payment request answers the first one's record.
+const recordPayment = (input, options) => retryLostInsertRace(options, () => payments.withTransaction(options, async (txOptions) => {
+  const [paid] = await payments.queryAll({ filters: { requestKey: input.requestKey } }, txOptions);
+  return paid ?? payments.create(input, txOptions);
+}));
+```
+
+## Layer 4: locks
+
+When two requests could change the same rows at once (allocating stock,
+numbering documents, moving items into a batch), lock the rows first, inside
+the transaction: `lock(id, txOptions)`, `lockMany(ids, txOptions)` or
+`lockWhere(filters, txOptions)`. The handle locks only rows the caller may
+see, in id order, so nobody locks another workspace's rows: a missing or
+hidden id throws not-found, as for `get`, or with `missing: "skip"` is left
+out. A check-then-write that must not race (is the drier empty? then load it)
+locks the record first, so another lock or write of it waits until the
+transaction ends. Locks cover existing rows only: number with a unique index
+or a counter row taken with `lock(id)`. Every lock needs a transaction; SQLite
+runs one transaction at a time, so there is no row lock to take. Take locks in
+one order on every path, a parent before its children.
+
+On MySQL and MariaDB a locking read locks every row it examines, so two rules
+apply there. Lock ids taken from your own scoped reads, never a list straight
+from a request: every id listed is locked, a hidden one too, before it is left
+out. And `lockWhere` needs an index that starts with the ownership columns (on
+a table with no owners, with a column the filters compare); without one it
+refuses with `RestApiBulkWriteUnsupportedError` naming the index to add in a
+migration.
+
+A worker taking the next job uses `claim({ filters, sort, take }, txOptions)`,
+which skips rows another worker holds. A record that serializes work on a key
+and may not exist yet (an account's balance, a connection to a provider), on a
+table with no owners, takes `lockOrCreate({ id, ...initial }, options, work)`:
+it locks the record, creating it from the row first when it is missing, and
+runs `work(record, txOptions)` in the same transaction, so failed work leaves
+no record behind. On its own it runs work once, so work may call a provider:
+two first uses of one id at once can collide on the insert, and the loser runs
+again before its work starts.
+
+Every lock takes `FOR UPDATE`, as `patchWhere` does for the rows it selects,
+which also keeps out another transaction's insert of a row that references the
+locked one (a foreign key's check). Where work locks a parent only to change
+its own fields while children may be added meanwhile (a balance others post
+entries to), pass `lockMode: "noKeyUpdate"` to `lock`, `lockMany`,
+`lockWhere`, `claim`, `lockOrCreate` or `patchWhere`: on PostgreSQL it
+is `FOR NO KEY UPDATE`, which still keeps every other lock and write of the row
+out but lets those inserts through; MySQL, MariaDB and SQLite lock as for the
+default `"update"`. Any other value throws a `TypeError` before anything runs.
+
+A record that a person edits from a form it read earlier carries a version
+number: the table resource names it with `lockVersionField`, an integer field
+over a non-null integer column with `defaultTo: 0`.
+`patch(id, changes, { ...options, lockVersion })` then locks the row, applies
+`changes` only while it still holds that version, and advances it. A record
+whose version moved on rejects with a 409 coded
+`crud.document.lockVersionConflict` ("This record changed. Reload and try
+again.") and nothing is written; a missing or hidden record follows the
+missing-row rule. The changes leave the version field out. Every update
+advances the version, a plain `patch`, `patchMany`, `patchWhere` or upsert
+merge too, so a form that read version 3 and saves after a background job's
+plain patch of the same record (now version 4) gets the 409 and reloads, even
+though the job changed other fields. `patch(id, changes, { ...options, onlyIf:
+{ status: "open" } })` is the same check on stored values, answering `null`
+when they differ.
+
+## Layer 5: reports the resource cannot express
+
+Some reads are reports, not records: totals by status and month, the newest
+row per group, distinct active days. Try `aggregate` (counts, sums, buckets by
+day, week, month or year) and an include with `strategy: "window"` (newest per
+group) first. A window include is declared on the table resource's
+relationship, never in the query, and read with `include: ["snapshots"]`:
+
+```js
+relationships: {
+  snapshots: { type: "hasMany", target: "snapshots", foreignKey: "booking_id", include: { strategy: "window", limit: 1, orderBy: ["-revision"] } }
+}
+```
+
+When neither can express it, the owner's repository builds it from
+`scopedQuery()`, the table's builder with ownership and the row policy already
+applied:
+
+```js
+// Knex: report - the days each member was active, counted per member
+async function activeDays(memberIds, options) {
+  const { query } = await visits.scopedQuery({}, options);
+  return query
+    .select({ memberId: visits.column("memberId") })
+    .countDistinct({ days: visits.raw("DATE(??)", [visits.column("visitedAt")]) })
+    .whereIn(visits.column("memberId"), memberIds)
+    .groupBy(visits.column("memberId"));
+}
+```
+
+- Each report is one named method in its owner's repository file
+  (`*Repository.js`, `repository.js`, or a file under `repositories/`;
+  `jskit/knex-reason` refuses `scopedQuery()` anywhere else), under
+  `// Knex: <kind> - <reason>`. The kinds:
+  - `totals`: sums or counts `aggregate` cannot group;
+  - `report`: rows shaped across tables;
+  - `newest-per-group`: one row per group, such as each customer's latest
+    visit;
+  - `subquery`: a scoped set another query joins;
+  - `hot-path`: a measured path the handle makes too slow, with its JSKIT
+    ticket (`// Knex: hot-path #123 - <reason>`);
+  - `runtime-tables`: tables people define while the app runs, which no table
+    resource in the code describes.
+- `column()` names columns; `raw` takes one expression as a string literal,
+  with its values as bindings.
+- Its rows are the driver's, with no field types applied: a BIGINT column
+  (ids and counters alike) and a `COUNT` read as text on MySQL and MariaDB
+  (the runtime's `bigNumberStrings`) and on PostgreSQL (int8). The method
+  turns the counts and totals it answers into numbers, such as `Number(days)`
+  for `activeDays` above.
+- The builder only reads, and only its own table is scoped. A `.join()` or
+  `.from()` of a table by name, or a table named inside `raw()`, reads that
+  table's rows past its owner and row policy, and so does a subquery callback
+  (`whereIn("id", (sub) => sub.from(...))`), whose builder is Knex's own. Nothing
+  at run time stops it: `jskit/no-direct-knex` and `jskit/sql-literal` flag it
+  (a name as text, an alias object such as `{ p: "projects" }`, a variable
+  whose name says table or name, a const holding one, either branch of a `?:`
+  or `??`, any `fromRaw()` or `joinRaw()`, and in a subquery callback any
+  variable but a scoped subquery or one destructured from a call, such as
+  `const { query } = await lots.scopedQuery(...)`), and `expectScoped` catches it
+  only when the test seeds another owner's rows the join matches. Join another
+  table only as that table's scoped subquery.
+- When a report needs another owner's rows side by side, it joins that
+  table's join source in one statement. `joinSource({ alias, filters },
+  options)` on the owner's handle, or on the repository a CRUD feature gives
+  other features, answers `{ query, column }`: the caller's scoped rows under
+  that alias (ownership, the row policy and the filters applied) with the
+  columns a read answers, never a hidden one, and `column(field)` naming each
+  under the alias. The builder comes wrapped, since a builder is thenable and
+  an async function would run it. The report shapes it (select, group), names
+  it with `.as()` and joins it, so every owner's scope and row policy stay
+  applied. The report lives with the main table's owner, or in a feature that
+  requires both. Never hand-build a join source on `scopedQuery()`: its
+  builder carries every column, so a CRUD feature's repository refuses
+  `scopedQuery()`, and any method answering a builder other than a
+  `joinSource()`'s, outside a system context. A report that needs another
+  owner's hidden value asks that owner for a method answering what it needs.
+
+  ```js
+  // Knex: report - open tasks and billed totals per project, joined on billing's scoped invoices
+  async function projectSummary(options) {
+    const source = await billing.joinSource({ alias: "i" }, options);
+    const billed = source.query
+      .select({ projectId: source.column("projectId") })
+      .sum({ billed: source.column("amount") })
+      .groupBy(source.column("projectId"))
+      .as("b");
+    const { query } = await tasks.scopedQuery({ alias: "t" }, options);
+    const projectId = tasks.column("projectId", "t");
+    return query
+      .leftJoin(billed, "b.projectId", projectId)
+      .select({ projectId })
+      .count({ open: tasks.column("id", "t") })
+      .max({ billed: "b.billed" })
+      .groupBy(projectId);
+  }
+  ```
+
+- When each owner can answer on its own (keys in, grouped totals out), the
+  report is a feature of its own that calls each owner's method and merges the
+  answers in memory: one statement per owner, never a call per row.
+- Give each report a scope test and a flat-query test (see [Tests](#tests)).
+
+## Reads shaped for the screen
+
+- A list reads one page with `query`; it needs `page.size`, at most the
+  resource's `queryMaxLimit`. A scrolling list passes the previous page's
+  `page.next` as `page.after`; numbered pages, or restoring a known page, pass
+  `page.number` (from 1) and answer `page: { size, number, hasMore, next }`.
+  `page.number` reads with OFFSET, which slows as the rows grow, so anything
+  that grows pages with `page.after`. Each page is one statement, with no
+  count: never walk pages to reach one.
+- A screen list never uses `queryAll`.
+- Related rows come by id list (`filters: { id: ids }`, or an `in` filter on
+  another field) or `include`, grouped in memory. Never a query per row, however
+  the loop is spelled (`for`, `map` with `Promise.all`, a helper called per
+  item).
+- `queryAll` reads every matching row, in cursor pages that skip and repeat
+  none. Use it for id lists, one parent's rows and jobs: a read its callers
+  treat as complete, which a `query` would silently cut at one page. In a
+  request it stops past the request row limit (10,000 rows) with a 400 coded
+  `RESOURCE_ROW_LIMIT`.
+
+```js
+// good: one page of invoices, then all of that page's lines in one read
+const { records, page: next } = await invoices.query({ sort: ["-issuedAt"], page }, options);
+const lines = await invoiceLines.queryAll({ filters: { invoiceIds: records.map((invoice) => invoice.id) } }, options);
+const linesByInvoice = Map.groupBy(lines, (line) => line.invoiceId);
+
+// bad: one more read, and its row policy, for every invoice
+for (const invoice of records) {
+  invoice.lines = await invoiceLines.queryAll({ filters: { invoiceIds: [invoice.id] } }, options);
+}
+
+// good: a delivery job reads every active subscriber
+const subscribers = await subscriptions.queryAll({ filters: { newsletterId, status: "active" } }, options);
+
+// bad: the first page only, whatever its size
+const { records: firstPage } = await subscriptions.query({ filters: { newsletterId, status: "active" }, page: { size: 20 } }, options);
+```
+
+Bad: a list read 100-row pages in a loop for each of 40 related sets.
+
+## What changed since
+
+A page that catches up on a chat, a watch that acts on changes and a sync to
+another system each read what changed since they last read. "Past the highest
+id seen" misses a row whose id was taken before its transaction committed, and
+every change to an older row; "`updatedAt` after the last read" misses a
+transaction that committed after a later one. On PostgreSQL a change stamp and
+the change horizon miss neither:
+
+- The table stamps each row with the transaction that last wrote it, an `xid8`
+  column a trigger sets on every insert and update, whatever the write sent,
+  with an index that starts with the ownership columns:
+
+  ```js
+  // migrations/20261108120000_messages_changed.cjs
+  exports.up = async function up(knex) {
+    await knex.raw("alter table messages add column changed xid8 not null default pg_current_xact_id()");
+    await knex.raw("create function messages_changed() returns trigger language plpgsql as $$ begin new.changed := pg_current_xact_id(); return new; end $$");
+    await knex.raw("create trigger messages_changed before insert or update on messages for each row execute function messages_changed()");
+    await knex.raw("create index messages_changed_ix on messages (workspace_id, changed)");
+  };
+  ```
+- The table resource reads it as an `xid8` field, which nothing writes, and
+  filters on it:
+
+  ```js
+  schema: { /* ... */ changed: { type: "xid8", nullable: true } },
+  searchSchema: {
+    changedSince: { type: "xid8", actualField: "changed", filterOperator: ">=" },
+    changedBefore: { type: "xid8", actualField: "changed", filterOperator: "<" }
+  }
+  ```
+- The reader takes `changeHorizon(options)` before it reads and answers it as
+  the next cursor. Every transaction below the horizon had finished, so the
+  next read, `changedSince: cursor`, finds everything this read could not see.
+  A row can come twice, so the reader merges by id. A job that keeps its cursor
+  in a row reads the window `{ changedSince: cursor, changedBefore: horizon }`
+  and stores the horizon as the new cursor in the same transaction.
+
+```js
+async function catchUp(conversationId, since, options) {
+  const cursor = await messages.changeHorizon(options);
+  const changed = await messages.queryAll({ filters: { conversationId, changedSince: since } }, options);
+  return { messages: changed, cursor };
+}
+```
+
+The horizon is the server's: a long transaction anywhere holds it back, so a
+read repeats more rows, never misses one. MySQL, MariaDB and SQLite stamp no
+row with its transaction: `changeHorizon` throws `UnsupportedDatabaseError`
+there, and an `xid8` field is refused. A reader there takes the rows to handle
+with `claim()`, marking each done in the same transaction.
+
+## Background work
+
+Work over the whole population runs as a background job, never inside one
+person's request. Its feature declares why with `systemScope`, and its setup
+receives `systemContext(reason)`, which names its reason at every call:
+
+```js
+const SettlementFeature = defineFeature({
+  id: "leagues.settlement",
+  owns: [cohortResource, memberResource],
+  systemScope: "settle finished weekly leagues for every user",
+  setup: ({ resources, systemContext }) => ({ settlement: createSettlement({ resources, systemContext }) })
+});
+```
+
+- Prefer `systemContext(reason).forWorkspace(id)`, `.forUser(id)` or
+  `.forWorkspaceUser(workspaceId, userId)`: each workspace or user is then one
+  unit of work, scoped as usual, in a transaction of its own. An event it
+  publishes carries that workspace's or user's scope, as a request there would,
+  so it reaches that audience, never everyone. An action it runs with
+  `actions.execute({ actionId, input, context })` keeps the context's kind:
+  inside it, a handle call still reads as the system context or job.
+- Work a job does for one person (a request it carries out later) passes
+  `{ actorId }` last: `forWorkspace(id, { actorId: requestedBy })`. It says
+  whom the work is for and never sets the scope, which stays the workspace or
+  user the job was derived for, and it signs no one in: `resolveActorId` and
+  every `authenticated` check still see no one. Audit fields read it with
+  `resolveAuditActorId(context)`. A row policy is told it as `caller.actorId`,
+  and one that holds people to their own rows reads it as it reads a
+  request's `caller.userId`, so a job for a person sees what that person may
+  see, and a job for no one its whole scope. Work on one person's rows only
+  takes their scope (`forUser`, `forWorkspaceUser`) or filters its reads.
+- A job finds its units with one `aggregate` grouped by the ownership field,
+  which a system context may group by (and count distinct) even when the table
+  hides it, then runs each unit scoped to it. A request's aggregate still
+  refuses a hidden field:
+
+  ```js
+  async function settleDue(options) {
+    const due = await cohorts.aggregate({ measures: { cohorts: { count: "id" } }, groupBy: ["workspaceId"], filters: { status: "finished" } }, options);
+    for (const { workspaceId } of due) {
+      await settleWorkspace({ context: systemContext("settle finished weekly leagues for every user").forWorkspace(workspaceId) });
+    }
+  }
+  ```
+- A job that must learn each row's owner across workspaces names the hidden
+  ownership field in its read's `fields`, `queryAll({ filters, fields:
+  ["workspaceId", "email"] }, { context })`, as a system context may do through
+  another feature's CRUD repository too (see [Layer
+  1](#layer-1-the-table-resource)). Never unhide it for the job.
+- A request uses its own context. The exceptions are a console report
+  behind a console permission, with bounded output, and the write of a shared
+  row it has proved it reaches ([Layer 1](#layer-1-the-table-resource)).
+- `jskit check` lists every system scope and every `systemContext` call with
+  its reason, read from the string literal at the call: a reason kept in a
+  constant reads as none.
+- A system context comes only from `systemScope`, and a context's scope only
+  from the request or from `forWorkspace`, `forUser` and `forWorkspaceUser`:
+  lint refuses `createSystemContext` and hand-written `scopeValues`, and a
+  context naming two workspaces or two users throws.
+- A table only the feature's own background work reads and writes, whose rows
+  belong to no workspace or user (an agent's runs, a server's leases, a queue
+  keyed by something other than an owner), takes ownership `system`. Every call
+  then needs the owner's `systemContext(reason)`: a request's context, a
+  `forWorkspace`, `forUser` or `forWorkspaceUser` job and no context at all
+  throw `SystemContextRequiredError` before any statement, since on such a
+  table they would reach every workspace's rows. Requests
+  reach the rows only through the owner's own methods, which decide what each
+  caller may see, and `defineCrudFeature` refuses a `system` table. A table
+  whose rows do belong to a workspace or user names that ownership instead.
+- A job that runs on a schedule is a feature whose `boot()` starts a timer and
+  whose `shutdown()` stops it; JSKIT ships no scheduler. See
+  [typed features, Owned state](typed-features.md#owned-state).
+  Every server runs the timer, so a run takes its rows with `claim()`.
+
+Bad: a job read every record of every workspace inside a request path, every
+hour.
+
+## Transactions
+
+Open a transaction with the repository's `withTransaction(options, work)` and
+pass the `txOptions` it gives `work` to every call inside, spread over the
+method's own `options` for the write the caller's settings are for. Never read the
+transaction out of `options` by hand. A handle refuses every other
+transaction, a raw Knex one or a savepoint, for reads as for writes. Inside an
+open transaction it joins it; otherwise it opens one and runs events and other
+after-effects after commit. Any failed write inside it fails the whole
+transaction.
+
+A deadlock victim's transaction (MySQL and MariaDB errno 1213, PostgreSQL
+`40P01`), and one MariaDB fails as "Record has changed since last read" (errno
+1020, with `innodb_snapshot_isolation` on), runs its whole work again, up to
+three more times, so the work must
+be safe to repeat: an HTTP call or an email goes after commit, or into an
+outbox row written inside it. Work that cannot be repeated passes `{ ...options, retry: false }`, and work that must
+commit before its caller goes on passes `{ ...options, outermost: true }`.
+Code never asks whether it runs in a transaction: `withTransaction` joins the
+caller's, `outermost` refuses one, and `lock`, `lockMany`, `lockWhere` and
+`claim` refuse to run outside one; `lockOrCreate` opens its own (and retries a
+lost insert race only then).
+
+When the work throws, the transaction rolls back and the caller gets the
+work's own error, with its status and code, reporting `transactionOutcome:
+"rolledBack"`, so `retryLostInsertRace` (Layer 3) also runs again work that
+turned the duplicate into its own 409. A failed write inside the work, or a failed commit, reaches
+the caller as json-rest-api's `RestApiWriteError` with the transaction's
+outcome. It carries the failure's own `code` and `status` (a driver's
+`ER_CHECKREAD`, a not-found's 404), and `REST_API_WRITE` only when the failure
+has no code. Classify an error by its `code` or `status`,
+never with `instanceof`: a second copy of a package makes a second class.
+
+A database error never reaches a client. Its message carries the statement
+and its values, so JSKIT's HTTP handler and the assistant's stream answer one,
+thrown as it is or as a wrapper's cause, with a stand-in
+(`hideDatabaseError` in `@jskit-ai/kernel/server/runtime`) and log it in full:
+409 `kernel.database.concurrentWrite` when the database refused the transaction for a concurrent one
+(a deadlock or lock wait whose retries ran out, a row changed since the
+transaction's snapshot, a serialization failure), which the client may send
+again, else 500. To give a duplicate key or another database refusal its own
+answer, throw an `AppError` (a `ConflictError`) with the driver's error as its
+`cause`: an `AppError` keeps its answer whatever it wraps.
+
+```js
+const allocate = (input, options) => repository.withTransaction(options, async (txOptions) => {
+  const invoices = await repository.lockOpenInvoices(input.invoiceIds, txOptions);
+  return repository.recordAllocations(allocationsFor(invoices, input.amount), txOptions);
+});
+```
+
+## Tables you don't own
+
+Ask the owner: its service, or for a JSKIT table its owner API, with the same
+`options`. JSKIT's packages expose their tables this way: users
+(`users.profiles`, `users.settings`), workspaces (`workspaces`,
+`workspaces.memberships`), local sign-in (`auth.local.accounts`,
+`auth.local.sessions`, `auth.local.recovery`) and the console
+(`console.settings`). Local sign-in's owner APIs work in its system context,
+so `jskit check` wants a reviewed reason for each module that requires one
+(see [Hard rules](#hard-rules)). A realtime audience reaches its users the same way: its
+`audienceUsers({ event, options })` asks the owners and answers user ids, in the
+event's scope: for a customer's or a public surface's event, the workspace the
+request resolved, never one its payload names (see [Realtime](/guide/app-extras/realtime)).
+
+Code that names people by id (a conversation's members, a group's
+participants) reads them with `users.profiles.listByIds(ids, options)`: every
+profile in one call, however many ids, never `query` pages of 100 walked by
+hand or one `findById` per person. `users.settings.listByUserIds(ids, options)`
+does the same for their settings, and `workspaces.listByIds(ids, options)` for
+workspaces.
+
+An app that had a table resource of its own over a JSKIT table (such as
+`users`) deletes it: its CRUD contract is built on the package's table resource
+(users-core's `userProfileTableResource`) and served through the owner with
+`defineCrudFeature({ crud, ownerRepository: "users.profiles" })` (the
+`users/user-administration-server` pattern). The app's own facts about a
+person (a staff role, a preference) live in the app's own table keyed by the
+user id, owned by the app with ownership `user` or `workspace_user`, never as
+new columns on `users`.
+
+A surface over a table you don't own that may show only some of its rows (a
+people picker limited to those who share a workspace with the caller) asks the
+owner for exactly that read, as one owner API method that narrows with one
+predicate over the owner's own tables. It never contributes the rule to the
+owner's row policy, which narrows every read of the table (sign-in's too), and
+never passes an id list of everyone the caller may see: an id list is fine for
+the rows one screen shows, not for a rule over thousands of people. An owner
+without such a method gets one added at the owner; until then the surface uses
+the owner's own listing for that scope, such as
+`workspaces.memberships.listActiveByWorkspaceId(workspaceId, options)`, which
+reads the members with their users in one statement.
+
+Bad: an app wrote sign-in sessions and memberships with Knex; the framework's
+own checks and audits never ran.
+
+## Two features that need each other
+
+When a parent's owner and its children's owners each need the other (the
+parent's service reads its children, and a child's write must advance the
+parent's version), split what both need into a feature of its own, so
+capabilities point one way:
+
+- The parent table's owner keeps the table and provides a small owner API,
+  such as `versions.advance(id, txOptions)`, and requires none of the
+  children.
+- Each child's owner requires that API and calls it in its own write's
+  transaction, from its repository's write method. An `owns` entry's
+  `afterWrite` hook cannot do it: it is declared with the table, before any
+  capability arrives.
+- The aggregate that reads or changes them together (the parent with its
+  children) is a third feature that requires both.
+
+A version that moves on with no field changed is the parent's
+`lockVersionField`: `lockMany(ids, txOptions)` locks the parents, and
+`patchMany(ids.map((id) => ({ id })), { ...txOptions, returning: "none" })`
+advances each by one, in one statement, whatever the field is called. An
+advance is an update, so it stamps the parent's `updatedAt` too: the parent as
+a whole changed, and a reader that compares either one sees it. A condition
+named with no value, such as `lockVersion: record.lockVersion` on a field
+called `version`, is refused (`options.lockVersion is undefined`), never run
+without it.
+
+## Check and judge
+
+Before calling data work done, apply the
+[sanity checks](sanity-checks.md#query-counts-and-batches) with
+JSKIT's tools: `expectFlatQueries` for statements that grow with rows,
+`expectScoped` for every read and write path, and a look at each `// Knex:`
+method, which `aggregate` or an include might do instead.
+
+## Tests
+
+Each data path gets two one-line tests on the real test database, with the
+helpers from `@jskit-ai/resource-runtime/test`:
+
+```js
+import { expectEveryTableOwned, expectFlatQueries, expectScoped, startTestFeatures } from "@jskit-ai/resource-runtime/test";
+
+test("allocation stays in its workspace", () => expectScoped({ environment: process.env, handles: [invoices, payments], systemContext, owners: [workspaceA, workspaceB], seed: seedInvoices, run: (owner) => billing.allocate(input, owner) }));
+test("allocation is flat", () => expectFlatQueries({ environment: process.env, knex, seed: seedInvoices, run: (seeded) => billing.allocate(inputFor(seeded), seeded.options) }));
+```
+
+`expectFlatQueries` (from `@jskit-ai/resource-runtime/test`) seeds each size,
+counts the statements the path sends, and fails when a larger size sends more,
+with the counts and the statements repeated most; the later chunks a many-row
+write reports are allowed. `expectScoped` runs the path as owner A before and
+after seeding owner B and fails when the answer changes, so it catches a report
+that sums, counts or joins B's rows, not only one that returns them; it also
+fails when the path changed or removed a row of B's. The path runs twice, so it
+answers the same for the same rows: a write answers what repeats, such as the
+ids it changed, not a fresh id or time.
+
+An owner is whatever `seed` and `run` receive. On a workspace path it is a
+signed-in member's options, built as the request pipeline builds them:
+`{ context: { actor: { id: userId }, workspace: { id: workspaceId }, permissions } }`,
+where `permissions` holds the member's role permissions. Seed with a job's
+context, `{ context: systemContext(reason).forWorkspace(workspaceId) }`. A row
+policy sees that context as `caller.kind` `"job"`, never as the member.
+
+A data test never skips: without `TEST_DB_NAME` it fails
+(`requireTestDatabase(process.env)`). Give `expectFlatQueries` the test's
+`knex` whenever the features run on it (`startTestFeatures`,
+`createTestResourceRuntime`). Without `knex` it counts through a server the
+test booted (`countRuntimeQueries(work)` from
+`@jskit-ai/database-runtime/server/testDatabases`). A check that measures
+nothing never passes: "The path sent no statement at any size" means pass
+`knex`, or the path never reached the database.
+
+A package's own data test that creates its tables in the test takes its Knex
+from `createPackageTestKnex(t, { environment: process.env })` (from
+`@jskit-ai/resource-runtime/test`): an in-memory SQLite database, or on a
+`DB_CLIENT=pg` run a schema of the test's own in `TEST_DB_NAME`, dropped after
+it. The same file then proves its locks, many-row writes and upserts on
+PostgreSQL too; compare counts with `Number()` (PostgreSQL answers them as
+strings) and ids with `String()`.
+
+`createTestResourceRuntime({ knex })` gives a test the resource runtime its
+features own their tables through: `runtime.own(featureId, [resource])`
+answers the handles, and `runtime.declareSystemScope(featureId, reason)` the
+`systemContext` function a test reads every owner's rows with. One more test
+proves every table has an owner:
+`expectEveryTableOwned({ knex, runtime, infrastructureTables, environment })`
+fails, naming them, when the migrated test database holds a table no feature
+owns and no package keeps as infrastructure. JSKIT's packages export their
+infrastructure tables for it: `LOCAL_AUTH_INFRASTRUCTURE_TABLES`
+(`@jskit-ai/auth-provider-local-db-core/server/lib/index`),
+`OIDC_CLIENT_INFRASTRUCTURE_TABLES` (`@jskit-ai/auth-provider-oidc-core/server/lib/index`)
+and `OIDC_ISSUER_INFRASTRUCTURE_TABLES` (`@jskit-ai/oidc-issuer-core/server`).
+`runtime` knows only the features the test started, so start every owner of a
+migrated table, JSKIT's own included, and pass `runtime: resources` from
+`startTestFeatures`. Local sign-in's tables belong to
+`AuthLocalDatabaseBackendProvider`
+(`@jskit-ai/auth-provider-local-db-core/server/providers/AuthLocalDatabaseBackendProvider`,
+given `inputs: { "runtime.database": { knex } }`).
+`LOCAL_AUTH_INFRASTRUCTURE_TABLES` lists only the identities table it keeps
+outside resources.
+
+A test of a feature and the owner APIs it requires starts them as the server
+does, without HTTP: `startTestFeatures({ knex, features, requires, inputs,
+createTables })` orders the features by their requires, owns their tables
+through a test resource runtime, runs every boot (so `crud.contracts` is
+sealed) and answers `{ capabilities, resources, stop }`. JSKIT's owners start
+beside yours: `UsersExtensionsProvider` and `UsersIdentityProvider` give
+`users.profiles`, and `WorkspaceRecordsFeature`
+(`@jskit-ai/workspaces-core/test/WorkspaceRecordsFeature`) gives `workspaces`
+and `workspaces.memberships` without the workspace routes. Never import another
+package's repositories to build its owner API by hand.
+
+A `defineCrudFeature` also requires `crud.contracts` and `runtime.http`, which
+an application's server supplies. In a test, add `CrudContractsProvider`
+(`@jskit-ai/crud-core/server/crudContracts`) to `features` and give
+`inputs: { "runtime.http": { router: { register() {} } } }`. The routes are
+then registered nowhere, and the test calls the feature's `service` and
+`repository` directly.
+
+```js
+const { capabilities, stop } = await startTestFeatures({
+  knex,
+  features: [RosterFeature, WorkspaceRecordsFeature, UsersIdentityProvider, UsersExtensionsProvider],
+  requires: { roster: "roster" }
+});
+t.after(stop);
+```
+
+A test of the routes themselves boots the application's server and signs
+people in over `app.inject`. Keep one cookie jar per person and send the
+session's `csrfToken` as `csrf-token` with every write. The session answer
+carries no user id, so the test finds each person by email
+(`users.profiles.findByEmail(email)`).
+
+```js
+const app = await createServer({ runtimeEnv: { ...resolveRuntimeEnv(), AUTH_LOCAL_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION: "false" } });
+
+async function signUp(email, password) {
+  const cookies = new Map();
+  const send = async (options) => {
+    const cookie = [...cookies].map(([name, value]) => `${name}=${value}`).join("; ");
+    const response = await app.inject({ ...options, headers: { ...options.headers, cookie } });
+    for (const header of [response.headers["set-cookie"] ?? []].flat()) {
+      const [name, ...value] = header.split(";")[0].split("=");
+      cookies.set(name.trim(), value.join("="));
+    }
+    return response;
+  };
+  const csrf = async () => (await send({ method: "GET", url: "/api/session" })).json().csrfToken;
+  await send({ method: "POST", url: "/api/register", headers: { "csrf-token": await csrf() }, payload: { email, password } });
+  await send({ method: "POST", url: "/api/login", headers: { "csrf-token": await csrf() }, payload: { email, password } });
+  return send;
+}
+```
+
+## Hard rules
+
+These are always wrong, and lint reports them as errors in all code but a
+package's client (`src/client`), the app's own `src/` included, since server
+code sits there too. Tests, migrations and seeds (a `test/`, `migrations/` or
+`seeds/` folder at the root of the app or of a package, or a `seed*` script in
+its `scripts/`, `bin/` or root) are outside them; such a folder deeper in
+server code is server code. Neither `eslint-disable`, an inline
+`/* eslint ... */` config nor the app's ESLint config can turn them off.
+
+### Lint rules
+
+| Rule | Reports | Section |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `jskit/no-direct-knex` | a table reached by name with Knex, a `.knex` read or `knex` destructured, a transaction opened by hand | [The resource is the only door](#the-resource-is-the-only-door) |
+| `jskit/no-transaction-reader` | `options.trx`, `trx \|\| knex`, a `trx = knex` default, `trx` destructured from options, any key but `context` and `trx` read from the `txOptions` work receives | [Transactions](#transactions) |
+| `jskit/no-hand-scope` | a hand-written `where` on `workspace_id` or `workspaceId` | [Layer 1: the table resource](#layer-1-the-table-resource) |
+| `jskit/sql-literal` | raw SQL built from strings or templates instead of one literal with bindings | [Layer 5: reports the resource cannot express](#layer-5-reports-the-resource-cannot-express) |
+| `jskit/no-hand-context` | a system context made with `createSystemContext` or `declareSystemScope`, a context's `scopeValues` written by hand | [Background work](#background-work) |
+| `jskit/knex-reason` | a `scopedQuery()` report outside a named repository method under `// Knex: <kind> - <reason>` | [Layer 5: reports the resource cannot express](#layer-5-reports-the-resource-cannot-express) |
+
+### Exceptions
+
+A module whose job is data access itself (a database runtime, a migration
+runner, test-database setup, an operator's data import or cutover tool, a
+database console that runs the person's own SQL) may opt out of
+`jskit/no-direct-knex`, `jskit/no-transaction-reader`, `jskit/no-hand-scope`
+and `jskit/sql-literal` as a whole, with one line per rule before its first
+line of code:
+
+```js
+// readable-check: allow no-direct-knex - infrastructure: the test databases' snapshot and restore
+```
+
+In a file excused from `jskit/no-direct-knex`, raw SQL runs on Knex itself,
+so `jskit/sql-literal` lets it hold a statement; it is still one literal with
+its values as bindings. Only a module that runs SQL it is given by design (a
+console's query runner) opts out of `jskit/sql-literal` itself, in that one
+header line with its reason; never with a per-line disable. `jskit check`
+lists every such file for review. `jskit/no-hand-context` and
+`jskit/knex-reason` take no exception.
+
+A data import or cutover tool (loading another system's records into the app's
+tables before go-live, say) is the one application module that commonly takes
+it. Check and judge, for each file:
+
+- it runs only as an operator's command; nothing a request can reach imports
+  it;
+- it bypasses ownership and row policies on purpose, so every read and write
+  names its workspace explicitly;
+- it writes in one transaction per batch, so a failed batch leaves nothing
+  half-loaded;
+- its statements per row are still measured, as any write path's are: a batch
+  of 200 rows costs about what a batch of 10 does.
+
+`jskit check` also fails:
+
+- a table with two table resources;
+- a system scope or `systemContext` call without a reason;
+- an infrastructure exception or a feature's system scope that the app's
+  checked-in `jskit-data-access.json` does not list, so each new one is
+  reviewed: `{ "infrastructure": [{ "file", "rule" }], "systemScopes":
+  [{ "feature", "systemScope" }, { "file", "capability", "systemScope" }] }`;
+- a module that requires a capability handing out rows past their owners:
+  `runtime.database` or `runtime.resources` without the infrastructure
+  exception (features own their tables with `owns`), and
+  `realtime.audience-scope`, `auth.local.accounts`, `auth.local.sessions`,
+  `auth.local.recovery`, `connectors.store`, `assistant.repositories` or
+  `payments.store` until `systemScopes` lists that file and capability with
+  its reason, in any spelling the kernel resolves (`Runtime.Resources`); a
+  feature's own id counts only where it provides that capability;
+- an `eslint-disable` that names a data-access rule, or no rule, or an inline
+  `/* eslint ... */` config that sets one, outside client code;
+- an app file that the app's ESLint config lints without every data-access
+  rule as an error (`"jskit/no-direct-knex": "off"`, `dataAccessConfig(files,
+  "off")`), or server code (`src/server`, `src/shared`, `server/`) that it
+  ignores, until `infrastructure` lists that file and rule.