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Why

The same email thread is spelled EmailThread, THREAD, email, thread, and email_thread across layers. Each hop hand-rolled its own translation, and casts skipped translation entirely. That is the bug class behind #6042. This PR gives each language one translation owner and makes the cast escape hatch fail CI.

Scope

• itemType.ts now owns every item-type spelling conversion: stringToItemType, blockNameToItemType, and DEFAULT_ITEM_TYPE move in from client.ts, next to itemTypeToReferenceEntityType, branched with ts-pattern per FE-20. client.ts re-exports.
• Deletes the dead _isItemType guard and its itemTypeSet, which wrongly listed thread as an ItemType.
• fetchAttachmentReferences applies itemTypeToReferenceEntityType at the API boundary. The email side panel passes the real email item type; the 'thread' as ItemType constant and its justifying comment are deleted. The wire value is unchanged.
• Every as ItemType cast is gone. References.tsx, Timeline.tsx, FileSelector.tsx, App.tsx, dss.ts, and entityConversion.ts parse or type the value at its source. Two no-op as EntityType casts in PropertyTooltip.tsx are deleted. References.tsx imports the parser from @service-storage/itemType, keeping the runtime import off the client module (FE-01).
• ast-grep twins ts-no-item-type-cast + tsx-no-item-type-cast (CI error, zero existing violations) ban new as ItemType casts, documented as FE-31 in docs/STYLE_GUIDE.md. They ride the existing rules/ast-grep scan in CI, just check, and CodeRabbit.
• Rust: crates/properties domain::model::storage_entity_type is the exhaustive inverse of canonical_entity_type. service_impl.rs and permission_service.rs delete their duplicate maps and delegate. A new canonical entity type now fails to compile until someone decides its properties storage.

Out of scope, deliberately: making the liberal string parsers strict (ReferencedShareItemType::from_raw, entity-access parse_entity_type alias). That needs a producer-by-producer migration wave first. The notification.entity_type as EntityType cast in notifications/types.ts targets the core EntityType union and needs its own look.

Tradeoffs

toItemType in Timeline.tsx now returns undefined for entity refs with no item-preview surface (user, team, static_file, reminder, skill, agent_session) instead of passing a string no preview fetcher handles. Both render as inaccessible; the fetch path differs.

An earlier revision enforced the cast ban as a biome GritQL plugin. It worked, but rules/ast-grep is the repo's one home for custom structural rules, so a later commit moves the rule there and deletes the plugin.

Blast Radius

One behavior fix rides along: generic reference rows storing email threads as thread or email_thread previewed as inaccessible because References.tsx cast the raw string. They now parse to email and resolve. Everything else is behavior-preserving and pinned.

Verification

• just check passes. The one warning is the pre-existing @service-unfurl/client import in PropertyTooltip.tsx, a legacy finding surfaced because the file changed (the rule tracks ~110 legacy files for burn-down).
• Pin tests written against the pre-move code first (itemType.test.ts): stringToItemType on all three thread spellings, blockNameToItemType per block, referencium round trip per item type. 39 pass before and after the move and again after the ts-pattern conversion (bun test, inside nix develop).
• cargo test -p properties against live Postgres: 210 passed, 0 failed. The new round-trip test covers every variant both ways, including Task → Document.
• bunx tsc --noEmit: clean. bunx biome check src/: clean.
• ast-grep verified both ways: probe .ts and .tsx files with a cast fail the scan as error[ts-no-item-type-cast] / error[tsx-no-item-type-cast]; the full tree has zero findings.
• Runtime equivalence on the same Properties-panel surface as withdrawn: Subject fallback for failed email Source previews #6042, three real PDFs via headless Chrome: owned thread still resolves Partnering with Macro at our AI hackathon; missing-thread and message-id docs still show Unknown thread, matching main.

  

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Corrected email attachment references to use the appropriate email entity type.
  • Improved handling of entity and item types across previews, references, properties, and bulk actions.
  • Added support for legacy email-thread type spellings and safer handling of unsupported types.
  • Improved mapping between block names and item types, including common aliases.

• Refactor

  • Consolidated item-type conversion and storage-entity mapping for more consistent behavior across the application.

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  • Added coverage for type conversion, legacy values, block mappings, and storage-entity round trips.

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The web application centralizes item-type parsing and block-name conversion, removes unchecked item-type casts, and maps item types before storage requests. Email references now use the email entity type. The properties crate adds a shared mapping from canonical access entity types to storage entity types, tests supported and unsupported mappings, and updates subject resolution and permission checks to use the helper.

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apps/web/src/features/dynamic-ui/widgets/Timeline.tsx (1)

12-24: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use an exhaustive match for EntityRef['type'].

Replace the switch and its catch-all default with match(type).with(...).exhaustive(). The current default returns new enum variants without requiring a preview decision.

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In `@apps/web/src/features/dynamic-ui/widgets/Timeline.tsx` around lines 12 - 24,
Update toItemType to replace the switch-based handling with an exhaustive match
on EntityRef['type'], explicitly mapping the supported values and returning
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- Around line 12-24: Update toItemType to replace the switch-based handling with
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• apps/web/src/features/dynamic-ui/widgets/Timeline.tsx
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