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Three independently ugly bugs that all fed the same log flood:

* Electron's `WebFrameMain.send` writes every "Render frame was disposed"
  to stderr via `console.error`. When the worker fans a second
  agent-event past a reloading renderer, we produced thousands of
  identical lines and stalled the main loop on stderr I/O. Added a
  `mainFrame.detached` guard so the send is short-circuited before
  Electron's own catch block fires, and installed a targeted filter in
  `suppress-warnings.ts` (now actually imported from the entry point)
  so the specific `console.error("Error sending from webFrameMain:"…)`
  noise never reaches the terminal. Any other payload still surfaces.

* `dispatchAgentMessage` accepted the human-reader sentinel as a wake
  target when an agent replied to `__board__` — `wakeAgentIfPossible`
  then called `db.getAgent("__board__")`, threw, and the dispatcher
  kept repeating on every send. Strip `HUMAN_SENDER_ID` at
  `resolveMessageWakeTargets`, and keep a defense-in-depth guard in the
  heartbeat so a stray caller (future automation fan-out) cannot
  reintroduce the crash.

* Pi's skills loader rejects any SKILL.md whose frontmatter `name`
  diverges from its parent directory. The four bundled `my-writing-style`
  copies declared `name: writing-style-skill`, so every install emitted
  a warning and dropped the skill. They also lived as orphan gitlinks
  (mode 160000 without .gitmodules), and the global `*.md` gitignore
  hid every other SKILL.md from version control. Fixed the frontmatter
  to match the dir, converted the dangling submodules to plain trees,
  and allowlisted `builtin-skills/**/*.md` so a fresh clone carries the
  catalogue instead of silently losing it.
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---
title: Use Value Objects for Domain Concepts
impact: HIGH
impactDescription: eliminates primitive obsession, enforces constraints
tags: entity, value-objects, domain, types
---
## Use Value Objects for Domain Concepts
Replace primitive types with value objects that encapsulate validation and behavior. Value objects are immutable, compared by value, and self-validating.
**Incorrect (primitive obsession):**
```typescript
class Customer {
constructor(
public id: string,
public email: string,
public phone: string,
public postalCode: string
) {}
changeEmail(newEmail: string): void {
// Validation scattered or missing
if (!newEmail.includes('@')) {
throw new Error('Invalid email')
}
this.email = newEmail
}
}
// Callers can pass any string
const customer = new Customer('123', 'not-an-email', '123', 'invalid')
```
**Correct (value objects for domain concepts):**
```typescript
class Email {
private constructor(private readonly value: string) {}
static create(value: string): Email {
if (!Email.isValid(value)) {
throw new InvalidEmailError(value)
}
return new Email(value.toLowerCase())
}
private static isValid(value: string): boolean {
return /^[^\s@]+@[^\s@]+\.[^\s@]+$/.test(value)
}
equals(other: Email): boolean {
return this.value === other.value
}
toString(): string {
return this.value
}
}
class PhoneNumber {
private constructor(
private readonly countryCode: string,
private readonly number: string
) {}
static create(countryCode: string, number: string): PhoneNumber {
// Validation and normalization
return new PhoneNumber(countryCode, number.replace(/\D/g, ''))
}
}
class Customer {
constructor(
public readonly id: CustomerId,
private email: Email,
private phone: PhoneNumber
) {}
changeEmail(newEmail: Email): void {
this.email = newEmail // Already validated
}
}
// Compile-time type safety + runtime validation
const customer = new Customer(
CustomerId.create('123'),
Email.create('user@example.com'),
PhoneNumber.create('+1', '555-1234')
)
```
**Benefits:**
- Invalid values cannot exist in the system
- Domain concepts explicitly named in code
- Validation logic centralized and reusable
- Type system prevents mixing up string parameters
Reference: [Value Object Pattern](https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ValueObject.html)