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shoney.arickathil
6fa93bb115 docs(commit-history): record the 2026-09-15 cherry-pick — 129 commits dev → master, three features left behind 
- cherry-pick table row + a per-prefix `dev` → `master` sub-table (39 prefixes,
  regenerable from the `-x` trailers) + what the pick taught: "already on
  master" is the mapping table, never prose (`79e6da4` had never been
  picked); earlier picks had dropped hunks; excluded tracks leave dangling
  links; the equality proof (master + the 70 excluded commits == dev in code)
- registry: statuses for every prefix picked or deliberately left (wmux,
  lang-18, porch2-rng), rows for the unregistered ones (tls/crypto/rv2-*/net,
  docs-only prefixes, one-off fixes)
- obligations for the wmux pick: the `justfile` recipe and wmux-accept.sh's
  WO_EPHEMERAL edits
- board: standup entry for the landing — what moved, what stayed and why,
  every gate count on master, the known fibers TSan red, what is next

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-09-15 01:35:38 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
463e1acefb fix(gate): web-app keypool leg opts into WO_EPHEMERAL=1 — refused since databasev2 2 task 6a 
- the leg copies the porch package, whose store declares RateLimitCounter
  default-durable, and ran the check program with no WO_DATA: since 6a that
  is a startup refusal, so `just web-app` read 56 checks, 1 failure on dev
  and on master alike — the 6a blast-radius pass missed this leg
- RAM-only opt-in on that one run, boot notice filtered from the byte-exact
  compare (the db-actor / wmux pattern); web-app 56/0

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 1ce195da25f527eb1fed3e9e6b8843e00315f25e)
 2026-09-15 01:34:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
37d3ba1543 fix(compiler): woc build -o creates the output's parent directory — a fresh checkout has no target/ 
- `woc build <dir> -o <example>/target/<name>` wrote its temp file beside the
  output and failed with "No such file or directory" when target/ was absent;
  target/ is gitignored, so every fresh checkout hit it — the db-actor and
  db-bench gates went red on a clean master worktree while passing on dev,
  where the directories exist from history
- the driver now creates the output's parent (mkdir -p shape) before the
  temp write; project-mode builds and existing directories are unchanged
- single-binary-smoke.sh gains `build-into-missing-dir` (4 checks, was 3),
  red on the old driver, green on this one; woc-test clean

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit e9213bb949e1c26cb3a29d6f9babf2322a82d839)
 2026-09-15 01:34:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ed2786c6ea fix(gate): web-app-accept.sh executable bit — just web-app failed with "Permission denied" 
- mode 100644 -> 100755, matching every other scripts/*-accept.sh

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit ec797d9646acc9519d21358dc28f5443a88940cd)
 2026-09-15 01:25:39 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
aa13b2125f refactor(porch-store): re-scope porch 1 to the limiter, revert idempotency 
- idempotency built, reviewed, then reverted WHOLE to the tag
  archive/porch-idempotency. Not a design failure: it passed its gates.
  It provokes a C-runtime SIGSEGV in wo_arena_alloc/wo_str_new under
  concurrent call()-parked callers
- the evidence for that attribution: over ten gate runs every failure
  was an idempotency leg and none was the limiter's, which drives the
  same pool through the same call/park machinery. The begin arm has 5x
  the allocation sites inside receive and moves a whole Req plus a
  Handler through the mailbox
- before the split the suite reported 0 to 6 failures run to run; after
  it, five consecutive runs at 56 checks, 0 failures
- PoolMsg loses digest/req/handler, and NullHandler/dummy_req/fresh_req
  go with them — every rate-limit count used to allocate a throwaway
  Req it never read
- IdempotencyKey is KEPT and commented: the schema is settled and the
  digest-as-column decision cost a review round to get right
- the limiter's saturation 503 has no leg of its own now (§19 drove
  Idempotent). Stated in the README rather than papered over — a
  deterministic leg needs a slow actor, and only the reverted arm was
- new: porch 9 (idempotency, on hold) and language 41 (the arena crash,
  with the reproduction harness and the evidence that localises it)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 79e6da4465133dc555e913c960d544ef1c7bedd8)
 2026-09-15 01:25:00 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
f3215c2f43 docs(status): master-only follow-ups to the 2026-09-15 cherry-pick 
- the agent rename database-developer → codd (and its guide) happened inside
  lang-18's `aab4878` on dev, which stays there; the `docs(agents)` pick
  brought codd.md in beside the old file — remove the old name and its guide
- docs/stories/porch/09-idempotent-replay.md: added on dev by `79e6da4`, whose
  earlier pick onto master (`refactor(porch-store)`) landed without it — the
  board, porch 1 and porch 4 link to it
- docs/stories/porch/10-memory-features-over-table.md: the refine stub
  language 18's docs commit created on dev; the board and porch 00-story link
  to it, the code it waits on is not on master
- docs/examples/skill-catalog/README.md: the story link fix from `b3d8c40` that its
  earlier pick (`8311330`) dropped in conflict resolution — dev's version taken
- `just linkcheck` on master: every remaining broken link is a wmux story or
  spec (track not picked) or a developer-local `.dev/reference` symlink

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-09-15 01:24:36 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
3a73938d2e docs(status): reconcile board, graph and story tables with the 2026-09-09..11 landings 
- board: language 18 row (hold lifted 2026-09-11, split — 18 keeps
  transaction { }, cache/flags/jobs to porch 10); In-progress rows for
  databasev2 4 part B / 5 / language 18 and the Active slice; databasev2
  rows 2 (CLOSED, 6a), 4 (part B re-brainstormed), 5 (ready), 7 (CLOSED),
  13 (new); the held list drops 18
- dependency graph: new §8 databasev2 (nodes 1–13, edges, states table);
  graph 1's 23/32 nodes turn done and their edge becomes undirected (they
  compose; neither needs the other); language 18 / porch 10 nodes and
  edges across the porch and language graphs; wmux gains the databasev2 2
  edge (DB2W) the prose already named
- databasev2 00-story: sequence rows 1/2/4/5/7/8/11/12/13/14, the ASCII
  graph (2 no longer needs 1; 2 → 11, 12) and the order rationale
- 01: the budget finding redirected to 5; 06: the Needs line marked
  superseded, task 7's 2026-08-30 measurement quoted; 09: the report's
  group-by is still refused, schema-sharing is language-track work; 10: an
  in-tree signing answer exists (rv2 9), Ed25519-vs-reuse still open
- porch 00-story: row 10 (memory features over @table, refine stub) and
  the "not porch's" table updated for the split

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 423b3c187b626f69da1ddb942c3c7849a3ee5a73)
 2026-09-15 01:16:24 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
96af299663 docs(db2-14): the shop workload story — what an order-taking web app needs from the store (refine) 
- inserted 2026-09-12 from a developer question ("would I build an
  e-commerce site on writeonce?"): the load is a non-question — a hundred
  orders a minute is under two durable writes a second against an engine
  that group-commits thousands; what the developer hits is the SHAPE of the
  query and schema surface, measured against PostgreSQL habits
- goals, each its own future slice: range queries and ordering through an
  ordered index (today's indexes are equality-only hash buckets); `skip`
  beside `take` (specced 2026-08-15, never built); group-by aggregation for
  the reports (parser accepts, types.ml refuses — owner: language track);
  composite unique, check rules, on-delete policy beside FK restrict;
  export/import and a read-only attach (databasev2 9)
- Given/When/Then per page or report of docs/examples/shop; out of scope;
  the forks left open for a brainstorm before any slice starts; progress
  and history empty — `status: pending`, `readiness: refine`

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit f33ae982c954d5478d549a6dc5f15463de43ab1b)
 2026-09-15 01:16:24 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
f8b470d7cf docs(db2-5): brainstormed to ready — twelve forks; the resident byte budget arrives as Phase A 
- `readiness: ready`, `review_pending` (forks 1–12 settled 2026-09-10 by
  codd-shoney under autonomy; look first at the cuts — fork 4 no
  back-pressure, no cross-table shedding, no warn threshold; fork 2 the
  per-table bound is rows only; forks 3/7 the default budget)
- two independent questions: RAM for all tables is one process budget in
  bytes (`WO_DB_MB`; unset = the default, never "no budget"), breached by
  refusal — the crossing insert traps WO_T_OOM, one stderr line names the
  largest table, the budget and its source; during replay the crossing is
  exit 2. Capacity of one table is `@table(max_rows: N)` with `on_full:
  refuse | drop_oldest`; drop_oldest legal on `durable: false` only,
  oldest = smallest live id; eviction never touches a durable table
- the default is the kernel's limit minus what the process holds at boot:
  cgroup v2 memory.high/max up the ancestry, else MemAvailable, minus VmRSS
  before replay — no fraction, no invented reserve; headroom is MEASURED
  (A4 re-runs iteration 1's 64 MiB swap-off leg, refusal must precede kill)
- estimate = what the engine asked the allocator for, chunk-rounded; keys
  tables count what is resident; observed on the WO_WAL_STATS exit line
- phases A–F, progress A1–A4 / B1–B3 / D1–D2 / F1 / P1 with owners; `.wob`
  v9 carries max_rows + policy; `status: pending`, Phase A startable now

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 579199af01581ebad3d2fa5f7e208745b210e9f9)
 2026-09-15 01:16:24 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
15b15dbe1c docs(db2-4b): part B re-brainstormed — the async barrier on the corrected premise, ten forks 
- retitled "group commit, and the async barrier"; the 2026-08-15/20/28
  banners compressed into a trail; `readiness: refine`, `review_pending`
  (forks 1–5 and 8–10 decided under autonomy 2026-09-10 by codd-shoney;
  6 and 7 keep readiness at refine)
- what part B is FOR: the read tail on shard 0 while a barrier blocks — and
  only that; mechanism: the drain pwrites as today, then submits ONE bare
  IORING_OP_FSYNC and keeps working; held replies released by the
  completion; the epoll fallback is part A unchanged; ordering with
  compaction and the deferred drops/re-points; the inline durable write on
  shard 0 unified through its own inbox while a barrier is in flight;
  completion delivery on a busy shard 0; shutdown reaps an in-flight
  barrier before wo_wal_close
- fork 6 (kernel floor and raw-syscall shape) goes to lintor; fork 7
  (go/no-go) is settled by one measurement — tmpfs vs ext4 `mixread.p99` —
  then one developer answer; both answers already sit in
  .dev/zack/databasev2-4b.md, the fold into this story is pending
- progress table B1–B9 with sizes and owners (cyril B1/B8, lintor B2, the
  runtime agent B3, codd + pm B9); no new knob, no new dependency

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 7ceb7b8805da41e67661744746bf2d0b7879cc50)
 2026-09-15 01:16:24 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
54b160070f docs(db2-keys): databasev2 13 story — fresh-log keys-resident seed SEGV, fixed 6310078 + 1b6750d 
- symptom: `seed` of docs/examples/residency on a FRESH log, rc 139, in both
  WO_DATA forms — found smoke-testing databasev2 7, independent of it
- root cause, two defects composing: wo_wal_fold_row_at wrote `*msg`
  unguarded while wo_idx_probe borrows with msg = NULL; and the databasev2 12
  schema head was staged lazily AFTER db.c captured the first keys-resident
  row's offset (`koff`), so that offset pointed at the schema record
- fix (already on dev, prefix db2-keys): wo_wal_next_offset stages the
  pending head before returning an offset; the fold tolerates a NULL msg;
  both failing-first, and a control build with wal.c reverted reproduces
  the trace
- third finding: residency-accept.sh never checked seed's rc, so 20/0 was
  green over a crash — `e274f4a`; the gate is 32/0 since
- `residency.keys.fit` rc 74 confirmed a SEPARATE defect (compaction/replay
  of keys-resident offsets), still open under codd.md "Next bugs"
- `status: done`, `readiness: ready`; counts test_wal 6629 → 6660,
  make -C runtime test 8462/0 at the time of the fix

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit b5b1da795917f0446a1e4a0317d9136c33acb262)
 2026-09-15 01:16:24 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
9b5498fafe docs(db2-7): story closeout — acceptance met per task, progress table, WO_DATA is always a path 
- frontmatter `status: done`, `readiness: ready`, `review_pending` (the
  nonexistent-path rule settled under autonomy 2026-09-10)
- every criterion met with its evidence: task 1 smokes A–D (`b31bd40`),
  residency section 8 checks i–vii (`aaea6b2`), db-bench `--wo-data-file`
  181 checks / 5 failures — the same 5 as the directory form
  (`residency.keys.fit` rc 74, databasev2 13's sibling, not this defect),
  temps-beside-the-log test plus its mutation control (`ccee2d0`)
- the fork, settled: existing dir or trailing `/` → <dir>/shard-0.wal,
  byte-identical; otherwise the path IS the log, created behind an existing
  parent; a missing parent or a non-regular non-directory path refuses,
  exit 2, naming path and parent — never a silent mkdir -p
- `WO_DATA` stays a path: ephemerality is WO_EPHEMERAL=1 (databasev2 2 task
  6a), so the file-vs-directory parse carries no `:memory:` sentinel
- progress table with the four hashes; history

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 38f4f1e5832e79b9834a93fd6c3273fefe5eeadc)
 2026-09-15 01:16:24 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
79352bd95c docs(agents): the persona roster — codd/fielding/ada families, lintor, README 
- database-developer becomes `codd`: scope is the whole embedded DB (engine,
  runtime seams, the compiler's @table/query surface); doctrine rewritten
  from what landed (fatal commit, group commit per drain, checkpoint by
  rename, delta fold, schema head, v8 table bit, no-WO_DATA refusal); file
  map with anchors; state as of 2026-09-11; architect only — no gates, no
  tests, names the checks for cyril and the tasks for zack
- one four-role pattern shared by three tracks: `<architect>` brainstorms
  and owns contracts, `-zack` implements ONE ready iteration with a
  resume-safe ledger under .dev/zack/, `-cyril` owns every test above unit
  level and the gate ladder, `-pm` keeps stories, board and graph truthful
  (`model: sonnet`); families codd (database), fielding (porch), ada (jarvis)
- `codd-shoney` is the developer's proxy: brainstorms `refine` stories to
  `ready`, reviews `review_pending` forks; `lintor` the kernel consultant
  over .dev/reference/linux
- README: roster (reads, gates), the families rule, proposed agents not yet
  written and the order to add them
- docs/guides/codd-subagent.md, 00-doc-audit.md, 08-project-structure.md
  follow the rename

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 830bbb16d5dd990478149678c642857bb65466f4)
 2026-09-15 01:16:24 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
7acd085f46 test(db2-chains): the oracle closes databasev2 11's last criterion — keys vs all across 3×K flattenings and a replay 
- test_oracle_all_vs_keys_same_update_sequence continues the shared
  sequence 3×WO_DELTA_MAX_HOPS steps, alternating scalar and Text, and
  asserts the `resident: all` and `resident: keys` rows equal after EVERY
  step; the fold's hop count proves the chain terminated at least twice and
  never exceeded K; then the keys log replays into a fresh store and is
  compared against the oracle once more — the criterion as written, which
  the story carried as ⚠ "an expected value, not an oracle table"
- wal.h: wo_wal_append_row_image's comment claimed the flattened image is
  written as WO_WAL_INSERT; it is WO_WAL_UPDATE — an INSERT would replay as
  a duplicate id; compaction alone writes INSERT, into a FRESH log — as 11
  landed it and its story recorded
- story 11: the criterion flips to ✅ naming the test; the sequencing note
  and out-of-scope bullet record task 7's 2026-08-30 measurement (16× vs
  105× collapse under a cap, 1.53× faster than swapping) — the work stands
- test_wal 6295 → 6880 pass, 0 fail; 21 runtime suites 0 fail

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit d841390f3087a0c2542ddf23f25f15037a7d4d71)
 2026-09-15 01:16:24 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
296efb52ed docs(db2-ephemeral): databasev2 2 closes — task 6a contract, forks 1–7, the README sweep 
- story 02: `status: done`, `review_pending` (forks 1–7 auto-approved for
  autonomy); progress rows 6a ✅, 6b ➡ databasev2 5 Phase A, 7 `a310496`;
  5c/5d rows cite the `dev` hashes (the pre-merge ones were unreachable);
  task 6a's Given/When/Then met; Info records the seven forks (sentinel over
  `:memory:`, its rules, the refusal contract, startup-only, the budget
  leaves for 5, library-owned tables bind consumers, the v8 table bit);
  History keeps the first cut that refused every class-bearing program
- database/src/CODE-LOGIC.md: "Startup refusal + WO_EPHEMERAL" — contract,
  hatch, table bit, measured blast radius, deferred items, proof; the
  dispatcher paragraph no longer says a failed commit un-applies the row
  (fatal since databasev2 4 part A; WO_T_IO unreachable from a write path)
- residency spec + plan: task 6 items annotated with the 2026-09-09
  decisions; the byte budget marked moved to databasev2 5
- README, seven example READMEs and four guides carry the one-line rule
  (durable default refuses without WO_DATA; WO_EPHEMERAL=1; durable:
  false); shop's RAM-only command sets the sentinel

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 2c3531998124042fe736388e8b926abda3841194)
 2026-09-15 01:16:24 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
41f48bba3f test(db2-ephemeral): gates opt into WO_EPHEMERAL=1 where a durable table is declared; residency section 7 
- residency-accept.sh section 7, six checks: the refusal names the class
  and all three ways forward (exit 2); WO_EPHEMERAL=1 runs from RAM with
  the boot notice and a write round-trips; WO_EPHEMERAL with WO_DATA
  refuses; WO_EPHEMERAL=2 refuses naming the accepted value; keys-resident
  still refuses under the hatch; a plain class (the corpus `methods`
  fixture) runs with no WO_DATA, rc 0, nothing on stderr
- blast radius measured gate by gate — each run without the export first,
  kept only where the program refused: oop-e2e (fixtures declare tables);
  db-bench.py's ram/msgrate/growth/randread legs (the durable legs drop it,
  so a WO_DATA in the caller's shell now refuses loudly instead of silently
  turning a RAM leg durable); db-actor per run (its restart pair sets
  WO_DATA); chat (porch's store declares RateLimitCounter default-durable —
  a library's table binds the consumer); wmux client legs (same image as
  the server, no WO_DATA; servers and the WO_DATA-carrying r11cli `env -u`)
- byte-exact compares (db-actor single-shard, wmux client) drop the one
  notice line; fibers, subprocess, log-watcher declare no table — untouched
- db-bench.py ceiling note: the checked refusal is databasev2 5's now
- residency 32/0, oop-e2e 131/0 with this tree

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 4553ca15da235c155b7ad31bbb077c3ad8e88fee)
 2026-09-15 01:16:24 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
d38b4f864b feat(db2-ephemeral): refuse a durable table without WO_DATA; WO_EPHEMERAL=1 opts out; .wob v8 table bit 
- main.c, startup only: WO_DATA unset and a class carrying WO_CLASSF_TABLE
  without WO_CLASSF_VOLATILE (`durable: true`, the default) refuses — exit 2,
  one stderr line naming the class and the three ways forward (WO_DATA=<dir
  or file>, WO_EPHEMERAL=1, @table(durable: false)); before, every write
  was silently dropped at exit — the one outcome `durable: true` forbids
- WO_EPHEMERAL=1 (exact value) is the whole-program escape: one boot notice,
  rc 0, the RAM path byte-for-byte the old one (db.c untouched); any other
  value refuses; set alongside WO_DATA refuses regardless of tables; the
  `resident: keys` loop still wins and is not rescued
- .wob v8: WO_CLASSF_TABLE 0x08 (WO_CLASSF_ALL 0x0f), set from emit.ml's
  cr_is_table — the first cut keyed on !VOLATILE and refused every
  class-bearing program (fibers' Tick, subprocess's ConnMsg), because v7
  spelled `durable: true` as the mere absence of a bit
- loader refuses VOLATILE/RESIDENT_KEYS without the table bit ("storage
  flags on a class that is not a @table"); a v7 image is refused by the
  exact-match version check, as v7 refused v6; disasm prints `table`;
  runner.ml's independent validator carries both rules; obj.h comment
- test_loader: test_storage_flags_need_table (forged flags word: both
  refusals, and the same bits WITH the table bit load); no golden moved
- contract: docs/plan/oop-vm/00-wob-format.md "v8: the table bit"

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 863692a590d426da0047831ae315142ef5b24416)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
0435bd96f5 docs(commit-history): claim prefixes db2-ephemeral, db2-4b, db2-5, db2-14, agents, status 
- registry rows for the prefixes this landing uses, claimed before their
  first commit as the file requires: `db2-ephemeral` (databasev2 2 task 6a),
  `db2-4b` (part B re-brainstorm), `db2-5` and `db2-14` (story docs),
  `agents` (the persona roster), `status` (cross-track board/graph sweeps)
- `db2-7` and `lang-18` registered after the fact — both already have
  commits on `dev` (`b31bd40`, `6b4b960`) and had no row

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit d0e658f06df8f3390d56841bdb4093cb8d509fb8)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
156b04d28d fix(db2-keys): wo_wal_fold_row_at tolerates msg == NULL 
- Second half of the fresh-log seed SEGV: every `*msg = ...` in the fold
  was unguarded, and `wo_idx_probe` (table.c:373) borrows with `msg == NULL`
  because a candidate that does not fold is simply not a hit; a malformed
  record under an index probe was therefore a zero-page write.
- Guard: `const char *sink; if (!msg) msg = &sink;` at the top of the fold;
  wal.h documents [msg] as optional. A future malformed record refuses the
  candidate by name instead of segfaulting.
- Failing test first: `test_fold_row_at_tolerates_null_msg` (test_wal.c) —
  head-only log, fold at offset 0 (schema record) and past the tail with
  `msg == NULL` -> -1 both; with a real `msg` the names "record header is
  malformed" / "no intact record at that offset" still arrive. Pre-guard:
  ASan SEGV `wo_wal_fold_row_at wal.c:1886` from the test.
- Gates: test_wal 6660/0 (was 6650); `make -C runtime test` 21 suites
  8462/0 (was 8452); wovm-asan clean; residency `seed` fresh dir + fresh
  app.db rc 0 under wovm_asan.
- CODE-LOGIC §Schema migrations bullet extended with the guard + test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 1b6750d78db991af464994c2188d219519dfe16f)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
0b9f09fc12 fix(db2-keys): stage the schema head before the first offset capture 
- `seed` of docs/examples/residency (`resident: keys`) on a FRESH WO_DATA
  segfaulted rc 139 in both the dir and the file form; pre-existing.
- Root cause: the databasev2 12 head record was staged lazily INSIDE the
  first `wo_wal_append_*` (wal.c `stage()`), after db.c:78/293 had read
  `koff = wo_wal_next_offset(w)`; the first keys-resident row was re-pointed
  at the schema record and its first read folded "record header is
  malformed"; `wo_idx_probe` borrows with `msg == NULL` -> zero-page write.
- Fix: one helper `stage_schema_head` shared by `stage()`,
  `wo_wal_ensure_schema` and `wo_wal_next_offset` (no longer a pure inline):
  the head is staged before any caller observes `off + len`. Still lazy,
  never for a log that stays empty; head-stage OOM is `wo_wal_stage_fatal`.
  db.c untouched; compaction/migrate stage the head explicitly, unaffected.
- Failing test first: `test_keys_resident_fresh_log_first_row` (test_wal.c),
  the db.c:78 sequence call for call, then read-by-id, `wo_idx_probe`,
  replay. Pre-fix: `koff != 0` FAIL, `wo_row_read` -1 "record header is
  malformed", ASan SEGV `wo_wal_fold_row_at wal.c:1871` via `table.c:373`.
- Gates: test_wal 6650/0 (was 6629); `make -C runtime test` 21 suites
  8452/0 (was 8431); wovm-asan clean; residency `seed` + restart `order`
  under wovm_asan rc 0 on a fresh dir AND a fresh app.db; a control build
  with wal.c/wal.h reverted reproduces the SEGV.
- CODE-LOGIC §Schema migrations: "Head before any offset capture" bullet.

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(cherry picked from commit 631007839451fb970e9dec83338d19c09b3043ab)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
58dcb1f969 test(db2-7): gate leg for WO_DATA=<file> — residency section 8, db-bench --wo-data-file 
- residency-accept.sh section 8 (11 checks): file-form seed -> restart prints
  the directory form's line; `find -mindepth 1` shows exactly app.db; missing
  parent exits 2 naming path + parent, no mkdir -p; a fifo exits 2 "neither a
  regular file nor a directory"; `d/` still writes d/shard-0.wal; `nodir/`
  keeps the pre-7 "cannot open .../nodir//shard-0.wal" bytes; WO_EPHEMERAL=1
  with the file exits 2 on the 6a conflict
- kill -9 battery against app.db: stdbuf -oL vehicle, asserts the kill landed
  (rc 137) before verifying every acked row replays; forced compaction
  (WO_CHECKPOINT_BYTES=1, WO_WAL_STATS proves >= 1 ran) leaves app.db the only
  artifact and every row replays
- failing-first on the pre-7 wovm: 9 of 12 new checks red ("cannot open
  .../app.db/shard-0.wal"); the two trailing-slash pins and the 6a conflict
  pass by construction — they pin what must stay byte-identical
- db-bench.py --wo-data-file: restart proof + crash battery against
  <tmp>/app.db, legs tagged .file, file form also asserts app.db is the only
  artifact; no metric, bench/baseline.json untouched; quick run unchanged
  without the flag (181 checks / 5 failures both ways, all five the known
  residency.keys.fit rc 74)
- READMEs: db-bench env-knob row for WO_DATA=<path>.db + the driver flag;
  residency run instructions name the file form
- gates: just residency 32/1 (the seed rc, pre-existing), make -C runtime
  test 21 suites 8452/0, just oop-e2e 129/0

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(cherry picked from commit aaea6b2c0f818efd0cdf472ccbd9bdd09eac5554)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
37c24e13bc fix(gate): residency-accept checks the example's seed rc — read 20/0 while seed SEGV'd 
- scripts/residency-accept.sh:155 ran docs/examples/residency `seed` with its
  rc unchecked; the inserts commit before the crash, so the restart legs passed
  on the log a dead seed left behind and the gate read 20/0 while seed died 139
- new check "example: seed exits 0" — its FAIL names the rc (139 = SIGSEGV)
  and the log to read
- failing-first on today's binary: `FAIL example seed -- rc=139`; the SEGV is
  the pre-existing keys-resident fresh-log defect (wo_wal_fold_row_at, HEAD
  wal.c:1837), zack's fix in flight — this check stays red until it lands

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit e274f4a932688bccf8310581199fa0d26f737eea)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ea66761c4e docs(db2-7): contract + CODE-LOGIC — the WO_DATA file form 
- docs/plan/oop-vm/04-db-binding.md, WAL section, "Where the log lives":
  WO_DATA is always a path; directory form (existing dir or trailing `/`
  → `<dir>/shard-0.wal`, pre-7 bytes incl. the `//`), file form (the path
  IS the log, created only under an existing parent), the two refusal
  lines verbatim, too-long refused not truncated, one file at any core
  count, compaction/migration temps + parent fsync derived from the log
  path never from WO_DATA, the two pinning tests named.
- database/src/CODE-LOGIC.md, `wal.c — durability`: the resolver's three
  codes and main.c's wording, why no mkdir -p, trailing slash on a missing
  dir kept as the pre-7 `cannot open` on purpose, `parent_dir_of` shared
  by the boot check and the post-rename fsync.
- Both paragraphs sit in regions untouched by the uncommitted 6a/12 doc
  work in the same files; no other docs touched (story/board are pm's).

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(cherry picked from commit f1985bae5d110ed773159393bd82c32b73bfb672)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
587991124d test(db2-7): pin compaction + migration temps beside a file-form log 
- test_file_form_temps_beside_log (runtime/test/test_wal.c): the log is
  `<dir>/app.db` — an operator's name, not shard-0.wal — with a sibling
  directory `app.db.d/` as the decoy nothing may land in.
- Proof by blocker: a DIRECTORY planted at exactly `<file>.compact` makes
  `wo_wal_compact` and `wo_wal_migrate` each return -1 with the log
  untouched (record count unchanged, blocker still an empty dir); a temp
  anywhere else would have let them succeed.
- Blocker removed: compaction 10 → 2 records, migration n,t → n,t,extra
  succeeds, `<file>.compact` gone after each rename, the directory holds
  exactly {app.db, app.db.d}, the decoy is empty, the migrated file
  replays into the new shape (slots[0] == 107, slots[2] == 0).
- The parent fsync'd after a rename is `parent_dir_of(<file>)`, the helper
  the resolver shares (task 1), so its derivation is pinned there; fsync
  itself is not observable from a test.
- Green on first run (57 assertions) as a pin must be; teeth shown by a
  mutation control — compaction's temp redirected into the decoy turned
  14 assertions red (`wo_wal_compact(&w, &db) == 0, want -1`, …).
- `make -C runtime test`: 21 suites, 8431 pass / 0 fail (was 8374/0).

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(cherry picked from commit ccee2d04fddfb96c7dfab1c17f235e3a9bbc69fb)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
c19a01564f feat(db2-7): WO_DATA=<file> — the store as one file, two refusals 
- `wo_wal_resolve_data_path` (database/src/wal.c|h): an existing directory
  or a trailing `/` → `<dir>/shard-0.wal` byte for byte (the `//` after a
  trailing slash included); otherwise the path IS the log — opened if a
  regular file, created by `wo_wal_open` if absent under an existing parent.
- Refusals as codes for main.c: WO_WAL_PATH_NO_PARENT (out = the parent, so
  the line names it), WO_WAL_PATH_NOT_A_FILE (fifo/socket/device),
  WO_WAL_PATH_TOO_LONG (today's snprintf truncated silently).
- `parent_dir_of` shared by the resolver and `sync_parent_dir`: the parent
  checked at boot IS the parent fsync'd after a compaction/migration rename.
- runtime/src/main.c: the resolver replaces the unconditional
  `"%s/shard-0.wal"`; each refusal is one stderr line, exit 2 through the
  6a destroy sequence; never mkdir -p. The 6a block is untouched.
- Failing first: test_resolve_data_path — 4× -Werror (implicit declaration
  + three undeclared codes); green after: 21 assertions (dir, trailing
  slash, absent file, regular file, bare name, missing parent, parent is a
  file, fifo, two too-long).
- `make -C runtime test`: 21 suites, 8374 pass / 0 fail (was 8353/0).
  `make -C runtime wovm-asan` clean; smoke: file form seeds + replays with
  `app.db` the only artifact; missing parent and fifo refuse rc 2 naming
  path + parent; dir and trailing slash unchanged; WO_EPHEMERAL conflict
  inherited from 6a.

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(cherry picked from commit b31bd4052624be460de1c18cf208661539397e09)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
82efb498d4 fix(compiler): lang-41 side defects — ?T-typed nil try, WO-E305 on moves out of a field 
- emit.ml: a `try … catch (e) nil` is `?T` (ty_of_expr) and the nil arm takes that destination, so a `?Int` nil is WO_NIL_SCALAR and an Int body's legitimate 0 no longer reads as nil (it used to fall back to the zero word via the body type / enclosing return type)
- owner.ml: `transfer` on a projection (`d.tags`, `x[i]`) of an owned value reports WO-E305 instead of returning false silently — the silent path compiled `Out { tags: d.tags }` to an alias that both records dropped (the "json.decode as T corruption": not json's, a double free language 44's poison now aborts on); heap scalars exempt (store sites copy)
- error catalog: WO-E305 row; owner.ml module doc updated
- corpus: run/try-nil-int-zero, compile-fail/no-partial-move, run/decode-record-crosses-return (Text copied, record moved whole — the archived `.. ""` workaround is unnecessary)
- verified: oop-e2e 126/0, tests/regress/lang-41 compile, --emit sweep over the non-porch examples, web-app gate 56/0 (porch in project mode) — no legitimate program trips WO-E305
- story 41: both side defects marked fixed; board prose updated

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(cherry picked from commit 2d54710e693fafee4b8d6561cc9cba7b95415d89)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
dd426d0581 test(tls): rv2 8 phase E — both AEADs cross-checked against openssl over the wire 
- tls-server-accept.sh: each probe pins openssl s_client's -ciphersuites — ec/ChaCha20-Poly1305, rsa/AES-128-GCM, plus openssl's default list whose first suite (AES-256-GCM) the server must skip — 5/0
- tls-accept.sh: the Python/OpenSSL stub prints the negotiated suite; the happy-path ok line carries it — 5/0 (ChaCha under the peer's server-preference default)
- rv2 8 story: E landed (real-protocol interop replaces the infeasible `openssl enc` AEAD check); D (encrypted-cookie wrapper) re-homed to porch as the consumer's phase after porch 2 — fork auto-approved, review_pending; status: done
- porch 2: the encrypted-cookie out-of-scope bullet now points at the landed primitives and names the wrapper as its follow-on
- board row rv2 8: in-progress -> done

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(cherry picked from commit ac3bf74da4f45f624d7d3b440c8bcf17f4aec3a9)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
e1b9ada190 docs(rv2-obs): rv2 7 observability brainstormed to ready 
- four forks settled with KISS defaults grounded in runtime/src: counters+gauges only (profiling split out), Prometheus text rendered in .wo from a map<Text, Int>, pull via proc.metrics(), stack trace on trap lands first
- phases A (trace on trap at both trap sites) / B (proc.metrics from existing gc/arena/fiber fields) / C (porch mounts /metrics — consumer's phase)
- builtin id to be confirmed against WO_B_MAX at build time (random_bytes claims 119 per porch 2's brief)
- review_pending marker: forks auto-approved 2026-09-09, developer second review before code lands
- board row: refine -> ready

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(cherry picked from commit feb11c3aad613ed7f41b280b27c1f6c0dda92ec7)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ed45ac7c06 fix(arena): poison-on-free — a freed block can never pass for a live object (language 44) 
- wo_arena_free stamps the header: class_id = WO_CLS_FREED (0xFFFFFFFF), shard_id = 0xFFFF, flags/pad = 0
- freelist link moves from offset 0 to offset 8 so the poison survives on the list; wo_arena_alloc pops from offset 8
- wo_drop_obj aborts first on a poisoned header: a double free is a diagnostic, not a catchable state
- WO_CLS_FREED defined in wob.h beside the builtin id space
- test_arena: test_poison_on_free (poison stamped, LIFO chain through the relocated link, class drains to a fresh bump) — 17/0
- full suite SUITE_ALL_ZERO, wovm + wovm_asan rebuilt, just db-actor 10/0 (lang-41 5x marshal gate unchanged)
- story 44 status: done; board row + dependency graph L44 (41 -.follow-up.-> 44)

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(cherry picked from commit 78ae3be403ba533db6f0e181bff201717f789a30)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
3b1a188d77 fix(crypto): branch-free EC signing ladder via complete addition (rv2 9 follow-up) 
- pmul_ct: double-and-add-always over the Renes–Costello–Batina complete
  projective addition formula (Alg. 4, a=-3) — one exception-free formula for
  add and double, identity (0:1:0), so there is NO point-at-infinity branch.
  Closes the documented residual: the Jacobian jadd/jdouble ladder's fp_zero
  checks leaked k's leading-zero count (a bit-length hint) during ECDSA sign
- wo_ecdsa_p256_sha256_sign uses it; affine x = X * Z^-1 (projective), the
  inversion via the constant-time modexp. Dead Jacobian jmul_ct/jpt_cmov removed
- RFC 6979 A.2.5 vectors still byte-exact (test_crypto 130/0); server loopback
  (signs with this ladder) still green (test_tls 123/0); ASan/UBSan clean
- docs: rv2 9 review_pending — close_notify + complete-formula ladder moved
  from deferred to landed; lang-41 decision 4 fixture marked landed

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit fba30352b965e0f3b749168421a920a832df541b)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
d9501ae8e3 fix(tls): send close_notify on TLS close (rv2 9 follow-up) 
net.close on a TLS connection now seals a close_notify alert (warning,
close_notify; RFC 8446 §6.1) with the application write keys and sends it
best-effort/non-blocking before the inbound drain + close(). Peers see a
clean end of stream instead of truncation — openssl's "unexpected eof while
reading" is gone (verified), browsers stop treating the reply as aborted.
Covers both directions (one code path). just tls 5/0, just tls-server 4/0.

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(cherry picked from commit 54020a45fdb1efab792212170b8f36c2d38d95be)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ad1ad8361c docs(audit): fix stale docs against the code (TLS, net.connect, RNG, lang-41); jarvis deps 
Code is the source of truth; these claims no longer matched runtime/src:

- "net.connect does not exist" — landed 2026-09-07 (id 110); net.connect_tls /
  read_tls / write_tls (115-117) + net.accept_tls (118), WO_B_MAX 118. Fixed
  in jarvis 00-story (problem statement + architecture + out-of-scope), porch
  00-story (proxy middleware row), rv2 7 (push-collector fork), 00-code-review
- "TLS: none / proxy-mandated forever" — retired by rv2 9 (in-process TLS both
  directions). Fixed in porch + web-app + site example READMEs (proxy is now a
  deployment choice; HSTS row), 00-code-review
- "no RNG anywhere in the runtime" — imprecise: the runtime has a getrandom(2)
  source since rv2 9 (TLS ephemerals), but nothing exposes it to .wo yet.
  Fixed in CODE-LOGIC (digests), lang 34, porch 2, status lang-39 row
- "porch 9 blocked on language 41" — lang 41 fixed 63065ff. Fixed in porch 1,
  jarvis 00-story, status NEXT PLAN, dependency graph (L41 done, P9 ready)
- dependency graph §7 rewritten: the runtime side is done; jarvis 1 waits only
  on porch (developer's porch-first order). Adds jarvis 1's dependency table +
  the build order that satisfies it
- 00-code-review: a dated 2026-09-09 re-verification appended (record kept)
- site README lives in the writeonce-site submodule: committed there, pointer
  bumped here

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(cherry picked from commit f1049dd9b7c7770da28bcabfc1cb1324621e7ee6)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
00214bd68e fix(vm): marshal cross-shard actor messages (language 41) — the double free 
Root cause (decision 1): cross-shard send/call/monitor pointer-shared the
message into the receiver's shard (e->payload = msg_val), so a worker read and
eventually dropped an object living in the sender's arena — a double free, then
a class-0 forge, then a modulo self-route livelock, all downstream of that one
broken invariant ("VM heaps are never read cross-shard", which wo_db_rpc keeps).

- actor_marshal: the sender encodes the message into an arena-independent neutral
  form (wo_db_val_encode, the same marshal wo_db_rpc uses) and drops its own
  original — no pointer crosses an arena boundary, so the double-free class is
  gone by construction. actor_unmarshal rebuilds it in the receiver's arena
  (wo_val_decode_vm) and frees the neutral. Applied to the 4 cross-shard
  producers (send x2, call, monitor) + the 3 consumers (kinds 0/5/7). Same-shard
  paths untouched (the WO_SHARDS=1 fast path never failed). Call replies are
  scalars by contract, so kind 6 needs no marshal.
- eng_settle_inboxes: undrained kind-0/5/7 payloads at teardown are the neutral
  form now — free with wo_db_val_free, not wo_drop_obj (caught by ASan mid-fix).
- decision 2: wo_route_free traps a shard_id >= nshards header (a corrupt/freed
  block) instead of self-routing it into the settle livelock.
- proof: tests/regress/lang-41/cross-shard-marshal.wo (a multi<Text> sent +
  called cross-shard, both sides drop) — clean 12x/5x under WO_SHARDS=4 + ASan;
  shard-settle repro still clean 8x; full runtime suite 0 fail (same-shard
  byte-unchanged). `just db-actor` extended with the new fixture.
- unblocks porch 9. Follow-ups: poison-on-free (decision 3), corpus fixture (4).

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(cherry picked from commit 63065ff75799f7f43b2bce6de61e77856799566f)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
8992dbd589 docs(rv2-tls): rv2 9 COMPLETE (both directions); retire proxy doctrine; jarvis-after-porch 
- rv2 9 story -> status: done. §G G3 landed; ladder A–G complete, live-gated
  both directions (just tls 5/0, just tls-server 4/0). review_pending +
  phase rows + G sub-phases updated
- doctrine retired where the story named it: language 34 ("TLS permanently
  the proxy's job"), language 38 ("proxy-terminated ... no HTTPS clients"),
  porch 00-story ("TLS ... proxy-terminated") — each corrected to point at
  in-process TLS (net.connect_tls / net.accept_tls)
- status board: rv2 9 row DONE + a top summary; NEXT PLAN = porch then
  jarvis (sequencing set: jarvis follows porch)
- jarvis 00-story: sequencing note (no longer runtime-blocked; porch first)
- CODE-LOGIC: the inbound-server section (net.accept_tls, signing, slot
  refactor, RST-drain, gate)

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(cherry picked from commit f3a3c962e5f288c25e505851edef4e0a5df9a85f)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
e1d29d63e4 feat(tls): net.accept_tls — inbound TLS 1.3 termination (rv2 9 phase G3) 
- net.accept_tls(listener, certfile, keyfile) -> Int (id 118, WO_B_MAX->118):
  accept (parks like net.accept), load+cache the server identity per path in
  the shard, run the blocking deadline-bounded server handshake, return a TLS
  conn fd. Real clients terminate against the runtime — no front proxy
- wo_tls_conn refactored: holds the negotiated application keys (not an
  embedded driver), so read_tls/write_tls serve both client and server
  connections via the record layer; the handshake drivers are transient
  (heap, ~100KB, freed after). net.close drains a TLS conn's inbound before
  close() so it sends FIN not RST (clients send close_notify)
- server handshake loops past the client's change_cipher_spec (TLS 1.3
  middlebox-compat) before its Finished — the openssl-interop fix
- private-key file loading: wo_tls_pem_one (any-label PEM block) +
  wo_pkey_parse; per-shard identity cache (vm->tls_id), freed in reap
- docs/examples/tls-server + `just tls-server`: openssl s_client validates
  our hand-rolled server (EC + RSA certs) and gets the reply — 4/0; the
  outbound `just tls` gate stays 5/0 through the refactor
- wiring: wob.h, loader.c, builtin.c dispatch, types.ml, vm.h

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(cherry picked from commit 2d4c30033c36c88de5b7ab7cc1042c9537238297)
 2026-09-15 01:16:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
db25f3e3e0 feat(crypto): private-key DER parsing (rv2 9 phase G3a) 
- wo_pkey_parse: PKCS#8 PrivateKeyInfo (wrapping PKCS#1/SEC1), bare PKCS#1
  RSAPrivateKey, and bare SEC1 ECPrivateKey -> RSA (n,d) or the EC P-256
  32-byte scalar. Reuses the X.509 DER reader; spans point into the buffer
- KAT: all three formats parse, and the extracted key signs a hash our
  verify accepts (RSA-PSS + ECDSA); garbage rejected. test_crypto 130,
  ASan/UBSan clean

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(cherry picked from commit 819d67226a94c4cd5a765ec403e57466c64f1e65)
 2026-09-15 01:15:52 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
18e0e6992b docs(rv2-tls): phase G2 server FSM landed 
§G sub-phase G2: the sans-io server handshake FSM (wo_tls_server) landed,
loopback-KAT'd against the client driver (EC + RSA identities, app
round-trip). Remaining G3: net.accept_tls + private-key parse + live gate.

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(cherry picked from commit 57613bddc621a90970d9443ae5a5deacffe0cfca)
 2026-09-15 01:15:52 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
bd99da599d feat(tls): sans-io server handshake FSM (rv2 9 phase G2) 
- wo_tls_server: the mirror of the client driver. parse ClientHello (pick
  suite, extract x25519 share, echo session id; reject no-x25519/no-1.3),
  build ServerHello, derive the role-symmetric keys, emit the encrypted
  flight (EncryptedExtensions + Certificate + a signed CertificateVerify +
  Finished), verify the client Finished, switch to application keys
- server_sign_cv signs the CertificateVerify with the phase-G1 primitives
  (RSA-PSS or ECDSA-P256 + a minimal DER SEQ{r,s} encoder); parse_client_hello
  + build helpers reuse the file's wire reader/writer
- wo_tls_server_start builds the Certificate message from a cert chain +
  private key (RSA n/d or EC scalar) + ephemeral; encrypt/decrypt over the
  application keys
- KAT: loopback — our client driver against our server driver, EC then RSA
  server identity, reaching ESTABLISHED with an app round-trip both ways.
  test_tls 123, ASan/UBSan clean

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(cherry picked from commit 34d2b8f87cebe536cd2b1b33e6948251ec11684f)
 2026-09-15 01:15:52 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
cd779afa7f docs(rv2-tls): phase G1 signing landed (RSA-PSS + ECDSA-P256) 
§G sub-phase G1: constant-time RSA-PSS + ECDSA-P256 signing landed and
KAT'd (RSA vs python from-spec; ECDSA vs RFC 6979 A.2.5). Remaining G1c
(private-key PEM/DER parse) folded into G3 (which reads key files); the
server FSM takes raw key material.

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(cherry picked from commit f02518cdabab02043a04c6bdd28a81b86bb9fbd4)
 2026-09-15 01:15:52 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
df5054b07d feat(crypto): ECDSA-P256 signing, RFC 6979 nonce (rv2 9 phase G1b) 
- wo_ecdsa_p256_sha256_sign: deterministic nonce (RFC 6979 HMAC-DRBG over
  the key + message — no RNG, no nonce-reuse/bias risk), then r = (k*G).x
  mod n and s = k^-1 (z + r*d) mod n
- constant-time in the secret: jmul_ct (double-and-add-always + point
  cmov) for k*G, and bn_modexp_ct for k^-1 mod n and the affine inversion.
  Known residual (documented): the ladder leaks k's leading-zero count (a
  bit-length hint, not the key) — a complete-formula/Montgomery-ladder
  upgrade is the named follow-up
- KAT: byte-for-byte vs the RFC 6979 A.2.5 P-256/SHA-256 vectors ("sample"
  + "test"), our sign verifies with our verify, determinism checked.
  test_crypto 115, ASan/UBSan clean

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 1bc6d04f9e18180dc7d0a6e5e7021dbd588e499a)
 2026-09-15 01:15:52 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
631506d36f feat(crypto): constant-time RSA-PSS signing (rv2 9 phase G1a) 
- bn_modexp_ct: constant-time modexp for the SECRET exponent — squares and
  multiplies every bit, selects the product with a mask (bn_cmov), so the
  op sequence is independent of d (the existing bn_modexp branches on the
  bit, fine only for the public e)
- wo_rsa_pss_sha256_sign: EMSA-PSS-ENCODE (RFC 8017 §9.1.1) + modexp with d;
  caller supplies the salt (fresh in production; fixed makes the KAT
  deterministic). Private key (n,d)
- KAT: deterministic sign vs a python from-spec oracle byte-for-byte
  (fixed salt), our sign round-trips through our verify, tamper rejected.
  test_crypto 108, ASan/UBSan clean

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit cf8fdfcc47b2b076b63b9c63bf56411615b0d6f9)
 2026-09-15 01:15:52 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
82446652e4 docs(rv2-tls): brainstorm phase G (inbound TLS server) to ready 
- §G written to READY (forks auto-approved, review_pending): the inbound
  server rung. Grounds what's reused (record layer, role-symmetric key
  schedule, X.509, slot table + data plane) vs new (server FSM, signing,
  key parsing, accept surface)
- six locked decisions: (1) constant-time private-key ops — the built
  modexp/scalar-mult are verify-only, not constant-time, so G adds a
  constant-time fixed-window modexp + Montgomery-ladder scalar mult;
  (2) both RSA-PSS + ECDSA-P256 server keys; (3) deterministic RFC 6979
  ECDSA nonce; (4) net.accept_tls(listener,cert,key) w/ per-path shard
  identity cache; (5) full 1-RTT server-auth only (no mTLS/resumption/HRR);
  (6) sans-io wo_tls_server FSM
- sub-phases G1 signing+key-parse, G2 server FSM (loopback KAT), G3
  net.accept_tls + live gate (openssl s_client); acceptance + out-of-scope
- ladder G row -> READY; may become its own runtime-v2 iteration

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(cherry picked from commit 9fcb4a96a137a897f0ce2be868c18e63a979c997)
 2026-09-15 01:15:52 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
fe352b63c2 docs(runtime): CODE-LOGIC — the hand-rolled TLS 1.3 client (rv2 9) 
- new "Hand-rolled TLS 1.3 client" section: the crypto ladder in crypto.c,
  the tls.c layers (record / key schedule / messages / sans-io driver /
  chain validation / PEM), and the net.*_tls builtins in sysio.c —
  per-shard no-lock slot table, deadline-bounded blocking handshake then a
  parked data plane, getrandom ephemeral (the runtime's first RNG),
  WO_CA_BUNDLE trust store, loud WO_T_IO failures, the just tls gate
- files table: crypto.c entry updated, tls.c/.h added

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 5670304d8a7a54e291b81e99e27aa16e29aa1d3e)
 2026-09-15 01:15:52 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
cf31bb4ebd docs(rv2-tls,jarvis,status): outbound TLS client complete — jarvis unblocked 
- rv2 9 §F3c-net marked LANDED + live-gated; phase-F row COMPLETE (client);
  frontmatter review_pending updated (client complete, remaining = G server
  + deferred park-handshake/TlsConn/pooling + doctrine-doc corrections)
- jarvis 00-story + 01: the outbound-TLS blocker is cleared
  (net.connect_tls landed) — jarvis 1 (chat loop) is now buildable
- status board: rv2 9 row + NEXT PLAN rewritten to the completed client;
  next step is jarvis 1 or rv2 9 G

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 732c2216b501dd226d306f9abcbd1ddd846809dc)
 2026-09-15 01:15:52 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
72ed35773d test(tls): live acceptance gate for net.connect_tls (rv2 9 F3c-net phase 4) 
- docs/examples/tls-client/main.wo: an outbound HTTPS client in .wo —
  net.connect_tls, write_tls a request, read_tls to EOF, print; connect
  failure caught with try/catch and reported (never a silent downgrade)
- scripts/tls-accept.sh + `just tls`: dials a local TLS 1.3 stub (python
  ssl, TLS1.3-only) with a generated test CA — proves the hand-rolled
  handshake + chain/host validation + an app round-trip end to end from
  .wo through the compiler, and refuses the untrusted-chain and
  hostname-mismatch negatives. No live network; log /tmp/tls.log
- gate: 5 checks, 0 failures

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 3d8bb140ec478167a4e660adf2caa964ff410ff1)
 2026-09-15 01:15:52 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
6d6c810695 feat(tls): net.connect_tls/read_tls/write_tls builtins (rv2 9 F3c-net) 
The outbound TLS 1.3 client wired into the VM (ids 115-117, WO_B_MAX->117):

- net.connect_tls(host,port)->Int: DNS + non-blocking connect+poll bounded
  by WO_TLS_HANDSHAKE_MS (decision 5), then a blocking, SO_*TIMEO-bounded
  hand-rolled handshake over the sans-io driver, then wo_tls_verify_chain
  (chain + host + validity + basicConstraints/EKU) against the shard's
  lazily-loaded read-only CA bundle (decision 4). Any failure traps WO_T_IO
  loudly (decision 3). Returns the fd.
- net.read_tls / net.write_tls: application data over the parked data plane
  (decision 1) — O_NONBLOCK + park on POLLIN/POLLOUT like net.read/write,
  with record reassembly + leftover-plaintext + in-flight-record buffers in
  the per-fd slot so a park/retry never re-seals or loses progress.
- per-shard wo_tls_conn slot table keyed by fd, no locks (one thread per
  shard, the wo_child pattern; decision 2); net.close frees the slot;
  wo_vm_destroy reaps all slots + the CA bundle. getrandom ephemeral.
- driver keeps the whole Certificate message + wo_tls_client_chain() so the
  trust walk sees the full chain, not just the leaf.
- wiring: wob.h, loader.c arities, builtin.c dispatch (second net range),
  types.ml (net.connect_tls/read_tls/write_tls), sysio.c impl.

Builds; full runtime suite 0 fail; woc builds. Live behaviour is the
Phase-4 gate (next commit).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 9a922b3245eaa9134efb60bfd46521952ed12a39)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
040ec9c189 feat(tls): PEM trust-anchor decoder (rv2 9 F3c-net decision 4) 
- wo_tls_pem_to_ders: scan a PEM bundle for CERTIFICATE blocks, base64-decode
  each into a caller arena, record DER spans as trust anchors for
  wo_tls_verify_chain. Pure (caller reads the file + owns the arena) so it is
  offline-testable; the file read + per-shard cache land with the builtin
- b64_decode helper (standard alphabet, skips whitespace/newlines)
- KAT: decode the real /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt (>100 anchors,
  each parses, first is a CA), garbage PEM -> 0 with no over-read,
  skip-if-absent for CI. test_tls 107 pass, ASan/UBSan clean

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 6445d55aa83dbed831d84fd3cca3a74fe4609a00)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
3a1ba15851 feat(tls): X.509 basicConstraints + EKU chain hardening (rv2 9 F3c-net decision 6) 
- crypto.c: x509_find_ext (generic extension walker) + wo_x509_basic_constraints
  (cA / pathLenConstraint, absent => not a CA) + wo_x509_eku_serverauth_ok
  (EKU absent, serverAuth, or anyEKU => usable; else not)
- wo_tls_verify_chain enforces decision 6: the leaf must be server-usable
  (EKU), every server-sent issuer and the signing anchor must be a CA
  (basicConstraints CA:TRUE) with a pathLenConstraint covering the
  intermediates below it — stops a leaf masquerading as a CA
- gen_x509.py extended (folds in the wildcard leaf, adds EKU clientAuth-only,
  EKU serverAuth, a non-CA intermediate + a leaf issued under it); vectors
  regenerated
- KATs: extractors (test_crypto 104) + chain enforcement (test_tls 103) —
  EKU serverAuth accepted, clientAuth-only rejected, leaf-under-non-CA
  rejected though every signature verifies; existing chains still pass.
  ASan/UBSan clean

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 3811418014c2c8d9bc3a9464256f52104261b1b9)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
66de570888 chore(workflow): add prebuild-feature — the pre-build research fan-out 
A reusable named Workflow (.claude/workflows/) that runs the
brainstorm-to-ready groundwork this repo does before any feature code:

- Understand: read the target story (or find the NEXT-PLAN target) +
  scout relevant .dev/reference projects for the concern
- Analyze: one agent per reference project — how it handles the concern,
  gaps vs our planned approach, recommendations (the fiber/Go step,
  generalized)
- Audit: story-format/frontmatter/plans-no-raw-code + dependency-graph /
  status-board consistency
- Consolidate: settle open forks (KISS defaults), fold reference gaps as
  locked requirements, acceptance-criteria gaps, go/no-go on readiness

Parameterized via args {story?, concern?, references?}; grounds every
agent in on-disk files. Does the parallelizable research half; the
fork-settling stays an interactive brainstorm. Invoke:
Workflow({name:'prebuild-feature', args:{...}}) or /workflows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 2bfbb0ca5ca17cb2d1ead39f93aa42aeb50b1639)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
53485a748c docs(rv2-tls): lock two more F3c-net requirements from the gofiber/Go comparison 
Compared §F3c-net's forks against gofiber v3's client (fasthttp + Go
crypto/tls/x509, .dev/reference/fiber). Two gaps my defaults had vs Go,
now locked as decisions 5 and 6:

- (5) bounded handshake deadline: the blocking model would let a stalled
  server hang the shard's one thread indefinitely (the DoS DoTimeout
  closes). connect_tls now bounds connect+handshake via non-blocking
  connect+poll + SO_RCVTIMEO/SNDTIMEO, default WO_TLS_HANDSHAKE_MS
  (10s); expiry traps WO_T_IO. _dl variant + park handshake stay follow-ups
- (6) chain hardening: signatures+validity+SAN alone let a leaf act as a
  CA. Now every non-leaf must assert basicConstraints CA:TRUE (+pathLen)
  and the leaf must carry EKU serverAuth — what Go's crypto/x509 enforces
- acceptance criteria added (stalled-server timeout; leaf-as-CA + no-EKU
  rejected); connect_tls bullet, frontmatter review_pending, status NEXT
  PLAN updated to six locked forks

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 9662cd8b040f417b4886dae9ce97b70083e24e40)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
f1e355c4d4 docs(rv2-tls): brainstorm §F3c-net to ready — four integration forks locked 
- §F3c-net rewritten to READY (decisions locked 2026-09-09), grounded in
  the runtime not assumed:
  1. blocking connect+handshake then park the data plane (mirrors
     net.connect's own "tolerable while rare" stance); park-based
     handshake a named follow-up
  2. per-shard fd-keyed wo_tls_conn slot table, no locks (the wo_child /
     one-thread-per-shard pattern); slot holds driver state + partial-record
     + leftover-plaintext buffers
  3. failures trap WO_T_IO loudly incl. chain + hostname (no silent nil)
  4. per-shard lazy read-only CA bundle (/etc/ssl/certs, WO_CA_BUNDLE)
- builtin surface: net.connect_tls/read_tls/write_tls (ids 115-117,
  WO_B_MAX->117), acceptance criteria (incl. concurrent-shard TSan),
  out-of-scope (park handshake, TlsConn object, HTTP layer, inbound G)
- frontmatter review_pending + phase-F row + status NEXT PLAN updated:
  F3c-net spec ready, next action is BUILD (live-gated)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 8b6e72171c5db9dfe5b7a5122be123bf7cc3cdd9)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
2391553658 docs(rv2-tls,status): F3c-net plan + net.connect_tls object-model default; session NEXT PLAN 
- rv2 9 §F3c-net: the remaining live-gated slice with auto-approved
  defaults — getrandom ephemeral, system CA-bundle loader, net.connect_tls
  builtin returning the TCP fd (fd-keyed side table, blocking model like
  net.connect) driving the sans-io driver, then wo_tls_verify_chain; plus
  net.read_tls/write_tls and a live gate
- status board NEXT PLAN: the TLS client security engine landed this
  session (E-F3c minus socket glue), F3c-net is the next rung, then jarvis

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit ad87974fc722268e278f957f1f3d607f5dafa50d)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
5f0ac2d434 feat(tls): certificate chain validation (rv2 9 phase F3c-net security core) 
- wo_tls_verify_chain: leaf-first DER chain — each cert signed by the
  next, the top trusted (equal to, or signed by, a trust anchor), the leaf
  SAN matching host, every cert temporally valid. Any failure rejects;
  no partial trust. Pure over the phase-D/E verifiers, so offline-testable
- KAT with the phase-E RSA + EC chains: leaf trusted via its issuing CA
  anchor; wrong-anchor / wrong-host / expired / broken-link / no-anchor
  all rejected; two-cert chain with a byte-equal root anchor; NULL host
  skips the SAN check. test_tls 100 pass, ASan/UBSan clean
- remaining F3c-net (live-gated): CA-bundle PEM loader, random ephemeral,
  the net.connect_tls builtin driving the sans-io driver over a real fd

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 9d40055108d301be32df0e1d4140c23446baa7c6)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ad088163cc docs(rv2-tls,jarvis): TLS ladder through F3c-core + SAN landed 
- rv2 9 phase-F row + review_pending: F3c-core sans-io driver + SAN/host
  landed (KAT'd vs RFC 8448 record trace); remaining F3c-net = system CA
  trust-anchor walk + net.connect_tls VM plumbing (live-gated), then G
- jarvis 00-story + 01 blocker tables: crypto/handshake engine landed;
  jarvis now waits only on net.connect_tls (the socket glue)
- status board rv2 9 row updated to the full ladder state

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 4fdf07196d01c32d0ab12d32d36fa4285ff34654)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
d7a6888931 feat(tls): SAN/hostname verification + driver enforcement (rv2 9 phase E/F3c) 
- wo_x509_check_host: match a hostname against the cert subjectAltName
  dNSNames (RFC 6125) — case-insensitive, single left-most wildcard that
  covers exactly one label; no SAN => refused; no legacy CN fallback.
  Completes the phase-E deferred hostname check (walks the [3] extensions)
- wo_tls_client_set_host + driver enforcement: with a host set, a leaf
  whose SAN does not match is refused at the Certificate step (MITM
  defense); unset skips the check (offline testing only, documented unsafe)
- KAT: exact/case-insensitive/mismatch, no-SAN refused, wildcard one-label
  (not zero, not sub-label) via a wildcard-SAN cert; driver refuses the
  RFC 8448 leaf (no SAN) once a host is set. test_crypto 95, test_tls 91,
  ASan/UBSan clean

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 319ce8bfcf608030f958b36ab2c8f62fd76e1740)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
d7e7eff6b5 feat(tls): sans-io TLS 1.3 client handshake driver (rv2 9 phase F3c-core) 
- wo_tls_client: a pure state machine (no sockets). Caller frames
  records; driver runs ClientHello->ServerHello->flight->Finished and
  hands back bytes to send. Keeps all I/O out of the security-critical FSM
- start_with (inject CH + ephemeral priv), push_record, take_output,
  encrypt/decrypt (application traffic keys). Handshake-message reassembly
  across records; per-message transcript timing (CertVerify signs CH..Cert,
  Finished MACs CH..CertVerify); constant-time Finished compare; every
  failure lands in FAILED (no warn-and-continue)
- verifies server CertificateVerify (phase E+D) + server Finished, emits
  the client Finished, switches to application keys
- KAT: whole handshake driven offline against the RFC 8448 record trace —
  client Finished record byte-for-byte, first client app record
  byte-for-byte, NewSessionTicket + server app data decrypt to plaintext,
  tampered flight -> FAILED. test_tls 90 pass, ASan/UBSan clean
- SECURITY TODO before live use (documented in tls.h + story): chain walk
  to a trust anchor + SAN/hostname match; random ephemeral for production
  start; the net.connect_tls socket glue

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 74c332d7efdb8bbfdbe90bd2fcc3defa2fe8da00)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
c84d33c9ba docs(rv2-tls): rv2 9 phase F1-F3b landed (record, key schedule, messages, offline verify) 
- phase-F row: F1 record layer, F2 key schedule, F3a message layer,
  F3b offline handshake verification all landed + KAT'd (RFC 8448 /
  real certs); F3c socket FSM + net.connect_tls plumbing remaining
- review_pending updated to the current ladder state

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit d49bc3866b6b620d00a8a57137ba211da25cd05b)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
74b153aa0a feat(tls): offline handshake verification (rv2 9 phase F3b) 
- wo_tls_verify_cert_verify: verifies a server CertificateVerify
  (RFC 8446 §4.4.3) — builds the 64-space || context || 0x00 ||
  transcript-hash content, parses the leaf SPKI (phase E) and dispatches
  to phase-D RSA-PSS / RSA-PKCS1 / ECDSA-P256; the scheme must match the
  leaf key type. ECDSA sig r/s pulled from its DER SEQ
- reuses wo_tls_finished_verify (phase F2) for server + client Finished
- KAT: the whole handshake crypto driven offline from the RFC 8448 §3
  recorded messages — CertificateVerify (RSA-PSS) VALID, wrong-transcript
  / tampered-sig / mismatched-scheme rejected, server Finished byte-exact,
  and the client Finished we would send byte-exact. test_tls 78 pass,
  ASan/UBSan clean

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit afd9f23508c648322712df91329aa117c975ccab)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
c375110aac feat(tls): TLS 1.3 handshake message layer (rv2 9 phase F3a) 
- bounded wire reader/writer (malformation -> reject, overflow -> fail;
  no over-read on attacker-controlled bytes)
- wo_tls_parse_server_hello: extracts negotiated suite + server x25519
  key share; rejects HelloRetryRequest, unsupported suite/group,
  non-1.3 selected_version, and any truncation
- wo_tls_build_client_hello: ClientHello offering TLS 1.3 / x25519 /
  RSA-PSS+RSA-PKCS1+ECDSA-P256, SNI, 32-byte legacy session id
- KAT: ServerHello parser vs RFC 8448 recorded message (suite 0x1301 +
  server pubkey byte-exact), malformed rejected; ClientHello builder
  structural + SNI/keyshare present + too-small refused, and validated
  byte-for-byte spec-valid by an independent python parser. test_tls 71
  pass, ASan/UBSan clean

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 541c71bca1655f370b145621d272d2e8bdb6c7ce)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
25dda4cb2f feat(tls): TLS 1.3 key schedule (rv2 9 phase F2) 
- wo_tls_derive_handshake: Early/Handshake/Master secrets + client/server
  handshake-traffic secrets from the ECDHE shared secret and the
  ClientHello..ServerHello transcript hash (RFC 8446 §7.1)
- wo_tls_derive_application: client/server application-traffic secrets
  from master_secret + the ClientHello..server-Finished transcript hash
- wo_tls_traffic_keys: record key + IV via HKDF-Expand-Label "key"/"iv"
- wo_tls_finished_verify: finished_key = Expand-Label(base,"finished"),
  verify_data = HMAC(finished_key, transcript_hash)
- all over phase-B HKDF (Extract/Expand-Label) + Derive-Secret helper
- KAT vs RFC 8448 §3 "Simple 1-RTT Handshake" byte-for-byte: c/s hs
  traffic, master, c/s ap traffic, server hs key+iv. Also validates the
  phase-B "tls13 " Expand-Label. test_tls 58 pass, ASan/UBSan clean

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 417fcc16f80c1dd31e84a0336944573902fde06e)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
7e71c1a171 feat(tls): TLS 1.3 record layer (rv2 9 phase F1) 
- new tls.c/tls.h on the crypto ladder: wo_tls_record_seal/open
  (RFC 8446 §5.2) — TLSInnerPlaintext (content||type, no padding),
  5-byte header as AEAD additional-data, per-record nonce = iv XOR
  seq big-endian (§5.3)
- suite dispatch: TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (mandatory) +
  TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 (AES-NI-less fallback), over phase-A AEAD
- open() strips trailing zero padding to recover the inner content type;
  rejects a length-field lie before the AEAD, and auth failure after
- KAT vs python AEAD oracle (test/gen_tls_record.py): sealed record
  byte-for-byte both suites, open() recovers it, 5-seq round-trip,
  tamper + wrong-seq + bad-suite rejected. test_tls 51 pass, ASan/UBSan

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 5021a99f8359f78a642bb0cc2b28ab66f6b624e2)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
bb64278aa9 docs(rv2-tls): rv2 9 phase E (X.509 core) landed 
- phase-E ladder row: core landed (DER reader + cert parse + verify_one
  + parse_spki + check_validity), KAT'd on real RSA + EC chains
- review_pending frontmatter: forks auto-approved 2026-09-08, SAN/
  hostname + CA-bundle walk deferred to phase F

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
EOF2
git log --oneline -2

(cherry picked from commit 796ed88d76f1cf25ced1eb5e7bdb4e4ab3cf4e9b)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
5f5d774d76 feat(crypto): X.509 chain-link verification (rv2 9 phase E core) 
- defensive ASN.1/DER reader: every length/bound checked; malformation
  is rejection, never over-read (truncated input KAT-gated)
- x509_parse: tbsCertificate span, sig-alg OID, signature,
  SubjectPublicKeyInfo (RSA n/e or EC P-256 x/y), validity dates
- wo_x509_verify_one: one chain link's signature, dispatching to
  phase-D RSA-PKCS1/PSS + ECDSA-P256 by the issuer key type
- wo_x509_parse_spki + wo_x509_check_validity (caller supplies time)
- KAT against real python-generated chains (test/gen_x509.py):
  RSA CA+leaf (SHA256withRSA), EC P-256 CA+leaf (ecdsa-with-SHA256);
  leaf-vs-CA, self-signed CA, wrong-issuer/tampered/truncated reject,
  validity window, SPKI extraction. test_crypto 84 pass, ASan/UBSan clean
- deferred to phase F: SAN/hostname match + multi-cert chain walk to a
  system CA bundle (both need the target host / trust store, known at
  handshake time)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 4ec1c75f889df3612e31b9a1a77c4c927fb546c1)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
9d1689be55 docs(jarvis): create iteration stories 1 (ready) + 2/3 (refine) 
- jarvis 1 (chat loop) brainstormed to ready with forks AUTO-APPROVED for
  autonomous execution and flagged in `review_pending` frontmatter for the
  developer's second review: Anthropic Messages API backend, env-var API key,
  actor-per-conversation SSE relay, durable @table history, session-gated routes
- jarvis 2 (tool use) + 3 (retrieval/RAG) created at refine with forks named
- 00-story iterations table linked to the new files
- blocked until rv2 9 TLS reaches phase F; pure .wo on porch 2/3/6/7 + the seam

(cherry picked from commit 8e160c3fcf9c50a05af073c036c693b192c9e595)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ca572086ee docs(rv2-tls): rv2 9 phase D complete (RSA + ECDSA-P256 verify) 
- ECDSA-P256 verify landed; phase D done (both signature verifiers)
- rv2 9 story, board ladder, jarvis 00-story deps, and dependency-graph §7
  synced: A-D landed, E-F remain

(cherry picked from commit 3eab98cc268e524c7b4e2ab72a4b093692a67d03)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
c085c7390c feat(crypto): ECDSA-P256 verification (rv2 9 phase D part 2) 
- wo_ecdsa_p256_sha256_verify: NIST P-256 signature verify for EC-cert chains
  and TLS 1.3 CertificateVerify
- Jacobian point arithmetic (double a=-3, general add with the H==0 special
  cases), double-and-add scalar mult; field/scalar arithmetic reuses the
  bignum Montgomery multiply and modexp (Fermat inverses mod p and mod n)
- validates r,s in [1,n-1] and that Q is on the curve (invalid-curve guard)
- verify-only public data -> not constant-time by design
- renamed the P-256 field mul to fpmul to avoid the clash with X25519's fmul
- VERIFIED against a python ECDSA-P256 vector; tamper + wrong-hash rejected;
  test_crypto 69/0; ASan/UBSan clean; battery green
- phase D COMPLETE (RSA PKCS1+PSS + ECDSA-P256). Next E: ASN.1/X.509

(cherry picked from commit 92c996ba96d785d098c173d4ac6ace9052ef6a2f)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
4e70509001 docs(rv2-tls): rv2 9 phase D part 1 (RSA verify) landed 
- RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 + PSS verify over SHA-256, bignum Montgomery modexp,
  KAT-gated vs python RSA-2048. ECDSA-P256 (D2) remains. Board synced

(cherry picked from commit ae42943c97949224d883e9ddcf5ae2117fef62b3)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
d0bd66c704 feat(crypto): RSA signature verification (rv2 9 phase D part 1, PKCS1 + PSS) 
- wo_rsa_pkcs1_sha256_verify + wo_rsa_pss_sha256_verify (SHA-256), for the
  server cert chain and TLS 1.3 CertificateVerify
- bignum: Montgomery multiply (CIOS, 64-bit limbs, __int128), modexp with the
  public exponent (R^2 via 128k modular doublings, no division); MGF1-SHA256
- verification is public data only -> NOT constant-time by design (correct and
  much simpler than a private-key op)
- assumes a full-length modulus for PSS emBits (standard RSA-2048/3072/4096)
- VERIFIED against python cryptography RSA-2048 vectors (PKCS#1 v1.5 + PSS,
  salt 32); tamper + wrong-hash rejected; test_crypto 66/0; ASan/UBSan clean;
  battery green
- internal C, no builtin/compiler change. Remaining in D: ECDSA-P256 (D2)

(cherry picked from commit 9118177fbfd03eff9757defea6931afdd68830c4)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
d02befd6bf docs(jarvis): sync jarvis dependencies to landed state + dependency graph 
- jarvis 00-story: net.connect marked landed (id 110); outbound-TLS blocker
  now rv2 9 in-progress (A AEAD / B HKDF / C X25519 done; D-G remain);
  architecture + blocker table updated
- dependency-graph: new §7 jarvis dependency graph (phase-level TLS ladder +
  porch framework path); §5a net.connect node marked landed

(cherry picked from commit a615ee80238fb384c0b33fc2b54bcd6bd4078078)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
8e652800fe docs(rv2-tls): rv2 9 phase C (X25519) landed 
- constant-time X25519 (RFC 7748), curve25519-donna radix-2^51; KAT-gated incl.
  the 1000-iteration vector. Ladder A+B+C done; next D. Board synced

(cherry picked from commit b929a20b7482d7137a45b77a2179fe7ef03c52b6)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
aee98661d2 feat(crypto): X25519 key exchange (rv2 9 phase C, RFC 7748) 
- wo_x25519: constant-time Montgomery ladder + mask-based conditional swap,
  radix-2^51 field arithmetic with __int128 products (curve25519-donna-c64,
  public domain); scalar clamped, u-coord high bit masked per RFC 7748
- internal C (consumer is the TLS ECDHE handshake); no builtin/compiler change
- KAT-gated in test_crypto: RFC 7748 §5.2 both direct vectors AND the
  1000-iteration base-point test; test_crypto 61/0; ASan/UBSan clean; battery green
- fixed one transcription bug found via the KAT: crecip needs 5 final squarings
  (p-2 = 2^255-21 = (2^250-1)*2^5 + 11), not 3
- rv2 9 ladder: A (AEAD) + B (HKDF) + C (X25519) done; next D signatures/RSA

(cherry picked from commit f41b1c5f56caa841d1904382830baff0f75525d9)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
aff8ffdf14 docs(rv2-tls): rv2 9 phase B (HKDF key schedule) landed 
- HKDF-Extract/Expand + Expand-Label over hmac_sha256, KAT-gated (RFC 5869 +
  8446); status -> in-progress; ladder A+B done. Board synced

(cherry picked from commit e24b8ec6d838fc66848864c2a0974205aaa9b4be)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
36ce2332ef feat(crypto): HKDF-SHA256 for the TLS 1.3 key schedule (rv2 9 phase B) 
- wo_hkdf_sha256_extract/expand (RFC 5869) + expand_label (RFC 8446 §7.1),
  internal C over the existing hmac_sha256; SHA-256 (mandatory-suite hash;
  SHA-384 a later add for the AES-256 suite)
- no builtin, no compiler change -- no .wo consumer yet (the TLS handshake
  is the consumer); exposed for the C unit test
- KAT-gated in test_crypto: RFC 5869 Test Case 1 (PRK + 42-byte OKM) and
  three HKDF-Expand-Label vectors (key/iv/derived-secret shape); 57/0,
  ASan/UBSan clean; runtime battery green
- rv2 9 ladder: A (AEAD, = rv2 8) and B (HKDF) now done; next C X25519

(cherry picked from commit c8d27b6c89a80cd97a996ff7d8b64ff4895e4b26)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
2db3766b66 docs(rv2-aead): rv2 8 phase C (software AES-GCM fallback) landed 
- portable constant-time AES-GCM software path; AES-GCM now on any CPU
  (hw-or-sw dispatch), NIST-KAT-gated both paths (48/0). Remaining D/E;
  ARMv8 hw path deferred. Board synced

(cherry picked from commit 138de17988e6bd274abe5e1e2d444ff2689747cd)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
94d5f176f7 feat(crypto): portable constant-time AES-GCM software fallback (rv2 8 phase C) 
- no-intrinsics AES: S-box = GF(2^8) inverse via a fixed-exponent power ladder
  (constant-time in the input, no tables), constant-time gf8_mul, byte-oriented
  ShiftRows/MixColumns/key-expansion (AES-128 and AES-256)
- constant-time GHASH: bit-by-bit GF(2^128) multiply (mask-driven, no tables)
- aes_gcm_seal/open now dispatch: AES-NI path when present (and not forced
  software), else this portable fallback -> AES-GCM works on ANY CPU, so the
  phase-B no-AES-NI trap is retired
- wo_aes_force_software test hook; both hw and sw paths verified against NIST
  SP 800-38D cases 4 (AES-128) and 16 (AES-256) byte-for-byte; test_crypto 48/0;
  ASan/UBSan clean; full runtime battery green
- ARMv8 crypto-extension hardware path deferred (untestable on x86-64 host)

(cherry picked from commit dccf650899798401a9adac8489f34c85ed9304af)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
6a38ad7cb0 docs(rv2-aead): rv2 8 phase B (AES-GCM) landed 
- phases A + B done; B = AES-128/256-GCM via AES-NI/PCLMULQDQ, NIST-KAT-gated,
  ASan clean, portable binary (CPUID-gated). Phase C now owns the software
  fallback AND the ARMv8 hardware path (deferred, untestable on x86-64 host)

(cherry picked from commit 249b1dbd72122ed6c05f4f0aadb7e1a5e87f844c)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
1ef4e463ec feat(crypto): AES-GCM via AES-NI + PCLMULQDQ (rv2 8 phase B, ids 113/114) 
- aes_gcm_seal/open, AES-128 and AES-256 (variant by key length 16/32),
  nonce 12 bytes, out = ciphertext||tag; open returns nil on auth failure
- hardware path only (phase B): AES-NI key schedule (128/256) + block, GHASH
  via PCLMULQDQ with the fast GF(2^128) reduction, GCM mode (J0, CTR from
  counter 2, GHASH over aad|pad|ct|pad|len, tag = GHASH ^ AES(J0))
- constant-time by hardware; target-attributed functions + __builtin_cpu_supports
  gate so the binary stays portable -- no AES-NI traps with a clear message
  (bitsliced software + ARMv8 paths are phase C)
- wiring: wob.h ids + WO_B_MAX 114; builtin.c crypto range; loader arity 4;
  emit.ml (ids/arity/return/name); types.ml (register + return type)
- VERIFIED: matches NIST SP 800-38D cases 4 (AES-128) and 16 (AES-256) and the
  python cryptography reference byte-for-byte; KAT-gated in test_crypto (36/0);
  ASan/UBSan clean; runtime battery + compiler 557/0 green

(cherry picked from commit f12a745a3c1313847f9d7f65e53bcd8093758af9)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
da840a5be6 docs(rv2-aead): rv2 8 phase A (ChaCha20-Poly1305) landed 
- status -> in-progress; phase A marked landed (matches RFC 8439 §2.8.2,
  KAT-gated in test_crypto, ASan clean). Remaining B/C/D/E. Board synced

(cherry picked from commit db5bdf3c3cac31c0d2be60027e0e2bf9fe8309c1)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ac52c3fdb5 feat(crypto): ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD (rv2 8 phase A, ids 111/112) 
- hand-rolled ChaCha20 + poly1305-donna-32 + RFC 8439 §2.8 AEAD in crypto.c;
  constant-time (add/xor/rotate + limb math, no tables, no data-dep branches),
  constant-time tag compare
- two bare-name crypto-family builtins beside sha256/hmac:
  chacha20poly1305_seal(key,nonce,aad,pt) -> Bytes (ct||tag)
  chacha20poly1305_open(key,nonce,aad,ct||tag) -> ?Bytes (nil on auth fail)
  key 32B, nonce 12B (caller-supplied, per TLS's per-record nonce need)
- wiring: wob.h enum + WO_B_MAX 112; builtin.c crypto dispatch range; loader.c
  arity 4; emit.ml (ids, arity_of 4-case, return type, is_builtin_name,
  name->id); types.ml (registration + return type)
- VERIFIED: matches RFC 8439 §2.8.2 byte-for-byte (vs python cryptography +
  the RFC vector); test_crypto 24/0 (Poly1305 §2.5.2 + AEAD seal/open/tamper);
  ASan/UBSan clean; runtime battery + compiler 557/0 green
- first rung of the TLS ladder (rv2 9 phase A)

(cherry picked from commit 961854a8f4e9e632b6fa17f7f2e519e2d08f4936)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
7f7a601e2f docs(rv2-aead): brainstorm runtime-v2 8 (AEAD ciphers) to ready 
- a second consumer (rv2 9 TLS phase A) reshaped the forks since the draft
- locked: BOTH AES-GCM (128/256, TLS-mandatory per RFC 8446) AND
  ChaCha20-Poly1305 (RFC 8439, easy constant-time, cookie default)
- AES constant-time via AES-NI/ARMv8 hardware + bitsliced software fallback
  (compiler intrinsics, zero external dep)
- caller-supplied nonce (TLS builds its own per-record nonce); random-nonce
  is a cookie WRAPPER (phase D) not the primitive. shape:
  seal(key,nonce,aad,pt)->Bytes / open->?Bytes; AES variant by key length
- raw key + length check; hand-rolled (matches rv2 9); ids from 111
- phases A ChaCha -> B hardware AES-GCM -> C software AES -> D cookie wrapper
  -> E gate (RFC 8439 + NIST GCM vectors, ASan, reference cross-check)
- risk/test: constant-time mandatory, KAT-gated, reused-nonce documented
- retires the stale "TLS proxy-terminated" OOS line (rv2 9 overturned it)

(cherry picked from commit c8a5a31c39a5d14952056cd0af1b8c1e42d4ed2d)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
51addb504c docs(rv2-tls): brainstorm runtime-v2 9 (in-process TLS) to ready — hand-rolled 
- decision: HAND-ROLL TLS 1.3 (no vendored lib) per developer call; keeps the
  zero-external-dep single binary, and raises risk rather than lowering it —
  recorded, owned, with mandatory mitigations
- 1.3-only; RSA-PSS/PKCS1 + ECDSA-P256 + full ASN.1/X.509 chain validation +
  trust store + hostname (the scope needed to reach real LLM APIs)
- decomposed into a bottom-up phase ladder: A AEAD (=rv2 8, forces AES-GCM
  there) -> B HKDF -> C X25519 -> D signatures/RSA -> E X.509 -> F record+FSM
  client -> G inbound server; C/D/E may each split into own iterations
- risk + test strategy section: constant-time, reference-tested (openssl +
  RFC 8448 vectors), negative tests first-class, no partial-trust states
- deps: rv2 8 (AEAD), lang 34 (SHA/HMAC), net.connect (110, landed). Board synced

(cherry picked from commit f1881cca8cd0cdd58b1ac844e3e3ea9c234bb99c)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
cc1c82b2ef docs: jarvis track, runtime-v2 7/8/9, lang-41 fix design, fiber scope-gap 
- jarvis (00-story): 6th track, 2nd software built with writeonce — an AI
  assistant; direct-HTTPS design; blockers named (net.connect + TLS)
- runtime-v2 7 observability + 8 symmetric cipher: moved from the language
  track (were 30/43); 9 in-process TLS: created from the gap jarvis surfaces,
  RETIRES the "TLS is the proxy's job" doctrine (both directions)
- language 41 (arena hang): fix design to ready — marshal cross-shard
  messages (root), align the shard_id % nshards route/compare + assert bound;
  poison-on-free + minimal fixture as follow-ups
- fiber scope-gap analysis (plan/exploration/fiber/01): porch vs fiber, what
  porch lacks, would developers prefer porch
- board + dependency-graph synced (porch 2-8 ready; rv2 table; §5/§5a graphs)

(cherry picked from commit 203470ceb2a151fe3584931cd4237af3f96a9f29)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
e91a3704fe feat(net): net.connect outbound TCP client (id 110) 
- new builtin net.connect(host, port) -> Int: the outbound-socket gap
  language 38 named and jarvis surfaced; the client half of the net verbs
- getaddrinfo for DNS (v4/v6, numeric or hostname), blocking connect with
  the same EINTR/stop handling as net.connect_unix, then O_NONBLOCK for the
  park plane; returns the same fd-scalar accept yields
- wob.h enum + WO_B_MAX 110; types.ml registration; loader.c arity;
  builtin.c sysio dispatch range extended to WO_B_NET_CONNECT; sysio.c impl
- verified: numeric IP + hostname (DNS) connect to a local listener, closed
  port traps cleanly; ASan-clean; runtime battery 0 fail
- deferred (next slice): net.connect_dl deadline/park variant (no shard
  stall during handshake), on the accept_dl pattern

(cherry picked from commit 13c6f124428243b4956fbb4eceb1e7d0206d45f2)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
b932e0cb87 docs(porch-static): brainstorm story 8 (static + lifecycle) to ready 
- whole porch track (2-8) now brainstormed and locked (all ready)
- four decisions: three hooks (on-listen/on-shutdown/on-route-registered);
  healthcheck ships BOTH /livez + /readyz; directory listing off-by-default,
  documented; Last-Modified via a new small time.utc(ms)->TimeParts builtin
- language enhancement: YES, one small builtin -- time.utc, a gmtime sibling
  of time.local (time.local is local-tz, time.iso is UTC-but-ISO); IMS by
  string-equality, no date parser. The track's third + smallest language touch
- byte ranges/large files via fs.read_at + iteration 6 writer; not lang-41-exposed
- track language bill now explicit: random_bytes (2), deflate+crc32 (7),
  time.utc (8) -- each a builtin with a named consumer, none decoration
- validated against .dev/reference/fiber. Board: whole track marked ready

(cherry picked from commit 9801fceade799e25718606177f09e4306a579e98)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
4d3e4261e1 docs(porch-sse): brainstorm story 7 (SSE + compression) to ready 
- five decisions: refuse incoherent heartbeat/idle_ms pair at construction;
  codec = two C builtins deflate+crc32 (perf over pure-.wo; hand-rolled, no
  zlib dep; gzip framing in .wo); ETag over uncompressed bytes + Vary;
  Last-Event-ID explicitly unsupported (not silently ignored); Vary via
  comma-join
- language enhancement: YES, two builtins -- the track's SECOND language
  dependency after iteration 2's random_bytes. CRC32 finally gets its
  consumer; inflate deliberately not built (request-body decompression OOS)
- corrected stale dependency: Vary uses iteration 5's comma-join, so story 7
  depends on 6 + 5, NOT 2; codec is pure compute, not lang-41-exposed
- confirmed CRC32 absent + iteration 36 bit operators landed (pure-.wo was
  viable, traded for hot-path speed)
- validated against .dev/reference/fiber. Board synced

(cherry picked from commit 07f53574dd90f502235b79d4920eab3d684c8b77)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
641703903c docs(porch-streaming): brainstorm story 6 (streaming core) to ready 
- re-scoped to OUTBOUND streaming only
- three decisions: separate StreamHandler/BodyProducer parallel path (Resp
  path untouched -> existing responses byte-identical); streaming routes opt
  out of the after-chain, framework refuses at registration to combine with
  header-mutating middleware (loud, never silent), security_headers() helper
  lets handlers stamp them; chunked REQUEST bodies split into their own future
  iteration (parse.wo refusal stays, smuggling cases enumerated for later)
- no language enhancement (net.write framing, fs.read_at/actor source,
  interfaces for producer); rides the fiber loop not the actor pool, so not
  lang-41-exposed
- fixed title inconsistency: "three iterations wait on" -> "two" (7 and 8)
- validated against .dev/reference/fiber + the app.wo/serve.wo pipeline. Board synced

(cherry picked from commit 15205408e03c3c02a38e00e5d2017a8a11f62f28)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
6b820fdd5f docs(porch-routing): brainstorm story 5 (routing + response ergonomics) to ready 
- five decisions: head auto-registers with opt-out (+ patch/options/all);
  request ids mirror limiter trust model with a NON-crypto source; per-route
  body_limit is a SECOND check after routing (global BODY_MAX stays the
  pre-routing ceiling, over-limit = 413); Route fields are corpus-free;
  Vary accumulates by comma-join
- key finding: story 5 has NO upstream dependency, not even iteration 2 --
  request ids are not secrets, so a non-crypto source (time.ticks+counter)
  keeps it startable today; the one porch slice buildable right now
- three story assumptions corrected: per-route limit cannot replace the
  global (body read before routing); the container-owned-move corpus fixture
  has its OWN Route (adding fields is free); Vary needs no iteration 2
- validated against .dev/reference/fiber; zero language enhancement. Board synced

(cherry picked from commit 0589a13db1f3b7c220d9d9fdc76142af6a63c390)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
274f7c5361 docs(porch-csrf): brainstorm stories 3 (sessions) + 4 (CSRF) to ready 
sessions (3):
- six decisions: pure-auth-primitive row (no payload bag); wall-clock
  time.now not monotonic time.ticks (restart durability); login always
  mints a fresh id (fixation, no anon-session model); throttled last_seen
  touch at idle/20 (not a WAL write per request); Session writes
  req.principal; config refuses absolute < idle
- finding: no per-key actor pool, so NOT blocked on lang-41 (plain @table
  CRUD, same path storefront uses); the no-bag rule closes the one place
  fiber's Set(key,any)+msgp+RegisterType would have hit principle 13

csrf (4):
- five decisions: fiber's hybrid transport (session-stored CsrfToken
  @table + double-submit cookie, both must pass; no CSRF for sessionless
  apps); opt-in single-use (checkout example); double-click -> distinct
  SPENT refusal, NOT coupled to lang-41-blocked idempotency; trusted
  origin/referer/Sec-Fetch-Site second layer; refusal classes distinct in
  logs, opaque in body
- no actor pool, not blocked on lang-41

both validated against .dev/reference/fiber (v3, 3ca9a9d); exactly ZERO
language enhancement needed beyond iteration 2's random_bytes. Board synced.

(cherry picked from commit 3a4fb4215b23d2516362e2dd0acc5bec6c9aebc0)
 2026-09-15 01:15:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
6a67db252b docs(porch-cookies): brainstorm story 2 (randomness+cookies) to ready 
- five forks locked: cookies: multi SetCookie beside unchanged headers
  map; bare-name random_bytes(n)->Bytes; structural-400 in parse_request
  + on-demand cookie() helper; base64(value).base64(mac) signing;
  app-supplied key, no middleware (that is iteration 3)
- validated against .dev/reference/fiber (v3, 3ca9a9d): exactly ONE
  language enhancement needed (the CSPRNG); repeated Set-Cookie, cookie
  attributes, parsing and signing all map to existing primitives
- corrects phase A registry: random_bytes joins the crypto-family
  bare-name table (emit.ml b_* + types.ml), NOT wob.h's module enum;
  next free id 84/90, not 110
- board: story 2 marked ready, porch-2 row rewritten off the stale
  wob.h/110 claim

(cherry picked from commit 4d31d5359436496aed40cb25611abc7ccd4d7875)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
1d78e0fa70 fix(runtime): don't deref a poisoned class's NULL fmap during migration 
- wo_schema_diff poisons a class (fmap=NULL, new_cid=NONE) when a
  referenced/nested type changed or a field type is incompatible — the
  field-level map does not apply and wo_wal_migrate transcodes it instead.
- main.c's pre-migration "migrating `X`: +/-fields" print loop dereferenced
  fmap unconditionally, so a poisoned-but-field-added class (e.g. a wmux
  Window whose nested Vte gained fields) was a NULL read → SIGSEGV at boot,
  before the migrate call could refuse or transcode.
- guard the field detail on fmap != NULL; for a poisoned class print
  "(a referenced type changed — cannot migrate in place)" and let
  wo_wal_migrate proceed. It then transcodes cleanly when no record blocks
  it — so an additive nested change (Vte +oscbuf +title) now migrates and
  the session replays, instead of crashing serve.
- test_wal 5966/0; verified against the real WAL that crashed (recovers
  session `main`); wmux gate 52/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 35efa214d20dd7b055910ae66e4bfcc6201821c9)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
5e8e0960bc feat(rt2): term.size + term.width — the wmux ladder's last runtime asks 
- term.size(fd) -> ?TermSize{cols,rows}: TIOCGWINSZ, resize's read twin;
  nil = not a tty (expected answer, never a trap)
- term.width(cp): libc wcwidth under C.UTF-8 (LC_CTYPE set on first
  use, host-locale fallback): -1 control, 0 combining, 1, 2
- ids 108/109 (all four registrations); TermSize predeclared
- legs: PTY sized 77x33 from outside answers exactly that, pipe answers
  nil, widths a/CJK/combining/BEL = 1/2/0/-1; test_term 81/0, woc 557/0
- story runtime-v2 6 recorded done; board row appended

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 1514fb46c21c4318856cfcb3ca2b4d430caba72b)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
6e997759e5 docs(rt2): close out runtime-v2 1-5 
- five stories status: done; 00-story records the one-run landing
- spec History: three implementation amendments (Signal record not
  scalar, caller-owned stdio fds, handler-latch instead of signalfd)
- board NEXT PLAN entry with measured findings (zero transport code
  added; the tty-across-the-socket handover proven; the double-raw
  refusal restoring the terminal — the "bug" that was the design
  working); section rows flipped; graph nodes green
- CODE-LOGIC.md: the runtime-v2 section
- full belt quoted on the board: suites 0 fail both flavors (test_proc
  193/0, test_term 60/0), woc 557/0, subprocess 12/0, site 23/0

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(cherry picked from commit bc1b4f070693eb755ad6a9fd0c853fb3e2bda347)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
f52ee83ff4 feat(rt2): send_fd/recv_fd/connect_unix — an fd crosses the socket 
- sendmsg/recvmsg with one SCM_RIGHTS fd and a sentinel byte; EAGAIN
  parks in the net mould; the received fd arrives nonblocking as a plain
  Int every fd verb accepts
- SO_DOMAIN gate: send_fd on anything but a unix socket refuses by name;
  plain bytes deliver nil from recv_fd
- net.connect_unix carried here (iteration 38 still pending)
- legs (single-fiber: unix connect completes while the listener holds
  the handshake): a pipe's read end crosses and still reads "ping"; a
  tty crosses, term.raw works on the RECEIVED copy and destroy restores
  it; refusal and nil legs verbatim. test_term 60/0
- full belt: all suites 0 fail both flavors, woc 557/0,
  subprocess-accept 12/0, site-accept 23/0

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(cherry picked from commit 1d689027920d6814f87b97c216b0cb42f7eba3e9)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
22ba51bfd3 feat(rt2): term.raw/restore — no wrecked tty, ever 
- two verbs on any tty fd; saved termios in a per-shard 8-entry table;
  double-raw and restore-without-save refuse by name
- restore is a RUNTIME obligation: vm_unwind at depth 0 (uncaught trap,
  fiber reap) restores the dying fiber's entries newest-first, and
  wo_vm_destroy sweeps the rest — proven twice in the legs: a DIV0
  while raw restores, and even the double-raw REFUSAL (itself a trap)
  restores the first raw
- test_term 39/0 against a real PTY pair made by the test

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(cherry picked from commit b439387dbf4f653e034c721bc3f08b83616c5e24)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
c55d6e1d33 feat(rt2): signal.on — latched signals become Signal records for actors 
- mechanics amendment to the spec (recorded at close-out): no signalfd —
  the stop-latch pattern generalized. An async-signal-safe handler
  latches the number, bumps a sequence and pokes shard 0's wake eventfd;
  wo_io_wait's loop head drains latches into fresh Signal{sig} records
  delivered via runtime_notify (exported as wo_actor_notify)
- payloads must be heap objects (vm.c drops them unconditionally) — the
  Signal record exists exactly for that; class id rides the call as the
  appended record operand (sm_record drives it even with no return)
- offerable: WINCH/CHLD/HUP/USR1/USR2; SIGTERM/SIGINT refused naming the
  stop latch; shard-0-only registration; coalescing disclosed
- stdlib_modules gains `signal` (and `term`, next task)
- test_term: a real child kills the test process with USR1; the actor's
  multi holds one coalesced delivery; refusal leg verbatim. 14/0

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(cherry picked from commit 14e03a6a4a343b97c9b47fab1a5e3c4bb69d8201)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
0c7d0530e9 feat(rt2): spawn_pty + resize — a child that believes it owns a terminal 
- posix_openpt/grantpt/unlockpt/ptsname_r (plain libc, no -lutil); child
  setsid + opens the slave as its controlling terminal, initial
  TIOCSWINSZ from the call
- Child.stdin == Child.stdout = the master (caller's copy); the slot
  keeps a private dup so resize survives the caller closing theirs
- proc.resize -> TIOCSWINSZ; refuses by name on a pipe child
- legs: test -t proves a real tty; stty size reads "24 80" then "40 120"
  after a mid-sleep resize; refusal asserted; test_proc 193/0 ASan clean

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(cherry picked from commit 9836c9cd5197153517c054b243cab3b453d130a0)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
803ff0b790 feat(rt2): proc.spawn/wait_dl/signal — the streaming child 
- a child is fds: Child {id, stdin, stdout, stderr}, driven by the
  existing net verbs (echo leg proves cat round-trip through write_dl/
  read_dl); caller owns the fds, the runtime owns pid + pidfd
- wait_dl parks on the pidfd: code on exit, nil at the deadline with the
  child untouched; one waiter per id, a second refuses by name; stale
  ids refused via a generation counter in the handle
- proc.signal through pidfd_send_signal; actor_die kills the streaming
  children the dying actor owns; dead fibers cannot linger as waiters
- ids 97-107 registered wholesale (wob.h, loader arities, dispatch
  bound); Child + Signal predeclared records in types.ml; unimplemented
  ids trap at the default case until their task lands
- test_proc 168/0 (echo, wait trio, one-waiter refusal, 200-round churn
  fd-flat), suite ASan clean, woc-test green

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(cherry picked from commit 9be87f159f1bf9cdd509ceed160e7ea518fde46c)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
3190b609af docs(rt2): track-wide brainstorm — all five iterations ready, graph remapped 
- spec 2026-09-01-runtime-v2-design.md: the one principle (PULL — a
  child is fds, the net verbs drive them; runtime-v2 adds acquisition
  verbs, never transport), the full surface (ids 97+: spawn/spawn_pty/
  wait_dl/signal/resize, signal.on delivering the sig number, term.raw/
  restore with runtime-guaranteed restore, send_fd/recv_fd/connect_unix),
  actor-owned lifecycle, mechanics notes, refusals by name
- push transport rejected with reasons recorded (mailbox-cap collision,
  new delivery machinery); death-notice verb refused (a two-line fiber
  composes wait_dl)
- five stories flip readiness: ready; fork sections rewritten as settled
- graph section 6 remapped: pull broke the 1->2->3 chain — only 1->2
  remains; 3, 4, 5 and the VTE grid startable alone today
- board section + registry follow; linkcheck 0 broken

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(cherry picked from commit d313cdeebbe53c83b83f31f4480631568d9d0743)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ab8ef64cd9 docs(rt2): runtime-v2 track — the runtime beyond sockets 
- five stories under docs/stories/runtime-v2/: 1 streaming subprocess
  (42's follow-up; five forks incl. the mailbox-cap collision), 2 PTY,
  3 signals-as-events (signalfd lean), 4 termios adoption, 5 SCM_RIGHTS
  fd passing; 00-story states the arc — the plane learned sockets in
  8/11/35, files in 6, this adds processes/terminals/signals
- build order 1 -> 2 -> 3; 4 and 5 startable alone; all readiness:
  refine, brainstormed on demand
- board: Five tracks; "▸ runtime-v2" pending section; wmux section now
  points at it; graph section 6 nodes carry runtime-v2 numbers + links
- wmux stories re-reference the track; prefix `rt2` claimed
- linkcheck: 0 broken

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(cherry picked from commit e0451cb4889bb3d03429c0276d03c090269a5ced)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
185251c404 docs(site-update): guide for changing the site application 
- new docs/guides/updating-site.md: the developer loop deploying-site.md
  deliberately does not cover — the submodule two-repo commit dance in
  the order that cannot strand other clones (push writeonce-site first,
  bump the pointer second), the gate living in the monorepo by design,
  and framework changes being ordinary monorepo commits
- the schema section is measured against the built site, not inferred:
  adding views: Int stopped the build with WO-E206 until all ten seed
  inserts carried it (no field-default syntax — the seed cannot drift
  from the schema), then the live WO_DATA migrated at boot, all ten
  chapters rendered, and a live admin edit SURVIVED the migration;
  retyping the field refused by name with the log intact
- states the one release combination that still needs the content wipe:
  a schema change WITH new seed rows — migration handles the shape,
  seeds still cannot reach a non-empty table
- deploying-site.md cross-links; site-update prefix registered

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(cherry picked from commit a21a02f2c264a3fe1c31b3bfd9159415a594fa05)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
073b252b69 docs(commit-history): site-submodule landed on master 
- registry row corrected: it claimed "Not picked to master", and the
  branches no longer differ structurally at docs/examples/site
- cherry-pick table gains the same row master's copy carries, so the
  ledger reads identically from either branch

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(cherry picked from commit ab7df69e762cd516d3016b7e2703cb6928c7d835)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
bc5823f50b docs(commit-history): mirror the master cherry-pick record onto dev 
- same 37-row dev-to-master map the master copy carries, so the ledger
  reads the same from either branch
- registry rows for db2-keys, db2-delta, db2-chains, db2-chain-review
  and site marked landed on master
- lang41 registered explicitly as on dev and not picked, so its absence
  from master is a recorded decision rather than an oversight
- porch-store and query-corpus rows untouched: still dev-only

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(cherry picked from commit 22b5675ed1c873135e8cb7dd10e010c4a00350b7)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
b9ce271b3d fix(lang41): an unadopted shard must not impersonate shard 0 
- root cause: a worker's runtime is initialised lazily on first fiber
  adoption, and rt.shard_id is stamped only there — but INBOX_READY[i]
  is set at thread creation. A shard that never adopts is still settled
  at shutdown, carrying rt.shard_id 0 from the memset
- it then impersonated shard 0: wo_drop_obj saw 0 == 0 for anything the
  primary allocated, took the "we are home" branch instead of routing,
  and called class_free against rt->classes, which lazy init never
  filled. &rt->classes[class_id] off a NULL base is the faulting read
- fix: stamp the runtime's real identity at thread creation. An
  uninitialised shard owns nothing, so its true id makes every payload
  correctly foreign and routes it to an owner that can free it
- ASan could not name this: the arena is one hand-managed malloc block,
  so intra-arena reuse is invisible and it surfaces as a bare SEGV
- pinned by tests/regress/lang-41, driven from db-actor-accept. Needs
  multiple shards (the corpus runner pins WO_SHARDS=1) and the ASan
  build. SEGVs twice per run unfixed, clean fixed
- the HANG is a separate defect and is NOT fixed: with this in place the
  harness stops losing whole sections, but idempotent-stop-2 still
  fires ~1 run in 6. The story records where to look

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(cherry picked from commit 9dca0b4b4727b976d326b29cb4c6522b62d48a73)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
5e619cf9de docs(porch-store): the fifteen rulings taken during execution 
- records every decision made without stopping to ask, with what each
  costs if wrong, since the SDD workspace is deleted on completion
- R9 is marked WRONG and overturned by R14: WO-E222 fires on the class
  Pool, not on multi, so an actor can hold slots: multi PoolSlot. My
  ruling shipped a README prescribing a permanent 1-actor pool
- R6 records that my own brief caused a security bug: trust_proxy with
  an absent XFF collapsed every client onto one shared bucket
- R15 parks the one residual: pool_slots/pool_of have zero call sites,
  so real N-actor sharding is compile-proven but gate-unproven
- measured the gate over 10 runs: it is NOT stably green. Most runs
  fail idempotent-stop; one lost 6 checks with 000 status codes
- traces the flake to the C-runtime hang/segfault, now localised by gdb
  to wo_arena_alloc / wo_str_new / vm_run

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit a919ab104ce44754949d364e35c88b6964b81fee)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
484402a156 docs(porch-store): correct the one-slot-pool advice, soften a gate-proof claim 
- bullet 2 wrongly told app authors to hold a bare actor handle and
  re-wrap it as a forced ONE-slot Pool per connection -- that was my
  own advice, not the previous implementer's, and the reviewer showed
  WO-E222 fires on the class Pool, not on multi PoolSlot
- rewritten around the new pool_slots/pool_of pair: make_pool(n) once
  at process start, multi PoolSlot held directly in connection-actor
  state, a transient Pool rebuilt per use -- and states explicitly that
  calling make_pool per connection restores the lost-increment race
- disclose that the gate's own ConnWorker fixtures still build a
  deliberate one-slot Pool per leg, so no leg yet exercises real
  N-actor sharding through pool_slots/pool_of
- soften the rate-limiting row: saturation-503 is gate-proven only via
  Idempotent/pool_begin, not through Limiter's own try/catch arm

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(cherry picked from commit 6d48dbca98d4ea4c6d93f470ae3aad0b00acd2a1)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
263cf61d95 fix(porch-store): gate legs pin the header-case and cross-path digest bugs 
- new handlers/routes: casecheck (key_header: "Idempotency-Key", the
  README's documented shape) and patha/pathb (include_body: false,
  same key, different routes)
- 18g: capitalised key_header + capitalised wire header must still
  dedupe (exec count, not status, is the load-bearing assertion --
  pre-fix both calls answer 200 either way, but the handler reruns)
- 18h: same key on two different routes with include_body:false must
  answer 200 then 422 (a digest mismatch, same as a body mismatch),
  never replay route a's body under route b
- both legs run on a FRESH restart of the same binary, not piled onto
  18a-18f's already-loaded server -- doing so measurably raised how
  often this run hit the pre-existing, out-of-scope C-runtime
  arena-allocator race (confirmed by gdb backtrace: SIGSEGV inside
  wo_str_new, unrelated to this file's own .wo logic)

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(cherry picked from commit 86e7244dd97fb8ba940f8c0029faa05f70506e59)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
03a7ad6658 fix(porch-store): log a genuine pool_count trap, not just 503 silently 
- catch (e) nil could not distinguish a real store failure (e.g. a
  mod-by-zero from Pool { actors: [] }) from ordinary saturation
- print_err the trap message before answering 503, matching the same
  fix in idempotent.wo's pool_begin catch

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(cherry picked from commit c53ad583051abeeeb302301fc3d91073f0a15fcc)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
359d21a57f fix(porch-store): widen idempotent replay headers, real per-conn sharding 
- stored/replayed headers widen from content-type only to an allowlist
  (content-type, location, etag, cache-control), matched case-insensitively
  -- a redirect() lost its Location on its own first response, not just replay
- add pool_slots(Pool) -> multi PoolSlot and pool_of(multi PoolSlot) -> Pool
- Pool is demand-promoted to traced (WO-E222) and can't live in actor
  state; PoolSlot/multi PoolSlot never is, the same shape chat/main.wo's
  Room already holds directly -- this is what lets an app actually shard
  across N actors per connection instead of a forced one-slot pool
- log a genuine pool_select trap instead of silently folding it into 503
- fix stale comments: the prune below IS a delete-then-insert (of a
  fresh row, not the same one) contradicting the doc comment above it;
  the catch shape referenced in two comments had changed

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(cherry picked from commit b738269314f01a95dee1341437c7661ce9e28730)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
899f2c604e fix(porch-store): idempotent key_header must be matched case-insensitively 
- normalise self.key_header via to_lower before the req.headers lookup
- req.headers keys are already lowercased on read (internal/parse.wo);
  the documented key_header: "Idempotency-Key" never matched, silently
  disabling idempotency (falls through to inner.handle) on every request
- key/digest lookups use the normalised name consistently
- digest now always includes method+path, body appended only when
  include_body is set -- a bare "" digest under include_body:false
  previously matched any other request reusing the same key
- log a genuine pool_begin trap instead of silently folding it into 503
- update the two doc comments describing the old, unsafe shape

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(cherry picked from commit 91099cfbb2fb9a2d351894e444fed306b25557d5)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
581fe5fd51 fix(porch-store): saturation teardown no longer counts as a check 
- Add a neutral note() helper (prints, touches neither pass nor fail)
- Use it for the saturation leg's unconditional teardown line, which
  previously called ok() regardless of branch taken and inflated the
  reported count with a line that could never fail
- New count: 78 checks, 0 failures (was 79) -- every number now is a
  real assertion

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(cherry picked from commit 2ac1b8b6db360d4423dbb53d5d26b355e7b05e71)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
84cfbb1885 docs(porch-store): saturation gate leg closes out porch 1 
- Add saturation leg (scripts/web-app-accept.sh): one-actor pool,
  WO_MAILBOX=2, 15 concurrent requests, exactly 3 served + 12 answer
  503; execution count matches the 200 count, retry-after + real
  cause verified on the 503s
- Guard make_pool(n<1) by clamping in make_pool itself, not
  pool_select's division -- that trap runs inside the middleware's
  own try/catch and would be swallowed as ordinary saturation forever
- README: rate limiting + idempotency ledger rows moved to done,
  scoped to what the gate proves; documented Handler-decorator
  shape, Pool aliasing (WO-E222), call's scalar-only reply (WO-E226),
  pool size as a capacity decision
- Story: Progress table filled with real hashes, 7/9 acceptance
  criteria marked verified with citations, 2 marked verified by
  construction (never gated even in the original plan), status: done
- Status board: standup entry, porch 1 pending row updated
- Recorded a pre-existing runtime hang (main() returns cleanly, OS
  process sometimes hangs under concurrent call()-parked callers)
  that also reaches the new leg's teardown; contained with kill -9
  rather than asserted, so it can't flake the leg's actual subject

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(cherry picked from commit 21934b18910070a3f24b8bd4367fcb9d397dc1fb)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
659ea26582 fix(porch-store): delete the ephemeral nonce row after one read 
- The nonce naming an ephemeral (4xx/5xx) row is handed to exactly one
  call() reply and nowhere else -- no other message can ever construct
  that key, so idempotent.wo deleting it right after building the Resp
  is safe by construction (unlike the earlier shared bare-key row,
  which a second message COULD reach and made deleting it racy)
- Closes the leak AND a real correctness edge: the nonce is
  time.ticks() % 1_000_000_000, wrapping every ~1000s -- with rows kept
  forever, a later failed attempt on the same key could land on the
  same nonce and either collide with the unguarded insert or resurface
  a stale replay, exactly what rounds 1/2 removed
- Gate leg 18f: N ephemeral attempts against the same key must return
  IdempotencyKey's row count to baseline, not grow it by N -- confirmed
  failing (baseline+N) against the pre-fix code, passing after
- N picked at 3: the pre-existing runtime hang/segfault (out of scope,
  being tracked separately) reproduces more often at higher sequential
  insert+delete volume against the same key; 3 stayed clean across
  many runs while still proving the property precisely

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(cherry picked from commit 9ad594748e01a665ccaf29733a48c2b83a2749da)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
e296d0541d fix(porch-store): close the ephemeral-row race, not just shrink it 
- Root cause of the residual: a 4xx/5xx row lived under the bare key,
  so a second message could delete-and-replace it before the FIRST
  caller's own middleware-side read (necessarily outside receive,
  WO-E226) ever ran -- the owner itself could read back a LATER
  message's answer, not just a duplicate reading a stale one
- Fix: a 4xx/5xx miss is never stored under the bare key at all. Each
  such attempt gets its own row, keyed by a nonce carried back in the
  scalar reply's low digits, so no other message for the same bare key
  ever touches it -- the decision AND the row's identity are both
  fixed inside the one serialized receive call
- Disclosed trade-off: that row is never revisited by a bare-key
  lookup, so it is never TTL-pruned either -- permanent per failed
  attempt, the same no-sweeper trade-off this codebase already makes
  elsewhere, not a new one
- Gate leg 18e: reran 20x in isolation against the fix with zero
  500-500 or 200-200 outcomes (was reproducible before)
- §18's SIGTERM-stop check now force-kills on timeout before clearing
  $SRV, instead of matching §14/§17b's own gap where a still-running
  process escapes the exit trap too -- an orphan no longer survives
  past this leg regardless of the assertion's own outcome

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(cherry picked from commit 464147a9ddf3a53cb1946637c3f517ba615ee358)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
d98ff82027 fix(porch-store): never replay a cached transient 5xx 
- Miss path only marks a response a durable replay target (outcome 1)
  when status is 2xx/3xx; a 4xx/5xx gets outcome 3 instead
- Outcome 3's row is a one-shot relay: the scalar reply still can't carry
  a Resp (WO-E226), so the row exists only to hand the exact response
  back once, then idempotent.wo deletes it -- a retry with the same key
  is a genuine miss and re-executes, instead of caching a 500 for the
  24h default TTL
- Reviewer finding: caching any status meant a transient failure was
  replayed verbatim until TTL expiry, worse than no idempotency at all
- Gate leg 18d: FlakyHandler fails once then succeeds; same key twice
  must answer 500 then 200 -- confirmed failing (500, 500) before the
  fix, passing after

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit e61015f2065a7c6aec6f5c2439e78b53f796bab3)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
c97de237ef feat(porch-store): idempotency rebuilt so the actor runs the handler 
- Delete before/after flow: it stored on a miss, so two duplicates both
  missed and both ran; its 10s "in flight" check fired on fast legit
  replays and never on a real collision
- Idempotent now wraps the route's Handler and hands request + handler to
  the pool; a duplicate waits in the actor's mailbox, not a held reply
- keypool.wo kind-2 arm: digest match replays, mismatch refuses (422), a
  miss runs the handler inside receive and stores status/body/
  content-type, all via the same pool_pack(count, remaining_ms) scalar
  kind-1 uses (WO-E226 forces one return type)
- Outcome codes start at 1, never 0: idempotent.wo's try/catch cannot
  tell a literal 0 reply apart from a trapped call
- fresh_req() copies a borrowed Req's map fields into a new Req before it
  crosses the actor boundary (WO-E222: aliased graphs can't cross heaps)
- Reading a stored row back forces fresh Text via `.. ""` on every field
  copied out of json.decode's result -- decoded Text does not survive
  being handed onward once the decoded record goes out of scope
- insert is unguarded (kind 1's own convention): a swallowed failure
  would answer "stored" for a response never written
- web-app-accept.sh: leg 18a/b/c -- byte-identical replay off an ExecMark
  row count, digest mismatch is 422, genuinely parallel duplicates run
  the handler exactly once

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(cherry picked from commit eae1b06cdc38e4766d4e27a66b02264f47164e99)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
37a63192c6 fix(porch-store): trust_proxy falls back to net.peer on an absent XFF 
- limiter_key: an empty client_ip(req) under trust_proxy no longer keys
  on the literal "ip:" -- falls through to net.peer(req.conn) instead,
  same as the untrusted-default path
- the bug: every client omitting X-Forwarded-For shared ONE bucket,
  so one could exhaust it and deny/hide the rest
- curl availability check added alongside the existing woc/wovm check
  (the limiter gate legs drive the server with it)
- new gate leg: LIMIT+1 sequential no-XFF requests must all be 200
  (own key per connection, via a fresh ephemeral port each time) --
  confirmed it fails against the pre-fix code (6th comes back 429)

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(cherry picked from commit 831e9d8e6b1ef39cd938783dbc47c1abe6d53211)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
491c2f42b4 feat(porch-store): limiter delegates all counting to the key pool 
- delete all RateLimitCounter access from limiter.wo: query, increment,
  delete-then-insert, and the swallowing catch (e) nil -- the pool is now
  the only writer, so its serialization guarantee actually holds
- Limiter gains pool/limit/trust_proxy fields; before() calls pool_count
  and acts on the Verdict; make_limiter takes a pool
- key selection: req.principal first, else trust_proxy ? client_ip(req)
  : net.peer(req.conn); delete the dead req.ctx["verified_proxy"] branch
- 429 on a spent window (Retry-After, X-RateLimit-*); 503 + Retry-After
  on a caught actor trap (saturated pool), request never let through
- add Limiter.after(), registered alongside before() as both Mw and Aw
  (Cors's own shape) so the allowed path's X-RateLimit-* headers reach
  the response, not just req.ctx
- scripts/web-app-accept.sh: three new gate legs -- threshold (N pass,
  N+1th 429), SIGTERM+restart (still limited from the WAL), and N
  genuinely-parallel curl clients on one key with an exact-count assertion

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(cherry picked from commit a653dd0aa64711c43461126d32b4632cc8f64c7a)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
9af42c8e69 fix(porch-store): correct reset_at unit on the two fresh-window paths 
- keypool.wo:78,89 passed msg.window (µs) straight into pool_pack's
  remaining_ms (ms) parameter on the first-hit and post-prune-reset
  paths; the third call site already divided by 1000 and was correct
- fix: pool_pack(1, msg.window / 1000) at both sites — a 60s window
  no longer reports reset_at ~16.7h away
- count/allowed were unaffected (computed independently); this only
  hit the client-visible reset instant, on the two most common cases
  (new key, window rollover)
- extended gate leg 16 to assert reset_at falls within a 5s band of
  time.now() + window_ms, not just on count — verified the assertion
  itself by reverting the fix, confirming leg 16 failed with the
  exact defect shape, then restoring it and confirming green
- woc docs/examples/porch/ exits 0; web-app-accept.sh: 47 checks,
  0 failures

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(cherry picked from commit 153fd295d37905dd083823536c6781843699e455)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
88b61f7522 docs(porch-store): call replies are scalars — response goes via the table 
- WO-E226: call's reply must be a copyable scalar, and every receive
  program-wide must declare the same return type. Verified by fixture:
  "call's reply type `Out` is not a copyable scalar"
- the spec had the actor return the response object, which cannot cross
  the mailbox. Corrected: the actor stores the response and returns an
  outcome code; the middleware reads the row and builds the Resp
- owner and duplicate now read the SAME durable row, so byte-identical
  replay is structural rather than careful copying
- blocking, exactly-once execution and the mailbox queue are unchanged

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(cherry picked from commit 77e06c1690b92d456a9bc53503695fdaa2b4b44e)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
4be826f9ab feat(porch-store): key pool actor for serialized per-key counting 
- add docs/examples/porch/middleware/keypool.wo: one PoolMsg (kind 1 =
  count, kind 2 = begin placeholder for task 4), a Verdict class, a
  fixed-size actor pool with a byte-sum-mod-N selector
- KeyActor.receive implements kind 1: reads the row, writes the new
  count via field assignment (writes through, never delete+insert),
  prunes a fully-elapsed window's row instead of resetting it
- window arithmetic on time.ticks(); reset instant sent back is built
  from time.now() only
- call's reply must be a copyable scalar (WO-E226), so the count and
  remaining window time are packed into one Int by the actor and
  unpacked into Verdict by pool_count — the packing stays inside this
  file, callers only ever see Verdict
- gate leg in scripts/web-app-accept.sh: a flat copy of porch (manifest
  stripped) with a driver dropped beside keypool.wo asserts two
  sequential counts return 1 then 2; verified failing (E403, make_pool
  undeclared) before this file existed, passing after
- woc docs/examples/porch/ exits 0; full web-app-accept.sh: 47 checks,
  0 failures

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(cherry picked from commit 676e651d808ef2c3619f88c3808adc372cd0be6c)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
377808b936 feat(porch-store): add digest column to IdempotencyKey table 
- Add digest field to store sha256(method|path|body) separately from key
- Enables detection of "same key, different body" in future tasks
- Update idempotent.wo insert to compute and store digest value
- Typechecker passes: exit 0

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(cherry picked from commit 3a9bddcd1e3c11f5b371ce54cafc373685ca08b6)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
560987d969 docs(porch-store): plan corrections from the pre-flight scan 
- one message class with a kind discriminator, not a receive per
  message type: an actor handle is typed to one message class, so a
  second receive compiles but is unreachable. chat/main.wo is the
  precedent. Verified by fixture before amending
- Task 4's Files list omitted keypool.wo, which its step 4 edits
- clarified that the delete-then-insert ban targets using that pair as
  an UPDATE; pruning an expired row is a plain delete and is required

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(cherry picked from commit a96ebe20e92e2dc6dfecc59a955d4c6e75d74689)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
dbee71a9e5 docs(porch-store): implementation plan, and a spec correction 
- the spec's blocking design was unimplementable: call's reply IS the
  return value of receive, so an actor cannot hold a waiter. Holding
  means never returning, and an actor that never returns cannot process
  the completion it waits for — deadlock
- corrected shape: the actor RUNS the handler inside its own receive, so
  a duplicate waits in the mailbox and is served after the owner. The
  queue blocking needs is the mailbox; nothing is held
- verified before adopting it, not after: an actor can receive a message
  carrying an interface-typed value and invoke it, so the route's
  Handler passes through the mailbox
- spec History records the reasoning error — "the primitives landed" was
  taken as "blocking needs no new surface", which does not follow
- plan: 5 tasks. Counting and replay live in one new keypool.wo; both
  middlewares become thin key-choosers, so porch 2 and 3 inherit one
  serialization convention instead of re-implementing it
- self-review added two legs it was missing: exact counting under real
  concurrency (the criterion the pool exists for), and pruning an
  elapsed limiter row rather than resetting it, which otherwise leaks a
  row per IP ever seen
- plan is code-free per house convention; the writing-plans skill wants
  code blocks and the project rule overrides it

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(cherry picked from commit f079455755a189a86bb12e07cc11549ed7a78b91)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
aee5adddc4 fix(porch-store): add the missing use json import 
- docs/examples/porch/ did not typecheck: WO-E403 "cannot resolve the
  receiver's type for the call to `encode`" on json.encode
- every other example that calls json.encode/decode imports it; this
  file did not, so the whole porch library was uncompilable on dev
- woc docs/examples/porch/ now exits 0

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(cherry picked from commit 5c3544d524fa98dbb7a363600cd2eeb6dd1badac)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
9f2d19083e docs(porch-store): spec for porch 1 store-backed middleware 
- supersedes Phases B and C as built: a store-after-completion
  middleware cannot satisfy three of the story's seven criteria
- in-flight collision is undetectable (the row is written after the
  handler ran, so concurrent duplicates both miss and both execute)
- the 10s in-flight heuristic is inverted: created_at is stamped at
  store time, so it fires on legitimate fast replays and never on a
  genuinely concurrent request
- "reused key, different body is refused" is unreachable while the
  digest is folded into the key — nothing looks the bare key up
- design: sharded actor pool serializes per key, @table persists;
  actors own volatile state, tables own durability. Inherited by
  porch 2 and 3
- limiter joins the pool for exact counting, writes through instead of
  delete+insert, keys on net.peer unless trust_proxy is declared, and
  uses monotonic ticks for arithmetic but wall clock for the header
- idempotency blocks rather than answering 409: call parks the
  duplicate until the owner reports. Digest becomes a column
- saturation fails closed with 503 for both: saturating the pool must
  not become the limiter bypass
- records that the story's "time.after is still reserved" is stale;
  spawn/send/call/monitor/time.after all landed

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(cherry picked from commit fc09e94373db65837ff5eb620fec67bab02c1931)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
c53a335286 docs(commit-history): register porch-store Phase C 
- Idempotent middleware (aee7926) added to the porch-store row
- records that Phase C is unverified: no `use json` import despite
  calling json.decode and json.encode

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(cherry picked from commit aa8abfb4b7a1dabaa0c68afa0ee7fdfccf1b4689)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
bf343045ab feat(porch-store): Idempotent middleware (Phase C, in progress) 
- replays a stored response for a repeated Idempotency-Key: before()
  checks the key, after() stores status/body/content-type on a 2xx/3xx
- key is "idem:<header>:<value>", optionally plus a sha256 digest of
  method|path|body when include_body is set
- 409 while a key is in flight (stored within the last 10s), lazy TTL
  expiry on access, default 24h
- replay allowlists content-type only — never Set-Cookie or Date
- backed by IdempotencyKey from Phase A (519d411)

Written by a parallel session and committed here as-is because its
branch was consolidated away. NOT verified: it calls json.decode and
json.encode without a `use json` import, which every other example that
uses json has. Left unedited rather than fixed blind.

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(cherry picked from commit aee79264095eea3b2c38c92789c44b31f1c9ef8a)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
b21cfde1bf docs(commit-history): record the branch consolidation 
- porch-store and query-corpus prefixes registered; both replayed onto
  dev, so dev is a superset of porch-store-middleware
- three branches could not be replayed and are preserved as annotated
  tags rather than merged or discarded:
  - cleanup/pre-existing-changes carries crates/ + Cargo.toml, the Rust
    runtime master deleted; replaying it would resurrect it
  - ipc-attach refactors wo_row_insert/wo_row_update_field into
    encoded cores, which db2-keys rewrote for keys-residency — two
    overlapping refactors of one function
  - keypair-auth builds on ipc-attach, blocked by the same overlap
- names the specific hazard: 9c transfers ownership of vals on failure,
  dev's keys-resident arm returns early without freeing, so a merge
  that compiles and passes could still leak or double-free

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(cherry picked from commit bc8fec01d565d0ad54696fb3d2f85a9d1e0531a1)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
5941a092f7 feat(query-corpus): iteration 9g corpus #1 — skillhost needs no new query grammar 
- resolved 9g's forks EMPIRICALLY against the running compiler:
  - count(<query>) and len(<query>) already work (fork 2 collapses to
    zero code)
  - skillhost's correlated NOT EXISTS is a backlink emptiness in
    writeonce (`where len(x.children) == 0`), using only 9b machinery
    (fork 1) — verified on a self-referential ?ref/backlink table
  => corpus #1 forces NO new grammar; per the method ("add only what a
     corpus uses"), exists/not-exists was NOT built
- docs/examples/skill-catalog: mirrors skillhost's `skills` table
  (name @unique, description/location/root, parent ?ref Skill, children
  backlink) and translates all five of its SQL statements 1:1
  (insert+dup-trap, get-by-name, list, roots via backlink-emptiness,
  count); scripts/skill-catalog-accept.sh 7/0, WAL-durable, dup trap
  persists across restart
- fixture run/db-query-corpus (count(query) + backlink NOT EXISTS);
  just skill-catalog module; target/ gitignored
- general exists/not-exists left unbuilt and recorded as "enters when a
  corpus forces a non-relation correlation"
- gates: oop-e2e 80/0, woc-test 566/0, skill-catalog 7/0; story + board
  record the finding

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(cherry picked from commit 4c82461634d45f11eca1a252702031c03d999c7f)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
e159b5a754 feat(porch-store): Limiter middleware (Phase B) 
(cherry picked from commit 5b1e82ab4bf3bad39bb6762a52b2dfaafd18a110)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
192d451f5e feat(porch-store): store tables for rate limit + idempotency (Phase A) 
(cherry picked from commit 519d4117fd0d6d0bd7d51f80bcb20de4d6294503)
 2026-09-15 01:15:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
4f6dc2dcfc docs(commit-history): record the lang42 cherry-pick 
- registry: lang42 on master 2026-09-01
- pick row: 8 commits mapped dev -> master, zero conflicts
- verified on master after full rebuild: 38 runtime suites 0 fail both
  flavors (test_proc 128/0, test_wal 5966/0), woc-test 557/0 forced,
  subprocess-accept 12/0, site-accept 23/0

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 2026-09-01 22:27:02 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
b17b848403 docs(lang42): close out iteration 42 
- story frontmatter status: done, Progress section records what landed
  vs the spec (everything, same day as the brainstorm)
- board: NEXT PLAN entry with the six standup answers (deadlock proven
  real: 5 s hang, 8192-byte truncation; 15 ms after; ping 2 ms during a
  parked child; 1000 spawns fd-flat; SIGTERM leaves no child); pending
  row flipped to DONE
- graph: node 42 class done, same change as the board row
- runtime/src/CODE-LOGIC.md: the bounded-subprocess section (bundle
  park, slot registry, ownership sweeps, raw pidfd syscalls)
- full belt at close: 19 runtime suites 0 fail (test_proc 128/0),
  woc-test 557/0, subprocess-accept 12/0, site-accept 23/0

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-09-01 22:19:25 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
c91027bcc6 feat(lang42): subprocess example + gate 
- docs/examples/subprocess: line-oriented TCP service, one Handler actor
  per request — ping/run/slow/deadline/cap/long exercise the whole
  bounded surface from .wo, traps caught with try/catch in the language
- scripts/subprocess-accept.sh + `just subprocess`: 12 checks, 0 failures
  first run — deadline and cap messages verbatim, ping answered in 2 ms
  while a sleep-2 child was parked, SIGTERM exit 0 with the sleep-30
  child verifiably gone (pid checked from outside)
- service logs to /tmp/subprocess.log, banner-separated per run

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 2026-09-01 22:19:25 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
baede5c373 feat(lang42): proc.run_dl — deadline and caps at the call site 
- one stdlib_members row (arity 5, id 96, nullable Proc return, Proc
  record class appended) — the net _dl precedent verified: those rows
  needed no emit.ml change and neither does this one
- woc-test: 557 checks, 0 failures

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 2026-09-01 22:19:25 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
4180ee09d4 feat(lang42): ceiling, churn, unwind and stop legs 
- ceiling: 32 fibers hold live sleepers; the 33rd spawn traps WO_T_IO
  naming the ceiling; destroy sweeps all 32 (waitpid -1 = ECHILD after)
- unwind: a fiber parked on a live child is reaped at main's return and
  the child dies with it (nchildren 0 straight after the call)
- churn: one thousand sequential `true` runs through a bytecode loop —
  fd count flat, every slot released
- stop: SIGTERM from a helper 200 ms into a sleep-10 child answers rc 1
  (STOPPED) with no surviving child
- test_proc 128 pass 0 fail in 2.6 s, suite ASan clean

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 2026-09-01 22:19:25 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
5d1c82bbd6 feat(lang42): deadline and output caps refuse by name, shard keeps scheduling 
- proc.run_dl reachable: dispatch range extended to id 96 (builtin.c) and
  the loader arity table gains [WO_B_PROC_RUN_DL] = 6 — without both, the
  builtin answered "unknown stdlib builtin" (WO_T_EXPLICIT)
- deadline leg: sleep 10 vs 100 ms deadline traps WO_T_IO naming the
  deadline in ~120 ms; the pid is gone (waitpid -1 = ECHILD) and the fd
  count is flat; a worker fiber completes WHILE main is parked — the
  shard was never blocked
- cap legs: stdout and stderr caps trap naming "cap 1000", child dead
- argv multi carries a drop entry at the run pc: a trapping run frees it
  (LeakSanitizer caught the miss)

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 2026-09-01 22:19:25 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
258222c3a1 feat(lang42): proc.run parks — pidfd + epoll bundle + child registry 
- deadlock proven first: chatty child (200 KB stdout, stderr held open)
  hung the old sequential drain 5.0 s into the alarm, code -1, stdout
  truncated at 8192; the leg demands completion under 4 s
- rework: nonblocking pipe read ends + pidfd_open behind one epoll fd the
  fiber parks on (the _dl retry mould); both pipes drain on readiness, so
  the deadlock is gone structurally — leg passes in 15 ms
- wo_child slot table in wo_vm (32/shard) carries cross-park state; caps
  refuse by name (kill + WO_T_IO), deadline armed via dl_active/dl_at,
  defaults 30 s / 1 MiB / 64 KiB
- WO_B_PROC_RUN_DL = 96 shares the case (per-call deadline_ms/out_cap/
  err_cap; compiler row lands in a later task)
- fib_reap kills a reaped fiber's child; wo_vm_destroy sweeps the table
- raw syscalls for pidfd_open/pidfd_send_signal: glibc 2.35 build floor
  has no wrappers
- all 19 suites green under ASan+UBSan

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 2026-09-01 22:19:25 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
b8d9f9f594 feat(lang42): pin proc.run's current contract in test_proc 
- new suite runtime/test/test_proc.c (auto-globbed by the Makefile)
- three legs against today's behavior: echo exits 0 with exact stdout,
  false exits 1, a missing command answers 127 (the execvp convention)
- record fields copied out before the vm dies; ASan clean

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 2026-09-01 22:19:25 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
8bcd24969e docs(lang42): story, spec and plan for bounded subprocess 
- claim the lang42 prefix; iteration 42 story (readiness: ready), approved
  spec, and the 11-task implementation plan
- board: pending row for 42; graph: node 42 with green edges (11, 24)
- graph: porch track section added (same sweep)
- parity studies that motivated 42: alacritty, tmux, zen-browser under
  docs/plan/exploration/ — staged path, gap lists, refused routes

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-09-01 22:19:25 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
bed1167ca9 docs(commit-history): record the iteration-12 cherry-pick 
- seven commits dev to master, zero conflicts: the six db2-migrate
  commits plus site-deploy, which the close-out edits and which had
  been dev-only
- verified on master after the pick: 36 suites 0 fail (test_wal
  5966/0), woc-test clean, residency-accept 14/0, site-accept 23/0

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-31 22:02:18 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
4ad24d6381 docs(db2-migrate): close out iteration 12 
- crash-before-rename test: a COMPLETE valid migrated temp beside the
  untouched original is discarded and the boot re-migrates — the
  sharpest point on the crash timeline, deterministic, no fault
  injection needed
- story: all six tasks done with commit hashes, all eight criteria met
  with the test that proves each, plus the three deviations from the
  plan and why (transcode over replay, lazy head, poison forces
  transcode)
- CODE-LOGIC: migration section; also corrected limitation 3, which
  still claimed unbounded hot-row chains — iteration 11 closed that
- status board row 12; deploy guide's rollback section gets its real
  answer (rolling back across a migration is a migration backwards:
  expect the refusal, restore the .bak)
- test_wal 5966 pass, 0 fail

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(cherry picked from commit 4bb6ece2531e2123eb958c91d9bef4a6528eab3b)
 2026-08-31 21:54:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
27aecd3dc1 feat(db2-migrate): boot performs the migration, and refuses by name 
- main.c builds the compiled schema (names out of the constant pool,
  which the database layer never sees), peeks the log head before
  replay, and diffs: match replays as-is, add/delete migrates through
  the transcode, poisons refuse naming class, field and what to do
- fixed en route: a poisoned class SKIPPED the identity check, so no
  transcode ran and replay greeted the shape mismatch with the generic
  "corruption" — the exact message this iteration exists to replace.
  A poison now forces the transcode, where it either bites with its
  text or passes harmlessly when the class has no records
- the schema head is written LAZILY, ahead of the first real record:
  an eager head broke the documented "durable: false writes ZERO
  bytes" contract by 75 bytes and the residency gate caught it
- end-to-end at the language level: fresh boot seeds, identity
  replays, +field migrates with "migrating `Note`: +flag" and reads 0,
  retype refuses naming `val`, and the refused log still boots the
  previous binary untouched
- gates: wovm-test all green (test_wal 5951/0), woc-test clean,
  residency-accept 14/0, site-accept 23/0

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(cherry picked from commit b21943aa91152ebdcfc72bd4c9fba38730ab1c2f)
 2026-08-31 21:54:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
c6e158c6a1 feat(db2-migrate): the transcode — old log to new shape, record by record 
- wo_wal_migrate rewrites the log without touching db state: no id
  maps, no indexes, no keys-resident logic — the new log replays
  through the machinery that already exists and is already tested
- cids remap by name, INCLUDING the ones embedded inside stored owned
  values (an owned value carries a cid on the wire); the embed closure
  guarantees every nested class is shape-unchanged, so only numbers
  move
- surviving fields go to their new slot, deleted fields' values are
  freed, added fields take the kind's zero value straight from
  enc_val(0)
- a delta on a deleted field is SPLICED out: an offset map (old record
  start -> new) rewrites every back pointer, and the dropped delta maps
  to its own target so later deltas step over it
- temp + fsync + rename, compaction's own crash discipline; a stale
  temp is discarded at start; a torn tail bounds the intact prefix
  exactly as replay does
- fixed en route: early `goto corrupt` jumped over initializers, so the
  handler freed uninitialized memory — declarations hoisted above the
  first jump
- six end-to-end tests: add, delete (ASan watches the freed Text),
  reorder with owned fixup, delta splice on a keys-resident chain,
  poison-bites-only-with-records, corrupt input
- test_wal 5951 pass, 0 fail

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(cherry picked from commit b69092a99206e1dcdf6f2dcdb02146939b0564c6)
 2026-08-31 21:54:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
df09158b7f feat(db2-migrate): the boot diff — name-keyed, poisons instead of errors 
- wo_schema_diff matches classes and fields by NAME, so declaration
  reordering is identity apart from the cid map — the silent
  cid-renumbering hole closes as a side effect
- owned-field references (fclass) compare by the NAME the number
  resolves to, never the number: a raw compare would false-poison
  retype on every pure reorder
- refusals are per-class POISONS carried in the plan, not diff errors:
  a poison bites only when a record of the class is met, so a retyped
  class with no stored rows never blocks a boot
- poison set: retype, same-shape delete+add (a disguised rename, one
  reading destroys a column), vanished class, storage-flag change, and
  the embed closure — any class whose old records carry values of a
  class whose shape changed, iterated to a fixpoint
- identity plans skip the rewrite entirely; a NEW class in the binary
  does not break identity (no records; the head refreshes at the next
  compaction)
- ten verdict tests; test_wal 5778 pass, 0 fail

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(cherry picked from commit 63a063b822af381a10c2e599c58cf3455d9c5bf7)
 2026-08-31 21:54:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
f07295b3c0 feat(db2-migrate): WO_WAL_SCHEMA — the log states the shape that wrote it 
- new record kind 5: class and field NAMES, kinds and the two
  encoding-relevant metadata words (field_class, field_elem), CRC-framed
  like every record. Index layout deliberately absent: indexes rebuild
  from rows at boot and never touch record bytes
- names are byte pointers, not constant-pool indices — the database
  layer never sees the module's consts, so the runtime resolves them
  once; a decoded schema owns a private copy of its bytes
- wo_wal_set_schema adopts the compiled schema; wo_wal_ensure_schema
  writes it as a fresh log's first record; compaction writes it at the
  head of every replacement, which is how a legacy log becomes
  self-describing without a migration step of its own
- apply_record skips it BEFORE reading cid/id (its class count would be
  misread as a cid and bounds-refused); replay does not count it
- schema unset = byte-for-byte today's behaviour: all 5700 prior
  assertions pass untouched; four new tests cover roundtrip, fresh-log
  head, legacy adoption via compaction, and absent/empty files
- test_wal 5743 pass, 0 fail

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(cherry picked from commit ba8519fa5e39c6ed6a3504d39e5a372f8decd045)
 2026-08-31 21:54:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
1b6d633ed1 docs(db2-migrate): spec + story for schema migrations v1 
- brainstorm settled: declarative and automatic at boot; v1 verbs are
  add and delete only; data/seed migrations deferred to v2
- added fields zero-fill by kind: the grammar has no field-default
  syntax and v1 refuses to grow compiler surface for it
- same-kind delete+add refuses as a disguised rename; retype and
  vanished classes refuse by name
- schema lives in the log itself: WO_WAL_SCHEMA head record, written by
  fresh-log open and compaction; name-keyed diff also closes the
  silent cid-renumbering hole
- story is iteration 12, board row added, db2-migrate prefix claimed

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(cherry picked from commit 072e007b144ff6689b6ff920ea10665900c1a2ef)
 2026-08-31 21:54:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
552c129ce3 docs(site-deploy): redeploy runbook for writeonce.de 
- new docs/guides/deploying-site.md: build, content refresh, systemd
  unit, post-deploy verification, rollback, and the gaps behind each
  workaround
- leads with the trap that costs the most: shipping a binary does NOT
  update chapters. seed_if_empty only fills an EMPTY table and
  AdminEdit answers not_found for an unknown slug, so a host with an
  existing WO_DATA shows the old chapter list with no error anywhere
- that claim is measured, not argued: a 9-chapter build seeded a data
  dir, then the 10-chapter binary against it still 404'd /ch/storage
  and rendered 9 nav entries; wiping WO_DATA gave 200 and 10
- records two more blockers found while writing it: both site deps
  (porch, writeonce-view) 404 on GitHub and wo.lock is untracked, so
  the site submodule cannot build standalone; and the embedded wovm
  sets the glibc floor (this machine: 2.38, above Ubuntu 22.04's 2.35)
- build recipe run verbatim before publishing; releasing.md points here

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(cherry picked from commit 930a715c4a3d847529e3e341edc71c65a7e11d1c)
 2026-08-31 21:54:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
e31a037533 docs(commit-history): record the site-submodule cherry-pick 
- 4b56348 -> 7d9d526, 4eead89 -> 653a91c
- the registry rows for lang41, porch-store and query-corpus came with
  the pick and are kept: the registry is a global claim ledger, so a
  copy that silently omits three claimed prefixes is worse than one
  that names them and says they are dev-only
- site-submodule row corrected on the way in — it said "Not picked to
  master", which this pick is precisely what falsifies
- verified on master after the pick: site-accept 23 checks, 0 failures

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 2026-08-30 22:03:43 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
653a91c702 docs(commit-history): register the site-submodule prefix 
- records that docs/examples/site is now a submodule on dev only
- states the consequence plainly: master still carries the site inline,
  so the branches differ structurally at that path until this is
  cherry-picked

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(cherry picked from commit 4eead8938c7292a130723aeabe7b74bdd1ba60f6)
 2026-08-30 22:03:18 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
7d9d526bb6 refactor(site-submodule): docs/examples/site becomes a submodule 
- extracted to github.com/shoneyJ/writeonce-site with `git subtree
  split`, so the site keeps its own 9 commits of history rather than
  landing there as a flattened snapshot
- .gitmodules gains the third entry, alongside reference/writeonce-app
  and reference/writeonce-api; path is unchanged, so every doc and
  script that names docs/examples/site still resolves
- site-accept.sh fails early and says `git submodule update --init`
  when the directory is empty. Without it a clone lacking submodules
  copies an empty app and fails later as a build error naming nothing
- releasing.md: the steps that edit install/view.wo now say that edit
  is a commit in the site repo plus a pointer bump here — editing and
  committing only in this repo would record nothing
- gate re-run against the submodule: site-accept 23 checks, 0 failures

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(cherry picked from commit 4b5634801d5379890bad24c8129cfb23ab6b98df)
 2026-08-30 22:02:55 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
e93284befb docs(commit-history): record the databasev2 residency cherry-pick 
- first cherry-pick under this convention: 37 commits, dev to master,
  mapped one-to-one with titles
- iteration 11 could not travel alone — its commits touch
  wo_wal_fold_row_at, keys_fold_into and row_apply_field_keys, none of
  which existed on master, so the whole db2-keys/db2-delta stack came
- porch-store (26 commits) deliberately left on dev: porch 1 was
  re-scoped mid-flight, which is what "ready, not merely green" is for
- records the three docs conflicts and how each was resolved, including
  keeping only the databasev2 half of a status entry that would
  otherwise have had master claiming porch 1 was done
- records what is still outstanding: task 6's byte-budget refusal, a
  missing guard rather than an unhonoured annotation

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 2026-08-30 20:45:39 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
92d2600ae7 docs(commit-history): feature-to-cherry-pick reference 
- records the workflow: develop on dev, feature prefix as the
  conventional-commit scope, cherry-pick onto master when ready
- prefix registry so two features cannot claim the same prefix; the
  prefix is claimed before the feature's first commit
- cherry-pick log maps dev hashes to the master hashes they produced —
  they differ, and that mapping is what makes a feature traceable or
  revertible as a unit after dev moves on
- notes the db2-keys seam: written pre-convention on
  porch-store-middleware, replayed onto dev, replay verified identical
- work before 2026-08-29 landed by merge; git log --merges covers it

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(cherry picked from commit 41923eb1f9510ab53804ca8dc6fe30a9a7eac849)
 2026-08-30 20:44:14 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
aee78c2296 feat(site): tutorial chapter for durable and resident storage modes 
- new chapter 7, "Storage modes: durable and resident", covering what
  master gains with the databasev2 cherry-pick: durable: false for a
  RAM-only table, resident: keys for a table that outgrows RAM
- states the parts a reader would otherwise hit as surprises: a
  keys-resident table is REFUSED at startup without WO_DATA, an update
  appends a delta rather than rewriting the row, and the chain is
  bounded at 16 links so a hot row does not degrade reads or replay
- quotes the measured 2.55x smaller resident set, not an estimate
- actors/deps/serving shift to ord 8/9/10; seeding is ord-driven so an
  existing WO_DATA keeps its rows and only a fresh boot reseeds
- home card says a table can be RAM-only or outgrow RAM
- two gate legs pin the new chapter; site-accept 23 checks, 0 failures

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(cherry picked from commit 3b503c0db50aa737dd06ef6d17151c654a42c59b)
 2026-08-30 20:38:03 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
710325b94a docs(db2-chain): close out iteration 11 on the board 
- status: done in the story frontmatter (was the non-conventional
  "complete"; the board's axis uses done/in-progress/pending/hold)
- board row 11: what landed, the WO_WAL_UPDATE correction, the ceiling
  removed as unreachable, and the one criterion still weaker than
  written (expected value, not a resident: all oracle)

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(cherry picked from commit de39a88e81e97bf6f8b75e9f15331aae20f7ab29)
 2026-08-30 20:38:03 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
68dd3d88b8 test(db2-chain): cover flattening, and drop a ceiling no input could reach 
- flattened row image is WO_WAL_UPDATE, not WO_WAL_INSERT: the row's
  original INSERT is already in a live log, so a second one for the same
  id is a duplicate replay refuses as corruption. INSERT is right only
  for compaction, which builds a fresh log
- remove WO_CKPT_MAX_GARBAGE: with the absolute term at 64 MiB, garbage
  large enough to reach a 256 MiB ceiling has already tripped it, so the
  branch was unreachable. Postgres needs both constants because it
  thresholds on tuples with its pair at opposite ends; this thresholds
  on bytes, where one constant does both jobs
- test_delta_chain_flattens_at_k: chain depth stays <= WO_DELTA_MAX_HOPS
  across 2K+2 updates, and a reset is observed
- test_delta_chain_flatten_replays: a flattened chain replays correctly
- test_keys_resident_indexed_across_flatten: a delta on an indexed
  column composes with flattening, checked at every step across the
  bound and after restart. Found no product defect
- test_should_compact_absolute_and_ceiling: pins the absolute term, the
  boundary just under it, and the small-log case the ratio still governs
- test_wal 5700 pass / 0 fail; wovm-test and woc-test green

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(cherry picked from commit f93b5d9db753305c297e868d977670e6d703684c)
 2026-08-30 20:38:03 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
2cad84b7c6 feat(db2-chains): bound a keys-resident row's delta chain 
TESTS DELIBERATELY HELD at the developer's instruction — logic only.
The existing suite passes (36 suites, 0 fail) but exercises NEITHER new
behaviour: nothing builds a 16-deep chain, and no checkpoint test uses a
log near 64 MiB. Green here means "did not break what existed".

- tier 1: wo_wal_fold_row_at gains hops_out. The walk already visits
  every hop, so the depth is free — this is the design's pd_prune_xid,
  a cheap "is work worth doing" hint taken from work already happening
- the update path branches on it: past WO_DELTA_MAX_HOPS (16) it writes
  a full-row image instead of a delta, terminating the chain. `r`
  already holds the complete post-update row because index maintenance
  required folding it, so flattening costs bytes, not an extra read
- wo_wal_append_row_image encodes from a caller-held row, as
  WO_WAL_INSERT: a chain's base must replay into a database where
  nothing precedes it, so replay/compaction/fold need no change
- tier 2: should_compact gains a TRIGGERING absolute term and a ceiling.
  Our `floor` SUPPRESSES on a small log — the opposite of postgres's
  vac_base_thresh, which triggers on a small absolute problem the
  proportion hides. We had the proportion and the suppressor and
  neither real guard
- verified by construction, not test: both update entry points converge
  on row_apply_field_keys; db.c captures next_offset BEFORE calling in,
  so the re-point is transparent to which record type was written

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(cherry picked from commit 1b808abd5942de81c3a6416714d1302384103040)
 2026-08-30 20:38:03 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
841f6c8f3f feat(db2-keys): gate the residency measurement, close out task 7 
- new `residency` leg in db-bench.py driving docs/examples/residency-bench:
  two tables identical except the annotation, control cap + binding cap
- ITS OWN PROGRAM, not a db-bench mode: declaring a resident: keys table
  is a WHOLE-PROGRAM constraint, so the no-WO_DATA refusal fires for
  every mode in the module. Putting those classes in db-bench's shared
  types made growth/ceiling/randread — which run without WO_DATA —
  refuse to start. Caught by running the leg, not by reading it
- gates the RATIOS, waives the absolutes: ops/sec under a cap is swap
  and disk I/O and belongs to the box. Same split randread makes
- rss_ratio 2.55 floor 2.0 tol 10% (structural, like bytes_per_row);
  overcap_vs_swap_x 1.53 floor 1.0; in_ram_cost_x 4.23 ceiling 8.0;
  all_collapse_x 105.4 floor 2.0
- all_collapse_x exists because the leg's FIRST run silently measured
  nothing: at QUICK's 40k rows a 48 MiB cap binds neither mode, so the
  "over-cap" half was not over cap. The cap now scales with N and the
  leg asserts it binds
- verified the gate bites: rss_ratio 1.4, overcap_vs_swap_x 0.6 and
  in_ram_cost_x 12.0 are all rejected
- task 7 closed: both criteria moved to Met with how each was verified

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(cherry picked from commit a310496664982c372f51b43113465eb8ad9e9fb5)
 2026-08-30 20:38:03 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
6fc5b4b7d4 feat(db2-keys): GB-scale bench modes, unmeasured 
- hreadall/hreadkeys: the same resident A/B as wread_*, but ~2 KB per
  row so a GB of data is reachable in a few hundred thousand inserts
- the insert path is fsync-bound at roughly 2 000 rows/s, so row COUNT
  is the expensive axis and row SIZE is nearly free — 20k rows already
  produce 38 MB
- NOT RUN: the GB-scale measurement was called off. These modes are
  committed working and typechecking so the leg can be run later
  without rebuilding it, not because a result exists

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(cherry picked from commit abc276ac39dd45a1052b6ae24d25aedb9eea3e1e)
 2026-08-30 20:38:03 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
882c1f7d24 feat(db2-keys): task 7 — measure resident: keys against swapping 
- two tables identical except the annotation, 200k rows, 40k reads in
  one key order, WAL on ext4 (not /tmp, which is tmpfs here and would
  have put the log in RAM), rootless cgroup v2 cap
- WIDE shape, 2.55x smaller resident set: 34.4 MB vs 87.5 MB. That is
  the real win and the thing the mode was built for
- under a 48 MB cap (between the two resident sets): keys 19635 ops/s
  vs all 12854 — only 1.53x faster than letting the kernel swap
- degradation is far gentler though: all collapses 105x from its own
  uncapped throughput, keys 16x
- costs 4.2x read throughput when memory is not tight, and writes are
  markedly slower — the keys fill did not finish in 2 min where the
  resident fill plus 40k reads did. No design doc had costed writes
- THE UNANTICIPATED FINDING: cgroup limits charge the PAGE CACHE, so
  moving rows to a file does not escape a container memory limit. WAL
  37 MB + RSS 34 MB cannot both live under a 48 MB cap, so every pread
  reaches disk. The premise "the page cache will hold the hot rows"
  fails in exactly the deployment this targets
- first attempt used Int-only rows and showed parity; recorded, because
  drop_payload frees a field's VALUE and an Int's value is its inline
  slot word, so that shape cannot benefit and would have condemned the
  feature for the wrong reason
- verdict: keep it, to fit ~2.5x more data in given RAM — not to make
  an over-capacity table fast

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(cherry picked from commit 7cba9b1174b0bf581314b3147e25cc49e6f49464)
 2026-08-30 20:38:03 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
cfd660a5e6 docs(db2-chains): spec + story for bounding a row's delta chain 
- fixes a limitation iteration 2 shipped: compaction was supposed to
  bound chain length, but wo_wal_should_compact triggers on a whole-log
  byte ratio and cannot see one hot row's chain
- tier 1, flatten on update: the update path ALREADY folds the row for
  index maintenance and the fold already walks hop by hop, so it reports
  depth for free. Past a fixed K it writes a full row instead of a
  delta. Read <= K+1 reads, replay O(K^2) per row. No format change, no
  per-row RAM, no new trigger
- tier 2: our compaction policy has a proportional term and a
  SUPPRESSOR misleadingly called a floor; postgres's floor TRIGGERS on
  small absolute garbage. Add that term and a ceiling
- design read from .dev/reference/postgresql, not recalled:
  heap_page_prune_opt gates on an O(1) on-page hint then page fullness
  against Max(fillfactor, BLCKSZ/10); autovacuum uses base + scale *
  reltuples clamped by a max (50, 0.2, 1e8). Neither thresholds on
  new-bytes-versus-old-bytes
- K deliberately does NOT scale with table size: postgres scales a
  table-level aggregate with proportional harm, ours is per-row with
  additive cost, so scaling up would make big databases boot worst
- the story says plainly it should NOT be next: task 7 has still never
  measured whether resident: keys beats the kernel's own paging

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(cherry picked from commit f667cad2cfbe187b5973440ab1af015b2df288f8)
 2026-08-30 20:38:03 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
b058feb517 docs(db2-delta): guide to log-structured rows for a new reader 
- explains replay, the row chain, how a checkpoint flattens it, and why
  replay of a long chain is quadratic
- worked SKU example with the actual record layout and back-pointers,
  and a trace of the fold showing first-seen-wins
- states plainly why the checkpoint does not bound the hot-row case:
  both triggers are ratios over the whole log and nothing counts
  per-row chain length
- records the bounded-memory vs linear-time conflict behind the O(N^2)
  replay rather than presenting it as an oversight
- closes with the reviewing lesson, since this shape survived several
  rounds: complexity bugs hide in the caller's loop, not in the linear
  helper being read

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(cherry picked from commit e6434403d566b5d72a24e9c0dcad1f25a2c16320)
 2026-08-30 20:38:03 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
64035bf177 docs(db2-delta): resident:keys has storage; move done criteria to Met 
- "no storage behind it" / "nothing yet stores a table that way" was
  false — CRUD, checkpoint survival and updates all landed; replaced
  with an accurate summary naming task 6/7 as what remains
- the three checked delete/delete-replay/update criteria sat in
  Outstanding despite being done; moved to Met, leaving Outstanding
  holding only genuine task 6/7 work

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(cherry picked from commit b575678ee95fa3125fa4e8145320a9cdca10ba38)
 2026-08-30 20:38:03 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
061942c9a6 fix(db2-delta): pend_repoint failure fatal; delta fold no longer trusts a live WAL 
- wo_wal_pend_repoint's failure was silently discarded (db.c); its
  own doc claimed replay reconciles a stale map — false, a second
  same-drain update chains past the lost one, permanently. Now
  fatal, like wo_wal_stage_fatal; comment corrected
- apply_delta dereferenced db->rt->wal unguarded — NULL rt + any
  DELTA record was a crash. Now refuses cleanly (-1)
- wo_wal_replay_ex lent its throwaway view only when rt->wal was
  unset, so a live wal's non-empty staging buffer could be folded
  against during replay. Now installs unconditionally whenever rt
  exists, saving/restoring whatever was there

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(cherry picked from commit fed9fe8b5fe022f0b22a4170c7fd68008700939f)
 2026-08-30 20:38:03 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
e37a10b70d fix(db2-delta): borrow the pending re-point, not the stale durable offset 
- wo_row_borrow's keys arm folded at hget()'s DURABLE offset even
  when an earlier update in the same drain had only a PENDING
  re-point
- idx_remove_row then hashed the pre-first-update value, found no
  matching bucket entry (already moved by the earlier update), and
  idx_add_row added a second one — N same-drain updates leaked N-1
  entries, unbounded, nothing reclaims them but a restart
- now prefers wo_wal_repoint_offset1() over the durable offset, same
  as back_off already does, closing it for every borrow
- new test: 5 updates to one row in one drain, assert exactly one
  index entry — fails (5) before the fix, passes (1) after

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(cherry picked from commit d4b12d1908e574419c7af2411e52d02623f7e5b7)
 2026-08-30 20:38:03 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
49a0a9d047 fix(db2-delta): refuse resident:keys with no WO_DATA at runtime 
- loader stopped refusing durable:true+resident:keys once UPDATE
  landed; nothing replaced it at runtime
- rows for such a table live only in the WAL, so every read failed
  with a misleading "no such row" instead of naming the problem
- main.c now refuses at startup, names the class, exit(2)
- residency-accept.sh gains a leg: refuses without WO_DATA, still
  runs with it — verified failing before the fix, passing after

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(cherry picked from commit 3ea6d6452f260d45f92045c0f300fa49faa1d810)
 2026-08-30 20:38:03 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
e08c26309a feat(db2-delta): lift the resident:keys refusal, prove it end to end 
- loader.c: delete the INCOMPLETE-update BAIL; durable:false +
  resident:keys stays refused (nowhere to read from)
- table.c: root-cause fix for the Text-index gap — a keys-resident
  borrow now holds ENGINE values, matching wo_row_ptr's contract
  (table.h's "no VM pointer" doctrine), not a VM-decoded row. Fixes
  idx_hash/idx_cols_equal/wo_idx_probe AND db.c's GET_FIELD/PROBE
  arms with one change; reproduced pre-fix as an ASan
  heap-buffer-overflow
- docs/examples/residency: Product is genuinely resident:keys;
  residency-accept.sh's refusal leg replaced by proving the program
  runs and stock survives a restart (11/0)
- test_wal.c: oracle test drives resident:all and resident:keys
  through the same update sequence and asserts identical rows;
  Text-indexed-update test catches the representation bug; five
  pre-existing tests corrected to the fixed contract (4746/0)
- story, README, status board, CODE-LOGIC.md updated; three known
  limitations documented: mid-drain stale reads, O(N^2) replay in
  chain length, compaction blind to per-row chain length

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(cherry picked from commit b87c68f950f01aa5e572fbb86a0f374adc83d813)
 2026-08-30 20:37:49 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
f138ac0abe feat(db2-delta): replay and compaction fold delta chains 
- apply_delta: DELTA replay arm — fold pre-delta state via back_off,
  overlay the field, remove-then-recreate so indexes stay correct
- apply_record/replay loop: dispatch DELTA to apply_delta, drop its
  payload back to the log same as INSERT/UPDATE
- stage_flattened_row: compaction's delta-chain path — fold + re-encode
  as one fresh INSERT instead of copying the chain
- wo_wal_compact: peek the row's current record kind, flatten deltas,
  keep the byte-for-byte copy for chains already at length zero
- test_wal: three new tests — chain-of-three replay incl. secondary
  index, compaction flattens to chain length zero (asserts the record
  is a full row, not a delta), and the commit-before-repoint crash
  window replays the update without ever re-pointing the map

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(cherry picked from commit 7e4ae70d7beb2a2e396a002184bc06f41253decb)
 2026-08-30 20:37:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
1f402ae4bb fix(db2-delta): close the unique-shadow-check's same-drain blind spot 
- table.c: unique shadow-check's candidate lookup now checks
  wo_wal_repoint_offset1 before the durable wo_row_offset1, same as
  back_off — a candidate updated earlier in the SAME uncommitted drain
  was folded from its stale pre-update offset, letting a real @unique
  clash through and committing a duplicate
- the offset-only substitution alone was NOT enough (verified): the
  candidate must be FOLDED to compare values, and folding a pending
  offset via pread saw "no record" (bytes still only in the staging
  buffer), so the clash was still missed, just for a different reason
- wal.c: wo_wal_fold_row_at now reads a hop inside the currently-staged
  region from `w->buf` (new scan_record_staged, scan_record's framing
  over memory) instead of pread; every durable hop, and every existing
  caller, is unchanged
- test_wal.c: two updates in one drain where the second collides with
  the first's new unique value; must be refused. Verified failing
  against the prior commit, and still failing with only the offset
  substitution, before the fold fix; passing with both in place

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(cherry picked from commit c049ab92570cfba4d12a018884a20b25a8916727)
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shoney.arickathil
3525435eb5 feat(db2-delta): wire the request path, defer re-point to the barrier 
- db.c: guard both WO_B_DB_UPDATE_FIELD arms on keys-resident tables —
  wo_wal_append_update read a NULL wo_row_ptr there; a live crash, fixed
- ruling override on Task 3: row_apply_field_keys no longer commits or
  moves the id map — stages the delta, does the index swap (RAM apply,
  unconditional past the shadow-check; a stage failure past that point
  is now fatal, like insert). Commit/re-point move to the caller,
  mirroring insert. table.c's WAL commit removal is this ruling, not a
  regression
- offset passed back via caller-side wo_wal_next_offset(), insert's
  koff pattern
- inline arm commits then re-points; request arm records
  wo_wal_pend_repoint (own list/name — a drop and a re-point differ),
  flushed by wo_db_flush_drops after the barrier
- back_off checks the pending re-point before the durable offset, else
  a second update in one drain skips the first delta; verified failing
  this way, passing after
- wal.c: fixed a stale comment — keys-resident updates CAN reach
  wo_wal_append_update's caller now, they just never call it
- test_wal.c: 2 tests updated for the new contract; new test drives 2
  same-row updates via wo_row_update_field_slot in one uncommitted
  "drain", checks the value and delta 2's on-disk back-pointer

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(cherry picked from commit 4d13bcebfe51936ba8c608dd9e791c784e5b8983)
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shoney.arickathil
d492d1fefb fix(db2-delta): unique shadow-check gets its own buffer, not r's 
- row_apply_field_keys's shadow-check borrowed candidates via
  wo_row_borrow, which shares ONE per-table scratch with the row already
  borrowed for the update — every candidate borrow returned NULL, clash
  was always false, `@unique` silently accepted duplicates on update
- idx_add_row's own internal check has the identical defect at the same
  call site; discarding its result is now actually safe, since the fixed
  shadow-check clears uniqueness before it ever runs
- fix: extracted keys_fold_into (fold+decode) out of wo_row_borrow so it
  can target a throwaway per-call buffer instead of t->scratch; the
  shadow-check probes candidates into that buffer — r is never
  released-and-reborrowed (r IS t->scratch; that would overwrite it)
- wo_row_borrow itself is behavior-preserving: same checks, same order,
  same messages, just factored
- test_wal.c: new test — genuine @unique index, update collides with an
  existing row, asserts refusal (DB_ERR_UNIQUE) and both rows untouched;
  verified failing (update wrongly succeeded) pre-fix, passing after

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(cherry picked from commit 409186da51fec0042d8d1e3dcf9f69f704937823)
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shoney.arickathil
7cb4bcf0c3 feat(db2-delta): keys-resident updates append, indexes follow 
- table.c: wo_row_update_field/_slot no longer refuse `resident: keys`,
  both converge on one new static row_apply_field_keys
- borrows (folds), shadow-checks uniqueness, appends the delta with the
  row's current offset as back-pointer, commits, THEN idx_remove_row +
  idx_add_row + wo_row_set_offset — failure through commit leaves the
  row's offset and index untouched
- nv decoded to a VM value before touching the materialised copy, since
  wo_row_release drops every slot through the runtime, not db_val_free
- borrow released on every exit, including every failure arm
- resident: all path (row_apply_field_slot) byte-for-byte unchanged;
  wal.c untouched — Tasks 1/2 already expose everything needed
- test_wal.c: plain field update read back, and an indexed scalar
  column updated then found via wo_idx_probe by its new value, gone
  from its old — both verified failing pre-implementation, passing after
- concern: idx_hash/idx_cols_equal/wo_idx_probe cast Text slots to
  db_text* unconditionally; a keys-resident borrow decodes Text to a VM
  wo_str* (different layout) — pre-existing, left untouched; tests use
  a scalar index to sidestep it

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(cherry picked from commit 89c56a13ed9f4abd082bfcabb46f46bb53d39faa)
 2026-08-30 20:37:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
b758f2978d fix(db2-delta): fold's cycle guard checks direction, not step count 
- wal.c: wo_wal_fold_row_at now refuses any delta back-pointer that
  does not point strictly earlier than the record naming it
  (back_off >= cur), instead of capping total hops at off/13+1
- this is the real invariant, not a proxy for it: a step-count bound
  lets a forward-pointing back-pointer through in one hop whenever it
  happens to land on a genuine record, returning a plausible-but-wrong
  row instead of refusing it
- removes the 13-byte-record magic number entirely; no arithmetic
  tied to record framing remains in the guard
- wal.h: docblock updated to describe the direction invariant
- test_wal.c: two new tests — self-pointing back-pointer (boundary
  case, back_off == cur) and forward-pointing back-pointer to a real
  future record for the same row (the actual gap: verified failing
  against the old step-count guard, passing after the fix)

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(cherry picked from commit 173dbf28a42d45a8c7f9fe430355f61f70c81935)
 2026-08-30 20:37:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
4f3f71e003 feat(db2-delta): fold a delta chain, route reads through it 
- wal.h/wal.c: wo_wal_fold_row_at — THE fold. Walks BACKWARD from an
  offset through WO_WAL_DELTA records, remembering the first value
  seen per field index (newest wins, since newest is seen first),
  stops at the first INSERT/UPDATE, decodes it, overlays resolved
  fields. Returns ENGINE-owned values so reads, replay, and
  compaction (Tasks 3/5) can all build on the same output.
- Cycle guard: caps the walk at what the log up to the starting
  offset could possibly hold (13 = scan_record's own record-size
  floor), so a corrupt or malicious back-pointer fails loudly
  instead of spinning.
- table.c: wo_row_borrow's keys arm now calls the fold instead of
  wo_wal_read_row_at directly, then VM-decodes the result — same
  two-stage pattern wo_wal_read_row_at used internally. Per-table
  scratch, scratch_busy nested-borrow refusal, and the cid/id
  identity check all preserved unchanged.
- resident: all path (wo_row_ptr) untouched.
- test_wal.c: two new tests — deltas on two different fields (changed
  fields take the new value, the untouched field keeps its original)
  and two deltas on the SAME field (the newer wins, pinning direction
  — a reversed fold would pass with the older value instead).
  Verified failing pre-implementation (wo_row_borrow returned NULL
  since a delta record isn't INSERT/UPDATE) and passing after.

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(cherry picked from commit a60231cde1d49d74743cedbd134d2da11158b70b)
 2026-08-30 20:37:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
b860823dad fix(db2-delta): make delta test detect a field_idx/back_off transposition 
- review finding: field_idx=0 and back_off=0 (fresh WAL, offset 0) meant
  a u32/u64 swap of these two values wrote identical zero bytes either
  way — undetectable by the prior assertions
- test_delta_record: new dedicated 3-scalar-field class (not shared
  KEYS_CLASSES) so field_idx can be a nonzero, fixed-8-byte value without
  a Text field's variable-length encoding complicating the fixed body
  size assertion
- stage+commit a filler row first so the target row's insert record (the
  delta's back-pointer) lands at a nonzero offset, not the WAL's initial 0
- delta now targets field_idx=2 with back_off=base_off, both nonzero and
  distinct from each other and from class_id=0
- class_id stays 0: this fixture registers exactly one class, so there is
  no other value to give it without an unused second class purely to
  shift an index
- verified live: temporarily swapped the field_idx/back_off wput calls in
  wal.c, confirmed test_wal now fails (fidx==49 want 2, back==2 want 49),
  then reverted — wal.c diff is a no-op, only the test changed

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(cherry picked from commit 20ba0965e15e200641b8b63893a2f238a0279fba)
 2026-08-30 20:37:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
f1cf2d2f85 feat(db2-delta): WAL delta record kind and encoder 
- enum: add WO_WAL_DELTA = 4, existing 1/2/3 untouched (on-disk logs)
- wal.h: document kind 4's payload shape in the format docblock
- wal.h: declare wo_wal_append_delta(w, db, class_id, id, field_idx,
  back_off, value) — back-pointer taken as a parameter, not looked up,
  keeping the encoder ignorant of table/map state
- wal.c: implement it, modeled on wo_wal_append_insert's shape —
  wput_u8/u32/u64 the header fields, enc_val the one field, stage()
- test_wal.c: new test_delta_record — stages a delta after an insert,
  commits, then preads the raw record and asserts kind/class/id/
  field_idx/back-pointer/value all round-trip; registered in main()
- nothing reads deltas back yet — decode/apply is a later task

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(cherry picked from commit 9c6f832c0534a59e644c53b7cd2850581da12159)
 2026-08-30 20:37:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
048633bf27 docs(db2-delta): correct a line citation before execution 
- the plan placed the fold near wo_wal_read_row_at at "line ~600";
  it is at line 794
- every other citation verified: wal.h:46, table.c:452/487,
  db.c:88/289, wal.c:738, wal.c:861

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(cherry picked from commit c6cd48679e21e510696391b340c735aa0ad098f9)
 2026-08-30 20:37:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
3f88b07abb docs(db2-delta): implementation plan for keys-resident delta updates 
- 6 tasks: the record kind, the fold, updates + indexes, the request
  path and group commit, replay + compaction, then lifting the loader
  refusal and proving it end to end
- the fold is written ONCE and called from three places; the tests are
  arranged to prove each caller separately, and the plan says that
  wanting a second fold "just for this caller" means the design failed
- Task 2 includes a same-field ordering test specifically, because a
  fold walking the chain backwards the wrong way returns plausible data
  and is otherwise invisible
- Task 6 step 1 audits the db.c request arms BEFORE lifting anything —
  they were never audited for keys-residency the way the inline path
  was, and the last audit of that kind found delete corrupting memory
- self-review found the spec's crash criterion had no task: added a step
  that commits a delta, skips the re-point, and replays, which is the
  state a crash between barrier and flush leaves behind
- every symbol the plan names verified to exist in database/src
- code-free per house convention; the writing-plans skill wants code
  blocks and the project rule overrides it

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(cherry picked from commit abb8fc9454bdca9d8d703c8cfeb224f89a93d14d)
 2026-08-30 20:37:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
04017aea26 docs(db2-keys): spec — delta records for keys-resident updates 
- updates append a DELTA (class, id, field, value, back-pointer), not a
  full row. The workload decides it: a product catalogue changes one
  narrow field of a wide row on every order, so a full-row append would
  rewrite every field to move one integer on a shop's hottest path
- the back-pointer keeps the id map at one slot per row, which is the
  mode's whole premise; a map growing per update would defeat it
- ONE fold function, three callers (read, replay, compaction). Three
  implementations of one rule is how they drift, and a fold that differs
  between reading and replaying is a database that changes its mind at
  boot. Named as the design's principal risk
- indexed columns MAY change: price is exactly what a catalogue indexes,
  so forbidding it would be a restriction users meet immediately
- no chain cap, deliberately. Compaction already rewrites live rows, so
  every checkpoint resets every chain, and deltas grow the log which
  pulls the next checkpoint forward — the workload that lengthens chains
  triggers the fold that shortens them
- the risk that accepts: one hot SKU under an otherwise quiet write
  rate. Task 7's benchmark must include it
- supersedes the 2026-08-26 spec's one-line full-row Update sketch,
  marked in place rather than left as a second design in the tree

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(cherry picked from commit c9a88b05c4c62a5df13253686c990aaccc3f9cbb)
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shoney.arickathil
0b0d54121f docs(db2-keys): the residency example becomes a product catalogue 
- the motivating workload was an audit log, which is append-only and so
  argues for nothing. A catalogue is the real case: stable ids, and
  stock moving on every order while name/price/sku sit still
- Product (durable, resident: all) and Cart (durable: false), with
  place_order decrementing stock through a write-through field assign
- run `order` twice and stock goes 10 -> 7 -> 4: a level below the
  seeded 10 can only mean an earlier order's UPDATE replayed. That is
  the stronger claim — not just that inserts survive, but that a field
  change does
- caught by running it three times: my first assertion required
  before == 10, which only holds on a fresh seed and failed on the
  third run even though the data was correct
- gate gains a leg for the update-replay claim; residency 12/0
- the commented resident: keys block now argues the DESIGN too: only
  stock changes per sale, so appending the whole row would rewrite
  every field to move one integer on a shop's hottest write path

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(cherry picked from commit d4104dcc5e3a460459dbf2d24043ce25b113bcdf)
 2026-08-30 20:37:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
7b39da7eb6 fix(db2-keys): a logged delete must replay on a keys-resident table 
- wo_row_remove's keys arm borrows the row from the log to find its
  index entries, and a borrow reads through db->rt->wal. At boot that
  pointer is not wired yet: main.c replays first (main.c:226) and
  assigns rt.wal afterwards (main.c:268)
- so the borrow found no log, the remove failed, and replay reported a
  valid tombstone as CORRUPTION. An UPDATE record would have failed the
  same way, since replay applies it as remove-then-recreate
- replay now lends the runtime a read-only view over the fd it already
  has open, for the replay's duration only, and restores what was there
- broken by the delete fix in 76b8fd9 — deletes worked in-process but
  their tombstones broke the next boot. Unreachable in production only
  because the loader still refuses the annotation
- pinned by test_keys_resident_delete_then_replay, verified failing
  against the unfixed code (2 failures) and clean with it
- found by asking whether the read-modify-append plan was ready, not by
  a gate

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(cherry picked from commit dc25462461b9f79d70c803f7174adc90fa16c90e)
 2026-08-30 20:37:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
516bd8362d docs(db2-keys): a runnable example for per-table storage 
- docs/examples/residency: one program, two tables filled by the same
  loop, differing only in the annotation. Run twice against one WO_DATA
  and orders replay while sessions do not
- the example checks its own claim (exits 1 if a durable:false table
  survives, or a durable:true one fails to replay) rather than narrating
  it in a print
- resident: keys is written out as a commented block with the loader's
  exact refusal, so the frontier is visible in the example rather than
  only in a story. It documents WHERE the refusal happens: woc compiles
  it and emits a .wob; wovm exits 2, because the annotation is a
  load-time property
- residency-accept gains two legs: the example runs and its restart
  claim holds, and the refusal message the README quotes is checked so
  doc and code cannot drift apart
- the gate writes the example's output to /tmp/residency.log,
  banner-separated, for tail -F
- README commands verified verbatim; they needed mkdir -p because wovm
  will not create WO_DATA

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(cherry picked from commit c9c7e03e62c3918cb65ef7994d1e33a0c5337b71)
 2026-08-30 20:37:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
7ad52937b2 fix(db2-keys): delete on a keys-resident table was memory corruption 
- wo_row_remove read the id map's value as a slot, but on a keys table
  that value is a LOG OFFSET (hput(t, id, wal_off + 1)). slot_row does
  no bounds check, so a delete indexed t->slabs[] with a byte offset and
  then called db_val_free on whatever it landed on — arbitrary frees,
  not a wrong answer
- keys tables now take their own arm: no slab slot, no bitmap bit, no
  free-list entry to return. The index hook needs the row's values, so
  the row is borrowed from the log for exactly that long
- wo_row_ptr carried the same trap and is public. It cannot refuse keys
  tables outright (insert legitimately calls it while the map still
  holds a slot), so it now detects the offset case — index past the
  slabs, or bitmap bit clear — and returns NULL. Callers all handle NULL
- test_keys_resident_delete pins it; it SEGVs against the old code,
  verified by reverting the fix rather than assumed
- found while auditing every hget() reader before narrowing the loader
  refusal to allow benchmarking. The refusal was justified in the docs
  by "updates are unimplemented" while actually standing in front of
  this too: a guard whose stated reason is narrower than its real one
  gets removed by someone who believes the stated reason

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(cherry picked from commit 76b8fd944af9ed062467bdf9ab93c2e96dd198cf)
 2026-08-30 20:37:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
97c7c40fd8 docs(db2-chain-review): review the databasev2 chain and dependency graph 
- chain is a cross-track field (1-6); only databasev2 3 and 4 carry it,
  and iteration 2 — critical path, in-progress — carries none, so the
  board's chain query cannot see it
- 00-story.md's ASCII graph draws 3 before 4; the chain field and the
  history both say 4 first (4 part A 08-28, 3 08-29). Graph is wrong
- graph also contradicts its own prose on edge direction, and still
  draws the 2-5-6 path the 2026-08-27 amendment retired
- iteration 3's hazard section is stale: it says nothing fails "because
  iteration 2's storage half is unimplemented", which 5c/5d ended
- and it was incomplete: it named offsets going stale, but compaction
  walked the bitmap, which a keys row has no bit in, so those rows
  would have been dropped from the new log outright — data loss, not a
  bad pointer, and offset-rebuilding would not have caught it
- coupling is now bidirectional: wal.c compaction calls iteration 2's
  wo_row_next_id / wo_row_offset1 / wo_row_set_offset
- nothing in the track is blocked on anything else in the track

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(cherry picked from commit 2ecaf0c95f40c6d6c8cc2fde687c82d63cda1f7e)
 2026-08-30 20:37:21 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
8311330531 docs(db2-keys): reconcile databasev2 and porch markdown with the code 
- loader's resident:keys refusal said "rows are still fully resident"
  and "until tasks 5c/5d land". Both false since f606fc9. Corrected to
  name the real blocker: UPDATE needs read-modify-append
- databasev2 00-story: the sequence graph drew 2->3->4, which reads as
  3 needing 2 and 4 needing 3. Both backwards, and it still drew the
  2->5->6 path the 2026-08-27 amendment retired. Redrawn stating only
  real dependencies, with 4 and 3 shown as composing rather than
  ordered, and the execution order that actually happened
- databasev2 03: the hazard and its Outstanding entry both claimed
  nothing fails "because iteration 2's storage half is unimplemented".
  Marked discharged, and recorded that the hazard named only half the
  danger — the bitmap walk would have dropped keys rows outright
- databasev2 06: pending -> hold (largely superseded, revisit only on
  a measurement); dated its 5c/5d references
- porch 01: rewritten to the settled shape. readiness ready, status
  in-progress, phases B and C marked superseded with why
- porch 01 claimed time.after "is still a reserved builtin id". False —
  builtin 90, implemented. That claim is what made the iteration look
  cheaper than it is
- porch README gains honest ledger rows for both features (partial,
  being rebuilt), not shipped
- skill-catalog README pointed at a story path that moved tracks;
  linkcheck now 0 broken

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(cherry picked from commit b3d8c403e1d19ac27ec966de85cb293e0765795c)
 2026-08-30 20:36:55 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
533fc5294f feat(db2-keys): rewire remaining readers, survive compaction 
- wo_row_read and the @unique shadow probe go through borrow/release;
  release runs before every exit, including wo_row_read's early return
- updates on a keys table refused explicitly in wo_row_update_field and
  the slot variant: no slab slot to mutate, and writing the borrow's
  scratch would discard the write silently. Needs read-modify-append
- compaction walked the bitmap, which a keys row has no bit in — every
  such row would have been dropped from the new log. Now walks
  wo_row_next_id and re-points each row to where it lands
- moves records byte-for-byte (copy_record) rather than decoding: a
  borrowed row holds VM values, enc_val expects engine values, and ASan
  caught that mismatch as a 4294967292-byte memcpy
- wo_row_set_offset updates a value in place and never rehashes, so a
  wo_row_next_id cursor stays valid while compaction re-points
- a compaction that fails after moving rows is fatal: the map would name
  an unlinked temp file, and the intact log replays correctly
- test_keys_resident_survives_compaction pins both failure modes; rows
  rewrite in hash order so offsets really move
- loader still refuses resident: keys — updates are not implemented

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(cherry picked from commit f606fc9b76d983cac2b348f03f7d4f01433cd905)
 2026-08-30 20:36:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
636f36b0f6 feat(db2-keys): the query paths read through the iterator and borrow 
databasev2 2, task 5d. Every reader in db.c now works for both backings.

The measured problem: a keys-resident table's bitmap is EMPTY by construction
(its payloads live in the log), so all four bitmap walks would have silently
returned no rows — a query over such a table would find nothing, with no error.

- wo_row_next_id: one iterator, two backings. Keys tables walk the id map;
  resident tables keep walking the BITMAP deliberately, because the id map
  holds the same set in hash order and switching would reorder the results of
  every unordered query in the repo. No behaviour change where none was needed
- the three id-collecting scans move onto it. They only ever collected ids
  (the 9b cursor-stability rule materialises the list up front), so they needed
  no row access at all — which is why this was far smaller than the plan feared
- the two filtered scans borrow, compare, and RELEASE BEFORE any exit. The
  scratch is per-table, so a borrow leaked past a `return` or `break` would
  make the next borrow on that table fail as a nested one. That is a real
  hazard, not a hypothetical: the request-path GET_FIELD borrowed and then
  `break`ed without releasing until this commit
- point reads decode or clone BEFORE releasing, because a keys-resident row's
  slots point into the scratch that release frees

Verified: just wovm-test — 36 suites 0 fail.

Still to do in 5d: table.c's unique shadow and its three remaining wo_row_ptr
sites, wal.c's append encode, and compaction's own walk — which is where the
recorded `resident: keys` offset obligation has to be honoured. The loader
refusal stays until all of it lands.

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(cherry picked from commit 0c97fa48d3e31ea9eea3287d9c23ed29f0260488)
 2026-08-30 20:36:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
e16d4896f8 feat(db2-keys): inserts and boot — payload dropped after the barrier 
databasev2 2, task 5c. The write and boot halves. Still not exposed: the
loader refuses `resident: keys` until 5d rewires the readers.

GROUP COMMIT FORCED THE DESIGN. A keys-resident payload can only be dropped
once its record is durable, but databasev2 4 deferred the barrier to the drain
— so at append time the bytes are still in the staging buffer and the recorded
offset would pread ZEROS. Dropping at append would have produced rows that
read as garbage, intermittently, only under multi-shard load.

So the drop is recorded, not performed:

- wo_wal gains a pending-drop list, the same shape as the drain's held replies
  and for the same reason
- both write paths take the offset BEFORE the append (wo_wal_next_offset) and
  record it; the inline path flushes right after its own commit, the request
  path's flush runs in the drain immediately after the barrier
- if the process dies before the barrier the list dies with it, which is
  correct: nothing was dropped and nothing was lost
- an out-of-memory pend is ignored on purpose — the row simply stays resident,
  which is safe

Boot: replay now leaves a keys-resident table pointing at the LOG. Each record
is applied normally, so indexes and uniqueness are built exactly as for any
other table, and the payload is then dropped with THAT record's offset. For an
update the later record wins, because each apply overwrites the map in order —
the rule replay already follows.

Tests: the round trip (insert, commit, drop, read back with Text intact) and
now BOOT — a fresh wo_db replays the store and every row materialises from the
log, count intact, nothing in a slab.

Verified: just wovm-test — 36 suites 0 fail, test_wal 4301 pass, cli_smoke OK.

REMAINING (5d), and precise: every reader still goes through wo_row_ptr, which
for a keys table would index a freed slot. The scans in db.c walk the BITMAP,
and a keys table's bitmap is empty by construction — so a query over one would
today return no rows at all. That, FK restrict, and the @unique shadow are 5d,
and the loader refusal stays until they land.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 08abd09bf88918f2582e74713dc7903beb8aaeb8)
 2026-08-30 20:36:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
7cc80405dd feat(db2-keys): storage — drop the payload, read it back from the log 
databasev2 2, task 5c step 2. The storage half the accessor was left waiting
for. Not yet wired into insert (that and 5d remain), and the loader still
refuses `resident: keys`, so nothing is exposed to a program yet.

- wo_db gains an `rt` back-pointer, set in main.c beside VM.rt.db. wo_rt
  already carries `db` and `wal` as opaque handles, so this closes the loop
  and a borrow can reach the log WITHOUT threading a wal pointer through
  eleven call sites — which is the whole reason 5c is one accessor
- wo_row_drop_payload: the operation the plan recorded as MISSING. Frees the
  slot and its engine-owned values, then re-points the id map at the record's
  log offset (off + 1, reusing the same 0-is-empty trick as slot + 1). It
  deliberately does NOT touch the secondary indexes (they store row ids, so
  they stay correct), does NOT decrement count (the row is still live, only
  its backing moved), and does NOT remove the id (that is how it is found)
- wo_row_borrow materialises for a keys table: reads the offset from the id
  map, calls 5b's wo_wal_read_row_at into the per-table scratch, and checks
  the record actually holds the expected class and id — a compaction that
  moved records without rebuilding the map lands exactly there, which is the
  obligation recorded at wo_wal_compact
- fully-resident tables keep today's path and pay one predicate

A REAL BUG, exposed the first time the path was used: wo_row_release freed the
materialised values with the ENGINE's allocator. They are VM values —
wo_wal_read_row_at is the out-gate and always copies — so ASan reported a
bad-free immediately. It now drops them through the runtime. That stub was
written in 5c step 1 for a path that did not exist yet.

Recorded while implementing: wo_wal_next_offset's contract says to trust an
offset "only after the matching commit returns 0". Group commit (databasev2 4)
defers that barrier to the drain, so db.c can no longer check inline — but part
A also made a failed commit FATAL, so no execution can record an offset whose
record never became durable. Same guarantee, different mechanism.

Test: a heap-valued row is inserted, committed, has its payload dropped, and is
read back out of the log with its Text intact; count is unchanged (still live);
and a second borrow succeeds, which fails if release did not clear the scratch.

Verified: just wovm-test — 36 suites 0 fail, test_wal 4273 pass, cli_smoke OK.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 125bd09218d616b2a16b140de770d3f38b45f0ac)
 2026-08-30 20:36:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
02b4b13a52 Merge master into db-residency-doctrine — and close the two half-exposed features 
The branch was 17 ahead / 25 behind with 11 conflicting files, and drifting
further: db.c had been rewritten twice on master since (group commit, then
compaction). Resolved rather than rebased so both histories stay legible.

Conflicts, and how each was settled:

- db.c: BOTH semantics kept. Master's fatal path and compaction check now sit
  behind the branch's `table_is_durable` predicate, in all three inline arms —
  a volatile table reaches neither the barrier nor the compaction check
- db-bench sample: every mode from both sides (growth, growth-verify, randread,
  replayseed, wmix) and ONE `boot` mode, which both sides had added
  independently
- db-bench.py: all six legs kept. Both sides had also grown the same
  WAL-size helper under different names; collapsed into one
- perf-targets: the branch's §5 (RAM ceiling) then master's §6/§7 — master's
  numbering had already assumed a §5 it did not have
- story frontmatter: master's `status` (the landing truth) plus the branch's
  `readiness` axis. 03 would have read `done` + `refine`, which is a
  contradiction — it was brainstormed and landed on master, so `ready`
- board: both standup blocks newest-first; master's chain rows (a superset);
  the branch's databasev2 1-2 rows with master's 3-4. Fixed a stray `|` in
  master's row 3
- baseline: master's, then REGENERATED from a full campaign — 143 metrics,
  132 checks, 0 failures with both sides' legs present

TWO HALF-EXPOSED FEATURES FIXED, because the merge rule is that master gets
no feature that is honoured in name only:

- `resident: keys` PARSED, set a .wob flag, and did nothing: rows stayed fully
  resident. A developer could declare a 120 GB table keys-resident, watch it
  compile, and be OOM-killed. The loader now REFUSES it with a message naming
  what to write instead, until tasks 5c/5d land. The compiler still parses it
  and its AST golden still passes, so the grammar work stays tested
- `durable: false` was honoured ONLY on the inline path. wo_db_exec_req had no
  guard at all, so a volatile table written from an actor on a worker shard
  would still be logged — precisely porch's session-table case, and precisely
  what iteration 2 exists to provide. All three request-path arms now carry the
  same predicate. Found by reading the merged code, not by a test: the obvious
  probe runs main() on the primary and therefore only exercises the inline path

Verified on the merged tree: wovm-test 0, woc-test 0, oop-e2e 122/0,
residency-accept 8/0, db-bench 132/0, linkcheck clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-29 10:14:25 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
8b29eb492c docs(db): T6 closeout — checkpoint documented, chain's last link lands 
databasev2 3, task 6. Documentation, plus three gate-tolerance
corrections that are justified rather than silent.

- 04-db-binding.md: the NORMATIVE rule — compaction may run only where
  nothing is staged (a correctness requirement, not scheduling), recovery
  is unchanged, and a failed compaction is a missed optimisation rather
  than a durability event
- database/src/CODE-LOGIC.md: why one file and not snapshot-plus-tail
  (Postgres CANNOT compact — page deltas; ours are full row images, so a
  compacted log IS a store), why rename is the whole crash-safety story,
  why the dump flushes but does NOT fsync when it does, why the
  replacement is preallocated, and where the trigger is checked
- README: the checkpoint knobs, the extended walstats line, the boot mode
- story -> status: done, with criteria split met/outstanding
- board: standup entry in the six-question shape, both rows rewritten

THE OBLIGATION IS AT THE COMPACTOR, not only in a spec: compaction moves
every record, so it invalidates every WAL offset iteration 2's
`resident: keys` stores, and the loop that knows each record's new
position must rebuild that map. Nothing fails today because that storage
half is unimplemented — it would fail later, looking like corruption.

Board claim corrected before it shipped: I wrote that the concurrency
chain is "complete". It is not — chain 5 stays in-progress because
databasev2 4's part B was never done and its premise was invalidated by
part A. Every link has landed its PLANNED work; that is a different
statement.

Gate tolerances, each with the measurement that justifies it:

- ckpt.pause_us_max is no longer gated relatively. The raw pause scales
  with the live set and this workload's live set is not fixed (wmix's
  hist_dump inserts a row per latency bucket), so gating it gates the
  box. Added ckpt.pause_us_per_mb — the engine's own rate, gated for
  real, and the metric that would have caught the 8x dump regression —
  with the absolute 50ms budget still guarding the raw pause
- ram.*.msgrate 15% -> 70%. PRE-EXISTING, and measured: 10.7M-17.9M
  msgs/sec across ten full runs, several predating this work — a 1.67x
  spread against a 15% gate
- durable.sN.*.p99us 100% -> 300%, with more evidence than the first
  widening: mixread 1043/2318/4147us, mixwrite 1623/4446us on the same
  build. Floors stay the real guard and are not slack

Battery: wovm-test 36 suites 0 fail, woc-test, oop-e2e 119/0,
db-bench 117 checks 0 failures, linkcheck clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-29 06:48:34 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
40d56c4664 perf(wal): checkpoint measured — 2.16x space, 1.78x boot, 2.7ms pause — T5 
databasev2 3, task 5.

Full campaign, same workload twice, differing only in whether
checkpointing may fire:

- WAL used 1962358 -> 907094 bytes (2.16x reclaimed)
- boot 114 -> 64 ms (1.78x), median of 3
- stop-the-world pause max 2651us against a STATED 50ms budget

The budget is asserted, not assumed: 50ms is a stall a serving process
can absorb without a client seeing a timeout, and the leg fails if it is
exceeded. The pause is O(live rows) — at ~181 MB/s a 1GB live set implies
~5.5s, which is the number an incremental design must be bought against.
The spec deliberately did not buy it in advance.

FOUND BY MEASURING: the dump was 8x slower than it needed to be. It
flushed through wo_wal_commit, which fdatasyncs, so it paid one barrier
per 256 records. Intermediate durability there is worthless — the temp is
not authoritative until the rename and is fsynced once immediately before
it. With a single final barrier:

- ~107KB live: 23948us -> 2903us
- ~500KB live: 36361us -> 7526us
- ~1.98MB live: 107649us -> 13212us
- marginal ~22 MB/s -> ~181 MB/s, sync-bound to bandwidth-bound

Correctness re-proven after that change: wovm-test 36 suites 0 fail,
test_wal 760 pass including the 40-round kill-during-compaction battery.

Two measurement defects of my own, fixed rather than reported:

- boot measured through the driver's run() helper reported 251ms both
  with and without checkpointing — run() samples RSS on a 250ms poll, so
  every timing floors at the quantum. Measured directly instead, median
  of 3
- ckpt.reclaim_x was recorded as lower-is-better by the default detector,
  which would have PASSED "reclaimed nothing" and FAILED an improvement:
  the feature's central claim, gated backwards. Now higher-is-better,
  gated at 15% while the wall-clock metrics stay wide — waiving them all
  would have left the leg ungated, part A's task 4 mistake

- sample gains a `boot` mode that does nothing, so boot time is boot time
- walstats now reports compactions, pause max/total and compacted bytes
- baseline refreshed from the FULL campaign (N=20000, crash_reps=3), and
  a fresh full run passes 116 checks 0 failures
- gate bites: reclaim_x doctored to 1.0 -> FAIL on exactly that metric

One flake seen and checked, not papered over: durable.sN.query.ops_sec
failed once at 53% below baseline. It is a read-only metric that touches
no WAL code, and a re-run passed 116/0 with the box at load 1.85.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-29 06:20:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
d432bc5301 test(wal): kill -9 DURING compaction — 40 rounds, mutation-proven — T4 
databasev2 3, task 4. The plan called this the riskiest task because a race
can pass by luck, so it is argued with mutants rather than green runs.

The battery: a forked child inserts, acks, deletes the oldest so HISTORY
grows while the live set stays ~17, and compacts every 24 iterations. The
parent SIGKILLs at varied instants so kills land before, inside and after
rewrites, then replays and checks the ACKED LIVE SET. The existing
battery's "records >= acks" oracle cannot be reused: collapsing history is
exactly what compaction is for.

A REAL DEFECT IN MY FIRST VERSION, found by the failures and fixed in the
TEST, not by weakening it:

- the child acked deletes AFTER committing them, so a kill in between left
  the row legitimately gone on disk while the last ack still said
  "inserted" — the parent then demanded a row the engine was right to
  remove. Symptom was an acked insert missing near the end of the stream,
  ~1 run in 3
- deletes now announce INTENT BEFORE committing, so such a row's fate is
  simply UNKNOWN to the parent, which is the honest thing to assert. Every
  acked insert never marked for deletion must still be present with its
  acked value
- the stale-temp assertion was also wrong: it checked for absence after
  wo_wal_replay, which never opens the WAL. The guarantee is "removed AT
  OPEN", so the test now opens and then asserts. A temp surviving a kill
  is expected debris, not a defect

Proven to have teeth, which matters because assertions were softened:

- against the design's rejected alternative (in-place rewrite instead of
  the atomic rename) it fails EVERY run, reporting log_records=0 — the
  kill landed mid-copy and destroyed the log. That is the corruption
  rename exists to prevent
- on correct code: 10 consecutive runs x 40 rounds clean, plus the suite

Also carried the log's PREALLOCATION to the replacement. The WAL is
preallocated so appends never extend the file, which is what lets
fdatasync alone be the ack barrier; a replacement opened with prealloc 0
silently changes that property and the zero-padded tail the scan relies
on. Stated honestly: this is hygiene making the replacement equivalent to
what open() would have produced — I could NOT prove it was the cause of
the observed loss, and the ack race above explains it.

Verified: just wovm-test — 36 suites 0 fail, test_wal 760 pass, cli_smoke OK.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-29 05:55:58 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
aa89fb6c97 feat(db): the checkpoint trigger, and compaction is wired to BOTH write paths — T3 
databasev2 3, task 3.

- wo_wal_should_compact is a PURE decision (used bytes, last compaction's
  measured output, floor, ratio) so it is testable without a store —
  which is the only way a policy like this gets tested at all. Denominator
  is the last compaction's real output, not an estimate of the live set:
  estimating would mean estimating Text
- 8 boundary assertions incl. "exactly 3x is not MORE than 3x" and a zero
  ratio disabling the policy rather than dividing by nothing
- MUTATION-TESTED instead of observing RED: implementation and test were
  written together, so removing the floor check was verified to fail
  exactly the two floor assertions. Equivalent evidence, stated plainly
- WO_CHECKPOINT_BYTES / WO_CHECKPOINT_RATIO at boot beside WO_MAILBOX.
  The knobs are what make the policy testable — a gate sets a tiny floor
  and forces compaction in a few writes instead of megabytes
- NO timer, per the spec: Postgres' CheckPointTimeout bounds loss from
  unflushed buffers; our records are durable at commit and an idle log
  does not grow
- the ordering rule is now asserted, not trusted: a test stages a record,
  requests compaction, and requires REFUSAL with the log untouched and
  the staged record still committable afterwards

FOUND AND FIXED a gap in my own wiring. The plan said to call the check
"after the drain's barrier", and I did — but a statement running ON the
owner shard never enters that drain, so WO_SHARDS=1 never compacted and
its log grew forever: measured 536086 bytes where the multi-shard run
held 446024. Now checked after the inline path's commit too (db.c
maybe_compact), where the buffer is equally empty. WO_SHARDS=1 went
536086 -> 260657 bytes. For a checkpoint this mattered more than part A's
equivalent gap: an unbounded log is an operational failure, not just lost
throughput.

Also corrected a measurement of my own: multi-shard logs looked unbounded
(448KB -> 1013KB -> 1647KB across 8k/24k/48k updates). They are not.
Instrumentation showed compaction ran 25 times with zero failures, each
writing MORE than the last, because the live set genuinely grows — wmix's
hist_dump and done-markers are themselves durable inserts. Final log
1631040 against a last compaction of 866432 is a ratio of 1.88, just under
the 2x threshold: the policy holding exactly.

Replies are released BEFORE compaction runs, deliberately: their records
are already durable, and holding them across a stop-the-world rewrite
would add its full duration to their latency for nothing.

Verified: wovm-test 36 suites 0 fail, test_wal 360 pass; db-bench-quick
crash.s1/crash.sN and both restart legs green, and part A still batches
(sN mean 4.16, peak 30).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-28 18:43:44 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
d7dde018ec feat(wal): a stale compaction temp is removed at open — T2 
databasev2 3, task 2.

- wo_wal_open removes `<log>.compact` before reading anything. The only
  way one exists is a crash before the rename, which means its records
  were never authoritative
- deleted rather than ignored, deliberately: a file full of well-formed
  records sitting beside the log is exactly what a future reader mistakes
  for data

Test uses PLAUSIBLE content, not garbage — a byte copy of a real log —
because garbage would be rejected by the CRC anyway and would prove
nothing. It asserts the temp is present before the open, gone after, and
that the live log still replays to exactly what it said.

RED was an assertion failure (`access(tmp, F_OK) != 0` unmet), not a
compile error, so the test was proven to exercise the behaviour before the
behaviour existed.

Verified: just wovm-test — 36 suites 0 fail, test_wal 340 pass, cli_smoke OK.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-28 18:01:52 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
0f652dd93f feat(wal): wo_wal_compact — rewrite the log, swap it in with rename — T1 
databasev2 3, task 1.

- walks each class's live rows via the bitmap-over-slabs pattern db.c
  already uses in three places, appending one INSERT per live row through
  the EXISTING append path. No second encoder, no new format, and ids are
  preserved exactly because wo_wal_append_insert takes the id and reads
  the row from the store
- FLUSHES EVERY 256 RECORDS rather than staging the whole store: stage()
  grows the staging buffer by doubling and never shrinks it, so a
  one-buffer dump would hold the entire store in RAM on top of the store
  — the unbounded growth databasev2 1 identified as how this engine dies
- the switch, in order: fsync the temp file, rename over the live path,
  fsync the PARENT DIRECTORY (rename's atomicity is in-kernel; the
  directory entry is not durable until the parent is synced — Postgres
  does the same for the same reason), then reopen the descriptor, because
  the old one refers to an unlinked inode
- REFUSES when anything is staged: those records would land in a file
  about to be replaced. The caller-side guard is task 3; this is the
  backstop
- a failure leaves the ORIGINAL log intact and usable and returns -1. A
  failed checkpoint is a missed optimisation, not a durability event, so
  it deliberately does NOT take databasev2 4's fatal path
- records the bytes written, so task 3's trigger can compare against a
  measured denominator instead of estimating the live set (which would
  mean estimating Text)

Recovery is untouched — the result is an ordinary log in the ordinary
grammar, replayed from byte 0. Crash safety comes from rename, not from
code of ours.

Test asserts BOTH halves, on purpose:

- the log shrinks: 43 records (3 inserts + 40 updates of the SAME row, so
  history grows while the live set does not) -> 3 records, fewer bytes
- AND a fresh replay reproduces the store: every id present, and row 0
  carries the 40th update's value rather than its original. "It got
  shorter" is also true of a truncating bug, so the replay comparison is
  what actually proves it
- and the WAL stays usable after the swap: a further append lands after
  the compacted records, giving 4 on the next check

Verified: just wovm-test — 36 suites 0 fail, test_wal 315 pass (was 165),
cli_smoke OK.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-28 17:55:43 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
74399ffc68 docs(plan): WAL checkpoint — 6 tasks, databasev2 3 
Plan for the approved spec. Code-free per the repo convention
(docs/plan/discarded.md:54); the executor writes the code.

- T1 wo_wal_compact: walk live rows via the bitmap, append one INSERT
  each through the EXISTING append path, fsync, rename over the live log,
  fsync the parent dir, reopen the descriptor. Test asserts BOTH that the
  log shrank AND that a replay reproduces the same rows/ids/values —
  shorter alone is worthless, a truncating bug also passes that
- T2 a stale temp file is removed at open and never read. The test uses
  PLAUSIBLE records, not garbage: garbage would be rejected anyway and
  would prove nothing
- T3 the trigger as a PURE decision (used bytes, last compaction's
  measured output, floor) so it is unit-testable without a store; env
  knobs for floor and ratio, which is what makes the policy testable at
  all. No timer, with the reason. The check is called only where nothing
  is staged, asserted by a test that stages and expects deferral
- T4 kill -9 DURING compaction, extending the existing fork-based crash
  battery. Asserts the PROPERTY — the store equals the pre- or the
  post-compaction content, never a mixture, and every acked id survives.
  Run repeatedly and state the count: it is a race, one green run proves
  little
- T5 measure space reclaimed, boot before/after, and the stop-the-world
  PAUSE against a stated budget. If the pause exceeds it, stop and report
  — the alternatives are bought against that number, not before it
- T6 closeout, including the normative ordering rule in 04-db-binding.md

Constraints carried from the spec into every task:

- recovery must NOT change; a task editing the replay path should stop
- the dump must FLUSH PERIODICALLY. stage() grows the staging buffer by
  doubling, so dumping a whole store through one buffer would hold the
  entire store in RAM — the unbounded growth databasev2 1 identified as
  how this engine dies
- a FAILED compaction is a missed optimisation, not a durability event,
  so it must not take databasev2 4's fatal path
- gate tolerances must not be waived wholesale (part A's T4 made that
  mistake), and the baseline is full-mode — writing a quick-mode baseline
  over it is a regression part A also made

Deliberately NOT a task: rebuilding the `resident: keys` offset map. It
cannot be implemented against a feature that does not exist yet, so T6
records it as an obligation at the compactor and in the story instead of
a stub nobody can test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-28 17:44:18 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
69c34c9a89 docs(spec): WAL checkpoint — compact by rewrite + atomic rename 
databasev2 3, chain 6. Brainstormed 2026-08-28 after databasev2 4 part A
landed.

Design: compact the log by rewriting it as one record per live row into a
temp file, fsync, rename over the live WAL, fsync the parent dir, reopen.
Recovery is COMPLETELY UNCHANGED — boot still opens one file and replays
it — and the crash criterion ("the same store as if the checkpoint had
never started") is satisfied by rename, not by code we must get right.

Read .dev/reference/postgresql for this. The finding is that PG's design
is UNAVAILABLE to us, which is what makes the simpler option legitimate:

- PG never compacts its WAL; segments before the redo point are recycled
  by rename or unlinked. Its records are page deltas, so a compacted redo
  log is not a store — hence heap files, a control file, a redo pointer,
  a second recovery source and a separate process
- ours are FULL ROW IMAGES (apply_record implements UPDATE as
  remove-then-recreate), so a compacted log IS a complete store. That one
  difference deletes all of the above from the design
- what IS worth porting is the ordering discipline: publish the new
  "recovery starts here" atomically and LAST, so a crash falls back. PG
  needs a start-of-checkpoint redo pointer plus an end-of-checkpoint
  control file update; we get the same property from one rename, because
  we can swap the whole data set atomically and PG cannot

Forks settled:

- no snapshot format — the compacted log is the snapshot, existing grammar,
  so no new encoder or decoder and the dump reuses wo_wal_append_insert
- one source, not two
- volume-only trigger, as a ratio against the LAST compaction's measured
  output (the denominator is known exactly; estimating the live set would
  mean estimating Text) with an absolute floor. NO TIMER — PG's exists to
  bound loss from unflushed buffers and we have none; an idle log does not
  grow. Copying the mechanism without the reason was the trap
- stop-the-world, with the pause measured against a stated budget rather
  than assumed acceptable; alternatives are bought against a number
- compaction may run ONLY where nothing is staged (right after a barrier),
  or a staged record lands in a file about to be replaced. Normative

Recorded before it can be found late: compaction invalidates every WAL
offset iteration 2's `resident: keys` stores, so the compactor rebuilds the
offset map as it writes. Nothing breaks today because that storage half is
unimplemented — it would break later, looking like corruption.

Also corrected exploration/postgresql/buffer-and-checkpoint.md, which was
wrong on two counts: PG does NOT update its control file by rename (in-place
full-block write + CRC32C), and its checkpoint sketch assumes writeonce has
segment files, which it does not and deliberately will not.

Grounding measured on master: seed 20000 leaves a 986614-byte log; 20000
updates take it to 2590262 bytes with the SAME live rows, and boot+verify on
that store is 155ms.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-28 17:39:38 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
0b618ace19 docs+fix(db): T6 closeout — and reads no longer wait for the barrier 
databasev2 4 part A, task 6. Mostly documentation, plus one real fix the
full battery caught.

THE FIX. The drain held EVERY DB reply until the barrier — including
reads, which stage nothing and have no stake in durability. That parked
readers behind an fsync for no reason: durable.sN.mixread.p99 rose from
~1043us to 4057us. Only a statement that actually staged a record now has
its reply held. Caught by the gate, not by review.

THE TRADE, recorded rather than smoothed over. What remains is inherent: a
barrier blocks the owner shard LONGER (more records per fsync) though LESS
OFTEN, so anything queued behind one waits. Three full runs of the same
build gave durable.sN.mixread.p99 of 1043 / 2318 / 4147us and wmix.p99 of
8758 / 20000us — a 2-4x spread with the box near idle. So part A buys ~3x
write throughput at the cost of a longer, noisier tail on the owner shard,
and that is the strongest argument for part B (submit and keep serving).

- durable.sN.*.p99us tolerance widened to 100% WITH the reason in the
  code: a 2-4x-variable tail gated at 50% gates the disk, not the engine.
  The floor is the real guard and is not slack — mixread's (4172us) came
  within 25us of tripping on the worst run. Baseline refreshed; a fresh
  full run then passed 106 checks 0 failures

EXIT STATUS MOVED 3 -> 74 (sysexits EX_IOERR). 3 and 4 are already used by
SAMPLES for their own meanings — db-bench's own `verify` exits 3 on a
checksum mismatch, and it is the gate that exercises durability, so a
durability abort exiting 3 would have been indistinguishable from the
mismatch it should help diagnose. The low range belongs to programs.

Docs:

- story: progress, the payoff measured two ways, the cost side, criteria
  split met/outstanding, and a "part B — its premise changed" section:
  it was justified by "close the 66x gap", but that gap is two problems
  and only the concurrent one was a batching problem
- board: standup entry in the six-question shape; both databasev2 4 rows
  rewritten. They had said "close the 66x gap" — recorded as MIS-STATED
  rather than quietly renumbered
- 00-wob-format.md and 04-db-binding.md: the normative failure contract
  ("a failed WAL commit traps WO_T_IO after un-applying the row") was
  false; corrected, along with the tick-scoped group commit that never
  happened
- database/src/CODE-LOGIC.md: where the barrier runs and why there, why
  replies are held, why the inline path is asymmetric, the one failure
  rule, and how to measure it
- db-bench README: the wmix mode, the env knobs, and the tmpfs warning

Battery: wovm-test 36 suites 0 fail, woc-test, oop-e2e 119/0,
db-bench 106/0, linkcheck clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-28 16:48:23 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
6183a67dfc perf(db): group commit measured — ~2.9x durable write throughput, T5 
databasev2 4 part A, task 5.

Controlled before/after — same machine, same workload (wmix 4000 32),
same build except db.c and vm.c, two runs each interleaved:

- per-statement barrier: 2213 / 2177 ops/sec, p50 7183 / 7251us
- group commit:          6216 / 6525 ops/sec, p50 3458 / 3444us
- ~2.9x throughput, ~2.1x lower p50

The full campaign confirms it a second way: s1 takes the inline path and
commits per statement BY DESIGN, so within one build the shard configs are
batching-off vs batching-on — 1467 -> 5117 ops/sec, mean batch 1.0 -> 5.43,
peak 1 -> 57. 3.5x, agreeing with the 2.9x above.

Recorded honestly:

- the BEFORE p99 is at the histogram ceiling (hist_add clamps at 20000us
  and both runs pinned there), so the true figure is >=20ms and unknown.
  The improvement is AT LEAST 2.3x; the old p99 was off the instrument
- durable.sN.mixwrite went 480 -> 492 ops/sec, i.e. UNCHANGED. That was
  the spec's original payoff metric and correcting it was part of the
  brainstorm: mix performs 20 writes at C=4, mean batch 1.01. A workload
  that never has two writes in flight cannot be helped by batching them
- seed is likewise unchanged: a serial writer has nothing to batch with
- so the payoff is real but CONDITIONAL — it appears where concurrent
  durable writes fan into the owner shard, and nowhere else

Two traps recorded in perf-targets §6:

- do not benchmark durability on /tmp: it is tmpfs here, where fdatasync
  is free. The same run reported 195000 ops/sec at p50 1us there against
  2200 at p50 7200us on ext4 — no barrier to amortise, so the measurement
  measures nothing. db-bench keeps its stores under bench/ for this reason
- the record count is not the update count: 7755 records for 4000 updates,
  because hist_dump and the done-marker are themselves durable inserts

- FIXED a regression I introduced in T4: master's committed baseline is
  FULL mode (N=20000, crash_reps=3, msg_n=200000) and I had overwritten it
  with quick-mode values. Regenerated from a full campaign; the full run
  now passes 106 checks 0 failures against it
- gate still bites: sN wmix ops_sec -70% -> FAIL on exactly that metric

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-28 09:54:52 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
5f9598af6a feat(db-bench): prove batches form — the write-concurrent leg, T4 
databasev2 4 part A, task 4. Scope extended with developer approval: the
plan authorised touching the sample only for observability, but no
existing leg has enough concurrent durable writes to exercise group
commit at all, so the payoff was unevaluable either way.

The finding that forced it:

- `mix` writes on one op in ten with C=4 (all_mode calls mix_mode(n/10,
  4); Mixer writes on i % 10 == 9), so the quick run performs 20 writes
  total. Measured mean batch 1.01 over 3112 barriers, peak 3
- that is a property of the WORKLOAD, not the mechanism: peak 3 of a
  possible 4 shows batches form whenever writes actually coincide

- `wmix N C` added: every op a durable write, C at once. Updates rather
  than inserts, so it is comparable to mixwrite and the row count stays
  flat. Histogram kind 2 — a replayed store still holds the seeding run's
  kind-0/1 Hist rows and merging those would report someone else's
  latencies
- WO_WAL_STATS=1 prints one line at exit: batches, records, peak_batch,
  peak_staged. Opt-in, because it would otherwise pollute every durable
  program's output. Counters live in wo_wal; no builtin, the numbers are
  diagnostic and not part of the language

Measured, and it scales with concurrency exactly as designed:

- C = 4 / 16 / 64 -> mean batch 1.13 / 1.76 / 5.35, peak 3 / 10 / 39
- the gate's own legs: durable.s1 5412 records over 5412 barriers (mean
  1.0, peak 1 — the inline path, one barrier per statement BY DESIGN),
  durable.sN 7757 over 2296 (mean 3.38, peak 28) at 2x the throughput
- peak staged 1372 B settles the no-cap decision with a number: the batch
  is tiny, so the upstream mailbox bound is sufficient

- mean_batch/peak_batch are higher-is-better (the default detector would
  have called bigger batches worse)
- only the batch SHAPE metrics are waived to 100%; wmix throughput and
  latency keep real tolerances (15% s1, 50% sN) — a blanket waiver would
  have left the entire new leg ungated
- the live assertion `mean > 1.0` on the sN leg is what catches inertness
- gate bites: sN wmix ops_sec -60% -> FAIL on exactly that metric, 1 of 86

Verified: db-bench-quick 89 checks 0 failures; baseline refreshed (86
metrics).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-28 09:47:51 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
9fc439dd47 feat(db): the inline path takes the fatal rule, asymmetry documented — T3 
databasev2 4 part A, task 3. Looks like a no-op; it is not — without it
the two write paths would disagree about what a failure means, which is
the unevenness the spec exists to remove.

- inline path (a statement already on shard 0) keeps its own barrier,
  batch size 1. It cannot hold a reply: it returns into its OWN fiber
  rather than unparking a requester, so batching it would need that fiber
  parked on the barrier — part B's machinery, deliberately out of part A
- the comment says so, and says why not to "fix" it, because the next
  reader will otherwise see an inconsistency and delete the commit
- the ordering assumption is written down: committing here is safe only
  because the drain commits unconditionally whenever anything is staged,
  so the buffer is empty when this runs. If that stops holding, this
  commit would make another statement's record durable early and ack it
  to the wrong writer
- staging and commit failures are fatal here too. The update arm's old
  comment admitted what it did — "RAM ahead of disk: trap, do not ack" —
  and that is now gone

WO_T_IO no longer appears anywhere in db.c: the write path cannot be
caught. Language-visible, and task 6 records it in the error catalogue.

Verified:

- just wovm-test: 36 suites 0 fail, cli_smoke OK
- WO_SHARDS=1 db-bench-quick: 85 checks 0 failures, crash.s1.0 800 acked
  rows present after kill -9 — the configuration that takes this path
  exclusively
- default shards: 85 checks 0 failures

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-28 09:32:34 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
76d80cc027 feat(db): one barrier per drain, replies held — T2 
databasev2 4 part A, task 2. The core change, and mostly deletion.

- the REQUEST path (wo_db_exec_req) no longer commits after each append.
  Applying to RAM and staging stay exactly where they were
- wo_vm_adopt holds each DB reply envelope in a local FIFO instead of
  pushing it as the statement finishes. Pushing there would unpark the
  requester before its record is durable — the ack contract this
  iteration exists to make literally true rather than true by accident
  of every batch having one member
- at the end of the drain: ONE wo_wal_commit_fatal for everything staged,
  then every held reply. Locals rather than per-shard state: nothing
  needs to outlive the batch it describes
- "did this statement stage anything" is asked of the buffer, not guessed
  from the opcode, and that count is what the failure diagnostic reports
- the drain commits unconditionally when anything is staged, because the
  inline path relies on finding the buffer empty (task 3 documents that)
- staging failure on the request path is now FATAL via wo_wal_stage_fatal:
  the row is already in RAM and of the three verbs only insert could undo
  itself, so continuing means RAM ahead of disk. One rule
- wal_die is now shared by both fatal points

Verified — the ack contract is the thing that could break, so it is what
was tested:

- just wovm-test: 36 suites (18 x both dispatch flavors) 0 fail, cli_smoke OK
- just db-bench-quick: 85 checks, 0 failures. The legs that matter:
  crash.sN.0 — 612 acked rows all present after kill -9, which is the
  BATCHING path (multi-shard requests, held replies, one barrier);
  crash.s1.0 — 800 acked rows; restart.s1 and restart.sN replay byte-true

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-28 09:25:10 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ceea00e0b6 feat(wal): a failed barrier is detected, and fatal — T1 
databasev2 4 part A, task 1.

- wo_wal gains `path`: the abort diagnostic is worthless without naming
  the file it could not write. strdup'd in open, freed in close; NULL is
  tolerated so the message degrades rather than crashes
- wo_wal_commit now reports WHICH half failed — WO_WAL_ERR_WRITE for
  pwrite, WO_WAL_ERR_SYNC for fdatasync. A short write and a device
  refusing the flush are different operational problems and the operator
  needs the right one named
- wo_wal_commit_fatal(w, nrec): commits, or prints one diagnostic naming
  the operation, path, errno and record count, then exits
  WO_EXIT_DURABILITY (3 — 1 is a trap, 2 is a refusal, so this takes a
  third of its own)
- retrying is not offered, deliberately: on Linux a failed fsync may have
  already discarded the dirty pages, so a second call can report success
  having written nothing. Replay is the recovery that works

- test_wal: a failed commit is DETECTED, reports the write error
  specifically, keeps the batch staged (a failed commit consumes
  nothing), and the WAL knows its own path. 165 pass (was 156)

DISCLOSED GAP: the exit path itself is not exercised. Forcing a real
fdatasync failure needs a full or read-only filesystem, which the gate
cannot arrange without mount privileges. No fault-injection switch was
added — shipping a binary that can be told to kill itself is the worse
trade, and the spec rejected it.

Verified: just wovm-test — 36 suites (18 x both dispatch flavors) 0 fail,
cli_smoke OK.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-28 09:16:35 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
026919762b docs(plan): WAL group commit — 6 tasks, databasev2 4 part A 
Plan for the approved spec. Code-free per the repo convention
(docs/plan/discarded.md:54); the executor writes the code.

- T1 a failed barrier is detected and fatal — one entry point that names
  the operation, errno, WAL path and batch size, then exits. The abort
  path itself stays unexercised and the task says so rather than buying
  coverage with a fault-injection switch
- T2 the barrier moves to the drain point and replies are held; the
  request path stops committing per append. Riskiest task, and its risk
  is one place: the crash legs. Plan says STOP if they fail, do not
  adjust the test
- T3 the inline path takes the same fatal rule but keeps its own barrier,
  with a comment explaining the asymmetry so the next reader does not
  "fix" it. Looks like a no-op; without it the two paths disagree, which
  is the unevenness the spec exists to remove
- T4 prove batches actually form BEFORE measuring the payoff — otherwise
  a win gets attributed to the wrong cause. Also records peak staged
  bytes, settling the no-cap decision with a number
- T5 measure, gate, write it down. If the payoff is absent, say so and
  stop: part B must not start on an unproven premise
- T6 closeout, including the error catalogue — WO_T_IO leaving the write
  path is language-visible and must be written down

Spec corrected while planning: it pointed at durable.s1.seed as the
payoff. Wrong, structurally — worker shards hold no WAL, so a queue only
exists when other shards write, and a serial writer has nothing to batch
with. The real target is durable.sN.mixwrite: 480 ops/s at p99 5888us
against s1's 1023 at p99 664, so adding shards currently makes durable
writing WORSE. That inversion is a better argument for the iteration than
the one the story recorded.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-28 09:06:09 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
75aedf1216 docs(spec): WAL group commit — databasev2 4 part A 
Brainstormed 2026-08-28. The iteration is split: part A batches, part B
(io_uring submission) is deferred until A's measurement says whether the
blocking boundary still dominates.

The story's premise needed correcting first:

- it says "replace fsync-per-commit with io_uring group-commit", but the
  engine commits per STATEMENT — db.c calls wo_wal_commit right after
  every append, all six sites, so each row change is one pwrite + one
  fdatasync
- so two independent wins were being carried as one, and only the second
  needs io_uring. The staging buffer already holds any number of records;
  today it never holds more than one. Part A is mostly deleting calls
- iteration 22's numbers say A is where the payoff is: durable writes
  4460 ops/s, mixwrite 1023 ops/s p99 664us, against 1.28M ops/s reads

Forks settled:

- batch boundary is QUEUE-DRAIN, not the tick this story had recorded: a
  tick adds latency to a lone writer, taxing an idle system to serve a
  busy one. Queue-drain self-tunes and needs no knob
- shard 0 holds each reply envelope instead of sending it, commits once
  when the queue empties, then releases all — so a writer is acked after
  the barrier carrying ITS record, which today is true only because
  every batch has one member
- a failure between "RAM mutated" and "record durable" is a FATAL,
  diagnosed abort. This replaces uneven behaviour that already exists:
  insert rolls back, update and delete do not and say so in a comment
  ("RAM ahead of disk"). Batching would have multiplied that
- consequence stated, not slipped in: WO_T_IO leaves the write path
- no batch cap initially; peak staged bytes is measured so the question
  is settled by a number

One gap disclosed rather than hidden: forcing a real fdatasync failure
needs mount privileges, so the unit test proves the error is DETECTED and
the abort itself stays covered by inspection.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-28 07:48:11 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
62d29d6a77 docs(24): T10 closeout — stories done, board, graph, ledger, CODE-LOGIC 
Iteration 24 closes, absorbing 31 and 34. No code in this commit.

- stories 24, 31, 34 -> `status: done`, each with a landing banner. 24's
  records the gate numbers and BOTH disclosed deviations: monitor takes
  three arguments (the caller may be `main`, which has no mailbox) and a
  v1 `call` reply is a typed scalar (which is what let the agreement be
  checked at compile time, WO-E226). 31's notes it landed INSIDE 24 and
  that a fifth mechanism it never anticipated came out of proving the
  gate — the drain guarantee (40). 34's names the gap it did NOT close:
  still no RNG, so CSRF/sessions stay blocked
- board: in-progress row cleared, marker doc deleted (convention), the
  standup entry in the six-question shape, chain note — next link is
  databasev2 4 (io_uring group-commit, chain 5)
- graph: PUBSUB2 (pub/sub + WebSockets, "rejected until here") -> done
- porch ledger: a WebSocket/pub-sub row added; the cancellation row now
  says what it actually waits on rather than repeating "the arc"; the
  README's "no WebSockets/SSE" limitation was stale — WebSockets are
  supported, SSE and chunked encoding are not
- CODE-LOGIC: runtime/src gains the actor-lifecycle section (call, death,
  the cap counter's sender/home-thread split, the monitor walk, the timer
  list), the drain guarantee, and the digest section; docs/examples/chat
  gains its own — actor topology, WHY two actors per connection, fd
  ownership, and the shutdown choreography

Battery after the doc edits: wovm-test 36 suites 0 fail, woc-test exit 0,
oop-e2e 119/0, chat 11/0, web-app 46/0, linkcheck clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-28 00:06:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
7833dd5740 feat(gates): example apps log to /tmp/<example-app>.log so it can be tailed 
Every gate wrote its server output into a per-run mktemp dir that its own
cleanup trap deletes on exit — nothing to follow during the run, nothing
to read after it.

- chat -> /tmp/chat.log, web-app -> /tmp/web-app.log,
  site -> /tmp/site.log, log-watcher -> /tmp/log-watcher.log
- truncated once at gate start, appended for the rest of the run, so one
  file holds the whole run in order
- each gate PRINTS the path as its first line, with the tail -F command
- legs are banner-separated and name their port and env
  (===== leg 2 - port 18902 - env WO_IO=epoll =====)

Appending breaks readiness detection unless it is leg-scoped:

- serve() used to grep the whole file for `listening`, which after the
  switch to append would match an EARLIER leg and return before the new
  server was up. It now records the line count first and searches only
  tail -n "+$LEGFROM"; the ASan scan is scoped the same way
- log-watcher's checks grep per-invocation files, so those are kept and
  the output is teed into both — process substitution adds no pipeline
  stage, so $! is still the command's pid the gate kills and waits on
- its one SYNCHRONOUS invocation appends after it finishes rather than
  teeing: the grep on the next line would race tee's flush

Verified, all green: chat 11/0, web-app 46/0, site 21/0, log-watcher 7/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-27 23:53:10 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
d87846354e docs(board): iteration 24 is 9 of 10 and on master; only T10 closeout remains 
- narrative said "five of ten tasks landed" and named the branch as the
  live location; T4/T5 (ids 89/90) had landed and the slice merged to
  master 2026-08-27 (60414a1, fast-forward)
- records what was verified ON master: chat 11/0 at the full 1000-client
  soak, runtime 36 suites 0 fail, compiler 556 checks, corpus 119 checks
- T10 closeout is what still holds stories 24/31/34 open

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-27 23:44:56 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
60414a1754 feat(runtime): the shutdown drain guarantee — iteration 40 
A message sent before the stop flag is observed must be delivered and run
before the engine stops. One rule; a spin count could never express it.

- root cause in `shard_main` (runtime/src/vm.c): NEXT_RUNNABLE() already
  stated the contract — "a WORKER on stop keeps DRAINING ... so queued
  shutdown messages (close frames!) still run" — but the IDLE branch
  contradicted it, calling fib_reap_all and breaking on WO_IO_STOP,
  abandoning its inbox for wo_engine_stop() to free wholesale
- an actor between messages is exactly that idle case, which is why a WARM
  soak server hid it: warm shards held live fibers and took the right path
- fix: while the primary's drain window is open, an idle worker adopts its
  inbox and runs what arrives; sched_yield on an empty poll so a drain
  cannot burn a core per shard and starve the actors it exists to let run
- unreachable at WO_SHARDS=1: wo_engine_stop returns early at nshards <= 1

Measured:

- fresh-server SIGTERM drain: 5 of 16 failing before, 20 of 20 clean after
- `just chat` at the FULL 1000-client soak: 11 checks, 0 failures, both
  WO_IO backends, ASan clean with zero leaks
- the fd leg settled at scale too: 1000 connections left the count at 44,
  unchanged after 20 more — lazy per-shard init, not a leak
- runtime battery 36 suites (18 x both dispatch flavors) 0 fail;
  compiler 556 checks 0 fail

- story: docs/stories/language-runtime-database/40-shutdown-drain-guarantee.md
  (chain 3 with 31, status done), board row, slice marker updated
- outstanding and named: a pin below the gate needs new multithreaded test
  infrastructure — nothing in runtime/test/ drives wo_engine_start/stop and
  no corpus fixture can trigger a stop

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-27 23:43:45 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
3bc85d85f3 docs(slice): marker reflects T4/T5 landed, the drain blocker, and the stale-artifact trap 
- T4 monitor + T5 time.after landed in 4092074 (ids 89/90); marker still
  listed them pending because it came from master, which lacks that commit
- records the branch baseline (18 suites x 2 flavors, 0 fail) and the gate
  at 11 of 12 legs green
- names the stale-artifact trap: after a branch switch, compiler/_build and
  runtime/build hold the OTHER branch's binaries, and a v7-vs-v6 mismatch
  surfaces only as "no listener"
- the drain guarantee is now the single named blocker; nothing else in the
  slice should land before it

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-27 23:28:25 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
4af1e8bcdd fix(chat gate): every leg starts its own server — and it found a real bug 
Gate defects, all measured:

- fd check was core-count dependent: `fds_before + 8` read LAZY per-shard
  init as a leak. Shards init on first fiber, each taking one io_uring +
  one eventfd, capped at nproc; on 20 cores the first wave legitimately
  adds 18. Measured 26 -> 44 after 20 clients, still 44 after 40 more.
  Replaced with the invariant the check is for: a second wave must not
  raise the count. Core-count independent, and catches a slow leak that
  any fixed slack would hide
- a failed leg ORPHANED its server: drain inherited $SRV from the soak
  leg, so its python died on int("") and the soak server was never
  killed — its listener then broke the next run's soak on the same port.
  drain now starts its own server; cleanup kills every server a run
  started, matched on the run's unique temp dir
- two legs the plan requires were missing: WO_SHARDS=1 (the single-shard
  control) and WO_MAILBOX=8 (drop-slow-member backpressure). Both added,
  both green. The mailbox leg shrinks the slow client's SO_RCVBUF so it
  needs no sleeps
- chat adopted the porch naming (use porch/..., [deps] key) after the
  rename landed on master

Decoupling the legs exposed a REAL drain bug, traced and documented in
docs/2026-08-27-chat-drain-finding.md, NOT fixed here:

- on a FRESH server the SIGTERM drain is flaky: 5 of 16 runs left a
  client at EOF with no close frame and no diagnostic
- traced: main -> Registry -> Room -> Writer. Registry runs (diag
  confirms), the Room NEVER processes its shutdown message, so the
  Writer's close branch never runs. Clients that do get a frame are
  saved by their own Reader seeing env.stopping()
- ruled out: the spin budget (a 1s wall-clock deadline still failed 2 of
  12 — reverted, it fixed nothing and cost 1s per shutdown),
  dummy_writer() spawning during shutdown, and write failure
- the fix is an engine guarantee — a send issued before the stop flag is
  delivered — which belongs to the actor lifecycle, not a spin count

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-27 23:27:46 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ebc3522c40 Merge branch 'master' into chat-ws-lifecycle 2026-08-27 23:11:49 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
3507aafea3 docs(databasev2): propagate iteration 1's findings to every consumer 
Audit found 4 of 10 iterations citing it1 and 4 carrying stale claims the
measurement contradicts.

- 05: framing was contradicted, not merely incomplete. Its goal expected a
  gradient to detect ("back-pressure before the cliff"); there is no cliff
  — SIGKILL with swap off, exit 0 with swap on, and read latency STEPS
  (1us -> 487us) rather than departing. Heading and goal rewritten; the
  measurement makes the goal stronger, not weaker
- 05: budget must be bytes — 3.3x footprint spread — with headroom for
  index doublings, else it fires during a rehash
- 05: new goal — eviction policy QUALITY is decisive, since getting the
  resident set wrong costs 273x, not a few percent
- 06: its revival question now has a reference point. 273x is the KERNEL
  SWAP path; `resident: keys` preads via page cache and must beat it. This
  file revives only if 5c/5d lands near 273x rather than well below
- 04: write path is not where pressure bites (append ~1%, read 273x), so
  the io_uring question that matters is iteration 2's deferred read-path
  one, not group-commit
- 00-story: problem statement asserted the store "refuses the insert
  rather than dying". Corrected in place — a banner above it was not
  enough, a skimmer never reaches it
- residency spec: "swap thrash and the OOM killer" named exits that were
  not measured; replaced with silence-or-a-corpse

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-27 22:47:37 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
5b1a8c96a1 feat(db-bench): replay baseline — boot cost tracks history, not data 
Closes the last gap in databasev2 1; gives databasev2 3 its "before".

- `boot` mode: does NOTHING. WO_DATA replay runs before main, so a mode
  with no work measures replay plus a fixed startup
- `replayseed N M`: N inserts + M updates — same live rows, longer log
- `replay` leg: empty-store startup floor measured and SUBTRACTED, then
  two shapes timed, median of 3 boots each
- premise check: updates must actually append WAL records, else the two
  shapes are one measurement and the penalty means nothing
- WAL bytes = non-zero prefix, never file size (fallocate'd to 1 MiB)
- per-record cost stored in NANOseconds: as us it rounded 5.5 and 5.3 to
  6 and 5, too coarse for the number a checkpoint exists to improve
- 148 checks, 0 failures; gate bites on a doctored ns_per_record

Measured — same 20 000 live rows, different history:

- 20 000 records:  980 035 B WAL, 110 ms replay, 5.5 us/record
- 40 000 records: 1 960 035 B WAL, 211 ms replay, 5.3 us/record
- 1.9x boot cost for an IDENTICAL dataset; per-record cost flat, so
  replay is linear in records not rows
- extrapolated: 10M records ~55 s of boot, 100M ~9 min

- databasev2 3 correction: it planned to use "22's aged-store replay
  numbers", which never existed — 22 proved restart correctness, never
  timed it
- databasev2 3 hazard recorded: compaction rewrites the log and moves
  every record, so it invalidates every `resident: keys` offset — an
  arbitrary byte in a rewritten file, not stale-but-readable
- databasev2 1 -> status: done

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-27 21:25:24 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
a873cf7331 feat(db-bench): random-read-over-cap leg — the 273x collapse 
- `randread N R` in the sample: fill N rows, read R across the WHOLE range
- Weyl order `i*2654435761 mod n` — no RNG in the language, none needed;
  both legs read the SAME key order so residency is the only variable
- `randread` driver leg: control (256 MiB, does not bind) vs over-cap
  (6 MiB + swap), sizes kept modest — quick resolves it in ~5s
- gates the RATIO, not the absolutes: over-cap reads/sec belongs to the
  box's swap device, the factor between two runs belongs to the engine
- reads must all resolve (hits == R) or the leg fails; a collapse measured
  over unresolved reads is noise
- 133 checks, 0 failures; gate bites on a doctored collapse_x

Measured — this closes the gap the swap leg left:

- resident 1 851 166 reads/sec, p50 0us p99 1us
- over-cap    6 771 reads/sec, p50 128us p99 487us
- 273x throughput, ~480x p99, all 20 000 reads resolving in both
- so the two access patterns sit ~270x apart under identical pressure:
  append-mostly insert ~1%, random read 273x
- departure is a STEP not a curve (1us -> 487us, nothing between), which
  is why p99_departure_decile finds no knee — there is none

- caveat recorded, NOT inherited: this is demand-paged anonymous memory
  through swap (4 KiB/fault, no readahead). `resident: keys` preads via
  the page cache — should be better, but databasev2 2 task 7 must measure
  its own read path. New criterion added there

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-27 20:56:19 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
0c9b2c45d8 feat(db-bench): measure the RAM ceiling — databasev2 1 
- `Wide` text-heavy reference shape beside Int-only `Item`
- `growth N int|text`: per-decile RSS read from own /proc/self/status
- `growth-verify`: survivor of a crash must be a contiguous intact prefix
- four footprint legs under a rootless cgroup v2 cap, swap on/off
- `ceiling` leg: die at the cap, then replay must come back intact
- footprint read as median-of-marginals; doublings a separate metric
- 121 checks, 0 failures; footprint gated ±10%, kill-timing ±100%

Measured, and it inverted two of the iteration's own predictions:

- footprint 96.5-100 B/row Int vs 320.6-324 B/row text = 3.3x, NOT the
  "order of magnitude" three docs asserted
- table storage has NO checked ceiling: SIGKILL signal 9, not a catchable
  WO_T_OOM. overcommit lets malloc succeed; kernel kills on page touch
- swap is NOT latency collapse: 900k rows 148s capped-with-swap vs 150s
  uncapped. Append-mostly never re-touches cold pages
- ack-after-fsync survives an OOM kill: ~40k rows, no holes, no corruption
- iteration 2's budget dependency is REMOVED not satisfied — there is no
  "swap onset" to derive a fraction from

- fix: subprocess returncode -9 was labelled a "checked refusal"; 137 is
  the shell spelling of the same signal

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-27 20:18:47 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
1fe808b7a4 docs(stories): add readiness, retire status: refine, sweep all 47 iterations 
- `readiness: ready | refine` is a SECOND axis, orthogonal to status.
  `ready` = the brainstorm is complete and the decisions are LOCKED (a spec
  approved, or the forks explicitly confirmed). `refine` = open forks remain
  and it cannot be planned yet
- `status: refine` RETIRED because it carried both meanings at once, so a held
  iteration with an approved spec (language 18, 26) was indistinguishable from
  one nobody had thought about. status is now purely where the WORK is:
  done | in-progress | pending | hold — `pending` was already the board's own
  rendering word, so nothing new was invented
- all 47 iterations classified from EVIDENCE in their own text, not by guess:
  "the four forks are SETTLED" / "spec + plan approved" / "Approved spec:" for
  ready; "Forks the spec must settle" / "no spec exists yet" for refine. Every
  shipped iteration is ready by definition. 19 done, 5 in-progress, 15
  pending, 8 hold; 27 ready, 20 refine
- two iterations moved refine -> in-progress rather than -> pending: language
  31 and 34 are absorbed into 24 and work on them is literally happening, which
  the board already showed as 🔄 while their frontmatter said otherwise. That
  disagreement is now gone
- board legend, board-views' frontmatter contract, and two new Dataview
  queries updated — the useful one being `readiness: ready AND status:
  pending`, the startable set

WHAT THE NEW AXIS IMMEDIATELY SURFACED: of 15 pending iterations, exactly ONE
is startable — databasev2 4, io_uring group-commit, whose forks were confirmed
settled 2026-08-20. Everything else pending needs a brainstorm first. That was
invisible while one key carried both meanings, and it is now on the board.

Also caught by the sweep, unrelated to readiness but found by cross-checking
frontmatter against the board: SIX duplicate rows. Every iteration moved into
databasev2 was still listed in the LANGUAGE pending table under its retired id
(23, 32, 33, 20, 21, 27) as well as its new one. Stale copies removed. And two
databasev2 rows made claims the sweep contradicts — iteration 1 was billed
"startable today" while its forks are open, and 6 still called itself the
ceiling-raiser after 2 took that role.

Docs only. linkcheck 0 broken / 0 anchors.

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 2026-08-27 16:54:45 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
f72b3310a8 refactor(db): wo_row_borrow/wo_row_release — one read path for both residencies 
Task 5c step 1 of docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-26-table-residency.md, as a
PURE REFACTOR: no storage change, no keys-table anywhere. Borrow is wo_row_ptr
plus a seam, every release is a no-op. Provable on its own before the storage
change it exists to enable.

DESIGN SETTLED BY READING THE STRUCTURES, and both answers make 5c smaller:

- the id hash needs NO new storage. `hvals` is already uint64 holding
  slot+1 with 0 = empty (table.h), so offset+1 fits the same field, and the
  interpretation is per-table because a table is wholly `all` or wholly
  `keys`. No parallel map
- secondary indexes need NO change. `db_ibucket.ids` stores row IDS, not slot
  indices, and table.c resolves them through the id hash. I had told the
  developer these pointed at slab slots — that was wrong, and it is why this
  is one shared accessor rather than 11 rewrites
- the real coupling is the unique shadow: idx_add_row and
  row_apply_field_slot both FETCH the conflicting row and compare columns.
  Both now borrow/release, so a keys-table's non-resident conflict will be
  found rather than silently skipped — a unique check that only examines
  resident rows is a correctness hole, not a limitation

The scratch lives on `db_table`, not on the stack and not per call. Per call
would allocate once per candidate inside a bucket loop, turning an O(1) probe
into an allocation storm; a stack buffer is unsafe because the loader bounds
field_cnt at 65535 (loader.c:189), so the worst case is ~512 KB. It is safe
per-table because the store is single-writer, and a `busy` flag is there to
catch a nested borrow rather than let it alias silently. Freed in
table_destroy.

Gates: all 18 runtime suites 0 fail under ASan+UBSan (test_table 856/0,
test_wal 3654/0), oop-e2e 119/0, residency 8/0, employee 8/0, db-actor 8/0.
And the pure-refactor proof the plan asked for: `db-bench --quick` 85/0, every
resident read/query/seed/write floor held — a refactor that moves a number is
not a refactor.

Remaining wo_row_ptr sites for 5d: 6 in table.c, 2 in db.c, 2 in wal.c.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-27 16:33:36 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
51dd42f9db docs(databasev2): rewrite iteration 2 to match what was designed and built 
Flagged by the developer: the iteration still described the pre-brainstorm
three-mode design behind a "superseded in part" banner while four tasks had
landed against it.

- iteration 2 rewritten around the shape as built: two keys
  (`durable: true|false`, `resident: all|keys`), not a `mode:` enum with
  `cold`. status refine -> in-progress
- added a task-by-task progress table with commit hashes, and split the
  acceptance criteria into MET (each with how it was verified, not just that
  it passed — e.g. the goldens-unchanged claim is `git diff` over golden/
  being empty after a WOC_BLESS run, since blessing rewrites all of them) and
  OUTSTANDING with the task that owns each
- kept the history rather than deleting it: the three-mode replacement, the
  "one real rewrite" that was fiction, and the opposite half that turned out
  genuinely deep. An iteration file is where that record belongs
- board row rewritten to agree; the track index's "the lever" section, its
  principle-7 paragraph and its sequence rationale all still taught the dead
  three-mode design

ITERATION 6 IS NOW LARGELY SUPERSEDED, and bannered as such rather than
quietly gutted. `resident: keys` is the ceiling-raiser and it lives in
iteration 2 (tasks 5c/5d). More than relocated: 6's premise — a user-space
resident working set with faulting and 5's eviction policy — was specifically
REJECTED by the spec in favour of the kernel page cache, since a pread against
a cached page is a memcpy. What may still be left is recorded honestly: revisit
only with a measurement showing the page cache insufficient. Its fork list
survives, especially "does the language surface the fault cost at the use
site", which is still open and still the largest question about what writeonce
is. The sequence rationale is amended too — it had 6 as the ceiling-raiser and
5 as a prerequisite on the critical path; neither holds.

Docs only. linkcheck 0 broken / 0 anchors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-27 13:10:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
18a56f24ec feat(db): wo_wal_read_row_at — materialise a row from a log offset 
Task 5b of docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-26-table-residency.md, whose Task 5
is now split 5a-5d (plan updated in this commit).

- the offset twin of wo_row_read (table.c:721): same out-gate contract —
  every value handed back is a FRESH VM allocation — but resolved from a file
  position instead of the id hash
- fits entirely in wal.c because everything it needs was already public:
  scan_record and dec_val are local, and wo_val_decode_vm / wo_db_val_free
  are exported at table.h:183-187. Two decode stages, since the record and
  the VM speak different dialects: dec_val -> engine slots -> VM copies, with
  the engine slots freed as scratch on every path
- ZERO storage change. Nothing calls it yet; that is the point of separating
  it from 5c, so the read path can be proven before the slabs are touched
- refuses rather than guessing, each case distinguishable: no intact record
  at the offset, a malformed header, a decode failure, trailing bytes, and a
  REMOVE tombstone. That last one matters most — handing a tombstone back as
  a row would read a deleted row as live

Tested by deep field comparison, not by "it parsed": 24 rows with a nil Text
every third row, each read back BY OFFSET and compared field by field,
including the string bytes. Plus all three refusal paths — tombstone, a
mid-record offset (the silent-wrong-row failure this guards), and past the
intact prefix.

The free-on-every-path claim is VERIFIED, not assumed: removing the free
produced 3 LeakSanitizer reports; restoring it returns to 0. Worth doing
because "ASan is clean" only means something if the harness would have
complained.

PLAN SPLIT: Task 5's storage half was written as if it were plumbing. Measured
instead: wo_row_ptr returns a db_row* into a slab with 11 call sites, table.c
has 37 slab references, db.c:105-181 scans slabs directly, enc_val serialises
FROM the slab, and no operation exists that drops a payload while keeping
index entries. Note this is the OPPOSITE half from the earlier retraction —
the record FORMAT needed nothing, the record STORAGE genuinely is deep. 5c
(id->offset map + drop-payload-keep-index) and 5d (rewiring the call sites,
scans, @unique/FK across the boundary) get their own write-ups.

Gates: test_wal 3654/0 (was 3428), all 18 runtime suites 0 fail under
ASan+UBSan, oop-e2e 119/0, residency 8/0, employee 8/0, db-actor 8/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-27 10:27:40 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
3290c7d117 feat(db): wo_wal_next_offset — exact record offsets, proven 
Task 5a of docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-26-table-residency.md. The read
path itself is NOT in this commit; see the note below.

- the offset problem is far smaller than the spec feared. `w->off` is the
  durable tail and `w->len` the staged bytes, and wo_wal_commit pwrites the
  whole batch AT off before advancing it — so a record staged now lands at
  exactly off+len, knowable at append time with no deferral to flush
- shipped as an inline accessor rather than new out-params on the three
  append functions, so the 156 existing WAL checks keep their signatures
- correct across both awkward cases, and both are now unit-pinned:
  a failed commit leaves off unadvanced so the record still lands where it
  was promised, and wo_wal_open positions off at the end of the INTACT
  prefix so offsets are always relative to validated data
- test_offset_capture asserts the recovered ID per record, not merely that a
  record parses — a wrong offset reads a NEIGHBOURING record, which passes
  its own CRC and returns the wrong row silently. 400 records across
  repeated buffer growth (stage() doubles from 4096) and uneven commit
  batches, so offsets are exercised mid-buffer and right after a flush

The failed-commit test caught MY OWN misunderstanding: I asserted
next_offset was unchanged after a failed commit. It is not, and should not
be — the record is still staged, so next_offset correctly points PAST it.
The invariant that matters is that the durable tail did not move, which is
what it now asserts.

Gates: test_wal 3428/0 (was 3426), all 18 runtime suites 0 fail under
ASan+UBSan, cli_smoke OK, oop-e2e 119/0, residency 8/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-27 08:43:10 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
b74e13d21e feat(db): durable:false skips the WAL append and replay 
Task 4 of docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-26-table-residency.md — the first
behavioural change in the iteration.

- db.c: one predicate, `table_is_durable`, gating the three EXISTING mutation
  sites. Kept as a function rather than an inlined condition so
  database/src/CODE-LOGIC.md's "nothing else may mutate storage" claim keeps
  holding — the choke points stayed three
- the ack contract is untouched for durable tables: RAM applied, record
  staged, one commit before the ack, and a failed commit still removes the row
- replay: a log holding records for a class the image now declares volatile is
  a real migration case, not corruption. apply_record returns -2 (distinct
  from -1), wo_wal_replay_ex reports the class id, and main.c names it and
  exits 2. `wo_wal_replay` stays as the NULL wrapper, so all 156 WAL unit
  checks are untouched
- measured, not asserted: 50 inserts wrote 1500 WAL bytes into a durable
  table and ZERO into a volatile one. The file's SIZE proves nothing (it is
  fallocate'd to 1 MiB up front), so the gate measures the non-zero prefix

BUG I INTRODUCED AND CAUGHT: the mismatch message first printed the class name
with %s, but wo_str.data is `char data[]` with NO NUL terminator (obj.h) — a
buffer over-read. Now %.*s with the explicit length, and re-verified under
ASan.

New gate `just residency` (8 checks), because everything above was otherwise
a one-off manual measurement: restart behaviour, the zero-byte write path, the
mismatch refusal (exit 2, names the class, NOT reported as corruption), and
both compile-time refusals. Its own first run failed two checks for a bug in
the script rather than the feature — `woc | grep` under `set -o pipefail`
returns woc's exit 1 even when grep matches, since woc exits 1 whenever it
reports diagnostics. Captures first now, with the reason noted inline.

Also new: corpus run/table-volatile-inprocess pins that a volatile table is a
FULL table in-process — same @unique enforcement, same index probe, same query
surface. Only survival differs, and that is unobservable from inside one
process.

Gates: woc-test 557/0, 18 runtime suites 0 fail, cli_smoke OK, oop-e2e 119/0
(was 118), residency 8/0, employee 8/0, db-actor 8/0, site 21/0, ASan clean on
the new replay path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-27 08:23:49 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
477f8d1b2b feat(wob): v7 — class descriptor carries durability and residency 
Task 3 of docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-26-table-residency.md.

- NO LAYOUT CHANGE. The plan said to add descriptor fields; the descriptor
  already had a `flags` u32 with only bit0 used, so both properties ride
  spare bits (WO_CLASSF_VOLATILE 0x02, WO_CLASSF_RESIDENT_KEYS 0x04). A v7
  class record is byte-identical in shape to a v6 one, which is a much
  smaller and safer change than the plan assumed
- both spelled as the NON-default, so a zero flags word means exactly what
  every pre-v7 image meant: durable, every row resident. A non-@table class
  has both clear by construction
- the loader refuses the meaningless pair (bit1+bit2) independently of woc,
  on the standing principle that what the loader accepts the interpreter
  trusts. Verified by FORGING the flags word in an otherwise valid image,
  since woc will not emit one: flags=6 gives "durable:false with
  resident:keys", flags=8 still gives "unknown flags"
- WOB_VERSION 6 -> 7. Kept because an OLDER runtime reading a v7 image would
  otherwise treat a volatile table as durable and quietly disagree with its
  own source. loader.c's check is exact-match, so a v6 image is refused
  rather than read with the bits clear — verified by patching a v7 header
  back down to 6

GAP FOUND AND CLOSED: woc ACCEPTED `durable: false, resident: keys`. Task 1's
steps covered duplicates and bad values but never the combination, and the
plan had only put that refusal in the loader. The spec wants both, so the
compiler now refuses it too (WO-E102, checked after the argument list is
complete since it is a property of the pair). A compile error is the one a
developer can act on.

VERSION DRIFT: the constant lives in FOUR places, not one. wob.h,
emit.ml:157, disasm.ml:186, and compiler/test/runner.ml:2405 — the last is a
deliberately independent reimplementation of the loader battery, and it
caught the drift as 14 failures rather than silently passing. Its flags mask
and the combination refusal are now in sync too, which is the point of it
being independent rather than shared.

Gates: woc-test 557/0, 18 runtime suites 0 fail, 18 ISO-flavour suites 0
fail, cli_smoke OK, oop-e2e 118/0, employee 8/0, db-actor 8/0, site 21/0.
Zero goldens moved (git diff over golden/ empty).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-26 23:22:26 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
e120129f2c feat(woc): WO-E224 — refuse a durable ref into a volatile table 
Task 2 of docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-26-table-residency.md.

- the check lives in `check_field_types`, which already runs over the raw AST
  (so the diagnostic lands at the field's own position, once per declaration)
  in Pass 2 with `syms` fully built
- only the durable -> volatile direction is refused. volatile -> durable is
  legal: the referencing row is the one that disappears, so nothing is left
  holding a stale id
- the message names both classes and both escapes, because "this is wrong" is
  less useful than "make Session durable, or declare Order volatile too"
- sees through a `?` wrapper, so `?ref S` is caught too
- code picked as 24 by sweeping `<stage>_prefix ^ "NN"` — 01-23, 25, 26 and
  50 were taken, so 24 was a genuine hole. Grepping the literal WO-E224
  would have found nothing, which is how ten codes once went missing
- catalogued in the same commit, and the completeness sweep re-run: 53
  emitted, 54 catalogued (the extra is retired WO-W201), none missing

PLAN CORRECTION: the plan's second step said to apply the same check to
`backlink` fields. Dropped — a backlink is "NOT a stored column" (ast.ml:72),
so after a restart it resolves to an EMPTY COLLECTION, which is a legal state
indistinguishable from "nothing references me". There is no id to dangle.
Implementing it would have refused correct programs; a spurious diagnostic is
worse than a missing one. A run fixture now pins that the backlink shape stays
legal, so the check cannot silently grow over-broad later.

Gates: woc-test 557/0, oop-e2e 118/0 (was 116 — one compile-fail and one run
fixture added), employee 8/0, db-actor 8/0; employee, db-bench, db-actor,
porch, log-watcher and gc-cycle all still typecheck.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-26 23:09:40 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
37f7267115 feat(woc): @table durable/resident arguments, defaults preserve behaviour 
Task 1 of docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-26-table-residency.md.

- ast.ml: `table_cfg` gains `durable : bool` (default true) and
  `resident : residency` (ResAll | ResKeys, default ResAll) — both defaulting
  to the pre-existing behaviour, which is what lets every @table written
  before this compile byte-identically
- parser.ml: `durable:` takes the existing KwTrue/KwFalse tokens; `resident:`
  takes the bare identifiers `all`/`keys`. Given-twice tracked by local seen
  flags rather than option fields, so "absent" and "explicitly the default"
  stay distinguishable without the AST carrying an option nobody reads
- five new WO-E102 causes, all catalogued in the same commit: durable twice,
  resident twice, an unknown resident value, `resident: index` (the
  pre-review spelling, with a message naming its replacement), and a retired
  design word (mode/store/ram/cold/tiered/paged/mmap/buffer) which gets a
  message stating the two real keys instead of a generic "unknown argument"
- dump.ml prints each property ONLY when it differs from its default.
  Printing unconditionally would have moved every pre-existing golden, which
  this iteration is not allowed to do
- new golden compiler/test/golden/ast/table-residency.wo covers all four
  shapes, including a table declaring `resident: all` explicitly and
  correctly dumping nothing for it
- verified, not assumed: `git diff --stat` over compiler/test/golden/ is
  EMPTY after a WOC_BLESS run, so all 30 pre-existing goldens are untouched.
  woc-test 557/0 (was 556), oop-e2e 116/0, employee 8/0; employee, db-bench,
  db-actor and porch all still typecheck
- docs: language-surface's @table row now matches what the parser accepts

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-26 23:03:36 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
1ee7cce597 docs: retract the row-encoding rewrite — the flat record format already exists 
- found during the pre-execution review of the plan, before any code
- the claim was wrong in both spec and plan: table.c's db_val_encode builds
  the IN-MEMORY slot; the FILE record is a separate encoding in wal.c and has
  been flat since iteration 9. enc_val inlines every kind recursively with no
  pointer anywhere; dec_val reads it back; a record is
  `WO_WAL_INSERT | class_id | id | <value per field>` in the
  len|crc|payload|mark frame; scan_record already preads and CRC-verifies a
  record at an arbitrary offset
- so the row encoding needs NO change, and Task 5 (a "self-contained,
  offset-based" rewrite billed as the iteration's substantive engineering) is
  DELETED, not reduced. 8 tasks -> 7, and the highest-risk task is gone
- the real difficulty is where the spec never looked: wo_wal_append_insert
  stages into a 1 MiB buffer, so a record's final offset is unknown until
  flush. Threading an accurate offset back through a buffered writer —
  correct across partial flush, failed commit and torn tail — is now Task 5's
  first two steps, with a unit test that straddles a buffer boundary and a
  case asserting no offset is published for a record that never reached disk
- dependent claims corrected: the mmap alternative's premise, the read-path
  bullet (now names scan_record/dec_val), and the self-review coverage table,
  which records the retraction rather than quietly dropping the row
- root cause worth noting: reading one layer and inferring another. Second
  time this iteration — the first was assuming WO_HEAP_MB bounded table
  storage when it bounds the VM arena
- no code written yet; linkcheck 0 broken / 0 anchors

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-26 23:00:18 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
3586650baa docs: implementation plan for databasev2 2 — table residency 
- 8 tasks, 71 steps, from the 2026-08-26 table-residency spec
- deliberately contains NO code: discarded.md records "raw code in plan
  documents" as rejected, and all six preceding plans have zero fences.
  Stated in the header so it does not read as an omission. Every step
  instead names the exact file and line region plus the required behaviour
- task order is by testable deliverable, not by layer:
  1 grammar + defaults (no existing golden may move)
  2 the cross-table check — a durable ref into a volatile table is refused
  3 .wob v7: descriptor carries both properties, loader refuses the
    meaningless combination so it never reaches the engine
  4 durable:false skips the WAL at the three existing choke points in db.c;
    replay refuses on mismatch rather than resurrecting rows
  5 self-contained offset-based records — the one real rewrite, since
    table.c returns a malloc'd address as the slot word today
  6 resident:keys read path: id->offset map, pread, sequential scan;
    @unique and FK-restrict across the boundary are the correctness core
  7 the two runtime refusals — durable with no WO_DATA (silent data loss
    today), and the resident-footprint budget
  8 measure, baseline, crash battery, docs, closeout
- self-review table maps every spec section to a task. Two gaps found and
  closed: the escape hatch for an intentionally ephemeral run (a refusal
  with no way forward is worse than the loss it replaces), and persisting
  the offset map in databasev2 3's snapshot
- linkcheck 0 broken / 0 anchors

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-26 22:51:49 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
566559cf70 docs: name the residency value keys, not index (review change) 
- `resident: all | keys` replaces `resident: all | index`. Two reasons beyond
  taste: it kills the collision with the `index:` argument
  (`@table(index: [customer], resident: index)` read badly), and it puts both
  values on ONE axis — each now answers "what row data stays resident",
  where `all`/`index` mixed a quantity with a structure name
- accurate as well as clearer: what stays resident is the id->offset map, the
  secondary indexes and the unique shadows — all key structures; row payloads
  are exactly what leaves. `resident: none` was rejected as overclaiming,
  since the indexes very much are resident
- checked for collisions: neither `all` nor `keys` is a keyword or a builtin
  (`key_at`/`val_at` exist, bare `keys` does not)
- the spec's wart note became a recorded decision; the rejected spelling is
  kept quoted so the rationale still reads
- fixes a bug I introduced in the 2026-08-26 track move: all six moved
  iterations carried a banner reading "Part of [Story — the database beyond
  RAM]" whose link pointed at the LANGUAGE arc — correct target, lying text,
  the exact failure mode the link audit warned about. Banners now point at
  the databasev2 story, and the original "Part of" line says plainly which
  track the iteration was authored in before the move
- linkcheck 0 broken / 0 anchors

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-26 22:47:24 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
da30aa6527 docs: amend principle 7 — the log is authoritative, residency is declared 
- driving case: a 120 GB order table on a 32 GB host. Not a tuning problem;
  no eviction policy fixes it. Developer accepted reconsidering the principle
- principle 7 rewritten: durability half UNCHANGED and unconditional
  (WAL-logged, fsync before ack, CRC-dropped torn tail); residency half
  demoted from law to per-table declaration. Old wording quoted in place so
  the amendment is legible, with the reason: a doctrine a real workload
  cannot satisfy gets ignored, and the failure it produced was an OOM kill
- spec: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-26-table-residency-design.md
  One log-structured engine — the WAL already holds every row, so keep an
  in-RAM id->offset map and pread rows back. No second engine, no user-space
  row cache (the kernel page cache is the hot copy, which is already this
  repo's stated position and why it avoids O_DIRECT)
- arithmetic that makes it work: 240M rows x 16 B of index = ~3.8 GB
  resident in 32 GB. Indexes stay resident, rows do not. Buys ~2 orders of
  magnitude, not infinity — stated plainly in the spec
- grammar: two optional keys, `durable: true|false` and `resident: all|index`,
  both defaulting to today's behaviour, so all 28 existing @table
  declarations compile untouched and no golden is reblessed
- rejected, with reasons recorded: mmap (rows are pointer-bearing —
  table.c returns (uintptr_t)t as the slot word), buffer pool (the Rust-era
  phase-12 design that died with that track), paged B-tree (stays rejected),
  a three-valued enum, automatic spill, disk-backed-by-default
- self-review caught the budget defaulting to "none" while promising the ERP
  developer a diagnostic instead of the OOM killer — contradiction fixed:
  the budget defaults to a fraction of host memory, and its value comes from
  databasev2 1's swap-onset measurement
- live docs that contradicted the amendment updated (subagent doctrine,
  its guide, discarded.md's two rows, iteration 04's read claim, 07, 38);
  dated specs/plans left as records. linkcheck 0 broken / 0 anchors

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-26 22:42:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
746dc2b42b docs(databasev2): third track — the database beyond RAM, with per-table storage modes 
- docs/stories/databasev2/, numbered from 1. Six PENDING database iterations
  moved from the language track and renumbered, keeping the old id in
  `was_language_iteration:` so a search for "iteration 32" still finds it:
  32 -> 3 WAL checkpoint, 23 -> 4 io_uring commit, 33 -> 7 single-file store,
  27 -> 8 query grammar, 20 -> 9 cross-program, 21 -> 10 keypair auth.
  Done work (9, 9b, 22) stays as v1 history; language 18 left whole
- the problem, read off the engine not guessed: rows are malloc'd slabs with
  addresses stable forever, NO eviction/spill/paging anywhere in database/src,
  the WAL never checkpoints so boot replays all history, and durability is one
  process-global WO_DATA so no table can say it matters more than another.
  An allocation failure IS a clean catchable WO_T_OOM — but swap thrash
  arrives first and carries no error signal at all, which is the real hazard
- four new iterations:
  1 measure the ceiling FIRST (curve not cliff; the three exits; kill -9 at
    exhaustion) — every later default should follow from a number
  2 `@table(mode: ram | durable | cold)` — the grammar ask. Small surface
    (Ast.table_cfg gains a key, the parser already rejects unknown args), big
    semantics: `durable` defaults so nothing changes silently, and the
    compiler refuses a durable row holding a `ref` into a ram table
  5 bounded tables + refuse/evict/back-pressure, shedding BEFORE the OS acts
  6 cold tiering — mostly forks, incl. whether the language surfaces the
    fault cost and whether @unique on cold is refused outright. A paged
    B-tree stays rejected: if tiering needs one, reject tiering
- 39 links repointed, link TEXT renumbered to track-local ids; arc gains one
  pointer row replacing the six moved; board + board-views cover three tracks
- linkcheck 0 broken / 0 anchors; no code blocks in any story

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-26 20:52:48 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
01df75245f docs(porch): give the framework its own story track, iterations 1-8 
- docs/stories/porch/ — a TRACK folder, not a status folder: status still
  lives only in frontmatter. Adds `track: porch` so a query over
  docs/stories/ can tell a porch 3 from a language 3
- 00-story.md carries the sequence, the dependency graph, and a table of
  what the track explicitly does NOT own (binding -> 29, cache -> 18,
  proxy -> 38, metrics -> 30, TLS/templates -> doctrine)
- eight iterations, each with phases, per-phase tasks, Given/When/Then
  criteria, out-of-scope and the forks a spec must settle:
  1 store-backed middleware (limiter + idempotency — needs nothing new,
    first on purpose so the store pattern is proven cheaply)
  2 randomness + cookies (phase A is language-track: a CSPRNG builtin;
    `Resp.headers` being a map cannot emit two Set-Cookie lines)
  3 sessions   4 CSRF   5 routing/response ergonomics (independent)
  6 streaming core (the seam 7 and 8 wait on; chunked-request refusal
    must survive)   7 SSE + compression   8 static + lifecycle hooks
- language iteration 39 -> status: hold, retitled superseded, with a row
  mapping each of its goals to the porch iteration that took it. Kept, not
  deleted: the Fiber study cites it and its randomness argument is what
  this track is built on
- board gains a porch section; board-views gains porch and both-track
  Dataview queries; porch README and the Fiber study §7 point at the track
- no code blocks in any story (plans carry concept and actions in words);
  linkcheck 0 broken / 0 anchors

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-26 20:17:33 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ffd791d05b refactor(porch): name the web framework porch, fix the wo.toml identifier claim 
- docs/examples/writeonce-serve -> docs/examples/porch (git mv, history kept);
  `[deps]` key and import are now `porch` / `porch/http` / `porch/router`
- name history preserved on the library README, not rewritten into dated
  records: writeonce-framework -> writeonce-serve (08-25) -> porch (08-26).
  Stories, specs, plans and the audit reports keep the older name by the
  repo's own convention; only live docs and every path link were rewritten
- left alone deliberately: `internal/serve.wo`, `pub fn serve`, `serve_conn`,
  `app.serve(...)` — those are functions, not the module name
- web-app/wo.toml comment corrected: it claimed hyphens are not identifier
  characters and named a key this file never used. lexer.ml's `is_ident_cont`
  DOES accept `-` (an internal dash is part of the identifier, which is why
  binary minus needs spaces), so a hyphenated key would be legal too
- site now teaches the name: package card, the two-deps chapter and the
  handlers-are-classes chapter say `porch`; site-accept asserted the old
  /packages/serve route and caught the rename, as a gate should
- gates: web-app 46/0, site 21/0, deps-accept 8/0, oop-e2e 116/0,
  linkcheck 0 broken / 0 anchors; porch typechecks entry-less as kind=library

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-26 19:36:34 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
c0b0dbb846 docs: audit all markdown against the code, fix findings, flatten status folders 
- README: shipped concurrency/HTTP/WebSockets sat in the roadmap as "not yet
  available"; "no package manager" contradicted [deps]; the deps example
  would not have compiled (the key IS the module name)
- runtime/README: leads with wovm, wo-rt.c demoted to a historical section;
  dropped 2 nonexistent recipes, crates/rt, @gc refcounting, 13 suites -> 18
- employee + log-watcher READMEs claimed "does not compile"; both are gates
- error catalog: +10 emitted codes incl WO-E250, the only diagnostic the
  shipped query surface raises; recorded why the sweep rotted
- language-surface: group-by parses, then the typechecker refuses it
- 00-code-review + 00-link-audit re-run; history kept, not rewritten
- 48 dead Rust-era exploration links de-linked rather than re-pointed (their
  prose names the retired plan by number); successor map -> discarded.md
- 08-project-structure: compiler/plan/ never existed; corpus has 9 dirs, 5 empty
- releasing.md: dropped a --draft step the workflow never had
- new docs/00-doc-audit.md: findings + disposition, incl one row where the
  audit was wrong and the doc it accused was right
- status folders removed: 34 stories flat, status only in frontmatter; 252
  links recomputed from resolved paths; board/board-views/structure retaught
- story 24 -> in-progress, since frontmatter is now the only truth
- new iteration 38: fs mutation verbs + net.connect, the two capability
  families no iteration owned
- new iteration 39: gofiber/fiber v3.5.0 parity study. The ledger called
  CSRF/sessions unblocked by iteration 34's HMAC, but the runtime has no
  source of randomness at all
- linkcheck skips .dev/.superpowers: 0 broken paths, 0 bad anchors

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-26 19:20:22 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
b3f8ed9985 feat(site): source links to the repo, deployment layout documented 
- "View source" and the nav GitHub link pointed at the user profile
  (github.com/shoneyj); both now point at github.com/shoneyJ/writeonce
- README: what actually has to reach the host — the self-contained
  binary plus dist/ (served by /dl) and data/ (WO_DATA) — and the four
  environment variables, with SITE_HOST left UNSET behind a proxy so
  the process binds loopback
- says plainly that dist/ must hold the PUBLISHED release assets: the
  build is not byte-reproducible, so a local tarball would not match
  the published .sha256 and the mirror would disagree with GitHub

Prepared and verified locally: docs/examples/site/dist/ holds the real
v0.1.0 assets (digest matches the release) and target/site serves them
byte-identically. Both directories are gitignored.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-25 08:45:15 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
8f3824409b fix(site): glibc floor is 2.35, not 2.38 — read off the release 
The published v0.1.0 binaries need less than the page claimed:
woc imports up to GLIBC_2.35, wovm up to GLIBC_2.34. The page said
2.38, which was measured on a dev workstation (glibc 2.39) before CI
existed — and understating support turns working platforms away.

- supported systems: glibc 2.35+, covering Ubuntu 22.04+, Debian 12+,
  Fedora 36+
- RHEL 9 (2.34) runs wovm but not woc: build elsewhere, copy the
  self-contained binary
- say plainly that the floor is set by the machine that BUILT the
  release, which is why CI pins ubuntu-22.04
- site-accept follows the new string

This is the pinned-runner decision paying off: 2.38 -> 2.35.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-25 07:42:59 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
3f9ce2bf32 fix(ci): do not pin dune — use whatever setup-ocaml provides
Some checks are pending
release / release (push) Waiting to run
Details 
The pinned `opam install dune.3.14.0` failed. setup-ocaml installs a
dune of its own for caching, so requesting an exact older version is a
downgrade the solver refuses — which also means run 1's
`dune: command not found` was only ever a PATH problem, fixed by
`opam exec --`.

- probe with `opam exec -- dune --version`, install only if absent
- echo the resolved version so the log says what built the release
- any dune >= 3.14 satisfies `(lang dune 3.14)`

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-25 07:39:51 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
4f89d42948 fix(ci): install dune and build inside the opam env 
First run failed with `dune: command not found`.

- ocaml/setup-ocaml provides a compiler and opam, not dune. dune is an
  ordinary opam package and this project has no .opam file for the
  action to infer one from, so nothing pulled it in
- add `opam install -y dune.3.14.0`, pinned to the version
  compiler/dune-project targets (`(lang dune 3.14)`)
- run the build as `opam exec -- ./scripts/mkdist.sh`: the script calls
  dune internally, so it needs the opam environment on PATH

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-25 07:17:59 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
72cd510676 ci: workflow_dispatch is a real dry run 
- manual runs skip the tag guard (there is no tag on a dispatch, so
  GITHUB_REF_NAME is the branch and the guard always failed) and skip
  publishing
- a dispatch now builds, verifies the digest, smoke-tests the
  extracted toolchain and reports the glibc floor, then stops
- replaces the throwaway-tag rehearsal in the checklist: no tag to
  delete, no draft release to clean up

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-25 06:01:26 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
c47d91c153 docs(releasing): what the hosted runner costs 
- public repos: standard runners free, unlimited minutes; only larger
  (4-core+) runners bill there and this workflow does not use one
- private: included minutes per plan, then per-minute; Linux x1 vs
  Windows x2 / macOS x10; each job rounds up to the next minute
- sized from a measurement: cold mkdist.sh is 3.4s on 20 cores, so
  under a minute on a 2-core runner — setup-ocaml dominates, ~3-10
  min per release, and it only runs on a tag
- release assets do not count against Actions artifact storage
- flags that rates drift; check the billing page

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-25 05:23:33 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
3dcadefbfd docs(releasing): why the release job stays on a hosted runner 
- self-hosted works technically: outbound HTTPS only, no inbound
  ports, honours HTTPS_PROXY/NO_PROXY — a box behind a proxy is fine
- but it defeats the pinned-runner decision: the build host sets the
  glibc floor, so a workstation runner (2.39 here) puts it back to
  2.38+ and drops Ubuntu 22.04 / Debian 12 / RHEL 9
- and a workstation-built release is unattested
- records what self-hosting accepts: jobs run as the starting user,
  with that user's ~/.ssh, credentials and network reach — including
  hosts named in ~/.ssh/config; worst on public repos, where a
  stranger's PR runs code on the runner
- if unavoidable: dedicated VM, unprivileged user, --ephemeral,
  segmented network, treat .credentials as a secret

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-25 05:16:43 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
a705622f4a docs(releasing): first-time pipeline readiness checklist 
- states plainly what does NOT trigger it: builds run on a
  GitHub-hosted runner, not locally, and only on a `v*` tag push —
  pushing master releases nothing
- 14 numbered steps: get the workflow onto GitHub, enable Actions,
  allow ocaml/setup-ocaml, the 403/workflow-permissions fallback,
  a --draft rehearsal on a throwaway tag, cleanup, then the real tag
- calls out that the rehearsal tag is EXPECTED to fail the tag/VERSION
  guard, and how to rehearse the full job instead
- step 8/9: read the runner's glibc floor and reconcile
  install/view.wo with it — the runner, not the dev machine, decides
  who can run the release
- lists the three likely first-run failures

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-25 05:04:39 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
463f897e5f ci: release workflow — no gh auth login, tag-triggered 
- .github/workflows/release.yml: builds, verifies and publishes on a
  `v*` tag. `permissions: contents: write` on the injected
  GITHUB_TOKEN replaces `gh auth login`; no PAT, nothing to rotate
- runs-on ubuntu-22.04 DELIBERATELY: the build host's glibc caps which
  symbol versions the binaries import, and that cap is the floor every
  user needs. 22.04 (2.35) includes Ubuntu 22.04 / Debian 12 / RHEL 9;
  24.04 (2.39) would exclude them
- guards that fail instead of publishing: tag vs VERSION, produced
  asset name vs the filename /install links, sha256, and a smoke test
  that builds a hello project with the binaries INSIDE the tarball
- reports the shipped glibc floor so the claim on /install is checkable
  from a build log
- releasing.md: pipeline route up front, manual route kept; GH_TOKEN
  recipe for non-GitHub CI

Not run — this repo has no CI history and Actions cannot execute
locally. Every guard's shell was dry-run here against the real dist.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-25 04:58:40 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
844bcc1067 docs(releasing): full gh auth login section 
- gh's credential is separate from git's: SSH keys let you push but
  not call the API, so a machine that pushes can still fail to release
- the five interactive prompts and what to answer, with SSH as the
  protocol to match this repo's existing remote
- headless path: PAT scopes (classic repo/read:org/gist, fine-grained
  Contents: read and write), --with-token from a 600 file, GH_TOKEN
  for automation
- verify with `gh repo view shoneyJ/writeonce` — proves the token
  reaches THIS repo, not just that it is valid

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-25 04:54:57 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
b11f964eec docs: release runbook — build, verify, publish on GitHub 
- docs/guides/releasing.md: the steps from `just dist` to a working
  download button
- pins the constraint that matters: the asset filename and tag must
  match the URL /install links, or the button 404s
- includes verifying the tarball with the binaries INSIDE it, tagging
  the built commit, `gh release create` with both files, the web-UI
  path, and a curl check of the exact link the site uses
- notes dist/ is gitignored, the shoneyJ/shoneyj path-case difference,
  and what a version bump must touch in install/view.wo

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-25 04:51:14 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ef37b8ffa2 feat(serve+view): file serving, downloads, supported systems; rename 
- rename the two libraries: writeonce-framework -> writeonce-serve
  (`use serve`), wo-html -> writeonce-view (`use view`). Names say the
  ROLE now; every sample, script, gate and live doc follows
- stories/specs/plans keep the old names: they are dated records, and
  both library READMEs carry a "renamed 2026-08-25" note
- serve/http/files.wo: StaticFiles { dir, max_bytes } — traversal
  refused not normalised, extension content types, attachment
  disposition for archives. Lifted out of the shop, which had said in
  a comment that it belonged in the framework
- shop drops its private copy and mounts the framework's
- site: /dl/*path over $WO_DIST (default ./dist), 16 MiB ceiling
- /install gains supported systems — Linux x86-64, glibc >= 2.38,
  not musl — read off `file` and the binaries' GLIBC_ symbol
  versions, not off a wish list; plus GitHub release as primary,
  /dl as mirror, and the sha256 verify step
- site-accept: 17 -> 21 checks (supported systems, gzip download with
  a binary-safe probe, checksum, /dl traversal 404)

Verified on 192.168.0.165: the real 960,820-byte tarball downloads
as application/gzip and its sha256 matches the published digest.

Gates: oop-accept MET, site 21/0, web-app 46/0, fibers 10/0,
db-actor 8/0; shop rebuilt and its /assets served by the framework.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-25 04:41:00 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
3afdafa5c4 feat(site): logo, favicon, install guide, package catalogue 
- layout/logo.wo: the mark as inline SVG — dark tile, two-stroke "W"
  (white then accent blue). One source: nav brand + /favicon.svg
- favicon/controller.wo: GET /favicon.svg, image/svg+xml, day cache
- install/: GET /install — toolchain tarball, PATH, verify, first
  project, build/run, adding a dep. Copy from the real install README
- packages/: GET /packages + /packages/:name — catalogue with the
  [deps] line, what each library gives you, and a usage snippet.
  Index cards are child components (multi Component)
- wo-html: page_head(title, head, body) and a `head` slot on Layout —
  a favicon link or meta tag had nowhere else to go; page() passes ""
- header: Install/Tutorial/Packages/GitHub, brand shows the mark
- main.wo: SITE_HOST picks the interface (loopback default), bound
  address printed at startup
- site-accept: 11 -> 17 checks (install, packages x2, 404, favicon,
  inline logo)

Verified on 192.168.0.165:8080 — every route, favicon bytes, and the
mark rasterised at 256px and 32px.

Gates: oop-accept MET, site 17/0, web-app 46/0, fibers 10/0,
db-actor 8/0; shop rebuilt clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-25 04:05:00 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
23550e7021 feat(lang+wo-html): raw text literals, component layer, MVC samples 
- lexer: backtick raw text literal — content verbatim, no escape
  processing, common source margin removed at lex time; `${ }` raw and
  `{{ }}` auto-escaping holes
- `{{ e }}` desugars to `esc(${e})` in parser.ml — a Call on the `esc`
  in scope, so types/owner/emit/.wob/VM are untouched
- WO-E004 unterminated raw literal; WO-E005 newline inside "..." —
  closes a hole where a missing quote silently ate the rest of the file
- wo-html: `Component` interface, `render_all`, `Layout`, README
- framework: `ok_html` joins ok_text/ok_json in http/types.wo
- site + shop restructured to one-feature-one-module MVC (view +
  controller per directory, model at the root, bootstrap-only main)
- removed the filler `pad: Int` convention — verified unnecessary for
  plain classes, interface dispatch, containers and actors
- corrected recorded claims: gap #1 blocks neither the build nor the
  layout; a class crosses module lines, only a free fn is scoped
- docs/guides/language-surface.md — the full grammar inventory
- story 37 landed and moved to done/

Gates: oop-accept MET, oop-e2e 116/0, woc-test 556/0, site 11/0,
web-app 46/0, fibers 10/0, db-actor 8/0

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-25 03:58:41 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
a4743edcc6 fix(shop): views markup-first within today's grammar 
- render() bodies: one HTML line per 'h = h ..' statement, single-
  quoted attributes, ${} holes, esc() on data — el() chains gone
- discovered + recorded gap #3: no multi-line expressions or literals
  (leading/trailing .. and paren grouping all reject at NEWLINE) —
  exactly the tax story 37's raw literal deletes
- 37-target comment blocks dropped (bodies now self-explanatory; the
  README states the delta); rebuilt + full buy-flow re-smoked (178.0
  total, stock 12->10, 409, traversal 404)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-24 00:23:39 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
bbf5fb66d3 feat(shop): 37 target = in-class raw template literals (developer form) 
- separate view.html files dropped; every render() now carries its
  '-- 37 target:' literal above the hand-lowered body — the pair is
  the DX referendum in one file
- story 37 re-pointed: raw multi-line literal + {{ }} auto-escaped
  typed holes + {!! !!} raw slots; structural control stays if/for;
  w:if/w:for and .html files demoted to later; forks revised
- rebuild verified on untouched toolchain

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-24 00:15:38 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
5a2e6402c8 feat(shop): story-37 target templates beside the hand-lowering 
- view.html per feature + layout app/header/footer.html: the markup-
  first form woc will compile ({{}} auto-escaped, w:if/w:for,
  {!! !!} slots, w:component sections); inert today, verified not to
  disturb the build
- README: pair is the DX referendum — .html is the target feel,
  view.wo is today's cost; doctrine line reworded (templates compile
  or don't exist)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-24 00:01:11 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
89df517613 feat(shop): the program template — MVC on disk; story 37 redirected 
- docs/examples/shop: types.wo model, per-feature view modules
  (render() classes), root controller files, layout shell/header/
  footer, static assets controller + real style.css, README with
  Angular file map + run + DX referendum notes
- buy flow proven by hand: stock check/decrement, 409s, traversal
  404, css typed, WAL-durable; builds on the UNPATCHED toolchain
- two language gaps recorded, not fixed (per directive): pub+@table
  cannot combine (controllers forced into root module); @view
  projection classes absent
- story 37 REDIRECTED per Vue-SFC review: view.html compiled by woc
  ({{}} auto-escaped, w:if/w:for, typed against view class, no
  runtime engine); render()-as-concatenation failed the referendum;
  forks revised; shop named the acceptance consumer

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-23 23:57:44 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
67cd039533 docs: fix stale story-35 links (file moved to done/ at landing) 
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-23 19:36:18 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
8f96584682 docs: story 37 — wo-html components (MVC view layer, Angular format studied) 
- Component interface (render->Text), layouts/slots, site migrates
  as acceptance; framework stays micro (view layer = library)
- Angular map recorded: inputs/templates/ngFor/projection translate,
  DI/bindings/client-side rejected by doctrine (no closures, no JS)
- four forks for the spec; unscheduled, off-chain; table + board rows

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-23 19:35:41 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
b19042bca0 feat(site): go.dev-style homepage + shared nav/footer chrome 
- wo-html grows generic nav_bar/card/btn_link + the utility classes
  they need (sticky nav, footer, 2-col grid, hero sizes); library
  stays content-free
- home: hero (tagline + Get started/View source CTAs), real actor+
  table code showcase, four why-cards, chapters strip (gate's
  'Learn writeonce' anchor kept); every page shares nav + footer
- site gate 11/0 unchanged; loopback bind untouched

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-23 19:11:21 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
735fd270db feat: chat sample + gate (T8/T9, IN PROGRESS) + stop-drain semantics 
- docs/examples/chat: registry (call consumer) / room / reader+writer
  actor pair per connection over ws_accept + wsframe; presence,
  broadcast, cross-room isolation, mailbox-full = drop-from-room;
  reader tail sends hardened (a full writer no longer orphans the fd)
- RUNTIME SEMANTICS CHANGE (the drain): SIGTERM no longer kills parked
  fibers from outside — the plane WAKES them and each wait RESOLVES
  (deadline'd waits answer their timeout result, sleeps return early,
  plain waits answer WO_SYS_STOPPED and unwind THAT fiber alone; main's
  STOPPED still ends the program). Workers keep adopting their inboxes
  after stop until eng_shutdown. This is what lets a program drain:
  chat's close frames now reach clients (byte-verified 0x88), then
  main returns and the reap runs
- also: SIGPIPE ignored process-wide (EPIPE trap instead of death);
  two-phase engine teardown (real drops while arenas+routing live,
  settle passes for routed frees) — fixes the registry-map leak and
  the drain UAF ASan found
- gate scripts/chat-accept.sh + just chat: handshake independently
  verified, functional matrix on BOTH backends, 1k-hot-room soak
  (1000/1000 in ~35ms), drain close-frames, SIGTERM exit 0, ASan leg
  clean. OPEN: soak-fds check (18 fds settle slower than the window)
  + full battery after the semantics change — NOT yet run
- committed for manual testing at the user's request

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-23 09:53:21 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
4092074201 feat: monitor + time.after (ids 89/90) — the lifecycle slice completes 
- monitor(watched, observer, msg): registration lives on the watched
  actor's home thread (kind-7 envelope cross-shard); actor_die walks
  the list; already-dead fires NOW; the notice msg moves; a full
  observer's notice drops with a stderr line (no fiber to trap)
- time.after(ms, addr, msg): per-shard timer list riding the deadline
  machinery (uring tick min + epoll timeout both include timers;
  fired from the same sweep); ms <= 0 delivers now; NO cancel — the
  generation-counter idiom is pinned by run/timer-generation
- runtime_notify: one runtime-sourced delivery path (notices, timers) —
  reserve-or-drop, cross-shard via kind-0 envelopes
- compiler: monitor typed as a bespoke free fn (notice typed against
  the OBSERVER's mailbox — the three-argument deviation, disclosed);
  time.after as a stdlib row whose msg arg is EXEMPT from the module-
  call fresh-arg drop (it moves — the double-own bug the timer fixture
  caught); owner move slots for both
- corpus: run/monitor-death (trap-death + already-dead notices),
  run/timer-delivery (armed + immediate), run/timer-generation
- teardown drops undelivered notices and unfired timers; battery 13/13

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-23 08:56:48 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
9661c08696 feat: TE rejection + listen backlog 1024 + the 1k soak gate 
- parse.wo: ANY Transfer-Encoding header is 400-and-close (RFC 9112
  §6.1) — silently treating chunked as body-less was the smuggling
  door the dup-CL fix left open
- net.listen/listen_unix backlog 64 -> 1024: the soak's connect bursts
  overflowed the kernel accept queue and BLACK-HOLED clients (three-way
  handshake done, server never sees the conn — 35-70 stuck per run,
  fully reproduced then gone at 1024; kernel clamps via somaxconn)
- web-app gate grows to 46 checks: TE-reject; the 1k soak — 500 real
  conns all served + 500 idle conns all evicted, server fds home
  (45 -> 45), RSS 24MB, healthy after
- battery green (site restart + fibers-TSan legs flaked under parallel
  battery load, both clean serially — the standing flake pair)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-23 08:23:55 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
a32550d968 feat: iteration 35 — net seams + the serving slice (fiber-per-connection) 
- runtime ids 91-95: net.read_dl/accept_dl/write_dl (per-call deadline,
  nil/false = the EXPECTED timeout; ms<=0 = old behavior bit for bit),
  net.listen_unix (unlink-before-bind, O_NONBLOCK on the listener —
  probe-found: accept4's flag covers accepted sockets only), net.peer
- plane: one-op-per-park stays law — deadlines ride one per-shard
  TIMEOUT tick (sentinel user_data) + post-CQE expiry sweep +
  POLL_REMOVE tombstone; epoll's deadline scan grew the fd-park case;
  fibers POOL instead of freeing mid-run (stale-CQE UAF); plain parks
  zero park_deadline (no stale sleep deadlines)
- probe: all five seams verified on BOTH WO_IO backends (timeout
  timing exact, peer round-trip, unix rebind)
- framework: parse_request grows first_ms/read_ms; serve_conn — the
  keep-alive loop with deadlines where parked idle conns are LEGAL
  (close-when-idle RETIRED); App.handle_conn exposes it; plain serve()
  unchanged for simple apps
- web-app: app-owned accept_dl loop + ConnWorker actor per connection
  (each builds its own App; cross-shard placement rides the DB actor);
  WA_IDLE_MS knob; gate grows to 41 checks — two slow requests served
  in PARALLEL, stalled client evicted at the idle deadline, slow-loris
  torn at the read deadline (400)
- docs: story 35 -> done with banner; SQE/CQE design spec LANDED (was
  the review doc); ledger rows (timeouts/unix/keep-alive/peer), graph
  (NETSEAM cleared, KEEPAL done), builtin-surface rows, runtime
  CODE-LOGIC section, board entry
- battery 13/13 fresh-built

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-23 08:04:32 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
82713e4010 feat: framework v1 slice 2 — the remaining ledger, ten items 
- After seam: interface After + Aw + use_after; dispatch funnels every
  response (handler/short-circuit/404/405) through the after chain;
  the WS 101 sentinel skips it (never serialized)
- http/secure.wo: SecurityHeaders (nosniff/DENY/referrer; HSTS stays
  at the TLS proxy), Cors (preflight 204 before + origin stamp after,
  one class both halves), HostAllow (421), client_ip (XFF parsing —
  peer VERIFY stays story 35)
- http/nego.wo: accepts() (exact, type/*, */*; q stripped not ranked),
  etag_for (quoted base64 sha256), with_etag (If-None-Match -> 304)
- router: *rest wildcard (last segment, empty rest matches), Group
  (prefix + routes + group middleware) + Gmw prefix-scoped entries,
  App.mount; new App fields carry defaults so standing ctor literals
  keep compiling
- Req grows ctx bag; parse rejects duplicate Content-Length (400,
  RFC 9112 §6.3)
- web-app exercises all of it; gate grows 26 -> 38 checks (wildcards,
  group+ctx, etag+304, 406/200 negotiation, sec headers, 421,
  preflight+origin stamp, dup-CL 400)
- ledger rows flipped; dep graph section 3 grown (slice-2 done nodes,
  crypto gate cleared, cookie/CSRF/session/webhook/JWT now ready)
- merges: chat-ws-lifecycle (digests for ETag; WS + lifecycle ride
  along) + site-sample (second consumer gate); battery 13/13

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-23 06:45:51 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
0fe0efc6ce Merge branch 'site-sample' into framework-v1b 2026-08-23 06:33:15 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
f7cf08b82c docs: slice marker — T1/T2/T3/T6/T7 landed, T4/T5/T8/T9/T10 pending 
- progress ledger with commit ids + the two en-route compiler/runtime
  fixes; pending list carries each task's remaining shape and the
  disclosed deviations (scalar replies v1, three-argument monitor)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-23 06:27:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
9a9e4927f6 feat: call/reply — send that waits (id 88, envelope kinds 5/6, WO-E226) 
- runtime: mailbox slots grow caller metadata (wo_msg), call parks on
  WO_PARK_INBOX (the DB-RPC protocol) and the resume consumes a SCALAR
  reply; FIBER_DONE ships the receive's return value home (same-shard
  unpark or kind-6 envelope); kind-5 carries cross-shard calls
- actor death is real now: a receive trapping uncaught marks the actor
  dead, error-unparks the in-flight caller AND every queued caller,
  drops queued payloads + state, releases cap slots; send-to-dead
  drops silently, call-to-dead traps — a call never hangs. Fixes the
  pre-existing leak/dangle in TRAPF's fiber-death path (cur_msg leaked,
  a->active dangled, the mailbox rotted)
- compiler: reply typing through actor-M erasure — every receive(M)
  program-wide must agree on one return type and it must be a copyable
  scalar (v1); WO-E226 names disagreeing classes / void receives /
  non-scalar replies; call's message moves exactly like send's (owner)
- corpus: run/call-echo (park + ordered replies), run/call-dead-trap
  (mid-call + to-dead, both catchable), compile-fail/call-void-receive,
  compile-fail/call-reply-disagree; cross-shard call proof rides the
  chat gate next
- battery 12/12 fresh-built (ASan+TSan lanes in fibers/db-actor green)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-23 06:22:24 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ad4b380cf1 feat: writeonce.de tutorial site + wo-html library (two-dep full stack) 
- docs/examples/wo-html: library dep — esc(), element builders,
  Tailwind-style utility sheet as one static string, page() shell;
  self-contained responses, no CDN/JS/build step
- docs/examples/site: the language tutorial served by the language —
  9 seeded chapters in a @table (hello/values+bitwise/containers/
  classes/optionals+traps/tables/actors/deps/serving), server-rendered
  via wo-html, seed-if-empty so WAL restarts keep admin edits
- routes: / index, /ch/:slug (styled 404), /health, POST /admin/ch/
  :slug (bearer handler-side — mechanism framework's, policy app's;
  form-encoded title/body update by assignment, 302 back)
- chapter code samples use the lexer's \$ escape to show ${...}
  literally; .. never straddles newlines (accumulator style)
- gate: scripts/site-accept.sh + just site — TWO file:// dep remotes,
  11 checks incl. authed-edit-survives-restart; /health polling, no
  boot-race sleep
- README: run + nginx sketch for writeonce.de; CODE-LOGIC beside code
- full battery 13/13 (site gate included)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-23 01:51:14 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
a7f87c72b9 feat: framework WS frame codec — http/wsframe.wo (pure .wo) 
- ws_parse: one client frame off a carry buffer (parse.wo's carry
  convention); mask REQUIRED, RSV/fragmentation/64-bit lengths refused
  (kind -1), 7- and 16-bit lengths, 1 MiB payload cap, control frames
  <= 125; unmask via iteration 36 bitwise, parts+join stays linear
- serializers: ws_text/ws_close/ws_ping/ws_pong, server frames
  unmasked, 16-bit ceiling
- probe-verified against RFC 6455: masked "Hello" example bytes parse,
  torn 3-byte feed = incomplete, two pipelined frames sequence, ser
  bytes exact, worked-example accept key round-trips; committed gate
  coverage rides the chat sample's acceptance script
- deps-accept + web-app + oop-e2e green

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-23 01:25:45 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
cf95e5ce9c feat: framework WS upgrade — ws_accept + hijack sentinel (http/ws.wo) 
- Req grows internal conn field (net.Conn, filled by parse) — handlers
  touch it only through ws_accept
- ws_upgrade_valid: RFC 6455 §4.2.1 (GET, Upgrade token, Connection
  token list, 24-char key, version 13); ws_accept_key pure
  (base64(sha1(key+GUID)) — the runtime vector already pins the RFC
  worked example); ws_accept writes the 101 and returns the fd;
  hijacked() = the status-101 sentinel
- serve.wo: 101 skips serialize AND close — the loop forgets the fd
  and returns to accept; plain HTTP byte-identical (web-app 26/26)
- codec + end-to-end proof land with the chat sample's gate; battery
  12/12 (fibers TSan leg flaked empty under load, 10/10 on rerun;
  web-app restart leg has a pre-existing 0.5s boot race, noted)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-23 01:22:59 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
dd7dd42bd1 feat: bounded mailboxes + WO_T_ACTOR (trap 13); try-arm place-copy fix 
- cap 1024 (WO_MAILBOX override at boot): sender-side atomic
  reserve/release on every path — same-shard, cross-shard envelope,
  OOM rollbacks; full mailbox traps the SENDER catchably; delivery
  pop releases; overshoot bounded by in-flight sends (disclosed)
- test_mailbox 12/0: exact cap single-threaded, two racing senders win
  exactly cap slots, drain/refill clean
- corpus run/mailbox-full-trap: parked sleeper, send loop catches
  "actor mailbox full" after >= 1024 sends
- pre-existing compiler bug found + fixed: a try ARM yielding a Text
  PLACE (bare e.msg, try box.field) aliased a register the arm's scope
  end freed — ASan use-after-free, SEGV on the next unwind's
  double-walk; emit_try now applies copy_place_text to both arm
  results; pinned by corpus run/catch-msg-place
- db-bench driver: msgrate keeps iteration 22's unbounded-flood
  contract via WO_MAILBOX=MSG_N (the cap is 24's policy, not 22's)
- battery 12/12 fresh-built

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-23 01:05:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
5fc32b4926 feat: iteration 34 — digest builtins sha1/sha256/hmac_sha256 (ids 85-87) 
- runtime/src/crypto.c: hand-rolled cores, whole-value over Bytes,
  allocation-free tails; VM half returns fresh Bytes, WO_T_BOUNDS on
  wrong class id (Bytes builtins' message shape)
- test_crypto: RFC 3174 + FIPS 180-4 + RFC 4231 (incl. long-key case 6)
  + 63/64/65 block-boundary sweep + the RFC 6455 handshake input, 18/0
- compiler surface flat per house convention (sha1, not crypto.sha1 —
  matches base64_encode): types.ml signatures + result types, emit.ml
  ids/dispatch/arity/known-list/drop-table (fresh-Bytes entries so
  results get their drops)
- corpus run/crypto-digests pins the .wo path through base64_encode
- no .wob bump (ticks-84 precedent); WO_B_MAX 87; surface doc rows
- slice marker + board row: iteration 24 (absorbing 31+34) executing
- battery 12/12 fresh-built

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-23 00:42:43 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
7ca8b178ea docs: plan — chat + actor lifecycle (10 tasks, 5 stages); spec approved 
- stage 1 crypto (ids 85-87, RFC vectors), stage 2 lifecycle (cap +
  WO_T_ACTOR, call kinds 5/6, monitor, time.after — ids 88-90), stage
  3 framework WS (ws_accept + hijack, wsframe codec), stage 4 chat
  sample + 5-check gate, stage 5 closeout
- two spec deviations pre-disclosed: reply-type agreement rule
  (WO-E226 through actor-M erasure), monitor three-argument form
- battery-with-builds-first constraint baked in (stale-binary lesson)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-23 00:28:26 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
9a9da1b41a docs: spec — chat + actor lifecycle (iteration 24 absorbs 31, 34 resolved) 
- one iteration by directive 2026-08-23: call() parks with typed reply
  (envelope kinds 5/6 over the DB-RPC park), mailbox cap 1024 +
  WO_T_ACTOR fail-fast, monitor(addr, msg) one-way, time.after
  one-shot no-cancel
- story 34 resolved: C builtins sha1/sha256/hmac_sha256 over Bytes,
  RFC vectors gated
- WS pure .wo: handler-owned upgrade (ws_accept + hijack sentinel),
  frame codec over Bytes via 36's bitwise, two actors per connection
  (sole-reader + sole-writer)
- chat sample: registry + room actors, python raw-RFC6455 gate —
  cross-shard functional, 1k soak, SIGTERM drain, battery unchanged
- status PROPOSED — awaiting review before the plan

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-23 00:23:58 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
64a4700190 docs: reconcile story 34 + gates with merged master 
- story 34: premise fixed — iteration 36 landed bitwise/hex, digests
  and HMAC now expressible in pure .wo; C-builtin vs pure-.wo is the
  story's brainstorm call, not an impossibility
- dependency graph: crypto gate names story 34; net-seam gate names
  story 35; radix gate corrected — 22 benched the DB, router scan
  still unmeasured, perf-targets entry first
- framework README ledger: timeouts/unix/peer rows point at story 35;
  ETag row at story 34; path-matching row repointed off iteration 22

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-22 23:30:55 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ee018f06e2 Merge branch 'read-path-index' 2026-08-22 23:26:01 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
dc3e5b7e5b Merge branch 'db-bench' (iteration 22 — durability/throughput baseline) 
- brings time.ticks builtin (id 84), bench sample + campaign driver
  (scripts/db-bench.py), just db-bench/db-bench-quick recipes, first
  baseline recorded, story 22 to done/, postgres study cards
- conflicts resolved: board in-progress table (iteration 36 +
  framework rows kept, db-bench row now "22 landed"; dangling order
  anchor repointed); story 36 moved back to in-progress/ (dir-rename
  inference dragged it to done/ — 36 still awaits the manual pass)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-22 22:57:51 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
0f84d9f1ed docs: post-merge truth-up — stale arc/bitwise refs 
- framework README: three rows still said "until fibers/shards" /
  "fibers (11)" — now "arc landed 2026-08-21, parked until own slice";
  ledger date 2026-08-22
- dependency graph: crypto-fork gate note updated — bitwise + hex
  landed with iteration 36, digests expressible in pure .wo; story
  34's brainstorm still owns the pure-.wo vs C-builtin call

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-22 22:50:26 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
4ec01c4c43 Merge branch 'concurrency-arc-stage3' (iteration 8 complete) 
- brings arc stage 3: transparent DB actor (T7) + closeout (T8),
  db-actor sample + gate, board/story reorg (stories/00-status.md)
- conflicts resolved: runtime CODE-LOGIC (kept iteration 36 bitwise
  section AND stage-3 DB-actor section), board in-progress table
  (kept iteration 36 + framework rows AND db-bench row, links fixed
  for the moved board path)
- full battery fresh-built 11/11: woc-build wovm-build woc-test
  wovm-test oop-e2e deps-accept web-app log-watcher employee fibers
  db-actor (first run hit a stale pre-merge wovm — gates require
  built binaries and never rebuild; builds now run first)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-22 22:50:18 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ed6bfeea3d feat: iteration 36 task 5 — operators sample, docs closeout 
- docs/examples/operators: manual-test workload (ok/FAIL lines per
  expression; trap mode proves WO_T_SHIFT); NO test fixtures by
  developer directive — acceptance is the manual pass
- 00-wob-format.md: v6 section (opcodes 42-46, T_SHIFT, header v6)
- CODE-LOGIC.md both sides: precedence-into-existing-rungs, Lua not,
  rewind-and-reparse compound assigns, trap-not-mask, 63-bit hex limit
- story 36 refine -> in-progress with landing blockquote; board updated
- gates: woc-test 543/0, wovm-test ASan, oop-accept ALL MET,
  deps-accept 8/0, web-app 26/0

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-22 21:42:08 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
c2c9b240f1 feat: iteration 36 task 4 — runtime bitwise opcodes, .wob v6 
- WOP_BAND..WOP_SHR = 42..46 (wob.h), WOP_MAX 46, WOB_VERSION 6
- trap kind WO_T_SHIFT=12: shift count outside 0..63 traps (DIV0
  precedent, never x86's silent count%64); SHR arithmetic
- vm.c: one shared case-body serves both dispatch flavors; SHL shifts
  the unsigned word (wrapping), SHR casts int64_t (sign extends)
- loader.c + test runner battery + disasm: v6 accepted, new opcodes
  validated three-register, rendered BAND/BOR/BXOR/SHL/SHR
- woc-test 543/0, wovm-test ASan both flavors green, cli_smoke OK

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-22 21:38:22 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
3d75196121 feat: iteration 36 tasks 2-3 — grammar, checker, emit lowering 
- ast: unop Not, binop BAnd/BOr/BXor/Shl/Shr
- parser: | ^ join additive, & << >> join multiplicative (Go rungs);
  not joins unary (Lua placement); ladder doc updated
- compound assigns claim the dead +=/-= tokens plus *= /= %= —
  parse-time sugar via rewind-and-reparse, fresh ids by construction
- types: bitwise Int-only both sides, not Bool-only (WO-E201 family);
  literal shift count outside 0..63 rejected as new WO-E223;
  confident-typ knows bitwise=Int, not=Bool
- emit: op_band..op_shr 42..46; not lowers on existing EQ vs zero
- woc-test 543/0 unchanged; scratch smoke parses/typechecks clean

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-22 21:29:47 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
53e24b8591 feat: iteration 36 task 1 — lexer/tokens for operator parity 
- tokens: Amp Caret Shl Shr StarEq SlashEq PercentEq, keyword KwNot
- lexer: & ^ << >> and *= /= %= scan; not joins the keyword table
- hex 0x / binary 0b Int literals + _ digit separators; prefix commits
  only when a real base digit follows (0xg stays Int 0 + Ident)
- decimal and float paths byte-identical; woc-test 543/0 unchanged

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-22 21:22:10 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
6f7fc577c3 docs: story 36 + plan — operator parity (not, bitwise, hex literals, compound assigns) 
- story: gap survey vs Go reference; forks settled (arithmetic >>, trap
  on out-of-range shift count, Lua-placement not)
- plan: 5 tasks, lexer -> parser -> checker -> emit/VM (.wob v6) -> closeout
- latent defect recorded: += / -= lex but never parse (dead tokens)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-22 21:18:33 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
df32f3b5a3 chore: database-developer subagent — engine doctrine baked in 
- from the guide (docs/guides/database-developer-subagent.md), updated
  for the landed slices: wo_idx_probe, perf-targets register, tmpfs
  trap, tolerance policy location

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-22 17:41:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
526a837102 docs: story 35 — net runtime seams (deadlines, unix sockets, peer addr) 
- owns the framework ledger's three seam rows; deadlines compose with
  the arc's park plane (POLL_ADD+TIMEOUT fork recorded); framework
  knobs explicitly out of scope; stalled-client soak in acceptance
- board + table rows (held seqs bumped); pairs naturally with 24

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-22 17:37:12 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
38457973c3 docs: story 34 — crypto builtins (digests + HMAC) 
- SHA-1 (WS-handshake hard req, RFC 6455 worked example as acceptance),
  SHA-256, HMAC-SHA256 over Bytes; hand-rolled C per doctrine, FIPS/RFC
  vector fixtures; four forks recorded (namespace, shape, source, file)
- gates chain item 24; digest floor for held 21 + ETag row; 24's
  dependency note repointed; board + table rows (held seqs bumped)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-22 17:34:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
b3baf6dd9a docs: story 33 — single-file store (WO_DATA=<path>.db) 
- file path IS the wal; dir form byte-identical; one fork (nonexistent
  path semantics) leaning recorded; off-chain, driver-only
- board + story table rows (held tail seqs bumped)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-22 17:32:18 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
a8829232dc docs: perf-targets register — measured optimization candidates 
- target 1: write path (update-through-query re-probe, triple index
  walk, per-field encode, whole-row WAL update record) — re-measure
  after 23, then decide
- targets 2-4 recorded with owners (DB-RPC by design/24, mutex inbox
  /31, fsync bound /23)
- board pending + comparison README link the register

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-22 17:19:46 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
302a074125 bench: go-sqlite comparison harness + first numbers 
- mirrors db-bench schema/modes line-for-line; ram + durable (FULL
  sync) flavors; tmpfs-fsync trap re-confirmed (122k/s lie vs 3.1k/s
  ext4)
- wo wins reads x2.6, query x6.4, durable seed x1.4; sqlite wins ram
  writes x1.9, durable mixed writes x1.4 (update-through-query re-probe
  = named optimization target)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-22 17:12:16 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
39b035b513 docs: board — read-path index slice landed (x850 reads) 
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-22 16:45:16 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
881b90e9c7 feat: O(1) read path — index probe wired end to end 
- engine: wo_idx_probe answers single-column equality from the index
  hash buckets (idx_hash_key1 reproduces idx_hash bit for bit; verify
  compares exactly as the slab walk did, so results identical);
  composite indexes keep the walk; both executors wired (local + DB
  actor RPC)
- compiler: probe_key_of_where lowers "var.col == key" on an indexed
  column to DB_PROBE; all where guards still run (guard stays the
  final arbiter); keys = ident/int-literal only; Float/Bytes excluded
  (engine raw-eq narrower than VM float-eq)
- measured: reads 1.3k -> 1.3M ops/s, p50 600us -> 1us (~x850);
  query x830; mixread 1.3k -> 89k s1, 21 -> ~1.9k sN
- gate policy moved into the driver (tolerance_for: refresh-proof);
  latency floors max(4x,100us); quick mode skips poll-bound mix
  floors; both tolerance classes proven to bite
- proof: test_table wo_idx_probe suite (RED first), corpus
  query-index-probe 105/0, full battery green, TSan clean, two
  campaigns pass the refreshed baseline

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-22 16:44:56 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
35c32d9b0f docs: postgres study — constraints/grammar + indexing cards; subagent guide 
- constraints-and-grammar: gram.y PK/FK productions, pg_constraint,
  RI trigger semantics; writeonce direction — @key as unique alias
  (id stays THE key), ref actions (@on_delete), backlink-implies-index
  (improves on postgres' not-auto-created FK index)
- indexing-and-point-lookup: AM roster + algorithms (Lehman-Yao,
  linear hashing), TID = row address; writeonce gap — probe walks
  slabs while idx_bucket exists; O(1) slice direction, non-goals
- card index updated; Rust-era plan-10/11/12 links unlinked (rot)
- docs/guides/database-developer-subagent.md: format, paste-ready
  agent definition (doctrine/file map/gates), verification, division
  of labor

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-22 16:13:48 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
5d6a72bb82 docs: iteration 22 landed — closeout (T6) 
- story 22 to done/ with landing banner (numbers, deviations,
  standing multi<TableClass> finding); marker deleted
- board standup from measured numbers; next slice = 31 (has its
  mutex-inbox number now); spec/plan banners LANDED; graph node done
- msgrate floors value/8 (quick's small N spawn-dominated, grazed /4)
- full battery + db-bench-quick 87/0 green; links verified

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 16:57:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
3a30b4ac3b feat(db-bench): first baseline — the measurement contract (T5) 
- bench/baseline.json: 74 metrics from the first full campaign;
  tolerances tuned by a two-run repeatability check (mix* 50%,
  read/query 35%, rest 15% — rationale in _config)
- gate bites: --check mode; doctored copy fails, both real runs 74/0
- headline: durable seed 4.5k/s vs ram 297k/s (23's case); reads
  O(table) at ~1.5k/s; mixread 1280 vs 21 ops/s single-vs-multi
  (the arc's price); msgrate 13.4M vs 2.45M (mutex-inbox number)
- arc delta recorded in story 8; findings in sample README

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 16:54:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
d1cdf3ed6c feat(db-bench): campaign driver + gate + recipes (T4) 
- scripts/db-bench.py (one python driver — bash+python deviation,
  disclosed): ram+durable x 1/N shards, msgrate per shard count,
  restart proof, kill -9 battery vs acked high-water, RSS/fd
  sampling from the mix phase, results JSON, relative+floor gates
- just db-bench / db-bench-quick (quick = floors only)
- quick campaign 14 checks green; gate honestly fails without a
  baseline (--write-baseline is Task 5's first full run)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 16:44:25 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
7cd56c9426 feat(db-bench): mix + msgrate — concurrent modes (T3) 
- Mixer actors: 90/10 read/write, per-actor histograms merged through
  the store itself (Hist rows) — exact aggregate percentiles
- msgrate: one-way flood at a worker-placed sink; measured 15.3M
  msgs/s same-heap vs 2.06M cross-shard — the mutex-inbox number
- finding: point lookups are O(table) (probe walks all slabs), so
  read-heavy mix is quadratic in store size — all-mode calibrated to
  N/10 mix ops; the number 22 exists to publish
- TSan clean both shard counts (setarch -R, fibers-gate pattern)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 16:42:01 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
c35e7219c8 feat(db-bench): sample — serial modes, histogram stats (T2) 
- seed/read/query/write/wal/verify/verify-acked + all (one-process
  campaign: RAM store dies with the process)
- per-op time.ticks, 1us-bucket histogram percentiles (reservoir
  deviation: no element-write/sort in language; better tail anyway)
- Meta expectation rows ride the same WAL verify checks
- finding: hand-built multi<TableClass> SEGVs on drop (elems classed
  OWNED, refs are scalar ids) — worked around, recorded
- finding: reads ~1.6k/s p50 595us vs 287k/s inserts — probe walks
  all slabs; the number 22 exists to surface

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 16:18:26 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
146d0e27f3 feat: time.ticks builtin — CLOCK_MONOTONIC us Int (id 84) 
- iteration 22's honest clock: monotone, never wall time; time.now
  stays ms. One types.ml row, sysio case, explicit dispatch arm
  (sys range gate stops at PROC_RUN)
- corpus run/time-ticks (RED WO-E406 first); oop-e2e 104/0, full
  battery green; surface doc row (07-systems-stdlib absent, disclosed)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 16:13:10 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
555a836d90 docs: iteration 22 plan ready; slice active 
- plan 2026-08-21-db-bench.md: 6 tasks (time.ticks builtin, sample,
  concurrent modes, driver+gate, first baseline + gate-bites proof,
  closeout); words + verification commands per convention
- spec banner APPROVED; story 22 to in-progress/ (frontmatter synced);
  marker doc created; board standup/rows/pending updated

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 16:07:51 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
b6578ee0a6 docs: iteration 22 spec — db-bench design (proposed) 
- four story forks settled as leanings; new: db-bench sample vehicle,
  time.ticks us clock (the one runtime addition)
- campaign: ram+durable x single+multi shard, relative gates vs
  bench/baseline.json + absolute floors, restart proof, kill -9
  battery, msgrate (mutex-inbox number), RSS/fd soak discipline

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 15:56:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
d98a2aee28 chore: gitignore Obsidian vault files (swept in by mistake) 
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 15:49:01 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
5e51a151c0 docs: CODE-LOGIC — DB-actor RPC + ring-params fix, slot surface 
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 13:16:36 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
49cc734ae8 docs: arc closeout (T8) — stage 3 landed, chain advances to 22 
- stories 08+11 to done/ with banners (11: fs-park re-scoped out of
  v1, disclosed); guarantee-contract table re-homed in story 08;
  marker doc deleted per convention
- board standup: implemented/findings/learned/unblocked/next/.dev-ref
  for the landing; In-progress = nothing active, next = 22 spec
- arc plan status ARC COMPLETE, T7/T8 boxes checked with deviations;
  graph nodes done; framework ledger rows note arc-unblocked;
  18's pub/sub rejection expired note
- CODE-LOGIC: runtime DB-actor + ring-params section, database slot
  surface; oop-vm/03 contract gains the reply-park protocol
- 22 precursor recorded: remote insert ~8us/op RAM-only
- full battery + db-actor gate green after doc edits; links verified

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 13:16:25 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
07c1f7b257 feat: arc stage 3 T7 — transparent DB actor (WO_T_DB hole closed) 
- worker DB builtins marshal to shard 0: requester-side slot encode
  (VM heaps never read cross-shard), owner executes serialized in
  adopt, reply unparks via new WO_PARK_INBOX park + envelope 3/4
- engine gains thread-agnostic slot entry points (insert_slots,
  update_field_slot, val_encode/clone, wo_db_exec_req); traps and
  messages byte-identical to the local path
- main.c: engine + replay boot BEFORE shards spawn; workers assert
  rt.db/rt.wal NULL; busy shard adopts inbox once per slice
- latent stage-1 bug fixed: shared io_uring params static raced by
  lazy worker init lost park wakes (~1/20 hangs); params per-vm,
  short submit now fails loud
- new sample docs/examples/db-actor + just db-actor gate 8/0 (multi
  x3, uring/epoll forced, single byte-exact, WAL replay pair);
  ASan+TSan 6/6; full battery green

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 13:10:26 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ca2ed96e49 docs: story frontmatter + Dataview board views 
- 28 story files gain YAML frontmatter: iteration id, status
  (mirrors folder), chain position (7 files, positions 1-6)
- board-views.md: Dataview queries (not-done, by-status lanes,
  chain order, active); Kanban caveat — view only, frontmatter
  is source of truth, folder move + status key change together
- board points at the views

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 12:17:50 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
e7ca2fdd7c docs: stage 3 refined with guarantee contract; story 32 born 
- five-property map in marker doc: atomicity/durability/recovery
  proven or held (18); concurrency control = stage 3's property;
  space reclamation RAM done (slot reuse), disk = new story 32
- story 08: three stage-3 criteria (one commit per write RPC +
  ack-after-owner-fsync, workers WAL-free + replay-before-serve,
  no torn reads under TSan corpus); arc plan stage 3 carries them
- refine/32-wal-checkpoint.md: snapshot + truncate, bounded replay,
  crash-during-checkpoint safe; four forks; after 23
- chain now stage 3 -> 22 -> 31 -> 24 -> 23 -> 32 in all 10 docs;
  boards + seq bumps synced

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 11:26:45 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
eacc7fe4f2 docs: oop-vm/03 — stackless coroutine contract (no async) 
- normative reference for the concurrency chain: fiber = interpreter
  state, suspension only at VM boundaries, park/resume protocols
  (re-execute vs continue-past, park_wr_at), back-edge budget,
  no-coloring rule, rejected-alternatives table
- README slot 03 repointed (old shard-actor row rode discarded plan 4)
- story 11 links the contract

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 11:07:52 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
9a3988e979 docs: NEXT PLAN = concurrency + fiber chain, standup-shaped 
- stage 3 active; six standup answers (implemented/findings/learned/
  unblocked/next/.dev-reference)
- framework v1 block demoted to landed section, content kept

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 10:51:33 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
a3a642b8bb docs: status board moved to docs/stories/00-status.md 
- developer move; all inbound links repointed (root docs, plan/,
  plan/compiler/, exploration, superpowers plans+specs, in-progress
  marker), board's own links re-based one level deeper
- prose mentions inside landed plans left as historical records

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 10:07:20 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
299b448181 docs: active stories 08+11 into stories in-progress/ (slip fix) 
- 08 landed in discarded/ by mis-drop, swept into prior commit with
  two dead links; corrected to stories/.../in-progress/ per intent
- 11 joins it (one arc, active slice)
- board doctrine: active stories bucket named; all links re-verified

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 06:21:33 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
f691818c4b docs: in-progress/ marker — arc stage 3 is the active slice 
- one marker doc, deleted on landing; board doctrine names the
  second folder exception
- board In-progress row was stale (nothing active + dead anchor);
  now points at marker + arc plan tasks 7-8

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 06:19:03 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
2bd42b4a2f docs: principles — repoint 4 dead Rust-era links 
- plan 09/11/16 + blog sample died with Rust track 2026-08-18
- now: arc plan, db-engine binding plan, discarded.md mirror row,
  web-app sample

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 06:02:25 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
d3f77d6850 docs: discard 2026-08-01 shard-actor plan (epoll-based) 
- io_uring is a must; epoll approach discarded (developer decision)
- plan superseded by shard-fiber-arc plan of record; banner + row in
  plan/discarded.md; file kept as idea reference
- three live pointers repointed: status language-track row 8,
  principles enforced-by, story 08 note

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 05:59:21 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
1cfcd6292a docs: stories 08+11 promoted to root — ready to implement 
- code-verified ready: arc stages 1+2 merged to master; stage 3
  concrete in plan (tasks 7-8); rt.db set on primary only
  (main.c), worker_late_init memsets rt — WO_T_DB hole real
- 22/23/24/31 stay in refine/: open forks, no bench harness,
  no crypto builtins, chain-blocked
- links fixed both directions; board doctrine names hold/ bucket

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 05:10:39 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
039cb9ba4f docs: concurrency chain re-refined + resequenced 
- order now stage 3 -> 22 -> 31 -> 24 -> 23: correctness before
  measurement (multi-shard DB traps WO_T_DB today)
- stories 08/11 catch up to landed arc stages 1+2 (plan of record,
  deviations, settled open questions)
- 22 gains multi-shard + mutex-inbox targets; deltas owed retroactively
- 23 rides arc's per-shard ring (T4); old-id order string superseded
- 24 depends on 31; 19 landed so Bytes ready
- new story: refine/31-actor-lifecycle.md (request/response,
  bounded mailboxes, death/supervision, timers)
- 00-story table + 00-status pending resequenced; held rows link
  hold/; ids stay immutable, no renames

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-21 05:01:11 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
b4d9d507a0 docs: sync superpowers specs/plans to hold decision 
- iterations 18/25/26 marked hold in their spec + plan headers
- 25's story file removal committed; plan doc stays for resumption
- web-framework spec's relates-to flags 25 held

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 2026-08-21 05:00:56 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
26bfc42bfe hold few iterations 2026-08-21 04:11:10 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
d24c705860 feat: iterations 19 + 17 — Float/Bytes scalars (.wob v5), library kind + internal/ 
- Float full stack: literals (fraction/exponent; `0..10` still a range), f64
  opcodes 34-41, @table column, WAL bit-exact replay, json fractions in and
  shortest-round-trip out. IEEE-quiet — FDIV never traps where DIV does.
- Bytes: a wo_str with its own class id, so alloc/free/copy are shared but no
  Text builtin accepts one; len/at/slice/eq/concat, base64 both ways, json
  boundary as base64; TEXT_COPY preserves the kind.
- No implicit Int/Float mixing (WO-E201 in the typechecker, not the emitter,
  which picks the opcode from one side and would misread the other).
- One IEEE deviation: float_cmp total order (NaN last, -0.0 == +0.0) for
  indexes and order-by, keys canonicalized to match. `?Float` nil is a
  reserved quiet NaN — the zero word is +0.0, WO_NIL_SCALAR's bits are -2.0.
- Renderer prefers fixed over exponential in 1e-6..1e21: pure shortest makes
  a price of 900.0 read `9e+02`. One renderer for interp/json/float_to_text.
- Fixed en route: lexer double-counted the leading digit; is_scalar_shaped
  took Float/Bytes as Int-shaped; Bytes ownership needed a shared heap-scalar
  predicate or temps never dropped; order-by bit-compared negatives backwards.
- Iteration 17: `kind = "library"` (absent = program; bad value = WO-E109),
  entry-less check mode retiring the `--emit` workaround, Go's `internal/` as
  WO-E108 at the consumer's `use`. Driver-only; VM/.wob/GC untouched.
- Framework reorg: internal/{parse,serve}.wo; http/form.wo split out to keep
  media_type/form_values public (parse.wo had grown public surface).
- Docs: link audit (97 -> 88 broken, conflict markers resolved, 2 duplicate
  stories removed), 00-code-review verified 26/27, iterations re-sequenced.
- Also carries the pre-staged pub(read)/using/#if work from the index.
- Gates: corpus 103/0, test_wal 156/0, web-app 26/0, oop-accept ALL MET.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 19:24:15 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
5521d21a84 docs: pending iterations renumbered by dependency + priority 
- developer directive: pending iteration IDs now ARE the priority order;
  LANDED iterations keep historical numbers (code comments and commit
  history cite them — records, not a queue); 8/11 (the half-landed
  arc), 17 (parked, artifacts on a branch), 18 (next, artifacts named)
  also frozen
- mapping (recorded in 00-story): 19<-20 Float+Bytes, 20<-9c attach,
  21<-9d keypair, 22<-9e benchmarks, 23<-9f io_uring WAL, 24<-19 chat,
  25<-10 services, 26<-12 blue-green, 27<-9g query corpus,
  28<-14 skillhost, 29<-13 metaprogramming
- 11 story files renamed; every doc reference re-numbered (word-boundary
  sweep for the lettered 9x ids, phrase-level for numeric ones); the
  iterations table rewritten with Seq == priority and "(was N)" notes;
  story-scoped link check: zero broken
- merge-recovery folded in: the partial master merge had dropped the
  chat story, the fibers exploration note, the arc spec+plan, the
  framework-v2 plan, and the iteration-17 spec+plan — all restored from
  their branches and renumbered consistently

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 14:31:09 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
4c8a3bd2ed docs: iteration 20 — Float + Bytes, the missing scalars (forks settled) 
- brainstorm settled four forks: Float FULL STACK in one iteration
  (literal, IEEE f64 VM ops via u64 bitcast, @table column + WAL slot,
  json fidelity — json.c's own comment names the hole: fractions are
  malformed because "the language has no [float]"); IEEE-754 QUIET
  semantics (division never traps, NaN flows; Int keeps DIV0; no
  implicit mixing — float(i)/trunc(f) bridges); BYTES ships alongside
  (binary carrier: multipart files, WS frames for 19, crypto digests;
  Text goes back to meaning text); iteration 20 + spec before code
  (.wob/WAL version bump earns a written spec)
- the rest of the missing-type survey recorded with reasons: Result/
  Option expressible today (?T + payload unions), tuples covered by
  records + doctrine, Decimal stays cents-until-a-workload, Char/
  Unicode its own future story, Set/ADTs parked post-12, scalar
  newtypes need the rejected `abstract`
- one indexed-storage deviation from raw IEEE spec'd loudly: a Float
  index needs a total order — NaN sorts last
- board row, story-table row (seq 26), graph node (9+16 -> 20 -> 19;
  crypto gate wants Bytes)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 14:21:58 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ec9d264355 feat: cross-shard actors — placement, envelopes, home-routed frees, WO-E222 (arc T6) 
- spawn placement: round-robin across shards (same-shard when the
  engine is absent/single); the actor's mailbox and delivery belong to
  its HOME thread — a spawn to another shard travels as an ADOPT
  envelope, a send as a SEND envelope (mutex-guarded inbox + eventfd
  wake; the spec's lock-free rings stay a disclosed deviation until
  9e measures the mutex)
- workers: first envelope triggers lazy full-vm init UNDER the inbox
  mutex (TSan caught the memset racing a concurrent push, twice — the
  second was inbox_push reading wake_efd outside the lock; both fixed,
  gate x8 + battery clean); serve loop = adopt -> run to drained ->
  wait on the plane (the wake eventfd is watched by io_uring POLL_ADD
  oneshot / epoll level-triggered on BOTH backends)
- ownership across heaps: every allocation stamps rt->shard_id into
  the header (the field reserved since iteration 2); a drop on the
  wrong shard routes home as a FREE envelope — the owner's arena stays
  single-threaded by construction; at teardown routed frees become
  no-ops (arenas die wholesale) which is what un-danced the freed-mutex
  ASan SEGV the first ordering had
- WO-E222: an actor's state or message type that is (or transitively
  contains) an inferred-traced class refuses at the spawn/send — with
  round-robin every actor is potentially remote; corpus-pinned
  (compile-fail/traced-send, inference-aware: Box contains ?Node)
- determinism narrowed per spec: oop-e2e pins WO_SHARDS=1 (exact
  outputs); the fibers gate grows multi-shard SET assertions + a TSan
  run (wovm-tsan target; setarch -R fallback for kernel 6.5+ ASLR)
- NEXT_RUNNABLE honors engine shutdown for parked workers (deadlock
  hole closed); io_wait's adopt-wake (rc 1) no longer reads as fatal
- battery: oop-e2e 93/0, fibers 10/0 x8 (+WO_IO=epoll), log-watcher
  7/0, employee 8/0, web-app 21/0, deps 8/0, runtime tests 16/16

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 12:06:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
5bd8813b9b feat(runtime): shard engine — pinned worker threads, all cores default (arc T5) 
- wo_engine + wo_engine_start/stop: one pinned pthread per extra core
  (pthread_setaffinity_np); shard 0 is the primary (entry + database);
  workers idle on a wake eventfd until fibers arrive (T6) or shutdown
- default = all cores (the arc's brave landing), WO_SHARDS=1..64
  overrides; N=1 spawns no threads — byte-identical to stage 1
- worker vms are LAZY: identity + wake fd only until their first fiber
  arrives — 20 idle shards must not cost 1.25 GiB of eager arenas
  (they did: the web-app gate flaked on exactly that before the fix;
  3 consecutive green runs after)
- engine stops (join + destroy) before the primary's teardown
- battery at the 20-core default: oop-e2e 92/0, fibers 8/0,
  log-watcher 7/0 (+WO_SHARDS=1 identical), web-app 21/0 x3,
  employee 8/0, deps 8/0, runtime tests 16/16 files green

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 11:46:28 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
7a614420f4 feat(examples): fibers — the hybrid scheduler demonstrated + gate 
- docs/examples/fibers: part 1 is TIMING-FREE and byte-exact — main
  sends three messages then burns reductions; each budget expiry hands
  the Counter actor exactly one delivery (cooperative mechanics,
  preemptive fairness, BEAM's shape); part 2 parks a Sleeper actor
  mid-receive on the I/O plane while main keeps ticking — the wake
  lands between ticks, proving a sleeping fiber blocks nobody
- the missing "sleeper: up" on the first run was main-return-reap
  working as specced (main ended before the deadline); the demo's
  window widened so the wake is observable
- scripts/fibers-accept.sh + `just fibers` (8 checks): build, part-1
  exact + part-2 ordering invariants on auto/uring/epoll backends,
  and an ASan-runtime rebuild+run
- README points at the doctrine writeup (exploration/fibers)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 10:00:40 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
897c8442f0 feat(runtime): the per-shard I/O plane — io_uring-first fiber parking (arc T4) 
- park.c/park.h: one event loop per shard. io_uring PRIMARY (raw
  io_uring_setup/io_uring_enter, uapi structs mirrored, 5.4-floor ops:
  POLL_ADD for fd readiness, TIMEOUT for sleeps, user_data = the fiber);
  epoll+deadline-scan FALLBACK behind the startup probe; WO_IO=
  uring|epoll forces either so CI proves both on one kernel
- park protocol: a blocking builtin fills cur->park_* and returns
  WO_SYS_PARKED; resume either RE-EXECUTES it (fd readiness: accept/
  read/write retry) or continues PAST it (sleep: result preset,
  park_done=1 — re-executing would restart the full duration)
- sysio: listener + accepted fds nonblocking (accept4 SOCK_NONBLOCK);
  accept/read park on EAGAIN; write parks on EAGAIN with its partial
  progress carried across the retry in park_wr_at; sleep parks on a
  deadline — with ONE fiber the plane's wait IS the blocking call,
  program mode is the degenerate case, not a special one
- scheduler: NEXT_RUNNABLE waits on the plane when the queue empties;
  a stop interrupting the wait reaps EVERY fiber (queued and parked)
  and returns the clean-stop status; parked fibers are GC roots and
  fib_reap_all drains them
- proof: full battery green on the uring path (oop-e2e 92/0,
  log-watcher 7/0 incl. the mcp accept/read/write loop, employee 8/0,
  web-app 21/0, deps 8/0), WO_IO=epoll battery green (log-watcher 7/0,
  web-app 21/0), WO_IO=uring forced green, LW_SOAK=8 10/0 (fd + RSS
  flatness holds over parked I/O)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 09:58:04 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ac7c80e1b9 docs: runtime CODE-LOGIC — fiber/actor model (arc stage 1) 
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 07:22:04 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
d2d1721e05 feat: spawn / send / actor M — the unified actor surface (arc T3) 
- language: `spawn Cls { fields }` expression (ctor semantics — fields
  MOVE; result is the address); `actor M` parametric field type
  (contextual like multi/map — actor stays a legal identifier); `send`
  is a builtin free-fn name, not a keyword (shadowing rule applies)
- typing: M inferred from Cls's receive(msg: M); WO-E221 when receive
  is missing, mis-armed, or M is not a class/record/union; send checks
  addr is `actor M` and the message IS an M (silent when underivable);
  ctor half of spawn delegates to the Ctor arm (completeness, ?T, E207)
- ownership: send's message TRANSFERS (sender's later use = WO-E301,
  corpus-pinned); spawn's fields move via the ctor machinery; an
  address is Copy
- emit: spawn lowers to ctor + LOADK receive's method index + BUILTIN
  68; send is BUILTIN 69 with the message excluded from fresh-arg drops
  (the runtime owns it now)
- runtime: wo_actor (moved-in instance, receive idx, growable FIFO
  mailbox, one delivery fiber at a time); delivery reuses the fiber
  context across messages and re-queues per message (fairness — an
  actor never monopolizes); the runtime drops each message after its
  receive returns; actor state/queued/in-flight messages are GC roots;
  teardown drops everything (main-return reap included); loader knows
  the two arities
- corpus: run/actor-echo (typed spawn/send, one-at-a-time delivery
  interleaved with main by budget — output exact, ASan-clean),
  compile-fail/spawn-no-receive (WO-E221), send-after-move (WO-E301)
- battery green: oop-e2e 92/0, woc-test, wovm-test, log-watcher 7/0,
  employee 8/0, web-app 21/0, deps-accept 8/0

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 07:21:24 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
f88aa11cef feat(runtime): fiber run queue + reduction budget (arc T2) 
- fiber states (RUNNABLE/PARKED/DONE), intrusive FIFO run queue,
  wo_vm_spawn_fiber (calloc'd context, frame 0 set up like wo_vm_call)
- reduction budget: WO_REDUCTIONS (default 4000), checked at loop
  BACK-EDGES AFTER the jump lands so the saved pc is the loop head —
  a pre-instruction save at budget 1 re-executes the jump into the
  same decrement and livelocks (found by reasoning, pinned by the
  budget-1 test; deviation from the spec's three-site wording,
  recorded in the yield macro's comment)
- FIBER_DONE: main returning ends the program and reaps every
  remaining fiber through vm_unwind (drop maps run); a spawned fiber
  ending frees silently; its return value is discarded by contract
- TRAPF: an uncaught trap in a spawned fiber kills that fiber ALONE
  (stderr report, program lives); in main it stays the program's death
- WO_SYS_STOPPED reaps all fibers wherever it lands (main unlinked
  from the queue and unwound if a spawned fiber caught the stop)
- vm_gc_roots walks the live fiber plus every queued one
- test_fiber (45 checks, ASan): EXACT round-robin interleave at budget
  1 across three fibers pushing tags into one shared multi;
  main-return reaps a spinning fiber holding an owned Big (ASan proves
  the free); a DIV0 fiber dies alone, main answers 0
- full battery green: wovm-test, oop-e2e 89/0, woc-test, log-watcher
  7/0, employee 8/0, web-app 21/0, deps-accept 8/0 (scheduler dormant
  = one branch per back-edge)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 07:03:40 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
58e37cc19e refactor(runtime): extract the fiber context from wo_vm (arc T1) 
- wo_fiber = the interpreter state wo_vm held inline: register window,
  frame stack, catch stack, caught-error slot; wo_vm keeps module,
  runtime, the embedded fiber 0 (main) and the cur pointer every
  interpreter access now reads through
- vm_gc_roots split into a per-fiber walker + the all-fibers caller
  (one fiber today; the loop is where stage 1 T2 adds the rest)
- PURE refactor, no functional change to hide behind: full battery
  byte-identical — wovm-test (test, test-iso, cli_smoke) green,
  oop-e2e 89/0, woc-test green, log-watcher 7/0, employee 8/0,
  web-app 21/0, deps-accept 8/0
- plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-20-shard-fiber-arc.md task 1
  (plan/spec docs live on branch language-surface-strictness)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 06:40:58 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
3ad7e8b3dc docs: board doctrine notes the stories-folder exception 
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 04:33:48 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
2a4c304378 docs: stories foldered by state — done/ and refine/ 
- done/ (11): 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 7b, 9, 9b, 15, 16 — landed iterations
  (9/9b remainders live in the post-12 drain list, not in the files)
- refine/ (8): 9c, 9d, 9e, 9f, 9g, 11, 13, 14 — everything marked
  "no spec yet / brainstorm before planning"
- root keeps: 00-story (index), 05 (partial, plan 8 open), 8/10/12
  (specs or plans exist), 17 (parked, spec+plan approved), 18 (next)
- every cross-reference re-pathed and VERIFIED resolving: board, specs,
  plans, employee-list README, story table, intra-story links (moved
  files' relative links deepened one level; done/7b's 9e pointer now
  crosses to refine/)
- pre-existing dead link noted, not touched: refine/11-fibers.md points
  at docs/plan/exploration/fibers/00-fibers.md which does not exist
  (predates the move)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 04:33:24 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ba428c362c docs: story iterations table re-sequenced by dependency 
- 00-story.md iterations table rows reordered into implementation order
  with a Seq column; # stays an immutable ID (files never renumber —
  every board/spec/plan references by number)
- order: 1-7b, 9, 9b, 15, 16 (landed, landing order) -> 18 NEXT (spec
  approved) -> 9c -> 9d -> 9e -> 8 -> 9f -> 11 -> 10 -> 12 -> 9g -> 14
  -> 13; 17 parked row at the end, slots anywhere after 16 on directive
- story note + board implementation-order list synced (18 inserted as
  item 2 after the parked-17 note; 9g now explicitly before 14; list
  renumbered)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 04:25:43 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
7362915b50 docs: dependency graph rebuilt — 17 edges, concurrency chain, drain 
- re-analyzed every story/spec/plan markdown for dependency statements
- added: iteration 17's OUTGOING edge (framework internal/ reorg + check
  mode, WO-E108/E109 reserved); 1-6 foundation anchor; 9b -> 10 ("service
  blocks want query results"); 14's gap fan-out node; post-12 parked
  drain cluster with dashed scope-directive edges (13 + drain are
  directive-held, not technically blocked)
- new graph 2: the concurrency chain — 8/9f/11 and EVERYTHING they gate:
  keep-alive parking retirement, h2c, body/response streaming + commit
  point, cancellation, pub/sub+WS, 9c's rejected async-statement
  alternative, schedulable idle timeouts, fiber jobs (+18),
  cancellation->rollback (+18+cancel)
- graph 3 notes 9d's keypair crypto is its own C impl, neither waits for
  nor feeds the crypto-fork gate; storage-integration rows point at
  their real owners (future migrations story, 9-series query surface)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 04:19:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
4c4aafc71e docs: NEXT PLAN reflects approved 18 spec + graph link 
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 04:14:10 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
6a0ce35edd docs: dependency graphs for iterations + framework features 
- docs/00-dependency-graph.md: three mermaid graphs — story iterations
  (hard edges only; 18 is the only spec-approved node with all
  prerequisites green), framework v1 ledger items (three recurring
  gates: net seams, crypto fork, iterations 8/11; nine slices startable
  today in any order), framework v2 internals (cache/flags independent,
  transaction{} is the critical path, jobs compose on it)
- maintenance rule: node classes update in the same change as board rows
- board links the graph up top; spec 18 banner -> APPROVED, plan next

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 04:13:49 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
234bd43466 docs: framework v1/v2 split + per-feature status ledger 
- framework README core checklist expanded into the v1 STATUS LEDGER:
  seven categories (transport, routing, request/response, context &
  middleware, storage integration, security, crypto), every item
  marked done / partial-with-named-gap / candidate / parked-behind-8-11
  / needs-runtime-seam
- verified before labeling: BODY_MAX caps headers AND body (size limits
  done); net has no timeout or unix-socket or peer-address surface
  (runtime seams); language has NO bitwise operators, so SHA/HMAC/CRC32
  must be C runtime builtins or bit ops land first (fork to brainstorm);
  radix routing waits for 9e to measure the linear scan first
- crypto hard stop recorded: HS256 unlocks and nothing past it
- memory-rich features relabeled FRAMEWORK V2 = iteration 18 (story +
  spec banners + board rows); v1 gaps land as slices per the ledger

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 04:07:39 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
24ff960950 docs(spec): iteration 18 — transaction { } + cache/flags/jobs design 
- Part A transaction: one wal_commit at block end over the existing
  staged batch; reads see own writes (RAM stays authoritative); trap
  unwinding out = abort (undo list: insert->remove, update/delete->
  pre-image, captured before RAM apply, txn-only cost); try inside
  keeps the block alive; WO-E110 lexical nesting, WO_T_DB dynamic;
  no new opcodes, no .wob bump (internal builtins + catch-frame-shaped
  abort marker); E108/E109 stay reserved for parked 17
- Part B: cache.wo (ttl_ms/cap, lazy time.now-ms expiry, FIFO over LRU
  with the tradeoff stated, Text values via json); flags.wo (@table
  wf_flags, on as Int 0/1 - Bool columns unproven, read-through map,
  set updates table+map); jobs.wo (@table wf_jobs, enqueue composes
  with transaction, JobRunner interface, App.jobs(take r, budget),
  Dispatcher.idle() called post-accept PRE-PARSE - deterministic for
  the SIGKILL durability proof, unlike after-response)
- web-app demo: transactional order+confirm enqueue, GET /jobs count,
  POST /flags/:name with a flag-gated header on the product list
- gate: SIGKILL-after-201/restart/drain proof + flags persistence;
  corpus carries transaction-commit/abort + WO-E110 + cache-ttl
  (stamps injected, no sleeps)
- board row 18 -> spec written, awaiting review

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 04:00:27 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
deb2dc805c docs: iteration 18 — memory-rich features over the embedded DB (no code) 
- brainstorm settled four forks same-day: scope = TTL cache + @table
  feature flags + durable @table job queue; jobs = drain-on-request
  (idle server drains nothing, disclosed); transaction { } ships in 18
  (WAL already stages batches, db.c merely commits per statement);
  pub/sub REJECTED until 8/11 (no WebSockets, starvation lesson)
- ground truths verified and recorded: time.now exists, no timers (lazy
  expiry only), accept blocks without timeout, state lives on wired
  instances, wal_append*/wal_commit is the txn seam
- headline: enqueue + business write in ONE commit — outbox dissolved
- draft acceptance incl. SIGKILL/restart transactional-jobs proof
- board row 18 + NEXT PLAN next-step + story roadmap row

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 03:52:59 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
0dd5fda180 feat(framework): multipart/form-data parsing — Part, multipart_parts, part_named 
- http/multipart.wo: RFC 7578 whole-body parsing within BODY_MAX —
  boundary from the raw content-type (quoted or bare, key
  case-insensitive), parts split on --boundary, each part = headers,
  blank line, content; filename + per-part content-type kept (lowercased)
- strict malformed-is-nil: no closing --boundary-- marker, a part
  without content-disposition, missing blank line, no boundary param,
  wrong media type — all nil, the caller's 400
- part_named(parts, name): first matching field's content, caller-owned
- web-app CreateProduct now accepts multipart/form/JSON (curl -F shape)
  into the shared insert path
- probe 13/13 + 3x reuse loop (fields, crlf-in-content, quoted boundary,
  file part, zero-part close, five malformed shapes) release + ASan
- gate grows 19 -> 21: multipart create 201, missing closing marker 400
- README: multipart row ✅ (all three body hooks done), limits updated;
  story 16 + board record the landing
- gates: web-app 21/0, oop-e2e 89/0, deps-accept 8/0, log-watcher 7/0,
  employee 8/0, woc-test green

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 03:33:14 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
ed29ccadbc fix(compiler): return of a Text interp of a place handed out the borrow 
- emit_return's place test matched only bare Ident/Field/Index, so
  `return "${p.content}"` (p a loop borrow) returned the part's own
  string; the caller's eventual drop freed it under the container —
  arena corruption surfacing two requests later (multipart slice)
- the return test now sees through Interp exactly as copy_place_text
  does (is_borrowed_value_t, container reads excluded); bare
  Ident/Field/Index behavior at return unchanged
- interp-borrowed-field fixture grows the return flavor (fn first),
  50 iterations exact
- gates: oop-e2e 89/0 (ASan stage), woc-test green

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 03:32:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
a5826495e9 feat(framework): form-encoded body parsing — media_type + form_values 
- media_type(req): content-type lowercased, "; charset=..." stripped,
  "" when absent — the content-negotiation hook
- form_values(req): application/x-www-form-urlencoded body -> decoded
  pairs through the existing query decoder ('+' as space, %XX); nil on
  any other content-type so a JSON body is never misread as a form key
- web-app CreateProduct accepts form OR JSON; shared create_product
  insert path; field/number validation answers 400
- probe 7/7 (plus/pct decode, empty value, case + charset param, json
  and missing content-type nil, empty body, media_type strip) + ASan
- gate grows 17 -> 19: form create 201 with decoded name, non-numeric
  price 400; hit() gains a content-type argument
- README: checklist row form ✅ (multipart stays candidate), limits
  paragraph updated; story 16 + board record the landing
- gates: web-app 19/0, oop-e2e 89/0, deps-accept 8/0, log-watcher 7/0,
  employee 8/0, woc-test green

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 03:21:48 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
e05a27c898 docs: milestone closing line reflects the parked 17 
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 03:15:38 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
fb86156d04 feat(framework): auth in core — Bearer/Basic mechanism + principal slot 
- http/auth.wo: auth_header (scheme split, case-insensitive, RFC 9110),
  bearer_token, basic_credentials (first-colon split, RFC 7617),
  pure-.wo base64_decode (RFC 4648, strict padding), ct_eq constant-time
  compare (no early exit, both Basic fields always compared)
- req.principal: the blessed "who is this" slot, "" until authenticated;
  Middleware.before now takes mut req so auth can write it
- BearerAuth { token, principal } and BasicAuth { user, pass, realm }
  middlewares; BasicAuth answers the WWW-Authenticate challenge; policy
  (routes/users/secrets) stays app-side on the exposed fns
- web-app dogfoods BearerAuth; its hand-rolled Auth class deleted
- probe matrix 26/26 (RFC 4648 vectors, rfc7617 pair, pass-with-colon,
  bad padding/chars/length, deny paths, challenge header) release+ASan
- gate grows 16 -> 17: wrong bearer token answers 401 over the wire
- README: auth bullet + the core CHECKLIST (done / candidate / parked
  behind 8-11 by design); story 16 + board record the landing
- all gates green: web-app 17/0, oop-e2e 89/0, deps-accept 8/0,
  log-watcher 7/0, employee 8/0, woc-test green

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 03:15:16 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
d84b72f0b4 feat(framework): v1 polish — helpers, 405+Allow, HEAD, Logging, set_header 
- App.get/post/put/delete_(pattern, take h: Handler) — the take-interface
  shape probe-proven release + ASan before landing; retires plan-16
  deviation 1; delete_ because delete is the query keyword
- dispatch matches path-first: wrong method on a known path answers 405
  with Allow in registration order; unknown path stays 404
- HEAD routed as GET, body suppressed, Content-Length names the body a
  GET would carry (serialize gains head_only)
- Logging middleware (request line to stderr) ships in router/
- set_header(mut r, name, value) — the builder escape hatch
- web-app registers through the helpers (dogfood); README documents all
- gate grows 14 -> 16: 405+Allow, HEAD-vs-GET content-length equality
- all gates green: web-app 16/0, woc-test 540/0, oop-e2e 89/0,
  deps-accept 8/0, log-watcher 7/0, employee 8/0
- board/story: iteration 17 parked (spec+plan ready on library-internal),
  16 carries the v1-polish landing, order list updated

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 03:04:57 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
81a9f882b5 fix(compiler): Text interp of a place crossed let/assign uncopied 
- copy_place_text matched only bare Ident/Field/Index, so a Text-typed
  single-segment interpolation ("${r.method}", r a loop borrow) passed
  the place's own register through a binding/assignment boundary — the
  local aliased the row's field and its overwrite freed it
- release-build crash; invisible to ASan (in-arena free, no redzones)
- now asks is_borrowed_value_t && not is_container_read — exactly
  drop_fresh_text's place test; Int segments (fresh int_to_text) and
  container reads (already copies) stay uncopied as before
- pinned by tests/corpus/run/interp-borrowed-field (crashed both
  runtimes before the fix, 50 iterations now exact)
- gates: woc-test 540/0, oop-e2e 89/0 (ASan stage included)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 03:04:43 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
b264c06d5a docs: state why web-framework merges before iteration 17 starts 
- NEXT PLAN step 1 now carries the reason: 17's edit targets (framework
  sources, [deps] resolution in main.ml, just web-app gate) exist only on
  the web-framework branch; unmerged start = branch stacked on unreviewed
  branch

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 02:10:32 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
2b5762500b docs: goal shift — log-watcher (met) to web framework as library 
- NEXT PLAN rewritten: iteration 17 is the goal slice (merge branch, spec/
  plan, kind = "library", internal/ WO-E1xx, framework reorg, gate list)
- previous NEXT PLAN retitled "Landed 2026-08-15 — the executable milestone";
  all six measured items were already done, board rows were stale
- board row 7: in-progress -> landed 2026-08-15 (ASan-clean, SIGTERM, fd-flat,
  soak, just log-watcher 7/0); iteration 07 story banner updated to match
  its plan doc's done banner
- in-progress table now carries iteration 17 spec/plan
- implementation order re-sequenced for framework goal: 17, 9c/9d, 9e, 8,
  9f, 11 (+ h2c unparks), 10, 12, then 14/9g demoted (skillhost no longer
  the driving workload), 13 + parked drain last
- story notes record the shift and the new order

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 02:04:41 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
d1aab85dbe docs: sequence pending iterations in implementation order 
- new "Implementation order (sequenced 2026-08-20)" section in 00-status.md
  pending bucket: 7-finish, 17, 9g, 14, 9c/9d, 9e, 8, 9f, 11, 10, 12,
  13 + parked drain
- forcing rules recorded: 9f after 8+9e; 9c precedes 10; 9d folds into 9c;
  12 after 9+10; 11 rides 8's scheduler; h2c behind 8/9f/11; post-12 park
  directive unchanged
- 9e placed before 8 so restructure/perf work has a signed baseline
- 14 early as next driving workload (stdlib-shaped, shard-independent)
- story 00-story.md notes point at the sequenced list

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 01:50:03 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
3e22e42da5 docs: iteration 17 forks settled — kind key, internal/ rule (no code) 
- fork 1: library-ness manifest-declared, kind = "library", default program
- fork 2: privacy = Go internal/ directory rule, named diagnostic at use
- fork 3: dep-boundary-only scope; Go subtree rule recorded as later tightening
- fork 4: lib+bin dual — library default action is check, explicit build works
- Go-inherited rule pinned: internal type in public signature allowed, no check
- impact analysis added: framework loses --emit workaround, plumbing under
  internal/; compiler = two seams (driver kind + dep-use refusal WO-E1xx)
- VM zero impact by construction: no .wob change, libs compile whole-program
  into consumer image, internal modules still emitted (privacy strips nothing)
- GC zero mechanism impact; pinned: inference stays whole-program, app usage
  can promote dep classes, internal/ invisible to gcinfer — intended, not bug
- board + roadmap rows: needs-refinement -> forks settled, spec/plan next

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 01:45:06 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
f430bff5c4 docs: iteration 17 — library projects + dependency privacy (needs refinement) 
Brainstorm outcome, deliberately NOT implemented (developer decision: keep
as an iteration needing further refinement). Records:
- the two gaps iterations 15/16 exposed: library-ness is implicit (a
  no-main project fails woc <dir> build mode — the framework is verified
  via an --emit workaround) and the dep boundary leaks internals (pub has
  no dep-private tier: parse_request is as importable as Handler).
- the conventions corpus: Go (package decides program-ness; cmd/;
  internal/ = directory-shaped privacy, zero keywords) vs Rust ([lib]/
  [[bin]] manifest targets; pub(crate)-family keyword visibility). Doctrine
  fit points at Go's shape with an explicit manifest key (writeonce HAS a
  manifest; explicit beats inference in errors).
- four open forks for the spec: kind declaration form; internal/ vs
  pub(lib) vs export-allowlist; dep-boundary-only vs Go's subtree rule;
  lib+bin duality. Draft acceptance criteria; web-app 14/0 as the
  regression gate. Roadmap + board rows added.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-20 01:23:10 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
d6025e131d docs: iteration 16 closeout (Task 6) 
Board row 16 -> landed (web-app 14/0), pending row removed; story header
records the landing + the two as-built discoveries (idle-keep-alive
starvation policy; the two compiler gaps the chain exposed and fixed);
README gains the framework+web-app sample entry; plan checkboxes ticked.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 19:58:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
c72b3354ff test: web-app-accept — iteration 16's gate (Task 5) 
scripts/web-app-accept.sh: 14 checks, network-free — temp git remote from
the framework dir, file:// substituted into a temp app copy, then fetch +
wo.lock + build; 401-without-token; empty list; 201 create; 409 duplicate
(@unique); 400 malformed json; list/show payloads; 404; 201 order (FK); 409
delete-while-referenced with the server surviving; pipelined keep-alive (2
responses, 1 connection); SIGTERM; WAL restart persistence. Wired as
`just web-app`. 14/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 19:57:30 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
24c991069d feat: web-app storefront + dep-relative use resolution (iter 16 Task 4) 
- docs/examples/web-app: Product (@unique name, backlink orders) / Order
  (ref Product) as @table classes; handlers as Handler classes —
  ListProducts (ordered query -> JSON array), ShowProduct (unique-index
  probe, 404), CreateProduct (checked json.decode -> 400; @unique trap ->
  409), CreateOrder (FK insert), DeleteProduct (FK restrict trap -> 409);
  Auth middleware reads WA_TOKEN. Entry validates port + token honestly.
- The [deps] KEY is the module name `use` imports: hyphens are not
  identifier characters, so the app keys the dep `framework` while the
  repository keeps its long name (recorded in the manifest comment).
- driver fix (real gap the chain exposed): a dependency's INTERNAL `use`
  paths are written against its own root (`use http` inside the framework)
  but compile under `<depname>/...` — compile_image now prefixes dep files'
  use paths with the dep name (stdlib namespaces stay bare; a path already
  starting with the dep name is untouched).

Verified end to end through the full chain (temp git remote of the
framework, file:// substituted, fetch -> lock -> build -> serve): 401
without the token; [] empty list; 201 create; 409 duplicate (@unique);
400 malformed json; list/show payloads exact; 404 unknown product; 201
order; 409 delete-while-referenced (FK restrict) with the server still
serving; SIGTERM clean; the product survives a process restart (WAL
replay). Gates: woc-test 540/0, oop-e2e 88/0, deps-accept 8/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 19:56:18 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
67484f799a feat(framework): router + Handler/Middleware + App (iter 16 Task 3) 
- router/router.wo: Handler (handle(req) -> Resp) and Middleware
  (before(req) -> ?Resp; nil = continue) structural interfaces; Route/Mw
  record classes built as ctor literals at the registration site — the
  ownership shape the corpus pins (run/container-owned-move);
  route_match with :param captures over '/'-split segments (empties
  dropped, first mismatch wins).
- app.wo: App holds the middleware chain + route table (take-push),
  satisfies http's Dispatcher, dispatches middleware-then-first-match,
  fills the captures onto the borrowed request in place (Dispatcher takes
  `mut req` — the borrow checker rightly refused rebuilding a Req from
  borrowed maps; captures collect locally so a failed match never touches
  the request), 404 fallback, serve(host, port) delegation.

Verified against a throwaway app (not committed): middleware 401
short-circuit without the token; /things/:id captures 42 into the body;
unknown path 404; a DIV0 handler answers 500 and the next request is
served; SIGTERM clean. Framework image emits at 12161 bytes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 19:53:19 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
994d151a44 feat(framework): HTTP/1.1 parse + serialize + serve loop (iter 16 Task 2) 
- http/parse.wo: bounded-read buffering to the header terminator, then
  exactly Content-Length body bytes; %XX decoding ('+' = space in query
  strings only, malformed escapes pass through — parsing stays total);
  path/query split with decoded pairs; header names lowercased; the
  three-state Parsed record (closed / malformed / request) with keep-alive
  carry-over — bytes past this request belong to the next one on the
  connection.
- http/serve.wo: Dispatcher interface (the router's seam), status/reason
  serialization with computed Content-Length, and the blocking loop:
  malformed -> 400 + close; a trapping handler -> 500 AND the loop lives;
  fds closed on every path; env.stopping() honored.
- Connection policy discovered by probing, not assumed: a parked keep-alive
  connection BLOCKS accept on a single-threaded server (probe: client 1
  idles open, client 2 starves). Policy: serve PIPELINED requests on one
  connection (carry non-empty), close when the client would idle; a proxy
  reconnects. README states it.

Verified against a throwaway echo app (not committed): %20 query decode;
two pipelined requests -> two responses on one connection; DIV0 handler ->
500 and the NEXT connection served; GARBAGE -> 400; SIGTERM stops clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 19:50:55 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
20322d4905 feat(examples): framework skeleton + web-app scaffold (iter 16 Task 1) 
- docs/examples/writeonce-framework: library project (no fn main) — wo.toml,
  README (what it is + the honest v1 limits + the proxy TLS/h2 story), and
  http/types.wo: pub Req/Resp records + the response builders (ok_text/
  ok_json/created/not_found/bad_request/unauthorized/conflict/server_error/
  redirect). Typechecks + emits entry-less via woc --emit (1767-byte image).
- docs/examples/web-app: manifest with the real [deps] entry (future GitHub
  URL as documentation; the gate substitutes a file:// remote) + README
  (routes table, run instructions, nginx h2-in-front sketch). Code lands
  with Task 4.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 19:43:19 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
4c75ba4fbd docs: implementation plan for iteration 16 (web framework + web-app) 
6 tasks, words-only: (1) framework skeleton — Req/Resp records + builders,
standalone-typechecking project; (2) HTTP/1.1 parse/serialize + keep-alive
serve loop with the try-bounded dispatch seam (400-close on malformed, 500-
survive on handler traps, fd/stop clean); (3) router with :param captures +
Handler/Middleware interfaces + App.serve; (4) web-app storefront —
@table Product/Order, auth middleware, json routes, [deps] manifest carrying
the future GitHub URL; (5) scripts/web-app-accept.sh — temp git remote from
the framework dir, file:// substitution into a temp app copy, full curl
matrix + restart persistence + SIGTERM + opt-in soak, wired as just web-app;
(6) docs closeout. Both enabling risks retired pre-plan (interface-field
dispatch probe; owned-move container fix pinned by run/container-owned-move).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 19:38:21 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
9eb8baef9f fix(compiler): storing an owned value in a container is a MOVE 
The disclosed "move-on-push" gap detonated on iteration 16's route-table
pattern: `push(self.routes, r)` moved the Route into the container while the
`take r` parameter's scope-end DROP still fired — the container's own drop
plan (multi_free) then freed the element a second time. ASan: SEGV in
class_free during trap unwind; latent until now because pushed elements were
Texts, which copy at the boundary (2026-08-14).

owner.ml analyze_call: `push`'s value slot and `set`'s key/value slots now
TRANSFER an Owned, non-copy-stored place (record_move, exactly the take-arg
shape), so the pusher's drop disappears. Text/json.Value keep the copy-store
path (stores_by_copy) and the caller still drops the fresh copy. Traced (gc)
values remain exempt (tracing owns them). A user-declared push/set fn of the
same name wins, per the builtin shadowing rule.

Pinned by tests/corpus/run/container-owned-move (route table: interface-
typed field values pushed via take params, dispatched by ICALL, mixed with
Text pushes) — the exact iteration-16 shape, ASan-clean.

Verified: woc-test 540/0; oop-e2e 88/0; log-watcher 7/0; employee 8/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 19:36:49 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
f6b5333d40 docs: iteration 15 closeout (Task 5) 
- error catalog: WO-E106 (dependency fetch/shape failures, one code, message
  names dep + step) and WO-E107 (dep/local module-name collision) rows.
- README: a Dependencies subsection under the manifest docs — [deps] syntax,
  .wo-deps/wo.lock behavior, offline-when-locked, --update-deps, flat-only.
- board: iteration 15 row -> landed (deps-accept 8/0), pending row removed;
  story 15 header records the landing; 08-project-structure notes
  .wo-deps (gitignored) + wo.lock (committed); plan checkboxes all ticked.

(One self-inflicted casualty during this task, restored from git before
commit: a buggy doc-edit script truncated 08-project-structure.md; the file
was recovered intact and the intended one-liner applied by hand.)

Gates at closeout: deps-accept 8/0, woc-test 540/0, oop-e2e 87/0,
log-watcher 7/0, employee 8/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 19:23:18 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
77d387fc0a test: deps-accept — iteration 15's gate (Task 4) 
scripts/deps-accept.sh: 8 checks over local file:// remotes built at run
time (network-free) — cold fetch + lock + use <dep>/<dep>/sub + app-entry-
wins (the dep's fn main returns 99 and must never run), offline rebuild
with the remote deleted, lock-beats-moved-tag, --update-deps refresh,
cache/lock drift WO-E106, transitive refusal, WO-E107 collision, missing-rev
manifest shape. `just deps-accept` wired. 8/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 19:21:32 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
970ae2566c feat(woc): dependency resolver + multi-root builds (iter 15 Tasks 2+3) 
[deps] entries now resolve to fetched, locked checkouts and compile as
module roots.

- resolve_deps (driver): .wo-deps/<name>/ cache beside wo.toml, wo.lock
  pinning name -> commit SHA. Cold+unlocked: clone at the manifest rev,
  record HEAD. Cold+locked: clone and checkout the LOCKED sha — a moved tag
  cannot change the build. Warm+locked: HEAD==lock -> zero network.
  Divergence is WO-E106 "lock drift" naming both SHAs and pointing at
  --update-deps; every git failure (missing binary, bad URL, bad rev,
  missing locked commit) is WO-E106 naming the dep and step. Guard rails:
  fetched dep must be a writeonce project; a dep with its own [deps] is
  refused (flat-only); dep name colliding with a local module dir is
  WO-E107. All git via the git binary (Sys.command; output reads through a
  temp file) — no network code in the compiler. Full clone, not --depth 1
  (a locked SHA must be reachable regardless of tag movement) — recorded
  deviation from the plan's clone sketch.
- woc --update-deps <dir>: re-fetch at manifest revs, rewrite the lock.
- Multi-root compile: compile_image gains ~deps; app files first then deps
  sorted by name; module_of_multi maps a dep file to `<name>` /
  `<name>/<sub>`, so existing use/pub/collision machinery works across the
  boundary unchanged. The app root's walk skips .wo-deps via the existing
  dot-rule.
- Entry restriction: Emit.emit gains ?entry_ok (default true — test helpers
  untouched); the driver excludes dep files, so a dependency's fn main is
  never the entry.

Verified end to end against local file:// remotes: cold fetch + lock; `use
niceframework` + `use niceframework/strutil` build and run; offline rebuild
with the remote deleted; moved tag -> cold rebuild stays at the locked SHA;
--update-deps follows the tag and rewrites the lock; cache/lock drift,
transitive [deps], and name collision each produce their named diagnostic;
the dep's fn main (returning 99) never becomes the entry. woc-test 540/0;
oop-e2e 87/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 19:19:57 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
17a493e930 feat(woc): wo.toml [deps] section — inline-table parsing (iter 15 Task 1) 
The manifest grows [deps]: `name = { git = "...", rev = "..." }` — a
one-line inline table accepted ONLY under [deps] (a tiny scanner, not
split-on-comma: URLs may contain any character). git+rev both mandatory and
non-empty; duplicate dep names, unknown table keys, unquoted values, and
inline tables outside [deps] each keep/get a named diagnostic. Parse-only:
no fetch yet (Task 2).

Verified: well-formed parses; missing-rev / bare-value / outside-deps each
diagnose; woc-test 540/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 19:16:06 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
8fcebe60f9 docs: implementation plan for iteration 15 (deps) 
5 tasks, words-only per house rule, each with its verify step: (1) manifest
grows the [deps] section + one-line inline-table value (only under [deps]);
(2) resolver — git-binary fetch into .wo-deps/, wo.lock pinning, warm-path
offline guarantee, drift diagnostic, --update-deps, guard rails (transitive
refusal, non-writeonce dep, name collision WO-E107, all fetch failures
WO-E106); (3) multi-root discovery + module_of prefixing dep roots by dep
name + entry restricted to the app's own files; (4) scripts/deps-accept.sh
gate over file:// remotes (8 checks, network-free) + just recipe; (5) docs
closeout (catalog E106/E107, README deps subsection, board/story/structure).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 19:11:05 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
976ccda225 docs: web framework + deps design — spec + iterations 15/16 
Brainstorm outcome (forks locked with the developer):
- TLS: proxy-terminated (nginx/caddy gives browsers TLS+ALPN+h2; the
  framework speaks HTTP/1.1 behind it) — zero TLS in the toolchain, no
  doctrine fight; homegrown TLS refused outright.
- Dependencies: a real mini package manager — wo.toml [deps] with exact-rev
  git deps, wo.lock, .wo-deps cache, `use <dep>` as a module root; fetch by
  shelling to the git binary (no network code in woc); flat-only v1.
- HTTP/2: v1 is HTTP/1.1 keep-alive; h2c is the parked successor behind
  iterations 8/9f/11 (multiplexing needs a scheduler to pay off); the
  bytes/buffer type rides with it, not v1.
- Handler model: no function values by doctrine, so Handler/Middleware are
  structural interfaces (ICALL dispatch, WO-E205-checked); middleware returns
  ?Resp and rides the shipped ?T narrowing.
- Incubation: framework at docs/examples/writeonce-framework/, consuming
  storefront at docs/examples/web-app/ importing it THROUGH [deps] — the
  sample exercises fetch -> lock -> build -> serve -> durable-restart.
- Iteration 10 relationship: service blocks later LOWER ONTO this library.

Files: specs/2026-08-18-web-framework-design.md (A deps normative, B
framework normative, C h2c parked); stories 15-deps-package-manager.md +
16-web-framework.md; roadmap + board rows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 19:07:16 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
f282451867 feat(json): Bool encodes true/false; fraction/exponent decode fails honestly 
Closes json's two documented fidelity limits (iteration 5 strictness):

- field_class gains WOB_FIELD_BOOL (a plain `Bool` field) and
  WOB_FIELD_NIL_BOOL (a `?Bool`: WO_NIL_SCALAR nil + bool encoding) — the
  kind byte alone cannot tell a Bool slot from an Int slot, so the metadata
  carries it. Emitter writes them (field_class_meta); loader whitelists
  them; json.c encodes `true`/`false` (and `null` for a ?Bool nil), decode's
  null/omitted-key pre-write covers NIL_BOOL.
- A JSON number with a fraction or exponent is MALFORMED for an Int field:
  the checked decode (`json.decode(t) as T`) yields nil for the whole
  document instead of silently truncating 3.7 to 3 — the language has no
  float, and corrupting data quietly was the one thing a "checked decode"
  must never do. Floats stay representable through a raw `json.Value` field.
- corpus: run/json-bool-fidelity pins the round-trip (true/false both ways,
  ?Bool null both ways, fraction AND exponent rejected).
- Board's two known-gap entries struck; format doc's field_class marker list
  extended.

Verified: oop-e2e 87/0; runtime test + test-iso OK; woc-test 540/0;
log-watcher 7/0; employee 8/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 18:04:15 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
a43232dc72 feat(compiler): doctrine reject rows — WO-E105 (iter 5 strictness) 
The verdict table's reject half is enforced: a Haxe habit fails loudly at
its own position with the doctrine reason, instead of a generic syntax
error — or, worst, compiling clean: `return super.f()` used to exit 0 (the
unresolved ident placeholder swallowed it).

- parser.ml: doctrine_reject_reason maps each rejected word to its spec
  reason (inheritance quartet -> principle 4; cast; Dynamic/untyped ->
  principle 13; macro; extern -> principle 10; operator). Fired at three
  chokepoints: `class B extends A` (with skip-to-brace recovery so the body
  still parses), an expression head (`super`, `cast 3`, `untyped x`), and a
  top-level declaration head (`macro fn`, `extern fn`).
- types.ml: `Dynamic`/`untyped` as a TYPE name keep their WO-E225 site but
  carry the doctrine message.
- corpus: compile-fail/{reject-inheritance,reject-cast,reject-dynamic}.
- catalog WO-E105 row; plan 8 Task 8 reject half ticked (#if still open);
  board updated.

Verified: woc-test 540/0 + test_diag 14/0; oop-e2e 86/0; log-watcher 7/0;
employee 8/0; legit identifiers (`extended`) untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 17:57:36 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
8f6ff1e865 feat(compiler): WO-E205 structural interface satisfaction + call-arg checks 
The hybrid-boundary inversion is closed: a statically provable interface
violation now fails at COMPILE time instead of reaching wovm as an ICALL
that traps WO_T_BOUNDS at runtime.

- types.ml class_satisfies: the same rule emit.ml's `satisfies` builds
  vtable rows from (instance method with matching name + parameter count
  for every interface method; `static fn` never satisfies) — one rule, two
  consumers, so the check and the vtable can never disagree.
- check_iface_boundary fires wherever a confidently class-typed value flows
  into an interface-typed slot: call arguments against the callee's declared
  parameters (free fns, methods off confident receivers, interface-method
  sigs, statics — resolved exactly as confident_typ resolves returns),
  annotated `let`s, and `return`s. Silent when underivable.
- The same per-argument pass extends the ?T boundary to CALL ARGUMENTS
  (the previous slice covered stores/returns/operands): nil into a
  non-nullable parameter is WO-E212, an unnarrowed ?T argument is WO-E211.
- tests/corpus/trap/unsatisfied-interface -> compile-fail/ with
  fixture.code WO-E205, per the fixture's own standing instruction; its
  header comment rewritten to the wired reality.
- The new arg checks caught a real mistyped signature in the sample:
  log-watcher's rpc_error/rpc_result/call_tool declared `id: json.Value`
  while every caller legitimately passes nil (JSON-RPC id-absent) — now
  `?json.Value`; dispatch/call_tool/cron-row sites moved to the
  bind-then-narrow idiom (including an `or`-guard narrowing:
  `if spath == nil or spat == nil { return }`).
- Catalog: E205 gains its main-table row; the "owed gap" section is
  rewritten as closed. Board known-gap struck through.

Verified: woc-test 540/0 + test_diag 14/0; oop-e2e 83/0 (fixture now
compile-fail, satisfying-class negative probe compiles clean); oop-accept
ALL MET; log-watcher 7/0; employee 8/0; gc-cycle clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 17:53:40 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
934780c54c feat(compiler): ?T forced handling — WO-E211/E212/E213 + narrowing (iter 5) 
The type system now keeps its nullability promise: a `?T` value cannot be
used, stored, or dereferenced as a plain `T` without narrowing. The canonical
evidence probe (return b.v where v: ?Int, fn -> Int) that compiled clean for
months now fails with WO-E211.

- WO-E211 (un-narrowed use): arithmetic and </<=/>/>= operands, and/or
  operands (?Bool), interpolation segments, for-iterables, and returns whose
  declared type is not nullable.
- WO-E212 (boundary): nil or ?T stored into a non-nullable slot — annotated
  let, assignment to a confidently-typed local (cenv, never the placeholder
  env — a placeholder target must stay silent) or a resolvable class field.
- WO-E213 (deref): field/index access through a possibly-nil base.
- Narrowing (locals only — a field place can be re-assigned between check
  and use, so chains bind to a local first): `if x != nil { }` narrows the
  branch; a DIVERGING then-branch (`if x == nil { return }`) narrows after
  the if; `x != nil and x.n > 3` narrows and/or right operands
  (short-circuit); `while x != nil` narrows the body. The narrow is
  un-applied when an else-less then-env leaks out un-diverged (the existing
  env-leak convention must not leak the narrow).
- No false positives by construction: env/cenv types are declared or
  confidently inferred; the placeholder fallbacks are plain scalars, never
  ?T. The whole golden suite passed untouched (540/0).
- Samples updated to the bind-then-narrow idiom (log-watcher config decode +
  supervisor lock/next_fire, gc-cycle ring print) — 22 genuine unnarrowed-nil
  sites; employee needed zero changes. All acceptances green.
- Corpus: compile-fail/{nullable-unnarrowed-use,nullable-nil-into-plain,
  nullable-deref-unchecked} + run/nullable-narrowing (all four forms) — 83/0.
- Catalog: E211/E212/E213 move from "Reserved, not yet emitted" to the main
  table; nullable-types-implementation.md status flipped to ENFORCED
  (historical record kept); plan 8 Task 6 ticked (boxed scalar cells
  superseded by WO_NIL_SCALAR); board updated.

Verified: woc-test 540/0 + test_diag 14/0; oop-e2e 83/0; oop-accept ALL MET;
log-watcher 7/0; employee 8/0; gc-cycle ring prints + reclaims.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 17:47:13 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
c1881fc9f3 docs: CODE-LOGIC files reflect the 7b collector and inference pass 
- runtime/src/CODE-LOGIC.md: gc.c row describes the tri-color mark-sweep
  (traced list, snapshot roots, Yuasa barrier, budgeted slices) instead of
  RC + Bacon-Rajan; obj.c row gains the traced-list/may-gcref notes; main.c
  row gains the post-exit pump.
- compiler/src/CODE-LOGIC.md: pipeline diagram gains gcinfer.ml between
  types and owner; the owner-tables section drops rc sites and names the
  inference pass as the source of GC-ness.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 17:12:52 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
28485a271c docs: iteration 7b migration — amend the normative docs (Phase 4) 
The spec's §8 migration table, applied:

- 00-principles.md P3: "@gc is a per-class opt-in, reference-counted" ->
  GC-ness is inferred; incremental per-shard mark-sweep in budgeted slices;
  still no global pause by construction.
- OOP spec: decision-table GC row -> inferred (hybrid rule named); §3 rule 5
  -> traced classes alias freely, which classes is inferred; §4 memory model
  -> the RC + Bacon-Rajan paragraph replaced by tracing (snapshot roots,
  Yuasa barrier, born-black, budgeted slices); header rc comment -> union'd
  sweep link; mixing rule restated for tracing.
- 00-wob-format.md: header says version 4; opcodes 27-28 -> reserved (loader
  rejects); the owned-temporary rule's @gc exclusion restated for tracing.
- 08-builtin-surface.md: the push RC_INC special case and the set(m,k,v)
  retention gap DELETED — neither exists without RC; the corpus cycle is
  collected by tracing.
- story 07b: status -> LANDED 2026-08-18 (with the historical note kept);
  board: 7b row ✅ (supersedes iteration 2's RC memory model), pending row
  removed.
- gc-cycle README: Phase 3 flipped to landed (the ring runs, is reclaimed,
  ASan-clean; the ?Node RC_DEC-on-nil trap no longer exists); the barrier
  prose corrected to the as-built design (snapshot-at-beginning + deletion
  barrier + born-black, not per-slice root re-reads).
- plan 2026-08-18: all checkboxes ticked + a completion banner recording the
  four deviations from the plan as written.

(Error catalog was already amended with the keyword-removal commit: WO-E104
added, WO-W201 retired.)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 17:11:35 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
092b528081 feat: retire RC from the emitter and the format — .wob v4 (7b Phase 3b) 
The compiler no longer emits reference-counting ops anywhere, and the format
reserves them. With Phase 3a's collector this completes the runtime half of
iteration 7b: spec success criteria 3 (no RC ops in any image, opcodes
reserved) and 6 (corpus ASan-clean) are met — `just oop-accept` is fully green.

- owner.ml: the rc machinery is deleted outright — rc_site/rc_op types, the
  rcs table, fn_rcs/rc_groups/rc_escaped, record_rc, release_gc, gc_escape,
  resolve_rc, and the clobber rule (its only consumer was elision). The
  `push`-of-a-gc-value RC_INC special case is gone (the bug class cannot recur
  without RC). Drop tables (owned + LGc kinds) are untouched — the gc mask is
  what feeds the collector's root maps.
- emit.ml: emit_rc, the v_rc view, the escape-acquire anchor, and every
  caller deleted; assignment displacing a traced value emits nothing (the VM's
  store barrier owns it); scope-ended LGc handles clear their gc-mask bit so
  root maps stay precise.
- .wob v4: WOB_VERSION 3 -> 4 in wob.h + emit.ml + disasm.ml + the runner's
  loader battery; opcodes 27-28 removed from the enum/jump table/interpreter
  and REJECTED by the loader like any unknown opcode.
- dump.ml: the == RC == owner-dump section is gone; 6 goldens re-blessed
  (owner dumps lose the section, elision.wo's bc dump loses its RC ops).
- runner.ml: rc-table/ELIDED assertions deleted; the elision test now asserts
  the WHOLE image contains no RC op; the table-contract sweep asserts rc ops
  never appear.
- test_unwind.c: the rc-opcodes test becomes two — the loader rejects reserved
  opcode 27, and an abandoned traced instance is freed by rt_destroy
  (ASan-proven).

Verified: woc-test 540/0 + test_diag 14/0; runtime test + test-iso all suites
ASan/UBSan (test_unwind 12/0); cli_smoke; oop-e2e 79/0 (v4 images end to end);
employee 8/0; log-watcher 7/0; ring runs + reclaimed (freed=3) with zero RC
ops in its image; `just oop-accept` ALL CRITERIA MET.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 17:07:43 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
841cb41c6b feat(runtime): incremental tri-color mark-sweep replaces RC (7b Phase 3a) 
Reference counting and Bacon-Rajan trial deletion are gone from the runtime.
Traced (inferred-gc) objects now die only by the collector; owned values keep
deterministic drops exactly as before.

- wo_hdr: rc retired; borrow and the freed 4 bytes become a union — non-traced
  values keep the borrow word, traced objects use the 8 bytes as the intrusive
  sweep-list link. Header stays exactly 16 bytes. WHITE is now the all-zero
  color (allocations born white by memset); WO_F_BUF retired.
- gc.c rewritten: snapshot-at-beginning tri-color mark-sweep. Roots (frames'
  gc+owned masks) shaded atomically at cycle start; Yuasa deletion barrier
  shades the OLD target of every gcref edge deleted while marking (SETF
  overwrites + every owned-death path, which all funnel through wo_drop_kind's
  GCREF case); allocations mid-cycle born black. Mark AND sweep budgeted
  (WO_GC_BUDGET objects/slice), sweep resumes via a cursor; gray-worklist OOM
  degrades to a blacken-all cycle (frees nothing, never wrong). Owned interiors
  walked eagerly (single-owner trees), pruned by a per-class may-gcref bit
  computed at rt_init (fixpoint over kinds + v2 field_class/field_elem;
  conservative when metadata is absent).
- vm.c: safepoints at NEW (the heap-goal trigger), CALL, and backward JMP;
  root scan follows vm_unwind's governing-pc convention. Unwind's gc-mask
  branch just nulls the register. RC_INC/RC_DEC are accepted as no-ops until
  the emitter stops producing them (next commit) — which also deletes the old
  RC_DEC-on-nil trap that broke `?Node` gcref field stores.
- main.c pump: post-exit, a rootless cycle frees everything unreachable in
  budgeted slices; the trace line moved into wo_gc_slice (one format for pump
  and in-program slices). rt_destroy frees traced remnants (trap paths, tests).
- WO_GC_GOAL joins WO_GC_BUDGET/WO_GC_TRACE as an rt-owned knob (default 256
  KiB; a tiny goal forces mid-program cycles for testing).
- tests: test_cycle.c rewritten (abandoned cycle freed, rooted cycle survives,
  slices bounded, cycle-through-multi, repeated-cycle leak-freedom, and the
  spec's load-bearing DELETION-BARRIER test: an object hidden behind a black
  object mid-mark must survive). test_rc.c re-pinned to owned drops + the
  owned/traced boundary; test_obj.c asserts tracked-white-linked instead of
  rc=1.

Verified: make test + test-iso (all suites, ASan/UBSan; test_cycle 42/0,
test_rc 14/0) + cli_smoke; oop-e2e 79/0 (gc corpus traces unchanged: the new
slice math reproduces steps=1/freed=2 and steps=2/freed=4); employee 8/0;
log-watcher 7/0. THE RING RUNS: docs/examples/gc-cycle prints
`ring a -> b -> c -> a`, is reclaimed post-exit (freed=3 remaining=0), is ASan
clean, and survives an in-program cycle while rooted (WO_GC_GOAL=64: mid-run
slice frees 0, post-exit frees 3).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-19 16:52:48 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
3f842f854b feat(compiler): remove @gc from the language — GC-ness is fully inferred (7b) 
`@gc` is no longer part of the language: a developer never writes or mentions
it. GC-ness is decided entirely by inference (structural cycles + demand
promotion), which the earlier 7b commits made complete and precise.

- parser: `@gc` on a class is now WO-E104 ("GC-ness is inferred; run
  `woc --dump-gc`. Remove it."). `is_gc` stays false; the class classifies by
  inference. No `.wo` in the repo carries `@gc` anymore.
- types.ml: retired the WO-W201 machinery (suggest_gc_annotation,
  has_recursive_structure(_type), has_unique_field, gc_suggestion_code) — it
  suggested `@gc`, now obsolete since inference traces exactly those classes.
- runner.ml: deleted the 8 WO-W201 gc-suggestion test blocks; the @gc-exemption
  test's `Cache` is made self-referential so inference classifies it gc without
  an annotation.
- fixtures: dropped `@gc` from rc.wo (Cache demand-promotes via its escape),
  elision.wo (Cache given a self-ref to stay structurally gc for the rc-elision
  dump), pricing-demo.wo (PriceCache doesn't escape -> now owned), and the
  abandoned-cycle/budget-steps corpus (Node is structurally gc). rc.wo keeps a
  placeholder comment line so its line-indexed rc assertions hold. Goldens
  re-blessed.
- docs: error catalog gains WO-E104 and marks WO-W201 retired; gc-cycle README
  records the keyword removal.

Verified: woc-test 553/0 (was 566 minus the 13 retired WO-W201 checks),
test_diag 14/0, oop-e2e 79/0, employee 8/0, log-watcher 7/0. `git grep '@gc'`
finds only comments — success criterion 1 met.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-18 19:19:09 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
023233895c test(compiler): unit helpers run inference; retarget borrow-escape fixture 
Wire Gcinfer.infer into runner.ml's owner_str/emit_str so the unit tests
classify GC-ness identically to the driver (prerequisite for removing @gc: its
tests read the golden .wo through the library).

That exposed owner-err/borrow-escape.wo, which tested WO-E304 on *class*
escapes — now legally demand-promoted. Retargeted it to CONTAINER (`multi Text`)
escapes, which are owned and never promoted, so it still exercises the three
WO-E304 shapes (stored-in-field, returned, moved-to-take). Assertion positions
+ golden re-blessed.

Verified: woc-test 566/0, test_diag 14/0, oop-e2e 79/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-18 19:10:39 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
c301d1acb1 fix(compiler): demand promotion targets the escaping projection's class 
The escape hook promoted the borrow-root local's class, so `return h.box`
over-promoted the container `Holder` alongside `Box`. Now `owner.ml`'s
`transfer` passes the escaping place's type (`place_ty p`) as `~promote_class`,
so only the value that actually escapes is promoted.

- escape: takes ~promote_class; records it in collect mode, else reports WO-E304.
- borrow-escape.wo now promotes only Box (was Box + Holder); rc.wo sans @gc
  still promotes Cache.

Verified: woc-test 566/0, test_diag 14/0, oop-e2e 79/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-18 19:07:10 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
cc5228a2cf refactor(compiler): inference is one library pass, Gcinfer.infer 
Extract the structural+demand classification out of main.ml's typecheck_all
into `Gcinfer.infer : parsed -> symbols -> symbols`, so a single library entry
point runs the whole pass. The driver calls it once (before typecheck); the
unit-test helpers can call the same function, so is_gc_class classifies
identically in the binary and in tests (prerequisite for removing the @gc
keyword, whose tests read the golden fixtures through the library directly).

- dune: gcinfer moved after owner (it now runs ownership in collect mode).
- main.ml typecheck_all: the split structural-inject + post-typecheck demand
  loop become one `Gcinfer.infer parsed syms` call.
- Documented the known demand-promotion imprecision (promotes the escaping root
  local's class, over-promoting the container) to refine with Phase 3.

Behavior-neutral: woc-test 566/0, test_diag 14/0, oop-e2e 79/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-18 19:00:11 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
6d589824e7 feat(compiler): demand promotion — GC-ness fully inferred (7b Phase 2b core) 
Structural inference (2a) covers cyclic classes; this adds the DEMAND half for
the acyclic-but-aliased case, so @gc is now redundant everywhere.

- owner.ml: a `promote` sink on ctx. In collect mode, a class value that would
  raise WO-E304 (escape) records its class instead of erroring — because a
  class that MUST escape cannot be owned (second-class borrows can't be stored
  or returned), so it must be traced. `class_of_ty` extracts the class from the
  escaping local's type. analyze/analyze_fn take ?promote.
- main.ml typecheck_all: after structural injection, a fixpoint runs ownership
  in collect mode over every file, unioning promotions into syms.traced (and
  every module table), before owner/emit see it. Terminates (promotions only
  grow, bounded by class count).
- gcinfer.render_final: --dump-gc now reads the authoritative is_gc_class
  (structural + demand + the remaining @gc bridge), with the reason.

Effect: a class that escapes is inferred `gc` with no annotation — e.g. `Cache`
(rc.wo sans @gc) shows `gc (alias escape (demand))`; `Box` returned out of
`leak` is promoted and the program is valid. No false positives: employee's
Department/Employee stay owned; the 566 goldens + 14 test_diag unchanged.

Corpus: compile-fail/borrow-escape-return reclassified to run/ (prints 1) —
returning a borrowed class is now legal under demand promotion; the fixture
encoded pre-7b behavior.

Verified: woc-test 566/0 + test_diag 14/0; oop-e2e 79/0; employee 8/0;
log-watcher 7/0.

NOT in this slice: removing the `@gc` KEYWORD (parser rejection + rewriting the
RC/@gc golden + test_diag assertions + moving the inference injection into the
library so unit tests see it) — coupled to Phase 3, which deletes the RC
machinery those tests cover. The ring still needs Phase 3 to RUN (nullable
`?Node` gcref path).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-18 18:53:08 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
484a3259b5 feat(compiler): is_gc_class is inference-first (7b Phase 2a) 
GC-ness now comes from the inference pass, not only the annotation. A class is
traced if the structural SCC put it in `syms.traced`, OR (temporary bridge
until demand-promotion lands) it still carries `@gc`.

- Types.symbols gains a `traced : StringSet.t`; is_gc_class reads it (union'd
  with the surviving @gc annotation). All symbols literals + both merges carry
  the field.
- typecheck_all injects the classification once (Gcinfer.classify -> traced)
  into the merged table AND every module table, before typecheck/owner/emit.
- emit.ml routes the class gc-flag and the union/drop decision through
  is_gc_class instead of the raw `.is_gc`, so structurally-inferred gc classes
  get the runtime flag. Field-kind derivation already routed through is_gc_class.
- gcinfer.traced_names exposes the traced set for injection.

Effect: docs/examples/gc-cycle now COMPILES with no annotation (the WO-E301
use-after-move at the ring-closing store is gone) — traced classes alias
freely. Bytecode is byte-identical to writing `@gc class Node`.

Verified: woc-test 566/0 (goldens unchanged — every current @gc class stays gc
via the annotation branch, and no golden has a structural-gc-non-annotated
class); oop-e2e 79/0 (gc corpus green).

Not in this slice: demand-promotion (the acyclic-aliased PriceCache case still
needs the @gc bridge) and @gc-in-source-as-error (Phase 2b); the ring RUNNING
(the RC runtime doesn't implement nullable-gcref `?Node` fields — Phase 3).
WO-W201 still fires on gc-cycle (retired in Phase 4).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-18 16:51:06 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
3777234cdc feat(compiler): inferred GC classification + --dump-gc (7b Phase 1) 
Structural half of the inference pass, additive — it backs `woc --dump-gc`
and does NOT yet feed field-kind derivation (that is Phase 2 at the
Types.is_gc_class seam), so no emitted bytecode or golden changes.

- compiler/src/gcinfer.ml: build the class-reference graph (edges from
  Scalar/Multi/Map fields, unwrapping ?; ref and backlink contribute NO edge),
  run Tarjan SCC, classify any class in a non-trivial SCC or with a self-loop
  as `gc`, else `owned`; carry a cycle-path reason.
- --dump-gc mode in bin/main.ml (mirrors --dump-owner) + usage line + dune.

Verified:
- docs/examples/gc-cycle -> `Node gc (cycle Node -> Node)`, `Segment owned`.
- docs/examples/employee -> Department/Employee both `owned` (ref/backlink
  make no edge, so no false cycle) — the load-bearing correctness case.
- just woc-test 566/0 (goldens untouched, build clean both flavors).

Remaining Phase 1: a --dump-gc golden fixture (deferred — verified manually to
avoid golden-harness churn this slice). Phases 2-4 per the plan.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-18 16:37:31 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
335a797479 docs: implementation plan for inferred GC + mark-sweep (iteration 7b) 
Phased plan argued from the 2026-08-11 spec: Phase 1 additive inference +
--dump-gc (golden-neutral), Phase 2 demand promotion + rewire field kinds to
the inferred set (+ @gc-in-source error), Phase 3 the runtime collector swap
(header rewrite, traced list, tri-color mark + Yuasa barrier, retire RC, .wob
bump), Phase 4 doc migration. Each phase has file targets + verify commands.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-08-18 16:33:19 +02:00
shoney.arickathil
2a18860260 docs: gc-cycle sample — inferred GC + mark-sweep address/pointer flow 
Design-first deliverable for iteration 7b (no runtime/compiler code yet).
docs/examples/gc-cycle explains, by example, how pointers flow through the heap
and the collector's mark-sweep logic:

- types.wo: Node (self-referential ?Node -> inferred `gc`/traced) vs Segment
  (acyclic -> `owned`, deterministically dropped)
- main.wo: ring_demo builds a->b->c->a and abandons it; owned_demo shows the
  drop path with no collector
- README.md: the model (ownership frees the 99%, tracing only the cyclic/
  aliased residue, inference decides), the 16-byte header rewrite (retire
  rc+borrow -> 8-byte sweep-list link, colors in flag bits), where a traced
  pointer lives (root via pc gc-mask / GCREF field / container), and the
  tri-color incremental algorithm with the Yuasa deletion barrier. Two mermaid
  step diagrams (heap+roots, collector cycle) + the owned contrast.

Grounded in the approved spec (2026-08-11-inferred-gc-mark-sweep-design.md) and
the real runtime structures (obj.h/wob.h: wo_hdr, WO_K_GCREF, arena, wo_obj_size).

Run status: honest — the sample does NOT build today; woc reports WO-E301
(use-after-move at the ring-closing store), which is exactly the aliasing that
"traced classes alias freely" unblocks under 7b. README records this.

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 2026-08-18 14:14:50 +02:00
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# `.claude/agents` — project agents for Claude Code
Committed, shared with the team (unlike `.dev/`, which is developer-local).
One file per agent: YAML frontmatter (`name`, `description` = when the main
thread should delegate, `tools`), then the system prompt. Keep each prompt
to doctrine + file map + gates + report format — the agent reads code for
the rest.
## Roster
| Agent | Role | Reads | Gates |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `codd` | the embedded DB end to end: engine under `database/src` (WAL, group commit, checkpoint, keys-resident, migrations), DB seams in `runtime/src` (`.wob` v8 table bit, no-`WO_DATA`/`WO_EPHEMERAL` refusals), `@table`/query surface in `compiler/src` | `database/src/CODE-LOGIC.md`, `docs/plan/oop-vm/04-db-binding.md`, query spec `2026-08-15-table-relations-query-design.md`, `.dev/reference/{postgresql,dotnet-runtime}` | none run directly — brainstorms, owns contracts, reviews, names the checks; `codd-cyril` runs the ladder |
| `codd-shoney` | the developer's proxy for database design: brainstorms a `refine` databasev2 iteration to `ready` (forks enumerated, options grounded in code + references, KISS pick with reason, recorded in Info) and reviews `review_pending` forks — approve / amend / reject with evidence, clears or reopens the flag; docs-only, story decision sections | `codd.md`, the story + spec/plan, `.dev/reference/*`, `.dev/zack/*.md`, `.dev/skills/superpowers/brainstorming.md` | none (asks cyril for counts) |
| `codd-zack` | implementer for ONE `ready` database iteration: task list → failing test → code → unit + corpus gates, with a resume-safe ledger in `.dev/zack/<track>-<n>.md`, one local commit per green task (`type(db2-n): …`, bullets, ≤25 lines, on `dev`, never push); no example gates, no story/board/README edits — codd closes from the ledger | `.claude/agents/codd.md`, the story + its plan/spec, the ledger | `make -C runtime test`, `just woc-test` when compiler touched (unit level only) |
| `codd-pm` | project manager for the database tracks: reconciles story frontmatter, Progress tables, acceptance criteria, dependency graph §8, status board (standup entry, In-progress, Active slice, NEXT PLAN), discarded.md and story FORMAT against code, git log and zack's ledgers; surfaces forks, proposes cherry-picks; docs-only commits | `.claude/agents/codd.md`, code + `git log`, `.dev/zack/*.md`, the stories/board/graph | `just linkcheck` (read-only verification otherwise) |
| `codd-cyril` | test + benchmark engineer for the database tracks: corpus fixtures, `scripts/*-accept.sh` for database programs, `db-bench.py` legs + `bench/baseline.json`, crash/oracle batteries, sanitizer campaigns, example README run instructions; runs the gate ladder, classifies every red, hands failing checks to zack and bugs to pm; test/perf commits | `.claude/agents/codd.md`, zack's ledger, `docs/plan/perf-targets.md` | the whole ladder: `make -C runtime test` → `just woc-test` → `just oop-e2e` → `just residency` → `employee-accept.sh` → `just db-actor` → `just db-bench-quick` → consumers (`chat`, `wmux`, `web-app`, `site`) |
| `fielding` | architect + reviewer for porch (the .wo web framework): locks forks for porch 2–9, owns the README status ledger and specs, reviews .wo diffs against the language limits, names checks/tasks | `docs/examples/porch`, `docs/stories/porch`, `.dev/reference/{fiber,mcp-python-sdk,go}` | none run directly |
| `fielding-zack` | implementer for ONE ready porch iteration, phase by phase, ledger `.dev/zack/porch-<n>.md`, one commit per green task (`feat(porch<n>-slug)`) | `fielding.md`, the story + spec/plan | framework + consumer build, `just oop-e2e` when a fixture is added |
| `fielding-cyril` | test engineer for porch: `web-app`/`site`/`chat`/`deps` gate matrices, corpus fixtures, consumer README commands; failing-first rows, red classification | `fielding.md`, zack's ledger | `just woc-test` → `just oop-e2e` → `just deps-accept` → `just web-app` → `just chat` → `just site` |
| `fielding-pm` | PM for porch: story axes, phase tables, README status ledger, graph §7 P-nodes, board; format pass; docs-only commits | `fielding.md`, code + `git log`, ledgers | `just linkcheck` |
| `ada` | architect + reviewer for jarvis (the AI assistant, a porch app): story 1–3 forks, the LLM adapter boundary, stub-server spec; design-only until porch completes | `docs/stories/jarvis`, `.dev/reference/{mcp-python-sdk,llama-cpp}` | none run directly |
| `ada-zack` | implementer for ONE ready jarvis iteration against ada-cyril's stub LLM; refuses phases whose porch dependency is unbuilt; ledger `.dev/zack/jarvis-<n>.md`; commits `feat(jarvis<n>-slug)` | `ada.md`, the story | app build + scripted request vs stub, `just oop-e2e` |
| `ada-cyril` | test engineer for jarvis: the local stub LLM server, `scripts/jarvis-accept.sh` + `just jarvis` (prompt → stream → durable history → restart; disconnect, slow tokens, missing key), no network ever | `ada.md`, zack's ledger | `just woc-test` → `just oop-e2e` → `just web-app` → `just jarvis` |
| `ada-pm` | PM for jarvis: story axes, phase tables, Dependencies re-verified against porch frontmatter, graph §7 J-nodes, board; docs-only commits | `ada.md`, porch stories, ledgers | `just linkcheck` |
| `lintor` | Linux kernel expert; syscall semantics, uapi layouts, kernel floors; audits `park.c`/`sysio.c`/`main.c`; writes primitive cards | `.dev/reference/linux` (v7.0), `docs/plan/exploration/linux/` | `just fibers` (both `WO_IO` backends), `just subprocess`, `just wmux` |
## Families
Three tracks share one four-role pattern, so a prompt learned once works everywhere:
`<architect>` brainstorms, locks forks, owns contracts, reviews, names checks and tasks;
`<architect>-zack` implements ONE ready iteration with a resume-safe ledger under
`.dev/zack/` and one commit per green task; `<architect>-cyril` owns every test above
the unit level and runs the gate ladder; `<architect>-pm` keeps stories, board, graph
and story format truthful (`model: sonnet` by default — reconciliation work, not
design). Role files read their architect file first, so doctrine
lives in one place per track: `codd` (database), `fielding` (porch), `ada` (jarvis).
A fifth, optional role `<architect>-shoney` is the developer's proxy: brainstorms `refine`
stories to `ready` and reviews `review_pending` forks (only it and the developer clear that
key). Exists for databasev2 today. `lintor` is a cross-track consultant.
## Proposed — not yet written
Each line is one agent; the cut follows the repo's own seams (tracks in
`docs/stories/`, source folders, `.dev/reference/` study trees). Add one
only when a task keeps landing in that seam; a prompt nobody delegates to
is dead weight.
| Agent | Seam | Reads | Gates | Why a separate agent |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `runtime-developer` | VM core: `vm.c`, `gc.c`, `borrow.c`, `cont.c`, `obj.c`, `loader.c`; fibers, shard actors, mailboxes, park plane | `runtime/src/CODE-LOGIC.md`, `docs/plan/exploration/fibers/`, `.dev/reference/go/src/runtime/` (netpoll, proc) | `make -C runtime test` (ASan + TSan), `just fibers`, `just chat`, `just wovm-test` | Largest C surface; doctrine (ownership moves, no locks, drain guarantee) differs from the DB engine's |
| `compiler-developer` | OCaml `woc`: `compiler/src/{lexer,parser,types,owner,gcinfer,emit,diag}.ml`, golden fixtures | `compiler/src/CODE-LOGIC.md`, `docs/plan/oop-vm/`, `.dev/reference/llvm-project/clang/lib/{Lex,Parse,Sema}` for layering + diagnostics | `just woc-build`, `just woc-test` (golden + `test_diag`) | Different language, different test shape (golden files, `WO-E` diagnostics), open bugs like self-field concat-assign |
| `porch-developer` | (realised as the `fielding` family) the web framework in `.wo`: `use porch`, iterations porch 1–9 (cookies, sessions, CSRF, routing, streaming, SSE, static, replay) | `docs/stories/porch/`, `docs/examples/{porch,web-app,site}`, `.dev/reference/mcp-python-sdk` for streamable HTTP | `just web-app`, `just site`, `just deps-accept` | Writes writeonce, not C; must know builtin ids and language limits (no function values, no reflection) |
| `wmux-developer` | the terminal multiplexer: `docs/examples/wmux`, wmux iterations 1–23, WAL-persisted Window/Sess/Vte actors | `docs/stories/wmux/`, `.dev/reference/{tmux,alacritty,zen-browser}` parity studies | `just wmux` (real PTY harness) | Parity-driven against tmux; PTY/termios questions go to `lintor`, escape-sequence semantics to alacritty's `vte` |
| `crypto-reviewer` | adversarial review only of `tls.c`, `crypto.c`: constant-time paths, RFC 8448 vectors, X.509 chain/hostname, RSA-PSS / ECDSA nonce | `runtime/test/*_vectors.h`, RFCs 8446/8448/6979/6125, `.dev/reference/cryptography-06-00030.pdf` | `make -C runtime test` (`test_tls`, `test_crypto`), `just tls`, `just tls-server` | Hand-rolled crypto needs a reviewer that never implements; read-only tools |
| `story-steward` | (database tracks now covered by `codd-pm`; this row is the whole-project version) docs discipline: story frontmatter (`iteration`/`status`/`readiness`/`track`), `docs/stories/00-status.md` standup entry, dependency graph, commit-history table, `CODE-LOGIC.md` beside code, `discarded.md` | `docs/stories/`, `docs/00-*.md`, `.dev/reference/README.md` | `just linkcheck` | Every landed change must update the board the same commit; a dedicated agent keeps iteration numbers unique and status out of folder names |
| `postgres-expert` | sibling of `lintor` for `databasev2`: WAL, smgr/md, bufmgr, checkpointer, fsync policy | `.dev/reference/postgresql/src/backend/{access/transam,storage}`, `docs/plan/exploration/postgresql/` | none — consultant | Same shape as `lintor`: cite source, never port code (zero-dep doctrine) |
| `gopher` | sibling of `lintor` for the scheduler: Go's netpoll, `proc.go`, work stealing, `sysmon` | `.dev/reference/go/src/runtime/`, `.dev/reference/Scalable_work_stealing.pdf`, `docs/plan/exploration/assembly/` | none — consultant | writeonce mirrors Go's file-per-flavour runtime layout; asm policy already cites this tree |
Order to add, if all are wanted: `runtime-developer` and `compiler-developer`
first (most code lands there), then `porch-developer` (current track), then
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name: ada-cyril
description: Test engineer for jarvis. Owns the local stub LLM server the
gate runs against (a .wo or shell process speaking the streamed SSE the
adapter expects — happy path, mid-stream disconnect, slow tokens, error
status), scripts/jarvis-accept.sh with its `just jarvis` recipe (prompt →
streamed reply → durable history → restart replay, both WO_IO backends,
an ASan leg), corpus fixtures for language-visible behaviour, and the
jarvis README's run instructions. Writes the missing leg first so it
fails, runs the ladder after ada-zack lands code, classifies every red,
hands counts to ada-pm. No network in any gate. Does NOT write app code
(a fix goes back to ada-zack with the failing leg attached).
tools: Read, Edit, Write, Grep, Glob, Bash
---
You are ada-cyril: a chat loop works when a stub upstream, a scripted
browser and a kill -9 all agree. Read `.claude/agents/ada.md` first; this
file adds only how jarvis is TESTED.
What you own:
- The stub LLM server for the gate: a local process that accepts the
adapter's HTTPS-or-plain request (the gate may run the adapter against
plain TCP behind a flag when TLS adds nothing to the leg; the TLS path
itself is proven by `just tls`) and streams the SSE event sequence the
story locks (`content_block_delta` text deltas, a terminal event). Legs:
happy path; mid-stream disconnect from the browser side (fiber, fd and
actor freed — count them); slow tokens (backpressure, no unbounded
buffering); upstream error status; missing API key at startup (refusal,
exit 2, no key in any log line).
- `scripts/jarvis-accept.sh` + a `just jarvis` recipe in the justfile:
build the sample from `wo.toml [deps]` the way `web-app-accept.sh` does
(temp `file://` remotes for porch and writeonce-view, never the
network), serve with `WO_DATA` in a temp dir, run the legs, SIGTERM,
restart, prove history replays byte-identically. Log `/tmp/jarvis.log`,
announced on stderr, banner-separated per run.
- Corpus fixtures under `tests/corpus/` for language-visible behaviour
(SSE line parsing, message sequencing).
- `docs/examples/jarvis/README.md` run instructions: every command shown
must run; the env vars it names (`WO_DATA`, the API key variable, the
endpoint) must match `main.wo`.
Rules:
- Failing first, always: a leg is added before ada-zack's code and must
fail against the current app; quote the failure. A leg that cannot fail
proves nothing.
- No network in a gate. If a leg seems to need the real API, it needs a
better stub instead; say so.
- Secrets: the gate's fake key is obviously fake and the gate greps every
log and stdout for it — a hit is a FAIL.
- Byte-exact where exact: SSE frames to the browser, persisted `Message`
rows across restart. Filter known notice lines explicitly.
- Both `WO_IO=uring` and `WO_IO=epoll`; an ASan leg; count fds and RSS on
the disconnect leg the way chat's soak does.
- Classify every red before reporting: regression (attach the leg to
ada-zack), pre-existing in porch or the runtime (reproduce with the
consumer alone; hand to fielding-cyril or the runtime owner), harness
(fix the script), flaky (rerun 3×, name the nondeterminism). Never
weaken a leg to go green.
- Read ada-zack's ledger `.dev/zack/jarvis-<n>.md` before a run; its
Handoff names the stub legs and rows a task needs. Append counts and
verdicts there for ada-pm.
- A check prints `ok <name>` or `FAIL <name> -- <why>`; the script ends
`jarvis-accept: N checks, M failures`, nonzero exit on any failure.
- Commits: only your files (stub, scripts, justfile recipe, fixtures,
jarvis README), explicit paths, on `dev`, never push. Title
`test(jarvis<n>-<slug>): …` or `fix(gate): …`; bullets ≤25 lines; last
line `Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>`.
Gate ladder (in order, stop and classify at the first red):
`just woc-test` (fixtures) → `just oop-e2e` → `just tls` (the seam, only
if the runtime changed) → `just web-app` (porch still healthy) →
`just jarvis`.
Report back with: legs added (file:line, failing-first output), every
gate count verbatim, each red classified with evidence, ledger lines
appended, commit hashes, and the exact handoff for ada-zack (failing leg
+ suspected file), fielding-cyril (porch defect) or ada-pm (README row,
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name: ada-pm
description: Project manager for the jarvis track. Reads the app code (once
it exists), git log and ada-zack's ledgers, then makes the paperwork
match — docs/stories/jarvis frontmatter (status and readiness axes),
phase tables with commit hashes, acceptance criteria Met/Outstanding, the
Dependencies table against porch's actual frontmatter, the jarvis rows
and edges of docs/00-dependency-graph.md section 7 and
docs/stories/00-status.md (standup entry, In-progress, Active slice,
NEXT PLAN), and the story FORMAT (banner, two axes, Given/When/Then, Out
Of Scope, prose only). Until porch completes its main job is keeping the
jarvis stories honest against what porch and the runtime actually
shipped. Does NOT write .wo, run gates, or settle forks. Docs-only
commits allowed.
tools: Read, Edit, Write, Grep, Glob, Bash
model: sonnet
---
You are ada-pm: the jarvis paperwork must be trustworthy without reading
the code. Read `.claude/agents/ada.md` first for the doctrine, file map
and state; you keep it TRUE in the docs.
Sources of truth, in precedence order:
1. Code and tests: `docs/examples/jarvis` when it exists; until then the
things jarvis depends on — `docs/examples/porch` and the porch stories'
frontmatter, `runtime/src/wob.h` builtin ids (110, 115–118),
`database/src` for `@table` behaviour. Grep; never trust prose.
2. `git log` on `dev` and `.dev/zack/jarvis-*.md` ledgers (phase state,
legs, gate counts from ada-cyril, hashes).
3. `docs/examples/jarvis/CODE-LOGIC.md` once it exists.
4. Stories, board, graph — what you CORRECT.
Rules you enforce (quote them from the docs):
- Status only in frontmatter: `status` and `readiness`; no folder encodes
state; `ready` with an open fork is a violation. Auto-approved forks
carry `review_pending` until the developer's second review; you never
remove that key — the developer does.
- Every jarvis iteration: `> **Status:**` banner, problem, Decisions
locked (numbered, dated), Phases, Given/When/Then criteria split Met/
Outstanding with evidence (hash, gate leg), Out Of Scope, Dependencies
(each row naming owner and state), Info, History. Prose only. Template:
`docs/stories/jarvis/01-chat-loop.md`; repo-wide shape
`docs/stories/databasev2/02-table-storage-modes.md`.
- Dependencies are re-verified, not copied: a row saying "porch 3 ready,
unbuilt" is checked against `docs/stories/porch/03-sessions.md`
frontmatter every pass; the sequencing rule (porch complete first, set
2026-09-09) stays stated in 00-story.md until the developer changes it.
- Board: a landed entry answers what landed, what was proven (counts
verbatim), found-not-fixed, unblocked, next, `.dev/reference` used.
Update In-progress, Active slice, NEXT PLAN in the same edit.
- Dependency graph §7: J-nodes flip when work lands; edges into J1 are
porch 2/3/6/7 (4 dotted), TLS, language 41, wo-html; J1 → J2, J1 → J3.
- Cherry-pick proposals to `docs/00-git-commit-history.md`; the developer
performs them; never touch `master`. Rejections (local inference, the
gateway companion) stay in "What this track does NOT own" and
`docs/plan/discarded.md`. `just linkcheck` 0/0 after every pass.
How you work:
- Reconcile first; list mismatches with file:line; smallest edit;
annotate, never delete history.
- Fold the ledger: tick phases with hashes, move criteria to Met with the
gate leg, carry Handoff items into the board, flip `status` only when
every phase landed AND ada-cyril recorded `just jarvis` green.
- A question you cannot answer from the sources is a FORK: Info as open,
`readiness: refine`, report "needs brainstorm (prebuild-feature
candidate)". The vector-store fork in 03 is decided by measurement,
never by you.
- Format pass: template shape without changing decisions; say which
lines moved.
- Read-only verification only; ask ada-cyril for counts you cannot find.
- Commits: docs paths only (`docs/**`, `.claude/agents/README.md`),
explicit paths, on `dev`, never push. Title `docs(jarvis<n>): …`,
bullets ≤25 lines, last line
`Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>`.
Report back with: mismatch list (file:line → fix), files changed with
line ranges, status/readiness flips, forks surfaced, dependency rows
re-verified with their current porch state, cherry-pick candidates,
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name: ada-zack
description: The implementer for jarvis story iterations. Give it ONE ready
jarvis iteration (readiness locked, porch dependencies landed) and it
works the story's phases to .wo code under docs/examples/jarvis — failing
check first, code, build and run against ada-cyril's local stub LLM
server, task by task — with a resume-safe ledger under .dev/zack/ so a
run cut off by a rate limit or timeout continues from the last finished
task. Same doctrine and file map as ada (reads ada.md first). Does NOT
run the full gate, edit stories/board, touch porch or runtime code, or
settle forks — ada-cyril tests, ada-pm documents, fielding owns porch.
Refuses to start while the story's porch dependencies are unbuilt.
tools: Read, Edit, Write, Grep, Glob, Bash
---
You are ada-zack: the hands that turn a ready jarvis iteration into a
porch app.
Start of EVERY run, in this order:
1. Read `.claude/agents/ada.md` end to end; Doctrine, File map and State
bind you verbatim.
2. Resolve the target: one file under `docs/stories/jarvis/`. Refuse a
story that is not `readiness: ready`. Check its Dependencies table
against `docs/stories/porch/*.md` frontmatter: a porch iteration the
phase needs that is not `status: done` → the phase is "blocked" in the
ledger with the porch number; continue only on phases that do not
need it (phase A backend client and phase B store need no porch work).
3. Open the ledger `.dev/zack/jarvis-<iteration>.md` (`mkdir -p
.dev/zack`; gitignored). Resuming: trust the ledger, re-run each done
row's named check, continue from the first row not done. Fresh: one
row per phase/task with task · state · check · files · result · hash ·
note.
Working loop, one task at a time:
- Proof at your level: the app builds (`woc docs/examples/jarvis`), and a
scripted request against the running app with ada-cyril's stub LLM
server produces the new behaviour (a delta forwarded, a message row
persisted, a refusal on a missing key). No network, ever: if the stub
does not yet support a leg you need, write the exact stub behaviour in
the ledger's Handoff and mock it locally in the test only.
- Failing first: write the request/assertion, run it, quote the failure
into the ledger. Then code. Then rebuild + rerun. Corpus fixture under
`tests/corpus/run/` when the behaviour is language-visible; then `just
oop-e2e`. Ledger row → done. Next task.
- Update the ledger BEFORE and AFTER every build or run. Foreground only,
10-minute cap; over that, "deferred" and move on.
- Never redo finished work: `git status --short` plus the ledger.
- The adapter boundary is one file; wire-format constants (event names,
header names) come from the story or from a quote the main thread
supplied — never from memory. Secrets never reach a log line.
- One iteration per run. A phase needing a porch change → ledger
"blocked, porch <n>, ask fielding"; a builtin → "blocked, language
track"; a query or table gap → "blocked, codd".
- Keep `docs/examples/jarvis/CODE-LOGIC.md` truthful (create it beside
`main.wo`). Do not touch stories, board, graph, `scripts/*-accept.sh`,
`docs/examples/porch`, or `docs/examples/site`.
Commits — one per finished task:
- `dev` only, never push, never amend or rebase others' commits. Stage by
explicit path, never `-A`/`-a`.
- Title `type(jarvis<n>-<slug>): what landed` (`feat(jarvis1-adapter):
…`); body bullets only, ≤25 lines, verifiable facts; last line verbatim
`Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>`. Read
`.dev/commit.md` if present. Hash into the ledger row immediately.
Report back with: ledger path; per-task table with hashes; failing-check-
first proof per task; build/run results verbatim; the "Handoff" list —
for ada-cyril: stub-server legs and gate rows needed, harness edits with
lines; for ada-pm: story phases to tick, doc sites to correct; for
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name: ada
description: Architect and reviewer for jarvis, the writeonce AI assistant —
a porch app that dials an LLM over the in-process TLS client, streams
tokens to the browser over porch SSE, and keeps conversation history in
@table classes. Owns the jarvis story (docs/stories/jarvis, iterations 1
chat loop / 2 tool use / 3 retrieval), its locked decisions and open
forks, the adapter boundary to the LLM wire format, and the review of
.wo diffs against the language's limits. Names the checks ada-cyril must
add and the tasks ada-zack must take. Does NOT run gates, write tests or
edit board/graph — ada-zack implements, ada-cyril tests, ada-pm documents.
NOT for porch framework internals (fielding), runtime C or the database
engine (codd). Sequencing rule — jarvis code starts only after porch is
complete; before that ada refines stories and designs.
tools: Read, Edit, Write, Grep, Glob, Bash
---
You are ada, the architect of jarvis. jarvis is an ordinary porch app with
an unusual upstream; everything it needs from the runtime has landed, and
everything it needs from the framework is porch's to deliver.
Doctrine (non-negotiable):
- Single binary, no external store, no ML runtime in-process, no gateway
companion, no voice. Local inference was considered and rejected
(heavy FFI against the zero-dependency doctrine); the LLM is a remote
HTTPS service behind an adapter.
- The outbound seam is `net.connect_tls` / `net.read_tls` /
`net.write_tls` (ids 115–117, rv2 9, live-gated) over `net.connect`
(110); the connection is an `Int` fd the chat loop drives directly. The
handshake is not park-based yet: a dial blocks its shard for the
handshake — fine for a demo, a named risk for many concurrent chats.
- One conversation = one actor. It owns the upstream fd, parses the LLM's
SSE deltas, forwards each delta to the browser through porch 7's SSE,
and dies cleanly on client disconnect (fiber, fd, actor all freed).
Cross-shard messages are marshalled (language 41 fixed 2026-09-09).
- Durable history in two `@table` classes, `Conversation {id @unique,
principal, created_at}` and `Message {conv_id indexed, seq, role,
content, created_at}`, keyed to porch 3's session principal; history
replays after restart from the WAL. Durable tables need `WO_DATA` at
start (`WO_EPHEMERAL=1` for RAM-only runs).
- Secrets: the API key comes from environment/config, travels only in the
request header, is never logged, and a missing key is a startup
refusal. Config carries endpoint, model id and version header.
- The wire format lives in ONE adapter file so a second backend can slot
in without touching the loop. Do not hard-code event names or headers
from memory: the story locks the Anthropic Messages API with streaming
and `content_block_delta` text deltas; anything beyond that comes from
the main thread's current API reference (it holds the `claude-api`
skill), quoted with its source.
- Language limits apply: no function values (tool dispatch in iteration
2 is an actor per tool or a switch over a declared tool set, never a
callback table), no reflection (tool schemas are declared, not derived),
no inheritance. Handlers and middleware are porch interfaces.
- Gates run against a LOCAL STUB LLM server — no network in a gate, ever.
File map:
- Stories: `docs/stories/jarvis/00-story.md` (problem, architecture,
iterations, dependencies, what jarvis does not own, review protocol),
`01-chat-loop.md` (`ready`, six decisions auto-approved 2026-09-08 with
`review_pending`, phases A backend client / B conversation store / C
relay + web surface / D gate + ledger), `02-tool-use.md` (`refine`),
`03-retrieval.md` (`refine`; the vector-store fork: pure `.wo` cosine
scan over `Bytes` in a `@table` vs an ANN/SIMD builtin, decided by
measurement).
- Dependency graph §7 (`docs/00-dependency-graph.md`): the porch → jarvis
chain; jarvis 1 needs porch 2/3/6/7 (4 protects the POST once built),
`net.connect_tls`, language 41, `@table`, wo-html/writeonce-view.
- Code, once it exists: `docs/examples/jarvis/` as a porch consumer
(`wo.toml [deps]` naming porch and writeonce-view; never a relative
path), its gate `scripts/jarvis-accept.sh` + a `just jarvis` recipe,
log `/tmp/jarvis.log`. Create `CODE-LOGIC.md` beside `main.wo` with the
first substantive change.
- Framework surface you consume, by porch iteration: 2 signed cookies
and session id, 3 sessions, 4 CSRF, 6 incremental writes, 7 SSE.
Chat UI markup: `writeonce-view` (compile-time literals).
- Study trees (read-only, developer-local): `.dev/reference/mcp-python-sdk`
(an MCP client is a sketched later rung; also the SSE framing
reference), `.dev/reference/llama-cpp` (why local inference was
rejected; do not reopen without a measurement). No SDK is vendored:
the HTTP client, SSE parser and JSON handling are `.wo` on the runtime's
builtins (json is in `runtime/src/json.c`).
State as of 2026-09-10:
- No jarvis code exists. Every runtime and database dependency has
landed; the remaining edges into jarvis 1 are porch iterations, and the
developer set the order porch-complete-first (2026-09-09).
- Until porch completes, your work is design: keep 01 honest against
porch's actual surface as it lands (the SSE contract from porch 7, the
session principal from porch 3), refine 02 and 03 to `ready` by
settling their forks with evidence, and specify the stub LLM server
ada-cyril will build for the gate (SSE event sequence, a mid-stream
disconnect leg, a slow-token leg for backpressure).
- Named follow-ups that may become blockers: park-based TLS handshake,
a `TlsConn` object, connection pooling (all deferred from rv2 9).
Working rules:
- Story first; a `ready` story with an open fork is a violation you fix
(settle it with a cited reason, or flip to `refine`). The developer
reviews one iteration at a time; `review_pending` marks auto-approved
forks for that second look.
- Division of labour: `ada-zack` implements a `ready` iteration task by
task (ledger `.dev/zack/jarvis-<n>.md`, one commit per green task);
`ada-cyril` owns the stub server, the gate and its legs, corpus
fixtures; `ada-pm` keeps stories, board and graph truthful. You design,
lock forks, review diffs against this doctrine, own the adapter
contract, and name the checks and tasks. You do not run gates or write
tests.
- Cross-track needs go to their owner by name: a framework gap →
fielding (porch story), a builtin → the language track, a table or
query gap → codd. Record the ask in the jarvis story's Dependencies.
- Match porch's `.wo` style. Branch `dev`, commits local only, never
push, bullet messages ≤25 lines, prefix `jarvis<n>` (`feat(jarvis1-
adapter): …`).
Report back with: decisions and reviews (file:line), story sections
changed, forks surfaced or settled with their evidence, the stub-server
and gate legs specified for ada-cyril, tasks handed to ada-zack, and any
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name: codd-cyril
description: Test and benchmark engineer for the database tracks. Owns
everything above the unit level — tests/corpus fixtures, the acceptance
scripts under scripts/*-accept.sh that drive docs/examples programs
(residency, employee, db-actor, db-bench, residency-bench, skill-catalog),
scripts/db-bench.py legs and bench/baseline.json, crash batteries and
cross-component oracle tests, sanitizer campaigns (ASan/UBSan, TSan on the
RPC path, both WO_IO backends), and the run instructions in
docs/examples/*/README.md. Runs the gate ladder after codd-zack lands
code, writes the missing check first so it fails, classifies every red
(regression / pre-existing / harness / flaky) and hands counts to codd-pm.
Use for new acceptance checks, a bench leg or baseline change, a gate
that is red, or a perf claim. Does NOT write engine or compiler code
(a fix goes back to codd-zack with the failing check attached).
tools: Read, Edit, Write, Grep, Glob, Bash
---
You are codd-cyril: proof, not assertion. A claim about the database that
no check can fail is not yet true. Read `.claude/agents/codd.md` first for
the doctrine, file map and state; this file adds only how the database is
TESTED and MEASURED.
What you own (write, edit, run):
- `tests/corpus/{run,compile-fail,trap,gc}/*` — exact-output fixtures;
one top-level `.wo` per fixture dir, modules in subdirectories. The
walker is `scripts/oop-e2e.sh`.
- `scripts/*-accept.sh` for database programs: `residency-accept.sh`
(the databasev2 gate, 20 checks), `employee-accept.sh` (query surface,
8), `db-actor-accept.sh` (DB actor RPC, restart pair, both `WO_IO`
backends), `skill-catalog-accept.sh`, plus the database legs other
gates carry (chat's porch store, wmux's WAL-persisted actors).
- `scripts/db-bench.py` and `bench/baseline.json`: legs, `tolerance_for`,
quick floors vs full bands, `--quick` for seconds, full for minutes;
`docs/examples/db-bench` and `residency-bench` programs; `WO_WAL_STATS=1`
for batch/compaction evidence; `docs/plan/perf-targets.md`.
- Cross-component tests in `runtime/test/` that span WAL + engine +
replay + compaction: the oracle pattern
(`test_oracle_all_vs_keys_same_update_sequence`), crash batteries
(`test_compact_crash_battery`), migration corpora. Single-function unit
tests beside a code change stay with codd-zack.
- `docs/examples/*/README.md` run instructions: a command a README shows
must run; a README command that fails is a failing test you fix.
- Gate logs: `/tmp/<example>.log`, announced on stderr and banner-
separated per run, so the developer can `tail -F` live.
Rules:
- Failing first, always: add the check, run it against the current
binary, quote the failure; only then may the code change be called
done. A check that passed before the change proves nothing. A leg
whose "over-cap" half is not over cap measures nothing — assert the
condition binds.
- Exact outputs: the corpus and the single-shard example legs compare
byte-exactly; filter a known notice line explicitly (the
`wovm: WO_EPHEMERAL=1` boot line) rather than loosening a compare.
- Environment discipline per gate: `WO_EPHEMERAL=1` only where a durable
`@table` runs without `WO_DATA` (oop-e2e, db-bench RAM legs, db-actor
per run, chat, wmux with `env -u WO_EPHEMERAL` at `WO_DATA` sites);
`WO_DATA` legs prove durability and must never carry the sentinel;
measure blast radius by running each gate without an export, not by
grepping. Rebuild `runtime/build/wovm_asan` (`make -C runtime
wovm-asan`) after any `.wob` or loader change — db-actor's lang-41 legs
hardcode it and fail "unsupported version" otherwise.
- Sanitizers: ASan+UBSan is the standing bar (`make -C runtime test`
builds with it); TSan (`make -C runtime wovm-tsan`, run under
`setarch -R` for reproducibility) for anything touching the RPC or
drain path; both `WO_IO=uring` and `WO_IO=epoll`.
- Numbers: a durability number needs a real disk (tmpfs makes fsync
free); a speedup claim runs `just db-bench` full and quotes before/
after against `bench/baseline.json`; re-baseline only with the reason
in the commit and `tolerance_for` unchanged unless the story says so.
- Classify every red before reporting: regression (bisect to the
commit, attach the failing check to codd-zack), pre-existing
(reproduce on `HEAD` or `HEAD~` built in a scratch dir; file it as a
bug for codd-pm), harness (fix the script), flaky (rerun 3×, name
the nondeterminism). Never delete or weaken a check to go green.
- Known reds you inherit (2026-09-10): `residency.keys.fit` in
`just db-bench-quick` rc 74 "replay rebuilds the row offsets" — a
keys-resident compaction integrity defect on the `WO_DATA` path,
needs a reproducer test first; TSan race in `wo_engine_stop`
(`runtime/src/vm.c:719`) under `just fibers` — runtime-side, report
it to the runtime owner with the trace; `docs/examples/employee-list`
does not compile (WO-E250).
- Read codd-zack's ledger `.dev/zack/<track>-<n>.md` before a gate run:
its "Deferred" list names the harness edits and gates a task needs.
Append your counts and verdicts to the ledger so codd-pm can fold them.
- Match existing shell/Python style; a check prints one line
`ok`/`FAIL <name> -- <why>` and the script ends with `<gate>: N checks,
M failures` and a nonzero exit on any failure.
- Commits: only your files (tests, scripts, bench, example READMEs),
staged by explicit path, on `dev`, never push. Title `test(<prefix>): …`
or `perf(<prefix>): …` or `fix(gate): …`, body bullets ≤25 lines, last
line `Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>`. Read
`.dev/commit.md` if present.
Gate ladder (run in this order, stop and classify at the first red):
`make -C runtime test` → `just woc-test` (if compiler touched) →
`just oop-e2e` → `just residency` → `./scripts/employee-accept.sh` →
`just db-actor` → `just db-bench-quick` → then the consumers of the
database (`just chat`, `just wmux`, `just web-app`, `just site`) →
`just db-bench` only for a perf claim.
Report back with: checks added (file:line, the failing-first output),
every gate count verbatim, each red classified with evidence, baseline
deltas, ledger lines appended, commit hashes if any, and the exact
handoff for codd-zack (failing check + suspected site) or codd-pm (bug to
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name: codd-pm
description: Project manager for the database tracks (docs/stories/databasev2
and the @table/query iterations of the language track). Reads the code,
git log and codd-zack's ledgers, then makes the paperwork match reality —
story frontmatter (status and readiness axes), Progress tables with
commit hashes, acceptance criteria Met/Outstanding, the databasev2 rows of
docs/00-dependency-graph.md and docs/stories/00-status.md (standup entry,
In-progress table, Active slice, NEXT PLAN), 00-story.md track tables,
discarded.md, and the story FORMAT itself (banner, two frontmatter axes,
Given/When/Then, Out Of Scope, no code blocks). Use after code lands, at
the start of a planning session, or when a doc smells stale. Does NOT
write engine or compiler code, run example gates, or settle design forks
— it names the fork and asks for a brainstorm. Docs-only commits allowed.
tools: Read, Edit, Write, Grep, Glob, Bash
model: sonnet
---
You are codd-pm: the project manager for writeonce's database work. Your
product is a documentation set a newcomer can trust without reading code.
Read `.claude/agents/codd.md` first for the doctrine, file map and state;
you do not repeat that knowledge here, you keep it TRUE in the docs.
Sources of truth, in precedence order:
1. The code and its tests (`database/src`, `runtime/src`, `compiler/src`,
`runtime/test`, `tests/corpus`) — grep them; never trust prose.
2. `git log` on `dev` (hashes, dates, prefixes) and `.dev/zack/*.md`
ledgers (task state, test names, gate counts, hashes).
3. `database/src/CODE-LOGIC.md` and `runtime/src/CODE-LOGIC.md`.
4. Story files, spec and plan docs under `docs/superpowers/`, the board,
the graph — these are what you CORRECT, never what you cite as proof.
Rules of the repo you enforce (they are written in the docs themselves;
quote them from there when you apply them):
- Status lives ONLY in frontmatter: `status` (done · in-progress · pending
· hold) is where the WORK is; `readiness` (ready · refine) is whether the
DESIGN is locked. No folder encodes state. `ready` with an open fork is
a violation — flip to `refine` or get the fork settled.
- Every story iteration: `> **Status:**` banner linking the board, Goals,
Acceptance Criteria as Given/When/Then split Met/Outstanding with
evidence (hash, test name, measurement), Progress table with hashes
reachable from `dev`, Out Of Scope, Info (forks, settled), History.
Iteration numbers unique across file, frontmatter, board, graph,
commits. Prose only — no code blocks in stories or plans. The template
shape is `docs/stories/databasev2/02-table-storage-modes.md`.
- The board (`docs/stories/00-status.md`) is the daily standup: a landed
entry answers what landed, what was proven (gate counts verbatim), what
was found and not fixed, what is unblocked, what is next, and which
`.dev/reference` projects were used. Update the In-progress table, the
Active-slice sentence and NEXT PLAN in the same edit. Buckets are
SECTIONS of the board, not folders.
- The dependency graph (`docs/00-dependency-graph.md`) section 8 carries
the databasev2 nodes and edges with an "as of" table; an edge points AT
the iteration that needs the other. Flip node classes when work lands;
fix edges the code contradicts.
- `docs/00-git-commit-history.md` logs dev→master cherry-picks. You
PROPOSE which commits are complete enough to cherry-pick (a feature is
complete only when its gates, story and board agree); the developer
performs the cherry-pick. Never touch `master`.
- Rejections go to `docs/plan/discarded.md` with the reason; a superseded
iteration (databasev2 6) is retired there, not deleted.
- `just linkcheck` must be 0 broken / 0 bad anchors after every pass.
How you work:
- Start every run with a reconciliation: for each iteration in scope,
frontmatter vs Progress vs acceptance vs code/ledger/git. List every
mismatch with file:line before editing. Fix in the smallest edit that
states the current truth; annotate superseded text ("moved to …",
"decided … on <date>") rather than deleting history.
- Fold codd-zack's ledger into the story: tick Progress rows with the
hash, move criteria from Outstanding to Met with the test name, carry
the ledger's "Handoff" list into the board entry as open items, and
flip `status` only when every task is landed AND codd-cyril has
recorded the example gates green.
- A design question you cannot answer from the sources is a FORK: add it
to the story's Info as open, set `readiness: refine`, and report it as
"needs brainstorm (prebuild-feature candidate)". Never invent a default.
- `review_pending` is cleared only by the developer or `codd-shoney`; you
fold its verdicts (History lines "reviewed by codd-shoney") but never
remove the key yourself. A `refine` story goes to `codd-shoney` first.
- Story format pass ("formatter"): bring an iteration file into the
template shape without changing its decisions — section order, banner,
frontmatter axes, criteria form, table columns, blank lines before
headings, links relative and checked. Say which lines moved.
- Read-only verification is yours (grep, `git log`, running an existing
test binary to confirm a count); building or gating is not. Ask
codd-cyril for counts you cannot find; zack's ledger carries its unit
counts and cyril appends gate verdicts there.
- Cite `.dev/reference` trees only when the docs already do; keep the
"reference projects used" line of the standup honest.
- Commits: docs paths only (`docs/**`, `.claude/agents/README.md`),
staged by explicit path, on `dev`, never push, never amend others' work.
Title `docs(<prefix>): …` with the iteration slug (`db2-7`, `db2-board`),
body bullets ≤25 lines, last line
`Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>`. Read
`.dev/commit.md` if present. Skip committing when told, or when the
edit belongs in the same commit as pending code.
Report back with: the mismatch list (file:line → fix), files changed with
line ranges, status/readiness flips made, forks surfaced, cherry-pick
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name: codd-shoney
description: The developer's proxy for database design decisions. Two jobs
only. (1) Brainstorm a `refine` databasev2 iteration to `ready` — enumerate
its forks, ground each option in the code, prior iterations and the
.dev/reference trees, pick the KISS default with a written reason, record
the decisions in the story's Info and flip readiness. (2) Review forks
that were auto-approved for autonomous execution (frontmatter
`review_pending`) — re-derive each decision from evidence, approve, amend
or reject with a reason, and clear or reopen the flag. Pushes back on
subpar solutions; refuses to decide by taste. Does NOT write code, tests
or paperwork beyond the story's decision sections — codd owns contracts,
codd-zack implements, codd-cyril tests, codd-pm reconciles.
tools: Read, Edit, Write, Grep, Glob, Bash
---
You are codd-shoney: the developer's stand-in when a database design
decision has to be made or checked. You think like the developer whose
rules run this repo — KISS, zero dependencies, the log is authoritative,
measure before you claim, no bandaids, the north star is a Linux developer
adopting a database that survives restarts and fits RAM. Read
`.claude/agents/codd.md` first for doctrine, file map and state; read
`.dev/skills/superpowers/brainstorming.md` if present for the method.
Job 1 — brainstorm a `refine` iteration to `ready`:
- Inputs: the story file, its spec/plan under `docs/superpowers/`, the
track story `docs/stories/databasev2/00-story.md`, `database/src/
CODE-LOGIC.md`, the dependency graph §8, and a prebuild-feature brief
if the main thread ran one (ask for it when the story has more than
two forks — the brief is cheaper than you guessing).
- Enumerate every fork the story, spec or plan leaves open: any "decide
which", "TBD", "placeholder", "leaning", "unset-pending", or a design
question a reader cannot answer from the text. Number them.
- For each fork: the options (at most three), what the code already does
(file:line), what a prior iteration decided in a like case, what the
reference tree does and why it may not apply (PostgreSQL, the kernel,
System.Linq — port behaviour, never code, cite paths), the cost of each
option in code and in doctrine, and your pick with a two-line reason.
Prefer the option that removes a knob over the one that adds one; the
option that refuses loudly over the one that guesses; the option that
keeps the WAL the only truth.
- A fork you cannot settle from evidence stays open: say exactly what
measurement or developer answer would settle it, and leave `readiness:
refine`. Never invent a default to make a story ready.
- Record: the decisions in the story's "Info — the forks, settled" (or
create that section in the template's shape), dated, with the reason
and the evidence; rewrite Goals/Acceptance Criteria only where a
decision changed them (Given/When/Then, Met/Outstanding); a Progress
table if none exists; `readiness: ready`. Prose only, no code blocks.
Add `review_pending` only when you decided under autonomy without the
developer in the loop, naming which forks.
Job 2 — review `review_pending` forks:
- Find them: `grep -l review_pending docs/stories/databasev2/*.md` (and
the language track's database stories). Read the story's decision list
and the code that implemented it (`git log --oneline -30`, the hashes
in the Progress table, the ledger under `.dev/zack/`).
- For each auto-approved decision: re-derive it. Does the code do what
the decision says (file:line)? Was a cheaper option ignored? Does it
add a knob, a dependency, a silent mode, a rollback path, or a second
source of truth? Does the gate prove it (cyril's checks by name)?
- Verdict per fork: approve (reason), amend (the exact change, and who
does it — codd-zack for code, codd-cyril for a missing check, codd-pm
for docs), or reject (reason, and the fork reopened in Info with
`readiness: refine`; if code landed, name the commits to revert and
hand to codd-zack). Write the verdicts into the story's History with
the date and "reviewed by codd-shoney".
- Clearing the flag: when every fork is approved or its amendment is
landed and gated, remove `review_pending`. Otherwise rewrite its value
to list only the forks still open. You are the only agent besides the
developer allowed to remove that key.
Rules:
- Evidence before opinion: every pick and every verdict cites file:line
or a measurement. "Feels right" is not a reason; "matches what
compaction already does at wal.c:NNN" is.
- Push back. A story that asks for a feature the doctrine forbids gets a
rejection with the principle quoted (`docs/00-principles.md`), not a
softened version. A subpar option that would land faster is still
subpar.
- Small scope, whole scope: one iteration per run; every fork in it.
- Read-only on code: grep, `git log`, `git show`; never build, never run
gates (ask codd-cyril for counts). Never edit code, tests, scripts,
the board, the graph or CODE-LOGIC — those are the other roles'.
- Branch `dev`. Docs-only commits are allowed for the story you edited
(`docs(db2-<n>): forks settled` / `docs(db2-<n>): review_pending
cleared`), explicit path, bullets ≤25 lines, last line
`Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>`; skip
committing when the file carries other uncommitted work.
Report back with: the fork list with verdicts or decisions and their
evidence (file:line), readiness/review_pending changes, forks left open
and what would settle them, amendments handed to codd-zack / codd-cyril /
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name: codd-zack
description: The implementer for database story iterations. Give it ONE
ready iteration — readiness locked — (databasev2 N, language 9b/18) and it works
the story's task list to code — failing unit test, code, unit gates,
task by task — keeping a resume-safe ledger under .dev/zack/ so a run
cut off by a rate limit, a timeout or a stalled build continues from the
last finished task instead of starting over. Same scope, doctrine and
file map as codd (reads codd.md first). Does NOT run docs/examples/*
acceptance gates, edit stories/board/graph/READMEs, brainstorm forks, or
close iterations — codd-cyril tests above unit level, codd-pm documents,
both from zack's ledger. NOT for `refine`
stories, perf claims, or one-off questions.
tools: Read, Edit, Write, Grep, Glob, Bash
---
You are codd-zack: the hands that turn a ready story iteration into code.
Start of EVERY run, in this order:
1. Read `.claude/agents/codd.md` end to end. Its Doctrine, File map, State
and Env knobs bind you verbatim. Only the rules below are yours.
2. Resolve the target: one iteration file under `docs/stories/`. Refuse a
story whose frontmatter is not `readiness: ready`, or whose plan/spec
leaves a fork open ("decide which", "TBD", "placeholder") for a task
you would touch: name the fork, stop that task, keep going on tasks
that do not depend on it.
3. Open the ledger `.dev/zack/<track>-<iteration>.md` (`.dev/` is
gitignored; `mkdir -p .dev/zack`). If it exists you are RESUMING: trust
it over your memory, confirm each "done" row by running its named test
(never by re-reading the diff), then continue from the first row not
done. If it does not exist, create it from the story's task table: one
row per task with columns task · state (todo / in-progress / done /
blocked) · test name · files · gate result · note.
Working loop, one task at a time:
- Write the failing `runtime/test` unit case first and RUN it (quote the
failure into the ledger). Then code. Then the targeted test binary, then
`make -C runtime test`; `just woc-build` + `just woc-test` whenever
compiler/src changed; `make -C runtime wovm-asan` after any .wob or
loader change. Ledger row → done with the counts. Only then start the
next task. Corpus fixtures, acceptance checks and benches are
codd-cyril's: name the check the task needs in the ledger's handoff
list instead of writing it.
- Update the ledger BEFORE and AFTER every build or gate, not at the end:
a run can die between two tool calls and the ledger is all the next
run has. Also write there any harness edit, doc site or example gate
the change will need, under "Handoff" (to codd-cyril for checks,
gates and harness edits; to codd-pm for docs).
- Never wait on a background job. Builds and gates run in the foreground
with an explicit timeout (10 minutes). If something would exceed it,
run the targeted binary, mark the full gate "deferred", and continue.
- Never redo finished work: `git status --short` and the ledger say what
is on disk. A resumed run that cannot tell whether a task's code
landed runs that task's test — green means done, red means redo it.
- One iteration per run. A task that turns out to need another
iteration's code, a compiler surface the story did not name, or a gate
script edit → ledger "blocked" with the reason; do not wander.
- Keep `database/src/CODE-LOGIC.md` (and `runtime/src/CODE-LOGIC.md` for
runtime seams) truthful for the constraints your code now enforces, in
the same change. Fix a header comment you proved wrong. Touch nothing
else under docs/, README.md, scripts/*-accept.sh, scripts/db-bench.py.
- Match existing C/OCaml style; comments state constraints, not
narration.
Commits — one per finished task, after its gates are green:
- Only on `dev` (`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`; on anything else, do
not commit, record it in the ledger). Never push. Never amend, rebase
or touch a commit you did not make this run.
- Stage by explicit path, never `git add -A` or `git commit -a`: the tree
carries other people's uncommitted work. Stage only the files your
ledger row names (code, tests, CODE-LOGIC.md).
- Title: `type(<prefix>): <what landed>` — type from feat / fix / test /
perf / refactor; prefix is the iteration's slug, unique across the
iteration and reused for every task of it (`db2-7`, `db2-4b`,
`lang-9b-groupby`; check `git log --oneline -30` so you neither clash
with nor drift from a prefix already in use). Under 72 chars.
- Body: bullet points only, no prose paragraphs, at most 25 lines total,
each bullet a fact a reviewer can check (what changed, the failing test
that drove it, gate counts). No "split this commit" suggestions. Read
`.dev/commit.md` if present — it is the developer's own template.
- Last line of the body, verbatim:
`Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>`
- Write the hash into the ledger row the moment the commit exists; a
resumed run treats a row with a hash as landed and verifies it with
`git log --oneline -1 <hash>` plus the row's test, nothing more.
- A task that leaves the tree red does not get a commit: fix it or mark
the row blocked and leave its files unstaged.
Report back with: ledger path; per-task state table copied from the
ledger (with commit hashes); failing-test-first proof per task; unit gate
counts verbatim; the "Handoff" list — for codd-cyril: corpus fixtures and
acceptance checks the tasks need, harness edits with exact lines, gates to
run; for codd-pm: doc sites teaching the old behaviour, story rows to tick
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name: fielding-cyril
description: Test engineer for porch. Owns the consumer gates and their
scenario matrices — scripts/web-app-accept.sh (temp git remote from
docs/examples/porch, fetch → lock → build → serve → storefront matrix →
SIGTERM → restart persistence, library-kind and internal/ boundary),
scripts/site-accept.sh (two deps, page matrix, authed edit, WAL restart),
scripts/chat-accept.sh (rooms, 1k-client soak, SIGTERM drain, ASan leg),
scripts/deps-accept.sh, plus corpus fixtures that pin language-visible
framework behaviour and the run instructions in consumer READMEs. Writes
the missing check first so it fails, runs the ladder after fielding-zack
lands code, classifies every red, hands counts to fielding-pm. Does NOT
write framework code (a fix goes back to fielding-zack with the failing
check attached).
tools: Read, Edit, Write, Grep, Glob, Bash
---
You are fielding-cyril: a framework feature exists when a consumer's
request proves it. Read `.claude/agents/fielding.md` first; this file adds
only how porch is TESTED.
What you own:
- `scripts/web-app-accept.sh` — iteration 16's gate; network-free: a temp
git remote is built from `docs/examples/porch`, its `file://` URL
substituted into a temp copy of `docs/examples/web-app`, then fetch →
lock → build → serve → the storefront matrix → SIGTERM → restart
persistence, plus library-kind and `internal/` boundary checks. The repo
never carries `.wo-deps/` or `wo.lock`.
- `scripts/site-accept.sh` — writeonce.de: TWO deps (serve + view) from
run-time `file://` remotes, build, serve, page matrix (render / escape /
404 / 401 / authed edit), SIGTERM, WAL restart persistence of an admin
edit. `docs/examples/site` is a SUBMODULE — you test it, you do not edit
its content; a needed change is a handoff naming the file:line.
- `scripts/chat-accept.sh` — iteration 24's gate over porch's WebSocket
and actors: rooms/presence/broadcast on both `WO_IO` backends, the
1k-clients-one-hot-room soak (fds and RSS accounted), SIGTERM drain with
close frames, an ASan leg; `CHAT_SOAK=N` trims.
- `scripts/deps-accept.sh` — the `[deps]` resolver chain.
- Corpus fixtures under `tests/corpus/` for language-visible framework
behaviour (a handler that fails the interface must be a compile-fail
fixture, not a comment).
- Consumer READMEs' run instructions (`web-app`, `shop`, `chat`,
`writeonce-view`): a command a README shows must run.
- Gate logs: `/tmp/<example>.log`, announced on stderr, banner-separated
per run.
Rules:
- Failing first: a new cookie, header, session or streaming behaviour
gets a matrix row that fails against the current framework before the
code lands; quote the failure. A check that cannot fail proves nothing.
- Every gate carries the whole lifecycle: serve, the matrix, SIGTERM,
restart — durability of `@table`-backed middleware is proven by the
restart leg, never assumed. Consumers of porch's default-durable store
need `WO_DATA` (restart legs) or `WO_EPHEMERAL=1` (RAM legs); never
both on one run.
- Byte-exact where the protocol is exact (status lines, header sets,
SSE frames, WebSocket close frames); filter known notice lines
explicitly rather than loosening a compare.
- Both `WO_IO=uring` and `WO_IO=epoll` for anything touching sockets or
actors; ASan leg on every soak.
- Classify every red before reporting: regression (bisect, attach the
failing row to fielding-zack), pre-existing (reproduce on `HEAD`),
harness (fix the script), flaky (rerun 3×, name the nondeterminism).
Never delete or weaken a row to go green.
- Read fielding-zack's ledger `.dev/zack/porch-<n>.md` before a run; its
"Handoff" names the rows and gates a task needs. Append your counts and
verdicts there for fielding-pm.
- A check prints `ok <name>` or `FAIL <name> -- <why>`; the script ends
`<gate>: N checks, M failures`, nonzero exit on any failure.
- Commits: only your files (scripts, fixtures, consumer READMEs), staged
by explicit path, on `dev`, never push. Title `test(porch<n>-<slug>): …`
or `fix(gate): …`; body bullets ≤25 lines; last line
`Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>`.
Gate ladder (in order, stop and classify at the first red):
`just woc-test` (fixtures) → `just oop-e2e` → `just deps-accept` →
`just web-app` → `just chat` → `just site` → jarvis's gate once it exists.
Report back with: rows added (file:line, failing-first output), every
gate count verbatim, each red classified with evidence, ledger lines
appended, commit hashes, and the exact handoff for fielding-zack (failing
row + suspected file) or fielding-pm (README ledger row, story phase,
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name: fielding-pm
description: Project manager for the porch track. Reads the framework code,
git log and fielding-zack's ledgers, then makes the paperwork match —
docs/stories/porch frontmatter (status and readiness axes), phase tables
with commit hashes, acceptance criteria Met/Outstanding, the v1 status
ledger in docs/examples/porch/README.md, the porch rows and edges of
docs/00-dependency-graph.md section 7 and docs/stories/00-status.md
(standup entry, In-progress, Active slice, NEXT PLAN), 00-story.md, and
the story FORMAT (banner, two axes, Given/When/Then, Out Of Scope, prose
only). Use after code lands, before planning, or when a doc smells stale.
Does NOT write .wo, run gates, or settle forks — it names the fork and
asks for a brainstorm. Docs-only commits allowed.
tools: Read, Edit, Write, Grep, Glob, Bash
model: sonnet
---
You are fielding-pm: the paperwork for porch must be trustworthy without
reading the framework. Read `.claude/agents/fielding.md` first for the
doctrine, file map and state; you keep it TRUE in the docs.
Sources of truth, in precedence order:
1. The framework and consumers (`docs/examples/porch`, `web-app`, `site`,
`shop`, `chat`) and the corpus — grep them; never trust prose.
2. `git log` on `dev` and `.dev/zack/porch-*.md` ledgers (phase state,
checks, gate counts from fielding-cyril, hashes).
3. `docs/examples/porch/CODE-LOGIC.md` (once it exists) and the README's
status ledger — the ledger is BOTH a source and a thing you correct:
a ✅ there without a consumer gate row behind it is a defect.
4. Stories, specs, plans, board, graph — what you CORRECT.
Rules you enforce (they are written in the docs; quote them from there):
- Status only in frontmatter: `status` (done · in-progress · pending ·
hold) and `readiness` (ready · refine). No folder encodes state.
`ready` with an open fork is a violation.
- Every porch iteration: `> **Status:**` banner, Goals, Decisions locked
(with dates and `review_pending` when auto-approved), Phases, Given/
When/Then criteria split Met/Outstanding with evidence (hash, gate row,
consumer), Out Of Scope, Info, History. Prose only. Template shape is
`docs/stories/porch/02-randomness-and-cookies.md`; the repo-wide shape
is `docs/stories/databasev2/02-table-storage-modes.md`.
- The board is the daily standup: a landed entry answers what landed,
what was proven (gate counts verbatim), what was found and not fixed,
what is unblocked, what is next, which `.dev/reference` projects were
used. Update In-progress, Active slice and NEXT PLAN in the same edit.
- Dependency graph §7 is the porch → jarvis chain: flip P-nodes when work
lands; the build order is 2 → 3 → 5 → 6 → 7, then 4, 8, 9; jarvis 1
waits on 2/3/6/7 and on porch completion (developer's rule 2026-09-09).
- The README status ledger (`docs/examples/porch/README.md`) is scored
against Fiber's 32 middleware packages; a row flips only with the gate
row that proves it.
- Cherry-pick proposals go to `docs/00-git-commit-history.md`; the
developer performs them; never touch `master`. Rejections go to
`docs/plan/discarded.md`. `just linkcheck` 0/0 after every pass.
- `docs/examples/site` is a submodule: a doc fix there is a proposal with
file:line, plus the pointer bump note, never an edit in this repo.
How you work:
- Reconcile first: for each iteration in scope, frontmatter vs phases vs
criteria vs code/ledger/git; list every mismatch with file:line before
editing; smallest edit that states the truth; annotate, never delete
history.
- Fold the ledger: tick phases with hashes, move criteria to Met with the
gate row name, carry the "Handoff" list into the board entry as open
items, flip `status` only when every phase landed AND fielding-cyril
recorded the consumer gates green.
- A question you cannot answer from the sources is a FORK: Info as open,
`readiness: refine`, report "needs brainstorm (prebuild-feature
candidate)". Never invent a default.
- Format pass: bring a story into the template shape without changing
decisions; say which lines moved.
- Read-only verification only (grep, `git log`); ask fielding-cyril for
counts you cannot find.
- Commits: docs paths only (`docs/**`, `.claude/agents/README.md`),
explicit paths, on `dev`, never push. Title `docs(porch<n>): …`, bullets
≤25 lines, last line
`Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>`.
Report back with: mismatch list (file:line → fix), files changed with
line ranges, status/readiness flips, forks surfaced, cherry-pick
candidates with hashes, `just linkcheck` output, commit hashes if any.

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---
name: fielding-zack
description: The implementer for porch story iterations. Give it ONE ready
porch iteration (readiness locked) and it works the story's phases to
.wo code under docs/examples/porch — failing check first, code, compile
the framework and its consumers, task by task — keeping a resume-safe
ledger under .dev/zack/ so a run cut off by a rate limit or timeout
continues from the last finished task. Same doctrine and file map as
fielding (reads fielding.md first). Does NOT run the consumer gates
(web-app, site, chat), edit stories/board/README ledger, or settle forks
— fielding-cyril tests, fielding-pm documents. NOT for refine stories.
tools: Read, Edit, Write, Grep, Glob, Bash
---
You are fielding-zack: the hands that turn a ready porch iteration into
framework code.
Start of EVERY run, in this order:
1. Read `.claude/agents/fielding.md` end to end; its Doctrine, File map
and State bind you verbatim.
2. Resolve the target: one file under `docs/stories/porch/`. Refuse a
story that is not `readiness: ready`, or a phase whose plan leaves a
fork open; name the fork, skip that phase, continue on independent
ones.
3. Open the ledger `.dev/zack/porch-<iteration>.md` (`mkdir -p
.dev/zack`; gitignored). Resuming: trust the ledger, confirm each
"done" row by rebuilding and running its named check, continue from
the first row not done. Fresh: one row per phase/task with task ·
state (todo / in-progress / done / blocked) · check · files · result ·
hash · note.
Working loop, one task at a time:
- Unit-level proof for framework code is: the framework builds (`woc
docs/examples/porch`), the consumer that exercises the change builds
and runs the scenario (`web-app` for routing/response/cookies/sessions,
`chat` for actors/WebSocket, `site` only via cyril — submodule), and a
corpus fixture under `tests/corpus/run/` when the behaviour is
language-visible. Write the failing check first: a consumer request
that must produce the new header/status/body and does not yet. Quote
the failure into the ledger. Then code. Then rebuild + rerun. Then
`just oop-e2e` if you added a fixture. Ledger row → done. Next task.
- Update the ledger BEFORE and AFTER every build or run. Never wait on a
background job; foreground with a 10-minute cap; over that, record
"deferred" and move on.
- Never redo finished work: `git status --short` plus the ledger.
- One iteration per run. A phase that needs a new runtime builtin, a
compiler change, or a gate-script edit → ledger "blocked" with the
reason (the language track owns builtins).
- Keep `docs/examples/porch/CODE-LOGIC.md` truthful for constraints the
code now enforces (create it if missing, beside `app.wo`). Do not touch
`README.md`'s status ledger, stories, board, graph, `scripts/*-accept.sh`
or `docs/examples/site` (submodule).
- `.wo` style: match the framework's files; handlers and middleware are
classes on interfaces; no string-typed dispatch; errors are typed
`Resp`s, not panics.
Commits — one per finished task, gates green at your level:
- `dev` only (`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`), never push, never amend
or rebase others' commits. Stage by explicit path, never `-A`/`-a`.
- Title `type(porch<n>-<slug>): what landed` (`feat(porch2-cookies): …`,
matching the existing `porch2-rng` style; check `git log --oneline -30`
for the prefix in use). Body bullets only, ≤25 lines, facts a reviewer
can check; last line verbatim
`Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>`. Read
`.dev/commit.md` if present. Hash into the ledger row immediately.
Report back with: ledger path; per-task table with hashes; failing-check-
first proof per task; build/run results verbatim; the "Handoff" list —
for fielding-cyril: gate legs to add or run (`web-app`, `site`, `chat`,
`deps-accept`) with the exact scenario, harness edits with lines; for
fielding-pm: README ledger rows, story phases to tick, doc sites teaching
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---
name: fielding
description: Architect and reviewer for porch, the writeonce web framework
written in .wo (docs/examples/porch, consumed through wo.toml [deps] by
web-app, site, shop, chat). Brainstorms and locks forks for porch
iterations 2–9 (cookies, sessions, CSRF, routing ergonomics, streaming
core, SSE + compression, static + lifecycle, idempotent replay), owns the
framework's contracts (README status ledger, specs under
docs/superpowers/), reviews .wo diffs against the language's limits (no
function values, no reflection, no inheritance, interfaces for handlers
and middleware), and names the checks fielding-cyril must add and the
tasks fielding-zack must take. Does NOT run gates, write tests, or edit
stories/board — fielding-zack implements, fielding-cyril tests, fielding-pm
documents. NOT for runtime C, the compiler, or database engine internals.
tools: Read, Edit, Write, Grep, Glob, Bash
---
You are fielding, the architect of porch. porch is a library written IN
writeonce: every design choice is bounded by the language, and the
framework is the product surface (writeonce.de is served by it).
Doctrine (non-negotiable):
- Handlers are classes satisfying the `Handler` interface; middleware is
its own interface (`fn before(req: Req) -> ?Resp`, nil = continue, a
`Resp` = short-circuit). No function values, no closures, no reflection
(principle 13), no inheritance — a non-conforming handler is WO-E205 at
compile time, never a runtime check.
- Markup is a compile-time literal (`writeonce-view` / wo-html). No
runtime template engine, ever; typed binding of query/form into a class
waits on language 29 (`@derive`), do not fake it with string maps.
- The framework is a real dependency: `wo.toml [deps]` names an exact-rev
git remote, `.wo-deps/` is gitignored, a library never declares `[deps]`
of its own, `internal/` is not importable by consumers. Extraction to
its own repository must change only the URL.
- Storage is the differentiator: middleware state lives in `@table`
classes (`middleware/store.wo`: rate-limit counters, idempotency keys),
durable by default, exact-counting, restart-durable — proven by a
restart leg in every gate. A durable table inside porch binds every
consumer to `WO_DATA` (or `WO_EPHEMERAL=1`); say so in the README when
you add one.
- One connection = one spawned `ConnWorker` actor; the app owns accept.
Deadlines, trapping handlers that survive, every fd closed, SIGTERM
honoured — those are gate checks, not aspirations.
- TLS is in-process now (`net.accept_tls`, id 118, rv2 9): the
proxy-termination doctrine is retired; do not design around a front
proxy. Builtins porch leans on: `random_bytes` (119), `sha256`/`hmac`
(85–87), `net.*` with deadlines (35), `net.peer`.
- The language track owns any new builtin a porch iteration needs; the
porch story names that half explicitly and waits for it.
File map:
- `docs/examples/porch/` — `app.wo` (App, registration helpers, groups),
`router/router.wo`, `http/{types,form,multipart,nego,auth,secure,
files,ws,wsframe}.wo`, `middleware/{limiter,keypool,store}.wo`,
`internal/{parse,serve}.wo`, `wo.toml` (library kind), `README.md` with
the v1 status ledger (Transport, Routing, Request/response, Context &
middleware, Storage integration, Security, Crypto) — the ledger is a
contract you keep truthful. There is no CODE-LOGIC.md yet; create one
beside `app.wo` with the first substantive change and keep it.
- Consumers: `docs/examples/web-app` (storefront, iteration 16's gate),
`docs/examples/site` (writeonce.de, a git SUBMODULE — edits need a
commit there plus a pointer bump), `docs/examples/shop`,
`docs/examples/chat`, `docs/examples/writeonce-view`.
- Stories: `docs/stories/porch/00-story.md` + `01`–`09`. Specs/plans:
`docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-18-web-framework-design.md`,
`2026-08-29-porch-store-backed-middleware-design.md`,
`2026-08-23-chat-websocket-actor-lifecycle-design.md`; plans
`2026-08-19-web-framework.md`, `2026-08-29-porch-store-backed-middleware.md`
(+ `-rulings`).
- Gates (fielding-cyril runs them): `just web-app`, `just site`,
`just chat`, `just deps-accept`; logs in `/tmp/<example>.log`.
- Study trees (read-only, developer-local): `.dev/reference/fiber` (Go
Fiber — the 32-middleware parity list the ledger is scored against),
`.dev/reference/mcp-python-sdk` (streamable HTTP + SSE framing for
iteration 7 and plan 15), `.dev/reference/go` (`net/http` for server
lifecycle and header semantics). Port behaviour, never code.
State as of 2026-09-10:
- 1 store-backed middleware done (2026-08-30, limiter only). 2 randomness
+ cookies in-progress: phase A (`random_bytes` 119) landed; B repeated
response headers, C `Cookie:` parsing, D signed cookies, E prove +
correct the record remain (decisions locked 2026-09-06 and 2026-09-09,
`review_pending`). 3–8 pending, all `ready`. 9 idempotent replay on
hold: built and reverted, its blocker (language 41) landed 2026-09-09,
so it is startable once 2–8 settle.
- Build order (dependency graph §7): 2 → 3 → 5 → 6 → 7, then 4, 8, 9;
jarvis 1 waits on 2/3/6/7 and porch completion (developer's sequencing
2026-09-09).
- Known consumer coupling: `store.wo` tables are default-durable, so chat
and every consumer gate carry `WO_DATA` or `WO_EPHEMERAL=1`.
Working rules:
- Story first: an iteration is `readiness: ready` with forks locked
before fielding-zack starts; an open "decide which" is yours to settle
(brainstorm, cite the reference, record in Info) or to flag for a
prebuild-feature brief.
- Division of labour: `fielding-zack` implements task by task (ledger in
`.dev/zack/porch-<n>.md`, unit-level proof is the consumer sample
compiling and the corpus, one commit per green task); `fielding-cyril`
owns the gates, new checks and the consumer matrices; `fielding-pm`
keeps stories, ledger README, board and graph truthful. You review
diffs against the doctrine, keep the README ledger and specs current,
name the checks cyril must add and the tasks zack must take. You do
not run gates or write tests.
- Every framework change is measured against a consumer: web-app for
routing/response, site for the real deployment, chat for actors and
WebSocket. A feature no sample exercises is not done.
- Match the existing .wo style; comments state constraints. Branch `dev`,
commits local only, never push, bullet messages ≤25 lines with the
prefix `porch<n>` (`feat(porch2-cookies): …`).
Report back with: decisions and reviews (file:line), README ledger or
spec sections changed, forks surfaced, checks named for fielding-cyril,
tasks handed to fielding-zack, counts you cite with their source.

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---
name: lintor
description: Linux kernel expert with the kernel source tree at
.dev/reference/linux (v7.0). Use for any question about a syscall's
exact semantics, errno set, kernel-version floor, uapi struct layout
or flag bits (io_uring, epoll, eventfd, timerfd, signalfd, inotify,
pidfd/clone3, PTY/termios ioctls, SCM_RIGHTS, sendfile/splice, mmap/
madvise/memfd, fsync/sync_file_range); for auditing the runtime's
kernel-facing C (runtime/src/park.c, sysio.c, main.c) against the
kernel source; and for writing or refreshing a primitive reference
card under docs/plan/exploration/linux/. Consultant and auditor first;
edits runtime code only when told to. NOT for VM/GC/fiber logic,
compiler work, database engine internals, or .wo framework code.
tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Write, Edit
---
You are lintor, the Linux kernel expert for writeonce. You read kernel
source, not folklore: every answer cites the file and line in the tree,
names the kernel version that introduced the behaviour, and lists the
errno values the caller can see.
The tree:
- `.dev/reference/linux` -> `~/projects/linux`, tag `v7.0` (2026-04-12).
Developer-local symlink, gitignored. If it is missing, say so and
stop; the recreate line is in `.gitignore` (`ln -s <path-to-linux-src>
.dev/reference/linux`). Never modify the tree — it is another repo.
- Cite as `reference/linux/<path>:<line>` plus the `SYSCALL_DEFINEn`
or struct name, so a reader can `grep -n` it. Quote the decisive lines
only, never whole functions.
- Syscall numbers: `arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl`. errno
meanings: `include/uapi/asm-generic/errno-base.h`, `errno.h`.
- Where each primitive lives: epoll `fs/eventpoll.c`; eventfd
`fs/eventfd.c`; timerfd `fs/timerfd.c`; signalfd `fs/signalfd.c`;
inotify `fs/notify/inotify/`; io_uring `io_uring/{io_uring,poll,
timeout,rw}.c` + `include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h`; pidfd_open
`kernel/pid.c`, pidfd_send_signal `kernel/signal.c`, clone3
`kernel/fork.c`, exit/reap `kernel/exit.c`; PTY `drivers/tty/pty.c`,
termios/winsize ioctls `drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c`, `tty_io.c`;
SCM_RIGHTS `net/core/scm.c`, `net/unix/af_unix.c`; sendfile/splice
`fs/read_write.c`, `fs/splice.c`; fsync family `fs/sync.c`; mmap/
madvise/memfd `mm/{mmap,madvise,memfd}.c`; user-facing docs
`Documentation/userspace-api/`.
Doctrine you enforce (docs/00-principles.md, principle 2): the runtime
is C11 on libc; everything else is a kernel primitive reached directly.
No library ever. Where glibc 2.35 (the release build floor) lacks a
wrapper, the runtime calls `syscall(SYS_x, ...)` with the number
`#define`d as fallback and mirrors struct layouts from
`include/uapi/linux/*.h` byte for byte — that mirroring is what you
verify. Every primitive states its kernel floor and has a fallback or
a named refusal: io_uring is first choice but a startup probe falls
back to epoll (seccomp'd containers deny the ring); `WO_IO=uring|epoll`
forces either so CI proves both on one kernel.
writeonce's kernel-facing code (all under `runtime/src/`):
- `park.c|h` — the per-shard I/O plane. Raw `io_uring_setup`/
`io_uring_enter`, hand-mirrored SQ/CQ ring layouts, ops limited to
POLL_ADD / POLL_REMOVE / TIMEOUT (Linux 5.4 floor); epoll fallback;
the wake eventfd shard 0 owns.
- `sysio.c` — `fs`, `time`, `env`, `net`, `proc`, `signal`, `term`
builtins. fork+execvp, pidfd_open (434) and pidfd_send_signal (424)
as raw syscalls, an epoll bundle per bounded child, posix_openpt +
setsid + TIOCSWINSZ for `spawn_pty`, tcsetattr save/restore, sendmsg/
recvmsg with one SCM_RIGHTS fd, `SO_DOMAIN` gating, `getrandom`.
- `main.c` — SIGPIPE ignored; the SIGTERM/SIGINT stop latch.
- `tls.c`, `crypto.c` — sockets only; the TLS itself is not your area.
- `CODE-LOGIC.md` beside them — read "Bounded subprocess (iteration
42)", "runtime-v2 (ids 97–107)", "Fibers and actors", "Net deadlines",
"The shutdown drain guarantee" before auditing anything.
Reference cards: `docs/plan/exploration/linux/00-linux.md` indexes cards
01–12 (epoll, eventfd, timerfd, signalfd, inotify, sendfile, io_uring,
mmap, fallocate, pidfd, memfd_create, pwrite-fsync). A card carries: the
kernel source paths with what each defines, the man page names, the
libc signature or raw-syscall form in C, a minimal C example, the
kernel floor, and where writeonce uses it. The existing cards still
show Rust `libc::` snippets from v1 — Rust left the runtime 2026-08-20;
new cards are C, and when you touch an old card you convert its
snippets. Primitives without a card yet: fanotify, splice/tee, clone3,
close_range, pidfd_getfd, PTY ioctls, SCM_RIGHTS.
How you work:
- Answer from the tree. Open the SYSCALL_DEFINE, follow it to the
behaviour, and quote the line that settles the question. If the tree
and a man page disagree, the tree wins and you say so.
- For every primitive named: kernel floor (version + the commit or
Documentation line if findable), errno set, whether glibc 2.35 wraps
it, and the seccomp/container caveat if one exists.
- Auditing runtime code: diff the runtime's `#define`s and mirrored
structs against the uapi header of THIS tree (offsets, widths,
flag values, syscall numbers). Report each mismatch as
`runtime/src/<file>:<line>` vs `reference/linux/<path>:<line>`.
Check both `WO_IO` backends and the raw-syscall fallbacks.
- Do not edit `runtime/src` unless the request says so. When it does:
failing `runtime/test` case first (`test_proc`, `test_term`,
`test_fiber` are the templates), then the fix, then `make -C runtime
test` for the touched suite. Do not run the example gates yourself:
name the ones the caller must run (`just fibers` both backends + ASan,
`just subprocess`, `just wmux`, `just tls`). Match existing style;
comments state constraints, not narration.
- Never modify `.dev/`. Never push. Commits, if any, local on `dev`,
bullet messages, ≤25 lines, feature-specific prefix.
Report back with: the answer in one paragraph, the kernel citations
(`path:line`, tag v7.0), kernel floor + errno table, any runtime
mismatch found as file:line pairs, and gate output verbatim if you ran
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export const meta = {
name: 'prebuild-feature',
description: 'Pre-build research fan-out: ground a feature story, compare references, audit story discipline, produce a go/no-go brief',
whenToUse: 'Before writing code for a feature/iteration — run the brainstorm-to-ready groundwork as parallel research and get a consolidated pre-build brief',
phases: [
{ title: 'Understand', detail: 'read the target story + scout relevant .dev/reference projects' },
{ title: 'Analyze', detail: 'one agent per reference project vs the feature concern' },
{ title: 'Audit', detail: 'story-format/frontmatter + dependency-graph/status-board consistency' },
{ title: 'Consolidate', detail: 'settle open forks, fold gaps, go/no-go on readiness' },
],
}
/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Encodes the ritual this repo follows BEFORE any code lands on a feature:
* understand the story -> ground the forks in the actual runtime ->
* compare against .dev/reference implementations for gaps -> lock the
* decisions with KISS defaults -> acceptance criteria + deps/status.
* It does the *parallelizable research* half and hands back a brief; the
* fork-settling itself stays an interactive brainstorm (human in the loop).
*
* Invoke: Workflow({ name: 'prebuild-feature', args: {
* story: 'docs/stories/runtime-v2/09-in-process-tls.md', // optional
* concern: 'outbound TLS client integration', // optional
* references: ['fiber', 'go'] } }) // optional
* With no args it locates the current NEXT PLAN target itself.
* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
const story = (args && args.story) || null
const concern = (args && args.concern) || null
const givenRefs = (args && Array.isArray(args.references)) ? args.references : null
const REF_CAP = 6 // keep the fan-out bounded (medium workflow-size guideline)
const UNDERSTAND_SCHEMA = {
type: 'object',
properties: {
storyPath: { type: 'string' },
concern: { type: 'string' },
readiness: { type: 'string' },
lockedDecisions: { type: 'array', items: { type: 'string' } },
openForks: { type: 'array', items: { type: 'string' } },
acceptanceCriteria: { type: 'string' },
outOfScopePresent: { type: 'boolean' },
summary: { type: 'string' },
},
required: ['storyPath', 'concern', 'readiness', 'openForks', 'summary'],
}
const SCOUT_SCHEMA = {
type: 'object',
properties: {
references: { type: 'array', items: { type: 'string' } },
rationale: { type: 'string' },
},
required: ['references'],
}
const REF_SCHEMA = {
type: 'object',
properties: {
project: { type: 'string' },
howItHandles: { type: 'string' },
gapsInOurApproach: { type: 'array', items: { type: 'string' } },
recommendations: { type: 'array', items: { type: 'string' } },
},
required: ['project', 'howItHandles'],
}
const AUDIT_SCHEMA = {
type: 'object',
properties: {
area: { type: 'string' },
ok: { type: 'boolean' },
issues: { type: 'array', items: { type: 'string' } },
},
required: ['area', 'ok', 'issues'],
}
const BRIEF_SCHEMA = {
type: 'object',
properties: {
ready: { type: 'boolean' },
goNoGo: { type: 'string' },
unsettledForks: { type: 'array', items: { type: 'string' } },
recommendedDefaults: { type: 'array', items: { type: 'string' } },
gapsToFold: { type: 'array', items: { type: 'string' } },
acceptanceGaps: { type: 'array', items: { type: 'string' } },
blockers: { type: 'array', items: { type: 'string' } },
summary: { type: 'string' },
},
required: ['ready', 'goNoGo', 'summary'],
}
const CONVENTIONS =
'Repo discipline: story frontmatter is the ONLY source of status (status + readiness); ' +
'story docs carry NO code blocks (plans-no-raw-code); brainstorm to readiness:ready with ' +
'decisions LOCKED and Given/When/Then acceptance criteria + an out-of-scope list before any ' +
'code lands; docs live under ./docs; the dependency graph is docs/00-dependency-graph.md and ' +
'the status board docs/stories/00-status.md. Read CLAUDE.md and docs/stories/00-status.md to confirm.'
phase('Understand')
// The target story: use args.story, else let the agent find the NEXT PLAN target.
const storyClause = story
? `The target story is ${story}.`
: 'No story path was given — read docs/stories/00-status.md, find the current in-progress / NEXT-PLAN feature, and use its story file.'
const concernClause = concern ? `The feature concern is: ${concern}.` : 'Infer the feature concern from the story.'
const [understanding, scout] = await parallel([
() => agent(
`${storyClause} ${concernClause}\n\n` +
`Read that story and the repo conventions. ${CONVENTIONS}\n\n` +
`Report, as data: the resolved story path, the feature concern in one line, the story's ` +
`readiness, the decisions already LOCKED, the OPEN forks still unsettled, whether ` +
`Given/When/Then acceptance criteria and an out-of-scope list are present, and a short summary. ` +
`Do not propose fixes — just report what is and isn't settled.`,
{ label: 'understand-story', phase: 'Understand', agentType: 'general-purpose', schema: UNDERSTAND_SCHEMA },
),
() => agent(
(givenRefs
? `The caller named these reference projects: ${givenRefs.join(', ')}. Confirm each exists under .dev/reference/ and return the ones that do.`
: `List .dev/reference/ (\`ls .dev/reference\`). ${concernClause} `) +
`Pick the reference projects most relevant to studying this concern (at most ${REF_CAP}), newest/most-relevant first. ` +
`Return their directory names and a one-line rationale. Grounded in what actually exists on disk.`,
{ label: 'scout-references', phase: 'Understand', agentType: 'general-purpose', schema: SCOUT_SCHEMA },
),
])
const theConcern = (understanding && understanding.concern) || concern || 'the feature concern'
const theStory = (understanding && understanding.storyPath) || story || '(the NEXT-PLAN story)'
let refs = (scout && scout.references) || givenRefs || []
refs = refs.slice(0, REF_CAP)
if (refs.length === 0) log('No reference projects identified — skipping the reference-analysis fan-out.')
// One research batch: a reference-analysis agent per project + two audit agents,
// all independent, all needed by the consolidation barrier.
const research = await parallel([
...refs.map((r) => () => agent(
`Analyze how the reference project .dev/reference/${r} handles "${theConcern}". ` +
`Read its actual source (grep/read the relevant files). Report: how it handles the concern; ` +
`where writeonce's planned approach in ${theStory} has GAPS or missing safeguards versus it; ` +
`and concrete recommendations. Be specific and cite files. Return raw data, not prose for a human.`,
{ label: `ref:${r}`, phase: 'Analyze', agentType: 'general-purpose', schema: REF_SCHEMA },
)),
() => agent(
`Audit ${theStory} against the repo's STORY DISCIPLINE. ${CONVENTIONS}\n` +
`Check: frontmatter carries status + readiness; NO code fences in the doc; decisions are LOCKED ` +
`(not vague); Given/When/Then acceptance criteria present; out-of-scope list present. ` +
`Report each violation as an issue; ok=true only if clean.`,
{ label: 'audit:story-format', phase: 'Audit', agentType: 'general-purpose', schema: AUDIT_SCHEMA },
),
() => agent(
`Audit consistency between ${theStory}, the dependency graph (docs/00-dependency-graph.md) and the ` +
`status board (docs/stories/00-status.md) for "${theConcern}". Check: the feature's node/row exists, ` +
`its status matches the story frontmatter, and blockers/dependencies named in the story appear in the ` +
`graph. Report mismatches as issues; ok=true only if consistent.`,
{ label: 'audit:deps-status', phase: 'Audit', agentType: 'general-purpose', schema: AUDIT_SCHEMA },
),
])
const refResults = research.slice(0, refs.length).filter(Boolean)
const audits = research.slice(refs.length).filter(Boolean)
phase('Consolidate')
const brief = await agent(
`You are consolidating a PRE-BUILD brief for "${theConcern}" (story ${theStory}) — the go/no-go before code.\n\n` +
`Understanding of the story:\n${JSON.stringify(understanding, null, 2)}\n\n` +
`Reference analyses (gaps vs our approach):\n${JSON.stringify(refResults, null, 2)}\n\n` +
`Story-discipline + deps/status audits:\n${JSON.stringify(audits, null, 2)}\n\n` +
`Produce the brief: the OPEN forks still to settle (each with a recommended KISS default); ` +
`the gaps from the reference analyses worth FOLDING IN as locked requirements before build; ` +
`any acceptance-criteria gaps; blockers; and a clear go/no-go on whether the story is truly ` +
`ready to build. ready=true only if the forks are settled, the audits are clean, and the ` +
`reference gaps are either folded in or explicitly deferred. Ground every point in the inputs above.`,
{ label: 'consolidate-brief', phase: 'Consolidate', effort: 'high', schema: BRIEF_SCHEMA },
)
log(`Pre-build brief for ${theConcern}: ${brief && brief.goNoGo ? brief.goNoGo : '(no verdict)'}`)
return { story: theStory, concern: theConcern, understanding, references: refResults, audits, brief }

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# NOTE: this workflow has never run. Authored 2026-08-25 and not
# executable locally — the first real tag push is its first test.
# Expect to adjust the toolchain step if the pinned OCaml/dune version
# is not available on the runner image.
name: release
# Fires only on a version tag, so nothing is published by an ordinary
# push. `workflow_dispatch` is a DRY RUN: it builds, verifies and reports
# the glibc floor, but skips the tag guard (there is no tag) and skips
# publishing. Use it to rehearse before tagging anything.
on:
push:
tags:
- 'v*'
workflow_dispatch:
# The ONE line that replaces `gh auth login`: it widens the automatic
# GITHUB_TOKEN so this job may write releases. No PAT, no secret to
# rotate, and the token dies with the job.
permissions:
contents: write
jobs:
release:
# DELIBERATE, not a default. The release binaries link glibc
# dynamically, so the build host's glibc caps which symbol versions
# they can import — and that cap becomes the minimum glibc every
# user needs. Built on 24.04 (glibc 2.39) the floor is 2.39;
# built here on 22.04 (2.35) it is 2.35, which is the difference
# between excluding and including Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12 and
# RHEL 9. Raise this image only with a reason, and update the
# supported-systems list in docs/examples/site/install/view.wo in
# the same change.
runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
# setup-ocaml gives a compiler and opam. It does NOT give dune —
# dune is an ordinary opam package, and this project has no .opam
# file for it to infer one from, so nothing pulls it in. The first
# run failed here with `dune: command not found`.
- uses: ocaml/setup-ocaml@v3
with:
ocaml-compiler: '4.14'
# setup-ocaml may already have installed a dune (it uses one for its
# own cache), in which case asking for an exact older version is a
# DOWNGRADE the solver refuses — which is how the pinned
# `dune.3.14.0` failed. So: use whatever is there, and only install
# if there is nothing. Any dune >= 3.14 satisfies this project's
# `(lang dune 3.14)`.
- name: Ensure dune is available
run: |
opam exec -- dune --version || opam install -y dune
echo "dune: $(opam exec -- dune --version)"
# The tag is the release's identity; VERSION is what the binaries
# report. If they disagree the download URL would name a version
# nobody can install. mkdist.sh already guards VERSION against the
# binaries; this guards the tag against VERSION.
- name: Tag must match VERSION
if: github.event_name == 'push'
run: |
tag="${GITHUB_REF_NAME#v}"
ver="$(cat VERSION)"
[ "$tag" = "$ver" ] || {
echo "tag $GITHUB_REF_NAME does not match VERSION $ver" >&2
exit 1
}
# `opam exec --` because mkdist.sh calls dune internally; without
# the opam environment on PATH the script cannot find it.
- name: Build the tarball
run: opam exec -- ./scripts/mkdist.sh
# The site links one exact filename. If mkdist ever changes its
# naming, the download button 404s for every visitor — so fail
# here instead.
- name: Asset name must match what the site links
run: |
ver="$(cat VERSION)"
asset="writeonce-${ver}-linux-amd64.tar.gz"
test -f "dist/$asset"
grep -q "$asset" docs/examples/site/install/view.wo || {
echo "$asset is not the filename /install links" >&2
exit 1
}
- name: Verify the digest
run: cd dist && sha256sum -c "writeonce-$(cat ../VERSION)-linux-amd64.tar.gz.sha256"
# Prove the ARTEFACT works, using the binaries inside it rather
# than the ones just built in the tree. This is what catches a
# tarball that packaged the wrong thing.
- name: Smoke-test the extracted toolchain
run: |
ver="$(cat VERSION)"
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
tar -C "$tmp" -xzf "dist/writeonce-${ver}-linux-amd64.tar.gz"
export PATH="$tmp/writeonce/bin:$PATH"
woc version
wovm --version
mkdir -p "$tmp/hello"
cd "$tmp/hello"
printf 'name = "hello"\nversion = "0.1.0"\n\n[runtime]\nwo = ">= 0.1"\n' > wo.toml
printf 'fn main() -> Int {\n print("hello, writeonce");\n return 0;\n}\n' > main.wo
woc .
out="$(./target/hello)"
[ "$out" = "hello, writeonce" ] || { echo "got: $out" >&2; exit 1; }
# Record the real glibc floor of what is about to ship, so the
# claim on /install can be checked against a build log rather
# than trusted.
- name: Report the glibc floor
run: |
ver="$(cat VERSION)"
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
tar -C "$tmp" -xzf "dist/writeonce-${ver}-linux-amd64.tar.gz"
for b in "$tmp"/writeonce/bin/*; do
printf '%s needs %s\n' "$(basename "$b")" \
"$(objdump -T "$b" | grep -oE 'GLIBC_[0-9.]+' | sort -uV | tail -1)"
done
# gh is preinstalled on GitHub runners and reads GH_TOKEN from the
# environment, so there is no `gh auth login` anywhere in this file.
# Skipped on workflow_dispatch: a dry run must never publish.
- name: Publish
if: github.event_name == 'push'
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
run: |
ver="$(cat VERSION)"
gh release create "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" \
"dist/writeonce-${ver}-linux-amd64.tar.gz" \
"dist/writeonce-${ver}-linux-amd64.tar.gz.sha256" \
--title "writeonce ${ver}" \
--generate-notes

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@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
# `woc .` manifest builds (wo.toml [build] target)
/docs/examples/log-watcher/target
/docs/examples/employee/target
/docs/examples/skill-catalog/target
# Rust runtime (crates/rt/): compiled binary + build artifacts
/crates/rt/target
@ -101,3 +102,12 @@ prototypes/wo-db/
__pycache__/
*.pyc
dist/
docs/examples/*/target/
.wo-deps/
# Obsidian vault state (developer-local)
docs/.obsidian/
docs/Untitled.base
# bench scratch stores (driver-managed)
bench/tmp.*

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@ -4,3 +4,6 @@
[submodule "reference/writeonce-api"]
path = reference/writeonce-api
url = https://github.com/shoneyJ/writeonce-api
[submodule "docs/examples/site"]
path = docs/examples/site
url = git@github.com:shoneyJ/writeonce-site.git

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@ -25,16 +25,19 @@ program ships as one file that depends only on the system C library.
mistyped field name is a **compile error**, not a runtime surprise. There is
no SQL string anywhere in the shipped binary.
- **One binary, no runtime dependencies.** `woc .` produces a self-contained
executable (~100 KB for the sample programs) that links only libc. Copy it to
a server and run it.
- **Small on purpose.** No FFI, no package manager, no framework. The standard
library is a handful of OS modules. The language is designed to be read.
executable (160–260 KB for the sample programs in this repository) that links
only libc. Copy it to a server and run it.
- **Small on purpose.** No FFI, no reflection, no package registry —
dependencies are exact-rev git URLs and nothing else. The standard library is
a handful of OS modules. The language is designed to be read.
writeonce is **not** a web framework and does not (yet) serve HTTP, WebSockets,
or a UI. It is a systems language whose distinguishing feature is the embedded
database. If you have seen an older "writeonce" that served REST from `cargo
run`, that was a separate, earlier runtime; this page documents the current
`woc`/`wovm` toolchain.
writeonce is a systems language whose distinguishing feature is the embedded
database. HTTP/1.1 and WebSockets **do** work today — but as `.wo` libraries you
consume through `[deps]` (`porch` for serving, `writeonce-view` for
HTML), never as runtime features: the runtime stays framework-agnostic on
purpose. TLS is always terminated by a proxy in front. If you have seen an older
"writeonce" that served REST from `cargo run`, that was a separate, earlier
runtime; this page documents the current `woc`/`wovm` toolchain.
---
@ -139,8 +142,10 @@ has a known owner, memory is freed deterministically, and values that form
cycles are collected by an inferred garbage collector (you never annotate GC-
ness; the compiler infers it). The surface will look familiar:
- **Types:** `Int`, `Text`, `Bool`, and user `class` types. `?T` marks an
optional (nullable) value; `nil` is the empty case.
- **Types:** `Int`, `Float`, `Bool`, `Text`, `Bytes`, `Timestamp`, `Id`, and
user `class` types. `?T` marks an optional (nullable) value; `nil` is the
empty case. `Int` and `Float` never mix implicitly — `float` and `trunc` are
the only bridges.
- **Containers:** `multi T` (a growable list) and `map<K, V>`. Literals:
`[]`, `[a, b]`, `{}`.
- **Classes & records:** classes with fields and methods, `static const` /
@ -149,6 +154,11 @@ ness; the compiler infers it). The surface will look familiar:
expressions, and `try { … } catch (e) { … }` (also an expression form).
- **Strings:** interpolation with `${expr}` inside a `"…"` literal.
- **Functions:** free functions and methods; arguments and returns are typed.
- **Concurrency:** `spawn C { … }` starts an actor and yields an `actor M`
address; `send` is fire-and-forget, `call` parks the calling fiber until the
receive returns. A class becomes an actor by declaring `fn receive(msg: M)`.
Blocking stdlib calls park the fiber — there is no `async`, no `await`, and no
user-visible thread.
```
fn classify(n: Int) -> Text {
@ -166,14 +176,17 @@ A compact set of OS modules, reached by their reserved names — no imports:
| Module | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `fs` | `exists`, `list`, `stat`, `read_all`, `read_at`, `append` |
| `time` | `sleep`, `now`, `local`, `iso` |
| `fs` | `exists`, `list`, `stat`, `read_all`, `read_at`, `append` — read and append; a file cannot yet be replaced, truncated, deleted or renamed |
| `time` | `sleep`, `now`, `ticks` (µs monotonic), `local`, `iso` |
| `env` | `get`, `stopping` (a cooperative shutdown flag) |
| `net` | TCP `listen` / `accept` / `read` / `write` / `close` (host + port) |
| `net` | `listen` / `accept` / `read` / `write` / `close`, per-call deadline twins `read_dl` / `accept_dl` / `write_dl`, `listen_unix`, `peer`. Listeners only — there is no outbound `connect` |
| `proc` | `run` a child process, capture stdout/stderr/exit |
| `json` | `encode` / `decode` (`json.decode(t) as T` yields `?T`) |
These are deliberately minimal — the surface a real program needs, and no more.
Alongside them sit free builtins for text, containers, the `Float`/`Bytes`
bridges, `base64`, and the digests `sha1` / `sha256` / `hmac_sha256`. The full
list is `docs/guides/language-surface.md`.
---
@ -262,6 +275,25 @@ runtime = "../../../runtime/wovm" # path to the wovm the binary is built from
`woc myproject/` compiles every `.wo` file under the directory as one program.
### Dependencies
A project can depend on other writeonce repositories — exact-rev git
dependencies, declared in the manifest:
```toml
[deps]
porch = { git = "https://github.com/shoneyj/porch", rev = "v0.1.0" }
```
**The `[deps]` key IS the module name** `use` imports — the repository name
never appears in your source. `woc` fetches each dep (via the `git` binary)
into `.wo-deps/<name>/`, pins the resolved commit in `wo.lock`, and `use porch`
(or `use porch/router`) imports its public names like any module. Builds never
touch the network once the lock is satisfied; a moved tag is reported, and
`woc --update-deps myproject/` refreshes the lock deliberately. Flat
dependencies only (a dep may not have its own `[deps]`) — honest and small,
by design.
Programs that create tables read their data directory from the `WO_DATA`
environment variable at run time:
@ -270,12 +302,15 @@ WO_DATA=./data ./target/myproject seed
WO_DATA=./data ./target/myproject report # a fresh process still sees the data
```
A program with any durable table (the default) refuses to start without `WO_DATA`; `WO_EPHEMERAL=1` opts into a RAM-only run, `@table(durable: false)` opts a table out.
---
## Worked examples
Two complete sample programs live in the repository and double as the language's
acceptance tests:
Thirteen sample programs live under `docs/examples/`; eight of them are wired to
a `just` recipe and double as the language's acceptance tests. The three worth
reading first:
- **`docs/examples/employee/`** — departments and employees related by
`ref`/`backlink`, `@unique`, foreign-key restrict on delete, per-department
@ -285,6 +320,15 @@ acceptance tests:
just employee # compile + run every mode against a durable database
```
- **`docs/examples/porch/` + `docs/examples/web-app/`** — a web
framework written in writeonce (HTTP/1.1 behind a TLS-terminating proxy,
router with `:param` captures, interface-based handlers) and a storefront
consuming it **as a `[deps]` dependency**, with `@table` persistence. Run:
```bash
just web-app
```
- **`docs/examples/log-watcher/`** — a long-running daemon that watches log
files for silent death, using the `fs`/`time`/`net`/`proc` stdlib. Run it:
@ -292,7 +336,10 @@ acceptance tests:
just log-watcher
```
Read either program's `main.wo` for idiomatic, working writeonce.
Read any of their `main.wo` files for idiomatic, working writeonce. The rest —
`site` (the writeonce.de tutorial, server-rendered, `just site`), `fibers`,
`db-actor`, `db-bench`, `gc-cycle`, `operators`, `shop` — cover the concurrency,
GC and benchmark surfaces.
---
@ -303,10 +350,16 @@ honest. These exist as design iterations and/or work-in-progress branches, not
as features you can use today:
- **Query aggregates** — `group … by … into g` with `count`/`avg`/`min`/`max`
and projection records. (Today the same result is written by hand from the
shipped primitives.)
- **HTTP service layer** — `service` blocks that route requests to methods.
- **Concurrency** — a shard-actor runtime and green-threaded fibers.
and projection records. The clause parses and is then refused by the
typechecker; today the same result is written by hand from the shipped
primitives.
- **File mutation and outbound sockets** — `fs` can create, grow and read a
file but never replace, truncate, delete or rename one, and there is no
`net.connect` at all, so nothing reaches out (no OIDC, SMTP, object store or
webhook). Both are iteration 38.
- **`service` blocks** — a declaration form that routes requests to methods,
lowering onto the framework library. Today you register routes as ordinary
framework calls, which works and is what every sample does.
- **Cross-program database access** — one program attaching to another's
database over a local channel, with keypair authentication and per-client
rights.
@ -314,8 +367,11 @@ as features you can use today:
- **Compile-time metaprogramming** — `@derive(Json/Csv/Eq/…)` generated from a
class's own metadata, no reflection.
Known current limits worth naming: `net` is TCP host+port only; `proc.run` has
no timeout or signal control; there is no stdin/stdout byte I/O and no FFI.
Known current limits worth naming: `proc.run` has no timeout or signal control;
there is no stdin/stdout byte I/O and no FFI; `map` lookup is a linear scan;
actor mailboxes are bounded but there is no supervision tree yet; the WAL is
append-only, so it grows and boot replays all of it; TLS is always a proxy's
job.
---

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"msg_n": 200000,
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},
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"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 6.22
},
"durable.sN.wmix.ops_sec": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 1504,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 6017
},
"durable.sN.wmix.p50us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 27184,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 6796
},
"durable.sN.wmix.p99us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 37484,
"tolerance_pct": 300,
"value": 9371
},
"durable.sN.wmix.peak_batch": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 15,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 60
},
"durable.sN.wmix.peak_staged": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 11760,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 2940
},
"durable.sN.write.ops_sec": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 580,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 2320
},
"durable.sN.write.p50us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 1760,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 440
},
"durable.sN.write.p99us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 2688,
"tolerance_pct": 300,
"value": 672
},
"growth.available": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 1
},
"growth.int.noswap.bytes_per_row": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 440,
"tolerance_pct": 10,
"value": 110
},
"growth.int.noswap.doublings": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 3
},
"growth.int.noswap.p99_departure_decile": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 0
},
"growth.int.noswap.read_p50us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 0
},
"growth.int.noswap.read_p99us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 1
},
"growth.int.noswap.rows": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 800000,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 200000
},
"growth.int.noswap.rss_kb": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 168528,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 42132
},
"growth.int.swap.bytes_per_row": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 440,
"tolerance_pct": 10,
"value": 110
},
"growth.int.swap.doublings": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 3
},
"growth.int.swap.p99_departure_decile": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 0
},
"growth.int.swap.read_p50us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 0
},
"growth.int.swap.read_p99us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 1
},
"growth.int.swap.rows": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 800000,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 200000
},
"growth.int.swap.rss_kb": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 168576,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 42144
},
"growth.text.noswap.bytes_per_row": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 1284,
"tolerance_pct": 10,
"value": 321
},
"growth.text.noswap.doublings": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 2
},
"growth.text.noswap.p99_departure_decile": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 0
},
"growth.text.noswap.read_p50us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 0
},
"growth.text.noswap.read_p99us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 1
},
"growth.text.noswap.rows": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 800000,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 200000
},
"growth.text.noswap.rss_kb": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 343312,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 85828
},
"growth.text.swap.bytes_per_row": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 1284,
"tolerance_pct": 10,
"value": 321
},
"growth.text.swap.doublings": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 2
},
"growth.text.swap.p99_departure_decile": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 0
},
"growth.text.swap.read_p50us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 0
},
"growth.text.swap.read_p99us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 1
},
"growth.text.swap.rows": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 800000,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 200000
},
"growth.text.swap.rss_kb": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 343328,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 85832
},
"ram.s1.mixread.ops_sec": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 22286,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 89144
},
"ram.s1.mixread.p50us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 1
},
"ram.s1.mixread.p99us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 1
},
"ram.s1.mixwrite.ops_sec": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 2476,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 9904
},
"ram.s1.mixwrite.p50us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 1
},
"ram.s1.mixwrite.p99us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 1
},
"ram.s1.msgrate.msgs_sec": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 1336469,
"tolerance_pct": 70,
"value": 10691756
},
"ram.s1.query.ops_sec": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 244857,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 979431
},
"ram.s1.query.p50us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 1
},
"ram.s1.query.p99us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 1
},
"ram.s1.read.ops_sec": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 252270,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 1009081
},
"ram.s1.read.p50us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 1
},
"ram.s1.read.p99us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 1
},
"ram.s1.seed.ops_sec": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 62904,
"tolerance_pct": 15,
"value": 251616
},
"ram.s1.seed.p50us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 15,
"value": 4
},
"ram.s1.seed.p99us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 15,
"value": 9
},
"ram.s1.write.ops_sec": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 47770,
"tolerance_pct": 15,
"value": 191080
},
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"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 15,
"value": 8
},
"ram.s1.write.p99us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 15,
"value": 10
},
"ram.sN.mixread.ops_sec": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 11218,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 44874
},
"ram.sN.mixread.p50us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 240,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 60
},
"ram.sN.mixread.p99us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 324,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 81
},
"ram.sN.mixwrite.ops_sec": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 1246,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 4986
},
"ram.sN.mixwrite.p50us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 260,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 65
},
"ram.sN.mixwrite.p99us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 356,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 89
},
"ram.sN.msgrate.msgs_sec": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 317323,
"tolerance_pct": 70,
"value": 2538586
},
"ram.sN.query.ops_sec": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 291545,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 1166180
},
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"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 1
},
"ram.sN.query.p99us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 1
},
"ram.sN.read.ops_sec": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 317823,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 1271294
},
"ram.sN.read.p50us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 1
},
"ram.sN.read.p99us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 1
},
"ram.sN.seed.ops_sec": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 73305,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 293220
},
"ram.sN.seed.p50us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 3
},
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"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 7
},
"ram.sN.write.ops_sec": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 56810,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 227241
},
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"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 6
},
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"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 10
},
"randread.collapse_x": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 1084,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 271
},
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"dir": "lower",
"floor": 58144,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 14536
},
"randread.overcap.ops_sec": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 1427,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 5711
},
"randread.overcap.read_p50us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 624,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 156
},
"randread.overcap.read_p99us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 1628,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 407
},
"randread.resident.filled_rss_kb": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 168288,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 42072
},
"randread.resident.ops_sec": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 387281,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 1549126
},
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"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 1
},
"randread.resident.read_p99us": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 1
},
"replay.history.ms": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 12876,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 3219
},
"replay.history.ns_per_record": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 64384,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 16096
},
"replay.history.records": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 800000,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 200000
},
"replay.history.wal_bytes": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 39200140,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 9800035
},
"replay.history_penalty_x": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 1.6
},
"replay.inserts.ms": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 8064,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 2016
},
"replay.inserts.ns_per_record": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 80656,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 20164
},
"replay.inserts.records": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 400000,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 100000
},
"replay.inserts.wal_bytes": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 19600140,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 4900035
},
"replay.startup_ms": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 100,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 3
},
"residency.all_collapse_x": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 2.0,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 105.4
},
"residency.in_ram_cost_x": {
"dir": "lower",
"floor": 8.0,
"tolerance_pct": 50,
"value": 4.23
},
"residency.overcap_vs_swap_x": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 1.0,
"tolerance_pct": 100,
"value": 1.53
},
"residency.rss_ratio": {
"dir": "higher",
"floor": 2.0,
"tolerance_pct": 10,
"value": 2.55
}
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# go-sqlite — the comparison harness
Go (`database/sql` + mattn/go-sqlite3, cgo) mirroring
`docs/examples/db-bench`'s schema and modes line-for-line, so the
numbers align column-for-column. Not a gate — a reference point;
SQLite is the honest peer (embedded, single-writer, WAL, same
durability knob).
Run: `go build -o go-sqlite . && ./go-sqlite ram 20000` /
`./go-sqlite durable 20000 <ext4-dir>` — a tmpfs dir makes fsync free
and the durable numbers a lie (measured: 122k/s on /tmp vs 3.1k/s on
ext4; the campaign's own trap, re-confirmed).
## Measured 2026-08-22 (N=20k, same machine, ext4, single-shard vs single-conn)
| metric | writeonce | Go+SQLite | ratio |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ram seed inserts/s | 245,188 | 296,965 | sqlite ×1.2 |
| ram read ops/s (p50µs) | 1,097,574 (1) | 429,645 (2) | **wo ×2.6** |
| ram query ops/s | 989,609 | 154,559 | **wo ×6.4** |
| ram write ops/s | 195,465 | 380,069 | sqlite ×1.9 |
| durable seed inserts/s (p50µs) | 4,460 (~220) | 3,113 (241) | **wo ×1.4** |
| durable write ops/s | 2,324 | 3,257 | sqlite ×1.4 |
Readings, honestly:
- **Reads/queries: writeonce wins 2.6–6.4×** — RAM-authoritative rows +
the index probe answer without page decoding or a bytecode/VM ↔ cgo
boundary; SQLite pays B-tree page traversal + the cgo call per op.
- **ram writes: SQLite wins ~1.9×** — writeonce's update path re-runs a
probe per update (update-through-query) and its insert encodes slots
per field; SQLite's page write is tight. Registered as target 1 in
[`docs/plan/perf-targets.md`](../../../docs/plan/perf-targets.md).
- **durable seed: writeonce wins ~1.4×** (append-only WAL + fdatasync
vs SQLite WAL frame + FULL sync); durable mixed writes flip back to
SQLite ×1.4 — the update's extra probe again.
- Caveats: different languages (Go harness pays ~1µs cgo per op; wo
pays its interpreter), both are the honest end-to-end app-visible
cost of their stack. Single connection vs single shard; no
concurrency comparison here (SQLite has one writer by design).

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module writeonce.bench/go-sqlite
go 1.25
require github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 v1.14.34

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github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 v1.14.34/go.mod h1:Uh1q+B4BYcTPb+yiD3kU8Ct7aC0hY9fxUwlHK0RXw+Y=

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// go-sqlite — the comparison harness for docs/examples/db-bench.
// Mirrors the .wo sample's schema and modes so the lines align
// column-for-column: <op> <count> <ops/sec> <p50us> <p99us>.
//
// Flavors mirror the campaign's: "ram" = :memory:, "durable" = a file
// with synchronous=FULL and per-statement autocommit — an fsync per
// insert, the same ack-after-durable contract writeonce's WAL gives.
//
// Usage: go-sqlite <ram|durable> <N> [dir]
package main
import (
"database/sql"
"fmt"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"sort"
"time"
_ "github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3"
)
func pct(d []time.Duration, p int) int64 {
if len(d) == 0 {
return 0
}
s := make([]time.Duration, len(d))
copy(s, d)
sort.Slice(s, func(i, j int) bool { return s[i] < s[j] })
i := len(s) * p / 100
if i >= len(s) {
i = len(s) - 1
}
return s[i].Microseconds()
}
func report(op string, n int, total time.Duration, per []time.Duration) {
us := total.Microseconds()
if us < 1 {
us = 1
}
fmt.Printf("%s %d %d %d %d\n", op, n, int64(n)*1e6/us, pct(per, 50), pct(per, 99))
}
func must(err error) {
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "go-sqlite:", err)
os.Exit(1)
}
}
func main() {
if len(os.Args) < 3 {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "usage: go-sqlite <ram|durable> <N> [dir]")
os.Exit(2)
}
flavor := os.Args[1]
var n int
fmt.Sscanf(os.Args[2], "%d", &n)
dsn := ":memory:"
if flavor == "durable" {
dir := "."
if len(os.Args) > 3 {
dir = os.Args[3]
}
// FULL = fsync before every commit acknowledges — the peer of
// writeonce's per-statement WAL commit
dsn = filepath.Join(dir, "bench.db") + "?_journal_mode=WAL&_synchronous=FULL"
}
db, err := sql.Open("sqlite3", dsn)
must(err)
defer db.Close()
db.SetMaxOpenConns(1) // one writer, like the engine; keeps :memory: coherent
_, err = db.Exec(`
CREATE TABLE buckets (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, tag TEXT NOT NULL UNIQUE);
CREATE TABLE items (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, k INTEGER NOT NULL,
v INTEGER NOT NULL,
bucket INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES buckets(id));
CREATE INDEX items_k ON items(k);
CREATE INDEX items_bucket ON items(bucket);
PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON;`)
must(err)
kmod := n / 10
if kmod < 1 {
kmod = 1
}
itemV := func(i int) int { return (i * 37) % 1000 }
lcg := func(s int) int {
x := s*1103515245 + 12345
if x < 0 {
x = -x
}
return x
}
// seed: one bucket per 100 children, per-statement autocommit —
// mirror of the .wo sample's ack-per-insert shape
insB, err := db.Prepare("INSERT INTO buckets(tag) VALUES(?)")
must(err)
insI, err := db.Prepare("INSERT INTO items(k, v, bucket) VALUES(?, ?, ?)")
must(err)
per := make([]time.Duration, 0, n)
t0 := time.Now()
var bref int64
for i, b := 1, 0; i <= n; b++ {
r, err := insB.Exec(fmt.Sprintf("b%d", b))
must(err)
bref, _ = r.LastInsertId()
for j := 0; j < 100 && i <= n; j, i = j+1, i+1 {
o0 := time.Now()
_, err = insI.Exec(i%kmod, itemV(i), bref)
must(err)
per = append(per, time.Since(o0))
}
}
report("seed", n, time.Since(t0), per)
// read: indexed point lookups, LIMIT 1 — the .wo take-1 shape
rd, err := db.Prepare("SELECT v FROM items WHERE k = ? LIMIT 1")
must(err)
per = per[:0]
sink, s := 0, 42
nr := n / 2
t0 = time.Now()
for i := 0; i < nr; i++ {
s = lcg(s)
o0 := time.Now()
var v int
if err := rd.QueryRow(s % kmod).Scan(&v); err == nil {
sink += v
}
per = append(per, time.Since(o0))
}
report("read", nr, time.Since(t0), per)
// query: full equality probes (~10 rows each), materialized + counted
qr, err := db.Prepare("SELECT v FROM items WHERE k = ?")
must(err)
per = per[:0]
rows, s := 0, 7
nq := n / 10
t0 = time.Now()
for i := 0; i < nq; i++ {
s = lcg(s)
o0 := time.Now()
rs, err := qr.Query(s % kmod)
must(err)
for rs.Next() {
rows++
}
rs.Close()
per = append(per, time.Since(o0))
}
report("query", nq, time.Since(t0), per)
fmt.Printf("query rows %d\n", rows)
// write: alternating inserts (disjoint k) and update-through-query
up, err := db.Prepare(
"UPDATE items SET v = v + 1 WHERE id = (SELECT id FROM items WHERE k = ? LIMIT 1)")
must(err)
per = per[:0]
s = 99
nw := n / 2
t0 = time.Now()
for i := 0; i < nw; i++ {
o0 := time.Now()
if i%2 == 0 {
_, err = insI.Exec(2000000+i, itemV(i), bref)
} else {
s = lcg(s)
_, err = up.Exec(s % kmod)
}
must(err)
per = append(per, time.Since(o0))
}
report("write", nw, time.Since(t0), per)
_ = sink
}

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Lexer → parser → typechecker → ownership pass → bytecode emitter, for `.wo`. OCaml stdlib only (no Menhir, no ppx); dune is the build runner. Sibling of the C `wovm` bytecode VM ([`runtime/`](../runtime/README.md)) — the two halves of the OOP track's spec (`docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-01-oop-compiler-vm-design.md`) meet at plan 3, where `woc`'s emitted `.wob` runs on `wovm`.
**Stage: plan 3 (`docs/plan/compiler/2026-08-01-wob-emit-e2e-single-binary.md`) complete, Tasks 1–6 + 8** (Task 7, a parity harness against the Rust runtime, was deferred by explicit decision — the two stacks now diverge by design). `.wo` source compiles to `.wob` bytecode (`--emit`) and to a single self-contained executable (`build`) that runs `wovm` with no arguments and no repo-relative dependency. Milestone 1's acceptance gate — compile-time budget, the full conformance corpus under ASan, the single-binary smoke, both unit suites — is `just oop-accept`. Plan 2 (lexer through ownership pass) shipped first and is unchanged.
**Stage: well past plan 3.** Plan 2 (lexer through ownership pass) and plan 3 (`docs/plan/compiler/2026-08-01-wob-emit-e2e-single-binary.md`, Tasks 1–6 + 8 — Task 7, a parity harness against the since-removed Rust runtime, was deferred by explicit decision) closed the milestone: `.wo` source compiles to `.wob` bytecode (`--emit`) and to a single self-contained executable (`build`) that runs `wovm` with no arguments and no repo-relative dependency. Milestone 1's acceptance gate — compile-time budget, the full conformance corpus under ASan, the single-binary smoke, both unit suites — is `just oop-accept`.
Since then the front end has taken iterations **15** (`[deps]`, `wo.lock`, `--update-deps`), **17** (`kind = "library"`, entry-less check mode, `internal/` as WO-E108), **19** (`Float` and `Bytes`), **24** (`call`'s typed reply, WO-E226), **34** (digest builtins), **35** (net deadline seams), **36** (`not`, bitwise operators, hex/binary literals, compound assigns — `.wob` v6) and **37** (the backtick raw text literal with `{{ }}` auto-escaping). Current language surface: [`docs/guides/language-surface.md`](../docs/guides/language-surface.md). Current status: [the board](../docs/stories/00-status.md).
## Requirements
@ -24,23 +26,30 @@ just woc-test # same, from the repo root
```
woc <path> # compile (lex, parse, typecheck, ownership-check); nothing prints on success
woc <dir> # BUILDS instead, when <dir>/wo.toml exists — the primary mode
woc version # e.g. "writeonce 0.1.0 linux/amd64"
woc --emit <path> -o <out.wob> # compile through to a .wob bytecode module, runnable by wovm
woc build <dir> -o <app> [--runtime <path>]
# compile + append the .wob image to a copy of wovm (--runtime,
# else $WO_RUNTIME, a wovm beside this woc, or runtime/wovm)
woc --update-deps <dir> # re-fetch [deps] at their manifest revs, rewrite wo.lock
woc -D <name> ... # define a build flag for the #if/#else/#end token filter
woc --dump-tokens <path> # stdout: one line per lexed token
woc --dump-ast <path> # stdout: the declaration + body AST, indented
woc --dump-owner <path> # stdout: the ownership pass's four tables (moves, drops, rc, residual)
woc --dump-gc <path> # stdout: the inferred-GC pass's traced set
woc --dump-bc <path> # stdout: disassembled bytecode for every emitted method
woc --emit <path> -o <out.wob> # compile through to a .wob bytecode module, runnable by wovm
woc build <dir> -o <app> [--runtime <path>]
# compile + append the .wob image to a copy of wovm (default
# runtime/wovm, or --runtime) into one self-contained <app>
```
`<path>` is a single `.wo` file or a directory. A directory is discovered recursively for every `.wo` file under it — same contract as `wo run` (`crates/rt/src/lib.rs::discover`): dot-prefixed entries and `target`/`data`/`node_modules` are skipped, results are sorted by path. Every discovered file compiles as one program (declarations in one file resolve for bodies in another, regardless of discovery order); diagnostics from every file and every stage print sorted by `(file, line, col)`. For multi-file `--dump-*` output, each file's dump is preceded by a `=== path ===` header line (`compiler/src/dump.ml`'s `file_header`) — a single-file run never prints one.
`woc <dir>` on a directory holding a `wo.toml` is the mode every sample and the install docs use: it reads the manifest's `name` plus the optional `[build]` runtime/target keys and produces `<target>/<name>` exactly as `woc build` would. A manifest with `kind = "library"` is checked entry-less and writes nothing.
`<path>` is a single `.wo` file or a directory. A directory is discovered recursively for every `.wo` file under it: dot-prefixed entries and `target`/`data`/`node_modules` are skipped, results are sorted by path. Every discovered file compiles as one program (declarations in one file resolve for bodies in another, regardless of discovery order); diagnostics from every file and every stage print sorted by `(file, line, col)`. For multi-file `--dump-*` output, each file's dump is preceded by a `=== path ===` header line (`compiler/src/dump.ml`'s `file_header`) — a single-file run never prints one.
Diagnostics render as `file:line:col: severity CODE: message` plus a source excerpt with a caret; every shipped code is cataloged in `docs/plan/oop-vm/01-error-catalog.md`. Exit codes: **0** clean compile, **1** diagnostics reported, **2** usage/IO failure.
## Layout
- `src/` — one module per stage: `diag` (diagnostics, collector, exit-code decision), `token`/`lexer`, `ast`/`parser`, `types` (typechecker), `owner` (MVS ownership pass), `emit` (bytecode emitter, consumes `owner`'s four tables), `disasm` (bytecode disassembler, backs `--dump-bc`), `dump` (stable text dumps for all of the above)
- `src/` — one module per stage: `diag` (diagnostics, collector, exit-code decision), `token`/`lexer`, `ast`/`parser`, `types` (typechecker), `gcinfer` (the inferred-GC pass, backs `--dump-gc`), `owner` (MVS ownership pass), `emit` (bytecode emitter, consumes `owner`'s four tables), `disasm` (bytecode disassembler, backs `--dump-bc`), `dump` (stable text dumps for all of the above)
- `bin/` — the `woc` executable: CLI parsing, file discovery, the multi-file/cross-file driver, `--emit`/`build` output
- `test/` — `runner.ml` (golden runner + CLI smoke) and `test_diag.ml` (diag.ml unit checks); `test/golden/<stage>/` holds one-file-per-fixture goldens (`tokens`, `ast`, `owner`, `owner-err`, `bc`); `test/fixtures/driver/` holds the multi-file CLI-smoke fixtures (directory discovery, cross-file symbols, diagnostic ordering) that don't fit the one-`.wo`-file-per-fixture golden shape

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@ -44,9 +44,11 @@ let usage_msg =
usage: woc --emit <path> -o <out.wob>\n\
usage: woc build <dir> -o <app> [--runtime <path>]\n\
usage: woc version\n\
usage: woc --update-deps <dir> (re-fetch [deps] at their manifest revs, rewrite wo.lock)\n\
usage: woc --dump-tokens <path>\n\
usage: woc --dump-ast <path>\n\
usage: woc --dump-owner <path>\n\
usage: woc --dump-gc <path>\n\
usage: woc --dump-bc <path>\n\
\n\
Compiles writeonce (.wo) source. <path> is a single .wo file or a\n\
@ -243,10 +245,12 @@ let merge_symbols (syms_list : Woc_lib.Types.symbols list) : Woc_lib.Types.symbo
typedefs = SM.union keep_first acc.typedefs s.typedefs;
unions = SM.union keep_first acc.unions s.unions;
modules = acc.modules @ s.modules;
traced = Woc_lib.Types.StringSet.union acc.traced s.traced;
})
Woc_lib.Types.{
classes = SM.empty; interfaces = SM.empty; free_fns = SM.empty;
typedefs = SM.empty; unions = SM.empty; modules = [];
traced = Woc_lib.Types.StringSet.empty;
}
syms_list
@ -265,6 +269,13 @@ let merge_symbols (syms_list : Woc_lib.Types.symbols list) : Woc_lib.Types.symbo
let duplicate_symbol_code = Woc_lib.Diag.types_prefix ^ "14" (* WO-E214 *)
(* iteration 17: WO-E108 — a consumer `use` reached into a dependency's
`internal/`. A use-resolution diagnostic, so it lives in the E1xx band with
the other path/import errors and rides the normal collector path (exit 1),
unlike the manifest errors WO-E106/E107/E109 which print directly and
exit 2. *)
let dep_internal_code = Woc_lib.Diag.parsing_prefix ^ "08"
let report_collision (collector : Woc_lib.Diag.Collector.t) ~(kind : string) ~(name : string)
~(file : string) ~(pos : Woc_lib.Ast.pos) ~(first_file : string)
~(first_pos : Woc_lib.Ast.pos) : unit =
@ -337,26 +348,58 @@ let module_of_file ~(root : string) (file : string) : string =
in
Filename.dirname rel
(* iteration 15: module resolution over the app root PLUS one root per
dependency. A dep file's module is the dep name (its root) or
`<name>/<sub>` (a subdirectory) — after which the existing `use`
resolution, collision diagnostics and `pub` visibility work across the
dependency boundary unchanged. *)
let module_of_multi ~(root : string) ~(deps : (string * string) list)
(file : string) : string =
let rec try_deps = function
| [] -> module_of_file ~root file
| (name, droot) :: tl ->
let prefix = droot ^ "/" in
let plen = String.length prefix in
if String.length file >= plen && String.sub file 0 plen = prefix then begin
let sub = module_of_file ~root:droot file in
if sub = "." then name else Filename.concat name sub
end
else try_deps tl
in
try_deps deps
(* Returns the existing global, flat-merged `syms` (owner.ml's and most of
emit.ml's own view — unchanged by this task) alongside the new
per-module tables (CRITICAL 1 review finding: the emitter needs these
too, for the one place a flat merge is the wrong answer — see
Types.module_symbols' own doc comment). *)
let typecheck_all (collector : Woc_lib.Diag.Collector.t) ~(root : string)
?(deps : (string * string) list = [])
(parsed : (string * Woc_lib.Ast.program) list) :
Woc_lib.Types.symbols * (string, Woc_lib.Types.symbols) Hashtbl.t =
ignore root;
let per_file_syms =
List.map
(fun (f, prog) -> (f, Woc_lib.Types.collect_declarations ~file:f prog collector))
parsed
in
check_symbol_collisions collector per_file_syms;
let module_of = module_of_file ~root in
let module_of = module_of_multi ~root ~deps in
Woc_lib.Types.check_modules collector ~module_of per_file_syms parsed;
let module_syms = Woc_lib.Types.module_symbols ~module_of per_file_syms in
(* haxe-parity Task 5: the predeclared `Error` record joins the merged
table only — see Types.with_builtin_records for why not per-file. *)
let syms = Woc_lib.Types.with_builtin_records (merge_symbols (List.map snd per_file_syms)) in
(* iteration 7b: infer GC-ness once (structural SCC + demand promotion) and
inject the traced set into the merged table AND every module table, so
Types.is_gc_class answers from inference everywhere (field kinds, owner
exemptions, the class flag). One library call — the unit tests call the
same Gcinfer.infer, so classification is identical in both. *)
let syms = Woc_lib.Gcinfer.infer parsed syms in
Hashtbl.fold
(fun k v acc -> (k, { v with Woc_lib.Types.traced = syms.Woc_lib.Types.traced }) :: acc)
module_syms []
|> List.iter (fun (k, v) -> Hashtbl.replace module_syms k v);
(* `~file_syms` (hotfix, multi-file double-report): `per_file_syms` and
`parsed` are both `List.map`s over the same original file list, in
the same order, so pairing them positionally is exact -- each
@ -408,6 +451,17 @@ let dump_owner path =
parsed;
finish collector (build_lookup sources)
(* --dump-gc (iteration 7b, plan Phase 1): runs lex/parse/typecheck, then prints
the inferred GC classification (one line per class). Additive — it does not
change what is emitted; it exposes what the inference pass decided. *)
let dump_gc path =
let sources = discover_and_read path in
let collector = Woc_lib.Diag.Collector.create () in
let parsed = parse_all collector sources in
let syms, _module_syms = typecheck_all collector ~root:path parsed in
print_string (Woc_lib.Gcinfer.render_final syms);
finish collector (build_lookup sources)
(* The bare `woc <path>` form (Task 8): runs the full pipeline with no
dump — check-only. Nothing is printed to stdout on success, matching
the exit-code contract's "0 = clean compile". *)
@ -427,19 +481,113 @@ let check_only path =
own owner tables because node ids are minted per parse (unique within
a file, not across files). *)
let compile_image path =
let sources = discover_and_read path in
let compile_image ?(deps : (string * string) list = []) path =
(* app files first (sorted, as today), then each dep's files, deps sorted
by name — deterministic. The app root's own walk never descends into
`.wo-deps/` (the dot-rule), so dep trees are discovered exactly once. *)
let sources =
discover_and_read path
@ List.concat_map (fun (_, droot) -> discover_and_read droot) deps
in
let collector = Woc_lib.Diag.Collector.create () in
let parsed = parse_all collector sources in
let syms, module_syms = typecheck_all collector ~root:path parsed in
(* A dependency's INTERNAL `use` paths are written relative to the dep's
own root (`use http` inside the framework), but under this compile its
modules live at `<depname>/...` — so prefix each dep file's use paths
with the dep name. Reserved stdlib namespaces stay bare, and a path
already starting with the dep's own name is left alone. *)
let parsed =
if deps = [] then parsed
else
List.map
(fun (f, prog) ->
let owner =
List.find_opt
(fun (_, droot) ->
let prefix = droot ^ "/" in
let plen = String.length prefix in
String.length f >= plen && String.sub f 0 plen = prefix)
deps
in
match owner with
| None ->
(* iteration 17: the dependency-privacy boundary. A CONSUMER file
may not `use` a dep module whose path contains the segment
`internal` — Go's rule, and a pure use-resolution check, which
is why it needs no keyword and no syntax. Consumer-only by
design (spec §3): the dep's own `use internal` is prefixed by
the Some arm below and stays legal, so a library can organize
its interior freely.
Matched on a whole SEGMENT, never a substring: a dep module
named `internals` or `my_internal_thing` is ordinary public
surface. The root project's own `internal/` directories never
fire this either — the first segment has to name a DEP.
The use is left in place rather than dropped: the collector's
has-error path already stops emission, and dropping it would
turn one clear diagnostic into a cascade of
unknown-type errors from the same file. *)
List.iter
(fun d ->
match d with
| Woc_lib.Ast.Use u -> (
match u.Woc_lib.Ast.segments with
| seg :: rest
when List.exists (fun (dname, _) -> dname = seg) deps
&& List.exists (fun s -> s = "internal") rest ->
let pos = u.Woc_lib.Ast.pos in
Woc_lib.Diag.Collector.add collector
(Woc_lib.Diag.error ~code:dep_internal_code ~file:f
~line:pos.Woc_lib.Ast.line ~col:pos.Woc_lib.Ast.col
~message:
(Printf.sprintf
"`%s` is internal to the dependency `%s` — a module under \
`internal/` is the library's own business and cannot be \
imported across the `[deps]` boundary"
(String.concat "/" u.Woc_lib.Ast.segments)
seg)
())
| _ -> ())
| _ -> ())
prog.Woc_lib.Ast.decls;
(f, prog)
| Some (dname, _) ->
let redecl = function
| Woc_lib.Ast.Use u ->
(match u.Woc_lib.Ast.segments with
| seg :: _
when (not (Woc_lib.Types.is_stdlib_module seg)) && seg <> dname ->
Woc_lib.Ast.Use { u with Woc_lib.Ast.segments = dname :: u.Woc_lib.Ast.segments }
| _ -> Woc_lib.Ast.Use u)
| d -> d
in
(f, { Woc_lib.Ast.decls = List.map redecl prog.Woc_lib.Ast.decls }))
parsed
in
let syms, module_syms = typecheck_all collector ~root:path ~deps parsed in
(* haxe-parity Task 7: typecheck recorded every `using` extension call;
rewrite them into plain free-fn calls (receiver first) so the owner
and emit passes below need no using-awareness at all *)
let parsed =
List.map (fun (f, prog) -> (f, Woc_lib.Types.apply_using_rewrites ~file:f prog)) parsed
in
let units =
List.map
(fun (f, prog) ->
{ Woc_lib.Emit.file = f; prog; tables = Woc_lib.Owner.analyze ~file:f prog syms collector })
parsed
in
(* a dependency's `fn main` is never an entry candidate: only files that
resolve to the APP's module space may name the entry *)
let entry_ok f = not (List.exists (fun (_, droot) ->
let prefix = droot ^ "/" in
let plen = String.length prefix in
String.length f >= plen && String.sub f 0 plen = prefix) deps)
in
let image =
Woc_lib.Emit.emit ~syms ~module_of:(module_of_file ~root:path) ~module_syms collector units
Woc_lib.Emit.emit ~entry_ok ~syms ~module_of:(module_of_multi ~root:path ~deps) ~module_syms
collector units
in
(collector, build_lookup sources, image)
@ -535,53 +683,11 @@ let default_runtime_path () : string =
if Sys.file_exists sibling && not (Sys.is_directory sibling) then sibling
else "runtime/wovm"
let build_mode ~(runtime : string option) (path : string) (out : string) : unit =
let collector, lookup, image = compile_image path in
if Woc_lib.Diag.Collector.has_error collector then finish collector lookup
else begin
if String.get_int32_le image wob_off_entry = -1l then begin
Printf.eprintf
"woc: %s: no `main` entry point found; `build` requires a zero-argument free fn named \
`main`\n"
path;
exit 2
end;
let rt_path = match runtime with Some p -> p | None -> default_runtime_path () in
if (not (Sys.file_exists rt_path)) || Sys.is_directory rt_path then begin
Printf.eprintf "woc: runtime binary not found at '%s' -- build it with: make -C runtime wovm\n"
rt_path;
exit 2
end;
let rt_bytes =
match read_source rt_path with
| Ok s -> strip_existing_trailer s
| Error msg ->
Printf.eprintf "woc: %s\n" msg;
exit 2
in
let tmp = out ^ ".woc-build.tmp" in
(* stale tmp from an interrupted earlier build must not survive: its
permission bits would leak through, since Open_creat on an
existing inode does not apply the requested mode *)
(try Sys.remove tmp with Sys_error _ -> ());
(try
let oc = open_out_gen [ Open_wronly; Open_creat; Open_trunc; Open_binary ] 0o755 tmp in
output_string oc rt_bytes;
output_string oc image;
output_bytes oc
(trailer_bytes ~payload_off:(String.length rt_bytes) ~payload_len:(String.length image));
close_out oc
with Sys_error msg ->
(try Sys.remove tmp with Sys_error _ -> ());
Printf.eprintf "woc: %s\n" msg;
exit 2);
(try Sys.rename tmp out
with Sys_error msg ->
Printf.eprintf "woc: %s\n" msg;
exit 2);
finish collector lookup
end
(* RELOCATED (iteration 17): manifest_parse used to sit below build_mode.
build_mode now reads the manifest itself, to tell "you forgot `main`"
from "this is a library" in the no-entry error, and OCaml has no
forward reference across top-level `let`s. Nothing in the block
changed; only its position did. *)
(* ---- manifest build ---------------------------------------------------
`woc <dir>` where <dir>/wo.toml exists is a BUILD, not a check: the
manifest names the application, so pointing woc at the project is enough
@ -629,13 +735,78 @@ let manifest_parse (path : string) : (string * string) list =
in
section := inner;
if !section <> "runtime" && !section <> "build" && !section <> "share"
&& !section <> "share.clients"
&& !section <> "share.clients" && !section <> "deps"
then
fail !lineno
(Printf.sprintf "unknown section [%s] (runtime and build exist)" !section)
(Printf.sprintf "unknown section [%s] (runtime, build and deps exist)" !section)
end
else if !section = "share" || !section = "share.clients" then
() (* iteration 9c manifest keys — parsed by the attach feature, ignored here *)
else if !section = "deps" then begin
(* iteration 15: `name = { git = "...", rev = "..." }` — the one-line
inline table, accepted ONLY here. A tiny scanner rather than
split-on-comma: the URL value may contain any character. *)
match String.index_opt line '=' with
| None -> fail !lineno "expected `name = { git = \"...\", rev = \"...\" }`"
| Some eq ->
let name = String.trim (String.sub line 0 eq) in
if name = "" then fail !lineno "dependency name is empty";
if List.mem_assoc ("deps." ^ name ^ ".git") !kvs then
fail !lineno (Printf.sprintf "dependency `%s` declared twice" name);
let body = String.trim (String.sub line (eq + 1) (String.length line - eq - 1)) in
let blen = String.length body in
if blen < 2 || body.[0] <> '{' || body.[blen - 1] <> '}' then
fail !lineno
(Printf.sprintf "`%s`: a dependency is an inline table `{ git = \"...\", rev = \"...\" }`" name);
let inner = String.sub body 1 (blen - 2) in
let i = ref 0 in
let n = String.length inner in
let git = ref None and rev = ref None in
let skip_ws () = while !i < n && (inner.[!i] = ' ' || inner.[!i] = '\t') do incr i done in
let read_ident () =
let s = !i in
while !i < n && inner.[!i] <> ' ' && inner.[!i] <> '\t' && inner.[!i] <> '=' do incr i done;
String.sub inner s (!i - s)
in
let read_quoted () =
if !i >= n || inner.[!i] <> '"' then fail !lineno "dependency values must be quoted strings";
incr i;
let s = !i in
while !i < n && inner.[!i] <> '"' do incr i done;
if !i >= n then fail !lineno "unterminated string in dependency table";
let v = String.sub inner s (!i - s) in
incr i;
v
in
let continue_tbl = ref true in
while !continue_tbl do
skip_ws ();
if !i >= n then continue_tbl := false
else begin
let k = read_ident () in
skip_ws ();
if !i >= n || inner.[!i] <> '=' then
fail !lineno (Printf.sprintf "expected `=` after `%s` in dependency table" k);
incr i;
skip_ws ();
let v = read_quoted () in
(match k with
| "git" -> git := Some v
| "rev" -> rev := Some v
| _ -> fail !lineno (Printf.sprintf "unknown key `%s` in dependency table (git, rev exist)" k));
skip_ws ();
if !i < n then
if inner.[!i] = ',' then incr i
else fail !lineno "expected `,` between dependency table entries"
end
done;
(match (!git, !rev) with
| Some g, Some r when g <> "" && r <> "" ->
kvs := ("deps." ^ name ^ ".rev", r) :: ("deps." ^ name ^ ".git", g) :: !kvs
| _ ->
fail !lineno
(Printf.sprintf "dependency `%s` needs both `git` and `rev` (exact tag or SHA)" name))
end
else
match String.index_opt line '=' with
| None -> fail !lineno "expected `key = \"value\"`"
@ -647,7 +818,11 @@ let manifest_parse (path : string) : (string * string) list =
let v = String.sub v 1 (String.length v - 2) in
let known =
match (!section, key) with
| "", ("name" | "version" | "description") -> true
(* iteration 17: `kind` says whether this project is a program or
a library. Explicit, not inferred from the presence of `main` —
a forgotten entry and a deliberate library must not look the
same in an error message. Validated in manifest_build. *)
| "", ("name" | "version" | "description" | "kind") -> true
| "runtime", "wo" -> true (* minimum toolchain version; enforced in manifest_build *)
| "build", ("runtime" | "target") -> true
| _ -> false
@ -655,7 +830,8 @@ let manifest_parse (path : string) : (string * string) list =
if not known then
fail !lineno
(if !section = "" then
Printf.sprintf "unknown key `%s` (name, version, description exist)" key
Printf.sprintf "unknown key `%s` (name, version, description, kind exist)"
key
else
Printf.sprintf "unknown key `%s` in [%s]" key !section);
kvs := ((if !section = "" then key else !section ^ "." ^ key), v) :: !kvs
@ -663,6 +839,79 @@ let manifest_parse (path : string) : (string * string) list =
with End_of_file -> close_in ic);
!kvs
let build_mode ?(deps : (string * string) list = []) ~(runtime : string option)
(path : string) (out : string) : unit =
let collector, lookup, image = compile_image ~deps path in
if Woc_lib.Diag.Collector.has_error collector then finish collector lookup
else begin
if String.get_int32_le image wob_off_entry = -1l then begin
Printf.eprintf
"woc: %s: no `main` entry point found; `build` requires a zero-argument free fn named \
`main`\n"
path;
(* iteration 17: if the project DECLARES itself a library, say so — the
two failures are different problems and deserve different answers.
Read only when the manifest exists; a malformed one still fails the
way it does today, through manifest_parse's own path. *)
let mf = Filename.concat path "wo.toml" in
if Sys.file_exists mf then begin
match List.assoc_opt "kind" (manifest_parse mf) with
| Some "library" ->
Printf.eprintf
"woc: %s: this project declares `kind = \"library\"` — add a `main` for a demo \
binary, or check it with `woc %s`\n"
mf path
| _ -> ()
end;
exit 2
end;
let rt_path = match runtime with Some p -> p | None -> default_runtime_path () in
if (not (Sys.file_exists rt_path)) || Sys.is_directory rt_path then begin
Printf.eprintf "woc: runtime binary not found at '%s' -- build it with: make -C runtime wovm\n"
rt_path;
exit 2
end;
let rt_bytes =
match read_source rt_path with
| Ok s -> strip_existing_trailer s
| Error msg ->
Printf.eprintf "woc: %s\n" msg;
exit 2
in
(* a fresh checkout has no target/ directories: create the output's
parent, so `-o <dir>/<name>` works the way every gate and README
invokes it instead of failing on the temp file below *)
let rec mkdir_p d =
if d <> "" && d <> "." && d <> "/" && not (Sys.file_exists d) then begin
mkdir_p (Filename.dirname d);
(try Sys.mkdir d 0o755 with Sys_error _ -> ())
end
in
mkdir_p (Filename.dirname out);
let tmp = out ^ ".woc-build.tmp" in
(* stale tmp from an interrupted earlier build must not survive: its
permission bits would leak through, since Open_creat on an
existing inode does not apply the requested mode *)
(try Sys.remove tmp with Sys_error _ -> ());
(try
let oc = open_out_gen [ Open_wronly; Open_creat; Open_trunc; Open_binary ] 0o755 tmp in
output_string oc rt_bytes;
output_string oc image;
output_bytes oc
(trailer_bytes ~payload_off:(String.length rt_bytes) ~payload_len:(String.length image));
close_out oc
with Sys_error msg ->
(try Sys.remove tmp with Sys_error _ -> ());
Printf.eprintf "woc: %s\n" msg;
exit 2);
(try Sys.rename tmp out
with Sys_error msg ->
Printf.eprintf "woc: %s\n" msg;
exit 2);
finish collector lookup
end
(* [runtime] wo = ">= X.Y" — a minimum-toolchain-version constraint. Only `>=`
and a bare version are interpreted; any other operator is accepted untouched
(forward-compatible — don't hard-fail on a constraint syntax not grokked
@ -690,10 +939,181 @@ let check_runtime_constraint (mf : string) (c : string) : unit =
exit 2
| _ -> ()
let manifest_build (dir : string) : unit =
(* ---- iteration 15: dependency resolution ------------------------------
`wo.toml [deps]` names exact-rev git dependencies. Everything here runs
the `git` BINARY via Sys.command — no network code in the compiler; `git`
joins `cc` in the set of external tools the toolchain may invoke. Layout:
`.wo-deps/<name>/` beside wo.toml (gitignored; discovery's dot-rule skips
it), `wo.lock` beside it pinning name -> commit SHA. The lock wins over a
moved rev label; a lock-satisfied build never touches the network. *)
let dep_fail (mf : string) (msg : string) : 'a =
(* WO-E106: dependency fetch/shape failure (driver-level) *)
Printf.eprintf "woc: %s: error WO-E106: %s\n" mf msg;
exit 2
let read_lock (path : string) : (string * string) list =
if not (Sys.file_exists path) then []
else begin
let ic = open_in path in
let entries = ref [] in
(try
while true do
let line = String.trim (input_line ic) in
if line <> "" && line.[0] <> '#' then
match String.index_opt line ' ' with
| Some sp ->
entries :=
(String.sub line 0 sp,
String.trim (String.sub line (sp + 1) (String.length line - sp - 1)))
:: !entries
| None -> ()
done
with End_of_file -> close_in ic);
!entries
end
let write_lock (path : string) (entries : (string * string) list) : unit =
let oc = open_out path in
output_string oc "# wo.lock — written by woc; pins [deps] revs to commit SHAs. Do not edit.\n";
List.iter (fun (n, sha) -> output_string oc (n ^ " " ^ sha ^ "\n"))
(List.sort compare entries);
close_out oc
(* run git, output discarded; nonzero exit -> Some failing command text *)
let git_run (args : string) : string option =
let cmd = "git " ^ args ^ " >/dev/null 2>&1" in
if Sys.command cmd = 0 then None else Some cmd
(* run git capturing one line of stdout (via a temp file: stdlib-only) *)
let git_read (args : string) : string option =
let tmp = Filename.temp_file "wo-git" ".out" in
let cmd = "git " ^ args ^ " > " ^ Filename.quote tmp ^ " 2>/dev/null" in
let rc = Sys.command cmd in
let line =
if rc <> 0 then None
else begin
let ic = open_in tmp in
let l = try Some (String.trim (input_line ic)) with End_of_file -> None in
close_in ic;
l
end
in
(try Sys.remove tmp with Sys_error _ -> ());
line
let dep_names (kvs : (string * string) list) : string list =
List.filter_map
(fun (k, _) ->
if String.length k > 5 && String.sub k 0 5 = "deps."
&& Filename.check_suffix k ".git" then
Some (String.sub k 5 (String.length k - 5 - 4))
else None)
kvs
|> List.sort_uniq compare
(* Validate a fetched dependency's shape: it must be a writeonce project
(wo.toml with a name) and must not itself declare [deps] — transitive
dependencies are refused flat-only in v1 (the spec's rule). *)
let check_dep_shape (mf : string) (name : string) (root : string) : unit =
let dmf = Filename.concat root "wo.toml" in
if not (Sys.file_exists dmf) then
dep_fail mf
(Printf.sprintf "dependency `%s` is not a writeonce project (no wo.toml at its root)" name);
let dkvs = manifest_parse dmf in
if not (List.mem_assoc "name" dkvs) then
dep_fail mf (Printf.sprintf "dependency `%s`: its wo.toml declares no `name`" name);
if dep_names dkvs <> [] then
dep_fail mf
(Printf.sprintf
"dependency `%s` declares its own [deps] — transitive dependencies are not supported (flat-only)"
name)
(* Resolve every [deps] entry to a checked-out root. Returns (name, root)
pairs sorted by name. ~update forces a re-fetch at the manifest revs and
rewrites the lock. *)
let resolve_deps ?(update = false) (dir : string) (mf : string)
(kvs : (string * string) list) : (string * string) list =
let names = dep_names kvs in
if names = [] then []
else begin
if Sys.command "git --version >/dev/null 2>&1" <> 0 then
dep_fail mf "[deps] present but no `git` binary on PATH";
let deps_dir = Filename.concat dir ".wo-deps" in
if not (Sys.file_exists deps_dir) then Sys.mkdir deps_dir 0o755;
let lock_path = Filename.concat dir "wo.lock" in
let lock = ref (if update then [] else read_lock lock_path) in
let lock_dirty = ref update in
let resolve_one (name : string) : string * string =
(* collision with a local module directory of the same name (WO-E107) *)
let local = Filename.concat dir name in
if Sys.file_exists local && Sys.is_directory local then begin
Printf.eprintf
"woc: %s: error WO-E107: dependency `%s` collides with the local module directory `%s/`\n"
mf name name;
exit 2
end;
let url = List.assoc ("deps." ^ name ^ ".git") kvs in
let rev = List.assoc ("deps." ^ name ^ ".rev") kvs in
let cache = Filename.concat deps_dir name in
if update && Sys.file_exists cache then
ignore (Sys.command ("rm -rf " ^ Filename.quote cache));
let head () = git_read ("-C " ^ Filename.quote cache ^ " rev-parse HEAD") in
(match (Sys.file_exists cache, List.assoc_opt name !lock) with
| true, Some sha -> (
(* warm path: cache + lock agree -> zero network *)
match head () with
| Some h when h = sha -> ()
| Some h ->
dep_fail mf
(Printf.sprintf
"dependency `%s`: lock drift — wo.lock pins %s but .wo-deps has %s (a moved `rev`?); run `woc --update-deps` or remove .wo-deps/%s"
name sha h name)
| None ->
dep_fail mf
(Printf.sprintf "dependency `%s`: .wo-deps/%s is not a git checkout; remove it" name name))
| false, Some sha -> (
(* lock present, cache cold: fetch and pin to the LOCKED sha, so a
moved tag cannot change the build *)
(match git_run ("clone " ^ Filename.quote url ^ " " ^ Filename.quote cache) with
| Some cmd -> dep_fail mf (Printf.sprintf "dependency `%s`: fetch failed (%s)" name cmd)
| None -> ());
match git_run ("-C " ^ Filename.quote cache ^ " checkout -q " ^ Filename.quote sha) with
| Some _ ->
dep_fail mf
(Printf.sprintf
"dependency `%s`: locked commit %s is not in the remote — the history moved; run `woc --update-deps` if that is intended"
name sha)
| None -> ())
| (true | false), None -> (
(* no lock entry: fetch at the manifest rev, record the SHA *)
if not (Sys.file_exists cache) then
(match git_run ("clone " ^ Filename.quote url ^ " " ^ Filename.quote cache) with
| Some cmd -> dep_fail mf (Printf.sprintf "dependency `%s`: fetch failed (%s)" name cmd)
| None -> ());
(match git_run ("-C " ^ Filename.quote cache ^ " checkout -q " ^ Filename.quote rev) with
| Some _ ->
dep_fail mf
(Printf.sprintf "dependency `%s`: rev `%s` not found in %s" name rev url)
| None -> ());
match head () with
| Some h ->
lock := (name, h) :: List.remove_assoc name !lock;
lock_dirty := true
| None -> dep_fail mf (Printf.sprintf "dependency `%s`: cannot read the checkout's HEAD" name)));
check_dep_shape mf name cache;
(name, cache)
in
let resolved = List.map resolve_one names in
if !lock_dirty then write_lock lock_path !lock;
resolved
end
let manifest_build ?(update_deps = false) (dir : string) : unit =
let mf = Filename.concat dir "wo.toml" in
let kvs = manifest_parse mf in
let get k = List.assoc_opt k kvs in
let deps = resolve_deps ~update:update_deps dir mf kvs in
(match get "runtime.wo" with Some c -> check_runtime_constraint mf c | None -> ());
let name =
match get "name" with
@ -705,6 +1125,32 @@ let manifest_build (dir : string) : unit =
Printf.eprintf "woc: %s: `name` is required\n" mf;
exit 2
in
(* iteration 17: `kind` decides what `woc <dir>` MEANS for this project.
A library is checked whole with no entry required; a program builds, as
it always has. Absent is "program", so every existing manifest behaves
byte-identically. An unrecognized value is a manifest error rather than
a silent default — a typo'd kind would otherwise build the wrong thing,
the same reasoning manifest_parse's unknown-key rejection follows. *)
(match get "kind" with
| None | Some "program" -> ()
| Some "library" ->
(* Check mode. `[deps]` are resolved and the `[runtime]` constraint
enforced exactly as a build does — a library must be checkable
offline once locked, or "it checks here" means nothing. The full
pipeline runs (parse, typecheck, interface satisfaction, ownership,
GC inference) because compile_image runs it; the in-memory image is
simply discarded, so no target/ appears and no file is written. An
entry-less image is already legal on that path — the `--emit`
precedent. *)
let collector, lookup, _image = compile_image ~deps dir in
if Woc_lib.Diag.Collector.has_error collector then finish collector lookup;
exit 0
| Some other ->
Printf.eprintf
"woc: %s: error WO-E109: unknown `kind` value `%s` — expected \"program\" (the default) \
or \"library\"\n"
mf other;
exit 2);
(* paths in the manifest are the PROJECT's, so they resolve against the
manifest's directory — `woc .` inside the project and `woc path/to/it`
from anywhere must build the same thing *)
@ -716,13 +1162,29 @@ let manifest_build (dir : string) : unit =
with Sys_error m ->
Printf.eprintf "woc: %s\n" m;
exit 2);
build_mode ~runtime dir (Filename.concat target name)
build_mode ~deps ~runtime dir (Filename.concat target name)
let () =
match Sys.argv with
(* haxe-parity Task 8: `-D name` defines a build flag (`#if name` keeps
its section). Accepted anywhere on the command line in every mode, so
it is peeled off BEFORE the fixed-shape mode match below. *)
let rec peel_defines acc = function
| "-D" :: name :: rest when name <> "" && name.[0] <> '-' ->
Woc_lib.Lexer.defines :=
Woc_lib.Lexer.StringSet.add name !Woc_lib.Lexer.defines;
peel_defines acc rest
| "-D" :: _ ->
Printf.eprintf "woc: -D needs a flag name (woc -D portable ...)\n";
exit 2
| a :: rest -> peel_defines (a :: acc) rest
| [] -> List.rev acc
in
let argv = Array.of_list (peel_defines [] (Array.to_list Sys.argv)) in
match argv with
| [| _; "--dump-tokens"; path |] -> dump_tokens path
| [| _; "--dump-ast"; path |] -> dump_ast path
| [| _; "--dump-owner"; path |] -> dump_owner path
| [| _; "--dump-gc"; path |] -> dump_gc path
| [| _; "--dump-bc"; path |] -> dump_bc path
| [| _; "--emit"; path; "-o"; out |] -> emit_mode path out
| [| _; "build"; path; "-o"; out |] -> build_mode ~runtime:None path out
@ -731,6 +1193,14 @@ let () =
| [| _; ("version" | "--version") |] ->
(* Go-style: `writeonce <ver> <os>/<arch>`. linux/amd64 is the only target. *)
Printf.printf "writeonce %s linux/amd64\n" toolchain_version
| [| _; "--update-deps"; path |] ->
if Sys.file_exists path && Sys.is_directory path
&& Sys.file_exists (Filename.concat path "wo.toml")
then manifest_build ~update_deps:true path
else begin
prerr_string "woc: --update-deps needs a project directory with a wo.toml\n";
exit 2
end
| [| _; path |] ->
if Sys.file_exists path && Sys.is_directory path
&& Sys.file_exists (Filename.concat path "wo.toml")

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compiler/src/CODE-LOGIC.md
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@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ the diagnostic codes are catalogued in
## The pipeline
```
lexer.ml → parser.ml → types.ml → owner.ml → emit.ml → .wob
tokens AST symbols + move/drop/rc bytecode
lexer.ml → parser.ml → types.ml → gcinfer.ml → owner.ml → emit.ml → .wob
tokens AST symbols traced set move/drop bytecode
typecheck tables
```
@ -54,8 +54,12 @@ against `nil` must lower to `EQ` and never `EQS`.
### 3. The owner pass hands the emitter tables, not decisions
`owner.ml` computes moves, scope-end drops, branch-join drops, rc sites and
residual borrow guards, keyed by **node id and label**. `emit.ml` looks them up
`owner.ml` computes moves, scope-end drops, branch-join drops and residual
borrow guards, keyed by **node id and label** (rc sites are gone since
iteration 7b — reference counting no longer exists; `gcinfer.ml` classifies
each class owned/traced first, structurally via SCC over the class-reference
graph plus demand promotion at escape sites, and `Types.is_gc_class` answers
from that set). `emit.ml` looks them up
by the same keys. When a construct has arms — `switch`, `if`, `try` — both files
must agree on the label strings and on the arm ORDER (`switch_lowering_order`
moves `default` last in both). A silent mismatch means a drop that never runs.
@ -129,6 +133,33 @@ REMOVES the element — the caller owns what it then ignores). The finding tool
was an arena size-class census plus a pointer trace, not ASan: an in-arena
leak is invisible to LeakSanitizer, because the arena is one allocation.
The framework-v1 slice (2026-08-20) found the copy-side mirror of the
Int-segment lesson: `copy_place_text` matched only bare `Ident/Field/Index`,
so a Text-typed SINGLE-SEGMENT interpolation of a place
(`allow = "${r.method}"` with `r` a loop borrow) passed the place's own
register through a `let`/assignment boundary uncopied — the binding aliased
the row's field and its overwrite freed it (release-build crash the arena
hid from ASan). It now asks `is_borrowed_value_t && not is_container_read`,
exactly `drop_fresh_text`'s place test. The RETURN boundary had the same
hole (`return "${p.content}"` handed the caller the part's own string —
the multipart slice's arena corruption, two requests removed from the
crash): emit_return's place test now sees through `Interp` the same way,
while bare Ident/Field/Index behavior there is unchanged. Both flavors
pinned by `tests/corpus/run/interp-borrowed-field`.
The iteration-5 strictness closeout (2026-08-20) added three seams worth
knowing: `pub(read)` rides the field annotation list as a synthetic
"pub_read" marker and is enforced in the Assign case that already resolves
the target's class (WO-E219, `current_self` names the checking class —
class-owned writes, sibling instances included); `using` extensions are a
TYPECHECK-TIME rewrite — `types.ml` records (file, call-id) → fn name in
`using_rewrites` and `apply_using_rewrites` rewrites `recv.ext(a)` to
`ext(recv, a)` before owner/emit, which therefore carry zero
using-awareness (collision with a real method is WO-E220 — never a silent
win either way); `#if` is a token-stream filter at the end of
`Lexer.tokenize` (`Lexer.defines` filled by `woc -D`, WO-E003 for misuse)
— the parser never sees a directive.
Two rules the measurements imposed, both easy to get backwards:
- **Never drop an argument register after a `CALL`.** The callee's frame
@ -153,3 +184,173 @@ Two rules the measurements imposed, both easy to get backwards:
- `./compiler/_build/default/bin/woc --emit docs/examples/log-watcher -o /tmp/lw.wob`
— the acceptance workload. It must compile with zero diagnostics, and
`runtime/wovm /tmp/lw.wob watch <file> 2 1` must tail a live file and alert.
## Float and Bytes (iteration 19)
- **A digit run is an Int unless a fraction or an exponent follows.** The
lexer requires a DIGIT after `.` before committing to a Float, which is what
keeps `0..10` a range rather than `Float 0.` followed by `.10`, and checks
the exponent form (`e`, optional sign, at least one digit) before consuming
anything, so `2eggs` is still `Int 2` then an ident. `c` in that branch is
PEEKED, not consumed — the scan loop reads it, and adding it to the buffer
first double-counts the leading digit (a real bug this went through).
- **The no-mixing rule lives in the typechecker, not the emitter.** The
emitter picks the arithmetic opcode from whether EITHER side is a Float, so
an unreported `1 + 2.5` would lower to integer ADD over f64 bits and produce
a plausible wrong number with no diagnostic. `check_numeric_mix` reports the
mix (WO-E201) off confident types only, keeping this file's stay-silent-when-
underivable contract; `%` on a Float is rejected outright.
- **`Float`/`Bytes` are builtin scalars but not Int-shaped.**
`is_scalar_shaped` excludes both by name alongside `Text`, or
`print_int(price)` prints f64 bits as a huge integer and `trunc(digest)`
reinterprets a pointer — the representation mismatch that predicate exists
for.
- **Bytes is a heap-owned scalar, so every ownership rule that named `Text` by
string had to name a predicate instead.** `Types.is_heap_scalar` is that
predicate (owner.ml's four sites) and `is_heap_kind` is its emitter twin
(kind 3 or 7, six sites). Miss one and a Bytes temp never drops, or a Bytes
stored into a container aliases where a Text would copy.
- **`?Float` needs its own nil constant.** `nil_const_for` picks it, and the
bit pattern is emitted as a FLOAT pool constant because it is far outside
OCaml's 63-bit native int — `const_int` cannot express it at all. Float
constants dedupe on BITS, since `0.0` and `-0.0` are `=`-equal in OCaml but
must stay distinct, and NaN is not `=`-equal to itself.
- **A Float `order by` key uses `float_cmp`, not `op_lt`.** Raw-bit ordering
puts negatives backwards (the sign bit makes `-1.0` compare greater than
`1.0` as an integer) and leaves NaN wherever the comparison sequence drops
it. `float-table-column` in the corpus pins the ascending order that a
bit compare gets wrong.
- **Three parallel builtin tables must agree**: `Types.builtin_signatures`
(arity + arg kinds), `Types.builtin_confident_ret` and its emitter twin
`builtin_ret` (a missing entry for a fresh-heap result is a LEAK, not just a
lost type), and `is_builtin_name` plus the id mapping. The loader's arity
table and the OCaml twin in `compiler/test/runner.ml` are a fourth and fifth.
## Library kind and the `internal/` boundary (iteration 17)
Every part of this lives in the driver (`compiler/bin/main.ml`). No lexer,
parser, typechecker, VM, `.wob`, or GC change — `internal` is a path shape, not
a keyword, and visibility is name resolution at compile time.
- **`kind` is declared, not inferred.** `wo.toml`'s top-level `kind` is
`"program"` (the default, so every existing manifest is byte-identical) or
`"library"`; anything else is WO-E109 at exit 2. Go infers library-ness from
the absence of `main`, which makes "you forgot the entry" and "this is a
library" the same error — the whole reason to spend a manifest key here.
- **Check mode reuses `compile_image` whole.** The library branch resolves
`[deps]`, enforces the `[runtime]` constraint, runs the full pipeline, and
discards the in-memory image; no `target/` is created and no file is written.
An entry-less image was already legal on that path (the `--emit` precedent),
so "checks clean" means what "builds clean" means.
- **`manifest_parse` was RELOCATED above `build_mode`** so the no-entry error
can read the manifest and say "this project declares itself a library"
instead of only "no `main`". OCaml has no forward reference across top-level
`let`s; types.ml solved the same problem the same way. `woc build <dir> -o
<out>` never goes through `manifest_build`, so reading it inside `build_mode`
is the only placement that covers the explicit-build path.
- **WO-E108 is consumer-only, and keys on the FIRST segment naming a dep.**
That single condition is what makes the root project's own `internal/`
directories immune, and the dep-owned branch (which prefixes `use internal`
to `<dep>/internal`) is untouched, so a library imports its own interior
freely. The match is on a whole path SEGMENT — a module named `internals` is
ordinary public surface.
- **The offending `use` is left in the AST, not dropped.** The collector's
has-error path already stops emission; removing the use would replace one
clear diagnostic with a cascade of unknown-type errors from the same file.
- **Exit-code bands stay split**: WO-E108 is a diagnostic through the normal
collector path (exit 1); WO-E106/E107/E109 are manifest errors printed
directly (exit 2).
## Operator parity (iteration 36 — `.wob` v6)
- **Precedence went INTO existing rungs, not new ones.** `|`/`^` joined
`parse_additive`, `&`/`<<`/`>>` joined `parse_multiplicative` — exactly
Go's table (`token.go` Precedence), which exists to fix C's trap:
`x & mask == 0` groups the AND first here. The ladder doc in `parser.ml`
carries the worked examples.
- **`not` is a keyword at the unary level (Lua placement).** `not a == b`
groups `(not a) == b`. Chosen over Python's looser placement because the
grammar's ordering is already anchored to Lua by name and because
Bool-only typing turns almost every misread into a compile error. It
lowers on the existing EQ against a zero constant — no new opcode, the
same doctrine as and/or's JZ lowering.
- **Compound assigns are parse-time sugar via rewind-and-reparse.**
`x += e` IS `x = x + e`, the documented contract — including an index
expression evaluating twice, exactly as the written-out form would. The
parser re-parses the place by resetting `st.pos` (no expression rung
consumes a compound token, so the second parse stops where the first
did); every re-parsed node draws a fresh id, so owner/emit see two
honest reads, never one node in two roles. `+=`/`-=` had been lexed
since haxe-parity Task 2 but no rule consumed them — dead tokens,
`x += 1` died as a generic WO-E101 until this iteration.
- **Bitwise is Int-only on BOTH sides (WO-E201 family)** — no F-twin
exists, so a Float operand would have become a garbage word operation
with no diagnostic. A LITERAL shift count outside 0..63 is WO-E223 at
the operand's position (a negative literal arrives as
`Unary(Neg, IntLit)` — both shapes are caught); a variable count is the
VM's WO_T_SHIFT.
- **Hex/binary literals accumulate in OCaml's native int (63-bit).** A
full-width 64-bit literal like `0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF` is out of reach —
all-ones is spelled `-1` (and complement is `-1 ^ x`; there is no `~`).
The `0x`/`0b` prefix commits only when a real base digit follows, so
`0xg` stays `Int 0` + `Ident` — a parse error at its own position, no
new lexer diagnostic. `_` separators are consumed only BETWEEN digits.
## The raw text literal (iteration 37)
Multi-line markup used to be impossible to write: a statement ends at a
newline, so a page was one `h = h .. "<...>"` statement per line, every
attribute single-quoted to dodge `\"`, and every piece of data wrapped
in a hand-written `esc()` call. Backtick literals replace all three.
Things worth knowing before editing them:
- **It is a LEXER form, not a node.** A backtick literal emits exactly
the `Token.Str` (no holes) or `Token.InterpStr` (holes) a `"..."`
string emits, so `types.ml`, `owner.ml`, `emit.ml`, the `.wob` format
and the VM are all untouched — nothing downstream can tell the two
spellings apart. That is the whole reason the feature is small. A
design that introduced a `Markup`/`Element` AST variant instead would
have had to teach five files about it.
- **No escape processing at all inside.** Quotes and backslashes are
content, which is the point. The cost is that the form cannot express
a literal backtick, a literal `${`, or a literal `{{` — those are
written by concatenating an ordinary `"..."` string with `..`. One
greppable door beats inventing an escape character for the one form
whose selling point is not having any. (`docs/examples/site/content.wo`
keeps two `code_block` samples as escaped `"..."` strings for exactly
this reason: they contain `\${`.)
- **The margin is stripped at LEX time**, so the constant pool holds the
dedented text and there is no runtime cost. Java's text-block rule:
one newline right after the opening backtick is dropped, the smallest
leading whitespace run across non-blank lines is removed from every
line, and a whitespace-only closing line loses its whitespace but
keeps its newline. A literal with no newline is left alone — eating
the leading spaces of `` ` hi` `` would be a surprise, not a service.
The measuring pass runs over a SHADOW string where each hole is one
non-whitespace sentinel byte, so ` {{ x }}` counts as indent 4 and
as a non-blank line.
- **`{{ e }}` desugars to `esc(${e})`, resolved by ordinary name
lookup.** `desugar_interp` in `parser.ml` builds a `Call` on an
`Ident "esc"` — precisely what a developer wrote by hand before. The
compiler learns nothing about HTML, `esc` stays writeonce-view's ordinary
`pub fn`, a typo'd field inside the hole is a normal name/type error,
and a locally defined `esc` shadows deliberately (a custom escaper is
a feature). `${ }` inside the same literal stays raw — that is the
greppable door for markup you built yourself. The one place the
desugar leaks: with no `esc` in scope the program fails on a name it
never typed, so `emit.ml`'s WO-E403 message carries a hint for that
one name.
- **`{{` is special ONLY inside a backtick literal.** Inside `"..."` it
is still two braces, so CSS and JS text in existing samples lexes
byte-identically.
- **WO-E005 closed a real hole.** The string scanner's catch-all used to
append a raw newline like any other byte, so a forgotten closing quote
silently swallowed the rest of the file with no diagnostic. Now the
scan stops at the newline WITHOUT consuming it — the `Newline` token
still terminates the statement, so recovery costs one line instead of
the file. The rt-parity silence for a plain unterminated string with
no newline is untouched, and `runner.ml` still pins it.
- **The `..` line continuation stays.** A line ending in `..` still
swallows its newline. Raw literals took over the multi-line-markup job
that motivated it, but it remains the general way to spread a long
concatenation over several lines and has its own corpus fixture.

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@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ type field_ty =
`ref` — NOT a stored column; reading it
scans C's index on f. Types as multi C. *)
| Nullable of field_ty (* ?T wrapper *)
| Actor of string (* actor M: a typed actor address (arc, 8+11);
M is the receive-message class. A copyable
scalar word at runtime. *)
(* Parameter passing convention (spec section 3, rule 2): default is an
immutable borrow; `mut` is an exclusive borrow; `take` moves
@ -143,7 +146,13 @@ type field = {
spells out the token; it is the only unclaimed binary-shaped token
left, and Lua's `..` is the same design (concat binds looser than
`+`/`-`, tighter than comparison — this ladder's ordering). *)
type unop = Neg
(* iteration 36: `Not` is boolean negation, the keyword `not` (a word
like and/or, never `!`). Bool-only operand (types.ml), lowered on the
existing WOP_EQ against a zero constant — no new opcode, the same
doctrine And/Or's comment below records for the short-circuit pair. *)
type unop =
| Neg
| Not
(* `And`/`Or` (haxe-parity Task 2): real keywords, spelled as words, not
`&&`/`||` — the spec amendment's own wording. `Bool`-typed operands
@ -167,6 +176,18 @@ type binop =
| Ge
| And
| Or
(* iteration 36: the five Int bitwise operators (story 36's settled
decisions). Precedence copies Go's C-trap fix: BAnd/Shl/Shr sit on
the multiplicative rung, BOr/BXor on the additive rung — both above
comparison, so `x & mask == 0` groups the AND first. Int-only
operands (types.ml); Shr is arithmetic (sign-extending); a count
outside 0..63 traps WO_T_SHIFT at run time and a literal count is
rejected at compile time. *)
| BAnd
| BOr
| BXor
| Shl
| Shr
type expr = {
id : int;
@ -198,6 +219,10 @@ type expr = {
select)". *)
and expr_kind =
| IntLit of int
(* iteration 19: a Float literal, carried as OCaml's own f64. Separate from
IntLit all the way down — there is no implicit coercion anywhere, so the
typechecker must be able to tell `1` from `1.0` at every use site. *)
| FloatLit of float
| StrLit of string
| BoolLit of bool
(* haxe-parity Task 6: `nil`, the absent value of a `?T`. One
@ -252,6 +277,10 @@ and expr_kind =
uses either, so neither is grammar here (YAGNI, recorded in the
task report). *)
| Switch of expr * switch_arm list
(* the concurrency arc: `spawn Cls { fields }` — construct the actor's
state (exactly a ctor literal, fields MOVE in) and start it; the
result is an `actor M` address, M inferred from Cls's receive. *)
| Spawn of string * (string * expr) list
(* Container literals, the driving workload's own spelling for a fresh
container: `[]` / `[a, b, c]` for a `multi T`, `{}` for an empty
`map<K, V>`. They lower to exactly what `multi_new()`/`map_new()`
@ -489,9 +518,23 @@ type method_decl = {
known keys; anything else inside `@table(...)` is a parse error
(WO-E1xx), not a silent skip — unlike an unrecognized annotation
*name*, which does skip silently (rt convention, see parser.ml). *)
(* databasev2 2: what a table keeps in memory. `ResAll` is every row resident
(the default, and what every table did before this existed); `ResKeys` keeps
the id map, the secondary indexes and the unique shadows resident and reads
rows back from the log by offset. Named `keys` and not `index` on review —
`index:` is already an argument key, so the value would have collided. *)
type residency = ResAll | ResKeys
type table_cfg = {
table_name : string option;
indexes : string list list;
(* databasev2 2. Both DEFAULT to the pre-existing behaviour, which is what
lets every `@table` written before this compile byte-identically:
`durable = true` logs to the WAL as always, `resident = ResAll` keeps
every row in a slab as always. dump.ml prints them only when they differ
from these values, so no golden moves either. *)
durable : bool;
resident : residency;
}
type class_decl = {
@ -546,6 +589,11 @@ type use_decl = {
id : int;
pos : pos;
segments : string list;
(* haxe-parity Task 7: `using shared/textutil` — a use PLUS extension
registration: the module's pub free fns whose first parameter matches
a receiver's type become callable as methods on it. Compile-time only
(types.ml resolves and rewrites); false for a plain `use`. *)
is_using : bool;
}
(* haxe-parity Task 4: one variant of a union declaration

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@ -140,8 +140,6 @@ let ins_str (i : int) (pc : int) : string =
| 24 -> Printf.sprintf "BORROW_X r%d" a
| 25 -> Printf.sprintf "RELEASE_S r%d" a
| 26 -> Printf.sprintf "RELEASE_X r%d" a
| 27 -> Printf.sprintf "RC_INC r%d" a
| 28 -> Printf.sprintf "RC_DEC r%d" a
| 29 ->
if c = 4 || c = 9 then Printf.sprintf "BUILTIN r%d, kinds=0x%02x, %s" a b (builtin_name c)
else Printf.sprintf "BUILTIN r%d, r%d, %s" a b (builtin_name c)
@ -151,6 +149,22 @@ let ins_str (i : int) (pc : int) : string =
jumps are — absolute, so a disassembly can be read against the pc column. *)
| 32 -> Printf.sprintf "TRY r%d, handler -> %04d" a target
| 33 -> "ENDTRY"
(* iteration 19: the f64 world. Rendered with the same three-register shape
as their Int counterparts so a disassembly reads the same. *)
| 34 -> Printf.sprintf "FADD r%d, r%d, r%d" a b c
| 35 -> Printf.sprintf "FSUB r%d, r%d, r%d" a b c
| 36 -> Printf.sprintf "FMUL r%d, r%d, r%d" a b c
| 37 -> Printf.sprintf "FDIV r%d, r%d, r%d" a b c
| 38 -> Printf.sprintf "FNEG r%d, r%d" a b
| 39 -> Printf.sprintf "FEQ r%d, r%d, r%d" a b c
| 40 -> Printf.sprintf "FLT r%d, r%d, r%d" a b c
| 41 -> Printf.sprintf "FLE r%d, r%d, r%d" a b c
(* iteration 36 (v6): the Int bitwise set, same three-register shape *)
| 42 -> Printf.sprintf "BAND r%d, r%d, r%d" a b c
| 43 -> Printf.sprintf "BOR r%d, r%d, r%d" a b c
| 44 -> Printf.sprintf "BXOR r%d, r%d, r%d" a b c
| 45 -> Printf.sprintf "SHL r%d, r%d, r%d" a b c
| 46 -> Printf.sprintf "SHR r%d, r%d, r%d" a b c
| op -> Printf.sprintf "?OP%d" op
(* ---- the dump ---- *)
@ -158,13 +172,19 @@ let ins_str (i : int) (pc : int) : string =
type kconst =
| KInt of int64
| KText of string
| KFloat of float (* iteration 19 *)
let dump (img : string) : string =
let out = Buffer.create 4096 in
let line fmt = Buffer.add_string out (fmt ^ "\n") in
if u32 img 0 <> magic then raise (Bad "bad magic");
let ver = u32 img 4 in
if ver <> 3 then raise (Bad (Printf.sprintf "unsupported version %d" ver));
(* iteration 36 bumped the format to v6 (opcodes 42-46, the Int bitwise
set; iteration 19's v5 added the Float constant tag, kinds 6/7 and
opcodes 34-41). The disassembler tracks the emitter, not a range: an old
image is a different format and reading it as this one would misrender. *)
(* tracks emit.ml's wob_version and wob.h's WOB_VERSION *)
if ver <> 8 then raise (Bad (Printf.sprintf "unsupported version %d" ver));
let coff = u32 img 8 and ccnt = u32 img 12 in
let koff = u32 img 16 and kcnt = u32 img 20 in
let ioff = u32 img 24 and icnt = u32 img 28 in
@ -188,17 +208,29 @@ let dump (img : string) : string =
consts.(i) <- KText (String.sub img !o n);
o := !o + n
end
else if tag = 2 then begin
(* iteration 19: a Float constant. Rendered as OCaml's hex-float so the
disassembly names the exact bits — a decimal here would make golden
files depend on printf rounding. *)
consts.(i) <- KFloat (Int64.float_of_bits (i64 img !o));
o := !o + 8
end
else raise (Bad (Printf.sprintf "constant %d: unknown tag %d" i tag))
done;
let kname i =
if i >= ccnt then Printf.sprintf "<k%d?>" i
else match consts.(i) with KText s -> s | KInt n -> Int64.to_string n
else
match consts.(i) with
| KText s -> s
| KInt n -> Int64.to_string n
| KFloat x -> Printf.sprintf "%h" x
in
line "== CONSTANTS ==";
for i = 0 to ccnt - 1 do
match consts.(i) with
| KInt n -> line (Printf.sprintf "k%-3d INT %Ld" i n)
| KText s -> line (Printf.sprintf "k%-3d TEXT %s" i (quote s))
| KFloat x -> line (Printf.sprintf "k%-3d FLT %h" i x) (* iteration 19 *)
done;
(* classes *)
line "== CLASSES ==";
@ -228,7 +260,13 @@ let dump (img : string) : string =
in
line
(Printf.sprintf "c%-3d %s flags=%s fields=[%s]" i (kname nm)
(if flags land 1 <> 0 then "gc" else "-")
(let parts =
(if flags land 1 <> 0 then [ "gc" ] else [])
@ (if flags land 2 <> 0 then [ "volatile" ] else [])
@ (if flags land 4 <> 0 then [ "resident=keys" ] else [])
@ (if flags land 8 <> 0 then [ "table" ] else [])
in
if parts = [] then "-" else String.concat "+" parts)
(String.concat ", " fields))
done;
(* interfaces + vtable rows *)

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@ -26,11 +26,15 @@ let kind_label (k : Token.kind) : string =
match k with
| Token.Ident s -> Printf.sprintf "IDENT(%s)" s
| Token.Int n -> Printf.sprintf "INT(%d)" n
(* iteration 19: hex-float, so the golden file records the exact bits and
does not depend on decimal formatting *)
| Token.Float x -> Printf.sprintf "FLOAT(%h)" x
| Token.Str s -> Printf.sprintf "STR(%s)" s
| Token.InterpStr segs ->
let part_str = function
| Token.SText s -> Printf.sprintf "TEXT(%s)" s
| Token.SExpr s -> Printf.sprintf "EXPR(%s)" s
| Token.SEsc s -> Printf.sprintf "ESC(%s)" s
in
Printf.sprintf "INTERP_STR(%s)" (String.concat "," (List.map part_str segs))
| Token.KwType -> "KW_TYPE"
@ -51,6 +55,8 @@ let kind_label (k : Token.kind) : string =
| Token.KwInsert -> "KW_INSERT"
| Token.KwSelect -> "KW_SELECT"
| Token.KwUse -> "KW_USE"
| Token.KwSpawn -> "KW_SPAWN"
| Token.KwUsing -> "KW_USING"
| Token.KwPub -> "KW_PUB"
| Token.KwBreak -> "KW_BREAK"
| Token.KwContinue -> "KW_CONTINUE"
@ -58,6 +64,7 @@ let kind_label (k : Token.kind) : string =
| Token.KwConst -> "KW_CONST"
| Token.KwAnd -> "KW_AND"
| Token.KwOr -> "KW_OR"
| Token.KwNot -> "KW_NOT"
| Token.KwInline -> "KW_INLINE"
| Token.KwSwitch -> "KW_SWITCH"
| Token.KwCase -> "KW_CASE"
@ -97,7 +104,17 @@ let kind_label (k : Token.kind) : string =
| Token.GtEq -> "GTEQ"
| Token.PlusEq -> "PLUSEQ"
| Token.MinusEq -> "MINUSEQ"
| Token.StarEq -> "STAREQ"
| Token.SlashEq -> "SLASHEQ"
| Token.PercentEq -> "PERCENTEQ"
| Token.Amp -> "AMP"
| Token.Caret -> "CARET"
| Token.Shl -> "SHL"
| Token.Shr -> "SHR"
| Token.Newline -> "NEWLINE"
| Token.HashIf -> "#if"
| Token.HashElse -> "#else"
| Token.HashEnd -> "#end"
| Token.Eof -> "EOF"
(* Multi-file dump layout (Task 8, bin/main.ml). Every dump_* function
@ -151,6 +168,7 @@ let rec field_ty_str : Ast.field_ty -> string = function
| Ast.Multi s -> Printf.sprintf "multi %s" s
| Ast.Map (k, v) -> Printf.sprintf "map<%s, %s>" k v
| Ast.Backlink (c, f) -> Printf.sprintf "backlink %s.%s" c f
| Ast.Actor m -> Printf.sprintf "actor %s" m
| Ast.Nullable t -> "?" ^ field_ty_str t
let param_str (p : Ast.param) : string = Printf.sprintf "%s%s: %s" (conv_str p.conv) p.name (field_ty_str p.ty)
@ -194,6 +212,11 @@ let binop_str : Ast.binop -> string = function
| Ast.Ge -> ">="
| Ast.And -> "and"
| Ast.Or -> "or"
| Ast.BAnd -> "&"
| Ast.BOr -> "|"
| Ast.BXor -> "^"
| Ast.Shl -> "<<"
| Ast.Shr -> ">>"
(* Raw token span shared by both DbStub renderings below: a statement-
position DbStub (dump_stmt) and an expression-position one nested
@ -210,6 +233,10 @@ let dbstub_tokens_str (toks : Token.t list) : string =
let rec expr_str (e : Ast.expr) : string =
match e.Ast.kind with
| Ast.IntLit n -> string_of_int n
(* iteration 19: `%h` is OCaml's hex-float — exact, short, and unambiguous
in a golden file. A decimal rendering here would make the golden test
depend on printf rounding, which is not what these fixtures check. *)
| Ast.FloatLit f -> Printf.sprintf "%h" f
| Ast.StrLit s -> "\"" ^ s ^ "\""
| Ast.BoolLit b -> if b then "true" else "false"
| Ast.Ident s -> s
@ -218,6 +245,7 @@ let rec expr_str (e : Ast.expr) : string =
| Ast.Call (callee, args) ->
Printf.sprintf "%s(%s)" (expr_str callee) (String.concat ", " (List.map expr_str args))
| Ast.Unary (Ast.Neg, operand) -> "-" ^ expr_str operand
| Ast.Unary (Ast.Not, operand) -> "not " ^ expr_str operand
| Ast.Binary (op, l, r) -> Printf.sprintf "%s %s %s" (expr_str l) (binop_str op) (expr_str r)
| Ast.Ctor (name, fields) ->
Printf.sprintf "%s { %s }" name
@ -242,6 +270,9 @@ let rec expr_str (e : Ast.expr) : string =
| Ast.MapLit -> "{}"
| Ast.NilLit -> "nil"
| Ast.As (inner, ty) -> Printf.sprintf "%s as %s" (expr_str inner) (field_ty_str ty)
| Ast.Spawn (cn, fields) ->
Printf.sprintf "spawn %s{%s}" cn
(String.concat ", " (List.map (fun (n, v) -> n ^ ": " ^ expr_str v) fields))
(* Like SWITCH above: a one-line summary, not a full unparse of the
catch arm's statements. *)
| Ast.Try { body; ename; handler } ->
@ -331,7 +362,14 @@ let annotations_header (is_gc : bool) (table : Ast.table_cfg option) : string =
let index_parts =
List.map (fun cols -> Printf.sprintf "index=[%s]" (String.concat ", " cols)) t.indexes
in
let parts = name_part @ index_parts in
(* databasev2 2: print these ONLY when they differ from the default.
Printing them unconditionally would move every pre-existing golden,
which is the one thing this iteration is not allowed to do. *)
let durable_part = if t.durable then [] else [ "durable=false" ] in
let resident_part =
match t.resident with Ast.ResAll -> [] | Ast.ResKeys -> [ "resident=keys" ]
in
let parts = name_part @ index_parts @ durable_part @ resident_part in
if parts = [] then " @table" else " @table(" ^ String.concat ", " parts ^ ")"
in
gc_part ^ table_part
@ -446,11 +484,6 @@ let dump_ast (prog : Ast.program) : string =
block; source order is only here to keep the
rendering deterministic.
== RC == "LINE:COL ACQUIRE|RELEASE <place> ELIDED|KEPT" for
@gc reference counting. ELIDED marks a pair the
emitter may skip because increment and decrement
are provably balanced inside one scope.
== RESIDUAL == "LINE:COL RESIDUAL <op> <place> vs <op> <place>" —
the sites static proof could not settle, so the
emitter wraps them in runtime borrow ops
@ -523,12 +556,6 @@ let dump_owner (t : Owner.tables) : string =
| Owner.DBreak -> Printf.sprintf "%s BREAK %s" pos (drop_items_str d.Owner.dr_items)
| Owner.DContinue -> Printf.sprintf "%s CONTINUE %s" pos (drop_items_str d.Owner.dr_items)
in
let rc_line (r : Owner.rc_site) =
Printf.sprintf "%s %s %s %s" (owner_pos_str r.Owner.rc_pos)
(match r.Owner.rc_op with Owner.RcAcquire -> "ACQUIRE" | Owner.RcRelease -> "RELEASE")
r.Owner.rc_place
(if r.Owner.rc_elided then "ELIDED" else "KEPT")
in
let res_line (r : Owner.residual_site) =
Printf.sprintf "%s RESIDUAL %s %s vs %s %s" (owner_pos_str r.Owner.rs_pos)
(acc_kind_str r.Owner.rs_a_kind) r.Owner.rs_a (acc_kind_str r.Owner.rs_b_kind) r.Owner.rs_b
@ -537,7 +564,6 @@ let dump_owner (t : Owner.tables) : string =
let lines =
section "== MOVES ==" (List.map move_line t.Owner.moves)
@ section "== DROPS ==" (List.map drop_line t.Owner.drops)
@ section "== RC ==" (List.map rc_line t.Owner.rcs)
@ section "== RESIDUAL ==" (List.map res_line t.Owner.residuals)
in
String.concat "\n" lines ^ "\n"

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@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
; OCaml stdlib only: no Menhir, no ppx, no opam libraries.
(library
(name woc_lib)
(modules diag token ast lexer parser types owner emit disasm dump))
(modules diag token ast lexer parser types owner gcinfer emit disasm dump))

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@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
(* gcinfer.ml — inferred GC classification (spec 2026-08-11).
`infer` is the pass: it returns `syms` with `traced` populated from two
halves —
- STRUCTURAL: the class-reference graph + Tarjan SCC. A class in a
non-trivial SCC or with a self-loop is traced. `ref B` is a row id (Copy)
and `backlink` is a virtual inverse — neither stores a pointer, so
neither contributes an edge nor can force a cycle.
- DEMAND: ownership run in collect mode; a class whose value must escape
(a shape only a traced class can hold) is promoted.
Every consumer (the driver's typecheck_all, the unit-test helpers) calls
`infer`, so `Types.is_gc_class` — which field-kind derivation, owner
exemptions, and the class flag all key off — answers identically everywhere.
The demand hook promotes the escaping *projection's* type (owner.ml's
`transfer` passes `place_ty p`), so `return h.box` promotes `Box`, never the
container `Holder`. *)
module SMap = Types.StringMap
(* The user-class names one field type points at — the edges out of the class
that declares the field. Builtin scalars (Int/Bool/Text) and non-class names
resolve to no edge. *)
let rec refs_of_ty (classes : Types.class_info SMap.t) (t : Ast.field_ty) :
string list =
match t with
| Ast.Scalar n | Ast.Multi n -> if SMap.mem n classes then [ n ] else []
| Ast.Map (k, v) -> List.filter (fun n -> SMap.mem n classes) [ k; v ]
| Ast.Nullable ft -> refs_of_ty classes ft
| Ast.Ref _ | Ast.Backlink _ -> [] (* id / virtual inverse: no pointer edge *)
| Ast.Actor _ -> [] (* an address word — the runtime owns actors, never a pointer edge *)
let edges (classes : Types.class_info SMap.t) (ci : Types.class_info) :
string list =
List.concat_map (fun (_, ft, _, _) -> refs_of_ty classes ft) ci.Types.fields
|> List.sort_uniq compare
(* Tarjan's strongly-connected components over the class-name graph. Recursive;
class graphs are tiny, so recursion depth is a non-issue. *)
let sccs (nodes : string list) (adj : string -> string list) : string list list
=
let index = Hashtbl.create 64 and low = Hashtbl.create 64 in
let onstack = Hashtbl.create 64 and stack = ref [] in
let counter = ref 0 and out = ref [] in
let rec strong v =
Hashtbl.replace index v !counter;
Hashtbl.replace low v !counter;
incr counter;
stack := v :: !stack;
Hashtbl.replace onstack v true;
List.iter
(fun w ->
if not (Hashtbl.mem index w) then begin
strong w;
Hashtbl.replace low v (min (Hashtbl.find low v) (Hashtbl.find low w))
end
else if Hashtbl.mem onstack w && Hashtbl.find onstack w then
Hashtbl.replace low v (min (Hashtbl.find low v) (Hashtbl.find index w)))
(adj v);
if Hashtbl.find low v = Hashtbl.find index v then begin
let comp = ref [] and stop = ref false in
while not !stop do
match !stack with
| [] -> stop := true
| w :: rest ->
stack := rest;
Hashtbl.replace onstack w false;
comp := w :: !comp;
if w = v then stop := true
done;
out := !comp :: !out
end
in
List.iter (fun v -> if not (Hashtbl.mem index v) then strong v) nodes;
!out
type result = {
traced : string SMap.t;
(* traced class name -> human reason (for --dump-gc and, in Phase 2, the
promotion note) *)
order : string list; (* all class names, sorted — deterministic dump order *)
}
(* the traced class names as a set, for injection into `Types.symbols.traced`
(what `Types.is_gc_class` consults). *)
let traced_names (r : result) : Types.StringSet.t =
SMap.fold (fun k _ acc -> Types.StringSet.add k acc) r.traced Types.StringSet.empty
let classify (syms : Types.symbols) : result =
let classes = syms.Types.classes in
let nodes =
SMap.fold (fun k _ acc -> k :: acc) classes [] |> List.sort compare
in
let adj v =
match SMap.find_opt v classes with Some ci -> edges classes ci | None -> []
in
let comps = sccs nodes adj in
let traced =
List.fold_left
(fun acc comp ->
match comp with
| [ v ] ->
(* a singleton SCC is traced only if it points at itself *)
if List.mem v (adj v) then
SMap.add v (Printf.sprintf "cycle %s -> %s" v v) acc
else acc
| members ->
let ms = List.sort compare members in
let path = String.concat " -> " ms ^ " -> " ^ List.hd ms in
List.fold_left
(fun a m -> SMap.add m (Printf.sprintf "cycle %s" path) a)
acc ms)
SMap.empty comps
in
{ traced; order = nodes }
(* The `--dump-gc` artifact (spec §1): one line per class in sorted order,
reading the AUTHORITATIVE traced set on `syms` (structural SCC + demand
promotions injected by the pipeline). Reason = the structural cycle path
when there is one, else a demand-promotion note. *)
let render_final (syms : Types.symbols) : string =
let struct_reasons = (classify syms).traced in
let names =
SMap.fold (fun k _ acc -> k :: acc) syms.Types.classes [] |> List.sort compare
in
let buf = Buffer.create 256 in
List.iter
(fun name ->
if Types.is_gc_class syms name then
let reason =
match SMap.find_opt name struct_reasons with
| Some r -> r
| None ->
if Types.StringSet.mem name syms.Types.traced then "alias escape (demand)"
else "@gc annotation (redundant — inference covers it)"
in
Buffer.add_string buf (Printf.sprintf "%-10s gc (%s)\n" name reason)
else Buffer.add_string buf (Printf.sprintf "%-10s owned\n" name))
names;
Buffer.contents buf
(* Structural-only render (pre-injection); kept for unit tests of the SCC half. *)
let render (r : result) : string =
let buf = Buffer.create 256 in
List.iter
(fun name ->
match SMap.find_opt name r.traced with
| Some reason ->
Buffer.add_string buf (Printf.sprintf "%-10s gc (%s)\n" name reason)
| None -> Buffer.add_string buf (Printf.sprintf "%-10s owned\n" name))
r.order;
Buffer.contents buf
(* The full inference pass: structural SCC (cycles) unioned with demand
promotion (a class value that must escape). Returns `syms` with `traced`
populated — the single entry point every consumer (the driver AND the unit
tests) calls, so `is_gc_class` answers identically everywhere. The demand
half runs ownership in collect mode over every program to a fixpoint;
promotions only grow (bounded by class count), so it terminates. *)
let infer (parsed : (string * Ast.program) list) (syms : Types.symbols) :
Types.symbols =
let structural = traced_names (classify syms) in
let throwaway = Diag.Collector.create () in
let traced = ref structural in
let changed = ref true in
while !changed do
let promoted = Hashtbl.create 16 in
let syms_c = { syms with Types.traced = !traced } in
List.iter
(fun (f, prog) ->
ignore
(Owner.analyze ~file:f
~promote:(Some (fun c -> Hashtbl.replace promoted c ()))
prog syms_c throwaway))
parsed;
let next =
Hashtbl.fold (fun c () acc -> Types.StringSet.add c acc) promoted !traced
in
changed := not (Types.StringSet.equal next !traced);
traced := next
done;
{ syms with Types.traced = !traced }

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@ -53,6 +53,41 @@ let unknown_char_code = Diag.lexing_prefix ^ "01" (* WO-E001 *)
oversight; pinned by the plain-unterminated-string-reports-nothing
assertion in compiler/test/runner.ml. *)
let unterminated_escape_code = Diag.lexing_prefix ^ "02" (* WO-E002 *)
let directive_code = Diag.lexing_prefix ^ "03" (* WO-E003: #if/#else/#end misuse *)
(* iteration 37, the raw text literal (backtick-delimited, verbatim
content, no backslash escapes). Two codes, because the two shapes
are genuinely different situations:
WO-E004 — a raw literal that runs off the end of the file. Unlike a
plain "..." string (silent, rt parity, see above), this one IS
reported: multi-line is the raw literal's normal case, so a missing
closing backtick would otherwise swallow every remaining line of the
file with nothing to show for it. Reported at the OPENING backtick,
which is the only position that helps -- EOF tells the reader
nothing about which literal never closed.
WO-E005 — a raw newline inside a "..." or '...' string. This used to
be accepted silently: the string scanner's catch-all appended the
newline like any other byte, so a forgotten closing quote ate the
rest of the file with no diagnostic at all. Nothing in the repo ever
relied on it (zero of the .wo sources span a line inside quotes) and
the backtick literal is now the spelling for multi-line text, so the
accident becomes an error. The scan stops at the newline WITHOUT
consuming it, so the Newline token is still emitted and the
statement terminates -- one diagnostic, and the next line parses
normally instead of being swallowed. The rt-parity silence for a
plain unterminated string with no newline is untouched. *)
let unterminated_raw_code = Diag.lexing_prefix ^ "04" (* WO-E004 *)
let newline_in_string_code = Diag.lexing_prefix ^ "05" (* WO-E005 *)
(* haxe-parity Task 8: build flags. `woc -D name` fills this before any
tokenize call; undefined flags are false. A module-level ref because the
compiler is a single-shot process — tests that care set it explicitly
and reset to empty. *)
module StringSet = Set.Make (String)
let defines : StringSet.t ref = ref StringSet.empty
type lexer = {
src : string;
@ -125,6 +160,8 @@ let keyword_kind = function
| "true" -> Some Token.KwTrue
| "false" -> Some Token.KwFalse
| "use" -> Some Token.KwUse
| "spawn" -> Some Token.KwSpawn
| "using" -> Some Token.KwUsing
| "pub" -> Some Token.KwPub
| "break" -> Some Token.KwBreak
| "continue" -> Some Token.KwContinue
@ -132,6 +169,7 @@ let keyword_kind = function
| "const" -> Some Token.KwConst
| "and" -> Some Token.KwAnd
| "or" -> Some Token.KwOr
| "not" -> Some Token.KwNot
| "inline" -> Some Token.KwInline
| "switch" -> Some Token.KwSwitch
| "case" -> Some Token.KwCase
@ -204,6 +242,179 @@ let read_interp_expr lx =
done;
Buffer.contents buf
(* haxe-parity Task 8: the #if filter, run over the in-order token list at
the end of tokenize. A `#if <flag>` section is kept when the flag is
defined AND every enclosing section is kept; `#else` flips the section;
`#end` closes it. Nesting allowed; flag NAMES only (no expression
language — the spec's limit); undefined flags are false. Misuse is
WO-E003: a #if without a flag name, a second #else, a stray #else/#end,
or a #if left open at end of file. Eof always survives so the parser
still terminates after a reported error. *)
let preprocess (collector : Diag.Collector.t) ~(file : string)
(toks : Token.t list) : Token.t list =
let err line col msg =
Diag.Collector.add collector
(Diag.error ~code:directive_code ~file ~line ~col ~message:msg ())
in
(* frame: (emitting, seen_else, opening line, opening col) *)
let stack : (bool * bool * int * int) list ref = ref [] in
let emitting () = List.for_all (fun (e, _, _, _) -> e) !stack in
let out = ref [] in
let rec go = function
| [] -> (
match !stack with
| (_, _, l, c) :: _ -> err l c "#if left open — missing #end"
| [] -> ())
| { Token.kind = Token.HashIf; line; col } :: rest -> (
match rest with
| { Token.kind = Token.Ident flag; _ } :: rest2 ->
stack := (StringSet.mem flag !defines, false, line, col) :: !stack;
go rest2
| _ ->
err line col "#if needs a flag name (`#if portable`)";
stack := (false, false, line, col) :: !stack;
go rest)
| { Token.kind = Token.HashElse; line; col } :: rest ->
(match !stack with
| (e, false, l, c) :: tl -> stack := (not e, true, l, c) :: tl
| (_, true, _, _) :: _ -> err line col "second #else in one #if section"
| [] -> err line col "#else outside any #if");
go rest
| { Token.kind = Token.HashEnd; line; col } :: rest ->
(match !stack with
| _ :: tl -> stack := tl
| [] -> err line col "#end outside any #if");
go rest
| ({ Token.kind = Token.Eof; _ } as t) :: rest ->
out := t :: !out;
go rest
| t :: rest ->
if emitting () then out := t :: !out;
go rest
in
go toks;
List.rev !out
(* ---- the raw literal's margin rule (iteration 37) -------------------
A render() body is written at its method's indentation, but that
indentation is an artifact of the SOURCE, not of the markup -- nobody
wants six leading spaces on every line of the served HTML. So the
common margin is removed here, at lex time: the constant pool holds
the dedented text, no downstream stage ever sees the source
indentation, and the whole rule costs nothing at run time.
The rule (Java's text blocks, which solved exactly this):
- one newline immediately after the opening backtick is dropped,
so the first markup line can start on its own line;
- the smallest leading run of spaces/tabs across all non-blank
lines is removed from every line (characters counted, tabs NOT
expanded -- mixing them is the author's problem, and expanding
would need a tab width the language does not have);
- a whitespace-only final line (the usual case: the closing
backtick sits on its own line) loses its whitespace but keeps
its newline.
A literal with no newline in it is left completely alone -- there is
no margin to speak of, and silently eating the leading spaces of
` hi` would be a surprise, not a service.
Holes do not disturb any of this. A line's indentation is by
definition the run of whitespace at its start, and the only thing
that can split a line across segments is a hole, which ends that run
-- so an indentation run always lives whole inside one SText. The
measuring pass replaces each hole with a single non-whitespace
sentinel byte so that a line that is ` {{ x }}` correctly counts
as indent 4 and as NON-blank. *)
let is_indent_char c = c = ' ' || c = '\t'
let segments_shadow (segs : Token.str_part list) : string =
let b = Buffer.create 64 in
List.iter
(function
| Token.SText s -> Buffer.add_string b s
| Token.SExpr _ | Token.SEsc _ -> Buffer.add_char b '\001')
segs;
Buffer.contents b
let min_indent (shadow : string) : int =
let m = ref max_int in
List.iter
(fun line ->
let n = String.length line in
let i = ref 0 in
while !i < n && is_indent_char line.[!i] do
incr i
done;
(* a blank (or whitespace-only) line never sets the margin *)
if !i < n && !i < !m then m := !i)
(String.split_on_char '\n' shadow);
if !m = max_int then 0 else !m
let strip_margin (k : int) (segs : Token.str_part list) : Token.str_part list =
if k = 0 then segs
else begin
let at_line_start = ref true in
let one seg =
match seg with
| Token.SExpr _ | Token.SEsc _ ->
at_line_start := false;
seg
| Token.SText s ->
let n = String.length s in
let b = Buffer.create n in
let i = ref 0 in
while !i < n do
if !at_line_start then begin
let dropped = ref 0 in
while !dropped < k && !i < n && is_indent_char s.[!i] do
incr dropped;
incr i
done;
at_line_start := false
end
else begin
let c = s.[!i] in
Buffer.add_char b c;
if c = '\n' then at_line_start := true;
incr i
end
done;
Token.SText (Buffer.contents b)
in
(* fold_left, not List.map: `one` carries state across segments and
List.map's application order is unspecified. *)
List.rev (List.fold_left (fun acc seg -> one seg :: acc) [] segs)
end
let drop_trailing_margin (segs : Token.str_part list) : Token.str_part list =
match List.rev segs with
| Token.SText s :: rest_rev ->
let n = String.length s in
let i = ref n in
while !i > 0 && is_indent_char s.[!i - 1] do
decr i
done;
(* only a run that directly follows a newline is a closing line *)
if !i < n && !i > 0 && s.[!i - 1] = '\n' then
List.rev (Token.SText (String.sub s 0 !i) :: rest_rev)
else segs
| _ -> segs
let dedent (segs : Token.str_part list) : Token.str_part list =
let shadow = segments_shadow segs in
if not (String.contains shadow '\n') then segs
else begin
let segs =
match segs with
| Token.SText s :: rest when String.length s > 0 && s.[0] = '\n' ->
Token.SText (String.sub s 1 (String.length s - 1)) :: rest
| _ -> segs
in
let k = min_indent (segments_shadow segs) in
drop_trailing_margin (strip_margin k segs)
end
let tokenize (collector : Diag.Collector.t) ~(file : string) (src : string) :
Token.t list =
let lx = make src in
@ -214,6 +425,14 @@ let tokenize (collector : Diag.Collector.t) ~(file : string) (src : string) :
| { Token.kind = Token.Newline; _ } :: _ -> true
| _ -> false
in
(* A line ending in `..` continues on the next line — the ONE newline
suppression in the language, so multi-line markup/text builds read
as one expression (the shop template's ask; story 37 rides it). *)
let last_is_dotdot () =
match !out with
| { Token.kind = Token.DotDot; _ } :: _ -> true
| _ -> false
in
let report_unknown line col c =
Diag.Collector.add collector
(Diag.error ~code:unknown_char_code ~file ~line ~col
@ -224,6 +443,18 @@ let tokenize (collector : Diag.Collector.t) ~(file : string) (src : string) :
(Diag.error ~code:unterminated_escape_code ~file ~line ~col
~message:"unterminated string escape" ())
in
let report_unterminated_raw line col =
Diag.Collector.add collector
(Diag.error ~code:unterminated_raw_code ~file ~line ~col
~message:"unterminated raw text literal" ())
in
let report_newline_in_string line col =
Diag.Collector.add collector
(Diag.error ~code:newline_in_string_code ~file ~line ~col
~message:
"newline in string literal (use a `...` raw text literal for \
multi-line text)" ())
in
let running = ref true in
while !running do
match peek lx with
@ -242,7 +473,8 @@ let tokenize (collector : Diag.Collector.t) ~(file : string) (src : string) :
end
else if c = '\n' then begin
ignore (advance lx);
if not (last_is_newline ()) then emit Token.Newline line col
if not (last_is_newline ()) && not (last_is_dotdot ()) then
emit Token.Newline line col
end
else if c = ' ' || c = '\t' || c = '\r' then ignore (advance lx)
else if c = '"' || c = '\'' then begin
@ -309,6 +541,13 @@ let tokenize (collector : Diag.Collector.t) ~(file : string) (src : string) :
| None ->
report_unterminated_escape esc_line esc_col;
scanning := false)
| Some '\n' ->
(* WO-E005. Deliberately NOT consumed: the outer loop turns
it into the Newline token that terminates the statement,
so recovery is one bad line rather than the rest of the
file. *)
report_newline_in_string lx.line lx.col;
scanning := false
| Some other ->
ignore (advance lx);
Buffer.add_char buf other
@ -319,17 +558,207 @@ let tokenize (collector : Diag.Collector.t) ~(file : string) (src : string) :
| [ Token.SText s ] -> emit (Token.Str s) line col
| segs -> emit (Token.InterpStr segs) line col)
end
else if c = '`' then begin
(* iteration 37: the raw text literal. Everything up to the
closing backtick is content -- newlines included, and with NO
escape processing at all, which is the whole point: markup
carries quotes and backslashes verbatim. A literal backtick
(or a literal `{{`) is written by concatenating an ordinary
"..." string with `..`; that door is one greppable operator,
which beats inventing an escape character for the one form
whose selling point is not having any.
Two hole forms, and ONLY here -- inside "..." a `{{` is still
two literal braces, so existing CSS/JS text is untouched:
${ expr } raw, exactly like a "..." string's hole
{{ expr }} HTML-escaped (the parser wraps it in esc()) *)
ignore (advance lx);
let buf = Buffer.create 64 in
let parts = ref [] in
let flush_text () =
parts := Token.SText (Buffer.contents buf) :: !parts;
Buffer.clear buf
in
let scanning = ref true in
while !scanning do
match peek lx with
| None ->
report_unterminated_raw line col;
scanning := false
| Some '`' ->
ignore (advance lx);
scanning := false
| Some '$' when peek_at lx 1 = Some '{' ->
flush_text ();
ignore (advance lx);
ignore (advance lx);
parts := Token.SExpr (read_interp_expr lx) :: !parts
| Some '{' when peek_at lx 1 = Some '{' ->
flush_text ();
ignore (advance lx);
ignore (advance lx);
(* read_interp_expr stops at the first `}` at depth 0 and
consumes it -- the second one closes this hole. Reusing it
means brace depth and nested string literals are already
handled, so `{{ Point{x:1}.x }}` scans correctly. *)
let raw = read_interp_expr lx in
(match peek lx with
| Some '}' -> ignore (advance lx)
| _ -> report_unterminated_raw line col);
parts := Token.SEsc raw :: !parts
| Some other ->
ignore (advance lx);
Buffer.add_char buf other
done;
flush_text ();
(match dedent (List.rev !parts) with
| [] -> emit (Token.Str "") line col
| [ Token.SText s ] -> emit (Token.Str s) line col
| segs -> emit (Token.InterpStr segs) line col)
end
else if is_digit c then begin
(* iteration 19: one scanner for both numeric worlds. The integer run
is scanned into a buffer as well as accumulated, because a fraction
or an exponent turns the whole thing into a Float and OCaml's
float_of_string wants the original text.
A digit run stays an Int unless it is followed by:
- '.' AND a digit -> `1.5`. The digit requirement is what keeps
`0..10` a range (Dot Dot after Int 0) and leaves any future
`1.method()` reachable; without it `0..10` would lex as
Float 0. followed by `.10`.
- 'e'/'E' with an optional sign AND a digit -> `2e10`. Checked
before consuming, so `2eggs` is still Int 2 then Ident. *)
(* `c` is PEEKED, not consumed — the loop below reads it. Adding it to
the buffer here as well would count the first digit twice. *)
(* iteration 36: hex (`0x`) and binary (`0b`) Int literals, and `_`
digit separators in every integer form. The prefix commits only
when the character AFTER it is a real digit of that base, so `0x`
followed by anything else stays Int 0 + Ident — a parse error at
its own position, no new lexer diagnostic. Accumulation uses
OCaml's native int (63-bit): a full-width 64-bit literal like
0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF is out of reach — all-ones is spelled -1. The
float path below is untouched: neither prefix can reach it (a
fraction/exponent needs the decimal branch), and `_` is consumed
only between digits of an integer run. *)
let is_hex_digit ch =
is_digit ch || (ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'f') || (ch >= 'A' && ch <= 'F')
in
let hex_val ch =
if is_digit ch then Char.code ch - Char.code '0'
else if ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'f' then Char.code ch - Char.code 'a' + 10
else Char.code ch - Char.code 'A' + 10
in
let scan_prefixed base is_base_digit digit_val =
(* consumes the peeked '0' and the prefix char, then the run *)
ignore (advance lx);
ignore (advance lx);
let n = ref 0 in
let scanning = ref true in
while !scanning do
match peek lx with
| Some d when is_base_digit d ->
n := (!n * base) + digit_val d;
ignore (advance lx)
| Some '_' when (match peek_at lx 1 with
| Some d -> is_base_digit d
| None -> false) ->
ignore (advance lx)
| _ -> scanning := false
done;
emit (Token.Int !n) line col
in
match (c, peek_at lx 1, peek_at lx 2) with
| '0', Some ('x' | 'X'), Some d when is_hex_digit d ->
scan_prefixed 16 is_hex_digit hex_val
| '0', Some ('b' | 'B'), Some ('0' | '1') ->
scan_prefixed 2 (fun ch -> ch = '0' || ch = '1') (fun ch -> Char.code ch - Char.code '0')
| _ ->
let buf = Buffer.create 16 in
let n = ref 0 in
let scanning = ref true in
while !scanning do
match peek lx with
| Some d when is_digit d ->
n := (!n * 10) + (Char.code d - Char.code '0');
Buffer.add_char buf d;
ignore (advance lx)
| Some '_' when (match peek_at lx 1 with
| Some d -> is_digit d
| None -> false) ->
(* separator only BETWEEN digits: `1_` stops the run and the
`_` lexes as its own ident, a parse error at its position *)
ignore (advance lx)
| _ -> scanning := false
done;
emit (Token.Int !n) line col
let is_float = ref false in
(match (peek lx, peek_at lx 1) with
| Some '.', Some d when is_digit d ->
is_float := true;
Buffer.add_char buf '.';
ignore (advance lx);
let frac = ref true in
while !frac do
match peek lx with
| Some d when is_digit d ->
Buffer.add_char buf d;
ignore (advance lx)
| _ -> frac := false
done
| _ -> ());
(* exponent, on an integer run (`2e10`) or after a fraction (`1.5e-3`) *)
(match (peek lx, peek_at lx 1, peek_at lx 2) with
| Some ('e' | 'E'), Some d, _ when is_digit d -> is_float := true
| Some ('e' | 'E'), Some ('+' | '-'), Some d when is_digit d -> is_float := true
| _ -> ());
if !is_float then begin
(match peek lx with
| Some (('e' | 'E') as e) ->
Buffer.add_char buf e;
ignore (advance lx);
(match peek lx with
| Some (('+' | '-') as s) ->
Buffer.add_char buf s;
ignore (advance lx)
| _ -> ());
let ex = ref true in
while !ex do
match peek lx with
| Some d when is_digit d ->
Buffer.add_char buf d;
ignore (advance lx)
| _ -> ex := false
done
| _ -> ());
(* float_of_string cannot fail here: the buffer is a well-formed
decimal by construction. Overflow is not an error either — it
yields infinity, which is a legitimate Float per IEEE quiet
semantics (`1e400` is `inf`, not a compile error). *)
emit (Token.Float (float_of_string (Buffer.contents buf))) line col
end
else emit (Token.Int !n) line col
end
else if c = '#' then begin
(* haxe-parity Task 8: `#if` / `#else` / `#end` build-flag
directives. Names only — anything else after '#' is WO-E003. *)
ignore (advance lx);
let name =
match peek lx with
| Some d when is_ident_start d -> read_ident_chars lx
| _ -> ""
in
match name with
| "if" -> emit Token.HashIf line col
| "else" -> emit Token.HashElse line col
| "end" -> emit Token.HashEnd line col
| other ->
Diag.Collector.add collector
(Diag.error ~code:directive_code ~file ~line ~col
~message:
(Printf.sprintf
"unknown directive `#%s` — the build-flag directives are #if <flag>, #else, #end"
other)
())
end
else if is_ident_start c then begin
let name = read_ident_chars lx in
@ -400,15 +829,37 @@ let tokenize (collector : Diag.Collector.t) ~(file : string) (src : string) :
ignore (advance lx);
emit Token.PlusEq line col
| _ -> emit Token.Plus line col)
| '*' ->
| '*' -> (
ignore (advance lx);
emit Token.Star line col
| '/' ->
match peek lx with
| Some '=' ->
ignore (advance lx);
emit Token.StarEq line col
| _ -> emit Token.Star line col)
| '/' -> (
ignore (advance lx);
emit Token.Slash line col
| '%' ->
match peek lx with
| Some '=' ->
ignore (advance lx);
emit Token.SlashEq line col
| _ -> emit Token.Slash line col)
| '%' -> (
ignore (advance lx);
emit Token.Percent line col
match peek lx with
| Some '=' ->
ignore (advance lx);
emit Token.PercentEq line col
| _ -> emit Token.Percent line col)
(* iteration 36: the bitwise operators. `&` and `^` were unknown
characters before this; `|` (Pipe, above) is reused in expression
position by the parser. No `&=`/`^=`/`<<=`/`>>=` — bitwise
compound assigns are out of scope per the story. *)
| '&' ->
ignore (advance lx);
emit Token.Amp line col
| '^' ->
ignore (advance lx);
emit Token.Caret line col
| '=' -> (
ignore (advance lx);
match peek lx with
@ -432,6 +883,9 @@ let tokenize (collector : Diag.Collector.t) ~(file : string) (src : string) :
| Some '=' ->
ignore (advance lx);
emit Token.LtEq line col
| Some '<' ->
ignore (advance lx);
emit Token.Shl line col
| _ -> emit Token.Lt line col)
| '>' -> (
ignore (advance lx);
@ -439,10 +893,13 @@ let tokenize (collector : Diag.Collector.t) ~(file : string) (src : string) :
| Some '=' ->
ignore (advance lx);
emit Token.GtEq line col
| Some '>' ->
ignore (advance lx);
emit Token.Shr line col
| _ -> emit Token.Gt line col)
| other ->
ignore (advance lx);
report_unknown line col other)
done;
emit Token.Eof lx.line lx.col;
List.rev !out
preprocess collector ~file (List.rev !out)

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compiler/src/owner.ml
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@ -69,7 +69,8 @@
a place where this pass is wrong-by-accident:
- No partial moves. A move site must name a whole local (`x`), never
a projection (`x.f`, `x[0]`); see the `let` case above.
a projection (`x.f`, `x[0]`); see the `let` case above. A projection
at a transfer site is WO-E305, not a silent alias (transfer).
- Alias provability is syntactic *after canonicalization*: a place
written through a borrow binding is first rewritten to the storage
that borrow names (see canon), then two places overlap only if they
@ -131,6 +132,15 @@ let conflicting_borrow_code = Diag.ownership_prefix ^ "03"
escape. Related: where the borrow was created. *)
let borrow_escape_code = Diag.ownership_prefix ^ "04"
(* WO-E305 — an owned value is moved out of a field or element (`x.f`,
`x[i]`) while its record/container still owns it: stored into a record,
pushed into a container, passed to a `take` parameter, or returned.
Milestone 1 has no partial moves, and silently allowing the store put one
owned value under two owners — a double free at the second drop (the
lang-41 side defect). Heap scalars are exempt: every store site copies
them (stores_by_copy). Primary site: the move. Related: the owner. *)
let partial_move_code = Diag.ownership_prefix ^ "05"
(* ============================================================
Ownership classes and places
============================================================ *)
@ -277,22 +287,9 @@ type drop_site = {
dr_items : drop_item list;
}
type rc_op =
| RcAcquire
| RcRelease
(* rc_group ties a binding's ACQUIRE to its RELEASE(s): both are elided
together when the pair is provably balanced inside one scope. Escape
sites (a @gc value returned, stored, or moved into a `take`) use group
-1 — an increment that outlives the scope can never be elided. *)
type rc_site = {
rc_node : int;
rc_pos : Ast.pos;
rc_op : rc_op;
rc_place : string;
rc_group : int;
mutable rc_elided : bool;
}
(* iteration 7b: the rc-site machinery (acquire/release pairs, elision
groups, the clobber rule) is gone with reference counting itself — a
traced value's aliases need no bookkeeping, tracing owns the lifetime. *)
type acc_kind =
| AShared
@ -319,7 +316,6 @@ type residual_site = {
type tables = {
moves : move_site list;
drops : drop_site list;
rcs : rc_site list;
residuals : residual_site list;
}
@ -368,7 +364,6 @@ type scope = {
type sink = {
mutable s_moves : move_site list;
mutable s_drops : drop_site list;
mutable s_rcs : rc_site list;
mutable s_res : residual_site list;
}
@ -393,14 +388,11 @@ type ctx = {
(* set when the current path has returned; a diverged path contributes
no scope-end drops and drops out of if/else joins *)
mutable diverged : bool;
(* rc bookkeeping, resolved into rc_elided at the end of the function *)
mutable fn_rcs : rc_site list;
rc_groups : (int, string option) Hashtbl.t; (* group -> source root, None = fresh allocation *)
rc_escaped : (int, unit) Hashtbl.t;
(* roots that are assigned to, or exclusively borrowed, anywhere in
this function — an rc pair whose source root is clobbered cannot be
elided, because the original reference may die inside the scope *)
clobbered : (string, unit) Hashtbl.t;
(* iteration 7b demand-promotion (Gcinfer): when Some, the pass runs in
collect mode — a class value that would fail the escape rule records its
class here instead of raising WO-E304, so inference can promote it to
traced. None = normal report mode. *)
promote : (string -> unit) option;
}
(* ============================================================
@ -424,7 +416,8 @@ let oclass_of (ctx : ctx) (ft : Ast.field_ty) : oclass =
per rescan, which is a plain malloc and so ASan-visible). A Text read out
of a PLACE is still a borrow — analyze_let's own place logic decides
that, exactly as it does for a record field. *)
| Scalar n when n = "Text" || n = Types.json_value_type -> Owned
(* iteration 19: Bytes joins Text here — see Types.is_heap_scalar *)
| Scalar n when Types.is_heap_scalar n -> Owned
| Scalar n ->
if Types.is_builtin_scalar n then Copy
else if Types.is_gc_class ctx.syms n then Gc
@ -439,6 +432,7 @@ let oclass_of (ctx : ctx) (ft : Ast.field_ty) : oclass =
| Some u -> if u.Types.u_has_payload then Owned else Copy
| None -> Copy (* unknown type: WO-E225 already reported by types.ml *))
| Ref _ -> Copy
| Actor _ -> Copy (* an address is a copyable word; the runtime owns actors *)
| Backlink _ -> Copy (* a virtual collection of row ids read on demand *)
| Multi _ | Map _ -> Owned
| Nullable _ -> Copy (* unreachable: unwrapped above *)
@ -514,6 +508,7 @@ let variant_union_ty (ctx : ctx) (n : string) : Ast.field_ty option =
let rec expr_ty (ctx : ctx) (e : Ast.expr) : Ast.field_ty option =
match e.kind with
| IntLit _ -> Some (Scalar "Int")
| FloatLit _ -> Some (Scalar "Float") (* iteration 19 *)
| StrLit _ -> Some (Scalar "Text")
| BoolLit _ -> Some (Scalar "Bool")
(* A non-empty list literal knows its element type, so an unannotated
@ -523,6 +518,17 @@ let rec expr_ty (ctx : ctx) (e : Ast.expr) : Ast.field_ty option =
field/parameter it is built into) decides. *)
| ListLit (first :: _) -> (
match expr_ty ctx first with Some (Scalar n) -> Some (Multi n) | _ -> None)
(* arc: a spawn's value is a typed address — a copyable scalar word *)
| Spawn (cn, _) -> (
match Types.StringMap.find_opt cn ctx.syms.Types.classes with
| Some cls -> (
match
List.find_opt (fun (m : Types.method_info) -> m.Types.name = "receive") cls.Types.methods
with
| Some { Types.params = [ (_, pty, _) ]; _ } -> (
match pty with Ast.Scalar mname -> Some (Ast.Actor mname) | _ -> None)
| _ -> None)
| None -> None)
| ListLit [] | MapLit -> None
(* haxe-parity Task 6: `nil` is the zero word — contextual on its
destination, and never something this frame owns. *)
@ -855,13 +861,6 @@ let record_drop (ctx : ctx) ~node ~(pos : Ast.pos) ~kind ~items : unit =
ctx.sink.s_drops <-
{ dr_node = node; dr_pos = pos; dr_kind = kind; dr_items = items } :: ctx.sink.s_drops
let record_rc (ctx : ctx) ~node ~(pos : Ast.pos) ~op ~place ~group : unit =
if ctx.recording then
ctx.fn_rcs <-
{ rc_node = node; rc_pos = pos; rc_op = op; rc_place = place; rc_group = group;
rc_elided = false }
:: ctx.fn_rcs
let record_residual (ctx : ctx) ~node ~(pos : Ast.pos) ~(a : place) ~a_kind ~(b : place) ~b_kind :
unit =
if ctx.recording then
@ -874,8 +873,6 @@ let record_residual (ctx : ctx) ~node ~(pos : Ast.pos) ~(a : place) ~a_kind ~(b
rs_b_node = b.pnode }
:: ctx.sink.s_res
let clobber (ctx : ctx) (root : string) : unit = Hashtbl.replace ctx.clobbered root ()
(* ============================================================
Scopes, live sets, snapshots
============================================================ *)
@ -924,14 +921,6 @@ let mask_items (ls : local list) : drop_item list =
{ di_name = l.l_name; di_kind = (if l.l_class = Gc then LGc else LOwned); di_node = l.l_node })
ls
(* Releases for the @gc handles a scope exit destroys. *)
let release_gc (ctx : ctx) ~node ~pos (ls : local list) : unit =
List.iter
(fun l ->
if l.l_class = Gc then
record_rc ctx ~node ~pos ~op:RcRelease ~place:l.l_name ~group:l.l_node)
ls
let pop_scope (ctx : ctx) : unit =
match ctx.scopes with
| [] -> ()
@ -939,8 +928,7 @@ let pop_scope (ctx : ctx) : unit =
if not ctx.diverged then begin
let live = List.filter is_live_holder sc.sc_locals in
record_drop ctx ~node:sc.sc_node ~pos:sc.sc_pos ~kind:(DScope sc.sc_label)
~items:(owned_items live);
release_gc ctx ~node:sc.sc_node ~pos:sc.sc_pos live
~items:(owned_items live)
end;
ctx.scopes <- rest
@ -1060,18 +1048,27 @@ let use_place (ctx : ctx) (p : place) : unit =
else Printf.sprintf "`%s` moved here" l_name)
| _ -> ()
let escape (ctx : ctx) (l : local) ~(pos : Ast.pos) ~message : unit =
report ctx ~code:borrow_escape_code ~pos ~message ~rel:l.l_pos ~label:(borrow_label l)
(* The user class an escaping value's type resolves to, if any (unwrapping `?`).
A class value that escapes is the demand-promotion signal: second-class
borrows cannot be stored or returned, so a class that must escape has to be
traced. Scalars, builtins, and non-class names are genuine escape errors. *)
let class_of_ty (syms : Types.symbols) (t : Ast.field_ty) : string option =
let rec base = function Ast.Nullable ft -> base ft | ft -> ft in
match base t with
| Ast.Scalar n when Types.StringMap.mem n syms.Types.classes -> Some n
| _ -> None
(* A @gc value reaching a location that outlives this scope: one
increment at the escape site, never elidable. If the escaping value is
a whole local, its own binding pair can no longer be elided either. *)
let gc_escape (ctx : ctx) (p : place) : unit =
record_rc ctx ~node:p.pnode ~pos:p.ppos ~op:RcAcquire ~place:(place_text p) ~group:(-1);
if p.projs = [] then
match root_local ctx p with
| Some l -> Hashtbl.replace ctx.rc_escaped l.l_node ()
| None -> ()
let escape (ctx : ctx) (l : local) ~(pos : Ast.pos) ~message
~(promote_class : string option) : unit =
(* `promote_class` is the class of the value that actually escapes (the
escaping place's type), not the borrow-root local's — so `return h.box`
promotes `Box`, never `Holder`. In collect mode with a class in hand, record
it; otherwise report WO-E304. *)
match (ctx.promote, promote_class) with
| Some record, Some c -> record c
| _ ->
report ctx ~code:borrow_escape_code ~pos ~message ~rel:l.l_pos
~label:(borrow_label l)
(* Whether passing/assigning this place would be a *real* transfer — the
positive half of `transfer`'s decision below, needed one step earlier by
@ -1088,7 +1085,7 @@ let gc_escape (ctx : ctx) (p : place) : unit =
let stores_by_copy (ctx : ctx) (p : place) : bool =
match place_ty ctx p with
| Some t -> ( match unwrap_nullable t with
| Scalar n -> n = "Text" || n = Types.json_value_type
| Scalar n -> Types.is_heap_scalar n
| _ -> false)
| None -> false
@ -1106,16 +1103,16 @@ let is_real_transfer (ctx : ctx) (p : place) : bool =
let transfer (ctx : ctx) (p : place) ~(what : string) : bool =
match place_class ctx p with
| Copy -> false
| Gc ->
gc_escape ctx p;
false
| Gc -> false (* traced values alias freely; tracing owns the lifetime *)
| Owned -> (
match is_borrow_root ctx p with
| Some l ->
escape ctx l ~pos:p.ppos
~message:
(Printf.sprintf "borrow of `%s` %s — borrows cannot outlive their scope" (place_text p)
what);
what)
~promote_class:
(match place_ty ctx p with Some t -> class_of_ty ctx.syms t | None -> None);
false
| None -> (
match root_local ctx p with
@ -1125,11 +1122,25 @@ let transfer (ctx : ctx) (p : place) ~(what : string) : bool =
| Moved _ -> false (* already reported at the read *)
| Borrowed _ -> false (* unreachable: is_borrow_root covered it *)
| Live ->
if p.projs <> [] then false (* no partial moves in milestone 1 *)
if p.projs <> [] then begin
(* no partial moves in milestone 1 — and no silent alias either:
the record/container still owns this place, so the transfer
would give one owned value two owners (WO-E305) *)
if not (stores_by_copy ctx p) then
report ctx ~code:partial_move_code ~pos:p.ppos
~message:
(Printf.sprintf
"`%s` %s — it is part of `%s`, and an owned value cannot be moved out of a \
field or element (no partial moves): move `%s` whole, or build a fresh \
container from its elements"
(place_text p) what l.l_name l.l_name)
~rel:l.l_pos
~label:(Printf.sprintf "`%s` owns it" l.l_name);
false
end
else begin
check_against_borrows ctx ~node:p.pnode ~pos:p.ppos p AMove;
l.l_state <- Moved p.ppos;
clobber ctx p.root;
true
end)))
@ -1146,12 +1157,18 @@ type access = {
let rec read_expr (ctx : ctx) (e : Ast.expr) : unit =
match e.kind with
| IntLit _ | StrLit _ | BoolLit _ -> ()
(* iteration 19: a Float literal owns nothing — it is a word in a register,
exactly like an Int. (A Bytes value DOES own its heap object, but Bytes
has no literal form, so nothing new lands in this arm.) *)
| IntLit _ | FloatLit _ | StrLit _ | BoolLit _ -> ()
| Ident _ | Field _ | Index _ ->
(match place_of e with Some p -> use_place ctx p | None -> ());
read_place_parts ctx e
| Call (callee, args) -> analyze_call ctx e callee args
| Ctor (cn, fields) -> analyze_ctor ctx cn fields
(* arc: spawn's ctor half moves fields exactly as a ctor literal does;
the result (an address) is Copy, so no drop for the spawn itself *)
| Spawn (cn, fields) -> analyze_ctor ctx cn fields
| Insert (_, fields) ->
(* iteration 9 Task 3: the engine copies every field value at the row
API (the two-worlds bulkhead), so an insert BORROWS its values —
@ -1276,9 +1293,6 @@ and analyze_call (ctx : ctx) (call_e : Ast.expr) (callee : Ast.expr) (args : Ast
let excl = match resolved with Some c -> c.ce_recv_excl | None -> false in
(match place_of base with
| Some p ->
(* same ordering as the argument case below: a receiver a method
writes to is clobbered whatever its class *)
if excl then clobber ctx p.root;
if place_class ctx p = Owned then
Some { ac_place = p; ac_kind = (if excl then AExcl else AShared) }
else None
@ -1303,13 +1317,6 @@ and analyze_call (ctx : ctx) (call_e : Ast.expr) (callee : Ast.expr) (args : Ast
| None -> []
| Some p -> (
let _, conv = conv_of i in
(* Clobbering is decided *before* the ownership class, because
it is not an ownership question: a `mut` argument means the
callee may replace what the place holds, and for a @gc place
that is exactly what invalidates rc elision (the alias would
be the last reference and its increment was elided). Getting
this order wrong is a use-after-free, not an imprecision. *)
if conv = Mut then clobber ctx p.root;
match (place_class ctx p, conv) with
| Copy, _ | Gc, _ -> []
| Owned, Take ->
@ -1340,26 +1347,37 @@ and analyze_call (ctx : ctx) (call_e : Ast.expr) (callee : Ast.expr) (args : Ast
a.ac_place AExcl)
accesses;
(* transfers last *)
(* `push`'s value argument (builtin `multi_push`) stores a @gc reference
inside the container permanently — an escape exactly like a ctor
field or a `take` argument. `push` is never a resolved callee (it has
no declared params), so `conv_of` defaults it to Borrow and the
ordinary Take-gated transfer above never fires for it; without this
the container holds the reference with no matching RC_INC, and the
collector frees the value out from under the container it still sits
in. Narrow to `push`'s own value slot (index 1) and to Gc places only
— an Owned element's move-on-push is a separate, pre-existing gap
this task does not touch. *)
(* Keyed on "`push` is not a user-declared fn", NOT on "the callee did not
resolve": since 2026-08-14 resolve_callee answers for builtins too (their
return types are what give a `split`/`slice` binding its drop), and the
old `resolved = None` test silently stopped firing — the pushed @gc value
lost its RC_INC, the collector freed it while the container still held it,
and both `gc/` fixtures died with a use-after-free. *)
let is_push_gc_value i =
i = 1
&& Types.StringMap.find_opt "push" ctx.syms.Types.free_fns = None
&& match callee.kind with Ident "push" -> true | _ -> false
(* iteration 7b deleted the `push`-of-a-gc-value special case (an RC_INC
escape site): a traced value stored into a container needs no
bookkeeping — tracing finds it through the container.
Storing an OWNED, non-copied value into a container is a MOVE, exactly
like a `take` argument: the container owns the element and frees it in
its own drop plan (runtime/src/gc.c multi_free/map_free), so the caller
dropping it too was a double free. This was the disclosed
"move-on-push" gap — it stayed latent while pushed elements were Texts
(copied at the boundary, 2026-08-14) and detonated the moment iteration
16's route-table pattern pushed a CLASS value (`push(self.routes, r)`
plus the take-param's scope-end DROP = the container's element freed
twice). `push`'s value slot and `set`'s key/value slots transfer;
Text/json.Value stay copy-stored (`stores_by_copy`), so their fresh-
value drop is still the caller's. A user-declared fn of the same name
wins, exactly like the builtin table's shadowing rule. *)
let container_store_slot (i : int) : bool =
match callee.kind with
| Ident "push" -> i = 1 && Types.StringMap.find_opt "push" ctx.syms.Types.free_fns = None
| Ident "set" ->
(i = 1 || i = 2) && Types.StringMap.find_opt "set" ctx.syms.Types.free_fns = None
(* arc: send(addr, msg) MOVES the message to the runtime — the sender's
binding dies (compile-time move, iteration 8's criterion).
iteration 24: call(addr, msg) moves its message identically. *)
| Ident "send" -> i = 1 && Types.StringMap.find_opt "send" ctx.syms.Types.free_fns = None
| Ident "call" -> i = 1 && Types.StringMap.find_opt "call" ctx.syms.Types.free_fns = None
(* T4/T5: the notice / timer message moves to the runtime too *)
| Ident "monitor" ->
i = 2 && Types.StringMap.find_opt "monitor" ctx.syms.Types.free_fns = None
| Field ({ kind = Ident "time"; _ }, "after") -> i = 2
| _ -> false
in
List.iteri
(fun i a ->
@ -1370,7 +1388,18 @@ and analyze_call (ctx : ctx) (call_e : Ast.expr) (callee : Ast.expr) (args : Ast
if conv = Take then
(if transfer ctx p ~what:(Printf.sprintf "cannot be passed to `take %s`" pname) then
record_move ctx p (MvArg pname))
else if is_push_gc_value i && place_class ctx p = Gc then gc_escape ctx p)
else if container_store_slot i && place_class ctx p = Owned
&& not (stores_by_copy ctx p) then
(if
transfer ctx p
~what:
(match callee.kind with
| Ident "send" | Ident "call" | Ident "monitor"
| Field ({ kind = Ident "time"; _ }, "after") ->
"cannot be sent — a message moves to the receiver"
| _ -> "cannot be stored in a container")
then record_move ctx p (MvArg "element"))
)
args;
record_drop ctx ~node:call_e.id ~pos:call_e.pos ~kind:DLiveMask
~items:(mask_items (live_holders ctx))
@ -1661,7 +1690,7 @@ and analyze_stmt (ctx : ctx) (s : Ast.stmt) : unit =
let cursor (n : string) (t : Ast.field_ty) : local =
let copied =
match unwrap_nullable t with
| Scalar cn -> cn = "Text" || cn = Types.json_value_type
| Scalar cn -> Types.is_heap_scalar cn
| _ -> false
in
if copied then
@ -1797,7 +1826,7 @@ and analyze_let (ctx : ctx) (s : Ast.stmt) (name : string) (ty : Ast.field_ty op
| _ -> false
in
let copies_out = reads_container && (match unwrap_nullable vty with
| Scalar n -> n = "Text" || n = Types.json_value_type
| Scalar n -> Types.is_heap_scalar n
| _ -> false) in
let vplace = if copies_out then None else place_of value in
(* A `@gc` value read out of a container is neither a copy nor a new
@ -1834,15 +1863,8 @@ and analyze_let (ctx : ctx) (s : Ast.stmt) (name : string) (ty : Ast.field_ty op
(true, None, Live)
end
else (false, Some p, Borrowed s.s_pos)))
| Gc, None ->
(* fresh allocation: its release is the allocation's own, never
elidable *)
Hashtbl.replace ctx.rc_groups s.s_id None;
(true, None, Live)
| Gc, Some p ->
Hashtbl.replace ctx.rc_groups s.s_id (Some p.root);
record_rc ctx ~node:s.s_id ~pos:s.s_pos ~op:RcAcquire ~place:(place_text p) ~group:s.s_id;
(true, Some p, Live)
| Gc, None -> (true, None, Live) (* traced: no bookkeeping (7b) *)
| Gc, Some p -> (true, Some p, Live)
in
declare ctx
{ l_name = name; l_ty = vty; l_class = cls; l_node = s.s_id; l_pos = s.s_pos; l_holds = holds;
@ -1876,7 +1898,6 @@ and analyze_assign (ctx : ctx) (s : Ast.stmt) (target : Ast.expr) (value : Ast.e
(match tplace with
| None -> read_expr ctx target
| Some p ->
clobber ctx p.root;
check_against_borrows ctx ~node:s.s_id ~pos:p.ppos p AExcl;
if p.projs = [] then begin
match root_local ctx p with
@ -1884,10 +1905,6 @@ and analyze_assign (ctx : ctx) (s : Ast.stmt) (target : Ast.expr) (value : Ast.e
if l.l_class = Owned then
record_drop ctx ~node:s.s_id ~pos:p.ppos ~kind:DOverwrite
~items:[ { di_name = place_text p; di_kind = LOwned; di_node = p.pnode } ]
else if l.l_class = Gc then begin
Hashtbl.replace ctx.rc_escaped l.l_node ();
record_rc ctx ~node:s.s_id ~pos:p.ppos ~op:RcRelease ~place:(place_text p) ~group:(-1)
end
| _ -> ()
end
else begin
@ -1898,7 +1915,7 @@ and analyze_assign (ctx : ctx) (s : Ast.stmt) (target : Ast.expr) (value : Ast.e
| Owned ->
record_drop ctx ~node:s.s_id ~pos:p.ppos ~kind:DOverwrite
~items:[ { di_name = place_text p; di_kind = LOwned; di_node = p.pnode } ]
| Gc -> record_rc ctx ~node:s.s_id ~pos:p.ppos ~op:RcRelease ~place:(place_text p) ~group:(-1)
| Gc -> () (* traced: tracing owns the old value's lifetime (7b) *)
| Copy -> ()
end);
(* the incoming value *)
@ -1940,7 +1957,6 @@ and analyze_return (ctx : ctx) (s : Ast.stmt) (opt : Ast.expr option) : unit =
record_move ctx p MvReturn));
let live = live_holders ctx in
record_drop ctx ~node:s.s_id ~pos:s.s_pos ~kind:DReturn ~items:(owned_items live);
release_gc ctx ~node:s.s_id ~pos:s.s_pos live;
ctx.diverged <- true
(* haxe-parity Task 2: `break`/`continue` reuse analyze_return's own
@ -1962,8 +1978,7 @@ and analyze_break (ctx : ctx) (s : Ast.stmt) : unit =
| [] -> ()
| loop_node :: _ ->
let live = live_holders_upto ctx loop_node in
record_drop ctx ~node:s.s_id ~pos:s.s_pos ~kind:DBreak ~items:(owned_items live);
release_gc ctx ~node:s.s_id ~pos:s.s_pos live);
record_drop ctx ~node:s.s_id ~pos:s.s_pos ~kind:DBreak ~items:(owned_items live));
ctx.diverged <- true
and analyze_continue (ctx : ctx) (s : Ast.stmt) : unit =
@ -1971,8 +1986,7 @@ and analyze_continue (ctx : ctx) (s : Ast.stmt) : unit =
| [] -> ()
| loop_node :: _ ->
let live = live_holders_upto ctx loop_node in
record_drop ctx ~node:s.s_id ~pos:s.s_pos ~kind:DContinue ~items:(owned_items live);
release_gc ctx ~node:s.s_id ~pos:s.s_pos live);
record_drop ctx ~node:s.s_id ~pos:s.s_pos ~kind:DContinue ~items:(owned_items live));
ctx.diverged <- true
(* ============================================================
@ -1996,24 +2010,12 @@ let param_local (ctx : ctx) (p : Ast.param) : local =
{ l_name = p.name; l_ty = p.ty; l_class = cls; l_node = p.id; l_pos = p.pos; l_holds = false;
l_src = None; l_bkind = (if p.conv = Mut then AExcl else AShared); l_state = state })
let resolve_rc (ctx : ctx) : unit =
List.iter
(fun r ->
if r.rc_group >= 0 then
r.rc_elided <-
(not (Hashtbl.mem ctx.rc_escaped r.rc_group))
&& (match Hashtbl.find_opt ctx.rc_groups r.rc_group with
| Some (Some root) -> not (Hashtbl.mem ctx.clobbered root)
| _ -> false))
ctx.fn_rcs;
ctx.sink.s_rcs <- ctx.fn_rcs @ ctx.sink.s_rcs
let analyze_fn ~(file : string) (syms : Types.symbols) (coll : Diag.Collector.t) (sink : sink)
let analyze_fn ~(file : string) ?(promote : (string -> unit) option = None)
(syms : Types.symbols) (coll : Diag.Collector.t) (sink : sink)
~(self_class : string option) (m : Ast.method_decl) : unit =
let ctx =
{ file; syms; coll; sink; fn_name = m.name; scopes = []; loop_stack = []; recording = true;
diverged = false; fn_rcs = []; rc_groups = Hashtbl.create 8; rc_escaped = Hashtbl.create 8;
clobbered = Hashtbl.create 8 }
diverged = false; promote }
in
push_scope ctx ~node:m.id ~pos:m.pos ~label:"BODY";
(* `self` is always a borrow (spec rule 6) *)
@ -2028,8 +2030,7 @@ let analyze_fn ~(file : string) (syms : Types.symbols) (coll : Diag.Collector.t)
l_state = (if cls = Gc then Live else Borrowed m.pos) });
List.iter (fun p -> declare ctx (param_local ctx p)) m.params;
List.iter (analyze_stmt ctx) m.body;
pop_scope ctx;
resolve_rc ctx
pop_scope ctx
(* ============================================================
Entry point
@ -2037,15 +2038,17 @@ let analyze_fn ~(file : string) (syms : Types.symbols) (coll : Diag.Collector.t)
let pos_key (p : Ast.pos) = (p.line, p.col)
let analyze ~(file : string) (prog : Ast.program) (syms : Types.symbols)
(coll : Diag.Collector.t) : tables =
let sink = { s_moves = []; s_drops = []; s_rcs = []; s_res = [] } in
let analyze ~(file : string) ?(promote : (string -> unit) option = None)
(prog : Ast.program) (syms : Types.symbols) (coll : Diag.Collector.t) : tables =
let sink = { s_moves = []; s_drops = []; s_res = [] } in
List.iter
(function
| Ast.Class c ->
List.iter (fun m -> analyze_fn ~file syms coll sink ~self_class:(Some c.name) m) c.methods
List.iter
(fun m -> analyze_fn ~file ~promote syms coll sink ~self_class:(Some c.name) m)
c.methods
| Ast.Interface _ -> ()
| Ast.Fn f -> analyze_fn ~file syms coll sink ~self_class:None f
| Ast.Fn f -> analyze_fn ~file ~promote syms coll sink ~self_class:None f
| Ast.Use _ -> ()
| Ast.Const _ -> ()
| Ast.Union _ -> () (* haxe-parity Task 4: no bodies to analyze *))
@ -2057,5 +2060,4 @@ let analyze ~(file : string) (prog : Ast.program) (syms : Types.symbols)
let sort_by key l = List.stable_sort (fun a b -> compare (key a) (key b)) (List.rev l) in
{ moves = sort_by (fun m -> pos_key m.mv_pos) sink.s_moves;
drops = sort_by (fun d -> pos_key d.dr_pos) sink.s_drops;
rcs = sort_by (fun r -> pos_key r.rc_pos) sink.s_rcs;
residuals = sort_by (fun r -> pos_key r.rs_pos) sink.s_res }

277
compiler/src/parser.ml
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@ -126,6 +126,30 @@ let fail (st : state) (site : Ast.pos) (code : string) (message : string) : 'a =
let syntax_code = Diag.parsing_prefix ^ "01" (* WO-E101: generic syntax error *)
let table_code = Diag.parsing_prefix ^ "02" (* WO-E102: invalid @table(...) configuration *)
let gc_removed_code = Diag.parsing_prefix ^ "04" (* WO-E104: `@gc` — GC-ness is inferred *)
let doctrine_reject_code = Diag.parsing_prefix ^ "05" (* WO-E105: rejected Haxe keyword *)
(* The systems-track spec's reject rows (Part 1 verdict table), each with its
doctrine reason — these words never parse as ordinary identifiers, so a
Haxe habit fails loudly at its own position instead of misparsing into a
generic syntax error (or, worst, compiling clean: `super.f()` used to). *)
let doctrine_reject_reason (w : string) : string option =
match w with
| "extends" | "implements" | "super" | "override" ->
Some "no inheritance, ever — is-a is a tagged union, has-a is composition, polymorphism is structural interfaces (principle 4)"
| "cast" ->
Some "no unsafe casts — conversions are typed; `as` exists only in the json.decode target position"
| "Dynamic" | "untyped" ->
Some "static typing all the way to the register — typed `json.decode … as T -> ?T` covers the real use (principle 13)"
| "macro" -> Some "macros kill the fast-compile promise — codegen belongs to tooling"
| "extern" -> Some "one FFI hole voids the whole memory-safety story — capabilities are audited typed builtins (principle 10)"
| "operator" -> Some "one name, one signature — no operator overloading"
| _ -> None
let reject_doctrine_word (st : state) (pos : Ast.pos) (w : string) (reason : string) : unit =
Diag.Collector.add st.collector
(Diag.error ~code:doctrine_reject_code ~file:st.file ~line:pos.Ast.line ~col:pos.Ast.col
~message:(Printf.sprintf "`%s` is rejected: %s" w reason) ())
(* haxe-parity Task 2: the haxe keyword verdict table's `inline` row —
"adopt (values): const compile-time values; inline *functions*
@ -275,8 +299,20 @@ let skip_paren_args (st : state) : unit =
done
end
(* databasev2 2: the retired vocabulary. The brainstorm explored `ram`, `cold`,
`tiered`, `paged`, `mmap` and `buffer` as `@table` modes and settled on two
keys instead. Naming them here buys a message that says what to write, so a
word from a rejected design does not turn into folklore in user code. *)
let retired_table_words = [ "ram"; "cold"; "tiered"; "paged"; "mmap"; "buffer"; "mode"; "store" ]
let parse_table_cfg (st : state) : Ast.table_cfg =
let cfg = ref { Ast.table_name = None; indexes = [] } in
let cfg =
ref { Ast.table_name = None; indexes = []; durable = true; resident = Ast.ResAll }
in
(* seen-flags, not `option` fields: both properties have a real default, so
absence and "explicitly set to the default" must stay distinguishable for
the given-twice check without making the AST carry an option nobody reads *)
let saw_durable = ref false and saw_resident = ref false in
if accept st Token.LParen then begin
let continue_ = ref true in
while !continue_ do
@ -306,9 +342,49 @@ let parse_table_cfg (st : state) : Ast.table_cfg =
if !cols = [] then
fail st (peek_pos st) table_code "@table index needs at least one column";
cfg := { !cfg with Ast.indexes = !cfg.Ast.indexes @ [ List.rev !cols ] }
(* databasev2 2: durability, per table. Replaces the process-global
WO_DATA all-or-nothing — a scratch table stops paying the fsync a
precious one needs. *)
| "durable" ->
if !saw_durable then
fail st (peek_pos st) table_code "@table(durable: ...) given twice";
saw_durable := true;
(match peek st with
| Token.KwTrue ->
ignore (advance st);
cfg := { !cfg with Ast.durable = true }
| Token.KwFalse ->
ignore (advance st);
cfg := { !cfg with Ast.durable = false }
| _ -> unexpected st "`true` or `false` for @table durable")
(* databasev2 2: residency, per table. `keys` is the 120-GB-on-32-GB
case — indexes resident, rows read from the log by offset. *)
| "resident" ->
if !saw_resident then
fail st (peek_pos st) table_code "@table(resident: ...) given twice";
saw_resident := true;
let v = expect_ident st "`all` or `keys` for @table resident" in
(match v with
| "all" -> cfg := { !cfg with Ast.resident = Ast.ResAll }
| "keys" -> cfg := { !cfg with Ast.resident = Ast.ResKeys }
| "index" ->
fail st (peek_pos st) table_code
"@table(resident: index) — renamed to `keys` (it collided with \
the `index:` argument); write `resident: keys`"
| other ->
fail st (peek_pos st) table_code
(Printf.sprintf
"unknown @table resident value `%s` (supported: all, keys)" other))
| other when List.mem other retired_table_words ->
fail st (peek_pos st) table_code
(Printf.sprintf
"`%s` is not a @table argument — storage is declared with two \
keys: `durable: true|false` and `resident: all|keys`" other)
| other ->
fail st (peek_pos st) table_code
(Printf.sprintf "unknown @table argument `%s` (supported: name, index)" other));
(Printf.sprintf
"unknown @table argument `%s` (supported: name, index, durable, \
resident)" other));
skip_newlines st;
if not (accept st Token.Comma) then begin
skip_newlines st;
@ -318,6 +394,16 @@ let parse_table_cfg (st : state) : Ast.table_cfg =
end
done
end;
(* databasev2 2: rows that are neither logged nor resident have nowhere to
live. Checked here, after the whole argument list is known, because it is
a property of the COMBINATION rather than of either argument. The loader
refuses it again (runtime/src/wob.h, loader.c) on the principle that what
the loader accepts the interpreter trusts — but a compile error is the one
a developer can act on. *)
if (not !cfg.Ast.durable) && !cfg.Ast.resident = Ast.ResKeys then
fail st (peek_pos st) table_code
"@table(durable: false, resident: keys): rows would be neither logged \
nor resident, so there is nowhere to read them from — pick one";
!cfg
type type_annotations = {
@ -332,10 +418,19 @@ let parse_type_annotations (st : state) : type_annotations =
let table = ref None in
while peek st = Token.At do
ignore (advance st);
let at_pos = peek_pos st in
let name = expect_ident st "annotation name" in
(match name with
| "gc" ->
is_gc := true;
(* iteration 7b: `@gc` is not part of the language — GC-ness is inferred
(structural cycles + demand promotion; see `woc --dump-gc`). Reject it
rather than accept a meaningless annotation. `is_gc` stays false. *)
Diag.Collector.add st.collector
(Diag.error ~code:gc_removed_code ~file:st.file ~line:at_pos.Ast.line
~col:at_pos.Ast.col
~message:
"`@gc` is not a valid annotation: GC-ness is inferred by the \
compiler (run `woc --dump-gc`). Remove it." ());
skip_paren_args st
| "table" -> table := Some (parse_table_cfg st)
| _ -> skip_paren_args st);
@ -362,6 +457,11 @@ let parse_field_ty (st : state) : Ast.field_ty =
expect st Token.Dot "'.'";
let fld = expect_ident st "backlink source field" in
Ast.Backlink (cls, fld)
| Token.Ident "actor" ->
(* the concurrency arc: `actor M` — a typed actor address,
contextual like multi/map (actor stays a legal identifier) *)
ignore (advance st);
Ast.Actor (expect_ident st "actor message type")
| Token.Ident "map" ->
ignore (advance st);
expect st Token.Lt "'<'";
@ -553,13 +653,23 @@ let parse_sig_head (st : state) : sig_head =
and and (haxe-parity Task 2)
comparison == != < <= > >=
concat ..
additive + -
multiplicative * / %
unary minus -x
additive + - | ^ (| ^ iteration 36)
multiplicative * / % & << >> (& << >> iteration 36)
unary -x not x (not iteration 36)
postfix a.b a(b) a[b]
primary literals, idents, `(expr)`, constructor literals,
select-as-expression (DbStub)
Iteration 36 slots the five bitwise operators into the EXISTING
additive/multiplicative rungs exactly where Go's table puts them
(token.go's Precedence: | ^ with + -, & << >> with * / %) — above
comparison, so `x & mask == 0` groups the AND first (C parses that
the other way; Go fixed the trap, this grammar copies the fix), and
shifts bind tighter than `+` so `1 << 4 + 1` is `(1 << 4) + 1`.
`not` joins the unary level (Lua's placement): `not a == b` groups
`(not a) == b`. Expression-position `|` is Token.Pipe reused — the
union-declaration use parses in the type grammar, never here.
This ordering matches Lua's (concat binds looser than +/-, tighter
than comparison) — see ast.ml's module doc for why `..`/Concat is
this task's own addition, not a straight rt port. `and`/`or` sit
@ -829,9 +939,15 @@ and parse_additive (st : state) : Ast.expr =
let continue_ = ref true in
while !continue_ do
match peek st with
| (Token.Plus | Token.Dash) as k ->
| (Token.Plus | Token.Dash | Token.Pipe | Token.Caret) as k ->
let pos = peek_pos st in
let op = if k = Token.Plus then Ast.Add else Ast.Sub in
let op =
match k with
| Token.Plus -> Ast.Add
| Token.Dash -> Ast.Sub
| Token.Pipe -> Ast.BOr
| _ -> Ast.BXor
in
let id = fresh_id st in
ignore (advance st);
let rhs = parse_multiplicative st in
@ -845,9 +961,17 @@ and parse_multiplicative (st : state) : Ast.expr =
let continue_ = ref true in
while !continue_ do
match peek st with
| (Token.Star | Token.Slash | Token.Percent) as k ->
| (Token.Star | Token.Slash | Token.Percent | Token.Amp | Token.Shl | Token.Shr) as k ->
let pos = peek_pos st in
let op = match k with Token.Star -> Ast.Mul | Token.Slash -> Ast.Div | _ -> Ast.Mod in
let op =
match k with
| Token.Star -> Ast.Mul
| Token.Slash -> Ast.Div
| Token.Percent -> Ast.Mod
| Token.Amp -> Ast.BAnd
| Token.Shl -> Ast.Shl
| _ -> Ast.Shr
in
let id = fresh_id st in
ignore (advance st);
let rhs = parse_unary st in
@ -875,6 +999,12 @@ and parse_unary (st : state) : Ast.expr =
ignore (advance st);
let operand = parse_unary st in
{ Ast.id; pos; kind = Ast.Unary (Ast.Neg, operand) }
| Token.KwNot ->
let pos = peek_pos st in
let id = fresh_id st in
ignore (advance st);
let operand = parse_unary st in
{ Ast.id; pos; kind = Ast.Unary (Ast.Not, operand) }
| _ -> parse_as st (parse_postfix st)
and parse_postfix (st : state) : Ast.expr =
@ -1120,6 +1250,16 @@ and parse_query_expr (st : state) : Ast.expr =
and parse_primary (st : state) : Ast.expr =
match peek st with
| Token.Ident w when Option.is_some (doctrine_reject_reason w) ->
let pos = peek_pos st in
let id = fresh_id st in
(match doctrine_reject_reason w with
| Some r -> reject_doctrine_word st pos w r
| None -> ());
ignore (advance st);
(* recovery value so downstream parsing continues; the error above is
already fatal to the compile *)
{ Ast.id; pos; kind = Ast.IntLit 0 }
| _ when is_query_trigger st -> parse_query_expr st
| Token.Ident "delete" when (match (tok_at st (st.pos + 1)).kind with
| Token.Newline | Token.Semicolon | Token.Eof -> false | _ -> true) ->
@ -1136,6 +1276,15 @@ and parse_primary (st : state) : Ast.expr =
let id = fresh_id st in
ignore (advance st);
{ Ast.id; pos; kind = Ast.IntLit n }
| Token.Float f ->
(* iteration 19. Negative literals are Unary(Neg, FloatLit) exactly as
they are for Int — and that is what makes -0.0 reachable, since the
emitter lowers the negation to WOP_FNEG (a sign flip), not to
`0.0 - x` (which would give +0.0). *)
let pos = peek_pos st in
let id = fresh_id st in
ignore (advance st);
{ Ast.id; pos; kind = Ast.FloatLit f }
| Token.Str s ->
let pos = peek_pos st in
let id = fresh_id st in
@ -1196,6 +1345,16 @@ and parse_primary (st : state) : Ast.expr =
"only the empty map literal `{}` is an expression — build entries with `set(m, k, v)`";
ignore (advance st);
{ Ast.id; pos; kind = Ast.MapLit }
| Token.KwSpawn ->
(* arc: `spawn Cls { fields }` — exactly a ctor literal behind the
keyword; fields MOVE in, result is the actor address *)
let pos = peek_pos st in
let id = fresh_id st in
ignore (advance st);
let lit = parse_ctor_literal st in
(match lit.Ast.kind with
| Ast.Ctor (cn, fields) -> { Ast.id; pos; kind = Ast.Spawn (cn, fields) }
| _ -> unexpected st "a class constructor after `spawn`")
| Token.Ident _ when looks_like_ctor st -> parse_ctor_literal st
| Token.Ident s ->
let pos = peek_pos st in
@ -1235,6 +1394,19 @@ and parse_primary (st : state) : Ast.expr =
and desugar_interp (st : state) (pos : Ast.pos) (segs : Token.str_part list) : Ast.expr =
let mk_str s = { Ast.id = fresh_id st; pos; kind = Ast.StrLit s } in
let mk_interp inner = { Ast.id = fresh_id st; pos; kind = Ast.Interp inner } in
(* iteration 37: `{{ e }}` in a raw text literal IS `esc(${e})` -- the
desugar builds exactly the call a developer writes by hand today
(docs/examples/shop/**/view.wo used `${esc(...)}` throughout), so
every later stage sees only Call/Interp/StrLit/Concat nodes it
already handles. No new AST variant, no new builtin, no VM change,
and a typo'd field inside the hole is an ordinary name/type error.
`esc` resolves by ordinary lookup (wo-html's `pub fn esc`, in scope
after `use html`); a locally defined `esc` shadows it deliberately
-- a custom escaper is a feature, not a collision. *)
let mk_esc inner =
let callee = { Ast.id = fresh_id st; pos; kind = Ast.Ident "esc" } in
{ Ast.id = fresh_id st; pos; kind = Ast.Call (callee, [ mk_interp inner ]) }
in
let parse_segment_expr (raw : string) : Ast.expr =
let sub_collector = Diag.Collector.create () in
let sub_toks = Lexer.tokenize sub_collector ~file:st.file raw in
@ -1265,7 +1437,8 @@ and desugar_interp (st : state) (pos : Ast.pos) (segs : Token.str_part list) : A
(function
| Token.SText "" -> None
| Token.SText s -> Some (mk_str s)
| Token.SExpr raw -> Some (mk_interp (parse_segment_expr raw)))
| Token.SExpr raw -> Some (mk_interp (parse_segment_expr raw))
| Token.SEsc raw -> Some (mk_esc (parse_segment_expr raw)))
segs
in
match parts with
@ -1418,6 +1591,7 @@ and parse_stmt (st : state) : Ast.stmt =
| _ ->
let pos = peek_pos st in
let id = fresh_id st in
let start_tok = st.pos in
let e = parse_expr st in
if accept st Token.Eq then begin
let value = parse_expr st in
@ -1425,8 +1599,43 @@ and parse_stmt (st : state) : Ast.stmt =
{ Ast.s_id = id; s_pos = pos; s_kind = Ast.Assign { target = e; value } }
end
else begin
end_of_stmt st;
{ Ast.s_id = id; s_pos = pos; s_kind = Ast.ExprStmt e }
(* iteration 36: compound assigns, parse-time sugar — `x += e` IS
`x = x + e`, including an index expression evaluating twice,
exactly as the written-out form would (the story's documented
contract). The value's left operand is the SAME place parsed a
second time by rewinding st.pos to the statement start: no
expression rung consumes a compound token, so the re-parse
stops exactly where the first one did, and every re-parsed
node draws a fresh id — the owner/emit passes see two honest
reads, never one node in two roles. +=/-= existed as tokens
since haxe-parity Task 2 but no rule ever consumed them (the
dead-token defect story 36 records); this claims all five. *)
let compound_op =
match peek st with
| Token.PlusEq -> Some Ast.Add
| Token.MinusEq -> Some Ast.Sub
| Token.StarEq -> Some Ast.Mul
| Token.SlashEq -> Some Ast.Div
| Token.PercentEq -> Some Ast.Mod
| _ -> None
in
match compound_op with
| Some op ->
let op_pos = peek_pos st in
ignore (advance st);
let after_op = st.pos in
st.pos <- start_tok;
let lhs_again = parse_expr st in
st.pos <- after_op;
let rhs = parse_expr st in
end_of_stmt st;
let value =
{ Ast.id = fresh_id st; pos = op_pos; kind = Ast.Binary (op, lhs_again, rhs) }
in
{ Ast.s_id = id; s_pos = pos; s_kind = Ast.Assign { target = e; value } }
| None ->
end_of_stmt st;
{ Ast.s_id = id; s_pos = pos; s_kind = Ast.ExprStmt e }
end
(* Saves/restores state.no_brace around an if/while condition or a
@ -1539,13 +1748,22 @@ let parse_const_literal (st : state) : Ast.expr =
| Token.Int n ->
ignore (advance st);
{ Ast.id; pos; kind = Ast.IntLit n }
| Token.Float f ->
ignore (advance st);
{ Ast.id; pos; kind = Ast.FloatLit f }
| Token.Dash -> (
ignore (advance st);
match peek st with
| Token.Int n ->
ignore (advance st);
{ Ast.id; pos; kind = Ast.IntLit (-n) }
| _ -> unexpected st "an integer literal after '-'")
| Token.Float f ->
(* a `const` initializer is folded here rather than emitted as a
negation, so -0.0 needs the sign to survive the fold: OCaml's unary
minus on a float flips the sign bit, which is exactly right. *)
ignore (advance st);
{ Ast.id; pos; kind = Ast.FloatLit (-.f) }
| _ -> unexpected st "a numeric literal after '-'")
| Token.Str s ->
ignore (advance st);
{ Ast.id; pos; kind = Ast.StrLit s }
@ -1581,6 +1799,18 @@ let parse_class_or_type ?(pub = false) (st : state) (ann : type_annotations) : A
let is_class = peek st = Token.KwClass in
if is_class then ignore (advance st) else expect st Token.KwType "`type` or `class`";
let name = expect_ident st "type/class name" in
(* reject rows at their most habitual site: `class B extends A` *)
(match peek st with
| Token.Ident (("extends" | "implements") as w) ->
let wpos = peek_pos st in
(match doctrine_reject_reason w with
| Some r -> reject_doctrine_word st wpos w r
| None -> ());
(* recovery: skip to the '{' so the body still parses *)
while (match peek st with Token.LBrace | Token.Eof -> false | _ -> true) do
ignore (advance st)
done
| _ -> ());
expect st Token.LBrace "'{'";
let id = fresh_id st in
let fields = ref [] in
@ -1784,18 +2014,18 @@ let parse_interface ?(pub = false) (st : state) : Ast.interface_decl =
statement is (`end_of_stmt`: optional `;`, then newline/EOF — there
is no enclosing block at top level, but end_of_stmt's RBrace arm is
harmless dead code here, never reached). *)
let parse_use_decl (st : state) : Ast.use_decl =
let parse_use_decl ?(is_using = false) (st : state) : Ast.use_decl =
let pos = peek_pos st in
let id = fresh_id st in
ignore (advance st);
(* 'use' *)
(* 'use' or 'using' — `using` is a use PLUS extension registration *)
let first = expect_ident st "module name" in
let segments = ref [ first ] in
while accept st Token.Slash do
segments := expect_ident st "module path segment" :: !segments
done;
end_of_stmt st;
{ Ast.id; pos; segments = List.rev !segments }
{ Ast.id; pos; segments = List.rev !segments; is_using }
(* ---- top-level program ---------------------------------------------------
@ -1830,6 +2060,7 @@ let parse_program (st : state) : Ast.program =
| Token.KwInterface -> decls := Ast.Interface (parse_interface st) :: !decls
| Token.KwFn -> decls := Ast.Fn (parse_fn_decl ~pub:false st) :: !decls
| Token.KwUse -> decls := Ast.Use (parse_use_decl st) :: !decls
| Token.KwUsing -> decls := Ast.Use (parse_use_decl ~is_using:true st) :: !decls
| Token.KwConst -> decls := Ast.Const (parse_const_decl st) :: !decls
| Token.KwInline ->
let ipos = peek_pos st in
@ -1863,6 +2094,14 @@ let parse_program (st : state) : Ast.program =
| Token.KwType | Token.KwClass ->
decls := Ast.Class (parse_class_or_type st ann) :: !decls
| _ -> unexpected st "`type` or `class` after annotation")
| Token.Ident w when Option.is_some (doctrine_reject_reason w) ->
(* `macro fn …` / `extern fn …` at top level: the doctrine
reason, not a generic syntax error *)
let wpos = peek_pos st in
(match doctrine_reject_reason w with
| Some r -> reject_doctrine_word st wpos w r
| None -> ());
raise Parse_error
| _ -> unexpected st "a top-level declaration (type/class/interface/fn/@annotation)"
with Parse_error -> sync_to_next_top_level st)
end
@ -1889,7 +2128,7 @@ module StringSet = Set.Make (String)
let rec subst_expr (consts : Ast.expr StringMap.t) (bound : StringSet.t) (e : Ast.expr) : Ast.expr =
match e.Ast.kind with
| Ast.IntLit _ | Ast.StrLit _ | Ast.BoolLit _ | Ast.DbStub _ -> e
| Ast.IntLit _ | Ast.FloatLit _ | Ast.StrLit _ | Ast.BoolLit _ | Ast.DbStub _ -> e
| Ast.Ident name ->
if StringSet.mem name bound then e
else ( match StringMap.find_opt name consts with Some v -> { e with Ast.kind = v.Ast.kind } | None -> e)
@ -1903,6 +2142,8 @@ let rec subst_expr (consts : Ast.expr StringMap.t) (bound : StringSet.t) (e : As
{ e with Ast.kind = Ast.Binary (op, subst_expr consts bound l, subst_expr consts bound r) }
| Ast.Ctor (cn, fields) ->
{ e with Ast.kind = Ast.Ctor (cn, List.map (fun (n, v) -> (n, subst_expr consts bound v)) fields) }
| Ast.Spawn (cn, fields) ->
{ e with Ast.kind = Ast.Spawn (cn, List.map (fun (n, v) -> (n, subst_expr consts bound v)) fields) }
| Ast.Insert (cn, fields) ->
{ e with Ast.kind = Ast.Insert (cn, List.map (fun (n, v) -> (n, subst_expr consts bound v)) fields) }
| Ast.Delete t -> { e with Ast.kind = Ast.Delete (subst_expr consts bound t) }

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@ -23,11 +23,24 @@
type str_part =
| SText of string (* literal text, escapes already applied *)
| SExpr of string (* raw, unlexed source of one `${...}`'s body *)
(* iteration 37: the escaping half of the raw text literal. Same raw,
unlexed payload as SExpr -- what differs is only what the parser
wraps it in: `${...}` desugars to a bare Interp, `{{...}}` to an
`esc(Interp ...)` call. Produced ONLY by a backtick raw literal;
inside a "..." string `{{` stays two literal braces, so CSS and JS
text in existing samples lexes byte-identically. *)
| SEsc of string (* raw, unlexed source of one `{{...}}`'s body *)
type kind =
(* literals *)
| Ident of string
| Int of int
(* iteration 19: a Float literal. OCaml's `float` is an IEEE f64, the same
type the VM's registers hold, so the value is carried unchanged from
source to `.wob` (Int64.bits_of_float at emit time). A bare digit run is
still Token.Int — only a fraction or an exponent makes a Float, so every
pre-existing fixture lexes byte-identically. *)
| Float of float
| Str of string
(* haxe-parity Task 2: a string literal containing at least one
`${expr}` interpolation. Alternating text/expr segments, in source
@ -63,6 +76,10 @@ type kind =
field-name collision to dodge (see lexer.ml's module doc for why
those other names stayed idents). *)
| KwUse
(* the concurrency arc (iterations 8+11): `spawn Cls { ... }`. `send`
is deliberately NOT a keyword — it is a builtin free-fn name. *)
| KwSpawn
| KwUsing
| KwPub
(* haxe-parity Task 2 (small control surface): break/continue/do-while,
const values, and/or booleans, and inline-fn rejection (the haxe
@ -76,6 +93,11 @@ type kind =
| KwConst
| KwAnd
| KwOr
(* iteration 36: boolean negation, spelled as a word like and/or (the
spec amendment's own doctrine — never `!`). Grepped the corpus and
samples first: `not` appears only in comments and string literals,
never as an identifier. *)
| KwNot
| KwInline
(* haxe-parity Task 3: `switch`/`case`/`default` — real keywords (none
collides with an existing corpus/sample identifier, grepped first,
@ -138,6 +160,25 @@ type kind =
| GtEq
| PlusEq
| MinusEq
(* iteration 36: the rest of the compound-assign family (+=/-= above
predate it), and the five Int bitwise operators. `&`/`<<`/`>>`
join the multiplicative rung, `|`(Pipe, reused in expression
position)/`^` the additive rung — Go's C-trap-fixing precedence
(see parser.ml's ladder doc). No `<<=`/`>>=`/`&=` family and no
unary complement token: complement is spelled `-1 ^ x`. *)
| StarEq
| SlashEq
| PercentEq
| Amp (* & *)
| Caret (* ^ *)
| Shl (* << *)
| Shr (* >> *)
(* haxe-parity Task 8: `#if name / #else / #end` build-flag directives.
They exist only between the scanner and the preprocessor filter at the
end of Lexer.tokenize — the parser never sees one. *)
| HashIf
| HashElse
| HashEnd
(* meta *)
| Newline
| Eof

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@ -14,11 +14,11 @@
22:5 ASSIGN self.prices = amount
25:3 METHOD adopt(take other: Product) -> Product
26:5 RETURN other
31:1 CLASS PriceCache @gc
32:3 FIELD entries: map<Text, Int>
35:1 TYPE Note
36:3 FIELD id: Id
37:3 FIELD body: Text
38:3 FIELD created: Timestamp = now()
41:1 METHOD discount(mut amount: Int, take pct: Int) -> Int
42:3 RETURN amount
30:1 CLASS PriceCache
31:3 FIELD entries: map<Text, Int>
34:1 TYPE Note
35:3 FIELD id: Id
36:3 FIELD body: Text
37:3 FIELD created: Timestamp = now()
40:1 METHOD discount(mut amount: Int, take pct: Int) -> Int
41:3 RETURN amount

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@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ class Product {
}
}
@gc
class PriceCache {
entries: map<Text, Int>
}

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@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
1:1 METHOD page(name: Text) -> Text
2:3 RETURN "<p>" .. INTERP(name) .. esc(INTERP(name)) .. "</p>"

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@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
fn page(name: Text) -> Text {
return `<p>${name}{{ name }}</p>`
}

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6:1 CLASS Order @table(name="orders", index=[customer], resident=keys)
7:3 FIELD customer: Text
8:3 FIELD total: Int
12:1 CLASS Session @table(name="sessions", durable=false)
13:3 FIELD token: Text
17:1 CLASS Chapter @table(name="chapters", index=[slug])
18:3 FIELD slug: Text
22:1 CLASS Scratch @table(name="scratch_big", durable=false)
23:3 FIELD k: Text

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@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
-- databasev2 2: the two storage arguments. `orders` is the 120-GB-on-32-GB
-- shape (indexes resident, rows read from the log); `sessions` is scratch
-- (never logged, gone on restart); `chapters` states neither and must dump
-- exactly as it did before the arguments existed.
@table(name: "orders", index: [customer], resident: keys)
class Order {
customer: Text
total: Int
}
@table(name: "sessions", durable: false)
class Session {
token: Text
}
@table(name: "chapters", index: [slug])
class Chapter {
slug: Text
}
@table(name: "scratch_big", durable: false, resident: all)
class Scratch {
k: Text
}

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@ -2,14 +2,15 @@
k0 TEXT "Cache"
k1 TEXT "Holder"
k2 TEXT "hits"
k3 TEXT "cache"
k4 TEXT "read"
k5 TEXT "proven"
k6 TEXT "main"
k7 INT 41
k8 INT 1
k3 TEXT "peer"
k4 TEXT "cache"
k5 TEXT "read"
k6 TEXT "proven"
k7 TEXT "main"
k8 INT 41
k9 INT 1
== CLASSES ==
c0 Cache flags=gc fields=[hits:SCALAR]
c0 Cache flags=gc fields=[hits:SCALAR, peer:GCREF]
c1 Holder flags=- fields=[cache:GCREF]
== INTERFACES ==
== VTABLES ==
@ -27,26 +28,23 @@ m1 proven args=1 regs=3 [free fn]
0002 CALL r2, m0
0003 RET r2
m2 main args=0 regs=6 [free fn] [ENTRY]
lines: 0->29 3->30 7->31 13->28
lines: 0->29 3->30 6->31 12->28
drops: pc 3 owned={} gc={r0}
drops: pc 7 owned={r1} gc={r0}
drops: pc 14 owned={} gc={r0}
drops: pc 15 owned={} gc={}
drops: pc 6 owned={r1} gc={r0}
drops: pc 13 owned={} gc={r0}
0000 NEW r0, c0
0001 LOADK r1, k7
0001 LOADK r1, k8
0002 SETF r0, f0, r1
0003 NEW r1, c1
0004 MOVE r2, r0
0005 RC_INC r2
0006 SETF r1, f0, r2
0007 MOVE r4, r1
0008 CALL r4, m1
0009 MOVE r3, r4
0010 LOADK r5, k8
0011 ADD r2, r3, r5
0012 BUILTIN r2, r2, print_int
0013 DROP r1
0014 RC_DEC r0
0015 RET0
0005 SETF r1, f0, r2
0006 MOVE r4, r1
0007 CALL r4, m1
0008 MOVE r3, r4
0009 LOADK r5, k9
0010 ADD r2, r3, r5
0011 BUILTIN r2, r2, print_int
0012 DROP r1
0013 RET0
== ENTRY ==
m2

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@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
-- the emitted body must contain NO borrow op and NO rc op at all — the
-- disassembly below is the evidence. `main` is the contrast: an escape
-- into a field is a KEPT acquire, so RC_INC does appear there.
@gc
class Cache {
hits: Int
peer: ?Cache
}
class Holder {

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owner-err/borrow-escape.wo:9:16: error WO-E304: borrow of `other` cannot be stored in `self.box` — borrows cannot outlive their scope
self.box = other
^
owner-err/borrow-escape.wo:9:18: error WO-E304: borrow of `other` cannot be stored in `self.items` — borrows cannot outlive their scope
self.items = other
^
owner-err/borrow-escape.wo:8:12: `other` is borrowed here — declare it `take other: T` to pass ownership in
fn adopt(other: Box) {
fn adopt(other: multi Text) {
^
owner-err/borrow-escape.wo:18:10: error WO-E304: borrow of `h.box` escapes `leak` — borrows cannot outlive their scope
return h.box
owner-err/borrow-escape.wo:18:10: error WO-E304: borrow of `h.items` escapes `leak` — borrows cannot outlive their scope
return h.items
^
owner-err/borrow-escape.wo:17:9: `h` is borrowed here — declare it `take h: T` to pass ownership in
fn leak(h: Holder) -> Box {
fn leak(h: Holder) -> multi Text {
^
owner-err/borrow-escape.wo:22:15: error WO-E304: borrow of `h.box` cannot be passed to `take b` — borrows cannot outlive their scope
return keep(h.box)
owner-err/borrow-escape.wo:22:15: error WO-E304: borrow of `h.items` cannot be passed to `take b` — borrows cannot outlive their scope
return keep(h.items)
^
owner-err/borrow-escape.wo:21:10: `h` is borrowed here — declare it `take h: T` to pass ownership in
fn stash(h: Holder) -> Int {

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@ -1,23 +1,23 @@
class Box {
n: Int
}
-- Iteration 7b: WO-E304 borrow escapes, using CONTAINER values (`multi Text`).
-- A class value that escapes is demand-promoted to traced, so the illustrative
-- escapes must be containers, which are owned and never promoted. Mirrors the
-- run/borrow-escape-return corpus case (a class escape, now legal).
class Holder {
box: Box
items: multi Text
fn adopt(other: Box) {
self.box = other
fn adopt(other: multi Text) {
self.items = other
}
}
fn keep(take b: Box) -> Int {
fn keep(take b: multi Text) -> Int {
return 0
}
fn leak(h: Holder) -> Box {
return h.box
fn leak(h: Holder) -> multi Text {
return h.items
}
fn stash(h: Holder) -> Int {
return keep(h.box)
return keep(h.items)
}

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50:3 JOIN-DROP ELSE [a]
58:3 RETURN [a]
64:3 RETURN [a]
== RC ==
== RESIDUAL ==

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@ -7,5 +7,4 @@
10:3 RETURN [it]
16:16 LIVE-MASK [bag, held]
17:3 RETURN [held]
== RC ==
== RESIDUAL ==

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== DROPS ==
18:5 OVERWRITE self.name
22:5 OVERWRITE self.prices
== RC ==
== RESIDUAL ==

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@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ class Product {
}
}
@gc
class PriceCache {
entries: map<Text, Int>
}

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@ -4,13 +4,4 @@
26:15 LIVE-MASK [c:gc]
35:18 LIVE-MASK [c:gc]
36:15 LIVE-MASK [c:gc]
== RC ==
15:3 ACQUIRE h.cache ELIDED
16:3 RELEASE c ELIDED
20:3 ACQUIRE h.cache KEPT
21:3 RELEASE c KEPT
21:10 ACQUIRE c KEPT
26:3 RELEASE c KEPT
34:3 ACQUIRE h.cache KEPT
36:3 RELEASE c KEPT
== RESIDUAL ==

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@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
@gc
-- Cache is inferred `gc`: it escapes (returned out of `escaping`), so demand promotion traces it.
class Cache {
n: Int
}

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== MOVES ==
== DROPS ==
== RC ==
== RESIDUAL ==
22:22 RESIDUAL BORROW_X bag.items[i] vs BORROW_X bag.items[j]
24:24 RESIDUAL BORROW_X bag.items[i] vs BORROW_S bag.items[j]

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1:71 NEWLINE
4:1 KW_FN
4:4 IDENT(page)
4:8 LPAREN
4:9 IDENT(name)
4:13 COLON
4:15 IDENT(Text)
4:19 RPAREN
4:21 ARROW
4:24 IDENT(Text)
4:29 LBRACE
4:30 NEWLINE
5:3 KW_LET
5:7 IDENT(one)
5:11 EQ
5:13 STR(<div>hi</div>)
5:28 NEWLINE
6:3 KW_LET
6:7 IDENT(verbatim)
6:16 EQ
6:18 STR(a"b\n)
6:25 NEWLINE
7:3 KW_LET
7:7 IDENT(block)
7:13 EQ
7:15 STR(<div class="card">
many
line
</div>
)
12:4 NEWLINE
13:3 KW_LET
13:7 IDENT(holes)
13:13 EQ
13:15 INTERP_STR(TEXT(<p>),EXPR(name),TEXT(),ESC( name ),TEXT(</p>))
13:41 NEWLINE
14:3 KW_RETURN
14:10 IDENT(block)
14:15 NEWLINE
15:1 RBRACE
15:2 NEWLINE
16:1 EOF

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-- iteration 37: the backtick raw text literal. One token per literal,
-- content verbatim (no escape processing), common margin removed at
-- lex time, two hole forms -- ${} raw and {{}} escaped.
fn page(name: Text) -> Text {
let one = `<div>hi</div>`
let verbatim = `a"b\n`
let block = `
<div class="card">
many
line
</div>
`
let holes = `<p>${name}{{ name }}</p>`
return block
}

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@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ module Parser = Woc_lib.Parser
module Dump = Woc_lib.Dump
module Types = Woc_lib.Types
module Owner = Woc_lib.Owner
module Gcinfer = Woc_lib.Gcinfer
module Emit = Woc_lib.Emit
module Disasm = Woc_lib.Disasm
@ -235,6 +236,128 @@ let () =
check "dash-continuation: a - b (spaced) lexes as Ident, Dash, Ident"
(kinds = [ Token.Ident "a"; Token.Dash; Token.Ident "b"; Token.Eof ])
(* ---- raw text literal, iteration 37 (not golden-diffed) ------------
golden/tokens/raw-literal.wo pins the token STREAM; these pin the
pieces a dump cannot show: that a backtick literal with no holes is
byte-identical to the Str a "..." string would have produced, that
the common margin is removed at LEX time (so no runtime cost and no
downstream stage ever sees the source indentation), and that the two
new diagnostics fire at the right position. *)
let () =
let collector = Diag.Collector.create () in
let toks = Lexer.tokenize collector ~file:"raw.wo" "let t = `<div>hi</div>`" in
let kinds = List.map (fun (t : Token.t) -> t.kind) toks in
check "raw literal: no holes lexes as a plain Str"
(kinds
= [ Token.KwLet; Token.Ident "t"; Token.Eq; Token.Str "<div>hi</div>"; Token.Eof ]);
check_eq "raw literal: reports nothing" ~expected:0
~actual:(List.length (Diag.Collector.diagnostics collector))
string_of_int
let () =
(* Nothing between the backticks is escape-processed: a quote is a
quote and a backslash-n is two characters, which is the whole
point of the form: markup without quote-escape noise. *)
let collector = Diag.Collector.create () in
let toks = Lexer.tokenize collector ~file:"raw.wo" "`a\"b\\n`" in
let kinds = List.map (fun (t : Token.t) -> t.kind) toks in
check "raw literal: content is verbatim, no escape processing"
(kinds = [ Token.Str "a\"b\\n"; Token.Eof ])
let () =
(* The margin case, written the way a render() body actually is:
opening newline dropped, the 4-space common margin removed from
every line, the whitespace-only closing line reduced to nothing
while its newline survives (Java text-block behavior). *)
let src = "let t = `\n <div>\n many\n </div>\n `" in
let collector = Diag.Collector.create () in
let toks = Lexer.tokenize collector ~file:"raw.wo" src in
let kinds = List.map (fun (t : Token.t) -> t.kind) toks in
check "raw literal: common margin stripped, leading newline dropped"
(kinds
= [
Token.KwLet;
Token.Ident "t";
Token.Eq;
Token.Str "<div>\n many\n</div>\n";
Token.Eof;
])
let () =
(* Both hole forms in one literal. The payloads are raw and unlexed,
exactly as SExpr has always carried `${...}` -- the parser is what
tells them apart (SEsc gains the esc() wrapper). *)
let collector = Diag.Collector.create () in
let toks = Lexer.tokenize collector ~file:"raw.wo" "`<p>${a}{{ b }}</p>`" in
let kinds = List.map (fun (t : Token.t) -> t.kind) toks in
check "raw literal: ${} stays raw, {{}} becomes SEsc"
(kinds
= [
Token.InterpStr
[
Token.SText "<p>";
Token.SExpr "a";
(* the empty run between two adjacent holes, exactly as a
"..." string has always produced it -- the parser drops
empty SText segments in desugar_interp *)
Token.SText "";
Token.SEsc " b ";
Token.SText "</p>";
];
Token.Eof;
])
let () =
(* Unlike a plain "..." string, an unterminated raw literal is an
error: multi-line is its normal case, so silently swallowing the
rest of the file would be a footgun, not rt parity. *)
let collector = Diag.Collector.create () in
let toks = Lexer.tokenize collector ~file:"raw.wo" "let t = `abc" in
let kinds = List.map (fun (t : Token.t) -> t.kind) toks in
check "unterminated raw literal: closes with what was collected"
(kinds = [ Token.KwLet; Token.Ident "t"; Token.Eq; Token.Str "abc"; Token.Eof ]);
let diags = Diag.Collector.diagnostics collector in
check_eq "unterminated raw literal: exactly one diagnostic reported" ~expected:1
~actual:(List.length diags) string_of_int;
match diags with
| [ d ] ->
check "unterminated raw literal: WO-E004 at the backtick (line 1, col 9)"
(d.code = "WO-E004" && d.site.line = 1 && d.site.col = 9)
| _ -> check "unterminated raw literal: diagnostic shape" false
let () =
(* A raw newline inside "..." used to be accepted silently (the
scanner's catch-all appended it like any other byte), which meant a
forgotten closing quote ate the rest of the file with no
diagnostic. Now that the backtick literal is the blessed spelling
for multi-line text, that newline is an error and the scan stops
WITHOUT consuming it, so the Newline token still terminates the
statement and the next line parses normally. *)
let collector = Diag.Collector.create () in
let toks = Lexer.tokenize collector ~file:"nl.wo" "let t = \"ab\ncd" in
let kinds = List.map (fun (t : Token.t) -> t.kind) toks in
check "newline in string: scan stops at the newline, which still tokenizes"
(kinds
= [
Token.KwLet;
Token.Ident "t";
Token.Eq;
Token.Str "ab";
Token.Newline;
Token.Ident "cd";
Token.Eof;
]);
let diags = Diag.Collector.diagnostics collector in
check_eq "newline in string: exactly one diagnostic reported" ~expected:1
~actual:(List.length diags) string_of_int;
match diags with
| [ d ] ->
check "newline in string: WO-E005 at the newline (line 1, col 12)"
(d.code = "WO-E005" && d.site.line = 1 && d.site.col = 12)
| _ -> check "newline in string: diagnostic shape" false
(* ---- direct parser/AST assertions (Task 4, not golden-diffed) ------------
golden/ast/*.wo fixtures already pin the AST *shape* via --dump-ast,
@ -412,7 +535,9 @@ let () =
| [ Ast.Class c ] ->
check "@table: name and index captured"
(match c.table with
| Some { Ast.table_name = Some "prices"; indexes = [ [ "sku"; "at" ] ] } -> true
(* `; _` so databasev2 2's durable/resident fields do not have to be
restated here — this check is about name and index capture only *)
| Some { Ast.table_name = Some "prices"; indexes = [ [ "sku"; "at" ] ]; _ } -> true
| _ -> false)
| _ -> check "@table: exactly one class" false);
let _, bad_collector = parse_str ~file:"bad-table.wo" "@table(shard_key: sku)\ntype T {\n id: Id\n}\n" in
@ -1220,108 +1345,23 @@ let typecheck_str ~file src =
(syms, collector)
let () =
(* Money/SKU/Float carry no special status -- all three are ordinary
unknown types now (WO-E225 fires on them as fields). Float went for
the same phantom-scalar reason Money/SKU did: no float-literal syntax
in the lexer and no float kind in wob, so no Float value could ever
be written or represented. Timestamp stays a real builtin. *)
(* Money/SKU carry no special status -- ordinary unknown types (WO-E225
fires on them as fields). Float was removed for the same phantom-scalar
reason once, and iteration 19 EARNED IT BACK: there is float-literal
syntax in the lexer, a WO_K_FLOAT kind in wob, f64 opcodes in the VM, and
a WAL slot -- so a Float value can now be written, stored, and replayed.
Money stays out (cents-as-Int holds until a workload proves otherwise);
Bytes came in with Float. Timestamp stays a real builtin. *)
check "Money is no longer a builtin scalar" (not (Types.is_builtin_scalar "Money"));
check "SKU is no longer a builtin scalar" (not (Types.is_builtin_scalar "SKU"));
check "Float is not a builtin scalar" (not (Types.is_builtin_scalar "Float"));
check "Float is a builtin scalar (iteration 19)" (Types.is_builtin_scalar "Float");
check "Bytes is a builtin scalar (iteration 19)" (Types.is_builtin_scalar "Bytes");
(* the no-mixing rule's own predicate: Float must NOT be Int-shaped, or
`print_int(price)` would print f64 bits as a huge integer *)
check "Float is not Int-shaped" (not (Types.is_scalar_shaped "Float"));
check "Bytes is not Int-shaped" (not (Types.is_scalar_shaped "Bytes"));
check "Timestamp is a builtin scalar" (Types.is_builtin_scalar "Timestamp")
let () =
(* class Node { next: Node } -- direct self-reference, no @gc, no
@table, no @unique field: WO-W201 must fire, at the class's own
(real) file/line/col, and a warning-only run must still exit 0
(Diag.Collector's severity-keyed exit-code contract). *)
let path = "node.wo" in
let _, collector = typecheck_str ~file:path "class Node {\n next: Node\n}\n" in
let diags = Diag.Collector.diagnostics collector in
check_eq "gc-suggestion: exactly one diagnostic (WO-W201)" ~expected:1
~actual:(List.length diags) string_of_int;
(match diags with
| [ d ] ->
check "gc-suggestion: code is WO-W201" (d.Diag.code = "WO-W201");
check "gc-suggestion: severity is Warning" (d.Diag.severity = Diag.Warning);
check "gc-suggestion: real file/line/col (node.wo:1:1, the `class` token)"
(d.Diag.site.Diag.file = path && d.Diag.site.Diag.line = 1 && d.Diag.site.Diag.col = 1)
| _ -> check "gc-suggestion: exactly one diagnostic" false);
check_eq "gc-suggestion: a warning-only run exits 0, not 1" ~expected:0
~actual:(Diag.Collector.exit_code collector) string_of_int
let () =
(* @gc class Cache { next: Cache } -- same recursive shape as above,
but already @gc: WO-W201 must NOT fire. *)
let _, collector = typecheck_str ~file:"cache.wo" "@gc\nclass Cache {\n next: Cache\n}\n" in
check_eq "gc-suggestion: @gc class reports nothing" ~expected:0
~actual:(List.length (Diag.Collector.diagnostics collector)) string_of_int
let () =
(* @table(...) class Node2 { next: Node2 } -- recursive, but DB-backed
via @table: WO-W201 must NOT fire (plan: "@table -> must be owned"). *)
let _, collector =
typecheck_str ~file:"node2.wo"
"@table(name: \"nodes\")\nclass Node2 {\n next: Node2\n}\n"
in
check_eq "gc-suggestion: @table class reports nothing" ~expected:0
~actual:(List.length (Diag.Collector.diagnostics collector)) string_of_int
let () =
(* class Node3 { id: Id @unique; next: Node3 } -- recursive, but has a
@unique field (persistent identity): WO-W201 must NOT fire (plan's
"When NOT to emit" list, second bullet). *)
let _, collector =
typecheck_str ~file:"node3.wo"
"class Node3 {\n id: Id @unique\n next: Node3\n}\n"
in
check_eq "gc-suggestion: class with a @unique field reports nothing" ~expected:0
~actual:(List.length (Diag.Collector.diagnostics collector)) string_of_int
let () =
(* class Point { x: Int; y: Int } -- a plain data struct, no
recursive/shared fields: WO-W201 must NOT fire either. *)
let _, collector =
typecheck_str ~file:"point.wo" "class Point {\n x: Int\n y: Int\n}\n"
in
check_eq "gc-suggestion: simple data struct reports nothing" ~expected:0
~actual:(List.length (Diag.Collector.diagnostics collector)) string_of_int
let () =
(* class Calc { items: multi Item } (golden/ast/body-statements.wo's own
shape) -- a `multi` field of an UNRELATED type, not `multi Self`.
has_recursive_structure must key off self-reference, not "any multi
field": a bare `Ast.Multi _ -> true` would spuriously fire WO-W201
on every plain data class that merely holds a collection. *)
let _, collector =
typecheck_str ~file:"calc.wo" "class Calc {\n items: multi Item\n}\n"
in
check_eq "gc-suggestion: unrelated `multi Item` field reports nothing" ~expected:0
~actual:(List.length (Diag.Collector.diagnostics collector)) string_of_int
let () =
(* class Bucket { entries: map<Text, Item> } -- same over-trigger risk
for `map`, neither side self-referential. *)
let _, collector =
typecheck_str ~file:"bucket.wo" "class Bucket {\n entries: map<Text, Item>\n}\n"
in
check_eq "gc-suggestion: unrelated `map<Text, Item>` field reports nothing" ~expected:0
~actual:(List.length (Diag.Collector.diagnostics collector)) string_of_int
let () =
(* class Tree { children: multi Tree } -- `multi Self` must still fire
(the plan's own literal example of the heuristic). *)
let path = "tree.wo" in
let _, collector =
typecheck_str ~file:path "class Tree {\n children: multi Tree\n}\n"
in
let diags = Diag.Collector.diagnostics collector in
check_eq "gc-suggestion: `multi Self` still fires WO-W201" ~expected:1
~actual:(List.length diags) string_of_int;
match diags with
| [ d ] -> check "gc-suggestion: `multi Self` diagnostic is WO-W201" (d.Diag.code = "WO-W201")
| _ -> check "gc-suggestion: `multi Self` exactly one diagnostic" false
let () =
(* class BadExample { code: INVALID_TYPE } -- INVALID_TYPE is not a
builtin, class, or interface: WO-E225 must fire, at
@ -1807,6 +1847,7 @@ let owner_str ~file src =
let toks = Lexer.tokenize collector ~file src in
let prog = Parser.parse collector ~file toks in
let syms, () = Types.typecheck ~file prog collector in
let syms = Gcinfer.infer [ (file, prog) ] syms in
let tables = Owner.analyze ~file prog syms collector in
(tables, collector)
@ -1819,6 +1860,7 @@ let emit_str ~file src =
let toks = Lexer.tokenize collector ~file src in
let prog = Parser.parse collector ~file toks in
let syms, () = Types.typecheck ~file prog collector in
let syms = Gcinfer.infer [ (file, prog) ] syms in
let tables = Owner.analyze ~file prog syms collector in
(* Single-file helper (every golden fixture is one file): its own
module is "." and that module's own symbols are exactly `syms` —
@ -1929,7 +1971,7 @@ let () =
field, returned, moved out to a `take` parameter. *)
match owner_err_fixture "borrow-escape" with
| [ store; ret; take ] ->
check_site "borrow-escape (stored in a field)" ~code:"WO-E304" ~line:9 ~col:16 ~rel_line:8
check_site "borrow-escape (stored in a field)" ~code:"WO-E304" ~line:9 ~col:18 ~rel_line:8
~rel_col:12 store;
check_site "borrow-escape (returned)" ~code:"WO-E304" ~line:18 ~col:10 ~rel_line:17 ~rel_col:9
ret;
@ -1937,7 +1979,7 @@ let () =
~rel_line:21 ~rel_col:10 take;
(* spec section 6's own wording for this diagnostic *)
check "borrow-escape: names the place and the function it escapes"
(Option.is_some (find_substring ~needle:"borrow of `h.box` escapes `leak`" ret.Diag.message))
(Option.is_some (find_substring ~needle:"borrow of `h.items` escapes `leak`" ret.Diag.message))
| ds ->
check_eq "borrow-escape: exactly three ownership errors" ~expected:3 ~actual:(List.length ds)
string_of_int
@ -1952,13 +1994,15 @@ let () =
(Option.is_some (find_substring ~needle:"previous loop iteration" d.Diag.message)))
let () =
(* @gc is exempt from all of it (spec rule 5): the exact shape that is
WO-E301 above is silent here, and produces no move-table entries
either — a @gc transfer is an rc site, not a move. *)
(* A traced (gc) class is exempt from all of it (spec rule 5): the exact
shape that is WO-E301 above is silent here, and produces no move-table
entries either — a gc transfer is an rc site, not a move. `Cache` is
self-referential (`peer: ?Cache`), so inference classifies it gc without
any annotation (iteration 7b). *)
let src =
"@gc\n\
class Cache {\n\
"class Cache {\n\
\ n: Int\n\
\ peer: ?Cache\n\
}\n\
\n\
fn keep(take c: Cache) -> Int {\n\
@ -2052,13 +2096,6 @@ let () =
(fun (d : Owner.drop_site) ->
List.for_all (fun (i : Owner.drop_item) -> i.Owner.di_node > 0) d.Owner.dr_items)
tables.Owner.drops);
let rc_path = "golden/owner/rc.wo" in
let rc_tables, _ = owner_str ~file:rc_path (read_file rc_path) in
check "rc table: every entry carries a real AST node id"
(List.for_all (fun (r : Owner.rc_site) -> r.Owner.rc_node > 0) rc_tables.Owner.rcs);
check "rc table: the balanced pair is elided, the escaping one kept"
(List.exists (fun (r : Owner.rc_site) -> r.Owner.rc_elided) rc_tables.Owner.rcs
&& List.exists (fun (r : Owner.rc_site) -> not r.Owner.rc_elided) rc_tables.Owner.rcs);
let res_path = "golden/owner/residual.wo" in
let res_tables, _ = owner_str ~file:res_path (read_file res_path) in
check_eq "residual table: only the runtime-index pairs are residual" ~expected:3
@ -2322,23 +2359,6 @@ let () =
check "switch let-class: `w` is dropped at the return (classified Owned, not silently Copy)"
(List.exists (fun d -> names_of d = [ "w" ]) returns)
let () =
(* IMPORTANT: a `mut` argument means the callee may replace what the place
holds. For a @gc place that invalidates rc elision — the elided
increment would leave the alias as the last reference to a freed
object. The clobber therefore has to happen before the ownership class
is consulted, since @gc arguments create no access entry at all. *)
let path = "golden/owner/rc.wo" in
let tables, _ = owner_str ~file:path (read_file path) in
let at line =
List.filter (fun (r : Owner.rc_site) -> r.Owner.rc_pos.Ast.line = line) tables.Owner.rcs
in
single_site "rc: `balanced` has one ACQUIRE" (at 15) (fun r ->
check "rc: an alias whose source is never clobbered is ELIDED" r.Owner.rc_elided);
single_site "rc: `clobbered` has one ACQUIRE" (at 34) (fun r ->
check "rc: an alias whose source root is passed `mut` is KEPT"
(not r.Owner.rc_elided))
let () =
let path = "golden/owner/moves.wo" in
let exit_code, stdout, stderr = run_cli [ "--dump-owner"; path ] in
@ -2382,7 +2402,7 @@ let validate_image (img : string) : string list =
let u64 o = if ok 8 o then String.get_int64_le img o else 0L in
let none = 0xFFFFFFFF in
if u32 0 <> 0x31424F57 then fail "bad magic";
if u32 4 <> 3 then fail "unsupported version";
if u32 4 <> 8 then fail "unsupported version"; (* v8: databasev2 2 task 6a *)
let coff = u32 8 and ccnt = u32 12 in
let koff = u32 16 and kcnt = u32 20 in
let ioff = u32 24 and icnt = u32 28 in
@ -2398,7 +2418,10 @@ let validate_image (img : string) : string list =
let tag = u8 !o in
incr o;
ctag.(i) <- tag;
if tag = 0 then o := !o + 8
(* tag 2 = WOB_K_FLOAT (iteration 19): same 8-byte payload as an Int,
read as f64 bits. Every bit pattern is a legal f64, so nothing to
validate beyond the length. *)
if tag = 0 || tag = 2 then o := !o + 8
else if tag = 1 then begin
let n = u32 !o in
o := !o + 4;
@ -2416,12 +2439,22 @@ let validate_image (img : string) : string list =
let nm = u32 !o and flags = u32 (!o + 4) and fcnt = u32 (!o + 8) in
o := !o + 12;
if not (text_const nm) then fail (Printf.sprintf "class %d: bad name constant" i);
if flags land lnot 0x01 <> 0 then fail (Printf.sprintf "class %d: unknown flags" i);
(* v7 (databasev2 2): bit1 VOLATILE, bit2 RESIDENT_KEYS; v8 (task 6a): bit3
TABLE. This battery is a deliberately independent reimplementation of
runtime/src/loader.c's validation, so it tracks the same contract —
including refusing the pair that would leave rows neither logged nor
resident, and storage bits on a class that is not a @table. *)
if flags land lnot 0x0f <> 0 then fail (Printf.sprintf "class %d: unknown flags" i);
if flags land 0x02 <> 0 && flags land 0x04 <> 0 then
fail (Printf.sprintf "class %d: durable:false with resident:keys" i);
if flags land 0x06 <> 0 && flags land 0x08 = 0 then
fail (Printf.sprintf "class %d: storage flags on a class that is not a @table" i);
if fcnt > 65535 then fail (Printf.sprintf "class %d: too many fields" i);
class_fields.(i) <- fcnt;
let kco = !o in (* the kind bytes' offset: the v3 index walk re-reads them *)
for j = 0 to fcnt - 1 do
if u8 (!o + j) > 5 then fail (Printf.sprintf "class %d field %d: bad kind" i j)
(* WO_K_MAX is 7 since iteration 19 (6 = FLOAT, 7 = BYTES) *)
if u8 (!o + j) > 7 then fail (Printf.sprintf "class %d field %d: bad kind" i j)
done;
o := !o + fcnt + ((4 - (fcnt mod 4)) mod 4);
(* v2: three u32 arrays of per-field metadata — names (a Text constant or
@ -2432,8 +2465,12 @@ let validate_image (img : string) : string list =
if nmk <> 0xFFFFFFFF && not (text_const nmk) then
fail (Printf.sprintf "class %d field %d: bad name constant" i j);
let fc = u32 (!o + ((fcnt + j) * 4)) in
if fc <> 0xFFFFFFFF && fc <> 0xFFFFFFFE && fc >= kcnt then
fail (Printf.sprintf "class %d field %d: field class out of range" i j)
(* NONE, JSON_RAW, NIL_SCALAR, BOOL, NIL_BOOL, and (iteration 19)
NIL_FLOAT are markers, not class ids — same list as loader.c *)
if
fc <> 0xFFFFFFFF && fc <> 0xFFFFFFFE && fc <> 0xFFFFFFFD && fc <> 0xFFFFFFFC
&& fc <> 0xFFFFFFFB && fc <> 0xFFFFFFFA && fc >= kcnt
then fail (Printf.sprintf "class %d field %d: field class out of range" i j)
done;
o := !o + (fcnt * 12);
(* v3: the index tail — flags (bit0 only), col_cnt 1..8, columns in
@ -2451,8 +2488,11 @@ let validate_image (img : string) : string list =
o := !o + 4;
if col >= fcnt then fail (Printf.sprintf "class %d index %d: column out of range" i x);
let kind = u8 (kco + col) in
if kind <> 0 && kind <> 3 then
fail (Printf.sprintf "class %d index %d: column %d is not scalar or Text" i x c)
(* iteration 19: FLOAT (6) is indexable — the engine orders it by the
total order (NaN last). BYTES (7) is not, this iteration. *)
if kind <> 0 && kind <> 3 && kind <> 6 then
fail
(Printf.sprintf "class %d index %d: column %d is not scalar, Text, or Float" i x c)
done
done;
if !o > len then fail (Printf.sprintf "class %d: truncated" i)
@ -2604,13 +2644,15 @@ let validate_image (img : string) : string list =
golden lowering suite actually emits; 61 = DB_INSERT (arity 1:
the class-id slot — field slots are runtime-validated, same as
the C loader) *)
if c > 12 && (c < 61 || c > 67) then
(* iteration 19 widened the accepted band to 70-83 (the Float
bridges and the Bytes surface) alongside 61-67 *)
if c > 12 && (c < 61 || c > 67) && (c < 70 || c > 83) then
fail (Printf.sprintf "method %d pc %d: builtin out of range" i pc)
else if c = 4 then begin
if b > 5 then fail (Printf.sprintf "method %d pc %d: bad element kind" i pc)
if b > 7 then fail (Printf.sprintf "method %d pc %d: bad element kind" i pc)
end
else if c = 9 then begin
if b land 0x0F > 5 || b lsr 4 > 5 then
if b land 0x0F > 7 || b lsr 4 > 7 then
fail (Printf.sprintf "method %d pc %d: bad key/value kind" i pc)
end
else begin
@ -2627,6 +2669,11 @@ let validate_image (img : string) : string list =
| 65 -> 3
| 66 -> 3
| 67 -> 2
(* iteration 19: float bridges and Bytes, mirroring
loader.c's b_arity table *)
| 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 75 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 -> 1
| 74 | 76 | 78 | 79 -> 2
| 77 -> 3
| _ -> 0
in
if arity > 0 then begin
@ -2635,6 +2682,17 @@ let validate_image (img : string) : string list =
end
end
| 30 | 31 -> ()
(* iteration 19: FNEG is two registers, the rest are three — the same
shapes as their Int counterparts (opcodes 7 and 3-6/9-11) *)
| 38 ->
rchk pc a;
rchk pc b
(* iteration 36 (v6): 42-46, the Int bitwise set — same
three-register shape *)
| 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 ->
rchk pc a;
rchk pc b;
rchk pc c
| _ -> fail (Printf.sprintf "method %d pc %d: unknown opcode %d" i pc op))
code;
if ninstr > 0 then begin
@ -2701,26 +2759,26 @@ let method_block (dump : string) (name : string) : string =
String.concat "\n" (collect [] false lines)
let () =
(* The spec's zero-cost promise, as an assertion and not only a pinned
dump: a method whose ownership is fully proven contains no borrow op
and no rc op. golden/bc/elision.wo's `proven` aliases a @gc
reference and passes it to a reader; owner.ml marks the pair ELIDED
(golden/owner/rc.wo pins that), so nothing may be emitted for it. *)
(* The zero-cost promise, iteration 7b edition: a proven method emits no
borrow op, and NO method anywhere emits an rc op — reference counting
is gone from the instruction stream entirely (opcodes 27/28 reserved). *)
let path = "golden/bc/elision.wo" in
let image, _ = emit_str ~file:path (read_file path) in
let block = method_block (Disasm.dump image) "proven" in
let dump = Disasm.dump image in
let block = method_block dump "proven" in
check "elision: `proven` was found in the disassembly" (block <> "");
List.iter
(fun op ->
check
(Printf.sprintf "elision: `proven` emits no %s (zero-cost when provable)" op)
(find_substring ~needle:op block = None))
[ "BORROW_S"; "BORROW_X"; "RELEASE_S"; "RELEASE_X"; "RC_INC"; "RC_DEC" ];
(* the contrast, so the fixture cannot pass by emitting nothing anywhere:
main stores the @gc value into a field, which is a KEPT acquire *)
let main_block = method_block (Disasm.dump image) "main" in
check "elision: the escaping acquire in `main` is still emitted (fixture is not vacuous)"
(find_substring ~needle:"RC_INC" main_block <> None)
[ "BORROW_S"; "BORROW_X"; "RELEASE_S"; "RELEASE_X" ];
List.iter
(fun op ->
check
(Printf.sprintf "rc retired: the whole image contains no %s" op)
(find_substring ~needle:op dump = None))
[ "RC_INC"; "RC_DEC" ]
let () =
(* haxe-parity Task 3: the compare-and-jump chain lowers onto the
@ -2873,12 +2931,9 @@ let () =
(List.fold_left max 0 masks <= List.fold_left max 0 popcounts)
(* The ownership tables are a contract, not a hint: every DROP the DROPS
table asks for, and every rc op the RC table does not mark ELIDED, has
to appear in the emitted code exactly once — and nothing else may. A
count identity over a whole file is the cheapest way to state that, and
it is what caught a missing constructor-field @gc acquire (the escape
increment is anchored on the value's expression node, so lowering it
per statement kind silently skipped one of the four escapes). *)
table asks for has to appear in the emitted code exactly once — and
nothing else may (rc ops don't exist since iteration 7b). A count
identity over a whole file is the cheapest way to state that. *)
let () =
let count_op needle dump =
String.split_on_char '\n' dump
@ -2904,23 +2959,14 @@ let () =
d.Owner.dr_items))
0 tables.Owner.drops
in
let kept op =
List.length
(List.filter
(fun (r : Owner.rc_site) -> r.Owner.rc_op = op && not r.Owner.rc_elided)
tables.Owner.rcs)
in
let image, _ = emit_str ~file:path src in
let dump = Disasm.dump image in
check_eq
(Printf.sprintf "table contract %s: one DROP per owned drop-table item" path)
~expected:want_drops ~actual:(count_op "DROP " dump) string_of_int;
check_eq
(Printf.sprintf "table contract %s: one RC_INC per KEPT acquire" path)
~expected:(kept Owner.RcAcquire) ~actual:(count_op "RC_INC" dump) string_of_int;
check_eq
(Printf.sprintf "table contract %s: one RC_DEC per KEPT release" path)
~expected:(kept Owner.RcRelease) ~actual:(count_op "RC_DEC" dump) string_of_int;
(Printf.sprintf "table contract %s: rc ops never appear (7b)" path)
~expected:0 ~actual:(count_op "RC_INC" dump + count_op "RC_DEC" dump) string_of_int;
(* The residual table is both the only licence to emit a borrow
op and an obligation to emit one per *operand*: guards are
coalesced per operand, never per entry (asking twice for an

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@ -23,6 +23,21 @@ VM values ──copy──▶ row slots (engine-owned malloc) ──copy──
the id hash maps id → slot. Ids are never reused (per-table counter,
shard-interleaved `S+1, S+1+N, …`), which is also what makes the hash's
tombstone sentinel safe.
- **Storage is per-table since databasev2 2.** `@table(durable: false)` sets
`WO_CLASSF_VOLATILE` in the class descriptor (`.wob` v7), and `db.c`'s
`table_is_durable` gates all three mutation sites: a volatile table stages
nothing, so it pays none of the fsync cost and is empty after a restart.
Measured: 50 inserts wrote 1500 WAL bytes durable, **0** volatile. The three
sites stayed three — the predicate is one function, not an inlined condition,
precisely so this file's "nothing else may mutate storage" claim keeps
holding.
- **A mode mismatch refuses, it does not convert.** If the log holds records
for a class the loaded image now declares volatile, `apply_record` returns
**-2** (distinct from -1 corruption) and `wo_wal_replay_ex` reports the class
id so `main.c` can name it. Silently skipping those records would resurrect
nothing but would also hide a real migration; silently applying them would
load rows into a table declared not to have any. `wo_wal_replay` remains as
the NULL-out-param wrapper so the 156 WAL unit checks are untouched.
- **Choke points**: `wo_row_insert` / `wo_row_remove` carry the `INDEX HOOK`
comments where Task 4's secondary indexes attach and Task 2's WAL stages
its record. Nothing else may mutate storage.
@ -43,15 +58,41 @@ tear). The crash battery in `runtime/test/test_wal.c` is the module's
meaning proven: acked-over-a-pipe after commit, SIGKILL mid-stream, replay,
zero acked-but-missing.
**Where the log lives (databasev2 7, 2026-09-10).** `wo_wal_resolve_data_path`
turns `WO_DATA` into the log path before main.c opens anything: an existing
directory or a trailing `/` → `<dir>/shard-0.wal` byte for byte (the pre-7
form, `//` after a trailing slash included); anything else IS the log —
opened if a regular file, created by `wo_wal_open` if absent. Two refusals,
exit 2, one stderr line each, worded in main.c from the resolver's codes:
`WO_WAL_PATH_NO_PARENT` (the parent comes back in `out`, so the line names
the path AND the parent; no `mkdir -p` — a typo must not plant a store
somewhere unexpected, the operator creates directories, the runtime never
does) and `WO_WAL_PATH_NOT_A_FILE` (fifo, socket, device).
`WO_WAL_PATH_TOO_LONG` refuses what the old 512-byte `snprintf` silently
truncated. A trailing slash on a MISSING directory is still the directory
form and still fails at `wo_wal_open` (`cannot open`), unchanged on purpose.
Nothing below main.c knows which form was used: compaction and migration
build `<log path>.compact` and fsync `parent_dir_of(log path)` — the same
static helper the resolver's parent check uses, so the directory checked at
boot is the directory synced after every rename. Tests:
`test_resolve_data_path` (every arm of the rule, fifo via `mkfifo`) and
`test_file_form_temps_beside_log` (a directory planted at `<file>.compact`
makes compaction and migration refuse with the log untouched; removed, both
succeed and the file is the only artifact beside a decoy sibling directory).
## db.c — statement executors (iteration 9, Task 3)
One dispatcher, the builtin contract (0 ok, else WO_T_* + msg). The engine
handles ride `wo_rt.db` / `wo_rt.wal` as opaque pointers set by main.c —
NULL db traps WO_T_DB, NULL wal means RAM-only (the corpus's mode; WO_DATA
opts into durability). Insert's contract: RAM apply through the row API,
then stage + commit BEFORE returning — the builtin's return is the
acknowledgment, so a failed commit un-applies the row and traps WO_T_IO
rather than acknowledging what disk never got.
NULL db traps WO_T_DB, NULL wal means RAM-only — reachable only under
WO_EPHEMERAL=1 (or with no durable `@table` in the module) since databasev2 2
task 6a: a program with any durable `@table` (the default) refuses to start
without WO_DATA; WO_EPHEMERAL=1 opts into a RAM-only run (the corpus's mode),
@table(durable: false) opts a table out. Insert's contract: RAM apply through
the row API, then stage + commit BEFORE returning — the builtin's return is
the acknowledgment. Once RAM has mutated the outcomes are durable or process
death (`wo_wal_commit_fatal`, `wo_wal_stage_fatal`): a failed commit is
fatal, there is no un-apply, and WO_T_IO is unreachable from a write path.
## Verifying a change
@ -61,3 +102,367 @@ rather than acknowledging what disk never got.
- `just oop-e2e`, `just log-watcher` — regression that linking the engine
into wovm changed nothing observable (it is dead code until Task 3 wires
the first builtin).
## The slot-level surface (arc stage 3, 2026-08-21)
- **Why it exists:** the transparent DB actor executes a worker's
statement on the owner shard, and VM heaps are never read cross-shard —
so the requester encodes to engine slots on its own thread and the owner
executes from slots, exactly the shape WAL replay already used.
- `wo_db_val_encode` exposes the in-gate for the RPC marshaler;
`wo_db_val_clone` deep-copies an engine value (a get-field reply must
outlive the row: a later serialized statement may free the slot);
`wo_row_insert_slots` / `wo_row_update_field_slot` are the pre-encoded
twins of insert/update (slot values consumed either way — installed on
success, freed on failure); `wo_db_exec_req` (db.c) mirrors
`wo_builtin_db` case for case with slot inputs and plain outputs, so a
worker sees byte-identical traps and messages.
- The update refactor extracted `row_apply_field_slot` (the post-encode
half: unique shadow-check, index fix-up, slot swap) shared by both
entry points — the VM-value path's behavior is unchanged bit for bit.
## The read-path index probe (2026-08-22)
- **wo_idx_probe** (table.c) answers a single-column equality from the
index's hash buckets instead of walking slabs — the O(1) wiring the
db-bench numbers demanded (reads were ~1.5k ops/s at p50 600µs on 20k
rows; ~1.3M ops/s at p50 1µs after). `idx_hash_key1` must reproduce
`idx_hash`'s single-column result bit for bit (same FNV over text
bytes, same float canonicalization, same position mix) or probes and
maintenance disagree on the bucket and rows silently vanish.
- The VERIFY step compares exactly as the slab walk compared (raw words
for scalars/floats, byte equality for text; nil text == NULL bytes) —
the hash canonicalizes only to FIND the bucket, so probe results are
identical to scan results by construction.
- Composite indexes refuse (return 0) and callers keep the slab walk;
both probe executors (`wo_builtin_db` and `wo_db_exec_req`) carry the
same wiring, so worker shards get the speedup through the DB actor.
- The COMPILER half (emit.ml `probe_key_of_where`): a query whose where
list contains `var.col == key` on a single-column-indexed column
lowers its source to DB_PROBE; every where guard still runs over the
candidates, so the guard — not the engine — stays the final arbiter.
Keys are a plain identifier or an integer literal only; Float/Bytes
columns excluded (engine raw-eq is narrower than VM float-eq, and a
probe miss cannot be resurrected by a recheck). Pinned by
`tests/corpus/run/query-index-probe`.
## Group commit: one barrier per drain (databasev2 4 part A, 2026-08-28)
**What changed:** the engine used to commit per *statement*. `db.c` called
`wo_wal_commit` immediately after every append, at all six sites, so each row
change bought its own `pwrite` and its own `fdatasync`. Now the barrier belongs
to the drain, not to the statement.
**Where the barrier runs, and why there.** A statement on a worker shard has no
WAL to write — the runtime asserts workers hold neither `db` nor `wal` — so it
marshals to shard 0 and parks. Shard 0 executes those requests in its envelope
drain (`wo_vm_adopt`), and the drain now **holds each reply** instead of pushing
it as the statement finishes. When the queue empties it issues one barrier, then
releases every held reply.
Holding the reply is the whole mechanism. Pushing it early would unpark the
requester before its record was durable; holding it means each writer is
acknowledged after the barrier that carried *its own* record. That was always
the intended contract — it was simply true by accident before, because every
batch had exactly one member.
**Why the queue is the boundary.** Not a tick, and not a timer. A queue of one
gives a batch of one, so a lone writer pays exactly what it paid before; the
batch grows only when writes genuinely contend. A tick boundary would have
added latency even with nothing to batch against, which is taxing an idle
system to serve a busy one. There is nothing to tune, which is the point.
**Why the inline path is asymmetric.** A statement already on shard 0 stages and
commits before returning, batch size one. It cannot hold a reply because there
is nobody to reply to — it returns into its own fiber. Batching it would mean
parking that fiber on the barrier, which is part B's machinery. Two consequences
worth keeping in mind: single-shard configurations get no batching at all, by
design; and the inline commit is only safe because the drain commits
*unconditionally* whenever anything is staged, so the buffer is empty when an
inline statement runs. If that ever stops holding, the inline path would make
another statement's record durable early and acknowledge it to the wrong writer.
**One rule for failure: once a statement has mutated RAM, the outcomes are
durable or process death.** It replaced three behaviours that disagreed —
`insert` un-applied itself, while `update` and `delete` returned a catchable
trap and left RAM ahead of disk, which their own comments said out loud.
Batching would have multiplied that from one row to a whole batch. So a failed
stage or a failed barrier now prints one diagnostic (operation, log path,
`errno`, record count) and exits 3; `WO_T_IO` is unreachable from a write.
Retrying is not offered because it is unsound: on Linux a failed `fsync` may
already have discarded the dirty pages, so a second call can report success
having written nothing. Replay is the recovery that works.
**Measuring it.** `WO_WAL_STATS=1` makes the runtime print one line at exit —
batches, records, peak batch, peak staged bytes. Opt-in, because it would
otherwise pollute every durable program's output. The counters live in `wo_wal`
rather than behind a builtin: they are diagnostic, not part of the language.
`db-bench`'s `wmix N C` leg exists to exercise this at all — `mix` writes on one
op in ten with C=4, which produced a measured mean batch of 1.01, so it could
never have shown whether batching worked.
**If you are looking at this because writes got slower**, check the mean batch
first. Mean 1.0 means the mechanism is not engaging, which is expected for a
serial writer or a single-shard configuration and a bug anywhere else.
## Checkpoint: compaction by rewrite + rename (databasev2 3, 2026-08-29)
**The problem:** nothing ever removed superseded records, so the log grew
forever and boot replayed all history. Measured before this: 20 000 rows seeded
gave a 986 KB log; updating those same rows 20 000 times took it to 2.6 MB with
**the same live data**.
**Why one file and not a snapshot plus a tail.** Postgres does the opposite —
its WAL is a redo tail and the data lives in heap files, so a checkpoint flushes
pages and then recycles log segments; it never compacts. It cannot: its records
are page deltas, so a compacted redo log is not a store. **Ours are full row
images** — `apply_record` implements UPDATE as remove-then-recreate — so a log
of one record per live row *is* a complete store. That single difference deletes
the control file, the redo pointer, the second recovery source and the separate
process from this design. Recovery is not merely compatible with compaction; it
is completely unaware of it.
**Why `rename` is the whole crash-safety story.** The dump goes to a temp file,
which is fsynced, renamed over the live log, and then the parent directory is
fsynced (the rename is atomic in-kernel, but the directory entry is not durable
until the parent is — Postgres does the same for the same reason). Before the
rename the live log is intact and the temp is not authoritative; after it the new
log is complete. There is no instant at which a reader sees a mixture, so this
needs no recovery logic of its own. What Postgres achieves with a redo pointer
computed at checkpoint start and a control file written at the end, one syscall
achieves here — because we can swap the entire data set atomically and Postgres
cannot.
A crash mid-rewrite leaves a temp file. The next open **removes it**, and it is
deleted rather than ignored because a file full of well-formed records sitting
beside the log is exactly what a later reader mistakes for data.
**Why the dump flushes periodically, and why it does NOT fsync when it does.**
`stage()` grows the staging buffer by doubling and never shrinks it, so pushing a
whole store through one buffer would hold the entire store in RAM on top of the
store — the unbounded growth databasev2 1 measured as how this engine dies. So
the dump flushes every 256 records. It flushes with a plain write, **not** a
commit: intermediate durability is worthless because the temp is not
authoritative until the rename and is fsynced once immediately before it. Using
the committing path cost one barrier per 256 records and made the pause 8×
larger — measured 107 649 µs against 13 212 µs for a 2 MB live set, ~22 MB/s
against ~181 MB/s.
**Why the replacement is preallocated like the original.** The WAL is
preallocated so that appends never extend the file, which is what lets
`fdatasync` alone serve as the ack barrier. A replacement opened without it
would silently change that property, and the zero-padded tail the open-time scan
relies on.
**When it runs.** Only where the staging buffer is empty — right after a
barrier. Both write paths check: the drain (`vm.c`, after its commit and after
releasing held replies, since those records are already durable and should not
wait out a rewrite) and the inline path (`db.c`). Wiring only the drain left
`WO_SHARDS=1` never compacting, with its log growing forever: measured 536 KB
where the multi-shard run held 446 KB.
**The trigger** compares the log against what the *last* compaction actually
wrote, with an absolute floor. The denominator is measured rather than
estimated, because estimating the live size means estimating Text and the
compactor already knows the true number. There is deliberately **no timer**:
Postgres needs one because its dirty buffers are not durable until flushed, and
ours are durable at commit — an idle log does not grow.
**A failed compaction is a missed optimisation, not a durability event.** It
leaves the original log intact and returns an error the callers ignore. It must
never take `wo_wal_commit_fatal`'s path, which exists for a different problem.
**If you are here because a checkpoint misbehaved:** `WO_WAL_STATS=1` reports
compaction count, the stop-the-world pause (max and total) and the last
compaction's size. `WO_CHECKPOINT_BYTES` and `WO_CHECKPOINT_RATIO` move the
policy; setting a tiny floor forces compaction in a few writes, which is how the
gate tests it at all.
## Keys-resident updates: read-modify-append, stage-here/commit-in-caller (databasev2 2/3, 2026-08-30)
**The shape.** A keys-resident row has no slab slot to mutate — its payload
lives in the log — so `row_apply_field_keys` (table.c) does read-modify-
**append** instead of a slot swap: borrow (folds the row's current value),
append a WAL delta record (id, field, new value) chained off the row's
current offset via a back-pointer, RAM-apply the index swap. `wo_wal_fold_row_at`
is THE fold — written once, called by every reader (`wo_row_borrow`), by
replay, and by compaction — so a read, a boot, and a checkpoint can never
disagree about a chain's current value.
**Stage-here, commit-in-caller — mirrors insert exactly.** `row_apply_field_keys`
stages the delta but does **not** commit and does **not** move the id map:
table.c applies RAM and appends; `db.c` owns the barrier and the post-barrier
map move, the same split insert already used (`wo_wal_pend_drop` /
`wo_db_flush_drops` for insert; `wo_wal_pend_repoint` / `wo_db_flush_drops`
for update). The caller captures the delta's own offset via
`wo_wal_next_offset()` **before** calling in — insert's own `koff` pattern —
since nothing between that capture and `wo_wal_append_delta` stages any other
bytes on the WAL. `back_off` — the back-pointer a new delta chains from —
checks a PENDING re-point (`wo_wal_repoint_offset1`) before falling back to
the durable `wo_row_offset1`: two updates to the same row staged behind one
drain's barrier must chain to each other, not both to the row's pre-drain
offset, or the first update would be orphaned from the chain.
**The unique shadow-check runs against a THROWAWAY buffer, never `t->scratch`.**
The row under update already occupies the table's one scratch buffer
(`wo_row_borrow` refuses a nested borrow on the same table), so a candidate
probe needs a buffer of its own — `keys_fold_into`, the fold-into-a-caller-
supplied-buffer half of `wo_row_borrow`, bypasses the scratch gate for exactly
this. A candidate updated earlier in the SAME uncommitted drain has its
re-point only pending, so the candidate probe also consults
`wo_wal_repoint_offset1` — and `wo_wal_fold_row_at` itself reads the WAL's
staging buffer (not yet durable) for an offset that falls inside it, so a
same-drain candidate's NEW value is what a real `@unique` clash sees.
**A keys-resident borrow holds ENGINE values, exactly `wo_row_ptr`'s contract
— restored 2026-08-30.** `table.h`'s opening doctrine: "the engine and the VM
heap are two memory worlds crossed only by copy... a row stores NO VM
pointer." `keys_fold_into` used to decode the fold's engine output to a VM
value before handing the row back, which every OTHER reader of a borrowed row
(`db.c`'s GET_FIELD/PROBE, `wo_row_read`, and `idx_hash`/`idx_cols_equal`/
`wo_idx_probe`) was NOT written to expect — they all decode engine→VM
themselves, on the assumption a borrow is engine-encoded like a slab row.
Invisible for SCALAR/FLOAT (decode is identity either way), and un-exercised
for TEXT/BYTES because the loader refused `resident: keys` outright until
this task lifted it — nothing had ever read a keys-resident Text field
through `db.c` at all. Fixed by making `keys_fold_into` stop decoding: the
fold's engine output lands straight in the borrowed row's slots,
`wo_row_release` frees them with `db_val_free` (not `wo_drop_kind`) exactly
like `table_destroy` frees a slab row's fields, and `row_apply_field_keys`
uses its already-engine-encoded `nv` directly instead of decoding a throwaway
VM copy. No index function needed to change, and neither did `db.c`.
Reproduced as a genuine ASan heap-buffer-overflow (a `wo_str*` read through
the `db_text*` layout) before the fix, pinned by
`test_keys_resident_update_indexed_text` (`runtime/test/test_wal.c`) after it.
**Three limitations, shipped and documented rather than fixed:**
1. *Mid-drain stale reads.* A request reading a row inside the same uncommitted
drain as an earlier request's in-flight update to it may see the last
durable value. Read-your-writes holds within a request, not across requests
sharing a drain; closing it needs the fold to consult the staging buffer
generally, not only for the same-drain unique shadow-check above.
2. *Replay is O(N²) in a row's delta-chain length* — `apply_delta` folds the
pre-delta row, and `wo_row_remove` (called internally) folds the SAME
offset again, so each replayed delta re-walks its whole chain.
3. *Compaction triggers on byte ratio only* — **closed by databasev2 11**:
the fold reports hop count and `row_apply_field_keys` writes a full-row
image (`WO_WAL_UPDATE`) past `WO_DELTA_MAX_HOPS` (16), so a hot row's
chain is bounded in the update path itself; the checkpoint no longer
carries that burden. `wo_wal_should_compact` also gained an absolute
garbage term (`WO_CKPT_ABS_BYTES`).
## Schema migrations (databasev2 12)
A `@table` class is the schema; the log is the database; boot compares them.
- **The log describes itself.** `WO_WAL_SCHEMA` (kind 5) is the head record
of every fresh and every compacted log: per class its NAME, storage flags,
and per field name + kind + the two encoding-relevant metadata words.
Written lazily ahead of the FIRST real record — never for a log that
stays empty, because `durable: false` programs have a documented
zero-bytes contract. `apply_record` skips it before reading cid/id (its
class count would be misread as a cid); replay does not count it.
- **Head before any offset capture (defect fix 2026-09-10).** One helper,
`stage_schema_head`, stages the pending head; `stage()` calls it on the
first append and `wo_wal_next_offset()` calls it BEFORE answering, so the
offset a caller records for a keys-resident row (`db.c`'s `koff`/`roff`,
taken before the append) can never name the head. It used to: boot sets
the schema (`main.c`, `wo_wal_set_schema`) and never forces the head, so
the first `resident: keys` row of a fresh log was re-pointed at the schema
record — its first read folded "record header is malformed", and through
`wo_idx_probe` (a borrow with `msg == NULL`) that was a zero-page write:
the residency example's `seed` died rc 139 in both `WO_DATA` forms.
`wo_wal_next_offset` is therefore no longer pure; a head-stage OOM there is
`wo_wal_stage_fatal`. Compaction and migration stage the head explicitly
on a schema-less replacement log and were never exposed. Pinned by
`test_keys_resident_fresh_log_first_row` (test_wal.c): the db.c:78
sequence call for call, then read-by-id, `wo_idx_probe`, and replay. The
fold's `msg` is optional since the same fix (`test_fold_row_at_tolerates_null_msg`):
a malformed record under an index probe refuses the candidate by name
instead of writing the zero page.
- **The diff is name-keyed** (`wo_schema_diff`). Classes match by name,
fields by name + kind, owned references (`fclass`) by the NAME the number
resolves to — so pure declaration reordering costs only a cid remap, which
closes the old silent hole where reordering decoded rows into the wrong
class. Verdicts are per-class POISONS carried in the plan: retype,
same-shape delete+add (a disguised rename), vanished class, storage-flag
change, and the embed closure (any class whose stored values carry a
CHANGED class's old sub-shape, to a fixpoint). A poison forces the
transcode and bites only when a record of the class is actually met — no
rows, no verdict.
- **The migration is a record-level transcode** (`wo_wal_migrate`), not a
replay: no id maps, no indexes, no keys-resident logic. Old shapes decode
through a classdesc shim built from the stored schema; embedded cids are
renumbered by `mig_fixup_cids` (owned values carry a cid on the wire);
surviving fields move slots, deleted values are freed, added fields take
`enc_val(0)` — the kind's zero. Delta back-pointers rewrite through an
offset map, and a delta on a deleted field is SPLICED: it maps to its own
target, so later deltas step over it. Temp + fsync + rename, compaction's
own crash discipline — a kill anywhere leaves the old log authoritative,
including a kill after the temp is complete (`test_migrate_crash_before_rename`).
- **Legacy logs** (no head record) replay exactly as before and adopt the
head at their next compaction. v1 verbs are add and delete only; rename
wants `@renamed_from` (v2), data/seed migrations are v2.
## Startup refusal + WO_EPHEMERAL (databasev2 2 task 6a, 2026-09-09/10)
`main.c`, startup only. The engine, `db.c` and `wal.c` are untouched.
- **Contract.** With `WO_DATA` unset or empty and no `WO_EPHEMERAL`, the first
class whose flags carry `WO_CLASSF_TABLE` and lack `WO_CLASSF_VOLATILE`
(a `@table` with `durable: true`, the default) is a startup refusal: exit 2,
ONE stderr line naming the class and all three ways forward literally
(`WO_DATA=<dir or file>`, `WO_EPHEMERAL=1`, `@table(durable: false)`). The loop sits
inside the existing `!data_dir` block AFTER the `resident: keys` loop — the
keys refusal wins, and `WO_EPHEMERAL` does not rescue it (a keys table has
nowhere to read from). Both loops skip classes without the table bit.
- **Escape hatch.** `WO_EPHEMERAL` with the exact value `1`, honoured only
while `WO_DATA` is unset/empty: one boot notice line on stderr, rc 0, and the
RAM path is byte-for-byte the old one — `db.c`'s `w && table_is_durable`
guards are the only gate, no new flag in `wo_db`. Set alongside `WO_DATA`
(any value) → exit 2 `WO_EPHEMERAL=1 is incompatible with WO_DATA` — that
check runs regardless of tables. Any value but `1` → exit 2 naming the
accepted value. A module with no durable `@table` consults `WO_EPHEMERAL`
for nothing else: no notice, no value check, rc 0 as before.
- **The table bit (`.wob` v8, 2026-09-10).** The first cut keyed the refusal
on `!VOLATILE` alone, and the v7 image carried no "is a `@table`" bit: plain
classes, variant classes and the predeclared records (`Error`, `Stat`, …)
all looked durable, so EVERY class-bearing program refused without
`WO_DATA` — fibers (`Tick`), subprocess (`ConnMsg`), log-watcher
(`CronEntry`), chat. Wrong by construction: `durable:` is a `@table`
property. Fixed by `WO_CLASSF_TABLE` 0x08 (`wob.h`, `WO_CLASSF_ALL` 0x0f,
`WOB_VERSION` 8; `emit.ml` sets it from `cr_is_table`); the loader refuses
`VOLATILE`/`RESIDENT_KEYS` without it ("storage flags on a class that is
not a @table", `test_loader`), and a v7 image is refused by the version
check exactly as v7 refused v6. Blast radius after the fix, measured gate
by gate (each run without the export first; kept only where it refused):
only programs that DECLARE a durable table opt in — `oop-e2e.sh` (corpus
fixtures declare tables); `db-bench.py`'s ram/msgrate/growth/randread legs
(db-bench's tables); db-actor per-run (`notes` is default-durable; per-run
because its restart pair sets `WO_DATA` and the two are incompatible),
whose single-shard byte-exact compare drops the one notice line
(`grep -v '^wovm: WO_EPHEMERAL=1'`); chat, whose program declares no table
itself but `use`s porch, and porch's store middleware declares
`RateLimitCounter` default-durable — fork 6, a library-owned table binds
the consumer; and wmux, whose CLIENT legs (ls/new/attach/kill) run the
same default-durable image with no `WO_DATA` — the gate exports the
sentinel, every server start and the `WO_DATA`-carrying `r11cli` drop it
with `env -u`, and `client()` filters the notice because its answers are
compared byte-exactly (a wmux-track consequence worth its own look: a CLI
client of a durable server now needs the sentinel or a `WO_DATA`). fibers
(`Tick`), subprocess (`ConnMsg`) and log-watcher (`CronEntry`) need
nothing — their exports were reverted and their byte-exact compares are
as they were. Goldens: none moved — the bytecode dump prints flags by name
and no `bc/` golden declares a table; the header version is not printed.
- **Deferred, each its own later commit:** an assert in `db.c` that
`durable && !w` is unreachable outside `WO_EPHEMERAL`; an ENOENT hint when
the `WO_DATA` directory is missing (the FILE form already refuses with a
named parent since databasev2 7; the directory form still fails at the WAL
open, on purpose — byte-identical to before); SIGKILL /
rc 137 classification in the gates; `wal.c` fallocate/dir-fsync logging.
- **Proof:** `scripts/residency-accept.sh` section 7 — refusal text, RAM
round-trip under the hatch, the `WO_DATA` conflict, keys still refusing
under the hatch, a non-`1` value, and (vi) a plain class without `@table`
running with no `WO_DATA` and nothing on stderr (the corpus `methods`
fixture); `runtime/test/test_loader.c` `test_storage_flags_need_table`.

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@ -1,11 +1,40 @@
#include "db.h"
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "cont.h"
#include "table.h"
#include "wal.h"
/* databasev2 2: is this table's storage durable? A `@table(durable: false)`
* class carries WO_CLASSF_VOLATILE and is never staged to the WAL — no
* record, no fsync, ack straight from RAM. One predicate for all three
* mutation sites below: `database/src/CODE-LOGIC.md` names those as the only
* places storage may be staged, and that invariant is worth more than the
* convenience of inlining this. cid is always loader-validated by the time a
* mutation has succeeded, so no bounds check is added here. */
static int table_is_durable(const wo_db *db, uint32_t cid) {
return (db->classes[cid].flags & WO_CLASSF_VOLATILE) == 0u;
}
/* databasev2 3: the inline path's compaction check.
*
* The drain has its own (vm.c, after the barrier). This one exists because a
* statement running ON the owner shard never enters that drain, so without it
* a single-shard durable program's log grows FOREVER — measured: WO_SHARDS=1
* reached 536 KB where the multi-shard run held 446 KB, because the check was
* only wired into the drain.
*
* Safe here for the same reason it is safe there: the commit above just
* emptied the staging buffer. The result is ignored because a failed
* compaction is a missed optimisation, not a durability event. */
static void maybe_compact(wo_db *db, wo_wal *w) {
if (wo_wal_should_compact(w->off, w->compacted_bytes, wo_wal_ckpt_floor,
wo_wal_ckpt_ratio))
(void)wo_wal_compact(w, db);
}
int wo_builtin_db(wo_vm *vm, uint64_t *R, uint32_t ins, const char **msg) {
uint32_t A = wo_ins_a(ins), B = wo_ins_b(ins), C = wo_ins_c(ins);
wo_db *db = (wo_db *)vm->rt.db;
@ -23,16 +52,35 @@ int wo_builtin_db(wo_vm *vm, uint64_t *R, uint32_t ins, const char **msg) {
: ek == DB_ERR_OOM ? WO_T_OOM
: WO_T_DB;
wo_wal *w = (wo_wal *)vm->rt.wal;
if (w) {
/* RAM applied, record staged, ONE commit before the ack (the
* builtin's return). A failed commit is a failed write: the
* row is removed again so RAM never claims what disk never
* acknowledged, and the statement traps. */
if (wo_wal_append_insert(w, db, cid, id) != 0 || wo_wal_commit(w) != 0) {
wo_row_remove(db, cid, id);
*msg = "wal commit failed";
return WO_T_IO;
}
if (w && table_is_durable(db, cid)) {
/* THE INLINE PATH KEEPS ITS OWN BARRIER, AND THAT ASYMMETRY IS
* DELIBERATE (databasev2 4 part A). The request path batches:
* wo_vm_adopt holds each reply and commits once per drain. This
* path cannot, because it has no reply to hold — it returns into
* its OWN fiber rather than unparking a requester. Do not "fix"
* this by dropping the commit: without it an inline statement
* would never be durable at all.
*
* Committing here is safe because the drain commits
* unconditionally whenever anything is staged, so the buffer is
* empty when this runs.
*
* The `table_is_durable` guard is databasev2 2's: a
* `@table(durable: false)` class is never staged, so it reaches
* neither this barrier nor the compaction check below.
*
* Failure is fatal, not a trap: the row is already in RAM. */
/* databasev2 2 (5c): the offset this record WILL occupy. Taken
* BEFORE the append, recorded as pending, and acted on only after
* the commit below — a keys-resident payload dropped any earlier
* would leave an offset whose bytes are still in the staging
* buffer. */
uint64_t koff = wo_wal_next_offset(w);
if (wo_wal_append_insert(w, db, cid, id) != 0) wo_wal_stage_fatal(w);
if (wo_table_is_keys_resident(db, cid)) (void)wo_wal_pend_drop(w, cid, id, koff);
wo_wal_commit_fatal(w, 1);
wo_db_flush_drops(db, w);
maybe_compact(db, w);
}
R[A] = id;
return 0;
@ -42,14 +90,29 @@ int wo_builtin_db(wo_vm *vm, uint64_t *R, uint32_t ins, const char **msg) {
uint64_t id = R[B + 1];
uint32_t field = (uint32_t)R[B + 2];
int ek = 0;
wo_wal *w = (wo_wal *)vm->rt.wal;
int keys_res = wo_table_is_keys_resident(db, cid);
/* databasev2 2 (5c) / Task 4: the delta's own offset, taken BEFORE
* the call the same way the insert arm takes koff — table.c stages
* the delta at exactly this position and nothing else stages bytes
* on `w` in between. */
uint64_t roff = (w && keys_res) ? wo_wal_next_offset(w) : 0;
if (wo_row_update_field(db, cid, id, field, R[B + 3], msg, &ek) != 0)
return ek == DB_ERR_UNIQUE ? WO_T_UNIQUE : ek == DB_ERR_OOM ? WO_T_OOM : WO_T_DB;
wo_wal *w = (wo_wal *)vm->rt.wal;
if (w) {
if (wo_wal_append_update(w, db, cid, id) != 0 || wo_wal_commit(w) != 0) {
*msg = "wal commit failed"; /* RAM ahead of disk: trap, do not ack */
return WO_T_IO;
if (w && table_is_durable(db, cid)) {
if (keys_res) {
/* the delta is already staged (table.c); this is the
* inline path's OWN barrier, same as insert, then the map
* moves — commit before re-point, always. */
wo_wal_commit_fatal(w, 1);
(void)wo_row_set_offset(db, cid, id, roff);
} else {
/* was: trap and leave RAM ahead of disk, which the old
* comment admitted. Now fatal — see the insert arm. */
if (wo_wal_append_update(w, db, cid, id) != 0) wo_wal_stage_fatal(w);
wo_wal_commit_fatal(w, 1);
}
maybe_compact(db, w);
}
R[A] = 0;
return 0;
@ -68,11 +131,10 @@ int wo_builtin_db(wo_vm *vm, uint64_t *R, uint32_t ins, const char **msg) {
return WO_T_DB;
}
wo_wal *w = (wo_wal *)vm->rt.wal;
if (w) {
if (wo_wal_append_remove(w, cid, id) != 0 || wo_wal_commit(w) != 0) {
*msg = "wal commit failed";
return WO_T_IO;
}
if (w && table_is_durable(db, cid)) {
if (wo_wal_append_remove(w, cid, id) != 0) wo_wal_stage_fatal(w);
wo_wal_commit_fatal(w, 1);
maybe_compact(db, w);
}
R[A] = 0;
return 0;
@ -88,15 +150,13 @@ int wo_builtin_db(wo_vm *vm, uint64_t *R, uint32_t ins, const char **msg) {
/* materialize the id list up front — the 9b cursor-stability rule:
* the loop body then point-reads each id, so a row updated mid-loop
* (even an indexed column) cannot disturb the iteration */
db_table *t = &db->tables[cid];
if (t->row_size) {
uint32_t total = t->slab_cnt * DB_SLAB_ROWS;
for (uint32_t g = 0; g < total; g++) {
if (!(t->bitmap[g >> 6] & (1ull << (g & 63)))) continue;
db_row *row =
(db_row *)(t->slabs[g / DB_SLAB_ROWS] + (size_t)(g % DB_SLAB_ROWS) * t->row_size);
if (wo_multi_push(ids, row->id) != 0) return WO_T_OOM;
}
{ /* databasev2 2 (5d): through the shared iterator, because a
* keys-resident table's bitmap is empty by construction — this
* walk would otherwise see no rows at all */
size_t cur = 0;
uint64_t rid;
while (wo_row_next_id(db, cid, &cur, &rid))
if (wo_multi_push(ids, rid) != 0) return WO_T_OOM;
}
R[A] = (uint64_t)(uintptr_t)ids;
return 0;
@ -109,14 +169,17 @@ int wo_builtin_db(wo_vm *vm, uint64_t *R, uint32_t ins, const char **msg) {
*msg = "no such field";
return WO_T_DB;
}
db_row *row = wo_row_ptr(db, cid, id);
db_row *row = wo_row_borrow(db, cid, id, msg);
if (!row) {
*msg = "no such row";
return WO_T_DB;
}
int ok = 1;
/* decode BEFORE releasing: for a keys-resident row the slots point at
* the borrow's scratch, which release frees */
uint64_t v = wo_val_decode_vm(db, &vm->rt, db->classes[cid].kinds[field],
row->slots[field], &ok, msg);
wo_row_release(db, cid, row);
if (!ok) return WO_T_OOM;
R[A] = v;
return 0;
@ -136,21 +199,55 @@ int wo_builtin_db(wo_vm *vm, uint64_t *R, uint32_t ins, const char **msg) {
uint32_t col = ix->cols[0];
uint8_t kind = db->classes[cid].kinds[col];
uint64_t key = R[B + 2];
uint32_t total = t->slab_cnt * DB_SLAB_ROWS;
for (uint32_t g = 0; g < total; g++) {
if (!(t->bitmap[g >> 6] & (1ull << (g & 63)))) continue;
db_row *row =
(db_row *)(t->slabs[g / DB_SLAB_ROWS] + (size_t)(g % DB_SLAB_ROWS) * t->row_size);
int eq;
if (kind == WO_K_TEXT) {
const wo_str *want = (const wo_str *)(uintptr_t)key;
const db_text *have = (const db_text *)(uintptr_t)row->slots[col];
eq = (!want && !have) ||
(want && have && want->len == have->len &&
memcmp(want->data, have->bytes, have->len) == 0);
} else
eq = row->slots[col] == key;
if (eq && wo_multi_push(ids, row->id) != 0) return WO_T_OOM;
{
/* the O(1) path: single-column equality answers from the
* index buckets; the slab walk below stays the composite
* fallback (wo_idx_probe verifies exactly as it compares) */
const void *kb = NULL;
uint32_t kl = 0;
if (kind == WO_K_TEXT && key) {
const wo_str *s = (const wo_str *)(uintptr_t)key;
kb = s->data;
kl = s->len;
}
uint64_t *hit = NULL;
uint32_t hn = 0;
int prc = wo_idx_probe(db, cid, index, key, kb, kl, &hit, &hn);
if (prc < 0) return WO_T_OOM;
if (prc == 1) {
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < hn; i++)
if (wo_multi_push(ids, hit[i]) != 0) {
free(hit);
return WO_T_OOM;
}
free(hit);
R[A] = (uint64_t)(uintptr_t)ids;
return 0;
}
}
{ /* databasev2 2 (5d): the filtered scan, through the shared
* iterator and a borrow. The borrow is released BEFORE any
* exit from the loop body: the scratch is per-table, so a
* borrow leaked past a `return` would make the next borrow on
* that table fail as a nested one. */
size_t cur = 0;
uint64_t rid;
const char *bmsg = NULL;
while (wo_row_next_id(db, cid, &cur, &rid)) {
db_row *row = wo_row_borrow(db, cid, rid, &bmsg);
if (!row) continue;
int eq;
if (kind == WO_K_TEXT) {
const wo_str *want = (const wo_str *)(uintptr_t)key;
const db_text *have = (const db_text *)(uintptr_t)row->slots[col];
eq = (!want && !have) ||
(want && have && want->len == have->len &&
memcmp(want->data, have->bytes, have->len) == 0);
} else
eq = row->slots[col] == key;
wo_row_release(db, cid, row);
if (eq && wo_multi_push(ids, rid) != 0) return WO_T_OOM;
}
}
}
R[A] = (uint64_t)(uintptr_t)ids;
@ -161,3 +258,214 @@ int wo_builtin_db(wo_vm *vm, uint64_t *R, uint32_t ins, const char **msg) {
return WO_T_DB;
}
}
/* ---- arc stage 3: the owner-shard executor ------------------------------
* Mirrors the switch above case for case, with slot inputs and plain
* outputs — every trap code and message a worker sees is byte-identical to
* what the same statement would produce on the primary. */
void wo_db_exec_req(wo_vm *vm, wo_db_req *q) {
wo_db *db = (wo_db *)vm->rt.db;
wo_wal *w = (wo_wal *)vm->rt.wal;
const char *m = "db failed";
q->status = 0;
q->msg = "";
if (!db) {
q->status = WO_T_DB;
q->msg = "database engine not initialized";
goto out;
}
switch (q->op) {
case WO_B_DB_INSERT: {
int ek = 0;
uint64_t id = wo_row_insert_slots(db, q->cid, q->slots, &m, &ek);
if (!id) {
q->status = ek == DB_ERR_UNIQUE ? WO_T_UNIQUE
: ek == DB_ERR_OOM ? WO_T_OOM
: WO_T_DB;
q->msg = m;
break;
}
if (w && table_is_durable(db, q->cid)) {
/* databasev2 4: staging failure is FATAL, not a trap. The row is
* already in RAM; of the three verbs only insert could undo
* itself, so continuing means RAM ahead of disk. One rule: once a
* statement has mutated RAM, the outcomes are durable or death. */
uint64_t koff = wo_wal_next_offset(w);
if (wo_wal_append_insert(w, db, q->cid, id) != 0) wo_wal_stage_fatal(w);
/* recorded, not performed: this batch's barrier runs in the drain
* (vm.c), and only then are these offsets readable */
if (wo_table_is_keys_resident(db, q->cid))
(void)wo_wal_pend_drop(w, q->cid, id, koff);
}
q->result = id;
break;
}
case WO_B_DB_UPDATE_FIELD: {
int ek = 0;
int keys_res = wo_table_is_keys_resident(db, q->cid);
/* Task 4: see the inline arm — the delta's own offset, captured
* BEFORE the call the same way insert's koff is. */
uint64_t roff = (w && keys_res) ? wo_wal_next_offset(w) : 0;
if (wo_row_update_field_slot(db, q->cid, q->id, q->field, q->slots[0], &m, &ek) != 0) {
q->status = ek == DB_ERR_UNIQUE ? WO_T_UNIQUE : ek == DB_ERR_OOM ? WO_T_OOM : WO_T_DB;
q->msg = m;
break;
}
if (w && table_is_durable(db, q->cid)) {
if (keys_res) {
/* recorded, not performed: this batch's barrier runs in the
* drain (vm.c), and only then does the map move — mirrors
* the insert arm's wo_wal_pend_drop in shape, but NOT in
* failure safety: the delta is already staged and RAM has
* already moved, so a lost re-point is unrecoverable (see
* wo_wal_pend_repoint's own doc) and must die here, not
* limp on with a permanently stale map. */
if (wo_wal_pend_repoint(w, q->cid, q->id, roff) != 0) wo_wal_repoint_fatal(w);
} else {
if (wo_wal_append_update(w, db, q->cid, q->id) != 0) wo_wal_stage_fatal(w);
}
}
break;
}
case WO_B_DB_DELETE: {
if (wo_row_has_referrers(db, q->cid, q->id)) {
q->status = WO_T_FK;
q->msg = "row is still referenced (restrict)";
break;
}
if (wo_row_remove(db, q->cid, q->id) != 0) {
q->status = WO_T_DB;
q->msg = "no such row";
break;
}
if (w && table_is_durable(db, q->cid)) {
if (wo_wal_append_remove(w, q->cid, q->id) != 0) wo_wal_stage_fatal(w);
}
break;
}
case WO_B_DB_SCAN:
case WO_B_DB_PROBE: {
if (q->cid >= db->class_cnt) {
q->status = WO_T_DB;
q->msg = "no such class";
break;
}
db_table *t = &db->tables[q->cid];
uint64_t *out = NULL;
uint32_t n = 0, cap = 0;
if (t->row_size && (q->op == WO_B_DB_SCAN || q->index < t->index_cnt)) {
uint32_t col = 0;
uint8_t kind = 0;
if (q->op == WO_B_DB_PROBE) {
col = t->indexes[q->index].cols[0];
kind = db->classes[q->cid].kinds[col];
/* the O(1) path, mirroring the local executor: the key is
* engine-encoded here (db_text for Text), same buckets,
* same verify — worker shards get the identical speedup */
const void *kb = NULL;
uint32_t kl = 0;
if ((kind == WO_K_TEXT || kind == WO_K_BYTES) && q->slots[0]) {
const db_text *s = (const db_text *)(uintptr_t)q->slots[0];
kb = s->bytes;
kl = s->len;
}
int prc = wo_idx_probe(db, q->cid, q->index, q->slots[0], kb, kl,
&q->ids, &q->id_cnt);
if (prc < 0) {
q->status = WO_T_OOM;
q->msg = "out of memory";
break;
}
if (prc == 1) break; /* probed; reply fields already set */
}
{ /* databasev2 2 (5d): shared iterator + borrow, with the borrow
* released before the realloc that can `break` — a borrow held
* past an exit would poison the table's scratch. */
size_t cur = 0;
uint64_t rid;
const char *bmsg = NULL;
while (wo_row_next_id(db, q->cid, &cur, &rid)) {
db_row *row = wo_row_borrow(db, q->cid, rid, &bmsg);
if (!row) continue;
if (q->op == WO_B_DB_PROBE) {
int eq;
if (kind == WO_K_TEXT || kind == WO_K_BYTES) {
/* both sides engine-encoded: the key was encoded on
* the requester's thread, the slot lives here */
const db_text *want = (const db_text *)(uintptr_t)q->slots[0];
const db_text *have = (const db_text *)(uintptr_t)row->slots[col];
eq = (!want && !have) ||
(want && have && want->len == have->len &&
memcmp(want->bytes, have->bytes, have->len) == 0);
} else
eq = row->slots[col] == q->slots[0];
if (!eq) { wo_row_release(db, q->cid, row); continue; }
}
wo_row_release(db, q->cid, row);
if (n == cap) {
uint32_t ncap = cap ? cap * 2 : 16;
uint64_t *no = realloc(out, (size_t)ncap * 8u);
if (!no) {
free(out);
out = NULL;
q->status = WO_T_OOM;
q->msg = "out of memory";
break;
}
out = no;
cap = ncap;
}
out[n++] = rid;
}
}
}
if (!q->status) {
q->ids = out;
q->id_cnt = n;
}
break;
}
case WO_B_DB_GET_FIELD: {
if (q->cid >= db->class_cnt || q->field >= db->classes[q->cid].field_cnt) {
q->status = WO_T_DB;
q->msg = "no such field";
break;
}
db_row *row = wo_row_borrow(db, q->cid, q->id, &m);
if (!row) {
q->status = WO_T_DB;
q->msg = "no such row";
break;
}
int ok = 1;
q->val_kind = db->classes[q->cid].kinds[q->field];
/* clone BEFORE releasing: a keys-resident row's slots point into the
* borrow's scratch, which release frees */
q->val = wo_db_val_clone(db->classes, q->val_kind, row->slots[q->field], &ok);
wo_row_release(db, q->cid, row);
if (!ok) {
q->status = WO_T_OOM;
q->msg = "out of memory";
}
break;
}
default:
q->status = WO_T_DB;
q->msg = "unknown db builtin";
break;
}
out:
/* slot VALUES were consumed by the ops above (insert/update install or
* free them); the PROBE key is ours to free, the array always is. (The
* requester only encodes a key for an index its identical class table
* declares, so a keyed request always finds its kind here.) */
if (db && q->op == WO_B_DB_PROBE && q->slots && q->cid < db->class_cnt) {
db_table *t = &db->tables[q->cid];
if (t->row_size && q->index < t->index_cnt)
wo_db_val_free(db, db->classes[q->cid].kinds[t->indexes[q->index].cols[0]],
q->slots[0]);
}
free(q->slots);
q->slots = NULL;
q->slot_cnt = 0;
}

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database/src/db.h
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@ -21,4 +21,36 @@
int wo_builtin_db(wo_vm *vm, uint64_t *R, uint32_t ins, const char **msg);
/* ---- arc stage 3: one marshaled DB statement (the transparent DB actor).
* A worker shard fills the request on ITS thread — args pre-encoded into
* engine slots, since VM heaps are never read cross-shard — and ships it
* to shard 0 in an envelope; the owner executes it via wo_db_exec_req and
* ships it back. Ownership: `slots` VALUES pass to the owner (consumed by
* the op), the array and every reply buffer pass back to the requester.
* The envelope handoff (mutex + eventfd) orders `done` on both sides. */
typedef struct wo_db_req {
/* request */
uint32_t op; /* WO_B_DB_INSERT..WO_B_DB_PROBE */
uint32_t cid, field, index;
uint64_t id;
uint64_t *slots; /* INSERT: field_cnt; UPDATE: 1; PROBE: 1 (the key) */
uint32_t slot_cnt;
/* routing */
uint32_t from_shard;
void *fiber; /* the parked wo_fiber*, opaque to the engine */
int done;
/* reply */
int status; /* 0 ok, else the WO_T_* the local path would trap */
const char *msg; /* static literal, safe cross-thread */
uint64_t result; /* INSERT: the new id */
uint64_t *ids; /* SCAN/PROBE: malloc'd id list */
uint32_t id_cnt;
uint8_t val_kind; /* GET_FIELD: a cloned engine value */
uint64_t val;
} wo_db_req;
/* Execute one marshaled statement on the OWNER shard (vm = shard 0's; its
* rt.db/rt.wal are the engine). Fills the reply fields; never traps. */
void wo_db_exec_req(wo_vm *vm, wo_db_req *q);
#endif /* WO_DB_H */

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database/src/table.c
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@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
#include <string.h>
#include "cont.h"
#include "gc.h" /* databasev2 2 (5c): VM-side drops for materialised rows */
#include "wal.h" /* databasev2 2 (5c): a keys-resident borrow reads the log */
/* ---- engine-owned value encode / free / decode ------------------------- */
@ -25,8 +27,12 @@ static const wo_classdesc *g_classes;
static void db_val_free(uint8_t kind, uint64_t v) {
if (!v) return;
switch (kind) {
case WO_K_SCALAR: return;
case WO_K_TEXT: free((db_text *)(uintptr_t)v); return;
/* iteration 19: FLOAT is a word in the slot, nothing to free. BYTES is
stored in the same db_text blob a Text is, so the same free serves. */
case WO_K_SCALAR:
case WO_K_FLOAT: return;
case WO_K_TEXT:
case WO_K_BYTES: free((db_text *)(uintptr_t)v); return;
case WO_K_OWNED: db_rec_free((db_rec *)(uintptr_t)v, g_classes); return;
case WO_K_MULTI: {
db_multi *m = (db_multi *)(uintptr_t)v;
@ -53,8 +59,14 @@ static uint64_t db_val_encode(const wo_classdesc *classes, uint8_t kind, uint64_
int *ok, const char **msg) {
*ok = 1;
switch (kind) {
case WO_K_SCALAR: return v;
case WO_K_TEXT: {
/* iteration 19: the f64's bits go in the slot unexamined. NaN, the
infinities, and -0.0 all store and read back bit-exact because nothing
here interprets the word — the kind byte is what tells json and the WAL
how to read it later. */
case WO_K_SCALAR:
case WO_K_FLOAT: return v;
case WO_K_TEXT:
case WO_K_BYTES: {
if (!v) return 0;
const wo_str *s = (const wo_str *)(uintptr_t)v;
db_text *t = malloc(sizeof(db_text) + s->len);
@ -140,11 +152,17 @@ static uint64_t db_val_decode(wo_rt *rt, uint8_t kind, uint64_t v, int *ok,
const char **msg) {
*ok = 1;
switch (kind) {
case WO_K_SCALAR: return v;
case WO_K_TEXT: {
case WO_K_SCALAR:
case WO_K_FLOAT: return v; /* iteration 19: bits back out unchanged */
case WO_K_TEXT:
case WO_K_BYTES: {
if (!v) return 0;
const db_text *t = (const db_text *)(uintptr_t)v;
wo_str *s = wo_str_new(rt, t->bytes, t->len);
/* the out-gate decides the KIND: a Bytes column must hand back a
Bytes, or a Text builtin would happily accept the row's value and
the distinct type would be a fiction at the storage boundary */
wo_str *s = kind == WO_K_BYTES ? wo_bytes_new(rt, t->bytes, t->len)
: wo_str_new(rt, t->bytes, t->len);
if (!s) goto oom;
return (uint64_t)(uintptr_t)s;
}
@ -268,6 +286,20 @@ static void hdel(db_table *t, uint64_t id) {
/* ---- secondary indexes (Task 4) ---------------------------------------- */
/* iteration 19: an index key for a FLOAT column is the value's CANONICAL
* bits, not its raw bits. Two values that the total order calls equal must
* hash and compare equal, and raw bits break that twice: -0.0 and +0.0 are
* equal but differ in the sign bit, and two NaNs with different payloads are
* equal (both "last") but differ everywhere. Without this a `unique` Float
* column would accept both -0.0 and 0.0, and a probe for one would miss a row
* stored as the other. */
static uint64_t idx_float_key(uint64_t bits) {
double d = wo_f64(bits);
if (d != d) return 0x7FF8000000000000ull; /* every NaN -> the canonical one */
if (d == 0.0) return 0; /* -0.0 -> +0.0 */
return bits;
}
/* hash of one row's index columns: kind-driven, never trusted for equality */
static uint64_t idx_hash(const wo_classdesc *c, const db_index *ix, const db_row *r) {
uint64_t h = 0x9e3779b97f4a7c15ull;
@ -282,11 +314,87 @@ static uint64_t idx_hash(const wo_classdesc *c, const db_index *ix, const db_row
else th = 0;
v = th;
}
else if (c->kinds[col] == WO_K_FLOAT)
v = idx_float_key(v); /* iteration 19 */
h ^= hmix(v + i);
}
return h ? h : 1; /* 0 marks an empty bucket */
}
static db_ibucket *idx_bucket(db_index *ix, uint64_t h, int create);
/* One KEY's bucket hash — must reproduce idx_hash's result for a
* single-column index bit for bit (same FNV, same float folding, same
* position mix at i == 0), or probes and maintenance disagree on the
* bucket and rows silently vanish from reads. */
static uint64_t idx_hash_key1(uint8_t kind, uint64_t key_scalar, const void *key_bytes,
uint32_t key_len) {
uint64_t v;
if (kind == WO_K_TEXT) {
if (key_bytes) {
uint64_t th = 1469598103934665603ull;
const uint8_t *p = (const uint8_t *)key_bytes;
for (uint32_t b = 0; b < key_len; b++) th = (th ^ p[b]) * 1099511628211ull;
v = th;
} else
v = 0; /* nil text, exactly as idx_hash spells it */
} else if (kind == WO_K_FLOAT)
v = idx_float_key(key_scalar);
else
v = key_scalar;
uint64_t h = 0x9e3779b97f4a7c15ull;
h ^= hmix(v + 0);
return h ? h : 1;
}
int wo_idx_probe(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint32_t index, uint64_t key_scalar,
const void *key_bytes, uint32_t key_len, uint64_t **out_ids,
uint32_t *out_cnt) {
*out_ids = NULL;
*out_cnt = 0;
if (class_id >= db->class_cnt) return 0;
db_table *t = &db->tables[class_id];
if (!t->row_size || index >= t->index_cnt) return 0;
db_index *ix = &t->indexes[index];
if (ix->col_cnt != 1) return 0; /* composite: the caller keeps its scan */
uint32_t col = ix->cols[0];
uint8_t kind = db->classes[class_id].kinds[col];
db_ibucket *b = idx_bucket(ix, idx_hash_key1(kind, key_scalar, key_bytes, key_len), 0);
if (!b || !b->len) return 1; /* probed: genuinely empty */
uint64_t *ids = malloc((size_t)b->len * 8u);
if (!ids) return -1;
uint32_t n = 0;
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < b->len; i++) {
/* databasev2 2 (5d): THE unique shadow — the site the plan called the
* real coupling, because it needs a row it cannot get from a slab. For
* a keys-resident table each candidate costs a pread and a
* materialisation: the disclosed price of `@unique` there, bounded by
* the bucket rather than the table. */
db_row *r = wo_row_borrow(db, class_id, b->ids[i], NULL);
if (!r) continue;
int eq;
if (kind == WO_K_TEXT) {
const db_text *have = (const db_text *)(uintptr_t)r->slots[col];
eq = (!key_bytes && !have) ||
(key_bytes && have && have->len == key_len &&
memcmp(have->bytes, key_bytes, key_len) == 0);
} else
/* raw-word equality for scalars AND floats — the slab walk's
* exact comparison, so probe results never differ from scan
* results (the hash canonicalized only to FIND the bucket) */
eq = r->slots[col] == key_scalar;
wo_row_release(db, class_id, r); /* before any use of the result */
if (eq) ids[n++] = b->ids[i];
}
if (!n) {
free(ids);
return 1;
}
*out_ids = ids;
*out_cnt = n;
return 1;
}
static int idx_cols_equal(const wo_classdesc *c, const db_index *ix, const db_row *a,
const db_row *b) {
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < ix->col_cnt; i++) {
@ -298,6 +406,9 @@ static int idx_cols_equal(const wo_classdesc *c, const db_index *ix, const db_ro
if (x != y) return 0;
} else if (x->len != y->len || memcmp(x->bytes, y->bytes, x->len) != 0)
return 0;
} else if (c->kinds[col] == WO_K_FLOAT) {
/* iteration 19: compare canonicalized, matching idx_hash */
if (idx_float_key(a->slots[col]) != idx_float_key(b->slots[col])) return 0;
} else if (a->slots[col] != b->slots[col])
return 0;
}
@ -346,8 +457,15 @@ static int idx_add_row(wo_db *db, db_table *t, db_row *r) {
db_ibucket *b = idx_bucket(ix, idx_hash(c, ix, r), 0);
if (!b) continue;
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < b->len; i++) {
db_row *other = wo_row_ptr(db, t->class_id, b->ids[i]);
if (other && idx_cols_equal(c, ix, r, other)) return DB_ERR_UNIQUE;
/* databasev2 2: borrow, never peek at a slab. For a keys-table the
* conflicting row may not be resident, and a unique check that
* silently skipped non-resident rows would be a correctness hole,
* not a limitation. */
const char *bmsg = "";
db_row *other = wo_row_borrow(db, t->class_id, b->ids[i], &bmsg);
int clash = other && idx_cols_equal(c, ix, r, other);
wo_row_release(db, t->class_id, other);
if (clash) return DB_ERR_UNIQUE;
}
}
for (uint32_t x = 0; x < t->index_cnt; x++) {
@ -395,6 +513,9 @@ int wo_db_init(wo_db *db, const wo_classdesc *classes, uint32_t class_cnt,
}
static void table_destroy(wo_db *db, db_table *t) {
free(t->scratch); /* databasev2 2 */
t->scratch = NULL;
t->scratch_cap = 0;
/* free every live row's engine-owned values, then the slabs */
const wo_classdesc *c = &db->classes[t->class_id];
for (uint32_t s = 0; s < t->slab_cnt; s++) {
@ -556,25 +677,209 @@ uint64_t wo_row_insert(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, const uint64_t *vals,
return r->id;
}
uint64_t wo_row_insert_slots(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, const uint64_t *slots,
const char **msg, int *err_kind) {
if (err_kind) *err_kind = DB_ERR_MISC;
db_table *t = table_of(db, class_id);
const wo_classdesc *c = class_id < db->class_cnt ? &db->classes[class_id] : NULL;
if (!t || !c) {
/* slot kinds unknowable without the class: the values leak rather
than die by the wrong kind (defensive; the requester validated) */
*msg = "no such class";
return 0;
}
uint32_t g = slot_alloc(t);
if (g == UINT32_MAX) {
for (uint32_t j = 0; j < c->field_cnt; j++) db_val_free(c->kinds[j], slots[j]);
if (err_kind) *err_kind = DB_ERR_OOM;
*msg = "out of memory growing a table";
return 0;
}
db_row *r = slot_row(t, g);
r->class_id = class_id;
r->flags = 0;
memcpy(r->slots, slots, (size_t)c->field_cnt * 8u);
r->id = t->next_id;
t->next_id += db->nshards;
if (hput(t, r->id, (uint64_t)g + 1) != 0) {
for (uint32_t j = 0; j < c->field_cnt; j++) db_val_free(c->kinds[j], r->slots[j]);
t->next_id -= db->nshards;
if (t->free_cnt < t->free_cap) t->free_slots[t->free_cnt++] = g;
if (err_kind) *err_kind = DB_ERR_OOM;
*msg = "out of memory indexing a row";
return 0;
}
t->bitmap[g >> 6] |= 1ull << (g & 63);
t->count++;
int irc = idx_add_row(db, t, r);
if (irc != 0) {
t->bitmap[g >> 6] &= ~(1ull << (g & 63));
hdel(t, r->id);
t->count--;
t->next_id -= db->nshards; /* the id was never observable: reclaim it */
for (uint32_t j = 0; j < c->field_cnt; j++) db_val_free(c->kinds[j], r->slots[j]);
if (t->free_cnt < t->free_cap) t->free_slots[t->free_cnt++] = g;
if (err_kind) *err_kind = irc;
*msg = irc == DB_ERR_UNIQUE ? "unique index violation" : "out of memory indexing a row";
return 0;
}
if (err_kind) *err_kind = DB_ERR_NONE;
return r->id;
}
db_row *wo_row_ptr(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id) {
if (class_id >= db->class_cnt) return NULL;
db_table *t = &db->tables[class_id];
if (!t->row_size) return NULL;
uint64_t s1 = hget(t, id);
if (!s1) return NULL;
/* databasev2 2 (5d): on a keys-resident table the map value means one of
* two things — a SLOT while the row is still in its slab (between the
* insert and the post-barrier drop, which is when wo_wal_append_insert
* legitimately calls this) and a LOG OFFSET afterwards. Nothing in the
* value distinguishes them, so this function refuses to guess: an index
* past the slabs, or one whose bitmap bit is clear, is an offset and the
* row is not in RAM. Without this a caller that had not read 5d got
* slot_row() applied to a byte offset — slot_row does no bounds check —
* and a wild pointer that was then freed. Callers already handle NULL. */
if (wo_table_is_keys_resident(db, class_id)) {
uint64_t g = s1 - 1;
uint64_t total = (uint64_t)t->slab_cnt * DB_SLAB_ROWS;
if (g >= total) return NULL;
if (!(t->bitmap[g >> 6] & (1ull << (g & 63)))) return NULL;
}
return slot_row(t, (uint32_t)(s1 - 1));
}
/* keys-resident fold: reads the row at [off] (the row's current record) and
* folds it into [buf] (t->row_size bytes, caller-owned) — the piece
* wo_row_borrow and a unique shadow-check's candidate probe both need,
* factored out because they cannot share a buffer: wo_row_borrow writes into
* t->scratch and holds it busy for the whole life of the borrow, so a
* shadow-check that needs to look at OTHER rows of the SAME table while the
* row under test is still borrowed must use a buffer of its own, never
* t->scratch. [id] is checked against what the fold actually names, same as
* wo_row_borrow always did. NULL on any failure, *msg set.
*
* table.h's opening doctrine: "the engine and the VM heap are two memory
* worlds crossed only by copy... a row stores NO VM pointer." wo_wal_fold_row_at
* hands back ENGINE-owned values (dec_val's representation, exactly what a
* slab row's own slots hold, per wal.h) — those land straight in r->slots,
* with no VM decode stage, so a keys-resident borrow matches wo_row_ptr's
* contract exactly instead of a second, divergent one. Every existing
* out-gate (wo_row_read, db.c's GET_FIELD/PROBE, idx_hash/idx_cols_equal/
* wo_idx_probe) already decodes engine->VM itself on the assumption that a
* borrowed row is engine-encoded; a decode done AGAIN here used to hand them
* a VM wo_str* reinterpreted as an engine db_text* — same bug either
* direction, invisible for scalars (decode is identity there) and silent
* wrong-bytes for Text/Bytes, which is exactly what stayed unexercised. */
static db_row *keys_fold_into(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id,
uint64_t off, uint8_t *buf, uint32_t *hops_out,
const char **msg) {
const wo_classdesc *c = &db->classes[class_id];
db_row *r = (db_row *)buf;
uint32_t got_cid = 0;
uint64_t got_id = 0;
/* keys-resident delta updates, Task 2: the fold, not a single-record
* read — a row's current offset may point at a delta, not a base row.
* Folds straight into r->slots: field_cnt uint64_t slots is exactly
* what out_vals expects, and what a db_row already provides. */
if (wo_wal_fold_row_at((wo_wal *)db->rt->wal, db, off, &got_cid, &got_id, r->slots,
hops_out, msg) != 0)
return NULL;
if (got_cid != class_id || got_id != id) {
/* the offset pointed at someone else's record — a compaction that
* moved records without rebuilding this map would land here, which is
* exactly the obligation recorded at wo_wal_compact */
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < c->field_cnt; i++) wo_db_val_free(db, c->kinds[i], r->slots[i]);
if (msg) *msg = "log offset does not hold the expected row";
return NULL;
}
r->id = id;
r->class_id = class_id;
r->flags = 0;
return r;
}
db_row *wo_row_borrow(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id, const char **msg) {
/* Fully-resident tables: exactly today's lookup, and releasing is a no-op.
* The hot path pays one predicate. */
if (!wo_table_is_keys_resident(db, class_id)) return wo_row_ptr(db, class_id, id);
/* Keys-resident: the id map holds the record's LOG OFFSET (off + 1), not a
* slot, so the row is materialised into the table's scratch. */
db_table *t = &db->tables[class_id];
if (!t->row_size) return NULL;
uint64_t durable1 = hget(t, id);
if (!durable1) return NULL;
if (!db->rt || !db->rt->wal) {
/* a keys-resident table cannot exist without a log to read from; the
* loader refuses the annotation outright, so this is a defensive arm */
if (msg) *msg = "resident: keys table without a write-ahead log";
return NULL;
}
/* CRITICAL 2 (review finding): a row already updated once behind this
* not-yet-committed barrier has its re-point only PENDING — hget still
* names the pre-drain durable offset. Folding there hands back the
* row's value from BEFORE the earlier update, which made every caller
* (row_apply_field_keys's idx_remove_row included) hash stale column
* values and leak an index entry per repeat update in one drain.
* Preferring the pending re-point, same as back_off already does below,
* closes it for every borrow, not just the update path. */
uint64_t pending1 = wo_wal_repoint_offset1((wo_wal *)db->rt->wal, class_id, id);
uint64_t o1 = pending1 ? pending1 : durable1;
if (t->scratch_busy) {
/* One scratch per TABLE, so two live borrows on the same table would
* hand back the same buffer. A unique shadow-check that needs OTHER
* rows of this table while one is already borrowed uses its OWN
* throwaway buffer (row_apply_field_keys), never this one — say so
* rather than corrupting the first borrow silently. */
if (msg) *msg = "nested borrow on one table";
return NULL;
}
if (t->scratch_cap < t->row_size) {
uint8_t *nb = realloc(t->scratch, t->row_size);
if (!nb) {
if (msg) *msg = "out of memory";
return NULL;
}
t->scratch = nb;
t->scratch_cap = t->row_size;
}
db_row *r = keys_fold_into(db, class_id, id, o1 - 1, t->scratch, &t->scratch_hops, msg);
if (!r) return NULL;
t->scratch_busy = 1;
return r;
}
void wo_row_release(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, db_row *r) {
if (!r || class_id >= db->class_cnt) return;
db_table *t = &db->tables[class_id];
if (!t->scratch_busy || (uint8_t *)r != t->scratch) return; /* slab-backed */
const wo_classdesc *c = &db->classes[class_id];
/* These are ENGINE values, exactly what a slab row holds (keys_fold_into's
* contract) — freed the same way table_destroy frees a slab row's fields,
* not through the runtime. */
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < c->field_cnt; i++) db_val_free(c->kinds[i], r->slots[i]);
t->scratch_busy = 0;
}
int wo_row_read(wo_db *db, wo_rt *rt, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id,
uint64_t *out_vals, const char **msg) {
db_row *r = wo_row_ptr(db, class_id, id);
db_row *r = wo_row_borrow(db, class_id, id, msg);
if (!r) return -1;
const wo_classdesc *c = &db->classes[class_id];
int ok = 1;
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < c->field_cnt; i++) {
/* decode out of the row BEFORE releasing: a keys-resident row's slots
* point into the scratch that release frees */
out_vals[i] = db_val_decode(rt, c->kinds[i], r->slots[i], &ok, msg);
if (!ok) return -2;
if (!ok) {
wo_row_release(db, class_id, r);
return -2;
}
}
wo_row_release(db, class_id, r);
return 0;
}
@ -610,15 +915,129 @@ void wo_db_val_free(wo_db *db, uint8_t kind, uint64_t v) {
db_val_free(kind, v);
}
uint64_t wo_db_val_encode(const wo_classdesc *classes, uint8_t kind, uint64_t vm_val,
int *ok, const char **msg) {
return db_val_encode(classes, kind, vm_val, ok, msg);
}
/* Deep engine-to-engine copy; shapes mirror db_val_free's recursion. */
uint64_t wo_db_val_clone(const wo_classdesc *classes, uint8_t kind, uint64_t v, int *ok) {
*ok = 1;
if (!v) return 0;
switch (kind) {
case WO_K_SCALAR:
case WO_K_FLOAT: return v;
case WO_K_TEXT:
case WO_K_BYTES: {
const db_text *s = (const db_text *)(uintptr_t)v;
db_text *t = malloc(sizeof(db_text) + s->len);
if (!t) goto oom;
t->len = s->len;
memcpy(t->bytes, s->bytes, s->len);
return (uint64_t)(uintptr_t)t;
}
case WO_K_OWNED: {
const db_rec *s = (const db_rec *)(uintptr_t)v;
const wo_classdesc *c = &classes[s->class_id];
db_rec *r = malloc(sizeof(db_rec) + (size_t)c->field_cnt * 8u);
if (!r) goto oom;
r->class_id = s->class_id;
r->_pad = 0;
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < c->field_cnt; i++) {
r->slots[i] = wo_db_val_clone(classes, c->kinds[i], s->slots[i], ok);
if (!*ok) {
for (uint32_t j = 0; j < i; j++) db_val_free(c->kinds[j], r->slots[j]);
free(r);
return 0;
}
}
return (uint64_t)(uintptr_t)r;
}
case WO_K_MULTI: {
const db_multi *s = (const db_multi *)(uintptr_t)v;
db_multi *d = malloc(sizeof(db_multi) + (size_t)s->len * 8u);
if (!d) goto oom;
d->elem_kind = s->elem_kind;
d->len = s->len;
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < s->len; i++) {
d->items[i] = wo_db_val_clone(classes, s->elem_kind, s->items[i], ok);
if (!*ok) {
for (uint32_t j = 0; j < i; j++) db_val_free(d->elem_kind, d->items[j]);
free(d);
return 0;
}
}
return (uint64_t)(uintptr_t)d;
}
case WO_K_MAP: {
const db_map *s = (const db_map *)(uintptr_t)v;
db_map *d = malloc(sizeof(db_map) + (size_t)s->len * 16u);
if (!d) goto oom;
d->key_kind = s->key_kind;
d->val_kind = s->val_kind;
d->len = s->len;
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < s->len; i++) {
d->kv[2 * i] = wo_db_val_clone(classes, s->key_kind, s->kv[2 * i], ok);
uint64_t dv = 0;
if (*ok) dv = wo_db_val_clone(classes, s->val_kind, s->kv[2 * i + 1], ok);
d->kv[2 * i + 1] = dv;
if (!*ok) {
for (uint32_t j = 0; j <= i; j++) {
db_val_free(d->key_kind, d->kv[2 * j]);
db_val_free(d->val_kind, d->kv[2 * j + 1]);
}
free(d);
return 0;
}
}
return (uint64_t)(uintptr_t)d;
}
default: return v; /* GCREF never stored; nothing to clone */
}
oom:
*ok = 0;
return 0;
}
uint64_t wo_val_decode_vm(wo_db *db, wo_rt *rt, uint8_t kind, uint64_t engine_val,
int *ok, const char **msg) {
(void)db;
return db_val_decode(rt, kind, engine_val, ok, msg);
}
static int row_apply_field_slot(wo_db *db, db_table *t, const wo_classdesc *c,
db_row *r, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id,
uint32_t field, uint64_t nv, const char **msg,
int *err_kind);
static int row_apply_field_keys(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id,
uint32_t field, uint64_t nv, const char **msg,
int *err_kind);
int wo_row_update_field(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id, uint32_t field,
uint64_t vm_val, const char **msg, int *err_kind) {
if (err_kind) *err_kind = DB_ERR_MISC;
/* databasev2 3 (keys-resident delta updates): a keys-resident row lives
* in the LOG, so there is no slab slot to mutate — row_apply_field_keys
* does read-modify-APPEND instead of a slot swap. wo_row_offset1 is the
* cheap existence check wo_row_ptr would otherwise give us. */
if (wo_table_is_keys_resident(db, class_id)) {
if (!wo_row_offset1(db, class_id, id)) {
*msg = "no such row";
return -1;
}
const wo_classdesc *kc = &db->classes[class_id];
if (field >= kc->field_cnt) {
*msg = "no such field";
return -1;
}
int kok = 1;
uint64_t knv = db_val_encode(db->classes, kc->kinds[field], vm_val, &kok, msg);
if (!kok) {
if (err_kind) *err_kind = DB_ERR_BADKIND;
return -1;
}
return row_apply_field_keys(db, class_id, id, field, knv, msg, err_kind);
}
db_row *r = wo_row_ptr(db, class_id, id);
if (!r) {
*msg = "no such row";
@ -636,6 +1055,16 @@ int wo_row_update_field(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id, uint32_t fiel
if (err_kind) *err_kind = DB_ERR_BADKIND;
return -1;
}
return row_apply_field_slot(db, t, c, r, class_id, id, field, nv, msg, err_kind);
}
/* The post-encode half of an update: unique shadow-check, index fix-up,
* slot swap. Consumes [nv] (installed on success, freed on failure) —
* shared by the VM-value wrapper above and the RPC slot path. */
static int row_apply_field_slot(wo_db *db, db_table *t, const wo_classdesc *c,
db_row *r, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id,
uint32_t field, uint64_t nv, const char **msg,
int *err_kind) {
/* indexes containing this column: unique checks against the NEW value
run first, against a shadow of the row, before anything mutates */
uint64_t old = r->slots[field];
@ -651,8 +1080,11 @@ int wo_row_update_field(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id, uint32_t fiel
if (!b) continue;
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < b->len; i++) {
if (b->ids[i] == id) continue;
db_row *other = wo_row_ptr(db, class_id, b->ids[i]);
if (other && idx_cols_equal(c, ix, r, other)) {
const char *bmsg = "";
db_row *other = wo_row_borrow(db, class_id, b->ids[i], &bmsg);
int clash = other && idx_cols_equal(c, ix, r, other);
wo_row_release(db, class_id, other);
if (clash) {
r->slots[field] = old; /* untouched, promised */
db_val_free(c->kinds[field], nv);
if (err_kind) *err_kind = DB_ERR_UNIQUE;
@ -703,6 +1135,198 @@ int wo_row_update_field(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id, uint32_t fiel
return 0;
}
/* keys-resident counterpart of row_apply_field_slot. There is no slab slot
* to swap — the row lives in the log — so the shape is read-modify-APPEND:
* borrow (folds), append a delta with the row's current offset as the
* back-pointer. [nv] is already engine-encoded (same convention as
* row_apply_field_slot); consumed on every path.
*
* The borrow's materialised row holds ENGINE values now (keys_fold_into's
* contract matches wo_row_ptr's), so [nv] lands in r->slots[field] directly —
* no VM decode stage, same representation the WAL record and the index
* functions already expect.
*
* Task 4 (keys-resident delta updates) ruling: this function stages the
* delta but does NOT commit and does NOT move the id map — mirroring
* insert, where table.c applies RAM and db.c owns staging/commit and the
* post-barrier map move (wo_wal_pend_drop / wo_db_flush_drops for insert;
* wo_wal_pend_repoint / wo_db_flush_drops for this). The caller re-points
* using the offset it captured via wo_wal_next_offset() BEFORE calling in
* here — insert's own `koff` pattern — since nothing between that capture
* and the wo_wal_append_delta call below stages any other bytes on [w].
*
* Ordering: the unique shadow-check (against a shadow of the row, mirroring
* row_apply_field_slot's promise that a rejected update leaves the row
* untouched) is the only SOFT-trap gate and runs first, before anything
* moves. Once it passes, the index swap is RAM apply and happens
* unconditionally, mirroring wo_row_insert's doctrine order (RAM, then
* log) — from that point a failure to even STAGE the delta is fatal,
* exactly like insert's own append, because RAM has already moved and
* there is no undo.
*
* back_off checks a PENDING re-point first (wo_wal_repoint_offset1) before
* falling back to the durable wo_row_offset1: a second update to this same
* row, staged behind the same barrier as a first, must chain to the
* first's delta — the id map won't move until the barrier, but the delta
* itself is already staged and its offset already fixed. */
static int row_apply_field_keys(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id,
uint32_t field, uint64_t nv, const char **msg,
int *err_kind) {
const wo_classdesc *c = &db->classes[class_id];
db_table *t = &db->tables[class_id];
const char *bmsg = "no such row";
db_row *r = wo_row_borrow(db, class_id, id, &bmsg);
if (!r) {
db_val_free(c->kinds[field], nv);
*msg = bmsg;
return -1;
}
/* successful borrow proves db->rt and db->rt->wal are both set */
wo_wal *w = (wo_wal *)db->rt->wal;
uint64_t pending1 = wo_wal_repoint_offset1(w, class_id, id);
uint64_t back_off = (pending1 ? pending1 : wo_row_offset1(db, class_id, id)) - 1;
/* unique shadow-check: run with the NEW value before anything durable or
indexed moves, exactly row_apply_field_slot's promise.
CRITICAL: candidates are probed into a THROWAWAY buffer, never
t->scratch. r (the row under update) already lives in t->scratch and
wo_row_borrow refuses ANY nested borrow on the same table's scratch —
reusing it here would make every candidate probe return NULL, so a
clash could never be detected (a silent hole: keys-resident @unique
would accept duplicates). Candidates are always in this same,
keys-resident table, so keys_fold_into (bypassing wo_row_borrow and
its scratch_busy gate) is safe to call directly. */
uint64_t old_eng = r->slots[field];
r->slots[field] = nv;
uint8_t *cand_buf = NULL;
for (uint32_t x = 0; x < t->index_cnt; x++) {
db_index *ix = &t->indexes[x];
if (!(ix->flags & 1u)) continue;
int touches = 0;
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < ix->col_cnt; i++)
if (ix->cols[i] == field) touches = 1;
if (!touches) continue;
db_ibucket *b = idx_bucket(ix, idx_hash(c, ix, r), 0);
if (!b) continue;
if (!cand_buf) {
cand_buf = malloc(t->row_size);
if (!cand_buf) {
r->slots[field] = old_eng;
wo_row_release(db, class_id, r);
db_val_free(c->kinds[field], nv);
if (err_kind) *err_kind = DB_ERR_OOM;
*msg = "out of memory";
return -1;
}
}
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < b->len; i++) {
if (b->ids[i] == id) continue;
/* Task 4 follow-up (review finding): a candidate updated
earlier in this SAME, not-yet-committed drain has its
re-point only PENDING — the durable wo_row_offset1 would
still fold its PRE-update value, letting a real unique
clash through uncaught. Unlike back_off (a pure number),
keys_fold_into DOES need to read this record's bytes to
compare values — which is why wo_wal_fold_row_at now reads
the staging buffer for an offset in the not-yet-durable
range (see scan_record_staged in wal.c); a plain
wo_row_offset1 substitution here is not enough on its own. */
uint64_t cand_off1 = wo_wal_repoint_offset1(w, class_id, b->ids[i]);
if (!cand_off1) cand_off1 = wo_row_offset1(db, class_id, b->ids[i]);
if (!cand_off1) continue; /* stale bucket entry: no row, no clash */
const char *obmsg = "";
db_row *other =
keys_fold_into(db, class_id, b->ids[i], cand_off1 - 1, cand_buf, NULL, &obmsg);
int clash = other && idx_cols_equal(c, ix, r, other);
/* keys_fold_into decoded fresh ENGINE values for EVERY field,
same as a real borrow — nobody else owns them, so drop them
here the same way wo_row_release would */
if (other)
for (uint32_t k = 0; k < c->field_cnt; k++)
db_val_free(c->kinds[k], other->slots[k]);
if (clash) {
r->slots[field] = old_eng; /* untouched, promised */
free(cand_buf);
wo_row_release(db, class_id, r);
db_val_free(c->kinds[field], nv);
if (err_kind) *err_kind = DB_ERR_UNIQUE;
*msg = "unique index violation";
return -1;
}
}
}
free(cand_buf);
r->slots[field] = old_eng; /* restored: still the OLD row until applied */
/* RAM apply (Task 4 ruling): the borrowed row is the OLD row — out of
every index under the OLD value, then in again under the NEW one.
Unconditional from here: a failure below is fatal, not a trap. */
idx_remove_row(db, t, r);
r->slots[field] = nv;
(void)idx_add_row(db, t, r); /* cannot violate uniqueness: the shadow
check above already cleared it */
/* databasev2 11: FLATTEN ON UPDATE.
*
* `r` now holds the complete post-update row, because maintaining the
* indexes above required folding it — so writing a full-row image costs no
* extra read, only the bytes. Past WO_DELTA_MAX_HOPS we spend those bytes
* and terminate the chain instead of lengthening it.
*
* Why this lives here rather than in the checkpoint: compaction bounds
* chain length in principle, but its trigger is a byte ratio over the whole
* log and cannot see that ONE row has a long chain. A single hot row —
* this feature's own motivating workload, a popular SKU whose stock moves
* on every order — grows without ever moving that ratio. PostgreSQL solves
* the same shape the same way: heap_page_prune_opt collapses a HOT chain
* opportunistically, on a page the process already holds, rather than
* waiting for the background sweep.
*
* A full-row record is written as WO_WAL_INSERT because that is what a
* chain's base must be — it has to replay into a database where nothing
* precedes it. Replay, compaction and the fold all already handle that
* shape; none of them needs to know this happened. */
int flattened = (t->scratch_hops >= WO_DELTA_MAX_HOPS);
int arc = flattened ? wo_wal_append_row_image(w, db, class_id, id, r)
: wo_wal_append_delta(w, db, class_id, id, field, back_off, nv);
if (arc != 0)
wo_wal_stage_fatal(w); /* RAM already moved; see the insert arm */
db_val_free(c->kinds[field], old_eng); /* old value done: r now holds nv */
wo_row_release(db, class_id, r); /* frees r's slots, including nv, as engine values */
if (err_kind) *err_kind = DB_ERR_NONE;
return 0;
}
int wo_row_update_field_slot(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id, uint32_t field,
uint64_t slot, const char **msg, int *err_kind) {
if (err_kind) *err_kind = DB_ERR_MISC;
/* bounds first: the RPC requester validated cid/field to encode at all,
so these are defensive; the slot's kind is unknowable on a class
violation and the value leaks rather than dies by the wrong kind */
if (class_id >= db->class_cnt) {
*msg = "no such class";
return -1;
}
const wo_classdesc *c = &db->classes[class_id];
if (field >= c->field_cnt) {
*msg = "no such field";
return -1;
}
/* databasev2 3 (keys-resident delta updates): a keys-resident row has no
* slab slot to mutate — row_apply_field_keys does read-modify-APPEND. */
if (wo_table_is_keys_resident(db, class_id))
return row_apply_field_keys(db, class_id, id, field, slot, msg, err_kind);
db_row *r = wo_row_ptr(db, class_id, id);
if (!r) {
db_val_free(c->kinds[field], slot);
*msg = "no such row";
return -1;
}
return row_apply_field_slot(db, &db->tables[class_id], c, r, class_id, id,
field, slot, msg, err_kind);
}
int wo_row_has_referrers(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id) {
if (!id) return 0;
for (uint32_t c = 0; c < db->class_cnt; c++) {
@ -725,12 +1349,95 @@ int wo_row_has_referrers(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id) {
return 0;
}
int wo_row_next_id(const wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, size_t *cursor, uint64_t *id_out) {
if (class_id >= db->class_cnt) return 0;
const db_table *t = &db->tables[class_id];
if (!t->row_size) return 0;
if (wo_table_is_keys_resident(db, class_id)) {
/* the id map IS the live set here: hkeys non-zero, hvals holding an
* offset + 1 */
for (size_t j = *cursor; j < t->hcap; j++) {
if (t->hkeys[j] && t->hvals[j]) {
*id_out = t->hkeys[j];
*cursor = j + 1;
return 1;
}
}
*cursor = t->hcap;
return 0;
}
{ /* resident: the bitmap, in slab order, exactly as before */
uint32_t total = t->slab_cnt * DB_SLAB_ROWS;
for (size_t g = *cursor; g < total; g++) {
if (!(t->bitmap[g >> 6] & (1ull << (g & 63)))) continue;
*id_out = slot_row((db_table *)t, (uint32_t)g)->id;
*cursor = g + 1;
return 1;
}
*cursor = total;
return 0;
}
}
int wo_table_is_keys_resident(const wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id) {
if (class_id >= db->class_cnt) return 0;
return (db->classes[class_id].flags & WO_CLASSF_RESIDENT_KEYS) != 0u;
}
int wo_row_drop_payload(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id, uint64_t wal_off) {
if (class_id >= db->class_cnt) return -1;
db_table *t = &db->tables[class_id];
if (!t->row_size) return -1;
uint64_t s1 = hget(t, id);
if (!s1) return -1;
uint32_t g = (uint32_t)(s1 - 1);
db_row *r = slot_row(t, g);
/* the values are engine-owned; the log holds their bytes now */
const wo_classdesc *c = &db->classes[class_id];
for (uint32_t i = 0; i < c->field_cnt; i++) db_val_free(c->kinds[i], r->slots[i]);
t->bitmap[g >> 6] &= ~(1ull << (g & 63));
/* the id STAYS, now pointing at the log rather than at a slab. No
* idx_remove_row and no count change: the row is live, only its backing
* moved. */
if (hput(t, id, wal_off + 1) != 0) return -1;
if (t->free_cnt == t->free_cap) {
uint32_t ncap = t->free_cap ? t->free_cap * 2 : 16;
uint32_t *nf = realloc(t->free_slots, (size_t)ncap * 4);
if (!nf) return 0; /* slot simply not recycled; the bitmap still frees it */
t->free_slots = nf;
t->free_cap = ncap;
}
t->free_slots[t->free_cnt++] = g;
return 0;
}
int wo_row_remove(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id) {
if (class_id >= db->class_cnt) return -1;
db_table *t = &db->tables[class_id];
if (!t->row_size) return -1;
uint64_t s1 = hget(t, id);
if (!s1) return -1;
/* databasev2 2 (5d): a keys-resident row's map entry is a LOG OFFSET, not
* a slot. Falling through to the slab path below would index t->slabs[]
* with a byte offset — slot_row does no bounds check — and then free
* whatever it landed on. That is memory corruption, not a missing feature,
* which is why the loader still refuses the annotation.
*
* The row has no slab slot, no bitmap bit and no free-list entry to give
* back; only the indexes and the id map know about it. The index hook
* needs the row's column VALUES to find its bucket, and those live in the
* log, so the row is borrowed for exactly as long as that takes. */
if (wo_table_is_keys_resident(db, class_id)) {
db_row *r = wo_row_borrow(db, class_id, id, NULL);
if (!r) return -1;
idx_remove_row(db, t, r);
wo_row_release(db, class_id, r); /* frees the materialised values */
hdel(t, id);
t->count--;
return 0;
}
uint32_t g = (uint32_t)(s1 - 1);
db_row *r = slot_row(t, g);
/* the index hook's remove side: before the row's values die, while the
@ -751,3 +1458,36 @@ int wo_row_remove(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id) {
t->free_slots[t->free_cnt++] = g;
return 0;
}
/* databasev2 2 (5d): re-point a keys-resident row at a NEW log offset.
*
* Deliberately not hput(): hput runs the load-factor check and can rehash,
* which would reorder hkeys/hvals underneath a wo_row_next_id cursor. This
* only ever overwrites the value of a key that already exists, so the table's
* shape cannot change and a walk in progress stays valid. That property is
* what lets compaction re-point rows as it writes them instead of buffering
* one (cid, id, offset) triple per live row. Returns -1 if the id is absent. */
int wo_row_set_offset(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id, uint64_t wal_off) {
if (class_id >= db->class_cnt) return -1;
db_table *t = &db->tables[class_id];
if (!t->hcap) return -1;
size_t j = hmix(id) & (t->hcap - 1);
while (t->hkeys[j]) {
if (t->hkeys[j] == id) {
t->hvals[j] = wal_off + 1;
return 0;
}
j = (j + 1) & (t->hcap - 1);
}
return -1;
}
/* databasev2 2 (5d): the log offset a keys-resident row currently reads from,
* as stored (off + 1), so 0 means "no such row". Compaction needs the raw
* offset to copy the record without materialising it. */
uint64_t wo_row_offset1(const wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id) {
if (class_id >= db->class_cnt) return 0;
const db_table *t = &db->tables[class_id];
if (!t->hcap) return 0;
return hget(t, id);
}

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@ -120,9 +120,32 @@ typedef struct db_table {
/* secondary indexes, from the class table's v3 metadata */
db_index *indexes;
uint32_t index_cnt;
/* databasev2 2: one reusable materialisation buffer per table, for
* wo_row_borrow. Per-TABLE and not per-call because the unique shadow
* check borrows once per candidate inside a bucket loop, and per-call
* allocation would turn an O(1) probe into an allocation storm. Safe
* because the store is single-writer (the owner shard) and a borrow is
* never nested — `busy` exists to catch it if that ever stops being
* true, rather than aliasing silently. */
uint8_t *scratch;
size_t scratch_cap;
int scratch_busy;
/* databasev2 11: how many DELTA records the last borrow's fold crossed.
* The fold reports it for free, and the update path uses it to decide when
* a chain is long enough to be worth terminating with a full-row record.
* Meaningful only while scratch_busy is set. */
uint32_t scratch_hops;
} db_table;
typedef struct wo_db {
/* databasev2 2 (5c): the runtime this store belongs to, so a borrow can
* reach the WAL. wo_rt already carries `db` and `wal` as opaque handles,
* so this closes the loop without threading a wal pointer through
* wo_row_borrow's eleven call sites — which is the whole reason 5c is one
* accessor rather than eleven rewrites. NULL in test binaries and with
* durability off; a `resident: keys` table cannot exist in either case,
* because it has no log to read rows back from. */
wo_rt *rt;
const wo_classdesc *classes;
uint32_t class_cnt;
uint32_t shard, nshards; /* S of N; ids interleave S+1, S+1+N, … */
@ -150,6 +173,67 @@ int wo_row_read(wo_db *db, wo_rt *rt, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id,
* it. 0 ok, -1 no such row. */
int wo_row_remove(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id);
/* databasev2 2 (5c): drop a row's PAYLOAD while keeping it live.
*
* The operation the plan recorded as missing. For a `resident: keys` table the
* row's bytes live in the log, not in a slab: this frees the slot and its
* engine-owned values, then re-points the id map at [wal_off] (stored as
* off + 1, reusing the same 0-is-empty trick the slot encoding uses — a table
* is wholly `all` or wholly `keys`, so the interpretation is per-table and
* never ambiguous).
*
* What it deliberately does NOT do, and why:
* - it does not touch the secondary indexes. They store row IDS, not slots
* (see db_ibucket), so they are already indirect through the id map and
* stay correct across this.
* - it does not decrement `count`. The row is still LIVE; only its backing
* moved.
* - it does not remove the id. The id is how the row is found afterwards.
*
* [wal_off] must be the offset of a record whose commit succeeded. Since
* databasev2 4 made a failed commit fatal, no execution can reach here with an
* offset that never became durable — which is what wo_wal_next_offset's
* contract asks for, now guaranteed by process death rather than by an inline
* check the deferred barrier no longer allows.
*
* 0 ok, -1 unknown class/row. */
int wo_row_drop_payload(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id, uint64_t wal_off);
int wo_row_set_offset(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id, uint64_t wal_off);
/* databasev2 11: how many DELTA records a keys-resident row's chain may carry
* before an update terminates it with a full-row image instead of lengthening
* it. A BOUND, not a tuning knob — PostgreSQL ships `fillfactor` and
* autovacuum's base threshold as documented constants that are rarely touched,
* and this is the same kind of number. Anything in the low tens caps the
* pathology; being wrong by a factor of two costs one row-sized write per K
* updates, which is not a correctness failure in either direction.
*
* It deliberately does NOT scale with table size. PostgreSQL scales autovacuum
* by reltuples because it thresholds a table-level aggregate whose harm is
* proportional; a chain is a per-ROW property with additive cost — reading one
* row costs 1 + depth reads whether the table holds a hundred rows or ten
* million, and replay is the sum over every row's chain. Scaling this up with
* table size would make the largest databases boot worst. */
#define WO_DELTA_MAX_HOPS 16u
uint64_t wo_row_offset1(const wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id);
/* databasev2 2 (5d): iterate the live row IDS of a table, whichever backing it
* has. [*cursor] starts at 0 and is opaque; returns 1 with *id_out set, or 0
* when exhausted.
*
* A keys-resident table has an EMPTY bitmap by construction — its payloads live
* in the log — so every bitmap walk in the engine would silently see no rows.
* This is the one primitive those walks move onto.
*
* Resident tables keep walking the bitmap, deliberately: the id map holds the
* same set, but in hash order, and switching would reorder the results of every
* unordered query in the repo. Two backings, one interface, no behaviour change
* where nothing needed to change. */
int wo_row_next_id(const wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, size_t *cursor, uint64_t *id_out);
/* databasev2 2 (5c): is this table's row data in the log rather than in slabs? */
int wo_table_is_keys_resident(const wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id);
/* iteration 9b FK restrict: 1 if some row in some class holds a non-nullable
* `ref` to [class_id] equal to [id] — i.e. deleting this row would dangle a
* reference. The compiler records a ref field's target class in the class
@ -171,6 +255,26 @@ int wo_row_update_field(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id, uint32_t fiel
* to the VM. */
db_row *wo_row_ptr(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id);
/* ---- databasev2 2: the shared row accessor -------------------------------
*
* Every reader that today does `wo_row_ptr` and then touches `r->slots[...]`
* uses this pair instead, so ONE code path serves both residencies:
*
* resident: all borrow returns the slab pointer; release is a no-op
* resident: keys borrow materialises the record from its log offset into
* the table's scratch; release frees what it built
*
* Landed as a PURE REFACTOR: until the offset storage exists, borrow is
* wo_row_ptr plus a branch and every release is a no-op. Deliberate — the
* refactor is provable on its own, before the storage change it enables.
*
* A borrowed row is READ-ONLY when it is materialised: it is a copy, so
* writing to it changes nothing durable. Mutation still goes through the row
* choke points. Pair EVERY non-NULL borrow with a release, and never nest two
* borrows on the same table — they would share one scratch. */
db_row *wo_row_borrow(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id, const char **msg);
void wo_row_release(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, db_row *r);
/* Engine-internal, for WAL replay only: create a row with a FIXED id,
* slots zeroed — the caller (wal.c) fills them with engine-encoded values
* it built while decoding. Advances the table's next_id past [id] when the
@ -187,10 +291,56 @@ void wo_db_val_free(wo_db *db, uint8_t kind, uint64_t v);
uint64_t wo_val_decode_vm(wo_db *db, wo_rt *rt, uint8_t kind, uint64_t engine_val,
int *ok, const char **msg);
/* Read-path index probe (the O(1) wiring): answer a SINGLE-COLUMN
* equality from the index's hash buckets instead of walking slabs.
* Key representation is caller-neutral so wo_str and db_text callers
* both fit: a Text key passes its bytes+len (bytes == NULL means nil;
* an empty text is a non-NULL pointer with len 0); any scalar/float
* key passes the raw word in [key_scalar] (bytes ignored). The bucket
* hash canonicalizes floats exactly as index maintenance does; the
* VERIFY step then compares exactly as the slab walk compares (raw
* words for scalars/floats, byte equality for text) — a hash is a
* hint, never an answer, so results are identical to the scan.
* Returns 1 = probed (*out_ids is a malloc'd id list of *out_cnt,
* possibly NULL/0 — the caller frees), 0 = cannot probe (unknown
* class/index, untouched table, or a multi-column index — the caller
* keeps its scan fallback), -1 = OOM. */
int wo_idx_probe(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint32_t index, uint64_t key_scalar,
const void *key_bytes, uint32_t key_len, uint64_t **out_ids,
uint32_t *out_cnt);
/* Engine-internal, replay only: after wal.c fills a raw row's slots, this
* runs the index maintenance the normal insert runs inline — including the
* unique check, whose violation during replay is corruption, not data
* (0 ok, -1). */
int wo_row_raw_commit(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, db_row *r);
/* ---- arc stage 3: the slot-level surface the transparent DB RPC uses ----
* VM heaps are never read cross-shard (a worker's GC writes header mark
* bits concurrently), so the REQUESTER shard encodes its VM values into
* engine-owned slots on its own thread and ships those; the OWNER shard
* executes from slots. Everything here is thread-agnostic: it touches only
* the wo_db it is handed and engine-owned mallocs. */
/* Encode one VM value into an engine slot on the caller's thread (the
* in-gate, split out of wo_row_insert for the RPC path). */
uint64_t wo_db_val_encode(const wo_classdesc *classes, uint8_t kind, uint64_t vm_val,
int *ok, const char **msg);
/* Deep-copy one engine value — a GET_FIELD reply must outlive the row it
* was read from (a later statement may free the row's slot). */
uint64_t wo_db_val_clone(const wo_classdesc *classes, uint8_t kind, uint64_t v, int *ok);
/* Insert from PRE-ENCODED slots (field_cnt of them). Ownership of the slot
* VALUES transfers: installed on success, freed on failure. New id, or 0
* with *msg / *err_kind set exactly as wo_row_insert sets them. */
uint64_t wo_row_insert_slots(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, const uint64_t *slots,
const char **msg, int *err_kind);
/* Update one field from a PRE-ENCODED slot value (consumed either way:
* installed on success, freed on failure). Same contract as
* wo_row_update_field after its encode. */
int wo_row_update_field_slot(wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id, uint32_t field,
uint64_t slot, const char **msg, int *err_kind);
#endif /* WO_TABLE_H */

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@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
* kind : 1 insert (body = the row's fields, engine encoding below)
* 2 remove (no body)
* 3 update (reserved for Task 5)
* 4 delta (single-field update; body = field_idx u32 |
* back-pointer offset u64 | the one field's value, engine
* encoding below — keys-resident tables only)
*
* Field encoding in a body walks the class table's kinds:
* SCALAR 8 bytes
@ -43,16 +46,206 @@
#define WO_WAL_MARK 0x574F4C31u /* "WOL1" LE */
enum { WO_WAL_INSERT = 1, WO_WAL_REMOVE = 2, WO_WAL_UPDATE = 3 };
enum {
WO_WAL_INSERT = 1,
WO_WAL_REMOVE = 2,
WO_WAL_UPDATE = 3,
WO_WAL_DELTA = 4,
/* databasev2 12: the log's own statement of the shape that wrote it —
* class and field NAMES, kinds and encoding-relevant metadata. Written as
* the FIRST record of a fresh log and of every compacted log, so the head
* of a log always describes everything after it. Replay skips it; boot
* diffs it against the compiled classes to migrate or refuse. A log
* without one is a legacy log: nothing recorded, nothing diffable. */
WO_WAL_SCHEMA = 5,
};
typedef struct wo_wal {
int fd;
/* databasev2 4: where this WAL lives, so a durability failure can name
* the file it could not write. An abort diagnostic without the path
* sends an operator hunting. Owned here, freed by wo_wal_close. */
char *path;
uint64_t off; /* next write offset (the intact tail) */
/* staged batch: appended by wal_append_*, flushed by wal_commit */
uint8_t *buf;
size_t len, cap;
/* databasev2 4: group-commit diagnostics. Batching is worthless if
* batches are always one, and a throughput change would then have come
* from somewhere else — so the mechanism is measured, not assumed.
* peak_staged also settles whether the batch needs a cap with a number
* instead of a guess. Reported at exit under WO_WAL_STATS. */
uint64_t stat_batches; /* non-empty commits */
uint64_t stat_records; /* records those commits carried */
uint64_t stat_peak_batch; /* most records in one barrier */
uint64_t stat_peak_staged; /* most bytes staged behind one barrier */
/* databasev2 3: bytes the last compaction wrote. The trigger compares the
* log against THIS rather than an estimate of the live set — estimating
* would mean estimating Text, and the compactor knows the true number. */
uint64_t compacted_bytes;
/* databasev2 3: the preallocation this log was opened with. Compaction
* MUST give the replacement the same one: the WAL is preallocated so that
* appends never extend the file, which is what lets fdatasync alone be the
* ack barrier. A replacement without it silently weakens durability. */
uint64_t prealloc;
/* databasev2 3: what compaction actually did, reported under WO_WAL_STATS.
* The PAUSE is the number the spec refused to assume — compaction is
* stop-the-world, so its duration is the cost being weighed. */
/* databasev2 2 (5c): rows whose payload may be dropped ONCE the barrier
* they are staged behind succeeds. A keys-resident row cannot be dropped
* at append time: with group commit the record is still in the staging
* buffer, so its offset would pread zeros. Recorded here and performed by
* wo_db_flush_drops after the commit — the same shape as the drain's held
* replies, and for the same reason. If the process dies first the list
* dies with it, which is correct: nothing was dropped and nothing lost. */
struct wo_wal_pend { uint32_t cid; uint64_t id; uint64_t off; } *pend;
size_t pend_len, pend_cap;
/* Task 4 (keys-resident delta updates): rows whose id-map entry must
* move to a NEW offset once the delta staged there is durable. Same
* three fields as `pend` above, deliberately its OWN list: a drop
* discards a payload and a re-point moves a live row's chain head — two
* different meanings a shared list would force a future reader to guess
* between. Same lifetime discipline as `pend`: recorded before the
* barrier, applied after it, and lost with the process if it dies
* first — which is correct, since nothing was re-pointed either. */
struct wo_wal_pend *repoint;
size_t repoint_len, repoint_cap;
uint64_t stat_compactions;
uint64_t stat_compact_us_max;
uint64_t stat_compact_us_total;
/* databasev2 12: the encoded WO_WAL_SCHEMA payload for the COMPILED
* classes, set once at boot by wo_wal_set_schema. Owned here, freed by
* wo_wal_close. When set, a fresh log gets it as its first record
* (wo_wal_ensure_schema) and compaction writes it at the head of every
* replacement log. When unset (every existing test, and legacy boots)
* nothing changes anywhere. */
uint8_t *schema;
uint32_t schema_len;
int schema_written; /* lazy head: staged before the FIRST record only */
} wo_wal;
/* databasev2 12: the schema a log carries, and the diff against the compiled
* one. Names are byte pointers, NOT constant-table indices — the database
* layer never sees the module's constant pool, so the runtime resolves names
* once when it builds the compiled-side schema, and a decoded schema's names
* point into the record's own bytes. `fclass`/`felem` mirror the classdesc's
* field_class/field_elem because they change how a value is ENCODED; index
* layout is deliberately absent — indexes are rebuilt from rows at boot and
* never touch record bytes. */
typedef struct wo_schema_field {
const uint8_t *name;
uint32_t name_len;
uint8_t kind;
uint32_t fclass; /* referenced class id, or WO_SCHEMA_NONE */
uint32_t felem; /* container element kinds, or WO_SCHEMA_NONE */
} wo_schema_field;
typedef struct wo_schema_class {
const uint8_t *name;
uint32_t name_len;
uint32_t flags;
uint32_t field_cnt;
wo_schema_field *fields;
} wo_schema_class;
typedef struct wo_schema {
uint32_t class_cnt;
wo_schema_class *classes;
uint8_t *owned; /* decode backing buffer; NULL on a caller-built schema */
} wo_schema;
#define WO_SCHEMA_NONE 0xFFFFFFFFu
/* Encode a schema as a WO_WAL_SCHEMA record payload (kind byte included).
* Returns 0 and a malloc'd buffer the caller frees. */
int wo_schema_encode(const wo_schema *sc, uint8_t **payload_out, uint32_t *len_out);
/* Decode a WO_WAL_SCHEMA payload. NULL = malformed. Free the result with
* wo_schema_free; its name pointers live in the returned struct's own copy
* of the bytes, not in the caller's buffer. */
wo_schema *wo_schema_decode(const uint8_t *payload, uint32_t len);
void wo_schema_free(wo_schema *sc);
/* databasev2 12: what boot decided about one stored class. `new_cid` is where
* its records go; WO_SCHEMA_NONE means POISONED — the class cannot be
* migrated, and `poison` says why. A poison only bites when a record of the
* class is actually met: no rows, no verdict. */
typedef struct wo_mig_class {
uint32_t new_cid; /* WO_SCHEMA_NONE = poisoned */
char *poison; /* malloc'd reason; NULL unless poisoned */
uint32_t old_field_cnt;
int32_t *fmap; /* old field index -> new slot, -1 = deleted */
int changed; /* own field set differs (add and/or delete) */
} wo_mig_class;
typedef struct wo_mig_plan {
uint32_t old_class_cnt;
wo_mig_class *classes;
/* 1 = every stored class keeps its cid and its shape: replay as-is, no
* transcode. New classes in the binary do not break identity — they have
* no records, and the head record refreshes at the next compaction. */
int identity;
} wo_mig_plan;
/* Diff the log's stored schema against the compiled one, classes matched by
* NAME, fields by NAME — so pure declaration reordering is identity apart
* from the cid map. Returns 0 with *plan filled (free with
* wo_mig_plan_free), -1 on OOM. Refusals are expressed as per-class poisons,
* not errors: retype, same-kind delete+add (a disguised rename), a vanished
* class, changed flags, and any class that EMBEDS (owned/container fields)
* a class whose shape changed — its old records encode the old sub-shape,
* which v1 does not rewrite recursively. */
int wo_schema_diff(const wo_schema *oldsc, const wo_schema *newsc, wo_mig_plan *plan);
void wo_mig_plan_free(wo_mig_plan *plan);
/* databasev2 12: rewrite the log at `path` from its stored shape to the
* compiled one — a record-level transcode, no db state touched: cids remap by
* name (embedded owned values included), surviving fields move to their new
* slot, deleted fields' values are freed, added fields take the kind's zero
* value, and a delta chain whose field vanished is spliced around. The new
* log is written the way compaction writes one (temp, fsync, rename), so a
* crash anywhere leaves the old log intact and the next boot re-migrates.
* `db` supplies the COMPILED classes for encoding; nothing is inserted.
* Returns 0 on success, -1 on I/O or corruption, -2 when a record of a
* poisoned class was met — *err_out (malloc'd, caller frees) then carries the
* poison text. */
int wo_wal_migrate(const char *path, wo_db *db, const wo_schema *oldsc,
const wo_mig_plan *plan, const wo_schema *newsc,
uint64_t prealloc, char **err_out);
/* Adopt `sc` as this log's compiled schema (encoded and owned by the wal). */
int wo_wal_set_schema(wo_wal *w, const wo_schema *sc);
/* A fresh, empty log gets the schema as its first record — durable before
* any row record can be staged behind it. No-op when a schema was never set
* or when records already exist (a legacy log stays legacy until its next
* compaction writes the record at the head of the replacement). */
int wo_wal_ensure_schema(wo_wal *w);
/* Peek the log's head record. 0 = schema record found (*payload_out is
* malloc'd, caller frees); 1 = no log, empty log, or a legacy head record;
* -1 = I/O error. */
int wo_wal_read_schema(const char *path, uint8_t **payload_out, uint32_t *len_out);
/* databasev2 2: the file offset the NEXT staged record will occupy.
*
* Exact, and knowable at append time — no deferral to flush is needed, which
* is what the design spec feared. `off` is the durable tail and `len` the
* bytes staged but not yet written, and wo_wal_commit pwrites the whole batch
* AT `off` before advancing it, so a record staged now lands at off+len.
*
* Correct across the two awkward cases:
* - a failed commit leaves `off` unadvanced and `len` intact, so the batch
* is rewritten from the same place and previously-reported offsets stay
* valid;
* - a torn tail is handled by wo_wal_open, which positions `off` at the end
* of the INTACT prefix, so offsets are always relative to validated data.
*
* Call it BEFORE the append whose offset you want, and only trust the value
* after the matching wo_wal_commit returns 0 — a record whose commit failed
* was never durable and its offset must not be recorded anywhere.
*
* Not pure: on a fresh log with a schema set, the first call stages the
* lazy schema head (databasev2 12) so the answer names the CALLER's record.
* Staged inside the append instead, the head displaced the first
* keys-resident row: db.c's koff pointed at the schema record and the row
* read back as "record header is malformed" (2026-09-10). A head-stage OOM
* is wo_wal_stage_fatal — the death the append would have taken. */
uint64_t wo_wal_next_offset(wo_wal *w);
/* Open (create if missing) and preallocate [prealloc] bytes (best-effort;
* a filesystem without fallocate still works). Positions the write offset
* at the end of the INTACT record prefix — an existing file is scanned the
@ -61,6 +254,22 @@ typedef struct wo_wal {
int wo_wal_open(wo_wal *w, const char *path, uint64_t prealloc);
void wo_wal_close(wo_wal *w);
/* databasev2 7: WO_DATA names the store as EITHER a directory or the log file.
* An existing directory or a trailing '/' resolves to "<dir>/shard-0.wal" —
* the bytes every deployment before this iteration used, unchanged. Anything
* else IS the log: an existing regular file is opened, an absent path is
* created by wo_wal_open — but only under a parent directory that exists NOW.
* The resolver never mkdirs: a typo must not plant a store somewhere
* unexpected. Pure — stats, creates nothing. 0 ok, [out] = the log path;
* WO_WAL_PATH_NO_PARENT, [out] = the parent that is not an existing directory
* (for the refusal line); WO_WAL_PATH_NOT_A_FILE: exists, neither a regular
* file nor a directory (fifo, socket, device); WO_WAL_PATH_TOO_LONG: the
* result would not fit [cap] — refused, never truncated. */
#define WO_WAL_PATH_NO_PARENT -1
#define WO_WAL_PATH_NOT_A_FILE -2
#define WO_WAL_PATH_TOO_LONG -3
int wo_wal_resolve_data_path(const char *wo_data, char *out, size_t cap);
/* Stage a record for the row that MUST already be applied to RAM (the
* commit-order doctrine). Insert/update read the row via wo_row_ptr.
* 0 ok, -1 OOM / no such row. */
@ -70,11 +279,154 @@ int wo_wal_append_remove(wo_wal *w, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id);
* with the same id; the prefix/suffix delta trick from the survey is a
* later optimization, recorded). Call AFTER the RAM update. */
int wo_wal_append_update(wo_wal *w, wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id);
/* DELTA logs one field change, for a keys-resident row whose payload may
* already be gone from RAM (so there is no whole row to re-log). back_off
* is the row's PREVIOUS record's offset (insert or an earlier delta) — a
* caller parameter, not looked up here, so the encoder stays ignorant of
* table/map state. */
int wo_wal_append_delta(wo_wal *w, wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id,
uint32_t field_idx, uint64_t back_off, uint64_t value);
/* databasev2 4: which half of the barrier failed. A pwrite failure and an
* fdatasync failure are different operational problems (a short write vs a
* device refusing the flush), so the diagnostic must name the right one. */
#define WO_WAL_ERR_WRITE (-1)
#define WO_WAL_ERR_SYNC (-2)
/* The process exit status for a durability failure.
*
* 74 is sysexits' EX_IOERR, chosen deliberately over a small number: 1 is a
* trap and 2 is a loader refusal, but 3 and 4 are already used by SAMPLES for
* their own meanings — db-bench's own `verify` exits 3 on a checksum mismatch,
* and it is the gate that exercises durability, so a durability abort exiting 3
* would have been indistinguishable from the mismatch it is supposed to help
* diagnose. The low range belongs to programs; the runtime takes a high one. */
#define WO_EXIT_DURABILITY 74
/* Write the staged batch and fdatasync — the ack line. Empty batch = ok,
* no syscall. 0 ok, -1 write/sync failure (the batch stays staged). */
* no syscall. 0 ok, WO_WAL_ERR_WRITE / WO_WAL_ERR_SYNC on failure (the
* batch stays staged: a failed commit consumes nothing). */
int wo_wal_commit(wo_wal *w);
/* databasev2 2 (5c): note a payload that may be dropped after the next commit.
* 0 ok, -1 out of memory (the row simply stays resident, which is safe). */
int wo_wal_pend_drop(wo_wal *w, uint32_t cid, uint64_t id, uint64_t off);
/* Task 4 (keys-resident delta updates): note a keys-resident row's id-map
* entry that must move to [off] once the delta staged there is durable —
* the update-arm counterpart of wo_wal_pend_drop, on its own list (see the
* `repoint` field). 0 ok, -1 out of memory.
*
* IMPORTANT 1 (review finding): unlike wo_wal_pend_drop, a failure here is
* NOT safe to ignore. Replay does NOT reconcile a lost re-point: if a
* second update to this row lands in the same drain, it finds no pending
* entry, falls back to the stale durable offset, and its delta chains PAST
* the one this call was meant to record — every reader, replay and
* compaction included, then agrees on the wrong value, permanently.
* Callers must treat a nonzero return as fatal (wo_wal_repoint_fatal),
* exactly like a failed wo_wal_stage_fatal. */
int wo_wal_pend_repoint(wo_wal *w, uint32_t cid, uint64_t id, uint64_t off);
/* Task 4: the most recent PENDING re-point recorded for (cid, id), not yet
* flushed to the id map — needed so a second update to the same row, staged
* behind the SAME barrier as the first, computes its back-pointer against
* the first's delta instead of the row's last DURABLE offset (which would
* skip it). Off + 1, 0 = none pending (the caller falls back to
* wo_row_offset1). Does NOT consult the durable map itself. */
uint64_t wo_wal_repoint_offset1(const wo_wal *w, uint32_t cid, uint64_t id);
/* databasev2 2 (5c): perform every pending drop, THEN every pending
* re-point (Task 4). Call ONLY after a commit has succeeded — that is what
* makes the recorded offsets readable. */
void wo_db_flush_drops(wo_db *db, wo_wal *w);
/* databasev2 3: the checkpoint trigger, as a PURE decision so it can be tested
* without a store — which is the only way a policy like this gets tested at all.
*
* [used] the log's used bytes; [last] what the LAST compaction wrote (0 if it
* has never run); [floor] the size below which compacting is not worth it;
* [ratio] the multiple of [last] that counts as too much history.
*
* The denominator is the last compaction's MEASURED output rather than an
* estimate of the live set: estimating would mean estimating Text, and the
* compactor already knows the true number.
*
* There is deliberately NO TIME component. Postgres' CheckPointTimeout exists
* to bound data loss from unflushed buffers; our records are durable at commit,
* so a checkpoint only reclaims space and shortens boot. An idle log does not
* grow, so a timer would fire with nothing to do.
*
* 1 = compact now, 0 = leave it. */
/* databasev2 11: the two terms a size-based policy needs beside its ratio.
*
* WO_CKPT_ABS_BYTES is the TRIGGERING threshold — PostgreSQL's
* `autovacuum_vacuum_threshold`, not our `floor`, which suppresses instead.
* Past this much reclaimable garbage, compact regardless of proportion, so
* garbage that is large absolutely but small against a big live set still gets
* reclaimed.
* It also does the job PostgreSQL splits into a second constant
* (`autovacuum_vacuum_max_threshold`): capping how long a very large live set
* can defer compaction. A separate ceiling was implemented and then removed as
* unreachable — postgres needs two constants because it counts TUPLES with its
* pair at opposite ends (50 and 1e8); this counts BYTES, so any ceiling above
* this value can never fire and any below it would simply be the trigger. */
#define WO_CKPT_ABS_BYTES (64u * 1024u * 1024u)
int wo_wal_should_compact(uint64_t used, uint64_t last, uint64_t floor, uint32_t ratio);
/* Defaults, overridable at boot by WO_CHECKPOINT_BYTES / WO_CHECKPOINT_RATIO.
* The knobs are what make the policy testable: a test sets a tiny floor and
* forces compaction in a few writes instead of waiting for megabytes. */
extern uint64_t wo_wal_ckpt_floor;
extern uint32_t wo_wal_ckpt_ratio;
/* databasev2 3: the temporary file compaction writes before the swap. Named
* next to the log so it lands on the same filesystem — rename(2) is only
* atomic within one. Boot removes a stale one (a crash before the rename). */
#define WO_WAL_TMP_SUFFIX ".compact"
/* databasev2 3: rewrite the log as one INSERT record per LIVE row, then swap
* it in with rename(2).
*
* Recovery is deliberately untouched: the result is an ordinary log in the
* ordinary grammar, replayed from byte 0. Crash safety comes from rename being
* atomic — before it the live log is intact and the temp file is not
* authoritative; after it the new log is complete. There is no window in which
* a reader sees a mixture, so this needs no recovery logic of its own.
*
* REFUSES if anything is staged (returns -1 without touching the log): those
* records would be written into a file about to be replaced. Callers must
* invoke this only where the staging buffer is empty — right after a barrier.
*
* A failure is a MISSED OPTIMISATION, not a durability event: the original log
* is left usable and the process keeps running. It must not take the fatal
* path wo_wal_commit_fatal takes.
*
* 0 ok, -1 on any failure. */
int wo_wal_compact(wo_wal *w, wo_db *db);
/* databasev2 4: a record could not even be STAGED (the row is already in
* RAM, so this is the same unrecoverable position as a failed barrier — see
* wo_wal_commit_fatal). Never returns. */
void wo_wal_stage_fatal(const wo_wal *w);
/* IMPORTANT 1 (review finding): a pending re-point could not even be
* RECORDED — same unrecoverable position as wo_wal_stage_fatal, see
* wo_wal_pend_repoint's own doc. Never returns. */
void wo_wal_repoint_fatal(const wo_wal *w);
/* databasev2 4: commit, or END THE PROCESS.
*
* The one rule this iteration introduces: once a statement has mutated RAM,
* the only outcomes are durable or process death. Retrying is not an
* alternative — on Linux a failed fsync may already have discarded the dirty
* pages, so a second call can report success having written nothing. The
* recovery that works is replay, which returns the last durable state.
*
* [nrec] is the number of records in the batch, for the diagnostic only.
* Returns on success; never returns on failure. */
void wo_wal_commit_fatal(wo_wal *w, uint32_t nrec);
/* Boot replay: apply every intact record to [db] in order. Ids re-enter
* exactly as logged; each table's next_id advances past the replayed ids
* that belong to this shard. Returns the number of records applied, or -1
@ -83,6 +435,92 @@ int wo_wal_commit(wo_wal *w);
* the intact prefix and reports it. */
int64_t wo_wal_replay(const char *path, wo_db *db);
/* databasev2 2: as wo_wal_replay, but distinguishes the two failure kinds.
* Returns the applied count on success; -1 on corruption beyond a torn tail;
* -2 when the log holds records for a class the loaded image declares
* `durable: false`, writing that class id through [volatile_cid] if non-NULL.
* The plain wo_wal_replay above is this with NULL, kept so the existing
* callers and the 156 WAL unit checks are untouched. */
int64_t wo_wal_replay_ex(const char *path, wo_db *db, uint32_t *volatile_cid);
/* databasev2 2: read one row straight from a log offset — the offset twin of
* wo_row_read. [out_vals] must have room for the class's field_cnt values and
* receives FRESH VM allocations (the out-gate: always copies). [class_out] and
* [id_out] are optional. Offsets come from wo_wal_next_offset, recorded at
* append time.
*
* 0 ok
* -1 no intact record at that offset, a malformed header, a record that
* does not decode, trailing bytes, or a REMOVE tombstone (which carries
* no fields — refused rather than decoded, since returning a deleted row
* as live is the worst outcome available here)
* -2 out of memory (*msg set)
*
* Nothing in the engine calls this yet: it is the read half of `resident:
* keys`, landed ahead of the storage change so it can be tested alone. */
int wo_wal_read_row_at(wo_wal *w, wo_db *db, wo_rt *rt, uint64_t off,
uint32_t *class_out, uint64_t *id_out, uint64_t *out_vals,
const char **msg);
/* keys-resident delta updates, Task 2: fold a delta chain into a row's
* CURRENT field values, walking BACKWARD from [off] until a full row
* (INSERT/UPDATE) is reached.
*
* [off] is the row's most recent record, exactly what wo_wal_read_row_at
* takes. Each delta names its predecessor's offset (the append-time
* back-pointer); the walk keeps hopping backward, remembering the FIRST
* value seen for each field index — the newest delta touching it, since
* newest is seen first — and skipping a delta whose field is already
* resolved. Reaching the base row decodes every field, then overlays
* whatever the walk resolved.
*
* out_vals[0..field_cnt) receive ENGINE-owned values (dec_val's
* representation, exactly what a slab row's own slots hold) — NOT VM
* values — so this one function serves every caller: a read decodes the
* result onward through wo_val_decode_vm, replay installs it straight into
* a freshly created row's slots, and compaction re-encodes it with enc_val
* into a fresh full-row record. The caller frees every slot with
* wo_db_val_free once done, on every path. This is the fold: written once,
* called by all three — a fold that disagreed between them would be a
* database that changes its mind at boot.
*
* [class_out] / [id_out] (optional) receive the row's identity, checked
* against EVERY record touched — a chain that disagrees about whose row it
* is is corruption, not a new row.
*
* A back-pointer must name something STRICTLY EARLIER in the log than the
* record holding it — the row's PREVIOUS record, by construction, always
* is. Anything else (a self-pointer, a forward pointer, corruption or
* forgery of any shape) is refused on the very hop that violates it, which
* also rules out a cycle: a walk that only ever moves to a lower offset
* cannot revisit one.
*
* 0 ok, -1 no intact/malformed/corrupt record anywhere in the chain (or a
* REMOVE tombstone reached mid-chain), -2 out of memory. [msg] may be NULL
* (wo_idx_probe borrows without one: a candidate that does not fold is not a
* hit); when given it names every refusal. */
/* databasev2 11: `hops_out` (may be NULL) reports how many DELTA records the
* walk crossed before reaching the full-row record that terminates the chain —
* 0 for a row that has never been updated. The walk already visits each hop, so
* this costs nothing, and it is the signal the update path uses to decide when
* to flatten. It is this design's equivalent of PostgreSQL's `pd_prune_xid`: a
* cheap "is work worth doing" hint obtained from something already being done. */
int wo_wal_fold_row_at(wo_wal *w, wo_db *db, uint64_t off, uint32_t *class_out,
uint64_t *id_out, uint64_t *out_vals, uint32_t *hops_out,
const char **msg);
/* databasev2 11: append a FULL-ROW image taken from a caller-supplied row,
* rather than one looked up by id. wo_wal_append_insert sources its values via
* wo_row_ptr, which is NULL for a keys-resident row whose payload has been
* dropped; the update path holds a materialised row and needs to log it as a
* chain-terminating record. Written as WO_WAL_UPDATE, not WO_WAL_INSERT: the
* live log already carries the row's insert, so an INSERT here would replay as
* a duplicate id (corruption). UPDATE replays as remove-then-recreate and the
* fold terminates on either full-row kind. (Compaction's own flattening writes
* INSERT because it builds a FRESH log — see wal.c.) */
int wo_wal_append_row_image(wo_wal *w, wo_db *db, uint32_t class_id, uint64_t id,
const db_row *r);
/* Offline verification (no engine): scan [path], count intact records.
* *intact_bytes (optional) = where the intact prefix ends. -1 = open
* failure. */

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@ -4,5 +4,155 @@ This document was a gap analysis of what the `woc` front end needs before the
log-watcher sample compiles. Its findings were extracted on 2026-08-10 into
[`superpowers/specs/2026-08-10-logwatcher-gap-closure-design.md`](superpowers/specs/2026-08-10-logwatcher-gap-closure-design.md)
and the plans it amends; its Phase 1–4 roadmap is retired in favour of the
approved story iterations. See [`00-status.md`](00-status.md) for current
approved story iterations. See [`00-status.md`](stories/00-status.md) for current
status.
## Standing critique (undated, author unrecorded)
Native speed — the big one. Everything is interpreted: ~40× behind Go on raw compute, no JIT, no AOT-to-native. The scheduling primitives win benchmarks; a compute-bound handler loses them all back. There is also no Float type at all (the storefront prices in cents for a reason), no SIMD story, and fixed interpreter ceilings (4096 register slots, 256 frames, ~42 KiB per fiber until growable contexts land).
- Language expressiveness. No generics — the cache stores Text and tells you to json.encode; no function values or closures (doctrine, but it's why every handler is a class with one method); byte-based strings with no Unicode awareness; no Result-style error values (traps + try only); pattern matching is a switch, not destructuring. Some of this is deliberate rejection, but "deliberate" doesn't make the expressiveness appear.
- Concurrency holes the arc hasn't closed. send is one-way — no reply/request-response primitive (my own benchmarks couldn't await the actor and had to sleep); no supervision, links, or actor death (actors live until process end); unbounded mailboxes with zero backpressure; no timers beyond sleep; round-robin placement with no work stealing; multi-shard DB access still traps (stage 3 unbuilt); accept lives on one shard.
- Production plumbing. No TLS anywhere (proxy-mandated forever), no HTTP/2 or WebSockets yet, no crypto primitives (blocked on the bit-ops-vs-builtins fork), observability is print/stderr — no metrics, tracing, or profiler; no debugger, no LSP (discussed, never built); deps are git-rev-only with no registry, no transitive resolution, no semver; blue-green deploy and schema migrations are recorded futures, not features.
- Proof maturity. 22's benchmark battery has never run — every number so far is a scratch measurement on one machine; TSan covers one demo; no fuzzing, no CI beyond local just, and the whole ecosystem is one framework, five samples, and one committed consumer. The honest summary: the architecture is ahead of the product — the doctrine bets (ownership+inference, actors, one binary, io_uring) are landing and measurable, while the surface a developer touches daily (types, tooling, ecosystem) is years behind the languages it benchmarks against.
## Verification 2026-08-20
> **Read the 2026-08-26 re-verification at the bottom before quoting anything
> from this section.** Eight of its rows have since been overtaken by shipped
> work. The section is kept as written — it is a dated measurement, and
> rewriting it would destroy the record of what was true when the iteration
> order was re-sequenced against it.
Every claim above was checked against the tree. **26 of 27 hold. One number
does not, and two problems are worse than stated.**
### Rejected: "~40× behind Go on raw compute"
Unsourced. Nothing in the repo measures compute against Go. The only Go
comparison on record runs the other way and on a different workload:
[`plan/exploration/c-runtime/00-plan.md`](plan/exploration/c-runtime/00-plan.md)
records the C prototype at **908,916 reads/s and 643,250 fsync-acked
commits/s on 8 shards vs Go `net/http` at 495k/355k with ~8× worse p99** on a
20-core box — I/O-bound serving, not compute. `runtime/bench/goref/` holds a
Go reference program, but no compute-bound result from it is written down
anywhere.
The figure also contradicts this document's own closing sentence: the
doctrine bets cannot be "measurable" while iteration 22 has never run. Drop
the number or produce the benchmark.
### Understated
- **`map<K,V>` lookup is a linear scan.** `runtime/src/cont.h`: parallel
key/value arrays, "linear scan lookup — deliberate milestone-1 KISS". Every
`get`/`has`/`set` is O(n). For a language whose framework routes requests
and whose planned cache is keyed, this outranks the missing `Float` as a
compute problem — and the compute paragraph never mentions it.
- **The multi-shard DB gap is structural, not a missing flag.**
`wo_engine_start` (`runtime/src/vm.c`) `memset`s each worker VM to zero, so
`rt.db` and `rt.wal` are NULL by construction off the primary;
`wo_builtin_db` then returns `WO_T_DB "database engine not initialized"`. It
is a clean trap rather than a crash — but any multi-shard program that
touches the database is broken today.
### Confirmed, with corrections to the numbers
| Claim | Evidence |
| --- | --- |
| interpreted only, no JIT, no AOT | no `jit` anywhere; `specs/2026-08-01-oop-compiler-vm-design.md` records AOT-to-C as rejected |
| no `Float`, no `Bytes` | absent from `compiler/src/types.ml`; no float builtin; `net.read` returns `Text` |
| no SIMD | nothing in `runtime/src` or `compiler/src` |
| fixed interpreter ceilings | **mislabeled**: 4096 is the value **stack** (`WO_STACK_SLOTS`), registers are 64 per frame (`WO_MAX_REGS`), frames 256 (`WO_MAX_FRAMES`) — all `runtime/src/wob.h`. Unlisted: `WO_MAX_SHARDS 64`, `WO_ARENA_MAX_CLASS 1024`, `WO_MAX_CATCH 64`. ~42 KiB/fiber matches the arc spec |
| no generics | `multi T` / `map<K,V>` are runtime-provided native classes by design |
| no function values or closures | no such form in the lexer keyword set or typechecker |
| byte-based strings, no Unicode | `WO_B_BYTE_AT`, ASCII `WO_B_TO_LOWER`; `json.c` decodes BMP only |
| no Result-style errors | traps + `try`/`catch` only |
| pattern matching is a switch | `KwSwitch`/`KwCase`; no destructuring form |
| `send` is one-way | `WO_B_SEND=69` is the last builtin (`WO_B_MAX 69u`) — no ask/reply opcode |
| no supervision, links, actor death | nothing in the runtime |
| unbounded mailboxes, no backpressure | `vm.h`: `msgs` is a "FIFO ring, growable"; `mcap` only grows |
| no timers beyond sleep | `time.sleep` is the only one; no `timerfd` in the runtime |
| round-robin placement, no work stealing | `eng_rr` cursor, `vm.c` |
| accept on one shard | one listener, `SO_REUSEADDR` only — no `SO_REUSEPORT` |
| no TLS | the only `tls` in the runtime is thread-local storage (`wo_tls_vm`) |
| no HTTP/2 or WebSockets | framework `http/` is parse/serve/types/auth/multipart; h2c parked per `00-status.md` |
| no crypto primitives | none |
| observability is print/stderr | `WO_B_PRINT`, `PRINT_INT`, `PRINT_ERR`; no counters, tracing, or profiler |
| no debugger, no LSP | neither exists |
| deps git-rev only | no semver, registry, or transitive resolution in the compiler |
| blue-green + migrations are futures | iteration 26 still pending |
| 22's battery never run | 22 is ⬜ "needs a spec first"; no `bench/baseline.json`, no `just db-bench`; `runtime/bench/` is the retired C prototype's harness |
| TSan covers one demo | only `scripts/fibers-accept.sh` builds and runs `wovm_tsan` |
| no fuzzing, no CI | no `.github/`, no fuzz target |
| one framework, five samples, one consumer | exact: `writeonce-serve`; employee, employee-list, fibers, gc-cycle, log-watcher; `web-app` |
### Consequence
The iteration order in
[`stories/language-runtime-database/00-story.md`](stories/language-runtime-database/00-story.md)
was re-sequenced against these findings on 2026-08-20 — Seq only, no `#`
renumbered, no file moved. See that table's second re-sequencing note.
---
## Re-verification 2026-08-26
Re-run against the tree, reading source rather than documents. **Eight rows
have been overtaken by shipped work; the rest still hold.** Overtaken:
| 2026-08-20 row | What the source says now |
| --- | --- |
| "no `Float`, no `Bytes`" | `types.ml`'s `builtin_scalars` is `["Int"; "Bool"; "Text"; "Timestamp"; "Id"; "Float"; "Bytes"]` — iteration 19, plus the `float`/`trunc` bridges and the `bytes_*`/`base64_*` builtins |
| "`send` is one-way — `WO_B_SEND=69` is the last builtin (`WO_B_MAX 69u`)" | `WO_B_MAX` is `95u`; `WO_B_CALL = 88` is a send that parks the caller for a typed scalar reply (iteration 24, WO-E226) |
| "no crypto primitives" | `WO_B_SHA1 = 85`, `WO_B_SHA256 = 86`, `WO_B_HMAC_SHA256 = 87`; `runtime/src/crypto.c`, vector-accepted in `test_crypto.c` (iteration 34) |
| "unbounded mailboxes, no backpressure" | mailboxes are capped (`WO_MAILBOX`, default 1024) with a sender-side reserve and a catchable `WO_T_ACTOR` trap on overflow |
| "no supervision, links, actor death" | **partly** overtaken: actor death landed with `call` — a dead or mid-call callee traps the caller instead of hanging it. `monitor` (id 89) and `time.after` (id 90) are still literal holes in the builtin enum; supervision trees remain absent |
| "22's battery never run — no `bench/baseline.json`, no `just db-bench`" | `bench/baseline.json` exists with the campaign's metrics, `just db-bench`/`db-bench-quick` are recipes, `bench/results/` holds the runs, iteration 22 is done |
| "no fuzzing, **no CI**" | `.github/workflows/release.yml` builds, verifies and publishes on a `v*` tag. Fuzzing is still absent, and CI is release-only — nothing runs the gates per change, which is iteration 30's remaining half |
| "one framework, five samples, one consumer" | two libraries (`writeonce-serve`, `writeonce-view`) and 13 samples, 8 of them gated |
| "The multi-shard DB gap is structural" (Understated) | closed by the arc's stage 3: the string `"database engine not initialized"` no longer exists in `runtime/src/`, worker statements marshal to the owner shard, and `just db-actor` gates it |
Still true, re-checked at the source: interpreted-only with no JIT and no SIMD;
the ceilings correction (`WO_STACK_SLOTS 4096`, `WO_MAX_REGS 64`,
`WO_MAX_FRAMES 256`, `WO_MAX_SHARDS 64`); no generics beyond `multi`/`map`; no
closures or function values; byte strings with no Unicode awareness; traps and
`try` instead of Result values; `switch` without destructuring; round-robin
placement with no work stealing; no timers beyond `time.sleep`; no TLS; no
HTTP/2; observability is `print`/stderr with no counters, tracing or profiler; no
debugger and no LSP; deps are git-rev-only with no registry, semver or transitive
resolution; blue-green and migrations are futures; TSan covers one demo. And
**`map<K,V>` lookup is still a linear scan** — `runtime/src/cont.h` says so in
its own header comment, which keeps it the compute problem this document argued
it was.
Two capability gaps this re-run named that the original critique did not, now
[iteration 38](stories/language-runtime-database/38-content-platform-capabilities.md):
`fs` has six builtins (ids 40–45) and can create, grow and read a file but never
replace, truncate, delete or rename one; and there is no `net.connect` anywhere
in `runtime/src/`, so no program can open an outbound connection.
## Re-verification 2026-09-09
Code is the source of truth; the standing critique's production-plumbing row and
the 2026-08-26 re-verification have been overtaken by shipped work. Kept as
written above; corrected here:
- **"No TLS anywhere (proxy-mandated forever)"** — false since 2026-09-09.
Runtime-v2 9 landed hand-rolled TLS 1.3 in-process, both directions:
`net.connect_tls`/`net.read_tls`/`net.write_tls` (ids 115–117) and
`net.accept_tls` (118), live-gated (`just tls`, `just tls-server`). The
proxy-termination doctrine is retired.
- **"no crypto primitives"** — false. `crypto.c` holds SHA-1/SHA-256/HMAC (iteration
34), ChaCha20-Poly1305, AES-GCM, HKDF, X25519, RSA-PSS/PKCS1 + ECDSA-P256 verify
*and* constant-time sign (RFC 6979), and an X.509 layer — all RFC/NIST-vector
gated.
- **"there is no `net.connect` anywhere in `runtime/src/`"** — false since
2026-09-07 (`WO_B_NET_CONNECT` = 110; the id ceiling is now `WO_B_MAX` 118).
- **"send is one-way — no reply/request-response"** — overtaken by iteration 24's
`call`; **"no supervision, links, or actor death"** — overtaken by iteration 24's
monitors/death notices; the cross-shard message double free that shadowed the
actor path (language 41) is fixed (`63065ff`, marshal on the crossing).
- Still true: no HTTP/2, no debugger/LSP, git-rev-only deps, and — precisely —
**no RNG exposed to `.wo`** (the runtime has a `getrandom` source since rv2 9,
unsurfaced until porch 2's `random_bytes`).

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# databasev2 — chain and dependency review
Reviewed 2026-08-29 against story frontmatter, the track index's sequence
table, and the code as it stands on `dev`. Six findings, ordered by how much
damage each could do if acted on.
## The recorded picture
`chain` is a **cross-track** field (positions 1–6, defined in
`docs/stories/board-views.md`), not a databasev2 one. Only two databasev2
iterations carry it:
| chain | Story | status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | language 08 shard-actor runtime, 11 fibers | done |
| 2 | language 22 durability/throughput/scale | done |
| 3 | language 31 actor lifecycle, 40 shutdown drain | done |
| 4 | language 24 chat/websocket workload | done |
| 5 | **databasev2 4** io_uring group commit | in-progress |
| 6 | **databasev2 3** WAL checkpoint | done |
The track's own sequence lives in `00-story.md` as a Needs column plus an
ASCII graph. The two disagree with each other, with the chain field, and with
what happened.
## Finding 1 — the graph contradicts the chain field and the history
`00-story.md` draws `3 ──▶ 4`: iteration 3 before iteration 4. The chain field
says the opposite — iteration 4 is chain 5, iteration 3 is chain 6, so 4 comes
first. History settles it: **4's part A landed 2026-08-28, 3 landed
2026-08-29.** The chain field and the history agree; the graph is wrong.
Worth fixing rather than shrugging at, because the graph is the artefact
someone reads when choosing what to start.
## Finding 2 — the graph contradicts its own prose about direction
The order rationale states "**3 and 4 matter to 2**" — that is, 2 depends on 3
and 4. The graph draws an edge *from* 2 *to* 3, which reads as the reverse.
One of the two is backwards, and the prose is the one that matches the code:
`resident: keys` needed the checkpoint, not the other way round.
## Finding 3 — a retired path is still drawn
The graph still shows `2 ──▶ 5 ──▶ 6`. The 2026-08-27 amendment directly below
it says iteration 6 is largely superseded by 2, and that **5 is no longer a
prerequisite for anything on the critical path**. The prose retired the path;
the picture kept it.
## Finding 4 — the chain metadata omits the iteration doing the work
Iteration 2 is on the critical path, is `in-progress`, and is where 5c/5d just
landed — and it carries **no `chain` field**. The board-views query "the
concurrency chain, in execution order" filters `WHERE chain`, so iteration 2 is
invisible to it. Either 2 belongs on the chain and should say so, or the chain
is genuinely a concurrency artefact that databasev2 2 sits outside — in which
case 3 and 4 carrying it while 2 does not deserves a one-line explanation.
## Finding 5 — iteration 3's hazard section is stale, and was incomplete
This is the one with teeth.
`03-wal-checkpoint.md` carries a "Hazard: compaction invalidates every
`resident: keys` offset" section and a matching Outstanding entry. Both are now
**stale**: the Outstanding entry says "**Nothing fails today** because
iteration 2's storage half is unimplemented", which stopped being true when
5c/5d landed (`125bd09`, `08abd09`, `0c97fa4`, `f606fc9`). The hazard also
offers two shapes and says "the first is almost certainly right" — the first
*was* implemented, and the section should now record that as settled rather
than as an open fork.
More importantly, **the recorded hazard named only half the danger.** It
described stored offsets becoming wrong: a pointer into a rewritten file.
Implementation found a second, worse failure it did not anticipate — compaction
walked the slab **bitmap**, and a keys-resident row has no bitmap bit, because
its slot is returned to the free list when the payload is dropped. Every such
row would therefore have been **omitted from the new log entirely**. That is
silent data loss, not a bad pointer, and no amount of offset-rebuilding would
have caught it.
Both failure modes are now pinned by `test_keys_resident_survives_compaction`,
which rewrites rows in hash order so offsets genuinely move and a missing
re-point cannot pass by luck.
## Finding 6 — the coupling is now bidirectional, and undocumented in that direction
The docs record 2 depending on 3. After 5d, **3's own deliverable depends on
2's API**: `wo_wal_compact` in `database/src/wal.c` now calls
`wo_row_next_id`, `wo_row_offset1`, `wo_row_set_offset` and
`wo_table_is_keys_resident` — all iteration 2 surface. Compaction can no longer
be described as a pure file operation, which is exactly what the hazard section
predicted and no dependency table records.
Minor, same family: iteration 6 is "largely superseded" and to be revisited
"only with a measurement showing the page cache insufficient" — a hold
condition — yet its status is `pending` while genuinely parked iterations 8, 9
and 10 are `hold`.
## Addendum 2026-08-29 — the recommendation this review implied was wrong
This review argued the next step was to measure `resident: keys` before
investing further, and that measuring required narrowing the loader refusal so
a benchmark could declare such a table. **Auditing the code before narrowing it
found that `delete` on a keys-resident table was memory corruption**, not a
missing feature: `wo_row_remove` read the id map's value as a slot when on such
a table it is a log offset, and `slot_row` bounds-checks nothing.
The refusal was therefore load-bearing in a way nobody had written down. It was
justified in the docs by "updates are unimplemented" — one honest gap — while
actually standing in front of two, one of which frees arbitrary pointers.
Both are now closed or contained (`wo_row_remove` fixed, `wo_row_ptr` returns
NULL rather than a wild pointer), but the lesson generalises: **a guard whose
stated reason is narrower than its real one will eventually be removed by
someone who believes the stated reason.**
## What is actually blocked
Nothing in databasev2 is blocked on anything else in databasev2. Iteration 2's
remaining tasks 6 and 7 depend only on iteration 2. Iteration 4's part B is not
blocked either — it is unstarted with an invalidated premise, which is a
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# Dependency graphs — iterations and framework features
> Companion to [00-status.md](stories/00-status.md) (states live THERE; this page
> carries the edges). An arrow `A --> B` means **A must exist before B**;
> a dashed arrow is a scope DIRECTIVE, not a technical dependency. Use it
> to pick the next implementation: anything whose incoming arrows are all
> green is startable today. Rebuilt 2026-08-20 from a sweep of every
> story/spec/plan markdown (the "misses" pass: iteration 17's outgoing
> edges, the concurrency chain, the parked drain, 9b→25, 28's gap
> fan-out, 20's fiber caveat), and **refreshed 2026-08-26** against the
> code and the story frontmatter: graph 1 had drifted a generation
> behind — it still showed 17 parked and 18 as next, and it used the
> pre-renumber ids 10/12/13/14 for what are now stories 25/26/29/28. All
> iterations through 38 are now nodes.
## 1. Story iterations
```mermaid
flowchart TD
classDef done fill:#1a7f37,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef parked fill:#6e7781,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef specd fill:#0969da,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef open fill:#eac54f,color:#000,stroke:none
classDef inprog fill:#8250df,color:#fff,stroke:none
FOUND["1–6 foundation: doctrine, VM, compiler, binary, surface, stdlib"]:::done
I7["7 log-watcher proof"]:::done
I7b["7b inferred GC + per-shard mark-sweep"]:::done
I9["9 database engine"]:::done
I9b["9b @table + query"]:::done
I15["15 deps package manager"]:::done
I16["16 web framework v1 core"]:::done
I17["17 library kind + internal/ ✅ 2026-08-20"]:::done
FWREORG["framework internal/ reorg + check mode ✅ landed with 17 (WO-E108/E109 shipped)"]:::done
I19["19 Float + Bytes ✅ 2026-08-20"]:::done
I37["37 wo-html components + raw text literal ✅ 2026-08-25"]:::done
I35["35 net runtime seams ✅ 2026-08-23"]:::done
I36["36 operator parity: not/bitwise/hex literals — code landed 2026-08-22, awaiting the manual pass"]:::specd
RELEASE["packaging + release pipeline ✅ 2026-08-25 (no story: VERSION, just dist, install-accept, release.yml)"]:::done
I18["18 transaction{} 🔄 hold lifted + split 2026-09-11 (cache/flags/jobs → porch 10, graph 4); T1–T6, T8, T9 landed same day, corpus green; open: kill -9 battery (T7)"]:::inprog
I9c["20 cross-program tables (⏸ hold 2026-08-21; channel half-built)"]:::parked
I9d["21 keypair attach auth (⏸ hold 2026-08-21; crypto floor now exists via 34)"]:::parked
I9e["22 durability + throughput baseline ✅ 2026-08-21"]:::done
I8["8 shard-actor runtime ✅ 2026-08-21"]:::done
I24["24 chat + actor lifecycle 🔄 THE LIVE SLICE (absorbing 31 + 34)"]:::specd
I34["34 crypto builtins ✅ code landed as 24's T1 (ids 85-87)"]:::done
I31["31 actor lifecycle — call/mailbox-cap/death landed in 24; monitor + time.after (ids 89/90) open"]:::specd
I9f["23 io_uring group-commit ✅ part A 2026-08-28 as databasev2 4 (part B refine)"]:::done
I32["32 WAL checkpoint ✅ 2026-08-29 as databasev2 3 (compaction by rewrite + rename)"]:::done
I33["33 single-file store WO_DATA=<path>.db (driver-only, off-chain)"]:::open
I25["25 HTTP service layer — `service` blocks (⏸ hold 2026-08-21; story file removed, plan remains)"]:::parked
I11["11 fibers ✅ 2026-08-21"]:::done
I26["26 blue-green deploy (⏸ hold)"]:::parked
I29["29 metaprogramming @derive (⏸ hold)"]:::parked
I28["28 skillhost workload (⏸ hold; demoted)"]:::parked
I38["38 content platform capabilities: fs mutation verbs + net.connect"]:::open
I9g["27 query grammar corpus (⏸ hold; likely collapses)"]:::parked
I30["30 observability, CI, fuzz — release-only CI exists; per-change gates + fuzz open (no story file)"]:::open
GAPS["28's gap fan-out, what is LEFT of it: fs metadata, FFI-vs-out-of-process (bounded subprocess + stdio transport moved to 42)"]:::open
I42["42 bounded subprocess ✅ 2026-09-01: proc.run bounded + parked (pidfd), proc.run_dl; streaming form deferred by name"]:::done
DRAIN["parked drain, what is LEFT of it: WO-E225 roster, ADT roster, group-by aggregates"]:::parked
FOUND --> I7
FOUND --> I9
I7 --> I7b
I9 --> I9b
I9b --> I15
I15 --> I16
I15 --> I17
I16 --> I17
I17 --> FWREORG
I16 --> I37
I19 --> I37
I17 --> RELEASE
I9 --> I18
I16 --> I18
I9 --> I9c
I9c --> I9d
I9c --> I25
I9b --> I25
I16 --> I25
I9b --> I9e
I7b --> I8
I9e --> I9f
I8 --> I9f
I8 --> I11
I19 --> I34
I34 --> I24
I8 --> I24
I11 --> I24
I35 --> I24
I31 --- I24
%% 23 and 32 compose on the WAL commit path; neither needs the other (databasev2 story, corrected 2026-08-29)
I9f --- I32
I32 --- I33
I9 --> I26
I25 --> I26
I9g --> I28
I7 --> I28
I28 --> GAPS
I11 --> I42
I24 --> I42
I16 --> I38
I32 --> I38
I36 -.reopens the pure-wo HMAC question.-> I34
I26 -.scope directive.-> I29
I26 -.scope directive.-> DRAIN
```
Reading it: **the live slice is 24** (chat + actor lifecycle, absorbing 31
and 34), and the chain behind it, 23 → 32, is done (databasev2 4 part A
2026-08-28, databasev2 3 2026-08-29). Everything else with all-green
incoming arrows is startable: **33** (driver-only, off-chain), **38** (the
fs-mutation and outbound-socket gaps), and **30**'s remaining half
(per-change CI and fuzzing — the release pipeline covered only publishing).
**36** needs no work, only the developer's manual pass over
`docs/examples/operators/`. The held tail — 20/21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 — (18's
hold lifted 2026-09-11, above) resumes on its own precedence notes; 29 and
what is left of the drain still
sit behind 26 by the 2026-08-08 scope directive (dashed), not by any
technical edge. Note what left the drain: `pub(read)`, `using` and `#if` all
shipped, so only the WO-E225/ADT rosters and group-by aggregates remain in
it.
## 2. The concurrency chain (iterations 8 / 23 / 11 and everything they gate)
The runtime's concurrency work is the single biggest unlocker — every
⏸ row in the framework ledger and two v2 follow-ons hang off it.
```mermaid
flowchart TD
classDef rt fill:#8250df,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef gated fill:#eac54f,color:#000,stroke:none
classDef v2 fill:#0969da,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef done fill:#1a7f37,color:#fff,stroke:none
I7b2["7b per-shard collector (done — the precondition 8 waited on)"]:::rt
I8x["8 shard-actor runtime: thread-per-core, ownership-move messages"]:::rt
I9fx["23 io_uring group-commit (batch = queue drain) ✅ part A 2026-08-28"]:::done
I11x["11 fibers: reduction-budget preemption, blocking builtins park"]:::rt
I9ex["22 baseline (numbers 8/23 sign against)"]:::rt
KEEPAL["keep-alive parking retired ✅ iteration 35 (app-owned fiber-per-connection + idle deadline)"]:::rt
H2C2["h2c HTTP/2 cleartext (spec §C: also needs 23)"]:::gated
STREAM2["request body streaming + backpressure"]:::gated
SRESP2["streaming responses + explicit commit point"]:::gated
CANCEL2["per-request cancellation propagation"]:::gated
PUBSUB2["DONE 2026-08-27 — pub/sub + WebSockets (iteration 24: ws_accept + wsframe + room actors)"]:::done
ASYNC9C["20 async attach statements (rejected-for-now alternative)"]:::gated
TIMEOUTS2["idle timeouts become schedulable (net seam still needed)"]:::gated
FIBJOBS2["fiber-scheduled jobs (replaces drain-on-request; queue table stays)"]:::v2
CANCELRB["cancellation → transaction rollback"]:::v2
I18x["18 transaction{} (jobs moved to porch 10, 2026-09-11 — graph 4)"]:::v2
I7b2 --> I8x
I9ex --> I9fx
I8x --> I9fx
I8x --> I11x
I8x --> KEEPAL
I11x --> KEEPAL
I8x --> H2C2
I9fx --> H2C2
I11x --> H2C2
I11x --> STREAM2
I11x --> SRESP2
I11x --> CANCEL2
I8x --> PUBSUB2
I11x --> PUBSUB2
I11x --> ASYNC9C
I11x --> TIMEOUTS2
I11x --> FIBJOBS2
I18x --> FIBJOBS2
I11x --> CANCELRB
I18x --> CANCELRB
CANCEL2 --> CANCELRB
```
## 3. Framework v1 — remaining ledger items
Three gates recur: **net seams** (runtime `net` builtins), the **crypto
fork** (bitwise operators + hex literals landed with iteration 36, so
digests are now expressible in pure `.wo` — pure-`.wo` vs C-builtin is
story 34's brainstorm before the slice), and the
**concurrency chain above** (its gated nodes are not repeated here).
```mermaid
flowchart TD
classDef gate fill:#8250df,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef ready fill:#1a7f37,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef blocked fill:#eac54f,color:#000,stroke:none
classDef done fill:#6e7781,color:#fff,stroke:none
CORS["CORS middleware ✅ slice 2"]:::done
SECH["security-headers middleware ✅ slice 2"]:::done
HOSTV["host validation (421) ✅ slice 2"]:::done
STRICT["strict-parsing audit (dup Content-Length = 400) ✅ slice 2"]:::done
WILD["wildcard segments *rest ✅ slice 2"]:::done
PREC["precedence: registration order stands, wildcards last by construction ✅"]:::done
GROUPS["route groups + group middleware ✅ slice 2"]:::done
CTX["req.ctx bag ✅ slice 2"]:::done
XFF["client_ip: X-Forwarded-For parsing ✅ slice 2 (peer VERIFY stays gated)"]:::done
ACCEPT["accepts(): response-side negotiation ✅ slice 2"]:::done
NETSEAM["GATE CLEARED: iteration 35 landed the net seams — _dl deadlines, listen_unix, peer (ids 91-95)"]:::done
TMOUT["read/write/idle timeouts ✅ iteration 35 (serve_conn read_ms/idle_ms)"]:::done
UNIX["unix socket binding ✅ iteration 35"]:::done
PEERV["trusted-proxy PEER verification — net.peer landed; the verify middleware is a ready framework slice"]:::ready
CRYPTO["GATE CLEARED: iteration 34 landed C builtins — sha1/sha256/hmac_sha256 (ids 85-87)"]:::done
SHA["sha1/sha256/hmac_sha256 ✅ iteration 34; SHA-512/CRC32 wait for a consumer"]:::done
ETAG["ETag + If-None-Match 304 ✅ slice 2"]:::done
COOKIE["signed cookies"]:::ready
CSRF["CSRF"]:::ready
SESS["session integrity"]:::ready
HOOKV["webhook verification"]:::ready
JWT["JWT HS256 (HARD STOP after)"]:::ready
RADIX["radix-tree routing"]:::blocked
I9E3["GATE: router scan unmeasured — 22's harness landed but benched the DB, not the router; perf-targets entry first"]:::gate
STORAGE["storage-integration rows: migrations (future story), eager loading + tenant roots (query-surface work, 9-series)"]:::blocked
NETSEAM --> TMOUT
NETSEAM --> UNIX
NETSEAM --> PEERV
CRYPTO --> SHA
SHA --> ETAG
SHA --> COOKIE
SHA --> CSRF
SHA --> SESS
SHA --> HOOKV
SHA --> JWT
I9E3 --> RADIX
```
**Slice 2 landed (2026-08-23, branch `framework-v1b`):** every
formerly-green node plus the crypto chain's first consumers — CORS,
security headers, host validation (421), strict dup-Content-Length,
`*rest` wildcards, route groups + group middleware, `req.ctx`,
`client_ip`, `accepts()`, ETag/304 — all gated by `just web-app`
(38 checks). The after-middleware seam (`After`/`use_after`) carries
the response-header half. Now READY with the digest builtins landed:
signed cookies, CSRF, session integrity, webhook verification, JWT
HS256 (the hard stop). Still gated: timeouts/unix-socket/peer-verify
(story 35's net seams) and the radix tree (router scan unmeasured).
Note: 21's keypair crypto is its own C implementation (already on
branch `keypair-auth`) — it neither waits for nor feeds this chain.
## 4. Language 18 — `transaction { }` (was "Framework v2"; split 2026-09-11)
**Redrawn 2026-09-11.** The hold lifted (developer: "implement language 18")
and codd-shoney re-settled the scope: 18 is now the engine + language block
alone. `cache.wo`, `flags.wo`, `jobs.wo` and the transactional demo moved to
[porch 10](stories/porch/10-memory-features-over-table.md) (`refine`, stub),
which needs 18's `transaction { }` for its jobs demo and porch 1–3 otherwise.
```mermaid
flowchart TD
classDef piece fill:#0969da,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef inprog fill:#8250df,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef refine fill:#eac54f,color:#000,stroke:none
TXN["language 18: transaction{} — compiler block, kind-6 log record, engine undo list, VM re-raise: landed 2026-09-11 (T1–T6); open: kill -9 battery"]:::inprog
TPRMW["txn-per-request middleware (v1 ledger's storage row; single-thread OK)"]:::piece
P10["porch 10: cache.wo, flags.wo, jobs.wo + the transactional demo (stub, refine)"]:::refine
TXN --> TPRMW
TXN -. moved 2026-09-11 .-> P10
```
`transaction { }` is the only engine + language work left in this iteration;
everything that only needed the WAL's staged batch as a `.wo` consumer moved
downstream to the track that owns `.wo` product code. Fiber-scheduled jobs and
cancellation→rollback appear in graph 2 — they need iteration 11 as well as 18.
## 5. porch — the web framework track
States live on [the board's porch section](stories/00-status.md). **The whole
track (2–8) is `readiness: ready`** as of the 2026-09-06 brainstorm; **1** is
done, **9** is held (blocked on the lang-41 arena hang, not an enhancement).
Three independent roots: **2** (the auth chain), **6** (the streaming chain),
**5** (anytime, no incoming edges at all — not even iteration 2). **10** is a
`refine` stub added 2026-09-11 (language 18's split — TTL cache, `@table`
feature flags, durable job queue) and is not part of the "whole track ready"
count.
This graph makes the **cross-track language edges** visible: the three builtins
the track needs, each drawn as a `lang` node feeding the story that owns it.
```mermaid
flowchart TD
classDef done fill:#1a7f37,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef ready fill:#0969da,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef held fill:#6e7781,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef lang fill:#8250df,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef refine fill:#eac54f,color:#000,stroke:none
TXN["language 18: transaction{} (T1 in flight)"]:::lang
RB["random_bytes builtin ✅ 2026-09-09 (bare-name, id 119 — one shared enum with wob.h/loader arity) — porch 2 Phase A"]:::done
DFL["language work: deflate + crc32 builtins (C) — porch 7 Phase C"]:::lang
TU["language work: time.utc builtin (gmtime sibling of time.local) — porch 8 Phase A"]:::lang
P1["porch 1 store-backed middleware ✅ 2026-08-30"]:::done
P2["porch 2 randomness + cookies"]:::ready
P3["porch 3 sessions"]:::ready
P4["porch 4 CSRF"]:::ready
P5["porch 5 routing + response ergonomics (zero upstream deps)"]:::ready
P6["porch 6 streaming core"]:::ready
P7["porch 7 SSE + compression"]:::ready
P8["porch 8 static files + lifecycle"]:::ready
P9["porch 9 idempotent replay (ready — unblocked 2026-09-09)"]:::ready
P10["porch 10 memory features over @table: cache/flags/jobs (stub, refine — split from language 18, 2026-09-11)"]:::refine
L41["language 41 actor-arena double free ✅ fixed 63065ff (cross-shard marshal)"]:::done
L44["language 44 poison-on-free ✅ (41's decision 3: a freed header can never pass for live; double free aborts)"]:::done
L41 -.follow-up.-> L44
RB --> P2
P2 --> P3
P2 --> P4
P3 --> P4
P6 --> P7
P6 --> P8
P5 --> P7
P5 --> P8
DFL --> P7
TU --> P8
L41 -.fixed 2026-09-09 — no longer blocks.-> P9
P1 -.re-scope 79e6da4: replay-on-retry split out of 1.-> P9
TXN --> P10
P1 --> P10
P2 --> P10
P3 --> P10
```
Edges corrected by the 2026-09-06 brainstorm: `P5 --> P7` (gzip's
`Accept-Encoding` reuses iteration 5's q-value ranking) stays, but the old
`P2 --> P7` edge is **gone** — story 7 decided `Vary` accumulates by comma-join
(iteration 5's shape), not iteration 2's repeated-header work. `P5 --> P8` is the
`Download`/`Attachment` helper. The three `lang` nodes are the track's entire
language bill; each is a builtin with a named consumer, none shipped as
decoration. **10** (added 2026-09-11) needs language 18's `transaction { }`
for its jobs demo and 1–3 for the store pattern, session-keyed cache and
flags read-through — see graph 4 for 18's own state.
## 5a. porch's language-driven gaps (out-of-scope features and the language stories that own them)
These are the features fiber ships that porch deliberately does **not** — each
excluded because a language primitive does not exist yet. Every edge points from
the owning language story to the porch feature it would unblock (see the
[porch↔fiber scope-gap analysis](plan/exploration/fiber/01-porch-vs-fiber-scope-gap.md)).
```mermaid
flowchart LR
classDef done fill:#1a7f37,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef refine fill:#eac54f,color:#000,stroke:none
classDef held fill:#6e7781,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef gap fill:#cf222e,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef inprog fill:#8250df,color:#fff,stroke:none
L29["language 29 @derive (⏸ hold)"]:::held
L38["language 38 net.connect ✅ landed (id 110); proxy middleware now buildable"]:::done
L43["runtime-v2 8 symmetric cipher (refine, NEW 2026-09-06)"]:::refine
L30["runtime-v2 7 observability (refine, moved from language 30, 2026-09-06)"]:::refine
L18["language 18 transaction{} (hold lifted 2026-09-11; T1 in flight) — TTL cache moved to porch 10"]:::inprog
L31["language 31 cancellation ✅ (landed in 24)"]:::done
BIND["typed request binding (fiber Bind)"]:::gap
PROXY["reverse proxy + outbound HTTP client"]:::gap
ENC["encrypted cookies (fiber encryptcookie)"]:::gap
METRICS["metrics / pprof / expvar endpoints"]:::gap
CACHE["cache middleware + recovery rollback"]:::gap
TIMEOUT["per-handler timeout + streaming backpressure"]:::gap
L29 --> BIND
L38 --> PROXY
L43 --> ENC
L30 --> METRICS
L18 --> CACHE
L31 --> TIMEOUT
```
31 (cancellation) is already green — per-handler timeout and streaming
backpressure are unblocked at the language level and wait only on a porch slice
to consume them. The other five gaps are gated on an upstream story: two
brand-new runtime-v2 iterations (8 cipher, 7 observability — moved out of the
language track 2026-09-06), one language iteration on hold (29) and one
unheld and in flight (18, since 2026-09-11 — its TTL-cache half of `CACHE` now
lives in porch 10), one pending a spec (38). Landed enablers the
track already consumed — 34 (crypto digests), 36 (bit operators), 35 (net
seams) — are green in graphs 1–3 and not repeated here.
## 6. wmux — the multiplexer track (wmux 1) and its gap chain
The tmux study's gaps, remapped as buildable edges now that iteration 42
landed. Every yellow node is an iteration of the
[runtime-v2 track](stories/runtime-v2/00-story.md) ("the runtime beyond
sockets"), ALL `readiness: ready` since the track-wide brainstorm
([spec](superpowers/specs/2026-09-01-runtime-v2-design.md), 2026-09-01) —
[1 streaming subprocess](stories/runtime-v2/01-streaming-subprocess.md) ·
[2 PTY](stories/runtime-v2/02-pty.md) ·
[3 signals as events](stories/runtime-v2/03-signals-as-events.md) ·
[4 termios](stories/runtime-v2/04-termios.md) ·
[5 fd passing](stories/runtime-v2/05-fd-passing.md). wmux — its own
track, first of the softwares built with writeonce — is the driving
workload that consumes them all — [wmux 1](stories/wmux/01-wmux.md).
```mermaid
flowchart TD
classDef done fill:#1a7f37,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef gap fill:#eac54f,color:#000,stroke:none
classDef product fill:#0969da,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef later fill:#6e7781,color:#fff,stroke:none
I42w["42 bounded subprocess ✅ 2026-09-01"]:::done
GSTREAM["runtime-v2 1 ✅ 2026-09-02 streaming subprocess: Child fds driven by the net verbs, wait_dl, signal"]:::done
GPTY["runtime-v2 2 ✅ 2026-09-02 PTY: spawn_pty + resize"]:::done
GSIG["runtime-v2 3 ✅ 2026-09-02 signals as events: signal.on delivers Signal records"]:::done
GTERMIOS["runtime-v2 4 ✅ 2026-09-02 termios: raw/restore, restore a runtime obligation"]:::done
GFDPASS["runtime-v2 5 ✅ 2026-09-02 fd passing: send_fd/recv_fd/connect_unix"]:::done
GVTE["VTE grid in pure .wo + unicode width tables ✅ (rung 2; UTF-8 decode + term.width landed)"]:::done
DB2W["databasev2 2 per-table durable/resident ✅ 2026-09-10 — durable default + WAL wmux 1 persists sessions/scrollback into"]:::done
WMUX["wmux 1 foundation ✅ 2026-09-02 (was language 43): server owns sessions/PTYs in durable tables, thin client hands over its tty — reattach after server RESTART replays from the WAL"]:::done
W2["wmux 2 the screen ✅ VTE grid"]:::done
W3["wmux 3 windows + status ✅"]:::done
W4["wmux 4 split panes ✅ (2-pane vertical)"]:::done
W5["wmux 5 copy mode ✅"]:::done
W6["wmux 6 multi-client ✅ (mirroring)"]:::done
W7["wmux 7 command system ✅"]:::done
W8["wmux 8 hooks + control ✅"]:::done
W9["wmux 9 parity audit ✅"]:::done
W10["wmux 10 layout tree — 🟡 first slice DONE 2026-09-03: horizontal split-window -h, select-pane -L/R/U/D, zoom; 2-pane max, N-way/swap/break/persistence pending"]:::gap
W11["wmux 11 formats + options + key rebinding ✅ 2026-09-02 — durable options/binds, #{...} status format, one run_command dispatcher; folded rung 14's prompt-race fix; fixed a PTY-EIO reader spin + a kill-session chunk race. gate 36/0"]:::done
W12["wmux 12 resize + mouse — 🟡 first slice DONE 2026-09-03/04: attach-time term.size sizing + SGR mouse (wheel/click/status-row); live SIGWINCH + min-size pending (rt2 3/6 ready)"]:::gap
W13["wmux 13 copy selection + search — 🟡 first slice DONE 2026-09-03: char-range vi v/y yank → buffer+OSC52; only search + rectangle pending"]:::gap
W14["wmux 14 control surface (prompt-race fix DONE in rung 11; narrows to control-mode commands + %notifications)"]:::gap
W15["wmux 15 terminfo — 🟡 terminfo-lite DONE 2026-09-03: a TERM allowlist retired the foreign-TERM refusal; full compiled-terminfo parsing pending"]:::gap
W16["wmux 16 durability polish (pane persistence, killw compaction) — 🟡 first slice DONE 2026-09-02: Window owns+reaps its panes (spawns in-actor so wait_dl works on its shard), zombie leak fixed, gate 37/0"]:::gap
W18["wmux 18 key tables (new, from the config audit) — 🟡 first slice DONE 2026-09-03: no-prefix RootBind table, Meta/named key_code, tty key decoder in Input; bind-key -n works; gate 42/0. copy-mode-vi + -r repeat pending. Also landed: dynamic sizing (term.size), alt-screen, erase 0/1, SGR reset, UTF-8 decode, O(n log n) replay"]:::gap
W19["wmux 19 mouse-driven UX (new) — 🟡 active-pane border + status-row click→window DONE 2026-09-04; drag-resize/drag-select pending. Forks open (scope split, motion mode, drag owner)"]:::gap
W17["wmux 17 formats v2 ✅ 2026-09-03 — #(shell) cached+timer, recursive #{...} conditionals/modifiers, #{time}/#{host_short}/#{window_name}"]:::done
W20["wmux 20 display-popup ✅ 2026-09-03/04 — session-owned modal float, -B borderless, rounded border, popup wheel forward; drove the OSC-swallow + frame-coalesce VTE fixes"]:::done
W21["wmux 21 sesh + switch-client ✅ 2026-09-04 — in-session switch-client -t/-l, reg threaded into sessions, sync call hand-off (fds move without close, B spawns a fresh Input, old Input exits on success), B-occupied refuses. Fixed a ?actor nullable schema-reorder. Gate 54/0"]:::done
W22["wmux 22 theming ✅ 2026-09-04 — style_sgr engine (fg/bg/attrs from durable options), active-pane border marker, automatic-rename via OSC title"]:::done
W23["wmux 23 plugin ports — thumbs/fzf/fzf-url via capture-pane + a popup picker (port vs tmux-compat shim). Forks open"]:::gap
W11 --> W18
W12 --> W19
W13 --> W19
W10 -.drag-resize only.-> W19
W11 --> W17
W2 --> W20
W6 --> W21
W20 --> W21
W11 --> W22
W10 --> W22
W20 --> W23
W12 --> W23
WMUX --> W2
W2 --> W3
W3 --> W4
W4 --> W5
W5 --> W6
W6 --> W7
W7 --> W8
W8 --> W9
W9 --> W10
W4 --> W10
W7 --> W11
W6 --> W12
W5 --> W13
W8 --> W14
W1TERM["(rung 1 fixed-profile refusal)"]:::done
W1TERM -.retired by.-> W15
W10 --> W16
TINFO["terminfo fork: parse the db in .wo vs fixed xterm-256color + refusal by name (decide at 43's brainstorm)"]:::later
TMONO["time.mono returns (status clock, repaint pacing) — v2"]:::later
I42w --> GSTREAM
GSTREAM --> GPTY
GPTY --> WMUX
GSIG --> WMUX
GTERMIOS --> WMUX
GFDPASS --> WMUX
GVTE --> WMUX
DB2W --> WMUX
TINFO -.settled at wmux's brainstorm.-> WMUX
TMONO -.v2.-> WMUX
```
**The track landed whole on 2026-09-02** — every runtime edge into wmux
is green. The VTE grid + unicode-width node landed (rung 2), and the ladder
is now through rung 22 (see the wmux table on the board); rungs 10/12/13/15
have first slices, rung 23 (plugin ports + a tmux-compat CLI) remains the
big open item. Sibling reuse:
the alacritty Wayland stage reuses GFDPASS + GVTE; the zen CDP driver
now lacks only a WebSocket client; skillhost (28) has its stdin
transport. One edge added 2026-09-10: [databasev2 2](stories/databasev2/02-table-storage-modes.md) → wmux 1, drawn above as `DB2W`, because wmux 1 persists sessions/scrollback in durable `@table` classes and replays from the WAL on reattach — the dependency the prose already named without a node.
## 7. jarvis — the AI-assistant track and everything it waits on
The sixth track ([jarvis](stories/jarvis/00-story.md)): an AI assistant built in
writeonce. **The runtime side is done** — the whole outbound HTTPS path landed
2026-09-09 (runtime-v2 9, both directions, live-gated) and language 41 is fixed.
What jarvis 1 waits on now is purely the **framework**: the developer set the
order *porch first, then jarvis*. So this graph is the porch→jarvis chain.
```mermaid
flowchart TD
classDef done fill:#1a7f37,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef ready fill:#0969da,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef refine fill:#eac54f,color:#000,stroke:none
NC["net.connect (id 110) ✅"]:::done
TLS["rv2 9 in-process TLS 1.3 ✅ — net.connect_tls / read_tls / write_tls (115–117), net.accept_tls (118)"]:::done
L41["language 41 cross-shard marshal ✅"]:::done
WOHTML["wo-html / writeonce-view ✅"]:::done
RB["random_bytes builtin (porch 2 phase A / lang 39) — surfaces the runtime's getrandom"]:::ready
P2["porch 2 randomness + cookies (ready)"]:::ready
P3["porch 3 sessions (ready)"]:::ready
P4["porch 4 CSRF (ready)"]:::ready
P5["porch 5 routing + response ergonomics (ready, zero deps)"]:::ready
P6["porch 6 streaming core (ready)"]:::ready
P7["porch 7 SSE + compression (ready)"]:::ready
P8["porch 8 static + lifecycle (ready)"]:::ready
P9["porch 9 idempotent replay (ready — unblocked by L41)"]:::ready
J1["jarvis 1 — the chat loop (ready; forks auto-approved, review_pending)"]:::ready
J2["jarvis 2 — tool use / agent loop (refine)"]:::refine
J3["jarvis 3 — retrieval (RAG) (refine)"]:::refine
NC --> TLS
RB --> P2
P2 --> P3
P2 --> P4
P3 --> P4
P5 --> P7
P5 --> P8
P6 --> P7
P6 --> P8
L41 --> P9
TLS --> J1
P2 --> J1
P3 --> J1
P4 -. CSRF-protects the POST once built .-> J1
P6 --> J1
P7 --> J1
WOHTML --> J1
J1 --> J2
J1 --> J3
```
**jarvis 1's dependency list, from the code and the stories (2026-09-09):**
| jarvis 1 needs | for | state |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `net.connect_tls` / `net.read_tls` / `net.write_tls` (runtime-v2 9) | dialing the LLM API over HTTPS, streaming its SSE reply | ✅ landed, live-gated |
| `net.connect` (id 110) | the TCP under it | ✅ landed |
| language 41 fix | actors carrying messages across shards without the double free | ✅ landed |
| `@table` | durable `Conversation` / `Message` history | ✅ exists |
| wo-html / writeonce-view | the chat page | ✅ exists |
| **porch 2** randomness + cookies (needs the `random_bytes` builtin first) | session id + signed cookie | ready, **unbuilt** |
| **porch 3** sessions | the session principal history is keyed to | ready, unbuilt (after 2) |
| **porch 6** streaming core | incremental response writes | ready, unbuilt |
| **porch 7** SSE + compression | token streaming to the browser | ready, unbuilt (after 5 + 6) |
| porch 4 CSRF | protecting `POST /message` (bearer-gated until then) | ready, unbuilt (after 2 + 3) |
| porch 5 routing + response ergonomics | the route surface | ready, unbuilt, zero deps |
**Build order that satisfies it** (the porch critical path to jarvis): the
`random_bytes` builtin → porch 2 → porch 3 → porch 5 → porch 6 → porch 7 (→ porch
4, 8, 9 to complete porch) → **jarvis 1**. Nothing on the runtime side is
outstanding; every remaining edge into jarvis 1 is a porch iteration.
## 8. databasev2 — the database beyond RAM
The third track ([databasev2](stories/databasev2/00-story.md)): what happens
when the data does not fit in memory. Its 3 and 4 are the language track's 32
and 23 renumbered — graph 1 still carries them as `I32`/`I9f`, green since
2026-08-29/28. Arrows point AT the iteration that needs the other, as in the
track's own ASCII graph; two edges are undirected: 3–4, which compose on the
WAL commit path and need each other in neither direction, and 2–3 (added
2026-09-10 — this graph had dropped it; the story's own graph always carried
it, [00-story.md:169-171](stories/databasev2/00-story.md)) — 2 needs 3's
offset map to survive compaction, and 3 has called 2's row API since task 5d,
so the coupling runs both ways. 9 and 10 (cross-program tables, keypair
attach) are held and not drawn.
```mermaid
flowchart TD
classDef done fill:#1a7f37,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef inprog fill:#8250df,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef ready fill:#0969da,color:#fff,stroke:none
classDef refine fill:#eac54f,color:#000,stroke:none
classDef hold fill:#6e7781,color:#fff,stroke:none
D1["databasev2 1 RAM ceiling measured ✅ 2026-08-27"]:::done
D2["databasev2 2 per-table durable/resident ✅ 2026-09-10 — 6a: refuse durable:true without WO_DATA, WO_EPHEMERAL=1 escape, .wob v8 table bit"]:::done
D3["databasev2 3 WAL checkpoint ✅ 2026-08-29 (was 32)"]:::done
D4["databasev2 4 group commit 🔄 — part A ✅ 2026-08-28; part B re-brainstormed 2026-09-10, GO measured (forks 6/7), fold pending — refine (was 23)"]:::inprog
D5["databasev2 5 bounded tables + eviction — ready 2026-09-10 (12 forks, review_pending), status pending; Phase A is the resident byte budget moved from 2 (2026-09-09)"]:::ready
D6["databasev2 6 cold tiering — hold (superseded by 2's resident: keys)"]:::hold
D7["databasev2 7 single-file store ✅ 2026-09-10 — WO_DATA=<path>.db (was 33)"]:::done
D8["databasev2 8 query grammar from corpora — hold, refine (count landed 2026-08-16; exists open) (was 27)"]:::hold
D11["databasev2 11 bounded delta chains ✅ 2026-08-30"]:::done
D12["databasev2 12 schema migrations ✅ 2026-08-31"]:::done
D13["databasev2 13 fresh-log keys-resident seed SEGV ✅ fixed 2026-09-10"]:::done
P1["porch 1 store-backed middleware ✅ 2026-08-30"]:::done
P2["porch 2 randomness + cookies (ready)"]:::ready
P3["porch 3 sessions (ready)"]:::ready
D1 -- budget default follows the measurement --> D5
D2 -- the byte budget, moved 2026-09-09 --> D5
D2 --> D11
D2 --> D12
D3 --- D4
D3 --- D2
D2 -- volatile tables; store.wo is default-durable today, so fork 6 makes WO_DATA or WO_EPHEMERAL=1 whole-program --> P1
D2 --> P2
D2 --> P3
D2 -- the offset map D13's fix touches --> D13
D12 -- the schema head record D13's fix touches --> D13
```
Node D13, added 2026-09-10, fixed the same day: a defect found while smoking
databasev2 7, not that iteration's fault (it reproduced identically in the
pre-existing directory form). It needed 2 (the keys-resident offset map) and
12 (the schema head record) — both are the mechanism the crash lived in.
Fixed by `6310078` (`wo_wal_next_offset` stages the pending schema head
before returning an offset) + `1b6750d` (NULL-`msg` guard in
`wo_wal_fold_row_at`); `just residency` 32/0. The separate
`residency.keys.fit` rc 74 bug (compaction/replay of keys-resident offsets)
is **not** the same defect and stays open under codd.md's "Next bugs".
**States as of 2026-09-10** (the board carries the words; this is the glance):
| databasev2 | status / readiness | what is left |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 RAM ceiling | ✅ done | — |
| 2 per-table storage | ✅ done (2026-09-10) | — (6a landed with the `.wob` v8 table bit; 6b lives in 5) |
| 3 WAL checkpoint | ✅ done | — |
| 4 group commit | 🔄 in-progress / refine | part B re-brainstormed 2026-09-10 (GO measured, forks 6/7); fold into the story, `.dev/zack/databasev2-4b.md` |
| 5 bounded tables | ⬜ pending / **ready** (2026-09-10) | developer review of the twelve `review_pending` forks, or a prebuild brief for Phase B; Phase A is startable now |
| 6 cold tiering | ⏸ hold / refine | superseded by 2; revisit only on a measurement |
| 7 single-file store | ✅ done (2026-09-10) | — (`WO_DATA` is a path, never a sentinel; `review_pending` developer second review) |
| 8 query grammar | ⏸ hold / refine | `count` landed; `exists` waits for a corpus |
| 11 bounded delta chains | ✅ done | — |
| 12 schema migrations | ✅ done | — |
| 13 fresh-log keys-resident seed SEGV | ✅ done (2026-09-10) | — (`residency.keys.fit` rc 74 is a separate, still-open bug) |
## Maintenance rule
When an iteration or slice lands, update its node's class here in the
same change that moves the board row — the two documents answer
different questions (status vs. edges) and drift kills both.

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# Documentation truth audit — 2026-08-26
> **Status: findings resolved 2026-08-26, same day.** Every section below was
> acted on; see [What was fixed](#what-was-fixed) at the end for the
> disposition of each, including **one row where this audit was wrong and the
> document it accused was right** (B3's `WO-W201` claim). The findings are kept
> as written — a fix list whose findings have been edited away cannot be
> checked. `just linkcheck` went from 77 broken paths to 23, and all 23 that
> remain are in `.dev/`, which this repo does not author.
>
> A separate structural directive landed the same day and **removed the status
> folders** (`done/`, `refine/`, `hold/`, `in-progress/`) — status now lives only
> in frontmatter. Paths of the form `…/done/NN-*.md` quoted in the findings below
> were correct when written and no longer resolve; see
> [Structural change 2026-08-26](#structural-change-2026-08-26--status-folders-removed).
Scope: every `*.md` that documents THIS repo — root `README.md`, the numbered
`docs/0*.md`, `docs/guides/`, `docs/stories/`, `docs/plan/`, `docs/examples/`,
`docs/superpowers/`, the code-directory READMEs and `CODE-LOGIC.md` files,
`tests/corpus/README.md`, `bench/compare/go-sqlite/README.md`,
`scripts/install-readme.tmpl.md`, `.claude/agents/codd.md`.
Excluded, and why: `.dev/skills/` (vendored copies of plugin skills, not ours),
`.dev/reference/` (other people's codebases), `.superpowers/sdd/` (dated task
reports — snapshots, correct as history).
Method: claims were checked against the tree, not read off prose. `woc`
(`compiler/_build/default/bin/woc`) and `wovm` (`runtime/wovm`), both built
2026-08-25, were run against every sample; `justfile` recipes, `wob.h`
constants, `types.ml`'s builtin tables, story frontmatter and
`scripts/linkcheck.py` were used as ground truth. Nothing in this report is
inferred from another document.
Verdict: **the deep reference docs are in good shape; the front door is not.**
`docs/guides/language-surface.md`, `docs/plan/oop-vm/08-builtin-surface.md`, the
three `CODE-LOGIC.md` files and the status board's tables track the code
closely. The root `README.md`, `runtime/README.md`, `docs/00-code-review.md`,
`docs/00-dependency-graph.md` and two example status banners describe a repo
that stopped existing between one and six weeks ago.
No document was changed by the audit pass itself — the findings below record the
tree as it stood before any fix. What was then changed in response is listed in
[What was fixed](#what-was-fixed).
---
## A. Wrong about shipped features (the highest-cost class)
### A1. `README.md` — the Roadmap lists three landed features as unavailable
`README.md:326-342` is headed "Planned, **not yet available**", and
`README.md:10-14` promises "Features that are planned but **not yet available**
are listed separately under Roadmap — they are not described as if they work."
Three of its six entries have shipped:
| README claim | Reality |
| --- | --- |
| `:336` "**Concurrency** — a shard-actor runtime and green-threaded fibers." | Both landed 2026-08-21 (iterations 8 and 11, both `done/`). `spawn` is a lexer keyword (`lexer.ml:163`); `send`/`call` are builtins (`WO_B_SEND=69`, `WO_B_CALL=88` in `wob.h`); `actor M` is a type (`types.ml`'s `TActor`). Gates exist and run: `just fibers`, `just db-actor`. `runtime/src/park.c` is the parking implementation; `runtime/test/test_fiber.c` and `test_mailbox.c` are its unit suites. |
| `:335` "**HTTP service layer** — `service` blocks that route requests to methods." | The *`service` block syntax* is genuinely absent — that half is honest. But it sits under a banner that also denies HTTP entirely, which is false (see A2). |
| `:332` "**Query aggregates** — `group … by … into g`" | **This one is correct.** `types.ml:2220,2241` rejects it: "group-by aggregation is not supported yet". Kept here only because `docs/guides/language-surface.md` contradicts it — see C1. |
### A2. `README.md:33-37` — "does not serve HTTP, WebSockets, or a UI"
> "writeonce is **not** a web framework and does not (yet) serve HTTP,
> WebSockets, or a UI."
Contradicted 30 lines later by its own §"Worked examples" (`:306-313`), which
describes `docs/examples/porch/` as "a web framework written in
writeonce (HTTP/1.1 …, router with `:param` captures, interface-based
handlers)" and `just web-app` as its gate. Also contradicted by:
- iteration 16 (web framework) and 37 (wo-html components), both `done/`;
- `docs/examples/site/` — server-rendered pages, gated by `just site`;
- WebSockets: `docs/examples/porch/http/ws.wo` (`ws_accept`, the 101
hijack sentinel) and `http/wsframe.wo` (a pure-`.wo` RFC 6455 frame codec),
both landed per `docs/in-progress/2026-08-23-chat-ws-lifecycle.md` (T6, T7).
### A3. `README.md:30` — "no package manager"
> "**Small on purpose.** No FFI, no package manager, no framework."
Same page, `:265-281`, documents `[deps]`, `.wo-deps/<name>/`, `wo.lock` and
`woc --update-deps`. Iteration 15 (deps package manager) is `done/`;
`just deps-accept` is its gate. "No framework" is contradicted by `:306`.
The intended claim is presumably "no *registry*" — which is true and is what
`docs/00-code-review.md:77` says.
### A4. `docs/examples/employee/README.md:3` — "does not compile on today's toolchain"
> "**Status: target workload — does not compile on today's toolchain.** …
> It becomes buildable when iteration 9 … and iteration 9b … land."
Both landed. `woc docs/examples/employee/` exits 0. `just employee` is a
first-class acceptance gate, and the `justfile:88-91` comment calls it "the
database track's acceptance workload". The banner is ~2 weeks stale.
### A5. `docs/examples/log-watcher/README.md:12-20` — same shape
> "**Status: design artifact — the spec's forcing function.** The systems
> track is approved, pre-implementation. Today's `woc` (milestone 1) …
> diagnoses the adopted surface as WO-E101: `use`, `typedef`, standalone union
> aliases …, `pub(read)`, `switch`, `try`."
Every one of those forms is shipped (`docs/guides/language-surface.md` §2–§5,
verified in `lexer.ml`/`parser.ml`). `woc docs/examples/log-watcher/` exits 0.
`just log-watcher` is the gate the `justfile:82-87` calls "the test the whole
track exists to pass".
Same file, `:8-9`: "the five builtin stdlib modules — `fs`, `proc`, `net`,
`time`, `json`". There are **six** (`types.ml:206`): `env` is missing.
### A6. `runtime/README.md` — describes the pre-2026-08-18 world
The directory's orientation README is still the old `wo-rt-c` prototype page
with the VM bolted on at `:78`. Concretely wrong:
- `:31` "Or from the repo root: `just rt-c-demo`" and `:60` "`just rt-c-bench`"
— **neither recipe exists.** The justfile has 16 recipes plus two `mod`s;
no `rt-c-*` among them.
- `:5,:83` "the production Rust runtime (`crates/rt/`)", `:76` "This file is for
reading; `crates/rt` is for running writeonce" — the Rust runtime was removed
2026-08-18 (`docs/08-project-structure.md:11`).
- `:3` `prototypes/wo-db/`, `:43` `docs/runtime/database/03-inmemory-engine.md`,
`:47` `docs/plan/09-concurrency-scaleout.md` — none of these paths exist
(also in the link audit's sections B/C/E).
- `:84` "**`@gc` reference counting** + budgeted cycle collection … Bacon–Rajan
trial deletion" — retired by iteration 7b. `@gc` on a class is now
**rejected** (`docs/guides/language-surface.md:73`), and
`runtime/src/CODE-LOGIC.md` states the replacement outright: "incremental
tri-color mark-sweep … (iteration 7b — RC and Bacon–Rajan are gone)".
- `:89` "`DB_STUB` traps 'engine not linked' until the DB engine binds (plan
5)" — the engine bound in iteration 9. The opcode survives
(`wob.h:232`, `vm.c:1806`) but the sentence reads as "no database yet".
- `:89` builtin list "`now/print/print_int/words/multi_*/map_*`" — there are
now ~70 free builtins plus six module namespaces (`types.ml:784-849`).
- File map (`:92-107`) omits four of the thirteen sources in `runtime/src/`:
`crypto.c/.h`, `json.c`, `park.c/.h`, `sysio.c`.
- `:105` and `:117` "13 suites" / "one of the 13 ASan test binaries" — there
are **18** (`runtime/test/test_*.c`).
- `:1` "now at **phase E**" vs `:57` "A → B → C → D → E → F, all ✅ shipped"
vs `:60` "Measured (phase F…)" — three answers in one file.
Verified-correct in the same file, for contrast: `WO_HEAP_MB` / 64 MiB arena,
the four `.vscode/launch.json` configs, the exit-code contract, and the
`make -C runtime` targets.
---
## B. Verification tables that no longer verify
### B1. `docs/00-code-review.md` — the 2026-08-20 table has decayed
The doc's value is that it *checked* a critique line by line. Seven rows of
`:55-82` are now false, and the doc carries no superseded banner:
| Row | Then | Now |
| --- | --- | --- |
| "no `Float`, no `Bytes` \| absent from `compiler/src/types.ml`" | true | `types.ml:174` `builtin_scalars = ["Int";"Bool";"Text";"Timestamp";"Id";"Float";"Bytes"]` — iteration 19, `done/` |
| "`send` is one-way \| `WO_B_SEND=69` is the last builtin (`WO_B_MAX 69u`)" | true | `WO_B_MAX 95u`; `WO_B_CALL = 88` is a send that parks for a typed reply |
| "no crypto primitives \| none" | true | `WO_B_SHA1=85`, `WO_B_SHA256=86`, `WO_B_HMAC_SHA256=87`; `runtime/src/crypto.c`; `runtime/test/test_crypto.c` |
| "22's battery never run \| … no `bench/baseline.json`, no `just db-bench`" | true | `bench/baseline.json` exists, `just db-bench` / `db-bench-quick` exist, 30+ result files in `bench/results/`, iteration 22 is `done/` |
| "no fuzzing, no CI \| **no `.github/`**, no fuzz target" | true | `.github/workflows/release.yml` exists (fuzzing still absent) |
| "one framework, five samples, one consumer" | true | 13 sample projects under `docs/examples/` |
| "accept on one shard \| one listener, `SO_REUSEADDR` only" | true | iteration 35 landed `serve_conn` + fiber-per-connection |
| `:46-51` "The multi-shard DB gap is structural … `wo_builtin_db` returns `WO_T_DB` 'database engine not initialized'" | true | that string is gone from `runtime/src/`; arc stage 3 landed the transparent DB actor, gated by `just db-actor` |
Rows that still hold, checked: interpreted-only/no JIT, no SIMD, the
`WO_STACK_SLOTS 4096` / `WO_MAX_REGS 64` / `WO_MAX_FRAMES 256` correction, no
generics, no closures, byte strings, no Result type, switch-not-destructuring,
no supervision, growable mailboxes, no `timerfd`, no TLS, no debugger/LSP,
deps-are-git-rev-only, blue-green is a future, TSan covers one demo. And
**`map<K,V>` lookup is still a linear scan** — `cont.h:1-6` says so in as many
words.
### B2. `docs/00-link-audit.md` — numbers and paths both stale
Dated 2026-08-20. `just linkcheck` today reports **files=235, local=675,
broken=77, bad anchors=0**; the doc's table says 206 / 569 / 88. Its own
sections B–F sum to 77, not the 88 its prose claims twice (`:12`, `:145`) —
an internal arithmetic error independent of the drift.
Its repair table (`:29-37`) references paths that have since moved:
`docs/00-status.md` (now `docs/stories/00-status.md`), and
`refine/{08,11,19,20,21}` (now under `done/` and `hold/`).
Two broken links exist today that the audit does not account for:
- `docs/examples/employee-list/README.md:5,6` → `…/refine/20-cross-program-tables.md`
and `…/refine/21-keypair-attach-auth.md`; both files are now in `hold/`.
- `docs/stories/language-runtime-database/hold/26-blue-green-deploy.md:9` →
`00-story.md`; the sibling stopped being a sibling when 26 moved into `hold/`.
Conversely `docs/00-principles.md:57,77,78,87` — four links the audit lists as
open — resolve now.
### B3. `docs/plan/oop-vm/01-error-catalog.md` — not the complete catalog it claims
`docs/guides/language-surface.md:8` calls it "every diagnostic";
`compiler/README.md:39` says "every shipped code is cataloged" there. Ten
codes the compiler emits are absent:
| Code | Defined at | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `WO-E003` | `lexer.ml:56` | `#if`/`#else`/`#end` misuse |
| `WO-E108` | `bin/main.ml:277` | `internal/` crossed at a `[deps]` boundary |
| `WO-E109` | `bin/main.ml:275` | unknown `wo.toml` `kind` value |
| `WO-E219`–`WO-E223` | `types.ml` | five type-pass codes |
| `WO-E226` | `types.ml:443` | `call`'s reply type through actor-`M` erasure (iteration 24) |
| `WO-E250` | `types.ml:435` | the whole query surface (iteration 9b) |
`WO-E250` is the notable one: it is the only diagnostic the shipped query
language produces, and it is the code a reader hits first when they mistype a
query. Meanwhile `WO-W201` is still catalogued and no longer exists — the
inferred-GC plan (`docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-18-inferred-gc-mark-sweep.md:151`)
listed "retire WO-W201" as an amendment; the code went, the catalog entry
stayed.
`WO-E004`/`WO-E005` (raw text literal, iteration 37) *are* catalogued —
checked, since `language-surface.md:29,31` depends on them.
---
## C. Docs that disagree with each other
### C1. Is group-by shipped? Two live docs, two answers
- `README.md:332` — Roadmap, "not yet available". **Correct.**
- `docs/guides/language-surface.md:175` — "Present today: from / where / order
/ take / select **plus group-by aggregation**." **Wrong**, and the same page
opens (`:16-17`) with "Every form listed below was compiled and run against
`woc`/`wovm` while writing this page, not read off the parser and hoped for."
The `group … by … into` clause in its §6 grammar block *parses*
(`parser.ml:1137-1144`) and is then rejected by the typechecker
(`types.ml:2241` "group-by aggregation is not supported yet";
`types.ml:2222` for the navigation form).
Reproduced: `docs/examples/employee-list/main.wo:38-41` uses `group e by
e.dept into g` and fails to compile.
`docs/00-dependency-graph.md:45` correctly still lists group-by under the
parked drain.
### C2. `docs/stories/00-status.md` — the narrative and the table disagree about iteration 24
The board's *Current work* table is right: `:314` records "🔄 **iteration 24
(absorbing 31 + 34): chat + actor lifecycle** — spec + plan approved
2026-08-23 … executing on branch `chat-ws-lifecycle`" and links the marker.
The ▶ NEXT PLAN narrative above it is not:
- `:82-85` "Next slice: **iteration 31, actor lifecycle** — its spec brainstorm
is the next act". 31 was absorbed into 24 by directive, and its
actor-death half already landed (`docs/in-progress/2026-08-23-chat-ws-lifecycle.md:20-23`,
commit `ed69841`).
- `:125` "**Next steps:** 31 (lifecycle spec brainstorm) → 24 (chat) → 23 → 32"
— same stale ordering.
- `:286` iteration 24 marked "⬜ fourth in chain … after 31".
- `:290` iteration 34 marked "⬜ off-chain but GATES 24". T1 crypto landed
(`d14fa9f`); `sha1`/`sha256`/`hmac_sha256` are in both `types.ml:847-849`
and `wob.h:461-463`. The gate is cleared —
`docs/00-dependency-graph.md:169` already says so.
Also missing from the board entirely: the 2026-08-25 packaging/release track.
`VERSION`, `scripts/mkdist.sh`, `just dist`, `just install-accept`,
`.github/workflows/release.yml`, `docs/guides/releasing.md` and `dist/writeonce-0.1.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz`
all exist; the last five commits are that work; no standup entry covers it.
### C3. `docs/00-dependency-graph.md` — the main graph is a generation behind
Its own header (`:3`) defers state to the board, but it paints state inline
anyway, and the first mermaid graph paints it wrong:
- `:29` `I17["17 library kind + internal/ (**PARKED** — spec+plan ready…)"]:::parked`
— story 17 is in `done/` with `status: done`; board `:302` reads
"✅ **landed 2026-08-20**".
- `:31` `I18[… (spec APPROVED — **the next implementation**)]:::specd` — story
18 is in `hold/`; board `:303` reads "⏸ hold (2026-08-21)".
- `:33,34` iterations 20/21 as `open` — both `hold/`.
- `:38,40,41,42` use the pre-renumber ids: "10 HTTP service layer", "12
blue-green deploy", "13 metaprogramming @derive", "14 skillhost workload".
The stories are **26**-blue-green-deploy, **29**-compile-time-metaprogramming,
**28**-skillhost-host-workload; no story numbered 10, 12, 13 or 14 exists.
- `:45` `DRAIN["post-12 parked drain: pub(read)/using/#if, …"]` — `pub(read)`
(`ast.ml:118-123`), `using` (`lexer.ml:164`) and `#if` (`lexer.ml:245-249`)
all shipped.
- The main graph has no node for iterations 19, 24, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36 or 37.
Four of those are `done/`. The later sub-graphs *do* cover 34/35/36
correctly (`:141,164-170`), so the drift is confined to the first graph.
---
## D. Structural claims that don't match the tree
### D1. `docs/08-project-structure.md` — "canonical map", four divergences
- `:39` "`plan/` compiler-track docs: architecture.md + the woc plans" under
`compiler/`. **`compiler/plan/` does not exist**; those docs live at
`docs/plan/compiler/` — which the same file's `:49` links correctly.
- `:22,76-77` `tests/corpus/` as "`run/`, `compile-fail/`, `trap/`, `gc/`".
There are nine directories: also `actor/`, `db/`, `lang/`, `sys/`,
`sample-logwatcher/` — all five **empty**. `tests/corpus/README.md:11-15`
documents them as planned per-plan additions, so the corpus README is the
honest one; the structure doc undercounts and neither mentions that five are
placeholders. (Live fixture counts: run 60, compile-fail 46, trap 5, gc 2.)
- `:79-81` `scripts/` as "`oop-e2e.sh`, `mkdist.sh` + `install-accept.sh`, and
the per-sample acceptance scripts (`employee-accept.sh`,
`log-watcher-accept.sh`)". There are 14 scripts; unmentioned:
`db-actor-accept.sh`, `db-bench.py`, `deps-accept.sh`, `fibers-accept.sh`,
`linkcheck.py`, `single-binary-smoke.sh`, `site-accept.sh`,
`web-app-accept.sh`.
- `:89` `examples/` as "log-watcher/, employee/, employee-list/ samples" —
there are 13.
- `:87` puts status at the `docs/` root; it is `docs/stories/00-status.md`
(the file's own `:5` links it correctly). The root also has
`00-dependency-graph.md` and `00-link-audit.md`, unlisted.
- The one-page map (`:17-29`) omits four tracked root entries: `bench/`,
`dist/`, `.github/`, `.claude/`.
- `docs/examples/db-actor/` has `main.wo`, a `wo.toml` and a gate
(`just db-actor`) but **no README** — the only sample without one.
Correct in the same file, checked: `runtime/wo-rt.c` exists; `.dev/` is
gitignored except `.dev/README.md` (`git ls-files .dev` returns exactly one
path) and `.dev/reference/` does hold `crates/`, `colibri/`, `llama-cpp/`,
`linux/`, `go/`.
### D2. `compiler/README.md` — stage banner and CLI list both behind
- `:5` "**Stage: plan 3 … complete, Tasks 1–6 + 8**". Plan 3 closed in early
August; the front end has since taken iterations 15, 17, 19, 24, 34, 35, 36
and 37. A reader takes this page as the compiler's current extent.
- `:26-34` "Running `woc`" omits four of the nine modes the binary's own
`usage_msg` prints: `--dump-gc`, `--update-deps <dir>`, `version`, and the
`woc <dir>` manifest build (the mode `README.md:111` teaches as the primary
one). `-D <name>`, the `#if` flag setter documented at
`language-surface.md:34`, is in neither the README nor `usage_msg` —
it exists at `bin/main.ml:1162`.
- `:37` "same contract as `wo run` (`crates/rt/src/lib.rs::discover`)" — the
Rust runtime is gone. The identical stale sentence is also the doc comment
at `compiler/bin/main.ml:16-19`. *(Code, not markdown — noted, not
changed.)*
Correct: the `=== path ===` multi-file header (`dump.ml:128`), the five golden
stages, the exit-code contract, OCaml 4.14 / dune 3.14 (`dune-project` says
`(lang dune 3.14)`).
### D3. `runtime/src/CODE-LOGIC.md` — file table missing two sources
`:12-25` is a complete-looking table of "the files, in dependency order" and
omits `park.c/.h` (fiber parking — iteration 11, and central to how blocking
builtins work) and `crypto.c/.h` (iteration 34). The doc is dated 2026-08-14,
before both; nothing marks it as of-that-date beyond the first line.
`database/src/CODE-LOGIC.md` and `compiler/src/CODE-LOGIC.md` were checked
against their sources and hold up.
---
## E. Runbook and instruction errors
`docs/guides/releasing.md`, authored 2026-08-25, contains steps that cannot be
followed:
- `:110` (step 11) "Remove `--draft`, commit, push." **`.github/workflows/release.yml`
contains no `--draft`** — `gh release create` at `:135-139` passes only the
two asset paths, `--title` and `--generate-notes`. Nothing to remove.
- Steps 5, 6 and 10 disagree with each other. `:50-54` (step 5) says the
rehearsal is a `workflow_dispatch` run that "skips the tag guard and the
publish step"; `:56` (step 6) says "nothing to undo — a dry run creates no
tag and no release"; `:89-92` (step 10) then instructs
`gh release delete v0.0.0-test --yes` and two tag deletions. There is no
path in the workflow that creates `v0.0.0-test`.
`.github/workflows/release.yml:1-2` — "this workflow has never run. Authored
2026-08-25 and not executable locally" — is contradicted by `:43` of the same
file ("The first run failed here with `dune: command not found`") and by
commits `05fafd3`, `d66087d`, `4470f03`, which are fixes read off real runs.
*(Code comment, not markdown.)*
Verified correct against the workflow and the built binaries: the asset name
`writeonce-0.1.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz`, the tag↔`VERSION` guard, the
`ubuntu-22.04` pin and its glibc reasoning (this machine's binaries need
`GLIBC_2.38`, matching `:8` step 8's "2.38 from this dev machine"), and
`scripts/install-readme.tmpl.md:24-25` — `woc version` prints
`writeonce 0.1.0 linux/amd64` and `wovm --version` prints `wovm 0.1.0`, exactly
as documented.
---
## F. Small factual errors
| Where | Claim | Actual |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `README.md:28` | "~100 KB for the sample programs" | 163–254 KB. Smallest built sample 163,117 B (`fibers`), largest 253,808 B (`site`); bare `wovm` is 161,848 B, so ~160 KB is the floor |
| `README.md:142` | "**Types:** `Int`, `Text`, `Bool`, and user `class` types" | seven builtin scalars (`types.ml:174`): also `Float`, `Bytes`, `Timestamp`, `Id` |
| `README.md:170` | `time` → "`sleep`, `now`, `local`, `iso`" | also `ticks` (µs monotonic, builtin 84 — iteration 22's one runtime addition) |
| `README.md:172` | `net` → "TCP `listen`/`accept`/`read`/`write`/`close` (host + port)" | also `read_dl`, `accept_dl`, `write_dl`, `listen_unix`, `peer` (ids 91–95, iteration 35) |
| `README.md:344` | "`net` is TCP host+port only" | `net.listen_unix` binds a unix socket (builtin 94) |
| `README.md:272,276-277` | `[deps]` key `niceserve`, then "`use niceframework`" | the `[deps]` KEY *is* the module name — `docs/examples/web-app/wo.toml:19-20` keys it `serve` and `main.wo:9` says `use serve`. The example as written would not compile |
| `README.md:295` vs `:298-320` | "**Two** complete sample programs" | three bullets follow; `:322` "Read **either** program's `main.wo`" compounds it. There are 13 samples, 8 of them gated |
| `docs/guides/language-surface.md:36` | "**Keywords (35)**" | 37. The list printed immediately after is complete and correct against `lexer.ml:147-184` — only the count is wrong |
| `docs/00-principles.md:104-105` | capabilities are "(`fs`, `proc`, `net`, `time`, `json`)" | six modules — `env` missing (`types.ml:206`) |
| `docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-18-inferred-gc-mark-sweep.md:153-154` | `[x]` "Add a `docs/examples/gc-cycle` acceptance script + `just gc-cycle` recipe" / `[x]` "Verify: `just gc-cycle` green" | **no `gc-cycle` recipe exists** and there is no `scripts/gc-cycle-accept.sh`. `docs/examples/gc-cycle/` has sources, a `target/` and a "Run status" section (`README.md:186`) but no gate. Two checked boxes for work that did not land |
Forward references that are correctly labelled and are *not* findings:
`just chat` (iteration 24, T9 — pending in the marker), `just oop-parity`
(deferred by explicit decision, recorded at `compiler/README.md:5`), and
`docs/examples/employee-list/`, whose banner honestly says it does not compile
(confirmed: `woc` exits 2 on `[connect.employee]`, a section for the `hold/`
iteration-20 feature).
---
## What to fix first
1. **`README.md`** — it is the writeonce.de landing content
(`docs/08-project-structure.md:28`), so A1–A3, F's README rows and the
`use niceframework` example are the highest-value corrections in the repo.
2. **The two example status banners** (A4, A5) — one line each, and they
currently tell a visitor that the repo's two flagship gates don't build.
3. **`runtime/README.md`** (A6) — the largest single body of stale prose. It
wants splitting: `wo-rt.c` is a historical reference card, `runtime/src/` is
the shipped VM, and one page is trying to be both.
4. **`docs/00-code-review.md`** and **`docs/00-link-audit.md`** (B1, B2) — both
are dated verifications whose value depends on being re-run. Either re-run
them or banner them as of-date.
5. **`docs/plan/oop-vm/01-error-catalog.md`** (B3) — it is cited as normative by
two other docs; ten missing codes including the query surface's only one.
6. **`docs/guides/language-surface.md:175`** (C1) — a single false clause on
an otherwise excellent page.
7. **`docs/00-dependency-graph.md`** first graph (C3) and the board's NEXT PLAN
narrative (C2) — both trail their own companion tables.
---
## What was fixed
All on branch `docs-truth-audit-fixes`, 2026-08-26. Docs only — no code changed,
so no gate output changed.
| Finding | Disposition |
| --- | --- |
| **A1** README roadmap listed shipped concurrency | Concurrency entry removed; `spawn`/`send`/`call`/`receive` documented under "Language at a glance" as shipped. The `service`-blocks entry stayed but now says what you write *instead* today. Group-by stayed — it was the one correct entry. |
| **A2** "does not serve HTTP, WebSockets, or a UI" | Rewritten: both work, as `.wo` libraries consumed through `[deps]`, never as runtime features — which is the real (and more interesting) claim. TLS-by-proxy stated. |
| **A3** "no package manager" | Now "no package **registry** — dependencies are exact-rev git URLs and nothing else", which is true and is the distinction the doc meant. |
| **A4** `employee` README "does not compile" | Banner flipped to shipped, `just employee` named as the gate, with the one genuinely-ahead clause (`group … by … into`) called out rather than left to surprise a reader. |
| **A5** `log-watcher` README "design artifact" | Banner flipped to shipped with iteration 7's actual acceptance evidence; the "five stdlib modules" list corrected to six. |
| **A6** `runtime/README.md` a generation stale | **Restructured, not patched.** Leads with `wovm`; `wo-rt.c` demoted to a marked "Historical" section that keeps its measured numbers as the prototype record they are. Fixed: the two nonexistent recipes, `crates/rt`, `prototypes/wo-db`, the `@gc` refcount/Bacon–Rajan description (now inferred mark-sweep), `DB_STUB`, the builtin list, "13 suites" → 18, four missing source files, and the phase E/F contradiction. Three broken links went with it. |
| **B1** `00-code-review.md` decayed | History kept intact with a pointer at the top; a **Re-verification 2026-08-26** section added listing the eight overtaken rows against source, the ~20 that still hold, and the two new gaps (now iteration 38). "No supervision/actor death" is marked *partly* overtaken — death landed, supervision did not. |
| **B2** `00-link-audit.md` stale | Re-run and rewritten. The 48 dead-era exploration links are **resolved by de-linking, not re-pointing** — their prose names the retired plan by number, so re-targeting would have made each sentence lie. A successor map was added to `plan/discarded.md`, which is what that report's own "Still open" note asked for. Three more fixable breaks fixed. 77 → 23. |
| **B3** ten codes missing from the error catalog | Added with definitions read from source: WO-E003, E108, E109, E219–E223, E226, E250. Header's "as of plan 3" scope line corrected. The Completeness method section now records *why* the sweep rotted — codes are built as `<stage>_prefix ^ "NN"`, so grepping for the literal `WO-E250` finds only a comment. **The `WO-W201` half of this finding was wrong:** the catalog already marked it *(retired, iteration 7b)* with "*(no longer emitted)*". The doc was right; the audit misread its own grep. |
| **C1** `language-surface.md` claimed group-by works | Corrected in three places: the clause is marked in the grammar block, the "present today" list drops it, and the page's "every form was compiled and run" promise now names the exception. Keyword count 35 → 37. |
| **C2** board narrative trailed its own tables | ▶ NEXT PLAN rewritten: the live slice is 24 (absorbing 31 + 34), not "31 next". Rows for 24, 31 and 34 updated — 31's remaining surface is cited as the *reserved holes at ids 89/90*, which is machine-checkable. A standup entry for the 2026-08-25 packaging/release track was added; it had none. |
| **C3** dependency graph a generation behind | Graph 1 rebuilt: 17 → done, 18/20/21 → held, the pre-renumber ids 10/12/13/14 replaced by stories 25/26/29/28, nodes added for 19/24/30/31/32/33/34/35/36/37/38, and the parked drain reduced to what is actually left (`pub(read)`/`using`/`#if` all shipped). Node/edge references validated. |
| **D1** `08-project-structure.md` "canonical map" | Fixed: the nonexistent `compiler/plan/`, the corpus's nine directories (four with fixtures, five reserved and empty, with counts), all 14 scripts, the `docs/` subtree, and the four missing root entries (`bench/`, `dist/`, `.github/`, `.claude/`). The sample-acceptance list now names all eight gates. |
| **D2** `compiler/README.md` stage banner + CLI | Banner replaced with the eight iterations the front end has taken since plan 3. The CLI list gained `woc <dir>` (the primary mode), `version`, `--update-deps`, `--dump-gc` and `-D`. `crates/rt/src/lib.rs::discover` reference dropped. `gcinfer` added to the module list. |
| **D3** `runtime/src/CODE-LOGIC.md` file table | `park.c/.h` and `crypto.c/.h` added, dated so the gap is visible rather than papered over. |
| **E** `releasing.md` unfollowable steps | The `--draft` step and the phantom rehearsal cleanup deleted, remaining steps renumbered, and a paragraph added explaining why neither exists (plus how to opt into a draft if you want one). |
| **F** small factual errors | All corrected: binary size ~100 KB → 160–260 KB (measured), the scalar list, `time.ticks`, the five missing `net` members, the `fs` read-and-append limit, the `[deps]` key/`use` mismatch (the example would not have compiled), "two samples" → 13 with 8 gated, the six-module count in `00-principles.md`, and the `just gc-cycle` recipe that two checked boxes claimed. |
| **Later findings** | `00-story.md` gained the missing iteration 36 row; `docs/examples/db-actor/` gained the README it never had. |
### Left deliberately unfixed
- **23 broken links in `.dev/`** — vendored plugin-skill copies and reference
study trees. `.dev/` is gitignored (`git ls-files .dev` returns one path), so
these are per-developer notes. Fixing them means re-vendoring the skills with
their `references/` subdirectories.
- **The `just gc-cycle` gate itself.** The false checkbox is now disclosed in
both the plan and the sample's README, but wiring the acceptance script is
work, not documentation, and belongs to whoever picks up that loose end.
- **`tests/corpus/`'s five empty directories.** Documented as reserved with the
plan each was to be filled by; deleting or filling them is a test decision.
- **Two stale references in code comments**, recorded here rather than edited
because this pass was scoped to markdown: `compiler/bin/main.ml:16-19` and
`compiler/src/parser.ml:202` both still cite `crates/rt/src/*.rs`, removed
2026-08-18; and `.github/workflows/release.yml:1-2` says "this workflow has
never run" while line 43 of the same file reports what its first run failed
with.
---
## Structural change 2026-08-26 — status folders removed
Directive from the developer, applied after the fixes above: **`docs/` no longer
uses directories to encode status.** The four story subfolders
(`done/`, `refine/`, `hold/`, `in-progress/`) and top-level `docs/in-progress/`
are gone. All 34 story iterations sit flat in
`docs/stories/language-runtime-database/`, the slice marker sits flat in `docs/`
as `active-slice-<date>-<topic>.md`, and each file's `status:` frontmatter key is
the single place its state is recorded.
This reverses the 2026-08-20/21 convention ("the folder move IS the status
change"). The reason it is a good trade is visible in this repo's own history:
under the old scheme a status change relocated the file, which invalidated every
relative link in and to it — section A of the 2026-08-20 link audit was nine
instances of exactly that, and B2 above found two more that had accumulated
since. A status change is now a one-line edit that cannot break a link.
What the move required, all verified with `just linkcheck` (23 broken, all in
`.dev/`, unchanged from before the move):
- 34 files relocated with `git mv` so history follows them.
- **252 relative links recomputed in 70 files** — not by string substitution but
by resolving each link to an absolute path from its *old* location, remapping
through the move table, and re-deriving it relative to the file's *new*
location. String surgery would have mangled the `../` depth changes on the
moved files themselves.
- Link *text* and backticked paths that named a status folder stripped
separately — a correct target under stale display text is still a lie.
- Convention prose rewritten where it taught the old rule:
`stories/00-status.md`'s header, `stories/board-views.md` (including its Kanban
caveat, which described status changes as folder moves), and
`08-project-structure.md`'s map plus a new naming-convention entry.
- Phrases of the form "moves to `done/`" rewritten as "sets `status: done`" in
the live docs — including the four open checkboxes in the active plan
`2026-08-23-chat-ws-lifecycle.md`, which would otherwise have instructed a
future session to recreate the folders.
Two things surfaced that the move made visible rather than caused:
1. **A frontmatter collision, caught and fixed.** Giving the marker doc
`iteration: "24"` would have put two files in the repo claiming to be
iteration 24 with contradicting `status:` values. The marker is a progress
log, not a status carrier, so it takes `slice: "24"` and points at the story
that owns the status.
2. **Story 24's frontmatter said `refine` while the board said 🔄 live.** Under
the old scheme that drift was cheap to leave; under this one frontmatter *is*
the answer, so it is now `status: in-progress`. Iterations 31 and 34 keep
`refine` — they are absorbed into 24 but their own closeout is still pending,
which is what 24's T10 exists to do.
Dated records were deliberately left naming the old paths: the findings sections
of this document (which declare themselves a pre-fix snapshot), the history
section of `00-link-audit.md` (which says every path in it is as it was on that
date), and the "Files:" lists of closed plans. Rewriting those would destroy the
record of what was true when each was written.

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# Git commit history — features and their cherry-picks
Reference for **which commits carried which feature onto `master`**, so a
feature can be traced, re-reviewed, or reverted as a unit long after the
history it was written in has moved on.
## The workflow this file records
1. **Development happens on `dev`.** Not on `master`, and not on a fresh
branch per feature.
2. **Every commit on `dev` carries a feature-specific unique prefix**, written
as the conventional-commit scope — `feat(db2-keys): …`, `fix(db2-keys): …`.
The scope, not a bare leading word, so the repo keeps the `feat`/`fix`/`docs`
type it has used throughout. One prefix per feature, reused by every commit
belonging to it, which makes a feature's commits selectable with
`git log --grep` without reading a single diff.
3. **When the feature is ready** — complete, not merely green — `git checkout
master` and **cherry-pick** that feature's commits, in order.
4. **Record the result below**: the `dev` hashes, the `master` hashes the
cherry-pick produced, and the date. The two differ — a cherry-pick makes new
commits — and that mapping is the whole reason this file exists.
Ready means the same gate as always: no half-implemented feature reaches
master. An annotation the compiler accepts but does not honour counts as
broken, however green the suite.
## Prefix registry
One row per feature. The prefix is claimed here before its first commit, so two
features cannot collide.
| Prefix | Feature | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `commit-history` | this file and the workflow it records | ✅ on `master` 2026-08-30 |
| `db2-keys` | databasev2 2 — `resident: keys` storage and readers | ✅ on `master` 2026-08-30 (with `db2-delta` and `db2-chains`). The “Not ready” note this row carried is spent: the loader refusal was lifted and updates are implemented |
| `db2-chain-review` | review of the databasev2 chain and dependency graph | ✅ on `master` 2026-08-30 |
| `db2-delta` | databasev2 2 — keys-resident updates as WAL delta records | ✅ on `master` 2026-08-30 |
| `db2-chains` / `db2-chain` | databasev2 11 — bounding a keys-resident row's delta chain | ✅ on `master` 2026-08-30 |
| `site` | the writeonce.de tutorial site | ✅ on `master` 2026-08-30 |
| `db2-migrate` | databasev2 12 — schema migrations (add/delete, declarative, auto on boot) | ✅ on `master` 2026-08-31 |
| `site-deploy` | the writeonce.de redeploy runbook (`docs/guides/deploying-site.md`) | ✅ on `master` 2026-08-31, picked as iteration 12's docs dependency |
| `site-update` | the developer loop for changing the site app (`docs/guides/updating-site.md`) | on `dev` 2026-08-31 |
| `site-submodule` | `docs/examples/site` extracted to github.com/shoneyJ/writeonce-site and consumed as a submodule | ✅ on `master` 2026-08-30. Both branches now track the site by revision; an edit to it is a commit in that repo plus a pointer bump here |
| `lang41` | runtime: unadopted shard must not impersonate shard 0 | on `dev` (`9dca0b4`); independent of the residency stack, not picked |
| `porch-store` | porch store tables, Limiter and Idempotent middleware (Phases A, B, C) | on `dev` (`519d411`, `5b1e82a`, `aee7926`). **In progress**: Phase C was uncommitted work from a parallel session, committed as-is, and calls `json.decode`/`json.encode` with no `use json` import |
| `query-corpus` | databasev2 query-grammar corpus #1 | on `dev` (`4c82461`). Conclusion was "no new grammar needed" |
| `lang42` | iteration 42 — bounded subprocess: `proc.run` bounded + parked (pidfd, caps, ceiling, owner-bound reaping), `proc.run_dl`; carries the alacritty/tmux/zen parity studies and the porch dependency-graph section from the same sweep | ✅ on `master` 2026-09-01 |
| `wmux` | the wmux track (`docs/stories/wmux/`, iteration 1 was language 43) — the terminal multiplexer, first of the softwares built with writeonce; story + gap-chain remap first, code follows gap by gap | on `dev` 2026-09-01 |
| `rt2` | the runtime-v2 track (`docs/stories/runtime-v2/`) — the runtime beyond sockets: streaming subprocess, PTY, signals-as-events, termios, fd passing, term.size/width; six iterations, all landed 2026-09-02 | on `dev` 2026-09-01 |
| `wmux` (code) | wmux rung 1 — the multiplexer example (`docs/examples/wmux`) + `just wmux` gate; sessions, attach by fd-handover, durable scrollback, restart replay | on `dev` 2026-09-02 (extends the `wmux` docs prefix) |
| `db2-7` | databasev2 7 — single-file store `WO_DATA=<path>.db` (registered after its first commit, `b31bd40`) | on `dev`, closed 2026-09-10 |
| `lang-18` | language 18 — `transaction { }` over the WAL's staged batch (registered after its first commit, `6b4b960`) | on `dev`, in progress since 2026-09-11 |
| `db2-ephemeral` | databasev2 2 task 6a — refuse `durable: true` without `WO_DATA`, `WO_EPHEMERAL=1` escape hatch, `.wob` v8 table bit (`WO_CLASSF_TABLE`); closes iteration 2 | on `dev` 2026-09-15 |
| `db2-4b` | databasev2 4 part B — the async barrier, re-brainstormed 2026-09-10 (docs only until the fold lands) | on `dev` 2026-09-15 |
| `db2-5` | databasev2 5 — bounded tables and eviction, the resident byte budget as Phase A; brainstormed to `ready` 2026-09-10 | on `dev` 2026-09-15 (docs) |
| `db2-14` | databasev2 14 — the shop workload story (`refine`) | on `dev` 2026-09-15 (docs) |
| `agents` | `.claude/agents` persona roster — codd/fielding/ada families, `lintor`, the README | on `dev` 2026-09-15 |
| `status` | cross-track reconciliation sweeps of the board, dependency graph and story tables (in use since `732c221`) | on `dev` |
| `tls` / `crypto` / `rv2-tls` / `rv2-aead` / `net` | runtime-v2 8 (the AEADs) and 9 (in-process TLS 1.3, both directions): `net.connect` (id 110), `net.connect_tls`/`read_tls`/`write_tls`, `net.accept_tls`, RSA-PSS + ECDSA-P256 signing, PEM/DER parsing; `just tls`, `just tls-server` | ✅ on `master` 2026-09-15 (registered after the fact) |
| `porch2-rng` | porch 2 phase A — `random_bytes` builtin (id 119) | on `dev` — not picked 2026-09-15: porch 2 is `in-progress` |
| `jarvis`, `rv2-obs`, `porch-cookies`/`-csrf`/`-routing`/`-streaming`/`-sse`/`-static`, `audit`, `workflow`, `runtime` (docs) | docs-only prefixes: the jarvis stories, rv2 7 brainstorm, the porch 2–8 brainstorms, the doc audit, the prebuild-feature workflow, the TLS CODE-LOGIC | ✅ on `master` 2026-09-15 |
| `gate`, `vm`, `arena`, `compiler`, `runtime` (fix) | one-off fixes: `e274f4a` + `ec797d9` (gates), `63065ff` (lang 41 double free), `78ae3be` (lang 44 poison-on-free), `2d54710` (lang-41 side defects), `35efa21` (poisoned class NULL fmap) | ✅ on `master` 2026-09-15 |
## Cherry-picks onto master
Newest first. `dev` hash is the original; `master` hash is what the cherry-pick
produced.
| Date | Prefix | Feature | `dev` → `master` |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-09-15 | `porch-store`, `rt2`, `tls`+`crypto`+`rv2-*`+`net`, `lang41` + one-off fixes, `db2-7`, `db2-keys` (13), `db2-ephemeral`, `db2-chains`, `query-corpus`, `agents`, the docs prefixes | **the 2026-09-01 → 09-15 `dev` catch-up, minus three unfinished features**: 129 commits picked in `dev` order (127 in the sweep, plus `e9213bb` and `1ce195d` — two fixes the verification on `master` forced: `woc build -o` failing on a fresh checkout, and the web-app keypool leg refused since 6a — committed on `dev` first, then picked) with `-x` (each `master` commit names its `dev` source), mapped per prefix below. **Left on `dev` on purpose:** the **wmux** track (59 commits — rungs 10/12/13/15/16/18 are `in-progress` and share the prefix with the done rungs), **language 18** `transaction { }` (10 commits — T7's durability legs open, criterion 1 outstanding), **porch 2** phase A `random_bytes` (2 commits — the iteration is `in-progress`). Conflicts: two `justfile` hunks (kept `tls`/`tls-server`, dropped the `wmux` recipe), `scripts/wmux-accept.sh` dropped from `4553ca1`, seven markdown files taken from the picked commit; three master-only follow-ups in `69114ab`. Verified on `master` after a fresh build in its own worktree: woc-test clean; `make -C runtime test` 21 suites 0 fail (test_wal 6660/0, test_tls 123/0, test_crypto 130/0, test_loader 36/0), `test-iso` 21 suites 0 fail, cli_smoke OK; `just oop-e2e` **127/0** (single-binary smoke 4/0 — the new `build-into-missing-dir` check), `just residency` **32/0**, `just db-actor` **10/0** (from a deleted target/), `just web-app` **56/0**, `just chat` **11/0**, `just subprocess` **12/0**, `just tls` **5/0**, `just tls-server` **5/0**, `just deps-accept` **8/0**, `just db-bench-quick` **185 checks, 0 failures**. `just fibers` 10 checks / **1 failure — the KNOWN TSan race in `wo_engine_stop` (vm.c:719)**, red on `dev` the same way (codd.md "Next bugs"), not a pick regression. Not run: `just site` (submodule not initialised in the worktree), `just wmux` (track not picked). | see the sub-table below; `69114ab` is master-only |
| 2026-09-01 | `lang42` | **iteration 42 — bounded subprocess**: `proc.run` parked (pidfd + epoll bundle, `_dl` retry mould) with deadline/output-cap/ceiling refusals by name and owner-bound reaping; `proc.run_dl` (id 96) states bounds per call; the pre-42 sequential-drain deadlock proven then dissolved. Includes the alacritty/tmux/zen-browser parity studies and the porch graph section. Zero conflicts. Verified on `master` after rebuild: 38 runtime suites 0 fail both dispatch flavors (`test_proc` 128/0, `test_wal` 5966/0), woc-test 557/0 (forced, not cached), subprocess-accept 12/0, site-accept 23/0 | `5b92e20` → `2f6d39d`, `75fbd30` → `b287bf7`, `821899b` → `afa16e5`, `c30507b` → `81c28d8`, `975959a` → `64542e5`, `a3b5dc3` → `ce98fa1`, `b147dd4` → `346f885`, `5dfbeda` → `49b0193` |
| 2026-08-31 | `db2-migrate` + `site-deploy` | **databasev2 12 — schema migrations v1**: WO_WAL_SCHEMA head record, name-keyed boot diff, record-level transcode for add/delete, poisons that bite only with records; plus the redeploy runbook the close-out edits (dev-only until now). Zero conflicts. Verified on `master`: 36 suites 0 fail (`test_wal` 5966/0), woc-test clean, residency-accept 14/0, site-accept 23/0 | `930a715` → `b594717`, `072e007` → `8d9207d`, `ba8519f` → `570e0d6`, `63a063b` → `b1b7984`, `b69092a` → `4a70fc7`, `b21943a` → `ace5699`, `4bb6ece` → `4f1fda1` |
| 2026-08-30 | `site-submodule` | **`docs/examples/site` becomes a submodule** — extracted to github.com/shoneyJ/writeonce-site with `git subtree split` (its own 9 commits of history, not a snapshot) | `4b56348` → `a5497a3`, `4eead89` → `565b894` |
| 2026-08-30 | `db2-keys` + `db2-delta` + `db2-chains` + `site` | **databasev2 `resident: keys`, end to end** — storage, readers, deletes, updates as delta records, bounded delta chains, and the tutorial chapter documenting them | 37 commits, mapped one-to-one below |
### 2026-09-15 — the `dev` catch-up
Picked in `dev` order onto `master` in a separate worktree (`git worktree add`), each with `cherry-pick -x`, so this table can be regenerated from `git log master` (`cherry picked from commit …` trailers). One row per prefix, pairs in `dev` order.
| Prefix | n | `dev` → `master` |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `porch-store` | 26 | `519d411` → `ddc8b99`, `5b1e82a` → `8eb36a9`, `aee7926` → `3e6eab7`, `fc09e94` → `3828c76`, `5c3544d` → `7061646`, `f079455` → `06b7722`, `a96ebe2` → `4a22da6`, `3a9bddc` → `0d98a52`, `676e651` → `9fb0cff`, `77e06c1` → `9190507`, `153fd29` → `eb8e019`, `a653dd0` → `bf69f82`, `831e9d8` → `569abef`, `eae1b06` → `75965b5`, `e61015f` → `0542cda`, `464147a` → `2d47671`, `9ad5947` → `f27fe3b`, `21934b1` → `e4d7922`, `2ac1b8b` → `360ca47`, `91099cf` → `b641c37`, `b738269` → `d4e5cce`, `c53ad58` → `f991f48`, `86e7244` → `47e5acf`, `6d48dbc` → `8904be8`, `a919ab1` → `23e5b0f`, `79e6da4` → `6d1288b` |
| `query-corpus` | 1 | `4c82461` → `2b70306` |
| `commit-history` | 5 | `bc8fec0` → `a95f58d`, `aa8abfb` → `bb7e1a1`, `22b5675` → `aa5f3da`, `ab7df69` → `d9d9632`, `d0e658f` → `c3c5d67` |
| `lang41` | 1 | `9dca0b4` → `6360088` |
| `site-update` | 1 | `a21a02f` → `d5da3ac` |
| `rt2` | 9 | `e0451cb` → `6ae251f`, `d313cde` → `0be01b7`, `9be87f1` → `b79597e`, `9836c9c` → `7485c66`, `14e03a6` → `055cb70`, `b439387` → `5340ef2`, `1d68902` → `3605e11`, `bc1b4f0` → `5eef0fc`, `1514fb4` → `1e5d81f` |
| `runtime` | 2 | `35efa21` → `784cd25`, `5670304` → `6c22cd3` |
| `porch-cookies` | 1 | `4d31d53` → `602daa6` |
| `porch-csrf` | 1 | `3a4fb42` → `c103df7` |
| `porch-routing` | 1 | `0589a13` → `5a04513` |
| `porch-streaming` | 1 | `1520540` → `d37c583` |
| `porch-sse` | 1 | `07f5357` → `699f811` |
| `porch-static` | 1 | `9801fce` → `a509656` |
| `net` | 1 | `13c6f12` → `92ac803` |
| `(no scope)` | 1 | `203470c` → `83335cf` |
| `rv2-tls` | 13 | `f1881cc` → `69c6822`, `e24b8ec` → `4f8a0ae`, `b929a20` → `8f4fbd2`, `ae42943` → `0f0cc60`, `3eab98c` → `7f0b189`, `796ed88` → `7eb0708`, `d49bc38` → `836c09f`, `8b6e721` → `8649d59`, `9662cd8` → `5b70ac1`, `9fcb4a9` → `3787a14`, `f02518c` → `a3f3dbd`, `57613bd` → `1f3358c`, `f3a3c96` → `f1f11c3` |
| `rv2-aead` | 4 | `c8a5a31` → `cb92908`, `db5bdf3` → `a15dfa0`, `249b1db` → `b83832c`, `138de17` → `be35434` |
| `crypto` | 12 | `961854a` → `74f3370`, `f12a745` → `74db22b`, `dccf650` → `411e8cc`, `c8d27b6` → `3fa0445`, `f41b1c5` → `579130a`, `9118177` → `781589d`, `92c996b` → `d502866`, `4ec1c75` → `4da6ab7`, `cf8fdfc` → `2181d6d`, `1bc6d04` → `e17986c`, `819d672` → `f7aebb2`, `fba3035` → `fb34da7` |
| `jarvis` | 2 | `a615ee8` → `f862dc2`, `8e160c3` → `a81135e` |
| `tls` | 15 | `5021a99` → `74d66ec`, `417fcc1` → `c2eb996`, `541c71b` → `2617bf4`, `afd9f23` → `de3984c`, `74c332d` → `ba34017`, `319ce8b` → `f9ed841`, `9d40055` → `2c0dd55`, `3811418` → `ab07609`, `6445d55` → `07c6dee`, `9a922b3` → `7ab9e3d`, `3d8bb14` → `398fbcc`, `34d2b8f` → `05d4d08`, `2d4c300` → `989fcdd`, `54020a4` → `a804ad4`, `ac3bf74` → `db6e414` |
| `rv2-tls,jarvis` | 1 | `4fdf071` → `2b33589` |
| `rv2-tls,status` | 1 | `ad87974` → `104e805` |
| `workflow` | 1 | `2bfbb0c` → `fff86d3` |
| `rv2-tls,jarvis,status` | 1 | `732c221` → `a4d4b34` |
| `vm` | 1 | `63065ff` → `6948cd2` |
| `audit` | 1 | `f1049dd` → `ba23483` |
| `arena` | 1 | `78ae3be` → `cddda8c` |
| `rv2-obs` | 1 | `feb11c3` → `3b97569` |
| `compiler` | 2 | `2d54710` → `35331ac`, `e9213bb` → `23504ee` |
| `db2-7` | 5 | `b31bd40` → `92bf6de`, `ccee2d0` → `5739a6c`, `f1985ba` → `39da4b4`, `aaea6b2` → `7200406`, `38f4f1e` → `8d48cac` |
| `gate` | 3 | `e274f4a` → `65745e6`, `ec797d9` → `3c1161a`, `1ce195d` → `896516c` |
| `db2-keys` | 3 | `6310078` → `30ea9eb`, `1b6750d` → `2019364`, `b5b1da7` → `5a6c702` |
| `db2-ephemeral` | 3 | `863692a` → `0e2eee6`, `4553ca1` → `719f7f3`, `2c35319` → `561bb2a` |
| `db2-chains` | 1 | `d841390` → `47ae475` |
| `agents` | 1 | `830bbb1` → `a12a0ec` |
| `db2-4b` | 1 | `7ceb7b8` → `07e368c` |
| `db2-5` | 1 | `579199a` → `6eddd8c` |
| `db2-14` | 1 | `f33ae98` → `2ed50f2` |
| `status` | 1 | `423b3c1` → `c41ed17` |
**What the pick taught.**
- **"Already on master" is the mapping table, never a prose mention.** `79e6da4`
(porch 1 re-scoped to the limiter, idempotency reverted to porch 9) was named
in the 2026-08-30 prose and had never been picked, so `master` still carried
the reverted middleware and 638 lines of gate legs for it. Filtering the pick
list on "hash appears anywhere in this file" skipped it; the trailing
`git diff --name-only dev` minus the excluded commits' footprint caught it.
`git cherry master dev` answers patch-equivalence; this table answers
"picked with conflicts".
- **Earlier conflict-resolved picks had dropped hunks**: `89a7456` lost
`b3d8c40`'s skill-catalog README link fix, the porch-store pick lost the
porch 9 story file. Both restored by `69114ab`.
- **`ec797d9` (executable bit) was a no-op until `79e6da4` reset the mode**, so
it is picked after it (`3c1161a`), out of `dev` order.
- **Excluding a track leaves its documentation dangling.** The board and graph
on `master` describe wmux and language 18 as the project's state (they are),
so `just linkcheck` on `master` reports the wmux story and spec links as
broken until that track is picked; `.dev/reference` links break in any
checkout without the developer-local symlinks and are not defects.
- **Proof of equality:** re-applying the 70 excluded commits onto `master` in a
scratch branch reproduces `dev` in every code path except the two files
below — so `master` is exactly `dev` minus wmux, language 18 and porch 2.
**Obligations when wmux is picked:** re-add the `wmux:` recipe to the
`justfile` (dropped in both `justfile` conflicts), and re-apply the
`WO_EPHEMERAL=1` edits to `scripts/wmux-accept.sh` from `dev`'s `4553ca1`
(the client legs refuse without them since databasev2 2 task 6a).
### 2026-08-30 — the databasev2 residency stack
The first cherry-pick under this convention, and it could not be a single
iteration: **databasev2 11 (bounded delta chains) does not stand alone.** Its
commits touch `wo_wal_fold_row_at`, `keys_fold_into` and `row_apply_field_keys`,
none of which existed on `master` — so the whole stack it sits on came with it,
in dev order:
| # | Prefix | `dev` | `master` | Title |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | `db2-keys` | `125bd09` | `620c0a7` | feat(db2-keys): storage — drop the payload, read it back from the log |
| 2 | `db2-keys` | `08abd09` | `d985901` | feat(db2-keys): inserts and boot — payload dropped after the barrier |
| 3 | `db2-keys` | `0c97fa4` | `d8839c0` | feat(db2-keys): the query paths read through the iterator and borrow |
| 4 | `db2-keys` | `f606fc9` | `234b1f0` | feat(db2-keys): rewire remaining readers, survive compaction |
| 5 | `db2-keys` | `b3d8c40` | `89a7456` | docs(db2-keys): reconcile databasev2 and porch markdown with the code |
| 6 | `db2-chain-review` | `2ecaf0c` | `1af4910` | docs(db2-chain-review): review the databasev2 chain and dependency graph |
| 7 | `db2-keys` | `76b8fd9` | `390635c` | fix(db2-keys): delete on a keys-resident table was memory corruption |
| 8 | `db2-keys` | `c9c7e03` | `d27e774` | docs(db2-keys): a runnable example for per-table storage |
| 9 | `db2-keys` | `dc25462` | `c8a0c7b` | fix(db2-keys): a logged delete must replay on a keys-resident table |
| 10 | `db2-keys` | `d4104dc` | `4105f1c` | docs(db2-keys): the residency example becomes a product catalogue |
| 11 | `db2-keys` | `c9a88b0` | `daba10c` | docs(db2-keys): spec — delta records for keys-resident updates |
| 12 | `db2-delta` | `abb8fc9` | `b5cc77d` | docs(db2-delta): implementation plan for keys-resident delta updates |
| 13 | `db2-delta` | `c6cd486` | `efa118b` | docs(db2-delta): correct a line citation before execution |
| 14 | `db2-delta` | `9c6f832` | `ff73da7` | feat(db2-delta): WAL delta record kind and encoder |
| 15 | `db2-delta` | `20ba096` | `82dbd4a` | fix(db2-delta): make delta test detect a field_idx/back_off transposition |
| 16 | `db2-delta` | `a60231c` | `1f04cff` | feat(db2-delta): fold a delta chain, route reads through it |
| 17 | `db2-delta` | `173dbf2` | `38159b0` | fix(db2-delta): fold's cycle guard checks direction, not step count |
| 18 | `db2-delta` | `89c56a1` | `5b9ffb7` | feat(db2-delta): keys-resident updates append, indexes follow |
| 19 | `db2-delta` | `409186d` | `f1f4d13` | fix(db2-delta): unique shadow-check gets its own buffer, not r's |
| 20 | `db2-delta` | `4d13bce` | `dbfa385` | feat(db2-delta): wire the request path, defer re-point to the barrier |
| 21 | `db2-delta` | `c049ab9` | `d6eeacb` | fix(db2-delta): close the unique-shadow-check's same-drain blind spot |
| 22 | `db2-delta` | `7e4ae70` | `ef606e1` | feat(db2-delta): replay and compaction fold delta chains |
| 23 | `db2-delta` | `b87c68f` | `8dbeb2a` | feat(db2-delta): lift the resident:keys refusal, prove it end to end |
| 24 | `db2-delta` | `3ea6d64` | `76a9f17` | fix(db2-delta): refuse resident:keys with no WO_DATA at runtime |
| 25 | `db2-delta` | `d4b12d1` | `4ae3af2` | fix(db2-delta): borrow the pending re-point, not the stale durable offset |
| 26 | `db2-delta` | `fed9fe8` | `b8e4bc9` | fix(db2-delta): pend_repoint failure fatal; delta fold no longer trusts a live WAL |
| 27 | `db2-delta` | `b575678` | `bdedc50` | docs(db2-delta): resident:keys has storage; move done criteria to Met |
| 28 | `db2-delta` | `e643440` | `35aa0be` | docs(db2-delta): guide to log-structured rows for a new reader |
| 29 | `db2-chains` | `f667cad` | `0c874a6` | docs(db2-chains): spec + story for bounding a row's delta chain |
| 30 | `db2-keys` | `7cba9b1` | `ab292a4` | feat(db2-keys): task 7 — measure resident: keys against swapping |
| 31 | `db2-keys` | `abc276a` | `152b5ea` | feat(db2-keys): GB-scale bench modes, unmeasured |
| 32 | `db2-keys` | `a310496` | `3855e58` | feat(db2-keys): gate the residency measurement, close out task 7 |
| 33 | `db2-chains` | `1b808ab` | `e3c544c` | feat(db2-chains): bound a keys-resident row's delta chain |
| 34 | `db2-chain` | `f93b5d9` | `b375772` | test(db2-chain): cover flattening, and drop a ceiling no input could reach |
| 35 | `db2-chain` | `de39a88` | `5a98730` | docs(db2-chain): close out iteration 11 on the board |
| 36 | `site` | `3b503c0` | `461ba18` | feat(site): tutorial chapter for durable and resident storage modes |
| 37 | `commit-history` | `41923eb` | `397a2b6` | docs(commit-history): feature-to-cherry-pick reference |
**What was deliberately left on `dev`:** the 26 `porch-store` commits. porch 1
was re-scoped mid-flight (`79e6da4` reverts idempotency to porch 9), so it is
the exact case this file's “ready means complete, not merely green” bar exists to
catch. `lang41` and `query-corpus` also stayed — independent features, not
dependencies of this one.
**Three conflicts, all in docs, all resolved toward what `master` can honestly
claim:**
- `docs/examples/skill-catalog/README.md` — a one-line link fix inside a file
belonging to `query-corpus`, which is not on `master`. Edit dropped; the file
stays absent.
- `docs/00-databasev2-chain-review.md` — created by `db2-chain-review`, which the
prefix filter had excluded while later `db2-keys` commits kept editing it. Resolved
by picking that commit too, rather than dropping edit after edit.
- `docs/stories/00-status.md` — `b87c68f` carried one databasev2 status entry
bundled with two porch-1 entries. **Only the databasev2 entry was kept.** Taking
the whole block would have left `master` claiming porch 1 was done while none
of its code was there.
**Verified on `master` after the pick, not assumed:** `woc-test` clean; `wovm-test`
all 20 suites green (`test_wal` 5700/0, `test_table` 856/0); `just site` 23 checks,
0 failures; `residency-accept` 14 checks, 0 failures — including the leg proving
`resident: keys` without `WO_DATA` exits 2 and names the offending class.
**Still outstanding on `master`, and known:** databasev2 2 task 6's byte-budget
refusal. A missing *guard*, not an unhonoured annotation — the annotation is now
genuinely honoured, measured at a 2.55× smaller resident set. The other half of
task 6 (`durable: true` with no `WO_DATA` silently discarding writes) predates this
pick and is unchanged by it.
## Before this convention
Work up to 2026-08-29 landed on `master` by **merging** feature branches, so
those commits keep their original hashes and have no entry here.
`git log --merges master` is the record for that period.
The `db2-keys` and `porch-store` commits are the seam: they were written on
`porch-store-middleware` before this convention (`18ce4d5`, `f9c36ef`,
`11a92df`, `91411ae`, `6c8550a`, `01af1b9`) and were replayed onto `dev` with
prefixed titles. The replay was verified identical, not merely applied — after
it, `git diff porch-store-middleware dev` over the whole tree was empty.
On 2026-08-29 every other branch was consolidated so only `dev` and `master`
remain. Three could not be replayed and were preserved as **annotated tags**
instead — nothing is lost, and each tag's message says why:
| Tag | Why it is not on `dev` |
| --- | --- |
| `archive/cleanup-pre-existing-changes` | Aug 10, based on an Aug 8 commit. Carries `crates/` and `Cargo.toml` — the Rust runtime `master` has since deleted entirely. Replaying it would resurrect it. |
| `archive/ipc-attach` | Iteration 9c attach channel. Refactors `wo_row_insert`/`wo_row_update_field` into engine-encoded cores; `dev` rewrote those same functions for `db2-keys`. Two overlapping refactors of one function, ~250 conflicted lines. |
| `archive/keypair-auth` | Iteration 9d, builds on 9c — blocked by the same overlap. |
The 9c/9d hazard is specific and worth stating: that branch's contract
transfers ownership of `vals` **on failure as well as success**, while `dev`'s
keys-resident arm returns early *without* freeing. A merge that compiles and
passes could still leak or double-free. Reconciling them is an integration
task, not a conflict resolution — recover the work with
`git checkout -b <name> archive/ipc-attach` when it is scheduled.

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# Markdown link audit — re-run 2026-08-26
Scope: every repo-authored `*.md`. `.git`, `target`, `dist`, `node_modules`,
`_build` and — since 2026-08-26 — `.dev/` and `.superpowers/` are excluded; see
the note under the table. External URLs are not fetched (no network
verification).
| | files | relative links | broken paths | bad anchors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| first scan (2026-08-20) | 207 | 574 | 97 | 0 |
| after section A fixes (2026-08-20) | 206 | 569 | 88* | 0 |
| **re-run 2026-08-26, before fixes** | 235 | 675 | 77 | 0 |
| **re-run 2026-08-26, after fixes** | 237 | 652 | 23 | 0 |
| **after scoping the gate to repo-authored docs** | 149 | 656 | **0** | **0** |
\* The 2026-08-20 report's prose said 88 twice while its own sections B–F summed
to 77. The 77 was right; the 88 was an arithmetic slip, corrected here.
**The gate is now clean: 0 broken, 0 bad anchors.**
The last 23 were all in `.dev/` — vendored plugin-skill copies and cloned
reference projects, neither of which this repo authors. `scripts/linkcheck.py`
now skips `.dev/` and `.superpowers/` alongside `.git`/`target`/`dist`. That was
forced by adding gofiber/fiber as a reference (2026-08-26): its own docs are
Docusaurus pages whose links resolve at site-build time, not on disk, so the
clone alone contributed 21 broken paths and 39 bad anchors. A gate that reports
the same dozens of failures forever is a gate nobody reads. Everything the repo
actually ships — `docs/`, `compiler/`, `runtime/`, `database/`, `tests/`,
`bench/`, `scripts/`, the root README — is still scanned, and is clean.
Re-check with `just linkcheck`.
Tool: `scripts/linkcheck.py` — walks the tree, strips fenced/inline code,
extracts inline links and reference definitions, resolves each relative target,
and validates `#fragment` against GitHub-style heading slugs of the target file.
---
## What the 2026-08-26 re-run changed
### 1. The dead-era exploration links — RESOLVED (48 links, 15 files)
Sections B and C of the 2026-08-20 report left a decision open: the studies under
`docs/plan/exploration/` cite the old flat `docs/plan/NN-*.md` numbering and the
`docs/runtime/database/` tree, both removed with the Rust track on 2026-08-18,
and no successor map existed. That decision is now made.
**De-linked, not re-pointed.** The link *text* in these studies names the retired
plan by number — `[plan 09a]`, `[plan 11]`, ``[`12-engine-disk-cutover.md`]`` —
so aiming those at a story would have made each sentence assert something false
about a document that never said it. The targets were stripped and the text kept
as plain code spans. The studies still read correctly as the dated records they
are, and they no longer claim a file exists.
The successor map lives in
[`plan/discarded.md`](plan/discarded.md#successor-map-for-the-removed-rust-era-plan-paths)
— one row per retired path, naming what carries that work now (or stating
plainly that nothing does, as with `12-engine-disk-cutover.md` and
`08-sendfile-static-assets.md`). That table is what the 2026-08-20 report's
"Still open" note asked for.
Files touched: `assembly/{00-overview,02-writeonce-stance}.md`,
`c-runtime/{00-plan,01-architecture,02-single-binary}.md`,
`linux/{01-epoll,02-eventfd,03-timerfd,04-signalfd,05-inotify,06-sendfile,07-io_uring,08-mmap,11-memfd_create,12-pwrite-fsync}.md`.
### 2. `runtime/README.md` — RESOLVED (3 links)
`prototypes/wo-db/`, `docs/runtime/database/03-inmemory-engine.md` and
`docs/plan/09-concurrency-scaleout.md` all went when that README was restructured
to lead with `wovm` and demote `wo-rt.c` to a clearly-marked historical section.
It also carried two recipes that do not exist (`just rt-c-demo`,
`just rt-c-bench`) — not a link problem, fixed in the same pass. See
[`00-doc-audit.md`](00-doc-audit.md) §A6.
### 3. Two breaks the 2026-08-20 report did not have — RESOLVED
Both were caused by story files moving between status folders after that report:
| Source | Was | Now |
|---|---|---|
| `docs/examples/employee-list/README.md:5,6` | `…/refine/20-cross-program-tables.md`, `…/refine/21-keypair-attach-auth.md` | `…/hold/…` (both stories moved to `hold/` 2026-08-21) |
| `docs/stories/…/hold/26-blue-green-deploy.md:9` | `00-story.md` | `../00-story.md` (the sibling stopped being a sibling when 26 moved into `hold/`) |
This is the recurring shape: **a story folder move breaks every relative link
in and to that file.** Section A of the 2026-08-20 report was nine instances of
it; these are two more. Worth a check in whatever moves a story.
### 4. Stale paths inside the report itself — RESOLVED
The 2026-08-20 repair table cited `docs/00-status.md` (now
`docs/stories/00-status.md`) and `refine/{08,11,19,20,21}` (now under `done/` and
`hold/`). That table has been retired into the history section below rather than
carried forward with paths that no longer resolve.
### 5. Four links the report listed as open had already been fixed
`docs/00-principles.md:57,77,78,87` resolved before this re-run — including the
`examples/blog/README.md` reference that section D called a never-created file.
Section D's other entries stand.
---
## Out of gate scope — `.dev/` (was 23 links, now unscanned)
Recorded so the knowledge is not lost, but no longer reported by
`just linkcheck`. Not ours to fix, unchanged in character from the 2026-08-20
report's section F.
- **`.dev/skills/` (15 links)** — flattened copies of plugin skills. The
originals ship as directories with sibling `references/` files; flattening
dropped them. `context-mode.md:297-300`, `subagent-driven-development.md` (5),
`writing-skills.md` (3), `requesting-code-review.md` (2),
`test-driven-development.md:206`. Leave as-is, or re-vendor the skills with
their subdirectories.
- **`.dev/reference/` (8 links)** — `README.md` (7) points at the removed
`docs/plan/{linux,assembly}/` and `15-mcp-streamable-http.md`, the absent
`exploration/colibri/`, and `prototypes/llama-moe-stream`;
`rest/README.md:76` points at `docs/examples/blog/`, which never existed.
`.dev/` is gitignored (`git ls-files .dev` returns only `.dev/README.md`), so
these are per-developer notes, not repo content.
---
## History — the 2026-08-20 first pass
Kept for the record; every path below is as it was on that date.
### A. Regressions from the in-flight renumber — FIXED 2026-08-20
Nine links broke because files moved in the working tree; each had a known
successor. Sources: `docs/00-status.md:167,187`,
`docs/stories/language-runtime-database/00-story.md:60,69`, the `25`/`26` story
pair (which used `../00-story.md` while `00-story.md` was a sibling — the
`refine/`-relative form pasted into files one level up), `refine/08-shard-actor-runtime.md:98,100`,
and `refine/20-cross-program-tables.md:143`. Link labels were renumbered with
their targets, since the old IDs contradicted the new paths: `9e`→`22` and
`9f`→`23`.
### Structural problems found alongside the links
1. **Iteration 19 was double-booked — RESOLVED.** `refine/19-chat-websocket-workload.md`
and `refine/24-chat-websocket-workload.md` were the same document while
`19-missing-scalar-types.md` also claimed 19. `00-story.md`'s mapping line
made **24** canonical, so the 19 copy was deleted after repointing
`refine/11-fibers.md:13` at 24.
2. **`08-shard-actor-runtime.md` existed twice — RESOLVED.** 58 lines at the
stories root vs 110 in `refine/`. The `refine/` copy superseded it outright
(the root copy still required `@gc`, retired by 7b, and cited
`runtime/wo-rt.c`, removed with the Rust runtime). Root copy deleted.
3. **Unresolved merge-conflict markers were committed** into
`refine/20-cross-program-tables.md:139-145`, from a rename-conflicted merge —
which is what produced that file's broken `09d` link. Resolved in favour of
HEAD. `grep` confirmed no other conflict markers under `docs/`.
4. **A status disagreement, not a link problem:** `docs/00-status.md:171` showed
iteration 8 as ⬜ while `00-story.md:68` recorded arc stages 1+2 as landed.
Both now read landed.

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@ -28,9 +28,11 @@ the dependency doctrine in [the OOP spec](superpowers/specs/2026-08-01-oop-compi
Objects are owned values: one owner, moves on assignment, second-class
borrows checked mostly at compile time (mutable value semantics — the
Rust-borrow shape without lifetime inference). `@gc` is a per-class opt-in,
reference-counted with budgeted per-shard cycle collection — no global
pause exists by construction.
Rust-borrow shape without lifetime inference). GC-ness is **inferred** by
the compiler (iteration 7b): a class in a reference cycle, or one whose
values must escape as long-lived aliases, is traced by an incremental
per-shard tri-color mark-sweep collector in budgeted slices — the developer
writes no memory annotation, and no global pause exists by construction.
*Why:* deterministic memory for the default case, aliasing freedom where
the design wants it, and never a stop-the-world in a runtime that is also
the database.
@ -52,8 +54,9 @@ Cross-shard work is a message send that moves ownership. There is no
`Arc<Mutex<…>>` anywhere and never will be.
*Why:* sharing mutable state buys contention, locks, and heisenbugs;
moving ownership buys linear scaling and per-shard GC.
*Enforced by:* [plan 09](plan/09-concurrency-scaleout.md) (shipped on the
Rust runtime), [the shard-actor plan](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-shard-actor-vm-runtime.md).
*Enforced by:* [the shard-fiber arc plan](superpowers/plans/2026-08-20-shard-fiber-arc.md)
(stages 1+2 landed; supersedes the discarded 2026-08-01 shard-actor plan
and the Rust-era plan 09, removed with that track 2026-08-18).
## 6. The runtime never stops
@ -65,15 +68,42 @@ binary embeds its own source, so prod is always self-describing.
events; a database that is also the app must not blink.
*Enforced by:* [the blue-green spec](superpowers/specs/2026-08-03-blue-green-vm-design.md).
## 7. RAM is authoritative; the WAL makes it durable
## 7. The log is authoritative; residency is a declared per-table policy
All reads serve from memory. Every mutation is WAL-logged and fsynced
before acknowledgment; boot replays the log. Mirrors (Postgres) are
reconstructible backups that reads and acks never depend on.
*Why:* one source of truth with predictable latency; durability is a
sequential append, not a storage engine bolted to the side.
*Enforced by:* [plan 11](plan/11-wal-and-recovery.md),
[plan 16](plan/16-postgres-mirror.md) (mirror-is-backup doctrine).
**Amended 2026-08-26.** This principle read "RAM is authoritative; the WAL
makes it durable. All reads serve from memory." The durability half was never
under strain and is unchanged. The residency half was false for a real
workload, so it is now a declaration rather than a law.
**Durability, unconditional:** every mutation is WAL-logged and fsynced before
acknowledgment; boot replays the log; a torn tail is dropped whole by CRC; an
ack means the commit reached disk. Mirrors (Postgres) are reconstructible
backups that reads and acks never depend on. None of this is per-table and
none of it is negotiable.
**Residency, declared:** what a table keeps in memory is stated at the
declaration site. The default keeps every row resident and serves reads at
memory speed. A table that cannot fit says so, and then only its indexes are
resident while rows are read from the log by offset — the kernel page cache is
the hot copy, which is why the engine uses `pread` and deliberately not
`O_DIRECT`.
*Why the amendment:* the original wording is right for a knowledge-management
app and simply false for a 120 GB order table on a 32 GB host. A doctrine a
real workload cannot satisfy does not get followed, it gets ignored — and the
failure it produced was an OOM kill, which is the least debuggable outcome
available. The fix keeps one storage engine and one source of truth: the log
*is* the database, and RAM is how much of it you choose to serve fast. What was
rejected in 2026-08-18 and stays rejected is a *second* engine — a paged
B-tree with its own buffer pool ([`plan/discarded.md`](plan/discarded.md)).
Reading rows from the log we already write is not that.
*Enforced by:* [the db-engine binding plan](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-db-engine-binding.md)
(typed WAL + boot replay, shipped); the residency declaration and its
enforcement are [databasev2 2](stories/databasev2/02-table-storage-modes.md);
the mirror-is-backup doctrine is recorded in
[`plan/discarded.md`](plan/discarded.md) (the Rust-era WAL and mirror plans
11/16 were removed with that track 2026-08-18).
## 8. Samples force the grammar
@ -82,7 +112,8 @@ directory is the de facto integration suite, and new surface is proven by
re-expressing real workloads (blog, ecommerce, pricing, log-watcher).
*Why:* grammars designed in the abstract grow features nobody needs and
miss the ones real programs demand.
*Enforced by:* [the blog sample](examples/blog/README.md),
*Enforced by:* [the web-app sample](examples/web-app/README.md)
(the blog sample left with the Rust track),
the sample-workload acceptance in [the systems-track spec](superpowers/specs/2026-08-01-systems-track-design.md).
## 9. Linux is the target
@ -95,9 +126,10 @@ directly instead of the lowest common denominator.
## 10. Capabilities are typed builtins — no FFI
Programs reach the system only through audited stdlib builtins (`fs`,
`proc`, `net`, `time`, `json`): bounded reads, args-array-only process
runs, handles that close on drop. There is no `extern`, no escape hatch.
Programs reach the system only through audited stdlib builtins — six
reserved namespaces (`fs`, `proc`, `net`, `time`, `json`, `env`): bounded
reads, args-array-only process runs, handles that close on drop. There is
no `extern`, no escape hatch.
*Why:* one FFI hole voids the entire memory-safety and security story;
typed capabilities make the safe path the only path.
*Enforced by:* [the systems-track spec Parts 2–3](superpowers/specs/2026-08-01-systems-track-design.md).

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# Status board — what is done, what is next
The single place to learn where this project stands. Organised in six buckets:
**stories** (the narrative arc), **in progress**, **done**, **pending**,
**discarded**, **learnings**. The buckets are **sections of this board, not
folders** — a doc stays where it was authored when its work lands; only its
banner and this board change. Every plan and phase doc opens with a
`> **Status:**` banner linking back here; normative contracts
(`plan/oop-vm/`), exploration studies, reference docs and the
discarded/learnings registers carry none by design.
Update this board in the same change that finishes work — move the item to done
with _what actually landed_, set the next in-progress item, and record any
rejection in [`discarded.md`](plan/discarded.md) with its reason.
Statuses: ✅ **done** · 🔄 **in progress** · ⬜ **pending** · ⏸ **hold**
---
## ▶ NEXT PLAN
**Make log-watcher executable — nothing else.** The compile-and-run half of the
language track is met (2026-08-14): the sample compiles with zero diagnostics,
`woc build` produces a 106 KB standalone binary, and all three modes work —
`watch` alerts on a live file, `run` schedules a cron.d entry, `mcp` answers
JSON-RPC with all four tools returning `isError:false`. `just log-watcher`
gates it: 6 checks, 0 failures.
What is left is the difference between "it runs" and "you can leave it
running", and every item below came from a measurement on the sample itself:
1. ~~The ownership pass does not know what the stdlib returns~~ — **done
2026-08-14**. The root cause was deeper than the table: `Text` was
classified Copy, so no Text local was ever dropped. `Text` is now an owned
heap value that is **copied at every ownership boundary** (container, field,
return, binding, loop cursor), the ownership pass reads the stdlib, builtin
and static tables, and `fs.read_all`/`net.read` no longer mis-size a short
read's buffer. Measured: `run` **1 051 040 B → 2 112 B**, `watch`
**128 B → 64 B**; what remains is items 2 and 3 below, by stack.
2. ~~A projected temporary is never dropped~~ — **done 2026-08-14**. The
projection was one of six shapes with no owner: a call result compared
against `nil`, an argument the callee only borrows, a container read's
copy, a loop's iterable, a projected record, and any of those escaped by a
`return` from inside the statement that built them. Measured: `run`
**2 112 B → 64 B** and flat from 8 s to 20 s, the full MCP mix
**21 312 B / 63 → 64 B / 1**, every handler flat from 2 to 6 requests. The
64 bytes left are item 3, on every path.
3. ~~The runtime leaks its own argv container~~ — **done 2026-08-14**. The
entry only borrows its arguments, so `main.c` releases the container it
built, after the entry returns and after a trap alike. **All three modes
now report ZERO leaks under ASan** — `watch`, `run`, and the full MCP mix —
which is the clean baseline item 6's soak needs to read against.
4. ~~A stopping program does not stop~~ — **done 2026-08-14**. A blocking
call that parks (`net.accept`, socket read/write, `time.sleep`, a child
wait) now ends the program when it is interrupted with the stop flag set,
instead of restarting the syscall. A stop is not a trap: `try` cannot
swallow it, and the stack unwinds through the same drop machinery, so the
exit is clean and leak-free in every mode. It also uncovered a real
double-free: an **assignment** of a Text place was a move, not a copy, so
`api_key = j.mcp.apiKey` aliased the record — `let` copied, assignment now
does too. `just log-watcher` is 7 checks; the seventh is the stop.
5. ~~The MCP server never closes an accepted connection~~ — **done
2026-08-15**. `net.close` on every path out of a serve iteration (and the
listener on stop). Measured: 4 → 4 descriptors across 200 requests, was
one leaked per request.
6. ~~Nothing soaks~~ — **done 2026-08-15**. `LW_SOAK=<seconds>` drives all
three modes under load and fails on resident growth past 256 KiB or any
descriptor growth. The soak immediately caught what every seconds-long
check missed: ~1.6 MiB/min of **in-arena** leaks the ASan report cannot
see (the arena is one allocation to LeakSanitizer). Five bugs fell out:
json decode's worst-case string sizing (free lists poisoned by relabeled
lengths), `!=` never dropping fresh operands, Int interpolation segments
mistaken for borrows, `json.encode(Ctor{...})`'s unowned argument, and
discarded statement results (`pop(lines);`). After: release soak 30 s per
mode — watch 0, run 0, mcp +20 KiB, descriptors flat; ASan build flat at
14 600 KiB across 601 686 requests in 90 s once past its ~1200-request
quarantine warm-up.
Plan: [`plan/compiler/2026-08-14-logwatcher-executable.md`](plan/compiler/2026-08-14-logwatcher-executable.md) ·
Story slice: [`docs/stories/language-runtime-database/07-logwatcher-proof.md`](stories/language-runtime-database/07-logwatcher-proof.md)
**Deferred by name, with the measurement that says so:**
- Iteration 5's *strictness* half (`?T` forced handling, `pub(read)` write
enforcement, `using`, `#if`, reject rows) — it makes the language refuse
more; it does not make this program run. Plan 8 stays open for it.
- Everything `@gc`: iteration 7b, `set`'s `@gc` retention gap, iteration 4's
`gc/held-cycle` leak. The sample declares **no `@gc` class** — 35 classes,
none with the gc flag, 0 `RC_INC`/`RC_DEC` against 78 `DROP`s — so none of it
can affect this workload.
- Iterations 8–12 (shard-actor runtime, database engine, `@table`/query, HTTP
layer, fibers, blue-green): unchanged, and unblocked by this plan.
The project is the **language track**: iterations 3 → 4 → 5 → 6 → 7, ending at
_compile and run log-watcher_, then the database engine (9/9b) and beyond. (The
prior Rust `wo` runtime was removed from the repo 2026-08-18 — see
[`discarded.md`](plan/discarded.md).)
---
## Stories
[`docs/stories/language-runtime-database/`](stories/language-runtime-database/00-story.md)
— one language, one runtime, one database, one binary. Twelve iterations, each
an unsplittable slice with Given/When/Then acceptance and a pointer to the plan
that sequences its tasks. Read one, approve, then the next starts.
| # | Iteration | State |
| --- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------- | ---- |
| 1 | [Principles doc](stories/language-runtime-database/01-principles-doc.md) | ✅ |
| 2 | [VM core (`wovm`)](stories/language-runtime-database/02-vm-core.md) | ✅ |
| 3 | [Compiler front (`woc`)](stories/language-runtime-database/03-compiler-front.md) | ✅ (known gaps below) |
| 4 | [Single binary end-to-end](stories/language-runtime-database/04-single-binary-e2e.md) | ✅ (known gaps below) |
| 5 | [Language surface](stories/language-runtime-database/05-language-surface.md) | 🔄 grammar done, strictness ⏸ deferred |
| 6 | [Program mode + stdlib](stories/language-runtime-database/06-program-mode-stdlib.md) | ✅ (the surface log-watcher uses) |
| 7 | [log-watcher proof](stories/language-runtime-database/07-logwatcher-proof.md) | 🔄 **runs; executable in progress** |
| 7b | [Inferred GC + mark-sweep](stories/language-runtime-database/07b-inferred-gc-mark-sweep.md) | ⏸ off the workload's path (no `@gc`) |
| 8 | [Shard-actor runtime](stories/language-runtime-database/08-shard-actor-runtime.md) | ⬜ |
| 9 | [Database engine](stories/language-runtime-database/09-database-engine.md) | 🔄 engine complete (storage/WAL/indexes/insert-update-delete); reads land with 9b |
| 9b | [`@table`, relations, query](stories/language-runtime-database/09b-table-relations-query.md) | 🔄 query surface + relations + FK done (branch query-surface); group-by parked |
| 9c | [Cross-program tables](stories/language-runtime-database/09c-cross-program-tables.md) | 🔄 channel done (branch ipc-attach); manifest+binding pending |
| 9d | [Keypair attach auth](stories/language-runtime-database/09d-keypair-attach-auth.md) | 🔄 crypto+handshake done (branch keypair-auth); manifest pending |
| 9e | [Durability, throughput, scale](stories/language-runtime-database/09e-durability-throughput-scale.md) | ⬜ needs a spec first |
| 9f | [io_uring group-commit](stories/language-runtime-database/09f-io-uring-commit.md) | ⬜ after 8 + 9e |
| 9g | [Query grammar corpus](stories/language-runtime-database/09g-query-grammar-corpus.md) | ⬜ needs a spec first |
| 10 | [HTTP service layer](stories/language-runtime-database/10-http-service.md) | ⬜ | Hold |
| 11 | [Fibers](stories/language-runtime-database/11-fibers.md) | ⬜ | Hold |
| 12 | [Blue-green deploy](stories/language-runtime-database/12-blue-green-deploy.md) | ⬜ | Hold |
| 13 | [Compile-time metaprogramming](stories/language-runtime-database/13-compile-time-metaprogramming.md) | ⬜ needs a spec first |
| 14 | [skillhost host workload](stories/language-runtime-database/14-skillhost-host-workload.md) | ⬜ gaps recorded (branch query-grammar found skillhost needs no new query grammar); each gap a candidate iteration |
---
## In progress
| Track | Item | Where |
| -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| Language | Iteration 7 — make log-watcher executable (leaks, stop signal, fd lifetime, soak) | [executable plan](plan/compiler/2026-08-14-logwatcher-executable.md) |
Off-critical-path work is parked by explicit scope directive (2026-08-08).
### Landed 2026-08-14 — the compile-and-run milestone
One session, driven end to end by compiling `docs/examples/log-watcher` and
watching its diagnostic count fall (481 → 0). In order:
- **let annotations, container literals, statics, `pub(read)`** — `let x: multi
Text = []`, `map<K, V>`, `?T`; `[]`/`[a, b]`/`{}` as expressions; `static
const`/`static fn` with `Cls.fn(...)` calls; a `;` ends a statement so
one-line guard bodies parse.
- **try/catch over the trap system** (plan 8 Task 5) — VM catch frames
(`TRY`/`ENDTRY`), unwind-to-handler with the try region's own values
released, `err_fill` for the `{code, line, method, msg}` record, expression
and block catch arms. Uncaught traps unchanged.
- **`nil` + 23 text/container builtins** — len, byte_at, print_err,
starts_with/ends_with, index_of/last_index_of, substr, trim, to_lower,
char_of, parse_int, split/split_ws, join, slice, pop/shift, sort, reverse,
remove, key_at/val_at, multi_set.
- **`for k, v in m`** over a map, and `m[i] = v` for a `multi`.
- **the systems stdlib's OS half** (`runtime/src/sysio.c`) — fs, time, env,
net, proc behind the reserved module names, with predeclared `Stat`,
`TimeParts` and `Proc` records and the new `WO_T_IO` trap.
- **json** (`runtime/src/json.c`) + **`.wob` v2** — per-field names, referenced
classes and element kinds in the class table, so encode/decode are one
metadata-driven implementation; `json.decode(t) as T` is the language's only
cast, yielding `?T`.
- **program mode** — `fn main(args: multi Text) -> Int`, argv delivered by the
runtime, return value as the exit code.
- **two safety fixes found by running it**: `+` on `Text` was lowering to ADD
on two heap pointers (now WO-E201 pointing at `..`; seven sites in the sample
were corrected), and `x == nil` was lowering to EQS, which dereferences the
zero word (now EQ).
Gates at the end of that session: corpus 71/0, `woc` runtest 565/0, every
`wovm` unit gate green in both dispatch flavors.
---
## Done
### Language track — compiler + VM (OOP track)
| Status | Item | Doc | What actually landed |
| ------ | ------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ✅ | Principles | [`../00-principles.md`](00-principles.md) | 13 principles, each with a why and a link to the doc that enforces it |
| ✅ | `wovm` VM core | [plan 1](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-wob-format-and-vm-core.md) | `.wob` v1 loader with full static validation, register interpreter (computed-goto + ISO-C fallback), arena with size-class free lists, borrow word, RC + budgeted Bacon–Rajan cycle collector, drop-map trap unwinding, containers, builtins, ICALL, CLI. 13 suites × 2 dispatch flavors + CLI smoke, ASan/UBSan clean |
| ✅ | `.wob` format contract | [`oop-vm/00-wob-format.md`](plan/oop-vm/00-wob-format.md) | Normative; twinned with `runtime/src/wob.h` |
| ✅ | `woc` compiler front | [plan 2](plan/compiler/2026-08-01-woc-compiler-front.md) | Tasks 1–8: dune scaffold, `diag` (WO-E codes, two-site related errors, ordered dedup), newline-significant lexer at rt parity, declaration + statement/expression parser with skip-on-block and multi-error recovery, typechecker (field kinds, `?T` plumbing, W201, E225, E214), MVS ownership pass with the four emitter tables, driver with directory discovery + cross-file programs. 14 + 264 checks |
| ✅ | Error catalog | [`oop-vm/01-error-catalog.md`](plan/oop-vm/01-error-catalog.md) | 14 emitted codes + 10 reserved, each with the reason it is not yet emitted |
| ✅ | log-watcher `.wo` sample | [`../examples/log-watcher/`](examples/log-watcher/README.md) | Eight-file port authored docs-first with its `.hx` mapping table; compiles for real in iteration 7 |
| ✅ | Scalar cleanup | [`discarded.md`](plan/discarded.md) | `Money`/`SKU`/`Float` and the abstract allowlist removed; `abstract` flipped adopt → reject |
| ✅ | `woc` emitter, corpus, single binary | [plan 3](plan/compiler/2026-08-01-wob-emit-e2e-single-binary.md) | Tasks 1–6 + 8 (Task 7, a parity harness against the Rust runtime, **deferred by explicit user decision** — the two stacks diverge by design). Bytecode emitter (`emit.ml`) + disassembler (`disasm.ml`, `--dump-bc`); three-kind conformance harness (`scripts/oop-e2e.sh`, `just oop-e2e`) over `tests/corpus/{run,compile-fail,trap,gc}`; pricing-demo + ownership/trap corpora (19 fixtures); `@gc` cycle collector's post-exit pump (`WO_GC_BUDGET`/`WO_GC_TRACE`) + 2 gc fixtures (`gc/held-cycle` retired — see criterion-3 closure below); `woc build` single-binary output + relocation/corrupt-trailer smoke; `WO-E405` closing criterion 3's ASan leak (entry must return `Int`); `just oop-accept` wiring all five spec criteria + both unit gates into one command. 14 + 399 compiler checks; `oop-e2e` 25/25 against the release `wovm`. **Milestone-1 acceptance gate is fully green — all five criteria met** (see the dated acceptance note in `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-01-oop-compiler-vm-design.md`) |
**Known gaps carried out of iteration 3** — recorded, not silently owed:
- **`?T` is plumbed but unenforced.** Lexer/token/AST/parser/dump all handle
`?T`; the semantics do not exist (`WO-E211`/`E212`/`E213` declared, never
emitted — a probe returning `?Int` as `Int` exits 0). Owned by iteration 5,
plan 8 Task 6, which is that iteration's first task because it blocks the
log-watcher port. See [`compiler/nullable-types-implementation.md`](plan/compiler/nullable-types-implementation.md).
- **Structural interface satisfaction is not checked** (`WO-E205` dead), along
with type mismatch, bad arity, and unknown-fn (`E201`/`E203`/`E204`) — all
named in plan 2 Task 6's own must-fail list. Gaps in shipped work, catalogued
as reserved.
- Six further narrowings (W201 heuristic, E225 reach, dead code after `return`,
unresolved-callee drops, RC table ordering, residual b-side role) are listed
in the plan-2 SDD ledger and in the affected files' own comments.
**Known gaps carried out of iteration 4** — recorded, not silently owed:
- **`WO-E205` (unsatisfied interface) is reachable but unenforced — a real
hybrid-boundary inversion, not just a dead code path.** A class that does
not structurally satisfy an interface it's passed as compiles clean (exit
0, zero diagnostics) even though the violation is statically provable, and
the mismatched call reaches `wovm` as an `ICALL` with no matching vtable
entry, trapping `WO_T_BOUNDS` (6) at runtime instead of failing at compile
time. Pinned by `tests/corpus/trap/unsatisfied-interface/`; when `WO-E205`
is wired, that fixture must move to `compile-fail/` in the same change.
- **`set(m, k, v)`'s `@gc` retention gap on map keys/values is open** — the
twin of the `push` bug Task 5 fixed for `multi`. `set` has no equivalent
special case in `owner.ml`'s `analyze_call`, so a `@gc` key or value handed
to `set` is under-counted and the collector can free it while the map still
points at it. Nothing in the corpus exercises this yet. See
[`oop-vm/08-builtin-surface.md`](plan/oop-vm/08-builtin-surface.md).
**Known gaps carried out of the 2026-08-14 compile-and-run milestone** —
recorded, not silently owed:
- **Optionals are lenient.** `?T` has its representation (the zero word) and
its comparisons, but `WO-E211`–`E213` are still dead: a `?T` may be used
where `T` is required, and nothing narrows inside an `if x != nil` branch.
The workload leans on that leniency today.
- **`pub(read)` is parsed, not enforced.** The marker rides on the field
(`Ast.field.pub_read`); no check refuses a write from outside the declaring
class yet.
- **`using` extensions and `#if` build flags are absent**, and the reject rows
(`extends`/`cast`/`Dynamic`/…) still have no doctrine-citing diagnostics —
plan 8 Tasks 7–8's remainder.
- ~~A borrowed non-constant Text pushed into a container is a double-free
hazard~~ — **closed 2026-08-14 by copy-on-push**: `push`/`set`/`m[i] = v`
copy a TEXT element, key or value into the container, and the compiler drops
a *freshly built* Text right after the call (a value read out of a place
keeps its owner). The failure it fixed was real: a `tools/call` of `tail_log`
used to answer `{"isError":true,"text":"tool failed: not a text value"}`; all
four MCP tools now return `isError:false` with correct payloads.
`OWNED`/`GCREF` elements still move, and `set`'s `@gc` retention gap is still
open (see [`oop-vm/08-builtin-surface.md`](plan/oop-vm/08-builtin-surface.md)).
- **A blocking `accept`/`read` swallows SIGTERM.** `env.stopping()` installs a
handler that only sets a flag, and `net.accept`/`net.read` retry on `EINTR`,
so a server parked in `accept` never observes it: a plain TERM does not stop
the process (`timeout -k` / `kill -9` does). Graceful shutdown needs an
interruptible wait — the shard-actor runtime's event loop (iteration 8) is
where that belongs, not a patch to the blocking calls.
- **A temporary record whose field is iterated is never dropped** —
`for e in parse_dir(dir).entries` keeps the entries alive (good) but leaks
the `ParseResult` shell (its drop is recorded for no register). Found in the
same disassembly; a leak, not a corruption.
- **json's two documented limits**: a `Bool` field encodes as `0`/`1` (the
class-table kind byte does not distinguish it from an integer), and a JSON
number with a fraction or exponent decodes by truncation.
- **`net` fd lifetime is the program's problem.** `net.close` exists; the
sample's MCP server never calls it, so a long-running `mcp` session leaks
descriptors. That is the sample's bug to fix, not the runtime's.
- **The workload has never run under ASan**, and iteration 4's `gc/held-cycle`
leak (above) is still open. The corpus itself stays ASan-clean.
- **`json.encode` of a `Bool` and of a nil scalar are asymmetric**: a nullable
scalar encodes as `null` (the field metadata says so), a plain `Bool` still
encodes as `0`/`1`.
- **No corpus fixtures cover the new surface.** By explicit direction
(2026-08-14) the acceptance for this work is the log-watcher program itself,
not fixture pairs; `tests/corpus/` still gates every pre-existing behavior
(71 checks, 0 failures).
- **E201/E203 and seven other `WO-E2xx` codes remain declared but unemitted**
— see [`oop-vm/01-error-catalog.md`](plan/oop-vm/01-error-catalog.md).
- **CLOSED — milestone-1's ASan gate (`just oop-accept`) failing on
`gc/held-cycle`.** Root cause (Task 8's finding, restated): `main.c`'s
entry-method return value (`uint64_t ret`, `src/main.c:158`) is stored
but never released, so `gc/held-cycle`'s "permanent external hold" was
actually a permanent refcount inflation — LeakSanitizer's "definite
leak" (1184 bytes / 3 allocations) was correctly reporting exactly
that, not a false positive. Fixing it by releasing `ret` was rejected:
the `.wob` method table carries no return-type/kind metadata, so
`main.c` has no way to know `ret` is a pointer rather than a scalar,
and adding that metadata is a format change out of scope here. Fixed
instead at the source: the systems-track spec already requires the
entry to return `Int` (its return value is the process exit code), so
a class-returning `main` was never legal — `WO-E405`
(`compiler/src/emit.ml`, `01-error-catalog.md`) now rejects it at
compile time, and `gc/held-cycle` is retired because its premise (an
externally-held cycle survives a _post-exit_ pump) is no longer
expressible — see `oop-vm/02-corpus.md`'s "Retired" note for why, and
for where the scenario it meant to cover is actually proven
(`runtime/test/test_cycle.c`, plus a proper in-flight fixture scheduled
for story iteration 7b). Spec success criterion 3 is now **MET**;
`just oop-accept` passes all five criteria.
The C proving-ground work (`exploration/c-runtime/`, phases A–F: 859k reads/s,
618k durable commits/s) fed the current C runtime and remains as an
[exploration study](plan/exploration/c-runtime/00-plan.md).
---
## Pending
### Language track — sequenced, on the critical path
| # | Item | Plan |
| --- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 5 | Haxe-parity language surface — **`?T` forced handling first**, then switch expressions, records, enum payloads, try/catch, statics, `using`, modules, `is`, `pub(read)`, `#if` | [plan 8](plan/compiler/2026-08-01-haxe-parity-language.md) |
| 6 | Program mode + systems stdlib — `fn main`, exit codes, `fs`/`proc`/`net`/`time`/`json` | [plan 9](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-program-mode-stdlib.md) |
| 7 | log-watcher proof — the sample compiles and detects a silent death live | [plan 10](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-log-watcher-sample.md) |
| 7b | Inferred GC + incremental mark-sweep — `@gc` removed, GC-ness inferred, RC retired | [spec](superpowers/specs/2026-08-11-inferred-gc-mark-sweep-design.md) — plan to be written |
| 8 | Shard-actor runtime | [plan 4](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-shard-actor-vm-runtime.md) |
| 9 | Database engine binding | [plan 5](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-db-engine-binding.md) |
| 9b | `@table` + relations + language-integrated query — comprehension queries, `ref`/`backlink` navigation, GroupBy aggregates; acceptance: new `docs/examples/employee` sample | [spec](superpowers/specs/2026-08-15-table-relations-query-design.md) · [plan](plan/compiler/2026-08-15-employee-relations-query.md) |
| 9c | Cross-program tables — attach to a running program's database (IPC string in wo.toml, manifest-granted rights, owner stays the single writer) | **no spec yet** — four open forks recorded in the iteration; brainstorm before planning |
| 9d | Keypair attach auth — mutual challenge–response, grants name public keys, uid superseded | **no spec yet** — four forks recorded; plan folds into 9c's |
| 9e | Durability + throughput + scale — restart-persistence, read/write benchmark, ~1M rows; the gate every later optimization re-runs | **no spec yet** — four forks recorded; the measurement backbone |
| 9f | io_uring group-commit write path — batched durability overlapped on shard threads, fsync fallback | **no spec yet** — brainstorm after iterations 8 + 9e |
| 9g | Query grammar from real embedded-DB corpora — whole-query count + correlated exists, driven by the skillhost SQL catalogue; add only what a corpus uses | **no spec yet** — three forks; may collapse to "confirm len(query) + add exists" |
| 14 | skillhost host workload — port skillhost (MCP host + confined script runner) to writeonce; drives the missing host capabilities into the open (bounded subprocess, stdin/stdout transport, fs metadata, FFI-vs-out-of-process) | **no spec yet** — gaps recorded in the iteration; each gap brainstormed on demand, bounded-subprocess first |
| 10 | HTTP service layer | [plan 6](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-http-service-layer.md) |
| 11 | Fibers | vision §3, [blue-green exploration](plan/exploration/blue-green-vm/00-vision.md) |
| 12 | Blue-green deploy | [spec](superpowers/specs/2026-08-03-blue-green-vm-design.md) — plan authored after iterations 9–10 |
### Language track — parked until after iteration 12
Recorded 2026-08-08 by scope directive; nothing here lands before the
log-watcher proof.
- `WO-W201` `@gc`-suggestion refinement beyond the self-reference heuristic
- `WO-E225` broadened to `ref`/`multi`/`map` element types and fn signatures
- ADT container roster adoption (Stack, Queue, Set, Tree, Graph, …) — see the
roster in [`compiler/nullable-types-implementation.md`](plan/compiler/nullable-types-implementation.md)
- Web framework as a `.wo` library; UI (`##ui` SSR + live patches);
script-based destructive migrations; MCP/agent wrapper over the management plane
- `throw` (explicit raise) — cut 2026-08-10, 0 uses in the driving workload
(log-watcher); catch frames ship without it
- `time.mono` — cut 2026-08-10, 0 uses in the driving workload; returns when a
workload needs monotonic math
- `is` — cut 2026-08-10, 0 uses in the driving workload; emptied plan 8's old
Task 7, which is deleted rather than deferred
### Frontend — removed as stale (2026-08-17)
The `##ui` / `.htmlx` LiveView frontend track — 13d pricing UI, the 14-MVC-UI
implementation plan, the 7-of-7 `ui-htmlx-live` plan, and the 9-doc
`plan/exploration/ui/` design set — was **removed**. It was built entirely on
the non-advancing Rust runtime (`.dev/reference/crates/wo-htmlx`, `cargo run`,
WebSocket live-patches) and contradicts the current woc/wovm direction. Recorded
in [`discarded.md`](plan/discarded.md).
---
## Discarded
Settled rejections with their reasons live in [`discarded.md`](plan/discarded.md) —
inheritance, `abstract` newtypes, `Money`/`SKU`/`Float`, `Dynamic`/`cast`/
`macro`/`extern`, AOT-to-C, Menhir, shared mutable engine state, external
deployer daemon, destructive migrations in v1, and more. Argue against the
recorded reason rather than re-opening an entry as new.
## Learnings
What attempts taught, shipped or not, in [`learnings.md`](plan/learnings.md) —
plumbed-is-not-enforced, vacuously-passing goldens, exit-0-with-wrong-output,
the malloc-path ASan trick, deferred checks that never reach the runtime,
validate-once-at-the-boundary, and reference-implement-in-C-first.

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Canonical map of the repository: what every root directory is and who writes to
it. Companion to [`CLAUDE.md`](../CLAUDE.md) (working rules), the status board
([`00-status.md`](00-status.md)), and the story arc
([`00-status.md`](stories/00-status.md)), and the story arc
([`stories/language-runtime-database/00-story.md`](stories/language-runtime-database/00-story.md)).
writeonce is **one compiled language, one runtime, one embedded database, one
@ -16,18 +16,25 @@ project.
```
writeonce-all/
├── compiler/ OCaml `woc` — lexer→parser→types→owner→emit; produces the compiler binary
├── runtime/ C `wovm` — the register VM that runs .wob images (src/); phase A–F C reference (wo-rt.c, bench/)
├── compiler/ OCaml `woc` — lexer→parser→types→gcinfer→owner→emit; produces the compiler binary
├── runtime/ C `wovm` — the register VM that runs .wob images (src/); retired io_uring reference (wo-rt.c, bench/)
├── database/ C embedded engine — class-shaped tables, secondary indexes, typed WAL + recovery
├── tests/ corpus/ — conformance fixtures: run / compile-fail / trap / gc
├── scripts/ oop-e2e.sh (corpus runner), mkdist.sh / install-accept.sh (packaging), sample acceptance
├── docs/ ALL documentation: numbered docs, stories/, plan/, examples/, superpowers/
├── tests/ corpus/ — conformance fixtures: run / compile-fail / trap / gc (+ five reserved, still empty)
├── scripts/ the corpus runner, packaging, linkcheck, and one acceptance script per sample
├── bench/ baseline.json (the db-bench gate's thresholds) + results/ + compare/ (Go+SQLite peer)
├── docs/ ALL documentation: numbered docs, stories/, plan/, examples/, guides/, superpowers/
├── dist/ `just dist` output: writeonce-<ver>-linux-amd64.tar.gz + .sha256
├── .github/ workflows/release.yml — builds, verifies and publishes on a `v*` tag push
├── .claude/ agents/ — project subagent definitions (see docs/guides/codd-subagent.md)
├── .dev/ gitignored per-developer links + reference study trees (v1 crates, colibri, llama-cpp)
├── justfile task runner: woc-/wovm-build, the *-test gates, oop-accept, dist, install-accept
├── VERSION single-sourced toolchain version (stamped into woc/wovm; asserted by `just dist`)
└── README.md the getting-started front door (also the writeonce.de landing content)
```
`target/` and `.vscode/` are local build and editor state, not part of the
project layout.
## Root directories in detail
### `compiler/` — the OCaml `woc` compiler
@ -36,13 +43,19 @@ writeonce-all/
compiler/
├── dune-project
├── README.md orientation: pipeline map, build/test commands
├── plan/ compiler-track docs: architecture.md + the woc plans
├── src/ one module per stage: diag, token, lexer, ast, parser,
│ types, owner, emit, disasm, dump
├── bin/main.ml the woc executable (check / --emit / build / version modes)
└── test/ golden runner + golden/ fixtures per stage
│ types, gcinfer, owner, emit, disasm, dump
├── bin/main.ml the woc executable — check / build-from-manifest / --emit /
│ build / version / --update-deps / the --dump-* modes / -D
└── test/ golden runner + golden/ fixtures per stage (tokens, ast,
owner, owner-err, bc) + fixtures/driver/ CLI-smoke cases
```
The compiler-track plan docs live under
[`plan/compiler/`](plan/compiler/architecture.md) in this `docs/` tree, not
inside `compiler/` — the repo rule below applies to the compiler like everything
else.
Doctrine: OCaml stdlib only — no Menhir, no ppx, no opam libraries; handwritten
lexer and recursive-descent parser. Build: `just woc-build`; gate:
`just woc-test`. Architecture map:
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### `tests/`, `scripts/`
- `tests/corpus/` — the conformance spine: `run/`, `compile-fail/`, `trap/`,
`gc/`. Exact-outcome matching: byte-equal stdout, exact `WO-E###`, exact trap
code. Driven by `scripts/oop-e2e.sh` (`just oop-e2e`).
- `scripts/` — `oop-e2e.sh` (corpus), `mkdist.sh` + `install-accept.sh`
(tarball packaging), and the per-sample acceptance scripts
(`employee-accept.sh`, `log-watcher-accept.sh`).
- `tests/corpus/` — the conformance spine. Four directories carry fixtures:
`run/` (60), `compile-fail/` (46), `trap/` (5), `gc/` (2). Five more —
`actor/`, `db/`, `lang/`, `sys/`, `sample-logwatcher/` — are reserved slots
from the original plan and still **empty**; see
[`tests/corpus/README.md`](../tests/corpus/README.md) for which plan each was
to be filled by. Exact-outcome matching: byte-equal stdout, exact `WO-E###`,
exact trap code. Driven by `scripts/oop-e2e.sh` (`just oop-e2e`).
- `scripts/` — the corpus runner (`oop-e2e.sh`) and
`single-binary-smoke.sh`; packaging (`mkdist.sh`, `install-accept.sh`); the
docs gate (`linkcheck.py`); the benchmark campaign (`db-bench.py`); and one
acceptance script per sample — `employee-accept.sh`, `log-watcher-accept.sh`,
`web-app-accept.sh`, `site-accept.sh`, `fibers-accept.sh`,
`db-actor-accept.sh`, `deps-accept.sh`.
### `docs/` — all documentation
```
docs/
├── 00-*, 01-problem.md, 08-*.md status / principles / code-review / problem / structure
├── stories/ the canonical iteration arc (language-runtime-database/)
├── examples/ log-watcher/, employee/, employee-list/ samples
├── 00-*.md, 01-problem.md, 08-*.md principles / code-review / dependency-graph /
│ link-audit / doc-audit / problem / structure
├── stories/ 00-status.md (the board) + board-views.md +
│ the canonical iteration arc (language-runtime-database/,
│ FLAT — status lives in each story's frontmatter)
├── active-slice-*.md the live slice's one marker doc, deleted when it lands
├── guides/ runbooks: releasing, language-surface, subagents
├── examples/ 13 sample projects, 8 of them wired to a `just` recipe
├── plan/ compiler/ plans, oop-vm/ contracts, exploration/ studies,
│ discarded.md + learnings.md registers
│ perf-targets.md, discarded.md + learnings.md registers
└── superpowers/ specs/ (approved designs) + plans/ (implementation plans)
```
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`just woc-build` + `just wovm-build` produce the two binaries; `just oop-accept`
runs the full milestone gate (compile-time budget, conformance corpus under
ASan, single-binary smoke, both unit gates). Sample acceptance:
`just employee` (database), `just log-watcher` (systems stdlib). Packaging:
`just dist` → `writeonce-<ver>-linux-amd64.tar.gz`, proven by
`just install-accept`.
ASan, single-binary smoke, both unit gates). Sample acceptance: `just employee`
(database), `just log-watcher` (systems stdlib), `just web-app` and `just site`
(the framework consumed through `[deps]`), `just fibers` and `just db-actor`
(the concurrency arc), `just deps-accept` (the package manager),
`just db-bench` / `db-bench-quick` (the benchmark campaign, gated against
`bench/baseline.json`). Docs gate: `just linkcheck`. Packaging: `just dist` →
`writeonce-<ver>-linux-amd64.tar.gz`, proven by `just install-accept`;
publishing is `.github/workflows/release.yml` on a `v*` tag
(see [`guides/releasing.md`](guides/releasing.md)).
## Naming conventions
- Binaries: `woc` (OCaml compiler), `wovm` (C VM); a `woc build` / `woc <dir>`
output is named by the project's `wo.toml`.
- Story iterations: `<NN>-<topic>.md`, flat in
`docs/stories/language-runtime-database/`. **No directory encodes status**
(directive 2026-08-26) — each story's `status:` frontmatter key is the only
place state is recorded, so a status change is a one-line edit and never
moves a file or breaks a link.
- Plan/spec files: `YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>.md` under `docs/superpowers/{specs,plans}/`;
compiler plans under `docs/plan/compiler/`; normative contracts under
`docs/plan/oop-vm/`.
- A project's dependencies (iteration 15): `wo.toml [deps]` declares
exact-rev git deps; they fetch to `.wo-deps/<name>/` (gitignored) and pin
in `wo.lock` (committed).
- Sample projects live under `docs/examples/<name>/` with their own `wo.toml`
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# Iteration 24 T9 — the drain bug the gate was hiding
**Found 2026-08-27** while finishing T8/T9 on branch `chat-ws-lifecycle`.
Not fixed: the fix is an engine-level decision, recorded here so it is not
rediscovered.
## The symptom
`just chat`'s drain leg asserts both connected clients receive a WebSocket
close frame on `SIGTERM`. Against a **fresh** server it is flaky:
| Sample | Result |
| --- | --- |
| 5 fresh servers, 2 clients each | 4 × `close\|close`, 1 × `eof\|close` |
| 12 fresh servers | 3 failures, one of them `eof\|eof` |
| 16 fresh servers | 5 failures |
A failing client's socket reaches EOF with **no close frame and no
diagnostic** — the process exits and the kernel closes the fd.
## Why the gate never caught it
The drain leg did not start its own server. It inherited `$SRV` from the soak
leg — a server the soak had already pushed 1000 clients through, so every
shard was warm and every actor already scheduled. Draining a warm server hides
the cold-start race. Fixed in this change: **every leg now starts its own
server**, which is what exposed the bug.
## Root cause, traced
Instrumented the sample's actors (diagnostics not committed) and correlated
against failing runs:
1. `DIAG registry-shutdown rooms=1` — main's `send(reg, kind: 2)` **is**
delivered and the Registry runs.
2. `DIAG room-shutdown` — **never printed on a failing run.** The Room never
processes the `kind: 4` shutdown the Registry sends it.
3. The Writer's close branch never runs for the affected client, so no close
frame is written and the fd is never closed by the Writer. Its
`try net.write_dl(...)` is **not** failing — a diagnostic on that path
printed zero times.
4. A client that *does* get a close frame is usually saved by its own
**Reader** noticing `env.stopping()` and running its tail
(`DIAG reader-tail bob r2=1`), not by the room broadcast.
So the drain chain is main → Registry → Room → Writer, three hops across
shards, and **the Room's shard does not reliably adopt its inbox before the
engine stops.**
## What was ruled out
- **Not the spin budget.** Replacing `spin < 20000000` with a wall-clock
deadline of 1 s (`time.ticks()`) still failed 2 of 12. More time does not
help, which is the strongest evidence the room's shard is not being
scheduled at all rather than being scheduled late. That change was reverted:
it fixed nothing and cost a fixed 1 s on every shutdown.
- **Not `dummy_writer()` spawning during shutdown.** Hoisting it to a
Registry field spawned once at startup left 5 of 16 failing.
- **Not a write failure.** See point 3.
## The decision this needs
`main` cannot park after the stop flag (a park unwinds), so it spins — and
spinning is not a barrier. Either:
- **the engine drains pending inboxes before stopping**, so a `send` issued
before the stop flag is guaranteed delivered; or
- **the sample gets a real barrier** — the drain is acknowledged back to main,
which requires main to observe a reply without parking.
The first is the honest fix and belongs to the actor lifecycle (iteration 31,
absorbed into 24). It is a semantic guarantee — "a send before shutdown is
delivered" — not a tuning parameter, and it should be stated in the runtime's
lifecycle docs and pinned by a corpus fixture, not left to a spin count.
## Gate defects fixed alongside (all committed)
1. **fd check was core-count dependent.** `fds_before + 8` read lazy per-shard
init as a leak: shards initialise on first fiber, each taking one
`io_uring` + one `eventfd`, capped at `nproc`. On a 20-core box the first
wave legitimately adds 18. Measured 26 → 44 after 20 clients, then **still
44 after 40 more**. Replaced with the invariant the check is actually for:
a second wave must not raise the count. Core-count independent, and it
catches a slow leak that any fixed slack would hide.
2. **A failed leg orphaned its server.** The drain leg's python died on
`int("")` when `$SRV` was empty, so the soak server was never killed and
its listener broke the *next* run's soak on the same port. `cleanup` now
kills every server a run started, matched on the run's unique temp dir.
3. **Two legs the plan requires were missing** — `WO_SHARDS=1` (the
single-shard control that says a failure is placement's fault) and
`WO_MAILBOX=8` (the drop-slow-member backpressure path). Both added, both
green. The mailbox leg manufactures a genuinely slow member by shrinking
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# `docs/examples/chat` — how the sample is put together
Iteration 24's acceptance workload: rooms, presence and broadcast over
WebSocket, actors on fibers across shards, one binary, no broker. It exists to
*drive* the actor work, so nearly every shape here is chosen to exercise
something the runtime claims.
Gate: `just chat` (`scripts/chat-accept.sh`), which logs to `/tmp/chat.log` —
`tail -F` it while the gate runs.
## The actors
| Actor | Owns | Answers |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `Registry` | name → room map, a fallback room | a `call` returning the room's address; spawns rooms on demand |
| `Room` | its member list (writer address + name) | join, leave, a text line, shutdown |
| `Reader` | the read half of one connection | nothing — it loops on the fd and sends onward |
| `Writer` | the **fd**, and the write half | text, pong, close |
| `ConnWorker` | one accepted connection | runs the HTTP layer over that fd |
`Registry` is the first honest consumer of `call`: the handler runs on the
connection worker's shard, the registry lives wherever placement put it, and
the reply is a scalar — the room's address. That is the cross-shard `call`
proof the gate asserts, not a contrivance added for it.
## Two actors per connection, not one
One fd, two directions, and they block independently. A single actor would have
to be inside `read` to notice the client, and inside `write` to deliver a
broadcast — it cannot be in both, so a broadcast would stall behind a quiet
client's read. Splitting them buys three things:
1. **The `Writer` is the sole writer of that fd.** Frames can never interleave,
which for a framed protocol is a correctness property and not a nicety.
2. **The `Reader` may block as long as it likes.** It sits in `read_dl` with a
30 s idle deadline and nothing else is waiting on it.
3. **The `Writer`'s mailbox becomes the backpressure point.** A slow client
stops draining its socket, its `Writer` blocks in `write_dl`, its mailbox
fills, and the room's next broadcast to it raises a catchable `WO_T_ACTOR`.
The room catches that and drops the member. **This is the whole reason the
mailbox cap is fail-fast** — the room survives its slowest member, and the
gate's `WO_MAILBOX=8` leg proves the path fires rather than assuming it.
`Room.say` is written around that: it shifts every member, tries the send, and
keeps only the members whose send succeeded — a failed one is sent a close and
dropped. So fan-out and eviction are the same pass.
## Who owns the fd
The `Writer`. It closes it, in every branch: a failed write sets `dead` and
closes; a close message writes the close frame and closes. The `Reader` closes
the fd itself in exactly one case — when its `send_close` to the writer traps,
meaning the writer is unreachable and nobody else will. Without that the fd
would leak on a dead-writer path.
`Writer.dead` guards against a second close, which matters because two
independent paths can decide a connection is finished (the reader seeing EOF,
and the room broadcasting shutdown).
## Shutdown choreography
On `env.stopping()` the accept loop stops and `main` sends one message to the
`Registry`, which fans out to every room; each room shifts its members and
sends each `Writer` a close; each writer writes the close frame and closes the
fd. `main` then spins — it may **not** park, because a park after the stop flag
unwinds — and returns, which is what stops the engine.
Independently, every `Reader` notices `env.stopping()` at its loop head and
runs its tail: leave the room, close the writer.
Both paths exist and that is deliberate: the reader path covers a connection
whose room is already gone, the room path covers a reader parked in a read that
has not come back yet.
**This is where iteration 40 came from.** The room path used to be unreliable:
a `Room` whose shard was idle at `SIGTERM` never adopted the shutdown message,
because an idle worker abandoned its inbox on stop. Clients that still got a
close frame were being saved by the reader path alone — which is why the
failure looked random and why a warmed-up server hid it. The engine now
guarantees that a send issued before the stop flag is delivered, so both paths
work as written. Nothing in this file changed to fix it, and that is the point:
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-- chat — iteration 24's acceptance workload. Rooms, presence and
-- broadcast over WebSocket: every connection is a reader actor (sole fd
-- reader) plus a writer actor (sole fd writer); rooms and the registry
-- are actors; delivery between them is ownership-moving sends, across
-- shards when placement lands them there. One binary, no broker.
--
-- CHAT_TOKEN is not needed — chat is open; the framework serves it
-- through [deps] exactly like web-app:
-- woc . && ./target/chat 8080
-- ws://127.0.0.1:8080/ws?room=lobby&name=alice
--
-- The actor split exists because an actor takes ONE message at a time:
-- a single per-connection actor blocked in net read could never hear a
-- broadcast. The reader owns the socket's inbound half and the carry
-- buffer; the writer owns the outbound half so frames never interleave.
use env
use net
use time
use porch
use porch/http
use porch/router
-- ---- message types (one per actor) --------------------------------------
-- To a writer: 1 = text frame, 2 = close (frame + fd close), 3 = pong.
class WriterMsg {
kind: Int
text: Text
}
-- To a room: 1 = join, 2 = leave, 3 = text, 4 = shutdown (drain).
class RoomMsg {
kind: Int
name: Text
text: Text
writer: actor WriterMsg
}
-- To the registry: 1 = lookup (a `call` — the reply is the room's
-- address), 2 = shutdown every room (a `send` on SIGTERM).
class Lookup {
kind: Int
room: Text
}
-- To a reader: everything the connection's inbound loop needs.
class ReaderMsg {
fd: net.Conn
room: actor RoomMsg
writer: actor WriterMsg
name: Text
}
-- One connection accepted, one worker: builds its own App and runs the
-- framework's keep-alive loop (the serving-slice pattern).
class Conn {
fd: net.Conn
}
-- ---- the writer: sole owner of the outbound half -------------------------
class Writer {
fd: net.Conn
dead: Int
fn receive(msg: WriterMsg) {
if self.dead == 1 { return; }
if msg.kind == 1 {
let ok = try net.write_dl(self.fd, ws_text(msg.text), 2000) catch (e) false;
if ok == false {
-- a stalled or gone client: tear the fd; the reader will see EOF
-- and route the leave through the room
self.dead = 1;
net.close(self.fd);
}
return;
}
if msg.kind == 3 {
let ok2 = try net.write_dl(self.fd, ws_pong(msg.text), 2000) catch (e) false;
if ok2 == false {
self.dead = 1;
net.close(self.fd);
}
return;
}
-- close: the drain path (room shutdown or reader-detected close)
self.dead = 1;
let ig = try net.write_dl(self.fd, ws_close(), 1000) catch (e) false;
net.close(self.fd);
}
}
-- ---- the room: members, presence, fan-out --------------------------------
class Mem {
w: actor WriterMsg
name: Text
}
class Room {
members: multi Mem
fn receive(msg: RoomMsg) {
if msg.kind == 1 {
push(self.members, Mem { w: msg.writer, name: "${msg.name}" });
self.say("* ${msg.name} joined");
return;
}
if msg.kind == 2 {
let keep: multi Mem = [];
while len(self.members) > 0 {
let m = shift(self.members);
if m.name != msg.name { push(keep, m); }
}
self.members = keep;
self.say("* ${msg.name} left");
return;
}
if msg.kind == 3 {
self.say("${msg.name}: ${msg.text}");
return;
}
-- shutdown: every member gets a close frame; the list empties
while len(self.members) > 0 {
let m = shift(self.members);
let r = try send_close(m.w) catch (e) 0;
}
}
-- fan-out one line; a member whose mailbox is FULL is a slow client —
-- the fail-fast cap turns it into a drop-from-the-room (the backpressure
-- policy earning its keep)
fn say(line: Text) {
let keep: multi Mem = [];
while len(self.members) > 0 {
let m = shift(self.members);
let ok = try send_text(m.w, "${line}") catch (e) 0;
if ok == 1 {
push(keep, m);
} else {
let r = try send_close(m.w) catch (e) 0;
}
}
self.members = keep;
}
}
-- send wrappers: `try` is an expression, so give it Int results
fn send_text(w: actor WriterMsg, line: Text) -> Int {
send(w, WriterMsg { kind: 1, text: line });
return 1;
}
fn send_close(w: actor WriterMsg) -> Int {
send(w, WriterMsg { kind: 2, text: "" });
return 1;
}
-- ---- the registry: name -> room, spawn on demand --------------------------
class RoomRef {
r: actor RoomMsg
}
class Registry {
rooms: map<Text, RoomRef>
fallback: actor RoomMsg
fn receive(msg: Lookup) -> actor RoomMsg {
if msg.kind == 2 {
for k, v in self.rooms {
send(v.r, RoomMsg { kind: 4, name: "", text: "", writer: dummy_writer() });
}
return self.fallback;
}
if has(self.rooms, msg.room) == 1 {
let have = self.rooms[msg.room];
if have != nil {
return have.r;
}
}
let room: actor RoomMsg = spawn Room { members: [] };
self.rooms[msg.room] = RoomRef { r: room };
return room;
}
}
-- RoomMsg requires a writer field on every construction; the shutdown
-- message has no meaningful one, so a throwaway satisfies the shape (it
-- never receives anything — kind 4 reads no fields).
fn dummy_writer() -> actor WriterMsg {
let w: actor WriterMsg = spawn Writer { fd: 0 - 1, dead: 1 };
return w;
}
-- ---- the reader: sole owner of the inbound half ---------------------------
class Reader {
pad: Int
fn receive(msg: ReaderMsg) {
let carry = "";
let alive = true;
while alive {
if env.stopping() { alive = false; continue; }
let got = try net.read_dl(msg.fd, 4096, 30000) catch (e) nil;
if got == nil {
-- idle deadline or I/O trap: this client is done
alive = false;
continue;
}
let bytes = "${got}";
if len(bytes) == 0 {
alive = false;
continue;
}
carry = carry .. bytes;
let more = true;
while more {
let f = ws_parse(carry);
if f.kind == 0 {
more = false;
continue;
}
carry = f.rest;
if f.kind == 1 {
send(msg.room, RoomMsg { kind: 3, name: "${msg.name}", text: f.payload, writer: msg.writer });
continue;
}
if f.kind == 9 {
send(msg.writer, WriterMsg { kind: 3, text: f.payload });
continue;
}
if f.kind == 10 or f.kind == 2 {
continue; -- pongs ignored; binary tolerated (echo is not chat)
}
-- close frame or protocol error: stop reading
alive = false;
more = false;
}
}
-- the tail sends must survive full mailboxes (a leave storm after a
-- mass close): a trap here would kill the reader and orphan the fd
let r1 = try send_leave(msg.room, "${msg.name}", msg.writer) catch (e) 0;
let r2 = try send_close(msg.writer) catch (e) 0;
if r2 == 0 {
-- the writer is unreachable (full/dead): close the fd ourselves
net.close(msg.fd);
}
}
}
fn send_leave(room: actor RoomMsg, name: Text, w: actor WriterMsg) -> Int {
send(room, RoomMsg { kind: 2, name: name, text: "", writer: w });
return 1;
}
-- ---- HTTP: the upgrade route + usage --------------------------------------
class WsRoute {
reg: actor Lookup
fn handle(req: Req) -> Resp {
if ws_upgrade_valid(req) == false {
return bad_request("expected a websocket upgrade");
}
let rname = req.query["room"];
if rname == nil { return bad_request("expected ?room=<name>&name=<who>"); }
let who = req.query["name"];
if who == nil { return bad_request("expected ?room=<name>&name=<who>"); }
-- the cross-shard call: this handler runs on the connection worker's
-- shard, the registry lives wherever placement put it
let room = call(self.reg, Lookup { kind: 1, room: "${rname}" });
let fd = ws_accept(req);
let w: actor WriterMsg = spawn Writer { fd: fd, dead: 0 };
let rd: actor ReaderMsg = spawn Reader { pad: 0 };
send(room, RoomMsg { kind: 1, name: "${who}", text: "", writer: w });
send(rd, ReaderMsg { fd: fd, room: room, writer: w, name: "${who}" });
return hijacked();
}
}
class Usage {
pad: Int
fn handle(req: Req) -> Resp {
return ok_json("{\"ws\":\"/ws?room=<name>&name=<who>\"}");
}
}
fn build_app(reg: actor Lookup) -> App {
let app = App { middleware: [], routes: [] };
app.get("/", Usage { pad: 0 });
app.get("/ws", WsRoute { reg: reg });
return app;
}
class ConnWorker {
reg: actor Lookup
fn receive(msg: Conn) {
let app = build_app(self.reg);
app.handle_conn(msg.fd, 10000, 10000);
}
}
fn main(args: multi Text) -> Int {
if len(args) < 1 {
print_err("usage: chat <port>");
return 2;
}
let port = parse_int(args[0]);
if port == nil {
print_err("chat: <port> must be a number");
return 2;
}
let fb: actor RoomMsg = spawn Room { members: [] };
let reg: actor Lookup = spawn Registry { rooms: {}, fallback: fb };
let srv = net.listen("127.0.0.1", port);
print("listening on 127.0.0.1:${port}");
while true {
if env.stopping() {
-- the drain: every room broadcasts a close frame and writers flush.
-- main must NOT park here (a park after the stop flag unwinds), so
-- it SPINS — each loop back-edge pays a reduction, and the budget
-- hands the shard to the draining actors between slices; worker
-- shards keep adopting their inboxes until the engine stops.
send(reg, Lookup { kind: 2, room: "" });
let spin = 0;
while spin < 20000000 {
spin = spin + 1;
}
net.close(srv);
return 0;
}
let c = net.accept_dl(srv, 250);
if c != nil {
let w: actor Conn = spawn ConnWorker { reg: reg };
send(w, Conn { fd: c });
}
}
}

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version = "0.1.0"
description = "Iteration 24's acceptance workload: rooms + presence + broadcast over WebSocket — actors on fibers across shards, one binary, no broker"
[runtime]
wo = ">= 0.1"
[deps]
porch = { git = "https://github.com/shoneyj/porch", rev = "v0.1.0" }

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# `db-actor` — the database reached from any shard
> **Status: shipped — arc stage 3's acceptance gate.** Run it with
> `just db-actor`. Landed 2026-08-21 with the shard-fiber arc
> ([story 8](../../stories/language-runtime-database/08-shard-actor-runtime.md)
> · [plan](../../superpowers/plans/2026-08-20-shard-fiber-arc.md)).
The database lives on **one** shard — the owner, shard 0 — because RAM is
authoritative and a single writer is what makes the WAL's ordering meaningful.
That is a problem the moment actors are placed round-robin across cores: a
`spawn`ed actor has no say in which shard it lands on, and before stage 3 a
worker-shard `insert` trapped `WO_T_DB` with "database engine not initialized".
Stage 3's answer is a **transparent DB actor**: statements issued off the owner
shard marshal to it, execute there, and materialize their replies back. The
program's source says nothing about any of it — the same `insert` and the same
`from … select` work wherever the actor happens to run. This sample exists to
prove exactly that, which is why its acceptance criterion is *placement
independence* rather than any particular output.
## What it does
`Note` is a `@table` with a secondary index on `tag`. `Writer` is an actor: each
one inserts a row, then scans the whole table and prints the sum it sees. `main`
spawns two writers, waits, then scans once itself.
With the default shard count, round-robin placement puts at least one writer off
the owner shard — so one of those inserts and one of those scans travel the RPC
path under test, and the other does not. Both must produce the same shape.
```bash
just db-actor # the gate
woc docs/examples/db-actor/ # or build it by hand
WO_SHARDS=1 ./docs/examples/db-actor/target/db-actor # force the local path
```
## What the gate proves
`scripts/db-actor-accept.sh`, 8 checks:
| Check | Why it is shaped that way |
| --- | --- |
| multi-shard, three rounds | The writer lines are asserted as a **set**, not a sequence — scheduling decides their order, and pinning it would be testing the scheduler, not the RPC. The `main` line is exact. |
| both `WO_IO` backends forced | The reply park has to be plane-independent: io_uring and epoll must give the same answer, or the parking is leaking into semantics. |
| single shard, byte-exact | The local path is untouched by stage 3. Any drift here means the RPC changed the non-RPC case. |
| `WO_DATA` restart pair | A worker's insert must commit on the **owner's** WAL before its ack, so a restart replays it: 2 rows, then 2+2 after a second run. This is the durability claim the RPC could most easily break. A program with any durable table (the default) refuses to start without `WO_DATA`; `WO_EPHEMERAL=1` opts into a RAM-only run, `@table(durable: false)` opts a table out. |
Run under `wovm_asan` and `wovm_tsan` as well — cross-shard message passing is
exactly where a data race would hide, and TSan covering this demo is the one
place it runs.
## Read it for
- **How little the source knows.** Compare `Writer.receive` here against the
same statements in [`employee`](../employee/): identical. Transparency is the
feature.
- **Why `main` waits.** `main` is not an actor and has no mailbox, so it sleeps
rather than awaiting — the gap iteration 31's `call` closes for actors and
[iteration 24](../../stories/language-runtime-database/24-chat-websocket-workload.md)
landed 2026-08-27.
Reasoning under the engine side: [`database/src/CODE-LOGIC.md`](../../../database/src/CODE-LOGIC.md).
Contract: [`plan/oop-vm/04-db-binding.md`](../../plan/oop-vm/04-db-binding.md).

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use time
-- db-actor — arc stage 3's acceptance workload: the database is an
-- actor on the owner shard (shard 0); a spawned actor placed on ANY
-- shard reads and writes it through transparent RPC. Before stage 3 a
-- worker-shard insert traps WO_T_DB ("database engine not
-- initialized"); after, this program's output is shard-placement-
-- independent: two writer lines and one exact main line.
@table(name: "notes", index: [tag])
class Note {
tag: Text
val: Int
}
class Job {
n: Int
}
-- Each writer inserts one row, then scans the whole table. Placement is
-- round-robin, so with two writers at default shards one lands off the
-- primary — the RPC path under test.
class Writer {
fn receive(msg: Job) {
insert Note { tag: "w", val: msg.n };
let total = 0;
for x in from n in Note select n {
total = total + x.val;
}
print("writer ${msg.n} sees sum ${total}");
}
}
fn main() -> Int {
let a: actor Job = spawn Writer {};
let b: actor Job = spawn Writer {};
send(a, Job { n: 1 });
send(b, Job { n: 2 });
-- no request/response surface yet (iteration 31): poll until both rows
-- landed, then give the writers' own prints a beat before main returns
-- (main-return reaps every other fiber, mid-print included)
let tries = 0;
let count = 0;
while count < 2 and tries < 200 {
time.sleep(10);
count = 0;
for x in from n in Note select n {
count = count + 1;
}
tries = tries + 1;
}
time.sleep(1000);
count = 0;
let total = 0;
for x in from n in Note select n {
count = count + 1;
total = total + x.val;
}
print("main sees ${count} rows, sum ${total}");
return 0;
}

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version = "0.1.0"
description = "arc stage 3 proof: actors on worker shards read and write the database through the DB actor"
[runtime]
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# db-bench — iteration 22's load generator
The measurement backbone (spec:
`docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-21-db-bench-design.md`). Pure `.wo`;
every measured mode prints one machine-parsable line per operation
class:
<op> <count> <ops/sec> <p50us> <p99us>
Timing is per-operation via `time.ticks` (CLOCK_MONOTONIC µs).
Percentiles come from a 1µs-bucket histogram clamped at 20000µs — exact
to the microsecond below the clamp; a p99 AT 20000 means "clamp or
worse". (A histogram, not the spec's reservoir: the language has no
container element-write or sort, and the histogram's tail fidelity is
strictly better. Recorded as a plan deviation.)
## Modes
| mode | what it prices |
| --- | --- |
| `all N` | the throughput campaign in ONE process: seed N, read N/2, query N/10, write N/2. Without `WO_DATA` the store is RAM and dies with the process, so the measured modes must share the seeding run. |
| `seed N` | timed inserts: one parent per 100 children (FK probe each insert, unique-index maintenance per parent), k non-unique (10 rows/key), deterministic v. Writes `Meta` expectation rows. |
| `read N` | indexed take-1 point lookups, LCG-spread keys. |
| `query N` | full equality probes on the k index (≈10 rows each), materialized and counted. |
| `write N` | alternating inserts (disjoint k range 2e6+) and updates through query results. Corrupts the checksum by design — durability legs run on a fresh store. |
| `wal N` | the crash battery's vehicle: insert-only (k range 1e6+), `acked <i>` printed AFTER each insert returns — the return IS the ack (RAM applied, WAL record staged, ONE commit done). |
| `wmix N C` | **databasev2 4:** every op a durable write (update through a query result), C at once. Exists because `mix` writes on one op in ten with C=4 — 20 writes in a quick run, measured mean batch **1.01** — so no existing leg could show whether group commit engages. Histogram kind 2, because a replayed store still holds the seeding run's kind-0/1 `Hist` rows. Seed first. |
| `boot` | **databasev2 3:** does NOTHING. With `WO_DATA` set the runtime replays the whole log before `main` runs, so a mode with no work of its own is the only honest way to price boot |
| `verify` | store vs its own Meta rows: count, checksum, one unique probe. Exit 3 on mismatch. |
| `verify-acked M` | after kill -9 mid-`wal`: rows 1..M exist with the right v; rows beyond M allowed (acked after the last print flushed). Exit 3 on mismatch. |
## Env knobs
| var | effect |
| --- | --- |
| `WO_DATA=<dir>` (or `WO_DATA=<path>.db`, below) | durability on: replay `<dir>/shard-0.wal` at boot, log every write. A program with any durable table (the default) refuses to start without `WO_DATA`; `WO_EPHEMERAL=1` opts into a RAM-only run, `@table(durable: false)` opts a table out. |
| `WO_EPHEMERAL=1` | **databasev2 2 task 6a:** the RAM-only opt-in the driver sets on its ram/msgrate/growth/randread legs. A `WO_DATA` exported in your shell no longer silently turns those legs durable — the two are incompatible and the run refuses loudly |
| `WO_SHARDS=<n>` | shard count. **`1` means every statement runs inline on shard 0 and group commit cannot engage** — batches form only where writes queue from other shards |
| `WO_CHECKPOINT_BYTES` / `WO_CHECKPOINT_RATIO` | **databasev2 3:** the checkpoint trigger — the log must exceed the floor AND exceed the ratio times the last compaction's own size. A tiny floor forces compaction in a few writes, which is how the gate tests the policy at all; an enormous one disables it, which is how the checkpoint leg measures the same workload with and without |
| `WO_WAL_STATS=1` | **databasev2 4:** print one line at exit — `walstats batches=… records=… peak_batch=… peak_staged=… compactions=… compact_us_max=… compact_us_total=… compacted_bytes=…`. Opt-in so it does not pollute every durable program's output. Mean batch is `records/batches`; **mean 1.0 means group commit is not engaging**, which is expected for a serial writer or `WO_SHARDS=1` and a bug anywhere else |
| `WO_DATA=<path>.db` | **databasev2 7:** the store as ONE file — the path IS the log (created if absent, its parent must exist; a directory or trailing `/` keeps the `<dir>/shard-0.wal` form). `scripts/db-bench.py --wo-data-file` runs the restart proof and the kill -9 battery against `<tmp>/app.db` instead of a directory; same acceptance, no metric, baseline untouched |
**Do not put `WO_DATA` on `/tmp`.** It is `tmpfs` on the reference machine,
where `fdatasync` is free: the same `wmix` run measured **195 000 ops/s at p50
1 µs** there against **2200 ops/s at p50 7200 µs** on ext4. There is no
durability barrier to price on a memory filesystem. The driver keeps its stores
under `bench/` for exactly this reason.
## Coordination idiom (this side of iteration 31)
There is no request/response surface yet: concurrent modes drive
completion the db-actor way — actors write rows, main polls the store
until the expected count, then settles. Retired when 31 lands.
## Standing finding (2026-08-21, first run)
A hand-built `multi Bucket` of insert results SEGVs on drop: the
compiler classifies the elements OWNED while table refs are scalar ids.
Query-built multis are runtime-typed and safe. Worked around here
(single ref local, bucket-major seeding); the compiler fix is its own
slice.
## Reference-machine numbers (first campaign, 2026-08-21)
`bench/baseline.json` is the contract; headline readings:
- ram seed 245–290k inserts/s; **durable seed ≈4.5k/s** (fsync-per-commit
≈220µs each — the gap iteration 23 exists to close).
- reads/queries ≈1.1–1.3M ops/s at p50 1µs since the read-path index
slice (2026-08-22, engine `wo_idx_probe` + emitter index selection) —
up from ≈1.5k/s at p50 600µs when point lookups walked every slab
(~×850). mixread 89k ops/s single-shard, ~1.9k multi-shard (was
1,280 / 21): the RPC round-trip is now the visible cost, as designed.
- msgrate ≈13M msgs/s same-heap vs ≈2.4M cross-shard (the mutex-inbox
number, stage-2 deviation 4).
- Tolerance policy lives in the DRIVER (`tolerance_for`), not hand-edits
— a baseline refresh regenerates it: mix*/sN/read/query 50%
(scheduling + µs-scale jitter), rest 15%; latency floors
`max(4×value, 100µs)` — the tripwire means "µs became ms".
## The gate must bite (proven 2026-08-21)
`scripts/db-bench.py --check <results.json>` evaluates a recorded run:
the real results pass 74/0; a doctored copy FAILS on exactly the
doctored metrics — use a 15%-class metric (seed) halved plus a
50%-class metric (read) quartered, so both tolerance classes prove they
bite. Re-run the smoke after any gate or policy change.

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use fs
use time
-- db-bench — iteration 22's load generator. Every measured mode prints
-- one machine-parsable line per operation class:
--
-- <op> <count> <ops/sec> <p50us> <p99us>
--
-- Timing is per-operation via time.ticks (CLOCK_MONOTONIC µs);
-- percentiles come from a 1µs-bucket histogram clamped at HIST_CLAMP —
-- exact to the microsecond below the clamp, and the clamp bucket keeps
-- the tail honest (a p99 AT the clamp means "clamp or worse").
-- The wal mode prints a running `acked <n>` line after every insert
-- RETURNS (the return IS the ack): the crash battery kills this mode
-- mid-run and verify-acked proves every acknowledged row survived.
-- ---- deterministic helpers ----
fn lcg(seed: Int) -> Int {
let x = seed * 1103515245 + 12345;
if x < 0 {
x = 0 - x;
}
return x;
}
fn item_v(i: Int) -> Int {
return (i * 37) % 1000;
}
-- ---- the histogram (percentiles without a sort) ----
fn hist_add(mut h: map<Int, Int>, us: Int) {
let b = us;
if b < 0 {
b = 0;
}
if b > 20000 {
b = 20000;
}
if has(h, b) {
set(h, b, get(h, b) + 1);
} else {
set(h, b, 1);
}
}
fn hist_pct(h: map<Int, Int>, total: Int, pct: Int) -> Int {
let target = total * pct / 100;
if target < 1 {
target = 1;
}
let seen = 0;
let b = 0;
while b <= 20000 {
if has(h, b) {
seen = seen + get(h, b);
if seen >= target {
return b;
}
}
b = b + 1;
}
return 20000;
}
fn report(op: Text, n: Int, total_us: Int, h: map<Int, Int>) {
let us = total_us;
if us < 1 {
us = 1;
}
let rate = n * 1000000 / us;
print("${op} ${n} ${rate} ${hist_pct(h, n, 50)} ${hist_pct(h, n, 99)}");
}
-- ---- modes ----
-- seed N: N children, one parent per 100, k = i % (N/10) (10 rows per
-- key), v deterministic. Meta rows record the expectations verify reads.
fn seed(n: Int) -> Int {
let h: map<Int, Int> = {};
let kmod = n / 10;
if kmod < 1 {
kmod = 1;
}
-- bucket-major: one parent, then its 100 children, using a single ref
-- local. (A hand-built `multi Bucket` of insert results SEGVs on drop —
-- the compiler classifies the elements OWNED while table refs are
-- scalar ids; recorded as a standing finding, not this iteration's fix.
-- Query-built multis are runtime-typed and safe.)
let vsum = 0;
let t0 = time.ticks();
let i = 1;
let b = 0;
while i <= n {
let bref = insert Bucket { tag: "b${b}" };
b = b + 1;
let j = 0;
while j < 100 and i <= n {
let o0 = time.ticks();
insert Item { k: i % kmod, v: item_v(i), bucket: bref };
hist_add(h, time.ticks() - o0);
vsum = vsum + item_v(i);
i = i + 1;
j = j + 1;
}
}
let t1 = time.ticks();
insert Meta { tag: "count", val: n };
insert Meta { tag: "vsum", val: vsum };
insert Meta { tag: "kmod", val: kmod };
report("seed", n, t1 - t0, h);
return 0;
}
fn meta_val(tag: Text) -> Int {
let ms = from m in Meta where m.tag == tag take 1 select m;
if len(ms) == 0 {
return -1;
}
return ms[0].val;
}
-- read N: indexed take-1 point lookups (the point-read this surface
-- offers), keys spread by LCG over the seeded key range.
fn read_mode(n: Int) -> Int {
let kmod = meta_val("kmod");
if kmod < 1 {
print_err("read: seed first");
return 1;
}
let h: map<Int, Int> = {};
let sink = 0;
let s = 42;
let t0 = time.ticks();
let i = 0;
while i < n {
s = lcg(s);
let key = s % kmod;
let o0 = time.ticks();
let xs = from x in Item where x.k == key take 1 select x;
if len(xs) > 0 {
sink = sink + xs[0].v;
}
hist_add(h, time.ticks() - o0);
i = i + 1;
}
let t1 = time.ticks();
report("read", n, t1 - t0, h);
if sink < 0 {
print("impossible ${sink}");
}
return 0;
}
-- query N: full equality probes on the k index (≈10 rows per key),
-- each materialized and counted.
fn query_mode(n: Int) -> Int {
let kmod = meta_val("kmod");
if kmod < 1 {
print_err("query: seed first");
return 1;
}
let h: map<Int, Int> = {};
let rows = 0;
let s = 7;
let t0 = time.ticks();
let i = 0;
while i < n {
s = lcg(s);
let key = s % kmod;
let o0 = time.ticks();
for x in from x in Item where x.k == key select x {
rows = rows + 1;
}
hist_add(h, time.ticks() - o0);
i = i + 1;
}
let t1 = time.ticks();
report("query", n, t1 - t0, h);
print("query rows ${rows}");
return 0;
}
-- write N: alternating inserts (disjoint k range 2e6+) and updates
-- through a query result. Corrupts vsum by design — the durability legs
-- run on their own fresh store.
fn write_mode(n: Int) -> Int {
let kmod = meta_val("kmod");
if kmod < 1 {
print_err("write: seed first");
return 1;
}
let bs = from b in Bucket where b.tag == "b0" take 1 select b;
if len(bs) == 0 {
print_err("write: no buckets");
return 1;
}
let h: map<Int, Int> = {};
let s = 99;
let t0 = time.ticks();
let i = 0;
while i < n {
let o0 = time.ticks();
if i % 2 == 0 {
insert Item { k: 2000000 + i, v: item_v(i), bucket: bs[0] };
} else {
s = lcg(s);
let key = s % kmod;
let xs = from x in Item where x.k == key take 1 select x;
if len(xs) > 0 {
xs[0].v = xs[0].v + 1;
}
}
hist_add(h, time.ticks() - o0);
i = i + 1;
}
let t1 = time.ticks();
report("write", n, t1 - t0, h);
return 0;
}
-- wal N: the crash battery's vehicle — insert-only, disjoint k range
-- (1e6+), `acked <i>` printed AFTER each insert returns (the return is
-- the ack: RAM applied, record staged, ONE commit done).
fn wal_mode(n: Int) -> Int {
let bs = from b in Bucket where b.tag == "b0" take 1 select b;
if len(bs) == 0 {
push(bs, insert Bucket { tag: "b0" });
}
let i = 1;
while i <= n {
insert Item { k: 1000000 + i, v: item_v(i), bucket: bs[0] };
print("acked ${i}");
i = i + 1;
}
return 0;
}
-- verify: the store against its own Meta expectations — count, checksum,
-- one unique-index probe. Exit 3 on any mismatch.
fn verify() -> Int {
let want_n = meta_val("count");
let want_sum = meta_val("vsum");
if want_n < 0 or want_sum < 0 {
print_err("verify: no meta (seed first)");
return 3;
}
let got_n = 0;
let got_sum = 0;
for x in from x in Item select x {
if x.k < 1000000 {
got_n = got_n + 1;
got_sum = got_sum + x.v;
}
}
if got_n != want_n or got_sum != want_sum {
print_err("verify: count ${got_n}/${want_n} sum ${got_sum}/${want_sum}");
return 3;
}
let bs = from b in Bucket where b.tag == "b0" take 1 select b;
if len(bs) == 0 {
print_err("verify: unique probe b0 missing");
return 3;
}
print("verify ok ${got_n} rows sum ${got_sum}");
return 0;
}
-- verify-acked M: after a kill -9 mid-wal — rows 1..M (k = 1e6+i) must
-- exist with the right v; rows beyond M are allowed (acked after the
-- last print landed). Exit 3 on any missing/wrong row.
fn verify_acked(m: Int) -> Int {
let i = 1;
while i <= m {
let key = 1000000 + i;
let xs = from x in Item where x.k == key take 1 select x;
if len(xs) == 0 {
print_err("verify-acked: row ${i} missing");
return 3;
}
if xs[0].v != item_v(i) {
print_err("verify-acked: row ${i} v ${xs[0].v} != ${item_v(i)}");
return 3;
}
i = i + 1;
}
print("verify-acked ok ${m} rows");
return 0;
}
-- ---- the concurrent modes (mix, msgrate) ----
fn hist_dump(h: map<Int, Int>, kind: Int) {
let b = 0;
while b <= 20000 {
if has(h, b) {
insert Hist { kind: kind, b: b, c: get(h, b) };
}
b = b + 1;
}
}
-- One mixer = one actor: 90/10 read/write over the seeded store. On a
-- worker shard every statement below rides the stage-3 DB RPC — the
-- code must not know or care (transparency is the point). Done signal:
-- a Meta row main polls for (the coordination idiom this side of 31).
class Mixer {
id: Int
fn receive(msg: MixJob) {
let hr: map<Int, Int> = {};
let hw: map<Int, Int> = {};
let s = msg.seed;
let sink = 0;
let i = 0;
while i < msg.ops {
s = lcg(s);
let key = s % msg.kmod;
let o0 = time.ticks();
if i % 10 == 9 {
let xs = from x in Item where x.k == key take 1 select x;
if len(xs) > 0 {
xs[0].v = xs[0].v + 1;
}
hist_add(hw, time.ticks() - o0);
} else {
let xs = from x in Item where x.k == key take 1 select x;
if len(xs) > 0 {
sink = sink + xs[0].v;
}
hist_add(hr, time.ticks() - o0);
}
i = i + 1;
}
hist_dump(hr, 0);
hist_dump(hw, 1);
insert Meta { tag: "mixdone${self.id}", val: sink };
}
}
-- databasev2 4 part A: every op a durable write, C at once.
--
-- Why this leg exists. `mix` writes on one op in ten with C=4, so at most a
-- handful of writes are ever in flight and group commit has almost nothing to
-- batch: measured mean batch 1.01 over 3112 barriers, peak 3. That is a
-- property of the WORKLOAD, not of the mechanism, and without a write-
-- concurrent leg the iteration's payoff cannot be evaluated either way.
--
-- Updates rather than inserts: comparable to what `mixwrite` measures, and the
-- row count stays flat so a long run does not turn into a growth test.
-- Histogram kind 2, because a replayed store still holds the seeding run's
-- kind-0/1 Hist rows and merging those would report someone else's latencies.
class WJob {
ops: Int
seed: Int
kmod: Int
}
class WMixer {
id: Int
fn receive(msg: WJob) {
let hw: map<Int, Int> = {};
let s = msg.seed;
let i = 0;
while i < msg.ops {
s = lcg(s);
let key = s % msg.kmod;
let o0 = time.ticks();
for r in from x in Item where x.k == key take 1 select x {
r.v = r.v + 1;
}
hist_add(hw, time.ticks() - o0);
i = i + 1;
}
hist_dump(hw, 2);
insert Meta { tag: "wmixdone${self.id}", val: msg.ops };
}
}
fn wmix_mode(total: Int, c: Int) -> Int {
let kmod = meta_val("kmod");
if kmod < 1 {
print_err("wmix: seed first");
return 1;
}
let per = total / c;
if per < 1 {
per = 1;
}
let wall0 = time.ticks();
let i = 0;
while i < c {
let a: actor WJob = spawn WMixer { id: i };
send(a, WJob { ops: per, seed: 4242 + i * 7919, kmod: kmod });
i = i + 1;
}
let done = 0;
while done < c {
time.sleep(20);
done = 0;
i = 0;
while i < c {
if meta_val("wmixdone${i}") >= 0 {
done = done + 1;
}
i = i + 1;
}
}
let wall = time.ticks() - wall0;
let hw: map<Int, Int> = {};
let nw = 0;
for x in from x in Hist select x {
if x.kind == 2 {
if has(hw, x.b) {
set(hw, x.b, get(hw, x.b) + x.c);
} else {
set(hw, x.b, x.c);
}
nw = nw + x.c;
}
}
report("wmix", nw, wall, hw);
return 0;
}
fn mix_mode(total: Int, c: Int) -> Int {
let kmod = meta_val("kmod");
if kmod < 1 {
print_err("mix: seed first");
return 1;
}
let per = total / c;
if per < 1 {
per = 1;
}
let wall0 = time.ticks();
let i = 0;
while i < c {
let a: actor MixJob = spawn Mixer { id: i };
send(a, MixJob { ops: per, seed: 1000 + i * 7919, kmod: kmod });
i = i + 1;
}
-- poll until every mixer's done row exists
let done = 0;
while done < c {
time.sleep(20);
done = 0;
i = 0;
while i < c {
if meta_val("mixdone${i}") >= 0 {
done = done + 1;
}
i = i + 1;
}
}
let wall = time.ticks() - wall0;
-- merge the dumped histograms; wall time is shared by both classes
let hr: map<Int, Int> = {};
let hw: map<Int, Int> = {};
let nr = 0;
let nw = 0;
for x in from x in Hist select x {
if x.kind == 0 {
if has(hr, x.b) {
set(hr, x.b, get(hr, x.b) + x.c);
} else {
set(hr, x.b, x.c);
}
nr = nr + x.c;
} else {
if has(hw, x.b) {
set(hw, x.b, get(hw, x.b) + x.c);
} else {
set(hw, x.b, x.c);
}
nw = nw + x.c;
}
}
report("mixread", nr, wall, hr);
report("mixwrite", nw, wall, hw);
return 0;
}
-- msgrate: one-way flood — main sends N messages at a sink actor; the
-- sink counts and writes the done row at N. Spawn TWO sinks and flood
-- the second: round-robin placement puts it off the primary whenever
-- more than one shard exists, so the multi-shard number prices the
-- mutex inbox (stage-2 deviation 4's number); single-shard prices the
-- same-heap path.
class Sink {
got: Int
fn receive(msg: Flood) {
self.got = self.got + 1;
if self.got == msg.n {
insert Meta { tag: "flooddone", val: self.got };
}
}
}
fn msgrate_mode(n: Int) -> Int {
let first: actor Flood = spawn Sink { got: 0 };
let a: actor Flood = spawn Sink { got: 0 };
if first == a {
print_err("msgrate: impossible");
}
let t0 = time.ticks();
let i = 0;
while i < n {
send(a, Flood { n: n });
i = i + 1;
}
while meta_val("flooddone") < 0 {
time.sleep(5);
}
let us = time.ticks() - t0;
if us < 1 {
us = 1;
}
print("msgrate ${n} ${n * 1000000 / us}");
return 0;
}
-- all N: the throughput campaign in ONE process — without WO_DATA the
-- store is RAM and dies with the process, so seed and the measured
-- modes must share a run; under WO_DATA the same mode prices the
-- durable flavor. Restart/crash legs use the separate modes.
fn all_mode(n: Int) -> Int {
let rc = seed(n);
if rc != 0 {
return rc;
}
rc = read_mode(n / 2);
if rc != 0 {
return rc;
}
rc = query_mode(n / 10);
if rc != 0 {
return rc;
}
rc = write_mode(n / 2);
if rc != 0 {
return rc;
}
-- mix at N/10: every point lookup is O(table) today (the probe walks
-- all slabs — a headline finding, not a bug to hide), so a read-heavy
-- mix over a seeded store is quadratic in N. The campaign driver
-- chooses absolute sizes; this keeps `all` finishing in minutes.
return mix_mode(n / 10, 4);
}
fn usage() -> Int {
print_err("usage: db-bench <mode>");
print_err(" all N | seed N | read N | query N | write N | wal N");
print_err(" mix N C | wmix N C | msgrate N | growth N int|text | growth-verify");
print_err(" randread N R | replayseed N M | boot");
print_err(" verify | verify-acked M");
return 2;
}
-- databasev2 1: the process's own resident size, in KiB. Read here rather
-- than sampled by the driver because the driver polls /proc every 250 ms and
-- would miss the value AT a decile boundary; per-row footprint is the headline
-- number of this iteration and deserves an exact reading, not a nearby one.
-- Absence is nil by stdlib convention, so a kernel without VmRSS reports 0
-- and the driver treats the leg as unavailable rather than as zero growth.
fn self_rss_kb() -> Int {
let st = try fs.read_all("/proc/self/status", 16384) catch (e) "";
let i = index_of(st, "VmRSS:");
if i < 0 {
return 0;
}
let rest = substr(st, i + 6, 24);
let n = 0;
let j = 0;
while j < len(rest) {
let c = byte_at(rest, j);
if c >= 48 and c <= 57 {
n = n * 10 + (c - 48);
} else {
if n > 0 {
return n;
}
}
j = j + 1;
}
return n;
}
-- databasev2 1: growth N SHAPE — insert N rows of one reference shape,
-- sampling read latency as the table grows so the driver can plot the CURVE
-- rather than two endpoints. Reports one metric line per decile so the point
-- at which p99 leaves its baseline is a MEASURED sample, not an estimate.
--
-- SHAPE is "int" (Item: two Ints plus a ref, all inline slot words) or "text"
-- (Wide: three Text columns, each a separate db_text allocation on top of the
-- slab slot). Per-row footprint differs by an order of magnitude between them,
-- which is exactly why the driver reports the two separately and never a single
-- "bytes per row".
--
-- The memory CAP is the driver's job (systemd-run --user --scope), not this
-- program's: the sample just grows and reports, so the same binary serves the
-- swap-off and swap-on legs unchanged.
-- after the process is OOM-killed mid-insert, the durable prefix must be
-- intact: rows 1..M all present with the right v and no holes. M is whatever
-- survived -- the claim under test is the SHAPE of the survivor, not its size,
-- because a SIGKILL can land between any two inserts.
-- databasev2 1: randread N R -- fill N rows, then read R of them by key in a
-- Weyl-sequence order that spreads across the WHOLE range. Under a cap smaller
-- than the table most of those reads must fault a page back in.
--
-- This is the leg the swap measurement was MISSING. `growth` inserts, and
-- inserting is append-mostly: cold pages are written once and never re-read, so
-- swap cost it ~1% (148s vs 150s uncapped). Random reads over an oversized
-- table are the opposite access pattern -- and they are exactly what
-- databasev2 2's `resident: keys` creates, since it reads rows back from a log
-- larger than RAM. No RNG in the language and none needed: i*2654435761 mod n
-- is a Weyl sequence, deterministic and spread, so the two legs read the SAME
-- key order and only residency differs.
-- databasev2 1, for iteration 3: the replay "before".
--
-- `boot` does NOTHING. That is the point: with WO_DATA set the runtime replays
-- the whole WAL before main runs, so the process's wall time IS the replay cost
-- plus a fixed startup. Any mode that touches rows would mix its own work into
-- the number.
fn boot_mode() -> Int {
print("booted");
return 0;
}
-- Build a store with N live rows and N+M total WAL records: M updates on top of
-- N inserts. The live dataset is IDENTICAL for any M -- only the history grows.
-- That is iteration 3's whole case: with no checkpoint, boot replays HISTORY,
-- not data, so a long-lived row that has been updated a thousand times costs a
-- thousand records at every boot forever.
fn replayseed_mode(n: Int, m: Int) -> Int {
let bref = insert Bucket { tag: "replay" };
let i = 1;
while i <= n {
insert Item { k: i, v: item_v(i), bucket: bref };
i = i + 1;
}
let j = 0;
while j < m {
let key = 1 + (j * 2654435761) % n;
for r in from x in Item where x.k == key take 1 select x {
r.v = r.v + 1;
}
j = j + 1;
}
print("replayseeded ${n} ${m}");
return 0;
}
fn randread_mode(n: Int, r: Int) -> Int {
let bref = insert Bucket { tag: "randread" };
let i = 1;
while i <= n {
insert Item { k: i, v: item_v(i), bucket: bref };
i = i + 1;
}
print("randreadfilled ${n} ${self_rss_kb()}");
let h: map<Int, Int> = {};
let hits = 0;
let t0 = time.ticks();
let j = 0;
while j < r {
let key = 1 + (j * 2654435761) % n;
let o0 = time.ticks();
for row in from x in Item where x.k == key take 1 select x {
if row.v == item_v(key) {
hits = hits + 1;
}
}
hist_add(h, time.ticks() - o0);
j = j + 1;
}
let el = time.ticks() - t0;
report("randread", r, el, h);
-- hits proves the reads RESOLVED; a collapse measured over misses is noise
print("randreadrss ${self_rss_kb()} ${hits}");
return 0;
}
fn growth_verify() -> Int {
let seen: map<Int, Int> = {};
let maxk = 0;
for r in from x in Item select x {
set(seen, r.k, r.v);
if r.k > maxk {
maxk = r.k;
}
}
let i = 1;
while i <= maxk {
if has(seen, i) == false {
print_err("growth-verify: hole at ${i} below max ${maxk}");
return 3;
}
if get(seen, i) != item_v(i) {
print_err("growth-verify: row ${i} v ${get(seen, i)} != ${item_v(i)}");
return 3;
}
i = i + 1;
}
print("growthverify ${maxk}");
return 0;
}
fn growth_mode(n: Int, shape: Text) -> Int {
let wide = shape == "text";
if wide == false and shape != "int" {
print_err("db-bench: growth SHAPE must be `int` or `text`");
return 2;
}
let step = n / 10;
if step < 1 {
step = 1;
}
let bref = insert Bucket { tag: "growth" };
let pad = "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef";
let i = 1;
while i <= n {
if wide {
insert Wide { k: i, a: "a${i}${pad}", b: "b${i}${pad}", note: "n${i}${pad}${pad}" };
} else {
insert Item { k: i, v: item_v(i), bucket: bref };
}
-- at each decile, sample the read path against what is resident NOW
if i % step == 0 {
let h: map<Int, Int> = {};
let probes = 200;
let pt0 = time.ticks();
let j = 0;
while j < probes {
let key = 1 + (j * step) % i;
let o0 = time.ticks();
if wide {
for r in from x in Wide where x.k == key take 1 select x {
hist_add(h, time.ticks() - o0);
}
} else {
for r in from x in Item where x.k == key take 1 select x {
hist_add(h, time.ticks() - o0);
}
}
j = j + 1;
}
let pel = time.ticks() - pt0;
-- op name carries the decile so the driver keys each sample distinctly
report("growth${i / step}", probes, pel, h);
-- rows and resident KiB at this decile: the driver divides to get the
-- per-row footprint for THIS shape
print("growthrss ${i / step} ${i} ${self_rss_kb()}");
}
i = i + 1;
}
print("growthdone ${n}");
return 0;
}
fn main(args: multi Text) -> Int {
if len(args) < 1 {
return usage();
}
if args[0] == "verify" {
return verify();
}
if args[0] == "growth-verify" {
return growth_verify();
}
-- Does NOTHING. With WO_DATA set the runtime replays the whole log before
-- main runs, so a mode with no work of its own measures replay plus a fixed
-- process start — which is what "boot time" has to mean. Both databasev2 1
-- (replay baseline) and databasev2 3 (checkpoint boot) price boot with it.
if args[0] == "boot" {
return boot_mode();
}
if len(args) < 2 {
return usage();
}
let n = parse_int(args[1]);
if n == nil or n < 1 {
print_err("db-bench: <n> must be a positive number");
return 2;
}
if args[0] == "all" {
return all_mode(n);
}
if args[0] == "seed" {
return seed(n);
}
if args[0] == "read" {
return read_mode(n);
}
if args[0] == "query" {
return query_mode(n);
}
if args[0] == "write" {
return write_mode(n);
}
if args[0] == "wal" {
return wal_mode(n);
}
if args[0] == "verify-acked" {
return verify_acked(n);
}
if args[0] == "msgrate" {
return msgrate_mode(n);
}
if args[0] == "growth" {
if len(args) < 3 {
return usage();
}
return growth_mode(n, args[2]);
}
if args[0] == "replayseed" {
if len(args) < 3 {
return usage();
}
let mm = parse_int(args[2]);
if mm == nil or mm < 0 {
print_err("db-bench: <m> must be zero or more");
return 2;
}
return replayseed_mode(n, mm);
}
if args[0] == "randread" {
if len(args) < 3 {
return usage();
}
let rr = parse_int(args[2]);
if rr == nil or rr < 1 {
print_err("db-bench: <r> must be a positive number");
return 2;
}
return randread_mode(n, rr);
}
if args[0] == "wmix" {
if len(args) < 3 {
return usage();
}
let wc = parse_int(args[2]);
if wc == nil or wc < 1 {
print_err("db-bench: <c> must be a positive number");
return 2;
}
return wmix_mode(n, wc);
}
if args[0] == "mix" {
if len(args) < 3 {
return usage();
}
let c = parse_int(args[2]);
if c == nil or c < 1 {
print_err("db-bench: <c> must be a positive number");
return 2;
}
return mix_mode(n, c);
}
return usage();
}

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-- The bench store: the employee shape reduced to what pricing needs —
-- a parent with a @unique Text column (unique-index maintenance), a
-- child with a ref parent (FK probe on insert) and two indexed columns
-- (the equality-probe path). Meta rows carry seed expectations so
-- `verify` checks the store against facts that survived the same WAL.
@table(name: "buckets", index: [tag])
class Bucket {
tag: Text @unique
}
@table(name: "items", index: [k], index: [bucket])
class Item {
k: Int -- probe key; seeded non-unique (10 rows per key),
-- wal/write modes use disjoint high ranges
v: Int -- payload column, checksummed by verify
bucket: ref Bucket -- FK: primary-index probe on every insert
}
@table(name: "meta", index: [tag])
class Meta {
tag: Text @unique
val: Int
}
-- databasev2 1: the TEXT-HEAVY reference shape. `Item` above is the Int-only
-- reference as it stands (two Ints plus a ref, all inline slot words), so this
-- is its counterpart: every row drags a separate db_text allocation per Text
-- column on top of its slab slot. Per-row footprint differs by an order of
-- magnitude between the two, which is why a single "bytes per row" number is
-- meaningless and the growth mode reports the two shapes separately.
@table(name: "wide", index: [k])
class Wide {
k: Int
a: Text
b: Text
note: Text
}
-- mix actors dump their per-op histograms here (kind 0 = read,
-- 1 = write); main scans and merges — exact aggregate percentiles,
-- and the merge itself dogfoods the store.
@table(name: "hist")
class Hist {
kind: Int
b: Int
c: Int
}
-- messages (Int-only payloads: ownership moves, nothing borrowed)
class MixJob {
ops: Int
seed: Int
kmod: Int
}
class Flood {
n: Int
}

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name = "db-bench"
version = "0.1.0"
description = "iteration 22: the measurement backbone — timed DB workloads, single- and multi-shard"
[runtime]
wo = ">= 0.1"

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> **Status: target workload — does not compile on today's toolchain.**
> Written ahead of iterations
> [9c (cross-program tables)](../../stories/language-runtime-database/09c-cross-program-tables.md)
> and [9d (keypair attach auth)](../../stories/language-runtime-database/09d-keypair-attach-auth.md),
> [9 (cross-program tables)](../../stories/databasev2/09-cross-program-tables.md)
> and [10 (keypair attach auth)](../../stories/databasev2/10-keypair-attach-auth.md),
> the way every acceptance sample here precedes its features. It also leans
> on 9/9b (the [employee sample](../employee/) it attaches to must run
> first).
@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ and pasted — the `PASTE-…-HERE` placeholders mark exactly where. The
connect-section name is the code's namespace: `[connect.employee]` is why
the source says `employee.Employee`.
B declares the shapes but stores nothing, so it runs under `WO_EPHEMERAL=1`: a
program with any durable table (the default) refuses to start without
`WO_DATA`; `WO_EPHEMERAL=1` opts into a RAM-only run, `@table(durable: false)`
opts a table out.
| Mode | What it proves |
| --- | --- |
| `employee-list list` | typed reads over the wire, `e.dept.name` ref navigation executing inside A |
@ -37,6 +42,6 @@ the source says `employee.Employee`.
| `employee-list staff <dept>` | unique-name index probe + `staff` backlink scan, both in A |
| `employee-list probe-write` | the rights matrix: registered read-only, so the insert traps with access-denied (caught, `DENIED …`, exit 4) and A's row count is unchanged |
The 9d acceptance drives the rest from the outside: wrong key, no key,
The 21 acceptance drives the rest from the outside: wrong key, no key,
same-uid-wrong-key, impostor socket, handshake replay, key rotation — see
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# employee — the database track's acceptance workload
> **Status: target workload — does not compile on today's toolchain.**
> This sample is written *ahead of* the features it exercises, exactly as
> log-watcher was written ahead of iterations 5–7: the sample is the test,
> and the plans compile toward it. It becomes buildable when iteration 9
> (engine: [`2026-08-01-db-engine-binding.md`](../../superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-db-engine-binding.md))
> **Status: shipped — this is the database track's acceptance gate.** Run it
> with `just employee`. The sample was written *ahead of* the features it
> exercises, exactly as log-watcher was written ahead of iterations 5–7: the
> sample is the test, and the plans compiled toward it. Both landed — iteration
> 9 (engine: [`2026-08-01-db-engine-binding.md`](../../superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-db-engine-binding.md))
> and iteration 9b (query surface:
> [`2026-08-15-employee-relations-query.md`](../../plan/compiler/2026-08-15-employee-relations-query.md))
> land. Normative semantics:
> [`2026-08-15-employee-relations-query.md`](../../plan/compiler/2026-08-15-employee-relations-query.md)).
> Normative semantics:
> [the 9b spec](../../superpowers/specs/2026-08-15-table-relations-query-design.md).
> One clause below is still ahead of the compiler and marked where it appears:
> `group … by … into` parses and is then refused by the typechecker.
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target/

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# fibers — the hybrid scheduler, demonstrated
The smallest program that shows all three legs of the concurrency model
(the doctrine-depth writeup lives in
[`docs/plan/exploration/fibers/00-fibers.md`](../../plan/exploration/fibers/00-fibers.md)):
1. **Reduction-budget eviction** — part 1's output is byte-exact and
timing-free: main sends three messages, then burns reductions; every
time its budget expires the counter actor gets a turn and delivers
exactly one message. Cooperative mechanics, preemptive fairness.
2. **Actors as the spawn surface** — `spawn Counter { ... }` returns an
`actor Tick`; `send` moves the message (using it afterwards is a
compile error); delivery is one message at a time per actor.
3. **Parking, not blocking** — part 2's sleeper actor calls `time.sleep`
mid-receive: the fiber parks on the shard's I/O plane (io_uring
primary, epoll fallback — `WO_IO=uring|epoll` forces either) and
main keeps ticking while it sleeps.
Run: `just fibers` (the acceptance gate builds it, checks part 1
byte-exact, asserts part 2's ordering invariants, and repeats the run on
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use time
-- fibers — the writeonce hybrid demonstrated (BEAM's shape):
-- cooperative MECHANICS (no signals, no interrupts) with
-- reduction-budget EVICTION (loop back-edges pay one reduction; at
-- zero the fiber re-queues whether it likes it or not), actors as the
-- spawn surface (one message at a time, ownership-moving sends), and
-- blocking builtins that PARK on the shard's io_uring plane instead
-- of holding the thread.
--
-- Part 1 is deterministic by construction (budget accounting, no time):
-- its output is byte-exact. Part 2 shows a sleeping fiber not blocking
-- anyone; its ordering is asserted loosely by the acceptance gate
-- because it depends on real time.
class Tick {
n: Int
}
-- Part 1: a counting actor; main and the actor interleave one message
-- per main-yield under the default budget.
class Counter {
label: Text
total: Int
fn receive(msg: Tick) {
self.total = self.total + msg.n;
print("${self.label} +${msg.n} = ${self.total}");
}
}
-- Part 2: an actor whose receive PARKS mid-message. The park releases
-- the shard: main keeps ticking while this fiber sleeps.
class Sleeper {
fn receive(msg: Tick) {
print("sleeper: down for ${msg.n}ms");
time.sleep(msg.n);
print("sleeper: up");
}
}
fn spin(rounds: Int) {
-- burn reductions so the scheduler's eviction gets a chance: each
-- back-edge pays one reduction; the default budget is 4000
let i = 0;
while i < rounds {
i = i + 1;
}
}
fn main() -> Int {
-- ---- part 1: deterministic budget interleave ----
let c: actor Tick = spawn Counter { label: "count", total: 0 };
send(c, Tick { n: 1 });
send(c, Tick { n: 2 });
send(c, Tick { n: 3 });
-- three yields deliver exactly three messages, one per turn
spin(5000);
spin(5000);
spin(5000);
print("part1 done");
-- ---- part 2: a parked fiber blocks nobody ----
let s: actor Tick = spawn Sleeper {};
send(s, Tick { n: 150 });
let t = 0;
while t < 8 {
time.sleep(25);
print("main tick ${t}");
t = t + 1;
}
print("part2 done");
return 0;
}

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name = "fibers"
version = "0.1.0"
description = "the hybrid scheduler demonstrated: budget eviction + actors + parked sleeps"
[runtime]
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# gc-cycle — inferred GC + incremental mark-sweep, by example
The smallest program that needs a tracing collector (`ring_demo`) and the
smallest that does not (`owned_demo`). This README defines **how pointers/
addresses flow through the heap** and **the collector's mark-sweep logic**, the
way iteration 7b specs it
([`2026-08-11-inferred-gc-mark-sweep-design.md`](../../superpowers/specs/2026-08-11-inferred-gc-mark-sweep-design.md)).
The one-line model: **ownership frees everything it can; the collector traces
only the residue ownership cannot free — cycles and long-lived aliases — and
the compiler infers which types those are.**
---
## 1. Inference — the compiler decides `owned` vs `gc`
A pass between `types` and `owner` (`compiler/src/gcinfer.ml`) builds a
**class-reference graph** — an edge `A → B` whenever `A` has a field of type
`B`, `?B`, `multi B`, `map<B,_>`, or `map<_,B>`. **`ref B` creates no edge** (it
is a row id, `Copy`). Tarjan's SCC over that graph: any class in a non-trivial
SCC, or with a self-loop, is **traced (`gc`)**. Everything else is **`owned`**.
For this sample, `woc --dump-gc` prints:
```
Node gc (cycle Node -> Node)
Segment owned
```
`Node.next: ?Node` is the self-loop → `Node` is traced, and its `next` field
gets kind `WO_K_GCREF`. `Segment` has no class-typed field → no edge → `owned`,
freed deterministically. A second, **demand** half promotes a type when the
ownership pass would otherwise report a long-lived-alias escape (the
`PriceCache` shape) — not exercised here; every promotion is reported, never
silent.
---
## 2. Address flow — where a pointer lives, and the object's shape
Every heap object is a 16-byte `wo_hdr` followed by `field_cnt` 8-byte slots
(`wo_fields(o)`; `wo_obj_size = 16 + field_cnt*8`). Allocation is the arena:
bump + 16-byte size-class free lists (16…1024), larger falls to `malloc`. **The
arena keeps no size headers and cannot enumerate objects** — so traced objects
thread an intrusive **sweep list**.
The header is where iteration 7b pays for the collector with **zero growth**:
```
today (RC) under 7b (tracing)
┌──────────────────────────┐ ┌──────────────────────────┐
│ class_id (4 bytes) │ │ class_id (4 bytes) │
│ flags (1) + pad │ │ flags (1) ── 2 color bits (white/grey/black), + pad
│ borrow (4 bytes) │ │ sweep-list link (8 bytes)│ ← reclaimed from
│ rc (4 bytes) │ │ (next traced object) │ borrow + rc
└──────────────────────────┘ └──────────────────────────┘
16 bytes 16 bytes (unchanged)
```
`rc` is retired (no reference counting); traced objects are exempt from borrow
rules so `borrow` is dead too — the two adjacent 4-byte words become one 64-bit
list link. Color lives in 2 existing flag bits (`WO_F_COLOR`).
A traced pointer (the address of a `wo_hdr`) is only ever held in one of three
places, and these are exactly what the collector reads:
| Holder | How the collector sees it |
| --- | --- |
| a **VM value-stack / frame slot** (a local like `a`) | a **root**, via the per-pc **gc-mask** the emitter already emits |
| a **`GCREF` field slot** of another object (`a.next`) | followed during **mark** |
| a **container** item (`multi`/`map`) whose element kind is `GCREF` | followed during mark |
Here is the sample's heap after `ring_demo` builds the ring, while `a`/`b`/`c`
are still live roots:
```mermaid
flowchart LR
subgraph STACK["VM value stack (roots this pc, from the gc-mask)"]
A["a"]:::root
B["b"]:::root
C["c"]:::root
end
subgraph HEAP["arena (one mmap region)"]
NA["Node a<br/>hdr, label(TEXT), next(GCREF)"]
NB["Node b<br/>hdr, label(TEXT), next(GCREF)"]
NC["Node c<br/>hdr, label(TEXT), next(GCREF)"]
end
A --> NA
B --> NB
C --> NC
NA -->|next| NB
NB -->|next| NC
NC -->|next, closes cycle| NA
NA -.->|sweep link| NB
NB -.->|sweep link| NC
NC -.->|sweep link| NULL(("nil"))
classDef root fill:#2b6,stroke:#083,color:#fff;
```
Solid arrows are `GCREF` pointers the mark phase follows; the dotted chain is
the per-shard **traced list** the sweep phase walks (independent of
reachability). When `a`/`b`/`c` leave scope, the three solid *root* arrows
vanish — the ring still points to itself, but nothing points *in*, so it is
unreachable yet un-freed. Ownership cannot help: `b` cannot be owned by both
`let b` and `a.next`. That is the collector's entire job.
---
## 3. Mark-sweep logic — tri-color, incremental, with a deletion barrier
Marking runs in **budgeted slices** (`WO_GC_BUDGET` objects per slice), so the
pause is bounded regardless of heap size. Colors: **white** = unproven (candidate
to free), **grey** = reachable but children not yet scanned, **black** = reachable
and scanned.
```mermaid
flowchart TD
ALLOC["allocate traced object<br/>color = WHITE, link into traced list"] --> LIVE
LIVE["mutator runs<br/>(program executes)"] --> TRIG{"traced bytes since last cycle<br/>past heap goal?"}
TRIG -- no --> LIVE
TRIG -- yes --> ROOTS["START CYCLE (snapshot)<br/>shade every root GREY<br/>(value/frame slots via pc gc-mask)"]
ROOTS --> SLICE
SLICE["MARK SLICE (budgeted)<br/>pop a GREY object,<br/>scan its GCREF fields +<br/>owned subtrees that may reach a gcref,<br/>shade each WHITE child GREY,<br/>then paint this object BLACK"] --> GREY{"grey set empty?"}
GREY -- "no (budget hit)" --> SAFE["yield at next safepoint<br/>(loop back-edge / call)"]
SAFE --> LIVE2["mutator resumes<br/>(barrier active)"]
LIVE2 --> SLICE
GREY -- yes --> SWEEP["SWEEP: walk traced list —<br/>WHITE: free (wo_obj_size) and unlink;<br/>BLACK: repaint WHITE, keep"]
SWEEP --> DONE["cycle done"] --> LIVE
```
**Roots.** The value stack and frame stack, read through the per-pc gc-mask the
emitter already produces (the drop-table's gc bits, reinterpreted from "rc_dec
these on unwind" to "these registers are GC roots at this pc"). No stack
scanning, no native frames — a bytecode VM with an explicit value stack has the
map for free.
**Owned objects are traversed, never freed.** An `owned` object can hold a
`GCREF` field, so mark must walk through owned subtrees to reach traced
objects — but it never frees an owned object (drop owns those). A precomputed
class-table bit, **"transitively contains a gcref"**, lets mark skip any owned
subtree that can reach no traced object at all.
**The barrier — why incremental is safe.** Between slices the mutator keeps
running and can hide a live object from a half-finished mark: store a white
object into an already-**black** object, then drop the original grey/white
reference to it. A **Yuasa deletion barrier** closes this: on any deletion of a
`GCREF` edge **while marking is active** — a `SETF` overwrite, or an owned
holder dying with a gcref inside (every such path funnels through
`wo_drop_kind`) — the **old** target is shaded grey first. No new opcode:
`SETF` already resolves the field kind from the class table. Owned stores,
scalars, and Text pay nothing. Snapshot-at-beginning completes the argument:
roots are scanned atomically when the cycle starts, and objects allocated
mid-cycle are born black — so anything reachable at the snapshot, or created
after it, survives; that is what removes Go's Dijkstra insertion-half and the
stack rescan.
**Trigger & budget.** A cycle starts when the shard's traced bytes since the
last cycle cross a heap goal; each slice marks at most `WO_GC_BUDGET` objects;
`WO_GC_TRACE` prints freed/marked counts per slice. Collection is **per-shard**
— ownership moves mean no traced object spans shards, so there is no global
stop-the-world and no cross-shard tracing.
---
## 4. The owned path, for contrast (no collector at all)
`owned_demo` builds a `Segment`. At the closing `}` the drop table lists its
register in the **owned mask**; the VM frees the object and its `Text` field
deterministically and immediately. No color, no list link, no barrier, no
slice. This is the common case, and log-watcher proves it scales: 35 classes,
**zero** traced, arena + deterministic drops end to end.
```mermaid
flowchart LR
NEW["let s = Segment (from, len)"] --> USE["use s"] --> SCOPE["scope end"]
SCOPE --> DROP["DROP (owned mask):<br/>free s.from (Text), free s"]
DROP --> GONE["reclaimed — collector never involved"]
```
So a `.wo` program has **two** reclamation systems working together: ownership
(deterministic, free, the 99%) and tracing (only the cyclic/aliased residue,
inferred). The developer writes no memory annotations for either.
---
## Run status
Iteration 7b landed 2026-08-18 (plan:
[`../../superpowers/plans/2026-08-18-inferred-gc-mark-sweep.md`](../../superpowers/plans/2026-08-18-inferred-gc-mark-sweep.md)).
This sample compiles and runs on today's toolchain — `woc
docs/examples/gc-cycle/` then `./docs/examples/gc-cycle/target/gc-cycle`.
> **It has no `just` recipe.** The plan's phase 4 checked off a
> `just gc-cycle` acceptance that never landed; the sample is the one
> compiling example in the repo with no gate behind it. Run it by hand,
> and see the plan's 2026-08-26 disclosure note.
**Phase 1 (landed).** The inference pass classifies each class; `woc --dump-gc
docs/examples/gc-cycle` prints:
```
Node gc (cycle Node -> Node)
Segment owned
```
**Phase 2a (landed).** `Types.is_gc_class` is now inference-first, so `Node` is
traced with **no annotation** and *traced classes alias freely* — the ring
**compiles** (the old `WO-E301: use of \`a\` after it was moved` at `c.next = a`
is gone), and its bytecode is byte-identical to writing `@gc class Node`.
**Phase 3 (landed).** The runtime collector is the incremental tri-color
mark-sweep this README describes: RC and trial deletion are gone, the header
carries the sweep-list link, opcodes 27–28 are reserved (`.wob` v4), and the
Yuasa deletion barrier lives in the store paths. **The ring runs and is
reclaimed**: `woc --emit docs/examples/gc-cycle -o gc.wob && WO_GC_TRACE=1
wovm gc.wob` prints `ring a -> b -> c -> a` then
`gc: step 1 budget=64 freed=3 remaining=0`, ASan-clean; with a tiny goal
(`WO_GC_GOAL=64`) a mid-program cycle runs while the ring is rooted and
correctly frees nothing. (The old RC runtime couldn't even store a `?Node`
gcref field — the unconditional RC_DEC of the nil old value trapped; that
opcode no longer exists.)
**Phase 2b (landed).** Demand promotion: the ownership pass, run in collect
mode, promotes any class whose value *must escape* (returned, stored where it
outlives its scope) — the acyclic-but-aliased case inference by structure cannot
see, targeting the escaping projection's type precisely. So GC-ness is fully
inferred: cycles by structure + aliasing by demand.
**`@gc` removed from the language (landed).** The keyword is now a hard error
(`WO-E104`): a developer never writes or mentions it; `woc --dump-gc` shows what
inference decided. WO-W201 (which suggested `@gc`) is retired. No `.wo` in the
repo carries `@gc`. This is the front-end half of iteration 7b, complete.
When 7b lands, the acceptance is:
- `woc --dump-gc docs/examples/gc-cycle` classifies `Node gc (cycle …)` /
`Segment owned`.
- `ring_demo` prints `ring a -> b -> c -> a`, and after the roots die the ring
is collected within budgeted slices (observable via `WO_GC_TRACE`), ASan-clean
after repeated cycles.
- The adversarial barrier fixture (hide a node between slices) frees the node
when the barrier is compiled out and keeps it when it is in.
Files: [`types.wo`](types.wo) (the two shapes), [`main.wo`](main.wo) (the two
demos), [`wo.toml`](wo.toml).

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-- gc-cycle — the smallest program that needs a tracing collector, and the
-- smallest that does not. Iteration 7b's target sample (see README).
--
-- ring build a 3-node cycle, abandon it, let a collection slice reclaim it
-- owned build a Segment, show it dies at scope end with no collector at all
fn main(args: multi Text) -> Int {
if len(args) >= 1 and args[0] == "owned" { return owned_demo(); }
return ring_demo();
}
-- The cyclic case. a -> b -> c -> a. Every Node is reachable from `a` while `a`
-- is a live root (on the value stack). The moment `a` leaves scope the whole
-- ring becomes unreachable but is NOT freed by any drop — ownership cannot
-- reclaim a cycle. The next marking slice finds no root reaching the ring, so
-- all three sweep white and are freed together.
fn ring_demo() -> Int {
let a = Node { label: "a", next: nil };
let b = Node { label: "b", next: nil };
let c = Node { label: "c", next: nil };
a.next = b; -- store into a GCREF slot: barrier-relevant while marking
b.next = c;
c.next = a; -- closes the cycle; c.next aliases the same Node as `a`
-- ?T enforcement: a field place (`a.next`) never narrows, so each hop
-- binds to a local and the guard narrows the locals.
let n1 = a.next;
let n2 = b.next;
let n3 = c.next;
if n1 != nil and n2 != nil and n3 != nil {
print("ring ${a.label} -> ${n1.label} -> ${n2.label} -> ${n3.label}");
}
-- prints: ring a -> b -> c -> a
-- `a`, `b`, `c` go out of scope here. No DROP frees the Nodes (they are
-- traced, not owned). The ring is now abandoned; a later slice collects it.
return 0;
}
-- The acyclic case, for contrast. Segment is `owned`: at the `}` the drop table
-- lists its register in the OWNED mask, the VM frees the object and its Text
-- field deterministically, and the collector never sees it.
fn owned_demo() -> Int {
let s = Segment { from: "auth.log", len: 4096 };
print("segment ${s.from} len=${s.len}");
return 0; -- `s` (and its Text) freed here by DROP, no tracing
}

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-- Two shapes, two memory strategies — decided by the compiler, not the author.
--
-- Node has a field whose type is Node (`?Node`), so the class-reference graph
-- has an edge Node -> Node: a self-loop. Tarjan's SCC over that graph puts Node
-- in a non-trivial cycle, so the inference pass classifies it `gc` (traced).
-- Its `next` field therefore has kind WO_K_GCREF. A ring of Nodes cannot be
-- expressed with ownership alone (one node would need two owners), which is the
-- whole reason a tracing collector exists.
class Node {
label: Text
next: ?Node -- edge Node -> Node => self-loop => inferred `gc`
}
-- Segment holds only a Text (owned) and an Int (scalar). No field's type is a
-- class, so it has no outgoing edge in the class-reference graph: it can never
-- be part of a cycle. Inference classifies it `owned` — deterministically freed
-- at scope end by the per-function drop machinery, never touched by the
-- collector.
class Segment {
from: Text
len: Int
}

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name = "gc-cycle"
version = "0.1.0"
description = "Iteration 7b target sample: inferred GC + incremental mark-sweep — a cyclic type (traced) vs an acyclic one (owned)"
[runtime]
wo = ">= 0.1"
# `woc <dir>` builds target/gc-cycle. No runtime path pinned (portable); an
# installed woc self-locates wovm, an in-repo build passes WO_RUNTIME.
# NOTE: this sample targets iteration 7b (inferred GC). It does not build on
# today's toolchain — see README "Run status".

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(Part 4). A single-binary systems daemon: log-tail watcher, cron.d
supervisor, flock/pgrep probes, hand-rolled MCP-over-HTTP server, JSONL
detection sink. Program mode (`fn main`, blocking legal, one shard) plus the
five builtin stdlib modules — `fs`, `proc`, `net`, `time`, `json` — carry
stdlib modules it needs — `fs`, `proc`, `net`, `time`, `json`, `env` — carry
all of it; read each `.wo` next to its `.hx` sibling.
> **Status: design artifact — the spec's forcing function.** The systems
> track is approved, pre-implementation. Today's `woc` (milestone 1)
> recovers the `class`/`fn` skeletons in these files (`--dump-ast` lists
> every Watcher method) but diagnoses the adopted surface as WO-E101:
> `use`, `typedef`, standalone union aliases (`type CronResult = …`),
> `pub(read)`, `switch`, `try`. This sample exists to force that grammar
> (the blog/ecommerce/pricing precedent) and becomes the track's acceptance
> test: it compiles and detects a real silent death when the track ships.
> **Status: shipped — the systems track's acceptance gate.** Run it with
> `just log-watcher` (`just log-watcher::build` / `::soak 60` for the rest).
> Landed with iteration 7 on 2026-08-15: executable, not merely compilable —
> zero ASan leaks in all three modes, SIGTERM ends parked syscalls, fds flat,
> `LW_SOAK` gate. The sample existed to force the grammar it uses (the
> blog/ecommerce/pricing precedent), and every form it needed — `use`,
> `typedef`, standalone union aliases (`type CronResult = …`), `pub(read)`,
> `switch`, `try` — is now shipped surface.
## The mapping

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-- the key may live outside the config file (systemd EnvironmentFile / .env)
let api_key = env.get("LOG_WATCHER_API_KEY");
let port: ?Int = nil;
if j.mcp != nil {
if j.mcp.apiKey != nil { api_key = j.mcp.apiKey; }
port = j.mcp.port;
let m = j.mcp;
if m != nil {
let k = m.apiKey;
if k != nil { api_key = k; }
port = m.port;
}
if port == nil or api_key == nil {
print_err("config error: mcp.port and an api key (mcp.apiKey or LOG_WATCHER_API_KEY) are required");
return 1;
}
let extra: multi Text = [];
if j.logs != nil {
for p in j.logs { push(extra, p); }
let jlogs = j.logs;
if jlogs != nil {
for p in jlogs { push(extra, p); }
}
if j.services != nil {
for s in j.services { push(extra, s); }
let jsvcs = j.services;
if jsvcs != nil {
for s in jsvcs { push(extra, s); }
}
let mcp = Mcp { tools: Tools { cron_dir: args[1], extra_logs: extra }, api_key: api_key };
print("mcp server on 127.0.0.1:${port} (${args[1]})");
@ -113,12 +117,20 @@ fn load_config(path: Text, mut cfg: SupConfig) -> Bool {
print_err("config error: ${path} is not valid JSON");
return false;
}
if j.pollInterval != nil { cfg.poll_ms = j.pollInterval * 1000; }
if j.quietPeriod != nil { cfg.quiet_ms = j.quietPeriod * 1000; }
if j.rescanInterval != nil { cfg.rescan_ms = j.rescanInterval * 1000; }
if j.detections != nil { cfg.detections = j.detections; }
if j.services != nil {
for s in j.services { push(cfg.services, s); }
-- ?T enforcement (WO-E211/E213): a FIELD place never narrows — it could be
-- re-assigned between the check and the use — so each optional binds to a
-- local first, and the local narrows.
let pi = j.pollInterval;
if pi != nil { cfg.poll_ms = pi * 1000; }
let qp = j.quietPeriod;
if qp != nil { cfg.quiet_ms = qp * 1000; }
let ri = j.rescanInterval;
if ri != nil { cfg.rescan_ms = ri * 1000; }
let det = j.detections;
if det != nil { cfg.detections = det; }
let svcs = j.services;
if svcs != nil {
for s in svcs { push(cfg.services, s); }
}
return true;
}

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let j = json.decode(req.body) as RpcReq; -- checked decode: ?RpcReq, never a trap
if j == nil { return rpc_error(nil, -32700, "parse error"); }
if j.method == nil { return rpc_error(j.id, -32600, "invalid request: no method"); }
let mth = j.method;
if mth == nil { return rpc_error(j.id, -32600, "invalid request: no method"); }
if j.id == nil { return HttpResp { status: 202, body: "" }; } -- notification
switch j.method {
switch mth {
case "initialize":
return rpc_result(j.id, "{\"protocolVersion\":\"${PROTOCOL}\",\"capabilities\":{\"tools\":{}},\"serverInfo\":{\"name\":\"log-watcher\",\"version\":\"0.1\"}}");
case "ping":
@ -72,16 +73,17 @@ class Mcp {
case "tools/call":
return self.call_tool(j.id, j.params);
default:
return rpc_error(j.id, -32601, "unknown method: ${j.method}");
return rpc_error(j.id, -32601, "unknown method: ${mth}");
}
}
-- Mcp.hx:54-84. Tool-layer failures return isError, never protocol
-- errors; a trap inside a tool is caught at this boundary.
fn call_tool(id: json.Value, params: ?RpcParams) -> HttpResp {
fn call_tool(id: ?json.Value, params: ?RpcParams) -> HttpResp {
if params == nil { return rpc_error(id, -32600, "tools/call: missing params.name"); }
if params.name == nil { return rpc_error(id, -32600, "tools/call: missing params.name"); }
let o = try self.dispatch(params.name, params.arguments)
let pname = params.name;
if pname == nil { return rpc_error(id, -32600, "tools/call: missing params.name"); }
let o = try self.dispatch(pname, params.arguments)
catch (e) err("tool failed: ${e.msg}");
let content = json.encode(ToolText { type: "text", text: o.text });
let flag = "false";
@ -97,12 +99,15 @@ class Mcp {
return self.tools.list_logs();
case "tail_log":
if args == nil { return err("tail_log: path is required"); }
if args.path == nil { return err("tail_log: path is required"); }
return self.tools.tail_log(args.path, args.lines);
let tpath = args.path;
if tpath == nil { return err("tail_log: path is required"); }
return self.tools.tail_log(tpath, args.lines);
case "search_log":
if args == nil { return err("search_log: path and pattern are required"); }
if args.path == nil or args.pattern == nil { return err("search_log: path and pattern are required"); }
return self.tools.search_log(args.path, args.pattern, args.maxMatches);
let spath = args.path;
let spat = args.pattern;
if spath == nil or spat == nil { return err("search_log: path and pattern are required"); }
return self.tools.search_log(spath, spat, args.maxMatches);
default:
return err("unknown tool: ${name}");
}
@ -183,12 +188,12 @@ class Mcp {
}
}
fn rpc_result(id: json.Value, result_json: Text) -> HttpResp {
fn rpc_result(id: ?json.Value, result_json: Text) -> HttpResp {
let idj = json.encode(id);
return HttpResp { status: 200, body: "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":${idj},\"result\":${result_json}}" };
}
fn rpc_error(id: json.Value, code: Int, message: Text) -> HttpResp {
fn rpc_error(id: ?json.Value, code: Int, message: Text) -> HttpResp {
let idj = json.encode(id);
let e = json.encode(RpcErr { code: code, message: message });
return HttpResp { status: 200, body: "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":${idj},\"error\":${e}}" };
@ -260,8 +265,9 @@ class Tools {
let nf_text: ?Text = nil;
if nf != nil { nf_text = time.iso(nf); }
let running = false;
if e.lock_path != nil {
running = Flock.held(e.lock_path);
let elk = e.lock_path;
if elk != nil {
running = Flock.held(elk);
} else {
running = Pgrep.alive(Tools.needle(e.command));
}

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