writeonce/docs/00-dependency-graph.md

Dependency graphs — iterations and framework features

Companion to 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

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    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 framework v2: transaction{} + cache/flags/jobs (⏸ hold 2026-08-21; spec+plan approved, held intact)"]:::parked

    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"]:::open
    I32["32 WAL checkpoint (append-only today; bounds replay)"]:::open
    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
    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 is 23 → 32. 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 — 18, 20/21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 — 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.

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    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 = the shard tick)"]:::rt
    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"]:::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).

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    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. Framework v2 (iteration 18) — internal order

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    TXN["transaction{} (engine undo log + language block)"]:::piece
    JOBS["jobs.wo: wf_jobs + enqueue + JobRunner + idle() drain"]:::piece
    DEMO["web-app demo: transactional order+confirm, GET /jobs, flags route"]:::piece
    CACHE["cache.wo: TTL + FIFO"]:::indep
    FLAGS["flags.wo: wf_flags + read-through map"]:::indep
    TPRMW["txn-per-request middleware (v1 ledger's storage row; single-thread OK)"]:::later

    TXN --> JOBS
    JOBS --> DEMO
    FLAGS --> DEMO
    TXN --> TPRMW

Cache and flags are dependency-free warm-ups; transaction { } is the critical path (the only engine + language work); jobs compose on it; the demo and gate close it. 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. 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).

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.

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    RB["language work: random_bytes builtin (bare-name, id 84/90) — porch 2 Phase A"]:::lang
    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
    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

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.

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).

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    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 TTL cache + transaction{} (⏸ hold)"]:::held
    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), two language iterations on hold (29, 18), 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 ("the runtime beyond sockets"), ALL readiness: ready since the track-wide brainstorm (spec, 2026-09-01) — 1 streaming subprocess · 2 PTY · 3 signals as events · 4 termios · 5 fd passing. wmux — its own track, first of the softwares built with writeonce — is the driving workload that consumes them all — wmux 1.

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    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 (pinned against recorded sessions)"]:::gap
    WMUX["wmux 1 (was language 43): server owns sessions/PTYs in durable tables, thin client hands over its tty — reattach after server RESTART replays from the WAL"]:::product
    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
    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; what remains for wmux 1 is its own .wo work (the VTE grid + unicode width node) and its brainstorm's terminfo fork. 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.

7. jarvis — the AI-assistant track and everything it waits on

The sixth track (jarvis): 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.

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    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.

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.