- 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>
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Iteration 24 — chat: the WebSocket pub/sub driving workload
Format: fiberloom
product/story-iteration-template. Part of Story — one language, one runtime, one database, one binary.Inserted 2026-08-20 (concurrency-chain refinement): the 8+11 arc's driving workload, the role log-watcher played for iterations 3–7. Needs its spec AFTER the arc's — it lands at the arc's end and proves it.
Why this iteration exists
Everything the framework ledger parks behind concurrency — WebSockets, pub/sub, streaming, per-request cancellation, the keep-alive parking retirement — needs a workload that actually exercises long-lived connections and cross-shard broadcast, or the arc ships mechanism without proof. Chat is the smallest honest such workload: rooms, N concurrent clients, fan-out on every message, presence on connect/disconnect — one binary, no broker.
Goals
docs/examples/chat: rooms + broadcast + presence over WebSocket, served by the framework through[deps]exactly as the web-app is.- Framework grows the WS mechanism in pure
.wo: the HTTP/1.1 upgrade handshake (Sec-WebSocket-Accept needs SHA-1/base64 — the crypto-builtin fork's first real consumer), frame parse/serialize (text, close, ping), fiber-per-connection serving (iteration 11), and in-memory channels whose delivery is cross-shard message send (iteration 8). - The arc's acceptance teeth: 1k concurrent clients across shards, broadcast latency measured, starvation-free under one hot room, SIGTERM drains every connection cleanly.
Acceptance Criteria (draft — the spec after the arc refines)
- Given two clients in one room on DIFFERENT shards, when one sends, then the other receives the frame (cross-shard ownership-move delivery), and a third client in another room receives nothing.
- Given 1k connected clients with one hot sender, when the reduction budget preempts, then every room keeps making progress (no starvation) on one OS thread per core, verified by TID.
- Given SIGTERM with clients connected, when the server drains, then every connection gets a close frame, every fiber unwinds its drop maps (ASan zero leaks), and the process exits 0.
- Given the web-app running beside chat features, when the standing gates run, then nothing regresses — HTTP and WS share the serve loop honestly.
Out Of Scope
Message persistence/history (a @table an app adds if it wants — not the
workload's point); auth beyond the existing bearer mechanism; permessage
compression; binary frames beyond echo coverage; wss (TLS stays at the
proxy — the proxy story extends to WS pass-through, documented).
Info
- Dependencies: the 8+11 arc (fibers + cross-shard send), the crypto builtins fork (SHA-1 for the upgrade handshake — note: the ledger's crypto slice lists SHA-256/512; the WS handshake specifically needs SHA-1, so the builtin set must include it), and the framework's parse seam (upgrade is an HTTP request until it isn't).
- Unparks on landing: the framework ledger's WebSocket/pub-sub rows and the iteration-18 rejection note ("pub/sub REJECTED until 8/11").
Proposed Solution
Brainstorm → spec → plan after the arc's spec exists; the arc's plan and this iteration's are written against each other (the arc names chat as its acceptance, chat names the arc as its substrate).