- 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
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> Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of
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> [Story — one language, one runtime, one database, one binary](../00-story.md).
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>
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> **Inserted 2026-08-20** (concurrency-chain refinement): the 8+11 arc's
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> driving workload, the role log-watcher played for iterations 3–7. Needs
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> its spec AFTER the arc's — it lands at the arc's end and proves it.
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## Why this iteration exists
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Everything the framework ledger parks behind concurrency — WebSockets,
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pub/sub, streaming, per-request cancellation, the keep-alive parking
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retirement — needs a workload that actually exercises long-lived
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connections and cross-shard broadcast, or the arc ships mechanism without
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proof. Chat is the smallest honest such workload: rooms, N concurrent
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clients, fan-out on every message, presence on connect/disconnect — one
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binary, no broker.
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## Goals
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- `docs/examples/chat`: rooms + broadcast + presence over WebSocket,
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served by the framework through `[deps]` exactly as the web-app is.
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- Framework grows the WS mechanism in pure `.wo`: the HTTP/1.1 upgrade
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handshake (Sec-WebSocket-Accept needs SHA-1/base64 — the crypto-builtin
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fork's first real consumer), frame parse/serialize (text, close, ping),
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fiber-per-connection serving (iteration 11), and in-memory channels
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whose delivery is cross-shard message send (iteration 8).
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- The arc's acceptance teeth: 1k concurrent clients across shards,
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broadcast latency measured, starvation-free under one hot room,
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SIGTERM drains every connection cleanly.
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## Acceptance Criteria (draft — the spec after the arc refines)
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- **Given** two clients in one room on DIFFERENT shards, **when** one
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sends, **then** the other receives the frame (cross-shard ownership-move
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delivery), and a third client in another room receives nothing.
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- **Given** 1k connected clients with one hot sender, **when** the
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reduction budget preempts, **then** every room keeps making progress
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(no starvation) on one OS thread per core, verified by TID.
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- **Given** SIGTERM with clients connected, **when** the server drains,
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**then** every connection gets a close frame, every fiber unwinds its
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drop maps (ASan zero leaks), and the process exits 0.
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- **Given** the web-app running beside chat features, **when** the
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standing gates run, **then** nothing regresses — HTTP and WS share the
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serve loop honestly.
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## Out Of Scope
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Message persistence/history (a `@table` an app adds if it wants — not the
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workload's point); auth beyond the existing bearer mechanism; permessage
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compression; binary frames beyond echo coverage; wss (TLS stays at the
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proxy — the proxy story extends to WS pass-through, documented).
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## Info
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- Dependencies: the 8+11 arc (fibers + cross-shard send), the crypto
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builtins fork (SHA-1 for the upgrade handshake — note: the ledger's
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crypto slice lists SHA-256/512; the WS handshake specifically needs
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SHA-1, so the builtin set must include it), and the framework's parse
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seam (upgrade is an HTTP request until it isn't).
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- Unparks on landing: the framework ledger's WebSocket/pub-sub rows and
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the iteration-18 rejection note ("pub/sub REJECTED until 8/11").
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## Proposed Solution
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Brainstorm → spec → plan after the arc's spec exists; the arc's plan and
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this iteration's are written against each other (the arc names chat as
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its acceptance, chat names the arc as its substrate).
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