plan: review corrections to business-logic-fed-flows

Three framing fixes after review: (1) the event source is object-level state changes, NOT just
CID deltas — relations write edge:* rows so they don't shift the CID; content/status → Create/
Update, relations → Add/Remove (ActivityPub-faithful). (2) verbs are TRANSITIONS (on-publish =
draft→published, fire-once, not every delta of a published post). (3) the hybrid flow split is by
DURABILITY not complexity — the execute-fold is eager/synchronous (no wait); suspend/timer/human
flows are the Erlang escape hatch. Plus: effects-as-data need a DRIVER (host, for P0); P0.2 must
gate on the transition + run in the handler body (VmSuspended/er-scheduler risk); P0.3 gets an
acceptance criterion; P3 flags the fed-sx delivery M2 blocker + the deferred actor model.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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alongside content grammar + allowed relations. State changes federate over fed-sx; federated
services execute the business logic as durable **flows**.
**Design (decided 2026-07-02):**
- **Activity log = every CID delta** — the federated event source of truth. Any content change
(new CID, per host/blog--cid-of: content in the record → CID; relations are external → not).
**Design (decided 2026-07-02; corrected after review):**
- **Activity log = every OBSERVABLE object-level state change** — the federated event source.
NOT just CID deltas: verified that relations write `edge:*` rows, NOT the record, so a relation
change does NOT shift the CID. So the log has TWO event classes (ActivityPub-faithful):
content/status change → a CID-carrying `Create`/`Update` (the record's canon incl. :status → the
CID); relation change (relate/unrelate/tag) → an `Add`/`Remove` activity referencing the edge.
(CID delta is one class, not the whole log — this is the fix to the original "every CID delta".)
- **Verbs are TRANSITIONS, not raw deltas.** `on-publish` = the draft→published transition
(fire-once), not every CID delta of a published post. The emitter picks the verb: `Create` on
first publish, `Update` on subsequent content edits, `Add`/`Remove` on relations, `Delete` on
unpublish/delete. Triggers are scoped to the transition, so re-editing doesn't re-fire on-publish.
- **Triggers = declared subscriptions** — a type declares named triggers (on-publish, on-relate,
…); flows fire only on matching ones. (fed-sx `DefineTrigger`: activity-type → flow-name + guard
+ actor-scope.) Log complete, execution precise.
- **Flows = hybrid** — simple logic authored as **SX composition** (the execute-fold: effect/alt/
each — already live in /workflow-demo); an escape hatch to named **Erlang flows**
(next/flow/*.erl, effect-as-data, deterministic replay, suspend/resume) for the complex.
- **Flows = hybrid, split by DURABILITY not "complexity":** SYNCHRONOUS declarative logic authored
as **SX composition** (the execute-fold: effect/alt/each — eager, one-pass, NO suspend; live in
/workflow-demo). Anything needing a timer / suspend-resume / human-in-the-loop is a named
**Erlang flow** (next/flow/*.erl — flow_spec:sequence/branch/wait, effect-as-data, deterministic
replay). The execute-fold canNOT express `wait`; that's the escape-hatch boundary.
- **Effects are DATA; a DRIVER dispatches them.** Flows return effect descriptions (digest_sent,
a DigestSent activity) — they perform no IO (a blocking call deadlocks the er-scheduler). For P0
the HOST is the driver (dispatch the effect → a durable record / append the follow-up activity /
show it). The driver closing the loop back to object state is P4.
- **Federated execution = Erlang** (`next/` fed-sx Milestone-1 kernel: trigger_registry +
flow_dispatch + pipeline post-append fan-out). Authoring stays SX; the fed-sx activity is the
bridge. flow-on-sx (Scheme, lib/flow) remains for purely-local durable logic.
@@ -30,20 +44,28 @@ Prove: live host publishes a post → fed-sx activity → on-publish trigger →
a post record → the fed-sx activity {:type "create" :actor "site" :id <CID> :object {:type
"article" :category … :slug …}}. category from field-value "category", else first tag, else
"urgent". + host/blog--post-category. blog 200/200 (3 tests). DONE 2026-07-02.
- [ ] **P0.2 — the dispatch bridge.** On publish (host/blog-edit-submit status→published, or a
dedicated publish action), emit the activity into the trigger machinery. RUNTIME CHOICE for P0:
in-process — serve.sh loads next/ kernel + registers the on-publish trigger; host emits via the
erlang-on-sx bridge (erlang-eval-ast pipeline:apply_triggers). (P3 replaces this with real fed-sx
delivery over next/kernel/http_server.erl.)
- [ ] **P0.3 — the effect is visible.** The flow's digest_sent effect surfaces (a durable record /
a DigestSent activity back in the log / shown on the post or a /flows page). Close the local loop.
- [ ] **P0.2 — the dispatch bridge.** Detect the draft→published TRANSITION (edit-submit /a publish
action where prev status ≠ "published" and new = "published") — fire-once, not on every edit —
and emit host/blog--publish-activity into the trigger machinery. RUNTIME CHOICE for P0: in-process
— serve.sh loads next/ kernel + registers the on-publish trigger; host emits via the erlang-on-sx
bridge (erlang-eval-ast pipeline:apply_triggers). RISK: run this in the handler BODY (never a
render/quasiquote — VmSuspended), and the flow must stay effect-as-data (no blocking, or the
er-scheduler deadlocks). SPIKE the SX→erlang-on-sx call in isolation first. (P3 swaps this for
real fed-sx delivery over next/kernel/http_server.erl.)
- [ ] **P0.3 — the effect is dispatched (host = driver).** pipeline:apply_triggers returns the
flow's effect-as-data ({digest_sent, Emails, DigestObject}); the HOST driver dispatches it —
P0: append a DigestSent record / activity + show it on a /flows page (or on the post). ACCEPTANCE:
publish a post on the LIVE host → the DigestSent surfaces, driven by the real flow. (Marshalling:
the SX activity dict ↔ the erlang proplist term is the fiddly part — factor host/blog--activity->erl.)
## P1 — types declare behavior (generalize)
- [ ] A Composition field / the type carries a :triggers list (on-publish → flow-name + guard) —
edited in the type-def editor, like grammar + relations.
- [ ] A fold turns a type's declared behavior into DefineTrigger + flow registrations at boot.
- [ ] Simple flows authored as SX composition (execute-fold) → compiled/dispatched to the engine;
complex ones reference named Erlang flows.
- [ ] SYNCHRONOUS flows authored as SX composition (execute-fold: effect/alt/each — one-pass, no
suspend) → dispatched to the engine; anything needing wait/suspend/human-gate references a named
Erlang flow. (Optional bigger: extend the SX flow vocabulary with a `wait` that compiles to
flow_spec — only if authoring durable flows in SX proves worth it.)
## P2 — state-change → activity emission (the CID-delta event source)
- [ ] Every content mutation (new CID) appends a state-change activity to the log. Define the
@@ -53,6 +75,11 @@ Prove: live host publishes a post → fed-sx activity → on-publish trigger →
## P3 — federation proper
- [ ] Activities cross peers via next/ delivery (http_server / outbox / follower_graph). A remote
service's trigger_registry fires the flow. Everything works over fed-sx.
RISK: next/ delivery had M2 blockers (http-listen handler runs off the er-scheduler context →
gen_server:call can't complete; project_fed_prims_http_listen_scheduler). Confirm delivery is
green before depending on it. Also: the ACTOR MODEL (:actor "site" is a P0 placeholder) is
foundational here — peer_actors / follower_graph / per-author identity underpin who federates to
whom. Deferred through P0P2, but P3 needs it real.
## P4 — close the loop
- [ ] Flow effects mutate objects back durably (a flow's DescribeEffects → host writes / new