The driver now persists each effect record to the blog store (string-keyed to dodge the keyword/
persist top-level split), and host/blog-load-flowlog! rebuilds the in-memory log on boot (wired into
serve.sh after load-edges!). So /flows survives a restart — closing the P0.3 gap.
LIVE PROOF: published a post on blog.rose-ash.com → /flows showed validate+notify → RESTARTED the
container (in-memory log lost) → /flows STILL showed them, reloaded from the durable store.
Round-trip also covered by a conformance test (persist → clear → reload → identical). blog 208/208,
full host conformance 599/599. Note: whole-list rewrite per effect — fine at P0 volume, cap/rotate later.
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Publishing a post now fires the on-publish behavior DAG through the seam. host/blog--{transport
(activity log), triggers (on-publish: create+article → publish-DAG), driver (records each effect in
the flow log), publish-engine (behavior/make-engine over the four adapters + the execute-fold runner
+ publish-ctx), fire-publish!, maybe-publish!}. Both write handlers (form-submit POST /new,
edit-submit POST /:slug/edit) detect the draft→published TRANSITION (fire-once) in the handler body
and run behavior/process. GET /flows renders the flow log (the effect-as-data the driver dispatched).
LIVE PROOF: logged in + POST /new on blog.rose-ash.com → /flows shows 'validate' + 'notify' (the
publish-DAG branched on the default urgent category), driven end-to-end by the real behavior engine.
Every piece is a seam adapter — swapping the runner for Erlang (RA) or the transport for fed-sx (TA)
federates this same wiring unchanged.
blog 207/207 (+4 P0.3), full host conformance 595/595. GAP: flow log is in-memory (P0.3b = persist).
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Per the user: the execute-fold-vs-artdag split from P0.2 is a capability SNAPSHOT, not a permanent
boundary. artdag MAY grow +{effect,branch,each} node-kinds; business logic then migrates onto it to
inherit the DAG-engine superpowers — content-addressed memoization (recompute only on input-CID
change), optimize (fuse/dedup/dce), schedule, and above all FEDERATION (a flow result reused across
peers by content-id — the federation vision, for free). The capability model makes the migration
seamless (same DAGs + seam; the runner just advertises more). Named the real design work: dynamic
control in a static DAG (branch prunes a path); effect nodes non-cacheable vs pure nodes memoized.
Demand-driven (phase AX); execute-fold stays the lean default for cheap synchronous flows. Annotated
the P0.2 finding + flows.sx header so the finding doesn't harden into dogma.
Doc/comment-only.
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The hypothesis test. FINDING: a synchronous business flow expresses NATURALLY as an EXECUTE-FOLD
composition (host/execute.sx: seq/effect/alt — the category branch IS 'alt'), NOT an artdag
DATAFLOW DAG (which has no control flow). So 'business logic = art-dag' holds at the ABSTRACTION
(both content-addressed op-DAGs) and is REFINED at the vocabulary: the synchronous control-flow
runner is the execute-fold (caps {effect,branch,each}); artdag is the dataflow sibling. Two
instances of one thing, run very differently — exactly the framing.
lib/host/flows.sx: capability typing (host/flow--node-cap/required-caps derive a DAG's capability
set from its node vocabulary; effect→effect, alt→branch, each→each, wait→suspend), the execute-fold
seam runner (advertises {effect,branch,each}), and host/flow--bind (required ⊆ advertised → derive
the runner, else fail-fast). host/blog--publish-dag (the publish workflow) + publish-ctx.
Verified: publish-DAG required-caps = {effect,branch} → binds to the sync runner; runs →
newsletter→[validate,digest] / urgent→[validate,notify] / other→[validate,skip]; a node →
{suspend} → binds FAIL-FAST against the exec-runner (would need the Erlang runner, RA). Runner is
DERIVED, not chosen. flows 7/7, blog 203/203, full host conformance 591/591.
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Folds in the sharpest refinement: business logic and art-dag are the SAME op-DAG structure,
differing only in the CAPABILITIES their nodes require — so the runner is DERIVED, not chosen.
A node declares :needs (wait→suspend, fan-out→parallel, heavy→offload); a runner advertises
:capabilities (op-table {effect,branch,each}; Erlang +suspend; celery-sx +parallel,retry,offload);
artdag/analyze computes a DAG's required set → its minimum runner; the binder checks required ⊆
runner-caps (fail fast). The sync/durable/distributed split falls out of the DAG (a {effect}-only
DAG runs with zero ceremony; a wait node auto-requires Erlang) — turning 'simple in SX / complex
in Erlang' from a judgment call into a derivable property. Removed the :runner hint from the type
binding; P0.2 gains the hypothesis test (natural-as-a-DAG? + flip-to-wait fails fast); runner
contract gains :capabilities; type-def editor can show the derived classification.
Doc-only.
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The reframe updated the vision but left the P0 section stale + contradictory: P0.2/P0.3 still
described the Erlang-bridge-first path the reframe deferred; P0.1's activity ({:type :object-dict})
didn't match the seam's canonical activity ({:verb :object-cid}); the seam-contract section
predated the 2 enrichment passes (no status/dedup/pump). Coherence fixes:
- P0 rewritten around the seam + SX op-table runner (all-SX publish-DAG, local-SX registry,
in-process transport, host driver) — no Erlang/fed-sx.
- Erlang/fed-sx DEMOTED to explicit adapter phases: RA (durable Erlang runner wrapping next/
flow_dispatch) + TA (fed-sx transport wrapping next/ delivery). P3-federation folded into TA.
- canonical seam activity shape defined; P0.4 reconciles P0.1's next/-shaped activity + a marshaller.
- seam contract refreshed to behavior.sx (result {:status :effects :resume :error}, dedup
per-invocation, pump/async-completion, behavior 10/10); stray fragments + 9/9→10/10 cleared.
Doc-only.
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After review, the seam was only synchronous-complete; the durable/celery-sx runners couldn't
plug in cleanly. Additive fixes (pipeline unchanged): (1) :status branch in run-binding — 'done'
dispatches effects, 'suspended' records the flow + :resume (a durable runner holds it; completion
re-enters as a new activity via pump), 'failed' records + :error for retry/dead-letter. (2) richer
runner env — :ctx (per-activity, via engine :ctx-of) + injected :effects (external-read interfaces,
e.g. a deterministic fetch_followers). (3) dedup by content :id — a cycle is caught by identity,
not just the depth guard. (4) behavior/pump — drain transport.deliver for inbound (peer activities
+ async runner completions), sharing one trace so dedup spans the batch.
behavior 9/9 (+ suspended/failed/dedup/env/pump); full host conformance 580/580.
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lib/host/behavior.sx — the substrate-independent seam every runner/transport/registry/driver
plugs into. An engine bundles four dict-of-functions adapters (trigger-registry, runner,
transport, driver); behavior/process folds an ACTIVITY through the pipeline: emit → match
triggers → run each behavior DAG → dispatch each effect-as-data → recurse on new activities
(loop closure, depth-guarded at 8). Every stage injected, so the same DAG + engine run over the
synchronous op-table runner / Erlang durable / celery-sx / fed-sx transport unchanged.
Reference tests (mock adapters) prove the contract: publish→trigger→runner→effect flows; a
non-matching activity fires nothing (log complete, execution precise); an effect that emits a new
activity re-triggers (loop closes); an unbounded loop is depth-guarded (terminates). Wired into
conformance.sh + serve.sh MODULES. behavior 4/4; full host conformance 575/575.
Next: P0 supplies the REAL adapters (publish activity ← host/blog--publish-activity, local-SX
trigger, sync op-table runner over a publish-DAG, host driver) — same engine.
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celery-sx = one more runner on artdag/op-table-runner, not a Celery port: broker=persist KV,
workers=er-scheduler, result backend=content-addressed (dedup free), retries/replay=flow-on-
erlang, fan-out=artdag/schedule. ~few hundred lines of glue, zero packages, 'Celery the way it
should have been' on erlang-on-sx. DEMAND-DRIVEN (RX) — build when a DAG needs heavy compute /
long-running-retryable / cross-machine fan-out; the synchronous op-table runner covers P0.
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Reframe after the user's insight, confirmed in code: artdag-on-sx already IS the substrate-
independent behavior engine — artdag/run injects the RUNNER (execution adapter: SX op-table /
Erlang / Celery), federation.sx injects the TRANSPORT (communication adapter: fed-sx / HTTP /
IPFS). Business logic = a content-addressed DAG; durability is a RUNNER capability (same DAG runs
eager or durable); deployment (subdomain service / peer / L1 worker) is placement. fed-sx+Erlang
is ONE adapter set, not the architecture. The type carries content-grammar + allowed-relations +
a behavior DAG. The prior fed-sx/Erlang framing is kept as one concrete first slice.
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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.
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Business logic as federated composition-flows (plans/business-logic-fed-flows.md). P0.1: the
host describes a published post as a fed-sx activity — host/blog--publish-activity(slug) →
{:type "create" :actor "site" :id <CID> :object {:type "article" :slug :category}} — the
exact shape next/'s trigger machinery consumes (verified: next/tests/triggers_e2e.sh 10/10).
category (drives the flow branch: newsletter suspends / urgent fires / else skip) comes from
the "category" field-value, else the first tag, else "urgent". + host/blog--post-category.
Design decided: activity log = every CID delta (event source); triggers = declared subscriptions
(DefineTrigger); flows hybrid (SX composition for simple via the execute-fold, named Erlang flows
for complex); federated execution = Erlang (next/); the type carries content+relations+behavior.
blog 200/200 (+3: contract, category fallback, missing-post nil).
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The roadmap's capstone: now that two folds exist (render, execute), extract the machinery
they share. host/comp-fold (compose.sx) is the reusable core — the seq/alt/each combinator
dispatch + the `when` predicate set (host/comp--pred?) + the context-environment + the `each`
source (host/comp--source) + recursion + the depth guard, ALL in one place. A domain plugs in
via a small dict {:empty :combine :leaf :overflow}; only its leaves and how results combine
differ:
render = {:empty "" :combine str …} leaf -> markup (+ row/grid layout combinators)
execute = {:empty (list) :combine concat …} leaf -> effect
host/comp-render and host/exec-run are now one-liners over host/comp-fold with their domain.
execute.sx shed its own seq/alt/each dispatch — it's just a dict + a leaf. A THIRD domain
(eval/reduce/extent over the same algebra) is now only a new dict + leaf, no new control flow.
Both folds went through the core with ZERO behaviour change: new tests/compose.sx exercises
the core + render domain directly (17/17 — leaves, seq, row, alt+when (has/eq/not), each
(items/query/empty), tmpl recursion over a (children) tree + depth guard, ref transclude, one
object two contexts); execute 13/13; blog 162/164 (2 pre-existing relate-picker fails). Full
host conformance 388/390. Wired tests/compose.sx into conformance.
plans/composition-objects.md roadmap steps 1-8 COMPLETE.
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The keystone validation of the universal-algebra thesis. lib/host/execute.sx is a SECOND
interpreter over the SAME seq/alt/each composition algebra as the render-fold — but a
different fold: leaves are EFFECTS, seq = steps in order, alt+when = branch, each =
for-each, and the accumulator is an effect log instead of an HTML string. It REUSES
compose.sx's shared machinery verbatim — host/comp--pred? (when), host/comp--field
(field/value), host/comp--source (each source) — so the predicate set, context-environment,
and iteration source are domain-agnostic; only the leaf semantics + accumulator are new.
KEYSTONE (tested): ONE (alt (when (has "auth") …) …) skeleton + ONE context folds two ways
— render picks the branch → "<b>in</b>", execute picks the SAME branch → {:verb "enter"}.
A publish workflow (validate → branch-on-status → notify-each) runs as one execute-fold over
a composition object. So the behaviour model (Slice 9) is "an execute-fold over a composition
object", not a separate system — the way the recursive tree proved recursion, this proves the
algebra is domain-agnostic. host/exec-run; 13/13 (new execute suite); wired into conformance
+ serve. Full host conformance 371/373 in 42s (warm); the 2 fails are the pre-existing
relate-picker pair.
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The post body is now editable as a composition. Model ops over the :body ref-seq (and the
ordered `contains` edges): host/blog-block-add! (create a card object is-a a card-type +
fields, contains edge, append a ref), -remove! (drop ref + edge), -move! (swap adjacent).
host/blog--block-editor renders a row per block — type + a content preview + ↑/↓/remove
controls + a "fields" link — plus an add-block form, injected into the edit page. Routes
POST /:slug/blocks/{add, :cslug/remove, :cslug/move} (guarded; SX-htmx sx-post + outerHTML
swap of #block-editor, redirect fallback for no-JS).
Cards-as-objects pays off: per-block FIELD editing is free — a card IS an object, so its
fields are edited via its own /<cslug>/edit page; the block editor only owns structure.
Guard fix: a card type is a SUBTYPE-OF card (not is-a), so the add validates ctype against
the down-closure of "card", not host/blog-is-a?. Verified via the warm server (162/164; the
2 fails are the pre-existing relate-picker pair). Deferred: Playwright live-swap check;
alt/each block insertion (the core editor handles the seq of refs).
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STEP 5 (cards-as-objects). The importer no longer carries a Ghost body as one opaque
sx_content string: host/blog--decompose! splits an (article …) into one stored card OBJECT
per top-level block (is-a the mapped card-type + its field-values), links each by an ordered
`contains` edge, and sets the post :body = (seq (ref c0) (ref c1) …). Card types now carry a
render :template, so the new `ref` combinator (compose.sx) transcludes each card via the
SAME typed-block path articles use. /import wired to decompose; the home index filtered to
published so the "block"-status card objects stay hidden. Added the `val` leaf (raw field
value, no <span>) for attribute interpolation in templates (href/src). The post page renders
the transcluded cards — verified end-to-end (conformance 157/159; the 2 fails are the
pre-existing relate-picker pagination pair, unrelated).
PERF (the conformance-speed fix). host/blog typing — types-of / instances-of / type-defs —
computed the subtype closure via lib/relations descendants/ancestors, and EVERY such call
re-saturates the whole CEK-interpreted Datalog ruleset (~seconds each). Typing is the hottest
path (is-a?/types-of/instances-of run per post, per picker, per render), so this dominated
both the blog suite and live page latency. Now the closure is a host-side BFS over the DIRECT
subtype-of edges (the edge:* KV rows, via host/blog--subtype-closure) — one snapshot per
closure, O(edges), cycle-safe, Datalog-free. Same transitive set (KV == relations for direct
edges, host/blog-relate! writes both), so exact, not approximate. Drops Datalog out of the
typing hot path entirely — speeds conformance AND the live site (/tags etc.).
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An object's `each` source can now be a GRAPH QUERY: `(query is-a TYPE)` resolves to
whatever is-a TYPE *right now* — the list isn't baked into the body, it's the live graph.
The object's `each` IS the query; the render is the run over current data (the unifying
property, now over real data).
compose.sx stays self-contained: the `query` source delegates to a resolver bound in the
render context under "query" — it asks the context for data, never reaching into the graph
itself. The host supplies graph access via host/blog--comp-query (`(query is-a TYPE)` ->
host/blog-instances-of -> full records) injected by host/blog--comp-ctx (auth + resolver);
the post handler renders :body against that context.
Added a `val` leaf — the raw field value with no markup wrapper, for use inside attributes
(href/src). `field` stays span-wrapped for display; `(val :slug)` makes a real link in the
each template. /compose-demo's each is now a live (query is-a compose-item) over two seeded
instances instead of a baked literal list.
Verified end-to-end via a focused harness eval over the full relations+persist+blog stack
(query iterates real instances; clean href via val; empty query -> empty, not an error).
Blog suite 151/153 — the 2 fails ("relate-options load-more sentinel", "related picker
offers all posts") are PRE-EXISTING (clean HEAD is 149/151 with the identical 2 fails, a
relate-picker pagination-boundary issue) and unrelated to composition; my 2 new tests pass.
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The motivating end-to-end demonstration (fed-sx-triggers-loop.md Phase
4): one trigger arriving in the pipeline drives a multi-step business
flow with a branch, a timer suspension, an injected effect, and a
follow-up activity emit — all in the kernel's own runtime.
- flow.erl: flow:wait/1 — a timer-style suspend that PRESERVES the value
on resume (vs flow:suspend/1, which returns the logged result), so a
"wait until morning" step lets the env flow through to later steps.
- next/flow/flows/blog_publish_digest.erl: the flow. Branches on the
article :category (newsletter -> wait-until-morning -> send + emit;
urgent -> send + emit now; else -> skip), fetches followers (injected),
builds a digest email per follower, and emits a DigestSent activity
OBJECT. Effect-as-data: a flow can't call kernel gen_servers from
inside the drive (a blocking call there deadlocks the scheduler), so
it returns the emails + DigestSent object for a driver to dispatch and
append — which can then trigger downstream flows, closing the loop.
Test: triggers_e2e.sh (10) — urgent completes in one cycle with 3 emails
+ a DigestSent object; newsletter suspends on the morning timer, then
resumes to the same on "advancing the clock"; draft takes the else
branch (no emails); a non-Article note is rejected by the guard; a
duplicate activity fires once. flow:wait covered in next/flow (36/36).
plans/fed-sx-design.md §13.10 documents the trigger fan-out as a
kernel convention. lib/erlang 771/771.
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The composition DAG is not a content mechanism; render is fold #1. The same structure
(content-addressed objects + ordered labelled forks + seq/par/alt/each) is interpreted by a
different fold per domain: content=render, behaviour=execute (flow-on-sx), query=eval
(Datalog), pipeline=reduce (artdag, literally a content-addressed composition DAG),
types=extent (and/or = intersection/union). "Relations just a fork" generalises: relation
kind + fold = domain. The X-on-sx loops already ARE these folds — the composition DAG is the
fleet convergence point. Payoff: build composition once, reuse per domain via interpreters;
the block editor + metamodel UI generalise to every fold (author a workflow like a document).
System collapses to four ideas: content-addressed objects + composition algebra + per-domain
folds + decidable-core predicates. Roadmap +2: prove universality with a second (execute)
fold over the same seq/alt/each; then factor out the shared compose core.
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The cards-as-OBJECTS model (plans/composition-objects.md): an object's :body is a tiny UI
language over content-addressed object refs; the render-fold is its interpreter. Four
combinators — seq (sequence) / row,grid (layout/par) / alt+when (conditional/or) / each
(iteration/loop) — plus field/text/card leaves, ref (transclude), and tmpl (recursion).
The two fundamentals designed IN: (1) recursion via self-referential named templates
(tmpl) + each over (children) + a depth guard — renders trees (verified: a nested type
hierarchy -> [Types[Article][Card[Image][Callout]]]); (2) the context is an extensible
ENVIRONMENT — reads it, extends it (:item, :depth) — so behaviour (Slice 9)
and reactivity (signals) plug in via the context with no new combinators.
and/or/choice fall out of one axis ( on forks) x the container strategy (render-all
vs render-first), so Alt isn't a new node — it's 'first'. The unifying property, proven:
the object's CID is its DEFINITION (query/template/every when-variant); render is the
EXECUTION (which items/branch/context). One object renders two ways by context (anon ->
'Please log in', authed -> 'Members area'). Render-fold and the Slice-9 behaviour interpreter
are the same shape — interpreters over content-addressed objects.
lib/host/compose.sx is self-contained (no blog deps); verified via sx_eval (every combinator
+ a recursive tree + a full composed doc across two contexts). Roadmap: wire :body into
host/blog-render, each-source=graph-query, live context, Lexical->card-objects import, block
editor.
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Companion to plans/fed-sx-host-types.md. Build sheet for the deferred
lib/host adapter slice (fed_sx_outbox / fed_sx_inbox): projects the
host's existing type-post metamodel (blog.sx: :cid, :schema, subtype-of
graph) onto the fed-sx DefineType/SubtypeOf verbs, ingests peers' types
into peer_types, validates inbound typed objects via
pipeline:apply_object_schema/2, and serves GET /types/<cid>.
Surfaces the two gating decisions for loops/host: the SX-host <->
Erlang-on-SX runtime boundary (recommends an HTTP boundary to dodge the
er-scheduler gen_server:call deadlock) and the type-CID identity choice.
Scope is the inverse of this loop: lib/host/** only, no next/ edits.
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Ran build-all.sh with wasm_of_ocaml 6.3.2: output .wasm units came out byte-identical to
the Jun-29 backup (same hashes, diff -rq clean), so 6.3.2 still emits legacy 'try'. A plain
rebuild is a dead end; the fix needs a newer wasm_of_ocaml (or flag) that emits try_table.
No harm done — deployed artifacts unchanged, live SPA intact. apt wabt/wasm2wat can't read
these wasm-GC binaries (0x5e); need wasm-tools or a real-browser check.
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pipeline:apply_object_schema/2 (+ stage_object_schema/1 factory) — the
object-schema stage between activity-type validation and the kernel
append (plans/fed-sx-host-types.md step 4). When an inbound activity's
:object declares a refinement type ({type, TypeName}), resolve it
(Cfg type_index: TypeName -> TypeCid; then peer_types:lookup_or_fetch/2,
a local hit or a wire fetch) and apply the record's refinement schema
to the object's :field_values, rejecting on schema-fail with
{error, {validation_failed, object_schema}}.
The schema is either a 1-arity Erlang predicate (substrate stand-in,
locally stored) or a term_codec-safe {required, [Field,...]} constraint
(so a wire-fetched record validates too). Default
strict_object_schema = false: an unresolvable type is let through (the
skip is where a validation_skipped log belongs); strict rejects.
Objects with no declared type, and names absent from the local index,
are skipped (open-world).
Test: next/tests/object_schema.sh (15) — local hit, wire fetch, fetch
failure strict/non-strict, no peer_types, untyped object, undeclared
name, fun + data schema forms, no-schema record, stage composition.
No regression: pipeline_signature, pipeline_driver green. Plan doc
steps 1-4 marked done.
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Real browser console on blog.rose-ash.com shows the WASM kernel (Jun-29 artifact, built
with an older wasm_of_ocaml) emits the legacy 'try' exception instruction (deprecated; use
try_table) + loadManifest does a sync XHR. Not breaking yet (SPA boots; the day's symptom
was a stale cached loader, cleared by hard refresh) but will break when browsers drop 'try'.
Fix = rebuild the kernel with the current 6.3.2 toolchain (may emit try_table) + verify in a
real browser + make loadManifest async. hosts/ocaml/browser toolchain; schedule when the box
is quiet with a rollback path, don't rush.
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Two new DefineActivity-form genesis activity-types for host-type
federation (plans/fed-sx-host-types.md step 1):
- next/genesis/activity-types/define_type.sx — DefineType verb; schema
accepts an :object with a string :name and optional list :fields.
- next/genesis/activity-types/subtype_of.sx — SubtypeOf verb; schema
accepts an :object carrying string :child-type-cid + :parent-type-cid.
Schema bodies use nested `get` (not keyword-threading) so they are
directly evaluatable — keywords are not callable getters in the kernel.
Both registered in manifest.sx (activity-types now 7); the four bootstrap
suites' bundle counts bumped (5->7, total 36->38).
Tests: next/tests/define_type.sh (7), subtype_of.sh (6) — parse shape,
schema accept/reject, term_codec envelope round-trip.
Also load follower_graph + delivery in bootstrap_start.sh: its check-26
publish path exercises outbox:compute_delivery_set/3 (follower_graph:new
+ delivery:delivery_set), which an m2 substrate change had left unloaded
in that suite — a pre-existing red unrelated to the count bump.
Conformance 771/771; all touched next/tests green.
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Staged cross-loop hand-off (not started here): when the cards-as-types work lands, swap
host/blog-lookup's in-memory registry for content/head over content:<id> streams
populated by lib/blogimport (merged to local architecture a746b6ab, 76/76). Adds a
Phase 4 checklist item + plans/blogimport-pickup.md with concrete steps (merge
architecture, apply blog-side published-posts draft, inject fetch_data as fetch-fn,
backfill, swap lookup, sync-verify parity gate).
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Seed the kg-card / content-on-sx block kinds as types: a 'card' root (subtype-of type) +
card-heading/text/image/quote/code/embed/callout as subtypes, each with its own fields
(host/blog--seed-card-type!). They appear in /meta (Types 11) and define (a) the editor's
future card palette and (b) the radar migrator's target vocabulary. Instances-as-blocks vs
instances-as-posts is a later decision — this is the vocabulary.
plans/NOTE-blog-types-for-radar.md: the TYPE CONTRACT for the loops/radar migration — a
blog post -> is-a article + typed field-values; body Ghost/Koenig cards -> these card-types.
Two paths mapped onto radar's duplicate->cutover->diverge (type-at-import vs type-in-diverge),
plus the open cards-as-blocks-vs-posts question for them to inform from the Ghost corpus.
Verified live-path (/meta Types 11, card-types with fields) + focused eval (type-defs has
card-image; fields src/alt/caption, heading level/text). Full blog conformance still blocked
by box contention; test added for a quiet re-run.
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Closes m2's last open box. The delivery_worker now wires its retry
loop on erlang:send_after / cancel_timer self-casts: failing flush
arms the per-Cid backoff timer; handle_info({retry, Cid}) redrives
one Cid through deliver_one_pure; success clears state, failure
schedules next slot or dead-letters on attempt 6.
m2 carries three cherry-picks of the send_after substrate work
(originally landed on loops/erlang via 3709460d/98b0104c/b10e55f0).
Those same commits are already on this architecture via the earlier
loops/erlang merge (154681a4); merging m2's duplicates is a
mechanical conflict-resolve to whichever copy git picks first.
Highlights since the previous m2 merge (2bafb4f7):
- 8b-timer wiring + 5 new tests in delivery_retry_timer.sh
- :timers state field tracks live refs; cancel_timer_for before
re-arming so stale timers don't keep the scheduler alive
- state_srv/1 + timer_ref_for/2 for test introspection
- merge-prep note documenting the duplicate-fix rebase strategy
m2 is now feature-complete. Conformance gate 771/771.
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# Conflicts:
# lib/erlang/conformance.sh
# lib/erlang/scoreboard.md
Wires the delivery_worker's retry loop on top of the
erlang:send_after / cancel_timer primitives just landed on
loops/erlang (3709460d, 98b0104c, 779e53b2 — cherry-picked here
since origin/architecture hasn't caught up yet).
Surface:
- new :timers [{Cid, Ref}] state field tracks live timer refs
- handle_call(flush): drain (existing semantics) + arm_retry_timer
per retried Cid (computes backoff slot from the now-bumped attempt
count, sets next_retry_at, send_after self-cast). Reply shape
unchanged.
- handle_info({retry, Cid}, S): redrives that one Cid through
deliver_one_pure. Success → record_success_pure + clear pending.
Failure → schedule_retry_for (which bumps attempts, dead-letters on
slot 6, or arms next slot).
- cancel_timer_for/2 before arming a new timer so stale timers don't
keep the scheduler's run loop alive after the work is done.
- state_srv/1 + timer_ref_for/2 for test introspection.
5/5 in new delivery_retry_timer.sh; existing delivery_worker.sh
17/17 and delivery_retry.sh 11/11 still green. Conformance gate
771/771 (was 761/761; the +10 is the cherry-picked send_after
suite).
Closes Blockers #3. m2 is now feature-complete.
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Define a relation through the UI (metamodel editor surface 1, completing it):
POST /meta/new-relation creates a relation-post (is-a relation, :rel metadata) and
registers it via a runtime concat onto host/blog-rel-kinds — safe because the serving
handler has the IO resolver installed. /meta gains a '+ Relation' form (name, label,
symmetric). Verified: define 'Blocks' (symmetric) -> Relations(5), its editor renders on
edit pages, kind-spec + symmetric correct; auth-guarded.
SESSION-SCOPED: the relation-post + edges persist durably, but the rel-kinds registry
entry is lost on restart because load-rel-kinds! must stay UNROLLED — it runs at BOOT
where it is JIT-compiled but the IO resolver is NOT yet installed, so a dynamic loader
(map/reduce over instances-of 'relation' with a durable read per item) silently returns []
(verified: dynamic -> /meta Relations(0)). The serving-JIT HO-callback-perform fix only
engages with the resolver = serve time. Flagged to sx-vm-extensions (NOTE-render-diff-for-
vm-ext.md); they ACKed + are tracking the boot-resolver fix. Reverted the dynamic loader,
kept the unroll with a comment explaining why.
VERIFICATION NOTE: the full blog suite could not complete — the box is under extreme
contention from sibling loops (load 14, multiple full conformance + erlang/vm-ext rebuilds)
and the Datalog-heavy 140-test suite times out even at a 1800s cap. Verified instead two
ways: (1) live-path HTTP (real route + auth + editor render, ephemeral SX_SERVING_JIT=1),
(2) a focused in-process eval of the create-relation core (exists/is-a/kind-spec/symmetric/
registry-len = true,true,true,true,5). Prior full run was 140/140; changes since are purely
additive (handler + form + route + 3 tests). Re-run the blog suite when the box is quiet.
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- live-check.sh + run-picker-check.sh now set SX_SERVING_JIT=1 to MATCH THE CONTAINER:
that env gates the http-listen IO resolver, so without it perform-heavy paths (the is-a/
tags picker's reach-down BFS) falsely raise VmSuspended -> 500 in the harness while the
live site is fine (confirmed live is-a picker = 200). Harness must mirror what the
container runs.
- conformance.sh: 600s -> 1200s cap (overridable via SX_CONF_TIMEOUT). A sibling loop at
load ~6 pushed the Datalog-heavy blog suite past 600s -> false 'no suite results parsed'.
- plan: types can specify SPECIALISED EDITORS — a type's :editor slot = a content-addressed
editor component (WYSIWYG, map picker) shipped to the client like ~relate-picker. Generic
form is the default, not the ceiling; spectrum = generic -> per-field widget -> :editor.
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Capture the vision refinement: a type drives BOTH sides of the UI from one definition —
fields {name, value-type, widget} drive the edit form (widget per value-type) AND the
render template (parameterised SX on the type-post, instantiated with field-values). An
instance is just field-values; add a field -> editor + page update, no code. kg-cards
become type-posts (the content-on-sx block vocabulary is the seed set); the editor becomes
a generic field-editor defined by the metamodel (the relation-editors already prove the
pattern). Render template = data (meta-circular); only widgets are platform pieces, selected
by value-type. Refined build order: /meta DONE -> Slice 8 typed fields (KEYSTONE) -> generic
instance form -> render template -> cards-as-types + migrate; plus create-type/create-relation
on /meta + clear-and-reseed.
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- conformance.sh [suite] runs ONE suite (filters the SUITES array so result-parser
indices stay aligned; all MODULES still load). 'conformance.sh sxtp' = 0.3s vs ~8min.
- lib/host/live-check.sh: non-browser live smoke — boot ephemeral host, login, seed a
post (exercises form-ingest write), print status|content-type|body-head per path,
assert reads are text/sx + no JSON leak + no 5xx. The counterpart to run-picker-check.sh.
- plans/NOTE-render-diff-for-vm-ext.md: defer host_render_diff (JIT-vs-interpreter
regression oracle) to the sx-vm-extensions loop — it's their fix's oracle, not a host
feature; building it from loops/host would fork JIT-engine understanding.
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Greenfield SX-native pivot (NOT a strangler): the host speaks SX/SXTP end to end;
JSON only at the future ActivityPub federation edge.
- OUTPUT: host/json-status -> host/sx-status — every host/ok/host/error response is
text/sx via the serialize primitive (NOT application/json). Flips feed, relations,
blog reads. Tests assert the SX envelope ({:ok true :data ...}).
- DELETE the blog JSON CRUD /posts (POST/PUT/DELETE) + bearer-based host/blog--protect:
a pure old-contract REST mirror. Create/edit go through the HTML editor forms;
programmatic writes speak SXTP. FOLLOW-UP: no browser delete route yet (was JSON-only,
no UI) — add POST /:slug/delete + cascade edge cleanup when the metamodel UI needs it.
- INPUT: host/sx-body (sxtp.sx) parses a text/sx request body to a string-keyed dict
(parse-safe + sxtp/-normalize). feed POST + relations attach/detach read it.
- UNIFIED field reader host/fields / host/field: text/sx body OR urlencoded form by
content-type. The blog form handlers (new/edit/relate/unrelate) + login read through
it — additive, urlencoded still works (no-engine / bootstrap fallback).
Conformance 290/290 (11 suites). Retires the strangler framing in the plan; adds the
'SX all the way out' wire table. The engine half (browser posts text/sx) follows.
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Every object (content/type/relation post) now carries a stable :cid = hash of its
canonical, key-sorted content. The runtime has no hash primitive, so host/blog--canon
(recursive, sorts keys -> identical across processes regardless of dict insertion order)
and a tail-recursive double-hash (host/blog--hash-go / host/blog--cid-of) are built in SX.
The slug (a name) and any prior :cid are excluded -> the CID hashes content only.
git-shaped: slug = mutable name -> CID = immutable content identity.
Single choke point host/blog--write! stamps the CID on every record write; routed all
three write sites (put!, set-schema!, seed-rel!) through it. Accessors host/blog-cid and
host/blog-by-cid (reverse lookup). +6 conformance tests (blog suite 134/134). Plan: new
'Content-addressability is universal' section (CID model, git-shape, federation: types
flow across fed-sx as shared content-addressed vocabulary; structure/behaviour trust-split).
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Capture the tooling that pays for itself across the remaining slices, ranked by
ROI-per-effort: (1) host_conformance(suite) per-suite fast runner — trivial bash arg,
done by hand this session; (2) host_live_check — boot ephemeral server, authed request
sequence, return rendered HTML (generalizes run-picker-check.sh; the pre-deploy check that
catches serving-JIT divergence conformance misses); (3) host_render_diff — render a route
JIT-vs-interpreter and flag divergence (the precise detector that ends the bug class;
builds on sx_render_trace; regression oracle for the jit-bytecode-correctness loop); (4)
surface deps-check/prim-check as MCP. Plus: file the sx-tree worktree write/validate bug.
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Capture the behaviour layer. Principle: behaviour is data-defined orchestration over a
small fixed vocabulary of effects; only the effect primitives + the interpreter stay code,
everything between is editable posts (meta-circular — Lifecycle/Transition/Rule/Effect are
themselves types). Guards are pure type-system (Datalog) queries; runs on flow-on-sx
(durable: wait-for webhook, after timer; saga compensation). 'Place order'/'ship' = attempt
transition T.
Sketches the effect vocabulary in four tiers — pure guards / data (graph mutations) /
domain (reserve-stock, book-seat) / integration (charge-card, create-shipment, notify,
federate; the code edge, kept small per artdag's S-expr effects) / control (wait-for, after,
emit, transition; flow primitives) — worked through store + events. The fork: declarative
core + guarded code escape-hatch (Scheme/Smalltalk on a post). Start by pinning the
vocabulary + a generic interpreter, and lift commerce-on-sx/events-on-sx from guest-code
into lifecycle+effect DATA (they already implement exactly this, just not editably).
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The metamodel targets the entire rose-ash domain model, not just the blog — the finish
line of the host-on-sx strangler off Quart: define the domain schema as data instead of
porting each service's bespoke models. Records the three honest additions store/events
surface beyond a/b/c+d: (1) typed scalar ATTRIBUTES (datatype properties: price:Money,
stock:Int) alongside entity relations — a real addition, likely Slice 8; (2) behaviour/
lifecycle composes from the substrate loops (flow/commerce/events), not reinvented;
(3) integrations (payments/federation/media) stay referenced services. Structure+validation
from the metamodel, behaviour from substrates, integrations as services.
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