Step 7c made outbox depend on follower_graph + delivery, breaking
four tests that didn't load those modules. Background gate
revealed the failures after 7c had already been pushed.
Loads added:
auto_accept.sh — epoch 12: delivery (follower_graph
was already loaded at epoch 10)
nx_kernel_multi.sh — epochs 5+6: follower_graph + delivery
(existing modules shifted: outbox 5->7,
nx_kernel 6->8). Check 6 -> check 8.
http_publish.sh — epochs 100+101: follower_graph + delivery
(high epoch numbers to avoid collision
with test epochs at 10+)
http_publish_fold.sh — epochs 100+101: same pattern
All four green at 9/9, 26/26, 10/10, 10/10. No behaviour change
in outbox or downstream code; pure test-setup follow-up to 7c.
Conformance 761/761 (confirmed post-7c).
Per design §13.2 the v2 Follow policy is open-world: every
successfully-ingested Follow triggers an Accept publish from the
target actor. Enabled per-Cfg via {auto_accept_follows, true} so
manual-moderation deployments can leave it off; default off.
http_server.erl run_inbox_pipeline gained maybe_auto_accept/3:
maybe_auto_accept(TargetAtom, Activity, Cfg) ->
case field(auto_accept_follows, Cfg) of
true ->
case envelope:get_field(type, Activity) of
{ok, follow} ->
Req = [{type, accept}, {object, Activity}],
nx_kernel:publish_to(TargetAtom, Req);
_ -> ok
end;
_ -> ok
end.
The publish routes through the full outbox pipeline (envelope
construct + HMAC sign + log append + outbox projection broadcast).
When the target's outbox :projections list shares the same
follower_graph projection that inbox broadcasts into, the bilateral
relationship fold-converges automatically — alice.followers = [bob]
and bob.following = [alice], both pending lists clear. No extra
test scaffolding needed because outbox:publish already runs the
broadcast hook from Step 7c.
Bad-sig and non-Follow ingestion short-circuit before the Accept
attempt (the validation pipeline rejects before run_inbox_pipeline's
ok branch fires).
9/9 in next/tests/auto_accept.sh:
- auto_accept on: alice's outbox tip advances to 1
- alice's outbox entry has :type = accept
- follower_graph converges to {alice.followers=[bob],
bob.following=[alice]}
- both sides' pending lists clear after the Accept fold
- auto_accept off (default): outbox stays empty; pending_inbound
still gets populated from the Step 6b inbox-projection path,
but alice.followers stays empty until human moderation acts
- non-Follow ingestion (Create{Note}) with auto_accept on: no
Accept published
- bad-sig Follow with auto_accept on: no Accept (sig short-circuit
in pipeline before maybe_auto_accept runs)
Step 6 fully closed (6a follower_graph projection, 6b inbox -> projection
broadcast wiring, 6c auto-Accept publish).
Conformance 761/761. 89/89 across 7 Step-6-adjacent suites
(inbox, inbox_peer_resolution, follower_graph, follow_lifecycle,
auto_accept, http_publish, nx_kernel_multi).
