1	# Broker/Brain Split Restoration — Design Rationale (pre-ADR)
2
3	**Status:** **Verified-with-amendments** (independent verification 2026-06-09, agent `doyle` — see §0). The design core is validated; six amendments are folded in (marked **[V1]**–**[V6]**). Still unratified by the operator: the §9 artifacts (ADR amendment, `REQ-*` mints, KNOWN-HAZARDS entry) and the **sequencing** decision (§6.1) remain gated on operator sign-off.
4
5	**Audience:** dual (human reviewer + AI dev-agent). This is a *why* document, not an implementation plan.
6
7	---
8
9	## 0. Verification (2026-06-09, independent — agent `doyle`)
10
11	This document was independently verified against ADR-0004 (incl. §A/§B amendments), the PRD (Goal 5, R-DAEMON-2, R-UPD-3, success criterion 4), `CONTEXT.md`, KNOWN-HAZARDS (2.3 / 2.4 / 2.5 / 5.9 / 7.2 / 7.4), the `traceable-reqs` evidence tags, and a source-level audit of every `file:line` claim.
12
13	**Verdict: the core holds.** Confirmed at source — broker is an in-process thread (no broker child-spawn exists anywhere in the repo); no doc/plan/commit marks the collapse deliberate (silent drift; regression framing correct); `update.rs:233-234`'s "exec the new binary's brain" is aspirational and never wired; `applyhost.rs:176` records `applied` before the handoff (the optimistic `applied.json` watched on `enlyzeam`); `applyhost.rs:238-239` re-attaches `sessions.first()` with `from_seq=0` (both Q6 gaps real). Q2, Q3, Q5 (incl. the shellwake exception), Q6, Q7's direction, and Q8 agreed; update-exit as crash-equivalent is right (KH 7.2 + the `EffectJournal` guarantee idempotency at that boundary).
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15	**Two audit corrections folded in:** the NetHost is **already broker-owned** (`broker.rs:175` `OnceLock`, per the §B M4-D4a note), so the Q5 net item is near-free, not a migration; the supervise-backoff is wired at `peerloop.rs:805` (M8-D4), confirming Q7's reuse claim.
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17	**Six amendments raised and accepted** — each folded into the relevant section below and marked **[V1]**–**[V6]**.
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19	---
20
21	## 1. Why this session happened
22
23	This came out of live operations, not a planning cycle.
24
25	While verifying the v0.3.2 cross-OS update fix end-to-end on the real fleet, the third node (`enlyzeam`, a Windows box hosting the `gerald` ready_agent) was updated:
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27	- `spt update apply` returned `APPLIED:6`.
28	- The installed `spt.exe` on disk was the valid 0.3.2 Windows PE (magic `4d5a`, sha matched the published binary), `--version` reported `0.3.2`, `applied.json` = `{version:6}`, backup `spt.exe.old-6` present.
29	- **But the running daemon's pid was unchanged, and it was still executing 0.3.0 in memory.**
30
31	The operator's question: spt was specced with a seamless "hot swap" — why did `apply` change the on-disk binary but not the *running code*?
32
33	Investigation established that:
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35	1. The hot-swap that *is* wired into `apply` is a **per-session brain handoff** (`apply_brain_only` → `Brain::handoff`), whose job is endpoint survival (REQ-UPD-3), not running-process replacement.
36	2. By explicit design, `applyhost.rs:36-38` states: *"The daemon's own resident loops keep running the old logic until its next restart (`ensure_running` spawns the executable path — now the new binary); that restart is routine lifecycle, never an endpoint cycle."*
37	3. So new code only goes live on a *subsequent, unrelated* daemon restart (next logon, or a manual restart — which is what made the *other* node, `hfenduleam`, show a new pid). The practical consequence on `enlyzeam`: `gerald`'s live daemon kept running 0.3.0 — including the message-envelope codec — so the box from the original bug report **was still reproducing the original `\r` corruption even though the fix sat on disk.**
38
39	The operator then asked the real question this document answers: **what would it take to make an update actually hand off to the new executable seamlessly — no dropped processes, internal loop timings consistent across the swap, plus any other angles that matter?**
40
41	Walking that question backward surfaced the actual root cause (Section 2), which reframed the whole task from "add a feature" to "correct a regression."
42
43	---
44
45	## 2. The root cause: unintended spec/impl drift
46
47	### 2.1 What the spec decided
48
49	ADR-0004 (*"Single consolidated daemon with broker/brain split; peer-propagated gated self-update"*, **accepted 2026-05-29**) decided a **two-layer split implemented as two processes**:
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51	- **broker** (stable kernel) — holds *only* the un-transferable, must-not-die resources: PTY master fds, spawned harness child processes, listening network sockets, and (per the §B ownership table) the Iroh/QUIC endpoint + conn table. Minimal, versioned local IPC. Almost never updates.
52	- **daemon brain** (userspace) — all logic (routing, registry, pulse/psyche loops, manifest parsing, update orchestration). Restarts freely on update; rehydrates from disk and re-attaches to broker-held handles.
53
54	Explicit evidence the split was meant to be a **process** boundary:
55	- ADR-0004 Consequences: *"A small internal broker **process** exists beneath the daemon — a deliberate, bounded walk-back of 'literally one process,' … guaranteeing endpoint survival across updates."*
56	- ADR-0004 rejected alternatives include **"whole-daemon live FD-passing"** and **"drain + restart"** — i.e. the chosen design is specifically *restart the brain, the broker process survives.*
57	- `M3a-PLAN.md`, `M3-PLAN.md`, `M3b-PLAN.md` all name "the broker **process** + IPC (M3b)."
58	- Spikes 01/03/04/05/06 each **PROVEN** with *two separate binaries* (`spt-spikes/spike-01-broker-handoff`): a PTY child + a live QUIC transfer survive 100× brain restarts, gapless and exactly-once. A spike that proves "survives a brain restart" presupposes the broker is a separate process.
59
60	### 2.2 What production actually does
61
62	The production daemon runs the broker as a **background thread inside the single `spt daemon` process**:
63
64	- `daemon.rs:41-44` — *"bind the broker (served on a background thread) + the seed-control channel (the foreground loop)."*
65	- `daemon.rs:165-170` — `Broker::bind_in_with_net(...)` returns an `Arc<Broker>`; the daemon `thread::spawn`s `broker.serve()`. `broker.rs:181/196` confirm `bind` returns `Arc<Self>` (an in-process object, not a spawned child).
66	- The pump (`daemon.rs:280`), dispatcher, digest hub, net consumers, psyche loops — **all threads in the same process.**
67	- A repo-wide search finds **no** `Command`/subcommand that spawns a broker child anywhere.
68
69	### 2.3 Why this is a regression, not a deferral
70
71	The operator confirmed there was **no deliberate decision** to collapse the two processes into one; it is unintended drift. The consequences are not cosmetic:
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73	- The brain cannot restart onto a new binary without killing the in-process broker thread — which would close every PTY, orphan every harness child, and drop every listening socket. So **the no-endpoint-drop self-update pillar is silently unrealized.**
74	- `apply` therefore performs an in-process `Brain::handoff` that re-attaches a subscriber within the *same old process* — achieving nothing for a binary swap. `update.rs:234`'s statement that "the live daemon execs the verified new binary" is **aspirational; it was never wired** because the process split it depends on does not exist in production.
75	- Updates do not run until an unrelated restart/logon (observed live, Section 1).
76
77	This document's decisions restore ADR-0004's intended model.
78
79	> **Glossary note already applied:** `CONTEXT.md` was sharpened during the session to state explicitly that there is **one broker per machine** (per `SPT_HOME`), *not* one per endpoint — a single broker hosts every endpoint's resources and is present even with zero endpoints online. This corrected a latent "one broker per endpoint" misconception and is load-bearing for decision Q2.
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81	---
82
83	## 3. Design goal
84
85	Restore the two-process model so that a routine **brain-only** update (the common case per ADR-0004 §A's class taxonomy) hands off to the new executable seamlessly:
86
87	1. no endpoint or harness child process is dropped or suspended (REQ-UPD-3),
88	2. internal loop timings stay consistent across the swap,
89	3. a failed update fails *safe*,
90	4. the mechanism is uniform across Windows and Linux.
91
92	The broker-touching update classes (broker-compatible / broker-breaking) remain as ADR-0004 left them — out of scope here; this work is the **brain-only** path's realization.
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94	---
95
96	## 4. Decisions and their reasons
97
98	Each decision lists the alternatives considered and why they were rejected, so a verifier can check the reasoning, not just the conclusion.
99
100	### Q2 — Supervision topology: the broker is the always-up per-machine anchor
101
102	**Decision.** The broker process is the long-lived per-machine anchor. It owns the **seed-control lock + liveness** (the single-daemon-per-home invariant and the `ensure_running`/`is_running` ping target) and **supervises/spawns the brain** as its child. On update, the broker re-spawns the brain.
103
104	**Reason.** The broker is the one component guaranteed present whenever the machine's daemon is alive — it runs even with zero endpoints (the "bare daemon" case, `daemon.rs:196`). The seed lock and liveness *must* survive a brain restart, or a second daemon could win the bind during the restart window and `is_running` would flap. Anchoring them in the never-restarting layer makes the single-instance invariant and liveness survive brain restarts for free.
105
106	**Alternatives rejected.**
107	- *A thin third supervisor process spawning both broker and brain* — adds a process for no invariant the broker can't already hold.
108	- *Brain as parent, spawning the broker* — incoherent: a brain restart would orphan or kill its own broker child, dropping endpoints.
109
110	**Operator's challenge that strengthened this.** The operator initially held a "one broker per endpoint" model and correctly objected that liveness shouldn't live in something that only exists when an endpoint is online. The code shows one broker *per machine*, always present, so the objection's principle is satisfied and actually reinforces putting liveness in the broker.
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112	### Q3 — Update trigger: brain self-exit, broker auto-respawn from disk
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114	**Decision.** `apply` verifies + swaps the binary on disk, then signals the brain to **snapshot and self-exit**. The broker — already the brain's supervisor — observes the exit and **respawns from the executable path (now the new binary)**; the new brain re-attaches.
115
116	**Reason.** This reuses primitives that already exist. `apply_brain_only` already models exactly "snapshot the outgoing brain, drop it — the crash boundary the broker already tolerates — re-attach." The broker must already supervise and respawn the brain for crash recovery, so an update is just a *planned* snapshot+exit handled by the existing respawn path, and "respawn from the executable path" naturally picks up the swapped binary — which is literally what `applyhost.rs:37` says happens "at next restart." We simply trigger that restart immediately instead of waiting for logon.
117
118	**Alternatives rejected.**
119	- *Broker actively cycles the brain on command* — nearly identical, but puts cycle logic into the layer we want to keep dumb and stable.
120	- *The `spt update apply` CLI spawns the new brain directly* — parentage is wrong: the brain would be a child of the transient CLI process and die when the command returns.
121
122	### Q4 — Loop-timing continuity: durable absolute deadlines, not a handoff snapshot
123
124	**Decision.** Loop timing that must survive lives as **durable absolute-deadline state on disk**, rehydrated on every brain start. Two categories:
125	- **Periodic resident loops** (pump cadences, pulse/echo-commune): persist a `(anchor, interval)` pair **once** on a fresh/crash start. The next fire is derived functionally — `next_fire = anchor + interval × ⌈max(0, now − anchor) / interval⌉` — with **no per-fire writes**. An **update restart re-reads `(anchor, interval)` and keeps deriving** (phase preserved, lands mid-grid). A **crash restart is treated as a fresh start** (rewrite `anchor = now`; phase reset is acceptable).
126	- **One-shot scheduled events** (alarms): persist the absolute `target-time` **at creation**; every start (update *or* crash) reads it and fires-if-due. **These never reset on crash** — a user's "remind me at 3pm" is a commitment that must outlive any restart. **[V3]** The one-shot *rule* is specified this milestone, but the *machinery* is **built with the alarm port, not here**: the daemon has no one-shot consumer today (§7), so building it now would ship untested dead code (matches the project's activate-don't-pre-fail posture).
127
128	The brain distinguishes update-restart from crash/fresh-restart via a signal on the broker's respawn (the broker *initiated* the planned cycle but *observed* the unexpected crash). The `(anchor, interval)` write happens once per fresh/crash start, zero per update, zero per fire.
129
130	**Reason.**
131	- `BrainState` (the handoff snapshot) is the wrong vehicle: it only exists for a *planned* update, but a brain **crash** (same respawn path) carries no snapshot, so anything timing-critical in it is lost on crash. Timing that must survive has to survive crash too → it belongs on disk.
132	- In-memory monotonic `Instant` phase cannot be transferred across a process boundary meaningfully (new process = new monotonic epoch); only absolute epoch-ms is portable.
133	- The operator added the write-minimization refinement (store anchor+interval once, derive thereafter) so the disk is touched once per fresh start rather than per fire — important given a 200 ms tick across many loops.
134
135	**Current state that motivates it.** The pump cadences are already catch-up/idempotent ("stagger from everything due now," `peerloop.rs:304`) and are restart-safe as-is. The pulse loop is **phase-relative** (`lifecycle.rs:486` `sleep_interruptible(pulse_period)`), so its phase resets on restart — this is the loop that needs converting to a disk-anchored deadline. Idempotent catch-up loops need no phase state at all; only phase-significant loops are converted.
136
137	**Alternative rejected.** *Snapshot each loop's `Instant`/phase into the handoff message and restore it* — fragile (monotonic clocks don't cross processes), lost on crash, and incompatible with the model-B trigger (no brain→brain message exists).
138
139	### Q5 — IPC boundary: the §B rule adjudicates; everything brain→broker becomes a versioned IPC verb
140
141	**Decision.** Apply ADR-0004 §B's rule — *a resource is broker-owned iff a live consumer would lose continuity on a brain restart* — to every component that today shares the in-process `Arc<Broker>`:
142	- **Net bring-up + REQ-DAEMON-9 self-heal retry → broker** (the brain must not own net bring-up). *Audit correction:* the NetHost is **already** broker-owned (`broker.rs:175` `OnceLock`, §B M4-D4a), and net bring-up + the self-heal retry already live in the `daemon.rs` entry that *becomes* the broker entry — so this item is **near-free**, not a migration.
143	- **Digest hub → broker** for the live projections + subscriber sockets; **the parse that feeds it → brain** (pushes parsed digests over IPC).
144	- **Seed lock + liveness → broker** (Q2).
145	- **Every other brain→broker call becomes a versioned IPC verb** — in the two-process world there is no shared `Arc`, so each current direct call is a latent IPC verb on the same versioned contract that already carries `SPAWN`/`INPUT`/`NET_*`/`SESSIONS`.
146
147	**Accepted consequence.** This enlarges the "dumb kernel." That is already-precedented: ADR-0004:63 accepted exactly this when QUIC ownership moved into the broker — *"the broker is 'stable' in update cadence, not in narrowness."*
148
149	**[V6] N-1 compat is scoped milestone work.** Because the broker almost never updates but the brain updates routinely, the **steady state after every routine update is NEW brain × OLD broker.** The `classify` pre-swap handshake (`brain_ipc_version ≥ broker.min_compatible`) gates the *forward* direction, but each direct-call→verb conversion must hold that N-1 window across the *whole* verb surface. The milestone must include a **CI-real compatibility test — old-broker binary × new-brain binary across the verb surface** — or KH-2.3 (handoff-argv-compat) returns the first time a verb signature changes.
150
151	**Exception — shellwake stays brain-side.** The supervised `wake_command` watcher *children* are an exception to the §B continuity rule: they remain **brain-owned** and are re-reconciled from disk on brain start (the boot sweep at `daemon.rs:206-217` already does orphan cleanup).
152
153	**Reason for the exception.** Strict §B would put the watcher children in the broker for continuity, but the operator judged the continuity loss acceptable: updates are rare, the brain re-reconciles watchers on start, and keeping watcher-child *supervision logic* out of the kernel keeps the broker narrower. The only cost is a brief window during a (rare) brain update where an offline shell could miss a wake — explicitly accepted.
154
155	### Q6 — Multi-session handoff: the broker is cursor-of-record; the `BrainState` message retires
156
157	**Decision.** The broker tracks each session-subscriber's last-delivered cursor. On (re)start the new brain queries the broker for **all** hosted sessions and re-attaches each in **resume** mode. **Output is at-least-once** (the broker resumes from last-*sent*); **input/effects stay exactly-once** via the already-broker-owned `EffectJournal`. The explicit `BrainState` handoff *message* is **retired** for production — the new brain cold-starts and reconstructs continuity by querying the broker.
158
159	**[V2] Generation custody.** Retiring `BrainState` would orphan the generation counter (KH 2.4: increments on every start/revive; `gen_start` always `= now()`). Custody moves to the **broker**: it owns the counter, increments it on **every** brain spawn (planned or crash), and hands `{generation, start-reason}` to the brain at spawn time via a **versioned argv/hello field** (KH-2.3 forward-compat, defaulted). Because the broker observes every respawn, this is strictly more reliable than passing it brain-to-brain — and the **same spawn-time channel carries Q4's update-vs-crash discriminator** (one channel, both payloads).
160
161	**Reason.**
162	- Two concrete gaps exist today: `applyhost.rs:239` re-attaches only `sessions.first()` (one session) and with `from_seq = 0` (re-replays the whole ring → duplicate output).
163	- Under the model-B trigger the outgoing brain is gone before the new one starts, so **no brain→brain message can be passed**; continuity must come from the persistent side. The broker already holds the per-session output ring (`broker.rs:73-143`); making it also track the delivered cursor lets a respawned brain resume gaplessly with **no disk writes** (respecting Q4) and **no handoff frame**.
164	- At-least-once output matches the *existing* terminal-stream contract: SPIKE-05 already established "terminal-stream ≠ exactly-once transfer" (a resize repaint reorders and duplicates the stream anyway). Exactly-once output would require a per-chunk ack protocol for a guarantee the terminal stream does not make; the thing that *must* be exactly-once (injected input/effects) already has the journal.
165
166	**Alternative rejected.** *Add brain→broker acks so the broker resumes from last-processed (exactly-once output)* — cost without benefit, given the terminal-stream contract.
167
168	### Q7 — Failure atomicity: bounded retry → auto-rollback to last-known-good
169
170	**Decision.** If the new brain fails to reach a **ready** signal (re-attached all sessions + resumed loops) within a bounded number of boots / a healthy-run window, the broker **rolls back to the last-known-good binary** (the `spt.exe.old-N` backup), **quarantines** the bad version (no auto re-apply/re-fetch), and surfaces a loud consent-style notification. The broker holds **last-known-good + candidate** paths and chooses which to spawn (no file manipulation at failure time). Endpoints survive throughout (the broker holds them). The **applied record becomes two-phase**: `applied-pending` at swap, promoted to `applied` on the ready signal, or corrected to `rolled-back(quarantine=N, running=N-1)` on failure.
171
172	**[V1] Rollback-state-compat invariant (forward invariant, mint this milestone).** Auto-rollback spawns the **old** binary against durable state the **new** brain may already have written. This is safe *today* (a source audit confirmed zero state-migration code exists), but the first release that migrates a durable-state schema would silently break Q7's rollback. The invariant must be minted now, while it is free: **a brain must not irreversibly migrate durable state before ready-promotion** — equivalently, every pre-ready write must remain readable by the N-1 brain. Cheap to assert now; unmintable retroactively after a migration ships.
173
174	**Reason.**
175	- The dangerous case is a *runtime* bug (new brain panics on boot), not the binary land (already rolled back at `applyhost.rs:167-170`) and not IPC mismatch (the `classify` handshake `brain_ipc_version ≥ broker.min_compatible` is checked pre-swap). A naive supervisor would crashloop the new binary: endpoints alive but logic dead — "up but useless."
176	- The backup binary is already produced for exactly this, and the readiness+backoff machinery already exists — `peerloop.rs:82-91` has `SUPERVISE_BACKOFF_BASE/CAP` + `SUPERVISE_HEALTHY_RUN` (60 s healthy resets backoff), and `supervise_pump` is wired at `peerloop.rs:805` (M8-D4, verified). A bad update that bricks *logic* should self-heal back to last-good without a human, the same spirit as the boot-race self-heal already shipped.
177	- The two-phase record fixes a real existing bug: `applyhost.rs:176` writes `record_applied(version)` + `last-outcome=applied` **before** the brain handoff — i.e. before we know the new brain boots. (This is the optimistic `applied.json={version:6}` observed on `enlyzeam`.)
178
179	**Alternative rejected.** *Bounded retry → halt and wait for manual intervention* — safer-feeling but leaves logic dead until a human shows up; inconsistent with the self-healing posture.
180
181	### Q8 — Cross-platform uniformity (confirmation, not a fork)
182
183	**Decision/observation.** The broker spawns the brain as a **child process** (`Command::spawn`) and they communicate over the existing local socket IPC. **No `exec` is required**, so there is no Windows/Unix divergence. ConPTY (Windows) and forkpty (Linux) handles stay broker-side and never cross to the brain. Spikes 01 and 04 already proved the handoff on both OSes.
184
185	**Reason.** This is precisely the uniformity ADR-0004:25 sought when it rejected whole-daemon live FD-passing as "hard and platform-divergent." Spawn-plus-socket sidesteps it entirely.
186
187	---
188
189	## 5. Implied decomposition (consequences of the above)
190
191	- `spt daemon run` becomes the **broker** process entry: binds the seed-control channel + broker socket + NetHost + digest hub; holds harness children + the `EffectJournal`; spawns the brain child.
192	- A new hidden `spt daemon brain` entry is the **brain** process: connects to the broker, runs pump/dispatch/psyche loops/session drivers, rehydrates from disk, emits a `ready` signal.
193	- `ensure_running` / `is_running` / `daemon stop` contracts are unchanged — they target the broker's seed channel.
194	- The de-elevation guard (`daemon.rs:60-103`) applies at the **broker** entry; the brain child inherits the unelevated identity.
195
196	---
197
198	## 6. Scope and sequencing
199
200	This is **milestone-sized**, not a patch. It includes: the process decomposition; an IPC-verb surface for the hard cases (digest push, seed-lock/liveness, plus the general direct-call audit — net bring-up is near-free per the §Q5 audit correction); broker-side per-session delivered-cursor tracking; broker-owned generation custody handed at spawn **[V2]**; durable absolute-deadline timing across **phase-significant** resident loops only **[V4]** (the idempotent pump cadences need *no* conversion — converting them would reintroduce the per-loop writes Q4 minimized; the one-shot deadline *machinery* defers to the alarm port **[V3]**, only its rule is fixed here); the auto-rollback + readiness machinery with the **[V1]** rollback-state-compat invariant; the two-phase applied record; an activated **REQ-UPD-3 int stage proving process-level endpoint survival [V5]**; and the **[V6]** N-1 old-broker × new-brain CI compat test. It should be planned as a roadmap phase, not folded into an unrelated branch.
201
202	### 6.1 Sequencing (operator's call — recommendation recorded, not ratified)
203
204	`doyle`'s recommendation, surfaced for the operator's decision: **restoration = the next milestone, before `spt-claude-code` scoping.** Reasons:
205
206	- **(a) Queue is open** — mesh shipped at v0.3.0, M8 acceptance is COMPLETE.
207	- **(b) Self-bootstrapping (decisive).** Until this ships, *every* release needs manual daemon bounces fleet-wide — paid on all 3 nodes for v0.3.2, and `enlyzeam` reproduced the `\r`-corruption for ~a day with the fix sitting on disk. The restoration release is the **last** one that needs a manual bounce; once it lands, every adapter-era release rolls seamlessly.
208	- **(c) Adapter window safe.** The split changes daemon *internals*, not the CLI/api surface M8 froze. Better the adapter lands on the final topology than atop a daemon we later perform open-heart surgery on while it hosts the user's daily driver.
209
210	This is the operator's decision; recorded here, awaiting ratification.
211
212	---
213
214	## 7. Separate gaps surfaced (out of scope here, tracked separately)
215
216	- **Alarms have no durable daemon scheduler.** In the spt-core daemon, `alarm` exists only as an event *shape* (`spt-proto`) + relay handling (`psyrelay.rs:93`) + a test fixture; `target-time` is only a wire attribute. The actual "wait until target, fire the TIMED PULSE" timer lives in the legacy owl listener in-memory. Porting alarms into the daemon as a durable scheduler (which would then ride the Q4 one-shot mechanism) is its own gap.
217	- **Registry one-cadence reconverge window.** `RegistryHost` is intentionally in-memory (`registryhost.rs:19-26`): a restart forgets peers' rows and reconverges within one pump cadence (self-rows re-advertised each tick; mirrored to `identity/registry/` JSON for out-of-process readers). Across a brain restart this is a brief reconverge window, accepted by design — not a blocker, noted for completeness.
218	- **Multipart inter-agent message truncation — belongs to LEGACY `claude_skill_owl`, not spt-core.** During the verification exchange (which ran over the legacy live-agent messaging infra — the `owl.exe` listener, not the spt-core daemon), an 18-part chunked message reached the recipient as ~parts 1–8; a long resend also dropped its tail. Long messages silently lose their tail — a delivery-integrity issue in the chunk-reassembly path. **This is a legacy-project bug** (the agents in this exchange run on `claude_skill_owl`'s transport); spt-core's *own* reassembly is already covered by `REQ-HAZARD-EVENTPART-REASSEMBLY`. It is **not an spt-core artifact** — flagged here only because the session surfaced it; route the repro + fix to the legacy project. (`doyle` can partner on a repro harness.)
219	- **Stale DEFERRED mesh row.** Side-flag from verification: the mesh row in `docs/DEFERRED.md` is stale (mesh shipped at v0.3.0). Minor cleanup, noted for a docs pass.
220
221	---
222
223	## 8. Cross-references for verification
224
225	- **ADR-0004** — `docs/adr/0004-single-daemon-broker-brain-split-and-self-update.md` (the decision being restored; §A update classes, §B ownership table, the spike amendments).
226	- **Requirements** — REQ-UPD-3 (no-endpoint-drop, brain-only), REQ-UPD-4 (staged + consent), REQ-UPD-6/8 (update-set / platform-safe), REQ-DAEMON-3/9 (auto-start / net self-heal), REQ-HAZARD-UPDATE-ROLLBACK, REQ-HAZARD-HANDOFF-ARGV-COMPAT.
227	- **Glossary/model** — `CONTEXT.md` daemon / broker / brain (incl. the one-broker-per-machine clause added this session).
228	- **Spikes** — `docs/spikes/SPIKE-01-broker-handoff.md`, `-03-quic-survival`, `-04-forkpty-parity`, `-05-restart-stress`, `-06-idempotent-boundary` (proofs that the two-process handoff works on both OSes).
229	- **Key source** — `daemon.rs` (`run`, net consumers, self-heal, digest hub, shellwake, seed-control), `broker.rs` (`OutputLog`, `bind`, `EffectJournal`), `brain.rs` (`BrainState`, `cold_start`/`handoff`/`snapshot`), `applyhost.rs` (`apply_staged`, `connect_retry`, record-before-handoff), `update.rs` (classes, `classify`, `apply_brain_only`), `peerloop.rs` (cadences, supervise-backoff), `lifecycle.rs` (pulse loop), `registryhost.rs`.
230
231	---
232
233	## 9. Artifacts pending operator ratification (verification complete)
234
235	Verification is done (§0); these durable artifacts are written only on operator sign-off:
236
237	- An **ADR amendment to 0004** (or a superseding ADR) recording the drift finding, the Q2–Q8 restoration decisions, and the six verification amendments.
238	- **`REQ-*` registry mints** (per the traceability contract, registry-first):
239	  - `REQ-HAZARD-*` — **a brain restart must never drop a hosted endpoint** (REQ-UPD-3's real promise). **Evidence [V5]:** an activated `int` stage productionizing SPIKE-01/03 as E2E — a PTY child + a live QUIC conn survive a brain-*process* restart onto a *swapped* binary. NB: REQ-UPD-3's current `int` evidence (`applyhost.rs:39/77`, `update.rs:246`, `brain_swap.rs`) proves only the *in-process* handoff shape — it is **mis-evidenced today** and must be re-pointed.
240	  - `REQ-HAZARD-*` — **rollback-state-compat [V1]**: a brain must not irreversibly migrate durable state before ready-promotion (pre-ready writes stay N-1-readable).
241	  - A functional `REQ-*` for realizing the two-process split, carrying the **[V6]** N-1 old-broker × new-brain CI compat test as part of its evidence.
242	- A **KNOWN-HAZARDS** entry for the in-process collapse (a real bug paid for once: the silently-unrealized no-endpoint-drop update).
243	- (Separately, per §7) a DEFERRED/hazard row for the **multipart message-truncation** delivery bug.
244

# Broker/Brain Split Restoration — Design Rationale (pre-ADR)

**Status:** **Verified-with-amendments** (independent verification 2026-06-09, agent `doyle` — see §0). The design core is validated; six amendments are folded in (marked **[V1]**–**[V6]**). Still unratified by the operator: the §9 artifacts (ADR amendment, `REQ-*` mints, KNOWN-HAZARDS entry) and the **sequencing** decision (§6.1) remain gated on operator sign-off.

**Audience:** dual (human reviewer + AI dev-agent). This is a *why* document, not an implementation plan.

---

## 0. Verification (2026-06-09, independent — agent `doyle`)

This document was independently verified against ADR-0004 (incl. §A/§B amendments), the PRD (Goal 5, R-DAEMON-2, R-UPD-3, success criterion 4), `CONTEXT.md`, KNOWN-HAZARDS (2.3 / 2.4 / 2.5 / 5.9 / 7.2 / 7.4), the `traceable-reqs` evidence tags, and a source-level audit of every `file:line` claim.

**Verdict: the core holds.** Confirmed at source — broker is an in-process thread (no broker child-spawn exists anywhere in the repo); no doc/plan/commit marks the collapse deliberate (silent drift; regression framing correct); `update.rs:233-234`'s "exec the new binary's brain" is aspirational and never wired; `applyhost.rs:176` records `applied` before the handoff (the optimistic `applied.json` watched on `enlyzeam`); `applyhost.rs:238-239` re-attaches `sessions.first()` with `from_seq=0` (both Q6 gaps real). Q2, Q3, Q5 (incl. the shellwake exception), Q6, Q7's direction, and Q8 agreed; update-exit as crash-equivalent is right (KH 7.2 + the `EffectJournal` guarantee idempotency at that boundary).

**Two audit corrections folded in:** the NetHost is **already broker-owned** (`broker.rs:175` `OnceLock`, per the §B M4-D4a note), so the Q5 net item is near-free, not a migration; the supervise-backoff is wired at `peerloop.rs:805` (M8-D4), confirming Q7's reuse claim.

**Six amendments raised and accepted** — each folded into the relevant section below and marked **[V1]**–**[V6]**.

---

## 1. Why this session happened

This came out of live operations, not a planning cycle.

While verifying the v0.3.2 cross-OS update fix end-to-end on the real fleet, the third node (`enlyzeam`, a Windows box hosting the `gerald` ready_agent) was updated:

- `spt update apply` returned `APPLIED:6`.
- The installed `spt.exe` on disk was the valid 0.3.2 Windows PE (magic `4d5a`, sha matched the published binary), `--version` reported `0.3.2`, `applied.json` = `{version:6}`, backup `spt.exe.old-6` present.
- **But the running daemon's pid was unchanged, and it was still executing 0.3.0 in memory.**

The operator's question: spt was specced with a seamless "hot swap" — why did `apply` change the on-disk binary but not the *running code*?

Investigation established that:

1. The hot-swap that *is* wired into `apply` is a **per-session brain handoff** (`apply_brain_only` → `Brain::handoff`), whose job is endpoint survival (REQ-UPD-3), not running-process replacement.
2. By explicit design, `applyhost.rs:36-38` states: *"The daemon's own resident loops keep running the old logic until its next restart (`ensure_running` spawns the executable path — now the new binary); that restart is routine lifecycle, never an endpoint cycle."*
3. So new code only goes live on a *subsequent, unrelated* daemon restart (next logon, or a manual restart — which is what made the *other* node, `hfenduleam`, show a new pid). The practical consequence on `enlyzeam`: `gerald`'s live daemon kept running 0.3.0 — including the message-envelope codec — so the box from the original bug report **was still reproducing the original `\r` corruption even though the fix sat on disk.**

The operator then asked the real question this document answers: **what would it take to make an update actually hand off to the new executable seamlessly — no dropped processes, internal loop timings consistent across the swap, plus any other angles that matter?**

Walking that question backward surfaced the actual root cause (Section 2), which reframed the whole task from "add a feature" to "correct a regression."

---

## 2. The root cause: unintended spec/impl drift

### 2.1 What the spec decided

ADR-0004 (*"Single consolidated daemon with broker/brain split; peer-propagated gated self-update"*, **accepted 2026-05-29**) decided a **two-layer split implemented as two processes**:

- **broker** (stable kernel) — holds *only* the un-transferable, must-not-die resources: PTY master fds, spawned harness child processes, listening network sockets, and (per the §B ownership table) the Iroh/QUIC endpoint + conn table. Minimal, versioned local IPC. Almost never updates.
- **daemon brain** (userspace) — all logic (routing, registry, pulse/psyche loops, manifest parsing, update orchestration). Restarts freely on update; rehydrates from disk and re-attaches to broker-held handles.

Explicit evidence the split was meant to be a **process** boundary:
- ADR-0004 Consequences: *"A small internal broker **process** exists beneath the daemon — a deliberate, bounded walk-back of 'literally one process,' … guaranteeing endpoint survival across updates."*
- ADR-0004 rejected alternatives include **"whole-daemon live FD-passing"** and **"drain + restart"** — i.e. the chosen design is specifically *restart the brain, the broker process survives.*
- `M3a-PLAN.md`, `M3-PLAN.md`, `M3b-PLAN.md` all name "the broker **process** + IPC (M3b)."
- Spikes 01/03/04/05/06 each **PROVEN** with *two separate binaries* (`spt-spikes/spike-01-broker-handoff`): a PTY child + a live QUIC transfer survive 100× brain restarts, gapless and exactly-once. A spike that proves "survives a brain restart" presupposes the broker is a separate process.

### 2.2 What production actually does

The production daemon runs the broker as a **background thread inside the single `spt daemon` process**:

- `daemon.rs:41-44` — *"bind the broker (served on a background thread) + the seed-control channel (the foreground loop)."*
- `daemon.rs:165-170` — `Broker::bind_in_with_net(...)` returns an `Arc<Broker>`; the daemon `thread::spawn`s `broker.serve()`. `broker.rs:181/196` confirm `bind` returns `Arc<Self>` (an in-process object, not a spawned child).
- The pump (`daemon.rs:280`), dispatcher, digest hub, net consumers, psyche loops — **all threads in the same process.**
- A repo-wide search finds **no** `Command`/subcommand that spawns a broker child anywhere.

### 2.3 Why this is a regression, not a deferral

The operator confirmed there was **no deliberate decision** to collapse the two processes into one; it is unintended drift. The consequences are not cosmetic:

- The brain cannot restart onto a new binary without killing the in-process broker thread — which would close every PTY, orphan every harness child, and drop every listening socket. So **the no-endpoint-drop self-update pillar is silently unrealized.**
- `apply` therefore performs an in-process `Brain::handoff` that re-attaches a subscriber within the *same old process* — achieving nothing for a binary swap. `update.rs:234`'s statement that "the live daemon execs the verified new binary" is **aspirational; it was never wired** because the process split it depends on does not exist in production.
- Updates do not run until an unrelated restart/logon (observed live, Section 1).

This document's decisions restore ADR-0004's intended model.

> **Glossary note already applied:** `CONTEXT.md` was sharpened during the session to state explicitly that there is **one broker per machine** (per `SPT_HOME`), *not* one per endpoint — a single broker hosts every endpoint's resources and is present even with zero endpoints online. This corrected a latent "one broker per endpoint" misconception and is load-bearing for decision Q2.

---

## 3. Design goal

Restore the two-process model so that a routine **brain-only** update (the common case per ADR-0004 §A's class taxonomy) hands off to the new executable seamlessly:

1. no endpoint or harness child process is dropped or suspended (REQ-UPD-3),
2. internal loop timings stay consistent across the swap,
3. a failed update fails *safe*,
4. the mechanism is uniform across Windows and Linux.

The broker-touching update classes (broker-compatible / broker-breaking) remain as ADR-0004 left them — out of scope here; this work is the **brain-only** path's realization.

---

## 4. Decisions and their reasons

Each decision lists the alternatives considered and why they were rejected, so a verifier can check the reasoning, not just the conclusion.

### Q2 — Supervision topology: the broker is the always-up per-machine anchor

**Decision.** The broker process is the long-lived per-machine anchor. It owns the **seed-control lock + liveness** (the single-daemon-per-home invariant and the `ensure_running`/`is_running` ping target) and **supervises/spawns the brain** as its child. On update, the broker re-spawns the brain.

**Reason.** The broker is the one component guaranteed present whenever the machine's daemon is alive — it runs even with zero endpoints (the "bare daemon" case, `daemon.rs:196`). The seed lock and liveness *must* survive a brain restart, or a second daemon could win the bind during the restart window and `is_running` would flap. Anchoring them in the never-restarting layer makes the single-instance invariant and liveness survive brain restarts for free.

**Alternatives rejected.**
- *A thin third supervisor process spawning both broker and brain* — adds a process for no invariant the broker can't already hold.
- *Brain as parent, spawning the broker* — incoherent: a brain restart would orphan or kill its own broker child, dropping endpoints.

**Operator's challenge that strengthened this.** The operator initially held a "one broker per endpoint" model and correctly objected that liveness shouldn't live in something that only exists when an endpoint is online. The code shows one broker *per machine*, always present, so the objection's principle is satisfied and actually reinforces putting liveness in the broker.

### Q3 — Update trigger: brain self-exit, broker auto-respawn from disk

**Decision.** `apply` verifies + swaps the binary on disk, then signals the brain to **snapshot and self-exit**. The broker — already the brain's supervisor — observes the exit and **respawns from the executable path (now the new binary)**; the new brain re-attaches.

**Reason.** This reuses primitives that already exist. `apply_brain_only` already models exactly "snapshot the outgoing brain, drop it — the crash boundary the broker already tolerates — re-attach." The broker must already supervise and respawn the brain for crash recovery, so an update is just a *planned* snapshot+exit handled by the existing respawn path, and "respawn from the executable path" naturally picks up the swapped binary — which is literally what `applyhost.rs:37` says happens "at next restart." We simply trigger that restart immediately instead of waiting for logon.

**Alternatives rejected.**
- *Broker actively cycles the brain on command* — nearly identical, but puts cycle logic into the layer we want to keep dumb and stable.
- *The `spt update apply` CLI spawns the new brain directly* — parentage is wrong: the brain would be a child of the transient CLI process and die when the command returns.

### Q4 — Loop-timing continuity: durable absolute deadlines, not a handoff snapshot

**Decision.** Loop timing that must survive lives as **durable absolute-deadline state on disk**, rehydrated on every brain start. Two categories:
- **Periodic resident loops** (pump cadences, pulse/echo-commune): persist a `(anchor, interval)` pair **once** on a fresh/crash start. The next fire is derived functionally — `next_fire = anchor + interval × ⌈max(0, now − anchor) / interval⌉` — with **no per-fire writes**. An **update restart re-reads `(anchor, interval)` and keeps deriving** (phase preserved, lands mid-grid). A **crash restart is treated as a fresh start** (rewrite `anchor = now`; phase reset is acceptable).
- **One-shot scheduled events** (alarms): persist the absolute `target-time` **at creation**; every start (update *or* crash) reads it and fires-if-due. **These never reset on crash** — a user's "remind me at 3pm" is a commitment that must outlive any restart. **[V3]** The one-shot *rule* is specified this milestone, but the *machinery* is **built with the alarm port, not here**: the daemon has no one-shot consumer today (§7), so building it now would ship untested dead code (matches the project's activate-don't-pre-fail posture).

The brain distinguishes update-restart from crash/fresh-restart via a signal on the broker's respawn (the broker *initiated* the planned cycle but *observed* the unexpected crash). The `(anchor, interval)` write happens once per fresh/crash start, zero per update, zero per fire.

**Reason.**
- `BrainState` (the handoff snapshot) is the wrong vehicle: it only exists for a *planned* update, but a brain **crash** (same respawn path) carries no snapshot, so anything timing-critical in it is lost on crash. Timing that must survive has to survive crash too → it belongs on disk.
- In-memory monotonic `Instant` phase cannot be transferred across a process boundary meaningfully (new process = new monotonic epoch); only absolute epoch-ms is portable.
- The operator added the write-minimization refinement (store anchor+interval once, derive thereafter) so the disk is touched once per fresh start rather than per fire — important given a 200 ms tick across many loops.

**Current state that motivates it.** The pump cadences are already catch-up/idempotent ("stagger from everything due now," `peerloop.rs:304`) and are restart-safe as-is. The pulse loop is **phase-relative** (`lifecycle.rs:486` `sleep_interruptible(pulse_period)`), so its phase resets on restart — this is the loop that needs converting to a disk-anchored deadline. Idempotent catch-up loops need no phase state at all; only phase-significant loops are converted.

**Alternative rejected.** *Snapshot each loop's `Instant`/phase into the handoff message and restore it* — fragile (monotonic clocks don't cross processes), lost on crash, and incompatible with the model-B trigger (no brain→brain message exists).

### Q5 — IPC boundary: the §B rule adjudicates; everything brain→broker becomes a versioned IPC verb

**Decision.** Apply ADR-0004 §B's rule — *a resource is broker-owned iff a live consumer would lose continuity on a brain restart* — to every component that today shares the in-process `Arc<Broker>`:
- **Net bring-up + REQ-DAEMON-9 self-heal retry → broker** (the brain must not own net bring-up). *Audit correction:* the NetHost is **already** broker-owned (`broker.rs:175` `OnceLock`, §B M4-D4a), and net bring-up + the self-heal retry already live in the `daemon.rs` entry that *becomes* the broker entry — so this item is **near-free**, not a migration.
- **Digest hub → broker** for the live projections + subscriber sockets; **the parse that feeds it → brain** (pushes parsed digests over IPC).
- **Seed lock + liveness → broker** (Q2).
- **Every other brain→broker call becomes a versioned IPC verb** — in the two-process world there is no shared `Arc`, so each current direct call is a latent IPC verb on the same versioned contract that already carries `SPAWN`/`INPUT`/`NET_*`/`SESSIONS`.

**Accepted consequence.** This enlarges the "dumb kernel." That is already-precedented: ADR-0004:63 accepted exactly this when QUIC ownership moved into the broker — *"the broker is 'stable' in update cadence, not in narrowness."*

**[V6] N-1 compat is scoped milestone work.** Because the broker almost never updates but the brain updates routinely, the **steady state after every routine update is NEW brain × OLD broker.** The `classify` pre-swap handshake (`brain_ipc_version ≥ broker.min_compatible`) gates the *forward* direction, but each direct-call→verb conversion must hold that N-1 window across the *whole* verb surface. The milestone must include a **CI-real compatibility test — old-broker binary × new-brain binary across the verb surface** — or KH-2.3 (handoff-argv-compat) returns the first time a verb signature changes.

**Exception — shellwake stays brain-side.** The supervised `wake_command` watcher *children* are an exception to the §B continuity rule: they remain **brain-owned** and are re-reconciled from disk on brain start (the boot sweep at `daemon.rs:206-217` already does orphan cleanup).

**Reason for the exception.** Strict §B would put the watcher children in the broker for continuity, but the operator judged the continuity loss acceptable: updates are rare, the brain re-reconciles watchers on start, and keeping watcher-child *supervision logic* out of the kernel keeps the broker narrower. The only cost is a brief window during a (rare) brain update where an offline shell could miss a wake — explicitly accepted.

### Q6 — Multi-session handoff: the broker is cursor-of-record; the `BrainState` message retires

**Decision.** The broker tracks each session-subscriber's last-delivered cursor. On (re)start the new brain queries the broker for **all** hosted sessions and re-attaches each in **resume** mode. **Output is at-least-once** (the broker resumes from last-*sent*); **input/effects stay exactly-once** via the already-broker-owned `EffectJournal`. The explicit `BrainState` handoff *message* is **retired** for production — the new brain cold-starts and reconstructs continuity by querying the broker.

**[V2] Generation custody.** Retiring `BrainState` would orphan the generation counter (KH 2.4: increments on every start/revive; `gen_start` always `= now()`). Custody moves to the **broker**: it owns the counter, increments it on **every** brain spawn (planned or crash), and hands `{generation, start-reason}` to the brain at spawn time via a **versioned argv/hello field** (KH-2.3 forward-compat, defaulted). Because the broker observes every respawn, this is strictly more reliable than passing it brain-to-brain — and the **same spawn-time channel carries Q4's update-vs-crash discriminator** (one channel, both payloads).

**Reason.**
- Two concrete gaps exist today: `applyhost.rs:239` re-attaches only `sessions.first()` (one session) and with `from_seq = 0` (re-replays the whole ring → duplicate output).
- Under the model-B trigger the outgoing brain is gone before the new one starts, so **no brain→brain message can be passed**; continuity must come from the persistent side. The broker already holds the per-session output ring (`broker.rs:73-143`); making it also track the delivered cursor lets a respawned brain resume gaplessly with **no disk writes** (respecting Q4) and **no handoff frame**.
- At-least-once output matches the *existing* terminal-stream contract: SPIKE-05 already established "terminal-stream ≠ exactly-once transfer" (a resize repaint reorders and duplicates the stream anyway). Exactly-once output would require a per-chunk ack protocol for a guarantee the terminal stream does not make; the thing that *must* be exactly-once (injected input/effects) already has the journal.

**Alternative rejected.** *Add brain→broker acks so the broker resumes from last-processed (exactly-once output)* — cost without benefit, given the terminal-stream contract.

### Q7 — Failure atomicity: bounded retry → auto-rollback to last-known-good

**Decision.** If the new brain fails to reach a **ready** signal (re-attached all sessions + resumed loops) within a bounded number of boots / a healthy-run window, the broker **rolls back to the last-known-good binary** (the `spt.exe.old-N` backup), **quarantines** the bad version (no auto re-apply/re-fetch), and surfaces a loud consent-style notification. The broker holds **last-known-good + candidate** paths and chooses which to spawn (no file manipulation at failure time). Endpoints survive throughout (the broker holds them). The **applied record becomes two-phase**: `applied-pending` at swap, promoted to `applied` on the ready signal, or corrected to `rolled-back(quarantine=N, running=N-1)` on failure.

**[V1] Rollback-state-compat invariant (forward invariant, mint this milestone).** Auto-rollback spawns the **old** binary against durable state the **new** brain may already have written. This is safe *today* (a source audit confirmed zero state-migration code exists), but the first release that migrates a durable-state schema would silently break Q7's rollback. The invariant must be minted now, while it is free: **a brain must not irreversibly migrate durable state before ready-promotion** — equivalently, every pre-ready write must remain readable by the N-1 brain. Cheap to assert now; unmintable retroactively after a migration ships.

**Reason.**
- The dangerous case is a *runtime* bug (new brain panics on boot), not the binary land (already rolled back at `applyhost.rs:167-170`) and not IPC mismatch (the `classify` handshake `brain_ipc_version ≥ broker.min_compatible` is checked pre-swap). A naive supervisor would crashloop the new binary: endpoints alive but logic dead — "up but useless."
- The backup binary is already produced for exactly this, and the readiness+backoff machinery already exists — `peerloop.rs:82-91` has `SUPERVISE_BACKOFF_BASE/CAP` + `SUPERVISE_HEALTHY_RUN` (60 s healthy resets backoff), and `supervise_pump` is wired at `peerloop.rs:805` (M8-D4, verified). A bad update that bricks *logic* should self-heal back to last-good without a human, the same spirit as the boot-race self-heal already shipped.
- The two-phase record fixes a real existing bug: `applyhost.rs:176` writes `record_applied(version)` + `last-outcome=applied` **before** the brain handoff — i.e. before we know the new brain boots. (This is the optimistic `applied.json={version:6}` observed on `enlyzeam`.)

**Alternative rejected.** *Bounded retry → halt and wait for manual intervention* — safer-feeling but leaves logic dead until a human shows up; inconsistent with the self-healing posture.

### Q8 — Cross-platform uniformity (confirmation, not a fork)

**Decision/observation.** The broker spawns the brain as a **child process** (`Command::spawn`) and they communicate over the existing local socket IPC. **No `exec` is required**, so there is no Windows/Unix divergence. ConPTY (Windows) and forkpty (Linux) handles stay broker-side and never cross to the brain. Spikes 01 and 04 already proved the handoff on both OSes.

**Reason.** This is precisely the uniformity ADR-0004:25 sought when it rejected whole-daemon live FD-passing as "hard and platform-divergent." Spawn-plus-socket sidesteps it entirely.

---

## 5. Implied decomposition (consequences of the above)

- `spt daemon run` becomes the **broker** process entry: binds the seed-control channel + broker socket + NetHost + digest hub; holds harness children + the `EffectJournal`; spawns the brain child.
- A new hidden `spt daemon brain` entry is the **brain** process: connects to the broker, runs pump/dispatch/psyche loops/session drivers, rehydrates from disk, emits a `ready` signal.
- `ensure_running` / `is_running` / `daemon stop` contracts are unchanged — they target the broker's seed channel.
- The de-elevation guard (`daemon.rs:60-103`) applies at the **broker** entry; the brain child inherits the unelevated identity.

---

## 6. Scope and sequencing

This is **milestone-sized**, not a patch. It includes: the process decomposition; an IPC-verb surface for the hard cases (digest push, seed-lock/liveness, plus the general direct-call audit — net bring-up is near-free per the §Q5 audit correction); broker-side per-session delivered-cursor tracking; broker-owned generation custody handed at spawn **[V2]**; durable absolute-deadline timing across **phase-significant** resident loops only **[V4]** (the idempotent pump cadences need *no* conversion — converting them would reintroduce the per-loop writes Q4 minimized; the one-shot deadline *machinery* defers to the alarm port **[V3]**, only its rule is fixed here); the auto-rollback + readiness machinery with the **[V1]** rollback-state-compat invariant; the two-phase applied record; an activated **REQ-UPD-3 int stage proving process-level endpoint survival [V5]**; and the **[V6]** N-1 old-broker × new-brain CI compat test. It should be planned as a roadmap phase, not folded into an unrelated branch.

### 6.1 Sequencing (operator's call — recommendation recorded, not ratified)

`doyle`'s recommendation, surfaced for the operator's decision: **restoration = the next milestone, before `spt-claude-code` scoping.** Reasons:

- **(a) Queue is open** — mesh shipped at v0.3.0, M8 acceptance is COMPLETE.
- **(b) Self-bootstrapping (decisive).** Until this ships, *every* release needs manual daemon bounces fleet-wide — paid on all 3 nodes for v0.3.2, and `enlyzeam` reproduced the `\r`-corruption for ~a day with the fix sitting on disk. The restoration release is the **last** one that needs a manual bounce; once it lands, every adapter-era release rolls seamlessly.
- **(c) Adapter window safe.** The split changes daemon *internals*, not the CLI/api surface M8 froze. Better the adapter lands on the final topology than atop a daemon we later perform open-heart surgery on while it hosts the user's daily driver.

This is the operator's decision; recorded here, awaiting ratification.

---

## 7. Separate gaps surfaced (out of scope here, tracked separately)

- **Alarms have no durable daemon scheduler.** In the spt-core daemon, `alarm` exists only as an event *shape* (`spt-proto`) + relay handling (`psyrelay.rs:93`) + a test fixture; `target-time` is only a wire attribute. The actual "wait until target, fire the TIMED PULSE" timer lives in the legacy owl listener in-memory. Porting alarms into the daemon as a durable scheduler (which would then ride the Q4 one-shot mechanism) is its own gap.
- **Registry one-cadence reconverge window.** `RegistryHost` is intentionally in-memory (`registryhost.rs:19-26`): a restart forgets peers' rows and reconverges within one pump cadence (self-rows re-advertised each tick; mirrored to `identity/registry/` JSON for out-of-process readers). Across a brain restart this is a brief reconverge window, accepted by design — not a blocker, noted for completeness.
- **Multipart inter-agent message truncation — belongs to LEGACY `claude_skill_owl`, not spt-core.** During the verification exchange (which ran over the legacy live-agent messaging infra — the `owl.exe` listener, not the spt-core daemon), an 18-part chunked message reached the recipient as ~parts 1–8; a long resend also dropped its tail. Long messages silently lose their tail — a delivery-integrity issue in the chunk-reassembly path. **This is a legacy-project bug** (the agents in this exchange run on `claude_skill_owl`'s transport); spt-core's *own* reassembly is already covered by `REQ-HAZARD-EVENTPART-REASSEMBLY`. It is **not an spt-core artifact** — flagged here only because the session surfaced it; route the repro + fix to the legacy project. (`doyle` can partner on a repro harness.)
- **Stale DEFERRED mesh row.** Side-flag from verification: the mesh row in `docs/DEFERRED.md` is stale (mesh shipped at v0.3.0). Minor cleanup, noted for a docs pass.

---

## 8. Cross-references for verification

- **ADR-0004** — `docs/adr/0004-single-daemon-broker-brain-split-and-self-update.md` (the decision being restored; §A update classes, §B ownership table, the spike amendments).
- **Requirements** — REQ-UPD-3 (no-endpoint-drop, brain-only), REQ-UPD-4 (staged + consent), REQ-UPD-6/8 (update-set / platform-safe), REQ-DAEMON-3/9 (auto-start / net self-heal), REQ-HAZARD-UPDATE-ROLLBACK, REQ-HAZARD-HANDOFF-ARGV-COMPAT.
- **Glossary/model** — `CONTEXT.md` daemon / broker / brain (incl. the one-broker-per-machine clause added this session).
- **Spikes** — `docs/spikes/SPIKE-01-broker-handoff.md`, `-03-quic-survival`, `-04-forkpty-parity`, `-05-restart-stress`, `-06-idempotent-boundary` (proofs that the two-process handoff works on both OSes).
- **Key source** — `daemon.rs` (`run`, net consumers, self-heal, digest hub, shellwake, seed-control), `broker.rs` (`OutputLog`, `bind`, `EffectJournal`), `brain.rs` (`BrainState`, `cold_start`/`handoff`/`snapshot`), `applyhost.rs` (`apply_staged`, `connect_retry`, record-before-handoff), `update.rs` (classes, `classify`, `apply_brain_only`), `peerloop.rs` (cadences, supervise-backoff), `lifecycle.rs` (pulse loop), `registryhost.rs`.

---

## 9. Artifacts pending operator ratification (verification complete)

Verification is done (§0); these durable artifacts are written only on operator sign-off:

- An **ADR amendment to 0004** (or a superseding ADR) recording the drift finding, the Q2–Q8 restoration decisions, and the six verification amendments.
- **`REQ-*` registry mints** (per the traceability contract, registry-first):
  - `REQ-HAZARD-*` — **a brain restart must never drop a hosted endpoint** (REQ-UPD-3's real promise). **Evidence [V5]:** an activated `int` stage productionizing SPIKE-01/03 as E2E — a PTY child + a live QUIC conn survive a brain-*process* restart onto a *swapped* binary. NB: REQ-UPD-3's current `int` evidence (`applyhost.rs:39/77`, `update.rs:246`, `brain_swap.rs`) proves only the *in-process* handoff shape — it is **mis-evidenced today** and must be re-pointed.
  - `REQ-HAZARD-*` — **rollback-state-compat [V1]**: a brain must not irreversibly migrate durable state before ready-promotion (pre-ready writes stay N-1-readable).
  - A functional `REQ-*` for realizing the two-process split, carrying the **[V6]** N-1 old-broker × new-brain CI compat test as part of its evidence.
- A **KNOWN-HAZARDS** entry for the in-process collapse (a real bug paid for once: the silently-unrealized no-endpoint-drop update).
- (Separately, per §7) a DEFERRED/hazard row for the **multipart message-truncation** delivery bug.


please vet the plans and new doc additions todlando wrote. message them if anything needs amendment: [Image #1]


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528:id = "REQ-HAZARD-EVENTPART-REASSEMBLY"
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$OWL send todlando <<'EOF'
doyle — vetted all three commits (44497f4, 2769c88, 65c2b0a). Verified clean: ADR-0018 content faithful to Q2-Q8 + V1-V6; KH 6.7/6.8 sound; REQ mints rule-3/5 compliant, gate exit 0 confirmed; ROADMAP entry accurate incl. the honest backlog note; [V1]-[V6] folded into the design doc exactly as agreed; truncation bug correctly routed to legacy (REQ-HAZARD-EVENTPART-REASSEMBLY exists, toml:528); plan D2-D7 + risks section strong. Four amendments needed, msg 1/2 carries the big one:

FINDING 1 — D1 ORDERING FLAW (RESTORATION-PLAN D1). D1 says the brain child "runs the logic loops (pump/dispatch/psyche/session drivers) as today but in its own process" — but those loops hold direct Arc<Broker> calls (design doc §2.2: pump daemon.rs:280, dispatcher, digest hub, net consumers, psyche — all share the Arc), and the verb conversion is D2. As written, D1 cannot run those loops in a separate process; an implementing agent following D1 literally hits a wall. Two coherent restructures:
(a) D1 = TRUE minimal skeleton — brain child runs ONLY the already-socket-speaking path (Brain::cold_start connect + session attach); pump/dispatch/psyche/digest-parse stay temporarily in the broker process. D2 then migrates each Arc consumer into the brain child loop-by-loop as its verb lands, with an explicit migration ledger (loop -> verb -> moves-at-commit).
(b) Swap D1/D2 — strangle the Arc first while still one process (every direct call rerouted over the existing local socket), then the process cut is trivial.
I recommend (a): it preserves your own Risks rule (D1 re-proves the spike survival before logic moves — the PTY-survives-brain-kill acceptance IS the de-risk), keeps every commit shippable, and D1's acceptance stays exactly as you wrote it. Either way D1's text must state WHICH loops run where at D1-close, or the acceptance "no behavior change visible at the CLI" is unfalsifiable.

Msg 2/2 follows with findings 2-4 (doc-state staleness + two small ones).
EOF

Send vet finding 1 (D1 ordering flaw) to todlando


➜ SENT:todlando


$OWL send todlando <<'EOF'
Vet msg 2/2 — findings 2-4:

FINDING 2 — DESIGN-DOC STATUS HEADERS NOW SELF-CONTRADICTORY. BROKER-BRAIN-SPLIT-RESTORATION.md line 3 says "§9 artifacts ... and the sequencing decision (§6.1) remain gated on operator sign-off"; §6.1 says "awaiting ratification"; §9 heading says "pending operator ratification". But the SAME commit set delivers the §9 artifacts (ADR-0018, both REQ mints, KH 6.7/6.8) and RESTORATION-PLAN/ROADMAP record sequencing as operator-ratified 2026-06-09. A dev-agent reading the design doc later sees "pending ratification" and stalls or re-asks. Fix: status line -> ratified 2026-06-09; §6.1 -> ratified (keep the reasons); §9 -> "artifacts DELIVERED" with the concrete ids (ADR-0018, REQ-HAZARD-BROKER-PROCESS-ISOLATION, REQ-HAZARD-ROLLBACK-STATE-COMPAT, KH 6.7/6.8) — leaving only the legacy-truncation row as the genuinely-external item.

FINDING 3 — ADR-0018 STATUS "Proposed" BREAKS CONVENTION. ADR-0017 went "accepted (2026-06-08)" at design-ratification with build pending — same situation. RESTORATION-PLAN says design + decision are operator-ratified. ADR-0018 should read "accepted (2026-06-09) — extends and amends ADR-0004" (keep the implementation-is-next-milestone sentence). Registry + roadmap already treat it as decided; the status field is the only holdout.

FINDING 4 — D5 "Tracked in DEFERRED" IS FALSE. No DEFERRED row exists for the alarm-port / one-shot deadline machinery (the two new rows are socket-flake + single-to-set). Either add the row (durable in-daemon alarm scheduler riding the Q4 one-shot rule — V3 deferral, revisit = alarm port) or drop the sentence from D5. Row preferred — DEFERRED.md is the canonical parked-features registry per its own header.

MINOR (take or leave): (i) KNOWN-HAZARDS condensed checklist has no 6.7/6.8 rows — 6.7 is the milestone-defining invariant, worth a row (4.11/5.9/5.10 are also absent if you ever do a checklist sweep). (ii) DEFERRED socket-flake row's revisit trigger says "M8 test-infra polish" — M8 is complete; your own plan retargets it to restoration D1/D7, the row should match.

All four findings are doc-only — no design substance changes. Fix and this vets clean end-to-end from me.
EOF

Send vet findings 2-4 + minors to todlando


Vet complete, findings sent to todlando in two capped messages.

## Vet verdict

**Clean (verified):** ADR-0018 faithful to Q2-Q8 + all six amendments · KH 6.7/6.8 sound · REQ mints rule-3/5 compliant, `traceable-reqs check` exit 0 confirmed myself · ROADMAP entry accurate (+ honest roadmap-behind-reality note) · [V1]-[V6] folded into design doc exactly as negotiated · truncation bug correctly routed to legacy project (`REQ-HAZARD-EVENTPART-REASSEMBLY` real, toml:528) · plan D2-D7 + risks section strong.

**Four amendments requested (all doc-only, no design substance):**
1. **D1 ordering flaw** — D1 claims brain child "runs the logic loops as today" but those loops hold direct `Arc<Broker>` calls; verb conversion is D2. Implementer following D1 literally hits a wall. Recommended fix: D1 = true minimal skeleton (only the already-socket-speaking attach path moves), D2 migrates loops as verbs land, with explicit loop→verb→commit ledger.
2. **Design-doc status stale** — says §9 artifacts + sequencing "pending operator ratification" while the same commit set delivers the artifacts and plan/ROADMAP record ratification. Self-contradictory for future readers.
3. **ADR-0018 "Proposed"** breaks convention — ADR-0017 went `accepted` at design-ratification with build pending; same situation here.
4. **D5 "Tracked in DEFERRED" false** — no alarm-port row exists; add it or drop the claim.

**Minors:** KH condensed checklist missing 6.7/6.8 rows; socket-flake row's revisit trigger says "M8 polish" (M8 done — plan retargets it to D1/D7).

Idle — awaiting todlando's fixes.


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<event><EVENT-PART seq="1/3" id="ce088024" type="msg" from="todlando">doyle: all four vet amendments applied + committed (f1f7983), gate green. (1) D1 restructured to your option (a): true minimal skeleton — brain child runs ONLY Brain::cold_start + session attach; pump/dispatch/psyche/digest-parse/net-consumers stay in broker proc until D2 migrates them loop-by-loop. D1 now states w</EVENT-PART>
<EVENT-PART seq="2/3" id="ce088024">hich loops run where at D1-close (acceptance falsifiable); D2 carries the explicit migration ledger (loop-&gt;verb-&gt;moves-at-commit + D2-close invariant). (2) design-doc status/6.1/9 -&gt; ratified+DELIVERED w/ concrete ids. (3) ADR-0018 Proposed-&gt;Accepted. (4) added the Durable in-daemon alarm scheduler DEFERRED row (Q4/V3 one-shot mach</EVENT-PART>
<EVENT-PART seq="3/3" id="ce088024">inery); D5 points at it. Minors: KH checklist 6.7/6.8 rows; socket-flake revisit retargeted M8-&gt;restoration D1/D7. Good catch on D1 — that wall was real. Clear to start D1 build.</EVENT-PART></event>
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CAVEMAN MODE ACTIVE (full). Drop articles/filler/pleasantries/hedging. Fragments OK. Code/commits/security: write normal.


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commit f1f798352d548da49999fbbec28f106d98ec47cc
Author: Reavo End <decidel@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Jun 9 18:02:17 2026 -0700

    docs(restoration): doyle vet amendments 1-4 — D1 ordering fix + status ratification

    doyle independently vetted all three restoration commits (44497f4, 2769c88,
    65c2b0a) clean and raised four doc-only amendments (no design substance change):

    1. D1 ordering flaw (RESTORATION-PLAN): D1 said the brain child runs the
       pump/dispatch/psyche/digest loops "in its own process", but those hold
       direct Arc<Broker> calls (design §2.2) and verb conversion is D2 — an
---
+- **Migration ledger (loop → verb → moves-at-commit).** Each commit moves
+  ("Durable in-daemon alarm scheduler" row).
+**Status:** **Ratified (2026-06-09).** Independently verified-with-amendments (2026-06-09, agent `doyle` — see §0); six amendments folded in (marked **[V1]**–**[V6]**). The operator ratified both open decisions: the §9 artifacts and the **sequencing** decision (§6.1 — restoration = next milestone, before `spt-claude-code`). The §9 artifacts are now **delivered** (ADR-0018, `REQ-HAZARD-BROKER-PROCESS-ISOLATION` + `REQ-HAZARD-ROLLBACK-STATE-COMPAT`, KNOWN-HAZARDS 6.7/6.8); build plan = `RESTORATION-PLAN.md`. The only genuinely-external item left is the legacy multipart-truncation row (§7, routed to `claude_skill_owl`).
+## 9. Artifacts — DELIVERED (ratified 2026-06-09)
+- **ADR-0018** (`docs/adr/0018-broker-brain-process-isolation-restoration.md`) — extends + amends ADR-0004: the drift finding, the Q2–Q8 restoration decisions, the six verification amendments. Status: Accepted (2026-06-09).
+- **KNOWN-HAZARDS** §6.7 (in-process collapse) + §6.8 (rollback-state-compat), with condensed-checklist rows.
+| **Test broker socket-bind hardening (CI-flake removal)**: `applyhost` tests' `served_broker` helper does `Broker::bind(name).expect("bind broker")` (`crates/spt-daemon/src/applyhost.rs:293`) where `name` = `spt-daemon-d7b-{pid}-{seq}.sock`. Flakes intermittently on the **kitsubito** self-hosted Linux runner (likely AF_UNIX path collision / stale socket file under the runner's reused workspace — Windows named pipes don't hit it). Cost the v0.3.2 release a full red CI run + a `--failed` rerun (2026-06-09); same code passed clean on rerun → flake, not a logic bug. FIX = make the test bind deterministic: unlink-before-bind, OR abstract-namespace socket (Linux `@`-prefixed, no filesystem entry), OR per-test `TempDir` isolation so each bind has a guaranteed-fresh path. Applies to every `served_broker`/socket-name test helper, not just applyhost | Triaged during v0.3.2 release (2026-06-09) — flake, shipped over it | Non-blocking: a real flake that taxes CI (one red cycle + rerun per hit) but never gates a correct build; hardening is test-infra work, not product. Held to keep the v0.3.2 release moving | **Restoration D1/D7** (`RESTORATION-PLAN.md`) — D1/D7 add real process-spawn tests on the kitsubito runner; fix the bind determinism there rather than fighting flakes through the milestone (M8 is complete) |
+| **Durable in-daemon alarm scheduler (one-shot deadline machinery — the Q4/V3 deferral)**: the broker/brain restoration (ADR-0018 Q4) fixes the *rule* for one-shot scheduled events — persist the absolute `target-time` at creation; every brain start (update *or* crash) reads it and fires-if-due; **never reset on crash** (a user's "remind me at 3pm" is a commitment that must outlive any restart). But it deliberately does **not** build the machinery: the spt-core daemon has **no one-shot consumer today** — `alarm` exists only as an event *shape* (`spt-proto`) + relay handling (`psyrelay.rs:93`) + a test fixture; the actual "wait until target, fire the TIMED PULSE" timer lives in the **legacy owl listener in-memory** (BROKER-BRAIN-SPLIT-RESTORATION §7). Building the one-shot deadline machinery in the restoration milestone would ship **untested dead code** (violates activate-don't-pre-fail). FIX = port alarms into the daemon as a durable scheduler that rides the Q4 one-shot rule (persist target-time at creation, fire-if-due on every brain start, survive both crash and update). The periodic-loop half of Q4 (anchor+interval derive) DOES ship in restoration D5; only the one-shot machinery defers here. | Restoration milestone D5 (ADR-0018 Q4/V3, 2026-06-09) — rule fixed, machinery deferred | The daemon has no one-shot consumer to exercise it; the periodic-deadline mechanism (the phase-significant pulse loop) ships in D5 and proves out the disk-anchored-deadline pattern the alarm port will reuse | The alarm port — porting the legacy in-memory alarm timer into the daemon as a durable scheduler (first real one-shot consumer); reuses the D5 disk-deadline pattern + the Q4 one-shot rule |
+| 6.7 | Broker + brain are separate processes (brain restart never drops a hosted endpoint at the process level) | daemon process topology, self-update (ADR-0018) |
+| 6.8 | No irreversible durable-state migration before update ready-promotion (pre-ready writes stay N-1-readable) | auto-rollback / durable-state schema (ADR-0018) |
+Accepted (2026-06-09) — **extends and amends ADR-0004.** The design was independently verified (agent `doyle`, verified-with-amendments); implementation is a dedicated future milestone, sequenced next (before `spt-claude-code`). Full rationale, the `file:line` audit, and the per-decision alternatives live in `docs/BROKER-BRAIN-SPLIT-RESTORATION.md`.
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### D1 — Process split skeleton (foundation) · Q8, §5

The structural cut, proven minimal before any logic moves. **D1 is a *true*
minimal skeleton** (doyle vet 2026-06-09, finding 1): the brain child runs
ONLY the path that already speaks socket IPC; every direct-`Arc<Broker>`
consumer (pump `daemon.rs:280`, dispatcher, digest *parse*, net consumers,
psyche loops — design §2.2) **stays in the broker process** until D2 gives it
a verb. Those loops hold direct `Arc` calls, so they *cannot* run
cross-process before D2's verb conversion — moving them in D1 would wall the
implementing agent.

- Add the hidden **`spt daemon brain`** subcommand (brain process entry).
  `spt daemon run` stays the user-facing entry but becomes the **broker**
  process: it binds the seed-control channel + broker socket + NetHost +
  digest hub (as today), then **`Command::spawn`s the brain child**.
- **What runs where at D1-close (the falsifiability anchor):**
  - **Brain child:** ONLY `Brain::cold_start` (connect + IPC handshake over
    the existing socket) + session attach — the already-socket-speaking path.
    Emits a **`ready`** signal once attached. (`connect_retry`,
    `applyhost.rs`, is the reused brain-side connect primitive.)
  - **Broker process (temporarily):** pump, dispatcher, psyche loops, digest
    parse, net consumers — they still hold their `Arc<Broker>` and keep
    serving in-process exactly as today. D2 migrates them out one at a time.
- Broker ↔ brain talk over the **existing local socket IPC** (the versioned
  contract already carrying `SPAWN`/`INPUT`/`NET_*`/`SESSIONS`). No `exec`,
  no FD-passing → no Windows/Unix divergence (Q8).
- De-elevation guard (`daemon.rs:60-103`) stays at the **broker** entry; the
  brain child inherits the unelevated identity.
- **Acceptance (this IS de-risk spike #1 re-proven in production topology):**
  `spt daemon run` brings up a broker process + a distinct brain-child pid;
  killing the brain leaves the broker (and any PTY child) alive and the broker
  respawns it. "No behavior change visible at the CLI" is **falsifiable**
  precisely because D1 states which loops run where: the broker-resident loops
  still serve while the brain is the thin attach layer.

### D2 — IPC verb surface + N-1 compat scaffolding · Q5, V6


$OWL send todlando <<'EOF'
f1f7983 verified end-to-end: D1 restructure exact (what-runs-where anchor + wall rationale + respawn added to acceptance), D2 ledger present, design-doc status/§6.1/§9 ratified+DELIVERED, ADR-0018 Accepted, alarm-scheduler DEFERRED row added with D5 pointer, KH checklist 6.7/6.8 rows in, socket-flake retargeted to D1/D7. Gate exit 0 re-confirmed my side. Restoration milestone vets CLEAN — no open findings. Clear to start D1. doyle out.
EOF

Confirm vet clean to todlando


Write

# Commune — restoration milestone ratified + planned + vetted CLEAN (2026-06-09)

**Arc complete.** Broker/brain restoration went design-grill (todlando) → independent verification + 6 amendments (me) → operator ratification → committed artifacts → my full vet → 4 doc amendments → all applied (f1f7983) → **vets CLEAN, no open findings. D1 build is GO.**

**Committed artifact set (44497f4, 2769c88, 65c2b0a, f1f7983):**
- ADR-0018 (Accepted 2026-06-09, extends/amends ADR-0004) — Q2-Q8 + [V1]-[V6].
- BROKER-BRAIN-SPLIT-RESTORATION.md — status Ratified; §9 artifacts DELIVERED.
- RESTORATION-PLAN.md — D1-D7 dependency-ordered build plan, REQ activation schedule (rule 5), per-task gates.
- KNOWN-HAZARDS 6.7 (process isolation) + 6.8 (rollback-state-compat) + checklist rows.
- REQ-HAZARD-BROKER-PROCESS-ISOLATION + REQ-HAZARD-ROLLBACK-STATE-COMPAT minted inactive.
- ROADMAP: restoration = NEXT milestone (before spt-claude-code), operator-ratified.
- DEFERRED: +socket-flake hardening (retargeted D1/D7), +single→set trap, +durable alarm scheduler (Q4/V3 one-shot machinery — rides D5's disk-deadline pattern at alarm port).

**My vet catch that mattered:** D1 ordering flaw — original D1 had brain child running pump/dispatch/psyche loops before D2 converted their direct Arc<Broker> calls to verbs (impossible cross-process). Restructured to option (a): D1 = true minimal skeleton (brain child = ONLY Brain::cold_start + session attach; Arc-holding loops stay broker-side), D2 migrates loop-by-loop with explicit ledger. D1 acceptance now falsifiable + doubles as de-risk spike #1 re-proof.

**Build sequence (RESTORATION-PLAN):** D1 skeleton → D2 verbs+N-1 scaffold → D3 supervision/update-trigger/gen-custody → D4 cursor-of-record+resume-all → D5 pulse-loop durable deadline → D6 auto-rollback+two-phase record+V1 guard → D7 process-level E2E + REQ re-point (REQ-DAEMON-2/UPD-3 currently mis-evidenced) + N-1 CI gate + 3-node fleet verify. First action next build session: D1 (plan's "Immediate next-session start" list).

**Standing items:** enlyzeam daemon bounce still pending (0.3.2 disk / 0.3.0 resident). Legacy multipart truncation bug routed to claude_skill_owl (NOT spt-core; spt-core covered by REQ-HAZARD-EVENTPART-REASSEMBLY) — I'm repro partner when greenlit. Stale DEFERRED mesh row cleanup raised separately by todlando.

**Project state:** HEAD f1f7983, gate green, v0.3.2 public (counter 6). Restoration release will be v0.4.0-ish = LAST release needing manual fleet bounce.


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# Commune — restoration milestone ratified + planned + vetted CLEAN (2026-06-09)

**Arc complete.** Broker/brain restoration went design-grill (todlando) → independent verification + 6 amendments (me) → operator ratification → committed artifacts → my full vet → 4 doc amendments → all applied (f1f7983) → **vets CLEAN, no open findings. D1 build is GO.**

**Committed artifact set (44497f4, 2769c88, 65c2b0a, f1f7983):**
- ADR-0018 (Accepted 2026-06-09, extends/amends ADR-0004) — Q2-Q8 + [V1]-[V6].
- BROKER-BRAIN-SPLIT-RESTORATION.md — status Ratified; §9 artifacts DELIVERED.
- RESTORATION-PLAN.md — D1-D7 dependency-ordered build plan, REQ activation schedule (rule 5), per-task gates.
- KNOWN-HAZARDS 6.7 (process isolation) + 6.8 (rollback-state-compat) + checklist rows.
- REQ-HAZARD-BROKER-PROCESS-ISOLATION + REQ-HAZARD-ROLLBACK-STATE-COMPAT minted inactive.
- ROADMAP: restoration = NEXT milestone (before spt-claude-code), operator-ratified.
- DEFERRED: +socket-flake hardening (retargeted D1/D7), +single→set trap, +durable alarm scheduler (Q4/V3 one-shot machinery — rides D5's disk-deadline pattern at alarm port).

**My vet catch that mattered:** D1 ordering flaw — original D1 had brain child running pump/dispatch/psyche loops before D2 converted their direct Arc<Broker> calls to verbs (impossible cross-process). Restructured to option (a): D1 = true minimal skeleton (brain child = ONLY Brain::cold_start + session attach; Arc-holding loops stay broker-side), D2 migrates loop-by-loop with explicit ledger. D1 acceptance now falsifiable + doubles as de-risk spike #1 re-proof.

**Build sequence (RESTORATION-PLAN):** D1 skeleton → D2 verbs+N-1 scaffold → D3 supervision/update-trigger/gen-custody → D4 cursor-of-record+resume-all → D5 pulse-loop durable deadline → D6 auto-rollback+two-phase record+V1 guard → D7 process-level E2E + REQ re-point (REQ-DAEMON-2/UPD-3 currently mis-evidenced) + N-1 CI gate + 3-node fleet verify. First action next build session: D1 (plan's "Immediate next-session start" list).

**Standing items:** enlyzeam daemon bounce still pending (0.3.2 disk / 0.3.0 resident). Legacy multipart truncation bug routed to claude_skill_owl (NOT spt-core; spt-core covered by REQ-HAZARD-EVENTPART-REASSEMBLY) — I'm repro partner when greenlit. Stale DEFERRED mesh row cleanup raised separately by todlando.

**Project state:** HEAD f1f7983, gate green, v0.3.2 public (counter 6). Restoration release will be v0.4.0-ish = LAST release needing manual fleet bounce.


Vet closed. Commune updated.

## Final state

**Restoration milestone vets CLEAN — D1 build is GO.**

f1f7983 verified line-by-line:
- **D1 restructured** exactly per my option (a) — brain child runs ONLY `Brain::cold_start` + session attach; Arc-holding loops stay broker-side with explicit "what runs where at D1-close" anchor; acceptance now falsifiable + doubles as de-risk spike #1 re-proof; broker-respawns-brain added
- **D2** carries the loop→verb→moves-at-commit migration ledger
- **Design doc** status → Ratified, §9 → DELIVERED with concrete ids
- **ADR-0018** → Accepted (matches ADR-0017 convention)
- **Alarm-scheduler DEFERRED row** added, D5 points at it
- **Minors** done: KH checklist 6.7/6.8 rows, socket-flake retargeted M8→D1/D7
- **Gate exit 0** re-confirmed independently

Full arc this session: design verified → 6 amendments negotiated → ratified → artifacts committed → vetted → 4 doc fixes → clean. Next build session starts D1 per plan's "Immediate next-session start" list.

Still standing: enlyzeam bounce (0.3.2 disk / 0.3.0 resident) — restoration milestone makes that the last-ever manual one.