[kixelated]

Completes Drop set and deletes the quest file and its links.

Problem

• Per-reader bookkeeping was not billed to anything. The track's drop set and arrivals are already billed to the cache pool and bounded (moq-dev/moq#8294, moq-dev/moq#8440). Each reader's records were not. In Rust these were DropCursor's pending and reported, Skipped, Delivered, and TrackRun's served, dropped, dropped_stale, and expired. In JS they were the wire cursor's #pending, #skipped, and #reported. Tail::finished and the given-up misses in Misses were unbilled too. An upstream that fragments drops (drop one group, deliver the next, repeat) grew every reader's records without limit, outside the pool's capacity.
• The same runs were stored twice. The lite publisher's TrackRun kept its own record of what it had told the wire, next to the DropCursor record it read from. Bounding one would have freed nothing while the other kept the same runs.
• A failed fetch held the end open. A fetch (or a JS fill answer) that was cancelled or failed below a track's declared end kept the end unsettled until the expiry scan reclaimed the slot. Until then, a track abort errored readers instead of ending them cleanly. Found by moq-dev/moq#7149.

Approach

• One record per reader. A new Record (rs/moq-net/src/model/record.rs) holds everything a reader knows about each group:

  • delivered, skipped as stale, or written off;
  • drops it has not yet reported;
  • what it told the wire, as a Report: Settled, Dropped, Stale { received, expired, taken }, or Skip.

  track::Subscriber owns the record. DropCursor and the lite publisher's TrackRun both read and write it, so TrackRun's four sets are gone. JS mirrors this on Subscriber (#reported, #pending, #folded, WireRecord), and the JS lite publisher reaches it through hooks.wire.

• Billed to the pool. Each run costs a fixed amount (RUN_OVERHEAD in Rust, READER_RUN_OVERHEAD in JS). Only a lone delivered prefix is free, so a reader with no gaps costs nothing.

  • The bill goes through a per-reader cache::Reader, and the track tracks its readers' total bytes, count, and debt.
  • The track still pays eviction debt first: cold groups, then arrivals, then the drop set, then fresh-group shedding, then in-flight groups. Only debt left after all of that is handed to the readers, so a reader is never ended while cheaper bookkeeping is left to shed.

• Fold or end. When its track hands it debt, a reader folds its final prefix into its floor and pays with what that freed. A final run is one of:

  • a delivered group;
  • a skip, or a budget-independent drop;
  • a lite-05/06 drop;
  • a stale run already handed out or settled at the bound.

  The fold stops at the first lite-07 stale report still within reach, unknown hole, or unreported drop. If debt remains and the reader holds at least its share, the reader ends with Error::Lagged (TooFarBehind on the wire, TooFarBehind in JS).

• Misses and tails. Misses::given_up (JS: the reader's refused fills) is billed with the record and forgotten below its floor. Tail::finished (JS Tail#finished) is billed through track::Bill / hooks.billTrack, which is now a reader account the pool can hand debt to. Under debt the tail folds its older finished runs into one span. A lite-07 stale drop for a group in that span that the tail's ledger already accounted (its header arrived, or the grace gave up on it) is kept out of what the next update owes again (Tail::overtaken); any other drop is owed as before (see Decisions).

• JS range-fill setup follows demand. A fill's SUBSCRIBE setup stops once nobody wants its run, as a FETCH's does.

• JS #askFills memo. JS keeps the stale drop runs it has not settled and checks them against the track's drops by identity. It adds the runs that changed since the last probe from drops.since, instead of walking every run above the edge each time.

• Failed fetch below the end.

  • Rust: Slot::is_settled treats a fetch-only slot whose copies all aborted as settled.
  • JS: #settled skips a failed entry created by a fill.

• Relay-level tests, and the bugs they found. New tests drive each of the quest's cases through a publisher, a relay, and a viewer on mock time: rs/moq-net/tests/integration/drop_record.rs (8 tests) and js/net/src/lite/drop_record.test.ts (17). They found these bugs, now fixed:

  • A final drop held below the start was never named (Rust and JS, regressed by this PR). The record now reports aborted groups before the first group, so a publisher resolved its start past them and never told the subscriber. A relay whose reader reached lower then hung waiting on them. TrackRun::resolve (JS: the start resolution in lite/publisher.ts) now names final runs below the start. A stale run below the start stays unnamed, so a wider budget may still serve it.
  • A handed-out group could be folded before it was told (Rust and JS). A read under debt folded the group it was handing out into the floor. Its publisher then took it as already told and dropped it silently. Record::settle (JS #settleRecord) now stops the fold below the handed group.
  • JS: a widening did not re-drop evicted stale groups. #reofferStale treated a reopened stale group whose cache entry was gone as re-offered. It now judges the group again: dropped at once, or asked of a fill, as Rust does.
  • JS: a fill's OLD answer became a final drop for everyone. fetchGroup mapped OLD to NotFound. It now keeps the drop's own error. Fill.rejectGroups mirrors Rust's Inner::reject: an OLD answer is refused only to readers no more tolerant than the fill's budget.
  • JS: a fill over a huge run sent one FETCH per group. A lite-07 fill with no budget now asks for the whole run on one bounded SUBSCRIBE (#fillRun), as Rust's Recovery does. It waits for groups the subscription will re-offer, and gives up a refill that was evicted again, as Rust's Misses does.

Impact

• Public API: none.
• Wire: none.
• Behavior:
  • Under pool pressure, a reader can now end with TooFarBehind when it holds a lite-07 stale report the pool can no longer keep. Before, its records grew past the pool instead.
  • A drop folded into a reader's floor is final for that reader: if the group arrives late, that reader does not get it.
  • A declared end settles once a failed fetch is the only unfinished slot below it.
  • On lite-07, a group the pool folded while its re-offer was queued, or while its stream was open and later expired OLD, is named with a final EVICTED drop rather than a stale one.
  • A fill's OLD answer under the budget the fill asked with is a stale verdict on each reader no more tolerant, which the next update reopens (Rust and JS). Rust gave it up for good, and JS spent the one refill an evicted answer gets on it.

Caused by

moq-dev/moq#7670 added the per-cursor drop records without a bill. moq-dev/moq#8294 and moq-dev/moq#8440 billed the track's side and left this one for the quest.

Choices made without asking

• One record with a map per fact, not one map. The quest describes a single run-length map whose runs are delivered, skipped, or reported. A run can be delivered locally and reported to the wire at the same time, so one map would need combined kinds. Instead, Record holds one map per fact (delivered, skipped, written_off, pending, reported) behind one bill and one floor. Delivered and Skipped stay as types and become fields of the record. The bill counts runs across every map.
• Stale skips count as final under pressure. A stale run this reader skipped (not one it reported to the wire) folds into the floor when the track hands out debt. Otherwise, a reader in a tight pool ended over its own local skips, which no re-offer could ever bring back.
• Who ends. A reader ends only if its bill is above one entry's overhead and at least the average among the track's readers. Under pressure, the readers holding the most end first, instead of every reader ending at once.
• Received pending drops are forgotten on a fold. They can be rebuilt from the track's drop set, so the fold drops them and the reader rescans. A pending drop not yet received stops the fold.
• JS #askFills asks for the same groups as before. Copying Rust's single "highest unknown" memo would make JS ask fills above the live edge right away, since JS has no grace deferral for them. The JS memo keeps the per-run set and changes only the cost. The two stay aligned because Rust's top-only memo raises its probe target to the highest unsettled run, so both ask for the same groups.
• No run reason for the cancelled fetch. A failed fetch-only copy promised nothing, so it is ignored. No new run kind is needed.
• The fill's stale verdict needed no change in Rust. A fill's OLD reaches the track's drop set only through Inner::old_binds_everyone, which requires an ask at or past the max age bound. The fill's other answers are NotFound or refusals that record nothing. Under the floor rule, all of these are final. JS was the case left, fixed above.
• A lite-06 drop stays fetchable by a wider reader. The quest's test reads "through a lite-06 hop, a reported group stays dropped for every reader". That holds for every reader of the lite-06 subscription: no update re-offers the group. A lite-06 OLD drop is still judged under that subscription's budget, though, and the publisher may still hold the group. A first attempt refused a FETCH for any drop with no budget, and that broke the relay drills' FETCH recovery (bursts_cross_a_cluster and its siblings). So the test now asserts the opposite for a lite-07 viewer behind a lite-06 hop: its widening reopens the drop and fetches the group (a_lite06_upstream_drop_is_fetched_for_a_widened_lite07_viewer and its JS mirror).
• EVICTED across languages. Each language's relay forwards an origin's EVICTED drop unchanged, and no update re-offers it. No new cross-language test was added: both sides share the code value (0x35, Rust StreamError::Evicted, JS StreamCode.Evicted), and the existing interop suite covers SUBSCRIBE_DROP decoding.
• The JS relay-eviction test tolerates its setup's timing. Whether a narrow reader's group 0 is its start or stale depends on which group reaches it first. The test now derives the widened reader's expected groups from the drops it actually saw.
• Tests reworked for billing. a_drop_flood_stays_within_the_pool and its JS mirror now compare against the drops still held after the drain, and probe with an unbounded pool so the probe reader adds no pressure of its own.

Follow-ups

• A FETCH of a failed group keeps its frames reclaimable (new quest, pre-existing on main, found in review round 10). fetchGroup closes its subscription once the group closes, and closing the sink deletes its mirror from entry.mirrors. So the unread frames of a failed group a FETCH caller still holds are out of reach of later eviction.
• A JS fill probe costs what changed, not every unknown run (new quest, pre-existing on main). Each #askFills probe walks every received stale run it does not trust and every hole below the edge. One probe per new drop measured 0.35 s at 250 runs, 2.5 s at 500, and 19 s at 1000.
• Dropped, no quest:
  • JS fills with a budget, and lite-05/06 fills, still FETCH a group at a time. Existing quests own it: Address groups by timestamp and Lite-07 FETCH is single-group only.
  • Untimed fills below a resolved start (from moq-dev/moq#7235). Nothing shows the extra FETCH in relay traffic, and the fill's demand bounds it.

Decisions

Answered by the maintainer on 2026-11-12:

• How the subscriber's tail folds its finished streams under pool pressure (the local review's round-3 design checkpoint): ✅ option 1, decide at drop time by the tail's ledger. A stale drop for a group inside the folded span that the ledger had already accounted before the drop (its header arrived, or the grace gave up on it) is kept out of what the next update owes again; any other drop is owed as before. Rejected: keeping the head (nothing inside the folded span owed again), ending a pressured subscription with TooFarBehind, and reverting to forgetting the older runs.
• ✅ Keep the new quest quest/m1/fill-probe-cost.md.
• ✅ Add a quest for a FETCH consumer of a failed group losing its reclamation owner: quest/m1/fetch-mirror-owner.md.
• ✅ Drop the per-group fills on JS and lite-05/06 (existing quests own it) and untimed fills below a resolved start, with no quest.

Review fixes

Pullfrog and CodeRabbit posted 15 findings on 33db1bb, Pullfrog 2 more on 4131850, CodeRabbit 4 more on 3578dba, one each on 6dfa2ce, and CodeRabbit 1 more on 1e299eb. 21 are fixed, 1 test gap is covered, and 2 are declined, with a reply on each:

• Reader debt is paid by any shrink and forgiven without pressure (Rust and JS). cache::Reader::set pays the readers' debt with whatever a shrink frees, and the explicit pay calls are gone. Reader::debt forgives the debt once the pool is back within its capacity, as charge_debt forgives the track's own.
• JS front readers are billed, and the bill follows the route. A resumed subscriber bills its serving copy's account (ResumeSource.bill, hooks.billSubscriber). On a route change it moves the bill to the new route's account and closes the replaced one, so the pool serving it carries the record and hands it debt (found by Pullfrog on 4131850). Rust bills the logical track's account, which a route change keeps.
• A closed JS tail never bills again. Tail.close() clears its bill.
• Route copies settle their own record. Reader::poll_lowest settles a copy's record after each peek. A copy the pool ends is done with Lagged.
• A resumed reader retires the stale report on a group it delivers, as Cursor::hand_out does.
• A lagged reader ends its subscription without waiting for stream credit. poll_forward_drop returns Lagged once the record failed.
• A folded group goes out as a final EVICTED drop (Rust and JS). The record may fold a queued re-offer, or a group whose stream later expires OLD. The publisher then names it EVICTED instead of skipping it silently, so the peer always gets the group or a drop.
• JS: a lag closes the group it replaced, so the group no longer stays wanted.
• JS: an abandoned fill-subscription group holds no end open. hooks.receiveGroup marks fill groups as fetched.
• JS: a fill's answer is no feed arrival. Neither the answer nor its failure, through its drop, records an arrival, as Rust's insert records arrivals only for visible groups. A failed answer to a gap the feed still owes keeps the end open. A failed answer also rechecks the end when it closes, as Rust's poll_outcome does.
• JS: a failed fill answer is no verdict and is served to no reader, as in Rust. An audit of every drop-set reader (#landing, #waitOwed, reaches(), sink.drops, the hooks, shedding, expiry and merges) and every arrival count found that per-site guards would keep coming back. So instead a failed fetched group records no drop and no arrival, whether it fails with Cancel or a generic error, and the fill marker is gone. Rust serves no failed fetch-only slot and keeps it cached until its scan reclaims it. JS now does the same: #withhold takes it out of every sink that has not read it, and #mirror gives it to no new sink. The entry stays cached and billed, so a reader holding it keeps its frames and the fill's own error. Covered by JS fill: a failed answer to a gap the feed owes holds the end and the ordered reader and Rust a_failed_fill_answer_holds_an_ordered_reader.
• Test: a resumed reader takes back its queued stale runs (Rust and JS), covering the take-back below.
• Untelling a run keeps its final reports (Rust and JS), so a re-offered route-level run never clears a skip for a stale verdict to go out over.
• A resumed reader's update takes back the stale runs its logical record queued (Rust and JS), as a plain cursor does, so no old verdict goes out under the new update number.
• Test: a late subscriber is not handed a failed fill answer (found by Pullfrog on c2f8e81). The JS fill test subscribes after the failure and checks the reader still waits for group 1; it fails with the #mirror guard removed. The Rust test now asserts a pending read instead of an empty drain, which Ok(None) or an error would also pass (found by CodeRabbit).
• Local review round on 7f97d9e, all four fixed:
  • A fill's budget refusal no longer spends the eviction refill (JS js/net/src/track.ts, the asker's refuse). A refusal with a stale budget now clears what the reader asked, so each widening asks a new fill. Rust never had that bug: its refilled follows real evictions only. But Rust's Misses::resolve gave a not-looser OLD answer up for good, so a widening never asked again. It now gives it up as stale under the budget asked (give_up_stale), which an update reopens through reoffer_stale. Tests: JS fill: a refusal under an old budget is asked afresh on each widening, never spending the eviction refill, Rust a_fills_old_answer_is_asked_again_after_each_update. Each fails without its fix.
  • A failed fill answer is withheld as it aborts (JS). GroupProducer gains an internal hooks.onGroupAbort that runs inside abort, before any signal subscriber, so a read in the same turn cannot take the answer. An eviction keeps its own path. The fetch that asked keeps the answer as its outcome (the sink's existing fetch flag), as a Rust fetch hears its fill's. Before, it got the answer only because it happened to read first. Test: fill: a failed answer is withheld from a subscribed reader that reads at once, which fails without the fix. No Rust counterpart: Rust checks a failed slot (serves_end) under the lock at read time.
  • A drop updates the unknown-run memo by what it changed (JS). DropSet.removedSince reports the runs a change replaced or forgot. It is cleared once it outnumbers the live runs, and the memo then rebuilds. The probe now starts at the edge by binary search instead of walking the runs below it. This fixes the memo's rescan. The probe's own cost is the follow-up above: it was the same on main. No Rust counterpart: Misses::unknown keeps only the highest run and updates from changes.
  • The subscription model covers the pool's folds. SubscribeAccounting.tla gains Pressure, with PubFold (Record::folded: a folded expiry or queued re-offer goes out EVICTED) and TailFold (Tail::rebill). The publisher's fold passed every rule. The tail's broke QuietIsSettled: under debt it forgot that a group's stream finished, so a stale drop the stream overtook made the next update owe a group the subscriber read whole, which the publisher never resends.
• Local review round 2 on 6c60a9f:
  • The tail's fold no longer makes an update owe a group read whole (Rust and JS). Tail::rebill folds the older finished runs into one span, billed as one more run. Tail::updated returns it, and buffer_update owes none of it again. The model runs SubscribeAccounting.cfg with Pressure = TRUE, and every rule passes. The reviewer's follow-up on gaps inside the span is the decision under Waiting.
  • The model's sync commit moves to the branch's merge base, d9a88d2, as REVIEW.md asks of a squashing PR.
• Option 1 for the tail's fold (Rust and JS, the decision above). Tail::overtaken reports the groups in the folded span the ledger accounted, asked before a stale drop is accounted, and apply_response keeps those out of active.stale. buffer_update owes every held stale run again, as before the fold. Tail::fold splits the fold out of rebill. SubscribeAccounting.tla moves the check from SubUpdate to OnDrop. Tests: the Rust and JS a finished group wins over a late stale drop once evicted now fold and check that a folded group that arrived stays accounted and a fresh folded gap is owed again (the JS one also that a gap the grace gave up on stays accounted). Each fails without the fix.
• Local review on 89ff1b1, both fixed (JS):
  • A closed reader bills nothing. A read still pending when the reader closed reopened a bill for its record through #settleRecord, leaving phantom pool usage. It now bills nothing once the reader has left. Test: a closed reader bills nothing from a read still pending, which fails without the guard.
  • Drop runs append without spreading. insertDrops and the refused-run lookup in track.ts spread a peer-sized run list as call arguments, which can throw RangeError past an engine's argument limit. Both append in a loop.
• Merging main broke an_origin_eviction_drop_is_forwarded_final. Since moq-dev/moq#8485, the later reader opens a fresh SUBSCRIBE on each hop, so the test now counts asks after the later reader drains, and holds only the update to asking nothing again.
• Declined: billing the first delivered run when it starts above zero. One delivered run per reader is free wherever it starts. A reader that joins mid-track with no gaps has nothing to fold, and billing it would only make gap-free readers candidates to end.

Models

Size: L
Implementer: Claude Code, Claude Opus 5.5, high effort
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, high effort (iterate, M)
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, low effort (iterate, S)
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort (iterate, M)
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort (iterate, M)

Validation

• just check passes on the head, which merged origin/main at d9a88d2.

• The relay-level drop record tests pass with none ignored or skipped:

  • Rust: 8 tests.
  • JS: 17 tests.

• moq-relay drills bursts_cross_a_cluster, bursts_cross_a_transport_peer, and bursts_cross_a_flapping_peer passed in an earlier round.

• track_subscriber_churn_drops measures CPU per drop with 256 readers holding 65,536 reported runs each:

  • 0.22 ms per drop at both span 1 and span 2^32;
  • 0.165 ms with one run each.

  The quest cited 0.75 ms against 0.18 ms for the same cells, so the cost now tracks the runs touched and never their span.

• TLC 1.8.0 on Java 21, 4 workers: SubscribeAccounting.cfg with Pressure = TRUE passes every rule with option 1 (13.05M distinct states, 59 s). StreamWins.cfg, without pressure, fails on its open finding as before.

Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, high effort
• Session: 01a1ce84-3903-7392-9eb4-a94af2c5b5a4, round 2
• Head: 79e39da
• Base: origin/main at d3b6c25
• Score: 10/10, Both earlier findings are fixed, and the incremental changes introduce no new issues on code inspection; builds and tests were not run as instructed.
• Findings: none
• The last round's findings, at 89ff1b1:
  • Fixed: medium, js/net/src/track.ts:3140: Keep the reader bill terminal after local close; At js/net/src/track.ts:3143, #settleRecord returns when #left is true, preventing pending reads from reopening the bill released by close().
  • Fixed: medium, js/net/src/internal.ts:292: Append drop runs without expanding function arguments; The append operations at js/net/src/internal.ts:293 and js/net/src/track.ts:922 now iterate over runs, eliminating argument spreading for both peer-sized collections.

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Important

The record/billing design holds up and the end-settlement fix is sound, but three gaps in the new accounting are worth closing before merge: the readers' debt is never forgiven once the pool has room again, JS resumed readers never open a bill at all, and JS Tail.close() can be re-billed after it releases.

Reviewed changes

• One record per reader (rs/moq-net/src/model/record.rs, JS Subscriber.#reported/#pending/#folded/WireRecord). Record replaces DropCursor's two maps, Skipped-as-cursor-state, Subscriber.delivered, and the lite publisher's four sets; Report gains Settled and Stale{received,expired,taken}. Report::blocks is behaviour-equivalent to the old cursor version (Hole::Skip errors as NotFound, so a stale report still never blocks a skip).
• Runs billed to the cache pool. cache::Reader plus per-track Readers bytes/count/debt; TrackState::pay_debt shifts what the track cannot pay onto readers last, and Record::{settle,fold,fail} folds final runs into a floor or ends the reader with Lagged above ENTRY_OVERHEAD and its readers' average. track::Bill bills the tail, Misses becomes Beside.
• Failed fetch below the end settles it. Slot::is_settled treats a fetch-only slot whose copies all aborted as settled; JS mirrors it with CachedGroup.fetched and #settled. Verified safe: copies() always yields the live handle, is_aborted() is monotone, a pending fetch has no lookup slot, and #createGroup never lets a live entry inherit fetched.
• JS fills reworked: #fillRun asks a whole run on one bounded lite-07 SUBSCRIBE, fill setup aborts when demand disappears, rejectGroups keeps an OLD verdict on the reader's own budget, and #unknownRuns memoizes the unsettled stale runs.
• Relay-level tests via a publisher, relay, and viewer on mock time: rs/moq-net/tests/integration/drop_record.rs (8) and js/net/src/lite/drop_record.test.ts (17). None are skipped, and the quest deletion and its re-linked follow-ups are consistent.

ℹ️ Two billing invariants have no test

Both of the accounting gaps below would be caught by a test the new suites do not have: one that returns the pool under capacity after a debt is handed to readers and asserts no reader ends, and one that asserts a routed/front reader's record bills at all. The JS relay test's relay.pool.used assertion is satisfied by the ingest copy's reader, so it does not cover the front's.

Technical details

# Test coverage gaps

## Missing
- `rs/moq-net/src/model/record.rs` / `js/net/src/cache.test.ts`: after `owe_readers` shifts debt, return the pool under capacity (`Pool::resize` up, or evict elsewhere), then read. Nothing asserts the reader survives.
- `js/net/src/lite/drop_record.test.ts`: no reader created through `hooks.resumeSubscriber` (`FrontConsumer.subscribe`) is asserted to bill into a pool.

## Required outcome
- A test that a debt handed out under pressure does not end a reader once the pool is under capacity, in both languages.
- A JS test that a front's reader record shows up in the pool it serves from.

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Walkthrough

This change adds billed reader records in JavaScript and Rust. Cache accounting, track delivery, and range reporting now use those records to fold eligible history under debt and end readers when debt remains on protected ranges. Lite publisher and subscriber paths update stale-report handling, re-offers, and fill recovery, including bounded Lite-07 SUBSCRIBE fills. The change also adjusts stale error propagation, adds tests for billing, eviction, widening, failed fills, and large ranges, and revises quest references.

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review c2f8e

The new reader-record billing can still leave some memory uncharged to the cache pool or charged after a reader closes. Under pool pressure, stale reader debt can also fold records or end readers with TooFarBehind or Lagged when it should not. These affect resource limits and reader continuity in constrained deployments. They should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Title check		The title accurately describes one real fix: failed fetches below the declared end no longer keep the track open. However, the main change is the broader Drop set implementation, including per-reader …
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Description check		The description is specific and related to the changeset. It explains that the PR completes the Drop set quest by adding a shared per-reader Record in Rust and JS, billing those records to the cache p…

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The title accurately describes one real fix: failed fetches below the declared end no longer keep the track open. However, the main change is the broader Drop set implementation, including per-reader records, cache billing, and stale-drop handling.

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The description is specific and related to the changeset. It explains that the PR completes the Drop set quest by adding a shared per-reader Record in Rust and JS, billing those records to the cache pool, and ending readers with TooFarBehind under pressure. It also names the affected files and tests, including the Rust and JS relay-level drop record tests, the failed-fetch settlement fix, and the quest file deletion. This matches the raw summary of changes across the Rust, JS, and quest files.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @js/net/src/cache.ts:
- Around line 449-454: Update #payDebt and its Rust counterpart to clear stale
reader debt once pool pressure ends, before it can affect record folding or
trigger TooFarBehind. Preserve reader-debt accounting while pressure remains
active.

Review comments at @js/net/src/lite/subscriber.ts:
- Around line 2765-2766: Pass the fill-subscription status through
hooks.receiveGroup to runGroup, and mark fill groups as fetched there so
abandonment does not leave Producer.closed or Demand.closed pending; preserve
the existing behavior for live-feed groups.

Review comments at @js/net/src/track.ts:
- Around line 4206-4211: Update the lag-handling path in #tryRecvUnsettled so
that when #settleRecord returns an error after #tryRecvUnsettled has handed out
a GroupConsumer, the group is explicitly released before returning { kind:
"error" }. Use the existing hooks.releaseGroupReader call on recv.group in this
branch, and apply the same missing release in #tryNextGroup so a lagged reader
does not keep the source group wanted open.
- Around line 3056-3065: Update #recordRuns() to exempt one delivered run only
when the delivered prefix actually contains group 0; otherwise, bill every
delivered run so an initial run above zero is not omitted.

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/lite/publisher.rs:
- Line 5696: Update the re-offer flow around `record.untell(run)` so the queued
sequence remains non-final until it is served or dropped; prevent
`poll_forward_drop` and `Record::fold` from advancing the floor past it and
causing the `told` check to discard it. Preserve the existing behavior once the
queued re-offer is resolved.
- Line 5704: Update the `Report::Settled` write in `serve()` so an in-flight
Lite-07 group remains non-final while stream credit or FIN acknowledgement is
pending; record settlement only once the stream outcome is final. Preserve the
`sent_stale()` path so an `OLD` expiration report can be recorded before the
irreversible floor and a widening update can reopen the group.

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/model/cache.rs:
- Around line 1378-1381: Update Reader::set and Tail::updated so every reduction
of a reader’s bill, including setting it to zero, pays the corresponding reader
debt; remove existing explicit payments in Record::settle or other paths when
they would pay the same shrink twice. Preserve the existing byte and pool
accounting while ensuring each shrink’s debt is paid exactly once.
- Around line 1391-1393: Update reader-debt reconciliation in Pool::resize and
the debt flow exposed by Reader::debt so outstanding debt is cleared when the
capacity limit is removed or pool usage returns within the target. Synchronize
reconciliation with owe_readers so concurrent debt assignments are not lost, and
preserve eviction behavior while pool pressure remains.

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/model/record.rs:
- Around line 297-301: Update the delivered-run adjustment in the record
accounting expression so it subtracts one only when the first delivered run
starts at zero; otherwise count that run. Add a test covering a reader whose
first delivery is above zero, and preserve the existing prefix behavior.

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs:
- Line 9574: Settle accumulated delivered and skipped records on route-copy
peek-and-take paths, which can bypass poll_group. Update
Subscriber::poll_peek_group and Subscriber::take to use the existing
settle_record accounting, including when peek skips groups and then parks.
- Around line 10068-10069: Update the settle_record failure path so a record
failure remains observable and can propagate as Error::Lagged even when stream
credit is unavailable. Coordinate the result handling with the Lite publisher so
it can detect and report the terminal failure without waiting for the opening
group to receive credit; preserve Pending behavior when there is no record
failure.
- Line 9747: Update the resumed-reader group-arrival branch around
delivered.insert(sequence) to retire sequence from logical.record, matching
Cursor::hand_out. Preserve the existing delivery bookkeeping while ensuring the
logical record no longer retains a stale report for the delivered group.

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• js/net/src/broadcast.test.ts
• js/net/src/broadcast.ts
• js/net/src/cache.test.ts
• js/net/src/cache.ts
• js/net/src/delivered.ts
• js/net/src/fill.test.ts
• js/net/src/fill.ts
• js/net/src/internal.ts
• js/net/src/lite/copy_fill.test.ts
• js/net/src/lite/drop_record.test.ts
• js/net/src/lite/publisher.test.ts
• js/net/src/lite/publisher.ts
• js/net/src/lite/subscriber.ts
• js/net/src/tail.ts
• js/net/src/track.test.ts
• js/net/src/track.ts
• quest/m1/README.md
• quest/m1/copy-recover.md
• quest/m1/drop-runs-prune.md
• quest/m1/drop-set.md
• quest/m1/group-error-cache.md
• quest/m1/stream-credit/takeover.md
• quest/m2/README.md
• quest/m2/group-drops.md
• quest/m2/recut-held.md
• quest/m2/subscribe-ranges/js-fills.md
• quest/m2/subscribe-ranges/lite07-fetch.md
• quest/m2/subscribe-ranges/start-bookkeeping.md
• quest/m2/time-addressing/model.md
• quest/m3/lite-tail-drop-count.md
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/publisher.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/cache.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/delivered.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/mod.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/record.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/skipped.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/track/miss.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/tail.rs
• rs/moq-net/tests/integration/drop_record.rs
• rs/moq-net/tests/integration/main.rs

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• quest/m2/README.md
• quest/m3/lite-tail-drop-count.md
• quest/m1/drop-set.md

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Important

A resumed reader's bill is opened once, against the serving copy's account, and never rebound, so a route change leaves the record charging a replaced route's pool and out of reach of the pool it now serves. Everything else in this delta holds up.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the delta from 33db1bba9 to 41318508e (14 files).

• Made every bill shrink pay the readers' debt (cache::Reader::set, JS cache.Reader.set) and forgave the remainder once the pool is back within capacity, removing the explicit pay calls from Record::settle, Bill, and both Tail implementations.
• Billed JS resumed readers through ResumeSource.bill() / hooks.billSubscriber / Subscriber.#openBill, and retired a resumed reader's stale report on a group it delivers (JS #handOut, Rust hand_out).
• Settled a route copy's own record after each peek in resume::Reader::poll_lowest, and ended a lagged TrackRun from poll_forward_drop rather than waiting for stream credit.
• Named a group the pool folded while its re-offer waited with a final EVICTED drop (Rust TrackRun, JS publisher) instead of skipping it silently.
• Marked JS fill-subscription groups as fetched, closed the JS group a lag replaced, and cleared the JS Tail bill on close().
• Added a_debt_is_paid_by_any_shrink_and_forgiven_without_pressure in Rust and JS.

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Reviewed changes

Reviewed the delta from 41318508e to 3578dba36 (5 files).

• A resumed reader's bill follows its serving route. cache::Reader.bills(account) lets a bill say which account it charges, ResumeSource.bill(current) / hooks.billSubscriber(subscriber, current) keep current while it bills the same account and otherwise open a new one, and Subscriber.#settleRecord closes the replaced route's bill before adopting the new one, so the replaced pool stops carrying the record and the serving pool's debt can fold it.
• A test pins the move. a routed reader's record bills the serving route's pool across a route change bills 63 gap runs on the first route, swaps, reads one more group, and asserts the bill's bytes leave the first pool and land on the second.

Verified by running the new test plus resume.test.ts, cache.test.ts, and track.test.ts (393 pass) and tsc --noEmit -p js/net. With the rebinding reverted, the new test fails, so it targets this fix rather than passing incidentally.

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Reviewed changes

Reviewed the delta from c2f8e816d to 7f97d9e99 (1 commit, 2 files): the two tests that close the previous round's coverage gap.

• The #mirror failed-fill guard is now pinned (JS). failedAnswerHoldsTheEnd subscribes a second ordered reader after the fill answer aborts and asserts it replays group 0 and then waits for group 1; deleting the guard fails the test at that assertion, so the "served to no new sink" half of the fix is covered.
• The Rust ordered-read assertion now rejects a premature end. a_failed_fill_answer_holds_an_ordered_reader polls poll_next_group(&kio::Waiter::noop()) and requires Pending, instead of relying on an empty drain_ordered, which Ok(None) or an error would also satisfy.

Verified locally: bun test js/net/src/fill.test.ts passes (44 tests) and fails only at the new late-reader assertion when the #mirror guard is removed; cargo test -p moq-net --lib --features async a_failed_fill_answer_holds_an_ordered_reader passes, and rustfmt --check is clean.

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Design change: the subscriber's tail decides at drop time by its ledger which folded groups an update owes again (the maintainer's option 1 at the round-3 checkpoint).

Before, after a fold under pool pressure the next update owed nothing inside the folded span, so a never-received gap there that a widening made the publisher re-serve was not waited for. Now Tail::overtaken (JS Tail.overtaken) runs before a stale drop is accounted. It reports the groups in the folded span that the ledger already accounted, because their header arrived or the grace gave up on them. apply_response keeps only those out of the stale runs the next update reopens. Any other drop is owed as before. SubscribeAccounting.tla moves the check from SubUpdate to OnDrop, and SubscribeAccounting.cfg still passes with Pressure = TRUE. Commit 3499d64.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5 with medium effort)

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Important

The tail's fold now implements the option the Decisions section records as rejected, and the body still names a Tail::overtaken mechanism that no longer exists. That is a record/design conflict rather than a code bug — the delta's fixes themselves check out — but whichever design is intended needs to be the one recorded.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the delta from 7f97d9e99 to 2828cc6f2 (10 commits, ~16 files): the four findings from the previous local review round plus the tail's fold.

• A fill's OLD answer under the budget asked is a stale verdict, not a final one. Rust Misses::resolve now sends a not-looser (Error::Old, Some(asked)) through give_up_stale, which an update reopens via reoffer_stale, and the JS asker's refuse clears #asked/#refilled on a stale refusal so each widening asks a fresh fill instead of spending the one eviction refill.
• A failed fill answer is withheld as it aborts (JS). An internal hooks.onGroupAbort runs inside GroupProducer.#end before any signal subscriber, so #withhold takes the failed fetched group out of every sink that has not read it before a same-turn read can take it; the fetch's own sink.fetch keeps it as its outcome.
• A reader's unknown-run memo updates by what changed (JS). DropSet.removedSince reports the extents a change replaced or forgot, #unknownRuns splices those out of the memo in place and inserts drops.since changes, and the probe now starts at the edge by binary search.
• The tail's fold remembers the span it forgot. Tail::rebill (Rust and JS) folds every finished run but the newest into one span, Tail::updated returns it, and the update path owes none of that span again, so an update can no longer owe a group whose stream it read whole.
• The subscription model covers pool pressure. SubscribeAccounting.tla gains Pressure, PubFold, and TailFold, with SubUpdate subtracting forgot; SubscribeAccounting.cfg runs Pressure = TRUE while StreamWins.cfg stays without it.
• Tests and quest bookkeeping. removedSince gains a unit test, the two JS fixes gain tests that fail without them, the drop-record test counts asks after the later reader drains (#8485), and quest/m1/fill-probe-cost.md records the probe's remaining per-run cost.

Ran bun test over drops, cache, fill, tail, track, resume, lite/drop_record, and lite/copy_fill (476 pass), tsc for js/net, the full moq-net lib suite (3198 pass), and the 8 drop_record integration tests; all pass. Reverting either JS fix fails its new test.

⚠️ The tail's fold implements the option the Decisions section rejects

The Decisions section records option 1 — decide at drop time by the tail's ledger, so only a drop the ledger had already accounted is kept out, and "any other drop is owed as before" — and lists "keeping the head (nothing inside the folded span owed again)" as rejected. The head does the rejected thing: buffer_update removes the whole folded span from what the update owes again, Tail::overtaken and Tail::fold are gone, and the model's SubUpdate encodes the same whole-span rule. The Approach section still names Tail::overtaken, and Validation still says the Pressure run "passes every rule with option 1".

Technical details

# The folded span is excluded whole, not by the tail's ledger

## Affected sites
- `rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber.rs:10546` — `let folded = tail.updated()`, then `owed.remove(folded.clone())` at 10552: every group in the folded span is dropped from the update's owed set, whether or not its stream finished.
- `js/net/src/lite/subscriber.ts:2630` and `2640` — the same rule through `runGaps([folded], start, end)`.
- `rs/moq-net/src/tail.rs:39` — `folded: Option<Range<u64>>` replaced the `Tail::overtaken` mechanism the body describes.
- `rs/moq-net/verify/subscribe/SubscribeAccounting.tla:393` — `acct' = acct \ ((sstale \cap held) \ forgot)` encodes the whole-span rule, so the passing `Pressure = TRUE` run proves this design, not the recorded one.
- `.claude/skills/verify-subscribe/SKILL.md` — already documents the whole-span rule ("`Tail::rebill` still forgets a finished run by design: the overtaken drop records the group stale, though the update owes none of the span it forgot again").

## Required outcome
- One of:
  - the code filters the reopened stale runs by the tail's ledger, so only a group it had accounted before the drop is kept out, as `Tail::overtaken` and the Decisions section describe; or
  - the Decisions section, the Approach's `Tail::overtaken` sentence, and Validation's "with option 1" wording record the whole-span rule as the landed design, and the rejected alternative is corrected.

## Open questions for the human
- Is the whole-span exclusion intended? For a group inside the span whose stream never finished, the stale drop is spent for that update: the subscriber treats the group as accounted and relies on the publisher re-offering or re-dropping it under the same update instead of owing it again. The model shows the subscription still settles, so this is a lost round trip rather than a stall — but it is the case the recorded decision kept owing.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the delta from 2828cc6f2 to 79e39da58 (4 commits, ~10 files): the ledger-filtered tail fold the previous review asked for, the two quest-review fixes, and bookkeeping.

• The tail's fold is filtered by the tail's ledger, as the Decisions section requires. Tail::fold (Rust and JS) is split out of rebill, and Tail::overtaken reports the folded span's groups the ledger already accounts; apply_response and the JS drop handler ask it before tail.account, then subtract it from what the next update owes. A drop a finished stream overtook stays out, while a gap the drop accounted first is owed again. Tail::updated no longer returns a span and buffer_update is back to unaccounting every recorded stale run, with the TLA OnDrop/SubUpdate rules and SKILL.md following.
• A closed JS reader bills nothing from a read still pending. Subscriber.#settleRecord returns early on #left, so a read that wakes after close() cannot reopen the bill close() released.
• Peer-sized runs append without spreading. insertDrops and givenUp push runs in a loop rather than as call arguments, past any engine argument limit.
• Bookkeeping. quest/m1/fetch-mirror-owner.md records the pre-existing FETCH-mirror ownership gap, and the stray TLC trace files are gone from verify/subscribe/.

Verified: bun test net/src (3141 pass, 1 skip), the moq-net lib suite (3198 pass), the 8 drop_record integration tests, sh/coverage-tables.py, and tsc all pass. Mutation-checked the two new guards: removing the #left early return fails a closed reader bills nothing from a read still pending, and making Tail.overtaken return nothing fails the extended a finished group wins over a late stale drop once evicted on lite-07.

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