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Claims quest/m2/unbounded-groups/byte-holes.md and lands its first slice. The quest file is rewritten to what remains.

Problem

When a route fails partway through a frame, frame::Consumer's Recover refetches the frame from its first byte and skips locally. A reader that already took 2 MiB of a 5 MiB frame makes the next route send all 5 MiB again. Shedding sealed segments and starting flights mid-frame (the rest of the quest) need the same building block: a group copy that starts partway into a frame.

Approach

Wire (lite-07-wip only): FETCH gains Start Byte after Frame Start. The response's first FRAME still states the frame's full size, and carries only its payload from that byte. Later frames are whole. A FETCH response has no header, so no GROUP field was needed for this. Older lite versions refuse to encode a non-zero start byte, and a compressed track never asks for or serves one.

Model: group::Bounds gains byte. A copy bounded at (frame f, byte b) starts at frame f+1, like any mid-group copy. It keeps the rest of f aside as its Lead, outside the frame log. So every whole-frame and lock-free read finds f missing (Lagged), as on a copy that starts at f+1. Only group::Consumer::at(f, b') with poll_next_frame_at(b') reads it, for b' >= b. covers treats (f, b) lexicographically, so a copy from byte b answers a later ask from any byte at or past b. The lead's bytes are billed through a cache::Extra and freed with the last reader holding them.

Fill: the fill's start carries the byte beside its Position, and joins merge by (frame, byte). The lite subscriber asks the byte only for a plain track, and only for the fill's first group. fetch_range widens a cold or compressed request to the whole group upstream, as it already did for frames.

Recover: a frame read asks the serving route for (index, read_idx). The replacement's frame must start at or before read_idx, or the read fails Lagged instead of misaligning. Group-level reads ask byte 0.

JS: @moq/net encodes and decodes startByte, and its publisher serves a FETCH from a byte (sendPayloadFrom). Its subscriber still asks from byte 0. Recovering by byte in JS is JS byte holes.

Choices made without asking

• Public Position did not gain a byte field, though the Plan said it would. The byte stays crate-private (group::Fetch::byte_start, the fill's start, group::Bounds::byte). See Decisions.
• Rust readers already had a chunked payload read (frame::Consumer::read_chunk / poll_read_chunk), so that Plan item needed nothing.
• Start Byte follows Frame Start on the wire, beside it as the Plan says, rather than after Frame End.
• A non-zero start byte at or past the frame's size resets the FETCH (WrongSize). A start byte on a compressed track resets it as a protocol violation.
• buffer_frame_info takes the payload length that follows separately from the stated size, so delivery billing counts only the bytes sent.
• Taken while the maintainer was away (/quest-afk), settling Pullfrog's and a second Codex session's findings:
  • Only GroupFill::accept_from (the lite subscriber answering from a byte) starts a copy partway into a frame. Fill::accept, which the moq-transport subscriber and app handlers (MoqFill::accept) use, always builds whole-frame bounds, so a whole-frame answer keeps each frame at its index and Recover skips the bytes it had, as before this PR.
  • A lead read from a byte past the frame's size fails WrongSize, like a whole-frame read, so the publisher's size - byte cannot underflow.
  • A track with a MoqTransport Version (relayed under the ietf extension) never asks for or serves a start byte: its object records name whole objects. The subscriber falls back to whole-frame recovery for it, and the publisher resets such a FETCH as a protocol violation. Both drafts say so. Picked over teaching the record ingest about the lead, since moq-transport compatibility is low priority.
  • A lead's bytes count toward the group's 32 MiB live tail, and trim sheds the lead first, as the oldest frame. A reader already holding it keeps its buffer; one that had not taken it reads Lagged.
  • From CodeRabbit: the lead counts at its declared rest, a copy with a lead adopts no head, opening a lead settles the relay state (wrote), and a byte read of a lead keeps the read's expiry (Old, and a frame::Expiry on its frame).
  • A non-zero Start Byte must name a byte within its frame: both publishers refuse one at or past the frame's size, and the lite draft says so (rejected: let a subscriber accept an empty lead). Our Recover never asks for one.
  • A copy started partway into frame 0 is kept in the fill's partial copies, like any other bounded copy. It has no regression test, because the fill join merges the two fetches that would set up the displacement.

Public API and wire impact

• Public API: none. group::Fetch gains a crate-private field, and lite::Fetch::start_byte is added to the crate's lite message type.
• Wire: lite-07-wip FETCH gains Start Byte (breaking for lite-07-wip peers, so Rust and JS change together; published versions are unchanged). drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-lite.md documents it with a changelog entry, and drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-ietf.md forbids it on a track with a Version.
• No migration: lite-07 is unpublished.

Validation

• rs/moq-net/tests/integration/byte_holes.rs: relays P → A, B → E over lite-07. E reads 2 MiB of a 5 MiB frame through A, A's session dies, and E continues through B. B's session sent 3145736 payload bytes for the 3145732-byte rest (the other 4 are group 1's frame). With the subscriber's start byte stubbed to 0, the same test fails: B resends 5242891 bytes.
• Model tests: group::a_copy_started_partway_into_a_frame_serves_only_its_rest (lead reads, Lagged whole reads, covers, refusals) and resume::a_half_read_frame_asks_only_for_the_rest (the fill asks (0, 2) and the reader continues with only cd).
• Codec tests: Rust fetch_start_byte_roundtrips_only_on_lite07, and a JS round-trip of the same.
• just check passes (13048 Rust tests, JS, drafts, quest).
• Local review, quest review --harness codex (gpt-6.1-sol, high). Round 1 found two medium issues, both fixed here: a lead frame's bytes were missing from the group's eviction footprint (Handle::cache_size), and lead producers skipped the ingress meter. Round 2 found nothing.
• Review fixes (on 3fcb02d): group::a_lead_is_shed_first_past_the_live_tail (fails without the fix: the copy holds 40 MiB), resume::a_half_read_frame_continues_from_a_whole_frame_answer (fails without the fill fix: the frame log shifts by one), lite::publisher::a_start_byte_is_refused_on_a_track_with_object_records (moq-transport track resets, moq-lite track serves cd), a past-the-end WrongSize case in the lead test, and on 36017ae group::a_lead_read_expires_as_old, group::a_copy_with_a_lead_adopts_no_head, and a poll_wire check in the lead test (each hangs or fails without its fix). cargo test -p moq-net --no-default-features --lib --no-run builds. No subscriber unit test covers skipping the byte for a moq-transport track; the publisher refusal backs it. cargo test -p moq-net --all-features (all pass) and clippy are clean. just check's Rust steps passed (13049 tests); its JS step hung in nix build .#moq-libav (no CPU for 55 minutes, unrelated to this Rust-only change), so it was stopped. CI covers the rest.
• just test interop --all, rerun on 86535ae: 214 passed. The one failure, browser close code / refused session (the refused WebSocket session never reports its close), is a pre-existing case that moq-dev/moq#8694, still open, fixes. It is unrelated to FETCH.

Caused by

No single PR. Byte-precise refetch was planned work: the epic noted Recover "refetches the frame from its start and skips locally, so a byte-precise request is new work".

Decisions

Decided 2026-11-13 (maintainer, /quest-complete):

• ✅ Keep the byte crate-private until a public API needs it (rejected: add Position::byte now, about 90 literals across moq-net, moq-archive, and moq-ffi).
• ✅ Merge this slice alone, with the quest rewritten to keep the rest (rejected: grow this PR to the whole quest). The rest is sealed-segment eviction, lifting the frame cap, the GROUP header byte offset, flights at (frame, byte), the e2ee draft's 32 MiB cap, and the relay-chain memory test. The rewritten quest's Plan records both decisions.

Follow-ups

None new. The rest stays in the rewritten Byte holes quest.

Models

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Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Head: 1242d5f

• Base: origin/main at bd617cc

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, high effort

• Session: 01a1d7a7-ca8c-72b2-99d5-300f0e0aaa08, round 8

• Score: 10/10, The incremental changes consistently reject non-zero offsets at or beyond a frame’s end across Rust, JS, and the draft, with no new issues found during source-only review.

• Rounds: 8; findings 3 (medium 2, low 1): fixed 3, refuted 0, open 0

• Findings: none

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Walkthrough

The change adds version-gated Start Byte support to lite FETCH in JavaScript and Rust. Publishers can return the remaining payload of the first frame while retaining its full declared size in response metadata. Group copies, subscriber paths, fills, and recovery now carry byte offsets to support partial-frame reads and route replacement. Drafts and tests describe and exercise the new behavior.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 36017

Partial-frame FETCH continuation is mostly in good shape, and the earlier expiry, relay-state, head-adoption and test-gating problems are fixed. Two rare edge cases remain: a Start Byte equal to the frame size may be rejected, and a byte-only partial copy may not be retained for fallback. Owners should be aware of both, and neither blocks merge.

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The title names the main change: lite-07 FETCH gains a Start Byte so a half-read frame continues by byte. The changeset matches this: wire docs in both drafts, Fetch encode/decode in Rust and JS, publisher serving from a byte, and the group/resume model changes. The title uses the conventional commit form and is specific, at 80 characters and 11 words.

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The description states the PR claims the byte-holes quest and lands its first slice: lite-07 FETCH gains a Start Byte, the model gains a byte-bounded copy with a lead, and recovery and fill logic change. The changeset matches these claims across drafts, JS and Rust code, and quest files. The description is specific and on-topic.

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[pullfrog]

Important

A peer's FETCH with a Start Byte past the frame's size can underflow the Rust publisher's billing math when a relay serves it from a copy that itself starts partway into that frame. This breaks the rule in AGENTS.md that a peer's violation must never panic.

Reviewed changes

Reviewed the full diff at 86535ae: lite-07 FETCH Start Byte on the wire, the group model's Lead, and byte-precise Recover.

• Wire: lite-07-wip FETCH carries Start Byte after Frame Start in Rust, JS, and the draft. Older versions refuse to encode a non-zero byte.
• Model: group::Bounds::byte makes a copy start at f+1 and keep the rest of frame f aside as a Lead. Only Consumer::at + poll_next_frame_at read it, and its bytes count toward cache_size.
• Fill / Recover: fills merge on (frame, byte). A mid-frame Recover asks for (index, read_idx) and refuses a replacement whose base is past it.
• Publishers: Rust FetchServe writes the lead's full-size header and bills only the bytes sent (buffer_frame_info's new sent). JS #runFetchGroup skips through sendPayloadFrom.

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[moq-bot]

quest land watch: ended this pull request's pick, disarming its auto-merge, since its head 86535ae is held by finding by pullfrog[bot]: The lead branch only checks from >= lead.byte and never checks from frame.size → WrongSize). Take a relay holding (#8699 (comment)). Push a fix, or answer each by a thread reply or a comment linking its review or decision, then land it again.

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[pullfrog]

Important

A group fill that asks from a byte puts a Lead on every copy it accepts, including copies written by transports and apps that know nothing about bytes. On a moq-transport upstream this shifts the whole frame log up by one index, so not approving yet. The lite-07 path itself looks correct.

Reviewed changes

I reviewed the full diff: wire codec, Rust and JS publishers, the lite subscriber, group/frame model changes, fill merging, Recover, and the tests.

• Lite-07 FETCH Start Byte: encoded after Frame Start in Rust and JS. Older versions refuse a non-zero byte, and the draft has a changelog entry.
• group::Bounds::byte and Lead: a copy that starts partway into frame f begins at f+1 and keeps the rest of f outside the frame log. Only Consumer::at + poll_next_frame_at read that rest. covers compares (frame, byte) lexicographically.
• Publisher serving from a byte: the first frame states its full size and sends only the suffix. buffer_frame_info now bills only the bytes actually sent.
• Fill and Recover: the fill's start carries the byte, and joins merge by (frame, byte). A mid-frame Recover asks for (index, read_idx) and refuses a replacement whose frame starts after read_idx.
• Tests: model tests for lead reads and covers, a resume test, codec round-trips, and a relay-chain integration test that measures the bytes resent.

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Both of your threads are fixed on 3fcb02d (WrongSize on a lead read past the frame's size, and only GroupFill::accept_from starting a copy partway into a frame). A second local Codex pass also found and fixed: no start byte for tracks with a MoqTransport Version under the ietf extension, and a lead's bytes count toward the 32 MiB live tail.

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[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found. Both earlier findings are fixed, and their threads are resolved.

Reviewed changes

I reviewed the three commits pushed since the last Pullfrog review: 493c2c5, a8e0e92, and 3fcb02d.

• Start byte past the frame's end: the lead branch of poll_next_frame_at now returns WrongSize when from is greater than info.size, as the whole-frame branch already did. This removes the underflow in the publisher's next.size - byte.
• Only a byte answer makes a lead copy: Inner::accept now sets the byte to 0. Only accept_from, which the lite subscriber uses, can start a copy partway into a frame. Copies from moq-transport and app handlers keep each frame at its own index. a_half_read_frame_continues_from_a_whole_frame_answer covers this.
• No start byte on tracks with object records: the lite subscriber does not ask for a byte on a track with moq-transport provenance. The publisher rejects such a request with ProtocolViolation when the ietf extension carries object records. Both drafts document this, and 3fcb02d limits the lite draft's wording to a Track that carries a MoqTransport Version.
• The lead counts toward the live tail: GroupState::tail() now includes lead_bytes(). trim sheds an opened lead before any whole frame, and a reader already holding the lead keeps its bytes.

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I didn't submit a new review. Pullfrog already approved this PR at the current head, 3fcb02d (review), and nothing has been pushed since.

That approval covered all four fixes you listed: the WrongSize check on a lead read past the frame's size, only GroupFill::accept_from starting a copy partway into a frame, no start byte for tracks with a MoqTransport Version, and a lead's bytes counting toward the 32 MiB live tail. Both of the earlier review threads are resolved. If you push more commits, mention me again and I'll review them.

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Minor · Retain byte-only partial copies in Outcome.partial. · fill.rs:1338

rs/moq-net/src/model/track/fill.rs:1338
Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Retain byte-only partial copies in Outcome.partial.

Outcome::partial is documented to hold every accepted copy that is short of the whole group. A frame-0 copy with frames.byte > 0 and no end is short of the whole group. The retention condition does not test frames.byte, so such a copy is never recorded. If a later copy displaces it from the cache, the reader has no retained handle to fall back on. The reader then fails with NotFound when that later copy also leaves the cache before the reader takes the answer. Including frames.byte in the condition makes the retention match the documented contract.

Suggested fix

-				&& (self.flight || frames.start > 0 || frames.end.is_some())
+				&& (self.flight || frames.start > 0 || frames.byte > 0 || frames.end.is_some())

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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/src/model/track/fill.rs at line 1338:
Update the partial-copy retention condition in Outcome::partial to include copies with frames.byte greater than zero. Preserve the existing flight, frame-start, and frame-end checks so every accepted copy short of the whole group is retained.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/model/group.rs:
- Line 6970: Update the test containing `frame.read_all()` so it also compiles
when the async feature is disabled: use the available `poll_read_all` path, or
apply the same async feature gate as the preceding test. Preserve the test’s
existing assertion behavior.
- Around line 4376-4378: Update the byte-offset FETCH path for an opened lead,
where `frame::Consumer::new` creates a partial frame, to apply the same group
and frame expiry handling as `poll_next_frame`. Ensure the lead lookup also uses
`poll_expired_if_blocked` while waiting, so the FETCH can complete when its
`max_delay` expires even if upstream stops sending.
- Line 2184: Update the lead admission path around FrameBuf::admitted so it
reserves the lead’s unwritten remainder when calculating available space,
checking capacity when the lead is opened as open_frame does. Ensure adopt_head
cannot use that reserved capacity for a matching head, while preserving existing
admission behavior for written content.
- Around line 2184-2194: Update open_lead to set wrote when it opens a lead,
matching open_frame. First verify that consumers of wrote treat an opened lead
as a written frame; preserve the existing lead and buffer handling.

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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/model/track/fill.rs:
- Line 1338: Update the partial-copy retention condition in Outcome::partial to
include copies with frames.byte greater than zero. Preserve the existing flight,
frame-start, and frame-end checks so every accepted copy short of the whole
group is retained.

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• drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-ietf.md
• drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-lite.md
• js/net/src/lite/fetch.test.ts
• js/net/src/lite/fetch.ts
• js/net/src/lite/publisher.ts
• js/net/src/lite/version.ts
• js/net/src/payload.ts
• quest/m2/unbounded-groups/byte-holes.md
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/fetch.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/publisher.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/version.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/frame.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/group.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/resume.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/track/fill.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/track/miss.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/recv.rs
• rs/moq-net/tests/integration/byte_holes.rs
• rs/moq-net/tests/integration/main.rs

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✅ No new issues found. This push only merges main, and both earlier Pullfrog findings remain fixed.

Reviewed changes

I reviewed the merge of origin/main (8da9ce9), the only commit since the last Pullfrog review. Compared with a8e0e92, it brings in two changes:

• Lite draft wording: the Start Byte refusal now applies only to a Track carrying a MoqTransport Version, as in 3fcb02d, which I already reviewed.
• Quest moved to m3: the merge moves byte-holes.md to quest/m3/unbounded-groups/, and the js-byte-holes link points to the new path. A search for quest/m2/unbounded-groups in .md, .rs and .ts files finds nothing still pointing at the old path.

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Since your last approval: merged main (the quest moved to m3), and fixed CodeRabbit's four findings on 36017ae (lead expiry, wrote on lead open, no head adoption over a lead, and an async gate on a test).

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[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found. 36017ae settles four of CodeRabbit's lead findings, and each fix matches how the whole-frame path already works.

Reviewed changes

I reviewed 36017ae, the only commit since the last Pullfrog review (8da9ce9, a merge of main).

• The lead counts at its declared size: lead_bytes now counts buf.size(), the rest of the frame (size - byte), instead of the bytes written so far. The live tail then counts the lead the same way unwritten() counts the in-flight frame.
• Opening a lead settles the relay state: open_lead sets state.wrote = true, as open_frame does. The lead test now checks poll_wire.
• A copy with a lead adopts no head: Handle::adopt_head returns early when state.lead is set. Otherwise the head would hold that frame whole next to its rest. a_copy_with_a_lead_adopts_no_head covers this.
• A lead read keeps its expiry: poll_next_frame_at returns Old once the reader has expired. It sends the lead wait through poll_expired_if_blocked and gives the lead's partial frame a frame::Expiry with for_frame(cursor.index..end, true), as the cursor does for any in-flight frame. a_lead_read_expires_as_old covers both a lead that never opens and one that stalls partway.
• Async gate: a_lead_is_shed_first_past_the_live_tail is now #[cfg(feature = "async")].

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✅ No new issues found. The four CodeRabbit fixes in 36017ae are correct and each has a test. One earlier CodeRabbit note is still open; it is described below and does not block merging.

Reviewed changes

I reviewed 36017ae, the only commit since the last Pullfrog review (8da9ce9). All of its changes are in rs/moq-net/src/model/group.rs.

• Lead reads expire: poll_next_frame_at now returns Old once the read has expired. It also sends the lead wait through poll_expired_if_blocked and attaches a frame::Expiry to the lead's frame. The range for_frame(self.cursor.index..end, true) is taken after the index increment, the same way poll_next_frame_copy does it.
• Opening a lead settles the relay state: open_lead now sets wrote, so poll_wire stops waiting on a copy whose only content is an open lead. wrote gates only poll_wire.
• A copy with a lead adopts no head: adopt_head now returns early when state.lead is set. lead_bytes() now counts the declared rest (buf.size()) instead of the bytes received so far. That matches how unwritten() counts the frame in flight, and trim subtracts the same amount when it sheds the lead.
• Test gate: a_lead_is_shed_first_past_the_live_tail now has #[cfg(feature = "async")]. The new tests are a_lead_read_expires_as_old and a_copy_with_a_lead_adopts_no_head, plus a poll_wire assertion in the existing lead test.

ℹ️ A copy from (0, b) is not retained in Outcome::partial

CodeRabbit's outside-diff finding on rs/moq-net/src/model/track/fill.rs:1338 was not part of the four fixed in 36017ae, and it still applies. A copy bounded at start: 0, byte: b > 0, end: None is short of the whole group, but the retention check does not look at frames.byte. If a later copy that does not cover it (for example, one starting at frame 3) displaces it from the cache before the reader takes it, that reader gets NotFound instead of the copy. Only accept_from builds these bounds, and only for the first group of a lite subscriber's recovery fill, so the window is narrow.

Technical details

# A byte-only partial copy is not kept in `Outcome::partial`

## Affected sites
- rs/moq-net/src/model/track/fill.rs:1338 — `self.flight || frames.start > 0 || frames.end.is_some()` misses `frames.byte > 0`.

## Required outcome
- Every accepted copy short of the whole group, including one with only a non-zero `byte`, is kept in `Outcome::partial`, as the field's doc comment at fill.rs:197 says.

## Suggested approach
- Add `|| frames.byte > 0` to the condition. A test could accept `(0, b)`, then accept a non-covering copy of the same sequence that displaces it (see `TrackState::insert_group_request`'s `displace`), and check that the first fetch still gets its copy.

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- Line 2183: Update the Start Byte remainder filter to allow a zero-byte suffix
when the requested byte equals the frame size, so ingestion accepts the valid
empty first-frame payload. Update the corresponding equality assertion to
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[kixelated]

Settling CodeRabbit's outside-diff finding (review 5904537472, fill.rs:1338, which Pullfrog also flagged as still open): fixed in 826f5ec. The partial-copy retention now includes frames.byte > 0, so a copy started partway into frame 0 stays in Outcome::partial for its fetch. No regression test: building two separate fills where the byte copy gets displaced runs into the fill join, which merges a byte fetch into a pending tail fill.

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[kixelated]

@pullfrog review this pull request and submit an approving review if it is ready to merge

Since your approval of 36017ae: 826f5ec keeps a copy started partway into frame 0 in the fill's partial copies (the open CodeRabbit note you flagged), and 1242d5f makes a non-zero Start Byte at the frame's size a refusal in both publishers and the draft (CodeRabbit's new thread).

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[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found. Both commits close the remaining edge cases, and every layer now uses the same rule.

Reviewed changes

I reviewed 826f5ec and 1242d5f, the two commits pushed since the last Pullfrog review (36017ae).

• A copy started partway into frame 0 is kept: the retention check in Outcome::partial now includes frames.byte > 0. A (0, b) copy then stays in partial like any other bounded copy, which settles the earlier informational note.
• A non-zero Start Byte must name a byte inside its frame: the lead read in poll_next_frame_at returns WrongSize when from >= info.size. A lead always has from > 0. The whole-frame path returns WrongSize when from > 0 && from >= size, so a 0-byte frame read from byte 0 still works. The JS publisher uses the same check, and the lite draft now says this. The rule matches the rest > 0 filter that open_lead already applies on ingest, so a publisher never sends a rest that its peer would reject. The lead test adds an edge case at exactly the frame's size.

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[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found. Both new commits fix what they set out to fix, and the reader, both publishers, and the draft now agree on where a Start Byte must fall.

Reviewed changes

I reviewed the two commits pushed after my approval of 36017ae: 826f5ec and 1242d5f.

• A copy that starts partway into frame 0 is kept: Inner::accept's condition for keeping a partial copy now also checks frames.byte > 0. A copy bounded at (0, b) with no end therefore lands in Outcome::partial like any other partial copy. This settles the open note from my last review.
• The refusal moved to the frame's size: a non-zero Start Byte equal to the frame's size is now refused, as one past it already was. Each branch of poll_next_frame_at now refuses it with WrongSize. The lead branch can use from >= info.size with no from > 0 check, because a lead exists only when byte > 0 and from >= byte. The JS #runFetchGroup uses the same skip > 0 && skip >= size check, and the draft explains the reason. from == 0 on an empty frame is still served.
• The refusal matches the ingest side: open_lead already refused an empty rest (.filter(|rest| *rest > 0)). The publisher refusal now matches it, so a subscriber never meets an empty lead. Our own Recover never asks for byte == size, because frame.rs:1606 drops the recovery once read_idx >= size().
• Test: the lead test adds an edge reader at (1, 6) on a 6-byte frame. It expects WrongSize.

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