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Closes quest/m2/cluster-routes/interest-set.md.

The path router (route::path::Router) and its TLA+ model now treat a neighbour's interest as a set of prefixes, none inside another, edited in place. Each edit is an ask on the asking side's FIFO, answered by a marker on the answering side's FIFO. At the marker, both sides rekey the routes between them alike, so an edit that swaps prefixes for a wider or narrower one keeps every claim both sets cover and sends nothing twice.

What changed

• Router (rs/moq-net/src/route/path.rs):
  • peer_interest becomes edit(neighbor, Edit { remove, add }). It refuses an edit that names no live prefix (Error::UnknownPrefix) or leaves one prefix inside another (Error::Nested), and answers with Out::Edited, then what the added prefixes newly cover, then Out::Synced per added prefix.
  • edited(from) applies the marker on the asking side. synced(from, prefix) and is_synced keep SYNCED per prefix.
  • The local interest is a set: watch(BTreeSet<Path>). The router sends its own asks (Out::Ask): the interest met with each neighbour's scope regions, keeping the wider of two nested ones. A multi-region scope now asks for, and certifies, each region.
  • rekey is the one new rule:
    • A route inside the new set stays.
    • A route at a removed prefix moves to a wider added prefix, without its floors.
    • A route at a removed prefix is carried, presented, to each added prefix inside it, so the floor carries.
    • Where several meet at one key, the key keeps the route the sender would reflect there.
    • The rest go, with no ROUTE_END.
  • A heard route is believed for a prefix only while this node asked for it at the last marker and in every edit still in flight (Session::asking). This replaces interest generations: a batch in flight before a marker applies to the set it answered.
  • The receiver carries its own route through the marking neighbour to the rekeyed key, so a hold or a doubt carries over.
  • The sender ends a path the receiver could not extend, so what was sent and what was heard stay mirrored.
  • The interest generation parameter is gone from route and batch.
• Model (rs/moq-net/verify/route/RouteHandoff.tla):
  • Relays watch a set; relays in Editors change it up to MaxEdits times.
  • Asks and markers share the FIFOs with everything else.
  • Rekey, Answer, and Marker mirror the router. Streams, SrcKey, Believed, the views, the reader's events, and Carried follow the asked and watched sets.
  • A path or hold goes only where the node keeps a view (Want, as the router's Want::Empty with no covering view).
  • Settled also requires every edit to have taken effect, with both ends of each session agreeing on it.
• Fixtures: route/tests/interest.rs covers widening, narrowing, an edit crossing claim changes, an edit crossing a dead hop and a hold, per-prefix SYNCED, refused edits, a multi-region scope, and TLC's counterexample. Both sweeps run over edited interest sets. The handoff fixtures the quest names now run their interest changes as edits.
• fuzz.rs's route benches move to edit and edited.

Decisions

Decided 2026-11-14 (maintainer, /quest-complete): ✅ merge, with the agent's 18 decisions below. The follow-up holdcycle-stale-return: ✅ keep in m2 (rejected: move to m3, drop it).

Decisions 1 to 18 were taken by the agent under /quest-afk, for the maintainer's review. Decisions 19 and 20 came after the pick, while porting main's new route fixtures in the merge; they are the agent's, for the maintainer's review.

1. The router names prefixes by path, not by id. The live set holds no duplicates, so a path is a unique name inside the router; ids belong to the route stream's wire. Rejected: prefix ids in the router, which the quest's Settled item 1 describes for the wire.
2. An edit is a set difference. Removing and re-adding the same prefix in one edit changes nothing.
3. Widening moves the route at the removed prefix to the wider one. It keeps its offer and state; its claims stay, and its floors go, since they certified only the narrower prefix. Rejected: copying, which costs a ROUTE_END in the common case; a fresh snapshot, which re-sends everything both sets cover.
4. Narrowing carries the wider floor to each added prefix inside it. This gives one floor per route per prefix, as the quest recommended.
5. Keys outside the new set drop silently at the marker, with no ROUTE_END. Both sides drop them alike. This departs from the quest's "ROUTE_END after the marker", which now applies only to a key still in the set that the sender no longer wants.
6. Belief needs continuous asking. A route is believed for a region only while it was asked at the last marker and in every edit in flight. Rejected: believing anything under the applied set, which shows stale claims after a narrow then a widen.
7. SYNCED is per prefix and informational (is_synced). Nothing is forgotten on it.
8. The local interest becomes a set, and the router sends its own asks. The interest is met with the scope's regions, keeping the wider of nested ones, which makes multi-region scopes certifiable.
9. The sender ends a path the receiver could not extend, so sent and heard stay mirrored.
10. The receiver carries its own route at the marker, so a hold or a doubt carries over instead of letting go of its claims.
11. A refused edit returns Err, and the driver closes the session.
12. Where several routes meet at one key, rekey keeps the one the sender would reflect there. That means a live one first, then one not naming the receiver, then the better rank, then the narrower or first by key, as Router::src picks. TLC found that keeping the narrower route took a claim offline: a widening then a narrowing crossed the close of the client's own session, leaving a stale route through it at the narrow key. Rejected:
    • always the narrower route, the counterexample;
    • always the wider route, which fails the same way when the wider one names the receiver;
    • a receiver-side hold until the sender's next offer, which needs held state both sides would have to mirror.
13. A kept route a first DEAD implies held is held on the sender too. The receiver of a first DEAD holds every route through the hop it did not send this node, and report now marks such a Want::Keep route held. Before, the sender's Sent stayed live, so the two sides disagreed on the hold, and the rekey preference for live routes would have rekeyed them differently. A new model rule, Mirrored, checks in every config that sent and heard agree, holds included, whenever nothing is in flight. It failed on HoldCycle.cfg before this change. Rejected: ignoring holds in rekey (the review's finding: a cheap held route could replace a live one and take a claim offline); a receiver-side flag for holds the sender announced, which adds state where marking the sender's hold suffices.
14. The receiver infers a first DEAD's holds by path alone (child(path, hop)), the test the sender's report uses. CodeRabbit found that a node qualifying a scoped neighbour's keys used its qualified-key is_child, so a route it reflected came back filed held while the neighbour kept it live; scope::a_qualified_reflection_stays_live_through_a_first_dead reproduces it. Waiting for an answer (child_pending) still uses is_child, so a relay does not wait on a raw key for a qualified one. The changed route always names the receiver, so only rekey reads its hold. The model already had no qualification term here. Rejected: telling the sender whether the receiver qualifies the key, which adds wire state for a route the receiver cannot use.
15. An ended sent route no longer counts as a route at the key in rekey. The receiver has nothing there, so the two sides went out of step.
16. Stable treats a marker as quiet only for the claims both of its sets cover. Dropping everything, then asking again, may take a claim offline between the two markers, since the middle set covers nothing. Rejected: treating every marker as quiet, which flags a set that covers nothing; coalescing edits in flight, when the first has already gone out.
17. Model scope.
    • The publisher watches nothing, and relays ask for what they watch with no scope regions.
    • SYNCED is left out: nothing the router decides reads it.
    • Exhaustive coverage is two one-edit configs plus a simulated two-edit one. Rejected: one exhaustive two-edit config, which had not finished after 53 minutes at 10.6M distinct states (depth 19).
18. The switch quest's driver bullet now states this contract (quest/m2/cluster-routes/switch.md), since the switch lands in parallel and adapts to whichever lands second.
19. Main's generation fixture is dropped (a_newer_stream_cannot_hold_or_end_a_route_it_never_offered, from No mutation of the route and resume code survives its tests #8712). It pinned how interest generations keep a newer stream off an older stream's route; markers replaced generations here, and one FIFO now carries every route of a session, so the rule it tested no longer exists. The rest of main's new path-router fixtures are ported: each marks the router's own ask after connecting (edited), and a whole-interest change is one edit (reask in route/tests/mod.rs). resending_a_replaced_stream_releases_its_wait now expects the marker to carry the covering route to the narrower prefix, with no new ROUTE. Rejected: keeping it under a test-only generation shim, which would pin behaviour the router no longer has.
20. search.rs's gate triangle starts with every ask answered, as RouteHandoff.tla's Init does. Unsettled, each session's ask, marker, and SYNCED interleave with the origin's first routes: 87,062 states and 80 s in debug, past the gate's 60 s limit. Settled, it is 1,727 states in about 1 s. A new Nightly search, every_order_from_the_first_asks_keeps_the_rules, keeps those first-ask orderings (87,062 states, 11 s in release); flaps still exercise asks racing routes in every search. Rejected: raising the gate timeout, which .config/nextest.toml asks to avoid; dropping the first-ask orderings altogether.

Validation

• just check passes.
• just rs test -p moq-net --lib -E 'test(/route::|fuzz::/)': 268 passed (main's fixtures included). interest::widening_several_prefixes_keeps_the_route_in_use pins the Codex round-1 finding on this head: widening several prefixes into one carries the route in use from any of them.
• MOQ_ROUTE_SCENARIOS=3000 just rs test -p moq-net --lib -P sweep -E 'test(/route::tests::(handoff|residual|scope|compare|interest)/)': 124 passed.
• Nightly's route searches (just rs test --profile=sweep -p moq-net --release --run-ignored only -E 'test(/^route::tests::search::/)'): 7 passed.
• interest::narrowing_keeps_the_route_the_sender_would_reflect replays TLC's counterexample. It fails with [Start, Offline] without the rekey preference and passes with it.
• TLC, every config, one run at a time with sh/tlc.py's flags (4 workers, -Xmx4g, nice 19):

Every config checks the new Mirrored rule, and every one was rerun after the review's fixes with the results below.

Config	Mode	Result
EditNarrow.cfg (new)	exhaustive	no error, 768,483 distinct states, depth 37
EditWiden.cfg (new)	exhaustive	no error, 3,655,573 distinct states, depth 45
Edit.cfg (new)	-simulate num=10000 -depth 120	no error, 4.8M states; an exhaustive pass stopped after 53 min at depth 19 with no error
RouteHandoff.cfg	exhaustive	no error, 476,434 distinct states
Prefer.cfg	exhaustive	no error, 12,654 distinct states
Ring.cfg	exhaustive	no error, 813,075 distinct states
Drain.cfg	exhaustive	no error, 511,147 distinct states
Lag.cfg	exhaustive	no error, 1,702,001 distinct states
LagWide.cfg, Early.cfg	-simulate num=2000 -depth 100	no error
Twice, Dead, Blind, Overlap, Loop, DrainRing, HoldCycle	each config's Simulate: line	no error

These runs used TLC 2026.11.06 with the current Community Modules jar. The pinned TLC 1.8.0 from nixpkgs was not used: on this host, another process holds the nix lock on the tla2tools.jar derivation, and sh/tlc.py stalled on that lock for 50 minutes. Nightly reruns every config with the pinned build.

HoldCycle.cfg with random seeds (-simulate num=3000 -depth 100) breaks NoStaleReturn in a 35-step behaviour. The base, 12537d1c2, breaks it in three of three runs with the same flags, so this PR did not cause it. Nightly's -seed 1 line passes on both, and the new quest below owns it.

Probe invariants confirmed that simulation reaches each kind of edit: widening, narrowing back, dropping everything, and showing a wider claim after a widen.

Public API / wire impact

Public API: none (the router is crate-private). Wire: none. The route stream puts edits on the wire.

Follow-ups

• HoldCycle keeps a dead path from returning off its pinned seed (new, M): random seeds break NoStaleReturn on HoldCycle.cfg on the base too. No open decision; the Plan recommends reading the trace and replaying it on Sim before choosing whether the model or the code changes.
• The switch drives Out::Ask, Out::Edited, and Out::Synced under one neighbour key, adapting to whichever of the two lands second.
• The route stream carries edits, markers, and SYNCED per prefix on the wire.

Caused by

No single PR caused it: this is planned work from the routes epic (Plan item 22).

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• Head: 0e156ac

• Base: origin/main at 7329e90

• Risk: medium, the base has no RISK.md to name what is always high or customer-facing, so every change is medium

• Classified: medium by default

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

• Session: 01a1ddd0-8e0c-7841-886b-29e04d5e68a1, round 2

• Score: 10/10, Both earlier findings are fixed, and reading the incremental changes revealed no new issues; no builds, tests, or model checks were run.

• Rounds: 5; findings 4 (medium 2, low 2): fixed 4, refuted 0, open 0

• Findings: none

• The last round's findings, at f2a95a1:

  • Fixed: medium, rs/moq-net/src/route/path.rs:1331: Preserve selected routes from every absorbed prefix; In rs/moq-net/src/route/path.rs, rekey now records every absorbed source and edited prefers a live carried route, preserving continuity in the scenario covered by widening_several_prefixes_keeps_the_route_in_use.
  • Fixed: low, .claude/skills/verify-route/SKILL.md:104: Move the model sync marker to the actual PR base; The sync marker and adjacent git log example in .claude/skills/verify-route/SKILL.md:104 now reference the cc17f5897 merge base.

[pullfrog]

ℹ️ No critical issues — two small doc fixes inline.

Reviewed changes

I reviewed the whole diff: the path router's new edited interest set, the rekey rule shared by both sides, the TLA+ model's matching actions, and the fixtures and Sim driver.

• Interest as an edited set: peer_interest becomes edit(neighbor, Edit). Every check runs before anything changes, so a refused edit (UnknownPrefix or Nested) emits no marker.
• Router-driven asks: connect and watch now send Out::Ask. Each ask comes from asks(), which meets the interest with the neighbour's scope regions, and each in-flight target set queues on Session::edits.
• rekey at the marker: the sender (edit) and the receiver (edited) both rekey through Carried. A route moved to a new key has its sent from reset, so present() diffs against what the receiver already holds and nothing both sets cover is sent again.
• Belief without generations: Session::asking replaces interest generations. A heard route is believed for a region only while every edit still in flight keeps that region.
• Sent/heard mirroring: want() ends offers the neighbour could not extend. On a first DEAD, report() marks a Want::Keep route held, matching the hold the receiver applies itself.
• Model and fixtures: the model gains Rekey, Answer, Marker, the new Mirrored invariant, and the Edit* configs. interest.rs and both sweeps cover widening, narrowing, crossings, refused edits, and multi-region scopes.

Peer-controlled input to edit, edited, and synced reaches no panic: every tx[&key] lookup uses keys that came from tx, and the expects in rekey only run on routes whose views exist. The hold mirroring cannot disagree on qualified ids, because a scoped receiver refuses a QUALIFIED name before it could become a child route.

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Walkthrough

The path router now supports non-nested sets of watched prefixes and exchanges interest edits through queued asks and markers. Route and claim state is rekeyed as edits take effect, with synchronization tracked per prefix. The simulator, fixtures, and tests use the updated protocol. The route handoff model and its configurations now represent bounded interest edits and check session mirroring and settling. Routing documentation and verification notes were also updated.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 97864

The router change itself looks sound; the qualified-key hold mismatch is fixed. Before merge, correct the switch plan wording about asks per scope region, and make the edit-first test deliver the Ask before disconnecting so it covers the marker-before-DEAD order. Both are small follow-ups.

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The title says the path router now takes an interest as an edited set of prefixes. The changeset matches this: route/path.rs replaces peer_interest with edit(neighbor, Edit { remove, add }), watch takes a BTreeSet of prefixes, and the TLA+ model adds edits and markers. The title names the main change and is concise.

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The description is specific and closely matches the changeset. It names the path router's move from peer_interest to edit(neighbor, Edit { remove, add }), the new Error::UnknownPrefix and Error::Nested refusals, the rekey rules, the removal of the interest generation parameter from route and batch, and the RouteHandoff.tla model and fixture updates. It also lists validation runs and follow-ups, all of which relate to the files in the summary.

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- Around line 2326-2341: Resolve the mismatch between the receiver’s
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Ensure both sides apply equivalent qualification semantics—either make the
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• rs/moq-net/src/route/mod.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/path.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/reader.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/handoff.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/interest.rs
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Reviewed changes

I reviewed commit 97864500c, which aligns the receiver's first-DEAD hold rule with the sender's and fixes both earlier doc findings.

• Receiver holds by path alone: in dead(), the receiver now marks a reported route held when !child(&heard.offer.path, self.hop), replacing the qualified-key is_child test. This now matches the sender's Want::Keep arm in report() and the model's Child(h.path, n) rule, so a route reflected back under a qualified key stays live on both sides. child_pending still uses is_child, which is right because the qualified-key distinction matters for the waits it decides.
• New fixture: a_qualified_reflection_stays_live_through_a_first_dead covers the scoped-neighbour case through test-only heard_held and sent_held accessors.
• Doc fixes: the src() doc comment is reflowed, and the TLC citation now names Edit.cfg.

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rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/interest.rs: 1

164-165: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Deliver the client's Ask before disconnecting in the edit-first branch.

sim.watch() only queues the client's Ask toward each relay. sim.disconnect(origin, r1) does not remove that queue, but r1 does not process the Ask until sim.run(). By then r1 has already queued its DEAD toward the client. Both branches therefore produce DEAD before Edited at r1, and the test never covers the marker-before-DEAD order described in its doc comment.

In the edit-first branch, deliver each Ask before the disconnect. The relay-to-client streams stay held, so r1 queues Edited before DEAD.

Suggested fix

 		if edit_first {
 			sim.watch(client, "live");
+			assert!(sim.deliver(client, r1));
+			assert!(sim.deliver(client, r2));
 			sim.disconnect(origin, r1);
 		} else {

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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/interest.rs around lines 164 - 165:
In the edit-first branch, deliver the queued client Ask to both relays before disconnecting the origin so r1 processes it and queues Edited before DEAD; update the branch in the test around sim.watch and sim.disconnect, preserving the held relay-to-client streams.

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Reviewed changes

Since 97864500c, this PR gained two origin/main merges and a quest link. Only 9fc9de139 resolved conflicts in route code, and I checked each one against both parents.

• update's reflect loop: kept main's filter(|_| route_changed) from #8712, which dropped || !held.is_empty(). That condition is still redundant here: a key is only pushed to held when it had a route and select returned none, and that same case sets route_changed.
• fingerprint: no longer hashes the removed interest field. sessions (including edits and asked) stays in the hash.
• Main's fixtures ported to edits: each fixture now calls edited(peer) after it connects. route and batch no longer take a generation argument. peer_interest is now the test-only reask helper, built on Router::answers.
• Fixture changes: a_newer_stream_cannot_hold_or_end_a_route_it_never_offered is dropped because generations no longer exist (decision 19). resending_a_replaced_stream_releases_its_wait now expects the marker to carry the covering route to a with no new ROUTE, which matches the narrowing rekey.
• search.rs: triangle now answers the first asks before it originates (decision 20). The unsettled orderings moved to the new Nightly search every_order_from_the_first_asks_keeps_the_rules. Sim.watch is now a set per node.
• Quest links: quest/m2/README.md now points at this PR instead of the quest file the PR deletes, and the quest docs record the maintainer's m2 decisions.

cargo test -p moq-net --lib route:: at f2a95a1: 267 passed, 10 ignored.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Since f2a95a1, one fix commit landed (0e156ac). It answers the open Codex finding about keeping the selected route from every prefix absorbed into a widened key.

• rekey reports every absorbed route as moved: Rekeyed::moved now lists the route whose offer the key keeps first, followed by every route whose claims were merged into the key. Only edited() reads moved. The sender's edit uses only routes and gone, so the two sides still rekey the same way.
• edited() carries the route in use: when several own routes through from move to the same key, the first one stays unless it is not live and a later one is. Every candidate shares next() == from, so liveness is the only property select's using check reads. That is what lets the reflected path through a doubted node stay selected. refresh then rebuilds the carried Live route's offer from the heard route, so the stale path does not persist.
• New fixture: interest::widening_several_prefixes_keeps_the_route_in_use widens {a, b} to {""}. The sender reflects a's cheaper path through a doubted node there, while this node was using b's route. With the fix, b/x never goes offline. RouteHandoff.tla has only the keys root and a, so the model cannot express several prefixes widening into one key. This fixture is the coverage for that case.
• Model sync commit: .claude/skills/verify-route/SKILL.md now names cc17f5897, which is this branch's merge base with main.

Validation:

• cargo test -p moq-net --lib route:: at 0e156ac: 268 passed, 10 ignored.
• With moved.extend(absorbed…) removed, the new fixture fails.

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