[kixelated]

Claims quest/m2/cluster-routes/switch.md, and completes it: the quest file and every link to it go.

Problem

Every lite-07 session still ran Babel's distance router, with its seqno, ROUTE_REQUEST, and ROUTE_END echo. The routes epic's Plan item 27 picked the path rule instead, and moq-dev/moq#8622 built it sans-IO as route::path::Router, beside the old router, with only the tests driving it. This switches every lite-07 session in Rust and js/net to the path router, puts it on the lite-07-wip wire and in the draft, and deletes Babel's router.

Approach

• Node driver. route/node.rs drives route::path::Router. Each node stream is one router key. A session tag pairs each stream answering the peer with the session's receive stream, so a hold is answered by what the peer sends back (Router::pair, listen). Each key's interest is the one prefix its stream opened with: register applies the router's first ask at once (edited), an answering stream adds its prefix with edit, and the node drops the router's asks and markers, which lite-07 has no message for. A stream that ends while its session lives retires quietly (retire); a session close disconnects every key, which reports a DEAD and casts doubt. Babel's route::Router (route/mod.rs) is deleted. Its fixtures are ported to the path rule where they test something the rule keeps, and deleted where they test the distance, seqno, request, or echo.
• Wire (lite-07-wip only).
  • ROUTE_START is {Node ID, Route Suffix, Route Offer}, and ROUTE_UPDATE is {Route ID, Route Offer}.
  • A Route Offer spells its path first (Hop Count, then each hop's Hop ID and Session Number), then Flags (DOWN_ONLY, RTT, DRAINING), Priority, Metric, and an optional RTT.
  • DEAD (0xF) is Closed {Hop, Far Hop ID, Gone, More, Moved}, whose moved routes each carry a sized Route Offer, or Drain {Hop ID}. A DEAD whose moved routes outgrow one message goes in consecutive parts, each but the last with More set, which the receiver applies as one.
  • ROUTE_REQUEST and the ROUTE_END echo are gone: a subscriber sends nothing after its ANNOUNCE_REQUEST.
  • TRACK, TRACKS, SUBSCRIBE, FETCH, and DATAGRAMS carry a Route Depth after the Node ID, so a forwarded request names the route it follows.
• Rust sessions.
  • The subscriber (lite/subscriber/routed.rs) keys routes by node and prefix, with one live route each, applies DEAD and DRAIN, and still refuses forwarded content per offer, keeping moq-dev/moq#8672's refusal rule.
  • The publisher (lite/publisher/routed.rs) answers each stream. With one source it forwards a DEAD as is; with mounts it translates the DEAD into per-route messages.
  • A claim is served through every usable route at its prefix, the selected one first (origin::Lane), so a reader fails over at once.
• moq-dev/moq#8637's two lines and epic Plan item 30.
  • A DEAD on a scoped session changes only the routes heard on that session and casts no doubt (Router::fail_heard).
  • A hold ends at 10 s (HOLD), and an announce stream whose peer stops reading for that long closes the session.
  • RouteHandoff.tla gains the down-only flag and its export rule (below).
• js/net is an endpoint of the path router. It sends its own route along a path of its own hop and refuses a route whose path names it or runs out of hops. It applies DEAD and DRAIN, keys routes by node and prefix, and puts a Route Depth on its requests. The origin asks a session's floors, per request, whether a claim covers the requested path (Established.covers), and skips a session whose newer floor withdrew it: the switch quest's fix for moq-dev/moq#8443's two-stream, two-instance case.
• Three fixes found by the real-session tests.
  • Node clocks: the node dated every input by the origin's clock, which moves only when the origin driver polls. An idle origin read an instant long past, so a closed session's doubt expired the moment it was cast. Each stream now dates its input by the later of its session's clock and the origin's.
  • Lone ROUTE_END: the outbox dropped a ROUTE_END queued with no batch ahead of it, as when a hold ends, so the peer held until its own deadline.
  • GOAWAY migration: the relay that sent GOAWAY kept reading through the old session after the client reconnected, since the router stayed on its stream among equal routes, and the origin now follows the router's selected route ahead of its newest entry. The old session never went idle (migrate::a_migrated_session_closes_once_nothing_flows). Among equals the router now stays on the next hop's node and takes its latest session there (Link::session, the session's tag).
• Review fixes.
  • DEAD parts (decision 22): lite::Dead::split on the publisher, and the reassembly in lite/subscriber/routed.rs and js/net's subscriber.
  • The announce stream's backlog is bounded (decision 23): an outbox counts what its DEADs sealed and the reader has yet to read (Outbox::sealed), and the publisher closes the session once that passes 3 * MAX_HOPS per route the reader holds (Outbox::overrun). A gone DEAD's ended routes leave that count.
  • js/net unindexes an ended route's claims before its floors show the others, so another route's copy of a claim shows (endRoute).
  • A scoped session's GOAWAY and close touch only the routes it sent (decision 24).
  • The outbox cancels a withdrawal of a claim the reader was never sent, as main's delivered did, now across DEAD segments (Outbox::claims, Pending::fresh), so what a stream queues for claims stays within the live ones.
  • Claims of different origin nodes rank by their route's priority after drain and before cost, as the draft's Resolution says: origin::Lane::priority in Rust and WireRoute.priority in js/net.
• Draft. Rewritten sections:
  • Routing (the path rule), with new Dead Hops and Holds subsections.
  • Floors: a floor certifies its route's prefix, and the newest floor among believed routes wins.
  • The message sections, Route Offer, DEAD, and Route Depth.
  • The changelog.
• Quest tree.
  • The epic's contract is rewritten as built. Plan items 3, 7, and 20, and item 25's echo and drain, are marked superseded by item 27.
  • The verify-route skill gets the new rule, coverage rows, and sync commit 857f2eea4.
  • The quest file and its links go.
• Cache sweep. moq-dev/moq#8732 rewrote the warm-route sweep (route/tests/cache.rs) on the path router and landed first, so this merges main and keeps its Warm Routes text in the draft; the sweep only drops Babel's seqno.
• The interest set. moq-dev/moq#8728 landed first and made the router's interest an edited set of prefixes, so this merges main and adapts to it:
  • The node keeps one key per stream, each with one edit (above). One key per session, carrying the asks, markers, and SYNCED per prefix, is the route stream's.
  • admit still files a scoped peer's wider route at each region inside it (decision 12), now only within what was asked.
  • A route that an edit moves to a wider key loses its floors there and is no longer batched, so the uncertified view does not show what the edit moved until its sender closes a batch at the new key. Without this, a widening revived a withdrawn claim and the scoped sweep's floor check failed.
  • A route that ends sends no batch carrying only a floor its neighbour already holds.
• Groups addressed by their start. moq-dev/moq#8638 landed during review. The merge ports waits_out_the_doubt, the one test this PR added that wrote groups with the old API, the way feat(moq-net)!: address groups by their start #8638 ported the route-change test beside it.
• Model. RouteHandoff.tla gains Upstream and a down-only flag on every route, offer, and moved entry. SrcKey and Want export as Router::src and want do. A new invariant, DownOnly, checks the flag and the export rule, and QuietIsSettled expects only what a path that never climbs back up carries. Upstream.cfg mirrors two_uplinks_never_carry_cdn_transit, and UpstreamScoped.cfg makes its second CDN relay scoped. The merge keeps feat(net): the path router takes an interest as an edited set of prefixes #8728's interest edits beside the flag: both new configs gain the edit constants and Mirrored, and the edit configs gain Upstream. With no upstream link, the merged model finds main's state counts (see Validation).

Impact

• Public API: none. route, lite, and js/net's lite layer are internal, and origin::Lane is crate-private.
• Wire: lite-07-wip only, so this breaks only peers on the old lite-07-wip wire. Relays on it must roll together, as with each earlier lite-07 wire change. lite-06 and older, and moq-transport, are untouched.
• Behaviour on lite-07:
  • A detour through the far end of a closed session waits out the 1 s doubt, as Plan item 27 accepts. A detour around it is taken at once.
  • A hold lasts at most 10 s.
  • A peer that stops reading its announce stream for 10 s loses the session.
  • Among equal routes, a node moves to a later session to its next hop.
• Migration: none for library users.

Caused by

The three fixes above correct defects introduced earlier in this PR. The stale node clocks and the dropped lone ROUTE_END came from 2d34910. The stuck migration came from ranking the router's selected route first in the origin (origin::Lane), which overrode main's newest-route tie-break. Nothing on main had them.

Decisions

Each one below was taken by the agent under /quest-afk, for the maintainer's review.

1. ✅ One router key per node stream, paired by a session tag. Holds wait on the session's receive stream. A stream that ends while its session lives retires without a DEAD or doubt, and only a session close reports one. Rejected:

   • one key per session, which needs one stream per side (the route stream does that);
   • per-stream keys with no pairing, where holds never wait and every stream close doubts the peer.

2. ✅ Requests carry Route Depth (i) after Node ID (i). A forwarded request names the prefix of the route it follows, as the model's Fwd does. Node ID 0 requires depth 0, and a depth past the path's segments is a PROTOCOL_VIOLATION. Rejected: Node ID alone with the relay inferring the prefix from the narrowest live route that does not name the requester, which differs from the model's forwarding while routes change and which nothing loop-checks.

3. ✅ A Route Offer spells its path first, and each DEAD Moved offer is sized. A receiver that refuses the rest of an offer, as feat(net): a refused forwarded route drops the route, not the session #8672 allows, still learns the path a later DEAD may name, and one refused moved offer leaves the next readable. Rejected:

   • keeping flags first and treating every route after a refused moved entry as refused, which leaks Route IDs and announce slots on a gone DEAD;
   • making unknown flags a PROTOCOL_VIOLATION, which closes off additive flags.

4. ✅ A message's own malformed fields are PROTOCOL_VIOLATIONs: Hop Count 0, Node ID 0, an unknown DEAD Kind, a Gone byte other than 0 or 1, and a Moved entry naming a Route ID that is not live. A path already at the 32-hop limit decodes, but is refused as if ended, since no hop can be added. Rejected: refusing these as forwarded content, since they are the sender's own state.

5. ✅ The DOWN_ONLY flag stays on the wire (epic Plan item 29, which quest: audit the backlog before the m0-m2 cut, and add the lab bucket #8637 later made the maintainer's decision), and the model carries it.

6. ✅ Routes still start lazily: a route goes on the wire only while a claim meets it. Rejected: starting every route at once, which spends wire and route state on prefixes with nothing to show.

7. ✅ A publisher with one source forwards a DEAD as is, and with mounts translates it into per-route ROUTE_UPDATE, ROUTE_HOLD, and ROUTE_END. Rejected:

   • always translating, which loses one message per closed session;
   • forwarding each mount's DEAD, which would name hops of other sources' paths.

8. ✅ A stalled announce writer closes the session after HOLD (epic Plan item 30). Rejected: resetting the stream alone, which leaves the peer's other routes on a stuck session.

9. ✅ Any bytes a subscriber sends after its ANNOUNCE_REQUEST are a PROTOCOL_VIOLATION. Rejected: ignoring them, which would hide a peer still speaking the echo.

10. ✅ A claim is served through every usable route at its prefix, the selected one first (Lane: depth, primary, selected, path). A forwarded request follows the route its Node ID and Route Depth name. Rejected: serving only the selected route, where a reader waits on reselection to fail over.

11. ✅ A route no floor certifies shows the selected route's claims, which go Offline rather than end when removed. The same holds when no believed route certifies after an earlier floor. Rejected: showing nothing until a floor certifies, under which a sender refusing one claim hid all its others.

12. ✅ A scoped stream files a route wider than its regions at each region inside it. A limit narrower than the regions also qualifies the scope's identities. Rejected: refusing a route wider than the scope, under which a multi-region scope shows nothing.

    The maintainer deferred the collision this leaves to the route stream on 2026-11-14. Its Plan names the test and the result it expects. The collision: a peer under a multi-region grant that sends a route at a region and one above it files both at the region, and ending either shows the region offline until the other sends again. The Codex review kept this finding. The route stream removes the narrowing (see Follow-ups), and the maintainer ordered it after this switch. Rejected:

    • tracking, per filed slot, which wire routes file into it, so that the narrowest decides and the next re-files the slot on an end. That state would thread through route, batch, a DEAD's moved entries, and synced, and the route stream deletes it;
    • one announce stream per region now, which is the route stream's own work.

13. ✅ The router names a peer by its SETUP Node ID, or else by the last hop of the first route it sends. The session waits for SETUP only when it is scoped. Rejected:

    • waiting for SETUP on every session, a round trip before any route;
    • requiring a Node ID in SETUP.

    Accepted cost: a peer that declares no Node ID could name another node as its hop, and its session's close would then doubt that node for 1 s.

14. ✅ Each node stream dates its input by the later of its session's clock and the origin's. Rejected:

    • disconnecting each stream when it drops, dated by its session, which splits a session's keys apart and doubts a neighbour while another of its streams is still live;
    • reading the ambient kio::clock::now(), whose instants need not share an epoch across runtimes.

15. ✅ Config::hop stays both the path hop and the declared Node ID, and its docs now require it to be fresh per process. No production caller sets it. A restarted process numbers its sessions from 1 again, so reusing a hop could get its routes refused by a peer that remembers an old session as closed. Rejected:

    • decoupling the path hop from SETUP's Node ID by learning the far hop from routes, which changes every session and lets a peer steer doubt;
    • random session numbers, which cost bytes per hop.

    Accepted: after a Node ID rotation, which happens only at revision 2^64-1, SETUP's Node ID would differ from the hop.

16. ✅ The JS origin asks a session's floors, per request, whether a claim covers the requested path, and skips a session that does not. This is the switch quest's recommended fix. Rejected: porting feat(net)!: js/net speaks lite-07's route layer #8443's per-node merged view.

17. ✅ Draft layout. Dead Hops and Holds are subsections of Routing, ahead of Resolution. Cost 0's rationale is now the path rule's, and the RFC 8966 reference goes. Rejected: keeping Babel's feasibility wording for metric 0.

18. ✅ In the model, Upstream is a set of links whose higher-numbered end marks them upstream, since TLC configs take no tuples. This follows the number-order convention Ring already uses. Carried is reachability over paths that never climb back up. That is exact for both new configs, where no relay's best route is down-only while an exportable one exists; the contract accepts that cost, which the Rust fixtures cover. Rejected: a model-value module per config to name directed pairs.

19. ✅ The Babel-era reference model (tests/integration/routing_contracts/) stays. Acceptance deletes it when its fixtures replace it. Rejected: deleting it here, which would drop the forwarding and first-hop fixtures before their replacements exist.

20. ✅ Unrelated flake fix. byte_holes::a_half_read_frame_continues_from_its_byte now settles before it reads the bytes billed. A publisher bills what the transport acknowledged, which trails what the reader read, so the test failed under load.

21. ✅ Among equal routes, the router stays on the next hop's node and takes its latest session there, by the session tag the node files each stream under (Link::session). Another stream of the session in use, an earlier session, or another node's equal route moves nothing. The model has one session per pair of nodes, so it is unchanged. Rejected:

    • ranking a session this side sent GOAWAY on as draining, as the receiver does: a new rule beyond main, which would also move a redirected client's routes, but several relays draining one multi-homed publisher at once would each move onto a neighbour's stale offer, the loop DrainRing.cfg pinned for the receiver, so it needs its own doubt and model action;
    • preferring the newest stream among equals, under which every new interest stream on a session steals the routes it repeats and re-offers them downstream;
    • ranking the newest entry ahead of the selected one in the origin, under which a reader and the routes this node offers disagree.

22. ✅ Ships A; B picked 2026-11-14 and planned in the route stream. The maintainer asked for a rethink, and the comment weighs three shapes. B is a fixed-size Closed {Hop, Far, Gone, Moved Count} followed by exactly that many ROUTE_UPDATEs, which the receiver applies with the DEAD as one step. This PR lands A as it stands, and the route stream replaces it before lite-07 is cut.

    A, as shipped: a DEAD whose moved routes outgrow one message goes in parts: consecutive DEADs naming the same hop, each but the last with a new More byte, which the receiver applies as one once the last arrives. Anything else between two parts is a PROTOCOL_VIOLATION. Each part names only live routes, so what the receiver keeps for them stays within the stream's routes. The receiver applies exactly the DEAD the model checks. This replaced the first fix at the review's third-round checkpoint (see the Design change: comment). Rejected:

    • sending the overflow as ROUTE_UPDATEs ahead of a DEAD that keeps as many moved routes as fit. Each update moves its route off the hop first, so the DEAD applies only while a route it still lists is one the receiver holds, and the sender cannot know which those are: a 32-hop path or a scoped peer's narrowing is refused. Review rounds 2 and 3 each found a case where the receiver then dropped the DEAD;
    • no size bound on a DEAD, which leaves the receiver's decode memory to the peer;
    • crediting a DEAD by hops the peer named in routes it has since moved, which needs memory that grows with everything the peer ever sent.

23. ✅ An announce stream that falls behind repeated failures closes the session, once what its DEADs sealed passes 3 * MAX_HOPS per route the reader holds. A burst of failures along every hop a path crosses stays under it. Rejected:

    • merging queued DEADs, which cannot reorder a sealed DEAD against the route changes queued behind it;
    • no bound, under which a peer reading slowly holds a DEAD per failure without limit.

24. ✅ A scoped peer's GOAWAY ranks only the routes it sent draining, and its close doubts no node and sends no DEAD. A scoped peer declares its own Node ID, so trusting it would let one under a narrow grant drain or doubt a core relay's routes. Its routes end one by one instead, and this node still marks its own hop dead. Rejected:

    • qualifying a scoped peer's hops as its route IDs are, which rewrites the paths it forwards and every credit check against them;
    • draining and doubting as for any peer, which is the hole.

Measurements

mesh_sweep::benchmark_route_mesh counts announce messages per external change, over 16 seeded meshes per size with 24 changes each, in release. Before is 12537d1 (#8622, sessions still on Babel's distance); after is this branch. It runs on the seeded simulated clock, so host load does not change the counts.

Relays	Change	Mean before	Mean after	Mean change	Max before	Max after
3	link_down	14.4	3.4	-76%	99	20
3	link_up	20.8	20.8	+0%	85	85
3	relay_restart	44.7	32.0	-28%	137	99
3	origin_restart	60.1	40.6	-32%	101	71
3	join	24.0	22.0	-8%	72	68
3	leave	12.8	3.7	-71%	37	13
3	publish	17.5	15.0	-14%	36	33
3	withdraw	19.3	12.6	-35%	52	33
6	link_down	42.5	7.4	-83%	183	39
6	link_up	48.0	47.1	-2%	149	149
6	relay_restart	162.5	107.2	-34%	770	493
6	origin_restart	160.2	112.6	-30%	255	183
6	join	59.5	56.4	-5%	148	138
6	leave	37.7	14.9	-60%	124	51
6	publish	42.7	40.0	-6%	66	63
6	withdraw	53.1	40.6	-24%	122	81
12	link_down	84.4	19.5	-77%	600	117
12	link_up	103.1	102.7	-0%	614	614
12	relay_restart	285.3	167.3	-41%	1286	699
12	origin_restart	257.6	185.0	-28%	395	296
12	join	84.9	81.7	-4%	217	210
12	leave	72.2	31.1	-57%	165	75
12	publish	80.2	76.1	-5%	141	138
12	withdraw	97.1	74.0	-24%	193	126
24	link_down	437.2	56.3	-87%	1683	384
24	link_up	100.8	96.5	-4%	204	180
24	relay_restart	792.0	402.7	-49%	4745	2345
24	origin_restart	743.5	528.4	-29%	1194	919
24	join	274.4	258.7	-6%	531	509
24	leave	253.7	110.5	-56%	466	197
24	publish	206.3	197.2	-4%	435	379
24	withdraw	282.4	216.9	-23%	479	324

A link going down costs 76 to 87% fewer messages, and a relay leaving 56 to 71% fewer: one DEAD per neighbour names the hop, where the distance re-sent routes and asked for seqnos. A relay or origin restart costs 28 to 49% fewer. A link coming up is unchanged, since both rules send the same new routes over it.

Validation

• just check at 96dd6b3, after merging main with feat(net): the path router takes an interest as an edited set of prefixes #8728 and feat(moq-net)!: address groups by their start #8638: 13,803 Rust tests pass, and so do the JS tests, clippy with and without async, fmt, biome, and the drill mutations' --apply-only pass.
• just test interop --all at 96dd6b3, after 4e8032b's wire fix and feat(moq-net)!: address groups by their start #8638: 211 checks pass, including moq-lite-07-wip between Rust, js/net on Node and Bun, and Python. The Chromium route-key check skips, as on main: Chromium 156 has no exporter.
• route::tests::search's release searches pass after the merge (8 of 8), and so do the integration tests (606).
• just drafts check passes.
• moq-tokio's migrate:: tests pass, among them a_migrated_session_closes_once_nothing_flows, which failed before the session tie-break. route::tests::routing::a_later_session_to_the_next_hop_takes_over_among_equals covers the tie-break in the router.
• Review fixes:
  • After the merge: an_uncredited_dead_keeps_the_node_in_step (a DEAD the node drops reaches it as the peer's own ends and holds), the single-DEAD and sealed-then-ended cases in a_reader_behind_repeated_failures_overruns, a_floor_sealed_while_a_claim_is_held_back_certifies_nothing (the release closes with the sealed floor), a_release_closes_with_the_newest_floor_after_older_batches_are_read, and a_scoped_drain_survives_a_new_limit each fail without their fix. A refused path far past the hop limit keeps 33 hops, in Rust and js/net.
  • 4e8032b: a_route_shortened_from_the_hop_limit_files_its_claims fails without the node refusing a path at the limit, and the shared corpus's 1000-hop count with 33 pairs is refused by both the Rust and JS corpus tests.
  • The merge ports No mutation of the route and resume code survives its tests #8712's node tests and its exhaustive-ordering search.rs to the path router, and every route test passes.
  • DEAD parts: a_lite07_dead_past_one_message_goes_in_parts checks the parts on the wire. a_dead_in_parts_applies_with_its_last (Rust) and "a lite-07 DEAD in parts applies with its last" (js/net) check that the receiver applies them as one. The JS test fails when each part applies on its own. The shared corpus pins More set and More past 1.
  • a_reader_behind_repeated_failures_overruns checks the backlog bound in both directions.
  • "a lite-07 certified route ending shows another route's copy of its claim" fails without the endRoute fix.
  • a_scoped_peers_goaway_and_close_touch_only_its_routes, a_claim_started_and_withdrawn_unread_leaves_nothing, request_avoids_a_path_through_a_demoted_link_even_when_cheaper, and the JS "a lite-07 claim ranks by its path's priority before its cost" each fail without their fix.
• TLC after the merge with feat(net): the path router takes an interest as an edited set of prefixes #8728: all 19 route configs at their cfgs' settings (sh/tla.sh rs/moq-net/verify/route), no error. The exhaustive ones find RouteHandoff 476,434 distinct states, Early 14,220,217, Ring 813,075, Lag 1,702,001, LagWide 3,846,369, Drain 511,147, Prefer 12,654, Upstream 68,717, UpstreamScoped 69,576, EditNarrow 768,483, and EditWiden 3,655,573. The edit configs match main's table. The others are lower than the table because feat(net): the path router takes an interest as an edited set of prefixes #8728 lowered them and updated only its own rows: main's model gives the same Prefer, Drain, and RouteHandoff counts as the merged one, and the model before the merge reproduces the old Prefer, Drain, Upstream, and UpstreamScoped counts. The verify-route skill now records the merged counts.
• TLC before the merge, RouteHandoff.tla with the down-only flag, exhaustive:
  • Upstream.cfg: 69,213 distinct states, no error. UpstreamScoped.cfg: 70,115, no error.
  • Mutations bite: dropping Want's end toward an upstream link violates DownOnly, and dropping the sticky flag from SelectKey's Down violates QuietIsSettled.
  • Regressions: Drain (648,218 distinct states), Ring (890,827), and Lag (1,926,671) reproduce their counts from before the flag, with no error, and so do Prefer and RouteHandoff. Simulations of DrainRing, HoldCycle, Loop, and Overlap at their cfgs' settings find no error.
• Drill: relay-withdraws-lost-publisher.patch and subscriber-leaks-broadcasts.patch were regenerated for the path-router sessions, and each still fails its drill when applied.
• mesh_sweep before and after: see Measurements.

Follow-ups

• Two edits to the route stream (XL), neither with an open decision:
  • Router::admit's local narrowing for a multi-region scope lets two routes of one node at nested prefixes collide at a region inside both (decision 12). One overwrites the other, and ending either drops the route there until the other sends again. With one prefix per region in the set, the peer answers at the region, so the narrowing goes. The quest's Plan says so and names the test and its expected result.
  • Decision 22's B replaces the DEAD parts: the codec, buffer_dead, both receivers' reassembly, the shared corpus, and the draft's DEAD section.
• A relay that redirects a client to another relay still reads the client's broadcasts through the old session until the handover cap, as on main, since nothing outranks it there. Ranking a session this side sent GOAWAY on as draining would end that early, and needs its own doubt and model action (decision 21). No quest owns it yet.
• The interest set landed first, and this PR adapted to it with one edit per stream key. One key per session, sending the router's asks and markers and SYNCED per prefix, belongs to the route stream, whose Plan says so.
• moq-dev/moq#8712's Nightly mutation run examines the route code this PR rewrites. The merge ports No mutation of the route and resume code survives its tests #8712's path-rule tests and its node and shared-view tests to the path router, drops the distance rule's tests and the search's distance self-check, and drops the exclusions for deleted Babel code. Mutants the new path-router code leaves alive surface on the next Nightly. No quest owns killing them yet.
• Two review findings go to the route stream, recorded in its Plan: a session's receive stream lands under the closing guard by poll order, which one stream per side for the session's life removes; and js/net re-running admission when a floor changes what a claim covers with no route change.

Models

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Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Head: 96dd6b3

• Base: origin/main at dfdd301

• Risk: high, The overall branch changes moq-lite wire behavior and relay route admission relied on by peers, so incompatibilities can disrupt discovery across deployments and require coordinated rollback.

• Classified: medium by default

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

• Session: 01a1ddc3-e81a-7d81-a2f6-8fb36a036d1d, round 5

• Score: 10/10, Source-only review found no actionable defects in the merge resolutions, adapted route-change test, or documentation updates; changes inherited from main were excluded.

• Raised the risk to high: The overall branch changes moq-lite wire behavior and relay route admission relied on by peers, so incompatibilities can disrupt discovery across deployments and require coordinated rollback.

• Rounds: 10; findings 9 (high 4, medium 5): fixed 8, refuted 1, open 0

• Findings: none

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Design change: a DEAD that outgrows one message now goes in parts, which the receiver applies as one.

The Codex review's third round reached its checkpoint with two findings. The narrowing collision stays deferred to the route stream (decision 12). The other was the third finding in a row on how this PR sizes a DEAD, so I stepped back from the approach rather than patching it again. The maintainer is away, so I took the call under /quest-afk, for the maintainer's review.

The problem, without reference to the code. When a hop fails, a neighbour needs two things: the news, so it drops other senders' stale routes through the hop, and the reporter's moved routes, with no gap. All of that must fit a bounded message.

What the PR did. It sent the moved routes that don't fit as ROUTE_UPDATEs ahead of the DEAD, which keeps as many as fit, at least one. That changes the order the model checks. Each update moves a route off the hop before the DEAD arrives, and a receiver applies a DEAD only while a route from that peer still crosses the hop. So the DEAD lands only if a route it still lists is one the receiver holds. The sender can't know which those are: the receiver refuses a 32-hop path, and a scoped peer's narrowing refuses others. Rounds 2 and 3 each found a way for the receiver to drop the DEAD.

What I'd build today, and what this does. The DEAD's moved list continues across consecutive DEADs naming the same hop, each but the last with a new More byte (lite-07 is still -wip). The receiver keeps the parts and applies them as one DEAD once the last arrives. Anything else between two parts is a PROTOCOL_VIOLATION. Each part names only live routes, so what the receiver keeps stays within the stream's routes. The receiver applies exactly the unbounded DEAD that RouteHandoff.tla checks, so the whole class of ordering findings goes away, not just the last case.

Changes, in 10616de:

• lite::Dead::split replaces Dead::overflow.
• lite/subscriber/routed.rs and js/net's subscriber reassemble the parts.
• The shared corpus rs/moq-net/fixtures/lite.json and the draft's DEAD section gain the More byte.
• New tests on each side cover a DEAD in parts and both violations.

Rejected:

• Picking which moved routes the DEAD keeps, which still relies on what the receiver admitted.
• No size bound on a DEAD, which leaves the receiver's decode memory to the peer.
• Crediting a DEAD by hops the peer named in routes it has since moved, which needs memory that grows with everything the peer ever sent.

The PR body records this as decision 22. The next review starts fresh with quest review --new.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

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Important

Two lite-07 receiver and outbox paths break the repo's rule that a misbehaving or slow peer hurts only itself. An uncredited DEAD splits the wire and router views of a route, so router state outgrows the announce cap. A single gone DEAD can also close a healthy peer's whole session. Details inline.

Reviewed changes

This first review covers the whole PR at 60c9460bf. It switches every lite-07 session from Babel's distance router to route::path::Router in Rust and js/net, changes the lite-07-wip wire, and rewrites the draft and the TLA+ model.

• Node driver (route/node.rs). One router key per node stream, paired per session tag. A session close disconnects under a Closing guard (DEAD plus doubt); a stream ending outside the guard retires quietly. Adds the Outbox backlog bound (sealed/overrun) and dates input by the session's clock.
• Path router (route/path.rs). Adds:
  • the 10 s HOLD;
  • pair/listen/retire;
  • learning a peer's hop from its first route;
  • scoped-peer isolation (fail_heard, scoped GOAWAY, Draining and close);
  • narrowing a route to the scope's regions;
  • usable() alternates and carried() uncertified views;
  • the latest-session tie-break.
• Wire and draft (lite-07-wip). Route Offer puts its path first. DEAD Closed/Drain can be split into More parts. Route Depth follows Node ID on requests, and ROUTE_REQUEST and the echo are removed. A specialist pass found the Rust codec, the JS codec, fixtures/lite.json and the draft in byte-for-byte agreement, including the validation rules.
• Sessions. lite/subscriber/routed.rs reassembles DEAD parts and applies DEAD and DRAIN. lite/publisher/routed.rs splits DEADs and closes a stalled or overrun announce stream. origin::Lane ranks the selected route ahead of its alternates and by the lowest link priority on its path.
• js/net. Becomes a path-rule endpoint. Established.covers checks per request whether a session's floors still cover a claim.
• Model. RouteHandoff.tla gains the down-only flag, the DownOnly invariant, Upstream.cfg and UpstreamScoped.cfg.

Checked and found consistent:

• Dead::split: each part fits, names the same hop, sets More on all but the last, and lists only live routes.
• The symmetry of Outbox::sealed.
• The claims/fresh cancel of withdrawals.
• JS DEAD-part reassembly, endRoute, and the Node ID and depth on JS requests.
• cargo test -p moq-net --features async --test integration path_routes passes: 10 of 10.

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Walkthrough

This pull request updates Lite-07 routing from the older distance and reply-based model to a path-based model. Route messages now use route offers, suffixes, DEAD handling, priority, and route depth. JS and Rust request types propagate node plus depth. Session handling tracks per-session route state and coverage checks. Route selection, claim serving, and hold or doubt behavior are updated. The path router, route node, tests, verification configs, fixtures, and protocol documents were revised to match the new model.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 96dd6

Lite-07 sessions now use the path router, a wire-breaking change that peers on lite-07-wip must roll out together. A forwarded request that follows a valid non-primary route can be rejected as unroutable. Several earlier edge cases in DEAD reassembly, slot confirmation, and session closure remain open. These should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merging.

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Minor · Select the best candidate before reporting each publisher. · subscriber.ts:1223

js/net/src/lite/subscriber.ts:1223
Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Select the best candidate before reporting each publisher.

The new publisher/prefix identity permits two routes to NODE_A at "" and "live" to carry live/x. This assignment always reports the last candidate. If that route is costlier or held, discovery reports that metadata even while the consume cache selects the cheaper available route. Group candidates by publisher and apply bestCandidate within each group. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

This also affects ordinary connection discovery: forwardAnnounced requests claims: true and copies these reports into the origin. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @js/net/src/lite/subscriber.ts at line 1223:
Update the candidate-reporting loop that populates now so it groups candidates by publisher and uses bestCandidate to select one candidate per publisher before recording it. Ensure reported metadata matches the best available route rather than whichever candidate appears last.

Minor · Reject SYNCED while a multipart DEAD is incomplete. · subscriber.rs:2901

rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber.rs:2901
Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Reject SYNCED while a multipart DEAD is incomplete.

If SYNCED arrives between DEAD parts, this branch bypasses routed.receive and its consecutive-parts guard. It also releases snapshot and drops replacing before the DEAD applies. Check the pending DEAD state before handling SYNCED, or dispatch SYNCED through the routed validation first. The supplied routed test checks an intervening floor, but does not exercise this outer-loop bypass.

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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber.rs at line 2901:
The SYNCED branch can bypass validation while a multipart DEAD is pending and prematurely release snapshot state. Update the handling around AnnounceBroadcast::Synced to check the pending DEAD state before processing SYNCED, or pass it through routed.receive so the consecutive-parts guard rejects it; preserve snapshot and replacing until the DEAD applies.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
Review comments at @js/net/src/connection/forward.ts:
- Line 98: Update the session-boundary flow around session.covers and the
route-stream work so floor-coverage changes re-run admission for affected open
requests, even when the route itself is unchanged. Establish how coverage
changes are propagated across the session boundary before implementing this;
avoid a local predicate-only change that leaves origin rerouting untriggered.

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber/routed.rs:
- Line 433: Update the scoped DRAIN handling around
self.stream.dead(Dead::Draining { node }) to retain the drain state for matching
stored offers or replay equivalent state when limit() replaces the stream.
Ensure file_route() cannot replay an offer with draining set to false and
restore its preference without a new peer offer.

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/route/node.rs:
- Line 475: Update the route entry handling reached through self.entry(key) so
claims withheld across a DEAD boundary remain associated with the segment whose
floor depends on them. Ensure take cannot certify that earlier floor until its
required claims precede it, either by tracking withheld claims per segment or by
preserving the floor as uncertified; keep the claim and floor on the same side
of DEAD.

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/route/path.rs:
- Line 2085: Update the `self.carried(id, prefix)` fallback so an uncertified
carried view cannot replace newer certified knowledge or clear its floors while
a route still covers the prefix. Preserve the certified withdrawal until a newer
certified revision supersedes it.

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/rtt.rs:
- Line 86: Update the assertion in the RTT test to compare the complete route
result against Some((Some(b), 3, None)), ensuring the route remains present with
its existing next hop and cost while RTT is unknown; do not use and_then to
collapse a missing route into the same result.

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/tests/integration/route_change.rs:
- Line 589: Update the original-subscription check around rx.try_recv() to await
a delivery under a timeout and require that it contains an error; fail on
timeout or a clean receiver close. Only after confirming the error, check any
additional deliveries without allowing a pending subscription to pass as
successful.

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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @js/net/src/lite/subscriber.ts:
- Line 1223: Update the candidate-reporting loop that populates now so it groups
candidates by publisher and uses bestCandidate to select one candidate per
publisher before recording it. Ensure reported metadata matches the best
available route rather than whichever candidate appears last.

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber.rs:
- Line 2901: The SYNCED branch can bypass validation while a multipart DEAD is
pending and prematurely release snapshot state. Update the handling around
AnnounceBroadcast::Synced to check the pending DEAD state before processing
SYNCED, or pass it through routed.receive so the consecutive-parts guard rejects
it; preserve snapshot and replacing until the DEAD applies.

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Decision 22 rethink: a DEAD that outgrows one message

You weren't convinced by splitting the DEAD into parts with a More byte (decision 22, on the branch). Here are three shapes, weighed against what any of them must keep.

What any shape must keep:

• The model's atomic DEAD. RouteHandoff.tla's Fail applies a DEAD in one step: the hop goes dead, the far node is doubted, the sender's moved routes take their new paths, and the rest end (Gone) or are held. A shape that keeps that step keeps every TLC result. One that splits it needs the model changed and every cfg rerun.
• A receiver that applies it at once. If the moves and the hop's death land separately, a relay with another route switches to it and back. A relay without one holds downstream and then lifts the hold.
• Credit. A receiver applies a DEAD only while one of the sender's routes still crosses the hop. That is why moving routes ahead of the DEAD failed review twice.
• The lite-07 freeze. lite-07 is cut once the routes epic lands, and the route stream gates that cut. Whatever shape lite-07 is cut with is the one it keeps.

A. Parts with a More byte (on the branch, 10616de)

• Wire: Closed {Hop, Far, Gone, More, Moved...}. Each part fits one message and repeats Hop, Far and Gone. The receiver applies them with the last part, and nothing may come between.
• Atomic: yes. Model: unchanged.
• Cost: the sender measures and splits by encoded size, and the receiver keeps a pending DEAD. The total still grows with the moved routes, just spread over messages. A peer can keep sending More forever: memory stays bounded by its routes, but the DEAD never applies.

B. A fixed-size DEAD whose moved routes follow as its own ROUTE_UPDATEs (recommended)

• Wire: Closed {Hop, Far, Gone, Moved Count}. The next Moved Count messages on the stream are ROUTE_UPDATEs, one per moved route, which the receiver applies with the DEAD. The DEAD's size no longer depends on how many routes it moves or ends.
• Atomic: yes. The receiver holds the DEAD until its updates arrive, then applies everything as one Fail.
• These are PROTOCOL_VIOLATIONs, so a DEAD always completes or ends the session:
  • any other message in between;
  • an update for a route that isn't live or doesn't cross the hop;
  • a count above the stream's routes through the hop.
• Model: unchanged. Like A, it spreads one modeled DEAD over several messages.
• Cost:
  • The receiver keeps the same pending state as A.
  • There's no More byte, no size measuring, and no repeated header.
  • A refused move is a refused ROUTE_UPDATE, which the moved entry already mimics.
  • Each moved route costs about 1 or 2 bytes more for the update's type and length.

C. A fixed-size DEAD that holds, with the moves after it as ordinary messages

• Wire: Closed {Hop, Far}. Every route the sender sent through the hop is held. The sender then sends ROUTE_UPDATE for each moved route and ROUTE_END for each ended one, so Gone goes away.
• Atomic: the DEAD itself is (the hop's death, the doubt, the holds), but the moves are not. Between them the sender's routes are unusable, which brings the switch-and-back or hold-and-lift churn above. That happens on every failure that moves routes, which is exactly the case the moved list exists for.
• Model: changes. DeadMsg loses moved and gone, and Report1 sends the moves as offers after it, which it already does when the hop isn't new news. TLC would have to rerun every cfg; Stable and the MaxFlaps bound are where the extra churn would show.
• Cost: the receiver keeps no state, and this is the simplest wire.

Rejected without a full write-up:

• Raising the size cap for a DEAD alone. It is atomic and matches the model, but the cap would depend on how many routes the stream holds, which the framing layer doesn't know.
• Moving routes ahead of the DEAD, the first fix. It loses the credit, and review found that twice.

Recommendation: B. It's the constant-size DEAD you asked about, and it keeps both the receiver's single step and the model as they are. It's A's atomicity with less wire: each moved route travels as a ROUTE_UPDATE, which both ends already encode, and the count bounds the reassembly. C has the simplest wire, but it trades the atomic move for churn and reopens the model. The change is about the size of A's: the DEAD codec, buffer_dead, both receivers' reassembly, the shared corpus, and the draft's DEAD section.

Pick (2026-11-14): B, with the violations as listed above. This PR still lands with A as it stands. quest/m2/cluster-routes/route-stream.md carries B as a settled Plan item, so it replaces A before lite-07 is cut.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[pullfrog]

ℹ️ No critical issues — the fixes for the first review hold up. One minor gap is inline: a held-back claim can lose its sealed floor.

Reviewed changes

This run covers 87e955f19, the fix commit after the first review. The merge of main (f2dcad29a) adds nothing to the PR's own changes.

• Uncredited DEAD kept in step. Router::credits is now shared with Routed::dead. A DEAD the node drops still applies on the wire side, and the node hears each change as the peer's own ROUTE_END, hold, or update. I checked it against sync, and the wire and router views now agree.
• Overrun counts only held routes. Outbox::dead marks each sealed entry sealed only when the reader still holds its route, and pop decrements per entry. The accounting is symmetric. Each uncounted entry pairs with an earlier counted start or the initial held set, so memory stays bounded.
• Sealed floor with a held-back claim. A batch sealed while a claim of its route is withheld now carries no floor, so it no longer certifies a claim the reader gets only after the DEAD.
• Scoped DRAIN survives a new limit. Routed::dead marks the stream's own offers through the draining node, so limit() files them again still draining.
• Bounded refused paths. decode_offer, in Rust and js/net, keeps only MAX_HOPS + 1 hops of an over-limit path. The refusal still skips the rest of the body.
• Tests and nits. waits_out_the_doubt now waits under a timeout and requires an error. The RTT test compares the whole route. The duplicate doc line and section header are gone.

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Minor · Clear a slot's confirmation when its served instance changes. · node.rs:1406

rs/moq-net/src/route/node.rs:1406
Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Clear a slot's confirmation when its served instance changes.

When a wanted slot switches to a new instance, slot.confirmed keeps the old instance. Home::release treats that stale value as confirmation of the new claim. A leaving slot can then be unserved before the new instance is confirmed. A late confirmation for the old instance from a leaving slot can trigger this path. The fix clears the confirmation on an instance or epoch change and rejects confirmations for an instance that the slot no longer serves.

Suggested fix

 		let confirmed = (served.instance.clone(), served.epoch);
+		if slot.served.claim.instance != served.instance || slot.served.claim.epoch != served.epoch {
+			return;
+		}
 		if slot.confirmed.as_ref() == Some(&confirmed) {

 				Some(slot) => {
+					if slot.served.claim.instance != served.claim.instance
+						|| slot.served.claim.epoch != served.claim.epoch
+					{
+						slot.confirmed = None;
+					}
 					slot.served = served.clone();
 					slot.named = named;
 					slot.leaving = false;

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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/src/route/node.rs at line 1406:
When updating an existing slot’s served claim, clear slot.confirmed if the claim’s instance or epoch changes before assigning slot.served. In the confirmation-handling path used by Home::release, reject confirmations whose instance or epoch no longer matches the slot’s served claim, so a stale confirmation cannot confirm the new claim.

Minor · Propagate the post-request protocol violation to the session. · publisher.rs:1050-1052

rs/moq-net/src/lite/publisher.rs:1050-1052
Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Propagate the post-request protocol violation to the session.

If a Lite-07 peer writes one byte after its request, Answer::poll returns Error::ProtocolViolation. This branch aborts the stream, but Line 1055 then returns Ok(()). The session remains open. with_session only adds stall handling; it does not close this protocol-error path. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Propagate the protocol error or pass it through the session control-error handler. Extend the new test through AnnounceServe or Control and assert the session close code.

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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/src/lite/publisher.rs around lines 1050 - 1052:
Update the error handling in the Answer::poll path so an Error::ProtocolViolation is propagated to the session or passed through its control-error handler after aborting the stream, rather than allowing the path to return Ok(()). Extend the relevant AnnounceServe or Control test to verify that the session closes with the expected close code.

Nitpick comments: 1

js/net/src/lite/subscriber.test.ts: 1

5217-5217: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Make the hop-limit fixture exclude the subscriber node.

full contains node 1n, which is subscriber.hop. If the hop-limit check regresses, self-path rejection still produces the expected offline event. Build 32 distinct hops that exclude subscriber.hop. Keep the separate crossing case for self-path rejection. The implementation checks both conditions independently. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @js/net/src/lite/subscriber.test.ts at line 5217:
Update the `full` fixture so it contains exactly `ROUTE_MAX_HOPS` distinct node IDs that exclude `subscriber.hop`, ensuring this case independently exercises the hop-limit check. Keep the separate `crossing` case unchanged to cover self-path rejection.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @js/net/src/lite/announce.ts:
- Line 339: Before calculating the retained hop count in the announce decoder,
validate that the declared count fits the remaining body using the equivalent of
Rust’s remaining-bytes-per-hop check; reject undersized bodies rather than
consuming their remainder as attributes. Add the 1000-hop malformed-body case to
the shared fixtures and preserve behavior consistent with the Rust decoder.

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber/routed.rs:
- Line 406: Update WireRoute::reach so it reports no reach for offers that fail
the same hop-limit admission rule used by Router::route_at through
Offer::extendable. Reuse that rule in reach, making a 32-hop offer unavailable
and allowing its later 31-hop update to trigger claim replay.

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/route/node.rs:
- Line 461: Update the batch-queueing path around `entry.batch` to save its
floor in `withheld` before dequeue, and ensure `release` carries that saved
floor into the released batch when confirmation precedes `take`. Extend the
regression test to verify that the second batch retains floor 5.

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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/lite/publisher.rs:
- Around line 1050-1052: Update the error handling in the Answer::poll path so
an Error::ProtocolViolation is propagated to the session or passed through its
control-error handler after aborting the stream, rather than allowing the path
to return Ok(()). Extend the relevant AnnounceServe or Control test to verify
that the session closes with the expected close code.

Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/route/node.rs:
- Line 1406: When updating an existing slot’s served claim, clear slot.confirmed
if the claim’s instance or epoch changes before assigning slot.served. In the
confirmation-handling path used by Home::release, reject confirmations whose
instance or epoch no longer matches the slot’s served claim, so a stale
confirmation cannot confirm the new claim.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @js/net/src/lite/subscriber.test.ts:
- Line 5217: Update the `full` fixture so it contains exactly `ROUTE_MAX_HOPS`
distinct node IDs that exclude `subscriber.hop`, ensuring this case
independently exercises the hop-limit check. Keep the separate `crossing` case
unchanged to cover self-path rejection.

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• .cargo/mutants.toml
• .claude/skills/verify-route/SKILL.md
• drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-lite.md
• js/net/src/hop.ts
• js/net/src/internal.ts
• js/net/src/lite/announce.test.ts
• js/net/src/lite/announce.ts
• js/net/src/lite/publisher.test.ts
• js/net/src/lite/subscriber.test.ts
• quest/m2/cluster-routes/README.md
• quest/m2/cluster-routes/acceptance.md
• quest/m2/cluster-routes/interest-set.md
• quest/m2/cluster-routes/route-stream.md
• quest/m3/cluster-routing/README.md
• quest/m3/cluster-routing/request-loop.md
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/announce.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/publisher.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber/routed.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber/routed/tests.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/origin.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/mod.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/node.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/node/tests.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/path.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/handoff.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/mod.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/routing.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/rtt.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/scope.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/search.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/view.rs
• rs/moq-net/tests/integration/route_change.rs
• rs/moq-relay/src/cluster.rs

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• .cargo/mutants.toml
• quest/m3/cluster-routing/request-loop.md

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• quest/m2/cluster-routes/interest-set.md
• quest/m3/cluster-routing/README.md
• rs/moq-relay/src/cluster.rs

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✅ No new issues found. Both commits fix the floor gap from the last review, and the route::node tests pass (20 of 20).

Reviewed changes

This run covers dafc57e54 and 8b0c53fb5. Both change only route/node.rs and its tests.

• The release keeps the sealed floor. withheld now stores a HeldFloor. When Outbox::dead seals a batch while claims are held back, it saves that batch's floor, so a release confirmed before the reader reaches the sealed entry still uses it. HeldFloor::set accepts only an entry seq at least as new as the stored one. Reading an older sealed batch therefore can't roll the floor back. Entry seqs grow across segments: each segment holds one entry per route and segments seal in order, so a higher seq always means a newer batch.
• Ended routes stop counting toward overrun. Outbox::sealing tracks how many sealed entries each route has and how many have been read. unseal runs at both places where a route leaves known (route(None) and a gone DEAD). It subtracts the entries that still count and marks them void, and pop only decrements past the void mark. I traced a route that is sealed, ended, restarted, and sealed again: the count returns to zero and the map entry is removed.
• Tests. Added regressions for a route sealed by an earlier DEAD and ended by a later one, and for a release after older batches are read. The existing test now checks that the release gets floor Some(5).

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✅ No new issues found. The hop-limit fix holds in both languages, and the merge of the interest set (#8728) is resolved consistently for lite-07's one-prefix-per-stream keys.

Reviewed changes

This run covers the commits since 8b0c53fb5: the fix 4e8032b00, the merge of main (63d620f36, read through its combined diff), the rustfmt pass 857f2eea4, and the doc move 73c74c0d1.

• Every counted hop is read. decode_offer in Rust and js/net now reads every hop a Route Offer counts and keeps the first MAX_HOPS + 1. Rust stays bounded by the count > remaining / 2 check. JS fails at the end of the sized body, so a count its body can't hold is malformed on both sides. The new fixtures/lite.json case pins this as a decode error.
• A route at the hop limit reaches the node as no route. WireRoute::reach now also requires offer.extendable(), which matches Router::route_at. Because sync treats a change from None to Some as a new start, a later shorter path files the route again, with its committed claims. The js/net endpoint already applied the same < ROUTE_MAX_HOPS check.
• Merge with the interest set. State::register calls connect, which asks for the watch met with the scope, then calls edited right away, so asked takes effect before any route is heard. Node::answer files its prefix through edit, and flush ignores Ask, Edited and Synced. admit's new asked filter always passes in production: the watch is the root, and a scoped session asks for exactly its regions. Other changes:
  • A route that widens on rekey clears batched.
  • A moved hold keeps its held_until.
  • end_sent skips a batch that carries only a floor the neighbour already holds.
  • The interest generations are gone.
• Tests. cargo test -p moq-net --lib --features async -- route:: lite::subscriber::routed lite::corpus ran 199 tests and all passed, including a_route_shortened_from_the_hop_limit_files_its_claims. bun test on corpus.test.ts and announce.test.ts ran 76 tests and all passed.

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✅ No new issues found. The merge of main leaves the PR's own changes intact, and the merged tree builds and passes its tests.

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This run covers the two commits since 73c74c0d1.

• Merged main (3277f5e99). This brings in #8638, which addresses groups by their start. Git found conflicts only in quest/m2/cluster-routes/README.md and in waits_out_the_doubt, which now uses the new group API (append_next, at_start, close). main also changed 16 of this PR's other files, among them the draft, the lite publisher and subscriber in Rust and js/net, lite/subscribe.rs, and origin.rs. In each one, the PR's own changes are line-for-line the same before and after the merge.
• Refreshed the model's state counts (96dd6b3b3). This commit changes only docs. It updates the state counts in verify-route/SKILL.md to the merged model's.
• Tests run. cargo check -p moq-net --features async --tests passes. cargo test -p moq-net --features async --test integration route_change passes 54 of 54, including waits_out_the_doubt.

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Major · Source lookup ignores the request's node filter and rejects forwarded… · origin.rs:6804-6806

rs/moq-net/src/model/origin.rs:6804-6806
Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Source lookup ignores the request's node filter and rejects forwarded non-primary routes.

Claim::request_validity resolves the covering route with Horizon::default(), whose node filter is NodeFilter::Any. That filter admits only primary lanes for entries with a node. A request forwarded over a non-primary lane is admitted by NodeFilter::Route but rejected here. When the server's only covering route for the path is non-primary, request_validity returns None. RequestValidity::for_source then returns a closed Route token, and check returns Error::Unroutable. The request fails even though it names a usable route.

Resolve the source with the filter the request carries, instead of always using Horizon::default(). Keep unfiltered requests limited to primary lanes.

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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/src/model/origin.rs around lines 6804 - 6806:
Update Claim::request_validity to resolve the covering route using the request’s node filter instead of always using Horizon::default(). Allow non-primary routes when the request carries a route filter, while keeping unfiltered requests restricted to primary lanes.

Nitpick comments: 1

rs/moq-net/tests/integration/route_change.rs: 1

583-583: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Check the held state before doubt expires.

trigger already waits 500 ms. This additional one-second wait puts every failover assertion after the default doubt timer. A router that switches to B immediately would also pass.

Add an observable assertion that the claim remains held or unavailable before expiry. Keep the existing recovery and original-subscription error checks.

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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/tests/integration/route_change.rs at line 583:
In the failover test around trigger, add an observable assertion before the default doubt timer expires that the claim is still held or unavailable, so an immediate switch to B cannot pass. Keep the existing recovery and original-subscription error checks unchanged.

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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/model/origin.rs:
- Around line 6804-6806: Update Claim::request_validity to resolve the covering
route using the request’s node filter instead of always using
Horizon::default(). Allow non-primary routes when the request carries a route
filter, while keeping unfiltered requests restricted to primary lanes.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @rs/moq-net/tests/integration/route_change.rs:
- Line 583: In the failover test around trigger, add an observable assertion
before the default doubt timer expires that the claim is still held or
unavailable, so an immediate switch to B cannot pass. Keep the existing recovery
and original-subscription error checks unchanged.

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• .claude/skills/verify-route/SKILL.md
• drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-lite.md
• js/net/src/lite/announce.ts
• js/net/src/lite/publisher.ts
• quest/m2/cluster-routes/README.md
• quest/m2/cluster-routes/route-stream.md
• quest/m2/cluster-routes/switch.md
• rs/moq-net/fixtures/lite.json
• rs/moq-net/src/coding/writer.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/fuzz.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/announce.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/publisher.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber/routed.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber/routed/tests.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/mod.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/origin.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/mod.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/node.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/node/tests.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/path.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/handoff.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/interest.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/mod.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/routing.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/scope.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/search.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/test_interop.rs
• rs/moq-net/tests/integration/byte_holes.rs
• rs/moq-net/tests/integration/catalog_handover.rs
• rs/moq-net/tests/integration/main.rs
• rs/moq-net/tests/integration/multi_cdn.rs
• rs/moq-net/tests/integration/route_change.rs
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/Blind.cfg
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/Dead.cfg
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/Drain.cfg
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/DrainRing.cfg
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/Early.cfg
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/Edit.cfg
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• rs/moq-net/verify/route/LagWide.cfg
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• rs/moq-net/verify/route/Overlap.cfg
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/Prefer.cfg
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/Ring.cfg
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/RouteHandoff.cfg
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/RouteHandoff.tla
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/Twice.cfg
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/Upstream.cfg
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/UpstreamScoped.cfg
• rs/moq-relay/src/cluster.rs

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• quest/m2/cluster-routes/switch.md
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