Status: ACTIVE Last Reviewed: 2026-03-20

Handoff / Continuation Notes

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2026-04-01: Added debug endpoint second-factor enforcement for implemented /api/v1/debug/* routes.
- startup now creates/loads data/debug.token alongside data/api.token
- /api/v1/debug/* now requires both bearer auth and X-Debug-Token
- missing/invalid debug token now returns 403 when debug routes are enabled
- token comparison uses a constant-time helper
- added API tests for disabled, missing, invalid, and valid debug-token behavior

Goal

Implement an iMule-compatible Kademlia (KAD) overlay over I2P only, using SAM v3 STYLE=DATAGRAM sessions (UDP forwarding) for peer connectivity.

Status

Status (2026-03-20): Download phase 2 now has a real end-to-end transfer baseline on feature/download-phase2-transfer.
- src/download/transfer.rs provides eD2k-style transfer framing, request helpers, and focused unit tests.
- src/app.rs download pumping now performs real outbound STREAM CONNECT + OP_REQUESTPARTS block fetches instead of fabricating local OP_SENDINGPART packets.
- App startup persists a separate transfer identity in data/sam.transfer.keys and ensures a dedicated <session>-transfer STREAM session for transfer traffic.
- Inbound transfer serving exists: accepted STREAM connections decode OP_REQUESTPARTS and answer with OP_SENDINGPART from UploadService.
- KAD source publish/cache/store paths now distinguish tcp_dest (transfer) from udp_dest (KAD datagram) and preserve the published transfer destination when possible.
- Publish-source decode is lenient again: if full tag parsing fails, we fall back to the minimal decoder and still ACK/store the source using the sender destination.
- Transfer hardening added so outbound connect attempts and inbound idle reads are time-bounded.
Decisions:
- persist the transfer identity; do not generate it per run, because source publication needs a stable inbound destination
- keep the first inbound server implementation simple and uncompressed; always answer with OP_SENDINGPART for now
- keep wire/protocol compatibility release-critical, but keep local persistence Rust-native by default unless cross-client runtime-state portability becomes a concrete requirement
Next steps:
- validate the phase-2 path against real alpha peers and confirm published tcp_dest matches reachable transfer listeners in practice
- add broader transfer-session tests or soak coverage around listener/session recovery behavior
- decide whether to keep write_packet() eager flushing or relax it after real-network testing
Historical note (2026-03-19):
- this slice started as transport framing plus an outbound-only client path, then was extended into the dedicated persisted transfer session with inbound serving and session reuse above
Status (2026-03-19): Added a storage compatibility decision note.
- New note: docs/10_architecture/STORAGE_COMPATIBILITY_POLICY.md
- Decision:
  - treat compatibility as a boundary, not a blanket rule
  - keep wire/protocol compatibility release-critical
  - keep internal persistence Rust-native by default
  - prefer import/export or migration adapters over full legacy on-disk parity
- Immediate implication:
  - do not treat byte-for-byte iMule .part.met / known.met parity as the default implementation goal unless cross-client runtime-state portability becomes a concrete requirement
Status (2026-03-17): Added a SAM transport lifecycle design note after reviewing source_ref/yosemite.
- New note: docs/10_architecture/SAM_TRANSPORT_STATE_MACHINE.md
- Captures a stricter runtime model for:
  - SAM control/session state
  - datagram readiness vs verified transport health
  - explicit degraded/recovering state
  - post-create verification before declaring KAD transport healthy again
- Linked the existing runtime SAM resilience backlog to the new design note.
Status (2026-03-11): Captured another alpha reliability/backlog note on chore/alpha-backlog-notes.
- Observed repeated kad_inbound_drop reason="legacy_kad1_disabled" spam from a single legacy peer sending KADEMLIA_REQ (0x05).
- Confirmed the current behavior is protocol-correct but too noisy at debug granularity for a sustained legacy peer.
- Added backlog guidance to rate-limit or summarize repeated legacy-KAD1 drop events per peer/opcode window while keeping aggregate counters.
Status (2026-03-11): Captured another alpha product/backlog note on chore/alpha-backlog-notes.
- Clarified the desired sharing model for completed downloads:
  - user-configured share roots must continue to be blocked from overlapping the managed app data directory
  - the app-managed completed-download output (incoming) should nevertheless become auto-shared by application policy
- Added backlog guidance to keep managed incoming shares distinct from user-configured shared folders in the UI/API, and to preserve that semantic if download/incoming paths become configurable later.
Status (2026-03-10): Started the alpha UI stabilization track on feat/alpha-ui-stabilization.
- Fixed a UI boot-order failure seen on the older macOS machine where Alpine evaluated x-data="...()" expressions before the page bootstrap had attached the page factories to window.
- Added ui/assets/js/ui-bootstrap.js so the UI now imports the page-specific controller module first and only then loads Alpine.
- Updated all UI pages to use the new bootstrap module instead of loading Alpine before the app module.
- Normalized the sidebar Overview navigation target to /ui/ across all pages so the route is canonical and consistent on older browsers.
- Search thread lists now prefer the original keyword label when available instead of showing only the opaque search hash; the hash is retained as secondary context when it differs from the label.
- Fixed the skip-link affordance so it stays fully off-screen until keyboard focus instead of remaining half-visible in the top-left corner.
- Changed /api/v1/status startup semantics so it now returns 200 with ready: false and a zeroed status payload during early boot instead of returning 503 until KAD bootstrap finishes.
- Changed /api/v1/searches startup semantics so it now returns 200 with ready: false and an empty list during early KAD startup instead of timing out with 504.
- Hardened the desktop shell/layout based on the older macOS alpha feedback:
  - removed the floating outer app padding for .container.shell
  - turned the sidebar into a flush left rail
  - gave the main content a unified full-height surface
  - increased visual separation between primary and destructive buttons
- Moved the + New Search action into a stable slot in the left rail across all pages so it remains reachable even when the Search Threads list grows.
- Flattened the shell styling further so the UI reads less like a glossy dashboard and more like a utilitarian application workspace:
  - section cards now render as flat bordered blocks
  - Search Threads now reads as a rail section instead of a floating widget
  - the main pane reads as one coherent surface with divided sections
- Fixed the left-rail session pill so it now reflects real session state instead of staying frozen at unknown.
- Changed node-stats chart layout so the graphs render on their own rows instead of sharing a cramped three-column band.
- Fixed two search-form UX bugs:
  - successful submit now clears and refocuses the inputs
  - the search form now stays disabled until the existing /api/v1/searches.ready signal says KAD search is actually ready
- Reworked the page roles so /ui/ is a real application overview instead of a single-search control surface:
  - removed the stale overview-only active-search controls and controller state
  - changed the landing page into a health/search summary with recent search activity and raw status links
  - updated sidebar subtitles so each page describes its actual purpose
- Tightened a small follow-up UI pass from the latest alpha screenshots:
  - the search page now shows the same KAD readiness badge pattern as the overview
  - flex rows now center-align their children so badges/buttons stop stretching vertically
  - the settings page no longer shows the unrelated search/routing KPI boxes
  - the shared-folder editor now explicitly explains why there is no browser-side folder picker
- Tightened navigation/settings cleanup from the next alpha screenshot pass:
  - removed the stray runtime snapshot panel from the settings page
  - turned sidebar navigation into explicit application chrome with hover and active states
  - active navigation now uses the same dark-blue family as the main workspace instead of looking like a plain text link
- Tightened the sidebar rail structure from the next alpha screenshot pass:
  - navigation items now span the full rail width with more padding
  - active state is now a filled background, not just an outline
  - Search Threads now inherits the same rail item treatment so the sidebar reads as one system
- Applied a Lighthouse-driven layout-stability pass aimed at reducing startup CLS:
- Split the UI controller bundle by page after the alpha Lighthouse run so the app no longer ships every Alpine controller to every page; the shared helpers now live in app-core.js and ui-bootstrap.js imports the page-specific controller based on a data-ui-page attribute.
  - reserved space for session/status strips and feedback rows
  - stabilized badge widths for the startup state pills
  - gave the sidebar search-thread area a fixed minimum footprint so the rail does not jump when async data arrives
  - reserved height for the overview KPI/summary rows so empty-to-live transitions move less
Decisions:
- treat the current macOS issue as a frontend boot sequencing problem, not a backend bootstrap issue.
- prefer an explicit UI bootstrap module over relying on browser-specific script scheduling behavior between classic defer scripts and ES modules.
- store and expose the original keyword text through the KAD search job so the UI can render a human-readable search thread title consistently across pages.
- keep the skip-link accessibility affordance, but hide it until focus rather than removing it.
- treat /api/v1/status as an application status document, not as a transport-level readiness probe; use a structured ready flag during startup instead of 503.
- use the same structured startup approach for the search thread list, because that page is polled/UI-facing and should not surface bootstrap lag as a gateway timeout.
- keep the current information architecture for now, but make the app shell read as a proper two-pane desktop application instead of a stack of detached cards.
- keep primary search creation as a stable rail action, not as content that can be pushed out of reach by dynamic thread state.
- prefer plain section blocks and border dividers over rounded/glowing cards for the alpha UI; the application should read like a tool, not a marketing site.
- avoid getter-based UI state inside spread mixins; the object spread froze the session-pill labels/classes at creation time, so explicit updaters are safer here.
- use the already-available search-thread readiness signal in the frontend instead of letting the user discover bootstrap lag by hitting the search form and walking into a timeout path.
- keep search execution and detailed search management on the dedicated search pages; the overview page should summarize system state, not drive one arbitrary active search thread.
- do not add a fake folder picker to the settings page: the browser does not reliably provide a durable absolute path that can be written back into config.toml, so a plain textarea plus a clear explanation is more honest than a broken picker affordance.
- do not add a separate boot screen yet. The better immediate fix is to keep the existing shell and make startup state explicit and honest with ready badges/disabled controls. A dedicated boot screen would add routing/state complexity without solving the underlying page clarity issues first.
- keep the sidebar as a unified control rail: navigation and search-thread rows should share the same structural treatment so the left pane reads like application chrome instead of a mixed bag of links and ad hoc list content.
- treat Lighthouse CLS findings as a layout-reservation problem first, not a boot-screen problem. The immediate fix is to reserve stable space in the existing shell and pages instead of adding another startup route/surface.
- treat HTTP cache headers as a separate follow-up from the alpha UI trimming pass. They are worth adding for repeat navigations across the multi-page UI, but they do not materially solve first-load JS execution cost or Lighthouse unused-JS findings.
Next steps:
- open and merge the alpha UI stabilization PR.
- follow up with static-asset cache headers:
  - use cache headers for JS/CSS/image assets served under /ui/assets/
  - prefer long-lived immutable caching only if filenames become fingerprinted
  - otherwise use a shorter TTL/revalidation policy so deploys do not strand stale UI assets
- keep HTML routes separately revalidated; do not cache application pages like immutable assets.
- investigate the startup race behind: UI auto-open skipped: API/UI/token did not become ready before timeout when data/api.token appears shortly after process start.
- split that investigation into separate readiness causes so logs say whether auto-open missed: API bind, UI route readiness, token-file creation, or token readability.
- classify search-thread origins so shared-library keyword publish jobs do not show up as ordinary user search threads in the Search UI.
- review shared-library keyword publish lifetime separately from UI thread lifetime:
  - the local keyword_job TTL is only the retry/progress/UI window (~2h)
  - remote peers that accepted PUBLISH_KEY keep entries on their own keyword-store TTL
  - decide whether shared-library keyword publishing should become a sustained refresh responsibility instead of a short-lived startup/background burst
- refactor search-page information architecture:
  - remove search threads from the global sidebar
  - make /ui/search a compact active-search index
  - move the current search workflow/detail surface to a dedicated detail route
- split the current combined downloads/shared-library UI into separate Downloads and Shared navigation/pages so transfer troubleshooting and library/publish management stop competing for one page.
- add timed refresh or broader reactive wiring for UI stats that currently stay stale until manual reload.
- unify liveness terminology across overview and node-stats; do not let /ui/node_stats invent a broader frontend-only meaning of live while /ui/ shows the backend service counters.
- detect runtime loss of the effective SAM/KAD transport session, surface degraded/disconnected state explicitly, and auto-recover instead of allowing long-running clients to look healthy while inert.
- improve runtime SAM diagnostics so logs/status distinguish duplicate destination, duplicate session id, router disconnect, and tunnel/session-establish failures with short instance/destination fingerprints.
- do a documentation hygiene pass:
  - decide what belongs on GitHub Pages versus what should stay internal-only
  - align repository/community-facing docs with GitHub community standards
- archive governance working docs so handoff.md and TASKS.md stay short/current instead of accumulating indefinite historical narrative.
- preserve timed-out searches as explicit UI state instead of letting them disappear; add per-search and bulk resubmit/remove actions for timed-out searches.
- rebalance info vs debug logging so operator-relevant progress stays visible at info while bucket-refresh chatter moves behind debug.
Change log:
- Added ui/assets/js/ui-bootstrap.js.
- Split the old monolithic ui/assets/js/app.js into ui/assets/js/app-core.js plus page-specific modules under ui/assets/js/pages/ so each UI page only loads the controller it uses.
- Updated all ui/*.html page shells.
- Updated Overview sidebar links in all ui/*.html pages to /ui/.
- Updated KAD search API/service plumbing to retain keyword_label.
- Updated search thread rendering in all ui/*.html pages to prefer the label over the hash.
- Updated ui/assets/css/base.css to make .skip-link focus-only visible.
- Updated /api/v1/status to return a startup payload with ready: false when KAD has not yet published its first status snapshot.
- Updated /api/v1/searches to return { ready, searches } and treat startup timeout as ready: false with an empty list.
- Updated ui/assets/css/base.css to make the shell full-bleed, convert the sidebar into a flush rail, and give the main pane a unified background surface.
- Split the UI controller payload into ui/assets/js/app-core.js plus page-specific modules under ui/assets/js/pages/, and updated ui/assets/js/ui-bootstrap.js plus all UI pages to load only the controller needed for the current page.
- Updated ui/assets/css/color-dark.css, ui/assets/css/colors-light.css, and ui/assets/css/color-hc.css to give primary and destructive buttons distinct foreground and background treatment.
- Updated all ui/*.html sidebars to place + New Search directly under Navigation.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js so startNewSearch() lives in the shared session/UI mixin and is available from every page shell.
- Updated ui/assets/css/base.css to flatten .card styling, turn Search Threads into a rail section with top/bottom dividers, and make the main pane read as a continuous utilitarian workspace.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js so the session pill uses explicit mutable UI fields updated by checkSession() instead of getter values frozen by object spread.
- Updated ui/node_stats.html so the charts stack vertically instead of sharing a three-column row.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js and ui/search.html so the search form is disabled until KAD search is ready, and successful submit clears/refocuses the inputs.
- Updated ui/index.html to become a true application overview page with search activity, service counters, and raw-status sections.
- Removed stale active-search overview controller state from ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated sidebar subtitle copy in ui/search.html, ui/search_details.html, ui/node_stats.html, ui/log.html, and ui/settings.html.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/smoke.spec.mjs to match the new overview-page contract.
- Updated ui/search.html to show a KAD readiness badge.
- Updated ui/assets/css/base.css so generic flex rows center-align children and badges center their contents instead of stretching vertically.
- Removed the unrelated search/routing KPI boxes from ui/settings.html.
- Added explanatory copy to ui/settings.html describing why shared folders still require explicit filesystem paths.
- Removed the settings-page runtime snapshot panel.
- Updated sidebar navigation styling in ui/assets/css/base.css, ui/assets/css/color-dark.css, ui/assets/css/colors-light.css, and ui/assets/css/color-hc.css so active/hover states read like application navigation instead of plain links.
- Updated the shared rail styling in ui/assets/css/base.css so navigation items and search thread rows use the same full-width padded treatment.
- Updated ui/assets/css/base.css with reserved-height/status-strip helpers for lower startup
- Added backlog notes for the UI auto-open/token readiness race observed during alpha startup, where data/api.token can appear in the same minute as the warning but still miss the current readiness timeout window.
- Added backlog notes for search-thread origin classification after shared-library filename tokenization produced multiple visible search threads from one shared archive name.
- Added backlog notes that shared-library keyword publishing may need a sustained refresh strategy because the local keyword-job TTL only bounds retry/UI lifetime, not remote keyword store retention.
- Added backlog notes for a search-page IA cleanup so active-search listing moves into /ui/search and the current workflow surface becomes a dedicated detail page instead of overflowing the global sidebar.
- Added backlog notes for splitting the combined downloads/shared-library page into separate Downloads and Shared surfaces.
- Added backlog notes for UI stats refresh/reactivity so page counters stop drifting into a partially stale state between manual reloads.
- Added backlog notes to unify live/live_10m terminology between overview and node-stats so the UI stops showing two incompatible meanings of “live”.
- Added backlog notes for runtime SAM/KAD session resilience so long-running clients surface and recover from transport loss instead of appearing healthy while inert.
- Added backlog notes for documentation hygiene, GitHub Pages publishing scope, and GitHub community-standard repository docs.
- Added backlog notes for archiving governance docs so active working documents stay concise and history moves into docs/governance/archive/.
- Added backlog notes for timed-out search lifecycle handling so failed searches remain visible and actionable instead of silently disappearing from the UI.
- Added backlog notes for logging-surface cleanup so info logs narrate real operator progress and verbose bucket refresh detail moves behind debug. layout shift.
- Updated ui/index.html and ui/search.html to use the new stable status-strip/feedback classes.
- Updated all page sidebars so the session strip uses the same reserved-height treatment.
- Updated API/UI test fixtures for keyword_label.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-10): Started the macOS dual-architecture packaging follow-up on feat/macos-dual-arch-builds.
- The macOS build script now packages according to an explicit Rust target triple instead of the host machine architecture, so a macOS runner can produce separate arm64 and x86_64 bundles.
- The Intel (x86_64-apple-darwin) build keeps the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=12.0 floor for the older private-alpha test Mac.
- The Apple Silicon (aarch64-apple-darwin) build is now a distinct artifact and no longer inherits the Intel macOS 12 floor by default.
- CI and release workflows were expanded to build separate macOS arm64 and x86_64 artifacts.
Decisions:
- package macOS arm64 and x86_64 as separate tarballs rather than introducing a universal binary for the first alpha iteration.
- scope the macOS 12 deployment floor only to the x86_64 build, because that is the actual compatibility need.
- describe the x86_64 macOS bundle as a target build on macos-latest, not a native Intel-host build, because the workflow is selecting x86_64-apple-darwin on the current macOS runner.
Next steps:
- run the standard validation set.
- inspect the CI/release workflow shape carefully, since the macOS x86_64 build now depends on cross-target packaging from macos-latest.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/build/build_macos_release.sh.
- Updated .github/workflows/ci.yml.
- Updated .github/workflows/release.yml.
- Updated scripts/build/README.md.
- Updated docs/30_operations/ALPHA_RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Fixed the docs site build failure caused by docs/governance/REVIEWERS_CHECKLIST.md.
- Removed a stray leading --- that VitePress was treating as the start of YAML frontmatter.
- Verified the docs site now builds successfully with npm run docs:build.
- Added a dedicated docs-pages CI job that runs npm install and npm run docs:build so future Pages/VitePress breakage fails in CI instead of surfacing only in the Pages workflow.
Decisions:
- keep docs/governance/REVIEWERS_CHECKLIST.md as plain markdown with no frontmatter.
- defer the broader question of which docs should or should not be published to Pages; this fix only restores a valid build.
Next steps:
- decide whether governance/internal docs should remain in the published VitePress navigation.
Change log:
- Updated docs/governance/REVIEWERS_CHECKLIST.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Started the private alpha checklist/release-readiness follow-up on feat/alpha-checklist.
- Added docs/30_operations/ALPHA_RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md as the explicit pre-tag checklist for a private alpha such as v0.1.0-alpha.1.
- The checklist captures:
  - supported alpha platform targets
  - artifact/build requirements
  - CLI/config contract
  - end-to-end flow expectations
  - known alpha caveats
  - tagging criteria
- Surfaced the checklist in docs/index.md and aligned docs/README.md.
Decisions:
- keep alpha release-readiness as an operations doc, not a handoff-only note, so the checklist remains visible and reviewable outside chat continuity.
- treat v0.1.0-alpha.1 as the recommended first private alpha tag once the checklist is satisfied or explicitly deferred item-by-item.
Next steps:
- review the checklist against the remaining orchestrator needs.
- decide whether --print-effective-config is still required before cutting the first alpha.
Change log:
- Added docs/30_operations/ALPHA_RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md.
- Updated docs/index.md.
- Updated docs/README.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Started the repo-config cleanup follow-up on feat/config-example-cleanup.
- The tracked config.toml was normalized from a lab-specific file into an alpha-safe example baseline.
- Replaced environment-specific SAM addresses with loopback defaults:
  - sam.host = "127.0.0.1"
  - sam.forward_host = "127.0.0.1"
  - sam.forward_port = 0
- Turned debug endpoints off in the tracked config:
  - api.enable_debug_endpoints = false
- Added explicit log-file settings and an explicit empty [sharing] section so the packaged config better reflects the current feature surface.
Decisions:
- treat the tracked config.toml as an example/default config for alpha users and packaging, not as a developer-lab machine config.
- prefer neutral loopback-safe values in the tracked config, with orchestration or multi-node test overrides happening in run-specific configs instead of the repo file.
Next steps:
- run the standard validation set.
- decide whether the alpha checklist should explicitly distinguish example config from orchestrator/test configs.
Change log:
- Updated config.toml.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Started the dedicated macOS alpha-floor follow-up on feat/macos-alpha-floor.
- The macOS packaging script now exports MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=12.0 by default before the release build runs.
- That same script is used by both the CI build matrix and the tag-driven release workflow, so the private alpha macOS floor is now explicit and consistent across both paths.
- Updated build documentation to state that the intended private alpha macOS support floor is 12.0 unless deliberately overridden.
Decisions:
- target macOS 12.0 for the private alpha because that matches the available older test machine.
- keep the deployment target in the build script rather than duplicating it in workflow YAML, so every caller inherits the same floor by default.
Next steps:
- run the standard local validation set.
- after merge, test a produced macOS artifact on the older Mac before claiming the floor is verified in practice.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/build/build_macos_release.sh.
- Updated scripts/build/README.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Started the separate alpha build-matrix / packaging track on feat/alpha-build-matrix.
- Added a CI build matrix that runs the host-platform packaging script on:
  - Linux
  - macOS
  - Windows
- Each matrix job now verifies that the expected packaged artifact is produced under dist/, so release-bundle breakage shows up on PRs before a tag is cut.
- Updated scripts/build/README.md to document the relationship between the CI build matrix, the tagged release workflow, and the intended private alpha flow.
Decisions:
- keep alpha packaging validation as a separate branch from the CLI basics work; release validation and CLI ergonomics are distinct concerns and should remain separately reviewable.
- validate host-platform packaging first rather than introducing cross-compilation complexity in the first alpha-readiness slice.
Next steps:
- run the standard local validation plus a local Linux release-bundle build.
- decide whether the next alpha-readiness slice should formalize an alpha checklist or pin an explicit macOS support floor.
Change log:
- Updated .github/workflows/ci.yml.
- Updated scripts/build/README.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Added packaged-artifact smoke checks to the alpha build-matrix track.
- Added Unix and Windows archive smoke helpers under scripts/build/.
- The CI build matrix now unpacks the generated release archive and verifies the packaged binary can run:
  - --version
  - --help
  - --check-config --config ./config.example.toml
- This validates the release-bundle contract directly instead of only checking that an archive file exists.
Decisions:
- smoke the packaged artifact on each native runner rather than trying to cross-run binaries from Linux.
- keep the smoke scope narrow: CLI contract and packaged config validation only.
Next steps:
- run the standard local validation plus a local archive smoke on Linux.
- decide whether the next alpha-readiness slice should pin an explicit macOS deployment target and document the intended support floor.
Change log:
- Added scripts/build/smoke_unix_release.sh.
- Added scripts/build/smoke_windows_release.ps1.
- Updated .github/workflows/ci.yml.
- Updated scripts/build/README.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Addressed PR #59 review feedback for the alpha CLI basics branch.
- --help, -?, and --version now short-circuit parsing, so they still succeed even when trailing unknown flags are present.
- --config now rejects flag-like values such as --check-config instead of silently treating them as a config path.
- main now returns Result<(), MainError> directly, with From conversions for CLI/config/app errors and a boxed app-error variant to keep the result error small enough for clean clippy.
- Added CLI parser coverage for help/version short-circuit behavior and invalid flag-like config paths.
Decisions:
- keep help/version behavior forgiving for orchestration and shell probing workflows; explicit help/version requests take precedence over later parse failures.
- reject --config values that begin with - to avoid ambiguous flag consumption.
Next steps:
- merge PR #59.
- start the separate alpha build-matrix / packaging branch after the CLI slice lands.
Change log:
- Updated src/main.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Started the private alpha-readiness track with explicit CLI/config basics.
- rust-mule now supports:
  - --config <path>
  - --check-config
  - --help
  - -?
  - --version
- Normal startup now loads config explicitly via load_config(...) and no longer auto-creates config.toml on missing-path startup. This gives the binary a predictable contract for orchestrators like mule-doctor.
- --check-config validates config and exits without booting the app.
- Added unit coverage for CLI parsing in src/main.rs.
Decisions:
- treat missing config as an error for normal app startup; alpha/orchestrator workflows need an explicit config file contract, not silent file creation.
- keep load_or_create_config(...) available for code paths that still intentionally want that behavior, but stop using it in the main application entrypoint.
Next steps:
- decide whether alpha-readiness should next add --print-effective-config or --data-dir overrides for orchestration workflows.
- decide whether the self-test binary should also move off load_or_create_config(...) for stricter alpha consistency.
Change log:
- Updated src/config_io.rs.
- Reworked src/main.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Addressed PR #58 review feedback on uploads UI utility drift and reason grouping.
- Added a real .items-center utility class so the recent-session badge rows align as intended instead of relying on an undefined utility.
- recent_session_groups in the downloads UI is now derived from the actual recent_sessions payload rather than a hard-coded terminal-reason list, so new terminal reasons will surface automatically without editing two separate UI mappings.
Decisions:
- keep terminal-reason styling centralized in uploadTerminalReasonClass(...), and derive grouped summaries from payload content instead of hard-coding the current reason set.
Next steps:
- watch PR #58 for any remaining review comments.
Change log:
- Updated ui/assets/css/base.css.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Hardened the uploads UI for recent session lifecycle visibility.
- /ui/downloads now summarizes recent upload sessions by terminal reason and renders reason-colored badges for completed, dropped, and expired.
- Recent upload session rows now surface the terminal reason more clearly instead of burying it inside a flat text list.
- The Playwright uploads mock was extended to include recent sessions for all three current terminal reasons so the fixture stays aligned with the richer uploads contract.
Decisions:
- keep the browser smoke suite focused on stable page-level contract checks for this slice; do not assert dynamic upload-row rendering there until the fixture/runtime path is made more deterministic.
Next steps:
- decide whether the uploads table should split recent sessions into separate grouped sections instead of a single list with reason badges.
- decide whether /api/v1/uploads should expose aggregate recent-session counts by reason so the UI no longer has to derive them client-side.
Change log:
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated ui/downloads.html.
- Updated ui/assets/css/base.css.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Addressed PR #57 review feedback on transfer-pump hash reuse.
- The transfer pump now computes the lowercase file-hash string once per send path and reuses it for uploader activity transitions instead of allocating it repeatedly for note_held(...), note_sending(...), and note_terminal(...).
Decisions:
- keep this as a local hot-loop cleanup only; no API or lifecycle semantics changed.
Next steps:
- watch PR #57 for any remaining review comments.
Change log:
- Updated src/app.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Added explicit uploader-side completed terminal lifecycle signals.
- UploadTerminalReason now includes Completed.
- The download transfer pump marks upload sessions completed when ingest_inbound_packet(...) succeeds for a sent block, both for:
  - matured held leases
  - immediately sent non-held leases
- /api/v1/uploads now surfaces terminal_reason = "completed" in recent session history.
Decisions:
- treat successful packet ingestion as the current truthful uploader completion hook; do not try to infer completion from time or downstream file-finalization state.
- only emit completed on Ok(_) from ingest_inbound_packet(...); failed sends remain active until another explicit terminal reason or TTL expiry applies.
Next steps:
- decide whether uploader-side replaced terminal reasons should be added when a newer held reservation supersedes existing work.
- decide whether the uploads UI should visually separate completed recent sessions from dropped and expired sessions now that all three exist.
Change log:
- Updated src/upload.rs.
- Updated src/app.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Addressed PR #56 review feedback on uploader terminal lifecycle semantics.
- prune_expired(...) now preserves its original ordering: append expired active sessions into recent_sessions, then drop stale recent entries, then apply the per-file cap once. This avoids evicting still-valid recent sessions before stale entries are retained away.
- Added a focused regression test proving the uploader contract remains “first terminal reason wins”: once a session has already expired into recent history with Expired, a later note_terminal(..., Dropped) call does not overwrite that reason.
Decisions:
- keep push_recent_session(...) for explicit terminalization paths only; it is correct there because note_terminal(...) prunes stale entries before appending.
- document terminal-reason precedence in tests rather than allowing silent reason rewrites.
Next steps:
- watch PR #56 for any remaining review comments.
Change log:
- Updated src/upload.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Added explicit uploader-side dropped terminal lifecycle signals.
- UploadTerminalReason now includes Dropped alongside the existing Expired.
- UploadActivityTracker exposes an explicit terminalization path so active held/sending sessions can move into recent_sessions with a concrete reason instead of aging out passively to expired.
- The download transfer pump now marks held upload leases as dropped when their owning download part leaves the active set (cancelled, completed, or error) before the lease is sent.
- /api/v1/uploads now surfaces terminal_reason = "dropped" for those recent sessions.
Decisions:
- implement only uploader lifecycle transitions that are directly observable from the current architecture; do not invent completed or cancelled signals until there are explicit call sites for them.
- treat held-lease discard in the transfer pump as a real uploader terminal event, distinct from passive TTL expiry.
Next steps:
- decide whether uploader-side completed and replaced terminal reasons should be wired once the transfer pump has explicit send completion/supersession hooks.
- decide whether recent session rendering in /ui/downloads should visually group expired vs dropped sessions more strongly as more terminal reasons are added.
Change log:
- Updated src/upload.rs.
- Updated src/app.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Addressed PR #55 review feedback on terminal-reason contract coverage.
- The Playwright uploads mock now includes terminal_reason: null on active sessions, matching the real /api/v1/uploads contract.
- Added an API test that forces a short-lived upload session to expire and verifies recent_sessions[0].terminal_reason == \"expired\".
Decisions:
- keep the uploads contract explicit: active sessions serialize terminal_reason = null, recent sessions serialize a concrete terminal reason when available.
Next steps:
- watch PR #55 for any remaining review comments.
Change log:
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Added terminal reason metadata to recent upload sessions.
- recent_sessions now expose terminal_reason.
- Current implementation sets terminal reason to expired when active upload sessions age out by TTL and move into recent-session history.
- Active sessions intentionally keep terminal_reason = null.
- /ui/downloads now shows terminal reason on recent sessions in the Active Uploads table.
Decisions:
- scope terminal reason to recent sessions only; active sessions are non-terminal by definition.
- start with expired only and keep the model open for later causes (completed, cancelled, replaced) once uploader-side lifecycle signals exist.
Next steps:
- decide whether upload-session lifecycle should emit explicit completion/cancel signals so recent sessions can distinguish those terminal states from passive expiry.
- decide whether the uploads UI should visually separate active sessions from recent terminal sessions more strongly once more terminal reasons exist.
Change log:
- Updated src/upload.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated ui/downloads.html.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Addressed PR #54 review feedback on upload session history bounds and mapping drift.
- Added MAX_RECENT_SESSIONS_PER_FILE = 128 so recent upload session history is bounded by both time and count.
- Extracted the repeated session mapping logic in both:
  - TrackedUploadRange -> UploadSessionSnapshot
  - UploadSessionSnapshot -> UploadSessionEntry
- Added a regression test proving per-file recent session history is capped.
Decisions:
- treat recent session history as bounded operator telemetry, not an unbounded best-effort log.
- centralize session-mapping code so future session-field additions cannot drift between active and recent session serialization paths.
Next steps:
- watch PR #54 for any remaining review comments.
Change log:
- Updated src/upload.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Added short-lived upload session history to the uploader session model.
- Expired upload sessions now move from sessions to recent_sessions for a short in-memory retention window instead of disappearing immediately.
- GET /api/v1/uploads now exposes:
  - recent_session_count
  - recent_sessions
- /ui/downloads now shows recent upload sessions alongside active sessions in the Active Uploads table.
Decisions:
- keep recent session history in-memory only and bound it by a short fixed retention window; this is for operator forensics, not durable audit storage.
- keep sessions meaning “currently active” and make history explicit as recent_sessions to avoid changing the current API contract semantics.
Next steps:
- decide whether recent sessions should get their own top-level filterable endpoint once the volume grows beyond per-file rendering.
- decide whether sessions should record a terminal reason (expired, completed, cancelled) instead of pure retention-only disappearance.
Change log:
- Updated src/upload.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated ui/downloads.html.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Addressed PR #53 review feedback on uploader session identity.
- UploadActivityTracker::note(...) now prunes expired ranges before looking up an existing session id, so expired peer_id + start + end ranges cannot recycle an old session_id.
- Added a regression test proving that a new request after TTL expiry receives a new runtime session id.
- Simplified the handoff status section header to ## Status to avoid the stale date-bearing section title.
Decisions:
- treat session_id uniqueness across active runtime sessions as a real behavioral contract for the uploads API.
Next steps:
- watch PR #53 for any remaining review comments.
Change log:
- Updated src/upload.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Added a first-class uploader session model to the uploads API/UI.
- UploadActivityTracker now assigns stable runtime session_id values to active upload ranges and preserves them across Held -> Sending transitions for the same peer_id + start + end request.
- GET /api/v1/uploads now includes per-file sessions with:
  - session_id
  - start / end
  - bytes_total
  - phase
  - peer_id_hex
  - payload_source
  - started_unix_secs
  - last_updated_unix_secs
- /ui/downloads now shows session counts and per-session summaries inside the Active Uploads table.
Decisions:
- keep session ids runtime-local and in-memory for now; do not persist or expose them as a cross-restart contract yet.
- extend the existing /api/v1/uploads surface instead of adding a second uploads endpoint; session state belongs with the current uploader snapshot view.
Next steps:
- decide whether the next uploader slice should expose a top-level upload-session endpoint for filtering/sorting across files.
- decide whether completed/expired sessions need a short in-memory history window for operator forensics.
Change log:
- Updated src/upload.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated ui/downloads.html.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/smoke.spec.mjs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Addressed PR #52 review feedback on zero-fill warning freshness and UI fixtures.
- The overview page now polls GET /api/v1/status every 15s so zero_fill_warning and the aggregate fallback rate remain current even though SSE still carries KadServiceStatus rather than the enriched API status payload.
- The Playwright mock server UPLOADS_PAYLOAD now includes the zero_fill_* fields so the downloads-page uploads fixture matches the real API shape and exercises the fallback UI.
Decisions:
- keep the SSE contract unchanged in this slice and refresh enriched overview status via lightweight polling instead of widening the event payload.
- treat UI mock/API shape drift as a correctness issue for the smoke suite, not optional cleanup.
Next steps:
- watch PR #52 for any remaining review comments.
- decide later whether aggregate status should eventually move into the SSE payload to eliminate overview polling.
Change log:
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Applied a CI rustfmt follow-up on the zero-fill fallback warning branch.
- Reformatted /api/v1/status zero-fill warning aggregation and related API tests to the current rustfmt layout expected by CI.
Decisions:
- treat CI formatting drift as a direct branch fix; no behavior changes were needed.
Next steps:
- watch PR #52 for any remaining review or CI findings.
Change log:
- Updated src/api/handlers/core.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Added zero-fill fallback warning telemetry to uploads, status, and UI.
- UploadActivityTracker now records zero-fill fallback activity separately from normal upload traffic:
  - zero_fill_requests_total
  - zero_fill_requested_bytes_total
  - zero_fill_rate_bps_5s
  - zero_fill_rate_bps_30s
  - zero_fill_active
- GET /api/v1/uploads now exposes per-upload zero-fill fallback counters/rates.
- GET /api/v1/status now exposes:
  - zero_fill_upload_rate_bps_5s
  - zero_fill_upload_rate_bps_30s
  - zero_fill_active_uploads
  - zero_fill_warning
- The overview page now shows a top-level warning when fallback traffic is active, and the downloads page shows per-upload fallback bytes/rates and warning badges.
Decisions:
- derive the warning from real fallback send telemetry, not from last_payload_source alone, so stale historical source metadata does not trigger false warnings.
- keep zero-fill fallback visible in normal operator UI because it indicates that upload traffic may be syntactically valid while not serving real shared-file bytes.
Next steps:
- decide whether zero-fill fallback should also escalate into API health/degraded state.
- decide whether repeated fallback traffic should trigger stronger structured logging or counters in /api/v1/status.
Change log:
- Updated src/upload.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/core.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated ui/index.html.
- Updated ui/downloads.html.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Added aggregate transfer rates to /api/v1/status and the overview UI.
- GET /api/v1/status now returns:
  - download_rate_bps_5s
  - download_rate_bps_30s
  - upload_rate_bps_5s
  - upload_rate_bps_30s
- The aggregate values are computed at the API layer by summing current per-download and per-upload rolling rates.
- The overview page now shows aggregate 5s download and upload rates as top-level KPIs.
Decisions:
- keep the KAD service status/watch payload unchanged; aggregate transfer rates belong to the API composition layer, not the KAD core status struct.
- use the 5s aggregate rate in the overview UI and keep the 30s aggregate available in the API for monitoring agents or future UI expansion.
Next steps:
- decide whether to surface aggregate 30s rates in the overview UI as secondary labels.
- decide whether zero_fill_fallback traffic should raise a top-level warning when aggregate upload rate is non-zero.
Change log:
- Updated src/api/handlers/core.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated ui/index.html.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-09): Addressed PR review feedback for transfer-rate telemetry.
- Hardened RollingTransferRate against future-dated samples by switching away from Instant::duration_since(...) assumptions in prune/rate calculations.
- Added an explicit regression test proving future-dated samples are ignored instead of panicking.
- Documented that the rate_bps_* API fields are bytes per second, despite the historical bps suffix.
Decisions:
- treat the future-sample panic risk as a real correctness issue and fix it in this PR.
- defer fixed-bucket/per-second aggregation for a later optimization pass; current sample volume is acceptable for this operator-facing telemetry slice.
Next steps:
- watch PR #50 for any remaining review comments.
- if rate polling becomes hot, replace per-sample storage with bounded time buckets.
Change log:
- Updated src/transfer_rate.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added transfer-rate telemetry for downloads and uploads.
- Added shared rolling-window transfer-rate helper with explicit 5s and 30s windows.
- Download snapshots now include rate_bps_5s and rate_bps_30s, populated from received block bytes.
- Upload snapshots now include rate_bps_5s and rate_bps_30s, populated from bytes actually sent on the sending path, not held/requested ranges.
- /api/v1/downloads and /api/v1/uploads now expose those rate fields.
- /ui/downloads now renders transfer rates for both the download queue and active uploads.
Decisions:
- keep rate telemetry in-memory only; do not persist or backfill across restart.
- define upload rate as bytes sent, not bytes requested or reserved.
- expose rolling-window rates instead of instantaneous samples to keep the UI stable.
Next steps:
- decide whether to add aggregate up/down rates to /api/v1/status.
- decide whether zero_fill_fallback uploads should become a visible warning when paired with non-zero upload rate.
Change log:
- Added src/transfer_rate.rs.
- Updated src/download/service.rs.
- Updated src/upload.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated ui/downloads.html.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Addressed PR review feedback for the richer uploader-state branch.
- Preserved first-seen timestamps for tracked upload ranges so active_since_unix_secs reflects when uploader activity actually began, not the latest held/sending transition update.
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md Last Reviewed date after adding the transfer-rate telemetry backlog note.
Decisions:
- define active_since_unix_secs as earliest active-start time for live ranges, not latest update time.
Next steps:
- watch PR #49 for any remaining uploader-state comments.
Change log:
- Updated src/upload.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added explicit backlog for transfer-rate telemetry in downloads and uploads.
- Confirmed current uploader/download UI/API work does not yet expose first-class transfer speed metrics.
- Added backlog to implement rolling bytes/sec telemetry for:
  - per-download rates
  - per-upload rates
  - aggregate transfer rates where useful
- Added backlog requirement to surface those rates in /ui/downloads.
Decisions:
- treat transfer speed as first-class operator telemetry, not an optional cosmetic stat.
- when implemented, define explicit smoothing/window semantics instead of ad hoc instantaneous rates so the UI remains stable and interpretable.
Next steps:
- when the next transfer-observability slice is chosen, add rate fields to /api/v1/downloads and /api/v1/uploads first, then wire them into /ui/downloads.
Change log:
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Expanded uploader snapshots with peer identity and serving-source metadata.
- UploadService / UploadActivityTracker now record:
  - per-range peer_id_hex
  - per-range request timestamp
  - last_peer_id_hex
  - active_peer_ids
  - active_since_unix_secs
  - last_payload_source
- GET /api/v1/uploads now exposes the richer uploader identity/state fields.
- /ui/downloads Active Uploads now shows:
  - active peers
  - last peer
  - last payload source
  - active-since timestamp
Decisions:
- keep the uploader model snapshot-based for this slice; add identity/source metadata without introducing a heavier upload-session subsystem yet.
- treat payload source as operator/debug metadata (shared_file vs zero_fill_fallback), because it is the most direct signal of whether uploads are serving real shared bytes.
Next steps:
- decide whether the next uploader slice should track a stronger per-upload session id or a per-peer upload history view.
- decide whether zero_fill_fallback should remain visible in normal operator UI or be progressively treated as a warning/debug-only state once real uploader serving is stricter.
Change log:
- Updated src/upload.rs.
- Updated src/app.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated ui/downloads.html.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Addressed PR review feedback for the uploader UI visibility branch.
- Replaced raw markdown-style backticks in ui/downloads.html with an HTML <code> element for /api/v1/uploads.
Decisions:
- keep HTML code-like endpoint labels as explicit <code> markup in static UI templates; do not rely on markdown-style notation inside .html files.
Next steps:
- watch PR #48 for any remaining UI-only review comments.
Change log:
- Updated ui/downloads.html.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added a read-only uploader visibility section to /ui/downloads.
- The downloads page now fetches GET /api/v1/uploads alongside:
  - GET /api/v1/downloads
  - GET /api/v1/shared
- Added an Active Uploads section that shows:
  - file name / relative path
  - file hash
  - total upload requests
  - bytes requested
  - held and sending ranges
  - last requested timestamp
- Updated the UI mock server and Playwright smoke coverage to include the new section.
Decisions:
- keep the first uploader UI slice read-only; do not add uploader controls before the uploader/session model is richer.
- expose uploader state on the existing downloads page instead of creating a separate UI route; operators already use that page for transfer visibility.
Next steps:
- decide whether the next uploader slice should add peer/session identity to /api/v1/uploads.
- decide whether uploader activity should eventually be cross-linked from shared-file rows into a single richer uploader view, or kept as a separate table.
Change log:
- Updated ui/downloads.html.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/smoke.spec.mjs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Addressed PR review fixes for the uploader-service foundation branch.
- Restored correct OP_SENDINGPART payload framing by adding encode_sendingpart_payload(...) in src/download/protocol.rs.
- Updated UploadService::build_sending_part_payload(...) to return a fully encoded sending-part payload instead of raw block bytes.
- Updated uploader tests to decode and verify the protocol payload shape instead of asserting on raw block bytes.
- Removed an unnecessary SharedLibrary clone from GET /api/v1/uploads; the handler now reads through the shared-library guard directly.
Decisions:
- keep UploadService::build_sending_part_payload(...) responsible for returning the protocol payload, because the current caller contract already treats it as an OP_SENDINGPART builder.
- prefer a single protocol encoder helper over ad hoc packet framing in the transfer pump.
Next steps:
- watch PR #47 for any remaining uploader-foundation comments.
- if the branch merges cleanly, decide whether the next uploader slice is:
  - a UI surface for /api/v1/uploads
  - or deeper uploader/session state
Change log:
- Updated src/download/protocol.rs.
- Updated src/upload.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Aligned operator-facing docs with the shared-library and uploader-service work.
- Updated docs/index.md to surface SHARING_UPLOAD_CHECKLIST.md in the main docs navigation.
- Updated docs/30_operations/api_curl.md with the current shared/uploader endpoints:
  - GET /api/v1/shared
  - GET /api/v1/uploads
  - GET /api/v1/shared/actions
  - POST /api/v1/shared/actions/reindex
  - POST /api/v1/shared/actions/republish_sources
  - POST /api/v1/shared/actions/republish_keywords
- Documented the shared action confirmation requirement and expected 202 / 409 / 429 response model.
- Updated docs/10_architecture/SHARING_UPLOAD_CHECKLIST.md with an "Implemented So Far" section covering:
  - shared-library foundation
  - operator danger-zone controls
  - uploader-service foundation
Decisions:
- keep docs/governance/handoff.md as the most detailed continuity log, but align docs/index.md and docs/30_operations/api_curl.md whenever shared/uploader API surfaces change.
- document the operator-action model as part of operations docs, not only UI docs, because curl users need the confirmation/cooldown semantics too.
Next steps:
- decide whether docs/10_architecture/API_DESIGN.md should gain a dedicated section for shared-library and uploader endpoints, or whether api_curl.md plus implementation-proximate docs are sufficient for now.
- keep docs/30_operations/api_curl.md in sync if /api/v1/uploads gains richer uploader/session fields.
Change log:
- Updated docs/index.md.
- Updated docs/30_operations/api_curl.md.
- Updated docs/10_architecture/SHARING_UPLOAD_CHECKLIST.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added an uploader-service foundation and a dedicated uploads API surface.
- Introduced UploadService in src/upload.rs as the first-class boundary for:
  - upload activity tracking
  - shared-file payload reads
  - zero-fill fallback behavior
- Added typed uploader payload build results:
  - UploadPayloadBuild
  - UploadPayloadSource
- Moved the download transfer pump in src/app.rs to depend on UploadService instead of directly calling:
  - share::read_shared_block
  - UploadActivityTracker
- Added GET /api/v1/uploads to expose uploader-side state directly instead of only surfacing upload hints through /api/v1/shared.
- Added uploader tests for:
  - tracker snapshots
  - shared-file payload reads
  - zero-fill fallback
  - /api/v1/uploads response shape
Decisions:
- keep the first uploader slice narrow: extract a service boundary and expose uploader state before attempting a larger transport/uploader redesign.
- preserve existing wire behavior for OP_SENDINGPART; this slice is architectural refactoring plus visibility, not a protocol change.
- retain zero-fill fallback for now, but move that behavior behind UploadService so future uploader hardening has one place to change it.
Next steps:
- decide whether /api/v1/uploads should be surfaced in the UI now or wait until uploader state becomes richer.
- decide whether uploader state should track peer/session identity in addition to file/range activity.
- consider the next uploader hardening slice:
  - explicit upload session model
  - file-missing/file-changed behavior policy
  - dedicated uploader service tests around concurrent requests
Change log:
- Updated src/upload.rs.
- Updated src/app.rs.
- Updated src/api/mod.rs.
- Updated src/api/router.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/mod.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated tests/api_startup_smoke.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Reworked shared-library maintenance controls into an explicit danger-zone model instead of debug gating.
- Kept shared maintenance actions under normal authenticated admin access.
- Added UI friction in /ui/downloads:
  - collapsed Danger Zone
  - acknowledgement checkbox before actions unlock
  - per-action browser confirmation dialogs
- Added API-side confirmation requirements for:
  - POST /api/v1/shared/actions/reindex
  - POST /api/v1/shared/actions/republish_sources
  - POST /api/v1/shared/actions/republish_keywords
- Added backend cooldowns:
  - republish_sources: 300s
  - republish_keywords: 900s
- Extended shared action status/response payloads with:
  - cooldown_until_unix_secs
  - reason
- Added API/unit coverage for confirmation and cooldown behavior.
Decisions:
- do not hide shared maintenance behind debug mode; these are operator actions, not developer-only diagnostics.
- require explicit friction for state-changing and network-affecting shared maintenance:
  - UI acknowledgement
  - action confirmation
  - backend confirmation
  - republish cooldowns
- keep read-only shared inspection available under normal auth.
Next steps:
- decide whether GET /api/v1/shared/actions should expose richer cooldown/help text for the UI instead of only timestamps.
- decide whether reindex should gain a lightweight cooldown or remain ungated beyond confirmation.
- review whether any additional maintenance endpoints should adopt the same danger-zone pattern.
Change log:
- Updated src/shared_ops.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated ui/downloads.html.
- Updated ui/assets/css/base.css.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Addressed actionable PR #46 review feedback on the shared action danger-zone slice.
- Restored the apiPost import in ui/assets/js/app.js; it is still used by other UI flows outside shared maintenance actions.
- Replaced the stringly-typed shared action reject reason with a typed enum:
  - AlreadyRunning
  - CooldownActive
- Updated HTTP status mapping to branch on the typed reject reason instead of matching string literals.
Decisions:
- keep the shared action reject reason typed end-to-end inside Rust and only serialize it at the API boundary.
- treat missing imports in the monolithic UI module as runtime correctness issues, not cosmetic cleanup.
Next steps:
- merge PR #46 after CI/rereview is clean.
Change log:
- Updated src/shared_ops.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Addressed actionable PR #45 review feedback on shared-library operator actions.
- Republish actions now fail fast with a structured failed status when kad.service_enabled = false, instead of queueing work onto an unserviced channel.
- Added missing API coverage for:
  - POST /api/v1/shared/actions/reindex
  - POST /api/v1/shared/actions/republish_keywords
- Fixed shared-actions UI conflict handling so HTTP 409 reports a friendly notice instead of a raw error.
- Fixed shared-actions UI polish:
  - corrected Error: label text
  - added distinct state-failed styling
Decisions:
- keep HTTP 409 CONFLICT for duplicate action triggers; fix the UI to respect the existing API contract instead of weakening the handler semantics.
- reject republish actions when KAD is disabled; operator actions should not appear to succeed when no consumer exists.
Next steps:
- wait for rereview on PR #45.
- decide whether shared operator actions should remain normal authenticated controls or move behind a stricter debug/operator gate.
Change log:
- Updated src/shared_ops.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated ui/downloads.html.
- Updated ui/assets/css/base.css.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added shared-library operator actions for reindexing and republishing.
- Added src/shared_ops.rs with SharedOpsManager and background actions:
  - reindex
  - republish_sources
  - republish_keywords
- Moved runtime shared-library state behind Arc<RwLock<SharedLibrary>> so reindexing updates:
  - /api/v1/shared
  - the upload transfer pump
  - future operator actions
- Added new API endpoints:
  - GET /api/v1/shared/actions
  - POST /api/v1/shared/actions/reindex
  - POST /api/v1/shared/actions/republish_sources
  - POST /api/v1/shared/actions/republish_keywords
- Added structured action status reporting:
  - state
  - started_unix_secs
  - finished_unix_secs
  - items_total
  - queued_total
  - failed_total
  - reindex stats (library_files_total, reused_entries, hashed_entries)
- Updated /ui/downloads shared-library section with operator buttons and action status cards.
- Reused shared publish queue helpers for both startup publishing and operator-triggered republishing.
Decisions:
- keep operator actions as background tasks; API endpoints should trigger work, not do long blocking rebuilds inline.
- separate reindex from republish_* even though operators will often run them together; this keeps the action semantics explicit.
- keep republish actions idempotent at the API level and report queue results structurally instead of returning a bare success code.
Next steps:
- decide whether these controls should remain ordinary authenticated UI actions or move behind a stricter debug/operator gate.
- decide whether reindex should optionally auto-chain into republish for newly discovered files.
- consider adding per-file failure detail if queue failures become common enough that aggregate counts are not sufficient.
Change log:
- Added src/shared_ops.rs.
- Updated src/lib.rs.
- Updated src/app.rs.
- Updated src/api/mod.rs.
- Updated src/api/router.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/mod.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated tests/api_startup_smoke.rs.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated ui/downloads.html.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added real KAD publish-response visibility for shared files and surfaced it in /api/v1/shared and /ui/downloads.
- Added KadServiceCommand::GetSharedPublishStatus and KadSharedPublishStatus.
- Added KAD service-side file-level publish status synthesis:
  - local_source_cached
  - source_publish_response_received
  - source_publish_first_response_latency_ms
  - keyword_publish_total
  - keyword_publish_acked
- Extended /api/v1/shared to merge:
  - enqueue status from SharedPublishTracker
  - actual response/ack facts from the KAD service
- Updated /ui/downloads shared-library table to distinguish:
  - local source cached state
  - source publish queue state
  - source publish response state
  - keyword publish queue state
  - keyword publish ack coverage
- Added service/API coverage for the new file-level publish status path.
Decisions:
- keep enqueue status and response status separate; they answer different operational questions.
- do not reinterpret source_count as “local source exists”; expose local-source cache state explicitly.
- model keyword publish response status as ack coverage (acked/total) because a shared file is published under multiple keywords.
Next steps:
- decide whether to track file-level publish responses durably across restart or keep them runtime-only.
- decide whether the next shared-library slice should add operator actions (reindex, republish) or deeper source/publish telemetry first.
- consider surfacing discovered-vs-local source state more explicitly if the shared UI needs stronger availability diagnostics.
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/service/types.rs.
- Updated src/kad/service.rs.
- Updated src/kad/service/tests.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated ui/downloads.html.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Applied a CI-formatting follow-up on feat/shared-publish-response-status.
- Kept the pub use types::{...} re-export block in src/kad/service.rs in the rustfmt layout expected by CI.
Decisions:
- treat this as a formatting-only follow-up; no behavior changed.
Next steps:
- review and address any remaining PR #44 review comments.
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/service.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Addressed actionable PR #44 review comments on shared publish response status.
- Fixed /api/v1/shared shared-file KAD status lookups to run concurrently instead of sequentially.
- Corrected Last Reviewed metadata at the top of docs/governance/handoff.md to 2026-03-08.
- Fixed keyword publish ACK accounting so file-level acked/total status does not regress after job.publish is cleared post-ack.
- Added a regression test that keeps counting acknowledged keyword publishes after publish work stops.
Decisions:
- preserve the existing scheduling behavior of got_publish_ack, but track actual acknowledged file identity separately for telemetry.
- keep the shared API on per-file KAD requests for now, but issue them concurrently; a batch KAD command can be considered later if the shared library grows large enough to justify it.
Next steps:
- wait for PR #44 CI/rereview after the review-driven fixes.
Change log:
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/kad/service.rs.
- Updated src/kad/service/inbound.rs.
- Updated src/kad/service/tests.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Addressed actionable PR review feedback on the shared-library foundation branch.
- Hardened shared-root/runtime-dir normalization:
  - canonicalize data_dir consistently when validating share-root overlap
  - added regression test for symlinked data_dir
- Hardened shared-file walking:
  - track visited canonical directories to avoid recursive symlink loops
  - added regression test for a cyclic directory symlink under a share root
- Hardened shared-library cache correctness:
  - cache metadata now comes from the same snapshot used for the chosen file hash
  - invalid cached MD4 hex now triggers rehash instead of panic/reuse
  - added regression test for invalid cached hash recovery
- Hardened trackers:
  - SharedPublishTracker and UploadActivityTracker now recover from poisoned locks instead of panicking
- Improved /api/v1/downloads:
  - source-count lookups now run concurrently instead of sequentially
- Improved shared upload fallback visibility:
  - zero-filled payload fallback now emits throttled warnings for shared-library read failures
  - shared-file reads are now executed via spawn_blocking to avoid blocking Tokio worker threads
- Corrected /api/v1/shared semantics:
  - source_count no longer incorrectly reports 1 for all local shared files; it now reports 0 until backed by real source-state plumbing
Decisions:
- prefer accurate “unknown/zero” source visibility over a misleading synthetic local source count
- keep synchronous disk reads off the async worker path even in the current phase0-style uploader flow
- treat cache corruption as recoverable and rehashable, never fatal
Next steps:
- decide whether to expose real local-source state separately from discovered-source count in /api/v1/shared
- decide whether KAD publish response handling should upgrade enqueue status into end-to-end publish status
- reply/resolve the PR review threads after the branch update is pushed
Change log:
- Updated src/share.rs.
- Updated src/app.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/publish.rs.
- Updated src/upload.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added a repo-native Playwright smoke runner with explicit nvm bootstrap and container-safe launch defaults.
- Added scripts/test/ui_smoke.sh:
  - sources ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
  - verifies npm is available
  - runs ui Playwright smoke tests
  - emits a targeted diagnostic when browser runtime libraries are missing
- Updated ui/playwright.config.mjs:
  - explicit browser selection via UI_BROWSER
  - disabled Chromium sandbox for container/CI friendliness
  - added --disable-dev-shm-usage
- Verified that npm is available in this environment only after sourcing nvm.
- Verified current blocker was not headless mode; it was missing host browser libraries (libglib2.0-0, libnss3, libgbm1, etc.).
- After installing the host browser dependencies, bash scripts/test/ui_smoke.sh passes.
- Tightened the downloads-page Playwright assertion to target the Shared Library section heading explicitly.
Decisions:
- keep Playwright headless; there is no need for a headed flow in CI/container environments.
- bootstrap nvm in the repo runner rather than relying on shell startup files.
- treat missing browser runtime packages as an environment prerequisite, not a UI code failure.
Next steps:
- decide whether to wire scripts/test/ui_smoke.sh into a broader CI/check workflow.
- if needed later, add a small README note for UI verification prerequisites.
Change log:
- Added scripts/test/ui_smoke.sh.
- Updated ui/playwright.config.mjs.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/smoke.spec.mjs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added shared publish enqueue status tracking and surfaced it in the shared-library API/UI.
- Added SharedPublishTracker to record per-shared-file publish enqueue activity.
- Tracked source publish enqueue status:
  - attempt count
  - last attempt timestamp
  - last result (queued / queue_failed)
- Tracked keyword publish enqueue status:
  - attempt count
  - queued count
  - failed count
  - last attempt timestamp
  - last result (queued / queue_failed)
- Expanded /api/v1/shared to expose publish enqueue status per indexed file.
- Updated /ui/downloads shared-library table to show source/keyword publish status alongside uploader activity.
Decisions:
- keep publish status honest to the current architecture: this tracks command enqueue outcomes, not remote KAD store acknowledgment.
- use enqueue visibility now rather than inventing a false published state without service-side completion evidence.
- preserve a path to later upgrade this into end-to-end publish status once the KAD service exposes completion/response callbacks.
Next steps:
- decide whether KAD publish response handling should feed a stronger published/failed file-level status model.
- add optional shared-library operator actions (reindex / republish) only after the status model is explicit enough to justify them.
- wire frontend checks through sourced nvm/npm and headless browser configuration in environments where Playwright is available.
Change log:
- Added src/publish.rs.
- Updated src/lib.rs.
- Updated src/app.rs.
- Updated src/api/mod.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated tests/api_startup_smoke.rs.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated ui/downloads.html.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added first-class uploader activity tracking and surfaced it in the shared-library UI/API.
- Added UploadActivityTracker to track recent held/sending upload ranges per shared file hash.
- Wired the phase0 transfer pump to record:
  - held upload ranges
  - sending upload ranges
  - total upload request count
  - total requested bytes
  - last request timestamp
- Expanded /api/v1/shared to return uploader activity:
  - queued_uploads
  - inflight_uploads
  - total_upload_requests
  - requested_bytes_total
  - last_requested_unix_secs
  - queued_upload_ranges
  - inflight_upload_ranges
- Updated /ui/downloads shared-library table to show real upload-side activity instead of only inferring from local download state.
Decisions:
- keep uploader activity tracking TTL-based for now; the goal is operational visibility, not durable historical accounting.
- treat held and sending as the two useful operator states until a standalone uploader subsystem exists.
- keep download-side queue/inflight counts in the shared view, but clearly separate them from upload-side activity.
Next steps:
- expose publish/cache/debug status for shared files if operators need to distinguish indexed, publish queued, and published.
- consider a dedicated uploader subsystem/state model once uploads are no longer driven through the phase0 transfer pump.
- add browser-side verification for /ui/downloads in an environment with npm/Playwright available.
Change log:
- Added src/upload.rs.
- Updated src/lib.rs.
- Updated src/app.rs.
- Updated src/api/mod.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated tests/api_startup_smoke.rs.
- Updated ui/downloads.html.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added shared-library inspection UI/API and richer download visibility.
- Added /api/v1/shared for shared-library inspection.
- Expanded /api/v1/downloads with source counts and detailed missing/inflight ranges.
- Added /ui/downloads page showing:
  - shared files
  - active shared-file requests/inflight activity
  - download cards with simple part-state graphs
- Added sharing.share_roots editing to /ui/settings.
- Added startup keyword publishing for indexed shared files, alongside source publishing.
- Added explicit indexing/cache-reuse/publish log lines for shared files.
Decisions:
- keep the part graph simple and range-based for now; do not add a separate graph model until the uploader/availability model is more mature.
- use source_count == 0 as the UI signal for no source missing segments; this is file-level availability, not per-range source attribution.
- treat the shared-library UI as operator visibility, not a full media-library workflow yet.
Next steps:
- expose stronger shared-library status/debug metadata (publish state, cache stats, failures) if the UI needs deeper triage.
- decide whether shared-file activity should be backed by a dedicated uploader activity tracker instead of download/self-serve inference.
- add a lightweight frontend verification path in environments that have npm/Playwright available.
Change log:
- Updated src/download/service.rs.
- Updated src/api/mod.rs.
- Updated src/api/router.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/mod.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated src/app.rs.
- Updated src/share.rs.
- Updated tests/api_startup_smoke.rs.
- Added ui/downloads.html.
- Updated ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Updated ui/settings.html.
- Updated ui/index.html.
- Updated ui/search.html.
- Updated ui/search_details.html.
- Updated ui/node_stats.html.
- Updated ui/log.html.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs.
- Updated ui/tests/e2e/smoke.spec.mjs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added best-effort persisted shared-library index caching.
- Added data/shared_library.json cache for shared-file metadata and MD4 hashes.
- Startup now reuses cached hashes when canonical path, file size, and mtime are unchanged.
- Changed files are rehashed automatically; missing/corrupt cache falls back to rebuild.
- Added tests covering cache reuse and cache invalidation on file change.
Decisions:
- cache is advisory only; startup must still succeed if the cache is missing or corrupt.
- correctness wins over startup speed: any size/mtime mismatch forces rehash.
Next steps:
- persist additional library metadata needed for keyword publishing and future UI/library views.
- publish filename keywords for indexed shared files.
- decide whether to expose shared-library/cache status in API/debug endpoints.
Change log:
- Updated src/share.rs.
- Updated src/app.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added the first disk-backed shared-library/uploader slice.
- Built a startup shared-file index from validated sharing.share_roots.
- Added streaming MD4 hashing for shared files without loading whole files into memory.
- Queued automatic KAD source publishes for indexed shared files at startup.
- Updated the phase0 download transfer pump to serve real block bytes from indexed shared files when a matching local hash exists.
- Kept the synthetic zero-filled fallback for hashes not yet backed by the local shared library so existing non-library flows do not regress.
Decisions:
- keep this slice minimal: real shared-file backing first, full library persistence/UI/peer-side uploader hardening later.
- preserve fallback behavior until the synthetic path can be removed behind stronger end-to-end uploader coverage.
Next steps:
- add persisted shared-library metadata (path, size, md4, mtimes) to avoid full rehash on every startup.
- publish filename keywords for indexed shared files, not just sources.
- replace the remaining synthetic transfer path once real peer-side upload serving is wired end-to-end.
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/md4.rs.
- Updated src/share.rs.
- Updated src/app.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Started the shared-library/uploader work with config and validation foundation.
- Added sharing config section with share_roots.
- Exposed sharing.share_roots through /api/v1/settings get/patch.
- Added new src/share.rs module:
  - canonicalizes and validates share roots
  - rejects empty roots, runtime data-dir overlap, and overlapping share roots
  - enumerates files beneath validated roots for later indexing/uploader use
- Added tests for:
  - settings API share-root update/rejection
  - share-root validation rules
  - basic shared-file enumeration
Decisions:
- start with a trustworthy shared-root boundary before implementing disk-backed uploader serving.
- keep uploader wiring as the next slice; this change only establishes config/API/backend foundation.
Next steps:
- add a persisted library index model (path, size, md4, timestamps) on top of validated share roots.
- replace synthetic upload payload generation with real disk-backed range reads from indexed files.
- add settings UI controls for share-root management.
Change log:
- Added src/share.rs.
- Updated src/config.rs.
- Updated src/main.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/settings.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Fixed false-positive resume monotonic failures caused by part_number reuse in churny soak scenarios.
- Updated scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh:
  - snapshot now captures persisted .part.met state alongside API download JSON
  - monotonic check now matches downloads by persisted identity (part_number + created_unix_secs) instead of API part_number alone
  - monotonic check now only compares matched persisted downloads, avoiding false failures when the scenario deletes/recreates downloads after restart
Decisions:
- part_number is not a stable identity under the concurrency scenario because the queue can delete and recreate downloads after restart.
- persisted .part.met metadata is the correct source for stable resume identity in soak assertions.
Next steps:
- rerun the phase0 acceptance command on this branch to verify the false-positive is eliminated.
- consider exposing a first-class durable download_id via the API if future tests need stable identity without filesystem access.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added fallback interop plan for blocked live iMule environment.
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md with Interop Fallback Strategy:
  - offline interop harness using fixture/pcap-derived packet vectors
  - wire-level golden tests for core compatibility flows
  - keep live mixed-client soak as pre-release (v1 tag) gate
Decisions:
- do not stall daily progress on unavailable iMule runtime environment.
- preserve live mixed-client soak as mandatory final compatibility gate.
Next steps:
- define initial packet fixture corpus and add first golden tests to CI.
Change log:
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added explicit shaper compatibility contract documentation.
- Updated docs/10_architecture/SHARING_UPLOAD_CHECKLIST.md with Shaper Compatibility Contract:
  - wire invariants that shaping must not change
  - shaping-only policy knobs that are safe to vary
  - required decode-equivalence + mixed-client soak checks
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md v1 gates with shaper contract enforcement.
Decisions:
- traffic shaping is policy-layer only; wire compatibility remains invariant.
Next steps:
- add executable verification script/checklist for shaper before/after payload equivalence.
Change log:
- Updated docs/10_architecture/SHARING_UPLOAD_CHECKLIST.md.
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added explicit v1 stable interop objective and release gates.
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md:
  - added current-priority objective for seamless rust-mule <-> iMule operation over I2P
  - clarified ordering: protocol interoperability is release-critical; full behavior parity is secondary
  - added v1 Stable Interop Release Gates checklist (wire compatibility, transfer defaults, mixed-client e2e tests, no-regression requirement)
Decisions:
- v1 release readiness is defined by mixed-client interoperability, not complete feature parity with iMule.
Next steps:
- wire these gates into an executable test matrix (script/CI where feasible) before v1 tag decisions.
Change log:
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Documented transfer sizing numbers and iMule interop risks.
- Updated docs/10_architecture/SHARING_UPLOAD_CHECKLIST.md with:
  - current rust-mule transfer numbers (64 KiB block, reserve/lease caps, 3-range request shape)
  - iMule reference values (BLOCKSIZE/EMBLOCKSIZE=184320, PARTSIZE=9728000)
  - interop edge cases when block granularity differs
  - implementation guidance to keep sizing configurable and validate via mixed-client soak
Decisions:
- treat block-size policy as a compatibility lever; avoid hardcoding non-interoperable defaults.
Next steps:
- add explicit config key/backlog for transfer block-size tuning with iMule-aligned default candidate.
Change log:
- Updated docs/10_architecture/SHARING_UPLOAD_CHECKLIST.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Documented security edge cases for sharing/upload design.
- Updated docs/10_architecture/SHARING_UPLOAD_CHECKLIST.md with explicit security edge-case section:
  - sensitive file leakage controls
  - TOCTOU/mutation checks between index and serve
  - symlink/hardlink escape checks
  - large/sparse file abuse limits
  - path normalization, overlap ambiguity, metadata leak controls
  - upload amplification controls
  - MD4 compatibility caveat and stronger local integrity metadata
  - auth/rate-limit rigor for settings/debug surfaces
Decisions:
- security edge cases should be first-class checklist items before uploader implementation.
Next steps:
- convert each edge case into concrete acceptance criteria per implementation slice.
Change log:
- Updated docs/10_architecture/SHARING_UPLOAD_CHECKLIST.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added dedicated sharing/upload implementation checklist doc.
- Added docs/10_architecture/SHARING_UPLOAD_CHECKLIST.md covering:
  - shared folder policy and unsafe-root rejection
  - index/hash/publish-path binding requirements
  - real disk-backed OP_REQUESTPARTS -> OP_SENDINGPART serving
  - backpressure/abuse controls, observability, and tests
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md to reference the checklist.
Decisions:
- Treat sharing/upload as a constrained subsystem with explicit safety policy, not ad-hoc feature accretion.
Next steps:
- implement first minimal slice from checklist (single shared folder + real range-serving path + tests).
- add settings UI controls for share roots with validation errors surfaced clearly.
Change log:
- Added docs/10_architecture/SHARING_UPLOAD_CHECKLIST.md.
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added backlog for shared library and real uploader implementation.
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md with required scope:
  - configurable shared folders in config + settings UI/API
  - file scanner/indexer + publish integration
  - source-to-path mapping for published files
  - real disk-backed upload serving path (OP_REQUESTPARTS -> OP_SENDINGPART)
  - shared-folder safety rules and scanner/index observability
  - explicit blocklist policy for unsafe share roots (/, core OS dirs, runtime/app dirs)
Decisions:
- KAD source publish should represent files that are actually readable from local shared storage.
- upload path must be disk-backed and range-accurate, not synthetic packet injection.
- sharing system-critical directories must be denied by validation (fail-closed).
Next steps:
- write short architecture note for shared library index model + uploader flow boundaries.
- implement minimal first slice: one shared folder + single-file requestpart->sendingpart read path with tests.
Change log:
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Expanded governance backlog to reduce test/ops drift.
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md with additional backlog items:
  - phase0 gate hardening for nan/unexpected SKIP metrics
  - soak script CI sanity mode (non-longrun validation)
  - pass-with-degradation runbook guidance
  - soak artifact retention/naming policy
  - post-restart download state reason diagnostics
  - config schema versioning/migration notes
Decisions:
- treat soak/test ops quality as first-class backlog scope, not ad-hoc follow-up.
Next steps:
- prioritize gate hardening + restart-state diagnostics first (highest triage leverage).
- then document artifact retention/runbook expectations in ops docs.
Change log:
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added logging-surface cleanup task for debug gating.
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md with explicit backlog item:
  - audit trace/routing logs for debug gating
  - move verbose bucket/routing-table details behind debug flag
  - keep default logs focused on operator-relevant signals (health/progress/errors)
Decisions:
- verbose routing internals should not be emitted in default mode.
Next steps:
- inventory current tracing callsites for bucket/routing detail and classify default-vs-debug.
- implement gating and add regression checks for log verbosity expectations.
Change log:
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-08): Added timezone configuration/settings backlog item.
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md with timezone scope:
  - config key for timezone (IANA zone id) with validation/fallback behavior
  - expose timezone in settings UI/API
  - apply configured timezone to log timestamps (avoid UTC-only output)
Decisions:
- treat timezone support as explicit product behavior (config + API/UI + logging), not a one-off script override.
Next steps:
- design config schema (timezone field), validation rules, and startup fallback semantics.
- implement settings endpoint/UI wiring, then update logging timestamp formatter.
Change log:
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-07): Ignored local acceptance archives by default.
- Updated .gitignore to include /artifacts.
- Rationale: keep large soak/archive outputs local unless intentionally versioned via explicit commit.
Decisions:
- preserve artifact versioning as an explicit opt-in action.
Next steps:
- if a specific artifact set should be retained in git, stage it explicitly with a focused PR and note retention reason.
Change log:
- Updated .gitignore.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-07): Archived latest successful phase0 acceptance artifacts on main.
- Ran scripts/test/archive_acceptance_artifacts.sh for:
  - run dir: /tmp/rust-mule-download-phase0-accept-20260307_145056
  - dest dir: artifacts/soak/rust-mule-download-phase0-accept-20260307_145056
- stack bundle path from logs was no longer present in /tmp at archive time.
Decisions:
- keep archiving run artifacts immediately after successful runs to avoid /tmp cleanup loss.
Next steps:
- copy/relocate stack bundle to a stable path during run (or immediately after) before archival.
- decide whether to commit selected artifacts/soak/* baselines or keep local-only.
Change log:
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-07): Addressed remaining actionable PR feedback in resume-soak script.
- Updated scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh:
  - fixed diagnostics state aggregation to sort_by(.state) | group_by(.state) for correct counts.
  - replaced combined EXIT INT TERM trap with explicit signal handlers:
    - INT -> cleanup + exit 130
    - TERM -> cleanup + exit 143
  - kept cleanup idempotent and reusable via optional explicit exit code parameter.
Decisions:
- Preserve single-shot cleanup behavior while making signal outcome explicit and POSIX-consistent.
Next steps:
- merge PR feature/download-phase0-acceptance.
- archive latest acceptance artifacts using scripts/test/archive_acceptance_artifacts.sh for baseline retention.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-07): Added acceptance artifact archiving helper for long-term regression baselines.
- Added scripts/test/archive_acceptance_artifacts.sh:
  - archives high-value files from a phase0 acceptance run into artifacts/soak/<run_id>.
  - includes: summary.txt, kad-gate/*.tsv, resume-soak/resume_report.txt, diagnostics JSON, snapshots JSON.
  - optional --stack-bundle to attach collected stack tarball.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md with usage examples.
Decisions:
- Keep archival explicit/manual (operator-triggered) to avoid unbounded storage growth from every run.
Next steps:
- after each notable pass/fail run, archive selected artifacts for baseline history.
Change log:
- Added scripts/test/archive_acceptance_artifacts.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-07): Isolated stack runner process group to prevent stop-time signal splash.
- Updated scripts/test/download_soak_stack_bg.sh:
  - start_background now prefers nohup setsid ... when available.
  - fallback remains nohup ... when setsid is unavailable.
- Motivation:
  - acceptance/resume runs showed completion gate pass but shell output ended with large Terminated bursts and missing final summary artifacts.
  - root cause was process-group stop targeting a runner started in caller-linked process group.
Decisions:
- Keep fix minimal and local to stack runner bootstrap; no changes to stop semantics.
Next steps:
- rerun phase0 acceptance with fast-exit and verify summary.txt + resume_report.txt are emitted cleanly.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_soak_stack_bg.sh.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-06): Aligned KAD wire refactor plan doc with current project state.
- Updated docs/10_architecture/KAD_WIRE_REFACTOR_PLAN.md:
  - marked Phase 1 (Central Outbound Shaper) items as complete.
  - added governance doc references (docs/governance/TASKS.md, docs/governance/handoff.md).
  - updated Phase 5 rollout checklist paths to governance docs.
  - added note that current active priority remains download restart/resume soak stabilization.
Decisions:
- Treat this as documentation alignment only; no behavior/runtime changes.
Next steps:
- after current acceptance soak run, decide whether to open a dedicated KAD Phase 2 follow-up branch or keep focus on download phase 2 hardening.
Change log:
- Updated docs/10_architecture/KAD_WIRE_REFACTOR_PLAN.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-06): Resume-soak hardening for post-restart fixture state and cleanup idempotency.
- scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh:
  - re-publishes fixture sources and re-validates fixture source discovery after restart (restart_app -> health 200 -> publish+wait).
  - made cleanup_on_exit idempotent with CLEANUP_RAN guard and early trap clear to prevent repeated cleanup spam on signal storms.
Decisions:
- Post-restart fixture publish is now part of the critical path for FIXTURES_ONLY=1 resume validation.
- Cleanup should be single-shot even under repeated TERM delivery.
Next steps:
- run one acceptance pass with FAST_EXIT_AFTER_COMPLETION=1; confirm either completion gate passes or diagnostics now include post-restart fixture state.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-05): Added optional resume-soak fast-exit path to reduce wall-clock runtime.
- scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh:
  - added FAST_EXIT_AFTER_COMPLETION (default 0) and FAST_EXIT_GRACE_SECS (default 60).
  - when enabled, script stops + collects stack shortly after completion gate instead of waiting for full stack terminal state.
- scripts/test/README.md:
  - documented fast-exit env vars and acceptance command example.
  - documented completion-timeout diagnostic artifact names.
Decisions:
- Keep fast-exit opt-in to preserve existing full-run behavior by default.
- Use short grace period before stop/collect to preserve post-completion context while cutting long tail wait time.
Next steps:
- run one acceptance pass with FAST_EXIT_AFTER_COMPLETION=1 and validate artifact completeness.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-05): Captured debug-token lifecycle policy to prevent accidental secret churn.
- Updated debug/API design docs to require:
  - no automatic deletion/rotation of api.debug_token when debug endpoints are disabled
  - debug-disabled mode keeps token inert and returns 404 on debug routes
  - token rotation is explicit admin action only
  - token redaction in logs/effective-config output
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md with implementation requirements for lifecycle behavior.
Decisions:
- Avoid startup side-effects on secrets; “disabled means inert” is the default.
Next steps:
- implement debug-token verification helper with constant-time compare and redaction-safe config rendering.
- add API tests for disabled/invalid-token behavior and startup non-mutation of debug token.
Change log:
- Updated docs/10_architecture/API_DESIGN.md.
- Updated docs/10_architecture/KAD_TRACE_LOOKUP_DESIGN.md.
- Updated docs/10_architecture/DEBUG_BOOTSTRAP_RESTART_DESIGN.md.
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-05): Added design for debug-triggered bootstrap restart.
- Added docs/10_architecture/DEBUG_BOOTSTRAP_RESTART_DESIGN.md:
  - endpoint proposal: POST /api/v1/debug/bootstrap/restart (async 202 + job_id)
  - status endpoint proposal: GET /api/v1/debug/bootstrap/jobs/{job_id}
  - guardrails: single-flight, cooldown, bounded job registry, TTL cleanup
  - security: debug-enabled gate + debug second-factor token (api.debug_token, X-Debug-Token)
- Updated planned debug endpoint list in docs/10_architecture/API_DESIGN.md.
- Added implementation backlog in docs/governance/TASKS.md.
Decisions:
- Keep bootstrap restart debug-only and asynchronous to protect API responsiveness.
- Reuse same debug-token defense-in-depth model as trace/debug endpoints.
Next steps:
- implement debug bootstrap job runner in service layer with single-flight + cooldown enforcement.
- add API tests for 202/job status and 404/403 debug gating behavior.
Change log:
- Added docs/10_architecture/DEBUG_BOOTSTRAP_RESTART_DESIGN.md.
- Updated docs/10_architecture/API_DESIGN.md.
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-05): Added debug endpoint second-factor token decision.
- Updated docs/10_architecture/API_DESIGN.md with planned debug hardening:
  - api.debug_token + X-Debug-Token as additive gate on debug endpoints.
  - behavior split: debug disabled 404, invalid/missing debug token 403.
- Updated docs/10_architecture/KAD_TRACE_LOOKUP_DESIGN.md security section with same requirement.
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md backlog for implementation.
Decisions:
- Debug endpoints require both standard auth and debug secret (defense-in-depth).
- Preserve endpoint cloaking semantics when debug mode is off (404).
Next steps:
- implement middleware/helper for debug-token enforcement using constant-time compare.
- add API tests for 404/403 split behavior on debug routes.
Change log:
- Updated docs/10_architecture/API_DESIGN.md.
- Updated docs/10_architecture/KAD_TRACE_LOOKUP_DESIGN.md.
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-05): Trace lookup design now explicitly uses async execution.
- docs/10_architecture/KAD_TRACE_LOOKUP_DESIGN.md:
  - added chosen mode: POST /api/v1/debug/trace_lookup returns 202 Accepted with trace_id.
  - added poll endpoint model: GET /api/v1/debug/trace_lookup/{trace_id}.
  - added optional cancel model and bounded registry/TTL expectations.
- docs/governance/TASKS.md:
  - added async execution + bounded active trace backlog requirements.
Decisions:
- Async-first trace execution is required to protect API responsiveness and avoid long request blocking under peer/timeouts variance.
Next steps:
- define trace registry bounds in config (defaults + hard caps) during implementation slice.
Change log:
- Updated docs/10_architecture/KAD_TRACE_LOOKUP_DESIGN.md.
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-05): Added design notes for debug-only KAD hop tracing endpoint.
- Added docs/10_architecture/KAD_TRACE_LOOKUP_DESIGN.md with:
  - endpoint proposal: POST /api/v1/debug/trace_lookup
  - request/response schema draft
  - stop conditions, safety bounds, rate-limit expectations
  - observability and test plan
- Updated docs/10_architecture/API_DESIGN.md implemented/planned debug endpoint list.
- Added implementation backlog entry in docs/governance/TASKS.md.
Decisions:
- Keep trace lookup debug-only and strictly bounded to avoid lookup-amplification risk.
- Implement via existing KAD service lookup flow, not API-layer network logic.
Next steps:
- implement service command + API handler under debug routes.
- add endpoint validation/rate-limit tests and basic topology integration test.
Change log:
- Added docs/10_architecture/KAD_TRACE_LOOKUP_DESIGN.md.
- Updated docs/10_architecture/API_DESIGN.md.
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-05): Added completion-timeout diagnostics in resume soak script.
- scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh:
  - on post-restart completion timeout, now calls dump_download_diagnostics "completion_timeout" before exit.
  - emits structured diagnostic artifacts:
    - <resume_out_dir>/completion_timeout_downloads_diag.json
    - <resume_out_dir>/completion_timeout_status_diag.json
Decisions:
- Treat completion timeout as a first-class triage path; always persist queue/state/counter snapshot for post-run analysis.
Next steps:
- rerun download_phase0_acceptance.sh with resume soak enabled and inspect completion_timeout_* artifacts if timeout recurs.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-05): CLI backlog expanded with accepted operational flags.
- docs/governance/TASKS.md:
  - added accepted follow-up flags:
    - --version
    - --check-config
    - --print-effective-config
Decisions:
- Keep first CLI slice minimal but include low-risk operational introspection flags once argument parser is in place.
Next steps:
- implement parser and usage output in src/main.rs.
- implement --check-config fast path (load + validate + exit).
- define redaction policy before implementing --print-effective-config output.
Change log:
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-05): Added CLI parameterization follow-up task for app startup UX.
- docs/governance/TASKS.md:
  - added backlog item for rust-mule --config <path> support.
  - added explicit fail-fast requirement for missing/unreadable --config file.
  - added --help and -? usage output requirement.
  - preserved default config behavior (config.toml in CWD) as compatibility baseline.
Decisions:
- Treat startup argument handling as a small, isolated hardening slice (no runtime behavior changes beyond config path selection and usage output).
Next steps:
- implement minimal CLI parser in src/main.rs for --config, --help, -?.
- add focused unit tests for argument parsing and missing-config error surface.
Change log:
- Updated docs/governance/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-04): Added signal-forensics logging for soak interruptions.
- scripts/test/download_soak_band.sh:
  - on INT/TERM, now logs signal context (self_pid, self_ppid, self_pgid, self_cmd, parent_cmd) before stop/collect.
- scripts/test/download_soak_stack_bg.sh:
  - replaced inline trap with handle_runner_signal.
  - on INT/TERM, now logs the same signal context fields plus explicit runner interrupted signal=<...>.
Decisions:
- Capture process ancestry at signal time to distinguish app/script crashes from external termination.
Next steps:
- Re-run acceptance soak and inspect new signal-context lines if interruption recurs; correlate parent_cmd with invoking shell/script.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_soak_band.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/download_soak_stack_bg.sh.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-04): Aligned API design docs with current /api/v1 implementation.
- docs/10_architecture/API_DESIGN.md:
  - set status to ACTIVE, refreshed review date.
  - fixed stale executable docs reference (docs/30_operations/api_curl.md).
  - added explicit implemented endpoint surface matching src/api/router.rs (auth/session, core, searches, downloads, KAD, debug).
  - replaced non-existent routing endpoint examples with actual current KAD/debug routing endpoints.
  - updated error envelope example to current default ({code,message}).
  - updated minimal checklist to reflect implemented vs future items.
Decisions:
- Keep API_DESIGN.md as mixed “current + future” design doc, but pin current implementation in an explicit section at top.
Next steps:
- Optionally add a generated API route inventory check to CI to detect doc/route drift earlier.
Change log:
- Updated docs/10_architecture/API_DESIGN.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-04): Fixed resume-soak jq crash after restart snapshot.
- scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh:
  - made snapshot downloads_count null-safe with (.downloads // []) | length.
  - replaced monotonic keying by .id with stable fallback key selection:
    - part_number, then id, then file_hash_md4_hex.
  - prevents jq: Cannot index object with null when download rows do not expose id.
Decisions:
- Treat API response schema as partially optional in soak scripts; always null-guard collection fields and key derivation.
Next steps:
- Re-run acceptance with resume soak and verify it passes post-restart monotonic check without jq abort.
- If next failure occurs, inspect generated *_downloads_diag.json/*_status_diag.json in the acceptance output directory.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-04): Addressed PR review findings on transfer pump safety and behavior.
- src/app.rs:
  - replaced direct mark_block_received_by_peer calls with ingest_inbound_packet(OP_SENDINGPART, ...) so block data is written before receive-state transitions.
  - changed held-lease model from single lease per part to queue (HashMap<u16, VecDeque<PumpHeldLease>>) to avoid lease overwrite/loss.
  - added per-file source-search throttle (SEARCH_MIN_INTERVAL=30s) and only sends SearchSources when source list is empty and throttle allows.
  - prevents new reservations while a part still has held leases pending.
Decisions:
- Keep pump as phase-0 bridge but make it data-writing and lease-safe to avoid corrupt completion semantics.
- Reduce network load by throttling search fanout from pump.
Next steps:
- Run acceptance/resume soak and inspect whether reserve/grant/inflight now advance without prior cancellation churn.
- If stable, split pump into dedicated module and gate behind explicit config flag.
Change log:
- Updated src/app.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-04): Implemented runtime download transfer pump to exercise reserve/receive path.
- src/app.rs:
  - added background run_download_transfer_pump(...) task (enabled when KAD service is enabled).
  - pump loop behavior:
    - lists active downloads,
    - triggers KAD SearchSources and requests GetSources,
    - reserves blocks with reserve_blocks_for_peer,
    - marks reserved blocks as received to drive progress,
    - temporarily holds one lease then commits it on TTL to keep in-flight activity observable.
- src/download/service.rs:
  - DownloadSummary now includes file_hash_md4_hex so runtime can map downloads to KAD source lookups.
- src/api/handlers/downloads.rs:
  - exposes file_hash_md4_hex in download list and mutation responses.
Decisions:
- Keep transfer pump in app/runtime as a phase-0 bridge (no protocol-transport wiring yet).
- Prioritize moving from zero reserve activity to observable reserve/inflight/progress in soak runs.
Next steps:
- Re-run phase0 acceptance with resume soak and confirm:
  - reserve_calls_total > 0
  - reserve_granted_blocks_total > 0
  - non-zero downloaded_total and inflight_total during active-transfer wait.
- If this passes consistently, replace pump-side synthetic receive with actual inbound transfer packet path.
Change log:
- Updated src/app.rs.
- Updated src/download/service.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-03): Added download scheduler denial diagnostics and soak failure dumps for transfer-stall triage.
- src/download/service.rs:
  - added status counters:
    - reserve_calls_total
    - reserve_granted_blocks_total
    - reserve_denied_state_total
    - reserve_empty_no_missing_total
  - wired counters through runtime status publication.
- src/api/handlers/downloads.rs:
  - exposed new reserve diagnostics in /api/v1/downloads.
- scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh:
  - on fixture-source timeout or active-transfer timeout, now writes diagnostic snapshots:
    - <tag>_downloads_diag.json
    - <tag>_status_diag.json
  - logs concise reserve/download state summary from diagnostics.
- scripts/test/README.md:
  - documented new failure diagnostic files.
- src/api/tests.rs:
  - extended API contract assertion for new /api/v1/downloads fields.
Decisions:
- Keep diagnostics additive and read-only; no scheduling behavior changed in this patch.
- Focus first on visibility of reserve-path outcomes before changing downloader logic.
Next steps:
- Re-run download_phase0_acceptance.sh with RUN_RESUME_SOAK=1.
- If active_transfer_timeout recurs, inspect active_transfer_timeout_downloads_diag.json for reserve counters:
  - if reserve_calls_total stays near zero: scheduler/dispatch is not invoking reserve.
  - if reserve_calls_total rises but reserve_granted_blocks_total stays zero: examine denial counters and download states.
Status (2026-03-03): Added fail-fast no-reserve-activity gate to resume soak.
- scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh:
  - new NO_RESERVE_ACTIVITY_TIMEOUT_SECS (default 300).
  - in active-transfer wait, fails early when downloads exist but reserve_calls_total remains 0 past timeout.
  - writes no_reserve_activity_downloads_diag.json / no_reserve_activity_status_diag.json on fail-fast trigger.
- scripts/test/README.md:
  - documented NO_RESERVE_ACTIVITY_TIMEOUT_SECS and fail-fast behavior.
Decisions:
- Treat prolonged zero reserve-call activity as a structural pipeline condition; fail quickly to reduce soak feedback latency.
Next steps:
- Run acceptance again and verify fast-fail triggers within 5 minutes when reserve remains unwired.
- Then prioritize wiring runtime transfer scheduler to issue ReserveBlocks for discovered sources.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Change log:
- Updated src/download/service.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-03): Added progress heartbeat/ETA logs for long-running phase0 soak scripts.
- scripts/test/kad_phase0_gate.sh:
  - new PROGRESS_LOG_SECS (default 30) for throttled readiness-wait logs.
  - capture start now logs initial remaining time and UTC ETA.
- scripts/test/download_phase0_acceptance.sh:
  - added stage progress logs with elapsed/estimated-remaining/ETA (gate, resume, longrun).
- scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh:
  - new PROGRESS_LOG_SECS (default 30) for throttled progress lines in long wait loops:
    - scenario wait
    - fixture source wait
    - active transfer wait
    - post-restart progress wait
    - completion wait
    - stack terminal wait
- scripts/test/README.md:
  - documented PROGRESS_LOG_SECS in gate, acceptance, and resume sections.
Decisions:
- Keep progress logging throttled to avoid noisy per-poll output while preserving clear long-run observability.
Next steps:
- Re-run acceptance soak and confirm progress lines provide enough signal to leave runs unattended.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/kad_phase0_gate.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/download_phase0_acceptance.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-03): Addressed Copilot PR review findings on acceptance/soak scripts and API parse logging.
- scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh:
  - fixed exit-code capture in api_post and downloads_create by removing ! cmd; rc=$? patterns that masked nonzero failures.
- scripts/test/download_phase0_acceptance.sh:
  - token load now trims CR/LF (tr -d '\r\n') before auth header use.
- scripts/docs/download_create_from_hash.sh:
  - switched JSON payload construction to jq -nc + --data-binary for both search and create requests.
  - token load now trims CR/LF.
- src/api/error.rs:
  - added control-character sanitization for logged JSON parse body excerpts.
  - added unit test for excerpt sanitizer behavior.
Decisions:
- Treat script exit-code capture and shell-JSON interpolation as correctness issues to fix immediately.
- Keep parse-failure logging at warn level, but sanitize excerpt to avoid control-char log injection.
Next steps:
- Re-run phase0 acceptance/resume soak and verify create-failure handling/diagnostics are now accurate on real failures.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/download_phase0_acceptance.sh.
- Updated scripts/docs/download_create_from_hash.sh.
- Updated src/api/error.rs.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-03): Added stack-local fixture publish pre-step in resume-soak path.
- scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh:
  - new env controls: STACK_PUBLISH_FIXTURES (default 1), STACK_PUBLISH_BASE_URL, STACK_PUBLISH_TOKEN_FILE.
  - when FIXTURES_ONLY=1, publishes fixture hashes to stack publisher after stack startup and before fixture source-discovery polling.
  - defaults to publishing against STACK_BASE_URL with stack run token.
- scripts/test/download_phase0_acceptance.sh:
  - forwards STACK_PUBLISH_* env controls into resume-soak stage.
- scripts/test/README.md:
  - documented new stack-local publish controls and behavior.
Decisions:
- Make stack-local publish the default fixture path for resume soaks to remove cross-topology dependency on external pre-publish.
Next steps:
- Re-run phase-0 acceptance with RUN_RESUME_SOAK=1, FIXTURES_ONLY=1, and stack-local publish defaults.
- If fixture-source gate still fails, capture live/routing/source_store_* on stack publisher and consumer for topology diagnosis.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/download_phase0_acceptance.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-03): Synced docs directory guide with restructured layout and canonical index policy.
- docs/README.md:
  - converted from legacy file-by-file list to folder-level structure guide.
  - explicitly marks docs/index.md as canonical docs navigation entrypoint.
Decisions:
- Keep docs/index.md as navigation source of truth; keep docs/README.md as concise directory-orientation doc.
Next steps:
- Keep both files in sync whenever docs folders are renamed or moved.
Change log:
- Updated docs/README.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-03): Updated docs entrypoint to match restructured docs tree.
- docs/index.md:
  - replaced legacy flat links with sectioned navigation for 00_overview, 10_architecture, 20_protocol, 30_operations, governance, rfcs, and 90_archive.
Decisions:
- Keep docs/index.md as the canonical, human-readable navigation hub aligned with the on-disk folder hierarchy.
Next steps:
- Optionally align docs/README.md wording to the same section naming to avoid drift between entrypoint docs.
Change log:
- Updated docs/index.md.
- Updated docs/governance/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-03): Added optional fixture publish pre-step to phase-0 acceptance runner.
- scripts/test/download_phase0_acceptance.sh:
  - new env controls: PUBLISH_FIXTURES, PUBLISH_BASE_URL, PUBLISH_TOKEN_FILE.
  - when enabled, iterates fixture hashes and publishes each via scripts/docs/kad_publish_source.sh before snapshots/gate/resume stages.
  - validates required fixture/publisher inputs when publish mode is enabled.
- scripts/test/README.md:
  - documented fixture pre-publish usage and publish env controls in acceptance section.
Decisions:
- Keep publish pre-step opt-in so acceptance remains usable in both passive-observe and actively-seeded environments.
Next steps:
- Re-run acceptance with PUBLISH_FIXTURES=1 and RUN_RESUME_SOAK=1.
- If fixture-source gate still fails, investigate KAD publish propagation from publisher node to stack node (network topology/version/filtering).
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_phase0_acceptance.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-02): Added fixture-source readiness gate to resume soak to fail fast on source-unavailable runs.
- scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh:
  - added wait_for_fixture_sources() (enabled when FIXTURES_ONLY=1) to trigger/search and poll /api/v1/kad/sources/:file_id_hex for each fixture before transfer wait.
  - new FIXTURE_SOURCE_TIMEOUT_SECS (default 300) for this preflight gate.
  - on timeout, emits focused KAD status diagnostics (sent/recv search source reqs, source_store_*, live, routing) and exits early.
- scripts/test/README.md:
  - documented FIXTURE_SOURCE_TIMEOUT_SECS and the new fail-fast fixture source gate behavior.
Decisions:
- Treat “downloads created but always queued/inflight=0” under fixtures-only mode as a source availability/setup issue; fail early instead of waiting for active-transfer timeout.
Next steps:
- Re-run acceptance/resume with fixtures; if fixture-source gate fails, publish those fixture hashes to reachable peers first (or automate publish pre-step).
- If fixture-source gate passes but inflight remains zero, investigate download scheduler/reservation path (post-source acquisition).
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-02): Refactored soak POST path so create requests are generated and sent file-first (no JSON string transport path).
- scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh:
  - added api_post_file(path, payload_file) and kept api_post(path, json) as wrapper.
  - downloads_create() now writes payload JSON directly to temp file via jq and posts that file.
  - debug output now reports both payload_len (string) and payload_bytes (file byte count).
Decisions:
- Remove string-to-curl conversion from download create path to eliminate any remaining shell quoting/expansion ambiguity.
Next steps:
- Re-run acceptance with DEBUG_CREATE_PAYLOADS=1 and compare payload_bytes vs API body_len for first 400 parse failures.
- If API still reports trailing-character parse errors, instrument API parser to log raw last-byte hex for failing requests.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-02): Hardened soak create request path to avoid stdout contamination and payload mutation.
- scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh:
  - log() no longer uses tee; logs now append to runner log and emit to stderr only.
  - api_post() now writes JSON to a temp file and sends via curl --data-binary @file for exact byte-for-byte body delivery.
Decisions:
- Treat command-substitution/stdout coupling as a test harness bug; logging must never share stdout with function return channels.
- Treat --data-binary @file as the canonical way to send scripted JSON payloads in soak harnesses.
Next steps:
- Re-run download_phase0_acceptance.sh with RUN_RESUME_SOAK=1 and inspect /tmp/rustmule-run-*/rust-mule.out for any remaining json parse failed.
- If parse errors persist, capture and compare request body byte dumps client/server side for the same request id.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-01): Added fail-fast BASE_URL ownership lock for download soak runners and fixed debug flag propagation.
- scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh:
  - added per-BASE_URL lock under LOCK_ROOT (default /tmp/rust-mule-download-soak-locks).
  - start now refuses to launch when another live runner already owns the same API target, and reports owner PID/lock path.
  - lock is acquired in run and released on exit/interrupt (stale dead-owner locks are auto-cleaned on next start).
  - DEBUG_CREATE_PAYLOADS is now propagated in background start, matching foreground behavior.
- scripts/test/README.md:
  - documented LOCK_ROOT and new base-URL lock behavior.
Decisions:
- Treat concurrent soak runners on one API target as invalid test setup and fail immediately to avoid cross-run contamination.
Next steps:
- Re-run acceptance/resume soak; verify no unexpected malformed create payload source remains once conflicting runners are blocked.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-01): Added download create payload debug tracing to soak scripts for malformed JSON triage.
- scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh:
  - new DEBUG_CREATE_PAYLOADS=1 toggle logs exact /api/v1/downloads request payloads (with target URL and token file path) and raw responses for each create call.
- scripts/test/download_soak_stack_bg.sh:
  - forwards DEBUG_CREATE_PAYLOADS into staged stack runs so debug logging works in background soak orchestration.
- scripts/test/README.md:
  - documented DEBUG_CREATE_PAYLOADS=1 in download soak usage/overrides.
Decisions:
- Keep create payload/response tracing opt-in to avoid noisy default logs while preserving precise diagnostics when parse failures occur.
Next steps:
- Re-run acceptance/resume soak with DEBUG_CREATE_PAYLOADS=1 and inspect create-debug lines in staged runner logs for any malformed body source.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/download_soak_stack_bg.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-01): Added session-creation resource-cap hardening task to backlog.
- docs/TODO.md:
  - added API fix item for POST /api/v1/session to cap concurrent active sessions (target MAX_SESSIONS = 1024) after pruning expired entries.
  - intended behavior on cap hit: return 503 Service Unavailable.
Decisions:
- Treat loopback-local session accumulation as a resource exhaustion risk; rate limit alone is insufficient for 8h TTL sessions.
Next steps:
- Implement active session cap check in src/api/handlers/core.rs before insert.
- Add unit/integration tests for cap behavior and expired-session pruning interaction.
Change log:
- Updated docs/TODO.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-01): Added API auth constant-time compare hardening task to backlog.
- docs/TODO.md:
  - added explicit API task to replace short-circuit bearer token equality with constant-time comparison in src/api/auth.rs.
Decisions:
- Treat loopback-local timing leakage as in-scope hardening risk (compromised local process threat model).
Next steps:
- Implement constant-time token comparison with subtle::ConstantTimeEq (or equivalent).
- Add/update auth tests to preserve current behavior while using constant-time comparison.
Change log:
- Updated docs/TODO.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-01): Added SAM protocol/settings injection hardening task to backlog.
- docs/TODO.md:
  - added explicit fix item for CR/LF/control-char handling in SAM value encoding and settings validation.
  - scope: reject newline/control chars in sam.session_name (API validation) and prevent CR/LF emission from i2p::sam::protocol::encode_value.
Decisions:
- Treat this as a security hardening fix (command-line injection class) and prioritize in upcoming SAM/runtime work.
Next steps:
- Implement CR/LF + control-char validation in src/api/handlers/settings.rs.
- Update src/i2p/sam/protocol.rs to return error/reject values containing line breaks.
- Add regression tests for injected sam.session_name payloads.
Change log:
- Updated docs/TODO.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-03-01): Added KAD crypto-compatibility backlog item for MD5 constants.
- docs/TODO.md:
  - added task to replace runtime-derived MD5 round constants with fixed RFC 1321 constants in UDP crypto path.
  - rationale: avoid platform-specific floating-point rounding drift and ensure cross-node decryption compatibility.
Decisions:
- Track as a dedicated KAD hardening/compatibility fix item before further UDP crypto tuning.
Next steps:
- Implement fixed T[64] constants in src/kad/udp_crypto.rs and remove runtime sin() derivation.
- Add/extend regression tests to assert constant table matches RFC values.
Change log:
- Updated docs/TODO.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-28): Added diagnostics for JSON parse 400 and stabilized soak fail-streak/reset behavior.
- src/api/error.rs:
  - parse_json_with_limit now logs json parse failed with serde error + body length + body excerpt (first 160 bytes) before returning 400.
  - enables direct triage of generic bad request in stack rust-mule.out.
- scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh:
  - reset CREATE_FAIL_STREAK at start of each run (load_fixtures), while still persisting within-run increments across command-substitution subshell boundaries.
  - prevents cross-run streak carry-over noise.
- scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh:
  - trap cleanup no longer returns nonzero status from EXIT path; disables trap after cleanup.
  - avoids pop_var_context shell error observed after termination.
Decisions:
- Prefer runtime diagnostics in API parser over guessing script-side causes for 400.
Next steps:
- Re-run acceptance with isolated stack port/root and inspect stack rust-mule.out for json parse failed line if 400 persists.
Change log:
- Updated src/api/error.rs.
- Updated scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-26): Added forced cleanup for resume-soak failures/interruption to prevent lingering stack clients.
- scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh:
  - added exit trap (cleanup_on_exit) that requests download_soak_stack_bg.sh stop whenever run exits abnormally.
  - tracks stack start state (STACK_STARTED) and suppresses cleanup only on successful completion.
- Effect:
  - failed/aborted resume runs now stop spawned stack/client processes instead of leaving them active.
Decisions:
- Prefer unconditional stack stop on resume-script error paths to avoid leaked background clients and held ports.
Next steps:
- Re-run acceptance + resume soak once with isolated STACK_API_PORT/STACK_ROOT and verify no lingering process after failure.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-26): Hardened soak create payload encoding to avoid malformed JSON in fixture-driven runs.
- scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh:
  - downloads_create() now builds request JSON with jq -n instead of string interpolation.
  - avoids shell-escaping edge cases for fixture values and ensures valid JSON body for POST /api/v1/downloads.
Decisions:
- Keep fixture create payload construction deterministic and JSON-safe in script layer.
Next steps:
- Re-run acceptance with resume soak and verify create requests no longer fail with generic 400 bad request.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-26): Fixed resume-soak diagnostics and API error detail path for download create failures.
- scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh:
  - fixed create-failure streak persistence across command-substitution subshell calls by storing streak in RUN_ROOT/create_fail_streak.
  - fail-fast in FIXTURES_ONLY=1 mode now trips correctly after CREATE_FAIL_LIMIT consecutive create failures.
  - create-failure log extraction now reads both nested (error.*) and top-level (code/message) API envelopes.
- src/api/error.rs:
  - error_envelope_mw now preserves handler-provided JSON error bodies and only injects generic envelope when handler did not provide JSON.
- src/api/handlers/downloads.rs:
  - POST /api/v1/downloads now returns detailed validation message for DownloadError::InvalidInput instead of generic bad request.
  - added focused unit test for invalid-input mapping.
Decisions:
- Keep generic API error envelope middleware for bare status errors, but preserve explicit JSON error responses from handlers.
- Keep soak fail-fast script-level and now make it deterministic in subshell-heavy shell flows.
Next steps:
- Re-run acceptance + resume soak with fixtures and inspect first detailed create error message.
- If create still fails, patch fixture generation/shape or download create validation according to returned message.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh.
- Updated src/api/error.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-26): Added diagnostics + fail-fast for fixture-backed download create failures in soak runner.
- scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh:
  - logs detailed warning when create response has no download.part_number (includes error code/message + response excerpt).
  - tracks repeated create failures (CREATE_FAIL_STREAK).
  - in FIXTURES_ONLY=1 mode, marks scenario failed after CREATE_FAIL_LIMIT consecutive no-part responses (default 10).
  - emits round-level create_fail detail entries for integrity/long_churn/concurrency; single_e2e create now includes error detail when part is missing.
- scripts/test/README.md:
  - documented optional CREATE_FAIL_LIMIT.
Decisions:
- Keep failure gating script-level for now (no API behavior change) to make fixture/contract issues immediately visible in soak artifacts.
Next steps:
- Re-run acceptance with resume soak and inspect create_fail rows to identify precise API rejection reason if queue remains empty.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-25): Build script review identified host-only builds mislabeled as platform builds.
- Findings:
  - scripts/build/build_linux_release.sh, scripts/build/build_macos_release.sh, and scripts/build/build_windows_release.ps1 all build from host default target/release without --target.
  - Output bundle naming includes platform/arch labels, but build target is not explicitly enforced.
- Backlog updates added:
  - docs/TODO.md: explicit target-triple adoption, Linux amd64/x86_64 support, Windows target matrix, macOS target matrix, prerequisite docs.
  - docs/TASKS.md: release-script hardening scope with explicit target list and CI prerequisite documentation.
Decisions:
- Track this as a dedicated follow-up implementation slice; do not change release scripts in this pass.
Next steps:
- Implement target-aware build scripts and update scripts/build/README.md with supported targets + host/cross-build constraints.
Change log:
- Updated docs/TODO.md.
- Updated docs/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-25): Fixed resume-soak false starts caused by API port collision with a pre-running local node.
- Root cause from acceptance artifacts:
  - stack app failed API bind on :17835 (Address already in use),
  - soak scenarios then hit the existing app and got 403 on /api/v1/downloads readiness.
- scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh:
  - introduced dedicated stack endpoint defaults:
    - STACK_API_PORT=17865
    - STACK_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:17865
  - stack start now explicitly uses those values.
- scripts/test/download_phase0_acceptance.sh:
  - resume stage no longer forwards external BASE_URL/TOKEN_FILE into stack resume soak.
- scripts/test/download_soak_stack_bg.sh:
  - health readiness now requires authenticated /api/v1/downloads 200 using run-dir api.token.
  - prevents false-ready on unrelated process health.
- docs:
  - updated scripts/test/README.md with STACK_API_PORT / STACK_BASE_URL.
Decisions:
- Keep resume soak isolated from operator node endpoint by default.
- Treat stack readiness as auth-bound API readiness, not just /health.
Next steps:
- Re-run acceptance with RUN_RESUME_SOAK=1 and fixture mode; verify transfers are created (no downloads=0).
- If still zero-transfer, inspect scenario tarball logs/runner.log for create/download API payload outcomes.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/download_phase0_acceptance.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/download_soak_stack_bg.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-25): Patched fixture propagation and validation for acceptance/resume flow.
- scripts/test/download_phase0_acceptance.sh:
  - added explicit DOWNLOAD_FIXTURES_FILE + FIXTURES_ONLY forwarding into resume stage.
  - added early validation:
    - FIXTURES_ONLY=1 requires DOWNLOAD_FIXTURES_FILE set and existing file.
  - added startup fixture logging for run diagnostics.
- scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh:
  - explicitly forwards DOWNLOAD_FIXTURES_FILE/FIXTURES_ONLY to stack runner start path.
- validation rerun:
  - cargo fmt
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features (143 passed)
Decisions:
- Make fixture propagation explicit instead of implicit env inheritance to avoid diagnostic ambiguity in long runs.
Next steps:
- Re-run acceptance with RUN_RESUME_SOAK=1 + fixture env and inspect band-fixtures lines in stack logs if transfers still stay at zero.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/download_phase0_acceptance.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-25): Added repository-level GitHub Copilot instruction file.
- added .github/copilot-instructions.md with:
  - repository purpose and scope,
  - architecture and layering boundaries,
  - hostile-input/security expectations,
  - Rust coding/testing conventions,
  - docs/workflow + PR/review priorities.
Decisions:
- Keep Copilot instructions concise and aligned with AGENTS.md/README.md conventions to reduce guidance drift.
Next steps:
- Keep .github/copilot-instructions.md updated when development rules or review gates evolve.
Change log:
- Added .github/copilot-instructions.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-24): Added known.met startup resilience regression coverage and hash-first operator helper.
- src/download/service.rs:
  - added startup_quarantines_corrupt_known_met_and_continues test:
    - validates service startup does not fail on corrupt known.met,
    - validates corrupt file quarantine behavior (known.met.corrupt.<ts>),
    - validates service continues with an empty known set.
- scripts/docs/download_create_from_hash.sh:
  - new hash-first helper script to:
    - optionally queue POST /api/v1/kad/search_sources,
    - create download via POST /api/v1/downloads using MD4 hash input.
- docs:
  - updated scripts/docs/README.md with helper mention.
  - updated docs/TODO.md with helper completion marker.
- validation rerun:
  - cargo fmt
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features (143 passed)
Decisions:
- Keep hash-first flow additive via operator helper script for now; full API/UI workflow remains a separate feature slice.
Status (2026-02-25): Fixed acceptance-runner stage exit-code propagation.
- scripts/test/download_phase0_acceptance.sh:
  - corrected stage result handling so non-zero exit from gate/resume/longrun stages is preserved.
  - overall_rc now correctly returns non-zero when any enabled stage fails.
- scripts/test/README.md:
  - documented non-zero exit behavior for failed enabled stages.
- validation:
  - smoke-checked failure path with invalid base URL (rc=1, overall_rc=1).
Next steps:
- Execute one full acceptance pass with RUN_RESUME_SOAK=1 and archive the output directory.
- Start dedicated implementation slice for full hash-first API/UI flow and deeper known-met compatibility semantics.
Change log:
- Updated src/download/service.rs.
- Added scripts/docs/download_create_from_hash.sh.
- Updated scripts/docs/README.md.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
- Updated docs/TODO.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-24): Added phase-0 acceptance runner and aligned task backlog for next download slices.
- scripts/test/download_phase0_acceptance.sh:
  - new one-command acceptance orchestration for download/KAD phase-0:
    - captures pre/post /api/v1/health, /api/v1/status, /api/v1/downloads snapshots,
    - runs kad_phase0_gate.sh,
    - optionally runs download_resume_soak.sh and kad_phase0_longrun.sh,
    - writes run summary (summary.txt) under a single out directory.
- docs:
  - scripts/test/README.md updated with usage examples.
  - docs/TASKS.md and docs/TODO.md updated with explicit next slices:
    - known.met compatibility + resume robustness,
    - hash-first discovery/initiation path.
- validation rerun:
  - cargo fmt
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features (142 passed)
Decisions:
- Keep acceptance orchestration script-only in this slice so existing soak/gate scripts remain reusable primitives.
Next steps:
- Execute scripts/test/download_phase0_acceptance.sh with RUN_RESUME_SOAK=1 (and optional RUN_KAD_LONGRUN=1) on current main binary and archive artifacts.
- Start implementation slice for known.met compatibility + restart/resume robustness.
Change log:
- Added scripts/test/download_phase0_acceptance.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
- Updated docs/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/TODO.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-24): Addressed PR #34 review comments (snapshot consistency + counter regression tests).
- src/download/service.rs:
  - added DownloadCommand::Snapshot and DownloadServiceHandle::snapshot() to return (DownloadServiceStatus, Vec<DownloadSummary>) from one service-loop snapshot.
  - added regression tests for reserve-denial counters:
    - peer-cap denial increments reserve_denied_peer_cap_total,
    - download-cap denial increments reserve_denied_download_cap_total,
    - cooldown denial increments reserve_denied_cooldown_total.
- src/api/handlers/downloads.rs:
  - /api/v1/downloads now uses download_handle.snapshot() to avoid mixing status/list from separate awaits.
- docs/handoff.md:
  - removed stale “add observable counters” next-step bullet from earlier entry (work already completed).
- validation rerun:
  - cargo fmt
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features (142 passed)
Decisions:
- Keep /api/v1/downloads response internally consistent by sourcing queue/status/list from a single service snapshot.
Next steps:
- Resolve PR #34 threads and merge when approved.
Change log:
- Updated src/download/service.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-24): Added download pipeline reserve-denial observability counters and exposed them in /api/v1/downloads.
- src/download/service.rs:
  - completed DownloadCommand::Status service path and status publishing wiring.
  - added reserve denial counter tracking in reserve_blocks(...) for:
    - cooldown denials,
    - per-peer cap denials,
    - per-download cap denials.
  - ensured all status emissions include pipeline counters.
- src/api/handlers/downloads.rs:
  - /api/v1/downloads now returns:
    - reserve_denied_cooldown_total
    - reserve_denied_peer_cap_total
    - reserve_denied_download_cap_total
  - response now sources recovered_on_start from service status snapshot.
- tests:
  - updated API contract assertion for /api/v1/downloads to require new counter fields.
- validation rerun:
  - cargo fmt
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features (140 passed)
Decisions:
- Keep reserve-denial counters cumulative in-memory service metrics for phase-2 tuning visibility.
Next steps:
- Use these counters in soak/gate evaluation to tune fairness caps and cooldown policy.
- Consider per-download/per-peer breakdown metrics if aggregate counters are insufficient for diagnosis.
Change log:
- Updated src/download/service.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-24): Started download phase-2 pipeline hardening (fairness + retry cooldown).
- src/download/service.rs:
  - added lease fairness caps:
    - MAX_INFLIGHT_LEASES_PER_PEER = 32
    - MAX_INFLIGHT_LEASES_PER_DOWNLOAD = 256
  - added per-download transient retry cooldown (cooldown_until) after block-fail, peer disconnect, and timeout reclaim paths.
  - added bounded exponential backoff helper (retry_backoff_delay, 200ms base, 5s max).
  - reserve path now respects cooldown and fairness caps before assigning new ranges.
- tests:
  - added reserve_blocks_caps_inflight_leases_per_peer.
  - added mark_block_failed_enforces_short_retry_cooldown.
  - updated existing retry test to account for cooldown behavior.
- validation rerun:
  - cargo fmt
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features (140 passed)
Decisions:
- Keep cooldown transient/in-memory for this slice (no persistence yet) to avoid schema churn while we stabilize scheduler behavior.
Next steps:
- Tune scheduler policy with soak data (per-peer cap, backoff constants).
Change log:
- Updated src/download/service.rs.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-24): Addressed PR #31 review hardening follow-ups (known.met + finalize path).
- src/download/service.rs:
  - added resilient known index boot (load_known_keys_resilient): corrupt known.met is quarantined and service continues with empty known set.
  - canonicalized in-memory known dedup keys to lowercase hash form.
  - added strict file-name sanitization (sanitize_download_file_name) to prevent path traversal/absolute path usage in download finalize targets.
  - switched incoming existence checks to async directory scanning (tokio::fs::read_dir / try_exists) to avoid blocking runtime threads.
  - replaced fixed-sleep test assumptions with bounded polling loops; added traversal-rejection test.
- src/download/store.rs:
  - append_known_met_entry now canonicalizes hash casing and deduplicates case-insensitively.
- validation rerun:
  - cargo fmt
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features (138 passed)
Decisions:
- Treat corrupted known.met as recoverable metadata state (quarantine + continue) rather than startup-fatal.
Next steps:
- Update PR #31 threads and merge once approved.
Change log:
- Updated src/download/service.rs.
- Updated src/download/store.rs.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-24): Implemented download known.met slice and wired finalize lifecycle in service runtime.
- src/download/service.rs:
  - added known_met_path to DownloadServiceConfig (data/known.met).
  - startup now loads known entries into an in-memory dedup key set.
  - service now finalizes Completing downloads on tick and post-command paths:
    - moves completed .part into incoming/,
    - writes deduplicated known entries to known.met,
    - removes finalized .part.met + .bak and queue entry.
  - command-path finalization is non-fatal (try_finalize_completed_downloads) to prevent reply starvation.
- src/download/store.rs:
  - added KnownMetEntry.
  - added load_known_met_entries(...) and append_known_met_entry(...) with hash+size deduplication.
  - added store regression test for known entry dedup/persistence.
- tests:
  - compressed ingest now asserts finalize-to-incoming + known entry persisted.
  - startup finalize regression ensures known dedup on restart recovery.
- validation rerun:
  - cargo fmt
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features (137 passed)
Decisions:
- keep known.met Rust-native serialized structure for phase 0/1; wire-level/format parity can be handled as a later compatibility slice if needed.
Next steps:
- implement download phase 2 block scheduler/transfer reliability improvements.
Change log:
- Updated src/download/errors.rs.
- Updated src/download/mod.rs.
- Updated src/download/service.rs.
- Updated src/download/store.rs.
- Updated docs/TODO.md.
- Updated docs/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-24): Addressed PR #29 review comments (Copilot) on API hardening branch.
- src/api/error.rs:
  - error_envelope_mw now preserves original response parts/headers/extensions and only replaces body/content headers for the envelope response.
  - This prevents loss of middleware/handler response headers (e.g. CORS) on non-2xx API responses.
- src/api/rate_limit.rs:
  - corrected /api/v1/searches/:search_id wildcard rate-limit behavior:
    - GET detail reads now use query_limit
    - POST/DELETE search mutations keep mutate_limit
- Validation rerun:
  - cargo fmt
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features (135 passed)
Decisions:
- Keep error-enveloping at middleware layer, but preserve original response metadata to avoid side effects with downstream middleware behavior.
Next steps:
- Push follow-up commit to PR #29 and resolve reviewer threads.
Change log:
- Updated src/api/error.rs.
- Updated src/api/rate_limit.rs.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-24): Completed API hostile-input/resilience hardening slice on feature/api-hardening-resilience.
- Added standardized non-2xx API envelope middleware in src/api/error.rs:
  - { "code": <status>, "message": "<human-friendly>" }
  - applied to all /api/v1/* non-success responses
- Added request body hardening:
  - global API body limit via DefaultBodyLimit::max(64 * 1024) in router
  - per-route JSON limits via bounded parsing helper (parse_json_with_limit) for settings/download/kad mutation handlers
- Expanded API rate limiting in src/api/rate_limit.rs:
  - now covers high-frequency read/mutation routes (status, events, settings, downloads, searches, kad/*)
- Hardened token loading in src/api/token.rs:
  - load_or_create_token now self-heals invalid UTF-8 / non-hex / empty token files by rotating and replacing
- Added SSE fallback warning/metric:
  - ApiState.sse_serialize_fallback_total
  - warning log and counter increment when status SSE serialization falls back to {}.
- Added/updated regression tests:
  - API envelope and body-limit behavior
  - expanded rate-limit behavior
  - token self-heal behavior
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features (135 passed)
Decisions:
- Kept API error envelope centralized in middleware to avoid scattering response formatting across handlers.
- Used global body limit plus per-route bounded parsing for explicit override control without broad extractor rewrites.
Next steps:
- Open PR for feature/api-hardening-resilience (no auto-merge unless explicitly requested).
- Continue next backlog priority (download phase completion / reliability baseline tasks).
Change log:
- Added src/api/error.rs.
- Updated src/api/mod.rs.
- Updated src/api/router.rs.
- Updated src/api/rate_limit.rs.
- Updated src/api/token.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/core.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/settings.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/downloads.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/kad.rs.
- Updated src/api/handlers/mod.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated docs/TODO.md.
- Updated docs/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-24): Completed second download hostile-input hardening slice on feature/download-protocol-hardening.
- Hardened compressed inbound handling in src/download/service.rs:
  - OP_COMPRESSEDPART now requires successful zlib inflate (kad::packed::inflate_zlib)
  - requires decompressed length to match declared unpacked_len
  - validates block/file bounds before state mutation
  - persists decompressed bytes to .part file before mark_block_received
- Hardened inbound persistence flow:
  - inbound blocks are persisted to .part via persist_part_block(...) before marking received
- Added regression tests:
  - compressedpart happy path (decompress + persist + state advance)
  - compressedpart invalid zlib path (reject + keep inflight state)
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features (131 passed)
Decisions:
- Reused existing hardened zlib decoder (kad::packed::inflate_zlib) to avoid introducing a new inflate implementation.
- Keep API hardening as the next immediate tranche after this download slice.
Next steps:
- Open PR for feature/download-protocol-hardening (no auto-merge).
- Start API hostile-input/resilience pass (body size limits, broader rate limits, token self-heal, SSE fallback metric, typed error envelope).
Change log:
- Updated src/download/service.rs.
- Updated docs/TODO.md.
- Updated docs/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-24): Completed first download hostile-input hardening slice on feature/download-protocol-hardening.
- Hardened src/download/protocol.rs:
  - added explicit caps:
    - MAX_PART_PAYLOAD
    - MAX_COMPRESSED_PAYLOAD
    - MAX_BLOCK_LEN
  - removed production decode-path unwrap() usage by adding safe typed readers (read_u64_le, read_u32_le)
  - added typed protocol errors for hostile-size conditions:
    - PayloadTooLarge
    - BlockTooLarge
  - added regression tests for oversized sending/compressed payload semantics
- Hardened src/download/service.rs:
  - added MAX_RESERVE_BLOCKS_PER_CALL cap in reserve_blocks(...)
  - added service-level regression test for excessive max_blocks
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features (129 passed)
Decisions:
- Keep download cap values as internal constants for now (no config surface in this slice).
- Keep remaining compressed-part completion semantics (decompress/validate/persist before mark received) as the next focused step.
Next steps:
- Continue same branch with remaining download hostile-input items:
  - gate OP_COMPRESSEDPART completion on verified decompression/persist
  - add hostile ingest/decode tests for semantic mismatch paths
- Open PR after that tranche is complete (no auto-merge).
Change log:
- Updated src/download/protocol.rs.
- Updated src/download/service.rs.
- Updated docs/TODO.md.
- Updated docs/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-24): Completed i2p/SAM hostile-input hardening slice on feature/i2p-sam-hardening.
- Hardened HTTP handling in src/i2p/http.rs:
  - replaced unbounded read_to_end with capped read loop (MAX_HTTP_RESPONSE_BYTES = 4 MiB)
  - made chunked decoding stricter:
    - enforce CRLF after each chunk payload
    - require proper trailer termination (CRLF empty line)
  - added hostile-input tests for malformed chunked frames and oversized body stream
- Hardened SAM control parsing in src/i2p/sam/client.rs:
  - added explicit max control-line guard (MAX_SAM_CONTROL_LINE_LEN = 8 KiB)
  - moved line decoding through capped/typed path with framing-desync errors on oversize/invalid UTF-8
  - added unit tests for oversize and invalid-UTF8 lines
- Hardened outbound datagram send caps:
  - src/i2p/sam/datagram.rs enforces outbound payload max (64 KiB)
  - src/i2p/sam/datagram_tcp.rs enforces outbound payload max (64 KiB)
  - added regression tests for oversize rejection in both paths
- Updated backlog docs:
  - marked i2p/SAM hostile-input TODOs complete in docs/TODO.md
  - moved next priority to download hostile-input hardening in docs/TASKS.md
Decisions:
- Keep hard limits internal constants for this slice (no new config surface yet).
- Use strict parsing for chunked framing to fail fast on malformed remote input.
Next steps:
- Open PR for feature/i2p-sam-hardening (do not merge without explicit instruction).
- Start the next hardening tranche: download protocol hostile-input protections.
Change log:
- Updated src/i2p/http.rs.
- Updated src/i2p/sam/client.rs.
- Updated src/i2p/sam/datagram.rs.
- Updated src/i2p/sam/datagram_tcp.rs.
- Updated docs/TODO.md.
- Updated docs/TASKS.md.
Status (2026-02-24): Validated KAD parser/fuzz hardening branch before PR.
- Ran required validation:
  - cargo fmt
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features (117 passed)
Decisions:
- Keep this branch scoped to KAD parser adversarial coverage + fuzz scaffold + backlog doc updates.
Next steps:
- Commit and push feature/kad-parser-fuzz-hardening.
- Open PR for review (no direct merge).
Change log:
- Verified current branch changes with full Rust validation suite.
Status (2026-02-24): Completed KAD hostile-input parser/fuzz tranche on feature/kad-parser-fuzz-hardening.
- Added adversarial parser tests:
  - src/kad/packed.rs:
    - rejects_invalid_zlib_method
    - rejects_header_check_bits_mismatch
    - rejects_when_output_exceeds_max_out
  - src/kad/wire.rs:
    - kad_packet_decode_rejects_invalid_packed_payload
    - decode_kad2_res_rejects_truncated_large_count (review follow-up symmetry)
- Added fuzz scaffold (cargo-fuzz style) for immediate hostile-input fuzzing:
  - fuzz/Cargo.toml
  - fuzz/fuzz_targets/kad_wire.rs
  - fuzz/fuzz_targets/kad_packed.rs
  - fuzz/.gitignore
- Updated backlog status:
  - marked KAD decoder clamp / inbound limiter cap / jitter RNG / parser+fuzz TODO items complete.
  - promoted i2p/SAM hostile-input hardening to next priority in docs/TASKS.md.
Decisions:
- Keep fuzz setup isolated in fuzz/ (not in main workspace) so normal cargo/CI flows are unaffected.
- Treat deterministic adversarial unit tests + fuzz targets as complementary coverage.
Next steps:
- Start i2p/SAM hostile-input hardening slice:
  - bound HTTP body reads in src/i2p/http.rs
  - control-line max-length guard in src/i2p/sam/client.rs
  - chunked parser CRLF hardening
  - outbound datagram payload cap
  - hostile-input regression tests
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/packed.rs.
- Updated src/kad/wire.rs.
- Added fuzz/Cargo.toml.
- Added fuzz/fuzz_targets/kad_wire.rs.
- Added fuzz/fuzz_targets/kad_packed.rs.
- Added fuzz/.gitignore.
- Updated docs/TODO.md.
- Updated docs/TASKS.md.
Status (2026-02-24): Started KAD hostile-input hardening with allocation clamp slice (feature/kad-hardening-count-clamps).
- Hardened KAD wire decoders to clamp allocation size from untrusted counts based on remaining payload bytes before Vec::with_capacity(...):
  - decode_kad2_bootstrap_res
  - decode_kad2_res
  - decode_kad2_publish_key_req
  - decode_kad2_search_res
- Added clamp helper/constants:
  - clamp_allocation_count_by_remaining(...)
  - KAD2_CONTACT_MIN_WIRE_BYTES
  - KAD2_SEARCH_RESULT_MIN_WIRE_BYTES
  - KAD2_PUBLISH_KEY_ENTRY_MIN_WIRE_BYTES
- Strict decoding behavior remains unchanged (declared entries still parsed; truncated payloads still error).
- Added hostile truncation regression tests with large declared counts:
  - decode_kad2_bootstrap_res_rejects_truncated_large_count
  - decode_kad2_publish_key_req_rejects_truncated_large_count
  - decode_kad2_search_res_rejects_truncated_large_count
Decisions:
- Clamp allocation capacity only, not loop iteration count, to preserve protocol strictness while preventing allocation amplification.
Next steps:
- Continue KAD hardening pass with tracked_in_requests bounded growth + eviction policy.
- Then replace deterministic shaper jitter with OS-seeded non-crypto RNG jitter.
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/wire.rs.
Status (2026-02-24): Added bounded growth + eviction policy for inbound per-source limiter state (tracked_in_requests).
- Added explicit caps:
  - TRACKED_IN_MAX_SOURCES = 4096
  - TRACKED_IN_MAX_OPCODES_PER_SOURCE = 8
- Added cleanup + eviction flow:
  - cleanup_tracked_in_requests(...) (TTL cleanup + cap enforcement)
  - enforce_tracked_in_opcode_cap(...) (per-source opcode map bounded)
  - evict_oldest_tracked_in_source(...) (oldest-first global source eviction)
- inbound_request_allowed(...) now:
  - forces cleanup when cap pressure is reached,
  - evicts oldest source when inserting a new source at cap,
  - enforces per-source opcode cap after updates.
- Added regression tests:
  - inbound_request_tracker_caps_number_of_sources
  - inbound_request_tracker_caps_opcodes_per_source
Decisions:
- Keep cap values internal constants for this hardening slice (no new config knobs yet).
- Use oldest-first eviction based on tracked entry age to preserve recent active sources.
Next steps:
- Continue KAD hardening with OS-seeded non-crypto jitter replacement for outbound shaper.
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/service.rs.
- Updated src/kad/service/tests.rs.
Status (2026-02-24): Replaced deterministic shaper jitter evolution with OS-seeded non-crypto jitter state.
- KadService jitter state now initializes from getrandom(...) with a guarded system-time fallback.
- Jitter evolution switched from deterministic LCG to xorshift64* (shaper_jitter_ms), still non-crypto and lightweight.
- This removes fixed-seed deterministic jitter patterns while preserving bounded jitter range behavior.
Decisions:
- Keep PRNG non-crypto and local-state-only (no additional config knobs in this slice).
- Preserve existing shaper policy semantics; change is limited to jitter source quality.
Next steps:
- Open/merge PR for the completed three-slice KAD hardening set:
  - decoder allocation clamps,
  - inbound limiter caps/eviction,
  - OS-seeded jitter.
- Continue with adversarial parser/fuzz targets in follow-up branch.
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/service.rs.
Status (2026-02-24): Addressed PR review follow-up for decoder clamp test coverage.
- Added missing hostile truncation regression test:
  - decode_kad2_res_rejects_truncated_large_count
- This closes the only Copilot-suggested follow-up on PR #25.
Decisions:
- Keep hostile count/truncation test coverage symmetric across all four decoders touched by allocation-clamp hardening.
Next steps:
- Merge PR #25 and continue to next hardening task (adversarial parser/fuzz targets).
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/wire.rs.
Status (2026-02-24): Implemented first routing-tuning-v3 throughput-floor slice on crawl dispatch path.
- send_kad2_req(...) now returns bool to indicate whether a request was actually sent (vs. shaper-dropped).
- crawl_once(...) now:
  - computes a bounded send goal (crawl_send_goal) with a small healthy-network floor,
  - uses an attempt budget (crawl_attempt_budget) to top up when shaper/candidate filtering drops sends,
  - stops once send_goal is reached.
- Lookup dispatch path now respects actual send result:
  - tick_lookups_impl(...) no longer marks peers queried/inflight when a request was not sent.
- Added unit coverage:
  - crawl_send_goal_raises_floor_when_network_is_healthy
  - crawl_send_goal_does_not_raise_floor_without_live_peers
Decisions:
- Keep this slice minimal and focused on preserving query throughput under shaping pressure without broad policy changes.
- Avoid new config surface in this step; use conservative internal heuristics first.
Next steps:
- Run scripts/test/kad_phase0_gate.sh (1800s) on this branch and compare against current main baseline.
- If gate is neutral-or-better, prepare PR with before/after gate artifacts.
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/service.rs.
- Updated src/kad/service/lookup.rs.
- Updated src/kad/service/tests.rs.
Status (2026-02-24): Added an automated Phase-0 before/after gate wrapper on feature/kad-routing-tuning-v2.
- New script:
  - scripts/test/kad_phase0_gate.sh
- Capabilities:
  - runs before and after baseline captures using existing kad_phase0_baseline.sh,
  - optional BEFORE_SETUP_CMD / AFTER_SETUP_CMD hooks for binary/process switching,
  - readiness wait (/api/v1/health + /api/v1/status),
  - auto-runs kad_phase0_compare.sh,
  - emits threshold report (gate.tsv) and optional pass/fail exit gating.
- Documentation updated in scripts/test/README.md with examples and threshold env controls.
Decisions:
- Keep gate script shell-only and reuse existing baseline/compare scripts for consistency.
- Default gate enforces thresholds, with ENFORCE_THRESHOLDS=0 escape hatch for exploratory runs.
Next steps:
- Use kad_phase0_gate.sh for future routing tuning before/after checks.
- If needed, add a small helper script that switches binaries/processes for BEFORE_SETUP_CMD/AFTER_SETUP_CMD.
Change log:
- Added scripts/test/kad_phase0_gate.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
Status (2026-02-24): Improved kad_phase0_gate.sh to avoid startup-skew false fails in cumulative metrics.
- Gate now normalizes *_total checks as per-uptime rates per run:
  - (last_value - first_value) / (uptime_last - uptime_first)
- Capture now waits for stable readiness before each phase (READY_STABLE_SUCCESSES, default 3).
- This fixes false failures when one phase includes warmup 503/low-sample startup skew.
Decisions:
- Keep compare.tsv as-is for raw metric comparison, but drive pass/fail from per-uptime-rate gating for cumulative counters.
Next steps:
- Re-run the short gate (DURATION_SECS=300) to validate corrected gate behavior, then run full 1800s gate.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/kad_phase0_gate.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
Status (2026-02-24): Added efficiency-focused gate checks so lower send rate is acceptable when quality improves.
- New efficiency checks compare after/before ratios of per-uptime-rate efficiencies:
  - tracked_out_matched_total / sent_reqs_total (min threshold)
  - timeouts_total / sent_reqs_total (max threshold)
- Added env controls:
  - MIN_MATCH_PER_SENT_RATIO (default 0.90)
  - MAX_TIMEOUT_PER_SENT_RATIO (default 1.10)
- Documented suggested noisy-network tuning:
  - MIN_SENT_REQS_TOTAL_RATIO=0.60 while keeping efficiency thresholds enabled.
Decisions:
- Keep absolute throughput checks, but supplement with efficiency checks to reduce false negatives from network variance.
Next steps:
- Re-run kad_phase0_gate.sh with the recommended noisy-network thresholds and confirm stable pass/fail behavior.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/kad_phase0_gate.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
Status (2026-02-24): Created safe-only split branch from origin/main and applied non-behavioral commits from feature/kad-rotate-query-candidates.
- Applied commits:
  - 7ee4fad (scripts/test/kad_phase0_longrun.sh output-file normalization/recovery)
  - 54b0651, 5a978ae, 78ce44a, f2964a7 (KAD/i2p/download/API hardening backlog prioritization docs)
- Explicitly excluded routing tie-break behavior follow-up commits from this branch.
Decisions:
- Keep this branch strictly to script reliability + docs backlog updates.
- Preserve routing behavior experiments for separate performance-gated branch work.
Next steps:
- Push this branch and open PR.
- Merge safe split first; continue routing tuning only with new long-run before/after gates.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/kad_phase0_longrun.sh.
- Updated docs/TODO.md.
- Updated docs/TASKS.md.
- Updated docs/handoff.md.
Status (2026-02-22): Extended soft peer-health preference into query/crawl candidate selection.
- Updated routing query selectors to prefer healthier peers while preserving existing constraints:
  - select_query_candidates(...)
  - select_query_candidates_for_target(...)
- Preference order remains soft-only:
  - stable > verified > unknown > unreliable
- Added routing test:
  - query_candidates_for_target_prefer_stable_over_unreliable
Decisions:
- Keep distance, cooldown, and max-failure filters intact; only ordering changed.
Next steps:
- Baseline compare after merge to confirm no regression in sent_reqs_total / recv_ress_total.
- Evaluate whether publish batch candidate ordering should adopt same soft class preference.
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/routing.rs.
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (106 total harness/tests)
Status (2026-02-22): Implemented first class-aware preference slice for candidate ordering.
- Added RoutingTable::peer_health_class_by_dest(...).
- Updated closest_peers_with_fallback(...) to prefer healthier peers (stable > verified > unknown > unreliable) without hard filtering.
- Added regression test:
  - closest_peers_with_fallback_prefers_stable_over_unreliable
Decisions:
- Keep this as soft preference only; no hard exclusion of unknown/unreliable peers yet.
Next steps:
- Apply the same class-aware soft preference to query crawl candidate selection.
- Run baseline compare after merge and verify no regression in request/response totals.
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/routing.rs.
- Updated src/kad/service.rs.
- Updated src/kad/service/tests.rs.
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (105 total harness/tests)
Status (2026-02-22): Started routing philosophy phase-1 with peer-health scaffolding (status-only, no routing behavior change yet).
- Added routing classification model:
  - Unknown
  - Verified
  - Stable
  - Unreliable
- Added RoutingTable::peer_health_counts(now) and unit coverage.
- Exposed class counts in /api/v1/status:
  - peer_unknown
  - peer_verified
  - peer_stable
  - peer_unreliable
Decisions:
- Keep this slice observational only (metrics + classification) before using class in candidate selection/eviction.
Next steps:
- Integrate peer class into query/publish candidate prioritization (soft preference first).
- Add before/after baseline compare specifically for peer-class-aware prioritization.
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/routing.rs.
- Updated src/kad/service/types.rs, src/kad/service/status.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (104 total harness/tests)
Status (2026-02-22): Captured/recorded Phase-0 long-run baseline and added KAD1/noise drop counters to status.
- Documented baseline evidence + acceptance gate in docs/KAD_WIRE_REFACTOR_PLAN.md (6h main run, zero restarts/desyncs).
- Added /api/v1/status counters:
  - window: dropped_legacy_kad1, dropped_unhandled_opcode
  - cumulative: dropped_legacy_kad1_total, dropped_unhandled_opcode_total
- Updated baseline scripts to capture/report the new counters in TSV and long-run summary.
Decisions:
- Keep KAD1/noise visibility in status metrics so routing-philosophy work can be evaluated against real legacy/noise pressure.
Next steps:
- Implement PeerHealth class model and transition rules (unknown/verified/stable/unreliable) with tests.
- Use the new baseline acceptance gate after each routing-behavior change.
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/service/types.rs, src/kad/service/status.rs, src/kad/service/inbound.rs, src/kad/service.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs, src/kad/service/tests.rs.
- Updated scripts/test/kad_phase0_baseline.sh, scripts/test/kad_phase0_longrun.sh, scripts/test/README.md.
- Updated docs/KAD_WIRE_REFACTOR_PLAN.md.
Status (2026-02-21): Reviewed new routing philosophy doc and mapped it into concrete backlog items.
- Read docs/RUST-MULE_ROUTING_PHILOSOPHY.md.
- Added follow-up tasks in docs/TODO.md and docs/TASKS.md for:
  - peer reliability classes (unknown/verified/stable/unreliable)
  - health-driven bucket refresh/eviction policy
  - transport-aware latency scoring
  - local (ephemeral) path-memory routing hints
  - status counters for legacy/noise/drop diagnostics
Decisions:
- Treat routing philosophy as normative behavior guidance and convert it into measurable implementation milestones before deep KAD refactors.
Next steps:
- Design PeerHealth model + class transition rules and add unit tests.
- Extend /api/v1/status with counters needed to validate health-based routing behavior in baseline/soak runs.
Change log:
- Updated docs/TODO.md.
- Updated docs/TASKS.md.
- Added docs/RUST-MULE_ROUTING_PHILOSOPHY.md to tracked docs.
Status (2026-02-21): Disabled KAD1 response behavior (no legacy handling).
- Service inbound path now drops KADEMLIA_REQ_DEPRECATED without emitting KADEMLIA_RES_DEPRECATED.
- Bootstrap probe path also drops inbound KAD1 REQ instead of sending KAD1 RES.
- Bootstrap summary now reports kad1_dropped (previously kad1_res_sent).
Decisions:
- Align runtime and bootstrap with project policy: no legacy KAD1 protocol handling.
Next steps:
- Re-run baseline/long-run and confirm no outbound KAD1 RES traffic appears in logs.
- If needed, add explicit status counter for KAD1 dropped requests in /api/v1/status.
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/service/inbound.rs.
- Updated src/kad/bootstrap.rs.
- Updated src/kad/service.rs imports.
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (103 total harness/tests)
Status (2026-02-21): Adjusted SAM DATAGRAM desync handling per PR review.
- SamDatagramTcp::recv() now returns SamError::FramingDesync on non-UTF8 SAM lines.
- This ensures app-level reconnect is triggered instead of potentially spinning while dropping misaligned frames.
Decisions:
- Prefer fail-fast reconnect on non-UTF8 DATAGRAM line data to avoid silent inbound stall under framing slip.
Next steps:
- Re-run long baseline and verify no prolonged zero-throughput plateaus after desync events.
- Correlate sam_framing_desync_total with restart_marker counts.
Change log:
- Updated src/i2p/sam/datagram_tcp.rs.
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (103 total harness/tests)
Status (2026-02-21): Added SAM DATAGRAM desync hardening and long-run restart/desync markers.
- SamDatagramTcp::recv() now drops non-UTF8 SAM lines and continues scanning instead of forcing immediate reconnect.
- Added KAD status cumulative counter sam_framing_desync_total (incremented when service reconnects due to SamError::FramingDesync).
- scripts/test/kad_phase0_baseline.sh now records:
  - sam_framing_desync_total
  - restart_marker (set when sampled uptime_secs decreases)
- scripts/test/kad_phase0_longrun.sh now prints post-run summary:
  - restart_markers=<count>
  - sam_framing_desync_total_max=<max observed>
Decisions:
- Treat invalid UTF-8 header lines on DATAGRAM socket as recoverable noise and keep processing.
- Track framing-desync reconnects as a cumulative status metric for soak/baseline interpretation.
Next steps:
- Run another long baseline on this branch and confirm restart markers are 0 (or sparse) while throughput totals continue increasing.
- If markers remain non-zero, correlate to SAM router logs and evaluate stronger TCP-DATAGRAM realignment logic.
Change log:
- Updated src/i2p/sam/datagram_tcp.rs.
- Updated src/kad/service/types.rs, src/kad/service/status.rs, src/kad/service.rs, src/kad/service/tests.rs.
- Updated src/app.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs.
- Updated scripts/test/kad_phase0_baseline.sh, scripts/test/kad_phase0_longrun.sh, scripts/test/README.md.
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (103 total harness/tests)
  - bash -n scripts/test/kad_phase0_baseline.sh scripts/test/kad_phase0_longrun.sh scripts/test/kad_phase0_compare.sh passed
Status (2026-02-21): Researched frequent inbound opcode=0x0a and prepared longer baseline tooling.
- iMule protocol mapping confirms 0x0a is Kad1 KADEMLIA_PUBLISH_REQ (legacy/deprecated opcode set).
- rust-mule now labels legacy Kad1 opcodes explicitly in logs (instead of generic UNKNOWN), including KADEMLIA_PUBLISH_REQ.
- baseline script now captures cumulative totals:
  - sent_reqs_total, recv_ress_total, timeouts_total
  - tracked_out_*_total, outbound_shaper_delayed_total
- added long-run wrapper:
  - scripts/test/kad_phase0_longrun.sh (default 6h)
Decisions:
- Keep legacy Kad1 publish/search opcodes explicitly labeled but still unhandled for now.
- Use long-run baseline with totals for soak interpretation.
Next steps:
- Run bash scripts/test/kad_phase0_longrun.sh on main and compare totals slope between runs/builds.
- Decide whether to implement safe Kad1 publish/search decode/ignore counters beyond naming.
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/wire.rs, src/kad/service.rs, src/kad/service/tests.rs.
- Updated scripts/test/kad_phase0_baseline.sh, added scripts/test/kad_phase0_longrun.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
- Validation:
  - bash -n on updated scripts passed
  - cargo fmt passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (103 total harness/tests)
Status (2026-02-21): Patched shaper policy to preserve “0 disables caps” semantics for derived class lanes.
- shaper_policy no longer forces minimum caps when base caps are 0.
- Response lane now respects disabled cap configuration in baseline/soak scenarios.
- Added regression test:
  - shaper_response_lane_caps_can_be_disabled_with_zero_base_caps
Decisions:
- Keep derived caps (Hello/Bootstrap/Response) bounded only when base query caps are enabled.
Next steps:
- Re-run baseline/soak on PR branch to confirm response-heavy scenarios do not see artificial cap drops under zero-cap config.
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/service.rs.
- Updated src/kad/service/tests.rs.
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (102 total harness/tests)
Status (2026-02-21): Merged latest origin/main into feature/kad-phase2-class-shaper to resolve PR conflicts.
- Conflict scope was documentation-only (docs/handoff.md); code merge completed cleanly.
Decisions:
- Keep branch behavior unchanged; this merge is for branch sync/conflict resolution.
Next steps:
- Keep PR #14 open and proceed with user-driven baseline validation.
Change log:
- Resolved docs/handoff.md merge conflict from origin/main merge.
Status (2026-02-21): Cherry-picked cumulative KAD status totals from main onto feature/kad-phase2-class-shaper.
- /api/v1/status now exposes lifetime totals (since service start):
  - recv_req_total / sent_reqs_total
  - recv_res_total / recv_ress_total
  - timeouts_total
  - tracked_out_matched_total
  - tracked_out_unmatched_total
  - tracked_out_expired_total
  - outbound_shaper_delayed_total
- Existing windowed counters are unchanged.
Decisions:
- Keep this cherry-pick on Phase 2 so before/after polling can compare stable totals rather than window snapshots.
Next steps:
- Build new main and feature/kad-phase2-class-shaper binaries and rerun baseline with totals polling.
Change log:
- Cherry-picked 00c6b70 into feature/kad-phase2-class-shaper.
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (100 total harness/tests)
Status (2026-02-21): Cherry-picked SAM DATAGRAM keepalive hotfix from main onto feature/kad-phase2-class-shaper for before/after baseline builds.
- Included transport-level handling of unsolicited PING frames with immediate PONG reply.
- Included unit coverage for PING/PONG line mapping in DATAGRAM TCP path.
Decisions:
- Keep this fix shared between main and Phase 2 branch so baseline deltas focus on shaper behavior, not SAM session churn.
Next steps:
- Build feature binary and run paired baseline compare against main binary.
Change log:
- Cherry-picked 2860194 into feature/kad-phase2-class-shaper.
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (100 total harness/tests)
Status: Isolated shaper state per outbound class and set explicit continuous runtime default in config on feature/kad-phase2-class-shaper.
- Shaper lane isolation fix:
  - shaper_global_sent_in_window and shaper_last_global_send are now tracked per OutboundClass.
  - peer lane keys are class-scoped (class:dest) for per-class peer counters/intervals.
  - prevents response-lane traffic from suppressing query-lane sends.
- Added explicit KAD runtime config entry:
  - config.toml now includes kad.service_runtime_secs = 0 with comment (0 = continuous run), to avoid periodic 360s restarts during baselines.
- Updated tests:
  - adjusted class-lane bypass test to match lane isolation behavior.
Decisions:
- Maintain per-class shaping isolation as core Phase 2 invariant.
- Keep baseline guidance to run with continuous service runtime.
Next steps:
- Re-run strict before/after baseline compare with this commit and verify query metrics (sent_reqs, recv_ress, pending, tracked_out_*) are non-zero and stable.
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/service.rs shaper counters/timers to class-scoped state.
- Updated src/kad/service/tests.rs for class-scoped expectations.
- Updated config.toml (kad.service_runtime_secs = 0).
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (96 tests)
Status: Fixed Phase 2 query-lane suppression bug on feature/kad-phase2-class-shaper.
- Root cause observed in baseline: sent_reqs/recv_ress/pending/timeouts were all 0 while outbound_shaper_delayed was high.
- Cause: drop-on-delay lanes (Query/Hello/Bootstrap) combined with non-zero base/jitter caused near-constant “delayed => dropped” behavior.
- Fix:
  - For drop-on-delay classes, scheduler now starts at now and only delays on min-interval constraints.
  - Base/jitter scheduling remains for non-drop classes only.
- Added regression coverage:
  - shaper_query_lane_does_not_require_base_delay
Decisions:
- Keep non-blocking/no-sleep behavior; enforce pacing via caps + min-interval gating for drop-lanes.
Next steps:
- Re-run strict before/after phase-2 baseline compare; validate sent_reqs/recv_ress are non-zero and compare metrics are meaningful.
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/service.rs class scheduler target-time behavior.
- Updated src/kad/service/tests.rs with query-lane no-base-delay regression test.
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (96 tests)
Status: Started KAD Phase 2 with class-aware outbound shaping on feature/kad-phase2-class-shaper.
- Added explicit shaper classes:
  - Query
  - Hello
  - Bootstrap
  - Response
- Added per-class policy derivation (shaper_policy) so response traffic and liveness traffic are treated differently than query traffic.
- Routed send paths by class:
  - send_kad2_packet opcodes map into class-aware shaping
  - service HELLO sends use Hello class
  - service BOOTSTRAP sends use Bootstrap class
  - inbound reply sends use Response class
- Added regression test:
  - shaper_response_lane_bypasses_query_delay_budget
Decisions:
- Keep phase-2 behavior internal for now (no config.toml schema changes yet).
- Favor lower suppression pressure on response/liveness paths while preserving query-lane shaping.
Next steps:
- Run strict before/after baseline pair and compare deltas under phase-2 class-aware policy.
- If stable, expose class policy tuning in config/documentation.
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/service.rs (class enum/policy + call-site routing).
- Updated src/kad/service/inbound.rs (response-class sends).
- Updated src/kad/service/tests.rs (new class-aware shaper test).
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (95 tests)
Status (2026-02-21): Started hotfix hotfix/sam-ping-pong-keepalive from main for SAM DATAGRAM-TCP keepalive stability.
- Added handling for unsolicited PING frames on the DATAGRAM TCP socket:
  - detect PING... lines in recv() and in command reply wait loop
  - immediately emit matching PONG... and continue
- Added unit tests for PING-to-PONG line mapping behavior.
Decisions:
- Keep SAM keepalive handling in transport layer (src/i2p/sam/datagram_tcp.rs), transparent to KAD.
Next steps:
- Commit/push branch and open PR with gh.
Change log:
- Updated src/i2p/sam/datagram_tcp.rs.
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (98 total including integration/bin harness)
Status: Added deterministic KAD script CI guard on feature/kad-phase1-ci-guard (no runtime network dependency).
- New offline smoke script:
  - scripts/test/kad_phase0_ci_smoke.sh
  - Uses synthetic before/after TSV fixtures to validate:
    - compare output includes shaper metrics
    - shaper cap-drop metrics stay parseable and zero in fixture expectation
    - pending-overdue delta parsing works
- CI workflow updated:
  - .github/workflows/ci.yml new job kad-scripts-smoke
  - Runs bash syntax checks for KAD baseline/compare/smoke scripts
  - Runs offline smoke script (deterministic, no rust-mule/I2P runtime)
- Test script docs updated:
  - scripts/test/README.md includes kad_phase0_ci_smoke.sh
Decisions:
- Keep KAD network baselines/soaks out CI; enforce only deterministic offline guards in CI.
Next steps:
- Keep using local/staging soak scripts for real network behavior validation and attach artifacts in PRs.
Change log:
- Added scripts/test/kad_phase0_ci_smoke.sh.
- Updated .github/workflows/ci.yml.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
- Validation:
  - bash scripts/test/kad_phase0_ci_smoke.sh passed
  - cargo fmt --all --check passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (94 tests)
Status: Addressed PR review comments on feature/kad-phase1-shaper shaper state growth + loop blocking.
- Added bounded cleanup for peer-shaper state (shaper_last_peer_send):
  - TTL-based eviction (SHAPER_PEER_STATE_TTL = 1h)
  - hard cap (SHAPER_PEER_STATE_MAX = 8192) retaining most-recent peers
- Removed blocking sleeps in shaper path:
  - shaper_send no longer calls sleep_until
  - when packet is scheduled for future send, it increments outbound_shaper_delayed and returns false (caller treats as not sent)
Decisions:
- Prefer non-blocking service loop behavior over in-loop delayed sends to prevent receive/tick/command head-of-line blocking.
- Keep delayed-send visibility via existing outbound_shaper_delayed counter.
Next steps:
- Re-run baseline compare on this revision to quantify impact of non-blocking delayed behavior.
Change log:
- src/kad/service.rs: added stale peer cleanup/cap + non-blocking shaper send behavior.
- src/kad/service/tests.rs: added shaper_cleanup_evicts_stale_peer_state.
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (94 tests)
Status: Tuned Phase 1 shaper defaults downward on feature/kad-phase1-shaper based on baseline deltas.
- Updated defaults in KadServiceConfig:
  - outbound_shaper_base_delay_ms: 20 -> 5
  - outbound_shaper_jitter_ms: 25 -> 10
  - outbound_shaper_peer_min_interval_ms: 50 -> 20
- Global pacing/cap values unchanged.
Decisions:
- Keep cap limits as-is (global_max_per_sec=40, peer_max_per_sec=8) since baseline showed delay engagement but no cap drops.
Next steps:
- Re-run before/after Phase 0 baseline compare and verify recv_ress/tracked_out_matched regression narrows while shaper still engages.
Change log:
- Updated src/kad/service/types.rs shaper default values.
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (93 tests)
Status: Extended KAD Phase 0 baseline capture script on feature/kad-phase1-shaper to include outbound shaper counters.
- scripts/test/kad_phase0_baseline.sh now records:
  - outbound_shaper_delayed
  - outbound_shaper_drop_global_cap
  - outbound_shaper_drop_peer_cap
- scripts/test/README.md updated to document these additional columns.
Decisions:
- Keep comparer unchanged; it already computes metrics from TSV headers dynamically.
Next steps:
- Re-run before/after baseline pair so compare output includes shaper engagement/cap deltas.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/kad_phase0_baseline.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
- Validation:
  - bash -n scripts/test/kad_phase0_baseline.sh passed
  - bash -n scripts/test/kad_phase0_compare.sh passed
Status: Implemented KAD Phase 1 outbound shaper baseline on feature/kad-phase1-shaper.
- Added central shaper send path for KAD outbound traffic (requests and inbound replies).
- Added shaper metrics to /api/v1/status window:
  - outbound_shaper_delayed
  - outbound_shaper_drop_global_cap
  - outbound_shaper_drop_peer_cap
- Updated send accounting to increment request counters only when a packet is actually sent (not dropped by shaper caps).
Decisions:
- Applied shaper in one central helper (shaper_send) and routed service + inbound handlers through it.
- Kept shaper settings internal for now (wired via KadServiceConfig defaults in app.rs, not yet exposed in config.toml).
Next steps:
- Run Phase 0 baseline script pair + compare against this branch to quantify cap/delay effects.
- Tune shaper defaults against observed KAD stability/latency under soak.
- Decide whether to expose shaper knobs in runtime config and docs.
Change log:
- src/kad/service.rs: shaper state, scheduling/cap helpers, centralized send path, request-counter gating.
- src/kad/service/inbound.rs: response sends now routed via shaper helper.
- src/kad/service/types.rs: shaper config + status/stat fields.
- src/kad/service/status.rs: status export for shaper counters.
- src/kad/service/tests.rs: added shaper unit tests.
- src/api/tests.rs: updated status fixture for new counters.
- src/app.rs: populate new shaper config fields from service defaults.
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (93 tests)

Status (2026-02-14)

Status: Updated CodeQL export script output path defaults on feature/add-codeql-export-script:
- scripts/export-gh-stats/export-codeql-alerts.sh now writes CSV by default to:
  - /tmp/codeql-alerts-OWNER-REPO_<timestamp>.csv
- Updated script header comment to match new output location/pattern.
Decisions:
- Use /tmp as default destination to avoid polluting repository working directories.
Next steps:
- If needed, add optional output path override flags/env in a follow-up.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/export-gh-stats/export-codeql-alerts.sh output path default.
Status: Hardened scripts/export-gh-stats/export-codeql-alerts.sh on feature/add-codeql-export-script:
- loads .env from script directory (scripts/export-gh-stats/.env) instead of current working directory
- removed source execution path and replaced with safe KEY=VALUE parser
- defaults and filters export to TOOL_NAME=CodeQL
- passes tool_name query parameter and filters by .tool.name == TOOL_NAME in output conversion
- handles zero-alert repos gracefully (header-only CSV + success exit)
- sanitized local .env placeholder content and expanded .env.example.
Decisions:
- Prefer least-surprise local config loading and non-executable env parsing for safety.
- Keep export scoped to CodeQL by default to match script intent and naming.
Next steps:
- Rotate/revoke previously used PAT if it was real.
- Consider adding a small script README with token scope requirements and sample invocation.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/export-gh-stats/export-codeql-alerts.sh.
- Updated scripts/export-gh-stats/.env.example.
- Updated scripts/export-gh-stats/.env placeholder values.
- Validation:
  - bash -n scripts/export-gh-stats/export-codeql-alerts.sh passed
  - cargo fmt --all --check passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (91 tests)
Status: Added explicit CodeQL workflow configuration for Rust on feature/codeql-workflow-rust:
- New workflow: .github/workflows/codeql.yml
- Triggers on:
  - push to main
  - pull requests targeting main
  - weekly schedule
- Uses CodeQL action v3 with language: rust and security-and-quality queries.
Decisions:
- Use a committed (versioned) CodeQL workflow to keep scan configuration consistent across branches and PRs.
Next steps:
- In GitHub settings, disable CodeQL Default setup to avoid dual-configuration ambiguity.
- Let the new workflow run on PR/main and confirm code scanning comparisons no longer warn about missing config.
Change log:
- Added .github/workflows/codeql.yml.
Status: Added repository merge policy documentation on main:
- README.md now states:
  - no direct commits/merges to main
  - all changes via feature branch + PR
  - merge to main only through reviewed PR with required checks
- .github/pull_request_template.md now includes merge-policy acknowledgment checkbox.
Decisions:
- Treat this as a mandatory process rule from now on.
Next steps:
- Enforce branch protection in GitHub settings to match documented policy.
Change log:
- Updated README.md (Merge Policy section).
- Updated .github/pull_request_template.md validation checklist.
Status: Fixed kad_phase0_compare.sh output formatting on feature/kad-phase0-baseline:
- header is now always first
- metric rows are sorted and consistently tab-separated
- numeric formatting is normalized to fixed precision fields
Decisions:
- Keep plain TSV output for easy piping into column -t / CI artifacts.
Next steps:
- Re-run compare command and verify table readability.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/kad_phase0_compare.sh output rendering/sort behavior.
Status: Added KAD Phase 0 baseline compare helper on feature/kad-phase0-baseline:
- New script: scripts/test/kad_phase0_compare.sh
  - compares two baseline TSV files (--before, --after)
  - emits per-metric summary with:
    - before_avg, after_avg, delta, pct_change
    - before/after min/max and sample counts
- Updated scripts/test/README.md with compare usage.
Decisions:
- Keep comparison simple and script-only (tsv in, tsv summary out) for easy CI/local usage.
Next steps:
- Run compare after each KAD/wire change baseline pair and attach output to PR notes.
Change log:
- Added scripts/test/kad_phase0_compare.sh.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md.
Status: Added API backlog note for user-friendly HTTP error responses on feature/kad-phase0-baseline:
- docs/TODO.md now tracks adding consistent human-friendly messages for non-2xx HTTP status responses.
Decisions:
- Treat this as an explicit API UX/error-contract task, separate from typed error envelope consistency.
Next steps:
- Define and implement a unified API error response shape that includes status, machine code, and human-friendly message.
Change log:
- Updated docs/TODO.md API section with human-friendly HTTP error message task.
Status: Hardened KAD Phase 0 baseline script handling for startup-not-ready status endpoint on feature/kad-phase0-baseline:
- scripts/test/kad_phase0_baseline.sh now treats HTTP 503 from /api/v1/status as warmup and skips sampling without noisy curl failures.
- Script now prints end-of-run summary with samples, skipped_503, and skipped_other.
- scripts/test/README.md updated with this behavior.
Decisions:
- Keep baseline collection robust under startup/transient status unavailability; do not fail run on 503.
Next steps:
- Re-run baseline capture command and verify summary shows growing samples once status becomes available.
Change log:
- Updated scripts/test/kad_phase0_baseline.sh sampling/HTTP handling and summary output.
- Updated scripts/test/README.md notes.
Status: Implemented KAD Phase 0 baseline instrumentation + reviewer gates on feature/kad-phase0-baseline:
- Added status counters for timing/ordering baseline comparison:
  - pending_overdue, pending_max_overdue_ms
  - tracked_out_requests, tracked_out_matched, tracked_out_unmatched, tracked_out_expired
- Instrumented tracked outbound request lifecycle:
  - matched responses increment tracked_out_matched
  - unmatched responses increment tracked_out_unmatched
  - tracked-request TTL cleanup increments tracked_out_expired
- Added baseline capture script:
  - scripts/test/kad_phase0_baseline.sh (polls /api/v1/status and writes TSV)
- Added KAD reviewer gates:
  - .github/pull_request_template.md KAD/wire baseline evidence section
  - docs/REVIEWERS_CHECKLIST.md baseline evidence gate
- Updated docs:
  - docs/KAD_WIRE_REFACTOR_PLAN.md Phase 0 checkboxes (counters + reviewer gate done)
  - scripts/test/README.md baseline script usage
  - docs/api_curl.md Phase 0 counter jq example
Decisions:
- Phase 0 keeps behavior unchanged and only adds observability + review guardrails.
- Baseline counters are exposed through existing /api/v1/status to avoid new endpoints.
Next steps:
- Run and archive before/after baseline captures with scripts/test/kad_phase0_baseline.sh.
- Then start Phase 1 outbound shaper design/implementation using collected baseline deltas.
Change log:
- src/kad/service/types.rs: added Phase 0 status/stat counters.
- src/kad/service/status.rs: exported/logged new counters.
- src/kad/service.rs: tracked out-request match/unmatch/expiry instrumentation.
- src/kad/service/tests.rs: added regression tests for tracked/pending counters.
- src/api/tests.rs: updated status fixture for new fields.
- scripts/test/kad_phase0_baseline.sh: new baseline capture script.
- Validation:
  - cargo fmt --all --check passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (91 tests)
Status: Addressed PR review findings for download store/service correctness on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- Fixed recovered part path derivation in scan_recoverable_downloads:
  - 001.part.met now maps to 001.part (not 001.part.part).
- Fixed part number parsing/allocation for IDs beyond 999:
  - parse_part_number now accepts any all-digit stem that parses to u16.
  - allocate_next_part_number now correctly accounts for files like 1000.part.
- Fixed delete atomicity in delete_download:
  - file deletions occur first, then in-memory map entry is removed only on success.
  - on filesystem error, runtime entry remains so delete can be retried in-process.
Decisions:
- Preserve existing on-disk naming format ({part:03} minimum width) while making parsing robust for wider numeric stems.
- Prefer state consistency over eager map mutation during deletion.
Next steps:
- Merge after PR review confirms these follow-up fixes.
Change log:
- src/download/store.rs: corrected .part path reconstruction; relaxed part-number parser; added regression tests.
- src/download/service.rs: made delete state mutation happen after successful file cleanup; added regression test.
- Validation run after patch:
  - cargo fmt --all --check passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (89 tests)
Status: Soak run /tmp/rustmule-run-20260218_160244 validated as healthy on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- soak-band/results.tsv shows all scenarios completed/completed:
  - integrity, single_e2e, concurrency, long_churn
- Scenario tarballs each contain download-soak-finished ... result=completed
- data/download/ contains active transfer artifacts (.part, .part.met, .bak) across many part IDs
- Integrity rounds report violations=0 dup_parts=0
- No panic/fatal errors observed in run logs (only non-blocking nodes2 bootstrap lookup warning)
Decisions:
- Treat this run as branch-level validation pass for current download/churn/resume behavior.
Next steps:
- Open PR from feature/download-strategy-imule to main.
- In PR summary include this branch close-out checklist:
  1. Record successful soak evidence and paths.
  2. Confirm no outstanding code or docs changes on branch.
  3. Merge into main after review.
Change log: Added explicit close-out checklist and successful soak evidence for /tmp/rustmule-run-20260218_160244.
Status: Added local source-cache upsert on publish path in feature/download-strategy-imule:
- In KadServiceCommand::PublishSource handling, we now cache local source entry (file -> my_kad_id/my_dest) before sending network publish requests.
- This allows inbound SEARCH_SOURCE_REQ to return the local source immediately, instead of waiting for external network re-ingestion.
- Added unit test:
  - kad::service::tests::cache_local_published_source_inserts_local_entry_once
Decisions:
- Preserve network publish behavior; add local cache as compatibility/convergence aid.
Next steps:
- Re-run kad_publish_search_probe.sh and verify B observes at least one source for published fixture hashes.
Change log: local publishes now populate sources_by_file cache immediately.
- Validation run after patch:
  - cargo fmt --all --check passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed (87 tests)
Status: Extended publish/search probe with periodic republish on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- scripts/test/kad_publish_search_probe.sh now supports:
  - --republish-every N (poll intervals; 0 disables)
- This allows repeated publish_source on node A while node B continues search_sources polling.
Decisions:
- Keep republish disabled by default for minimal baseline behavior, opt-in for sparse/slow networks.
Next steps:
- Re-run probe with --republish-every 12 --poll-secs 5 (republish every 60s) and longer timeout if needed.
Change log: A->B probe now supports periodic republish to improve source visibility convergence.
- Validation run after patch:
  - bash -n scripts/test/kad_publish_search_probe.sh passed
  - cargo fmt --all --check passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed
Status: Added automated A->B publish/search visibility probe on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- New script: scripts/test/kad_publish_search_probe.sh
  - publishes file source on node A (/api/v1/kad/publish_source)
  - repeatedly queues search on node B (/api/v1/kad/search_sources)
  - polls B /api/v1/kad/sources/:file_id_hex
  - logs A/B status counters each interval:
    - A: recv_publish_source_reqs, sent_publish_source_ress, recv_search_source_reqs, source_store_entries_total
    - B: sent_search_source_reqs, recv_search_ress, source_store_entries_total
  - exits success when B sees at least one source; times out otherwise.
- Added usage entry in scripts/test/README.md.
Decisions:
- Use explicit counter telemetry in probe output so failures are attributable to publish path vs search path vs discovery cache.
Next steps:
- Run probe for each fixture hash before resume soak and only proceed when probe exits 0.
Change log: Manual publish/search polling is now scripted and repeatable.
- Validation run after patch:
  - bash -n scripts/test/kad_publish_search_probe.sh passed
  - cargo fmt --all --check passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed
Status: Fixed fixture validation bug in soak runner on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- Root cause of failed run /tmp/rustmule-run-20260218_114700:
  - download_soak_bg.sh logged fixtures not loaded or empty and repeatedly fixtures_only enabled but no valid fixture available.
  - The jq fixture validator expression incorrectly filtered out valid entries, resulting in FIXTURE_COUNT=0.
- Fix:
  - replaced validator with explicit valid_fixture predicate using safe field checks:
    - file_name string
    - file_hash_md4_hex string
    - file_size number > 0
  - applied in both fixture counting and fixture record selection paths.
Decisions:
- Keep strict fixture schema validation but ensure parser is robust to valid JSON fixtures.
Next steps:
- Re-run resume soak with the same fixture file and FIXTURES_ONLY=1; fixture load should now report non-zero count.
Change log: Soak runner now correctly accepts valid fixture JSON entries.
- Validation run after patch:
  - bash -n scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh passed
  - jq ... /tmp/download_fixtures.json returned 2 valid fixtures
  - cargo fmt --all --check passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed
Status: Extended fixture generation with optional source publish on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- scripts/test/gen_download_fixture.sh now supports:
  - --publish
  - --base-url <url>
  - --token / --token-file
  - --publish-script <path>
- When --publish is set, each generated fixture is sent to scripts/docs/kad_publish_source.sh using the generated MD4 hash and file size.
Decisions:
- Keep publish optional to preserve offline/local-only fixture generation mode.
Next steps:
- Run one command to generate and publish fixture hashes on source node, then use that fixture file for resume soak on downloader node.
Change log: Fixture prep can now generate + publish in a single command.
- Validation run after patch:
  - bash -n scripts/test/gen_download_fixture.sh passed
  - cargo fmt --all --check passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed
Status: Added built-in fixture generation tooling on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- New Rust utility: src/bin/download_fixture_gen.rs
  - outputs fixture JSON from one or more files using repo-native MD4 (rust_mule::kad::md4)
- New wrapper script: scripts/test/gen_download_fixture.sh
  - usage: scripts/test/gen_download_fixture.sh --out /tmp/download_fixtures.json /path/to/file1 ...
- Updated scripts/test/README.md with generation command.
Decisions:
- Avoid OpenSSL/legacy-provider variability by using project-native MD4 implementation for fixture generation.
Next steps:
- Generate real peer-backed fixture file and run resume soak with:
  - DOWNLOAD_FIXTURES_FILE=<fixtures.json> FIXTURES_ONLY=1 bash scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh
Change log: Fixture generation is now one command and does not depend on external MD4 support.
- Validation run after patch:
  - bash -n scripts/test/gen_download_fixture.sh passed
  - cargo fmt --all --check passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed
Status: Added fixture-driven download creation for soak/resume validation on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh now supports:
  - DOWNLOAD_FIXTURES_FILE (JSON array with file_name, file_size, file_hash_md4_hex)
  - FIXTURES_ONLY=1 (fails instead of falling back to random hashes)
- Create actions in all scenarios (single_e2e, long_churn, integrity, concurrency) now prefer fixtures when provided.
- Fixture behavior is propagated through:
  - scripts/test/download_soak_band.sh
  - scripts/test/download_soak_stack_bg.sh
  - resume workflow (via inherited env into stack start)
- Added scripts/test/download_fixtures.example.json.
Decisions:
- Keep fixture mode opt-in for backward compatibility, but recommend FIXTURES_ONLY=1 for real transfer/resume assertions.
Next steps:
- Run resume soak with peer-backed fixtures:
  - DOWNLOAD_FIXTURES_FILE=<real-fixtures.json> FIXTURES_ONLY=1 bash scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh
- Confirm active-transfer gate passes and post-restart completion is observed.
Change log: Soak/resume tests can now target real downloadable hashes instead of random synthetic IDs.
- Validation run after patch:
  - bash -n scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh scripts/test/download_soak_band.sh scripts/test/download_soak_stack_bg.sh passed
  - cargo fmt --all --check passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed
Status: Strengthened resume-soak acceptance criteria on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- Resume automation now enforces true in-flight resume validation instead of control-plane-only pass/fail.
- Added pre-crash active-transfer gate: requires at least one download with downloaded_bytes > 0 and inflight_ranges > 0.
- Added post-restart monotonicity gate: fails if any pre-existing download regresses in downloaded_bytes.
- Added post-restart completion gate: requires at least one completed download within configurable timeout.
Decisions:
- Treat resume success as data-plane continuity, not only process restart + scenario completion.
- Keep thresholds configurable for slow environments via script env overrides.
Next steps:
- Run scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh and verify the new gates pass under load.
- If active-transfer gate times out, increase scenario duration/load or tune discovery/source readiness before crash point.
Change log: scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh now validates active transfer before crash, monotonic post-restart bytes, and post-restart completion.
- Validation run after patch:
  - cargo fmt --all --check passed
  - cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings passed
  - cargo test --all-targets --all-features passed
Status: Fixed resume-soak crash step for wrapper-pid mismatch on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- User-observed failure:
  - after crashed app pid=<pid>, one run-dir ./rust-mule process remained and restart never proceeded.
- Root issue:
  - control/app.pid can reference a launcher/wrapper pid while actual rust-mule child keeps running.
- Fix:
  - crash step now force-kills all run-dir-owned rust-mule pids discovered via /proc (cwd/cmdline), then waits for zero run-dir rust-mule processes.
Decisions:
- For forced crash simulation, process discovery by run-dir ownership is more reliable than trusting a single control pid file.
Next steps:
- Re-run resume soak and verify crash->restart proceeds when wrapper/child pid divergence exists.
Change log: Resume crash now targets all run-dir rust-mule processes, eliminating wrapper-pid false negatives.
Status: Fixed resume-soak restart false-positive by strengthening run-dir process detection on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- User-observed failure:
  - restart exited immediately with SingleInstance(AlreadyRunning) after crash step.
- Root issue:
  - run-dir process check matched only absolute binary path; missed ./rust-mule processes started from run-dir cwd.
- Fix:
  - switched run-dir process detection to /proc-based cwd + cmdline matching.
  - restart now refuses to proceed if any run-dir rust-mule process remains and prints PID diagnostics.
Decisions:
- Treat /proc ownership checks as authoritative for single-instance lock safety in resume automation.
Next steps:
- Re-run resume soak and verify crash->restart proceeds without lock conflict.
Change log: Resume soak now correctly detects lingering ./rust-mule run-dir processes before restart.
Status: Hardened resume-soak crash detection on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- User-observed failure:
  - after kill -9, script timed out waiting for health=000 for 300s.
- Root issue:
  - health-code shutdown check is brittle when API port can remain served by non-target process.
- Fix:
  - resume script now validates crash by process identity:
    - killed app PID exits
    - no remaining run-dir rust-mule process
  - keeps health check as informational post-crash signal
  - adds restart immediate-exit guard with rust-mule.resume.out tail on failure.
Decisions:
- Use process-level ownership checks as primary crash/restart truth in resume automation.
Next steps:
- Re-run download_resume_soak.sh and confirm post-crash flow proceeds to restart/progress checks without health=000 false timeout.
Change log: Resume soak no longer blocks on strict health=000 condition.
Status: Added automated resume-soak orchestration script on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- New script: scripts/test/download_resume_soak.sh
- Flow:
  - starts stack soak
  - waits for target scenario (concurrency default)
  - captures pre-crash /api/v1/downloads snapshot
  - hard-kills app (SIGKILL) and restarts in same run dir
  - captures post-restart snapshot and verifies scenario progress resumes
  - waits for terminal stack state, collects bundle, writes report.
- Documented usage/overrides in scripts/test/README.md.
Decisions:
- Build resume validation as orchestration around existing stack runner instead of adding duplicate per-scenario harnesses.
Next steps:
- Run one automated resume-soak and validate resume_report.txt + stack bundle outcomes.
Change log: Repo now has a one-command crash/restart resume-soak automation path.
Status: Added TODO note for tag-driven CI/CD build/release flow on feature/download-strategy-imule.
Decisions:
- Track Git-tag-triggered build/publish verification as an explicit backlog item.
Next steps:
- Confirm release workflow behavior from tag push through artifact publication and document gaps.
Change log: docs/TODO.md now includes tag-driven build/release automation verification.
Status: Added cross-cutting naming/comment refactor TODO notes on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- docs/TODO.md now tracks:
  - Imule* -> neutral Mule*/neutral identifier rename pass
  - code-comment wording normalization to compatibility-focused language
- docs/TASKS.md scope now includes the same naming/comment normalization task.
Decisions:
- Keep explicit iMule/aMule/eMule wording for protocol reference documentation/tests where needed, but avoid it in production identifier names and code comments.
Next steps:
- Plan a repo-wide mechanical rename + comment wording sweep in bounded slices to minimize merge-risk.
Change log: TODO/TASKS now explicitly capture naming and comment normalization policy.
Status: Merged latest main into feature/download-strategy-imule to sync CI/docs/UI smoke and Pages workflow updates.
Decisions:
- Kept branch-local soak/download handoff history as primary during docs/handoff.md conflict resolution.
Next steps:
- Continue soak stabilization on top of synced branch baseline.
Change log: Branch now includes latest main changes as merge base.
Status: Fixed stack soak runner dependency on mutable repo script paths on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- Failure analyzed from /tmp/rust-mule-download-stack-20260217_170055.tar.gz:
  - concurrency polling stayed status=unknown state=unknown
  - terminal error in stack output:
    - env: '/home/coder/projects/rust-mule/scripts/test/download_soak_concurrency_bg.sh': No such file or directory
    - ERROR: band-run failed exit=127
- Root cause:
  - long-running stack run invoked wrappers directly from working-tree scripts/test; if those files change/disappear (e.g. branch switch) mid-run, scenario status/collect commands fail.
- Fix:
  - scripts/test/download_soak_stack_bg.sh now stages download_soak_* scripts into $RUN_DIR/soak-scripts at startup and executes the band runner from that staged immutable copy.
Decisions:
- Treat soak script set as run artifact; do not depend on mutable working tree during long background runs.
Next steps:
- Re-run stack soak and confirm all four scenarios write results rows and artifacts even if repo branch changes during execution.
Change log: Stack soak now uses per-run staged scripts and is resilient to working-tree churn.
Status: Fixed stack runner shell-recursion regression on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- Root cause of bash: warning: shell level (1000) too high was accidental command text inserted at the top of scripts/test/download_soak_stack_bg.sh before the shebang.
- Removed the stray lines so script starts directly with #!/usr/bin/env bash.
- Hardened background self-invocation to use SELF_PATH (absolute script path) instead of $0.
Decisions:
- Keep script entrypoint strict and avoid ambiguous $0 resolution in detached shells.
Next steps:
- Re-run short stack soak to verify start no longer recurses and produces fresh run dirs/tarballs.
Change log: Stack runner no longer recurses into nested bash startup loops.
Status: Hardened in-band download runner interruption handling on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- Triage of /tmp/rust-mule-download-stack-20260217_130154.tar.gz showed no scenario crash; long_churn was actively progressing but the band process received external termination (Terminated / runner interrupted) before writing final row.
- scripts/test/download_soak_band.sh now traps SIGINT/SIGTERM and:
  - stops active scenario wrapper
  - performs best-effort collect
  - appends an interrupted row to results.tsv
- scripts/test/README.md updated with interruption behavior.
Decisions:
- Treat external runner termination as first-class outcome in results, not silent truncation.
Next steps:
- Re-run stack soak; if interrupted, confirm results.tsv contains interrupted row and partial tarball is preserved.
Change log: Band soak now records interruption outcomes explicitly.
Status: Tuned download soak readiness probing on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh readiness now probes a configurable endpoint instead of hardcoding /api/v1/status.
- New readiness env knobs:
  - READY_TIMEOUT_SECS (default 300)
  - READY_PATH (default /api/v1/downloads)
  - READY_HTTP_CODES (default 200, comma-separated)
- Background start now forwards readiness env vars to detached run.
- Also fixed latent integrity scenario crash risk by binding round="$1" in scenario_integrity_round.
- scripts/test/README.md updated with readiness override knobs.
Decisions:
- For download-soak scenarios, readiness should key on download API availability, not KAD status endpoint warmup.
- Keep readiness behavior configurable for environment-specific tuning.
Next steps:
- Re-run stack soak and verify integrity no longer fails on repeated startup 503 from /api/v1/status.
Change log: Download soak readiness is now download-endpoint based and less brittle during startup.
Status: Fixed download soak long-churn round crash on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- Triage of /tmp/rust-mule-download-stack-20260217_104554.tar.gz showed:
  - concurrency completed
  - long_churn stuck as status=stale_pid runner_state=running
  - no long_churn tarball/result row in band output
- Root cause from /tmp/rust-mule-download-soak/long_churn/logs/runner.out:
  - download_soak_bg.sh: line 230: round: unbound variable
- Fix: assign round="$1" at start of scenario_long_churn_round.
Decisions:
- Keep set -u; patch all scenario entrypoints to bind function args explicitly.
Next steps:
- Re-run stack soak and verify long_churn now emits round ticks, terminal state, and collected tarball.
- Separately evaluate repeated integrity readiness 503 behavior (startup/warmup timing).
Change log: Long-churn scenario no longer crashes on unbound round.
Status: Synced documentation to new contract/checklist/timing policy and created deferred KAD/wire refactor task plan on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- Added docs/KAD_WIRE_REFACTOR_PLAN.md with phased tasks (baseline, shaper, bypass removal, retry envelope, validation).
- Updated README.md and docs/README.md to include:
  - docs/BEHAVIOURAL_CONTRACT.md
  - docs/REVIEWERS_CHECKLIST.md
  - docs/IMULE_COMPABILITY_TIMING.md
  - docs/KAD_WIRE_REFACTOR_PLAN.md
- Updated docs/TODO.md and docs/TASKS.md with explicit KAD/wire alignment tasks and “document now, refactor next” sequencing.
Decisions:
- Defer code-heavy KAD/wire timing refactor until soak baseline remains stable.
- Treat behavior contract as authoritative, with iMule compatibility inside timing envelopes.
Next steps:
- Complete phase 0 baseline/guardrails from docs/KAD_WIRE_REFACTOR_PLAN.md.
- Continue current soak stabilization; start shaper refactor only after baseline is green.
Change log: Documentation and backlog are now aligned to contract-first timing policy and phased KAD/wire refactor plan.
Status: Fixed download soak concurrency round crash on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- Triage of /tmp/rust-mule-download-stack-20260217_095242.tar.gz showed concurrency aborting at round 1 with:
  - download_soak_bg.sh: line 308: round: unbound variable
- Root cause: scenario_concurrency_round declared round but did not assign from function arg under set -u.
- Fix: assign round="$1" at function start.
Decisions:
- Keep strict set -u; treat unbound vars as script bugs and patch at source.
Next steps:
- Re-run stack/band soak and verify concurrency and long_churn progress with regular round ticks and terminal states.
Change log: Concurrency scenario no longer crashes due to unbound round variable.
Status: Added bounded API curl timeouts in download soak runner on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh now uses shared timeout env knobs on all API calls (GET/POST/DELETE + readiness status probe):
  - API_CONNECT_TIMEOUT_SECS (default 3)
  - API_MAX_TIME_SECS (default 8)
- start now forwards timeout env vars into detached run process so overrides are preserved.
- scripts/test/README.md updated with new optional overrides for in-band runner usage.
Decisions:
- Prevent indefinite round hangs by time-bounding all API curl calls in the scenario runner.
- Keep defaults conservative and operator-overridable for slower environments.
Next steps:
- Re-run stack/band soak and confirm scenarios keep progressing past round 1 without long runner_state=running stalls.
- If timeouts are too aggressive under load, tune via env or bump defaults.
Change log: Download soak API calls are now timeout-bounded and configurable.
Status: Hardened stack stop teardown to avoid orphaned processes on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- scripts/test/download_soak_stack_bg.sh now:
  - stops all per-scenario download soak runners before killing stack runner
  - kills stack runner process group (TERM/KILL) instead of only top PID
  - scans /proc and terminates remaining processes tied to current run dir (cwd/cmdline match)
- this addresses observed behavior where stop left rust-mule and soak helper processes alive.
Decisions:
- Prefer process-group and run-dir scoping for deterministic teardown.
Next steps:
- Re-run stack runner and verify stop leaves no matching processes (pgrep -af rustmule-run- returns none).
Change log: Stack stop now performs full tree + run-dir cleanup.
Status: Fixed download band wait/result logic for stale PID races on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- Analysis from /tmp/rust-mule-download-stack-20260216_140814.tar.gz showed scenarios being advanced when status=stale_pid but runner_state=running.
- scripts/test/download_soak_band.sh now:
  - treats terminal states strictly via runner_state in {completed, failed, stopped}
  - keeps waiting while runner_state=running (even if status=stale_pid)
  - maps final results.tsv outcome from terminal state (completed|failed|stopped|running_after_wait|unknown).
Decisions:
- Trust explicit runner state over transient status pid interpretation.
Next steps:
- Re-run stack/band soak and verify concurrency/long_churn no longer short-circuit after first poll.
Change log: Band runner no longer treats stale_pid + running as finished.
Status: Fixed stack runner build shell context on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- Root cause: build command was executed via nested bash -lc, which lost the PATH bootstrap and still could not find cargo.
- scripts/test/download_soak_stack_bg.sh now executes build command in current shell context (eval "$BUILD_CMD" in repo dir), preserving PATH/toolchain setup.
Decisions:
- Avoid nested login-shell build execution in stack runner.
Next steps:
- Re-run download_soak_stack_bg.sh start and confirm build begins and run directory stages.
Change log: Stack runner build step now honors PATH bootstrap reliably.
Status: Fixed download stack runner false-running behavior on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- Root cause observed in logs: background shell could not find cargo (cargo: command not found), causing early exit before build/stage.
- scripts/test/download_soak_stack_bg.sh now:
  - bootstraps PATH with ~/.cargo/bin when needed
  - handles build failures explicitly (runner.state=failed, cleanup, pid removal)
  - validates runner process remains alive right after start and reports immediate-exit failure.
- scripts/test/README.md troubleshooting updated (stack.out path and cargo PATH note).
Decisions:
- Prefer explicit failure state over stale/running ambiguity when background bootstrap fails.
Next steps:
- Re-run download_soak_stack_bg.sh start; verify build and run-dir staging occur and status transitions correctly.
Change log: Stack runner now fails fast/cleanly on missing cargo or early runner death.
Status: Added full background download soak pipeline runner on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- New script: scripts/test/download_soak_stack_bg.sh with start|run|status|stop|collect.
- It now performs end-to-end automation:
  - builds latest sources (BUILD_CMD, default cargo build --release)
  - stages isolated run dir (/tmp/rustmule-run-<timestamp>)
  - writes run-specific config.toml (section-aware updates for [sam], [general], [api])
  - starts rust-mule from staged dir and waits for health + token
  - runs download_soak_band.sh with forwarded soak parameters
  - supports post-run tarball collection.
- scripts/test/README.md updated with full pipeline usage and env overrides.
Decisions:
- Keep app lifecycle isolated per run directory for reproducible soak artifacts.
- Keep orchestration shell-native and reuse existing download_soak_band.sh logic.
Next steps:
- Execute download_soak_stack_bg.sh start, monitor status, and collect the resulting stack tarball for triage.
Change log: Added one-command background build+run+download-soak pipeline.
Status: Hardened download band-runner preflight and state handling on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- scripts/test/download_soak_band.sh now preflights API reachability (GET /api/v1/health == 200) and aborts early with a clear message if rust-mule is not running.
- scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh stop no longer overwrites terminal failed/completed state with stopped.
- scripts/test/README.md now documents API-running precondition for band runs.
Decisions:
- Prefer fast-fail precondition checks over delayed per-scenario readiness timeouts when API is down.
- Preserve terminal runner state for accurate post-run interpretation.
Next steps:
- Re-run download_soak_band.sh with rust-mule running and token present, then triage collected tarballs.
Change log: Band runs now fail fast when API is offline and keep accurate scenario terminal states.
Status: Fixed in-band download soak status parsing bug on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- scripts/test/download_soak_band.sh now parses status=running pid=... lines correctly.
- Previous behavior treated running pid as non-running and advanced scenarios immediately.
Decisions:
- Parse only the first token value for status/runner_state lines.
Next steps:
- Re-run download_soak_band.sh and confirm each scenario blocks for intended duration unless stopped/fails.
Change log: Band runner no longer short-circuits after first poll.
Status: Added in-band download soak orchestrator on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- New script: scripts/test/download_soak_band.sh
  - runs download soak scenarios sequentially:
    1. integrity (default 3600s)
    2. single_e2e (default 3600s)
    3. concurrency (default 7200s)
    4. long_churn (default 7200s)
  - polls runner status, forces stop on timeout, and collects tarball for each scenario
  - copies collected tarballs + writes results.tsv and status.tsv under OUT_DIR
- scripts/test/README.md updated with one-command in-band run instructions and overrides.
Decisions:
- Keep orchestrator shell-native and reuse existing per-scenario wrappers rather than duplicating scenario logic.
- Preserve scenario isolation by running each with its own existing scenario run root and collect step.
Next steps:
- Run download_soak_band.sh after current source soak and share generated OUT_DIR + tarballs for triage.
- If needed, add a companion triage script for results.tsv + per-scenario tar summaries.
Change log: Added a one-command sequential download soak runner with automatic stop/collect.
Status: Added download soak scaffolding and execution plan on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- New generic runner: scripts/test/download_soak_bg.sh
  - background lifecycle: start/run/status/stop/collect
  - scenario switch via SCENARIO=single_e2e|long_churn|integrity|concurrency
  - writes per-scenario logs/bundles under /tmp/rust-mule-download-soak/<scenario>.
- New scenario wrappers:
  - scripts/test/download_soak_single_e2e_bg.sh
  - scripts/test/download_soak_long_churn_bg.sh
  - scripts/test/download_soak_integrity_bg.sh
  - scripts/test/download_soak_concurrency_bg.sh
- Updated scripts/test/README.md with post-source-soak run order, commands, and pass signals.
Decisions:
- Keep download soak scope API/control-plane focused for now (queue lifecycle + invariants + pressure), matching currently implemented download functionality.
- Use scenario wrappers for simpler operator usage and isolated per-scenario run roots.
Next steps:
- After current source soak completes, run the four download soak scenarios in documented order.
- Collect tarballs and triage runner/list logs for invariant violations and queue-pressure regressions.
Change log: Added runnable download soak scripts and a concrete operator runbook.
Status: Updated soak identity/session handling on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- scripts/test/source_probe_soak_bg.sh now:
  - generates unique per-run SAM session names for A/B using RUN_TAG
  - supports SOAK_RUN_TAG override for deterministic debug runs
  - defaults to SOAK_FRESH_IDENTITY=1, removing copied data/sam.keys so each run gets fresh I2P destinations
- scripts/test/README.md updated with new identity/session controls.
Decisions:
- Keep fresh identity default enabled to avoid duplicate-destination registration when previous sessions linger.
- Keep opt-out (SOAK_FRESH_IDENTITY=0) for controlled continuity tests.
Next steps:
- Restart soak with defaults and confirm no duplicate destination registration warnings from I2P router logs.
- Continue soak comparison with MISS_RECHECK_ATTEMPTS=0 once stable baseline resumes.
Change log: Soak runs now isolate SAM identities and session names by default.
Status: Cleaned soak status PID reporting on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- scripts/test/source_probe_soak_bg.sh:
  - stop_nodes now removes logs/a.pid and logs/b.pid after stop.
  - status now reports node PID liveness (alive=1|0) when pid files exist.
- scripts/test/README.md updated to document stale-PID cleanup behavior.
Decisions:
- Prefer clearing pid files at stop to avoid false confidence in stale process IDs.
Next steps:
- Run quick start -> status -> stop -> status check and confirm node pid lines disappear after stop.
- Proceed with baseline/tuned soak comparison runs.
Change log: Soak status output no longer keeps stale node PID files after stop.
Status: Hardened soak stop reliability and failure cleanup on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- scripts/test/source_probe_soak_bg.sh:
  - added kill_pid_gracefully (TERM + KILL fallback with result logging)
  - upgraded stop_nodes to use graceful escalation, not single-shot kill
  - added stop_run_root_nodes fallback scan over /proc to terminate soak-owned processes tied to current RUN_ROOT
  - tightened ownership matching to cwd/cmdline rooted in current RUN_ROOT (avoids killing unrelated local processes)
  - startup/readiness failure now sets runner.state=failed and runs cleanup immediately.
- scripts/test/README.md updated with the stronger stop/cleanup behavior.
Decisions:
- Prioritize deterministic cleanup of soak-owned processes over PID-file-only teardown.
- Keep process kill scope constrained to the active RUN_ROOT.
Next steps:
- Re-run start -> stop -> status smoke to verify no listeners remain on A_URL/B_URL after stop.
- Resume baseline vs miss-recheck comparison soak once stop behavior is confirmed.
Change log: Soak stop path now aggressively reaps RUN_ROOT-owned processes and failed starts no longer leave stale running state.
Status: Added optional miss recheck pass in timed background soak harness on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- scripts/test/source_probe_soak_bg.sh now supports:
  - MISS_RECHECK_ATTEMPTS (default 1)
  - MISS_RECHECK_DELAY seconds (default 20)
- After an initial source miss (GET /api/v1/kad/sources/:file_id_hex), the runner performs bounded delayed rechecks before persisting round outcome.
- rounds.tsv format is unchanged (6 columns), so scripts/test/soak_triage.sh compatibility is preserved.
- scripts/test/README.md updated with new env knobs and behavior description.
Decisions:
- Keep miss-recheck logic optional and env-controlled to preserve old baseline behavior (MISS_RECHECK_ATTEMPTS=0 disables rechecks).
- Keep rounds.tsv schema stable for existing triage tooling.
Next steps:
- Re-run A/B soak with two profiles:
  - baseline (MISS_RECHECK_ATTEMPTS=0)
  - tuned (MISS_RECHECK_ATTEMPTS=1 MISS_RECHECK_DELAY=20)
- Compare hit-rate and hit-gap deltas using unchanged triage scripts.
Change log: Soak runner now supports delayed miss recheck to reduce false misses from eventual consistency windows.
Status: Hardened timed background soak harness failure handling on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- scripts/test/source_probe_soak_bg.sh now:
  - fails fast if A_URL/B_URL ports are already in use (prevents attaching to foreign processes)
  - synchronizes API port config from A_URL and B_URL
  - verifies spawned node PIDs are running from expected per-run directories
  - aborts readiness early on repeated 403 responses (token mismatch/wrong process)
  - separates detached stdout/stderr into logs/runner.out to avoid duplicate runner.log lines.
  - uses stricter multi-probe port detection (ss + lsof + TCP connect probes) before launch to catch occupied API ports reliably.
  - stop now also scans A_URL/B_URL listen ports and terminates matching rust-mule listener PIDs if PID files are stale/missing.
- scripts/test/README.md updated with the new safety behavior.
Decisions:
- Prefer explicit preflight failure over implicit retries when ports are occupied.
- Treat repeated readiness 403 as a hard test-environment mismatch signal.
- Keep stop fallback conservative: only kill listeners whose process cmdline contains rust-mule.
Next steps:
- Re-run soak with the hardened script; verify rounds.tsv and status.ndjson are populated before long-run analysis.
- If needed, add optional auto-port allocation mode in a later slice.
Change log: Soak runner now guards against port collisions and false-readiness loops, and logs are no longer duplicated.
Status: Implemented source-probe telemetry hardening + request correlation IDs in KAD service and added timed background soak scaffold on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- src/kad/service.rs:
  - outbound tracked requests now carry request_id and optional trace_tag
  - added response->expected-opcode mapping for strict response/request matching
  - added unmatched-response diagnostics (last_unmatched_response) with expected opcodes and tracked counts
  - source search/publish sends now emit source_probe_request_sent with request correlation ID
  - source search/publish response matching now emits source_probe_response_matched / source_probe_response_unmatched with request correlation diagnostics.
- src/kad/service/inbound.rs:
  - unrequested response drops now log expected opcode families and tracked request counts
  - explicit decode-failure events for source probe response parsing failures.
- scripts/test/source_probe_soak_bg.sh:
  - new detached soak runner with timer (start <duration_secs>, status, stop, collect)
  - PID/state files and log outputs under /tmp/rust-mule-soak-bg (override via RUN_ROOT).
- scripts/test/README.md:
  - usage examples for timed background soak runs and environment overrides.
Decisions:
- Keep correlation ID scope focused on KAD source probe request/response lifecycle (no API schema change in this slice).
- Keep soak harness shell-native with nohup + PID file controls for long-running sessions.
Next steps:
- Run the new timed soak harness against freshly built ../../mule-a / ../../mule-b and analyze rounds.tsv + status.ndjson.
- If needed, expose recent source-probe correlation counters in /api/v1/status for easier dashboarding.
Change log: Added source-probe request/response correlation logging and introduced a timer-based background soak runner script.
Status: Completed transfer execution groundwork (peer-owned inflight + packet ingest + timeout retry) on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- Added src/download/protocol.rs:
  - ED2K transfer opcode constants (OP_REQUESTPARTS, OP_SENDINGPART, OP_COMPRESSEDPART)
  - payload encode/decode helpers and typed protocol errors
  - unit tests for requestparts roundtrip and sendingpart validation.
- Finished peer-aware transfer flow in src/download/service.rs:
  - fixed service loop to use a single tokio::select! over command receive + timeout tick
  - ReserveBlocks now assigns peer-owned inflight leases with expiration deadline
  - MarkBlockReceived / MarkBlockFailed now validate lease ownership by peer
  - added PeerDisconnected reclaim path to requeue leased blocks for that peer
  - added timeout processing to requeue expired leases with retry/error tracking
  - added IngestInboundPacket handling for OP_SENDINGPART and OP_COMPRESSEDPART that maps inbound payloads to block completion.
- Extended persisted transfer state in src/download/store.rs:
  - ByteRange, missing_ranges, inflight_ranges, retry_count, last_error (with serde defaults).
- Updated download API DTO mapping in src/api/handlers/downloads.rs to expose progress + transfer counters/error.
- Added service tests:
  - peer_disconnected_reclaims_only_that_peers_leases
  - ingest_sendingpart_marks_reserved_block_received.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, and cargo test --all-targets --all-features (all passing; 86 tests).
Decisions:
- Keep lease tracking in-memory (ManagedDownload.leases) and persist only range/error projections in .part.met.
- Keep packet ingest scope minimal in this slice: decode + hash/range validation + state transition; deferred real payload write/verification pipeline.
Next steps:
- Wire TCP peer session handler to emit IngestInboundPacket and PeerDisconnected events from live network traffic.
- Add block payload write path into .part files and integrity checks before completing -> completed.
- Tune lease timeout/retry policy from soak-test observations and expose counters in API/UI if needed.
Change log: Download actor now supports peer-bound inflight reservations with timeout/disconnect recovery and first inbound transfer packet ingestion path.
Status: Added download transfer-state skeleton (phase 2 groundwork) on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- Extended persisted metadata (src/download/store.rs):
  - new ByteRange model
  - PartMet now persists:
    - missing_ranges
    - inflight_ranges
    - retry_count
    - last_error
  - backward-compatible serde defaults retained.
- Extended download actor (src/download/service.rs):
  - new transfer-facing commands:
    - ReserveBlocks
    - MarkBlockReceived
    - MarkBlockFailed
  - block reservation now moves ranges from missing -> inflight
  - failed blocks are re-queued into missing with retry/error tracking
  - received blocks clear inflight and update progress/completion state
  - restart safety: inflight ranges are reclaimed into missing on startup recovery.
- Extended DownloadSummary and API-visible fields:
  - progress_pct
  - missing_ranges
  - inflight_ranges
  - retry_count
  - last_error
- Updated download list/action responses (src/api/handlers/downloads.rs) to expose these fields.
- Added tests:
  - reserve/fail/retry/receive state progression
  - restart inflight reclamation into missing
  - existing API mutation/list tests continue passing with expanded schema.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, and cargo test --all-targets --all-features (all passing; 82 tests).
Decisions:
- Keep range semantics inclusive (start..=end) in persisted metadata.
- Treat in-flight reservations as non-authoritative across restart: reclaim to missing for correctness.
Next steps:
- Integrate wire-level TCP block flow into these commands (OP_REQUESTPARTS / OP_SENDINGPART path).
- Add per-peer in-flight ownership and timeout scheduler for autonomous retry.
- Persist part-hash verification state and transition completing -> completed.
Change log: Download subsystem now tracks block-level missing/inflight/retry state with restart-safe recovery.
Status: Implemented mutating download API endpoints on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- Added new endpoints under /api/v1:
  - POST /downloads
  - POST /downloads/:part_number/pause
  - POST /downloads/:part_number/resume
  - POST /downloads/:part_number/cancel
  - DELETE /downloads/:part_number
- Existing GET /downloads remains as queue/status snapshot endpoint.
- New handler module: src/api/handlers/downloads.rs:
  - request/response DTOs for create/action/delete/list
  - typed download error -> HTTP mapping:
    - invalid input -> 400
    - not found -> 404
    - invalid transition -> 409
    - channel closed -> 503
    - storage/join failures -> 500.
- Router and handler exports updated:
  - src/api/router.rs
  - src/api/handlers/mod.rs
- API state wiring unchanged in behavior but now fully exercises download mutating commands.
- Added endpoint tests:
  - api::tests::download_mutation_endpoints_update_service_state
    - create -> pause -> resume -> cancel -> delete
    - conflict and not-found status checks
    - list consistency checks.
- Updated API docs:
  - docs/API_DESIGN.md (downloads now marked implemented for lifecycle queue management)
  - docs/api_curl.md (added curl examples for list/create/pause/resume/cancel/delete).
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, and cargo test --all-targets --all-features (all passing; 80 tests).
Decisions:
- Keep download API mutators command-driven via the actor to preserve explicit state transitions and typed error semantics.
- Keep transfer wire pipeline out of this slice; API currently manages queue lifecycle only.
Next steps:
- Add first transfer-facing commands/structures (pending block requests, timeout bookkeeping).
- Persist and expose gap/range progress in PartMet to support restart-safe block transfer.
- Add UI controls for create/pause/resume/cancel/delete wired to the new endpoints.
Change log: Download queue can now be fully controlled through API endpoints, with tests and docs updated.
Status: Implemented download phase 1.5/2 groundwork on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- Expanded download actor/service (src/download/service.rs):
  - state/lifecycle commands:
    - CreateDownload
    - Pause
    - Resume
    - Cancel
    - Delete
    - List
  - deterministic part slot allocation is now used (%03d.part.met / %03d.part).
  - persisted state transitions for lifecycle operations.
  - startup recovery now seeds in-memory queue and state from persisted metadata.
- Added/expanded store primitives (src/download/store.rs):
  - helpers for numbered part paths and next free part number allocation.
  - PartState expanded to include completed/cancelled/error states.
- Expanded typed errors (src/download/errors.rs) with:
  - invalid input, not found, invalid transition variants for command-level failures.
- Added read-only API endpoint:
  - GET /api/v1/downloads
  - wired via new handler src/api/handlers/downloads.rs and router update.
  - response includes queue_len, recovered_on_start, and current download entries.
- API wiring updates:
  - ApiState/ApiServeDeps now carry DownloadServiceHandle.
  - app bootstrap passes download handle into API server deps.
- Tests added/updated:
  - download lifecycle flow (create -> pause -> resume -> cancel -> delete -> list)
  - restart recovery preserves persisted state
  - allocator picks lowest free slot
  - API contract test now verifies /api/v1/downloads
  - startup integration test updated for new API deps.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, and cargo test --all-targets --all-features (all passing; 79 tests).
Decisions:
- Keep phase 2 focused on control-plane correctness (state machine + persistence + API visibility) before chunk wire-transfer ingestion.
- Keep /api/v1/downloads read-only for now; mutating endpoints will follow once queue semantics stabilize.
Next steps:
- Add mutating download API endpoints (create/pause/resume/cancel/delete) bound to current service commands.
- Add first transfer-facing abstractions for pending block requests and timeout bookkeeping.
- Introduce .part gap/range progress tracking in persisted metadata for block-level recovery.
Change log: Download service is now a functional persisted queue with lifecycle operations and API observability.
Status: Implemented download subsystem phase 1 persistence/recovery primitives on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- Added src/download/store.rs:
  - PartMet model and PartState enum
  - save_part_met(...) with .part.met.bak rollover and atomic tmp->rename write
  - load_part_met_with_fallback(...) (primary then backup)
  - scan_recoverable_downloads(...) startup recovery scan over data/download/*.part.met
  - iMule-compatible version marker default (PART_MET_VERSION = 0xE0) for metadata model.
- Extended src/download/errors.rs with typed store/persistence error variants:
  - read/write/rename/copy/parse/serialize directory and file failures.
- Updated src/download/service.rs:
  - startup now recovers existing part metadata and sets queue_len
  - status now includes recovered_on_start
  - added RecoveredCount command and handle method.
- Updated src/download/mod.rs exports for store model/types.
- Added tests:
  - store roundtrip save/load
  - backup fallback when primary met is corrupt
  - recovery scan over multiple .part.met entries
  - service startup recovery count from existing metadata.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, and cargo test --all-targets --all-features (all passing; 76 tests).
Decisions:
- Keep phase 1 metadata persistence Rust-native (JSON payload) while preserving iMule file naming and lifecycle semantics (.part.met, .bak, startup recovery).
- Defer wire-level transfer and full binary part.met compatibility to later phases after queue/state model is stable.
Next steps:
- Add first queue state model in service (queued/running/paused/completed/error) backed by persisted PartMet.
- Add commands to create/pause/resume/cancel downloads and persist state transitions.
- Introduce initial API endpoints for listing recovered/active download entries.
Change log: Download subsystem now has backup-safe part metadata persistence and startup recovery integrated into runtime.
Status: Implemented download subsystem phase 0 scaffold on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- Added new module tree:
  - src/download/mod.rs
  - src/download/types.rs
  - src/download/errors.rs
  - src/download/service.rs
- Added typed download errors:
  - DownloadError
  - DownloadStoreError
- Added actor-style service shell:
  - DownloadServiceConfig::from_data_dir(...)
  - start_service(...) returning handle/status/join task
  - command loop with Ping and Shutdown
  - startup ensures data/download/ and data/incoming/ exist.
- Integrated into app bootstrap:
  - src/lib.rs exports download module.
  - src/app.rs starts download service at runtime and adds AppError::Download.
- Added tests:
  - start_service_creates_download_and_incoming_dirs
  - service_ping_and_shutdown_flow
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, and cargo test --all-targets --all-features (all passing; 72 tests).
Decisions:
- Keep phase 0 strictly minimal: directory/bootstrap + command actor + typed errors, no transfer logic yet.
- Keep service always-on at startup to prepare API integration in next phase.
Next steps:
- Phase 1: implement .part/.part.met persistence primitives and startup recovery scanning.
- Add first download queue state model (queued/running/paused/completed/error) and service commands around it.
- Add persistence-focused tests with corrupted/backup metadata cases.
Change log: Download subsystem now exists as a first-class module with runtime wiring and passing tests.
Status: Added iMule-derived download subsystem strategy on feature/download-strategy-imule:
- New document: docs/DOWNLOAD_DESIGN.md
  - deep-dive findings from iMule source for download flow and persistence:
    - chunk/block transfer behavior (OP_REQUESTPARTS/OP_SENDINGPART/compressed parts)
    - .part + .part.met lifecycle and gap tracking
    - known.met and known2_64.met responsibilities
  - proposed Rust-native module boundaries under src/download/*
  - phased implementation plan (scaffold -> persistence -> transfer -> finalize -> API/UI)
  - test plan and compatibility rules.
- Updated docs index and planning files:
  - docs/README.md includes DOWNLOAD_DESIGN.md
  - docs/TODO.md now has a Downloads backlog section
  - docs/TASKS.md reprioritized with download phase 0/1 first
  - README.md documentation map includes docs/DOWNLOAD_DESIGN.md
Decisions:
- Implement downloads Rust-native as an actor-style subsystem, preserving iMule wire/on-disk semantics where needed for compatibility.
- Use data/download/ for active .part state and data/incoming/ for finalized files.
- Deliver MD4-first baseline before enabling full AICH (known2_64.met) integration.
Next steps:
- Implement phase 0 scaffolding (src/download/*, typed errors, command/event loop shell).
- Implement phase 1 .part/.part.met persistence and startup recovery tests.
- Add minimal API surface to create/list/pause/resume/cancel downloads once phase 1 lands.
Change log: Download strategy is now documented and promoted to top project priority in planning docs.
Status: Added UI smoke testing to CI on main push/PR via Playwright + mocked backend:
- Updated .github/workflows/ci.yml:
  - new ui-smoke job on ubuntu-latest with Node 20
  - installs UI deps (npm ci)
  - installs Playwright Chromium (npx playwright install --with-deps chromium)
  - runs npm run test:ui:smoke
- Updated ui/playwright.config.mjs:
  - added webServer to auto-start local mock server when UI_BASE_URL is not provided.
- Added ui/tests/e2e/mock-server.mjs:
  - serves UI pages/assets for Playwright
  - mocks required API endpoints + SSE (/api/v1/events) for deterministic UI smoke tests in CI.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, and cargo test --all-targets --all-features (all passing; 71 tests).
Decisions:
- Keep UI smoke test backend mocked in CI to avoid SAM/I2P runtime dependencies.
- Make mock server opt-out via UI_BASE_URL so tests can still target a real running backend when needed.
Next steps:
- Optionally archive Playwright HTML/report artifacts in CI for easier failure triage.
- Optionally add one route-guard assertion per page for authenticated/unauthenticated flow edges.
Change log: CI now runs UI smoke tests automatically on pushes to main and PRs.
Status: Completed final service split pass for source-probe/status helpers on main (no behavior change):
- Added src/kad/service/source_probe.rs:
  - source probe tracking and counters:
    - mark_source_publish_sent
    - mark_source_search_sent
    - on_source_publish_response
    - on_source_search_response
    - source_store_totals
- Added src/kad/service/status.rs:
  - status snapshot/publish logic:
    - build_status
    - publish_status
- Updated src/kad/service.rs:
  - delegates source-probe and status helpers to dedicated modules.
- Updated src/kad/service/tests.rs:
  - tests now call status::build_status_impl(...).
- Net effect:
  - src/kad/service.rs reduced to ~2009 LOC (from ~2335 previous step, ~4979 originally).
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, and cargo test --all-targets --all-features (all passing; 71 tests).
Decisions:
- Keep wrapper/delegation pattern to preserve call sites and minimize risk.
- Maintain all behavioral logic unchanged while shrinking service.rs responsibility.
Next steps:
- Optional: split remaining send/job orchestration helpers (send_*, progress_keyword_job*) if we want sub-2k LOC in service.rs.
Change log: Source-probe and status helper clusters now live in dedicated modules; core service file is primarily orchestration/glue.
Status: Extracted KAD inbound opcode handling into dedicated module on main (no behavior change):
- Added src/kad/service/inbound.rs:
  - moved full handle_inbound(...) implementation and opcode dispatch logic (HELLO, BOOTSTRAP, REQ/RES, SEARCH, PUBLISH, PING/PONG, etc.).
- Updated src/kad/service.rs:
  - now delegates inbound handling through a thin wrapper to inbound::handle_inbound_impl(...).
  - registered new mod inbound;.
- Net effect:
  - src/kad/service.rs reduced again to ~2335 LOC (from ~3519 after prior pass, ~4979 originally).
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, and cargo test --all-targets --all-features (all passing; 71 tests).
Decisions:
- Keep inbound extraction as structure-only (no opcode behavior changes) to preserve protocol compatibility during refactor.
- Continue minimizing service.rs responsibility by domain slicing (types, routing_view, keyword, lookup, inbound, tests).
Next steps:
- Optional final cleanup pass: extract source-probe/status helper cluster from service.rs into source_probe.rs / status.rs for smaller core orchestration.
Change log: Inbound packet handling now lives in src/kad/service/inbound.rs; service.rs is now primarily orchestration plus shared helpers.
Status: Continued KAD service modularization with lookup + keyword logic extraction on main (no behavior change):
- Added src/kad/service/lookup.rs and moved lookup/refresh scheduler logic there:
  - lookup queue seeding/progression (tick_lookups)
  - bucket refresh scheduling (tick_refresh)
  - lookup response integration (handle_lookup_response)
  - distance/random target helpers used by the lookup pipeline.
- Added src/kad/service/keyword.rs and moved keyword cache/store lifecycle logic there:
  - keyword interest tracking/capping
  - keyword hit cache upsert/caps/eviction
  - keyword store TTL/size-limit eviction
  - maintenance helpers for keyword cache/store.
- src/kad/service.rs now delegates to lookup/keyword modules for these domains.
- Net effect:
  - src/kad/service.rs reduced further to ~3519 LOC (from ~4116 after prior split, ~4979 originally).
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, and cargo test --all-targets --all-features (all passing; 71 tests).
Decisions:
- Keep behavior-preserving wrappers/delegation during split to minimize regression risk.
- Prioritize extraction of cohesive domains (lookup + keyword lifecycle) before touching inbound packet handler.
Next steps:
- Next high-value split in service.rs is handle_inbound and related opcode handlers into inbound.rs.
- Optional follow-up: move source-probe bookkeeping/status helpers into source_probe.rs.
Change log: KAD service now has dedicated lookup and keyword modules; core file is materially smaller with unchanged test results.
Status: Split src/kad/service.rs into logical submodules on main (no behavior change):
- Added src/kad/service/types.rs:
  - moved service-facing data/config/status/command types and related defaults:
    - KadServiceCrypto
    - KadServiceConfig (+ Default)
    - KadServiceStatus
    - KadServiceCommand
    - DTOs (KadSourceEntry, KadKeywordHit, KadKeywordSearchInfo, KadPeerInfo)
    - routing view DTOs (RoutingSummary, RoutingBucketSummary, RoutingNodeSummary)
    - internal stats struct (KadServiceStats)
- Added src/kad/service/routing_view.rs:
  - moved routing summary/bucket/node projection builders out of core service loop file.
- Added src/kad/service/tests.rs:
  - moved embedded unit tests out of service.rs into a dedicated test module file.
- Updated src/kad/service.rs:
  - now re-exports public service types from types.rs
  - delegates routing view builders to routing_view module
  - keeps core service runtime/inbound/outbound behavior unchanged.
- Net effect:
  - src/kad/service.rs reduced from ~4979 LOC to ~4116 LOC.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, and cargo test --all-targets --all-features (all passing; 71 tests).
Decisions:
- Keep this pass structural-only (file/module boundaries) to avoid behavior risk.
- Prefer progressive extraction from service.rs with compile/test safety after each chunk.
Next steps:
- Continue splitting heavy behavior clusters from service.rs:
  - inbound packet handling
  - keyword job progression/cache maintenance
  - lookup/crawl scheduler logic
Change log: KAD service module now has dedicated types, routing_view, and tests files with unchanged runtime behavior.
Status: Hardened coverage CI job to avoid opaque failures on main:
- Updated .github/workflows/ci.yml coverage job:
  - installs Rust llvm-tools-preview component explicitly
  - emits a cargo llvm-cov --summary-only step before gating
  - runs the gate through scripts/test/coverage.sh (single source of truth)
- Set initial gate to a pragmatic baseline:
  - MIN_LINES_COVERAGE=20 in CI env
  - scripts/test/coverage.sh default now 20
- Rationale: previous failures were opaque (exit code 1 only). Summary step now prints measured coverage before gate evaluation.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, and cargo test --all-targets --all-features (all passing; 71 tests).
Decisions:
- Prefer explicit toolchain component install (llvm-tools-preview) in CI instead of relying on implicit behavior.
- Use a conservative initial threshold until CI reports stable baseline values, then ratchet upward.
Next steps:
- After 1-2 successful CI runs with visible summaries, increase MIN_LINES_COVERAGE gradually (e.g. 25 -> 30 -> ...).
Change log: Coverage CI now logs summary before gating and has an explicit llvm-tools setup.
Status: Added tag-driven GitHub release workflow on main:
- New workflow: .github/workflows/release.yml
- Trigger: push tags matching v*
- Build matrix:
  - ubuntu-latest -> scripts/build/build_linux_release.sh
  - macos-latest -> scripts/build/build_macos_release.sh
  - windows-latest -> scripts/build/build_windows_release.ps1
- Uploads packaged artifacts from dist/ per platform.
- Publish job downloads artifacts and creates a GitHub Release with:
  - auto-generated release notes
  - attached .tar.gz (Linux/macOS) and .zip (Windows) bundles.
- Updated README.md with tag-driven release usage (git tag ... && git push origin ...).
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, and cargo test --all-targets --all-features (all passing; 71 tests).
Decisions:
- Reuse existing repo build scripts for consistency between local and CI release packaging.
- Use tag naming convention v* for release automation.
Next steps:
- Optional: add a manual workflow_dispatch release path for re-running failed tag releases without retagging.
- Optional: add checksum/signature generation in release workflow.
Change log: CI now includes a tag-driven CD pipeline that produces and publishes cross-platform release bundles.
Status: Tightened initial line-coverage gate on main:
- Increased minimum line coverage threshold from 35 to 40 in:
  - .github/workflows/ci.yml (cargo llvm-cov --fail-under-lines 40)
  - scripts/test/coverage.sh (MIN_LINES_COVERAGE default now 40)
- Attempted local baseline collection, but this sandbox cannot install llvm-tools-preview via rustup, so local cargo llvm-cov measurement could not be completed here.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, and cargo test --all-targets --all-features (all passing; 71 tests).
Decisions:
- Raise threshold incrementally to reduce CI disruption risk while still strengthening the gate.
- Keep threshold configurable via MIN_LINES_COVERAGE for local overrides.
Next steps:
- Confirm coverage % from CI run in a normal runner environment and ratchet gate to 45 if headroom is comfortable.
Change log: Coverage quality gate is now stricter (40 lines minimum) across CI and local helper script.
Status: Implemented API loopback dual-stack hardening + coverage gate scaffolding + startup/auth/session smoke test on main:
- API listener startup now attempts both loopback families and serves on every successful bind:
  - ::1:<port>
  - 127.0.0.1:<port>
- Bind failures on one family are logged as warnings; startup only fails if no loopback listener can be created.
- Added first runtime smoke integration test: tests/api_startup_smoke.rs
  - boots api::serve
  - verifies /api/v1/auth/bootstrap
  - creates frontend session (/api/v1/session)
  - verifies session-cookie protected /api/v1/session/check and /index.html.
- Added coverage gating scaffolding:
  - GitHub Actions workflow: .github/workflows/ci.yml
  - local coverage command: scripts/test/coverage.sh
  - README quality gate section updated with coverage command.
- Added reqwest as a dev-dependency for integration-level HTTP smoke testing.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, and cargo test --all-targets --all-features (all passing; 71 tests total including integration smoke).
Decisions:
- Keep API local-only by binding loopback addresses explicitly instead of widening bind scope.
- Treat IPv4/IPv6 support as best-effort on startup: one-family availability is acceptable; total loopback bind failure is fatal.
- Start with a conservative line-coverage gate (--fail-under-lines 35) and ratchet upward once baseline metrics are collected in CI.
Next steps:
- Run scripts/test/coverage.sh in CI or locally where cargo-llvm-cov is installed and record baseline coverage percentage in docs.
- Consider raising coverage threshold after one or two PR cycles.
Change log: API startup is now resilient to localhost address-family differences, and repo now has integration smoke coverage plus CI coverage gate scaffolding.
Status: Removed api.host configurability and simplified API binding on main:
- ApiConfig no longer contains host; API config now binds by port only.
- API server bind address is fixed to loopback (127.0.0.1) in src/api/mod.rs.
- Removed loopback-host parsing/validation path for API host:
  - removed parse_api_bind_host(...)
  - removed related ConfigError and ConfigValidationError branches.
- Settings API no longer exposes/accepts settings.api.host.
- Updated config/docs surface (config.toml, README.md, docs/architecture.md, docs/api_curl.md).
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 70 tests).
Decisions: Keep API bind policy explicit and non-configurable while local-only operation is the product mode; expose only api.port to users.
Next steps: Optional follow-up is to document future remote/headless exposure as a separate deployment mode instead of host binding config.
Change log: API host setting has been removed from config/state/settings surfaces.
Status: Performed config-surface naming and documentation pass on main:
- Renamed API rate-limit config key for clarity:
  - rate_limit_dev_auth_max_per_window -> rate_limit_auth_bootstrap_max_per_window.
- Added backward-compatible config parsing alias in ApiConfig:
  - #[serde(alias = "rate_limit_dev_auth_max_per_window")].
- Updated all runtime/settings references to the new name.
- Added inline comments in config.toml for all active/uncommented keys across:
  - [sam], [kad], [general], [api].
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 71 tests).
Decisions: Keep public config keys aligned with endpoint naming (auth/bootstrap) and maintain read-compat for recently renamed keys to avoid operator breakage.
Next steps: Optional follow-up is to normalize remaining legacy test names/messages still using dev_auth wording.
Change log: Config naming and inline documentation are now more consistent and self-descriptive.
Status: Removed user-facing kad.udp_port configurability while preserving config-file compatibility on main:
- Removed udp_port from KadConfig public settings.
- Added deprecated compatibility field in KadConfig:
  - deprecated_udp_port with #[serde(rename = "udp_port", skip_serializing)]
  - old config files containing kad.udp_port still parse, but value is ignored and no longer persisted.
- Removed kad.udp_port line from config.toml.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 71 tests).
Decisions: Keep KAD UDP port as protocol/internal metadata, but not as a user-tunable config knob.
Next steps: Optional follow-up is to document this deprecation explicitly in docs/architecture.md if we want a visible migration note for operators carrying old configs.
Change log: kad.udp_port is no longer a configurable setting in active config surfaces.
Status: Replaced /api/v1/dev/auth with core bootstrap endpoint and auth-mode gating on main (no backward compatibility route):
- Added api.auth_mode enum config (local_ui | headless_remote) in src/config.rs and config.toml.
- Removed enable_dev_auth_endpoint from runtime config/state/settings API.
- New endpoint path is GET /api/v1/auth/bootstrap (loopback-only).
- Endpoint is available only when api.auth_mode = "local_ui"; it is not registered in headless_remote mode.
- Updated bearer-exempt logic to use auth_mode and new path.
- Updated rate limiter target path to /api/v1/auth/bootstrap.
- Updated UI bootstrap fetch paths:
  - inline /auth bootstrap page in src/api/ui.rs
  - ui/assets/js/helpers.js
- Renamed helper script to scripts/docs/auth_bootstrap.sh and updated docs references.
- Updated docs (README.md, docs/architecture.md, docs/API_DESIGN.md, docs/ui_api_contract_map.md, docs/api_curl.md).
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 71 tests).
Decisions: Treat token bootstrap as core local-UI behavior under /api/v1/auth/bootstrap; use auth mode, not endpoint-specific toggle flags.
Next steps: Optional follow-up is to surface auth_mode explicitly in settings UI with explanatory copy for local UI vs headless remote operations.
Change log: Auth bootstrap route naming and availability now align with core-vs-mode semantics.
Status: Added minimal API rate-limiting middleware on main:
- New [api] config keys:
  - rate_limit_enabled
  - rate_limit_window_secs
  - rate_limit_dev_auth_max_per_window
  - rate_limit_session_max_per_window
  - rate_limit_token_rotate_max_per_window
- Added src/api/rate_limit.rs fixed-window middleware keyed by (client_ip, method, path).
- Rate limiting is applied to:
  - GET /api/v1/dev/auth
  - POST /api/v1/session
  - POST /api/v1/token/rotate
- Added rate-limit fields to settings API payload/patch and validation.
- Added test coverage:
  - session endpoint returns 429 after threshold exceeded
  - settings snapshot/patch includes new rate-limit fields
  - settings rejects invalid zero rate-limit values
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 71 tests).
Decisions: Keep limiter intentionally narrow (only high-value endpoints) and disabled by config toggle when needed; avoid limiting SSE/status paths for now.
Next steps: Optional: emit structured logs on 429 events and add per-endpoint counters for abuse/noise visibility.
Change log: API now has configurable built-in endpoint rate limiting.
Status: Added API endpoint toggles for debug and dev-auth bootstrap on main:
- New [api] config flags in config.toml/ApiConfig:
  - enable_debug_endpoints (controls /api/v1/debug/*)
  - enable_dev_auth_endpoint (controls /api/v1/dev/auth)
- Router now conditionally registers debug routes and dev-auth route based on these flags.
- Auth exemption for /api/v1/dev/auth is now conditional on enable_dev_auth_endpoint.
- Settings API now exposes and accepts these flags under settings.api.
- Added/updated tests:
  - bearer exemption logic with dev-auth enabled/disabled
  - debug routes return 404 when disabled
  - dev-auth route returns 404 (with bearer) when disabled
- Updated docs: README.md, docs/architecture.md, docs/api_curl.md, and config.toml comments.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 70 tests).
Decisions: Keep both new flags defaulted to true for backwards-compatible behavior; operators can disable either endpoint group explicitly.
Next steps: Optional follow-up is lightweight rate limiting for high-value endpoints (/api/v1/dev/auth, /api/v1/token/rotate, /api/v1/session) to reduce brute-force/noise risks.
Change log: API surface can now be reduced at runtime via config without code changes.
Status: Moved operational scripts out of docs/scripts into top-level scripts/ with explicit split:
- API/documentation helpers moved to scripts/docs/:
  - health/status/events, KAD endpoint helpers, debug endpoint helpers, dev auth helper.
- Test harnesses moved to scripts/test/:
  - two_instance_dht_selftest.sh
  - rust_mule_soak.sh
  - soak_triage.sh
- Removed legacy docs/scripts/ directory and updated path references in scripts/docs:
  - internal calls in scripts/test/two_instance_dht_selftest.sh
  - usage/help text in moved scripts
  - README.md and docs/api_curl.md pointers.
Decisions: Keep scripts/build/ for build/release, scripts/docs/ for endpoint helper wrappers, and scripts/test/ for scenario/soak harnesses.
Next steps: Optional follow-up can add thin wrapper aliases for old docs/scripts/* paths if external automation still depends on them.
Change log: Script layout is now canonicalized under /scripts and split by intent (docs helpers vs tests).
Status: Added dedicated cross-platform build script folder on main:
- New canonical build location: scripts/build/.
- Added platform scripts:
  - scripts/build/build_linux_release.sh
  - scripts/build/build_macos_release.sh
  - scripts/build/build_windows_release.ps1
  - scripts/build/build_windows_release.cmd
- Added scripts/build/README.md with usage/output conventions.
- Kept backward compatibility by turning docs/scripts/build_linux_release.sh into a wrapper that delegates to scripts/build/build_linux_release.sh.
- Updated docs pointers in README.md and docs/README.md.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 68 tests).
Decisions: Keep build/release scripts outside docs/ in a dedicated top-level scripts/build/ folder; keep old Linux path callable as a shim to avoid breakage.
Next steps: Optional follow-up is a CI matrix job that runs each platform build script and verifies dist/* bundle naming/contents.
Change log: Cross-platform build scaffolding now exists with a canonical script location.
Status: Streamlined docs set and refreshed README entrypoint on main:
- Rewrote README.md to reflect current behavior and include a clear documentation map.
- Added docs/README.md as a documentation index.
- Normalized backlog docs:
  - docs/TODO.md (focused subsystem backlog)
  - docs/TASKS.md (current execution priorities and DoD)
- Corrected API design drift in docs/API_DESIGN.md:
  - /api/v1/health response shape now documented as { \"ok\": true }
  - SSE auth documented as session-cookie based (no token query parameter)
  - security note updated to avoid bearer tokens in query parameters.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 68 tests).
Decisions: Keep README.md as the top-level operator/developer entrypoint and keep deeper design/contract details in /docs with an explicit index.
Next steps: Keep docs/ui_api_contract_map.md and docs/api_curl.md updated whenever endpoint fields/routes change; continue prioritizing KAD organic reliability and UI statistics expansion.
Change log: Documentation set is now normalized and aligned with current API/UI/auth behavior.

Status (2026-02-12)

Status: Standardized and relaxed API command timeout policy on main:
- Added shared timeout constant:
  - API_CMD_TIMEOUT = 5s in src/api/mod.rs.
- Replaced per-endpoint hardcoded 2s timeouts in src/api/handlers/kad.rs with API_CMD_TIMEOUT.
- This applies to KAD command/oneshot-backed endpoints (sources, keyword results, searches, peers, routing debug, lookup/probe).
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 68 tests).
Decisions: Use a single shared timeout for API command dispatch/response waits to avoid endpoint drift and reduce spurious gateway timeouts in slower I2P conditions.
Next steps: Optional follow-up can split timeout tiers (e.g. 3s read-only status vs 5s routing/debug) if operational data suggests different SLOs.
Change log: API command timeout is now centralized and increased from ad-hoc 2s values to 5s.
Status: Made session-cookie Secure policy explicit in auth code on main:
- Added rationale comment in src/api/auth.rs (build_session_cookie) explaining why Secure is intentionally omitted for current HTTP loopback UI flow.
- Documented future action in comment: add Secure when/if frontend serving moves to HTTPS.
- Extended cookie test (src/api/tests.rs) to assert current behavior (Secure absent), making policy changes explicit and reviewable.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 68 tests).
Decisions: Keep cookie flags as HttpOnly; SameSite=Strict without Secure for current localhost HTTP mode, but require explicit code change when transport assumptions change.
Next steps: Optional: gate Secure on a future HTTPS/TLS config switch when frontend transport supports it.
Change log: Session-cookie security decision is now explicitly documented and test-enforced.
Status: Fixed implicit config persistence path and fragile API settings tests on main:
- Added explicit config persistence API:
  - Config::persist_to(path) in src/config.rs
  - existing Config::persist() now delegates to persist_to("config.toml") for compatibility.
- Added explicit config path to API runtime state:
  - ApiState.config_path
  - new ApiServeDeps includes config_path and other serve dependencies.
- settings_patch now persists via:
  - next.persist_to(state.config_path.as_path())
  - no implicit ./config.toml write in API path.
- Threaded config path from entrypoint to app/api:
  - main now tracks config_path and calls app::run(cfg, config_path)
  - app::run passes config_path into API serve deps.
- Hardened tests:
  - API tests now use unique temp config paths in ApiState and no longer mutate/restore repo config.toml.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 68 tests).
Decisions: Keep backward-compatible Config::persist() for non-API call sites, but route all runtime persistence that depends on startup config location through explicit persist_to(path).
Next steps: Optional cleanup can remove Config::persist() after all call sites are migrated to persist_to(path).
Change log: Config persistence path is now explicit in API runtime flow and test persistence is isolated from repository config.
Status: Removed lingering test-build unused-import warning in src/api/mod.rs after API split:
- Dropped test-only re-export block from src/api/mod.rs.
- Updated src/api/tests.rs to import directly from split modules:
  - auth, cors, ui, handlers, router.
- This prevents warning-prone indirection and keeps compile ownership explicit.
- Ran cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features and cargo test (all passing; 68 tests).
Decisions: Keep API tests referencing module paths directly instead of relying on mod.rs re-exports to avoid future dead-import warnings during refactors.
Next steps: None required for this warning; refactor cleanup is complete.
Change log: API test imports now directly track split module boundaries.
Status: Refactored API god-file (src/api/mod.rs) into focused modules on main (no behavior change):
- New modules:
  - src/api/router.rs (router wiring)
  - src/api/auth.rs (auth/session middleware + helpers)
  - src/api/cors.rs (CORS middleware + helpers)
  - src/api/ui.rs (embedded UI/static serving and SPA fallback)
  - src/api/handlers/core.rs (health/auth/session/status/events handlers)
  - src/api/handlers/kad.rs (KAD/search/debug handlers)
  - src/api/handlers/settings.rs (settings handlers/validation/patch logic)
  - src/api/handlers/mod.rs (handler exports)
  - src/api/tests.rs (existing API tests moved out of mod.rs)
- src/api/mod.rs now focuses on API state, startup/serve path, module wiring, and test-only re-exports.
- Endpoint paths, middleware order, and response behavior were kept unchanged.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 68 tests).
Decisions: Keep this as a structural split only (no endpoint contract or middleware semantic changes) to reduce risk while improving maintainability.
Next steps: Optional follow-up can split handlers/kad.rs further by sub-domain (search, debug, publish) if we want even tighter module boundaries.
Change log: API surface is now modularized by concern, replacing the prior single-file implementation.
Status: Fixed nodes2.dat download persistence path bug on main:
- In try_download_nodes2_dat(...) (src/app.rs), persistence previously hardcoded ./data/nodes.dat.
- Updated function to accept an explicit output path and persist there.
- Call site now passes preferred_nodes_path (resolved from configured general.data_dir + kad.bootstrap_nodes_path).
- Parent directories are created for the configured output path before atomic write/rename.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 68 tests).
Decisions: Keep download behavior unchanged except for output path correctness; this remains a low-risk bug fix with no protocol changes.
Next steps: Optional: add a targeted unit/integration test around bootstrap download path resolution when data_dir is non-default.
Change log: nodes2.dat refresh now respects configured data directory/bootstrap path.
Status: Corrected misleading overview KPI labels in UI on main:
- Updated ui/index.html labels to match actual status field semantics:
  - routing: Peers Contacted -> Routing Nodes
  - live: Responses -> Live Nodes
  - live_10m: Hits Found (10m) -> Live Nodes (10m)
- Updated progress badges for clarity:
  - requests -> requests sent
  - responses -> responses received
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 68 tests).
Decisions: Keep KPI naming tied to raw API counter meaning, not inferred behavior, to avoid future ambiguity in diagnostics.
Next steps: Optional follow-up can add compact tooltip/help text for each KPI defining its backing status field.
Change log: Overview metric labels now accurately describe routing, live, and live_10m.
Status: Fixed high-impact UI/API status-field mismatch on main:
- UI expected recv_req and recv_res in status payloads (REST + SSE), while API exposed sent_reqs and recv_ress.
- Added compatibility aliases directly in KadServiceStatus:
  - recv_req (mirrors sent_reqs)
  - recv_res (mirrors recv_ress)
- Wired aliases in status construction (build_status) so they are always populated.
- Extended API contract test ui_api_contract_endpoints_return_expected_shapes to assert:
  - recv_req and recv_res exist
  - alias values match sent_reqs and recv_ress.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 68 tests).
Decisions: Preserve existing canonical counters (sent_reqs, recv_ress) while adding aliases for UI compatibility; avoids breaking current dashboards and SSE consumers.
Next steps: Optional cleanup is to normalize UI naming to canonical fields in a later pass, then remove aliases when all consumers are updated.
Change log: Status API now exposes both canonical and UI-expected request/response counters.
Status: Added checked-in soak runner script on main:
- New script: docs/scripts/rust_mule_soak.sh
- Mirrors the long-run harness previously staged in /tmp/rust_mule_soak.sh.
- Commands:
  - start (clone ../../mule-a + ../../mule-b, patch B ports/session, launch both)
  - wait_ready (poll /api/v1/status until both return 200)
  - soak [rounds] (publish/search loops; writes logs/rounds.tsv + logs/status.ndjson)
  - stop and collect (creates /tmp/rust-mule-soak-*.tar.gz)
- Script is executable and validated for shell syntax and usage output.
Decisions: Keep the soak run harness and soak triage tool (docs/scripts/soak_triage.sh) together under docs/scripts for reproducible operator workflow.
Next steps: Optional: wire both scripts into a single wrapper (run + triage) for one-command baseline comparisons.
Change log: Added docs/scripts/rust_mule_soak.sh to the repository.
Status: Added soak triage helper script on main:
- New script: docs/scripts/soak_triage.sh
- Input: soak tarball (/tmp/rust-mule-soak-*.tar.gz)
- Output includes:
  - completion signal (stop requested markers)
  - round outcome metrics (total/success/success%, first+last success, max fail streak, last300 success)
  - success source concentration (source_id_hex top list)
  - key A/B status counters (max and last from status.ndjson)
  - panic/fatal scan for logs/a.out and logs/b.out
- Validated against /tmp/rust-mule-soak-20260214_101721.tar.gz; reported metrics match prior manual triage.
Decisions: Keep soak triage tool POSIX shell + awk/grep only (no Python dependency) so it works in constrained environments.
Next steps: Optional follow-up can add CSV/JSON emit mode for CI ingestion if we want automatic baseline-vs-current comparisons.
Change log: Added docs/scripts/soak_triage.sh and validated report output on the latest soak archive.
Status: Added UI/API contract assurance scaffolding on feature/kad-imule-parity-deep-pass:
- Added router-level UI contract test in src/api/mod.rs:
  - ui_api_contract_endpoints_return_expected_shapes
  - validates response shape invariants for UI-critical endpoints:
    - GET /api/v1/status
    - GET /api/v1/searches
    - GET /api/v1/searches/:search_id
    - GET /api/v1/kad/keyword_results/:keyword_id_hex
    - GET /api/v1/kad/peers
    - GET /api/v1/settings
- Added endpoint coverage map:
  - docs/ui_api_contract_map.md (UI sections -> endpoint -> required fields/behavior).
- Added Playwright smoke test scaffold for UI pages:
  - ui/package.json
  - ui/playwright.config.mjs
  - ui/tests/e2e/smoke.spec.mjs
  - ui/tests/README.md
- Updated .gitignore for UI test artifacts:
  - /ui/node_modules
  - /ui/test-results
  - /ui/playwright-report
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 68 tests).
Decisions: Keep browser smoke tests as an opt-in local workflow (Node/Playwright) while enforcing API response contracts in Rust tests to keep CI lightweight and deterministic.
Next steps: When soak run completes, execute ui Playwright smoke against the same running node and add failures (if any) as actionable API/UI contract regressions.
Change log: UI-critical API response shape checks are now executable, documented, and paired with a runnable browser smoke suite scaffold.
Status: Implemented organic source-flow observability upgrades on feature/kad-imule-parity-deep-pass (requested implementation of steps 2 and 3):
- Added source batch outcome accounting in src/kad/service.rs for both send paths:
  - search batches: source_search_batch_{candidates,skipped_version,sent,send_fail}
  - publish batches: source_publish_batch_{candidates,skipped_version,sent,send_fail}
- Batch counters are emitted in status payload (KadServiceStatus) and logged in send-batch INFO events.
- Added per-file source probe tracker state (source_probe_by_file) with first-send/first-response timestamps and rolling result counts.
- Added aggregate status counters for probe timing/results:
  - source_probe_first_publish_responses
  - source_probe_first_search_responses
  - source_probe_search_results_total
  - source_probe_publish_latency_ms_total
  - source_probe_search_latency_ms_total
- Wired response-side tracking:
  - on source PUBLISH_RES reception, record first publish response latency per file
  - on SEARCH_RES keyed to tracked source files, record first search response latency and per-response returned source counts
- Added unit test:
  - kad::service::tests::source_probe_tracks_first_send_response_latency_and_results
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 67 tests).
Decisions: Keep probe tracking lightweight/in-memory and bounded (SOURCE_PROBE_MAX_TRACKED_FILES = 2048) with aggregate latency totals in status for immediate triage without introducing persistence or heavy histograms.
Next steps: Build fresh mule-a/mule-b artifacts and run repeated non-forced A/B rounds to quantify organic success rate and latency percentiles using the new batch/probe counters.
Change log: Source send-path selection/success/failure and per-file response timing are now directly measurable from status + logs.
Status: Implemented source-path diagnostics follow-up on feature/kad-imule-parity-deep-pass (requested items 1 and 2):
- Added receive-edge KAD inbound instrumentation in src/kad/service.rs:
  - event="kad_inbound_packet" for every decrypted+parsed inbound packet with:
    - opcode hex + opcode name
    - dispatch target label
    - payload length
    - obfuscation/verify-key context
  - event="kad_inbound_drop" with explicit reasons:
    - request_rate_limited
    - unrequested_response
    - unhandled_opcode
- Cross-checked source opcode constants/layouts against iMule reference (source_ref):
  - src/include/protocol/kad2/Client2Client/UDP.h
  - src/kademlia/net/KademliaUDPListener.cpp (Process2SearchSourceRequest, Process2PublishSourceRequest)
- Added wire-compat regression tests in src/kad/wire.rs:
  - kad2_source_opcode_values_match_imule
  - kad2_search_source_req_layout_matches_imule
  - kad2_publish_source_req_layout_has_required_source_tags
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 66 tests).
Decisions: Keep diagnostics at DEBUG level (not INFO) to preserve operability while enabling precise packet-path triage during A/B probes.
Next steps: Build fresh mule-a/mule-b artifacts and rerun forced debug/probe_peer A<->B; inspect new kad_inbound_packet/kad_inbound_drop events to pinpoint whether source opcodes arrive and where they are dropped.
Change log: KAD service now emits deterministic receive-edge opcode/drop telemetry, and source opcode/layout compatibility with iMule is explicitly tested.
Status: Extended debug peer probing on feature/kad-imule-parity-deep-pass to include source-path packets in addition to keyword packets:
- src/kad/service.rs debug_probe_peer(...) now sends:
  - KADEMLIA2_SEARCH_SOURCE_REQ (for peers kad_version >= 3)
  - KADEMLIA2_PUBLISH_SOURCE_REQ (for peers kad_version >= 4)
- Existing probe sends remain unchanged:
  - KADEMLIA2_HELLO_REQ
  - KADEMLIA2_SEARCH_KEY_REQ
  - KADEMLIA2_PUBLISH_KEY_REQ
- Probe debug log now reports source probe send booleans:
  - sent_search_source
  - sent_publish_source
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 63 tests).
Decisions: Keep source probe sends version-gated to align with existing source batch behavior and avoid forcing unsupported opcodes on low-version peers.
Next steps: Rebuild mule-a/mule-b binaries and re-run forced debug/probe_peer A->B and B->A; then verify inbound source counters/events (recv_*_source_*, source_store_update, source_store_query) move from zero.
Change log: POST /api/v1/debug/probe_peer can now directly exercise source request paths, enabling deterministic source-path diagnostics.
Status: Added targeted source-store observability on feature/kad-imule-parity-deep-pass and validated via extended two-instance selftest:
- src/kad/service.rs now tracks and reports source lifecycle counters in kad_status_detail:
  - recv_search_source_decode_failures
  - source_search_hits / source_search_misses
  - source_search_results_served
  - recv_publish_source_decode_failures
  - sent_publish_source_ress
  - new_store_source_entries
- Added source store gauges in status payload:
  - source_store_files
  - source_store_entries_total
- Added structured source observability logs:
  - event=source_store_update on inbound PUBLISH_SOURCE_REQ store attempts
  - event=source_store_query on served SEARCH_SOURCE_REQ responses
- Added unit test coverage:
  - kad::service::tests::build_status_reports_source_store_totals
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 63 tests).
Decisions: Keep observability additive and low-risk (counters + logs) without changing protocol behavior yet; use this pass to isolate source replication/search breakpoints before logic changes.
Next steps: Re-run targeted A/B probe and inspect new counters/events (source_store_update, source_store_query, new_store_source_entries, source_store_*) to identify exact source-path failure stage.
Change log: Source publish/search/store lifecycle now has explicit service-side counters and logs suitable for direct A/B diagnostics.
Status: Completed deep KAD parity hardening pass against iMule reference (source_ref) on feature/kad-imule-parity-deep-pass:
- Added PacketTracking-style request/response correlation in src/kad/service.rs:
  - track outgoing KAD request opcodes with 180s TTL,
  - drop unrequested inbound response packets (bootstrap/hello/res/search/publish/pong shapes).
- Added per-peer inbound KAD request flood limiting in src/kad/service.rs (iMule-inspired limits by opcode family).
- Added service-mode handling for inbound KADEMLIA2_BOOTSTRAP_REQ and reply path:
  - introduced encode_kad2_bootstrap_res(...) in src/kad/wire.rs,
  - service now responds with self+routing contacts, encrypted with receiver-key flow when applicable.
- Removed remaining runtime brittle byte-slice unwrap conversions in:
  - src/kad/bootstrap.rs
  - src/kad/udp_crypto.rs (udp_verify_key path)
- Added tests in src/kad/service.rs:
  - tracked out-request matching behavior,
  - inbound request flood-limit behavior.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 62 tests).
Decisions: Keep implementation Rust-native (simple explicit tracker + hash-map counters) while matching iMule behavior intent (tracked responses, anti-flood request gating, bootstrap response semantics) without copying C++ structure.
Next steps: Optional follow-up parity pass can tighten ACK/challenge semantics further by emulating more of iMule PacketTracking::LegacyChallenge behavior for edge peers.
Change log: KAD service now behaves closer to iMule for bootstrap responsiveness, response legitimacy checks, and inbound request flood resistance.
Status: Completed panic-hardening follow-up for sanity findings (items 1..4) on main:
- src/logging.rs: removed panic-on-poison in warning throttle lock path; now recovers poisoned mutex state and logs a warning.
- src/app.rs: removed runtime unwrap() conversions for destination hash/array extraction; switched to explicit copy logic.
- src/i2p/sam/datagram.rs: replaced expect() in forward_port/forward_addr with typed Result returns (SamError), and updated call sites in src/app.rs.
- src/kad/service.rs, src/nodes/imule.rs, src/kad/wire.rs: replaced safe-but-brittle slice try_into().unwrap() patterns with non-panicking copy-based conversions.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, strict clippy sanity pass (unwrap/expect/panic/todo/unimplemented), and cargo test (all passing; strict pass now only flags remaining test/internal non-critical unwrap/expect sites outside this scoped fix).
Decisions: Keep panic-hardening targeted to runtime production paths first; test-only unwrap/expect cleanup can be a separate ergonomics pass.
Next steps: Optional low-risk pass to eliminate remaining test/internal unwrap/expect usage repository-wide for stricter lint cleanliness.
Change log: Production/runtime panic surfaces identified in the sanity pass were removed for logging lock handling, SAM datagram address accessors, and key byte-conversion paths.
Status: Completed typed-error migration pass across remaining runtime/boundary modules on main:
- Converted to typed errors:
  - src/app.rs (AppError)
  - src/main.rs (MainError, ConfigValidationError)
  - src/api/mod.rs serve path (ApiError)
  - src/single_instance.rs (SingleInstanceError)
  - src/kad/service.rs (KadServiceError)
  - bin utilities: src/bin/imule_nodes_inspect.rs, src/bin/sam_dgram_selftest.rs
- Removed remaining runtime anyhow usage from src/ implementation paths.
- Updated docs/TODO.md to mark typed-error migration as done and refreshed docs/TASKS.md with next priority.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 60 tests).
Decisions: Keep typed errors explicit per subsystem/boundary and preserve existing HTTP/runtime behavior by mapping at boundaries rather than changing response semantics.
Next steps: Focus on KAD search/publish reliability and ACK/timeout observability (docs/TASKS.md current priority).
Change log: End-to-end code paths now use typed error enums instead of anyhow, including app orchestration and utility binaries.
Status: Documentation sync/normalization pass completed on main:
- Updated README.md API/UI auth flow to reflect current behavior:
  - /api/v1/session issues rm_session cookie.
  - /api/v1/events uses session-cookie auth.
- Normalized docs/TODO.md:
  - marked clippy round completed,
  - corrected settings endpoint paths to /api/v1/settings,
  - marked docs alignment done,
  - added remaining typed-error migration item for boundary/runtime layers.
- Updated docs/API_DESIGN.md to distinguish implemented auth/session model from forward-looking API ideas and removed stale SSE token-query framing.
- Added concrete next-priority execution plan in docs/TASKS.md.
Decisions: Keep docs/API_DESIGN.md as a mixed strategic + implemented view, but explicitly label forward-looking endpoints and defer executable examples to docs/api_curl.md.
Next steps: Execute docs/TASKS.md item #1 (finish typed-error migration in boundary/runtime layers).
Change log: Documentation now matches the current session-cookie SSE model, endpoint paths, and project priorities.
Status: Expanded subsystem-specific typed errors (second batch) on feature/subsystem-typed-errors:
- Replaced anyhow in additional KAD/SAM subsystem modules with typed errors:
  - src/kad/wire.rs (WireError)
  - src/kad/packed.rs (InflateError)
  - src/kad/udp_crypto.rs (UdpCryptoError)
  - src/kad/udp_key.rs (UdpKeyError)
  - src/kad/bootstrap.rs (BootstrapError)
  - src/i2p/sam/keys.rs (SamKeysError)
  - src/i2p/sam/kad_socket.rs now returns Result<_, SamError> directly.
- Kept app/main/api as the top-level error aggregation boundary.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 60 tests).
Decisions: Typed errors were added first in protocol/parsing/crypto and SAM helper modules where error provenance matters most; orchestration layers remain unchanged for now.
Next steps: Remaining anyhow usage is concentrated in boundary/runtime modules (src/app.rs, src/main.rs, src/api/mod.rs, src/single_instance.rs, src/kad/service.rs, and bin tools) and can be migrated incrementally if full typed coverage is required.
Change log: KAD wire/deflate/UDP-crypto/bootstrap and SAM keys/socket now emit concrete typed errors rather than anyhow.
Status: Implemented subsystem-specific typed errors on feature/subsystem-typed-errors:
- Replaced internal anyhow usage with typed error enums + local Result aliases in:
  - src/config.rs
  - src/config_io.rs
  - src/api/token.rs
  - src/kad.rs
  - src/kad/keyword.rs
  - src/nodes/imule.rs
  - src/i2p/b64.rs
  - src/i2p/http.rs
- Preserved current app-level behavior by allowing these typed errors to bubble into existing anyhow boundaries where applicable.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 60 tests).
Decisions: Kept this pass focused on subsystem modules with clear ownership boundaries; app orchestration/error aggregation remains unchanged.
Next steps: Continue migrating remaining non-core modules still using anyhow (for example selected KAD service/bootstrap internals) if full typed-error coverage is desired.
Change log: Subsystem error handling now uses concrete typed errors instead of stringly anyhow in the converted modules.
Status: Completed logging follow-up pass (feature/logging-followup):
- Added throttled-warning suppression counters surfaced as periodic summary logs (event=throttled_warning_summary).
- Broadened log redaction on KAD identifiers in operational/debug paths (redact_hex) and shortened destination logging to short base64 forms in additional send-failure paths.
- Added structured event=... fields to key startup/status/search/publish log lines for machine filtering.
- Reduced bootstrap INFO noise by demoting per-peer HELLO/PONG/BOOTSTRAP chatter to DEBUG.
- Added retention helper tests in src/config.rs:
  - rotated filename split/match validation
  - old rotated-file cleanup behavior.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 60 tests).
Decisions: Keep operator-facing INFO logs as concise aggregate state transitions and preserve per-peer/protocol chatter under DEBUG/TRACE.
Next steps: Optional final pass can redact remaining DEBUG payload snippets (e.g., packet heads) for environments where debug bundles are shared externally.
Change log: Logging now includes throttling observability, stronger identifier redaction, and tested retention helpers while keeping INFO output lower-noise.
Status: Completed API bind policy hardening (feature/api-bind-loopback-policy):
- Enforced loopback-only API bind host handling via shared config helper (parse_api_bind_host).
- Accepted hosts: localhost, 127.0.0.1, ::1.
- Rejected non-loopback binds (e.g. 0.0.0.0, LAN/WAN IPs) in:
  - startup config validation (src/main.rs)
  - API server bind resolution (src/api/mod.rs)
  - settings API validation (PATCH /api/v1/settings)
- Added tests:
  - parse_api_bind_host_accepts_only_loopback
  - extended settings patch rejection coverage for non-loopback api.host.
- Updated docs/TODO.md to mark the API bind requirement as completed.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 57 tests).
Decisions: Keep a strict local-control-plane model by default; do not allow wildcard/non-loopback API binds without a future explicit remote-mode design.
Next steps: If remote/headless control is later required, introduce an explicit opt-in mode with TLS/auth hardening rather than loosening default bind policy.
Change log: API host handling is now consistently loopback-only across startup, runtime serve, and settings updates.
Status: Completed logging hardening / INFO-vs-DEBUG pass on feature/log-hardening.
- Added shared logging utilities (src/logging.rs) for redaction helpers and warning throttling.
- Removed noisy boot marker and moved raw SAM HELLO reply logging to DEBUG.
- Redacted Kademlia identity at startup logs (kad_id now shortened).
- Rebalanced KAD periodic status logging:
  - concise operational summary at INFO
  - full status payload at DEBUG
- Added warning throttling for repetitive bootstrap send-failure warnings and recurring KAD decay warning.
- Updated tracing file appender setup:
  - daily rotated naming as prefix.YYYY-MM-DD.suffix (default rust-mule.YYYY-MM-DD.log)
  - startup cleanup of matching logs older than 30 days.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 56 tests).
Decisions: Keep redaction/throttling lightweight and local (no new dependencies) and preserve existing log filter controls (general.log_level, general.log_file_level).
Next steps: Optional follow-up is to apply redaction helpers to any remaining DEBUG-level destination/id logs where operators may share debug bundles externally.
Change log: Logging output is now safer and lower-noise at INFO, with richer diagnostics preserved at DEBUG and daily log retention enforced.
Status: Completed clippy+formatting improvement batch on feature/clippy-format-pass.
- Addressed all active cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features warnings across app/KAD/utility modules.
- Applied idiomatic fixes (div_ceil, iterator/enumerate loops, collapsed if let chains, unnecessary casts/question-marks/conversions, lock-file open options).
- Added targeted #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)] on orchestration-heavy KAD service functions where signature reduction would be invasive for this pass.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (all passing; 56 tests).
Decisions: Keep high-arity KAD orchestration signatures for now and explicitly annotate them; prioritize behavior-preserving lint cleanup over structural refactors in this iteration.
Next steps: If desired, follow up with a dedicated refactor pass to reduce too_many_arguments allowances via context structs.
Change log: Repository now passes clippy cleanly under current lint set, with formatting normalized.
Status: Implemented UI auto-open and headless toggle flow (initial UI milestone #1):
- Added general.auto_open_ui (default true) to runtime config/settings.
- Startup now conditionally auto-opens http://localhost:<port>/index.html in default browser.
- Auto-open is gated by readiness checks: token file exists, /api/v1/health returns 200, and /index.html returns 200 (timeout-protected).
- Added settings wiring so UI/API GET/PATCH /api/v1/settings reads/writes general.auto_open_ui.
- Added settings UI control: “Auto Open UI In Browser On Boot” with headless-disable option.
- Updated docs (docs/TODO.md, docs/UI_DESIGN.md, docs/architecture.md, docs/api_curl.md).
Decisions: Keep auto-open behavior best-effort and non-fatal; failures to launch browser only log warnings and do not affect backend startup.
Next steps: Run browser-based axe/Lighthouse pass and patch measurable UI issues; then normalize remaining docs wording for “initial UI version” completion state.
Change log: App can now launch the local UI automatically after API/UI/token readiness, and operators can disable this for headless runs via settings/config.
Status: Alpine binding best-practice sanity pass completed (second pass):
- Re-scanned all ui/*.html Alpine bindings and ui/assets/js/{app,helpers}.js.
- Verified no side-effectful function calls in display bindings (x-text, x-bind, x-show, x-if, x-for).
- Normalized remaining complex inline binding expressions into pure computed getters:
  - appSearch.keywordHits used by ui/search.html x-for.
  - appSearchDetails.searchIdLabel used by ui/search_details.html x-text.
Decisions: Keep side effects restricted to lifecycle and explicit event handlers (x-init, @click, @submit, SSE callbacks).
Next steps: Optional follow-up is extracting repeated status badge text ternaries into computed getters for style consistency only.
Change log: Alpine templates now consistently consume normalized state/getters and avoid complex inline display expressions.
Status: Completed a UI accessibility/usability sweep across all ui/*.html pages.
- Added keyboard skip-link and focus target (#main-content) on all pages.
- Added semantic navigation landmarks and aria-current for active routes.
- Added live regions for runtime error/notice messages (role="alert" / role="status").
- Added table captions and explicit scope attributes on table headers.
- Added chart canvas ARIA labels and log-region semantics for event stream output.
- Added shared .skip-link and .sr-only styles in ui/assets/css/base.css.
Decisions: Keep accessibility improvements HTML/CSS-only for now (no controller-side behavior changes), and preserve current visual layout.
Next steps: Run browser-based automated audit (axe/Lighthouse) and address measurable contrast/focus-order findings.
Change log: UI shell and data views now have stronger baseline WCAG support for keyboard navigation, screen-reader semantics, and dynamic status announcements.
Status: Completed UI/API follow-up items 1 and 2 on feature/ui-bootstrap:
- Added shared session status/check/logout widget in sidebar shell on all UI pages, backed by a reusable Alpine mixin.
- Added periodic backend session cleanup task (SESSION_SWEEP_INTERVAL=5m) in addition to lazy cleanup on create/validate.
- Added API unit test cleanup_expired_sessions_removes_expired_entries.
Decisions: Keep session UX in a single shared sidebar control; keep session sweep simple (fixed interval background task) with existing Mutex<HashMap<...>> session store.
Next steps: Merge this branch to main, then move to the next prioritized UI/API backlog item after validating behavior manually in browser.
Change log: Session lifecycle visibility and expiry hygiene are now continuously maintained in both frontend shell and backend runtime.
Implemented API bearer token rotation flow:
- Added POST /api/v1/token/rotate (bearer-protected).
- API token is now shared mutable state (RwLock) and token file path is stored in API state.
- Rotation persists a new token to data/api.token, swaps in-memory token, and clears all active frontend sessions.
- Added API test token_rotate_updates_state_file_and_clears_sessions.
- Added settings UI action Rotate API Token:
  - Calls /api/v1/token/rotate
  - Updates sessionStorage token
  - Re-creates frontend session via POST /api/v1/session
- Added token helper rotate_token() in src/api/token.rs.
- Updated docs (docs/architecture.md, docs/api_curl.md, docs/UI_DESIGN.md) with token rotation behavior and endpoint.
- Ran Prettier on changed UI files and ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Change log: Bearer tokens can now be actively rotated from UI/API with immediate session re-bootstrap and old-session invalidation.
Completed next UI/API security+UX batch (in requested order):
- Session lifecycle hardening:
  - Added GET /api/v1/session/check (session-cookie auth).
  - Added POST /api/v1/session/logout (session-cookie auth, clears cookie + invalidates server session).
  - Added session TTL handling (8h) with expiry cleanup on session create/validate.
  - Updated frontend SSE helper to probe /api/v1/session/check on stream errors and redirect to /auth on expired/invalid session.
  - Added visible UI logout control in settings (Logout Session) calling POST /api/v1/session/logout and redirecting to /auth.
- Middleware integration tests (full-router):
  - unauthenticated_ui_route_redirects_to_auth
  - authenticated_ui_route_with_session_cookie_succeeds
  - events_rejects_bearer_only_but_accepts_session_cookie
- Chart UX polish on node_stats:
  - Added chart controls: pause/resume sampling, reset history, and sample-window selector.
  - Increased history buffer depth and made chart rendering window configurable.
- Added build_app() router constructor to enable handler+middleware integration tests without booting a TCP server.
- Updated docs (docs/architecture.md, docs/api_curl.md, docs/UI_DESIGN.md, docs/TODO.md) for new session endpoints/behavior and chart controls status.
- Ran Prettier on changed UI files and ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Change log: Implemented session check/logout + TTL cleanup, added middleware auth integration coverage, and shipped chart interaction controls in node stats.
CSS normalization pass completed for variable/units discipline:
- Moved remaining shared base.css size literals into reusable vars in ui/assets/css/layout.css:
  - container width, glow dimensions, badge/button/table sizing, log max-height.
- Updated ui/assets/css/base.css to consume vars instead of hardcoded numeric literals.
- Replaced non-hairline px units in theme focus/shadow tokens with relative units in:
  - ui/assets/css/color-dark.css
  - ui/assets/css/colors-light.css
  - ui/assets/css/color-hc.css
- Kept hairline width token as --line: 1px for border usage.
- Ran Prettier for CSS files and ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Change log: Shared UI styles now rely on layout/theme variables with non-hairline sizing converted to relative units.
Implemented first Chart.js statistics set on ui/node_stats.html:
- Added three charts:
  - Search hits over time (line)
  - Request/response rate over time (line)
  - Live vs idle peer mix over time (stacked bar)
- Added Chart.js loader on node_stats and chart canvas panels in the page layout.
- Extended appNodeStats() in ui/assets/js/app.js:
  - SSE-driven status updates + polling fallback.
  - Time-series history buffers and rate calculation from status counters.
  - Chart initialization/update lifecycle and theme-variable color usage.
- Added reusable chart container token/style:
  - --chart-height in ui/assets/css/layout.css
  - .chart-wrap in ui/assets/css/base.css
- Updated docs/TODO.md and docs/UI_DESIGN.md to mark Chart.js usage as implemented and statistics work as partial/ongoing.
- Ran Prettier on changed UI files and ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Change log: Node stats page now includes live operational charts for search productivity, request/response rates, and peer health mix.
Implemented frontend session-cookie auth for UI routes and SSE:
- Added POST /api/v1/session (bearer-protected) to issue rm_session HTTP-only cookie.
- Added in-memory session store in API state and cookie validation helpers.
- Updated auth middleware policy:
  - /api/v1/* stays bearer-token protected (except /api/v1/health and /api/v1/dev/auth).
  - /api/v1/events now requires valid session cookie (no token query fallback).
  - All frontend routes (/, /index.html, /ui/*, fallback paths) require valid session cookie; unauthenticated access redirects to /auth.
- Added /auth bootstrap page to establish session:
  - Calls /api/v1/dev/auth (loopback-only), then POST /api/v1/session with bearer token, then redirects to /index.html.
- Updated frontend SSE client to use /api/v1/events without ?token=....
- Updated auth-related tests:
  - API bearer exempt-path assertions
  - frontend exempt-path assertions
  - session-cookie parsing
- Updated docs (docs/TODO.md, docs/UI_DESIGN.md, docs/architecture.md, docs/api_curl.md) to reflect session-cookie UI/SSE auth and bearer API auth.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Change log: Replaced SSE query-token auth with cookie-based frontend session auth and enforced cookie gating on all UI routes.
Implemented API-backed settings read/update and wired settings UI:
- Added GET /api/v1/settings and PATCH /api/v1/settings in src/api/mod.rs.
- API now keeps a shared runtime Config in API state and persists valid PATCH updates to config.toml.
- Added validation for settings updates (sam.host, sam.port, sam.session_name, api.host, api.port, and log filter syntax via EnvFilter).
- Added API tests:
  - settings_get_returns_config_snapshot
  - settings_patch_updates_and_persists_config
  - settings_patch_rejects_invalid_values
- Updated settings UI:
  - Added settings form in ui/settings.html for general, sam, and api fields.
  - Added apiPatch() helper and wired appSettings() to load/save via /api/v1/settings.
  - Added save/reload flow with restart-required notice.
- Updated docs:
  - docs/TODO.md: marked API-backed settings task as done.
  - docs/UI_DESIGN.md: marked settings API integration as implemented.
  - docs/architecture.md and docs/api_curl.md: documented new settings endpoints and curl examples.
- Ran Prettier on changed UI files and ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Change log: Settings page is now backed by persisted API settings (GET/PATCH /api/v1/settings) instead of runtime-only placeholders.
Documentation/UI planning sync pass completed:
- Updated docs/TODO.md UI checklist statuses to reflect implemented work (embedded assets, Alpine usage, shell pages, search form, overview, network status) and kept unresolved/partial items open (Chart.js usage, protected static UI, SSE token exposure, settings API, auto-open/headless toggle).
- Updated docs/UI_DESIGN.md to match current routes and contracts:
  - /api/v1/... endpoint namespace in live-data and API contract sections.
  - Navigation model now reflects shared-shell multi-page UI (index, search, search_details, node_stats, log, settings) and searchId query param usage.
  - Added implementation snapshot with completed, partial, and open items.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Change log: Synced UI TODO/design documentation with the actual current implementation and clarified remaining UI backlog.
Canonicalized root UI route to explicit index path:
- GET / now redirects to /index.html.
- Added explicit GET /index.html route serving embedded index.html.
- Updated SPA fallback redirect target from / to /index.html for unknown non-API/non-asset routes.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Change log: Root URL now canonical redirects to /index.html; fallback redirects align to same canonical entry.
Added explicit UI startup message on boot in src/app.rs:
- Logs rust-mule UI available at: http://localhost:<port> right before API server task spawn.
- Uses configured api.port so users get a direct URL immediately during startup.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Change log: Startup now emits a clear local UI URL message for quick operator discovery.
Added SPA fallback behavior for unknown browser routes:
- Added router fallback handler in src/api/mod.rs that redirects unknown non-API/non-asset paths to / (serving embedded index.html).
- Redirect target is always /, so arbitrary query parameters on unknown paths are dropped.
- Kept /api/* and /ui/assets/* as real 404 paths when missing (no SPA redirect for API/static asset misses).
- Updated auth exemption to allow non-API paths through auth middleware so fallback can run before auth checks.
- Added tests:
  - spa_fallback_redirects_unknown_non_api_paths_to_root
  - spa_fallback_does_not_capture_api_or_asset_paths
  - Extended auth-exempt path coverage for unknown non-API paths.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Change log: Unknown non-API routes now canonicalize to / (index) with query params stripped, while API and missing asset paths remain 404.
Embedded UI into binary using include_dir:
- Added include_dir dependency.
- Added static UI_DIR bundle for $CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR/ui.
- Switched UI page/asset serving in src/api/mod.rs from filesystem reads (tokio::fs::read) to embedded lookups.
- Kept existing UI path safety guards (is_safe_ui_segment, is_safe_ui_path).
- Added API unit test embeds_required_ui_files validating required /ui/*.html, /ui/assets/css/*.css, and /ui/assets/js/*.js are included in the embedded bundle.
- Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Change log: UI static assets/pages are now binary-embedded and served without runtime filesystem dependency.
Alpine binding best-practice sanity pass completed:
- Normalized searchThreads in ui/assets/js/app.js to include precomputed state_class.
- Normalized node rows in appNodeStats to include precomputed ui_state, ui_state_class, and inbound_label.
- Updated templates (ui/index.html, ui/search.html, ui/search_details.html, ui/node_stats.html, ui/log.html, ui/settings.html) to bind directly to precomputed fields instead of calling controller/helper methods from bindings.
- Added activeThreadStateClass (index) and detailsStateClass (search details) getters for declarative badge binding.
- Ran Prettier on UI JS/HTML and ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Change log: Refactored Alpine bindings to remove template-time helper method calls and keep side effects inside explicit actions/lifecycle methods only.
Performed CSS theme sanity refactor under ui/assets/css:
- Moved all color literals used by shared UI components into theme files only:
  - ui/assets/css/color-dark.css
  - ui/assets/css/colors-light.css
  - ui/assets/css/color-hc.css
- ui/assets/css/base.css and ui/assets/css/layout.css now consume color variables only (no direct color values).
- Fixed dark theme scoping to html[data-theme=\"dark\"] (instead of global :root) so light/hc themes apply correctly.
Added persisted theme bootstrapping:
- New early loader ui/assets/js/theme-init.js applies localStorage.ui_theme before CSS paint.
- Included theme-init.js in all UI HTML pages.
Implemented Settings theme selector:
- Added theme control in ui/settings.html for dark|light|hc.
- appSettings() now applies selected theme to <html data-theme=\"...\"> and persists to localStorage.
Ran Prettier (ui/assets/js/app.js) and ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after theme implementation (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Performed API sanity audit against current UI helpers/controllers:
- Confirmed all active Alpine controller API calls are backed by /api/v1 endpoints.
- Confirmed stop/delete UI controls now use real API handlers (/searches/:id/stop, DELETE /searches/:id).
Added API handler-level tests for search control endpoints in src/api/mod.rs:
- search_stop_dispatches_service_command
- search_delete_dispatches_with_default_purge_true
Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after API sanity/test additions (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Completed API-backing coverage for Alpine UI controls/helpers by implementing missing search control endpoints:
- Added POST /api/v1/searches/:search_id/stop.
- Added DELETE /api/v1/searches/:search_id with purge_results (default true).
- Wired indexApp.stopActiveSearch() and indexApp.deleteActiveSearch() to these endpoints.
Added backend service commands and logic:
- StopKeywordSearch (disable ongoing search/publish for a job).
- DeleteKeywordSearch (remove active job; optionally purge cached keyword results/store/interest).
Added frontend helper apiDelete() (ui/assets/js/helpers.js) for /api/v1 DELETE calls.
Added unit tests in KAD service:
- stop_keyword_search_disables_active_job
- delete_keyword_search_purges_cached_results
Updated API docs for new endpoints (docs/architecture.md, docs/api_curl.md).
Ran Prettier on UI JS and ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after API coverage implementation (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Closed UI consistency gaps identified in /ui review:
- Added real settings page ui/settings.html with backing appSettings() controller.
- Wired all sidebar Settings links to /ui/settings.
- Wired + New Search buttons with Alpine actions (index navigates to search page, search resets form state).
- Wired overview action buttons (Stop, Export, Delete) to implemented Alpine methods in indexApp.
- Removed hardcoded overview header state and made it data-driven from selected active thread.
Ran Prettier on ui/assets/js/app.js and then ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after the UI consistency pass (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Added ui/log.html with the shared shell and a dedicated Logs view.
Implemented appLogs() Alpine controller in ui/assets/js/app.js:
- Bootstraps token and loads search threads.
- Fetches status snapshots from GET /api/v1/status.
- Subscribes to GET /api/v1/events SSE and appends rolling log entries with timestamps.
- Keeps an in-memory log buffer capped at 200 entries.
Updated shell navigation links in UI pages so "Logs" points to /ui/log.
Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after logs page/controller implementation (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Ran Prettier on ui/assets/js/app.js and ui/assets/js/helpers.js using ui/.prettierrc rules; verified with prettier --check.
Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after JS formatting pass (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Added ui/node_stats.html with the same shell structure as other UI pages.
Implemented node status view for live/active visibility:
- Loads /api/v1/status and /api/v1/kad/peers.
- Displays total/live/active node KPIs.
- Displays node table with per-node state badge (active, live, idle) plus Kad ID/version/ages/failures.
Added frontend appNodeStats() in ui/assets/js/app.js:
- Sorts nodes by activity state then recency.
- Reuses API-backed search threads in the sidebar.
Updated shell navigation links across pages to point "Nodes / Routing" to /ui/node_stats.
Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after node stats page implementation (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Added API-backed keyword search thread endpoints:
- GET /api/v1/searches returns active keyword-search jobs from KAD keyword_jobs.
- GET /api/v1/searches/:search_id returns one active search plus its current hits.
- search_id maps to keyword ID hex for the active job.
Implemented dynamic search threads in UI sidebars:
- ui/index.html and ui/search.html now load active search threads from API.
- Search thread rows link to /ui/search_details?searchId=<keyword_id_hex>.
Added ui/search_details.html with the same shell:
- Reads searchId from query params.
- Loads /api/v1/searches/:search_id and displays search summary + hits table.
Extended frontend app wiring:
- Added shared search-thread loading and state-badge mapping in ui/assets/js/app.js.
- Added appSearchDetails() controller for search detail page behavior.
Updated docs for new API routes (docs/architecture.md, docs/api_curl.md).
Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after search-thread/details implementation (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Replicated the app shell layout in ui/search.html (sidebar + main panel) to match the index page structure.
Implemented first functional keyword-search form in the search UI:
- Added query and optional keyword_id_hex inputs.
- Wired POST /api/v1/kad/search_keyword submission from Alpine (appSearch.submitSearch).
- Added results refresh via GET /api/v1/kad/keyword_results/:keyword_id_hex.
- Added first-pass results table rendering for keyword hits.
Added reusable UI form styles in shared CSS:
- New form classes in ui/assets/css/base.css (form-grid, field, input).
- Added form-control tokens to ui/assets/css/layout.css.
Added JS helper apiPost() in ui/assets/js/helpers.js and expanded appSearch() state/actions in ui/assets/js/app.js.
Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after search UI implementation (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Moved index.html inline styles into shared CSS:
- Removed <style> block from ui/index.html.
- Added reusable shell/sidebar/search-state classes in ui/assets/css/base.css.
- Added layout/state CSS variables in ui/assets/css/layout.css and referenced them from base styles.
Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after CSS/layout refactor (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Updated ui/index.html layout to match UI design spec shell:
- Added persistent sidebar (primary nav + search thread list + new search control).
- Added main search overview sections (header/actions, KPIs, progress, results, activity/logs).
- Preserved existing Alpine status/token/SSE bindings while restructuring markup.
Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after index layout update (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Implemented backend-served UI bootstrap skeleton:
- Added static UI routes: /, /ui, /ui/:page, and /ui/assets/*.
- Added safe path validation for UI file serving (reject traversal/unsafe paths).
- Added content-type-aware static file responses for HTML/CSS/JS/assets.
Implemented UI auth bootstrap flow for development:
- UI now bootstraps bearer auth via GET /api/v1/dev/auth.
- Token is stored in browser sessionStorage and used for /api/v1/status.
- UI opens SSE with GET /api/v1/events?token=... for browser compatibility.
Updated UI skeleton pages and JS modules:
- Rewrote ui/assets/js/helpers.js and ui/assets/js/app.js to align with /api/v1.
- Updated ui/index.html and ui/search.html to use module scripts and current API flow.
Added/updated API tests:
- Query-token extraction test for SSE auth path.
- UI path-safety validation test coverage.
Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after UI/bootstrap changes (cargo test passed; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
Implemented API CORS hardening for /api/v1:
- Allow only loopback origins (localhost, 127.0.0.1, and loopback IPs).
- Allow only Authorization and Content-Type request headers.
- Allow methods GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, OPTIONS.
- Handle OPTIONS preflight without bearer auth.
- Added unit tests for origin allow/deny behavior.
Fixed CORS origin parsing for bracketed IPv6 loopback (http://[::1]:...) and re-ran validation (cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, cargo test).
API contract tightened for development-only workflow:
- Removed temporary unversioned API route aliases; API is now /api/v1/... only.
- Removed api.enabled compatibility field from config parsing.
Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after removing legacy API handling (cargo test passed; clippy warnings remain in existing code paths).
Created feature branch feature/api-v1-control-plane and implemented API control-plane changes:
- Canonical API routes are now under /api/v1/....
- Added loopback-only dev auth endpoint GET /api/v1/dev/auth (returns bearer token).
- API is now always on; only API host/port are configurable.
Updated docs and shell wrappers to use /api/v1/... endpoints (README.md, docs/architecture.md, docs/api_curl.md, docs/scripts/*, docs/TODO.md, docs/API_DESIGN.md, docs/UI_DESIGN.md).
Added docs/scripts/dev_auth.sh helper for GET /api/v1/dev/auth.
Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after the API/docs changes (cargo test passed; clippy warnings remain in existing code paths).
Per-user request, documentation normalization pass completed across docs/ (typos, naming consistency, and branch references).
Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after docs changes (cargo test passed; clippy warnings remain in existing code paths).
Long-haul two-instance run (25 rounds) confirmed network-origin keyword hits on both instances:
- A received non-empty SEARCH_RES at 2026-02-11 19:41:41.
- B received non-empty SEARCH_RES at 2026-02-11 19:50:02.
Routing snapshot at end of run: total_nodes=157, verified=135, buckets_empty=121, bucket_fill_max=80, last_seen_max≈35060s (~9.7h), last_inbound_max≈29819s (~8.3h). Routing still not growing (new_nodes=0).
Observed SAM SESSION STATUS RESULT=I2P_ERROR MESSAGE="PONG timeout" on both instances at 2026-02-12 06:49:20; service auto-recreated SAM session.
Source publish/search remained empty in the script output.
Periodic KAD2 BOOTSTRAP_REQ now sends plain packets to peers with kad_version 2–5 and encrypted packets only to kad_version >= 6 to avoid silent ignores in mixed-version networks.
Publish/search candidate selection now truncates by distance first, then optionally reorders the same set by liveness to avoid skipping closest nodes.
Restarting a keyword search or publish job now clears the per-job sent_to_* sets so manual retries re-send to peers instead of becoming no-ops.
Publish/search candidate selection now returns a distance-ordered list with fallback (up to max*4 closest) so if early candidates are skipped, farther peers are still available in the batch.

Status (2026-02-11)

Updated docs/scripts/two_instance_dht_selftest.sh to poll keyword results (early exit on origin=network), add configurable poll interval, and allow peer snapshot frequency control.
Increased default wait-search-secs to 45s in the script (I2P cadence).
Updated tmp/test_script_command.txt with new flags for polling and peer snapshot mode.
Added routing snapshot controls to docs/scripts/two_instance_dht_selftest.sh (each|first|end|none) and end-of-run routing summary/buckets when --routing-snapshot end is set.
Updated tmp/test_script_command.txt to use --routing-snapshot end and --peers-snapshot none for the next long run.

Status (2026-02-10)

Ran docs/scripts/two_instance_dht_selftest.sh (5 rounds). Each instance only saw its own locally-injected keyword hit; no cross-instance keyword hits observed.
No PUBLISH_RES (key) acks and no inbound PUBLISH_KEY_REQ during the run; SEARCH_RES replies were empty.
Routing stayed flat (~154), live peers ~2, network appears quiet.
Added debug routing endpoints (/debug/routing/*) plus debug lookup trigger (/debug/lookup_once) and per-bucket refresh lookups.
Added staleness-based bucket refresh with an under-populated growth mode; routing status logs now include bucket fill + verified %.
Routing table updates now treat inbound responses as activity (last_seen/last_inbound) and align bucket index to MSB distance.
Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy, cargo test after the debug/refresh changes (clippy warnings remain; see prior notes).
Added HELLO preflight on inbound responses, prioritized live peers for publish/search, and added post-warmup routing snapshots in the two-instance script.
Aligned Kad2 HELLO_REQ encoding with iMule: kadVersion=1, empty TagList, sent unobfuscated.
Added HELLO_RES_ACK counters (sent/recv), per-request debug logs for publish/search requests, and a /debug/probe_peer API to send HELLO/SEARCH/PUBLISH to a specific peer.
Added /debug/probe_peer curl docs + script (docs/api_curl.md, docs/scripts/debug_probe_peer.sh).
Added KAD2 RES contact acceptance stats (per-response debug log) and HELLO_RES_ACK skip counter.
Added optional dual HELLO_REQ mode (plain + obfuscated) behind kad.service_hello_dual_obfuscated (experimental).
Added config flag wiring for dual-HELLO mode and contact acceptance stats logging; updated config.toml hint.
Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy, cargo test after these changes (clippy warnings remain; see prior notes).
Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy, cargo test after debug probe + logging changes (clippy warnings remain; see prior notes).
Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy, cargo test after HELLO/live-peer changes (clippy warnings remain; see prior notes).
Added origin field to keyword hits (local vs network) in the API response.
Added /kad/peers API endpoint and extra inbound-request counters to /status for visibility.
Increased keyword job cadence/batch size slightly to improve reach without flooding.
Ran cargo fmt, cargo clippy, cargo test (clippy still reports pre-existing warnings).
Extended docs/scripts/two_instance_dht_selftest.sh to include source publish/search flows and peer snapshots.
Added preflight HELLOs for publish/search targets and switched publish/search target selection to distance-only (no liveness tiebreak).

Decisions (2026-02-10)

Token/session security model:
- Session TTL bounds cookie compromise window.
- Explicit token rotation is available to invalidate old bearer + all active sessions.
- UI performs immediate token/session re-bootstrap after rotation to avoid operator disruption.
Session auth policy now includes explicit lifecycle endpoints:
- session issue (bearer), session/check validate (cookie), session/logout revoke (cookie).
- Session validation performs lazy expiry cleanup; unauthenticated/expired frontend flows redirect to /auth.
CSS policy tightened for shared UI styles: prefer variable-driven sizing and relative units; reserve px for border/hairline tokens.
Place first operational charts on node_stats to pair routing/node data with live trend context before introducing a dedicated statistics page.
Auth split for v1 local UI:
- Keep bearer token as the API auth mechanism for /api/v1/*.
- Use a separate HTTP-only session cookie for browser page/asset loads and SSE.
- Remove SSE token query parameter usage from frontend.
Settings API scope for v1: expose/update a focused config subset (general, sam, api) and require restart for full effect.
Keep docs/TODO.md UI checkboxes aligned to implementation truth, using [x] for done and [/] for partial completion where design intent is not fully met.
UI entrypoint canonical URL is /index.html; / is a redirect alias.
Operator UX: always log a copy-pasteable localhost UI URL at startup.
Route-fallback policy: treat unknown non-API, non-asset browser paths as SPA entry points and redirect to /; keep unknown /api/* and /ui/assets/* as 404.
Serve UI from binary-embedded assets (include_dir) instead of runtime disk reads to guarantee deploy-time asset completeness.
Alpine template bindings should be declarative and side-effect free; compute display-only classes/labels in controller state/getters before render.
Theme ownership rule: all color values live in color-* theme files; shared CSS (base.css, layout.css) references theme vars only.
Theme selection persistence uses localStorage key ui_theme and is applied via <html data-theme=\"dark|light|hc\">.
Treat docs/architecture.md + docs/api_curl.md as the implementation-aligned API references for current /api/v1; docs/API_DESIGN.md remains broader future-state design.
Search stop/delete are now first-class /api/v1 controls instead of UI-local placeholders.
DELETE /api/v1/searches/:search_id defaults to purging cached keyword results for that search (purge_results=true) to keep UI state consistent after delete.
Use current active search thread (query-selected or first available) as the source for overview title/state.
Use SSE-backed status updates as the first log timeline source in UI (appLogs), with snapshot polling available via manual refresh.
Use ui/.prettierrc as the canonical formatter config for UI JS files (ui/assets/js/*).
Define node UI state as:
- active: last_inbound_secs_ago <= 600
- live: last_seen_secs_ago <= 600
- idle: otherwise
Treat active keyword-search jobs in KAD service (keyword_jobs) as the canonical backend source for UI "search threads".
Use keyword ID hex as search_id for details routing in v1 (/ui/search_details?searchId=<keyword_id_hex> and /api/v1/searches/:search_id).
Keep search UI v1 focused on real keyword-search queue + cached-hit retrieval rather than adding placeholder-only controls.
Enforce no inline <style> blocks in UI HTML; shared styles must live under ui/assets/css/.
Keep sizing/spacing/state tokens in ui/assets/css/layout.css and consume them from component/layout rules in ui/assets/css/base.css.
Keep index.html as a single-shell page aligned to the chat-style dashboard design, even before full search API wiring exists.
Serve the in-repo UI skeleton from the Rust backend (single local control-plane origin).
Keep browser auth bootstrap development-only and loopback-only via /api/v1/dev/auth.
Permit SSE token via query parameter for /api/v1/events to support browser EventSource without custom headers.
Restrict browser CORS access to loopback origins for local-control-plane safety.
Use strict /api/v1 routes only; no legacy unversioned aliases are kept.
Implement loopback-only dev auth as GET /api/v1/dev/auth (no auth header required).
Make API mandatory (always enabled) and remove api.enabled compatibility handling from code.
Treat main as the canonical branch in project docs.
No code changes made based on this run; treat results as network sparsity/quietness signal.
Keep local publish injection, but expose origin so tests are unambiguous.
Keep Rust-native architecture; optimize behavioral parity rather than line-by-line porting.
Documented workflow: write/update tests where applicable, run fmt/clippy/test, commit + push per iteration.
Accept existing clippy warnings for now; no functional changes required for this iteration.
Use the two-instance script to exercise source publish/search as part of routine sanity checks.
Prioritize DHT correctness over liveness when selecting publish/search targets.
Implement bucket refresh based on staleness (with an under-populated growth mode) to grow the table without aggressive churn.
Use MSB-first bucket indexing to match iMule bit order and ensure random bucket targets map correctly.
On inbound responses, opportunistically send HELLO to establish keys and improve publish/search acceptance.
Prefer recently-live peers first for publish/search while keeping distance correctness as fallback.
Match iMule HELLO_REQ behavior (unencrypted, kadVersion=1, empty TagList) to improve interop.
Add a targeted debug probe endpoint rather than relying on background jobs to validate per-peer responses.
Add per-response acceptance stats and HELLO_ACK skip counters to see why routing doesn’t grow.
Add an optional dual-HELLO mode (explicitly marked as “perhaps”, since it diverges from iMule).
Dual-HELLO is explicitly flagged as a “perhaps”/experimental divergence from iMule behavior.

Next Steps (2026-02-10)

Consider periodic background cleanup for expired sessions (currently lazy cleanup on create/validate).
Add optional “session expires in” UI indicator if a session metadata endpoint is introduced.
Expand chart interactions/usability:
- Add legend toggles and chart tooltips formatting for rates and hit counts.
- Add pause/reset controls for time-series buffers.
- Consider moving/duplicating high-value charts to overview once layout is finalized.
Add session lifecycle endpoints and UX (POST /api/v1/session/logout, session-expired handling in UI).
Add session persistence/eviction policy (TTL + periodic cleanup) instead of in-memory unbounded set.
Add integration tests for middleware behavior:
- unauthenticated UI path redirects to /auth
- authenticated UI path succeeds
- /api/v1/events rejects bearer-only and accepts valid session cookie
Add an explicit integration test for PATCH /api/v1/settings through the full router (not just handler-level tests), including persistence failure behavior.
Consider adding runtime-apply behavior for selected settings that do not require restart (and return per-field restart_required metadata).
Prioritize remaining UI gaps from docs/TODO.md/docs/UI_DESIGN.md:
- Implement Chart.js-based statistics visualizations.
- Remove SSE token exposure via query params (or document accepted tradeoff explicitly).
- Decide whether static UI routes should become bearer-protected and implement consistently.
- Implement API-backed settings (GET/PATCH /api/settings) and wire the settings page.
Add an integration test against the full Axum router asserting GET /nonexisting.php?x=1 returns redirect Location: /.
Consider adding a /api/v1/ui/manifest debug endpoint exposing embedded UI file names/checksums for operational verification.
Add a lightweight UI smoke test pass (load each /ui/* page and assert Alpine init has no console/runtime errors) to guard future binding regressions.
Add integration tests for API auth/CORS behavior (preflight + protected endpoint access patterns).
Expand UI beyond status/search placeholder views (routing table, peers, and publish/search workflow surfaces).
Replace static index sidebar/result placeholders with real search data once /api/searches endpoints are implemented.
Add search-history/thread state in the UI (persisted list of submitted keyword jobs and selection behavior).
Add API/frontend support for completed (no longer active) search history so search_details remains available after a job leaves keyword_jobs.
Consider making node-state thresholds (active/live age windows) configurable in UI settings or API response metadata.
Add richer log event typing/filtering once non-status event types are exposed from the API.
Decide which docs/API_DESIGN.md endpoints should be promoted into the near-term implementation backlog vs kept as long-term design.
Consider renaming ui/assets/css/colors-light.css to ui/assets/css/color-light.css for file-name symmetry (non-functional cleanup).
Decide whether to keep dev auth as an explicit development-only endpoint or move to stronger local auth flow before release.
Add UI-focused integration coverage (static UI route serving + SSE auth query behavior end-to-end).
Consider adding a debug toggle to disable local injection during tests.
Consider clearing per-keyword job sent_to_* sets on new API commands to allow re-tries to the same peers.
Consider a small UI view over /kad/peers to spot real inbound activity quickly.
Optionally address remaining clippy warnings in unrelated files.
Run the updated two-instance script and review OUT_FILE + logs for source publish/search behavior.
Re-run two-instance test to see if HELLO preflight improves PUBLISH_RES / SEARCH_RES results.
Run docs/scripts/debug_routing_summary.sh + debug_routing_buckets.sh around test runs; use debug_lookup_once to trace a single lookup.
Re-run the two-instance script (now with post-warmup routing snapshots) and check for HELLO traffic + publish/search ACKs.
Re-run two-instance test and check for recv_hello_ress / recv_hello_reqs increases after HELLO_REQ change.
Use /debug/probe_peer against a known peer from /kad/peers to check HELLO/SEARCH/PUBLISH responses.
If hello_ack_skipped_no_sender_key keeps climbing, consider enabling kad.service_hello_dual_obfuscated = true for a test run.
If KAD2 RES contact acceptance stats show high dest_mismatch or already_id, investigate routing filters or seed freshness.

Roadmap Notes

Storage: file-based runtime state under data/ is fine for now (and aligns with iMule formats like nodes.dat). As we implement real client features (search history, file hashes/metadata, downloads, richer indexes), consider SQLite for structured queries + crash-safe transactions. See docs/architecture.md.

Change Log

2026-02-12: CSS/theme pass: consolidate shared UI colors into color-dark.css/colors-light.css/color-hc.css, remove direct colors from base.css/layout.css, add early theme-init.js, and implement settings theme selector persisted via localStorage + html[data-theme]; run Prettier + fmt/clippy/test (tests pass; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
2026-02-12: API sanity check-run completed; add endpoint-level API tests for /api/v1/searches/:search_id/stop and DELETE /api/v1/searches/:search_id dispatch behavior (src/api/mod.rs); run fmt/clippy/test (tests pass; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
2026-02-12: Implement missing /api/v1 backing for UI search controls: add stop/delete search endpoints + service commands/logic + tests; wire UI stop/delete to API and add apiDelete() helper; update API docs; run Prettier + fmt/clippy/test (tests pass; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
2026-02-12: Implement UI consistency fixes 1..4: add ui/settings.html + appSettings(), wire settings/new-search/actions, and make overview header/state thread-driven; run Prettier (ui/assets/js/app.js) + fmt/clippy/test (tests pass; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
2026-02-12: Add ui/log.html and appLogs() (status snapshot + SSE-backed rolling log view), and route sidebar "Logs" links to /ui/log; run fmt/clippy/test (tests pass; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
2026-02-12: Format ui/assets/js/app.js and ui/assets/js/helpers.js with ui/.prettierrc; verify with prettier --check; run fmt/clippy/test (tests pass; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
2026-02-12: Add ui/node_stats.html with shell + node status table/KPIs using /api/v1/status and /api/v1/kad/peers; implement appNodeStats(); point shell nav "Nodes / Routing" to /ui/node_stats; run fmt/clippy/test (tests pass; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
2026-02-12: Add /api/v1/searches and /api/v1/searches/:search_id for active keyword jobs; wire search-thread sidebars to API; add ui/search_details.html that loads details via searchId query param; update API docs; run fmt/clippy/test (tests pass; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
2026-02-12: Replicate shell in ui/search.html; implement first keyword search form wired to /api/v1/kad/search_keyword + /api/v1/kad/keyword_results/:keyword_id_hex; add reusable form CSS classes/tokens and apiPost() helper; run fmt/clippy/test (tests pass; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
2026-02-12: Remove inline styles from ui/index.html; move reusable shell/search layout rules to ui/assets/css/base.css; define layout/state CSS vars in ui/assets/css/layout.css; run fmt/clippy/test (tests pass; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
2026-02-12: Redesign ui/index.html into the UI spec shell (sidebar + search-overview main panel), preserving existing Alpine status/token/SSE wiring; run fmt/clippy/test (tests pass; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
2026-02-12: Serve UI skeleton from backend (/, /ui, /ui/:page, /ui/assets/*) with safe path validation and static content handling; allow SSE query-token auth for /api/v1/events; add related tests and update UI JS/HTML/docs (src/api/mod.rs, ui/*, README.md, docs/architecture.md, docs/TODO.md).
2026-02-12: Run cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after UI/bootstrap work (tests pass; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
2026-02-12: Add loopback-only CORS middleware for /api/v1 with explicit preflight handling and origin validation tests (src/api/mod.rs).
2026-02-12: Fix CORS IPv6 loopback origin parsing ([::1]) and rerun fmt/clippy/test (tests pass; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
2026-02-12: Extend Access-Control-Allow-Methods to include PUT and PATCH; add regression test (src/api/mod.rs).
2026-02-12: Remove temporary unversioned API aliases and enforce /api/v1 only (src/api/mod.rs).
2026-02-12: Remove api.enabled compatibility handling from config/app code (src/config.rs, src/app.rs).
2026-02-12: Run cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after strict v1-only API cleanup (tests pass; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
2026-02-12: Implement /api/v1 canonical routing, add loopback-only GET /api/v1/dev/auth, make API always-on (deprecate/ignore api.enabled), and add compatibility aliases for legacy routes (src/api/mod.rs, src/app.rs, src/config.rs, src/main.rs, config.toml).
2026-02-12: Update API docs/scripts to /api/v1 and add docs/scripts/dev_auth.sh helper.
2026-02-12: Run cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after API routing/control-plane changes (tests pass; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
2026-02-12: Normalize docs wording/typos and align branch references to main (docs/TODO.md, docs/dev.md, docs/handoff.md).
2026-02-12: Run cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features, and cargo test after doc normalization (tests pass; existing clippy warnings unchanged).
2026-02-11: Tune two-instance selftest script with polling + peer snapshot controls; update tmp/test_script_command.txt to use new flags.
2026-02-11: Add routing snapshot controls and end-of-run routing dumps for the two-instance selftest; update tmp/test_script_command.txt.
2026-02-12: Long-haul run confirmed network-origin keyword hits; routing table still flat; SAM session recreated after PONG timeout on both instances.
2026-02-12: Send periodic BOOTSTRAP_REQ unencrypted to Kad v2–v5 peers; only encrypt for Kad v6+.
2026-02-12: Fix publish/search peer selection so distance is primary; liveness only reorders within the closest set.
2026-02-12: Clear keyword job sent_to_search / sent_to_publish on restart to allow manual retries to send again.
2026-02-12: Return distance-ordered peer lists with fallback (max*4) to avoid empty batches when closest peers are skipped.
2026-02-10: Two-instance DHT selftest (5 rounds) showed only local keyword hits; no cross-instance results, no publish-key acks, empty search responses; routing stayed flat (quiet network).
2026-02-10: Add origin field to keyword hit API responses (local vs network).
2026-02-10: Add /kad/peers API endpoint and new inbound request counters in /status; slightly increase keyword job cadence/batch size.
2026-02-10: Add workflow guidance in AGENTS.md (tests, fmt/clippy/test, commit + push per iteration).
2026-02-10: Extend two-instance selftest to include source publish/search and peer snapshots; add kad_peers_get.sh.
2026-02-10: Add HELLO preflight for publish/search targets and use distance-only selection for DHT-critical actions.
2026-02-10: Add debug routing endpoints + debug lookup trigger; add staleness-based bucket refresh with under-populated growth mode.
2026-02-10: Align bucket indexing with MSB bit order; mark last_seen/last_inbound on inbound responses.
2026-02-10: Send HELLO on inbound responses, prioritize live peers for publish/search, and add post-warmup routing snapshots in the selftest script.
2026-02-10: Align Kad2 HELLO_REQ with iMule (kadVersion=1, empty taglist, unobfuscated); add encode_kad2_hello_req and update HELLO send paths.
2026-02-10: Add HELLO_RES_ACK counters + publish/search request debug logs; add /debug/probe_peer API for targeted HELLO/SEARCH/PUBLISH probes.
2026-02-10: Document /debug/probe_peer in docs/api_curl.md and add docs/scripts/debug_probe_peer.sh.
2026-02-10: Add KAD2 RES contact acceptance stats (debug) + HELLO_ACK skip counter; add optional dual HELLO_REQ mode behind config flag (experimental, diverges from iMule).
2026-02-10: Wire kad.service_hello_dual_obfuscated config; add KAD2 RES acceptance stats and HELLO_ACK skip counters to status/logs; update config.toml.
2026-02-06: Embed distributable nodes init seed at assets/nodes.initseed.dat; create data/nodes.initseed.dat and data/nodes.fallback.dat from embedded seed (best-effort) so runtime no longer depends on repo-local reference folders.
2026-02-06: Reduce default stdout verbosity to info (code default and repo config.toml; file logging remains configurable and can stay debug).
2026-02-06: Make Kad UDP key secret file-backed only (data/kad_udp_key_secret.dat); kad.udp_key_secret is deprecated/ignored to reduce misconfiguration risk.
2026-02-06: Implement iMule-style KADEMLIA2_REQ sender-id field and learn sender IDs from inbound KADEMLIA2_REQ to improve routing growth.
2026-02-06: Clarify iMule KADEMLIA2_REQ first byte is a requested contact count (low 5 bits), and update Rust naming (requested_contacts) + parity docs.
2026-02-06: Fix Kad1 HELLO_RES contact type to 3 (matches iMule CContact::Self().WriteToKad1Contact default).
2026-02-06: Periodic BOOTSTRAP refresh: stop excluding peers by failures >= max_failures (BOOTSTRAP is a distinct discovery path); rely on per-peer backoff instead so refresh continues even when crawl timeouts accumulate.
2026-02-07: Observed 3 responding peers (live=3) across a multi-hour run (improvement from prior steady state of 2). Routing table size still stayed flat (routing=153, new_nodes=0), indicating responders are returning already-known contacts.
2026-02-07: Add live_10m metric to status logs (recently-responsive peers), and change periodic BOOTSTRAP refresh to rotate across "cold" peers first (diversifies discovery without increasing send rate).
2026-02-07: Fix long-run stability: prevent Tokio interval "catch-up bursts" (missed tick behavior set to Skip), treat SAM TCP-DATAGRAM framing desync as fatal, and auto-recreate the SAM DATAGRAM session if the socket drops (service keeps running instead of crashing).
2026-02-07: Introduce typed SAM errors (SamError) for the SAM protocol layer + control client + datagram transports; higher layers use anyhow but reconnect logic now searches the error chain for SamError instead of string-matching messages.
2026-02-07: Add a minimal local HTTP API skeleton (REST + SSE) for a future GUI (src/api/), with a bearer token stored in data/api.token. See docs/architecture.md.
2026-02-07: Start client-side search/publish groundwork: add Kad2 SEARCH_SOURCE_REQ + PUBLISH_SOURCE_REQ encoding/decoding, handle inbound SEARCH_RES/PUBLISH_RES in the service loop, and expose minimal API endpoints to enqueue those actions.
2026-02-07: Add iMule-compatible keyword hashing + Kad2 keyword search:
- iMule-style keyword hashing (MD4) used for Kad2 keyword lookups (src/kad/keyword.rs, src/kad/md4.rs).
- KADEMLIA2_SEARCH_KEY_REQ encoding and unified KADEMLIA2_SEARCH_RES decoding (source + keyword/file results) (src/kad/wire.rs, src/kad/service.rs).
- New API endpoints: POST /kad/search_keyword, GET /kad/keyword_results/:keyword_id_hex (src/api/mod.rs).
- Curl cheat sheet updated (docs/api_curl.md).
2026-02-07: Add bounded keyword result caching (prevents memory ballooning):
- Hard caps (max keywords, max total hits, max hits/keyword) + TTL pruning.
- All knobs are configurable in config.toml under [kad] (service_keyword_*).
- Status now reports keyword cache totals + eviction counters.
2026-02-09: Two-instance keyword publish/search sanity check (mule-a + mule-b):
- Both sides successfully received KADEMLIA2_SEARCH_RES replies, but all keyword results were empty (keyword_entries=0).
- Root cause (interop): iMule rejects Kad2 keyword publishes which only contain TAG_FILENAME + TAG_FILESIZE. In iMule CIndexed::AddKeyword checks GetTagCount() != 0, and Kad2 publish parsing stores filename+size out-of-band (so they do not contribute to the internal tag list). iMule itself publishes additional tags like TAG_SOURCES and TAG_COMPLETE_SOURCES. See source_ref/.../Search.cpp::PreparePacketForTags and Indexed.cpp::AddKeyword.
- Fix: rust-mule now always includes TAG_SOURCES and TAG_COMPLETE_SOURCES in Kad2 keyword publish/search-result taglists (src/kad/wire.rs), matching iMule expectations.
2026-02-09: Follow-up two-instance test showed some keyword results coming back from the network (keyword_entries=1), but A and B still tended to publish/search against disjoint "live" peers and would miss each other's stores. Fix: change DHT-critical peer selection to be distance-first (XOR distance primary; liveness as tiebreaker) so that publish/search targets the correct closest nodes (src/kad/routing.rs, src/kad/service.rs).
2026-02-09: Two-instance test artifacts under ./tmp/ (mule-a+mule-b with docs/scripts/two_instance_dht_selftest.sh):
- Script output shows each side only ever returns its own published hit for the shared keyword (no cross-hit observed). This is expected with the current API behavior because POST /kad/publish_keyword injects a local hit into the in-memory cache. Real proof of network success is got SEARCH_RES ... keyword_entries>0 inserted_keywords>0 in logs (or explicit origin=network markers).
- Both instances received at least one got SEARCH_RES ... keyword_entries=0 for the shared keyword (network replied, but empty).
- Neither instance logged got PUBLISH_RES (key) (no publish acks observed).
- mule-b received many inbound KADEMLIA2_PUBLISH_KEY_REQ packets from peer -8jmpFh... that fail decoding with unexpected EOF at 39 (345 occurrences in that run), so we do not store those keywords and we do not reply with PUBLISH_RES on that path.
- Next debugging targets:
  - capture raw decrypted payload (len + hex head) on first decode failure to determine truncation vs parsing mismatch,
  - make publish-key decoding best-effort and still reply with PUBLISH_RES (key) to reduce peer retries,
  - add origin=local|network to keyword hits (or a debug knob to disable local injection) to make tests unambiguous.
2026-02-09: Implemented publish-key robustness improvements:
- Add lenient KADEMLIA2_PUBLISH_KEY_REQ decoding which can return partial entries and still extract the keyword prefix for ACKing (src/kad/wire.rs).
- On decode failure, rust-mule now attempts a prefix ACK (send KADEMLIA2_PUBLISH_RES for the keyword) so peers stop retransmitting.
- Added recv_publish_key_decode_failures counter to /status output for visibility (src/kad/service.rs).
2026-02-09: Discovered an iMule debug-build quirk in the wild:
- Some peers appear to include an extra u32 tag-serial counter inside Kad TagLists (enabled by iMule _DEBUG_TAGS), which shifts tag parsing (we saw this in a publish-key payload where the filename length was preceded by 4 bytes).
- rust-mule now retries TagList parsing with and without this extra u32 field for:
  - Kad2 HELLO taglists (ints)
  - search/publish taglists (search info) (src/kad/wire.rs).
2026-02-09: Added rust-mule peer identification:
- Kad2 HELLO_REQ/HELLO_RES now includes a private vendor tag TAG_RUST_MULE_AGENT (0xFE) with a string like rust-mule/<version>.
- If a peer sends that tag, rust-mule records it in-memory and logs it once when first learned.
- This allows rust-mule-specific feature gating going forward while remaining compatible with iMule (unknown tags are ignored).
2026-02-07: TTL note (small/slow iMule I2P-KAD reality):
- Keyword hits are a “discovery cache” and can be noisy; expiring them is mostly for memory hygiene.
- File sources are likely intermittent; plan to keep them much longer (days/weeks) and track last_seen rather than aggressively expiring.
- If keyword lookups feel too slow to re-learn, bump:
  - kad.service_keyword_interest_ttl_secs and kad.service_keyword_results_ttl_secs (e.g. 7 days = 604800).
2026-02-08: Fix SAM session teardown + reconnect resilience:
- Some SAM routers require SESSION DESTROY STYLE=... ID=...; we now fall back to style-specific destroys for both STREAM and DATAGRAM sessions (src/i2p/sam/client.rs, src/i2p/sam/datagram_tcp.rs).
- KAD socket recreation now retries session creation with exponential backoff on tunnel-build errors like “duplicate destination” instead of crashing (src/app.rs).
2026-02-08: Add Kad2 keyword publish + DHT keyword storage:
- Handle inbound KADEMLIA2_PUBLISH_KEY_REQ by storing minimal keyword->file metadata and replying with KADEMLIA2_PUBLISH_RES (key shape) (src/kad/service.rs, src/kad/wire.rs).
- Answer inbound KADEMLIA2_SEARCH_KEY_REQ from the stored keyword index (helps interoperability + self-testing).
- Add API endpoint POST /kad/publish_keyword and document in docs/api_curl.md.

Current State (As Of 2026-02-07)

Canonical branch: main (recent historical work happened on feature/kad-search-publish).
Implemented:
- SAM v3 TCP control client with logging and redacted sensitive fields (src/i2p/sam/).
- SAM STYLE=DATAGRAM session over TCP (iMule-style DATAGRAM SEND / DATAGRAM RECEIVED) (src/i2p/sam/datagram_tcp.rs).
- SAM STYLE=DATAGRAM session + UDP forwarding socket (src/i2p/sam/datagram.rs).
- iMule-compatible KadID persisted in data/preferencesKad.dat (src/kad.rs).
- iMule nodes.dat v2 parsing (I2P destinations, KadIDs, UDP keys) (src/nodes/imule.rs).
- Distributable bootstrap seed embedded at assets/nodes.initseed.dat and copied to data/nodes.initseed.dat / data/nodes.fallback.dat on first run (src/app.rs).
- KAD packet encode/decode including iMule packed replies (pure-Rust zlib/deflate inflater) (src/kad/wire.rs, src/kad/packed.rs).
- Minimal bootstrap probe: send PING + BOOTSTRAP_REQ, decode PONG + BOOTSTRAP_RES (src/kad/bootstrap.rs).
- Kad1+Kad2 HELLO handling during bootstrap (reply to HELLO_REQ, parse HELLO_RES, send HELLO_RES_ACK when requested) (src/kad/bootstrap.rs, src/kad/wire.rs).
- Minimal Kad2 routing behavior during bootstrap:
- Answer Kad2 KADEMLIA2_REQ (0x11) with KADEMLIA2_RES (0x13) using the closest known contacts (src/kad/bootstrap.rs, src/kad/wire.rs).
- Answer Kad1 KADEMLIA_REQ_DEPRECATED (0x05) with Kad1 RES (0x06) (src/kad/bootstrap.rs, src/kad/wire.rs).
- Handle Kad2 KADEMLIA2_PUBLISH_SOURCE_REQ (0x19) by recording a minimal in-memory source entry and replying with KADEMLIA2_PUBLISH_RES (0x1B) (this stops peers from retransmitting publishes during bootstrap) (src/kad/bootstrap.rs, src/kad/wire.rs).
- Handle Kad2 KADEMLIA2_SEARCH_SOURCE_REQ (0x15) with KADEMLIA2_SEARCH_RES (0x17) (source results are encoded with the minimal required tags: TAG_SOURCETYPE, TAG_SOURCEDEST, TAG_SOURCEUDEST) (src/kad/bootstrap.rs, src/kad/wire.rs).
- Persist discovered peers to data/nodes.dat (iMule nodes.dat v2) so we can slowly self-heal even when nodes2.dat fetch is unavailable (src/app.rs, src/nodes/imule.rs).
- I2P HTTP fetch helper over SAM STREAM (used to download a fresh nodes2.dat when addressbook resolves) (src/i2p/http.rs).
Removed obsolete code:
- Legacy IPv4-focused nodes.dat parsing and old net probe helpers.
- Empty/unused src/protocol.rs.

Dev Topology Notes

SAM bridge is on 10.99.0.2.
This rust-mule dev env runs inside Docker on host 10.99.0.1.
For SAM UDP forwarding to work, SESSION CREATE ... HOST=<forward_host> PORT=<forward_port> must be reachable from 10.99.0.2 and mapped into the container.
- Recommended config.toml values:
  - sam.host = "10.99.0.2"
  - sam.forward_host = "10.99.0.1"
  - sam.forward_port = 40000
- Docker needs either --network host or -p 40000:40000/udp.

If you don't want to deal with UDP forwarding, set sam.datagram_transport = "tcp" in config.toml.

Data Files (`*.dat`) And Which One Is Used

`data/nodes.dat` (Primary Bootstrap + Persisted Seed Pool)

This is the main nodes file that rust-mule uses across runs. By default it is:

kad.bootstrap_nodes_path = "nodes.dat" (in config.toml)
resolved relative to general.data_dir = "data"
so the primary path is data/nodes.dat

On startup, rust-mule will try to load nodes from this path first. During runtime it is also periodically overwritten with a refreshed list (but in a merge-preserving way; see below).

Format: iMule/aMule nodes.dat v2 (I2P destinations + KadIDs + optional UDP keys).

`data/nodes.initseed.dat` and `data/nodes.fallback.dat` (Local Seed Snapshots)

These are local seed snapshots stored under data/ so runtime behavior does not depend on repo paths:

data/nodes.initseed.dat: the initial seed snapshot (created on first run from the embedded initseed).
data/nodes.fallback.dat: currently just a copy of initseed (we can evolve this later into a "last-known-good" snapshot if desired).

They are used only when:

data/nodes.dat does not exist, OR
data/nodes.dat exists but has become too small (currently < 50 entries), in which case startup will re-seed data/nodes.dat by merging in reference nodes.

Selection logic lives in src/app.rs (pick_nodes_dat() + the re-seed block).

`assets/nodes.initseed.dat` (Embedded Distributable Init Seed)

For distributable builds we track a baseline seed snapshot at:

assets/nodes.initseed.dat

At runtime this is embedded into the binary via include_bytes!() and written out to data/nodes.initseed.dat / data/nodes.fallback.dat if they don't exist yet (best-effort).

source_ref/ remains a dev-only reference folder (gitignored) that contains iMule sources and reference files, but the app no longer depends on it for bootstrapping.

`nodes2.dat` (Remote Bootstrap Download, If Available)

iMule historically hosted an HTTP bootstrap list at:

http://www.imule.i2p/nodes2.dat

rust-mule will try to download this only when it is not using the normal persisted data/nodes.dat seed pool (i.e. when it had to fall back to initseed/fallback).

If the download succeeds, it is saved as data/nodes.dat (we don't keep a separate nodes2.dat file on disk right now).

`data/sam.keys` (SAM Destination Keys)

SAM pub/priv keys are stored in data/sam.keys as a simple k/v file:

text

PUB=...
PRIV=...

This keeps secrets out of config.toml (which is easy to accidentally commit).

`data/preferencesKad.dat` (Your KadID / Node Identity)

This stores the Kademlia node ID (iMule/aMule format). It is loaded at startup and reused across runs so you keep a stable identity on the network.

If you delete it, a new random KadID is generated and peers will treat you as a different node.

`data/kad_udp_key_secret.dat` (UDP Obfuscation Secret)

This is the persistent secret used to compute UDP verify keys (iMule-style GetUDPVerifyKey() logic, adapted to I2P dest hash).

This value is generated on first run and loaded from this file on startup. It is intentionally not user-configurable. If you delete it, a new secret is generated and any learned UDP-key relationships may stop validating until re-established.

Known Issue / Debugging

If you see SAM read timed out right after a successful HELLO, the hang is likely on SESSION CREATE ... STYLE=DATAGRAM (session establishment can be slow on some routers).

Mitigation:

sam.control_timeout_secs (default 120) controls SAM control-channel read/write timeouts.
With general.log_level = "debug", the app logs the exact SAM command it was waiting on (with private keys redacted).

Latest Run Notes (2026-02-04)

Observed with sam.datagram_transport = "tcp":

SAM HELLO OK.
SESSION CREATE STYLE=DATAGRAM ... OK.
Loaded a small seed pool (at that time it came from a repo reference nodes.dat; today we use the embedded initseed).
Sent initial KADEMLIA2_BOOTSTRAP_REQ to peers, but received 0 PONG/BOOTSTRAP_RES responses within the bootstrap window.
- A likely root cause is that iMule nodes expect obfuscated/encrypted KAD UDP packets (RC4+MD5 framing), and will ignore plain OP_KADEMLIAHEADER packets.
- Another likely root cause is that the nodes list is stale (the default iMule KadNodesUrl is http://www.imule.i2p/nodes2.dat).

Next things to try if this repeats:

Switch to sam.datagram_transport = "udp_forward" (some SAM bridges implement UDP forwarding more reliably than TCP datagrams).
Ensure Docker/host UDP forwarding is mapped correctly if using udp_forward (sam.forward_host must be reachable from the SAM host).
Increase the bootstrap runtime (I2P tunnel build + lease set publication can take time). Defaults are now more forgiving (max_initial=256, runtime=180s, warmup=8s).
Prefer a fresher/larger nodes.dat seed pool (the embedded assets/nodes.initseed.dat may age; real discovery + persistence in data/nodes.dat should keep things fresh over time).
Avoid forcing I2P lease set encryption types unless you know all peers support it (iMule doesn't set i2cp.leaseSetEncType for its datagram session).
The app will attempt to fetch a fresh nodes2.dat over I2P from www.imule.i2p and write it to data/nodes.dat when it had to fall back to initseed/fallback.

If you see Error: SAM read timed out during bootstrap on sam.datagram_transport="tcp", that's a local read timeout on the SAM TCP socket (no inbound datagrams yet), not necessarily a SAM failure. The TCP datagram receiver was updated to block and let the bootstrap loop apply its own deadline.

Updated Run Notes (2026-02-04 19:30Z-ish)

SAM SESSION CREATE STYLE=DATAGRAM succeeded but took ~43s (so sam.control_timeout_secs=120 is warranted).
We received inbound datagrams:
- a Kad1 KADEMLIA_HELLO_REQ_DEPRECATED (opcode 0x03) from a peer
- a Kad2 KADEMLIA2_BOOTSTRAP_RES which decrypted successfully
Rust now replies to Kad1 HELLO_REQ with a Kad1 HELLO_RES containing our I2P contact details, matching iMule's WriteToKad1Contact() layout.
Rust now also sends Kad2 HELLO_REQ during bootstrap and handles Kad2 HELLO_REQ/RES/RES_ACK to improve chances of being added to routing tables and to exchange UDP verify keys.
Observed many inbound Kad2 node-lookup requests (KADEMLIA2_REQ, opcode 0x11). rust-mule now replies with KADEMLIA2_RES using the best-known contacts from nodes.dat + newly discovered peers (minimal routing-table behavior).
The nodes2.dat downloader failed because NAMING LOOKUP www.imule.i2p returned KEY_NOT_FOUND on that router.
If www.imule.i2p and imule.i2p are missing from the router addressbook, the downloader can't run unless you add an addressbook subscription which includes those entries, or use a .b32.i2p hostname / destination string directly.

Updated Run Notes (2026-02-04 20:42Z-ish)

Updated Run Notes (2026-02-06)

Confirmed logs now land in data/logs/ (daily rolled).
Fresh run created data/nodes.initseed.dat + data/nodes.fallback.dat from embedded initseed (first run behavior).
data/nodes.dat loaded 154 entries (primary), service started with routing 153.
Over ~20 minutes, service stayed healthy (periodic kad service status kept printing), but discovery was limited:
- live stabilized around 2
- recv_ress > 0 (we do get some KADEMLIA2_RES back), but new_nodes=0 during that window.
- No WARN/ERROR events were observed.

If discovery remains flat over multi-hour runs, next tuning likely involves more aggressive exploration (higher alpha, lower req_min_interval, more frequent HELLOs) and/or adding periodic KADEMLIA2_BOOTSTRAP_REQ refresh queries in the service loop.

Bootstrap sent probes to peers=103.
Received:
KADEMLIA2_BOOTSTRAP_RES (decrypted OK), which contained contacts=1.
KADEMLIA2_HELLO_REQ from the same peer; rust-mule replied with KADEMLIA2_HELLO_RES.
bootstrap summary ... discovered=2 and persisted refreshed nodes to data/nodes.dat (count=120).

Updated Run Notes (2026-02-05)

From log.txt:

Bootstrapping from data/nodes.dat now works reliably enough to discover peers (count=122 at end of run).
We now see lots of inbound Kad2 node lookups (KADEMLIA2_REQ, opcode 0x11) and we respond to each with KADEMLIA2_RES (contacts=4 in logs).
One peer was repeatedly sending Kad2 publish-source requests (opcode=0x19, KADEMLIA2_PUBLISH_SOURCE_REQ). This is now handled by replying with KADEMLIA2_PUBLISH_RES and recording a minimal in-memory source entry so that (if asked) we can return it via KADEMLIA2_SEARCH_RES.
- Example (later in the log): publish_source_reqs=16 and publish_source_res_sent=16 in the bootstrap summary, plus log lines like sent KAD2 PUBLISH_RES (sources) ... sources_for_file=1.

Known SAM Quirk (DEST GENERATE)

Some SAM implementations reply to DEST GENERATE as:

DEST REPLY PUB=... PRIV=...

with no RESULT=OK field. SamClient::dest_generate() was updated to accept this (it now validates PUB and PRIV instead of requiring RESULT=OK). This unblocks:

src/bin/sam_dgram_selftest.rs
the nodes2.dat downloader (temporary STREAM sessions use DEST GENERATE)

Known Issue (Addressbook Entry For `www.imule.i2p`)

If NAMING LOOKUP NAME=www.imule.i2p returns RESULT=KEY_NOT_FOUND, your router's addressbook doesn't have that host.

Mitigations:

Add/subscribe to an addressbook source which includes www.imule.i2p.
The downloader also tries imule.i2p as a fallback by stripping the leading www..
The app now also persists any peers it discovers during bootstrap to data/nodes.dat, so it can slowly build a fresh nodes list even if nodes2.dat can’t be fetched.

KAD UDP Obfuscation (iMule Compatibility)

iMule encrypts/obfuscates KAD UDP packets (see EncryptedDatagramSocket.cpp) and includes sender/receiver verify keys.

Implemented in Rust:

src/kad/udp_crypto.rs: MD5 + RC4 + iMule framing, plus udp_verify_key() compatible with iMule (using I2P dest hash in place of IPv4).
src/kad/udp_crypto.rs: receiver-verify-key-based encryption path (needed for KADEMLIA2_HELLO_RES_ACK in iMule).
kad.udp_key_secret used to be configurable, but is now deprecated/ignored. The secret is always generated/loaded from data/kad_udp_key_secret.dat (analogous to iMule thePrefs::GetKadUDPKey()).

Bootstrap now:

Encrypts outgoing KADEMLIA2_BOOTSTRAP_REQ using the target's KadID.
Attempts to decrypt inbound packets (NodeID-key and ReceiverVerifyKey-key variants) before KAD parsing.

How To Run

bash

cargo run --bin rust-mule

If debugging SAM control protocol, set:

general.log_level = "debug" in config.toml, or
RUST_LOG=rust_mule=debug in the environment.

Kad Service Loop (Crawler)

As of 2026-02-05, rust-mule runs a long-lived Kad service loop after the initial bootstrap by default. It:

listens/responds to inbound Kad traffic
periodically crawls the network by sending KADEMLIA2_REQ lookups and decoding KADEMLIA2_RES replies
periodically persists an updated data/nodes.dat

Important Fix (2026-02-05): `KADEMLIA2_REQ` Check Field

If you see the service loop sending lots of KADEMLIA2_REQ but reporting recv_ress=0 in kad service status, the most likely culprit was a bug which is fixed in main (originally developed on feature/sam-protocol):

In iMule, the KADEMLIA2_REQ payload includes a check KadID field which must match the receiver's KadID.
If we incorrectly put our KadID in the check field, peers will silently ignore the request and never send KADEMLIA2_RES.

After the fix, long runs should start showing recv_ress>0 and new_nodes>0 as the crawler learns contacts.

Note: Why `routing` Might Not Grow Past The Seed Count

If kad service status shows recv_ress>0 but routing stays flat (e.g. stuck at the initial nodes.dat size), that can be normal in a small/stale network or it can indicate that peers are mostly returning contacts we already know (or echoing our own KadID back as a contact).

The service now counts “new nodes” only when routing.len() actually increases after processing KADEMLIA2_RES, to avoid misleading logs.

Also: the crawler now picks query targets Kademlia-style: it biases which peers it queries by XOR distance to the lookup target (not just “who is live”). This tends to explore new regions of the ID space faster and increases the odds of discovering nodes that weren't already in the seed nodes.dat.

Recent observation (2026-02-06, ~50 min run):

data/nodes.dat stayed at 154 entries; routing stayed at 153.
live peers stayed at 2.
Periodic KADEMLIA2_BOOTSTRAP_REQ refresh got replies, but returned contact lists were typically 2 and did not introduce new IDs (new_nodes=0).

Takeaway: this looks consistent with a very small / stagnant iMule I2P-KAD network or a seed which mostly points at dead peers. Next improvements should focus on discovery strategy and fresh seeding (see TODO below).

Relevant config keys (all under [kad]):

service_enabled (default true)
service_runtime_secs (0 = run until Ctrl-C)
service_crawl_every_secs (default 3)
service_persist_every_secs (default 300)
service_alpha (default 3)
service_req_contacts (default 31)
service_max_persist_nodes (default 5000) Additional tuning knobs:
service_req_timeout_secs (default 45)
service_req_min_interval_secs (default 15)
service_bootstrap_every_secs (default 1800)
service_bootstrap_batch (default 1)
service_bootstrap_min_interval_secs (default 21600)
service_hello_every_secs (default 10)
service_hello_batch (default 2)
service_hello_min_interval_secs (default 900)
service_maintenance_every_secs (default 5)
service_max_failures (default 5)
service_evict_age_secs (default 86400)

Logging Notes

As of 2026-02-05, logs can be persisted to disk via tracing-appender:

Controlled by [general].log_to_file (default true)
Files are written under [general].data_dir/logs and rolled daily as rust-mule.log.YYYY-MM-DD (configurable via [general].log_file_name)
Stdout verbosity is controlled by [general].log_level (or RUST_LOG).
File verbosity is controlled by [general].log_file_level (or RUST_MULE_LOG_FILE).

The Kad service loop now emits a concise INFO line periodically: kad service status (default every 60s), and most per-packet send/timeout logs are TRACE to keep stdout readable at debug.

To keep logs readable, long I2P base64 destination strings are now shortened in many log lines (they show a prefix + suffix rather than the full ~500 chars). See src/i2p/b64.rs (b64::short()).

As of 2026-02-06, the status line also includes aggregate counts like res_contacts, sent_bootstrap_reqs, recv_bootstrap_ress, and bootstrap_contacts to help tune discovery without turning on very verbose per-packet logging.

Reference Material

iMule source + reference nodes.dat are under source_ref/ (gitignored).
KAD wire-format parity notes: docs/kad_parity.md.

Roadmap (Agreed Next Steps)

Priority is to stabilize the network layer first, so we can reliably discover peers and maintain a healthy routing table over time:

Kad crawler + routing table + stable loop (next)
- Actively query peers (send KADEMLIA2_REQ) and decode KADEMLIA2_RES to learn more contacts.
- Maintain an in-memory routing table (k-buckets / closest contacts) with last_seen, verified, and UDP key metadata.
- Run as a long-lived service: keep SAM datagram session open, respond continuously, periodically refresh/ping, and periodically persist data/nodes.dat.
- TODO (discovery): add a conservative “cold bootstrap probe” mode so periodic bootstrap refresh occasionally targets non-live / never-seen peers, to try to discover new clusters without increasing overall traffic.
- TODO (seeding): optionally fetch the latest public nodes.dat snapshot (when available) and merge it into data/nodes.dat with provenance logged.
Publish/Search indexing (after routing is stable)

Implement remaining Kad2 publish/search opcodes (key/notes/source) with iMule-compatible responses.
Add a real local index so we can answer searches meaningfully (not just “0 results but no retry”).

Tuning Notes / Gotchas

kad.service_req_contacts should be in 1..=31. (Kad2 masks this field with 0x1F.)
- If it is set to 32, it will effectively become 1, which slows discovery dramatically.
The service persists nodes.dat periodically. It now merges the current routing snapshot into the existing on-disk nodes.dat to avoid losing seed nodes after an eviction cycle.
If data/nodes.dat ever shrinks to a very small set (e.g. after a long run evicts lots of dead peers), startup will re-seed it by merging in data/nodes.initseed.dat / data/nodes.fallback.dat if present.
The crawler intentionally probes at least one “cold” peer (a peer we have never heard from) per crawl tick when available. This prevents the service from getting stuck talking only to 1–2 responsive nodes forever.
SAM TCP-DATAGRAM framing is now tolerant of occasional malformed frames (it logs and skips instead of crashing). Oversized datagrams are discarded with a hard cap to avoid memory blowups.
SAM TCP-DATAGRAM reader is byte-based (not String-based) to avoid crashes on invalid UTF-8 if the stream ever desyncs.

2026-02-08 Notes (Keyword Publish/Search UX + Reach)

/kad/search_keyword and /kad/publish_keyword now accept either:
- {"query":"..."} (iMule-style: first extracted word is hashed), or
- {"keyword_id_hex":"<32 hex>"} to bypass tokenization/hashing for debugging.
Keyword publish now also inserts the published entry into the local keyword-hit cache immediately (so /kad/keyword_results/<keyword> reflects the publish even if the network is silent).
Keyword search/publish now run as a small, conservative “job”:
- periodically sends KADEMLIA2_REQ toward the keyword ID to discover closer nodes
- periodically sends small batches of SEARCH_KEY_REQ / PUBLISH_KEY_REQ to the closest, recently-live peers
- stops early for publish once any PUBLISH_RES (key) ack is observed
Job behavior tweak:
- A keyword job can now do both publish and search for the same keyword concurrently. Previously, starting a search could overwrite an in-flight publish job for that keyword.

2026-02-09 Notes (Single-Instance Lock)

Added an OS-backed single-instance lock at data/rust-mule.lock (under general.data_dir).
- Prevents accidentally running two rust-mule processes with the same data/sam.keys, which triggers I2P router errors like “duplicate destination”.
- Uses a real file lock (released automatically if the process exits/crashes), not a “sentinel file” check.

2026-02-09 Notes (Peer “Agent” Identification)

SAM DATAGRAM RECEIVED frames include the sender I2P destination, but do not identify the sender implementation (iMule vs rust-mule vs something else).
To support rust-mule-specific feature gating/debugging, we added a small rust-mule private extension tag in the Kad2 HELLO taglist:
- TAG_RUST_MULE_AGENT (0xFE) as a string, value like rust-mule/<version>
- iMule ignores unknown tags in HELLO (it only checks TAG_KADMISCOPTIONS), so this is backwards compatible.
When received, this agent string is stored in the in-memory routing table as peer_agent (not persisted to nodes.dat, since that file is in iMule format).

Debugging Notes (Kad Status Counters)

/status now includes two extra counters to help distinguish “network is silent” vs “we are receiving packets but can’t parse/decrypt them”:
- dropped_undecipherable: failed Kad UDP decrypt (unknown/invalid obfuscation)
- dropped_unparsable: decrypted OK but Kad packet framing/format was invalid
For publish/search testing, we also now log at INFO when:
- we receive a PUBLISH_RES (key) ACK (so you can see if peers accepted your publish)
- we receive a non-empty SEARCH_RES (inserted keyword/source entries)

Two-Instance Testing

Added docs/scripts/two_instance_dht_selftest.sh to exercise publish/search flows between two locally-running rust-mule instances (e.g. mule-a on :17835 and mule-b on :17836).

Handoff / Continuation Notes ​

Goal ​

Status ​

Status (2026-02-14) ​

Status (2026-02-12) ​

Status (2026-02-11) ​

Status (2026-02-10) ​

Decisions (2026-02-10) ​

Next Steps (2026-02-10) ​

Roadmap Notes ​

Change Log ​

Current State (As Of 2026-02-07) ​

Dev Topology Notes ​

Data Files (*.dat) And Which One Is Used ​

data/nodes.dat (Primary Bootstrap + Persisted Seed Pool) ​

data/nodes.initseed.dat and data/nodes.fallback.dat (Local Seed Snapshots) ​

assets/nodes.initseed.dat (Embedded Distributable Init Seed) ​

nodes2.dat (Remote Bootstrap Download, If Available) ​

data/sam.keys (SAM Destination Keys) ​

data/preferencesKad.dat (Your KadID / Node Identity) ​

data/kad_udp_key_secret.dat (UDP Obfuscation Secret) ​

Known Issue / Debugging ​

Latest Run Notes (2026-02-04) ​

Updated Run Notes (2026-02-04 19:30Z-ish) ​

Updated Run Notes (2026-02-04 20:42Z-ish) ​

Updated Run Notes (2026-02-06) ​

Updated Run Notes (2026-02-05) ​

Known SAM Quirk (DEST GENERATE) ​

Known Issue (Addressbook Entry For www.imule.i2p) ​

KAD UDP Obfuscation (iMule Compatibility) ​

How To Run ​

Kad Service Loop (Crawler) ​

Important Fix (2026-02-05): KADEMLIA2_REQ Check Field ​

Note: Why routing Might Not Grow Past The Seed Count ​

Logging Notes ​

Reference Material ​

Roadmap (Agreed Next Steps) ​

Tuning Notes / Gotchas ​

2026-02-08 Notes (Keyword Publish/Search UX + Reach) ​

2026-02-09 Notes (Single-Instance Lock) ​

2026-02-09 Notes (Peer “Agent” Identification) ​

Debugging Notes (Kad Status Counters) ​

Two-Instance Testing ​