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Quest: quest/m1/subscribe-ranges/dynamic.md

Summary

Planning only, no code. Starting the quest turned up seven decisions that set an API break in every binding and how many upstream FETCHes one SUBSCRIBE range can trigger, so the agent stopped before implementing. The maintainer settled them in a /quest-plan interview on 2026-10-20, recorded in the quest Plans:

  • quest/m1/subscribe-ranges/dynamic.md: now requested_group → requested_fill and subscriptions filling their misses.
  • quest/m1/subscribe-ranges/fetch-range.md (new, [M]): fetch_group becomes a one-range subscription, plus the fill benchmark. Requires dynamic.md and frame-bounds.md (head fills).
  • quest/m1/subscribe-ranges/README.md: lists the new quest.

Implementation starts afresh from dynamic.md once this merges.

Decisions (paper trail)

Goal: a reader's misses below the cache reach track::Dynamic as bounded range fills instead of per-group requests; every sequence in range arrives or is named dropped; requested_group/fetch_group are replaced in every caller, binding, and moq fetch. Non-goals: lite-07 range SUBSCRIBE, moq-transport run FETCH, time anchors.

  • ✅ Confirmed
  • Narrow it
  1. Split?
  • ✅ Two quests: requested_fill first, fetch_group removal after frame bounds
  • One PR after frame bounds
  1. Handler shape
  • ✅ track::Fill with accept/drop_groups; dropping it names the rest dropped
  • Producer::create_group
  1. What a miss is
  • ✅ Below the feed frontier only; a relay records the span SUBSCRIBE_START skipped as dropped
  • Any uncached sequence
  1. Fetch budget ("publisher max-age only")
  • Duration::MAX sentinel, saturating on the wire (recommended)
  • ✅ Option<Duration>: None means max-age alone; breaks Subscription in every binding
  1. Ending a bounded read
  • ✅ recv_group returns None once the window is accounted for; ffi maps a miss to NotFound
  • Keep parking
  1. Sessions before the range quests land
  • ✅ Per-group FETCH, one in flight per fill
  • Block on the lite and ietf range quests
  1. moq-c poll_requested_group

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Refinements from Codex and CodeRabbit, within the decisions above:

  • A Fill dropped after its demand leaves is withdrawn and records nothing, so the durable drops never hides still-fetchable history.
  • Staleness under the fill's budget withdraws only the groups older than a stale one; each reader's cursor names them stale under its own max_delay. Only publisher max-age staleness goes in drops.
  • The Goal names the frozen moq-c ABI as the exception; it maps max_delay_us to Some.
  • fetch-range.md: Ok(None) before any group is a miss (NotFound in moq-ffi); the fetch boundaries that collapse NotFetchable/Old are listed, and both stay wire errors.
  • Declined, keeping the maintainer's choices: coalescing FETCHes before the range quests (decision 5), and a frame-level fill end (handler shape; a tail-truncated cached group is worse than one group of over-fetch).

Public API and wire impact

None in this PR. The planned work breaks track::Dynamic::requested_group, Subscription::max_delay, track::Consumer::fetch_group, and their moq-ffi/moq-c/binding surfaces; no wire change.

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  • quest check: ok (432 documents).

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Outcome of the quest start: claimed, scoped, and stopped at seven maintainer decisions (in the quest diff and the PR body) before implementing. Recommended path is decision 6's split, with the frame-bounds quest landing before the fetch_group removal half. No code changed.

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The maintainer settled the seven open questions: track::Fill handler,
misses only below the frontier, max_delay as Option<Duration>, per-group
FETCH sessions until the range quests land, moq-c follows whichever of
#6052 lands first, and fetch_group removal moves to fetch-range.md, which
requires frame bounds.

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@kixelated kixelated changed the title feat(net)!: Dynamic fills subscription misses by range quest(m1): settle dynamic range requests and split out fetch as a range Oct 21, 2026
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The documentation updates the Dynamic range-request plan. It specifies requested_fill, fill accounting, delay budgets, session behavior, and migration scope. A new follow-up quest describes replacing fetch_group with one-range subscriptions for past-group reads, including bounded-read completion, miss handling, frame bounds, and benchmarks.

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This documentation-only change defines how range fills and range fetches will work. It does not change running code. The plan still has gaps: per-reader delay limits under shared fills are undefined, an ascending fill can drop groups that are still valid, a missing range cannot be distinguished from a completed one, and callers that rely on Old and NotFetchable are not listed for migration. Resolving these before implementation will avoid behavioral regressions later.

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Comment thread quest/m1/subscribe-ranges/dynamic.md Outdated
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each group it has and `drop_groups(range)` for the rest. Dropping the `Fill`
names whatever is left as dropped, in the track's existing `drops`.

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P1 Badge Do not turn abandoned fills into permanent drops

If the last requesting subscriber disconnects while a session is serving a fill, the later session plan stops and drops the remaining Fill; this destructor would then insert those sequences into the track's durable drops set. A subsequent subscriber requesting the same still-fetchable history will therefore receive SUBSCRIBE_DROP instead of triggering a fresh upstream fetch, unlike the current withdrawn group::Request behavior. Reserve persistent drops for explicit drop_groups decisions and let demand cancellation withdraw the fill without poisoning future requests.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L18-L18

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Agreed, fixed in 7aa15d0. A Fill dropped while a reader still wants its range names the rest dropped; once demand leaves it is withdrawn like a group::Request today and records nothing, so the durable drops set never hides still-fetchable history. The Sessions bullet now says the same.

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Comment thread quest/m1/subscribe-ranges/dynamic.md Outdated
- **Sessions.** A session serves a fill as it serves a group request today:
one FETCH per group, one in flight per fill, newest first for a descending
reader, withdrawing (not dropping) the fill when demand leaves, and
dropping the rest once a fetched group is stale under the fill's budget (a

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P1 Badge Avoid persisting budget-qualified staleness as a drop

When current readers have a narrow max_delay but publisher retention permits a wider one, this step drops the entire remaining fill once one group is stale under the current fill budget. Because the handler shape records drop_groups and unfinished fills in the track's durable drops, a later reader with a wider budget or None will receive a drop instead of triggering a new fill for history that is still fetchable. Either withdraw or record a budget-qualified stale remainder, or make the budget-aware drop-set work a prerequisite so this quest is independently landable.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L24-L24

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Agreed, fixed in 4a0620b. Groups older than a stale one are withdrawn, not dropped; each reader's cursor names them stale under its own budget, so a later reader with a wider budget (or None) can still fill them. Only staleness under publisher max-age, which binds every reader, goes in the durable drops.

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per run. Until then, one SUBSCRIBE range can cost up to frontier minus floor
serialized upstream FETCHes; accepted rather than blocking on those quests.

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P1 Badge Bound the total FETCH work induced by one range

When an untrusted downstream requests a range from group 0 and the peer-controlled frontier is very large or sparse, this explicitly permits frontier - floor serialized upstream FETCHes. A one-in-flight limit bounds concurrency but not total network, CPU, or task lifetime, so a single range with a large group number can keep a relay issuing requests effectively indefinitely. Coalesce the run before this quest lands, or impose and enforce a finite per-request work bound instead of accepting span-proportional fan-out.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L18-L18

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Keeping this as planned: the maintainer chose per-group FETCH with one in flight per fill (decision 5 in the PR body) over blocking on the lite-07 and moq-transport range quests, which coalesce runs. The total is bounded the same way today's per-group requests are: by the fill's budget and publisher max-age (older groups stop once one is stale), and by demand (the fill is withdrawn when readers leave). A downstream can already drive that cost with one request per group. I added that reasoning to the Sessions bullet in 4a0620b.

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Review comments at @quest/m1/subscribe-ranges/dynamic.md:
- Around line 69-70: Update the ascending-range handling described in the
“fetched group is stale” flow so an old first group does not terminate
processing of newer groups. Evaluate each ascending group independently, or
limit the early termination to descending reads, preserving delivery of later
valid sequences.
- Around line 77-80: Update the documentation around the frozen moq-c ABI to
explicitly mark retaining poll_requested_group as an intentional compatibility
exception to the requested_group replacement goal, and define how the frozen
crate internally maps or splits fills into per-group requests while preserving
its existing ABI.
- Around line 42-45: Clarify the shared track::Fill contract around
Dynamic::requested_fill so each reader’s max_delay is enforced independently,
despite the fill exposing only the most tolerant budget. Define the required
per-reader filtering or split-fill behavior, ensuring sharing never relaxes any
caller’s budget, before proceeding with implementation.

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- Around line 22-23: Revise the fetch-range plan to preserve the existing Old
and NotFetchable distinctions and boundary behavior. Account for Relay HTTP’s
NotFetchable-to-404 mapping, HLS cache-miss handling, FFI’s separate Old
handling for ordered reads, moq-c’s distinct protocol kind, and moq-cli’s
track-cut behavior before considering removal or migration.
- Around line 18-23: Clarify the bounded one-range recv_group contract around
MoqTrackConsumer::recv_group: distinguish an initially empty or unfillable range
from successful track completion, and define how the former maps to
MoqError::NotFound while retaining Ok(None) only for completion, or specify
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PR breaks one API once. That half needs head fills, which
[frame bounds](/quest/m1/subscribe-ranges/frame-bounds.md) provides.
- **Handler shape.** `Dynamic::requested_fill` yields a `track::Fill` naming
one bounded run: `start: Position`, exclusive end group, priority, the most

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P1 Badge Carry the terminal frame bound in each fill

When a requested range ends partway through a missing group, this shape conveys only the start frame and an end group, so the handler cannot distinguish ..Position { group: 5, frame: 1 } from a request for all of group 5. The planned per-group FETCH therefore over-fetches the terminal group, allowing a peer asking for one frame to induce delivery and caching of an entire group. Make the fill end a Position so downstream demand bounds upstream work.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L18-L18

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Keeping the end as an exclusive group, per the maintainer's handler-shape decision. A fill populates the shared cache, not one reader: a group fetched only up to some frame would sit in the cache missing its tail, which a later reader wanting the whole group cannot tell from a complete one, and there is no tail fill to repair it (frame bounds covers head fills only). The work is also bounded the same either way: a peer asking for frame 0 of group 5 could ask for all of group 5, so the terminal group costs at most one group it was entitled to request. Each reader still sees only its own frames through the cursor's frame bounds.

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- **Fetch budget.** `Subscription::max_delay` becomes `Option<Duration>`:
`None` means publisher max-age alone, the FETCH default above. This breaks
`Subscription` in every binding, with a `MIGRATE.md` entry in each affected

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P2 Badge Define how frozen C represents an absent delay

If the generated C package has not landed, which lines 85-90 explicitly allow, the current frozen moq_subscription.max_delay_us is a required u64 and cannot represent None. Requiring this change in every binding therefore forces the implementation either to break the frozen C ABI, introduce an unspecified sentinel despite rejecting that representation, or silently omit publisher-only max-age semantics for C callers. Settle the C representation or make the generated package a prerequisite.

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Fixed in ea5166a, within the maintainer's moq-c decision (frozen ABI unchanged unless moq-dev/moq#6052 lands first): the frozen crate maps max_delay_us to Some, so a frozen C subscriber keeps today's semantics and cannot ask for max-age alone. The generated package exposes the Option natively once it lands.

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Merge summary: quest-only planning PR recording the seven maintainer decisions from the 2026-10-20 /quest-plan interview (dynamic.md replaces requested_group with requested_fill; new fetch-range.md removes fetch_group after frame bounds). Three review rounds refined the plan without reversing a decision: abandoned and budget-stale fills are withdrawn rather than recorded as durable drops, shared fills keep each reader's own max_delay, frozen moq-c is the named exception and keeps a required delay, and the bounded-read miss contract is explicit. Declined with reasons: coalescing FETCHes now (decision 5) and a frame-level fill end. quest check and CI pass. Enabling auto-merge.

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Take main's deletes of quests it completed (auth/bindings, egress-held-state,
stateless-reset-key, ffi-first-dial-failure and others); the audit's edits to
them only added ordering that no longer applies. Take main's settled
subscribe-ranges/dynamic.md, whose moq-c decision (#6123: not a blocker)
supersedes the audit's c/README requirement. Keep both sides' index entries.

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