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Completes quest/m2/cluster-routing/routes/echo-order.md, as moq-dev/moq#8495 rewrote it: a node never takes back a route that crossed it.

Problem

A lite-07 relay drops its feasibility distance once every neighbour echoed its ROUTE_END. That echo proves only that no neighbour still routes through it. A third relay can still hold a copy of the relay's own route and hand it back afterwards. With no distance left, the relay accepts the copy as a fresh, longer route, and the relays pass it round at a growing metric without end, each showing a dead publisher as available.

The route model found the two-relay case (moq-dev/moq#8447). This branch first moved the echo behind the echoer's routes, which fixes that case only: with the origin behind a relay the count returns.

Approach

ROUTE_START and ROUTE_UPDATE carry Hops: the Hop ID of every node the route crossed, the origin first and the sender last. A node never selects a route whose Hops name it, and never certifies claims through one.

Everything else is main's: Babel's feasibility condition, holds, seqno requests, the echo, and the drain rule. On a mesh with no scoped grants, the behaviour differs in one case only: where main would have selected a route that crossed the node.

• One list per origin route, not the per-claim list lite-07 removed. A link change still costs one ROUTE_UPDATE per origin, and the Rendezvous Hash and per-broadcast choices are untouched.
• A crossed route stays until its sender ends it, so the sender's route still counts as open and the distance is kept.
• Holding is as on main. A relay with no usable route holds its claims while it has an infeasible one, and a route that crossed it counts where Babel's condition refuses it. Its sender routes through the relay, and moves once it hears the relay has none.
• One exception, under a qualified key. A scoped peer's relay files the node's route under a key it derives, and can hand it back. That copy never moves, so it counts only while its Hops extend those of the route the node last sent under that key.
• A change of Hops or RTT alone lets go of no claim. It moves no certifier.
• A route with 32 Hops is unusable.

Proof, fastest first:

Check	Result
By construction	A node sends a route only after adding itself to Hops that did not name it. So every route names a loop-free path, whatever any node forgot. The model checks this as SimplePaths, and Sim asserts it on every route any fixture sends.
sweep_no_route_outgrows_a_loop_free_path	Random meshes of 3 to 5 relays with unequal costs, every message and echo delivered in a random order, with flaps, restarts, collections, and scoped grants on a quarter of them. Checks the metric bound and loop freedom at every step, and at quiet that nothing waits or is left behind. On main it finds the count to infinity at case 10, in 0.1 s. Here 40,000 cases (12 million steps) pass in 15 s. 200 run in the merge gate.
Two adversarial reviews	A second model, briefed to break the rule, attacked two heads with its own harness. On the last one: nothing starved, pending, or looping, no metric past a loop-free path, and no panic in 108,000 scripts. Its findings are below.
Against main, script by script	Its harness runs each script on both rules and compares what every reader saw. On the final rule, 3,000 scripts of one change from quiet: no difference on plain meshes, 1 on upstream links, 2 with rotation, 14 with priorities and GOAWAY.
Real sessions	moq-dev/moq#8477's sweep, with this head merged in a scratch checkout: 500 seeded meshes of 2 to 10 relays over real lite-07 sessions hold its route rules and its announce budget.
TLC, exhaustive (Java 21, TLC 1.8.0, 4 workers)	Triangle at full bounds: 3,545,311 distinct states, 3 min. Origin behind a triangle, unit costs: 3,033,111, 4 min. Unequal costs: 5,377,597, 6 min. All pass every rule.
Positive control	With the Hops check disabled in the model, both behind-a-triangle configs fail in 3 s.

What the adversarial reviews found, and what became of it:

1. A relay starved for good on its own route, handed back by a scoped peer under a qualified key. My first rule counted every crossed route as infeasible. Fixed by the exception above.
2. A lowered hop limit hid a short path behind a cheaper long one. origin::Config::max_hops therefore does not bound lite-07 routes: lite-07 has no path hunting to cut off.
3. A relay restart cost a hold main kept. My second rule asked every crossed route to extend what the node last sent, which a restart defeats. Fixed: under a plain identity a crossed route always came through the node's own route, so it counts as on main.
4. A relay forgot a claim for good, in a mesh with narrowed interests. This is older than the branch: prune lets go of what only one neighbour certifies while that neighbour is infeasible, and nothing brings it back. A change of Hops alone reached that window. I first had prune take the neighbour's view back, and the second review showed that worse than the bug: a neighbour feasible for one message during a seqno advance flapped a relay's claims on every advance, and a static mesh never settled. That is reverted. A change of Hops or RTT alone now skips prune, which closes the new way in. The old bug remains and is a follow-up.
5. A scoped mesh asks the origin for a seqno it does not need, while first converging. See "Not proven".

What the Hops cost.

• A path change at an equal metric now sends a ROUTE_UPDATE downstream, where it used to stop. Sim counts those: 3.5% to 11% of route messages across the five churn sweeps.
• Over real sessions, moq-dev/moq#8477's benchmark counts 0% more control messages per change on 3 relays, about 1% on 6 and 12, and 4% on 24 (2.8% overall).
• The worst shape found is a 32-relay full mesh in Sim: one link coming up costs 592 route messages against 251, and one going down 2,017 against 1,366. Growth stays linear in sessions.
• moq-dev/moq#8479's announce budget (4 routing messages per session direction per external change), merged onto this model in a scratch copy, holds in simulation on the triangle, on the origin behind a triangle, and on a four-node ring, the last two at unit and unequal costs. It also holds exhaustively on the triangle: 24,192,399 distinct states, 38 min.
• One Hop ID per node crossed on each ROUTE_START and ROUTE_UPDATE, about 8 bytes each.
• The routes benchmark is within noise of main (--quick on a busy host: most shapes 0% to +5%).

Impact

• Wire (moq-lite-07-wip, breaking): ROUTE_START and ROUTE_UPDATE gain Hop Count and that many Hop IDs after the RTT. More than 32 is a PROTOCOL_VIOLATION. Relays on lite-07-wip must upgrade together, as for each earlier lite-07 change.
• Behaviour: a relay no longer selects its own route when a scoped peer hands it back under a qualified key, so it no longer shows those claims a second time under that key. On main a third of random scoped meshes select such a route.
• Public API: none. js/net skips route messages by length today, so it is unaffected until its route layer lands.

Alternatives

• The echo behind the echoer's routes (this branch's first commit, reverted here). Not enough: a copy held by a third relay returns after every echo.
• A relay echoing only once its own downstream had. Fails in the model when a session closes before answering.
• Never dropping the distance, or dropping it on a timer. Unbounded memory, or safety by timing.
• Ignoring a crossed route entirely, as the quest sketched. A relay's neighbours usually route through it, so on losing its own route it would send ROUTE_END at once, and its viewers would see the broadcast go offline and start again (a_starved_relay_keeps_presence_unavailable_until_its_request_recovers_it fails).
• Counting every crossed route as infeasible, and requiring every one to extend what the node last sent. Findings 1 and 3 above.

Choices made without asking

Each departs from the quest's sketch. The maintainer accepted them as a set on 2026-11-11 (comment).

1. A crossed route is never selected, and is otherwise treated as main treats it, in place of "skip it entirely". With the one exception under a qualified key.
2. The origin names itself in the Hops. The sketch left it out. An origin that rotated its Node ID then forgot the old one would take back the old identity's route. It costs one Hop ID per route message.
3. A node names itself by a Hop ID, not its current Node ID. It is the Node ID the node started with, and a rotation leaves it alone. A Hop ID is never qualified, since no relay can compute another's qualification.
4. No configurable hop limit on lite-07. Finding 2 above.
5. A change of Hops or RTT alone skips prune. Finding 4 above. It also covers RTT changes, which reach the same window on main.
6. This lands on today's Announce Streams, ahead of the one-stream rewrite. The model passes with the echo free to overtake.
7. The router came before the budget measurement, where the quest asked for the measurement first. The sweep answers faster than the model.
8. The behind-a-triangle configs stop at one session change. One is 3 to 5 million states, and the old count needs only one. Simulation and the sweep cover more.
9. Zero and repeated Hop IDs are not rejected. They harm only the route that carries them.

Not proven

• No exhaustive run with more than three relays, or with two session changes behind a triangle.
• A restarted relay takes a new Hop ID, so a route may cross it once more per restart. The sweep bounds this, and it cannot repeat without another restart.
• The model has no scoped grants, hop limit, or rotation. Sim tests and the sweep cover each.
• Scoped meshes ask for seqnos while first converging, where main asks for none. In 3,000 random static ones, about 215 send a request and about 109 bump the origin once. The cause: a relay holds a qualified key through the peer that derived it, that peer then moves the key onto the relay's own route, and a stale copy from a third relay looks like a way out. It settles every time, and the seqno buys nothing.
• Under a qualified key, a relay whose path changed and then lost its route before a neighbour heard of the change lets go where main held.
• With narrowed interests, 4 of 3,000 scripts still end with a claim missing that main shows, and about as many go the other way. The old prune bug is the likely cause; I did not trace them.

Follow-ups

Each is a recommendation to plan a quest.

• A relay forgets a claim for good once its certifier returns (finding 4), with narrowed interests. It needs a rule for which neighbours certify during a seqno advance, not a patch: the reproducers for the bug and for the fix that failed are in this comment.
• A seqno storm that never settles under round-robin delivery, in a mesh with two grants, an upstream link, and narrowed interests. It is on main too, where one seqno bump starts it. The reproducer is in this comment.
• Prefer the current next hop among equals. A relay moves to an equal route with a lower key, which now costs a ROUTE_UPDATE downstream. It would cut most of the extra messages above.
• moq-dev/moq#8443 (js/net's route layer) must decode the Hops and send its own Hop ID; quest/m2/cluster-routing/routes/js.md says so.
• moq-dev/moq#8479 touches the same model and will conflict. It adapts.
• The branch route-drain-counterexamples held the model variants this replaced. Delete it once this merges.

Caused by

• moq-dev/moq#7676 - its drain rule assumed a per-neighbour echo proves no derived route remains.

Checks

• just ci origin/main: passes on this head, 12,884 tests.
• just drafts check: passes.
• just test interop --all: passed at a9a3852. The wire has not changed since.

Models

Size: L
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-fable-5-2, high effort

Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, high effort
• Session: 01a1cb94-0fa8-7b32-81dc-53788166ab99, round 1
• Head: 587c135
• Base: origin/main at a4bc922
• Score: 9/10, The hop-limit pruning fix matches route eligibility and adds regression coverage, with no actionable regressions identified; builds and tests were not run, as instructed.
• Findings: none

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(Written by Claude Fable 5 with high)

[kixelated]

The ## Waiting decision here is settled, in moq-dev/moq#8495 (a /quest-plan with the maintainer), and the quest grew:

• The stream question: each side says everything about routing on one unidirectional Announce Stream (epic item 21). That is this PR's option 2 in its one-way form. The wire change lives in a new quest, route-stream.md, so this PR stays model, Sim, and router.
• The reordered echo is not enough. With the echo on the neighbour's FIFO, the model still breaks NoCountToInfinity once the origin sits behind a relay: a derived route held by a third relay comes back after every neighbour has echoed, and three relays lap it with the metric climbing. Unit costs suffice. This PR's triangle passes only because its origin is one of the three nodes. "Routes sent after applying the END are not derived from the ended one" does not hold.
• Decided (item 25): a relay echoes a ROUTE_END from the neighbour it routed through only once its own ROUTE_ENDs have been echoed, and any other neighbour's at once. echo-order.md is rewritten around that and is now [L].

The branch route-drain-counterexamples (c6ccf3f71c, built on this PR's head 81c0698295) has per-link costs in RouteHandoff.tla, two failing configs (DrainCosts, 20 states; DrainUnit, 23 states), and four Sim replays in routing.rs that follow the traces step for step. Take what is useful and delete the branch once this PR carries it.

Nothing was pushed here. Once #8495 lands, merge main and read the rewritten quest.

(Written by Claude Fable 5 with high)

[kixelated]

The plan for this quest changed again in moq-dev/moq#8495, after the route model ran the options.

• The deferred echo from my last comment is out. It passes with one flap and fails with two: a closed session counts as an echo while that peer's last advertisement is still in flight.
• The fix is now a hop list: each route names the relays it crossed, and a node never uses a route that names itself. The echo and the drain rule stay as they are on main.
• With the list, the model passes with the echo unordered, as on today's wire. So this quest no longer needs the echo moved behind the echoer's routes, which is what this PR's two commits do; that belongs to the route stream later.

Recommendation, once #8495 lands: merge main, restart from main's model (echo on its own queue), and follow the rewritten echo-order.md. Its first step is measuring the list against moq-dev/moq#8479's announce budget before touching the router.

The reference branch route-drain-counterexamples (5e7e3eb434) has the model with each variant behind a switch, per-link costs, the configs, and every result in rs/moq-net/verify/route/DRAIN.md. TLC is paused on the host at the maintainer's request, so nothing more has been run.

(Written by Claude Fable 5 with high)

[kixelated]

One addition to the rewritten echo-order.md, from a review note on moq-dev/moq#8495 that arrived after it was queued: the epic has a fourth place that rests on the echo alone. The fresh-identity bullet in quest/m2/cluster-routing/routes/README.md ("keeping the feasibility distance until every ROUTE_END it sent is echoed back: a collected incarnation then reappears only from a message already in flight") needs the same update as the drain bullet and decision 6. The loop-freedom bullet already states the hop list.

(Written by Claude Fable 5 with high)

[kixelated]

A reproducer for the first follow-up in the description: a seqno storm that never settles. It is not caused by this PR. On main (52fa6b2) and on this branch alike, the mesh below converges with no request, and after one bump of the origin's seqno it never goes quiet under Sim's round-robin delivery: 3,000 rounds later the origin is at seqno 231 after 1,153 requests. Under a random delivery order it settled in 200 of 200 runs, after up to 5 wasted bumps.

#[test]
fn a_seqno_storm_never_settles() {
	let ga = Grant { subject: "ga", scope: "" };
	let gb = Grant { subject: "gb", scope: "" };
	let origin = 9;
	let mut sim = Sim::new(10);
	sim.link(origin, 4, SimLink::cost(1), SimLink::cost(2));
	sim.join(origin, 7, 1);
	sim.join(1, 4, 1);
	sim.join(1, 5, 1);
	sim.join(2, 3, 1);
	sim.join(2, 5, 1);
	sim.join(3, 4, 1);
	sim.join(3, 6, 1);
	sim.link(4, 5, SimLink::cost(1).upstream(), SimLink::cost(1).grant(gb));
	sim.link(5, 6, SimLink::cost(1).grant(ga), SimLink::cost(1));
	sim.link(5, 7, SimLink::cost(1).grant(gb), SimLink::cost(1));
	sim.link(6, 7, SimLink::cost(3), SimLink::cost(1));
	sim.originate(origin, 8, 0);
	sim.announce(origin, "", 0, None);
	sim.watch(4, "a");
	sim.watch(7, "b");
	assert!(sim.settle(3000));
	assert_eq!(sim.seqno(origin), 0);
	sim.bump(origin);
	assert!(sim.settle(3000), "never settles: seqno {}", sim.seqno(origin));
}

What the reviewer traced, on an earlier head of this branch:

• Relay 5 files the origin under a qualified key for its scoped peers 4 and 7. Their claims there are uncertified, so they come and go with whichever peer's copy is feasible.
• After a seqno advance, relay 4's copy arrives first and is feasible by seqno. Its claim a appears, the key now meets 4's interest, and 5 starts the route to 4.
• Then relay 7's copy moves 5's distance. Relay 4's copy is infeasible again, the claim goes, and 5 ends the route.
• Relay 4 had already selected and advertised it, so the copies left over are infeasible there. It asks for the next seqno, and the round repeats.

(Written by Claude Fable 5 with high)

[kixelated]

Material for the first follow-up in the description: a relay forgets a claim for good once its certifier returns. It is on main, and this PR does not fix it.

The bug. A relay lets go of a region once no feasible neighbour certifies it (prune in route/mod.rs). A neighbour's view is merged only when one of its batches arrives. So when a neighbour stops being feasible for a moment and the relay recomputes in that window, the region goes, and nothing brings it back when the neighbour is feasible again, since it has nothing new to send. It needs neighbours that certify different regions, such as one that asked for the root and one that asked for b.

The mesh the first review found it on. On an earlier head of this branch a change of hops alone landed in the window, and relay 4 ended with no claim while both its neighbours showed one. This head no longer prunes on such a change, so the script passes here; the reviewer reproduced the same loss on main by landing a neighbour's interest change in the window.

#[test]
fn a_certifier_that_returns_brings_back_what_it_certifies() {
	let (origin, other) = (6, 7);
	let mut sim = Sim::new(8);
	sim.join(other, 4, 1);
	sim.join(other, 5, 1);
	sim.join(origin, 3, 1);
	sim.join(origin, 2, 1);
	sim.join(0, 1, 1);
	sim.link(0, 2, SimLink::cost(3), SimLink::cost(1));
	sim.join(0, 3, 1);
	sim.join(0, 4, 1);
	sim.link(1, 2, SimLink::cost(2), SimLink::cost(1));
	sim.join(2, 3, 1);
	sim.join(2, 5, 1);
	sim.link(3, 4, SimLink::cost(1), SimLink::cost(2));
	sim.originate(origin, 7, 0);
	sim.announce(origin, "", 0, None);
	sim.originate(other, 8, 0);
	sim.announce(other, "", 0, None);
	sim.watch(3, "b");
	assert!(sim.run());
	assert_eq!(sim.shows(4, 7, ""), Some(true));

	sim.disconnect(origin, 3);
	assert!(sim.run());
	assert_eq!(sim.shows(4, 7, ""), Some(true));
	sim.disconnect(2, 3);
	assert!(sim.run());
	assert_eq!(sim.shows(4, 7, ""), Some(true));
}

The fix that failed. I had prune merge back the last view of any certifier the merged view lagged. A second review showed that worse than the bug, and it is reverted. Any fix has to keep these two passing, which that one did not:

/// A neighbour at the relay's own distance is feasible for one message during a
/// seqno advance. Taking its view back then flapped the relay's claims on every advance.
#[test]
fn a_seqno_advance_leaves_a_relays_claims_alone() {
	let (origin, wide, narrow, relay) = (0, 1, 2, 3);
	let mut sim = Sim::new(4);
	sim.watch(narrow, "a");
	sim.link(origin, wide, SimLink::cost(1), SimLink::cost(2));
	sim.join(origin, narrow, 1);
	sim.join(wide, relay, 1);
	sim.join(narrow, relay, 1);
	sim.originate(origin, 7, 0);
	sim.announce(origin, "", 0, None);
	assert!(sim.run());
	assert_eq!(sim.shows(relay, 7, "a"), Some(true));

	let before = sim.events.len();
	sim.bump(origin);
	assert!(sim.run());
	assert!(sim.events[before..].iter().all(|event| event.node != relay));
	assert_eq!(sim.shows(relay, 7, "a"), Some(true));
	assert_eq!(sim.shows(relay, 7, ""), None);
}

/// The same flap made a relay start and end its route on a neighbour's stream on
/// every advance, and that neighbour asked for the next seqno each time.
#[test]
fn two_narrowed_interests_settle() {
	let (relay, wide, a, b, tail, origin) = (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
	let mut sim = Sim::new(6);
	sim.watch(a, "a");
	sim.watch(b, "b");
	sim.join(origin, a, 1);
	sim.link(origin, wide, SimLink::cost(1), SimLink::cost(2));
	sim.join(relay, wide, 1);
	sim.join(relay, a, 1);
	sim.join(relay, b, 1);
	sim.join(b, tail, 1);
	sim.link(tail, a, SimLink::cost(4), SimLink::cost(1));
	sim.originate(origin, 7, 0);
	sim.announce(origin, "", 0, None);
	assert!(sim.settle(3000), "never settles: seqno {}", sim.seqno(origin));
	assert!(sim.seqno(origin) <= 1);
}

What a fix needs to decide. Which neighbours certify while a seqno advance is in flight. Today it is every feasible one, and a neighbour at the relay's own distance is feasible until the relay's own route catches up to the new seqno. A relay's claims should not follow that.

(Written by Claude Fable 5 with high)

[kixelated]

Design change: the rule for a route that crossed the node settled over three steps, each forced by an adversarial review, and review round 3 was a checkpoint. Recording where it ended and what I weighed, since I continued without the maintainer.

Where it ended

• A node never selects or certifies through a route whose Hops name it. This part never changed.
• Otherwise such a route is treated as main treats it: where Babel's condition refuses it, it counts as infeasible, so the node holds and asks for a seqno.
• Under a qualified key it counts only while its Hops extend those of the route the node last sent under that key.
• A change of Hops or RTT alone does not run prune, unless it changes whether the node may use the route.

How it got there

Step	Rule for a crossed route	What broke it
Quest sketch	Ignore it	A relay whose neighbours route through it ends its route on failover, so viewers see the broadcast go offline and start again
1	Always infeasible	A relay starved for good on its own route, handed back by a scoped peer under a qualified key
2	Infeasible only if it extends what the node last sent	A relay restart defeated that under a plain identity
3 (now)	As main; the "extends" test only under a qualified key	Nothing found: the reviewer's harness shows no difference from main on 3,000 plain-mesh scripts

Alongside, I added a fix for an older prune bug and took it out again: the second review showed it flapped claims on every seqno advance. The reproducers are in this comment.

The checkpoint

Round 3's one finding was an edge of the newest line: a route that grows to the hop limit must still prune. It is fixed with a test.

What I weighed:

1. Continue (taken). The rule is now "main, minus selecting a crossed route", which is the smallest change that fixes the count to infinity. Each earlier step failed by departing from main further than it needed to.
2. Drop the qualified-key exception and ignore a crossed route under a qualified key. One map and one check fewer. It costs a hold on failover for scoped identities.
3. Drop the prune skip. Then a change of Hops alone reaches the old prune bug: 16 of 3,000 narrowed-interest scripts ended with a claim missing that main shows, against 4 with the skip.
4. Stop and wait. Nothing here is urgent, and the maintainer has not seen any of these departures.

I took 1 because the instruction on leaving was to make as much progress as possible, but the PR stays a draft: see ## Waiting in the description.

(Written by Claude Fable 5 with high)

[kixelated]

Maintainer decision (2026-11-11, asked in a /quest-plan on the routing redesign): land this now, as it is.

• The checkpoint in ## Waiting is settled as "continue as is": the rule stays "never select a route that crossed the node, otherwise as main", with the qualified-key exception and the prune skip.
• It lands ahead of the redesign because moq.pro's main pins a moq with this route layer and both fleets offer moq-lite-07-wip between relays, so the count to infinity is reachable there.
• The redesign that follows keeps Babel and the Hops and replaces only how a relay decides which neighbour vouches for a publisher's claims (rejected: replacing Babel with a path-vector; link-state among relays). It is being planned now; the follow-ups listed in the description go into that plan.

(Written by Claude Fable 5 with high)

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Walkthrough

Route advertisements now carry hop paths, and routers reject routes that already cross the receiving node or reach the 32-hop limit. The lite message encoding and decoding, route state updates, and route-selection logic now handle hop paths. Tests and the TLA+ model cover loop-free paths, route withdrawal, returned routes, and hop limits. Protocol documents and routing plans describe the updated behavior.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 587c1

The hop-list routing change has no confirmed runtime defect. A few plan and model-checking documents are imprecise about pruning exceptions, simulation coverage and the inductive proof, so these can be corrected as a follow-up or before merge.

Pre-merge checks: 5

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @.claude/skills/verify-route/SKILL.md:
- Line 45: Update the simulation guidance for `Behind.cfg` to increase `MaxRev`
and `MaxFlaps` before running simulation, or document a separate higher-bound
simulation config. Make clear that `-depth 80` does not override these
constants, and preserve the existing simulation command while ensuring its
configuration permits additional claim and session changes.

Review comments at @quest/m1/route-inductive.md:
- Around line 39-40: Update the induction in the SimplePaths proof to include
the invariant that every active received entry comes from a node connected by
Links. Preserve this invariant through the induction steps, and use it to
establish that selecting a received route keeps Cost defined and the appended
hops within Paths.

Review comments at @quest/m2/cluster-routing/routes/README.md:
- Line 43: Qualify the “A change of hops or RTT alone lets go of no region”
statement: hop-only changes can permit pruning if they change whether the route
crosses this node or reaches the 32-hop limit. State that changes in hops or RTT
alone do not prune regions only when both crossing and hop-limit status are
preserved.

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• .claude/skills/verify-route/SKILL.md
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• quest/m1/route-mesh-model.md
• quest/m2/cluster-routing/routes/README.md
• quest/m2/cluster-routing/routes/echo-order.md
• quest/m2/cluster-routing/routes/interest-set.md
• quest/m2/cluster-routing/routes/js.md
• quest/m2/cluster-routing/routes/route-stream.md
• rs/moq-net/src/fuzz.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/announce.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/publisher/routed.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber/routed.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/model/origin.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/mod.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/node.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/handoff.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/mod.rs
• rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/routing.rs
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/Behind.cfg
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/BehindDear.cfg
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/CountToInfinity.cfg
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/RouteHandoff.cfg
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/RouteHandoff.tla
• rs/moq-net/verify/route/RouteHandoff.view.ts

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[pullfrog]

ℹ️ Minor suggestions only — one draft wording gap and one coverage note.

Reviewed changes

• A route names the nodes it crossed. Advert gains hops: Arc<[Id]>, Router a fixed hop, and Entry a crossed flag; selected, routes, certifiers, and infeasible all gate on eligible = !crossed && feasible, and advertise appends the sender's hop to the selected route's list.
• The hop limit. route::MAX_HOPS = 32 bounds a route where it is selected (metric), on the wire (DecodeError::TooMany), and on encode (EncodeError::InvalidState), so a full route is dropped rather than truncated.
• The qualified-key exception. Router::advertised keeps the hops last sent under a qualified key and is dropped with the feasibility distance; a crossed route counts as infeasible only when its hops extend those, so a copy a scoped peer hands back cannot hold a node up forever.
• A change of hops alone lets go of nothing. route compares the new advertisement against the held one on crossed, hop-limit, seqno, metric, and down-only, and recompute(ids, prune) skips prune when only hops or RTT moved.
• Wire, model, docs, and tests follow. The draft gained Hop Count/Hop ID with a changelog entry; RouteHandoff.tla gained Dear, Crossed, Eligible, Through, SimplePaths, NoCountToInfinity in every config, and Deliver's same; CountToInfinity.cfg is replaced by Behind.cfg/BehindDear.cfg; the skill, cluster doc, and five quests are repointed. New Sim pins cover the triangle, an origin naming itself after rotation, a scoped return, the hop limit, hop-only pruning, and a 200-case sweep.

I ran the routing suite (route::tests::, 71 passed, sweep included), the announce suite (35), and the fuzz harness (5); rustfmt --edition 2024 --check is clean on every changed Rust file.

ℹ️ Presence under a qualified key is asserted only where it is absent

The body says the model leaves out scoped grants and that "Sim tests and the sweep cover each", but the sweep's presence assertions stop short of qualified keys, which is exactly the part of this rule the model cannot reach.

Technical details

# Qualified-key presence coverage

## Affected sites
- `rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/routing.rs:1366-1369` — the sweep's per-node quiet check
  `continue`s as soon as `scoped`, before the `route(node, 7).is_some()` /
  `shows(node, 7, "") == Some(true)` / cut-off `!holds` / `!remembers` assertions. In a
  scoped mesh only `!starved` is checked, and only for the ids that happen to sit in `rx`.
- `rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/routing.rs:1195` and `:1231` — the two positive scoped tests
  assert `shows(near, 7, "local/x")`, the near relay's *unqualified* view, not the qualified
  key it filed the origin under.
- `rs/moq-net/src/route/tests/routing.rs:1139` — the qualified key is asserted only absent
  (`shows(relay, key, "local/x") == None`).

## Required outcome
A let-go or hidden claim under a qualified key should fail the gate rather than pass it.
The PR itself discloses the window this would catch: "Under a qualified key, a relay whose
path changed and then lost its route before a neighbour heard of the change lets go where
`main` held."

## Suggested approach (optional)
Pick a scoped sweep case whose reached set is known, and assert presence on the key each
node filed the origin under (the sweep already has `sim.nodes[node].rx.keys()` in hand), or
add one positive qualified-key assertion per scoped `Sim` fixture.

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[pullfrog]

The draft defines a Hop ID as non-zero, but decode_advert accepts a zero or repeated one (the PR's choice 9), and a relay forwards the entries unchanged. Saying that the receiver tolerates it keeps a strict implementation from closing a session Rust would keep.

Suggested change

	A Hop ID is a non-zero 64-bit value a node names itself with for as long as its process runs, such as the Node ID it started with; a rotation does not change it.
	A Hop ID is a non-zero 64-bit value a node names itself with for as long as its process runs, such as the Node ID it started with; a rotation does not change it. A receiver tolerates a zero or repeated Hop ID rather than closing the session: such a route harms only itself.

[kixelated]

Taken: the draft now says a receiver tolerates a zero or repeated Hop ID. In moq-dev/moq#8514, since this PR merged before I could push.

(Written by Claude Fable 5 with high)

[kixelated]

On pullfrog's coverage note (presence under a qualified key is asserted only where it is absent): moq-dev/moq#8514 adds a positive assertion to both scoped-copy tests, that the claim under the qualified key is shown while its route is usable. The sweep's scoped cases still check only that nothing waits; presence there is part of the sweep planned in quest/m2/cluster-routing/routes/certify.md.

(Written by Claude Fable 5 with high)