Integrate namespace and source-route lifecycle changes, contextual process cleanup, Python binding updates, and Myelin worker/orchestrator recovery. Keep the shared control contracts, deployment identity fencing, SSH bootstrap adapters, paid admission accounting, and VastAI cleanup implementation together with their consumers.
Migrate Iroh dependencies and telemetry transport/collection with dashboard and demo callsites, workspace build configuration, and actor-control-flow policy updates. This is an intermediate development checkpoint, not paid-provider qualification.
Review verification: contextual_process_guarantees (4 tests), telemetry_transport (4 tests), and shared control contracts (5 tests) passed. Historical five-node redeployment and campaign execution passed individually; complete ordered qualification remains pending.
Architecture enforcement:
- Install a repository-owned rustc wrapper for ordinary cargo check,
build, and test commands. Resolve compiler item identities so renamed
imports and helper wrappers cannot hide spawning, timing, blocking,
polling, thread, or runtime-driving capabilities.
- Define the execution-owner crates and reject dependencies from those
substrates back into Myelin policy. Add compile-pass and compile-fail
contracts for actor helpers, execution owners, test waits, forbidden
capabilities, suppression attempts, and owner dependency inversions.
Execution ownership:
- Add engine-owned actor timers with cancellation and generation identity,
then migrate lifecycle deadlines and protocol ticks off application
tasks. Keep networking, process output, telemetry, and blocking provider
calls in their approved I/O substrates.
- Move process spawn, wait, signal, Unix listener, and output-following
mechanics into swactor-process. Isolate Vast.ai blocking HTTP mechanics
behind its adapter while actors retain retry, recovery, and provisioning
decisions.
Myelin control flow:
- Rework manual control, worker lifecycle, provisioning, provider recovery,
job deployment, distribution, edge orchestration, and shutdown as actor
state transitions and typed effects. Preserve durable provider adoption
and command outcomes across graceful and abrupt restarts.
- Replace controller loops and timer-forwarding tasks with actor messages;
leave substrate tasks as cancellable observation streams with no durable
policy state.
Properties and resource ownership:
- Add deterministic engine and component properties, a stateful mock-VastAI
lifecycle model, persisted regression cases, controlled fault injection,
and a bounded nightly workflow covering restart and teardown behavior.
- Terminate reply observers, cancel telemetry collectors, bound dashboard
projections, and release child observers, file descriptors, process
records, and inode-verified Unix sockets on every terminal path.
Verified with the compiler-policy contracts, 105 Myelin library tests, 32
swactor-process tests, telemetry cancellation contracts, randomized
stateful restart cases, cargo check, and formatting checks.
Fold the fragmented distribution swim/routing/gossip tests into swim_core, routing,
and swim_actor. Prune the dashboard tui and command surfaces. Add mvp-system actors
(node_agent, orchestrator, stage_controller), the local_e2e harness, and gpu worker
e2e.
Signed-off-by: Zachery Aaron Shores-Chmielewski <zacheryasc@gmail.com>