Replace the single-purpose chat runtime with a persistent fleet daemon that provisions, adopts, and controls nodes through the dashboard.
Add distributed job-runner actors and provider-backed deployment so jobs can materialize workspaces, execute remotely, and return outputs over iroh.
Replace pointwise scenario testing with a reusable conformance kit in
tests/common: a deterministic trace harness (input alphabet, seeded
generator, naive shrinker), an invariant oracle covering twenty black-box
guarantees (identity, correlation, dead-hold, attempt-fact ownership,
quiescence no-op, monotonic generation, fair convergence, bounded
replacement), and a fair-scheduler tail asserting eventual reconciliation.
Three conformance levels run the same battery:
- FakeBackend: the reference in-memory substrate (256 seeds x 2 modes)
- PluginBackendAdapter over FakePlugin: seam contracts plus the battery
- ProcessPlugin: real child processes, faults as real signals/errors;
"no double-create" and "converged leaks nothing" verified by counting
live PIDs (16 seeds)
Also documents two seam findings the battery surfaced: ProvisionPlugin
cannot express ambiguity (kit convention: AMBIGUOUS_FAULT_MARKER error
reclassified by the adapter; definite classification leaks provider
resources) and spawn_effect closures form a spawner Arc cycle that leaks
backends under queue-based spawners (kit breaks it at harness drop).
