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---
status: draft
last_updated: 2026-10-11
notes: "ADR-013 composition round — REQ-5 added: the family's first consumers deploy this crate with the sibling reactive substrate; co-tenancy + liveness-form facts pinned"
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# Requirements
The deployment-relevant facts each use case forces on this crate.
Specs and ADRs reference these by ID (REQ-n); a future session must be
able to read this document and never re-derive a requirement from
conversation or vision prose. **This document is the anchor: when a
consumer fact changes, it changes here first, with a dated note, and
the ADRs re-derive from it.**
## Vocabulary (defined once; used everywhere — ADR-011 is the decision behind this section)
- **Tier** — one contract (a `Backend` trait implementation boundary)
serving one routing class of the pool. Exactly two tiers: **kv**
(small content) and **large** (over the size-threshold content;
the tier formerly named `fs` — renamed in ADR-011 because the tier's
routing criterion is length, and half its engines are not
filesystems). "Backend" names the same thing at a different
altitude (the tier as shipped including its engine set); "two
backends" (ADR-004) reads forever as "two tiers".
- **Engine** — a concrete storage implementation of one tier's
contract. Five ship: the kv tier's `sqlite` (default),
`postgres` (feature `postgres`), and `mem` (ephemeral; feature
`mem`; the contract-reference engine; ADR-003); the large tier's
`local` (default; ADR-003) and `pg-lo` (ADR-009).
- **Pool** — the flat content-addressed namespace of one deployment
(`hash → bytes` everywhere; ADR-005).
- **Store instance** — one running instantiation of the store facade
(one engine set — one or two engines per the constructor mode,
ADR-011 §4 — plus dispatch and GC state). The **GC arbitration
domain** for single-instance topologies (ADR-005's pins, liveness
locks, and delete windows live inside one); the pin-row owner id
under fleet engines (ADR-008/010 — ADR-008 wrote "node id" before
this split existed; a store instance is what owns pins).
- **Node** — one running *process* (an embedder's binary). **A node
hosts one or more store instances** — this fixes the prior
definition's collapse (which REQ-2's phrasing contradicted). Node
is the process/ops unit: alkcall connections, ACL grants, sweep
cadence, and deployment identity attach to nodes.
- **Fleet** — **two or more store instances over one shared pool**
(via a shared SQL engine). Defined by pool-sharing, not node count:
two instances in one process over one postgres pool are a fleet;
two processes on two sqlite files are two pools, never a fleet. A
fleet is the only topology in which cross-instance GC and
large-tier locality questions exist (ADR-008).
- **Deployment** — one operator's whole system: typically one fleet
or one node; consumer tables, op registrations, and sweep cadence
are deployment choices.
## The use cases and their requirements
### UC-1: Self-hosted git serving (gitea-replacement scale)
Git repos for a user/team on one machine. Small-object regime dominated
by loose objects in the kv tier; packs and large artifacts (git-lfs
shape) on the large tier.
- **REQ-1 (traces: ADR-007, POC #3 A4)** — single-machine economics:
sqlite is the default kv engine; single-writer WAL ceiling (~1.2k
objects/s under contention) is comfortably above single-node push
rates. **Zero-ops is a requirement**: no daemon beyond the node
process itself.
### UC-2: Distributed git with replicator nodes hosting repos for many users
The p2p/OSS sketch (phase-0 §p2p shape): replicators are push/clone
endpoints serving many concurrent users; gossip-style sync between
replicators; ACL/ownership above (alkcall layer).
- **REQ-2 (traces: ADR-007, ADR-008)** — **a replicator node may run
multiple store instances (a fleet) sharing one pool** via a shared
postgres kv engine, including serving large (>threshold) pool
content from that fleet. This is stated as a requirement, dated
2026-10-03 (recording a planning fact from the use case's origin
discussion; it predates all POCs and architecture docs, recorded
here on the operator's authority as the use case's stated shape).
Consequences are derived in ADR-008: fleet GC (DB-backed pins,
advisory-locked sweeper, SQL delete arbitration), the large-tier
engine concept with its locality contract, and the pg-lo engine
(POC #7 — **passed** 2026-10-03, admitted as a shipped
engine by ADR-009: a fleet node can consolidate on postgres-only).
- **REQ-3 (traces: ADR-007, POC #5 B3/B4)** — concurrency scale-out:
the fleet's hub-class nodes need put throughput that *increases*
under concurrency (pg: near-linear to ~37k puts/s at 24 conns);
sqlite's WAL ceiling (~1.2k/s, latency-climbs-unbounded) bounds
single-node sustained write pressure regardless of client count.
This is the measured basis for the per-node engine split.
### UC-3: Agent workspaces (many agents, near-identical content)
Agents working simultaneously in mostly-identical workspaces, each
making small edits; a shared pool dedups by construction; per-workspace
path→hash manifests above.
- **REQ-4 (traces: ADR-005, ADR-002)** — pooling and one address space
across workspaces; dedup must be structural (not configured). Small
edits mean the small-blob regime dominates: sqlite-class kv
performance is what matters; the large tier is hit rarely (large
workspace artifacts).
### UC-4: The family's first consumers run composition (alkgit + alkfs + the reactive substrate)
The first consumers of this crate — alkgit (its object backend,
OQ-07) and alkfs (path trees/workspaces, OQ-08) — deploy
**alkstore**, the sibling reactive coordination substrate (v0.1.0:
notify/locks/queues/streams/outbox/scheduler behind its own engine
crates) *together with* this crate, per an operator-authority
planning fact (2026-10-11, recorded in alkstore's
`docs/research/consumer-inventory.md` — which grades this crate's
fleet needs against alkstore's surface). This forces composition
facts on this crate regardless of whether its core takes a
dependency:
- **REQ-5 (traces: ADR-013)** — composition facts (decided, not
deferred; ADR-013 is the ruling):
- The first consumers' nodes co-deploy both crates; this crate's
core keeps **no alkstore dependency** (ADR-013 §1) — the reactive
substrate is deployment-layer composition above the facade, the
named substrate for the cadence ADR-005 assigns to embedders.
- **No cross-store atomicity**: each crate owns its transaction
scope; the compensation properties downstreams rely on are this
crate's idempotent re-puts (CAS; delete-then-recover backstop),
windowed deletes, and reports-as-data sweep outcomes (ADR-013
§3).
- Consumer **liveness tables co-tenant the fleet host** (the
named-table-reference form, ADR-012 §6.6) or ride the in-process
callback form single-node — the two-form liveness seam every
downstream plans against (ADR-013 §3).
- The fleet sweeper's single-flighter is a named exclusive sweep
lease whose shipped provider is the pg advisory lock; other
providers (the substrate's lock) are composition above the
facade or a new-ADR substitution door (ADR-013 §2).
## What this document is not
- **Not consumer architecture**: how alkgit maps refs/manifests onto
the store remains OQ-07 (externally-owned); how alkfs shapes
workspaces remains OQ-08. This document records what each use case
*forces on this crate*, not what each consumer *is* — UC-4's rows
are the one composition shape the use cases themselves force
(REQ-5/ADR-013), stated as constraints, not as a consumer design.
- **Not a requirements-change process substitute**: a new or changed
REQ arrives here with a dated note and owner; ADRs that depended on
the old fact state their reopen conditions and reopen when this
file changes.
## Decision trace
| REQ | Introduced | Source | ADRs |
|---|---|---|---|
| REQ-1 | 2026-10-03 (fact: phase-0 §deployment posture) | POC #3 A4 | ADR-007 |
| REQ-2 | 2026-10-03 (fact: use case origin discussion, pre-POC) | user/planning record | ADR-007, ADR-008 |
| REQ-3 | 2026-10-03 (fact: phase-0 §deployment posture) | POC #5 B3/B4 | ADR-007 |
| REQ-4 | 2026-10-03 (fact: phase-0 §vision) | POC #1, ADR-002 | ADR-002, ADR-005 |
| REQ-5 | 2026-10-11 (fact: composition planning; corroborated by alkstore's consumer-inventory) | operator record | ADR-013 |