The channels concept (docs/research/alknet-channels/phase-0-findings.md)
was developed in a separate session and is research-phase, not
architecture. The hub spec was inadvertently built assuming a channel
model that doesn't exist yet.
Changes:
- Remove all channels references from hub README (subtitle, channel
model section, channel management bullet, channel proxying section,
'does NOT do' bullet, references)
- Remove OQ-55 (channel/open operation) — channels research has its
own question tracking (OQ-CH-01 through OQ-CH-07)
- Hub spec now describes what it actually provides: peer lifecycle,
aggregated operation env, service discovery. One QUIC connection
per peer carrying the call protocol. No channels, no future
multiplexing, no research references.
- Replace on_worker_connected() post-hoc call with WorkerConnectedCallback
that fires inside CallAdapter::handle(). handle() blocks until disconnect
— there is no 'after handle accepts' point for the assembly layer to
hook into. The callback carries both on_connected (from_call + attach_peer)
and on_disconnected (detach_peer + drop channels).
- Add CallAdapter::with_worker_connected_callback(callback) builder method.
- Consolidate duplicate WorkerConnectedCallback struct definitions.
- Fix channel role: 'channel proxying' → 'channel management'. The hub
tracks channels; it does not proxy streams. What the caller does with
the resulting channel is the assembly layer's business.
- Resolve OQ-54: callback is the committed design. Update OQ file and
open-questions.md table.
Replace the 'future strategies' section with the channel model:
- Channel 0 is the call protocol — the universal control plane. Handles
operation discovery (from_call), operation routing (invoke_peer),
service discovery, and channel negotiation (channel/open, channel/close,
channel/list).
- Channels 1..N carry any ALPN as data planes. Opened via channel/open on
the call protocol. Each channel is a bidirectional QUIC stream, wrapped
as Connection::from_bidi (ADR-065), and handed to the same
ProtocolHandler::handle() that handles dedicated connections. The
handler does not know it's on a multiplexed channel.
- Channel negotiation is symmetric — either side can open a channel.
Same pattern as from_call: bidirectional, symmetric, negotiated over
the call protocol.
- The hub's role for channels 1..N is transparent stream proxying. The
hub does not interpret the protocol; the client and worker speak the
ALPN directly.
- Hub struct gains channel tracking (PeerId → ChannelId → ChannelInfo).
HubError gains ChannelAlreadyOpen, ChannelNotFound, ChannelOpenFailed.
- New OQ-55: channel/open operation spec (deferred to call-protocol
implementation phase).
- Replace .unwrap() with .expect() in spec pseudocode; remove .unwrap()
from ADR-067 prose. Specs describe intent, not implementation details.
- Remove 'ownership reaping' from hub's 'does NOT do' list. Ownership
is an alknet-docker concern, not a hub concern. The other agent's
hedging leaked into the spec; removed.
- Restructure hub README: separate core peer lifecycle (protocol-agnostic)
from call-protocol strategy (first strategy). Add extension points
section for future tty/blobs/custom strategies. A QUIC connection can
multiplex multiple protocols over separate streams; the hub's core
manages the connection, each strategy manages its own protocol-specific
state. The call-protocol strategy handles the majority of real-world
use cases; the architecture keeps the door open for others.
Three ADRs addressing gaps surfaced by the first hub consumer (alkapi):
- ADR-067: Aggregated peer-env wiring — Dispatcher::with_aggregated_env hook
so compose_root_env reads a shared PeerCompositeEnv across all calls,
not a fresh per-call one. The hub-defining gap (alkapi OQ-08 / G.1).
- ADR-068: PeerCompositeEnv::peer_operations override — adds
list_operation_names() to OperationEnv, overrides on OverlayOperationEnv
and PeerCompositeEnv. Fixes services/list-peers returning empty operation
lists for non-local peers (alkapi G.6).
- ADR-069: from_call is a manual free function, not auto-wired — reverses
the aspirational OQ-27 resolution to match the implementation. Cleans
the 'v1 default' hedging language in ADR-017 and client-and-adapters.md
(alkapi G.4).
New crate spec: alknet-hub — reusable hub pattern (aggregated env,
connection lifecycle, worker supervision with backoff, service discovery).
Spec fixes: builder API drift (with_local/with_local_streaming separation),
ScopedOperationEnv → ScopedPeerEnv type name, OQ count 51→54.
Three new OQs: OQ-52 (wait_for_close), OQ-53 (backoff defaults),
OQ-54 (inbound hook placement).
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