glm-5.2
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Phase 6 (BiStream unification) is complete (commitb60a584). Update the findings doc to reflect what actually shipped and how it overlaps with the remaining phases: - Phase 6: marked Done. Added a 'What was done (cross-crate)' section listing the actual changes per crate (alknet-core, alknet-http, alknet-tty, alknet-call), so the doc records the implementation shape not just the plan. - Phase 9: marked Done — subsumed by Phase 6. ADR-092's migration step 2 includes the alknet-http call-site update (drop QuicStream), so Phase 6's call-site work landed Phase 9's deliverable. grep confirms no QuicStream/QuicStreamDuplex remains. - Phase 9: added a 'Pre-existing test failure to fix in a follow-up' note for the to_mcp::tests::search_returns_access_control_filtered_ops_excluding_subscriptions failure. The bug is in the test helper full_registry_with_ops (to_mcp.rs:501-516) — it always uses HandlerKind::Once even for OperationType::Subscription, which the registry's kind validation (tightened in commit9c81129, ADR-049) rejects. Predates Phase 6 (verified by stashing); blocks Phase 9's 'Done when' criterion (cargo test -p alknet-http passes) and needs a small follow-up. - Intermediate-states table: updated rows 6, 7, 8, 9. Phase 6 and 9 marked Done; Phase 7 and 8 noted as unchanged by Phase 6 (Phase 7's work is in wire.rs/control.rs which Phase 6 didn't touch; Phase 8 is docs-only).
Alknet
Status: Pre-alpha — This project is undergoing a major architectural pivot to an ALPN-as-service model. The previous implementation has been archived and a greenfield rebuild is in progress.
A self-hostable networking toolkit built on QUIC+TLS with ALPN-based protocol dispatch. Each protocol handler (SSH, SFTP, Git, HTTP, DNS, messaging, call protocol) registers an ALPN string on a shared endpoint. The ALPN negotiation during the TLS/QUIC handshake routes connections to the correct handler before any application bytes are read.
Core Insight
A service IS an ALPN. One endpoint, one port, many protocols — dispatched by the TLS handshake, not by application-level peeking or separate listeners.
Crates
| Crate | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
alknet-vault |
stable | Local key vault: BIP39/SLIP-0010/AES-GCM key derivation and encryption |
alknet-core |
planned | ProtocolHandler trait, ALPN router, auth/identity, config |
alknet-ssh |
planned | SSH handler (russh), SOCKS5, port forwarding |
alknet-call |
planned | JSON-RPC call protocol (EventEnvelope framing) |
alknet-fs |
planned | Content-addressed file storage (iroh-blobs backend) |
alknet-sftp |
planned | SFTP handler (russh-sftp protocol core) |
alknet-git |
planned | Git smart protocol handler (gix) |
alknet-http |
planned | HTTP handler (axum, REST API, MCP) |
alknet-dns |
planned | DNS handler (hickory-proto, pkarr) |
alknet-msg |
planned | E2E encrypted messaging, mixnet support |
alknet |
planned | CLI binary (assembles and registers handlers) |
Documentation
- ALPN-as-service architecture — pivot proposal
- Cleanup plan — greenfield transition plan
- SDD process — spec-driven development process
- Research references — iroh, russh, russh-sftp deep dives
Reference implementation (previous architecture) is preserved at /workspace/@alkdev/alknet-main/.
License
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.