---
id: mem-engine-integration
name: Mem engine — integration (full-surface wiring, suite third column, wasm32 acceptance)
status: completed
depends_on: [mem-engine-notify-listen, mem-engine-streams, mem-engine-queues, mem-engine-locks, mem-engine-scheduler-outbox, mem-engine-seam-tx, suite-harness-current-thread]
scope: moderate
risk: medium
impact: phase
level: implementation
tags: [wave-6, mem-engine, integration]
---

## Description

The integration task: wire the finished mechanisms into a complete
`Store`, adopt the contract suite as the third column, and carry the
wasm acceptance items through ([ADR-024](../architecture/decisions/024-mem-engine.md)
§5; the born-pinned posture — engine-mem.md §Isolation and the suite
factory):

- **Full-surface wiring**: every handle constructible off one
  `MemStore`; trait-object plumbing; crate docs (module docs + a
  crate-level doc carrying the honest-ephemeral posture statement —
  no durability, single-process, ephemeral by design, never
  fleet-valid, per [ADR-024](../architecture/decisions/024-mem-engine.md)
  §2 — and the wasm identity line per engine-mem.md §Identity).
- **Suite third column**: a `tests/contract_suite.rs` target
  implementing `StoreFactory` (fresh `MemStore::new()` per run,
  teardown = drop — the factory's isolation contract verbatim) and
  running the shared rows wired per engine: mem's column carries the
  mechanism rows that express on it and omits the engine-shaped rows
  that cannot (reconnect-wake, watcher-death close, watcher-cadence —
  the per-engine wiring the suite's rows already use;
  `PayloadTooLarge`'s non-occurrence arm *wires* — the arm is the
  pin). The column runs under a **current-thread runtime flavor**
  (the pre-task's async-sleep harness makes this clean).
- **wasm32 acceptance**: `cargo check --target wasm32-unknown-unknown
  -p alkstore-mem` (and the workspace's other crates untouched)
  clean; the manifest's tokio features verified as the sync+time
  subset. On-target suite execution stays scoped out (the named
  collapse condition — a wasm-bindgen-test adapter crate — recorded in
  the task Notes at completion, not an OQ).
- **No `spawn_blocking` anywhere**: grep-verified; internals
  current-thread-clean by construction, now proven by the flavor the
  column runs under.
- Suite column green is the wave's center-of-mass: 25 rows' worth of
  contract v1 assertions against a third, independent implementation —
  any red row is either a mem defect or (if the row pins
  implementation detail a correct engine could fail) a found suite
  defect to raise with the reviewer *before* editing the row (rows pin
  ADR text; a wobble is amend-in-place material under the class-1
  window).

## Acceptance Criteria

- [x] `StoreFactory` implemented for the mem engine; the third suite
      column wired and **green on the host** (same row set per the
      wiring table above)
- [x] The column runs under the current-thread flavor; no blocking
      calls in mem internals (grep-verified)
- [x] `cargo check --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -p alkstore-mem`
      clean
- [x] `engine-mem.md` updated from `draft`-initial to
      implementation-complete (the spec grows with the wave per its
      frontmatter note); crate docs carry the posture + wasm identity
- [x] Workspace gates green; clippy `-D warnings`; fmt clean
- [x] The class-1 window discipline respected: any suite-row change
      or contract wobble surfaced to the reviewer, not silently
      patched

## Dependencies note

`mem-engine-seam-tx` is listed because the overlay's commit-merge and
`*_tx` read shapes are what the suite's tx rows exercise on mem; the
mechanism tasks consume it, but a late seam fix may be needed if the
suite surfaces one — the task owns absorbing it.

## References

- docs/architecture/decisions/024-mem-engine.md §5 (acceptance items);
  022-contract-suite-layout.md (the factory both engines already
  implement — the shape to mirror)
- docs/architecture/engine-mem.md (spec of record)
- tasks/sqlite-engine-integration.md / tasks/pg-engine-integration.md
  (the structural twins' integration tasks of record)
- tasks/review-wave-5.md appendix (the discharge map the third column
  rides)

## Notes

> Decisions of record the description didn't pin:

- **The full-surface wiring was already true by construction** — the
  `mem-engine-seam-tx` task's whole-engine scope realized the entire
  `Store`/`TxHandle`/mechanism-handle surfaces over guarded state (a
  Rust trait impl is all-or-nothing per method), and the lib crate
  docs already carried the ADR-016/ADR-024 posture statement and the
  wasm identity line from `mem-engine-foundations`. This task
  verified both rather than re-landed them: the sweep found no
  `todo!`/`unimplemented!`, no `spawn_blocking`/`block_on` anywhere
  in `alkstore-mem/src` (grep), and the posture/wasm-identity crate
  docs in place; zero production code changed.
- **The `PayloadTooLarge` asymmetry row gained a third arm — a new
  suite row, not a row edit** (ADR-017 §2 class 4 suite-side
  non-event, recorded here for the review gate): the existing pair
  are engine-named (`payload_too_large_never_produced_on_sqlite` /
  `payload_too_large_produced_on_pg`) with "the engine-differing leg
  inside" their own functions, so mem's non-occurrence posture gets
  its same-shaped arm — `payload_too_large_never_produced_on_mem`,
  stamped ADR-016 §5 + ADR-024 §3, driving a payload just past the
  2 MiB mark the tx seam's mem unit pins (2 MiB + 1) through notify
  and asserting success. The existing SQLite and pg rows are
  untouched; their columns still run 25 rows each.
- **The mem column carries all 25 rows with no omissions**: the
  engine-shaped arms the description lists as omit-able
  (reconnect-wake, watcher-death close, watcher-cadence) never
  existed as suite rows — per review-wave-5's discharge map they were
  per-engine *engine-side* rows from birth (SQLite's
  `poll_interval_flows_to_the_watcher_config` and the pg
  reconnect-stays-open leg each pin in their own crate's tests;
  receiver-close arms pin through the store-handle drop that
  `receiver_close_and_save_arms` drives — the dispose carrier mem
  also implements). So the classification's "omits the rows that
  cannot" is trivially satisfied: there was nothing to leave out, and
  the mem arm substitution keeps the column at the full 25.
- **Factory shape**: `MemFactory` is a unit struct — no per-tag
  backing directory (there is no external backing; the store instance
  is the state). `open` = `MemStore::new()` boxed; `teardown` = the
  documented no-op `Ok(())` (the holder's drop of the handle *is* the
  teardown — nothing outside the instance exists to dispose of),
  idempotent trivially, safe against abandoned stores (the abandoned
  box drops with the test's frame). The factory-shape pin proves
  isolation behaviorally (a publish under `a` invisible to `b`) and
  teardown idempotence (both calls `Ok`).
- **Current-thread flavor enforced per-test**: every
  `#[tokio::test]` in the target names `flavor = "current_thread"`
  explicitly — a blocking call inside a row or inside the engine
  stalls the flavor into a hang, not a pass: the no-blocking posture
  is proven by the flavor running, not by a grep alone.
- **The on-target wasm suite-execution scope-out's named collapse
  condition** (recorded per the task description, not an OQ): a
  **wasm-bindgen-test adapter crate** — the suite's rows await real
  time (`past_stamp_sleep`) and drive the store through
  `BoxedFuture`s; on-target execution needs a wasm-bindgen-test
  runner bridging those futures and the suite's `#[tokio::test]`
  executor posture, which no row demands today. Until a consumer
  needs it, the wasm acceptance stays at compile-clean (green).
- **No red rows** — the center-of-mass landed green on the first
  full-column run: zero mem defects surfaced and zero suite-row
  wobbles found, so the class-1 amend-in-place path was never
  exercised and no reviewer escalation was owed.

## Summary

> Landed: the contract suite's third column —
> `alkstore-mem/tests/contract_suite.rs` — with `StoreFactory`
> implemented for the mem engine (fresh `MemStore::new()` per open,
> teardown = drop; a unit struct, no backing path), all 25 rows
> wired (the 24 engine-shared mechanism rows + mem's new
> `payload_too_large_never_produced_on_mem` arm) **under the
> current-thread flavor**, every test explicitly
> `flavor = "current_thread"` — green first run in 13 s. The suite
> addition (the new mem-arm row in `properties.rs` + its export) is
> the only suite-side change; no existing row changed.
>
> Full-surface wiring and crate docs verified as already landed by
> the seam/foundations tasks (`no todo!/unimplemented!`,
> `spawn_blocking`-free by grep, posture + wasm-identity crate docs
> in place) — zero production code changed. `engine-mem.md`
> frontmatter flipped `draft` → `implementation-complete` with the
> last_updated line recording the wave's landing; the stable flip
> stays with the review gate.
>
> Verified: workspace `cargo build` green; workspace `cargo test`
> green (core 25, suite harness 3, mem 100 lib + 25 suite, SQLite 191
> lib + 25 suite, pg 124 lib + 25 suite + 9 schema); clippy
> `--all-targets -D warnings` clean; `cargo fmt --check` clean;
> `cargo check --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -p alkstore-mem`
> clean; the manifest's tokio subset (sync + time; dev rt/macros)
> verified — unchanged by this task beyond the
> `alkstore-contract-suite` dev-dep (test-side, host-only).