glm-5.3-flash
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- forwarder.rs's ListenerConnection doc corrected: NoTls is hardwired on every connection path (pooled, listener, reconnect) — the pooled path never rode the consumer's Config sslmode (a sslmode=require DSN fails at connect); grep-audited no other in-crate doc repeats the claim - PgOpts doc carries the corrected one-line TLS pointer (engine-crate- docs posture, ADR-016 §2) - deployment.md: new 'TLS posture (v1)' subsection (NoTls everywhere, sslmode=require DSN fails at connect, topology-level confidentiality is the v1 substitute, TLS a post-v1 deployment concern) and a new 'Consumer-obligation notes on engine options' section carrying the QueueOpts trusted-as-given note with code-verified per-field symptoms (max_attempts <= 0: never claimed, dead-lettered at the next claim call's pre-claim sweep; negative visibility: instantly-reclaimable claims; negative retention: every dead row at the next sweep_expired) plus the PgOpts::max_size 0-guard counter-case; frontmatter advanced - alkstore/src/opts.rs: QueueOpts struct doc mirrors the consumer-obligation note (ADR-023 §2 scoping: the domain table covers trait-surface arguments, not consumer-constructed constants) - cross-file doc sweep over the fix batch's touched files (forwarder, tx, scheduler, store) found no further doc-behavior mismatch - gates: cargo build / clippy --all-targets -D warnings / fmt --check all green (doc-only, no test touched)
status: draft last_updated: 2026-10-08 (ADR-023: fourth review round resolved — waves-1–2 general-review findings)
alkstore — Architecture
Architecture documentation for the alkstore project: one reactive store interface (notify, streams, queues, locks, scheduler, outbox) over SQLite and Postgres, with each engine native underneath (see overview.md).
Current State
Phase 1 (Architecture) — in progress. Phase 0 is complete
(docs/research/phase-0.md): both POCs ran and passed, the scope
inventory is confirmed, and the crate split, drivers, and ownership
postures are decided. This directory carries the architecture spec
build-out over that evidence base; all spec documents are draft
pending architecture review and OQ resolution.
Architecture Documents
| Doc | Status | Purpose | Key OQs |
|---|---|---|---|
| overview.md | draft | Crate family, feature surface, non-goals, evidence base | — |
| core-contract.md | draft | The unified trait surface, delivery guarantees, tx seam | OQ-10 (resolved) |
| engine-sqlite.md | draft | SQLite engine: forked-substrate/rusqlite mapping | OQ-06 (resolved), OQ-12 (resolved), OQ-13 (resolved) |
| engine-postgres.md | draft | Postgres engine: tokio-postgres/LISTEN mapping | OQ-08 (resolved), OQ-12 (resolved), OQ-13 (resolved) |
| queues.md | draft | Queue/scheduler/outbox semantics depth (resolved: ADR-009/ADR-010) | OQ-05 (resolved), OQ-09 (resolved), OQ-06 (resolved) |
| deployment.md | draft | Host semantics, connection budgets, knobs, matrix | OQ-08 (resolved) |
| open-questions.md | draft | OQ tracker (promoted from OQ-ST register) | — |
Architecture Decision Records
| ADR | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 001 | Reactive-core crate + per-engine crates | Accepted |
| 002 | Feature scope — inventory-confirmed surface | Accepted |
| 003 | SQLite engine — rusqlite + honker-core lineage, bridged seam (ownership: ADR-011) | Accepted |
| 004 | Postgres engine — tokio-postgres + deadpool, hand-rolled LISTEN | Accepted |
| 005 | Published libraries by default, named fork triggers | Accepted |
| 006 | Wake contract — opaque wake + re-read; notify-vs-streams split | Accepted |
| 007 | Transactional seam — caller-held TxHandle, *_tx methods |
Accepted |
| 008 | Contract v1 surface pinning — surface partition, TxHandle shape, wake type, reserved strings, error taxonomy |
Accepted |
| 009 | Scheduler collapse — queues + schedule()/run_schedules, @every-only v1, boundary guarantee row |
Accepted |
| 010 | Queue semantics depth — visibility/renewal, backoff curve, dead-letter, no-stranded-rows sweep, schema layout | Accepted |
| 011 | SQLite substrate — fork honker-core into owned code | Accepted |
| 012 | Forked substrate design — contract-blind boundary, fidelity posture, port deltas | Accepted |
| 013 | Fold the forked substrate into alkstore-sqlite — no fourth crate |
Accepted |
| 014 | Transactional outbox enqueue — outbox_enqueue_tx on the TxHandle trait |
Accepted |
| 015 | Streams depth — carried-metadata keys, global-FIFO ordering row, StreamEvent shape, publish_with_key_tx, trim_to |
Accepted |
| 016 | Deployment honesty — no runtime capability surface; compile-time engine identity + documented matrix | Accepted |
| 017 | Contract versioning — core crate's semver is the contract version; change classes, pairing carriers, lockstep duties | Accepted |
| 018 | Substrate provenance register and cherry-pick procedure — PROVENANCE.md in-tree, per-delta category-tagged entries, five-step adoption discipline |
Accepted |
| 019 | Mechanism-handle surfaces — handle traits (Queue/StreamHandle/Outbox/Lock/JobHandle), Job/Schedule shapes, worker_id identity, core StopToken |
Accepted |
| 020 | Enqueue-option semantics — delay/run_at precedence, relative expires, scheduler stamp source, serde_json payload encoding |
Accepted |
| 021 | Third review round — tx-read methods on TxHandle, Job.claimed_at, schedule() queue-argument validation, drop = rollback, receiver close/error arms |
Accepted |
| 022 | Contract-suite layout — shared internal suite crate, properties parameterized over a store factory (discharges ADR-017 §4.2's deferral) | Accepted |
| 023 | Fourth review round — encode_payload typed (Codec), numeric-argument domains by kind (extents clamp empty, durations reject, boundaries total), plain-path SQLite open (URI flag dropped), watcher cadence 1 ms default + SqliteOpts knob |
Accepted |
Open Questions
Tracked in open-questions.md (OQ-01..NN; the Phase 0 register's OQ-ST-01..08 promote one-to-one — OQ-NN mirrors OQ-ST-NN — with new Phase 1 questions appended after). The open question set is empty — all thirteen OQs are resolved (2026-10-04 through 2026-10-06, ADR-001 through ADR-018).
Resolved (kept with resolutions): OQ-01 (feature scope), OQ-02
(crate split), OQ-03 (drivers), OQ-07 (extension surface cut),
OQ-04 (contract v1 pinning —
ADR-008), OQ-09
(scheduler collapse — ADR-009;
scheduler guarantee row pinned), OQ-05 (queue semantics depth —
ADR-010), OQ-06
(honker-core quality read — fork fired,
ADR-011), OQ-08
(capability-surface shape — none, by default ever;
ADR-016), OQ-13
(transactional outbox enqueue shape —
ADR-014), OQ-12 (streams
depth — ADR-015), OQ-10
(contract versioning —
ADR-017), OQ-11
(fork follow-through — provenance register + cherry-pick procedure,
ADR-018).
No deferred OQs. The question set closed with OQ-11 (2026-10-06); the 2026-10-06 second review round, the 2026-10-07 third review round, and the 2026-10-08 fourth review round (the waves-1–2 general review) resolved their findings directly as ADR-019/ADR-020 and ADR-021 and ADR-023 respectively, rather than as new OQs. Phase 1 moves to architecture review closure and the implementation-phase gates.
Document Lifecycle
| Status | Meaning | Transitions |
|---|---|---|
draft |
Under active development; may change significantly | → reviewed when the doc's OQs are resolved |
reviewed |
Architecture final; implementation may begin | → stable when implementation verified |
stable |
Locked; changes need review, may warrant an ADR | → deprecated when superseded |
deprecated |
Superseded; kept for reference | Removed when unreferenced |
All spec documents carry YAML frontmatter (status, last_updated);
ADRs carry a ## Status section (Accepted/Proposed/Superseded).
Provenance of decisions
Phase 1 inherits its decisions from Phase 0's evidence base — every Accepted ADR above cites its POC findings and register record. The research documents remain the deep background:
docs/research/phase-0.md— vision, prior art, OQ-ST register, convergence.docs/research/consumer-inventory.md— per-feature scope evidence.docs/research/poc-sqlite-posture-findings.md/docs/research/poc-pg-posture-findings.md— measured ground.