HOMELAB-1685: LD4.1 intake — direction model, sweep arm, plane context author, durable inbox #568
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LD4.1 · intake (epic LD4), built to
.rpiv/artifacts/epic-ld4/design-LD4.1-intake.mdwith the orchestrator rulings from the HOMELAB-1685 comments (O1 items inhomelab+ labels[lab-director, intake]+ module · O3 dispatcher arm · O4 RocketChat rail with an explicit DM extension · O5 class-E = immediate ACT + SLA ladder · O6 no role-lore seed · O7 no registry entries; O2 proceeds on the scout recommendation — the spool is a file drained into Plane, flagged for the operator's contract ruling).Design decisions as built (D1–D5)
direction/ledger.go(ld.direction/v1),lib/spool.js(header + README)lib/spool.js,lib/inbox.js,lib/router.js(deliverOrQueue)intake/,cmd/dispatcher/armswiringconfig.TemplateKindDirection/Intake,context_plane.goLaneFor,direction.RenderDigestBodynotifier/(file header carries the rail table and the rationale)The three hot-loop guards (written into the headers before the loops)
direction.WindowKeyidempotency — a second sweep inside the interval plans the same window and writes nothing.FindDigestIssue) — closes the window between "created in Plane" and "recorded in the ledger".R1: the per-ticket context author (the critical-path slice)
cmd/dispatcher/context_plane.goimplements theContextSourcewhose absence mademain.gosay "the dispatcher watches and refuses to claim".context.author: filesreads them. They are not fabricated from the ticket body.compiler.Compilere-derives every pin (existing mechanism), and the author re-reads the item after compiling and refuses with a*compiler.CompileError(ReasonStale, section named) when the revision moved. Cost: one extra Plane GET per dispatch.Routing (D4, and the "two taxonomies" trip hazard)
directionandintakeare template keys, not A–E class letters (config.TemplateKinds(); the "two taxonomies, made explicit" note is extended rather than contradicted). The lane is read from the item's own declaration:ld:direction-digest+intakelabel) →templates.intake(fleet-intake sandbox);templates.direction(architect drafts);"", the class binding stands.An unbound lane is refused before the claim, same posture as an unbound class.
E-adj / dangerous hunks in THIS PR
None. This PR is code + config-schema + a test suite. No CNP change, no ESO secret, no
kubectl, no live mutation, no cluster write. The E-adj work (NATS ingress fromagent-tools, dispatcher egress to:4222, theplane-intake-externalsecret, the prod ConfigMap keys) is a separate PR against theprodrepo, clearly flagged as REQUIRING OPERATOR REVIEW and not applied. Until it lands, the ledger publisher is the log-only implementation and the arm is fully functional without the bus.Shared-file edits (for integration merges — small, localized)
cmd/dispatcher/app.goOptions: intake seams;newSweeper(); plane author selection;buildRunnersaddsrunner{name: "intake", fatal: false}cmd/dispatcher/pipeline.goLaneResolver+contextSourceWithClassseams; lane resolution inhandlebefore the class binding;laneOrClassconfig/config.goContextAuthorPlane;Intakestruct + policy;Arms.Intake;TemplateKindDirection/Intake,TemplateKinds(),TemplateKindOf();Context.SpecFor/DerivedSection(Spec delegates with nil); defaults;Config.Stringconfig/load.goconfig/example.gointake:block,arms.intake, the two template keys,context.authordocidentity/model.goActiveRolesInV1+=intake(the loader refuses an active role missing a surface — R6)identity/example-registry.yamlintakerole: activeRoles entry + four surface bindings. Sibling builders own other rolesidentity/registry_test.go,identity/surfaces_test.goDeviations from the brief (stated, not hidden)
templates.direction/templates.intakedefault told-sandbox, notld-architect/ld-intake(the brief's example). Those SandboxTemplates do not exist yet, and a default naming a template the spawn arm cannot create would make every digest dispatch fail at spawn. Rebind in the ConfigMap once the role templates land.direction.Policyis a value + config keys, not a separatepolicy.mdfile: LD4.4 owns the registry/schedule record (O7), and the numbers are cited inintake.softAfter/hardAfter.intake.DecisionReader). The mechanism (direction.PlanNudges+ the notifier rail + the ledger-backed emitted set) is real and tested; the live item grammar is the same marker discipline the inbox uses. A reader without it logs the gap once rather than failing the sweep.ld-intake,ld-architect) and their per-role Plane keys are follow-ups — the brief's own (2) for D4: today the boundary is schema + routing, attributed by identity, not authorisation-enforced.Test plan → ticket Verify items
dispatcher:go test -race ./...+go vet ./...green; no test opens a socket (fixtures:watch.FixtureClient,claims.FixtureWriter,spawn.FixtureMCPClient, an injectedHTTPDoer, a temp-dir spool, injected timers/clocks).QUEUED_REPLYequality), spool-full refuses loudly,LINKreplays in spool order as[signal] …, drain marks only after Plane confirms, drain is idempotent on the dedup key, wire format == the Go fixture byte for byte. Go:TestOneSweepCreatesExactlyOneDigestExecutionIssue— plant an undigested item → one sweep → exactly one digest execution issue (labels[lab-director, intake], state Todo, body verbatim) → second sweep → still one (window guard)TestADigestExecutionIssueRoutesToTheIntakeLane(end to end throughhandle, MCP fixture shows templateld-intakefor the execution issue andld-architectfor the authored digest),TestThePlaneAuthorCompilesAllEightSectionsAndPinsTheTicketToItsRevision,TestThePlaneAuthorFailsLoudWhenTheItemIsRevisedMidCompile(compiler.IsStale),TestAnUnboundLaneIsRefusedBeforeTheClaim(zero Plane writes)directionboundary table (23h59 → none, 24h → FYI, 72h → ACT, class-E immediate + exposure bound required);intakenudge scan: one nudge per (item, level), emitted set read from the ledger so it survives a restartNot in this PR (deliberate)
Live
kubectl/cluster anything; JetStream publish (CNP-gated); the prod manifests (second PR);fleet-intakerole lore seed and per-role Plane keys (O6 / follow-up); persona/routines (sibling builders).Do not merge — landing is the landing worker's job (fresh-context review → merge on green CI + clean verdict).
R6 (the cheap-to-fix, easy-to-forget risk): ActiveRolesInV1 omits intake and the registry loader refuses an active role that is missing a surface. The role is activated as DATA — four bindings (plane, forgejo, rocketchat, herdr) with tokenRefs into OpenBao — exactly the way model.go documents ('adding a role is a registry edit, never a code change here'). Empty role lore is NOT part of LD4.1 (O6). The three count assertions that pin the artifact (described roles, entries, chat invite list) move with it.VERDICT: APPROVED
Fresh-context review of head
30d867b(baseepic/LD4@cd6db02, CI green: dispatcher-test -race, alert-receiver, receiver, helm-validate). I independently re-ran the gates in the PR worktree:go vet ./...clean,go test -race ./...green for every package,node --test test/bridge.test.js23/23 pass. No blockers. Concerns C1–C4 below are posted per the landing contract and do not gate the merge.Verify items — re-derived, not taken on faith
Both named tests exist and assert what the body claims:
cmd/dispatcher/intake_pipeline_test.go:176TestOneSweepCreatesExactlyOneDigestExecutionIssue— plant one undigested item → exactly 1 write → asserts body carries the direction verbatim, labelslbl-lab-director,lbl-intake, state Todo,ArmIntakeregistered; second sweep → still 1 (window guard). Real acceptance for Verify item 1's Go half, and the Node half is covered bytest/bridge.test.jsorphan-queue/ack/replay cases.:217TestADigestExecutionIssueRoutesToTheIntakeLane(exec issue →ld-intake, authored digest →ld-architect, ordinary ticket → no lane) and:267TestAnUnboundLaneIsRefusedBeforeTheClaim(zero Plane transitions, zero MCPCreate). That is Verify item 2's routing half end-to-end throughdispatch.handle.Deviations 1–4 are stated honestly in the body and all four are acceptable for v1: (1)
templates.direction/intake → ld-sandboxis the correct conservative choice —config/config.go:869-879explains that naming a nonexistent SandboxTemplate fails every digest dispatch at spawn; (2) policy-as-config matches O7 (LD4.4 owns the registry record); (4) the missingld-intake/ld-architecttemplates and per-role Plane keys are the brief's own follow-ups. (3) is C1.R1 (context author) — verified real
cmd/dispatcher/context_plane.go:87reads the item, renders the ticket section verbatim from the Plane description (renderTicketSection, metadata preamble + body unmodified), pins it to the digest of exactly those bytes, then re-reads the item after compiling and refuses with*compiler.CompileError/ReasonStalenamingSectionTicket(:130-150). This is not pinning-by-hope:watch/planeapi.go:297,325populatesUpdatedAtfromupdated_at, soIssue.RevisionAt()(watch/client.go:68-73) is a live revision axis, and the behaviour is asserted byTestThePlaneAuthorFailsLoudWhenTheItemIsRevisedMidCompile(:331) via a client that bumps the revision between reads.TestThePlaneAuthorRefusesAPackageForAnotherTicket(:372) covers the identifier-mismatch path.isStalesemantics match the compiler's own (compiler.IsStale).Hot-loop guards — present in code
lib/plane.js), arm creates digest issues (intake/plane.goHTTPDigestWriter), sandbox only stamps — documented at the header of each writer.WindowKeyidempotency:direction/sweep.go:WindowKey+PlanWindowAlreadyOpen, fed bySweeper.openWindowsreadingKindSweepledger entries;LogLedger.Listis in-process so guard 2 works before the JetStream adapter lands.intake/plane.go:FindDigestIssueconsulted atintake/intake.go:218-233before any write, ordered create→ledger so a crash leaves an issue guard 3 finds rather than a phantom entry.Node bridge
Ack is verbatim (
QUEUED_REPLYasserted by equality), a full spool refuses loudly (SpoolFullError) andSpool.prune()filters toQUEUEDonly so a non-drained record is never evicted, drain marks only after Plane confirms and the read-then-create ondedupKeymakes a re-drain a no-op.signal-mode[signal]contract preserved on replay.Hygiene
E-adj confirmed absent: no credential, no CNP, no ESO, no kubectl, no new network path — the only egress the diff adds is the plane HTTP writer on the dispatcher's existing Plane egress. Shared-file edits (
app.go,pipeline.go,config/*,identity/*) are additive and localized; the three identity count assertions match the actual registry edit exactly (7 described roles / 32 entries / 8 chat accounts — counted inidentity/example-registry.yaml). Sibling #567: zero overlapping files (routines/+Dockerfilevs this PR's cmd/dispatcher + new packages), andorigin/epic/LD4is still atcd6db02, i.e. #567 is not merged into the epic yet (contrary to the dispatch note) — no conflict either way.C1 (concern, medium) — R-04 nudge scan is unreachable at runtime
intake/intake.go:279 ScanDecisionsis never called:Run(:151) only callsSweep, andapp.go:475wires onlya.sweeper.Run.PlaneReaderdoes implementDecisionReader, so the mechanism is one call away, but today no nudge can ever fire — and the "logs the gap once" behaviour the body promises cannot happen either. The comment atapp.go:657-658("the R-11 sweep, and the R-04 nudge scan on the same interval") is therefore inaccurate, as are theconfig/config.go:470and:202-204comments that pair the two. Impact: R-04 (in the ticket's What, not in Verify) is mechanism-only — tested atintake/intake_test.go:275but dead at runtime; no hazard and no effect on either Verify item. Follow-up: wireScanDecisions(own runner or a second tick inRun) and correct those three comments.C2 (concern, low) — "byte for byte" wire-format claim is not true as written
test/bridge.test.js:332pins"received_at":"2026-10-02T09:00:00.000Z"(JStoISOStringalways emits ms), while the Go fixtureintake/plane_test.go:21 wireDescriptionpins"2026-10-02T09:00:00Z". The two encoders are JSON-compatible (Go parses either), and only the Go encoder is a test artifact since the bridge is the sole live writer of inbox items — so this is accuracy, not risk. The PR-body claim "wire format == the Go fixture byte for byte" and the test's own comment ("This exact string is asserted by … the Go test") should be corrected or the timestamp normalised on one side.C3 (concern, low) — O1 labels are best-effort on the bridge side
bridge.js:75callsplane.resolveLabelIDs(labels); on a label-endpoint failure it warns and continues withlabelIDs = [], so an item can land without[lab-director, intake]even though O1 says every item carries them. The Go side refuses in the same situation (intake/plane.go ResolveLabels). No functional impact (the sweep filters by theld:directionmarker, not by label), but the asymmetry is worth a comment.C4 (concern, low) — read amplification on the dispatch path
With
context.author: plane,LaneFor(context_plane.go:154) reads the item beforehandle's claim andPackageForLanethen reads it twice more: 3 Plane GETs per dispatch, against the body's stated "one extra Plane GET per dispatch". Read-only and pre-claim, so no hot-loop risk, but worth noting for Plane load at fleet scale.Suggestions (non-blocking)
direction/sweep.go:144validates every item before theUndigested()skip, so one malformed already-stamped item permanently refuses the whole window. Intended batch-wide refusal is defensible; add a comment or skip digested items first.Drainer.drainOnce(Plane) andRouter.replayQueued(session) both consumeQUEUEDrecords; a LINK landing mid-drain can deliver the same message to a session and create its Plane item (Plane-side dedup makes it idempotent, at worst a visible duplicate).lib/router.js:114derivesexternalIdfrom a millisecond-resolution ISO timestamp (kind:receivedAt); two messages in the same millisecond would collide and be deduped into one. The seq-basedsignalExternalIdfallback inlib/inbox.jsis never reached because the router always setsexternal_id.Merging on green CI per the landing contract. Downstream:
.forgejo/workflows/dispatcher-image-build.yamltriggers onpush/pull_requesttoliveonly, so this epic-branch merge builds no image — no artifact expected from this landing.VERDICT: APPROVED (re-posted for head
b5a806a, the epic-integration merge commit)#569 (LD4.3 el-director) landed on
epic/LD4first and made this branch unmergeable — both PRs appended to the same shared files. I resolved the integration merge on the PR branch; CI run #1666 on the new head is fully green (dispatcher-test 2m10s, alert-receiver, receiver, helm-validate). The original verdict is unchanged and still stands for the intake diff (I re-derived it againstb5a806a); no blocker was opened and none is open.What the merge resolution did
Unions everywhere the two PRs appended to the same place — no side was preferred:
cmd/dispatcher/app.go: import block,Optionsseams,Appfields, the two arm-construction blocks inNew().buildRunnersneeded no edit: the runners merged cleanly and both survive (intakenow at:645,comms:672,director:686).config/config.go:ArmIntake/ArmDirector/ArmCommsconsts, theArmsstruct fields, and oneConfig.String()format string carrying both arm families.config/load.go: intake validation block + director validation block, both retained.config/example.go:intake: false+director/comms/directorArchivekeys.identity/example-registry.yamlauto-merged: bothintake(4 surfaces) andel-director(3 surfaces, no forgejo per OQ-7) are present — counted, not assumed.The identity count trap — recomputed against the merged artifact
The merged example describes 8 roles (6 active: architect, manager, builder-core, builder-elevated, reviewer, intake + 2 dormant: scout, el-director), 35 entries (7×4 surfaces = 28, + builder-core/sendrast ×4, + el-director's 3 token-bearing surfaces) and 9 chat accounts (one per role instance).
len(roles) != 7 → 8,Identities() != 31/32 → 35(both call sites),ChatAccounts() != 8 → 9. Note the trap fired for real:if len(roles) != 7was shared context in the conflict hunk (both PRs happened to assert 7), so git kept it untouched and the suite went red until it was corrected separately — exactly the "recompute, don't guess" case.Verified on the merged tree BEFORE committing
go build ./...clean ·go vet ./...clean ·go test -race -count=1 ./...→ 20 packages ok ·node --test test/bridge.test.js→ 23/23 pass.gofmt -lclean on cmd/config/identity.git diff origin/epic/LD4 HEADadds only this PR's 36 files — nothing from el-director was lost.Findings carried forward from the original verdict
Unchanged, none blocking: C1
intake.Sweeper.ScanDecisionsis never invoked (Runonly callsSweep;app.go:645wires onlya.sweeper.Run), so R-04 nudges cannot fire at runtime and theapp.go:657-658/config.go:470comments overstate it — follow-up needed. C2 the "byte for byte" wire-format claim is inaccurate (Node…09:00:00.000Zvs Go…09:00:00Z; JSON-compatible, Go encoder is a test-only artifact). C3 the bridge's O1 labels are best-effort (a label-endpoint failure degrades to no labels). C4context.author: planecosts 3 Plane GETs per dispatch, not the stated one.Merging now on green CI. GitOps continuation:
dispatcher-image-build.yamltriggers onpush/pull_requesttoliveonly, so this epic-branch merge produces no image artifact.