Implements tmp/tidaldb-fleet-hardening (20 planned tasks + 2 found by measurement).
Ring 0 — restore verification. .woodpecker.yaml step pods ran at the namespace
default of 1500m/2Gi, which OOMKilled a prior pipeline and starved the release
gate past its budget. Both push-path steps now declare
backend_options.kubernetes.resources as two YAML anchors declared once on their
first consuming step. The values are CALIBRATED against measured free node
capacity, not against the LimitRange max: `requests: cpu 2` (this roadmap's
original figure) fits on NO node and would sit Pending forever, because
`ci-build-bounds` grants permission and the nodes supply capacity, and those are
not the same thing.
The `nightly` cron described in this file for 216 days was never created, so
tier-3 chaos, the fault classes, mTLS and the PITR test produced exactly zero
signal while reading like standing coverage. nightly-chaos and
nightly-security-ops now alias the anchors and have budgets matching the gate
(their 120/90 were TIGHTER on the same runner, so they would have failed
nightly for a budget reason, not a correctness one). nightly-soak is REMOVED,
not scheduled: it drives 1000 rps for 600s gating on p99 <= 250ms, and the best
node has 1700m free CPU, so it would fail on starvation rather than regression —
manufacturing a nightly false alarm. Its commands move verbatim to
docs/runbooks/nightly-soak.md.
Ring 1 — four fabrications removed from the wire.
- scatter_merge sorted and truncated without re-stamping rank, so /feed and
/search returned 1,1,2 under full placement. Reuses merge_cross_shard's
existing stamp; asserted on BOTH the multi-group merge path and the
single-group [only] fast path that bypasses it.
- aggregate_region_row's None arm invented `applied_events: 0` plus a deficit
derived from it. applied_events/lag_events are now Option<u64>, null on the
wire. leader_last_seq was also unwrap_or(0), so a node that could not reach
the LEADER computed 0 - applied = 0 for every region and reported a converged
cluster it had never measured — a fabrication pointing the dangerous way.
- tidalctl inferred NO REPORT from `applied == 0 && lag > 0`. That heuristic was
actively hiding the PVC-wipe shape: a measured zero with a real deficit
rendered as "no report" instead of BEHIND. Now read off the wire; converged
exits 0, partitioned still exits nonzero.
- /sharded/* answered 201/204 for single-copy writes with nothing anywhere
saying so. Now requires `x-tidal-ack: local`, rejecting with 400 via the
existing invalid_input path. Six call sites migrated, not the two this
roadmap predicted — including docs/runbooks/cluster.md §16.3, which told
operators to run a quorum-write probe via POST /sharded/items. That probe
cannot verify quorum: the surface applies locally with no WAL append. It was
used as the safety check between every step of a staged deploy earlier today.
Ring 2 — observability. JSON_LOGS was already implemented and the deployment
simply never asked for it; the StatefulSet now sets it, plus
TIDAL_SERVICE_NAME=tidaldb because enabling it silently renames the
VictoriaLogs `service` stream field and would have blinded every query keyed on
it. Adds tidaldb_usearch_replicated_vectors_total, incremented on BOTH the
origin (wal_blob_first -> Ok(Some)) and the follower apply path — counting only
the origin would mean each vector lands on exactly one node, replicas never
agree, and the alert built on it pages forever.
Found by measurement, not planned: the 401 path discarded every fact about
every rejection. Traefik has served 101,858 rejected requests to the public
ingress — 87.6% of all its traffic — with no record of who or why anywhere.
unauthorized_response now emits reason (missing_token vs invalid_token, the
distinction that separates a scanner from a rotation that missed a consumer)
and the forwarded client. The token is never logged.
Also: scripts/restore-fleet.sh --cluster started the soak monitor while
deliberately leaving its gate suspended, orphaning a watcher that has reported
"0/30 green nights" for 13 days. The pair now moves together. Doc-guard's
three-warning backlog is cleared with real backfill for M4/M6/M12.
Verified: fmt clean; clippy 5 crates 0 new warnings (74 vs 74 baseline,
counted in a detached worktree at HEAD); lib 2110 passed; cluster_sharding 5;
cluster_runbook 10; tidalctl 38; doc-guard 0 warnings. Playwright 32/34 with
the two remaining failures asserting the rank fix against the not-yet-rolled
image — they are the post-deploy proof.
`cargo test --workspace` could not run at all: dependency resolution failed with
"aws-types@1.3.16 requires rustc 1.91.1" on the 1.91.0 default toolchain, so the
gate the project documents was dead. Making it run exposed a compile break and
two wrong tests that had been invisible for months. Now green end to end:
143 suites, 3155 tests, exit 0.
Toolchain
- rust-toolchain.toml pins the DEV toolchain to 1.91.1. The published MSRV stays
`rust-version = "1.91"` (the engine builds on 1.91.0); only tidalctl's AWS SDK
chain needs the patch release, and it now declares that itself.
Consumer crates migrated to the current engine API (clean cutover)
- iknowyou-engine: `AgentPolicy` gained five m10 read/profile-override fields;
the literal now spreads `..AgentPolicy::default()` as the engine's own doc
example does, so future fields do not break it again.
- forage-engine: `RetrieveResult` gained p1 `reasons`. The app builds its own
candidate pool, so it now tags what it knows: PreferenceMatch for the
preference-vector blend, SemanticMatch (with the seed item) for
similar-to-saved, ExplorationBudget for pinned discoveries.
- forage-engine: `url_to_item_id` folded into the u32 item universe. The engine
narrows item IDs to a u32 slot in durable per-user state and rejects anything
above u32::MAX rather than alias two items forever, so every add_item with a
64-bit FNV hash failed. 9 of 28 smoke tests were failing on this alone.
- forage-engine: bridge items read the top-2 preference CLUSTERS via
`query_vectors`, not the single centroid from `preference_vectors().get()`.
Since m12 that accessor returns only the strongest cluster, so a tech+jazz user
whose interests split into two clusters looked single-interest and never
bridged. Falls back to top-2 dimensions when a user has one cluster.
Reconcile tests corrected to the shipped contract
- tidal/tests/m8p3_reconcile_production.rs asserted `3 + 5 == 8` for a windowed
count after heal. `take_crdt_snapshot` deliberately keys signal contributions
to ONE canonical contributor (ShardId::SINGLE) because signals are relayed from
a single writer, so per-node attribution double-counted every replicated event
on every reconcile. Merge is therefore LWW on (last_update_ns, score) plus
PN-counter per-node max: nodes converge on the more complete accumulator. The
old expectation was asserting the bug that fix removed.
- Rewrote to assert convergence, count survival (not 0), and no inflation, and
added `repeated_reconcile_of_converged_nodes_does_not_creep` - the regression
guard for the creep itself, which nothing covered.
Pre-commit hook unified
- hooks/pre-commit dropped `-D warnings`: each crate's `[lints]` table is the
source of truth (`clippy::all`/`unwrap_used` deny, `pedantic` warn), and the
flag promoted ~58 deliberate pedantic warnings in integration tests to errors,
making every Rust commit impossible.
- It now lints all five tidal crates instead of path-matching `tidal/`, which
silently skipped tidal-server, tidal-net, tidal-stress, tidalctl and
applications/ - the rot above lived in exactly those crates. Ported the
CODING_GUIDELINES file-length, println, and unsafe-SAFETY checks from the
divergent untracked copy that this replaces.
- CONTRIBUTING.md now documents the real commands and the toolchain/MSRV split.
Fleet recovery and soak
- scripts/restore-fleet.sh: the fail-closed selective restore, promoted out of an
ignored tmp/ directory into the repository. Preflights retained storage,
digest-pinned images, parked state, and aggregate plus per-PV-node scheduler
headroom before the first scale; writes a durable transcript under
tmp/restore-logs/ with structured start/error/rollback/complete events.
- k8s manifests park the standalone store, the RF3 cluster, and the soak monitor
at zero replicas with restore-fleet.sh as the only supported scale-up path.
- soak-eval/soak-watch and the nightly CronJob fail closed on stale or missing
restart evidence instead of silently skipping the restart-aware half of the gate.
- docs/ops/capacity-planning.md corrects the RAM envelope to the real hot-tier
formula and separates analytic totals from the measured process envelope.
Consumers (e.g. thepeach) need a PULLABLE tidaldb image — not every dev has the
source for a compose `build:` context. Publishes registry.threesix.ai/tidal/standalone
as a manifest list: linux/amd64 (Linux/CI) + linux/arm64 (Apple-silicon Macs),
defaulting to STANDALONE mode (:9400, --data-dir /data) so it drops into a consumer's
docker-compose like postgres.
Hybrid build because `rustc` SIGSEGVs under QEMU (an in-container amd64 cross-build on
an arm64 host fails):
- amd64: docker/standalone/amd64.Dockerfile packages the HOST cross-compiled x86_64
binary (the proven build-release path; trixie-slim for glibc 2.41/libmvec) — apt+COPY only.
- arm64: native in-container build from docker/standalone/Dockerfile.
- scripts/build-standalone-image.sh stitches both into one manifest list (:m12 + :latest).
Verified: pulled :m12 (arm64), booted standalone, GET /health -> {ok:true,mode:standalone}.
Durable `leader_acked` frontier in `ShardReplica` tracks the highest seqno
acked under `ack=leader` (journal-only, un-replicated); `decide_join` now
quarantines on THIS node's own frontier rather than comparing stream numbers
across stream boundaries — eliminates false-quarantine churn on rolling
restarts. `SHUTDOWN_HANDOFF_WAIT` (3s) drains the leader's tail to quorum
before step-down so the next leader inherits a clean prefix. New
`load_leader_acked`/`persist_leader_acked` helpers; `cluster_reseed.rs` gains
the divergence-fix regression suite; `replication_ops.rs` threads the signal.
Soak-eval: `tidal_stress::soak_eval` + `soak-eval` binary implement the
30-night streak (ledger.tsv × restarts.tsv → streak.tsv); monitor and nightly
CronJob k8s YAMLs updated; phase-9 doc clarifies the dual-stream streak
definition (ledger PASS AND zero pod restarts in window). `run-reliability.sh`
gates the election-divergence suite before any k8s push.
Release tooling: `docker/release/` multi-stage Dockerfile + DR image;
`scripts/build-release.sh` single repeatable cross-compile+buildx path.
Leader heartbeat now carries its live flushed WAL frontier (leader_last_seq,
proto field 14) so a snapshot-installed joiner converges its sticky readiness
latch from the heartbeat — which flows even on a fully idle cluster — instead of
only from observed ship traffic or an external status poll. Fixes the
idle-readiness stall (WORKLOG 2026-06-13: an 11.5h /health 503 hang where a
caught-up joiner never joined the Service VIP).
- proto: HeartbeatRequest.leader_last_seq (field 14); 0 = pre-m12p5 leader → fall
back to the status-poll readiness path
- ElectionHooks::on_heartbeat threads leader_last_seq through net + driver
- ShardReplica::note_leader_frontier_for_readiness folds the frontier into the
lag gauge (monotonic per shard) and drives the readiness latch using a REAL
leader frontier (never the uninitialized-0 gauge, which would false-converge a
still-behind joiner); a joiner that WINS leadership converges trivially
- tier-3 regression: mp_idle_cluster_snapshot_joiner_flips_ready_without_traffic
— snapshot joiner flips /health ready on an idle cluster with zero writes and
no status poll, then proves content parity (honest convergence)
- certs: wildcard pod SAN (*.tidaldb-peers...) in k8s/cluster/certs.yaml and
scripts/gen-cluster-certs.sh so StatefulSet scale-up/down with --seed needs no
cert re-issue (T4 scale-to-5 broke mTLS on tidaldb-3/4); explicit per-pod
names kept as belt-and-suspenders
- docs/profiling/m12p5-idle-readiness-elasticity.md: root-cause + fix writeup
- Eliminate the tidal/ self-contained doc mirror; docs now have two canonical
homes (root *.md and docs/), with planning/specs/research/reviews moved up
- Remove stale .agents/skills and .ai mirrors; canonicalize skills under .claude/
- Add pre-commit hook + scripts/check-docs.sh doc-guard + scripts/install-hooks.sh
- Implement M0-M10 seven-dimension review findings across engine, net, server,
and tidalctl (durability, replication, query, WAL, storage, CLI hardening)
