tidaldb/docs/planning/milestone-6/phase-1.md
jordan fe8d0c87e7 harden: restore CI verification, remove four wire-level fabrications, instrument the 401 path
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.
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# m6p1 — Cohort Engine + Cohort-Scoped Trending (✅ COMPLETE 2026-02-23)
Phase spec and acceptance criteria: [ROADMAP · Milestone 6 · Phase 1](../ROADMAP.md).
Milestone index: [README.md](README.md). Spec: [docs/specs/05-cohorts.md](../../specs/05-cohorts.md).
Backfilled record.
## What shipped
1. **Cohort definitions as data** (`tidal/src/cohort/types.rs`). `CohortDef {
name, predicate }` with a five-arm `Predicate` enum — `Eq { field, value }`,
`Any { field, values }`, `Range { field, lo, hi }` (inclusive, `f64`-parsed),
`And(Vec<Self>)`, `Or(Vec<Self>)`. Both types are `Serialize`/`Deserialize`,
which is what makes cohort state checkpointable rather than rebuild-only.
2. **`db.define_cohort(CohortDef)`** (`tidal/src/db/cohorts.rs:19`) registers a
named cohort at runtime, not only at schema build time.
3. **Membership resolution at write time** (`tidal/src/cohort/resolver.rs`).
User metadata is evaluated against every registered predicate; the result is
cached and invalidated when the user's metadata is rewritten, so a signal
write pays a lookup rather than a predicate sweep.
4. **Per-cohort signal aggregation** (`tidal/src/cohort/ledger.rs` —
`CohortSignalLedger`). Same decay / windowed-count / velocity semantics as the
global ledger, keyed by cohort as well as entity and signal type, updated on
the same write.
5. **Query surface.** `RetrieveBuilder::cohort(name)` scopes signal reads to the
cohort ledger; `cohort_predicate(Predicate)` answers ad-hoc cohorts by
resolving matching users at query time (slower, no pre-materialized state).
A `cohort_trending` built-in profile ships in `tidal/src/ranking/builtins.rs`.
6. **Durability** (`tidal/src/cohort/checkpoint.rs`). Cohort ledger state is
checkpointed alongside the global ledger and restored on open.
## Evidence
- `tidal/tests/m6_cohort.rs` — 12 `#[test]` functions, including the divergence
case the ROADMAP calls for: cohort-scoped trending must differ from global
trending when cohort velocity diverges from global velocity.
- `tidal/tests/m6_crash_surfaces.rs` and `tidal/tests/m7_crash_m6.rs` — M7
crash-fences the cohort state this phase introduced.
- `tidal/src/testing/crash_injector.rs` references `CohortSignalLedger`, i.e.
the cohort tier is a first-class target of fault injection, not an untested
side structure.
## Note on the "< 50 ms at 500 items / 20 users" criterion
Marked `[x]` in the ROADMAP with no recorded run. The functional criteria are
proven by `m6_cohort.rs`; the latency figure has no in-repo measurement. Unlike
M11/M12, this milestone published no `docs/profiling/` record for its own gates.