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An operation presented against a newer submission basis remains bound to its original observations. Echo evaluates bounded node/attachment predicates during native operation preparation, includes their reads in scheduling footprints, and retains observation attempts and semantic request bindings in its WAL. Exact retries resolve the original invocation and disposition; changed semantic input under the same identity is refused.

The persistent run-edict-operation --serve host continues one worldline and recovers outcomes and relevant change evidence after process loss. Change discovery uses native committed patches, including intervening writes that restore an earlier value, and resolves observation context once per combined query. Admission remains value-based; notification evidence and admission are distinct policies.

Review repairs bind the complete writer-head identity, retain actual anchor occupancy, preserve footprint partition masks, refuse writer takeover over an unreconciled tail, and explicitly release filesystem leases despite inherited descriptors. An unsupported 64-read-byte fixture is refused before creating a session WAL; serve mode requires an authored, verified observation-capable budget. No grant is silently enlarged.

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  • Focused RED/GREEN witnesses cover writer-head mismatch, partition-mask loss, occupied anchors, ABA change discovery after reopening, uncommitted takeover, and unsupported serve budgets.
  • All 10 operation-runner CLI tests and 126 WAL hardening tests pass locally; one WAL child-process entry point is intentionally ignored by ordinary test enumeration.
  • A focused retry regression confirms that refreshing the transport basis does not change the immutable semantic request identity; changing the requested output does.
  • Parent implementation's nine-case Telepathy communication calibration and four deliberate faults remain retained historical evidence, pinned to their original commits. They have not been relabeled as new runs of these review changes.
  • Published replacement CI and upstream review are separate gates.

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This is a bounded trusted-local driver, not an authenticated service. It uses atomic node/attachment observations and a compiled create-if-absent profile. Context reconstruction remains here; #729 optimizes it with a validated-prefix index. The startup budget check establishes a minimum, while runtime budget enforcement remains authoritative for each operation. No LLM effectiveness or general strand-settlement claim is made. Canonical behavior is in docs/architecture/application-contract-hosting.md and docs/topics/WAL.md.

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The change adds bounded immutable observations and request bindings for executable operations. It persists and recovers these contexts through the WAL, validates observations during execution, fixes empty-epoch LSN reuse, and adds a persistent JSONL serving mode.

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Observation-bound executable operations

Layer / File(s) Summary
WAL record and empty-epoch handling
crates/warp-core/src/causal_wal.rs, crates/warp-core/tests/causal_wal_hardening_tests.rs, crates/warp-core/tests/trusted_runtime_host_loop_tests.rs, CHANGELOG.md
The WAL recognizes retained operation contexts and reuses the start LSN of an empty writer epoch. Tests cover recovery after an empty reopen.
Observation capture and execution validation
crates/warp-core/src/echo_operation.rs, crates/warp-core/src/echo_operation/observed.rs
Invocations can carry bounded canonical observations. Execution validates observed slots, accounts for their reads and budget, adds them to footprints and patch inputs, and returns typed obstruction outcomes.
WAL-backed context lifecycle
crates/warp-core/src/trusted_runtime_host/observed_context.rs, crates/warp-core/src/trusted_runtime_host.rs, crates/warp-core/src/lib.rs, crates/warp-core/tests/trusted_runtime_host_loop_tests.rs
The trusted host persists and recovers observations and request bindings. It supports exact retries, rejects conflicting bindings, reports changed nodes and commits, and exposes the new types.
Persistent operation driver and documentation
xtask/src/main.rs, xtask/src/run_edict_operation.rs, xtask/src/run_edict_operation/session.rs, docs/architecture/application-contract-hosting.md, README.md, CHANGELOG.md
run-edict-operation --serve handles bounded JSONL requests on one persistent worldline. It supports status, observation, change, submission, and outcome operations. Documentation describes the session lifecycle and limits.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant SessionServer
  participant TrustedRuntimeHost
  participant NativeWAL
  Client->>SessionServer: observe or submit request
  SessionServer->>TrustedRuntimeHost: retain observation or bind request
  TrustedRuntimeHost->>NativeWAL: append retained context
  SessionServer->>TrustedRuntimeHost: validate and submit invocation
  TrustedRuntimeHost->>NativeWAL: persist operation outcome
  SessionServer-->>Client: JSON status, reading, change, or outcome
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WAL recovery and exact request retries can fail in supported crash-recovery workflows. Resolve these issues before merging.

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🟠 Major · Reconcile physical uncommitted tails before reusing an epoch start LSN. · causal_wal.rs:5737-5775

crates/warp-core/src/causal_wal.rs:5737-5775
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Reconcile physical uncommitted tails before reusing an epoch start LSN.

acquire_fresh_writer_epoch closes a recovered active epoch with no final_lsn, then reuses previous_epoch.started_at_lsn. A process loss after append_frame can leave a complete uncommitted frame at that LSN. append_frame does not reject an existing uncommitted tail, so the successor can append another frame with the same LSN. Recovery validates frame order before tail truncation and then fails with an LSN continuity error.

Run writable tail recovery before deriving the successor, or inspect the physical tail and reject the equal-LSN fallback. Do not use the missing commit closure as evidence that the epoch was empty.

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In `@crates/warp-core/src/causal_wal.rs` around lines 5737 - 5775, Update
acquire_fresh_writer_epoch to reconcile the writable WAL tail before deriving
the successor epoch’s required_started_at_lsn, so a recovered active epoch
without a final_lsn cannot reuse its started_at_lsn when an uncommitted frame
physically exists there. Reuse the equal-LSN fallback only after confirming the
prior epoch was physically empty, or reject the conflicting tail; preserve
normal final_lsn advancement and prevent duplicate LSNs.

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/warp-core/src/echo_operation/observed.rs`:
- Around line 189-190: Replace the direct footprint.n_read insertion in the
observed-node handling with the existing record_node_read helper, while
preserving the adjacent node-alpha attachment insertion.

In `@crates/warp-core/src/trusted_runtime_host/observed_context.rs`:
- Around line 218-244: Refactor echo_operation_observation_change_commits_v1 and
the --serve changes request to share one recovered WAL report and one retained
observation instead of performing repeated full recoveries. Add a shared helper
over the recovery report, reconstruct retained observations from its transaction
frames, compute changed_nodes against the current worldline state, then filter
the report’s provenance entries without using recovered history as a substitute
for that current-state comparison.

In `@xtask/src/run_edict_operation/session.rs`:
- Around line 230-275: Update the submit flow around
echo_operation_action_envelope_v1 so request lookup and
bind_echo_operation_request_v1 occur before reading current occupancy or
rebuilding EchoOperationInvocationV1. For an exact retry, reuse and submit the
retained canonical invocation so its original semantic identity and disposition
are returned; only reconstruct occupancy-dependent fields for a new request.

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In `@crates/warp-core/src/causal_wal.rs`:
- Around line 5737-5775: Update acquire_fresh_writer_epoch to reconcile the
writable WAL tail before deriving the successor epoch’s required_started_at_lsn,
so a recovered active epoch without a final_lsn cannot reuse its started_at_lsn
when an uncommitted frame physically exists there. Reuse the equal-LSN fallback
only after confirming the prior epoch was physically empty, or reject the
conflicting tail; preserve normal final_lsn advancement and prevent duplicate
LSNs.

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Processed the seven inline threads and the additional out-of-diff WAL finding in seven focused commits, ending at e823fd1.

The out-of-diff takeover issue is fixed in 5b17c72: while holding the writer lease, takeover checks the physical retained tail and refuses an unreconciled tail before changing the epoch ledger or reusing an LSN. Writable recovery then permits a safe successor. The new regression failed before the change; the WAL hardening suite passes (126 tests, one child-process entry point ignored).

Other retained evidence: four observed-operation unit tests pass, all 41 native host-loop tests pass, and all 10 operation-runner tests pass. The push hook also passed. The retry finding was not reproducible: the immutable observation already normalizes the complete evaluation basis; 7305edb records that behavior and changed-input refusal in a regression test.

The budget correction deliberately preserves admitted ceilings. The pinned 64-byte Hello Echo package is supported for its one-shot operation, not observed sessions. Session startup now rejects that unsupported profile before WAL setup, and the hosting contract specifies the authored observation allowance and remaining runtime metering. This does not claim that the stock fixture gained an observation budget.

Notification discovery now retains evidence of intervening writes even after a value is restored. Admission remains value-based; the hosting contract explains that distinction. Change queries reuse the host's recovered native provenance index instead of repeatedly reconstructing it.

The fixes are published for review; replacement CI and downstream stack propagation are separate from this local validation.

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