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Logan Johnson
a56966b777 feat(relay): NIP-AR sync subscriptions (#8522)
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## Summary
Clients that show a list of artifacts (tasks, config entries and similar
records) had no way to get the complete list and then stay current. They
could only page through query results, and a page is not proof that the
list is complete. This PR adds **sync**. A client sends one subscription
and gets every matching artifact as one consistent snapshot, then a
signal that the set is complete. After that it gets the current version
of each artifact that changes. When the relay cannot guarantee an exact
copy, it closes the subscription with a `resync` reason, so the client
never misses a change without knowing it.

It also adds a **head lookup**. It returns the current version of named
artifacts, deleted ones included, so that "create or restore" flows can
retry safely.

This implements the Sync section of NIP-AR (the artifact protocol spec),
which is the first commit of this PR.

## Details
- **Request.** A normal `REQ` whose only filter has `"artifact":
"current"` and at least one channel in `#h`. This is the same
current-state filter as HTTP `/query`; on a `REQ` it becomes a sync,
because a `REQ` already means "stored set, `EOSE`, then live". The
client does not page: the relay streams the whole set until `EOSE`, so
`limit` and `offset` are refused. Other artifact views (`history`,
`head`) stay HTTP-only, as on main. Other clients and other `REQ` shapes
do not change.
- **Initial set.** The relay first registers for live changes and waits
until Redis confirms that registration. Then it reads every matching
current version in pages ordered by artifact ID, all inside one
read-only `REPEATABLE READ` transaction. So all pages come from the same
database snapshot. `EOSE` comes only after a complete read. A failed
read, an unreadable channel, or a read that takes too long ends with
`CLOSED` and no `EOSE`.
- **Live changes.** Fan-out never sends the published event to a sync.
It only records which artifact changed. The sync then reads that
artifact's current version and sends it, one artifact at a time. So a
client never gets an older version after a newer one. Changes that
arrive during the initial read are held and sent after `EOSE`. Changes
are signalled per channel, so a sync skips an artifact whose `type` or
`d` does not match its filter: those never change, so it was never in
the set. A board that syncs three record types in the same channels no
longer gets each change three times.
- **When the relay sends `resync`.** The Redis link drops, reconnects,
or skips a message it cannot decode. Local fan-out lags. The
connection's send queue is full. A moderator redacts an event in the
channel. The reader's channel access changes (remove, leave, metadata
edit, channel delete). An access change ends the whole sync, also when
the sync names other channels. A sync cannot drop one channel and still
claim an exact set.
- **Publish retry.** When a Redis publish fails for an event kind that
syncs use, the relay retries it in the background until it succeeds.
- **Relay info (NIP-11).** The relay now lists `sync` (`max_events:
4096`), adds the `head` mode, and sets `websocket_query_extensions:
true`.
- **No migration.** Sync reads the existing `artifact_heads` table.
- **Next to incremental reads (#8523).** #8523 added a separate HTTP
protocol, `artifacts.incremental` / `"artifact":"incremental"`. It keeps
a saved store up to date after a disconnect, but it does not prove a
complete set. The two protocols use different NIP-11 keys and filter
values, so they do not collide. They share one copy of the current-state
access rule: `artifact_query::predicates`, which #8523 reads through,
now applies the view join and calls `push_scope`, and the sync snapshot
and head lookup call `push_scope` too.
- **A failed access lookup in fan-out resyncs.** The access gate fails
closed when a visibility or membership lookup fails. For a sync, that
would drop a change with no signal, so the gate also reports those
recipients and each one gets `resync: access check failed`.

### Known cost
To find out which redactions remove an artifact that a sync covers, the
relay would need an extra database read. So every redaction in a synced
channel resyncs that channel's syncs, and so does every channel metadata
edit. Each resync reads the set again, up to 4,096 artifacts. This is
correct, but it adds load to channels where people often delete chat
messages. We can narrow it later if it becomes a problem.

### Related issue
None found. The design was reviewed as NIP-AR Sync r28.

### Testing
- New Postgres tests: keyset pages see one snapshot, and an artifact
created after the snapshot opens is in no page; the head view includes
deletions; a private or unknown channel is refused.
- New relay end-to-end tests on real Postgres and Redis, using the real
`REQ` handler, ingest and fan-out: initial set in order, then `EOSE`,
then current versions for an update and a delete; a chat message causes
no frame; `CLOSE` stops the sync. Other tests: removing the reader from
one channel resyncs the whole sync; an unreadable or unknown channel
gets `CLOSED restricted` with no `EOSE`; a node-wide loss resyncs.
- Unit tests for the parser, request routing, fan-out diversion, the
held-change limit, and access-change signals that must arrive before the
access filter.
- Lifecycle tests from an adversarial review: every frame is checked
against the subscription owner, also when a `CLOSE` or a replacing `REQ`
arrives while the frame waits for queue room or while a live head read
is in progress. A resync recorded while `EOSE` waits ends the sync with
no `EOSE`. The held list refuses a change before it stores it (4096
entries, 4 MiB of held removals).
- End to end: a relay container built from this branch, with the
buzz-app #1523 browser build and the Work plugin. An edit from another
client showed in the open board 4 to 25 ms after the write returned,
with no refresh.
- `cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings` is clean for the four changed
crates. All `buzz-relay` lib tests pass except
`api::mesh_demo::tests::demo_join_forwarded_arm_round_trips_echo`. That
test returns 504 on this machine. It is a mesh networking test, and this
PR does not touch that code.

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Signed-off-by: Logan Johnson <loganj@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Larry <627498bd4bd1f281a16431e3c6cce3b5c25b6692798c78672298aefbf2f8f8b5@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-30 13:31:30 -04:00
Daniel Rouleau
a57349b237 feat(relay): add incremental artifact reads (#8523)
## Summary

Buzz clients need to recover task changes after a disconnect. This adds
incremental reads of changed artifacts with database modification
timestamps and a 120-second overlap. Each result contains the current
revision or an explicit removal. A separate read of known IDs confirms
accepted edits and restores access state.

Pages use a timestamp and a stable ID to handle equal timestamps. Access
grants include older records. Access policy changes require discovery
and revalidation of saved IDs. The reader does not load a list of all
readable channels. Ordinary artifact writes update their own rows.

### Incremental reads and WebSocket Sync

This HTTP protocol maintains an eventually consistent local store. It
uses `artifacts.incremental` and `"artifact":"incremental"`. It does not
prove a complete set at one database snapshot. Absence never proves
deletion or loss of access.

[WebSocket Sync](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8522) serves a
separate use case: a complete set at `EOSE`, followed by live updates.
It owns `artifacts.sync`. Both protocols can coexist. The second PR to
merge must reuse the shared access helper in `artifact_query.rs` when it
resolves the overlapping edits.

The gate is `BUZZ_ARTIFACT_INCREMENTAL_ENABLED`. Errors use the
`incremental_` prefix. Unlisted open channels require membership or an
explicit `#h` scope. Listing changes reset incremental progress.
Incremental reads exclude TTL artifacts. Known-ID reads return `remove`
for them. The `#h` scope limits candidates before pagination. Initial
reads omit deleted heads. Later reads retain deletion removals.

### Why the new timestamps are needed

`created_at` comes from the event signer. `received_at` records event
arrival. Neither advances when access changes or an event is redacted.
Sync needs database timestamps for those changes:

| Column | Why sync needs it |
| --- | --- |
| `artifact_heads.modified_at` | Finds current records that change
through an edit, deletion, or redaction. |
| `artifact_revisions.modified_at` | Dates retained move records. This
lets sync remove a task from its former channel when the reader cannot
access its new channel. |
| `channel_members.sync_modified_at` | Finds grants, rejoins, and
removals. A grant must include older tasks whose own timestamps do not
change. |
| `communities.artifact_policy_modified_at` | Requests recovery after a
relevant channel visibility, TTL, or deletion change. Clients revalidate
saved IDs. Ordinary task writes do not update it. |

The database sets these timestamps with `clock_timestamp()`. The
120-second overlap covers the accepted delay between timestamp
assignment and commit visibility.

`BUZZ_ARTIFACT_INCREMENTAL_ENABLED` defaults to off. Apply migrations
`0076`–`0078` and upgrade all writers before enablement. The 120-second
delay bound is an operating assumption. [Deployment
steps](https://github.com/block/buzz/blob/drouleau/artifact-snapshots/docs/artifact-sync-deployment.md)
cover index prebuilds and rollback.

### Related issue

No duplicate found. Related work: [read
permissions](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8338), [statement
limits](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8461), and [atomic channel
settings](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8516).

### Testing

Signed HTTP E2E passes on `f3d6ac852e7ce4e2cc53bd891cef87832a868d72`
after CI passes. It includes main through `ef4130da4`. A standalone
local relay uses a fresh PostgreSQL 17 database, Redis, and signed
NIP-98 HTTP requests. All 78 migrations apply through relay startup. All
behavioral writes and reads use HTTP.

The tests cover create, edit, delta reads, known-ID recovery, private
moves, access grants, removals, rejoins, visibility resets, redaction,
and deletion. Unlisted tests cover hidden broad discovery, named scope,
known-ID reads, member access, and policy resets. They also cover
bootstrap across two pages, overlap replay, and 101 move removals across
pages. Decoded cursors contain no private revision IDs. With the
incremental gate off, `artifacts.incremental` is absent and a signed
incremental request returns `503 incremental_unavailable`. Unsigned
requests are rejected. Signed tests also cover TTL exclusion, current-ID
removals for TTL artifacts, moves into TTL channels, deleted initial
heads, and scoped pages with exactly 100 and 3 upserts.

A separate local scale test on `babcdb766` reads 10,050 tasks across
60,002 memberships. It uses seeded fixtures and a second relay state
with the same signing key. The initial read takes 8.31 seconds over 101
pages with 4,923-byte events. A read with no changes takes 5.70
milliseconds. The candidate keeps the same database query. These are
local measurements, not production limits. Cold pages repeat candidate
scans and access checks. Writer load needs validation before fleet
enablement.

```sh
cargo test -p buzz-relay sync_downloads_ten_thousand_tasks_with_sixty_thousand_memberships -- --ignored --nocapture
```

The behavioral run uses `cargo build -p buzz-relay --bin buzz-relay`,
then `cargo run -p buzz-relay --example
artifact_incremental_final_oct30_f3`. The temporary harness drives the
built relay and is removed after the run. The worktree is clean at the
tested SHA. It does not exercise a native client. Git and S3 behavior
are outside this validation.

The
[protocol](https://github.com/block/buzz/blob/drouleau/artifact-snapshots/docs/nips/NIP-AR.md#incremental-reads)
defines progress, removals, limits, and recovery. Relay verification
covers the signed HTTP path. Native client verification belongs to [the
client PR](https://github.com/block/buzz-app/pull/1507).

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Signed-off-by: Daniel Rouleau <drouleau@squareup.com>
2026-10-30 08:30:46 -07:00
Bradley Axen
12670bd0f0 feat(relay): implement NIP-AR channel artifacts (#7919)
## Summary

Implements NIP-AR channel artifacts (spec merged in #7791) on the relay,
after a simplicity pass over the earlier two-agent implementation.

An artifact is an editable record (kind 45010) with a stable identity
(`d`), one home channel (`h`), and full-snapshot revisions chained by
`prev`:

- **Writes:** one transaction per write. It locks the artifact's head
row, requires `prev` to name the current revision, records the revision
in a ledger that survives retention, and advances the head. Two
competing edits can't both win. A stale edit gets `conflict: artifact
head changed`. Resubmitting an accepted event succeeds without applying
it twice.
- **Permissions:** writes pass the same gates as a kind 9 message in
`h`. A move also passes them in the source channel. The move stores the
destination snapshot and a relay-signed kind 45011 removal marker for
the source in the same transaction, so both channels recover by replay.
The marker never names the destination.
- **Moderation:** redaction is the ordinary kind 9005 removal. The
ledger keeps the ID so `prev` checks still work. Redacting the current
revision retires the artifact.
- **Reads:** HTTP `/query` and `/count` accept explicit `artifact:
current|history` filters with exact multi-character tag matching (e.g.
`#assignee`). Generic REQ and search return only current revisions. Kind
5 against artifacts is rejected. NIP-11 advertises the limits.
- **Spec:** NIP-AR updated to match: kind 9 permission checks, 9005
redaction and retirement, no creator-only delete rule.

A separate small commit routes `insert_channel_head_checked` through the
metered writer pool (`acquire_writer`), like every other event write in
that module.

### Related issue

Follows #7791. No separate issue found.

### Testing

- Clippy clean.
- Unit lane passes. Failures seen along the way came from agent env
leaking into `buzz-acp` tests (they pass in a clean env) and known
timing flakes (`keepalive_resets_idle_past_deadline`, two `buzz-agent`
databricks tests that passed on retry). This diff doesn't touch those
crates.
- Postgres lane passes, including new `artifact_postgres_tests` in
`buzz-db` and `buzz-relay`. Three presence tests need `REDIS_URL` set.
- Docker smoke against a fresh local relay, 29/29: create and idempotent
resubmit, update and stale conflict, current, `#assignee` and history
queries, generic REQ, kind 5 rejection, delete and restore, move with
source marker, private-channel isolation, and 9005 retirement.
- A pasteable curl walkthrough of the same flows was shared with the
reviewer.

Draft until the human hands-on check (AGENTS.md step 3) is confirmed.
The pre-push hook was skipped because every lane above had already run
on this tree. CI is the gate.

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2026-09-28 16:52:09 -06:00
Bradley Axen
b0d6fb8ad2 docs(protocol): propose simplified channel artifacts (#7791)
## Summary

Adds a short, proposal-only **NIP-AR: Channel Artifacts** in
`docs/nips/NIP-AR.md`, as a simpler alternative to the closed #7771.

- Defines complete-snapshot artifact events with stable identity and
atomic, `prev`-based revisions.
- Uses channel access and posting permissions for reads, edits, moves,
and writer-authorized deletion.
- Keeps client-defined content opaque to the relay, with exact tag
filtering over current accessible state and bounded queries.
- Covers durable source removal on moves, terminal deletion, and safe
client fallbacks without defining task/project schemas or changing
application behavior.

### Remaining design work

This is a compact draft, not a complete implementation-ready wire
contract. Concrete query request/pagination/error/limit-discovery
formats, removal/replay wire details, and numeric query limits remain
follow-up work. Prefer extending shared WebSocket `REQ` / HTTP `/query`
surfaces rather than adding plugin-specific endpoints. No database
layout or scale guarantees are proposed.

### Related issue

Closest prior proposal: #7771 (closed). Searched existing PRs and issues
for channel artifacts; no matching issue found.

### Testing

- Verified the committed document is byte-for-byte identical to the
reviewed local draft.
- Parsed the example JSON and its embedded JSON content; checked unique
two-element example tags.
- Reviewed the entire one-file diff and ran `git diff --check`.
- Commit and push hooks passed (including DCO sign-off and differential
file-size checks).
- Full application CI was not run locally: this changes only a Markdown
proposal, with no implementation or UI changes.

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