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Follow-ups from #5147 (export-ts), planned 2026-10-10.

Quests

  • New quest/m0/broadcast-epoch/source-pin.md [S]: moq_mux::Source keeps the first broadcast::Consumer it resolves for each path and serves later requests from it, replacing the epoch pin. Today, on an epochless route (default lite-06), a late rendition subscribe or SI repoint re-resolves and can splice a replacement into the old program without --stitch (Codex on feat!: TS export lingers within an epoch, --stitch switches programs #5147).
  • New quest/m1/ts-follow-catalog-bound.md [S]: --linger bounds a mid-stream --stitch until the replacement's first catalog snapshot, so a replacement that never serves one ends the export loudly instead of stalling it.

Decisions

Bound (stitch catalog wait)

  • ✅ --linger (Recommended)
  • --delay
  • Fixed constant

Placement (stitch catalog bound)

Deferred (which Codex P2s from #5147 become quests)

  • ✅ Pin epochless own-path (Recommended)
  • Flush SRT tail on linger (dropped)

Pin by

  • ✅ Handle, replacing epoch (Recommended)
  • Handle for epochless only

Siblings

  • ✅ Pin every path (Recommended)
  • Own path only

Milestone (source pin)

  • ✅ m0 broadcast-epoch (Recommended)
  • m1

Public API / wire

Planning only. The planned quests change no public API and no wire format.

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Automated review of d42788ac (planning-only, two new quests)

The code claims check out on main: Source pins only its own path by epoch through crate-private pinned (rs/moq-mux/src/source.rs:29-51, 88), so an epochless route leaves later requests unpinned, and ts::Follower (container/ts/follower.rs) is on main with the linger deadline described.

Non-blocking:

  1. The PR body's placement decision says "m1, after feat!: TS export lingers within an epoch, --stitch switches programs #5147 merges", but feat!: TS export lingers within an epoch, --stitch switches programs #5147 has already merged, so that gate is satisfied. Nothing blocks starting ts-follow-catalog-bound.md now.
  2. source-pin.md relies on "a replaced instance's sticky front refuses new tracks, so a late request on it errors." That's the whole failure mode the quest wants, so the quest's tests should prove it on an epochless route rather than assume it. If the old handle instead hangs on a new track request, the export would stall rather than fail loudly. Consider listing "late request on a replaced handle returns an error promptly" as an explicit test case.
  3. Pinning every path by handle means a sibling reference that was never resolved before the replacement wins will resolve to the replacement. That's probably fine, but the Goal says a late request "never lands on a replacement", which only holds for paths already resolved. Worth one sentence.
  4. ts-follow-catalog-bound.md: with --linger 0, a stitch only succeeds if the catalog is already there, so a default --linger 0 plus --stitch might effectively never stitch. Check the CLI default and say in the doc if the two flags need to go together.

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[P2] Specify refreshing the pinned handle on a same-epoch return

In source-pin.md, lines 27–28, please include the same-epoch linger-return case when defining the pin lifecycle. Current Export::followed clones the source for a program switch and retains it entirely on a same-epoch return once PSI exists; it does not currently create a fresh Source in both cases. After replacing the epoch pin with a cached Consumer, a return following a real route gap can therefore retain the ended handle while installing the newly resolved catalog. Rebuilt rendition and SI subscriptions would then use the old handle, whose track lookup returns Unroutable after closure, defeating the existing linger behavior.

Make adopting the newly resolved own-path Consumer explicit for both stitches and same-epoch returns, and add a regression test that resumes media and an SI track after the old handle closes and the same epoch returns within linger.

The handle-pinning direction and a single catalog-wait bound otherwise look reasonable. This is a planning review based on static inspection; no implementation changes or tests were run.

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- `ts::Follower` / `Export::follow` build a new `Source` for the broadcast
they follow, so a stitch starts with an empty pin map.

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P1 Badge Seed each followed source with the supplied broadcast

Starting Export::follow with an empty pin map leaves its own path unpinned even though the method has already resolved and subscribed the supplied broadcast outside that new Source. If another epochless replacement wins before the followed catalog triggers its first track or SI request, that first lookup resolves the newer route, mixing the supplied broadcast's catalog with the next publisher's data and recreating the splice this quest is meant to prevent. Seed the own-path entry with the broadcast passed to follow/followed, while leaving sibling entries empty.

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Agreed, fixed in 5833974. A stitch seeds the new Source's own-path entry with the broadcast follow was given (sibling entries start empty). There is a test where the replacement is itself replaced before the first track request.

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The PR adds two quest requirements and their supporting plans. One describes pinning resolved broadcast handles so later requests remain bound to the same broadcast. The other defines --linger as the limit for a TS stitch waiting for a replacement catalog. Both plans describe expected behavior and proposed tests. They state that no public API or wire changes are planned.

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27-28: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the --linger default and its interaction with --stitch.

The CLI and SRT arguments both default --linger to 0s. With that default, --stitch can follow a replacement only when its catalog is already available; otherwise the export does not wait for the catalog. State this behavior in both documentation updates.

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Update the --linger and --stitch documentation in both the CLI and SRT argument
sections to state that --linger defaults to 0s; with that default, --stitch
follows a replacement only if its catalog is already available, otherwise the
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Verify that a retained handle rejects later track requests promptly.

The replacement test checks a new origin lookup with an epoch pin. It does not establish what an already-resolved, epochless broadcast::Consumer does when it receives a later track request. Make the epochless test use a finite deadline and assert an error. If the request waits or succeeds, the plan needs explicit handling before relying on Follower to decide what happens next.

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Update the epochless test for an already-resolved broadcast::Consumer to issue a
later track request with a finite deadline and assert that it returns an error.
Do not rely on the replacement test’s new origin lookup to establish
retained-handle behavior; ensure the plan addresses the outcome if the request
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Review comments at @quest/m0/broadcast-epoch/source-pin.md:
- Around line 25-26: Define the guarantee for unresolved sibling paths in the
source-pin documentation: specify how they avoid resolving to replacement data
and test the resolution order, or explicitly limit the guarantee to paths
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- Around line 15-16: Update the quest description to focus on implementing and
testing the error that names an unanswered stitched replacement, rather than
claiming mid-stream stitches lack a linger bound; the existing setup and
paused-time test already verify the bound. Update the index summary in
quest/m1/README.md to describe this remaining error behavior instead of
presenting the bound as missing. Sites: quest/m1/ts-follow-catalog-bound.md,
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- Around line 22-24: Update the epochless test for an already-resolved
broadcast::Consumer to issue a later track request with a finite deadline and
assert that it returns an error. Do not rely on the replacement test’s new
origin lookup to establish retained-handle behavior; ensure the plan addresses
the outcome if the request waits or succeeds.

Review comments at @quest/m1/ts-follow-catalog-bound.md:
- Around line 27-28: Update the --linger and --stitch documentation in both the
CLI and SRT argument sections to state that --linger defaults to 0s; with that
default, --stitch follows a replacement only if its catalog is already
available, otherwise the export does not wait for the catalog.

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Addressed the OpenAI review's P2 in 5833974: a same-epoch return replaces the own-path handle with the returned broadcast, since the old one's routes are gone, and the test covers it.

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Automated review of d42788ac (planning-only, two new quests)

The code claims check out on main: Source pins only its own path by epoch through crate-private pinned (rs/moq-mux/src/source.rs:29-51, 88), so an epochless route leaves later requests unpinned, and ts::Follower (container/ts/follower.rs) is on main with the linger deadline described.

Non-blocking:

  1. The PR body's placement decision says "m1, after feat!: TS export lingers within an epoch, --stitch switches programs #5147 merges", but feat!: TS export lingers within an epoch, --stitch switches programs #5147 has already merged, so that gate is satisfied. Nothing blocks starting ts-follow-catalog-bound.md now.
  2. source-pin.md relies on "a replaced instance's sticky front refuses new tracks, so a late request on it errors." That's the whole failure mode the quest wants, so the quest's tests should prove it on an epochless route rather than assume it. If the old handle instead hangs on a new track request, the export would stall rather than fail loudly. Consider listing "late request on a replaced handle returns an error promptly" as an explicit test case.
  3. Pinning every path by handle means a sibling reference that was never resolved before the replacement wins will resolve to the replacement. That's probably fine, but the Goal says a late request "never lands on a replacement", which only holds for paths already resolved. Worth one sentence.
  4. ts-follow-catalog-bound.md: with --linger 0, a stitch only succeeds if the catalog is already there, so a default --linger 0 plus --stitch might effectively never stitch. Check the CLI default and say in the doc if the two flags need to go together.

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Reviewed commit 5833974 against our previous review of d42788a.

The prior P2 is addressed: source-pin.md:27–31 now explicitly replaces the own-path handle on same-epoch returns, with corresponding planned regression coverage. It also seeds the supplied broadcast on stitches, addressing the separate Codex finding.

No new actionable findings in this delta. The narrowed mid-stream catalog-bound scope and explicit zero-linger documentation are consistent with the existing Follower behavior. Overall direction looks reasonable.

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epoch and epochless routes. A replaced instance's sticky front refuses new
tracks, so a late request on it errors, and the Follower decides what
happens next (`Replaced`, or a stitch).
- Decided: pin every resolved path, not only the source's own, so a replaced

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P2 Badge Add the required two-axis pinning benchmark

Pinning every resolved path introduces per-export state that fans out across N sibling routes and is consulted by M later requests, but the plan only requires correctness tests. Add a benchmark sweeping both path count and request count so an implementation with table-wide lookup or cleanup costs cannot land without exposing the slope.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L36-L37

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Disagree. The fan-out rule targets axes that grow with the table: publishers, subscribers, routes, sessions. This map is per export and keyed by path. Its N is the number of distinct broadcasts one catalog references (the own path plus, typically, zero to two siblings), and each request is one hash lookup. No request touches the whole map, and nothing is cleaned up across exports, so there is no slope to expose.

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Comment thread quest/m0/broadcast-epoch/source-pin.md Outdated
it followed. A same-epoch return reads the returned handle. Today's
epoch-pin test (`source.rs`) moves to the handle.

Public API: none (`pinned` is crate-private). Wire: none.

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P2 Badge Record the Source behavior as public API impact

Source is publicly re-exported, and the goal changes observable behavior of its public broadcast, catalog, resolve, and subscribe_track methods: reusing one across a route replacement will return the pinned old handle or fail rather than resolving the current route. Calling the impact "none" hides that semantic change, so document the public behavior change even if no signatures change.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L60-L60

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Agreed, fixed in 8b55b80. The Public API line now reports the behavior change of a reused Source (pinned handle, or a failure on a replaced instance, instead of re-resolving), and the quest documents it on Source.

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Merge summary: plans quest/m0/broadcast-epoch/source-pin.md and quest/m1/ts-follow-catalog-bound.md.

source-pin: an export pins each path by its first resolved handle. A stitch seeds the own-path pin, and a same-epoch return refreshes it. It reports the reused-Source behavior change.

ts-follow-catalog-bound: --linger bounds a mid-stream --stitch.

All review findings through 58339742a are addressed or answered. The final commit only rewords the Public API line.

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Checked against main: Source.epoch / pinned() in rs/moq-mux/src/source.rs (L27-51, L88 filters the pin to the own path only) and settling: None for a mid-stream stitch in ts/follower.rs (L55) match what both plans describe, and the README links resolve to the new files.

Non-blocking:

  1. ts-follow-catalog-bound.md: with the default --linger 0s, a mid-stream --stitch that works today (catalog arrives a few ms after the Restart) would now end the export. That's a real regression for existing --stitch users on defaults, not just a doc note. Consider either a small grace when --stitch is set, or saying explicitly that --stitch effectively needs a non-zero --linger, and a test for linger 0 with a slightly-late catalog.
  2. source-pin.md: pinning by handle keeps every resolved broadcast::Consumer (own path and siblings) alive for the life of the Source. Worth stating that holding a replaced handle doesn't keep the old instance's routes/state from being torn down, and that the map is bounded by catalog references (a catalog that keeps churning sibling paths grows it).
  3. source-pin.md: "a late request on it errors" relies on the replaced instance's sticky front refusing new tracks. Name the error it surfaces so the Follower test can assert Replaced rather than a generic failure.

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