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refactor: one home for the rotation head read and a bounded hourly enrolment walk - #1848

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Two engine changes in crates/engine/src/net/rotation.rs, one commit each.

One home for the record-head read and the keyless-root rule

The head-fetch prologue — parse the name, fan-out verify the record, fetch the head block, decode the envelope — had three copies, and the keyless write-plane rule had three more. A change to either trust path needed three edits, and a missed one is a silent divergence on a trust path.

  • head_at is the one head read. resolve_child, promoted_root and moved_interior_node route through it, and RecordHead::envelope holds the decode rule.
  • write_plane_of_gated is the one keyless-root rule. gated_write_plane, resolve_scope and promoted_root route through it.
  • resolve_verdict is the ResolveFailure twin of read_verdict, which now goes through it. The inline copy in promoted_root is gone.

Behaviour does not change. Every routed site keeps its refusal on the same axis, and every trust check keeps its order: promoted_root still runs the sequence-floor check between the head fetch and the decode, and resolve_scope still refuses an envelope version skew before it opens the write plane. The existing gate, sweep and resume suites cover the six sites, so this commit adds no test.

Closes #1716.

Bound the hourly enrolment walk

enrol_owned_scope_pointers re-walked every owned scope root on each hourly liveness pass. A write grantee authors its own scope root's directChildScopeIndex, which holds up to 1024 entries, so the walk spent a writer-sized fan-out every hour for the life of the session.

The owner decision: stop the walk after one clean pass per session, and pair the pass with refresh_seed_floors.

  • A pass is clean when every owned root resolved and every pointer consult answered with no retryable failure. A clean pass latches the walk for the rest of the session; a retryable failure leaves the latch open, so the next tick walks again. The walk only finds the pointers earlier sessions flipped, and a flip this session makes enrols at the flip.
  • The pass reports the scopes it consulted, and the liveness call site evicts each one's cached seeds through refresh_seed_floors. A consult raises a scope's durable write-epoch floor on sight, which retires a seed the cell still holds; the focus tick already pairs its own consult with that eviction, and the liveness leg did not.
  • The latch lives in the spawned liveness loop, which starts once per session, so a new session walks again.

Tests, in net/rotation.rs: a clean pass spends no further fan-out on the owned tree on the next pass, and a refused consult re-arms the walk, enrols on the re-armed pass, and latches after it. Both fail on main.

Closes #1574.

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cargo fmt --all --check, cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo test -p cipherbox-engine and pnpm lint:tracker-refs are green locally. No seam trait, wasm-bound type or TypeScript surface changes, so no client or web suite applies.

Review gates: /simplify and /security-review ran inline over git diff main...HEAD. /crypto-privacy-review does not apply: the diff touches no crates/core primitive, no wire format, no KDF edge and no KAT.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved session scope tracking during liveness and ownership checks.
    • Ensured consulted scopes refresh their write-epoch state and retire outdated seed data.
    • Improved record and write-plane resolution during ownership rotation.
    • Added reliable retry behavior when scope traversal encounters temporary failures.
    • Prevented unnecessary repeated traversal after a scope tree has been fully processed.
    • Correctly distinguishes unavailable scope indexes from genuinely empty boundaries.
    • Improved traversal limits to provide more predictable behavior on large scope trees.

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Centralize rotation head reads and bound enrolment walk to one pass per session

  • Adds RecordHead and GatedWriteBody value objects to crates/engine/src/net/rotation.rs to centralize head parsing, record verification, and write-body opening.
  • Refactors OwnerRotationNet child, moving-child, and promoted-root resolvers to use the shared head_at and write_plane_of_gated helpers instead of duplicated logic.
  • Bounds owned-scope pointer enrolment to a single successful pass or terminal rejection per session using a Cell<bool> latch, retrying only on transient failures.
  • Updates the liveness loop in crates/engine/src/facade.rs to supply the session latch, track consulted scopes, and refresh their cached seed floors.
  • Risk: enrol_owned_scope_pointers stops walking once the latch is set; callers expecting repeated tree fan-out within the same session will experience bounded behavior.

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The change centralizes record-head and gated write-plane resolution. Scope enrolment now latches after a clean session walk, reports consulted scopes, and refreshes their seed floors in the liveness loop.

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Owner rotation and scope enrolment

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared rotation resolution helpers
crates/engine/src/net/rotation.rs
Adds RecordHead, head_at, GatedWriteBody, write_plane_of_gated, and resolve_verdict. Owner-rotation paths use these shared helpers.
Session-latched scope enrolment
crates/engine/src/net/rotation.rs
enrol_owned_scope_pointers returns consulted scope IDs and skips later passes after a complete walk. Retryable failures keep the walk eligible for a later pass. Tests cover both outcomes.
Liveness enrolment integration
crates/engine/src/facade.rs
The liveness task creates the session latch, passes it to enrolment, and refreshes seed floors for consulted scopes.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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The liveness walk remains bounded after terminal trust rejections, while retryable failures still permit a later retry. No remaining merge-blocking risk was identified.

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🟡 Minor · Do not re-arm the full-tree walk for terminal trust rejections. · crates/engine/src/net/rotation.rs:4883-4919

4883-4919: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not re-arm the full-tree walk for terminal trust rejections. ResolveFailure::Rejected and PointerConsultError::Rejected are fail-closed trust violations, while ResolveFailure::Unavailable, ResolveFailure::ConflictingChildLabel, and PointerConsultError::Unavailable are retryable. The current Err(_) branches set complete = false for all of them. A persistent rejection can therefore keep pass.walked false and re-run the entire tree on every tick. Match the error variants explicitly so only retryable failures keep the latch open.

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In `@crates/engine/src/net/rotation.rs` around lines 4883 - 4919, Update the two
error matches in the tree walk and scope consultation logic to distinguish
terminal trust rejections from retryable failures: keep pass.walked false for
ResolveFailure::Unavailable, ResolveFailure::ConflictingChildLabel, and
PointerConsultError::Unavailable, but leave it complete for
ResolveFailure::Rejected and PointerConsultError::Rejected. Preserve the
existing consulted-scope and traversal behavior.
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In `@crates/engine/src/net/rotation.rs`:
- Around line 4883-4919: Update the two error matches in the tree walk and scope
consultation logic to distinguish terminal trust rejections from retryable
failures: keep pass.walked false for ResolveFailure::Unavailable,
ResolveFailure::ConflictingChildLabel, and PointerConsultError::Unavailable, but
leave it complete for ResolveFailure::Rejected and
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… one home each

The head-fetch prologue and the keyless write-plane rule each had three
copies in the rotation net, so a change to either trust path needed three
edits. Route resolve_child, promoted_root and moved_interior_node through
one head_at read, and gated_write_plane, resolve_scope and promoted_root
through one write_plane_of_gated. The gate-error verdict mapping gains the
ResolveFailure twin of read_verdict, which read_verdict now goes through.

No behaviour change: the trust checks keep their order and their axis.
…clean pass

The enrolment re-walked every owned scope root on each hourly liveness
tick, which spends a writer-authored fan-out per hour for the life of the
session. The walk exists to find the pointers earlier sessions flipped,
and a flip this session makes enrols at the flip, so a pass that reached
every owned root with no retryable failure has nothing left to find: it
latches the walk for the rest of the session, and a retryable failure
leaves the latch open for the next tick.

The pass now reports the scopes it consulted, and the liveness call site
pairs them with refresh_seed_floors, the same eviction the focus tick
pairs its own consult with. A consult raises a scope write-epoch floor on
sight, which retires the seed the cell still holds.
…ejection

The walk re-armed on every failure class, so one gate-failing entry in a
write grantee own index, or one pointer record that does not authenticate,
kept the latch open and re-walked the whole owned tree every hour. That is
the cost the latch exists to remove.

Classify on rule 6 axis instead: an availability stall re-arms the walk,
and so does a C2 label conflict, which the re-point wave repairs. A
rejection is this session verdict on that record, so it leaves nothing for
a later pass to find.
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  1. Minor, crates/engine/src/net/rotation.rs: do not re-arm the full-tree walk for terminal trust rejections. ACCEPTED, fixed in 3c5af9650c74dde2fead679d41a750e4b8ffcf78.

    The mechanism is real and it defeats the purpose of the latch. A write grantee authors its own scope root's directChildScopeIndex, so it chooses the entries the walk resolves. One entry whose record the descendant edge refuses returns ResolveFailure::Rejected from direct_child_index. The old Err(_) arm marked the pass incomplete for that, so the latch stayed open and the enrolment re-walked the whole owned tree every hour, for the life of the session. That is exactly the unbounded cost this pull request removes.

    The walk now classifies on rule 6's axis. ResolveFailure::Unavailable re-arms the walk, because a transport or host stall converges on a retry. ResolveFailure::ConflictingChildLabel re-arms it too, because the write-rotation re-point wave repairs both parent indexes, which is the axis SweepResolveFailure::is_retryable already states for the same class. ResolveFailure::Rejected does not re-arm it: a rejection is a fail-closed trust verdict on that record, never staleness, and re-reading the same record reaches the same verdict.

    The same split applies to the pointer consult. PointerConsultError::Unavailable re-arms the walk; PointerConsultError::Rejected does not. A pointer record that does not authenticate, or that vouches a rolled-back write epoch, is refused again on every later read of the same record.

    The suggestion was not applied literally. It proposed error matching only. The change also states the rule once, in a comment at the complete declaration, and adds a test: a_rejected_descendant_does_not_re_arm_the_walk stages a descendant the gate refuses, then proves that the second pass spends no further fan-out on that name. The test fails when the rejection arm re-arms the walk.

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