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* Lead pure-serve's usage with pure:// between nodes, and count refusalseunhhu2026-09-291-8/+11
| | | | | | | | | The usage showed --send OUTPUT=http[s]:// first; links are now the way between nodes (012), so it shows pure:// for a Pure node and HTTP for anything else. The statistics at exit count the streams a node's links were refused (link_refused) and the ones its listener refused (listener_refused), so a wiring mistake is in the numbers too, not only the line on stderr; server_links_refused checks both.
* Serve documents when a module keeps a collection, not by its inputs' nameseunhhu2026-09-291-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | pure-serve took a module with an input named show or edit for a document app and refused it unless both were keyed messages: an app with a plain message named edit compiled and then would not start (review 004, an earlier P2). Documents are what a module keeps in a keyed collection; now the host serves them when the module declares one, and inputs named show and edit are otherwise messages as any other. check.py's server_plain_edit starts such an app and posts to edit.
* Tick a stateless app's timers, and wait for them on the monotonic clockeunhhu2026-09-291-9/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | run_timers ticked nothing in an app without states, taking a timer to be able to change nothing else; but a tick may send, and the outbox is the app's state (the host gives such an app an owner for it). A timer that only sends never ticked (review 004, F4). Now an app ticks when it has states or outputs; one with neither runs on every connection thread and has nothing a tick could do. When a timer is due was reckoned on the wall clock: set back, a timer waited for the time it had reached again (review 004, an earlier P2). The next tick is now reckoned on the monotonic clock; events still see the wall clock (now). check.py's server_timers runs the review's heartbeat (a timer, an output, no state) and sees it tick, then again with the wall clock set back an hour 0.2 s in (build/clock-back.so, an LD_PRELOAD of clock_gettime): 29 ticks in 0.6 s, where the server before this stops at 9.
* Say why a stream is refused (REFUSED), and try it again seldomeunhhu2026-09-291-4/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A receiver that took no records of a stream (a source the key may not send as, no input of that name, an input of another shape) said nothing: its sender heard them acknowledged, never stored, and sent them all again every second, for ever, and its operator saw nothing. Now the receiver answers REFUSED (0x0c: the names, and why), and the sender sends no records for a second, then a packet of them to learn whether they are taken now, the wait twice as long each time (64 s at most). A refusal ends when that packet is acknowledged with no REFUSED beside, or a record is stored. link.c says it once on stderr, as a wire says a receiver does not take its sends; serve's input says which of the two the app lacks. test-link: each of the three is refused seven times in 90 s with nine packets, and a stream refused until the app has its input goes on then, all 200 records stored. check.py links a node to an input its receiver lacks: said once, two packets in 2.5 s.
* Move a link to a new epoch now and then, so keys that leak later open ↵eunhhu2026-09-291-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | nothing past A sender offers the public half of a pair made for the next epoch (OFFER) until the receiver accepts with a half of its own (ACCEPT); their X25519 and the epoch's secret make the next one's, and the private halves go. The header's low four bits say a packet's epoch; epoch 0 is the nodes' static secret, as the keys were. The first epoch is offered in the run's first packet (it begins with the first answer when the receiver is not busy), then one an hour or GiB. One who later has both nodes' keys opens only epoch 0, and no record went there after an epoch began: test-link tries every packet sent under the static keys, with epochs a second long, loss, reordering, restarts and replays. The receiver writes the epoch it accepted in its memo (a place is 256 bytes now), so it goes on without an X25519 when it starts again; one that forgot is not heard from, and its senders, after 2 s and four probes unanswered, offer again in epoch 0 with no records until an epoch begins. Keys of four epochs are tried (accepted, now, before, zero), as two may share the four bits. An accept costs an X25519 on each side, 220 µs on this Pi: one of a sender with records costs a token (256 a second, 8 at once) and the next packet offers again when there is none; one of a sender with nothing else to send waits for none, one a second for it. The X25519 is made after the turn's answers, never between a packet and its answer. serve's report and M2's generator count keys, X25519s and epochs.
* Keep a link's two sides as state alone, the sockets and threads aparteunhhu2026-09-291-8/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | link/link-protocol.h is the protocol with no socket, thread or clock of its own: packets and time in, packets out. link/link.h carries it over UDP as before. A sender starts small (8 flights, 16 records, a 4 KiB ring) so one thread can hold many. The transport's CPU a record is the same within 2% (five rounds each way, 61 B to 16 KiB). test-link runs both sides through a network of its own: loss, packets held back and doubled, failed saves, an idle sweep, and both sides starting again, every record applied once as sent.
* Let links know nothing of the core: the host names inputs and shapeseunhhu2026-09-291-8/+27
| | | | | | A sender takes its messages' shape, and a listener asks its host which input a stream goes to. The core gives the shape (pure_module_shape); link/ now builds without the core's headers.
* Put the links and the crypto they use in link/, a part of their owneunhhu2026-09-2910-2581/+3
| | | | | libpure-link.a holds them; pure-serve and the M5 harness link it instead of naming its source files.
* Send a record whole when it fits a packet, however many pieces it haseunhhu2026-09-292-40/+55
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A record over a piece (1,000 bytes) went in pieces even when it fit the packet whole: a record of 1,013 bytes went as two RECORD frames, and the receiver gathered it the slow way (an allocation, pieces, then onto the line). A record none of whose pieces went yet now goes whole in a RECORDS frame whenever it fits what is left of the packet; its pieces are marked sent together. A record too large for a packet, or one resent after some of its pieces were lost, still goes in pieces, and a receiver takes a record whole or in pieces alike. The transport alone takes 2.85 us a record of 1,013 bytes, not 3.18 (quinn: 3.90). transport.c now checks every record delivered: in order, once each, its bytes as sent. None was wrong in a network namespace with 1 ms of delay, 3 % loss and 10 % reordering, with records of 61, 1,013 and 16,013 bytes.
* Keep a link's queued records in one byte ring, taken back as they are storedeunhhu2026-09-281-23/+65
| | | | | | | | | | | | | A queued record had an allocation of its own for its bytes and its pieces' states, freed when the receiver stored it. Records come and go in order, so their bytes now go one after another into a ring, never cut by its end, and go back as the ring's head moves past the ones stored; a ring too small grows to twice its size, the records moved into it in order. A record of one piece keeps its piece's state in itself. The transport alone drains 200,000 records of 61 bytes at 5.3 to 6.5 million a second; per record the link takes 0.137 us, the listener 0.14: 0.28 in all, against quinn's 0.26 a message over one stream.
* Keep a stream's records in order on a line, handed over as they areeunhhu2026-09-281-13/+93
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | A receiver copied each record into an allocation of its own, copied them all again into a delivery, and freed each once stored: about 110 ns a record of 61 bytes. Once the last number heard is known, whole records that come in order now go onto the stream's line as a delivery carries them (u32 size, bytes). The line is handed over as it is, and let go by moving its head; its front is given back when there is no room at its end. Records that come early or in pieces, or before the last heard is known, still wait in held, and move onto the line once it reaches them. The transport alone: the listener took 0.20 us a record of 61 bytes, now 0.15; with the link, 0.31 us a record in all, against quinn's 0.26.
* Take a burst whole with UDP GRO; key the listener's AES only when the run ↵eunhhu2026-09-281-11/+63
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | changes A listener's socket now asks for GRO: the kernel hands over the datagrams of one sender that came one after another as one buffer, each the segment's size but the last, and on the loopback a burst sent with GSO comes whole instead of cut into datagrams. The listener takes up to eight such buffers at once. It gives its AES-GCM context a key only when the packet's run has another than the one it holds, for opening and for sealing answers. The transport alone drained 200,000 records of 61 bytes at 4.2 million a second (0.454 us a record, both sides); now at 4.9 million (0.394 us).
* Send small records in a RECORDS frame: 1 or 2 bytes of framing each, not 19eunhhu2026-09-282-9/+74
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | A RECORD frame carries a number, a size, an offset and a length before each record's bytes, 19 bytes: a packet held 13.7 records of 61 bytes. A RECORDS frame (0x06) carries the first record's number and a count, then whole records whose numbers follow on, each its size as a varint and its bytes: 17.2 a packet. A piece of a record larger than a piece still goes in a RECORD frame; a receiver takes both. The transport alone (research/experiments/019-idle-links/transport.c) drains 200,000 records of 61 bytes in 11,600 packets instead of 14,600; per record the link takes 0.217 us and the listener 0.23, 0.447 us in all, against quinn's 0.43 a message over one stream.
* Wake a link's thread only when it sleeps, onceeunhhu2026-09-281-3/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Every queued record wrote the link's eventfd, a system call each, and woke the thread to send a packet of a few records. A record queued now wakes the thread only when it sleeps and nobody woke it yet; one queued while it sends marks the link, and the thread looks again before it sleeps. With records queued one at a time as fast as a thread can, 200,000 small ones went at 400k a second, and now at 730k; queuing one costs 0.43 us, not 1.0. research/experiments/019-idle-links/transport.c measures the transport alone: a link and a listener in one process, no app, no store. A backlog of 200,000 records of 61 bytes drains at 3 to 4 million a second, 0.24 us a record on each side.
* Drain a link's backlog without scanning it: 370k to 990k records a secondeunhhu2026-09-281-105/+218
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A backlog made the link slow in its square: the sender looked at every queued record's pieces twice a turn to know whether any waited to be stored, and the receiver moved all its held records down each time it let the first one go. - The sender counts the pieces received and not stored, and keeps where the unsent ones begin; every change of a piece's state goes through one place that keeps both. - The receiver keeps its held records from a head index. One in order goes last, and one out of order finds its place by halving. The record's bytes and its pieces' marks are one allocation. - Packets go in bursts with UDP GSO, 54 at a time: 0.45 us a packet on this Pi, against 2.4 us for a send each. A full packet is padded to a whole datagram (PADDING frames, as QUIC does). Datagrams are taken 64 at a time (recvmmsg). Twenty thousand saved sends of 61 bytes drained at 370k a second; now at 990k. Per record, the sender's link thread took 1.1 us and now takes 0.5; the receiver's took 2.4 and now takes 0.5.
* Name the link threads, so their CPU is seen apart (pure-link, pure-listen)eunhhu2026-09-281-0/+2
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* Remember each sender's secret beside the node's key: no X25519 at restarteunhhu2026-09-283-8/+82
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | A listener lets a quiet sender's secret go with its active state, so a node started again made one X25519 for every sender that came back (169 us on this Pi, most of a wake's CPU): asymmetric work in proportion to the links, which design 011 counts as a reason to design again. The secret is now remembered in a file beside the key (KEY.links, 0600, begun again for another node's key): a place of 64 bytes a sender in the order allowed, mapped, so a sender at rest takes no memory for it. A place is the first 28 bytes of the sender's key, a check (FNV-1a of the key and the secret) and the secret, written secret first and key last; a place whose check fails is made again. The UDP link checks see a receiver started again make no X25519.
* Keep a run's keys as bytes: one AES-GCM context serves the listenereunhhu2026-09-285-66/+100
| | | | | | | | | | | | Each run a listener knew held two OpenSSL contexts. With 16 KiB pages, what those allocations left behind when idle senders went kept 42 MB of free heap resident after 10,000 senders had come and gone (in use: 0.6 MB). A run now keeps its keys (16 bytes each way and the nonce bases), and the listener seals and opens with one context, giving it each packet's key: about 130 ns a packet on this Pi. Two runs a sender, not four; a sender's address as an IPv6 one (an IPv4 one fits). What idle senders held goes back to the system once 1,024 have gone, or 10 s after any went (malloc_trim). HKDF is fetched once, not at every derivation.
* Let a link at rest cost the listener only its allowingeunhhu2026-09-283-169/+415
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A sender allowed is now a peer of 48 bytes (its key, its key's id, its sources), found through an index by key id; ids are 32 bits, so keys that share one are each tried. What a sending peer needs besides (the secret its key shares with the node's, its runs' keys and addresses, its streams) is made at its first packet and let go once it has been quiet for the idle period (--link-idle-ms, 30 s at first) with nothing of it waiting: the next packet makes it again, one X25519, no handshake. The listener hands over and answers only the streams and runs that changed, not every one at each turn. --senders FILE allows senders a line each. The UDP link checks take their sender from such a file among a thousand others, let it go after 400 ms of quiet, and see an order after a longer pause arrive all the same.
* Link two nodes without a connection over UDP (093, design 011's first stage)eunhhu2026-09-287-23/+1629
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pure-serve --send OUTPUT=pure://host:port/INPUT sends an output's saved sends to another node's --link-port with no handshake: the first packet carries records. Keys come from the two nodes' keys (X25519, HKDF-SHA256, AES-128-GCM), with a random run in each packet's header so no nonce repeats across restarts; nothing is stored for them. What lasts is the apps' own: the sender's outbox and the receiver's heard numbers (pure_app_heard, new). The sender detects losses as RFC 9002 says, with NewReno, and trims a send once the receiver says it stored it; the receiver hands the owner whole records in order, which it applies from the one after the source's last heard number, stopping at a gap, and answers how far it stored with every acknowledgment. Stored bytes are the bytes on the wire: an output and an input of one shape need no JSON. server_links_udp kills the receiver, the sender, then both (-9) while four clients buy: every saved order is applied once, with no handshake (five runs, 10k-11k orders each). server_links_udp_lossy does it again in a namespace of its own with the link's packets delayed, lost (3 %) and reordered (10 %) by netem (three runs, 11k-12k orders).
* Keep lists as images and a log of their changes, checkpointed off the ownereunhhu2026-09-281-3/+92
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* Gather returning requests only as long as the last save waited for its deviceeunhhu2026-09-281-3/+18
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* Read and write numbers exactly without strtod or printf in the common caseseunhhu2026-09-282-0/+98
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* Take a view's arguments from the request's queryeunhhu2026-09-281-10/+115
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | GET /views/name?argument=value gives a view that takes arguments its arguments: the query as it came is kept on the request's work slot (it outlives the connection, which may go before the view is shown), and when the view is shown, on the connection thread from a snapshot or by the owner, its pairs (values %XX decoded) are laid out as a payload of the arguments' shape and given before the view is evaluated. from and count still page a table. An argument missing, unknown, given twice, not of its type or badly escaped answers 400 invalid. A registered query takes its view's arguments the same way (GET /queries/name?k=4). An arguments input is not an input to post to. server_arguments opens 200 accounts, then asks 83 times against a model: balances by key (404 no_value for a key not there), counts above an argument, texts with &, =, % and non-ASCII shown back, a table filtered by two arguments whose column folds with one, paged, counts by an owner's name, a registered query with an argument, and six refusals. The format's document (008) describes arguments.
* Take a message's rows over HTTPeunhhu2026-09-284-26/+200
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A rows field's JSON value is an array of objects naming the record's fields (numbers, strings; a field left out takes its default). The connection thread encodes them as the list's stored form, which may be longer than the JSON, grows the request's input by that much (pure_runtime_grow: charged to the payload budget as admission charges an input, 503 payload_budget when it does not fit) and places them after the body, so the owner still applies a message it need not parse. A message whose only variable field is rows takes a body that is not JSON as those rows in their stored form: a bulk insert without JSON. An API's answer (--reply) gives rows the same way. A delivered batch holds no rows. server_rows loads 30,000 stock rows in one JSON request (some 250,000 rows a second, against 6,500 with a request a row) and 20,000 more as bytes, refuses a load with a key already there whole (409 exists), then checks 400 random orders against a model (294 applied, 106 refused with none of their rows applied), texts with escapes and Korean, a walk that removes, and a restart that keeps every state and no rows. The format's document (008) describes walks, rows fields and lists of rows, and OUTER_ROW.
* Register queries and show them from snapshotseunhhu2026-09-281-17/+145
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | PUT /queries/NAME takes a module compiled with aup query: the node loads and verifies it, checks that its states are the app's (names, types, records) and that it has a view NAME, and keeps it (64 at most; 409 for another app's module, 400 for bytes that are no module, 404 without the view). GET /queries/NAME?from=&count= shows that view from the last save's snapshot with a reader of the query's module, as a declared view is shown, so a query runs beside writes and sees one save whole. A query registered again answers anew. server_queries registers a per-branch total (a correlated fold), a join of history rows with their accounts and tellers, each rich account's rank and a filtered count, checks them against a model of the same transfers, asks while transfers go on, pages, and checks the refusals.
* Run a surface for people inside the node (design 010)eunhhu2026-09-272-11/+211
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pure-serve --surface LIBRARY [-- ARGUMENTS] maps a library and runs its pure_surface_run in a thread of its own (serve/surface.h). The surface reads the app as of the last save where it is, a published snapshot in a reader app, as a connection thread reads views; an eventfd tells it of each new snapshot; and its events (a key pressed, text typed) are requests without a host in the owner's queue, applied and saved with the round, their results handed back to the surface's waiter. So one node serves programs over HTTP and people on its display with one owner of its states, and nothing between the states and the screen. pure-serve exports its pure_* functions for the surface to call, one copy of the app model in the process; the table carries sizeof(PureApp) and sizeof(PureModule) so a surface built for another layout refuses. The check builds a probe surface that types, presses and reads: its events show in HTTP views, an HTTP input shows in it, wrong inputs are refused, it stops with the server, and a module without states cannot have one. Without a surface the request path measured the same (small GETs 140.9k vs 139.9k, app totals 126.3k vs 126.3k over eight rounds); the exported symbols cost 11 KB of the file and 24 KiB idle.
* Seal in one session a wire, authenticated by the sender's key (088)eunhhu2026-09-277-109/+323
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A sealed request cost three X25519 operations (about 0.5 ms), so sealed sends drained at half the plain rate. A wire now keeps one HPKE context, encapsulated at its first seal, and seals each request as the context's next number (a failed seal or a restart starts a new session); the header carries the session's encapsulated key and the number, so a receiver opens a session once per connection thread (16 remembered, the least used replaced) and each seal by its number, also after it restarts, unasked. A sender with a key of its own seals in HPKE auth mode and names that key in the header; a receiver started with --sender NAME=KEY takes deliveries only from the senders it names, each sealed with its key (403 sender otherwise). The body is now the ciphertext and its tag. Sealed sends, sender authenticated, drain at 461-464k a second against 462-470k plain and 207-234k sealed a request at a time (Raspberry Pi 5). The check adds: a wire's requests share one session numbered from 0; a changed number or sender key does not open; a receiver restarted naming its sender opens the same session again; another node claiming that sender's name with its own key is refused and applies nothing.
* Map OpenSSL only in a server that uses iteunhhu2026-09-277-104/+255
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Linking OpenSSL cost every pure-serve 2.3 MiB of resident memory, 0.66 MiB of it the process's own (relocated data), though most servers never reach an https receiver or seal a send. The code that uses OpenSSL (TLS to https receivers, sealing) is now built as pure-crypto.so beside pure-serve and exports one table; pure-serve maps it the first time a wire to an https URL opens or a key is read or a seal wired (serve/crypto.c), and a missing library is reported at startup. What needs no OpenSSL, a key's hex and the suite this CPU seals with, stays in pure-serve. An idle server: RSS 4,496 -> 2,320 kB, PSS 1,639 -> 881 kB, private dirty 1,296 -> 864 kB. A static OpenSSL was measured too and is worse (RSS 3.8 MiB, but 2.3 MiB private: all of its tables relocated). The checks, https webhooks and sealed sends included, pass unchanged.
* Stop reading a connection at a short readeunhhu2026-09-271-3/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After answering, a connection went back to recv for its next request and got EAGAIN nearly every time: a failed syscall a request. A recv that returns less than it asked for has emptied the socket, and the edge-triggered epoll reports the next bytes when they come (epoll(7); as nginx does), so the connection now waits for that; a peer that hung up is read to its end as before. Small keep-alive GETs, 64 connections, five rounds in rotation (Raspberry Pi 5): 131.9k/s before this step, 139.9k after. With the three steps before it (a burst's keys in one look, the clock once a round, the head without printf): 116.1k -> 139.9k/s, p99 672 -> 512 us, above the 127.0k of 2026-09-26's build that the app model had since slowed. App reads: the total 111.5k -> 125.4k/s, a 20-row page 86.2k -> 94.3k; 1 MiB reads and durable posts unchanged.
* Write an answer's head without printfeunhhu2026-09-271-9/+45
| | | | | | | | | Three snprintf calls a response (the head, its ETag and a delivery's batch size) spent a sixth of a small read's user time in printf's format scanning. The head is now written part by part, the same bytes as before, clipped at the end of its buffer where snprintf's would-be length could have sent bytes past it.
* Read the clock once a roundeunhhu2026-09-271-8/+11
| | | | | | | | | | A connection's deadline was counted from a fresh clock_gettime on every read and write, three times a request, and every event took the wall clock again: 5.7% of a small read's user time. A connection thread now reads the monotonic clock once after each epoll_wait and deadlines count from that (they are 10 s by default and swept every second), and a round's events share the time it began.
* Find a burst's keys in one lookeunhhu2026-09-271-4/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A message for a document scanned the burst's pending keys with strcmp to see whether its key was there, and the host scanned the burst's earlier requests the same way before each one: both quadratic in the burst (64 concurrent reads, about 31 compares each, twice). The app now indexes its pending documents by key (open addressing over an FNV-1a hash, 1 KiB), answers pure_app_pending in one look, and the host asks it; whether the current event's document is pending is a flag instead of a scan by pointer. Bursts split where they did, except that on an owner, which applies a round's reads first, an edit of a key read in the same round now splits the burst at the host rather than the app saving on its own. A unit test checks the index at 200 keys.
* Seal delivered sends to the receiver's key (086)eunhhu2026-09-275-12/+299
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --seal OUTPUT=KEY seals each request's body whole to the receiving node's public key with HPKE (RFC 9180, base mode: X25519, HKDF-SHA256, AES-128-GCM where the CPU has AES, else ChaCha20-Poly1305), bound to the request's source, first number and count; X-Pure-Seal names the suite. A receiver's --key is a raw 32-byte file, made 0600 when missing, held in OpenSSL's secure heap; it opens the body where it lies (400 seal when it does not open) and zeroes the plain text when the request's ticket goes. --sealed-only refuses unsealed deliveries (403 unsealed). The check puts a recording relay between two apps: every order applies once, no body shows an item or a field name, a flipped bit is refused, a replayed request applies nothing twice, and a seal to another key does not open. Its hosts choose their own ports (--port 0). Sealed sends drain at 233-235k a second against 469-470k plain (Raspberry Pi 5): three X25519 operations a request, 164 us each. The plain request path measured the same as before.
* Send a delivery's request in one pieceeunhhu2026-09-271-7/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | A batch went out as a write for its head, then a bracket or comma and the send for each of its sends: two writes a send. Now the head and the whole body are built in one buffer and written once. A receiver stopped while 20,000 sends piled up drained them at 91k sends a second before and at 470k after (three rounds each, Raspberry Pi 5). Writing the head apart from the body measured the same (468k), so the gain is the body's; one buffer is kept as the simpler of the two, and a lone send now leaves in one segment instead of two.
* Lay Pure out as a core with the parts selected around iteunhhu2026-09-275-0/+2903
The app model, the tree store and the HTTP host lived in prototypes/connections among the earlier document runtime, the store was known only by its format's name, and Vega compiled six Pure sources by path. Now, as the README's principle has it: core/ runtime, flow and the app model (module*.c), with what the core asks of storage (state.h, store.h) store/ the tree store (PURETRE3, PUREREC1) serve/ pure-serve: HTTP host, outbound delivery, JSON in place cli/ pure-run, pure-edit-module A top-level make builds libpure.a (app model and store, for hosts to link) and the hosts; make check runs the store's and the app model's tests. The earlier runtime still builds from prototypes/connections against core/ and store/ (check, check-tree and check-core pass). Design 009 records the rule: parts by role behind libraries; git repositories split by coupling, so the store stays here while its contract moves with the core, and Vega stays apart.