Register core.watch before its armed notification, coalesce later changes
without losing post-notification writes, and clean up on caller death.
Observe mounted layers and open file handles, including descriptor/stream
writes, truncation, both rename paths and deletion. Track cancelled
mutations through process idle and retain visible paths across renames.
Document the protocol, expose native core discovery, and exercise watches
through SDK callbacks and raw WASI filesystem operations.
Card: SAU-359
Activation path (review T6R): a broken plugin or a stray file in
/plugins blocks no activation; candidates replace their own entries;
discovery has a 10 s deadline and its process is stopped after the
answer; an unchanged hash keeps plugin.prev.wasm; activations run in
their own task; the watcher is not recursive; no duplicate services;
rpc.retired waits for live processes of its version; reads and hashes
on blocking threads.
Guest I/O and per-call paths: a stdin write error is EOF, stdout and
stderr are drained before the status; stderr is lossy UTF-8 and goes
to the journal from its own reader; compiled components are freed;
shutdown starts no new processes; lock queues drop stopping processes;
compile before the admission gate; CommandPre per component;
core.unlock in order; null errors are successes; the journal thread
survives SQLite errors.
sausage init builds the agent with cargo.build; sausage without a
command creates ./world. The console reads plain lines without a
terminal. PROTOCOL.md and DECISIONS.md describe the decided rules. The
flake tests the whole workspace and checks the packaged cargo.build.
- /proc is a core layer: core/ (PROTOCOL.md, graph.json, graph.dot,
locks.json, plugins/<name>/discover.json and client.rs) and one folder
per process (info.json, log, and its /self files).
- Locks are released only after the task ended, the store dropped, and
in-flight file operations returned.
- core.activate and core.revert with copies, discovery, compatibility
checks of imports and consumers, groups, force. An admission gate
makes the snapshot of old processes complete.
- Graph of discover documents by hash, refreshed by a file watcher.
- Upgrades: grace periods (x-sausage-grace), stop, service restarts,
rpc.retired.
- SDK plugins in the real core (cli/tests/sdk.rs).
SAU-359 implementer
surma