chore(8.0): final pre-RC1 sweep — API consistency, named errors, orphans, zero-cast codebase

src/distributed/storageDiscovery.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events'
 import * as os from 'node:os'
-import { StorageAdapter } from '../coreTypes.js'
+import { NounMetadata, StorageAdapter } from '../coreTypes.js'
 
 export interface NodeInfo {
   id: string
@@ -357,7 +357,11 @@ export class StorageDiscovery extends EventEmitter {
    */
   private async loadNodeRegistry(): Promise<string[]> {
     try {
-      const registry = await this.storage.getMetadata(`${this.CLUSTER_PATH}/registry.json`) as any
+      // The registry document is written by updateNodeRegistry() below with a
+      // `nodes` string-ID array on top of the base NounMetadata shape.
+      const registry = await this.storage.getMetadata(
+        `${this.CLUSTER_PATH}/registry.json`
+      ) as (NounMetadata & { nodes?: string[] }) | null
       return registry?.nodes || []
     } catch (err) {
       return []