open-brainy/tests/integration/fold-checkpoint-bound.test.ts
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test(fold-checkpoint): the ARM-AT-FLIP pin arms its crash instead of racing the pending-flush timer
The pin wrote a post-flip row, abandoned the brain as crashed, and then
deleted the row's canonical bytes to prove the first post-flip boot folds
BOUNDED above the flip's stamp. Between the write's ack and the abandon sat
the store's 50ms pending-flush timer: on a loaded box (the plant lane) the
flush won, barrier-synced the row and advanced the checkpoint over it — and
the fold, correctly bounded, did not restore bytes the test had destroyed
after they were stamped durable. Green locally, red on the plant: the
engine was right, the pin was timing-dependent.

The crash is now armed at exactly singleop-after-fact-append: the fact is
appended and at-ack synced, no flush is ever scheduled, the stamp provably
still reads the flip's value when the pre-flip bytes are dropped, and the
post-flip row's bytes — which lived only in the pending tier's RAM — are
lost for real, not synthetically. The reopen must re-materialize it from
its fact and must not restore the pre-flip row.
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/**
* @module tests/integration/fold-checkpoint-bound
* @description The fold-checkpoint bound (crash recovery's log fold, bounded):
* `_system/fold-checkpoint.json` at generation G asserts every entity whose
* latest fact is ≤ G has DURABLE canonical bytes — each stamp strictly follows
* a canonical-sync barrier over every live entity touched since the last one
* (stamp-after-data). An unclean open then folds only `(G, head]` instead of
* the whole log. These pins prove the four load-bearing properties:
*
* 1. The stamp exists and tracks the committed watermark (flush + close).
* 2. The fold is genuinely BOUNDED — facts ≤ G are skipped — while facts in
* `(G, head]` are re-applied even BELOW the manifest.
* 3. A failed barrier NEVER advances the stamp (the bound can lag, growing
* a later fold — it can never overstate durability, losing a write).
* 4. A pre-checkpoint brain (the 10.0 shape) bootstraps its chain at its
* first whole-log fold; a tree-authority brain never stamps at all.
*/
import { describe, it, expect, afterEach, vi } from 'vitest'
import * as fs from 'node:fs'
import * as zlib from 'node:zlib'
import { join } from 'node:path'
import { Brainy } from '../../src/brainy.js'
import { NounType } from '../../src/types/graphTypes.js'
import {
abandonAsCrashed,
armCrash,
dropCanonicalNoun,
makeTempDir,
openBrain,
storeOf
} from '../helpers/durabilityKillMatrix.js'
const CHECKPOINT = join('_system', 'fold-checkpoint.json')
/** Read the fold-checkpoint artifact's generation from disk, or null. */
function readCheckpoint(dir: string): number | null {
for (const candidate of [join(dir, `${CHECKPOINT}.gz`), join(dir, CHECKPOINT)]) {
if (!fs.existsSync(candidate)) continue
const raw = fs.readFileSync(candidate)
const text = candidate.endsWith('.gz') ? zlib.gunzipSync(raw).toString('utf8') : raw.toString('utf8')
const parsed = JSON.parse(text) as { generation?: number }
return Number.isSafeInteger(parsed.generation) ? (parsed.generation as number) : null
}
return null
}
function removeArtifact(dir: string, rel: string): void {
for (const candidate of [join(dir, `${rel}.gz`), join(dir, rel)]) {
fs.rmSync(candidate, { force: true })
}
}
function committedOf(brain: Brainy): number {
return (storeOf(brain) as unknown as { committed: number }).committed
}
describe('fold-checkpoint bound — crash recovery folds (checkpoint, head], never less durability than stamped', () => {
const dirs: string[] = []
const liveBrains: Brainy[] = []
afterEach(async () => {
vi.restoreAllMocks()
for (const b of liveBrains.splice(0)) await b.close().catch(() => {})
for (const d of dirs.splice(0)) fs.rmSync(d, { recursive: true, force: true })
})
function trackDir(): string {
const dir = makeTempDir()
dirs.push(dir)
return dir
}
it('a fresh adopt brain stamps at flush and again at close — the stamp tracks the committed watermark', async () => {
const dir = trackDir()
const brain = await openBrain(dir, { logAuthority: 'adopt' })
liveBrains.push(brain)
expect(brain.logAuthority().authority).toBe('log')
await brain.add({ data: 'first', type: NounType.Document, metadata: { n: 1 } })
await brain.add({ data: 'second', type: NounType.Document, metadata: { n: 2 } })
await brain.flush()
const afterFlush = readCheckpoint(dir)
expect(afterFlush).toBe(committedOf(brain))
expect(afterFlush!).toBeGreaterThan(0)
await brain.add({ data: 'third', type: NounType.Document, metadata: { n: 3 } })
const closingCommit = liveBrains.pop()!
await closingCommit.close()
// Close flushes, so the stamp advanced with it — and the clean-shutdown
// marker it writes afterward never vouches for bytes the stamp has not.
expect(readCheckpoint(dir)).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(afterFlush!)
}, 120000)
it('BOUNDED fold: facts ≤ checkpoint are skipped, facts in (checkpoint, head] are re-applied even below the manifest; a failed barrier retains the old bound', async () => {
const dir = trackDir()
const brain = await openBrain(dir, { logAuthority: 'adopt' })
liveBrains.push(brain)
// Window 1 — flushed and stamped: the checkpoint's covered past.
const idA = await brain.add({ data: 'covered by the stamp', type: NounType.Document, metadata: { w: 1 } })
await brain.flush()
const checkpoint1 = readCheckpoint(dir)
expect(checkpoint1).toBe(committedOf(brain))
// Window 2 — committed BELOW a new manifest but with the checkpoint stamp
// FAILING: the barrier throws once, so the manifest advances while the
// stamp stays at checkpoint1 (pin 3: a failed barrier never advances it).
const storage = (brain as unknown as {
storage: { syncEntityCanonical(n: string[], v: string[]): Promise<void> }
}).storage
const realBarrier = storage.syncEntityCanonical.bind(storage)
let failedOnce = false
vi.spyOn(storage, 'syncEntityCanonical').mockImplementation(async (n: string[], v: string[]) => {
if (!failedOnce) {
failedOnce = true
throw new Error('injected barrier failure (device hiccup)')
}
return realBarrier(n, v)
})
const idB = await brain.add({ data: 'below manifest, above checkpoint', type: NounType.Document, metadata: { w: 2 } })
await brain.flush()
expect(failedOnce).toBe(true)
expect(readCheckpoint(dir)).toBe(checkpoint1) // stamp did NOT advance
expect(committedOf(brain)).toBeGreaterThan(checkpoint1!) // manifest DID
// Crash. Vaporize BOTH canonical records: idB's fact lives in
// (checkpoint, manifest] — the bounded fold MUST restore it; idA's fact
// is ≤ checkpoint — the fold must SKIP it (its loss here is synthetic:
// the stamp's barrier fsynced it, a power cut cannot take it, and the
// skip is exactly what makes the fold bounded instead of whole-log).
await abandonAsCrashed(liveBrains.pop()!)
dropCanonicalNoun(dir, idA)
dropCanonicalNoun(dir, idB)
const reopened = await openBrain(dir, { logAuthority: 'adopt' })
liveBrains.push(reopened)
const restoredB = await reopened.get(idB)
expect(restoredB, 'a fact above the checkpoint is re-applied even below the manifest').not.toBeNull()
const skippedA = await reopened.get(idA)
expect(skippedA, 'a fact at-or-below the checkpoint is outside the fold — the bound is real').toBeNull()
// And recovery re-stamped at its new committed watermark.
expect(readCheckpoint(dir)).toBe(committedOf(reopened))
}, 120000)
it('a pre-checkpoint brain (the 10.0 shape) folds the WHOLE log once, then its chain is established', async () => {
const dir = trackDir()
const brain = await openBrain(dir, { logAuthority: 'adopt' })
liveBrains.push(brain)
const idA = await brain.add({ data: 'ten-point-oh resident', type: NounType.Document, metadata: { era: '10.0' } })
await brain.flush()
await liveBrains.pop()!.close()
// Rewind the brain to the 10.0 shape: no checkpoint artifact, and an
// unclean shutdown (marker gone) — exactly what an existing fleet brain
// looks like at its first crash under 10.1.
removeArtifact(dir, CHECKPOINT)
removeArtifact(dir, join('_system', 'clean-shutdown.json'))
dropCanonicalNoun(dir, idA)
const reopened = await openBrain(dir, { logAuthority: 'adopt' })
liveBrains.push(reopened)
expect(await reopened.get(idA), 'no checkpoint ⇒ whole-log fold ⇒ every acked write restored').not.toBeNull()
const stamped = readCheckpoint(dir)
expect(stamped, 'the first whole-log fold is the chains base case — it stamps').toBe(committedOf(reopened))
}, 120000)
it('ARM-AT-FLIP: a non-fresh adoption founds the checkpoint immediately — the first post-flip boot folds BOUNDED, never whole-log', async () => {
const dir = trackDir()
// The production shape: a brain with history flips LIVE (no crash ever).
const brain = await openBrain(dir, { logAuthority: 'defer' })
liveBrains.push(brain)
const preFlip = await brain.add({ data: 'pre-flip resident', type: NounType.Document, metadata: { era: 'tree' } })
await brain.flush()
expect(readCheckpoint(dir), 'no checkpoint before the flip').toBeNull()
const report = await brain.adoptLogAuthority()
expect(report.verdict).toBe('green')
// THE PIN: the flip itself founded the checkpoint — no crash required.
const founded = readCheckpoint(dir)
expect(founded, 'checkpoint founded at flip').toBe(committedOf(brain))
// First post-flip boot, unclean (the production first-restart shape):
// a post-flip write above the checkpoint is restored FROM ITS AT-ACK FACT;
// the pre-flip row (its baseline fact ≤ checkpoint, its bytes barrier-
// synced at the flip) is OUTSIDE the fold — vaporizing it synthetically
// proves the bound.
//
// THE CRASH IS ARMED, NOT RACED. The post-flip write "dies" at exactly
// `singleop-after-fact-append`: its fact is in the log and at-ack synced,
// and NO pending flush was ever scheduled — so the checkpoint provably
// still reads the flip's stamp when the bytes are dropped. The earlier
// shape (`add()` then abandon) raced the store's 50ms pending-flush
// timer: on a loaded box the flush won, barrier-synced the row, advanced
// the stamp over it — and the fold, CORRECTLY bounded, did not restore
// bytes the test had synthetically destroyed after they were stamped
// durable. The plant lane caught it; the engine was right, the pin was
// timing-dependent.
const postFlip = `post-flip-${Date.now().toString(36)}-0000-4000-8000-000000000000`
const arm = armCrash(brain, 'singleop-after-fact-append')
await expect(
brain.add({ id: postFlip, data: 'post-flip write', type: NounType.Document, metadata: { era: 'log' } })
).rejects.toThrow('simulated process crash at singleop-after-fact-append')
expect(arm.fired).toContain('singleop-after-fact-append')
expect(readCheckpoint(dir), 'the stamp did not move — nothing flushed after the flip').toBe(founded)
await abandonAsCrashed(liveBrains.pop()!)
// The post-flip row's canonical bytes lived only in the pending tier's
// RAM (written at flush, never reached) — the crash takes them for real;
// nothing to drop. Only the pre-flip row is vaporized synthetically.
dropCanonicalNoun(dir, preFlip)
const reopened = await openBrain(dir, { logAuthority: 'adopt' })
liveBrains.push(reopened)
expect(await reopened.get(postFlip), 'above-checkpoint fact re-applied').not.toBeNull()
expect(await reopened.get(preFlip), 'below-checkpoint fact skipped — the fold is bounded on the FIRST post-flip boot').toBeNull()
}, 240000)
it('a tree-authority brain never stamps a checkpoint', async () => {
const dir = trackDir()
const brain = await openBrain(dir, { logAuthority: 'defer' })
liveBrains.push(brain)
expect(brain.logAuthority().authority).not.toBe('log')
await brain.add({ data: 'tree resident', type: NounType.Document, metadata: { n: 1 } })
await brain.flush()
await liveBrains.pop()!.close()
expect(readCheckpoint(dir)).toBeNull()
}, 120000)
it('restore is an UNCLEAN event: the snapshots stamps do not survive — the reopen fold re-founds and re-stamps the restored state', async () => {
const dir = trackDir()
const brain = await openBrain(dir, { logAuthority: 'adopt' })
liveBrains.push(brain)
const idA = await brain.add({ data: 'survives the restore', type: NounType.Document, metadata: { n: 1 } })
await brain.flush()
const snapDir = join(trackDir(), 'snap')
const db = brain.now()
await (db as unknown as { persist(p: string): Promise<void> }).persist(snapDir)
await (db as unknown as { release(): Promise<void> }).release()
// Advance the live brain past the snapshot: a later write, a later flush,
// a later checkpoint stamp — none of which may survive the restore.
const idB = await brain.add({ data: 'must not survive', type: NounType.Document, metadata: { n: 2 } })
await brain.flush()
const stampBeforeRestore = readCheckpoint(dir)
expect(stampBeforeRestore).toBe(committedOf(brain))
// Unflushed traffic in flight at restore time — the quiesced swap discards
// it under the mutex instead of letting its flush timer race the swap
// (the ENOTEMPTY class).
await brain.add({ data: 'in-flight at restore', type: NounType.Document, metadata: { n: 3 } })
await brain.restore(snapDir, { confirm: true })
expect(await brain.get(idA), 'snapshot state restored').not.toBeNull()
expect(await brain.get(idB), 'post-snapshot state replaced').toBeNull()
// The stamp on disk is the REOPEN FOLD's fresh assertion about the
// restored (and now barrier-synced) bytes — at the restored watermark,
// strictly below the pre-restore stamp that must not survive.
const stampAfterRestore = readCheckpoint(dir)
expect(stampAfterRestore).toBe(committedOf(brain))
expect(stampAfterRestore!).toBeLessThan(stampBeforeRestore!)
}, 120000)
it('a delete rides the barrier: the tombstoned id is in the synced set and the stamp advances past it', async () => {
const dir = trackDir()
const brain = await openBrain(dir, { logAuthority: 'adopt' })
liveBrains.push(brain)
const id = await brain.add({ data: 'short-lived', type: NounType.Document, metadata: { n: 1 } })
await brain.flush()
const storage = (brain as unknown as {
storage: { syncEntityCanonical(n: string[], v: string[]): Promise<void> }
}).storage
const seen: string[][] = []
const realBarrier = storage.syncEntityCanonical.bind(storage)
vi.spyOn(storage, 'syncEntityCanonical').mockImplementation(async (n: string[], v: string[]) => {
seen.push([...n])
return realBarrier(n, v)
})
await brain.remove(id)
await brain.flush()
expect(
seen.some((nouns) => nouns.includes(id)),
'the deleted id must reach the canonical barrier (absence is durable state too)'
).toBe(true)
expect(readCheckpoint(dir)).toBe(committedOf(brain))
}, 120000)
})