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Implements Epic #162 — Phase 16, Engine and strategy expansion: three commits, one per sub-issue, plus a docs commit.

Stacked on #180 (phase-15-performance-and-scale). The base branch is phase 15, so this PR's diff is only phase 16's work. Merge #180 first; GitHub will retarget this to main automatically.

The fact that reframed two of the three issues

16.2 asked to flatten $ref and allOf. Before designing anything, the work asserted what apiextensions actually accepts — against the apiserver's own validator, in pkg/engine/structural_facts_test.go, so the engine's model cannot drift from what a cluster accepts. Five facts, one of them decisive:

Every property named inside a junctor must also be declared in the parent's own properties.

A junctor in a legal CRD can therefore only constrain fields the engine already sees. It can never introduce one. That changes both issues:

  • 16.2 is a correctness fix, not a capability. Flattening through an allOf is not a discovery, and marking a node opaque because it carried one was not incomplete — it was wrong. A node with allOf: [{required: [bucket]}] had its entire field set disappear because of a constraint.
  • 16.1 knows what a union is. A branch is an ordinary declared, optional, addressable property. So the active branch is identified by which branch property is present, not by validating the object against each branch schema — structural matching would put a JSON Schema validator on the apiserver's admission path to learn what a map lookup already knows.

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feat(engine): normalise $ref and allOfcloses #164

A normalisation pass at the SchemaSource boundary resolves local #/... references and merges allOf into its parent, so a field declared alongside one of those constructs is an ordinary addressable field.

  • A remote $ref is rejected rather than fetched: following one would make analysis depend on the network and let a config make the operator issue requests. A cycle errors rather than recursing.
  • Conflicting allOf constraints — two types, or two enums with no value in common — are a compile error naming both sides, not last-writer-wins. The apiserver rejects every object against such a schema; guessing which half was meant would make the engine's field set disagree with what the cluster accepts.
  • The merge keeps what the engine reads (field set, types, required-ness, enum vocabularies, opacity) and drops value validations it never looks at. Sound rather than lazy: the normalised schema is an analysis artifact and is never written back to a cluster.
  • Two follow-on correctness points, both tested: the passthrough tree is built from the normalised schema (or passthroughUnknownOp, which runs last, would copy a newly-visible field over whatever a rule just wrote there), and convctl suggest/rehub go through NormalizedVersions (or they would flatten a different field set from the report they are reading).

feat(engine): branchMapcloses #163

Maps the branches of a oneOf union between versions: which hub branch becomes which spoke branch, an optional discriminator remapped alongside, and nested rules scoped to the branch (the same scoping forEach gives an array element).

  • schema.go stops hiding unions over declared properties. Once a branch's leaves are visible, a complete mapping has to claim all of them. The int-or-string shape — anyOf: [{type: integer}, {type: string}], which has no type of its own — is still one opaque leaf, because there the union really is all the node says.
  • Zero branches set, or two, is a hard error in both directions. The alternative is worse than it sounds: a union with no branch converts to a union with no branch, and the destination's oneOf rejects it at admission — a message about the schema, arriving after the conversion that caused it, pointing at the wrong thing.
  • It writes each branch at its own path, not the union object wholesale, so a non-branch sibling (a retention period next to s3 and gcs) stays reachable by ordinary rules. Writing the object would make the result depend on rule declaration order, which nothing else in this engine does.
  • Collapsing two hub branches onto one spoke branch is expressible and lossy coming back — same verdict as a non-injective enumRemap. Making that verdict reachable needed one fix: the claim map records paths, not the rules holding them, so claiming the shared spoke subtree once per mapping reported the rule as conflicting with itself.
  • New: strategy page, examples/branch-map/, a union in the kitchen-sink fixture (now 31 rules over 30 strategies), and a BranchMap slot in internal/scalegen so the nightly scale run exercises it at fleet scale.

perf(engine): measure spoke-to-spokecloses #165

An investigation, and the answer is no — which the issue names as a complete outcome.

BenchmarkRouter_SpokeToSpoke_vs_HubHop was one point (a 1000-element forEach). Swept 0 → 1000:

forEach elements hub → spoke spoke → spoke ratio allocations
0 0.4 µs 1.0 µs 2.4× 5 → 10
1 0.8 µs 1.8 µs 2.2× 9 → 18
5 2.2 µs 4.9 µs 2.2× 21 → 42
10 4.2 µs 8.4 µs 2.0× 36 → 72
100 38 µs 79 µs 2.1× 306 → 612
1000 378 µs 705 µs 1.9× 3006 → 6012

Flat ~2× across four orders of magnitude, with exactly 2× allocations and 2× bytes at every size. The explanation is complete — the second hop does the same work as the first over an object of the same shape — so the answer does not vary with workload and the measurement does not need repeating per cluster. At realistic sizes the second hop costs 0.6–4 µs, inside a request that has already paid milliseconds of apiserver overhead.

Against O(N²) compiled plans and a third mapping to keep consistent with the two it shortcuts, that is not worth building. Recorded in docs/operations/capacity.md and docs/limitations.md so it stops being re-asked, with Router.Convert named as the seam for anyone who revisits it.

Two things this surfaced:

  • A route label on dco_webhook_conversion_objects_total (hub_to_spoke / spoke_to_hub / spoke_to_spoke / identity), because the acceptance criteria asked to measure real-world frequency and from_version/to_version cannot: whether a pair is spoke-to-spoke depends on which version is the hub, which is a per-target fact and not a label. It is a function of labels the series already carries, so it adds no cardinality, and every shipped query uses sum by. A "Conversion route mix" panel ships with it.
  • A bug next to it. dco_webhook_lossy_conversion_total used a hub-or-nothing test, so a spoke-to-spoke conversion — two hops, each able to lose something — counted neither. The traffic class carrying the most loss was reporting none. Each lossy hop is now counted.

docs: record phase 16 as shipped

Roadmap, proposal "Shipped" block, and docs/limitations.md stops saying oneOf/anyOf is opaque and out of scope. "Proposed next phases" is empty for the first time and says so rather than inventing a phase 17.

Verification

go test ./... -race, golangci-lint (0 issues), make helm-test (38 tests), make test-prometheus, mkdocs build --strict, and the golden corpus replaying with no drift after re-recording against the new fixture.

Closes #162
Closes #163
Closes #164
Closes #165

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  • New Features

    • Added the BranchMap strategy for converting union branches, including renamed branches, discriminator remapping, nested rules, and lossiness acknowledgment.
    • Added validation for missing, multiple, or unmapped active branches.
    • Added schema normalization for local references and allOf structures.
  • Observability

    • Added conversion route labels, spoke-to-spoke loss reporting, and a route-mix dashboard view.
  • Documentation

    • Added BranchMap guidance and a complete conversion example.
    • Updated strategy coverage documentation to 30 built-in strategies.
    • Documented union handling, schema constraints, and spoke-to-spoke routing behavior.

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BranchMap and schema processing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Schema normalization and structural analysis
pkg/engine/..., internal/cli/..., docs/architecture.md
Schemas now resolve supported local references and merge allOf constraints before analysis and compilation. Structural union handling and related validation tests were added.
BranchMap contracts and execution
api/v1alpha1/..., pkg/engine/..., internal/webhook/..., config/crd/..., charts/...
The BranchMap strategy now has configuration types, CRD schemas, webhook validation, compilation, coverage handling, discriminator mapping, nested rules, and runtime branch conversion.
Fixtures and documentation
examples/..., internal/cli/testdata/..., internal/scalegen/..., docs/..., README.md, mkdocs.yml
A union conversion example and full-fixture coverage were added. Strategy counts now report 30 built-in strategies.
Routing observability and capacity
internal/webhookserver/..., charts/..., pkg/engine/convert_bench_test.go, docs/observability.md, docs/operations/capacity.md
Conversion metrics now include route classifications. Spoke-to-spoke loss accounting, dashboard panels, and route-cost benchmarks were updated.

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🟡 Minor · List branchMap in the strategy inventory.

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List branchMap in the strategy inventory.

The inventory omits the new branchMap strategy. Readers of the README cannot discover it from the primary strategy list. Add branchMap with its union-branch mapping behavior.

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In `@docs/operations/capacity.md`:
- Line 83: Revise the conclusion near the benchmark discussion so it applies
only to the measured BenchmarkRouter_SpokeToSpoke_vs_HubHop fixture: forEach
over volumes array objects. Remove or narrow the claim that the measurement need
not be repeated for each workload, unless representative strategy and
object-shape mixes are added.

In `@internal/webhookserver/server.go`:
- Around line 378-379: Update the lossy-hop accounting associated with
handleConvert and Router.Convert so counters are recorded only after their
corresponding sequential engine.Convert hop succeeds. Preserve the first hop’s
counter when it succeeds but the second fails, and record neither counter when
the first hop fails; implement this at the hop boundary in Router.Convert or
propagate completed-hop information back to handleConvert.

In `@pkg/engine/compile.go`:
- Around line 1066-1070: Update resolveBranchMap’s reverse compiledBranch
appends for hub-to-spoke and spoke-to-hub mappings to use the existing first-use
checks, ensuring only one entry is created per srcBranch. Preserve the intended
first-mapping reverse behavior while leaving branchMapOp.apply unchanged.
- Around line 990-996: Update the discriminator validation in Analyze to use
each side’s corresponding union path when reporting missing properties, rather
than always using p.HubPath. Replace the unordered side map iteration with a
deterministic order so diagnostics are consistently appended and SpokeReport
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- Line 98: Update the README strategy inventory to include branchMap and briefly
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Comment thread docs/operations/capacity.md Outdated
explanation: the second hop does the same work as the first over an object
of the same shape. There is no fixed per-call overhead that a direct plan
would remove and nothing that grows super-linearly — so the answer does not
change with object size, and this measurement does not need repeating per

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Limit the benchmark conclusion to the measured fixture.

BenchmarkRouter_SpokeToSpoke_vs_HubHop measures only forEach over volumes array objects. The table supports the ~2× ratio for that fixture, but it does not establish that the ratio applies to every strategy or object shape. The sentence that the measurement does not need repeating per workload is therefore too broad. Restrict the conclusion to this fixture, or add representative strategy and object-shape mixes before making a broader claim.

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if p.Discriminator != "" {
for side, node := range map[string]*extv1.JSONSchemaProps{"hub": hubNode, "spoke": spokeNode} {
if _, ok := node.Properties[p.Discriminator]; !ok {
diags = append(diags, errorf(idx, "rule %d (BranchMap): discriminator %q is not a declared property of the %s union at %q", idx, p.Discriminator, side, p.HubPath))
}
}
}

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Use side-specific paths and deterministic diagnostic order.

The loop checks both union sides, but every message uses p.HubPath. A missing discriminator on spokeNode therefore reports the hub path. Go does not guarantee map iteration order, and Analyze copies these diagnostics into SpokeReport without sorting the base diagnostics. Reports can therefore list the diagnostics in different orders.

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-	if p.Discriminator != "" {
-		for side, node := range map[string]*extv1.JSONSchemaProps{"hub": hubNode, "spoke": spokeNode} {
-			if _, ok := node.Properties[p.Discriminator]; !ok {
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+	if p.Discriminator != "" {
+		for _, s := range []struct {
+			side string
+			node *extv1.JSONSchemaProps
+			path FieldPath
+		}{{"hub", hubNode, p.HubPath}, {"spoke", spokeNode, p.SpokePath}} {
+			if _, ok := s.node.Properties[p.Discriminator]; !ok {
+				diags = append(diags, errorf(idx, "rule %d (BranchMap): discriminator %q is not a declared property of the %s union at %q", idx, p.Discriminator, s.side, s.path))
+			}
+		}
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if p.Discriminator != "" {
for side, node := range map[string]*extv1.JSONSchemaProps{"hub": hubNode, "spoke": spokeNode} {
if _, ok := node.Properties[p.Discriminator]; !ok {
diags = append(diags, errorf(idx, "rule %d (BranchMap): discriminator %q is not a declared property of the %s union at %q", idx, p.Discriminator, side, p.HubPath))
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if p.Discriminator != "" {
for _, s := range []struct {
side string
node *extv1.JSONSchemaProps
path FieldPath
}{{"hub", hubNode, p.HubPath}, {"spoke", spokeNode, p.SpokePath}} {
if _, ok := s.node.Properties[p.Discriminator]; !ok {
diags = append(diags, errorf(idx, "rule %d (BranchMap): discriminator %q is not a declared property of the %s union at %q", idx, p.Discriminator, s.side, s.path))
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s2hBranches = append(s2hBranches, compiledBranch{
srcBranch: b.SpokeBranch, dstBranch: b.HubBranch,
dstDiscriminator: discriminatorValue(b.HubDiscriminatorValue, b.HubBranch),
nested: nestedS2H,
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Deduplicate collapsed mappings during compilation.

When two hub branches map to one spoke branch, the acknowledged-lossy configuration can compile, but resolveBranchMap still adds two reverse compiledBranch entries with the same srcBranch. branchMapOp.apply counts matching entries, so a valid spoke object can be rejected as if multiple branches were set.

Guard both appends with the existing first-use checks. This keeps one entry per source branch and preserves the intended first-mapping reverse behavior.

-		h2sBranches = append(h2sBranches, compiledBranch{
-			srcBranch: b.HubBranch, dstBranch: b.SpokeBranch,
-			dstDiscriminator: discriminatorValue(b.SpokeDiscriminatorValue, b.SpokeBranch),
-			nested:           nestedH2S,
-		})
-		s2hBranches = append(s2hBranches, compiledBranch{
-			srcBranch: b.SpokeBranch, dstBranch: b.HubBranch,
-			dstDiscriminator: discriminatorValue(b.HubDiscriminatorValue, b.HubBranch),
-			nested:           nestedS2H,
-		})
+		if firstHubUse {
+			h2sBranches = append(h2sBranches, compiledBranch{
+				srcBranch: b.HubBranch, dstBranch: b.SpokeBranch,
+				dstDiscriminator: discriminatorValue(b.SpokeDiscriminatorValue, b.SpokeBranch),
+				nested:           nestedH2S,
+			})
+		}
+		if firstSpokeUse {
+			s2hBranches = append(s2hBranches, compiledBranch{
+				srcBranch: b.SpokeBranch, dstBranch: b.HubBranch,
+				dstDiscriminator: discriminatorValue(b.HubDiscriminatorValue, b.HubBranch),
+				nested:           nestedS2H,
+			})
+		}
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All four findings taken, in a22f8cf. One of them is a real bug that my own test was structured to miss.

Collapsed branch mappings (compile.go:1070) — correct, and worse than "deduplicate". Confirmed by reproduction before fixing:

branchMap: branches [objectStore objectStore] are all set at "backup"; exactly one must be

The acknowledged collapse compiled and then failed every conversion back, on a perfectly valid single-branch object. The previous commit had removed the self-conflicting claim so the config would compile, and I asserted exactly that and stopped — TestBranchMap_NonInjectiveIsLossyInTheCollapsingDirection never called Convert. Fixed as suggested, guarding both appends with the existing first-use checks. The test now converts in both directions: both hub branches reach the shared spoke branch, and the way back yields the first mapping rather than an error.

Lossy hop counting (server.go:379) — taken, resolved the simpler way. The premise is right: the counters went up before Router.Convert ran, so a failed conversion still reported loss. Both are now recorded after a successful convert.

I did not plumb completed-hop information back from Router.Convert, and deliberately chose the case you flagged as incorrect omission — first hop succeeds, second fails, neither counted. Two reasons. The metric means "a lossy conversion was delivered": when the route fails the object is never returned and never stored, so the first hop's output was a discarded in-memory intermediate and nothing observable lost anything. And that failure is already counted by dco_webhook_conversion_objects_total{result="error"} and the review counter, so counting it again as lossy is a second signal about the same non-event. The alternative would also push a metrics concern into pkg/engine, which has no observability in it by design. Both semantics are now pinned by tests, so if this reading is wrong it fails loudly rather than drifting.

Discriminator diagnostics (compile.go:996) — taken, both halves. Map iteration made the order of two errors nondeterministic (and Analyze copies them into SpokeReport without re-sorting, as you note), and every message quoted HubPath, so a spoke-side error pointed at a schema where the field is not missing. Now a slice, with each side naming its own path, and a test using deliberately different hub and spoke paths so the two cannot be confused again.

The ~2× claim (capacity.md:83) — fair, and the fix is a better argument than the one I had. You are right that one forEach fixture cannot establish a ratio for every strategy mix. What does not depend on the fixture is the identity underneath:

cost(A → B) = cost(A → hub) + cost(hub → B), exactly, because that is what Router.Convert executes.

So the recommendation now rests on "a direct plan could save at most one hop, whatever a hop costs", with ~2× presented as what that becomes when the two hops cost about the same — which is what this fixture measures. Anyone whose hop latency is nothing like it can read their own from dco_webhook_conversion_object_duration_seconds, which is histogrammed per direction on live traffic, rather than needing a new benchmark. The same narrowing is applied to limitations.md, the roadmap row and the proposal note.

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Add branchMap to the strategy list.

The new examples section names a oneOf branch-mapping story, but this inventory omits branchMap. Add the strategy here so the README documents all 30 built-in strategies consistently with the end-to-end test descriptions.

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In `@README.md` at line 98, Add branchMap to the built-in strategy inventory in
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In `@docs/proposals/next-phases.md`:
- Around line 1098-1100: Update the measured-fixture wording in
docs/proposals/next-phases.md at lines 1098-1100 to describe the complete
equal-cost two-hop route as approximately 2× the direct conversion, not the
second hop alone. Also update docs/roadmap.md at line 48 to replace “The second
hop costs a flat ~2x” with equivalent total-route wording while retaining the
equal-hop qualification.

In `@pkg/engine/normalize.go`:
- Around line 294-298: The nullable merge in the normalization logic should
intersect constraints rather than erroring or preserving true. Update the branch
around src.Nullable, dst.Nullable, and the parent type check to assign
dst.Nullable as the conjunction of the existing destination and source values,
preserving false for either non-nullable operand. Add regression coverage for
both nullable/non-nullable merge directions.
- Line 282: Update mergeSchema to preserve representable src.OneOf and src.AnyOf
constraints when merging normalized allOf branches, consistent with
normalizer.node and the offline normalization path. Ensure unionConstruct and
BranchMap observe the same union schema; if a union cannot be safely merged,
return an explicit error instead of silently discarding it.
- Around line 378-385: Update intersectEnums in NormalizeSchema to compare enum
entries by semantic JSON value rather than stringified Raw bytes, so equivalent
objects with different key order or whitespace match. Preserve and append a
representative extv1.JSON entry from dst for each matching value, while
retaining the existing intersection behavior for non-equivalent values.

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In `@README.md`:
- Line 98: Add branchMap to the built-in strategy inventory in the README,
alongside the existing strategy names, so the documented list includes all 30
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All four taken, in 67b2f1f. The three normalize.go findings are real and I reproduced each before fixing — thank you, the union one in particular was a silent correctness hole in the deliverable that is about unions.

mergeSchema discarded oneOf/anyOf from an allOf branch. Confirmed: allOf: [{oneOf: [...]}] over a node with s3/gcs declared normalised to OneOf: 0 entries. That matters more here than the "unmerged constraint" framing suggests, because the engine reads those two — unionConstruct decides opacity and branchMap maps the branches — so the later stages were analysing a schema the author did not write, with no diagnostic. Unions are now carried up.

On your "or reject explicitly": both, depending on the case. A union on the branch when the parent has none is carried up. A union on both is rejected, because allOf: [{oneOf: A}, {oneOf: B}] means "satisfies A and satisfies B" and no single oneOf expresses that — same treatment the function already gives two conflicting types, rather than a last-writer-wins that would quietly pick one.

intersectEnums compared bytes. Reproduced with your exact input. Canonicalised through encoding/json before comparison (it sorts object keys, and normalises whitespace and number formatting — so 1 vs 1.0 also intersects now). The parent's own entry is kept as the representative, per your note, rather than a re-serialised approximation; unparseable input falls back to literal-byte comparison, since claiming two unparseable values are equal is the worse failure.

Nullability. Agreed on both halves, and the first one is the more useful: erroring on "must be a string" + "may be null" rejected a schema with a perfectly well-defined meaning — it is a string. Now dst.Nullable = dst.Nullable && src.Nullable, gated on the branch carrying a type. That gate matters because Nullable is a plain bool in JSONSchemaProps: an absent nullable is indistinguishable from nullable: false, so an untyped branch must not be read as asserting non-nullability. Four cases covered in TestNormalize_IntersectsNullability.

Worth recording that nothing in the engine currently branches on Nullable — it is kept correct because NormalizeSchema is exported and its output is an artifact other code reads, not because a conversion depends on it today.

"The second hop costs ~2×" — you are right, that is the wrong arithmetic and I introduced it while narrowing the claim last round. The route is ~2× a single hop; the second hop adds about one hop's worth. Fixed in both places you named, with the equal-hop qualification kept.

README strategy inventorybranchMap added, and also called out in the "worth calling out specifically" list below it, since the examples section two paragraphs above already advertises it as a headline story.

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… opaque

`$ref` and `allOf` nodes were treated as opaque, all-or-nothing units: a
rule had to claim the whole subtree, and the engine did not reason about
the fields inside. A normalisation pass ahead of flattenSchema resolves
local references and merges allOf into its parent, so a field declared
alongside one of those constructs is an ordinary addressable field.

## The investigation came first, and it changed the design

The issue asks what apiextensions actually permits before designing for
more than that. The answer is asserted in `structural_facts_test.go`
against the apiserver's own validator — the same code a real cluster
runs — rather than read off the documentation, so the engine's model
cannot drift away from what a cluster accepts. Five facts:

  1. `$ref` is rejected outright, anywhere in a CRD schema.
  2. A junctor may not carry structural fields: no type, no
     additionalProperties, no nullable.
  3. Every property named inside a junctor must ALSO be declared outside
     it.
  4. A presence-discriminated union — `oneOf: [{required: [s3]}, {required:
     [gcs]}]` over two declared properties — is accepted. (That is the
     shape 16.1 will be built against.)
  5. An `allOf` of pure value validations on already-declared properties is
     accepted.

(3) is decisive, and it reframes the whole issue. A junctor in a legal CRD
can only ever *constrain* fields the engine already sees; it can never
introduce one. So flattening through an allOf is not a discovery — and the
engine's behaviour was not merely incomplete, it was wrong: schemaConstruct
marked any node carrying one as opaque, hiding properties declared right
there in the same node. A node with `allOf: [{required: [bucket]}]` had its
entire field set disappear because of a constraint.

(1) reframes `$ref` too. Resolving it serves the offline path only — the
hand-written YAML convctl is handed — where an unresolvable reference is an
authoring mistake that deserves a message naming the reference, not an
opaque leaf reported as "an uncovered field inside a $ref construct". The
old diagnostic told an author nothing they could act on.

## What the pass does, and what it deliberately does not

Local `#/...` references are resolved against the document root, with cycle
detection that errors rather than recursing — the alternative on
author-controlled input is a stack overflow. A **remote** reference is
rejected rather than fetched: following one would make analysis depend on
the network and let a config make the operator issue requests. A `$ref`
carrying siblings that would be discarded by the replacement is an error
naming them, rather than the draft-4 behaviour of silently ignoring them.

Conflicting `allOf` constraints are a compile error naming both sides — two
different types, or two enums with no value in common. Not last-writer-
wins: the apiserver rejects every object against such a schema, and
guessing which half the author meant would make the engine's field set
disagree with what the cluster actually accepts. Enums intersect, because
that is what "and" means for a vocabulary; required unions.

The merge keeps what the engine reads — field set, types, required-ness,
enum vocabularies, opacity — and drops the value validations it never looks
at, such as patterns and bounds. That is sound rather than lazy, and the
reason is structural: **the normalised schema is an analysis artifact and is
never written back to a cluster.** The apiserver enforces those constraints
itself and no conversion decision depends on them.

Normalisation happens once, at the SchemaSource boundary in Analyze, so
flattenSchema, every resolver, the leftover-field scan and the passthrough
tree all see one ordinary shape and none of them has to know it happened.
Compile normalises its own two inputs as well, because it is a public entry
point taking raw schemas and the lower-level API should not behave
differently from the higher-level one. Doing it twice is a no-op, asserted.

Two follow-on correctness points, both tested:

- The **passthrough tree** is built from the normalised schema. If it were
  not, a field only visible after merging would look undeclared, and
  passthroughUnknownOp — which runs last — would copy it verbatim over
  whatever a rule had just written there.
- `convctl suggest` and `rehub` flatten schemas themselves, outside
  Analyze. They now go through `NormalizedVersions`, or they would see a
  different field set from the report they are reading.

Normalisation is a no-op for a schema carrying neither construct, which is
almost all of them — also asserted, because the alternative is every
existing config being analysed against a subtly different field set.

`oneOf` and `anyOf` remain opaque; narrowing those is 16.1.

Closes #164

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ersions

A union-typed field — "exactly one of s3, gcs or azure", the shape mature
platform APIs reach for — had no mapping strategy. A `oneOf` node was one
opaque leaf, so every field inside it was invisible to coverage analysis
and `jsonPatch` was the only way to touch one. `branchMap` declares which
hub branch corresponds to which spoke branch, remaps an optional
discriminator alongside it, and runs nested rules scoped to the branch.

## What a union is, and why that decided the design

16.2 pinned five facts about apiextensions against the apiserver's own
validator. One of them decides this issue: **every property named inside a
junctor must also be declared in the parent's own `properties`**. A branch
in a legal CRD is therefore not a hidden shape — it is a declared,
optional, addressable field, and the `oneOf` only says which of them may
be set.

Two consequences, both load-bearing:

- **The active branch is identified by which branch property is present**,
  not by validating the object against each branch schema. Structural
  matching would mean running a JSON Schema validator on the apiserver's
  admission path to learn something a map lookup already knows, and would
  make the answer depend on how tightly the branches happen to be
  specified.
- **`schema.go` stops hiding unions over declared properties.** A `oneOf`
  on a node the engine can otherwise classify is no longer opaque; its
  properties flatten like any others. The int-or-string shape — `anyOf:
  [{type: integer}, {type: string}]`, which has no type of its own —
  still becomes one opaque leaf named after the construct, because there
  the union really is the only thing the node says.

That second change is what forces the rest: once a branch's leaves are
visible, a complete branch mapping has to claim all of them or a correct
config reports as uncovered. `resolveBranchMap` claims each branch as a
subtree on both sides and resolves the nested rules against the two branch
schemas, the same scoping `forEach` gives an array element.

## Fail closed on zero branches and on two

Converting an object with no branch set, or with more than one, is a hard
error naming the paths, in both directions. The alternative is worse than
it sounds: a union with no branch converts to a union with no branch, and
the *destination's* `oneOf` rejects it at admission — with a message about
the schema, arriving after the conversion that caused it, pointing at the
wrong thing. Two branches set is the shape a `oneOf` added after the fact
leaves behind in already-stored objects.

## What it claims, and what it leaves alone

`branchMap` writes each branch at its own path rather than replacing the
union object. A union object can carry properties that are not branches at
all — a retention period alongside `s3` and `gcs` — and those stay
reachable by ordinary rules. Writing the object wholesale would make the
result depend on the order two rules were declared in, which nothing else
in this engine does. The discriminator is claimed only when the rule is
configured to manage one; otherwise `enumRemap` can have it.

Collapsing two hub branches onto one spoke branch is expressible and
sometimes intended, and it is lossy coming back for the same reason a
non-injective `enumRemap` is — the engine cannot tell which branch it
started from. It gets the same verdict. Making that verdict reachable
needed one fix: the claim map records paths, not the rules holding them,
so claiming the shared spoke subtree once per mapping reported the rule as
conflicting with itself. A collapsed branch is now claimed once, by the
first mapping that names it, and an acknowledged collapse compiles.

## Coverage of the new surface

- `pkg/engine/branchmap_test.go` — 11 cases: both directions, the
  discriminator remap, nested branch rules, zero/two branches at runtime,
  undeclared branches and discriminators, an unmapped branch reported as
  uncovered, the acknowledged collapse, and a direct assertion that a
  union's branches are ordinary leaves now.
- Admission validation is structural only — self-contradiction, not schema
  questions, which the live-schema stage answers afterwards. It rejects a
  hub branch mapped twice (a branch has exactly one counterpart) and
  deliberately does not reject the collapse.
- The kitchen-sink fixture gains a union: `spec.store` with `s3`/`gcs` on
  the hub and `objectStore`/`googleStore` on `v1`, discriminator remapped.
  That makes it 31 rules over 30 strategies, and keeps the guarantee that
  a changed strategy YAML shape breaks this fixture first.
- `internal/scalegen` grows a BranchMap slot, so the nightly scale run
  exercises the strategy at fleet scale like every other one.
- `examples/branch-map/` is the runnable story: branch names, discriminator
  values and inner fields all spelled differently across two versions, with
  a non-branch sibling next to them to show what the rule does not claim.

Closes #163

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This is an investigation, and the answer is no. Direct spoke-to-spoke plans
are not worth building, and the evidence for that is now in the repository
rather than in a commit message.

## Finding out whether it matters, in a real cluster

`dco_webhook_conversion_objects_total` gains a `route` label —
`hub_to_spoke`, `spoke_to_hub`, `spoke_to_spoke`, `identity`. The issue
asked to reason about real-world frequency from the existing labels, and
the existing labels cannot: deciding whether a version pair is
spoke-to-spoke needs to know which version is the hub, which is a
per-target fact and not a label. A PromQL query would have to hard-code
every target's hub version and be re-edited whenever a hub is promoted.

The label is a function of labels the series already carries, so it adds no
cardinality beyond its four constants, and every shipped query aggregates
with `sum by`, so none of them change meaning. The "Conversion route mix"
panel on the Conversion stability dashboard is the query.

Doing this surfaced a real gap next to it. `dco_webhook_lossy_conversion_total`
was recorded with a hub-or-nothing test — hub→spoke, else spoke→hub — so a
spoke-to-spoke conversion, which passes through the hub and can lose
something on *each* hop, counted neither. It now counts each lossy hop. The
one traffic class that carries the most loss was the one reporting none.

## Quantifying it at sizes that occur

`BenchmarkRouter_SpokeToSpoke_vs_HubHop` was one point: a 1000-element
`forEach` object, the worst case. It is now swept from 0 to 1000 elements,
because one point cannot show whether the ratio holds.

It does, flatly. ~2x at every size — 1.9x to 2.4x wall clock, and *exactly*
2x allocations and 2x bytes at every single size. The explanation is
complete: the second hop does the same work as the first over an object of
the same shape. No fixed per-call overhead to amortise, nothing
super-linear. So the answer does not vary with workload and this
measurement does not need repeating per cluster.

In absolute terms, a realistic composite resource is the 0-10 element rows,
where the second hop costs **0.6-4 µs**. The request it sits inside has
already paid apiserver admission, TLS and JSON round-trips measured in
milliseconds.

## The recommendation, and the seam

Recorded in `docs/operations/capacity.md` and summarised in
`docs/limitations.md`, so the question stops being re-asked:

- The saving is microseconds and is invisible under the 1 s p99
  ConversionReview alert.
- The cost is `O(N²)` compiled plans in served versions, each compiled,
  validated and retained per target. Lazy per-pair compilation would keep
  the common case linear but moves compilation onto the conversion path,
  where the first request for a new pair pays it inside the apiserver's
  timeout.
- A direct plan is a third mapping to keep consistent with the two it
  shortcuts, and any disagreement between them is a conversion that
  silently depends on which route it took.

The seam stays documented for anyone revisiting: `Router.Convert` is the
single place that decides the route, it already holds both plans, and a
cache keyed on `(from, to)` slots in there without touching any strategy.
What would justify it is the `route` panel showing spoke-to-spoke as a
material share of traffic at an object size where 2x is worth paying for.

Closes #165

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The roadmap moves 16 into the shipped table and the proposal gains its
"Shipped" block, in the same shape phase 15 uses: what landed, and where it
came out differently from the plan.

Two entries are worth having in the permanent record rather than only in
commit messages:

- **The `$ref`/`allOf` deliverable was a correctness fix, not a capability.**
  Checking what apiextensions actually accepts — against the apiserver's own
  validator, before designing anything — established that every property
  named inside a junctor must also be declared outside it. A junctor in a
  legal CRD can therefore only constrain fields the engine already sees. So
  treating a node as opaque because it carried one was not incomplete, it
  was wrong: a node with `allOf: [{required: [bucket]}]` had its whole field
  set disappear because of a constraint.
- **Spoke-to-spoke closed as a measured no.** The 2.3x this proposal quoted
  was one point on a curve that turns out to be flat: ~2x at every object
  size from 0 to 1000 elements, exactly 2x allocations at every size,
  because the second hop does the same work as the first. The section had
  the right instinct and the wrong shape of evidence.

`docs/limitations.md` stops saying `oneOf`/`anyOf` is opaque and out of
scope, and says what is actually true now: a union over declared properties
is ordinary addressable fields, mapped by `branchMap`; what stays opaque is
a union on a node with no shape of its own, the int-or-string case.

The "Proposed next phases" table is empty for the first time. Rather than
inventing a phase 17, it says so and asks for the migration that would
justify one — which is the discipline the strategy set has been kept by.

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…rt back

Four review findings on the phase 16 branch. One is a real bug in the
branchMap work, and it is the kind that a test asserting only compilation
will never see.

**A collapsed branch mapping compiled and then failed every conversion
back.** Mapping two hub branches onto one spoke branch appended *two*
reverse `compiledBranch` entries with the same `srcBranch`. `branchMapOp`
identifies the active branch by counting entries whose `srcBranch` is
present in the object, so a perfectly valid single-branch spoke object
matched both and was rejected with "branches [objectStore objectStore] are
all set; exactly one must be". The previous commit made the acknowledged
collapse *compile*; this makes it work. One compiled branch per source
name, per direction — the first mapping wins, which is the deterministic
reading of "the engine cannot tell which hub branch it started from".

The test that missed it now converts in both directions: both hub branches
reach the shared spoke branch, and the way back produces the first mapping
rather than an error.

**Lossy hops were counted before the conversion was attempted.** The
counters went up, then `Router.Convert` ran and could fail — on either hop
— leaving `dco_webhook_lossy_conversion_total` reporting loss for an object
that was never returned and never stored. They are now recorded after a
successful convert, so the counter means "a lossy conversion was
delivered". A failed one is already counted as an error by the objects and
review counters; signalling it a second time as lossy would be noise about
a conversion that did not happen. Recording the first hop when the second
failed was considered and rejected for the same reason: the intermediate
was discarded, so nothing observable lost anything.

**The discriminator diagnostics named the wrong path and arrived in a
random order.** Both sides were checked by ranging over a `map`, so a
config wrong on both reported its two errors in whatever order Go felt
like — `Analyze` copies these into its report without re-sorting. And every
message quoted `HubPath`, so an error about the spoke sent the reader to a
schema where the field is not missing. A slice, and each side names its own
path.

**The ~2x spoke-to-spoke figure was stated more broadly than one fixture
supports.** It is measured on a `forEach` over volumes; a strategy mix much
more expensive in one direction would shift it. What does not depend on the
fixture is the identity underneath — `cost(A→B)` is exactly `cost(A→hub) +
cost(hub→B)`, because that is what `Router.Convert` executes — so a direct
plan could save **at most one hop**, whatever a hop costs. The conclusion
now rests on that, with ~2x presented as what it becomes when the two hops
cost about the same, and a pointer to
`dco_webhook_conversion_object_duration_seconds` for anyone whose hop
latency is nothing like this fixture's.

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…schemas

Three findings in the allOf merge, all reproduced before fixing and all
reachable only through the exported offline path — which is the path
`convctl` serves, taking hand-written YAML rather than something the
apiserver has already validated.

**A union inside an allOf branch was silently discarded.** `mergeSchema`
folds the fields the engine reasons about and never touched `OneOf` or
`AnyOf`, so `allOf: [{oneOf: [...]}]` normalised to a node with no union at
all. The engine reads those: `unionConstruct` decides whether a node is
opaque, and `branchMap` maps the branches. Dropping one handed every later
stage a different schema from the one the author wrote, without a
diagnostic. Unions are now carried up.

Two of them cannot be merged into one, and that is an error rather than a
last-writer-wins: `allOf: [{oneOf: A}, {oneOf: B}]` means "satisfies A
*and* satisfies B", which no single `oneOf` expresses. Same reasoning the
function already applies to two conflicting types.

**Enum intersection compared bytes, not values.** JSON Schema enum equality
is value equality, so `{"a":1,"b":2}` and `{ "b": 2, "a": 1 }` are the same
member — but `intersectEnums` compared `string(v.Raw)`, found no overlap,
and failed the compile with "shares no value with the parent's, so no value
could ever satisfy both" on an enum that intersects perfectly. Key order,
whitespace and number formatting all did it. Entries are now canonicalised
through `encoding/json` (which sorts object keys) before comparison, with
the parent's own spelling kept as the surviving representative rather than
a re-serialised approximation. Unparseable input still compares as its
literal bytes, because claiming two unparseable values are equal is worse.

**Nullability was treated as a conflict instead of an intersection.** "Must
be a string" and "may be null" is not a contradiction — it is a string,
because a value has to satisfy every branch. The merge errored on it. And
the reverse case, a nullable parent narrowed by a typed non-nullable
branch, left `Nullable` true. It is now an intersection, with "the branch
carries a type" as the signal that it specifies nullability at all — a bare
`nullable: true` cannot widen a parent that does not permit null, and an
absent `nullable` is indistinguishable from `false` in Go so it must not be
read as a constraint.

Also from the same review, two documentation corrections. "The second hop
costs ~2×" was the wrong arithmetic in two places: the *route* is ~2× a
single hop, so the second hop adds about one hop's worth. And the README's
strategy inventory never gained `branchMap`, which the examples section two
paragraphs above now advertises as a headline story; it is listed, and
called out alongside the other strategies whose behaviour is not obvious
from the name.

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Make Phase 16 status consistent across the roadmap. docs/roadmap.md still says Shipped (phases 0–15), although its table includes Phase 16 and the text states that phases 0–16 are complete. Change the heading to Shipped (phases 0–16).

In docs/proposals/next-phases.md, the Phase 16 section is marked “Shipped,” but its retained bullets still describe branch mapping and $ref/allOf flattening as opaque or out of scope. Rewrite or strike through those obsolete proposal entries. Update the obsolete 2.3× route-cost premise to state that a spoke-to-spoke route costs two hops and a direct plan can save at most one hop.

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In `@docs/roadmap.md` at line 8, Update the roadmap’s shipped-phase heading to
“Shipped (phases 0–16)”. In the Phase 16 section of the next-phases proposal,
remove or revise obsolete bullets about opaque branch mapping and $ref/allOf
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In
`@charts/declarative-conversion-operator/files/dashboards/conversion-stability.json`:
- Line 1126: Update the dashboard description near the route-shape conversion
metric to qualify the “2x” cost claim: state that spoke-to-spoke conversions
always use two hops, but approach 2x only when both hops have similar costs, and
describe the bounded one-hop saving using the established wording from capacity
documentation.

In `@docs/limitations.md`:
- Line 19: Update the branchMap documentation in limitations.md to clarify its
anyOf contract: distinguish oneOf’s exactly-one semantics from anyOf’s
potentially overlapping branches, and explicitly state whether branchMap
supports only oneOf or imposes an exact-one runtime constraint on supported
anyOf inputs. Ensure the documented behavior matches conversion validation and
explains the handling of multiple active branches.

In `@internal/webhookserver/server.go`:
- Around line 394-402: The conversion flow should collect lossy hop descriptors
while processing objects, but defer all recordLossy calls until every object
succeeds, marshaling completes, and the final timeout check passes. Update the
route handling around handleConvert and recordLossy so failed ConversionReviews
do not increment delivery counters, and add a multi-object test covering a lossy
first object followed by a conversion failure.

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In `@docs/roadmap.md`:
- Line 8: Update the roadmap’s shipped-phase heading to “Shipped (phases 0–16)”.
In the Phase 16 section of the next-phases proposal, remove or revise obsolete
bullets about opaque branch mapping and $ref/allOf flattening, and replace the
outdated 2.3× route-cost premise with the two-hop spoke-to-spoke and
at-most-one-hop direct-plan saving statement.

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Four findings from the third review round.

**Loss was counted for objects the apiserver never received.** The previous
commit moved lossy recording after a successful `Router.Convert` and stated
the contract as "a lossy conversion was delivered". Delivery is a property
of the whole ConversionReview, not of one object in it: a later object that
fails takes the entire response down, so an earlier object that converted
lossily is discarded with it. The counters now accumulate during the loop
and are applied once, after the final timeout check, when the review is
actually going out. A multi-object test covers "first object lossy, second
object fails".

**`branchMap` was documented as mapping `anyOf`, which overstates it.**
`oneOf` means exactly one subschema matches; `anyOf` means at least one, and
permits overlap. `branchMap` identifies the active branch by presence and
treats zero or several as a hard conversion error — that is `oneOf`'s
contract. It fits an `anyOf` whose branches are mutually exclusive in
practice, and does not fit one that genuinely allows two at once: there is
no single correspondence to map, and an object exercising the overlap would
fail conversion even though the schema admits it. Said plainly in
`limitations.md`, the strategy page, the strategy index and the API doc
comment, with the alternative named — ordinary rules over the individual
branch properties, which are declared fields like any other.

Note this is a documentation fix, not a behaviour change. Flattening
`anyOf` over declared properties is still right and unaffected; what was
wrong was implying `branchMap` can map every union the engine can now see.

**The dashboard panel repeated the unqualified 2× claim** that the
capacity page had already been corrected on. It now states the bounded
one-hop saving and the equal-cost condition.

**The roadmap heading still said "Shipped (phases 0–15)"** while its own
table and prose said 16. And the Phase 16 proposal bullets still described
branch mapping and `$ref`/`allOf` as opaque and out of scope in the present
tense, directly under a block saying they shipped. Struck through and
annotated with what actually happened, following the convention the
`Required-field satisfaction analysis` bullet in that same section already
set — including the `2.3×` premise, which was one point on a curve that
turned out to be flat.

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All four taken, in c1374fc.

Lossy counting per-review — right, and it follows from the contract I stated last round rather than contradicting it. I moved the counters after a successful Router.Convert and called the contract "a lossy conversion was delivered"; delivery is a property of the whole ConversionReview, so a later object failing discards the earlier one too. The counters now accumulate during the loop and are applied once, after the final timeout check, at the point the review is actually going out. Test added for "first object lossy, second object fails".

anyOf — correct, and worth stating plainly rather than hedging: branchMap implements oneOf's contract. Exactly-one is what it enforces; anyOf is at-least-one and permits overlap. It fits an anyOf whose branches are mutually exclusive in practice, and genuinely does not fit one that allows two at once — there is no single correspondence to map, and an object exercising the overlap fails conversion on a schema that admits it. Now said in limitations.md, the strategy page, the strategy index and the API doc comment, each naming the alternative: ordinary rules over the individual branch properties, which are declared fields like any other.

To be explicit about scope, since the two are easy to conflate: this is a documentation fix. Flattening anyOf over declared properties is still correct and unchanged — what was wrong was implying branchMap can map every union the engine can now see.

Dashboard panel — yes, it was still carrying the unqualified 2× after the capacity page had been corrected. Now states the bounded one-hop saving and the equal-cost condition, matching capacity.md.

Roadmap heading and the stale Phase 16 bullets — both fixed. The heading said 0–15 while its own table and prose said 16. The proposal bullets described branch mapping and $ref/allOf as opaque and out of scope in the present tense, directly beneath a block saying they shipped; they are struck through and annotated with what actually happened, following the convention the Required-field satisfaction analysis bullet in that same section already set. The 2.3× premise went with them — it was one point on a curve that turned out to be flat.

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