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Apply Canadaverse's identity throughout this CoreScope fork: shared emblem and wordmark, home screen, navigation, controls, panels, and accessible dark/light palettes. Operator branding overrides, theme resets, packet indicators, and mobile navigation remain supported. Narrow-screen replay and navigation controls retain their touch targets with fallback fonts.

This PR is based on codex/postgres-migration at 01b2a941feb9210b37a72eeab4d196b106bbadb4, so its diff contains only branding and the associated regression coverage. PostgreSQL, account management, and CoreDrive RX behavior are retained.

Validation:

  • Passed full CI run for 504f44d: SQLite/PostgreSQL backend jobs, six browser groups, both race checks, and two-architecture image builds with packaged PostgreSQL startup checks.
  • Local server and ingestor suites and all 198 standalone frontend suites passed. The branding unit test also passes with all external module imports prohibited.
  • Zero accessibility violations across 104 route/theme/viewport combinations, with no allowlist exceptions.
  • Parent-reviewed browser checks cover operator overrides, logo reset, last-node removal, replay controls, mobile navigation and fallback fonts. All 32 remaining suites in the affected browser group passed locally before the final push.
  • The actual branding diff passed the XSS gate, CSS-variable lint and whitespace checks.

Performance: shared CSS and one cached SVG asset; no added polling, per-packet calls, data transformations, or continuous decoration. Packet, map and ingestion data paths are unchanged.

Deployed and verified at https://dev.canadaverse.org on exact commit 504f44d1373f668245c7b2953748ae34f586ab59. The public home, 24-hour packet view and performance dashboard were checked in a real browser with no console errors. The PostgreSQL startup-memory and history-query repairs come from the base branch. The application peaked at 592.47 MiB against its 1,536 MiB limit during verification, with no OOM events or restarts. Both Canada feeds are fresh, CoreDrive RX is connected, and database write errors are zero. Existing accounts were preserved and other containers retained their identities and start times during cutover. Private configuration and native PostgreSQL backups are retained for rollback. Large historical packet requests still take about 18–22 seconds; overnight stability has not yet been observed on this revision.

Integration target: the fork's master, including the PostgreSQL foundation already validated in the deployed development stack. The upstream PostgreSQL contribution remains on its existing branch.

n30nex and others added 30 commits September 6, 2026 21:00
…pa-clawbot#1966)

Eviction removes raw wire hops but leaves resolved full-key entries in
`byPathHop`, retaining expired transmissions and stale relay
counts/scopes. Filter every hop bucket once per eviction batch using the
existing evicted-ID set, remove duplicate references and empty buckets,
and clear discarded pointer slots.

Bulk relay aggregation now owns its bucket snapshots before releasing
the read lock, so eviction and raw-path updates cannot mutate an
in-flight reader. Three existing handler test fixtures also wait for
index readiness or explicitly simulate not-ready state, preserving their
original 200/503 assertions.

Fixes Kpa-clawbot#1908.

Validation:

- Regression commits fail before their corresponding fixes: resolved
keys/counts/scopes remain after eviction, and saved relay snapshots
change during eviction.
- Targeted eviction, relay, scope, cache and concurrent-reader checks
pass under `-race`; coverage includes time/cap eviction, missing
resolved-path prefetch, disabled membership indexing, duplicate
references, retained backing arrays and surviving entries.
- Local browser smoke: nodes, node details/path attribution and
analytics render using the fixture-backed Go server.
- The last full Windows server race run, before the final snapshot-copy
correction, had one remaining DB-only timing failure
(`TestGetChannelMessagesPerfLargeChannel`: 2.198s against a 1.5s
budget). The final correction was checked with focused race tests. The
unchanged ingestor suite also cannot create one symlink without Windows
privileges. These thresholds/assertions were preserved; full Linux
Go/E2E results still require upstream CI approval.

Performance tradeoff: cleanup is O(total indexed pointers) per nonempty
eviction batch, under the existing write lock. The minute-based ticker
pays for one sweep instead of repeated scans of shared raw buckets. No
per-transmission string index or dependency is added. Synthetic
benchmark medians (three single-iteration runs, shared Windows host):

| Transmissions | Evicted | Before | After |
|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 30,000 | 1 | 1.07 ms | 14.19 ms |
| 30,000 | 3,000 | 56.27 ms | 61.68 ms |
| 30,000 | 7,500 | 83.58 ms | 65.54 ms |
| 100,000 | 1 | 0.30 ms | 56.95 ms |
| 100,000 | 10,000 | 949.93 ms | 190.71 ms |
| 100,000 | 25,000 | 1,834.48 ms | 320.38 ms |

Fixture: eight raw plus eight resolved hops per transmission, two
observations, 2,048 relays; 480,000/1,600,000 hop entries. Timing
includes acquiring the store lock and omits unrelated secondary indexes.
Small batches now pay for the complete sweep; shared-host timing is
noisy.

Owning the bulk reader's arrays also has a measured cost on cold/bulk
recomputation, rather than cached hits. Snapshot medians from three
samples of ten iterations:

| Transmissions / relay nodes | Before time / bytes per operation |
After time / bytes per operation |
|---|---:|---:|
| 30,000 / 50 | 0.0068 ms / 5,416 B | 23.65 ms / 4,101,435 B |
| 30,000 / 2,000 | 0.1374 ms / 196,768 B | 26.77 ms / 4,274,336 B |
| 100,000 / 2,000 | 0.1376 ms / 196,768 B | 27.89 ms / 13,959,337 B |

These are total snapshot costs, comparing the unsafe header-only
snapshot with owned pointer arrays. Cleanup guarantees here apply to
`byPathHop`; other indexes and existing periodic bulk-cache freshness
are outside this change.

Following Kpa-clawbot#1922, this runtime fix is separate from the release-routing
and frontend-runner PRs. Current Go and E2E job results should be
assessed separately from workflow-approval or staging-runner state.
Red commit: `5a5ecb6` (local browser: 14 passed, 8 behavior assertion
failures before the fix).

Hash Issues links now restore `bytes=1|2|3` for the selected control and
its matrix/collision data. Missing or malformed values default to one
byte. Selector clicks, section/top links, tab-bar changes, filters and
theme refreshes retain the chosen view through the existing URL helper.

Fixes Kpa-clawbot#1914.

- E2E assertion added:
`test-issue-1306-collisions-terminology-e2e.js:242`. The existing
CI-selected harness passes 23 checks, including distinct nonempty
collision rows for each byte size. Its original assertions remain.
- Browser verified: `http://127.0.0.1:55634` with the local fixture API,
plus reviewed matrix/risk screenshots. Region refresh passed; area
coverage skips because the fixture has no areas.
- Required frontend checks pass: 99 filter, 18 aging, 666 helpers; URL
helpers pass 18. Three independent reviews found no blocking issues;
their coverage suggestion is included in `fb482fe`.
- Added work parses URL state and updates six links. Rendering and bulk
requests are reused; no backend, configuration, dependency or CI-list
changes.
- A broader smoke run timed out at Live autocomplete (Kpa-clawbot#1110); full-suite
success is not established.

## Preflight overrides

- The external `run-all.sh` is absent. Corresponding scope, PII, syntax,
whitespace and CSS checks passed; no SQL, migration or image changes
require those gates.
- Red browser evidence is local. Upstream CI execution remains a
separate approval gate, as discussed in Kpa-clawbot#1922.
Red commit: `2bf9be8` (local Chromium: 3 passed, 3 intended assertion
failures). CI:
[run](https://github.com/Kpa-clawbot/CoreScope/actions/runs/33988112224)
awaits maintainer approval (`action_required`); 0 jobs started.

Remove the unqualified aggregate Avg SNR row from node side-panel
Overview and full-detail stats, following option 3 in Kpa-clawbot#1149. Heard By
retains each observer's SNR reading.

Fixes Kpa-clawbot#1149.

- E2E assertion added: `test-issue-1281-location-row-e2e.js:224`. Three
new browser cases cover desktop side/full and mobile full views with a
numeric aggregate and distinct positive/negative observer readings.
Existing packet-location assertions remain intact.
- Browser verified: local Chromium; 6 cases passed after push.
Screenshots: `coverage/issue-1149/issue-1149-desktop-side-panel.png`,
`coverage/issue-1149/issue-1149-desktop-full-detail.png`, and
`coverage/issue-1149/issue-1149-mobile-full-detail.png`.
- Validation: packet filter 99/99, aging 18/18, frontend helpers
666/666; XSS, CSS-variable, syntax, whitespace and PII checks passed.
- Independent reviews: adversarial, lifecycle expert and TDD reviewers
found no required changes. One initial browser navigation timed out; the
unchanged parent rerun passed 6/6.
- Performance/config: two production row deletions; no new requests,
loops, timers, settings or customizer implications. Backend unchanged;
Go suites were not rerun.

Fix commit: `d7c68f3`.

## Preflight overrides

- External `run-all.sh` is unavailable on this host. Scoped branch,
red/green, PII, CSS, XSS and whitespace checks were run directly. The
diff adds no migrations, SQL attribution or image markup.
…t#1968)

Red commit: `0988bc0` (local browser: 3 passed, 8 behavior assertion
failures before the fix).

The selected node now has a compact outline in long “Paths Through This
Node” chains, in the side panel and full detail page. Matching uses
complete public keys without case sensitivity; same-prefix siblings and
unresolved hops stay unmarked. Existing links, escaped names, warnings
and ambiguity underlines are preserved.

Fixes Kpa-clawbot#1153. Its prerequisite Kpa-clawbot#1144 is already merged.

- E2E assertion added: `test-issue-1146-path-link-contrast-e2e.js:220`.
The existing CI-selected harness passes 11 checks across 18-hop paths,
both themes, desktop/mobile, and the renderer fallback. Review follow-up
`bd8118f` verifies the marked ambiguous hop's dashed underline.
- Browser verified: `http://127.0.0.1:55635`; desktop/mobile path
screenshots were inspected. The broader smoke runner exited successfully
with fixture-dependent skips.
- Required frontend checks pass: 99 filter, 18 aging, 666 helpers. CSS
variables, seven CSS self-tests, 31 XSS sink checks, 17 XSS gate
self-tests and XSS diff preflight pass.
- Three independent reviews found no blocking issues. Traversal remains
linear with no new requests, settings, dependencies or cache
invalidation; styling uses the existing customizer token.

## Preflight overrides

- The external preflight runner is absent; corresponding scoped gates
passed. Red browser evidence is local, with upstream CI approval tracked
separately under the process in Kpa-clawbot#1922.
- Existing rapid-navigation map resize timer errors remain visible in
browser logs and are outside this change.
Red commit: `2f1a50e` (local Chromium: 2 passed, 7 assertion failures).
Ownership regression: `059ab49` (9 passed, 4 assertion failures). CI:
[run](https://github.com/Kpa-clawbot/CoreScope/actions/runs/33988139479)
awaits maintainer approval (`action_required`); 0 jobs started.

Rapid navigation or closing node detail could leave a delayed resize
targeting a removed or replacement map. Disposal now cancels its timer,
each resize captures its own map, and delayed responses respect the view
owning the current map. Stale side-pane responses are ignored before
rendering.

Fixes Kpa-clawbot#1972.

- E2E assertion added: `test-issue-1206-resize-observer-leak-e2e.js:216`
and `:292`. This existing CI-selected suite covers navigation,
replacement deadlines, close/Escape, no-location rendering, and late
error/success responses. Existing observer-growth assertions remain
intact; readiness waits replace fixed sleeps.
- Browser verified: local fixture with real Chromium and Leaflet; 13
browser checks passed after push. Evidence:
`data/node-map-validation/post-push-browser.log` and
`data/node-map-validation/evidence.md`.
- Validation: frontend unit suites 99/18/666 passed; JavaScript syntax,
CSS variables, whitespace, PII and XSS checks passed. Backend unchanged;
Go suites not rerun.
- Independent adversarial, expert and TDD reviews found no required
changes. Two original navigation checks initially timed out; the
unchanged parent rerun passed 13/13 (`parent-browser-confirm.log`).
- Performance/config: one timer handle, no packet/node loops or new
requests. Tests enforce zero stale invalidations and one resize at the
surviving map's deadline. Existing 100ms delay retained; no new settings
or throughput claim.

Fix commits: `2492a65`, `1dc090d`.

## Preflight overrides

- External `run-all.sh` is unavailable. Scoped branch, red/green, PII,
CSS, XSS and whitespace checks were run directly; no migrations, SQL
attribution or image markup are added.
… evidence (Kpa-clawbot#1971)

Carries SaarMesh-Bot's implementation from the closed Kpa-clawbot#1867 forward onto current
master, 67 commits later, and surfaces the result on the per-node Reach report.

The declared region list a repeater answers with is now stored on the node as
configured_scope, normalised to the same leading-# syntax default_scope already
uses so the two are directly comparable. That normalisation is the point
@cwichura raised on Kpa-clawbot#1865 and @dborup agreed with before the original PR closed.

Co-authored-by: SaarMesh-Bot <300107934+SaarMesh-Bot@users.noreply.github.com>
…ade (Kpa-clawbot#1974)

Closes Kpa-clawbot#1794. Follow-up to Kpa-clawbot#1793, decided **before** the upgrade because
the handshake is the resource being protected.

- Deny list of addresses and CIDRs → 403
- Per-IP concurrent connection cap → 403
- Per-IP upgrade rate limit over a rolling minute → **429**, not 403: a
temporary refusal should not read as "never come back"
- Rejection counters split by cause in `/api/stats` under `websocket`

### The decision this feature lives or dies on

Most CoreScope installs sit behind nginx, Caddy, Traefik or an ingress.
`cdn_detection.go` says so in as many words: it deliberately excludes
`X-Forwarded-For` from its CDN signals precisely because *every*
reverse-proxied install sets it. For those deployments `r.RemoteAddr` is
the proxy, `127.0.0.1` for every visitor on earth. A per-IP cap keyed on
that address protects nobody and hands the sixth legitimate browser tab
a 403. That is a self-inflicted outage wearing the costume of hardening.

So:

- **`X-Forwarded-For` is believed only from an address listed in
`webSocket.trustedProxies`.** From anywhere else it is
attacker-supplied, and trusting it would let anyone mint a fresh source
IP per connection, which is strictly worse than having no limit at all.
- **When the peer looks like a local reverse proxy and no
`trustedProxies` is set, the per-IP limits are skipped**, and one
warning names the setting that fixes it. Silently refusing real users is
the worse failure.
- **The deny list still applies there**, because it is the operator's
explicit instruction rather than an inference.

That is the answer to @mcode6726's question on the thread: it is neither
"always the socket address" nor "always the header", and the operator
decides which by naming their proxy.

### Two deliberate departures from the issue body

**`maxConnsPerIP` ships as 0 (off), not 5.** Carrier-grade NAT puts
thousands of unrelated mobile subscribers behind a single public IPv4. A
cap of 5 refuses real visitors on phones while a scraper simply rents
more addresses: all of the cost, none of the benefit.
`upgradesPerMinPerIP` ships at **30 and on**, because that one *is* safe
under CGNAT: a real client upgrades a handful of times per minute even
while reconnecting, so 30 leaves ordinary traffic untouched while
flattening a reconnect loop. A pointer type distinguishes "unset" from
an explicit `0` that turns it off.

**The default deny list is not shipped.** The thread proposed seeding 44
CIDRs for one VPS provider after a single scraper was seen at
`23.111.177.6`. I have left it out: blanket-blocking a hosting provider
by default breaks legitimate operators who host there, is undiscoverable
by the person locked out (they see a bare 403), and ages badly as ranges
get reassigned. The mechanism is here and `config.example.json` shows
exactly how to configure it, so any operator who wants that list can
have it in one line. If you want it shipped as a default anyway, that is
your call as maintainer and it is a one-line change.

### Verification

19 tests, including all five the issue specifies as TDD requirements,
each marked with the issue's own wording. Beyond those five:

- a **bare address** in the deny list works, not just CIDR form.
Operators write `1.2.3.4`, and silently ignoring that would be the worst
possible failure for a deny list: it looks configured and blocks nothing
- an unparseable deny entry is skipped and logged, not fatal. One typo
must not take the server down
- one client behind a trusted proxy does **not** exhaust another
client's budget behind the same proxy, which is the entire point of
honouring XFF
- changing a forged XFF from an untrusted peer buys no fresh budget
- `release` frees a slot and is **idempotent**, because `Unregister` can
run twice for one client and double-crediting would leak slots
- a **rejected** upgrade does not consume rate budget, or a retrying
client could never recover once its window cleared
- limits skipped for loopback and private peers; deny list applies
anyway
- a nil limiter allows everything, so a `Hub` built without
`ConfigureLimits` behaves exactly as before
- idle per-IP state is collected, while a record with a live connection
never is

Full `cmd/server` suite green, `gofmt` clean.

### Not done

- No runtime config reload; restart required. Listed as optional in the
issue.
- No `WS_DENY_IPS` env override. Also listed as optional.
- From the OWASP expansion in the first comment: `maxPayload` and the
idle/read timeout are **already in master** (`SetReadLimit`,
`SetReadDeadline`). The ping/pong heartbeat is not, and is not in this
PR either; it is a separate change to the read/write pumps and belongs
in its own review.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…clawbot#1964)

Successful release fast paths publish image tags but never dispatch the
job that creates the GitHub release and decrypt binaries. Dispatch
`deploy.yml` from both image routes. A default-off `images_published`
input skips E2E and image rebuilding only for an already-published tag;
missing or mismatched images keep the complete fallback without
requiring new inputs on older workflow definitions.

Go validation still gates the release binaries, checkout and version
flags retain the tagged source, and the existing release action uploads
both architectures before publication. Missing binary files now fail
publication.

Fixes Kpa-clawbot#1956.

Validation:

- `node test-issue-1956-release-routing.js` executes the actual workflow
shell steps with registry and dispatch commands stubbed. Covers
matching, missing and mismatched images; failed retag and Go validation;
branch/PR boundaries; and both tagged binary commands.
- The original test commit fails because a matching image dispatches
zero artifact workflows; the fix passes the same assertion.
- Existing release workflow Go checks, decrypt/channel tests, YAML
parsing and actionlint pass.
- Both static Linux amd64 and arm64 binaries cross-build with verified
architecture and version metadata.

Actual registry publication and GitHub release creation were not
exercised. Existing immutable releases and old tags that contain older
workflow definitions are outside this fix.

Following Kpa-clawbot#1922, this is a focused release-routing PR. A separate repair
for Kpa-clawbot#1858 rewrites the shared frontend test runner; merging this first
lets that repair retain this regression in its authoritative list.
Please assess current Go and E2E job results separately from
workflow-approval or staging-runner state.
Kpa-clawbot#1973)

Closes Kpa-clawbot#1845 for the question in its title. The alerting ask that came
later in the thread is deliberately **not** in here; see the bottom.

### The gap

@Jonher937 asked to flag repeaters that stopped communicating for x
days, to find remote gear that has died. Today the Nodes page has
Active/Stale with thresholds fixed at 72h for infra and 24h for
everything else, plus a Last Heard filter that selects nodes heard
**within** a window. Neither answers "show me what has been quiet for
over a week".

### What this adds

A `Silent for` select beside Last Heard: 1d, 3d, 7d, 14d, 30d, each
labelled with the number of nodes it would select.

```
[ All ] [ Active ] [ Stale ]   Last Heard: Any v    Silent for: over 7d (23) v
```

Counts are computed **before** the silence filter is applied, so the
dropdown keeps showing what the other windows would select instead of
collapsing to the one already chosen. The choice persists in
`localStorage` like the neighbouring filters and is mirrored into the
URL as `?silent=7d`, so the view can be pasted to whoever owns the
silent gear. The URL sync is wrapped in try/catch, because it is a
convenience and must never stop the filter working.

### The part worth reviewing: one definition of freshness, not two

`getNodeStatus` has been relay-aware since Kpa-clawbot#1598, while `nodes.js`
separately computed `statusAge` from the ADVERT timestamp alone.
Filtering on the latter would have listed a repeater as silent for ten
days while its own badge on the same row said active, and it would have
done so for **exactly** the nodes Kpa-clawbot#1598 exists to protect.

So the freshness rule is extracted into `window.getEffectiveHeardMs` in
`roles.js`, and `getNodeStatus` now calls it. Behaviour is unchanged,
there is now one source. Reviewers should look hardest at that refactor
rather than at the select.

A node never heard from at all scores `Infinity`, so it matches every
window instead of silently dropping out of the filter.

### Why the thresholds are fixed values and not derived

I measured the alternative before writing this, on a 1179-repeater mesh,
and posted it on Kpa-clawbot#1611: replacing a fixed threshold with `3 x per-node
advert median` fixes 8 false "silent" flags and newly mis-flags **28
currently-active nodes**, because a 3h-median node gets a 9h threshold.
Raising the global default to 144h rescues 7 and hides 27 genuinely dead
repeaters. Both are net-negative. A user-chosen window sidesteps the
whole question: the operator picks what "too long" means for their mesh,
which is what @Jonher937 asked for in the first place.

### Verification

- `test-frontend-helpers.js`: **666 → 680 passed, 0 failed**. Fourteen
cases covering `NaN` rather than `0` when nothing is known (0 is a real
timestamp and would sort as very old rather than unknown), the full
`_liveSeen > _lastHeard > last_heard > last_seen` precedence, a recent
relay beating a stale advert, a stale relay **not** dragging a fresh
advert backwards, relay alone sufficing, `room` counting as infra while
`companion` does not (a `last_relayed` on a companion is meaningless and
must not rescue it), case-insensitive roles, the legacy `(role, ms)`
call shape, and the 72h boundary asserted at 71h and 73h.
- One of those failed on first run and **the test was wrong, not the
code**: `9e7` ms is 25h, which is correctly active for infra. Fixed, and
the boundary is now asserted explicitly so nobody repeats it.
- `eslint` on the changed files: 0 errors. The warnings present are the
same ones master already reports.
- No server change, no new API, no new column. No cache-buster bump
needed: `__BUST__` is substituted at startup in
`cmd/server/main.go:570`.

### Not done

**No alerting.** @fokcuk asked on the thread for notification when a
repeater they look after goes silent, which is a different product:
subscriber identity, an evaluation loop and delivery, none of which
exist today. That deserves its own issue and a design call rather than
being shimmed into `nodes.js`, which is also what the triage concluded.
This PR gives the operator the view; it does not push to them.

Sizes and boundaries (1d/3d/7d/14d/30d) are a judgement call. Say the
word if a different set fits real operator habits better.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ed scopes (Kpa-clawbot#1976)

One row per repeater whose configured region list is known, answering a question
no other view answers: you declare these regions, but were you seen forwarding
them? default_scope says what a node's adverts were observed under and
transported_scopes (Kpa-clawbot#1751) says what it carried, but nothing lined the declared
list up against observed forwarding.

The declared side merges every confirmed-scope source the database carries,
newest answer per node wins, rather than naming one. On a stock install only
nodes.configured_scope (Kpa-clawbot#1865/Kpa-clawbot#1971) exists and it degrades to the one-source
case; deployments that collect the same fact another way keep working. Reading a
single hard-coded source would have rendered an empty page on the very instance
the evidence came from.

Declared and observed are compared through normScope, so a leading "#" and a
bare region name are one region. Unobserved regions render neutral, not red:
absence over a short window is weak evidence, which the page header already
states in words.

Ported from a long-running fork deployment with its 17 server tests, rewired to
the upstream data source, plus 14 frontend cases asserting rendered markup.
## Summary
- Bumps the Go toolchain used to build/test to 1.27:
`golang:1.27-alpine` in `Dockerfile` and `Dockerfile.go`, and
`go-version: '1.27'` in the three `actions/setup-go` steps in
`.github/workflows/deploy.yml`.
- Each module's `go.mod` `go` directive is intentionally left at `1.22`
— no 1.27-only language features are being adopted, and a 1.27 toolchain
builds a `go 1.22`-declared module without issue.

## Test plan
- [x] `go build ./...` + `go vet ./...` for all 13 modules
(`cmd/server`, `cmd/ingestor`, `cmd/migrate`, `cmd/decrypt`, 10
`internal/*` packages) under Go 1.27.0
- [x] `go test ./...` passes for `cmd/server`, `cmd/ingestor`,
`cmd/migrate`, `cmd/decrypt`
- [ ] `docker build` against the new `golang:1.27-alpine` base (Docker
wasn't available in the sandbox this change was prepared in — needs a
check in CI or locally)
…ing it (Kpa-clawbot#1982)

Closes Kpa-clawbot#1977. Supersedes Kpa-clawbot#1952. Follow-up filed as Kpa-clawbot#1983.

## What §10.2 did

```bash
q="SELECT COUNT(*) FROM transmissions WHERE from_node = '$TEST_PUBKEY';"
qq=$(printf %q "$q")
if ! count=$(ssh_t "docker exec … sqlite3 … $qq" 2>/dev/null); then
  count=$(ssh_t "sqlite3 … $qq" 2>/dev/null || echo "")
fi
```

The injection is not reachable today — `TEST_PUBKEY` is hex-gated and
the
script `exit 2`s before the SQL is built. The problem is that the SQL
layer's
safety rests entirely on that outer gate rather than on the SQL layer
itself.
Kpa-clawbot#1952 proposed doubling embedded quotes; that is string escaping, not
parameterisation, which is why it was withdrawn in favour of this.

## What this does

Per the four points in the sign-off on Kpa-clawbot#1977:

**1. Bind the value.** A constant `SELECT` and a bound `:pubkey`, fed to
sqlite3 on stdin. The SQL no longer crosses the remote shell as a
command
word, so there is no `printf %q` on the query at all any more.

**Why hex rather than `.parameter set :pk '<value>'`.** Dot-command
arguments
are split on whitespace, so a payload containing a space produces too
many
arguments — and sqlite3 responds by printing the `.parameter` help to
**stdout**, exiting **0**, and leaving `:pk` **unbound**. `COUNT(*)`
then
returns 0, which reads exactly like a passing security fix. `-bail` does
not
catch it. Verified on 3.51.0:

```
$ printf ".parameter set :pk '' OR 1=1 --'\nSELECT COUNT(*) FROM transmissions WHERE from_node = :pk;\n" \
    | sqlite3 -bail ptest.db
.parameter CMD ...       Manage SQL parameter bindings     # <- help, on stdout
   …
0                                                          # <- :pk never bound
$ echo $?
0
```

`.parameter set :pk 1+1` also binds the integer `2` — the value is
evaluated
as an SQL expression and only falls back to a text literal when
evaluation
fails. So interpolating into the `.parameter set` line trades one hazard
for
another.

Hex-encoding removes the quoting layer instead of adding one: the value
is
bound as `cast(x'<hex>' as text)`, so its contribution to the SQL text
is
drawn from the alphabet `[0-9a-f]` only. Nothing to quote, no tokenizer
arity
hazard, and it holds for **arbitrary** input rather than only for
hex-gated
input — which is the point.

Verified against a fixture table holding two rows, one of them
`deadbeef`:

| value | result | exit |
|---|---|---|
| `deadbeef`, bound as `cast(x'6465616462656566' as text)` | `1` | 0 |
| `' OR 1=1 --`, bound the same way | `0` | 0 |
| `' OR 1=1 --`, interpolated the current way | `2` (whole table) | 0 |
| query against a DB with no `transmissions` table, `-bail` | `Parse
error … no such table` on **stderr** | **1** |

**2. Probe the capability, not a version.** `resolve_sqlite_runner`
binds
`corescope-probe-ok` and asserts it comes back — a round trip, not a
bare
`.parameter init`, so the positive control runs against the operator's
actual
binary rather than one we pin. If neither the container nor the host
qualifies,
it fails loudly and names what is needed:

```
  ❌ retain-failed: no sqlite3 able to bind a parameter on the target
     tried: docker exec -i corescope-prod sqlite3, then sqlite3 on runner@example
     need:  the sqlite3 CLI reachable over ssh, supporting '.parameter set'
OCI runtime exec failed: exec: "sqlite3": executable file not found in $PATH
bash: line 1: sqlite3: command not found
```

There is deliberately **no** interpolating fallback. That would leave
the
vulnerable path in place under a nicer name.

**3. The hex gate is kept**, with its comment updated to say why: for
the SQL
layer it is now defence in depth rather than the only guard. Redundant
is not
the same as wrong.

**4. The exit status and stderr survive.** `-batch -bail -init /dev/null
-noheader -list` (stop at the first SQL error; ignore the operator's
`~/.sqliterc`, where a stray `.mode` would make the count unparseable;
stdout
is exactly the number). Query stderr is captured and printed on failure
rather
than sent to `/dev/null`, so a broken query is distinguishable from a
legitimately empty result. Probe stderr is collected too, and printed
only if
*both* probes fail — the container miss is the known-normal case, so
surfacing
it on every run would be noise.

## Also fixed

An existing double-count in §10.2: the `TARGET_DB_PATH unset` branch
incremented `$fails` and then left `count=""`, so the generic branch
incremented it a **second** time for the same failure.
`read_retain_count` now
gives §10.2 exactly one increment point. Opportunistic cleanup in a file
already being touched (AGENTS.md line 318).

## Tests

New `qa/scripts/test-blacklist-sql.sh`, wired into the `go-test` job. 24
assertions, modelled on `scripts/staging/test-disk-monitor.sh`.

Both directions are asserted, because a zero from a command that failed
proves
nothing:

- **Positive control** — `deadbeef` still returns its row (`1`, exit 0),
and so
  does `cafebabe`; an absent pubkey returns `0`.
- **Negative** — `' OR 1=1 --` returns `0` while the table demonstrably
holds
2 rows, and the old interpolated form is asserted to leak all `2`. That
last
  assertion is what makes the `0` above worth something.
- **Error surfacing** — the same SQL against a DB with no
`transmissions` table
  exits non-zero with a message on stderr and nothing on stdout.
- **Alphabet** — `sql_hex_literal` output matches `^x'[0-9a-f]*'$` for
the SQL
payloads, a backslash, `$(id)` / backticks, an embedded newline,
`héllo`, and
a 4096-byte repetitive string. That last one is a regression guard for
`od
  -v`: without the flag `od` collapses repeated identical lines to `*`.
- `run_sqlite` with no resolved runner refuses rather than guessing.

Group 2 skips loudly (rather than silently) if `sqlite3` is not on PATH;
group
1 needs no sqlite3 and always runs.

**Mutation-tested** — each of these breaks the suite, so the assertions
have
teeth:

| mutation | caught by |
|---|---|
| restore full interpolation | `injection payload → 0 rows — expected
'0' got '2'` |
| naive `.parameter set '%s'` | `expected '0' got '.parameter CMD ...'`
|
| drop `od -v` | alphabet failure on `*`, plus `expected '8192' got
'33'` |

Commit 1 is a behaviour-neutral refactor that moves the imperative body
into
`main()` behind a `BASH_SOURCE` guard, so the test can source the script
and
exercise individual helpers. Same idiom as
`scripts/staging/disk-monitor.sh:99`.

## Verification

- `bash qa/scripts/test-blacklist-sql.sh` → 24 passed, 0 failed
- `bash -n` on both scripts
- All three runtime paths exercised end to end with PATH shims for
  `ssh`/`docker`/`sqlite3` against a real fixture DB: success
  (`sqlite3 runner: host`, count 2), query failure (classified message +
`Parse error … no such table`, `fails=1`), and no-capability (the loud
block
  above, both probe stderrs, `fails=1` — not 2)
- The new step lands inside `go-test`, which runs when
`changes.outputs.code ==
  'true'`; `qa/scripts/*.sh` does not match that job's
  `^docs/|[.]md$|^LICENSE$` documentation filter, so it is not skipped

## Deliberately out of scope

- **The `docker exec` branch is dead on current images** → filed as
Kpa-clawbot#1983. The
app container has no `sqlite3` at all: `Dockerfile:15` is pure-Go SQLite
with
  no CGO, and the `apk add` installs only `mosquitto mosquitto-clients
supervisor caddy wget`. So the host "fallback" is the only path that has
ever
executed, silently, because both branches discarded stderr. This change
keeps
both branches and merely makes the outcome visible (`sqlite3 runner: …`
on
  every run).
- **`-readonly` on the target DB.** Tempting, and verified compatible
with
  `.parameter` (the binding table lives in the TEMP database), but a WAL
database needing journal recovery can refuse a read-only open. Adding it
here
risks exactly the "trades an unreachable injection for a script that
does not
  run" outcome flagged in the Kpa-clawbot#1952 thread. Worth its own issue.
- **The other `2>/dev/null` sites** in this file, which also sit
awkwardly with
`qa/README.md`'s "Don't silence stderr". Only the §10.2 lines named in
the
  sign-off are touched.

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---------

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…wider scan (Kpa-clawbot#1986)

The Scope Audit credits a transmission to `path[last]` only. On a
flood-family route every forwarder appends its own hash to the END of
the path (`internal/packetpath/route.go`), so `path[last]` does not mean
"forwarded this packet", it means "was the transmission an uplinked
observer heard directly". Every earlier hop forwarded the same packet
and is discarded.

The last-hop rule is genuinely required for DIRECT routes, which consume
hops from the front, so their `path[last]` is the route’s far end rather
than the transmitter. But `scopeAuditForwarderScanQuery` already
restricts to `route_type IN (0, 1)` via
`scopeConformanceForwarderRouteTypesSQL`, where that hazard cannot
arise, so inside this query the restriction only throws evidence away.

## What it costs the page today

Measured on a live-shaped instance, 206 declared repeaters, 965k
transmissions, 7d window:

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| repeaters with no attributable evidence of any kind | 133 of 205 (65%)
| 30 of 206 (15%) |

On a 1000-packet flood sample the mean path length is 7.08 hops, so the
last-hop rule keeps 394 of 2789 hop observations (14%), and 85% of the
nodes seen forwarding never appear as a last hop at all. Those repeaters
have every region they declare reported as "declared, not observed",
which is the page presenting a gap in our own attribution as a finding
about someone else’s repeater.

## Rule 0: what widening it costs, and what pays for it

Reading every hop multiplies the rows the scan returns: a 7d window
yields **3,470,188 hop rows** from 1,368,761 observations carrying a
path. Cold cost before this change was 16.7s for 7d and 4.0s for 24h, of
which SQLite accounts for 2.7s. The rest was the Go side reading rows.

Three changes, in order of what they bought:

1. **The scan carried `scope_name` and `first_seen` on every hop row.**
Both are columns of `transmissions`, and at 43 hop rows per transmission
the same two values were re-read that many times. They now come from one
query over the same window keyed by transmission id, both inside one
read transaction so a transmission arriving between them cannot appear
in the hop scan with no metadata to attribute it by. The hop scan
carries two columns instead of four.
2. **The hop is lower-cased into a stack buffer** instead of through
`strings.ToLower`. 1,026,814 of the 1,284,897 hops in a 24h window are
stored uppercase, because `packetpath.DecodePathFromRawHex` writes them
that way, and the great majority match no declared target, so that
allocation was paid millions of times to answer "no". The `(target,
txID)` de-duplication key became a struct for the same reason.
3. **The compute ran outside the cache mutex**, so every request
arriving on a cold window ran its own full scan concurrently. It now
sits behind a singleflight, the same treatment `/api/observers` and
`/api/nodes/{pubkey}/reach` already have, and the 7d window gets a 5
minute TTL while 1h and 24h keep 30s. At 30s a single reader with 7d
open keeps the instance recomputing more than half the time, for an
aggregate that moves at the pace of a week of traffic.

Result, warm process:

| window | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| 1h | 0.155s | 0.140s |
| 24h | 4.04s | 2.79-2.89s across six samples |
| 7d | 16.7s | 11.6s |
| repeat inside TTL | ~1ms | ~1ms |

**Rejected alternatives, measured on the same database**, so the next
reader does not have to re-derive them:

| approach | rows returned | time in SQLite |
|---|---|---|
| the query as written | 3,470,188 | 2.7s |
| pre-filter on the declared targets’ first 4 hex chars | 1,971,126 |
20.9s |
| `GROUP BY t.id, hop` | 965,025 | 38.0s |
| `SELECT DISTINCT t.id, path_json` | 1,229,966 | 17.7s |

The query plan is already index-driven (`idx_transmissions_first_seen`,
then `idx_observations_tx_ts`), so there is no missing index behind
this: the rows are inherent to the data. Note for anyone attempting a
hop comparison in SQL: a case-sensitive comparison silently drops most
attributable hops, per the 80% figure above.

## Tests

- a mid-path hop is attributed (the case behind the 65% blind spot)
- a DIRECT transmission whose `path[last]` **is** the target is still
not attributed. With the last-hop rule gone this is the only thing
standing between the audit and misattribution, so it gets its own test
rather than relying on the route filter being obvious
- one transmission counted once per target even when it appears on
several hops of the same path, which the `(target, txID)` de-duplication
now carries alone
- a hop longer than the 4-char floor resolved by its own length, which
nothing pinned before: every other test seeds 4-char hops
- the per-window TTL, so collapsing it back to one constant has to
delete the reason
- a second request inside the TTL served from cache rather than
recomputed. The cache path had no test at all

`cd cmd/server && go test ./...` passes (168s), `go vet` and `gofmt -l`
clean. Server-side only, no API shape change, no frontend change.

Browser validation: run against a live instance carrying this change,
the Scope Audit renders 220 rows matching the API row for row, and the
per-node scopes page still answers with its route-type mix.
… name (Kpa-clawbot#1987)

Follow-up to Kpa-clawbot#1986, and the second half of the same problem.

`ScopeAuditForwarding` drops rows whose `scope_name` is the empty string
with a bare `continue`. That empty string is the ingestor's
"transport-scoped, but no configured region key matched `code1`" state
(`scopeNameForDB`), so those packets name no region and can never
satisfy a declared one. The consequence is on the page: **a repeater
forwarding a region this instance holds no `hashRegions` key for is
reported exactly like a repeater forwarding nothing at all.** The audit
presents a gap in the reader's own configuration as a finding about
someone else's hardware.

This counts them per target, exposes the count as
`observedUnmatchedPackets`, and renders it as a caveat chip beside the
scope chips.

## Why it is not a rare edge

Measured on a live instance before this landed: of 613 `notObserved`
entries across 205 repeaters, **260 named a region that never appeared
under any name in the whole 7-day window**. Two of them (`behss`,
`fm-112`) were hash-verified as genuinely forwarded traffic the instance
simply could not name: packet `0a065d41d51f1f77` decodes to
`code1=9209`, which is exactly the code `#fm-112` derives over that
packet's own payload.

That instance had 16 region keys configured against 124 distinct region
names its repeaters declare. A stock install has fewer.

## What the counter is not

It is deliberately **not** folded into `unscopedPackets`. The two are
opposites:

| | meaning | what governs it |
|---|---|---|
| `unscopedPackets` | the packet carried no scope at all (`scope_name`
SQL NULL) | the `*` wildcard |
| `observedUnmatchedPackets` | the packet IS scoped, this instance holds
no key for that region | nothing the repeater declares |

For the same reason the new count never feeds `wildcardContradiction`,
which counts only plain unscoped floods. `scopeNameForDB` in the
ingestor is the source of truth for that three-state encoding, and the
comments point there rather than restating it.

It is also distinct from `ambiguousHops`, and the distinction is the
point of the chip: that one is a pubkey-prefix collision between two
repeaters and is nobody's fault, this one is a missing entry in the
reader's own configuration and they can act on it. Saying which is which
is what stops someone investigating an innocent repeater.

## Frontend

The chip reuses the muted dashed treatment of `.sa-chip-ambiguous` on
purpose: both are caveats on the row's finding rather than findings
themselves, and neither may compete visually with the red/green scope
chips beside them.

It renders nothing for a non-numeric count. The value is
server-supplied, and a truthiness check would put the literal string
`NaN forwarded packets` on the page if that ever stopped holding.

## Docs

`docs/api-spec.md` had **no entry for `GET /api/scope-audit` at all**,
so this adds one: query parameter, full response shape, and the notes a
client needs (the three traps the per-node endpoint documents apply here
identically, `*` is never a scope, and "never asked" is not "declared
nothing"). The new field is documented there rather than in isolation.

## Tests

- the counter on a last-hop and on a mid-path hop
- an unmatched packet enters neither `agg.scopes` nor `unscopedPackets`,
which is the confusion this field exists to prevent
- the field on the API row
- six frontend cases: zero renders nothing, a missing field renders
nothing (older server), the chip carries its count and class, singular
and plural are both grammatical, the title names the cause and the fix,
and a non-numeric count renders nothing rather than `NaN`

`cd cmd/server && go test ./...` passes, frontend 712 assertions pass,
`go vet` and `gofmt -l` clean.

Rule 0: the counter is one increment on a branch that already existed as
a `continue`, inside a loop this PR does not change. No new query, no
new pass over the data.
…pa-clawbot#1988)

`matchScope` returns the first configured region whose derived code
equals the packet's `code1` and stops there. Go randomises map iteration
order per `range`, so when two configured regions collide on a payload,
the stored region name depends on which key the runtime happened to
visit first. **The same packet can be named differently on two runs of
the same binary**, and neither answer is evidence of anything.

## How often this actually happens

`code1` is two bytes, so any two configured regions collide on a given
payload with probability 1/65536. That is a curiosity at 5 configured
regions and routine at 150.

Measured on a live instance carrying 159 configured regions, over 41.7
hours and 147,535 transport-scoped packets: **374 collisions, 0.253% of
decisions.** They concentrate on four key pairs rather than scattering,
because `code1` is an HMAC over the payload: a payload that collides
collides every time it is seen, and a flooded packet is seen by many
observers.

The existing comment sizes the function for "≤ 50 regions". A live BE/NL
instance declares 126 distinct region names across its repeaters, so
operators are already past that.

## The rule

`matchingRegions` returns every match; `matchScope` applies one rule:

- exactly one match names the packet
- several matches name nothing

The candidates are equally sourced, there is no principled winner
between them, and storing a wrong region name is worse than storing
none. `""` is already the ingestor's "transport-scoped but unnameable"
state (`scopeNameForDB`), so an ambiguous packet lands in a state the
rest of the system already understands rather than in a new one. Nothing
downstream needs to learn a new value.

The collision is logged, because it is otherwise invisible: such a
packet is stored exactly like one whose region this instance holds no
key for. An operator watching an unnameable count grow deserves to see
which of their own configured regions are colliding, since the fix is
theirs to make.

## Rule 0

Cost is unchanged: the same single pass over the same keys, it just no
longer stops early. The early exit was worth nothing on the common path,
where zero or one key matches and the loop runs to the end either way.
Worst case is unchanged at one HMAC per key per transport-scoped packet.

There is no indexable shortcut to reach for. `code1` is an HMAC over the
packet payload, so nothing is payload-independent to index on, and the
old comment suggesting a "pre-indexed lookup table" is removed rather
than left as a false lead for the next reader.

## Tests

Three, and the fixture matters:

- an unambiguous packet still gets its region name
- a genuinely colliding payload stores the unmatched state instead of a
coin flip
- the ambiguous case run 50 times, because a first-match matcher passes
a single iteration roughly half the time

The collision is **found by searching payloads** (~65k tries, fractions
of a second) rather than asserting on a hand-picked `code1`. The case
only exists when the matcher genuinely finds two names for one packet,
and a fabricated code would only prove the test agrees with itself.

`cd cmd/ingestor && go test ./...` passes apart from
`TestWriteStatsAtomic_SymlinkAtDestIsReplaced`, which needs
`SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege` and fails on Windows on master too. `go
vet` and `gofmt -l` clean.
…pa-clawbot#1989)

Follow-up to Kpa-clawbot#1988, which made an ambiguous match deterministic. This
adds the second tier of keys that ambiguity rule was needed for.

A transport-scoped packet can only be named by a region key this
instance holds. `hashRegions` is a hand-maintained list, so every region
a node forwards that nobody typed into the config is stored unmatched,
and everything downstream reports that region as **absent** rather than
as **unnameable**.

The instance already knows the names, though: `nodes.configured_scope`
holds what the observer `/neighbors` ingestion (Kpa-clawbot#1865) confirmed each
node is configured for. This derives keys from those names, on top of
the explicit list rather than instead of it.

**Default off.** An absent config block leaves behaviour byte-for-byte
unchanged, asserted by tests rather than argued.

## Sources

Two, mirroring what the server's `AllCurrentDeclaredRegions` already
merges, so the derived tier sees exactly what the Scope Audit sees:

| source | availability |
|---|---|
| `nodes.configured_scope` | always — the column is part of the schema,
written by the `/neighbors` path |
| `node_declared_regions` | optional, where a deployment fills it by
other means |

The optional table is probed via `sqlite_master` before it is read. A
stock install does not have it, and its absence must not abort a refresh
the first source could answer on its own.

## The two spellings

The sources spell the same region differently, and both are accepted:

- `configured_scope` carries the leading `#` that `normalizeScopeList`
adds, because every other stored scope value has one
- an OTA answer in the optional table carries the bare name
- `loadRegionKeys` already prefixes a missing `#` before hashing

So `regionNameAcceptable` canonicalises before judging, and hands back
the bare name the caller re-prefixes. What it rejects is what cannot be
a region name at all: `*` (the flood wildcard, not a region), a comma
(it would split the name on the next round-trip through a
comma-separated column), a second `#`, whitespace, non-ASCII, NUL
padding from a stale client, and anything past 32 characters.

The rules are deliberately structural rather than about meaning. A real
declared set contains entries that look like junk, but a blocklist on
string values is unmaintainable, and the cost of one bad name is a
single slot out of the cap plus a 1-in-65536 collision chance.

`*` is skipped in **two** places on purpose: in the filter, so no key is
ever derived for it, and in the source count, because nearly every node
declares it and counting it would overstate both the cap arithmetic and
the refresh log on every deployment.

## Rule 0

Each derived key costs one HMAC per transport-scoped packet and raises
the random 2-byte collision rate by 1/65536. So:

- the tier is **capped** (default 256)
- over the cap, names are kept by how many distinct nodes declare them,
so a one-off local name is dropped before a region half the network uses
- benchmarked linear at ~0.65µs per key: at 314 keys that is 217µs per
packet, 0.0008% of one core at the 0.037 transport-scoped packets/s this
network produces

There is no indexable shortcut to reach for, for the same reason as in
Kpa-clawbot#1988: `code1` is an HMAC over the payload, so nothing is
payload-independent.

The set is an `atomic.Pointer` to an immutable snapshot. A refresh
builds the replacement off to the side and swaps the pointer, so the
ingest path never blocks on a rebuild. `refreshDerived` is a
load-then-store rather than a CAS loop, which is safe only because
exactly one goroutine calls it: the refresh ticker, plus one synchronous
call at startup. The comment says so, rather than leaving the type
looking as though it tolerates concurrent refreshers.

## Tier 2, and the counters

When several keys match one packet and exactly one of them is explicit
operator config, the explicit one wins: an operator who typed a region
into `hashRegions` outranks a name overheard on the air. Ambiguity
between two equally-sourced keys still stores unmatched, unchanged from
Kpa-clawbot#1988.

Counters tally how each packet was decided (unique /
explicit-over-derived / ambiguous / none) and are logged on the refresh
tick. They exist to answer one question with data rather than
estimation: whether a third tier that breaks ties on path evidence is
worth building at all. Measured on a live instance at 159 keys over 41.7
hours and 147,535 packets: **0.253% ambiguous**, with
explicit-over-derived at zero because that instance has exactly one
derived key.

## Rule 8

`maxDerived` and `refreshMinutes` are configurable values and belong in
the customizer eventually. Documented in `config.example.json` for now,
flagged here so it is tracked rather than forgotten.

## Tests

- default off, and a refresh that is a no-op while disabled
- the name filter across both spellings, the wildcard, and each
structural rejection
- ranking by declarer count, then recency, then name, so the result is
deterministic rather than churning between refreshes
- `configured_scope` as a source, including that a node counts once per
name and the newest answer wins
- both sources merged, neither dropped
- the explicit-over-derived tie-break
- the derived tier replaced rather than merged on refresh, so a region
that stops being declared leaves the key set and the cap keeps meaning
something

`cd cmd/ingestor && go test ./...` passes apart from
`TestWriteStatsAtomic_SymlinkAtDestIsReplaced`, which needs
`SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege` and fails on Windows on master too. `go
vet` and `gofmt -l` clean, `config.example.json` still parses.
…n traffic (Kpa-clawbot#1990)

Follow-up to Kpa-clawbot#1987, and the point of counting that traffic in the first
place.

A region this instance holds no `hashRegions` key for is **unnameable,
not absent**. Kpa-clawbot#1987 says so with a caveat chip. This settles it wherever
the evidence allows: derive `SHA256("#region")[:16]` from the repeater's
own declaration and HMAC that repeater's own unmatched packets with it.
Same computation the ingestor performs at ingest, with the candidate set
narrowed from every configured key to this repeater's handful of
declarations.

Where it fires, a grey "declared but not observed" chip becomes a green
one and the caveat count shrinks by the packets it explained.

## Two packets, not one

`code1` is two bytes, so an unrelated name matches a given packet with
probability 1/65536. Across ~400 unmatched packets and ~124 declared
names, chance alone produces roughly one false match per refresh. Two
matches on the same region for the same repeater is (1/65536)², about
one in four billion.

Lowering the threshold to one would not make this noisy, it would make
it **unsound**, so the constant carries that arithmetic and a test
rather than a comment. A region with exactly one hit stays grey and
reports its single hit, so the page can say why it is still shown as not
observed instead of leaving the reader to wonder.

## What it deliberately does not do

**It writes nothing.** Read-time only. A wrong answer expires with the
window instead of sitting in `transmissions.scope_name` until someone
runs a repair, and `cmd/server` stays read-only per the invariant in
AGENTS.md.

**`notObserved` remains the single source of chip colour.**
`regionEvidence` says only HOW a region was established. Two fields that
can disagree about the same fact is how this column got confusing in the
first place.

## Rule 0, including the part that was wrong at first

The naive shape is `targets × names × packets` HMACs: 205 × 124 × 400 ≈
10M.

Caching per `(region, transmission)` pair cuts the HMACs to ~50k. **That
measured 501ms**, because the HMACs had become a rounding error while
the *iteration* stayed cubic at 10.2M map lookups. Re-keyed per region,
holding the set of matching transmissions, it is **36ms** at the same
worst-case shape: a region is HMACed over every packet once, and a
target then asks one question per declared region instead of one per
(region, packet). Most declared regions match nothing, so the common
case is a single map lookup and no packet loop at all.

`hmacCount` exists so a test can assert the first mistake cannot come
back; the benchmark exists because only it caught the second.

## Both axes are bounded, because neither is bounded by the data

The "~400 packets in a 7 day window" this was sized against is a
property of one instance's configuration, not of the feature: the
ingestor stores the unnameable state for every transport-scoped packet
no configured key names, so an instance with few or no `hashRegions`
entries — the stock state, and the one this helps most — has **every**
scoped packet in that set.

- the window query takes the 4096 most recent candidates and reports
truncation, which the handler logs, so a grey chip on a sampled refresh
is not read as "not forwarded"
- the declared list is capped at 32 names per repeater: it arrives from
a collector that validates each entry's shape but never how many entries
there are
- measured at the cap: **306ms** for 205 targets over 124 names, against
29ms for the shape a real network produces

Because both caps make the evidence a sample, the response carries
`observedUnmatchedSampled`. Without it a client subtracts a capped
numerator from an uncapped total and overstates the unexplained traffic
with no way to know it is doing so. The chip subtracts only evidence for
regions **absent** from `notObserved` — a single-hit region the server
refused to accept is not called explained either — and says "at most N"
when the count was sampled.

## Verified on live data

Six repeaters clear the threshold in a 7d window on a real instance. One
of them: `nl-nb` green with 3 corroborating packets and the tooltip
stating the count, `belml` still grey on 1, and the caveat chip reading
31 of 34 packets unexplained rather than 30.

## Tests

`scope_verify_test.go` covers the HMAC-input walk against a real
transport-flood packet captured from a live instance (a hand-built
fixture would only prove the parser agrees with itself), that
`regionCode` does not fold case, the threshold in both directions, the
memo's HMAC count, both bounds with their truncation flag, and the
benchmark at cap size. Handler-level tests cover a region verified into
green, a single hit left grey with its count reported, and the
sample-size field.

`cd cmd/server && go test ./...` passes (77s), frontend 723 assertions
pass, `go vet` and `gofmt -l` clean.
…pa-clawbot#1991)

Closes Kpa-clawbot#1980.

`app.js` opens a WebSocket on every page load and fans messages out
through `onWS()`/`offWS()`. `live.js` ignored that channel and opened
its own socket to the same endpoint. `Hub.Broadcast` does no per-client
filtering, so both carried the identical full packet stream and **every
viewer on the live map pulled it twice**. That page is the one people
leave open for hours, so it was a standing multiplier on origin
bandwidth rather than a burst.

## Measured, before and after

Against a running instance, leaving the live map and returning while
counting WebSocket constructions:

| | new sockets on re-entry | constructed by |
|---|---|---|
| before | 1 | `at connectWS (live.js:3315)` |
| after | 0 | nothing |

And with one viewer on the live map, the server now reports **one**
WebSocket client for that viewer, with the live feed counter climbing
normally (7 to 31 over one navigation cycle, 71 on a fresh load).

## The change

The live map subscribes to the shared channel like every other view, and
unsubscribes in `destroy()` rather than closing a socket the rest of the
app still needs.

`connectWS()` drops any existing registration before adding a fresh one.
An early return looks like the natural guard against double
subscription, but it keeps the previous visit's closure registered, and
re-registering without dropping the old one renders every packet twice.
Dropping first is idempotent either way and always binds the current
page.

Reconnection becomes `app.js`'s business, since it owns the socket. That
moved `WS_RECONNECT_MS` out of the only place that honoured it, so
`app.js` now uses it too. It comes from `roles.js` and operators set it
as `wsReconnectMs`; after this change it applies to the one socket
everyone shares, or to nothing at all.

## Tests

Three, in the sandbox that already loads `live.js` with a Leaflet mock:

- the page registers exactly one listener on the shared channel and
constructs no WebSocket of its own
- re-entering leaves exactly one listener, and it is the new one rather
than the previous visit's
- the handler ignores messages that carry no packet

`node test-frontend-helpers.js` passes (726 assertions), `node
test-packet-filter.js` passes.

## One note on the history

The second commit on this branch claims the early-return guard broke
rendering on re-entry, citing a real measurement. The measurement
happened, the attribution was wrong: the zero counter came from the
WebSocket constructor patch I had installed to count sockets, which
interfered with the page it was measuring. The third commit records that
rather than rewriting it away. The change is kept because dropping the
old registration first is the clearer contract, not because the guard
was broken.

## Rule 0

Strictly less work than before: one socket per viewer instead of two,
one JSON parse instead of two per packet, and no second reconnect loop.
Nothing is added to the hot path; a listener already existed for every
other view.
…t proved less than they claimed (Kpa-clawbot#1993)

Three leftovers from reviewing the scope-audit series (Kpa-clawbot#1986, Kpa-clawbot#1987,
Kpa-clawbot#1990). None is urgent; all three are the kind of thing that gets harder
to explain the longer it sits.

## `scopeHMACInputs` accepted a payload `DecodePacket` rejects

Its comment says it walks the same offsets as the decoder, and it does,
minus the `maxPacketPayload` bound the decoder enforces. Unreachable in
practice: such a packet never reaches the database with an empty
`scope_name` in the first place, so the verifier never sees one.

Worth closing anyway, because the comment claims the two agree. A
verifier that accepts what the decoder refuses is a small divergence
today and an hour of confusion on the day it matters.

## The corroboration test seeded the same packet twice

The threshold of two rests on `code1` being two bytes: one match is
1/65536 by chance, two on the same region is (1/65536)². That argument
needs two **independent** observations.

The test seeded `realTransportFloodPacket` twice. Identical payloads
derive identical codes, so it was one observation counted twice, and it
would have passed just as happily against an implementation that counted
rows rather than deriving anything.

It now seeds the real captured packet plus a second one built for a
different payload, both deriving to `#fm-112` on their own.

**The feature was never wrong here.** `transmissions.hash` is unique and
`ComputeContentHash` is path-independent, so two rows always mean two
distinct payloads in production. Only the test failed to demonstrate the
property it is named for.

## Naming at ingest and verifying at read time had no test together

They were built separately, in Kpa-clawbot#1990 and Kpa-clawbot#1989, and the interaction
between them is not exotic: with derived region keys enabled, a packet
that used to be stored unnameable now arrives with a name. The audit
must then report that region as observed by the ordinary route:

- present in `agg.scopes`
- absent from `notObserved`
- **not** claimed by `regionEvidence`, which exists to explain regions
that could only be established by verification

Getting that wrong is quiet. The chip stays green while the reason
underneath it is wrong, and a reader asking "how do we know this" gets
the wrong story.

## Verification

`cd cmd/server && go test ./...` passes (254s), `go vet` and `gofmt -l`
clean. No production behaviour changes beyond the payload bound, which
rejects input that cannot occur.
…it matters (Kpa-clawbot#1994)

`go test -race ./...` on `cmd/ingestor` reports **six data races** on
master. None is in production logic. All six come from test helpers that
outlive the test that started them, which is why the detector blames
whichever test happens to be running: two different tests failed on two
consecutive runs of the same code.

## What was racing

**`StartStatsFileWriter` had no way to stop.** Two tests start it at a
50ms interval, and its goroutine then runs for the rest of the process.
It reads the package-level `readProcSelfIOFn` hook, which a later test
replaces to inject a fake, so the write and the read race. The same leak
explains the stray log lines about writing stats into temp directories
that were already cleaned up.

It now returns a stop function that closes the goroutine and waits for
it to exit. Production ignores the return value and runs for the process
lifetime exactly as before; the two tests call it through `t.Cleanup`.

**The migration test read a log buffer while a goroutine wrote to it.**
`log.Logger` serialises its own writes, but `logContains` read
`buf.String()` outside that lock while `RunAsyncMigration` kept logging
after the call that started it had returned. The capture helper now uses
a mutex-protected buffer.

That one is worth calling a real race rather than a test artefact: a
concurrent read during a buffer grow can panic outright with "concurrent
map read and map write"-class behaviour, not merely trip `-race`.

## Measured

`go test -race ./...` on linux/arm64 under go1.27.1: **exit 0, zero
races, 704s**.

## The CI job, and why it is shaped this way

The server has had `-race` since Kpa-clawbot#1208. This closes the same gap for the
ingestor, which carries an `atomic.Pointer` snapshot (the region key set
from Kpa-clawbot#1989) whose safety has been an argument rather than a measurement.

Two deliberate choices, because a check that costs too much gets
switched off:

- **Its own job, not a step inside "Go Build & Test".** Appending
`-race` there puts its ten-odd minutes on the critical path, taking the
pipeline from roughly 20 minutes to roughly 32. As a separate job it
runs beside the E2E job (15-17 minutes) and hides inside that window.
- **Only when `cmd/ingestor/**.go` changed**, decided by the existing
change-scope job, which already gates the heavy jobs on
documentation-only PRs. A frontend or docs PR cannot introduce a data
race in the ingestor. Pushes to master always run it, as they already do
for `code`.

Nothing `needs:` the new job. Adding it to `build-and-publish` would
mean a skipped race job skips everything downstream, which is the
opposite of what a conditional check should do. It reports as its own
check; whether that blocks a merge is a repository setting rather than
workflow logic.

## Scope

Test helpers, one production signature (`StartStatsFileWriter` now
returns a stop function), and the workflow. No change to what the
ingestor does at runtime.
…ot#2002)

## What

`scopeMatchCounters` (unique / explicit-over-derived / ambiguous / none)
lives only in the ingestor process, and the only way to read it is the
periodic log line. A restart zeroes the counters, and recreating the
container removes that log with it, so a measurement in progress cannot
be recovered afterwards.

That happened here on 2026-09-10: a 24h ambiguity measurement completed,
two deploys followed before it was read, and nothing on disk held the
number. `/var/lib/docker/containers/*/*-json.log` had no earlier copy.

The tally gates a real decision (whether the collision tie-break from
the `autoRegionKeys` design is worth building), and that needs days of
traffic, so it has to survive the process counting it.

## How

A single-row table, `scope_match_totals`:

- `OpenStore` restores the counters from it, so counting continues
instead of restarting.
- The 5-minute stats ticker writes them back, and so does the shutdown
path, which is what a deploy triggers.
- `since_unix` carries the window start across restarts, so the ratio
keeps a denominator. The periodic log line now prints it.

Saving rides the **stats** ticker, not the region-refresh ticker:
matches are recorded for every transport-scoped packet, including on
instances that never enable `autoRegionKeys` and so never start the
refresh loop.

The table is **not** in `internal/dbschema` on purpose. The server
neither reads nor PRAGMA-detects it; putting it in `AssertReady` would
make an older DB fail the server's startup check over data the server
never looks at.

A failed restore is logged and ingestion continues. Losing an
observability counter is not a reason to stop ingesting.

## Tests

Four, all in `cmd/ingestor/scope_match_tally_test.go`:

- totals and `since_unix` restored across a close/reopen
- a fresh DB gets its anchor row immediately, so the first window has a
start time
- recording after a restore adds to the carried total instead of
counting from zero
- repeated saves keep exactly one row

Full `cmd/ingestor` suite green locally except
`TestWriteStatsAtomic_SymlinkAtDestIsReplaced`, which fails on Windows
only (`os.Symlink` needs a privilege this account lacks) and predates
this branch. `go vet` and `gofmt` clean. The race detector was not run
locally (no cgo toolchain here); the `race-test` job covers it, since
this branch touches `cmd/ingestor`.

## Not done

No UI or API surface for the tally. It is still read from the log line
or straight from the table.
…ng it to stop (Kpa-clawbot#2003)

Verified before merging: on upstream/master `go test ./cmd/ingestor -run TestMQTTStallWatchdog -count=20` fails; on this branch the same command passes. The flake blocked CI on Kpa-clawbot#2000.
…stalling ingest (Kpa-clawbot#2000)

Reviewed at ecf0b37: query plans dumped and confirmed index-driven for all three statements, termination proven against concurrent ingest (first_seen is always time.Now()), FK child-first ordering required and correct, writer-stats assertions non-racy. Two low findings noted on the PR for follow-up: the dropped RowsAffected error now gates the loop, and ~0.53s batches will trip defaultSlowWriterMs=500.
…pa-clawbot#2006)

Closes Kpa-clawbot#2001. Two review rounds plus a re-review; findings and evidence on the PR. Verified on a deployment against live data: the field over 1653 nodes, marker tints per filter state, the marker title and popup Scope row reaching the DOM, and the colorblind-preset cascade. The audit and the map are held to the same classification by an end-to-end test that fails when either side's wildcard handling drifts.
…Kpa-clawbot#2005)

Fixes Kpa-clawbot#2004. Two review rounds; findings and evidence on the PR. Verified by injecting the stylesheet into a running deployment and reading computed styles before and after: the badges gain background, size, uppercase and padding; at 430px the Config column stays visible; the sorted column keeps its accent. The new test fails on the eight unstyled classes against the pre-fix tree, on .ns-truncated against the first fix, and on a re-added column-hiding rule.
Verified: every value is SHA-256(name)[:16] per internal/channel.DeriveKey, 319/320 exact (Public is the fixed firmware default), no duplicate hashes, file parses at 320 entries.
…pa-clawbot#2010)

Reproduced on a live instance: 41px column for a 53px button at 1440px, 29px at 1024px, max-width:0 and overflow:hidden on the cell. Injecting the .col-action rule took it to 65px with nothing cropped. The new test fails 13 of 16 checks when only the CSS block is removed.
…clawbot#2009)

Verified against production: ingestor writes enc_<HH> (db.go:2282), store.go:3536 filters on it, live values are uppercase two-digit hex with thousands of packets (enc_28: 2708), /api/channels omits them, and /api/packets?channel=enc_28 returns rows. New test passes at 14 and fails when the dedupe guard is disabled.
…ot#1965)

Make `test-all.sh` the authoritative standalone frontend runner for npm
and CI. Restore stale assertions and reject missing, duplicate, removed
or undocumented inventory entries.

Fixes Kpa-clawbot#1858.

Rebased onto `a2f039d4`. Retains release-routing, map scope-state and
Scope Audit stylesheet tests, adds `test-packets-local-channels.js` to
the sorted runner, and classifies `test-neighbor-map-btn-clip-e2e.js`
under browser. Its separate CI browser step is preserved. Inventory: 280
root suites, 167 standalone, 113 requiring separate setup.

The icon repair fixes two suites red on master:
`test-issue-1648-m2-emoji-scan.js` and
`test-issue-1648-m6-final-sweep.js`. Node/live configured-scope
confirmations now use the existing accessible Phosphor check sprite.
Values, visibility conditions and scanner assertions are preserved.

- Red evidence: `89e45a9` inventory assertions; `4e255df` accessible
confirmation assertion. The latest rebase also reproduced both
unclassified-file failures before adding their entries. This follow-up
only changes runner/classification configuration and counts; no test
files modified.
- Local validation: all 167 standalone suites; 27 M2 browser checks and
16 neighbor geometry checks in Chromium. Syntax, whitespace, PII,
CSS-variable and XSS checks passed.
- Browser coverage includes populated/empty/null configured scopes in
node and live views.
- No new dependencies, requests, application settings or Go changes.
Workflow outside the unit step matches master.
- Windows validation uses process-local UTF-8 settings. Encoding and
node-reach confirmation follow-ups remain separate, as requested.

## Preflight override

External `run-all.sh` is unavailable; applicable repository checks were
run directly.
…2013) (Kpa-clawbot#2016)

## What

`buildMQTTOpts` (`cmd/ingestor/main.go:591`) never called `SetClientID`,
so with paho.mqtt.golang v1.5.0 every ingestor connected with a
zero-length ClientID and `CleanSession=true`. The session identity then
depended on the broker.

This PR:

- adds an optional `clientId` per `mqttSources` entry
(`cmd/ingestor/config.go:29`)
- when unset, uses `corescope-<name>-<6 hex chars>`
(`cmd/ingestor/main.go:653`). The name is reduced to `[0-9A-Za-z-]`,
with the broker host as fallback when the name is empty. The suffix
comes from `crypto/rand` and changes on every ingestor start.
- sets the ID once per source in `buildMQTTOpts`
(`cmd/ingestor/main.go:616`). paho copies the options into the client
and reuses them for every reconnect, and the watchdog force-reconnect
reuses the same client, so the ID is stable for the life of the process.
- logs the ID on connect: `MQTT [tag] connected to <broker> as client
<id>` (`cmd/ingestor/main.go:150`)
- documents the key in `config.example.json:210` as a
`_comment_clientId` entry rather than a value, because
`docker/entrypoint.sh:6` copies that file as a live config and a literal
value would give every default deployment the same ID. Also listed in
`cmd/ingestor/README.md:94`.

## paho behaviour

- No client-side length limit. `SetClientID` only stores the value; the
65535 check in `packets/connect.go:156` is in `Validate()`, which the
client never calls.
- The default ID is longer than the MQTT 3.1 limit of 23 characters for
most source names. paho falls back to MQTT 3.1 after any refused CONNACK
when no protocol version is set (`client.go:412`), so on a broker that
refuses the first 3.1.1 attempt, the retry may hit that limit. I did not
cap the length because paho does not require it and the 3.1.1 path
accepts it (see below).

## Tests

`cmd/ingestor/mqtt_opts_test.go:53-107`:

- default ID is non-empty, has the sanitized name prefix, and contains
only `[0-9A-Za-z-]`
- broker host is used when the name is empty
- configured `clientId` is used verbatim
- two unconfigured sources with the same name get different IDs
- the client built from the options reports the same ID

Mutation checks: removing the random bytes fails the "different IDs"
test; removing sanitization fails the prefix and character-set tests.

`go test ./...` in `cmd/ingestor` passes except
`TestWriteStatsAtomic_SymlinkAtDestIsReplaced`, which fails locally on
Windows for a symlink privilege reason. `gofmt` and `go vet` are clean.

## Validation against a real broker

On a staging instance (build `e84d2da6`) connecting to a Mosquitto
bridge:

```
MQTT [lincomatic] connection attempt #1 to tcp://mosquitto-bridge:1883
MQTT [lincomatic] connected to tcp://mosquitto-bridge:1883 as client corescope-lincomatic-71a6eb
MQTT [lincomatic] subscribed to meshcore/#
```

The 27-character default was accepted on the first attempt and packets
kept arriving afterwards.

## Not verified

- Only one broker type (Mosquitto) was tried.
- `-race` was not run locally (no cgo toolchain on the test machine).
- The case where both the source name and the broker host are empty (ID
becomes `corescope-<hex>`) has no test.

Fixes Kpa-clawbot#2013



## Review follow-up (commit `a1d6709e`)

An independent review found no bug in the ID handling, but the tests
covered less than their names said. Changed, tests only
(`cmd/ingestor/mqtt_opts_test.go`):

- `TestBuildMQTTOpts_ClientIDSurvivesReconnects` replaces the old
stability test, which only checked that paho copies the options. Against
a loopback fake broker built on paho's `packets` codec, the first
CONNECT, paho's auto-reconnect after the broker drops the socket, and
the watchdog force-reconnect (`buildForceReconnectFn`) must all carry
the same non-empty ID. It runs in about 0.01 s and passed `-count=30
-cpu 1,2,8`.
- `TestBuildMQTTOpts_ClientIDDefaultShape` asserts full IDs:
`^corescope-local-feed-1-[0-9a-f]{6}$`,
`^corescope-mqtt-example-com-[0-9a-f]{6}$` for the broker host fallback
(no port), and `^corescope-[0-9a-f]{6}$` with neither a name nor a host.
- Mutations now caught: `SetClientID` removed, `u.Host` instead of
`u.Hostname()`, a 1-byte suffix, the name guard dropped, sanitization
removed. The "as client" log line has no test because it is logged from
a closure inside `main()`.

Corrections to the description:

- **Fallback to MQTT 3.1.** paho falls back after any failed handshake
once the socket is open, not only after a refused CONNACK: also a read
error or timeout before any CONNACK, or a first packet that is not a
CONNACK (`client.go:401-416`, `net.go:83-97`). A failed dial does not
trigger it (`client.go:387-391`), and after the first successful connect
the protocol version is locked in (`client.go:422-424`). Without this PR
the 3.1 retry sent an empty ID, which MQTT 3.1 forbids as well, so
nothing gets worse.
- **Broker side.** On the EMQX broker we run, authorization has
per-username and all-client rules and no client-ID rules (checked
through its REST API). Two per-username rules use `${clientid}` in a
topic, but both are publish rules and the ingestor only subscribes, so
no rule can match it. A broker that caps IDs at 23 characters but
accepted the empty ID before would now reject the default ID for source
names of 7 or more characters; I have no evidence such a broker is in
use.
- The "Not verified" item about the empty name and host case no longer
applies.

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
n30nex and others added 18 commits October 9, 2026 12:48
Refs Kpa-clawbot#2146 (first item: "Stop issuing SQL while holding `store.mu`").

## Situation

Several store functions ran SQLite queries while holding
`PacketStore.mu`. The server's read pool has 4 connections
(`db.go:153`), so a store-lock holder could wait for a pool connection.
`mu` is a `sync.RWMutex`: once the ingest poller asks for the write
lock, every new reader queues behind it, including `/api/healthz`. A
test that scans the package (below) finds 16 such call sites on `master`
at 9dbc287.

## My changes in this PR

One commit per part:

1. **Caches serve stale while one refresh runs** (`4d9a818e`).
`getCachedNodesAndPM`, `resolveRegionObservers` and `resolveAreaNodes`
ran their SQL inline on a 30 s TTL miss, also from ingest under the
write lock. Past the TTL they now return the cached value and start one
background refresh per key (`cache_refresh.go`).
- A cache that was never built, or was invalidated with
`InvalidateNodeCache`, still loads inline. A generation counter stops a
refresh that started before an invalidation from marking the cache
fresh.
- The region cache no longer holds `regionObsMu` across its query. Its
refresh re-queries only the regions looked up since the previous
refresh. That keeps it bounded, because the region comes from the query
string.
2. **resolved_path after the lock** (`750dd951`). `QueryPackets`,
`QueryMultiNodePackets`, `GetTransmissionByID`, `GetPacketByHash`,
`GetPacketByID`, `GetObservationsForHash` and `GetNodeHealth` record the
lookups under the lock (`rpJob`, with a snapshot of observation IDs and
path JSON) and run them after releasing it. The number of queries per
row is unchanged.
3. **Single queries before the lock** (`bf85e63e`): the `node=` filter
(`resolveQueryNode`), multi-node pubkey resolution, the can_relay sets
in node health, the observers read for hash-size home regions
(`observerIATAs`), and the stats read in topology.
4. **Bulk health** (`93b7e8ec`): the nodes-table read runs before the
lock. The region filter, which needs the in-memory indexes, is applied
to those rows under the lock.
5. **`/paths` observations race** (`c30e9b43`, `fbf0d7ef`).
`handleNodePaths` read each candidate's canonical resolved_path after
releasing the lock, and that lookup walked `tx.Observations`, which
ingest appends to under the write lock. `-race` reports it in the new
test. The handler now copies the survivors' observation IDs and path
JSON in a short read lock, and parses after releasing it.
`fetchResolvedPathForTxBest` had no caller left and is replaced by
`bestResolvedPath`.
6. **Topology node count** (`4094d215`). Topology used `db.GetStats()`
for one field, the 7-day active node count. `GetStats` also runs
`COUNT(*)` over transmissions and observations. That count is now
`CountActiveNodes`, one query on `nodes`, and `GetStats` uses it too.

## Tests

- `TestNoSQLUnderStoreLock` parses the package and fails on any call
inside a `store.mu` section that reaches SQL, directly or through other
package functions. It allows the three caches above as callees (they
only query when cold) and the startup loaders as holders.
`TestNoSQLUnderStoreLockDetects` runs the scan on a small synthetic
source, so a scan that stops matching cannot pass silently. On master:
16 call sites. On this branch: 0.
- `TestSlowResolvedPathSQLDoesNotStallReaders` reproduces the convoy. A
test hook makes the resolved_path query take 300 ms; `/api/packets` sits
in it, the ingest writer queues, then a reader takes `RLock`. With the
lookup back under the lock (as on master) the reader waited 590 ms. On
this branch it did not wait measurably.
- `TestResolvedPathSQLRunsWithoutStoreLock` checks all seven functions
from part 2. `cache_swr_test.go` covers stale serving, one refresh per
key, inline rebuild after invalidation, and a cold region not blocking a
cached one. `TestNodePathsDoesNotReadObservationsUnlocked` fails under
`-race` with the old read. `TestCountActiveNodes` pins the 7-day count
against `GetStats`.

## Verification

- `cmd/server`: `go test ./...` green, and `go test -race` on the full
package green with 0 races, both on the final commit.
- E2E against a local server on the CI fixture: `test-e2e-playwright.js`
148/151 (3 skipped by the suite itself), plus
`test-issue-1486-collapse-reopens-detail-e2e.js`,
`test-issue-1692-packets-init-parallel-e2e.js` and
`test-channel-issue-1087-e2e.js`, all passing. The other E2E suites were
not run locally.
- Browser: packets, node detail, analytics hash sizes and topology
render. In the API responses, resolved_path is present on 44 of 50
packets, on packet detail, and on health `recentPackets`. No console
errors.

### Staging measurement

A staging instance with 129k transmissions in memory. Load ran on the
same host: 4 threads looping `/paths`,
`/api/packets?limit=200&expand=observations`, node health,
`hash-sizes?region=`, `topology?region=` and `/api/packets?node=`, while
one thread sampled `/api/healthz` every 200 ms. Each build had one
cycle: 360 s during the ingestor's startup `ANALYZE` (heavy disk reads
for 7 to 9 minutes after every restart), then 2 runs of 120 s after it
finished. Values in ms.

| | without this PR | with this PR |
|---|---|---|
| **During ANALYZE** | | |
| `healthz` p95 / p99 / max | 156 / 1105 / 5681 | 42 / 905 / 4280 |
| `topology?region` p99 / max | 2537 / 3061 | 1942 / 4159 |
| `hash-sizes?region` max | 5809 | 2866 |
| node health max | 5719 | 1110 |
| `packets?expand` max | 3912 | 2570 |
| calls over 5 s, excluding `/paths` | 2 | 0 |
| **After ANALYZE** (two runs) | | |
| `healthz` p95 / max | 444-667 / 2139-4356 | 189-335 / 1377-3238 |
| `topology?region` max | 3401-5363 | 1440-1927 |
| `/paths` p50 | 1466-4736 | 1125-2648 |
| calls over 5 s | 3 | 0 |

The two builds were measured about 50 minutes apart, so the background
traffic was not identical.

An earlier version of this branch, without `fbf0d7ef`, raised `healthz`
p95 to 2.7-2.9 s in the same setup, because it parsed every `/paths`
candidate's path JSON under the read lock. Without `4094d215`,
`topology?region` reached 8-17 s during `ANALYZE` in three cycles. The
table is for the final branch.

## Not in this PR

- The query count of `/paths` (1 to 3 per candidate,
`resolved_index.go:160`). It still dominates that endpoint, at p95 8 to
15 s on staging. It is its own item in Kpa-clawbot#2146.
- Batching the resolved_path queries.
- The other per-endpoint items in Kpa-clawbot#2146 (reach, channels, perf,
observers, config/regions, battery, neighbors).
- A cache's first lookup still queries inline, under the lock where the
caller holds it. That happens once per key per process, by design, and
the invariant test allows it explicitly.
- `cmd/ingestor` is unchanged. No measurement on an instance the size of
the ones in Kpa-clawbot#2146.

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…pa-clawbot#2155)

Refs Kpa-clawbot#2146 (item: `/api/nodes/:pubkey/reach`).

## Situation

The reach scan joins `observations` to `transmissions` and filters on
`o.timestamp >= ?` plus one `o.path_json LIKE '%"XX"%'` per token. With
the planner statistics `ANALYZE` produces on a large database, SQLite
runs it as `SCAN t`: every transmission, with an index probe into
`observations` (`idx_observations_tx_ts`) per row. The cost is then the
size of `transmissions`, whatever node is asked for and whatever the
window.

## My change in this PR

`scanReachRows` uses `CROSS JOIN` for the transmissions join. In SQLite
that fixes the join order: `observations` is the outer loop, read
through `idx_observations_timestamp` for the window, and each row looks
up its transmission by primary key. Results are the same rows; it is
still an inner join.

The query text moves into `reachScanSQL(nTokens)`, so a test can inspect
the plan.

## Measurements

Read-only on a database with 18.3M observations and 1.5M transmissions
(Python `sqlite3` 3.45.1 on the host), 7-day window:

| node (rows returned) | `JOIN`, first run | `JOIN`, warm | `CROSS
JOIN`, both runs |
|---|---|---|---|
| busiest relay (54,387) | 10.29 s | 3.27 s | 1.95 s |
| quartile (3,913) | 3.16 s | 3.15 s | 1.81 s |
| median (1,310) | 3.17 s | 3.18 s | 1.82 s |
| a repeater reported as timing out in the browser (34,209) | 14.11 s |
3.25 s | 1.93 s |

On that instance `/api/nodes/:pubkey/reach` reports p95 188.6 s and max
192.6 s over 34 calls in `/api/perf`; a single uncached call from the
host took 3.4 to 3.6 s, so most of that is waiting for the 2 build slots
and the read pool.

On a staging instance (smaller database), with unique cache keys and
`days` 6 or 7, one cycle per build after the ingestor's startup
`ANALYZE` had finished:

| | without this PR | with this PR |
|---|---|---|
| sequential, 12 calls, p50 | 3402-3801 ms | 2078-2467 ms |
| 2 concurrent clients (= `reachMaxConcurrentBuilds`), p50 / p95 |
3575-4087 / 4049-5291 ms | 2271-2462 / 2814-2928 ms |
| calls completed in 120 s | 58-68 | 96-101 |

The staging builds also contain Kpa-clawbot#2147.

## Verification

- `TestReachScanStartsFromObservationsTimeIndex` creates the two
production indexes, loads the `sqlite_stat1` values from the
18.3M-observation database, and checks that the plan starts with `SEARCH
o USING INDEX idx_observations_timestamp`. With the old `JOIN` it fails
with the production plan (`SCAN t`, then `SEARCH o USING INDEX
idx_observations_tx_ts`).
- The existing reach tests (`TestScanReachRows_DecodesRows`,
`TestScanReachRows_CapTruncates`, attribution tests) pass unchanged.
- `cmd/server`: `go test ./...` green.

## Not in this PR

- The scan still reads every observation in the window and applies the
`LIKE` per row, so its cost grows with the window and with traffic.
Removing the scan needs an index on hop tokens (for example a table the
ingestor maintains). I have not measured what that would cost in
storage.
- The build-slot limit (2) and the 5-minute cache are unchanged.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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