Introduce the swactor engine: a swactor-owned composite that retains a
selected execution substrate, drives the core runtime, and hosts the
async/blocking/timer work that backs actors. Integrations receive one
cloneable EngineHandle and never construct or borrow a raw Tokio
runtime/handle.
Engine crate (crates/engine):
- The contract: spawn / spawn_blocking / timer / interval / now, a
per-implementation capability model with construction-time binding
(require()), and engine-owned time. The engine owns all progression;
actor handlers stay synchronous and never .await.
- TokioBackend owns the Tokio runtime and schedules core ticks and
supporting futures on it; SteppingBackend is a single-threaded
deterministic scheduler with virtual time (the non-Tokio portability
proof). Core is driven through its existing tick() surface; a
self-rescheduling CoreDriver is installed at construction and is the
sole place permitted to call try_tick.
iroh-driver:
- Receives an EngineHandle instead of a raw Tokio Handle. Accepts,
reads, dials, writes, endpoint construction, and teardown schedule
through it; required capabilities (tasks/timers/io) are validated
before the endpoint binds. Engine-hosted interval pumps drive
actor-bridge, datastream, and edge ingress.
myelin:
- One node/orchestrator engine owns core, protocol tick injection, and
transport progression; the application loop only drains
integration-owned queues. Stage-shard process readers, delayed actor
messages, helper stdout/stderr, prompt RPC, and CPU sampling all
schedule through the engine (spawn_blocking / engine tasks / timers).
- Removed the split-engine APIs: install_actor_bridge_pump(period) and
spawn_protocol_ticker(period) use each component's stored engine;
deleted the no-op pump_network callback and its plumbing; deleted the
dashboard raw-Tokio/standalone-runtime conveniences.
Enforcement:
- A clippy disallowed-methods boundary forbids direct runtime/scheduling/
time/core-driving bypasses, denied in swactor-engine, iroh-driver, and
myelin. Retained excluded uses (VastAI provider, provider process
supervision/log capture, OS-signal/stdin/process-control sequencing)
carry narrow allowances with reasons.
Verification:
- Engine contract + unit tests (incl. the SteppingBackend portability
proof), iroh integration tests (capability rejection before binding,
multi-node actor behavior), and a production execution-composition
smoke test that observes engine-driven actor progress with no ambient
Tokio runtime and no manual tick/pump. Workspace all-target/all-feature
clippy and tests are green.
Specs co-located with their crates: ENGINE_SPEC.md in crates/engine,
IROH_DRIVER_SPEC.md in crates/iroh-driver. VastAI remains explicitly out
of scope pending its separate redesign.
Trim the datastream crate to its dumb-pipe core: drop the frame-timing sidecar, make mux positions gap-free for accepted frames, and simplify the endpoint fanout.
- mux: defer position assignment from submit to drain so an overflowed submission no longer consumes a position (no synthetic gaps); submit now returns bool and the Mutex<Receiver> is removed since positions are assigned only to accepted frames
- endpoint/mux: switch from std::sync::mpsc to crossbeam-channel and drop per-event event_matches_request filtering — request filters now apply only to the initial catalog snapshot, and future events broadcast to all subscribers
- endpoint (DeliveryFanout): snapshot sender handles under the lock and deliver outside it via FanoutTarget/FanoutReport, so large batches or slow subscribers no longer block subscribe/snapshot control-plane ops
- emit/endpoint/producer: drop set_frame_timing_enabled/frame_timing_enabled and the Position return from submit_record/submit_text/submit_bytes, and add submit_text_owned taking owned String
- timing/lib/spec: delete the timing module and FRAME_TIME_CHANNEL/FRAME_TIME_CHANNEL_ID/FrameTimeSample re-exports (including the auto-registered timing channel in ChannelCatalogState) and renumber the DATASTREAM_SPEC.md section references across frame/ingest/store/mux
- tests: remove the 567-line shared datastream_support/mod.rs harness
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Fold the fragmented distribution swim/routing/gossip tests into swim_core, routing,
and swim_actor. Prune the dashboard tui and command surfaces. Add mvp-system actors
(node_agent, orchestrator, stage_controller), the local_e2e harness, and gpu worker
e2e.
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Move iroh_driver and the relay binary out of distribution into a dedicated
crates/iroh-driver (lib re-exports IrohDriver; relay bin renamed). Remove the node crate
and the single-gpu-inference example; drop the docker/datastream demo. Slim
pipeline-parallel vastai.
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Remove the datastore crate, the top-level design/orchestration/ring specs, the
benches, and the ci config. Add the dashboard host telemetry sampler
(cpu/disk/net/gpu/mem). Localize the pipeline-parallel e2e stub/mock paths.
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Promote pipeline-parallel-inference to a first-class app and consolidate observability on the datastream wire, decoupling the dashboard crate from `distribution`.
- apps/pipeline-parallel-inference: move the example out of `examples/` into `apps/` as its own workspace, rename binaries to `pp-worker`/`pp-orchestrator`, and strip release binaries
- cluster: add `ClusterNode`, a synchronous facade over the actorized distribution protocol (IrohDriver + per-node Runtime hosting Swim/Registry/Metadata/Directory actors with a `MembershipFanout`), replacing ad-hoc `driver.node()`/`tick()` call sites
- fleet: add per-node fleet telemetry that ships identity/resource records as `DatastreamFrame`s over the cluster transport to the orchestrator's `DatastreamSink`, folded into a `FleetView` on a 3s tick
- provision: add best-effort, opt-in SSH boot-phase telemetry (`PP_DEPLOY_KEY`) that streams rented-node boot logs onto the orchestrator's datastream as `proc.boot.<stage>.*`
- dashboard: rewire the crate dependency from `distribution` to `datastream`, drop the standalone `swactor-datastream-dashboard` binary, and rewrite `datastream_source.rs` to demux per-node frames into Overview/Distribution/Fleet views with live-node TTL filtering
- distribution: refresh dist/netmap plugin copy and README from "Kademlia routing" to gossip-directory terminology
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Strip the collector/aggregator/postproc/snapshot, vastai sampler+shipper,
host/iroh/subprocess/swim introspection, relay observability, sink/spool, and the diag
binaries; drop the t_diag_* tests. Remove DiagEvent emission from iroh_driver. Add
datastream emit/wire (mux + NoopSink/UdpFrameSink/ClusterFrameSink) and rewire the
dashboard onto datastream_source.
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Structured observability for the iroh/SWIM layer: Aggregator, typed Event/Snapshot
types, Sink (NoopSink default), ProbeScheduler, process stats, and host/iroh/swim
introspection, plus the swactor-diag-collector, -postproc, and -iroh-relay binaries
that assemble and render per-run bundles. Generalizes the pipeline-parallel-inference
example to N stages and adds the topology-planner spec.
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Remove the unused TCP transport and dead CLI/simulation scaffolding and collapse scattered single-purpose modules into consolidated files across the dashboard, process, and simulation crates.
- crates/transport: drop the TCP transport (src/tcp.rs and its tcp feature), leaving only ed25519 identity and encoding utilities behind the iroh transport
- crates/dashboard: collapse actor_detail_html/actors_html/dashboard_html/topology_html into a single html.rs, drop command/parse.rs, and inline the trace types into lib.rs
- crates/process: fold driver, pipeline_types, queue, subscriber, waker, and local pipes/signal/wait into local/mod.rs, pipeline.rs, and a unified types.rs, consolidating the public re-exports
- crates/simulation: remove the ci subdirectory (local_sim, sim) and dead node/config/trace modules, and flatten the distribution subdirectory into top-level files
- crates/datastore: remove the unused store_cli, cli, and in-memory storage, and deduplicate crypto.rs across datastore and distribution (about 190 lines of shared code removed)
- crates/distribution: drop dead codec code and trim the messages module
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Reduce idle cpu usage on my main machine from 17% to 1%. Made SWIM gossip more lazy.
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Remove co-dependencies for different modules found in `crates` and migrate the development history to a new repository. The docs were stale, and largely not getting used, so simply deleted for now. When code stabilizes more, they will become useful again.
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Make distribution and deployment more stable. Consolidate the logic for a generic swactor node.
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Content addressable datastore. Allows you to configure a node to store and stream large blobs of data, and retrieve them from any swactor-connected node.
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Stand up a runnable distribution stack on top of the core node logic.
- distribution: add NodeDriver bridging DistributedNode to real TCP I/O
(TcpTransport/TcpAcceptor), translating NodeActions to/from wire messages;
refine swim probe timing and transport wiring.
- node: new swactor-node binary (crates/node) hosting a real node over TCP.
- tests/docker: multi-host LAN cluster harness (compose, run-lan-cluster.sh,
cluster + lan_cluster integration tests) exercising the full SWIM path.
- simulation: cluster_scenarios integration + distribution property coverage.
- docs: reorganize into distribution/, runtime/, diagrams/, connectome/; add
DOCKER_REALIZATION + SIMULATION_TESTING realization notes.
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Lay down the wasm-actor host, a frontend-agnostic command layer, and a
distribution registry.
- command (new crate): CommandRouter dispatching to built-in inspection handlers
(overview/workers/actors) plus user-registered handlers, with line and
query-param parsers; built for REPL/REST/TUI/WebSocket frontends.
- wasm-actor (new crate): skeleton host — WasmActor, Builder, Engine, error
types — with echo/double/silent guest fixtures and integration tests.
- distribution: add Registry (member catalog + lookups) and Snapshot, with tests.
- core: extend the worker watch API; add watch_api integration tests.
Signed-off-by: Zachery Aaron Shores-Chmielewski <zacheryasc@gmail.com>
Major feature addition. For full details read `./docs/development_history/DISTRIBUTION.md`
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