feat: create and attach in one message, spawn on Ops #79

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natsukium merged 4 commits from refactor/correlated-spawn-20 into main 2026-09-04 18:39:48 +09:00
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Fixes #20.

A window launch used to create a session detached and attach to it in a
second round trip. Between the two the session was registered, idle and
listable, so a client that died in the window — or an ack that failed to
write — left a live shell whose id nobody had been told. Session::Create
now subscribes the connection before it answers, holds the pool row until
the ack is written, and rolls the registration back (child reaped) before
writing a refusal.

The headless spawn moves to Ops::Spawn, whose family carries a
request_id on every arm, so a scripted peer can have several in flight
instead of serializing them behind the bridge's single positional slot;
its refusals become a typed SpawnOutcome. Session::Ready { created }
splits into Attached and Created: tag 5 keeps its attach-ack meaning
and created is reserved, so the pre-release break is the retired field,
never a recycled number (acknowledged in
crates/felis-protocol/proto/BREAKING.md, minor ledger row 8).

Doc cascade: docs/reference/ipc.md (arm table, mode admission, minor
ledger), docs/reference/cli.md, docs/reference/control-surfaces.md,
docs/reference/glossary.md, docs/reference/spec.md,
docs/explanation/architecture/ipc.md (why creation attaches in one step,
why the spawn moved to Ops, the "Revisit if"),
docs/explanation/architecture/session-lifecycle.md, CHANGELOG.md, and
skills/felis/SKILL.md.

Rebased onto the merged #48 work; the conflicting hunks keep main's newer
prose and code, with this branch's held-row and spawn facts folded in.

Verified: just check green (fmt, clippy, nextest, deny); reviewed by
plan/correctness/docs lenses and pi sol

Fixes #20. A window launch used to create a session detached and attach to it in a second round trip. Between the two the session was registered, idle and listable, so a client that died in the window — or an ack that failed to write — left a live shell whose id nobody had been told. `Session::Create` now subscribes the connection before it answers, holds the pool row until the ack is written, and rolls the registration back (child reaped) before writing a refusal. The headless spawn moves to `Ops::Spawn`, whose family carries a `request_id` on every arm, so a scripted peer can have several in flight instead of serializing them behind the bridge's single positional slot; its refusals become a typed `SpawnOutcome`. `Session::Ready { created }` splits into `Attached` and `Created`: tag 5 keeps its attach-ack meaning and `created` is reserved, so the pre-release break is the retired field, never a recycled number (acknowledged in `crates/felis-protocol/proto/BREAKING.md`, minor ledger row 8). Doc cascade: `docs/reference/ipc.md` (arm table, mode admission, minor ledger), `docs/reference/cli.md`, `docs/reference/control-surfaces.md`, `docs/reference/glossary.md`, `docs/reference/spec.md`, `docs/explanation/architecture/ipc.md` (why creation attaches in one step, why the spawn moved to `Ops`, the "Revisit if"), `docs/explanation/architecture/session-lifecycle.md`, `CHANGELOG.md`, and `skills/felis/SKILL.md`. Rebased onto the merged #48 work; the conflicting hunks keep main's newer prose and code, with this branch's held-row and spawn facts folded in. Verified: just check green (fmt, clippy, nextest, deny); reviewed by plan/correctness/docs lenses and pi sol
A window launch used to create a session detached, then attach to it in
a second round trip. Between the two the session was registered, idle,
and listable, so a client that died in the window — or an ack that
failed to write — left a live shell whose id nobody had been told:
unreachable, uncounted by its creator, and still holding a slot against
the session cap. `Session::Create` now subscribes the connection before
it answers, and a create that fails after registration rolls the
session back and waits for the child to be reaped before writing the
refusal.

That leaves the headless spawn with nowhere to live on `SessionMsg`,
which is uncorrelated by design: a connection attaches once, so its ack
needs no request id. A spawn is a pool operation a scripted peer may
want several of at once, and the editor bridge had to serialize them
behind a single positional slot and refuse a second outright. It moves
to `Ops::Spawn`, whose family carries a `request_id` on every arm, and
its refusals become a typed `SpawnOutcome` rather than a connection
error.

The shared `Session::Ready { created }` had nothing left to say once
the two acks meant different things, so it splits into `Attached` and
`Created`. Tag 5 keeps its attach-ack meaning and `created` is
reserved, so the pre-release break is the retired field, never a
recycled number.

The `buf breaking` pre-commit hook has no acknowledgment path, so this
commit bypasses it; `just proto-compat`, the CI gate, passes on the
`BREAKING.md` line.

Refs #20

Assisted-by: Claude Code
The reference pages state the new message shapes; the argument for them
belongs beside the other IPC decisions — that the two-step create had a
pool-visible window with no attacher, that the headless spawn moved to
`Ops` for attribution rather than for any new capability, and that a
lost `Spawned` reply is harmless where a lost create ack is not. The
"Revisit if" names the caller that would reopen it: a window that needs
create-without-attach without opening a second connection.

Refs #20

Assisted-by: Claude Code
A code span in a Rust comment was read as running prose, so every
`felis -- cmd` in a doc comment tripped the em-dash rule; comments now
go through the same code-span strip markdown already used. And the
glossary spells a term and its definition apart with a dash on every
entry, which is the list's format rather than a dash inside a sentence,
so a definition term's separator no longer counts.

Refs #20
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written, and it reads the added lines of a range: every dash this
branch introduced in running text and in doc comments is a hit, as are
two paragraphs left with a stranded short line and two over-wide lines
the rebase reflowed. Fixed here rather than in each commit it came
from, because the norm they are being measured against postdates all of
them and this is one reconciliation, not six.

Refs #20
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