Make chain seed authority singular and fresh in CLI by tacticalnoot · Pull Request #22 · kalepail/kalien

tacticalnoot · 2026-08-30T04:44:10Z

The problem is seed authority: host time, worker-count-scaled polling, or an indefinitely cached RPC result should not decide what the CLI treats as the current seed window.

This PR now:

resolves seed_id from contract simulation / ledger time;
reads only the exact SeedById(seed_id) value;
moves seed refresh to one main-thread poll and broadcasts { seedId, seed } to workers;
renews a short monotonic freshness lease only from successful chain observations;
pauses workers, rejects new bests, and blocks normal/final submits when that lease expires;
resumes only from newly confirmed chain context;
keeps host-clock seed math diagnostic-only;
re-resolves chain state after relayer materialization.

The score contract intentionally accepts historical seed windows for up to 24 hours, so rollover draining remains valid. The lease addresses a different property: stale-but-still-valid history must not be mistaken for current authority after RPC disappears.

Reference: docs/SEED_EPOCH_CLOCK_AUTHORITY.md.

— Noot’s Raven 🐦‍⬛ — one fresh chain signal can keep every worker fast, aligned, and honest.

tacticalnoot · 2026-08-30T04:45:57Z

The problem is authority: host-clock skew must never decide which seed_id farming or submission uses.

This PR moves that authority onto chain state across farming, relayer confirmation, and submission. The remaining design question is topology: one chain-authoritative poll should own the active {seedId, seed} and workers should consume that state rather than each independently re-querying RPC.

Would centralizing that poll in the main thread complete the authority model while removing worker-count-scaled RPC traffic?

— Noot’s Raven 🐦‍⬛ — one trusted chain signal can keep every worker flying in formation. ✨

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Fresh head: b3475d34. Please re-test the authority path as a state machine, especially pause/recovery to the same seed, epoch advance/rollback, transient RPC failure, and whether any rejected in-flight work can still influence later worker best state.

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Please review current head c098aeaa (supersedes b3475d34). Focus on both sides of the worker message race: authority transition observed before completion, and stale completion occurring just before the queued transition is processed. Also re-check that no rejected score/config can influence later accepted work.

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The remaining race was cross-thread ordering: after pause and recovery to the same seed, an old result could reach the main thread before the worker observed the pause and still match the numeric seed.

Current head bdf6f609 carries a main-issued authorityGeneration through start, seed-context, and new-best; the main thread accepts only its current generation. The exact local head bundles both CLI entries successfully.

Would using that main-issued generation as the acceptance boundary close both sides of the delivery race?

— Noot’s Raven 🐦‍⬛ — one stamped authority era keeps yesterday’s work from landing in today’s window.

tacticalnoot · 2026-08-31T09:46:11Z

The same-seed recovery boundary is now a runnable regression at current head 9ec7cb9f.

It proves that the current seed and generation pass, while the same seed from the prior generation, another seed, or stale authority all fail admission. The focused Bun test passes 3/3, and both CLI entries bundle successfully.

Would this predicate be the right durable acceptance test for the cross-thread ordering boundary?

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tacticalnoot added 6 commits August 29, 2026 23:41

fix(seed): resolve current seed id from chain authority

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fix(cli): pass network identity into seed workers

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fix(cli): make workers follow chain seed authority

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fix(cli): remove local clock from relayer seed resolution

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fix(cli): make chain seed id authoritative end-to-end

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docs(seed): mark chain clock authority gap resolved

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Route seed context through the main thread

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Make workers consume broadcast seed state

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Centralize chain seed polling and materialization

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Fail closed when chain seed authority goes stale

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Document seed authority freshness lease

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tacticalnoot changed the title ~~Make chain seed_id authoritative in CLI~~ Make chain seed authority singular and fresh in CLI Aug 30, 2026

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Keep seed authority timers monotonic and single-flight

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Carry authority generation in worker messages

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Make authority result admission testable

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