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Finishes quest/m1/socket/rust.md: moq_net::socket with Endpoint, TcpStream and TrackStream, plus doc/concept/socket.md, the language-agnostic convention JS and Python follow.

This head carries the maintainer's 2026-11-04 decisions (see the Design change comments): one hidden .socket/<id> endpoint used only for routing, and two protocols over one handshake. A tcp session half is a single group, and a track session half is a whole track. The second round binds each session to both of its ends, <protocol>/<dialer>/<acceptor>/<S>, and makes an accept wait for the dialer's endpoint while the dial stays open.

Summary

• socket::Endpoint::new(&origin, prefix, id) announces one hidden broadcast, <prefix>/.socket/<id>, once. It is used only for routing, and connections are never announced.
• Session tracks are <protocol>/<dialer>/<acceptor>/<S> in both endpoints' broadcasts. S is a random 128-bit id. A dial subscribes to <prefix>/.socket/<peer> for tcp/<self>/<peer>/<S> (or track/...); the answer is the same name in the dialer's broadcast. An endpoint resets, as not found, a request naming another acceptor, so a peer that learned S can't replay the session to a third endpoint posing as the dialer.
• Two protocols, each with its own dial and accept:
  • tcp: Endpoint::dial_tcp(peer), poll_accept_tcp / accept_tcp(), yielding socket::TcpStream { pub producer: group::Producer, pub consumer: group::Consumer } plus peer() and session(). Each half is the session track's only group (sequence 0): frames are writes, finish is FIN, and abort or drop is RST. A second group from the peer is a protocol error that resets both halves. There are no track-level settings.
  • track: Endpoint::dial_track(peer, info), poll_accept_track / accept_track(), yielding socket::TrackStream { pub producer: track::Producer, pub consumer: track::Subscriber }. Groups are messages, with the app's own priority, budget and order, and no single-group rule. The consumer starts reliable and ascending (no delay budget); update / control() overrides it, and ordered() reads in sequence.
  • An incoming dial lands in its protocol's queue. A protocol the endpoint isn't accepting, or an unknown prefix, is reset with Unsupported.
• Handshake: a dial reserves its own half unlisted, follows the peer's endpoint, and resolves once the peer asked for that half and served its own. Incoming::accept follows the claimed dialer's endpoint, rather than failing at once when it isn't announced, and serves the dialer's request only once the dialer answers. It gives up with Cancel once the dialer's subscription to this side's half goes (track::Demand), with no timer. The return-routability check resets a dial forged in another endpoint's name.
• track session halves default to no max age. Since moq-dev/moq#7729 a default track::Info keeps only the newest group, which dropped queued messages. dial_track and Incoming::accept with None now use track::Info::default().with_max_age(None).
• tcp session task: each tcp session runs a small task on the endpoint origin's driver (new crate-private origin::Producer::tasks()). It copies the peer's group into the group the app reads, a frame at a time, waiting on the app's reader (group::Producer::poll_ready) so backpressure reaches the peer. Since it owns that copy, it can end it: on a second group, on the peer's reset, on the endpoint closing, or when the app drops its reader early, which resets the session. It also finishes or aborts this side's track the way the app ended its group. Once group 0 has arrived, it detects a second group through track::Subscriber::poll_largest, not poll_recv_group; see the follow-up below.
• Wakes outside every lock: a poller takes the endpoint's request handler out of its state, polls it with no lock held, and puts it back; a poller that finds it taken waits to be woken when it returns. broadcast::Requests::poll_requested_track claims a request after releasing the broadcast's lock. Claiming wakes the dialer's subscription, and an inline executor that accepted again or closed the endpoint from that wake deadlocked.
• A peer reset after FIN resets the tcp half that remains open. Once group 0 arrived, the session task asks the peer's track how it ended (poll_finished) rather than taking poll_largest's end as clean. A clean finish still leaves this side open, as a TCP half-close does.
• Closing: Endpoint::close, or dropping it, retracts the broadcast, resets queued dials of both protocols, resets every tcp session entirely, and aborts this side's half of every track session.
• Docs: doc/concept/socket.md covers both protocols and when to use each, FIN and RST, the single group, pacing and its limits, the .socket grants, and later protocols (quic/). It states that a track reader that stalls past a hop's cache idle window (30 s by default) can miss messages, and that sockets need moq-lite-07 or moq-transport on every hop (see below). doc/lib/rs/moq-net.md, the concept index and the CHANGELOG are updated.
• Quests: the epic README records both rounds of 2026-11-04 decisions and the implementation choices, and notes a later quic/ protocol on the same endpoint. old-hop-dial.md, added on main meanwhile, is rewritten for this design (see Choices). js.md and py.md mirror both protocols; boy.md and carla.md put command and control on track sessions; the m2 stream and mesh quests move to .socket and tcp sessions.

Maintainer decisions

Decided 2026-11-04, second round (maintainer, settling this PR's two Waiting items, each the recommendation):

1. Bind a session to its acceptor?
   • ✅ Name sessions <protocol>/<dialer>/<acceptor>/<S> (recommended), now, before the JS and Python ports copy the scheme, rather than waiting for the m2 mesh keys.
   • Keep <dialer>/<S> and rely on the documented replay limit.
2. An accept racing its dialer's announcement?
   • ✅ Follow the dialer's endpoint for as long as the dial stays open, with no timer (recommended).
   • Keep fail-at-once and document that a dialer may see a reset and should redial.
   • Follow with a bounded timer.

Decided 2026-11-04, with the maintainer's merge pick (/quest-merge), each the recommendation:

3. An older-hop accept now waits instead of failing at once. Hops before moq-lite-07 never carry the hidden .socket/<id> broadcasts, so sockets need moq-lite-07 or moq-transport on every hop. Under decision 2, an accept of a dial from behind such a hop waits until the dialer gives up; before, it failed at once.
   • ✅ quest/m1/socket/old-hop-dial.md owns the fix, together with the dial over an older hop, so this PR doesn't handle it (recommended).
   • Treat it as part of decision 2 and fail such an accept in this PR.

Decided 2026-11-04 (maintainer, /quest-complete), the naming amended by the second round above:

1. ✅ Keep <dialer>/<S> session track naming. A dial and an answer can't be confused, the claimed dialer is named for the return-routability check, and S (random per dial) makes every session unique, so one endpoint can dial and accept any number of sessions. Not chosen: reader-named halves.
2. ✅ A TCP session half is a single group, not a track of messages. socket::TcpStream is a plain struct of group::Producer and group::Consumer, with no track-level settings; a second group resets the session. Not chosen: track::Ordered with one message per group.
3. ✅ One announcement per endpoint, used only for routing: <prefix>/.socket/<id>, with the session track <protocol>/<dialer>/<S>. An unknown protocol is reset as unsupported. Grants: publish .socket/<self>, subscribe .socket/**. The module stays socket. This replaces the .tcp/<id> path.
4. ✅ Ship two protocols now, tcp/ and track/, over the same handshake, with separate dials and accepts per protocol. A later quic/ is another prefix.

Decided 2026-11-03 (maintainer, /quest-grill in /quest-complete), still standing: endpoint sockets with one hidden broadcast and no announced connections; thin { producer, consumer } stream structs with peer()/session(); prefix-only grants; crypto deferred to the m2 mesh.

Choices made without asking

• API names: dial_tcp / poll_accept_tcp / accept_tcp → TcpStream, and dial_track / poll_accept_track / accept_track → TrackStream. Incoming<S>, Dialing<S> and Accepting<S> are generic over the sealed socket::Stream trait. Incoming<TcpStream>::accept() takes no track::Info, since a tcp half has no track settings; dial_tcp likewise.
• TrackStream::consumer is the handshake's track::Subscriber, not a bare track::Consumer. The brief said track::Consumer, but also that the consumer's subscription defaults to reliable and ascending unless the app overrides it. A track::Consumer holds no subscription, so the app would subscribe again after the handshake's subscription dropped, leaving a gap where the peer's first messages could be lost. The Subscriber is already reliable and ascending, and the app overrides it with update or reads in sequence with ordered().
• The tcp reader gets a copy the session task fills, rather than the peer's received group itself. moq-net has no way to fail a received group from the reader's side, so without the copy a second group or an early reader drop couldn't reset the session. The copy holds at most one frame beyond the paced window.
• Dropping a TcpStream::consumer before the peer finished resets the session, as closing a TCP socket with unread data does, since nothing reads what the peer writes.
• An endpoint takes dials in a protocol from its first accept in it. Before any accept at all it has no request handler, so moq-net answers NotFound at once with no polling, as before. After that, a dial in a protocol nobody accepts is reset with Unsupported.
• broadcast::Requests claims a request after releasing the broadcast's lock. A close that lands between taking the request and claiming it now rejects it, as it does a queued one, instead of leaving a claimed request to a closed broadcast.
• A track session's cache loss is documented, not prevented. Exempting a reliable reader's unread groups from the pool's idle expiry is a cache-wide change; see the follow-ups.
• Unchanged from the previous head: a dial waits for its peer's endpoint to be announced; rejects use NotFound; endpoint close uses Cancel; a dial to yourself is Unsupported; reset logs omit the session name.
• An accept whose dialer gave up fails with Cancel, read from the request's track::Demand going idle. The dialer's own reset of its half, when it is reachable, still fails the accept with that reset.
• Queued dials whose dialer gave up leave their queue (Codex round 1 below). Each endpoint poll, which every new dial triggers, drops from both protocol queues the dials whose track::Demand is no longer wanted, and rejects them with Cancel. So a queue holds only open dials, even in a protocol the app stopped accepting.
• A retired request handler drops after the broadcast closes (pullfrog): a poller that finds the endpoint ended closes the publication before dropping the handler, so dials queued meanwhile get the close's Unroutable, not the handler's Dropped. Producer::close is idempotent.
• Sockets need moq-lite-07 or moq-transport on every hop. The docs said every moq-lite version works. Probing through the relay harness showed otherwise: a moq-lite-06 client's request for room/.socket/bob fails Unroutable while room/plain/bob resolves, since only lite-07 carries the hidden opt-in (rs/moq-net/src/lite/announce.rs:1153), and tcp sessions time out for lite-06↔lite-06, lite-07→lite-06 and lite-03↔lite-03. That's hidden broadcasts working as designed, so the docs and the epic now say so. With the accept now waiting, a lite-06 dialer reaching a lite-07 acceptor leaves the accept waiting until the dialer gives up (before, it failed at once). quest/m1/socket/old-hop-dial.md (m1, already planned to make an older-hop dial fail Unsupported) drops its .accept/<id> instance plan, records these facts, and now covers the accept too. This PR doesn't handle older hops; see the merge-pick decision above.

Pacing and unbounded groups

A tcp session is one group for its whole life, so it relies on unbounded groups (moq-dev/moq#7411): no size cap, and each copy keeps a ~32 MiB tail. With one reader per copy, fastest-reader pacing acts as TCP backpressure. A writer awaiting group::Producer::ready waits until the reader holds the group and the next frame fits within 16 MiB of it. Session ingest pauses the same way on every native QUIC and qmux hop (moq-dev/moq#7388, moq-dev/moq#7624). a_slow_tcp_reader_paces_the_writer checks this through a relay: 64 MiB written against a reader that idles and then reads slowly. The writer stalls short of the end, and every write arrives in order.

Nothing is silently lost: a group reader that reaches a shed frame fails with Evicted and never skips. moq-net can't guarantee pacing yet in two cases, and there a slow tcp reader fails with Evicted (a reset) instead of slowing the writer:

• Browsers and JS read without pacing until JS fastest-reader pacing.
• A session past its paused-credit cap: at the client defaults, about two group streams per connection may pause at once, and the rest read and shed as before pacing.

A writer that doesn't await ready sheds its own front, with the same Evicted failure for a lagging reader. The epic notes the dependency on unbounded groups, whose remaining pacing work covers those cases.

Impact

• Public API: moq_net::socket (unreleased) exports Endpoint, Incoming, Dialing, Accepting, Stream (a sealed trait), TcpStream and TrackStream. Nothing released changes.
• Wire: none. It's a convention over existing announce and subscribe streams, and it works over moq-lite and moq-transport.

Tests

On simulated time (kio::test), through a relay, with discovery driven by the endpoints' own requests (rs/moq-net/tests/integration/socket.rs):

• tcp: tcp_sessions_carry_writes_both_ways (every pairing of moq-lite-07 and moq-transport-18, with FIN each way), a_long_tcp_session_stays_in_order (2000 writes in one group), a_reset_tcp_half_fails_the_read (RST over lite and moq-transport), a_slow_tcp_reader_paces_the_writer (64 MiB, past the 32 MiB tail), and a_second_tcp_group_resets_the_session (a hand-rolled dialer writes groups 0 and 1; the reader fails and the acceptor's own half is reset), a_second_tcp_group_after_fin_resets_the_session (group 1 after group 0 was read to FIN still resets the open half), and a_peer_reset_after_fin_resets_the_session (a reset after FIN resets the open half, and a finish leaves it open).
• track: track_sessions_carry_messages_both_ways (every pairing), track_messages_are_read_in_sequence, and a_lost_track_message_does_not_block_later_ones (a 500 ms budget skips a missing group 0).
• Both: a_forged_dial_never_connects (in each protocol), a_replayed_session_never_connects (bob's side replays alice's session to carol under bob's name, which carol resets unheard, and under carol's, which alice resets; the real session carries on), an_accept_waits_for_its_dialer (carol dials bob before announcing; bob's accept is still pending after 1 s, then connects once she announces), an_accept_ends_with_its_dial (a dial claiming an endpoint nobody announces holds the accept until the forger drops it, then fails it; replaces a_dial_from_nobody_fails, which asserted the old fail-at-once), a_protocol_nobody_accepts_is_reset (a track dial to a tcp listener, and an unknown quic/ prefix), several_sessions_share_a_pair, a_rejected_dial_fails, a_dial_waits_for_its_peer, a_dropped_dial_resets_the_accept, closing_an_endpoint_ends_its_sessions, session_tracks_are_never_listed, and an_endpoint_not_accepting_resets_dials.

Unit: abandoned_dials_leave_the_queue (accepting both protocols and then only tcp, dialed-and-dropped track dials never pile up; fails without the fix), and taking_a_dial_wakes_outside_the_lock accepts again and then closes the endpoint from an inline waker on the dial's subscription while the endpoint takes that dial, guarded by a 10 s timeout instead of hanging.

Through a relay with real moq-auth tokens granting publish .socket/<self> and subscribe .socket/** (rs/moq-relay/tests/integration/socket_auth.rs): prefix_grants_admit_a_session (both protocols, lite↔lite, lite→moq-transport, moq-transport→lite), a_forged_dial_never_connects, and a_reader_of_everything_lists_no_session.

Suggested follow-ups

• A track::Subscriber polled with poll_recv_group on every wake stalls the group it handed out. Found while building the tcp session task, which runs on an origin's driver. When the task polled its subscriber's poll_recv_group on every wake (to catch a second group), while reading the group 0 that the same subscriber had handed out, that group's received copy stopped growing after 88 frames of a 2000-frame burst. The reader's read then waited forever. Writing slower, skipping the extra poll_recv_group, or switching to poll_largest all avoid it. Giving the subscriber poll its own kio::Park did not. The same polling from a test task, with or without a shared waiter, did not reproduce it, so the trigger looks specific to driver-hosted tasks. Repro: in rs/moq-net/src/model/socket.rs, make Pump::poll_session keep polling poll_recv_group after group 0 arrives, then run cargo test -p moq-net --features async --test integration socket::a_long_tcp_session_stays_in_order. It is a moq-net delivery bug outside this PR's scope: no lost data, but a stalled stream.
• A reliable reader's unread groups can be reclaimed. The cache pool's idle expiry (30 s by default) and capacity eviction reclaim any group but a live track's newest, even one a subscriber with no delay budget hasn't read yet, and an arrival-order reader then skips it (consumer_skips_evicted_groups in rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs). For track sessions that carry commands, a stalled reader silently misses messages. Worth a quest: pin a reliable subscriber's unread groups, or fail the read with Evicted instead of skipping.
• broadcast still wakes track subscribers under its lock when it closes. BroadcastState::reject_unserved rejects pending tracks, waking their subscribers, while close() holds the broadcast's lock, so an inline executor re-entering that broadcast from such a wake deadlocks. This PR fixed only the claim path its sockets hit.
• The JS and Python socket quests, boy and CARLA are already children of the epic and are rewritten here for both protocols. The pacing gaps above belong to the existing unbounded-groups and JS fastest-reader quests.

Validation

• just check origin/main passed on 0161d5bbcd: every selected module, 10005 Rust tests including the relay socket tests, JS tests, clippy, rustdoc, fmt, and quest check. It also passed on f861bf8ee0, before the queue fix.
• cargo test -p moq-net --features async --test integration socket (22 tests) and --lib socket (6 tests).
• Reproduced before fixing:
  • track_sessions_carry_messages_both_ways and track_messages_are_read_in_sequence failed after merging main (moq-dev/moq#7729's zero max age), until track halves defaulted to no max age.
  • abandoned_dials_leave_the_queue fails without the pruning.
  • an_accept_ends_with_its_dial asserts the opposite of the old a_dial_from_nobody_fails, which this head replaced.
• The older-hop facts above came from throwaway probes through the same relay harness, not kept as tests. old-hop-dial.md owns a kept test.
• CI's failing Check on 398333904a was quest check: main added old-hop-dial.md requiring the rust.md this PR deletes. Fixed by the merge of main and the rewrite.

Review

Local review session 01a1a701-c1cb-70d0-8954-a0cd278ce0d2, started with quest review --new after the second-round design change, by Codex gpt-6.1-sol at medium effort.

• Round 1 (head f861bf8ee0), one finding:
  • [medium] Release cancelled dials from the protocol queues (socket.rs:448): fixed in 0161d5bbcd, with abandoned_dials_leave_the_queue.
• Round 2 (head 0161d5bbcd): no findings.

The earlier session 01a1a595-be91-7c40-bfa1-73689a26abb1 reviewed the first-round design through 398333904a (4 rounds, every finding fixed).

Posted reviews:

• The replay finding (pullfrog, OpenAI) and CodeRabbit's announcement race are fixed by decisions 1 and 2.
• pullfrog's retired-handler finding is fixed.
• pullfrog's suggested rewording of the broadcast.rs comment is declined, with evidence in the thread.

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Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: f57d270

• End pending opens when the local socket closes (rs/moq-net/src/model/socket.rs:457–475). OpenBi::poll_ok waits only on the peer listing. If the local socket closes while a peer keeps its broadcast alive without answering, the open can remain pending indefinitely; a late answer can instead return a Bi with a closed local producer. Poll and register local closure alongside the listing, and test both a stalled peer and late answer.
• Do not let one stalled dial block later accepts (socket.rs:611–612). poll_accept returns pending on the first unresolved dial before polling later announcements. A live non-answering dialer can therefore block healthy subsequent clients. Drive resolutions concurrently or bound/skip a stalled dial, with a stalled-first/healthy-second regression.

The socket model provides a useful abstraction, but these cancellation and fairness boundaries need to hold with uncooperative peers. Static GitHub review only; I did not run tests.

[pullfrog]

ℹ️ No critical issues — one narrow concurrency gap inline.

Reviewed changes

• New moq_net::socket module (rs/moq-net/src/model/socket.rs): Listener, dial, Socket, OpenBi, Uni/Bi, Closed, the .<opener>/<uni|bi>/<name> track scheme, and the shared Listing.
• Listener lifecycle: watches path/.dial/*, requests a dial pinned to its announced instance, answers at path/.accept/<id> under the same instance, and handles Start/Restart/Takeover/End.
• broadcast::Producer::poll_closed: crate-private close watcher used by Socket::poll_closed.
• Docs and quests: new doc/concept/socket.md (linked from the index, sidebar, and doc/lib/rs/moq-net.md), a CHANGELOG entry, and quest updates that delete quest/m1/socket/rust.md and repoint its referrers.
• Tests: eight #[kio::test] integration cases through a relay on simulated time, plus unit tests for the name round trip, foreign names, and one-segment ids.

I read the full diff and verified the implementation against the announce/listing/broadcast primitives it builds on. The design is sound: Announce.prefix is cursor-relative, so the listener's one-segment id handling is correct; End only arrives when no route remains at the prefix, so the by-prefix live map cannot close a socket that still has a route; the uni/bi queues are bounded by the peer's live listing and live by the session announce cap; and Socket::poll_closed sets closed before local.close(), so it never reports a stale reason. I found no unbounded memory, CPU, or spin path, and no lost wakeup in the shared-listing pollers.

The one actionable item is a narrow race between the listing drain and the track lookup, anchored below. I also considered two points from the prior OpenAI review (an open_bi not watching local close, and poll_accept head-of-line blocking) and could not confirm a triggering sequence for either, so I did not raise them.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds a Rust socket model based on endpoint announcements and unlisted session tracks. Each session has a message pipe in each direction, with reliable, ordered reads by default. The change adds endpoint lifecycle and dial/accept APIs, documents the convention, updates related plans, and adds unit and relay integration tests for session behavior and authorization.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to a48ee

Resolve the reliable-delivery mismatch before merging: stalled readers can lose older messages. Session-name logging and unbounded dial admission also need attention. The accept-side discovery race remains less certain and warrants targeted validation.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 inconclusive

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Passed checks: 4 passed

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Description check		The pull request description directly explains the socket endpoint implementation, handshake, protocols, documentation, tests, design decisions, and related quest updates described in the changeset.

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Follow-up Comments

Assert the answer's priority on the opener's consumer.

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Assert the answer's priority on the opener's consumer.

The bi-stream test checks priority only on the answering side's producer. The opener reads the answer through opened.consumer, but the test uses that consumer only to read the payload. The metadata that the opener's consumer reports for the answer track is not checked. Add a priority assertion on opened.consumer after the answer resolves, so the test covers both sides of the stream.

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In the bi-stream test, add an assertion that `opened.consumer` reports priority
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[kixelated]

Replying to the OpenAI review and CodeRabbit's body nitpick:

• Pending opens ignore a local close. Fixed in dec0c23464. OpenBi::poll_ok now polls this side's close before the listing and fails Error::Closed, so a stalled peer can't hold the open and a late answer isn't taken. open_uni, open_bi, and the accepts also refuse with Closed after a close. closing_a_socket_ends_its_opens covers the stalled peer and the late answer, and it fails on the old code.
• One stalled dial blocks later accepts. Refuted, and documented on poll_accept; details are in the thread. A remote dialer can't stall a dial request. Both sessions resolve a request for a peer-announced broadcast locally, with no wire round trip (rs/moq-net/src/lite/subscriber.rs:7802, and request.accept(&*source) in rs/moq-net/src/ietf/subscriber.rs), so only an in-process origin::Requests handler on the listener's own origin could hold one. Resolving dials concurrently would request every queued dialer on each accept, because the request resolves on the session's task and is still pending on the first poll. That breaks the documented promise that a listener which stops accepting holds nothing. moq-net reads no clock, so a deadline isn't available. There's no regression test because the change keeps the behavior.
• Assert the answer's priority on the opener's consumer (CodeRabbit). Done: streams_flow_both_ways now resolves opened.consumer.info() and checks priority 3.

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[kixelated]

Design change: socket streams are now numbered. Stream tracks are .<opener>/<kind>/<number>/<name> rather than .<opener>/<kind>/<name>. <number> counts the opener's streams in decimal from 0 and is never reused within a socket, like a QUIC stream ID.

Why: the local Codex review found that reopening a name reused its track. A lazy track::Consumer the peer kept for the earlier stream re-resolves the name when it subscribes, so it read the new stream, which breaks the rule that a track name means one content. The same reuse caused the hang CodeRabbit found: the acceptor couldn't answer a reopen while it still held the earlier answer.

What changes: each open is its own stream, so opening a name twice is no longer Duplicate, and the stale-answer pairing race for a reopened name is gone. doc/concept/socket.md and quest/m1/socket/README.md describe the new scheme, which the JS and Python ports will follow. Commit: 775653cda8.

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Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed head: 775653c

Reviewed the two follow-up commits since f57d270 against the unchanged base 0ef46ad. No new actionable finding in this update.

• The local-close finding is addressed: OpenBi::poll_ok now observes and registers local closure before waiting on the listing, and new opens/accepts refuse a closed socket. closing_a_socket_ends_its_opens covers stalled and already-answered opens after closure.
• The numbered track names separate simultaneous and reopened streams. The added regressions check distinct same-name bi streams, an old lazy uni consumer, and reopening while the earlier bi answer remains held.
• I withdraw the earlier remote-dial head-of-line finding. Both session implementations resolve announced-broadcast requests locally (lite/subscriber.rs:7802, ietf/subscriber.rs:2685); the claimed unresponsive remote dialer cannot hold that request pending. The documented in-process handler caveat does not justify eagerly requesting every queued dial.

Verification: static GitHub review of the incremental diff, socket implementation, relevant broadcast/session code, and regression tests. I did not execute tests or independently verify the reported local check results.

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

• Added stream numbers to socket tracks. Tracks are now .<opener>/<kind>/<number>/<name>; parse rejects non-canonical numbers, and the Listing queues are keyed by the full track name, so a reopened name is a distinct stream and a held handle to an earlier chat cannot read a later one.
• Ended pending opens when the local socket closes. Inner::create_track re-checks local.poll_closed after creating the track, poll_accept_uni/poll_accept_bi and OpenBi::poll_ok return Error::Closed once the local broadcast ends, and open_* refuse new tracks.
• Skipped a track dropped between the listing and the lookup. poll_accept_uni now loops on Error::NotFound exactly like poll_accept_bi, matching the documented skip behavior.
• Documented the number scheme, the one-listener-per-path rule, and the opt-in moq-lite-07 requirement in the concept page, the concept index, the moq-net API doc, and the socket quest README.
• Covered the new behavior with tests: two same-name bi opens, a reopened name, a stalled and a late-answered open after a local close, and the mirrored priority on the opener's consumer.
• Verified the affected suites pass: cargo test -p moq-net --lib model::socket (3 tests) and cargo test -p moq-net --test integration socket (9 tests).

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Design change: maintainer decisions from 2026-11-03 (/quest-complete).

1. Socket streams copy QUIC's API and have no application name. Stream tracks are now .<opener>/<kind>/<number> (dial/accept, uni/bi, the opener's never-reused counter). The surface was already quinn's shape, so the methods keep their names and lose only the name argument: open_uni(info), open_bi(info), accept_uni() returning the peer's track::Consumer (the Uni wrapper is gone), and accept_bi() returning Bi { producer, consumer }. info stays because a track needs its priority, timescale, and compression. Well-known channels such as boy's command and CARLA's control, ack, and latency are fixed-name tracks on Socket::local()/remote(), not streams. A new test covers a fixed track beside a stream. Not chosen: a hidden number plus an app name, or making name uniqueness the app's job.
2. Auth uses moq.pro-style tokens with prefix grants only. doc/concept/socket.md gains an Authorization section. With root L, the listener gets subscribe: [".dial/**"], publish: [".accept/**"], and a dialer gets publish: [".dial/<id>"], subscribe: [".accept/<id>"]. No mid-path wildcard is needed, and patterns match .-prefixed segments like any other (hiding narrows only discovery). The new rs/moq-relay/tests/integration/socket_auth.rs runs the reference moq auth serve policy with a real signed key. A dial, its accept, and a bi stream succeed. A dialer with another id's token can neither read that id's .accept nor dial as it. Widening the attacker's grant to .dial/* or .accept/* fails the test.

The epic README records both decisions, and the docs and the sibling quests (js, py, boy, carla) are updated. The local review restarts with quest review --new.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed head: 1378093

1. [P2] Order the accept subscription against listing removal (rs/moq-net/src/model/socket.rs:398–422). Accept A can pop a bi add, release the listing lock and obtain its consumer. If the opener drops that track, concurrent accept/open B can drain its Removed event and remove the not-yet-inserted reading entry; A then inserts a pending subscription after the only removal. That pending handle can contain a rejected track state and is never polled or pruned. Since stream numbers are unique, repeating this race retains arbitrarily many stale entries even while the peer's live listing stays bounded. Keep registration ordered with listing removal, or track liveness equivalently, and test the interleaving.

2. [P2] Do not use aggregate demand as proof the peer accepted (socket.rs:488–493). track::Demand includes queries, subscriptions and fetches by any reader. With a public origin or an authorized observer of .dial/<id>, that observer can read the opener's track before the socket peer calls accept_bi; the open then resolves early through a lazy answer on a relayed origin, or can fail NotFound on a shared local origin with no answer yet. Use an acknowledgment attributable to the intended socket peer rather than aggregate demand, and test a second reader before acceptance. The example's narrowly scoped dialer tokens do prevent other dialers from reading that path; this concerns valid broader read grants, not a bypass of those tokens.

The local-close fix from my earlier review remains in place; the earlier head-of-line concern remains withdrawn. The move to unnamed numbered streams follows the recorded maintainer decision, but the acceptance signal and its lifecycle need the same peer and resource guarantees as the socket API.

Verification: GitHub-only static review of the incremental changes and track, listing and broadcast primitives; I did not run tests or reproduce the races.

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[kixelated]

Design change: maintainer decisions from 2026-11-04 (/quest-complete), settling both Waiting items and reworking the naming and protocols.

1. ✅ Keep <dialer>/<S> session track naming. A dial and an answer can't be confused, the claimed dialer is named for the return-routability check, and S (random per dial) makes every session unique. Not chosen: reader-named halves.
2. ✅ A TCP session half is a single group, not a track of messages. It's one QUIC stream on every hop, so it's reliable, ordered and flow controlled like a TCP direction: frames are writes, finishing is FIN, and resetting is RST. socket::TcpStream { producer: group::Producer, consumer: group::Consumer }, with no track-level settings. A second group resets the session. Not chosen: track::Ordered with one message per group.
3. ✅ One announcement per endpoint, used only for routing: <prefix>/.socket/<id>. The session track carries the protocol, the dialer and the session: tcp/<dialer>/<S>. An unknown protocol is reset as unsupported. Grants: publish .socket/<self>, subscribe .socket/**. The module stays socket. This replaces .tcp/<id>.
4. ✅ Two protocols now, tcp/ and track/, over the same handshake. track/<dialer>/<S> hands the app the whole session tracks (groups as messages, with their own priority, budget and order), with the reader starting reliable and ascending. Separate dials and accepts per protocol: dial_tcp / accept_tcp → TcpStream, and dial_track / accept_track → TrackStream. A later quic/ is another prefix on the same endpoint.

The PR body lists the implementation choices, including TrackStream::consumer being the handshake's track::Subscriber, and a tcp session task that copies the peer's group so it can reset it. The local review restarts with quest review --new.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed head d5e854b, following a48eea0. The previously reported session-name replay and synchronous wake under the endpoint lock remain in the redesigned handshake; neither is fixed by the new protocol split.

[P2] Preserve a peer reset after its TCP group finishes (rs/moq-net/src/model/socket.rs:1025–1041). Once group 0 has arrived, the pump watches only poll_largest. That API returns None for both a clean track end and an abort. If a peer finishes group 0, the application reads FIN, and the peer then aborts its still-open track while our producer remains open, the pump drops the subscriber on None without seeing the error. The finished group retains its clean outcome, and our producer remains writable rather than being reset as promised. Observe the track's terminal result as well, and cover a finished group followed by a track abort while the other half stays open.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static review of the new TCP/track lifecycle and prior handshake paths, including an independent pass. I did not run the tests or reproduce the reset or replay scenarios.

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[pullfrog]

Caution

This PR's session proof binds only the dialer, so a peer that learned a session id can impersonate that dialer to a third endpoint.

Reviewed changes

• Replaced the .tcp pipe with .socket endpoints. Every endpoint now announces <prefix>/.socket/<id> for routing only, and session tracks are <protocol>/<dialer>/<S> in both endpoints.
• Added the tcp protocol. dial_tcp / accept_tcp yield TcpStream with one group each way, FIN/RST, a driver-hosted pump that copies the peer's group and paces the writer, and a reset on a second group.
• Added the track protocol. dial_track / accept_track yield TrackStream, this side's track::Producer and the handshake's reliably-subscribed track::Subscriber.
• Routed dials per protocol. Dials queue per protocol, an unknown or unaccepted protocol resets Unsupported, and the first accept marks a protocol listening.
• Updated docs, quests, CHANGELOG, and tests for both protocols, and moved the relay auth test onto Tokio.

🚨 A dialed peer can replay its session id to impersonate the dialer

The return-routability check proves only that the claimed dialer used S, not that it dialed this acceptor. An endpoint B that A legitimately dialed learns S, then subscribes to a third endpoint C's .socket/C for tcp/A/S; C's accept subscribes to A's .socket/A for the same name, A serves that half to any demand, and C opens a session reporting peer A while its replies go to B.

Technical details

# Session id replay lets an earlier peer impersonate the dialer

## Affected sites
- `rs/moq-net/src/model/socket.rs:63-65` — `track_name` carries `<protocol>/<dialer>/<session>`; the intended acceptor is absent.
- `rs/moq-net/src/model/socket.rs:534-541` — `dial` reserves the half under that name and `Dialing` later serves it on aggregate `track::Demand` (`socket.rs:837-848`), whichever endpoint asked.
- `rs/moq-net/src/model/socket.rs:910-918` — `Accepting` subscribes to the claimed dialer's broadcast and accepts once that shared half is served; it never proves the dialer dialed *this* endpoint.
- `rs/moq-net/tests/integration/socket.rs` — `a_forged_dial_never_connects` only covers an `S` the claimed dialer never used.
- `doc/concept/socket.md:75-83` — claims the exchange fails any dial forged in the dialer's name.

## Why it happens
- `broadcast::Producer::reserve_unlisted_track` inserts the track into the broadcast table (`broadcast.rs:465-470`), so a request for `tcp/A/S` is joined directly and never reaches `A`'s `poll_dial` self-id reset (`socket.rs:360-371`).
- `Dialing` serves its reservation when `demand.wanted().is_some()`, and `track::Demand` aggregates every reader. Any party that knows `S` can create that demand.
- After the real dial resolves, the live producer keeps accepting any subscriber to the same name.

## Required outcome
- An acceptor completes a dial only when the named dialer made that dial to it, so a peer that learned the id from its own session with `A` cannot tee off a session between `A` and `C`.

## Suggested approach
- Bind the half to the intended acceptor, for example by including the acceptor id in the reserved session name (`<protocol>/<dialer>/<acceptor>/<S>`) or by carrying and verifying the acceptor in the answer.
- Add a three-endpoint regression: `A` dials malicious `B`, then `B` forges `tcp/A/S` to `C`, and assert `C`'s accept fails and `B` reads nothing.

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[pullfrog]

Diagnosis: unrelated infrastructure failure — no code fix pushed.

All three failing modules (check biome, check js, check markdown) failed in the same place: bun install --frozen-lockfile → root postinstall → bun run --cwd js/libav build → nix build ../..#moq-libav, where the fixed-output derivation for ffmpeg-9.0.tar.xz timed out contacting ffmpeg.org (curl: (28) ... after ~133s; log lines 35812–35903). The Rust gates passed (check rs 344s, test rs 724s), and this PR's diff touches only doc/, quest/, rs/moq-net, and rs/moq-relay — no js/libav, flake.nix, or cache inputs.

This is the known moq-libav substitution gap already planned in #7828 ("cache libav sources"): the same failure hit #7685 and #7760, and two other runs today (41796786716, 41798649871).

No fix was pushed: a code change here would be unrelated churn. The next step is to land #7828's cache-warming plan (or add nix build .#moq-libav to the Cache workflow's warm step) so the derivation is substituted from R2, then re-run this Check. Merging origin/main now would not help while the derivation remains cold.

Task list (4/4 completed)

• Checkout PR feat(net): socket endpoints with tcp and track sessions #7677 and fetch failed Check logs
• Determine whether failure was introduced by this PR
• Diagnose root cause (ffmpeg-9.0 fetch outage during bun install)
• Report diagnosis; no unrelated code fix pushed

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[kixelated]

Answers to the reviews on d5e854b (OpenAI, pullfrog) and the two findings the OpenAI review on a48eea0f1 carried forward. Fixes are in 3fd88d8 and 3983339.

[P2] Preserve a peer reset after its TCP group finishes (OpenAI). Fixed. Once group 0 has arrived, the session task still watches poll_largest, but when it reports the track's end it now asks poll_finished which end it was. A reset is passed on and resets the half that remains open; a clean finish still leaves it open, as a TCP half-close does. New test a_peer_reset_after_fin_resets_the_session covers both, after group 0 was read to FIN. It fails without the fix.

[P2] Claim incoming requests outside the endpoint lock (OpenAI, a48eea0). Fixed, at two levels. A poller now takes the endpoint's broadcast::Requests out of its state, polls it with no lock held, and sorts what it took under the lock as it puts the handler back. A poller that finds it taken waits to be woken when it returns (3983339, after the local review found that a mutex of its own still held a lock across the wake). A dial taken while the endpoint closed is reset with Cancel, like the queued ones. That alone wasn't enough: Requests::poll_requested_track claimed the request, which wakes its subscribers, while holding the broadcast's own lock, and close() takes that lock through Publication::close. It now claims after releasing that lock. A close that lands in between rejects the request, as it does one still queued. New unit test taking_a_dial_wakes_outside_the_lock uses an inline waker that accepts again and then closes the endpoint from the dial's wake. With only the endpoint fix it still deadlocked on the broadcast's lock, which the test reports through a 10 s guard instead of hanging.

[P1] A dialed peer can replay its session id to impersonate the dialer (pullfrog, and OpenAI since a48eea0). Confirmed. The name <protocol>/<dialer>/<S> doesn't name the acceptor, so the return-routability check proves that A dialed S, not that it dialed C. Binding the acceptor changes the session track naming the maintainer settled on 2026-11-04 (keep <dialer>/<S>), so this push doesn't change it. It's in the PR body's ## Waiting with a recommendation: name sessions <protocol>/<dialer>/<acceptor>/<S>, and have an endpoint reset a dial that names another acceptor. Meanwhile the docs state the limit instead of the stronger claim: doc/concept/socket.md (Accept and Hidden names), the module docs, and Incoming::peer.

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[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed head 3983339, following d5e854b.

The post-group-FIN reset finding is addressed: the pump now observes the track's terminal result and propagates an abort. The dial claim path also releases the endpoint, broadcast and handler locks before waking subscribers; the new regression exercises re-entry. The previously reported session-name replay concern remains unchanged and is recorded for a maintainer decision. The separate broadcast-close wake issue is also acknowledged in the PR. I found no additional actionable issue in this update.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static inspection of the changed claim and pump paths and tests, with an independent pass. I did not run tests or reproduce the inline-waker or peer-reset scenarios.

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[pullfrog]

ℹ️ No critical issues in this delta. Two minor suggestions inline; the session-replay decision from the previous review still awaits the maintainer.

Reviewed changes

• Polled the dial handler with no endpoint lock. State now holds a Handler (None/Idle/Taken), so a poller takes Requests out, polls it unlocked, and puts it back, waking any pollers that found it taken.
• Woke dials outside every lock. close() takes the handler and queue waiters under the lock and wakes after releasing it, and a request popped during a concurrent close is reset with Cancel.
• Claimed requests after releasing the broadcast lock. Requests::poll_requested_track drops the broadcast guard before claim(), so an inline executor can re-enter from the wake.
• Propagated a peer reset after FIN. Once group 0 arrived, the tcp pump asks poll_finished when poll_largest reports the end, so a reset after a clean group finish resets the half that remains open.
• Documented the replay limit and the track cache idle window, and added a_peer_reset_after_fin_resets_the_session plus taking_a_dial_wakes_outside_the_lock.

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[pullfrog]

This rationale does not match the code: Request::claim only sets the track's publication state (track.rs:9167-9172), and the request was already removed from the queue above (broadcast.rs:871-872), so claiming wakes nobody and a close landing in between leaves the request to this handler. The wake actually comes from dropping the state guard. Worth rewording so the invariant is not misread.

Suggested change

	// Claimed after the lock is released, since claiming wakes the track's subscribers
	// and an inline executor can re-enter the broadcast from that wake. A close landing
	// in between rejects the request, as it would one still queued.
	// Release the broadcast lock before claiming, since dropping it wakes anyone parked
	// on the broadcast and an inline executor can re-enter here from that wake. The
	// request is already out of the queue, so a close landing in between leaves it to
	// this handler.

[kixelated]

Declining this one; the existing comment matches the code:

• Claiming wakes the track's subscribers. Request::claim writes the track state through kio::Mut, and dropping a modified Mut publishes and wakes the channel's waiters (rs/kio/src/channel.rs:344). So releasing the broadcast lock first is what keeps a re-entrant inline wake from deadlocking.
• A close in between rejects the request. The request is out of the queue but already cached in tracks (cache_track just above), still Publication::Pending until claimed. BroadcastState::reject_unserved rejects every pending cached track (broadcast.rs:184, via TrackWeak::reject, track.rs:4277), so a close landing between the unlock and the claim rejects it. A queued request is rejected the same way.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[kixelated]

Design change: the maintainer settled both ## Waiting items, each the recommendation.

1. Session tracks are now <protocol>/<dialer>/<acceptor>/<S>, binding a session to both ends. An endpoint resets, as not found, a request naming another acceptor, and a dialer serves only the name it dialed, so a peer that learned S can't replay the session to a third endpoint posing as the dialer. This lands now, before the JS and Python ports copy the scheme.
2. Incoming::accept follows the claimed dialer's endpoint for as long as the dial stays open, with no timer, instead of failing at once when it isn't announced. It gives up with Cancel once the dialer's subscription goes.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed head 0161d5b following 3983339, accounting for the base merge. Naming both endpoints addresses the prior session replay finding, with a three-endpoint regression. The accept now follows a delayed dialer's announcement while its request stays open. The earlier post-FIN reset and wake-lock fixes remain in place.

• P2: Avoid rescanning every live queued dial on each poll (socket.rs:434–444). After an app enables both protocols and continues accepting only TCP, each new request or TCP accept poll scans the entire still-open track queue under the shared endpoint lock. Holding N track dials open and adding them one at a time costs N(N−1)/2 demand checks; subsequent TCP polls each scan all N even if none was abandoned. This makes ordinary acceptance increasingly expensive and lets a growing backlog delay both protocols. Track cancellation incrementally or amortize pruning, and exercise a growing live queue as well as abandoned dials. This is separate from whether to cap admission.

Verification: GitHub-only static review of the new handshake, cancellation, queue and tests, with independent passes. I did not run tests, reproduce the races or measure queue throughput.

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