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Problem

Long interop and wire-compat matrices launch binaries and load libraries after Cargo exits. mbx's Cargo lease has already ended, so shared-target collection can remove those artifacts during the matrix.

Approach

• Stage the relay, CLI, subscriber overrides, every Rust example, C header/staticlib, and GStreamer plugin under the private harness run immediately after building. Point all subsequent consumers there. Hard links avoid repeated binary data copies in nested cells; copies support filesystems that cannot link.
• Stage wire-compat's current binaries and both catalog/container adapters. Released installs, Python wheels, Go packages, and C++ libraries already have run-owned destinations.
• Link the C client with the staged static archive explicitly, avoiding a shared library from the target search path.
• Add six fixture tests to just test harness. They remove only their own target/cache fixtures, then execute late examples and overrides, compile/run C, load a native plugin, and use the compat adapters. Cover dereferencing, successful teardown, failure retention, nested ownership after parent teardown, inode sharing, and copy fallback. Remove the completed quest and its link.

Impact

• Public API: none.
• Wire: none.
• Run directories now retain build artifacts until teardown. Builds still use the existing Cargo cache; no mbx policy or other work's output is changed.

Alternatives and choices

Chose dereferenced hard links with a copy fallback, matching the existing CMake staging pattern and using the existing harness lifetime. The installed mbx 1.25.0 has no public arbitrary-command target lease; its mbx exec implementation caches C/C++ compilation without leasing the Cargo target. A global pin or mbx's internal lock layout would add coupling. Staging also works without mbx and across filesystems. Overrides retain independent child-owned paths rather than borrowing a parent path that could disappear on cancellation.

Validation

• Host mbx gc --dry-run --json: would remove three managed targets, 3,104,151,806 logical bytes, with no active target reported. No real host GC was run.
• Isolated mbx fixtures with an owned cache/target root and automatic GC disabled: mbx gc --dry-run would remove one live target, zero abandoned targets, keeping the most recent one. Both fixture executables remained present. This confirms collection can evict an idle Cargo target while its checkout still exists, consistent with the installed release's collection/lease implementation.
• The three consumer/lifetime fixtures fail against origin/main and pass with staging; all six final tests pass.
• just ci passed; quest check --base origin/main passed.
• Real just test interop --publishers rust --subscribers rust,c,gst passed, including native audio/plugin loading, FETCH, late join, and finite track tails.
• Full just test harness: 39 browser tests passed; three unchanged browser tests failed. The two paused buffering tests match the missing-config fixture already fixed in moq-dev/moq#7672. The open-GOP recovery test timed out after an undefined name error. All new staging tests and preceding harness checks passed. No full browser-harness pass is claimed. The complete released wire-compat matrix was not run.

Review

Codex / gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort, session 01a1a2ff-b67d-77e1-9e2e-9d7b182b7f06, round 1 reviewed 4bf93188aa353f1b1c002c05f536cdee02de978d against origin/main at 151ed3820d8127026cbb28d78c155cfccdd633d8: no findings. The head merges origin/main without conflicts. The PR's own diff is unchanged from the previously reviewed c62bed3f5c; only context lines in the quest README differ.

Posted review findings on c62bed3, both refuted with evidence, threads resolved:

• CodeRabbit (Major) and the OpenAI review's P1: stage examples when both RELAY_BIN and CLI_BIN are set. Refuted here. Any override sets IN_TREE=0, and every example consumer runs only in-tree, except interop-audio. That one needs AUDIO=1 without INTEROP_DECODE, and the decode branch returns before it. This matches origin/main's early return.
• CodeRabbit (Minor): noexec preflight for the run directory. Refuted here. origin/main already executes the Go, C, venv, and released binaries from $HARNESS_RUN.
• Pullfrog: no issues.

Checks on 4bf9318: just ci origin/main passed. lib/harness.test.sh, interop/relay-log.test.sh, and all six interop/staging.test.py tests passed.

Earlier rounds: Claude Code / Claude Opus 5.5 found redundant full-binary copies in nested compat cells. Fixed with hard links plus a copy fallback, then a clean round on c62bed3.

Follow-ups

The buffering failures overlap moq-dev/moq#7672 and the active browser-media-flakes quest, claimed by moq-dev/moq#7716. Suggested follow-up: plan a separate quest for the open-GOP recovery error (undefined name), which is outside artifact ownership and outside the existing buffering/Firefox quest's Goal. No new follow-up quest was created by this implementation child.

(Written by GPT-6.1 Sol)

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

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Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: c62bed3

• P1 — Stage decode helpers even with binary overrides (test/interop/interop.sh:593–625): When both RELAY_BIN and CLI_BIN are supplied, build_examples=0 skips staging, but EXAMPLES still points to the new empty run directory. The compatibility harness supplies both overrides with INTEROP_DECODE=1 for Rust media readers, and the audio path later executes $EXAMPLES/interop-audio; those cells fail with a missing executable even if the helper was previously built. Build and stage required in-tree helpers independently of the binary overrides, or explicitly supply owned staged helpers to each child. Add an override-plus-decode regression.

Run-local hard-link/copy staging is a sensible way to preserve artifacts. Static review only; I did not run the compatibility matrix.

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

• test/lib/harness.sh: adds harness_stage, which dereferences symlinks and hard-links a build artifact into the run directory, falling back to a copy across filesystems and failing loud on a missing source.
• test/interop/interop.sh: stages the relay, CLI, the INTEROP_SUB_MOQ override, every Rust example (non-override MEDIA=0 runs), the C header/staticlib, and the GStreamer plugin after building, then points all later consumers at the run-owned paths; the C client now links the staged libmoq.a explicitly instead of -lmoq.
• test/interop/compat.sh: stages current/moq, current/moq-relay, and both compat-container adapters and reads them from the run directory for every cell.
• test/interop/staging.test.py: six fixtures for dereferencing, successful teardown, failure retention, nested ownership after parent teardown, inode sharing, and copy fallback, wired into just test harness.
• test/README.md documents the staging contract; the completed quest/m0/ci/shared-target and its index link are removed.

I traced every late-load consumer in both scripts. All $TARGET_BASE / $TARGET references are now staging sources at build time, the seven $EXAMPLES/interop-* sites are reachable only in in-tree runs (IN_TREE=1) or the AUDIO=1 && INTEROP_DECODE!=1 path that override runs cannot take, and the released/Python/Go/C++ clients already land under $HARNESS_RUN. The build_examples=0 gate for override runs is therefore consistent with actual usage. The moq-c crate is staticlib-only, so the explicit archive link preserves prior behavior.

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Walkthrough

Interop and compatibility scripts now stage build artifacts and binary overrides in the harness run directory, then use those staged paths for execution, linking, and plugin loading. A new helper stages artifacts with symlinks and falls back to copies. A unittest suite checks staging behavior, including after target-directory removal, and the harness recipe runs the suite. Test documentation describes the staged paths, while earlier shared-target documentation and a related requirement were removed.

Severity of issue fixed: Low

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to c62be

Non-media runs using binary overrides now fail because required Rust examples are missing from the run directory. Fix example staging before merging, and document or validate that the run directory permits execution.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "fix(test): retain artifacts for long interop runs" matches the main change. The PR stages relay, CLI, overrides, examples, C headers/libs, and GStreamer plugins under the harness run direct…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 83.33% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentati…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The pull request description directly explains the artifact-staging changes, their purpose, testing, impact, and known unrelated failures.

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The title "fix(test): retain artifacts for long interop runs" matches the main change. The PR stages relay, CLI, overrides, examples, C headers/libs, and GStreamer plugins under the harness run directory so they survive shared-target collection during long interop and wire-compat runs. The title is specific and concise, and it uses a conventional commit prefix.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

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Docstring coverage is 83.33% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 12 functions across 4 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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• quest/m0/ci/README.md
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Follow-up Comments

Keep the staged relay and CLI from depending on the shared target after the build returns.

610-611: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Keep the staged relay and CLI from depending on the shared target after the build returns.

Background collection can start after cargo build returns. When the managed targets are over budget, mbx removes inactive targets least recently used first. That can remove the target that holds $RELAY and $MOQ before harness_stage links them. The set -euo pipefail in interop.sh then aborts the run. Staging is the first copy of these files, so no retained copy covers the gap. Consider running the build and the staging calls under one lease-holding mbx command. Verify that the wrapper covers the staging step before relying on it.

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Review comment at @test/interop/interop.sh around lines 610 - 611:
Keep the managed target lease active across the build and both harness_stage
calls for $RELAY and $MOQ in interop.sh, so neither staged file depends on a
target that can be removed between build completion and staging. Use the
established mbx mechanism, and verify it holds the lease through staging before
relying on it.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

This run re-reviewed the commit landed since the prior Pullfrog review; the PR's own diff is unchanged.

• Merged origin/main into the branch without conflicts; none of the staging code (harness.sh, interop.sh, compat.sh, fixtures) changed.
• The only delta in the PR's eight files is a quest/m0/ci/README.md context line removed upstream (the code-scanning-triage quest link), unrelated to this PR's change.

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Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: 4bf9318

I withdraw my previous P1 about missing interop-audio with both binary overrides. I missed the control-flow guards: an override sets IN_TREE=0, and when INTEROP_DECODE=1 the Rust subscriber's ffmpeg branch returns before the interop-audio launch. Without decode, CLI_BIN turns audio off. The author's refutation is correct.

The staging implementation is unchanged from the previously reviewed head after the base merge. No additional substantive finding in this follow-up. Static review only; I did not run the compatibility matrix or tests.

[pullfrog]

The Check failure is unrelated to this PR and is an already-tracked flake, so I made no changes.

Diagnosis: just ci failed only at js/net/src/lite/subscriber.test.ts:2941 (a version without a boundary syncs once the request is out: expected true, received false); ci: test js failed was the sole failing step.

Not introduced here: git diff origin/main HEAD -- js/net/ is empty, and this PR only touches test/ interop staging plus quest docs. The test was added to main by d6d0650c2. It is the flake tracked by quest/m0/test-flakes-2/js-boundary-sync.md: the shared write budget can yield one extra host turn before the announce request is out, so the harness's single settle() is not always enough.

Fix already in flight: moq-dev/moq#7663 "test(net): wait for announce requests before asserting sync" makes the harness wait for the response read instead. Its Check passes, but its branch is currently DIRTY against main.

Verification: the full @moq/net suite (2764 tests) passes twice under both bun 1.4.2 (the CI version) and 1.4.4, and I could not reproduce it in repeated runs. Duplicating #7663 here would conflict with it and break this PR's one-problem scope.

Recommended unblock: rebase/land #7663, then rerun this PR's Check.

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