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Problem

The quest tree had drifted from the goal: one Rust code base callable from any language or framework, with no manual wrappers or annotations, fast, and refusing at export what it cannot support. An audit on 2026-11-09 (three readers over the tree, one over the exporter's run-time failure and call paths, one over 2026's tools) found:

• A third of the repository is a UniFFI fork that moq decided on 2026-11-02 never to build on, with nightly jobs red since then and no quest to remove it.
• The nightly has failed every scheduled run since 2026-10-29, unowned.
• The exporter is host-only (--target is refused), so cfg-gated API is wrong for Android, iOS, and Windows, and wasm is impossible. Unowned.
• No exporter measurement is committed, though speed is the stated priority.
• Bindings map to idiomatic types that truncate, clamp, panic, or abort where Rust would go on, and every failed run-time check aborts the host process.
• The translator had no gate, while moq's and rust2's records disagreed on whether WASM or JS is the browser route.
• rust2's exporter epic and moq's switch each waited on the other.
• Stale facts: generators described as pending that landed, two moq waits that cleared on 2026-11-09, counts, and docs still promising the closed subset compiler.

Approach

Quest files and docs only. Decisions were settled with the maintainer in four interview rounds; each is recorded with its rejected options in the quest that owns it.

• m0: new delete-uniffi, nightly-green, bench-trim.
• m1: the exporter epic now ends where moq can pin it, and gains target, lossless, checks-raise, not-send, names, reproducible, and bench. The refusals epic drops its landing order and lists the config deletions it had missed. session-quic moves to m3. moq-pin loses its two cleared waits.
• m2: new wasm/ epic (the exporter's wasm32 target, every route on the browser benchmark, and the gate) and a compile-checks spike. The ubrn wait is deleted with the benchmark runner it served.
• m3: new csharp, node, and react-native target quests; the translator quests no consumer calls wait on the gate; the unsafe policy gains the kept run-time checks as rule 5, which AGENTS.md cited but nothing stated.
• AGENTS.md: three rule edits the maintainer approved (a binding's run-time checks, lossless types, targets planned ahead of a consumer), and its first line now names the exporter and drops the closed subset.

Decisions

All decided with the maintainer on 2026-11-09.

• Browser route: ✅ WASM ships, TypeScript must beat it (rejected: JS-only stays the goal; pause rust2-ts). Supersedes moq's 2026-10-12 and rust2's 2026-11-01 decisions.
• UniFFI fork: ✅ delete now (rejected: retire when moq switches; keep as is).
• !Send: ✅ a thread check, with an owner-thread shim only where a language has no stable thread (rejected: a shim everywhere; keep refusing).
• Type mapping: ✅ lossless always, with checked conversions to and from the idiomatic type (rejected: idiomatic but never silent; keep as is).
• rust2-wasm: ✅ m2, with per-target export in m1 (rejected: all in m1; all in m2).
• Cleanup: ✅ fork deletion and the nightly in m0 (rejected: nightly in m0 and fork in m1; both in m1).
• Exporter epic's end: ✅ "moq can pin it" (rejected: keep the end-to-end here; end at a clean census).
• Translator scope: ✅ gate path only (rejected: continue as today; freeze entirely).
• Failed checks: ✅ checks raise, panics abort (rejected: everything raises; keep aborting).
• New targets: ✅ C#/Unity, Node-API, and React Native all planned in m3 (rejected: none until a consumer asks).
• Compile-time checks in Swift and C++: ✅ a spike in m2 (rejected: in m1; not planned).
• Build-speed track: ✅ trim it (rejected: keep as is; remove the track).
• session-quic: ✅ m3 (rejected: m2; stay in m1).
• Refusal quests' order: ✅ dropped (rejected: enforce it with Required links).
• Opt-out: ✅ none; no quest recommends #[doc(hidden)] (rejected: #[doc(hidden)] as the opt-out; export hidden items too).
• AGENTS.md: ✅ apply the three rule edits (rejected: quests only).

Choices I made without asking, for review:

• AGENTS.md's first line: beyond the three approved rule edits, it now names the exporter and replaces "a pure-Rust subset" with "measuring upstream's levers". The fork stays mentioned until its deletion PR.
• moq-pin is resized [XS] to [S], since the last bump touched the fixtures, the stand-in's excludes, and rust2-ts's expected output.
• checks-raise requires bench, and lossless and not-send require checks-raise, so the call cost has a committed baseline before it changes.
• The gate sets no numeric threshold; the maintainer decides from its report.

Impact

• No code or public API changes.
• AGENTS.md rules change as listed above.

Alternatives

• Editing the quests that open PRs rewrite (generics, std-types, poll, borrows, cache, ts-runtime-throws, ts-pin-own-deref, ts-u64-wrapping): left to those PRs, apart from small-shapes and narrow-standin, whose text the new decisions contradict.

Follow-ups

For open PRs, not changed here:

• #678 and #679 recommend #[doc(hidden)] to moq; the no-opt-out decision drops that.
• #675 keeps !Send refused and links a quest #671 deleted; !Send is now not-send's.
• #670 hands Client::connect and Server::accept_request to poll.md, which #679 rewrites without them, so they lose their owner once both land.
• #683 and #676 each wait on a maintainer decision (/quest-unblock).
• #426 leaves cache.md's Goal numbers at the audit's while its body measures new ones.

For moq's tree, recommended to plan there: quest/m5/rs2ts-js.md and rs2ts-wasm2js.md still record "JS-only is the final goal"; quest/m3/ffi-exporter.md links four rust2 quests that are long deleted; quest/m5/README.md still says "safe twins"; and no moq quest makes kio::Pending and lite::version::Version reachable, which moq-pin waits on.

Dropped, with reasons: a quest for rust2-go's cost while parked (49 s of the nightly; nothing to do), and one for rust2-lint (moq's CI plans to adopt it in moq's own tree).

Models

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Implementer: Claude Code, claude-fable-5-2, high effort

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(Written by Claude Fable 5 with high)

Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, high effort
• Session: 01a1c2d3-d12a-7631-a54b-279d1a175c30, round 2
• Head: 5244aba
• Base: origin/main at f21fd77
• Score: 10/10, The incremental changes clarify documentation and quest plans without introducing any actionable defects.
• Findings: none

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Walkthrough

This change revises project and quest documentation across milestones. It records FFI exporter requirements for binding types, runtime checks, target-specific exports, and refusal behavior. It adds a rust2-wasm proposal and browser benchmark gate, and ties further translator work to that gate. It also updates plans for fork removal, nightly failures, benchmark scope, and future binding targets.

Merge Risk: Low · up to cbba0

This PR only updates planning documents, so nothing changes at runtime. Several of the planned designs have specification gaps that should be fixed before implementation starts, but they do not block merging the documents.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the quest-tree audit and the exporter planning, which are the main changes.
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 description directly explains the quest and documentation changes, their goals, and their impact. It is related to the changeset.

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Actionable comments posted: 8

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• Fix comments: Fix CodeRabbit comments on this PR

Prompt to fix all issues

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comments at @quest/m1/ffi-export/not-send.md:
- Line 27: Update the owner-thread free-queue flow described in the
documentation so queuing a free also schedules a drain on that owner thread,
even when no further calls occur. Preserve the existing owner-thread rule for
freeing values; identify and use the established scheduling mechanism rather
than draining on the finalizer’s thread.
- Around line 31-34: Update the Swift actor and Dart isolate guidance so
confinement is not described or enforced as OS-thread affinity; route calls to
thread-affine values through an executor pinned to their owner OS thread, and
verify calls after suspension and through the Dart relay without rejecting valid
calls that resume or run on another thread.

Review comments at @quest/m1/ffi-export/refusals/narrow-standin.md:
- Around line 25-28: The narrow-standin goal omits exports used by the moq
fixtures, causing `just ffi moq` to fail. Update the goal to include the
required exports, or revise the fixtures without reducing their coverage; ensure
`just ffi moq` passes.

Review comments at @quest/m1/ffi-export/reproducible.md:
- Around line 14-17: Update the --out export flow to resolve the generated
manifest and produce its lockfile at export time, verifying that dependencies
already present in the checked graph remain unchanged while incorporating
generated dependencies. Make the subsequent glue build use locked resolution so
it cannot update those versions; preserve the manifest’s [patch] settings.

Review comments at @quest/m2/wasm/backend.md:
- Around line 41-44: Update the wasm32-unknown-unknown export reachability rule
described for rust2-ts to distinguish calls that can return recoverable errors
from operations that necessarily panic. Do not reject an exported item merely
because its reachable body uses std::fs; reject only when the reachable path
necessarily panics, while preserving the call span for the diagnostic.
- Around line 24-25: Update the “Bytes Rust lends” contract to define a
representation or copy strategy that keeps bytes valid when a JavaScript
callback reenters an exported function and grows WASM memory; add a test that
exercises this reentrant memory-growth case.
- Around line 43-46: Update the backend plan around Timestamp::now and
kio::clock::now to establish a browser-compatible clock prerequisite in moq or
kio, or revise the stated rejection policy to permit a clock binding; specify
the chosen approach without assuming an unverified API or platform shim.
- Around line 8-10: Update the api fixture and its expected transcript for
wasm32-unknown-unknown so they avoid the thread-dependent api::filter path and
still verify the supported behavior. Preserve separate native coverage for
api::filter and other thread-dependent cases, and keep the existing futures
checks.

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• AGENTS.md
• README.md
• quest/README.md
• quest/m0/README.md
• quest/m0/bench-trim.md
• quest/m0/checks/README.md
• quest/m0/delete-uniffi.md
• quest/m0/nightly-green.md
• quest/m1/README.md
• quest/m1/ffi-export/README.md
• quest/m1/ffi-export/bench.md
• quest/m1/ffi-export/checks-raise.md
• quest/m1/ffi-export/lossless.md
• quest/m1/ffi-export/names.md
• quest/m1/ffi-export/not-send.md
• quest/m1/ffi-export/refusals/README.md
• quest/m1/ffi-export/refusals/moq-pin.md
• quest/m1/ffi-export/refusals/narrow-standin.md
• quest/m1/ffi-export/refusals/small-shapes.md
• quest/m1/ffi-export/reproducible.md
• quest/m1/ffi-export/target.md
• quest/m2/README.md
• quest/m2/compile-checks.md
• quest/m2/ts-model/README.md
• quest/m2/ubrn-release.md
• quest/m2/uniffi-swift-arm.md
• quest/m2/wasm/README.md
• quest/m2/wasm/backend.md
• quest/m2/wasm/routes.md
• quest/m3/README.md
• quest/m3/csharp.md
• quest/m3/node.md
• quest/m3/react-native.md
• quest/m3/relink.md
• quest/m3/session-quic.md
• quest/m3/ts-configless.md
• quest/m3/ts-wasm-bindgen/README.md
• quest/m4/fork.md
• quest/m4/go/coverage.md

Files with no reviewable changes: 1

• quest/m2/ubrn-release.md

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Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift

Do not treat actor or isolate confinement as thread affinity.

A Swift actor can resume on a different thread, and a Dart isolate can run on different OS threads. Valid calls can therefore fail the proposed owner-thread check. Dart’s existing relay can also run calls on a worker thread. Use an executor pinned to the owner OS thread for these values, and test calls after suspension and through the relay. (github.com)

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Review comment at @quest/m1/ffi-export/not-send.md around lines 31 - 34:
Update the Swift actor and Dart isolate guidance so confinement is not described
or enforced as OS-thread affinity; route calls to thread-affine values through
an executor pinned to their owner OS thread, and verify calls after suspension
and through the Dart relay without rejecting valid calls that resume or run on
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Fixed in 5244aba: the quest no longer treats an actor or isolate as thread affinity. A !Send value in Swift and Dart needs the thread check or the owner thread, unless an executor pinned to the owner thread holds it, with a test after a suspension and through Dart's relay.

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Analysis chain

Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -u
printf '%s\n' '--- Current revision ---'
git rev-parse HEAD
printf '%s\n' '--- Reported commit ---'
git show --no-ext-diff --format=fuller --stat 5244aba4 -- quest/m1/ffi-export/not-send.md
printf '%s\n' '--- Commit patch ---'
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git show --no-ext-diff --format= 5244aba4 -- quest/m1/ffi-export/not-send.md
printf '%s\n' '--- Current quest ---'
nl -ba quest/m1/ffi-export/not-send.md | sed -n '1,160p'
printf '%s\n' '--- Review and agent guidance files ---'
fd -HI -t f '^(AGENTS|REVIEW)\.md$' -E .git
printf '%s\n' '--- Thread-resolution guidance ---'
rg -n -i -C 2 'resolv(e|ing|ed|ution).{0,50}(thread|comment)|(thread|comment).{0,50}resolv(e|ing|ed|ution)|human.{0,50}(thread|resolv)' -g 'AGENTS.md' -g 'REVIEW.md' -g '!**/.git/**' . || true

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printf '%s\n' '--- Commit patch ---'
git show --no-ext-diff --format= 5244aba4 -- quest/m1/ffi-export/not-send.md
printf '%s\n' '--- Current quest ---'
nl -ba quest/m1/ffi-export/not-send.md | sed -n '1,160p'
printf '%s\n' '--- Review and agent guidance files ---'
fd -HI -t f '^(AGENTS|REVIEW)\.md$' -E .git
printf '%s\n' '--- Thread-resolution guidance ---'
rg -n -i -C 2 'resolv(e|ing|ed|ution).{0,50}(thread|comment)|(thread|comment).{0,50}resolv(e|ing|ed|ution)|human.{0,50}(thread|resolv)' -g 'AGENTS.md' -g 'REVIEW.md' -g '!**/.git/**' . || true

Length of output: 8278

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@kixelated The quest now distinguishes confinement from OS-thread affinity and lists the suspension and relay test cases.

One concern remains: a thread check alone can still reject a valid call after a thread switch. Please specify that calls are routed to the owner thread when the caller can switch threads, and that those test cases must succeed.

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File: REVIEW.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-30T09:47:09.382Z
Learning: Source excerpt:
# Review

- A test must fail without the change it covers.

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quest land watch: the merge queue removed this pull request at cbba03e because kixelated removed it (manual).

Its head has moved to 5244aba since, and a push by anyone but the land fixer ends the pick: the watcher leaves this pull request alone until a maintainer enqueues it again.

(written by quest land watch)