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Summary

The cluster API now records the environments each node publishes. A node's complete inventory fills usable_environment_refs and known_environment_refs on node_status_snapshots, and populates the runtime_environments catalog with each environment's identity, sort key, and the upgrade and memory edges every node build that can judge them agrees on. The provisioning recipe narrows to the unretired environments each node's build knows, so a cluster-wide catalog no longer has to stay under node-ctl's 32-environment recipe limit. A new distribution samples each node's recipe size from every publication, so the limit can be alerted on before it's reached.

Terms

• Known environment: an entry in a node build's compiled catalog for its architecture, published in NodeExecutionInventory.environments.known with its definition, the runtime release's sort key, and the build's certified upgrade and memory edges.
• Usable environment: a known environment the node can cold boot from verified artifacts under its startup policy (usable_environments). Evidence, not permission.
• Certification: what one node's build says about one known environment: its sort key and its edges. Stored per node in the new node_environment_certifications table.
• Edge: an upgrade edge certifies that a sandbox on one environment can be cold-boot upgraded to another; a memory edge also certifies the target can load the source's checkpoints. runtime_environments.upgrade_edges / memory_edges hold the aggregate.
• Retired: an operator set runtime_environments.retired_at. A retired environment counts as usable on no node and is in no recipe.
• Recipe: the RuntimeProvisioningRecipe GetNodeRuntimeDesiredState serves to nodes in the provisioning cohort: the environments node-ctl should install. node-ctl refuses one over MAX_RECIPE_ENVIRONMENTS (32) whole.

The problem

Nodes publish known and usable environments with sort keys and edges (PR #980), the observed-state columns and catalog table exist (PR #979), and the recipe serves the unretired catalog (PR #1001). Nothing connected them:

1. Nothing wrote usable_environment_refs, known_environment_refs or runtime_environments. Placement had no evidence to gate on, the activation-time upgrade decision had no edges, so every move off an environment that may not execute was stranded, and an enabled recipe cohort received an empty recipe.
2. runtime_environments keeps one edge set per environment. A writer that narrows it to existing ∩ reported can never add back an edge a newer build certifies, and can't recompute anything when a node upgrades, withdraws or is deleted; nodes are deleted routinely by drain termination, orphan cleanup, tombstone retention and the admin route. Intersecting over every node also lets a build that doesn't know an edge's target, such as another architecture's, veto it.
3. The recipe served the whole unretired catalog to every node. The catalog only grows until an operator retires entries, and every architecture's environments count, so the 33rd row would have stopped every admitted node from installing anything. The only signal was a per-response error log once that had already happened.

How this fixes it

• Record the arrays from a complete inventory. environment_observation::publish decodes the observation in the publication's transaction. A valid one stores the known set and the usable set minus retired environments, with environment_refs_received_at. An absent observation (an old node build) or one that fails to decode clears all three and withdraws the node's certifications, so the node has no evidence. Unavailable and legacy reports, heartbeats, and older cluster-api writers leave the arrays alone, to age out by their own receipt. The status upsert writes the three columns together, as the row's CHECK requires.
• Keep per-node certifications and aggregate edges from them. The node_environment_certifications table comes from PR [db] add the node_environment_certifications table #1274, now merged. record_node_certifications replaces the node's rows in node_environment_certifications, adds catalog rows for new environments, and recomputes the edges of every environment whose votes moved. An edge counts while every node whose build knows both of its ends certifies it; a build that doesn't know the target abstains. A report identical to the stored one writes nothing and takes no lock, so a steady fleet's publications don't touch the catalog. A change tries a transaction-scoped advisory lock, so recomputations are serialized and each sees the previous one's committed rows. A publication never waits for it: when another node's change or the periodic recompute below holds it, the publication records its arrays but not its certifications, and the node's next complete inventory tries again. Same-node publications serialize on the node row lock first, so those are the only two holders. An environment no node certifies any more keeps its last edges, so its sandboxes keep their upgrade paths.
• Recompute the aggregate periodically. Deleting a node cascades its certification rows away without recomputing anything, so an edge vetoed only by deleted nodes would stay out of the catalog until a node that knows its source changed its report, which in a steady fleet may never happen. The cluster controller's new environment_edge_recompute loop, spawned from run_reconcilers for both substrates, calls recompute_all_edges every five minutes. That recomputes every certified environment under the same try-lock in its own transaction. A tick that finds a publication holding the lock, or fails, leaves the correction to the next one. It's the one owner of that correction, whatever deleted the node.
• Narrow the recipe to the node's build. list_unretired_within defines the recipe: the unretired environments a known set lists, or the whole catalog for a node that hasn't reported one. list_unretired_for_node applies it to the node's known_environment_refs, reading both in one read-only snapshot. Past the limit the recipe is still omitted, as before.
• Sample the recipe size where it's written. Every complete inventory calls the same list_unretired_within, in a savepoint so a failed read skips only the sample, and emits internal_api.runtime_provisioning.recipe_environments, the size of the recipe that node would get, tagged catalog:known or catalog:full, whether or not recipes are served. It's a distribution, so the fleet maximum is readable across replicas.

The catalog row's identity columns are spelled as published executions record them (runtime alias such as fc, runtime version, kernel component version, state format), so the upgrade decision's unbound-record attribution matches them. A definition without a kernel or a state format gets no catalog row and is in no recipe, but its certification still counts as knowing the environment. The proto now states that readers reject a whole observation when any entry fails to decode, so readers must roll out before nodes publish a new entry kind. Placement and the activation-time upgrade decision don't read the new columns yet, and this PR defines no rule for when the arrays count as evidence: the first production reader, placement or the upgrade reconciler, owns that rule as a store predicate.

Validation

• runtime-environment-catalog-store Postgres tests:
  • builds_that_disagree_keep_only_the_edges_every_judging_build_certifies seeds four nodes on differing builds. It checks vetoes, abstention by a build that doesn't know the target, an upgrade that restores vetoed edges, and a withdrawal that restores a veto's edge.
  • deleting_the_last_vetoing_node_brings_the_edge_back_on_recompute: v1 vetoes A to B and two v2 nodes certify it. Deleting the v1 node leaves A's edges empty while a surviving node's identical report is Unchanged, and recompute_all_edges brings B back.
  • a_recompute_while_a_publication_holds_the_aggregate_is_deferred.
  • an_unchanged_report_writes_nothing_and_takes_no_lock leaves an Unchanged call uncommitted and checks that another node's change still records.
  • an_environment_no_node_certifies_keeps_its_last_edges, the_catalog_row_takes_the_definition_and_the_last_changed_nodes_sort_key, a_retired_environment_keeps_its_certifications.
  • a_change_while_another_holds_the_aggregate_waits_for_a_later_publication holds one node's veto uncommitted while another node withdraws. The withdrawal must defer without writing or waiting, and land on its next try with the veto counted.
  • a_node_is_assigned_the_unretired_environments_it_knows.
• cluster-controller-server: the_loop_keeps_recomputing_through_deferrals_and_errors drives the reconciler against a fake sink.
• internal-api-server tests through the real publish path and status upsert, with environments built from the E0 fixture:
  • a_complete_inventory_records_the_sets_and_the_catalog, including the catalog row's identity columns.
  • a_retired_environment_is_known_but_never_usable.
  • an_old_build_or_an_invalid_observation_leaves_the_node_without_evidence: a node that only ran an old build, a node downgraded to one, and a future-schema observation.
  • reports_without_a_complete_inventory_leave_the_sets_to_age.
  • nodes_on_three_builds_keep_the_edges_every_judging_build_certifies.
  • a_failed_recipe_sample_doesnt_fail_the_publication renames runtime_environments in its isolated database, so the sample's statement fails inside Postgres, and checks that an old build's publication still commits.
  • a_publication_never_waits_for_the_catalog_lock holds one node's change open, checks that another node's publication still succeeds under a short lock timeout with its arrays recorded, and that its certifications land on its next publication.
  • a_node_that_reports_its_known_environments_installs_only_those and a_cluster_catalog_over_the_limit_still_serves_nodes_that_know_fewer, through GetNodeRuntimeDesiredState.
• Mutation-checked every new guard: the recipe's known-set filter, retirement out of usable, clearing on an old build or an invalid observation, withdrawing votes, preserving on unavailable reports and heartbeats, abstention, the upgrade and memory intersections, recomputing only certified sources, the advisory lock and acting on a failed try, the unchanged-report fast path and its lock-free return, the periodic recompute and its try-lock, the recipe sample's savepoint, the sort-key update, the identity requirement. Each mutant fails at least one test above.
• Workspace clippy (ci/scripts/run-rust-checks.sh clippy) and cargo arch pass, with no required arch finding.
• Full workspace nextest through CI's entry points on a Linux build host: the unprivileged lane passed all 12418 tests. The privileged lane passed 70 of 76. The six failures are three node-runtime-core fs-verity tests (the host kernel has no fs-verity), two node-runtime-supervisor contained_launcher tests (unsafe-ancestor checks under the host's mirror path) and spaced-guest-worker::embedding (needs a private cgroup namespace). CI's privileged lane covers all of them, and none is in a crate this change touches.

Not validated: a deployed run.

Smoke test results

Kind with Firecracker on a dedicated KVM bench, before this branch was rebased across main's crate-layout move (the rebase changed no logic). The bench's pinned workspace was newer than this PR's base, so the run tested this PR and PR #1274 applied on top of that pin. The deployed services ran that build, the migration was applied, and the cluster controller started the edge-recompute loop.

Suite	Result	What it exercised
smoke-kind-e2e	PASS	Cold bring-up, then login, create, start, file API and a write/read round trip
local.forced_drain_evacuates_sandbox	PASS	Forced drain evacuates the resident from object storage to the other worker with its state intact; the node is held drained, then undrained with no tombstone
local.gentle_drain_leaves_sandbox_resident	PASS	Gentle drain holds the resident through twenty ticks, converges to drained once it suspends, then undrains

The writer ran end to end on the bench: every worker and builder recorded its usable and known environment sets with a fresh receipt, each node's certifications were stored, and the catalog filled with identity columns and edges. The stack ended healthy, with no tombstones and no stray sandbox pods.

Dependencies

None. This merges on its own: PR #1274, which adds the node_environment_certifications table, and PRs #979, #980 and #1001 have merged.

Not covered

• An alert on internal_api.runtime_provisioning.recipe_environments. This repository defines no monitors; the work that enables the recipe adds one with its other alerts, and covers nodes the samples miss, before turning the recipe on.
• One driver-owned version ordering across the catalog's semver ranking, the driver comparator and VersionSortKey, and reader-side validation of RuntimeInstallation.version_sort_key, which nothing stores yet.
• Nodes that stay registered but stop publishing keep their certifications and vetoes. Liveness-gating the voters belongs in the periodic recompute.
• A failed certification write fails the whole publication, census and status upsert included. Running it in a savepoint and treating an error as Deferred would confine the damage to the certification update.
• Deferrals are logged at debug only. A counter of recorded, deferred and unchanged outcomes would show whether a rollout's certifications have converged.
• Abstention means the catalog can hold an edge whose target some nodes' builds don't know. A sandbox on such a node gets an upgrade its node refuses, so it fails at the node rather than being classified up front. The placement and decision follow-up should also check the hosting node's own certification row.
• list_unretired_within(…, None) means "the whole catalog", and retired_among takes and returns strings. A two-variant scope and EnvironmentReference would make the whole-catalog branch explicit.

Severity and risk

Severity: medium. Without this, environment evidence, upgrade edges and recipes all stay empty, and enabling the recipe could stop every admitted node from installing once the catalog passed 32 entries.

Cluster-api replicas built before this serve the whole unretired catalog, so keep the recipe setting off until every replica runs this build.

Risk: medium. Every complete inventory now runs three small indexed reads in its publication transaction: the node's certifications, the recipe it would be assigned, and which of its known environments are retired. A build rollout writes certifications and recomputes the aggregate once per node. A node that finds the aggregate lock taken defers to its next tick rather than waiting, so publications don't queue behind each other. The recompute probes per certified edge rather than joining every pair of environments a node knows. The periodic recompute adds one full aggregate pass every five minutes per cluster. Nothing reads the arrays for placement yet, and the recipe and the activation-time upgrade both stay behind their default-off settings. Roll back the binary first: older cluster-api writers leave the columns alone, and the evidence ages out. PR #1274 owns the migration's rollback.

Docs

docs/execution-environments.md gains "Recording environment observations", including the recipe rollout order, and its recipe and upgrade sections no longer say nothing writes the catalog. The recipe setting's entry in docs/configuration.md describes the per-node narrowing.

AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the code, tests, docs and this description.

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The problem. Nodes already publish the environments their build knows and can boot, with the upgrade and memory edges it certifies, but nothing stored them. So runtime_environments stayed empty: the activation-time upgrade decision had no edges, and every move off an environment that may not execute was refused as stranded. An enabled recipe cohort got an empty recipe, and once the catalog filled, the whole cluster catalog would go to every node, which node-ctl refuses outright past 32 entries. This PR records each node's arrays and certifications from its complete inventory and recomputes each environment's edges from the per-node rows. An edge counts while every node whose build knows both ends certifies it. It also narrows each node's recipe to the environments its build knows.

Example.

t0  node 1 (v1) knows A,B, certifies nothing   node 2 (v2) certifies A->B
    runtime_environments[A].upgrade_edges = {}        (node 1 vetoes)
t1  node 1 upgrades in place to v2; its next inventory differs from its rows
    -> takes the aggregate lock, replaces its rows, recomputes A
    runtime_environments[A].upgrade_edges = {B}
    a stopped sandbox on blocked A can now cold-boot onto B instead of 412

Verdict. The design holds up. The writer sits in the catalog store. Same-node publications serialize on the node row lock and cross-node recomputes on the try-lock. Each statement after the lock sees the previous holder's commit at READ COMMITTED. The abstention rule recomputes the right set of sources, and the memory verdict implies the upgrade verdict, so the catalog's subset CHECK holds. The proto change is comment-only, so neither mix of old nodes and new internal-api breaks the wire; old internal-api replicas leave the arrays to age out by their receipt. Four threads to resolve before merge, the first of them a MAJOR gap in the PR's own guarantee. This PR's base is #1274's branch, so these threads gate the merge only after it is retargeted to main.

Before merge (inline threads)

1. [MAJOR] Deleting the last vetoing node never brings the edge back
2. A comment elsewhere still says nothing writes the per-node usable column
3. a_failed_recipe_sample_doesnt_fail_the_publication passes without the savepoint
4. Claims in the PR body and comments that the code doesn't back

Follow-ups

• A failed certification write fails the whole publication: census, prune and status upsert all go with it. record_node_certifications runs without a savepoint (environment_observation.rs:77), unlike the recipe sample. One example (plausible, not reproduced): a catalog row lock held open, say an operator's uncommitted retire, makes every changing node that knows that environment fail its publication at the lock timeout until it's released. Running it in a savepoint and treating an error as Deferred would confine the damage to the certification update.
• Nodes that stay registered but stop publishing keep their vetoes indefinitely. That covers a node the orphan cleanup won't delete while a sandbox is still pinned to it. Liveness-gating voters needs the periodic recompute from item 1. Please list it under "Not covered" until then.
• Deferrals are logged at debug only. A counter of recorded, deferred and unchanged outcomes would show whether a build rollout's certifications have converged.
• Abstention means the aggregate can hold A -> B while some nodes' builds don't know B. A sandbox on such a node then gets an upgrade its node refuses (require_certified_upgrade_edge), so it fails at the node instead of being classified up front. Safe, but the placement or decision follow-up should also check the hosting node's own certification row.
• list_unretired_within(…, None) means "the whole catalog", and retired_among takes and returns Strings. A two-variant scope, like the existing RecipeCatalogScope, and EnvironmentReference would make the whole-catalog branch explicit. A rejected observation also falls back to the whole catalog, every architecture included. That's documented, but it's the mixed-version case the new proto comment warns about.

Nits

• an_unchanged_report_writes_nothing: the "edge order isn't a change" step reverses the slice of environments, and both sides are ordered sets, so it can't fail. The updated_at check would hold without the fast path too, because every write is already guarded by IS DISTINCT FROM. Only the Unchanged assertion carries the test. Checking from a second connection that the advisory lock is free would pin the "takes no lock" claim.

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Complete node inventories now publish usable and known environment references, catalog certifications, and recipe-size samples. The catalog store aggregates node-certified upgrade and memory edges, and the cluster controller periodically recomputes those edges. Runtime provisioning recipes now filter unretired catalog environments using each node’s known references, or use the full unretired catalog when no known set is available.

Possibly related PRs

• perplexityai/SPACE#1615: Both changes publish node-known environments and aggregate catalog edges, with different edge aggregation inputs.
• perplexityai/SPACE#1438: This PR declares the certification table that this change reads and writes.
• perplexityai/SPACE#1541: This PR relocates internal API metrics, including the recipe-size metric added here.

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A deferred withdrawal can leave an outdated certification that blocks starts or restores when activation-time upgrades are enabled. Resolve that recovery path before merging; the guide also misstates when the recipe limit applies.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 7a499

A successful inventory publication can update or clear node evidence while leaving its previous compatibility votes active if the catalog is busy. Without another complete report or node deletion, those stale votes can persist and impede runtime upgrades. Identity checks, retirement filtering, and existing execution-policy controls limit the exposure; no execution-policy bypass was established.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: Catalog-lock contention can acknowledge a complete inventory and clear or replace its node evidence without withdrawing the previous certification votes. If the node subsequently stops sending complete inventories but remains registered, periodic recomputation continues using those stale votes indefinitely. A retained veto can therefore obstruct migration from a blocked environment when upgrade-at-activation is enabled, affecting sandboxes beyond the publishing node. Subsequent complete publication or node deletion provides recovery, but the acknowledged transition has no autonomous durable retry.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A node publication now influences shared catalog state, not just that node's status. A publisher capable of submitting accepted inventory assertions can affect compatibility decisions for other sandboxes using the affected references. The demonstrated scope is the shared catalog and its provisioning and upgrade consumers; tenant-specific isolation was not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The publication uses a resolved registered node identity and checks the request's remote address against that node's registered address. Environment references are content-derived, and mismatched definition references are rejected. These controls bind node identity and environment identity; they do not independently attest the truth of a node's compatibility assertions.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The inspected upgrade consumer is preexisting and disabled by default. When enabled, a blocked environment without a qualifying edge becomes Stranded and activation returns an error. Thus a stale veto can obstruct recovery to an allowed default, but this path does not authorize continued execution of the blocked environment.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Persist deferred certification replacements and withdrawals with the publication, then reconcile them independently of future node reports. Preserve the nonblocking publication behavior while giving acknowledged withdrawals a durable recovery path.

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These two paragraphs still describe the old cluster-wide recipe.

The text says "The catalog is cluster-wide", so a node whose build does not certify a listed environment gets it, reports it as unsupported, and its facet errors on every tick. It also says the 32-entry limit "applies to the whole unretired catalog" and that "no node installs anything new" while the catalog is over the limit.

This PR changes that behavior. list_unretired_for_node limits the recipe to the node's known_environment_refs, and the updated paragraph at lines 1458-1467 says so. Here is what happens now:

• A node that has reported a known set gets only environments its build knows. An aarch64 node or a node on an older build does not get the other builds' environments as unsupported entries.
• The limit applies to each node's recipe. a_cluster_catalog_over_the_limit_still_serves_nodes_that_know_fewer checks this: the full catalog can exceed 32 while those nodes still get a recipe.
• The old behavior applies only to a node with a NULL known set, which gets the full unretired catalog. This is a node that has not reported yet, runs an old build, or sent an observation that failed to decode.

Fix: rewrite both paragraphs. Scope the "unsupported on every tick" behavior and the whole-catalog limit to nodes with no known set. State that the limit counts the node's own recipe. Point operators to the per-node internal_api.runtime_provisioning.recipe_environments metric for alerting.

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Rewrite the two catalog paragraphs to reflect per-node recipes filtered by
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• crates/l40_api/cluster/controller/server/src/reconcilers.rs
• crates/l40_api/internal/api/server/src/environment_observation.rs
• crates/l40_api/internal/api/server/src/environment_observation/tests.rs
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• crates/l40_api/internal/api/server/src/lib.rs
• crates/l40_api/internal/api/server/src/runtime_desired_state.rs
• crates/l40_api/internal/api/server/src/status.rs
• crates/l40_api/internal/api/server/src/tests/runtime_desired_state.rs
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The problem. Nodes publish the environments their build knows, with the upgrade and memory edges the build certifies. This PR records them and aggregates each environment's edges from the per-node rows: an edge counts while every node whose build knows both ends certifies it. Round 1 found that the aggregate moved only when some node's own report changed. So deleting the last node that vetoed an edge left the veto in place until an unrelated report changed, which in a steady fleet may never happen. This head adds a cluster-controller loop that recomputes every certified environment every five minutes.

Example.

t0  v1 node knows A,B, certifies nothing; two v2 nodes certify A->B
    runtime_environments[A].upgrade_edges = {}        (v1 vetoes)
t1  the v1 node is drained and deleted; its rows cascade away,
    and the v2 nodes' reports stay Unchanged
t2  the next recompute tick that gets the lock sets A's edges to {B},
    so a stopped sandbox on blocked A can cold-boot onto B instead of 412

Round 1, at 091a03b.

Round-1 item	Status
[MAJOR] Deleting the last vetoing node never brings the edge back	Fixed. recompute_all_edges (certifications.rs:243) runs every 300 s from environment_edge_recompute, spawned for both substrates on the elected controller (reconcilers.rs:265). Every deleter (drain termination, the drained-node terminator, orphan cleanup, tombstone retention, the admin route) removes the nodes row, so the cascade and the next tick cover them all. The new test fails if the recompute does nothing.
Admin comment says nothing writes the usable column	Fixed (runtime_environments.rs:15-17).
Savepoint test passes without the savepoint	Fixed. With the table renamed, the sample is the only statement that touches it, and without the savepoint the status upsert in the same transaction fails.
Claims the code doesn't back, and run Kind smoke	Fixed. Kind smoke ran in CI at this head, and all 12 Kubernetes shards and the Direct lane passed. The bench run tested the same code.
Follow-ups: certification write without a savepoint, registered nodes that stop publishing keep voting, debug-only deferrals, abstention, whole-catalog None	Deferred under "Not covered"; none is riskier now.
Nit: an_unchanged_report_writes_nothing couldn't fail	Fixed; the open Unchanged call now shows it takes no lock.

Verdict. Approved; one thread to resolve before merge, a docs fix. Nothing new is above MINOR. This PR merges after #1274, whose Pull CI fails archcheck's table-ownership rule until #1438 merges and #1274 rebases onto it. This PR's base is #1274's branch, so the thread gates the merge only once it's retargeted to main.

Before merge (inline threads)

1. The docs and two comments still name publications as the only recompute and the only lock holder

Follow-ups

• The loop is now the only correction after a deletion, but its outcomes are logs only: warn on error, debug on deferral, info only when rows changed (environment_edge_recompute.rs:43-55, :69-74). If every tick failed, for example behind an operator's open transaction on a catalog row (plausible, not reproduced), the stale veto would stay with nothing to alert on but a log pattern. Please count the loop's outcomes (recomputed, deferred, failed) in the outcome counter that "Not covered" already lists.

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Major · Retry deferred certification withdrawals · environment_observation.rs:59-104

crates/l40_api/internal/api/server/src/environment_observation.rs:59-104
Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift

Retry deferred certification withdrawals

If the aggregate lock is busy, an invalid or absent complete observation clears the node’s status but retains its certifications. Legacy or unavailable reports do not retry the withdrawal.

If a retained vote vetoes an otherwise certified edge, the enabled activation-time upgrade decision can refuse starts or restores from a blocked environment. Periodic recomputation retains the veto. Persist and retry deferred withdrawals, and let newer complete reports supersede them.

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@ac-pplx, on your question from PR #1274's approval: why node_environment_certifications stores version_sort_key per node.

environment_ref hashes the environment's definition, but the sort key isn't part of that definition. The node's runtime driver computes it from the runtime version, so two builds can report different keys for the same environment. One build might give a version such as nightly an integer key while another publishes none (NULL), or a driver might change its key scheme between releases.

The recompute doesn't aggregate the key. When a node's certifications change, record_node_certifications writes that node's key to the catalog row (ON CONFLICT … SET version_sort_key = EXCLUDED.version_sort_key), so the row holds the key from the last node whose certifications changed. That's what docs/execution-environments.md and the the_catalog_row_takes_the_definition_and_the_last_changed_nodes_sort_key test describe.

The per-node column is part of the stored form record_node_certifications compares against each report, so a build that changes only its sort key still counts as a change and reaches the catalog. Without the column, that report would compare equal to the stored rows, take the Unchanged path, and leave the catalog's key stale until some edge also changed. So the column isn't redundant, but it does only that change-detection job. If the driver ever guarantees one key per environment, the column could go.