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Summary

  • admit, register, and retry inbox/group routes independently so one failed or policy-blocked route does not tear down healthy subscriptions
  • persist generation-and-floor-fenced replay obligations in SQLCipher and require complete endpoint coverage plus durable checkpointing before repair completes
  • expose read-only account transport status snapshots/subscriptions through Rust, UniFFI, and C, with typed admission and registration outcomes
  • restore relay.damus.io to normal safety-policy eligibility while keeping relay.nostr.band retired
  • document and ledger the bounded retry policy: 1/2/4/8/16/32/60 seconds, eight concurrent registrations, and a five-second reconciliation round

Closes #842.
Closes #1951.

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Source

  • just fast-ci
  • just hermes-dev-script-test (including the clone --no-checkout regression assertion)
  • cargo nextest run -p marmot-app --features test-policy-overrides --no-fail-fast (1,718 passed; 13 skipped on the prior self-review head; focused relay-plane tests passed on 6ab019d0)
  • cargo test -p transport-nostr-adapter --no-fail-fast
  • cargo test -p transport-nostr-adapter --features sdk --no-fail-fast
  • focused storage-sqlite subscription-replay tests
  • cargo test -p cgka-traits
  • cargo test -p marmot-account
  • cargo test -p cgka-conformance-simulator --test protocol_decision_gate

Bindings

  • cargo test -p marmot-uniffi --no-fail-fast
  • cargo test -p marmot-c --features alloc-audit --no-fail-fast
  • just binding-docs-gate
  • just c-parity-gate
  • just c-smoke (shared/static passed; valgrind unavailable on host)
  • generated Swift and Kotlin bindings with repository workflows
  • just uniffi-projections-smoke swift
  • just uniffi-projections-smoke kotlin
  • regenerated the C header and refreshed binding reference anchors

Remaining evidence stages

  • GitHub CI restarted on the CI-remediation head 40d3a90b5714f5a57e04f2521de60eebf0c498c6; it was intentionally not awaited.
  • No live Damus availability or device validation is claimed; tests use injected/local relay clients.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added account-level transport status snapshots and live subscriptions across native, C, and UniFFI APIs.
    • Added endpoint admission, registration outcomes, route health, retry, and replay-coverage details.
    • Added durable subscription replay tracking to protect message recovery.
  • Improvements

    • Added bounded retry and reconciliation for partially registered relays.
    • Improved duplicate-route handling and delivery recovery across failures and restarts.
    • Updated relay safety and retired-relay handling.
  • Documentation

    • Added integration and architecture guidance for transport coverage and recovery behavior.

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The change adds durable replay protection, per-endpoint transport admission and registration recovery, account transport-status APIs, and C and UniFFI bindings. It also updates relay policy, retry behavior, tests, convergence records, and documentation.

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Account transport recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Durable replay obligations
crates/storage-sqlite/..., crates/marmot-app/src/client/...
Adds migration 90 and transactional storage for route generations, endpoint scopes, replay floors, replacements, retirement, and conditional clearing. Application snapshots now use generation-and-floor completion fences.
Endpoint registration and retry recovery
crates/transport-nostr-adapter/..., crates/marmot-app/src/client/sync.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/...
Tracks route generations and endpoint outcomes, retains partially registered routes, bounds reconciliation, carries retry delays, and retries pending subscriptions after connectivity restoration.
Relay admission and route publication
crates/marmot-app/src/relay_plane/..., crates/marmot-app/src/tests.rs
Classifies endpoints independently, preserves order, deduplicates routes, records exclusions, publishes desired route status on failures, and validates degraded activation and synchronization behavior.

Status APIs and supporting surfaces

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime transport status
crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/..., crates/marmot-app/src/lib.rs
Adds read-only account snapshots and coalescing subscriptions. Unknown-account reads return inactive defaults without allocating registry entries. Removal closes subscriptions and resets future snapshots.
C and UniFFI bindings
crates/marmot-c/..., crates/marmot-uniffi/...
Adds typed transport snapshots, endpoint outcomes, subscription operations, ownership rules, deallocation, and asynchronous updates.
Policy, tests, and documentation
crates/cgka-conformance-simulator/..., docs/..., scripts/..., integrations/hermes/...
Adds the A11 convergence decision and ledger checks, updates transport documentation and relay fixtures, and changes Hermes cloning to use --no-checkout.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 40d3a

Some accounts can report incorrect transport health or remain unable to complete history recovery and clear replay work. These paths should be corrected before merge.

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The PR includes changes not required by [#842] or [#1951]. It restores relay.damus.io and retires relay.nostr.band in the safety policy and related fixtures. It also changes Hermes clone setup to … Remove the relay identity policy and fixture changes, Hermes setup changes, and unrelated A11 convergence-ledger changes from this PR. Link those changes to separate issues if they are required.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 42.44% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 271 functions across 38 files. (2 skipped… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes two primary changes: isolating transport route failures and restoring relay.damus.io eligibility.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR addresses [#842] and [#1951]. Per-route admission filters unsafe, invalid, retired, duplicate, and over-limit endpoints without failing account activation. Detailed registration preserves healt…
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The PR includes changes not required by [#842] or [#1951]. It restores relay.damus.io and retires relay.nostr.band in the safety policy and related fixtures. It also changes Hermes clone setup to use --no-checkout and adds unrelated convergence-ledger policy entry A11. The linked issues require route isolation, retry, replay, status, and related bindings and tests. They do not define relay identity policy, Hermes setup, or convergence-ledger work.

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In `@crates/marmot-app/src/relay_plane/mod.rs`:
- Around line 2056-2061: Update the completely_available check in
finalize_transport_snapshot to treat Allowed and Duplicate endpoint admissions
as covered, while retaining the existing registration and registered-count
requirements. Also update policy_exclusion_count to exclude both Allowed and
Duplicate admissions, counting only genuine coverage-policy exclusions such as
BeyondRouteLimit, Retired, Unsafe, and Invalid.

In `@crates/marmot-app/src/runtime/account_transport_status.rs`:
- Around line 169-172: Add AccountTransportStatusRegistry::remove to delete the
entry for a given MemberId, and invoke it from AccountManager::remove_account
after permanent account deletion completes. Keep mark_inactive for reversible
deactivation so existing subscribers still receive the inactive snapshot.

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Reviewed at (UTC) 2026-09-20T17:41:18Z
Commit reviewed d44427f2ab558bd9779b7c721bb42c8315bed9dc
Model Cursor Grok 4.6
Reasoning level Not exposed by runtime
Recommended action Fix blocking issues before merge

The isolation work is the right fix for #842 and #1951, and the follow-up commit correctly closed the duplicate-coverage and registry-leak threads. I would not block on scope: Damus eligibility is load-bearing once replay completion is defined as Available.

The remaining problem is that this PR moves the old all-or-nothing failure from activation into repair. subscription_replay_coverage_complete() is just state == Available, and Available requires every requested endpoint to be Allowed or Duplicate. One retired, unsafe, invalid, or over-limit URL in any published inbox or group route therefore:

  • keeps the account Degraded forever (fine as host-facing health)
  • never clears generation-fenced replay obligations
  • turns every EOSE-gated drain into CoverageIncomplete
  • spends eose_unconfirmed_attempts and keeps retrying

Those retries cannot recover events from a relay the safety policy refuses to dial. A group admin who still lists relay.nostr.band (or a single ws:// / private-literal host) can again deny every member a completable epoch-gap / full-history repair. That is the same blast radius #842 asked to stop, one layer later.

Please split the two predicates:

  1. Keep Available as “no policy holes and exact full registration.”
  2. Treat admitted-endpoint exact registration as sufficient to clear obligations and finish a drain.
  3. Do not put policy-only CoverageIncomplete in spends_eose_attempt.

The mixed-admission test currently proves the coupling, but it also uses a compatibility client that reports Unknown detail, so Available would fail even without the retired/unsafe peers.

Non-blocking: record_subscription_policy_exclusions saturating-adds the current exclusion count on every activate/sync, so repeated group refreshes inflate a gauge-shaped counter.

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Reviewed at (UTC) 2026-09-20T17:48:00Z
Commit reviewed d44427f2ab558bd9779b7c721bb42c8315bed9dc
Model claude-opus-5[1m]
Reasoning level Not exposed by runtime
Recommended action Resolve serious concerns before merge

Premise

The premise is sound and well evidenced. #1951 documents ~20-27% Android activation failure, and both #842 and #1951 identify the same root cause (all-or-nothing rollback), not a symptom. Isolating route failures, keeping healthy subscriptions live, and adding a bounded reconciler is the right fix, and the adapter-side implementation is careful: generation-fenced identities, detached cancellation guards, fair rotation, a registration budget, and a ledgered constant entry. CI is fully green on this head.

Two things keep this from a clean approve.

1. The replay-coverage gate can never be satisfied for terminal exclusions (serious)

finalize_transport_snapshot only reports Available when every requested endpoint is Allowed or Duplicate. Invalid, Unsafe, Retired and BeyondRouteLimit are decisions local policy will never reverse, so for an account with one such endpoint anywhere (inbox, current group, or historical group route):

  • subscription_replay_coverage_complete() is permanently false;
  • clear_completed_subscription_replay_obligations never runs, so the frozen obligations never clear;
  • prepare_subscription_replay_obligations only ever widens the stored floor (min, NULL dominates), and every unfloored path (activate_transport(None) on onboarding, epoch backfill, full-history repair) pins the floor at NULL — so every subsequent activation requests unbounded history from every relay, forever, invisibly;
  • catch_up_full_history always returns incomplete_full_history_repair;
  • every epoch-gap drain returns CoverageIncomplete, which spends_eose_attempt.

This is the same amplification shape as #842 (one group's bad endpoint degrades the whole account), moved from activation to replay completion. Two signals that this is a real defect rather than an accepted tradeoff: commit d44427f2 had to patch exactly this for Duplicate, and restoring relay.damus.io in this PR reads like a workaround for the same cliff — relay.nostr.band stays retired, so any account still carrying it in a stale NIP-65 or group route lands in this permanent state.

Suggestion: treat terminal dispositions as "covered, permanently excluded" for the completion gate (they remain fully visible in the status DTO), or add an explicit terminal state so the gate can settle. A regression test for "route with a retired endpoint eventually clears its obligation" would lock it in; today mixed_inbox_admission_keeps_damus_and_reports_exclusions asserts the opposite.

2. Scope (Karpathy: simplicity, surgical changes)

48 files, +6,389/-985, bundling four independently reviewable and independently revertible changes:

  1. route isolation + bounded retry — what the two linked issues actually ask for;
  2. a new SQLCipher table, migration 0090, and ~1,000 lines of durable replay-obligation machinery — a new correctness mechanism, not requested by either issue (#1951 asks only that telemetry distinguish full/degraded/total, which the new counters already satisfy);
  3. a complete account-transport status model across Rust + UniFFI + C, including subscriptions and callbacks (~1,000 lines plus 554 lines of API-reference churn) — no linked issue requests a new public API surface;
  4. the relay.damus.io / relay.nostr.band policy change, which CodeRabbit's out-of-scope check also flagged, and which carries no rationale in the description and no linked issue.

Change 1 is genuinely urgent given the production numbers; 2, 3 and 4 are not, and each one lands better with its own review, its own bisect point and its own revert. At minimum, (4) should be split out with a stated justification for reversing a centralized denylist entry.

Details inline. Everything else I looked at — migration shape, FK cascade with foreign_keys on, C mirror deep-free plus alloc-audit coverage, privacy-safe tracing (one new call, aggregate only), constant ledger entry, no version-field churn — is in good shape.

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Reviewed at (UTC) 2026-09-20T18:30:05Z
Commit reviewed 7f21eaf02c4a951ca08aed53cdcc6cf4f54a72fd
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Recommended action Fix blocking issues before merge

The isolation work is the right fix for #842 and #1951, and the follow-ups closed the duplicate-route, chunk-barrier, EOSE-budget, and registry-leak threads. CI on this head is green aside from still-running Rust shards. I am not re-asking to split Damus eligibility out; the architecture note now states the policy, and filtering already contains a retired host.

I am also not re-opening the coverage-complete contract as a change request. The docs now say missing requested coverage leaves repair incomplete, and CoverageIncomplete no longer spends EOSE attempts. The residual cost is still real: one retired/unsafe URL in any current or historical route keeps Available false, so frozen obligations never clear and an unfloored prepare (None) pins every later activation to unbounded history. That is now a documented product choice, not an accidental rollback.

The remaining merge blocker is in the new host-facing status API.

Blocking: every activate/sync publishes Unavailable before network I/O

admit_activation / admit_group_sync build a pending snapshot with state = Unavailable and all routes Pending / registered_endpoint_count = 0, then publish it before register_all / sync_account_groups. Healthy subscriptions stay live during that await. Hosts that subscribe to this API will see AvailableUnavailableAvailable on every group refresh, including incremental reuse. If the future is cancelled after the early publish, the adapter cleanup deactivates routes but the registry is not mark_inactive, so the last published snapshot can stay Unavailable forever.

Publish only after finalize_transport_snapshot, or keep the previous aggregate state until registrations are applied. Add a regression that a live Available account does not emit Unavailable during reuse/sync.

Non-blocking: subscription_policy_exclusions still saturating-adds the current exclusion count on every activate/sync, so a repeating group refresh inflates a gauge-shaped counter.

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Reviewed at (UTC) 2026-09-20T18:38:00Z
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Posted as a comment review: GitHub rejects REQUEST_CHANGES on one's own pull request.

Premise

The premise is sound and the root-cause framing is right. #842 and #1951 are two faces of one defect — a route-scoped failure escalated to an account-scoped rollback — and fixing both in the adapter's registration path rather than papering over them at the app layer is the correct altitude. Splitting admission (admit_subscription_endpoints, filter-not-fail) from strict configuration/publish validation (sanitize_endpoints, still fail-closed) is a genuinely good boundary.

Blocking

1. retain_live_registration_ids deletes every other account's registration state. registrations / pending_registrations are process-global, but the only caller scopes live_ids to a single account. A routine sync_account_groups on account A silently drops account B's pending retries and its entire registration snapshot, which then strands B in a permanent Unavailable + never-clearing-replay state with a 60 s retry loop that can never resolve. Inline on crates/transport-nostr-adapter/src/lib.rs:1526. No test has two accounts active across a sync, which is why CI is green.

Serious, resolve before merge

2. The account-wide coverage gate is unsatisfiable whenever any requested endpoint is permanently policy-excluded. subscription_replay_coverage_complete() requires Available, which requires every endpoint on every route to be Allowed | Duplicate. The exact #842 scenario — a group admin's signed routing component listing ws://10.0.0.1, 17 relays, or a retired host — therefore pins the whole account: epoch-gap backfill never clears its intent, finish_full_history_repair always returns an error even on a genuinely complete replay, and the persisted replay floor never advances. That is #842's one-group-poisons-the-account amplification returning in a quieter form. Inline on relay_plane/mod.rs:2137.

3. Three mid-drain prepare_subscription_replay_obligations calls can widen a frozen generation's floor without re-freezing. The compare-and-clear fences on generation alone, so the widened range gets declared covered on EOSE although the live REQ used the narrower floor — contradicting the PR's own "cannot skip the protected gap" claim. Inline on client/sync.rs:1902, which also flags the per-delivery full-table load-and-replace cost.

Scope and simplicity

The change is 48 files, +6,597/-984, closing two issues while also adding a new SQLCipher table and migration, three new public API surfaces (Rust / UniFFI / C), and a relay-policy reversal. Measured against the simplicity and surgical-change guidelines, at least three of those are separable from the fix:

  • The durable replay-obligation table. Neither linked issue asks for it, and the only reader collapses the whole table to one account-wide Option<Timestamp> — the role column and Historical rows are written and then filtered back out. See the inline on subscription_replay.rs:153 for the dead surface and the unreachable defensive checks.
  • The transport-status observability API. Useful, but it is a feature, not part of isolating route failures, and it is what pulls the C/UniFFI/header/docs churn into this diff.
  • De-retiring relay.damus.io. Reverses a denylist entry from #1169, is unreferenced by either issue, and changes public binding behaviour. Inline on safety.rs:10.

Unmet acceptance criterion

#1951 asks that "a failed inbox plan has explicit, tested semantics distinct from a failed group plan". any_registered treats the two identically, so an activation whose inbox registers on zero relays but whose one group succeeds returns Ok(()) — the account looks activated with a dead inbox (no welcomes, no giftwraps) until a reconciliation round happens to fix it. No test distinguishes the two. Either implement the distinction or say explicitly in the PR that the criterion was dropped and why.

Smaller items

  • crates/marmot-uniffi/CHANGELOG.md has no Unreleased entry, although this adds account_transport_status, subscribe_account_transport_status, nine FFI types, and changes retired_relay_hosts()'s output. marmot-c got one.
  • normalize_group_subscriptions (marmot-app/src/lib.rs) no longer sorts endpoints, so two routes that differ only in endpoint order are no longer deduplicated there. The adapter's deduplicate_group_subscriptions catches it, but the relay plane builds a route status per pre-dedup entry, so a spurious HistoricalGroup row can appear in the new status snapshot. Worth a comment or a set-based comparison.
  • Dead fallback branch, a broken Markdown table in three places, and a spurious Unavailable flap on every group sync — inline.

What is good

The cancellation-cleanup guards in activate_account and sync_account_groups, the per-generation subscription-id fencing with the never-cleared high-water map, the fair rotate-before-I/O ordering in reconcile_pending_registrations_inner, the deliberately conservative failed_endpoints_for (omitted exact outcome treated as missing), the subscribe_detailed default that refuses to invent endpoint successes for legacy clients, and the redacting Debug impls on the new status types are all careful work. The adapter test suite is thorough — removed_then_readded_route_gets_a_fresh_generation, registration_limit_refills_without_waiting_for_a_chunk_barrier, and eose_from_a_superseded_degraded_activation_does_not_satisfy_reactivation in particular.

Happy to re-review once the cross-account wipe is fixed and items 2 and 3 have a decision.

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Reviewed at (UTC) 2026-09-20T18:39:00Z
Commit reviewed 7f21eaf02c4a951ca08aed53cdcc6cf4f54a72fd
Model claude-opus-5[1m]
Reasoning level Not exposed by runtime
Recommended action Fix blocking issues before merge

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Premise

The premise is sound and overdue. #842 and #1951 describe a real, production-measured availability amplification (19.7% / 27.0% Android activation failure), and the core move — install desired routes locally, commit registration per route (and per endpoint for the SDK client), retry the misses under a stable wire identity — is the right shape. The generation-fencing work so removal/re-add cannot reuse an obsolete subscription id is careful, and the new adapter test suite (registration_reconciliation_rotates_fairly_at_eight_route_cap, removed_then_readded_route_gets_a_fresh_generation, cancelled_activation_cleans_uncertain_reqs_before_the_next_lifecycle_operation, eose_from_a_superseded_degraded_activation_does_not_satisfy_reactivation) is genuinely good.

One blocking correctness bug and one design concern keep me from approving.

Blocking

1. sync_account_groups on one account deletes every other account's registration state (transport-nostr-adapter/src/lib.rs:1526 / :2106). retain_live_registration_ids keeps only ids in live_ids, but live_ids is built from a single account's account_subscription_ids, while registrations/pending_registrations are process-global. A routine group sync on account A silently drops account B's pending retries, wedges B at Unavailable, and leaves B's worker re-arming a 60 s retry the adapter can never satisfy. activate/deactivate prune correctly; this one is inverted. Details and a suggested patch inline.

Serious concern

2. The replay-coverage gate is account-wide and unsatisfiable once any requested endpoint is permanently excluded (marmot-app/src/relay_plane/mod.rs:2131). This is #842's own scenario: one group admin's signed routing component listing ws://10.0.0.1 (or >16 relays, or a retired host) makes completely_available false forever. Because the same predicate gates backfill_drain_verdict, finish_full_history_repair, and clear_completed_subscription_replay_obligations — and replay_floor only ever decreases — the account's epoch-gap backfill never clears its intent, explicit history repair always reports failure, and every future activation replays from the oldest floor indefinitely. The loud whole-account failure became a quiet one; the one-group → whole-account amplification is still there. Inline.

Scope and simplicity (Karpathy guidelines 2 & 3)

This is +6,597 / -984 across 48 files, closing two issues while also adding a new SQLCipher table and migration, a new public Rust/UniFFI/C observability surface, and a relay-policy reversal. At least three of those are separable from the route-isolation fix:

  • Damus de-retirement reverses a denylist entry added in #1169, is referenced by neither closed issue, and changes the observable output of the public retired_relay_hosts() binding API. Inline comment on relay_plane/safety.rs:10.
  • route_ref / registration_detail / role are a dead handle and two derived fields, now frozen into three binding layers. Inline comment on relay_plane/mod.rs:1865.
  • normalize_group_subscriptions (marmot-app/src/lib.rs:6467) was rewritten from sort + dedup to order-preserving dedup plus an O(n²) manual pass. The rationale (endpoint order is cap-selection intent) is reasonable, but two routes with the same endpoints in a different order are no longer deduplicated at this layer — they now produce a spurious HistoricalGroup entry in the new status snapshot before the adapter coalesces them. Worth a test if this stays.

Non-blocking

  • crates/marmot-uniffi/CHANGELOG.md has an empty ## Unreleased. marmot-c got a full entry; the UniFFI changelog records nothing for 6 new enums, 3 records, 1 object, 2 methods, and the retired_relay_hosts() behavior change — all of which need binding regeneration. scripts/check_binding_docs.py has no changelog check, so just binding-docs-gate will not catch this.
  • Nullable char * in the C header (marmot-c/src/types/transport_status.rs:51): group_id_hex, transport_group_id_hex, normalized_endpoint, inbox emit bare pointers with no nullability note, and the inbox route always has NULL group ids. The crate already has this convention (types/relay.rs:166). Inline.
  • Transient Unavailable publish on every group sync (relay_plane/mod.rs:2247). Inline.
  • Dead fallback branch in apply_registration_outcome (lib.rs:2086). Inline.
  • Broken markdown tables at convergence-reliability-plan.md:305, :346, :1577. Inline.
  • MAX_CONCURRENT_REGISTRATIONS = 8 also bounds activation, not just reconciliation, so an account with N routes now activates in ceil(N/8) waves with no time budget (only reconciliation has REGISTRATION_RECONCILIATION_BUDGET). subscribe_with_id_to does not block on connection, so this is probably fine — but #1951 is motivated by activation timings, so it would be worth confirming against the same Grafana panel before/after.

Acceptance criteria

#1951's third checkbox — "A failed inbox plan has explicit, tested semantics distinct from a failed group plan" — looks unmet. any_registered treats the inbox exactly like a group, so an activation whose inbox registers on zero relays but whose single group succeeds returns Ok(()) and the account is reported as merely Degraded while it cannot receive welcomes or giftwraps. No test asserts an inbox-vs-group distinction.

Verified clean

Free/alloc symmetry in the C mirrors is exact field-by-field, free_vec recurses so the root free reaches every nested route/endpoint/string, only the root exports a free fn, and the partial-failure paths (preflight_out_ptr pre-nulling, deliver-path frees on write_out failure, NULL-safe frees) all check out. UniFFI conversions are total and panic-free; the records are output-only so the per-field #[uniffi(default = ...)] rule does not apply. Subscription lifecycle (registry remove → sender drop → recv() -> None → terminal NULL callback) is correct, and shutdown closes through the stopping watch. The Debug impls on the new status types deliberately redact endpoints, group ids and route_ref, with a test asserting it — nice.

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Second self-review round completed against 7f21eaf; both external reviewer sessions were reaped before the single address pass.

Addressed in signed commit 6ab019d:

  • scope registration pruning to the account being synchronized, with a two-account regression
  • fence replay completion on both generation and frozen floor, so mid-drain widening cannot be falsely cleared
  • publish only finalized transport status after activation/group sync, avoiding transient Unavailable flaps
  • coalesce equivalent normalized group routes before both registration and status construction
  • document nullable C transport-status pointers, regenerate the header/reference anchors, and add the missing UniFFI changelog entry
  • remove the unreachable registration fallback and repair the three split Markdown tables
  • pin intended inbox/group isolation with a regression: inbox registration failure remains retryable while the healthy group route stays active

The strict coverage findings were not applied: this task explicitly requires missing or policy-excluded requested coverage to remain incomplete and never be reported as repaired. The Damus split suggestion was also not applied because restoring relay.damus.io eligibility is explicitly in scope for this combined PR; relay.nostr.band remains retired.

Local validation on 6ab019d is green: just fast-ci; adapter default and SDK suites; relay-plane tests; focused replay-storage regressions; marmot-c alloc-audit tests; generated C header and binding-doc gates. GitHub CI has started on the new head and was intentionally not awaited.

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CI failure remediation pushed in signed commit 40d3a90b5714f5a57e04f2521de60eebf0c498c6.

The failed Hermes integration never reached MDK behavior: its setup clone materialized Hermes default-branch files, then checkout of the pinned cohort refused to overwrite a dirty generated catalog file. The setup now clones with --no-checkout and materializes only the pinned cohort. A dev-script regression asserts that clone shape.

Local evidence: just hermes-dev-script-test, just fast-ci, and git diff --check pass. A live full Hermes clone probe was network-stalled and stopped, so it is not claimed as verification. Fresh GitHub CI has started and was intentionally not awaited.

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In `@crates/marmot-app/src/client/sync.rs`:
- Around line 729-736: Update clear_completed_subscription_replay_obligations to
match each SubscriptionReplayClearResult variant: clear the snapshot only for
Cleared and StaleGeneration, retain it for DeliveryOverflowPending, and return
the corresponding boolean. After clear_delivery_overflow_recovery succeeds with
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- Around line 2644-2645: Update the activation-cancellation cleanup path after
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Comment on lines +729 to +736
fn clear_completed_subscription_replay_obligations(&mut self) -> Result<bool, AppError> {
let storage = self.app.account_storage(&self.state.label)?;
let fences = self.subscription_replay_snapshot.clone();
if fences.is_empty() {
return Ok(false);
}
let cleared = matches!(
storage.clear_subscription_replay_obligations(&self.state.label, &fences)?,

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Handle each SubscriptionReplayClearResult variant separately.

DeliveryOverflowPending must retain the snapshot so the same fence can be retried after the recovery marker is removed. StaleGeneration must discard the obsolete snapshot. The current unconditional clear loses the overflow retry, while an if cleared fix would retain stale fences. After successful clear_delivery_overflow_recovery, call clear_completed_subscription_replay_obligations again.

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-        let cleared = matches!(
-            storage.clear_subscription_replay_obligations(&self.state.label, &fences)?,
-            storage_sqlite::SubscriptionReplayClearResult::Cleared { .. }
-        );
-        self.subscription_replay_snapshot.clear();
-        Ok(cleared)
+        match storage.clear_subscription_replay_obligations(&self.state.label, &fences)? {
+            storage_sqlite::SubscriptionReplayClearResult::Cleared { .. } => {
+                self.subscription_replay_snapshot.clear();
+                Ok(true)
+            }
+            storage_sqlite::SubscriptionReplayClearResult::DeliveryOverflowPending => Ok(false),
+            storage_sqlite::SubscriptionReplayClearResult::StaleGeneration => {
+                self.subscription_replay_snapshot.clear();
+                Ok(false)
+            }
+        }

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In `@crates/marmot-app/src/client/sync.rs` around lines 729 - 736, Update
clear_completed_subscription_replay_obligations to match each
SubscriptionReplayClearResult variant: clear the snapshot only for Cleared and
StaleGeneration, retain it for DeliveryOverflowPending, and return the
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Comment on lines +2644 to +2645
self.publish_registration_snapshot_for(desired_status, None)
.await;

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Mark the account inactive from activation cancellation cleanup.

When activate_account is cancelled, execution does not reach publish_registration_snapshot_for. The adapter cleanup removes the account routes, but state.deactivate does not update the relay-plane status registry. A prior Available snapshot can remain visible.

Update the registry from the cancellation cleanup path after route cleanup. An activation-generation fence is not necessary here because the adapter holds subscription_lock until cleanup completes, so a newer activation cannot acquire the lifecycle lock until the cleanup finishes.

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In `@crates/marmot-app/src/relay_plane/mod.rs` around lines 2644 - 2645, Update
the activation-cancellation cleanup path after adapter route cleanup to mark the
account inactive in the relay-plane status registry, using the existing
status-registry update mechanism. Ensure a previously published Available
snapshot is cleared, and rely on subscription_lock serialization rather than
adding an activation-generation fence.

After applying the fix, consider running `coderabbit review --agent` for local
review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr

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