hecks 1.2.0 → 1.4.0

data/lib/hecks/runtime/dispatcher.rb

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 require_relative "errors"
+require_relative "../deprecation"
 require_relative "refusal_wording"
 require_relative "caller"
-require_relative "routing"
+require_relative "invocation"
 require_relative "command_rules"
 require_relative "command_interpreter"
 require_relative "entity_interpreter"
@@ -25,6 +26,8 @@ module Hecks
       MAX_REACTION_DEPTH = 5
 
       Result = Struct.new(:verb, :instance, :events, :execution_plan, :persistence_outcome, keyword_init: true) do
+        # Reads the identity of the record the dispatch settled on.
+        #
         # `instance` is nil for a port operation dispatched by verb (below)
         # — nothing was hydrated or saved, the same reason
         # `PortOperationInterpreter#emit`'s own comment gives for sourcing
@@ -33,7 +36,15 @@ module Hecks
         # asks this Result for `.id`/`.state` made a category error the
         # domain itself already told it about (there is no record here),
         # not a crash-worthy one.
+        #
+        # @return [String, nil] the record's identity; nil for a port operation, which
+        #   hydrates no record
         def id    = instance&.id
+
+        # Reads the settled record's attributes as one Hash, for the same nil-safe reason as `id`.
+        #
+        # @return [Hash{Symbol => Object}, nil] the record's state with `:id` merged in
+        #   last; nil for a port operation, which hydrates no record
         def state = instance&.to_h
 
         def to_s
@@ -46,6 +57,8 @@ module Hecks
 
       attr_reader :registry
 
+      # @param registry [Runtime::Registry] the booted registry every interpreter reads; its
+      #   outbox is attached to this dispatcher's policy and saga interpreters
       def initialize(registry)
         @registry = registry
         rules     = CommandRules.new(registry)
@@ -56,7 +69,7 @@ module Hecks
         @read_models = ReadModelInterpreter.new(registry)
         @policies = PolicyInterpreter.new(registry, door: self)
         @sagas    = SagaInterpreter.new(registry, door: self)
-        # THE RELAY IS THE REGISTRY'S, NOT THIS DISPATCHER'S — the
+        # The relay is the registry's, not this dispatcher's — the
         # interpreters enqueue through `@registry.outbox` from inside
         # the save transaction, and this dispatcher drains through the
         # same object, so there is exactly one relay per registry no
@@ -65,20 +78,128 @@ module Hecks
         @registry.outbox.attach(policies: @policies, sagas: @sagas)
       end
 
+      # Exposes the registry's outbox relay, the object this dispatcher drains reactions through.
+      #
       # `runtime.outbox.rows`, `.rows(status: "claimed")`, `.redrive!`,
       # `.log` — see `Runtime::Outbox`.
+      #
+      # @return [Runtime::Outbox::Relay] the registry's one relay, shared by every dispatcher
+      #   fronting that registry
       def outbox = @registry.outbox
 
+      # Exposes every event emitted through this registry since boot or the last reset.
+      #
+      # @return [Array<Runtime::Event>] the registry's live event log, oldest first
       def events = @registry.event_log
 
+      # Exposes one record per policy reaction that was delivered, refused or left undelivered.
+      #
+      # @return [Array<Hash{Symbol => Object}>] the registry's live reaction log, oldest first
       def reactions = @registry.reaction_log
 
+      # Exposes one record per process-manager step: a start, an advance, a delivery, a refusal.
+      #
+      # @return [Array<Hash{Symbol => Object}>] the registry's live saga log, oldest first
       def sagas = @registry.saga_log
+
+      # Exposes the raw inputs each saga dispatch bound its arguments from, a Ruby-only log.
+      #
+      # @return [Array<Hash{Symbol => Object}>] the registry's live saga dispatch log, oldest first
       def saga_dispatches = @registry.saga_dispatch_log
+
+      # Exposes the raw inputs each policy trigger bound its arguments from, a Ruby-only log.
+      #
+      # @return [Array<Hash{Symbol => Object}>] the registry's live policy dispatch log, with
+      #   keys `:policy`, `:on`, `:payload`, `:with_spec` and `:args`
       def policy_dispatches = @registry.policy_dispatch_log
+
+      # Lists every verb the loaded bluebooks declare.
+      #
+      # @return [Array<String>] the verbs of every loaded bluebook, sorted
       def verbs = @registry.verbs
 
+      # Runs one command, entity command or port operation, then every policy and saga reaction
+      # its events are owed.
+      #
+      # Loose keyword facts are deprecated (roadmap I3) — `dispatch(verb,
+      # amount: 5)` still works, and warns once per call site; pass
+      # `with: { amount: 5 }` (and the receiver in `to:`) instead. The
+      # keyword door closes in `LEGACY_ARGS_REMOVAL`. `bin/codemod_legacy_
+      # dispatch_args` rewrites existing callers.
+      #
+      # @param verb [String] the fully qualified verb: `"Domain::Aggregate.Command"`,
+      #   `"Domain::Aggregate.Entity.Command"` or `"Domain::Aggregate.Port.Operation"`
+      # @param to [String, Hash, nil] the receiver: an aggregate identity, or an entity route
+      #   Hash with `:aggregate` and one of `:entity`/`:entities`; nil when the facts carry
+      #   the identity themselves
+      # @param with [Hash, nil] the command's facts, keyed by argument name (String or Symbol);
+      #   may not be combined with loose keyword facts
+      # @param saga_correlation [Hash, nil] correlation head => value, stamped on every
+      #   emitted event when a saga leg causes this dispatch; nil otherwise
+      # @param legacy_args [Hash{Symbol => Object}] deprecated loose keyword facts
+      # @return [Runtime::Dispatcher::Result] the verb, settled instance (nil for a port
+      #   operation), emitted events, execution plan and persistence outcome
+      # @raise [Runtime::UnknownVerb] if the verb is not fully qualified, or names a domain,
+      #   aggregate, command, entity or port operation that is not declared
+      # @raise [StandardError] any class in `Runtime::DOMAIN_REFUSALS` when the domain refuses
+      #   the call (`GivenNotMet`, `TypeMismatch`, `Unauthorized`, `NotFound`, …)
+      # @raise [Runtime::StaleWrite] if concurrent writers beat this one through every retry
+      # @raise [Runtime::WiringError] if the aggregate's repository cannot be resolved
+      # @raise [Deprecation::Error] if loose keyword facts are given where
+      #   `Deprecation.raise_on!(:legacy_dispatch_args)` applies
       def dispatch(verb, to: nil, with: nil, saga_correlation: nil, **legacy_args)
+        Dispatcher.deprecate_loose_facts(legacy_args)
+        dispatch_invocation(verb, to: to, with: with, saga_correlation: saga_correlation, legacy_args: legacy_args)
+      end
+
+      LEGACY_ARGS_REMOVAL = "1.5.0".freeze
+      LEGACY_ARGS_WARNING =
+        "passing command facts to dispatch as loose keyword arguments is deprecated and will be removed in " \
+        "hecks #{LEGACY_ARGS_REMOVAL} — pass them as `with: { ... }`, with the receiver identity in `to:` " \
+        "(bin/codemod_legacy_dispatch_args rewrites existing callers)".freeze
+
+      # Warns, once per call site, that a dispatch passed its facts as loose keyword arguments.
+      #
+      # @param legacy_args [Hash] the loose keyword facts a dispatch received; empty means
+      #   nothing deprecated was used, and nothing is warned
+      # @return [nil] always, whether or not a warning was issued
+      # @raise [Deprecation::Error] if `legacy_args` is not empty where
+      #   `Deprecation.raise_on!(:legacy_dispatch_args)` applies
+      def self.deprecate_loose_facts(legacy_args)
+        Deprecation.call(:legacy_dispatch_args, LEGACY_ARGS_WARNING) unless legacy_args.empty?
+      end
+
+      # Dispatches a verb whose receiver and facts arrive together in one flat Hash.
+      #
+      # **The flat-facts wire form** — one Hash, not keywords, and not
+      # deprecated: the shape `spec/corpus/*.json` steps, the Rust kernel's
+      # `cli.rs` contract, a reaction without a `with:` projection, and the
+      # self-hosted meta-domain all carry. Routes exactly as
+      # `dispatch(verb, **args)` does: a Symbol `:to`, `:with` or
+      # `:saga_correlation` key is lifted out as that keyword, everything
+      # else is a fact (so a String "to" key stays a fact).
+      # Framework code that replays data calls this; application code
+      # calls `dispatch(verb, to:, with:)`.
+      #
+      # @param verb [String] the fully qualified verb, in any shape `dispatch` accepts
+      # @param args [Hash] the facts, plus optional Symbol keys `:to`, `:with` and
+      #   `:saga_correlation`, read as `dispatch`'s keywords of the same names; not mutated
+      # @return [Runtime::Dispatcher::Result] the same result `dispatch` returns
+      # @raise [Runtime::UnknownVerb] if the verb is not fully qualified, or names a domain,
+      #   aggregate, command, entity or port operation that is not declared
+      # @raise [StandardError] any class in `Runtime::DOMAIN_REFUSALS` when the domain refuses
+      #   the call
+      # @raise [Runtime::StaleWrite] if concurrent writers beat this one through every retry
+      # @raise [Runtime::WiringError] if the aggregate's repository cannot be resolved
+      def dispatch_flat(verb, args = {})
+        facts = args.dup
+        to = facts.delete(:to)
+        with = facts.delete(:with)
+        saga_correlation = facts.delete(:saga_correlation)
+        dispatch_invocation(verb, to: to, with: with, saga_correlation: saga_correlation, legacy_args: facts)
+      end
+
+      def dispatch_invocation(verb, to:, with:, saga_correlation:, legacy_args:)
         domain, aggregate_name, command_name = parse(verb)
         aggregate = resolve_aggregate(domain, aggregate_name, verb)
 
@@ -86,7 +207,7 @@ module Hecks
           if command_name.include?(".")
             head, sub = command_name.split(".", 2)
             port = aggregate.port(head)
-            # A PORT OPERATION, reached by the SAME verb shape an entity
+            # A port operation, reached by the same verb shape an entity
             # command already uses ("Domain::Aggregate.Head.Rest") — ports
             # are checked first, so an aggregate that ever declared both a
             # port and an entity of the same name would resolve to the
@@ -99,34 +220,35 @@ module Hecks
             # path.
             if port
               operation = port.operation(sub) ||
-                          raise(UnknownVerb, RefusalWording.render("UnknownVerb", "port_no_operation",
-                                                                   port: head, operation: sub.inspect))
-              route, args = port_invocation(aggregate, operation, to: to, with: with, legacy: legacy_args)
-              [nil, @port_ops.call(domain, aggregate, operation, args, route: route), nil, nil, :enqueue]
+                          raise(UnknownVerb, RefusalWording.render_site("UnknownVerb", "port_no_operation",
+                                                                        port: head, operation: sub))
+              invocation = Invocation.from_call(verb, to: to, with: with, legacy: legacy_args,
+                                                      receiver: :port, aggregate: aggregate) { operation }
+              [nil, @port_ops.call(domain, aggregate, operation, invocation), nil, nil, :enqueue]
             else
-              entity_depth = command_name.split(".").size - 1
-              route = Routing.envelope(to, entity_depth: entity_depth)
-              @entities.call(domain, aggregate, command_name, legacy_args, route: route, with: with)
+              resolution = nil
+              invocation = Invocation.from_call(verb, to: to, with: with, legacy: legacy_args,
+                                                      receiver: :entity, entity_depth: command_name.count(".")) do
+                (resolution = EntityInterpreter::Resolution.of(aggregate, command_name)).command
+              end
+              @entities.call(domain, aggregate, resolution, invocation)
             end
           else
-            command = aggregate.command(command_name) ||
-                      raise(UnknownVerb, RefusalWording.render("UnknownVerb", "aggregate_no_command",
-                                                               aggregate: aggregate_name, command: command_name.inspect))
-            args = Routing.payload(command, with: with, legacy: legacy_args)
-            route = Routing.envelope(to)
-            @commands.call(domain, aggregate, command, args, saga_correlation, route: route)
+            command = command_of(aggregate, aggregate_name, command_name)
+            invocation = Invocation.from_call(verb, to: to, with: with, legacy: legacy_args) { command }
+            @commands.call(domain, aggregate, command, invocation, saga_correlation)
           end
 
-        # Correlation is SET AT CONSTRUCTION now, not merged on here —
-        # it is part of the transaction, known from this method's own
-        # argument before a single event exists. It used to be stamped
-        # onto already-emitted events, which is what kept an event
-        # mutable after it had happened.
+        # Correlation is set when each event is constructed, not merged on
+        # here — it is part of the transaction, known from this method's
+        # own argument before a single event exists. Stamping it onto
+        # already-emitted events would keep an event mutable after it had
+        # happened.
         #
-        # The ordering this note used to guard still holds, and more
-        # simply: `SagaInterpreter#advance` runs on THIS domain's
-        # `announced` events within this very call, and finds the
-        # correlation already there because it was never absent.
+        # The ordering that depends on it holds for the same reason:
+        # `SagaInterpreter#advance` runs on this domain's `announced`
+        # events within this very call, and finds the correlation already
+        # there because it was never absent.
 
         react(announced, domain, aggregate, outbox_rows)
 
@@ -134,7 +256,12 @@ module Hecks
                    execution_plan: execution_plan, persistence_outcome: persistence_outcome)
       end
 
-      # EVERYTHING OWED BECAUSE `announced` COMMITTED — policies first,
+      # **The one body both doors run** — `dispatch` (keywords) and
+      # `dispatch_flat` (one Hash) differ only in how the call's parts are
+      # spelled, never in what happens next.
+      private :dispatch_invocation
+
+      # **Everything owed because `announced` committed** — policies first,
       # then sagas, the order this method always ran them in. The
       # command/entity interpreters hand back the outbox rows they
       # enqueued inside the save transaction (`Interpreting#
@@ -152,9 +279,11 @@ module Hecks
       end
       private :react
 
-      # "IF THIS WERE DISPATCHED RIGHT NOW, WOULD IT SUCCEED" — the same
+      # Answers whether a command would succeed right now, without saving, emitting or reacting.
+      #
+      # "If this were dispatched right now, would it succeed" — the same
       # pipeline #dispatch itself runs (arguments coerced, givens checked,
-      # mutations applied IN MEMORY, ensures checked against the settled
+      # mutations applied in memory, ensures checked against the settled
       # result), except `step_save`/`step_emit` never run, and neither do
       # policies or sagas afterward: nothing here is committed, so nothing
       # should react to it. Built for exactly the shape a whole-board
@@ -164,15 +293,26 @@ module Hecks
       # own move purely to trigger the check, which then had to avoid
       # interfering with the very position being tested).
       #
-      # RAISES THE SAME REFUSALS #dispatch does — a DomainRefusal
+      # Raises the same refusals #dispatch does — a DomainRefusal
       # subclass propagates normally, so a caller checking "would this be
       # legal" writes the identical rescue clause a real dispatch already
       # needs; this returns `true` only when nothing was refused.
       #
-      # NEVER A PORT VERB — `PortOperationInterpreter`'s own side effects
+      # **Never a port verb** — `PortOperationInterpreter`'s own side effects
       # (an external gateway call, say) have no meaningful in-memory-only
       # form, so this refuses one outright rather than silently running
       # it for real, which "dry" would otherwise quietly lie about.
+      #
+      # @param verb [String] the fully qualified aggregate or entity command verb
+      # @param args [Hash{Symbol => Object}] the command's facts as flat keywords; a key named
+      #   `to` or `with` is an ordinary fact here, never routing (BUG#131)
+      # @return [true] whenever nothing refused; a refusal is raised, never returned as false
+      # @raise [Runtime::WiringError] if the verb names a port operation, or the aggregate's
+      #   repository cannot be resolved
+      # @raise [Runtime::UnknownVerb] if the verb is not fully qualified, or names a domain,
+      #   aggregate, command or entity that is not declared
+      # @raise [StandardError] any class in `Runtime::DOMAIN_REFUSALS` that the real dispatch
+      #   would raise
       def dry_run?(verb, **args)
         domain, aggregate_name, command_name = parse(verb)
         aggregate = resolve_aggregate(domain, aggregate_name, verb)
@@ -185,18 +325,25 @@ module Hecks
                   "only for aggregate and entity commands"
           end
 
-          @entities.call(domain, aggregate, command_name, args, dry_run: true)
+          # `to:`/`with:` are not keywords of this method — a key named
+          # either is an ordinary fact here (BUG#131), so both go in as nil.
+          resolution = nil
+          invocation = Invocation.from_call(verb, to: nil, with: nil, legacy: args, receiver: :entity) do
+            (resolution = EntityInterpreter::Resolution.of(aggregate, command_name)).command
+          end
+          @entities.call(domain, aggregate, resolution, invocation, dry_run: true)
         else
-          command = aggregate.command(command_name) ||
-                    raise(UnknownVerb, RefusalWording.render("UnknownVerb", "aggregate_no_command",
-                                                             aggregate: aggregate_name, command: command_name.inspect))
-          @commands.call(domain, aggregate, command, args, dry_run: true)
+          command = command_of(aggregate, aggregate_name, command_name)
+          invocation = Invocation.from_call(verb, to: nil, with: nil, legacy: args) { command }
+          @commands.call(domain, aggregate, command, invocation, dry_run: true)
         end
 
         true
       end
 
-      # THE DOOR AN ADAPTER OUTSIDE THE BLUEBOOK CALLS THROUGH — never the
+      # Runs one port operation named by its parts, then the reactions its events are owed.
+      #
+      # The door an adapter outside the bluebook calls through — never the
       # domain itself. `port_name`/`operation_name` are separate arguments
       # rather than one packed verb string on purpose: there is no established
       # wire spelling for "domain, aggregate, port, operation" yet, and
@@ -205,66 +352,69 @@ module Hecks
       # No adapter-to-port binding lookup happens here — that is
       # `Hecks.adapter`'s existing job (unchanged by this), and wiring "which
       # adapter may call this port" through is the next piece, not this one.
+      #
+      # @param domain [String, Symbol] name of the domain the aggregate belongs to
+      # @param aggregate_name [String, Symbol] name of the aggregate that declares the port
+      # @param port_name [String] name of the port, as the aggregate declares it
+      # @param operation_name [String] name of the operation on that port
+      # @param to [String, Hash, nil] the receiving aggregate's identity; when nil it is read
+      #   from the facts, by the operation's reference or identity attribute
+      # @param with [Hash, nil] the operation's facts, keyed by argument name
+      # @param legacy_args [Hash{Symbol => Object}] deprecated loose keyword facts
+      # @return [Array<Runtime::Event>] the events the operation announced: one per declared
+      #   `emits` for an inbound operation, the one answering or refusing event for an
+      #   outbound one
+      # @raise [Runtime::UnknownVerb] if the domain, aggregate, port or operation is not declared
+      # @raise [Runtime::TypeMismatch] if no receiving identity can be found, or `to:`/`with:`
+      #   is malformed
+      # @raise [Runtime::NotFound] if the receiving aggregate record does not exist
+      # @raise [Runtime::WiringError] if the aggregate's repository cannot be resolved
+      # @raise [Deprecation::Error] if loose keyword facts are given where
+      #   `Deprecation.raise_on!(:legacy_dispatch_args)` applies
       def dispatch_port(domain, aggregate_name, port_name, operation_name, to: nil, with: nil, **legacy_args)
+        Dispatcher.deprecate_loose_facts(legacy_args)
         aggregate = resolve_aggregate(domain, aggregate_name, "#{domain}::#{aggregate_name}.#{port_name}.#{operation_name}")
         port = aggregate.port(port_name) ||
                raise(UnknownVerb, "#{aggregate_name} has no port #{port_name.inspect}")
         operation = port.operation(operation_name) ||
                     raise(UnknownVerb, "#{port_name} has no operation #{operation_name.inspect}")
 
-        route, args = port_invocation(aggregate, operation, to: to, with: with, legacy: legacy_args)
-        announced = @port_ops.call(domain, aggregate, operation, args, route: route)
+        invocation = Invocation.from_call("#{domain}::#{aggregate_name}.#{port_name}.#{operation_name}",
+                                          to: to, with: with, legacy: legacy_args,
+                                          receiver: :port, aggregate: aggregate) { operation }
+        announced = @port_ops.call(domain, aggregate, operation, invocation)
 
         react(announced, domain, aggregate, :enqueue)
 
         announced
       end
 
-      def port_invocation(aggregate, operation, to:, with:, legacy:)
-        legacy = legacy.dup
-        identity = operation.identity_attribute(aggregate.hecks_name)
-        if to.nil? && identity && legacy.key?(identity.name)
-          to = legacy.delete(identity.name)
-        elsif to.nil? && operation.to == aggregate.hecks_name
-          # `to:`-DECLARED OPERATIONS carry no Reference-typed attribute at
-          # all (PortOperationBuilder#initialize's own comment on why —
-          # genuine routing metadata, not an attribute), so `identity`
-          # above is always nil for these; this is the second, purely
-          # additive lookup they need instead. The routing value sits in
-          # a PLAIN external-fact attribute, named for the owning
-          # aggregate's own identified_by field — the domain author's job
-          # to match, same discipline reference_to's own `as:` always
-          # required. Composite identity (more than one identified_by
-          # component) isn't attempted here — `.first` only, no domain in
-          # the real corpus has needed more for a port operation yet.
-          #
-          # READ, NOT deleted — unlike the Reference-attribute branch
-          # above, this is a genuine declared operation attribute (Rust's
-          # own comment: "declare only external facts with attribute"),
-          # not synthetic routing-only state; the operation's own
-          # attributes still expect to find it in the payload a few steps
-          # later (refuse_absent_arguments), and a real, live
-          # AbsentArgument confirmed this the hard way before `[]`
-          # replaced `delete`.
-          identity_name = Array(aggregate.identified_by).first
-          to = legacy[identity_name] if identity_name && legacy.key?(identity_name)
-        end
-
-        route = Routing.envelope(to)
-        raise TypeMismatch, "#{operation.hecks_name} requires its receiving aggregate in to:" unless route
-
-        [route, Routing.payload(operation, with: with, legacy: legacy)]
-      end
-      private :port_invocation
-
+      # Answers a declared query: an aggregate query, an entity query, or a read model.
+      #
+      # The verb's shape picks the interpreter. `"Domain.ReadModel"` — no `::` before the
+      # dot — is a read model; `"Domain::Aggregate.Query"` is an aggregate query, and
+      # `"Domain::Aggregate.Entity.Query"` an entity query.
+      #
+      # @param verb [String, Symbol] the query's verb, in one of the three shapes above
+      # @param args [Hash{Symbol => Object}] the query's declared arguments
+      # @return [Array<Hash>] for an aggregate query, one deep-frozen Hash per matching record,
+      #   its state with `:id` merged in last; for an entity query, one Hash per matching
+      #   element with the parent's reference key merged in first; for a read model, a
+      #   one-element Array holding a Hash of head name to projected rows
+      # @raise [Runtime::UnknownVerb] if the verb is not fully qualified, or names a domain,
+      #   aggregate, entity, query or read model that is not declared
+      # @raise [Runtime::NotFound] if a read model's root reference names no record
+      # @raise [Runtime::TypeMismatch] if an argument cannot be coerced to its declared type
+      # @raise [KeyError] if a rooted read model is asked without its reference argument
+      # @raise [Runtime::WiringError] if the aggregate's repository cannot be resolved
       def query(verb, **args)
         domain, query_name = verb.to_s.split(".", 2)
         if query_name && !domain.include?("::")
           bluebook = @registry.bluebook(domain) ||
-                     raise(UnknownVerb, RefusalWording.render("UnknownVerb", "no_domain", domain: domain.inspect, verb: verb))
+                     raise(UnknownVerb, RefusalWording.render_site("UnknownVerb", "no_domain", domain: domain, verb: verb))
           model = bluebook.read_model(query_name) ||
-                  raise(UnknownVerb, RefusalWording.render("UnknownVerb", "no_read_model",
-                                                           domain: domain, query: query_name.inspect))
+                  raise(UnknownVerb, RefusalWording.render_site("UnknownVerb", "no_read_model",
+                                                                domain: domain, query: query_name))
           return @read_models.call(domain, model, args)
         end
 
@@ -274,10 +424,22 @@ module Hecks
         @queries.call(domain, aggregate, query_name, args)
       end
 
-      # The same ask, answered by the reference interpreter alone — never
-      # the bound adapter's native hook. Read models have no reference
-      # twin, so only the aggregate-query form answers here; the fuzzer's
-      # query oracle diffs this against #query's answer.
+      # Answers an aggregate or entity query through the reference interpreter alone.
+      #
+      # The same ask as `#query`, never answered by the bound adapter's
+      # native hook. Read models have no reference twin, so only the
+      # `"Domain::Aggregate.Query"` forms answer here; the fuzzer's
+      # query oracle diffs this against `#query`'s answer.
+      #
+      # @param verb [String] the fully qualified query verb, `"Domain::Aggregate.Query"` or
+      #   `"Domain::Aggregate.Entity.Query"`
+      # @param args [Hash{Symbol => Object}] the query's declared arguments
+      # @return [Array<Hash>] one Hash per matching record, its state with `:id` merged in
+      #   last; for an entity query, one Hash per matching element
+      # @raise [Runtime::UnknownVerb] if the verb is not fully qualified, or names a domain,
+      #   aggregate, entity or query that is not declared
+      # @raise [Runtime::TypeMismatch] if an argument cannot be coerced to its declared type
+      # @raise [Runtime::WiringError] if the aggregate's repository cannot be resolved
       def reference_query(verb, **args)
         domain, aggregate_name, query_name = parse(verb)
         aggregate = resolve_aggregate(domain, aggregate_name, verb)
@@ -285,7 +447,10 @@ module Hecks
         @queries.reference_call(domain, aggregate, query_name, args)
       end
 
-      # A reaction is the SYSTEM acting, not the caller who happened to be
+      # Dispatches a reaction's command one level deeper in the cascade, as the system rather
+      # than as the triggering caller.
+      #
+      # A reaction is the system acting, not the caller who happened to be
       # on the stack when the triggering command ran — the ambient caller
       # is cleared for the reaction's own dispatch, so a triggering
       # caller's role can neither satisfy nor block a reaction command it
@@ -296,39 +461,67 @@ module Hecks
       # dispatching through it (a Puma worker pool, say), so a plain ivar
       # here is exactly the known Puma-concurrency bug class: two
       # concurrent top-level dispatches on different threads would
-      # increment/decrement the SAME counter, letting one thread's nested
+      # increment/decrement the same counter, letting one thread's nested
       # reaction depth leak into another thread's unrelated dispatch. A
       # `Mutex` is not the answer either — a reaction cascade re-enters
-      # `reenter` on the SAME thread (see `SagaInterpreter#advance_saga`'s
+      # `reenter` on the same thread (see `SagaInterpreter#advance_saga`'s
       # own comment on why a non-reentrant `Mutex` can't guard this).
       # `Thread.current`-backed, saved/restored around the call with a
       # plain local + `ensure`, is the same idiom `Runtime::Caller`
       # (`caller.rb`) already established for exactly this shape of
       # per-thread ambient state.
+      #
+      # The depth is not checked here: a reacting interpreter asks
+      # `reaction_depth_reached?` first and records an undelivered reaction
+      # instead of calling this.
+      #
+      # @param verb [String] the fully qualified verb of the reaction's target command
+      # @param saga_correlation [Hash{String => Object}, nil] correlation head => value when a
+      #   saga leg dispatches; nil for a policy
+      # @param args [Hash{Symbol => Object}] the flat facts, read exactly as `dispatch_flat`
+      #   reads them, so `:to` and `:with` keys route rather than count as facts
+      # @return [Runtime::Dispatcher::Result] the result of the nested dispatch
+      # @raise [Runtime::UnknownVerb] if the verb names nothing declared
+      # @raise [StandardError] any class in `Runtime::DOMAIN_REFUSALS` when the target
+      #   refuses; the policy and saga interpreters rescue these as recorded outcomes
       def reenter(verb, saga_correlation: nil, **args)
         depth = Thread.current[:hecks_reaction_depth].to_i
         Thread.current[:hecks_reaction_depth] = depth + 1
-        Caller.without { dispatch(verb, saga_correlation: saga_correlation, **args) }
+        Caller.without { dispatch_flat(verb, args.merge(saga_correlation: saga_correlation)) }
       ensure
         Thread.current[:hecks_reaction_depth] = depth
       end
 
+      # Answers whether the calling thread's reaction cascade is as deep as it may go.
+      #
+      # @return [Boolean] true once this thread's nested `reenter` calls number
+      #   `MAX_REACTION_DEPTH` or more; other threads' cascades are not counted
       def reaction_depth_reached? = Thread.current[:hecks_reaction_depth].to_i >= MAX_REACTION_DEPTH
+
+      # Reads the cascade limit, for the reason an interpreter records when it declines to react.
+      #
+      # @return [Integer] `MAX_REACTION_DEPTH`, the number of nested reactions allowed
       def max_reaction_depth      = MAX_REACTION_DEPTH
 
       private
 
       def parse(verb)
         Naming.split_verb(verb) ||
-          raise(UnknownVerb, RefusalWording.render("UnknownVerb", "not_fully_qualified", verb: verb.inspect))
+          raise(UnknownVerb, RefusalWording.render_site("UnknownVerb", "not_fully_qualified", verb: verb))
+      end
+
+      def command_of(aggregate, aggregate_name, command_name)
+        aggregate.command(command_name) ||
+          raise(UnknownVerb, RefusalWording.render_site("UnknownVerb", "aggregate_no_command",
+                                                        aggregate: aggregate_name, command: command_name))
       end
 
       def resolve_aggregate(domain, aggregate_name, verb)
         bluebook = @registry.bluebook(domain) ||
-                   raise(UnknownVerb, RefusalWording.render("UnknownVerb", "no_domain", domain: domain.inspect, verb: verb))
+                   raise(UnknownVerb, RefusalWording.render_site("UnknownVerb", "no_domain", domain: domain, verb: verb))
         bluebook.aggregate(aggregate_name) ||
-          raise(UnknownVerb, RefusalWording.render("UnknownVerb", "no_aggregate",
-                                                   domain: domain, aggregate: aggregate_name.inspect))
+          raise(UnknownVerb, RefusalWording.render_site("UnknownVerb", "no_aggregate",
+                                                        domain: domain, aggregate: aggregate_name))
       end
     end
   end