@cordfuse/crosstalk 6.0.0-alpha.6 → 6.0.0-alpha.7

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@cordfuse/crosstalk",
-  "version": "6.0.0-alpha.6",
+  "version": "6.0.0-alpha.7",
   "description": "Crosstalk runtime — async messaging between agents over git, across machines.",
   "type": "module",
   "license": "MIT",

package/src/dispatch.ts

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import {
   gitCommitAndPush,
   cursorBaseline,
   newFilesSince,
+  hostFileCommit,
   type ChannelMessage,
 } from './transport.js';
 import {
@@ -364,11 +365,13 @@ async function dispatchTick(): Promise<TickResult> {
       const cursor = readCursor(transportRoot, actorName, channelUuid);
       if (cursor === head) continue;
 
-      // First encounter: seed to HEAD so only future messages are dispatched.
-      // Without this, a null cursor falls through to `post = messages` and
-      // replays the full channel history on every fresh-state boot.
+      // First encounter: seed to the commit that introduced this actor's host
+      // file. Messages sent after the host joined are delivered (store-and-
+      // forward); pre-join history is ignored. Seeding to HEAD would silently
+      // drop messages sent while the dispatcher was offline — the wrong trade.
       if (cursor === null) {
-        writeCursor(transportRoot, actorName, channelUuid, head);
+        const joinCommit = hostFileCommit(transportRoot, host.alias);
+        writeCursor(transportRoot, actorName, channelUuid, joinCommit ?? head);
         continue;
       }
 

package/src/transport.ts

@@ -68,6 +68,19 @@ export function cursorBaseline(transportRoot: string): string | null {
   return null;
 }
 
+// Find the commit that introduced this actor's host file. Used to seed
+// the cursor on first boot: messages sent after the host file landed are
+// deliverable (store-and-forward); pre-join history is ignored. Falls back
+// to HEAD if git log fails (conservative: no history replay in that case).
+export function hostFileCommit(transportRoot: string, hostname: string): string | null {
+  const hostPath = `hosts/${hostname}.md`;
+  const r = captureGit(transportRoot, ['log', '--format=%H', '--diff-filter=A', '--', hostPath]);
+  if (r.status !== 0 || !r.stdout.trim()) return null;
+  // `git log` lists newest first; the last line is the introducing commit.
+  const lines = r.stdout.trim().split('\n').filter(Boolean);
+  return lines[lines.length - 1] ?? null;
+}
+
 // Repo-relative paths of message files added between `sinceCommit` and
 // HEAD. Returns null when the commit is unknown to this clone (state dir
 // copied across transports, history rewritten) — caller falls back to a