@jimhoyd/urlcode 0.3.0 → 0.4.0-alpha.1

package/docs/DYNAMIC-LINKS.md

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 # Dynamic short links without reloads
 
-## Node build requirement
-
-Live links need a Node build carrying the patched SQLite WAL fix: SQLite 3.51.3
-or newer, 3.50.7 or 3.44.6. Node bundles SQLite, so this is a property of the
-build, not something you can install separately, and some current releases on a
-supported Node line ship an unpatched version. Run `urlcode doctor` and check
-`liveLinks`; activation fails closed and names the detected version when the
-build is unsuitable. Everything except live links works on any supported Node.
+Define a stable route once and create, update and delete short-code records
+while `serve` keeps running, from optional SQLite storage on one host. Each
+section below lives on its own page; the headings here keep existing links working.
 
-Available in URLCode 0.1.0. Define a stable route once; create, update and delete
-short-code records while `serve` keeps running. No YAML rewrite, route snapshot
-rebuild, Git commit or public-server restart is needed for record changes.
+## Node build requirement
 
-This first adapter uses optional SQLite storage on one host. Multiple processes
-on that host can share it. No database is required for ordinary YAML-defined
-routes. Network filesystems, multi-host replication and serverless ephemeral disks
-are not supported by this adapter. SQLite WAL requires processes on the same
-host; see [SQLite WAL](https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html).
+SQLite 3.51.3+ (or 3.50.7 / 3.44.6) bundled with Node; `urlcode doctor` reports it. Read [setup](links/setup.md#node-build-requirement).
 
 ## Behavior in YAML, data outside Git
 
-```yaml
-version: "1"
-dynamicLinks: true
-routes:
-  /r/{code}:
-    parameters:
-      - name: code
-        in: path
-        required: true
-        schema: {type: string, minLength: 1, maxLength: 128}
-    link:
-      collection: links
-      code: {from: path, name: code}
-```
-
-`link` is a seventh primary handler, exclusive with `function`, `redirect`,
-`respond`, `page`, `static` and `download`. Its `code` is a declared path-input
-reference. `collection` is a logical name, not a filesystem path. GET and HEAD
-are supported; normal route precedence, lifecycle and input validation apply.
-An exact YAML route can intentionally shadow a stored code's URL.
-
-The operator binds `links` to a database outside the project. YAML cannot choose
-a database file or grant itself storage. The built-in public binding opens it
-read-only. It performs an indexed database lookup for each request, with no
-application cache or negative cache. Requests starting after an acknowledged
-mutation can see it immediately; an already-running request can finish with an
-older result. Browser/proxy caches remain outside that guarantee.
-
-Missing or disabled record: 404. Expired record: 410. Unavailable/overloaded
-store: 503. Invalid code syntax: 404 after route input validation. Redirects
-default to 302 and no-store. Query strings are not forwarded. A record's URL is
-literal HTTP(S), with no embedded credentials, control characters or interpolation.
-It is a redirect, not a server-side fetch. The store does not verify destination
-ownership, safety or availability; application abuse prevention remains necessary.
+The `link` handler and the operator store binding. Read [setup](links/setup.md#behavior-in-yaml-data-outside-git).
 
 ## Run the included example
 
-From the runtime checkout, choose a private data directory **outside the app**.
-Its parent directory must already exist. The following POSIX-shell example uses
-an operator-created directory; on Windows use an absolute local drive path.
-
-```sh
-mkdir -p ../urlcode-data
-URLCODE_DATA="$(cd ../urlcode-data && pwd)"
-node src/cli.ts links init --store "$URLCODE_DATA/links.sqlite"
-node src/cli.ts links create --store "$URLCODE_DATA/links.sqlite" \
-  --code demo --destination https://example.com/demo
-node src/cli.ts serve --project examples/live-links \
-  --link-store "links=$URLCODE_DATA/links.sqlite" --port 3000
-```
-
-Open `/r/demo`. In a second terminal, run another `links create` with an unused
-code against the same absolute file; its URL works immediately. Omit `--code`
-to generate a cryptographically random 16-character base64url code. Codes allow
-1–128 letters, digits, underscores and hyphens; collection names begin with a
-letter and contain at most 64 letters/digits/underscores/hyphens.
-
-The CLI defaults to collection `links`; specify `--collection` to manage another.
-Serving currently accepts one `--link-store collection=/absolute/file` binding;
-embedded applications may supply multiple adapters. Commands do not copy records
-into YAML or create route definitions automatically.
+`links init`, `links create` and `serve --link-store` against a private data directory. Read [setup](links/setup.md#run-the-included-example).
 
 ## Update, disable, expire, list and delete
 
-```sh
-urlcode links get --store /absolute/links.sqlite --code demo
-urlcode links list --store /absolute/links.sqlite --limit 100
-urlcode links list --store /absolute/links.sqlite --limit 100 --after last-code
-urlcode links update --store /absolute/links.sqlite --code demo \
-  --if-version 1 --destination https://example.com/new --enabled false
-urlcode links delete --store /absolute/links.sqlite --code demo --if-version 2
-```
-
-Replace illustrative versions with the actual returned `version`. Update is a
-**full replacement**: omitted status becomes 302, enabled becomes true, and expiry
-becomes null. Use `--status 307` or `--expires 2030-01-01T00:00:00Z` as needed.
-Allowed status codes match ordinary redirects. Disabled/expired records remain
-stored and reserve the code until explicitly deleted.
-
-Create is insert-only: an existing code returns conflict, never an overwrite.
-Updates/deletes require a matching positive version. Every mutation uses a
-transaction; revisions advance globally within that database, including deletion,
-so a stale edit cannot silently affect a deleted-and-recreated code. Competing
-writers receive a conflict. Read the latest record before making a new decision;
-do not blindly retry a stale update. Listing is ordered by code, at most 100 per
-page, within one collection. Pagination is not a snapshot across concurrent writes.
-
-CLI commands print record data intentionally; treat output as operational data.
-Do not store secrets in destinations or capture output into public logs.
-`urlcode add` remains the separate command for adding a Git/YAML-defined redirect.
+`links get/list/update/delete` and the optimistic version rules. Read [cli](links/cli.md#update-disable-expire-list-and-delete).
 
 ## Consistent operator export and restore
 
-Listing pages one after another is not a snapshot: inserts, updates and deletes
-between pages can produce a logically inconsistent copy. `links export` instead
-holds one SQLite read transaction for the whole export, so every record it writes
-comes from a single point in time.
-
-```sh
-umask 077
-urlcode links export --store /absolute/links.sqlite > /absolute/backups/links-export.ndjson
-urlcode links import --store /absolute/restored.sqlite --input /absolute/backups/links-export.ndjson
-```
-
-Export is an operator command on the operator's own database. It is not reachable
-from the public redirect server, from route YAML, from guest function code or from
-the management HTTP API, and it grants guest code no storage capability. The
-output is operational data: write it somewhere only operators can read, keep it out
-of the project, Git and build artifacts, and treat it like the database itself.
-
-**Consistency contract.** The export reflects the database exactly as of the moment
-the snapshot is pinned, which is the first read after the transaction opens. Writers
-are never blocked and keep committing; none of their later commits appear in the
-export, and no record appears twice or is skipped. The header line carries
-`format`, `schemaVersion`, `applicationId`, the store `revision` at that instant and
-`generatedAt`, so a restored copy can be identified and ordered against others. This
-is a consistent logical copy, not a point-in-time recovery system: it has no
-continuous log and cannot reconstruct a moment between two exports.
-
-**Contents.** Every record in the store, or in one `--collection`, including
-enabled, disabled and expired records, with `collection`, `code`, `url`, `status`,
-`enabled`, `expires` and `version`. Disabled and expired records are exported
-because they still reserve their codes. The output is NDJSON: a
-`link-export-begin` header line, one `{"record": {...}}` line per record ordered by
-collection and code, and a `link-export-complete` line carrying the record count
-and a SHA-256 digest over every preceding line. A stream without that final line is
-truncated, and `links import` rejects it.
-
-**Restore semantics.** `links import` replays the records into the target store and
-refuses to touch a collection that already holds records, so a restore never
-overwrites live data. It verifies the format, schema version, store identity, record
-count and digest before it commits the last record. Codes, destinations, statuses,
-enabled flags and expiries are restored exactly. **Versions are not.** The target
-assigns its own revisions, which is why the report sets `versionsReassigned: true`:
-management ETags taken against the exported database are stale after a restore, so
-discard them and re-read records before the next conditional write, exactly as after
-restoring an older database file.
-
-**Audit journal.** The export carries records only. The mutation audit journal stays
-in the source database and is not part of an export, so a store restored from one
-starts a fresh journal covering only mutations made after the restore. Keep the
-journal by backing up the database file itself, as described under *Persistence,
-bounds and recovery*; that file backup, not the export, is the archival copy of who
-changed what. See [management security](MANAGEMENT-SECURITY.md) for retention.
-
-**Bounds.** One export runs at a time per store and a second is rejected with 409.
-It pins exactly one reader connection and holds that reader's admission for its whole
-life, so it can never exceed the pool's read budget or starve redirects of every
-reader — run it against a management store or size `--link-readers` accordingly.
-Pages are at most 100 records (`--page-size`), each page carries the usual
-five-second operation deadline, and the export as a whole has a 60-second default
-deadline after which it fails and releases the reader. A consumer that fails or a
-process that stops ends the read transaction rather than leaving it open. Because
-the transaction pins a WAL read mark, a long export delays WAL checkpointing: keep
-exports short and do not leave one running against a busy store.
-
-Embedders call the same mechanism directly:
-
-```js
-await store.exportSnapshot({collection: 'links', pageSize: 100, deadlineMs: 60000}, {
-  onHeader: header => sink.write(header),
-  onRecords: records => sink.write(records),
-});
-```
-
-`onRecords` is awaited, so a slow sink applies backpressure to the export instead of
-buffering the store in memory; anything it throws aborts the export and releases the
-reader. `stats()` reports `exporting` while one is in flight.
+`links export` holds one read transaction; `links import` refuses occupied collections. Read [cli](links/cli.md#consistent-operator-export-and-restore).
 
 ## A separate authenticated management API
 
-For a web product, your trusted backend calls the management API after applying
-its own user authentication, authorization, quotas and abuse rules. The API is an
-operator interface, not a public anonymous link-creation endpoint. Never put its
-shared token in browser JavaScript. It is not available on the public route server.
-
-Generate a private token file outside the application (POSIX-compatible Node example):
-
-```sh
-node --input-type=module -e 'import {writeFileSync} from "node:fs"; import {randomBytes} from "node:crypto"; writeFileSync(process.argv[1],randomBytes(32).toString("base64url"),{mode:0o600,flag:"wx"})' /absolute/link-admin.token
-urlcode links api --store /absolute/links.sqlite --collection links \
-  --token-file /absolute/link-admin.token --host 127.0.0.1 --port 3001
-```
-
-Use a securely generated token, at least 43 base64url characters. File permissions
-must exclude group/other access on POSIX; protect Windows files with operator ACLs.
-The API reads the token at startup; rotate by replacing it and restarting this
-management process. This does not require restarting public resolution.
-
-Every request needs `Authorization: Bearer <token>`. Authenticate before body
-processing. Use application/json for POST/PUT, with no compression; max body is
-16 KiB. Browser Origin-bearing requests are rejected. No CORS, cookies, user
-accounts, per-user scopes, JWT system or automatic rate limiter is provided.
-Keep it on a private network/loopback behind authenticated TLS ingress as needed.
-If changing `--host`, protect it before exposing it; no built-in HTTPS exists.
-
-| Request | Result |
-|---|---|
-| `POST /v1/links` with `{ "code": "demo", "url": "https://example.com/demo" }` | 201 with record and ETag; code optional |
-| `GET /v1/links/demo` | 200 with record and ETag, or 404 |
-| `GET /v1/links?limit=100&after=demo` | `{items, nextAfter}`; nextAfter null on a short page |
-| `PUT /v1/links/demo`, `If-Match: "VERSION"`, complete record fields | Replace and return new record/ETag |
-| `DELETE /v1/links/demo`, `If-Match: "VERSION"` | 204 |
-
-POST accepts optional `code` plus `url`, optional `status`, `enabled`, `expires`.
-PUT accepts the same record fields except code, which is immutable. `expires`
-may be null. Responses include collection, code, url, status, enabled, expires,
-version. Missing precondition: 428; stale version or duplicate code: 409;
-invalid input: 400; authentication failure: 401; unsupported media: 415;
-record limit: 507; store failure/capacity: 503. Error messages omit credentials,
-submitted URLs and SQL details. A full page can return a cursor even when the
-next page will be empty. No bulk mutation API is implemented, and the management
-API exposes no export: sequential list pages are not a snapshot, so use the
-operator `links export` command above for a consistent copy.
-
-A token authorizes its configured collection, not all collections. There are no
-per-end-user permissions: those belong to your backend. The API can also list
-inactive records for management. The public `/r/{code}` route never exposes
-management JSON, token files or a mutation endpoint.
+`links api`: bearer token, endpoints, status codes and scope. Read [management-api](links/management-api.md#a-separate-authenticated-management-api).
 
 ## Persistence, bounds and recovery
 
-SQLite operations use separate reader and writer pools, outside the HTTP event
-loop and function workers. Default: two read-only worker connections plus one
-writer for writable stores; public serving opens readers only. Reads and writes
-have independent 32-operation admission limits and 5-second deadlines including
-waiting. Lock wait is one second. Excess work returns 503. Failed connections
-are excluded from selection and readiness degrades; surviving readers can still
-serve requests. Plain YAML redirects remain independent.
-
-Startup and established-worker failures recover differently.
-
-* **Startup failure.** A connection that never reports ready is terminated and its
-  error is returned to the caller: `openLinkStore` rejects and activation fails
-  closed. Nothing is retried behind the operator's back, so a `serve` or `links api`
-  process that cannot open the store does not start, and a reload that cannot open
-  it keeps the last-good runtime.
-* **Established-worker failure.** A connection that had been serving and then
-  errors, exits or misses an operation deadline is replaced automatically.
-  In-flight operations on it reject with 503, the connection is marked unhealthy
-  and excluded from selection, and a replacement worker is launched after an
-  exponential backoff from 250 ms up to 30 seconds. Each attempt emits a
-  `link_store_worker` event with `status: "restarting"`, the attempt number and the
-  delay; a replacement that serves an operation resets the backoff, and one that
-  starts but dies on every operation keeps backing off instead of spinning. Close
-  cancels a pending replacement.
-
-While a pool member is down the pool is degraded, not off: `readHealthy`,
-`writeHealthy` and `healthy` report false and readiness degrades, but surviving
-readers keep answering and a recovered writer resumes accepting mutations with no
-operator action. Records live on disk, so a replaced connection loses no committed
-data.
-
-Restart the process when recovery cannot help: an unsuitable Node/SQLite build,
-missing or invalid revision metadata, an incompatible schema, a store file that was
-replaced, moved or symlinked under a running connection, or a host-level fault such
-as a full or read-only disk. Those fail activation rather than reconnecting, and
-the replacement worker will keep failing until the underlying cause is fixed.
-
-Automatic connection recovery does not make writes idempotent. A mutation whose
-reply was lost to a worker failure or deadline may still have committed, and the
-records it touched carry versions that advance globally. Callers must therefore
-re-read the record and decide again instead of blindly retrying a write; the
-optimistic-version rules under *Update, disable, expire, list and delete* apply
-unchanged. Recovery behavior is covered by the `acknowledged writes survive abrupt
-writer exit and pagination retains records`, `a blocked writer does not occupy read
-connections and recovers after lock release` and `stores with missing revision
-metadata fail activation` cases in `test/links.test.ts`.
-
-The initial store has a 100,000-record cap across collections and an 8,192-byte
-normalized destination limit. WAL + FULL synchronous commits provide transactional
-persistence subject to the disk/filesystem's guarantees. The format has an
-application identifier and schema version; incompatible databases fail activation.
-Use trusted local storage and a protected parent directory. Do not replace,
-symlink or move an open database or its WAL/SHM files. The database and token must
-be outside the project; keep them outside public directories, Git and artifacts.
-
-An acknowledged mutation is committed. If a caller loses the response or receives
-a timeout, the write may nevertheless have committed: inspect state before retry.
-For retryable creation, choose a stable code and resolve conflicts; automatic
-code generation cannot give exactly-once semantics after a lost response.
-
-`links export` gives a consistent logical copy of the records while the store keeps
-serving; it does not replace a file backup, which is what preserves the audit
-journal and the exact record versions. For offline backups, stop management writers and all readers, then copy the
-database together with any remaining WAL file as one consistent stopped set,
-preserving their matching basenames. Restore into a separate private directory
-while no connection is open. Do not discard a WAL just because the app stopped.
-For online backups, use SQLite-aware tooling rather than copying only the live
-main file. SQLite's [WAL documentation](https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html) explains why
-committed state may still be in the WAL. Test restores on a separate closed store.
-Restoring an older database also restores older record versions: discard old
-management ETags and re-read records after restore. This is not a replication or
-point-in-time recovery system. Define retention, RPO/RTO and disk limits yourself.
-
-Multiple same-host processes can share the local file; a distributed deployment
-needs another adapter. The trusted embedding API accepts
-`linkStores: {links: adapter}` where `get(collection, code)` resolves to null or a
-record with url/status/enabled/expires. The caller owns adapter shutdown and must
-provide bounded operations, validation and consistency. Optional `healthy=false`
-makes readiness fail. `openLinkStore` provides the built-in implementation plus
-create/update/delete/list/exportSnapshot/close methods. Adapter code is operator code, never
-loaded from route YAML. No remote provider adapter ships in this release.
+Pools, deadlines, worker replacement with backoff, record caps and backups. Read [limits](links/limits.md#persistence-bounds-and-recovery).
 
 ## Middleware, sandbox and tests
 
-Middleware may wrap a successful link response; the usual native metadata/body
-rules apply. Lookup/missing/disabled/expiry errors happen before middleware. The
-handler does not make database objects available to guest code. Functions still
-have no filesystem, SQL, fetch, storage broker or management token capability.
-Link changes do not alter configuration/source digests or invalidate unrelated
-function-binding grants. Changing YAML still does.
-
-`routes` and `audit --expect-routes` count definitions, not stored records. Link
-routes require explicit successful GET/HEAD fixtures; there is no assumed fixture
-for live data. Seed a disposable test database, then pass `--link-store` to
-validate/test/audit/benchmark. Do not run mutation tests against production.
-
-```sh
-node src/cli.ts test --project examples/live-links --link-store links=/absolute/test-links.sqlite
-node src/cli.ts audit --project examples/live-links --link-store links=/absolute/test-links.sqlite --expect-routes 2
-```
-
-The example expects `demo -> https://example.com/demo` and an unused `not-created`
-code. Tests cover create/update/delete visibility without reload, persistence,
-concurrent conflicts, expiry/disabled semantics, scope, public/admin separation,
-body/token boundaries, overload and acknowledged writes after abrupt writer exit.
-Production durability, sustained load and recovery drills still require validation
-on your actual storage. General application state, WebRTC sessions, user-account
-APIs and arbitrary runtime code registration remain separate future work.
+What guest code can and cannot see; fixtures for `test` and `audit`. Read [setup](links/setup.md#middleware-sandbox-and-tests).
 
 ## Opt-in completed-redirect events
 
-Default request logs stay minimal: they carry status and timing, and with
-`--request-log detailed` the method and the configured route pattern. They never
-carry a short code or a request target. Counting store lookups is not a substitute
-either, because a lookup cannot tell a completed redirect from a HEAD probe, an
-error or a client that disconnected.
-
-A trusted operator embedding the runtime can instead enable a post-response
-observer. It is explicitly enabled in operator code, off by default, and there is no
-`serve` flag and no YAML setting for it: route YAML cannot name a callback, and no
-untrusted code is ever loaded as one.
-
-```js
-import {startServer} from '@jimhoyd/urlcode';
-
-await startServer({
-  project: './links',
-  linkStore: {collection: 'links', file: '/absolute/links.sqlite'},
-  linkEvents: {
-    observe: event => collector.record(event),  // operator code, awaited off the request path
-    includeCode: false,   // set true to disclose the short code to this collector
-    maxQueue: 256,        // 1–4096 events; excess is dropped and counted
-    timeoutMs: 1000,      // 1–10000 ms budget per observer call
-  },
-});
-```
-
-In TypeScript the collector's argument is `LinkEvent` and the option block is
-`LinkObserverOptions`, both exported from `urlcode` beside `LinkStore`,
-`LinkRow`, `LinkStoreOptions`, `LinkApi` and `LinkApiOptions`; the declarations
-ship with the package:
-
-```ts
-import { startServer, type LinkEvent, type LinkObserverOptions } from '@jimhoyd/urlcode';
-
-const linkEvents: LinkObserverOptions = {
-  observe: (event: LinkEvent) => collector.record(event),  // event.code is null for an invalid code
-  includeCode: false,
-};
-await startServer({ project: './links', linkStore: { collection: 'links', file: '/absolute/links.sqlite' }, linkEvents });
-```
-
-Each event is `{event: 'link_request', requestId, collection, route, method, status,
-outcome, durationMs}`, plus `code` only when `includeCode` is true. `route` is the
-configured route pattern, never the request target. Nothing else from the request is
-included: no token, destination URL, query string, headers, body, cookie or client
-IP address, and no stored record. Only stored-link routes produce events; a plain
-YAML redirect never does. Disclosing a short code identifies a link, so treat a
-collector that receives one as holding operational data and keep it off public logs.
-
-| `outcome` | Meaning |
-|---|---|
-| `completed` | The redirect response finished. With `method: "GET"` this is the closest thing to a click; `HEAD` is a probe, not a click |
-| `aborted` | A redirect was produced but the response never finished, because the peer disconnected |
-| `missing` | No record for that code |
-| `disabled` | The record exists but is disabled |
-| `expired` | The record exists but its expiry has passed |
-| `invalid_code` | The code failed route input validation |
-| `invalid_record` | The stored record failed validation |
-| `unavailable` | The store was unavailable or over its admission budget |
-
-Nothing here is a human click count. Bots, prefetchers, proxies and repeat requests
-all produce `completed` events, the runtime does not deduplicate, and browser and
-proxy caches mean a real navigation may produce no request at all. Do the
-interpretation in your own collector.
-
-**The observer cannot affect a redirect.** Events are enqueued after the response
-finishes or the connection closes, never before, so an observer cannot delay,
-rewrite or fail a redirect. Delivery is sequential and bounded: at most `maxQueue`
-events are held, each call gets `timeoutMs` and a slow or hung collector is
-abandoned rather than allowed to pin the queue, and a call that throws is counted
-instead of propagated. Drops and failures are counted, reported through
-`link_observer` events on the normal log and readable at any time through
-`app.linkEventStats()` as `{queued, delivered, dropped, failed, timedOut, closed}`.
-An overloaded collector loses events, by design, instead of growing memory.
-
-Shutdown closes the observer after the server's connections are gone, drains what
-was already accepted within one bounded deadline, drops the rest and emits a final
-`link_observer` event with `status: "closed"` and those totals. Events are
-best-effort operational signals, not durable analytics or an audit record: the
-durable, atomic record of mutations remains the store's audit journal.
-
-Tests cover GET and HEAD, completed and aborted responses, missing, disabled and
-expired records, default redaction and opt-in code disclosure, a failing collector,
-a hung collector hitting its budget, queue overflow with counted drops, and drain on
-shutdown.
+The `linkEvents` observer: outcomes, redaction, bounded delivery. Read [limits](links/limits.md#opt-in-completed-redirect-events).
 
 ## Shutdown and management defaults
 
-`links api` defaults to private address `127.0.0.1:3001`; public serving defaults
-to port 3000. Endpoint method errors return 405 with an `Allow` header.
-Store shutdown rejects new work, drains accepted operations within each connection and
-then closes SQLite. Repeated `close()` calls share completion. Existing operation
-deadlines still apply: a timeout can leave a mutation outcome unknown, so read
-the record before retrying. Missing/invalid revision metadata rejects startup.
+Loopback defaults, drain on close, unknown outcomes after a timeout. Read [pools](links/pools.md#shutdown-and-management-defaults).
 
 ## Explicit project opt-in
 
-Only the entry `urlcode.yaml` may set `dynamicLinks: true`. It defaults to false;
-the starter writes `dynamicLinks: false` explicitly. Included route files cannot
-set or override it. Any `link` handler, including a disabled route, or runtime
-link-store binding requires the opt-in. This flag means live stored-link records,
-not parameterized redirects, custom functions, middleware or development reload.
-
-`validate`, `routes`, `audit` and `scaffold` reports expose `dynamicLinks` as a
-boolean. Enabling it grants no storage access to guest code and starts no
-management endpoint. The operator still supplies the external store binding;
-management remains a separate authenticated service. Standalone `links` CRUD/API
-commands operate the operator's store independently of this public-runtime flag.
-
-Migration: existing live-link projects must add `dynamicLinks: true` to their
-entry file. Refresh revision-pinned function policies for those projects using
-the normal operator review flow; enabling the capability changes the approval
-digest. Projects that omit it or explicitly set false retain their prior digest.
-To disable, remove `link` declarations and serving-store bindings, then set false
-and validate/redeploy. Editing the flag alone does not stop an already running
-production process or management API. Invalid reloads retain the last-good state.
+`dynamicLinks: true` in the entry file only; what enabling changes. Read [setup](links/setup.md#explicit-project-opt-in).
 
 ## Separate reader and writer pools
 
-Pool sizes are operator infrastructure settings, not portable behavior YAML.
-`dynamicLinks: true` and logical collection names stay the same across targets.
-
-```sh
-urlcode serve --project ./my-links \
-  --link-store links=/absolute/links.sqlite \
-  --link-readers 4 --link-read-limit 32
-
-urlcode links api --project ./my-links \
-  --store /absolute/links.sqlite --token-file /absolute/link-admin.token \
-  --link-readers 2 --link-read-limit 16 --link-write-limit 8
-```
-
-| Control | Default | Meaning |
-|---|---|---|
-| `--link-readers` / JS `readers` | 2 | 1–8 read-only connections per store instance |
-| `--link-read-limit` / JS `maxReads` | 32 | 1–32 admitted reads across all readers, not per reader |
-| `--link-write-limit` / JS `maxWrites` | 32 | 1–32 admitted mutations across the single writer |
-
-`get` and `list` use the least-busy healthy reader. `create`, `update` and `delete`
-use the writer. Each worker serializes its own accepted operations. There is no
-additional unbounded acquisition queue. A read flood cannot take writer admission
-and a mutation backlog cannot take reader admission. CPU, disk, database locks
-and the event loop remain shared resources: separation is not an isolation SLA.
-A write response resolves after commit; a subsequent awaited read sees committed
-data on the same database. Reads started before the commit may see the old value.
-There is no replica lag or application cache in this adapter.
-
-`openLinkStore({file, project, readOnly, readers, maxReads, maxWrites})` exposes
-`stats()` with separate read/write connection counts, healthy counts, in-flight
-counts, limits, completed/failed/rejected totals and cumulative durationMs. These
-process-local counters reset at restart and are for trusted operator monitoring;
-there is no public metrics endpoint/exporter yet. `readHealthy` and `writeHealthy`
-are separate. Public runtime readiness uses `readHealthy` when available; management
-operators must monitor writer health separately. A read-only pool has zero writers
-and rejects mutations. Shutdown drains both groups and rejects new admission.
-
-Do not multiply connection counts blindly across processes: N public replicas at
-R readers use N×R connections, plus management readers/writers. Each connection
-has its own worker and memory budget. Measure mixed load and lock contention;
-adding readers can reduce performance on an already saturated disk.
-
-SQLite WAL supports simultaneous readers and a single active writer across the
-database. Multiple writer connections cannot create parallel write throughput.
-All connections must access the same local database on one host; never mount it
-across hosts over a network filesystem. See [SQLite WAL](https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html).
-We require a Node build with SQLite 3.51.3+ or patched branches 3.50.7+/3.44.6+
-to avoid the documented [WAL-reset concurrency bug](https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html#the_wal_reset_bug).
-Live-link initialization checks this before opening files and verifies WAL mode.
-Use `urlcode doctor` to inspect the bundled SQLite version; upgrade Node when
-rejected. Static YAML projects do not require SQLite.
-
-For multi-host scaling, a future server-database adapter must provide distinct
-read/write credentials and pool budgets, connect/acquire/query deadlines,
-transactional version checks, primary-read or explicit replica consistency,
-replica-lag monitoring, migration coordination, backup/restore and failover drills.
-These are adapter acceptance requirements, not implemented PostgreSQL support.
-Keep writes on the primary and avoid automatic retries of ambiguous commits.
-The existing operator adapter boundary remains available, but deploying a custom
-adapter requires its own conformance/load/recovery evidence.
+`--link-readers`, `--link-read-limit`, `--link-write-limit` and `stats()`. Read [pools](links/pools.md#separate-reader-and-writer-pools).
 
 ## Management HTTP and audit safeguards
 
-The private API admits up to 32 in-flight HTTP requests through response finish
-or disconnect, returning 503 on overload. A 10-second socket inactivity timeout
-closes stalled peers; this is not a total response deadline. The embedding API
-accepts `maxInFlightRequests` (1–64) and `socketTimeoutMs` (100–60,000). Existing
-connection/body/header and database admission limits still apply. Noncanonical
-dot-segment/backslash path normalization is rejected.
-
-JSON `management_request` events go to stdout by default and include timestamp,
-request ID, collection, action, authentication result, status and finish/abort
-outcome. No token, code, destination, URL, headers or body is logged. Embedders
-can supply `log(event)`; failed sinks cannot crash request handling. These are
-best-effort operational events, not durable per-actor audit records. Aborted
-mutations may have committed: re-read state before retrying. See the
-[security review](SECURITY-AUDIT.md) for remaining controls.
+Admission, socket timeout and `management_request` events. Read [management-api](links/management-api.md#management-http-and-audit-safeguards).
 
 ## Management hardening baseline
 
-Management is now restricted to literal loopback addresses. Prefer `--auth-file`
-for individual expiring, revocable credentials with collection/action scopes.
-Every successful built-in store mutation has an atomic, durable SQLite audit row;
-HTTP request logs remain best effort. See [management security](MANAGEMENT-SECURITY.md)
-for policy examples, compatibility, archival and rollback requirements, and
-[operational proof](OPERATIONAL-PROOF.md) for executable recovery drills.
+Loopback only, `--auth-file` credentials, durable audit rows. Read [management-api](links/management-api.md#management-hardening-baseline).