@optimystic/db-p2p 1.0.0-beta.2 → 1.0.0

package/dist/src/libp2p-key-network.js

@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ export class Libp2pKeyPeerNetwork {
      * and near-zero for a dial-only client; do not quote the headline figure at a profile that
      * never pays it. Every
      * `findCluster` builds a cluster record containing self's addresses, and every commit calls
-     * `findCluster` through `getClusterPeerIds` — so a cold `apply schema` paid one NIC sweep per
+     * `findCluster` through `ClusterCoordinator.resolveCohort` — so a cold `apply schema` paid one NIC sweep per
      * commit. On a solo node with zero peers that was ~13.8 ms per call and **49% of the whole
      * apply** (issue #8); the addresses it recomputed were identical every time.
      *
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ export class Libp2pKeyPeerNetwork {
     /**
      * The caller-independent half of eligibility: this peer is neither excluded by the caller
      * nor banned by reputation. Shared by all three places `findCoordinator` narrows a candidate
-     * list — the FRET tier, the connected-peer fallback, and the retry-futility input — so the
+     * list — the cohort tier, the connected-peer fallback, and the retry-futility input — so the
      * futility test can never disagree with the tiers about who is pickable.
      *
      * NOTE: eligibility here is deliberately blind to self-dialability, so on a relay
@@ -500,6 +500,14 @@ export class Libp2pKeyPeerNetwork {
     recordPeerAddresses(peerId, multiaddrs) {
         mergePeerAddresses(this.libp2p, peerId, multiaddrs, this.addressLog);
     }
+    /**
+     * NOTE: a cached coordinator is trusted without re-deriving the key's cohort. A peer that
+     * has since LEFT the cohort (ring growth shifted the nearest set) is corrected on the next
+     * hop rather than here: the server-side responsibility check redirects to a current member
+     * (`RepoService.checkRedirect`, whose target overwrites this hint), and a peer that has gone
+     * away fails its dial and is excluded by the caller. Re-deriving the cohort on every cache
+     * hit would cost the same FRET walk and peerStore reads the cache exists to skip.
+     */
     getCachedCoordinator(key) {
         const k = this.toCacheKey(key);
         const hit = this.coordinatorCache.get(k);
@@ -570,12 +578,6 @@ export class Libp2pKeyPeerNetwork {
             throw new Error('FRET service is not registered on this libp2p node');
         return svc;
     }
-    async getNeighborIdsForKey(key, wants) {
-        const fret = this.getFret();
-        const coord = await hashKey(key);
-        const both = fret.getNeighbors(coord, 'both', wants);
-        return Array.from(new Set(both)).slice(0, wants);
-    }
     async findCoordinator(key, _options) {
         const t0 = Date.now();
         const excludedSet = new Set((_options?.excludedPeers ?? []).map(p => p.toString()));
@@ -583,12 +585,17 @@ export class Libp2pKeyPeerNetwork {
         // intent is held to the stricter self-coordination bar.
         const intent = _options?.intent ?? 'write';
         const keyStr = this.toCacheKey(key).substring(0, 12);
+        const selfStr = this.libp2p.peerId.toString();
         // Tracks whether the network-membership filter excluded an UNCONFIRMED candidate
         // — `foreign` (another network) OR `unknown` (not yet confirmed to serve this
         // network) — during any attempt. If selection ultimately fails with self
         // unavailable, this lets us surface NO_NETWORK_COORDINATOR (the real cause)
         // instead of the generic NO_COORDINATOR_AVAILABLE.
         let droppedUnconfirmedAnyAttempt = false;
+        // The most recent attempt's cohort, kept for the last-resort tier below: self may
+        // coordinate a key only when it is among that key's responsible peers, and the
+        // verdict is the one the attempt that gave up on every better tier was working from.
+        let lastCohort;
         this.log('findCoordinator:start key=%s excluded=%o', keyStr, Array.from(excludedSet).map(s => s.substring(0, 12)));
         // honor cache if not excluded
         const cached = this.getCachedCoordinator(key);
@@ -604,22 +611,29 @@ export class Libp2pKeyPeerNetwork {
             const connected = (this.libp2p.getConnections?.() ?? []).map((c) => c.remotePeer);
             const connectedSet = new Set(connected.map(p => p.toString()));
             this.log('findCoordinator:connected-peers key=%s count=%d peers=%o attempt=%d', keyStr, connected.length, connected.map(p => p.toString().substring(0, 12)), attempt);
-            // prefer FRET neighbors that are also connected, pick first non-excluded
-            let ids = [];
+            // The proximity band this attempt's cohort was cut from, for the retry-futility
+            // test below. Empty when the assembly threw.
+            let band = [];
+            // Cohort tier: the key's responsible peers, in proximity order, from the SAME
+            // assembly `findCluster` builds the replica set with — so the coordinator is
+            // always one of the peers that will hold the block, never a neighbour just
+            // outside that set.
             try {
-                ids = await this.getNeighborIdsForKey(key, this.clusterSize);
-                this.log('findCoordinator:fret-neighbors key=%s candidates=%d', keyStr, ids.length);
+                const assembled = await this.assembleServingCohort(key);
+                lastCohort = assembled.cohort;
+                band = assembled.band;
+                this.log('findCoordinator:cohort key=%s size=%d selfInCohort=%s', keyStr, assembled.cohort.length, assembled.cohort.includes(selfStr));
                 if (verbose)
-                    this.log('findCoordinator:fret-candidates key=%s ids=%o connected=%o', keyStr, ids, Array.from(connectedSet));
-                // Filter to only connected FRET neighbors, excluding banned peers. Self is
+                    this.log('findCoordinator:cohort-candidates key=%s ids=%o connected=%o', keyStr, assembled.cohort, Array.from(connectedSet));
+                // Filter to only connected cohort members, excluding banned peers. Self is
                 // never "connected" to itself, so it is admitted by the explicit self clause
-                // below — but ONLY when the self-coordination guard allows it, otherwise a
-                // node whose FRET neighborhood contains self (essentially always on a small or
-                // forming network) would bypass the guard and the last-resort tier's
-                // SELF_COORDINATION_BLOCKED would never fire. On refusal self is merely DROPPED
-                // from the candidate list, so the connected-peer fallback below still gets its
-                // chance at a good remote peer; only if that also comes up empty does the
-                // last-resort tier raise the accurate error.
+                // below — but ONLY when it is in the cohort (the list being filtered) AND the
+                // self-coordination guard allows it, otherwise a node that heads the cohort
+                // of nearly every key on a small or forming network would bypass the guard
+                // and the last-resort tier's SELF_COORDINATION_BLOCKED would never fire. On
+                // refusal self is merely DROPPED from the candidate list, so the connected-peer
+                // fallback below still gets its chance at a good remote peer; only if that also
+                // comes up empty does the last-resort tier raise the accurate error.
                 //
                 // An ISOLATED READ is the exception: with no connection left there is no better
                 // answer to wait for, and a deferrable denial is not evidence that answering
@@ -627,13 +641,12 @@ export class Libp2pKeyPeerNetwork {
                 // immediately instead of paying the ~1s retry loop before the last-resort tier
                 // degrades to the same answer. A WRITE keeps dropping self exactly as before,
                 // so a peer that lands during the retry window still wins the key.
-                const selfStr = this.libp2p.peerId.toString();
                 let selfAllowedThisAttempt;
-                // Memoized per ATTEMPT, and evaluated lazily so an all-remote neighborhood never
+                // Memoized per ATTEMPT, and evaluated lazily so an all-remote cohort never
                 // pays detectPartition() / getNetworkSizeEstimate(). Re-evaluated on each attempt
                 // because a connection can land during the 500ms inter-attempt sleep and
-                // legitimately flip the answer — as filterByMembership re-reads the peerStore.
-                // NOTE: on a small network self is a neighbor of nearly every key, so this runs
+                // legitimately flip the answer — as the assembly re-reads the peerStore.
+                // NOTE: on a small network self is in the cohort of nearly every key, so this runs
                 // per findCoordinator call and self-coordinated keys are never cached to absorb
                 // it. Fine while detectPartition()/getNetworkSizeEstimate() stay local FRET
                 // table reads; if either ever grows a probe or other network round-trip, cache
@@ -651,7 +664,7 @@ export class Libp2pKeyPeerNetwork {
                         // Gated on ISOLATION, not just on the read intent. Self carries no reputation
                         // record, so it scores 0 and sorts ahead of every remote candidate in the rank
                         // below — admitting it while a connection is live would hand the key to a node
-                        // its own guard just called partitioned, over a reachable FRET neighbour. And
+                        // its own guard just called partitioned, over a reachable cohort member. And
                         // waiting costs a connected read nothing: the inter-attempt sleep further down
                         // only runs when `connected.length === 0`, so with peers present the remaining
                         // attempts and the last-resort degrade run back-to-back with no delay.
@@ -659,28 +672,28 @@ export class Libp2pKeyPeerNetwork {
                             && intent === 'read' && connected.length === 0;
                         selfAllowedThisAttempt = decision.allow || degradedRead;
                         if (degradedRead) {
-                            this.log('findCoordinator:fret-self-degraded key=%s reason=%s intent=read attempt=%d', keyStr, decision.reason, attempt);
+                            this.log('findCoordinator:cohort-self-degraded key=%s reason=%s intent=read attempt=%d', keyStr, decision.reason, attempt);
                         }
                         else if (!decision.allow) {
-                            this.log('findCoordinator:fret-self-dropped key=%s reason=%s intent=%s attempt=%d', keyStr, decision.reason, intent, attempt);
+                            this.log('findCoordinator:cohort-self-dropped key=%s reason=%s intent=%s attempt=%d', keyStr, decision.reason, intent, attempt);
                         }
                     }
                     return selfAllowedThisAttempt;
                 };
-                const connectedFretIds = ids
+                const reachable = assembled.cohort
                     .filter(id => this.isSelectable(id, excludedSet))
                     .filter(id => connectedSet.has(id) || (id === selfStr && isSelfAdmissible()))
+                    // Ranked by reputation, best (lowest) score first. The sort MUST be stable so
+                    // that equal-score members keep their proximity order — otherwise two writers
+                    // with the same cohort could name different coordinators for one block.
+                    // `Array.prototype.sort` is stable in every supported runtime (ES2019+).
                     .sort((a, b) => (this.reputation?.getScore(a) ?? 0) - (this.reputation?.getScore(b) ?? 0));
-                this.log('findCoordinator:fret-connected key=%s count=%d peers=%o', keyStr, connectedFretIds.length, connectedFretIds.map(s => s.substring(0, 12)));
-                // Network-membership scoping (no-op when protocolPrefix is unset): only a peer
-                // CONFIRMED to serve this network ('serves') is eligible — both `foreign`
-                // (another network) and `unknown` (not yet identified) peers are excluded
-                // from selection. A cross-network peer is permanently 'unknown' (its
-                // namespaced identify never completes), so it is never gambled on; over the
-                // 3×500ms retry window a genuine same-network peer flips to 'serves' on a
-                // re-read of the peerStore and is selected normally on that attempt. Self
-                // always classifies as 'serves' and stays eligible.
-                const { ranked, droppedUnconfirmed } = await this.filterByMembership(connectedFretIds);
+                this.log('findCoordinator:cohort-reachable key=%s count=%d peers=%o', keyStr, reachable.length, reachable.map(s => s.substring(0, 12)));
+                // Network-membership scoping (no-op when protocolPrefix is unset). The cohort
+                // was already cut to peers CONFIRMED to serve this network by the assembly, so
+                // this is the final scope check over the same peerStore records — it costs no
+                // second read and cannot disagree with the assembly.
+                const { ranked, droppedUnconfirmed } = await this.filterByMembership(reachable, assembled.protocolsByPeer);
                 if (droppedUnconfirmed)
                     droppedUnconfirmedAnyAttempt = true;
                 const pick = ranked[0];
@@ -689,12 +702,12 @@ export class Libp2pKeyPeerNetwork {
                     // A self pick is a no-op here — recordCoordinator ignores self-valued
                     // writes (see its doc comment), matching the last-resort self tier below.
                     this.recordCoordinator(key, pid);
-                    this.log('findCoordinator:done key=%s ms=%d source=%s', keyStr, Date.now() - t0, 'fret');
+                    this.log('findCoordinator:done key=%s ms=%d source=%s', keyStr, Date.now() - t0, 'cohort');
                     return pid;
                 }
             }
             catch (err) {
-                this.log('findCoordinator getNeighborIdsForKey failed - %o', err);
+                this.log('findCoordinator:cohort-assembly-failed key=%s attempt=%d - %o', keyStr, attempt, err);
             }
             // fallback: prefer any existing connected peer that's not excluded or banned,
             // scoped to this network's serving peers (a `foreign` or not-yet-confirmed
@@ -702,7 +715,12 @@ export class Libp2pKeyPeerNetwork {
             // connected REMOTE peers and never includes self, so when no serving peer is
             // present selection falls through to the last-resort self-coordination block.
             // Being remote-only, this tier needs no self-coordination guard check, unlike the
-            // FRET tier above.
+            // cohort tier above.
+            // NOTE: this tier can pick a serving peer OUTSIDE the key's cohort when no cohort
+            // member is connected. That is a redirect hop, not a wrong placement: the receiving
+            // node's responsibility check redirects the request to a current cohort member (or
+            // refuses it). If redirect hops ever show up in profiles, prefer a not-connected
+            // cohort member we hold an address for over an out-of-cohort connected peer here.
             const connectedCandidates = connected
                 .filter(p => this.isSelectable(p.toString(), excludedSet))
                 .sort((a, b) => (this.reputation?.getScore(a.toString()) ?? 0) - (this.reputation?.getScore(b.toString()) ?? 0))
@@ -720,14 +738,16 @@ export class Libp2pKeyPeerNetwork {
             // If no connections and not the last attempt, wait and retry
             if (connected.length === 0 && attempt < maxRetries - 1) {
                 // Exclusion/ban filtered — a neighbour we may never pick is not something to
-                // wait for. This network's membership filter (peerStore protocols) is deliberately
-                // NOT applied: a neighbour still `unknown` to it is exactly the peer that flips to
-                // `serves` inside the retry window, so its presence must keep the window. FRET's
-                // own ring membership has already applied a stricter cut upstream — `getNeighbors`
-                // returns confirmed ring members only — so a configured-but-never-reached bootstrap
-                // peer is absent from `ids` entirely, and only the dial-in-flight signal below can
-                // keep the window for it.
-                const knowable = ids.filter(id => this.isSelectable(id, excludedSet));
+                // wait for. Fed the whole proximity BAND rather than the cut cohort, and this
+                // network's membership filter (peerStore protocols) is deliberately NOT applied:
+                // a band member still `unknown` to it is exactly the peer that flips to `serves`
+                // inside the retry window, and a connection to ANY serving band member makes the
+                // connected fallback above succeed — so each one's presence must keep the window.
+                // FRET's own ring membership has already applied a stricter cut upstream —
+                // `assembleCohort` returns confirmed live ring members only — so a
+                // configured-but-never-reached bootstrap peer is absent from the band entirely,
+                // and only the dial-in-flight signal below can keep the window for it.
+                const knowable = band.filter(id => this.isSelectable(id, excludedSet));
                 if (!this.retryCouldImprove(knowable)) {
                     this.log('findCoordinator:retry-futile key=%s neighbors=%d dialsInFlight=%d mode=%s hwm=%d', keyStr, knowable.length, this.dialsInFlight(), this.networkMode, this.networkHighWaterMark);
                     break;
@@ -737,9 +757,21 @@ export class Libp2pKeyPeerNetwork {
                 continue;
             }
         }
-        // last resort: prefer self only if not excluded and guard allows
+        // last resort: self, only if not excluded, only if self is among the key's responsible
+        // peers, and only if the guard allows. A node that is NOT responsible for the key — one
+        // that does not serve storage at all, or one that `clusterSize` nearer serving peers
+        // outrank — never coordinates it, however isolated it is: a self-only commit there would
+        // leave a copy nobody looks for and a responsible peer without one. `lastCohort` is
+        // undefined only when every attempt's assembly threw (FRET unavailable), which is read
+        // as "not known to be responsible".
+        // NOTE: this also fails an ISOLATED READ of a block this node is not responsible for, even
+        // when an older local copy exists (before the cohort rule, such a read degraded to the
+        // node's own replica). No effect while the serving peers number at most `clusterSize`,
+        // where every node is in every cohort. If offline reads on a wider network ever matter,
+        // let a read fall back to a local copy flagged as unverified rather than widening this tier.
         const self = this.libp2p.peerId;
-        if (!excludedSet.has(self.toString())) {
+        const selfInCohort = lastCohort?.includes(selfStr) ?? false;
+        if (!excludedSet.has(selfStr) && selfInCohort) {
             const decision = this.shouldAllowSelfCoordination(intent);
             // Only a HARD denial fails the caller. A deferrable one (see
             // SelfCoordinationDecision.deferrable) means self is merely not the preferred
@@ -751,39 +783,44 @@ export class Libp2pKeyPeerNetwork {
                 throw new FindCoordinatorError(FIND_COORDINATOR_ERROR_CODES.SELF_COORDINATION_BLOCKED, `Self-coordination blocked: ${decision.reason}. No coordinator available for key.`);
             }
             if (!decision.allow) {
-                this.log('findCoordinator:self-selected-degraded key=%s coordinator=%s reason=%s intent=%s', keyStr, self.toString().substring(0, 12), decision.reason, intent);
+                this.log('findCoordinator:self-selected-degraded key=%s coordinator=%s reason=%s intent=%s', keyStr, selfStr.substring(0, 12), decision.reason, intent);
                 this.log('findCoordinator:done key=%s ms=%d source=%s', keyStr, Date.now() - t0, 'self-degraded');
                 return self;
             }
             if (decision.warn) {
-                this.log('findCoordinator:self-selected-warn key=%s coordinator=%s reason=%s', keyStr, self.toString().substring(0, 12), decision.reason);
+                this.log('findCoordinator:self-selected-warn key=%s coordinator=%s reason=%s', keyStr, selfStr.substring(0, 12), decision.reason);
             }
             else {
-                this.log('findCoordinator:self-selected key=%s coordinator=%s reason=%s', keyStr, self.toString().substring(0, 12), decision.reason);
+                this.log('findCoordinator:self-selected key=%s coordinator=%s reason=%s', keyStr, selfStr.substring(0, 12), decision.reason);
             }
             this.log('findCoordinator:done key=%s ms=%d source=%s', keyStr, Date.now() - t0, 'self');
             return self;
         }
-        // Self is excluded and selection found no eligible peer. If the membership filter is
-        // the reason the candidate set emptied (the only other peers are `foreign` — serving
-        // a DIFFERENT network — or `unknown` — not yet confirmed to serve this network),
-        // surface a distinct, accurate cause instead of the generic codes below.
+        // Self is unavailable (excluded by the caller, or not responsible for the key) and
+        // selection found no eligible peer. If the membership filter is the reason the
+        // candidate set emptied (the only other peers are `foreign` — serving a DIFFERENT
+        // network — or `unknown` — not yet confirmed to serve this network), surface a
+        // distinct, accurate cause instead of the generic codes below.
         if (droppedUnconfirmedAnyAttempt) {
-            this.log('findCoordinator:no-network-coordinator key=%s prefix=%s self=%s', keyStr, this.protocolPrefix ?? '?', self.toString().substring(0, 12));
+            this.log('findCoordinator:no-network-coordinator key=%s prefix=%s self=%s selfInCohort=%s', keyStr, this.protocolPrefix ?? '?', selfStr.substring(0, 12), selfInCohort);
             throw new FindCoordinatorError(FIND_COORDINATOR_ERROR_CODES.NO_NETWORK_COORDINATOR, `No coordinator available for key on network ${this.protocolPrefix ?? '?'}: ` +
                 `the remaining candidate peer(s) are foreign or not-yet-confirmed to serve this network's cluster/repo protocol.`);
         }
         // Self is excluded. On a solo/bootstrap node (HWM<=1 and no other connected/FRET peers),
         // this means the caller already tried self and the retry has nowhere to go — surface a
         // distinct error so retry logic stops and the original first-attempt cause is preserved.
-        const isSoloBootstrap = this.networkHighWaterMark <= 1;
-        if (isSoloBootstrap) {
-            this.log('findCoordinator:self-exhausted-solo key=%s self=%s', keyStr, self.toString().substring(0, 12));
+        if (excludedSet.has(selfStr) && this.networkHighWaterMark <= 1) {
+            this.log('findCoordinator:self-exhausted-solo key=%s self=%s', keyStr, selfStr.substring(0, 12));
             throw new FindCoordinatorError(FIND_COORDINATOR_ERROR_CODES.SELF_COORDINATION_EXHAUSTED, 'Self-coordination exhausted on solo/bootstrap node (self already attempted). ' +
                 'The original first-attempt error describes the actual failure cause.');
         }
-        this.log('findCoordinator:all-excluded key=%s self=%s', keyStr, self.toString().substring(0, 12));
-        throw new FindCoordinatorError(FIND_COORDINATOR_ERROR_CODES.NO_COORDINATOR_AVAILABLE, 'No coordinator available for key (all candidates excluded)');
+        const why = excludedSet.has(selfStr)
+            ? 'all candidates excluded'
+            : lastCohort === undefined
+                ? 'the responsible cohort could not be derived and no serving peer is connected'
+                : 'this node is not among the responsible peers and none of them is connected';
+        this.log('findCoordinator:no-coordinator key=%s self=%s selfInCohort=%s cohort=%d why=%s', keyStr, selfStr.substring(0, 12), selfInCohort, lastCohort?.length ?? -1, why);
+        throw new FindCoordinatorError(FIND_COORDINATOR_ERROR_CODES.NO_COORDINATOR_AVAILABLE, `No coordinator available for key (${why})`);
     }
     /**
      * Connection-derived addresses for the cluster record, keyed by peer id.
@@ -806,74 +843,23 @@ export class Libp2pKeyPeerNetwork {
         }
         return byPeer;
     }
+    // NOTE: accepted tradeoff — a node with no peers recomputes the self-only cohort on every call
+    // (~2 per distinct block read; 144 calls in a 67-object cold apply). Measured 0.009 ms/call on
+    // Node with a wildcard TCP listener (test/bench-findcluster.mjs, N=2000, 2026-09-11), so a memo
+    // would save ~1.3 ms per apply while adding an invalidation hazard: a node that gains a peer, or
+    // finishes identifying one, must stop answering self-only immediately, and read-repair recovery
+    // relies on that widening. Revisit if an on-device (React Native) profile shows findCluster as
+    // material; then memoize ONLY the solo answer, invalidated on connection:open and peer:identify.
     async findCluster(key) {
         const t0 = Date.now();
-        const fret = this.getFret();
-        const coord = await hashKey(key);
-        // When membership scoping is active, over-fetch a wider proximity band so the
-        // nearest peers that SERVE this network are in the candidate pool even if cross-
-        // network peers sit nearer the key (see membershipOverfetch).
-        const wants = this.protocolPrefix != null ? this.membershipOverfetch() : this.clusterSize;
-        const cohort = fret.assembleCohort(coord, wants);
         const keyStr = this.toCacheKey(key).substring(0, 12);
         this.log('findCluster:start key=%s', keyStr);
-        // Include self in the cohort
+        // The responsible peers for the key, in proximity order — self among them only when it
+        // is one of the nearest `clusterSize` serving peers (see `assembleServingCohort`). On the
+        // scoped path the assembly's peerStore reads are handed back so the address backfill
+        // below does not read the same records twice.
+        const { cohort: ids, band, peerStoreRecords } = await this.assembleServingCohort(key);
         const selfId = this.libp2p.peerId.toString();
-        let ids = Array.from(new Set([...cohort, selfId]));
-        // Network-membership scoping (no-op when protocolPrefix is unset): a cohort
-        // member that serves a DIFFERENT network's protocol can never negotiate THIS
-        // network's cluster/repo dial, so it guarantees a super-majority failure rather
-        // than contributing a promise. Drop such 'foreign' members; build the cohort from
-        // positively-'serves' members only and NEVER admit a not-yet-identified ('unknown')
-        // member. A permanently cross-network peer and a freshly-discovered same-network
-        // peer mid-identify are indistinguishable while 'unknown' (both have an empty
-        // peerStore protocol list), so admitting an 'unknown' on the strength of a viability
-        // floor risks pulling a cross-network contaminant into the cohort — its repo dial
-        // then negotiates a different network's protocol and the whole write fails. A fresh
-        // same-network peer is not starved: it flips to 'serves' once identify completes and
-        // is re-included on the caller's retry, and in the meantime a self-only cohort still
-        // completes the write under allowClusterDownsize (the default).
-        // Scoped path only: one peerStore read per cohort member yields both protocols
-        // (for membership classification here) and addresses (reused at backfill below),
-        // so a finally-selected member isn't fetched from the peerStore twice. Left
-        // undefined on the unscoped path, which never classifies membership.
-        let peerStoreRecords;
-        if (this.protocolPrefix != null) {
-            // `cohort` is the over-fetched nearest-first band. Classify each non-self
-            // member, preserving proximity order within each tier.
-            const nonSelf = cohort.filter(id => id !== selfId);
-            peerStoreRecords = await this.getPeerStoreRecordsByPeer(nonSelf);
-            const serves = [];
-            const unknown = [];
-            let foreignDropped = 0;
-            for (const id of nonSelf) {
-                const m = this.membershipOf(id, peerStoreRecords[id]?.protocols);
-                if (m === 'serves')
-                    serves.push(id);
-                else if (m === 'unknown')
-                    unknown.push(id);
-                else
-                    foreignDropped++;
-            }
-            // Take the nearest `clusterSize - 1` SERVING peers. Self is ALWAYS added below and
-            // counts toward `clusterSize` (matching the unscoped path, where `assembleCohort`
-            // returns the nearest `clusterSize` peers INCLUDING self when self is near the key —
-            // the coordinator case), so reserving a slot for self keeps a healthy same-network
-            // cohort at exactly `clusterSize` members rather than `clusterSize + 1`. Over-sizing
-            // would inflate the super-majority promise count (ceil(peerCount * threshold)) above
-            // what the configured `clusterSize` intends and hurt write availability. 'unknown'
-            // members are never backfilled: an 'unknown' peer may be a permanently cross-network
-            // contaminant whose repo dial cannot negotiate this network's protocol, and a fresh
-            // same-network peer mid-identify is indistinguishable from it. We therefore admit
-            // only positively-'serves' peers; when self is the sole serving member the cohort is
-            // self-only, which completes the write under allowClusterDownsize (the default) and
-            // re-includes any legitimate peer as 'serves' on the caller's retry once identify
-            // completes. `unknown.length` is still computed above for the diagnostic log line.
-            const nonSelfTarget = Math.max(0, this.clusterSize - 1);
-            const others = serves.slice(0, nonSelfTarget);
-            ids = Array.from(new Set([selfId, ...others]));
-            this.log('findCluster:membership key=%s serves=%d unknown=%d foreignDropped=%d kept=%d', keyStr, serves.length, unknown.length, foreignDropped, ids.length);
-        }
         const connectedByPeer = this.getConnectedAddrsByPeer();
         const connectedPeerIds = Object.keys(connectedByPeer);
         // Backfill addresses from the peerStore for cohort members we don't have
@@ -888,7 +874,7 @@ export class Libp2pKeyPeerNetwork {
                 .map(id => [id, peerStoreRecords[id]?.addrs ?? []])
                 .filter(([, addrs]) => addrs.length > 0))
             : await this.getPeerStoreAddrsByPeer(backfillIds);
-        this.log('findCluster key=%s fretCohort=%d connected=%d', keyStr, cohort.length, connectedPeerIds.length);
+        this.log('findCluster key=%s band=%d cohort=%d connected=%d', keyStr, band.length, ids.length, connectedPeerIds.length);
         if (verbose)
             this.log('findCluster:detail key=%s cohortPeers=%o connectedPeers=%o', keyStr, ids, connectedPeerIds);
         const peers = {};
@@ -1037,31 +1023,139 @@ export class Libp2pKeyPeerNetwork {
         return Math.max(this.clusterSize * 4, this.clusterSize + 16);
     }
     /**
-     * Classify a peer's network membership from its advertised protocols. Self always
-     * `serves` (it trivially serves its own network). When no `protocolPrefix` is
-     * configured the filter is disabled and EVERY peer is reported `serves`, so all
-     * callers behave exactly as before this scoping was added.
+     * Does an advertised protocol list serve THIS network's storage — its namespaced `cluster`
+     * or `repo` protocol? The one test behind every membership verdict, self's included.
+     */
+    servesThisNetwork(protocols) {
+        return protocols.includes(`${this.protocolPrefix}/cluster/1.0.0`)
+            || protocols.includes(`${this.protocolPrefix}/repo/1.0.0`);
+    }
+    /**
+     * Does THIS node serve storage on this network? True when no `protocolPrefix` is
+     * configured (the unscoped path, where every peer counts as serving), or when libp2p
+     * advertises this network's `cluster` or `repo` protocol — the same test
+     * {@link membershipOf} applies to a remote peer's peerStore protocol list, so self is
+     * classified on exactly the same footing. A libp2p double with no `getProtocols` counts
+     * as serving, the convention `getConnections?.()` already follows for mocks.
+     *
+     * Every production node registers both storage services today (`createLibp2pNode`), so the
+     * `false` branch is defence in depth: it is what keeps a future client-only node out of every
+     * cohort and away from every coordinator pick.
+     */
+    selfServes() {
+        if (this.protocolPrefix == null)
+            return true;
+        const protocols = this.libp2p.getProtocols?.();
+        if (protocols == null)
+            return true;
+        return this.servesThisNetwork(protocols);
+    }
+    /**
+     * Classify a peer's network membership from its advertised protocols. Self is classified
+     * from its own registered protocols ({@link selfServes}) rather than assumed to serve.
+     * When no `protocolPrefix` is configured the filter is disabled and EVERY peer is
+     * reported `serves`, so all callers behave exactly as before this scoping was added.
      */
     membershipOf(idStr, protocols) {
         if (this.protocolPrefix == null)
             return 'serves';
         if (idStr === this.libp2p.peerId.toString())
-            return 'serves';
+            return this.selfServes() ? 'serves' : 'foreign';
         if (protocols == null || protocols.length === 0)
             return 'unknown';
-        if (protocols.includes(`${this.protocolPrefix}/cluster/1.0.0`)
-            || protocols.includes(`${this.protocolPrefix}/repo/1.0.0`))
-            return 'serves';
-        return 'foreign';
+        return this.servesThisNetwork(protocols) ? 'serves' : 'foreign';
+    }
+    /**
+     * The ordered serving cohort for `key`: the nearest `clusterSize` peers that serve this
+     * network, in proximity order, with THIS node among them only when it genuinely is one of
+     * them. Both `findCluster` (the replica set) and `findCoordinator` (the pick) derive from
+     * this one assembly, so the two can never disagree about who is responsible for a block.
+     *
+     * The rule, stated once:
+     *
+     *  1. `coord = hashKey(key)` — the only hash between a block id and its cohort.
+     *  2. `band = fret.assembleCohort(coord, wants)`: the nearest live ring members, alternating
+     *     successor/predecessor outward from the coordinate; `wants` is the over-fetch width on
+     *     the scoped path (see {@link membershipOverfetch}) and `clusterSize` otherwise.
+     *  3. FRET's ring store holds this node as a live member, so `band` already contains self
+     *     whenever self is among the nearest; absence means self is farther than every band
+     *     member. A serving self absent from the band is appended LAST, so the cut below keeps
+     *     it only when the band has room; a non-serving self is removed wherever it sits.
+     *  4. Scoped path: keep only members whose membership is `serves`, order preserved.
+     *  5. `cohort` = the first `clusterSize` of what remains.
+     *
+     * Consequences: a node with no live ring members other than itself gets a self-only cohort
+     * (the solo short-circuits downstream are untouched); on a ring no wider than `clusterSize`
+     * every serving node is in every cohort; on a wider ring self is in a block's cohort iff it
+     * is among the nearest `clusterSize` serving members; a client-only node is in no cohort at
+     * any width, and its `findCluster` may legitimately come back empty.
+     *
+     * NOTE: on the scoped path this classifies the WHOLE over-fetch band — one peerStore read per
+     * band member, bounded by the number of live ring members — where the coordinator tier used
+     * to classify only the connected neighbours. On a small network that is at most one read per
+     * known peer. If peerStore reads per lookup ever show in a profile, memoize the per-peer
+     * membership verdict with a short TTL rather than caching cohorts, which would have to be
+     * invalidated on every ring change.
+     */
+    async assembleServingCohort(key) {
+        const fret = this.getFret();
+        // The only hash between a block id and its cohort: `key` is the id's raw utf8 (`routingKeyForBlock`).
+        const coord = await hashKey(key);
+        const scoped = this.protocolPrefix != null;
+        // When membership scoping is active, over-fetch a wider proximity band so the nearest
+        // peers that SERVE this network are in the candidate pool even if cross-network peers
+        // sit nearer the key (see membershipOverfetch).
+        const wants = scoped ? this.membershipOverfetch() : this.clusterSize;
+        const nearest = fret.assembleCohort(coord, wants);
+        const selfId = this.libp2p.peerId.toString();
+        const band = this.selfServes()
+            ? (nearest.includes(selfId) ? nearest : [...nearest, selfId])
+            : nearest.filter(id => id !== selfId);
+        if (!scoped)
+            return { cohort: band.slice(0, this.clusterSize), band };
+        // Network-membership scoping: a band member that serves a DIFFERENT network's protocol
+        // can never negotiate THIS network's cluster/repo dial, so it guarantees a super-majority
+        // failure rather than contributing a promise. Drop such 'foreign' members; build the
+        // cohort from positively-'serves' members only and NEVER admit a not-yet-identified
+        // ('unknown') member. A permanently cross-network peer and a freshly-discovered
+        // same-network peer mid-identify are indistinguishable while 'unknown' (both have an
+        // empty peerStore protocol list), so admitting an 'unknown' on the strength of a
+        // viability floor risks pulling a cross-network contaminant into the cohort — its repo
+        // dial then negotiates a different network's protocol and the whole write fails. A fresh
+        // same-network peer is not starved: it flips to 'serves' once identify completes and is
+        // re-included on the caller's retry, and in the meantime a self-only cohort (when self is
+        // the only serving member known) still completes the write under allowClusterDownsize
+        // (the default). One peerStore read per non-self band member yields both protocols (for
+        // the classification here) and addresses (reused by `findCluster`'s backfill).
+        const peerStoreRecords = await this.getPeerStoreRecordsByPeer(band.filter(id => id !== selfId));
+        const serving = [];
+        let unknown = 0;
+        let foreign = 0;
+        for (const id of band) {
+            const m = this.membershipOf(id, peerStoreRecords[id]?.protocols);
+            if (m === 'serves')
+                serving.push(id);
+            else if (m === 'unknown')
+                unknown++;
+            else
+                foreign++;
+        }
+        const cohort = serving.slice(0, this.clusterSize);
+        this.log('cohort:membership key=%s band=%d serves=%d unknown=%d foreign=%d cohort=%d selfInCohort=%s', this.toCacheKey(key).substring(0, 12), band.length, serving.length, unknown, foreign, cohort.length, cohort.includes(selfId));
+        const protocolsByPeer = Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(peerStoreRecords).map(([id, r]) => [id, r.protocols]));
+        return { cohort, band, peerStoreRecords, protocolsByPeer };
     }
     /**
      * Scope a reputation-ordered candidate id list to this network for COORDINATOR
-     * selection: keep ONLY peers confirmed to serve this network (`serves`, which always
-     * includes self), dropping both `foreign` peers (serving another network) and
-     * `unknown` peers (peerStore protocol list empty — not yet confirmed). Incoming
-     * (reputation) order is preserved among the surviving `serves` peers. A no-op
-     * (returns the input unchanged, no drops) when `protocolPrefix` is unset or the list
-     * is empty — the membership-disabled path is therefore untouched.
+     * selection: keep ONLY peers confirmed to serve this network (`serves`), dropping both
+     * `foreign` peers (serving another network) and `unknown` peers (peerStore protocol
+     * list empty — not yet confirmed). Incoming (reputation) order is preserved among the
+     * surviving `serves` peers. A no-op (returns the input unchanged, no drops) when
+     * `protocolPrefix` is unset or the list is empty — the membership-disabled path is
+     * therefore untouched.
+     *
+     * `protocolsByPeer`, when given, is a peerStore read the caller already made for these
+     * peers (the cohort assembly's); otherwise the protocols are read fresh here.
      *
      * `droppedUnconfirmed` reports whether any candidate was excluded because it was not
      * confirmed to serve this network — `foreign` OR `unknown` under scoping — so the
@@ -1072,15 +1166,15 @@ export class Libp2pKeyPeerNetwork {
      * same-network peer that completes `identify` within the retry window flips to `serves`
      * and is selected normally on that attempt.
      */
-    async filterByMembership(ids) {
+    async filterByMembership(ids, protocolsByPeer) {
         if (this.protocolPrefix == null || ids.length === 0)
             return { ranked: ids, droppedUnconfirmed: false };
         const selfStr = this.libp2p.peerId.toString();
-        const protocolsByPeer = await this.getPeerStoreProtocolsByPeer(ids.filter(id => id !== selfStr));
+        const protocols = protocolsByPeer ?? await this.getPeerStoreProtocolsByPeer(ids.filter(id => id !== selfStr));
         const serves = [];
         let droppedUnconfirmed = false;
         for (const id of ids) {
-            const m = this.membershipOf(id, protocolsByPeer[id]);
+            const m = this.membershipOf(id, protocols[id]);
             if (m === 'serves')
                 serves.push(id);
             else