@serfab/cadre-core 1.14.0 → 1.15.0

package/src/relay-reservation.ts

@@ -1,1121 +1,1211 @@
-/**
- * Relay reservation for nodes that reserve through the SEARCH listen addr — the
- * dial, the explicit reservation request, the retry loop that keeps it, and the
- * (live) status derivation.
- *
- * `@libp2p/circuit-relay-v2`'s listener branches on the SHAPE of the listen
- * address:
- *
- * | listen addr                                       | libp2p behaviour                                                                     | unreachable relay          |
- * | ------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------- |
- * | `<dial addr>/p2p/<relayPeerId>/p2p-circuit`        | CONFIGURED reservation: dial that exact relay and reserve, or fail                     | `listen()` throws          |
- * | bare `/p2p-circuit`                                | SEARCH mode: register a pending reservation, to be filled by relay discovery           | nothing throws, no reserve |
- *
- * A search listener needs someone to (a) dial the relay and (b) fill the pending
- * reservation it created, then report whether one actually landed. That is this
- * module. It is **fail-soft by construction**: nothing here throws.
- *
- * EVERY cadre CONTROL node now takes that route — `network.relayAddrs` resolves
- * to the bare search entry (`relay-addrs.ts` → `resolveListenAddrs`) and
- * `CadreNode.start()` drives this module once the control database is up. The
- * configured shape would dial the relay from inside `libp2p.start()`, putting a
- * sibling in this node's cohort before its own control database existed, and a
- * sibling that has not yet replicated this node's `CadrePeer` row correctly
- * refuses its control-DB streams — which killed `start()` outright.
- *
- * So the two shapes are no longer alternative ROUTES, only alternative failure
- * postures on top of the same drive: a node that names `network.relayAddrs` gets
- * a `RelayReservationFailedError` out of `start()` when the first attempt lands
- * nothing (fail-fast, the operator asked for this relay), while a node that calls
- * `CadreNode.reserveRelays()` itself gets a non-`reserved` status and stays up
- * (fail-soft, the browser-tab posture). `network.requireRelay: false` gives a
- * CONFIGURED relay the fail-soft posture too, for a node that must boot with no
- * network at all — same drive, same supervisor, only the throw is dropped.
- * Configuring both is now redundant, not fatal.
- *
- * STRAND nodes take the same route, ONE supervisor PER RELAY
- * (`strand-instance-manager.ts` → `buildStrandRuntime`): each configured relay
- * gets its own bare `/p2p-circuit` listener (`strand-network-config.ts`) and its
- * own {@link superviseRelayReservation} over just that relay's addr, fail-soft
- * like the browser tab. The configured shape they used to take
- * (`<relay>/p2p-circuit`, reserved from inside `libp2p.start()`) is gone from
- * cadre-built nodes entirely, because it loses its address and never recovers in
- * three situations — the relay restarts, either side hangs up the relay
- * connection, and libp2p's OWN reservation refresh (which removes the reservation
- * before re-creating it, and a configured listener republishes only from inside
- * its own `listen()`). The last one needs no network event at all: at the relay
- * default TTL of two hours every configured-shape node went undialable ~1 h 55 min
- * after reserving. A search listener republishes on `relay:created-reservation`
- * for its own pending id, which the refresh re-queues, and the supervisor covers
- * the other two.
- *
- * Because a strand node runs one supervisor per relay, "is the reservation held"
- * is asked PER RELAY ({@link circuitMultiaddrsVia}): relay X's supervisor must not
- * be satisfied by relay Y's circuit addr, or it would never re-drive X.
- *
- * ⚠️ WHY THE RESERVATION IS REQUESTED EXPLICITLY RATHER THAN LEFT TO DISCOVERY.
- * libp2p fills a search listener's pending reservation from `RelayDiscovery`,
- * which nominates a peer only once it can see the relay-hop protocol id in that
- * peer's PEER-STORE protocol list — and that list is written exclusively by the
- * IDENTIFY handshake. `@optimystic/db-p2p` gives every cadre node a
- * network-namespaced identify protocol id (`/optimystic/control-<partyId>/id/1.0.0`)
- * while the relay `ops/docker/libp2p-infra` deploys runs stock identify
- * (`/ipfs/id/1.0.0`), so the two never identify each other, the peer store stays
- * empty of protocols, and discovery never nominates the relay. The TCP/WebSocket
- * connection itself is fine, which is why leaving it to discovery surfaced as a
- * generic timeout.
- *
- * Identify is incidental to relaying, though: the reservation
- * (`/libp2p/circuit/relay/0.2.0/hop`), a third peer's CONNECT through the relay,
- * and the STOP handler on this node all use STOCK, un-namespaced protocol ids the
- * deployed relay already serves. Discovery's only job is to GUESS which connected
- * peer is a relay, and this module does not need to guess — it was handed the
- * relay's address. So it asks the relay for a slot directly, via the
- * circuit-relay transport's own reservation store.
- *
- * Status is derived from the node's LIVE multiaddrs on every read rather than
- * cached at drive time: when a relay restarts or the connection drops, libp2p's
- * listener clears its listening addrs and the circuit multiaddr disappears, so a
- * cached snapshot would keep claiming `reserved` for a node nothing can dial.
- *
- * And because discovery is out of reach, nothing would ever ASK again either —
- * so {@link driveRelayReservation} stays a single-shot primitive and
- * {@link superviseRelayReservation} owns the retry cadence on top of it. That
- * loop is what makes a lost reservation recover without a page reload. Single-shot
- * but not unstoppable: the primitive takes an `AbortSignal` and the loop trips it
- * from `stop()`, because a drive left running against a node being torn down both
- * logs failures that read as real and — through the timers it still holds — keeps
- * the process alive for the rest of its `timeoutMs`.
- *
- * One measured refinement to "out of reach": libp2p 3.1.3's `connection.newStream`
- * records every protocol OUR OWN outbound stream negotiated into the peer store, so
- * the explicit reservation request writes the relay-hop protocol id against the
- * relay itself. From then on, discovery CAN refill a freed slot on its own — but
- * only when the relay answers at that moment (a hangup while the relay stays up;
- * measured at ~25 ms). A relay that is down when the slot frees fails that one
- * discovery attempt, which poisons the store's `relayFilter` against it, and
- * nothing in libp2p tries again: a relay RESTART still needs the supervisor, which
- * un-poisons the filter before every attempt ({@link clearRelayFilterEntry}). Two
- * mechanisms in production, one guarantee; the specs disable discovery's half
- * (`forgetRelayProtocol` in `relay-reservation.spec.ts`) so they prove the
- * supervisor's.
- */
-
-import debug from 'debug';
-import { multiaddr } from '@multiformats/multiaddr';
-import { peerIdFromString } from '@libp2p/peer-id';
-import type { Libp2p, PeerId } from '@libp2p/interface';
-import { trailingPeerId } from './peer-record.js';
-import { relayReservationBudgetMs } from './link-budget.js';
-
-const log = debug('sereus:cadre:relay-reservation');
-
-/**
- * Relay-reservation posture for a node that reserves through the SEARCH listen
- * addr (bare `/p2p-circuit`) — every cadre control node, whether its relays came
- * from `network.relayAddrs` or from an explicit `CadreNode.reserveRelays()` call.
- *  - `none`     — no relay addrs supplied; the node is undialable by design.
- *  - `dialing`  — a drive is in flight.
- *  - `reserved` — the node currently holds at least one `/p2p-circuit` addr.
- *  - `retrying` — no reservation right now, but a {@link RelayReservationSupervisor}
- *                 has the next attempt scheduled. Recoverable without a caller.
- *  - `error`    — no reservation, and NOBODY IS GOING TO TRY AGAIN: no supervisor
- *                 is running (or there is no node at all).
- */
-export type RelayReservationStatus = 'none' | 'dialing' | 'reserved' | 'retrying' | 'error';
-
-export interface RelayReservationState {
-  status: RelayReservationStatus;
-  /** The relay multiaddrs this node was asked to reserve through. */
-  addrs: string[];
-  /** LIVE `/p2p-circuit` multiaddrs, recomputed on every read. */
-  circuitAddrs: string[];
-  error: string | null;
-  /**
-   * Epoch ms of the supervisor's next scheduled tick, or `null` when a drive is
-   * in flight, no supervisor is running, or no addrs were supplied. A UI can turn
-   * this into "reconnecting, next try in 8s" rather than showing a bare error for
-   * a node that is in fact recovering.
-   */
-  retryAtMs: number | null;
-}
-
-/**
- * How long {@link driveRelayReservation} waits for a reservation to appear, at the DEFAULT
- * declared link round trip: `RELAY_RESERVATION_ROUND_TRIPS` (4) x `DECLARED_LINK_ROUND_TRIP_MS`
- * (3500 ms), plus 2 x `ADMISSION_DECISION_TIMEOUT_MS` (2000 ms) for a party-run relay's
- * connection and reservation decisions, = 18 000 ms (`relayReservationBudgetMs`), where it was a
- * fixed 10_000 before it was derived.
- *
- * Counted rather than chosen because this one deadline bounds the whole drive — dial the relay,
- * request the reservation, wait — and each of those costs a fixed number of exchanges, not a
- * fixed number of milliseconds. `link-budget.ts` carries the counts, the measurement behind
- * them, and what still fails at the supported link whatever this says.
- *
- * A host on a slower link moves it by declaring `NetworkConfig.linkRoundTripMs`, which both
- * call sites thread in (`CadreNode.reserveRelays` for the control node,
- * `StrandInstanceManager`'s per-relay supervisors for a strand). This constant is the fallback
- * for a caller that declares nothing.
- */
-export const DEFAULT_RELAY_RESERVE_TIMEOUT_MS = relayReservationBudgetMs();
-export const DEFAULT_RELAY_RESERVE_POLL_MS = 250;
-
-export interface RelayReserveOptions {
-  timeoutMs?: number;
-  pollMs?: number;
-  /**
-   * Ends an in-flight drive early. Aborting is not a failure: the drive returns
-   * `{ error: null, cancelled: true }` and clears every timer it holds, so the
-   * process is free to exit immediately instead of trailing the teardown that
-   * cancelled it.
-   */
-  signal?: AbortSignal;
-}
-
-/** What one {@link driveRelayReservation} came back with. */
-export interface RelayReserveResult {
-  /** Why no reservation landed; `null` when one did — or when the drive was cancelled. */
-  error: string | null;
-  /**
-   * The drive ended because its caller's `signal` tripped, not because of anything
-   * the relay did. Separate from `error` because `error: null` means "a reservation
-   * landed" and a cancelled drive landed nothing: folded together, a caller would
-   * read cancellation as success. `cancelled: true` always implies `error: null`.
-   */
-  cancelled: boolean;
-}
-
-/**
- * The slice of `@libp2p/utils`' `Filter` (a cuckoo filter) that the reservation
- * store uses to remember relays whose reservation request failed. `remove` is
- * OPTIONAL on that interface, so every use here has to cope with its absence —
- * see {@link clearRelayFilterEntry}.
- */
-export interface RelayFilterLike {
-  has(item: Uint8Array): boolean;
-  remove?(item: Uint8Array): boolean;
-}
-
-/**
- * The slice of `@libp2p/circuit-relay-v2`'s `ReservationStore` this module drives.
- * Declared structurally because the class is internal to that package: naming only
- * the members we call keeps the coupling small, explicit and greppable, and lets
- * {@link findCircuitRelayTransport} duck-type rather than brand-match.
- *
- * `relayFilter` is optional because it is not required to DRIVE a reservation,
- * only to RE-drive one (see {@link clearRelayFilterEntry}); a libp2p version that
- * renames or drops it must degrade, not break.
- */
-export interface RelayReservationStoreLike {
-  addRelay(peerId: PeerId, type: 'discovered' | 'configured'): Promise<unknown>;
-  hasReservation(peerId: PeerId): boolean;
-  relayFilter?: RelayFilterLike;
-}
-
-/** The slice of libp2p's circuit-relay transport that owns the reservation store. */
-export interface CircuitRelayTransportLike {
-  reservationStore: RelayReservationStoreLike;
-}
-
-/** `components` is a real field on libp2p's node class but not on the `Libp2p` interface. */
-interface Libp2pComponentsLike {
-  components?: {
-    transportManager?: {
-      getTransports?: () => readonly unknown[];
-    };
-  };
-}
-
-/**
- * The node's `/p2p-circuit` multiaddrs — the addresses a peer can dial it at
- * while it holds a relay reservation. Empty means "not dialable via a relay
- * right now", which is exactly what makes {@link resolveRelayReservationState}
- * live rather than a stale snapshot.
- */
-export function circuitMultiaddrs(node: Libp2p): string[] {
-  return node
-    .getMultiaddrs()
-    .map((ma) => ma.toString())
-    .filter((addr) => addr.includes('/p2p-circuit'));
-}
-
-/**
- * The node's `/p2p-circuit` multiaddrs THROUGH the relays `addrs` name — the ones
- * whose `/p2p/<relayPeerId>/p2p-circuit` component names one of them. This is the
- * "held" question a supervisor over a SUBSET of the node's relays has to ask: a
- * strand node runs one supervisor per relay, and relay X's supervisor must not be
- * satisfied by relay Y's addr, or a lost X is never re-driven.
- *
- * Falls back to EVERY circuit addr when any entry names no relay peer id (no
- * `/p2p/` component, or unparsable): such an addr can still be dialed and reserved
- * through, but the addr it earns cannot be attributed to it, so "any circuit addr"
- * is the only answer that does not mark a live reservation as lost. The control
- * node passes its whole relay list, so its answer is the same either way.
- */
-export function circuitMultiaddrsVia(node: Libp2p, addrs: readonly string[]): string[] {
-  const held = circuitMultiaddrs(node);
-  const relayIds = addrs.map(relayPeerIdOf);
-  if (relayIds.some((id) => id === null)) {
-    return held;
-  }
-  return held.filter((circuit) => relayIds.includes(relayPeerIdOf(circuit)));
-}
-
-/**
- * The NORMALIZED peer id of the relay `addr` names: the `/p2p/` component just
- * before `/p2p-circuit` when there is one, else the trailing `/p2p/` component
- * (a relay DIAL addr). `null` when there is none, or `addr` does not parse.
- *
- * Normalized through `peerIdFromString(…).toString()` so a relay written in a
- * different encoding than libp2p publishes (a CID form, say) still matches.
- */
-function relayPeerIdOf(addr: string): string | null {
-  try {
-    const components = multiaddr(addr).getComponents();
-    const circuitIdx = components.findIndex((c) => c.name === 'p2p-circuit');
-    const relayScope = circuitIdx >= 0 ? components.slice(0, circuitIdx) : components;
-    const raw = trailingPeerId(multiaddr(relayScope));
-    return raw === null ? null : peerIdFromString(raw).toString();
-  } catch {
-    return null;
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * The running node's circuit-relay transport, or `null` when it has none.
- *
- * There is no public libp2p API for "reserve on THIS specific relay", so this
- * reaches through `node.components.transportManager` — libp2p's internal layout.
- * That coupling is deliberate and bounded: every step is optional-chained and the
- * whole thing returns `null` rather than throwing, and a spec pins the seam so a
- * libp2p upgrade that moves it fails loudly instead of silently reverting this
- * module to the discovery wait that never fires.
- */
-export function findCircuitRelayTransport(node: Libp2p): CircuitRelayTransportLike | null {
-  for (const transport of nodeTransports(node)) {
-    const store = (transport as { reservationStore?: unknown }).reservationStore;
-    if (isReservationStore(store)) {
-      return { reservationStore: store };
-    }
-  }
-  return null;
-}
-
-function nodeTransports(node: Libp2p): readonly unknown[] {
-  const manager = (node as Libp2p & Libp2pComponentsLike).components?.transportManager;
-  if (typeof manager?.getTransports !== 'function') {
-    log('No transportManager.getTransports() on this node — libp2p internals moved?');
-    return [];
-  }
-  try {
-    return manager.getTransports();
-  } catch (err) {
-    log('transportManager.getTransports() threw: %o', err);
-    return [];
-  }
-}
-
-function isReservationStore(value: unknown): value is RelayReservationStoreLike {
-  if (typeof value !== 'object' || value === null) {
-    return false;
-  }
-  const store = value as Partial<RelayReservationStoreLike>;
-  return typeof store.addRelay === 'function' && typeof store.hasReservation === 'function';
-}
-
-/** Sentinel resolved by the wait arm of {@link requestOneReservation}'s race. */
-const WAIT_OVER = Symbol('relay-reservation-wait-over');
-
-/** A relay that answered its dial, paired with the address it was dialed at. */
-interface ConnectedRelay {
-  addr: string;
-  peerId: PeerId;
-}
-
-/**
- * Whether `signal` has been aborted.
- *
- * A function rather than an inline `signal?.aborted` because a signal's `aborted` flag
- * is a readonly boolean: one `if (signal?.aborted)` narrows every LATER read of it
- * to `false`, and TypeScript then rejects the re-check as a comparison that can
- * never hold. Re-checking after each await is exactly what cancellation is, so the
- * narrowing is the thing that is wrong, not the check.
- */
-function aborted(signal: AbortSignal | undefined): boolean {
-  return signal !== undefined && signal.aborted;
-}
-
-/**
- * `setTimeout` as a promise, cut short by `signal`.
- *
- * EVERY wait inside a drive routes through here, because a wait that merely LOSES
- * a `Promise.race` leaves its timer pending — and a pending timer keeps a Node
- * process alive for the rest of its duration, which is exactly the delay a
- * cancelled drive exists to shed. So the timer is cleared on both endings, not
- * only on its own.
- *
- * NOTE: no spec catches a wait that skips this helper. The cancellation specs
- * assert prompt RETURN, which a `Promise.race` gives with its losing timer still
- * pending — only the process actually exiting proves the clearing, and that was
- * measured by hand rather than pinned. If a wait is ever added outside this
- * helper, pin it with a spawned-child process-exit test instead.
- */
-function delay(ms: number, signal?: AbortSignal): Promise<void> {
-  if (aborted(signal)) {
-    return Promise.resolve();
-  }
-  return new Promise((resolve) => {
-    const finish = (): void => {
-      clearTimeout(timer);
-      signal?.removeEventListener('abort', finish);
-      resolve();
-    };
-    const timer = setTimeout(finish, ms);
-    signal?.addEventListener('abort', finish, { once: true });
-  });
-}
-
-/**
- * Relay `from`'s abort into `to`, and hand back the detach that must run on every
- * exit path.
- *
- * By hand rather than through `AbortSignal.any`, for the same reason this module
- * builds its deadline from an explicit `AbortController` rather than
- * `AbortSignal.timeout`: React Native/Hermes runs this same code, and `any` is
- * newer still — its polyfill also leaks listeners onto inputs that never abort,
- * which is what the returned detach avoids here.
- */
-function linkAbort(from: AbortSignal | undefined, to: AbortController): () => void {
-  if (from === undefined) {
-    return () => { /* nothing was attached */ };
-  }
-  if (from.aborted) {
-    to.abort();
-    return () => { /* nothing was attached */ };
-  }
-  const forward = (): void => to.abort();
-  from.addEventListener('abort', forward, { once: true });
-  return () => from.removeEventListener('abort', forward);
-}
-
-/**
- * Dial every relay in `addrs`, ask the first one that answers for a reservation
- * slot, then wait until a `/p2p-circuit` address appears.
- *
- * Never throws — a dial rejection, a rejected reservation, a MALFORMED address,
- * or a timeout all come back as an `error` string. A dial that throws does NOT
- * cost the rest of the list: one dead relay among two must not cost the
- * reservation on the live one, so every addr is dialed and the first error (in
- * list order) is kept. A reservation that lands wins over any earlier error
- * (`error: null`).
- *
- * `timeoutMs` bounds the WHOLE drive — dials, reservation requests and the wait
- * share one deadline. `opts.signal` bounds it from the other side: every phase
- * below returns as soon as it trips, and the drive reports `cancelled` rather than
- * inventing a failure for a relay that was never given a chance to answer.
- */
-export async function driveRelayReservation(
-  node: Libp2p,
-  addrs: readonly string[],
-  opts?: RelayReserveOptions
-): Promise<RelayReserveResult> {
-  if (addrs.length === 0) {
-    return { error: null, cancelled: false };
-  }
-  const signal = opts?.signal;
-  if (aborted(signal)) {
-    return { error: null, cancelled: true };
-  }
-  const timeoutMs = opts?.timeoutMs ?? DEFAULT_RELAY_RESERVE_TIMEOUT_MS;
-  // Clamped: a caller-supplied 0 would spin the poll loop hot until the deadline.
-  const pollMs = Math.max(1, opts?.pollMs ?? DEFAULT_RELAY_RESERVE_POLL_MS);
-  const deadline = Date.now() + timeoutMs;
-
-  const { connected, error: dialError } = await dialRelays(node, addrs, deadline, signal);
-  const attempt = await requestReservation(node, connected, deadline, signal);
-  // NOTE: a REJECTED reservation still spends the rest of the deadline polling,
-  // because discovery may independently land one (only the no-transport case is
-  // `fatal`). So a misconfigured node reports its now-legible reason a full
-  // `timeoutMs` late. If startup latency on that path ever matters, shorten the
-  // wait once every connected relay has rejected — do not skip it outright.
-  if (!attempt.fatal && (await waitForCircuitReservation(node, addrs, deadline, pollMs, signal))) {
-    return { error: null, cancelled: false };
-  }
-  // Checked AFTER the success above, so a reservation that landed in the same turn
-  // the signal tripped is still reported as landed. Below it, the reasons the
-  // phases assembled describe the cancellation rather than the relay, so they are
-  // dropped: a cancelled drive has nothing to say about the relay's health.
-  if (aborted(signal)) {
-    return { error: null, cancelled: true };
-  }
-  return {
-    error: attempt.error ?? dialError ?? `no circuit reservation within ${timeoutMs}ms`,
-    cancelled: false
-  };
-}
-
-/**
- * Dial every relay CONCURRENTLY under the drive's shared deadline. Reports the
- * relays that answered (in list order, for the reservation step) and the first
- * failure in LIST order (`null` when every dial connected).
- *
- * Concurrent and deadline-bound because this whole drive is awaited on a browser
- * tab's startup path: dialing serially with libp2p's own (much longer) per-dial
- * timeout meant N unreachable relays cost N dial timeouts before the reservation
- * request even began, so `timeoutMs` bounded only the tail of the operation.
- *
- * Aborting a dial at the deadline is not a lost reservation — the steps that
- * follow have no time left either, so the drive would report `error` regardless.
- *
- * The caller's `signal` aborts the same dials, through the same controller: a
- * hanging dial is the longest thing a cancelled drive can be sitting in.
- */
-async function dialRelays(
-  node: Libp2p,
-  addrs: readonly string[],
-  deadline: number,
-  signal?: AbortSignal
-): Promise<{ connected: ConnectedRelay[]; error: string | null }> {
-  // An explicit controller, not `AbortSignal.timeout` — the latter is not
-  // reliably present on React Native/Hermes, which runs this same module.
-  const controller = new AbortController();
-  const timer = setTimeout(() => controller.abort(), Math.max(0, deadline - Date.now()));
-  const unlink = linkAbort(signal, controller);
-  try {
-    const results = await Promise.allSettled(
-      addrs.map((addr) => dialOne(node, addr, controller.signal))
-    );
-    return { connected: connectedRelays(addrs, results), error: firstDialError(addrs, results) };
-  } finally {
-    clearTimeout(timer);
-    unlink();
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * One dial, with the address PARSED INSIDE the promise.
- *
- * `multiaddr()` throws SYNCHRONOUSLY on a malformed string, and a throw out of
- * the `map` callback escapes `Promise.allSettled` altogether — it would reject
- * the whole drive (breaking the never-throws contract) and discard the dials to
- * the other, perfectly good, addrs. `async` demotes it to a settled rejection,
- * which is already exactly how a dial failure is reported.
- */
-async function dialOne(
-  node: Libp2p,
-  addr: string,
-  signal: AbortSignal
-): Promise<{ remotePeer: PeerId }> {
-  return node.dial(multiaddr(addr), { signal });
-}
-
-function connectedRelays(
-  addrs: readonly string[],
-  results: readonly PromiseSettledResult<{ remotePeer: PeerId }>[]
-): ConnectedRelay[] {
-  const connected: ConnectedRelay[] = [];
-  results.forEach((result, index) => {
-    if (result.status !== 'fulfilled') return;
-    connected.push({ addr: addrs[index], peerId: result.value.remotePeer });
-  });
-  return connected;
-}
-
-/** Log every dial rejection; return the first one in list order. */
-function firstDialError(
-  addrs: readonly string[],
-  results: readonly PromiseSettledResult<unknown>[]
-): string | null {
-  let first: string | null = null;
-  results.forEach((result, index) => {
-    if (result.status !== 'rejected') return;
-    const message = result.reason instanceof Error ? result.reason.message : String(result.reason);
-    log('Relay dial failed (%s): %s', addrs[index], message);
-    first ??= message;
-  });
-  return first;
-}
-
-/**
- * Outcome of the explicit reservation request.
- *
- * `fatal` means no `/p2p-circuit` address can EVER appear (the node has no
- * circuit-relay transport at all), so the caller must report immediately rather
- * than spend the rest of the deadline polling for something that cannot happen.
- * A rejected request is NOT fatal: discovery may still land a reservation for a
- * relay that does happen to share this node's identify prefix.
- */
-interface ReservationAttempt {
-  error: string | null;
-  fatal: boolean;
-}
-
-/**
- * Ask the connected relays, in list order, for a reservation slot; stop at the
- * first success.
- *
- * `'discovered'`, not `'configured'`: the search listener's
- * `relay:created-reservation` handler ignores `configured` reservations outright,
- * so the `/p2p-circuit` listen address would never be published and
- * `getMultiaddrs()` would stay empty even though the reservation succeeded.
- * `'discovered'` consumes the pending-reservation id the bare `/p2p-circuit`
- * listener registered, which is exactly what that handler matches on.
- *
- * Sequential, not concurrent: a bare `/p2p-circuit` listener registers exactly
- * ONE pending reservation, so a second concurrent `addRelay` would be rejected
- * with `HadEnoughRelaysError` — noise, not a failure. Running discovery is not a
- * conflict either; `addRelay` dedupes through its own peer queue, so a relay that
- * genuinely is discoverable still reserves exactly once.
- */
-async function requestReservation(
-  node: Libp2p,
-  connected: readonly ConnectedRelay[],
-  deadline: number,
-  signal?: AbortSignal
-): Promise<ReservationAttempt> {
-  if (connected.length === 0) {
-    // Nothing answered — the dial error is the whole story.
-    return { error: null, fatal: false };
-  }
-  const transport = findCircuitRelayTransport(node);
-  if (transport === null) {
-    return {
-      error: 'node has no circuit-relay transport — add circuitRelayTransport() to its transports',
-      fatal: true
-    };
-  }
-  let firstError: string | null = null;
-  for (const relay of connected) {
-    if (transport.reservationStore.hasReservation(relay.peerId)) {
-      return { error: null, fatal: false };
-    }
-    // A cancelled drive stops here rather than asking the next relay: the caller is
-    // tearing this node down, so another hop request against it can only fail.
-    if (Date.now() >= deadline || aborted(signal)) {
-      break;
-    }
-    const failure = await requestOneReservation(
-      transport.reservationStore,
-      relay,
-      deadline,
-      signal
-    );
-    if (failure === null) {
-      return { error: null, fatal: false };
-    }
-    firstError ??= failure;
-  }
-  return { error: firstError, fatal: false };
-}
-
-/**
- * One `addRelay` call, bounded by the drive's deadline and by the caller's signal.
- * Returns `null` on success, or the reason it stopped waiting.
- *
- * Raced rather than passed a signal because `addRelay` accepts none and runs on
- * libp2p's own (much longer) reservation timeout: without the race a drive given
- * 1.5 s would sit on a silent relay for libp2p's timeout instead. The abandoned
- * promise stays handled — `Promise.race` attaches its own handlers — so a later
- * rejection is not unhandled, and is not logged either: a request abandoned at a
- * cancellation must not print a relay failure the caller would read as real.
- *
- * `waitOver` ends the wait on BOTH routes — the caller's abort, relayed in, and the
- * race settling some other way, aborted in the `finally`. Out-racing the deadline
- * timer is not enough: the loser stays pending, and a pending timer is what holds
- * a Node process open past the stop that asked for it.
- */
-async function requestOneReservation(
-  store: RelayReservationStoreLike,
-  relay: ConnectedRelay,
-  deadline: number,
-  signal?: AbortSignal
-): Promise<string | null> {
-  const waitOver = new AbortController();
-  const unlink = linkAbort(signal, waitOver);
-  try {
-    const outcome = await Promise.race([
-      store.addRelay(relay.peerId, 'discovered'),
-      delay(Math.max(0, deadline - Date.now()), waitOver.signal).then(() => WAIT_OVER)
-    ]);
-    if (outcome !== WAIT_OVER) {
-      return null;
-    }
-    if (aborted(signal)) {
-      return `relay reservation request to ${relay.addr} was cancelled`;
-    }
-    log('Relay reservation request (%s) still pending at the deadline', relay.addr);
-    return `relay reservation request to ${relay.addr} did not complete before the deadline`;
-  } catch (err) {
-    const message = describeReservationFailure(err, relay.addr);
-    log('Relay reservation failed (%s): %s', relay.addr, message);
-    return message;
-  } finally {
-    unlink();
-    waitOver.abort();
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * Turn libp2p's reservation rejection into a reason that names the actual cause.
- *
- * `HadEnoughRelaysError` needs translating rather than passing through: its own
- * message ("we do not need any more relays") says the opposite of what happened.
- * A `'discovered'` reservation is refused when the node holds NO pending
- * reservation id, and a node holds one only while it listens on the bare
- * `/p2p-circuit` search address — so the real cause is a missing listen address.
- */
-function describeReservationFailure(err: unknown, addr: string): string {
-  // NOTE: libp2p adds a peer to the reservation store's `relayFilter` when a
-  // request fails with `DialError` or `UnsupportedProtocolError`, and the failure
-  // path does not reset that filter (it only resets when a reservation is actually
-  // removed). So a SECOND drive against the same relay in the same process reports
-  // `ListenError: The relay was previously invalid` even if the relay has since
-  // recovered. `RelayReservationLoop` clears the entry before every attempt (see
-  // {@link clearRelayFilterEntry}); a caller that re-drives WITHOUT the supervisor
-  // still has to deal with the filter itself.
-  const name = err instanceof Error ? err.name : '';
-  const message = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
-  switch (name) {
-    case 'HadEnoughRelaysError':
-      return `relay reservation on ${addr} was not requested: this node holds no pending circuit reservation — it is not listening on the bare /p2p-circuit address`;
-    case 'UnsupportedProtocolError':
-      return `peer at ${addr} does not speak the circuit-relay hop protocol — it is not a relay`;
-    default:
-      return `relay reservation on ${addr} failed: ${message}`;
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * Poll until the node advertises a `/p2p-circuit` address through one of `addrs`'
- * relays ({@link circuitMultiaddrsVia}), the deadline passes, or the drive is
- * cancelled. This is the phase a cancellation has to reach: whatever the dial and
- * the reservation request shed, an abandoned drive used to spend here instead,
- * polling a node whose transports were already being torn down.
- *
- * Still a poll even though the reservation is now requested explicitly: `addRelay`
- * resolving means the RELAY accepted, while the listen address is published a tick
- * later by the listener's `relay:created-reservation` handler, and a reservation
- * that discovery lands independently has no return value to await at all.
- *
- * NOTE: polls rather than subscribing to libp2p's `self:peer:update` — it keeps
- * this free of libp2p event-name coupling. If 250 ms of reservation latency ever
- * matters, switch to the event and keep the poll as a fallback.
- */
-async function waitForCircuitReservation(
-  node: Libp2p,
-  addrs: readonly string[],
-  deadline: number,
-  pollMs: number,
-  signal?: AbortSignal
-): Promise<boolean> {
-  for (;;) {
-    if (circuitMultiaddrsVia(node, addrs).length > 0) {
-      return true;
-    }
-    if (Date.now() >= deadline || aborted(signal)) {
-      return false;
-    }
-    await delay(Math.min(pollMs, Math.max(0, deadline - Date.now())), signal);
-  }
-}
-
-/** Gap between liveness checks while a reservation is held. */
-export const DEFAULT_RELAY_CHECK_MS = 5_000;
-/** Backoff before the first re-drive after a failed attempt. */
-export const DEFAULT_RELAY_MIN_BACKOFF_MS = 2_000;
-/** Ceiling the backoff doubles up to. */
-export const DEFAULT_RELAY_MAX_BACKOFF_MS = 60_000;
-
-/**
- * Everything one drive takes, minus its `signal`, plus the loop's own cadence.
- *
- * `signal` is omitted rather than inherited because these options are handed
- * straight to every drive: a caller-supplied one would cancel each attempt without
- * the loop knowing, leaving it to reschedule drives that return immediately and
- * forever. The way to cancel a supervisor is
- * {@link RelayReservationSupervisor.stop}, which owns the signal it passes down.
- */
-export interface RelayReservationSupervisorOptions extends Omit<RelayReserveOptions, 'signal'> {
-  /** Gap between liveness checks while a reservation is held. Default 5_000. */
-  checkMs?: number;
-  /** Backoff before the first re-drive after a failure. Default 2_000. */
-  minBackoffMs?: number;
-  /** Backoff ceiling. Default 60_000. */
-  maxBackoffMs?: number;
-  /**
-   * Awaited before every drive AFTER the first — never before the first attempt,
-   * which the caller has typically prepared for already. A hook that throws or
-   * rejects is logged and the drive still runs: the hook is preparation, and a
-   * failed preparation must not cost the attempt itself.
-   *
-   * What a strand node uses it for: re-announcing its delegate peer id to the relay
-   * about to be re-dialed. A party control node running the relay server admits a
-   * strand node on an in-memory delegate grant, and a relay restart drops every
-   * grant it held — so a re-drive that did not re-announce first would be denied
-   * at the relay's connection gate.
-   */
-  beforeRedrive?: () => Promise<void> | void;
-}
-
-/**
- * A running retry loop for one node + relay list. Obtained from
- * {@link superviseRelayReservation}; its only imperative is {@link stop}.
- */
-export interface RelayReservationSupervisor {
-  /**
-   * Resolves once the FIRST attempt has settled — so a caller can await startup
-   * exactly as it awaited a single {@link driveRelayReservation}, and the retries
-   * carry on in the background afterwards. Also resolves on {@link stop}, so an
-   * awaiting caller is never left hanging.
-   */
-  readonly firstAttempt: Promise<void>;
-  /** True while a drive is in flight. */
-  readonly driving: boolean;
-  /** Epoch ms of the next scheduled tick; `null` while a drive is running. */
-  readonly retryAtMs: number | null;
-  /** Reason the last drive produced no reservation; `null` once one is held. */
-  readonly lastError: string | null;
-  /**
-   * Idempotent. Clears the timer so no further drive is scheduled, and CANCELS the
-   * drive already in flight: it stops dialing or polling, clears every timer it
-   * holds and reports `cancelled`, so a teardown does not trail an attempt against
-   * the node it is dismantling. That result is discarded — a cancelled drive is
-   * not a failure — and nothing follows it.
-   */
-  stop(): void;
-}
-
-/**
- * Keep asking for a relay reservation until one is held, then keep watching that
- * it still is — the thing that makes a lost reservation recover on its own.
- *
- * Needed because nothing else re-drives: libp2p re-fills a search listener's
- * freed slot from relay DISCOVERY, and a cadre node's namespaced identify puts
- * discovery permanently out of reach (see the module header). Without this loop a
- * relay restart left a browser tab undialable until the user reloaded the page.
- *
- * Per tick:
- *  - a reservation is held → reset the backoff, clear the error, re-check in
- *    `checkMs`. No drive: a healthy node must not re-request every few seconds.
- *  - otherwise → un-poison the reservation store's relay filter (see
- *    {@link clearRelayFilterEntry}) and run ONE {@link driveRelayReservation}.
- *    If that lands a reservation, rejoin the healthy path above; if not, sleep
- *    the current backoff and double it up to `maxBackoffMs`.
- *
- * "Held" is judged PER RELAY — a circuit addr through one of `addrs`' relays
- * ({@link circuitMultiaddrsVia}) — so several loops over one node, one relay each
- * (a strand node), each re-drive exactly the relay they own. Every drive after the
- * first is preceded by the optional `beforeRedrive` hook
- * ({@link RelayReservationSupervisorOptions}).
- *
- * Starts immediately; the first tick runs before this returns.
- */
-export function superviseRelayReservation(
-  node: Libp2p,
-  addrs: readonly string[],
-  opts?: RelayReservationSupervisorOptions
-): RelayReservationSupervisor {
-  return new RelayReservationLoop(node, [...addrs], opts ?? {});
-}
-
-/**
- * Forget that `addr`'s peer ever failed a reservation request, so the next
- * attempt is actually made rather than refused out of hand.
- *
- * `ReservationStore` records a peer in `relayFilter` when its reservation request
- * fails with `DialError` or `UnsupportedProtocolError`, and NOTHING on that path
- * ever clears it: the reset lives in `#checkReservationCount`, which only runs
- * when a reservation is genuinely removed, and `#removeReservation` early-returns
- * when there was never one. So a relay that was briefly not-a-relay (or died
- * between our dial and the hop request) stays permanently rejected with
- * `The relay was previously invalid` — measured, not inferred.
- *
- * Fails soft in every direction: no `relayFilter`, no `remove`, an addr with no
- * peer id, a malformed addr — all mean "no un-poisoning", never a throw. The
- * retry loop still recovers the common case without this, because a relay that is
- * simply DOWN fails our own dial first and never reaches the filter.
- *
- * Returns whether an entry was actually removed (for specs; callers ignore it).
- */
-export function clearRelayFilterEntry(store: RelayReservationStoreLike, addr: string): boolean {
-  const filter = store.relayFilter;
-  if (typeof filter?.remove !== 'function') {
-    log('Reservation store has no removable relayFilter — cannot un-poison %s', addr);
-    return false;
-  }
-  try {
-    // The peer id is in the multiaddr, so this costs no dial and can run before one.
-    const peerId = trailingPeerId(multiaddr(addr));
-    if (peerId === null) {
-      // NOTE: an addr with no `/p2p/` component can still be dialed and reserved
-      // through (the peer id comes off the connection), but it can never be
-      // un-poisoned — so for THAT addr a poisoned filter is permanent again. No
-      // caller supplies such an addr today; if one ever does, resolve the peer id
-      // from the live connection instead of the multiaddr.
-      return false;
-    }
-    return filter.remove(peerIdFromString(peerId).toMultihash().bytes);
-  } catch (err) {
-    log('Could not clear the relayFilter entry for %s: %o', addr, err);
-    return false;
-  }
-}
-
-/** The self-rescheduling loop behind {@link superviseRelayReservation}. */
-class RelayReservationLoop implements RelayReservationSupervisor {
-  readonly firstAttempt: Promise<void>;
-
-  private readonly checkMs: number;
-  private readonly minBackoffMs: number;
-  private readonly maxBackoffMs: number;
-  private backoffMs: number;
-  private timer: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | null = null;
-  /** Tripped by {@link stop}; the only thing that cancels a drive of this loop's. */
-  private readonly cancel = new AbortController();
-  private stopped = false;
-  private inFlight = false;
-  /** Drives started so far — the `beforeRedrive` hook runs from the second one on. */
-  private drives = 0;
-  private nextTickAtMs: number | null = null;
-  private failure: string | null = null;
-  private settleFirstAttempt: () => void = () => {};
-  private firstAttemptSettled = false;
-
-  constructor(
-    private readonly node: Libp2p,
-    private readonly addrs: readonly string[],
-    private readonly opts: RelayReservationSupervisorOptions
-  ) {
-    // Clamped away from 0: a caller-supplied 0 would spin the loop hot.
-    this.checkMs = Math.max(1, opts.checkMs ?? DEFAULT_RELAY_CHECK_MS);
-    this.minBackoffMs = Math.max(1, opts.minBackoffMs ?? DEFAULT_RELAY_MIN_BACKOFF_MS);
-    this.maxBackoffMs = Math.max(
-      this.minBackoffMs,
-      opts.maxBackoffMs ?? DEFAULT_RELAY_MAX_BACKOFF_MS
-    );
-    this.backoffMs = this.minBackoffMs;
-    this.firstAttempt = new Promise((resolve) => {
-      this.settleFirstAttempt = resolve;
-    });
-    void this.tick();
-  }
-
-  get driving(): boolean {
-    return this.inFlight;
-  }
-
-  get retryAtMs(): number | null {
-    return this.nextTickAtMs;
-  }
-
-  get lastError(): string | null {
-    return this.failure;
-  }
-
-  stop(): void {
-    if (this.stopped) {
-      return;
-    }
-    this.stopped = true;
-    // The scheduled attempt and the running one are two different things to end:
-    // the timer covers the first, the signal the second.
-    this.cancel.abort();
-    if (this.timer !== null) {
-      clearTimeout(this.timer);
-      this.timer = null;
-    }
-    this.nextTickAtMs = null;
-    this.settleFirst();
-  }
-
-  private async tick(): Promise<void> {
-    if (this.stopped) {
-      return;
-    }
-    this.nextTickAtMs = null;
-    if (this.reservationHeld()) {
-      this.onReservationHeld();
-      return;
-    }
-    await this.driveOnce();
-    if (this.stopped) {
-      return;
-    }
-    this.settleFirst();
-    // A drive that LANDED a reservation resumes the healthy cadence immediately.
-    // Backing off here instead would leave the first liveness check after a long
-    // outage a fully grown backoff away (up to `maxBackoffMs`), so a reservation
-    // lost again right after recovery would go unnoticed for that whole window.
-    if (this.reservationHeld()) {
-      this.onReservationHeld();
-      return;
-    }
-    this.scheduleBackoff();
-  }
-
-  /** Per relay: only a circuit addr THROUGH one of this loop's relays counts. */
-  private reservationHeld(): boolean {
-    return circuitMultiaddrsVia(this.node, this.addrs).length > 0;
-  }
-
-  /** Healthy tick: nothing to request, so only reset and re-check later. */
-  private onReservationHeld(): void {
-    this.backoffMs = this.minBackoffMs;
-    this.failure = null;
-    this.settleFirst();
-    this.schedule(this.checkMs);
-  }
-
-  private async driveOnce(): Promise<void> {
-    this.inFlight = true;
-    try {
-      if (this.drives > 0) {
-        await this.runBeforeRedrive();
-        // A stop that arrived while the hook ran: nothing follows it, so do not dial
-        // a node that is being torn down.
-        if (this.stopped) {
-          return;
-        }
-      }
-      this.drives += 1;
-      this.unpoisonRelayFilter();
-      const { error, cancelled } = await driveRelayReservation(this.node, this.addrs, {
-        ...this.opts,
-        signal: this.cancel.signal
-      });
-      // A cancelled drive landed nothing AND failed at nothing, so it has no status
-      // to report: recording it would surface a teardown artifact through
-      // `getRelayReservationState()` as if the relay had refused.
-      if (!this.stopped && !cancelled) {
-        this.failure = error;
-      }
-    } catch (err) {
-      // `driveRelayReservation` is fail-soft by contract, so reaching here means
-      // that contract broke. The loop must survive it anyway: an escaping
-      // rejection would leave `firstAttempt` pending FOREVER (hanging every
-      // caller that awaits a reservation at startup) and schedule no further
-      // attempt, which is the failure this whole supervisor exists to prevent.
-      const message = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
-      log('Relay reservation drive threw, which it should not: %s', message);
-      if (!this.stopped) {
-        this.failure = message;
-      }
-    } finally {
-      this.inFlight = false;
-    }
-  }
-
-  private scheduleBackoff(): void {
-    const wait = this.backoffMs;
-    this.backoffMs = Math.min(this.backoffMs * 2, this.maxBackoffMs);
-    this.schedule(wait);
-  }
-
-  /** The caller's `beforeRedrive` hook, contained: a throw or rejection is logged, never propagated. */
-  private async runBeforeRedrive(): Promise<void> {
-    const hook = this.opts.beforeRedrive;
-    if (hook === undefined) {
-      return;
-    }
-    try {
-      await hook();
-    } catch (err) {
-      log('beforeRedrive hook failed (%o); driving the reservation anyway: %o', this.addrs, err);
-    }
-  }
-
-  private unpoisonRelayFilter(): void {
-    const transport = findCircuitRelayTransport(this.node);
-    if (transport === null) {
-      return;
-    }
-    for (const addr of this.addrs) {
-      clearRelayFilterEntry(transport.reservationStore, addr);
-    }
-  }
-
-  private schedule(ms: number): void {
-    if (this.stopped) {
-      return;
-    }
-    this.nextTickAtMs = Date.now() + ms;
-    this.timer = setTimeout(() => {
-      this.timer = null;
-      void this.tick();
-    }, ms);
-    // Node keeps the process alive while a timer is pending, so an un-unref'd
-    // supervisor would hang every CLI run and vitest worker that ever reserved.
-    // Cast + optional-chain: browsers and React Native have no `unref`.
-    (this.timer as { unref?: () => void }).unref?.();
-  }
-
-  private settleFirst(): void {
-    if (this.firstAttemptSettled) {
-      return;
-    }
-    this.firstAttemptSettled = true;
-    this.settleFirstAttempt();
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * Derive the reservation posture, reading the node's circuit addrs LIVE. Pure
- * apart from that read, so the precedence is testable on its own:
- *
- * | condition                | status                                          |
- * | ------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------- |
- * | no addrs supplied        | `none`                                          |
- * | live circuit addrs held  | `reserved` (`error: null`)                      |
- * | a drive is in flight     | `dialing`                                       |
- * | a retry is scheduled     | `retrying`                                      |
- * | otherwise                | `error`                                         |
- *
- * `reserved` is checked BEFORE `error` on purpose: the circuit addrs are read
- * live, so a reservation that lands by ANY route supersedes a stale error string
- * without a second drive.
- *
- * `retrying` sits between the two so that `error` carries a sharper meaning:
- * NOBODY IS GOING TO TRY AGAIN. A lost reservation does come back on its own now,
- * as long as a {@link RelayReservationSupervisor} is running — that loop is the
- * only thing that re-drives, since libp2p re-fills a search listener's freed slot
- * from relay DISCOVERY, which a cadre node's namespaced identify puts permanently
- * out of reach (see the module header). So `error` means the supervisor was
- * stopped, was never started, or there is no node at all.
- *
- * `retryAtMs` is the supervisor's next scheduled tick (`null` while a drive runs
- * or when there is no supervisor); it both selects `retrying` and is passed
- * through so a UI can count down to the next attempt.
- */
-export function resolveRelayReservationState(
-  node: Libp2p | null,
-  addrs: readonly string[],
-  lastError: string | null,
-  driving: boolean,
-  retryAtMs: number | null
-): RelayReservationState {
-  if (addrs.length === 0) {
-    return { status: 'none', addrs: [], circuitAddrs: [], error: null, retryAtMs: null };
-  }
-  const supplied = [...addrs];
-  const circuitAddrs = node ? circuitMultiaddrs(node) : [];
-  if (circuitAddrs.length > 0) {
-    return { status: 'reserved', addrs: supplied, circuitAddrs, error: null, retryAtMs };
-  }
-  if (driving) {
-    return {
-      status: 'dialing',
-      addrs: supplied,
-      circuitAddrs: [],
-      error: lastError,
-      retryAtMs: null
-    };
-  }
-  // `driveRelayReservation` always reports a reason when it finishes without a
-  // reservation, so `lastError` is normally set below. The fallback only covers
-  // addrs recorded without a completed drive.
-  const error = lastError ?? 'no circuit reservation held';
-  if (retryAtMs !== null) {
-    return { status: 'retrying', addrs: supplied, circuitAddrs: [], error, retryAtMs };
-  }
-  return { status: 'error', addrs: supplied, circuitAddrs: [], error, retryAtMs: null };
-}
+/**
+ * Relay reservation for nodes that reserve through the SEARCH listen addr — the
+ * dial, the explicit reservation request, the retry loop that keeps it, and the
+ * (live) status derivation.
+ *
+ * `@libp2p/circuit-relay-v2`'s listener branches on the SHAPE of the listen
+ * address:
+ *
+ * | listen addr                                       | libp2p behaviour                                                                     | unreachable relay          |
+ * | ------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------- |
+ * | `<dial addr>/p2p/<relayPeerId>/p2p-circuit`        | CONFIGURED reservation: dial that exact relay and reserve, or fail                     | `listen()` throws          |
+ * | bare `/p2p-circuit`                                | SEARCH mode: register a pending reservation, to be filled by relay discovery           | nothing throws, no reserve |
+ *
+ * A search listener needs someone to (a) dial the relay and (b) fill the pending
+ * reservation it created, then report whether one actually landed. That is this
+ * module. It is **fail-soft by construction**: nothing here throws.
+ *
+ * EVERY cadre CONTROL node now takes that route — `network.relayAddrs` resolves
+ * to the bare search entry (`relay-addrs.ts` → `resolveListenAddrs`) and
+ * `CadreNode.start()` drives this module once the control database is up. The
+ * configured shape would dial the relay from inside `libp2p.start()`, putting a
+ * sibling in this node's cohort before its own control database existed, and a
+ * sibling that has not yet replicated this node's `CadrePeer` row correctly
+ * refuses its control-DB streams — which killed `start()` outright.
+ *
+ * So the two shapes are no longer alternative ROUTES, only alternative failure
+ * postures on top of the same drive: a node that names `network.relayAddrs` gets
+ * a `RelayReservationFailedError` out of `start()` when the first attempt lands
+ * nothing (fail-fast, the operator asked for this relay), while a node that calls
+ * `CadreNode.reserveRelays()` itself gets a non-`reserved` status and stays up
+ * (fail-soft, the browser-tab posture). `network.requireRelay: false` gives a
+ * CONFIGURED relay the fail-soft posture too, for a node that must boot with no
+ * network at all — same drive, same supervisor, only the throw is dropped.
+ * Configuring both is now redundant, not fatal.
+ *
+ * STRAND nodes take the same route, ONE supervisor PER RELAY
+ * (`strand-instance-manager.ts` → `buildStrandRuntime`): each configured relay
+ * gets its own bare `/p2p-circuit` listener (`strand-network-config.ts`) and its
+ * own {@link superviseRelayReservation} over just that relay's addr, fail-soft
+ * like the browser tab. The configured shape they used to take
+ * (`<relay>/p2p-circuit`, reserved from inside `libp2p.start()`) is gone from
+ * cadre-built nodes entirely, because it loses its address and never recovers in
+ * three situations — the relay restarts, either side hangs up the relay
+ * connection, and libp2p's OWN reservation refresh (which removes the reservation
+ * before re-creating it, and a configured listener republishes only from inside
+ * its own `listen()`). The last one needs no network event at all: at the relay
+ * default TTL of two hours every configured-shape node went undialable ~1 h 55 min
+ * after reserving. A search listener republishes on `relay:created-reservation`
+ * for its own pending id, which the refresh re-queues, and the supervisor covers
+ * the other two.
+ *
+ * Because a strand node runs one supervisor per relay, "is the reservation held"
+ * is asked PER RELAY ({@link circuitMultiaddrsVia}): relay X's supervisor must not
+ * be satisfied by relay Y's circuit addr, or it would never re-drive X.
+ *
+ * ⚠️ WHY THE RESERVATION IS REQUESTED EXPLICITLY RATHER THAN LEFT TO DISCOVERY.
+ * libp2p fills a search listener's pending reservation from `RelayDiscovery`,
+ * which nominates a peer only once it can see the relay-hop protocol id in that
+ * peer's PEER-STORE protocol list — and that list is written exclusively by the
+ * IDENTIFY handshake. `@optimystic/db-p2p` gives every cadre node a
+ * network-namespaced identify protocol id (`/optimystic/control-<partyId>/id/1.0.0`)
+ * while the relay `ops/docker/libp2p-infra` deploys runs stock identify
+ * (`/ipfs/id/1.0.0`), so the two never identify each other, the peer store stays
+ * empty of protocols, and discovery never nominates the relay. The TCP/WebSocket
+ * connection itself is fine, which is why leaving it to discovery surfaced as a
+ * generic timeout.
+ *
+ * Identify is incidental to relaying, though: the reservation
+ * (`/libp2p/circuit/relay/0.2.0/hop`), a third peer's CONNECT through the relay,
+ * and the STOP handler on this node all use STOCK, un-namespaced protocol ids the
+ * deployed relay already serves. Discovery's only job is to GUESS which connected
+ * peer is a relay, and this module does not need to guess — it was handed the
+ * relay's address. So it asks the relay for a slot directly, via the
+ * circuit-relay transport's own reservation store.
+ *
+ * ⚠️ WHY LIBP2P'S RELAY DISCOVERY IS SWITCHED OFF. Discovery does reach SOME
+ * peers: every connected peer whose identify lists the relay-hop protocol, and a
+ * storage-profile member's strand node runs the relay server in the same
+ * `/optimystic/strand-<id>/…` namespace as this node's strand node (control nodes
+ * share `/optimystic/control-<partyId>/…` the same way). Discovery reserves on such
+ * a peer as soon as it connects, and that takes one of the slots the configured
+ * relays' supervisors were going to fill. Worse, the reservation store runs one
+ * request at a time and, when a request takes the last free slot, clears its queue
+ * with `@libp2p/utils`' `Queue.clear()`, which drops a queued job WITHOUT ever
+ * settling its promise — so a supervisor whose `addRelay` was queued behind it
+ * waits out its whole deadline (gotchoices/sereus#34). A reservation discovery picks is
+ * also unmanaged: no supervisor re-drives it, the status does not count it, and a
+ * member's strand node goes away whenever that member hibernates. So every node
+ * whose bare search entries cadre generated for configured relays is built through
+ * {@link withoutRelayDiscovery} (`node-transports.ts`), and its slots are filled by
+ * the supervisors alone — given a transport list to wrap, which React Native and
+ * browser embedders always pass and a Node host passes as
+ * `network.defaultTransports` (cadre-cli does). A hand-written bare `/p2p-circuit`
+ * with no configured relay keeps discovery, since nothing else would fill that slot.
+ *
+ * Status is derived from the node's LIVE multiaddrs on every read rather than
+ * cached at drive time: when a relay restarts or the connection drops, libp2p's
+ * listener clears its listening addrs and the circuit multiaddr disappears, so a
+ * cached snapshot would keep claiming `reserved` for a node nothing can dial.
+ *
+ * And because discovery is either off or blind to the relay, nothing would ever
+ * ASK again either —
+ * so {@link driveRelayReservation} stays a single-shot primitive and
+ * {@link superviseRelayReservation} owns the retry cadence on top of it. That
+ * loop is what makes a lost reservation recover without a page reload. Single-shot
+ * but not unstoppable: the primitive takes an `AbortSignal` and the loop trips it
+ * from `stop()`, because a drive left running against a node being torn down both
+ * logs failures that read as real and — through the timers it still holds — keeps
+ * the process alive for the rest of its `timeoutMs`.
+ *
+ * What switching discovery off costs: libp2p 3.1.3's `connection.newStream` records
+ * every protocol OUR OWN outbound stream negotiated into the peer store, so the
+ * explicit reservation request writes the relay-hop protocol id against the relay
+ * itself, and with discovery on it refilled a slot freed by a hangup (while the
+ * relay stays up) within ~25 ms, measured. With it off that refill waits for the
+ * supervisor's next liveness check ({@link DEFAULT_RELAY_CHECK_MS}, 5 s while held).
+ * A relay RESTART always needed the supervisor, which un-poisons the store's
+ * `relayFilter` before every attempt ({@link clearRelayFilterEntry}). The specs
+ * that build their own clients keep discovery on and disable its refill
+ * (`forgetRelayProtocol` in `relay-reservation.spec.ts`) so they prove the
+ * supervisor's.
+ */
+
+import debug from 'debug';
+import { multiaddr } from '@multiformats/multiaddr';
+import { peerIdFromString } from '@libp2p/peer-id';
+import type { Libp2p, PeerId } from '@libp2p/interface';
+import type { Libp2pTransports } from '@optimystic/db-p2p';
+import { trailingPeerId } from './peer-dial.js';
+import { relayReservationBudgetMs } from './link-budget.js';
+
+const log = debug('sereus:cadre:relay-reservation');
+
+/**
+ * Relay-reservation posture for a node that reserves through the SEARCH listen
+ * addr (bare `/p2p-circuit`) — every cadre control node, whether its relays came
+ * from `network.relayAddrs` or from an explicit `CadreNode.reserveRelays()` call.
+ *  - `none`     — no relay addrs supplied; the node is undialable by design.
+ *  - `dialing`  — a drive is in flight.
+ *  - `reserved` — the node currently holds at least one `/p2p-circuit` addr.
+ *  - `retrying` — no reservation right now, but a {@link RelayReservationSupervisor}
+ *                 has the next attempt scheduled. Recoverable without a caller.
+ *  - `error`    — no reservation, and NOBODY IS GOING TO TRY AGAIN: no supervisor
+ *                 is running (or there is no node at all).
+ */
+export type RelayReservationStatus = 'none' | 'dialing' | 'reserved' | 'retrying' | 'error';
+
+export interface RelayReservationState {
+  status: RelayReservationStatus;
+  /** The relay multiaddrs this node was asked to reserve through. */
+  addrs: string[];
+  /** LIVE `/p2p-circuit` multiaddrs, recomputed on every read. */
+  circuitAddrs: string[];
+  error: string | null;
+  /**
+   * Epoch ms of the supervisor's next scheduled tick, or `null` when a drive is
+   * in flight, no supervisor is running, or no addrs were supplied. A UI can turn
+   * this into "reconnecting, next try in 8s" rather than showing a bare error for
+   * a node that is in fact recovering.
+   */
+  retryAtMs: number | null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * How long {@link driveRelayReservation} waits for a reservation to appear, at the DEFAULT
+ * declared link round trip: `RELAY_RESERVATION_ROUND_TRIPS` (4) x `DECLARED_LINK_ROUND_TRIP_MS`
+ * (3500 ms), plus 2 x `ADMISSION_DECISION_TIMEOUT_MS` (2000 ms) for a party-run relay's
+ * connection and reservation decisions, = 18 000 ms (`relayReservationBudgetMs`), where it was a
+ * fixed 10_000 before it was derived.
+ *
+ * Counted rather than chosen because this one deadline bounds the whole drive — dial the relay,
+ * request the reservation, wait — and each of those costs a fixed number of exchanges, not a
+ * fixed number of milliseconds. `link-budget.ts` carries the counts, the measurement behind
+ * them, and what still fails at the supported link whatever this says.
+ *
+ * A host on a slower link moves it by declaring `NetworkConfig.linkRoundTripMs`, which both
+ * call sites thread in (`CadreNode.reserveRelays` for the control node,
+ * `StrandInstanceManager`'s per-relay supervisors for a strand). This constant is the fallback
+ * for a caller that declares nothing.
+ */
+export const DEFAULT_RELAY_RESERVE_TIMEOUT_MS = relayReservationBudgetMs();
+export const DEFAULT_RELAY_RESERVE_POLL_MS = 250;
+
+export interface RelayReserveOptions {
+  timeoutMs?: number;
+  pollMs?: number;
+  /**
+   * Ends an in-flight drive early. Aborting is not a failure: the drive returns
+   * `{ error: null, cancelled: true }` and clears every timer it holds, so the
+   * process is free to exit immediately instead of trailing the teardown that
+   * cancelled it.
+   */
+  signal?: AbortSignal;
+}
+
+/** What one {@link driveRelayReservation} came back with. */
+export interface RelayReserveResult {
+  /** Why no reservation landed; `null` when one did — or when the drive was cancelled. */
+  error: string | null;
+  /**
+   * The drive ended because its caller's `signal` tripped, not because of anything
+   * the relay did. Separate from `error` because `error: null` means "a reservation
+   * landed" and a cancelled drive landed nothing: folded together, a caller would
+   * read cancellation as success. `cancelled: true` always implies `error: null`.
+   */
+  cancelled: boolean;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The slice of `@libp2p/utils`' `Filter` (a cuckoo filter) that the reservation
+ * store uses to remember relays whose reservation request failed. `remove` is
+ * OPTIONAL on that interface, so every use here has to cope with its absence —
+ * see {@link clearRelayFilterEntry}.
+ */
+export interface RelayFilterLike {
+  has(item: Uint8Array): boolean;
+  remove?(item: Uint8Array): boolean;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The slice of `@libp2p/circuit-relay-v2`'s `ReservationStore` this module drives.
+ * Declared structurally because the class is internal to that package: naming only
+ * the members we call keeps the coupling small, explicit and greppable, and lets
+ * {@link findCircuitRelayTransport} duck-type rather than brand-match.
+ *
+ * `relayFilter` is optional because it is not required to DRIVE a reservation,
+ * only to RE-drive one (see {@link clearRelayFilterEntry}); a libp2p version that
+ * renames or drops it must degrade, not break.
+ */
+export interface RelayReservationStoreLike {
+  addRelay(peerId: PeerId, type: 'discovered' | 'configured'): Promise<unknown>;
+  hasReservation(peerId: PeerId): boolean;
+  relayFilter?: RelayFilterLike;
+}
+
+/** The slice of libp2p's circuit-relay transport that owns the reservation store. */
+export interface CircuitRelayTransportLike {
+  reservationStore: RelayReservationStoreLike;
+}
+
+/** `components` is a real field on libp2p's node class but not on the `Libp2p` interface. */
+interface Libp2pComponentsLike {
+  components?: {
+    transportManager?: {
+      getTransports?: () => readonly unknown[];
+    };
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * The node's `/p2p-circuit` multiaddrs — the addresses a peer can dial it at
+ * while it holds a relay reservation. Empty means "not dialable via a relay
+ * right now", which is exactly what makes {@link resolveRelayReservationState}
+ * live rather than a stale snapshot.
+ */
+export function circuitMultiaddrs(node: Libp2p): string[] {
+  return node
+    .getMultiaddrs()
+    .map((ma) => ma.toString())
+    .filter((addr) => addr.includes('/p2p-circuit'));
+}
+
+/**
+ * The node's `/p2p-circuit` multiaddrs THROUGH the relays `addrs` name — the ones
+ * whose `/p2p/<relayPeerId>/p2p-circuit` component names one of them. This is the
+ * "held" question a supervisor over a SUBSET of the node's relays has to ask: a
+ * strand node runs one supervisor per relay, and relay X's supervisor must not be
+ * satisfied by relay Y's addr, or a lost X is never re-driven.
+ *
+ * Falls back to EVERY circuit addr when any entry names no relay peer id (no
+ * `/p2p/` component, or unparsable): such an addr can still be dialed and reserved
+ * through, but the addr it earns cannot be attributed to it, so "any circuit addr"
+ * is the only answer that does not mark a live reservation as lost. The control
+ * node passes its whole relay list, so its answer is the same either way.
+ */
+export function circuitMultiaddrsVia(node: Libp2p, addrs: readonly string[]): string[] {
+  const held = circuitMultiaddrs(node);
+  const relayIds = addrs.map(relayPeerIdOf);
+  if (relayIds.some((id) => id === null)) {
+    return held;
+  }
+  return held.filter((circuit) => relayIds.includes(relayPeerIdOf(circuit)));
+}
+
+/**
+ * The NORMALIZED peer id of the relay `addr` names: the `/p2p/` component just
+ * before `/p2p-circuit` when there is one, else the trailing `/p2p/` component
+ * (a relay DIAL addr). `null` when there is none, or `addr` does not parse.
+ *
+ * Normalized through `peerIdFromString(…).toString()` so a relay written in a
+ * different encoding than libp2p publishes (a CID form, say) still matches.
+ */
+function relayPeerIdOf(addr: string): string | null {
+  try {
+    const components = multiaddr(addr).getComponents();
+    const circuitIdx = components.findIndex((c) => c.name === 'p2p-circuit');
+    const relayScope = circuitIdx >= 0 ? components.slice(0, circuitIdx) : components;
+    const raw = trailingPeerId(multiaddr(relayScope));
+    return raw === null ? null : peerIdFromString(raw).toString();
+  } catch {
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The running node's circuit-relay transport, or `null` when it has none.
+ *
+ * There is no public libp2p API for "reserve on THIS specific relay", so this
+ * reaches through `node.components.transportManager` — libp2p's internal layout.
+ * That coupling is deliberate and bounded: every step is optional-chained and the
+ * whole thing returns `null` rather than throwing, and a spec pins the seam so a
+ * libp2p upgrade that moves it fails loudly instead of silently reverting this
+ * module to the discovery wait that never fires.
+ */
+export function findCircuitRelayTransport(node: Libp2p): CircuitRelayTransportLike | null {
+  for (const transport of nodeTransports(node)) {
+    const store = (transport as { reservationStore?: unknown }).reservationStore;
+    if (isReservationStore(store)) {
+      return { reservationStore: store };
+    }
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+function nodeTransports(node: Libp2p): readonly unknown[] {
+  const manager = (node as Libp2p & Libp2pComponentsLike).components?.transportManager;
+  if (typeof manager?.getTransports !== 'function') {
+    log('No transportManager.getTransports() on this node — libp2p internals moved?');
+    return [];
+  }
+  try {
+    return manager.getTransports();
+  } catch (err) {
+    log('transportManager.getTransports() threw: %o', err);
+    return [];
+  }
+}
+
+function isReservationStore(value: unknown): value is RelayReservationStoreLike {
+  if (typeof value !== 'object' || value === null) {
+    return false;
+  }
+  const store = value as Partial<RelayReservationStoreLike>;
+  return typeof store.addRelay === 'function' && typeof store.hasReservation === 'function';
+}
+
+/**
+ * `transports` with libp2p's relay discovery switched off in the circuit-relay transport any of
+ * them builds, for a node whose bare `/p2p-circuit` slots cadre's own supervisors fill (see the
+ * module header, "WHY LIBP2P'S RELAY DISCOVERY IS SWITCHED OFF"). Every other transport is built
+ * untouched.
+ *
+ * Each factory is wrapped rather than the built node patched afterwards: libp2p calls the
+ * factories in its constructor, and `@optimystic/db-p2p` builds with `start: false`, so the
+ * switch lands before anything starts. Patching the running node instead races — db-p2p starts
+ * the node before `createLibp2pNode` returns, and a cohort-seed connection in that window has
+ * already queued a discovered reservation.
+ */
+export function withoutRelayDiscovery(transports: Libp2pTransports): Libp2pTransports {
+  return transports.map((factory) => (components) => switchOffRelayDiscovery(factory(components)));
+}
+
+/** Logged once per process, not per node: every node in it runs the same `@libp2p/circuit-relay-v2`. */
+let reportedDiscoveryFieldMissing = false;
+
+/**
+ * Clear `transport`'s `discovery` when it is the circuit-relay transport — duck-typed by its
+ * reservation store, as {@link findCircuitRelayTransport} finds it.
+ *
+ * `@libp2p/circuit-relay-v2` 4.2.13 has no init option for this, but declares the field optional
+ * and guards every use (`this.discovery?.startDiscovery()`, `start`/`stop` skip a non-startable
+ * value), so `undefined` before `start()` registers no relay-hop topology and never runs a
+ * peer-store scan.
+ */
+function switchOffRelayDiscovery<T>(transport: T): T {
+  if (typeof transport !== 'object' || transport === null) {
+    return transport;
+  }
+  const candidate = transport as { reservationStore?: unknown; discovery?: unknown };
+  if (!isReservationStore(candidate.reservationStore)) {
+    return transport;
+  }
+  if (!Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(candidate, 'discovery')) {
+    // Not thrown: a node with discovery left on still works, it is only exposed to the slot theft
+    // again — which the `withoutRelayDiscovery` spec in `relay-reservation.spec.ts` reproduces.
+    if (!reportedDiscoveryFieldMissing) {
+      reportedDiscoveryFieldMissing = true;
+      console.warn(
+        'cadre: the circuit-relay transport has no `discovery` field to switch off — the ' +
+        '@libp2p/circuit-relay-v2 shape changed. libp2p relay discovery stays on, and it can take a ' +
+        'configured relay\'s reservation slot.'
+      );
+    }
+    return transport;
+  }
+  candidate.discovery = undefined;
+  return transport;
+}
+
+/** Sentinel resolved by the wait arm of {@link requestOneReservation}'s race. */
+const WAIT_OVER = Symbol('relay-reservation-wait-over');
+
+/** A relay that answered its dial, paired with the address it was dialed at. */
+interface ConnectedRelay {
+  addr: string;
+  peerId: PeerId;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Whether `signal` has been aborted.
+ *
+ * A function rather than an inline `signal?.aborted` because a signal's `aborted` flag
+ * is a readonly boolean: one `if (signal?.aborted)` narrows every LATER read of it
+ * to `false`, and TypeScript then rejects the re-check as a comparison that can
+ * never hold. Re-checking after each await is exactly what cancellation is, so the
+ * narrowing is the thing that is wrong, not the check.
+ */
+function aborted(signal: AbortSignal | undefined): boolean {
+  return signal !== undefined && signal.aborted;
+}
+
+/**
+ * `setTimeout` as a promise, cut short by `signal`.
+ *
+ * EVERY wait inside a drive routes through here, because a wait that merely LOSES
+ * a `Promise.race` leaves its timer pending — and a pending timer keeps a Node
+ * process alive for the rest of its duration, which is exactly the delay a
+ * cancelled drive exists to shed. So the timer is cleared on both endings, not
+ * only on its own.
+ *
+ * NOTE: no spec catches a wait that skips this helper. The cancellation specs
+ * assert prompt RETURN, which a `Promise.race` gives with its losing timer still
+ * pending — only the process actually exiting proves the clearing, and that was
+ * measured by hand rather than pinned. If a wait is ever added outside this
+ * helper, pin it with a spawned-child process-exit test instead.
+ */
+function delay(ms: number, signal?: AbortSignal): Promise<void> {
+  if (aborted(signal)) {
+    return Promise.resolve();
+  }
+  return new Promise((resolve) => {
+    const finish = (): void => {
+      clearTimeout(timer);
+      signal?.removeEventListener('abort', finish);
+      resolve();
+    };
+    const timer = setTimeout(finish, ms);
+    signal?.addEventListener('abort', finish, { once: true });
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Relay `from`'s abort into `to`, and hand back the detach that must run on every
+ * exit path.
+ *
+ * By hand rather than through `AbortSignal.any`, for the same reason this module
+ * builds its deadline from an explicit `AbortController` rather than
+ * `AbortSignal.timeout`: React Native/Hermes runs this same code, and `any` is
+ * newer still — its polyfill also leaks listeners onto inputs that never abort,
+ * which is what the returned detach avoids here.
+ */
+function linkAbort(from: AbortSignal | undefined, to: AbortController): () => void {
+  if (from === undefined) {
+    return () => { /* nothing was attached */ };
+  }
+  if (from.aborted) {
+    to.abort();
+    return () => { /* nothing was attached */ };
+  }
+  const forward = (): void => to.abort();
+  from.addEventListener('abort', forward, { once: true });
+  return () => from.removeEventListener('abort', forward);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Dial every relay in `addrs`, ask the first one that answers for a reservation
+ * slot, then wait until a `/p2p-circuit` address appears.
+ *
+ * Never throws — a dial rejection, a rejected reservation, a MALFORMED address,
+ * or a timeout all come back as an `error` string. A dial that throws does NOT
+ * cost the rest of the list: one dead relay among two must not cost the
+ * reservation on the live one, so every addr is dialed and the first error (in
+ * list order) is kept. A reservation that lands wins over any earlier error
+ * (`error: null`).
+ *
+ * `timeoutMs` bounds the WHOLE drive — dials, reservation requests and the wait
+ * share one deadline. `opts.signal` bounds it from the other side: every phase
+ * below returns as soon as it trips, and the drive reports `cancelled` rather than
+ * inventing a failure for a relay that was never given a chance to answer.
+ */
+export async function driveRelayReservation(
+  node: Libp2p,
+  addrs: readonly string[],
+  opts?: RelayReserveOptions
+): Promise<RelayReserveResult> {
+  if (addrs.length === 0) {
+    return { error: null, cancelled: false };
+  }
+  const signal = opts?.signal;
+  if (aborted(signal)) {
+    return { error: null, cancelled: true };
+  }
+  const timeoutMs = opts?.timeoutMs ?? DEFAULT_RELAY_RESERVE_TIMEOUT_MS;
+  // Clamped: a caller-supplied 0 would spin the poll loop hot until the deadline.
+  const pollMs = Math.max(1, opts?.pollMs ?? DEFAULT_RELAY_RESERVE_POLL_MS);
+  const deadline = Date.now() + timeoutMs;
+
+  const { connected, error: dialError } = await dialRelays(node, addrs, deadline, signal);
+  const attempt = await requestReservation(node, connected, deadline, signal);
+  // NOTE: a REJECTED reservation still spends the rest of the deadline polling,
+  // because on a node that kept libp2p's relay discovery (a hand-written bare
+  // `/p2p-circuit` driven through `reserveRelays`) discovery may independently land
+  // one (only the no-transport case is `fatal`). So a misconfigured node reports its
+  // now-legible reason a full `timeoutMs` late. If startup latency on that path ever
+  // matters, shorten the wait once every connected relay has rejected — do not skip
+  // it outright.
+  if (!attempt.fatal && (await waitForCircuitReservation(node, addrs, deadline, pollMs, signal))) {
+    return { error: null, cancelled: false };
+  }
+  // Checked AFTER the success above, so a reservation that landed in the same turn
+  // the signal tripped is still reported as landed. Below it, the reasons the
+  // phases assembled describe the cancellation rather than the relay, so they are
+  // dropped: a cancelled drive has nothing to say about the relay's health.
+  if (aborted(signal)) {
+    return { error: null, cancelled: true };
+  }
+  return {
+    error: attempt.error ?? dialError ?? `no circuit reservation within ${timeoutMs}ms`,
+    cancelled: false
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Dial every relay CONCURRENTLY under the drive's shared deadline. Reports the
+ * relays that answered (in list order, for the reservation step) and the first
+ * failure in LIST order (`null` when every dial connected).
+ *
+ * Concurrent and deadline-bound because this whole drive is awaited on a browser
+ * tab's startup path: dialing serially with libp2p's own (much longer) per-dial
+ * timeout meant N unreachable relays cost N dial timeouts before the reservation
+ * request even began, so `timeoutMs` bounded only the tail of the operation.
+ *
+ * Aborting a dial at the deadline is not a lost reservation — the steps that
+ * follow have no time left either, so the drive would report `error` regardless.
+ *
+ * The caller's `signal` aborts the same dials, through the same controller: a
+ * hanging dial is the longest thing a cancelled drive can be sitting in.
+ */
+async function dialRelays(
+  node: Libp2p,
+  addrs: readonly string[],
+  deadline: number,
+  signal?: AbortSignal
+): Promise<{ connected: ConnectedRelay[]; error: string | null }> {
+  // An explicit controller, not `AbortSignal.timeout` — the latter is not
+  // reliably present on React Native/Hermes, which runs this same module.
+  const controller = new AbortController();
+  const timer = setTimeout(() => controller.abort(), Math.max(0, deadline - Date.now()));
+  const unlink = linkAbort(signal, controller);
+  try {
+    const results = await Promise.allSettled(
+      addrs.map((addr) => dialOne(node, addr, controller.signal))
+    );
+    return { connected: connectedRelays(addrs, results), error: firstDialError(addrs, results) };
+  } finally {
+    clearTimeout(timer);
+    unlink();
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * One dial, with the address PARSED INSIDE the promise.
+ *
+ * `multiaddr()` throws SYNCHRONOUSLY on a malformed string, and a throw out of
+ * the `map` callback escapes `Promise.allSettled` altogether — it would reject
+ * the whole drive (breaking the never-throws contract) and discard the dials to
+ * the other, perfectly good, addrs. `async` demotes it to a settled rejection,
+ * which is already exactly how a dial failure is reported.
+ */
+async function dialOne(
+  node: Libp2p,
+  addr: string,
+  signal: AbortSignal
+): Promise<{ remotePeer: PeerId }> {
+  return node.dial(multiaddr(addr), { signal });
+}
+
+function connectedRelays(
+  addrs: readonly string[],
+  results: readonly PromiseSettledResult<{ remotePeer: PeerId }>[]
+): ConnectedRelay[] {
+  const connected: ConnectedRelay[] = [];
+  results.forEach((result, index) => {
+    if (result.status !== 'fulfilled') return;
+    connected.push({ addr: addrs[index], peerId: result.value.remotePeer });
+  });
+  return connected;
+}
+
+/** Log every dial rejection; return the first one in list order. */
+function firstDialError(
+  addrs: readonly string[],
+  results: readonly PromiseSettledResult<unknown>[]
+): string | null {
+  let first: string | null = null;
+  results.forEach((result, index) => {
+    if (result.status !== 'rejected') return;
+    const message = result.reason instanceof Error ? result.reason.message : String(result.reason);
+    log('Relay dial failed (%s): %s', addrs[index], message);
+    first ??= message;
+  });
+  return first;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Outcome of the explicit reservation request.
+ *
+ * `fatal` means no `/p2p-circuit` address can EVER appear (the node has no
+ * circuit-relay transport at all), so the caller must report immediately rather
+ * than spend the rest of the deadline polling for something that cannot happen.
+ * A rejected request is NOT fatal: on a node that kept relay discovery, discovery
+ * may still land a reservation for a relay that does happen to share this node's
+ * identify prefix.
+ */
+interface ReservationAttempt {
+  error: string | null;
+  fatal: boolean;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Ask the connected relays, in list order, for a reservation slot; stop at the
+ * first success.
+ *
+ * `'discovered'`, not `'configured'`: the search listener's
+ * `relay:created-reservation` handler ignores `configured` reservations outright,
+ * so the `/p2p-circuit` listen address would never be published and
+ * `getMultiaddrs()` would stay empty even though the reservation succeeded.
+ * `'discovered'` consumes the pending-reservation id the bare `/p2p-circuit`
+ * listener registered, which is exactly what that handler matches on.
+ *
+ * Sequential, not concurrent: a bare `/p2p-circuit` listener registers exactly
+ * ONE pending reservation, so a second concurrent `addRelay` would be rejected
+ * with `HadEnoughRelaysError` — noise, not a failure. Discovery naming the SAME
+ * relay is not a conflict (`addRelay` dedupes through its own peer queue); discovery
+ * naming a DIFFERENT peer is, which is why it is off on every node cadre supervises
+ * (module header).
+ */
+async function requestReservation(
+  node: Libp2p,
+  connected: readonly ConnectedRelay[],
+  deadline: number,
+  signal?: AbortSignal
+): Promise<ReservationAttempt> {
+  if (connected.length === 0) {
+    // Nothing answered — the dial error is the whole story.
+    return { error: null, fatal: false };
+  }
+  const transport = findCircuitRelayTransport(node);
+  if (transport === null) {
+    return {
+      error: 'node has no circuit-relay transport — add circuitRelayTransport() to its transports',
+      fatal: true
+    };
+  }
+  let firstError: string | null = null;
+  for (const relay of connected) {
+    if (transport.reservationStore.hasReservation(relay.peerId)) {
+      return { error: null, fatal: false };
+    }
+    // A cancelled drive stops here rather than asking the next relay: the caller is
+    // tearing this node down, so another hop request against it can only fail.
+    if (Date.now() >= deadline || aborted(signal)) {
+      break;
+    }
+    const failure = await requestOneReservation(
+      transport.reservationStore,
+      relay,
+      deadline,
+      signal
+    );
+    if (failure === null) {
+      return { error: null, fatal: false };
+    }
+    firstError ??= failure;
+  }
+  return { error: firstError, fatal: false };
+}
+
+/**
+ * One `addRelay` call, bounded by the drive's deadline and by the caller's signal.
+ * Returns `null` on success, or the reason it stopped waiting.
+ *
+ * Raced rather than passed a signal because `addRelay` accepts none and runs on
+ * libp2p's own (much longer) reservation timeout: without the race a drive given
+ * 1.5 s would sit on a silent relay for libp2p's timeout instead. The abandoned
+ * promise stays handled — `Promise.race` attaches its own handlers — so a later
+ * rejection is not unhandled, and is not logged either: a request abandoned at a
+ * cancellation must not print a relay failure the caller would read as real.
+ *
+ * `waitOver` ends the wait on BOTH routes — the caller's abort, relayed in, and the
+ * race settling some other way, aborted in the `finally`. Out-racing the deadline
+ * timer is not enough: the loser stays pending, and a pending timer is what holds
+ * a Node process open past the stop that asked for it.
+ *
+ * NOTE: the reservation store's `Queue.clear()` drops a queued job unsettled whenever
+ * a reservation takes the last pending slot. With relay discovery off, the slots never
+ * outnumber the supervised relays, so a first request cannot be dropped that way. A
+ * REFRESH of a held reservation that is queued at the moment another relay's first
+ * reservation takes the last slot still is, and that reservation then lapses at the
+ * relay unrefreshed. If that is ever observed, or anything besides the supervisors
+ * gains a way to fill these slots, also end this wait on the store's
+ * `relay:found-enough-relays` event while this relay holds no reservation. The real
+ * fix — `#checkReservationCount` aborting queued jobs instead of clearing them —
+ * belongs to js-libp2p.
+ */
+async function requestOneReservation(
+  store: RelayReservationStoreLike,
+  relay: ConnectedRelay,
+  deadline: number,
+  signal?: AbortSignal
+): Promise<string | null> {
+  const waitOver = new AbortController();
+  const unlink = linkAbort(signal, waitOver);
+  try {
+    const outcome = await Promise.race([
+      store.addRelay(relay.peerId, 'discovered'),
+      delay(Math.max(0, deadline - Date.now()), waitOver.signal).then(() => WAIT_OVER)
+    ]);
+    if (outcome !== WAIT_OVER) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    if (aborted(signal)) {
+      return `relay reservation request to ${relay.addr} was cancelled`;
+    }
+    log('Relay reservation request (%s) still pending at the deadline', relay.addr);
+    return `relay reservation request to ${relay.addr} did not complete before the deadline`;
+  } catch (err) {
+    const message = describeReservationFailure(err, relay.addr);
+    log('Relay reservation failed (%s): %s', relay.addr, message);
+    return message;
+  } finally {
+    unlink();
+    waitOver.abort();
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Turn libp2p's reservation rejection into a reason that names the actual cause.
+ *
+ * `HadEnoughRelaysError` needs translating rather than passing through: its own
+ * message ("we do not need any more relays") says the opposite of what happened.
+ * A `'discovered'` reservation is refused when the node holds NO pending
+ * reservation id, and a node holds one only while it listens on the bare
+ * `/p2p-circuit` search address — so the real cause is a missing listen address.
+ */
+function describeReservationFailure(err: unknown, addr: string): string {
+  // NOTE: libp2p adds a peer to the reservation store's `relayFilter` when a
+  // request fails with `DialError` or `UnsupportedProtocolError`, and the failure
+  // path does not reset that filter (it only resets when a reservation is actually
+  // removed). So a SECOND drive against the same relay in the same process reports
+  // `ListenError: The relay was previously invalid` even if the relay has since
+  // recovered. `RelayReservationLoop` clears the entry before every attempt (see
+  // {@link clearRelayFilterEntry}); a caller that re-drives WITHOUT the supervisor
+  // still has to deal with the filter itself.
+  const name = err instanceof Error ? err.name : '';
+  const message = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
+  switch (name) {
+    case 'HadEnoughRelaysError':
+      return `relay reservation on ${addr} was not requested: this node holds no pending circuit reservation — it is not listening on the bare /p2p-circuit address`;
+    case 'UnsupportedProtocolError':
+      return `peer at ${addr} does not speak the circuit-relay hop protocol — it is not a relay`;
+    default:
+      return `relay reservation on ${addr} failed: ${message}`;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Poll until the node advertises a `/p2p-circuit` address through one of `addrs`'
+ * relays ({@link circuitMultiaddrsVia}), the deadline passes, or the drive is
+ * cancelled. This is the phase a cancellation has to reach: whatever the dial and
+ * the reservation request shed, an abandoned drive used to spend here instead,
+ * polling a node whose transports were already being torn down.
+ *
+ * Still a poll even though the reservation is now requested explicitly: `addRelay`
+ * resolving means the RELAY accepted, while the listen address is published a tick
+ * later by the listener's `relay:created-reservation` handler, and a reservation
+ * that discovery lands independently has no return value to await at all.
+ *
+ * NOTE: polls rather than subscribing to libp2p's `self:peer:update` — it keeps
+ * this free of libp2p event-name coupling. If 250 ms of reservation latency ever
+ * matters, switch to the event and keep the poll as a fallback.
+ */
+async function waitForCircuitReservation(
+  node: Libp2p,
+  addrs: readonly string[],
+  deadline: number,
+  pollMs: number,
+  signal?: AbortSignal
+): Promise<boolean> {
+  for (;;) {
+    if (circuitMultiaddrsVia(node, addrs).length > 0) {
+      return true;
+    }
+    if (Date.now() >= deadline || aborted(signal)) {
+      return false;
+    }
+    await delay(Math.min(pollMs, Math.max(0, deadline - Date.now())), signal);
+  }
+}
+
+/** Gap between liveness checks while a reservation is held. */
+export const DEFAULT_RELAY_CHECK_MS = 5_000;
+/** Backoff before the first re-drive after a failed attempt. */
+export const DEFAULT_RELAY_MIN_BACKOFF_MS = 2_000;
+/** Ceiling the backoff doubles up to. */
+export const DEFAULT_RELAY_MAX_BACKOFF_MS = 60_000;
+
+/**
+ * Everything one drive takes, minus its `signal`, plus the loop's own cadence.
+ *
+ * `signal` is omitted rather than inherited because these options are handed
+ * straight to every drive: a caller-supplied one would cancel each attempt without
+ * the loop knowing, leaving it to reschedule drives that return immediately and
+ * forever. The way to cancel a supervisor is
+ * {@link RelayReservationSupervisor.stop}, which owns the signal it passes down.
+ */
+export interface RelayReservationSupervisorOptions extends Omit<RelayReserveOptions, 'signal'> {
+  /** Gap between liveness checks while a reservation is held. Default 5_000. */
+  checkMs?: number;
+  /** Backoff before the first re-drive after a failure. Default 2_000. */
+  minBackoffMs?: number;
+  /** Backoff ceiling. Default 60_000. */
+  maxBackoffMs?: number;
+  /**
+   * Awaited before every drive AFTER the first — never before the first attempt,
+   * which the caller has typically prepared for already. A hook that throws or
+   * rejects is logged and the drive still runs: the hook is preparation, and a
+   * failed preparation must not cost the attempt itself.
+   *
+   * What a strand node uses it for: re-announcing its delegate peer id to the relay
+   * about to be re-dialed. A party control node running the relay server admits a
+   * strand node on an in-memory delegate grant, and a relay restart drops every
+   * grant it held — so a re-drive that did not re-announce first would be denied
+   * at the relay's connection gate.
+   */
+  beforeRedrive?: () => Promise<void> | void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A running retry loop for one node + relay list. Obtained from
+ * {@link superviseRelayReservation}; its only imperative is {@link stop}.
+ */
+export interface RelayReservationSupervisor {
+  /**
+   * Resolves once the FIRST attempt has settled — so a caller can await startup
+   * exactly as it awaited a single {@link driveRelayReservation}, and the retries
+   * carry on in the background afterwards. Also resolves on {@link stop}, so an
+   * awaiting caller is never left hanging.
+   */
+  readonly firstAttempt: Promise<void>;
+  /** True while a drive is in flight. */
+  readonly driving: boolean;
+  /** Epoch ms of the next scheduled tick; `null` while a drive is running. */
+  readonly retryAtMs: number | null;
+  /** Reason the last drive produced no reservation; `null` once one is held. */
+  readonly lastError: string | null;
+  /**
+   * Idempotent. Clears the timer so no further drive is scheduled, and CANCELS the
+   * drive already in flight: it stops dialing or polling, clears every timer it
+   * holds and reports `cancelled`, so a teardown does not trail an attempt against
+   * the node it is dismantling. That result is discarded — a cancelled drive is
+   * not a failure — and nothing follows it.
+   */
+  stop(): void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Keep asking for a relay reservation until one is held, then keep watching that
+ * it still is — the thing that makes a lost reservation recover on its own.
+ *
+ * Needed because nothing else re-drives: libp2p re-fills a search listener's
+ * freed slot from relay DISCOVERY, which cannot see a stock-identify relay from a
+ * cadre node's namespaced identify, and which is switched off outright on every
+ * node whose slots cadre supervises (see the module header). Without this loop a
+ * relay restart left a browser tab undialable until the user reloaded the page.
+ *
+ * Per tick:
+ *  - a reservation is held → reset the backoff, clear the error, re-check in
+ *    `checkMs`. No drive: a healthy node must not re-request every few seconds.
+ *  - otherwise → un-poison the reservation store's relay filter (see
+ *    {@link clearRelayFilterEntry}) and run ONE {@link driveRelayReservation}.
+ *    If that lands a reservation, rejoin the healthy path above; if not, sleep
+ *    the current backoff and double it up to `maxBackoffMs`.
+ *
+ * "Held" is judged PER RELAY — a circuit addr through one of `addrs`' relays
+ * ({@link circuitMultiaddrsVia}) — so several loops over one node, one relay each
+ * (a strand node), each re-drive exactly the relay they own. Every drive after the
+ * first is preceded by the optional `beforeRedrive` hook
+ * ({@link RelayReservationSupervisorOptions}).
+ *
+ * Starts immediately; the first tick runs before this returns.
+ */
+export function superviseRelayReservation(
+  node: Libp2p,
+  addrs: readonly string[],
+  opts?: RelayReservationSupervisorOptions
+): RelayReservationSupervisor {
+  return new RelayReservationLoop(node, [...addrs], opts ?? {});
+}
+
+/**
+ * Forget that `addr`'s peer ever failed a reservation request, so the next
+ * attempt is actually made rather than refused out of hand.
+ *
+ * `ReservationStore` records a peer in `relayFilter` when its reservation request
+ * fails with `DialError` or `UnsupportedProtocolError`, and NOTHING on that path
+ * ever clears it: the reset lives in `#checkReservationCount`, which only runs
+ * when a reservation is genuinely removed, and `#removeReservation` early-returns
+ * when there was never one. So a relay that was briefly not-a-relay (or died
+ * between our dial and the hop request) stays permanently rejected with
+ * `The relay was previously invalid` — measured, not inferred.
+ *
+ * Fails soft in every direction: no `relayFilter`, no `remove`, an addr with no
+ * peer id, a malformed addr — all mean "no un-poisoning", never a throw. The
+ * retry loop still recovers the common case without this, because a relay that is
+ * simply DOWN fails our own dial first and never reaches the filter.
+ *
+ * Returns whether an entry was actually removed (for specs; callers ignore it).
+ */
+export function clearRelayFilterEntry(store: RelayReservationStoreLike, addr: string): boolean {
+  const filter = store.relayFilter;
+  if (typeof filter?.remove !== 'function') {
+    log('Reservation store has no removable relayFilter — cannot un-poison %s', addr);
+    return false;
+  }
+  try {
+    // The peer id is in the multiaddr, so this costs no dial and can run before one.
+    const peerId = trailingPeerId(multiaddr(addr));
+    if (peerId === null) {
+      // NOTE: an addr with no `/p2p/` component can still be dialed and reserved
+      // through (the peer id comes off the connection), but it can never be
+      // un-poisoned — so for THAT addr a poisoned filter is permanent again. No
+      // caller supplies such an addr today; if one ever does, resolve the peer id
+      // from the live connection instead of the multiaddr.
+      return false;
+    }
+    return filter.remove(peerIdFromString(peerId).toMultihash().bytes);
+  } catch (err) {
+    log('Could not clear the relayFilter entry for %s: %o', addr, err);
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+
+/** The self-rescheduling loop behind {@link superviseRelayReservation}. */
+class RelayReservationLoop implements RelayReservationSupervisor {
+  readonly firstAttempt: Promise<void>;
+
+  private readonly checkMs: number;
+  private readonly minBackoffMs: number;
+  private readonly maxBackoffMs: number;
+  private backoffMs: number;
+  private timer: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | null = null;
+  /** Tripped by {@link stop}; the only thing that cancels a drive of this loop's. */
+  private readonly cancel = new AbortController();
+  private stopped = false;
+  private inFlight = false;
+  /** Drives started so far — the `beforeRedrive` hook runs from the second one on. */
+  private drives = 0;
+  private nextTickAtMs: number | null = null;
+  private failure: string | null = null;
+  private settleFirstAttempt: () => void = () => {};
+  private firstAttemptSettled = false;
+
+  constructor(
+    private readonly node: Libp2p,
+    private readonly addrs: readonly string[],
+    private readonly opts: RelayReservationSupervisorOptions
+  ) {
+    // Clamped away from 0: a caller-supplied 0 would spin the loop hot.
+    this.checkMs = Math.max(1, opts.checkMs ?? DEFAULT_RELAY_CHECK_MS);
+    this.minBackoffMs = Math.max(1, opts.minBackoffMs ?? DEFAULT_RELAY_MIN_BACKOFF_MS);
+    this.maxBackoffMs = Math.max(
+      this.minBackoffMs,
+      opts.maxBackoffMs ?? DEFAULT_RELAY_MAX_BACKOFF_MS
+    );
+    this.backoffMs = this.minBackoffMs;
+    this.firstAttempt = new Promise((resolve) => {
+      this.settleFirstAttempt = resolve;
+    });
+    void this.tick();
+  }
+
+  get driving(): boolean {
+    return this.inFlight;
+  }
+
+  get retryAtMs(): number | null {
+    return this.nextTickAtMs;
+  }
+
+  get lastError(): string | null {
+    return this.failure;
+  }
+
+  stop(): void {
+    if (this.stopped) {
+      return;
+    }
+    this.stopped = true;
+    // The scheduled attempt and the running one are two different things to end:
+    // the timer covers the first, the signal the second.
+    this.cancel.abort();
+    if (this.timer !== null) {
+      clearTimeout(this.timer);
+      this.timer = null;
+    }
+    this.nextTickAtMs = null;
+    this.settleFirst();
+  }
+
+  private async tick(): Promise<void> {
+    if (this.stopped) {
+      return;
+    }
+    this.nextTickAtMs = null;
+    if (this.reservationHeld()) {
+      this.onReservationHeld();
+      return;
+    }
+    await this.driveOnce();
+    if (this.stopped) {
+      return;
+    }
+    this.settleFirst();
+    // A drive that LANDED a reservation resumes the healthy cadence immediately.
+    // Backing off here instead would leave the first liveness check after a long
+    // outage a fully grown backoff away (up to `maxBackoffMs`), so a reservation
+    // lost again right after recovery would go unnoticed for that whole window.
+    if (this.reservationHeld()) {
+      this.onReservationHeld();
+      return;
+    }
+    this.scheduleBackoff();
+  }
+
+  /** Per relay: only a circuit addr THROUGH one of this loop's relays counts. */
+  private reservationHeld(): boolean {
+    return circuitMultiaddrsVia(this.node, this.addrs).length > 0;
+  }
+
+  /** Healthy tick: nothing to request, so only reset and re-check later. */
+  private onReservationHeld(): void {
+    this.backoffMs = this.minBackoffMs;
+    this.failure = null;
+    this.settleFirst();
+    this.schedule(this.checkMs);
+  }
+
+  private async driveOnce(): Promise<void> {
+    this.inFlight = true;
+    try {
+      if (this.drives > 0) {
+        await this.runBeforeRedrive();
+        // A stop that arrived while the hook ran: nothing follows it, so do not dial
+        // a node that is being torn down.
+        if (this.stopped) {
+          return;
+        }
+      }
+      this.drives += 1;
+      this.unpoisonRelayFilter();
+      const { error, cancelled } = await driveRelayReservation(this.node, this.addrs, {
+        ...this.opts,
+        signal: this.cancel.signal
+      });
+      // A cancelled drive landed nothing AND failed at nothing, so it has no status
+      // to report: recording it would surface a teardown artifact through
+      // `getRelayReservationState()` as if the relay had refused.
+      if (!this.stopped && !cancelled) {
+        this.failure = error;
+      }
+    } catch (err) {
+      // `driveRelayReservation` is fail-soft by contract, so reaching here means
+      // that contract broke. The loop must survive it anyway: an escaping
+      // rejection would leave `firstAttempt` pending FOREVER (hanging every
+      // caller that awaits a reservation at startup) and schedule no further
+      // attempt, which is the failure this whole supervisor exists to prevent.
+      const message = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
+      log('Relay reservation drive threw, which it should not: %s', message);
+      if (!this.stopped) {
+        this.failure = message;
+      }
+    } finally {
+      this.inFlight = false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  private scheduleBackoff(): void {
+    const wait = this.backoffMs;
+    this.backoffMs = Math.min(this.backoffMs * 2, this.maxBackoffMs);
+    this.schedule(wait);
+  }
+
+  /** The caller's `beforeRedrive` hook, contained: a throw or rejection is logged, never propagated. */
+  private async runBeforeRedrive(): Promise<void> {
+    const hook = this.opts.beforeRedrive;
+    if (hook === undefined) {
+      return;
+    }
+    try {
+      await hook();
+    } catch (err) {
+      log('beforeRedrive hook failed (%o); driving the reservation anyway: %o', this.addrs, err);
+    }
+  }
+
+  private unpoisonRelayFilter(): void {
+    const transport = findCircuitRelayTransport(this.node);
+    if (transport === null) {
+      return;
+    }
+    for (const addr of this.addrs) {
+      clearRelayFilterEntry(transport.reservationStore, addr);
+    }
+  }
+
+  private schedule(ms: number): void {
+    if (this.stopped) {
+      return;
+    }
+    this.nextTickAtMs = Date.now() + ms;
+    this.timer = setTimeout(() => {
+      this.timer = null;
+      void this.tick();
+    }, ms);
+    // Node keeps the process alive while a timer is pending, so an un-unref'd
+    // supervisor would hang every CLI run and vitest worker that ever reserved.
+    // Cast + optional-chain: browsers and React Native have no `unref`.
+    (this.timer as { unref?: () => void }).unref?.();
+  }
+
+  private settleFirst(): void {
+    if (this.firstAttemptSettled) {
+      return;
+    }
+    this.firstAttemptSettled = true;
+    this.settleFirstAttempt();
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Derive the reservation posture, reading the node's circuit addrs LIVE. Pure
+ * apart from that read, so the precedence is testable on its own:
+ *
+ * | condition                | status                                          |
+ * | ------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------- |
+ * | no addrs supplied        | `none`                                          |
+ * | live circuit addrs held  | `reserved` (`error: null`)                      |
+ * | a drive is in flight     | `dialing`                                       |
+ * | a retry is scheduled     | `retrying`                                      |
+ * | otherwise                | `error`                                         |
+ *
+ * `reserved` is checked BEFORE `error` on purpose: the circuit addrs are read
+ * live, so a reservation that lands by ANY route supersedes a stale error string
+ * without a second drive.
+ *
+ * `retrying` sits between the two so that `error` carries a sharper meaning:
+ * NOBODY IS GOING TO TRY AGAIN. A lost reservation does come back on its own now,
+ * as long as a {@link RelayReservationSupervisor} is running — that loop is the
+ * only thing that re-drives, since libp2p re-fills a search listener's freed slot
+ * from relay DISCOVERY, which cannot see a stock-identify relay and is switched off
+ * on every node cadre supervises (see the module header). So `error` means the
+ * supervisor was stopped, was never started, or there is no node at all.
+ *
+ * `retryAtMs` is the supervisor's next scheduled tick (`null` while a drive runs
+ * or when there is no supervisor); it both selects `retrying` and is passed
+ * through so a UI can count down to the next attempt.
+ */
+export function resolveRelayReservationState(
+  node: Libp2p | null,
+  addrs: readonly string[],
+  lastError: string | null,
+  driving: boolean,
+  retryAtMs: number | null
+): RelayReservationState {
+  if (addrs.length === 0) {
+    return { status: 'none', addrs: [], circuitAddrs: [], error: null, retryAtMs: null };
+  }
+  const supplied = [...addrs];
+  const circuitAddrs = node ? circuitMultiaddrs(node) : [];
+  if (circuitAddrs.length > 0) {
+    return { status: 'reserved', addrs: supplied, circuitAddrs, error: null, retryAtMs };
+  }
+  if (driving) {
+    return {
+      status: 'dialing',
+      addrs: supplied,
+      circuitAddrs: [],
+      error: lastError,
+      retryAtMs: null
+    };
+  }
+  // `driveRelayReservation` always reports a reason when it finishes without a
+  // reservation, so `lastError` is normally set below. The fallback only covers
+  // addrs recorded without a completed drive.
+  const error = lastError ?? 'no circuit reservation held';
+  if (retryAtMs !== null) {
+    return { status: 'retrying', addrs: supplied, circuitAddrs: [], error, retryAtMs };
+  }
+  return { status: 'error', addrs: supplied, circuitAddrs: [], error, retryAtMs: null };
+}