@serfab/quereus-plugin-sereus 1.13.0 → 1.15.0

package/src/compose-strand.ts

@@ -1,458 +1,484 @@
-import debug from 'debug';
-import type { Database, VTablePluginInfo, FunctionPluginInfo, CollationPluginInfo } from '@quereus/quereus';
-import optimysticPlugin from '@optimystic/quereus-plugin-optimystic/plugin';
-import type { Libp2p } from '@libp2p/interface';
-import type { IRepo } from '@optimystic/db-core';
-import type { IRawStorage, NodeOptions } from '@optimystic/db-p2p';
-import type { StrandConnectionOptions, SereusPluginResult, StrandTransactor, Libp2pNodeWithRepo } from './types.js';
-import { STRAND_SCHEMA } from './strand-schema.js';
-import { resolveStrandClusterSize, STRAND_CLUSTER_POLICY } from './cluster-size.js';
-import { wrapStorageWithCache, disposeStorageCache } from './cached-storage.js';
-
-const log = debug('sereus:plugin:strand');
-const timing = debug('sereus:plugin:strand:timing');
-
-/**
- * Minimal interface for the CollectionFactory returned by the optimystic plugin.
- * We only need the methods this composition actually uses.
- */
-interface CollectionFactory {
-	registerLibp2pNode(networkName: string, node: Libp2p, coordinatedRepo: IRepo): void;
-	shutdown(): Promise<void>;
-}
-
-/**
- * Result of registering the optimystic plugin. The published plugin signature
- * does not surface `collectionFactory` / `hydrate`, so this is the local shim
- * over what `@optimystic/quereus-plugin-optimystic/plugin` actually returns
- * (see its `plugin.ts` — `hydrate` delegates to `optimysticModule.hydrateCatalog`).
- */
-interface OptimysticPluginResult {
-	collectionFactory: CollectionFactory;
-	vtables: VTablePluginInfo[];
-	functions: FunctionPluginInfo[];
-	collations?: CollationPluginInfo[];
-	/**
-	 * Hydrate Quereus's in-memory catalog from persisted optimystic vtab schemas.
-	 * Must run BEFORE `apply schema App;` on a warm restart so the declarative
-	 * diff sees the existing tables and skips re-emitting CREATE TABLE / CREATE
-	 * INDEX for each persisted object. Idempotent; `{ tables: 0, indexes: 0 }`
-	 * on cold start.
-	 */
-	hydrate: (db: Database) => Promise<{ tables: number; indexes: number }>;
-	[key: string]: unknown;
-}
-
-/** Registration shape shared by the crypto and optimystic plugin results. */
-interface PluginRegistrations {
-	vtables?: VTablePluginInfo[];
-	functions?: FunctionPluginInfo[];
-	collations?: CollationPluginInfo[];
-}
-
-/**
- * Inline equivalent of `@quereus/quereus`'s `registerPlugin` for plugins that
- * only return functions/vtables/collations. Used directly for the optimystic
- * result (so the composition can read `collectionFactory` off the same object),
- * and by the browser crypto strategy to keep the browser bundle from pulling a
- * duplicate `@quereus/quereus` next to the host's instance.
- */
-export function applyRegistrations(db: Database, result: PluginRegistrations): void {
-	for (const vtable of result.vtables ?? []) {
-		db.registerModule(vtable.name, vtable.module, vtable.auxData);
-	}
-	for (const func of result.functions ?? []) {
-		db.registerFunction(func.schema);
-	}
-	for (const collation of result.collations ?? []) {
-		db.registerCollation(collation.name, collation.func, collation.normalizer);
-	}
-}
-
-/** Context passed to the platform's node-creation strategy. */
-export interface CreateNodeContext {
-	networkName: string;
-	bootstrapNodes: string[];
-	fretProfile: 'edge' | 'core';
-	/** libp2p listening port (Node TCP). Browser transports ignore it. */
-	port: number;
-	/**
-	 * Resolved replication cluster size. Already defaulted — pass it to
-	 * `createLibp2pNode` verbatim; omitting it falls back to Optimystic's own
-	 * default of 10, which gates writes on any smaller party.
-	 */
-	clusterSize: number;
-	/**
-	 * The strand cluster policy, resolved here so no platform has to remember it.
-	 * Pass it to `createLibp2pNode` verbatim.
-	 *
-	 * Omitting it does NOT fall back to something equivalent: Optimystic then computes
-	 * its read-repair corroboration floor against `clusterSize` instead of against
-	 * {@link STRAND_CLUSTER_POLICY}'s `assumedClusterSize`, which is a stricter demand
-	 * than a two-machine strand can meet — so repair of a damaged block gives up where
-	 * it would otherwise succeed. That is the same defect class that took the *control*
-	 * network's e2e suite down before `42cd12c`; see `cluster-size.ts` for the reasoning
-	 * written out in full.
-	 */
-	clusterPolicy: NonNullable<NodeOptions['clusterPolicy']>;
-	/** Resolved persistent storage to back the node, if any. */
-	storage?: IRawStorage;
-}
-
-/** Context passed to the platform's storage-resolution strategy. */
-export interface ResolveStorageContext {
-	strandId: string;
-	resolvedTransactor: StrandTransactor;
-	/** The storage the caller passed in `options.storage`, if any. */
-	requestedStorage?: IRawStorage;
-}
-
-/**
- * Platform-specific seams the shared composition delegates to. Everything else
- * (transactor resolution, plugin config, registration, default vtab, hydrate,
- * schema apply, cleanup/shutdown) is identical across Node and browser and lives
- * in {@link composeStrand}.
- */
-export interface StrandPlatform {
-	/**
-	 * Register the crypto plugin against `db`. Node uses `@quereus/quereus`'s
-	 * `registerPlugin`; the browser inlines `applyRegistrations` to avoid bundling
-	 * a second `@quereus/quereus`.
-	 */
-	registerCrypto(db: Database): void | Promise<void>;
-	/**
-	 * Resolve the persistent storage to use. Optional — when omitted the caller's
-	 * `options.storage` is used verbatim (Node). The browser supplies this to
-	 * default to IndexedDB so a reload survives.
-	 */
-	resolveStorage?(ctx: ResolveStorageContext): Promise<IRawStorage | undefined> | IRawStorage | undefined;
-	/**
-	 * Create a libp2p node. Called only when no node is injected and the
-	 * transactor needs one. Node creates a TCP node via `@optimystic/db-p2p`;
-	 * the browser creates a WebSockets + circuit-relay node via the `/rn` entry.
-	 * Returns the created node (its `coordinatedRepo` is read by the composition).
-	 */
-	createNode(ctx: CreateNodeContext): Promise<Libp2p>;
-}
-
-/**
- * Connect a Quereus `Database` to a Sereus strand. This is the single shared
- * SQL-surface composition: `connectToStrand` (Node), `connectToStrandBrowser`
- * (browser), and `cadre-core`'s `StrandDatabase` all flow through here, so the
- * hydrate-before-apply fix and any future schema wiring land in one place.
- *
- * Steps: resolve transactor + storage, register crypto + optimystic plugins,
- * acquire (inject or create) the libp2p node, set optimystic as the default
- * vtab, hydrate the catalog, then apply the sApp schema.
- */
-export async function composeStrand(
-	db: Database,
-	options: StrandConnectionOptions,
-	platform: StrandPlatform,
-): Promise<SereusPluginResult> {
-	const {
-		strandId,
-		bootstrapNodes = [],
-		schema,
-		port = 0,
-		enableCache = true,
-		fretProfile = 'edge',
-		transactor = 'network',
-	} = options;
-
-	// Resolve (and validate) up front so a nonsense value fails before any plugin
-	// registration or node creation has happened.
-	const clusterSize = resolveStrandClusterSize(options.clusterSize);
-
-	// The storage engine every write and read below goes through — see
-	// `StrandConnectionOptions.transactor`. Named separately from the option so
-	// the default is applied exactly once and reported on the result.
-	const resolvedTransactor: StrandTransactor = transactor;
-
-	const networkName = `strand-${strandId}`;
-	log('Connecting to strand %s (network: %s, transactor=%s)',
-		strandId, networkName, resolvedTransactor);
-
-	// Resolve storage. Node passes `options.storage` through; the browser
-	// defaults to IndexedDB. The resolved instance feeds BOTH the local
-	// transactor's `rawStorageFactory` and node creation, so it must be decided
-	// up front (before pluginConfig is built). Wrapped in the write-through
-	// raw-storage cache (cached-storage.ts) — idempotent, so a caller that
-	// already wrapped (cadre-core's seams) passes through unchanged, with this
-	// composition counted as one more holder of that same cache.
-	const resolvedStorage = platform.resolveStorage
-		? await platform.resolveStorage({ strandId, resolvedTransactor, requestedStorage: options.storage })
-		: options.storage;
-	const storage = resolvedStorage ? wrapStorageWithCache(resolvedStorage, strandId) : resolvedStorage;
-
-	/**
-	 * Release THIS composition's claim on the storage cache — the matching half of the
-	 * wrap above, which took one. `wrapStorageWithCache` counts holders, so this is
-	 * unconditionally correct whoever created the wrapper: the cache stays live while
-	 * cadre-core (or any other seam over the same store) still holds a claim, and is
-	 * emptied and unregistered from the shared cache pool when the last one goes. Holding
-	 * a claim past the strand's life is not free — the registration claims the backing
-	 * store in the pool, and a claim outliving its strand makes the next connect over that
-	 * same directory throw.
-	 *
-	 * Latched, so a caller that calls `shutdown()` twice releases one claim, not two — a
-	 * second release would consume another scope's claim.
-	 */
-	let storageCacheReleased = false;
-	const releaseStorageCache = async (): Promise<void> => {
-		if (storageCacheReleased || !storage) {
-			return;
-		}
-		storageCacheReleased = true;
-		await disposeStorageCache(storage);
-	};
-
-	// 1-2. Register the crypto and optimystic plugins. Guarded on its own, because the
-	// wrap above has ALREADY taken a holder claim: a registration that throws must release
-	// it, or the claim — and the backing store's registration in the shared cache pool —
-	// outlives the failed connect for the process lifetime, and no other scope can retire
-	// the cache. Separate from the larger try below, which has a collection factory and
-	// possibly a node to tear down as well; neither exists yet here.
-	let pluginResult: OptimysticPluginResult;
-	try {
-		pluginResult = await registerStrandPlugins(db, platform, {
-			resolvedTransactor,
-			networkName,
-			enableCache,
-			storage,
-		});
-	} catch (err) {
-		await releaseStorageCache();
-		throw err;
-	}
-
-	const { collectionFactory } = pluginResult;
-
-	let createdNode: Libp2p | null = null;
-	let hydrated: { tables: number; indexes: number } | undefined;
-
-	try {
-		// 3. Acquire the libp2p node. Skip only when this is the unit-test fake
-		// transactor with no injected node — every real path needs a node.
-		if (resolvedTransactor !== 'test' || options.libp2pNode) {
-			let node: Libp2p;
-			let coordinatedRepo: IRepo;
-
-			if (options.libp2pNode) {
-				node = options.libp2pNode;
-				if (!options.coordinatedRepo) {
-					throw new Error('coordinatedRepo is required when libp2pNode is provided');
-				}
-				coordinatedRepo = options.coordinatedRepo;
-				log('Using injected libp2p node');
-			} else {
-				// NOTE: this path takes the frozen policy whole, so it takes COHORT_READ_DEADLINE_MS
-				// with no way to override it — `StrandConnectionOptions` has no counterpart to
-				// cadre-core's `NetworkConfig.cohortQueryTimeoutMs` or `linkRoundTripMs`. Fine
-				// today: every production strand comes up through cadre-core, which does thread
-				// both, and this path is the plugin's own connect/e2e route, where the constant —
-				// two link round trips at cadre's default declared link — is the right answer
-				// anyway. If a plugin embedder ever needs a different deadline,
-				// `strandClusterPolicy(clusterSize, { cohortQueryTimeoutMs: <ms> })` is the call to
-				// reach for here.
-				const created = await platform.createNode({ networkName, bootstrapNodes, fretProfile, port, clusterSize, clusterPolicy: STRAND_CLUSTER_POLICY, storage });
-				createdNode = created;
-				node = created;
-				const repo = (created as Libp2pNodeWithRepo).coordinatedRepo;
-				if (!repo) {
-					throw new Error('coordinatedRepo not available on created libp2p node');
-				}
-				coordinatedRepo = repo;
-				log('Created libp2p node (port: %d, fretProfile: %s, storage=%s)', port, fretProfile, !!storage);
-			}
-
-			collectionFactory.registerLibp2pNode(networkName, node, coordinatedRepo);
-			log('Registered libp2p node with collection factory');
-		}
-
-		// 4. Set optimystic as default vtab so `declare schema` tables use it.
-		db.setDefaultVtabName('optimystic');
-		db.setDefaultVtabArgs({
-			networkName,
-			transactor: resolvedTransactor,
-			keyNetwork: 'libp2p',
-		});
-		log('Set default vtab to optimystic (networkName=%s, transactor=%s)', networkName, resolvedTransactor);
-
-		// 5. Hydrate Quereus's catalog from persisted optimystic vtab schemas
-		// BEFORE applying the sApp schema. Without this, a warm restart diffs the
-		// wrapped DDL against an empty catalog and re-emits CREATE TABLE / CREATE
-		// INDEX for every persisted object — each round-tripping through optimystic
-		// storage (the measured ~160s warm-start regression). No-op on first launch.
-		const t0 = performance.now();
-		hydrated = await pluginResult.hydrate(db);
-		timing('[strand:%s] hydrate: %dms (tables=%d, indexes=%d)',
-			strandId, Math.round(performance.now() - t0), hydrated.tables, hydrated.indexes);
-		log('Hydrated catalog for strand %s (tables=%d, indexes=%d)', strandId, hydrated.tables, hydrated.indexes);
-
-		// 6. Apply the strand membership/RBAC schema (`schemas/strand.qsql`,
-		// embedded as STRAND_SCHEMA) UNCONDITIONALLY — every strand has membership
-		// semantics whether or not an sApp schema is supplied. There are no
-		// cross-schema references between `Strand` and `App`, so order is
-		// irrelevant; apply `Strand` first for clarity. Because this runs AFTER
-		// hydrate, a warm restart diffs the membership DDL against the already-
-		// hydrated catalog and re-emits nothing (same fix as the sApp apply).
-		//
-		// This ticket only makes the tables present and their constraints active;
-		// nothing here writes membership rows. Founder bootstrap (Header, founding
-		// Manager/Member, invite/peer flows) is owned by the lifecycle ticket
-		// `strand-membership-lifecycle-population`.
-		log('Applying Strand membership schema for strand %s', strandId);
-		await db.exec(`
-			declare schema Strand {
-				${STRAND_SCHEMA}
-			}
-			apply schema Strand;
-		`);
-		log('Strand membership schema applied');
-
-		// 7. Apply the sApp schema, if provided.
-		//
-		// SEAM: this and the Strand apply above are the single composition point
-		// where strand-level declarative DDL is applied. Keep new schema wiring
-		// here so it stays a one-location edit across Node, browser, and cadre-core.
-		//
-		// NOTE: neither apply is retried — a failure tears the strand down and throws,
-		// and a later connect builds a fresh `Database` and re-hydrates from storage. A
-		// failed apply is normally taken back whole (Quereus unwinds its migration steps
-		// and verifies the catalog against a pre-apply fingerprint), so the next connect
-		// diffs against the state the apply started from. The sApp schema is the one
-		// supplied by the EMBEDDER, and the steps that DISCARD data — dropping a table,
-		// dropping a column, narrowing a column's type — are irreversible to Quereus's
-		// differ: once one has run, any later step that fails leaves the schema partially
-		// migrated instead of restored. No schema in this repo evolves that way, so this
-		// is a note for whoever first ships a migration that does.
-		if (schema) {
-			log('Applying sApp schema for strand %s', strandId);
-			await applyAppSchema(db, schema);
-			log('sApp schema applied');
-		}
-	} catch (err) {
-		// Clean up resources if setup fails after partial initialization.
-		await collectionFactory.shutdown();
-		if (createdNode) {
-			await createdNode.stop();
-		}
-		await releaseStorageCache();
-		throw err;
-	}
-
-	// 8. Return result with hydrate counts + shutdown handler. `shutdown` tears
-	// down the collection factory, and `collectionFactory.shutdown()` stops EVERY
-	// node registered with it — including an injected one (registered via
-	// `registerLibp2pNode`). So an injected node IS stopped on `shutdown`; the
-	// `createdNode` guard below only avoids a redundant second `stop()` on a node
-	// we created ourselves, it is not what spares an injected node. A caller that
-	// needs an injected node to outlive `shutdown` must re-create it (cadre-core's
-	// `StrandInstanceManager` instead re-stops it, which is idempotent).
-	return {
-		vtables: [],
-		functions: [],
-		collations: [],
-		hydrated,
-		transactor: resolvedTransactor,
-		async shutdown() {
-			log('Shutting down strand connection %s', strandId);
-			await collectionFactory.shutdown();
-			if (createdNode) {
-				await createdNode.stop();
-			}
-			await releaseStorageCache();
-			log('Strand connection %s shut down', strandId);
-		},
-	};
-}
-
-/**
- * Step 7 of {@link composeStrand}: declare the sApp's schema as `App` and apply it — a
- * declarative diff against the catalog, so re-applying a schema that is already in place
- * emits nothing. The one site that applies an `App` schema: `composeStrand` calls it at
- * bring-up, and cadre-core's `StrandDatabase.attachAppSchema` calls it on a live storage
- * replica when an app claims the strand. The database must already be composed (optimystic
- * set as the default vtab), or the tables land in memory instead of the strand.
- *
- * Refuses a schema holding an item the Quereus parser skipped: it keeps any item whose leading
- * keyword it does not model (`create unique index …`, a misspelled `tabel`, `domain`) as an
- * opaque placeholder that apply ignores, so the app would otherwise run without that item.
- *
- * Refuses a schema holding a `seed` item: the apply runs on every node of the strand at every
- * connect, so seed inserts would put a network write on each bring-up and two nodes inserting
- * the same key at once would collide. Rows an app needs at birth are the founding app's to write.
- */
-export async function applyAppSchema(db: Database, schema: string): Promise<void> {
-	await db.exec(`
-		declare schema App {
-			${schema}
-		}
-	`);
-	assertNoIgnoredItems(db);
-	assertNoSeedItems(db);
-	await db.exec('apply schema App;');
-}
-
-function declaredAppItems(db: Database) {
-	return db.declaredSchemaManager.getDeclaredSchema('App')?.items ?? [];
-}
-
-function assertNoIgnoredItems(db: Database): void {
-	const ignored = declaredAppItems(db).filter(item => item.type === 'declareIgnored').length;
-	if (ignored > 0) {
-		// Only a count: Quereus leaves an ignored item's source text empty.
-		throw new Error(`sApp schema has ${ignored} item(s) the parser does not recognize (a \`create …\` prefix or a misspelled item keyword such as \`tabel\`); items are \`table\`, \`index\`, \`unique index\`, \`view\`, \`materialized view\` and \`assertion\``);
-	}
-}
-
-function assertNoSeedItems(db: Database): void {
-	// Quereus refuses a second seed for one table at declare, so these names are distinct.
-	const tables = declaredAppItems(db).flatMap(item => item.type === 'declaredSeed' ? [item.tableName] : []);
-	if (tables.length > 0) {
-		throw new Error(`sApp schema has seed item(s) for table(s) ${tables.join(', ')}; Sereus does not apply seed rows to a strand — insert the rows an app needs at birth from the app when it founds the strand`);
-	}
-}
-
-/**
- * Steps 1-2 of {@link composeStrand}: register the crypto plugin, then the optimystic
- * plugin carrying this strand's transactor defaults. Split out so the composition can
- * guard the pair against the storage-cache claim it has already taken.
- */
-async function registerStrandPlugins(
-	db: Database,
-	platform: StrandPlatform,
-	strand: {
-		resolvedTransactor: StrandTransactor;
-		networkName: string;
-		enableCache: boolean;
-		storage: IRawStorage | undefined;
-	},
-): Promise<OptimysticPluginResult> {
-	await platform.registerCrypto(db);
-	log('Registered crypto plugin');
-
-	// On the local transactor with persistent storage, hand the same instance to the
-	// plugin so DML persists on the host backend (not in-memory).
-	const pluginConfig: Record<string, unknown> = {
-		default_transactor: strand.resolvedTransactor,
-		default_key_network: 'libp2p',
-		default_network_name: strand.networkName,
-		enable_cache: strand.enableCache,
-	};
-	if (strand.resolvedTransactor === 'local' && strand.storage) {
-		const storage = strand.storage;
-		pluginConfig.rawStorageFactory = () => storage;
-	}
-	// The plugin's published signature is `Record<string, SqlValue>` but it also reads
-	// `rawStorageFactory` (a function reference) from the same map. Cast through unknown
-	// rather than widen the public type.
-	const pluginResult = optimysticPlugin(
-		db,
-		pluginConfig as unknown as Parameters<typeof optimysticPlugin>[1],
-	) as unknown as OptimysticPluginResult;
-	applyRegistrations(db, pluginResult);
-	log('Registered optimystic vtables and functions');
-	return pluginResult;
-}
+import debug from 'debug';
+import type { Database, VTablePluginInfo, FunctionPluginInfo, CollationPluginInfo } from '@quereus/quereus';
+import optimysticPlugin from '@optimystic/quereus-plugin-optimystic/plugin';
+import type { SqlCommitDurabilityListener, CommitFullyHeldListener } from '@optimystic/quereus-plugin-optimystic/plugin';
+import type { Libp2p } from '@libp2p/interface';
+import type { IRepo } from '@optimystic/db-core';
+import type { IRawStorage, NodeOptions } from '@optimystic/db-p2p';
+import type { StrandConnectionOptions, SereusPluginResult, StrandTransactor, Libp2pNodeWithRepo } from './types.js';
+import { STRAND_SCHEMA } from './strand-schema.js';
+import { resolveStrandClusterSize, STRAND_CLUSTER_POLICY } from './cluster-size.js';
+import { wrapStorageWithCache, disposeStorageCache } from './cached-storage.js';
+
+const log = debug('sereus:plugin:strand');
+const timing = debug('sereus:plugin:strand:timing');
+
+/**
+ * Minimal interface for the CollectionFactory returned by the optimystic plugin.
+ * We only need the methods this composition actually uses.
+ */
+interface CollectionFactory {
+	registerLibp2pNode(networkName: string, node: Libp2p, coordinatedRepo: IRepo): void;
+	/** Releases the read caches and network watches; leaves every registered node running. */
+	dispose(): Promise<void>;
+	/** {@link dispose}, after stopping every registered node. */
+	shutdown(): Promise<void>;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Release a composition's hold on the optimystic plugin. The transaction bridge goes first: its
+ * durability follower subscribes to the node's `StorageRepo`, and cadre-core keeps a strand's node
+ * across a database rebuild, so a bridge never disposed stays subscribed once per rebuild. Then the
+ * collection factory: a node the composition created is stopped with it; an injected node is left
+ * running, because it belongs to the caller — cadre-core keeps a strand's node up across a failed
+ * database build and retries the build on it.
+ *
+ * Disposes the bridge itself rather than calling the plugin's `dispose()`, which would release the
+ * factory a second time on the created-node path (`shutdown()` ends with the same `dispose()`).
+ */
+async function releaseOptimysticPlugin(plugin: OptimysticPluginResult, createdNode: Libp2p | null): Promise<void> {
+	// NOTE: the bridge's follower re-subscribes at the start of any transaction, so a write begun on
+	// this `Database` after release (before its owner closes it) subscribes again and nothing
+	// releases it. cadre-core stops its own writers before releasing; if an app write in flight at
+	// close ever shows up as a leaked subscription, close the `Database` before releasing.
+	plugin.txnBridge.dispose();
+	const { collectionFactory } = plugin;
+	if (!createdNode) {
+		await collectionFactory.dispose();
+		return;
+	}
+	await collectionFactory.shutdown();
+	// Stopped again for a node created but not yet registered (a missing `coordinatedRepo`);
+	// a second stop of a registered one is a no-op.
+	await createdNode.stop();
+}
+
+/**
+ * Result of registering the optimystic plugin. The published plugin signature
+ * does not surface `collectionFactory` / `hydrate`, so this is the local shim
+ * over what `@optimystic/quereus-plugin-optimystic/plugin` actually returns
+ * (see its `plugin.ts` — `hydrate` delegates to `optimysticModule.hydrateCatalog`).
+ */
+interface OptimysticPluginResult {
+	collectionFactory: CollectionFactory;
+	vtables: VTablePluginInfo[];
+	functions: FunctionPluginInfo[];
+	collations?: CollationPluginInfo[];
+	/**
+	 * Hydrate Quereus's in-memory catalog from persisted optimystic vtab schemas.
+	 * Must run BEFORE `apply schema App;` on a warm restart so the declarative
+	 * diff sees the existing tables and skips re-emitting CREATE TABLE / CREATE
+	 * INDEX for each persisted object. Idempotent; `{ tables: 0, indexes: 0 }`
+	 * on cold start.
+	 */
+	hydrate: (db: Database) => Promise<{ tables: number; indexes: number }>;
+	onCommitDurability: (listener: SqlCommitDurabilityListener) => () => void;
+	onCommitFullyHeld: (listener: CommitFullyHeldListener) => () => void;
+	/** Holds the durability follower's subscription to the node's `StorageRepo`; see {@link releaseOptimysticPlugin}. */
+	txnBridge: { dispose(): void };
+	[key: string]: unknown;
+}
+
+/** Registration shape shared by the crypto and optimystic plugin results. */
+interface PluginRegistrations {
+	vtables?: VTablePluginInfo[];
+	functions?: FunctionPluginInfo[];
+	collations?: CollationPluginInfo[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Inline equivalent of `@quereus/quereus`'s `registerPlugin` for plugins that
+ * only return functions/vtables/collations. Used directly for the optimystic
+ * result (so the composition can read `collectionFactory` off the same object),
+ * and by the browser crypto strategy to keep the browser bundle from pulling a
+ * duplicate `@quereus/quereus` next to the host's instance.
+ */
+export function applyRegistrations(db: Database, result: PluginRegistrations): void {
+	for (const vtable of result.vtables ?? []) {
+		db.registerModule(vtable.name, vtable.module, vtable.auxData);
+	}
+	for (const func of result.functions ?? []) {
+		db.registerFunction(func.schema);
+	}
+	for (const collation of result.collations ?? []) {
+		db.registerCollation(collation.name, collation.func, collation.normalizer);
+	}
+}
+
+/** Context passed to the platform's node-creation strategy. */
+export interface CreateNodeContext {
+	networkName: string;
+	bootstrapNodes: string[];
+	fretProfile: 'edge' | 'core';
+	/** libp2p listening port (Node TCP). Browser transports ignore it. */
+	port: number;
+	/**
+	 * Resolved replication cluster size. Already defaulted — pass it to
+	 * `createLibp2pNode` verbatim; omitting it falls back to Optimystic's own
+	 * default of 10, which gates writes on any smaller party.
+	 */
+	clusterSize: number;
+	/**
+	 * The strand cluster policy, resolved here so no platform has to remember it.
+	 * Pass it to `createLibp2pNode` verbatim.
+	 *
+	 * Omitting it does NOT fall back to something equivalent: Optimystic then computes
+	 * its read-repair corroboration floor against `clusterSize` instead of against
+	 * {@link STRAND_CLUSTER_POLICY}'s `assumedClusterSize`, which is a stricter demand
+	 * than a two-machine strand can meet — so repair of a damaged block gives up where
+	 * it would otherwise succeed. That is the same defect class that took the *control*
+	 * network's e2e suite down before `42cd12c`; see `cluster-size.ts` for the reasoning
+	 * written out in full.
+	 */
+	clusterPolicy: NonNullable<NodeOptions['clusterPolicy']>;
+	/** Resolved persistent storage to back the node, if any. */
+	storage?: IRawStorage;
+}
+
+/** Context passed to the platform's storage-resolution strategy. */
+export interface ResolveStorageContext {
+	strandId: string;
+	resolvedTransactor: StrandTransactor;
+	/** The storage the caller passed in `options.storage`, if any. */
+	requestedStorage?: IRawStorage;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Platform-specific seams the shared composition delegates to. Everything else
+ * (transactor resolution, plugin config, registration, default vtab, hydrate,
+ * schema apply, cleanup/shutdown) is identical across Node and browser and lives
+ * in {@link composeStrand}.
+ */
+export interface StrandPlatform {
+	/**
+	 * Register the crypto plugin against `db`. Node uses `@quereus/quereus`'s
+	 * `registerPlugin`; the browser inlines `applyRegistrations` to avoid bundling
+	 * a second `@quereus/quereus`.
+	 */
+	registerCrypto(db: Database): void | Promise<void>;
+	/**
+	 * Resolve the persistent storage to use. Optional — when omitted the caller's
+	 * `options.storage` is used verbatim (Node). The browser supplies this to
+	 * default to IndexedDB so a reload survives.
+	 */
+	resolveStorage?(ctx: ResolveStorageContext): Promise<IRawStorage | undefined> | IRawStorage | undefined;
+	/**
+	 * Create a libp2p node. Called only when no node is injected and the
+	 * transactor needs one. Node creates a TCP node via `@optimystic/db-p2p`;
+	 * the browser creates a WebSockets + circuit-relay node via the `/rn` entry.
+	 * Returns the created node (its `coordinatedRepo` is read by the composition).
+	 */
+	createNode(ctx: CreateNodeContext): Promise<Libp2p>;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Connect a Quereus `Database` to a Sereus strand. This is the single shared
+ * SQL-surface composition: `connectToStrand` (Node), `connectToStrandBrowser`
+ * (browser), and `cadre-core`'s `StrandDatabase` all flow through here, so the
+ * hydrate-before-apply fix and any future schema wiring land in one place.
+ *
+ * Steps: resolve transactor + storage, register crypto + optimystic plugins,
+ * acquire (inject or create) the libp2p node, set optimystic as the default
+ * vtab, hydrate the catalog, then apply the sApp schema.
+ */
+export async function composeStrand(
+	db: Database,
+	options: StrandConnectionOptions,
+	platform: StrandPlatform,
+): Promise<SereusPluginResult> {
+	const {
+		strandId,
+		bootstrapNodes = [],
+		schema,
+		port = 0,
+		enableCache = true,
+		fretProfile = 'edge',
+		transactor = 'network',
+	} = options;
+
+	// Resolve (and validate) up front so a nonsense value fails before any plugin
+	// registration or node creation has happened.
+	const clusterSize = resolveStrandClusterSize(options.clusterSize);
+
+	// The storage engine every write and read below goes through — see
+	// `StrandConnectionOptions.transactor`. Named separately from the option so
+	// the default is applied exactly once and reported on the result.
+	const resolvedTransactor: StrandTransactor = transactor;
+
+	const networkName = `strand-${strandId}`;
+	log('Connecting to strand %s (network: %s, transactor=%s)',
+		strandId, networkName, resolvedTransactor);
+
+	// Resolve storage. Node passes `options.storage` through; the browser
+	// defaults to IndexedDB. The resolved instance feeds BOTH the local
+	// transactor's `rawStorageFactory` and node creation, so it must be decided
+	// up front (before pluginConfig is built). Wrapped in the write-through
+	// raw-storage cache (cached-storage.ts) — idempotent, so a caller that
+	// already wrapped (cadre-core's seams) passes through unchanged, with this
+	// composition counted as one more holder of that same cache.
+	const resolvedStorage = platform.resolveStorage
+		? await platform.resolveStorage({ strandId, resolvedTransactor, requestedStorage: options.storage })
+		: options.storage;
+	const storage = resolvedStorage ? wrapStorageWithCache(resolvedStorage, strandId) : resolvedStorage;
+
+	/**
+	 * Release THIS composition's claim on the storage cache — the matching half of the
+	 * wrap above, which took one. `wrapStorageWithCache` counts holders, so this is
+	 * unconditionally correct whoever created the wrapper: the cache stays live while
+	 * cadre-core (or any other seam over the same store) still holds a claim, and is
+	 * emptied and unregistered from the shared cache pool when the last one goes. Holding
+	 * a claim past the strand's life is not free — the registration claims the backing
+	 * store in the pool, and a claim outliving its strand makes the next connect over that
+	 * same directory throw.
+	 *
+	 * Latched, so a caller that calls `shutdown()` twice releases one claim, not two — a
+	 * second release would consume another scope's claim.
+	 */
+	let storageCacheReleased = false;
+	const releaseStorageCache = async (): Promise<void> => {
+		if (storageCacheReleased || !storage) {
+			return;
+		}
+		storageCacheReleased = true;
+		await disposeStorageCache(storage);
+	};
+
+	// 1-2. Register the crypto and optimystic plugins. Guarded on its own, because the
+	// wrap above has ALREADY taken a holder claim: a registration that throws must release
+	// it, or the claim — and the backing store's registration in the shared cache pool —
+	// outlives the failed connect for the process lifetime, and no other scope can retire
+	// the cache. Separate from the larger try below, which has a collection factory and
+	// possibly a node to tear down as well; neither exists yet here.
+	let pluginResult: OptimysticPluginResult;
+	try {
+		pluginResult = await registerStrandPlugins(db, platform, {
+			resolvedTransactor,
+			networkName,
+			enableCache,
+			storage,
+		});
+	} catch (err) {
+		await releaseStorageCache();
+		throw err;
+	}
+
+	const { collectionFactory } = pluginResult;
+
+	let createdNode: Libp2p | null = null;
+	let hydrated: { tables: number; indexes: number } | undefined;
+
+	try {
+		// 3. Acquire the libp2p node. Skip only when this is the unit-test fake
+		// transactor with no injected node — every real path needs a node.
+		if (resolvedTransactor !== 'test' || options.libp2pNode) {
+			let node: Libp2p;
+			let coordinatedRepo: IRepo;
+
+			if (options.libp2pNode) {
+				node = options.libp2pNode;
+				if (!options.coordinatedRepo) {
+					throw new Error('coordinatedRepo is required when libp2pNode is provided');
+				}
+				coordinatedRepo = options.coordinatedRepo;
+				log('Using injected libp2p node');
+			} else {
+				// NOTE: this path takes the frozen policy whole, so it takes COHORT_READ_DEADLINE_MS
+				// with no way to override it — `StrandConnectionOptions` has no counterpart to
+				// cadre-core's `NetworkConfig.cohortQueryTimeoutMs` or `linkRoundTripMs`. Fine
+				// today: every production strand comes up through cadre-core, which does thread
+				// both, and this path is the plugin's own connect/e2e route, where the constant —
+				// two link round trips at cadre's default declared link — is the right answer
+				// anyway. If a plugin embedder ever needs a different deadline,
+				// `strandClusterPolicy(clusterSize, { cohortQueryTimeoutMs: <ms> })` is the call to
+				// reach for here.
+				const created = await platform.createNode({ networkName, bootstrapNodes, fretProfile, port, clusterSize, clusterPolicy: STRAND_CLUSTER_POLICY, storage });
+				createdNode = created;
+				node = created;
+				const repo = (created as Libp2pNodeWithRepo).coordinatedRepo;
+				if (!repo) {
+					throw new Error('coordinatedRepo not available on created libp2p node');
+				}
+				coordinatedRepo = repo;
+				log('Created libp2p node (port: %d, fretProfile: %s, storage=%s)', port, fretProfile, !!storage);
+			}
+
+			collectionFactory.registerLibp2pNode(networkName, node, coordinatedRepo);
+			log('Registered libp2p node with collection factory');
+		}
+
+		// 4. Set optimystic as default vtab so `declare schema` tables use it.
+		db.setDefaultVtabName('optimystic');
+		db.setDefaultVtabArgs({
+			networkName,
+			transactor: resolvedTransactor,
+			keyNetwork: 'libp2p',
+		});
+		log('Set default vtab to optimystic (networkName=%s, transactor=%s)', networkName, resolvedTransactor);
+
+		// 5. Hydrate Quereus's catalog from persisted optimystic vtab schemas
+		// BEFORE applying the sApp schema. Without this, a warm restart diffs the
+		// wrapped DDL against an empty catalog and re-emits CREATE TABLE / CREATE
+		// INDEX for every persisted object — each round-tripping through optimystic
+		// storage (the measured ~160s warm-start regression). No-op on first launch.
+		const t0 = performance.now();
+		hydrated = await pluginResult.hydrate(db);
+		timing('[strand:%s] hydrate: %dms (tables=%d, indexes=%d)',
+			strandId, Math.round(performance.now() - t0), hydrated.tables, hydrated.indexes);
+		log('Hydrated catalog for strand %s (tables=%d, indexes=%d)', strandId, hydrated.tables, hydrated.indexes);
+
+		// 6. Apply the strand membership/RBAC schema (`schemas/strand.qsql`,
+		// embedded as STRAND_SCHEMA) UNCONDITIONALLY — every strand has membership
+		// semantics whether or not an sApp schema is supplied. There are no
+		// cross-schema references between `Strand` and `App`, so order is
+		// irrelevant; apply `Strand` first for clarity. Because this runs AFTER
+		// hydrate, a warm restart diffs the membership DDL against the already-
+		// hydrated catalog and re-emits nothing (same fix as the sApp apply).
+		//
+		// This ticket only makes the tables present and their constraints active;
+		// nothing here writes membership rows. Founder bootstrap (Header, founding
+		// Manager/Member, invite/peer flows) is owned by the lifecycle ticket
+		// `strand-membership-lifecycle-population`.
+		log('Applying Strand membership schema for strand %s', strandId);
+		await db.exec(`
+			declare schema Strand {
+				${STRAND_SCHEMA}
+			}
+			apply schema Strand;
+		`);
+		log('Strand membership schema applied');
+
+		// 7. Apply the sApp schema, if provided.
+		//
+		// SEAM: this and the Strand apply above are the single composition point
+		// where strand-level declarative DDL is applied. Keep new schema wiring
+		// here so it stays a one-location edit across Node, browser, and cadre-core.
+		//
+		// NOTE: neither apply is retried here — a failure releases this composition and throws,
+		// and a later connect builds a fresh `Database` and re-hydrates from storage. A
+		// failed apply is normally taken back whole (Quereus unwinds its migration steps
+		// and verifies the catalog against a pre-apply fingerprint), so the next connect
+		// diffs against the state the apply started from. The sApp schema is the one
+		// supplied by the EMBEDDER, and the steps that DISCARD data — dropping a table,
+		// dropping a column, narrowing a column's type — are irreversible to Quereus's
+		// differ: once one has run, any later step that fails leaves the schema partially
+		// migrated instead of restored. No schema in this repo evolves that way, so this
+		// is a note for whoever first ships a migration that does.
+		if (schema) {
+			log('Applying sApp schema for strand %s', strandId);
+			await applyAppSchema(db, schema);
+			log('sApp schema applied');
+		}
+	} catch (err) {
+		// Clean up resources if setup fails after partial initialization.
+		await releaseOptimysticPlugin(pluginResult, createdNode);
+		await releaseStorageCache();
+		throw err;
+	}
+
+	// 8. Return result with hydrate counts, the commit-durability listeners + shutdown handler.
+	// `shutdown` releases the plugin and stops the node only if this composition created it.
+	return {
+		vtables: [],
+		functions: [],
+		collations: [],
+		hydrated,
+		transactor: resolvedTransactor,
+		onCommitDurability: listener => pluginResult.onCommitDurability(listener),
+		onCommitFullyHeld: listener => pluginResult.onCommitFullyHeld(listener),
+		async shutdown() {
+			log('Shutting down strand connection %s', strandId);
+			await releaseOptimysticPlugin(pluginResult, createdNode);
+			await releaseStorageCache();
+			log('Strand connection %s shut down', strandId);
+		},
+	};
+}
+
+/**
+ * Step 7 of {@link composeStrand}: declare the sApp's schema as `App` and apply it — a
+ * declarative diff against the catalog, so re-applying a schema that is already in place
+ * emits nothing. The one site that applies an `App` schema: `composeStrand` calls it at
+ * bring-up, and cadre-core's `StrandDatabase.attachAppSchema` calls it on a live storage
+ * replica when an app claims the strand. The database must already be composed (optimystic
+ * set as the default vtab), or the tables land in memory instead of the strand.
+ *
+ * Refuses a schema holding an item the Quereus parser skipped: it keeps any item whose leading
+ * keyword it does not model (`create unique index …`, a misspelled `tabel`, `domain`) as an
+ * opaque placeholder that apply ignores, so the app would otherwise run without that item.
+ *
+ * Refuses a schema holding a `seed` item: the apply runs on every node of the strand at every
+ * connect, so seed inserts would put a network write on each bring-up and two nodes inserting
+ * the same key at once would collide. Rows an app needs at birth are the founding app's to write.
+ */
+export async function applyAppSchema(db: Database, schema: string): Promise<void> {
+	await db.exec(`
+		declare schema App {
+			${schema}
+		}
+	`);
+	assertNoIgnoredItems(db);
+	assertNoSeedItems(db);
+	await db.exec('apply schema App;');
+}
+
+function declaredAppItems(db: Database) {
+	return db.declaredSchemaManager.getDeclaredSchema('App')?.items ?? [];
+}
+
+function assertNoIgnoredItems(db: Database): void {
+	const ignored = declaredAppItems(db).filter(item => item.type === 'declareIgnored').length;
+	if (ignored > 0) {
+		// Only a count: Quereus leaves an ignored item's source text empty.
+		throw new Error(`sApp schema has ${ignored} item(s) the parser does not recognize (a \`create …\` prefix or a misspelled item keyword such as \`tabel\`); items are \`table\`, \`index\`, \`unique index\`, \`view\`, \`materialized view\` and \`assertion\``);
+	}
+}
+
+function assertNoSeedItems(db: Database): void {
+	// Quereus refuses a second seed for one table at declare, so these names are distinct.
+	const tables = declaredAppItems(db).flatMap(item => item.type === 'declaredSeed' ? [item.tableName] : []);
+	if (tables.length > 0) {
+		throw new Error(`sApp schema has seed item(s) for table(s) ${tables.join(', ')}; Sereus does not apply seed rows to a strand — insert the rows an app needs at birth from the app when it founds the strand`);
+	}
+}
+
+/**
+ * Steps 1-2 of {@link composeStrand}: register the crypto plugin, then the optimystic
+ * plugin carrying this strand's transactor defaults. Split out so the composition can
+ * guard the pair against the storage-cache claim it has already taken.
+ */
+async function registerStrandPlugins(
+	db: Database,
+	platform: StrandPlatform,
+	strand: {
+		resolvedTransactor: StrandTransactor;
+		networkName: string;
+		enableCache: boolean;
+		storage: IRawStorage | undefined;
+	},
+): Promise<OptimysticPluginResult> {
+	await platform.registerCrypto(db);
+	log('Registered crypto plugin');
+
+	// On the local transactor with persistent storage, hand the same instance to the
+	// plugin so DML persists on the host backend (not in-memory).
+	const pluginConfig: Record<string, unknown> = {
+		default_transactor: strand.resolvedTransactor,
+		default_key_network: 'libp2p',
+		default_network_name: strand.networkName,
+		enable_cache: strand.enableCache,
+	};
+	if (strand.resolvedTransactor === 'local' && strand.storage) {
+		const storage = strand.storage;
+		pluginConfig.rawStorageFactory = () => storage;
+	}
+	// The plugin's published signature is `Record<string, SqlValue>` but it also reads
+	// `rawStorageFactory` (a function reference) from the same map. Cast through unknown
+	// rather than widen the public type.
+	const pluginResult = optimysticPlugin(
+		db,
+		pluginConfig as unknown as Parameters<typeof optimysticPlugin>[1],
+	) as unknown as OptimysticPluginResult;
+	applyRegistrations(db, pluginResult);
+	log('Registered optimystic vtables and functions');
+	return pluginResult;
+}