@ultimat3/core 22.14.0 → 23.0.0

package/CLAUDE.md

@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ top-level `UltimateError` use in `error-codes.ts`.
 - **A string's length is CODE POINTS** — `validators.ts` rejects in that unit and
   `json-schema.ts` publishes `minLength` in it. `parseId`/`uuidTimestamp` describe a rejected id and
   never echo it: a value baked into a message has no log field key to redact.
+- **A test never patches `process.stdout` to read a log line**: `setLogSink(sink)` is the seam, and the
+  test preloads install one that drops every line (`LOG_LEVEL` named = not installed). It decides
+  WHERE a line goes, never whether — the level is untouched.
 - `logger.ts` must not import `context.ts` (`context.ts` injects ids via `setLoggerContextFields()`).
   It imports `secret.ts` one way only: `secret.ts` owns `REDACTED`, `logger.ts` re-exports it.
 - **`ActorFacts` is the app's extension point on `Actor`** (module augmentation). Core never declares
@@ -71,7 +74,7 @@ top-level `UltimateError` use in `error-codes.ts`.
 | which HTTP statuses are worth repeating | `retryable-status.ts` | `>= 500` plus 408, 409, 425, 429 |
 | how long this request has left | `request-budget.ts` (`Ctx.deadlineAt`, `REQUEST_TIMEOUT_HEADER`) | `@ultimat3/http`'s `startDeadline` is the one writer of the instant; `traceHeaders()` the one writer of the header. A spent budget sends nothing, never `0` |
 | the above, composed into one typed-client call | `client-flight.ts` + `client-wire.ts` | shared by `@ultimat3/action` and `@ultimat3/query` (both tier 3), re-exported by both. Declares no code of its own |
-| the browser's one HTTP function, records envelope, per-tab handle and principal fence | `client-transport.ts`, `client-dispatch.ts`, `client-problem.ts`, `client-paths.ts`, `record-envelope.ts`, `record-sink.ts`, `client-scope.ts` | `pageClient()` is the ONE `globalThis` write (`Symbol.for('ultimate.client')`); the scope's listeners live ON the handle. `clientTransport` never value-imports `createClientFlight` or `traceHeaders()`: trace/budget headers reach it through the page handle's OUTBOUND SLOT (`outbound-headers.ts`). `isSuperseded` answers both `X_SUPERSEDED` and `X_CLIENT_SCOPE_CHANGED`. The fence never `bump()`s a caller's flight. A write never dedupes; a read dedupes only with a caller's `flight`. `pageClient()` reads `<meta name="ultimate-scope">` (`CLIENT_SCOPE_META`) once: content = principal, empty = anonymous (`null`), absent = UNSCOPED (`undefined`, nothing persisted). Byte figures (`As of 2026-09-23`): `clientTransport` 14,405 B, `pageClient` 8,853 B through the barrel, 332 B from its own module; `rpc`'s live in `packages/action/CLAUDE.md`, `queryClient`'s in `packages/query/CLAUDE.md` |
+| the browser's one HTTP function, records envelope, per-tab handle and principal fence | `client-transport.ts`, `client-dispatch.ts`, `client-problem.ts`, `client-paths.ts`, `record-envelope.ts`, `record-sink.ts`, `client-scope.ts` | `pageClient()` is the ONE `globalThis` write (`Symbol.for('ultimate.client')`); the scope's listeners live ON the handle. `clientTransport` never value-imports `createClientFlight` or `traceHeaders()`: trace/budget headers reach it through the page handle's OUTBOUND SLOT (`outbound-headers.ts`). `isSuperseded` answers both `X_SUPERSEDED` and `X_CLIENT_SCOPE_CHANGED`. The fence never `bump()`s a caller's flight. A write never dedupes; a read dedupes only with a caller's `flight`. `pageClient()` reads `<meta name="ultimate-scope">` (`CLIENT_SCOPE_META`) once: content = principal, empty = anonymous (`null`), absent = UNSCOPED (`undefined`, nothing persisted). `actionPath(name)` with no `style` reads the document's `<meta name="ultimate-path-style">` (`renderedActionPathStyle()`; `CLIENT_PATH_STYLE_META` in `page-meta.ts`) and falls back to `'resource'`. Byte figures (`As of 2026-10-01`, `bun build --target=browser --minify`): `clientTransport` 14,251 B and `pageClient` 8,348 B through the barrel, 9,633 B and 1,156 B through `./page`; the whole `./page` entry 15,979 B against `page-bundle.test.ts`'s 16,384; `rpc`'s live in `packages/action/CLAUDE.md`, `queryClient`'s in `packages/query/CLAUDE.md` |
 | a write's public name | `write-digest.ts` (`writeDigest`, `isWriteDigest`, also on `./page`) + `write-origin.ts` (`withWriteOrigin`, `currentWriteOrigin`, `WRITE_ORIGIN_WAL_PREFIX`, server-only) | SHA-256 of an idempotency key, 32 hex; carried action → entity → WAL → realtime `records` frame. A malformed value runs the work unnamed: a label, never a gate |
 | which row survives a conflict | `conflict-policy.ts` (`ConflictPolicy`, `resolveConflict`, `Row`) | read by `action`'s mutator and `realtime`'s rebase |
 | the four shapes of an async region | `async-state.ts` (`AsyncState`) | `realtime` returns it, `ui` renders it. `bun run render-modes` refuses a second status union sharing three members |
@@ -80,6 +83,7 @@ top-level `UltimateError` use in `error-codes.ts`.
 | an `Intl` formatter cache, and the screen in front of it | `intl-cache.ts` (`cachedFormatter`, `canonicalLocale`, `assertLocale`, `MAX_CACHED_FORMATTERS`, `MAX_LOCALE_EXCERPT`) | a locale arrives from a header: refuse a non-tag (`X_LOCALE_INVALID`), key canonically AND bound the cache — never a copy of any of the three. The cause quotes at most `MAX_LOCALE_EXCERPT` (35) code points; the whole tag rides in `meta.locale` |
 | the text direction of a locale | `locale-direction.ts` (`directionOf`, `isRtl`, `Direction`) | re-exported by `@ultimat3/i18n`; lives here so `@ultimat3/ui` need not reach the i18n barrel |
 | the committed encrypted values | `secrets.ts` (envelope) + `secrets-store.ts` (files, `installSecrets`) | plaintext is a flat map of ENV NAMES; there is no `secrets.get()` |
+| ONE sealed value | `seal.ts` (`seal`, `open`, `openText`, `sealAll`) + `seal-keys.ts` (the ring) + `seal-errors.ts` | the framework's one AES call above the envelope: `entity`'s sealed column and `scraping`'s stored session call it, never WebCrypto. `purpose` is required and is AAD |
 
 - **`installSecrets()` is the ONLY path from `secrets.enc.json` to an app value**, landing in
   `process.env` before `defineEnv` reads it. The real environment always wins.
@@ -91,6 +95,14 @@ top-level `UltimateError` use in `error-codes.ts`.
   `X_SECRETS_KEY_MISMATCH`'s command carries no key id (it is read from a file). Its seven codes
   register through `registerErrorCodes()`, so `resetErrorCodes()` drops them — take
   `errorCodeSnapshot()` first. The envelope's `kid` lets *wrong key* and *edited file* be two codes.
+- **`seal.ts` adds no variable for the CURRENT key** — `findMasterKey()`, the same call
+  `installSecrets()` makes. Retired keys are `ULTIMATE_SECRETS_RETIRED_KEYS`, written into
+  `secrets.enc.json` by `x secrets rotate`; the ring memo is keyed by its source strings, never by
+  time. Constants, `parseMasterKey`, `masterKeyId`, `importKey` and the base64 codec are
+  `secrets.ts`'s — no second set. `seal-errors.ts` runs nothing at import: its titles are in
+  `CORE_CODE_TITLES` and its retry class in `CORE_ERROR_RETRY`, so it is no `sideEffects` anchor.
+  The wire form `x1.<keyId>.<iv>.<ciphertext+tag>` and the AAD string are persisted data: a change
+  is `x2`, never an edit.
 - **`schema-error-codes.ts` registers `@ultimat3/schema`'s codes** (schema cannot call core), and
   derives their retry classification from the same set. It is a `SIDE_EFFECTS_ANCHORS` entry.
 - `timing-safe-equal.ts` is the one constant-time comparison (`@ultimat3/auth`, `@ultimat3/storage`).
@@ -134,7 +146,10 @@ top-level `UltimateError` use in `error-codes.ts`.
 `metrics.ts` is to `telemetry.ts` what a counter is to a span: always on, no-op exporter by
 default. `runtime-metrics.ts` is the only place that names a series the chart reads
 (`http_requests_total`, `connections`, `queue_depth`), keyed by `ScalingSignal` in
-`SCALING_METRICS`. One call site per package; a second is the bug:
+`SCALING_METRICS`. `process-metrics.ts` names what the PROCESS costs (`process_*`: resident
+memory, heap, external, CPU seconds, event-loop lag, start time, `process_info{role}`); server-only
+— it reads `process`, so it is never exported from `page.ts`. One call site per package; a second
+is the bug:
 
 | Recorder | The one caller |
 |---|---|

package/README.md

@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ Zero dependencies, zero `@ultimat3/*` imports.
 | a value that cannot be printed by accident | `secret.ts` |
 | the committed encrypted secrets envelope, AES-256-GCM | `secrets.ts` |
 | the two secrets files, and decrypted values → `defineEnv` | `secrets-store.ts` |
+| one value sealed under the master key — `seal()` / `open()` | `seal.ts` |
+| the key ring those work under: the current key plus retired ones | `seal-keys.ts` |
 | `defineConfig()` for `app.config.ts` | `config.ts` |
 | how overlays layer onto it — per section, key by key | `config-merge.ts` |
 | the `pwa` block — what an install needs, and the boot refusal when it is not there | `config-pwa.ts` |
@@ -43,7 +45,7 @@ Zero dependencies, zero `@ultimat3/*` imports.
 | runtime roles + `ROLE` resolution | `roles.ts` |
 | `Clock` — the only source of "now" | `clock.ts` |
 | UUIDv7, nanoid, branded ids | `ids.ts` |
-| structured JSON logging + redaction | `logger.ts` |
+| structured JSON logging + redaction; `setLogSink(sink)` — the test seam that sends every default-writer line to a sink instead of the process's streams (a test preload drops them; a test asserting on the process logger collects them) | `logger.ts` |
 | OTel-shaped spans, always on, no-op by default | `telemetry.ts` |
 | the sampling decision, and `OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER*` | `sampler.ts` |
 | OTLP/HTTP JSON: endpoint, headers, value encoding | `otlp.ts` |
@@ -54,6 +56,7 @@ Zero dependencies, zero `@ultimat3/*` imports.
 | OTel-shaped counter / gauge / histogram, same seam | `metrics.ts` |
 | the `/metrics` scrape body | `metrics-text.ts` |
 | the series every process emits, incl. what the chart scales on | `runtime-metrics.ts` |
+| what the process itself costs: `process_resident_memory_bytes`, `process_heap_used_bytes`, `process_heap_total_bytes`, `process_external_memory_bytes`, `process_cpu_seconds_total`, `process_event_loop_lag_seconds`, `process_start_time_seconds`, `process_info{role}` — **server-only**, never on `@ultimat3/core/page` | `process-metrics.ts` (`startProcessMetrics`, `readProcess`) |
 | graceful drain, `/healthz`, `/readyz` | `lifecycle.ts` |
 | the readiness grace between `/readyz` → 503 and the listener closing (`drain.readinessGraceMs`) | `lifecycle-grace.ts` |
 | SIGTERM/SIGINT → the one drain | `lifecycle-signals.ts` |
@@ -193,9 +196,13 @@ a job boundary the class is gone and the `code` is what survives — match on th
 | `OtlpEndpointInvalidError` | `X_OTLP_ENDPOINT_INVALID` | `src/otlp.ts` |
 | `OtlpHeadersInvalidError` | `X_OTLP_HEADERS_INVALID` | `src/otlp.ts` |
 | `OtlpProtocolUnsupportedError` | `X_OTLP_PROTOCOL_UNSUPPORTED` | `src/otlp.ts` |
+| `SealInvalidError` | `X_SEAL_INVALID` | `src/seal-errors.ts` |
+| `SealKeyMissingError` | `X_SEAL_KEY_MISSING` | `src/seal-errors.ts` |
+| `SealKeyUnknownError` | `X_SEAL_KEY_UNKNOWN` | `src/seal-errors.ts` |
 | `SecretsFileInvalidError` | `X_SECRETS_FILE_INVALID` | `src/secrets-errors.ts` |
 | `SecretsFileMissingError` | `X_SECRETS_FILE_MISSING` | `src/secrets-errors.ts` |
 | `SecretsKeyInvalidError` | `X_SECRETS_KEY_INVALID` | `src/secrets-errors.ts` |
+| `SecretsRingKeyInvalidError` | `X_SECRETS_KEY_INVALID` — a malformed entry of `ULTIMATE_SECRETS_RETIRED_KEYS` | `src/secrets-errors.ts` |
 | `SecretsKeyMismatchError` | `X_SECRETS_KEY_MISMATCH` | `src/secrets-errors.ts` |
 | `SecretsKeyMissingError` | `X_SECRETS_KEY_MISSING` | `src/secrets-errors.ts` |
 | `SecretsPlaintextInvalidError` | `X_SECRETS_PLAINTEXT_INVALID` | `src/secrets-errors.ts` |
@@ -350,6 +357,56 @@ A missing file is not an error — an app may declare no secrets. A file with **
 is `X_SECRETS_KEY_MISSING` and fatal: a process that booted past its secrets authenticates against
 nothing and still reports healthy.
 
+## Seal one value
+
+One function seals a value under the app's master key. Nothing above tier 0 writes its own AES call.
+
+```ts
+import { openText, seal } from '@ultimat3/core';
+
+export async function roundTrip(password: string): Promise<string> {
+  const purpose = 'scrape-session';
+  // 'x1.4f2a9c0d1e2b3a4f.<iv>.<ciphertext+tag>' — one string, base64url
+  const stored = await seal(password, { purpose });
+  return openText(stored, { purpose });
+}
+```
+
+A column is sealed by declaring it — `text().sealed()` in `@ultimat3/entity`, which derives the
+purpose `entity:<table>.<column>` and calls this. Call `seal()` yourself only for a value that is
+not a column.
+
+| Export | Signature | |
+|---|---|---|
+| `seal` | `(plaintext: string \| Uint8Array, options: SealOptions) => Promise<string>` | always under the CURRENT key |
+| `open` | `(sealed: string, options: SealPurposeOptions) => Promise<Uint8Array>` | picks the key the string names |
+| `openText` | `(sealed: string, options: SealPurposeOptions) => Promise<string>` | the string spelling; no JSON helper |
+| `sealAll` | `(plaintext: string \| Uint8Array, options: SealPurposeOptions) => Promise<readonly string[]>` | the deterministic seal under every declared key, current first |
+| `isSealed` | `(value: unknown) => value is string` | shape only — tells a legacy plaintext row from a sealed one |
+| `sealedKeyId` | `(sealed: string) => string` | what a re-seal `backfill()` compares to the current id |
+| `sealKeyIds` | `(source?: SealKeySource) => Promise<{ current: string; retired: readonly string[] }>` | ids, never keys |
+| `resolveSealKeys` | `(source?: SealKeySource) => Promise<SealKeyRing>` | the ring, resolved once — pass it as `keys` to seal or open MANY values in one operation |
+
+`SealPurposeOptions` is `{ purpose: string; root?: string; env?: Record<string, string | undefined> }`;
+`SealOptions` adds `deterministic?: boolean`. `root` and `env` default to the working directory and
+`process.env`, exactly as `installSecrets()` does. `keys?: SealKeyRing` skips that lookup: a batch
+resolves the ring once and hands it to every call — never kept past the operation, so the next one
+sees a rotation.
+
+| Rule | |
+|---|---|
+| Key | the one `x secrets` manages — `ULTIMATE_SECRETS_KEY` first, `.secrets.key` second. No second variable |
+| `purpose` | REQUIRED, bound as additional authenticated data with the key id: a value sealed for `scrape-session` does not open as `entity:connections.password` |
+| Wire form | `x1.<keyId>.<iv>.<ciphertext+tag>`. `keyId` is `masterKeyId`'s, so a rotated key is a named mismatch, never a garbled read |
+| Key ring | retired keys in `ULTIMATE_SECRETS_RETIRED_KEYS` (comma-separated hex). `x secrets rotate` writes the replaced key there, inside `secrets.enc.json`; `installSecrets()` carries it into the process; `x secrets rotate --drop <keyId>` removes it |
+| Refusals | `X_SEAL_KEY_MISSING`, `X_SEAL_KEY_UNKNOWN`, `X_SEAL_INVALID` — all terminal. Never garbage, never the raw string back, and no reading of an unsealed value |
+
+**`deterministic: true` reveals equality.** The IV is an HMAC of the purpose and the plaintext, so
+equal values seal to equal strings and a column can be matched by `=`. Anyone who can read the
+stored strings sees which rows hold the same value; never use it for a low-entropy value (a
+boolean, a status, a PIN). During a rotation one value has one sealed form per declared key —
+match with `sealAll()`; uniqueness cannot be held across keys.
+
 ## Time, ids, telemetry, drain
 
 - Never call `Date.now()`. Take a `Clock`; tests pass `frozenClock('2026-07-26T10:00:00Z')`.
@@ -614,6 +671,7 @@ read; `@ultimat3/jobs` re-exports both rather than keeping a second pair.
 |---|---|---|
 | `clientTransport({ method, url, body?, rawBody?, headers?, signal?, idempotencyKey?, flight?, fresh?, retry?, onResponse?, decodeError?, onEnvelope?, fetchImpl? })` | every browser request | `credentials: 'same-origin'`, JSON in and out, the `idempotency-key` header, a non-2xx `problem+json` back into the server's code (`meta.origin: 'remote'`) unless `decodeError` answers first, a network `TypeError` into `X_CLIENT_TRANSPORT_FAILED`. A GET is abortable on `rescope()` and deduped only when a `flight` is passed (`fresh` refuses to join); any other method is never deduped and never aborted by the fence. `rawBody` goes out verbatim with no default header and resolves `undefined`. `onResponse` sees headers before the body is read. `onEnvelope` sees the decoded records envelope after adoption — the one way to learn the order of `records[type]`. `fetchImpl` defaults to `globalThis.fetch`, read at call time |
 | `actionPath(name)`, `actionRoute(name)`, `queryPath(name)`, `QUERY_PATH_PREFIX`, `splitWords`, `pluralize` | the one URL rule | `publishPost` → `/api/posts/publish`, `liveFeed` → `/_x/query/live-feed`. Tier 0 so `action`, `query` and `realtime` derive one URL with no sideways import |
+| `actionPath(name)` with no `style`, `renderedActionPathStyle()`, `CLIENT_PATH_STYLE_META` | the style nobody restates | `actionPath(name)` reads the document's `<meta name="ultimate-path-style">` stamp, so a browser caller derives under the style the server serves (`defineApi({ http: { pathStyle } })`). No document, no stamp or an unknown value is `'resource'` — a `'resource'` server writes no stamp. A named `style` is never overridden |
 | `RECORDS_HEADER`, `encodeRecordEnvelope`, `decodeRecordEnvelope`, `RecordRows` | `{ data, records?: { [type]: { [key]: Row } }, removed?: { [type]: key[] } }`, only behind `x-ultimate-records: 1` | how an answer carries entity rows without changing the wire of an answer that has none. A malformed envelope is `X_CLIENT_RECORD_ENVELOPE_INVALID` |
 | `pageClient()` → `{ store, socket, scope }`, `RecordSink` | one handle per TAB, not per module copy | every island bundle carries its own core; the handle lives on `globalThis` under one `Symbol.for` key so all of them resolve the same store. No store installed = records dropped |
 | `rescope(principal)`, `onRescope(fn)`, `isSuperseded(error)` | the principal fence | a principal change bumps the epoch and notifies synchronously; reads in flight reject `X_CLIENT_SCOPE_CHANGED`, writes complete but their records are not adopted. `isSuperseded` answers true for it and for `X_SUPERSEDED` |

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ultimat3/core",
-  "version": "22.14.0",
+  "version": "23.0.0",
   "description": "Ultimate's foundation: errors, context, env, config, clock, ids, logging, telemetry, lifecycle",
   "license": "MIT",
   "type": "module",
@@ -40,6 +40,6 @@
     "test": "bun test"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "@ultimat3/schema": "22.14.0"
+    "@ultimat3/schema": "23.0.0"
   }
 }

package/src/client-paths.ts

@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 /**
  * The ONE URL rule for the two HTTP primitives: an action's export name derives `POST
- * /api/<resource>/<verb>`, a query's derives `GET /_x/query/<kebab>`. Tier 0 and pure string math,
- * so `action`, `query` and `realtime` (all tier 3) derive the same URL with no sideways import and
- * a browser bundle pays a few hundred bytes for it. Moved verbatim from both packages' `naming.ts`.
+ * /api/<resource>/<verb>`, a query's derives `GET /_x/query/<kebab>`. Tier 0 and string math, so
+ * `action`, `query` and `realtime` (all tier 3) derive the same URL with no sideways import and a
+ * browser bundle pays a few hundred bytes for it. The one thing read rather than computed is the
+ * style a caller did not name: `actionPath` takes it from the document the server rendered.
  */
 
+import { CLIENT_PATH_STYLE_META } from './page-meta';
+
 /** Irregular plurals we actually hit in domain models. A `Map`: the key is a caller's word. */
 const IRREGULAR: ReadonlyMap<string, string> = new Map([
   ['person', 'people'],
@@ -98,9 +101,26 @@ export function actionRoute(name: string, style: ActionPathStyle = 'resource'):
   return { verb: head, resource, path: `/api/${resource}/${head}` };
 }
 
-/** The path an action is POSTed to — `actionRoute(name, style).path`. */
-export function actionPath(name: string, style: ActionPathStyle = 'resource'): string {
-  return actionRoute(name, style).path;
+/**
+ * The style the SERVER stamped into this document (`<meta name="ultimate-path-style">`), or
+ * `undefined`: no document (a server, a worker, a script), no stamp (a `'resource'` server writes
+ * none), or a value this build does not know. A style is a runtime value and a type is erased, so
+ * this is the only way a browser learns it without the app restating it.
+ */
+export function renderedActionPathStyle(): ActionPathStyle | undefined {
+  const doc: { querySelector?: (selector: string) => { content?: unknown } | null } | undefined =
+    Reflect.get(globalThis, 'document');
+  const stamped = doc?.querySelector?.(`meta[name="${CLIENT_PATH_STYLE_META}"]`)?.content;
+  return ACTION_PATH_STYLES.find((known) => known === stamped);
+}
+
+/**
+ * The path an action is POSTed to. A caller that names no `style` gets the document's — every
+ * browser caller (`rpc`, `useMutation`, the outbox replay) derives under the one the server serves
+ * — and `'resource'` where there is no document to ask. A named style is never overridden.
+ */
+export function actionPath(name: string, style?: ActionPathStyle): string {
+  return actionRoute(name, style ?? renderedActionPathStyle() ?? 'resource').path;
 }
 
 /** `liveFeed` -> `/_x/query/live-feed`, read with `GET …?orgId=…`. */

package/src/config-navigation.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 // were: shape, merge and screen are one subject.
 
 import { describeValue } from './error-render';
+import { ConfigInvalidError } from './errors';
 
 /**
  * The surfaces that render documents a browser navigates between. `api` answers JSON and `shared`
@@ -23,28 +24,146 @@ export type NavigationSurface = (typeof NAVIGATION_SURFACES)[number];
  */
 export interface NavigationConfig {
   readonly client: readonly NavigationSurface[];
+  readonly speculation: SpeculationConfig;
 }
 
+/**
+ * How eagerly a browser may fetch a link's document before the click, on a page that carries no
+ * client router. `'moderate'`: on pointer rest or pointer down. `'conservative'`: on pointer down
+ * only. `'eager'` and `'immediate'` are not offered — they fetch links nobody pointed at.
+ */
+export const SPECULATION_EAGERNESS = ['moderate', 'conservative'] as const;
+export type SpeculationEagerness = (typeof SPECULATION_EAGERNESS)[number];
+
+/**
+ * Speculation Rules (`<script type="speculationrules">`) for the documents a browser navigates
+ * between WITHOUT the client router — the 0kb answer to a slow full-page load. PREFETCH only, never
+ * prerender: a prefetch runs no script of the next page, so no analytics hit and no island boots
+ * for a page nobody opened. ON BY DEFAULT at `'moderate'`; `prefetch: false` emits nothing.
+ *
+ * Only pages the route table knows to be a pure read are candidates (`@ultimat3/cli`'s
+ * `page-speculation.ts`); `exclude` removes more, as URL patterns (`/blog/*`, `/legal/:doc`).
+ */
+export interface SpeculationConfig {
+  readonly prefetch: SpeculationEagerness | false;
+  readonly exclude: readonly string[];
+}
+
+export const DEFAULT_SPECULATION: SpeculationConfig = Object.freeze({
+  prefetch: 'moderate',
+  exclude: Object.freeze([]) as readonly string[],
+});
+
 export interface NavigationSection {
   readonly navigation: NavigationConfig;
 }
 
 export interface NavigationSectionInput {
-  readonly navigation?: { readonly client?: readonly NavigationSurface[] | undefined } | undefined;
+  readonly navigation?:
+    | {
+        readonly client?: readonly NavigationSurface[] | undefined;
+        readonly speculation?:
+          | {
+              readonly prefetch?: SpeculationEagerness | false | undefined;
+              readonly exclude?: readonly string[] | undefined;
+            }
+          | undefined;
+      }
+    | undefined;
 }
 
-/** A whole-value key: the last layer that listed surfaces wins, as `locales` does. */
+/**
+ * Whole-value keys: the last layer that listed surfaces wins, as `locales` does — and so does the
+ * last one that set `speculation.prefetch` or listed `speculation.exclude`, each on its own.
+ */
 export function mergeNavigation(layers: readonly NavigationSectionInput[]): NavigationSection {
   let client: readonly NavigationSurface[] = [];
+  let prefetch: SpeculationEagerness | false = DEFAULT_SPECULATION.prefetch;
+  let exclude: readonly string[] = DEFAULT_SPECULATION.exclude;
+  // A layer that wrote something other than an object (`speculation: 'off'`, `null`, a list) has
+  // no key to merge. It is carried through AS WRITTEN so `navigationIssues` refuses it — dropped
+  // here, the app would run at the default it believed it had turned off.
+  let unmergeable: { readonly said: unknown } | undefined;
   for (const layer of layers) {
     const said = layer.navigation?.client;
     if (said !== undefined) client = said;
+    const speculation: unknown = layer.navigation?.speculation;
+    if (speculation === undefined) continue;
+    if (!isSpeculationObject(speculation)) {
+      unmergeable ??= { said: speculation };
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (speculation.prefetch !== undefined) prefetch = speculation.prefetch;
+    if (speculation.exclude !== undefined) exclude = speculation.exclude;
+  }
+  const speculation =
+    unmergeable === undefined ? { prefetch, exclude } : (unmergeable.said as SpeculationConfig);
+  return { navigation: { client, speculation } };
+}
+
+type SpeculationInput = NonNullable<
+  NonNullable<NavigationSectionInput['navigation']>['speculation']
+>;
+
+const isSpeculationObject = (value: unknown): value is SpeculationInput =>
+  typeof value === 'object' && value !== null && !Array.isArray(value);
+
+/**
+ * A pattern is emitted inside a JSON string the browser parses as a URL pattern: it must be a
+ * same-origin PATH, so anything not starting with `/` (a host, a scheme, `*`) is refused.
+ */
+function speculationIssues(speculation: unknown, issues: string[]): void {
+  if (!isSpeculationObject(speculation)) {
+    issues.push(`navigation.speculation must be an object, not ${describeValue(speculation)}`);
+    return;
+  }
+  const { prefetch, exclude } = speculation as { prefetch?: unknown; exclude?: unknown };
+  if (prefetch !== false && !SPECULATION_EAGERNESS.some((known) => known === prefetch)) {
+    issues.push(
+      `navigation.speculation.prefetch must be ${SPECULATION_EAGERNESS.join(', ')} or false, not ${describeValue(prefetch)}`,
+    );
+  }
+  if (!Array.isArray(exclude)) {
+    issues.push(
+      `navigation.speculation.exclude must be a list of URL patterns, not ${describeValue(exclude)}`,
+    );
+    return;
+  }
+  for (const pattern of exclude as readonly unknown[]) {
+    if (typeof pattern !== 'string' || !pattern.startsWith('/')) {
+      issues.push(
+        `navigation.speculation.exclude contains ${describeValue(pattern)}, not a path pattern starting with "/"`,
+      );
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * `navigation.speculation` as some reader OUTSIDE `defineConfig` found it (`@ultimat3/cli` imports
+ * the app's config module structurally): the defaults for what it does not say, and the SAME
+ * refusal `defineConfig` gives for what it says wrongly. One validator — a second reader that
+ * coerced `'eager'` to `'moderate'` or dropped a bad pattern would serve rules the app never wrote.
+ */
+export function resolveSpeculation(said: unknown): SpeculationConfig {
+  if (said === undefined) return DEFAULT_SPECULATION;
+  const { speculation } = mergeNavigation([
+    { navigation: { speculation: said as SpeculationInput } },
+  ]).navigation;
+  const issues: string[] = [];
+  speculationIssues(speculation, issues);
+  if (issues.length > 0) {
+    throw new ConfigInvalidError({
+      cause: issues.join('; '),
+      fix: 'Correct navigation.speculation in app.config.ts: prefetch is "moderate", "conservative" or false, and exclude is a list of path patterns starting with "/"',
+      meta: { issues },
+    });
   }
-  return { navigation: { client } };
+  return speculation;
 }
 
 /** Appends every refusal the section earns to `issues`, `config.ts`' one list. */
 export function navigationIssues(config: NavigationSection, issues: string[]): void {
+  speculationIssues(config.navigation.speculation, issues);
   // `unknown`: an untyped config file reaches this validator with whatever it wrote.
   const client: unknown = config.navigation.client;
   if (!Array.isArray(client)) {

package/src/core-error-codes.ts

@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ const CORE_CODE_TITLES = {
   X_REGISTRAR_CONFLICT: 'two different registrars are loaded for one primitive kind',
   X_REGISTRAR_MISSING: 'no registrar is loaded for a primitive kind',
   X_ROLE_INVALID: 'ROLE is not a known runtime role',
+  // `seal.ts`'s three. Titled here, not registered beside their classes the way the X_SECRETS_*
+  // set is, so `seal-errors.ts` runs nothing at import and is no `sideEffects` anchor.
+  X_SEAL_INVALID: 'a sealed value did not authenticate, or is not a sealed value',
+  X_SEAL_KEY_MISSING: 'no master key to seal or open a value with',
+  X_SEAL_KEY_UNKNOWN: 'a sealed value names a master key this process does not declare',
   X_SERVICE_DUPLICATE: 'a service name is registered twice',
   X_SERVICE_MISSING: 'service is not registered on the request context',
   X_SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT: 'graceful shutdown exceeded its deadline',

package/src/error-render.ts

@@ -188,9 +188,11 @@ export function renderFixLiteral(value: unknown, placeholder: string): string {
  * denylist has to be right about every character every shell will ever read, and this only has to
  * be right about the ones a fix line needs. No space, so a value is always one word; no leading
  * `-` or `~`, because an argument starting with either is an OPTION or a home directory rather
- * than the value it reads as.
+ * than the value it reads as. A leading `@` IS carried: a scoped package name starts with one, and
+ * `@` opens nothing in a POSIX shell — `$@` needs the `$`, an extglob `@(…)` the parenthesis, and
+ * neither is in the set.
  */
-const SHELL_ARG_SAFE = /^[A-Za-z0-9/][A-Za-z0-9._:/@=+,%~-]*$/;
+const SHELL_ARG_SAFE = /^[A-Za-z0-9/@][A-Za-z0-9._:/@=+,%~-]*$/;
 
 /**
  * The same value where the text is read by a SHELL. A `fix:` is a command meant to be pasted, so a

package/src/error-retry.ts

@@ -61,6 +61,14 @@ const CORE_ERROR_RETRY: ReadonlyMap<string, ErrorRetry> = new Map(
     // The principal fence's twin of `X_SUPERSEDED`, listed for the same reason: re-sending a read
     // from the previous principal's scope is refused identically every time.
     X_CLIENT_SCOPE_CHANGED: 'terminal',
+    // `seal.ts`'s three, listed for `X_NOT_IMPLEMENTED`'s reason: a missing key, an undeclared
+    // key and a value that failed its tag are each the same answer on attempt five, and left
+    // unclassified a job opening a sealed column would spend its whole retry policy re-proving it.
+    // Here rather than through `registerErrorRetry` because they are core's own codes, which that
+    // function refuses, and a module-scope call would make `seal-errors.ts` a side-effect anchor.
+    X_SEAL_INVALID: 'terminal',
+    X_SEAL_KEY_MISSING: 'terminal',
+    X_SEAL_KEY_UNKNOWN: 'terminal',
   } as const),
 );
 

package/src/index.ts

@@ -119,8 +119,15 @@ export type {
   NavigationSection,
   NavigationSectionInput,
   NavigationSurface,
+  SpeculationConfig,
+  SpeculationEagerness,
+} from './config-navigation';
+export {
+  DEFAULT_SPECULATION,
+  NAVIGATION_SURFACES,
+  resolveSpeculation,
+  SPECULATION_EAGERNESS,
 } from './config-navigation';
-export { NAVIGATION_SURFACES } from './config-navigation';
 export type {
   PwaColors,
   PwaConfig,
@@ -578,6 +585,9 @@ export type { Direction } from './locale-direction';
 export { directionOf, isRtl } from './locale-direction';
 export type { LocalePathSplit } from './locale-path';
 export { localeSegment, localizePath, splitLocalePath } from './locale-path';
+// The process logger's test seam, beside nothing it groups with: where a default-writer line goes.
+export type { LogSink } from './logger';
+export { setLogSink } from './logger';
 export { isMcpExposed, type McpExposureDeclaration } from './mcp-exposure';
 export type { MeasurementActorFactory } from './measurement-actor';
 export {
@@ -597,12 +607,15 @@ export {
   CLIENT_NAVIGATION_LOCATION_HEADER,
   CLIENT_NAVIGATION_SCOPE_HEADER,
   CLIENT_NAVIGATION_SURFACE_HEADER,
+  CLIENT_PATH_STYLE_META,
   CLIENT_PERSIST_META,
   CLIENT_SCOPE_HEADER,
   CLIENT_SCOPE_META,
   CLIENT_SYNC_META,
   CLIENT_SYNC_WORKER_META,
 } from './page-meta';
+export type { ProcessMetricsOptions, ProcessReading } from './process-metrics';
+export { readProcess, resetProcessMetrics, startProcessMetrics } from './process-metrics';
 export { type CappedBody, readWithinLimit } from './read-capped';
 export type { RecordEnvelope, RecordRows } from './record-envelope';
 export { decodeRecordEnvelope, encodeRecordEnvelope, RECORDS_HEADER } from './record-envelope';
@@ -641,6 +654,20 @@ export {
   type OriginVerdict,
   proveSameOrigin,
 } from './same-origin';
+export type { SealOptions, SealPurposeOptions } from './seal';
+export { isSealed, open, openText, SEAL_VERSION, seal, sealAll, sealedKeyId } from './seal';
+export type { SealInvalidReason } from './seal-errors';
+export { SealInvalidError, SealKeyMissingError, SealKeyUnknownError } from './seal-errors';
+export type { SealKeyRing, SealKeySource } from './seal-keys';
+export {
+  resolveSealKeys,
+  SECRETS_RETIRED_KEYS_ENV,
+  sealKeyIds,
+  splitRetiredKeys,
+} from './seal-keys';
+// Beside the ring it is raised for, not in the `exports/secrets` group: same code as
+// `SecretsKeyInvalidError`, a different variable to repair.
+export { SecretsRingKeyInvalidError } from './secrets-errors';
 export {
   defineService,
   installedServices,

package/src/logger.ts

@@ -121,6 +121,28 @@ export function setLogStream(stream: 'stdout' | 'stderr'): void {
   logStream = stream;
 }
 
+/** What `setLogSink` installs: one complete JSON line, and the level it was written at. */
+export type LogSink = (line: string, level: LogLevel) => void;
+
+let logSink: LogSink | undefined;
+
+/**
+ * TEST SEAM. Every line with no explicit `writer` goes to `sink` INSTEAD of the process's streams,
+ * until it is cleared with `undefined`. Returns the sink that was installed, so a caller restores
+ * rather than clears — the shape `setRowObserver` has, for the same shared-process reason.
+ *
+ * It exists for two callers. A test preload installs a sink that drops every line, so a green run
+ * prints its reporter and nothing else; and a test that asserts on what the PROCESS logger wrote
+ * installs one that collects, instead of patching `process.stdout`. A logger given its own
+ * `writer` never reaches it, and the level is untouched: this decides where a line goes, never
+ * whether it is written.
+ */
+export function setLogSink(sink: LogSink | undefined): LogSink | undefined {
+  const previous = logSink;
+  logSink = sink;
+  return previous;
+}
+
 /**
  * The second half of the same defect, one call deeper than `envLevel`. A module init made safe
  * that still reached `process.stdout` here would only move the `ReferenceError` from load to the
@@ -135,6 +157,10 @@ export function setLogStream(stream: 'stdout' | 'stderr'): void {
  * its log stream, and where there is a `process` this writes to the fd as it always did.
  */
 function defaultWriter(line: string, level: LogLevel): void {
+  if (logSink !== undefined) {
+    logSink(line, level);
+    return;
+  }
   const toStderr = logStream === 'stderr' || LEVEL_WEIGHT[level] >= LEVEL_WEIGHT.error;
   if (typeof process === 'undefined') {
     if (toStderr) console.error(line);

package/src/page-meta.ts

@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ export const CLIENT_BUILD_META = 'x-ultimate-build';
  */
 export const APP_UPDATE_MESSAGE = 'AppUpdateAvailable';
 
+/**
+ * How this server turns an action's name into its URL (`defineApi({ http: { pathStyle } })`), for
+ * the browser's `actionPath`. Written only for a style other than the default: absent IS
+ * `'resource'`, so an app that declares nothing renders the bytes it always did.
+ */
+export const CLIENT_PATH_STYLE_META = 'ultimate-path-style';
+
 /** Where the page's one socket dials: `/_x/sync`, or the deployment's absolute `SYNC_URL`. */
 export const CLIENT_SYNC_META = 'ultimate-sync';
 

package/src/page.ts

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ export {
   CLIENT_NAVIGATION_LOCATION_HEADER,
   CLIENT_NAVIGATION_SCOPE_HEADER,
   CLIENT_NAVIGATION_SURFACE_HEADER,
+  CLIENT_PATH_STYLE_META,
   CLIENT_PERSIST_META,
   CLIENT_SCOPE_HEADER,
   CLIENT_SCOPE_META,