effect 4.0.0-beta.67 → 4.0.0-beta.69

package/dist/unstable/cluster/index.d.ts

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  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 /**
+ * The `ClusterCron` module provides a small integration between cron schedules
+ * and cluster sharding. It turns a `Cron.Cron` schedule into a `Layer` that
+ * coordinates one recurring job across a cluster by registering a singleton for
+ * the initial scheduling step and a persisted entity message for each run.
+ *
+ * This is useful for distributed maintenance work such as periodic cleanup,
+ * reconciliation, report generation, cache refreshes, or polling external
+ * systems where the job should be owned by the cluster rather than by every
+ * runner independently.
+ *
+ * **Mental model**
+ *
+ * - {@link make} registers a named cluster cron job as a layer
+ * - a singleton schedules the first run for the selected shard group
+ * - each run is delivered as a persisted entity message at its scheduled time
+ * - after a run exits, the handler schedules the next occurrence
+ * - stale runs can be skipped with `skipIfOlderThan`
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Job effects should be idempotent because persisted messages, retries, and
+ *   runner failover are part of normal distributed execution.
+ * - By default, the next run is calculated from the current time after the
+ *   handler exits; use `calculateNextRunFromPrevious` when preserving the
+ *   schedule cadence is more important than catching up from delays.
+ * - Long outages can produce old scheduled messages; keep `skipIfOlderThan`
+ *   aligned with the job's business semantics.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as ClusterCron from "./ClusterCron.ts";
 /**
+ * The `ClusterError` module defines the typed error values used by the
+ * unstable cluster runtime when routing messages to entities, coordinating
+ * runners, and persisting mailbox work.
+ *
+ * These errors are useful when implementing cluster transports, runner
+ * supervision, mailbox storage, and entity request handling. They make common
+ * distributed-system failures explicit: a message may reach a runner that no
+ * longer owns the entity, a runner may be unavailable or unregistered, a
+ * payload may fail to decode, persistence may fail, a mailbox may be at
+ * capacity, or an envelope may already be in progress.
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Entity ownership and runner availability can change while messages are in
+ *   flight, so routing errors should generally be treated as retryable or
+ *   recoverable by higher-level cluster logic.
+ * - `MalformedMessage` points to a schema/serialization boundary failure,
+ *   while `PersistenceError` preserves failures from durable mailbox storage.
+ * - `AlreadyProcessingMessage` protects an entity mailbox from processing the
+ *   same envelope concurrently.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as ClusterError from "./ClusterError.ts";
 /**
+ * The `ClusterMetrics` module defines the standard metrics emitted by the
+ * unstable cluster runtime. These gauges track the shape and health of a
+ * running cluster from the perspective of runners, entities, singletons, and
+ * shard ownership.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Monitor how many entity instances and singleton processes are active on a
+ *   runner
+ * - Track registered runners and the subset currently considered healthy
+ * - Observe shard distribution across runners during startup, rebalancing, and
+ *   failover
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Runner-local gauges such as {@link entities}, {@link singletons}, and
+ *   {@link shards} describe the current runner, so aggregate them carefully in
+ *   dashboards
+ * - Cluster-wide gauges such as {@link runners} and {@link runnersHealthy}
+ *   reflect the runtime's current view, which may lag briefly during membership
+ *   changes or failure detection
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as ClusterMetrics from "./ClusterMetrics.ts";
 /**
+ * The `ClusterSchema` module defines the schema annotations used by Effect
+ * Cluster protocols. These annotations attach cluster-specific behavior to
+ * RPCs and entities without changing the request or response schemas
+ * themselves.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Mark requests as persisted so mailbox storage can replay them after
+ *   interruption or restart
+ * - Run server-side handling inside a storage transaction when durable state
+ *   and SQL updates must commit together
+ * - Control whether client sending, server handling, or both are treated as
+ *   uninterruptible
+ * - Route entity ids into shard groups
+ * - Disable client tracing for internal protocols such as cron dispatch
+ * - Derive per-request annotations from the encoded request with {@link Dynamic}
+ *
+ * **Protocol notes**
+ *
+ * Cluster transports serialize the RPC payloads, not arbitrary runtime
+ * annotation values. Prefer static, deterministic annotations, and use
+ * {@link Dynamic} when a persisted or transactional decision depends on the
+ * request value that is already part of the protocol. Persisted requests require
+ * message storage support, and shard group selection must remain stable for a
+ * given entity id so routing is consistent across cluster members.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as ClusterSchema from "./ClusterSchema.ts";
 /**
+ * The cluster workflow engine runs durable workflows on top of cluster sharding
+ * and message storage. It adapts `WorkflowEngine.WorkflowEngine` so workflow
+ * executions, activities, deferred completions, resumes, interrupts, and durable
+ * clock wakeups are represented as persisted cluster entity messages.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Provide a workflow engine for services that already use cluster sharding
+ * - Execute workflows by stable execution id and poll their persisted result
+ * - Resume suspended workflows after activities, deferreds, or durable clock wakeups
+ * - Interrupt workflow executions and propagate resume signals to parent workflows
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Workflow names and execution ids determine the cluster entity address used
+ *   for persistence, so they must remain stable across deploys
+ * - Activities are persisted by activity name and attempt; retries and suspended
+ *   activity resumes depend on those primary keys
+ * - Durable clock wakeups are scheduled through a separate clock entity and are
+ *   cleared when an interrupted workflow stops waiting
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as ClusterWorkflowEngine from "./ClusterWorkflowEngine.ts";
 /**
+ * The `DeliverAt` module defines the protocol used by cluster message payloads
+ * that carry their own scheduled delivery time. A value implements the protocol
+ * by exposing a method at the `DeliverAt` symbol that returns the target
+ * `DateTime`.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Mark a message payload as deliverable at a specific time by implementing
+ *   {@link DeliverAt}
+ * - Check whether an arbitrary value carries a scheduled delivery time with
+ *   {@link isDeliverAt}
+ * - Convert a scheduled delivery time to epoch milliseconds with
+ *   {@link toMillis}
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - The protocol records the requested delivery instant; cluster infrastructure
+ *   may still deliver later because of clock skew, queue latency, or worker
+ *   availability
+ * - Values that do not implement the symbol method are treated as unscheduled;
+ *   {@link toMillis} returns `null` for those values
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as DeliverAt from "./DeliverAt.ts";
 /**
+ * The `Entity` module defines sharded, addressable actors for Effect Cluster.
+ * An entity type pairs a stable entity name with an RPC protocol and describes
+ * how requests for individual entity ids are routed to shard groups and
+ * runners.
+ *
+ * **Mental model**
+ *
+ * - An `Entity` is the cluster-facing definition for one logical actor type
+ * - Each entity id maps deterministically to a shard group and shard id
+ * - Clients are created per entity id and send typed RPC messages through the
+ *   cluster sharding layer
+ * - Server layers register handlers or mailbox processors for the entity type
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Define an entity protocol with RPCs and create an entity with {@link make}
+ * - Send messages to a specific entity id with {@link Entity.client}
+ * - Register typed RPC handlers with {@link Entity.toLayer}
+ * - Process envelopes directly with {@link Entity.toLayerQueue}
+ * - Access the current entity or runner address with {@link CurrentAddress} and
+ *   {@link CurrentRunnerAddress}
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Entity ids are part of routing: changing id formats can move work to
+ *   different shards
+ * - Entity type names should be stable and unique within a cluster deployment
+ * - Mailbox capacity and concurrency determine back pressure and duplicate
+ *   processing behavior
+ * - Persistence, mailbox, and already-processing failures are surfaced through
+ *   the generated clients
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as Entity from "./Entity.ts";
 /**
+ * The `EntityAddress` module defines the value used to locate an entity within
+ * a cluster. An address combines the entity type, entity id, and shard id so
+ * messages, persisted envelopes, workflow executions, and entity managers can
+ * agree on the same routing target.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Build an address after resolving an entity id to a shard with `Sharding`
+ * - Attach an address to cluster envelopes and persisted messages
+ * - Compare or hash addresses when tracking active or resuming entities
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - The shard id is part of the address identity; the same entity type and id
+ *   on a different shard is a different address.
+ * - Entity ids should be routed through the same shard group logic used by the
+ *   entity definition so messages are sent to the runner that owns the shard.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as EntityAddress from "./EntityAddress.ts";
 /**
+ * The `EntityId` module provides a branded string identifier for addressing a
+ * specific entity instance inside the cluster. Entity ids are commonly used as
+ * stable routing keys when sending messages to an entity, looking up its state,
+ * or deriving the shard responsible for that entity.
+ *
+ * Because routing is based on the exact string value, choose ids that are
+ * deterministic, normalized, and unique within the entity type you are
+ * addressing. Avoid display names or other values that may change over time.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as EntityId from "./EntityId.ts";
 /**
+ * The `EntityProxy` module derives external RPC and HTTP API surfaces from a
+ * clustered {@link Entity.Entity}. It is used when callers should communicate
+ * with entities through ordinary RPC clients or HTTP routes while the cluster
+ * runtime keeps responsibility for locating, routing, and delivering messages
+ * to the entity instance identified by `entityId`.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Derive an `RpcGroup` from an entity with {@link toRpcGroup}
+ * - Derive an `HttpApiGroup` from an entity with {@link toHttpApiGroup}
+ * - Expose both request/response calls and discard variants for fire-and-forget
+ *   delivery
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Proxy RPC payloads wrap the original RPC payload with an `entityId`; HTTP
+ *   endpoints place the same identifier in the route path.
+ * - Generated RPC names are prefixed with the entity type, while HTTP endpoint
+ *   paths are based on lower-cased RPC tags.
+ * - Proxy errors include cluster delivery errors such as mailbox saturation,
+ *   duplicate in-flight messages, and persistence failures.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as EntityProxy from "./EntityProxy.ts";
 /**
+ * The `EntityProxyServer` module provides server-side layers for exposing
+ * clustered entities through proxy APIs. It connects proxy requests to an
+ * entity client, extracts the target `entityId`, and forwards the payload to
+ * the matching entity RPC method.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Serve an entity proxy over an HTTP API group with {@link layerHttpApi}
+ * - Serve the RPC group produced by an entity proxy with {@link layerRpcHandlers}
+ * - Route both normal calls and discard calls to the same underlying entity
+ *   method
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - HTTP proxy endpoints expect the `entityId` path parameter to identify the
+ *   target entity instance
+ * - RPC proxy handlers use tags prefixed with the entity type, matching the
+ *   group generated by `EntityProxy.toRpcGroup`
+ * - Both layers require `Sharding` and the entity RPC server services in the
+ *   environment so requests can be routed to the owning shard
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as EntityProxyServer from "./EntityProxyServer.ts";
 /**
+ * The `EntityResource` module provides helpers for acquiring resources inside a
+ * cluster entity and keeping them available across entity restarts. It is useful
+ * for long-lived resources tied to an entity address, such as external
+ * processes, network clients, Kubernetes Pods, or other handles that should not
+ * be torn down during routine shard movement.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Create a reusable entity-scoped resource with {@link make}
+ * - Keep an entity alive while the resource is acquired
+ * - Explicitly release the resource with `EntityResource.close`
+ * - Attach cleanup work to the resource close scope with {@link CloseScope}
+ * - Create and manage a Kubernetes Pod resource with {@link makeK8sPod}
+ *
+ * **Lifecycle gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Resources are retained by an `RcRef` and are only fully released after
+ *   `idleTimeToLive` expires or `close` is called
+ * - The default idle time to live is infinite, so resources remain alive until
+ *   explicitly closed
+ * - `CloseScope` is separate from the caller scope and is not closed by entity
+ *   restarts, shard movement, or node shutdown finalization
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as EntityResource from "./EntityResource.ts";
 /**
+ * The `EntityType` module defines the branded string used to identify a kind of
+ * entity in an Effect cluster. Entity type names are part of the cluster routing
+ * identity: they distinguish one family of entities from another before an
+ * individual entity id is considered.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Declare the stable name for an entity family handled by a cluster service
+ * - Brand a string literal as an {@link EntityType} with {@link make}
+ * - Validate or encode entity type names with the {@link EntityType} schema
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Entity type names should be stable and unique within the cluster because
+ *   changing them changes where entity messages are routed
+ * - The entity type name identifies the entity family, not a specific entity
+ *   instance; combine it with the entity id at the call site that routes work
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as EntityType from "./EntityType.ts";
 /**
+ * The `Envelope` module defines the transport messages exchanged by Effect
+ * cluster entities while processing RPC requests. Envelopes wrap decoded
+ * request payloads with routing metadata, trace context, and request ids, and
+ * also model delivery-control messages such as streamed-reply acknowledgements
+ * and request interrupts.
+ *
+ * **Common use cases**
+ *
+ * - Construct a runtime request envelope with {@link makeRequest}
+ * - Decode or encode envelopes crossing a network or durable queue with {@link PartialJson}
+ * - Batch encoded envelopes with {@link PartialArray}
+ * - Detect envelope values at runtime with {@link isEnvelope}
+ * - Build storage keys for keyed request payloads with {@link primaryKey}
+ *
+ * **Serialization and delivery notes**
+ *
+ * Request envelopes are decoded in two phases: the envelope metadata is parsed
+ * first, while the RPC payload remains `unknown` until the receiving side knows
+ * the target RPC schema. Snowflake identifiers are encoded as strings for JSON
+ * transport, and acknowledgement / interrupt envelopes carry the original
+ * request id so delivery protocols can correlate control messages with the
+ * in-flight request.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as Envelope from "./Envelope.ts";
 /**
+ * The `HttpRunner` module wires cluster runner RPCs to HTTP transports. It
+ * provides client protocol layers for contacting runners over HTTP or
+ * WebSocket, server-side HTTP effects for exposing runner RPC handlers, and
+ * complete layers that install those routes into an `HttpRouter`.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Serve runner RPC routes with {@link layerHttp} or {@link layerWebsocket}
+ * - Configure client-only runner communication with {@link layerHttpClientOnly}
+ *   or {@link layerWebsocketClientOnly}
+ * - Use custom route paths with {@link layerHttpOptions},
+ *   {@link layerWebsocketOptions}, {@link layerClientProtocolHttp}, or
+ *   {@link layerClientProtocolWebsocket}
+ *
+ * **Transport gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Client protocol paths are appended to each runner address when building the
+ *   target URL
+ * - `https: true` switches HTTP clients from `http` to `https`, and WebSocket
+ *   clients from `ws` to `wss`
+ * - The default complete layers serve and connect at `/`; use the `Options`
+ *   variants when your runner routes live under a different path
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as HttpRunner from "./HttpRunner.ts";
 /**
+ * The `K8sHttpClient` module provides an HTTP client service for talking to the
+ * Kubernetes API from code running inside a cluster.
+ *
+ * It configures requests for the in-cluster service endpoint, attaches the
+ * mounted service-account token when present, and exposes helpers for common
+ * cluster tasks such as discovering running pods by namespace or label selector
+ * and creating scoped pods that are cleaned up automatically.
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - The default layer targets `https://kubernetes.default.svc/api`, so it is
+ *   intended for workloads with Kubernetes DNS and service-account mounts.
+ * - Pod discovery is keyed by pod IP address and only includes pods whose phase
+ *   is `Running`; callers should choose selectors that match the intended
+ *   service topology.
+ * - Network policies, RBAC, and service-account token availability can all
+ *   prevent the client from reaching or authorizing with the Kubernetes API.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as K8sHttpClient from "./K8sHttpClient.ts";
 /**
+ * The `MachineId` module provides the branded integer identifier used to
+ * distinguish cluster runners when generating distributed ids and coordinating
+ * runner state.
+ *
+ * **When to use**
+ *
+ * - Persisting or exchanging the machine id assigned to a cluster runner
+ * - Passing a runner-specific identity to the cluster snowflake generator
+ * - Decoding machine ids from storage while keeping them distinct from plain numbers
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Machine ids must be unique for concurrently active runners that generate snowflakes
+ * - Snowflake ids store the machine component in 10 bits, so only the value modulo 1024 is encoded
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as MachineId from "./MachineId.ts";
 /**
+ * The cluster `Message` module defines the in-memory shapes used while moving
+ * requests and control envelopes between callers, durable storage, transports,
+ * and entity runners.
+ *
+ * **Common use cases**
+ *
+ * - Representing outgoing entity requests before they are stored or sent
+ * - Reconstructing incoming requests that runners read from storage or transport
+ * - Converting outgoing messages into local, in-process deliveries
+ * - Serializing request payloads with the associated RPC schema and context
+ * - Passing control envelopes such as acknowledgements and interrupts through
+ *   without payload decoding
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Requests can exist in decoded local form or encoded persisted form; choose
+ *   `IncomingLocal` / `OutgoingRequest` for local delivery and `IncomingRequest`
+ *   / `Envelope.PartialRequest` for storage or transport boundaries.
+ * - Request payloads must be encoded and decoded with the matching RPC payload
+ *   schema and service context, otherwise failures are surfaced as
+ *   `MalformedMessage`.
+ * - Delivery state such as the last sent or received reply is carried alongside
+ *   messages so retries and persisted replies can preserve cluster semantics.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as Message from "./Message.ts";
 /**
+ * The `MessageStorage` module defines the persistence boundary used by Effect
+ * Cluster to store mailbox messages and replies. Storage implementations keep
+ * requests, envelopes, and reply chunks durable enough for runners to recover
+ * work after restarts, replay unprocessed messages for assigned shards, and
+ * deliver replies back to locally registered handlers.
+ *
+ * **Common use cases**
+ *
+ * - Persist outgoing requests and control envelopes before delivery
+ * - Detect duplicate requests by primary key and resume from an existing reply
+ * - Query unprocessed messages when shards are assigned to a runner
+ * - Store, load, and clear replies for request streams and completions
+ * - Reset or clear mailbox state during shard or address lifecycle changes
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Implementations should make save and reply operations transactional when
+ *   possible so recovery does not observe partial mailbox state
+ * - Duplicate detection depends on stable request primary keys and persisted
+ *   request ids
+ * - Reply handlers are local process state; persisted replies may need to be
+ *   loaded again after restarts or reassignment
+ * - Concurrent runners must only process messages for shards they currently own
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as MessageStorage from "./MessageStorage.ts";
 /**
+ * The `Reply` module models responses produced by clustered RPC execution. A
+ * reply belongs to a request and is either a terminal {@link WithExit}, which
+ * carries the final RPC `Exit`, or a streaming {@link Chunk}, which carries a
+ * non-empty batch of success values for RPCs that stream results.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Represent runtime replies with {@link Reply}, {@link WithExit}, and {@link Chunk}
+ * - Encode and decode transport payloads with {@link Encoded} and {@link Reply}
+ * - Persist replies together with schema context via {@link ReplyWithContext}
+ * - Serialize the latest received reply when resuming or de-duplicating requests with {@link serializeLastReceived}
+ *
+ * **Streaming and acknowledgement notes**
+ *
+ * - Chunk replies are sequenced and can be replayed until acknowledged by the
+ *   receiver.
+ * - A `WithExit` reply is terminal and completes the request, while chunks only
+ *   represent intermediate streamed success values.
+ * - `Chunk.emptyFrom` is used as an acknowledgement marker for an empty streamed
+ *   reply; it is not a general-purpose success payload.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as Reply from "./Reply.ts";
 /**
+ * The `Runner` module defines the membership record used by the unstable
+ * cluster runtime to describe a process that can host entity shards.
+ *
+ * A runner combines the network address used by other runners to reach it, the
+ * shard groups it participates in, and a relative weight used when the sharding
+ * service assigns shards across the healthy runners in each group.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Construct the runner registered by the local `Sharding` layer
+ * - Persist or exchange runner metadata through `RunnerStorage`
+ * - Encode and decode runner values at cluster transport or storage boundaries
+ * - Tune shard distribution by adjusting the runner's group membership and
+ *   relative weight
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Runner addresses must be stable and unique while a runner is registered,
+ *   because they identify the owner used for routing and shard locks.
+ * - Weights are relative within each shard group; changing weights or groups can
+ *   rebalance shard ownership as the cluster refreshes its runner view.
+ * - Runner equality and hashing are based on address and weight, so compare
+ *   `groups` explicitly when group membership is the important distinction.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as Runner from "./Runner.ts";
 /**
+ * The `RunnerAddress` module defines the network identity used to locate a
+ * cluster runner. A runner address is a host and port pair that can be encoded,
+ * compared, hashed, inspected, and used as a stable primary key.
+ *
+ * **Common use cases**
+ *
+ * - Representing the target runner for cluster routing and placement decisions
+ * - Persisting or exchanging runner endpoints through schemas
+ * - Using runner endpoints as keys in maps, registries, or shard ownership data
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Identity is structural: two addresses are equal when both host and port match
+ * - The primary key is formatted as `host:port`, so host strings should already
+ *   be normalized for the routing layer using them
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as RunnerAddress from "./RunnerAddress.ts";
 /**
+ * The `RunnerHealth` module defines the health-check service used by cluster
+ * sharding to decide whether a runner may still own its assigned shards. A
+ * runner that is reported as alive is allowed to keep processing messages,
+ * while a runner that is reported as unavailable can have its shards moved to
+ * another runner.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Provide a custom {@link RunnerHealth} service for a cluster deployment
+ * - Use {@link layerPing} to check runners through the cluster runner protocol
+ * - Use {@link layerK8s} when Kubernetes pod readiness should drive health
+ * - Use {@link layerNoop} in tests or environments where runners are always considered healthy
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Health checks affect shard reassignment, so false negatives can move shards
+ *   away from runners that may still be processing messages
+ * - The Kubernetes implementation treats API failures as healthy to avoid
+ *   reassignment caused by a temporary control-plane outage
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as RunnerHealth from "./RunnerHealth.ts";
 /**
+ * The `Runners` module defines the service used by the unstable cluster runtime
+ * to communicate with processes that host entity shards. It is the transport
+ * boundary between sharding decisions and runner execution: callers can ping a
+ * runner, send requests or envelopes, notify a runner that persisted work is
+ * available, and report an address as unavailable.
+ *
+ * The default implementation wraps lower-level runner callbacks with cluster
+ * message semantics. Persisted messages are written to `MessageStorage` before
+ * delivery, duplicate requests can resume from stored replies, and local sends
+ * can optionally serialize and deserialize messages to exercise the same path as
+ * remote delivery.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Provide runner communication with {@link layerRpc}
+ * - Build a custom implementation with {@link make}
+ * - Use {@link makeNoop} or {@link layerNoop} when no remote runners are
+ *   available
+ * - Define runner-to-runner protocol support with {@link Rpcs} and
+ *   {@link RpcClientProtocol}
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - `notify` is only for RPCs annotated as persisted; non-persisted messages
+ *   should be sent directly.
+ * - Failed remote sends can fall back to reading replies from storage, so reply
+ *   polling and `entityReplyPollInterval` affect recovery latency.
+ * - Unavailable runners invalidate cached RPC clients, but shard ownership and
+ *   rebalancing are coordinated by the sharding layer rather than this module.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as Runners from "./Runners.ts";
 /**
+ * The `RunnerServer` module provides the transport-agnostic server side of the
+ * cluster runner protocol. It turns the runner RPC group into handlers that
+ * receive ping, notification, request, stream, and envelope messages from other
+ * runners, then forwards them into `Sharding` and coordinates persisted replies
+ * through `MessageStorage`.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Build a runner server once an `RpcServer.Protocol` has been supplied by a
+ *   transport such as HTTP, WebSocket, or sockets
+ * - Provide the complete runner runtime with `Sharding` and `Runners` clients
+ *   using {@link layerWithClients}
+ * - Embed a cluster client without serving runner RPCs or accepting shard
+ *   assignments using {@link layerClientOnly}
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - This module does not choose a wire transport; transport-specific modules
+ *   provide the `RpcServer.Protocol`
+ * - Persisted requests register reply handlers in `MessageStorage` before the
+ *   message is delivered to `Sharding`
+ * - Client-only layers clear the configured runner address, so they can send
+ *   cluster messages but do not register as shard-owning runners
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as RunnerServer from "./RunnerServer.ts";
 /**
+ * The `RunnerStorage` module defines the persistence boundary used by clustered
+ * runners to register themselves and coordinate shard ownership.
+ *
+ * Implementations keep track of runner metadata, health, machine ids, and shard
+ * locks so a cluster can rebalance work as runners join, leave, or lose their
+ * leases. Production adapters usually implement the string-encoded interface and
+ * adapt it with {@link makeEncoded}; tests and local setups can use
+ * {@link makeMemory}.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Register and unregister runners in a shared store
+ * - Read runner health for scheduling and rebalancing decisions
+ * - Acquire, refresh, and release shard locks for distributed processing
+ * - Bridge typed cluster values to string or numeric database representations
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Shard acquisition may be partial; callers must use the returned shard list
+ * - Refreshing leases is part of keeping shard ownership during rebalancing
+ * - The in-memory implementation is process-local and does not persist runner
+ *   registrations or locks across restarts
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as RunnerStorage from "./RunnerStorage.ts";
 /**
+ * The `ShardId` module models the address of a shard inside an Effect Cluster
+ * shard group. A shard id is made from a string `group` and numeric `id`, and
+ * the module gives that pair stable equality, hashing, primary-key behavior,
+ * schema support, and conversion to and from the `group:id` string form used by
+ * routing and storage boundaries.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Create or reuse a cached shard identifier with {@link make}
+ * - Check runtime values with {@link isShardId}
+ * - Encode or decode shard identifiers with {@link ShardId}
+ * - Format for logs, persistence, or transport with {@link toString}
+ * - Parse encoded shard keys with {@link fromString} or {@link fromStringEncoded}
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Equality and hashing are based on the `group:id` representation, so both
+ *   fields must match for two shard ids to be equal
+ * - Encoded strings are split at the last `:`; groups may contain colons, but
+ *   ids must parse as numbers
+ * - This module identifies shards after a routing or hashing decision; it does
+ *   not choose a shard for an arbitrary entity key
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as ShardId from "./ShardId.ts";
 /**
+ * The `Sharding` module coordinates cluster-wide placement and delivery for
+ * entities and singletons. It hashes entity ids into shard ids, tracks which
+ * runner owns each shard, acquires local shard locks, and routes RPC messages
+ * to the runner that is responsible for the addressed entity.
+ *
+ * Use this module when building clustered services that need location
+ * transparency for stateful entities, singleton workloads that should run once
+ * per shard group, or durable message processing backed by cluster storage.
+ * Registered entity handlers are started on demand for shards owned by the
+ * current runner, while clients produced by the {@link Sharding} service route
+ * requests through the sharding service instead of calling handlers directly.
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Shard assignment and shard acquisition are distinct: a runner may be
+ *   assigned a shard before it has acquired the storage lock for that shard.
+ * - Routing depends on the entity shard group and the configured shard count,
+ *   so changing either value affects where entity ids are placed.
+ * - Persisted messages are only read and dispatched for shards currently owned
+ *   by the local runner; shutdown and runner health changes can temporarily
+ *   move work between runners.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as Sharding from "./Sharding.ts";
 /**
+ * The `ShardingConfig` module defines the configuration used by a cluster
+ * runner to participate in Effect Cluster sharding. It describes how a runner is
+ * addressed by other runners, which shard groups it can host, how many shards
+ * are assigned per group, and the timing settings used for locks, assignment
+ * refreshes, health checks, entity lifecycle, and message polling.
+ *
+ * Use this module when wiring a sharded application locally with
+ * {@link layer}, loading deployment settings from environment variables with
+ * {@link layerFromEnv}, or overriding selected defaults for tests and
+ * single-node development. In production, keep cluster-wide values such as
+ * `shardsPerGroup` and shard groups consistent across runners, choose stable
+ * externally reachable runner addresses, and tune lock expiration and refresh
+ * intervals to match the storage backend and shutdown behavior of the
+ * deployment platform.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as ShardingConfig from "./ShardingConfig.ts";
 /**
+ * The `ShardingRegistrationEvent` module defines the events emitted by
+ * `Sharding` when the local runner registers entity handlers or singleton
+ * workloads. These events are useful for observing the set of capabilities a
+ * runner has made available, coordinating startup hooks, and writing tests or
+ * integrations that need to react when registrations are complete.
+ *
+ * Registration events describe local registration, not shard ownership or
+ * execution. A runner may register an entity or singleton before it owns the
+ * shard that will run it, and the events are in-memory notifications from the
+ * `Sharding` service rather than persisted cluster state. For persisted
+ * messages, treat registration as the point where the handler is available to
+ * the runner; it does not imply that existing storage work has already been
+ * read or processed.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as ShardingRegistrationEvent from "./ShardingRegistrationEvent.ts";
 /**
+ * The `SingleRunner` module provides a ready-to-use layer for running the
+ * cluster sharding services in a single process. It wires together sharding,
+ * message storage, runner registration, runner health, and sharding
+ * configuration so durable entities and workflows can run without a fleet of
+ * external runners.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Start a local or embedded cluster runner backed by SQL message storage
+ * - Run durable entities and workflows in development, tests, or small
+ *   single-node deployments
+ * - Choose SQL runner storage for persistence or in-memory runner storage for
+ *   short-lived scenarios
+ * - Override sharding configuration while still using the standard
+ *   environment-based defaults
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - The layer still requires a `SqlClient` because message storage is SQL-backed
+ * - Runner health and runner coordination are no-op implementations, so this is
+ *   for single-node use rather than multi-runner cluster coordination
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as SingleRunner from "./SingleRunner.ts";
 /**
+ * The `Singleton` module provides a small helper for registering effects that
+ * should run once across an Effect cluster. A singleton is coordinated through
+ * `Sharding`, which assigns ownership to one node at a time and can move that
+ * ownership when nodes leave or fail.
+ *
+ * Use singletons for cluster-wide background work such as schedulers, polling
+ * loops, maintenance jobs, or consumers that must not have one instance per
+ * process. Because ownership can change during failover, the registered effect
+ * should be interruptible, scoped, and able to resume work without assuming that
+ * the previous owner completed every in-flight action exactly once.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as Singleton from "./Singleton.ts";
 /**
+ * The `SingletonAddress` module defines the address used by cluster sharding to
+ * identify a registered singleton. A singleton address combines the singleton
+ * name with the `ShardId` that owns it, giving the runtime a stable key for
+ * registration events, equality checks, hashing, and runner-local fiber
+ * tracking.
+ *
+ * Use this module when observing singleton registrations or working with
+ * sharding internals that need to tell which shard currently owns a singleton.
+ * The shard id is derived from the singleton name and shard group at
+ * registration time, so changing either value changes ownership and routing.
+ * Ownership can also move as shard locks are acquired or released, so an address
+ * identifies the target shard rather than guaranteeing that a particular runner
+ * is currently executing the singleton.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as SingletonAddress from "./SingletonAddress.ts";
 /**
+ * The `Snowflake` module provides compact, sortable identifiers for cluster
+ * resources and events. A snowflake id is a branded `bigint` made from a
+ * millisecond timestamp, a machine id, and a per-machine sequence number.
+ *
+ * **Common use cases**
+ *
+ * - Creating ids without coordinating through a central database
+ * - Ordering cluster events, entity ids, or log records by generation time
+ * - Encoding ids as strings at service boundaries with {@link SnowflakeFromString}
+ * - Decoding a generated id into timestamp, machine id, and sequence parts with {@link toParts}
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Uniqueness depends on each concurrent generator using a distinct machine id
+ * - Generated ids are time-sortable, but they are not random or secret values
+ * - The default generator prevents local clock drift from moving ids backward
+ * - More than 4096 ids in the same millisecond advance the logical timestamp
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as Snowflake from "./Snowflake.ts";
 /**
+ * The `SocketRunner` module wires cluster runner RPCs to socket transports. It
+ * provides a complete runner layer that serves RPC handlers on a `SocketServer`
+ * and installs `Sharding` and `Runners` clients for talking to other runners
+ * through the socket RPC protocol.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Run a cluster worker over TCP or Unix sockets with {@link layer}
+ * - Connect to other runners while exposing `Sharding` and `Runners` clients
+ * - Embed a client-only cluster participant with {@link layerClientOnly} when
+ *   the process should send messages but not receive shard assignments
+ *
+ * **Transport gotchas**
+ *
+ * - The server listen address comes from the provided `SocketServer` and is
+ *   logged when {@link layer} starts
+ * - TCP addresses are logged as `hostname:port`, while Unix socket addresses
+ *   are logged as their filesystem path
+ * - The client-only layer does not start a socket server; provide the full
+ *   layer when the process must accept runner RPCs
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as SocketRunner from "./SocketRunner.ts";
 /**
+ * SQL-backed message storage for the unstable cluster runtime.
+ *
+ * This module persists encoded cluster envelopes and replies in SQL tables so
+ * shards can resume work after process restarts, redeliver unprocessed messages,
+ * deduplicate requests by primary key, and replay outstanding reply chunks until
+ * they are acknowledged. It is the storage implementation to use when a cluster
+ * needs durable request / reply state backed by `SqlClient` rather than an
+ * in-memory store.
+ *
+ * The storage layer runs its own migrations and creates messages, replies, and
+ * migration tables using the configured prefix (`cluster` by default). Choose a
+ * stable prefix before deploying, because changing it points the runtime at a
+ * different set of tables. Existing deployments should also keep the generated
+ * migration history table with the message tables so future schema changes can
+ * be applied consistently across supported SQL dialects.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as SqlMessageStorage from "./SqlMessageStorage.ts";
 /**
+ * SQL-backed storage for Effect Cluster runner metadata and shard ownership.
+ *
+ * The `SqlRunnerStorage` module builds a `RunnerStorage` implementation from a
+ * `SqlClient`, creating the runner and lock tables it needs using the configured
+ * table prefix. It is used by clustered applications that need runner
+ * registration, health tracking, shard acquisition, refresh, and release to be
+ * coordinated through an external database instead of in-memory state.
+ *
+ * **Common tasks**
+ *
+ * - Provide the default storage layer with {@link layer}
+ * - Use {@link layerWith} when multiple clusters share the same database and
+ *   need distinct table prefixes
+ * - Create a storage implementation directly with {@link make} for custom layer
+ *   composition
+ *
+ * **Gotchas**
+ *
+ * - Runner heartbeats and persisted shard locks expire according to
+ *   `ShardingConfig.shardLockExpiration`; stale rows may be reused or cleaned up
+ *   by later storage operations.
+ * - PostgreSQL and MySQL use advisory locks by default, keeping shard ownership
+ *   tied to a reserved database connection. Set
+ *   `ShardingConfig.shardLockDisableAdvisory` when persisted lock rows should be
+ *   used instead.
+ * - The selected table prefix controls the generated `runners` and `locks`
+ *   table names, so changing it points the cluster at a different storage
+ *   namespace.
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as SqlRunnerStorage from "./SqlRunnerStorage.ts";
 /**
+ * The `TestRunner` module provides a lightweight in-memory cluster layer for
+ * tests that need the cluster sharding services without starting real runners
+ * or relying on external storage.
+ *
+ * Use it when exercising sharding behavior, message storage, or code that
+ * depends on the cluster runner services in unit and integration tests. The
+ * layer wires the normal sharding service to in-memory message and runner
+ * storage, along with no-op runner and health implementations.
+ *
+ * **Testing gotchas**
+ *
+ * - State is held in memory and scoped to the layer lifetime; it is not shared
+ *   across independently constructed layers or persisted between test runs
+ * - Runner execution and health checks are no-ops, so this layer is best suited
+ *   for testing coordination and storage behavior rather than real distributed
+ *   runner processes
+ *
  * @since 4.0.0
  */
 export * as TestRunner from "./TestRunner.ts";