Schema helpers are a thin layer over pi-schema's builders with the same JSON,
so fingerprints and stored data are unchanged (proven by schema-switch tests and
a store written by the TypeBox code). Checks through pi-schema; error messages
are pi-schema's; format is an annotation. v1 contracts take any JSON Schema.
map(bytes()) works.
A reference is a request that outlives its provider: a missing provider or a version that does not fit leaves
it unbound, waiting for the name (failed { waiting }, a new FailureCause kind), local and remote alike. An
attempt parks until its dependencies are live, with no timer and no backoff, woken on every state change of a
dependency; its readyTimeout runs only for its own steps. Requests wait only for the host's publication (the
startup deadlock is gone); load resolves at the first outcomes of its host-lifetime objects. Getters wait through
waiting until their readyTimeout. Registry readers are waiting dependencies, woken at every usable value; a last
good value is dropped when a contribution it was built from leaves. Unbound holds count for keep-alive and are
revoked; retry passes on to failed blockers once per operation (operation id and visited list on the wire); the
dependency deadline is gone and parked_long reports a long wait on a remote attempt.
The contract field placement is hostAddress, required on every remote() (type and declaration error); the
fallback for remote types without one is gone. invalid/placement is invalid/host_address. host/placement.ts
(Placement) is host/destination.ts (Destination); here is decided by address alone, and a host without an
address refuses to serve a remote type. A hold always carries its address on the wire (the binary codec's
ADDRESS flag is gone, the text codec requires it). Tests and examples declare their host addresses.
Registries: shared tokens (defineRegistry), one provider per host (host.serve(R, { compose, accepts })),
contributions from facets and host-lifetime objects, plain values or followed Chord watchables, a table
sorted by plugin, lazy compose in the batch that changed the table, failures left out and reported with
the last good value kept; self.registry as a declared dependency, host.registry outside objects, older
readers mapped by accepts[old].value; keyedEntries and orderedEntries. Native sources: self.writable,
registry values and ref.state. self.retryOn wakes failed objects on registry values. host.root gives code
outside objects a call scope sealed at settle, abort and host.close.
Durable: registryReader(value, context); a Session close ends synchronous observers failed
("session closed"), watches still end ended.
The next object runtime moves from the private repository into pi: src/next (contracts, hosts and
objects, documents, derives, links and relays, routines and jobs, the store) with its tests and
examples in test/next, src/next-node (Node compression), and its design in docs/next (design.md, the
decision log decisions.md, the slice plan slices.md, slice specs, books and benchmarks). AGENTS.md
gets its code style. Not exported: the API changes with every slice until it has an entry point.
