The four telemetry gaps (rows on commits, chord.host, microsecond times, a read-only store) and: pages record and
send span batches over their link to the server's ingest object (checked, capped, rate-limited, stamped browser and
with the link's principal); workers send theirs too, so the server is the store's only writer; principalAttributes
lets an app choose what a span records about its principal. The tutorial shows a real page's click traced to the
worker, with the trace viewer.
Chord's telemetry schema; spans for calls, methods, relays, holds, activations, natives, loads, reloads, resolves,
revocations, routines, jobs and HTTP requests; trace carriers on hold and call (bounded, printable ASCII) continued by
relays and workers; events and host-wide metrics; the app kit passes an adapter to its hosts. renderTrace escapes
control characters. Example 62 prints a trace across three hosts.
A call arriving while an attempt activates waits for its outcome (bounded by readyTimeout) instead of failing
not_ready while its client sees live. Fates start in the reverse of the order objects went live, so a pure
dependent of a swapping provider swaps instead of parking.
defineMessages with typed t, t.message/t.render for messages as data, the Translations registry with fallbacks and
conflicts, a locale preference per principal with the device as default and a live switch, useMessages and
scope.messages, formatTime/formatNumber. The tutorial gains a chapter on languages.
self.query(table, q, limit) runs before the object goes live and again in the commit step of every commit that
touched the table, publishing only the diff; a reload swaps the object. The tutorial and 59-chat use it.
The heartbeat no longer counts time the process did not run (a laptop's sleep, a blocked event loop) as silence: after such a pause each open link pings at once and closes only if its peer stays silent for close - ping.
A running worker's lost link is now a stop instead of a failure: worker_link_lost is reported and the held route starts a new worker. A second lost link within a minute of the last recovery still fails the address.
A worker killed by a signal left its lock's socket file, and every later start of its address failed closed on it, retry too. The workers component now removes a lock socket file nobody accepts on before each start and after a child's exit by a signal, in the address's queue. processLock also treats ENOTSOCK as stale instead of retrying until its context ended.
- get, hold and registry on a host that has not loaded throw not_ready at once.
- A registry with contributions and no provider is reported (registry_undeclared) at publication.
- A request waiting unbound is reported once after 5 s (unbound_long; one clock per host), and keeps waiting.
- An invalid plugin name makes load and reload throw before any change.
- A transaction cancelled by the end of its context is reported (transaction_cancelled) besides rejecting.
- Docs: who a reference acts as, no per-link call limit, await what you start in a root or a handler.
src/next is src (the main export), src/next-node is src/node with short subpaths (/http, /workers, /plugins,
/plugins/runtime, /app, /surfaces, /web, /react, /tui, /tui/launcher); the foundations get /json and /watch;
Chord v1 moves to src/old (/old, /old/node) until p2 runs on v2; tests and docs move likewise (test/, docs/,
test/old, docs/old). Durable and env import the foundations from their subpaths.
- Web: base bundles built from the app's entry at start (content-hashed, served
forever), plugin scripts that register themselves and one combined file,
WebScripts/TuiScripts showing the current set, startPage with the connection
loop, in-place plugin reloads and a reload on a new base bundle.
- React bindings: HostProvider, useHold, useWatch, useRegistry, useRefState.
- Terminal: startTerminal, a launcher that signs in with a token, a token file or
device pairing and always runs the app's terminal code in a sandboxed child
process (pipes, empty environment, --permission granting nothing, no SQLite,
a builtin allowlist and a frozen process inside); output filter, confirmed
copy/open/attach actions; startTerminalRuntime and TuiScope inside.
- Themes: the Themes registry, ThemeChoice per principal, CSS variables on the
page, terminal colours by role; CSS modules in plugin builds.
- App kit: startServer gains web and tui; startApp renamed startServer,
exportAddress/importAddress renamed exportData/importData and export no longer
stops the worker; ephemeral sessions end with their client's last link.
- Examples 56-web, 57-tui, 58-themes, 59-chat.
chord/next/app: startApp and startWorker with the fixed app layout, worker kinds,
AppInfo and WorkerInfo; sessions (hashed tokens, rolling cookies, bearer tokens),
the one-time owner link, the owner token file, device pairing; Files per host
with ordered chunked uploads; export and import per address; plugin roots,
installs and applyChanges; optional users, invite and ephemeral login facets.
HTTP: deny by default (public routes and sockets), remoteAddress,
readSignedCookie. Examples 53-55.
Plugins import the app's versioned API (createPlugins api option: unlisted
versions, other kinds' modules, mixed versions and direct Chord imports refused),
each other by relative path within a root or by package name across
repositories (npm or git pins), with per-kind files checked by name.
chord.plugins lists a package's plugins. Required roots, single-file plugins,
installPlugin from git or npm, testPlugin with stub facets.
plugin-authoring.md for authors and agents. Examples 49-52.
