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Two contracts that documented more than they enforced.

The staging-store kit is one mandatory check

check_failed_put and check_failed_first_put were entry points beside
check, so a host that called check and stopped was held to half the
StagingStore contract with nothing at compile time, in CI, or in review to
say a case had been skipped. That is the same shape as the browser/desktop seam
drift the failed-put case was written to catch.

The fault lever is now a required parameter of the single check, and the kit
runs three phases against three named backings (Backing::Ordering,
FailedReplacement, FailedFirstPut) — each its own initially empty durable
state, reopened on repeat asks. Dropping the lever from a host's call no longer
compiles. Every other kit in testkit/conformance already had exactly one
check, so the shape is uniform again; the module header now states the rule.

Hosts moved with it:

  • FileStagingStore — one test instead of three, crates/desktop-seams/tests/conformance.rs
  • StagingStoreAdapter — one wasm export (runStagingStoreConformance) instead of three
  • InMemoryStagingStore — a new InMemoryStagingBackings fake hands one store per backing

Backing::ALL is exported through the bridge as stagingStoreBackings(), so
the browser host prepares and asserts over the set the kit declares rather than
a transcribed copy of it, and the desktop host's lever match is exhaustive.

The #[cfg(unix)] hazard: made portable, gate removed

file_staging_store_passes_the_failed_first_put_kit was Unix-only because the
Windows lever denies a read-only sidecar, and a first put has no sidecar yet.
Rather than keep a platform gate on a now-mandatory case, the first-put lever
changed: it removes the still-empty staged/ directory, so atomic_write's
temp file has nowhere to land. That fails the put identically on both platforms
(the Unix lever also fails at File::create in staged/), loses nothing —
the backing is empty by definition in that phase — and FileStagingStore::open
recreates the directory for the kit's read-back. No #[cfg] remains on any
staging-store conformance test.

Browser leg

The kit now runs end to end under both OPFS write faults (short write and
throwing write) rather than only the failed-put phases, and still asserts the
staged-directory entry counts afterwards — the debris check no kit assertion
can make. Each fault pass uses its own store names: the kit's handles stay
open, and an IndexedDB delete under an open connection blocks rather than
clears.

Negative controls still fire, one per failure phase: a host that destroys the
previous bytes is caught by the replacement phase, and a host that strands a
partial record where the key held none is caught by the first-put phase. The
in-memory fake's strand injector now strands only when the key is absent, so it
is honest on replacement and reaches the phase it is a control for.

Closes #1195

The record ceiling is the IPFS block ceiling

MAX_RESOLVED_RECORD_BYTES was 4 MiB while block/put refuses anything over
2 MiB, so a head or DAG root between the two was authorable, signable, and then
refused by the engine's own ingress. Lowered to the block limit, so
HeadTooLarge/RootTooLarge fire client-side as permanent, actionable errors.

Rule 8 cover for the sealed leaf is a pair, because the chunk size is injected:

  • a const assertion in content/limits.rs pins the shipped
    ContentProfile::PRODUCTION against the ceiling at build time, where nothing
    can strip it;
  • ContentProfile::new now returns None for a chunk size that seals past the
    ceiling, exactly as it already does for zero. That is the release-active
    half, and it covers every injected profile — a profile that frames leaves
    this engine's own read_block rejects is unrepresentable rather than merely
    guarded. new_rejects_a_chunk_size_that_seals_past_the_block_ceiling and the
    whole content:: suite were run under cargo test --release.

assemble_accepts_a_root_just_under_the_block_cap was re-authored rather than
deleted: 100k links (~3.8 MiB) no longer fit, so it now assembles 54k links and
asserts the root is both under the cap and within a tenth of it, so the
accepting side of the guard is exercised at the boundary instead of far below
it.

Closes #915

Fallout the issue did not list

  • The KAT capacity vectors pin the flat-DAG ceiling, which halves with the cap.
    Regenerated through the committed generator
    (cargo run -p cipherbox-engine --example kat_gen): 110375 links → 55187.
  • root_block_len_matches_the_assembled_root compared the sizing arithmetic
    against the encoder at leaf counts that are now over-cap. Its counts drop to
    the reachable range, and the over-cap agreement moved into
    assemble_fails_closed_when_the_root_exceeds_the_block_cap, which now
    asserts the reservation arithmetic refuses the same root at the same size.
  • content_wipe.rs's assembly-buffer growth test framed 2 MiB chunks, whose
    sealed leaves are now over-cap. Its chunk size drops to 1 MiB, which still
    overruns the preallocation. This touches a file another PR is editing.
  • blueprint/core.md cited "the 4 MiB block ceiling" for the coupled
    history-link retention bound.

Known duplication, not addressed here

The 2 MiB ingress ceiling is now declared in three places:
content/limits.rs, crates/load/src/plan.rs (MAX_BLOCK_BYTES), and
apps/api/src/app-setup.ts (DEFAULT_MAX_UPLOAD_BYTES, overridable by
MAX_UPLOAD_BYTES). Unifying them means widening the engine constant's
visibility and reaching into two other packages; the live contract suite is the
right place to pin the relationship instead.

Verification

cargo fmt --all --check, cargo clippy --all-targets (clean),
cargo test --workspace (green), cargo test --release -p cipherbox-engine --lib content::,
the Playwright browser conformance suite (9 passed), pnpm typecheck,
pnpm lint, pnpm lint:md, pnpm lint:tracker-refs.

/simplify and /security-review were run on this diff. The security pass
found no HIGH or MEDIUM findings: the ceiling change is monotonically more
restrictive on the decode side, every encode site reads the same constant, the
regenerated KAT vectors still bind, and the conformance kit is gated out of
every production build (test-kit / conformance features).

The Windows leg of the desktop kit cannot be run locally; it rests on
fs::remove_dir of an empty directory and File::create under a missing
parent, both platform-neutral in std.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Reduced the maximum accepted content record size from 4 MiB to 2 MiB.
    • Updated DAG capacity handling and validation for the smaller block limit.
    • Improved custom content-profile validation for oversized or invalid chunks.
    • Preserved existing staged data when interrupted writes fail.
  • Tests

    • Consolidated staging-store conformance coverage across multiple storage backings.
    • Added validation for failed replacements, failed first writes, and resulting staged data.
    • Updated content-capacity fixtures and boundary tests for the new limit.
  • Documentation

    • Updated block-size and history-link retention documentation.

Note

Reduce the block size ceiling to 2 MiB and make the staging-store kit mandatory

  • Reduces MAX_RESOLVED_RECORD_BYTES from 4 MiB to 2 MiB in limits.rs; any assembled root or fetched block exceeding this limit is rejected, and the DAG capacity test vectors are updated accordingly.
  • ContentProfile::new now rejects chunk sizes whose sealed leaf would exceed the 2 MiB ceiling, preventing construction of profiles that would produce unpinnable content.
  • Consolidates the staging-store conformance kit into a single check(open, arm_failed_put) entrypoint parameterized by a Backing enum, replacing three separate test runners across Rust, WASM, and browser conformance layers.
  • The WASM bridge drops runStagingStoreFailedPutConformance and runStagingStoreFailedFirstPutConformance; callers must now supply per-backing open and arm_failed_put callbacks to the unified runner.
  • Risk: the 2 MiB block ceiling is a breaking change for any content assembled or fetched under the old 4 MiB limit.

Macroscope summarized 63d9aa1.

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The change lowers the engine content ceiling from 4 MiB to 2 MiB and updates DAG coverage. It also makes staging-store failure checks mandatory through one backing-aware conformance kit across in-memory, desktop, WASM, and browser hosts.

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Content size ceiling

Layer / File(s) Summary
2 MiB content limit and profile validation
crates/engine/src/content/limits.rs, crates/engine/src/content/profile.rs
The record ceiling is 2 MiB. Sealed-leaf size checks now reject zero, oversized, and overflowing chunk sizes.
DAG capacity boundaries and fixtures
blueprint/core.md, crates/engine/src/content/dag.rs, crates/engine/kat/vectors/content/*, crates/engine/tests/content_wipe.rs
DAG documentation, capacity tests, fixtures, and buffer-growth coverage use the reduced ceiling.

Staging-store conformance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Backing-aware conformance contract
crates/engine/src/testkit/conformance/*
The kit exposes three backing cases through one check function and includes replacement-failure and first-put-failure checks.
Shared fake backings and engine validation
crates/engine/src/testkit/fakes/*, crates/engine/tests/conformance_fakes.rs, crates/engine/tests/staging_atomic_put.rs
In-memory backings preserve existing records during failed replacement writes. Engine tests run the unified kit and retain negative controls for invalid implementations.
Desktop and WASM host integration
crates/desktop-seams/tests/conformance.rs, crates/wasm/src/conformance.rs
Desktop and WASM callers select named backings and provide backing-specific failure injectors.
Browser backing isolation and assertions
packages/client/test/browser/conformance.*
Browser tests run the full kit for both write faults and verify staged-record counts for each backing.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 63d9a

The staging-store conformance and record-ceiling changes are covered by the supplied passing checks; the remaining redundant comment has no runtime or user impact, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant BrowserWorker
  participant WasmBridge
  participant StagingKit
  participant OpfsStagingStore
  BrowserWorker->>BrowserWorker: Reset IndexedDB and OPFS for each backing
  BrowserWorker->>WasmBridge: runStagingStoreConformance(open_backing, arm_failed_put)
  WasmBridge->>StagingKit: check(open, arm_failed_put)
  StagingKit->>OpfsStagingStore: Open Ordering, FailedReplacement, and FailedFirstPut
  StagingKit->>OpfsStagingStore: Execute durability and failure-atomicity checks
  BrowserWorker->>OpfsStagingStore: Verify staged-directory entry counts
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Possibly related PRs

  • FSM1/cipher-box#1194 — Extends the staging-store failure-atomicity conformance covered by this change.
  • FSM1/cipher-box#886 — Introduces related MAX_RESOLVED_RECORD_BYTES and content-size boundaries.
  • FSM1/cipher-box#666 — Introduces desktop staging-store conformance coverage updated here.

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In `@packages/client/test/browser/conformance.worker.ts`:
- Line 178: Remove the redundant comment above runStagingConformance; do not
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The PR consolidates staging-store conformance into one mandatory, backing-aware check and aligns the engine’s resolved-record limit with the existing 2 MiB IPFS block ceiling.

  • Adds distinct ordering, failed-replacement, and failed-first-put conformance backings across native, WASM, and browser hosts.
  • Rejects content profiles and DAG roots whose sealed blocks exceed the ingress ceiling.
  • Regenerates capacity vectors and updates boundary, failure-atomicity, and allocation-wiping tests.

Confidence Score: 5/5

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Filename Overview
crates/engine/src/testkit/conformance/staging_store.rs Consolidates all staging-store contract phases into one required check using distinct durable backings.
crates/desktop-seams/tests/conformance.rs Adapts the desktop store to the unified kit with platform-portable failure levers.
crates/wasm/src/conformance.rs Replaces separate staging conformance exports with a backing-aware WASM bridge.
packages/client/test/browser/conformance.worker.ts Runs the complete staging kit under both OPFS fault modes and verifies per-backing debris counts.
crates/engine/src/content/limits.rs Lowers the resolved-record ceiling to 2 MiB and adds a compile-time production-profile invariant.
crates/engine/src/content/profile.rs Makes content profiles exceeding the sealed-block ceiling unrepresentable.
crates/engine/src/content/dag.rs Updates DAG capacity boundary tests and reservation checks for the reduced ceiling.

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%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
  Check[Unified staging-store check]
  Check --> Ordering[Ordering backing]
  Check --> Replacement[Failed-replacement backing]
  Check --> FirstPut[Failed-first-put backing]
  Ordering --> Reopen1[Reopen and verify durability]
  Replacement --> Arm1[Arm fault]
  Arm1 --> Verify1[Verify previous bytes survive]
  FirstPut --> Arm2[Arm fault]
  Arm2 --> Verify2[Verify key remains absent]
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…limit

MAX_RESOLVED_RECORD_BYTES was 4 MiB while Kubo block/put refuses anything
over 2 MiB, so the engine would author, sign and hand off a head or DAG root
between the two that its own ingress then rejects. Lower the ceiling to the
block limit, so HeadTooLarge/RootTooLarge fire client-side as permanent,
actionable errors.

Add a const assertion tying the shipped sealed-leaf size to the ceiling: one
extra framing byte would make every content block the engine authors
unpinnable, and a compile-time check cannot be stripped in release.

The flat-DAG ceiling halves with the cap, so the KAT capacity vectors are
regenerated through the committed generator.

Closes #915
… check

check_failed_put and check_failed_first_put were entry points beside check,
so a host that called check and stopped was held to half the contract with
nothing at compile time, in CI, or in review to say a case was skipped -
the same shape as the seam drift the failed-put case was written to catch.

The fault lever is now a parameter of check, and the three phases each take
their own named backing, so omitting the lever is a compile error rather
than an omission. Every other kit already had a single entry point, so the
shape is uniform again.

The desktop first-put lever is now portable: it removes the still-empty
staged directory rather than denying writes to it, which Windows honours
where it honours no denial on a path that does not exist yet, so the case
no longer skips on Windows.

Closes #1195
…iling

The const assertion covers only the shipped profile, but ContentProfile is
injected and ContentProfile::new accepts any nonzero chunk size, so an
oversized profile would frame leaves this engine's own read_block rejects.
ContentProfile::new now fails closed on that the same way it fails closed on
zero, which is the release-active half of the rule 8 pair.

Also fold the sizing-vs-encoder refusal agreement into the existing
over-cap test rather than a second pass over 65k-link DAGs.
Backing::ALL is exported through the wasm bridge so the browser host prepares
and asserts over the kit's own backing set instead of a transcribed copy, and
the desktop host's lever match is exhaustive so a new backing breaks the build
rather than silently arming the wrong store.
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CodeRabbit: Actionable comments posted: 1, no nitpick section and nothing out of scope. Greptile: clean, no inline comments. The one finding is fixed in 845b06d3a and its thread is resolved.

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Minor — redundant comment on runStagingConformance Taken, reworded rather than removed. Half of it restated the signature; the other half was the reason the pass is correct.

The suggestion was to delete the comment or state why the helper owns isolated stores. Deleting it would have dropped the second half: STAGED_AFTER_KIT asserts an exact leftover staged-record count per backing, so another fault's debris would be read as this pass's and fail the assertion for the wrong reason. The restatement is gone and the reason is stated.

This push also rebases onto main at the device-approval merge. No file overlap between the two, so the rebase was clean, and the Rust gates were re-run on the rebased base rather than assumed: cargo fmt --all --check pass, clippy --all-targets clean, engine lib 1006 passed, and the three integration binaries this PR touches — conformance_fakes, staging_atomic_put, content_wipe — all green with no test lost.

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