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fix(mount): make --once reach a complete reconcile, and stop the two state.json writers clobbering each other - #457
fix(mount): make --once reach a complete reconcile, and stop the two state.json writers clobbering each other#457khaliqgant wants to merge 7 commits into
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…ete reconcile `relayfile-mount --once` returned as soon as one reconcile finished. A single reconcile mirrors at most defaultBootstrapMaxFilesPerCycle (2000) files, then persists a resume cursor and yields with traversal_complete=false while markSyncSuccess still stamps lastSuccessfulReconcileAt. So on any workspace larger than that budget `--once` exited 0 with a non-null `bootstrap` block still in .relay/state.json. AgentWorkforce/sandbox reads exactly that field as the initial-sync readiness barrier and exits 75 (TEMPFAIL, "relayfile initial sync paused before complete readiness"). That is the mechanism behind #455's 100% JIT-provision failure rate: it is structural, not the race hypothesised from #412 -- the sandbox runs this binary, which has a single .relay/state.json writer. --once now resumes the persisted traversal checkpoint until the bootstrap completes. The loop is bounded by root-context cancellation, a terminal error, and a no-progress guard keyed on every resumable coordinate the public bootstrap block exposes (filesSynced alone can be flat while the directory queue advances). Cancellation returns nil so the exit code keeps its historical meaning and the downstream guard still reports a resumable TEMPFAIL, and a cycle that *failed* is never retried -- that keeps one transient cloud error from escalating into a bootstrap stall. Recreate-then-verify: TestInitialSyncOnceSatisfiesSandboxReadinessGuard drives the same path with a 5-file/cycle budget and applies the sandbox's own guard verbatim. It fails with "state.bootstrap != null" on the pre-fix code and passes here. Refs #455 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015sDWHJzWsSYwv9fCtzhZrj Session-Id: 8817afd3-0a74-42ab-8841-5e358ded0641
…state `<localDir>/.relay/state.json` has two writers in one process emitting disjoint schemas to the same path, roughly once per second: mountsync's savePublicState and the CLI's writeMirrorStateFile. The mirror writer serialized its own struct over the whole file, so whichever writer ran last decided which half of the schema existed -- consumers saw a document with no `providers` (mountsync won) or no `files`/`counters`/`states`/`circuit` (the CLI won), and every guard keyed on the missing half silently failed open. The mirror writer now merges: it clears the keys it owns -- so a cleared field (a drained stallReason, a resolved lastError) is not resurrected -- then overlays its snapshot, leaving mountsync's fields intact. mirrorStateOwnedKeys is pinned to the syncStateFile JSON surface by a reflection test so it cannot drift. The merged write is compact, matching the mountsync writer, because the document now carries the per-file map and this write fires on every local-change batch. Two consequences of the same file that this also closes: - writeMirrorStateFile stamped lastReconcileAt = now unconditionally, making the document fresh by construction, so no consumer could ever observe a stale mount. It now only stamps when the mount reported no reconcile time. - The CLI daemon's mountsync.NewSyncer call omitted Interval, so the syncer's interval was the zero value and its public state advertised intervalMs: 0 -- which makes every consumer's staleness check early-return "fresh" forever. Recreate-then-verify: TestMirrorStateWriteKeepsMountsyncFields runs a CLI mount cycle and asserts both writers' fields survive in one document. On the pre-fix code it reports localRoot, syncMode, states, files, counters and staleAfter all clobbered. Not addressed here, both on other surfaces: the SDK's isMountStateReady fail-open on an absent `providers` array, and the failedWritebacks lost update across the two writers. Refs #412 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015sDWHJzWsSYwv9fCtzhZrj Session-Id: 8817afd3-0a74-42ab-8841-5e358ded0641
…s rules #412 named this file as a documented public contract that three guides tell agents to read, but it did not say what the two in-process writers guarantee, and #455 turned on a readiness rule the contract never stated. Record both: a write from either writer must not remove the other's keys, an absent key means "not reported" rather than "the other writer won", and a non-null `bootstrap` block means the mount is not ready however fresh `lastSuccessfulReconcileAt` looks. Refs #412, #455 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015sDWHJzWsSYwv9fCtzhZrj Session-Id: 8817afd3-0a74-42ab-8841-5e358ded0641
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Codex flagged on PR #457 that the previous commit fixed only one direction: the CLI mirror writer stopped deleting mountsync's keys, but mountsync still serialized publicState over the whole document and deleted the CLI's. The path it named is real. In the CLI mount daemon's timer loop, a healthy websocket plus watcher takes the non-reconcile branch, which calls RefreshRealtimeStateWithContext -> saveStateWithoutLocalScan -> savePublicState with no following writeSnapshot. Every such refresh removed `providers`, `daemon` and `guards` from the published document until some later snapshot happened to run. Both writers now go through internal/mountstate, declaring the keys they own: - Merge/MergeFunc replace exactly those keys and preserve every other key, including ones the build does not know about. - One process-wide lock replaces the arrangement #412 documented, where one writer's mutex appeared to synchronize against a writer that could not take it. - The document holds json.RawMessage values, so merging a public state that carries a multi-megabyte per-file map does not deep-decode it on a path that runs on every reconcile and every local-change batch. That lock also closes#412's lost update. Both writers now read `failedWritebacks` inside the same lock hold as the write that carries it forward, and incrementFailedWritebacksInState became mountstate.Increment. TestIncrementSurvivesConcurrentMerges lands all 200 increments against a concurrently republishing writer under -race; before, increments were lost in 5 of 6 runs. Removes the now-dead failedWritebacksStateMu, readPersistedFailedWritebacksUnlocked, uint64FromJSONValue and readPublicFailedWritebacks. Recreate-then-verify: TestSavePublicStateKeepsCLIMirrorFields reports `providers`, `daemon` and `guards` clobbered when only the savePublicState merge is reverted. Refs #412 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015sDWHJzWsSYwv9fCtzhZrj Session-Id: 8817afd3-0a74-42ab-8841-5e358ded0641
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In `@cmd/relayfile-cli/main.go`:
- Around line 12274-12305: The state writers are not serialized:
writeMirrorStateFile() can race with Syncer.saveState() and overwrite newer
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…cellation cubic flagged on PR #457 that TestInitialSyncOnceStopsWhenRootContextEnds could pass by finishing normally: nothing stopped the bootstrap completing inside the window, and the test never asserted that cancellation had fired, so it could not catch a regression in the bound it was named for. That is right. Measured on this machine the run did cancel -- 200 files at 2 per cycle takes longer than 2s because each cycle re-lists the tree and rescans locally -- but nothing guaranteed it, and a faster machine would have turned the test green for the wrong reason. The workspace is now sized so it cannot finish (400 files, 2 per cycle, each read delayed), and the test asserts both that the context was cancelled and that the bootstrap is still in progress afterwards -- so a run that completes normally fails instead of passing silently. Timing should not be what pins a branch, so each bound also gets a deterministic unit test against finishInitialBootstrap directly: - an already-cancelled context returns without running a cycle; - a failed cycle is not retried, keeping --once's single-attempt behavior so one transient cloud error cannot escalate into a bootstrap stall; - a checkpoint that stops advancing stops after onceBootstrapStableCycleLimit cycles rather than spinning to the ceiling. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015sDWHJzWsSYwv9fCtzhZrj Session-Id: 8817afd3-0a74-42ab-8841-5e358ded0641
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…read cubic flagged on PR #457 that readDocumentLocked treated every read failure as an empty document. A merge writes back everything it read, so a transient EIO or a permissions change would have deleted the other writer's keys — the exact clobber this package exists to prevent, reached by the code meant to prevent it. Read failures other than "not found" now propagate, and the write does not happen. Three cases, each pinned by a test: - missing file: not an error, the first write has to start somewhere; - unreadable file: error, nothing is written, the previous document survives intact; - unparseable file: still overwritten on purpose. Writes go through an atomic rename so a torn document should be unreachable, and refusing to rewrite a corrupt one would strand the mount with it forever. `Read` keeps returning an empty document on any failure: a reader has nothing to destroy, and its callers have no error path. Also closes the coverage gap cubic found in the resume-loop tests. TestFinishInitialBootstrapDoesNotRetryAFailedCycle returned an error from the first `lastCycleErr` call, which is the pre-loop gate — so the in-loop failed-resume-cycle branch was never executed. Split into two tests: the pre-loop gate, and a new one where the first cycle succeeds and a resume cycle then fails, asserting exactly one cycle ran. Refs #412 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015sDWHJzWsSYwv9fCtzhZrj Session-Id: 8817afd3-0a74-42ab-8841-5e358ded0641
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…l a mount Chief raised on PR #457 that 4e3c110's fail-closed read could become permanent. It reproduced: with the state file left unreadable, ten consecutive publish attempts were all refused, and nothing would ever have cleared it. That matters more than a stuck counter. The sandbox readiness guard treats an unreadable state file exactly like a missing one (`catch { complete = false }`), so a permanent refusal and a permanent exit 75 are the same observable — the relayfile#455 failure, reintroduced by the fix for relayfile#412. Worse, the directory stays writable in that state, so the plain overwrite this replaced would have recovered on its own. The refusal is now bounded. After unreadableQuarantineAfter (3) consecutive read failures the unreadable file is moved aside to `state.json.unreadable-<nanos>` and publishing resumes. By then its keys are unreachable to every consumer anyway, so a live document beats a preserved unreadable one, and the quarantined copy is left for diagnosis. A successful read clears the budget, so an intermittent reader cannot accumulate its way to a quarantine. Tests: the refusal still holds for the first two attempts and still preserves the other writer's keys across a transient failure; it gives way on the third and leaves exactly one quarantined copy; a healthy publish resets the budget. Also adds TestInitialSyncAtProductionBudget, which runs the readiness probe at the real condition behind #455 — 2500 files against the unmodified 2000-file per-cycle budget — rather than only the compressed 5-file version. Run against the released v0.10.50 tag (the build the Daytona image bakes) the same test reports `bootstrap != null` and sandbox exit 75; here it reports exit 0. Refs #412, #455 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015sDWHJzWsSYwv9fCtzhZrj Session-Id: 8817afd3-0a74-42ab-8841-5e358ded0641
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Answering the fail-closed question directly: yes, it could become permanent. Fixed in |
| build | --once exit | bootstrap | guard | sandbox exit |
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| v0.10.50 (released, in the image today) | 0 | filesSynced: 2000, phase: bootstrapping | fail | 75 |
| this PR | 0 | null, status: ready | pass | 0 |
Same probe, same workspace, differing only by build. A control that failed to fail would have meant the probe proved nothing; it fails.
What this is not: a live sandbox. The deployed image bakes v0.10.50 from a GitHub release asset, so no live provision can exercise this build until it ships — see the release-path comment below.
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Merging this PR ships nothing. The release path is four steps, not two — and it is not the npm one.I traced how the mount binary actually reaches a sandbox, and it does not match the Channel 1 — the Daytona image (this is the #455 path)
ARG RELAYFILE_MOUNT_VERSION=v0.10.50
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curl -fsSL -o /tmp/relayfile-mount \
"https://github.com/AgentWorkforce/relayfile/releases/download/${RELAYFILE_MOUNT_VERSION}/relayfile-mount-linux-${relayfile_arch}" \
&& mv /tmp/relayfile-mount /usr/local/bin/relayfile-mountTwo consequences:
The one piece of good news: Channel 2 — the npm fallback, which is lockfile-pinnedFor boxes without the baked binary, So the suspicion about a lockfile pin is right, and it is worse than the two stale pins spotted in the harness worktrees — the nested ones are at The actual chain
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| quarantine := fmt.Sprintf("%s.unreadable-%d", statePath, time.Now().UnixNano()) | ||
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Do not quarantine a directory.
If statePath is a directory, three failed reads reach Line 186. os.Rename then moves that directory and its contents. The following write creates a file at the old directory path. This bypasses the directory guard in writeFileAtomic.
Use os.Lstat before quarantine. Return the read error if the path is a directory. Add a regression test that calls Merge three times with state.json as a directory.
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+ if info, statErr := os.Lstat(statePath); statErr == nil && info.IsDir() {+ return nil, fmt.Errorf("refusing to quarantine directory %s: %w", statePath, err)+ }
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| ifrenameErr:=os.Rename(statePath, quarantine); renameErr!=nil { | |
| ifinfo, statErr:=os.Lstat(statePath); statErr==nil&&info.IsDir() { | |
| returnnil, fmt.Errorf("refusing to quarantine directory %s: %w", statePath, err) | |
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| ifrenameErr:=os.Rename(statePath, quarantine); renameErr!=nil { |
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In `@internal/mountstate/mountstate.go` at line 186, Before the quarantine
os.Rename in Merge, use os.Lstat on statePath and return the read error when it
identifies a directory, preventing the directory from being moved and replaced
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P1: When three write attempts occur during a short read failure, this count-based threshold quarantines the valid state and the next merge publishes from an empty document, removing the other writer’s keys. Use a time-based grace period or keep refusing until recovery/operator action instead of resetting after three rapid attempts.</violation>
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P1: When `statePath` is a directory, the third read failure renames that directory and its contents before the write recreates `state.json` at the old path. Check `os.Lstat(statePath)` and return the read error when it is a directory before quarantining.</violation>
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P1: When three write attempts occur during a short read failure, this count-based threshold quarantines the valid state and the next merge publishes from an empty document, removing the other writer’s keys. Use a time-based grace period or keep refusing until recovery/operator action instead of resetting after three rapid attempts.
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<comment>When three write attempts occur during a short read failure, this count-based threshold quarantines the valid state and the next merge publishes from an empty document, removing the other writer’s keys. Use a time-based grace period or keep refusing until recovery/operator action instead of resetting after three rapid attempts.</comment>
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@@ -141,6 +166,32 @@ func (d Document) Uint64(key string) uint64 {
+ return document, nil
+ }
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+ consecutiveReadFailures[statePath]++
+ if consecutiveReadFailures[statePath] < unreadableQuarantineAfter {
+ return nil, err
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<comment>When `statePath` is a directory, the third read failure renames that directory and its contents before the write recreates `state.json` at the old path. Check `os.Lstat(statePath)` and return the read error when it is a directory before quarantining.</comment>
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@@ -141,6 +166,32 @@ func (d Document) Uint64(key string) uint64 {
+ }
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+ quarantine := fmt.Sprintf("%s.unreadable-%d", statePath, time.Now().UnixNano())
+ if renameErr := os.Rename(statePath, quarantine); renameErr != nil {
+ // Nothing safe left to do: keep refusing rather than write over a
+ // document we can neither read nor move.
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Verification lane — verdict: CONFIRMEDRan this against a real Daytona sandbox. The claim holds on the real path, and the fix clears the barrier. Proof is in #459 (based on this branch; nothing pushed here, not merging). The gap being closed: this PR's evidence is Both exit codesSandbox
File count: 5,685Counted three ways, all agreeing: arm A's own traversal summary ( Raw state.jsonFull raw bytes for both arms are committed in #459 under "bootstrap": {
"phase": "bootstrapping", "filesSynced": 2000,
"startedAt": "2026-09-02T12:16:03.012136651Z",
"currentPath": "/github/repos/AgentWorkforce/relay",
"pageOffset": 170, "directoriesPending": 887,
"directoriesDiscovered": 887, "stallLimit": 20
},
"lastSuccessfulReconcileAt": "2026-09-02T12:18:24.303486294Z",
"status": "bootstrapping"Arm B has no All four claimed steps in one arm-A run: Arm B on the same subtree: 2,000 → 4,000 → 5,685 over three resume cycles, then The control is tight: both arms' first cycles are numerically identical — A second, larger pair on One caveat on the fixThe fixed build removes the Merging this is necessary but not sufficient
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Fixes the code behind #455 and #412.
No live sandbox has provisioned with this build, and none can until it ships —
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v0.10.50. The strongest evidence available without that is anA/B against the released tag, below.
What #455 actually was
Not the #412 race. The sandbox does not run the CLI mount path.
AgentWorkforce/sandboxsrc/mount-script.tsbuildInitialSyncCommandsemitsrelayfile-mount --once— the standalonecmd/relayfile-mountbinary, which hasexactly one
.relay/state.jsonwriter (mountsyncsavePublicState). A two-writerclobber cannot be the mechanism there.
The mechanism is structural, which is why it failed 100% of provisions rather than
intermittently:
Reconcilemirrors at mostdefaultBootstrapMaxFilesPerCycle= 2000 files,then persists a resume cursor and yields with
traversal_complete=false.markSyncSuccess()still stampslastSuccessfulReconcileAt, andrun()returns nil.--oncereturned immediately → exit 0, while.relay/state.jsonstill carried anon-null
bootstrapblock.bootstrap == null→ exit 75, "paused before completereadiness".
Any workspace larger than 2000 files could never satisfy that barrier.#455 noted
that a 100% failure rate argues against a race — it does, and this is why.
Must-fail control against the released build
Run in its own worktree at the
v0.10.50tag — the build the Daytona image bakestoday — at the real condition behind #455: 2500 files against the unmodified
2000-file per-cycle budget, so one
--oncecycle cannot mirror the tree.--onceexitbootstrapfilesSynced: 2000, phase: bootstrappingnull,status: readySame probe, same workspace, differing only by build.
TestInitialSyncAtProductionBudgetruns this; the compressed 5-file/cycle variant below covers the same mechanism faster
for CI.
Recreate → verify, same probe
TestInitialSyncOnceSatisfiesSandboxReadinessGuarddrivesrunSinglePollingMountwithonce: trueand applies the sandbox's guard verbatim (transcribed frombuildRelayfileMountInitialSyncCompletionGuardShell). A 5-file/cycle budget reproducesthe 2000/cycle production shape.
Before (revert the fix hunk only):
After:
...with all 24 files materialized on disk, asserted.
The #455 fix
--onceresumes the persisted traversal checkpoint until the bootstrap completes.Bounded three ways:
timeout/ idle watchdog) returnsnil, sothe exit code keeps its historical meaning and the downstream guard still reports a
resumable TEMPFAIL rather than the
&&chain short-circuiting on a raw non-zero exit.exposes —
currentPath,filesSynced,pageOffset,directoriesPending,directoriesDiscovered.filesSyncedalone is not enough: a cycle can advance thedirectory queue while mirroring no new files, and treating that as a stall would abandon
a bootstrap that is still moving.
A cycle that failed is never retried. Without that, one transient 502 escalated into a
BootstrapStalledError— caught by the existingTestRunSinglePollingMountKeepsNormalCycleFailuresNonFatal, which is whyrunnow recordsthe error it swallows.
#412, which is real and separate
Reproduced on the CLI mount path, which does have both writers.
Before — the CLI mirror snapshot replaced the whole document:
localRoot syncMode states files counters staleAfter circuit outbox lastAppliedRevision—all gone. After: every key present in one document.
Both writers now go through a new
internal/mountstate, each declaring the keys it owns.The first pass at this fixed only one direction — Codex caught it on review, correctly: the
CLI mirror writer stopped deleting mountsync's keys, but
savePublicStatestill serializedpublicStateover the whole document. That matters on a healthy mount, where the CLItimer's non-reconcile branch calls
RefreshRealtimeStateWithContext→saveStateWithoutLocalScan→savePublicStatewith no followingwriteSnapshot, so everyrefresh cycle deleted
providers,daemonandguards.Merge/MergeFuncclear exactly the caller's owned keys and preserve every other key,including ones this build has never seen. Each writer's key set is pinned to its struct's
JSON surface by a reflection test so it cannot drift.
failedWritebacksStateMuappeared to synchronize against a writer ininternal/mountsyncthat could not take it.
json.RawMessage. Public state carries a per-file map that runs tomegabytes on a large workspace and is published on every reconcile and every local-change
batch, so a merge must not deep-decode a structure it only copies or drops.
failedWritebacksinside the same lock hold as the write that carries it forward, andincrementFailedWritebacksInStateis nowmountstate.Increment.TestIncrementSurvivesConcurrentMergeslands all 200 increments against a concurrentlyrepublishing writer under
-race. It is a deterministic assertion on a lock, not thenon-deterministic race demonstration .relay/state.json has two writers with disjoint schemas: readiness fails open and staleness detection is dead #412 warned against wiring up as a gate.
lastReconcileAt = nowstamp, which made the document fresh byconstruction so no consumer could ever observe a stale mount.
mountsync.NewSyncercall now passesInterval. It was the zero value,so public state advertised
intervalMs: 0— and a consumer's staleness checkearly-returns "fresh" forever on a zero interval.
failedWritebacksStateMu,readPersistedFailedWritebacksUnlocked,uint64FromJSONValue,readPublicFailedWritebacks.Deliberately not in this PR
isMountStateReady,[].every() === trueon an absentprovidersarray). Different surface; the merge removes the race that flipped it, but thefail-open shape remains and should be fixed on its own.
failedWritebacksrace itself. The lock is asserteddirectly instead; .relay/state.json has two writers with disjoint schemas: readiness fails open and staleness detection is dead #412 is explicit that its probabilistic demonstration must not become a
CI gate, and I have not added one.
resumable TEMPFAIL is handled as fatal, the sandbox is torn down and the evidence
destroyed. Different repo.
Verification
go test ./internal/mountstate/ ./internal/mountsync/ ./cmd/relayfile-mount/ ./cmd/relayfile-cli/— green.go test -race ./internal/mountstate/ ./cmd/relayfile-mount/— green.scripts/check-contract-surface.sh— SDK parity and contract checks pass.gofmtclean on every touched file.internal/httpapichanges, so the HTTP contract is untouched.Docs:
docs/productized-cloud-mount-contract.mdnow states the two rules this PR relies on— a write from either writer must not remove the other's keys, and a non-null
bootstrapmeans not-ready however fresh
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