MQTT has no discovery protocol, so the AdminUI address picker learns the topic
space the only way there is: subscribe to the wildcard and accumulate what
arrives. MqttBrowseSession serves that observation as a segment tree (split on
'/'); MqttDriverBrowser opens it with a distinct "{clientId}-browse-{guid8}"
identity under a 5-30 s clamped budget.
Browsing publishes NOTHING - the load-bearing safety property, since the picker
runs against a live plant broker. Every outbound message must route through the
single PublishAsync seam that counts into PublishCountForTest; P2's operator-
triggered Sparkplug rebirth is the one intended exception. Sparkplug mode fails
fast rather than serving a raw spBv1.0 topic tree that looks like a metric tree.
Deviation from the plan's ref list: the project also references .Driver so the
browse CONNECT reuses MqttConnection.BuildClientOptions (TLS posture, CA-pin
chain validator, credentials). A second copy would be a security divergence.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GASWkNEi68FSCtvr6rLoEW
Joseph Doherty