Both `IDriver` members had no production call site. Their only consumer was
`MemoryTracking`, deleted with the driver-tier recycle machinery in #522, and
`GetMemoryFootprint`'s doc-comment claimed "polled every 30s by Core" — which
had not been true since v3, even before #522 removed the poller.
Owner decision on #525 was (a) delete rather than (b) build the process-wide
watchdog that would consume them. The driver-side implementations are in git
history and were mostly reusable; what was always missing is the trigger, and a
member nobody calls is how the misleading doc-comment survived this long.
Removed from `IDriver`, all 12 driver implementations, and every test stub —
plus the support code that existed only to feed them, which is the part a
member-only deletion would have left behind as dead weight:
- MTConnect's three per-entry byte-weight constants, its cached
`ProbeModelDataItemCount`, and `CountDataItems` — a full device-tree walk run
on every cache fill to populate a number with no remaining reader.
- OpcUaClient's `_discoveredNodeCount` field and the discovery-pass write to it.
- MQTT's `ApproxBytesPerAuthoredTag`.
Two behavioural notes, neither a change in what the software does:
- `AbCipTemplateCache` now has no production reset path. Its only caller was
AB CIP's flush, which itself had no caller — so nothing changes except how
visible the fact is. Recorded on the type, along with the correction that its
comment's claim about a device `ReinitializeAsync` also flushing it was never
true. A UDT redefined on a live controller keeps its stale shape until the
driver instance is rebuilt.
- MTConnect's `/probe` cache is still dropped, by `InvalidateProbeModel()` on an
Agent restart. That is now `internal` rather than `private` so the tests which
used the flush purely to empty the cache drive the real path instead — they
now cover a case that actually occurs in production. Several unrelated doc
comments cited `FlushOptionalCachesAsync` as the canonical CAS example and are
repointed to it.
Tests: the ones that existed only to assert on the removed members are deleted
(3 OpcUaClient, 3 Galaxy, 2 MQTT, 1 MTConnect, 1 AbCip). Worth noting one was
vacuous — `FlushOptionalCachesAsync_resets_footprint_counter` asserted a
footprint of 0 before the flush and 0 after with no discovery in between, so it
would have passed against a flush that did nothing at all.
Full suite green except 7 failures verified identical on master before and
after (4 AbLegacy integration with the compose profile down, 3
Host.IntegrationTests), checked by name rather than assumed.
Docs corrected where they described this as live: `DriverLifecycle.md` (which
carried the #525 placeholder), `drivers/AbCip.md`, `drivers/AbLegacy.md`, and
`v2/driver-stability.md` — whose "polls this every 30 s" + per-driver
`DriverConfig` memory budget were never built as written and are now banner-ed
as design intent rather than description.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
`SparkplugCodec` handled scalars; `DataSet`, `Template` and `PropertySet` were skipped
with a warning. They now flatten to addressable tags (owner decision, recorded on the
issue):
Template → sibling metrics, `/`-joined, recursively: Motor → Motor/Speed, Motor/Stator/Temp
DataSet → one metric per cell, {column}/{rowIndex}: Recipe → Recipe/Step/0, Recipe/Target/1
PropertySet → node metadata, never tags — it describes a metric rather than being one
Flattening was chosen over OPC UA Structures because flattened scalars are consumable by
any client with no type dictionary, and the result mirrors how the `/raw` tree works.
**The row index is always present, including on row 0.** Emitting a bare column name for
a single-row table and an indexed one otherwise would make a tag's name depend on how many
rows the plant published — a table growing from one row to two would rename every tag
already authored against it.
**A DATA metric carries the parent's alias and no name**, so member names cannot be
composed until the alias table has resolved the parent. Expansion therefore happens in
`SparkplugIngestor.PublishStructuredMembers` — after resolution, at the single funnel both
the DATA and birth-value paths already pass through — not at decode time. The alias table
installs a binding per member so browse enumerates them and a DDATA member that omits its
datatype falls back to the birth's (guessing from the CLR type would read a signed Int32 of
-42 out of its unsigned field as 4294967254).
**Skip-and-warn survives, and refusal is whole** — the explicit requirement on the issue.
A template definition, an unnamed member, an extension value, a column/type mismatch, a
short row, or a payload past MaxDepth(5)/MaxMembers(512) refuses the ENTIRE metric. A
silently half-flattened UDT looks exactly like a complete one in the picker.
The browse picker offers the members and deliberately NOT the structured parent, which has
no value and no servable datatype. The rediscovery signature likewise tracks members rather
than the parent, or a UDT gaining a member would leave the signature unmoved.
Member paths contain `/`, which #509 already solved: the slashed name travels intact as
`metricName` while the derived tag Name is coerced to a legal RawPath segment.
Live-gated 3/3 against the Mosquitto fixture with the project-owned simulator extended to
publish a nested Template and a 2x2 DataSet. Falsified at three points: dropping the member
bindings, not expanding the parent, and refusing to flatten templates each turn exactly the
expected tests red.
Also fixes a regression from the #511 commit in the same branch: `AddOtOpcUaDriverFactories`
resolved `IDriverPrimaryRoleSource` with `GetRequiredService` but only `AddOtOpcUaRuntime`
registered it, so a graph wiring driver factories without the full runtime failed at
resolution. Two Host integration suites do exactly that and caught it; both extensions now
TryAdd the same concrete `RedundancyRoleView`, so the registration is order-independent and
the fail-loud resolve is kept.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
`ActAsPrimaryHost` was accepted by config and by the AdminUI form and did nothing but
log a warning. It now delivers the whole three-part contract or none of it: a retained
`ONLINE` on `spBv1.0/STATE/{hostId}`, a matching retained `OFFLINE` armed as the MQTT
Last Will, and an explicit `OFFLINE` on a clean stand-down.
**The claim is a dedicated connection, not a message.** A Will can only be registered in
the CONNECT packet — it cannot be added to a live session, changed, or withdrawn. So a
claim that is acquired and released at runtime cannot ride the long-lived ingest session.
`SparkplugPrimaryHost` opens its own connection (client id `{clientId}-spbhost`, forced
clean-session) when the node gains Primary and closes it when the node loses Primary; the
connection's lifetime *is* the claim, so every leg follows from its lifecycle. Ingest is
untouched by a role change — no dropped subscriptions, no lost birth cache, no data gap at
the Secondary->Primary transition.
**Primary-gated** (owner decision, recorded on the issue). Both pair nodes subscribe
independently, so an ungated claim means both claim the same host id — and the sharp
failure is not the two fighting over the retained STATE, it is that the SECONDARY's death
fires its Will and publishes OFFLINE while the Primary is healthy, stopping every edge node
in the group. Registering the Will only on whichever node is Primary at connect time fails
the other way: a node that later gains Primary would publish ONLINE with no Will behind it.
New seam: `IDriverPrimaryRoleSource` (`Core.Abstractions`) carrying the *data-plane* verdict
(`PrimaryGatePolicy.ShouldServiceAsPrimary`), not the alarm-drain verdict — an unknown role
with a driver peer present must deny. Registered unconditionally by `AddOtOpcUaRuntime`,
deliberately NOT alongside `IRedundancyRoleView`, which `AddAlarmHistorian` registers only
when that section is enabled: piggybacking would leave a pair with no alarm historian
falling back to "claim unconditionally". Polled on a 1s timer rather than evented — a
process singleton raising events at per-instance drivers outlives every driver it holds.
Accepted trade: a brief edge-visible OFFLINE window during failover. That is a genuine
state transition, not a glitch to hide.
Live-gated 5/5 against the Mosquitto fixture, including the Will leg — `AbandonForTests`
drops the socket with no DISCONNECT, because a clean disconnect makes the broker discard
the Will by protocol rule, so a test driven through `StopAsync` would observe the
stand-down OFFLINE and pass against an implementation that never armed a Will. Falsified:
removing the Will turns that leg and only that leg red.
Also corrects two stale claims found en route: the AdminUI form still said MQTT tags are
read-only (#508 shipped), and the driver doc still said nothing consumes `IRediscoverable`.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
MqttDriver implemented no IWritable, so every MQTT node materialized read-only
regardless of what the operator authored. It now publishes.
Plain -> the tag's writeTopic; UTF-8 text (Raw/Scalar) or a bare JSON
literal (Json)
Sparkplug -> DCMD for a device metric, NCMD for an edge-node metric, carrying
the metric BY NAME with an explicit Datatype and no seq
Both at QoS 0, retain:false. Retain is deliberately not configurable — a retained
command is replayed by the broker on every future subscribe, including the
device's own reconnect, so one stale write would be re-applied forever.
writeTopic is a new, separate TagConfig key, and its ABSENCE is meaningful: the
write is refused BadNotWritable and the node is discovered ViewOnly. The issue's
"do not skip" warning drove the design — the one outcome worse than read-only
nodes is a node that looks writable, returns Good and publishes nothing. Reusing
the read topic would be worse still: it would echo back and read as a confirmed
device value. Browse-time writability is computed by the SAME encoder the write
path uses, so a node cannot advertise writability it would then refuse.
Good means published, not applied — MQTT has no application-level write ack, so
this is Galaxy's optimistic-Good posture and inherits its property: a failed
DEVICE write can never be surfaced. A failed PUBLISH is reported Bad; the
optimism covers what the device did with the command, never whether it was sent.
WriteIdempotent stays default-off.
The encoder is pure and lives in .Contracts, so both wire shapes are testable
without a broker. Unrepresentable values and types with no Sparkplug encoding are
refused rather than coerced — a Reference must not silently become a String on
the wire, and "not-a-number" must not become 0 on a live plant.
LIVE GATE PASSED against the real Mosquitto fixture on 10.100.0.35: 21/21
integration tests, including 6 new ones that observe the published message with
an INDEPENDENT broker subscriber — a fake asserting "publish was called" could
not tell the feature working from the feature publishing to the wrong topic.
The gate earned its keep: the NCMD test initially failed because NCMD is a SHARED
channel — the driver publishes its own rebirth request (Node Control/Rebirth) on
the very topic an edge-node metric write uses, and it arrived first. Correct
driver behaviour, wrong test; the watcher now matches on metric name. Documented,
because anything consuming that topic needs to know. DCMD has no contention.
Offline: 24 encoder + 9 driver tests. The four new status constants are NAMED so
StatusCodeParityTests can see them (#497/#519) — it went 258 -> 262 and validated
each against the pinned SDK.
Also corrects the Mqtt.md "Known gaps" table: prunes the six rows closed in this
round, and fixes the #507 row, which still described rediscovery as inert after
that issue was closed as superseded and its injection path deleted.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
The tier system was documented, operator-authorable, and inert. Deleted rather than activated,
because its premise is gone rather than merely unused.
"Tier C" meant a driver running out-of-process behind an IDriverSupervisor that could restart its
Host without tearing down the OPC UA session. No such process exists anywhere: Galaxy reaches
MXAccess over gRPC to the external mxaccessgw sidecar (PR 7.2 retired the in-process
Galaxy.Host/Proxy/Shared projects) and FOCAS has run in-process since its managed wire client
landed 2026-04-24. Consistently, IDriverSupervisor had ZERO implementations and there was nothing
for one to implement against.
The issue understated the inertness. It says the Tier-C-only protections never engaged, implying
the Tier A/B parts did. They did not: nothing constructs MemoryTracking, MemoryRecycle or
ScheduledRecycleScheduler outside their own unit tests, so the whole Core/Stability recycle layer
was dead — meaning option (a), "pass real tiers", was never a flag flip. It would have meant
writing the wiring that never existed AND arming it.
Deleted: MemoryTracking, MemoryRecycle, ScheduledRecycleScheduler, IDriverSupervisor, the
vestigial DriverTypeRegistry (referenced only by its own tests), and the RecycleIntervalSeconds
knob — which the AdminUI let an operator author and the parser validated while it configured
nothing.
DriverTier itself SURVIVES and is load-bearing: DriverResilienceOptions.GetTierDefaults supplies
the real per-capability timeout/retry/breaker policies via DriverFactoryRegistry.GetTier and
DriverCapabilityInvokerFactory. Only the isolation-and-recycle layer above it is gone.
Deliberately NOT deleted:
- WedgeDetector came along in the same directory and is equally dead in production, but it is
tier-agnostic and is not recycle machinery — it only shares the folder. Restored rather than
swept up in a decision that was not about it.
- IDriver.GetMemoryFootprint() and FlushOptionalCachesAsync() lose their only consumer here.
Removing them touches all 12 drivers and every test stub, so they are documented as
consumerless and filed as #525 instead of buried in this diff.
Compatibility: a deployed ResilienceConfig blob still carrying "recycleIntervalSeconds" parses
cleanly (unknown keys are ignored — guarded by a new test, because a blob that suddenly failed to
parse would fall back to tier defaults and silently discard the operator's real overrides), and
the AdminUI's preserve-unknown-keys bag keeps the key rather than rewriting stored config on an
unrelated edit.
The 01/U-6 knob-inertness guard carried an explicit carve-out admitting RecycleIntervalSeconds was
dormant and out of scope; that carve-out is now gone, so the expected set is literally what the
test's name claims.
Note: Host.IntegrationTests has 2 failures (DriverProbeRegistrationTests.is_idempotent,
PrimaryGateFailoverTests) — verified pre-existing by reproducing both on clean master dc9d947b.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
Closes the §7.2 priority-3 item. Sql was a shipped, merged driver with NO
user-facing documentation at all -- only design and plan files, which describe
what was intended rather than what an operator needs to author one.
Sql.md covers: SQL Server as the only constructed provider (the other four
SqlProvider names are reserved, and authoring one fails rather than falling
back), the KeyValue / WideRow tag models with worked TagConfig, Query being
rejected end-to-end, the config table with real defaults read from
SqlDriverOptions, connectionStringRef never carrying credentials into an
artifact, per-source query grouping and its case-sensitive group keys, and the
value-bound-vs-identifier-validated split that makes it injection-safe.
Calculation.md covers: what a pseudo-driver is and why it occupies a driver slot,
a Calculation-vs-VirtualTags decision table (the two are easy to confuse), the
literal-only ctx.GetTag dependency extraction and the runtime-built-path trap,
the two deploy gates, the all-deps-arrived publish gate, and the Good->Bad-once
error semantics.
Two stale claims found by checking against source rather than inheriting them:
- The driver README's Calculation row still carried G-1 ("no typed config form,
RunTimeout unauthorable"), fixed on 2026-07-27 by CalculationDriverForm.
- docs/Raw.md's "one auto-created default Engine device" NEVER SHIPPED. I had
copied it into the new doc before checking; "Engine" has zero occurrences in
src/ and nothing special-cases Calculation at device creation. Corrected in
both files. The config key was also wrong in my first draft: runTimeoutMs, an
int in milliseconds, not a TimeSpan string -- and it is ignored on reinit
because the evaluator's timeout is constructor-fixed.
Full solution: 49 suites pass; the 2 failures are the known pre-existing
environment ones (AbLegacy.IntegrationTests docker fixture, Host.IntegrationTests).
OpcUaClient.IntegrationTests, which was silently failing, is now green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
#507 was filed as "injection inert in v3, re-migrate onto the raw subtree".
Reading it, the retained code is not revivable: it resolves equipment from
EquipmentNode.DriverInstanceId UNION EquipmentTags, and BOTH are structurally
empty in v3 (AddressSpaceComposer always constructs EquipmentNode with a null
DriverInstanceId; DeploymentArtifact hard-codes an empty EquipmentTags set).
Removing the guard would have changed a log line and injected nothing. So it
is deleted rather than fixed, and #507 closes as superseded by /raw
browse-commit.
Removed: HandleDiscoveredNodes, PartitionDiscoveredByDeviceHost,
ShouldWarnPartition, PlansRoutingEqual, ApplyDiscoveredPlansForDriver,
_discoveredByDriver, the redeploy re-inject tail, DiscoveredNodeMapper,
DiscoveredInjection, AddressSpaceApplier.MaterialiseDiscoveredNodes,
OpcUaPublishActor.MaterialiseDiscoveredNodes, and the Runtime-local copies of
CapturingAddressSpaceBuilder/DiscoveredNode.
The connect-time discovery loop goes too (StartDiscovery, RediscoverTick,
HandleRediscoverAsync, DiscoveredNodesReady, TriggerRediscovery). With
injection gone it had no consumer, and leaving it would either dead-letter or
keep browsing real devices up to ~15x per connect to drop the result.
ITagDiscovery itself stays — the /raw browse picker drives it through
Commons/Browsing/DiscoveryDriverBrowser, which never went through the actor,
so the picker is unaffected.
deferment.md §4.4 called the 18 DiscoveryInjectionDormantV3 tests "Real —
blocked on #507". They are not: they assert an equipment-rooted graft
(EquipmentRootNodeId == "EQ-1") that v3 cannot produce, so they could never
have unskipped as written. Deleted along with DiscoveredNodeMapperTests, the
CapturingAddressSpaceBuilder tests, and the MaterialiseDiscoveredNodes tests
in AddressSpaceApplierTests/OpcUaPublishActorTests. Runtime.Tests skipped:
31 -> 13.
IHostConnectivityProbe is deliberately NOT resolved here. GetHostStatuses()
has no production call site and nothing writes a DriverHostStatus row, but the
table was re-created in the v3 initial migration, so deleting on inference
would be wrong. Split to Gitea #521 with both options costed.
CLAUDE.md, docs/drivers/{Galaxy,TwinCAT,MTConnect}.md updated — they described
the seam as dead.
Build clean; Runtime.Tests 476 passed / 13 skipped; OpcUaServer.Tests 362
passed / 4 skipped.
Adds deferment.md — a source-verified inventory of new-driver status, all 17
open issues, in-code deferrals, open live gates and plan bookkeeping. Every
claim was checked against src/ and git, not against documentation.
Headline finding: three subsystems are authored, persisted and shipped but
never executed —
* Node ACLs: IPermissionEvaluator/TriePermissionEvaluator have zero
production consumers and OtOpcUaNodeManager never references them, yet
ClusterAcls.razor authors NodeAcl rows and ConfigComposer.cs:51 ships them
in every artifact. An authored deny rule has no effect.
* IRediscoverable / IHostConnectivityProbe raise into the void (#518/#507);
nothing ever writes a DriverHostStatus row.
* DriverTypeRegistry is vestigial, so no factory passes a tier and every
driver runs Tier A with the Tier-C protections dormant.
Also records the Calculation driver as picker-visible but unauthorable
(DriverConfigModal has no case) — the "registered but unauthorable" class
recurring after the Sql picker defect — and notes that no parity test guards
DriverConfigModal/DeviceModal, which is why it survived review.
Documentation corrections (source-verified):
* ReadWriteOperations.md claimed "a denied read never hits the driver" via
four types that do not exist in src/. Bannered + struck through; a security
review reading that page would have concluded a per-node ACL gate exists.
* CLAUDE.md: the Change Detection sentence was false (DriverHost consumes
nothing); the mesh Phase 4 and Phase 5 live gates and the auto-down 1-vs-1
gate had all PASSED; the ScriptedAlarmState table was already dropped.
* driver-expansion tracking: Modbus RTU and SQL poll are merged, not
pending — its command table would have made someone rebuild two shipped
drivers in a fresh worktree.
* drivers/README.md: dead DriverTypeRegistry paragraph, retired
SystemPlatform namespace kind, missing Sql + Calculation rows, missing
Modbus RTU-over-TCP transport.
* TwinCAT.md/Galaxy.md promised an address-space rebuild that never happens.
* Historian.md gained the #491 unproven-value-capture pointer.
* IncrementalSync.md and AddressSpace.md bannered as wholesale v2-era (the
rewrite is recorded as still owed, not done here); four v2 status docs
bannered as historical; three wrong-name-for-a-live-type fixes.
Left deliberately untouched: the secrets NoOpSecretReplicator line, which
makes a security claim and needs the real behaviour identified rather than a
rename.
- docs/drivers/MTConnect.md: getting-started guide for the P1 Agent MVP —
config keys read off MTConnectDriverOptions/ConfigDto, capability surface,
RawPath->dataItemId coercion precedence, UNAVAILABLE->BadNoCommunication +
the rest of the quality-code table, CONDITION-as-String, browse-via-the-
universal-browser, the fixture recipe (links the existing IntegrationTests
Docker README instead of duplicating it), and a Known limitations section
covering the two pre-existing fleet-wide gaps this build surfaced
(IRediscoverable/IHostConnectivityProbe have no server consumer; no driver
form blocks Save on validation). Records write-back (MTConnect Interfaces),
P1.5 (native alarms, TIME_SERIES arrays, EVENT->enum), and P2 (SHDR ingest)
as deferred per design doc SS3.6/SS9. Documents where the build diverged
from the design: TrakHound MTConnect.NET was dropped entirely (no XML
formatter in the pinned packages, no injectable HTTP handler) in favor of
a hand-rolled System.Xml.Linq client, namespace-agnostic on LocalName.
- docs/drivers/README.md: adds MTConnect to the ground-truth driver table,
the per-driver doc list, and the fixture coverage-map list.
- docs/plans/2026-07-24-driver-expansion-tracking.md: marks the MTConnect
Wave-2 row Done (22/23 tasks; Task 21 live gate tracked separately in the
plan file, not touched here), corrects mtconnect/cppagent -> mtconnect/agent
in the fixture note, and links the new driver guide.
Deferred-cleanup decision (Task 1 review follow-up): removed
GenerateDocumentationFile/NoWarn CS1591 from Driver.MTConnect.Contracts's
csproj to match all eight sibling .Contracts projects, none of which carry
it. Verified both the Contracts project alone and the full solution still
build clean (0 warnings, 0 errors) with the flags gone — the existing XML
doc comments don't depend on GenerateDocumentationFile to compile.
The cross-driver README still described MQTT as pre-P2 — "Sparkplug B is P2
(`mode: SparkplugB` is a placeholder)" and "Sparkplug B has no fixture yet (P2)".
Both were false as of the P2 merge (c3a2b0f7): SparkplugB is a fully implemented
mode and the live suite is 15 tests (7 plain + 8 Sparkplug) against a
project-owned C# edge-node simulator. Mqtt.md and the scadaproj index were both
already correct; only this file missed the P2 sweep.
Filed the nine Known-gaps rows as tracking issues and linked them, so the table
stops being the only record of them:
#507 IRediscoverable is inert in v3 (platform gap — also Galaxy/TwinCAT/AbCip)
#508 write-through (IWritable) — NCMD/DCMD + plain publish
#509 a metric name containing '/' cannot be browse-committed
#510 _canRebirth captured at browse-open — reaped session still draws button
#511 Sparkplug primary-host STATE publishing (ActAsPrimaryHost)
#512 .Browser references .Driver — extract the client-options builder
#513 editor writes a meaningless payloadFormat into a Sparkplug blob
#514 Request-rebirth unarmable on a plant that birthed before the window
#515 DataSet / Template / PropertySet metric support
#507 is the one worth reading: it is a v3 platform gap, not an MQTT bug —
DriverHostActor.HandleDiscoveredNodes hard-returns, so every IRediscoverable
driver fires into a void and the edge gaining a point needs a redeploy to show up.
No code change; docs + issue links only.
Task 26 — the P2 milestone gate. Ran the live /run verification on an isolated
docker-dev rig (project otopcua-mqtt, ports 9210/4850-4851/14350, image built
from this branch) against the real Mosquitto TLS+auth broker and the C#
Sparkplug edge-node simulator on 10.100.0.35, and recorded the result.
The gate found three defects. Two are the same defect class the P1 gate found
twice — a hand-maintained AdminUI surface left behind by a driver-side feature —
and the third is a pre-existing cross-driver bug that only a Sparkplug flow
could surface.
1. CRITICAL, FIXED — MqttDriverForm still shipped its P1 Sparkplug PLACEHOLDER.
Switching Mode to SparkplugB rendered a "not available yet" notice and NO
Group ID field, so with Sparkplug ingest fully shipped there was still no
way to author a Sparkplug driver from the AdminUI at all. Sparkplug.GroupId
is the driver's entire subscription filter (spBv1.0/{GroupId}/#): blank ⇒
connected, Healthy, ingesting nothing. Now authors all five Sparkplug keys,
MERGES over the existing sub-object rather than replacing it (so a key a
newer driver adds inside it survives an older AdminUI), leaves it untouched
in Plain mode, and validates the group id as the topic segment it is.
Pinned by 8 MqttDriverFormModelTests cases, verified falsifiable — 8 RED
with the fix stubbed out.
2. PRE-EXISTING + CROSS-DRIVER, FIXED — every node label in the shared
DriverBrowseTree was an <a href="#">. In a Blazor Web App, blazor.web.js's
enhanced-navigation click interceptor resolves a bare "#" against
<base href="/">, so clicking ANY browse-tree node label navigated the whole
AdminUI to "/", tore down the circuit, and destroyed the hosting modal —
losing the browse session AND the tag selection. @onclick:preventDefault
does not help: it suppresses the browser's default action, not Blazor's own
interceptor. Labels are now <button type="button">. Dates to the component's
introduction (2026-05-28) and affects EVERY driver's picker; it surfaced
only now because choosing a rebirth scope is the first flow that requires
clicking a label rather than the ▶ toggle (always a button, always fine).
3. FIXED (mitigation) — the browse tree rendered exactly once, at open, and
never again, while OpenAsync returns as soon as the SUBSCRIBE is granted.
On Sparkplug that means it is almost always empty forever, because births
are never retained. Added a Refresh button that re-reads the root against
the SAME session (nothing reconnects, nothing observed is lost, the tag
selection is kept, only the armed rebirth scope is cleared).
Live gate result (all against the real broker + simulator, group OtOpcUaSim):
- driver authored end-to-end through the fixed MqttDriverForm; blob is
Mode:SparkplugB + Sparkplug.GroupId:OtOpcUaSim with enums as names
- browse: BROWSER OPEN chip, Sparkplug-only rebirth panel, tree renders
Group → EdgeNode → [Device] → Metric with the device folder Filler1 and
node-level metric leaves SIDE BY SIDE, and "Node Control/Rebirth" as ONE
leaf (the metric-name-is-not-a-topic-segment rule holding)
- rebirth: group scope names the group + the 32-node cap, Cancel published
NOTHING (simulator log unchanged); edge-node scope → "1 command published"
and the simulator logged "rebirth NCMD #1 received; republishing metadata";
group scope → "2 commands published", both edge nodes re-birthed; a device
and a metric both resolve UP to "edge node EdgeA"; the panel does NOT render
for a Plain MQTT device
- browse-commit wrote bindable tuples with no topic/address key —
{"groupId","edgeNodeId","metricName","deviceId"} for the device metric and
deviceId ABSENT (not blank) for the node-level one, datatypes inherited from
the birth (Int64 / Float)
- deployed (Sealed), and both nodes served live changing values through OPC UA
at the 2 s cadence — Good 0x00000000, no BadNodeIdUnknown
- death→STALE: stopping the simulator drove both nodes to 0x80000000 with an
empty value ~2 s later, and restarting it recovered them to Good on the new
birth (FillCount back to its birth-declared 1000, then counting)
- rediscovery fired exactly TWICE (once per authored scope: OtOpcUaSim/EdgeA
7 metrics, OtOpcUaSim/EdgeA/Filler1 3 metrics) and was then gated across
many subsequent births/rebirths — the anti-storm change gate working, and
EdgeB correctly filtered out as an unauthored scope
- tag editor: opens in SparkplugB (mode inference on reopen) with all four
descriptor fields populated; blank group → "A Sparkplug group ID is
required."; "Plant/1" rejected; "Node Control/Rebirth" ACCEPTED and saved
with the slash whole; dataType override persists and its key is ABSENT again
after selecting "(from birth certificate)"
Two things are NOT verified, and are recorded rather than claimed:
- Rediscovery is INERT in v3 and this is a platform gap, not an MQTT one:
nothing subscribes to IRediscoverable.OnRediscoveryNeeded and
DriverHostActor.HandleDiscoveredNodes hard-returns. A DBIRTH introducing a
metric does NOT change the OPC UA tree; redeploy. Verified from the driver's
log line only, exactly as far as it can be verified.
- A metric name containing "/" cannot be BROWSE-COMMITTED: the derived raw tag
Name is a RawPath segment and may not contain "/", so the spec-mandatory
"Node Control/Rebirth" is refused ("Row 3: Name must not contain '/'"). The
refusal is loud and all-or-nothing, never a silently mis-bound tag, and
Manual entry is the working path. Fixing it needs a name-sanitisation policy
with a collision answer, so it was recorded rather than guessed at.
Also left open + documented: an empty browse tree cannot arm a rebirth (the
scope comes from a tree click, and the session side already accepts a bare
{group}/{edgeNode} — only a UI path is missing); _canRebirth is captured at
browse-open; the tag editor injects the Plain-only payloadFormat key into a
Sparkplug blob (cosmetic — the factory routes on the tuple).
Suites: offline 1528 passed / 0 failed (581 Driver.Mqtt + 809 AdminUI + 138
Core.Abstractions); live 15/15 against the broker + simulator.
Docs: docs/drivers/Mqtt.md brought fully up to date for P2 (Sparkplug config
sub-object, both tag shapes, the ingest state machine, rediscovery, browse +
rebirth + Refresh, a Known-gaps table); Mqtt-Test-Fixture.md gains the simulator
and drops its "Sparkplug has no fixture" claims; infra/README.md §3 gains the
simulator row; CLAUDE.md gains the simulator endpoint facts; the tracking doc
marks MQTT/Sparkplug COMPLETE. docker-dev/docker-compose.mqtt.yml is the
isolated-rig overlay the gate ran on.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GASWkNEi68FSCtvr6rLoEW
Two gaps the Task 23/24 review found, both blocking Task 26's live gate.
Gap 1 — browse-commit produced a silently dead MQTT tag. RawBrowseCommitMapper
had no `Mqtt` case, so a committed leaf fell through to the generic
`{"address": …}` key. Neither MqttTagDefinitionFactory entry point reads
`address`: the tag deployed clean and reported BadNodeIdUnknown forever, with
no signal at commit time. Predates Task 23 (Plain was affected too), but Task 23
built the Sparkplug metric tree precisely so an operator could browse and commit
a binding.
The address is a DESCRIPTOR, not a reference string, and it cannot be recovered
from the browse node id: `{group}/{node}[/{device}]::{metric}` where a metric
name legitimately contains `/` (`Node Control/Rebirth`) — the ambiguity
MetricSeparator's remarks already name. So the session STATES it, via a new
`AttributeInfo.AddressFields` seam, and the mapper reads it. Which keys are
emitted is also how the mapper learns Plain vs Sparkplug — the driver type
reaching it is just `Mqtt`, and the mode lives on the driver config. Key names
are single-sourced in the new `MqttTagConfigKeys` (producer, mapper, factory),
with the literals pinned by a test so a symmetric rename cannot silently unbind
already-persisted blobs. A leaf with no stated address is refused at commit in
words rather than committed dead.
Gap 2 — RequestRebirthAsync had no UI. Task 23 shipped it backend-only; Task 26
step 1 assumes the button, and Task 25's runbook notes the picker tree stays
empty until a birth lands, so it is the only way to fill it on demand. Added to
the /raw browse modal: scope = the clicked tree node (device/metric resolve up to
their edge node, group fans out and is refused whole past 32), an explicit
two-click confirm naming the resolved scope and its consequence, the outcome or
the refusal shown rather than swallowed. Offered only for a Sparkplug session
(new `IRebirthCapableBrowseSession.RebirthAvailable` — one session class serves
both modes, so a type test alone would draw a button that can only throw) and
only to a DriverOperator; the server-side gate remains the boundary.
Tests: MQTT 545 → 581, AdminUI 781 → 800. The round-trip tests feed the emitted
blob to the REAL factory and were falsified by mutating the emitted key name.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GASWkNEi68FSCtvr6rLoEW
The P1 live gate had to insert MQTT driver config directly via SQL: DriverConfigModal and
DeviceModal both fell through to "No typed config form for driver type Mqtt" with no raw-JSON
fallback, so broker host/port/TLS/credentials were unauthorable from the AdminUI. Task 12 built
the *tag* editor; these are the driver + device surfaces.
MqttDriverForm authors the whole MqttDriverOptions connection surface (host/port/clientId,
TLS + CA pin, credentials, protocol version/clean-session/keep-alive, connect timeout, reconnect
backoffs, mode, maxPayloadBytes, and the Plain sub-object). The Sparkplug sub-object stays P2 —
a marked placeholder mirroring MqttTagConfigEditor's stub, with any existing sparkplug keys
preserved untouched.
The connection is authored on the DRIVER, not the device — unlike Modbus/S7/OpcUaClient and
contrary to what docs/drivers/Mqtt.md said. DriverDeviceConfigMerger merges a device's keys up
only when the driver has exactly ONE device, so a device-authored broker connection vanishes
silently the moment a second device is added. MqttDeviceForm is therefore informational (the
GalaxyDeviceForm shape) and round-trips DeviceConfig verbatim; it flags legacy connection keys
left on a device by a pre-form deployment, because those still win via merge-up.
Serialization goes through the ONE shared MqttJson.Options instance (Task 9's decision), never a
fifth per-form copy — pinned by an assertion that an ordinal-only reader CANNOT bind the emitted
blob, and by extending the fleet-wide DriverPageJsonConverterTests guard to resolve a form's
serializer from an explicit external-instance registry when it has no _jsonOpts field. Dropping
the converter from MqttJson.Options reddens 3 tests and leaves the symmetric round-trip green —
the Task 9 lesson, reproduced.
RawTags is stripped from the emitted blob (the deploy artifact owns it) and unknown top-level
keys survive a load->save. Validation mirrors the driver's own [Range] bounds inline, and
ToOptions() additionally clamps, so an ignored error still cannot persist a
connectTimeoutSeconds:0 driver-brick. A non-blank clientId raises the P1 live-gate warning
inline (fixed ids make redundant pair nodes evict each other while both report Healthy).
AdminUI 761/761 green (was 730), TWAE-clean; Driver.Mqtt 266/266 green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GASWkNEi68FSCtvr6rLoEW
Task 14 — the P1 milestone gate. Ran the live /run verification on a docker-dev
rig against the real Mosquitto TLS+auth fixture, and recorded the result.
The gate did its job: it found MQTT was unauthorable in production.
RawDriverTypeDialog's driver-type list is a hand-maintained array that nobody
added MQTT to, so the /raw "New driver" picker never offered it — with every
other layer (contracts, driver, browser, factory, host registration, typed tag
editor) complete and 266 green unit tests. Nothing tied that array to
DriverTypeNames and AdminUI has no bUnit, so no offline test could see it.
Fixed, plus RawDriverTypeDialogParityTests: a reflection parity guard that
fails for ANY DriverTypeNames entry missing from the picker. Verified
falsifiable — RED with "…cannot be authored from the /raw New-driver picker,
so they are unreachable in production: Mqtt" before the one-line fix.
A second gap is left OPEN and documented, not fixed (no task ever covered it):
MqttDriverForm / MqttDeviceForm do not exist, and DriverConfigModal/DeviceModal
have no raw-JSON fallback — so an operator can create an MQTT driver but cannot
author its broker endpoint or credentials. P1 is not operator-complete until
those two razor forms land. The gate authored config via SQL to get past it.
Live gate result (isolated 2-node MAIN stack, image built from this branch,
fixture at 10.100.0.35:8883, AllowUntrustedServerCertificate rather than
pinning the CA into the rig):
- typed MQTT tag editor renders and round-trips; Json shows the JSON-path
field, Raw/Scalar hide it; wildcard topic a/+/c blocked at save; data-type
list offers Float64 and no Double; qos/retainSeed absent on "(driver
default)" and qos:2 written as a number; isHistorized/historianTagname
survive a topic-only edit; SparkplugB renders the P2 placeholder and
switching back keeps Plain values; jsonPath is guidance not a gate in all
three shapes ($ seeded only for a brand-new blank tag, blank stays absent,
clearing saves fine)
- deployed, and both editor-written blobs resolved and served changing live
values through OPC UA (22.8 / 1629, StatusCode Good) — no BadNodeIdUnknown
- the bespoke #-observation browser drove a real broker session and rendered
the fixture's actual topic tree (line1/{counter,state,temperature},
noise/chatter, retained/seed); a Modbus device's picker still correctly
reports "Browsing unavailable"
Also found live and documented (not a code change): both nodes of a redundant
pair run the driver, so a FIXED clientId makes them evict each other forever —
the broker logs "already connected, closing old connection" and both nodes
reconnect every ~2s while still reporting Healthy. Unset (the default) is
correct; confirmed 0 reconnects/60s on both nodes after removing it.
Suites: offline 1134 passed / 0 failed (266 Driver.Mqtt + 730 AdminUI incl. the
3 new guards + 138 Core.Abstractions); live 7/7 against the fixture.
Docs: new docs/drivers/Mqtt.md + Mqtt-Test-Fixture.md (the per-driver + fixture
convention every other driver follows), MQTT rows in docs/drivers/README.md,
TestConnectProbes.md, root README.md, and infra/README.md §3.
CLAUDE.md drift corrected while adding the MQTT endpoints:
- the "every fixture carries project: lmxopcua" claim was false — only the
MQTT fixture does; the filter returns one stack, not the fleet
- lmxopcua-fix.ps1 is Windows-VM-only; on macOS drive the host over ssh/rsync
(and the docker-dev rig itself runs locally under OrbStack)
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GASWkNEi68FSCtvr6rLoEW
Build: 0 errors solution-wide, and 0 warnings from every project this branch
touches. The ~816 solution-wide warnings are pre-existing xUnit1051 /
OTOPCUA0001 / CS86xx in untouched driver + client test projects.
Tests: full solution run compared against a full run on a detached worktree at
the pre-branch baseline 2e46d054. The two failure SETS are identical -- all 13
tests, same names, zero new failures. Net +26 tests: +3 Core.AlarmHistorian
(drain gate), +6 Runtime (role view), +17 Host.IntegrationTests (migrator +
convergence). Set comparison rather than counts, because the suite carries
standing environment- and load-dependent failures a count would hide.
The greps found real drift Task 6 missed -- eight live sites still naming the
deleted SqliteStoreAndForwardSink, including the AdminUI /alarms/historian
panel text, which is user-visible, and a <see cref> in HistorianAdapterActor
that resolved to nothing without warning. All repointed at
LocalDbStoreAndForwardSink; CLAUDE.md's alarm-history paragraph now also
records the LocalDb buffer and the primary-gated drain, and drops DatabasePath
from the knob list. docs/AlarmTracking.md still promised an
AlarmHistorianOptions.Validate() startup warning for a relative DatabasePath
and an empty SharedSecret; both branches are gone, so it now says so.
Code references to AlarmHistorian:DatabasePath reduce to exactly two intentional
ones: AlarmSfLegacyMigrator.LegacyPathKey and its test. No `new SqliteConnection`
remains anywhere in Core.AlarmHistorian.
Recon doc gains the durable verification record: guard-deletion evidence for
both vacuous passes, the two exact-set replicated-table pins (both assert set
equality, so an added or a dropped registration fails), and the baseline test
comparison with a per-failure account of why each of the 13 is not this
branch's.
Stops here per the plan. Task 8's live gate needs explicit go-ahead; nothing on
this branch is to be merged.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GASWkNEi68FSCtvr6rLoEW
HistorianGateway is now the sole historian backend (read + alarm SendEvent +
continuous WriteLiveValues). Document the final state and retire the Wonderware
sidecar from the docs/config/labels:
- CLAUDE.md: rewrite the Historian section — ServerHistorian /
ContinuousHistorization / AlarmHistorian config keys, the IHistorianProvisioning
EnsureTags hook, the GatewayAlarmHistorianWriter SendEvent path + ReadEvents
dependency on gateway RuntimeDb:EventReadsEnabled=true, gateway-side
prerequisites (RuntimeDb flags + historian:read/write/tags:write scopes),
migration note, and two KNOWN-LIMITATION callouts (live-validation gate +
empty historized-ref-set recorder follow-on).
- appsettings.json: fix the stale ServerHistorian block (Host/Port/SharedSecret/
ServerCertThumbprint -> Endpoint/ApiKey/UseTls/AllowUntrustedServerCertificate/
CaCertificatePath/CallTimeout, keep MaxTieClusterOverfetch); add a disabled
ContinuousHistorization block; prune the orphaned Wonderware keys from
AlarmHistorian (keep the SQLite knobs). ApiKey env-supplied via
ServerHistorian__ApiKey (commented; valid strict JSON via _comment keys).
- README.md + docs (Historian.md, AlarmHistorian.md, Configuration.md,
ServiceHosting.md, DriverLifecycle.md, drivers/README.md, Uns.md, VirtualTags.md,
AlarmTracking.md, Client.UI.md, README.md, TestConnectProbes.md): retire the
Wonderware historian backend from current-backend descriptions; fix the stale
ServerHistorian/AlarmHistorian config tables (now gateway shape); convert
drivers/Historian.Wonderware.md to a retired stub pointing at the gateway.
- Source/UI labels (descriptive text only, no behavior change):
OtOpcUaServerHostedService.cs, HistoryPaging.cs, OtOpcUaSdkServer.cs,
HistorianAdapterActor.cs, VirtualTagModal.razor, ScriptedAlarmModal.razor,
AlarmsHistorian.razor now name the HistorianGateway backend.
Build clean (0 errors); AdminUI.Tests green (514 passed).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012SDSQ3AcaXqPcBtDESBRii
First real FOCAS hardware contact (Makino Pro 5 / 31i-B @ 10.201.31.5). A full
v3 data-PDU capture corrected the initial diagnosis: the v3 block envelope is
identical to v1, so only specific payload structs / request math / one client
robustness gap were wrong — not "framing rewrites".
Fixes (all re-validated live through the fixed driver):
- version gate: accept inbound PDU {1,3}, keep emitting v1 (FocasWireProtocol).
- cnc_rdtimer: 8-byte {minute,msec} payload is little-endian (ParseTimer) — the
only decode with an in-range msec field.
- pmc_rdpmcrng: request range widened to the data-type byte width
(end = start + width - 1) so a Word/Long isn't truncated to 0 values
(was spurious BadOutOfRange); decode extracted to ParsePmcRange.
- cnc_rdsvmeter: per-axis LOADELM is 8 bytes (not 12) and names come from the
0x0089 block — ParseServoMeters fixes the misaligned 655360 garbage. Also the
"hang" was NetworkStream.ReadAsync not aborting a stalled socket: ReadExactlyAsync
now disposes the stream on cancellation so a stalled peer can't wedge a poll loop.
- cnc_rddynamic2: contract guard rejecting axis < 1 (driver poll already 1-based).
- FocasDriverProbe: run a real wire session (initiate + cnc_statinfo) instead of
degrading to Ok=true "TCP reachability only" when FWLIB is absent — a bare TCP
listener no longer reports HEALTHY.
cnc_rdparam (0x000e) is unsupported on this control — EW_FUNC across 14
request-framing variants x 4 known-present params; needs a reference FWLIB trace
or is restricted. Deferred (deployed config uses macros, not parameters).
Tests: FOCAS suite 234 green (+16), full solution builds 0 errors. Raw v3
captures checked in under tests/.../Fixtures/v3/. Capture tools under scripts/focas/.
Docs: docs/plans/2026-06-25-focas-pdu-v3-{30i-b-support,implementation-plan}.md,
docs/drivers/FOCAS.md, docs/v2/focas-version-matrix.md,
docs/deployments/wonder-app-vd03-makino-z-34184.md.
Add AbCipEmulateNestedUdtTests (skip-gated, AB_SERVER_PROFILE=emulate) to close
the live-gate gap for nested-struct UDT discovery via CIP Template Object (class 0x6C)
threaded by commits 3d8ce4e8/d203f31c. Compiles + skips cleanly against ab_server
(no CIP Template Object service). Update docs/drivers/AbCip.md nested-struct section
to record the shipped decode path, the Emulate-only live-gate, and offline unit coverage.
Drop the "not yet implemented / BadNotSupported" stale note from all three
S7 CLI --type option descriptions (ReadCommand, WriteCommand, SubscribeCommand)
and replace with accurate help listing the full supported type set, byte-anchored
addressing for wide types, and Timer/Counter read-only status.
docs/v2/driver-specs.md §5: add Supported Data Types table, Byte-Anchored
Addressing table (DBB/MB/IB/QB + examples), Timer/Counter read section with
the Counter-BCD known-limitation, and Deferrals list.
docs/drivers/S7.md: expand Data types to a full table, add "Wide types &
Timer/Counter" section (byte-anchored addressing, Timer/Counter read-only,
Counter BCD known-limitation, deferrals), update Address forms table and
1-D array Deferrals note.
Two bugs caught by live verification against the mxaccessgw at 10.100.0.48:5120:
- MaxAttempts=1 produced an invalid Polly RetryStrategyOptions -> the probe failed
on every real gateway. Removed the Retry override (matches GalaxyDriver); fail-fast
is already guaranteed by the TCP preflight + the per-call deadline.
- A rejected key surfaces as a typed MxGatewayAuthenticationException, not a raw
RpcException, so 'auth-rejection = reachable' was bypassed. Catch the typed auth/
authorization exceptions -> Ok=true.
Adds DriverProbeHandshakeE2eTests: direct-probe, skip-gated cross-protocol green/red
discrimination (Modbus, OpcUaClient, Galaxy + a local real OPC UA server).
Create docs/drivers/TestConnectProbes.md: full reference for the Phase 5
protocol-handshake probes — result contract, per-driver handshake table,
TwinCAT/FOCAS/Galaxy degrade semantics, live-verify scope, and the
Historian.Wonderware already-done note. Annotate the Phase 7 step in
docs/plans/2026-05-28-adminui-driver-pages-design.md with a shipped note
pointing at the phase-5 design doc and TestConnectProbes.md.
STALE-STATUS (OpcPlcFixture.cs:39):
- "What the fixture is": opc.tcp://localhost:50000 → opc.tcp://10.100.0.35:50000
(shared Docker host migrated 2026-04-28; fixture already defaults to 10.100.0.35)
CODE-REALITY (OpcUaClientSmokeTests.cs — 3 integration tests open real Secure Channels):
- "What it does NOT cover" §1 ("No UA Secure Channel is ever opened") was wrong
for the integration suite which does open real channels. Rewritten to scope the
no-Secure-Channel claim to the unit suite and list what the integration suite
still doesn't exercise (non-anonymous security policies, signing/encryption,
chunk assembly, keep-alive).
- "When to trust" table: added Integration (opc-plc) column; noted that real OPC UA
read + subscribe ARE covered by integration tests; write not yet exercised on wire.
NOTE on IRediscoverable: OpcUaClientDriver does NOT implement IRediscoverable
(verified: no reference in src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.OpcUaClient/).
Doc makes no such claim — no change needed for that aspect.
INLINE COMPLETENESS:
- "Key fixture / config files": added OpcPlcFixture.cs, OpcUaClientSmokeTests.cs,
and Docker/docker-compose.yml entries with correct endpoints and flags.
- Added explicit note in OpcUaClientDriver.cs entry: implements IAlarmSource +
IHistoryProvider (unique among drivers); does NOT implement IRediscoverable.
STRUCTURAL: no rows in links-report.md for this doc.
VERIFY: check_links.py — 0 rows for OpcUaClient-Test-Fixture.md.
STALE-STATUS (Snap7ServerFixture.cs:40):
- TL;DR + "What the fixture is": localhost:1102 → 10.100.0.35:1102 (shared
Docker host migrated 2026-04-28; fixture already defaults to 10.100.0.35)
CODE-REALITY (S7_1500SmokeTests.cs exists and sends real S7comm):
- "What it does NOT cover" §1 ("No ISO-on-TCP frame is ever sent") was
simply wrong — the integration suite DOES send real S7comm. Rewritten
to clarify that the unit suite uses IS7Client fakes while the integration
suite exercises the full wire path.
- "What it does NOT cover" §2 ("successful read not tested end-to-end")
was also wrong — Driver_reads_seeded_u16_through_real_S7comm does exactly
that. Rewritten to scope the error-branch-only claim to unit tests.
- "When to trust" table: added Integration (python-snap7) column reflecting
what the existing S7_1500SmokeTests actually answer.
- "Follow-up candidates" §1: removed the suggestion to build a Snap7 server
fixture — python-snap7 fixture (task #216) already ships. Follow-ups now
correctly list Plcsim Advanced and real lab rig only.
INLINE COMPLETENESS:
- "Key fixture / config files": was missing all integration test artefacts.
Added Snap7ServerFixture.cs, S7_1500SmokeTests.cs, Docker/docker-compose.yml,
and Docker/profiles/s7_1500.json with descriptions matching file contents.
STRUCTURAL: no broken links in links-report.md for this doc.
VERIFY: check_links.py — 0 rows for S7-Test-Fixture.md.
STALE-STATUS: TL;DR claimed "Wire-level round-trip against ab_server PCCC
mode currently fails with BadCommunicationError on read/write (verified
2026-04-20)." Docker/README.md §Known limitations explicitly states the
root cause was ab_server's empty-CIP-path gate, not a pccc.c gap, and that
N/F/L files round-trip cleanly with the /1,0 path. AbLegacyReadSmokeTests.cs
confirms tests pass against the fixture. Rewrote TL;DR + What-the-fixture-is
opening to reflect current passing state; residual gap is only B3 bit-file
writes (0x803D0000).
STALE-STATUS: Lifecycle probe listed as localhost:44818.
AbLegacyServerFixture.cs:57,119 default is 10.100.0.35:44818 (shared Docker
host, migrated 2026-04-28). Fixed.
INLINE COMPLETENESS: Follow-up item 1 phrased as future work ("smoke suite
passes today for N/F/L…"); tightened to describe the current passing state
and narrowed the remaining action to the bit-file write gap.
Verified: python3 .docs-audit/check_links.py — zero rows for this doc.
STRUCTURAL: links-report.md row — path MISSING src/tools/ab_server/.
ab_server is not in this repo; it lives in the upstream libplctag/libplctag
GitHub repo and is cloned + built inside Docker/Dockerfile. Rewrote Binary
bullet to describe it as an external upstream source (no local path reference
that fails the link checker).
STALE-STATUS: Lifecycle TCP-probe host was listed as 127.0.0.1:44818
(AbServer-Test-Fixture.md:21). AbServerFixture.cs:35,72 default is
10.100.0.35:44818 (shared Docker host, migrated 2026-04-28). Fixed.
CODE-REALITY: Micro800 profile Notes quoted "ab_server has no --plc micro800
— falls back to controllogix emulation." Incorrect: Docker/docker-compose.yml
micro800 service uses --plc=Micro800; AbServerProfile.cs:49 confirms
"--plc=Micro800 mode (unconnected-only, empty path)." Updated Notes quote
and summary table row to match actual compose behaviour.
Verified: python3 .docs-audit/check_links.py — zero rows for this doc.
STALE-STATUS: TL;DR + Lifecycle section referred to "localhost" as the
simulator address (Modbus-Test-Fixture.md:7,19). Fixture default is
10.100.0.35:5020 (shared Docker host, migrated 2026-04-28) confirmed by
ModbusSimulatorFixture.cs:36. Updated both prose occurrences.
INLINE COMPLETENESS: Follow-up item 1 claimed MODBUS_SIM_ENDPOINT
lacked documentation; the env var is already documented in this page +
CLAUDE.md. Reworded to reflect actual gap (cross-reference to
test-data-sources.md only).
Verified: python3 .docs-audit/check_links.py — zero rows for this doc.
CODE-REALITY (matrix corrected against driver class declarations):
- Galaxy: GalaxyDriver.cs:38-39 implements IDriver, ITagDiscovery,
IReadable, IWritable, ISubscribable, IRediscoverable,
IHostConnectivityProbe, IAlarmSource. Removed the bogus
IHistoryProvider (no IHistoryProvider refs anywhere in the Galaxy
project); added the missing IRediscoverable. Replaced the stale
out-of-process Host/Proxy/named-pipe quirk + the dead
`Driver.Galaxy.{Shared,Host,Proxy}` path: per CLAUDE.md PR 7.2 those
retired; the real driver is in-process .NET 10 over gRPC to the
external mxaccessgw gateway (GalaxyDriver.cs:20-21 doc comment).
Project path corrected to Driver.Galaxy (+ .Browser, .Contracts).
- Modbus: ModbusDriver.cs:21-22 — added missing IPerCallHostResolver.
- FOCAS: FocasDriver.cs:20-21 — added missing IWritable (it IS
implemented; WriteAsync returns BadNotWritable for every point,
FocasDriver.cs:317).
- S7 (S7Driver.cs:31-32), AbCip (AbCipDriver.cs:27-28),
AbLegacy (AbLegacyDriver.cs:13-14, no IAlarmSource confirmed),
TwinCAT (TwinCATDriver.cs:13-14), OpcUaClient
(OpcUaClientDriver.cs:31) verified — already correct.
- Added the 9th family Historian.Wonderware as a server-side historian
sink (HistorianDataSource.cs:19 `: IHistorianDataSource`), and added
IHistorianDataSource to the capability-interface list.
- Clarified OpcUaClient as the only driver-side IHistoryProvider; fixed
the HistoricalDataAccess cross-ref accordingly (the Aveva Historian
path is the Wonderware IHistorianDataSource sink, not a Galaxy
IHistoryProvider).
- Added an alarm-source roster to the AlarmTracking cross-ref.
STRUCTURAL (4 dead links repointed to the docs/v1 archive, all verified
to exist):
- ../HistoricalDataAccess.md -> ../v1/HistoricalDataAccess.md (x2)
- ../Subscriptions.md -> ../v1/Subscriptions.md
- Galaxy-Repository.md -> ../v1/drivers/Galaxy-Repository.md
- Galaxy-Test-Fixture.md -> ../v1/drivers/Galaxy-Test-Fixture.md
check_links.py now reports zero rows for docs/drivers/README.md.
STALE-STATUS: removed out-of-process/named-pipe Galaxy wording; noted
native MxAccess alarms work end-to-end; dropped the FOCAS "Tier-C
two-project deployment" phrasing from the per-driver section.
STRUCTURAL
- docs/drivers/FOCAS-Test-Fixture.md line 140: replaced stale
`Series/FixedTreePopulatesTests.cs` reference (file deleted) with
`Series/WireBackendTests.cs` — the current home of all fixed-tree
end-to-end integration tests (verified: ls Series/ shows only
WireBackendTests.cs + WireBackendCoverageTests.cs).
STALE-STATUS
- Removed `**Status:** as of 2026-04-24` header (date-anchored, stale).
The architecture description that followed was accurate; the date anchor
served no purpose once the shim era is closed.
CODE-REALITY
- Line 55: TCP-probe skip gate now mentions `OTOPCUA_FOCAS_SIM_ENDPOINT`
override (verified in FocasSimFixture.cs line 22 / 49).
FOCAS.md: no changes — all claims verified accurate against source.
- IAlarmSource implemented: FocasDriver.cs:21
- IWritable returns BadNotWritable: FocasDriver.cs (IWritable body)
- All capability interfaces listed in capability table confirmed in
FocasDriver.cs:21 class declaration
- All linked files exist and resolve correctly
CODE-REALITY (known defect): the capability-surface declaration line
omitted IAlarmSource and IAsyncDisposable. GalaxyDriver.cs:39 actually
declares: IDriver, ITagDiscovery, IReadable, IWritable, ISubscribable,
IRediscoverable, IHostConnectivityProbe, IAlarmSource, IDisposable,
IAsyncDisposable. Doc line corrected to match exactly, and an IAlarmSource
row added to the capability table (Runtime/GatewayGalaxyAlarmFeed.cs +
Runtime/GatewayGalaxyAlarmAcknowledger.cs).
STALE-STATUS: the v1-doc move note claimed Galaxy-Repository.md /
Galaxy-Test-Fixture.md 'are being moved to docs/v1/ by a parallel cleanup
track' — that move is complete; they live at docs/v1/drivers/. Rewrote to
present tense and linked the real targets.
Verified against source: deploy-watch is a gRPC stream
(GatewayGalaxyDeployWatchSource forwards WatchDeployEventsAsync via
GalaxyRepositoryClient, not a direct DB poll); contained-name<->tag-name
translation (GalaxyDiscoverer.cs:49,60); DataTypeMap at Browse/DataTypeMap.cs;
IGalaxyHierarchySource / IGalaxyDeployWatchSource / DeployWatcher all present.
check_links.py: zero rows for docs/drivers/Galaxy.md.
Rewrite src/ and tests/ project paths in docs, CLAUDE.md, README.md, and
test-fixture READMEs to the new module-folder layout (Core/Server/Drivers/
Client/Tooling). References to retired v1 projects (Galaxy.Host/Proxy/Shared,
the legacy monolithic test projects) are left untouched.
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Sixteenth PR of the alarms-over-gateway epic
(docs/plans/alarms-over-gateway.md). Closes the documentation sweep
the plan calls for.
- docs/AlarmTracking.md — promoted top-level v2-final architecture
doc (was a worktree-only draft pre-epic). Covers the three alarm
sources (Galaxy MxAccess driver-native / Galaxy sub-attribute
fallback / scripted alarms), how they converge on
AlarmConditionService, the Acknowledge routing decision in
DriverNodeManager (driver-native preferred over IWritable
sub-attribute fallback), the sidecar historian write-back path
for non-Galaxy producers, and cross-references to the plan +
v1 archive.
- docs/v1/AlarmTracking.md — banner pointing readers at the v2
doc; preserved as historical record.
- docs/drivers/Galaxy.md — capability list updated to include
IAlarmSource (now eight capabilities, restored by B.2). Replaced
the "IAlarmSource retired in 7.2" sentence with the restoration
note + cross-link to docs/AlarmTracking.md.
- docs/plans/alarms-over-gateway.md — completion banner at the
top of the plan, marking 14 of 16 PRs shipped 2026-04-30 and
noting that A.2 + A.4 + D.1 are the hardware-gated follow-up.
Memory entries updated separately:
- project_alarms_over_gateway_epic.md (new) — epic summary +
per-PR digest.
- project_galaxy_via_mxgateway.md — added "Alarms restored"
bullet pointing at the new architecture.
- project_server_history_alarm_subsystems.md — bullet 2 updated
to describe the new ack-routing decision (B.3) + bullet 3
added describing the historian write-back path that B.4 + C.1
+ C.2 light up.
- MEMORY.md index — new pointer entry.
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- docs/drivers/FOCAS.md and docs/v2/implementation/focas-wire-protocol.md
pointed at focas-deployment.md and focas-simulator-plan.md, both of
which were untracked drafts that have since been removed. Drop the
refs (the wire-protocol companion now stands on its own; deployment
guidance lives inline in the FOCAS driver doc).
- Link the orphan v2 design docs from docs/README.md (multi-host
dispatch, v2 release readiness, the historical lmx-followups tracker)
and from modbus-test-plan.md (s7.md, mitsubishi.md per-family quirk
catalogs, sibling to dl205.md).
Surfaced by the doc audit; no content changes.
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Joseph Doherty