lmxopcua/deferment.md

# Deferment register — new drivers, open issues, deferred work

> **Scope.** A source-verified inventory of what is unfinished in this repo: the status of the
> recently-added drivers, every open tracker issue, in-code deferrals, open live gates, and the
> documentation that misstates any of it.
>
> **Method.** Five parallel agents swept the tree independently; every claim below was checked
> against **source** (`src/`, `tests/`, `git log`), not against documentation. Where a doc and the
> code disagreed, the code won and the doc is listed in §7. Findings that could not be verified
> without hardware or a live rig are marked **CANNOT VERIFY** rather than asserted.
>
> **Baseline.** `master` @ `90bdaa44`, 2026-07-27. All local branches are merged into master; the
> only unmerged remotes are three abandoned branches (`origin/auto/driver-gaps` 184 commits behind
> since 2026-04-26, `origin/auto/driver-gaps-stash`, `origin/refactor/galaxy-mxgateway-client-rename`).

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## 0. The short version

The driver runtime is in good shape — **no new driver contains a stub, a `NotImplementedException`,
or an unregistered factory.** What is unfinished clusters into four groups, in descending order of
how much they should worry you:

| # | Theme | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| **1** | **Three subsystems are fully authored, persisted, and shipped — and never executed.** Node ACLs, `IRediscoverable`/`IHostConnectivityProbe`, and `DriverTypeRegistry`. | An operator can author a rule, save it, deploy it green, and have it do **nothing**. §3 |
| **2** | **AdminUI authoring-dispatch gaps.** Calculation is offered in the driver picker but has no config form; three drivers have no device form; CSV + browse-commit dispatch maps miss the new drivers. | The "registered but unauthorable" class that has now bitten twice. §1.2 |
| **3** | **17 open issues, all confirmed still open**, several broader than filed. | §2 |
| **4** | **Bookkeeping drift.** 8 `.tasks.json` files show ~140 "pending" tasks for work that shipped; 5 CLAUDE.md status claims are stale. | Someone follows the tracker and rebuilds a shipped driver. §6, §7 |

Nothing here is a data-loss or outage defect. The sharpest edge is §3 — silent non-enforcement.

---

## 1. New drivers — source-verified status

Cross-cutting facts, verified once: all 12 driver types register in one place
(`src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host/Drivers/DriverFactoryBootstrap.cs:147-164`); all 12 register a
probe (`:119-130`) via `AddOtOpcUaDriverProbes()`, called from **both** the driver path (`:93`) and
the admin path — **no probe is admin-node-missing**. `DriverTypeNames`
(`src/Core/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core.Abstractions/DriverTypeNames.cs`) is guarded bidirectionally by
reflection in `tests/Core/…Core.Abstractions.Tests/DriverTypeNamesGuardTests.cs`.

### 1.1 Status table

| Driver | Verdict | Merged | Capabilities | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| **MTConnect** | Complete-with-gaps | `90bdaa44` (#506) | `IDriver, IReadable, ISubscribable, ITagDiscovery, IHostConnectivityProbe, IRediscoverable` (`MTConnectDriver.cs:63`) | No `IWritable` **by design** (`:50`). No device form. |
| **MQTT / Sparkplug B** | **Complete** | `c3a2b0f7` | `+ IRediscoverable, IAsyncDisposable` (`MqttDriver.cs:65-66`) | Cleanest of the five: picker + driver form + device form + tag editor all present. 8 open follow-up issues. |
| **Sql** | Complete-with-gaps | `4ad54037`, follow-ups `28c28667` | `IDriver, ITagDiscovery, IReadable, ISubscribable, IHostConnectivityProbe` (`SqlDriver.cs:28-29`) | No device form; no browse-commit branch; stale comments. |
| **Modbus RTU-over-TCP** | **Complete** | `0f38f486` (#495) | transport mode inside Modbus (`ModbusTransportMode.cs`, `ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport.cs`) | Parses transport **by name** (`ModbusDriverFactoryExtensions.cs:77-78`) — dodges the systemic numeric-enum authoring bug. |
| **Calculation** | **Partial (authoring gap)** | pre-existing | `IDriver, IDependencyConsumer, ISubscribable, IReadable` (`CalculationDriver.cs:38`) | **Registered + offered in the picker, but has no config form.** See §1.2. |

`IWritable` is absent from MTConnect, MQTT, Sql and Calculation. In all four this is **structural and
documented**, not a stub (`MTConnectDriver.cs:50`, `MqttDriver.cs:483`, `SqlDriver.cs:15`).

**Zero `NotImplementedException`** across all five drivers. Every `NotSupportedException` is either a
`catch` filter or a deliberate domain error.

### 1.2 Gaps found — AdminUI authoring & dispatch layer

Every gap below is in the **authoring/dispatch layer, not driver runtime code**.

| # | Gap | Evidence | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| G-1 | **`DriverConfigModal.razor` has no `Calculation` case** — falls to the `default` "No typed config form" warning; no `CalculationDriverForm.razor` exists | `DriverConfigModal.razor:34-72`, default arm `:69-71` | `CalculationDriverOptions.RunTimeout` (`CalculationDriverOptions.cs:19`) is **unauthorable via the UI**. Create/rename still work, so degraded — not a hard block. **This is the same class as the Sql picker defect, one modal further downstream.** |
| G-2 | **`DeviceModal.razor` is missing Sql, MTConnect, Calculation** | `DeviceModal.razor:42-74`, default arm `:71-73` | Mitigated: Sql/MTConnect hold connection at the **driver** level, and Test Connect still works via `BuildMergedProbeConfig` (`:180-184`). |
| G-3 | **`DriverConfigModal.razor:77` tells Sql/MTConnect operators the wrong thing** — the single-connection branch is hardcoded to `Galaxy or Mqtt`, so Sql/MTConnect users are told the endpoint lives on the *device* when they just authored it on the driver | `DriverConfigModal.razor:77`, `:86-88` | Actively misleading, compounds G-2. |
| G-4 | **No parity test guards `DriverConfigModal` or `DeviceModal`** — `RawDriverTypeDialogCoverageTests`/`…ParityTests` assert `DriverTypeNames` ↔ **picker** parity only | — | **This is exactly why G-1 and G-2 survived review.** The guard pattern exists and simply was not extended to the two downstream dispatch maps. |
| G-5 | **`CsvColumnMap` has no typed columns for Sql, MQTT, MTConnect** | `CsvColumnMap.cs:340-452` | CSV import/export degrades to the raw `TagConfigJson` fallback while the 7 older drivers get typed columns. |
| G-6 | **`RawBrowseCommitMapper` has no Sql branch** — falls to the generic `WriteSingleKey("address", …)` whose comment claims "Browsable drivers are all handled above" | `RawBrowseCommitMapper.cs:121-141`, fallback `:145` | Untrue since `SqlDriverBrowser` was registered (`EndpointRouteBuilderExtensions.cs:83`). Same failure mode the MTConnect branch (`:135-139`) was added to avoid: typed editor opens empty, blanks the field on save. |
| G-7 | **`EquipmentTagConfigInspector` covers only 6 driver types** | `:24-29` | Pre-existing (OpcUaClient + Galaxy absent too); no new driver was added. |

### 1.3 Stale in-code comments (harmless at runtime, misleading to the next reader)

- `DriverTypeNames.cs:22-25` — Calculation described as "not-yet-registered"; it registers at `DriverFactoryBootstrap.cs:149`.
- `TagConfigEditorMap.cs:25-28` + `TagConfigValidator.cs:27-28` — "`DriverTypeNames.Sql` deliberately absent until Task 11"; the constant exists (`DriverTypeNames.cs:57`) and the values are identical, so behaviour is correct.
- `RawDriverTypeDialog.razor:2-4, 59-60` — "its factory lands in Wave C".
- `CsvColumnMap.cs:322-324` — hardcodes `CalculationDriverType = "Calculation"` "Not yet a `DriverTypeNames` constant"; it has been one since `DriverTypeNames.cs:54`.
- ~~`SqlDriver.cs:218-220` — justifies not re-parsing config on the premise "the factory builds a fresh
  instance", **disproved** by `DriverInstanceActor.cs:316` + `DriverHostActor.cs:2565`.~~ ✅ **Fixed** —
  the comment now says the premise was false when written and is true *now* because a config change
  respawns. See §9.

---

## 2. Open tracker issues — all 17 verified against source

**No issue was found stale.** 11 CONFIRMED, 4 PARTIALLY (core claim holds, a sub-claim is wrong or
incomplete), 2 CANNOT VERIFY (correctly filed as hardware/fixture-gated).

| # | Title (abbrev.) | Verdict | Key evidence | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| **518** | `IRediscoverable` + `IHostConnectivityProbe` have no consumer; CLAUDE.md wrong | **CONFIRMED — worse than filed** | Only `+=` in `src/` are Galaxy self-wiring (`GalaxyDriver.cs:586`, `:221`). `GetHostStatuses()` has **zero call sites** outside the interface + implementations; `DriverHostStatuses` DbSet is referenced only by its declaration and a test. | Defect + doc error |
| **507** | Discovered-node injection inert in v3 | **CONFIRMED** | `DriverHostActor.cs:986-1002` hard-`return;` + `#pragma warning disable CS0162` (restored `:1077`) | Deferred (deliberate guard) |
| **519** | No Bad/Uncertain **sub-code** reaches a client | **CONFIRMED** | Collapse at `DriverInstanceActor.cs:1033-1041` (`statusCode >> 30`), re-expand at `OtOpcUaNodeManager.cs:3318-3322`. Enum is 3-state at `IOpcUaAddressSpaceSink.cs:165`. **Wider than filed** — `StatusFromQuality` also used at `:429/:506/:576/:761`, so alarm-condition Quality collapses too. | Design consequence |
| **517** | Health published AFTER teardown | **CONFIRMED, fleet-wide** | `ModbusDriver.cs:244-250`, `MTConnectDriver.cs:579-590`, `S7Driver.cs:292-326` — all `Teardown…` then `WriteHealth(Unknown)`; `GetHealth()` is a plain field read | Defect (race) |
| **516** | Driver config edits silently discarded | **CONFIRMED — survey now complete** | `DriverInstanceActor.cs:316` (only `_driver` assignment) + `DriverHostActor.cs:2565` (`Tell` existing child, no respawn) + `:653/:660` (green seal). **Affected: Modbus, FOCAS, OpcUaClient, + AbLegacy (issue missed it), + Sql (deliberate/documented).** AbCip/TwinCAT re-parse ✅; Galaxy fails **loud** (throws, `GalaxyDriver.cs:600-641`) | Defect |
| **515** | Sparkplug `DataSet`/`Template`/`PropertySet` | **CONFIRMED** | `SparkplugCodec.cs:207-210` decode to `Unsupported` — visible refusal, not silent drop. *(`PropertySet` isn't a `ValueOneofCase`; it rides `metric.Properties`)* | Deferred feature |
| **514** | Rebirth unarmable on a plant that hasn't birthed | **CONFIRMED** | `RawBrowseModal.razor:119-120` disabled; `_rebirthTarget` set only by tree-click handlers (`:432`, `:437`, `:439-451`). Empty tree ⇒ permanently disabled | Defect (chicken-and-egg) |
| **513** | Meaningless `payloadFormat` in Sparkplug blob | **CONFIRMED** | `MqttTagConfigModel.cs:210` unconditional `Set`, vs. mode-aware `:216` | Defect (cosmetic) |
| **512** | `.Browser` → `.Driver` layering | **CONFIRMED** | `…Mqtt.Browser.csproj:43` (**not :44**), boxed "KNOWN, DELIBERATE EXCEPTION" at `:16-42` | Deferred refactor |
| **511** | `ActAsPrimaryHost` does nothing | **CONFIRMED** | Option at `MqttDriverOptions.cs:193`, round-tripped in the UI, handled only by a warning at `MqttDriver.cs:933-948`. No STATE publish, no Last Will | Deferred feature |
| **510** | `_canRebirth` captured at browse-open | **CONFIRMED** | `RawBrowseModal.razor:377` sole `true` assignment; failure path `:516-539` never re-evaluates | Defect (stale affordance) |
| **509** | Metric name with `/` unbrowse-committable | **CONFIRMED** | `RawBrowseCommitMapper.cs:63` uses browse name verbatim → `RawPaths.cs:39` rejects `/` → `RawTreeService.cs:976` **all-or-nothing** kills the whole batch | Defect |
| **508** | MQTT write-through | **CONFIRMED** | `MqttDriver.cs:66` — no `IWritable`; consequence at `DriverInstanceActor.cs:673-677` | Deferred feature |
| **507**→ see above | | | | |
| **491** | Continuous-historization live gate | **CANNOT VERIFY** (needs VPN'd gateway) | Code **is** complete: `AddressSpaceApplier.cs:238`→`:540`→`ActorHistorizedTagSubscriptionSink.cs:27-38`→`ContinuousHistorizationRecorder.cs:84`, wired `ServiceCollectionExtensions.cs:435` | Deferred test |
| **489** | Hot-rebind renamed raw tag | **CONFIRMED** | No implementation exists | Deferred feature |
| **481** | Comms-loss → scripted-alarm quality (Layer 4) | **CONFIRMED** | `DriverHostActor.cs:1356-1379` iterates `_alarmNodeIdByDriverRef` only. **Issue is wrong that the per-driver ref set is missing** — `_nodeIdByDriverRef` exists at `:193`; only the fan-out into the mux is absent, so the work is *smaller* than filed | Deferred feature |
| **468** | Wave-0 browser tree render | **CANNOT VERIFY** (fixture) | Code path present (`AbCipDriver.cs:1092-1095`, `LibplctagTagEnumerator.cs:29-37`); `ab_server` returns `ErrorUnsupported` for CIP Symbol Object enumeration | Deferred verification |

### 2.1 Cross-cutting observations

1. **#518 → #507 are the same failure, stacked.** The event has no subscriber *and* its downstream
   handler hard-returns. **Fixing either alone changes nothing observable** — schedule them together.
2. **#516 is a superset of part of #489.** For the five drivers that discard reinit config, the
   renamed-tag-never-rebinds symptom follows mechanically (their `_tagsByRawPath` still keys on the
   old RawPath). Re-scope #489 after #516.
3. **#519 and #481 share the same `statusCode >> 30` collapse idiom** at three independent sites
   (`DriverInstanceActor.cs:1033`, `ScriptedAlarmEngine.cs:745`, `:777`). Widening the status path
   must cover all three.

---

## 3. Dead seams — authored, shipped, never executed

**The most consequential category in this register**, and the one nothing in the code flags. Three
subsystems are fully built and reachable by operators, but no production code path executes them.

### 3.1 Node-level ACLs are authorable, deployed — and unenforced

- `IPermissionEvaluator`, `TriePermissionEvaluator`, `PermissionTrieCache`, `PermissionTrieBuilder`
  have **zero references outside `src/Core/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core/Authorization/` and their own
  tests** (independently re-verified for this report: every other grep hit is a `bin/`/`obj/` XML doc artifact).
- `OtOpcUaNodeManager` contains **no reference to `Permission` or `Evaluator` at all.**
- Meanwhile `ClusterAcls.razor` + `AclEdit.razor` let operators author `NodeAcl` rows, and
  **`ConfigComposer.cs:51` snapshots them into every deployment artifact.**

**Impact:** an operator authors a deny rule, deploys it green, and it has no effect. Actual
enforcement is coarse LDAP roles plus the realm-qualified `WriteOperate` gate in the node manager —
and that is a **write** gate; reads carry no per-node ACL check.
**`docs/ReadWriteOperations.md:13,21` states the opposite** (see §7.1) — it is the single
highest-risk doc error found.

### 3.2 `IRediscoverable` + `IHostConnectivityProbe` raise into the void

Gitea #518/#507. Nine drivers raise; nothing consumes. `DriverHostStatus` table exists
(`OtOpcUaConfigDbContext.cs:48`, migration `20260715230637_V3Initial.cs:108`) with a doc-comment
claiming a writer — **nothing ever writes a row.**

**Impact:** an Agent/PLC/Galaxy restart leaves a stale address space behind a Healthy driver, and the
per-host connectivity table is permanently empty.

### 3.3 `DriverTypeRegistry` is vestigial

Independently verified for this report: `src/Core/…Core.Abstractions/DriverTypeRegistry.cs:20` is
referenced **only** by `tests/Core/…/DriverTypeRegistryTests.cs`. Nothing registers metadata at
startup; nothing validates `DriverInstance.DriverType` against it. Its `AllowedNamespaceKinds` field
was retired with the v3 `Namespace` entity (`DriverTypeRegistry.cs:97`).

**Knock-on:** the driver **stability tier** does not come from here either. The live source is
`DriverFactoryRegistry.cs:46` (`DriverTier tier = DriverTier.A`) and **no factory in `src/Drivers/`
passes a tier** — so all 12 drivers run Tier A, and the Tier-C-only protections are dormant for
every driver: `MemoryRecycle.cs:54` (`when _tier == DriverTier.C`) and
`ScheduledRecycleScheduler.cs:43` (refuses unless Tier C). `docs/v2/driver-stability.md` still
assigns Galaxy and FOCAS to Tier C.

### 3.4 Related dead/dormant code

| Item | Evidence |
|---|---|
| `IDriverConfigEditor` — interface, zero implementors, zero production consumers | `Core.Abstractions/IDriverConfigEditor.cs:9`; superseded by `TagConfigEditorMap` / `DriverConfigModal` |
| `GenericDriverNodeManager` — explicitly **not** a production dispatch path | `Core/OpcUa/GenericDriverNodeManager.cs:71` ("verified 07/#10: zero production references") |
| `IDriverSupervisor` — Tier-C recycle machinery has **zero implementations**, yet the parser still validates `RecycleIntervalSeconds` | archreview 01/U-2 |
| Resilience **bulkhead** — documented, defaulted, parsed, AdminUI-authorable; `Build` never adds a concurrency limiter | archreview 01/U-6 |
| `WriteIdempotentAttribute` — zero readers; write dispatch hardcodes `isIdempotent: true` | archreview 01/S-8 = 03/S12 |
| ~60 lines of unreachable code retained behind #507's guard | `DriverHostActor.cs:1002`, `#pragma warning disable CS0162` |
| Three empty `Driver.Historian.Wonderware*` directories (0 `.cs`, no `.csproj`, absent from `.slnx`) | verified for this report — only stale `bin/`+`obj/` remain |

---

## 4. In-code deferrals by subsystem

The tree is unusually clean on classic markers: **9 `TODO`s across 1,812 files; zero
`FIXME`/`HACK`/`XXX`/`WORKAROUND`; zero `#if false`; zero `[Obsolete]` on project code; zero
commented-out DI registrations.** Real deferred work lives in prose doc-comments and skipped tests.

### 4.1 Highest-consequence

| Item | Evidence |
|---|---|
| **Telemetry snapshot cache never evicted** — a decommissioned driver replays last-known Health/Resilience to new subscribers forever | `TelemetryLocalHub.cs:40` `TODO(mesh-phase5+)` — self-declared, bounded, "pre-production, accepted" |
| **Device host recovered by string-matching instead of `DeviceConfig`** — 7 of the repo's 9 TODOs are this one item, across 4 drivers | `FocasDriver.cs:137,287`; `TwinCATDriver.cs:775`; `AbLegacyDriver.cs:557`; `AbCipDriver.cs:89,1272` + `AbCipDriverOptions.cs:130` — all `TODO(v3 WaveC)` |
| **Galaxy writes can never confirm a COM commit** — empty status array ⇒ provisional Good, metered `galaxy.writes.unconfirmed` | `GatewayGalaxyDataWriter.cs:44,328,354` — **cross-repo**, blocked on mxaccessgw |
| **Subscription liveness undetectable** — `ISubscriptionHandle` is opaque | `DriverInstanceActor.cs:527` (#488) — well-reasoned, deferred "until a real occurrence" |
| **`/raw` "Browse device" is still a placeholder** despite the universal discovery browser landing | `RawTree.razor:15,426` — **verify**; may be reachable now via `DiscoveryDriverBrowser` |

### 4.2 Per-driver

- **S7** — array **writes** unsupported entirely (`S7Driver.cs:1139`); several array *read* types unsupported (`:386,404,413,419,428,442,465,807,959`) — all fail fast at config-validation; legacy C-area counter reinterpretation live-hardware-gated (`:759`); Counter BCD on S7-300/400 undecoded.
- **AbCip** — ALMD-only alarm projection, ALMA deferred (`AbCipAlarmProjection.cs:16,324`); no CIP Template Object reader, UDT layouts declaration-driven (`AbCipDriverOptions.cs:172`); whole-UDT writer deferred (`LibplctagTagRuntime.cs:190`); `AckCmd` pulse must be wired client-side (`:30`).
- **Sql** — `SqlTagModel.Query` deferred to P3, **enforced end-to-end** across parser, validator, planner and editor (`SqlProvider.cs:22,37`; `SqlEquipmentTagParser.cs:24,103`; `SqlGroupPlanner.cs:44,249`; `SqlTagConfigModel.cs:114`) — exemplary deferral discipline. Postgres/ODBC dialects deferred behind `ISqlDialect`.
- **MTConnect** — `TIME_SERIES` vectors deferred to P1.5; `DATA_SET`/`TABLE` coded `BadNotSupported` with a null value rather than approximated (`MTConnectObservationIndex.cs:53,272`) — deliberately chosen over a Good-coded lie. `RawTagEntry.DeviceName` ignored for routing (two `/raw` Devices under one driver share an Agent connection) — "a design change, not a bug fix". No DataType-vs-blob validation at authoring.
- **MQTT** — `MaxPayloadBytes` is a constructor knob, not operator-facing (`MqttSubscriptionManager.cs:170`).
- **TwinCAT** — Flat-mode struct expansion carries a **LIVE RISK** note, unverified against a real TC3 target (`AdsTwinCATClient.cs:270`); VirtualTree-mode browse unverified; TC2 coverage, multi-hop AMS route and lab rig all hardware-blocked (`docs/v3/twincat-backlog.md`).
- **FOCAS** — forces read-only regardless of authored `writable:true`; servo-load semantics inferred from the wire, unconfirmed against a real CNC (`FocasWireClient.cs:944`); `"Backend": "unimplemented"` is a **deliberate fail-fast stub**, not unfinished work.
- **Historian.Gateway** — String/DateTime/Reference writes deferred, gated on the analog SQL write path; `UInt16 → Uint4` widening because the `UInt2` write path is deferred upstream (`HistorianTypeMapper.cs:27-51`).

### 4.3 Fleet-wide OPC UA gaps

- **Array writes deferred across all drivers**; **multi-dimensional arrays (`ValueRank>1`) unsupported**; **array historization** is an opaque blob with no per-element history (`docs/Uns.md:288-292`, `AddressSpaceApplier.cs:873`, `OtOpcUaNodeManager.cs:1764`).
- **`HistoryUpdate`** — permission bit `1<<12` shipped but excluded from every composite bundle; no service surface (`NodePermissions.cs:34`).
- **`Utils.Log*` is `[Obsolete]`** in SDK 1.5.378, suppressed at 8 sites in `OtOpcUaNodeManager` pending an `ITelemetryContext` rewire.

### 4.4 Skipped tests — 36, from 4 reason constants

| Count | Reason | Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | `DiscoveryInjectionDormantV3` | **Real** — blocked on #507 |
| 13 | `EquipmentTagsDarkBatch4` | **STALE** — the reason says these unblock "at Batch 4"; Batch 4 shipped as v3.0 and the path was *retired* (`AddressSpaceApplier.cs:415` calls it "the vestigial equipment-tag path"). These will never unskip as written — delete or rewrite the reason. |
| 4 + 1 | `EquipmentDeviceBindingRetired`, `DarkBatch4` | Intentional tombstones preserving retirement rationale — fine as-is |

Plus **4 whole OpcUaClient test suites that are scaffold-only**, awaiting an in-process OPC UA server
fixture that was never built (`OpcUaClientSubscribeAndProbeTests`, `…DiscoveryTests`,
`…ReadWriteTests`, `…HistoryTests`, all `:10`).

All env-gated integration suites **skip cleanly** when their vars are absent. The MTConnect gate is
notably a **real `/probe` reachability + payload-shape check** (`MTConnectAgentFixture.cs:42`), not
mere env-var presence, so it cannot pass vacuously.

---

## 5. Open live gates

| Gate | Status | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| **Continuous-historization value capture** (#491) | **OPEN** — code complete, unproven in production | `CLAUDE.md:710`; no gate-passed commit exists |
| **Wave-0 universal discovery browser** full tree render (#468) | **OPEN** — fixture-blocked | tracking doc §Wave 0; named as blocking BACnet browse |
| **archreview R2-03** — VT Good→Bad on a data-fed rig | **OPEN** — explicitly "live-blocked on this data-less rig" | `archreview/plans/STATUS.md` |
| **archreview R2-10** — force breaker-OPEN live | **OPEN** — breaker-OPEN state never forced live | `archreview/plans/R2-10-*.tasks.json` |
| **Driver-reconfigure-while-faulted** Task 3 | **OPEN** — task subject literally "DEFERRED" | `2026-07-14-driver-reconfigure-while-faulted-plan.md.tasks.json` |
| Galaxy `ScanStateProbeParityTests` | **OPEN** — licence-gated (one `$WinPlatform` on this box) | `docs/v2/Galaxy.ParityRig.md:180` |
| **v2 GA exit criteria** — FOCAS live-CNC wire smoke (#54), OPC UA CTT/compliance pass, Ignition 8.3 redundancy cutover | **OPEN** — manual/hardware/external-tool | `docs/v2/v2-release-readiness.md:105-120` |
| mesh Phase 4 | ✅ **PASSED** `1281aebf` | CLAUDE.md said open — **corrected**, §7.2 |
| mesh Phase 5 | ✅ **PASSED** `f134935f` | CLAUDE.md said pending — **corrected**, §7.2 |
| auto-down 1-vs-1 crash-the-oldest | ✅ **PASSED** — Phase 7 drill D4, `c50ebcf7` | CLAUDE.md said open — **corrected**, §7.2 |

**Note on the 14 archreview `deferred-live` tasks across 8 plans:** `archreview/plans/STATUS.md:242-305`
records a 2026-07-13 live pass closing several (R2-02, R2-07, R2-11, R2-04, R2-05-partial) and
2026-07-15 closures for R2-01/R2-08/R2-06 — **but the `.tasks.json` files were never updated.** Only
R2-03 and R2-10 have no closure record anywhere.

---

## 6. Plan bookkeeping — stale vs. live

**59 of 78 `docs/plans/*.tasks.json` are 100 % complete.** Of the remaining 19, most are stale
bookkeeping, not backlog.

### 6.1 STALE — work shipped, file never updated (~140 phantom "pending" tasks)

| File | Recorded | Reality |
|---|---|---|
| `2026-07-24-mtconnect-driver.md.tasks.json` | 23 pending | Merged at master tip `90bdaa44`, 5-leg live gate PASSED |
| `2026-07-24-mqtt-sparkplug-driver.md.tasks.json` | 27 pending | All 27 done, both phases live-gated |
| `2026-07-24-sql-poll-driver.md.tasks.json` | 22 pending | Merged `4ad54037` + follow-ups `28c28667` |
| `2026-07-24-modbus-rtu-driver.md.tasks.json` | 11 pending | Merged `0f38f486` (#495), live gate PASSED |
| `2026-06-26-otopcua-historian-gateway-integration.md.tasks.json` | 21 pending | Shipped as PR #423, live-validated |
| `2026-06-15/16-stillpending-phase-{0-1,2,3,4}.md.tasks.json` | 12+9+10+8 pending | Shipped — audit §D cites `1e95856b`, `ada01e1a`, `fc8121cb`, `3e609a2b`, `70e6d3d2`, `c236263e`, `bd8fee61`, `5e27b5f7`, `fcb38014` |
| `2026-07-22-per-cluster-mesh-program.md.tasks.json` | Phase 2 in_progress, 3–7 pending | Plan body `:331-342` says **program COMPLETE** |
| `2026-06-12-historian-tcp-transport.md.tasks.json` | 12 pending | **OBSOLETE** — targets the retired Wonderware sidecar |

### 6.2 GENUINELY LIVE

| File | Open | Note |
|---|---|---|
| **`2026-05-29-adminui-followups.md.tasks.json`** | **19 pending / 0 completed** | **The largest unexecuted plan in the tree.** Generic `CollectionEditor<TRow>`; per-driver device/tag editors ×7; typed resilience form; `RoleMapper.Merge` + DB-backed LDAP→role mapping + `RoleGrants.razor` + FleetAdmin authz. **Several items look superseded by v3's `TagConfigEditorMap` — verify overlap before executing.** |
| `2026-06-19-followups-batch.md.tasks.json` | 4 pending + 1 partial | B4 F10b surgical DataType/IsArray writes and B5 alarm-severity `SetSeverity` are **OPEN-by-choice, not built** |
| `2026-06-26-otopcua-fixedtree-followups.md.tasks.json` | 1 pending | Task 11 build + regression |
| `2026-05-26-akka-hosting-alignment-plan.md.tasks.json` | 5 partial | F8/F9/F10/F13/F14 — oldest open items; **likely superseded by v3, verify** |
| `2026-05-28-adminui-driver-pages-plan.md.tasks.json` | 1 partial | 10.4 manual smoke checklist |

`docs/plans/2026-07-23-mesh-phase4-…tasks.json` Task 9 was the only `deferred`-flagged mesh task —
**it has since landed** (`3a590a0c`), so that file is now stale too.

### 6.3 Review-directory state

- **`code-reviews/`** — 51 modules, **zero Open findings**. One textual "Left Open pending a decision"
  survives in a finding body (`Configuration/findings.md:254`, LDAP collation) whose status field
  reads Deferred — the only index inconsistency.
- **`code-reviews/` coverage gap** — **10 shipped source projects have never been reviewed**:
  `Driver.Calculation`, `Driver.Historian.Gateway`, `Driver.Mqtt` (+`.Browser`, `.Contracts`),
  `Driver.MTConnect` (+`.Contracts`), `Driver.Sql` (+`.Browser`, `.Contracts`). Meanwhile three
  modules review the **retired** Wonderware backend.
- **`archreview/`** — `00-OVERALL.md:60-79` carries an explicit "Carried open … no remediation branch
  targeted them" block. The largest coherent batch is the **failure-visibility trio**: 01/S-1
  (`AddressSpaceApplier` swallows every sink failure, deploy reports Applied even when broken), 03/S4
  (primary gate default-allow on unknown role), 06/S-1 (Galaxy optimistic write success).
- **`stillpending.md` does not exist** — the backlog is `docs/plans/2026-06-18-stillpending-backlog-audit.md`.

---

## 7. Documentation corrections

### 7.1 Applied in this pass

| File | Was | Now |
|---|---|---|
| `CLAUDE.md` §Change Detection (`:156`) | "The server's `DriverHost` consumes the signal and rebuilds the address space" | ⚠️ nothing consumes it; names `DriverHostActor.cs:986`, #518/#507, and the four affected drivers |
| `CLAUDE.md` §Redundancy (`:272`) | auto-down "live gate is still open … docker-dev is a single six-node mesh" | gate **CLOSED** by Phase 7 drill D4 (`c50ebcf7`); the six-node-mesh claim also contradicted CLAUDE.md's own Phase 6 paragraph |
| `CLAUDE.md` §Telemetry (`:383`) | Phase 5 "code-complete on `feat/mesh-phase5`, live gate pending" | merged `35552a96`; live gate PASSED `f134935f` |
| `CLAUDE.md` §Phase 4 (`:493`, `:502-503`) | `ScriptedAlarmState` "dropping it is a deferred follow-up, tracked as Task 9"; "Task 9 and the live gate (Task 10) are still open" | table **dropped** (`3a590a0c`, migration `20260723183050_DropScriptedAlarmStateTable`); live gate PASSED `1281aebf` |
| `docs/plans/2026-07-24-driver-expansion-tracking.md` | Modbus RTU "pending merge"; SQL poll "📝 Plan ready (22 tasks)"; **an "Executing a plan" table instructing you to rebuild both** | both marked ✅ Done with merge SHAs; the two shipped rows struck from the command table; Wave 1/2 headings and §Next actions corrected |
| `docs/drivers/README.md` | `DriverTypeRegistry` "registered at startup"; "namespace kinds (Equipment + SystemPlatform)"; no Sql/Calculation rows; "Modbus TCP" only | registry marked vestigial + tier truth; namespace line corrected to Raw+UNS; Sql + Calculation rows added; Modbus row covers RTU-over-TCP |
| `docs/drivers/TwinCAT.md` (`:95`, `:99-103`, `:151`) | "so the address space is rebuilt" / "so Core rebuilds the address space" | raises-but-unconsumed caveat, mirroring the wording `Mqtt.md`/`MTConnect.md` already use correctly |
| `docs/drivers/Galaxy.md` (`:73`) | `IRediscoverable` row with no caveat | same caveat added |
| `docs/v2/Runtime.md` (`:106`) | "named-pipe IPC to the Wonderware historian sidecar + `SqliteStoreAndForwardSink`" | gRPC to HistorianGateway + `LocalDbStoreAndForwardSink` |
| **`docs/ReadWriteOperations.md`** (`:13`, `:21` + banner) | "ACL enforcement (`WriteAuthzPolicy` + `AuthorizationGate`) runs before the source branch"; "**A denied read never hits the driver**" | Both struck through and corrected; banner states plainly that **no per-node ACL gate exists on any operation** and that `GenericDriverNodeManager` is test scaffolding. **This was the highest-risk doc error found.** |
| **`docs/IncrementalSync.md`** (banner) | whole "Rebuild flow" + generation-publish path presented as current | Banner: `GenericDriverNodeManager` is non-production, rediscovery has no consumer, `sp_PublishGeneration`/`sp_ComputeGenerationDiff` `RAISERROR`, `DraftRevisionToken` gone; names the one live path (deploy artifact) |
| **`docs/AddressSpace.md`** (banner) | "single custom namespace"; `Phase7Applier`/`Phase7Composer`/`GalaxyTagPlan`; `SystemPlatform` | Banner: two namespaces w/ `V3NodeIds`, the `AddressSpace*` rename (`40e8a23e`), `AddressSpaceComposition` as the result type, `SystemPlatform` retired |
| `docs/v2/phase-7-status.md`, `v2-release-readiness.md`, `redundancy-interop-playbook.md`, `AdminUI-rebuild-plan.md` (banners) | present-tense claims about types that no longer exist | Dated "⚠️ Historical" banners naming the specific dead types. `v2-release-readiness.md`'s banner also flags that its `:41` "ACL enforcement Closed" row is false, while noting its unchecked GA exit criteria **are** still live. (`docs/StatusDashboard.md` already self-declares Superseded — left alone.) |
| `docs/OpcUaServer.md` (`:14`, `:51`), `docs/README.md` (`:65`), `docs/drivers/OpcUaClient-Test-Fixture.md` (`:127`) | `WriteAlarmState`; `LdapUserAuthenticator` ×2; `RedundancyCoordinator` | `WriteAlarmCondition`; `LdapOpcUaUserAuthenticator`; `RedundancyStateActor` + `IRedundancyRoleView` |
| `docs/Historian.md` | no mention of #491 or the provisioning gap | ⚠️ block added: continuous value capture is **code-complete but unproven in production**, with the wiring chain; plus the `EnsureTags`-skips-existing-tags gap |

### 7.2 Recorded, NOT applied — needs a decision or a rewrite, not a line edit

The three highest-priority items in this list were **bannered rather than rewritten** in this pass
(cheap, stops the misleading, preserves the record) — the underlying rewrite is still owed. They now
appear in §7.1 as well.

| Priority | File | Problem |
|---|---|---|
| **1 (security-relevant)** | `docs/ReadWriteOperations.md:13,21` | **Bannered + struck through.** Claimed ACL enforcement via `WriteAuthzPolicy` + `AuthorizationGate` + `NodeScopeResolver` and that "a denied read never hits the driver". All four names have zero hits in `src/`; §3.1 shows there is no read-path ACL gate at all. **Still owed:** a proper §-rewrite against the real node-manager write gate. Same false claim at `docs/v2/v2-release-readiness.md:41` (bannered). |
| **2** | `docs/IncrementalSync.md` | **Bannered.** Entire "Rebuild flow" (`:37-47`) built on non-production `GenericDriverNodeManager`; `:26-34` cites `sp_PublishGeneration`/`sp_ComputeGenerationDiff`, both retired stubs that `RAISERROR` (`20260715230637_V3Initial.StoredProcedures.cs:194`); `:31` cites `DraftRevisionToken` (0 hits); `:49-51` describes a `ScopeHint` no consumer reads. **Still owed:** rewrite around the deploy-artifact path, or archive to `docs/v1/`. |
| **2** | `docs/AddressSpace.md` | **Bannered.** v2-era throughout: `:7,42` claim a single namespace (v3 has two); `:7,48,70` cite `Phase7Applier` + `GalaxyTagPlan` + a nonexistent file path; `:62-64` repeats the rediscovery claim. **Still owed:** rewrite §"Root folder" + §"NodeId scheme" against `V3NodeIds` / `AddressSpaceRealm`. |
| 3 | 6 docs, ~20 citations | **`Phase7*` → `AddressSpace*`** rename (`40e8a23e`). Mostly mechanical, **except three that are not renames** and need the real member identified first: `Phase7CompositionResult` → **`AddressSpaceComposition`** (`AddressSpaceComposer.cs:13`, verified for this report); `Phase7Composer.ExtractTagFullName` → nearest live seam is `ScriptTagCatalog.ExtractFullNameFromTagConfig`; **`Phase7EngineComposer.RouteToHistorianAsync` is simply gone** — the real seam is `HistorianAdapterActor` → `IAlarmHistorianSink`. |
| 3 | `docs/v2/driver-specs.md` | Covers 8 of 12 drivers (missing MQTT, MTConnect, Sql, Calculation, and the Modbus `Transport` selector) while `docs/drivers/README.md` calls it authoritative "for **every** driver". Either add four sections or downgrade the claim. |
| 3 | `docs/v2/driver-stability.md:47-54` | Puts Galaxy and FOCAS in Tier C; `docs/drivers/README.md` says Tier A for both. **Moot at runtime** — see §3.3 — but the two docs contradict each other. |
| 3 | `docs/drivers/Sql.md`, `docs/drivers/Calculation.md` | **Do not exist.** Sql is documented only in design/plan/research files; Calculation only at `docs/Raw.md:66-69`. |
| — | `docs/operations/2026-07-16-secrets-clustered-master-key.md:38` | `NoOpSecretReplicator` exists **only** in a test. **Investigate before editing** — the sentence makes a security-relevant claim ("no built-in cross-node replication today"), so it needs the real behaviour identified, not a rename. Left untouched deliberately. |
| — | `docs/v2/driver-specs.md` §2 | `docs/drivers/Modbus.md:10-11` points readers here for the Modbus config shape, and this file omits the `Transport` selector. Folded into the driver-specs item above. |

---

## 8. Recommended sequencing

1. ~~**§3.1 ACL enforcement** — decide: wire `IPermissionEvaluator` into `OtOpcUaNodeManager`, or
   remove the authoring UI and say plainly that ACLs are not enforced. Either way fix
   `docs/ReadWriteOperations.md` first; it is the one that could mislead a security review.~~
   ✅ **Done** — decided *make non-enforcement explicit*; wire-up tracked as Gitea **#520**. See §9.
   (`docs/ReadWriteOperations.md` was **not** the sharpest one — `docs/security.md` was.)
2. ~~**#518 + #507 together** — neither fix is observable alone.~~ ✅ **Done.** The framing was right
   that they had to be handled together, but wrong about the resolution: **#507 was not revivable**,
   so it was deleted rather than fixed. See §9.
3. ~~**#516** — silent config discard on 5 drivers; then re-scope #489, which it partly subsumes.~~
   ✅ **Done.** See §9. #489 is still open and should now be re-scoped.
4. ~~**G-4** — extend the existing picker-parity test to `DriverConfigModal` + `DeviceModal`; it would
   have caught G-1 and G-2 for free, and this class has now recurred twice.~~ ✅ **Done**, together with
   G-1, G-2, G-3, G-5 and G-6. See §9.
5. ~~**Bookkeeping sweep** — mark the 8 stale `.tasks.json` files complete so the 19-task AdminUI plan
   (§6.2) is visible as the real backlog it is.~~ ✅ **Done.** See §9.
6. ~~**§3.3 tier truth** — either pass real tiers at factory registration or delete the Tier-C
   machinery; today it is documented, authorable and dormant.~~ ✅ **Documented**; the keep-or-delete
   code decision is Gitea **#522**. See §9.

---

## 9. Execution log

Remediation of §8, on branch `feat/deferment-remediation`. Status is updated in the **same commit** as
the work, so this register never disagrees with the tree.

| §8 item | Status | Commit |
|---|---|---|
| 1. ACL enforcement decision | ✅ **Done** — decided *make non-enforcement explicit*; Gitea **#520** tracks the wire-up | `d1e88dc4` |
| 2. #518 + #507 | ✅ **Done** — `IRediscoverable` consumed as a re-browse prompt; #507's injection path **deleted**; `IHostConnectivityProbe` half split to Gitea **#521** | `09a401b8`, `97c9f4b4` |
| 3. #516 config discard | ✅ **Done** — seam respawn + re-parse on 3 drivers; Sql/FOCAS deliberately respawn-only | `2dc19f30` |
| 4. G-4 dispatch-map parity | ✅ **Done** — G-1…G-6 all closed, live-verified on docker-dev | `abacf4cf` |
| 5. Bookkeeping sweep | ✅ **Done** — 13 plan files closed, 11 archreview gates written back | `03658c2e` |
| 6. Tier truth | ✅ **Done** — docs reconciled; keep-or-delete is Gitea **#522** | `03658c2e` |

### 2026-07-27 — §8.1 ACL non-enforcement made explicit

Decision: **do not wire the evaluator, do not delete it** — state plainly that it does not run, and
track the wire-up as **Gitea #520**.

Applied:

- `docs/security.md` — the `NodeScope`/`PermissionTrie`/"Dispatch gate" block now leads with a
  **What is enforced today** table (the three real checks) before the design material, which is
  labelled *Designed but not wired*.
- `docs/ReadWriteOperations.md` — **rewritten**, not bannered.
- `docs/v2/acl-design.md` — ⚠️ NEVER WIRED banner.
- `docs/v2/v2-release-readiness.md` §"Security — Phase 6.2 dispatch wiring" — the CLOSED claim marked
  as not holding.
- `ClusterAcls.razor` + `AclEdit.razor` — warning alerts stating rules are stored and deployed but
  never evaluated.

**Four things this pass found that §7 and the original audit missed** — all worse than what was
already recorded:

1. **`docs/security.md` was the highest-risk doc, not `ReadWriteOperations.md`.** `:115` claimed an
   anonymous session is "default-denie[d] any node a session has no ACL grant for". The opposite is
   true: an anonymous session can Browse, Read, Subscribe and HistoryRead the **entire** address
   space. It is refused only writes and alarm acks — and only because it carries no roles.
2. **Three of the five documented data-plane role strings do nothing.** `OpcUaDataPlaneRoles` declares
   exactly `WriteOperate` and `AlarmAck`. `ReadOnly`, `WriteTune` and `WriteConfigure` are compared
   against nowhere in `src/`, so mapping a group to `WriteTune` grants nothing and mapping one to
   `ReadOnly` restricts nothing. The doc called all five "exact, case-insensitive, and **code-true**".
3. **`ReadWriteOperations.md` was fiction well beyond the ACL claims.** `OnReadValue` has **zero**
   occurrences in `src/` — the whole documented read path did not exist. Reads never reach a driver at
   all: the node manager is push-model and the SDK serves a client Read from the cached pushed value.
   `WriteAuthzPolicy`, `_sourceByFullRef`, `_writeIdempotentByFullRef` and `IRoleBearer` are likewise
   zero-hit, and `CapabilityInvoker` is not referenced by the `OpcUaServer` project at all.
4. **`v2-release-readiness.md` claimed a whole enforcement layer shipped.** Beyond the `:41` row §7.1
   already flagged, `:46-50` describe `FilterBrowseReferences`, `GateCallMethodRequests`,
   `MapCallOperation`, `AuthorizationBootstrap` and `Node:Authorization:*` config keys as Closed or
   Partial. None of them exist. Whatever landed on the v2 branch did not survive into the shipped tree.

Also recorded in #520 and not previously known: every existing evaluator unit test runs in
`PermissionTrieBuilder`'s no-`scopePaths` *deterministic test mode*, so the production hierarchy path
is effectively untested; and `NodeAcl.ScopeId` has no FK or existence check, so scope ids dangle
silently.

### 2026-07-27 — §8.2 rediscovery as a signal; injection deleted

Decision: **signal, not mutation.**

`DriverInstanceActor` now consumes `IRediscoverable.OnRediscoveryNeeded` (attach in `PreStart`, detach
in `PostStop`) and carries it on the driver-health snapshot to `/hosts` as a **re-browse chip**. It is
advisory — the served address space is unchanged, because v3 authors raw tags through `/raw`
browse-commit and a runtime graft would materialise nodes nobody approved.

**#507's injection path was deleted, not fixed.** §2 recorded it as a "deferred (deliberate guard)".
That was too generous: its two inputs — `EquipmentNode.DriverInstanceId` and `EquipmentTags` — are
*structurally empty* in v3, so removing the guard would have changed a log line and injected nothing.
Deleted with it: `HandleDiscoveredNodes`, `PartitionDiscoveredByDeviceHost`,
`ApplyDiscoveredPlansForDriver`, the redeploy re-inject tail, `DiscoveredNodeMapper`,
`AddressSpaceApplier.MaterialiseDiscoveredNodes`, `OpcUaPublishActor.MaterialiseDiscoveredNodes`, the
connect-time discovery loop, and 4 files' worth of tests. `ITagDiscovery` stays — the `/raw` browse
picker drives it through `Commons/Browsing/DiscoveryDriverBrowser`, which never went through the actor.

**§4.4's "18 `DiscoveryInjectionDormantV3` — Real, blocked on #507" was wrong.** They were v2
characterization tests asserting an equipment-rooted graft (`EquipmentRootNodeId == "EQ-1"`) that v3
cannot produce. They could never have unskipped as written; they are deleted. Skipped tests in
`Runtime.Tests` went 31 → 13.

**The planned drift detector was deliberately NOT built.** The plan proposed diffing each connect-time
discovery pass against the authored raw tags. Reading the drivers killed it: **Modbus, S7, MQTT,
AbLegacy and Sql all echo authored config from `DiscoverAsync`** rather than browsing the device, so
the diff is permanently empty for them. It would have been another plausible-looking inert seam —
precisely the class this register exists to remove. That also removed the last consumer of the
connect-time loop, which is why the loop went too: it was browsing real devices up to ~15× per connect
and dropping the result.

Two traps worth keeping:

- `PublishHealthSnapshot` dedups on a health fingerprint, and a rediscovery raise changes none of the
  four fields it hashed. The timestamp had to join the tuple or the dedup swallows the signal.
  **Verified by reverting the one line — 3 of the 5 new tests go red.**
- The shared `StubDriver.GetHealth()` returns `DateTime.UtcNow`, so its fingerprint differs every call
  and the dedup never engages. A dedup test built on it would pass whether or not the fix is present;
  the new tests use a stub with stable health.

`IHostConnectivityProbe` was **not** resolved — it is a keep-or-delete decision, and the
`DriverHostStatus` table was re-created deliberately in the v3 initial migration, so deleting on
inference would be wrong. Split to Gitea **#521** with both options costed.

### 2026-07-27 — §8.5 bookkeeping + §8.6 tier truth

**13 plan files closed.** The 8 the register named, plus `mesh-phase4` (Task 9 landed `3a590a0c`), the
4th `stillpending` phase file, and `historian-tcp-transport` closed as **OBSOLETE** (it targets the
retired Wonderware sidecar; there is no Wonderware backend in the tree). Each carries a `closureNote`
naming the evidence, so the next reader can check rather than trust.

**11 archreview live gates written back** from `STATUS.md`, which had recorded them passed since
2026-07-13/15 without ever updating the `.tasks.json` files: R2-01 #11, R2-02 #15/#18, R2-05 T15,
R2-06 T12, R2-07 T5/T6/T12/T14, R2-11 T22/T24.

**R2-03 and R2-10 were NOT closed** — and reading `STATUS.md` rather than trusting its own headline
("Every Round-2 live gate is now GREEN") is what kept that honest. Its per-item detail says R2-03 is
"live-blocked on this data-less rig" and R2-10 verified the pipeline but "breaker-OPEN state not
forced". Both now carry an `openNote` recording the blocker: R2-03 needs a reachable driver fixture
feeding a VT; R2-10 needs a rapid idempotent write to a dead endpoint, because R2-09's
`ConnectionBackoff` throttles retries so failures never accumulate fast enough to open the Polly breaker.

**Net effect (the point of the sweep):** ~140 phantom pending tasks are gone, so the genuinely
unexecuted **19-task AdminUI follow-ups plan** is now the largest open item in `docs/plans/` rather than
being buried. The remaining open plans are 8, and one of those (`mesh-phase6` Task 6) is a documented
`resolved-no-flip` decision rather than work.

**Tier truth:** `docs/v2/driver-stability.md` now states plainly that its tier table is aspirational —
every driver runs Tier A, and `MemoryRecycle` / `ScheduledRecycleScheduler` have never engaged. It also
corrects a second stale claim the register did not flag: the **separate-Windows-service hosting** it
describes for Tier C no longer exists (Galaxy went to the mxaccessgw sidecar in PR 7.2; FOCAS went
in-process when its managed wire client landed). No runtime change — turning recycle on for two live
drivers deserves its own live gate, not a docs-pass side effect. Tracked as Gitea **#522**.

### 2026-07-28 — the two things §8.3 deliberately did NOT build (1 of 2)

**Sql and FOCAS now re-parse in place too.** The first pass excluded them for a real reason — each derives
more than options from config, so adopting new options alone would run a **new tag set against an old
connection/backend**, and a half-applied change is worse than a discarded one because it looks like it
worked. Rather than accept that, the blocker itself is fixed: each factory now exposes a **`ParseBinding`**
that returns *every* config-derived dependency as one value, and the driver adopts them **atomically**.

| Driver | What one parse now yields | Adopted by |
|---|---|---|
| Sql | options + `ISqlDialect` + resolved connection string | `ApplyBinding`, which also rebuilds the provider factory, `Endpoint` and the `SqlPollReader` that captures all three |
| FOCAS | options + the `IFocasClientFactory` the `Backend` key selects | one assignment pair in `InitializeAsync` |

Details worth keeping:

- **Sql adopts BEFORE `BuildTagTable`**, so the tag table and the connection it will be polled over always
  come from the same revision.
- **A test-injected `DbProviderFactory` survives a rebind** (`_explicitFactory`), so a re-derived dialect
  cannot silently displace what a test passed in.
- **Re-resolving the connection string on reinit is a side benefit**: a rotated credential is picked up
  without a process restart.
- A driver constructed **directly** gets no rebinder and keeps its constructor-supplied binding — every
  existing `"{}"`-passing lifecycle test is unaffected by construction, not by luck.

**The tests pin ATOMICITY, not merely "a re-parse happened"** — a test that only checked options would have
passed against the broken version. Verified by simulating the *half-fix* (adopt options, skip the backend):
2 of the 3 FOCAS tests go red. Reverting Sql's rebind turns its connection-string test red. Sql also asserts
that a reinit which **cannot resolve** its new connection leaves the previous binding whole, rather than
half-adopting.

All 12 drivers now honour a changed config in place; `DriverSpawnPlanner`'s stop + respawn remains the outer
guarantee. Sql.Tests 226 / FOCAS.Tests 275 pass.

### 2026-07-27 — §8.4 dispatch-map parity (G-1 … G-6)

**The maps had to become data before they could be guarded.** A Razor `@switch` compiles into
`BuildRenderTree`'s IL, so nothing can enumerate its cases — that is the whole reason G-1 and G-2
survived review while the sibling picker guard stayed green (the picker test works only because
`RawDriverTypeDialog` keeps its data in a *field* the markup enumerates). Both modals now render from
`DriverConfigFormMap` / `DeviceFormMap` via `<DynamicComponent>`, and being `public` those maps need
none of the picker test's `BindingFlags.NonPublic` fragility.

| Gap | Resolution |
|---|---|
| G-1 | `CalculationDriverForm.razor` added — `RunTimeout` was unauthorable through the UI. |
| G-2 | Sql / MTConnect / Calculation are declared **single-connection** rather than given hollow device forms — each holds one connection at the driver level, so a per-device endpoint editor would be meaningless. |
| G-3 | `DriverConfigModal`'s hardcoded `Galaxy or Mqtt` replaced by `DeviceFormMap.IsSingleConnection`. |
| G-4 | `DriverFormMapParityTests` (5 cases, both directions) + `DriverDispatchMapParityTests` (3). |
| G-5 | `CsvColumnMap` entries for Sql, Mqtt, MTConnect. |
| G-6 | `RawBrowseCommitMapper` Sql branch — **and the browser end too**, which the register missed. |

**G-6 was bigger than filed.** The register said the mapper lacked a Sql branch. It also turned out that
`SqlBrowseSession` emitted **no `AddressFields` at all**, so a browsed leaf carried only a column name —
and a column name alone cannot address a Sql tag, which needs its table. The browser now travels
schema/table/column and the mapper builds a `WideRow` `SqlTagConfigModel` from them. A branch alone
would have produced a half-built blob.

**Two extra findings while writing the guards:**

- The G-6 test found **Modbus and Calculation** also fall through to the generic `{"address": …}` key.
  Both are correct — neither is browsable — so the test asserts the fall-through set **equals** a
  documented non-browsable list, in both directions. A one-way check would let a newly-browsable driver
  be quietly added to the exclusion list instead of getting a branch.
- `TagConfigDriverTypeNameGuardTests` was **hollow**: it enumerated a hand-written `TheoryData` that had
  already drifted (omitting Galaxy, Sql and Mqtt), so it guarded against renames but not gaps — a new
  `DriverTypeNames` constant would simply never appear. Now enumerated from the map, paired with a
  coverage test in the other direction.

**Live-verified on docker-dev** (`localhost:9200`, central pair rebuilt), because this repo has no bUnit
and no unit test can cover Blazor parameter binding: opened Calculation's config — the form renders where
it previously showed "No typed config form" — typed `3500`, saved, reopened, and the value **persisted**,
proving the `DynamicComponent` two-way binding round-trips. Sql's form renders fully (regression check on
the conversion) and now reads "This driver holds a single connection, authored above" (G-3). The rebuilt
image also showed `RediscoveryNeededUtc`/`RediscoveryReason` on the wire, confirming §8.2 end-to-end.

### 2026-07-27 — §8.3 #516 driver config edits silently discarded

Decision: **both** — per-driver re-parse *and* the seam respawn. Reading the drivers split the
"per-driver" half in two, which the register did not anticipate:

- **Re-parse in place** (`Modbus`, `AbLegacy`, `OpcUaClient`) — `ParseOptions` extracted from each
  factory, called from `InitializeAsync` behind a `HasConfigBody` guard so `"{}"` still keeps the
  constructor options.
- **Respawn-only, deliberately NOT re-parsed** (`Sql`, `FOCAS`) — each builds **more than options**
  from config: Sql's `ISqlDialect` + resolved connection string, FOCAS's client-factory backend, both
  injected at construction. Adopting new options alone would run a **new tag set against an old
  connection**. Half a re-parse is worse than none. Their doc-comments now say so.

**The seam respawn is the load-bearing half.** `DriverSpawnPlanner` now routes a changed
`DriverConfig` to `ToStop` + `ToSpawn`, making the factory the single parse authority.
`ToApplyDelta` is consequently always empty from the reconcile path. This **reverses the deliberate
decision documented at `DriverSpawnPlan.cs:49-50`** ("a pure DriverConfig change stays an in-place
delta — no reconnect"). That reasoning was right about resilience and wrong about the driver; the
accepted price is a reconnect on every config edit.

Two seals removed from `ApplyChildDelta`: it overwrote the cached `Spec` **synchronously, before the
child had dequeued the message**, so the host immediately believed the new config was live and the
next reconcile computed no delta — sealing the drift permanently; and it `Tell`d with no
`Receive<ApplyResult>` registered, so a failed reinit (including Galaxy's deliberate
`NotSupportedException`) dead-lettered.

**A new visibility gap this change exposed, not created:** a factory throw is a *config* error
(`TryCreate` is pure parsing; device I/O happens later), and `SpawnChild` catches it and silently
substitutes a stub. Previously only a brand-new driver could hit it; now an ordinary config edit can.
Raised from `Warning` to `Error` with an actionable message. It still does **not** fail the
deployment — making it do so would let one malformed driver block a fleet deploy, so that is a
deliberate follow-up rather than a drive-by change.

**Tests.** Every pre-existing reinit test in the five suites passes `"{}"` — precisely the input a
guarded re-parser treats as "keep the constructor options", so they were blind to this defect *by
construction*. The new tests pass **changed** JSON. The Modbus one was verified falsifiable by
deleting the re-parse line (goes red). Two existing tests asserted the old behaviour and were
rewritten: `DriverSpawnPlannerTests` (two cases), and
`DriverHostActorUnreadableArtifactTests.Dropping_a_drivers_last_tag_does_clear_its_subscription` —
a **positive control** for a sibling absence assertion, whose observable moved from `UnsubscribeAsync`
to `ShutdownAsync` because the teardown now happens by stopping the child rather than emptying its
desired set. Same event, different route; the control still calibrates the settle window.

Full-solution run: only pre-existing environment failures remain — `Host.IntegrationTests` (3,
verified identical on the pre-change tree) and `Driver.AbLegacy.IntegrationTests` (4, docker
fixture-gated, and notably these **fail rather than skip**, unlike every other fixture-gated suite).

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