lmxopcua/docs/plans/2026-07-24-driver-expansion-tracking.md

Driver-expansion — Waves 0–2 tracking

Living status tracker for the driver-expansion program (Waves 0, 1, 2). One row per deliverable, each pointing at its design doc, its implementation plan (once written), and its current status. The authoritative architecture index is the program design doc; this file is the authoritative progress index.

Program design (architecture / shared contract / build order): 2026-07-15-driver-expansion-program-design.md

Last updated: 2026-07-24.

Legend

Status	Meaning
✅ Done	Merged to master, tests green.
🟡 Live gate open	Code merged; a live /run or hardware-gated verification still outstanding.
📝 Plan ready	Executable implementation plan (*-implementation.md + .tasks.json) written; not yet built.
📐 Design only	Design doc exists; no implementation plan yet — writing-plans is the next step.
⛔ Not started	No design, no plan.

Doc types (per the writing-plans skill): a design states architecture, decisions, and risks; an implementation plan is the bite-sized, TDD, file-path-level task list the subagent-driven executor runs off, with a co-located .tasks.json for resume. A deliverable is only buildable once it reaches 📝.

Summary

Wave	Deliverable	Design	Impl. plan	Status	Effort	Fixture / hardware
0	Universal Discover-backed browser	design	plan · tasks	🟡 Live gate open	S–M	none (retrofits shipped drivers)
1	Modbus RTU (extend Modbus)	design	plan · tasks	🟢 Built — live gate PASSED (11 tasks, branch feat/modbus-rtu-driver, pending merge)	S (lowest)	pymodbus rtu_over_tcp — CI-simulatable, no new infra
1	SQL poll	design	plan · tasks	📝 Plan ready (22 tasks)	S–M	existing central SQL Server 10.100.0.35,14330 + SQLite unit
2	MTConnect Agent	design	plan · tasks	📝 Plan ready (23 tasks)	S–M	Dockerized mtconnect/cppagent — CI-simulatable
2	MQTT / Sparkplug B	design	plan · tasks	✅ COMPLETE — P1 + P2 shipped, both live-gated (Tasks 0–26)	M–L	Mosquitto TLS+auth + C# Sparkplug edge-node simulator, live at 10.100.0.35:8883

Waves 3+ (BACnet/IP, Omron) and the deferred MELSEC are tracked in the program design doc §6/§8, not here. Omron CIP is the program's sole real-hardware wire gate; BACnet's broadcast/BBMD leg is env-gated live. Both are out of this file's scope until they're pulled forward.

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Executing a plan (git worktree + subagent-per-task)

Each 📝 plan is executed with the subagent-driven-development skill: it sets up an isolated git worktree first (via using-git-worktrees), then dispatches a fresh subagent per task, running the classification-driven review chain (trivial = implement only … high-risk = spec-review → code-review → integration review) between tasks. The .tasks.json next to each plan tracks progress and lets a later session resume.

Paste one of these into Claude Code to build a driver:

Deliverable	Command
Modbus RTU (Wave 1)	Use superpowers-extended-cc:subagent-driven-development to execute docs/plans/2026-07-24-modbus-rtu-driver.md in a new git worktree
SQL poll (Wave 1)	Use superpowers-extended-cc:subagent-driven-development to execute docs/plans/2026-07-24-sql-poll-driver.md in a new git worktree
MTConnect (Wave 2)	Use superpowers-extended-cc:subagent-driven-development to execute docs/plans/2026-07-24-mtconnect-driver.md in a new git worktree
MQTT/Sparkplug (Wave 2)	Use superpowers-extended-cc:subagent-driven-development to execute docs/plans/2026-07-24-mqtt-sparkplug-driver.md in a new git worktree

• Slash-command form (equivalent): /superpowers-extended-cc:subagent-driven-development <plan-path>.
• Parallel-session / resume form (batch execution with checkpoints, no fresh-subagent-per-task): /superpowers-extended-cc:executing-plans <plan-path> — reads the same .tasks.json and continues from the first pending task.
• Recommended order: Modbus RTU → SQL poll → MTConnect → MQTT/Sparkplug (lowest effort first; see each wave below for the gating notes). Run one plan per worktree; the four plans are independent, so separate worktrees may run concurrently.

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Wave 0 — Universal Discover-backed browser 🟡

What it is. One generic DiscoveryDriverBrowser (+ CapturingAddressSpaceBuilder, CapturedTreeBrowseSession, BrowserSessionService fallback, and the ITagDiscovery.SupportsOnlineDiscovery gate) that turns any driver's ITagDiscovery.DiscoverAsync into an AdminUI browse tree. It is the Wave-0 gate: every browsable new driver depends on this seam, and it retrofits browse to the already-shipped AbCip / TwinCAT / FOCAS drivers for near-zero marginal cost.

• Design: 2026-07-15-universal-discovery-browser-design.md
• Implementation plan: 2026-07-15-universal-discovery-browser-implementation.md · .tasks.json
• Status: 🟡 code-complete + merged, live gate open.
  • Merged to master — 056887d6 (Merge feat/universal-discovery-browser — Wave-0 universal Discover-backed browser), 2026-07-15.
  • Implementation plan: 19 / 19 tasks completed.
  • Lit up AbCip / TwinCAT / FOCAS pickers with zero per-driver browse code.
• Outstanding: the full tree-render live /run gate is fixture-blocked — tracked as Gitea #468. Complete this before leaning on browse in Wave 2/3.

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Wave 1 — low-effort / high-leverage pair 📝

Both are fully CI-simulatable with zero new hardware; Modbus RTU needs no new infra at all, and SQL poll reuses the always-on central SQL Server. This is the recommended next build.

Modbus RTU — 🟢 Built, live gate PASSED (branch feat/modbus-rtu-driver, pending merge)

• Design: 2026-07-15-modbus-rtu-driver-design.md
• Implementation plan: 2026-07-24-modbus-rtu-driver.md · .tasks.json — 11 tasks (1 trivial / 5 small / 2 standard / 3 high-risk), all complete via subagent-driven-development.
• Scope: extend the existing Modbus driver with a Transport selector (RTU CRC-16 + FC-aware length, no TxId) + a rtu_over_tcp pymodbus docker profile + the AdminUI selector. Direct-serial transport is descoped (user, 2026-07-15) — RTU-over-TCP via a serial→Ethernet gateway is the only shipped mode, so there is no serial hardware gate.
• Fixture: added the rtu_over_tcp profile (framer=rtu, host :5021, co-runs with standard) to the Modbus integration fixture. Unknown confirmed: pymodbus 3.13's simulator DOES honour framer=rtu on a TCP server (wire-probed a pure RTU FC03 response, no MBAP) — so the simple profile path was taken; no stdlib fallback server was needed.
• Verification (all green): unit suite 344/344; full solution build 0 errors; the 2 RTU integration tests pass live against the real framer=rtu fixture (read HR5→5, write+readback HR200←4242). Per-task review chain (spec + code reviewers) + a final whole-branch review, all approved-to-merge.
• Live /run gate — PASSED (2026-07-24, docker-dev rebuilt from this branch):
  • AdminUI /raw Modbus driver config modal renders the new Transport selector (with the operator hint) — set to RtuOverTcp, saved.
  • Device Test Connect → OK · 23 MS — the probe built a ModbusRtuOverTcpTransport via the factory and spoke FC03 over real RTU framing to 10.100.0.35:5021.
  • Authored raw tags HR5 (r/o) + HR200 (r/w) → deployment 06ec1632 Sealed (all 6 nodes acked).
  • Client.CLI on opc.tcp://localhost:4840 (multi-role/password): read ns=2;s=rtu-gate/Device1/HR5 → 5, Good; write ns=2;s=rtu-gate/Device1/HR200 = 4242 → readback 4242, Good.
• Effort: S — the lowest on the roadmap. Delivered first, as recommended.

SQL poll — 📝 Plan ready

• Design: 2026-07-15-sql-poll-driver-design.md
• Implementation plan: 2026-07-24-sql-poll-driver.md · .tasks.json — 22 tasks. ISqlDialect seam in from day one; only the SQL Server dialect built in v1 (Postgres/ODBC deferred).
• Scope: a bespoke schema-browser driver polling a SQL table into equipment tags (SQL Server P1; Postgres/ODBC land in P2/P3 behind ISqlDialect).
• Fixture: SQLite unit fixture (primary) + an env-gated integration fixture against the existing central SQL Server (10.100.0.35,14330) with a seeded SqlPollFixture DB. The blackhole/timeout live-gate pauses a dedicated mssql container — never the shared central SQL Server (it hosts ConfigDb).
• Effort: S–M.

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Wave 2 — strategic telemetry / UNS pair 📝

Both CI-simulatable on the shared docker host, no hardware.

MTConnect Agent — 📝 Plan ready

• Design: 2026-07-15-mtconnect-driver-design.md
• Implementation plan: 2026-07-24-mtconnect-driver.md · .tasks.json — 23 tasks. Task 0 is the TrakHound-vs-hand-rolled client decision; browse-picker live-verify is gated on Wave-0 #468.
• Scope: P1 Agent MVP (IDriver+ITagDiscovery+IReadable+ISubscribable+probe+rediscover), browse free via the Wave-0 universal browser (SupportsOnlineDiscovery=true, no browser code), typed editor, UNAVAILABLE→BadNoCommunication mapping, ring-buffer re-baseline paging.
• Fixture: canned XML unit fixtures (bulk of coverage) + a dockerized mtconnect/cppagent integration fixture (env-gated). Depends on Wave 0's browse seam being live-verified (#468).
• Effort: S–M (≈1–1.5 wk with TrakHound, ≈2.5–3 wk hand-rolled).

MQTT / Sparkplug B — ✅ COMPLETE (P1 + P2, both live-gated)

• Design: 2026-07-15-mqtt-sparkplug-driver-design.md
• Implementation plan: 2026-07-24-mqtt-sparkplug-driver.md · .tasks.json — 27 tasks, all done (P1 plain MQTT = Tasks 0–14; P2 Sparkplug B = Tasks 15–26).
• Scope delivered: P1 plain MQTT (MQTTnet-5 connect/TLS/auth + hand-rolled reconnect, subscribe→ OnDataChange, retained last-value read, #-observation browser); P2 Sparkplug B ingest (vendored Tahu proto + Grpc.Tools codegen, birth/alias/seq-gap/rebirth state machine, death→STALE, birth-driven browse tree, scoped Request-rebirth NCMD, typed tag editor). Write-through (IWritable) is deferred to P3 — every MQTT node materializes read-only.
• Fixture: Mosquitto TLS+auth broker + JSON publisher sidecar, live at 10.100.0.35:8883 (:1883 plaintext-but-authenticated); stack /opt/otopcua-mqtt, compose in tests/Drivers/…​.Driver.Mqtt.IntegrationTests/Docker/. Env-gated live suite (MQTT_FIXTURE_ENDPOINT, see infra/README.md §3). The project-owned C# Sparkplug edge-node simulator (--profile sparkplug, group OtOpcUaSim, nodes EdgeA/EdgeB, EdgeA device Filler1) shipped with P2 and answers rebirth NCMDs.
• P2 status (2026-07-25): Tasks 15–26 complete. Offline 1528 passed / 0 failed (581 driver · 809 AdminUI · 138 Core.Abstractions); live 15/15 against the broker + simulator.
• P1 live gate found two AdminUI authoring gaps (the gate's whole point — both invisible to green unit tests, because AdminUI has no bUnit and nothing tied these hand-maintained lists to DriverTypeNames):
  1. FIXED — RawDriverTypeDialog's option array never got an MQTT row, so no operator could create an MQTT driver at all. Fixed, plus a reflection parity guard (RawDriverTypeDialogParityTests) that fails for any future DriverTypeNames entry missing from the picker.
  2. FIXED — MqttDriverForm / MqttDeviceForm did not exist, so the broker connection was unauthorable from the AdminUI. Both shipped after the P1 gate.
• P2 live gate found a third one, of the same family — FIXED: MqttDriverForm still carried its P1 Sparkplug placeholder. Switching Mode to SparkplugB rendered a "not available yet" notice and no Group ID field — so once Sparkplug ingest shipped there was still no way to author a Sparkplug driver from the AdminUI, and Sparkplug.GroupId is the driver's entire subscription filter (spBv1.0/{GroupId}/#): blank ⇒ connected, Healthy, ingesting nothing. Fixed (all five Sparkplug keys, merge-not-replace on save, group-id segment validation) + 8 falsifiable MqttDriverFormModelTests cases. Three gates, three instances of the same defect class: a hand-maintained AdminUI surface left behind by a driver-side feature.
• P2 live gate — two open UI gaps, documented not fixed (see docs/drivers/Mqtt.md §Known gaps):
  • A completely empty browse tree cannot arm a rebirth. The scope comes from a tree click, so on a plant that has not birthed since the window opened Request rebirth… stays disabled — the very case the affordance exists for. MqttBrowseSession.ResolveRebirthTargets already accepts a bare {group}/{edgeNode} ("the prime rebirth target"); only a UI path to enter one is missing. Mitigation shipped: a Refresh button on the browse tree (it re-reads the same session, which previously rendered exactly once at open and never again).
• P2 live gate also found a PRE-EXISTING, cross-driver AdminUI defect — 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. The labels are now <button type="button">. It dates to the component's introduction (2026-05-28) and affects every driver's picker; it only surfaced now because Sparkplug's Request-rebirth is the first feature that requires clicking a label rather than the ▶ toggle (always a <button>, always fine).
  • A metric name containing / cannot be browse-committed. The derived raw tag Name is a RawPath segment and may not contain /, while metricName legitimately may — so the spec-mandatory Node Control/Rebirth is refused at commit (Row N: 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 (the Sparkplug tag editor accepts a slashed metric name). Fixing it needs a name-sanitisation policy with a collision answer, so it was recorded rather than guessed at.
  • _canRebirth is captured at browse-open, so a reaped session still draws the button.
  • The tag editor injects the Plain-only payloadFormat key into a Sparkplug blob — cosmetic; the factory routes on the Sparkplug tuple and ignores it.
• Rediscovery is inert in v3 (platform gap, not MQTT's). The Sparkplug driver raises OnRediscoveryNeeded on a changed birth metric-set, but nothing subscribes to it and DriverHostActor.HandleDiscoveredNodes hard-returns. A DBIRTH introducing a metric does not change the OPC UA tree — redeploy. Driver-side behaviour is log-observable only.
• Redundant-pair hazard (documented, not a code change): both nodes of a 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 ~2 s while still reporting Healthy. Unset (the default) is correct. MqttDriverForm warns inline the moment a value is typed.
• Effort: M–L, delivered. The MQTTnet-5/net10 + central-pinning risk is retired (Task 0's spike held through both phases); Sparkplug state-machine correctness was carried by golden-payload vectors + the live simulator.

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Next actions

1. Close the Wave-0 live gate (Gitea #468) — unblocks browse verification for MTConnect/BACnet.
2. Build Wave 1 — Modbus RTU first (lowest effort, no new infra), then SQL poll. Both plans are 📝 ready; run the command from the Executing a plan table (subagent-driven-development in a git worktree).
3. Build Wave 2 — MTConnect's browse leg wants #468 closed first. MQTT / Sparkplug B is COMPLETE (P1 + P2, both live-gated); its only remaining work is optional — P3 write-through (IWritable: NCMD/DCMD + plain publish) and the two browse-UI gaps recorded above.

Update this file's Summary table and per-wave status whenever a deliverable changes state.