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docs: source-verified deferment register + correct 17 drifted docs
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.
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# Incremental Sync
> ⚠️ **Accuracy warning (audited 2026-07-27) — most of this page describes machinery that is retired
> or was never wired.** Read it as v2-era design history, not as current behaviour.
>
> - **"Rebuild flow" (below) is not a production path.** It is built on `GenericDriverNodeManager`,
> which is Core test scaffolding with **zero production references**
> (`GenericDriverNodeManager.cs:71`). Its `_variablesByFullRef` / `_sourceByFullRef` fields do not
> exist in `src/`.
> - **Driver-backend rediscovery has no consumer.** Nothing in `src/Server/` or `src/Core/`
> subscribes to `IRediscoverable.OnRediscoveryNeeded`; `DriverHostActor.HandleDiscoveredNodes`
> (`DriverHostActor.cs:986-1002`) short-circuits unconditionally. The `ScopeHint` is read by
> nothing. Drivers that raise it today: Galaxy, TwinCAT, MQTT/Sparkplug, MTConnect
> ([#518](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/518),
> [#507](https://gitea.dohertylan.com/dohertj2/lmxopcua/issues/507)).
> - **The generation-publish path is retired.** `sp_PublishGeneration` and
> `sp_ComputeGenerationDiff` are stubs that `RAISERROR`
> (`20260715230637_V3Initial.StoredProcedures.cs:194`); `DraftRevisionToken` does not exist.
>
> **The one live rebuild path in v3** is the deploy artifact: `ConfigComposer` →
> `Deployment.ArtifactBlob` → `DriverHostActor` apply → `AddressSpaceComposer` /
> `AddressSpaceApplier` diff-apply.
Two distinct change-detection paths feed the running server: driver-backend rediscovery (Galaxy's `time_of_last_deploy`, TwinCAT's symbol-version-changed) and generation-level config publishes from the Admin UI. Both flow into re-runs of `ITagDiscovery.DiscoverAsync`, but they originate differently.
## Driver-backend rediscovery — IRediscoverable
Drivers whose backend has a native change signal implement `IRediscoverable` (`src/Core/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core.Abstractions/IRediscoverable.cs`):
```csharp
public interface IRediscoverable
{
event EventHandler<RediscoveryEventArgs>? OnRediscoveryNeeded;
}
public sealed record RediscoveryEventArgs(string Reason, string? ScopeHint);
```
The driver fires the event with a reason string (for the diagnostic log) and an optional scope hint — a non-null hint lets Core scope the rebuild surgically to that subtree; null means "the whole address space may have changed".
Drivers that implement the capability today:
- **Galaxy** — `DeployWatcher` (`src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Galaxy/Browse/DeployWatcher.cs`) subscribes to the mxaccessgw gRPC stream (`IGalaxyDeployWatchSource.WatchAsync`) and fires on a new `time_of_last_deploy` value. The gateway polls the Galaxy repository DB internally; the driver side is event-driven.
- **TwinCAT** — observes ADS symbol-version-changed notifications (ADS error `DeviceSymbolVersionInvalid`, decimal 1809 / `0x0711`). Note: legacy Beckhoff documentation sometimes cites `0x0702` (`DeviceInvalidGroup`) — that is a transcription error; the correct code is `0x0711` per `TwinCATStatusMapper.AdsSymbolVersionChanged` (`src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.TwinCAT/TwinCATStatusMapper.cs:35`).
Static drivers (Modbus, S7, AB CIP, AB Legacy, FOCAS) do not implement `IRediscoverable` — their tags only change when a new generation is published from the Config DB. Core sees absence of the interface and skips change-detection wiring for those drivers (decision #54).
## Config-DB generation publishes
Tag-set changes authored in the Admin UI (UNS edits, CSV imports, driver-config edits) accumulate in a draft generation and commit via `sp_PublishGeneration`. The delta between the currently-published generation and the proposed next one is computed by `sp_ComputeGenerationDiff`, which drives:
- The publish-preview surface in the Admin UI (`src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.AdminUI/Components/Pages/Deployments.razor`, backed by `AdminOperationsClient`) so operators can preview what will change before clicking Publish.
- The 409-on-stale-draft flow (decision #161) — a UNS drag-reorder preview carries a `DraftRevisionToken` so Confirm returns `409 Conflict / refresh-required` if the draft advanced between preview and commit.
After publish, the server's generation applier invokes `IDriver.ReinitializeAsync(driverConfigJson, ct)` on every driver whose `DriverInstance.DriverConfig` row changed in the new generation. Reinitialize is the in-process recovery path for Tier A/B drivers; if it fails the driver is marked `DriverState.Faulted` and its nodes go Bad quality — but the server process stays running. See `docs/v2/driver-stability.md`.
Drivers whose discovery depends on Config DB state (Modbus register maps, S7 DBs, AB CIP tag lists) re-run their discovery inside `ReinitializeAsync`; Core then diffs the new node set against the current address space.
## Rebuild flow
When a rediscovery is triggered (by either source), `GenericDriverNodeManager` re-runs `ITagDiscovery.DiscoverAsync` into the same `CapturingBuilder` it used at first build. The new node set is diffed against the current:
1. **Diff** — full-name comparison of the new `DriverAttributeInfo` set against the existing `_variablesByFullRef` map. Added / removed / modified references are partitioned.
2. **Snapshot subscriptions** — before teardown, Core captures the current monitored-item ref-counts for every affected reference so subscriptions can be replayed after rebuild.
3. **Teardown** — removed / modified variable nodes are deleted via `CustomNodeManager2.DeleteNode`. Driver-side subscriptions for those references are unwound via `ISubscribable.UnsubscribeAsync`.
4. **Rebuild** — added / modified references get fresh `BaseDataVariableState` nodes via the standard `IAddressSpaceBuilder.Variable(...)` path. Alarm-flagged references re-register their `IAlarmConditionSink` through `CapturingBuilder`.
5. **Restore subscriptions** — for every captured reference that still exists after rebuild, Core re-opens the driver subscription and restores the original ref-count.
Exceptions during teardown are swallowed per decision #12 — a driver throw must not leave the node tree half-deleted.
## Scope hint
When `RediscoveryEventArgs.ScopeHint` is non-null (e.g. a folder path), Core restricts the diff to that subtree. This matters for Galaxy Platform-scoped deployments where a `time_of_last_deploy` advance may only affect one platform's subtree. Null scope falls back to a full-tree diff.
## Virtual tags in the rebuild
Per [ADR-002](v2/implementation/adr-002-driver-vs-virtual-dispatch.md), virtual (scripted) tags live in the same address space as driver tags and flow through the same rebuild. `EquipmentNodeWalker` (`src/Core/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core/OpcUa/EquipmentNodeWalker.cs`) emits virtual-tag children alongside driver-tag children with `DriverAttributeInfo.Source = NodeSourceKind.Virtual`, and `DriverNodeManager` registers each variable's source in `_sourceByFullRef` so the dispatch branches correctly after rebuild. Virtual-tag script changes published from the Admin UI land through the same generation-publish path — the `VirtualTagEngine` recompiles its script bundle when its config row changes and `DriverNodeManager` re-registers any added/removed virtual variables through the standard diff path. Subscription restoration after rebuild runs through each source's `ISubscribable` — either the driver's or `VirtualTagSource` — without special-casing.
## Active subscriptions survive rebuild
Subscriptions for unchanged references stay live across rebuilds — their ref-count map is not disturbed. Clients monitoring a stable tag never see a data-change gap during a deploy, only clients monitoring a tag that was genuinely removed see the subscription drop.
## Key source files
- `src/Core/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core.Abstractions/IRediscoverable.cs` — backend-change capability
- `src/Core/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core/OpcUa/GenericDriverNodeManager.cs` — discovery orchestration
- `src/Core/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core.Abstractions/IDriver.cs``ReinitializeAsync` contract
- `src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.ControlPlane/Coordinators/ConfigPublishCoordinator.cs` — publish-flow driver
- `src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.ControlPlane/AdminOperations/AdminOperationsActor.cs` — cluster singleton invoked by the Admin UI's `AdminOperationsClient`
- `docs/v2/config-db-schema.md``sp_PublishGeneration` + `sp_ComputeGenerationDiff`
- `docs/v2/admin-ui.md` — DiffViewer + draft-revision-token flow