The native-ack path is fire-and-forget after the Part 9 Acknowledge returns, so
a Galaxy ack refused for lack of a credential (#749), or rejected by MXAccess,
left the client with Good and the condition showing Acknowledged while Galaxy
was never acked. Both options from the issue, layered:
1. Synchronous refusal for what the driver can decide without I/O. New optional
IAlarmAcknowledgePreflight (Core.Abstractions); GalaxyDriver refuses an
anonymous session when the driver has no AlarmAck fallback account.
DriverHostActor publishes a condition NodeId -> owning-driver snapshot into
NativeAlarmAckPreflightView (lock-free, volatile); the node manager's new
NativeAlarmAckPreflight seam, consulted after the authz and Primary gates,
returns BadUserAccessDenied with the reason - nothing routed, applied or
reported. A keyed session is not pre-checked (its identity lives in the
Secrets store, which must not be read under the SDK lock).
2. Revert for everything else. RouteAlarmAck carries the condition NodeId;
DriverInstanceActor replies AlarmAckFailed on a refusal, a backend failure,
a driver without an alarm source, or an ack dropped while connecting /
reconnecting. DriverHostActor re-projects the condition unacknowledged via
NativeAlarmProjector.TryRevertAcknowledge, but only while the local ack is
still pending - any driver transition projected since then wins. A disabled
or unspawned driver is not reverted (unchanged).
GatewayGalaxyAlarmAcknowledger now throws DriverOperationRefusedException on a
non-zero native hresult (wrong password, no ack permission) instead of only
warning, so that case reverts too; as a refusal it neither retries nor trips
the breaker.
Tests (each fails with its fix mutated out): projector revert/supersede,
DriverHostActor refused + failed ack -> unacked AlarmStateUpdate (successful
ack control), preflight view snapshot, node-manager preflight unit test,
over-the-wire ConditionMethodEventTests (BadUserAccessDenied, no route, no
event; positive control), Galaxy preflight + hresult refusal.
Docs: Galaxy.md, AlarmTracking.md, ScriptedAlarms.md, .claude/rules/alarms.md.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67AEHd2Acv1YPwGfXEoV
Joseph Doherty
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