internal/broker/derived.go

@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ type DeclaredSeat struct {
 	// Serves are the verbs the holder answers, request and reply.
 	Serves        []string
 	RetainSeconds int
+	// PulledByKind is Seat's: a worker per accepted kind, derived from the holders' seat traffic, not here.
+	PulledByKind bool
 }
 
 // ConsumerFor is the durable consumer a module's declarations imply, or false when it subscribes
@@ -258,7 +260,9 @@ func ConsumersOf(users []Principal) []ModuleConsumer {
 // redelivery: nothing is delivered that nobody asked for. A long build keeps its own ask alive
 // (stillWorking); the ack wait is for a holder that died.
 func HolderConsumerFor(node, module string, seat DeclaredSeat) (Consumer, bool) {
-	if len(seat.Accepts) == 0 {
+	if len(seat.Accepts) == 0 || seat.PulledByKind {
+		// A seat pulled by kind has a worker per kind, which its holders' seat traffic derives (SeatTrafficObjects): one
+		// worker filtered on every accept would overlap them on the work queue.
 		return Consumer{}, false
 	}
 	return Consumer{

internal/broker/nats.go

@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ type Seat struct {
 	// DeclaredBy is the module that declares the seat. On a kinded bench it alone submits work to a kind
 	// and answers its proofs (novox/hq ADR 0259 §8): the router, not any user or watcher of the bench.
 	DeclaredBy string
+	// PulledByKind says each accepted kind is a worker of its own on the seat's queue, filtered to that kind, which
+	// every holder pulls in the order Accepts lists them: the build seats' (novox/hq ADR 0525 §2, ADR 0536 §4).
+	PulledByKind bool
 }
 
 // A Principal is one user of the bus. Its permissions are derived from what it declares and

internal/broker/seattraffic.go

@@ -61,7 +61,14 @@ func SeatTrafficOf(module string, holds, uses, watches []Seat) SeatTraffic {
 				continue
 			}
 		}
-		if len(s.Accepts) > 0 {
+		if len(s.Accepts) > 0 && s.PulledByKind {
+			// One worker per accepted kind, which every holder pulls in the order of Accepts (ADR 0525 §4, ADR 0536 §4):
+			// `SEAT_<SEAT>_<KIND>_worker`, filtered to `accept.<kind>` (mesh-sdk delivery.AskWorker).
+			for _, a := range s.Accepts {
+				t.Workers = append(t.Workers, Worker{Stream: seatStreamName(s.Name), Consumer: WorkerName(s.Name, a),
+					Filter: "mesh.seat." + s.Name + ".accept." + a})
+			}
+		} else if len(s.Accepts) > 0 {
 			stream := seatStreamName(s.Name)
 			filter := "mesh.seat." + s.Name + ".accept.>"
 			if kind != "" {
@@ -156,7 +163,7 @@ func seatTrafficGrants(t SeatTraffic) (pub, sub []string) {
 // isNewTraffic says whether a seat carries any of the rules above, so a seat that carries none is
 // composed exactly as before them.
 func (s Seat) isNewTraffic() bool {
-	return s.Kinded || len(s.ByCaller) > 0 || len(s.Proofs) > 0 || len(s.Records) > 0
+	return s.Kinded || len(s.ByCaller) > 0 || len(s.Proofs) > 0 || len(s.Records) > 0 || s.PulledByKind
 }
 
 // plainVerbs is a seat's accepts or emits with those the rules above compose taken out: a verb named by

internal/broker/seattraffic_test.go

@@ -388,3 +388,47 @@ func TestVerifiedSenderNeedsTheChannelsAndTheRoutersMachinesRootFree(t *testing.
 		t.Error("no router placed, and verified-sender kept")
 	}
 }
+
+func buildSeat() Seat {
+	return Seat{Name: "node-build-go", Scope: "node", Accepts: []string{"delivery", "check", "recheck"},
+		Serves: []string{"current", "pause", "resume"}, PulledByKind: true}
+}
+
+// 1887/A6, ADR 0525 §2: the builder, which uses the build seat, may put an ask on each kind; a session's account may
+// not; the seat's holder pulls a worker per kind and no catch-all worker is made beside them.
+func TestTheBuilderMayAskABuildSeatAndASessionMayNot(t *testing.T) {
+	builder := perms(t, Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "novox", Module: "mesh-delivery-builder", Uses: []Seat{buildSeat()}})
+	for _, kind := range []string{"delivery", "check", "recheck"} {
+		if s := "mesh.seat.node-build-go.accept." + kind; !allowed(builder.Publish, s) {
+			t.Errorf("the builder may not publish %s", s)
+		}
+	}
+	session := perms(t, Principal{Kind: KindPerson, Module: "jochen", Invokes: []string{"mesh-controller.status"}})
+	if allowed(session.Publish, "mesh.seat.node-build-go.accept.delivery") {
+		t.Error("a session's account may put an ask")
+	}
+	holds := []Seat{buildSeat()}
+	traffic := SeatTrafficOf("mesh-build-go", holds, nil, nil)
+	var workers []string
+	for _, w := range traffic.Workers {
+		workers = append(workers, w.Consumer+" "+w.Filter)
+	}
+	// Sorted: the order a holder pulls them in is its own (mesh-sdk delivery.AskKinds).
+	want := "SEAT_NODE_BUILD_GO_CHECK_worker mesh.seat.node-build-go.accept.check," +
+		"SEAT_NODE_BUILD_GO_DELIVERY_worker mesh.seat.node-build-go.accept.delivery," +
+		"SEAT_NODE_BUILD_GO_RECHECK_worker mesh.seat.node-build-go.accept.recheck"
+	if strings.Join(workers, ",") != want {
+		t.Errorf("workers = %v, want one per kind", workers)
+	}
+	pub, _ := seatTrafficGrants(traffic)
+	if !allowed(pub, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT.SEAT_NODE_BUILD_GO.SEAT_NODE_BUILD_GO_CHECK_worker") {
+		t.Error("the holder may not pull the check worker")
+	}
+	_, consumers := SeatTrafficObjects([]Principal{{Kind: KindModule, Module: "mesh-build-go", Holds: holds}})
+	if len(consumers) != 3 {
+		t.Errorf("consumers = %+v, want the three kinds' workers", consumers)
+	}
+	if _, made := HolderConsumerFor("shanks", "mesh-build-go", DeclaredSeat{Name: "node-build-go", Accepts: buildSeat().Accepts, PulledByKind: true}); made {
+		t.Error("a catch-all worker would overlap the kinds' workers on the work queue")
+	}
+}

internal/inventory/busrecords.go

@@ -356,6 +356,11 @@ func asSeat(s catalogue.SeatDeclaration, declarer string) broker.Seat {
 	seat := broker.Seat{Name: s.Name, Scope: s.Scope, Accepts: s.Accepts, Emits: s.Emits,
 		Serves: catalogue.VerbNames(s.Serves), Kinded: s.Kinded, ByCaller: s.ByCaller, Proofs: s.Proofs,
 		DeclaredBy: declarer}
+	// A build seat's kinds are each a worker of its own, pulled in their order (novox/hq ADR 0525 §2; issue 1887 A6): the
+	// mesh's definition of the role, compiled, never stored.
+	if own, ok := catalogue.SeatNamed(s.Name); ok && own.PulledByKind {
+		seat.PulledByKind = true
+	}
 	// A seat's records are its declaring module's buckets, named as the bus holds them (ADR 0259 §3).
 	for _, r := range s.Records {
 		if declarer != "" {
@@ -371,7 +376,7 @@ func MeshSeats() []broker.DeclaredSeat {
 	var out []broker.DeclaredSeat
 	for _, s := range catalogue.SeatsWithAProtocol() {
 		out = append(out, broker.DeclaredSeat{
-			Name: s.Name, Accepts: s.Accepts, Emits: s.Emits, Serves: catalogue.VerbNames(s.Serves),
+			Name: s.Name, Accepts: s.Accepts, Emits: s.Emits, Serves: catalogue.VerbNames(s.Serves), PulledByKind: s.PulledByKind,
 		})
 	}
 	return out