From b19fc7fa61ead92639fce5ad4c1a0408861c1d90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jochen <jschoubben@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 10:42:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] RR-2: a kept event's stream is SEAT_<seat>_<event>
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Builds: design 47 G §260, §396, §409

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KEq4zoDfM9WtYpcQgZ
---
 go/seatdef/seatdef.go      | 7 +++++--
 go/seatdef/seatdef_test.go | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/go/seatdef/seatdef.go b/go/seatdef/seatdef.go
index b6ce53d..410fe40 100644
--- a/go/seatdef/seatdef.go
+++ b/go/seatdef/seatdef.go
@@ -254,8 +254,11 @@ const (
 	KeepStream = "stream"
 )
 
-// KeptStream is the stream an event with Keep is kept in: `<seat>.<event>`, as a family is `<seat>.events`.
-func KeptStream(seat string, m Message) string { return seat + "." + m.Name }
+// KeptStream is the stream an event with Keep is kept in: `SEAT_<seat>_<event>` (design 47 G §260, §396).
+func KeptStream(seat string, m Message) string { return KeptStreamPrefix + seat + "_" + m.Name }
+
+// KeptStreamPrefix begins the name of every kept event's stream.
+const KeptStreamPrefix = "SEAT_"
 
 // legacyMode is the string form of Keep, empty for none or for the object form.
 func (m Message) legacyMode() string {
diff --git a/go/seatdef/seatdef_test.go b/go/seatdef/seatdef_test.go
index d2073f8..c284153 100644
--- a/go/seatdef/seatdef_test.go
+++ b/go/seatdef/seatdef_test.go
@@ -266,3 +266,10 @@ func TestAnActingRuleReadsItsStepsDefaults(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// Design 47 G §260, §396: a kept event's stream is SEAT_<seat>_<event>.
+func TestAKeptEventsStreamIsNamedFromTheSeatAndTheEvent(t *testing.T) {
+	if got := KeptStream("mesh-delivery", Message{Name: "owed"}); got != "SEAT_mesh-delivery_owed" {
+		t.Errorf("the stream is %s", got)
+	}
+}