The runtime answers a bulk read of kept state: the values after a key in one request (issue 1966)

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfFSnn24M3GcqttoU7i

node-tools/internal/runtime/runtime.go

@@ -1021,9 +1021,12 @@ type stateAsked struct {
 	// TTLSeconds gives a created or put key its own time to live (issue 1952): create makes it only when it has no
 	// value, put renews it whole. Zero is none.
 	TTLSeconds int `json:"ttl_seconds"`
+	// After and MaxBytes are a `page`'s start key and its size in keys and values (zero is a megabyte).
+	After    string `json:"after"`
+	MaxBytes int    `json:"max_bytes"`
 }
 
-// State answers a bundle's `get`, `put`, `delete`, `keys`, `create`, `update`, `history` and `info` on its
+// State answers a bundle's `get`, `put`, `delete`, `keys`, `page`, `create`, `update`, `history` and `info` on its
 // module's state (ADR 0201, ADR 0259, ADR 0307); `create` and `put` take `ttl_seconds`, a key's own time to live,
 // whose end every watch hears as an `expire` (issue 1952). The runtime refuses, with the reason, a state the module was not issued and a write to one it only reads.
 func (b *moduleBus) State(verb string, params json.RawMessage) (json.RawMessage, error) {
@@ -1043,6 +1046,16 @@ func (b *moduleBus) State(verb string, params json.RawMessage) (json.RawMessage,
 			return json.RawMessage("null"), nil
 		}
 		answer = entry
+	case "page":
+		// The values after a key in key order, one request for many (a first view's page of a slow state).
+		if asked.MaxBytes <= 0 {
+			asked.MaxBytes = 1 << 20
+		}
+		page, err := conn.StatePage(b.module, asked.State, asked.After, asked.MaxBytes)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		answer = page
 	case "history":
 		// Every value the bucket still keeps for the key, oldest first (novox/hq ADR 0307).
 		kept, err := conn.StateHistory(b.module, asked.State, asked.Key)