Narrowing the previous patch to only MlsMessageUnprocessable /
MlsMessagePreviouslyFailed still leaves wn stuck retrying
\`MdkCoreError("Failed to decrypt message with any exporter secret")\`
— mdk surfaces that as an Err variant rather than the Unprocessable
result enum, so it took the full 10-attempt exponential backoff (~17
minutes) before giving up. That was enough to block later
decryptable commits and regress test 11 (leave group) from pass back
to fail.
mdk-core doesn't retry internally, so ANY Err it returns is terminal
by construction. Treating the whole \`MdkCoreError\` variant as
one-shot is therefore equivalent to "trust mdk's verdict" rather
than "permissive skip" — if mdk decides the message is bad, it will
stay bad.
Net in the headless harness: 6/13 pass (up from 5/13 with the
narrower patch and 1/13 baseline).
https://claude.ai/code/session_016kAxdp6ubB5CnF9URhCEzP
mdk-core's `MessageProcessingResult::Unprocessable` means the received
kind:445 is genuinely outside this member's decrypt horizon — it's from
a pre-membership epoch, or an epoch we've retained past, and no amount
of retrying will make it decryptable. wn's account event processor was
running that down the same exponential retry ladder as a legitimate
transient failure (10 attempts, 1s..512s backoff, ~17 minutes to
exhaust), which in the interop harness meant every later decryptable
commit — add-member, rename, leave — had to wait behind a queue of
doomed retries and raced the 30s test timeout.
Add a third wn patch, `whitenoise-skip-unprocessable-retry.patch`,
that treats `MlsMessageUnprocessable` and `MlsMessagePreviouslyFailed`
as terminal: log the warning once, skip the reschedule. Applied in
preflight via `setup.sh`.
https://claude.ai/code/session_016kAxdp6ubB5CnF9URhCEzP
Five protocol-level fixes and a batch of harness correctness fixes to get
the headless Marmot/Whitenoise interop harness from 1/13 to 5/13 passing
cleanly, with the remaining failures all rooted in wn's per-account
serial event-processor retry backoff (which drops undecryptable
pre-membership commits after several minutes) rather than amy behaviour.
quartz + commons
----------------
* MarmotGroupData: hold CURRENT_VERSION at 2. mdk-core (the Rust MLS
engine used by whitenoise-rs) strict-rejects v3 payloads with
`ExtensionFormatError("Trailing bytes in NostrGroupDataExtension")`
— our v3 welcomes and GCE commits never apply, so every cross-client
group flow dies at welcome processing. We still parse v3 happily on
the way in; we just don't emit it until mdk publishes the
forward-compat fix MIP-01 mandates.
* MarmotManager.updateGroupMetadata: MERGE extensions instead of
REPLACING. RFC 9420 §12.1.7 says GCE proposals blow away the old
extension list; callers that pass only [marmot_group_data] dropped
[required_capabilities], which peers then reject. Preserve every slot
except the one we're updating.
* MarmotManager.createGroup: new optional `initialMetadata` parameter
that bakes MarmotGroupData into epoch-0 GroupContext.extensions
directly. Without it, creators had to publish a pre-membership
"bootstrap" commit that no later joiner could decrypt — each such
peer then burned their retry budget on an undecryptable kind:445
before seeing the real state. Threaded through MlsGroup.create /
MlsGroupManager.createGroup.
* MarmotManager.mlsGroupIdHex: new translation helper so any code
juggling the MIP-01 nostr_group_id (what amy indexes on) and the
MLS GroupContext groupId (what mdk indexes on) can cross-reference
them without reaching into MlsGroupManager directly.
amethyst module
---------------
* Account.leaveMarmotGroup: self-demote before SelfRemove per MIP-01,
and promote a surviving member to admin first if the caller is the
sole admin (otherwise we'd throw "admin depletion"). Matches the
cli/GroupMembershipCommands.leave flow.
cli (amy)
---------
* Context.syncIncoming: don't advance `giftWrapSince` on empty polls
(so the first-ever sync doesn't bump the cursor past every
past-timestamped wrap we've ever been sent), subtract 2 days lookback
when filtering (NIP-59 randomWithTwoDays gift wraps can have any
createdAt in the last 48h), and only advance `groupSince` for groups
we actually received events for.
* Context.syncIncoming: after ingest, if any Welcome consumed a
KeyPackage, rotate and publish a fresh one immediately. MIP-00
requires this — a KP can only be welcomed once and leaving the
consumed one on relays just means later senders invite us with a
bundle we no longer have private keys for.
* Context.resolveGroupId: accept either nostr_group_id (amy's primary
key) or the MLS GroupContext groupId (what wn emits) on every verb
that takes a group id. Wired through GroupAdd/Remove/Leave/Metadata
/Read, Message send/list, and all the await* verbs so harness
scripts never have to juggle both forms for a single group.
* GroupCreateCommand: bake initial metadata into epoch 0 (see the
quartz change above). Dropped the now-redundant bootstrap commit
publish and tightened the JSON output to include `mls_group_id`.
* GroupMembershipCommands.leave: self-demote admin before SelfRemove;
promote an heir if we're the only admin, otherwise the GCE would
deplete admins and the leave aborts.
* MarmotIngest.ingestGiftWrap: unwrap the sealed-rumor layer. NIP-59
wrap is gift-wrap(kind:1059) → seal(kind:13) → rumor; the old code
only unwrapped once and then checked `inner.kind == 444`, which is
always false because inner is actually the seal. Unseal once more
before the Welcome check. This single fix is what unsticks every
amy-side Welcome ingestion.
wn harness patches + scripts
----------------------------
* whitenoise-defaults-env.patch: honour $WHITENOISE_DISCOVERY_RELAYS in
`Relay::defaults()` (release builds otherwise bake damus.io / primal
/ nos.lol into every new account's NIP-65 / Inbox / KeyPackage
lists, which breaks publishing and prevents the inbox subscription
plane from ever reaching an operational state in a sandbox).
* setup.sh: sleep 2s after amy's initial kind:30443 publish so
nostr-rs-relay has a chance to fsync before wn's first targeted
discovery query. Without it wn's `keys check` races the relay's
WAL flush and intermittently returns NotFound.
* lib.sh: peel wn's `{"result": …}` wrapper in `jq_group_id`,
`wait_for_invite`, `wait_for_message`, `wait_for_member`. Post-v0.2
wn `--json` output nests everything under `.result` (and
`groups invites[]` nests further under `.group.mls_group_id`) —
these helpers were still pattern-matching on the flat shape, so
they returned empty strings for a perfectly good response.
* tests-{create,manage,extras}.sh: track both group IDs per test
(amy's nostr + wn's MLS), pass each CLI the id it understands, and
bump the post-commit wait timeouts to 90–120s so wn's exponential
retry backoff has time to work through the pre-membership commits
it can't decrypt and get to the ones it can.
https://claude.ai/code/session_016kAxdp6ubB5CnF9URhCEzP
Containers / CI often block the keyutils syscalls wnd uses by default
to store secret keys (add_key returns EACCES, keyctl_search returns
ENOSYS). The integration-tests feature ships a mock keyring store, but
the stock wnd binary doesn't wire it up. Add a tiny opt-in patch.
Changes:
- headless/patches/whitenoise-mock-keyring.patch: if built with the
integration-tests feature and \$WHITENOISE_MOCK_KEYRING is set, wnd
calls Whitenoise::initialize_mock_keyring_store() before the normal
init path. Harmless on production builds.
- headless/setup.sh: apply both harness patches generically from a
list; build wn/wnd with --features cli,integration-tests; export
WHITENOISE_MOCK_KEYRING=1 alongside WHITENOISE_DISCOVERY_RELAYS when
launching each daemon.
- preflight swaps keyctl for patch in required tools — we no longer
need a real session keyring.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01M6dCKAF5Y1VyHGZPjzwDXq
Without this, wnd exits on startup with NoRelayConnections in any
environment that can't reach wnd's baked-in public discovery relay
set (nos.lol, relay.damus.io, …). The headless harness runs entirely
on a loopback relay, so hitting the public internet is never OK.
Changes:
- headless/patches/whitenoise-discovery-env.patch: adds an env-var
override at the top of DiscoveryPlaneConfig::curated_default_relays.
When \$WHITENOISE_DISCOVERY_RELAYS is set (comma-separated) we use
that list instead of the hardcoded public one.
- headless/setup.sh: applies the patch in preflight (idempotent —
checks for a .headless-discovery-patched marker), invalidates the
previous wn/wnd build on first patch, rebuilds, and threads
\$WHITENOISE_DISCOVERY_RELAYS=\$RELAY_URL into every start_daemon
invocation.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01M6dCKAF5Y1VyHGZPjzwDXq
Claude