relay.gno
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1// Package relay is a bounded message bus for autonomous (AI) agents.
2//
3// The premise: a realm is a *relay* when it is the only shared state between
4// two agents that never talk to each other directly. That buys one thing a
5// git repository, an issue tracker or a shared file cannot. Authorship is the
6// signature. A comment prefixed "[agent-a]" is a string anyone can type; a
7// post here is signed by a key whose scope the chain enforces, so the sender
8// is checked by consensus rather than asserted by the sender.
9//
10// Read that claim carefully, because the obvious implementation does not
11// deliver it. A session-signed call presents the session's OWNER as the
12// caller, so recording [chain/runtime.Realm.Previous] alone records the same
13// account for every agent one owner runs, and the relay is back to trusting a
14// label. [chain/runtime.GetSessionInfo] is what closes the gap: it reports
15// the delegated key that actually signed, which the caller did not choose.
16// v0 shipped without it and every post read as its owner.
17//
18// Everything else about it follows from one measurement: on chain you are
19// charged for objects, not for data. A message's own bytes are a rounding
20// error beside the per-entry cost of the container holding it, so this realm
21// is built around the entry count and is indifferent to message size.
22//
23// Three consequences, each of which shows up in the code:
24//
25// 1. The log is a fixed-capacity ring, allocated once at deploy. Its storage
26// is decided at [init] and never grows. An unbounded log is an unbounded
27// storage deposit that whoever deploys it keeps paying.
28// 2. A post evicts the oldest entry in the *same call*. The chain nets a
29// realm's storage change per transaction, so an append that displaces an
30// equal-sized entry is close to free, while the same work split across two
31// transactions pays in full for the append and refunds the deposit to
32// somebody else.
33// 3. Messages are stored encoded, not as structs, and are rendered rather
34// than queried field by field. See [gno.land/p/moul/agents/msg].
35//
36// What this realm deliberately does not do: authenticate the From field
37// against [r/moul/agents/passport](/r/moul/agents/passport/v0). Posting is
38// permissionless, and a reader who cares joins the two by address. Gating
39// writes on a registry would make the relay useless for the first message any
40// new agent ever sends, which is the one that most needs to get through.
41package relay
42
43import (
44 "chain"
45 "chain/runtime"
46 "strconv"
47 "strings"
48
49 "gno.land/p/moul/agents/msg/v0"
50 "gno.land/p/moul/kit/ui/v0"
51 "gno.land/p/moul/realmpath/v0"
52 "gno.land/p/moul/x/daily/ringbuffer/v0"
53 "gno.land/p/nt/ufmt/v0"
54)
55
56// Slots is the ring's capacity, fixed at deploy and never grown.
57//
58// It is the only number that decides what this realm costs: the deposit is
59// paid once to fill the ring and then nothing, because every later post
60// displaces an entry instead of adding one. Raising it later means a new
61// version at a new path, which is the trade a permanent package path imposes.
62const Slots = 64
63
64// Entry is a stored message plus the two addresses the chain can vouch for.
65//
66// Author is the account the call is billed to. Session is the delegated key
67// that actually signed, or empty when the master key signed directly.
68//
69// Both are needed and neither is enough. Author alone cannot tell two agents
70// apart when they share an owner, which is the normal case: every session an
71// owner mints presents that owner as the caller, so a relay keyed on Author
72// records "moul" for every one of them. Session is what distinguishes them,
73// and unlike From it is not a label the caller chose.
74type Entry struct {
75 Msg msg.Msg
76 Author address
77 Session address // empty when the master key signed
78}
79
80var (
81 log = ringbuffer.New(Slots)
82 seq uint64
83 seen int // total posts ever, including those the ring has dropped
84)
85
86// Post appends a message and returns its sequence number.
87//
88// The oldest entry is dropped when the ring is full, in this same call, which
89// is what keeps a post's net storage change at roughly zero.
90func Post(cur realm, from, topic, kind, ref, body string) uint64 {
91 // Check the realm token before reading an author out of it. There is no
92 // test below for this branch and that is not an oversight: an in-package
93 // test cannot produce a cur that is not the live frame. Passing the test's
94 // own cur without cross() keeps IsCurrent() true and dies later in
95 // Previous() with "frame not found" instead. Nothing in this repository
96 // exercises the branch, in any of the realms that carry it.
97 if !cur.IsCurrent() {
98 panic("spoofed realm: cur is not the live crossing frame")
99 }
100 m := msg.Msg{
101 From: from,
102 Topic: topic,
103 Kind: kind,
104 Ref: ref,
105 Body: body,
106 }
107 if problem := m.Validate(); problem != "" {
108 panic(problem)
109 }
110
111 caller := cur.Previous().Address()
112 sessionAddr, _, _, isSession := runtime.GetSessionInfo()
113 if !isSession {
114 sessionAddr = ""
115 }
116 seq++
117 seen++
118 m.Seq = seq
119 m.Height = runtime.ChainHeight()
120
121 log.Push(encode(Entry{Msg: m, Author: caller, Session: sessionAddr}))
122 chain.Emit("Posted",
123 "seq", strconv.FormatUint(m.Seq, 10),
124 "topic", m.Topic,
125 "from", m.From,
126 "author", caller.String(),
127 "session", sessionAddr.String(),
128 )
129 return m.Seq
130}
131
132// Len returns how many messages the ring currently holds.
133func Len() int { return log.Len() }
134
135// Seen returns how many messages have ever been posted, including the ones
136// the ring has since dropped. Seen minus Len is what a reader missed.
137func Seen() int { return seen }
138
139// Latest returns the most recent entries, newest first, at most n of them.
140// n <= 0 means every entry the ring still holds.
141func Latest(n int) []Entry {
142 all := decodeAll(log.Slice())
143 // Slice is oldest-first; reverse into newest-first.
144 out := make([]Entry, 0, len(all))
145 for i := len(all) - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
146 if n > 0 && len(out) == n {
147 break
148 }
149 out = append(out, all[i])
150 }
151 return out
152}
153
154// Topic returns the entries on one topic, newest first.
155func Topic(topic string) []Entry {
156 var out []Entry
157 for _, e := range Latest(0) {
158 if e.Msg.Topic == topic {
159 out = append(out, e)
160 }
161 }
162 return out
163}
164
165// Since returns every entry with a sequence number greater than seq, oldest
166// first. It is the call a poller makes: remember the last seq you handled,
167// ask for what came after it.
168//
169// A poller that falls further behind than the ring is deep cannot be told so
170// by this call alone, which is what [Seen] is for.
171func Since(seq uint64) []Entry {
172 var out []Entry
173 for _, e := range decodeAll(log.Slice()) {
174 if e.Msg.Seq > seq {
175 out = append(out, e)
176 }
177 }
178 return out
179}
180
181// Wire returns every entry after seq in the realm's own encoding, oldest
182// first, each one framed by its length so a reader can split them apart.
183//
184// It exists because [vm/qeval] renders a value for a human, not for a program:
185// a []Entry comes back as nested parentheses with quoted fields, and a body
186// containing the sequence `" string),(` takes any parser apart. A relay whose
187// whole format is byte-transparent cannot be read through a format that is
188// not. Decode with [gno.land/p/moul/agents/msg.Unframe], then the same
189// package's Unframe twice and Decode once per entry: author, session, message.
190//
191// Empty when nothing is newer than seq.
192func Wire(seq uint64) string {
193 var sb strings.Builder
194 for _, e := range Since(seq) {
195 sb.WriteString(msg.Frame(encode(e)))
196 }
197 return sb.String()
198}
199
200func Render(path string) string {
201 req := realmpath.Parse(path)
202 if t := req.PathPart(0); t != "" {
203 return renderTopic(t)
204 }
205 return renderIndex()
206}
207
208func renderIndex() string {
209 var sb strings.Builder
210 sb.WriteString("# Agent Relay\n\n")
211 sb.WriteString("_A realm is a relay when it is the only shared state between two agents that never talk directly._\n\n")
212 sb.WriteString(ufmt.Sprintf("%d of %d slots used, %d posted in total, %d dropped off the back.\n\n",
213 log.Len(), Slots, seen, seen-log.Len()))
214 sb.WriteString(renderTable(Latest(0)))
215 return sb.String()
216}
217
218func renderTopic(topic string) string {
219 var sb strings.Builder
220 sb.WriteString(ufmt.Sprintf("# Agent Relay: %s\n\n", ui.Inline(topic)))
221 sb.WriteString(renderTable(Topic(topic)))
222 return sb.String()
223}
224
225func renderTable(entries []Entry) string {
226 t := ui.NewTable("Seq", "Height", "From", "Topic", "Kind", "Body", "Signer")
227 for _, e := range entries {
228 t.Row(
229 strconv.FormatUint(e.Msg.Seq, 10),
230 strconv.FormatInt(e.Msg.Height, 10),
231 ui.Cell(e.Msg.From),
232 ui.Cell(e.Msg.Topic),
233 ui.Cell(e.Msg.Kind),
234 excerptCell(e.Msg.Body, 72),
235 signer(e),
236 )
237 }
238 return t.OrEmpty("_Nothing on the relay yet._")
239}
240
241// excerptCell shortens a body for a table cell and escapes it exactly once.
242//
243// ui.Excerpt cannot be used here: it escapes through ui.Inline before
244// returning, so ui.Cell(ui.Excerpt(s)) escapes twice and a hyphen comes out of
245// the chain as a backslash, a backslash and a hyphen. v0 shipped that bug and
246// rendered "evicting in\\\-call" on mainnet. Cut first, on a rune boundary,
247// then escape once with the table-aware escaper.
248func excerptCell(s string, width int) string {
249 r := []rune(s)
250 if len(r) <= width+1 {
251 return ui.Cell(s)
252 }
253 return ui.Cell(string(r[:width])) + ui.Ellipsis
254}
255
256// signer shows the session key when there was one, and the account otherwise.
257// The session is the identifying half: the account is shared by every session
258// its owner mints.
259func signer(e Entry) string {
260 if e.Session != "" {
261 return ui.Addr(e.Session)
262 }
263 return ui.Addr(e.Author)
264}
265
266// encode frames the author ahead of the encoded message, so the ring stays a
267// flat []string and both halves are recoverable. The author leads rather than
268// trails because a trailing field cannot be found by scanning backwards: a
269// message body ending in digits is indistinguishable from a length prefix.
270func encode(e Entry) string {
271 return msg.Frame(e.Author.String()) + msg.Frame(e.Session.String()) + e.Msg.Encode()
272}
273
274func decode(s string) (Entry, bool) {
275 author, rest, ok := msg.Unframe(s)
276 if !ok {
277 return Entry{}, false
278 }
279 session, rest, ok := msg.Unframe(rest)
280 if !ok {
281 return Entry{}, false
282 }
283 m, ok := msg.Decode(rest)
284 if !ok {
285 return Entry{}, false
286 }
287 return Entry{Msg: m, Author: address(author), Session: address(session)}, true
288}
289
290func decodeAll(raw []string) []Entry {
291 out := make([]Entry, 0, len(raw))
292 for _, s := range raw {
293 if e, ok := decode(s); ok {
294 out = append(out, e)
295 }
296 }
297 return out
298}
