fix(server): atomic replay boundary

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Summary

Follow-up A from NVIDIA#3209: closes two remaining WatchSandbox resume gaps, a lock race between the log and platform tail reads, and a coverage gap where an asymmetric replay depth between the two sources could let a resumable cursor imply coverage a shallower source never actually delivered, silently dropping events on the next reconnect with no OUT_OF_RANGE.

Related Issue

Refs NVIDIA#3055 (partial; addresses the interleaving concern @varshaprasad96 raised on NVIDIA#3209, tracked there as follow-up A. Issue stays open until the SDK helpers (B/C/D) and e2e coverage (E) also land.)

Changes

• Atomic replay snapshot. TracingLogBus::snapshot_after reads the log and platform buses under one lock hold instead of two independent tail_after calls, so a publish can no longer land between them and desync their high-water marks. Removes the now-redundant post-read epoch re-check this race previously required.
• Cross-source coverage floor. tail_with_floor reports the newest event a bounded tail read excluded. On connect, the server takes the smallest nonzero floor across followed sources and withholds any event, from either source, at or above it, a log event that clears its own bus's floor can still sit past the platform bus's floor, and handing it out would let the client's single shared cursor outrun platform's unreplayed backlog. This can withhold the entire initial batch when a followed sibling has any backlog outside its requested tail depth (e.g. event_tail left at its default of 0); that's intentional, an emptier connect beats a resume that silently and permanently drops events.
• Docs. Documents the coverage-floor contract in proto/openshell.proto (log_tail_lines, event_tail, resume_after_cursor), architecture/gateway.md (new Coverage floor subsection, rewritten atomic-snapshot description), and a short SDK-facing note in docs/observability/accessing-logs.mdx (openshell logs itself is unaffected, it doesn't expose asymmetric tail depths).

Testing

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Checklist

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• Architecture docs updated (if applicable)

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Made resume validation and replay reads atomic, preventing a cursor from being applied to replacement buffers after a sandbox is recreated.
  • When replay depths differ, the gateway now warns about withheld log and platform events before the batch and keeps the shared cursor aligned with events actually delivered.
• Documentation
  • Clarified that logs and platform events share a resume cursor, and explained how replay settings can affect events delivered on connection.

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Walkthrough

The replay buses now report coverage floors for bounded tails and validate resume snapshots under one cursor-space lock. The gateway withholds initial-tail events that exceed the shared coverage floor and emits a warning with per-source counts. Documentation describes the shared cursor and replay-depth behavior.

Changes

Resumable watch replay

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Replay bus reads and coverage floors crates/openshell-server/src/tracing_bus.rs	Replay-tail reads return a coverage floor. snapshot_after validates the expected epoch and cursor bounds while reading followed sources under one cursor-space lock. Tests cover snapshot outcomes and tail floors.
Gateway replay and initial-tail filtering crates/openshell-server/src/grpc/sandbox.rs, crates/openshell-server/src/sandbox_watch.rs, proto/openshell.proto, architecture/gateway.md, docs/observability/accessing-logs.mdx	The watch handler uses one snapshot for resume replay. For initial tails, it withholds events at or above the lowest positive coverage floor, emits a warning with withheld counts, and advances cutoffs through retained events. Tests and documentation describe these behaviors and the shared cursor.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WatchSandbox
  participant TracingLogBus
  participant CursorSpace
  WatchSandbox->>TracingLogBus: Request snapshot_after with epoch and cursors
  TracingLogBus->>CursorSpace: Validate epoch and cursor bounds under lock
  TracingLogBus->>TracingLogBus: Read followed-source replay windows
  TracingLogBus-->>WatchSandbox: Return snapshot result

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Suggested reviewers: derekwaynecarr, drew

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ffb3e

Asymmetric replay depths can silently skip events after reconnect; correct the coverage floor before merging.

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In `@crates/openshell-server/src/grpc/sandbox.rs`:
- Around line 1932-1945: Update TracingLogBus::snapshot_after and its caller to
validate resume.epoch and the highest_seq bound under the same allocator lock
hold as the replay reads, returning distinct space-gone and cursor-ahead
outcomes and mapping both to OUT_OF_RANGE; do not replay replacement-space
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- Around line 2078-2089: Update the live-delivery cutoff handling around
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🟠 Major · Return the oldest excluded sequence as the coverage floor. · sandbox.rs:2024-2082

crates/openshell-server/src/grpc/sandbox.rs:2024-2082
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Return the oldest excluded sequence as the coverage floor.

tail_with_floor_impl returns the newest excluded sequence. The initial-tail filter treats it as a lower bound and keeps events with seq < critical_floor. If one source excludes events at sequences 1 and 3, it reports floor 3. A sibling event at sequence 2 then passes the filter. The client can resume from sequence 2 and permanently skip sequence 1. tail_after cannot report this gap because the event was withheld, not evicted.

Make the producer return the oldest excluded sequence. Update the related floor tests and add an interleaved-source regression test.

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--- a/crates/openshell-server/src/tracing_bus.rs
+++ b/crates/openshell-server/src/tracing_bus.rs
@@
-/// The floor is the newest excluded event's seq -- the point below which this
-/// call cannot vouch that nothing was skipped, because it was skipped on
-/// request, not on eviction.
+/// The floor is the oldest excluded event's seq -- the first point at or
+/// above which this call cannot vouch that nothing was skipped, because it
+/// was skipped on request, not on eviction.
@@
-        tail[total - events.len() - 1].seq
+        tail.front().map_or(0, |cursored| cursored.seq)

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In `@crates/openshell-server/src/grpc/sandbox.rs` around lines 2024 - 2082, Update
the floor calculation in `tail_with_floor_impl` to return the oldest excluded
event’s sequence, so the `critical_floor` filter in the initial-tail path cannot
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In `@crates/openshell-server/src/grpc/sandbox.rs`:
- Around line 2024-2082: Update the floor calculation in `tail_with_floor_impl`
to return the oldest excluded event’s sequence, so the `critical_floor` filter
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