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xarmian 6e590b48ff docs(events): the straggler window closes per workspace, not globally (BUG-2736)
Codex round 21, correcting a claim I made in round 17 and asserted only in the
direction that was convenient.

Round 17 said the mixed-roll straggler window 'is one event wide and ends
loudly', because the next event from the new space is lower than the
straggler's id and trips the counter-backwards check. That check is PER
WORKSPACE and the sequence counter is GLOBAL. If other workspaces consume ids
past the straggler's value before this one publishes again, this workspace's
next id is higher, nothing fires, and the dead-space id stays in the buffer —
where a client resuming from just below it is served it as though it followed.

My test asserted the closing case and stopped there, which is the shape my own
record names: a partial verification stated without its boundary reads as a
complete one. The boundary is now its own test, written as a characterization
— it asserts that nothing detects this TODAY, so if someone adds the global
high-water mark that would close it, the change announces itself there rather
than in a deployment.

Not closed here. A global comparison fires on interleaves across ANY pair of
workspaces during the phase-2 roll, when un-flipped publishers interleave
routinely — the storm round 9 armed this check against. It belongs with the
other residuals the client cursor's missing epoch would close.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JVDBKbgn3Xt7ndW1YoYd8X
2026-08-22 22:05:27 +00:00
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