The module half of the read path. Seven tables, an ingest cursor, four public
routes, and one file whose only job is deciding who may see what.
**The record and the window are different things.** `rust_player_wipe_stats` and
`rust_gather_totals` are permanent and per-wipe, so all-time is those rows SUMmed
rather than a second set of counters that can disagree with them — that is R12's
"per-wipe detail plus all-time rollups" in one table instead of two.
`rust_events` is a bounded 30-day window of raw frames for the killfeed, and
`rust_presence` is a board: replaced wholesale, never appended.
**The feed is a cursor, not a socket, and the header says why.** Core runs Node
20, where a global WebSocket is still behind a flag, so a socket means taking
`ws` — against a release that asserts it has no runtime dependencies (D5). The
deciding argument is the other one though: a socket needs a cursor anyway, for
whatever it missed while the module was restarting, and the catch-up path is the
one that has to be right. A cursor alone is one mechanism exercised every five
seconds rather than two where the second only runs after an outage.
**The cursor advances after the batch, never before.** A crash between the two
re-reads events already counted, which inflates a total; the other order loses
them silently and for ever. One is visible and bounded, the other is invisible
and permanent, so the code fails in the visible direction. A server with no
cursor starts at the sidecar's current END rather than at zero — replaying a
fortnight of deaths into stats for wipes the site never saw is not a catch-up.
**`catalogue.js` is a security boundary, default-deny.** Protocol 2 carries IP
addresses (login attempts, approvals, bans), one player's report about another,
and the grid reference of somebody's base. They are stored, because an operator
chasing ban evasion needs them; they are not served below the admin tier. The
allowlist lives here rather than as a field on the wire, because a boundary
declared by the sender is one a compromised or merely out-of-date game host can
widen — the same reason core's own shard fan-out filters on the serving side. A
kind this build has never heard of is not public, and a test holds the list
against PROTOCOL.md §8.4 so that adding a kind to the protocol without
classifying it fails a build.
`PROTOCOL_VERSION` goes to 2 here in the same change as the emitters, though this
module consumes none of the new frames yet: the sidecar refuses a mismatched
client with a 409, so a module left on 1 would stop being able to read the board
it has been reading all along. A constant that lags the deployment is an outage
with a version number on it.
95 server tests, 20 client tests, every guard green, and `routes.manifest.json`
regenerated against a real core at the pinned ref: 10 routes, all documented,
none of core's moved.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016wDDVXWMDz82WqE1i969r4
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