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feat(telegram): promo bot + channel-chat moderation gate
Add a second standalone promo bot to the bot container (answers /start with a
localized message + a URL button into the main bot's Mini App) and gate write
access in a channel's linked discussion chat: grant on join when the Telegram
user is registered and neither admin-suspended nor holding a new chat_muted
role, and revoke/grant on the matching moderation change for a member currently
in the chat.

Eligibility (registered AND NOT suspended AND NOT chat_muted; the game
suspension dominates) is resolved once in the backend and reached two ways: the
bot's join-time unary ResolveChatEligibility over the existing mTLS bot-link,
and a backend chat_access_changed event -> gateway -> ChatGate command
(idempotent; a temporary-block-expiry sweeper may over-emit). The bot guards the
block/unblock path with getChatMember, since bots cannot list members.

A web_app button cannot open another bot's Mini App (it signs initData with the
sending bot's token), so the promo button is a t.me ?startapp URL reusing the
UI's VITE_TELEGRAM_LINK. The bot must be a chat admin with the restrict-members
right and chat_member in its allowed updates.

No schema change: chat_muted reuses the data-driven account_roles table.
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# Pre-release plan — hardening before Stage 18
Living tracker for the pre-release hardening pass that runs **before Stage 18** (the
prod cutover). Same discipline as [`PLAN.md`](PLAN.md): one phase per session,
**interview the owner on the open details** at the start of each phase, bake every
decision back into `PLAN.md` / `docs/` / the affected `README`s / Go Doc comments in
the **same** PR, get CI green, then mark the phase done. Phases run as
`feature/* → development` PRs (the Stage 16 branch model); the owner approves+merges.
**Why now:** the system is feature-complete through Stage 17 and the test contour is
green, but there is **no prod data yet** — schema, wire labels and the dictionary
layout can still change for free. These phases spend that one-time freedom and harden
the edge before prod. Each phase maps back to the owner's raw pre-release TODO list
(numbers in the tracker).
## Phase tracker
| # | Phase | Raw TODOs | Status |
|---|-------|-----------|--------|
| R1 | Schema & naming reset | 1 + 10 | **done** |
| R2 | Stress harness + contour observability + early run | 9a | **done** |
| R3 | Edge hardening | 2 + 8 + 3 | **done** |
| R4 | Push enrichment + kill the last poll | 4 + 5 | **done** |
| R5 | Bundle slimming | 6 | **done** |
| R6 | Refactor + docs reconciliation + de-staging | 7 | **done** |
| R7 | Final stress run + tuning | 9b | **done** |
| UI | Tab-bar navigation redesign (drop the hamburger) | owner ad-hoc | **done** |
| MW | "Multiple words per turn" rule for Russian games (engine v1.1.0) | owner ad-hoc | **done** |
| MW2 | Single-word rule connectivity fix: the word must run along its own line through an existing tile (perpendicular-only contact no longer connects); single-tile direction picks the best legal word (engine v1.1.1) | owner ad-hoc | **done** |
| MW3 | Graceful replay degradation: a game whose journalled move became illegal under MW2 is closed as a draw (`end_reason='aborted'`) on open instead of erroring, with an impersonal organizer note in the history + GCG (migration `00002`) | owner ad-hoc | **done** |
| OW | Open auto-match: enter the game at once and wait inside it (robot after 90180 s) | owner ad-hoc | **done** |
| DA | Dictionary admin: online release-archive upload → word-diff preview → install/activate; versioned dict volume; active version persisted in DB; resident label = release tag | owner ad-hoc | **done** |
| AB | Manual account block (admin suspension): permanent/temporary with an editable en+ru reason picklist; a block forfeits the player's active games + cancels their open ones; a backend gate refuses a blocked account with **403 `account_blocked`**; the UI shows a terminal blocked screen and stops all push/poll; manual unblock; temporary blocks self-expire (migration `00003`) | owner ad-hoc | **done** |
| AI | Honest AI opponent in quick game: an explicit 🤖 AI / 👤 random selector (AI default); the robot is seated and moves at once; 7-day inactivity loss (the per-turn timeout reused); chat/nudge disabled, no statistics; the opponent is shown as 🤖 everywhere | owner ad-hoc | **done** |
| AD | Advertising banner ("ad network"): server-driven weighted campaigns (percent weight + validity window; the perpetual default fills the remainder up to 100%), bilingual messages shown by bot (`service_language`); eligibility = free account + empty hint wallet + no `no_banner` role (guests included); the resolved feed rides `profile.get` with a `notify` `banner` re-poll on eligibility change; `/_gm/banners` admin + global display timings; client smooth-weighted-round-robin rotation + fade-out/gap/fade-in UX. A single `app.load` bootstrap aggregator was considered and **deferred** (see ARCHITECTURE §10). | owner ad-hoc | **done** (PR1 backend+admin, PR2 UI rotation) |
| GL | Simultaneous quick-game cap (10): grey "New Game" + a lobby notice at the cap; backend gate on quick enqueue + invitation creation (409 `game_limit_reached`), accepting invitations exempt; `at_game_limit` rides `games.list` | owner ad-hoc | **done** |
| CR | In-game chat read receipts: per-message `unread_seats` bitmask (migration `00008`); a per-viewer unread **dot** in the lobby + game header (a nudge counts and clears when its recipient moves); reading = opening the move history (the 💬 fade-blinks twice) or the chat, acked (`chat.read`) only when unread; `chat_read_duration` + `chat_unread_messages` metrics + tracing + the **Scrabble — Messages** Grafana dashboard (follow-up PR); a message to a disguised robot opponent is born read; admin unread-only filter / read column / per-seat read card | owner ad-hoc | **done** |
| BX | Asymmetric per-user block + in-game controls: a block now silently suppresses everything **from** the blocked user (chat, nudge, friend requests, invitations are kept but never delivered/surfaced, born-read) while they notice nothing, **without** deleting the friendship (unblock restores it); auto-match excludes a block-related pair (either direction); in-game opponent card gains a ✖️ **block** control (mirroring 🤝, red "Block?" confirm, mutual-hide, struck name + hidden chat composer when blocked); optimistic apply + `user_blocked`/`user_unblocked` event confirm + rollback; admin user card gains **blocks / blocked-by / friends** cross-linked lists. Blocking a disguised-robot opponent is recorded per-game in a separate **`robot_blocks`** table (migration `00011`), keyed on game+seat with the seen name — never the shared robot account — so the matchmaker keeps giving robots; it shows in the blocked list and re-marks the in-game card | owner ad-hoc | **done** |
| FM | First-move tile draw (official rules): each seated player draws a tile, the one closest to "A" leads (a blank beats every letter), ties re-drawing until a single leader; **honest per-draw `crypto/rand` entropy**, not the bag seed, so the **record** (`game_setup_draws`, migration `00013`) — not a seed — is the only account of the outcome, kept for future **tournaments** (designed as a discrete per-tile "player N draws" step). Friend/AI draws at create; **auto-match draws at *open*** against a synthetic `uuid.Nil` opponent whose draw rows are back-filled on join, so the opener's seat is fixed up front and the existing open-game pre-move is preserved (no reseating, no play-gating). Admin `/_gm/games/:id` gains the recorded draw list + a simple **step-by-step board replay** (`ReplayTimeline`). | owner ad-hoc | **done** |
| SB | Single Telegram bot + per-user variant preferences: the two per-language bots collapse into **one** (drop `accounts.service_language`, `supported_languages`, the `*_EN`/`*_RU` env vars and game-language push routing — the single bot renders in the recipient's `preferred_language`); New Game variant gating moves to a profile **`variant_preferences`** set (default Erudit only, Erudit-first, server-enforced on the caller's auto-match/vs-AI/invitation-create paths, an invited friend may accept any variant); env vars collapse to unsuffixed `TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN`/`TELEGRAM_GAME_CHANNEL_ID`/`VITE_TELEGRAM_LINK`/`VITE_TELEGRAM_GAME_CHANNEL_NAME` and `GATEWAY_DEFAULT_SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES` is removed; wire drops `service_language`/`supported_languages` (Session, ValidateInitDataResponse) + the push `language` routing field and adds `variant_preferences` to Profile/UpdateProfile. | owner ad-hoc | **done** |
| DV | Dictionary version hygiene: CI + image/compose seed track the current release (`v1.2.1`); a **seed-drift guard** records the flat dir's seed in an authoritative `.seed_version` marker so a bumped build seed on a live volume is ignored (it can't relabel live bytes — which would mis-serve the dictionary + void games pinned to the prior label); `DICT_VERSION` is the fresh-volume seed only, a live contour migrates through the admin console | owner ad-hoc | **done** |
| TX | Telegram egress off the main host: split the connector into a home **validator** (Mini App / Login-Widget HMAC, no VPN, no Bot API — so game login no longer depends on Telegram being reachable) and a remote **bot** (Bot API long-poll + `sendMessage`) that holds **no inbound port** and dials the gateway over a reverse **mTLS bot-link** (`pkg/proto/botlink/v1`); the gateway funnels out-of-app push (fire-and-forget, at-most-once) and the backend admin broadcasts (a relay that awaits the bot's ack) down the link. The bot is Telegram-rate-limited; **one bot now**, with seams (a bot registry + `owns_updates` + command ids) for N later; **no webhook** (rejected: one URL per token, adds inbound + a static address). The **unified test contour** runs the split (the bot keeps its VPN sidecar and dials the gateway by its internal name; certs from `deploy/gen-certs.sh`). The **prod** wiring — the bot on a separate host (no VPN), the gateway bot-link port published, `PROD_` certs with scheduled rotation, an SSH deploy of both hosts together — is the **deferred final stage** (Stage 18). | owner ad-hoc | **done** (code + test contour; prod wiring → Stage 18) |
| AG | Anti-abuse IP ban + honeypot/honeytoken (prod-only): a fail2ban-style in-memory `ratelimit.Banlist` keyed by client IP, fed by sustained rate-limiter rejections (the IP-keyed public/email/admin classes — the user class stays the soft-flag's concern), a **honeypot** decoy path (the contour caddy tags `/.env`, `/.git`, `/wp-*`, … with `X-Scrabble-Honeypot` and routes them to the gateway), and a **honeytoken** (`GATEWAY_HONEYTOKEN`, a planted bearer). The `abuseGuard` edge middleware refuses a banned IP with **429** before any work — closing the R3 gap that the static SPA/landing was outside the token bucket. Off by default — it keys by the real client IP the shared-NAT test contour does not expose (detection still logs there); enabled in prod via `GATEWAY_ABUSE_BAN_ENABLED`. Operators see + lift bans on the console **Throttled** page; the gateway syncs its active set to the backend (`/api/v1/internal/bans/sync`, `internal/banview`) every 30 s and applies operator unbans. | owner ad-hoc | **done** (code + test contour; ban enabled in prod → Stage 18) |
| CM | Channel-chat moderation + promo bot: a second standalone bot in the bot container answers `/start` with a localized message + a **URL** button into the **main** bot's Mini App (`?startapp`; a `web_app` button would sign initData with the promo token, which the main validator rejects). The **main** bot gates write access in a channel's linked discussion chat — granting on join when the Telegram user is registered and neither admin-suspended nor holding a new **`chat_muted`** role, and revoking/granting on the matching moderation change for a member currently in the chat (a `getChatMember` guard, since bots cannot list members). Eligibility = `registered AND NOT suspended AND NOT chat_muted` (the game suspension dominates), resolved once in the backend and reached two ways: the bot's join-time unary `ResolveChatEligibility` over the existing mTLS bot-link, and a backend `chat_access_changed` event → gateway → `ChatGate` command (idempotent, so a temporary-block-expiry sweeper may over-emit). No schema change — `chat_muted` reuses `account_roles`. | owner ad-hoc | **done** |
| → | Stage 18 — prod contour deploy | — | see [`PLAN.md`](PLAN.md) |
## Key findings (these reshaped the raw list — read before starting a phase)
- **R1 (TODO 1 + 10) is one cheap moment, now.** Squashing the 12 goose migrations is
safe precisely because there is no prod data and the contour DB is wiped. Folding the
new variant labels (`scrabble_ru`/`scrabble_en`/`erudit_ru`) into that single baseline
makes the rename need **no data migration and no back-compat mapping**. Today's labels
(`english`/`russian_scrabble`/`erudit`) are persisted in `games.variant`,
`game_invitations.variant`, in `pkg/fbs` and the UI — ~100 files, but a mechanical sweep
on a clean DB.
- **R4 (TODO 4 + 5): the app is already push-first.** Game state refreshes on
`your_turn`/`opponent_moved`, the lobby on `notify`, chat on `chat_message`. The **only**
genuine periodic server poll is `lobby.poll` (matchmaking, 2.5 s,
`ui/src/screens/NewGame.svelte`). What remains is killing that one poll **and** enriching
push events to carry payloads so the UI stops re-fetching after each signal.
- **R3 (TODO 2): identity forgery is already mitigated.** Identity is always derived from
the session (`Authorization: Bearer``X-User-ID`); the client cannot inject identity,
the backend re-validates resource ownership, Telegram initData is HMAC-checked. The real
gaps are a missing **request-body size limit** (cheap DoS) and **invisible rate-limit
rejections** (no log/metric/admin view — that is TODO 8). Static landing serving is **not**
covered by the gateway token bucket (it only guards `Execute`).
- **R6 (TODO 7) scale:** ~431 `Stage N` references across ~104 files (incl. the file name
`backend/internal/inttest/stage6_test.go`). Code is the source of truth; `docs/` describe
current state; `PLAN.md` keeps the decision history.
## Locked decisions (owner interview)
- **Stress test (TODO 9):** **early + final** runs. Driver = **edge protocol** (Connect/FB
through the gateway, moves generated by the solver) **plus a separate gateway-hammer**
saturation test. Pacing = **realistic (under limits) + saturation (ramp to the knee)**.
Resource metrics = **add cAdvisor + postgres_exporter to the contour** (today only
Go-runtime metrics exist). The harness stays in the repo for repeats.
- **Push (TODO 4 + 5):** **both** — kill `lobby.poll` (use the existing `match_found`, keep
poll as the ws-down fallback) **and** enrich push events with payloads.
- **Refactor (TODO 7):** **hygiene + structural changes by a reviewed list**
behaviour-preserving, test-gated, contentious items surfaced to the owner before applying.
- **Landing (TODO 3):** **separate static container** behind the project caddy
(`/` → landing, `/app/` + `/telegram/` → gateway); drop `landing.html` from the gateway
`go:embed`.
- **Rate-abuse (TODO 8):** metric + Grafana + admin view **plus a conservative auto-flag**
a *soft, reversible* "suspected high-rate" marker for operator review, tunable threshold,
**no auto-ban**.
- **Anti-abuse IP ban (AG, owner ad-hoc):** a honeypot was considered and rejected as a *DDoS*
defence — it detects/deceives but does not shed volumetric load, cannot cover the real
endpoints, and a tarpit backfires under flood; volumetric L3/L4 is an upstream/CDN concern,
out of scope. The effective layer is a **temporary IP ban** (fail2ban-style) that the honeypot
and honeytoken merely *feed*. This does **not** reverse the TODO-8 "no auto-ban": that decision
governs the **account** soft-flag (still never a gate); the IP ban is a separate, IP-keyed,
**prod-only** layer with an **operator unban** in the console. Decisions: banlist lives in the
existing `ratelimit` package (smallest surface); the decoy path list is a **single source of
truth in the caddy** (it tags requests with a header — the gateway keeps no second list);
bans are in-memory + single-instance (like `ratewatch`), auto-expiring, **plus** an admin
console view + manual unban over a bidirectional 30 s sync (operator control = owner's choice).
An active-bans Grafana **gauge** was trimmed (the console view + the `gateway_abuse_banned_total`
counter cover it) to keep the diff focused.
- **Open auto-match (owner ad-hoc):** a quick game **enters a real game at once and waits inside
it** (status `open`, the opponent seat empty); a second human searching the same variant+rule
joins it, or a robot fills it after a **90 s + random 090 s** wait, pushing the in-app
**opponent_joined** event. While open, the starter may move on their turn but resign, chat and
nudge are disabled, and the lobby + opponent card read "searching for opponent". Matchmaking is
now **DB-backed open games** — the in-memory pool, `lobby.poll` and `lobby.cancel` are gone. The
schema is edited in the baseline (no prod data); `game_players.account_id` is nullable for the
empty seat.
- **Telegram egress off-host (TX, owner ad-hoc):** the driver is **removing VPN/Telegram
traffic from the main host** (OPSEC / one fewer analysis vector), not only notification
resilience. Login is local HMAC, so it stays up regardless of the bot — confirmed in the
code and made structural by the split. **Unified topology in code** (validator + bot, the
bot dialing the gateway) in **both** contours, differing only in deployment; the test bot
keeps its VPN sidecar. Transport = a **reverse gRPC bidi stream, mTLS, bot-dials-gateway**
(no inbound/static IP on the bot), reusing the push-stream pattern; **webhook rejected**
(one URL per token, adds inbound + a static address). Delivery **at-most-once** (a dropped
nudge beats a duplicate). **One bot now**, seams (registry + `owns_updates` + command ids)
for N later. **Cert rotation** by a scheduled CI job from a long-lived CA. **Prod deploy by
SSH** (pull excluded), the bot rolled **together** with the main app (the bot-link protocol
kept back-compatible by one version as the non-atomic-two-host-deploy safety net). The bot
is monitored **from the gateway** (connection + ack metrics). The bot-host token-at-rest is
**accepted**.
## Phases
Each phase: read this tracker + the relevant `docs/`, **interview the owner on the open
details below**, implement within scope, then update the tracker + docs/code and get CI
green before marking it done.
### R1 — Schema & naming reset *(TODO 1 + 10)* — first
Squash `backend/internal/postgres/migrations/00001..00012` into one `00001_baseline.sql`
(method: `pg_dump --schema-only` from a fully-migrated DB → wrap as the goose baseline →
prove a fresh migrate yields a schema identical to the 12-migration chain via the
integration suite → delete the old files; keep goose). Bake the new variant labels into the
baseline. Propagate `scrabble_ru`/`scrabble_en`/`erudit_ru` through the backend
(`engine.Variant`/`ParseVariant`, `registry.dictFiles`, the CHECK values), the wire
(`pkg/fbs` `variant:string`, regenerate FB) and the UI (`lib/model.ts` union, `variants.ts`,
fixtures, premium/alphabet keys, tests); i18n display keys stay display-only. Tidy
`../scrabble-dictionary` to a single source→dawg build point and align the dawg artifact
names to the new labels (crosses into `../scrabble-solver`'s committed fixtures — keep them
byte-identical). After merge, **wipe the contour DB** (drop the volume) so it re-provisions
on the next deploy.
- Critical files: `backend/internal/postgres/migrations/`,
`backend/internal/engine/{engine,registry}.go`, `pkg/fbs/scrabble.fbs`,
`ui/src/lib/{model,variants}.ts`, `../scrabble-dictionary/{Makefile,cmd/builddict,…}`.
- Open details to interview: the exact dawg filename scheme; whether the dict-repo tidy is
one PR or split; how to script the contour DB wipe in the deploy.
### R2 — Stress harness + contour observability + early run *(TODO 9, part 1)*
Build the reusable load harness as a new `loadtest` module in `go.work` (reuses `pkg/fbs`,
`connect-go`, and `scrabble-solver` for legal-move generation): a seeder that inserts
**1000 guest + 10000 durable** accounts with pre-created sessions (token hashes) directly in
the DB and hands the plaintext tokens to the client; a driver that runs N virtual users,
each in 35 concurrent 24-player games, exercising submit-play / pass / exchange / nudge /
chat / check-word / draft-move / profile-save through the **edge protocol**, in
**realistic** (under rate limits) and **saturation** (ramp) modes; plus a separate
**gateway-hammer** that deliberately exceeds limits to verify the limiter holds and measure
its cost. Add **cAdvisor + postgres_exporter** to `deploy/docker-compose.yml` and a Grafana
resource dashboard. Run the **early pass** against the freshly-wiped contour; produce a
**trip report** (logic/concurrency bugs + a resource baseline) that feeds R3 and R6.
- Critical files: new `loadtest/`, `deploy/docker-compose.yml`, `deploy/observability/*`,
`docs/TESTING.md`.
- Open details: the scale ramp steps; the move-selection policy (a mid-ranked solver move
for realistic game progress); run duration; the pass/fail bar.
### R3 — Edge hardening *(TODO 2 + 8 + 3)*
Add a **request-body size cap** at the gateway h2c mux / `Execute` (e.g. ~1 MB). Add
**rate-limit observability**: a `gateway_rate_limited_total{class}` counter + a structured
log per rejection; an **aggregate** Grafana panel (request rate + rejection rate — spikes
visible without per-user label cardinality, honouring the Stage 12/17 discipline); an
**admin-console view** of recently throttled users/IPs (in-memory ring buffer, single-
instance, reset-on-restart, like the `active_users` gauge). Add the **conservative
auto-flag**: when a user is *sustained*-throttled past a tunable threshold, set a soft,
reversible `account.flagged_high_rate_at` marker (baked into the R1 baseline) surfaced in the
admin user list/detail — **no auto-ban**; the operator clears it. Split the **landing** into
its own static container (`deploy/` + a Caddyfile route `/` → landing) and drop
`landing.html` from the gateway `go:embed`.
- Critical files: `gateway/internal/connectsrv/server.go`, `gateway/internal/ratelimit/`,
`gateway/internal/connectsrv/metrics.go`, `backend/internal/adminconsole/`,
`deploy/caddy/Caddyfile`, `deploy/docker-compose.yml`, `gateway/internal/webui/`.
- Open details: the auto-flag threshold/window + whether the marker is persisted vs
in-memory; the landing image base (caddy vs nginx).
### R4 — Push enrichment + kill the last poll *(TODO 4 + 5)*
Replace `lobby.poll` with the existing `match_found` push (keep the poll as a ws-down
fallback). Enrich `your_turn`/`opponent_moved`/`notify` to carry the state payload so the UI
renders from the event without a follow-up `game.state` (removes the lobby↔game nav latency
the owner noticed). Wire-contract change: `pkg/fbs` event payloads → backend `notify` emit →
UI stream consumers (`ui/src/lib/app.svelte.ts`), with the per-game cache as the landing
spot; regenerate FB.
- Critical files: `pkg/fbs/scrabble.fbs`, `backend/internal/notify/events.go`,
`ui/src/lib/{app.svelte,transport}.ts`, `ui/src/screens/NewGame.svelte`.
- Open details: which events carry full vs delta payloads; the fallback-poll cadence when the
stream is down.
### R5 — Bundle slimming *(TODO 6)* — done
Analysed the bundle against the 100 KB-gzip budget; **no code slimming was warranted**, and the
budget metric was retargeted to measure the app correctly. The build already minifies +
tree-shakes; the dominant cost is the Connect/FlatBuffers transport runtime + generated bindings
+ the Svelte runtime (≈⅔ of `main`'s source is third-party/generated) — irreducible within scope.
**Lazy-loading was rejected**: `bundle-size.mjs` sums every emitted chunk, so code-splitting yields
no total-size win and adds request latency (+N gateway fetches on first navigation to a split
screen). i18n lazy-load was skipped (the catalogs are a sliver of a Svelte-runtime-dominated shared
chunk, and `en` must stay bundled as the `MessageKey` type source + fallback). Instead,
`bundle-size.mjs` now measures **per HTML entry**, with three independent gates on the natural chunk
boundaries — **app entry ≤ 100 KB, the Svelte+i18n shared chunk ≤ 30 KB, the landing's own chunk
≤ 5 KB** — since the app's real payload is its entry chunk plus the shared chunk (≈97 KB), while the
landing (≈24 KB) is reported separately and kept minimal. Same CLI + exit-code contract, so the CI
step is unchanged.
- Critical files: `ui/scripts/bundle-size.mjs`; no app code changed.
### R6 — Refactor + docs reconciliation + de-staging *(TODO 7)* — done
Behaviour-preserving only. Three separable, separately-committed passes: (a) mechanical
**de-staging** — remove `Stage N`/`TODO-N` references from code, comments and service
READMEs (rename `stage6_test.go`); (b) **docs↔code reconciliation** — reconcile
`docs/ARCHITECTURE.md` / `docs/FUNCTIONAL.md`(+`_ru`) against the code-as-truth, fixing drift
and Go Doc comments; (c) **structural changes by a reviewed list** — surface a list of
proposed optimizations / test-suite consolidations to the owner, apply only the approved,
behaviour-preserving, test-gated ones. The full suite + the final stress run (R7) are the
regression gate. Incorporates the early-run (R2) bug fixes not already shipped.
- Open details: the structural-changes list itself (owner-approved before applying); the test
consolidation targets.
### R7 — Final stress run + tuning *(TODO 9, part 2)* — done
Re-run the R2 harness against the final, refactored system on a clean contour; analyse
resource consumption across **all** components (gateway, backend, Postgres, the
metrics/observability stack, docker log volume) and agree the tuning (pool sizes, rate
limits, cache TTLs, container limits, GOMAXPROCS, log levels). Apply the agreed tuning; record
the methodology + results in the repo.
**Stage 18** (prod contour) then proceeds per [`PLAN.md`](PLAN.md).
## Sequencing rationale
`R1` first (cheapest now; everything builds on the final schema/naming and the stress test
must run against it). `R2` builds the harness and runs the **early** pass to surface bugs and
a resource baseline that feed `R3` and `R6`. `R3`/`R4`/`R5` harden and improve the system.
`R6` (de-stage + reconcile + structural) runs near the end so it sweeps settled code once and
benefits from all accumulated bug knowledge. `R7` validates the final system and tunes it.
Then Stage 18.
## Regression-safety discipline (cross-cutting)
- Every phase is a `feature/* → development` PR; CI (`unit` + `integration` + `ui` behind the
`CI / gate` check) must be green before the owner merges; watch the post-merge contour
deploy with `gitea-ci-watch.py`.
- `R6` structural changes are behaviour-preserving, test-gated, and split from the mechanical
sweeps; contentious items are owner-approved first.
- The two stress runs (`R2` early, `R7` final) are the system-level regression gate.
## Verification (per phase)
- `go build ./<module>/...`, `go vet`, `gofmt -l .` clean, `go test -count=1 ./<module>/...`;
UI: `pnpm check && pnpm test:unit && pnpm build`; the integration suite
(`-tags integration`) for DB/schema changes; `docker compose config` for deploy changes;
green CI on the PR + a healthy contour deploy.
- `R1`: prove the squashed baseline yields a schema identical to the 12-migration chain
(integration suite on a fresh DB) **before** deleting the old files.
- `R2`/`R7`: the harness runs end-to-end against the contour; the trip report lists concrete
defects + a resource profile from the Grafana cAdvisor/postgres_exporter panels.
## Refinements logged during implementation
- **R1** (interview + implementation):
- **Variant labels** `english`/`russian_scrabble`/`erudit`**`scrabble_en`/`scrabble_ru`/`erudit_ru`**
across the backend (`engine.Variant.String`/`ParseVariant`; the `games`/`game_invitations` `variant`
CHECK in the baseline; GCG `#lexicon` and the `variant` metric attribute both flow from `String`),
the wire (`pkg/fbs` `variant` is a `string` field — values change with **no FlatBuffers regen**) and
the UI (`model.ts` union, `variants.ts` records, `codec`/`premiums`/mocks/tests, the admin
`dictionary.gohtml`). **Kept:** the Go enum identifiers (`VariantEnglish`…, internal) and the i18n
display keys (`new.english`/`new.russian`/`new.erudit`, display-only). `complaints.variant` stays
free-text (no CHECK, as before).
- **dawg filenames kept descriptive** (`en_sowpods`/`ru_scrabble`/`ru_erudit`) — only the registry's
`Variant` key carries the rename, so `registry.go`, the published `scrabble-solver` fixtures and the
dictionary release artifact are untouched (decouples the three repos).
- **Migrations squashed** 12 → one hand-written `00001_baseline.sql`. Verified by a
`pg_dump --schema-only` diff (the chain vs the baseline are **identical** but for the two intended
variant-CHECK values) plus the green integration suite. **No data migration** (no production data).
- **Done (cross-repo + contour):** the **`scrabble-dictionary` tidy** merged (PR #2) and was re-cut as
the **byte-identical `v1.0.1`** release for clean provenance (the backend stays on `v1.0.0` — same
bytes, no rewire; the backend pulls a version-pinned release artifact, not master). Post-merge the
contour `backend` schema was wiped (`DROP SCHEMA backend CASCADE` + restart, not a volume drop) and
re-migrated to the baseline — verified the new variant CHECK (`scrabble_en/scrabble_ru/erudit_ru`),
`games`=0 and a clean boot.
- **R2** (interview + implementation):
- **Locked decisions:** game assembly via **invitations** (real path, no robots; not direct game-row
inserts); **moderate** ramp **50 → 200 → 500** at 10 min/step; **diagnostic** pass bar (no SLO gate);
run as a **one-shot container on `scrabble-internal`** in this PR.
- **Harness** = new `scrabble/loadtest` module (`use ./loadtest` + a `replace scrabble/gateway` for the
dot-free edge-proto import). It seeds 1000 guest + 10000 durable accounts + sessions **directly in
Postgres** (token hash mirrors `backend/internal/session`), drives players over the **edge protocol**,
generates **mid-ranked legal moves locally** with the embedded `scrabble-solver` by replaying
`game.history` (the edge carries no board — mirrors `engine.ReplayBoard` via the public API), and a
**gateway-hammer**. Compact CLI (`run` / `cleanup`), distroless Dockerfile (DAWGs baked), Go unit tests.
- **Adding the module broke the other images' builds** — backend/gateway/telegram Dockerfiles reduce the
workspace but still referenced `./loadtest` (not in their context); each now also
`-dropuse=./loadtest` (backend/telegram additionally `-dropreplace` the gateway replace). Caught by the
first deploy run; verified by building all four images.
- **Harness payload fixes found by the smoke pass:** the draft DTO's `rack_order` is a string (was sent
as `[]``bad_request`); the display-name validator forbids digits/colons, so the cleanup marker
became a letters-only `Zzloadtest` so `profile.update` resends the seeded name. `chat_not_your_turn` /
`nudge_own_turn` are **by-design** turn gates, correctly exercised.
- **Observability:** added **cAdvisor + postgres_exporter** + the **Scrabble — Resources** dashboard +
two Prometheus jobs. **Finding:** cAdvisor yields only the root cgroup on the contour host (separate
XFS `/var/lib/docker` breaks its layer-ID resolution — the existing galaxy deploy has the same limit),
so per-container CPU/RSS for the early pass was captured via `docker stats`. **R7:** adopt the otelcol
`docker_stats` receiver (already the contrib image) for per-container metrics in Grafana.
- **Early run (2026-06-09):** ramped clean to 500 players, no crash/deadlock, cleanup removed all 11000
accounts. 1.2 M edge calls, 48 870 plays, 2 798 games finished; the per-user limiter held under the
hammer (99.97 % rejected, p99 2 ms). **Top finding:** ~14 % `transport_error` on `game.state` at 500
players, under CPU saturation (backend/gateway/Postgres each ~1 core) and amplified by the harness's
single shared `http2.Transport`; the harness itself peaked at 86 % of a core on the same host, so the
figures are pessimistic. Full trip report in [`../loadtest/REPORT-R2.md`](../loadtest/REPORT-R2.md);
it feeds R3 (h2c `MaxConcurrentStreams`/timeouts, body-size cap), R6 and R7 (per-player transports,
separate hardware, pool/limit sizing).
- **CI:** `./loadtest/...` added to the path filter + vet/build/test; `go.work.sum` carries the new deps.
- **R3** (interview + implementation):
- **Locked decisions:** the flag column lands by **editing the R1 baseline** (+ a contour schema
wipe after merge — no migration chain accrues before prod); auto-flag defaults **1000 rejected /
10 min** (`BACKEND_HIGHRATE_FLAG_THRESHOLD`/`_WINDOW`, rolling window, set-once, operator clears,
no auto-ban); landing image = **caddy:2-alpine**; throttle data flows **gateway → backend** (a
30 s per-key summary POST to the new `/api/v1/internal/ratelimit/report`, the existing trusted
direction) with the episode window + flag rule in the backend (`internal/ratewatch`); rejection
logging = **Warn summary per key per window + Debug per rejection** — a deliberate deviation from
the phase's "structured log per rejection" (the R2 hammer would have logged ~522k lines in
minutes); all three R2-report tails included (explicit h2c sizing, the session-resolve failure
cause at Warn, reviving the admin limiter).
- **Body cap:** `GATEWAY_MAX_BODY_BYTES` (default 1 MiB) as both the Connect per-message read limit
and an `http.MaxBytesReader` wrap of the public mux; an oversized Execute is `resource_exhausted`.
- **Dead config found:** `AdminPerMinute`/`AdminBurst` were never wired — the gateway `/_gm` mount is
now 429-guarded per IP ahead of its Basic-Auth. The caddy-fronted contour path stays unlimited
(stock caddy has no limiter) — an accepted gap, recorded in `docs/ARCHITECTURE.md` §12.
- **Landing split:** a `landing` target in `gateway/Dockerfile` (the UI build stage is shared;
identical compose build args keep it one cached build); the gateway drops `landing.html` from the
embed and 308-redirects `/``/app/`; the contour caddy routes `/app/`, `/telegram/` and the
Connect path to the gateway and the catch-all to the landing container; the CI deploy probe now
checks both `/` (landing) and `/app/` (gateway).
- **Observability:** `gateway_rate_limited_total{class}` (user/public/email/admin, aggregate-only)
+ a rate-vs-rejections panel on the Edge/UX dashboard; the admin console gains the **Throttled**
page (the in-memory episode window, reset-on-restart like `active_users`, plus the flagged-account
queue) and the flag badge / clear action on the user list / card.
- The jet regen also restored the previously missing `game_drafts`/`game_hidden` generated models
(their tables were added after the last jetgen run; no behaviour change).
- **R4** (interview + implementation):
- **Locked decisions:** **delta-first**, not full snapshots — an event carries only the new move and
the UI applies it to its per-game cache, keyed on `move_count` (idempotent + gap-safe: a gap or the
actor's own move falls back to a `game.state` + `game.history` refetch). `match_found` /
`game_started` carry the recipient's **initial `StateView`** (instant lobby→game); the fallback
refetch stays the existing two calls (no merged endpoint); the matchmaking poll runs **only while
the stream is down** (2.5 s); **all** UI-state-changing events carry their payload (incl. lobby `notify`).
- **Enriched events** (`pkg/fbs` trailing fields — backward-compatible, no FB regen of *values*, only
the schema): `opponent_moved` (+`move`/`game`/`bag_len`), `your_turn` (+`move_count`), `match_found`
(+`state`), `game_over` (+`game`), `notify` (+`account`/`invitation`/`state`). The pre-R4
`opponent_moved` scalars (`seat`/`action`/`score`/`total`) stay for wire back-compat, now redundant
with `move`/`game` — slated for the R6 de-stage.
- **Encoding placement:** the `notify` package keeps ownership of the FlatBuffers encoding (a new
`encode.go` mirrors the gateway transcode but reads wire-agnostic `notify.*` input structs +
`engine.MoveRecord`); the game/lobby/social services map their domain types to those structs, so the
wire schema stays out of the domain. **Flagged for R6:** this partly duplicates the gateway encoders
(different source types) — a candidate consolidation.
- **Actor self-fetch killed too** (beyond literal "push"): the `submit_play`/`pass`/`exchange`/`resign`
**response** (`MoveResult`) now returns the actor's refilled rack + bag size, so the mover renders the
next turn from the response — `Game.svelte`'s `commit`/`pass`/`exchange`/`resign` drop their `await load()`.
- **`match_found` enrichment** needs a per-seat initial state: `lobby.GameCreator` gained `InitialState`,
and `game.Service.InitialState` builds the `notify.PlayerState` (rack re-encoded to wire indices, the
variant alphabet embedded for a first-seen variant).
- **UI:** a pure `lib/gamedelta.ts` reducer (`applyMoveDelta` / `applyGameOver` / `seedInitialState`,
unit-tested) advances the cache; `app.svelte` seeds it on `match_found` / `game_started`; `Game.svelte`
applies the delta (falling back to `load()` while composing, on a gap, or on its own move's new rack);
`NewGame.svelte` polls only when `app.streamAlive` is false and guards its teardown so a push-delivered
match is not cancelled.
- **notify (friends/invitations) scope:** the backend carries the full account / invitation payload on the
wire (per "all events → push"); the UI seeds the game cache from `game_started` but keeps its lightweight
**authoritative** badge refresh (`refreshNotifications`, on the rare `notify` event + on foreground) rather
than adding client-side friend/invitation caches — the per-move hot path is fully de-fetched, which was the
goal. Deeper lobby-cache consumption is an easy follow-up.
- **No schema change** (no migration); the contour needs no DB wipe. Tests: `notify` FB round-trips +
`emitMove` delta + the `gamedelta` reducer; the e2e mock now emits the enriched delta.
- **R5** (interview + implementation):
- **No code slimming — by analysis.** A gzip measure + sourcemap attribution of the real `dist` showed
the app bundle is already minified + tree-shaken and dominated by the Connect/FlatBuffers transport
runtime + generated FB/PB bindings (≈⅔ of `main`'s source) and the Svelte runtime — all
third-party/generated, irreducible within R5's scope. App-authored code carries no hand-trimmable fat.
- **Lazy-load rejected** (screens *and* i18n): `bundle-size.mjs` sums every emitted chunk, so
code-splitting moves bytes between chunks for **zero total-size win** while adding request latency (+N
gateway fetches on first navigation to a split screen). i18n lazy-load additionally buys ≤3 KB (en-only
users) at the cost of an async `t()`, and `en` must stay bundled (it is the `MessageKey` type source +
fallback). **Chunk-collapsing rejected** too — keeping the near-static Svelte runtime in its own
cacheable chunk is the recommended practice (an app deploy then re-busts only `main`, not the runtime),
and HTTP/2 makes the extra preload request negligible.
- **Metric retargeted to the app.** The two-entry build (`index.html` app + `landing.html`) makes Rollup
hoist the code shared by both (Svelte runtime + i18n + `aboutContent`) into one preloaded chunk, so the
app actually loads its entry chunk **+ the shared chunk** (≈74 + ≈23 = **≈97 KB**), never `landing.js`
(≈1.6 KB). The old script summed all three chunks (98.8 KB), over-counting the app by `landing.js`.
`bundle-size.mjs` now parses each built HTML for the JS it eagerly loads and gates three parts
independently — **app entry ≤ 100 KB, shared (Svelte+i18n) ≤ 30 KB, landing-own ≤ 5 KB** — reporting the
app total (≈97) and landing total (≈24.5). Same CLI + exit-code contract, so the CI step is unchanged.
- **No app/source/build change** (`App.svelte`, `lib/i18n/`, `vite.config.ts` untouched); no schema
change, no contour wipe. The stale "~82 KB" figure was corrected in `bundle-size.mjs` and `ui/README.md`.
- **R6** (interview + implementation):
- **Locked decisions:** apply **both** wire/code structural changes (**B** + **A**) and **only C1+C2** of
the test consolidation (not C3/C5); strip the `*(Stage N)*` tags from **all current-state docs**
(ARCHITECTURE / FUNCTIONAL+`_ru` / TESTING / UI_DESIGN), keeping PLAN.md / PRERELEASE.md / CLAUDE.md as
history; **split `stage6_test.go`** by domain. The `h2cMaxConcurrentStreams` sizing stays an **R7**
concern (tuning, not behaviour-preserving); the R2 early run forced no code fix, so nothing was carried in.
- **(a) De-staging:** removed the `Stage N` / `TODO-N` / `(RN)` references across code, comments, service
READMEs and the current-state docs, rewording narratives to present tense (no technical content lost).
Renamed the only stage-named identifiers (`registerStage8``registerSocialOps`,
`registerStage11``registerLinkOps`) and split `stage6_test.go` (`TestEmailLoginFlow``email_test.go`;
`TestGuestAutoMatchLeavesNoStats`+`provisionGuest``account_test.go`). De-staged the `.fbs`/`.proto`
comments and regenerated: only the `.proto`-derived Go docstrings (`*_grpc.pb.go`, `push.pb.go`) changed —
flatc strips schema comments, so the FB Go/TS bindings were untouched.
- **(b) Reconciliation:** the docs were accurate (each R-phase baked its own); the one drift was a stale
"guest-reaping deferred (TODO-3)" note in `ARCHITECTURE.md` §3 — guest reaping is implemented, so the
note was replaced with the current behaviour (FUNCTIONAL/TESTING already described it).
- **(c) B — dead `opponent_moved` scalars:** removed `seat/action/score/total` from `OpponentMovedEvent`
(`pkg/fbs/scrabble.fbs` + the `notify` emit + the round-trip test); regenerated FB Go + TS. No reader
used them (the UI codec/mock take `move`/`game`/`bag_len`; the gateway forwards the payload verbatim).
A pre-release wire-slot renumber — free with no prod data, no DB change.
- **(c) A — shared FB builders:** new `scrabble/pkg/wire` holds the single definition of the nested wire
tables (GameView / MoveRecord / StateView / AccountRef / Invitation) shared by the backend `notify`
encoder and the gateway `transcode`; both map their own source types to neutral `wire.*` structs and
delegate. **Honest tradeoff:** the verbose `Start/Add/End` + reverse-prepend boilerplate is now written
once, but the field *set* is still mapped per side, and the new package makes the change net **+~145 LOC**
— a single-source / anti-drift win for the fiddly mechanics rather than a line-count cut. Behaviour-
preserving: the two sides' field sets were verified identical and the round-trip tests pass unchanged.
- **(c) C1+C2 — inttest fixtures:** moved the cross-file service/game fixtures (`newGameService` was used by
10 files) into `backend/internal/inttest/helpers.go`; single-file helpers stay local. Pure relocation.
- **No schema change → no contour DB wipe.** Regression gate: the full unit + integration + UI suites plus
the R7 stress run.
- **R7** (interview + implementation):
- **Locked decisions:** run the harness **same-host** (one-shot container on `scrabble-internal`, capped
`--cpus=3` so the contour keeps spare cores); **apply container limits + `GOMAXPROCS` now** (not just a
prod recommendation); **replace cAdvisor with the otelcol `docker_stats` receiver** (it resolved only the
root cgroup on this host); keep rate-limit / h2c knobs **compiled-in** (change values only if the data
demands — it did not).
- **Harness refinements (pre-run):** each virtual player builds its **own `edge.Client`** (its own h2c
connection for its Subscribe stream + Execute calls) instead of all players sharing one `http2.Transport`
the R2 `transport_error` artifact; and `playTurn` now reports a **finished** game so the player drops it
from rotation. Effect, measured: `game.state` `transport_error` 14 % (R2) → **2.49 %**; `game_finished` on
chat ≈ 3 900 → **35**.
- **Observability:** added the `docker_stats` receiver to `otelcol` (`api_version: "1.44"` — the daemon's
minimum is 1.40; the receiver defaults to 1.25 and crash-looped until pinned), mounted the docker socket
read-only with `group_add` (the contrib image runs as UID 10001), dropped the cAdvisor service + its
Prometheus job, and retargeted the **Scrabble — Resources** dashboard to the docker_stats metric names
(`container_cpu_utilization`/100 == cores). Cross-checked against `docker stats` within sampling error.
- **Profile (final run, 500 players, limits in force):** the **gateway is the binding constraint** — with
one connection per player it bursts into its 2-core cap (the residual 2.49 % `transport_error`); backend
~0.85 core and postgres ~1.4 cores had headroom; **tempo reached its 1 GiB cap**; the backend pool sat at
its `MaxOpenConns=25` cap (28 backends); docker logs were unbounded (~14 MiB / 30 min on the backend at
info). Full write-up in [`../loadtest/REPORT-R7.md`](../loadtest/REPORT-R7.md).
- **Round-2 tuning (owner-agreed, all in `deploy/docker-compose.yml`, no code change):** gateway **2 → 3
cores + `GOMAXPROCS=3`**; tempo memory **1 → 2 GiB**; backend `MAX_OPEN_CONNS` **25 → 40**; a json-file
**log-rotation** default (10m × 3) applied contour-wide via a YAML anchor (level stays info).
backend/postgres kept at 2 cores / 512 MiB (headroom is cheap on the shared host).
- **Validation:** the same gradual ramp on the tuned contour cut `game.state` `transport_error` to **0.72 %**
(gateway ~2 cores, now under the 3-core cap, no throttle; tempo ~1.27 GiB, under 2 GiB). A separate
**burst** run (a single 100 → 500 jump) pegged the gateway at 3 cores (≈296 % sustained, 9.27 % error),
confirming it is **connection-CPU-bound** — a true arrival spike is a **horizontal-scaling** lever, not
more cores per node (recorded in the prod-sizing recommendation).
- **No schema change → no contour DB wipe.** Bake-back: `loadtest/REPORT-R7.md` (new), `loadtest/README.md`,
`docs/TESTING.md`, the telemetry/observability section of `docs/ARCHITECTURE.md`, the repo-layout line in `CLAUDE.md`.
- **UI — Tab-bar navigation redesign** (owner ad-hoc, not on the raw TODO list): drop the hamburger
`Menu.svelte` everywhere (it fought the Telegram-fullscreen layout, where it had to be re-centred).
- **Locked decisions (interview):** the in-Settings sub-nav is a **bottom TabBar with the active tab
highlighted** (icon-only); **Export GCG** moves to the left slot of the move-history header (free in a
finished game, where 🏁 *leave* does not apply); the lobby **⚙️ badge counts incoming friend requests
only** (invitations keep their own lobby section); unread chat is badged on **the score bar and the 💬**.
- **What shipped:** a ⚙️ **Settings hub** (`screens/SettingsHub.svelte`) over the existing
Settings/Profile/Friends/About bodies and an in-game **comms hub** (`game/CommsHub.svelte`) over
chat + dictionary, both with in-place tabs and a fixed back target; the game's menu items relocate into
the open move history (🏁 leave / 📤 export + 💬 comms header) and the player cards (🤝 add-friend); a
shared **TapConfirm** (`components/TapConfirm.svelte`, `lib/tapconfirm.ts`) — tap → fading ✅ → tap —
replaces the Skip/Hint press-and-hold popovers and drives the add-friend confirm. Fixed the move-history
"jump" bug (the slid board is now inert and the stage can't scroll, so a swipe up genuinely closes it).
`Menu.svelte` + `HoldConfirm.svelte` removed.
- **No schema/wire change → no contour DB wipe.** Bake-back: `docs/UI_DESIGN.md`, `docs/FUNCTIONAL.md`
(+`_ru`). Regression gate: UI `check` + unit (`tapconfirm`) + build + bundle budget + e2e (Chromium &
WebKit), all green.
- **UI — Merge Exchange/Pass; drop the dead Tournaments tab** (owner ad-hoc, not on the raw TODO
list): the lobby's 🏆 *Tournaments* tab was an inert `lobby.soon` toast — removed (the lobby is back
to three tabs, matching `docs/FUNCTIONAL.md`). In-game the separate 🥺 *Skip* (pass) tab folds into
the 🔄 tab, now **Exchange/Pass**, whose dialog passes when no tile is selected and exchanges when
tiles are.
- **Decision — a pass is NOT an exchange of zero (verified against the rules + GCG):** the merge is
**UI-only**. Pass and exchange stay distinct game actions end-to-end — wire (`GameActionRequest` vs
`ExchangeRequest`), engine (`ActionPass` vs `ActionExchange`), and the GCG Poslfit dialect (a pass is
a bare `-`, an exchange is `-TILES`). The engine forbids a zero-tile exchange (`ErrNothingToExchange`)
and allows an exchange only with a full rack left in the bag (`ErrNotEnoughTilesToExchange`), while a
pass is always legal — collapsing them would lose a real distinction. The dialog dispatches the
existing `gateway.pass` / `gateway.exchange`.
- **What shipped:** `Lobby.svelte` (tab removed); `Game.svelte` (one 🔄 Exchange/Pass tab no longer
gated on an empty bag; the dialog disables tile selection while the bag is below a full rack
(`bagLen >= RACK_SIZE`), its confirm button reading **Pass without exchanging** / **Exchange N**);
i18n (`game.draw` → Exchange/Pass, new `game.passNoExchange`, dropped `game.skip` /
`lobby.tournaments` / `lobby.soon`). No backend/wire/history/GCG change.
- **No schema/wire change → no contour DB wipe.** Bake-back: `docs/UI_DESIGN.md`, `docs/FUNCTIONAL.md`
(+`_ru`). Regression gate: UI `check` + unit + build + bundle budget + e2e (Chromium & WebKit).
- **AI — Honest AI opponent in quick game** (owner ad-hoc, not on the raw TODO list): a second quick-game
opponent the player *knowingly* chooses, distinct from the disguised robot of the random/open path
(which is kept as-is). New Game's quick-game mode replaces the "auto-match" subtitle with a two-button
selector **🤖 AI / 👤 Random player** (the `.seg`/`.opt` segmented style, AI the default); for AI the
move-clock line reads "Loss after 7 days of inactivity" and the "searching" hint is hidden.
- **Locked decisions (interview):** AI move is **event-driven** (the robot replies the instant the
player's move commits; the 30 s driver is the fallback); AI games **do not touch `account_stats`**
(practice, like guests); the **Stage 5 strength logic is reused unchanged** (`playToWin` 40 % from the
seed + margin band); **no per-move timeout — a 7-day inactivity loss** instead; the 7-day line lives on
the New Game screen (the in-game screen has no move-clock line); chat + nudge **disabled**, word-check
kept, add-friend never drawn, opponent shown as **🤖** everywhere.
- **The 7-day rule reuses the existing per-turn timeout:** an AI game is created with
`turn_timeout_secs = AIInactivityTimeout` (7 days) and the existing timeout sweeper resigns the overdue
seat — since the robot moves at once, only the human is ever on the clock, so the per-turn timeout *is*
the abandon rule (no new column, no new sweeper).
- **One game flag drives everything:** `games.vs_ai` (edited into the R1 baseline — pre-release, so a
contour DB wipe after merge). It is set **only** on AI-started games, so a robot-filled random game keeps
`vs_ai=false` and the disguised opponent is never revealed; the UI derives 🤖 / the gates **from the flag,
never from the opponent account**. New backend path `Matchmaker.StartVsAI` (picks a pooled robot via the
existing `Pick`, creates an **active** seated game via `game.Service.Create`, random seat order) — the AI
request never enters the open pool, so the open-game reaper never touches it. The robot driver gains a
`vs_ai` branch (no sleep, no proactive nudge, zero delay) and a focused `DriveGame`/`TriggerMove` fast
path wired from the game service's after-create/after-commit hook (`SetAITrigger`, a func value so the
game package never imports the robot package). Chat/nudge gated by a new `social` `VsAI` check
(`ErrGameVsAI` → 409 `ai_game`); statistics skipped in `commit` when `vs_ai`.
- **Wire:** `EnqueueRequest` += `vs_ai`, `GameView` += `vs_ai` (trailing FB fields, regenerated Go + TS),
threaded through the backend DTO, the gateway transcode and the `pkg/wire` + `notify` builders.
- **Tests:** `lobby` unit (StartVsAI seats a robot + flags the game; empty pool leaves no game); backend
integration (`ai_game_test.go`: active+seated+vs_ai+7-day clock, robot moves immediately, stats skipped,
7-day timeout resigns the human, chat/nudge rejected); UI codec round-trip (`vs_ai` on enqueue + game
view); e2e (an AI game shows 🤖, no "searching", chat disabled, the dictionary still works) + the
existing quick-match e2e updated to pick **Random player** (the default is now AI).
- **Schema/wire change → a contour DB wipe** after merge (`DROP SCHEMA backend CASCADE` + restart, the
R1/R3 pattern). Bake-back: `docs/ARCHITECTURE.md`, `docs/FUNCTIONAL.md` (+`_ru`), `docs/UI_DESIGN.md`,
`backend/README.md`, Go Doc comments.
- **Post-review refinements (owner, same PR):** (1) the **GCG export labels the robot seat "AI"** rather
than its human-like pool name (`ExportGCG` overrides the name via `accounts.IsRobot`; the in-app 🤖 is
unchanged); (2) honest-AI games **emit no `your_turn`** — the robot replies instantly, so the signal
would arrive with the move and be pointless; `opponent_moved` still advances the UI; (3) the **admin
console surfaces the AI flag** — a **🤖 column** in `/games` and an "AI game" line on the game card
(`GameRow`/`GameDetailView` gain `VsAI`); (4) `games_started_total` / `games_abandoned_total` gain a
**`vs_ai`** attribute and the Grafana *Game domain* dashboard splits started/abandoned into **human**
and **AI** panels.
- **Follow-up (separate PR — strategy deviation):** the robot now plays **≈20%** of opening/midgame moves
*against* its per-game `playToWin` intent (toward the opposite margin band — a winning robot eases off, a
losing one surges ahead), tapering linearly to **0 over the last 14 bag tiles** and **0 once the bag is
empty**, so the endgame follows the chosen strategy strictly while earlier outcomes can swing the human's
way. Deterministic from the seed (`mix(seed,"deviate",moveCount)`), applied to **both** robot paths via
the shared `selectMove`; the per-game intent (and the admin card) is unchanged. Tests: `robot` unit
(taper bounds + monotonicity, never-in-endgame, determinism, ~20% distribution). Bake-back:
`docs/ARCHITECTURE.md` §7, `docs/FUNCTIONAL.md` (+`_ru`), `backend/README.md`, `PLAN.md` Stage 5.
- **GL — Simultaneous quick-game cap** (owner ad-hoc, not on the raw TODO list): a player may hold at
most **10** active quick games; at the cap the lobby greys **New Game** and shows a plain notice
"Вы достигли лимита одновременных партий", both clearing automatically when an active game finishes.
- **Locked decisions (interview):** what counts = active **+** open (searching) quick games, **including
AI** (`vs_ai`); friend games (invitation-linked) **never** count. The backend gate refuses **all** new-game
creation at the cap — `lobby/enqueue` **and** `invitations` — with **409 `game_limit_reached`**; **accepting**
an invitation is never gated, so friend games are capped "from the other end". Delivery = a boolean
**`at_game_limit`** on the existing `games.list` (no per-event payload: a turn change does not move the count,
and the lobby already re-fetches `games.list` on entry + every game event); the first uncached lobby frame
defaults the button **enabled** (the backend gate is the authority).
- **What shipped:** `game.MaxActiveQuickGames` + `Store/Service.CountActiveQuickGames` (active/open seats, no
`game_invitations` row; hidden games still count → a dedicated count, not a filter over the lobby list);
`Server.atGameLimit`/`ensureUnderGameLimit` gating `handleEnqueue` + `handleCreateInvitation`;
`gameListDTO.at_game_limit`; the FB `GameList` trailing `at_game_limit` (regenerated Go + TS) threaded through
the gateway transcode + UI codec; `lib/model` + `lobbycache` snapshot + `Lobby.svelte` (disabled tab + a muted
`.limit` notice); i18n `lobby.limitReached` (en authoritative + ru).
- **Caveat (logged):** the gate is a pre-check, not transaction-atomic — concurrent creates from one account could
momentarily exceed by 12 (harmless soft cap; the UI disables the button regardless). Strict atomicity was judged
a disproportionate diff across the two create paths.
- **No schema change → no contour DB wipe** (only a trailing FB field, no migration). Tests: backend integration
(`game_limit_test.go`: count rule + HTTP gate 409 + accept bypass), server unit (error mapping), gateway
transcode round-trip, UI codec + lobbycache unit, e2e (`gamelimit.spec.ts`). Bake-back: `docs/FUNCTIONAL.md`
(+`_ru`), `docs/ARCHITECTURE.md` §8, `docs/UI_DESIGN.md`, `backend/README.md`.
- **CM — Channel-chat moderation + promo bot** (owner ad-hoc, not on the raw TODO list):
- **Locked decisions (interview):** the promo bot is a **goroutine in `cmd/bot`** (its own token, no
bot-link); the moderated chat's default-no-send is configured by a **human** in the group settings (the
bot only grants, never `setChatPermissions`); a non-eligible joiner is **left muted silently**; a
temporary-suspension expiry is handled by a **backend sweeper** that emits the re-evaluate event; and a new
**`chat_muted` role** is a chat-only mute with the **game suspension dominating**
(`eligible = registered AND NOT suspended AND NOT chat_muted`).
- **Bot API reality (verified against the docs):** a cross-bot Mini App launch must be a **URL button** to the
main bot's `t.me/<bot>?startapp` link — a `web_app` button signs initData with the *sending* bot's token,
which the main validator rejects — so the promo button reuses the UI's `VITE_TELEGRAM_LINK`. `chat_member`
updates arrive **only** when the bot is a chat **admin** with the "Ban users" right (the client label for the
Bot API `can_restrict_members`) and `chat_member` is in `allowed_updates`; bots cannot list members but can
`getChatMember` a single user, which is the membership guard on the block/unblock path.
- **Wire:** `pkg/proto/botlink/v1` gains a `ChatGateCommand` in the `Command` oneof and a unary
`ResolveChatEligibility`; the backend gains `notify.KindChatAccessChanged` (no payload, infra-only — never an
out-of-app message) and an internal `POST /api/v1/internal/chat-access` resolver; the gateway resolves the
join (by external_id) and the event (by user_id) through it and pushes the chat-gate command fire-and-forget
(at-most-once, recovered by the next moderation action or a re-join).
- **No schema change → no contour DB wipe:** `chat_muted` is a new `account.KnownRoles` entry (the
`account_roles` table is data-driven). The suspension-expiry sweeper is a new `account.SuspensionSweeper`
(a 1-minute window, idempotent) started in `cmd/backend`, alongside the guest reaper.
- **Deploy:** new `TEST_`/`PROD_` `TELEGRAM_PROMO_BOT_TOKEN` (secret), `TELEGRAM_BOT_USERNAME` and
`TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID` (variables); the promo link reuses the existing `*_VITE_TELEGRAM_LINK` variable as
`TELEGRAM_BOT_LINK`. The bot must be promoted to admin in the real discussion group, and the group default
set to no-send, as part of the Stage 18 prod cutover (the test contour exercises the code path).
- **Bake-back:** `docs/ARCHITECTURE.md`, `docs/FUNCTIONAL.md` (+`_ru`), `platform/telegram/README.md`,
`backend/README.md`, Go Doc comments. Tests: backend resolver truth table + publish on block/unblock/role +
the sweeper window (unit + integration); gateway hub `ResolveChatEligibility` + the chat-gate command; bot
`chat_member` grant + `ApplyChatGate` getChatMember-guard; promo `/start` localization + URL button; config
parsing.