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Summary

Closes #2714. Makes an announce::Consumer's path scope mutable at runtime, using the
insert_scope / remove_scope shape suggested in the issue rather than a filter callback.

  • A cursor now tracks two node sets: the roots it is currently registered on (its live scope) and
    the scope it was constructed with. Widening resolves against the latter, so a prefix that was
    removed can be restored, but a cursor can never out-grow the origin::Consumer that created
    it. Widening past construction would make scope() no restriction at all. A prefix that
    reaches past that scope is granted for the part inside it, matching how scope() already
    narrows to the intersection rather than refusing outright.
  • remove_scope unannounces everything live under the prefix before unregistering, because once
    the cursor is off the node it can no longer be told what it lost. The existing coalescing in
    the consumer's pending map drops an announce that was never observed, so a broadcast the caller
    never saw produces no stray unannounce.
  • Overlapping roots would double-deliver: an announce notifies every consumer registration on its
    way up the tree, so two roots where one is a prefix of the other deliver it twice. Inserting a
    prefix that spans existing roots therefore folds them in and suppresses replay for what they
    already covered, so widening a/b to a announces the rest of a and leaves a/b alone.

Both methods return whether the scope actually changed. This is the one deviation from the
signature in the issue, and it is deliberate: without it, the case below is a silent no-op.

Public API changes

Two additions, both on moq_net::announce::Consumer:

  • pub fn insert_scope(&mut self, prefix: impl AsPath) -> bool
  • pub fn remove_scope(&mut self, prefix: impl AsPath) -> bool

impl AsPath rather than Path to match how the rest of origin.rs takes path inputs, including
announce::Consumer::absolute on this same type.

Additive only, hence main rather than dev: nothing is renamed, removed, or
signature-changed on the published surface. The remaining changes are private and not part of the
public API: OriginNode::consume and consume_initial gained a skip parameter, a private
OriginNode::unannounce_all and AnnounceConsumer::notify were added, and AnnounceConsumer
gained two private fields.

Test plan

Twelve tests added in rs/moq-net/src/model/origin.rs:

  • test_scope_mutation_is_idempotent
  • test_remove_scope_unannounces
  • test_insert_scope_announces_live_broadcast
  • test_insert_scope_cannot_widen_past_construction
  • test_insert_scope_grants_the_part_within_the_construction_scope
  • test_remove_scope_of_descendant_is_unsupported
  • test_remove_scope_of_never_announced_is_silent
  • test_scope_mutation_is_per_consumer
  • test_scope_mutation_composes_with_scope
  • test_late_announce_respects_current_scope
  • test_remove_scope_keeps_active_subscription
  • test_scope_mutation_under_a_root

Ran just check and just test on Linux, against this branch merged with main, and both
pass: the full unit suite is green and clippy is clean with -D warnings on the host and
wasm32 targets. Not run: the macOS and Windows recipes, and just rs features, none of which
this change touches.

Two things worth flagging

Removing a scope does not cancel an active subscription. You flagged this as unknown, so I
tested it. It does not. To be exact about what was measured, since there was no remove_scope to
call at the time: a cursor scoped to room took the room/alice subscription off the announced
stream, then the whole announce::Consumer was dropped, which is the maximal version of the
scope going away, and the held broadcast::Consumer was still open afterwards. The step to
remove_scope is a fortiori rather than a direct measurement. That matches what you said about
only being able to filter broadcasts and not tracks: scope filters discovery, not delivery. It is
called out in the doc comment, because "remove them from my scope" reads like it should stop
delivery and someone will reach for it as a kick mechanism.

The inclusion-set model cannot express the exclusion the issue asks for. OriginNode has no
link to its parent (the nearby parent belongs to NotifyNode, for propagating announces
upward), and OriginNodes::select only ever narrows. So remove_scope can drop a root, but not
a strict descendant of one: dropping room/alice from a cursor scoped to room would mean
restating the scope as every other child of room, which goes stale the moment a new participant
publishes. remove_scope returns false in that case rather than silently doing nothing.

That leaves the original per-subscriber exclusion use case unserved. This PR works for an SFU
that scopes each subscriber to the participants it may see and toggles them, which is a real
shape (lite/publisher.rs already builds one announce::Consumer per peer, so mutating it
reaches that peer over its existing stream). It does not work for one that scopes to the room and
subtracts a member. If you want that, it needs an exclusion set alongside the inclusion set, with
a precedence rule, and I am happy to do that instead.

Cross-package rows skipped

  • drafts/: no wire change. The prefix set is a local filter, never serialized as a set; each
    prefix already corresponds to its own ANNOUNCE_REQUEST stream, and the draft already allows
    multiple Announce Streams with overlapping prefixes.
  • rs/moq-ffi and rs/libmoq: neither exposes scope or a prefix-set concept today, so there is
    nothing to mirror unless you want the new capability surfaced through the bindings.
  • js/net: its announce.Consumer holds a single fixed prefix, so matching this would be a
    redesign of that type rather than a mirror. Happy to follow up separately if you want parity.

doc/concept/layer/moq-lite.md is updated, since it described the announce prefix as fixed for
the life of the session.

(Written by Claude Opus 5)

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select() narrows a prefix to what the construction scope allows rather than
refusing it, so a prefix reaching past that scope came back as the roots the
cursor already held. insert_scope then unregistered and re-registered those
same nodes and returned true, claiming a change it had not made.

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Path is Clone but not Copy, so building the single-element PathPrefixes by
value moved the prefix and the later has_prefix borrow would not compile.

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The origin model anchors construction-scope nodes while consumers can be deregistered. Scope widening registers replacement roots before removing folded roots. Scope narrowing unregisters roots before sweeping live broadcasts. Tests cover restoration after tree pruning and existing scope mutations. Documentation defines subtree-root scope semantics for narrowing and participant visibility.

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 79fc8

Dynamic scope removal can leave empty subscription-tree nodes retained after their final broadcast and cursor are released, allowing memory usage to grow without bound over time. This should be fixed before merging; the remaining documentation issue is minor.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The implementation supports mutable inclusion scopes but does not satisfy #2714's primary requirement for dynamic per-subscriber descendant exclusion. Implement a per-consumer exclusion or predicate filter that blocks selected descendants while allowing required unannounce cleanup events.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary API change: adding insert_scope and remove_scope to AnnounceConsumer.
Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains the implementation, limitations, tests, documentation update, and validation results.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The code, tests, and documentation changes are related to runtime announce-scope mutation and contain no unrelated functional changes.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring check was indeterminate for this PR — some files could not be analyzed in time. Not blocking.
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Inline comments:
In `@doc/concept/layer/moq-lite.md`:
- Around line 73-75: Update the subscriber scope documentation around
AnnounceConsumer::remove_scope to state that removing a prefix returns false
when it is a strict descendant of an active root. Explain that callers needing
to exclude that region must construct sibling inclusion roots instead, while
preserving the existing live-scope and broadcast behavior.

In `@rs/moq-net/src/model/origin.rs`:
- Around line 6286-6547: Update the scope-mutation Tokio tests that call settle
to pause Tokio time before exercising timer-dependent behavior, preferably by
adding start_paused = true to their #[tokio::test] attributes or calling
tokio::time::pause() at the start of each test. Keep the existing test
assertions and setup unchanged.
- Around line 3171-3188: Make insert_scope and remove_scope transition
registration atomically with announcement delivery so broadcasts cannot occur
between unregistering and registering scope roots. Update the relevant Origin
methods around the existing nodes.nodes retain/push and unannounce_all/unconsume
operations, ensuring cursors neither miss announcements during insertion nor
retain paths removed during removal. Add regression coverage that publishes
during both transition windows.
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// Resolved against the construction scope, never the whole origin.
let Some(selected) = self.allowed.select(&PathPrefixes::new([&prefix])) else {

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P1 Badge Resolve restored scopes against the live origin tree

After remove_scope unregisters a scoped node, dropping the last broadcast beneath it lets OriginNode::remove prune that node from its parent. self.allowed still holds the detached Lock, so a later insert_scope selects and registers on the orphaned node; when the same path is published again, the live tree creates a different node and this cursor never receives its announcement. This breaks the expected remove, offline, reinsert, republish lifecycle, so restoration must resolve through the live tree or otherwise keep authorized nodes attached. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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if !existing.has_prefix(&prefix) {
return true;
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node.lock().unconsume(id);

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P1 Badge Register widened roots before unregistering old roots

When a prefix folds existing roots into a wider registration, this call removes each old registration before the replacement registrations are installed below. A concurrent publish or unpublish in that interval is not delivered, and the subsequent replay deliberately skips every path under the old roots, so the cursor can permanently miss a new broadcast or retain a stale one. Install the wider registrations before removing the narrower ones so notification coverage remains continuous during the transition. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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afaik the scope needs to be on origin::Consumer so we actually disallow/allow specific broadcasts, not just hide announcements? This feels a little bit difficult.

retif and others added 4 commits August 23, 2026 13:16
Review of moq-dev#3012 found two ways a runtime scope change can silently drop an
announcement, both of them a matter of the order two independently locked
operations run in.

`insert_scope` unregistered the roots it was folding into a wider one before
registering that wider root, leaving an instant covered by nothing. A broadcast
announced in it is lost for good, because the live notify has no registration to
reach and the replay deliberately skips that subtree. Register first, then drop
the folded roots. Overlapping costs nothing: delivery needs `&mut self`, so the
cursor cannot poll until the transition returns, by which point the pair of
announces has coalesced into one.

`remove_scope` swept the subtree before unregistering, so a broadcast announced
after the sweep walked past its node landed an announce for a path that had just
left scope and that nothing would ever retract. Unregister first. The sweep does
not need the registration it just dropped, since `unannounce_all` notifies the
cursor directly rather than through `NotifyNode`.

Separately, a node is pruned once it holds no broadcast and no consumer, which is
exactly the state `remove_scope` leaves behind. If the broadcasts underneath then
went away, the cursor's construction scope was left pointing at a detached
subtree, and a later `insert_scope` registered there while the republished path
built new nodes in the live tree. Anchor the construction scope for the cursor's
lifetime so it stays attached and restoration resolves against the live tree.

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…storation

The scope mutation tests call `settle`, which sleeps, so they were waiting on
the wall clock while every other timing test in this module pauses first. Run
them with `start_paused` so the timers fire instantly and deterministically.

Adds coverage for the restoration path: a cursor that drops its last scope, sees
the broadcast underneath finish, and inserts the scope back once the path is
republished. That is the sequence in which the construction scope would
otherwise have been left holding a detached subtree.

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The scope is a set of subtree roots, so a subscriber scoped to a room cannot
drop one participant from it: the remaining scope would have to be restated as
every other child, a set that goes stale the moment a new one is published. Say
so where runtime scope changes are described, along with the shape that does
work.

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In `@doc/concept/layer/moq-lite.md`:
- Around line 77-79: Replace the em dash in the narrowing documentation
paragraph with a permitted separator, such as a period, while preserving the
surrounding explanation and meaning.

In `@rs/moq-net/src/model/origin.rs`:
- Around line 3284-3286: Update the anchor-release logic in OriginNode::remove
to use the existing pruning path that detaches nodes with no remaining anchors
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Comment on lines +77 to +79
The scope is a set of subtree roots, so narrowing can only drop a whole root, never carve a hole in one.
Removing `room/alice` from a subscriber scoped to `room` is refused, because the remaining scope would have to be restated as every *other* child of `room` — a set that goes stale the moment a new one is published.
A subscriber that needs to see all of a room except one participant is therefore scoped to each participant it should see, rather than to the room minus the one it should not.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Replace the em dash in the new documentation.

Line 78 adds an em dash. Replace it with a period or another permitted separator.

As per coding guidelines, the rule forbids em dash characters in code, comments, doc comments, commit messages, and prose.

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In `@doc/concept/layer/moq-lite.md` around lines 77 - 79, Replace the em dash in
the narrowing documentation paragraph with a permitted separator, such as a
period, while preserving the surrounding explanation and meaning.

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Comment on lines +3284 to +3286
for (_, root) in &self.allowed.nodes {
root.lock().anchors -= 1;
}

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Prune nodes when the final anchor is released.

If a cursor removes room/bob, its final broadcast closes, and the cursor then drops, OriginNode::remove retains the empty node because anchors is still nonzero. This decrement makes it empty, but it does not remove the node from its parent. Repeating this sequence for distinct paths retains an unbounded set of dead tree nodes.

Release anchors through a pruning path that can detach empty nodes from their parent. Add a regression test for remove scope, close the final broadcast, drop the cursor, and verify the empty subtree is removed.

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In `@rs/moq-net/src/model/origin.rs` around lines 3284 - 3286, Update the
anchor-release logic in OriginNode::remove to use the existing pruning path that
detaches nodes with no remaining anchors from their parent, rather than only
decrementing anchors on allowed roots. Add a regression test covering remove
scope, closing the final broadcast, dropping the cursor, and asserting that the
resulting empty subtree is removed.

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