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Proposes polling-first admin observation: disposable invalidation, authoritative owning-API reads and independent bounded reconciliation. Five named invariants cover read authority, recovery, bounded demand, job-path independence and trusted administration.

V1 contains no SSE/WebSocket endpoint, subscription protocol, stream budget or notification listener, including opt-in experiments. Strict reads/whole-read deadlines, one tab scheduler, fenced cache fills, source timestamps and reconciliation are independently useful increments. Startup registers demand and arms reconciliation before the first read; no transport handshake is needed.

The ADR and companion contract are renamed to docs/adr/050-admin-view-observation.md and docs/design/admin-observation-v1.md; index and all backlinks are updated. The contract distinguishes additive strict /api/v1 JSON reads from existing unversioned /api conventions and preserves current DLQ mutation paths.

Transport is a separate future decision requiring an unmet freshness need or concrete consumer, a measured improved-polling baseline, topology/source coverage, read/connection amplification, ingress/auth costs, an owner and explicit retain/reject criteria. Process-local SSE reaches only same-process viewers and does not accelerate worker changes. A future admin-to-admin NOTIFY optimization could freshen peer caches, but browsers still poll; one/two-replica value is unproven. Any hint attempt must be bounded and separately post-commit to isolate failure from the authoritative mutation, with coarse nonsecret payloads and reconciliation.

Source verification: #572 remains open at c09b23ebed0d65614025271611c720ea584a55c9, including ac1e3944. Separate retry/purge-matching routes and safe-integer UI rejection are present; the obsolete DLQ richer-body downgrade concern is not retained as unresolved. GET still ignores unknown/empty fields, and up to 32 candidate passes each have a 30-second statement timeout while the loader lacks that timeout. Those GET/deadline repairs remain shared read-layer/#572 follow-up work. #572 was not modified; unrelated storage release gates are not cleared.

Client deadline clarification: a configurable finite 20-second request budget exceeds the independent 15-second server whole-read budget. Timeout fences late responses, preserves dirty demand and never permits an obsolete cache fill to become current; server passes/retries cannot reset its deadline.

Final scope clarifications: admission/client/whole-read/statement budgets apply only to interactive admin reads, including previews; execution scans and DLQ bulk mutations retain their own policies and safeguards. Uncached filtered pages are expected to degrade first under overload, while aggregate cache misses still compete for admission. Shipping strict adapters requires mixed-version filtered-view availability notes. A future transport proposer owns numeric criteria and the evaluation timeframe.

Validation: local JSON examples, fences, links/anchors and whitespace pass. Remote documents match local text. At exact head 4649c56932955416d2fee55accec277b32be5c78, Docs CI (strict MkDocs, agent docs and canonical examples) and CI both completed successfully.

Proposed and draft. Documentation only; no implementation publication, merge, release or transport enablement.

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    • Added documentation describing the proposed admin-view update behavior, including periodic refresh, recovery when updates are missed, and limits on how quickly views converge.
    • Recorded the accepted decision to use invalidation hints followed by authoritative reads, with independent reconciliation.
    • Clarified compatibility expectations: filtered reads fail safely when older servers cannot support them, and mutation behavior remains unchanged.

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documented #572 400 invalid-filter mapping so deadline expiry does not stop
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This pull request adds an ADR and a proposed v1 design contract for admin-view observation. The documents select polling with authoritative reads and specify scheduler behavior, strict read adapters, bounded work, cache rules, and mixed-version handling.

Changes: Admin View Observation

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Polling decision and scope
docs/adr/050-admin-view-observation.md, docs/adr/README.md
ADR-050 selects polling with disposable invalidation hints, authoritative reads, and independent reconciliation. It records deferred alternatives and reconsideration criteria. The index marks ADR-049 and ADR-050 Accepted.
Active-query scheduling and lifecycle
docs/design/admin-observation-v1.md
The proposed contract specifies active query registration, dirty generations, shared dispatch, lifecycle behavior, and trusted-admin request boundaries.
Strict reads, limits, and cache consistency
docs/design/admin-observation-v1.md
The proposed contract defines versioned job and DLQ reads, mixed-version behavior, client and server limits, cache-generation rules, observation metadata, acceptance criteria, and source-inspection evidence.

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

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  • hardbyte/awa#562 — Its admin API fuzzing and round-trip checks could validate parts of the proposed strict read contract.
  • hardbyte/awa#569 — The reported omission in the authoritative jobs view is relevant to the read-model assumptions in this observation contract.

Possibly related PRs

  • hardbyte/awa#571 — Defines the JobFilter semantics referenced by this design.
  • hardbyte/awa#572 — Implements the existing job-filter reads and deadlines that the proposed strict adapters build on.
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This PR only adds design documents, so nothing changes at runtime. Before the contract is implemented, it should say which retryable status or error code a whole-read timeout returns and how the client handles it. Otherwise timeouts could stop automatic recovery.

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A rabbit checks the query keys at dawn,
Then marks a stale view before moving on.
The read comes back from an authoritative source,
A bounded retry keeps the schedule on course.
If hints go missing, reconciliation arrives,
And the quiet admin view keeps up with its reads.

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@hardbyte hardbyte changed the title docs(adr): propose ADR-050 real-time resource subscriptions ADR-050: Admin views use invalidation and authoritative refetch Oct 30, 2026
Mark ADR-050 and its supporting contract accepted. The contract's source
evidence now cites #572 at 15b8e3f, which gives each interactive listing one
30-second budget and refuses unknown or empty GET parameters; the contract notes
that its adapters tighten that budget to 15 s/5 s. The ADR index also shows
ADR-049 as accepted, matching its status.
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Comment thread docs/design/admin-observation-v1.md Resolved
Deadline expiry gets 503 with Retry-After and a read_deadline_exceeded code, so
clients retry under backoff rather than treating it as an invalid filter. #572's
current 400 mapping is not inherited by the adapters.
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