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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements
  • Joining nodes now discover and contact peers learned during membership exchange, even when a cached roster is out of date or a connection attempt fails.
  • Membership changes update the peer topology through notifications and backfill.
  • Conflict handling now accounts for snapshot-wrapped histories and unresolved dependencies when evaluating updates.

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Walkthrough

Beacon startup now exchanges membership with discovered peers after self-registration and refreshes topology from key-change notifications. NACK processing now tracks unresolved dependency frontiers and checks conflicts across snapshot-wrapped histories with key-scoped ancestry.

Changes

Beacon membership

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Membership and safety observers beacon/beacon.go, beacon/runtime.go, beacon/safety.go, beacon/membership_snapshot_test.go	Key-change callbacks signal safety and membership refreshes. Topology refresh reads the membership snapshot through a read-only context. Tests cover snapshot notifications, backfill, and unchanged membership.
Initial peer attempts cluster/peer_conn.go, cluster/peer_manager.go, cluster/peer_attempt_test.go	Peer connections signal when their first attempt finishes. WaitForInitialConnections waits for the captured peer set, including failed attempts. Tests cover completed and pending attempts.
Membership exchange during join beacon/bootstrap.go, beacon/beacon.go, beacon/beacon_test.go, beacon/join_test.go	Start calls joinMembership after self-registration. The join exchanges cached membership effects with unattempted peers, applies membership snapshots, and repeats when the projection reveals more peers. Tests cover cancellation and discovery from cached membership.

NACK processing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Causal frontier collection and ingestion effects/effect.go, effects/nack_frontier_test.go	NACK tip collection and ingestion track unresolved dependencies and state snapshots. Tests cover missing history, subscriptions, transaction binds, and fetch behavior.
Snapshot-aware conflict checking effects/txn.go, effects/context.go, effects/txn_snapshot_conflict_test.go, effects/txn_test.go	Conflict checks traverse wrapped dependencies and record defeated binds. Ordering checks are scoped to the affected key. Tests compare conflict classification with replay across snapshot and ancestry cases.

Priority: Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Beacon
  participant PeerManager
  participant MembershipEngine
  participant Peer
  Beacon->>MembershipEngine: Register self
  Beacon->>PeerManager: WaitForInitialConnections
  PeerManager-->>Beacon: Initial attempts complete
  loop While unattempted peers remain
    Beacon->>Peer: Exchange cached membership effects
    Peer-->>Beacon: Return NACKs
    Beacon->>MembershipEngine: Read membership snapshot
  end

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Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 9cd1f

A cache or index flush can now make a beacon node drop every peer until membership is written again. Remove the FlushKey refresh trigger, or re-register membership after a flush, before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

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Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 40.91% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surv…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

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Title check		The title clearly identifies the two main changes: bootstrap race fixes and opaque snapshot handling. It is concise and matches the pull request objectives.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @beacon/beacon.go:
- Around line 100-102: Update the key condition that calls
NotifyMembershipChanged so it triggers only for MembershipKey, not
effects.FlushKey; leave the existing notification behavior for MembershipKey
unchanged.

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Files selected for processing: 16

• beacon/beacon.go
• beacon/beacon_test.go
• beacon/bootstrap.go
• beacon/join_test.go
• beacon/membership_snapshot_test.go
• beacon/runtime.go
• beacon/safety.go
• cluster/peer_attempt_test.go
• cluster/peer_conn.go
• cluster/peer_manager.go
• effects/context.go
• effects/effect.go
• effects/nack_frontier_test.go
• effects/txn.go
• effects/txn_snapshot_conflict_test.go
• effects/txn_test.go

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