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rfc(pnpr): resolution snapshots and retained dependency sets - #45
Proposes immutable captures of registry observations, versioned resolution receipts, and explicit retention of approved package resources.
Stores snapshot and receipt membership and retention references in the SQL metadata layer defined by #48. Artifacts are uploaded and verified before the metadata transaction marks a retained set complete. Defines staging protection, garbage-collection coordination, replica consistency requirements, and backend replacement checks.
Distinguishes observed upstream state from point-in-time consistency, historical approval from current install permission, and a retained package set from a reproducible build. Receipts pin release-record integrities, separate package-index and per-version observation integrities, interpretation profiles, and any archive-authoritative acceptance policy, so later corrections cannot reinterpret a sealed snapshot.
Snapshots reference each candidate by its release record and copy only mutable state (tags, selected revisions, deprecations, trust ranks); an upstream observation stands in only under release records' unverified mode, marked as such.
Snapshots and receipts are hashed as stored bytes, not JCS. An exported receipt is a DSSE-signed in-toto Statement (https://pnpm.io/pnpr/receipt/v1) verified against the issuer's pinned TUF root.
A hosted capture references the committed catalog generation instead of copying hosted state.
Retention covers the platform variants the target environments select, and the primary where one selects none.
Covers every ecosystem release records do: npm, Cargo, Python, and OCI tags.
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Reviewed against the existing pnpr routing, revision, resolver/cache, and publication contracts.
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Only RFC text changed. Backend conformance suites and benchmarks are implementation requirements, not tests run in this PR.
Open questions
Intentionally remains a draft. Receipt trust, record-backed versus observation-only members, and membership storage are now settled by the merged RFCs. Still open: the names and configuration for capture, replay, and retention; the minimum replay-input schema and how long compatible resolvers are kept; which target environments and external sources a complete retention set needs initially; and retention quotas and defaults.
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Added a draft proposal detailing how resolution snapshots capture package observations and catalog generations, and how replay handles missing or unsupported inputs.
Describes resolution receipts that record resolver and protocol versions, workspace and policy inputs, selected artifacts, and the resulting lockfile.
Defines retention completeness in terms of verified, durably stored resources for declared environments, with authorization and security checks applying during restore.
The proposal does not approve an implementation or protocol version.
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Review comments at @pnpr/text/0000-resolution-snapshots-and-retention.md:
- Around line 56-59: Update the snapshot retention and garbage-collection rules
described in the snapshot documentation so persisted membership protects every
referenced observation or release record from deletion while the snapshot
exists. Alternatively, define an equivalent archive guarantee and deletion
protocol that ensures snapshot replay remains possible after the read
transaction ends.
- Around line 171-176: Update the artifact-staging acceptance section to define
the durable staging claim as the authoritative source garbage collection checks,
including claim ownership, expiry, renewal, recovery after uploader, SQL, or
object-store failures, and cleanup rules. Ensure verified staged objects remain
protected until the retention transaction commits or an explicit cleanup safely
releases the claim.
- Around line 103-106: Update the receipt contract for observation-only
snapshots: define their receipt fields, trust status, retention gate, and replay
behavior. If observation-only snapshots are not supported, instead require
verified release records before sealing; keep the snapshot policy consistent
with the chosen behavior.
- Around line 120-122: Update the receipt-signature section beginning “A receipt
signature authenticates” to define trusted issuers and how clients verify
bindings to the organization, deployment, and accepting authority; specify key
rotation, revocation, and export/import verification. Clarify that authorization
checks do not establish signing trust and preserve client-side artifact
integrity verification.
- Line 50: Update the snapshot resolution and retention draft to define a
canonical, versioned byte encoding and domain separation for every digest-bound
object, including snapshot identity, receipt bindings, cache keys, signatures,
and export/import. Specify field ordering, default handling, Unicode
normalization, and number encoding so equivalent logical objects always produce
identical bytes.
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Walkthrough
This pull request adds a draft proposal for immutable package-resolution snapshots, replay receipts, and explicit dependency retention. It describes capture and replay rules, authorization and security checks, negotiated operations, implementation steps, validation cases, and open questions. It does not approve an implementation or protocol version.
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Snapshot capture, replay, and receipts pnpr/text/0000-resolution-snapshots-and-retention.md
The draft defines finite metadata capture, snapshot-pinned replay without live-metadata fallback, receipt contents, and current authorization and security checks.
Retention completeness and artifact handling pnpr/text/0000-resolution-snapshots-and-retention.md
The draft defines required-resource enumeration, verification, durable storage, and references. It also describes staged uploads, cleanup, and conditions that prevent or invalidate completeness.
Negotiated operations and implementation outline pnpr/text/0000-resolution-snapshots-and-retention.md
The draft specifies capability negotiation, cache and quota requirements, implementation and validation plans, prior-art references, and unresolved questions.
pnpm/rfcs#49: Defines release records, artifact bindings, and verification rules referenced by snapshots and receipts.
pnpm/rfcs#46: Defines catalog generations, artifact staging, SQL commit boundaries, and collection rules used by the proposal.
pnpm/rfcs#51: Defines platform variants and artifact identities that the proposal requires retention to enumerate.
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This is a draft design document with no runtime impact today. Before ratification, define idempotent recovery for retention commits and bind receipts to an immutable resolver implementation identity.
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A rabbit pins each package’s trail, And keeps its notes when feeds grow stale. A receipt records the chosen set, While stored artifacts stay in debt— No live path fills a missing part; The hare keeps snapshots close to heart.
This remains a draft for discussion. Before ratification, settle the replay-input and protocol contracts, receipt trust, supported retention sources, and quotas. Historical approval does not override current access or security policy.
Updated in 604349e. Aligned snapshot and receipt membership and retention references with the shared SQL metadata contract. Added the artifact-upload/metadata-commit boundary, garbage-collection coordination, and backend migration requirements.
This remains a draft. Replay inputs, protocol/configuration names, supported dependency sources, receipt trust, retention quotas, SQL membership indexes, and collection coordination need design review before ratification.
Updated in 1a7dd88 to match the concrete record proposal in #44. Receipts now pin record and observation integrities, interpretation profiles, and any archive-authoritative acceptance policy. New normalization rules cannot reinterpret old snapshots silently.
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Aligned receipt inputs with #44 in 8dc4a0a. Snapshots pin package-index observations for candidate/tag state and separate per-version observations for install-claim comparisons. Detached evidence does not rekey those claims or the immutable release record.
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RFC: Resolution snapshots and retained dependency sets for pnpr
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AI Description
• Proposes immutable package-observation snapshots and receipts for replaying resolution decisions.
• Defines explicit artifact retention so approved dependency sets remain restorable after upstream
changes.
• Keeps current authorization and security policy in force during replay and restore.
Diagram
graph TD
A["Client request"] --> B["Capture observations"] --> C[("SQL metadata")] --> D["Replay resolver"] --> E["Resolution receipt"] --> F["Verify artifacts"] --> G["Commit retention"] --> H["Authorized restore"]
G --> C
C --> H
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High-Level Assessment
The proposed finite, immutable capture with separate explicit retention fits the stated replay and restorability goals. The RFC appropriately considers ordinary lockfiles and caches, timestamp-based resolution, and full registry mirroring: the first two cannot preserve the observed candidate set, while mirroring imposes substantially broader storage obligations.
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Propose snapshot-backed resolution and explicit artifact retention
• Adds a draft RFC defining sealed observation snapshots, versioned resolution receipts, replay failures, and the distinction between historical approval and current install permission. It specifies SQL-backed membership, verified artifact staging before retention commits, restore guarantees, protocol behavior, and implementation validation requirements; no runtime behavior changes.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @pnpr/text/0000-resolution-snapshots-and-retention.md:
- Around line 56-59: Update the snapshot retention and garbage-collection rules
described in the snapshot documentation so persisted membership protects every
referenced observation or release record from deletion while the snapshot
exists. Alternatively, define an equivalent archive guarantee and deletion
protocol that ensures snapshot replay remains possible after the read
transaction ends.
- Around line 171-176: Update the artifact-staging acceptance section to define
the durable staging claim as the authoritative source garbage collection checks,
including claim ownership, expiry, renewal, recovery after uploader, SQL, or
object-store failures, and cleanup rules. Ensure verified staged objects remain
protected until the retention transaction commits or an explicit cleanup safely
releases the claim.
- Around line 103-106: Update the receipt contract for observation-only
snapshots: define their receipt fields, trust status, retention gate, and replay
behavior. If observation-only snapshots are not supported, instead require
verified release records before sealing; keep the snapshot policy consistent
with the chosen behavior.
- Around line 120-122: Update the receipt-signature section beginning “A receipt
signature authenticates” to define trusted issuers and how clients verify
bindings to the organization, deployment, and accepting authority; specify key
rotation, revocation, and export/import verification. Clarify that authorization
checks do not establish signing trust and preserve client-side artifact
integrity verification.
- Line 50: Update the snapshot resolution and retention draft to define a
canonical, versioned byte encoding and domain separation for every digest-bound
object, including snapshot identity, receipt bindings, cache keys, signatures,
and export/import. Specify field ordering, default handling, Unicode
normalization, and number encoding so equivalent logical objects always produce
identical bytes.
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Snapshot manifests and receipts use the release records draft's JCS
encoding with a type and version in the hashed bytes. Snapshot
membership keeps its observations and records from garbage collection.
Receipts mark observation-only members, and a signature matters only
for a receipt that leaves the deployment. A staging claim with an
expiry protects staged objects until the retention commit replaces it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nd publications
Release records, atomic workspace publication, split packuments, and
platform variants have merged. Snapshots now reference each candidate by
its release record's identity and digest and copy only mutable state, as
split packuments splits a package; an observation stands in only where a
registry runs release records' unverified mode. Snapshots and receipts
are hashed as stored bytes instead of JCS, and an exported receipt is a
DSSE-signed in-toto Statement verified against the issuer's pinned TUF
root. A hosted capture references the committed catalog generation
instead of copying hosted state, and retention covers the variant
archives the target environments select. The questions those RFCs answer
are removed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closing this draft. Most of what it offers is covered elsewhere:
Replaying resolution against the same candidate set. Resolution happens once, when an update is made; the committed lockfile is what developers and CI install, frozen. Where re-resolution must be stable, pnpm has time-based resolution and minimumReleaseAge, and every version pnpr serves now has an immutable, logged release record.
Keeping approved dependency sets restorable after an upstream deletion. This is the part with real demand, and it does not need snapshots, receipts, or replay inputs. Release records already keep the archive of every proxied version pnpr derived a record for as long as the record. A retention policy for pnpr's proxy cache (caps, expiry, or keeping what registered lockfiles reference) is server-side storage policy with no protocol change, so it can be added when an operator needs it without breaking any client.
The work here (the alignment with the merged RFCs is in 66b5c55) stays on the branch for reference.
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Summary
Proposes immutable captures of registry observations, versioned resolution receipts, and explicit retention of approved package resources.
Stores snapshot and receipt membership and retention references in the SQL metadata layer defined by #48. Artifacts are uploaded and verified before the metadata transaction marks a retained set complete. Defines staging protection, garbage-collection coordination, replica consistency requirements, and backend replacement checks.
Distinguishes observed upstream state from point-in-time consistency, historical approval from current install permission, and a retained package set from a reproducible build. Receipts pin release-record integrities, separate package-index and per-version observation integrities, interpretation profiles, and any archive-authoritative acceptance policy, so later corrections cannot reinterpret a sealed snapshot.
Related RFCs
Merged, and built on here:
Aligned with the merged RFCs
https://pnpm.io/pnpr/receipt/v1) verified against the issuer's pinned TUF root.Validation
Open questions
Intentionally remains a draft. Receipt trust, record-backed versus observation-only members, and membership storage are now settled by the merged RFCs. Still open: the names and configuration for capture, replay, and retention; the minimum replay-input schema and how long compatible resolvers are kept; which target environments and external sources a complete retention set needs initially; and retention quotas and defaults.
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