mcpmesh_node/node.rs
1//! The supported embedding surface: build ([`NodeBuilder`]) and drive ([`Node`]) a full
2//! in-process mesh node. The node is its OWN mesh identity under its OWN root directory —
3//! it never touches the per-user daemon's state, socket, or singleton lock, so it coexists
4//! freely with a running `mcpmesh` daemon (and with other embedded nodes under other roots).
5use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
6use std::sync::Arc;
7
8use mcpmesh_local_api::client::ClientError;
9use mcpmesh_local_api::{ControlClient, connect_control_io};
10
11use crate::config::Config;
12use crate::control::serve_control_io;
13use crate::daemon::boot::{BootedNode, start_node};
14use crate::paths::NodePaths;
15
16/// Everything that can refuse a [`NodeBuilder::start`]. Embedders branch on
17/// [`DataDirInUse`](StartError::DataDirInUse) (another node owns this root — one node per
18/// root, enforced by redb's exclusive database lock) and [`Config`](StartError::Config)
19/// (a malformed `config.toml` / programmatic config, worth showing to a human); everything
20/// else is opaque infrastructure failure.
21#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
22pub enum StartError {
23 #[error("config error: {0:#}")]
24 Config(#[source] anyhow::Error),
25 #[error("data dir already in use by another node: {path}")]
26 DataDirInUse { path: PathBuf },
27 #[error(transparent)]
28 Other(anyhow::Error),
29}
30
31impl StartError {
32 /// Classify a boot error by its CHAIN (the boot body stays plain-`anyhow`, so inner
33 /// `?` sites never re-wrap): a `redb` open refusal on the peer store → `DataDirInUse`
34 /// (its exact variant differs by platform/lock path, so any database-open error on the
35 /// store path counts); a `figment` error anywhere → `Config`; else `Other`.
36 pub(crate) fn classify(e: anyhow::Error, _config_path: &Path, db_path: &Path) -> StartError {
37 if e.chain()
38 .any(|c| c.downcast_ref::<redb::DatabaseError>().is_some())
39 {
40 return StartError::DataDirInUse {
41 path: db_path.to_path_buf(),
42 };
43 }
44 if e.chain()
45 .any(|c| c.downcast_ref::<figment::Error>().is_some())
46 {
47 return StartError::Config(e);
48 }
49 StartError::Other(e)
50 }
51}
52
53/// Build a [`Node`]: pick a root directory, optionally inject a [`Config`], then
54/// [`start`](NodeBuilder::start).
55pub struct NodeBuilder {
56 root: PathBuf,
57 config: Option<Config>,
58 identity_conflict: Option<std::sync::Arc<crate::diag::IdentityConflict>>,
59}
60
61impl NodeBuilder {
62 /// A node rooted at `root` — the ONE directory holding its whole world (`config/`,
63 /// `data/`, `state/`; layout-identical to a `mcpmesh --profile <root>` profile dir).
64 /// Missing pieces are created on start: the first start mints the device key, and an
65 /// absent `config/config.toml` boots the spec defaults.
66 pub fn new(root: impl Into<PathBuf>) -> Self {
67 Self {
68 root: root.into(),
69 config: None,
70 identity_conflict: None,
71 }
72 }
73
74 /// Use this configuration instead of reading `<root>/config/config.toml`. The type IS
75 /// the config-file vocabulary (`docs/config.md`) — one schema, two front doors.
76 /// Config-persisting control verbs (a non-ephemeral `register_service`, pairing
77 /// grants) still write `<root>/config/config.toml`.
78 pub fn config(mut self, config: Config) -> Self {
79 self.config = Some(config);
80 self
81 }
82
83 /// Share the duplicate-identity observation with the host's `tracing` subscriber (#134).
84 ///
85 /// Two nodes booted from COPIES of one mesh root present the same endpoint id; the relay can
86 /// serve only one, and the displaced node's peers go unreachable with nothing saying why. iroh
87 /// 1.0.3 exposes that report **only as a log event**, so detecting it needs a layer in the
88 /// process's subscriber — and an embedded node cannot install one, because the subscriber is
89 /// global and your application owns it.
90 ///
91 /// Pass the SAME `Arc` you gave [`IdentityConflictLayer`](crate::diag::IdentityConflictLayer),
92 /// so that what the layer records is what this node's `status` reports:
93 ///
94 /// ```ignore
95 /// use std::sync::Arc;
96 /// use tracing_subscriber::prelude::*;
97 /// use mcpmesh_node::diag::{IdentityConflict, IdentityConflictLayer};
98 ///
99 /// let conflict = Arc::new(IdentityConflict::default());
100 /// tracing_subscriber::registry()
101 /// .with(my_fmt_layer)
102 /// .with(IdentityConflictLayer::new(conflict.clone()))
103 /// .init();
104 ///
105 /// let node = NodeBuilder::new(root).identity_conflict(conflict).start().await?;
106 /// ```
107 ///
108 /// Without it, `status.self_network.identity_conflict_epoch` is always absent — which means
109 /// "not observable here", NOT "this identity is unique". Nothing else changes: the node boots,
110 /// serves, and behaves identically either way.
111 pub fn identity_conflict(
112 mut self,
113 shared: std::sync::Arc<crate::diag::IdentityConflict>,
114 ) -> Self {
115 self.identity_conflict = Some(shared);
116 self
117 }
118
119 /// Boot the node: identity, stores, gates, the iroh endpoint, and every serving loop
120 /// the daemon runs. Requires a multi-thread tokio runtime (the node spawns its serving
121 /// loops onto the ambient runtime). Installs a process-default rustls `CryptoProvider`
122 /// (ring) if the host application has not installed one — idempotent, the host's wins.
123 pub async fn start(self) -> Result<Node, StartError> {
124 let paths = NodePaths::under_root(&self.root);
125 let booted = start_node(paths, self.config).await?;
126 // #134: adopt the host's shared observation, so the layer IN THEIR subscriber and this
127 // node's `status` read the same cell. Set after boot rather than threaded through it —
128 // the field is only ever read by the status projection, never during construction.
129 if let (Some(shared), Some(mesh)) = (self.identity_conflict, booted.state.mesh()) {
130 mesh.adopt_identity_conflict(shared);
131 }
132 Ok(Node { booted })
133 }
134}
135
136/// A running in-process node. Dropping it does NOT stop serving — call
137/// [`shutdown`](Node::shutdown).
138pub struct Node {
139 booted: BootedNode,
140}
141
142/// Hand-rolled: the boot internals are not `Debug`; the identity is the one diagnostic
143/// a `{:?}` needs.
144impl std::fmt::Debug for Node {
145 fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
146 f.debug_struct("Node")
147 .field("endpoint_id", &self.endpoint_id())
148 .finish_non_exhaustive()
149 }
150}
151
152impl Node {
153 /// A control connection to THIS node: the same typed `mcpmesh-local/1` client a
154 /// sidecar consumer gets from `connect_control_default`, over an in-memory pipe.
155 /// Cheap; open one per concurrent conversation — a session/stream upgrade
156 /// (`open_session`, `subscribe`) consumes its connection, exactly as on the socket.
157 pub async fn control(&self) -> Result<ControlClient, ClientError> {
158 let (client_io, server_io) = tokio::io::duplex(64 * 1024);
159 let (server_read, server_write) = tokio::io::split(server_io);
160 let state = self.booted.state.clone();
161 let track_state = state.clone();
162 let handle = tokio::spawn(async move {
163 if let Err(e) = serve_control_io(server_read, server_write, state).await {
164 tracing::debug!(%e, "in-process control connection ended");
165 }
166 });
167 // Tracked like a socket connection's serving task (`serve_control`'s per-connection
168 // spawn): without this, an attached `subscribe()` stream never notices `shutdown` (see
169 // `Node::shutdown`) and outlives the node, holding its `Arc<DaemonState>`/mesh/redb lock
170 // open.
171 track_state.track_control_task(handle);
172 let (client_read, client_write) = tokio::io::split(client_io);
173 connect_control_io(client_read, client_write).await
174 }
175
176 /// This node's mesh identity — what a peer's invite/pair flow binds to.
177 pub fn endpoint_id(&self) -> iroh::EndpointId {
178 self.mesh().endpoint.id()
179 }
180
181 /// Sign an application payload with this node's DEVICE key, under the embedder's own
182 /// `domain` (#59).
183 ///
184 /// **What this is for.** mcpmesh authenticates the transport: inside a session,
185 /// `_meta["mcpmesh/peer"]` says who is calling. That answers nothing about a payload which
186 /// outlives its connection — anything store-and-forward (offline delivery, a relay, a mailbox,
187 /// an app-level overlay) handles bytes whose author is not the peer that delivered them, and
188 /// the transport authenticated the FORWARDER. This attributes the ORIGIN, against the same
189 /// identity the transport already proves, so an embedder needs no second key, no second
190 /// backup/revocation story, and no binding protocol tying the two together.
191 ///
192 /// **`domain` is yours; pick one per statement KIND** (`b"chat/message/1"`,
193 /// `b"mailbox/receipt/1"`). A signature is only as narrow as its domain, and sharing one across
194 /// two shapes lets a value from either be read as the other. mcpmesh's own domains are out of
195 /// reach whatever you choose — see [`mcpmesh_trust::app`] for why that is a property of the
196 /// preimage rather than of your discipline.
197 ///
198 /// Verify with [`verify_app`](Self::verify_app), which needs no node.
199 ///
200 /// **Not a control verb, deliberately.** Signing over the JSON-RPC socket would put the device
201 /// key's authority behind an IPC surface shared by every consumer of that socket. This is an
202 /// in-process seam for the embedder that owns the node.
203 pub fn sign_app(&self, domain: &[u8], msg: &[u8]) -> [u8; 64] {
204 // Derived from the endpoint rather than held as a field: the signing key is then the one
205 // whose public half IS `endpoint_id()`, by construction. A separately-stored copy could be
206 // absent or stale, and a signing API that fails open or signs under the wrong identity is
207 // worse than none.
208 //
209 // Hardening note, the same residual `DeviceKey::secret_bytes` documents: `to_bytes()` hands
210 // back a plain `[u8; 32]` that is not zeroized, and the `SigningKey` built from it is
211 // scrubbed on drop but the array is not. Per call rather than once — accepted, because the
212 // alternative is caching the key material for the node's whole life, which is a larger
213 // residual, not a smaller one.
214 let signing = mcpmesh_trust::ed25519_dalek::SigningKey::from_bytes(
215 &self.mesh().endpoint.secret_key().to_bytes(),
216 );
217 mcpmesh_trust::sign_app(&signing, domain, msg)
218 }
219
220 /// Verify an application payload signed by `endpoint_id` under `domain` (#59).
221 ///
222 /// An associated function: verification needs no node, which is the point — a consumer checking
223 /// a relayed payload has the peer's `EndpointId` and nothing else.
224 ///
225 /// Returns `false` for a bad signature, a mismatched domain/message, or malformed bytes. It
226 /// never panics: every input is attacker-supplied by construction.
227 ///
228 /// It answers "which device produced these bytes" and nothing else. Whether that device was
229 /// ENTITLED to make the statement is the embedder's authorization question, answered from the
230 /// embedder's own state.
231 pub fn verify_app(
232 endpoint_id: &iroh::EndpointId,
233 domain: &[u8],
234 msg: &[u8],
235 sig: &[u8; 64],
236 ) -> bool {
237 mcpmesh_trust::verify_app(endpoint_id.as_bytes(), domain, msg, sig)
238 }
239
240 /// Resolves once shutdown has been requested — by [`shutdown`](Node::shutdown) from
241 /// another handle, or by the control protocol's `shutdown` verb (e.g. an operator
242 /// driving this node's control connection).
243 pub async fn wait(&self) {
244 self.booted.state.shutdown_requested().await;
245 }
246
247 /// Stop serving: raise the shutdown signal, stop the accept/poll/background loops and
248 /// every live control connection (subscription streams end immediately; in-flight control
249 /// requests get a dropped connection — acceptable, shutdown means shutdown), and close the
250 /// endpoint (a graceful QUIC close — live sessions end cleanly).
251 pub async fn shutdown(self) {
252 // One teardown path, shared with the boot tests (#105) so neither can drift from the other.
253 crate::daemon::boot::shutdown_booted(self.booted).await;
254 }
255
256 fn mesh(&self) -> &Arc<crate::daemon::MeshState> {
257 self.booted
258 .state
259 .mesh()
260 .expect("a started Node always owns a mesh")
261 }
262}