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rUv bf1dfe79fd fix(homecore core): TOCTOU race dropped/reordered state_changed events under concurrent writers (~93k→0) + 2 fail-closed hardenings (#1087)
* fix(homecore): atomic state set — close TOCTOU lost/reordered state_changed events

StateMachine::set did get() (release shard lock) → compute next + no-op
decision → insert() (re-acquire lock) → send(). The read-modify-write was
not atomic w.r.t. a concurrent writer on the same entity: a writer that
read a stale `old` could mis-classify a real transition as a no-op and drop
its state_changed event (a missed automation trigger) or fire an event whose
new_state duplicated the previously delivered one (a spurious trigger for any
automation keyed on old_state != new_state). ADR-127 §2.1 promises "writer
atomically replaces the map entry"; the implementation did not.

Fix: hold the DashMap shard write-lock across the whole read→decide→insert→
fire sequence via entry()/insert_entry(). tx.send is non-blocking, non-async,
and never re-enters the map, so firing under the shard lock cannot deadlock
and keeps global event order in lock-step with global commit order.

Pinned by concurrent_set_fires_no_duplicate_adjacent_events: 4 writers
toggling one entity A/B; asserts no two consecutive fired events carry the
same new_state (impossible under correct serialisation). Fails reliably on
the old code (~365-476 duplicate-adjacent events on the first trial), passes
on the fix across repeated runs.

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>

* harden(homecore): bound entity_id length — close memory-DoS at the REST boundary

homecore-api/src/rest.rs parses untrusted path segments straight through
EntityId::parse (get/delete/set_state). With no length cap, an otherwise-valid
id like "a." + many MB of [a-z0-9_] was accepted; a POST /api/states/<giant>
would persist it into the DashMap state store, permanently growing memory
(amplification across distinct ids).

Fix: reject ids longer than MAX_ENTITY_ID_LEN (255, HA-compatible) up front in
parse(), before any per-char scan, with a new EntityIdError::TooLong. Fails
closed at the boundary type so every caller (REST, registry deserialize,
automation) is protected.

Pinned by entity_id_length_boundary: exactly-MAX accepted, MAX+1 rejected,
4 MiB id rejected as TooLong. Fails on old code (oversized parses Ok).

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>

* harden(homecore): isolate panicking service handlers (catch_unwind)

ServiceRegistry::call already ran handlers outside the registry lock (the
Arc<dyn ServiceHandler> is cloned out of the read guard first), so a panic
could never poison the RwLock or block other callers — good. But a panicking
handler unwound through call() into the caller's task; the task driving the
engine (e.g. an axum request handler invoking a service) could be aborted by
one buggy integration.

Fix: wrap the handler future in AssertUnwindSafe + FutureExt::catch_unwind and
convert a panic into ServiceError::HandlerPanicked. Mirrors HA isolating
service-handler exceptions. The registry stays fully usable afterwards.

Pinned by panicking_handler_is_isolated_and_registry_survives: the panicking
call returns HandlerPanicked (not an unwind), a sibling healthy service still
returns its value, and the bad service remains registered. Fails on old code
(the await point panics instead of returning Err).

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>

* test(homecore): pin event-bus lag safety (bounded broadcast, no DoS)

Documents-with-evidence that the core EventBus does NOT have the homecore-api
WS broadcast-lag failure: with EVENT_CHANNEL_CAPACITY=4096, firing 3x capacity
while a subscriber never drains keeps fire_* non-blocking (publisher never
waits on slow receivers), gives the slow receiver a recoverable Lagged(n)
(drop-oldest + re-sync) rather than a closed channel, and leaves the bus live
for a fresh fast subscriber. No code change — pins the clean dimension.

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>

* docs(homecore): record ADR-127 §9 security+concurrency review + CHANGELOG

Documents the three pinned fixes (HC-RACE-01 state-set TOCTOU, HC-EID-LEN-01
entity_id memory-DoS, HC-SVC-PANIC-01 service-handler isolation) and the
clean dimensions (bounded event-bus lag handling, lock discipline / no
lock-across-await, no panic-on-input) with their evidence.

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
2026-06-14 22:28:05 -04:00
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Architecture Decision Records

This folder contains 45 Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) that document every significant technical choice in the RuView / WiFi-DensePose project.

Why ADRs?

Building a system that turns WiFi signals into human pose estimation involves hundreds of non-obvious decisions: which signal processing algorithms to use, how to bridge ESP32 firmware to a Rust pipeline, whether to run inference on-device or on a server, how to handle multi-person separation with limited subcarriers.

ADRs capture the context, options considered, decision made, and consequences for each of these choices. They serve three purposes:

  1. Institutional memory — Six months from now, anyone (human or AI) can read why we chose IIR bandpass filters over FIR for vital sign extraction, not just see the code.

  2. AI-assisted development — When an AI agent works on this codebase, ADRs give it the constraints and rationale it needs to make changes that align with the existing architecture. Without them, AI-generated code tends to drift — reinventing patterns that already exist, contradicting earlier decisions, or optimizing for the wrong tradeoffs.

  3. Review checkpoints — Each ADR is a reviewable artifact. When a proposed change touches the architecture, the ADR forces the author to articulate tradeoffs before writing code, not after.

ADRs and Domain-Driven Design

The project uses Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to organize code into bounded contexts — each with its own language, types, and responsibilities. ADRs and DDD work together:

  • ADRs define boundaries: ADR-029 (RuvSense) established multistatic sensing as a separate bounded context from single-node CSI. ADR-042 (CHCI) defined a new aggregate root for coherent channel imaging.
  • DDD models define the language: The RuvSense domain model defines terms like "coherence gate", "dwell time", and "TDM slot" that ADRs reference precisely.
  • Together they prevent drift: An AI agent reading ADR-039 knows that edge processing tiers are configured via NVS keys, not compile-time flags — because the ADR says so. The DDD model tells it which aggregate owns that configuration.

How ADRs are structured

Each ADR follows a consistent format:

  • Context — What problem or gap prompted this decision
  • Decision — What we chose to do and how
  • Consequences — What improved, what got harder, and what risks remain
  • References — Related ADRs, papers, and code paths

Statuses: Proposed (under discussion), Accepted (approved and/or implemented), Superseded (replaced by a later ADR).


ADR Index

Hardware and firmware

ADR Title Status
ADR-012 ESP32 CSI Sensor Mesh for Distributed Sensing Accepted (partial)
ADR-018 ESP32 Development Implementation Path Proposed
ADR-028 ESP32 Capability Audit and Witness Record Accepted
ADR-029 RuvSense Multistatic Sensing Mode (TDM, channel hopping) Proposed
ADR-032 Multistatic Mesh Security Hardening Accepted
ADR-039 ESP32-S3 Edge Intelligence Pipeline (on-device vitals) Accepted (hardware-validated)
ADR-040 WASM Programmable Sensing (Tier 3) Accepted
ADR-041 WASM Module Collection (65 edge modules) Accepted (hardware-validated)
ADR-044 Provisioning Tool Enhancements Proposed
ADR-110 ESP32-C6 firmware extension — Wi-Fi 6 / 802.15.4 / TWT / LP-core Accepted, P1-P10 complete, firmware-side substrate closed at v0.7.0-esp32. Companion docs: WITNESS-LOG-110 (13 §A0.x entries · 99.56 % cross-board RX · 104.1 µs smoothed sync stdev · ≤100 µs target met), ADR-110-REVIEW-GUIDE (one-page reviewer tour), ADR-110-BRANCH-STATE (coordination map vs feat/adr-115-ha-mqtt-matter). Host decoders + tests: Python SyncPacketParser (10) + Rust wifi_densepose_hardware::SyncPacket (15), cross-language hex pin gates drift.

Signal processing and sensing

ADR Title Status
ADR-013 Feature-Level Sensing on Commodity Gear Accepted
ADR-014 SOTA Signal Processing Algorithms Accepted
ADR-021 Vital Sign Detection (breathing, heart rate) Partial
ADR-030 Persistent Field Model and Drift Detection Proposed
ADR-033 CRV Signal Line Sensing Integration Proposed
ADR-037 Multi-Person Pose Detection from Single ESP32 Proposed
ADR-042 Coherent Human Channel Imaging (beyond CSI) Proposed
ADR-134 First-Class Channel Impulse Response (CIR) Support Proposed
ADR-135 Empty-Room Baseline Calibration (per-subcarrier Welford statistics) Proposed

Machine learning and training

ADR Title Status
ADR-005 SONA Self-Learning for Pose Estimation Partial
ADR-006 GNN-Enhanced CSI Pattern Recognition Partial
ADR-015 Public Dataset Strategy (MM-Fi, Wi-Pose) Accepted
ADR-016 RuVector Training Pipeline Integration Accepted
ADR-017 RuVector Signal + MAT Integration Proposed
ADR-020 Migrate AI Inference to Rust (ONNX Runtime) Accepted
ADR-023 Trained DensePose Model with RuVector Pipeline Proposed
ADR-024 Project AETHER: Contrastive CSI Embeddings Required
ADR-027 Project MERIDIAN: Cross-Environment Generalization Proposed
ADR-149 AetherArena: public spatial-intelligence benchmark on Hugging Face Proposed
ADR-150 RF Foundation Encoder: pose-preserving, subject/room/device-invariant CSI embedding Proposed
ADR-151 Per-Room Calibration & Specialized Model Training (room-first → bank of small ruVector specialists) Proposed
ADR-152 WiFi-Pose SOTA 2026 Intake: geometry-conditioned calibration, external benchmarks, foundation-encoder recipe Proposed

Platform and UI

ADR Title Status
ADR-019 Sensing-Only UI with Gaussian Splats Accepted
ADR-022 Windows WiFi Enhanced Fidelity (multi-BSSID) Partial
ADR-025 macOS CoreWLAN WiFi Sensing Proposed
ADR-031 RuView Sensing-First RF Mode Proposed
ADR-034 Expo React Native Mobile App Accepted
ADR-035 Live Sensing UI Accuracy and Data Transparency Accepted
ADR-036 Training Pipeline UI Integration Proposed
ADR-043 Sensing Server UI API Completion (14 endpoints) Accepted
ADR-115 Home Assistant integration via MQTT auto-discovery + Matter bridge (HA-DISCO + HA-FABRIC + HA-MIND) Accepted (MQTT track) / Proposed (Matter SDK P8b)
ADR-169 adam-mode — light theme toggle for the three.js realtime demo Proposed
ADR-170 yoga-mode — yoga pose detection, classification, and scoring for the three.js realtime demo Proposed

Architecture and infrastructure

ADR Title Status
ADR-001 WiFi-Mat Disaster Detection Architecture Accepted
ADR-002 RuVector RVF Integration Strategy Superseded
ADR-003 RVF Cognitive Containers for CSI Proposed
ADR-004 HNSW Vector Search for Fingerprinting Partial
ADR-007 Post-Quantum Cryptography for Sensing Proposed
ADR-008 Distributed Consensus for Multi-AP Proposed
ADR-009 RVF WASM Runtime for Edge Deployment Proposed
ADR-010 Witness Chains for Audit Trail Integrity Proposed
ADR-011 Proof-of-Reality and Mock Elimination Proposed
ADR-026 Survivor Track Lifecycle (MAT crate) Accepted
ADR-038 Sublinear GOAP for Roadmap Optimization Proposed
ADR-095 rvCSI — Edge RF Sensing Runtime Platform Proposed
ADR-096 rvCSI — Crate Topology, the napi-c Shim, and the napi-rs Node Surface Proposed
ADR-097 Adopt rvCSI as RuView's primary CSI runtime (phased adoption) Proposed
ADR-098 Evaluate ruvnet/midstream for RuView's CSI / WebSocket / mesh pipeline Rejected
ADR-099 Adopt midstream as RuView's real-time introspection + low-latency tap Proposed

  • DDD Domain Models — Bounded context definitions, aggregate roots, and ubiquitous language
  • User Guide — Setup, API reference, and hardware instructions
  • Build Guide — Building from source