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Backlog 4: web workspaces when the speed items are blocked c69733a3ce59

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· 2026-09-30 20:44 UTC
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## When a speed item is blocked: web workspaces (P5)

    

  
    

      
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Andy's choice (2026-09-30): if the loop is stuck on the speed items, it

    

  
    

      
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works on P5 from backlog 2, "VS Code in the hub", in its parts, rather

    

  
    

      
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than stopping.

    

  
    

      
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- [ ] P5a **flow-casfs**: a read-only FUSE mount of a state from its

    

  
    

      
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  content-addressed chunks, in oxygenflow, measured (mount time, first

    

  
    

      
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  read, a full tree walk of the Linux tip).

    

  
    

      
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- [ ] P5b **Open in Workspace** on a change or bookmark page of the hub:

    

  
    

      
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  openvscode-server (MIT, unmodified) with Oxygen VCS inside a Firecracker

    

  
    

      
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  microVM per workspace, the state mounted read-only through casfs with an

    

  
    

      
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  ephemeral overlay for edits, and commits going back through oxy as the

    

  
    

      
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  signed-in user. The runner hosts it (the image under `~/flow`, a

    

  
    

      
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  workspace job kind); the hub starts it, proxies it to the signed-in user

    

  
    

      
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  only, and stops it when idle. Boot time measured, aiming under 100 ms for

    

  
    

      
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  the mount. Write the design into the hub and oxygenflow specs first.

    

  
    

      
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- A fork of VS Code ("oxycode") only if an extension cannot do what is

    

  
    

      
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## Also

    

  
    

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- [ ] R1 **Rebase into the working copy** (oxygen#42, Andy's choice for the

    

  
    

      
      
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