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# Jetstream
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*Design and architecture decision, 2026-10-11 (oxygenflow#38). Builds on
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spec §11, runner capabilities and placement (#36). Crate and CLI: `jet`.*
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**Flow** says what to run: a pipeline of hermetic jobs, each in a sandbox,
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with its outputs, reports and signed receipt. **Jet** carries each job to
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where it should run: a fleet of runners on your own machines, on
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Kubernetes or in the cloud, that measure themselves, explain every choice
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they make, and fetch what they need on their own.
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## 1. The decision
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**Context.** Today OxygenHub holds the job queue and talks to runners
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directly (`/api/v1/flow/claim`, logs, outputs, finish). Runners are
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configured by hand: images are copied onto each machine, labels steer
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jobs, and a job that cannot run anywhere simply waits. Every
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self-hosted CI system has the same shape and the same problems (§2), and
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none of it is specific to Oxygen.
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**Decision.** The fleet becomes a service of its own, **Jetstream**:
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- Jetstream owns the queue, the runners and their measured facts,
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  placement and its explanations, pools (hosts, Kubernetes, cloud
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  providers) and images. It knows nothing about repositories.
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- The **forge** owns pipelines, runs, checks, receipts, artifacts,
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  reports and the UI. It hands Jetstream jobs and receives their events.
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- **OxygenHub embeds Jetstream** in its own process by default, so nothing
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  changes for anyone who never configures it, and can instead point at a
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  standalone `jet server` shared by several forges.
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- **Sources are pluggable**: an Oxygen repository is mounted lazily
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  through flow-casfs; a Git repository is checked out.
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- **`flow run`** runs a pipeline on your own machine through an
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  in-process Jetstream with one local runner: the same code path as CI.
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**Consequences.**
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- Jetstream can be reused by others, and could later run jobs for forges
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  that are not OxygenHub (§12) without a rewrite.
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- One more boundary to keep stable: the forge contract (§4) is versioned.
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- Oxygen's advantage becomes visible: the same fleet runs both kinds of
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  source, and an Oxygen job starts without a checkout (§5).
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```mermaid
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flowchart LR
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    subgraph Forges
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        OH["OxygenHub<br/>pipelines · runs · checks<br/>receipts · reports"]
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        OTHER["another forge<br/>(an adapter, later)"]
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    end
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    subgraph JS["Jetstream (jet)"]
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        Q["queue"]
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        P["placement<br/>+ why"]
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        F["runner facts"]
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        I["images"]
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        D["demand"]
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    end
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    subgraph Pools
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        H["hosts<br/>earth-1 · plex-1 · narvi-1"]
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        K["Kubernetes<br/>controller, pod per job"]
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        C["cloud<br/>GCP · AWS · Azure"]
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    end
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    OH -- "jobs" --> Q
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    OTHER -. "jobs" .-> Q
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    Q -- "events: logs, outputs,<br/>finish, receipt" --> OH
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    Q --> P
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    F --> P
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    H -- "claim + facts" --> P
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    K -- "claim + facts" --> P
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    C -- "claim + facts" --> P
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    I -- "by hash" --> H
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    I -- "by hash" --> K
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    I -- "by hash" --> C
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    D -- "how many, of what" --> K
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    D -- "how many, of what" --> C
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```
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## 2. What it fixes
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Research into self-hosted runners (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Buildkite,
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Jenkins, Forgejo; 2023–2026) found the same complaints everywhere. Most of
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them are fleet problems, not pipeline problems.
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| What goes wrong elsewhere | Jetstream |
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| Persistent runners leak state; fork PRs and compromised actions reach other jobs' secrets | A fresh microVM per job (or the syscall tier); nothing survives a job |
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| A job waits for hours, then fails, with no reason given | Every waiting job says why, in terms of facts (§7) |
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| Disk fills mid-job; an OOM kill shows up as a "lost runner" | Disk and memory checked on every claim against what the job needed last time; OOM reported as OOM |
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| Images copied to each machine by hand; slow pulls | Images served by hash, fetched by the runner on demand, chunked so a rebuild moves only what changed (§8) |
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| Exact-match labels that sprawl | Facts measured by the runner; labels only steer (§7) |
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| Lost runners and spot reclaims leave jobs hanging | Requeue on a lost runner or a reclaim notice (§11) |
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| Forced runner upgrades with a cut-off date | Runners update themselves between jobs; the contract is versioned |
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| Ephemeral runners start cold, 30–60 s and no caches | Firecracker boots in about a second; images and caches stay warm by hash |
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| Multi-arch builds through QEMU, 5–30× slower; no RISC-V runner at all | Native runners per architecture, RISC-V included (narvi) |
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| No queue, utilisation or cost figures | Queue time, utilisation and cost by job, pool and region, built in (§11) |
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## 3. Responsibilities
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| | Jetstream | The forge (OxygenHub) |
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| Pipeline from the repository | | ✔ |
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| Runs, jobs, `needs`, the run page | | ✔ |
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| Queue, placement, why a job waits | ✔ | shows it |
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| Runners, their facts and tokens | ✔ | shows them |
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| Pools: hosts, Kubernetes, cloud | ✔ | |
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| Images | ✔ (by hash) | |
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| Secrets and variables | carries them to the job | ✔ (stores them) |
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| Job identity (OIDC) | carries the token | ✔ (issues it) |
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| Logs | streams them | ✔ (keeps them) |
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| Outputs, reports, receipts | carries them | ✔ (keeps, checks, shows) |
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| Checks on a change | | ✔ |
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## 4. The contracts
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Two contracts, both HTTPS and JSON, versioned from the start.
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**Forge ↔ Jetstream.** The forge submits a job and follows it.
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- `submit`: the job's spec (sandbox, image hash per architecture, exec,
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  outputs, time limit), its **source** (§5), its secrets and OIDC token,
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  the forge's run and job ids, and optional steering (`runs-on`,
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  `prefer`).
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- `events`: a stream per forge of `placed` (where, and why), `started`,
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  `log`, `output` (a file or blob), `finished` (exit code, peak disk and
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  memory, duration), `receipt` (signed by the runner), and `waiting`
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  (why, when nothing fits).
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- `cancel`, and `queue` (what is waiting, for the forge's pages).
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**Runner ↔ Jetstream.** What runners already do with the hub today, moved:
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`claim` (with its facts, §6), `log`, `output`, `finish`, `decline` (with a
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reason). A runner talks only to Jetstream, never to a forge: moving from
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embedded to external Jetstream is a URL change for it.
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```mermaid
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sequenceDiagram
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    participant Forge as OxygenHub
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    participant Jet as Jetstream
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    participant R as earth-1
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    Forge->>Jet: submit(job, source, secrets, token)
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    Note over Jet: queued: needs x86_64, microvm,<br/>~6 GiB disk (from its last run)
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    R->>Jet: claim(facts: idle, 41 GiB free, holds image)
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    Jet->>Forge: placed on earth-1 (holds the image, idle, score 100)
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    Jet->>R: job
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    R->>Jet: log, log, output
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    Jet->>Forge: log, log, output
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    R->>Jet: finish(exit 0, peak 5.2 GiB disk, 3.1 GiB memory)
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    Jet->>Forge: finished + receipt
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```
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## 5. Sources: mounted, or checked out
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A job's source says how a runner gets its files.
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- **Oxygen** (`oxy://HUB/OWNER/NAME@STATE`): flow-casfs mounts the state
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  read-only and reads objects as the job touches them (spec §5.1). Nothing
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  is checked out; a job that reads 50 files of a 100,000-file repository
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  fetches 50 files. Jobs whose scope a change does not touch keep their
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  previous result (spec §6), and receipts name the exact state.
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- **Git** (`git+https://…@COMMIT`): the runner clones or fetches the
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  commit into the job's disk before it starts, as every CI system does.
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Both run through the same fleet, so the difference is measured, not
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claimed: the job page shows how long the source took.
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```mermaid
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flowchart TB
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    subgraph O["Oxygen source"]
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        O1["job starts"] --> O2["mount state (ms)"] --> O3["read files as used"]
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    end
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        G1["clone / fetch commit"] --> G2["check out every file"] --> G3["job starts"]
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    end
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```
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## 6. Facts: runners know what they are
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A runner measures itself, and sends what it measured **with every claim**.
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Idle runners claim every few seconds, so Jetstream always holds every idle
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runner's facts from moments ago; there is no separate audit channel to go
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stale.
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| Fact | Measured by | When |
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| Architecture, CPU model, cores | `uname`, `/proc/cpuinfo` | at start |
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| Tiers: microvm (KVM opened, not assumed), syscall (Landlock ABI), wasm | probing | at start, then hourly |
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| Memory free, disk free where jobs run | `/proc/meminfo`, `statvfs` | every claim |
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| Load, jobs running | `/proc/loadavg`, its own state | every claim |
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| Images held | its image store | every claim |
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| Speed score | a fixed few-second benchmark (hashing, compression, a small compile), normalised so earth-1 ≈ 100 | at start, then about every 15 minutes while idle |
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| Where it runs | the pool: host, cluster and node, or cloud, region, instance type, spot | at start |
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The score is checked against reality: Jetstream compares each runner's
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claimed speed with how fast its jobs actually ran, and ranks a runner
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whose real timings drift (thermal throttling, noisy neighbours) by what
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it achieved.
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## 7. Placement: requirements, ranking, and why
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**A job's requirements are mostly derived**, never typed by the user:
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- architecture from its image;
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- tier from its sandbox;
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- disk and memory **learned from its own past runs** (peak plus
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  headroom); a new job goes to the roomiest runner the first time;
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- an explicit floor when the pipeline gives one.
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**Placement** filters, then ranks:
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1. **Filter on hard facts:** architecture, tier, enough free disk and
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   memory now, steering that requires a pool or label.
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2. **Rank on soft ones:** already holds the image (warm), idle, speed
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   score, the shortest estimated finish.
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3. **A short hold for the best fit:** when the runner asking is a poor
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   fit and a better one claimed seconds ago, the job is held a few seconds
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   for it, then goes to whoever is next.
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4. **The runner has the last word:** it checks again on accept and
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   declines with a reason if its disk filled meanwhile.
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**Every decision explains itself**, on the job and through the API:
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> ran on **earth-1**: holds the image, idle, score 100, estimated 4 min
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> **waiting**: needs ~12 GiB disk (its last run used 10.4); plex-1 has 9;
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> earth-1 is busy until about 11:40
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**Labels only steer.** `runs-on "plex"` pins, `prefer "fast"` biases. A
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user who never writes one never needs to.
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## 8. Images
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- **Content-addressed.** An image is an ext4 root file system named by
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  its BLAKE3 hash (`cas://blob/…`), as today. A sandbox may name one per
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  architecture.
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- **Served by Jetstream.** A runner that lacks an image fetches it by hash
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  and verifies it; nobody copies images between machines. Images are
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  chunked, so a rebuilt image moves only its changed chunks.
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- **Built by Flow.** An image is a job's output: a project's
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  `.flow/image/` becomes a job, its image is kept and served, and the
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  sandbox's pin follows it (a proposal: "image changed: af3c… → 91be…").
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- **Architecture recorded at build**, so an x86 image never reaches a
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  RISC-V runner.
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### 8.1 The swarm: runners share images
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Runners that are configured for it fetch image chunks from each other as
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well as from the hub (oxygenflow #47, oxygenhub #144). Fifty fresh
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runners asking for the same 2 GiB image then cost the hub about one copy,
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not fifty, and a site behind a thin link pulls each chunk across it once.
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- **Trust comes from the hashes.** The manifest comes from the hub, and
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  every chunk is checked against its name before it is kept. A peer can
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  fail to help; it can never change what a job runs.
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- **The hub is the tracker.** A runner reports its swarm address, its site
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  and its certificate's fingerprint with every claim. `POST /api/v1/flow/swarm/announce {image, state}`
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  (`fetching`, `done` or `stopped`) returns the peers in the same site that
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  hold the image or are fetching it, and a **ticket**.
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- **Tickets admit peers.** A ticket names the runner, its site and an
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  expiry (15 minutes), signed with the hub key that `/.well-known/oxyhub-key`
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  publishes. A runner shows its ticket once to each peer
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  (`POST /swarm/v1/hello`) and gets a session for the ticket's life; no
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  other runner and no account can take chunks from a peer.
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- **Encrypted, and pinned by the hub.** Each runner makes its own TLS
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  certificate on first use (`swarm/cert.der`, its key readable by the
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  runner alone) and keeps it, so its fingerprint (BLAKE3 of the
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  certificate) holds across restarts. The tracker hands each peer out with
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  that fingerprint, and a fetcher talks only to a peer showing that
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  certificate and proving its key in the handshake; no CA is involved. A
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  peer at another address, or a stranger at a peer's, gets nothing and
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  sees nothing: chunks, tickets and sessions all travel inside TLS.
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- **The peer protocol** is HTTPS on the runner's swarm address:
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  - `POST /swarm/v1/hello` with the ticket: a session token.
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  - `GET /swarm/v1/images/{image}/have`: `complete`, or two bit maps over
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    the manifest's needed list (`Manifest::needed`), in its order: the
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    chunks it has, then the chunks it is fetching now.
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  - `GET /swarm/v1/chunks/{chunk}`: the chunk's bytes, from the chunk
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    cache or read out of a whole image; `503` when the peer is at its
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    connection limit, and the fetcher asks it again shortly.
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- **Rarest first.** The fetcher refreshes every peer's maps twice a
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  second and asks each peer, four requests at a time, for the chunk the
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  fewest peers hold. The hub is a seed that holds everything: it is asked
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  only for chunks no peer has or is fetching, or any chunk once the peers
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  have made no progress for two seconds. Runners that start together so
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  split the hub's chunks between them rather than each taking them all. When every missing chunk is already asked
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  for, idle workers ask a second source for it (the endgame; the hub joins
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  it only once the peers stall). A peer that
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  fails is dropped and its chunks go back to the pool.
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- **Serving while fetching.** A chunk is offered to others as soon as it
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  is checked and kept, so runners starting together share the load.
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- **Bounded.** A runner serves at most 16 connections and `upload_mib_s`
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  (default 50 MiB/s), so serving never starves its own jobs.
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- **Configured, never assumed.** Without a `[runner.swarm]` section a
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  runner neither listens nor asks peers. Peers are not offered across
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  sites, so a site is the network its runners can reach each other on.
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`[runner]` section):
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```toml
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[runner.swarm]
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listen = "0.0.0.0:7401"        # where peers reach this runner
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advertise = "10.0.0.5:7401"    # the address peers are given (default: listen)
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site = "home"                  # peers are only ever in the same site
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upload_mib_s = 50
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```
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#### 8.1.1 Images only runners hold (oxygenflow#94, oxygenhub#342)
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Until now an image had to be sent to the hub (`flow rootfs push`) before any
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runner but the one that imported it could take its jobs: the hub hands out
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the manifest, and placement offers a job to a runner that fetches only when
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the hub holds its image. On 2026-10-25 the Rust image was re-pinned and not
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pushed, and for a day every Rust job queued on the one runner that had
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imported it while the others sat idle.
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- **Runners say what they hold.** At start, every ten minutes and after an
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  import, a runner sends the hashes of the images it holds
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  (`POST /flow/images/held {images}`); the hub answers with those it keeps
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  no manifest for (`{wanted}`), and the runner sends each manifest alone
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  (`PUT /flow/images/{hash}/held`, a few MB even for a 14 GB image): no
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  chunks. (Not in the claim: an idle runner's claim gets no answer at all.)
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- **The hub keeps it as peer-held.** It checks the manifest is well formed
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  and names the hash it is filed under, and records the image as held by
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  runners, not by itself: it cannot read the image to check it. A pushed
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  image (`flow rootfs push`, verified whole) replaces a peer-held record.
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- **Trust still comes from the hashes.** The pipeline pins the image's hash;
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  a fetcher asks for the manifest by that hash, checks every chunk against
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  its name, and checks the assembled image against the pin before it keeps
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  it (`jet::images::assemble`). A wrong manifest can make a fetch fail; it
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  cannot change what a job runs. Only runner tokens may send one.
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- **Placement counts peers.** A job whose image the hub holds only as
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  peer-held goes to a runner that fetches only when a runner of the same
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  swarm site holds the image, and says so when none does ("held only by
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  earth-1, in another site").
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- **The hub is no seed for it.** The announce answer says whether the hub
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  holds the chunks (`seed`); when it does not, the fetcher asks peers only,
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  and a fetch with no peer left fails with that reason rather than after
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runners up to date by hand is one of the biggest costs of running CI.
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Runners fetch new runner builds the way they fetch images, from each other
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through the swarm, check them as strictly as a release, and swap
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themselves in without losing work, under a policy the organisation sets,
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testing on a few runners before the rest.
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**A runner build** is a `flow` binary from an OxygenFlow release, one per
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target (linux-x86_64, linux-arm64, linux-riscv64; Windows and macOS when
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those runners exist), built by Flow from the tagged state with a signed
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receipt, as oxy's and OxygenHub's releases are. The hub serves it as a
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blob with a chunk manifest, so the swarm (§8.1) carries it unchanged: one
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runner of a site fetches each chunk from the hub and the rest from it.
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**Off unless chosen, nearest wins.** The policy is set for the site, an
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organisation, a test group and a runner; the nearest setting wins:
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- `updates`: `off` (the default) or `on`;
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- `channel`: `stable`, `canary`, or a pinned version (`0.3.4`);
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- `window`: hours in which a runner may update (outside them it waits);
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- `dry_run`: fetch and check, say what would happen, do not swap.
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false` refuses every update whatever the hub says, so a site can hold a
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machine back while it tests.
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**Test groups and waves.** A test group is a named set of runners: chosen
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by name, by label or by pool. A rollout is a release and its waves, in
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order; each wave is a group and its share of it, **a percentage or chosen
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runners**. A percentage is taken by a stable hash of each runner's id, so
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"10% of build-farm" is the same machines every rollout, the ones the
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organisation watches. A wave starts when the one before has been healthy
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for its soak time (say 24 hours) or when an admin promotes it. For
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example: canary (two chosen runners), then build-farm at 10%, then
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build-farm at 100%, then everyone.
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ten minutes, claim jobs, and their jobs' infrastructure errors (`lost`,
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`error`, declines) over the soak are no worse than the same runners' on
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the version before, over enough jobs to tell. A wave that is not healthy
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halts the rollout, and its runners roll back. Job failures from the
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pipelines themselves do not count.
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   policy says so: the version, its blob and manifest, its receipt.
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   against the manifest from the hub.
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   attests; the receipt is signed by an `owned` build runner (trust
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   classes, #79) and names the tagged state; the target is this machine's.
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   why; the audit log records every update and rollback.
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app only through its store or an install), so they follow the app.
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**Order of work:** (1) the runner side, with a local source (`flow runner
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update --from FILE`): check, stage, drain, swap, prove, roll back (done,
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#85: spec §11.5.3); (2) the
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policy on the hub (opt in and out, channels, windows, dry run) and the
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update in the claim answer; (3) test groups, waves and health; (4) the
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swarm as transport; (5) Admin › Runners › Updates and `oh runner update`.
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## 9. Pools
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A **pool** is one place runners come from. All pools report the same
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```mermaid
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flowchart TB
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    J["Jetstream"]
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        N["narvi-1<br/>riscv64 · syscall"]
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    subgraph K8s["Kubernetes pool"]
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    end
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```
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**Hosts.** Machines you own run `jet runner` (today's `flow runner`).
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**Kubernetes.** `jet controller` runs in the cluster, claims for it, and
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creates **one pod per job**, the pattern every major CI system uses on
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Kubernetes. The tier follows what each node pool offers:
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account, keyless through OIDC (OxygenHub is already an issuer, OxygenHub spec
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- **Regions are pinned** per pool and never fall back outside the set:
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- **Spot**, with on-demand fallback; a reclaim notice requeues the job.
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- **Scale-in** only of idle VMs near the end of their billing increment.
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`health(id)`, `capabilities()`, `quota()`.
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- **One-shot runner tokens** for ephemeral runners and pods: issued for
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- **Lost runner:** its jobs are requeued after a short grace; a spot
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CI uses, before anything is pushed. With Jetstream it becomes an
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