docs: le nommage de NextGraph l'emporte toujours — y compris sur nos propres règles

La règle que je venais d'écrire bannissait « publish » sans réserve. Or le
moteur emploie `publisher` 126 fois — `as_publisher`, `publisher_advert` — pour
un rôle pub/sub sur un topic. Une règle appliquée à la lettre aurait fait
rejeter du vocabulaire amont, ce qui est exactement l'inverse du but.

Le principe est donc posé au-dessus, et il prime sur tout : là où la cible a un
mot, c'est le mot, point. Ce qui reste banni est NOTRE « publier un document »,
qui n'a aucun référent en amont et recouvre trois actes distincts — placer dans
un store public, rendre trouvable, remettre une clé. Ça n'autorise jamais à
renommer ce que l'amont appelle `publisher`.

`publisher`, `topic` et `advert` rejoignent le vocabulaire déclaré du contrôle
de noms, avec la raison en commentaire.

Le renommage `publishRepoLink` → `recordInPublicStore` reste justifié : cette
méthode n'a pas de pendant amont, elle enregistre un document en store public
(et, artefact d'émulation, lui frappe une clé).

docs/readcap-and-nuri-model.md

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ Purpose: to give the ground truth of NextGraph's access-rights model, in order t
 >
 > - **A comment describing the CURRENT state is not the intent.** §3's DIRECTION block exists because `RepoLinkV0`'s comment was read as the target model. It is not.
 > - **A word you recognise probably does not mean what you think.** `branch` is not git's. `wallet` is only a keyring — what we call a virtual user is a **user** (a *site*). Check the type before using the word.
+> - **NextGraph's naming ALWAYS wins over any rule of ours — including the one that follows.** Where upstream has a word for something, that is the word, full stop. `publisher` is a case in point: it appears 126 times in the engine (`as_publisher`, `publisher_advert`) for a **pub/sub role on a topic**, and it must be used, unchanged, whenever that is what is meant.
+> - **What is banned is OUR loose "publish a document"**, which has no upstream referent and covers three different acts: *placing a document in a public store*, *making it findable*, and (in this emulation only) *handing out a key*. Every design discussion that used it drifted between them. NextGraph knows only the first — a document IS IN a public store, and brokers serve it accordingly. Say which act you mean. If you catch yourself writing "publish a document", you have not yet decided which one. This never licenses renaming something upstream calls `publisher`.
 > - **"I looked and it is not there" is not a finding.** §4quinquies once stated that no register existed for received caps, after checking one code path. `AddLink` had been sitting next to `AddRepo` in the same file the whole time. Absence needs at least as much evidence as presence — and an implementation *cache* (like local user storage) is never the model: it is what the model fills.
 
 ---

packages/client/src/emulated-verifier/branch-registers.ts

@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ export function holdOwnCap(id: string, scope: Scope, doc: Nuri, cap: ReadCap): v
   // by the very session that created it. Mint once, store it, hold that one.
   caps.learn(cap);
   // Publication is a registry fact, not a stored one, so it is applied separately.
-  if (scope === "public") caps.publishRepoLink(doc);
+  if (scope === "public") caps.recordInPublicStore(doc);
 }
 
 /**

packages/client/src/emulated-verifier/caps.ts

@@ -83,14 +83,14 @@ export class CapRegistry {
   /** holder → the caps they hold, indexed by the cap-less NURI. */
   private heldByHolder = new Map<string, Map<Nuri, ReadCap>>();
   /**
-   * Documents published as a shareable repo link (`RepoLinkV0`) — the emulated
+   * Documents in a PUBLIC store, as this emulation records it. This is NOT a read grant:
-   * public store. This is NOT a read grant: a published document is read by
+   * such a document is read by
    * whoever HOLDS the link, exactly like §5 of the brief says ("whoever has the
    * URL reads the content"), and holding it means having received it. The set
    * exists so the library can refuse to surface a document its holder never
-   * published. *(This fed `discovery.submitToIndex`, removed 2026-07-30; the flag is kept because publishing is still what turns a document into a shareable link.)*
+   * in a public store. *(This fed `discovery.submitToIndex`, removed 2026-07-30.)*
    */
-  private published = new Set<Nuri>();
+  private inPublicStore = new Set<Nuri>();
   /** doc NURI → principals holding its WRITE cap. Decorative until P1b. */
   private writers = new Map<Nuri, Set<PrincipalId>>();
   /** Fired whenever a holder gains a cap — a cap delivered asynchronously must
@@ -181,23 +181,34 @@ export class CapRegistry {
   // --- publication (the public store) -------------------------------------
 
   /**
-   * Publish `nuri` as a shareable repo link and return it — the upstream
+   * Record that `nuri` sits in a PUBLIC store, and mint its cap.
-   * `RepoLinkV0 { read_cap }`, which whoever receives it can open. The consumer
-   * puts this link (not the bare NURI) in what it makes discoverable.
    *
-   * NOT recursive: the published document may REFERENCE private documents, and the
+   * **Named for what it does here, not for what it means upstream** — and the gap is the
-   * reference grants nothing on what it references — that non-recursiveness is
+   * point. It was called `publishRepoLink`, and "publish" is banned in this repo
-   * what lets a public object point at a private identity without disclosing it.
+   * (`docs/readcap-and-nuri-model.md`, the traps block) precisely because it blurs three
+   * acts: placing a document in a public store, making it findable, and handing out a
+   * key. This method does the first and, as an emulation artefact, the third.
+   *
+   * Upstream a document in a public store is readable because the STORE is public and
+   * brokers serve it accordingly (`expose_outer`); a `PublicRepoLinkV0` carries no
+   * `read_cap` at all (`engine/net/src/types.rs:5105-5127`). Here there is no broker that
+   * serves differently, so possession stands in for it — the emulation is OVER-strict,
+   * not inverted: it under-grants, and "circulate the reference" remains the right
+   * gesture at migration. See `readcap-and-nuri-model.md` §4sexies.
+   *
+   * NOT recursive: a document in a public store may REFERENCE private ones, and the
+   * reference grants nothing on what it references. That non-recursiveness is what lets
+   * a public object point at private content without disclosing it.
    */
-  publishRepoLink(nuri: Nuri): ReadCap {
+  recordInPublicStore(nuri: Nuri): ReadCap {
     const target = targetOf(nuri);
-    this.published.add(target);
+    this.inPublicStore.add(target);
     return this.mint(target);
   }
 
-  /** Was `nuri` published as a repo link? (An emitter-side guard, not a right.) */
+  /** Is `nuri` recorded as sitting in a public store? An emitter-side fact, not a right. */
-  isPublished(nuri: Nuri): boolean {
+  isInPublicStore(nuri: Nuri): boolean {
-    return this.published.has(targetOf(nuri));
+    return this.inPublicStore.has(targetOf(nuri));
   }
 
   /**
@@ -211,7 +222,7 @@ export class CapRegistry {
    * arming their guard here would be enforcement this batch does not do.
    */
   open(nuri: Nuri, scope: Scope): ReadCap {
-    return scope === "public" ? this.publishRepoLink(nuri) : this.mint(nuri);
+    return scope === "public" ? this.recordInPublicStore(nuri) : this.mint(nuri);
   }
 
   // --- enforcement gate ---------------------------------------------------
@@ -280,7 +291,7 @@ export class CapRegistry {
    *  NOT what an identity change does (that switches heldByHolder, see the header). */
   clear(): void {
     this.heldByHolder.clear();
-    this.published.clear();
+    this.inPublicStore.clear();
     this.writers.clear();
     this.issued = false;
     this.notify();

packages/client/src/shared-wallet/account-registry.ts

@@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@ export async function listMyEntityDocs(id: string, scope: Scope): Promise<Nuri[]
     for (const cap of await readStoreCaps(store)) caps.learn(cap);
     // A `public` store's documents are also published links — the publication fact
     // lives in the registry, not in the store, so it is re-applied here.
-    if (scope === "public") for (const d of docs) caps.publishRepoLink(d);
+    if (scope === "public") for (const d of docs) caps.recordInPublicStore(d);
   }
   return docs;
 }

packages/client/test/caps.test.ts

@@ -87,15 +87,15 @@ test("a cap received (learn) reads, exactly like one minted", () => {
   expect(bob.caps.capFor(doc)).toBe(cap);
 });
 
-test("publishRepoLink returns a cap-bearing link; reading it still means HOLDING it", () => {
+test("recordInPublicStore returns a cap-bearing link; reading it still means HOLDING it", () => {
   const { caps, become } = registry("alice");
   const doc = "did:ng:o:public-doc";
-  const link = caps.publishRepoLink(doc);
+  const link = caps.recordInPublicStore(doc);
 
   expect(hasReadCap(link)).toBe(true);
   expect(targetOf(link)).toBe(doc);
-  expect(caps.isPublished(doc)).toBe(true);
+  expect(caps.isInPublicStore(doc)).toBe(true);
-  expect(caps.isPublished("did:ng:o:other")).toBe(false);
+  expect(caps.isInPublicStore("did:ng:o:other")).toBe(false);
 
   // Publication is not a world-wide read grant: whoever HAS the URL reads it.
   become("bob");
@@ -110,9 +110,9 @@ test("open(): a public document is published as a link, a private one is not", (
   const prot = caps.open("did:ng:o:prot", "protected");
   const priv = caps.open("did:ng:o:priv", "private");
 
-  expect(caps.isPublished("did:ng:o:pub")).toBe(true);
+  expect(caps.isInPublicStore("did:ng:o:pub")).toBe(true);
-  expect(caps.isPublished("did:ng:o:prot")).toBe(false);
+  expect(caps.isInPublicStore("did:ng:o:prot")).toBe(false);
-  expect(caps.isPublished("did:ng:o:priv")).toBe(false);
+  expect(caps.isInPublicStore("did:ng:o:priv")).toBe(false);
   // All three are readable BY THEIR OWNER — a creator is never locked out.
   for (const [doc, cap] of [["did:ng:o:pub", pub], ["did:ng:o:prot", prot], ["did:ng:o:priv", priv]] as const) {
     expect(caps.capFor(doc)).toBe(cap);

packages/client/test/isolation-active.test.ts

@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ test("(b) a bare reference reads nothing; the repo link of a published document
   setCurrentUser("alice");
   const pub = await createEntityDoc("alice", "public");
   const items = [item(pub, "u1")];
-  expect(getCaps().isPublished(pub)).toBe(true);
+  expect(getCaps().isInPublicStore(pub)).toBe(true);
   const link = linkTo(pub);
 
   // bob HAS the document's bare NURI (it is right there in `items`) and reads nothing.

packages/client/test/read-filter.test.ts

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ function setup(initial: string | null = "alice") {
   const before = holder;
   holder = "alice";
   caps.mint("did:ng:o:alice");
-  const link = caps.publishRepoLink("did:ng:o:public");
+  const link = caps.recordInPublicStore("did:ng:o:public");
   holder = before;
   return { caps, link, become: (id: string | null) => (holder = id) };
 }

packages/client/test/vocabulary.test.ts

@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ const TARGET_WORDS = new Set([
   "fetch", "init", "watch", "sparql", "ng", "orm", "type", "types",
   // RDF / SPARQL terms the engine's own query paths use
   "subject", "base", "schema", "connected", "identity", "identities",
+  // `publisher` is upstream's word for a pub/sub role on a topic (`as_publisher`,
+  // `publisher_advert`, 126 occurrences in the engine). Our own "publish a document" is
+  // banned as ambiguous, but that ban never reaches upstream's term — see the traps
+  // block in `docs/readcap-and-nuri-model.md`.
+  "publisher", "topic", "advert",
   // the reactive model the ORM exposes (`OrmSubscription`, `DeepSignalSet`)
   "observable", "deep", "signal", "set",
 ]);