Align the polyfill's surface and docs with the verified NextGraph reality and
remove application-level concepts:
- Identity is an ID, not a username: AccountRecord.id, shim predicate shim:id,
normalizeId; accounts core becomes IdentityStore (set/clear/get) — the faux
login/logout framing is gone (identity is set at wallet-import time).
- Relationship/connection is an application concept, not a platform primitive
(NextGraph has no bilateral-connection primitive: grantee is unpersisted
scaffolding, cap-send is unimplemented). Remove connections.ts; caps exposes
only a directed grantRead(doc, granteeId) + a read-only protectedDocsOf(owner).
Delete the now-dead isolation.ts social-visibility axis.
- Inbox docs: NextGraph has no separate curator — the recipient's own verifier
unseals and applies each queued sealed message inline (process_inbox);
inbox_post_link is a proposed/future API. Stop attributing the emulated
curator to the platform.
- Read isolation reframed around the outcome: no cap -> empty union read;
targeted read of an unheld repo -> RepoNotFound; cap introspection
(canRead/governsRead) is emulation-only with no NextGraph API behind it.
- read-model.md corrected: the listing path is per-doc ANCHORED default-graph
queries, never the anchorless GRAPH ?g union (that is O(wallet)); the probe
section no longer claims the opposite.
- README recap table restructured (target | current NextGraph status | current
emulation); INDEX_ACCOUNT documented as reservedAccount("index") in the
sentinel namespace; de-domained generic-layer comments; softened tone.
Consumer application (Festipod) rewired separately to own the relationship
concept and feed the lib an id. Lib gates: bun test 83 pass / 0 fail, tsc clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Migration guide — when real NextGraph matures
The whole point of this library: the consumer application already writes SDK-shaped code, so when NextGraph ships cross-wallet reads, capabilities and inboxes, only this lib changes. The consumer application's code does not change. This is the checklist.
Guiding invariant
Every emulated piece has a 1:1 image in the real infra. Migration = swap the
emulation for the real primitive, remove the scaffold. If a piece of the emulation
has no clear target image, that is a drift signal (see
simulation.md).
Checklist
1. Emulated ReadCaps → real capabilities
Translate the per-document CapRegistry (caps.ts) into real NextGraph caps: the
broker/verifier enforces them, and useShape already returns only authorized
documents. The directed grantRead(doc, granteeId) maps to a native per-document
ReadCap issued to that identity. The read filter (read-filter.ts) and the write
guard (ng-proxy.ts sparql_update override) are then dead code — remove them. The
access unit is already the document (@graph), matching the native per-repo cap
model, so this is a data step, not a reshape.
2. Place documents in real native stores
Today docCreate(..., undefined) writes every document into the shared wallet's
private store, and the public|protected|private scope is a logical label
in the shim (see the two-axes section in simulation.md).
doc_createcannot target a non-private native store today — verified:StoreRepois not JS-constructible from the SDK, so there is no way to pass a public/protected store as the create destination (docCreate's trailingstorearg is leftundefined→ private store). The private store works only because it opens withoutRepoNotFound.- When the SDK lets you construct/target a native store, the migration adds a
getNativeStore(scope)-style resolver returning the real store to pass as thedocCreatedestination, so the logical scope label becomes a real store placement. (No such helper exists yet — it is blocked on the SDK gap above.) - At that point
store-registry.tsmaps(account, scope)to the user's real store NURI instead of a document in the shared wallet; the per-scope index document (the store-container emulation) is replaced by the store itself. The surface facing the consumer application (createEntityDoc,listEntityDocs, resolvers) is designed to survive that swap unchanged.
3. Drop the resolver / shim
The sharedWalletShim (account → 3 scope-document NURIs, RDF in the private store)
has no target equivalent — the target has no central directory. Remove it:
store-registry.ts, configureStoreRegistry, the shim SPARQL. Cross-wallet reads
replace the fan-out; per-user wallets replace the shared one.
4. Real inbox → drop the in-lib read emulation
Replace the emulated inbox.ts deposit (docs.sparqlUpdate into a shared-wallet
document) with the native inbox_post_link (proposed/future). On the read side the
recipient's own verifier unseals each queued sealed message and applies it inline
when it processes its inbox — there is no separate curator to build; the in-lib read
emulation simply goes away (see the deferred global-index note in the top-level
README and decisions/discovery-model.md). The
single global index replaces the cross-account fan-out.
5. Retire the identity store → real per-user login
Remove accounts.ts (the IdentityStore that persists the identity id in
localStorage) and the app-level "Connexion" screen. The technical broker gate
becomes the real per-user login
(see decisions/shared-wallet-login-flow.md).
The flow shape ("broker redirect → app") does not change.
6. Drop the isolation scaffold
isolation.ts (application-visibility scaffold) disappears against a
different piece of infra than the caps: real per-account wallets, and the
relationship concept the consumer application owns. Distinct axis from ReadCaps —
remove independently.
7. Remove the build alias — the client becomes the real SDK
The consumer application imports @ng-org/web / @ng-org/orm resolved to this lib
via a build alias during the polyfill period. Removing the alias makes those imports
resolve to the real SDK — the ng/useShape/inbox surface is SDK-identical, so
no consumer code changes. The one non-SDK call — configure(...) /
@ng-eventually/client/polyfill — is deleted. The lib itself disappears.
What does not change
The consumer application's code. Shapes, screens, the acts of granting access, entity→scope mapping, the relationship graph — all injected, all untouched. Migration is entirely inside this library plus removing the alias + the bootstrap call. That asymmetry — a mature SDK face outward, all compensation inward — is the library's reason to exist.