Drop run_in_actor() + the ria reap-cluster

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+---
+model: claude-fable-5
+service: claude
+session: f6c84722-471a-4458-9a80-e453fea9029f
+timestamp: 2026-07-02T15:42:55Z
+git_ref: 65bf9df5
+scope: code
+substantive: true
+raw_file: 20260702T154255Z_65bf9df5_prompt_io.raw.md
+---
+
+## Prompt
+
+Driver prompt file `ai/prompt-io/prompts/issue_477.md`:
+
+> attempt to resolve
+> https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/477
+> do it with /open-wkt.
+
+(plus a hard stop-for-human-review deadline of 12:50PM
+EST the same day)
+
+Issue #477 asks to factor `ActorNursery.run_in_actor()`
+(and possibly `Portal.run()`) out of the nursery
+internals into a new `tractor.to_actor` wrapper
+subpackage of "higher level one shot" single-remote-task
+APIs, adopting the `trio.to_thread`/`anyio.to_process`
+parlance, so that error collection/propagation moves up
+into the caller's local `trio` scope and the nursery's
+spawn machinery can eventually drop the
+`._ria_nursery` coupling.
+
+## Response summary
+
+First-cut `tractor.to_actor` subpkg delivering the
+one-shot API composed purely from the existing
+daemon-spawn + portal primitives (`start_actor()` +
+`Portal.run()` + `Portal.cancel_actor()`), leaving the
+legacy `.run_in_actor()` machinery untouched (formal
+deprecation deferred until in-repo usage migrates):
+
+- `to_actor.run(fn, **fn_kwargs) -> Any`: spawn a
+  subactor, schedule `fn` as its lone remote task, wait
+  on and return its result, ALWAYS reaping the subactor
+  (shield-safe `finally`). Remote errors raise in the
+  caller's task as boxed `RemoteActorError`s.
+- placement variants: `portal=` reuses a running actor
+  (no spawn/reap), `an=` spawns from a caller-managed
+  actor-nursery, neither opens a call-scoped private
+  `open_nursery()` (implicitly booting the runtime,
+  configurable via `runtime_kwargs`).
+- fail-fast validation before any spawn: non-streaming
+  async fn required; `portal=`/`an=` mutually
+  exclusive; `runtime_kwargs` rejected alongside any
+  placement opt.
+- `run_in_actor()` TODO/docstring now cross-reference
+  the successor API.
+
+## Files changed
+
+- `tractor/to_actor/__init__.py` — new subpkg,
+  re-exports `run`
+- `tractor/to_actor/_api.py` — `run()` +
+  `_invoke_in_subactor()` + `_validate_one_shot_fn()`
+- `tractor/__init__.py` — top-level `to_actor`
+  re-export
+- `tractor/runtime/_supervise.py` — comment/docstring
+  pointers from `run_in_actor()` to the successor
+- `tests/test_to_actor.py` — 11-test suite covering
+  all placement variants, error relay, the concurrent
+  worker-pool-ish pattern and arg validation
+- `examples/parallelism/to_actor_one_shots.py` —
+  runnable demo (auto-collected by
+  `test_docs_examples.py`)
+
+## Human edits
+
+None yet — pending human review (work paused before the
+12:50PM EST deadline per the driver prompt).

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+---
+model: claude-fable-5
+service: claude
+timestamp: 2026-07-02T15:42:55Z
+git_ref: 65bf9df5
+diff_cmd: git diff main..wkt/to_actor_subpkg
+---
+
+# Raw AI output (diff-ref mode)
+
+All generated code is committed on the
+`wkt/to_actor_subpkg` branch; per diff-ref mode each
+file's verbatim content is reachable via the pointers
+below rather than duplicated here.
+
+## Generated files
+
+> `git diff main..wkt/to_actor_subpkg -- tractor/to_actor/__init__.py`
+
+New subpackage init: module docstring establishing the
+`trio.to_thread`/`anyio.to_process` "run it over there"
+parlance for actors, plus the single public re-export
+`run as run` from `._api`.
+
+> `git diff main..wkt/to_actor_subpkg -- tractor/to_actor/_api.py`
+
+The one-shot invocation impl, composed entirely from the
+lower level daemon-spawn + portal primitives as
+prescribed by issue #477:
+
+- `_validate_one_shot_fn()`: the `Portal.run()`
+  non-streaming-async-fn constraint checked up-front,
+  before any subactor is spawned.
+- `_invoke_in_subactor()`: `an.start_actor()` ->
+  `Portal.run()` -> always-reap via
+  `Portal.cancel_actor()` in a `finally` (the cancel
+  req's bounded wait is internally shielded so the reap
+  also runs under caller-scope cancellation).
+- `run()`: the public API. Placement options:
+  `portal=` (reuse a running actor, no spawn/reap),
+  `an=` (spawn from a caller-managed nursery), or
+  neither (private `open_nursery()` scoped to the call,
+  implicitly booting the runtime when needed, tunable
+  via pass-through `runtime_kwargs`). Spawn opts mirror
+  `ActorNursery.start_actor()`; `**fn_kwargs` are
+  relayed to the remote task. Errors raise in the
+  caller's task as boxed `RemoteActorError`s.
+  `runtime_kwargs` alongside any placement opt is a
+  hard `ValueError`, never silently ignored.
+
+> `git diff main..wkt/to_actor_subpkg -- tractor/__init__.py`
+
+Top-level `from . import to_actor as to_actor`
+re-export.
+
+> `git diff main..wkt/to_actor_subpkg -- tractor/runtime/_supervise.py`
+
+Comment/docstring-only: the `run_in_actor()` deprecation
+TODO now points at the implemented `.to_actor.run()`
+successor (checkbox ticked) and the method docstring
+gains a NOTE steering users to the new API; remaining
+TODO items are the `DeprecationWarning` emission +
+in-repo usage migration.
+
+> `git diff main..wkt/to_actor_subpkg -- tests/test_to_actor.py`
+
+11-test suite: private-nursery one-shot, implicit
+runtime boot via `runtime_kwargs`, remote-error relay to
+the caller's task (bare + caller-managed nursery),
+caller-nursery spawn, portal reuse w/o implicit reap,
+the concurrent worker-pool-ish pattern (local `trio`
+nursery x shared `an`), and the four validation
+rejections (sync fn, async-gen fn, `portal`+`an`
+combo, `runtime_kwargs`+placement combo).
+
+> `git diff main..wkt/to_actor_subpkg -- examples/parallelism/to_actor_one_shots.py`
+
+Runnable example (auto-collected by
+`test_docs_examples.py`): the fully-implicit one-shot
+plus the concurrent worker-pool-ish prime-check pattern
+against a shared caller-managed actor-nursery.
+
+## Test runs (verbatim)
+
+```
+tests/test_to_actor.py ..........                [100%]
+============= 10 passed in 4.29s =============
+```
+
+Regression subset for touched modules
+(`test_local.py test_rpc.py test_spawning.py
+test_cancellation.py`):
+
+```
+38 passed, 1 xfailed, 24 warnings in 80.71s (0:01:20)
+```
+
+(warnings are pre-existing stdlib `os.fork()`
+DeprecationWarnings from the mp spawn backends, not
+introduced by this change)

ai/prompt-io/claude/20260702T161624Z_65bf9df5_prompt_io.md

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+---
+model: claude-fable-5
+service: claude
+session: f4da6654-63f9-4641-b567-f200da46d697
+timestamp: 2026-07-02T16:16:24Z
+git_ref: 65bf9df5
+scope: tests
+substantive: true
+raw_file: 20260702T161624Z_65bf9df5_prompt_io.raw.md
+---
+
+## Prompt
+
+> attempt to resolve
+> https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/474
+> do it with /open-wkt.
+
+Issue #474: "We need test suite for
+`.trionics.start_or_cancel()`" — dig out the use case
+from `modden` as a unit test (and provide motivation
+for upstream `trio` to possibly provide better
+porcelain around this case). The wrapper landed via
+PR #464 with no tests.
+
+## Response summary
+
+New `tests/trionics/test_taskc.py` (9 tests) covering
+`start_or_cancel()`, authored in wkt
+`start_or_cancel_tests_474`.
+
+Behaviour was first probed empirically (trio 0.29):
+the lossy `RuntimeError('child exited without calling
+task_status.started()')` only fires when the child
+exits pre-`.started()` WITHOUT propagating the ambient
+`Cancelled` — i.e. when the child (or lib code it
+calls) absorbs the cancel in a graceful-teardown
+pattern; a well-behaved child surfaces `Cancelled`
+straight out of `.start()`. The `modden`
+`progman.open_wks()` use case was reconstructed from
+`modden/runtime/progman.py` accordingly.
+
+Tests (each `use_start_or_cancel` parametrization also
+pins upstream trio's current lossy behaviour as
+wart-documentation):
+
+- `test_sibling_err_not_masked_by_startup_rte` — the
+  `modden` case: sibling error OOB-cancels the shared
+  nursery scope; with the wrapper ONLY the root-cause
+  `ValueError` escapes; bare `.start()` adds the lossy
+  RTE alongside.
+- `test_pure_oob_cancel_not_morphed_to_rte` — plain
+  ancestor `cs.cancel()`: wrapper → clean exit; bare
+  → eg-wrapped RTE.
+- `test_genuine_startup_rte_still_raised` — no
+  cancellation → protocol-bug RTE re-raised same as
+  bare.
+- `test_childs_own_rte_never_demoted_to_cancel` — a
+  child's own `RuntimeError('never got started!')` /
+  `RuntimeError(1234)` under ambient cancel is never
+  demoted to `Cancelled` (exact-msg-match + str-guard
+  regression cover).
+- `test_started_value_and_args_passthru` — happy path:
+  positional args, `name=`, `.started()` value.
+
+Verified: 9/9 pass; 0 flakes across 50 hammer runs;
+two impl mutations (checkpoint removed; guard relaxed
+to substring match) each caught by exactly the
+targeted tests; `tests/trionics/` +
+`tests/test_trioisms.py` subset green (23 passed,
+5 xfailed); ruff clean; 69-col style.
+
+## Files changed
+
+- `tests/trionics/test_taskc.py` — new
+  `start_or_cancel()` unit-test suite (gh #474).
+
+## Human edits
+
+Pending review — session paused pre-commit per user
+deadline; nothing committed as of this entry.

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+---
+model: claude-fable-5
+service: claude
+timestamp: 2026-07-02T16:16:24Z
+git_ref: 65bf9df5
+diff_cmd: git diff main..wkt/start_or_cancel_tests_474
+---
+
+# Raw output — gh #474 `start_or_cancel()` test suite
+
+## Generated test code
+
+> `git diff main..wkt/start_or_cancel_tests_474 -- tests/trionics/test_taskc.py`
+
+Prose summary of the generated module
+(`tests/trionics/test_taskc.py`):
+
+- module docstring framing the `trio.Nursery.start()`
+  startup-cancellation wart, the wrapper's repair, and
+  the intent that `use_start_or_cancel=False` params
+  double as upstream-trio wart-documentation (break on
+  a trio upgrade → upstream may have shipped porcelain,
+  re-audit the wrapper); cites gh #474 / PR #464 and
+  `modden`'s `progman.open_wks()` as the source use
+  case.
+- shared children: `absorbs_cancel_pre_started()` (the
+  graceful-teardown cancel-absorber which triggers the
+  lossy RTE path) + `raise_val_err()` (fast-erroring
+  sibling).
+- `test_sibling_err_not_masked_by_startup_rte`
+  (parametrized `use_start_or_cancel`): asserts eg
+  contains exactly one `ValueError` and, wrapper-case,
+  NO residual RTE (`eg.split(ValueError)` remainder is
+  `None`); bare-case, the residual RTE carries trio's
+  exact "child exited without calling" wording.
+- `test_pure_oob_cancel_not_morphed_to_rte`
+  (parametrized): wrapper-case runs clean and asserts
+  `cs.cancelled_caught`; bare-case asserts the
+  eg-wrapped RTE.
+- `test_genuine_startup_rte_still_raised`
+  (parametrized): no-cancel protocol bug → RTE with
+  trio's wording from both call forms.
+- `test_childs_own_rte_never_demoted_to_cancel`
+  (parametrized `rte_arg` in `'never got started!'`,
+  `1234`): child cancels the ambient scope then raises
+  its own RTE synchronously (no checkpoint between →
+  deterministically under-cancellation at catch time);
+  asserts the RTE survives with `args[0]` intact.
+- `test_started_value_and_args_passthru`: `.started()`
+  value, positional args and the `name=` kwarg (via
+  `trio.lowlevel.current_task().name`) all forward.
+
+## Non-code output (verbatim highlights)
+
+Behaviour probe (trio 0.29, scratchpad scripts) — the
+decision basis for the test shapes:
+
+```
+== B-sibling-err use_soc=False
+  start raised: RuntimeError('child exited without
+    calling task_status.started()')
+  top-level: ExceptionGroup([ValueError('sibling blew
+    up!'), RuntimeError('child exited without calling
+    task_status.started()')])
+== B-cs-cancel use_soc=False
+  top-level: ExceptionGroup([RuntimeError('child
+    exited without calling task_status.started()')])
+== B-sibling-err use_soc=True
+  start raised: Cancelled()
+  top-level: ExceptionGroup([ValueError('sibling blew
+    up!')])
+== B-cs-cancel use_soc=True
+  start raised: Cancelled()
+  top-level: clean return
+== own-rte-under-cancel (both) -> RTE('never got
+  started!') propagates unchanged
+```
+
+Key finding: with a WELL-BEHAVED (non-absorbing) child
+an OOB ancestor cancel surfaces `Cancelled` directly
+from `.start()` on trio 0.29 — the lossy RTE requires
+the child to absorb its cancel pre-`.started()`, which
+is what `modden`'s `open_from_wks` teardown did. Trio's
+nursery-exit wait defers cancel delivery to children,
+so all tested shapes are deterministic (0 flakes / 50
+runs).
+
+Mutation verification:
+
+```
+mutation 1 (checkpoint_if_cancelled removed):
+  FAILED test_sibling_err_not_masked_by_startup_rte[True]
+  FAILED test_pure_oob_cancel_not_morphed_to_rte[True]
+mutation 2 (guard relaxed to 'started' substring,
+            isinstance dropped):
+  FAILED test_childs_own_rte_never_demoted_to_cancel[never got started!]
+  FAILED test_childs_own_rte_never_demoted_to_cancel[1234]
+```
+
+Final runs:
+
+```
+tests/trionics/test_taskc.py: 9 passed in 0.03s
+hammer: 0/50 runs failed
+tests/trionics/ + tests/test_trioisms.py:
+  23 passed, 5 xfailed in 3.02s
+```