feat(snapshot): expose headless snapshot facade

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Summary

• expose supported headless planning, directory publication, digest/reproduction, registry inspection/verification, and directory/OCI restore assembly
• route Dolos bootstrap and snapshot commands through the shared facade while preserving command defaults
• document external cold-start safety and add an external-style no-default-features example
• exercise directory resume plus live OCI restore, inspect, and verify through the public API

Plan and source

Plan: plans/stelae-publisher-pipeline-dolos-snapshot-api.md

Based on accepted predecessor Dolos revision 867b859 (PR #1327). Tested with pinned Stelae v0.2.0 revision 703cc34b.

Verification

Passed:

• cargo +nightly-2026-08-27 fmt --all -- --check
• git diff --check
• cargo check -p dolos-snapshot -p dolos --no-default-features --all-targets
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features
• cargo clippy -p dolos-snapshot --lib --all-features -- -D warnings
• cargo clippy -p dolos --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
• cargo clippy -p dolos-snapshot --test restore_registry --test snapshot_verify --all-features -- -D warnings
• cargo build --workspace --all-targets --all-features
• cargo test --workspace --all-targets
• cargo test --workspace --all-features --exclude dolos-minibf --exclude dolos-minikupo --exclude dolos-trp
• cargo test -p dolos-snapshot --test publish -- --ignored --test-threads=1 (14 passed)
• cargo test -p dolos-snapshot --test restore_registry -- --ignored --test-threads=1 (7 passed)
• cargo test -p dolos-snapshot --test snapshot_verify -- --ignored --test-threads=1 (6 passed)

The exact workspace Clippy command passes with pre-existing warnings in untouched Cardano test code and crates/snapshot/tests/publish.rs:203-206. A stricter workspace run with -D warnings stops on those existing warnings; changed production and facade-backed integration targets pass with warnings denied.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added a headless snapshot API for planning, publishing, inspection, verification, and restoration.
  • Added snapshot repository access for directory and registry workflows.
  • Added configurable plan selection by epochs, index bands, and producers.
  • Added unified restoration with restore results and checkpoint support.
  • Added an example for embedding headless snapshot operations.

• Documentation

  • Added guidance for headless snapshots and updated replay documentation.

• Refactor

  • Unified directory and registry restoration paths across snapshot workflows.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The snapshot crate adds a public headless facade for planning, publishing, repository access, verification, and restoration. CLI commands, tests, documentation, and an example now use these explicit APIs.

Changes

Headless snapshot facade

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Source and facade contracts crates/snapshot/src/facade.rs, crates/snapshot/src/lib.rs, crates/snapshot/src/source.rs	The crate exports SnapshotSource, StoreSnapshot, Selection, repository types, and restore types. Source operations now include selected planning, directory publication, digest generation, and reproduction verification.
Repository and restore entry points crates/snapshot/src/registry.rs, crates/snapshot/src/publisher.rs, crates/snapshot/src/restore.rs	SnapshotRepository wraps repository inspection, verification, and restoration. Publisher::open_explicit accepts resolved host inputs. restore::execute handles directory and repository inputs and returns RestoreOutcome.
Command integration src/bin/dolos/bootstrap/stelae.rs, src/bin/dolos/snapshot/*	Bootstrap restore and snapshot commands use the facade for repository access, planning, publication, digest generation, inspection, and verification.
Facade integration tests crates/snapshot/tests/export.rs, crates/snapshot/tests/registry_fixture/mod.rs, crates/snapshot/tests/restore.rs, crates/snapshot/tests/restore_registry.rs, crates/snapshot/tests/snapshot_verify.rs	Tests cover headless planning, directory publication, reproduction verification, directory resume, repository restoration, inspection, and verification.
Headless usage documentation docs/headless-replay.md, docs/headless-snapshots.md, examples/headless_snapshot.rs	Documentation and the example describe explicit host setup and headless snapshot and restoration workflows.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Host
  participant ReplayWorkspace
  participant StoreSnapshot
  participant SnapshotRepository
  participant restore_execute
  Host->>ReplayWorkspace: open read-only workspace
  ReplayWorkspace->>StoreSnapshot: create snapshot source
  Host->>StoreSnapshot: plan and publish directory
  Host->>SnapshotRepository: open repository
  Host->>restore_execute: execute restore input
  restore_execute->>SnapshotRepository: restore selected point
  SnapshotRepository-->>Host: RestoreOutcome

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c3d5a

The headless example now releases its workspace on normal operation failures as well as successful runs, with no actionable merge risk identified.

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Inline comments:
In `@examples/headless_snapshot.rs`:
- Around line 50-62: Update the snapshot operation flow containing
retained_epochs, selected_plan, publish_directory, verify_reproduction, and
digest_document so all fallible operations execute inside an inner result block;
call ReplayWorkspace::finish(self) afterward regardless of whether that block
succeeds, then return the original operation result while preserving existing
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• crates/snapshot/src/facade.rs
• crates/snapshot/src/lib.rs
• crates/snapshot/src/publisher.rs
• crates/snapshot/src/registry.rs
• crates/snapshot/src/restore.rs
• crates/snapshot/src/source.rs
• crates/snapshot/tests/export.rs
• crates/snapshot/tests/registry_fixture/mod.rs
• crates/snapshot/tests/restore.rs
• crates/snapshot/tests/restore_registry.rs
• crates/snapshot/tests/snapshot_verify.rs
• docs/headless-replay.md
• docs/headless-snapshots.md
• examples/headless_snapshot.rs
• src/bin/dolos/bootstrap/stelae.rs
• src/bin/dolos/snapshot/digest.rs
• src/bin/dolos/snapshot/inspect.rs
• src/bin/dolos/snapshot/mod.rs
• src/bin/dolos/snapshot/publish.rs
• src/bin/dolos/snapshot/verify.rs

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Code-QA review-body verdict: rejected the 61.54% docstring-coverage suggestion. This repository does not declare an 80% docstring threshold, and adding comments solely to satisfy that bot metric would be an unscoped, non-contractual change under the required normalize-comments policy. No code change was made for this item.

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Code-QA blocker: the required command cargo test -p dolos-snapshot --test publish --all-features -- --ignored is not reliable at this branch tip. Two post-fix full-suite runs failed under normal parallel execution: first 12/14 (failures in both restart/carry-forward cases), then 13/14 (a_restarted_publish_carries_forward_the_layers_it_finished, expected 5 reused layers but observed 4). Each failing case passes alone, and the full suite passes with --test-threads=1, isolating the defect to concurrent suite execution rather than the example cleanup fix. Please make the prescribed parallel invocation deterministic, or explicitly revise the repository check contract to require serialized execution, then return the plan to code-QA.