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Problem

Origin.follow returns Requesting, so one type documents both following announcements across publisher instances and requesting one instance.

Approach

• Give Consumer, Producer, and Table followers their own Following handle with the existing path, active, closed, and close shape.
• Update watch's mixed results to Requesting | Following, follower annotations in examples, publish tests, and the interop client, and rename the route helper to updateReported.
• Complete the quest and remove its dependency links. The structural-origin work stays in moq-dev/moq#7251.

Impact

• Breaking TypeScript API: annotate follow results as Origin.Following; use Origin.Requesting | Origin.Following for storage that accepts both. request keeps Requesting.
• At runtime followers are instances of Following, so update any instanceof Requesting check used for followers.
• Wire: none. Resolution and lifecycle behavior stay the same.

Alternatives

Keep separate handle classes and use a union at mixed call sites. A shared public base would add API surface without another consumer.

Validation

• Merged origin/main (673a922) on 2026-11-02. The merge resolved conflicts with moq-dev/moq#7557, which moved follow onto the new Origin.Reader interface (that interface now returns Following), and with moq-dev/moq#7489, which replaced the epoch pin with instance. Following's docs, updateReported's call, and the follower test now use instance. The API report was regenerated with just fix.
• quest gate just check origin/main: passed. That ran every selected JS package, including @moq/net (2712 pass), @moq/watch (492 pass), and @moq/publish (322 pass), plus the markdown, gh, quest, shell, toml, nix, and justfile checks.
• quest check --base origin/main and git diff --check: passed.
• main moved to e25f626 during the review, adding only unrelated Rust commits. git merge-tree against it is clean.

Review

Codex (gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort) ran quest review --base origin/main, round 1, on head 32a8da4216d3a386665fce11c6ab9d13560ccef9, base e25f626. Findings: none.

Automated reviews on the previous head c281f1a:

• OpenAI and Pullfrog: no findings.
• CodeRabbit nitpick (add toBeInstanceOf assertions): refuted in this comment. The #dispose private fields make the two classes nominally distinct (js/net/src/origin.ts:1785, :1835), so the existing annotations already fail tsc on a mismatch. AGENTS.md:21 rules out tests for trivial values.

Earlier notes that still hold:

• test/smoke/clients/js-native/subscribe.ts:20 still types follow? as returning Requesting. Intentional: that client runs the published latest packages through an as unknown as Resolver cast and reads only .active.
• js/net/MIGRATE.md is unchanged, since only the release cut writes it (AGENTS.md). The Impact section carries the migration note.

Follow-ups

The existing follow-options quest becomes unblocked. No new implementation follow-ups or API decisions.

(Written by GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5)

[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: c281f1a8f1e763a9a0b3b039d8a0a1a73608dc84.

No actionable bugs found in the changed areas and relevant lifecycle/caller code. The direction is sound: separate Following and Requesting handles make the existing lifetime distinction explicit without changing resolution or wire behavior. The new factory preserves the same signals and idempotent disposal; mixed watch storage correctly uses the union. Keeping the two small classes is proportionate here; a shared public base would add API surface without simplifying consumers.

Verification: static GitHub source/diff review, including follower lifecycle tests and affected callers. I did not run tests, type checks, builds, or interop validation; the PR's reported results were not independently reproduced.

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Walkthrough

The change adds Origin.Following as the return type for follow operations. The handle exposes the followed path, active broadcast, close operation, and closed signal. Requesting remains the type for request operations. Call sites and type annotations are updated to use or accept Following.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to c281f

The new follower handle has the intended runtime type. Adding identity assertions would strengthen coverage, but no merge-blocking issue was identified.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely states the main API change: origin follow now returns Following.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The description states the problem (Origin.follow returns Requesting, which mixes follower and per-instance request semantics), the approach (a new Following handle for Consumer, Producer, and Table, …

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Explanation

The description states the problem (Origin.follow returns Requesting, which mixes follower and per-instance request semantics), the approach (a new Following handle for Consumer, Producer, and Table, plus updates to watch, examples, publish tests, the interop client, and the route helper rename), the breaking API impact, alternatives, and validation steps. It matches the changeset closely, so the check passes.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 2 functions across 8 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Finishing Touches

Simplify code

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Follow-up Comments

Add runtime identity assertions for both handles.

19-19: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Add runtime identity assertions for both handles.

The changed tests add only TypeScript annotations. They do not assert that follow returns a Following instance or that request returns a Requesting instance. The annotations check the declared types, but not runtime identity.

Suggested fix

-import { type Following, Producer, type Publication, type Request, type Requesting } from "./origin";
+import { Following, Producer, type Publication, type Request, Requesting } from "./origin";
...
 	const request: Following = origin.follow(path);
+	expect(request).toBeInstanceOf(Following);
...
 	const requested: Requesting = origin.request(path);
+	expect(requested).toBeInstanceOf(Requesting);

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Review comment at @js/net/src/origin-request.test.ts at line 19:
Update the tests using origin.follow and origin.request to assert runtime
identity for both returned handles: import Following and Requesting as runtime
values and verify each result with an instance assertion, while preserving the
existing type annotations.

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Files selected for processing: 12

• js/net/api/index.api.md
• js/net/examples/discovery.ts
• js/net/src/connection/forward.ts
• js/net/src/origin-request.test.ts
• js/net/src/origin.ts
• js/publish/src/audio/encoder.test.ts
• js/publish/src/video/encoder.test.ts
• js/watch/src/broadcast.ts
• quest/m1/api-audit/resolve/README.md
• quest/m1/api-audit/resolve/follow-options.md
• quest/m1/api-audit/resolve/js-following.md
• test/interop/clients/js-native/subscribe.ts

Files with no reviewable changes: 2

• quest/m1/api-audit/resolve/README.md
• quest/m1/api-audit/resolve/js-following.md

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

This PR splits the JS follower handle out of Origin.Requesting, with no wire change and no lifecycle behavior change.

• New Origin.Following class (js/net/src/origin.ts): structurally identical to Requesting (path, active, closed, idempotent close()), private constructor plus a makeFollowing factory mirroring makeRequesting.
• follow returns it: Consumer.follow, Producer.follow, Table.follow, and Origin.Prepared.follow now return Following; request keeps Requesting. Docs on each handle narrowed to its own meaning.
• Mixed call sites: js/watch/src/broadcast.ts cache and local typed Requesting | Following; the forward.ts route helper renamed follow to updateReported; API report, examples, publish tests, and the interop client annotation updated.
• Quest closure: js-following.md deleted and its dependency links removed from README.md and follow-options.md (the latter now points at this PR).

Two things I checked that hold up: the only runtime-visible change is class identity (no instanceof Requesting checks exist in-repo), and refusedRequests keys on the inner Requesting.closed, which followers still hold, so refusal provenance is unchanged. Because both classes carry private members they are nominally distinct, so the split is enforced by tsc rather than being a documentation-only rename. Leaving test/smoke/clients/js-native/subscribe.ts typed against Requesting is correct: it must stay compatible with the previous published latest and only reads .active.

I reproduced the focused verification: tsc --noEmit clean in js/net, js/watch, js/publish; the origin, announcement, and forwarding tests pass (77); and bun js/common/api.ts check js/net confirms the regenerated API report matches, including the constructor-visibility guard.

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Declining CodeRabbit's nitpick (review) to add toBeInstanceOf assertions in js/net/src/origin-request.test.ts.

The annotations already check runtime identity at compile time. Following and Requesting each declare a #dispose private field (js/net/src/origin.ts:1785, js/net/src/origin.ts:1835), so TypeScript treats them as nominally distinct. If follow returned a Requesting, const request: Following = origin.follow(path) would fail tsc. The only way to get one at runtime is the private-constructor factories, and the types pin those too. A runtime assertion would just repeat that check, and AGENTS.md:21 asks tests to cover edge cases, not trivial values.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

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Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: 32a8da4

Add the migration note (js/net/MIGRATE.md, Unreleased): follow now returns a Following instance, breaking Requesting annotations and instanceof checks. The current root guidance requires feature PRs to add migration notes under Unreleased; add the guidance already in Impact so package users can migrate.

The merge correctly carries Reader.follow through to the regenerated API report. Static GitHub review only; I did not run type checks or tests.

[pullfrog]

Important

The breaking follow change ships without the js/net/MIGRATE.md ## Unreleased entry that this repo's convention requires, and the PR body's stated reason for omitting it reads AGENTS.md backwards.

Reviewed changes

This run re-reviewed the delta since pullfrog's prior review on c281f1a8f1: the origin/main merge and the regenerated API report. The delta itself is clean.

• Merged origin/main: Reader.follow (added by #7557) now returns Following, and the pin option resolves to instance (#7489) across forward.ts and the follower docs; Requesting docs narrowed to its accepted instance.
• Regenerated the API report: js/net/api/index.api.md now matches declaration output for Reader.follow, Consumer.follow, Producer.follow, Prepared.follow, and the new Following class.

Verified: bun run check in js/net is clean, the origin/announcement/forwarding tests pass (80), bun run build succeeds, and common/api.ts check js/net reports the API report matches. The merge resolution is consistent; no stale epoch-as-pin references remain.

⚠️ Breaking change ships without a MIGRATE.md entry

js/net/MIGRATE.md is untouched, so package users get no note for the follow return-type change. The PR body says the file is unchanged because "only the release cut writes it", but that inverts AGENTS.md: the release cut writes version-transition sections, while feature PRs add their note under the existing ## Unreleased heading, which already holds entries like #7597 and #7489.

Technical details

# Add an `## Unreleased` entry to `js/net/MIGRATE.md`

## Affected sites
- `js/net/MIGRATE.md` — not in the diff; needs a new entry under `## Unreleased`.

## Required outcome
- Note that `follow` now returns `Origin.Following` (update annotations and any `instanceof Requesting` check that guards a follower), while `request` keeps `Origin.Requesting`. The PR body's Impact wording is the source.

## Evidence
- `AGENTS.md:61` — "Feature PRs add their migration notes under `## Unreleased`; only the release cut writes version sections."
- `CONTRIBUTING.md:96` — the breaking cut writes the version-transition section from "the `!` subjects since the `release` merge base" and their Impact sections; it consumes per-PR notes.
- `git log -- js/net/MIGRATE.md` — prior breaking PRs added their note in the same commit: `5ab878666` (#7597), `e3e1cc884` (#7489).
- `quest/m1/api-audit/route/serve.md:46` — this audit's own plan expects `js/net/MIGRATE.md` to be updated.

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