---
id: CORE-WP-0010
type: workplan
title: "Runtime absorption into hub-core and archive"
domain: infotech
repo: core-hub
status: blocked
owner: codex
topic_slug: infotech
created: "2026-08-09"
updated: "2026-08-21"
parent_project: prj-state-hub-retirement
parent_workplan: SHR-WP-0001
related:
  - CORE-WP-0009
  - CORE-WP-0011
  - HUB-WP-0004
  - SHR-ARCH-HUB-0001
state_hub_workstream_id: "f5a90aa2-e63f-4f94-b052-8be0d0ee55ea"
---

# Runtime absorption into hub-core and archive

## Goal

Move production framework responsibility from this repository into the
consolidated **hub-core runtime**, preserve `/api/v2` consumer compatibility
through dual-run, then **archive core-hub** read-only with evidence.

Parent project: `prj-state-hub-retirement`. Depends on **HUB-WP-0004**.

## Sequencing decision — 2026-08-20

The CoulombCore decommission does not force the unresolved hub-core
library-vs-thin-host decision. Production continuity is decoupled through
`CORE-WP-0011`, which moves the existing Core Hub service to railiance01
first. The absorption work cannot proceed until `HUB-WP-0004` settles the
durable runtime boundary; it must not sit on the critical path for leaving
CoulombCore.

## Readiness and blocker review — 2026-08-21

At the start of the review, `CORE-WP-0011` was finished and the runtime surface
inventory was complete, but `HUB-WP-0004` was still proposed. Its runtime
packaging (`T03`), minimal ports (`T04`), and joint absorption plan (`T06`) were
therefore recorded as the blockers. The advancement below supersedes that
dependency snapshot.

## Dependency advancement — 2026-08-21

Hub-core has completed `HUB-WP-0004-T01`–`T05` in its file-backed workplan and
State Hub: the primary-image decision, Tier 1 contracts, minimal port runtime,
and initial conformance harness now exist. The paired design is recorded in
`docs/specs/runtime-absorption-plan.md`, completing this workplan's T02 input
and the Core Hub half of `HUB-WP-0004-T06`. Hub-core then completed T06 with
the canonical joint record in `hub-core/docs/core-hub-absorption-plan.md`,
decision `12514947-6cc0-42a0-98ca-9aacc9d875b0`, and coordination message
`819d5af0-959f-4b0d-9f52-87514d99b480`.

Execution remains blocked on publishing the completed hub-core work at an
immutable source/image revision and replacing its deliberately ephemeral
in-memory backend with a production PostgreSQL boundary. Those are explicit
Slice 0 entry gates, not reasons to reopen the architecture decision.

## Inventory runtime surfaces to absorb

```task
id: CORE-WP-0010-T01
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "ce21c47f-ad66-4cd1-bd8b-c8fb92da3075"
```

List routes, models, widgets, manifests, consumer smokes, and deploy assets that
must move or remain as historical fixtures. Cross-check Inter-Hub inventory and
ops-hub bootstrap.

Completed 2026-08-21. The inventory records public/operator routes, durable
models, fixtures, consumer gates, extension-port coverage, deploy ownership,
and move constraints.

## Dual-run design

```task
id: CORE-WP-0010-T02
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "d2679b41-01e9-477c-9d8a-0b1ddc8847cf"
```

Define how hub-core serves equivalent `/api/v2` (or compatible gateway) while
core-hub remains rollback. Include feature flags, traffic shift, and smoke
ownership.

Completed 2026-08-21. `docs/specs/runtime-absorption-plan.md` defines the
route-group order, one-writer rule, data/delta checks, compatibility adapters,
consumer gates, traffic controls, rollback, evidence, and ownership. It is
aligned with hub-core's accepted canonical plan; `HUB-WP-0004-T06` is done.

## Execute absorption slices

```task
id: CORE-WP-0010-T03
status: wait
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "c01ddec1-5737-4115-ac73-c402ffb5bdc5"
```

Migrate in slices with consumer smokes (ops-hub, activity-core) after each.
Record row counts and fixture replays per slice.

Waiting on a committed/published hub-core runtime revision, immutable image,
durable PostgreSQL backend, and candidate deployment. Start with Slice 0; do
not change public traffic.

## Cutover production traffic

```task
id: CORE-WP-0010-T04
status: wait
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "dc414053-a896-4bf0-af05-944b7a7cf750"
```

With operator approval, point production at hub-core runtime; verify consumer
smokes and interaction evidence path.

Waiting on completed absorption evidence and explicit operator approval.

## Archive repository

```task
id: CORE-WP-0010-T05
status: wait
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "16525001-f85e-4dae-9dc4-d36cb1eb4fbe"
```

Write completion record (revisions, PRs, residual owners), set read-only archive
on forge, and hand residual work as live records outside this repo.

Waiting on production cutover and recorded residual ownership.

## Acceptance

- [x] Absorption inventory complete
- [x] Dual-run design approved/recorded
- [ ] Consumer smokes pass on hub-core host
- [ ] Production traffic cut over with evidence
- [ ] core-hub archived read-only; residuals owned elsewhere