Closes #76. Part of #54. `nwsync emit` held roughly 5× the artifact size in RAM, so ovh-main (7 GB, no swap) OOM-killed it on any hak over ~1.4 GB. That blocked the backfill in sow-assets-manifest and would have killed the next release rebuilding a large hak. ## What it does - `erf.ReadIndex` / `erf.ReadPayload` — parse the header and resource table only, read one payload on demand. `erf.Read` keeps its shape but returns payloads as subslices of the buffer instead of fresh copies, which removes one full copy for the `pipeline` callers too. Callers must not mutate `Resource.Data`; the doc comment says so and no caller does. - `nwsync.Emit` opens the artifact, hashes it by streaming for the key check (through a section reader, so the file offset stays put), then hashes, compresses and stores one resource at a time. The archive is never resident. Shadowed duplicate resrefs are now never read at all. - Bounds checks in `ReadIndex` moved to `int64`, so key/resource-list offsets can no longer overflow. ## Not in the issue, but memory-motivated The zstd blob encoder ran at the default concurrency, which is one encoder per CPU, each holding a window-sized history — about 200 MB of live heap doing nothing on a 24-core runner. `EncodeAll` is single-threaded per call, so concurrency 1 costs nothing. `TestSingleThreadedEncoderMatchesDefault` pins the claim that blobs come out byte-identical. ## Measured Peak heap during emit, sampled 1 ms: | hak | before | after | |-----|--------|-------| | 8 MB | 155 MB | 21 MB | | 64 MB | 289 MB | 22 MB | Flat, as the acceptance asks. `TestEmitPeakMemoryDoesNotScaleWithArtifactSize` fails if the 64 MB fixture costs more than the 8 MB one plus 24 MB of slack. ## Gaps - The regression check measures Go heap, not RSS, and its largest fixture is 64 MB — a multi-GB run was not done here. A 2.15 GB hak now needs about the same ~22 MB the 64 MB one does, so the 5 GB budget is not close, but that is inference from the flat curve, not a measurement. - mmap was suggested in the issue and skipped. Payload buffers are still anonymous, but they are one resource each (≤15 MiB), so making them file-backed buys nothing now. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)Reviewed-on: #78 Reviewed-by: xtul <mpiasecki720@protonmail.com> Co-authored-by: vickydotbat <vickydotbat@tutamail.com>
sow-tools — Crucible
Crucible is the Shadows Over Westgate build/conversion/sync toolchain: one Go
module producing several small binaries plus a crucible dispatcher (D11). It is
the only repo that owns builder logic; the artifact repos (sow-module,
sow-topdata, sow-assets-manifest) invoke Crucible through wrapper scripts and
never embed a toolkit.
Repos produce artifacts. sow-platform deploys artifacts.
Crucible is how the artifact repos turn source into artifacts.
Binaries
| Binary | Dispatcher form | Owns |
|---|---|---|
crucible |
— | dispatcher: crucible <builder> [args] |
crucible-depot |
crucible depot |
content-addressed depot blob verify/move |
crucible-hak |
crucible hak |
ERF/HAK pack/unpack + hak manifests |
crucible-module |
crucible module |
build/extract/validate/compare the .mod |
crucible-nwsync |
crucible nwsync |
NWSync blob emit + manifest assemble |
crucible-topdata |
crucible topdata |
compile 2da/tlk topdata + packages |
crucible-wiki |
crucible wiki |
render + deploy mechanical wiki pages |
The dispatcher and the standalone shims share one registry
(internal/dispatch); the shims exist so consumer wrapper scripts can resolve a
single-token command. The full legacy nwn-tool command surface and where each
command lands is mapped in docs/command-surface.md.
Status (cutover performed)
The internal app/pipeline/project/erf/gff/topdata/changelog/
validator packages from gitea/sow-tools have been migrated into this tree, and
the module, topdata, hak, and wiki builders now delegate to the migrated
nwn-tool command surface (mapped in
docs/command-surface.md). config and changelog
are global commands on the dispatcher. depot has no migrated logic yet, so it
keeps the fail-closed path: exit 70, never a faked artifact.
See docs/migration-from-nwn-tool.md for what
was done and what remains (the consumer --manifest/--source/--out flag contract
is the open Phase-6 item).
Quick start (no Nix)
Teammates without Nix don't build anything — they run the bootstrap wrapper,
which downloads the latest released crucible for your OS and runs it:
./crucible # interactive menu (pick a command)
./crucible module build
./crucible topdata validate
Windows (PowerShell):
.\crucible.ps1 module build
The binary is cached under ~/.cache/crucible/<version>/ (%LOCALAPPDATA%\crucible
on Windows); --repo-local caches inside the repo instead. Private releases:
set CRUCIBLE_TOKEN or write the token to ~/.config/crucible/token.
Develop
Self-contained (D8) — a host with only Nix can run everything:
nix develop # Go + shellcheck + yamllint + make
make check # go vet + go test + shellcheck + yamllint
make build # build every cmd/* into ./bin (gitignored)
make smoke # build + assert the fail-closed contract
Binaries are never committed — they are CI artifacts (D19).
This retires the old habit of checking in nwn-tool / sow-toolkit.
CI
PR-first (D7): checks run once on pull requests; the only publish event is a
v* tag (see runbooks/ci-trigger-standard.md in sow-docs,
https://git.westgate.pw/ShadowsOverWestgate/sow-docs).
ci.yml— vet, test, shellcheck, yamllint, binary smoke, and cross-build all targets once per pull request.build-binaries.yml— on av*tag, cross-build and upload the binaries,SHA256SUMS, and the wrappers to the Gitea release, then delete the assets of every release except the newest two — Gitea keeps them forever otherwise, and every binary is reproducible from its tag.sync-wrappers.yml— on amainpush that toucheswrappers/, auto-PR the canonical wrappers to the consumer repos inwrappers/consumers.txt. Consumer drift checks run after those PRs merge tomain, not on the PRs themselves, to avoid recursive cross-repo checks.
Consumers
How the artifact repos resolve a Crucible binary is
documented in docs/consumer-contract.md.