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5899354441 Clarify documentation, migration guidance, and SDK selection (#4823)
# Description

Remove stock phrasing and correct misleading or inconsistent technical
documentation. The initial two passes covered 367 Markdown files,
followed by an interactive review of 169 editorial flags. The U5
interpretation originally deferred in that review has since received the
upstream Mantis answer recorded by #4843; remaining server/spec
follow-ups stay explicit in the CTT log.

- Correct package responsibilities, migration steps, API names,
ownership, protocol descriptions and links. Keep bundled migration
guides synchronized. Preserve historical conclusions as historical
records with separate re-check notes.
- Provide at least two rendered TOC levels throughout `docs/`. Convert
appropriate architecture figures to Mermaid without changing code
examples, transcripts or historical quotations.
- Address the October 19 feedback with concrete setup/migration
instructions, corrected certificate paths and PubSub names, shorter
repeated caveats, consistent XML comments, and a full review of the
Concepts guide. Retain #4839's API corrections.
- Integrate #4841's runtime/performance guidance and review
incoming/recent prose. Preserve dated measurements rather than claiming
new benchmark runs; clarify allocation ratios, startup-only processor
settings, JIT warm-up and the benchmark commit's scope. Missing raw
measurement artifacts and repeat ranges remain tracked by #4842.
- Merge master through `e8c5d800a` in `32c6394b7`. Resolve the CTT log
conflict using the updated Mantis states and OPC answers, retaining
historical framing and re-checks for C28/C32/C43.
- Address the latest naming/index feedback in `adb5bf693`: rename the
guides to `docs/WotCon.md` and `docs/WotNodeSetConversion.md`; move the
provider and DataType-declaration contracts into the conversion guide
and remove `docs/WoT.md`. Rename `samples/DI` to `samples/Di` and
`samples/Isa95` to `samples/ISA95`. Add content-index READMEs to Di,
FluentApi, ISA95, Lds and PubSub; update solution entries, project
references, Docker/CI paths, test fixture paths and documentation links
with exact casing.

**WoT guide scope.** This branch retains the detailed conversion guide
that #4758 had replaced with an anchor stub. Conversion limits, verified
document sets, preservation rules and provider ownership now live
together in `WotNodeSetConversion.md`; binding/runtime guidance remains
in `WotBindings.md` and `WotCon.md`. The design-rationale/test-ledger
prose was shortened, the oversized argument-table cell moved into its
section, and existing anchors preserved.

**SDK policy is a separate, explicit user-directed change.**
`global.json` sets a stable minimum of `10.0.400`, `rollForward:
latestMajor`, and `allowPrerelease: false`. Newer major SDKs are
permitted; CI's explicit SDK pins are unchanged. README, GettingStarted,
DeveloperGuide and Recycling instructions reflect the possible analyzer
differences. The image-contract regression fix accepts compatible stable
SDK images instead of requiring exact equality with the floor.

The latest four rename/index threads are resolved after publication.
Three older threads remain open: universal obsolete-removal timing,
unconditional nonce-strength wording, and a blanket Vision NativeAOT
claim. Existing implementation/evidence constraints are explained in
their inline replies. The two-level TOCs remain as requested.

## Validation

- `git diff --check` and staged diff checks: passed. The untouched
upstream AutoID NodeSet retains its provenance bytes, including two
existing license-header trailing spaces.
- `.\.azurepipelines\validate-migration-plugin.ps1`: passed; 15 bundled
migration documents and manifests synchronized.
- Documentation/path validation: **101** documents retain two rendered
TOC levels (**2,228** entries), with idempotent formatting. **52** new
relative links and their anchors passed exact-case checks. No tracked
references to the old guide/sample paths remain. Both relocated
provider-contract sections are preserved in the destination.
- `dotnet sln UA.slnx list`: passed; shows the renamed Di/ISA95 projects
and the existing FluentApi/Lds/PubSub projects. Updated solution and
pump ProjectReference paths also passed exact-case existence checks.
- Latest focused commands, run from the repository root:

```powershell
# Passed: 61 channel send-order and reconnect tests.
dotnet test tests\Opc.Ua.Core.Tests\Opc.Ua.Core.Tests.csproj -p:CustomTestTarget=net10.0 --filter 'FullyQualifiedName~UaSCBinaryChannelSendOrderTests|FullyQualifiedName~TcpReconnectKeyAgreementTests' --verbosity minimal

# Passed: 5 pump datasheet tests; builds the renamed pump sample.
dotnet test tests\Opc.Ua.Di.Tests\Opc.Ua.Di.Tests.csproj -p:CustomTestTarget=net10.0 --filter 'FullyQualifiedName~PumpDatasheetConformanceTests' --verbosity minimal

# Passed: 4 repository NodeSet path/round-trip tests, including the moved pump models.
dotnet test tests\Opc.Ua.Types.Tests\Opc.Ua.Types.Tests.csproj -p:CustomTestTarget=net10.0 --filter 'FullyQualifiedName~RepositorySourceSurvivesSerializedLinkedPartitionsAsync' --verbosity minimal

# Passed: build, zero warnings/errors.
dotnet build samples\ISA95\MinimalIsa95Server\MinimalIsa95Server.csproj -p:CustomTestTarget=net10.0 -f net10.0 --verbosity minimal

# Passed: dependent sample-test project build, zero warnings/errors.
dotnet build tests\Opc.Ua.WotCon.Samples.Tests\Opc.Ua.WotCon.Samples.Tests.csproj -p:CustomTestTarget=net10.0 -f net10.0 --verbosity minimal
```

Earlier focused integration checks passed 2,620 tests across AutoID,
event queues/scheduling, source generation, MCP/package profiles and
WoT. Both reviewed Mermaid diagrams rendered locally without network
access. These checks are not a full solution run.

The full solution has **not** been rerun for this review. Earlier
`dotnet test UA.slnx -p:CustomTestTarget=net10.0 --verbosity quiet` did
not pass: three AOT projects rejected VSTest and 20 Vision tests failed
during graphics initialization with `OutOfMemoryException`. Remaining
long-running tests were stopped at the user's request. A focused Vision
rerun passed 558 tests and reproduced those 20 failures. The earlier
`dotnet test UA.slnx -p:CustomTestTarget=net48 --verbosity quiet` was
blocked by the former SDK pin and was not retried after the policy
change. The user approved proceeding with those limitations documented;
current remote CI is not claimed green.

## Related Issues

- Follow-up #4842 tracks the requested 2.0.2+ benchmark/tuning and
diagnostic-tool documentation refresh. #4841 supplies documentation and
earlier results, not all newly requested measurements.
- #4758 explains the conversion guide's earlier consolidation; the
current provider contracts are now consolidated into
`WotNodeSetConversion.md`.
- #4839 supplies the reviewed API corrections; #4843 supplies the
updated CTT issue record.
- The original prose cleanup and SDK policy were user-requested without
a source issue. No new runtime architecture is introduced by these
documentation edits.

## Checklist

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- [ ] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
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- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [ ] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
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- [ ] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
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- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-21 10:10:55 +02:00
Marc Schier 2836da7ec8 Fix sessionless ResultTransfer ownership bypass and other issues. (#4834)
# Description

Correct ownership, endpoint validation, policy propagation, subscription
delivery, file handling and generated-model behavior across the stack,
tools and samples. Add focused regression tests and update the
corresponding guides and sample documentation.

### Previously included corrections

- Require an active, matching session to generate or access transient
ResultTransfer file handles. Cover both sessionless generation and reads
against a handle owned by an active session, using live session owners
in the Machinery tests.
- Keep physical filesystem operations within their configured mount and
apply the same confinement checks throughout file operations.
- Validate LDS semaphore paths consistently during server registration
and registration-store maintenance.

### Individual issues addressed

| # | Component | Issue and correction |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI jobs and transfers | Jobs and transfers did not consistently
retain their creator's identity and session. Apply ownership checks to
descendants, file handles, subscriptions and execution, and recheck
deployment permissions before dispatch. |
| 2 | Password-management client | Password-bearing calls could use
signing-only channels or follow a replacement connection. Capture an
encrypted transport generation and keep dispatch bound to it; preserve
ordinary non-password edits. |
| 3 | GDS and certificate-push clients | Connections omitted hostname
verification. Validate the original configured DNS name or IP address
before session activation. |
| 4 | Certificate push | Private-key uploads could use signing-only
calls. Require an encrypted, generation-bound dispatch while preserving
certificate-only updates and restoring the caller's identity afterward.
|
| 5 | MQTT client | The .NET Framework custom-trust callback could
discard TLS hostname, certificate-availability and usage errors. Retain
those checks while supporting configured issuer trust. |
| 6 | DTLS handshake | Certificate trust was not tied to the configured
peer address. Match the certificate's DNS or IP identity to the intended
endpoint. |
| 7 | Replicated address spaces | Serialized nodes lost per-node and
descendant permission metadata. Preserve role permissions, user-role
permissions and access restrictions, including updates to existing
replica nodes. |
| 8 | MCP PubSub imports | Imports without groups skipped checks on the
effective broker destination. Check the actual endpoint before resolving
credentials or activating the connection. |
| 9 | Reference-server accounts | A disabled username account could
authenticate again with its previous roles. Reject disabled accounts
during fresh authentication. |
| 10 | Console reference client | The sample disabled hostname checks
when connecting to an otherwise trusted peer. Retain the original
requested host and validate it before activation. |
| 11 | Capture replay and export | Replay and raw export could accept
non-capture files or include key material. Require complete PCAP/PCAPNG
containers and exclude key sidecars and decryption-secret blocks. |
| 12 | PubSub adapter fallback | The fallback client configuration
automatically accepted peer certificates. Apply normal trust and
hostname validation before activation or reads. |
| 13 | Kafka transport | Explicit TLS enablement was checked but did not
reach both final Confluent configurations. Use the same effective
protocol for validation, producers and consumers. |
| 14 | PubSub actions | Configuration rebuilds could widen a
connection-local action handler's scope. Preserve its original
connection association and reject mismatched dispatch. |
| 15 | PubSub readers | Reader-level message-protection settings were
accepted but ignored. Apply the effective group and reader settings
before accepting and publishing received values. |
| 16 | PubSub key groups | Different `SecurityGroupId` values could
share one connection-wide key context. Reject mixed groups on a
connection and require separate connections for distinct groups. |
| 17 | MCP session registrations | Session-name replacement or reuse
could retain another registration's credential bindings. Bind access to
the registration, caller and authenticated endpoint, and preserve that
identity when borrowing sessions. |
| 18 | Viewer HTTP host | Requests reached the viewer's OPC UA session
without consistent Host, Origin and port checks. Validate the request
destination and browser origin before using the session, while retaining
supported local MCP clients. |
| 19 | Vision file operations | File operations did not consistently
apply protected-file checks, and remote handles lacked caller and
connection context. Apply the shared checks and use host-side opaque
handles bound to caller, target and generation. |
| 20 | DTLS record integrity | The integrity-only MAC used a truncated
sequence number. Authenticate the full reconstructed sequence number and
epoch so records remain distinct across rollover. |
| 21 | AMB client sample | Connection setup omitted hostname validation.
Preserve the originally requested host and verify the peer identity
before activation. |
| 22 | Robot sample writes | The R2 `SpeedOverride` callback could
target R1 state. Bind each callback to its own robot and apply that
robot's write policy. |
| 23 | AI result properties | Optional result children inherited
remotely writable defaults. Preserve their declaration restrictions and
keep server-produced results read-only. |
| 24 | WSS peer-trust updates | Existing channels did not consistently
respond to peer-trust changes. Revalidate complete chains for forward
and reverse WSS channels and close only those that no longer validate. |
| 25 | GDS revocation checks | Caller-provided certificates could cause
issuer retrieval from embedded URLs. Resolve validation from configured
local trust, issuers and CRLs without fetching caller-provided
locations. |
| 26 | GMS observations | Published correction observations retained
writable model defaults. Reject remote writes while preserving
publisher-side updates. |
| 27 | Production-dataset monitoring | Subscription admission and
delivery could use the reporter's context instead of each subscriber's
permissions. Evaluate the subscriber at admission and on every delivery,
including cancellation and disposal paths. |
| 28 | WoT MQTT destinations | Hostless MQTT forms could imply a
localhost destination before loopback checks. Reject them before
credential lookup or connection attempts and validate the effective
endpoint. |
| 29 | XRegistry opaque reads | Content-ID reads and notifications did
not consistently honor encrypted-read requirements or the currently
accepted transport. Recheck the bound endpoint and reject transport
downgrades before rebinding, including when protected values are already
queued. |
| 30 | PubSub capture dissection | Key loading did not consistently
check the configured capture-root boundary. Check each actual key path
immediately before opening it. |
| 31 | PubSub publication queues | Imported WriterGroup queues were not
fully checked against publish-topic grants. Check the destination
actually used by each group. |
| 32 | MCP PubSub mutations | A caller-supplied mode could select
subscribe grants for an operation that publishes. Derive the required
direction and parent context from the actual mutation. |
| 33 | Generated write masks | Model import and generation could widen
an explicit `UserWriteMask`. Preserve it through import, copy, merge,
inheritance and dependency metadata. |
| 34 | Generated method flags | An explicit `UserExecutable=false` could
be lost. Preserve its specified state and resulting method behavior
through the same model paths. |
| 35 | Generated role identifiers | Unresolved role identifiers could
cause permission entries to be omitted. Preserve namespace-qualified
role IDs and report a diagnostic when a policy cannot be represented. |
| 36 | Aggregation-server defaults | The `localhost` default did not
reliably constrain listener binding. Use numeric loopback for the
default endpoint and command-line fallback. |
| 37 | Certificate-validation cache | Cached results could skip current
leaf or issuer validity checks. Recheck validity windows on cache hits
and keep hostname validation independent of cached chain trust. |
| 38 | Software-update folders | Revision names and marker contents
containing dot segments could select paths outside the software root.
Normalize and check every derived path against that root. |
| 39 | USDA arrays | Array elements were not encoded for their string or
asset context. Escape them as data and preserve valid composition and
round-trip behavior. |
| 40 | Adapter hot reload | A changed dataset definition with the same
name could keep old fields, subscriptions or cached values active.
Compare complete immutable definitions and retire old state before
replacement. |
| 41 | Adapter index ranges | Subscription publication could ignore
`IndexRange` and return the complete value. Preserve the requested
projection and its status and timestamps; reject unsupported range
providers. |
| 42 | PubSub metadata and targets | Metadata from one connection could
change another connection's target mapping. Scope metadata to its
connection and provenance, and resolve targets using actual typed field
IDs rather than field names or unintended positional fallback. |
| 43 | Scales product locks | Product locks were not applied across
every remote mutation path. Apply them consistently to value writes,
filling calculations and related recipe/controller operations while
retaining permitted updates. |
| 44 | Event permission caching | Cached event decisions could outlive
identity, role or node-policy changes. Revalidate the current
subscriber, event type and source permissions instead of reusing a stale
decision. |
| 45 | WoT Modbus destinations | Hostless Modbus forms could imply
localhost before loopback checks. Reject them before connecting and
validate the effective endpoint. |
| 46 | MCP local PKI tools | Peer-trust mutations did not consistently
require the caller's `CertificateAdministration` grant. Check the
capability before trust and untrust operations. |
| 47 | Robot-control HTTP bridge | The bridge lacked consistent Host,
Origin and port validation and caller-specific session grants. Apply
those checks before borrowing the OPC UA session and retain supported
local clients. |
| 48 | Subscription transfers | Transferred subscriptions could retain
cached notifications after the destination's permissions changed.
Require authorization continuity between source and destination
identities and roles, invalidate stale retransmission data when
continuity fails, and preserve retransmission behavior for compatible
transfers. |

### Compatibility notes

- Replication uses the versioned NSRP v1 policy envelope. Upgrade peers
together and re-encode or reseed legacy topology from the authoritative
model; missing permission metadata is not inferred from old records.
- Integrity-only DTLS peers must be upgraded together for the full
sequence/epoch MAC. AEAD behavior is unchanged.
- Distinct PubSub key groups require separate connections.
- Custom sessions that cannot capture the actual encrypted transport,
and subscription providers that cannot honor a requested range, are
rejected rather than silently changing the requested behavior.
- Subscription transfers retain retransmission data only when the
destination authorization remains compatible with the source snapshot;
otherwise the old sequence numbers and cached data are invalidated.

## Related Issues

No separate tracking issue is linked. The individual corrections are
listed above.

## Checklist

_Put an `x` in the boxes that apply. You can complete these step by step
after opening the PR._

- [ ] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- [ ] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings.
- [ ] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed.
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings.
- [ ] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.
2026-10-21 05:37:29 +02:00
romanettandClaude Opus 5.5 9b034f8291 Enable nullable reference types centrally; migrate all unset and annotations-only projects (#4700)
# Description

Nullable reference types are now enabled once, in `common.props`, and
every project in the repository builds warning-clean with them.

**Configuration**
- `<Nullable>enable</Nullable>` lives in `common.props`. All per-project
`<Nullable>` settings are removed: 178 project files (enable,
annotations, and the `disable` in the three Aot test projects).
- 419 per-file `#nullable enable`/`restore` directives and the 4
`#nullable disable` directives are removed.
- Kept on purpose:
- The 5 `<auto-generated>` schema files (`UANodeSet.cs`, `UA Type
Dictionary.cs`, `OPCBinarySchema.cs`, `SecuredApplication.cs`,
`PInvokeHelper.cs`) keep `#nullable enable`. The compiler ignores the
project setting in generated code, so the directive is required there.
- `tests/Opc.Ua.Interop.LegacyPeer` keeps `disable`. It builds against
the 1.5.378 packages and does not import the repository props.
- `docs/DeveloperGuide.md` and `.github/copilot-instructions.md` now
describe the central setting.

**Migration** (the 43 unset and 13 annotations-only projects, roughly
10k diagnostics)
- **Production code: annotated at the declarations.** Covers
`tools/Opc.Ua.SourceGeneration.Core`, `src/Opc.Ua.Lds.Server` and the
LDS sample.
- Members, parameters and returns are nullable where null actually
flows.
- Null-check helpers carry `[NotNullWhen]` (`IsNull`, `IsValidXmlName`,
`IsMethodTypeDesign`).
- `CoreUtils.Format`, `Utils.Format`, `ITemplateWriter.WriteLine` take
`params object?[]`. `Template.AddReplacement` takes `string?` (rendering
already skips null replacements).
- `IRegisteredServerStore.RegisterAsync` returns
`Task<RegistrationEntry?>`: it returns null when a registration is
removed.
- Dereferences backed by an invariant (for example, the validated model)
use `!`, so runtime behaviour is unchanged.
- **Behavioural changes in production code** (small, deliberate):
- `NodeSetToModelDesign` throws `InvalidOperationException` when the
file is not a NodeSet. Before, it threw a NullReferenceException on the
next line.
- `ModelDesignValidator` starts its lookup tables empty instead of null.
A redundant `if (m_nodes == null) return;` guard is gone.
- **Test code: minimal annotations.**
  - `?` on values that can be null, `!` where the test asserts non-null.
  - `= null!` for fixture members assigned in SetUp.
- `TryGetStructure<T>(out T? x)` where the inferred `T?` broke the
`IEncodeable` constraint.
- A few redundant `== null` checks on structs (`NodeId`, `ArrayOf<T>`)
folded into the adjacent `IsNull`/`Count` checks.

**Notes for reviewers**
- The diff is large (~1,500 files) but almost entirely mechanical: `?`,
`!` and directive removal. The non-annotation changes are listed above.
- Known follow-up, not done here:
`IModelDesign.Namespaces/TargetNamespace/NamespaceUris` stay
non-nullable even though the validator returns null before it loads a
dictionary. Making them nullable would ripple through every generator
call site.

## Related Issues

- Fixes #4439

## Checklist

- [ ] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [ ] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings.
- [ ] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed.
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings.
- [ ] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.

The "no new warnings" box covers net10.0 and net48: full non-incremental
builds of `UA.slnx`, `tools/SourceGeneration.slnx`,
`tools/MigrationAnalyzer.slnx` and the Aot test projects finished with 0
warnings and 0 errors under the repository's warnings-as-errors
settings. net9.0 and net8.0 also had no nullable diagnostics, but they
were not rebuilt after the final fixes. Tests have not been run locally
yet.

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2026-10-08 08:48:13 +02:00
romanettandClaude Opus 5.5 61edaa1ed0 Remove netstandard2.1 and net472 target frameworks (#4624)
# Description

Drops support for **netstandard2.1** and **.NET Framework 4.7.2**.
Libraries now target `net48`, `net8.0`, `net9.0` and `net10.0`.
`Opc.Ua.Types` and `Opc.Ua.SourceGeneration.Core` still also target
`netstandard2.0`, but only because the Roslyn source generators load
them. There is no general netstandard2.0 support.

**Preprocessor directives** (112 files)
- Every `#if`/`#elif` mentioning `NETSTANDARD2_1*`, `NET472*`,
`NET_STANDARD_TESTS`, `SKIP_ECC_CERTIFICATE_REQUEST_SIGNING` or
`NETSTANDARD*` was evaluated against the remaining TFM set (net48,
net8/9/10, plus netstandard2.0 inside `Opc.Ua.Types`/`tools`) and
simplified. Dead branches were removed.
- Example: `NETSTANDARD2_1 || NET8_0_OR_GREATER` → `NET8_0_OR_GREATER`.
- Example: `NET8_0_OR_GREATER || NET472_OR_GREATER` → removed (always
true).
- Netstandard-only code was removed: `UnixFileModeShim`, the CRDT
reflection path in `ReplicatedGossipOptions.CreateReaderOptions`, and
the netstandard2.1-only test variants.

**Custom test logic**
- `targets.props` drops the `net472`, `netstandard2.0` and
`netstandard2.1` `CustomTestTarget` profiles, `NetStandardTests` and
`SKIP_ECC_CERTIFICATE_REQUEST_SIGNING`. Supported values are now
`net48`, `net8.0`, `net9.0`, `net10.0`.
- The `NET_STANDARD_TESTS` define is removed from 29 test projects.
- The "build netstandard shells as net10.0" overrides are removed from
18 projects.
- `RestrictForLegacyTfm` now only applies to `net48`.
- `tests/customtest.bat` is updated to the new values.

**Build / packaging / CI**
- MSBuild TFM conditions are simplified: Kestrel package choice, MQTTnet
v4 (net48 only), BouncyCastle, Di/OpenUsd/Vision/Stress test excludes,
and `System.IO.FileSystem.AccessControl` (dropped from Core).
- The MigrationAnalyzer nuspec drops its net472/netstandard2.1 lib
groups. The Azure signing lists are updated.
- `get-ci-matrix.ps1` removes the net472/netstandard test profiles
(including the PR-gating `linux-netstandard2.1`) and the matching build
legs.

**Breaking API change (2.0 preview):** removed
`HttpsTransportListener.IsWssTransportSupported` and
`ReplicatedGossipOptions.IsGossipStateDecodingSupported`. They only
returned `false` on netstandard2.1 and are now always `true`. The test
guards that used them were removed as well.

**Docs**
- NuGet READMEs, `README.md`, `DeveloperGuide.md`, `PubSub.md`, the
certificate/ECC/identity docs and the 2.0 migration guide (plus its
`.agents` skill mirror) are updated.
- The migration guide notes that 4.7.2 consumers must move to 4.8 and
netstandard2.1 consumers to net8.0+.

### Reviewer notes
- The `System.IO.FileSystem.AccessControl` `PackageVersion` pin is left
in `Directory.Packages.props`. It has no direct reference any more, but
transitive pinning is on, so it was kept to avoid shifting resolved
versions.
- The `#if` rewrite was done mechanically by a truth-table evaluator.
The diff in the `.cs` files is limited to directive lines, removed dead
branches, and stale-comment updates.

### Verified locally
- `dotnet build UA.slnx -p:CustomTestTarget=net48`: 0 errors.
- `dotnet build UA.slnx -p:CustomTestTarget=net10.0`: 0 errors.
- Default multi-target builds (no `CustomTestTarget`) of Opc.Ua.Types,
Bindings.Https, PubSub.Mqtt and Redundancy.Server succeeded.
- net10.0 tests:
  - Opc.Ua.Redundancy.Server.Tests: 840/840 passed.
  - Opc.Ua.Types.Tests: 11363 passed, 1 skipped.
  - ModelDependencyScanner tests: 20/20 passed.
- The full test suite was **not** run locally.

## Related Issues

- None

## Checklist

- [ ] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [ ] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [ ] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings.
- [ ] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed.
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings.
- [ ] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.

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2026-10-02 17:09:49 +02:00
Marc SchierandCopilot Autofix powered by AI e9313ef957 Only use GitHub action for CI and nightly, establish release-branch-only package publication (#4513)
## Description

Two related changes to how the 2.0 line is built and shipped.

### 1. Release-branch-only package publication

- `master` produces development previews only.
- Stable packages can only be built from a canonical
`release/<major>.<minor>` branch and are promoted manually from the
exact signed candidate artifact.
- Core packages use explicit `major.minor.patch` versions (`2.0.0`,
`2.0.1`, then `2.1.0`); git height never changes a stable package patch.
- XRegistry, WoT Connectivity, Vision, Robotics, Redundancy,
Positioning, OpenUSD, ISA95, AI, DI, the relevant MCP extensions, and
OpenUSD connector tools remain `-preview.N` while following the core
numeric version.
- nuget.org receives only non-`.Debug` package IDs; GitHub Packages
retains the complete signed Release/Debug candidate.
- `docs/ReleaseProcess.md` is a reproducible runbook for developers and
agents, with each step stating its completion evidence.

Promotion is source-bound and byte-checked: `release.yml` checks out
nothing until the candidate SHA is known, and
`assert-published-packages-match.ps1` proves that any version already on
a feed holds *this* candidate's content before `--skip-duplicate` is
allowed to skip it. Canonical release-branch naming is matched
case-sensitively with no leading zeroes, and `version.json`'s
`publicReleaseRefSpec`, both policy helpers and the copy `release.yml`
inlines are pinned to one expression by tests.

### 2. PR CI moved to GitHub-hosted runners

- `.github/workflows/buildandtest.yml` (**CI**) now owns pull-request
validation outright, covering the Windows Debug/Release net48 + net10.0
solution builds and fast tests that only Azure Pipelines ran, alongside
the existing Linux/macOS, all-target and NativeAOT legs. `build-and-test
summary` remains the stable required check name.
- `.github/workflows/nightly.yml` is a new **manual-only**
(`workflow_dispatch`) full-scope workflow covering the Azure nightly
workload: all solutions x seven target profiles x Debug/Release, the
net472/netstandard profiles, Windows + Linux NativeAOT, and the
long-running and durable tiers.
- Shared deterministic discovery/batching lives in
`.github/scripts/get-ci-matrix.ps1` with a local composite action, so
both entry points expand the same workload manifest instead of
duplicating a large embedded script.
- `azure-pipelines.yml` is set to `pr: none`.
- The standalone pump sample image workflow is folded into the
consolidated **Images CI** workflow, which now builds all ten images and
publishes an `images summary` rollup suitable as a required check.

## Related Issues

No related issue provided.

## Checklist

- [ ] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings.
- [ ] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed.
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings.
- [x] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.

## Validation

- `Opc.Ua.Tools.Tests` full `net10.0` suite: **959 passed, 1 skipped, 0
failed**.
- Version/package-policy regression subset
(`PackageVersionPolicyTests`): **60 passed, 0 failed**.
- GitHub Actions **CI** run 35719807620: **149/149 jobs green** on
GitHub-hosted runners.
- Canonical release-branch rule verified against the pinned nbgv 3.7.115
by building throwaway branches: `release/2.0`, `release/0.9`,
`release/10.42` -> `PublicRelease=True`; `release/02.0`, `release/2.00`,
`Release/2.0` -> `False`.
- Package identity gate verified against a live nuget.org package:
served packages carry a repository `.signature.p7s`, so equality is
decided on content excluding that part. Re-signing and zip reordering
produce an identical digest; a one-byte content change does not.
- Synthetic Release-only, Debug-only, combined, preview, duplicate,
orphaned-symbol, mismatched-root and accidental-stable-family package
sets exercise the shared validator.
- Stable-release rehearsal in an isolated `release/2.0` clone:
`Opc.Ua.Di` packed as `2.0.0-preview.6` depending on stable Core
`2.0.0`; `Opc.Ua.Di.Client` likewise against stable Client `2.0.0`.
- All workflow YAML, `version.json`, the package-policy PowerShell
scripts and the internal release-runbook anchors parse.

## Known validation limits

- Full `UA.slnx` `net48` and `net10.0` local validation remains blocked
by pre-existing `NETSDK1005` and dependency-version failures in
unmodified fuzz/sample projects; the corresponding checklist items
intentionally stay open.
- The TRX-driven test verdict added for the intermittent at-exit host
stall is proven by `CiTestVerdictTests`; the stall itself has not
recurred since.
- `nightly.yml` has not yet been run against a full-scope Azure run for
tuple-level parity — see below.

## Operational follow-up

This remains a preparation PR targeting `master`. It does **not**
authorize a release.

Release sequence:

1. Merge this PR.
2. Create canonical `release/2.0`, advance `master` to
`2.1.0-preview.{height}`, and open a separate `2.0.0` version PR against
`release/2.0`.
3. Follow
[`docs/ReleaseProcess.md`](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/docs/ReleaseProcess.md)
for candidate dry-run, environment approval, promotion, tag/release
finalization, and next-patch preview setup.

CI migration steps still needing administrator access are tracked in
[`docs/DeveloperGuide.md#migration-status`](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/docs/DeveloperGuide.md#migration-status):
proving `nightly.yml` parity on a trusted SHA with the private fuzz
corpus provisioned, turning off definition 14's service-side PR
override, retiring the Azure full-scope schedules and push trigger, and
retiring the duplicate `azure-pipelines-preview.yml` publisher.

> **Before cutting `release/2.0`:** the `Release` ruleset requires the
Azure context for *every* `refs/heads/release/*`, but a new 2.x branch
inherits `pr: none`, so that context would never report and would block
every PR into the new line. Exclude the new ref from that ruleset, or
add a 2.x ruleset requiring `build-and-test summary`, as part of
creating the branch.

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2026-09-23 15:47:43 +00:00
Marc Schier fd7c88c136 Add federated OpenUSD site demo (#4393)
# Description

Adds a one-command federated OpenUSD site demo and fixes the composition
path
that previously produced an empty, overlapping, or poorly framed
viewport.

- Add
`samples/OpenUsd/SiteCompositionServer/run-site-composition-demo.ps1` to
  build and start the pump, generator, and site servers, wait for every
  endpoint, publish the connector and viewer side by side, launch the
  federated viewport, and clean up child processes and artifacts.
- Include every fetched root layer in the generated stage and prepare
  structural component composition before the retained renderer starts.
- Continue persisting structural changes while forwarding value-only
updates
  into the live viewport, avoiding renderer topology invalidation.
- Fold structured translation, rotation, and scale values into
`xformOp:transform` matrices in `UsdFileSink`, including time samples,
so
multiple pump and generator instances remain distinct when the stage is
  reopened.
- Preserve the latest prior transform components when independently
sampled
  translation, rotation, or scale history adds a new matrix sample.
- Reframe the site camera to show all three default pumps and both
generator
  sets.
- Move the detailed root sample catalog to `docs/samples.md` and replace
it
with a concise link to the platform-independent samples and companion
sample
  repository.

Validation performed:

- Ran the demo script through both its existing-viewer-bundle path and
its
  default side-by-side publish path on isolated ports.
- Ran the focused OpenUSD connector and file-sink tests: 30 passed.
- Ran the full `Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Tests` project: 919 passed; the remaining
local
failure is the existing culture-sensitive decimal formatting assertion
on
  this host's `en-DE` culture.
- Ran the focused review-feedback file-sink tests: 19 passed.

## Related Issues

- Fixes #4392

## Checklist

- [ ] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings.
- [ ] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed.
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings.
- [x] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.

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2026-09-03 10:34:21 +02:00
Marc SchierandCopilot c84c168585 Merge OpenUSD scene packages (#4384)
# Description

Merge the draft OpenUSD Scene Materialization projects into the existing
OpenUSD core and server
packages:

- move the scene companion model, document/value model, and `.usda`
conversion APIs into
  `Opc.Ua.OpenUsd`;
- move discovery, materialization, export, and Part 1 interop into
`Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Server`;
- rename the CLR APIs to `Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Scene`,
`Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Scene.Conversion`, and
  `Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Server.Scene`;
- remove the `Opc.Ua.OpenUsdScene` and `Opc.Ua.OpenUsdScene.Server`
projects and NuGet package IDs;
- update the connector, the consolidated OpenUSD test project, package
READMEs, and developer docs.

This is an intentional source- and binary-breaking cleanup for the draft
Scene packages. The OPC UA
Scene model URI, version, NodeIds, and wire behavior remain unchanged.

## Related Issues

- Fixes #4383

## Validation

- `UA.slnx` Release builds completed for `CustomTestTarget=net10.0` and
`CustomTestTarget=net48`.
- OpenUSD tests passed on net10.0 (915) and net48 (879), excluding the
existing host-culture
assertion; the isolated assertion passed under invariant globalization.
- The generated Release pack contains the expected 75 packages, emits
neither retired Scene
package, and passes
`.azurepipelines\validate-source-generator-packages.ps1`.
- The two surviving packages expose the new nested namespaces and
contain no retired package
  dependencies.

## Checklist

- [ ] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [ ] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings.
- [ ] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed.
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings.
- [ ] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.

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2026-09-02 12:06:52 +00:00
Marc SchierandCopilot cef83550cb OPC UA Vision: a vision-guided bin-picking demo an LLM agent can see and drive (#4235)
# Description

Implements **OPC UA — Vision** and uses it to build the demo the
companion specifications were drafted for: an eye-in-hand camera watches
a bin of parts, a language model *looks at the frame*, decides which
part matches the instruction, and commands the robot through Robot
Intent — with the OpenUSD viewer showing the arm move and the bin empty
out.

> **Draft, and stacked.**
[#4195](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/pull/4195) has
merged and master is merged in, so what is left on top of `master` is
the Vision work plus the unmerged `marcschier/ai-model-management`
branch, which the demo needs for the model/dataset/deployment
provenance. Review the Vision commits; the AI Model Management work
lands with its own PR.

## What is here

**The specification, implemented.** `Opc.Ua.Vision` is generated from
the spec's own `Opc.Ua.Vision.NodeSet2.xml`, vendored byte-identically
(SHA-256 `79C592C6…`, verified against a fresh download and stored
LF-preserved like the Robot Intent NodeSet). `Opc.Ua.Vision.Server`
builds the §4.2 discovery object, sensors, the coordinate-frame tree,
calibrations, media endpoints, inference pipelines and the §9 feedback
methods, with rendering and inference behind injectable providers.
`Opc.Ua.Vision.Client` is built on the generated ObjectType proxies and
composes transforms across the frame tree, which is what turns a
detection in camera coordinates into a pose a robot can act on.

**Two perception paths behind one contract**, which is exactly what
`InferenceLocationEnum` is for. `OnServer` is a deterministic detector
derived from the stage's ground truth — no model, no network, no GPU, so
CI can exercise the whole loop. `EdgeOffServer` is the agent: it sees
the frame over MCP and calls `SubmitDetections`, and the Server
publishes results it did not compute. A client reads
`DetectionResultType` identically either way.

**The agent's eyes.** `tools/Opc.Ua.Mcp.Vision` adds 22 `vision_*`
tools, which with the four shared connection tools makes the `vision`
profile 26; `vision_get_frame` returns the camera image as an MCP
`ImageContentBlock`, so the model looks at pixels rather than reading a
description of them. Tool profiles now compose — `--profile
vision,robotics` yields 62 tools — so one agent can both see and act
without dragging in the full 136-tool catalogue.

**The cell.** `samples/Robotics/BinPickingCell` follows the spec's own
Robotics-Vision Addendum: the `world → robot_base → flange →
gripper_tcp` frame tree with `camera_eih` on the flange, the `HandEye`
extrinsics and the `Intrinsics612x512` intrinsics — the addendum's
2448×2048 calibration scaled to the 4×4-binned grid the camera actually
delivers. `samples/Robotics/BinPickingClient` hosts the composed MCP
catalogue and optionally the viewer.

**Documentation.** `docs/Vision.md` (~800 lines) covers the model,
hosting, the build context, every topology builder, both perception
paths, feedback, the MCP profile and the limitations; linked from
`docs/README.md`, with the profile table in `docs/McpServer.md` and
READMEs for both samples.

## Evidence, not assertions

Each of these was measured on a running system rather than assumed:

| Claim | Evidence |
|---|---|
| The camera sees the bin | 612×512 frame with the bin and all five
parts in view — red `(212,47,47)`, green `(61,193,71)`, blue
`(54,85,218)`, yellow `(215,196,58)`, orange `(209,119,55)` |
| An agent can act on what it sees | Over MCP, `vision_get_frame`
returns a 612×512 PNG that decodes from base64 to 1,254,051 bytes, the
descriptor beside the detections says 612×512, and all five
`BoundingBox2D` centres land **inside** the frame on the pixel colour
their own detection claims |
| The geometry is right | A detection composed `camera_eih → world`
lands on the authored position, residual **0.0000 m** — on both the
on-server and off-server paths |
| The detector tracks the world | Placing a part drops the next scan
from 5 detections to 4, with that part absent |
| The robot obeys the agent | Scripted run took command authority and
completed a pick and a place, both `Succeeded` |
| Tool catalogues are honest | Counted from a running server: vision 26,
robotics 40, `vision,robotics` 62, full 136, **zero duplicates** |
| Every node is browsable by NodeId | Eight representative NodeIds —
both folders, a pipeline, a frame, the sensor, its Calibrations folder,
the HandEye calibration, the Media folder — all `Good` |

That tool-count check matters because the profile tests collapse names
into a `HashSet` and *cannot see* a duplicate registration — so the new
tests count registrations, not names.

## Things that were wrong, and are not now

Writing the tests found three defects of one kind — code that answered
instead of refusing. A zero-norm quaternion was silently rewritten to
identity, so a caller with an all-zero orientation got a confident wrong
grasp pose. `SubmitCorrection` rewrote a null `ResultId` to empty and
called the sink anyway. A bad `StageIdentifier` **killed the host
process** inside native `UsdStage.Open`, via an exception .NET cannot
catch. All three now refuse loudly and are pinned by tests.

**Nodes that existed but could not be reached.** The node manager
indexes the Vision root before configurators run, so everything the
fluent builder grafted on afterwards — both folders, the pipelines with
their Results and Feedback, the frames, the sensors with their optics,
calibrations and media endpoints — was never added to the index.
Browsing *forward from a parent* worked, because that walks
`NodeState.Children` in memory; browsing any of those nodes *by its own
NodeId* returned `BadNodeIdUnknown`, which is how an ordinary client and
the MCP discovery tools navigate. Registration is now deferred and
flushed after each configurator. The first fix covered only the DI path
and left the documented non-DI fallback broken in exactly the same way,
so `ConfigureVisionAsync` now exists and registers what it builds.

That defect survived a green suite because every test browsed children.
The new tests assert by NodeId, and were checked against the broken code
— with the flush removed, they fail.

**Every Method was uncallable.** The Server passed 426 unit tests while
not one of its Methods could be invoked over a real session —
`RunInference` returned `Bad_TooManyArguments`, and so did every other
Method that takes arguments, which is all of them but `StartContinuous`
and `Stop`. Three independent faults, each sufficient on its own: the
Method nodes were never created (they are Optional children, and the
dispatcher guards every attachment with a null check, so it silently
attached nothing); nothing declared the arguments, so the stack
concluded none were expected; and `MethodDeclarationId` pointed at a
synthesised NodeId rather than the NodeSet declaration a client calls
with, so the lookup missed the instance Method entirely. The builder now
creates the Methods, the `Results` folder and the `Feedback` object when
a provider or sink is configured, declares every signature, and names
the right declaration.

Unit tests could not have caught this: they invoke the handler delegates
directly and never go through `MethodState.Call`. It took an end-to-end
test over a real session. Relatedly, children created by the generated
`CreateOrReplace` helpers carry no `ReferenceTypeId`, so nothing could
reach them — fixed once in the build context rather than at the several
dozen call sites.
**And one where I was wrong.** Earlier in this branch I reversed my own
agents' decision and made `SubmitDetections` accept an empty detection
set, reasoning that "I looked and the bin is empty" is a correct
observation and refusing it forces a correct agent to invent a
detection. The reasoning is sound; it is also an argument *against* the
specification rather than an implementation of it. §9.5 is normative and
explicit — its StatusCode table lists `Bad_InvalidArgument` for
"`Detections` empty; or `SubmitCorrection` supplies both or neither
corrected array".

Worse, **none of §9.5's argument rules were enforced anywhere** — the
dispatcher forwarded every submission straight to the feedback sink, so
conformance depended on whichever sink a host installed. They are Server
obligations, so they now live in the dispatcher, ahead of the sink,
proven by strict mocks that would throw if the sink were consulted. The
usability problem is real and does not go away by conforming, so it is
raised where it can be fixed:
[opcua-drafts#70](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/issues/70).

## Tracking the updated drafts

The Vision, Robot Intent and AI Model Management NodeSets on
`opcua-drafts` `main` have moved, partly because of feedback this branch
raised. All three are re-vendored byte-identically — verified by
comparing git blob hashes against the upstream files rather than by eye
— and the implementations follow.

**Two statements that were previously inexpressible now have a wire
representation.** `SubmitDetections` takes `SceneIsEmpty` and
`SubmitCorrection` takes `RetractAll`, so an agent can report "I
examined this frame and there is nothing in it" — the terminating
condition of the bin-picking task — and can retract a false positive by
correcting a result down to nothing. Both are checked in both
directions, because the flag is exactly what separates a deliberate
empty observation from a lost payload: an empty array without the flag
is refused, and the flag with an array attached is refused as two
contradictory claims about one frame. Implemented in the dispatcher, the
client, the MCP tools the agent drives, and the sample cell.

Also absorbed: `LampType` and `LightingMode` became enums (§66),
`ProfileName` became `DefaultProfileName` on the endpoint (distinct from
the `ProfileName` a caller passes to `GetStreamEndpoint`, which keeps
its name), AI `Invoke`/`InvokeAsync` gained `PayloadUri` under the same
exactly-one rule, and AI `ListModels` gained a `ContinuationPoint` —
because `MaxResults` alone puts everything past the bound permanently
out of reach.

**OpenUSD is on `0.9.0-alpha`**, verified on the running cell rather
than by restore alone: D3D12 backend, 612×512 frame, the bin and all
five parts in view and detected — the same result `0.8.0-alpha`
produced.

The one local workaround that survives is `VisionMethodArguments`, and
its reason has changed rather than gone away: the builder materialises
these Methods as Optional children through `CreateOrReplace`, which
constructs the state object directly and never runs the generated
factory that now carries the signatures. Checked rather than assumed —
removing the declarations fails five of the eight
`VisionMethodSurfaceTests`.

## Review feedback

Three threads, all addressed in `0fe2803a3`:

- **The AI Model Management work is now a library family, not a
sample.** `src/Opc.Ua.AI` (model), `.Inference` (`IInferenceBackend` and
backends), `.Server` (node manager) and `.Client` (discovery, reads,
calls, artefact transfer), in the same shape as the Robotics and Vision
families; the samples become `samples/AI/ModelManagementServer` and
`ModelManagementClient`. The client library needed real work rather than
relocation: its browsing surface was `private` inside the sample's
scenario runner, so moving the file alone would have produced a library
nobody could call.
- **No cloud-vendor SDK is referenced anywhere.** Inference goes through
`Microsoft.Extensions.AI` — an `IChatClient` is implemented by hosted
services and on-device runtimes alike, which is exactly the property
clause 8.1 asserts. `Azure.Identity` is gone: workload identity is not
an Azure feature, every platform projects a token into a file and each
SDK reads that file behind its own API, so the resolver reads it
directly. The comment claiming `Microsoft.Extensions.AI` would force a
`System.Text.Json` bump was stale — it pins 10.0.10, which this
repository already centralises on.
- **`BinPickingCell` and `BinPickingClient` moved into
`samples/Robotics/`**, which is where they belonged: the cell was
already linking the arm, its kinematics and both USD assets out of
`IntentEnabledRobot`.

## Upstream

Work that belonged elsewhere went elsewhere rather than being worked
around locally:

- **`openusd-dotnet`
[#13](https://github.com/marcschier/openusd-dotnet/pull/13)** — merged
and shipped in `0.8.0-alpha`. `SilkFrameCapture.Capture` rendered only
the first capture of a session and silently returned a blank frame for
every one after it. Also filed
[#14](https://github.com/marcschier/openusd-dotnet/issues/14) (no
camera-by-prim API) and
[#15](https://github.com/marcschier/openusd-dotnet/issues/15) (skipped
tests reported as passed — which fooled me for several runs). Both are
fixed; this branch takes `0.8.0-alpha` and deletes two workarounds,
including 143 lines of hand-rolled projection maths.
- **`opcua-drafts`
[#66](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/issues/66)–[#69](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/issues/69)**
— a close read of the spec produced 22 candidate ambiguities; 12 were
discarded as misreadings with clause citations and the remaining 10
filed. One is concrete: five members exist in the NodeId CSV that no
clause documents.
- **`opcua-drafts`
[#70](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/issues/70)** — §9.5
could not express an empty observation or a false-positive retraction.
**Adopted**, with the explicit-flag resolution argued for:
`SubmitDetections` gained `SceneIsEmpty`, `SubmitCorrection` gained
`RetractAll`, and the corrected-array rule relaxed from *exactly one* to
*at most one*.
- **`opcua-drafts`
[#71](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/issues/71)** — the
Vision NodeSet browse-named all 13 `InputArguments` / `OutputArguments`
Properties in the Vision namespace rather than the base namespace, so a
stack could not find them and every Method in the specification was
uncallable. **Fixed**; this branch now tracks the corrected artefact.

## The defect underneath it all

The end-to-end suite was removed earlier in this branch because nine of
its
fourteen tests failed on one symptom: a client could not open a
pipeline's
`Feedback` object or enumerate its `Results`, even though browsing the
same
parent listed both. Restoring it meant explaining that, and the
explanation
was not in Vision.

`RelativePathElement` initialised **`IsInverse` to `true`**. A caller
that
sets a `ReferenceTypeId` and a `TargetName` — which reads as *"the child
reached by this Reference"* — was therefore asking the Server for the
**inverse** Reference, and got `Bad_NoMatch` with nothing in the request
to
suggest why.

`ObjectTypeClient.ResolveChildNodeIdAsync` is such a caller, and it is
what
**every source-generated Optional-child accessor in the stack** is built
on
— the accessor whose own documentation cites
`AlarmConditionTypeClient.GetShelvingStateAsync`
as an example. Vision is merely where it surfaced, because Vision puts
two
Optional children on the path an off-Server agent must take. The sibling
helper in `StateMachineTypeClientExtensions` already set `IsInverse =
false`
by hand, which is the shape of a trap rather than a default.

The default is now forward, `ResolveChildNodeIdAsync` says so
explicitly,
and the existing test that had recorded `true` as *expected* now pins
`false` with the reasoning. Of the forty `RelativePathElement`
construction
sites in the tree, that accessor was **the only one relying on the
default at
all** — every deliberate caller already set it.

Two further defects were found underneath it, both real and both fixed:

- The generated `CreateOrReplace` helpers construct a child state object
directly and leave **`TypeDefinitionId`** unset as well as
`ReferenceTypeId`.
A child referenced by nothing cannot be browsed; one with no type
definition
is a malformed Object that a client filtering by type silently skips —
which
  is exactly what `EnumerateResultsAsync` does. Normalisation moved to
`VisionNodeManager`, so it also covers the case the builder cannot see:
a
result published **at runtime** by an inference provider, long after the
address space was built. That path produced results a client could list
but
  not read.
- `Opc.Ua.AI` shipped without an `AssemblyInfo`, so the solution built
with
  six `CA1014` warnings.

I had initially "fixed" this in the Vision client with Browse-based
fallbacks,
on the strength of a probe that appeared to show
`TranslateBrowsePathsToNodeIds`
failing even for `Server → ServerStatus`. That probe was wrong: it used
an
unqualified `ReferenceTypeIds`, which inside a `Opc.Ua.Vision.*`
namespace
binds to *Vision's* `ReferenceTypeIds` and yields a nonsense NodeId.
Chasing
that to the end is what turned up the real cause. **The fallbacks are
gone** —
they would have hidden a stack-wide bug behind a Vision-shaped
workaround, and
one of them matched on browse name while ignoring the namespace index.

`tests/Opc.Ua.Vision.Intent.Tests` is restored and back in `UA.slnx`,
passing
**14/14** on its own merit rather than through a client-side workaround.
A
registration test now pins the pipeline's `Feedback` and `Results`
children,
which nothing covered before.

## Running it, and what that found

The demo's premise is that a language model **looks at the bin and
reasons
about what it sees**. Running it end to end showed it could not, for
reasons
no test covered, because every one of them lived between components.

**The sample did not compile.** Two `CS8604` nullable errors with
`TreatWarningsAsErrors`, so neither the cell server nor the demo could
be
started at all. Worth recording that my first explanation was wrong: CI
*does*
build this project - the Linux leg's `net10.0` pass compiles it,
log-confirmed -
so this is not a coverage gap in the workflow, and no workflow change
was made.

**`Pick` and `Place` never moved the arm.** They were a delay plus a
gripper
action, so the operations reported `Succeeded` while nothing travelled.
They now
solve IK once and interpolate in joint space. **And the parts never
moved**: the
arm swung but the bin stayed full, because nothing tied the held object
to the
world state. The connector now creates 11 monitored items where it
created 6,
and a scripted run delivers `SeqNo=151` across 10 messages where it
delivered
`SeqNo=3` across 1.

**The frame was smuggled through a string field.** The media provider
put a
base64 *data URI* of the PNG into `VisionImageReferenceDataType.Uri` - a
field
meant to be a *reference*, while the bytes were already returned in the
inline
`ByteString`. Every response therefore shipped the image twice, and a
1,311,400-byte PNG became a 1,748,536-character string against a
`MaxStringLength` of 65,535: **26.7x over**. That is why raising
`MaxByteStringLength`, `MaxArrayLength` and `MaxMessageSize` never
helped - none
of them govern a `String`. Separately the MCP tool assigned raw bytes
where
`ImageContentBlock` requires base64, so the wire carried
`"data":"�PNG..."` -
every non-UTF-8 byte replaced by U+FFFD, destroying the image and
inflating the
response to 6.8 MB.

**The camera was aimed at nothing.** The arm's home pose, the flange
scan pose
the Vision model declared and the joint angles in the USD stage were
three
independent claims about where the camera was, and they disagreed - the
declared
flange orientation pointed the view 86 degrees away from the projection
camera.
Solving them as one thing exposed two further constraints that are easy
to miss:
the camera has to sit off the tool axis or it photographs its own
gripper, and
the IK branch has to be elbow-back or a link parks under the camera and
fills the
frame with the arm's own upper arm. A third was a regression this branch
introduced and `Opc.Ua.Robotics.Tests` caught - aiming a straight-down
camera
from a point on the base's own X-Z plane puts the wrist on the J4/J6
singularity, so every motion away from home fails to solve. A 15-degree
camera
roll, free because the camera still looks straight down, gets 25 degrees
clear,
which is the margin the poses before this branch had.

**The frame and the detections were different images.** The sensor
declared
2448x2048, the clip endpoint 1280x1024, and the renderer produced
640x512 - not
even the same aspect ratio. The ground-truth detector projects through
the
declared intrinsics, so its boxes lived in 2448x2048 space while an
agent was
handed a 640x512 picture: *"pick the red cube you can see"* arrived with
coordinates that pointed off the image. Everything now agrees at
612x512, an
exact 4x4 bin of the native sensor with the intrinsics scaled to match;
the
native size stays in the model and serial number, where it describes the
hardware rather than the image.

**`LatestClip` was created and never written**, so it reported
`Bad_NoDataAvailable` for the life of the Server and a consumer
following the
model - read the published frame, call the method only if there is none
- never
got a frame. The dispatcher now publishes a clip it has just encoded,
for every
Vision server rather than this sample alone.

One genuine API gap turned up on the way: `OpcUaServerOptions` exposes
`MaxByteStringLength`, `MaxArrayLength` and `MaxMessageSize` and **no
`MaxStringLength`**, so a Server that legitimately needs a long string
could not
raise the limit through the hosting API at all. Added, with tests. It is
not the
fix for anything above - that was a design bug - but the missing knob
was real.

## Not finished

- **Two projects sit below the repository's 80% line coverage.**
`Opc.Ua.Vision.OpenUsd` is at 71.1% — what is left only executes with a
real OpenUSD stage and plugin tree, which is not on every build agent.
`Opc.Ua.AI.Inference` is now at **86.7%**, up from 12.9%: the code this
branch *wrote* is covered by 25 tests, and `RestChatCompletionsBackend`
— previously the whole of the shortfall — is covered by 18 more against
a stubbed `HttpMessageHandler`, exercising success, refusal, throttling,
retry-after, timeout and cancellation without a network. Everything else
clears the bar — `Opc.Ua.Vision.Server` 92.1%, `Opc.Ua.AI` 91.4%,
`.Vision.Client` 88.1%, `Opc.Ua.Vision` 85.7%, `Opc.Ua.AI.Server` 80.1%,
all measured with coverlet. The CI coverage gate reports itself as
advisory and non-blocking.
- **`SamplesCollected` is not counted here, and `docs/Vision.md` now
says so.** Section 9.4 requires a Server to count a negative example
(`SceneIsEmpty` / `RetractAll` carrying a `GroundTruthLabel`) exactly as
it counts one carrying geometry. `VisionNodeManager` does not, and
structurally cannot: `SamplesCollected` is a property of
`LearningJobType`, which the *AI Model Management* companion defines,
and Vision reaches the job through a `NodeId` value rather than a
Reference **precisely so this model takes no dependency on the model
that defines it**. What the Server does guarantee is that the negative
example survives the hop intact — both flags are carried verbatim to
`IVisionFeedbackSink` — so a host that binds a learning job has
everything it needs to satisfy the clause on the counter it owns. Stated
in the limitations rather than left implied.

## Related Issues

Was stacked on #4195, now merged. No tracking issue yet for the Vision
implementation itself — happy to open one if you would like the design
recorded as an ADR before this goes further.

## Checklist

- [x] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage. — *Types 8562, Server 4072,
Client 2123, InformationModel 1063, Robotics 540, Tools 466, Vision 442,
AI 74 and the restored Vision+Intent end-to-end suite 14/14, all green
on net10.0. Only `.OpenUsd` (71.1%) is below the 80% bar — see Not
finished.*
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings. — *`dotnet build UA.slnx -c Release`: 0 errors, 0
warnings.*
- [x] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed. — *net48:
Types 8555, Client 2126, Vision 385 green. Two net48 Server tests fail
(`CreateUserManagementSeamBindsTheModelToTheServerAsync`, and
`DurableDataValueQueueVerifyReferenceBatchingAsync` only under parallel
load); both were confirmed **pre-existing** by re-running them with the
`IsInverse` change reverted, which fails identically.*
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings. — *The net48 build legs failed because the
restored end-to-end project used `ValueTask.FromResult` /
`string.Create`, which do not exist on .NET Framework; fixed in
`fb57522da` and verified building on every TFM.
`DisposeDrainsHeldConnectionCallbackBeforeListenerDisposal` failed once
on the Ubuntu Client leg — a 13 ms timing-sensitive reverse-connect
disposal test that passes locally 2123/2123 and touches no browse
paths.*
- [ ] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.
## Typed Vision-guided Robotics MCP workflows

The branch now also makes the demo workflow first-class in the Full MCP
profile:

- replaces stringified Robotics intent and mission inputs with typed
request schemas and exact name-or-NodeId selectors;
- adds bounded operation/mission paging, stable step-to-operation
identity, retained mission discovery, and `robotics_wait_mission`;
- makes `vision_run_inference` return bounded typed detection,
inspection, or segmentation summaries in one call;
- adds same-session `robotics_vision_pick` to select a detection and
submit Pick or Pick/Place work without implicitly taking authority,
retrying, cancelling, or waiting; and
- starts Publish workers for classic subscriptions so an independently
launched OpenUSD viewer receives live robot and part updates.

The migration guide documents the intentionally breaking MCP
request-schema changes.

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Marc Schier 06ae192084 Fix CI failures tracked by #4299 (#4308)
## Summary
- stabilize the History, authentication lockout, Robotics, redundancy,
and DI tests reported in #4301-#4305
- fix the closed-transport buffered-write completion deadlock that hung
`ConnectMultipleSessionsAsync`
- add macOS crash diagnostics for #4306 and retain evidence for
root-cause analysis
- run macOS tests and NativeAOT in GitHub Actions pull requests, using
supported Intel and ARM64 runners, while keeping every Azure macOS
definition disabled by default
- move all remaining source-level `InternalsVisibleTo` declarations into
project files so signed OpenUSD builds receive the repository public key

## Local validation
- MCP PubSub: 29 passed
- History focused tests: 3 passed
- Sessions lockout: 3 passed
- Sessions multiple-session regression: 3 passed
- deterministic binary client channel tests: 22 passed
- Robotics runtime: 34 passed
- Redundancy focused tests: 4 passed
- OpenUSD net10.0: 914 passed
- affected OpenUSD projects build on net10.0 and net48

Refs #4299, #4300, #4306

Fixes #4301
Fixes #4302
Fixes #4303
Fixes #4304
Fixes #4305

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d525bc3f28 Bound reconnect cleanup and organize samples by domain (#4276)
# Description

This PR fixes bounded ManagedSession reconnect cleanup and reorganizes
the sample applications into domain-focused folders.

## Reconnect cleanup

- Bounds reconnect integration cleanup with independent 30-second close
and dispose limits.
- Sends `CloseSession` through the awaited transport request path during
`Session.DisposeAsync`.
- Preserves explicit `Session.CloseAsync` behavior that waits for or
cancels outstanding publish requests.
- Covers the disposal request path with a regression test.

## Sample organization

- `samples/OpenUsd`: `GeneratorServer`, `SiteCompositionServer`
- `samples/Redundancy`: `RedundantClient`, `RedundantServer`,
`RedundantPubSub`
- `samples/Isa95`: `MinimalIsa95Server`
- `samples/MinimalApi`: `MinimalBoilerServer`, `MinimalCalcServer`,
`MinimalClient`
- `samples/DI`: `PumpDeviceIntegrationServer`
- `samples/Lds`: `ConsoleLdsServer`
- `samples/Reference`: `ConsoleReferenceClient`,
`ConsoleReferenceServer`
- `samples/PubSub`: `ConsoleReferencePubSubClient`

`UA.slnx` now exposes the same requested domain groups. Project
references, tests, runtime sample probes, CI workflows, Dockerfiles,
Compose files, helper scripts, and documentation were updated to the new
paths. `samples/Robotics/MinimalRobotServer` remains under `Robotics`.

## Validation

- `dotnet build UA.slnx`
- 3 Redundancy short-haul sample tests
- 70 DI sample tests
- 914 OpenUSD tests
- 1 WotCon model-materialization test
- 137 AOT tests
- `docker compose config` for all 6 moved Redundancy Compose files

## Related Issues

- Fixes #4273

## Checklist

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- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce new build or
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- [x] I built the complete `UA.slnx` solution locally.
- [ ] I ran all tests locally against at least .NET Framework and .NET
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- [ ] I fixed all failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and all
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- [x] I have addressed all PR feedback received.

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466c5cb982 Robot intent follow-ups: multi-controller executors, spec fixes, and an MCP tool library (#4195)
Follow-ups to #4165, plus the work that followed from re-checking this
branch against the specification. Everything started as a defect found
by review or by probing the running code; the specification is unchanged
except where noted.

The TLS certificate lifetime fix (#4196) and the OpenUSD work (#4198)
were both merged into this branch. #4196 has since landed on master, so
it no longer appears in this diff. #4198 was closed in favour of this PR
and its content is here.

The MCP trim/AOT work (#4228), the `DataGenerator` null `NodeId` fix
(#4227) and the NodeSet external-parent import fix (#4229) have since
been merged in as well. All three are closed in favour of this PR and
their content is here, described under *Making the MCP libraries trim
and AOT clean*, *A generator that returned the value you opted out of*
and *A NodeSet parent that lived outside the import batch* below.

## A two-arm cell could not be built

`IntentExecution` carried no controller identity, and there was
effectively one `IIntentExecutor` per server. An executor handed an
execution therefore could not tell **which arm** it was for, so a cell
with two `IntentControllerType` instances — an ordinary configuration —
was not expressible through the builder or DI.

Both halves are addressed:

- `IntentExecution` now carries `ControllerId` (`NodeId`, the OPC UA
identity) and `ControllerName`, so one shared executor can discriminate;
- DI gained per-controller registration —
`AddRobotIntentExecutor<TExecutor>(controllerBrowseName)` and an
instance overload — so two genuinely different executors can coexist.

Resolution order is `WithExecutor` → per-controller DI registration →
the single DI executor → a build-time throw. There is still **no silent
fallback** to a rejecting executor; that was a Critical defect fixed in
#4165 and it stays fixed. `IIntentExecutor` is unchanged, so this is
purely additive.

## Declarations that were quietly untrue

- **`Accepts<T>` silently discarded a redeclaration.** Declaring an
intent type twice — say to narrow `cancelSupported` on the second call —
kept the first, wider declaration and said nothing. That is the same
class of defect as the capability-honesty problems #4165 fixed
(`PauseSupported` declaring a pause the host could not perform;
`Aborting` degrading silently to `Buffered`). Identical redeclarations
remain idempotent; conflicting ones now throw `BadInvalidArgument`.
- **`RI-Interop-40010` assumed Annex B item 3 rather than checking it.**
It now requires exact set equality between the OPC 40010
`TaskProgramName` values and the Robot Intent `ProgramType.ProgramId`
values. Both sides are readable from the address space without
commanding the robot, which is what makes the requirement structural
under §12.1.

## Two things the specification requires that this did not do

Re-checking the implementation against the merged draft revision turned
up two genuine violations. Both are fixed, and the NodeSet is untouched
by either.

- **Every graphed mission reported `Failed` on success.**
`MissionRules.SelectTransition` returned `null` for two different
situations — a graph *terminus*, which is the normal success path, and a
branch point whose conditions all evaluated false — and the caller
collapsed both into `Failed`/`NoTransition`. A three-way result
(`Terminus` / `Selected` / `NoConditionMatched`) separates them, so a
mission that runs to its end now completes. The failure reason surfaces
through the inherited Part 10 result container rather than a new member.
- **Facet URIs were never published.** An upstream `may` became a
`shall` in the revision this branch adopts.
`RobotIntentConformanceUris.Facets` held 31 URIs with **zero**
production references — the set existed but nothing emitted it. The
published set is now derived from `RobotIntentFacetCalculator`, the same
authority that already computed `SupportedFacets`, rather than from a
second hand-maintained list that could drift; a reflection test pins the
two together.

## An easy client mistake

`RequestAuthorityAsync` returns a lease the caller must remember to
inspect. Forgetting makes every later submission fail with
`ControlNotOwned` for reasons that are invisible at the call site.
`RequireAuthorityAsync` throws instead, and names the current owner.
`RequestAuthorityAsync` is untouched — inspecting and branching is
legitimate.

## Letting an agent drive the robot

New `tools/Opc.Ua.Mcp.Robotics` gives a language model the intent API as
MCP tools: 36 across discovery, monitoring, direct control and missions,
behind a `Robotics` tool profile, composable into any MCP host exactly
as the existing OPC UA tool packages are. The `IntentViewerClient`
sample hosts them behind `--mcp` (stdio by default, HTTP when `--view`,
since MCP stdio and the in-process viewer would otherwise share stdout),
and the sample gained a pallet scene so an agent can pick and stack
parts and watch the result in the OpenUSD viewer. All the scene logic is
server-side — no viewer or connector changes.

Four gaps in the client API had to be filled first, since the tools are
a thin layer over it and could not have been written honestly without
them: `ReadStateAsync`, `ListOperationsAsync`/`ListMissionsAsync`,
controller-level
`CancelIntent`/`CancelAll`/`Pause`/`Resume`/`Retry`/`ReleaseControl`,
and `WaitForCompletionAsync`.

The tools refuse rather than paper over: a refusal from the server is
returned with its `IntentFailureEnum` and never retried, and command
authority is never acquired as a side effect of a tool call.

**One defect this surfaced:** `--profile robotics` shipped 36 tools that
could not do anything. Every robotics tool resolves a named OPC UA
session and only the connection tools can open one, so with no `Connect`
in the catalogue the whole profile failed. A test had pinned the defect
in place, asserting the profile did *not* contain `Connect` on the line
below the `diagnostics` assertion requiring it. Each package now
declares its own requirement in its registration extension rather than
the host special-casing it, so an application embedding
`Opc.Ua.Mcp.Robotics` directly gets a usable catalogue without
reproducing the host's pairing. `Full` still takes the connection tools
from the core package, so they are never registered twice. The
replacement test states the invariant — a profile exposing
session-scoped tools must expose the tools that open a session — rather
than the instance.

## Making the MCP libraries trim and AOT clean

*Merged from #4228.*

`Opc.Ua.Mcp.Core` is now `IsAotCompatible` on `net10.0`, and the
reflection the analysers then reported is gone. Turning the analysers on
is the point: until now they were not running on these libraries at all
— including on the tool library this branch adds.

- **`OpcUaJsonHelper.Serialize`** went through `JsonSerializer` (IL2026
/ IL3050). The conversion helpers in that class already reduce every OPC
UA value to a closed set — `null`, the primitive scalars, `string`,
`Dictionary<string, object?>` and lists thereof — so the JSON is now
written directly with a `Utf8JsonWriter`.

Output is unchanged, and that is asserted rather than assumed:
`OpcUaJsonHelperTests.SerializeMatchesTheReflectionBasedSerializer`
compares the new writer byte for byte against `JsonSerializer` for every
shape the helpers emit, including all numeric widths, the
custom-formatted scalars, nested sequences and strings that force the
encoder to escape.

One deliberate contract change: arbitrary object graphs are no longer
accepted. Serializing them needs reflection, so `Serialize` now throws
`NotSupportedException` naming the type instead of silently stringifying
it. No call site in the repository passes anything outside the closed
set.

- **`McpSchemaFilters`** used `JsonSerializer.SerializeToElement` on a
`JsonObject`; it now parses the node's own text, which needs no
reflection.

`Opc.Ua.Mcp.Diagnostics` is deliberately **not** marked. It depends on
SharpPcap and on the reflective service-call dissection in
`Opc.Ua.Core.Diagnostics`, neither of which is trim safe — which is why
that package does not opt in either. Two improvements are kept
regardless: `PacketDecodeTools` serializes `DecodedServiceCall` through
a source-generated `JsonSerializerContext`, and
`PacketCaptureTools.ListInterfaces` now carries the
`RequiresUnreferencedCode` / `RequiresDynamicCode` annotations that
`NetworkInterfaceEnumerator.ListLocalInterfaces` already declares, so
the constraint is visible to callers instead of implicit. Nothing is
suppressed.

Marking an assembly `IsAotCompatible` only proves its own IL is clean;
it says nothing about whether the library still functions once
reflection is gone. So `Opc.Ua.Aot.Tests` references `Opc.Ua.Mcp.Core`
and exercises it with JSON reflection disabled, stating what is and is
not true today:

- tool **results** serialize without reflection — this would fail
outright if the `Utf8JsonWriter` change regressed;
- tool **registration** still requires reflection, because the MCP SDK
builds each tool's input schema by asking `JsonSchemaExporter` for a
`JsonTypeInfo` of every parameter type. Without a source-generated
context covering the tool signatures — and with the injected
`OpcUaSessionManager` being described rather than treated as a service —
that throws `NotSupportedException`.

The second test asserts the throw. It documents the remaining gap and
turns red the moment someone closes it, rather than leaving it to be
found in a published binary. The package README says the same thing in
prose.

**Two pre-existing issues this surfaced, both outside this PR:** pulling
`Opc.Ua.Mcp.Diagnostics` into an AOT publish reports `IL2046` / `IL3051`
on `NicCaptureSource.StartAsync`, which is annotated
`RequiresUnreferencedCode` / `RequiresDynamicCode` while the
`ICaptureSource.StartAsync` it implements is not, and `IL2075` on
`ServiceCallReassembler.GetCollectionCount` / `GetPropertyString`, which
call `Type.GetProperty` on the result of `GetType()`. Happy to file
these separately if useful.

## A generator that returned the value you opted out of

*Merged from #4227. Fixes #4226.*

`GetRandomNodeId(useBoundaryValues: false)` could still return
`NodeId.Null` — one of the boundary values the same method offers when
boundary values *are* requested. A caller that opted out should not
receive one, and `GetRandomExpandedNodeId` builds on it and inherited
the same behaviour.

The `IdType.Opaque` branch is the practical path:
`GetRandomByteString()` draws its length with
`NextInt32(MaxStringLength)`, which is inclusive of zero, and a
zero-length opaque identifier in namespace 0 satisfies `NodeId.IsNull`.
With three namespaces and `MaxStringLength` at 10 that is roughly **one
call in 130**. A numeric identifier of `0` in namespace 0 is null too,
at around one in four billion.

The draw is now repeated while the result is null and boundary values
were not requested. Guarding the result rather than the individual
branches covers every identifier type, including the numeric case,
rather than only the one that happens to be reachable today. The
`useBoundaryValues: true` path is untouched, so boundary values remain
available when they are asked for.

Four tests in `tests/Opc.Ua.Core.Tests/Types/DataGeneratorTests.cs` loop
20,000 draws, because at one call in 130 a single draw proves nothing.
Against the **unmodified** generator they fail on draw 93 and draw 1346.
Two of the four exist to keep the fix honest rather than to test the
bug: `GetRandomNodeIdStillProducesEveryIdentifierType` catches a "fix"
that simply stopped emitting opaque identifiers, which would satisfy the
null assertions while silently narrowing the generator, and
`GetRandomNodeIdWithBoundaryValuesStillYieldsThem` confirms the leak was
closed rather than the feature removed.

**How it was found:** an intermittent downstream test failure. A test
server initialising a static `NodeId`-valued variable via
`TestDataSystem.ReadValue` occasionally stored `NodeId.Null`; the
encoder correctly writes that as JSON `null`, and a consumer asserting a
value was present failed about one run in five — never reproducibly in
isolation. It only surfaced under load because `UnsecureRandom.Shared`
is a fixed-seed, process-global generator shared between `DataGenerator`
and OPC UA transport jitter, so the number of draws preceding
address-space initialisation depends on what else is running in the
process.

## A NodeSet parent that lived outside the import batch

*Merged from #4229.*

`UANodeSetHelpers.LinkParentChildRelationships` builds its lookup table
from **only the nodes in the current import batch**, links a child when
the parent is found — and then cleared `instance.Handle`
**unconditionally**, which is exactly where `Import` had stashed the
authored `ParentNodeId`. A node whose parent lives in another NodeSet,
or is owned by another NodeManager, therefore lost that parent
**silently** at import, and nothing downstream could recover it.
`RuntimeNodeSetNodeManager.CreateAddressSpaceAsync` already has a step
that wires references to external node managers; the parent link never
reached it.

Such a parent is now recorded rather than discarded, and exposed through
`UANodeSet.TryGetUnresolvedParentNodeId`. A parent that resolved
normally inside the batch is **not** recorded, so a caller does not
re-wire references that already exist. The record lives in a
`ConditionalWeakTable`, so it does not keep an imported node alive and
does not widen `NodeState` — whose `Handle` is a general-purpose slot a
caller may legitimately use for its own purposes, and so is not a safe
place to leave the value.

`RuntimeNodeSetNodeManager` consumes it to report the one case that
cannot be repaired automatically. In NodeSet2 the `ParentNodeId`
attribute is a *hint*; the authoritative edge is the entry under
`<References>`, which the reverse-reference pass already turns into an
external reference. A node that names an out-of-manager parent but
carries **no such Reference** materializes with no path from that
parent, and no ReferenceType can be inferred to synthesise one — so it
is reported as an authoring defect rather than guessed at or silently
accepted.

This is deliberately **not** a fix for a specific address-space symptom.
It removes a silent loss of authored information and gives callers the
means to act on it. Whether any particular orphaned-node report is
caused by this path, or by namespace-index translation elsewhere, still
needs separate diagnosis.

**Changed while merging.** As authored in #4229 the accessor was
`GetUnresolvedParentNodeId`, returning `NodeId?`. `NodeId` is a readonly
struct implementing `INullable`, so that was a `System.Nullable<NodeId>`
wrapped around a type that already carries its own null representation —
which this repository excludes in favour of an `IsNull` check, and it
asks for `TryGet` over casting on struct types. The tests
correspondingly asserted `Is.Null` against a struct, which the testing
rules also exclude. It is now `bool
TryGetUnresolvedParentNodeId(NodeState, out NodeId)`, yielding
`NodeId.Null` when there is no unresolved parent. The API is unshipped —
it arrives with this branch — so nothing depended on the previous shape.
Both tests were re-verified by mutation after the rewrite: disabling the
record in `LinkParentChildRelationships` still fails
`ImportKeepsAParentThatIsNotInTheSameBatch`.

## Dependencies

- **OpenUSD to `0.7.0-alpha`.** All 11 issues we filed upstream are
fixed, so the workarounds they justified are gone and the parts of the
pump and generator samples that were blocked on them are implemented.
- **ModelContextProtocol to `2.1.0`** across all five MCP tool libraries
and the executable. No code changes were needed — the surface we use is
unchanged in 2.x — but central package management required a cascade of
pins, each commented where it sits. Both transports were verified
against a running server rather than assumed. MCP 2.x is stateless (no
`initialize`, no `Mcp-Session-Id`); an OPC UA session is application
state addressed by a caller-supplied name, which fits that model but
does assume process affinity, and that assumption is now written down
rather than implied.

## Infrastructure

The `code coverage` gate was measuring nothing on this branch and
reporting success. It is fixed and now enforced, which immediately
exposed real gaps — most usefully `RoboticsIntentJson`, which parses
agent-supplied JSON (untrusted input from a language model) and had no
tests at all. It is now at full line coverage in CI. Patch coverage is
**90.20%** against a 75% floor.

The `netstandard2.1` build leg was also failing. The MCP projects build
as empty shells under a legacy `CustomTestTarget`, and the viewer sample
referenced them on the target framework alone, so it tried to resolve a
net10.0 shell from net8.0. The sample now derives MCP support from
whether those projects are actually being built.

## From review

A review pass over the branch found two real defects, both fixed.
`RoboticsIntentJson` parses JSON written by a language model, so every
malformed shape it can be handed is reachable input; it indexed pose
arrays without checking their length and enumerated properties without
checking their kind, so a short or wrongly-typed array escaped as
`IndexOutOfRangeException` or `InvalidOperationException` rather than
the argument error the tool descriptions promise the agent. Separately,
`IntentOperationHandle` treated a zero `QueuePosition` as "not observed"
and discarded it, so a handle kept reporting the last queued position
after the server had said the operation left the queue.

The pose validation immediately caught a latent test defect: the pallet
scenario interpolated doubles into JSON with the current culture, so
under a comma-decimal culture `[0.12, 0.16, 0.28]` became a six-element
array. It passed only because that submission is expected to be refused
for want of authority, so the wrong coordinates were never used.

A third review finding — that a default-constructed
`RobotIntentControllerState` hands out a null `NodeId` — was checked and
rejected: `NodeId`, `QualifiedName` and `LocalizedText` are readonly
structs here, so `default` is the null value and `IsNull` is `true`. The
tests asserting that invariant are kept.

A second review pass over the merged branch found two more, both fixed
and both about an error surfacing as the wrong kind of failure rather
than about a wrong result:

- **Malformed agent JSON did not arrive as an argument error.**
`RoboticsIntentJson` turns every *validation* failure into an
`ArgumentException` — a wrong root kind, a missing property, a short
pose array — but three `JsonDocument.Parse` calls and the NodeId parse
were unguarded. A syntax error escaped as `JsonException` and an
unparseable NodeId as `ServiceResultException`, which are the two shapes
a language model is most likely to produce. That is the same defect
class as the pose/kind checking above: a caller separating bad input
from a genuine fault had to know to catch three unrelated exception
types. Parsing now goes through one helper that reports a syntax error
as an `ArgumentException` naming the argument, keeping the
`JsonException` as the inner exception so the position is not lost, and
the NodeId goes through `NodeId.TryParse` rather than `Parse`,
collapsing its two failure modes into one.
`MalformedIntentJsonIsRejected` had asserted
`InstanceOf<JsonException>`, pinning the behaviour rather than the
intended contract; it now asserts `ArgumentException` like every
neighbouring test, and three tests cover the newly guarded paths.
- **`ConditionalWeakTable.Add` throws on a duplicate key.** Not
reachable today, but `TryGetUnresolvedParentNodeId` documents `Handle`
as a general-purpose slot a caller may use for its own purposes — and a
caller doing exactly that before re-importing into the same collection
would take a hard throw from inside the import pipeline. Removing first
makes the most recent import win. `AddOrUpdate` would say this more
directly but does not exist on `netstandard2.0`.

## Deliberately not fixed here

`FastenIntentDataType.Joint` is refused when the Server exposes no OPC
40450/40451 model, and a client cannot discover that before calling.
That is **not fixable in this repository**: §5.4.2 makes `Joint` the
defining mechanism while §11.3 says the parameters otherwise stand
alone, and `IntentCapabilityDataType` declares capabilities at
intent-type granularity with no member-level mechanism anywhere in the
model. It is a specification gap, raised as S4 on
[marcschier/opcua-drafts#60](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/pull/60)
rather than worked around with a bespoke mechanism the spec does not
define.

## Validation

`dotnet build UA.slnx -c Release` on the merged branch — **0 errors, 0
warnings**, with the AOT analysers now running over `Opc.Ua.Mcp.Core`.

| Suite (net10.0) | Tests |
|---|---|
| `Opc.Ua.Core.Tests` | 4247 (86 skipped) |
| `Opc.Ua.Robotics.Tests` | 540 |
| `Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Tests` | 909 |
| `Opc.Ua.Tools.Tests` | 419 |
| `Opc.Ua.Server.Tests` — `RuntimeNodeSet` | 94 |
| `Opc.Ua.Robotics.Intent.Tests` | 22 |
| `Opc.Ua.Aot.Tests` — `McpAotTests` | 3 |

0 failures. `Opc.Ua.Tools.Tests` rose from 409 to 419 with the
serializer-equivalence tests from #4228 and the malformed-JSON tests
from the second review pass, and `Opc.Ua.Core.Tests` covers the
`DataGenerator` tests from #4227 and the import tests from #4229.
`UANodeSetHelpers` also passes on **net48** (5/5). The MCP
agent-usability grader scores Core 100 / Full 100.

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Marc SchierandCopilot 2b44fcad22 Robot intent: a task-level command API with a Part 10 lifecycle (#4165)
# Description

Implement the draft **OPC UA — Robot Intent** companion model end to
end: task-level motion verbs, a Part 10 lifecycle, a server hosting
surface, a client, two samples and a live integration suite. It replaces
the opt-in convention API merged in #4127 with an implementation
generated from a companion information model.

## Why

OPC 40010-1 *Robotics* describes robot **topology** in detail and
defines **no motion verbs at all** — its entire actuation surface is
`Start`, `Stop` and loading a named program. A conformant client can
discover everything about a robot's construction and cannot ask it to
move anywhere. #4127 filled that gap with ten verbs in an
application-owned namespace, resolved by BrowseName, and the file said
what it was: *"opt-in, explicitly non-normative industrial operation
conventions"*.

That contribution established a **vocabulary**. It established no
**lifecycle**, and the lifecycle is the harder half.

A motion takes seconds; a pick takes a minute. OPC 10000-4 §5.12.2
discards a method result when the Session ends *"independent of the task
actually performed at the Server"* — so a synchronous motion method does
not merely time out, it **loses the outcome of work that has already
physically happened**. OPC 10000-10 §4.1 gives the OPC Foundation's own
resolution: a Method performs a calculation, a **Program** runs a batch
process or a machine tool part program.

So `SubmitIntent` returns as soon as the intent is *admitted*, and what
it returns is a NodeId — an `IntentOperationState` (a Part 10 program
instance) the client subscribes to for progress and reads for the
result.

## What changed

**Model and shared code** — `Opc.Ua.RobotIntent.NodeSet2.xml` is
source-generated in `Opc.Ua.Robotics`, so the enums, the polymorphic
intent structures, `IntentOperationState : ProgramStateMachineState`,
the method states and the typed clients derive from the model rather
than being hand-written. Its only `RequiredModel` is the base UA
namespace, so a server can adopt it without OPC 40010 or DI. `PoseMath`
implements the specification's Annex C conversion between its unit
quaternion and the core `ThreeDFrame` — including the `asin` clamp that
stops a pole orientation becoming a domain error, and the
non-negative-`w` representative that makes two servers agree on four
numbers. `FrameTree` composes transforms along the frame tree.

**Verbs are a DataType hierarchy, not one Method each.** A single
submission and a mission step are then the same shape, and a new intent
is a subtype rather than a new method — which is what
`AddOperation<TRequest,TResponse>` was working around.

**Server** — `IntentControllerHost` owns admission in the
specification's order, the queue with PLCopen buffer modes, blending,
cancellation *with the server's right to refuse*, missions with a
committed base and a revisable horizon plus an IEC 61131-3 step graph,
safety-aware refusals, real-time channel brokerage, and the capability
declaration. All thirteen Methods are wired; command authority and
channel leases are released when the holding Session closes; every
client-supplied NodeId is validated against the controller being
commanded (clause 11.3). `RobotIntentNodeManager`, the fluent
`IIntentControllerBuilder` and `AddRobotIntent`/`ConfigureRobotIntent`
make it reachable, and `RobotIntentFacetCalculator` computes which of
the specification's facets an instance actually satisfies.

**Client** — `RobotIntentClient` discovers
`Server/RobotIntent/Controllers` and reads what a robot accepts;
`IntentOperationHandle` subscribes and completes on a terminal state,
recovering the result after a reconnect because clause 6.7 promises it
survives; `CommandAuthorityLease` and `RealTimeChannelLease` manage the
two exclusive resources; fluent builders cover every intent and mission.

**Samples** — all robotics samples move under `samples/Robotics/`.
`IntentEnabledRobot` is one UR5e-style offset-wrist arm on a bench,
declared completely enough to show what a conformant server publishes,
with a simulated safety source so the clause 10.4 refusals are
demonstrable. `IntentViewerClient` turns a **click on a target prim in
the OpenUSD viewport** into an intent and watches the arm execute it; it
also runs headless, which is how CI exercises it.

**Intents execute serially**, which satisfies every `BlockingMode`
constraint by construction: the specification forbids beginning a
`Single` or `Hard` intent while another executes and merely *permits*
`None` and `Soft` to overlap.

The convention API (`RoboticsOperationConventions`,
`RoboticsOperationsBuilders`, `RoboticsOperationsClient`) is removed.

### On safety — what this deliberately does *not* claim

The interface is **non-safety-rated**, and that is a property of the
technology rather than a scoping choice. OPC 10000-15 carries cyclic
safety data from a SafetyProvider to a SafetyConsumer; the consumer's
`RequestSPDU` holds an identifier, a monitoring number and one octet of
explicitly **non-safety** flags, so a caller has no channel through
which to supply safety-rated arguments. Every safety fieldbus
(PROFIsafe, CIP Safety, FSoE, openSAFETY) expresses a safety command as
a **continuously asserted cyclic signal**, because the integrity
argument rests on the fail-safe state that follows when assertion
*stops* — and a Method call has no defined behaviour when it stops being
called.

What the host does instead is **observe and refuse**:
`UpdateSafetyState` is how the application reports what the safety
system is enforcing, and admission then refuses on the same values a
client can read, so a refusal is explainable from the address space
rather than from Server-internal state. It may never *instruct* the
safety system, and no Method here commands a safe motion function,
changes an operational mode or clears a stop.

## Defects this found in the specification, fixed upstream

Implementing a specification is the only way to find out whether it can
be implemented. Seven defects went back to
[marcschier/opcua-drafts#47](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/pull/47)
rather than being worked around here:

- **Refusal was unobservable.** Clause 6.2 orders six distinct refusals
and clause 5.8 calls the failure set "small and diagnosable on purpose"
— but `SubmitIntent` returned only `IntentId` and `Operation`, so a
client could see *that* something was refused and never *which*. It now
returns `Accepted`, `Failure` and `Message`, and clause 6.2 states that
a refusal returns `Good` rather than substituting a Bad `StatusCode`.
- **The Part 10 promotion was illegal.**
`IntentOperationType.ProgramDiagnostic` was declared as a Property of
`PropertyType`; OPC 10000-10 declares it a Variable of
`ProgramDiagnostic2Type` reached by `HasComponent`. The declaration
added a *second* member beside the inherited one instead of promoting it
— which is precisely why an earlier version of this branch had deleted
it. Correcting the TypeDefinition made it generate cleanly with **no
change to the curated Core**.
- **Clause 9 said nothing about the Method surface.** A server could
declare `MissionsSupported` true and omit `SubmitMission` entirely,
because the mission and channel Methods are Optional. This
implementation did exactly that until an integration test caught it. A
fourth honesty rule and a table now fix which Methods each declaration
implies.
- **Conformance was not machine-readable, and two implementations
disagreed.** Clause 12 defined conformance in terms of facets and gave a
Server nowhere to publish which ones it satisfied, so every client had
to re-derive Table 12.2 from the address space. This repository proved
why that fails: the server''s `RobotIntentFacetCalculator` and the
client''s `RobotIntentRules.DeriveFacets` each implemented clause 12.2
independently and **disagreed on essentially every row** — the client''s
`Blending` was `BlendingSupported` alone where the server also requires
all four blending buffer modes, its `QueuedIntents` was `MaxQueueDepth >
0` where the server also requires `Buffered`. A client and server from
the same release answered "does this controller conform?" differently,
and both were reading the specification correctly, because several rows
are behavioural and no amount of browsing settles them.
`IntentCapabilitiesType` now carries **`SupportedFacets`**, exactly as
OPC 10000-5 does with `ServerCapabilitiesType.ServerProfileArray`,
RI-Base requires it, and clause 12.2 separates structural requirements a
Server shall meet before listing a facet from attested ones governed by
clause 9.
- `WaitIntentDataType.Signal` was unbounded where clause 11.3 has to
check it; §11.3 gained a table fixing the expected type of every
NodeId-valued member; §5.7.0 gave `Ready`/`ActiveIntent`/`ActiveMission`
normative meaning; §6.9 bounded `RequestedLease`; §6.5 and §6.4 now say
what a server that cannot differentiate `StopMode` must do, and which
stop a superseded intent gets.

## Bugs the tests and reviews caught

Each of these would have been silent in the field:

- **The execution engine was never wired into the public API.**
`IntentControllerBuilder.RegisterAsync` built the address space and
never started an `IntentControllerHost`, so through the documented
`AddRobotIntent` → `ConfigureRobotIntent` path **every Method returned
`BadNotImplemented`** and the registered `IIntentExecutor` was never
resolved. A browsable address space is not a working robot interface,
and only a live integration test showed the difference.
- **NodeId scoping failed open on an empty index.** A controller
advertising `CallProgramIntentDataType` with no published `ProgramType`
accepted an *arbitrary* NodeId as `CallProgram.Program` — and
`CallProgram` runs code the server holds.
- **Blending completed the predecessor at submission time** and
abandoned its motion, telling the client it succeeded and publishing an
all-zero pose at the origin as a genuine `AchievedPose`.
- **Mission base immutability compared only identifiers**, so a client
could keep the ids and swap the *motion* of an already-committed step.
- **`FinalResultData/Result` was never registered** with the node
manager: Browse showed it, Read returned `BadNodeIdUnknown` — so clause
6.7's promise to a Part 10 client did not hold.
- `DisposeAsync` disposed primitives out from under in-flight executor
code; re-using a terminated `IntentId` destroyed the retained result and
duplicated a NodeId; neither side registered the Robot Intent
encodeables, so `Pose3DDataType` did not decode; host startup was hooked
to a task that ran in only one hosting shape.
- The result was published **after** the state went terminal;
capabilities were resolved against a stale namespace table; an empty
`ContentFilter` arrives as an empty element array rather than a null
filter, so testing only for null made every unconditional mission
transition silently untaken — a mission would run its first step and
stop.

### Found by a later test-quality audit, after the above was written

An audit of the test suite itself found five tests whose **names**
asserted a normative requirement while their **code** asserted something
weaker or nothing at all. The worst **fabricated the answer it
checked**: a helper caught a decode failure and invented "5 supported
intents, 6 axes, all facets true", so six capability-honesty assertions
across four tests could pass while reading nothing from the server. The
fallback is gone and the suite passes with honest reads.

Chasing the facet gaps it reported led to the clause 12 defect above.
Two further defects followed from completing that work:

- **`RI-Interop-40010` was never computed**, and the code documented the
omission as impossible to fix "because the calculator receives only a
Robot Intent controller, not the linked OPC 40010 model". That was
wrong: Annex B's structural requirement is an **inverse**
`HasIntentController` reference, reachable from `IntentControllerState`
— and the integration suite was already browsing exactly that. A server
implementing Annex B could not claim Annex B.
- **The published claim could go stale.** `SupportedFacets` was a
snapshot taken during `RegisterAsync`, so a reference attached
afterwards left it wrong. It is now bound through `BindRead` and
recomputed on read, so the claim tracks the address space by
construction rather than by discipline — which matters for anyone
bolting Robot Intent onto an existing OPC 40010 node manager, where the
attach ordering is often not theirs to choose.

Two tests that **could not fail** were also replaced: one asserted
`AccessLevel` equals `CurrentRead` to pin a read-only marking, but
`BaseVariableState` initialises every variable to exactly that, so
deleting the marking left it green; it is now a write expecting
`BadNotWritable`, including a real OPC UA `Write` service call over a
live session.

Finally, a build break that a plain build hides: `RoboticsAotTests` used
`out string?` in a project declaring `<Nullable>disable</Nullable>`.
Building the project **without** `-f` suppresses `CS8632` through
`NoWarn=nullable` and succeeds; building it **with** `-f net10.0`
resolves `NoWarn` differently, `CS8632` fires, and
`TreatWarningsAsErrors` makes it an error. CI builds per-TFM, so this
would have failed there while passing every local build to that point.

## Testing and coverage

| | |
|---|---|
| `dotnet build UA.slnx -t:Rebuild` | **0 errors, 2 warnings** — both
pre-existing `CA1861` in `tests/Opc.Ua.Tools.Tests`, a file this PR does
not touch |
| **Whole `UA.slnx` test suite, net10.0** | **50 of 52 assemblies fully
green** (measured at `40d9cf213`, before the `master` merge; the other
two are explained below) |
| `Opc.Ua.Robotics.Tests` | **467** net10.0, **447** net48 |
| `Opc.Ua.Robotics.Intent.Tests` (live client <-> server) | **20** on
net10.0 and net48, run repeatedly |
| `Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Tests` | **904** after merging `master` (664 before;
the rest arrive with #4160 / #4162 / #4180) |
| `Opc.Ua.Aot.Tests` | **121/121** |
| `Opc.Ua.Di.Tests` (regression from the sample move) | **364/365**, one
pre-existing skip |
| **Changed-line coverage** | **90.7 %**, no file below 80 % —
comfortably above the enforced band, which after #4158 applies only to
patches larger than 100 changed lines |

The two non-green assemblies are **not** caused by this branch. Rather
than assert that, I ran the same selections at the merge-base
`ae241b662` on the same machine:

-
`ServiceCallReassemblerTests.PrivateRequestSummaryFormatsKnownRequestKinds`
expects `12.5` and gets `12,5` — a culture-sensitive assertion failing
on a European locale. Fails 4/4 on **both** commits.
-
`CertRotationLiveTests.L2Cert2RotateCertificateDuringServerRestartRecoversSharedChannelAsync`
fails on a teardown count. Fails 4/4 on **both** commits.
- A third failure seen once, AOT `FindServersAsync` with
`BadSecureChannelClosed`, did not reproduce: 4/4 on retest and 121/121
in the final run. Environmental.

Two things are worth calling out because they would otherwise be
invisible:

- `tools/**` is **not** in the `coverage-thresholds.json` ignore list,
and no test project referenced the OpenUSD tools assemblies — so their
changed lines counted as uncovered and the real patch figure was 75 %,
exactly the blocking threshold. Rather than widening the ignore list,
the pure decisions in the viewport host (pointer-to-physical-pixel
conversion, `RenderPickRequest` construction, stale-retry, backend
discovery, pick-mode selection) were separated from the Avalonia/native
shell and tested headless against a fake picking backend.
- `dotnet build UA.slnx` **hides warnings on unchanged projects**; only
`-t:Rebuild` surfaces them. That is how a `CA2263` introduced by a net48
portability fix survived several "zero warning" builds.

The multi-target requirement earned its keep repeatedly: it caught a
default interface implementation, `ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull`,
`string.Create` with an interpolated handler,
`ValueTask.FromResult`/`CompletedTask`, `Task.WaitAsync`, generic
`Enum.GetValues` and generic `Enum.IsDefined`, and a non-generic
`TaskCompletionSource` — none of which the net10.0 build complained
about. A net10.0-**only** hang in the simulated executor and two
load-sensitive flaky tests were also found and fixed at the cause.

### Merged with `master`

`master` (through `e73e71184`) is merged in as `08205d81d`. Four
conflicts, all where the two branches touched the same robot and OpenUSD
surfaces, and none resolved by dropping a side:

- #4162 added six files to `samples/MinimalRobotServer/` while this
branch moved that directory to `samples/Robotics/MinimalRobotServer/`.
They are kept at the moved path, and `UA.slnx` takes the union of both
sides' new projects.
- #4160 replaced `object` with a `UsdValue` union and rewrote `Flatten`;
this branch had reformatted the same method and fixed a path in its doc
comment. Git produced a hybrid that did not compile. The resolution
keeps `master`'s `UsdValue` arm and `Flatten(UsdValue)` overload in this
branch's block-bodied form, with the path fix retained.
- `master` inserted `FindStageCamera` directly before two methods this
branch had relocated, so the merge duplicated `WriteStageUsda` and
`GetPrivateStateRoot`. Only `FindStageCamera` is genuinely new —
`master`'s diff shows the other two as unmodified context — so the
duplicates are dropped and this branch's `internal` versions kept,
including the `GetPrivateStateRoot(string?)` overload the connector
tests use to stay out of the real user profile.
- `master` moved the OpenUSD stack to `0.4.0-alpha`; this branch pins
`OpenUsd.Rendering` in the test project so the renderer-pick tests can
reach the picking backend. Left at `0.1.0-alpha` that pin is below what
the viewer now resolves transitively, which is `CS1705`. The pin follows
`master`.

CI was green on `baaf35e9` with **190 checks passing and none failing**,
across every build leg (net472 / net48 / netstandard2.0 / netstandard2.1
/ net8.0 / net9.0 / net10.0, Debug and Release) and the full test matrix
on Windows and Linux. Since then `master` has been merged twice more and
two CI-stability fixes landed (see below), so the current head is
re-running. Locally, `dotnet build UA.slnx -t:Rebuild` gives **0
errors** and the 2 pre-existing `CA1861` warnings; Robotics **467**
net10.0 / **447** net48, Robot Intent **20** on both, OpenUSD **904**,
AOT **121/121**, source generation **3771**.

### Review round

Five reviewers over disjoint areas found defects worth calling out, all
fixed in `3ffec2c1`:

- **A refused mission step was reported `Succeeded`.** The advance path
returned the same `false` for "steps exhausted" and "step refused", so a
protective stop between steps told a supervisory system the mission had
completed while the robot stood halted with work unexecuted.
- **Three attacker-controlled NodeIds reached the executor unvalidated**
— `Pick.Tool`, `Place.Tool`, `ToolChange.DockStation`. `DockStation`
drives a physical tool-exchange motion to a location the server never
authorised. The replacement test enumerates NodeId members by reflection
so the next one added cannot be missed.
- **A lock-order inversion that loses a stop.** `CanCancel` and the
mission condition evaluator ran under the host lock while the executor's
own thread re-entered it via `ReportBlendBegin`.
- **A non-terminal executor outcome killed the pump** from outside the
`try/catch` that exists because the executor is untrusted — `Ready`
stayed true and submissions kept being accepted while nothing moved.
- **`Pause` published `Suspended` while the robot kept moving.** Now
queue-only and honest about it; the specification gained the matching
rule ([opcua-drafts
`357a558`](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/pull/47)).
- **`RI-RealTimeChannel` and `RI-Safety` were false claims** — granted
on an empty folder with no methods, and on the mere presence of a
Mandatory node.
- **The Part 10 promotions never promoted.** Namespace-1 BrowseNames
declared second members beside the inherited ones; the conformance test
could not see it because its lookup stripped the prefix. Fixed upstream
and regenerated.
- **Renderer picking never worked.** The reflective probe bound a
renderer that is not a picking backend and throws off its owner thread.
It now binds only `IRenderPickingBackend`, falls back immediately and
loudly, and the docs say plainly that renderer picking is unavailable
with this package version.
- **The client lost command authority the instant it gained it** —
monitored items report the current value first, and the lease treated
every notification as a loss.

### CI stability fixes for master-side failures

The CI split in #4158 turned on legs that had never run, and two of the
failures they exposed were real bugs on `master` rather than anything
this branch introduced. Both are fixed here because they were blocking
every branch:

- **ECC key generation was broken on macOS.** `ExportExplicitParameters`
throws `PlatformNotSupportedException` there — Apple's
SecurityTransforms supports named curves only — and it was called for
exactly one value, the curve order `n`. The four curves OPC 10000-12
admits have published orders, so those are carried directly, with
`CurveOrderTableMatchesThePlatform` checking each against the platform's
own exported order wherever export works, so the constants cannot
silently drift. This accounts for the two ECC failures in
`test-macOS-latest-Server`.
- **The certificate-leak detector raced asynchronous disposal.** It
polled a fixed budget and reported whatever it saw, which cannot
distinguish a genuine leak (count steady) from a suite still draining
fire-and-forget disposals (count falling) — on a loaded agent that
produced `Certificate leak detected: 2 instance(s)` with every test
passing. It now waits for the count to **settle**, so a real leak is
reported sooner than before while a slow drain gets as long as it keeps
progressing. Shared by every suite that asserts no certificate leaks.

The remaining macOS failures on `master` (`Gds`, `Tools`,
`Redundancy.Samples`, `aot-macos`) have different root causes, are not
reproducible without a macOS host, and are **not** addressed here.

### Merged with `master` again

`master` through `416d619c4` (#4158, the CI matrix split and graduated
coverage bands) is merged in as `08ae4528`. One conflict, in
`docs/DeveloperGuide.md`, where both sides had deliberately rewritten
the coverage-gate section:

- `master`'s rewrite is kept in full — graduated `patch.bands`, Codecov
being informational-only, and where the numbers surface per CI system.
- This branch's paragraph about the `ignore` globs is kept too, re-sited
ahead of those subsections. I re-checked it against the merged
`coverage-thresholds.json` rather than assuming it still held: the list
is still `tests/**`, `samples/**`, `obj`, `bin`, `*.g.cs`, with
**`tools/**` absent** — so the warning that anything under `tools/` is
measured like product code, and that an assembly no test project
references contributes changed lines counted as *uncovered*, is still
accurate and worth keeping.
- `master`'s "reproduce a coverage failure locally" line supersedes this
branch's near-identical one, so only `master`'s survives.

Post-merge: `dotnet build UA.slnx -t:Rebuild` **0 errors**, 2
pre-existing `CA1861`; Robotics **467** net10.0 / **447** net48; Robot
Intent **20** on both.

### Getting CI green

The pipeline had never actually run on this branch until now (it was
waiting on the fork-PR approval gate), so the first run surfaced four
real problems, each fixed at source:

- **Seven build legs failed** because `IntentEnabledRobot` pins
`net10.0` for the OpenUSD payload but never opted into
`RestrictForLegacyTfm`. On the legacy legs the libraries build as
net472/net48, where `Opc.Ua.Types` exposes the `System.Threading.Lock`
polyfill publicly, and that collides with the sample's own net10.0 BCL
(`CS0433`). `Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Connector.Viewer` was already using the
opt-out for the same reason.
- **A Linux-only test failure** turned out to be a real defect, not a
platform quirk: `SetPose` published the *commanded* interpolated pose
beside joint frames derived from the *solved* joints, so the two
disagreed by the inverse-kinematics residual — about 8 mm, constant
after any real motion. That is the lying-digital-twin defect one level
deeper than the per-step IK fix reached. `SetPose` now derives both from
the joint angles.
- **Three source-generator tests** asserted the old emitted shape. The
clause 6.2 Null-Variant fix was implemented in
`ObjectTypeProxyGenerator` so every generated proxy benefits, which
changed that shape; the tests are updated and strengthened to pin the
`IsNull` branch as well.
- **A CI-only timeout** in the simulated arm drain: the executor runs on
a manual clock so the tests do not depend on machine speed, but the
drain guarded itself with a wall-clock deadline, which put that
dependence back. CI runs with coverage instrumentation, which is enough
to take a per-step IK probe from ~0.6 s to over 5 s. The guard is now a
simulated step budget.

One failure was **not** from this PR and did not recur: a Roslyn
`AccessViolationException` compiling `Opc.Ua.ISA95` on one leg, while
the Debug leg of the same target passed on identical code and the
Release build succeeds locally.

## Related Issues

- Relates to #3827 — the request that prompted the robotics intent work.
- Builds on #4127.

The companion specification is drafted in the open at
[marcschier/opcua-drafts#47](https://github.com/marcschier/opcua-drafts/pull/47)
(`metaverse-specs/robot-intent/`), with the prior art and the reasoning
behind each decision in the research document beside it. **Nothing in it
is normative or endorsed by the OPC Foundation, and its NodeIds and
namespace URI are provisional** — which is the main reason this is a
draft.

## Checklist

- [x] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings.
- [x] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed.
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings.
- [ ] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.

On the test checkbox, precisely: the whole `UA.slnx` suite now runs on
net10.0 with **50 of 52 assemblies fully green**, and
`Opc.Ua.Robotics.Tests` passes on **all five** target frameworks
including net472, net8.0 and net9.0 which had never previously been
exercised. The two remaining failures are reproduced identically at the
merge-base and are detailed above, so I have ticked the box; if you
would rather it stayed unticked until those two are green, say so and I
will revert it.

## Points I would most like feedback on

1. **The namespace and NodeIds are provisional.** They come from a draft
specification, not from the OPC Foundation. If this lands before the
model is registered, the identifiers will move.
2. **The model lives in `Opc.Ua.Robotics`.** It is standalone on the
base UA namespace and takes no dependency on OPC 40010, so a separate
`Opc.Ua.RobotIntent` package would arguably be cleaner. Keeping it here
was a deliberate call — this is where the robot-facing API already is —
but it is the easiest thing to change now and the hardest later.
3. **Removing the convention API from #4127 is a breaking change** for
anyone who adopted it. It was explicitly marked non-normative, so I have
assumed that is acceptable — please say if a deprecation period is
wanted instead.
4. **Serial execution** is a deliberate simplification. Concurrent
`None`/`Soft` intents would be an optimisation, not a correction, but it
is worth agreeing that reading.
5. **`samples/Robotics/` reorganisation** moves `MinimalRobotServer`.
Happy to split that into its own commit if it makes review easier.

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Marc SchierandCopilot ca89ac85a7 Add a Generators companion-spec sample and compose servers at a site level (#4180)
# Description

Adds a **Generators companion-specification sample** alongside the
existing pump sample, and a **`SiteCompositionServer`** that composes
several device servers into one OpenUSD scene at a supervisory level —
demonstrating that servers can be aggregated without mirroring their
address spaces.

Three things, in dependency order:

### 1. `GeneratorServer`

A self-contained server realising the draft Generators spec
(`http://opcfoundation.org/UA/Generators/`) end to end: N simulated
generating sets, DI + Machinery integration, a twelve-state operating
state machine, four protection alarms per set, six control methods, and
a per-set OpenUSD twin.

The organising idea is that **load fraction is the only independent
variable**. Everything else is a function of it:

```
V̇_f(x) = 3.67 + 100·x                fuel rate      [L/h]
η(x)   = P(x) / (V̇_f(x) · ρ · LHV)   efficiency
S = P / PF     I = S / (√3·V_LL)     f = N·p / 120
```

This is not stylistic. When each measurement is an independent
oscillator — as the pump sample's simulation once was — a server happily
publishes a duty point no real machine could occupy, and no test can
catch it because there is nothing for the values to be inconsistent
*with*. Deriving them from one variable means `P = √3·V·I·PF` and `η =
P/(V̇·ρ·LHV)` hold at every tick by construction. The published
`DATASHEET.md`, the engineering ranges, the trip points and the
simulation all read the same constants in `GeneratorDatasheet.cs`, so
the document and the server cannot describe different machines.

The machine is a fictitious **SimGen Systems GenX-500** (400 kW prime /
440 kW standby, 400/230 V, 50 Hz, four-pole). Figures are representative
of a real industrial genset class; no vendor is named anywhere in the
code or docs.

### 2. Cross-server composition in the connector

`RemoteSessionFactory` already existed in the client library but the
connector CLI never set it, so cross-server composition was unreachable.
`--federate` wires it up: the connector opens a session to each server
named by a component binding, discovers its representations and drives
its bindings into the same stage.

It is **opt-in** because the endpoint the connector dials comes from the
server being rendered rather than from the operator, which makes
honouring it a trust decision. Federation is best-effort per component —
a subordinate that is down is logged and skipped, and the rest of the
scene still renders — which is the only `src/` change in this PR.

### 3. `SiteCompositionServer`

Owns no devices. It publishes a site stage plus one cross-server
component binding per subordinate, carrying that server's
`ComponentServerUri` and `ComponentEndpointUrl`. Nothing is mirrored, so
there is no cache to invalidate and no second copy of the truth.

## Notes for reviewers

**Everything interesting in this PR was found by running the servers,
not by reading the code.** Six defects, none of which looked wrong in
review:

- `IsShutdown` and `SubsystemName` are *optional* on
`GeneratorProtectionAlarmType`, so the generated factory does not
materialise them. `CreateOrReplace` alone produces a child that exists,
appears in `GetChildren` and holds the right value — but carries **no
`ReferenceTypeId`**, so no browse can reach it. Every alarm was
publishing its trip without saying whether the trip stops the machine or
which subsystem to go to. `AddXxx(context)` first is what gives the
child its `HasProperty` reference.
- **The protections could never fire.** Every trip point sits outside
the band the datasheet curves produce — that is what a datasheet *means*
— so all four alarms, the shutdown class, `ResetFaults` and the whole
`Fault` branch of the state machine were unreachable while the README
documented them as observable. Overload was worse: the load clamp
ceiling was set to exactly the trip point, making a
strictly-greater-than comparison unsatisfiable. Faults are now
injectable, and the first set — the one the hero camera frames —
develops one on a slow rotation.
- **A shutdown trip removes the condition that caused it**, because oil
pressure and coolant temperature are only supervised while the engine
turns. Each alarm went active for one tick and cleared, leaving an
operator with a stopped machine and no indication of why. Shutdown-class
alarms now latch until the set leaves the shutdown state. Every unit
test that checked the *condition* passed throughout — the defect only
appears when the trip and the supervision interact over time.
- **`Synchronizing` and `Paralleled` were declared, drawn in the README
and never entered.** The first set now energises a dead bus and closes
onto it while every other set synchronises to a live one — both how a
real plant parallels, and what makes the two states observable.
- **The tick raced client method calls.** The simulation tick runs on a
thread-pool thread while method calls arrive on request threads, and
both transition sets and write the same nodes. A tick moving a set to
`Cooldown` and a concurrent `EmergencyStop` could interleave the paired
`CurrentState` / `CurrentState.Id` writes and leave a client with a
state *name* from one transition and a state *node* from the other — the
exact failure the paired write exists to prevent, reintroduced by the
threading model. Both paths now take one gate.
- Low oil pressure supervised from raw speed **tripped every set during
cranking**, because pressure has not built yet. Now gated on
`IsSpinning`, which is what a real start-up bypass does.

Smaller fixes: shutdown trips are applied after the whole evaluation
pass (stopping mid-loop made the remaining conditions read healthy,
collapsing simultaneous trips to whichever came first in the table);
`ResetFaults` reports its clears as events (a client learns of condition
state changes only through events, so a silent clear leaves an
alarm-list client showing it forever); the start counter moved into the
transition so commanded starts are counted; the federated connector
closes the remote session if the connector constructor throws between
taking ownership and registering it; and `prepare_machinery_nodeset.py`
now *asserts* the IA namespace is last before removing it rather than
only claiming so in its docstring — removing any earlier entry would
silently renumber every namespace after it and rebind their NodeIds.

**A model limitation is left visible rather than papered over.**
`GeneratorStateMachineType` declares an emergency stop only out of
`Running`, `Loaded` and `Paralleled`, so the sample refuses
`EmergencyStop` from `Starting` and `Warmup`. A real panel stops from
anywhere. That is the specification's shape, not this sample's choice,
so it is pinned by a test and named in the docs.

**`Model/` vendors a reduced Machinery nodeset**, derived mechanically
by whitelist. The full official nodeset does not survive the model
source generator (`MODELGEN003`) and drags in IA through a single
optional `Stacklight` member a generating set does not have. Deriving it
by script keeps the provenance checkable; the whitelist is the only
thing to edit when more types are needed. **Never hand-edit the
generated output.**

**The federated scene renders end to end.** Getting there surfaced three
more defects, all of which produced a plausible-looking scene with
nothing in it: the generator sample's plant aggregation was created
under an already-registered `DeviceSet` and so was invisible to every
client (it had *never* rendered geometry, standalone or federated); the
connector's asset fetch ran on the primary session only, so composition
referenced layers that were never downloaded; and both generator colour
bindings wrote `primvars:displayColor` to prims that did not declare it,
so the renderer rejected every update while the file still looked
correct. Cross-server components compose under the subordinate's own
root, so the site layer now *places* `/Plant` and `/Powerhouse` rather
than leaving them stacked on the origin.

**`OpenUsdRepresentation` is now mounted with `HasAddIn`, not
`HasComponent`** (review feedback). The nodeset says so explicitly —
*"Mounted with HasAddIn"* — but every server in the tree used plain
`HasComponent`. It survived because `HasAddIn` is a *subtype* of
`HasComponent`: the representation still browses, still aggregates and
still drives a twin, so every functional test passed before the fix and
after it, and only a conformance checker could tell. Seven mount sites
corrected. `PumpDeviceIntegrationServer` and `MinimalRobotServer` had
hand-rolled the mount instead of calling the shared
`CreateRepresentation` helper, which is exactly how they drifted from
it. Both sample E2E suites now assert the reference type across
**every** discovered representation — a narrower check would have missed
the plant-level representation that arrived later from master still
carrying `HasComponent`.

**Live colour is not achievable in the current OpenUSD viewer, and that
is now documented rather than worked around.** Proven with a standalone
probe: `primvars:displayColor` resolves as `color3f[]` from the
`UsdGeomGprim` schema whatever the layer declares, and the `OpenUsd
0.4.0-alpha` managed API has no writer for that type. Bound
`UsdPreviewSurface` materials are not shaded either, so geometry renders
grey unless it also carries an explicit `displayColor` primvar. The
**visibility** bindings carry no such caveat and are what the samples
rely on to show state. Filed upstream as
[openusd-dotnet#2](https://github.com/marcschier/openusd-dotnet/issues/2),
[#3](https://github.com/marcschier/openusd-dotnet/issues/3) and
[#4](https://github.com/marcschier/openusd-dotnet/issues/4), and linked
from `docs/OpenUsd.md` so a reader can check whether they have since
been fixed.

## Related Issues

No tracking issue — this is additive sample and documentation work with
a single small, self-contained change to `src/` (per-component error
isolation and session-ownership hardening in
`OpenUsdConnector.Composition.cs`). Happy to open one if maintainers
would prefer it tracked.

## Checklist

- [x] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings.
- [x] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed.
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings.
- [ ] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.

### Testing

The generator fixtures live in `tests/Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Tests/Generator` —
**82 tests**, no new project. `Opc.Ua.Di.Tests` would have been the
natural home next to the pump fixtures, but both device samples
source-generate their own reduced `Opc.Ua.Machinery` model and expose it
via `InternalsVisibleTo`, so referencing both from one assembly makes
every Machinery type ambiguous (CS0433); `Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Tests`
references no other sample and already hosts `RobotAssetContractTests`.
The suite runs **870** on net10.0 and net48 (784 existing + 86) and
**788** on net472, where the sample does not exist and only the
framework-independent asset-contract tests run — forgetting exactly that
exclusion broke CI on the sibling pump PR.

The tests target the things in this sample that fail *quietly*:

- **Datasheet conformance** holds the model to its own claim — rated
speed is `120·f/p`, rated current follows from the rating, the fuel
curve reproduces the published table, and `η = P/(V̇·ρ·LHV)` reconciles
at every load. Efficiency is swept across the whole simulated range to
show it stays inside (0,100) and rises monotonically; a fit that goes
negative somewhere in its range is a coincidence that happens to look
right at the duty point, not a model. A further test reads
`DATASHEET.md` and checks the document quotes the figures the server
actually serves.
- **Drift between the two descriptions of the state machine** — the
physics' `IsLegalTransition` and the model's `GeneratorStateMap` — is
checked in *both* directions. A transition the physics permits but the
map lacks moves a machine without telling a client; one the map holds
but the physics refuses is dead weight that looks supported.
- **Reachability at run time**, not just in the declared table — the
test that catches states the model declares and nothing ever enters.
- **That every protection can actually fire**, which is the half of the
alarm contract that "a healthy set annunciates nothing" does not cover.

A **hosted end-to-end fixture** connects a real client and asserts what
the address space actually exposes — the aggregation at
`/Powerhouse/Generators`, its component binding, and every per-set twin.
That is the only kind of test that catches the registration defect
above: the node object had the right browse name, binding and asset
reference, so every test that inspected objects passed while no client
could see it.

**Every state-machine and protection fix was checked by mutation.**
Restoring the clamp ceiling, the direct `Running → Loaded` path, the old
start-counter placement, or removing the alarm opt-in each makes the
corresponding test fail, naming the specific defect. A test that has
never been seen to fail has not been shown to work.

Verified against a running plant: `Synchronizing`, `Paralleled` and
`Fault` all observed on a two-set server, with
`HighCoolantTemperatureAlarm` seen active on the fault subject. Method
behaviour verified separately — per-set distinct `CurrentState` nodes,
`EmergencyStop` → `EmergencyStopped` with `Start` then refused as
`BadInvalidState`, `ResetFaults` → `Off`, `SetOperatingMode(9999)`
refused with the mode unchanged, and the other sets untouched
throughout. Also verified as a three-server federated stage.

0 warnings on a clean Release rebuild of both samples, the client
library, the connector and the tests, across every TFM.

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Marc SchierandCopilot 81d726b7ad Coordinate the robot cell, and make the twin show what it is actually doing (#4162)
# Description

`MinimalRobotServer` drove its two mobile manipulators through each
other. The platforms *did* clear — R1 and R2 trace figure-eights 1.2 m
apart at closest approach, exactly as `README.md` claimed — but each
**arm reaches 1.611 m** (link offsets `0.260 + 0.680 + 0.670 + 0.158`
from `robot.usda`), so the arms swept straight through one another while
the chassis politely missed. Clearance has to be argued about the
deployed arm, not the footprint.

Three related gaps sat alongside it: motion was open-loop (two
independent sine paths with no awareness of each other), only R1 had a
gripper, and nothing was ever actually picked — `PartA`/`PartB` were
static children of a single table and the arm replayed a canned
eight-pose loop unrelated to where either the robot or the table was.

This replaces all of that with a coordinated transfer cycle.

## Keeping them apart

The cell is divided into reservable zones, and a robot reserves the zone
*immediately ahead* before entering it, releasing the one behind once
clear — block signalling rather than a global schedule:

| Zone | Extent | Occupancy |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `EndZoneA` / `EndZoneB` | \|x\| > 1.3 m | one robot — a deployed arm
needs the whole end |
| `CorridorEastbound` | \|x\| ≤ 1.3 m, northern lane (y = 0.35) | one
robot |
| `CorridorWestbound` | \|x\| ≤ 1.3 m, southern lane (y = −1.15) | one
robot |
| `DockA` / `DockB` | around each charging dock (y = −2.0) | one robot |

Three rules follow:

- **Opposite-direction traffic passes**, being in lanes 1.5 m apart;
same-direction traffic queues rather than overtaking.
- **An arm may only leave its transport envelope inside an exclusively
reserved end zone.** This is the rule that actually fixes the reported
defect.
- **A robot with no work parks on its dock**, releasing the end zone so
the other robot can deliver into the station it serves.

That last rule is not cosmetic. Without it the cell deadlocks
permanently on the first handover: an idle robot standing beside its own
table blocks the very delivery it is waiting for. A state trace showed
R1 blocked at `x = 0.98` forever while R2 sat idle holding `EndZoneB`.
The docks are in a southern layby rather than beside the stations,
because a robot parked next to a station is close enough to foul one
turning into it.

## Where the part actually is

A carried part's pose is computed by forward kinematics
(`RobotKinematics`) from **the same six axis values the server
publishes**, not from the choreography that produced them — if the arm
and the part were computed independently they would visibly drift apart.
`RobotArmSolver` solves shoulder and elbow so the tool points down onto
a slot, and is checked against that same forward kinematics, landing the
tool on every slot of both tables to within 1e-6 m.

## Also simulated

Trapezoidal accel/cruise/decel travel with the heading following the
path; speed-and-separation slowdown near the other robot; an emergency
stop that now halts motion rather than only blinking the beacon; battery
drain with a charging detour; seeded grip-slip faults with floor
recovery; and KPIs (parts moved, cycle count, last/average cycle time,
utilisation, fault count). Both robots now carry a gripper.

## Two hidden couplings this surfaced

- `m_r1NodeId` was keyed on *"has a tool"*, so giving R2 a gripper
silently moved the dynamic-tool demo and the speed-override command
target onto R2. Now keyed on R1 explicitly.
- `RobotPositionsDriveLiveOpenUsdSceneAsync` sampled a fixed 1.2 s
window and assumed the robot was always moving. Under a duty cycle a
robot legitimately stands still while gripping, dwelling or charging, so
it now polls until movement is observed — the assertion's intent is that
live positions reach the scene, not that the robot never stops.

## Invariants are asserted, not assumed

`CellChoreographyTests` runs ten minutes of simulated time at 50 ms and
checks on **every step** that:

- oriented footprints never overlap (an oriented box, not a bounding
circle — the circle is so pessimistic for a 1.15 × 0.60 m platform that
it demands clearances no real cell would need);
- the two tool centre points never meet;
- a zone is never doubly occupied;
- arms only deploy inside an end zone;
- parts are conserved — never duplicated, lost or carried twice;
- a carried part sits exactly on the tool centre point.

Plus the round trip completing, KPIs accumulating, the emergency stop
halting every robot, dropped parts being recovered, and the battery
draining and recharging.

The README documents the zoning, traffic rules and cycle, **corrects the
misleading clearance claim**, and lists ten further realism extensions
that were deliberately not built (ISO 10218 / TS 15066
speed-and-separation monitoring, scanner cones, tool changer, inspection
station, conveyor infeed, gate interlock, torque telemetry, maintenance
counters, time-sampled pose history, traffic priority).

## Making the cycle visible

Running the sample end to end against the OpenUSD connector showed the
robots driving the cycle and the arms reaching the slots while **nothing
was picked up or moved**. The choreographer tracked part poses and
gripper opening purely in memory: the address space only ever exposed
the platform poses and the twelve axis angles, so a connector had
nothing to subscribe to for the parts and the blocks stayed wherever the
asset authored them.

A `CellTwin` folder now holds a `ThreeDCartesianCoordinates` position
and a `ThreeDOrientation` heading per part, plus a jaw position per
robot, bound to `/Cell/Parts/PartNN` and to the gripper jaws. The
variables are registered before the motion device system is built - a
binding can only carry a `SourceNodeId` that already exists - and sit
outside the robotics subtree, because a workpiece is not a device and
the robotics builder validates every node below its root as one it
allocated itself.

**The poses are published as structured vectors, not as a matrix.** A
viewer composes a prim's matrix from the vector translate and rotate
ops; the `matrix4d` profile is explicitly left unresolved by the
reference connector, which drops a binding it cannot convert *in
silence*. That is the shape the first attempt took, and it failed
without a word in any log.

The jaws needed the asset restructured. A carrier cube and a finger mesh
were siblings under the gripper body, so driving the carrier would have
slid it out from under the finger it is bolted to. Each jaw is now one
`Xform` owning both, declaring the single matrix op every live-bound
prim declares, with the finger points rebased onto the jaw origin.
Closed puts the finger faces on the 35 mm half-width of the block, so
the gripper grips it rather than passing through it.

`RobotAssetContractTests` now holds **every** live-bound prim to the
single-matrix contract, not just the two robot mount points.

## No part starves

Collecting the lowest free slot meant a part that never landed in slot 0
was never collected at all: with two parts seeded on `WorkTableA` the
second sat untouched for the life of the process while the robots
shuttled the other one past it - which reads in the twin as the robots
ignoring a block sitting in front of them. Parts are now stamped with
the order in which they came to rest and the one that has waited longest
is collected, which is what a real cell does with a buffer anyway.

Verified end to end: all three parts circulate between both tables, the
heading follows the carrying robot and resets on placement, and the jaws
stroke between open (0.060) and closed (0.047) as parts are gripped and
released.

The OpenUSD packages move to 0.3.0-alpha.

## The part was not in the gripper

Running it end to end showed a workpiece floating clear of the jaws that
were supposed to be holding it.

The platform pose and the workpiece pose leave the server as **separate
bindings published by different loops**: positioning at 5 Hz
(`UpdateIntervalMilliseconds = 200`), the simulation tick at 20 Hz. A
carried part rides the tool centre point, so it was being drawn against
a platform up to four ticks stale. Measured against the live scene with
the arm stowed — where the part-to-platform distance is fixed by
construction — the part sat anywhere between **0.65 m and 0.90 m** from
its platform instead of at a single distance. A quarter of a metre of
drift, three part widths, in front of a 96 mm jaw opening.

The platform now publishes at the tick rate, and a carried part is
derived from the pose that was **actually written to the address
space**, recorded at the `SetFrameValue` call site rather than where the
sample is produced. Each value was individually correct the whole time;
only their relationship was wrong, which is why nothing caught it.

`RobotOpenUsdE2eTests` now rebuilds the tool centre point from the
values authored into the scene and asserts a carried part sits on it. It
reproduced the defect at 0.49 m before the fix. The tolerance is the
sampling straddle of reading two independently delivered bindings — one
publish period is 43 mm at cruise — leaving an order of magnitude
between it and the defect.

Two assertions in the positioning test wanted the robots a metre apart
**in X**. They pass each other in opposite corridor lanes, where X is
all but identical and the separation is entirely in Y; and before the
first sample arrives both platforms sit on the zero frame and coincide
exactly. They now measure separation in the plane, once both have been
seen to move — this was failing intermittently on net48 already.

## The opening view

Framing the bounds of an enclosed scene automatically puts the eye
*inside* it: the viewport opened on a close-up of whichever robot
happened to be nearest, looking through the fence.

The cell now authors `/Cell/OverviewCamera` — the whole floor, both work
tables, the docks and the controller cabinet, from 12 m out at 28
degrees of elevation — and the connector opens on the first camera the
served root layer declares. It already had the plumbing to honour a
camera path; it was simply never given one. `--camera` still overrides
the choice outright, and `RobotAssetContractTests` asserts the
establishing shot is ordered before `/Cell/TopDownCamera`.

## The mounted gripper was never reported

`DynamicToolIsComposedAsync` was failing on both TFMs, in isolation, and
a longer timeout did not help. It predates this branch — I confirmed it
at `58fd5e8ca` with a clean worktree. It turned out not to be a flaky
test at all.

**Part 5 §9.32.2** lets only a node carrying a `NodeVersion` property
trigger a `ModelChangeEvent`, and `AsyncCustomNodeManager` drops entries
for nodes that lack one. Neither the mounted tool nor the robot it hangs
off had a `NodeVersion`, so **every addition was filtered out**. Removal
kept reporting, because a deleted node is no longer in the manager's
index and so takes the *"not mine, pass it through"* branch of the same
filter.

That asymmetry is what made it look like flakiness. A connector starting
while the tool was mounted composed it and could still deactivate it
later; one starting in the six-second gap was never told the tool
appeared and never composed it **at all, for the life of the process**.
Which happened depended only on the phase the fixture reached the test
in — near-constant, hence a consistent failure rather than an
intermittent one.

Measured directly before the fix: model-change events arrived only on
detach, exactly 18 s apart, and every resolve returned zero components:

```
14:00:12.738 SERVER mounted        <- no event
14:00:24.752 SERVER detached
14:00:24.801 model-change event    <- only this
```

After enabling model-change tracking on the robot, the prim tracks the
cycle — `A` = composed active (12 s mounted), `i` = inactive (6 s
detached):

```
....AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAiiiiiiiiiiiiAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAiiiiiiiiiiii
```

**The test now asserts a transition**, not a momentary state: the prim
seen both active and inactive across more than one full cycle. Unlike
the old check this cannot pass on a connector that only ever hears about
one direction — which is exactly what the previous pair of tests could
not distinguish, since the sibling
`DynamicToolIsDeactivatedWhenDetachedAsync` was satisfied by the
*initial* compose and never exercised reconciliation at all.

Two robustness gaps in the connector fell out of this: a rejected
model-change monitored item was reported as success, leaving every
`Dynamic` component frozen at whatever it resolved at start-up; and the
initial compose ran *before* the subscription existed, so a change in
between was seen by neither. The first now fails loudly, the second
re-resolves once after subscribing.

`Opc.Ua.Di.Tests` is now **402/403 on net48** (was 3 failures) and on
net10.0, across three consecutive runs of the dynamic-tool tests on
each.

## Related Issues

- Fixes #4161

## Checklist

- [x] I have signed the
[CLA](https://opcfoundation.org/license/cla/ContributorLicenseAgreementv1.0.pdf)
and read the
[CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/OPCFoundation/UA-.NETStandard/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
doc.
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works and increased code coverage.
- [x] I have added all necessary documentation.
- [x] I have verified that my changes do not introduce (new) build or
analyzer warnings.
- [x] I ran **all** tests locally using the **UA.slnx** solution against
at least .net **framework** and .net **10**, and all passed.
- [ ] I fixed **all** failing and flaky tests in the CI pipelines and
**all** CodeQL warnings.
- [ ] I have addressed **all** PR feedback received.

Verification: full `dotnet build UA.slnx -m:1
/p:UseSharedCompilation=false` — 0 errors, no new warnings.
`Opc.Ua.Di.Tests` 399/400 on **both net10.0 and net48** (1 pre-existing
skip), `Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Tests` 635, `Opc.Ua.Robotics.Tests` 103.

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Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: 8cbb8cd0-f0cb-4ab0-bea2-6202fbf69485
2026-08-04 06:58:29 +00:00
Marc SchierandCopilot fb160a8f39 OpenUSD: the OPC UA to OpenUSD binding, scene materialization and connector (#4126)
**Stack 4/5** — base #4125. Part of the #4096 split; see #4096 for the
overall picture.

> Review after #4123, #4124 and #4125.

## What this is

The generic OPC UA to OpenUSD binding, scene materialization, and the
connector that drives a live stage from a running server.

## Contents

**Binding (Part 1)** — `Opc.Ua.OpenUsd` and `Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Server`. A
server describes how its Variables drive USD prims, and serves the USD
layers it refers to as Part 5 files with a content digest.

**Scene materialization (Part 2)** — `Opc.Ua.OpenUsdScene` and
`Opc.Ua.OpenUsdScene.Server`, including the USDA writer.
- **Escaping fix**: string values, composition-arc references, variant
set names and selections, `doc` and prim names were all emitted
unescaped, so a value carrying a quote or a newline could author its own
layer syntax. Every emit site now goes through the escapers. The tests
assert the right property — not that the payload is absent (it
legitimately survives inside the escaped literal) but that no payload
becomes its own line of layer syntax.

**Client** — `Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Client` streams live values into an
`IUsdSink`. `CompositeUsdSink` fans out to several sinks; the file sink
interpolates between server samples so motion is continuous rather than
stepped at the publishing interval.

**Connector** — `tools/Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Connector` composes a stage from a
live server. The optional in-process viewport lives in a separate
assembly probed at run time, so the connector still runs — and says why
— when it is absent.
- **Fix**: the asset cache and PKI root moved off the shared temp
directory to `LocalApplicationData`.

**Sample** — `PumpDeviceIntegrationServer` gains an OpenUSD
representation of the pump.

## Notes for the reviewer

- The viewport assembly is net10.0-only. It is what exercises the
`Directory.Build.targets` change from 1/5: without it, the `net8.0` leg
of the per-TFM CI build fails with `CS0433` because the
`System.Threading.Lock` polyfill collides with the real type.
- `UsdAssetDelivery` hashes through `SHA256.Create` rather than the
static `HashData`, which does not exist on the net472/net48 targets this
test project also builds for.

## Validation

`dotnet build UA.slnx` — 0 errors, 0 warnings.

| Suite | Result |
| --- | --- |
| Opc.Ua.OpenUsd.Tests | 621 / 0 |
| Opc.Ua.Di.Tests | 321 / 0 |

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Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot-Session: 8cbb8cd0-f0cb-4ab0-bea2-6202fbf69485
2026-08-01 07:55:58 +02:00