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Description:

A listed lobby holds exactly one game's worth of players, and at join time the only answers available are "in" or "refused" — there is no way to tell a joiner who is not yet on any roster to go somewhere else.

This adds a pool: a group of sibling lobbies that one advertised entry point spreads arrivals across.

  • The entry lobby is itself pool member zero, not a dedicated router — a lobby nobody plays in would start, leave the Lobby phase, drop out of the listing and be reaped, taking the entry point with it.
  • Which member a joiner belongs to is a hash of their identity (publicId, or the hashed persistentID). That makes assignment sticky across leave/rejoin with no shared state and no coordination between the workers hosting the members.
  • Every member carries the same config and computes the same hash, so the member a player lands on agrees they belong there and does not pass them on again.
  • A joiner in the wrong place gets a redirect frame naming their member, then a normal close, and the client navigates. Normal is the client's silent branch, so no dialog appears while that happens.

Most of this is already approximable with N unlisted lobbies and allowedPublicIds; the redirect for a client not yet on any roster is the part that cannot be built from the existing pieces.

Wire change: appends one GameConfig field and one ServerMessage variant, so client and server must ship together (zbin/README.md). If that is not worth it, the same behaviour fits behind a server-side Map<GameID, PoolConfig> that never touches the wire — happy to rewrite it that way.

Scope: pool is admin-bot-only (CreateGameInputSchema omits it) and create-time only (ConfigPatch excludes it), so a pool never changes after creation. Members are minted together by POST /api/adminbot/create_pool, which allocates every id before creating anything — ids are minted server-side, so a caller cannot assemble a valid sibling list itself. Only member zero is listed, so a pool of any size costs one listed-lobby slot.

Known limitations

  • A full sibling gives the joiner the ordinary full-lobby close, so pools want headroom.
  • A sibling that has already started converts the joiner to a spectator, per the existing late-arrival rule.
  • The entry lobby tells anyone who joins it which sibling they belong to, so sibling ids are not secret. A private pool wants allowedPublicIds on its members.
  • Anonymous stickiness is only as stable as persistentID: clearing site data, or playing logged-out then logged-in, reassigns.

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  • I have added relevant tests to the test directory

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This change adds lobby-pool configuration, deterministic server-side assignment, redirect messages, client navigation, loop prevention, configuration filtering, and test coverage.

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Pool-based lobby routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Routing and message contracts
src/core/Schemas.ts, src/core/PoolRouting.ts, src/core/WorkerSchemas.ts, tests/NewLobbyMessages.test.ts, tests/server/PoolRouting.test.ts
GameConfig accepts bounded pool data. PoolRouting deterministically selects a sibling lobby. A validated redirect server message carries the target game ID. Public game creation input omits pool data.
Server pool assignment
src/server/GameServer.ts, src/server/Worker.ts, src/server/WorkerLobbyService.ts, src/server/ConfigPatch.ts, tests/server/PoolJoin.test.ts, tests/server/ConfigPatch.test.ts, tests/server/HostedLobbyListing.test.ts
GameServer redirects clients assigned to another pool member and preserves role, allowlist, trust, spectator, and reconnect rules. Pool data is removed from client-facing and master-facing configuration. The worker closes redirected connections normally.
Client redirect handling
src/client/Transport.ts, src/core/CloseCodes.ts, resources/lang/en.json, tests/client/TransportPoolRedirect.test.ts
Transport navigates to the assigned lobby, removes the query string, tracks one redirect per source lobby, clears the latch after a successful response, and shows the pool redirect reason on a repeated redirect.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant GameServer
  participant Worker
  participant SiblingLobby
  Client->>GameServer: join lobby
  GameServer->>GameServer: select pool target
  GameServer-->>Client: redirect with target gameID
  GameServer->>Worker: return redirected join result
  Worker-->>Client: close normally
  Client->>SiblingLobby: navigate without query string
  SiblingLobby-->>Client: lobby_info
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f3682

When telemetry is enabled, pool member IDs are sent to the telemetry service, and an incorrectly provisioned pool can route players incorrectly. Sanitize telemetry and validate multi-lobby membership before merging.

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Pool paths guide each joining guest
Hashes choose the lobby best
Redirect frames point the way
Latches guard the round-trip play
Safe configs keep secrets tight
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🟠 Major · Remove pool from public game information. · src/server/GameServer.ts:1617-1617

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Reachability: External
Exploitability: Trivial
CWE: CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Remove pool from public game information. The unauthenticated GET /api/game/:id route returns game.gameInfo(), which exposes this.gameConfig directly. For pooled lobbies, pool.siblings contains private sibling lobby IDs. Return a public-safe config from gameInfo() and keep pool metadata in internal state.

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In `@src/server/GameServer.ts` at line 1617, Update GameServer.gameInfo() to
return a public-safe game configuration that omits pool metadata, especially
pool.siblings, instead of exposing this.gameConfig directly. Preserve pool
details in the server’s internal configuration and ensure the unauthenticated
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In `@src/client/Transport.ts`:
- Line 487: Update handlePoolRedirect and the session-ready flow in Transport to
carry the source game ID across navigation, then remove the corresponding
pool-redirect latch when the target session becomes ready. Preserve removal of
the target lobby latch and ensure the source latch is cleared using the carried
source ID rather than the current lobby’s game ID.

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In `@src/server/GameServer.ts`:
- Line 1617: Update GameServer.gameInfo() to return a public-safe game
configuration that omits pool metadata, especially pool.siblings, instead of
exposing this.gameConfig directly. Preserve pool details in the server’s
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🟠 Major · Sanitize gameConfig before returning gameInfo(). · src/server/GameServer.ts:1593-1593

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Sanitize gameConfig before returning gameInfo().

GET /api/game/:id is unauthenticated and returns gameInfo() directly. gameInfo() returns the live this.gameConfig, so it exposes gameConfig.pool.siblings, which are private lobby IDs. Admitted WebSocket clients also receive this data in lobby_info.

Return a cloned public configuration with pool removed. Reuse that helper in start(). Keep this.gameConfig unchanged because pool routing reads its private pool field.

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In `@src/server/GameServer.ts` at line 1593, Sanitize the configuration returned
by gameInfo() by cloning this.gameConfig and removing its private pool field
before exposing it through the unauthenticated game-info and lobby_info
responses. Add or reuse a helper for this public configuration and invoke the
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In `@src/core/PoolRouting.ts`:
- Line 8: Update the pool-selection logic around simpleHash to use a bounded
BigInt hash and BigInt modulo by size, converting only the final index to
number; preserve deterministic routing and stable known key-to-member mappings
in the existing routing tests.

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- Line 1593: Sanitize the configuration returned by gameInfo() by cloning
this.gameConfig and removing its private pool field before exposing it through
the unauthenticated game-info and lobby_info responses. Add or reuse a helper
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Verdict: Needs changes — solid, well-tested design overall, but two real bugs in the introduced code.

Findings: 2 (1 High, 1 Medium, 0 Low)


src/client/Transport.ts — High

handlePoolRedirect's sessionStorage latch is set under the entry lobby's id but only ever cleared under the sibling's id, so a pooled entry link works exactly once per browser tab.

  • poolRedirectLatch (src/client/Transport.ts:226) keys by gameID.
  • handlePoolRedirect (src/client/Transport.ts:60-68 in the PR diff) reads this.lobbyConfig.gameID — the entry lobby A — to both check and setItem the latch, then navigates via window.location.href to sibling B.
  • Because this is a full-page navigation, the sibling page boots a fresh Transport where this.lobbyConfig.gameID === B. The only clear site, in socket.onmessage (src/client/Transport.ts:482-486 in the PR diff): sessionStorage.removeItem(poolRedirectLatch(this.lobbyConfig.gameID)) therefore removes pool-redirect:B — a key that was never set — while pool-redirect:A is never removed for the lifetime of the tab.
  • Since poolTargetFor is a deterministic hash, any later visit to the same shared link A in the same tab (game ends and the player reopens the link, hits back, etc.) will have the server redirect the client to B again, but the client now finds pool-redirect:A already set and calls handleConnectionRefused(CloseReason.PoolRedirect) instead of following the redirect — showing a permanent "This lobby already sent you to another one. Please try again." dialog that retrying can never clear (only closing the tab helps).
  • Suggested fix: the latch needs to be keyed/cleared consistently with the lobby that actually set it. For example, carry the origin id across the navigation (e.g. as part of the stored latch value, or a separate pool-redirect-from key) and clear that specific key once the destination session becomes ready, rather than clearing a key derived from the page you land on.

src/server/GameServer.ts / src/server/Worker.ts — Medium

pool.siblings (private lobby ids described by the PR's own schema comment as "join secrets") is stripped from gameStartInfo and the public lobby listing, but not from gameInfo(), which is served over an unauthenticated HTTP route and broadcast to every connected client.

  • The PR adds delete config.pool; in the start-info sanitizer (src/server/GameServer.ts:1034 in the PR diff) and delete sanitized.pool; in publicLobbyGameConfig() (src/server/WorkerLobbyService.ts:33 in the PR diff) — both because, per the new schema comment in src/core/Schemas.ts, "sibling ids are private lobby ids, which are join secrets."
  • gameInfo() (src/server/GameServer.ts:1518-1533) is not touched by this PR and returns gameConfig: this.gameConfig (line 1523) unsanitized — pool included.
  • This is reachable via the unauthenticated GET /api/game/:id route (src/server/Worker.ts:351-357), which calls res.json(game.gameInfo()) with no auth/membership check, and via broadcastLobbyInfo() (src/server/GameServer.ts:939-947), which sends gameInfo() to every connected client every second — including spectators, who the PR deliberately exempts from pool routing. Since the entry lobby's id is by design publicly advertised/shared, anyone can fetch or receive its gameConfig.pool.siblings and connect directly to any sibling (e.g. as a spectator), bypassing the routing the feature exists to enforce.
  • Note: the PR's "Known limitations" already acknowledges sibling-id secrecy is soft (an enumeration oracle exists via join attempts), so this isn't a hard security boundary being broken — but it turns an O(n·ln n) probing effort into an O(1) unauthenticated lookup, and is inconsistent with the two sibling strip sites the PR itself added for the same field.
  • Suggested fix: add delete config.pool (on a shallow copy, not this.gameConfig directly) inside gameInfo(), or better, route all three sanitize sites through one shared "public view of GameConfig" helper so a future new GameConfig field can't be missed the same way again.

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Verdict: No issues found — this PR is safe to merge from a correctness/CLAUDE.md-compliance standpoint. Findings: 0 critical, 0 high, 0 medium, 0 low.

Reviewed the lobby-pool routing feature (deterministic hash-based sibling routing, redirect wire message, admin-only gating, sibling-id secrecy, redirect-loop protection) across src/core/Schemas.ts, src/server/GameServer.ts, src/server/PoolRouting.ts (new), src/client/Transport.ts, and related config/worker/listing files plus the new/updated test suites.

Checked and confirmed clean:

  • CLAUDE.md compliance: src/core/ changes (new PoolConfigSchema, ServerRedirectMessageSchema, CloseCodes.PoolRedirect) stay dependency-free, deterministic, and are covered by tests (tests/NewLobbyMessages.test.ts, tests/server/PoolJoin.test.ts, tests/client/TransportPoolRedirect.test.ts). The new user-facing string (close_reason.pool_redirect) goes through translateText() with a matching entry in resources/lang/en.json; no other locale files were touched.
  • Wire format safety: ServerRedirectMessageSchema is appended as the last discriminated-union variant and the new pool field is appended last on GameConfigSchema, both consistent with zbin/README.md's append-only ordering rules for binary wire compatibility.
  • Logic/bug scan: simpleHash's Math.abs() guarantees non-negative modulo indexing (no out-of-range sibling lookups); all new cross-file references (hashPersistentID, isAdminRole, etc.) resolve correctly; the pool field is stripped from all three GameConfig-serialization sinks (gameInfo(), gameStartInfo, publicLobbyGameConfig()), so sibling IDs don't leak publicly; the seat-toggle bypass (setSpectator) is guarded against skipping pool routing; redirect gating runs after allowlist/trust checks and before full-lobby checks as intended; client-side redirect-loop protection via the sessionStorage latch was traced through the relevant redirect chains without finding a bypass.

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In `@src/core/Schemas.ts`:
- Around line 493-497: Update PoolConfigSchema to reject duplicate siblings and
require the newly created lobby ID in the pool while preserving list order;
validate the pool before minting the lobby ID or calling gm.createGame, using
the existing poolTargetFor flow as the integration point. Keep
update_game_config’s pool exclusion unchanged and add tests covering duplicate
IDs and a pool that omits the current lobby.

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- Around line 509-512: Update the match_opened telemetry flow in GameServer so
it sends a telemetry-only copy of opts.gameConfig with the pool property
removed, while preserving the full game configuration for runtime use. Use this
sanitized configuration in the match_opened payload and retain the existing
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A lobby can declare itself one member of a pool: a group of sibling
lobbies that arriving players are spread across, so a single advertised
entry point can absorb more players than one lobby holds.

Which member a player belongs to is a hash of their identity (publicId,
or the hashed persistentID for a player without one) mixed with the pool
id, so every member computes the same answer with no shared state, no
coordination between the workers hosting them, and the same answer every
time — leaving and rejoining puts a player back where they were. Every
member carries the same config and recognises itself by its own game id,
so there is no per-member field to get wrong.

A joiner who lands on the wrong member gets a new `redirect` frame naming
their member and a normal close, and navigates there. A one-shot
sessionStorage latch stops a bounce; it is cleared as soon as a lobby
takes the player, and a second redirect from the same lobby falls through
to the ordinary refusal dialog rather than into silence.

Admins and publicIds named in allowedPublicIds bypass the hash.
Spectators are routed only when they ask for a seat: they take none on
the way in, so a caster can watch any member, but the lobby Play/Spectate
toggle checks the pool so the spectator flag is not a way past it. A
player already in the game is never routed, so a mid-game reconnect is
not sent out of the game they are playing.

`pool` is admin-bot-only (CreateGameInputSchema omits it) and host-only:
stripped from the start info and from the advertised lobby config, and
not copied by update_game_config, because pool membership is state every
member has to agree on and a patch reaches exactly one GameServer.

The assignment helper is server-side: pool membership is lobby admission,
not simulation. It never runs in the sim worker, and what it needs is the
same answer on this server across calls, not lockstep reproducibility
between clients.

Pools are created through one route, POST /api/adminbot/create_pool:
members name each other by game id, and an id does not exist until the
server mints it, so a pool cannot be assembled one create_game at a time.
The route mints every id first, builds one sibling list, and creates each
member carrying it. `pool` stays create-time only, so a pool can never
change after its members exist.

Nothing sets `pool` on its own — a caller configures each member
explicitly, so the feature is inert until deliberately used.

Appends a GameConfig field and a ServerMessage variant, so client and
server ship together (zbin/README.md).
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