release: v0.3.0

Bump crate version to 0.3.0; pin smarm dependency to the v0.7.0 tag (dev path override reverted).
build(examples): gate load_profile behind smarm-causal
2026-08-21 13:10:56 +02:00 · 2026-08-20 19:38:24 +00:00 · 2026-08-20 15:01:44 +00:00 · 2026-08-20 14:49:29 +00:00 · 2026-08-20 14:49:23 +00:00 · 2026-08-20 13:27:27 +00:00
24 changed files with 2447 additions and 896 deletions
@@ -1,26 +1,30 @@
 [package]
 name = "urus"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.3.0"
 edition = "2021"
 rust-version = "1.95"
 description = "Cowboy/bandit-style HTTP library for the smarm actor runtime"
+license = "MIT"

 [dependencies]
-smarm    = { git = "https://git.kalsbeek.dev/Markk116/smarm", tag = "v0.5.0" }
+smarm    = { git = "https://git.kalsbeek.dev/Markk116/smarm", tag = "v0.7.0" }
 httparse = "1.9"
 libc     = "0.2"
 sha1_smol = "1"

 # dep #4, ratified 2026-06-12: serde/serde_json behind the opt-in
 # "phoenix" feature only — the "channels" core stays dependency-free.
-serde      = { version = "1", optional = true }
+serde      = { version = "1", optional = true, features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = { version = "1", optional = true }
+# config-file feature: TOML loader for tuning knobs (dep #5, 2026-08-12)
+toml       = { version = "0.8", optional = true }

 [features]
 smarm-trace  = ["smarm/smarm-trace"]
 smarm-causal = ["smarm/smarm-causal"]
 channels     = []
 phoenix      = ["channels", "dep:serde", "dep:serde_json"]
+config-file  = ["dep:serde", "dep:toml"]

 [dev-dependencies]
 serde      = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
@@ -46,3 +50,11 @@ path = "examples/crud.rs"
 name = "channels_chat"
 path = "examples/channels_chat.rs"
 required-features = ["phoenix"]
+
+[[example]]
+name = "serve_toml"
+required-features = ["config-file"]
+
+[[example]]
+name = "load_profile"
+required-features = ["smarm-causal"]
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2026 Mark Kalsbeek
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.
@@ -122,7 +122,11 @@ Handlers are closures taking `(Conn, Next) -> Conn`. Call `Next::call(c)` to con

 ### Server Configuration

-`serve(addr, pipeline)` binds and listens on the given address. For more control, use `serve_with(config, pipeline)`:
+`serve(addr, pipeline)` binds and listens on the given address. For more
+control, use `serve_with(config, runtime_config, pipeline)` — the urus
+`Config` holds endpoint knobs, the `smarm::Config` holds runtime knobs
+(they are separate because an endpoint placed in someone else's tree
+cannot dictate the runtime):

 ```rust
 use urus::{serve_with, Config};
@@ -130,7 +134,7 @@ use std::time::Duration;

 let cfg = Config {
    listener_pool:      2,                        // Supervised accept-loop actors
-    scheduler_threads:  Some(2),                  // smarm worker threads (None = one per CPU)
+    name:               "urus",                   // Endpoint registry name (unique per endpoint)
    keep_alive_timeout: Duration::from_secs(60),  // Idle budget between requests
    request_timeout:    Duration::from_secs(30),  // Whole-request READ deadline
    write_timeout:      Duration::from_secs(30),  // Per-write response budget
@@ -141,7 +145,7 @@ let cfg = Config {
    ..Config::new("127.0.0.1:8080".parse().unwrap())
 };

-serve_with(cfg, pipeline).unwrap();
+serve_with(cfg, smarm::Config::exact(2), pipeline).unwrap();
 ```

 **Timeout semantics:**
@@ -162,10 +166,51 @@ serve_with(cfg, pipeline).unwrap();
  write stalls past the budget (the write-side twin of slowloris). Streamed
  chunks each get a fresh budget; a stream as a whole has no deadline.

-### Graceful Shutdown
+### Your Own Supervision Tree

-`serve_with_shutdown` takes a `ShutdownSignal`; the paired `Handle` can be
-triggered from anywhere (another thread, a signal handler):
+The real API is `urus::endpoint(config, pipeline)`, which binds the socket
+and hands back a supervisable child body. Your application owns the
+runtime and the root supervisor; urus is one child among your own actors:
+
+```rust
+use smarm::{ChildSpec, OneForOne, Restart, supervisor::Shutdown};
+
+// Binds here: an address-in-use error is a startup failure, not an actor
+// crash. The fds outlive any restart of the endpoint child.
+let endpoint = urus::endpoint(cfg, pipeline)?;
+
+let rt = smarm::init(smarm::Config::default());
+rt.run(move || {
+    let sup = smarm::spawn(move || {
+        OneForOne::new()
+            // Your state actor FIRST: reverse-order shutdown therefore
+            // stops it LAST, after HTTP has finished draining.
+            .child(ChildSpec::new(Restart::Permanent, my_store))
+            .child(ChildSpec::new(Restart::Permanent, endpoint)
+                // The endpoint bounds its own drain with drain_timeout;
+                // a shorter supervisor deadline would cut it in half.
+                .shutdown(Shutdown::Infinity))
+            .run()
+    });
+    let _ = sup.join();
+});
+```
+
+Shutdown is then whatever your app already does — `request_shutdown` on
+the root supervisor (from a SIGTERM handler via `rt.handle()`, say). The
+endpoint's `handle_shutdown` stops the listener pool, closes idle
+keep-alive connections, drains in-flight requests up to `drain_timeout`,
+force-stops stragglers past it, and exits only when the last connection is
+gone — so "the endpoint child has stopped" *is* "every connection is
+gone". See `examples/crud.rs` for a complete app in this shape.
+
+Address a running endpoint by name for introspection:
+`urus::endpoint::whereis("urus")`.
+
+### Graceful Shutdown Without a Tree
+
+If serving is all your process does, let `serve*` own the runtime and use
+`Handle`, which triggers the same sequence from any thread:

 ```rust
 use urus::{serve_with_shutdown, shutdown_handle, Config};
@@ -177,13 +222,13 @@ std::thread::spawn(move || {
    handle.shutdown();
 });

-serve_with_shutdown(cfg, pipeline, signal).unwrap();
+serve_with_shutdown(cfg, smarm::Config::default(), pipeline, signal).unwrap();
 // Returns once the runtime has fully wound down.
 ```

 `Handle::shutdown()` is idempotent and performs, in order:

-1. Stop accepting — every listener exits; no new connections.
+1. Stop accepting — the listener pool is stopped; no new connections.
 2. Close idle keep-alive connections immediately.
 3. Drain in-flight requests for up to `Config.drain_timeout`.
 4. Force-stop any stragglers past the deadline (sockets close cleanly on
@@ -313,10 +358,11 @@ independent of HTTP (it imports only smarm) and built for the WebSocket
 relay pattern:

 ```rust
-let bus: PubSub<String> = PubSub::new();          // in-runtime only!
-let rx = bus.subscribe("room:lobby")?;            // Receiver<Arc<String>>
-bus.broadcast("room:lobby", "hi".to_string())?;
-bus.broadcast_from(smarm::self_pid(), "room:lobby", "no echo".into())?;
+const BUS: PubSub<String> = PubSub::new("chat");  // a name; spawns nothing
+// BUS.child() goes in your supervision tree (or serve_with*'s child vec)
+let rx = BUS.subscribe("room:lobby")?;            // Receiver<Arc<String>>
+BUS.broadcast("room:lobby", "hi".to_string())?;
+BUS.broadcast_from(smarm::self_pid(), "room:lobby", "no echo".into())?;
 ```

 One generic instance per message domain; payloads broadcast as `Arc<M>`
@@ -328,16 +374,25 @@ explicit pid for relay patterns. Mailboxes are unbounded: `broadcast`
 never blocks the table, and a slow subscriber's memory bill is bounded
 by the two cleanup paths above.

-Two composition rules that matter (both enforced by
-`shutdown_with_open_chat_terminates` in the integration suite):
+Composition (enforced by `shutdown_with_open_chat_terminates` in the
+integration suite):

-1. `PubSub::new()` spawns an actor, so it must run in-runtime — build it
-   lazily from a handler via a **non-static** `Arc<OnceLock<PubSub<M>>>`
-   captured by the route closure. A `static` cell pins the table actor
-   forever and graceful shutdown never returns.
+1. **The handle is an address, not the table.** `PubSub<M>` is a name:
+   `const`, `Copy`, spawns nothing, fine in a `static` or outside the
+   runtime. The actor is `PubSub::child()`, a `ChildSpec` for your
+   supervision tree — or for `serve_with*`'s app-children vec, which puts
+   it ahead of the endpoint so it stops only after the endpoint has
+   drained. Operations resolve the name per call, so a restarted table is
+   reached transparently.
 2. Relay/producer actors hold the `Receiver` (plus e.g. a `WsSender`
-   clone) — **never a `PubSub` clone**, or relay and table keep each
-   other alive past shutdown.
+   clone). They may hold the handle too — it pins nothing — but usually
+   have no use for one.
+
+Prior to v0.8 both of these read the other way round: `PubSub::new()`
+spawned the table, the handle owned its life, and a non-static
+`Arc<OnceLock<PubSub<M>>>` lazily built from the first handler was the
+required idiom. smarm 0.7 made a server's lifetime its own, and that
+whole apparatus went away with it.

 See [`examples/ws_chat.rs`](examples/ws_chat.rs): rooms as topics,
 `on_open` subscribes + spawns the relay, `on_message` uses
@@ -377,8 +432,10 @@ impl Channel<P> for Room {
    }
 }

-// in-runtime, non-static — the ws_chat OnceLock pattern applies
-let hub = ChannelHub::new(PrefixRouter::new().channel_default::<Room>("room:*"));
+// A description: spawns nothing. `children` are the ChildSpecs it needs
+// (bus table + one registry per session route) — hand them to serve_with*.
+let (hub, children) =
+    ChannelHub::new("chat-bus", PrefixRouter::new().channel_default::<Room>("room:*"));
 // route handler: hub.upgrade(conn)
 // from anywhere with a hub handle: hub.broadcast("room:lobby", "news", payload)
 ```
@@ -252,6 +252,10 @@ smarm has none). All six design questions ratified by the user pre-code
  (crud's store shape) hangs `serve_with_shutdown`. Corollary: relays
  hold `Receiver` only, never a `PubSub` clone (mutual-keepalive cycle).
  Proven by `shutdown_with_open_chat_terminates`.
+  **Superseded by v0.7 where the app owns its tree:** start the table as a
+  supervised sibling of the endpoint and address it by name (what crud now
+  does with its store). The `OnceLock` rule still holds under `serve*`,
+  which owns the runtime and offers no in-runtime moment beforehand.
 - **`WsHandler::on_open(&mut self, sender)`** added (defaulted,
  non-breaking): without it a listen-only ws client can never be
  subscribed (`on_message` never fires). Same panic contract as
@@ -349,6 +353,153 @@ reconnect cycles.

 ---

+## v0.7 — Endpoint as a supervised child — DONE (2026-08-20)
+
+Crate goes 0.2.x -> **0.3.0** (breaking). Unwinds the last deviation from
+the spec (§2.1/§6): `serve` owning `rt.run`. The app owns the runtime and
+the root supervisor; urus is one ordered child in it.
+
+```
+your root sup
+└── ChildSpec(Permanent, urus::endpoint(cfg, pipeline)?)   <- Endpoint gen_server
+    └── listener_sup  OneForOne over N listeners
+        └── plain connection actors
+```
+
+- `src/conn_registry.rs` -> `src/endpoint.rs`; `ConnRegistry` -> `Endpoint`.
+  The registry absorbed the listener pool it registers for and runs inline
+  as the `ChildSpec`'s actor (`NamedGenServerBuilder::run`), so supervisor
+  shutdown arrives as `handle_shutdown` and a restart re-runs `init` on the
+  same still-open fds. `endpoint()` binds eagerly on the caller's thread.
+- **The endpoint spawns its own listener sup rather than being its
+  sibling.** smarm's supervisor start *order* is not start *readiness*
+  (`start_child` spawns and moves on), so a sibling listener could
+  `whereis` the endpoint name before its actor ran. Registrar-spawns-
+  consumers makes that program order inside one `init`. Filed in smarm's
+  ROADMAP as a readiness-ack item; a blocking `spawn` would only shrink the
+  window ("has begun executing" != "has bound its name") at the cost of a
+  round-trip per accept.
+- Listener sup is monitored: death outside shutdown = panic (the app's
+  supervisor decides) instead of a zombie on a dead port; death during
+  shutdown is the "no new connections" barrier.
+- Drain is entirely internal and event-driven: `handle_shutdown` flips
+  draining, shuts the listener sup, stops idle conns, arms one
+  `drain_timeout` timer; conns that register or go idle mid-drain are
+  stopped on the spot; one force sweep at the deadline; the endpoint exits
+  when the sup is down and the set is empty. "Endpoint child stopped" ==
+  "every connection gone".
+- **Deleted:** the `AtomicBool` listener flag, `LISTENER_TICK` (250ms wake
+  per listener per tick -> untimed `wait_readable` park), `SHUTDOWN_POLL`
+  (100ms root poll -> real park on the signal channel), `Restart::Transient`
+  for listeners (now `Permanent`: they only exit by supervisor action),
+  the root-side drain loop, `Cast::{BeginDrain, ForceStopConns}`.
+  Re-probed against current smarm: `request_stop` unwinds an untimed
+  `wait_readable` park, is no longer lossy against a QUEUED actor, and
+  supervisor shutdown joins in ~200us.
+- **Config split**: `scheduler_threads` / `max_actors` are runtime knobs an
+  endpoint-as-child cannot honour -> `serve_with(cfg, smarm::Config, pipe)`
+  and `serve_with_shutdown(cfg, smarm::Config, pipe, signal)`. New
+  `Config.name` (default `"urus"`) is the endpoint's registry name;
+  `urus::endpoint::whereis(name)` for introspection. Two endpoints in one
+  process need distinct names.
+- `serve*` stay as thin wrappers building a one-child tree with
+  `Shutdown::Infinity`. `Handle`/`ShutdownSignal` stay: a `serve*` caller
+  never sees the runtime, so it has no `RuntimeHandle` to reach for — but
+  the poll behind it is gone.
+- `examples/crud.rs` is the demonstrator (app-owned tree, store as an
+  ordered sibling registered under a typed `Name`, shutdown via
+  `rt.handle().request_shutdown(root_sup)`); it loses its `OnceLock` store
+  cell and its `SHUTTING_DOWN` flag + 250ms poll. Other examples stay short
+  on `serve*`.
+
+**Open after this cycle:**
+- ~~One unreproduced test failure seen once in ~120 full-suite runs~~
+  **DIAGNOSED AND FIXED** in v0.8 below — it was the pubsub/channels drain
+  hang, not the `free_port()` race. It hid because `hammer.sh` builds with
+  default features while the failure needs `--all-features` load.
+- `endpoint()` returns `impl Fn()`, so calling it twice = two endpoints
+  contending for one `Config.name` (second panics on the clash). Honest
+  failure, but the type doesn't prevent the mistake; a consume-on-first-use
+  newtype would. `ChannelHub::new` returning `(hub, children)` in v0.8 is
+  the same lesson applied: make the type refuse the mistake.
+
+## v0.8 — Bus, hub and session registries are supervised — DONE (2026-08-20)
+
+Same crate version (**0.3.0**); this cycle and v0.7 ship together and are
+both breaking.
+
+v0.7 put the endpoint under a supervisor. This puts everything else there
+too, because smarm 0.7 left it no choice: commit `415effb` ("lifetime is
+the actor's — refs are addresses") removed the rule the pubsub table,
+channel hub bus and session registries were built on. A `GenServerRef` no
+longer owns its server; the loop holds its own inbox sender and the inbox
+never closes when the last ref drops. Nothing commanded these three to
+stop, and what still terminated a run was the root-exit sweep racing the
+drain.
+
+That is the flake above: `shutdown_with_open_chat_terminates` and
+`channels_wire::shutdown_with_open_channel_terminates`, 4 failures in 25
+`--all-features` integration runs, all "serve did not return: ... outlived
+the drain: Timeout". 0 in 10 full-suite runs after the fix.
+
+**Description separated from instantiation.** The gotchas here all
+descended from constructors that spawn — `PubSub::new()`,
+`ChannelHub::new()` and `PrefixRouter::channel_session()` all started
+actors, which forced in-runtime-only construction, which forced the
+`Arc<OnceLock<..>>` lazy-init from the first handler, which forced the
+"cell must not be `static`" and "a relay must never hold a `PubSub` clone"
+rules. Five documented rules propping up one inverted dependency.
+
+```
+your root sup  (RestForOne)
+├── ChildSpec(Permanent, PubSub::child)        <- bus table, named
+├── ChildSpec(Permanent, session registry)     <- one per channel_session
+└── ChildSpec(Permanent, urus::endpoint(..))   <- starts last, drains first
+```
+
+- **`PubSub<M>` is a name, not a ref.** `const`-constructible, `Copy`,
+  spawns nothing, legal outside the runtime and in a `static`. Operations
+  resolve through the registry per call, so a supervisor-restarted table is
+  reached transparently. `PubSub::new()` is gone: `PubSub::new(name)` +
+  `PubSub::child()`.
+- **`ChannelHub::new(bus, router) -> (hub, Vec<ChildSpec>)`**, `#[must_use]`.
+  Both halves come back together because a hub whose children were never
+  started compiles and fails on the first join. There is no `children()`
+  method to forget to call.
+- **`channel_session` takes a registry name**; each registry is separately
+  named and supervised.
+- **`serve_with` / `serve_with_shutdown` take a `Vec<ChildSpec>`** of app
+  children and build `RestForOne[..app children, endpoint]`. App children
+  start before the endpoint and — shutdown being ordered in reverse — stop
+  after it has drained, so a request still in flight can still reach the
+  bus. `RestForOne` because a bus crash leaves live sockets addressing a
+  table that no longer knows them.
+- Deleted: the `Arc<OnceLock>` idiom from both examples and both test
+  pipelines, and every module rule that existed only to hand-manage a
+  refcount. `ws_chat` lost 21 lines and a struct field; examples net -25.
+
+**Cost accepted:** one registry resolution per operation, including per
+broadcast. Caching a `GenServerRef` in the handle would save it and go
+stale across exactly the restart the supervisor exists to perform. Bench
+before optimising.
+
+**Open after this cycle:**
+- `channel_session("session:*", "chat-sessions", f)` puts two unrelated
+  string literals side by side and nothing catches a transposition. A
+  `RegistryName` newtype makes it a type error. Not done.
+- `PubSub` cannot be protected the way `ChannelHub` was: a `const` is
+  copied at each use, so it can't be consume-on-first-use. Forgetting
+  `BUS.child()` compiles and fails at runtime with `PubSubDown`. Judged
+  worth it — the `const` is what makes the handle pleasant.
+- Session actors are still plain-spawned by their registry, not supervised
+  (they're dynamic, one per key — OTP would want `simple_one_for_one`).
+  Their exit chain is now commanded rather than refcounted: the registry is
+  shut down, its state drops, control senders drop, parked sessions wake on
+  the closed arm. Sound, but it is the last place a lifetime is implied by
+  a drop rather than stated.
+- `hammer.sh` still passes no feature flags, which is why this hid for a
+  whole cycle. A feature matrix is the obvious fix.
+
 ## Known bugs

 - ~~**HTTP/1.0 keep-alive: server honors but never advertises**~~ FIXED
@@ -378,9 +529,9 @@ reconnect cycles.
 - **Bench suite** — `urus-bench-spec.md` exists in the artefact store;
  wire it up once v0.2 lands (supervision changes the hot path not at all,
  but prove it).
- **Operator introspection via typed names** — the v0.2-era
-  `urus.server` / `urus.listener.{i}` pid tags were dropped in the
-  RFC 014 port (names are messageable endpoints now, self-registered
-  with a real `Sender<M>`). If wanted back, do it properly: register the
-  serve loop's shutdown/control channel under a typed `urus.server`
-  name instead of faking pid tags with unit channels.
+- **Operator introspection via typed names** — partly delivered in v0.7:
+  the endpoint is a named gen_server (`Config.name`, default `"urus"`),
+  reachable via `urus::endpoint::whereis(name)`, and answers
+  `Call::ConnCount`. Still open: per-listener visibility (the pool is
+  internal and anonymous), and a richer stats call (ws/channel counts,
+  request rates) — the endpoint is the place to hang them.
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ fn main() {
    let (handle, signal) = shutdown_handle();
    let server = std::thread::spawn(move || {
        let pipe = Pipeline::new().plug(Router::new().get("/order/:id", order));
-        serve_with_shutdown(Config::new(addr), pipe, signal).expect("serve");
+        serve_with_shutdown(Config::new(addr), smarm::Config::default(), pipe, Vec::new(), signal).expect("serve");
    });

    // Wait until it's accepting.
@@ -10,10 +10,13 @@
 //!
 //! The shapes this demonstrates:
 //!
-//! - **One `ChannelHub` for the whole app**, built lazily on the first
-//!   connection via the NON-static `Arc<OnceLock<...>>` pattern (the
-//!   hub spawns the pubsub table; same in-runtime + shutdown laws as
-//!   `examples/ws_chat.rs`, see the docs there).
+//! - **One `ChannelHub` for the whole app**, built up front. The hub is
+//!   a description — a bus name plus the routing table — and spawns
+//!   nothing; `hub.children()` is the vec of actors it needs (the bus
+//!   table, plus one registry per session route), handed to
+//!   `serve_with_shutdown` so the supervisor starts them ahead of the
+//!   endpoint and stops them after it has drained. Same shape as
+//!   `examples/ws_chat.rs`, see the docs there.
 //!
 //! - **A channel per joined topic, not per socket.** `Room` never sees
 //!   frames, refs, or the transport heartbeat — the conn-side handler
@@ -31,8 +34,6 @@
 //!   the buffer holds the relay path's own `Arc`s, nothing is copied.
 //!   The session is keyed by the `"name"` in the join payload.

-use std::sync::{Arc, OnceLock};
-
 use serde_json::{json, Value};
 use urus::channels::phoenix::Json;
 use urus::{
@@ -85,23 +86,16 @@ impl ChannelSession<P> for BySessionName {
 }

 fn main() {
-    let hub: Arc<OnceLock<ChannelHub<P>>> = Arc::new(OnceLock::new());
-
-    let router = Router::new().get("/socket", move |c: Conn, _n: Next| {
-        // Hub construction is in-runtime only (it spawns the pubsub
-        // table and, for session patterns, their registries); the
-        // non-static cell is what lets shutdown drain them all.
-        let hub = hub.get_or_init(|| {
-            ChannelHub::new(
+    let (hub, children) = ChannelHub::new(
+        "chat-bus",
        PrefixRouter::new()
            .channel_default::<Room>("room:*")
-                    .channel_session::<BySessionName>("session:*", |_: &str| {
+            .channel_session::<BySessionName>("session:*", "chat-sessions", |_: &str| {
                Box::new(Room::default()) as Box<dyn Channel<P>>
            }),
-            )
-        });
-        hub.upgrade(c)
-    });
+    );
+
+    let router = Router::new().get("/socket", move |c: Conn, _n: Next| hub.upgrade(c));

    let (handle, signal) = shutdown_handle();
    std::thread::spawn(move || {
@@ -111,7 +105,13 @@ fn main() {
        handle.shutdown();
    });

-    serve_with_shutdown(Config::new("0.0.0.0:8080".parse().unwrap()), Pipeline::new().plug(router), signal)
+    serve_with_shutdown(
+        Config::new("0.0.0.0:8080".parse().unwrap()),
+        smarm::Config::default(),
+        Pipeline::new().plug(router),
+        children,
+        signal,
+    )
        .unwrap();
    println!("channels_chat: drained, bye");
 }
@@ -1,11 +1,18 @@
 //! CRUD example: a tiny user database with JSON persistence.
 //!
-//! Demonstrates urus and the actor model together:
-//!   - The pipeline is shared (Arc) across all connection actors.
-//!   - Handlers do NOT take a lock or share mutable state directly.
-//!   - A single "store" actor owns the data; handlers send it a request
-//!     via a channel and block on the reply. Serialization is structural —
-//!     the store processes one request at a time, no Mutex needed.
+//! Demonstrates urus and the actor model together, in the shape a real
+//! application should use (v0.3):
+//!   - The APP owns the smarm runtime and the root supervisor. urus is one
+//!     child in that tree — `urus::endpoint(...)` — and the store actor is
+//!     an ordered sibling started BEFORE it, so the supervisor's
+//!     reverse-order shutdown drains HTTP first and only then stops the
+//!     store. No handler can be mid-request against a store that is gone.
+//!   - Handlers do NOT take a lock or share mutable state directly. A
+//!     single "store" actor owns the data; handlers address it by
+//!     registered name and block on a reply channel. Serialization is
+//!     structural — one request at a time, no Mutex.
+//!   - Both actors are supervised: kill the store (or let it panic) and it
+//!     restarts from the JSON file, with the endpoint left alone.
 //!   - On every mutating request the store writes the JSON file. Read
 //!     requests don't touch disk.
 //!
@@ -23,9 +30,8 @@
 //!   curl -s http://localhost:8080/users/1

 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
-use smarm::{channel, Sender};
-use std::sync::OnceLock;
-use urus::{serve_with_shutdown, shutdown_handle, Config, Conn, Next, Pipeline, Router};
+use smarm::{channel, ChildSpec, Name, OneForOne, Restart, Sender};
+use urus::{Config, Conn, Next, Pipeline, Router};

 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Domain
@@ -66,7 +72,12 @@ const DB_PATH: &str = "/tmp/urus-crud.json";
 // Store actor body
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

-fn store_loop(rx: smarm::Receiver<Request>) {
+fn store_loop() {
+    let (tx, rx) = channel::<Request>();
+    // Self-registration: the name is bound before the first recv, and it
+    // is re-bound automatically on every restart.
+    smarm::register(STORE, tx).expect("crud.store name already taken");
+
    // Load on start. Missing file = empty store. Corrupt file = panic; we
    // don't auto-rebuild because silently losing data is worse than failing
    // loud.
@@ -78,19 +89,10 @@ fn store_loop(rx: smarm::Receiver<Request>) {
    let mut next_id: u64 = users.iter().map(|u| u.id).max().unwrap_or(0) + 1;

    loop {
-        // recv with a timeout rather than a bare recv: the store must be
-        // stoppable at shutdown, but a cross-thread Sender::send (from the
-        // stdin thread) can't wake a parked actor — same smarm limitation
-        // that motivates urus's SHUTDOWN_POLL. So we wake on our own timer
-        // and poll the flag. This poll dies with that limitation too.
-        let req = match rx.recv_timeout(std::time::Duration::from_millis(250)) {
+        // A plain park. The supervisor stops this actor at shutdown (after
+        // the endpoint has drained), so there is nothing to poll for.
+        let req = match rx.recv() {
            Ok(r) => r,
-            Err(smarm::channel::RecvTimeoutError::Timeout) => {
-                if SHUTTING_DOWN.load(std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed) {
-                    return;
-                }
-                continue;
-            }
            Err(_) => return, // all senders dropped
        };
        match req {
@@ -169,25 +171,29 @@ fn persist(users: &[User]) {
 // Handler helpers
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 //
-// Once-cell trick: the store actor is spawned the first time a handler
-// runs (smarm requires `spawn` to be called from inside an actor — which
-// connection actors are). After that all handlers share the same Sender.
-// Simpler than threading the Sender through the pipeline at startup.
+// The store is a supervised child that registers its own inbox under a
+// typed name; handlers resolve it per send. That replaces the old
+// `OnceLock<Sender>` spawn-on-first-use trick — which had no supervisor,
+// no restart, and no defined shutdown point — with a plain actor whose
+// lifecycle the tree owns. A restart re-registers the same name, so
+// in-flight handlers heal on their next send.

-static STORE_TX: OnceLock<Sender<Request>> = OnceLock::new();
+const STORE: Name<Request> = Name::new("crud.store");

-// Set by the stdin thread at shutdown; the store actor polls it (see
-// store_loop). An always-on app actor that never returns would otherwise
-// block smarm's AllDone and keep serve_with_shutdown from returning.
-static SHUTTING_DOWN: std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool =
-    std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool::new(false);
+/// Send to the store and wait for its reply. `Err` only if the store is
+/// between incarnations (restarting); the handler turns that into a 503
+/// rather than pretending.
+fn ask(make: impl FnOnce(Sender<(u16, Vec<u8>)>) -> Request) -> Option<(u16, Vec<u8>)> {
+    let (tx, rx) = channel::<(u16, Vec<u8>)>();
+    smarm::send(STORE, make(tx)).ok()?;
+    rx.recv().ok()
+}

-fn store() -> &'static Sender<Request> {
-    STORE_TX.get_or_init(|| {
-        let (tx, rx) = channel::<Request>();
-        smarm::spawn(move || store_loop(rx));
-        tx
-    })
+fn reply(conn: Conn, r: Option<(u16, Vec<u8>)>) -> Conn {
+    match r {
+        Some((status, body)) => json(conn, status, body),
+        None => json(conn, 503, b"{\"error\":\"store unavailable\"}".to_vec()),
+    }
 }

 fn json(conn: Conn, status: u16, body: Vec<u8>) -> Conn {
@@ -206,16 +212,13 @@ fn parse_id(s: &str) -> Option<u64> {

 /// SSE demo: `curl -N localhost:8080/ticker` streams a tick every second
 /// (with `: keep-alive` comments if it ever goes quiet). The producer
-/// exits on SseClosed (client gone / write timeout / shutdown drain) or
-/// when the example is shutting down.
+/// exits on SseClosed — client gone, write timeout, or the drain stopping
+/// its connection actor. Nothing to flag: the tree's shutdown reaches it.
 fn ticker(conn: Conn, _next: Next) -> Conn {
    let (conn, events) = conn.sse();
    smarm::spawn(move || {
        let mut n: u64 = 0;
        loop {
-            if SHUTTING_DOWN.load(std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed) {
-                return; // dropping `events` ends the stream cleanly
-            }
            if events.send("tick", &n.to_string()).is_err() {
                return; // SseClosed
            }
@@ -227,18 +230,14 @@ fn ticker(conn: Conn, _next: Next) -> Conn {
 }

 fn list(conn: Conn, _next: Next) -> Conn {
-    let (tx, rx) = channel::<(u16, Vec<u8>)>();
-    store().send(Request::List { reply: tx }).ok();
-    let (status, body) = rx.recv().expect("store dropped");
-    json(conn, status, body)
+    let r = ask(|reply| Request::List { reply });
+    reply(conn, r)
 }

 fn create(conn: Conn, _next: Next) -> Conn {
    let body = conn.body.as_bytes().to_vec();
-    let (tx, rx) = channel::<(u16, Vec<u8>)>();
-    store().send(Request::Create { body, reply: tx }).ok();
-    let (status, body) = rx.recv().expect("store dropped");
-    json(conn, status, body)
+    let r = ask(|reply| Request::Create { body, reply });
+    reply(conn, r)
 }

 fn get_one(conn: Conn, _next: Next) -> Conn {
@@ -246,10 +245,8 @@ fn get_one(conn: Conn, _next: Next) -> Conn {
        Some(id) => id,
        None     => return json(conn, 400, b"{\"error\":\"bad id\"}".to_vec()),
    };
-    let (tx, rx) = channel::<(u16, Vec<u8>)>();
-    store().send(Request::Get { id, reply: tx }).ok();
-    let (status, body) = rx.recv().expect("store dropped");
-    json(conn, status, body)
+    let r = ask(|reply| Request::Get { id, reply });
+    reply(conn, r)
 }

 fn update(conn: Conn, _next: Next) -> Conn {
@@ -258,10 +255,8 @@ fn update(conn: Conn, _next: Next) -> Conn {
        None     => return json(conn, 400, b"{\"error\":\"bad id\"}".to_vec()),
    };
    let body = conn.body.as_bytes().to_vec();
-    let (tx, rx) = channel::<(u16, Vec<u8>)>();
-    store().send(Request::Update { id, body, reply: tx }).ok();
-    let (status, body) = rx.recv().expect("store dropped");
-    json(conn, status, body)
+    let r = ask(|reply| Request::Update { id, body, reply });
+    reply(conn, r)
 }

 fn delete(conn: Conn, _next: Next) -> Conn {
@@ -269,10 +264,8 @@ fn delete(conn: Conn, _next: Next) -> Conn {
        Some(id) => id,
        None     => return json(conn, 400, b"{\"error\":\"bad id\"}".to_vec()),
    };
-    let (tx, rx) = channel::<(u16, Vec<u8>)>();
-    store().send(Request::Delete { id, reply: tx }).ok();
-    let (status, body) = rx.recv().expect("store dropped");
-    json(conn, status, body)
+    let r = ask(|reply| Request::Delete { id, reply });
+    reply(conn, r)
 }

 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -305,20 +298,47 @@ fn main() {
        );

    let cfg = Config::new("127.0.0.1:8080".parse().unwrap());
+    // Bind here, on this thread: an address-in-use error is a startup
+    // failure, not an actor crash. The fds outlive any restart of the
+    // endpoint child.
+    let endpoint = urus::endpoint(cfg, pipeline).expect("bind 127.0.0.1:8080");
+
    println!("urus-crud: DB at {DB_PATH}");
    println!("urus-crud: listening on 127.0.0.1:8080 — press Enter to shut down");

+    let rt = smarm::init(smarm::Config::default());
+    let handle = rt.handle();
+    let (sup_tx, sup_rx) = std::sync::mpsc::channel();
+
    // Graceful shutdown on stdin-Enter: a plain OS thread blocks on
-    // read_line and fires the handle. No signal handling crate needed.
-    let (handle, signal) = shutdown_handle();
+    // read_line and shuts the ROOT SUPERVISOR down. No signal-handling
+    // crate needed, and no urus-specific shutdown plumbing — this is
+    // exactly what a SIGTERM handler would do.
    std::thread::spawn(move || {
+        let sup: smarm::Pid = sup_rx.recv().expect("supervisor pid");
        let mut line = String::new();
        let _ = std::io::stdin().read_line(&mut line);
        println!("urus-crud: shutting down (draining in-flight requests)…");
-        SHUTTING_DOWN.store(true, std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed);
-        handle.shutdown();
+        handle.request_shutdown(sup);
    });

-    serve_with_shutdown(cfg, pipeline, signal).unwrap();
+    rt.run(move || {
+        let sup = smarm::spawn(move || {
+            OneForOne::new()
+                // Store FIRST: reverse-order shutdown therefore stops it
+                // LAST, after the endpoint has finished draining.
+                .child(ChildSpec::new(Restart::Permanent, store_loop))
+                .child(
+                    ChildSpec::new(Restart::Permanent, endpoint)
+                        // The endpoint bounds its own drain with
+                        // Config::drain_timeout; a shorter supervisor
+                        // deadline would cut that drain in half.
+                        .shutdown(smarm::supervisor::Shutdown::Infinity),
+                )
+                .run()
+        });
+        let _ = sup_tx.send(sup.pid());
+        let _ = sup.join();
+    });
    println!("urus-crud: bye");
 }
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ fn main() {
    let (handle, signal) = shutdown_handle();
    let server = std::thread::spawn(move || {
        let pipe = Pipeline::new().plug(Router::new().get("/json/:id", json_id));
-        serve_with_shutdown(Config::new(addr), pipe, signal).expect("serve");
+        serve_with_shutdown(Config::new(addr), smarm::Config::default(), pipe, Vec::new(), signal).expect("serve");
    });

    // Readiness is the orchestrator's job (TCP probe); ours is to not
@@ -41,8 +41,13 @@ fn main() {
    // Audit line: lands in each bench cell's server.log so the effective
    // scheduler count is recorded per cell, same discipline as mode-verify.
    eprintln!("plain_serve: scheduler_threads={sched_threads:?}");
-    let mut cfg = Config::new(addr);
-    cfg.scheduler_threads = sched_threads;
+    // Scheduler threads are a RUNTIME knob, so they live in smarm::Config,
+    // not urus's — an endpoint placed in someone else's tree could not
+    // honour them anyway.
+    let rt_cfg = match sched_threads {
+        Some(n) => smarm::Config::exact(n),
+        None => smarm::Config::default(),
+    };
    let pipe = Pipeline::new().plug(Router::new().get("/json/:id", json_id));
-    serve_with(cfg, pipe).expect("serve");
+    serve_with(Config::new(addr), rt_cfg, pipe, Vec::new()).expect("serve");
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+//! Serve with an optional TOML config overlay.
+//!
+//! urus is a library and never presumes a config path or reads the
+//! environment for one — the binary decides where the file lives and hands
+//! the text to `Config::with_toml_str`. Here that's a `--config PATH` flag;
+//! with no flag, the compiled defaults are used unchanged.
+//!
+//! Requires the `config-file` feature:
+//!   cargo run --example serve_toml --features config-file -- --config urus.toml
+//!
+//! Example urus.toml (all keys optional, sparse override; seconds):
+//!   head_timeout_secs       = 15
+//!   body_timeout_secs       = 300
+//!   body_burst_bytes        = 4096
+//!   body_stall_timeout_secs = 20
+
+use std::net::SocketAddr;
+
+use urus::{serve_with, Config, Conn, Next, Pipeline, Router};
+
+fn json_id(conn: Conn, _next: Next) -> Conn {
+    let id: u64 = conn.params.get("id").and_then(|s| s.parse().ok()).unwrap_or(0);
+    conn.put_status(200)
+        .put_header("content-type", "application/json")
+        .put_body(format!("{{\"id\":{id}}}"))
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    let addr: SocketAddr = "0.0.0.0:8080".parse().expect("addr");
+    let mut cfg = Config::new(addr);
+
+    // Minimal flag scan: `--config PATH`. No presumed default location.
+    let mut args = std::env::args().skip(1);
+    while let Some(arg) = args.next() {
+        if arg == "--config" {
+            let path = args.next().expect("--config needs a PATH");
+            let toml = std::fs::read_to_string(&path)
+                .unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("reading config {path}: {e}"));
+            cfg = cfg
+                .with_toml_str(&toml)
+                .unwrap_or_else(|e| panic!("invalid config {path}: {e}"));
+            eprintln!("serve_toml: loaded config from {path}");
+        }
+    }
+
+    let pipe = Pipeline::new().plug(Router::new().get("/json/:id", json_id));
+    serve_with(cfg, smarm::Config::default(), pipe, Vec::new()).expect("serve");
+}
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-//! WebSocket chat rooms (v0.5): `urus::pubsub` wired to the v0.4 duplex.
+//! WebSocket chat rooms (v0.7): `urus::pubsub` wired to the v0.4 duplex.
 //!
 //!   cargo run --example ws_chat
 //!   websocat ws://127.0.0.1:8080/chat/lobby     (run two of these)
@@ -6,39 +6,35 @@
 //! The shapes this demonstrates:
 //!
 //! - **One `PubSub<String>` for the whole app**, topics are rooms
-//!   (`room:{name}`). Built lazily on the first connection via a
-//!   NON-static `Arc<OnceLock<PubSub>>` captured by the route closure:
-//!   `PubSub::new()` spawns the table actor, which smarm only allows
-//!   in-runtime — and keeping the cell non-static means the table's
-//!   last handle drops in-runtime when the drained pipeline drops, so
-//!   `serve_with_shutdown` actually returns. A `static` cell would pin
-//!   the table forever and block smarm's all-done. (Same constraint
-//!   crud's store solves with its OnceLock; the non-static refinement
-//!   is what makes graceful shutdown compose.)
+//!   (`room:{name}`). `BUS` is a `const`: the handle is an address, not
+//!   the table. The table actor is `BUS.child()`, handed to
+//!   `serve_with_shutdown` as an app child, so it starts before the
+//!   endpoint and — shutdown being ordered in reverse — stops after the
+//!   endpoint has drained.
+//!
+//!   The v0.5 idiom this replaces was a non-static `Arc<OnceLock<PubSub>>`
+//!   lazily initialised from the first connection, because `PubSub::new()`
+//!   used to spawn the table and the handle used to own its life. Neither
+//!   is true any more.
 //!
 //! - **`on_open` subscribes and spawns the relay** — a listen-only
 //!   client receives the room without ever sending. The subscription is
 //!   pinned to the CONNECTION actor (`on_open` runs inside it), so the
 //!   monitor cleans up exactly when the connection dies.
 //!
-//! - **The relay holds the `Receiver` and a `WsSender` clone — and
-//!   deliberately NOT a `PubSub` handle.** A relay holding the handle
-//!   keeps the table's inbox open while the table keeps the relay's
-//!   receiver open: neither ever exits, and shutdown hangs. Receiver
-//!   only: conn dies → monitor prunes → sender drops → relay's recv
-//!   errs → relay exits. Every link in that chain is in-runtime.
-
-use std::sync::{Arc, OnceLock};
+//! - **The relay holds the `Receiver` and a `WsSender` clone.** It may
+//!   also hold `BUS` — a handle pins nothing now — but it has no use for
+//!   one. Conn dies → monitor prunes → sender drops → relay's recv errs
+//!   → relay exits.

 use urus::{
    serve_with_shutdown, shutdown_handle, Config, Conn, Message, Next, Pipeline, PubSub, Router,
    WsHandler, WsSender,
 };

-type Bus = PubSub<String>;
+const BUS: PubSub<String> = PubSub::new("chat");

 struct ChatHandler {
-    bus: Arc<OnceLock<Bus>>,
    room: String,
 }

@@ -46,32 +42,23 @@ impl ChatHandler {
    fn topic(&self) -> String {
        format!("room:{}", self.room)
    }
-
-    fn bus(&self) -> &Bus {
-        // First connection anywhere spawns the table; we are inside the
-        // connection actor here, so the spawn is legal.
-        self.bus.get_or_init(PubSub::new)
-    }
 }

 impl WsHandler for ChatHandler {
    fn on_open(&mut self, sender: &WsSender) {
        let topic = self.topic();
-        let rx = match self.bus().subscribe(&topic) {
+        let rx = match BUS.subscribe(&topic) {
            Ok(rx) => rx,
            Err(_) => {
                let _ = sender.close(1011, "chat bus down");
                return;
            }
        };
-        let _ = self
-            .bus()
-            .broadcast_from(smarm::self_pid(), &topic, format!("* someone joined {topic}"));
+        let _ = BUS.broadcast_from(smarm::self_pid(), &topic, format!("* someone joined {topic}"));

        // The relay: room messages -> this socket. Exits when the
        // subscription is pruned (conn death / unsubscribe) or the
-        // socket is gone (WsClosed). See the module docs for why it
-        // must not capture a Bus handle.
+        // socket is gone (WsClosed).
        let out = sender.clone();
        smarm::spawn(move || {
            while let Ok(msg) = rx.recv() {
@@ -90,16 +77,12 @@ impl WsHandler for ChatHandler {
        // broadcast_from: the sender's own relay is skipped — no echo.
        // self_pid() here is the connection actor, the pid on_open
        // subscribed as.
-        let _ = self
-            .bus()
-            .broadcast_from(smarm::self_pid(), self.topic(), text);
+        let _ = BUS.broadcast_from(smarm::self_pid(), self.topic(), text);
    }

    fn on_close(&mut self, _code: Option<u16>, _reason: &str) {
        let topic = self.topic();
-        let _ = self
-            .bus()
-            .broadcast_from(smarm::self_pid(), &topic, format!("* someone left {topic}"));
+        let _ = BUS.broadcast_from(smarm::self_pid(), &topic, format!("* someone left {topic}"));
        // No explicit unsubscribe: the connection actor is about to
        // exit and the monitor prunes the subscription (which is also
        // what stops the relay).
@@ -107,12 +90,9 @@ impl WsHandler for ChatHandler {
 }

 fn main() {
-    let bus: Arc<OnceLock<Bus>> = Arc::new(OnceLock::new());
-
-    let pipeline = Pipeline::new().plug(Router::new().get("/chat/:room", move |c: Conn, _n: Next| {
+    let pipeline = Pipeline::new().plug(Router::new().get("/chat/:room", |c: Conn, _n: Next| {
        let room = c.params.get("room").unwrap_or("lobby").to_string();
-        let bus = bus.clone();
-        c.upgrade(ChatHandler { bus, room })
+        c.upgrade(ChatHandler { room })
    }));

    let (handle, signal) = shutdown_handle();
@@ -123,6 +103,13 @@ fn main() {
        handle.shutdown();
    });

-    serve_with_shutdown(Config::new("0.0.0.0:8080".parse().unwrap()), pipeline, signal).unwrap();
+    serve_with_shutdown(
+        Config::new("0.0.0.0:8080".parse().unwrap()),
+        smarm::Config::default(),
+        pipeline,
+        vec![BUS.child()],
+        signal,
+    )
+    .unwrap();
    println!("ws_chat: drained, bye");
 }
@@ -98,6 +98,6 @@ fn main() {
        handle.shutdown();
    });

-    serve_with_shutdown(cfg, pipeline, signal).unwrap();
+    serve_with_shutdown(cfg, smarm::Config::default(), pipeline, Vec::new(), signal).unwrap();
    println!("ws_echo: bye");
 }
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@
 //!
 //! # Topology
 //!
-//! - The app builds one [`ChannelHub`] (a [`TopicRouter`] + a
-//!   `PubSub<Broadcast<P>>`). **In-runtime only** — `PubSub::new`
-//!   spawns the table actor — and the hub must be NON-static (the
-//!   `Arc<OnceLock<..>>`-in-the-route-closure pattern from v0.5;
-//!   a `static` hub pins the pubsub table and hangs
-//!   `serve_with_shutdown`).
+//! - The app builds one [`ChannelHub`] (a [`TopicRouter`] + the name of
+//!   a `PubSub<Broadcast<P>>`). It is a description and spawns nothing,
+//!   so it may be built anywhere; [`ChannelHub::new`] hands back the
+//!   `ChildSpec`s for the actors it needs — the bus table, plus one
+//!   registry per session route — which go in the supervision tree
+//!   ahead of the endpoint.
 //! - [`ChannelHub::upgrade`] turns an HTTP `Conn` into a channel
 //!   socket: a [`WsHandler`] running in the connection actor that
 //!   decodes frames and routes them by topic.
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 use crate::pubsub::PubSub;
 use crate::ws::{Message, WsHandler, WsSender};

-use smarm::{Pid, Receiver, Sender};
+use smarm::{ChildSpec, Pid, Receiver, Sender};

 use std::cell::RefCell;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
@@ -199,6 +199,16 @@ pub trait Channel<P: Send + Sync + 'static>: Send + 'static {
 pub trait ChannelFactory<P: Send + Sync + 'static>: Send + Sync {
    fn create(&self, topic: &str) -> Box<dyn Channel<P>>;

+    /// Supervised actors this factory needs running before it can
+    /// deploy. Empty for the default (ephemeral) factory, which spawns
+    /// its channel actor per join under the connection; the session
+    /// factory returns its registry's spec. Internal seam, collected by
+    /// [`ChannelHub::children`].
+    #[doc(hidden)]
+    fn children(&self) -> Vec<ChildSpec> {
+        Vec::new()
+    }
+
    /// How an accepted-routing join becomes a running channel actor.
    /// Internal seam — the default (ephemeral actor, linked to the
    /// connection, cold start per join) is the contract; only the
@@ -258,6 +268,13 @@ impl<P: Send + Sync + 'static, C: Channel<P> + Default> ChannelFactory<P> for De
 /// rejects the join (status error).
 pub trait TopicRouter<P: Send + Sync + 'static>: Send + Sync + 'static {
    fn route(&self, topic: &str) -> Option<Arc<dyn ChannelFactory<P>>>;
+
+    /// Every supervised actor the routes need, gathered for
+    /// [`ChannelHub::children`]. Override only if your router holds
+    /// factories it does not surface through [`route`](Self::route).
+    fn children(&self) -> Vec<ChildSpec> {
+        Vec::new()
+    }
 }

 /// The shipped router: exact topics and `head:*` prefix patterns.
@@ -301,31 +318,46 @@ impl<P: Send + Sync + 'static> PrefixRouter<P> {

    /// [`channel`](Self::channel), with opt-in session persistence
    /// keyed and configured by `S`'s [`ChannelSession`] impl (usually
-    /// `S` is the channel type itself). **In-runtime only**: this
-    /// spawns the pattern's session-registry actor, same law as
-    /// [`ChannelHub::new`].
-    pub fn channel_session<S>(self, pattern: &str, factory: impl ChannelFactory<P> + 'static) -> Self
+    /// `S` is the channel type itself).
+    ///
+    /// `registry` names the pattern's session-registry actor, which is
+    /// supervised: it appears in [`ChannelHub::children`] and must be
+    /// unique across the app. Spawns nothing here.
+    pub fn channel_session<S>(
+        self,
+        pattern: &str,
+        registry: &'static str,
+        factory: impl ChannelFactory<P> + 'static,
+    ) -> Self
    where
        S: ChannelSession<P>,
        S::Key: Clone,
        P: Encode + Decode,
    {
-        self.channel(pattern, session::SessionFactory::new::<S>(Arc::new(factory)))
+        self.channel(pattern, session::SessionFactory::new::<S>(registry, Arc::new(factory)))
    }

    /// [`channel_session`](Self::channel_session) with a
    /// [`Default`]-built impl that is its own session config.
-    pub fn channel_session_default<C>(self, pattern: &str) -> Self
+    pub fn channel_session_default<C>(self, pattern: &str, registry: &'static str) -> Self
    where
        C: Channel<P> + ChannelSession<P> + Default,
        C::Key: Clone,
        P: Encode + Decode,
    {
-        self.channel_session::<C>(pattern, DefaultFactory::<C>(PhantomData))
+        self.channel_session::<C>(pattern, registry, DefaultFactory::<C>(PhantomData))
    }
 }

 impl<P: Send + Sync + 'static> TopicRouter<P> for PrefixRouter<P> {
+    fn children(&self) -> Vec<ChildSpec> {
+        self.exact
+            .values()
+            .chain(self.prefix.values())
+            .flat_map(|f| f.children())
+            .collect()
+    }
+
    fn route(&self, topic: &str) -> Option<Arc<dyn ChannelFactory<P>>> {
        if let Some(f) = self.exact.get(topic) {
            return Some(f.clone());
@@ -427,13 +459,20 @@ impl<P: Encode + Decode + Send + Sync + 'static> ChannelSocket<P> {
 // ChannelHub — the app-facing entry point
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

-/// One per app (or per channel namespace): the router plus the pubsub
-/// bus every channel broadcasts on.
+/// One per app (or per channel namespace): the router plus the address
+/// of the pubsub bus every channel broadcasts on.
 ///
-/// **In-runtime only** (spawns the pubsub table) and **must not live in
-/// a `static`** — use the non-static `Arc<OnceLock<ChannelHub<P>>>`
-/// captured by the route closure, exactly the v0.5 pubsub pattern, or
-/// graceful shutdown will hang waiting for the table to exit.
+/// Spawns nothing — build it wherever you like, including out of the
+/// runtime and alongside the pipeline. The actors it needs (the bus
+/// table, plus one registry per session route) come from
+/// [`children`](Self::children); hand that vec to `serve_with*` or splice
+/// it into your own supervision tree ahead of the endpoint.
+///
+/// ```ignore
+/// let (hub, children) =
+///     ChannelHub::new("chat-bus", PrefixRouter::new().channel_default::<Room>("room:*"));
+/// serve_with(cfg, rt_cfg, pipeline, children)?;
+/// ```
 pub struct ChannelHub<P: Send + Sync + 'static> {
    bus: PubSub<Broadcast<P>>,
    router: Arc<dyn TopicRouter<P>>,
@@ -441,13 +480,27 @@ pub struct ChannelHub<P: Send + Sync + 'static> {

 impl<P: Send + Sync + 'static> Clone for ChannelHub<P> {
    fn clone(&self) -> Self {
-        Self { bus: self.bus.clone(), router: self.router.clone() }
+        Self { bus: self.bus, router: self.router.clone() }
    }
 }

 impl<P: Encode + Decode + Send + Sync + 'static> ChannelHub<P> {
-    pub fn new(router: impl TopicRouter<P>) -> Self {
-        Self { bus: PubSub::new(), router: Arc::new(router) }
+    /// Address a hub whose bus table is registered under `bus`, together
+    /// with every actor it needs running: the bus table first, then one
+    /// registry per session route. Spawns nothing.
+    ///
+    /// The two come back together on purpose. A hub whose children were
+    /// never started compiles fine and fails on the first join, so the
+    /// constructor hands you the vec rather than leaving it behind a
+    /// method you can forget to call. Start them ahead of the endpoint —
+    /// `RestForOne` in that order means a bus crash also restarts the
+    /// endpoint, dropping connections whose subscriptions died with it.
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn new(bus: &'static str, router: impl TopicRouter<P>) -> (Self, Vec<ChildSpec>) {
+        let hub = Self { bus: PubSub::new(bus), router: Arc::new(router) };
+        let mut children = vec![hub.bus.child()];
+        children.extend(hub.router.children());
+        (hub, children)
    }

    /// Accept the WebSocket upgrade on `conn` and speak channels over
@@ -455,7 +508,7 @@ impl<P: Encode + Decode + Send + Sync + 'static> ChannelHub<P> {
    /// [`Conn::upgrade`](crate::Conn::upgrade) apply unchanged.
    pub fn upgrade(&self, conn: crate::Conn) -> crate::Conn {
        conn.upgrade(SocketHandler {
-            bus: self.bus.clone(),
+            bus: self.bus,
            router: self.router.clone(),
            joined: HashMap::new(),
        })
@@ -567,7 +620,7 @@ impl<P: Encode + Decode + Send + Sync + 'static> WsHandler for SocketHandler<P>
                    reference: frame.reference,
                    payload,
                    ws: sender.clone(),
-                    bus: self.bus.clone(),
+                    bus: self.bus,
                });
                self.joined
                    .insert(frame.topic, Joined { join_ref: frame.join_ref, tx: inbox.0 });
@@ -649,7 +702,7 @@ fn run_channel<P: Encode + Decode + Send + Sync + 'static>(

    let socket = ChannelSocket {
        ws,
-        bus: bus.clone(),
+        bus,
        topic: topic.clone(),
        join_ref,
        cur_ref: RefCell::new(None),
@@ -799,12 +852,39 @@ mod tests {
    }


-    fn hub(terminated: &Arc<AtomicBool>) -> ChannelHub<TP> {
+    const TEST_BUS: &str = "chan-unit-bus";
+
+    fn hub(terminated: &Arc<AtomicBool>) -> (ChannelHub<TP>, Vec<ChildSpec>) {
        ChannelHub::new(
+            TEST_BUS,
            PrefixRouter::new().channel("room:*", RoomFactory { terminated: terminated.clone() }),
        )
    }

+    /// Start a hub's children under a supervisor and wait for the bus to
+    /// bind its name (smarm's start-order-is-not-start-readiness gap:
+    /// `start_child` spawns and moves on). Returns the sup's pid.
+    pub(crate) fn start_hub<P: Encode + Decode + Send + Sync + 'static>(
+        hub: &ChannelHub<P>,
+        children: Vec<ChildSpec>,
+    ) -> Pid {
+        let sup = smarm::spawn(move || {
+            let mut sup = smarm::OneForOne::new();
+            for c in children {
+                sup = sup.child(c);
+            }
+            sup.run()
+        });
+        let bus = hub.bus;
+        for _ in 0..200 {
+            if bus.pid().is_some() {
+                return sup.pid();
+            }
+            smarm::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_millis(10));
+        }
+        panic!("hub children never came up");
+    }
+

    #[test]
    fn prefix_router_exact_and_prefix_and_miss() {
@@ -825,7 +905,8 @@ mod tests {
        let out = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::<String>::new()));
        let (out2, t) = (out.clone(), Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false)));
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let hub = hub(&t);
+            let (hub, children) = hub(&t);
+            let _sup = start_hub(&hub, children);
            let mut h = Harness::new(&hub);
            h.send("j1|r1|room:a|event|phx_join|hi");
            out2.lock().unwrap().push(h.recv());
@@ -843,7 +924,8 @@ mod tests {
        let (out2, t) = (out.clone(), Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false)));
        let t2 = t.clone();
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let hub = hub(&t2);
+            let (hub, children) = hub(&t2);
+            let _sup = start_hub(&hub, children);
            let mut h = Harness::new(&hub);
            h.send("j1|r1|room:locked|event|phx_join|hi");
            *out2.lock().unwrap() = h.recv();
@@ -859,7 +941,8 @@ mod tests {
        let out = Arc::new(Mutex::new(String::new()));
        let (out2, t) = (out.clone(), Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false)));
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let hub = hub(&t);
+            let (hub, children) = hub(&t);
+            let _sup = start_hub(&hub, children);
            let mut h = Harness::new(&hub);
            h.send("j1|r1|hall:a|event|phx_join|hi");
            *out2.lock().unwrap() = h.recv();
@@ -872,7 +955,8 @@ mod tests {
        let out = Arc::new(Mutex::new(String::new()));
        let (out2, t) = (out.clone(), Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false)));
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let hub = hub(&t);
+            let (hub, children) = hub(&t);
+            let _sup = start_hub(&hub, children);
            let mut h = Harness::new(&hub);
            h.send("-|hb1|phoenix|event|heartbeat|");
            *out2.lock().unwrap() = h.recv();
@@ -885,7 +969,8 @@ mod tests {
        let out = Arc::new(Mutex::new(String::new()));
        let (out2, t) = (out.clone(), Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false)));
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let hub = hub(&t);
+            let (hub, children) = hub(&t);
+            let _sup = start_hub(&hub, children);
            let mut h = Harness::new(&hub);
            h.send("j1|r1|room:a|event|ping|x");
            *out2.lock().unwrap() = h.recv();
@@ -898,7 +983,8 @@ mod tests {
        let got = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::<(u8, String)>::new()));
        let (got2, t) = (got.clone(), Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false)));
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let hub = hub(&t);
+            let (hub, children) = hub(&t);
+            let _sup = start_hub(&hub, children);
            let mut a = Harness::new(&hub);
            let mut b = Harness::new(&hub);
            a.send("j1|r1|room:a|event|phx_join|A");
@@ -930,7 +1016,8 @@ mod tests {
        let (out2, t) = (out.clone(), Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false)));
        let t2 = t.clone();
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let hub = hub(&t2);
+            let (hub, children) = hub(&t2);
+            let _sup = start_hub(&hub, children);
            let mut h = Harness::new(&hub);
            h.send("j1|r1|room:a|event|phx_join|hi");
            out2.lock().unwrap().push(h.recv());
@@ -954,8 +1041,9 @@ mod tests {
        let t = Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false));
        let t2 = t.clone();
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let hub = hub(&t2);
-            let bus = hub.bus.clone();
+            let (hub, children) = hub(&t2);
+            let _sup = start_hub(&hub, children);
+            let bus = hub.bus;
            {
                let mut h = Harness::new(&hub);
                h.send("j1|r1|room:a|event|phx_join|hi");
@@ -974,7 +1062,8 @@ mod tests {
        let (out2, t) = (out.clone(), Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false)));
        let t2 = t.clone();
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let hub = hub(&t2);
+            let (hub, children) = hub(&t2);
+            let _sup = start_hub(&hub, children);
            let mut h = Harness::new(&hub);
            h.send("j1|r1|room:a|event|phx_join|one");
            out2.lock().unwrap().push(h.recv());
@@ -998,7 +1087,8 @@ mod tests {
        let out = Arc::new(Mutex::new(String::new()));
        let (out2, t) = (out.clone(), Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false)));
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let hub = hub(&t);
+            let (hub, children) = hub(&t);
+            let _sup = start_hub(&hub, children);
            let mut h = Harness::new(&hub);
            h.send("j1|r1|room:a|event|phx_join|hi");
            h.recv();
@@ -22,10 +22,17 @@
 //!   the transport is the point. Its exits: explicit leave, rejected
 //!   (re)join, TTL expiry, buffer cap, pubsub relay death, or the
 //!   registry's control sender dropping — which is exactly the shutdown
-//!   chain (conns die -> router `Arc`s drop -> registry's inbox closes
-//!   -> registry exits -> control senders drop -> every parked session
-//!   wakes on the closed control arm, terminates, and exits; `AllDone`
-//!   composes without links).
+//!   chain (the supervisor shuts the registry down after the endpoint
+//!   has drained -> the registry's state drops -> control senders drop
+//!   -> every parked session wakes on the closed control arm,
+//!   terminates, and exits; `AllDone` composes without links).
+//!
+//!   Note this is the last lifetime in urus implied by a drop rather
+//!   than stated: sessions are dynamic (one per key), so a fixed
+//!   `ChildSpec` list cannot hold them. The trigger is now a command
+//!   rather than a refcount, which is what the v0.8 cycle was about, but
+//!   a dynamic supervisor (OTP's `simple_one_for_one`) is the honest
+//!   shape if smarm grows one.
 //!
 //! As-landed decisions (veto by diff):
 //! - **Every attach calls `ch.join()` again** on the same instance —
@@ -48,8 +55,8 @@

 use super::*;

-use smarm::gen_server::{self, GenServer, GenServerCtx};
-use smarm::{Down, GenServerRef, Watcher};
+use smarm::gen_server::{self, GenServer, GenServerBuilder, GenServerCtx, GenServerName};
+use smarm::{Down, Restart, Watcher};

 use std::collections::VecDeque;
 use std::hash::Hash;
@@ -87,7 +94,14 @@ pub trait ChannelSession<P>: Send + 'static {
 pub(super) struct SessionFactory<P: Encode + Decode + Send + Sync + 'static, K: SessionKey> {
    inner: Arc<dyn ChannelFactory<P>>,
    keyfn: fn(&str, &P) -> K,
-    registry: GenServerRef<Registry<P, K>>,
+    /// The registry's registered name. Resolved per deploy, so a
+    /// registry restarted by the supervisor is reached transparently —
+    /// with its session map empty, which is the honest outcome: the
+    /// session actors it tracked died with their control senders.
+    registry: GenServerName<Registry<P, K>>,
+    /// Everything the registry's `ChildSpec` needs to build it again.
+    cap: usize,
+    ttl: Duration,
 }

 /// The registry's working bounds for a session key.
@@ -95,17 +109,19 @@ pub(super) trait SessionKey: Eq + Hash + Clone + Send + 'static {}
 impl<K: Eq + Hash + Clone + Send + 'static> SessionKey for K {}

 impl<P: Encode + Decode + Send + Sync + 'static, K: SessionKey> SessionFactory<P, K> {
-    /// **In-runtime only** — spawns the registry gen_server.
-    pub(super) fn new<S: ChannelSession<P, Key = K>>(inner: Arc<dyn ChannelFactory<P>>) -> Self {
-        let registry = gen_server::start(Registry {
-            factory: inner.clone(),
+    /// Describe the session route. Spawns nothing; the registry actor is
+    /// started from [`children`](ChannelFactory::children).
+    pub(super) fn new<S: ChannelSession<P, Key = K>>(
+        registry: &'static str,
+        inner: Arc<dyn ChannelFactory<P>>,
+    ) -> Self {
+        SessionFactory {
+            inner,
+            keyfn: S::session_key,
+            registry: GenServerName::new(registry),
            cap: S::buffer_cap(),
            ttl: S::ttl(),
-            sessions: HashMap::new(),
-            pid_key: HashMap::new(),
-            watcher: None,
-        });
-        SessionFactory { inner, keyfn: S::session_key, registry }
+        }
    }
 }

@@ -116,6 +132,23 @@ impl<P: Encode + Decode + Send + Sync + 'static, K: SessionKey> ChannelFactory<P
        self.inner.create(topic)
    }

+    fn children(&self) -> Vec<ChildSpec> {
+        let (name, factory, cap, ttl) = (self.registry, self.inner.clone(), self.cap, self.ttl);
+        vec![ChildSpec::new(Restart::Permanent, move || {
+            let state = Registry::<P, K> {
+                factory: factory.clone(),
+                cap,
+                ttl,
+                sessions: HashMap::new(),
+                pid_key: HashMap::new(),
+                watcher: None,
+            };
+            if let Err(e) = GenServerBuilder::new(state).named(name).run() {
+                panic!("urus session registry '{}': name already taken: {e:?}", name.as_str());
+            }
+        })]
+    }
+
    fn deploy(&self, hs: JoinHandshake<P>) -> ChannelInbox<P>
    where
        P: Encode + Decode,
@@ -125,7 +158,7 @@ impl<P: Encode + Decode + Send + Sync + 'static, K: SessionKey> ChannelFactory<P
        // Cast: the actor acks the join straight to the socket; the
        // conn actor has nothing to wait for. A dead registry can only
        // mean shutdown — the failed join is moot.
-        let _ = self.registry.cast(Join { key, hs, inbound: rx });
+        let _ = gen_server::cast(self.registry, Join { key, hs, inbound: rx });
        ChannelInbox(tx)
    }
 }
@@ -568,10 +601,14 @@ mod tests {
    fn session_hub<S: ChannelSession<TP, Key = String>>(
        term: &Arc<AtomicBool>,
        reject_rejoin: bool,
-    ) -> ChannelHub<TP> {
+    ) -> (ChannelHub<TP>, Vec<smarm::ChildSpec>) {
        ChannelHub::new(
-            PrefixRouter::new()
-                .channel_session::<S>("room:*", counter_factory(term, reject_rejoin)),
+            "sess-unit-bus",
+            PrefixRouter::new().channel_session::<S>(
+                "room:*",
+                "sess-unit-registry",
+                counter_factory(term, reject_rejoin),
+            ),
        )
    }

@@ -580,7 +617,8 @@ mod tests {
        let out = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::<String>::new()));
        let (out2, term) = (out.clone(), Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false)));
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let hub = session_hub::<Cfg>(&term, false);
+            let (hub, children) = session_hub::<Cfg>(&term, false);
+            let _sup = crate::channels::tests::start_hub(&hub, children);
            let mut h1 = Harness::new(&hub);
            h1.send("j1|r1|room:a|event|phx_join|u");
            out2.lock().unwrap().push(h1.recv());
@@ -611,7 +649,8 @@ mod tests {
        let (out2, term) = (out.clone(), Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false)));
        let term2 = term.clone();
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let hub = session_hub::<CfgTtl>(&term2, false);
+            let (hub, children) = session_hub::<CfgTtl>(&term2, false);
+            let _sup = crate::channels::tests::start_hub(&hub, children);
            let mut h1 = Harness::new(&hub);
            h1.send("j1|r1|room:a|event|phx_join|u");
            out2.lock().unwrap().push(h1.recv());
@@ -632,7 +671,8 @@ mod tests {
        let out = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::<String>::new()));
        let (out2, term) = (out.clone(), Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false)));
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let hub = session_hub::<CfgCap>(&term, false);
+            let (hub, children) = session_hub::<CfgCap>(&term, false);
+            let _sup = crate::channels::tests::start_hub(&hub, children);
            let mut h1 = Harness::new(&hub);
            h1.send("j1|r1|room:a|event|phx_join|u");
            out2.lock().unwrap().push(h1.recv());
@@ -657,7 +697,8 @@ mod tests {
        let out = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::<String>::new()));
        let (out2, term) = (out.clone(), Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false)));
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let hub = session_hub::<Cfg>(&term, false);
+            let (hub, children) = session_hub::<Cfg>(&term, false);
+            let _sup = crate::channels::tests::start_hub(&hub, children);
            let mut h = Harness::new(&hub);
            h.send("j1|r1|room:a|event|phx_join|u");
            out2.lock().unwrap().push(h.recv());
@@ -681,7 +722,8 @@ mod tests {
        let out = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::<String>::new()));
        let (out2, term) = (out.clone(), Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false)));
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let hub = session_hub::<Cfg>(&term, false);
+            let (hub, children) = session_hub::<Cfg>(&term, false);
+            let _sup = crate::channels::tests::start_hub(&hub, children);
            let mut h1 = Harness::new(&hub);
            h1.send("j1|r1|room:a|event|phx_join|u");
            out2.lock().unwrap().push(h1.recv());
@@ -714,7 +756,8 @@ mod tests {
        let out = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::<String>::new()));
        let (out2, term) = (out.clone(), Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false)));
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let hub = session_hub::<Cfg>(&term, true);
+            let (hub, children) = session_hub::<Cfg>(&term, true);
+            let _sup = crate::channels::tests::start_hub(&hub, children);
            let mut h1 = Harness::new(&hub);
            h1.send("j1|r1|room:a|event|phx_join|u");
            out2.lock().unwrap().push(h1.recv());
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ impl Harness {
        let (tx, out_rx) = smarm::channel();
        Self {
            handler: SocketHandler {
-                bus: hub.bus.clone(),
+                bus: hub.bus,
                router: hub.router.clone(),
                joined: HashMap::new(),
            },
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 //! during those parks, other connection actors progress freely.

 use crate::conn::{Body, Conn, HttpVersion, RespBody, StreamBody};
-use crate::conn_registry::{Cast, ConnRegistry, DeregisterGuard};
+use crate::endpoint::{Cast, DeregisterGuard, Endpoint};
 use crate::net::OwnedFd;
 use crate::parser::{self, ParseError};
 use crate::plug::Pipeline;
@@ -46,14 +46,34 @@ pub struct ConnLimits {
    /// connection). Expiry closes the connection silently — nothing is
    /// owed to a client that isn't talking.
    pub keep_alive_timeout: Duration,
-    /// Per-request wall-clock budget, measured from the first byte of a
-    /// request until the request (head + body) is fully read. Expiry
-    /// mid-head gets a best-effort 408; expiry mid-body just closes.
-    /// Pipeline run time is NOT covered — that's the handler's business.
-    /// Covers the READ phase only; the write phase has its own
-    /// per-write budget (`write_timeout`) so a streaming response can
-    /// legitimately outlive any whole-request clock.
-    pub request_timeout:    Duration,
+    /// Wall-clock budget for reading the request HEAD, measured from the
+    /// first byte of a request until the head is fully parsed. Expiry
+    /// mid-head gets a best-effort 408. Kept short: an incomplete head is
+    /// the classic slowloris, and a legitimate client sends its head in a
+    /// single burst. The BODY has its own, larger budget (`body_timeout`)
+    /// so a slow-but-legit upload is not judged by the head clock.
+    pub head_timeout:       Duration,
+    /// Absolute wall-clock cap on reading the request BODY, measured from
+    /// the moment the head finished parsing until the body is fully read.
+    /// Sized for slow links (e.g. a trickling cellular IoT client), so it
+    /// is much larger than `head_timeout`. Expiry mid-body just closes —
+    /// nothing is owed to a client this far gone. Pipeline run time is NOT
+    /// covered (that's the handler's business); the write phase has its own
+    /// per-write budget (`write_timeout`).
+    pub body_timeout:       Duration,
+    /// Burst-gated body stall eviction: the bytes that must accumulate
+    /// since the last advance to count as a "burst" and reset the stall
+    /// clock. A body that dribbles fewer than this per `body_stall_timeout`
+    /// window is evicted — the discriminator between a slowloris trickle
+    /// (near-zero, smooth) and a slow-but-legit client (delivers real
+    /// bursts). The pair implies an effective floor of
+    /// body_burst_bytes / body_stall_timeout, enforced in bursts.
+    pub body_burst_bytes:   usize,
+    /// Max time since the last qualifying burst (`body_burst_bytes`)
+    /// before a stalled body read is evicted. Must comfortably exceed a
+    /// legit client's worst quiet gap (e.g. cellular RRC/handover/DRX
+    /// stalls). The absolute `body_timeout` always backstops it.
+    pub body_stall_timeout: Duration,
    /// Per-write budget for response bytes: every `write_all` (the fixed
    /// head+body, and each streamed chunk) must complete within this.
    /// A client that stops reading mid-response is dropped when its
@@ -76,7 +96,10 @@ impl Default for ConnLimits {
            max_head_bytes:     64 * 1024,
            max_body_bytes:     16 * 1024 * 1024,
            keep_alive_timeout: Duration::from_secs(60),
-            request_timeout:    Duration::from_secs(30),
+            head_timeout:       Duration::from_secs(30),
+            body_timeout:       Duration::from_secs(300),
+            body_burst_bytes:   4 * 1024,
+            body_stall_timeout: Duration::from_secs(20),
            write_timeout:      Duration::from_secs(30),
            max_frame_payload:  1024 * 1024,
            max_message_bytes:  4 * 1024 * 1024,
@@ -92,7 +115,7 @@ pub fn run_connection(
    fd: OwnedFd,
    pipeline: Pipeline,
    limits: ConnLimits,
-    registry: GenServerRef<ConnRegistry>,
+    registry: GenServerRef<Endpoint>,
 ) {
    // The OwnedFd cleans up via Drop on any exit path (panic, error, or
    // normal close). No explicit close calls below.
@@ -102,7 +125,7 @@ pub fn run_connection(
    // Self-register (initially idle: no request head parsed yet) and arm
    // the deregistration guard. Both casts come from this actor, so
    // Started always precedes Ended in the registry's inbox — see
-    // conn_registry module docs for why the listener must not do this.
+    // endpoint module docs for why the listener must not do this.
    let me = smarm::self_pid();
    let _ = registry.cast(Cast::ConnStarted(me));
    let _guard = DeregisterGuard::new(registry.clone(), me, Cast::ConnEnded);
@@ -111,7 +134,7 @@ pub fn run_connection(
        // ----- 1. Read until we have a full request head. -----
        // We are idle until a head parses: stoppable by a draining
        // registry while parked here.
-        let (parsed, request_deadline) = match read_head(raw, &mut buf, &limits) {
+        let parsed = match read_head(raw, &mut buf, &limits) {
            Ok(p) => p,
            Err(ReadHeadErr::ClientClosed) => {
                // Clean EOF between requests (or before any request). Normal.
@@ -122,8 +145,8 @@ pub fn run_connection(
                // a request. Nothing is owed; close silently.
                return;
            }
-            Err(ReadHeadErr::RequestTimeout) => {
-                // request_timeout expired mid-head (slowloris and friends).
+            Err(ReadHeadErr::HeadTimeout) => {
+                // head_timeout expired mid-head (slowloris and friends).
                // Best-effort 408 WITHOUT parking on writability — a client
                // that stalls reads must not defeat the timeout by making
                // the 408 write park forever.
@@ -142,6 +165,11 @@ pub fn run_connection(
        let _ = registry.cast(Cast::ConnBusy(me));

        // ----- 2. Read body. -----
+        // The body has its OWN absolute budget, anchored here (head just
+        // parsed) and independent of the head clock — a slow-but-legit
+        // upload must not be judged by the short head deadline. Expiry
+        // closes the connection (nothing owed mid-body).
+        let body_deadline = Instant::now() + limits.body_timeout;
        // Content-Length pre-check only applies to fixed bodies; a chunked
        // body is bounded incrementally by the decoder.
        let body_len = parsed.content_length.unwrap_or(0);
@@ -169,7 +197,7 @@ pub fn run_connection(
        // bottom of the loop must drop exactly this much to land on the
        // next pipelined request.
        let (body, consumed_past_head) = if parsed.chunked {
-            match read_chunked_body(raw, &mut buf, parsed.head_len, &limits, request_deadline) {
+            match read_chunked_body(raw, &mut buf, parsed.head_len, &limits, body_deadline) {
                Ok(ok) => ok,
                Err(ChunkedBodyErr::TooLarge) => {
                    let _ = write_all(
@@ -191,7 +219,7 @@ pub fn run_connection(
                Err(ChunkedBodyErr::Io(_)) => return,
            }
        } else {
-            match read_body(raw, &mut buf, parsed.head_len, body_len, request_deadline) {
+            match read_body(raw, &mut buf, parsed.head_len, body_len, &limits, body_deadline) {
                Ok(b) => (b, body_len),
                // Timeout mid-body (and any other body io error) -> just
                // close; there's no point talking HTTP to a client this far
@@ -330,9 +358,9 @@ enum ReadHeadErr {
    /// keep_alive_timeout expired while waiting for the first byte of a
    /// request. Close silently.
    IdleTimeout,
-    /// request_timeout expired after the request had started arriving.
-    /// Best-effort 408.
-    RequestTimeout,
+    /// head_timeout expired after the request had started arriving but
+    /// before the head finished parsing. Best-effort 408.
+    HeadTimeout,
    Io(io::Error),
    Parse(ParseError),
 }
@@ -347,22 +375,22 @@ enum ReadHeadErr {
 /// - while `buf` is empty and nothing has arrived, we are *idle* and the
 ///   wait is bounded by `keep_alive_timeout`;
 /// - the instant the request has started (first byte read, or pipelined
-///   bytes already in `buf` at entry), the *request* clock starts: an
-///   `Instant` deadline of `request_timeout` from that moment, which also
-///   covers body reads — it is returned alongside the parsed head so the
-///   caller can thread it into `read_body`.
+///   bytes already in `buf` at entry), the *head* clock starts: an
+///   `Instant` deadline of `head_timeout` from that moment. This budget
+///   covers the HEAD only; the body has its own budget (`body_timeout`),
+///   which the caller anchors once the head has parsed.
 fn read_head(
    fd: RawFd,
    buf: &mut Vec<u8>,
    limits: &ConnLimits,
-) -> Result<(parser::ParsedHead, Instant), ReadHeadErr> {
+) -> Result<parser::ParsedHead, ReadHeadErr> {
    let entry = Instant::now();
    let idle_deadline = entry + limits.keep_alive_timeout;
    // Pipelined leftovers count as a started request.
-    let mut request_deadline: Option<Instant> = if buf.is_empty() {
+    let mut head_deadline: Option<Instant> = if buf.is_empty() {
        None
    } else {
-        Some(entry + limits.request_timeout)
+        Some(entry + limits.head_timeout)
    };

    loop {
@@ -375,11 +403,7 @@ fn read_head(
                parser::parse_head(buf, limits.max_headers)
            };
            match head {
-                Ok(h)  => {
-                    let deadline = request_deadline
-                        .unwrap_or_else(|| Instant::now() + limits.request_timeout);
-                    return Ok((h, deadline));
-                }
+                Ok(h)  => return Ok(h),
                Err(ParseError::Incomplete) => {} // need more bytes
                Err(e) => return Err(ReadHeadErr::Parse(e)),
            }
@@ -390,19 +414,19 @@ fn read_head(
        }

        // Read more, bounded by whichever budget is active.
-        let deadline = request_deadline.unwrap_or(idle_deadline);
+        let deadline = head_deadline.unwrap_or(idle_deadline);
        match read_some(fd, buf, limits.initial_read_buf, deadline) {
            Ok(0)  => return Err(ReadHeadErr::ClientClosed),
            Ok(_)  => {
-                if request_deadline.is_none() {
-                    // First byte(s) of this request: the request clock
+                if head_deadline.is_none() {
+                    // First byte(s) of this request: the head clock
                    // starts now.
-                    request_deadline = Some(Instant::now() + limits.request_timeout);
+                    head_deadline = Some(Instant::now() + limits.head_timeout);
                }
            }
            Err(e) if e.kind() == ErrorKind::TimedOut => {
-                return Err(if request_deadline.is_some() {
-                    ReadHeadErr::RequestTimeout
+                return Err(if head_deadline.is_some() {
+                    ReadHeadErr::HeadTimeout
                } else {
                    ReadHeadErr::IdleTimeout
                });
@@ -412,6 +436,58 @@ fn read_head(
    }
 }

+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// BodyStallGate — burst-gated stall eviction for body reads
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// Each body read is bounded by the SOONER of two deadlines: the absolute
+// body cap (`body_timeout`, passed in as `cap`) and a sliding stall window
+// (`mark + body_stall_timeout`). The stall mark only advances when the
+// client delivers a full burst (`body_burst_bytes` accumulated since the
+// last advance) — so a steady sub-burst trickle never moves the mark and
+// is evicted at ~body_stall_timeout, while a bursty slow-but-legit client
+// keeps resetting it and survives up to the absolute cap.
+//
+// State is two words (`mark`, `since_mark`); the per-read cost is one add
+// and one compare. Bytes counted are RAW socket bytes (progress = the
+// client is sending *something*), so chunked framing counts too, and a
+// burst that the kernel fragments into several reads still accumulates.
+struct BodyStallGate {
+    cap:           Instant,
+    stall_timeout: Duration,
+    burst_bytes:   usize,
+    mark:          Instant,
+    since_mark:    usize,
+}
+
+impl BodyStallGate {
+    fn new(cap: Instant, limits: &ConnLimits, now: Instant) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            cap,
+            stall_timeout: limits.body_stall_timeout,
+            burst_bytes:   limits.body_burst_bytes,
+            mark:          now,
+            since_mark:    0,
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Deadline for the next read: the sooner of the absolute cap and the
+    /// current stall window.
+    fn deadline(&self) -> Instant {
+        (self.mark + self.stall_timeout).min(self.cap)
+    }
+
+    /// Record `n` freshly-read raw body bytes; advance the stall mark if a
+    /// full burst has accumulated since the last advance.
+    fn record(&mut self, n: usize, now: Instant) {
+        self.since_mark += n;
+        if self.since_mark >= self.burst_bytes {
+            self.mark = now;
+            self.since_mark = 0;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // read_body
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -421,7 +497,8 @@ fn read_body(
    buf: &mut Vec<u8>,
    head_len: usize,
    body_len: usize,
-    deadline: Instant,
+    limits: &ConnLimits,
+    cap: Instant,
 ) -> io::Result<Vec<u8>> {
    // Bytes already in `buf` past the head belong to the body.
    let already = buf.len().saturating_sub(head_len);
@@ -433,13 +510,17 @@ fn read_body(
        return Ok(buf[head_len..head_len + body_len].to_vec());
    }

-    // Read until we have the rest, on the same request budget that the
-    // head was read under.
+    // Read until we have the rest, bounded by the body cap AND the
+    // burst-gated stall window (whichever is sooner).
+    let mut gate = BodyStallGate::new(cap, limits, Instant::now());
    let mut total_read = already;
    while total_read < body_len {
-        match read_some(fd, buf, 8 * 1024, deadline) {
+        match read_some(fd, buf, 8 * 1024, gate.deadline()) {
            Ok(0)  => return Err(io::Error::new(ErrorKind::UnexpectedEof, "client closed during body")),
-            Ok(n)  => total_read += n,
+            Ok(n)  => {
+                total_read += n;
+                gate.record(n, Instant::now());
+            }
            Err(e) => return Err(e),
        }
    }
@@ -451,8 +532,9 @@ fn read_body(
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 //
 // Decodes `Transfer-Encoding: chunked` from `buf[head_len..]`, reading more
-// from the socket as needed on the SAME request deadline the head was read
-// under. Returns (decoded_body, raw_bytes_consumed_past_head) — the raw
+// from the socket as needed on the body deadline (anchored by the caller
+// when the head finished parsing, independent of the head clock).
+// Returns (decoded_body, raw_bytes_consumed_past_head) — the raw
 // count includes all framing and the trailer section, so the caller's
 // keep-alive drain lands exactly on the next pipelined request.
 //
@@ -479,23 +561,25 @@ fn read_chunked_body(
    limits: &ConnLimits,
    deadline: Instant,
 ) -> Result<(Vec<u8>, usize), ChunkedBodyErr> {
-    // Ensure `buf` holds at least `until` bytes, reading on the request
-    // deadline. Io(TimedOut) on expiry, UnexpectedEof on early close.
+    // Ensure `buf` holds at least `until` bytes, reading under the body
+    // stall gate (absolute cap AND burst-gated stall window). Io(TimedOut)
+    // on expiry, UnexpectedEof on early close. All chunked socket reads
+    // funnel through here, so recording bytes here covers the whole path.
    fn fill_to(
        fd: RawFd,
        buf: &mut Vec<u8>,
        until: usize,
-        deadline: Instant,
+        gate: &mut BodyStallGate,
    ) -> Result<(), ChunkedBodyErr> {
        while buf.len() < until {
-            match read_some(fd, buf, 8 * 1024, deadline) {
+            match read_some(fd, buf, 8 * 1024, gate.deadline()) {
                Ok(0) => {
                    return Err(ChunkedBodyErr::Io(io::Error::new(
                        ErrorKind::UnexpectedEof,
                        "client closed during chunked body",
                    )))
                }
-                Ok(_) => {}
+                Ok(n) => gate.record(n, Instant::now()),
                Err(e) => return Err(ChunkedBodyErr::Io(e)),
            }
        }
@@ -510,7 +594,7 @@ fn read_chunked_body(
        buf: &mut Vec<u8>,
        from: usize,
        max_line: usize,
-        deadline: Instant,
+        gate: &mut BodyStallGate,
    ) -> Result<usize, ChunkedBodyErr> {
        let mut scan = from;
        loop {
@@ -523,16 +607,19 @@ fn read_chunked_body(
                    return Err(ChunkedBodyErr::Malformed);
                }
            }
-            fill_to(fd, buf, buf.len() + 1, deadline)?;
+            fill_to(fd, buf, buf.len() + 1, gate)?;
        }
    }

+    // `deadline` is the absolute body cap; the gate layers the burst-gated
+    // stall window under it. All reads below go through find_crlf/fill_to.
+    let mut gate = BodyStallGate::new(deadline, limits, Instant::now());
    let mut pos = head_len;
    let mut decoded: Vec<u8> = Vec::new();

    loop {
        // ----- size line: HEX[;extensions]\r\n -----
-        let line_end = find_crlf(fd, buf, pos, MAX_SIZE_LINE, deadline)?;
+        let line_end = find_crlf(fd, buf, pos, MAX_SIZE_LINE, &mut gate)?;
        let line = &buf[pos..line_end];
        let size_str = match line.iter().position(|&b| b == b';') {
            Some(i) => &line[..i], // chunk extensions: ignored
@@ -549,7 +636,7 @@ fn read_chunked_body(
            // ----- trailer section: zero or more header lines, then CRLF -----
            let trailer_start = pos;
            loop {
-                let t_end = find_crlf(fd, buf, pos, MAX_SIZE_LINE.max(1024), deadline)?;
+                let t_end = find_crlf(fd, buf, pos, MAX_SIZE_LINE.max(1024), &mut gate)?;
                let empty = t_end == pos;
                pos = t_end + 2;
                if empty {
@@ -566,7 +653,7 @@ fn read_chunked_body(
        }

        // ----- chunk payload + trailing CRLF -----
-        fill_to(fd, buf, pos + size + 2, deadline)?;
+        fill_to(fd, buf, pos + size + 2, &mut gate)?;
        decoded.extend_from_slice(&buf[pos..pos + size]);
        if &buf[pos + size..pos + size + 2] != b"\r\n" {
            return Err(ChunkedBodyErr::Malformed);
@@ -773,6 +860,8 @@ fn emit_error_response(fd: RawFd, err: &ParseError, deadline: Instant) {
            b"HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request\r\ncontent-length: 0\r\nconnection: close\r\n\r\n",
        ParseError::Unsupported =>
            b"HTTP/1.1 411 Length Required\r\ncontent-length: 0\r\nconnection: close\r\n\r\n",
+        ParseError::UnknownTransferCoding =>
+            b"HTTP/1.1 501 Not Implemented\r\ncontent-length: 0\r\nconnection: close\r\n\r\n",
        // Incomplete and Malformed both lead here; Incomplete shouldn't
        // appear (read_head loops on it).
        _ =>
@@ -1,168 +0,0 @@
-//! Connection registry — the shutdown coordinator (v0.2 chunk 2).
-//!
-//! A `gen_server` tracking live connection pids and their busy/idle
-//! state. Connection actors self-register as their first action and
-//! self-deregister via a drop guard (so panic unwinds deregister too);
-//! both casts come from the same sender, so Started always precedes
-//! Ended in the inbox. (The roadmap sketched the *listener* casting
-//! `{Started, pid}`, but then a short-lived conn's Ended could overtake
-//! its Started and leak a dead pid into the set forever. Self-
-//! registration makes the order a per-sender FIFO guarantee instead of
-//! a race.)
-//!
-//! Listeners are deliberately NOT tracked here: they shut down via a
-//! shared flag + timed accept-waits (see `serve`), never via
-//! `request_stop` — stopping pids that announce themselves is racy (the
-//! spawn-to-registration gap), and smarm's `request_stop` is lossy
-//! against an actor that is QUEUED and then parks without passing an
-//! observation point (see the v0.2 shutdown notes in the commit
-//! message). Connections don't suffer this in practice: every stop the
-//! registry issues targets a pid that just sent us a cast (so it is
-//! running or parked, both covered), and the force-stop path re-sweeps
-//! until the set empties.
-//!
-//! Drain protocol: `BeginDrain` stops every idle connection immediately
-//! and flips the registry into draining mode, in which any connection
-//! that *becomes* idle (finishes its in-flight request) is stopped on the
-//! spot. Busy connections are left to finish; `ForceStopConns` (sent by
-//! `serve` at the drain deadline) stops whatever remains. `request_stop`
-//! unwinds a conn actor parked in `wait_readable` safely (smarm's 06-10
-//! io fix) and `OwnedFd::drop` closes its socket on the way out.
-//!
-//! This server is also the planned introspection point for ws/channels
-//! (roadmap v0.4+), which is why it exists as its own module rather than
-//! being inlined into `serve`.
-
-use smarm::{GenServer, Pid, GenServerBuilder, GenServerRef};
-
-use std::collections::HashMap;
-
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// Messages
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-pub enum Cast {
-    /// A connection actor started (self-registered, initially idle: it has
-    /// not parsed a request head yet).
-    ConnStarted(Pid),
-    /// Parsed a request head; a response is now owed.
-    ConnBusy(Pid),
-    /// Response written; parked (or about to park) waiting for the next
-    /// keep-alive request.
-    ConnIdle(Pid),
-    ConnEnded(Pid),
-    /// Stop idle conns now and stop each remaining conn as it goes idle.
-    BeginDrain,
-    /// Drain deadline passed: stop every remaining conn.
-    ForceStopConns,
-}
-
-pub enum Call {
-    ConnCount,
-}
-
-pub enum Reply {
-    ConnCount(usize),
-}
-
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// Server
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
-enum ConnState {
-    Busy,
-    Idle,
-}
-
-#[derive(Default)]
-pub struct ConnRegistry {
-    conns:    HashMap<Pid, ConnState>,
-    draining: bool,
-}
-
-impl GenServer for ConnRegistry {
-    type Call  = Call;
-    type Reply = Reply;
-    type Cast  = Cast;
-    type Info  = ();
-    type Timer = ();
-
-    fn handle_call(&mut self, request: Call) -> Reply {
-        match request {
-            Call::ConnCount => Reply::ConnCount(self.conns.len()),
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn handle_cast(&mut self, request: Cast) {
-        match request {
-            Cast::ConnStarted(pid) => {
-                self.conns.insert(pid, ConnState::Idle);
-                if self.draining {
-                    // Listener-stop race: this conn was accepted just
-                    // before its listener died. Drain means no new work.
-                    smarm::request_stop(pid);
-                }
-            }
-            Cast::ConnBusy(pid) => {
-                if let Some(s) = self.conns.get_mut(&pid) {
-                    *s = ConnState::Busy;
-                }
-            }
-            Cast::ConnIdle(pid) => {
-                if let Some(s) = self.conns.get_mut(&pid) {
-                    *s = ConnState::Idle;
-                    if self.draining {
-                        // Finished its in-flight request; nothing more is
-                        // owed. The pid leaves the map via its drop
-                        // guard's ConnEnded once the unwind completes.
-                        smarm::request_stop(pid);
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-            Cast::ConnEnded(pid) => { self.conns.remove(&pid); }
-            Cast::BeginDrain => {
-                self.draining = true;
-                for (pid, state) in &self.conns {
-                    if *state == ConnState::Idle {
-                        smarm::request_stop(*pid);
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-            Cast::ForceStopConns => {
-                for pid in self.conns.keys() {
-                    smarm::request_stop(*pid);
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-pub fn start() -> GenServerRef<ConnRegistry> {
-    GenServerBuilder::new(ConnRegistry::default()).start()
-}
-
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// Drop guard — self-deregistration on any exit path.
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-/// Casts `make(pid)` on drop. Runs on normal return, `request_stop`
-/// unwind, and panic unwind alike; the cast is infallible from the
-/// guard's perspective (a dead registry just returns an ignored Err).
-pub struct DeregisterGuard {
-    registry: GenServerRef<ConnRegistry>,
-    pid:      Pid,
-    make:     fn(Pid) -> Cast,
-}
-
-impl DeregisterGuard {
-    pub fn new(registry: GenServerRef<ConnRegistry>, pid: Pid, make: fn(Pid) -> Cast) -> Self {
-        Self { registry, pid, make }
-    }
-}
-
-impl Drop for DeregisterGuard {
-    fn drop(&mut self) {
-        let _ = self.registry.cast((self.make)(self.pid));
-    }
-}
@@ -0,0 +1,656 @@
+//! The endpoint: one supervised gen_server that owns a listening socket,
+//! the pool of listener actors accepting on it, and the set of live
+//! connections.
+//!
+//! # Shape (v0.3)
+//!
+//! ```text
+//! your root supervisor
+//! └── ChildSpec(Permanent, urus::endpoint(config, pipeline)?)   <- Endpoint gen_server
+//!     └── listener_sup   OneForOne over N listener actors (spawned in init)
+//!         └── (listeners spawn plain connection actors)
+//! ```
+//!
+//! The endpoint runs *inline as the ChildSpec's actor*
+//! (`NamedGenServerBuilder::run`), so your supervisor's ordered shutdown
+//! reaches it as [`GenServer::handle_shutdown`] and a restart re-runs the
+//! factory on the same still-open listen fds.
+//!
+//! ## Why the endpoint spawns its own listener supervisor
+//!
+//! The obvious tree is registry and listener-sup as *siblings* under a
+//! `RestForOne`, with listeners resolving the registry by name. It has a
+//! boot race: smarm's supervisor starts children with a fire-and-forget
+//! spawn, so start *order* is not start *readiness* — a listener can look
+//! the name up before the registry actor has run. Rather than paper over
+//! that with a retry loop, the registrar spawns its consumers: everything
+//! here is program order inside one actor's `init`, not a cross-actor
+//! guarantee. (The general gap is filed in smarm's ROADMAP as a
+//! supervisor readiness-ack item; when it lands, the sibling shape becomes
+//! available, but this one costs nothing and is not waiting on it.)
+//!
+//! ## Connection accounting
+//!
+//! Connection actors self-register as their first action and self-
+//! deregister via a drop guard (so panic unwinds deregister too); both
+//! casts come from the same sender, so `ConnStarted` always precedes
+//! `ConnEnded` in the inbox. Were the *listener* to announce the pid
+//! instead, a short-lived conn's `Ended` could overtake its `Started` and
+//! leak a dead pid into the set forever.
+//!
+//! ## Shutdown
+//!
+//! `handle_shutdown` (i.e. a `request_shutdown` from your supervisor, or
+//! from anywhere):
+//!
+//! 1. flip `draining` — from here on, a connection that registers or goes
+//!    idle is stopped on the spot;
+//! 2. `request_shutdown` the listener supervisor, which stops its
+//!    listeners in reverse order and exits; its monitored death is the
+//!    "no new connections can ever be accepted" barrier;
+//! 3. stop every currently-idle connection;
+//! 4. arm one `drain_timeout` timer;
+//! 5. return `Continue` — the endpoint exits normally once the listener
+//!    sup is down *and* the connection set is empty, so "the endpoint
+//!    actor has exited" is exactly "every connection is gone". With no
+//!    connections and (once the Down lands) nothing to wait for, that is
+//!    immediate.
+//!
+//! At the drain deadline one force sweep `request_stop`s whatever remains
+//! (plus, defensively, the listener sup). A single sweep suffices: every
+//! path a connection can enter the set on afterwards stops it at the point
+//! of entry. Force-stopped conns unwind safely out of their fd waits and
+//! close their sockets via `OwnedFd::drop`.
+//!
+//! Give the endpoint [`Shutdown::Infinity`](smarm::supervisor::Shutdown) in
+//! your child spec: it bounds itself with `drain_timeout`, and a
+//! supervisor-imposed deadline shorter than that would kill the drain
+//! halfway and orphan connections.
+//!
+//! ## Known residual window
+//!
+//! A connection *spawned* by a listener in the instant before that
+//! listener is stopped, which has not yet run, has not registered. If the
+//! set was already empty the endpoint can exit before its `ConnStarted`
+//! arrives, and that connection serves on as a forest root until smarm's
+//! root-exit sweep collects it. Inherent to self-registration (the
+//! alternative loses `Started`/`Ended` ordering, which is worse);
+//! documented rather than defended.
+
+use crate::conn_actor::{run_connection, ConnLimits};
+use crate::net::{accept_nonblocking, bind_and_listen, OwnedFd};
+use crate::plug::Pipeline;
+use crate::serve::Config;
+
+use smarm::gen_server::{GenServerName, ShutdownAction, StopHandle, TimerHandle};
+use smarm::{
+    ChildSpec, GenServer, GenServerBuilder, GenServerCtx, GenServerRef, OneForOne, Pid, Restart,
+    Strategy,
+};
+
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::io::{self, ErrorKind};
+use std::os::fd::RawFd;
+use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU32, Ordering};
+use std::sync::Arc;
+use std::time::Duration;
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Messages
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+pub enum Cast {
+    /// A connection actor started (self-registered, initially idle: it has
+    /// not parsed a request head yet).
+    ConnStarted(Pid),
+    /// Parsed a request head; a response is now owed.
+    ConnBusy(Pid),
+    /// Response written; parked (or about to park) waiting for the next
+    /// keep-alive request.
+    ConnIdle(Pid),
+    ConnEnded(Pid),
+}
+
+pub enum Call {
+    /// Live connection count — introspection (and the planned hook for
+    /// ws/channels stats).
+    ConnCount,
+}
+
+pub enum Reply {
+    ConnCount(usize),
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Endpoint
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
+enum ConnState {
+    Busy,
+    Idle,
+}
+
+/// Everything an endpoint incarnation needs to (re)build its listener
+/// pool. Shared behind an `Arc` by the factory closure so a restart reuses
+/// the same already-bound fds — no re-bind, no window where the port is
+/// unclaimed.
+struct Boot {
+    listener_fds:       Vec<Arc<OwnedFd>>,
+    pipeline:           Pipeline,
+    limits:             ConnLimits,
+    conn_stack_reserve: usize,
+    name:               &'static str,
+}
+
+pub struct Endpoint {
+    boot:          Arc<Boot>,
+    conns:         HashMap<Pid, ConnState>,
+    draining:      bool,
+    drain_timeout: Duration,
+    /// The listener supervisor, spawned in `init` and monitored. `None`
+    /// once it is down.
+    listener_sup:  Option<Pid>,
+    stop:          Option<StopHandle<Self>>,
+    timer:         Option<TimerHandle<Self>>,
+}
+
+impl Endpoint {
+    fn name(&self) -> GenServerName<Self> {
+        GenServerName::new(self.boot.name)
+    }
+
+    /// Exit normally once nothing can arrive and nothing is left: the
+    /// listener sup is down and the conn set is empty. This exit *is* the
+    /// barrier a supervisor's ordered shutdown waits on.
+    fn stop_if_drained(&self) {
+        if self.draining && self.listener_sup.is_none() && self.conns.is_empty() {
+            self.stop.as_ref().expect("init ran first").stop();
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl GenServer for Endpoint {
+    type Call = Call;
+    type Reply = Reply;
+    type Cast = Cast;
+    type Info = ();
+    /// One meaning: the drain deadline elapsed — force-stop the stragglers.
+    type Timer = ();
+
+    fn init(&mut self, ctx: &GenServerCtx<Self>) {
+        ctx.trap_exit(); // shutdown arrives as handle_shutdown, not a kill
+        self.stop = Some(ctx.stop_handle());
+        self.timer = Some(ctx.timer());
+
+        // Our own name is bound (from inside `run`) before `init` runs, so
+        // this resolves to us. Listeners are handed the resolved ref, not
+        // the name: no per-connection registry lookup on the accept path.
+        let me: GenServerRef<Self> =
+            smarm::gen_server::whereis_server(self.name()).expect("endpoint name bound before init");
+
+        let boot = self.boot.clone();
+        let sup = smarm::spawn(move || {
+            let mut sup = OneForOne::new().strategy(Strategy::OneForOne);
+            for lfd in &boot.listener_fds {
+                let lfd = lfd.clone();
+                let pipeline = boot.pipeline.clone();
+                let limits = boot.limits;
+                let reserve = boot.conn_stack_reserve;
+                let me = me.clone();
+                // Permanent: a listener only ever exits by supervisor
+                // action now (its normal-exit-as-shutdown flag is gone),
+                // so "exited on its own" always means something broke and
+                // always deserves a restart.
+                sup = sup.child(ChildSpec::new(Restart::Permanent, move || {
+                    listener_loop(lfd.clone(), pipeline.clone(), limits, reserve, me.clone());
+                }));
+            }
+            // Default intensity (3 restarts / 5s) applies; a listener
+            // crash-looping faster than that trips the cap and the pool
+            // tears down — which our monitor turns into a loud endpoint
+            // failure rather than a zombie server on a dead port.
+            sup.run();
+        });
+        ctx.watch(smarm::monitor(sup.pid()));
+        self.listener_sup = Some(sup.pid());
+    }
+
+    fn handle_call(&mut self, request: Call) -> Reply {
+        match request {
+            Call::ConnCount => Reply::ConnCount(self.conns.len()),
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn handle_cast(&mut self, request: Cast) {
+        match request {
+            Cast::ConnStarted(pid) => {
+                self.conns.insert(pid, ConnState::Idle);
+                if self.draining {
+                    // Accepted just before its listener was stopped.
+                    // Draining means no new work; it leaves the map via
+                    // its guard's ConnEnded.
+                    smarm::request_stop(pid);
+                }
+            }
+            Cast::ConnBusy(pid) => {
+                if let Some(s) = self.conns.get_mut(&pid) {
+                    *s = ConnState::Busy;
+                }
+            }
+            Cast::ConnIdle(pid) => {
+                if let Some(s) = self.conns.get_mut(&pid) {
+                    *s = ConnState::Idle;
+                    if self.draining {
+                        smarm::request_stop(pid); // in-flight request finished
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            Cast::ConnEnded(pid) => {
+                self.conns.remove(&pid);
+                self.stop_if_drained();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn handle_down(&mut self, down: smarm::Down) {
+        if self.listener_sup != Some(down.pid) {
+            return;
+        }
+        self.listener_sup = None;
+        if !self.draining {
+            // The pool died on its own (restart intensity exceeded, or the
+            // supervisor itself failed). Nothing is listening any more, so
+            // this endpoint is a zombie: fail loudly and let the caller's
+            // supervisor decide (restart re-runs init on the same fds).
+            panic!("urus endpoint '{}': listener pool died: {:?}", self.boot.name, down.reason);
+        }
+        // Expected during shutdown: the accept side is now provably gone.
+        self.stop_if_drained();
+    }
+
+    fn handle_shutdown(&mut self) -> ShutdownAction {
+        self.draining = true;
+        if let Some(sup) = self.listener_sup {
+            // Stops listeners in reverse start order and exits; the
+            // monitored Down is our "no new connections" barrier.
+            smarm::request_shutdown(sup);
+        }
+        for (pid, state) in &self.conns {
+            if *state == ConnState::Idle {
+                smarm::request_stop(*pid);
+            }
+        }
+        // Busy conns get until the deadline; then handle_timer sweeps.
+        self.timer
+            .as_ref()
+            .expect("init ran first")
+            .arm_after(self.drain_timeout, ());
+        ShutdownAction::Continue
+    }
+
+    fn handle_timer(&mut self, _deadline: ()) {
+        // Drain deadline: force-stop everything left. One sweep — late
+        // registrants are already stopped on arrival (see module docs).
+        for pid in self.conns.keys() {
+            smarm::request_stop(*pid);
+        }
+        if let Some(sup) = self.listener_sup {
+            // Defensive: a listener wedged past its supervisor's own grace
+            // period must not hold the whole shutdown open.
+            smarm::request_stop(sup);
+        }
+        // The map empties via each conn's guard ConnEnded; stop_if_drained
+        // fires on the last one (or on the sup's Down, whichever is last).
+    }
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// endpoint() — the public constructor
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// Bind `config.addr` and return the endpoint's supervisable body: pass it
+/// to [`ChildSpec::new`] under your own supervisor, alongside your
+/// application's other children.
+///
+/// The bind happens **here**, eagerly, so an address-in-use error surfaces
+/// on the caller's thread rather than inside an actor — and the fds
+/// outlive any restart of the child.
+///
+/// ```ignore
+/// let endpoint = urus::endpoint(Config::new(addr), pipeline)?;
+/// let rt = smarm::init(smarm::Config::default());
+/// rt.run(move || {
+///     smarm::OneForOne::new()
+///         .child(ChildSpec::new(Restart::Permanent, my_app_state))
+///         .child(ChildSpec::new(Restart::Permanent, endpoint)
+///             .shutdown(Shutdown::Infinity))
+///         .run()
+/// });
+/// ```
+///
+/// The returned closure is `Clone`, so one endpoint definition can be
+/// handed to more than one place; each *invocation* is one running
+/// endpoint, and two live at once under the same [`Config::name`] is a
+/// name clash (panic on the second).
+pub fn endpoint(
+    config: Config,
+    pipeline: Pipeline,
+) -> io::Result<impl Fn() + Clone + Send + Sync + 'static> {
+    // One dup'd fd per listener: `accept4` is thread-safe on a single fd,
+    // but a per-listener RawFd keeps each actor's epoll registration
+    // distinct in smarm's `waiters: HashMap<RawFd, Pid>`.
+    let mut listener_fds = Vec::with_capacity(config.listener_pool);
+    listener_fds.push(Arc::new(bind_and_listen(config.addr)?));
+    for _ in 1..config.listener_pool {
+        let dup = dup_fd(listener_fds[0].as_raw())?;
+        listener_fds.push(Arc::new(dup));
+    }
+
+    let boot = Arc::new(Boot {
+        listener_fds,
+        pipeline,
+        limits: config.to_conn_limits(),
+        conn_stack_reserve: config.conn_stack_reserve,
+        name: config.name,
+    });
+    let drain_timeout = config.drain_timeout;
+
+    Ok(move || {
+        let state = Endpoint {
+            boot: boot.clone(),
+            conns: HashMap::new(),
+            draining: false,
+            drain_timeout,
+            listener_sup: None,
+            stop: None,
+            timer: None,
+        };
+        let name = GenServerName::<Endpoint>::new(state.boot.name);
+        // Inline: this actor *is* the server, so a supervisor's shutdown
+        // reaches handle_shutdown and a restart re-binds the name.
+        if let Err(e) = GenServerBuilder::new(state).named(name).run() {
+            panic!("urus endpoint '{}': name already taken: {e:?}", name.as_str());
+        }
+    })
+}
+
+/// Resolve a running endpoint by [`Config::name`] — for `ConnCount` and
+/// other introspection from elsewhere in the app.
+pub fn whereis(name: &'static str) -> Option<GenServerRef<Endpoint>> {
+    smarm::gen_server::whereis_server(GenServerName::<Endpoint>::new(name))
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Listener actors
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+fn dup_fd(fd: RawFd) -> io::Result<OwnedFd> {
+    let new_fd = unsafe { libc::fcntl(fd, libc::F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC, 0) };
+    if new_fd < 0 {
+        return Err(io::Error::last_os_error());
+    }
+    Ok(OwnedFd::from_raw(new_fd))
+}
+
+/// Test-only fault injection. When nonzero, the next accept-loop iteration
+/// of whichever listener gets there first decrements this and panics —
+/// *before* calling `accept`, so a pending connection stays in the kernel
+/// backlog and must be picked up by the restarted listener. Cost when idle
+/// is one relaxed load per accept-loop iteration (each of which already
+/// pays a syscall). Not public API.
+#[doc(hidden)]
+pub static INJECT_LISTENER_PANICS: AtomicU32 = AtomicU32::new(0);
+
+/// Accept forever, spawning one connection actor per connection. Exits
+/// only by supervisor action: `request_stop` unwinds the untimed
+/// `wait_readable` park below (smarm's 06-10 io fix), which is why there
+/// is no shutdown flag and no tick — the park is genuinely open-ended and
+/// costs nothing while idle.
+fn listener_loop(
+    listener: Arc<OwnedFd>,
+    pipeline: Pipeline,
+    limits: ConnLimits,
+    conn_stack_reserve: usize,
+    endpoint: GenServerRef<Endpoint>,
+) {
+    let fd = listener.as_raw();
+
+    loop {
+        if INJECT_LISTENER_PANICS
+            .fetch_update(Ordering::Relaxed, Ordering::Relaxed, |n| n.checked_sub(1))
+            .is_ok()
+        {
+            panic!("urus: injected listener panic (test hook)");
+        }
+        match accept_nonblocking(fd) {
+            Ok(client) => {
+                // Hand the fd off to a new connection actor. spawn() is
+                // cheap on smarm — it's a single Vec push under the
+                // shared lock.
+                let p = pipeline.clone();
+                let l = limits;
+                let e = endpoint.clone();
+                let opts = smarm::SpawnOpts {
+                    stack_reserve: Some(conn_stack_reserve),
+                    ..smarm::SpawnOpts::default()
+                };
+                smarm::spawn_with(opts, move || run_connection(client, p, l, e));
+            }
+            Err(e) if e.kind() == ErrorKind::WouldBlock => {
+                if let Err(we) = smarm::wait_readable(fd) {
+                    // epoll registration failed — abnormal, so panic: a
+                    // transient failure (e.g. EMFILE on the epoll set)
+                    // heals by restart instead of silently shrinking the
+                    // pool. smarm catches actor panics in the trampoline;
+                    // this is a Signal::Panic to the supervisor, not
+                    // process noise.
+                    panic!("urus: listener wait_readable failed: {we}");
+                }
+            }
+            Err(e) if e.kind() == ErrorKind::Interrupted => continue,
+            Err(e) => {
+                // EMFILE / ENFILE / ECONNABORTED etc. Log and back off
+                // briefly in case the error is sticky; the system may
+                // recover.
+                eprintln!("urus: accept error: {e}");
+                smarm::sleep(Duration::from_millis(10));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    // The Arc clone we were started with drops on unwind, but the
+    // ChildSpec factory holds another — the fd outlives any one
+    // incarnation of this listener.
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Deregistration guard
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// Casts `make(pid)` on drop. Runs on normal return, `request_stop`
+/// unwind, and panic unwind alike; the cast is infallible from the
+/// guard's perspective (a dead endpoint just returns an ignored Err).
+pub struct DeregisterGuard {
+    endpoint: GenServerRef<Endpoint>,
+    pid:      Pid,
+    make:     fn(Pid) -> Cast,
+}
+
+impl DeregisterGuard {
+    pub fn new(endpoint: GenServerRef<Endpoint>, pid: Pid, make: fn(Pid) -> Cast) -> Self {
+        Self { endpoint, pid, make }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Drop for DeregisterGuard {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        let _ = self.endpoint.cast((self.make)(self.pid));
+    }
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Tests — the drain protocol, driven purely by request_shutdown.
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use crate::plug::Pipeline;
+    use std::time::Instant;
+
+    const NAME: &str = "urus.test.endpoint";
+
+    /// Spawn a real endpoint (bound to an ephemeral port) as a supervised
+    /// child, exactly as an application would, and hand back its
+    /// supervisor's pid.
+    fn spawn_endpoint(drain: Duration) -> Pid {
+        let cfg = Config {
+            listener_pool: 1,
+            drain_timeout: drain,
+            name: NAME,
+            ..Config::new("127.0.0.1:0".parse().unwrap())
+        };
+        let body = endpoint(cfg, Pipeline::new()).expect("bind");
+        let sup = smarm::spawn(move || {
+            OneForOne::new()
+                .child(
+                    ChildSpec::new(Restart::Permanent, body)
+                        .shutdown(smarm::supervisor::Shutdown::Infinity),
+                )
+                .run()
+        });
+        await_pred("endpoint up", Duration::from_secs(2), || {
+            whereis(NAME).is_some()
+        });
+        sup.pid()
+    }
+
+    /// A stand-in connection actor: registers with the endpoint, optionally
+    /// reports busy, then parks forever. Only a `request_stop` ends it; the
+    /// guard's ConnEnded runs on the unwind.
+    fn fake_conn(ep: GenServerRef<Endpoint>, busy: bool) {
+        let me = smarm::self_pid();
+        let _ = ep.cast(Cast::ConnStarted(me));
+        let _guard = DeregisterGuard::new(ep.clone(), me, Cast::ConnEnded);
+        if busy {
+            let _ = ep.cast(Cast::ConnBusy(me));
+        }
+        loop {
+            smarm::sleep(Duration::from_secs(3600));
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn spawn_fake_conn(busy: bool) -> Pid {
+        let ep = whereis(NAME).expect("endpoint live");
+        smarm::spawn(move || fake_conn(ep, busy)).pid()
+    }
+
+    /// Live conn count, or `Err` once the endpoint is gone.
+    fn conn_count() -> Result<usize, ()> {
+        match whereis(NAME) {
+            Some(ep) => match ep.call(Call::ConnCount) {
+                Ok(Reply::ConnCount(n)) => Ok(n),
+                Err(_) => Err(()),
+            },
+            None => Err(()),
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn await_pred(what: &str, deadline: Duration, mut pred: impl FnMut() -> bool) {
+        let end = Instant::now() + deadline;
+        while !pred() {
+            assert!(Instant::now() < end, "timed out waiting for: {what}");
+            smarm::sleep(Duration::from_millis(5));
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn shutdown_with_no_conns_exits_promptly() {
+        smarm::run(|| {
+            let sup = spawn_endpoint(Duration::from_secs(30));
+            assert_eq!(conn_count(), Ok(0));
+            let t0 = Instant::now();
+            smarm::request_shutdown(sup);
+            // Nothing to drain: gone well inside the (huge) drain window,
+            // i.e. the idle path does not run the clock out.
+            await_pred("endpoint exit", Duration::from_secs(3), || {
+                conn_count().is_err()
+            });
+            assert!(t0.elapsed() < Duration::from_secs(3));
+        });
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn drain_stops_idle_now_busy_at_deadline_then_exits() {
+        smarm::run(|| {
+            let drain = Duration::from_millis(300);
+            let sup = spawn_endpoint(drain);
+            spawn_fake_conn(false); // idle
+            spawn_fake_conn(true); // busy
+            await_pred("both registered", Duration::from_secs(2), || {
+                conn_count() == Ok(2)
+            });
+
+            let t0 = Instant::now();
+            smarm::request_shutdown(sup);
+
+            // Idle conn goes promptly, well before the deadline.
+            await_pred("idle stopped", drain / 2, || conn_count() == Ok(1));
+            // Busy conn holds until the force sweep, then the endpoint winds up.
+            await_pred("busy swept + endpoint exit", drain * 6, || {
+                conn_count().is_err()
+            });
+            assert!(
+                t0.elapsed() >= drain,
+                "busy conn must not be stopped before the drain deadline"
+            );
+        });
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn conn_finishing_mid_drain_is_stopped_on_idle() {
+        smarm::run(|| {
+            // Long deadline: this passes only via the ConnIdle path, not
+            // the force sweep.
+            let sup = spawn_endpoint(Duration::from_secs(30));
+            let conn = spawn_fake_conn(true);
+            await_pred("registered busy", Duration::from_secs(2), || {
+                conn_count() == Ok(1)
+            });
+            smarm::request_shutdown(sup);
+            smarm::sleep(Duration::from_millis(50));
+            assert_eq!(conn_count(), Ok(1), "busy conn survives the idle sweep");
+
+            // "Request finishes": the conn reports idle.
+            let ep = whereis(NAME).expect("endpoint still draining");
+            let _ = ep.cast(Cast::ConnIdle(conn));
+            await_pred("stopped on idle + endpoint exit", Duration::from_secs(3), || {
+                conn_count().is_err()
+            });
+        });
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn conn_registering_mid_drain_is_stopped_on_arrival() {
+        smarm::run(|| {
+            let sup = spawn_endpoint(Duration::from_secs(30));
+            let holder = spawn_fake_conn(true); // keeps the drain open
+            await_pred("holder registered", Duration::from_secs(2), || {
+                conn_count() == Ok(1)
+            });
+            smarm::request_shutdown(sup);
+            smarm::sleep(Duration::from_millis(20));
+
+            // The listener-death race: a fresh conn registers mid-drain.
+            spawn_fake_conn(false);
+            // It is stopped on arrival — the count returns to just the holder.
+            await_pred("late arrival stopped", Duration::from_secs(2), || {
+                conn_count() == Ok(1)
+            });
+
+            // Cleanup: release the holder so the run can end.
+            let ep = whereis(NAME).expect("endpoint still draining");
+            let _ = ep.cast(Cast::ConnIdle(holder));
+        });
+    }
+}
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ pub mod router;
 pub mod parser;
 pub mod net;
 pub mod conn_actor;
-pub mod conn_registry;
+pub mod endpoint;
 pub mod serve;
 pub mod sse;
 pub mod ws;
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ pub use pubsub::{PubSub, PubSubDown};
 #[cfg(feature = "channels")]
 pub use channels::{Channel, ChannelHub, ChannelSession, ChannelSocket, PrefixRouter, Status, TopicRouter};
 pub use ws::{Message, WsClosed, WsHandler, WsSender};
+pub use endpoint::endpoint;
 pub use serve::{
    serve, serve_with, serve_with_shutdown, shutdown_handle, Config, Handle, ShutdownSignal,
 };
+#[cfg(feature = "config-file")]
+pub use serve::ConfigError;
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@
 //!   - No body header — empty body.
 //!   - `Transfer-Encoding: chunked` (HTTP/1.1) — flagged in `ParsedHead`;
 //!     the connection actor decodes incrementally (`read_chunked_body`).
-//!     Chunked + Content-Length together, or chunked on HTTP/1.0, is
-//!     Malformed (request-smuggling ambiguity; RFC 7230 §3.3.3).
+//!     TE is 1.1-only and overrides Content-Length: TE on HTTP/1.0, or TE
+//!     together with a Content-Length, is Malformed (400). `chunked` must be
+//!     the final coding (non-final -> 400); any other coding is unimplemented
+//!     (-> 501). Only a sole final `chunked` sets the flag (RFC 9112 §6.1/§6.3).

 use crate::conn::{Body, Conn, HeaderMap, HttpVersion, Method, RespBody};

@@ -33,6 +35,10 @@ pub enum ParseError {
    /// (chunked decoding landed in v0.3); kept for future unsupported
    /// framings. Connection actor responds 411 + close.
    Unsupported,
+    /// `Transfer-Encoding` names a transfer coding we don't implement
+    /// (`chunked` is the only one urus decodes). Connection actor responds
+    /// 501 Not Implemented + close (RFC 9112 §6.1, §7).
+    UnknownTransferCoding,
 }

 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -100,6 +106,11 @@ pub fn parse_head(buf: &[u8], max_headers: usize) -> Result<ParsedHead, ParseErr
    let mut connection_hdr = None;
    let mut chunked        = false;
    let mut expect_100     = false;
+    let mut host_count     = 0usize;
+    let mut host_ok        = true;
+    let mut cl_count       = 0usize;
+    let mut te_present     = false;
+    let mut te_codings: Vec<String> = Vec::new();

    for h in req.headers.iter() {
        let name_lower = h.name.to_ascii_lowercase();
@@ -107,6 +118,10 @@ pub fn parse_head(buf: &[u8], max_headers: usize) -> Result<ParsedHead, ParseErr

        match name_lower.as_str() {
            "content-length" => {
+                // Count occurrences; duplicates (even equal) are rejected
+                // post-loop. A single value must be one decimal integer —
+                // a comma-list ("5, 5") or non-numeric fails parse here.
+                cl_count += 1;
                content_length = Some(
                    value.trim()
                        .parse::<usize>()
@@ -114,10 +129,17 @@ pub fn parse_head(buf: &[u8], max_headers: usize) -> Result<ParsedHead, ParseErr
                );
            }
            "transfer-encoding" => {
-                // We only care whether it includes "chunked". Multiple codings
-                // can appear; chunked is the only one we'd need to decode.
-                if value.to_ascii_lowercase().split(',').any(|t| t.trim() == "chunked") {
-                    chunked = true;
+                // Collect the ordered coding list across any number of TE
+                // headers; finality/known-ness is decided post-loop. Empty
+                // list elements (legacy `#rule`, e.g. a trailing comma) are
+                // skipped; a wholly empty value leaves te_codings empty and
+                // is caught below.
+                te_present = true;
+                for coding in value.split(',') {
+                    let c = coding.trim().to_ascii_lowercase();
+                    if !c.is_empty() {
+                        te_codings.push(c);
+                    }
                }
            }
            "connection" => {
@@ -126,19 +148,68 @@ pub fn parse_head(buf: &[u8], max_headers: usize) -> Result<ParsedHead, ParseErr
            "expect" if value.eq_ignore_ascii_case("100-continue") => {
                expect_100 = true;
            }
+            "host" => {
+                // Presence/uniqueness enforced post-loop; validity here.
+                host_count += 1;
+                if !valid_host(value) {
+                    host_ok = false;
+                }
+            }
            _ => {}
        }
        headers.append(&name_lower, value.to_string());
    }

-    if chunked {
-        // Transfer-Encoding is an HTTP/1.1 mechanism; a 1.0 request
-        // carrying it is malformed. And a request carrying BOTH a
-        // Content-Length and TE: chunked is the classic request-smuggling
-        // ambiguity — RFC 7230 §3.3.3 lets a server reject it, and we do.
-        if version == HttpVersion::Http10 || content_length.is_some() {
+    // Host (RFC 9112 §3.2): an HTTP/1.1 request MUST carry exactly one valid
+    // Host; a missing, duplicate, or malformed Host is a 400. HTTP/1.0 may
+    // omit Host, but a duplicate or invalid one is still rejected on any
+    // version (ambiguous / malformed authority).
+    if host_count > 1 || !host_ok {
        return Err(ParseError::Malformed);
    }
+    if version == HttpVersion::Http11 && host_count == 0 {
+        return Err(ParseError::Malformed);
+    }
+
+    // Content-Length (RFC 9112 §6.3): more than one Content-Length is an
+    // unrecoverable framing ambiguity (CL.CL request smuggling). We are
+    // strict — reject any duplicate, not only differing values.
+    if cl_count > 1 {
+        return Err(ParseError::BadContentLength);
+    }
+
+    // Transfer-Encoding (RFC 9112 §6.1/§6.3). TE is a 1.1 mechanism and
+    // overrides Content-Length; only `chunked` is implemented here.
+    if te_present {
+        // TE on HTTP/1.0 is malformed (no 1.0 chunked).
+        if version == HttpVersion::Http10 {
+            return Err(ParseError::Malformed);
+        }
+        // TE together with Content-Length is the classic smuggling
+        // ambiguity; TE overrides CL and we reject rather than forward.
+        if content_length.is_some() {
+            return Err(ParseError::Malformed);
+        }
+        // A Transfer-Encoding header that carries no coding frames nothing.
+        if te_codings.is_empty() {
+            return Err(ParseError::Malformed);
+        }
+
+        let last_is_chunked = te_codings.last().map(String::as_str) == Some("chunked");
+        let has_chunked     = te_codings.iter().any(|c| c == "chunked");
+
+        if has_chunked && !last_is_chunked {
+            // chunked present but not final: body length isn't reliably
+            // determinable -> 400.
+            return Err(ParseError::Malformed);
+        }
+        if te_codings.iter().any(|c| c != "chunked") {
+            // Some coding we don't implement (chunked is the only decodable
+            // one). Whether or not chunked is final, we can't apply it -> 501.
+            return Err(ParseError::UnknownTransferCoding);
+        }
+        // Sole, final `chunked`: the connection actor decodes the body.
+        chunked = true;
    }

    // Keep-alive logic, RFC 7230 §6.3:
@@ -163,6 +234,32 @@ pub fn parse_head(buf: &[u8], max_headers: usize) -> Result<ParsedHead, ParseErr
    })
 }

+/// Conservative RFC 3986 check for a `Host` field-value: non-empty and every
+/// byte drawn from the `host[:port]` productions (reg-name / IP-literal
+/// brackets / port colon). This is charset-level, not full structural
+/// validation (no bracket matching, no pct-encoding well-formedness) — enough
+/// to reject the smuggling-relevant garbage (whitespace, controls, `@`, `/`,
+/// `?`, `#`) while accepting every legitimate host. Tighter structural checks
+/// (bracketed IPv6, single port colon) are a possible follow-up.
+fn valid_host(value: &str) -> bool {
+    !value.is_empty()
+        && value.bytes().all(|b| {
+            b.is_ascii_alphanumeric()
+                || matches!(
+                    b,
+                    // unreserved punctuation
+                    b'-' | b'.' | b'_' | b'~'
+                    // sub-delims
+                    | b'!' | b'$' | b'&' | b'\'' | b'(' | b')'
+                    | b'*' | b'+' | b',' | b';' | b'='
+                    // pct-encoded lead
+                    | b'%'
+                    // IP-literal brackets + port separator
+                    | b'[' | b']' | b':'
+                )
+        })
+}
+
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Conn assembly
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -403,6 +500,128 @@ mod tests {
        }
    }

+    // --- Host (RFC 9112 §3.2) -------------------------------------------
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parse_missing_host_http11_is_malformed() {
+        let req = b"GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n";
+        match parse_head(req, 64) {
+            Err(ParseError::Malformed) => {}
+            _ => panic!("expected Malformed for missing Host on 1.1"),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parse_missing_host_http10_is_allowed() {
+        // Host is optional in HTTP/1.0.
+        let req = b"GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n";
+        assert!(parse_head(req, 64).is_ok(), "1.0 may omit Host");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parse_duplicate_host_is_malformed() {
+        let req = b"GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: a\r\nHost: b\r\n\r\n";
+        match parse_head(req, 64) {
+            Err(ParseError::Malformed) => {}
+            _ => panic!("expected Malformed for duplicate Host"),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parse_invalid_host_value_is_malformed() {
+        // Embedded whitespace — invalid in an RFC 3986 authority.
+        let req = b"GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: bad host\r\n\r\n";
+        match parse_head(req, 64) {
+            Err(ParseError::Malformed) => {}
+            _ => panic!("expected Malformed for invalid Host"),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parse_valid_hosts_accepted() {
+        // Positive controls: reg-name, reg-name:port, and IPv6-literal:port.
+        for req in [
+            b"GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\n\r\n".as_slice(),
+            b"GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com:8080\r\n\r\n".as_slice(),
+            b"GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: [::1]:443\r\n\r\n".as_slice(),
+        ] {
+            assert!(parse_head(req, 64).is_ok(), "should accept a valid Host");
+        }
+    }
+
+    // --- Content-Length (RFC 9112 §6.3) ---------------------------------
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parse_conflicting_content_length_is_rejected() {
+        // Two differing Content-Length values — classic CL.CL smuggling.
+        let req = b"POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\nContent-Length: 5\r\nContent-Length: 7\r\n\r\nhello!!";
+        match parse_head(req, 64) {
+            Err(ParseError::BadContentLength) => {}
+            _ => panic!("expected BadContentLength for conflicting CL"),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parse_duplicate_equal_content_length_is_rejected() {
+        // Strict: even identical duplicates are rejected.
+        let req = b"POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\nContent-Length: 5\r\nContent-Length: 5\r\n\r\nhello";
+        match parse_head(req, 64) {
+            Err(ParseError::BadContentLength) => {}
+            _ => panic!("expected BadContentLength for duplicate CL"),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parse_single_content_length_still_ok() {
+        // Regression: the ordinary single-CL path is unchanged.
+        let req = b"POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\nContent-Length: 5\r\n\r\nhello";
+        let head = parse_head(req, 64).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(head.content_length, Some(5));
+    }
+
+    // --- Transfer-Encoding (RFC 9112 §6.1/§6.3) -------------------------
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parse_non_final_chunked_is_malformed() {
+        // chunked must be the FINAL coding.
+        let req = b"POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\nTransfer-Encoding: chunked, gzip\r\n\r\n";
+        match parse_head(req, 64) {
+            Err(ParseError::Malformed) => {}
+            _ => panic!("expected Malformed for non-final chunked"),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parse_unknown_transfer_coding_is_unimplemented() {
+        // A coding urus doesn't implement, no chunked at all -> 501.
+        let req = b"POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\nTransfer-Encoding: nonsense\r\n\r\n";
+        match parse_head(req, 64) {
+            Err(ParseError::UnknownTransferCoding) => {}
+            _ => panic!("expected UnknownTransferCoding for unknown coding"),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parse_gzip_then_chunked_is_unimplemented() {
+        // chunked IS final, but gzip is still a coding we can't apply -> 501.
+        let req = b"POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\nTransfer-Encoding: gzip, chunked\r\n\r\n";
+        match parse_head(req, 64) {
+            Err(ParseError::UnknownTransferCoding) => {}
+            _ => panic!("expected UnknownTransferCoding for gzip,chunked"),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parse_te_with_content_length_is_malformed() {
+        // ANY Transfer-Encoding + Content-Length -> reject (smuggling),
+        // not only chunked+CL. This closes the old TE:unknown + CL gap.
+        let req = b"POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\nTransfer-Encoding: bogus\r\nContent-Length: 5\r\n\r\nhello";
+        match parse_head(req, 64) {
+            Err(ParseError::Malformed) => {}
+            _ => panic!("expected Malformed for TE + CL"),
+        }
+    }
+
    #[test]
    fn serialise_basic_200() {
        let conn = Conn::new().put_status(200).put_body("hi");
@@ -38,37 +38,46 @@
 //! but stays alive keeps its (one-shot, inert) monitor until death;
 //! that's a bounded bookkeeping entry, not a leak.
 //!
-//! # Construction must happen in-runtime
+//! # The handle is an address, not an owner (v0.7)
 //!
-//! [`PubSub::new`] spawns the table actor, which smarm only permits from
-//! inside `Runtime::run`. Pipelines are built *before* `serve*` boots the
-//! runtime, so the working pattern (same constraint crud's store hits) is
-//! lazy init from the first handler — but with a **non-static**
-//! `Arc<OnceLock<PubSub<M>>>` captured by the route closure, NOT a
-//! `static`: when the drained pipeline drops at graceful shutdown, the
-//! cell (and thus the last handle) drops in-runtime, the table's inbox
-//! closes, and the table exits — `serve_with_shutdown` returns. A
-//! `static` pins the table forever and blocks smarm's all-done. The same
-//! reasoning forbids long-lived consumer actors (relays, producers) from
-//! holding a `PubSub` clone: relay holds table's inbox open, table holds
-//! relay's receiver open, neither exits. Relays take the `Receiver` only.
-//! See `examples/ws_chat.rs` and the `shutdown_with_open_chat_terminates`
-//! integration test for the full chain.
+//! [`PubSub::new`] takes a **name** and spawns nothing. It is `const`,
+//! costs a `&'static str`, and may be built anywhere — out of the
+//! runtime, in a `static`, in a route closure, held by a long-lived
+//! relay. Every operation resolves the name through smarm's registry, so
+//! a table restarted by its supervisor is reached transparently.
 //!
-//! # Why there is no `register(name)` helper (yet)
+//! The table actor is started by [`PubSub::child`], a `ChildSpec` you put
+//! in your supervision tree (or hand to `serve_with*`, which puts it in
+//! the root ahead of the endpoint). Its lifetime is the supervisor's:
+//! it stops when the supervisor shuts it down, in reverse start order,
+//! after the endpoint has drained.
 //!
-//! smarm's registry maps `name → Pid`, but a `Pid` cannot be turned back
-//! into a `GenServerRef` (the ref *is* the inbox sender). A useful named
-//! lookup therefore needs either smarm support (registry-held senders)
-//! or a process-global type-erased map here — both against the grain of
-//! the ratified design. Deferred; pass the handle.
+//! ```ignore
+//! const BUS: PubSub<Event> = PubSub::new("events");
+//! serve_with(cfg, rt_cfg, pipeline, vec![BUS.child()])?;
+//! ```
+//!
+//! This replaces the v0.5–v0.6 idiom where `PubSub::new()` spawned the
+//! table and the handle owned its life — a non-static
+//! `Arc<OnceLock<PubSub<M>>>` lazily initialised from the first handler,
+//! with matching rules that the cell must not be `static` and that
+//! relays must never hold a clone. All of that existed to hand-manage a
+//! refcount. smarm 0.7 made a server's lifetime its own (refs are
+//! addresses; the inbox no longer closes when the last ref drops), which
+//! both removed the mechanism those rules relied on and made the named
+//! lookup below possible.
+//!
+//! Cost: one registry resolution per operation, including per broadcast.
+//! Caching a `GenServerRef` in the handle would save it and go stale
+//! across exactly the restart the supervisor exists to perform. Measure
+//! before optimising — see the bench item in `ROADMAP.md`.

 use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};
 use std::fmt;
 use std::sync::Arc;

-use smarm::gen_server::{self, GenServer, GenServerCtx};
-use smarm::{channel, Down, Pid, Receiver, Sender, GenServerRef, Watcher};
+use smarm::gen_server::{self, GenServer, GenServerBuilder, GenServerCtx, GenServerName};
+use smarm::{channel, ChildSpec, Down, GenServerRef, Pid, Receiver, Restart, Sender, Watcher};

 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Public handle
@@ -87,32 +96,58 @@ impl fmt::Display for PubSubDown {

 impl std::error::Error for PubSubDown {}

-/// A clonable handle to one pub/sub instance (one topic table actor).
+/// The address of one pub/sub instance: a name, resolved per operation.
+///
+/// Cheap (`Copy`, a `&'static str`), constructible anywhere including
+/// `const` context, and owns nothing — the table actor it addresses is
+/// started by [`child`](Self::child) under a supervisor. Every operation
+/// returns [`PubSubDown`] if no live table currently holds the name.
 ///
 /// Payloads are broadcast as `Arc<M>`: one allocation per broadcast, not
 /// per subscriber.
 pub struct PubSub<M: Send + Sync + 'static> {
-    server: GenServerRef<Table<M>>,
+    name: GenServerName<Table<M>>,
 }

 impl<M: Send + Sync + 'static> Clone for PubSub<M> {
    fn clone(&self) -> Self {
-        PubSub { server: self.server.clone() }
+        *self
    }
 }

-impl<M: Send + Sync + 'static> Default for PubSub<M> {
-    fn default() -> Self {
-        Self::new()
-    }
-}
+impl<M: Send + Sync + 'static> Copy for PubSub<M> {}

 impl<M: Send + Sync + 'static> PubSub<M> {
-    /// Start a fresh topic table. Must run inside the smarm runtime (it
-    /// spawns the table's gen_server actor). The table lives until the
-    /// last handle is dropped.
-    pub fn new() -> Self {
-        PubSub { server: gen_server::start(Table::new()) }
+    /// Address the topic table registered under `name`. Spawns nothing
+    /// and never fails: the name is resolved at each use.
+    pub const fn new(name: &'static str) -> Self {
+        PubSub { name: GenServerName::new(name) }
+    }
+
+    /// The `ChildSpec` that runs this instance's table actor. Put it in
+    /// your supervision tree ahead of anything that broadcasts —
+    /// `serve_with*` takes a `Vec<ChildSpec>` for exactly this.
+    ///
+    /// `Permanent`: a table that dies is a bug, and its subscribers'
+    /// receivers died with it, so the restart is only half a repair —
+    /// pair it with a `RestForOne` parent (as `serve_with*` does) so the
+    /// endpoint restarts behind it and connections re-subscribe.
+    pub fn child(&self) -> ChildSpec {
+        let name = self.name;
+        ChildSpec::new(Restart::Permanent, move || {
+            if let Err(e) = GenServerBuilder::new(Table::<M>::new()).named(name).run() {
+                panic!("urus pubsub '{}': name already taken: {e:?}", name.as_str());
+            }
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// The registry key this handle resolves.
+    pub const fn name(&self) -> &'static str {
+        self.name.as_str()
+    }
+
+    fn server(&self) -> Result<GenServerRef<Table<M>>, PubSubDown> {
+        gen_server::whereis_server(self.name).ok_or(PubSubDown)
    }

    /// Subscribe the **calling actor** to `topic`. Returns the receiving
@@ -139,7 +174,7 @@ impl<M: Send + Sync + 'static> PubSub<M> {
        let (tx, rx) = channel();
        // A call, not a cast: when this returns the table is updated, so
        // a broadcast issued right after by the same caller is seen.
-        match self.server.call(Call::Subscribe { topic: topic.into(), pid, tx }) {
+        match self.server()?.call(Call::Subscribe { topic: topic.into(), pid, tx }) {
            Ok(_) => Ok(rx),
            Err(_) => Err(PubSubDown),
        }
@@ -153,7 +188,7 @@ impl<M: Send + Sync + 'static> PubSub<M> {

    /// [`unsubscribe`](Self::unsubscribe) for an explicit pid.
    pub fn unsubscribe_as(&self, pid: Pid, topic: impl Into<String>) -> Result<(), PubSubDown> {
-        self.server
+        self.server()?
            .cast(Cast::Unsubscribe { topic: topic.into(), pid })
            .map_err(|_| PubSubDown)
    }
@@ -181,20 +216,21 @@ impl<M: Send + Sync + 'static> PubSub<M> {
    /// table — a subscriber whose receiver was dropped but hasn't been
    /// pruned yet (no broadcast since, still alive) is still counted.
    pub fn subscriber_count(&self, topic: impl Into<String>) -> Result<usize, PubSubDown> {
-        match self.server.call(Call::Count { topic: topic.into() }) {
+        match self.server()?.call(Call::Count { topic: topic.into() }) {
            Ok(Reply::Count(n)) => Ok(n),
            Ok(Reply::Subscribed) => unreachable!("Count call answered with Subscribed"),
            Err(_) => Err(PubSubDown),
        }
    }

-    /// The topic table actor's pid — for introspection / registry use.
-    pub fn pid(&self) -> Pid {
-        self.server.pid()
+    /// The topic table actor's pid, or `None` if no live table holds the
+    /// name (not started yet, or between a crash and its restart).
+    pub fn pid(&self) -> Option<Pid> {
+        self.server().ok().map(|s| s.pid())
    }

    fn cast_broadcast(&self, topic: String, msg: M, skip: Option<Pid>) -> Result<(), PubSubDown> {
-        self.server
+        self.server()?
            .cast(Cast::Broadcast { topic, msg: Arc::new(msg), skip })
            .map_err(|_| PubSubDown)
    }
@@ -328,15 +364,33 @@ mod tests {
        false
    }

+    /// Start `ps`'s table under a supervisor and hand back the sup's pid.
+    ///
+    /// The readiness poll is smarm's "start order is not start readiness"
+    /// gap (see smarm ROADMAP): `start_child` spawns and moves on, so the
+    /// name may not be bound when this returns. Real apps don't hit it —
+    /// a handler only runs once a connection has been accepted, long
+    /// after the tree is up — but a test that broadcasts immediately does.
+    fn start_table<M: Send + Sync + 'static>(ps: PubSub<M>) -> Pid {
+        let sup = smarm::spawn(move || smarm::OneForOne::new().child(ps.child()).run());
+        assert!(eventually(|| ps.pid().is_some()), "table never bound its name");
+        sup.pid()
+    }
+
+    /// Ordered shutdown of the tree `start_table` built.
+    fn stop_table(sup: Pid) {
+        smarm::request_shutdown(sup);
+    }
+
    #[test]
    fn broadcast_reaches_all_subscribers_once() {
        let got = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::<(u32, String)>::new()));
        let got2 = got.clone();
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let ps = PubSub::<String>::new();
+            let ps = PubSub::<String>::new("test-bus");
+            let sup = start_table(ps);
            let mut handles = Vec::new();
            for i in 0..2u32 {
-                let ps = ps.clone();
                let got = got2.clone();
                handles.push(smarm::spawn(move || {
                    let rx = ps.subscribe("room:a").unwrap();
@@ -351,6 +405,7 @@ mod tests {
            for h in handles {
                h.join().unwrap();
            }
+            stop_table(sup);
        });
        let mut v = got.lock().unwrap().clone();
        v.sort();
@@ -362,10 +417,10 @@ mod tests {
        let ptrs = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::<usize>::new()));
        let ptrs2 = ptrs.clone();
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let ps = PubSub::<Vec<u8>>::new();
+            let ps = PubSub::<Vec<u8>>::new("test-bus");
+            let sup = start_table(ps);
            let mut handles = Vec::new();
            for _ in 0..2 {
-                let ps = ps.clone();
                let ptrs = ptrs2.clone();
                handles.push(smarm::spawn(move || {
                    let rx = ps.subscribe("t").unwrap();
@@ -378,6 +433,7 @@ mod tests {
            for h in handles {
                h.join().unwrap();
            }
+            stop_table(sup);
        });
        let v = ptrs.lock().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(v.len(), 2);
@@ -389,8 +445,9 @@ mod tests {
        let got = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::<String>::new()));
        let got2 = got.clone();
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let ps = PubSub::<String>::new();
-            let ps_loud = ps.clone();
+            let ps = PubSub::<String>::new("test-bus");
+            let sup = start_table(ps);
+            let ps_loud = ps;
            let got = got2.clone();
            let loud = smarm::spawn(move || {
                let rx = ps_loud.subscribe("room").unwrap();
@@ -410,6 +467,7 @@ mod tests {
                .unwrap()
                .push(format!("root got {} then {}", *first, *second));
            loud.join().unwrap();
+            stop_table(sup);
        });
        let v = got.lock().unwrap();
        assert!(v.contains(&"loud got for everyone".to_string()), "{v:?}");
@@ -426,7 +484,8 @@ mod tests {
        let ok = Arc::new(Mutex::new(false));
        let ok2 = ok.clone();
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let ps = PubSub::<u32>::new();
+            let ps = PubSub::<u32>::new("test-bus");
+            let sup = start_table(ps);
            let rx = ps.subscribe("t").unwrap();
            ps.unsubscribe("t").unwrap();
            // Unsubscribe is a cast; the table holds the only sender, so
@@ -435,6 +494,7 @@ mod tests {
            assert!(rx.recv().is_err());
            ps.broadcast("t", 7).unwrap(); // no subscribers: no-op, no panic
            *ok2.lock().unwrap() = true;
+            stop_table(sup);
        });
        assert!(*ok.lock().unwrap());
    }
@@ -444,7 +504,8 @@ mod tests {
        let got = Arc::new(Mutex::new((0u32, false)));
        let got2 = got.clone();
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let ps = PubSub::<u32>::new();
+            let ps = PubSub::<u32>::new("test-bus");
+            let sup = start_table(ps);
            let rx_old = ps.subscribe("t").unwrap();
            let rx_new = ps.subscribe("t").unwrap();
            assert_eq!(ps.subscriber_count("t").unwrap(), 1, "idempotent per (pid, topic)");
@@ -452,6 +513,7 @@ mod tests {
            let v = *rx_new.recv().unwrap();
            let old_closed = rx_old.recv().is_err();
            *got2.lock().unwrap() = (v, old_closed);
+            stop_table(sup);
        });
        assert_eq!(*got.lock().unwrap(), (42, true));
    }
@@ -461,8 +523,9 @@ mod tests {
        let ok = Arc::new(Mutex::new(false));
        let ok2 = ok.clone();
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let ps = PubSub::<u32>::new();
-            let ps2 = ps.clone();
+            let ps = PubSub::<u32>::new("test-bus");
+            let sup = start_table(ps);
+            let ps2 = ps;
            let h = smarm::spawn(move || {
                let _rx = ps2.subscribe("t").unwrap();
                // Exit without ever receiving: rx drops with the stack.
@@ -471,6 +534,7 @@ mod tests {
            // No broadcast issued — this MUST be the monitor path, not
            // prune-on-send-failure.
            *ok2.lock().unwrap() = eventually(|| ps.subscriber_count("t").unwrap() == 0);
+            stop_table(sup);
        });
        assert!(*ok.lock().unwrap(), "monitor Down never pruned the dead subscriber");
    }
@@ -480,7 +544,8 @@ mod tests {
        let counts = Arc::new(Mutex::new((0usize, 0usize)));
        let counts2 = counts.clone();
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let ps = PubSub::<u32>::new();
+            let ps = PubSub::<u32>::new("test-bus");
+            let sup = start_table(ps);
            let rx = ps.subscribe("t").unwrap();
            drop(rx);
            let before = ps.subscriber_count("t").unwrap();
@@ -493,6 +558,7 @@ mod tests {
                after = if eventually(|| ps.subscriber_count("t").unwrap() == 0) { 0 } else { after };
            }
            *counts2.lock().unwrap() = (before, after);
+            stop_table(sup);
        });
        assert_eq!(*counts.lock().unwrap(), (1, 0));
    }
@@ -502,11 +568,13 @@ mod tests {
        let got = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::<u32>::new()));
        let got2 = got.clone();
        smarm::run(move || {
-            let ps = PubSub::<u32>::new();
+            let ps = PubSub::<u32>::new("test-bus");
+            let sup = start_table(ps);
            let rx_a = ps.subscribe("a").unwrap();
            ps.broadcast("b", 99).unwrap(); // nobody on b; must not reach a
            ps.broadcast("a", 1).unwrap();
            got2.lock().unwrap().push(*rx_a.recv().unwrap());
+            stop_table(sup);
        });
        assert_eq!(*got.lock().unwrap(), vec![1]);
    }
@@ -1,29 +1,19 @@
-//! Listener pool and the `serve` entry point.
+//! [`Config`] and the `serve*` entry points.
 //!
-//! A small fixed pool of listener actors share the same TCP listen fd (via
-//! `dup`) — each blocks in non-blocking `accept4` + `wait_readable` on its
-//! own copy. When a connection arrives the listener spawns a connection
-//! actor with the `OwnedFd` and immediately returns to `accept`. No
-//! coordination needed; the kernel serialises `accept` calls across the fds.
+//! The listener pool itself lives in [`crate::endpoint`], which is the
+//! real API: an endpoint is a supervisable child you place in your own
+//! tree. `serve*` is the batteries-included path for a process whose only
+//! job is serving HTTP — it owns the runtime and wraps one endpoint in a
+//! one-child supervisor.
 //!
-//! Sharing via `dup` rather than the same fd is deliberate — Linux's
-//! `accept4` is thread-safe on a single fd, but dup'ing per-listener keeps
-//! each actor's epoll registration local to its own RawFd value (so smarm's
-//! `waiters: HashMap<RawFd, Pid>` doesn't see collisions between listeners
-//! waiting on "the same fd").
-
-use crate::conn_actor::{run_connection, ConnLimits};
-use crate::conn_registry::{self, Call, Cast, ConnRegistry, Reply};
-use crate::net::{accept_nonblocking, bind_and_listen, OwnedFd};
+use crate::conn_actor::ConnLimits;
 use crate::plug::Pipeline;

-use smarm::{ChildSpec, OneForOne, Restart, GenServerRef, Strategy};
+use smarm::supervisor::Shutdown;
+use smarm::{ChildSpec, OneForOne, Restart, Strategy};

 use std::io::{self, ErrorKind};
 use std::net::{SocketAddr, ToSocketAddrs};
-use std::os::fd::RawFd;
-use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, AtomicU32, Ordering};
-use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::time::Duration;

 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -37,7 +27,21 @@ pub struct Config {
    pub keep_alive_timeout: Duration,
    pub max_header_count:   usize,
    pub read_buf_size:      usize,
-    pub request_timeout:    Duration,
+    /// Wall-clock budget for reading the request HEAD (from first byte to
+    /// full head parse). Kept short — an incomplete head is the classic
+    /// slowloris. See `ConnLimits::head_timeout`.
+    pub head_timeout:       Duration,
+    /// Absolute wall-clock cap on reading the request BODY (from head-parse
+    /// to full body). Sized for slow links, so much larger than
+    /// `head_timeout`. See `ConnLimits::body_timeout`.
+    pub body_timeout:       Duration,
+    /// Burst size that resets the body stall clock. A body dribbling fewer
+    /// than this per `body_stall_timeout` window is evicted — the slowloris
+    /// / slow-legit discriminator. See `ConnLimits::body_burst_bytes`.
+    pub body_burst_bytes:   usize,
+    /// Max time since the last qualifying body burst before eviction;
+    /// backstopped by `body_timeout`. See `ConnLimits::body_stall_timeout`.
+    pub body_stall_timeout: Duration,
    /// Per-write budget for response bytes (the fixed head+body write, and
    /// each streamed chunk). See `ConnLimits::write_timeout`.
    pub write_timeout:      Duration,
@@ -53,12 +57,24 @@ pub struct Config {
    /// WebSocket: cap on a complete reassembled message (spans
    /// fragments; violation closes 1009).
    pub max_message_bytes:  usize,
-    /// Number of smarm scheduler OS threads. `None` means smarm's default
-    /// (one per CPU). Set this to a small fixed number in tests so multiple
-    /// concurrent test servers don't oversubscribe the host.
-    pub scheduler_threads:  Option<usize>,
+    /// Registry name for this endpoint's gen_server — how it is addressed
+    /// from elsewhere in the app ([`crate::endpoint::whereis`]), and what
+    /// must be unique between two endpoints in one process (a public and
+    /// an admin port, say). Default `"urus"`.
+    pub name:               &'static str,
+    /// Stack reserve (RFC 019 `smarm::SpawnOpts::stack_reserve`) given to
+    /// each per-connection actor. Request handlers routinely pull in
+    /// application code — DB drivers, (de)compression, templating — whose
+    /// stack needs comfortably exceed smarm's bare-actor default of 64 KiB
+    /// (the exact shape of bug this exists to head off; see smarm RFC 019).
+    /// Default: 256 KiB. The reserve is virtual/demand-paged, so raising it
+    /// costs address space, not RSS, until a handler actually uses it.
+    pub conn_stack_reserve: usize,
 }

+/// Default per-connection actor stack reserve (see [`Config::conn_stack_reserve`]).
+pub const DEFAULT_CONN_STACK_RESERVE: usize = 256 * 1024;
+
 impl Config {
    pub fn new(addr: SocketAddr) -> Self {
        let pool = std::thread::available_parallelism()
@@ -71,24 +87,31 @@ impl Config {
            keep_alive_timeout: Duration::from_secs(60),
            max_header_count:   64,
            read_buf_size:      8 * 1024,
-            request_timeout:    Duration::from_secs(30),
+            head_timeout:       Duration::from_secs(30),
+            body_timeout:       Duration::from_secs(300),
+            body_burst_bytes:   4 * 1024,
+            body_stall_timeout: Duration::from_secs(20),
            write_timeout:      Duration::from_secs(30),
            max_body_bytes:     16 * 1024 * 1024,
            drain_timeout:      Duration::from_secs(30),
            max_frame_payload:  1024 * 1024,
            max_message_bytes:  4 * 1024 * 1024,
-            scheduler_threads:  None,
+            name:               "urus",
+            conn_stack_reserve: DEFAULT_CONN_STACK_RESERVE,
        }
    }

-    fn to_conn_limits(&self) -> ConnLimits {
+    pub(crate) fn to_conn_limits(&self) -> ConnLimits {
        ConnLimits {
            max_headers:        self.max_header_count,
            initial_read_buf:   self.read_buf_size,
            max_head_bytes:     64 * 1024,
            max_body_bytes:     self.max_body_bytes,
            keep_alive_timeout: self.keep_alive_timeout,
-            request_timeout:    self.request_timeout,
+            head_timeout:       self.head_timeout,
+            body_timeout:       self.body_timeout,
+            body_burst_bytes:   self.body_burst_bytes,
+            body_stall_timeout: self.body_stall_timeout,
            write_timeout:      self.write_timeout,
            max_frame_payload:  self.max_frame_payload,
            max_message_bytes:  self.max_message_bytes,
@@ -97,124 +120,87 @@ impl Config {
 }

 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// dup helper
+// config-file: TOML overlay for tuning knobs
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// urus is a library, so it never presumes a config-file path or reads the
+// environment — the embedding binary decides where a file lives and hands
+// the text here. This overlays a sparse TOML document onto an existing
+// `Config` (built with an addr the binary chose): only the keys present are
+// applied, everything else keeps the compiled default. Durations are
+// integer seconds. Unknown keys are a hard error so a typo is loud, not a
+// silent no-op.
+//
+// Scope for now: the slowloris-tuning knobs only. Migrating the rest of the
+// Config surface into the file is a separate, additive job (the loader
+// mechanism is general — it just extends `TomlOverrides`).

-fn dup_fd(fd: RawFd) -> io::Result<OwnedFd> {
-    let new_fd = unsafe { libc::fcntl(fd, libc::F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC, 0) };
-    if new_fd < 0 {
-        return Err(io::Error::last_os_error());
+/// Error from [`Config::with_toml_str`]: the TOML failed to parse or carried
+/// an unknown/mistyped key.
+#[cfg(feature = "config-file")]
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub enum ConfigError {
+    Toml(String),
+}
+
+#[cfg(feature = "config-file")]
+impl std::fmt::Display for ConfigError {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        match self {
+            ConfigError::Toml(m) => write!(f, "config TOML error: {m}"),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(feature = "config-file")]
+impl std::error::Error for ConfigError {}
+
+#[cfg(feature = "config-file")]
+#[derive(serde::Deserialize)]
+#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
+struct TomlOverrides {
+    head_timeout_secs:       Option<u64>,
+    body_timeout_secs:       Option<u64>,
+    body_burst_bytes:        Option<usize>,
+    body_stall_timeout_secs: Option<u64>,
+}
+
+#[cfg(feature = "config-file")]
+impl Config {
+    /// Overlay a TOML document of tuning knobs onto this config (sparse:
+    /// only the keys present are applied). Durations are integer seconds.
+    ///
+    /// Recognized keys: `head_timeout_secs`, `body_timeout_secs`,
+    /// `body_burst_bytes`, `body_stall_timeout_secs`. Unknown keys error.
+    /// Other `Config` knobs are not yet file-configurable.
+    pub fn with_toml_str(mut self, s: &str) -> Result<Self, ConfigError> {
+        let o: TomlOverrides =
+            toml::from_str(s).map_err(|e| ConfigError::Toml(e.to_string()))?;
+        if let Some(v) = o.head_timeout_secs {
+            self.head_timeout = Duration::from_secs(v);
+        }
+        if let Some(v) = o.body_timeout_secs {
+            self.body_timeout = Duration::from_secs(v);
+        }
+        if let Some(v) = o.body_burst_bytes {
+            self.body_burst_bytes = v;
+        }
+        if let Some(v) = o.body_stall_timeout_secs {
+            self.body_stall_timeout = Duration::from_secs(v);
+        }
+        Ok(self)
    }
-    Ok(OwnedFd::from_raw(new_fd))
 }

 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// listener actor body
+// Handle / ShutdownSignal — graceful shutdown plumbing for the serve* entries.
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

-/// Test-only fault injection. When nonzero, the next accept-loop iteration
-/// of whichever listener gets there first decrements this and panics —
-/// *before* calling `accept`, so a pending connection stays in the kernel
-/// backlog and must be picked up by the restarted listener. Cost when idle
-/// is one relaxed load per accept-loop iteration (each of which already
-/// pays a syscall). Not public API.
-#[doc(hidden)]
-pub static INJECT_LISTENER_PANICS: AtomicU32 = AtomicU32::new(0);
-
-fn listener_loop(
-    listener: Arc<OwnedFd>,
-    pipeline: Pipeline,
-    limits: ConnLimits,
-    registry: GenServerRef<ConnRegistry>,
-    shutdown: Arc<AtomicBool>,
-) {
-    let fd = listener.as_raw();
-
-    loop {
-        // Self-termination on shutdown — the ONLY way a listener exits at
-        // shutdown, and deliberately a normal return: under
-        // `Restart::Transient` a normal exit is terminal, so the
-        // supervisor's active-count drains and `sup.run()` returns on its
-        // own. No pid is ever `request_stop`ped, which sidesteps both the
-        // spawn-to-registration race of self-announced pids and smarm's
-        // lossy stop-while-QUEUED window (a flag is wake-free and
-        // race-free; a freshly spawned listener observes it on its very
-        // first iteration, a parked one within LISTENER_TICK).
-        if shutdown.load(Ordering::Relaxed) {
-            return;
-        }
-        if INJECT_LISTENER_PANICS
-            .fetch_update(Ordering::Relaxed, Ordering::Relaxed, |n| n.checked_sub(1))
-            .is_ok()
-        {
-            panic!("urus: injected listener panic (test hook)");
-        }
-        match accept_nonblocking(fd) {
-            Ok(client) => {
-                // Hand the fd off to a new connection actor. spawn() is
-                // cheap on smarm — it's a single Vec push under the
-                // shared lock.
-                let p = pipeline.clone();
-                let l = limits;
-                let r = registry.clone();
-                smarm::spawn(move || run_connection(client, p, l, r));
-            }
-            Err(e) if e.kind() == ErrorKind::WouldBlock => {
-                // No pending connection. Park until the listener is
-                // readable or the tick elapses; either way we come back
-                // around through the shutdown-flag check above.
-                match smarm::wait_readable_timeout(fd, LISTENER_TICK) {
-                    Ok(_ready) => {} // ready or tick — loop re-checks, retries accept
-                    Err(we) => {
-                        // epoll registration failed. Under Transient
-                        // supervision a normal return is terminal but a
-                        // panic restarts us — and a failed wait IS
-                        // abnormal, so panic: a transient failure (e.g.
-                        // EMFILE on the epoll set) heals by restart
-                        // instead of silently shrinking the pool. (smarm
-                        // catches actor panics in the trampoline; this is
-                        // a Signal::Panic to the supervisor, not process
-                        // noise.)
-                        panic!("urus: listener wait_readable failed: {we}");
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-            Err(e) if e.kind() == ErrorKind::Interrupted => {
-                continue;
-            }
-            Err(e) => {
-                // EMFILE / ENFILE / ECONNABORTED etc. Log and continue;
-                // the system may recover.
-                eprintln!("urus: accept error: {e}");
-                // Small backoff via smarm's sleep to avoid spinning if
-                // the error is sticky.
-                smarm::sleep(Duration::from_millis(10));
-            }
-        }
-    }
-    // The Arc clone we were started with drops here (normal exit or
-    // unwind), but the ChildSpec factory holds another — the fd outlives
-    // any one incarnation of this listener.
-}
-
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// Handle / ShutdownSignal — graceful shutdown plumbing.
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-/// How often the root actor polls for a shutdown signal (see
-/// `serve_with_shutdown` for why this is a poll); bounds shutdown latency.
-const SHUTDOWN_POLL: Duration = Duration::from_millis(100);
-
-/// Listener accept-waits are timed at this tick; the shutdown flag is
-/// observed at the top of every accept-loop iteration, so this bounds how
-/// long a fully idle listener takes to notice shutdown. It is the SOLE
-/// listener-shutdown mechanism (no `request_stop` — see the shutdown
-/// sequence notes). Idle cost: one timer wake per listener per tick.
-const LISTENER_TICK: Duration = Duration::from_millis(250);
-
-/// A clonable trigger for graceful shutdown. Safe to use from any OS
-/// thread (the send only enqueues; the serving side polls), e.g. from a
-/// signal-handling thread.
+/// A clonable trigger for graceful shutdown, usable from any OS thread
+/// (e.g. a signal-handling thread) — the shutdown path for callers who let
+/// `serve*` own the runtime and so have no [`smarm::RuntimeHandle`] of
+/// their own. If you build the tree yourself with [`crate::endpoint`], use
+/// `rt.handle().request_shutdown(root_sup)` instead and ignore this.
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct Handle {
    tx: smarm::Sender<()>,
@@ -223,8 +209,8 @@ pub struct Handle {
 impl Handle {
    /// Begin graceful shutdown: stop accepting, close idle keep-alive
    /// connections, drain in-flight requests up to `Config.drain_timeout`,
-    /// then force-stop stragglers. `serve_with_shutdown` returns once the
-    /// runtime has wound down. Idempotent; extra calls are no-ops.
+    /// then force-stop stragglers. `serve*` returns once the runtime has
+    /// wound down. Idempotent; extra calls are no-ops.
    pub fn shutdown(&self) {
        let _ = self.tx.send(());
    }
@@ -242,183 +228,152 @@ pub fn shutdown_handle() -> (Handle, ShutdownSignal) {
 }

 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// serve_with_shutdown — main entry. Boots smarm, supervises listeners,
-// blocks until shutdown.
+// serve* — batteries-included entries for apps whose only job is serving.
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 //
-// Boots an smarm runtime (one OS thread per CPU by default — see smarm's
-// `Config::default()`). The root actor starts the connection registry and
-// a one-for-one supervisor over the listener pool, then blocks on the
-// shutdown signal. A panicking listener is restarted on the same
-// (still-open) fd instead of silently shrinking the accept pool.
-// Connection actors stay unsupervised bare spawns — per spec, a connection
-// is cheap and its failure is local: a 500 path, not a restart path.
-// (`spawn` from a listener parents the conn actor under that listener,
-// which never registers a supervisor channel, so conn deaths are invisible
-// to the pool supervisor by construction.)
-//
-// Shutdown sequence (drain-then-stop, the v0.2 chunk 2 decision):
-//   1. Set the shared shutdown flag. Every listener observes it at the
-//      top of its accept loop (parks are timed at LISTENER_TICK) and
-//      returns normally. Under `Restart::Transient` a normal exit is
-//      terminal, so no restart happens and the supervisor's active count
-//      drains to zero.
-//   2. Join the supervisor: `sup.run()` returns on its own once every
-//      listener has exited. The join is therefore the barrier "no new
-//      connections can ever be accepted" — listener fds are closed (the
-//      last Arc clones drop with the supervisor's ChildSpecs), and the
-//      kernel refuses new connects.
-//
-//      Why a flag and not `request_stop`: stopping pids that announce
-//      themselves races the spawn-to-registration gap (a fast shutdown
-//      CAN beat a fresh listener to the registry), and smarm's
-//      `request_stop` is lossy against a QUEUED actor that then parks
-//      without passing an observation point — found the hard way; see
-//      the chunk 2 commit message. The flag is wake-free and race-free.
-//   3. BeginDrain: the registry stops idle conns now and each remaining
-//      conn the moment it finishes its in-flight request.
-//   4. Poll until no conns remain or the drain deadline passes; past the
-//      deadline, ForceStopConns every tick until the set empties (a conn
-//      accepted just before listener death may register late).
-//   5. Root returns. `rt.run` itself returns only when every actor has
-//      exited (force-stopped conns unwind through their fd waits safely —
-//      smarm's 06-10 io fix — and close their sockets via OwnedFd::drop).
+// These own the smarm runtime and build a one-child tree around
+// `endpoint()`. An app with its own actors should call `endpoint()`
+// directly and put it in its own supervision tree — that is the real API;
+// everything here is a convenience wrapper over it.

+/// Boot a runtime, serve until `signal` fires, then drain and return.
+///
+/// The tree is `root sup -> [..app_children, endpoint]` on
+/// [`Strategy::RestForOne`], with the endpoint on [`Shutdown::Infinity`]
+/// so its `drain_timeout` — not a supervisor deadline — bounds the drain.
+///
+/// `app_children` is your application's actors: a
+/// [`PubSub::child`](crate::PubSub::child), a
+/// [`ChannelHub::children`](crate::channels::ChannelHub::children), your
+/// own state servers. They start **before** the endpoint and, because
+/// shutdown is ordered in reverse, stop **after** it has drained — so a
+/// request still in flight can still reach the bus. `RestForOne` in that
+/// order also means one of them crashing restarts the endpoint behind it,
+/// dropping connections whose subscriptions died with it, rather than
+/// leaving live sockets addressing a table that no longer knows them.
+///
+/// The root actor parks on the signal channel; a `Handle::shutdown` from a
+/// foreign OS thread wakes it, it shuts the supervisor down and `rt.run`
+/// returns when the last actor is gone.
 pub fn serve_with_shutdown(
    config: Config,
+    rt_config: smarm::Config,
    pipeline: Pipeline,
+    app_children: Vec<ChildSpec>,
    signal: ShutdownSignal,
 ) -> io::Result<()> {
-    let listener = bind_and_listen(config.addr)?;
-    println!("urus: listening on {}", config.addr);
-
-    // One connection-actor-spawning loop per listener pool slot. Each gets
-    // its own dup'd fd so epoll registrations don't collide. Each fd is
-    // owned by its ChildSpec's factory closure (via `Arc`): a restarted
-    // listener re-enters `accept`/`wait_readable` on the same fd — no
-    // re-dup, no window where the slot has no fd.
-    let mut listener_fds = Vec::with_capacity(config.listener_pool);
-    listener_fds.push(Arc::new(listener)); // primary keeps the original
-
-    for _ in 1..config.listener_pool {
-        let dup = dup_fd(listener_fds[0].as_raw())?;
-        listener_fds.push(Arc::new(dup));
-    }
-
-    let limits        = config.to_conn_limits();
-    let drain_timeout = config.drain_timeout;
-
-    let smarm_cfg = match config.scheduler_threads {
-        Some(n) => smarm::Config::exact(n),
-        None    => smarm::Config::default(),
-    };
-    let rt = smarm::init(smarm_cfg);
-    // Listener self-termination flag — see the shutdown sequence below.
-    let shutdown_flag = Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false));
+    let addr = config.addr;
+    let endpoint = crate::endpoint::endpoint(config, pipeline)?;
+    println!("urus: listening on {addr}");

+    let rt = smarm::init(rt_config);
    rt.run(move || {
-        // Registry first: listeners and conns cast into it from birth.
-        let registry = conn_registry::start();
-
-        let mut sup = OneForOne::new().strategy(Strategy::OneForOne);
-        for (i, lfd) in listener_fds.into_iter().enumerate() {
-            let p = pipeline.clone();
-            let r = registry.clone();
-            let sf = shutdown_flag.clone();
-            sup = sup.child(ChildSpec::new(Restart::Transient, move || {
-                println!("urus: listener {} starting", i);
-                listener_loop(lfd.clone(), p.clone(), limits, r.clone(), sf.clone());
-            }));
+        let sup = smarm::spawn(move || {
+            let mut sup = OneForOne::new().strategy(Strategy::RestForOne);
+            for child in app_children {
+                sup = sup.child(child);
            }
-        // Default intensity (3 per 5s) applies; a listener crash-looping
-        // faster than that trips the cap and tears the pool down — loud
-        // failure over a zombie server.
-        let sup_h = smarm::spawn(move || sup.run());
-        // The old `urus.server` / `urus.listener.{i}` name registrations
-        // are gone with smarm's RFC 014 registry rework: `register` is now
-        // `(Name<M>, Sender<M>)`, self-only — a name is a typed messaging
-        // endpoint, not a pid tag. urus's bindings were introspection-only
-        // with no channel behind them, so they were dropped rather than
-        // faked with a unit channel. A real messageable `urus.server`
-        // name is in the icebox (ROADMAP.md).
+            sup.child(ChildSpec::new(Restart::Permanent, endpoint).shutdown(Shutdown::Infinity))
+                .run()
+        });

-        // Block until told to shut down. We poll `try_recv` + `sleep`
-        // rather than parking in `recv`: a smarm `Sender::send` from a
-        // foreign OS thread (no runtime in its TLS) enqueues fine but its
-        // unpark is a `try_with_runtime` no-op — a parked receiver would
-        // never wake. The timer wake comes from inside the runtime, so the
-        // poll sees the message within one interval. (A cross-thread-safe
-        // unpark is a smarm roadmap candidate; this poll dies with it.)
-        // If every Handle was dropped the channel closes and no shutdown
-        // can ever arrive: serve forever, exactly v1's semantics.
+        // Park until told to shut down. If every Handle was dropped the
+        // channel closes and no shutdown can ever arrive: serve forever,
+        // exactly v1's semantics.
+        match signal.rx.recv() {
+            Ok(()) => smarm::request_shutdown(sup.pid()),
+            Err(_) => {
+                // Sender side gone. Park indefinitely; the process is
+                // expected to be killed externally.
                loop {
-            match signal.rx.try_recv() {
-                Ok(Some(())) => break,
-                Ok(None)     => smarm::sleep(SHUTDOWN_POLL),
-                Err(_)       => smarm::sleep(Duration::from_secs(3600)),
+                    smarm::sleep(Duration::from_secs(3600));
                }
            }
-
-        // ----- Shutdown. -----
-        // 1 + 2. Flag the listeners down and join the supervisor; the
-        //        join returns once every listener has exited normally
-        //        (Transient: normal exit is terminal). After this point
-        //        no connection can ever be accepted again.
-        shutdown_flag.store(true, Ordering::Relaxed);
-        let _ = sup_h.join();
-
-        // 3 + 4. Drain. Same sweep discipline as listeners on the force-
-        // stop path: a conn accepted just before its listener died may
-        // register after the deadline, so keep force-stopping until the
-        // set is empty (each pass kills everything registered; new
-        // registrants are a strictly shrinking population once listeners
-        // are gone).
-        let _ = registry.cast(Cast::BeginDrain);
-        let deadline = std::time::Instant::now() + drain_timeout;
-        let mut force = false;
-        loop {
-            match registry.call(Call::ConnCount) {
-                Ok(Reply::ConnCount(0)) => break,
-                Ok(_) => {}
-                Err(_) => break, // registry gone; nothing left to track
        }
-            let now = std::time::Instant::now();
-            if force || now >= deadline {
-                force = true;
-                let _ = registry.cast(Cast::ForceStopConns);
-                smarm::sleep(Duration::from_millis(10));
-            } else {
-                smarm::sleep(Duration::from_millis(50).min(deadline - now));
-            }
-        }
-
-        // 5. Our GenServerRef drops here. The registry's inbox closes once
-        //    the last conn's clone drops with it, and the runtime winds
-        //    down when the last actor exits.
+        let _ = sup.join();
    });

    Ok(())
 }

-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// serve_with / serve — convenience entries without a shutdown handle.
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-pub fn serve_with(config: Config, pipeline: Pipeline) -> io::Result<()> {
-    // The Handle is dropped immediately: shutdown can never be signalled
-    // and the server runs until externally killed (v1 semantics).
+/// [`serve_with_shutdown`] without a shutdown handle: serves until the
+/// process is killed.
+pub fn serve_with(
+    config: Config,
+    rt_config: smarm::Config,
+    pipeline: Pipeline,
+    app_children: Vec<ChildSpec>,
+) -> io::Result<()> {
+    // The Handle is dropped immediately: shutdown can never be signalled.
    let (_handle, signal) = shutdown_handle();
-    serve_with_shutdown(config, pipeline, signal)
+    serve_with_shutdown(config, rt_config, pipeline, app_children, signal)
 }

-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// serve — convenience over serve_with.
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
+/// Defaults all round: default [`Config`], default smarm runtime (one
+/// scheduler thread per CPU), no app children, serve until killed.
 pub fn serve(addr: impl ToSocketAddrs, pipeline: Pipeline) -> io::Result<()> {
    let addr = addr
        .to_socket_addrs()?
        .next()
        .ok_or_else(|| io::Error::new(ErrorKind::InvalidInput, "no addresses resolved"))?;
-    serve_with(Config::new(addr), pipeline)
+    serve_with(Config::new(addr), smarm::Config::default(), pipeline, Vec::new())
+}
+
+
+#[cfg(all(test, feature = "config-file"))]
+mod config_file_tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn base() -> Config {
+        Config::new("127.0.0.1:0".parse().unwrap())
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn toml_empty_keeps_defaults() {
+        let d = base();
+        let c = base().with_toml_str("").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(c.head_timeout, d.head_timeout);
+        assert_eq!(c.body_timeout, d.body_timeout);
+        assert_eq!(c.body_burst_bytes, d.body_burst_bytes);
+        assert_eq!(c.body_stall_timeout, d.body_stall_timeout);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn toml_partial_overrides_only_named() {
+        let d = base();
+        let c = base().with_toml_str("head_timeout_secs = 5").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(c.head_timeout, Duration::from_secs(5)); // overridden
+        assert_eq!(c.body_timeout, d.body_timeout);         // default kept
+        assert_eq!(c.body_burst_bytes, d.body_burst_bytes); // default kept
+        assert_eq!(c.body_stall_timeout, d.body_stall_timeout);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn toml_full_overrides_all() {
+        let c = base()
+            .with_toml_str(
+                "head_timeout_secs = 10\n\
+                 body_timeout_secs = 120\n\
+                 body_burst_bytes = 8192\n\
+                 body_stall_timeout_secs = 15\n",
+            )
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(c.head_timeout, Duration::from_secs(10));
+        assert_eq!(c.body_timeout, Duration::from_secs(120));
+        assert_eq!(c.body_burst_bytes, 8192);
+        assert_eq!(c.body_stall_timeout, Duration::from_secs(15));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn toml_unknown_key_errors() {
+        // A mistyped/unknown key is a hard error, not a silent no-op.
+        let e = base().with_toml_str("body_timeout_sec = 120"); // typo: missing 's'
+        assert!(e.is_err(), "unknown key should error");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn toml_malformed_errors() {
+        let e = base().with_toml_str("this is not = valid = toml");
+        assert!(e.is_err(), "malformed TOML should error");
+    }
 }
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@
 //! write — event or heartbeat — stalls past `write_timeout`; the conn
 //! actor then drops the stream and the producer's next [`EventSender`]
 //! call returns `Err(SseClosed)`. There is no request clock on an SSE
-//! response: `request_timeout` covers only the read phase, by design.
+//! response: the head/body read budgets cover only the read phase, by
+//! design.

 use crate::conn::{Conn, RespBody, StreamBody};

@@ -26,15 +26,19 @@ fn free_port() -> u16 {
 }

 fn spawn_server(pipeline: Pipeline) -> u16 {
+    spawn_server_children(pipeline, Vec::new())
+}
+
+/// [`spawn_server`] with app children started ahead of the endpoint.
+fn spawn_server_children(pipeline: Pipeline, app_children: Vec<smarm::ChildSpec>) -> u16 {
    let port = free_port();
    let addr: SocketAddr = format!("127.0.0.1:{port}").parse().unwrap();
    std::thread::spawn(move || {
        let cfg = Config {
            listener_pool:     2,
-            scheduler_threads: Some(2),
            ..Config::new(addr)
        };
-        serve_with(cfg, pipeline).unwrap();
+        serve_with(cfg, smarm::Config::exact(2), pipeline, app_children).unwrap();
    });
    // Wait for the server to actually be listening.
    for _ in 0..50 {
@@ -252,10 +256,9 @@ fn panicking_listener_restarts() {
    std::thread::spawn(move || {
        let cfg = Config {
            listener_pool:     1,
-            scheduler_threads: Some(2),
            ..Config::new(addr)
        };
-        serve_with(cfg, pipe).unwrap();
+        serve_with(cfg, smarm::Config::exact(2), pipe, Vec::new()).unwrap();
    });
    for _ in 0..50 {
        if TcpStream::connect(addr).is_ok() {
@@ -271,13 +274,13 @@ fn panicking_listener_restarts() {
    // Arm the fault: the listener's next accept-loop iteration panics
    // *before* accepting, so our connection waits in the kernel backlog
    // until the restarted listener picks it up.
-    urus::serve::INJECT_LISTENER_PANICS.store(1, std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed);
+    urus::endpoint::INJECT_LISTENER_PANICS.store(1, std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed);

    let resp = send_request(port, b"GET /ping HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n");
    assert_eq!(http_status(&resp), 200, "request pending across the panic was not served");
    assert_eq!(http_body(&resp), b"pong");
    assert_eq!(
-        urus::serve::INJECT_LISTENER_PANICS.load(std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed),
+        urus::endpoint::INJECT_LISTENER_PANICS.load(std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed),
        0,
        "fault was never consumed — listener didn't wake for the connection"
    );
@@ -298,6 +301,16 @@ fn panicking_listener_restarts() {
 fn spawn_server_with_handle(
    pipeline: Pipeline,
    drain: Duration,
+) -> (u16, urus::Handle, std::sync::mpsc::Receiver<()>) {
+    spawn_server_with_children(pipeline, drain, Vec::new())
+}
+
+/// [`spawn_server_with_handle`] with app children started ahead of the
+/// endpoint — the pubsub table, a channel hub's actors, and so on.
+fn spawn_server_with_children(
+    pipeline: Pipeline,
+    drain: Duration,
+    app_children: Vec<smarm::ChildSpec>,
 ) -> (u16, urus::Handle, std::sync::mpsc::Receiver<()>) {
    let port = free_port();
    let addr: SocketAddr = format!("127.0.0.1:{port}").parse().unwrap();
@@ -306,11 +319,11 @@ fn spawn_server_with_handle(
    std::thread::spawn(move || {
        let cfg = Config {
            listener_pool:     2,
-            scheduler_threads: Some(2),
            drain_timeout:     drain,
            ..Config::new(addr)
        };
-        urus::serve_with_shutdown(cfg, pipeline, signal).unwrap();
+        urus::serve_with_shutdown(cfg, smarm::Config::exact(2), pipeline, app_children, signal)
+            .unwrap();
        let _ = done_tx.send(());
    });
    for _ in 0..50 {
@@ -437,19 +450,52 @@ fn shutdown_force_stops_at_drain_deadline() {
 fn spawn_server_with_timeouts(
    pipeline: Pipeline,
    keep_alive: Duration,
-    request: Duration,
+    head: Duration,
+    body: Duration,
 ) -> u16 {
    let port = free_port();
    let addr: SocketAddr = format!("127.0.0.1:{port}").parse().unwrap();
    std::thread::spawn(move || {
        let cfg = Config {
            listener_pool:      2,
-            scheduler_threads:  Some(2),
            keep_alive_timeout: keep_alive,
-            request_timeout:    request,
+            head_timeout:       head,
+            body_timeout:       body,
            ..Config::new(addr)
        };
-        serve_with(cfg, pipeline).unwrap();
+        serve_with(cfg, smarm::Config::exact(2), pipeline, Vec::new()).unwrap();
+    });
+    for _ in 0..50 {
+        if TcpStream::connect(addr).is_ok() {
+            return port;
+        }
+        std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(50));
+    }
+    panic!("server didn't come up on {addr}");
+}
+
+/// Spawn a server with the body stall-gate knobs under test; keep-alive
+/// and head budgets are set out of the way so only the body path matters.
+fn spawn_server_with_body_gate(
+    pipeline: Pipeline,
+    head: Duration,
+    body: Duration,
+    burst_bytes: usize,
+    stall: Duration,
+) -> u16 {
+    let port = free_port();
+    let addr: SocketAddr = format!("127.0.0.1:{port}").parse().unwrap();
+    std::thread::spawn(move || {
+        let cfg = Config {
+            listener_pool:      2,
+            keep_alive_timeout: Duration::from_secs(30),
+            head_timeout:       head,
+            body_timeout:       body,
+            body_burst_bytes:   burst_bytes,
+            body_stall_timeout: stall,
+            ..Config::new(addr)
+        };
+        serve_with(cfg, smarm::Config::exact(2), pipeline, Vec::new()).unwrap();
    });
    for _ in 0..50 {
        if TcpStream::connect(addr).is_ok() {
@@ -486,7 +532,8 @@ fn idle_keepalive_reaped_at_keep_alive_timeout() {
    let port = spawn_server_with_timeouts(
        pipe,
        Duration::from_millis(300), // keep_alive_timeout under test
-        Duration::from_secs(10),    // request_timeout out of the way
+        Duration::from_secs(10),    // head_timeout out of the way
+        Duration::from_secs(10),    // body_timeout out of the way
    );

    let mut s = TcpStream::connect(("127.0.0.1", port)).unwrap();
@@ -511,17 +558,18 @@ fn idle_keepalive_reaped_at_keep_alive_timeout() {
 }

 /// A slowloris client that sends a partial head and then stalls is killed
-/// at request_timeout with a best-effort 408, even though the (large)
-/// keep-alive budget hasn't expired.
+/// at head_timeout with a best-effort 408, even though the (large)
+/// keep-alive and body budgets haven't expired.
 #[test]
-fn slowloris_partial_head_killed_at_request_timeout() {
+fn slowloris_partial_head_killed_at_head_timeout() {
    let pipe = Pipeline::new().plug(
        Router::new().get("/", |c: Conn, _n: Next| c.put_status(200))
    );
    let port = spawn_server_with_timeouts(
        pipe,
        Duration::from_secs(10),    // keep_alive_timeout out of the way
-        Duration::from_millis(300), // request_timeout under test
+        Duration::from_millis(300), // head_timeout under test
+        Duration::from_secs(10),    // body_timeout out of the way
    );

    let mut s = TcpStream::connect(("127.0.0.1", port)).unwrap();
@@ -776,11 +824,10 @@ fn stalled_reader_killed_at_write_timeout() {
    std::thread::spawn(move || {
        let cfg = Config {
            listener_pool:     2,
-            scheduler_threads: Some(2),
            write_timeout:     Duration::from_millis(300),
            ..Config::new(addr)
        };
-        serve_with(cfg, pipe).unwrap();
+        serve_with(cfg, smarm::Config::exact(2), pipe, Vec::new()).unwrap();
    });
    for _ in 0..50 {
        if TcpStream::connect(addr).is_ok() {
@@ -866,11 +913,10 @@ fn chunked_request_over_limit_413() {
    std::thread::spawn(move || {
        let cfg = Config {
            listener_pool:     2,
-            scheduler_threads: Some(2),
            max_body_bytes:    8, // tiny
            ..Config::new(addr)
        };
-        serve_with(cfg, pipe).unwrap();
+        serve_with(cfg, smarm::Config::exact(2), pipe, Vec::new()).unwrap();
    });
    for _ in 0..50 {
        if TcpStream::connect(addr).is_ok() { break; }
@@ -913,14 +959,16 @@ fn chunked_plus_content_length_400() {
    assert_eq!(http_status(&resp), 400);
 }

-/// A chunked body that stalls mid-stream is killed by the request
-/// deadline: the connection just closes (no response owed mid-body).
+/// A chunked body that stalls mid-stream is killed by the BODY deadline
+/// (head budget generous): the connection just closes (no response owed
+/// mid-body).
 #[test]
-fn chunked_request_stall_killed_at_request_timeout() {
+fn chunked_body_stall_killed_at_body_timeout() {
    let port = spawn_server_with_timeouts(
        echo_pipeline(),
-        Duration::from_secs(30),
-        Duration::from_millis(400), // request_timeout
+        Duration::from_secs(30),    // keep_alive_timeout out of the way
+        Duration::from_secs(30),    // head_timeout out of the way
+        Duration::from_millis(400), // body_timeout under test
    );
    let mut s = TcpStream::connect(("127.0.0.1", port)).unwrap();
    s.set_read_timeout(Some(Duration::from_secs(5))).unwrap();
@@ -936,6 +984,139 @@ fn chunked_request_stall_killed_at_request_timeout() {
    assert!(start.elapsed() < Duration::from_secs(3), "close took too long");
 }

+/// The core of the head/body split: a client that sends a COMPLETE head
+/// promptly and then trickles its (small) body over a span LONGER than
+/// head_timeout still succeeds, because the body runs on its own, larger
+/// budget. Under the old shared request clock this would have been killed
+/// mid-body at head_timeout. This is the slow-but-legit IoT upload we must
+/// not punish.
+#[test]
+fn slow_body_outlives_head_timeout() {
+    let port = spawn_server_with_timeouts(
+        echo_pipeline(),
+        Duration::from_secs(30),    // keep_alive_timeout out of the way
+        Duration::from_millis(500), // head_timeout: SHORT
+        Duration::from_secs(8),     // body_timeout: generous
+    );
+    let mut s = TcpStream::connect(("127.0.0.1", port)).unwrap();
+    s.set_read_timeout(Some(Duration::from_secs(10))).unwrap();
+    // Full head at once (parses well within head_timeout), Connection:
+    // close so the server closes after responding and read_to_end lands
+    // the whole response.
+    s.write_all(
+        b"POST /echo HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\nContent-Length: 4\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n",
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    // Trickle the 4-byte body at 250ms/byte => ~1s total, well past the
+    // 500ms head_timeout but inside the 8s body_timeout.
+    for b in b"test" {
+        std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(250));
+        s.write_all(&[*b]).unwrap();
+    }
+    let mut resp = Vec::new();
+    s.read_to_end(&mut resp).expect("expected full response");
+    assert_eq!(http_status(&resp), 200, "resp: {:?}", String::from_utf8_lossy(&resp));
+    assert!(
+        resp.ends_with(b"test"),
+        "expected echoed body 'test', got: {:?}", String::from_utf8_lossy(&resp)
+    );
+}
+
+/// A fixed-Content-Length body that stalls before completing is killed by
+/// the BODY deadline (head budget generous): silent close, nothing owed
+/// mid-body. The fixed-path twin of chunked_body_stall_killed_at_body_timeout.
+#[test]
+fn fixed_body_stall_killed_at_body_timeout() {
+    let port = spawn_server_with_timeouts(
+        echo_pipeline(),
+        Duration::from_secs(30),    // keep_alive_timeout out of the way
+        Duration::from_secs(30),    // head_timeout out of the way
+        Duration::from_millis(400), // body_timeout under test
+    );
+    let mut s = TcpStream::connect(("127.0.0.1", port)).unwrap();
+    s.set_read_timeout(Some(Duration::from_secs(5))).unwrap();
+    // Promises 100 bytes, sends a few, then stalls forever.
+    s.write_all(b"POST /echo HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\nContent-Length: 100\r\n\r\npartial")
+        .unwrap();
+    let start = std::time::Instant::now();
+    let mut resp = Vec::new();
+    s.read_to_end(&mut resp).unwrap(); // server closes; EOF
+    assert!(resp.is_empty(), "expected silent close, got: {:?}", String::from_utf8_lossy(&resp));
+    assert!(start.elapsed() < Duration::from_secs(3), "close took too long");
+}
+
+/// Burst gate, NEGATIVE (chunked path): a client that ACTIVELY but SMOOTHLY
+/// trickles sub-burst bytes is evicted at ~body_stall_timeout — even though
+/// the absolute body_timeout is far away and the client never goes fully
+/// silent. This is the slowloris-body case the gate exists to catch, and
+/// exercises the fill_to gate in read_chunked_body.
+#[test]
+fn body_smooth_trickle_evicted_at_stall_timeout() {
+    let port = spawn_server_with_body_gate(
+        echo_pipeline(),
+        Duration::from_secs(30),     // head_timeout out of the way
+        Duration::from_secs(30),     // body_timeout out of the way (prove it's the STALL gate)
+        4096,                        // body_burst_bytes
+        Duration::from_millis(800),  // body_stall_timeout under test
+    );
+    let mut s = TcpStream::connect(("127.0.0.1", port)).unwrap();
+    s.set_read_timeout(Some(Duration::from_secs(5))).unwrap();
+    // Head + a chunk-size line announcing a 4096-byte chunk, then trickle
+    // its payload one byte at a time: never a full burst, so the stall mark
+    // never advances.
+    s.write_all(b"POST /echo HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\nTransfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n\r\n1000\r\n")
+        .unwrap();
+    let start = std::time::Instant::now();
+    let mut evicted = false;
+    for _ in 0..200 { // up to ~20s; eviction expected at ~800ms
+        if s.write_all(b"x").is_err() {
+            evicted = true; // server closed on us -> write failed
+            break;
+        }
+        std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(100));
+    }
+    assert!(evicted, "server never evicted the smooth sub-burst trickle");
+    assert!(
+        start.elapsed() < Duration::from_secs(3),
+        "eviction took {:?}, expected ~800ms (stall gate, not the 30s cap)", start.elapsed()
+    );
+}
+
+/// Burst gate, POSITIVE (fixed-CL path): a slow-but-legit client that
+/// delivers real bursts with gaps SHORTER than body_stall_timeout keeps
+/// resetting the stall mark and completes intact. This is the slow IoT
+/// upload the gate must NOT punish; exercises the read_body gate.
+#[test]
+fn bursty_slow_body_survives_stall_gate() {
+    let port = spawn_server_with_body_gate(
+        echo_pipeline(),
+        Duration::from_secs(30),    // head_timeout out of the way
+        Duration::from_secs(30),    // body_timeout out of the way
+        4096,                       // body_burst_bytes
+        Duration::from_secs(2),     // body_stall_timeout: gaps stay under this
+    );
+    let mut s = TcpStream::connect(("127.0.0.1", port)).unwrap();
+    s.set_read_timeout(Some(Duration::from_secs(10))).unwrap();
+    // Promise 3 * 4096 bytes, Connection: close so read_to_end lands the
+    // full echo.
+    let burst = vec![b'x'; 4096];
+    s.write_all(b"POST /echo HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: x\r\nContent-Length: 12288\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n")
+        .unwrap();
+    for i in 0..3 {
+        s.write_all(&burst).unwrap();
+        if i < 2 {
+            std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(500)); // < 2s stall window
+        }
+    }
+    let mut resp = Vec::new();
+    s.read_to_end(&mut resp).expect("expected full response");
+    assert_eq!(http_status(&resp), 200, "resp head: {:?}", String::from_utf8_lossy(&resp[..resp.len().min(120)]));
+    let body_at = resp.windows(4).position(|w| w == b"\r\n\r\n").expect("no head terminator") + 4;
+    let body = &resp[body_at..];
+    assert_eq!(body.len(), 12288, "echoed body truncated: {} bytes", body.len());
+    assert!(body.iter().all(|&b| b == b'x'), "echoed body corrupted");
+}
+
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // SSE (v0.3 chunk 3)
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1273,15 +1454,14 @@ fn shutdown_force_stops_open_ws() {
 /// Minimal chat handler mirroring the example: on_open subscribes (conn
 /// actor pid) + spawns a relay holding ONLY the Receiver and a WsSender
 /// clone; on_message broadcast_from's, skipping the sender's own relay.
-struct Chat {
-    bus: std::sync::Arc<std::sync::OnceLock<urus::PubSub<String>>>,
-}
+const CHAT_BUS: urus::PubSub<String> = urus::PubSub::new("chat-test");
+
+struct Chat;

 impl urus::WsHandler for Chat {
    fn on_open(&mut self, sender: &urus::WsSender) {
-        let bus = self.bus.get_or_init(urus::PubSub::new);
-        let rx = bus.subscribe("room").unwrap();
-        let _ = bus.broadcast_from(smarm::self_pid(), "room", "joined".into());
+        let rx = CHAT_BUS.subscribe("room").unwrap();
+        let _ = CHAT_BUS.broadcast_from(smarm::self_pid(), "room", "joined".into());
        let out = sender.clone();
        smarm::spawn(move || {
            while let Ok(msg) = rx.recv() {
@@ -1303,19 +1483,14 @@ impl urus::WsHandler for Chat {
                let _ = sender.send(urus::Message::Text("synced".into()));
                return;
            }
-            let bus = self.bus.get_or_init(urus::PubSub::new);
-            let _ = bus.broadcast_from(smarm::self_pid(), "room", t);
+            let _ = CHAT_BUS.broadcast_from(smarm::self_pid(), "room", t);
        }
    }
 }

 fn chat_pipeline() -> Pipeline {
-    let bus: std::sync::Arc<std::sync::OnceLock<urus::PubSub<String>>> =
-        std::sync::Arc::new(std::sync::OnceLock::new());
-    Pipeline::new().plug(Router::new().get("/ws", move |c: Conn, _n: Next| {
-        let bus = bus.clone();
-        c.upgrade(Chat { bus })
-    }))
+    Pipeline::new()
+        .plug(Router::new().get("/ws", |c: Conn, _n: Next| c.upgrade(Chat)))
 }

 /// Two clients in a room: a broadcast reaches the other client and (via
@@ -1324,7 +1499,7 @@ fn chat_pipeline() -> Pipeline {
 /// having sent a single frame when A's first message arrives.
 #[test]
 fn ws_chat_broadcast_reaches_other_client_not_sender() {
-    let port = spawn_server(chat_pipeline());
+    let port = spawn_server_children(chat_pipeline(), vec![CHAT_BUS.child()]);

    let mut a = ws_connect(port);
    let mut a_buf = Vec::new();
@@ -1367,7 +1542,11 @@ fn ws_chat_broadcast_reaches_other_client_not_sender() {
 #[test]
 fn shutdown_with_open_chat_terminates() {
    let (port, handle, done_rx) =
-        spawn_server_with_handle(chat_pipeline(), Duration::from_millis(300));
+        spawn_server_with_children(
+            chat_pipeline(),
+            Duration::from_millis(300),
+            vec![CHAT_BUS.child()],
+        );

    let mut a = ws_connect(port);
    let mut a_buf = Vec::new();
@@ -1427,21 +1606,19 @@ mod channels_wire {
        }
    }

-    fn channels_pipeline() -> Pipeline {
-        let hub: std::sync::Arc<std::sync::OnceLock<ChannelHub<P>>> =
-            std::sync::Arc::new(std::sync::OnceLock::new());
-        Pipeline::new().plug(Router::new().get("/socket", move |c: Conn, _n: Next| {
-            // Hub construction is in-runtime only (it spawns the pubsub
-            // table); the NON-static OnceLock is what lets shutdown
-            // drain the table (the v0.5 pattern).
-            let hub = hub.clone();
-            let hub = hub.get_or_init(|| {
-                ChannelHub::new(PrefixRouter::new().channel("room:*", |_: &str| {
-                    Box::new(Lobby) as Box<dyn Channel<P>>
-                }))
-            });
-            hub.upgrade(c)
-        }))
+    /// The hub is a description: no actors, so it is built once here and
+    /// its `children()` handed to the supervisor separately.
+    fn channels_hub() -> (ChannelHub<P>, Vec<smarm::ChildSpec>) {
+        ChannelHub::new(
+            "chan-test",
+            PrefixRouter::new()
+                .channel("room:*", |_: &str| Box::new(Lobby) as Box<dyn Channel<P>>),
+        )
+    }
+
+    fn channels_pipeline(hub: ChannelHub<P>) -> Pipeline {
+        Pipeline::new()
+            .plug(Router::new().get("/socket", move |c: Conn, _n: Next| hub.upgrade(c)))
    }

    const CHAN_HANDSHAKE: &[u8] =
@@ -1469,7 +1646,8 @@ mod channels_wire {

    #[test]
    fn channels_join_heartbeat_event_broadcast_leave() {
-        let port = spawn_server(channels_pipeline());
+        let (hub, children) = channels_hub();
+        let port = spawn_server_children(channels_pipeline(hub), children);

        let mut a = chan_connect(port);
        let mut a_buf = Vec::new();
@@ -1555,7 +1733,8 @@ mod channels_wire {

    #[test]
    fn channels_codec_garbage_closes_1002() {
-        let port = spawn_server(channels_pipeline());
+        let (hub, children) = channels_hub();
+        let port = spawn_server_children(channels_pipeline(hub), children);
        let mut s = chan_connect(port);
        let mut buf = Vec::new();
        ws_send(&mut s, &Frame::new(Opcode::Text, "not a v2 frame"));
@@ -1572,7 +1751,14 @@ mod channels_wire {
        // is monitor-pruned -> the non-static hub's last handle drops
        // with the drained pipeline -> pubsub table exits -> AllDone.
        let (port, handle, done_rx) =
-            spawn_server_with_handle(channels_pipeline(), Duration::from_millis(300));
+            {
+                let (hub, children) = channels_hub();
+                spawn_server_with_children(
+                    channels_pipeline(hub),
+                    Duration::from_millis(300),
+                    children,
+                )
+            };

        let mut a = chan_connect(port);
        let mut a_buf = Vec::new();
@@ -1600,19 +1786,20 @@ mod channels_wire {
        }
    }

-    fn session_pipeline() -> Pipeline {
-        let hub: std::sync::Arc<std::sync::OnceLock<ChannelHub<P>>> =
-            std::sync::Arc::new(std::sync::OnceLock::new());
-        Pipeline::new().plug(Router::new().get("/socket", move |c: Conn, _n: Next| {
-            let hub = hub.clone();
-            let hub = hub.get_or_init(|| {
-                ChannelHub::new(PrefixRouter::new().channel_session::<LobbySession>(
+    fn session_hub() -> (ChannelHub<P>, Vec<smarm::ChildSpec>) {
+        ChannelHub::new(
+            "sess-test-bus",
+            PrefixRouter::new().channel_session::<LobbySession>(
                "room:*",
+                "sess-test-registry",
                |_: &str| Box::new(Lobby) as Box<dyn Channel<P>>,
-                ))
-            });
-            hub.upgrade(c)
-        }))
+            ),
+        )
+    }
+
+    fn session_pipeline(hub: ChannelHub<P>) -> Pipeline {
+        Pipeline::new()
+            .plug(Router::new().get("/socket", move |c: Conn, _n: Next| hub.upgrade(c)))
    }

    #[test]
@@ -1625,7 +1812,14 @@ mod channels_wire {
        // terminates, and exits -> AllDone. No links anywhere in that
        // chain; this test is the proof it composes.
        let (port, handle, done_rx) =
-            spawn_server_with_handle(session_pipeline(), Duration::from_millis(300));
+            {
+                let (hub, children) = session_hub();
+                spawn_server_with_children(
+                    session_pipeline(hub),
+                    Duration::from_millis(300),
+                    children,
+                )
+            };

        let mut a = chan_connect(port);
        let mut a_buf = Vec::new();
@@ -1644,3 +1838,103 @@ mod channels_wire {
            .expect("detached session outlived the drain: the registry-drop chain is broken");
    }
 }
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Endpoint as a supervised child (v0.3) — the spec §6 tree shape.
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/// The whole point of v0.3: the APP owns the runtime and the root
+/// supervisor; urus is one ordered child among the app's own. A
+/// `RuntimeHandle::request_shutdown` on the root sup (the SIGTERM shape)
+/// winds the tree down in reverse start order and `rt.run` returns.
+#[test]
+fn endpoint_as_supervised_child_serves_and_drains() {
+    use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
+    use std::sync::Arc;
+
+    let port = free_port();
+    let addr: SocketAddr = format!("127.0.0.1:{port}").parse().unwrap();
+    let app_child_shut_down = Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false));
+
+    let pipeline = Pipeline::new()
+        .plug(Router::new().get("/", |c: Conn, _n: Next| c.put_status(200).put_body("app+urus")));
+
+    // Endpoint construction is eager about the bind: errors surface here,
+    // on the app's thread, not inside some actor.
+    let endpoint = urus::endpoint(
+        Config {
+            listener_pool: 2,
+            drain_timeout: Duration::from_secs(5),
+            ..Config::new(addr)
+        },
+        pipeline,
+    )
+    .expect("bind");
+
+    let (handle_tx, handle_rx) = std::sync::mpsc::channel();
+    let (pid_tx, pid_rx) = std::sync::mpsc::channel();
+    let (done_tx, done_rx) = std::sync::mpsc::channel();
+    let flag = app_child_shut_down.clone();
+    std::thread::spawn(move || {
+        let rt = smarm::init(smarm::Config::exact(2));
+        handle_tx.send(rt.handle()).unwrap();
+        rt.run(move || {
+            let sup = smarm::spawn(move || {
+                smarm::OneForOne::new()
+                    .strategy(smarm::Strategy::RestForOne)
+                    // An app child started BEFORE the endpoint: reverse-order
+                    // shutdown must take the endpoint down first, so when
+                    // this child's guard runs the port must already be dead.
+                    .child(smarm::ChildSpec::new(smarm::Restart::Permanent, {
+                        let flag = flag.clone();
+                        move || {
+                            struct G(Arc<AtomicBool>);
+                            impl Drop for G {
+                                fn drop(&mut self) {
+                                    self.0.store(true, Ordering::SeqCst);
+                                }
+                            }
+                            let _g = G(flag.clone());
+                            loop {
+                                smarm::sleep(Duration::from_secs(3600));
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }))
+                    .child(smarm::ChildSpec::new(smarm::Restart::Permanent, endpoint.clone()))
+                    .run()
+            });
+            // Export the sup pid for the "signal thread" below.
+            pid_tx.send(sup.pid()).unwrap();
+            sup.join().expect("root sup returns normally after shutdown");
+        });
+        let _ = done_tx.send(());
+    });
+
+    // Stand-in signal thread state.
+    let handle = handle_rx.recv().unwrap();
+    let sup_pid = pid_rx.recv().unwrap();
+
+    // Server is up and serving through the supervised endpoint.
+    for _ in 0..50 {
+        if TcpStream::connect(addr).is_ok() {
+            break;
+        }
+        std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(50));
+    }
+    let resp = send_request(port, b"GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nhost: x\r\nconnection: close\r\n\r\n");
+    assert!(resp.windows(8).any(|w| w == b"app+urus"), "endpoint serves");
+
+    // SIGTERM shape: an outside thread shuts the root sup down.
+    handle.request_shutdown(sup_pid);
+    done_rx
+        .recv_timeout(Duration::from_secs(5))
+        .expect("rt.run returned after root-sup shutdown");
+    assert!(
+        app_child_shut_down.load(Ordering::SeqCst),
+        "app sibling wound down"
+    );
+    assert!(
+        TcpStream::connect(addr).is_err(),
+        "listen fds closed: no new connections after shutdown"
+    );
+}