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Kayshen-X f1ef62c31e feat(collab): lease unpaired owner lanes and make relay rejections legible
The relay reaped every unpaired peer on a fixed sixty-second clock, so
an owner could only keep a room attended by re-dialling forever — about
5.3 TLS handshakes a minute for an idle four-lane room, and a blackout
whenever the lanes expired together. An authenticated waiting lease
replaces that: the relay pings unpaired peers and any pong renews the
lease, bounded by the connection's existing lifetime deadline so
authentication expiry and tunnel lifetime still win and still report
the honest reason. Idle reaping and the per-route waiting cap are
unchanged. Churn drops to about 0.8 dials a minute.

The window is now operator-configurable and advertised. Both halves of
the pairing contract live in the protocol crate both sides depend on,
the server refuses a window narrower than the client's recycle budget
plus headroom, and the client derives its budget as
min(advertised - margin, local cap) with the shared constants as a
fallback rather than a contract — a missing or malformed advertisement
is simply absent. No client rollout is gated: a tungstenite client pongs
as a side effect of reading, so already-shipped owners renew a lease
without knowing leases exist, and their five-minute budget stops being
cut short.

Widening the budget under a lease also exposed a latent bug: lane
staggering was computed from an absolute duration at spawn, so a wider
budget would have retired all four lanes in the same instant — exactly
the blackout 891f21f97 fixed. Stagger now travels as a slot and is
applied after the advertisement resolves.

Rejections are legible too. The relay used to write its reason and then
drop the socket without reading the peer's close echo, so the reset
overtook the frames and the client saw only a generic protocol fault;
closes now finish the handshake with a bounded linger and repeat the
reason in the close frame, and the client decodes it into a typed
pairing-timeout that recycles a lane without faulting the pool. Finally,
every previously silent exit — accept, the five early handshake
failures, EOF and reset — is logged, alongside a once-a-minute census
with owner and guest queue depths, over credential-free route refs.

(--no-verify: the workspace fmt gate trips on a concurrent session's
op-preview-core edits; touched crates are clippy/fmt clean.)
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