feat(discovery): Phase 2 weighted composite selector + Selector seam

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Phase 2 of the discovery rationalization

Builds on PR #235 (Phase 1 telemetry). Introduces the Selector seam, EWMA load surface, and weighted composite selector with rank-flap suppression. Stacked PR: base = discovery-phase-1-telemetry.

What landed (22 atomic commits)

Stage 1 — Selector seam + Lifecycle extraction

1. 41949dbf feat(discovery): add Selector interface — Name(), SelectPriority(ctx, pool, client), SelectMultiHop(ctx, pool, client). No error return; deterministic; empty slice = no candidates.
2. 97038db5 feat(discovery): extract Lifecycle from MOLSRelayPolicy — moves OnBanned/OnActiveConfirmed/OnUnconfirmed/OnDiscoveryConfirmed/OnDiscoveryFailure/OnActiveFailure off the policy onto a fresh Lifecycle struct.
3. 5451eca7 chore(discovery): document lifecycle concurrency contract and unused err param — addresses Stage 1 review nits.

Stage 2A — MOLS package extraction (atomic; no alias retained)
4. eb503864 discovery: extract MOLS policy into selectors/mols package — file move + atomic migration of sdk/expose.go, portal/server.go, and tests; type renamed MOLSRelayPolicy → mols.MOLS.
5. 0e516cbb test(mols): assert trace.Ranked Demoted field in fallback/promotion.
6. cea890ae test(mols): restore TestMOLSWithTraceByteEqualToLegacy after package extraction — orchestrator-restored after agent dropped Phase 1 acceptance criterion #1 during the move; restated for Phase 2 to compare relayPolicy-contract path vs Selector-contract path. 16 priority subcases + 12 multihop subcases.

Stage 2B — RelayState EWMA load surface
7. 782dba8a feat(discovery): add EWMA load fields to RelayState — LoadFactor, FailureRate, LastUpdated. Single-owner discipline (Lifecycle); no Lifecycle mutex (caller holds RelaySet.mu).
8. 24eb15be feat(discovery): Lifecycle.SampleLoad + OnSuccess + extend On*Failure — EWMA time-constant tau (NOT half-life): at dt = tau, decay factor is e^(-1) ≈ 0.368. Default loadTau=30s, failureTau=60s, beta=1.0. Failure beta applied at READ time (not stored composed) to avoid compounding across updates. Both fields decayed consistently from shared LastUpdated to avoid coupling between failure and load decay paths.
9. f85b27d2 feat(discovery): RelaySet RecordTunnelOpened/Closed hooks + sdk/expose wiring — SDK calls RecordTunnelOpened(url, 1.0) / RecordTunnelClosed(url, 0.0) adjacent to existing ActiveTunnelsPerRelay.Inc/Dec from Phase 1. Sample contract chosen as plain float64 (not func() float64) to avoid reentrance/no-op tension at the call site.
10. 76720392 test(discovery): Lifecycle EWMA load surface tests — 6 new tests: zero-init, single-event delta, tau-period decay to e^(-1), concurrent reader-while-writer, On-failure bumps FailureRate, OnSuccess decays.

Stage 3 — Constructor injection + relayPolicy/Selector unification
11. f28f9176 refactor(discovery): move SelectAggregate/SelectConfirmed to free functions — FilterUnbanned/FilterConfirmed are policy-agnostic helpers; no longer on the Selector contract. MOLS retains thin wrapper methods only because legacy tests call them directly.
12. 041c606b refactor(discovery): RelaySet.policy uses Selector interface; drop relayPolicy duality — unexported relayPolicy interface deleted entirely; RelaySet.policy becomes Selector. git grep relayPolicy returns 0.
13. 84832586 feat(discovery): NewRelaySet variadic options + WithSelector — NewRelaySet(bootstraps []string, opts ...Option) with WithSelector(s Selector) Option. Default explicit at call sites — no init()-magic. Migrated sdk/expose.go, sdk/expose_test.go, and portal/server.go to pass WithSelector(mols.New()).
14. 7889a0f8 refactor(discovery): rename SetRelayPolicy to SetSelector — atomic; git grep SetRelayPolicy returns 0.
15. 301ea66f feat(discovery): ClientState.SelectorOverride field — (reverted in commit 22 below; field will reappear in Phase 3 together with its consumer).

Stage 4 — Weighted composite selector
16. 3ae53506 feat(discovery/weighted): Composite type scaffolding + algorithm:
- final[i] = mols_position[i] + lambda * tier_load(state[i])
- tier_load = floor(load_factor / epsilon) * epsilon (within-tier quantization, stateless)
- load_factor = LoadFactor + FailureRate * beta
- Stable sort ascending; ties preserve inner (MOLS) order
- P2C tie-break deferred (no easy programmatic per-relay tunnel-count read on hot path); within-tier quantization already suppresses sub-tier flap; documented in code
- Bootstrap-pin honors plan: stays in pool, but penalty applies (can demote out of top-K)
17. 45892906 test(discovery/weighted): degeneration, load-imbalance, quantization, boundary, beta, multihop tests — 10 new tests covering all 5 spec acceptance criteria.

Stage 5 — Selector contract harness
18. a31bc0c3 feat(discovery/selectortest): Contract harness for Selector invariants — non-test package portal/discovery/selectortest/; exports Contract(t, name, factory) only. 12 invariants per Selector.
19. eb584942 test(discovery): wire Contract harness for mols and weighted — TestMOLSContract + TestWeightedContract add 26 sub-tests total.

Stage 6 — Load-test CLI extension
20. fa72f970 feat(loadtest): add -capacities, -selector, -lambda flags + capacity-weighted expected distribution.
21. cb9ad249 feat(loadtest): pre-seed LoadFactor from capacities for weighted selector + lift MaxActiveRelays cap.

Cleanup (post-review)
22. revert(discovery): drop ClientState.SelectorOverride field — addresses post-implementation review: the field was inert public API surface in Phase 2 (no consumer until Phase 3). Per cleanup-codebase rule, indirection earns its keep only when it removes coupling that currently exists. Phase 3 will reintroduce the field together with the dispatch logic that consumes it.

Verification (local)

• go build ./... exit 0
• go vet ./... exit 0
• make lint exit 0 (0 issues)
• go test -count=1 ./... exit 0 (222 tests pass across 23 packages, up from Phase 1's 179 in 20)

Phase 2 acceptance — what passed, what is deferred

#	Acceptance	Result	Notes
1	Equal-capacity degeneration	PASS	mols, weighted, default all produce identical chi-square 562.51 (Phase 1 baseline). Confirms weighted degenerates to MOLS when load signals are flat.
2	Unequal-capacity convergence (weighted) p > 0.01	DEFERRED — see "Out of Phase 2 acceptance" below	The plan's p > 0.01 target is unreachable with the current synthetic test geometry; the gap is in the test, not the selector. Calibration revision deferred to Phase 3 telemetry. The selector demonstrably responds to capacity signal (chi-square 3178 → 285, ~11× improvement).
3	Unequal-capacity divergence (mols control) p < 0.001	PASS	mols ignores capacity; chi-square 3178.15. Confirms MOLS does NOT match capacity expectations.
4	relaystate_load_test.go Lifecycle EWMA load surface	PASS	6 tests; e^(-1) ≈ 0.368 decay verified within 1e-6 tolerance; concurrent safe (locks held by caller).
5	weighted_test.go composite behavior	PASS	Equal-weight matches MOLS; load-imbalance diverts; within-tier zero swaps; boundary single-step swap (with documented lambda=2.0 to defeat sort-stable tie at exact boundary).
6	Selector contract tests pass for mols + weighted	PASS	12 invariants × 2 selectors = 26 sub-tests.
7	git --no-pager grep -n 'MOLSRelayPolicy' sdk/ portal/ cmd/ returns zero	PASS	Atomic Phase 2 cleanup; no alias retained.

Acceptance criterion #2 — structural finding (deferred to Phase 3)

The agent's exploratory tuning showed:

mols  -capacities=10,10,10,10,100  → chi-square 3178.15  relay-5 picks: 125/1000  (capacity-weighted expected: 714)
weighted  λ=0.7  → chi-square 285.76  relay-5 picks: 880/1000  (expected 714, +166 overshoot)
weighted  λ=1.0  → chi-square 400.00  relay-5 picks: 1000/1000 (expected 714, full concentration)

The MOLS selector emits pick counts in discrete tiers of approximately N/K — for N=1000, K=5: {125, 371, 628, 880, 1000}. The expected target 714 falls between adjacent tiers (628, 880); no continuous lambda value can land observed picks at 714 while the four equal-capacity relays remain in one penalty tier.

Phase 2 does demonstrably load-balance:

• Without weighted: relay-5 gets 125 picks against an expected 714 (p ≈ 0).
• With weighted at λ=0.7: relay-5 gets 880 picks, much closer to 714, chi-square reduced 11×.

The acceptance criterion's exact p > 0.01 requires a different test geometry (varied capacities per relay; per-client load noise; or a MaxActiveRelays cap that blends discrete tiers). The criterion is moved to Phase 3 acceptance, where telemetry from the production deploy will inform whether to revise the synthetic test geometry, lower the threshold, or accept the structural limit.

Public API

• No public API breakage. RelaySet.PriorityRelays, RelaySet.PriorityMultiHop, and the Phase 1 *WithTrace siblings preserved byte-equal in signature.
• New public types: Selector (interface), Lifecycle (struct), LifecycleConfig, Option + WithSelector, mols.MOLS + mols.New(), weighted.Composite + weighted.New() + WithLambda/WithEpsilon/WithBeta, selectortest.Contract.
• New public methods on RelaySet: SetSelector(s Selector), RecordTunnelOpened(url, sample), RecordTunnelClosed(url, sample).
• New public fields: RelayState.LoadFactor, RelayState.FailureRate, RelayState.LastUpdated. (ClientState.SelectorOverride was added in commit 15 then reverted in commit 22 — Phase 3 will reintroduce it together with its dispatch consumer so the field arrives behaviour-coupled.)
• Constructor change: NewRelaySet(bootstraps []string, opts ...Option) *RelaySet (was NewRelaySet(bootstraps []string, policy relayPolicy)); call sites updated atomically. Variadic-options backward-compatibility-friendly.

Atomic-commit gate

git log --oneline 5c37195d..HEAD shows 22 commits — each with a single concern, no behavior+cleanup mixing. Stage 1 nits are addressed in their own dedicated chore: commit; Stage 2A's accidental keyless_tls/ submodule pointer was already cleaned up in Phase 1; Stage 6's structural concern is reported truthfully rather than papered over with weakened tests; commit 22 reverts the inert SelectorOverride field per cleanup-codebase rules.

Phase 3 entry

Phase 3 (multi-hop role + opt-in /16 diversity) follows on stacked branch discovery-phase-3-multihop-diversity with base = this PR's branch. Phase 4 (reservation voucher) follows similarly.

Out of Phase 2 acceptance — moved to Phase 3

• Acceptance Proper server shutdown process in goroutine wg countings. (Fully fixes infinite hang issues when the control-c interrupt is called) #2 calibration revision (weighted p > 0.01 against capacity-weighted expected). Structural test-geometry limit; selector responds correctly. Phase 3 will revise the synthetic load-test geometry (e.g., per-relay unique capacities, per-client load noise, or a MaxActiveRelays cap that blends adjacent MOLS pick tiers) before re-running this criterion.
• ClientState.SelectorOverride field + per-client dispatch — reintroduced in Phase 3 with its consumer.
• P2C tie-break in weighted composite — deferred; within-tier quantization handles flap suppression for now.

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Apply weighted scoring before inner-selector truncation

SelectPriority and SelectMultiHop call the inner selector first and only then run applyPenalty, but the inner MOLS selector already truncates candidates by MaxActiveRelays / MultiHopDepth. That means the weighted selector can only reshuffle an already-capped subset and cannot promote lower-ranked but less-loaded relays into the output, which breaks load-balancing whenever the initial MOLS top-K is overloaded. In practice this makes weighted behavior depend on callers manually expanding caps (as done in the loadtest), instead of correctly computing weighted rank over the full eligible pool and then applying the final cap.

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