feat(wheel)!: @processor registers the descriptor when it runs; the constructor arrives at first add

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Summary

A Python processor class was invisible to the catalog until its first add, so an agent
could not discover an effect an app imported but had not used. @processor now hands the
class to the native half the moment it runs, which registers the descriptor — identity,
description, ports, config schema — and the constructor arrives at the first add, installed
onto that descriptor rather than registering a second time.

The engine gains one entry for that second half: a descriptor registered without a
constructor can be given one, refusing a path that already has one with the existing
two-classes-one-path text and an unknown path by name. rt.add and the import-path
resolver behind add_processor both install through it; the resolver's shape is unchanged.

Decoration inside a helper process registers nothing, recognised by the entrypoint variable
the spawn host sets on every child it starts. description falls back to the class's
docstring.

Breaking, pre-1.0: @processor now writes to the process-global registry at import, so a
module loaded twice meets the duplicate-path refusal at import rather than at add.

Closes

Closes #2223

Exit criteria

• A class imported by app.py and never added appears in /api/registry before the node
  runs, with its config schema and its description.
• Adding it afterwards works, and adding it by import path over the control plane works.
• A helper importing the class registers nothing, proven from inside the helper.
• Double decoration under one import path is refused naming importlib.reload.
• A processor with a docstring and no description= shows the docstring in the registry.

Test plan

Run on the rig, with the wheel rebuilt through maturin develop first.

• pytest sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/tests -m "not requires_gpu" — 557 passed, 1 skipped.
• pytest sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/tests/test_helper_placement.py tests/test_processor_config_catalog.py tests/test_processor_identity.py — 22 passed.
• cargo test -p streamlib-python-wheel --lib — 127 passed.
• cargo test -p streamlib-engine --lib -- core::processors::processor_instance_factory —
  11 passed, including the three new ones.
• cargo xtask check-all-source-gates — all 11 pass, check-no-in-process-placement
  included.
• mypy.stubtest streamlib._engine, pyright — clean. cargo fmt --all --check — clean.

New tests: tests/test_declaration_registers.py (10 tests: registration at decoration, the
docstring fallback, double decoration, and both arms of the helper-entrypoint guard, which
needs no device); a helper-placement scenario where a real child reports its own catalog;
a never-added probe in the config-catalog app; three factory unit tests, added by name to
the engine lib slice in test.yml and its xtask mirror.

Nine tests/test_device_exchange.py failures on the rig are the venv's CPU-only torch
build (torch 2.13.0+cpu, torch.version.cuda is None) and are unrelated.

Notes for owner

One assumption, stated rather than asked. A class the decorator cannot name — declared
in the entry file, so __main__:X, or inside a function, so <locals> — registers nothing
at decoration and keeps today's refusal at rt.add. §Processor model's identity entry puts
that refusal at rt.add explicitly, three tests in test_processor_identity.py prove it
there, and roughly a hundred of the wheel's own declaration tests declare their classes
inside test functions. Both reviewers judged this right rather than merely unasked.

Two additions the change file does not name. It names
_engine.register_declared_processor_class(cls) and nothing else. This PR also adds
_engine.processor_class_import_paths_in_this_processes_catalog(), the only way to see a
registry from inside a process that serves no control plane, which is what the ticket's
"proven by the helper-placement test" requires; it is wheel-internal, absent from the
package's public __all__, and has precedent in the test-harness entries beside it. And
ProcessorInstanceFactory::registered_processor_class_import_paths, a public engine method
projecting the descriptor keys rather than cloning every descriptor to discard it.

Naming debt the change makes load-bearing. On the engine side is_registered and
can_create mean "has a constructor" while list_registered and the new key projection
mean "has a descriptor". Descriptor-without-constructor is now the normal state of every
decorated class until its first add, so the ambiguity matters more than it did. The Python
side walked away from it by naming its listing for the catalog. Worth a cleanup ticket; not
done here.

A latent CI break this surfaced. The Rust unit tests that embed the decorator's source
put the wheel's Python source directory on the stand-in package's search path — where a
local maturin develop leaves a compiled _engine.abi3.so that is gitignored. Once the
decorator imported the native half, those tests either loaded a second engine with its own
process-global registry or, in CI where no artifact is built, failed to import at all. The
harness now supplies a stand-in streamlib._engine.

inspect.getdoc walks the MRO. A processor subclassing a documented base and carrying
no docstring of its own inherits the base's text as its catalog description. Nothing in the
tree subclasses, so this is a note rather than a finding.

Plan records this change owes at ship, not filed here: the §Processor model
declaration-registers entry and §Control plane's first-add sentence are both already
written and DECIDED, so nothing in the plan is stale.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Processor classes are now added to the process catalog when decorated, before being added to a runtime.
  • Added access to the current process’s registered processor import paths.
  • Processor descriptions now fall back to the class docstring when no description is provided.
  • Runtime registration now supports attaching constructors to previously declared processors.
• Bug Fixes
  • Helper processes no longer register imported processor classes or graph components in their catalogs.
  • Duplicate and unregistered processor registrations now produce clear errors.

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The change separates processor descriptor registration from constructor installation. Decorators register importable classes in the process catalog. The first runtime add installs the constructor. Helper processes skip registration. Tests cover catalog discovery, duplicate handling, descriptions, and helper isolation.

Changes

Processor registration flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Engine descriptor and constructor registry runtime/streamlib-engine/src/core/processors/processor_instance_factory.rs, .github/workflows/test.yml, xtask/src/main.rs	The engine supports descriptor-only registration, constructor installation, registered-path lookup, duplicate rejection, and unknown-path errors. CI and local gates include the new unit tests.
Python registration API and decorator wiring sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/src/python_processor_registration.rs, sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/python/streamlib/_processor_declaration.py, sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/python/streamlib/_engine.pyi, sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/src/lib.rs, sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/src/python_helper_process_spawn_host.rs	The decorator registers descriptors during import. The first add installs the constructor. The Python module exposes catalog inspection, and helper entrypoint handling uses a shared constant.
Declaration-time behavior tests sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/tests/test_declaration_registers.py, sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/src/python_processor_declaration.rs	Tests cover import-path registration, local-class exclusion, duplicate declarations, description fallback, helper-process behavior, and stand-in engine setup.
Helper-process catalog isolation sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/tests/helper_placement_app.py, sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/tests/helper_placement_processors.py, sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/tests/test_helper_placement.py	The helper-placement scenario reports process-local catalog contents and verifies that helper processes register neither the hosted class nor other imported classes.
Catalog entry and description rendering sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/tests/processor_config_catalog_app.py, sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/tests/processor_config_catalog_probes.py, sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/tests/test_processor_config_catalog.py	Catalog tests cover an imported-but-never-added processor, its schema, runtime, entrypoint, and description precedence between explicit text, docstrings, and an empty description.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant App
  participant ProcessorDecorator
  participant EngineRegistry
  participant Runtime
  participant HelperProcess
  App->>ProcessorDecorator: import decorated processor class
  ProcessorDecorator->>EngineRegistry: register descriptor without constructor
  App->>Runtime: add processor
  Runtime->>EngineRegistry: install constructor
  EngineRegistry-->>Runtime: create processor instance
  Runtime->>HelperProcess: start hosted processor
  HelperProcess-->>EngineRegistry: skip decorator registration

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Concurrent processor registration and removal can leave incomplete processor metadata, so the existing runtime synchronization concern should be resolved before merge unless explicitly accepted.

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552-561: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Install the streamlib._engine stub before the streamlib early return.

When streamlib is already in sys.modules without streamlib._engine, declaration_module_namespace reaches the decorator import without the stand-in. The import can then load an unintended engine or fail because _engine is unavailable. Create the stub when no compatible stub exists, and add a regression test for this preloaded-module case.

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In `@sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/tests/test_declaration_registers.py` around lines
552 - 561, Update declaration_module_namespace to install a compatible
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In `@runtime/streamlib-engine/src/core/processors/processor_instance_factory.rs`:
- Around line 454-464: Make constructor installation atomic with processor
registration removal by synchronizing descriptor, registration, and
port-metadata updates under one shared lock or a consistent lock-acquisition
order. Update the installation flow around the descriptor validation and
constructor insertion, along with unregister_processor_types and reinstatement,
so removal cannot occur between validation and insertion and leave a stale
constructor without metadata.

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In `@sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/tests/test_declaration_registers.py`:
- Around line 552-561: Update declaration_module_namespace to install a
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Both CodeRabbit findings looked at, one fixed and one answered.

Fixed — the stand-in package guard. The finding named sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/tests/test_declaration_registers.py:552-561, which does not exist: that file is 226 lines and has no declaration_module_namespace. The helper it describes is Rust, install_stand_in_streamlib_package in sdk/streamlib-python-wheel/src/python_processor_declaration.rs, and the substance was right about it. This PR added the streamlib._engine stand-in at the end of a function that returns early as soon as streamlib is on sys.modules, so a partially populated sys.modules would skip the stand-in and leave the decorator module's relative import to find the compiled artifact the test binary is itself a copy of. Each half is claimed on its own now (44958c7).

No regression test for it: seeding a bare streamlib into sys.modules would leak into every other test in the binary, since the interpreter is process-global and shared across them, and the guard's whole purpose is to be idempotent across those tests. The change is three lines of guard and the existing suite covers the path it protects.

Answered, not fixed — constructor installation vs registry removal. The race needs a concurrent unregister_processor_types, and nothing calls it: it and its reinstate partner are pub(crate) with no call sites, and the remove_module its doc names as the caller is not in the tree. Reply on the thread has the detail.

Note for the owner, outside this ticket. unregister_processor_types takes its three write locks one at a time rather than holding them together, so once remove_module is wired up a removal will be able to interleave with a registration or an install and leave one map disagreeing with the others. Fixing it means deciding the registry's locking discipline across all four maps, which is docs/plan/ARCHITECTURE.md's call rather than a ticket's, so it is here as a note rather than in the diff.