A device's room list holds two unrelated kinds of room and nothing on a row said
which. A NIP-17 room is a conversation between the people in it. A Marmot room is
a *group* -- an id its key derives, a membership baked into an MLS tree, admins
who can act for it, a signature anyone holding the id can check -- and the two
behave differently enough that guessing is a mistake.
`"Ekklesia (#admins)"` was an attempt at saying so, and it marked the wrong half.
Only the admin room got it; a subgroup got no marker at all, so as soon as a group
had one child, half the Marmot rooms on the device were unmarked. It also sorted
nowhere near the group it belonged to, and a truncated row drops a trailing suffix
first -- so the marker was missing exactly where the list is crowded enough to
need it.
**The rule is `MarmotGroupName.of`, and it runs where a room is minted rather than
where it is drawn.** The name is baked into the epoch-0 `MarmotGroupData` every
member is welcomed with, so a `#` added at display time would be a name this
device alone could see. `#Ekklesia` marks both kinds of group room, and marks them
at the front.
**Three mints, because there are three ways a Marmot room comes into existence.**
`MarmotGroupCreation.create` is the funnel for two of them -- the admin room a
group opens after its ceremony, and a subgroup -- and normalising there means
neither caller has to remember. The third, `SelectChatRoomTypeViewModel`'s
convenient room, has a random id rather than a derived one, so it has no key state
to adopt and no admin set to bake in and does not pass through that funnel; it
applies the rule itself.
**Idempotence is load-bearing, not tidiness.** A subgroup's name is derived twice
from the same bare ceremony-room subject, by two callers that never see each
other: `SubgroupManager.proposeBirthCertificate` normalises the name the parent's
quorum is asked to sign, and `MarmotGroupCreation` normalises the name the room
carries. Those two have to be the same string, or the subgroup is not called what
its parent certified -- and a certificate is a signature over the name, so a
verifier comparing them would see a real mismatch. `of` being idempotent is what
makes them agree by construction rather than by both sites being kept in step.
**The ceremony room keeps the bare name.** It is a NIP-17 room -- where a subgroup
is made, not the subgroup -- and prefixing it too produced two identically-named
rows, which spends the mark to say nothing. `Translators` (the ceremony) now sits
beside `#Translators` (the group it stood up), which is the distinction the `#`
exists to draw. Its subject is trimmed, so the bare name and the two normalised
ones cannot differ by whitespace.
**The `#` is drawn beside the name field, not pushed into its state.** `name` in
`SelectSubgroupAdminsViewModel` stays bare and the M3 `prefix` slot shows the
convention, because normalising on every keystroke moves the caret out from under
somebody halfway through a word. The coordinator still reads the name they are
about to get.
Four strings lose the old name -- "Create the #admins group" becomes "Create the
admin room", and the three about what "the #admins room" will sign with now say
"the admin room". Their keys are renamed with them, since the keys in this
catalogue are derived from the text. Around twenty comments, two screen previews
and seven test fixtures follow.
Docs: the ceremony note states the convention and what it replaces, and the
subgroups note's name-field section is rewritten -- it had been arguing from the
`"${parent.subject} (#admins)"` synthesis that no longer exists.
`docs/mls-skipped-keys.md` keeps its `"Frosty (#admins)"`: that is a captured
debugging log, and rewriting it would falsify a record.
Three tests. `MarmotGroupNameTest` pins the rule, idempotence included.
`MarmotGroupCreationJvmTest` pins the funnel -- a bare name in, `#Ekklesia` on both
the room row this device draws and the group data every other member reads.
`SubgroupManagerJvmTest` pins the pair that has to agree, by reading the proposed
event's tags back out of the signing session: the name the parent is asked to sign
is the name `MarmotGroupCreation` will give the room. That last one needed the
signable-parent fixture to seed host keys, since a ceremony's signer ids are
derived from them rather than stored.
**Rooms that already exist keep their names.** The name lives in the epoch-0 group
context, so renaming one is an MLS commit every member has to process -- a
different change from a naming convention, and not made here.
403 common tests, 726 jvm tests, `m3Audit` meets every budget with 0 title-case
strings and 0 dp literals.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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