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+# Stream run artifacts to RustFS, one bucket per purpose
+
+Recorded 2026-10-09 from the maintainer's direction. The host's local disk is the scarce
+resource (it runs near full, and the draw stops itself at under 2 GB free). Runs should stream
+their durable artifacts to RustFS instead of accumulating them on local disk, and should spread
+them across **purpose-specific buckets** rather than one shared bucket. This relieves the disk and
+simplifies runs: local state becomes mostly a scratch cache that can be rebuilt or resumed from the
+object store.
+
+## Why per-purpose buckets
+
+One shared bucket (`sast-memory`) already bit us: an append-rewritten key on a versioned bucket
+with no noncurrent-version expiry ballooned to >10 GB (see the `engine-queue` command-upload fix and
+the lifecycle rules added 2026-10-09). Separate buckets let each kind of artifact carry the
+lifecycle it actually needs, and keep a transient firehose from polluting durable data.
+
+Proposed split (names illustrative; the admin creates them and grants the store key):
+
+- `sast-memory` — the plane memory store (existing): facts, excerpts, embeddings, index. Durable,
+  versioned, with the noncurrent-version lifecycle now in place.
+- `sast-pools` — frozen unseen pools and their provenance: `pool-pN.toml`, `freeze-pN.json`, and the
+  draw journal needed to resume/reproduce. Durable, versioned. This is also the "don't redo the
+  sourcing" archive.
+- `sast-runs` (or `sast-journals`) — ephemeral run and queue state (engine-queue, replay results,
+  per-run journals). Aggressive lifecycle: short current expiry + 1-day noncurrent expiry, since it
+  is a transient firehose.
+- optionally `sast-traces` — engine/replay traces, if kept.
+
+## Principles
+
+- **Stream, don't hoard.** Write a run's durable outputs to its bucket as they are produced; keep
+  only a working scratch (e.g. the live git clone, which cannot be streamed) on local disk, and let
+  the disk guard stay as the backstop.
+- **Lifecycle per bucket**, tuned to the artifact: durable+versioned for pools/memory;
+  short+noncurrent-expiry for transient run/queue state. Never a versioned bucket without a
+  noncurrent-version rule.
+- **Resume from the object store**, so a wiped or small local disk does not lose a long run.
+- **Least privilege per bucket.** A run gets a key scoped to the bucket it writes; the store never
+  creates or configures a bucket (admin does that once), consistent with the current S3Store.
+- Content discipline unchanged: no secrets, no exploit payloads; pool manifests keep the existing
+  public/private (licence) split.
+
+## Foundation and dependency
+
+`src/openultrasast/plane/memory.py` already speaks boto3 to RustFS (S3Store) with startup
+verification of versioning/lifecycle/Select/tags; this direction extends that pattern to more
+buckets rather than inventing a new transport. New buckets and their grants are an **operator
+admin** action — the store credentials cannot create buckets or set lifecycle (confirmed by the
+`AccessDenied` on the 2026-10-09 lifecycle apply).
+
+## Status
+
+Direction recorded; planned as a follow-up spec, not retrofitted into an in-flight run. The current
+unseen draw finishes to its local journal and then archives its result to `sast-pools` once that
+bucket exists.