The single-slot set_*_handler pattern was a structural blocker, hit twice:
the daemon could not observe control-state changes because
register_default_handlers owns the slot, forcing GetControlState to read the
FSM cross-thread (a data race), and blocking WatchHealth and the Subscribe
stream's ControlStateChange variant.
HandlerSlot<Args...> keeps a primary slot with exact legacy semantics
(set_ replaces — one existing test depends on replacement) plus an
append-only observer list (add_) that survives set_ calls. Fire sites are
textually unchanged (operator bool / operator() / assign-from-function).
Applied to ControlStateMachine + ProcessJobStore + ControlJobStore (the
roadmap-critical three; the remaining single-slot classes follow the same
3-line pattern as needed). EquipmentRuntime gains an atomic control-state
mirror registered as an observer — control_state() is now safe from any
thread, retiring the GetControlState race — plus add_control_state_observer
and add_link_observer (selected/closed fan-out), the hooks WatchHealth and
Subscribe need.
Tests: observer ordering, set-replaces-primary-but-observers-survive,
observers-without-primary, PJ-store coexistence, and the runtime scenario
that was previously impossible (mirror + observer + default-handlers set_).
Core 464/464 (2816 assertions), daemon 16/16, live GEM300 demo passes with
single-fire control-state transitions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>