allow startup to be cancelled

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements
  • Runtime initialization and beacon joining now honor the caller-provided context.
  • Canceling the context can stop in-progress startup and joining operations, providing improved control over runtime lifecycle.
  • Applications initializing a runtime must now provide a context alongside the runtime configuration.
  • Beacon shutdown is safely handled once, including cleanup after failed startup and removal of successful self-registration.
• Documentation
  • Updated runtime initialization examples to include a context.

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Walkthrough

NewRuntime now propagates caller cancellation through startup and beacon operations. Beacon startup and shutdown now track registration state and perform cleanup once.

Changes

Runtime lifecycle propagation and cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Context-aware runtime startup beacon/runtime.go, readme.md	NewRuntime accepts a caller context and uses it for peer-manager startup, asynchronous beacon joining, and synchronous beacon startup. The example uses the updated signature.
One-time beacon cleanup beacon/beacon.go	Beacon startup failures use Stop. Stop unregisters registered nodes, cancels background work, waits for workers, and logs shutdown once. Registration state prevents duplicate cleanup.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c0ea9

Startup cancellation and beacon cleanup can still leave stale cluster membership if asynchronous registration finishes after shutdown. This should be resolved before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant NewRuntime
  participant PeerManager
  participant Beacon
  Caller->>NewRuntime: provide context
  NewRuntime->>PeerManager: start with caller context
  NewRuntime->>Beacon: join with derived context
  NewRuntime->>Beacon: start with caller context

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Poem

A rabbit carries context through the day
Peer managers follow its path
Beacons register, then cleanly depart
One stop closes every gate
Workers wait beside the quiet node
Startup leaves no stray trace

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Inline comments:
In `@beacon/runtime.go`:
- Line 150: Update all examples and callers of NewRuntime to pass a context
argument before RuntimeConfig, including the usage shown in readme.md, so they
match the current NewRuntime(ctx context.Context, cfg RuntimeConfig) signature
and compile.
- Line 336: Update Beacon.Start around the joinCtx/joinCancel startup flow to
roll back membership when startup fails after registration, including
cancellation observed by waitForMembershipConverged: emit the same REMOVE_OP
cleanup that Beacon.Stop would perform before returning the startup error,
without relying on rt.Beacon being assigned. Ensure cleanup is safe for all
failed-start paths and add coverage for cancellation after registration
succeeds.
- Line 264: Update the startup flow around PeerManager.Start and Beacon.Start so
long-lived workers do not derive their lifetime directly from the caller’s
deadline or cancellation context after NewRuntime returns. Create and retain
separate runtime-lifetime contexts for those workers, cancel them from
Runtime.Stop, and continue using the caller context only for startup operations.

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In `@beacon/beacon.go`:
- Line 280: Coordinate the Start and Stop state transitions around registerSelf,
unregisterSelf, and selfRegistered so concurrent AsyncJoin startup and shutdown
are serialized. Ensure Stop waits for startup to reach a terminal state before
completing cleanup, and synchronize registration-state reads and writes so a
cancelled Start cannot leave membership registered after Stop returns.

In `@readme.md`:
- Line 284: Update the NewRuntime call to invoke context.Background() and pass
the resulting context.Context value, preserving the existing RuntimeConfig
argument.

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