Library.open loads metadata.json and serves reads from RAM: an empty cache awaits the first refresh, an existing cache returns at once and refreshes in the background so an unreachable server never stalls open(). A background timer refreshes every refreshIntervalSeconds (default 3), diffing only changed albums via the resumable cursor+tombstone enumerators and rewriting metadata.json only when something changed. A refresh failure is invisible to reads and surfaced via status()/onProgress; a failed save keeps status().lastError set and retries until one lands, so a stale disk is never masked. No sync()/refresh()/serverReachable surface; status() and close() included.
Model: opus-4-8
Adds the metadata.json store: loads whole into RAM with id-lookup Maps, rewrites whole through the exported fsync atomic writer (temp, fsync, rename, dir fsync); a missing, unparseable, or wrong-schema file loads as empty (it is a cache); directory 0700, file 0600. No lock file, no public sync().
Model: opus-4-8
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