feat(worker)!: the handler leaf takes helpers first, message second

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Closes #670.

- processOrder: ({ payload }) => save(payload),
+ processOrder: (_, { payload }) => save(payload),
- handleFailed: ({ payload }, rawMessage) => log(rawMessage.properties.headers),
+ handleFailed: ({ raw }, { payload }) => log(raw.properties.headers),
- getOrder: ({ payload }, _raw, { errors }) => lookup(payload, errors),
+ getOrder: ({ errors }, { payload }) => lookup(payload, errors),

The issue was filed when this leaf had no helpers record at all; it has one
now, as a third parameter. What was left is the order — and the raw amqplib
delivery, which moved from that third parameter into raw on the helpers, so
the leaf has the same arity and shape as the other two rather than an extra
parameter neither of them has:

Transport	Leaf
HTTP (oRPC)	place: ({ errors, context }, input) => …
Temporal	place: ({ errors, context }, args) => … (btravstack/temporal-contract#415)
AMQP (this)	process: ({ errors, context, raw }, message) => …

oRPC is the reference because it is the most widely used of the three, so it is
the shape that costs the least to match. And per the issue, the AMQP row was the
one that was not merely ordered differently: a handler reaching for errors it
was handed is what makes its triage site the same shape as the other two, rather
than importing RetryableError and constructing it by hand.

What changed

Three lines at the dispatch seam (runHandler), the StoredHandler shape, and
the two leaf types — plus raw on WorkerHandlerHelpers. Everything else is
the sweep: 63 samples across the docs site, the READMEs, the agent rules and the
example worker, the unit and integration specs, and a new §"Handlers take
helpers first, message second" in the upgrade guide.

Two new type gates: raw is on the helpers record and typed ConsumeMessage,
and a third parameter is a compile error.

What the compiler does and does not catch

Reads its payload → fails to compile. Ignores its message → keeps
compiling, with a parameter whose name lies. That asymmetry is in the upgrade
guide with the grep for it, and it is why the sweep was done by reading every
handlers object rather than by chasing the error list.

Gate

format --check, lint (0 warnings), typecheck 17/17, knip, build, unit
13/13, and the integration tier against a real RabbitMQ — worker 33, tests 47,
core 33, client 14, both examples — all green.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Breaking Changes

  • Worker and RPC handlers now receive a helpers record first and the validated message second.
  • Access payloads and headers through helpers.input; raw delivery details are available through helpers.raw.
  • Separate raw-message and helpers parameters are no longer supported.

• New Features

  • Helpers now provide retryable and non-retryable error factories.

• Documentation

  • Updated guides, examples, READMEs, and upgrade instructions for the revised handler API.

• Tests

  • Updated fixtures and assertions for the new handler signature.

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Walkthrough

The worker handler contract now uses (helpers, message). Helpers expose input, context, raw delivery data, errors, and retry factories. Runtime code, tests, examples, documentation, and migration notes use the new contract.

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Helpers-first handler contract

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Handler contract and invocation packages/worker/src/types.ts, packages/worker/src/worker.ts, packages/worker/src/handlers.ts	Handler types and runtime invocation now use helpers first and the validated message second. Helpers expose input, raw, context, errors, retryable, and nonRetryable.
Type and runtime validation packages/worker/src/__tests__/*, packages/worker/src/*.spec.ts, packages/worker/src/handlers.test-d.ts, tests/src/__tests__/*	Tests and type checks use the new callback shape. They verify helper properties, middleware context, raw delivery access, retry helpers, payload substitution, and rejection of a third handler parameter.
Documentation, examples, and migration guidance .agents/rules/*, .changeset/*, docs/**/*, README.md, packages/*/README.md, packages/*/src/builder/*, packages/*/src/errors.ts, packages/worker/src/middleware.ts, examples/basic-order-processing-worker/*	Rules, guides, examples, and API notes describe the helpers-first signature, helpers.input, helpers.raw, and helper-based retry errors.

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This PR changes the handler calling convention and related documentation, but the current version still permits explicit undefined payload substitutions to bypass middleware revalidation and includes middleware examples with unsupported error-combinator names that may fail to compile when copied. Merge should wait for these bounded correctness and documentation issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

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It’s a breaking change that modifies the core worker dispatch/handler API shape and requires careful human validation of downstream compatibility beyond the updated sweep.

Pull request overview

This PR aligns the AMQP worker handler “leaf” signature with the transport family convention (oRPC as reference): handlers now take (helpers, message) instead of (message, rawMessage, helpers), and the raw ConsumeMessage moves into helpers.raw. This change updates the worker dispatch seam and public types, then sweeps docs/examples/tests to the new signature.

Changes:

• Swap handler invocation order at the worker dispatch seam and move the raw delivery into helpers.raw.
• Update public handler/leaf TypeScript types to enforce the new (helpers, message) shape and reject a third parameter.
• Sweep docs, READMEs, examples, and unit/integration tests to the new signature and expectations.

File summaries

File	Description
tests/src/tests/rpc.spec.ts	Updates RPC handler leaves in tests to (helpers, message) order.
tests/src/tests/middleware.spec.ts	Updates middleware-related handlers and helper usage to the new helpers-first signature (including raw on helpers).
tests/src/tests/decompression-cap.spec.ts	Updates decompression-cap test handler signature to helpers-first.
tests/src/tests/compression.spec.ts	Updates handler call assertions to reflect the new (helpers, message) call shape.
tests/src/tests/client-worker.spec.ts	Updates integration expectations and mock handler arity to (helpers, message).
README.md	Updates top-level README handler example to helpers-first.
packages/worker/src/worker.ts	Changes internal stored handler shape and dispatch (runHandler) to call handler(helpers, message) and populate helpers.raw.
packages/worker/src/types.ts	Updates WorkerHandlerHelpers and handler leaf types to helpers-first; adds raw: ConsumeMessage to helpers and adjusts docs/examples.
packages/worker/src/rpc-reply-failure.spec.ts	Updates RPC reply failure tests’ handler signatures to helpers-first.
packages/worker/src/handlers.ts	Updates JSDoc examples to helpers-first handler leaves.
packages/worker/src/handlers.test-d.ts	Adds/updates type-level tests to ensure raw is on helpers and a third handler parameter is a compile error.
packages/worker/src/handlers.spec.ts	Updates handler definitions in unit tests to helpers-first (or parameterless where appropriate).
packages/worker/src/tests/worker.spec.ts	Updates integration worker handlers to helpers-first signature across scenarios.
packages/worker/src/tests/worker-retry.spec.ts	Updates retry tests to access the raw delivery via helpers.raw.
packages/worker/src/tests/worker-retry-head-of-line.spec.ts	Updates handler signature for head-of-line retry test to helpers-first.
packages/worker/src/tests/worker-middleware-context.spec.ts	Updates middleware-context test handlers to destructure context from helpers (now first parameter).
packages/worker/src/tests/worker-double-ack.spec.ts	Updates handler signature for double-ack invariant test to helpers-first.
packages/worker/README.md	Updates worker package README examples to helpers-first.
packages/contract/README.md	Updates contract README RPC handler example to helpers-first.
examples/basic-order-processing-worker/src/index.ts	Updates example worker handlers to helpers-first signature.
examples/basic-order-processing-worker/src/index.spec.ts	Updates example integration spec handlers to helpers-first signature.
examples/basic-order-processing-worker/README.md	Updates example README handler snippets to helpers-first signature.
docs/tutorial/getting-started.md	Updates tutorial handler examples to helpers-first.
docs/tutorial/adding-request-reply.md	Updates tutorial RPC handler examples to helpers-first.
docs/index.md	Updates docs index handler example to helpers-first.
docs/how-to/use-request-reply.md	Updates request/reply guide handler examples (including typed errors) to helpers-first.
docs/how-to/upgrade.md	Adds/expands upgrade-guide section describing the handler signature swap and migration steps.
docs/how-to/troubleshoot.md	Updates troubleshooting handler example to helpers-first.
docs/how-to/test-with-rabbitmq.md	Updates test-with-RabbitMQ guide handler example to helpers-first.
docs/how-to/share-connections.md	Updates share-connections guide handler example to helpers-first.
docs/how-to/route-dead-letters.md	Updates dead-letter guide to use helpers.raw for raw header access and helpers-first handler shape.
docs/how-to/retry-failed-messages.md	Updates retry guide handler example to helpers-first.
docs/how-to/instrument-with-opentelemetry.md	Updates OTel instrumentation guide handler example to helpers-first.
docs/how-to/consume-messages.md	Updates consume-messages guide examples and raw-delivery access to helpers-first (helpers.raw).
docs/how-to/compress-messages.md	Updates compression guide handler example to helpers-first.
docs/how-to/add-middleware.md	Updates middleware guide handler examples and narrative to reflect helpers-first handler shape.
docs/how-to/add-logging.md	Updates logging guide handler example to helpers-first.
docs/explanation/why-amqp-contract.md	Updates explanation example handler to helpers-first.
docs/explanation/the-retry-model.md	Updates retry-model explanation handler example to helpers-first.
docs/explanation/delivery-guarantees.md	Updates delivery-guarantees example to access the delivery via helpers.raw.
docs/explanation/core-concepts.md	Updates core-concepts handler example to helpers-first.
docs/examples/command-pattern.md	Updates command-pattern example handler to helpers-first.
docs/examples/basic-order-processing.md	Updates example handlers throughout to helpers-first signature.
.changeset/handler-helpers-first.md	Adds a changeset documenting the breaking handler signature change for @amqp-contract/worker.
.agents/rules/recipes.md	Updates agent recipe snippets to the helpers-first handler leaf shape.
.agents/rules/handlers.md	Updates handler rules documentation to helpers-first and documents helpers.raw.
.agents/rules/code-style.md	Updates code-style guidance snippets to helpers-first handler leaves.

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- Around line 7-8: Align all migration examples with the actual pre-change
handler signature: update .changeset/handler-helpers-first.md lines 7-8 and
24-27, plus docs/how-to/upgrade.md lines 380-383, so the raw amqplib delivery is
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In `@packages/worker/src/worker.ts`:
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preserving all declared view.errorConstructors in the same map. Ensure every
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packages/worker/src/types.ts (1)

167-177: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove implementation rationale from these comments.

Keep short API descriptions where needed. Move the retry-policy and construction rationale to the relevant specification.

• packages/worker/src/types.ts#L167-L177: replace the narrative comments with concise helper descriptions.
• packages/worker/src/worker.ts#L77-L80: remove the module-level construction rationale.
• packages/worker/src/__tests__/worker-retry.spec.ts#L67-L69: remove the repeated test rationale.
• packages/worker/src/__tests__/worker-retry.spec.ts#L1051-L1053: remove the repeated test rationale.

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Pushed 56736e9 — I checked oRPC's actual types instead of trusting the issue's table, and the issue was describing only half of the shape.

@orpc/server@2.0.0-beta.28:

interface ProcedureHandlerOptions<...> { context; input; path; procedure; signal; lastEventId; errors }
interface ProcedureHandler<...> {
  (opts: ProcedureHandlerOptions<...>, input: TInput): Promisable<THandlerOutput>;
}

Two parameters — but the input is on opts as well, so the second one is a shortcut, not the only way in. Both spellings are the same call, which is why btravstack uses both: its examples write ({ errors, context }, input) and http-server's own type tests write (opts) => opts.context….

What this branch had shipped offered only the positional half: message was reachable from nowhere but the second parameter, which is exactly what makes that parameter read as an imposition. message is on WorkerHandlerHelpers now:

getOrder: ({ errors, message }) => lookup(message.payload, errors),  // one destructuring
getOrder: ({ errors }, { payload }) => lookup(payload, errors),      // the shortcut
getOrder: (_, { payload }) => lookup(payload),                       // needs neither

Built per invocation rather than once, so a middleware that substitutes the payload cannot leave the record showing a value the handler never received. Gated by a type test and by an RPC round trip rewritten in the single-record spelling.

btravstack/temporal-contract#415 got the same treatment: args is on ActivityImplementationHelpers.

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packages/worker/src/types.ts (1)

152-157: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Move implementation rationale to the spec file.

Both locations add design rationale beside code. Keep local documentation focused on the observable contract and runtime invariant.

• packages/worker/src/types.ts#L152-L157: remove the oRPC convergence rationale from the public type documentation.
• packages/worker/src/worker.ts#L1052-L1055: remove the oRPC rationale from the helper-construction comment.

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In `@packages/worker/src/types.ts` around lines 152 - 157, Remove the oRPC
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ProcedureHandlerOptions in packages/worker/src/types.ts (lines 152-157), leaving
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In `@packages/worker/src/worker.ts`:
- Around line 1063-1064: Update the payload-branch condition in the terminal
handler so it distinguishes an omitted payload from an explicitly provided
undefined value, using property presence or an equivalent substitution flag.
Ensure both helpers.message and the positional handler argument receive the
middleware-substituted validated message when payload is explicitly undefined,
while preserving the existing behavior for omitted payloads.

In `@tests/src/__tests__/rpc.spec.ts`:
- Line 114: Update the calculate handler in the RPC test to accept both message
arguments, assert that the positional argument and helpers.message reference the
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In `@packages/worker/src/types.ts`:
- Around line 152-157: Remove the oRPC convergence and design rationale from the
public type documentation near ProcedureHandlerOptions in
packages/worker/src/types.ts (lines 152-157), leaving only the observable
contract and runtime invariant. Also remove the corresponding oRPC rationale
from the helper-construction comment in packages/worker/src/worker.ts (lines
1052-1055); the rationale requires no replacement beside either code site.

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Carried btravstack/temporal-contract#415's two review notes across in 3f89ca6, so both libraries answer the same way:

• input, not message — oRPC's own word (ProcedureHandlerOptions carries input), and the same name on all three transports is the point: a developer moving a use case between them destructures input in each. The positional parameter is still whatever the author names it, message included.
• The _ placeholder is gone — with the message on the record, a handler that wants only it reads ({ input: { payload } }) => …, so there was nothing left worth promoting about (_, { payload }). Every sample, spec and doc reads the record now; the positional form survives only where a page shows it as the alternative oRPC also offers.

processOrder: ({ input: { payload } }) => save(payload),
handleFailed: ({ raw, input: { payload } }) => log(raw.properties.headers),
getOrder:     ({ errors, input: { payload } }) => lookup(payload, errors),
getOrder:     ({ errors }, { payload }) => lookup(payload, errors),   // still the same call

Gate: typecheck 17/17, unit 13/13 (--force, no cache), integration 33 + 47 + 33 + 14 + both examples.

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Use the supported error combinators.

This example uses .mapErr and .flatMapErr, but unthrown does not define those methods. Replace them with .mapErrCases(...) and .flatMapErrCases(...) so readers can compile the middleware example.

As per path instructions, unthrown provides mapErrCases and flatMapErrCases, not mapErr or flatMapErr.

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In `@docs/how-to/add-middleware.md` at line 68, Update the middleware
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Inline comments:
In @.agents/rules/handlers.md:
- Line 29: Update the helper parameter heading in the handlers documentation to
replace message with input, matching the helper record and the input
destructuring used across all transports.

Apply the same fix in @.changeset/handler-helpers-first.md at line 53: The
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Apply the same fix in `@docs/how-to/upgrade.md` at line 392: The
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In `@docs/how-to/add-middleware.md`:
- Line 68: Update the middleware documentation sentence describing
post-processing of next()’s AsyncResult to use the supported mapErrCases(...)
and flatMapErrCases(...) combinators instead of mapErr and flatMapErr; retain
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