# Continue: Can a Lexical editor collaborate through Yjs on Durable Objects?

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{
  "id": "collaborative-editor",
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "revision": "2026-09-14.1",
  "status": "researching",
  "title": "Can a Lexical editor collaborate through Yjs on Durable Objects?",
  "area": "Composition · realtime systems",
  "summary": "The component capabilities are documented. Provider compatibility and durable recovery are still unresolved integration work.",
  "constraints": [
    "Two authenticated users edit one rich-text document.",
    "Edits must survive a backend restart; reconnect must recover missed updates.",
    "Do not assume a generic WebSocket server implements the Yjs provider protocol."
  ],
  "collection": {
    "agent": "Codex",
    "model": "GPT-6",
    "resolvedModelRevision": null,
    "method": "official-documentation-review",
    "checkedAt": "2026-09-14",
    "review": "unreviewed"
  },
  "subjects": [
    {
      "id": "lexical",
      "name": "Lexical",
      "role": "Editor binding",
      "url": "https://lexical.dev/docs/collaboration/react"
    },
    {
      "id": "yjs",
      "name": "Yjs / y-websocket",
      "role": "Document synchronization",
      "url": "https://docs.yjs.dev/ecosystem/connection-provider/y-websocket"
    },
    {
      "id": "cloudflare-do-sqlite",
      "name": "Durable Objects + SQLite",
      "role": "Proposed room host and storage",
      "productId": "cloudflare-do-sqlite"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "lexical-react",
      "title": "Lexical React collaboration",
      "url": "https://lexical.dev/docs/collaboration/react",
      "locator": "Getting started; Initial editor content",
      "checkedAt": "2026-09-14",
      "version": "Living documentation; runtime versions not pinned"
    },
    {
      "id": "y-provider",
      "title": "Yjs WebSocket provider",
      "url": "https://docs.yjs.dev/ecosystem/connection-provider/y-websocket",
      "locator": "Client API",
      "checkedAt": "2026-09-14",
      "version": "Living documentation; runtime versions not pinned"
    },
    {
      "id": "do-ws",
      "title": "Durable Object WebSockets",
      "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/best-practices/websockets/",
      "locator": "How hibernation works",
      "checkedAt": "2026-09-14",
      "version": "Living documentation; runtime versions not pinned"
    }
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "lexical-binding",
      "text": "Lexical documents React collaboration bindings built on Yjs.",
      "scope": "React integration in current upstream documentation.",
      "kind": "documented",
      "evidenceIds": [
        "lexical-react"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "lexical-provider",
      "text": "Lexical identifies y-websocket as its officially supported connection provider.",
      "scope": "This does not establish compatibility with a custom Durable Object server.",
      "kind": "documented",
      "evidenceIds": [
        "lexical-react"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "y-awareness",
      "text": "The y-websocket client accepts an awareness instance and exposes connection and synchronization state.",
      "scope": "Client provider API; no tested server implementation selected.",
      "kind": "documented",
      "evidenceIds": [
        "y-provider"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "do-hibernation",
      "text": "Durable Objects can keep WebSocket clients connected during hibernation while resetting in-memory state.",
      "scope": "Hibernation API; an in-memory Y.Doc is not a persistence strategy.",
      "kind": "documented",
      "evidenceIds": [
        "do-ws"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "alternatives": [
    {
      "title": "Standard y-websocket baseline",
      "tradeoff": "Use the documented provider/server arrangement to establish client behavior before replacing the backend. This is a control experiment, not evidence about Durable Objects."
    },
    {
      "title": "Custom Durable Object adapter",
      "tradeoff": "Potential room-local coordination, but protocol handling, persistence and authorization remain work to implement and verify."
    }
  ],
  "gaps": [
    "Select and pin a compatible server adapter or implement its protocol.",
    "Specify when a received edit becomes durable and how state is reconstructed.",
    "Define room authorization, revocation, and server-side initialization."
  ],
  "recipe": {
    "id": "lexical-do-probe",
    "title": "Probe a Durable Object collaboration adapter",
    "status": "blocked-draft",
    "dependencyClaimIds": [
      "lexical-binding",
      "lexical-provider",
      "y-awareness",
      "do-hibernation"
    ],
    "steps": [
      {
        "title": "Establish the baseline",
        "instruction": "Pin Lexical, Yjs and y-websocket versions. Start the upstream collaboration example in two independent browsers; retain the lockfile and configuration.",
        "expected": "A repeatable baseline environment is recorded."
      },
      {
        "title": "Select the room adapter",
        "instruction": "Document the exact client/server message contract and authentication boundary. Do not substitute an echo server. This prerequisite is unresolved.",
        "expected": "A pinned adapter and protocol fixtures exist before proceeding."
      },
      {
        "title": "Specify durable recovery",
        "instruction": "Define persisted updates, snapshot recovery, and acknowledgement semantics. Separate hibernation from process restart checks.",
        "expected": "A recovery design with an explicit durable-write boundary."
      },
      {
        "title": "Run the acceptance matrix",
        "instruction": "Capture convergence, reconnect, restart and unauthorized-room results with sanitized logs and versions.",
        "expected": "Each check has an observed result or explicit not-attempted state."
      }
    ],
    "checks": [
      {
        "id": "convergence",
        "expected": "Concurrent edits converge to identical document state."
      },
      {
        "id": "reconnect",
        "expected": "A disconnected client recovers missed edits after reconnect."
      },
      {
        "id": "restart",
        "expected": "Edits acknowledged as durable survive the specified backend restart."
      },
      {
        "id": "isolation",
        "expected": "An unauthorized client cannot read or write the room."
      }
    ]
  },
  "executions": []
}

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