1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/document/signatures.rs b/src/document/signatures.rs
index 5d8731b..19c13b8 100644
--- a/src/document/signatures.rs
+++ b/src/document/signatures.rs
@@ -4,8 +4,11 @@
 //!
 //! One signature vouches for more than its change: a change's hash covers its
 //! dependencies, and a node's change builds on its previous one, so a signed change of
-//! an actor vouches for all that actor's changes up to it (`check`: the actor and seq
-//! it verifies up to). So not every change needs one: a change is signed when it
+//! an actor vouches for the changes of that actor it builds on: in the document, all
+//! up to it (`check`: the actor and seq it verifies up to); received, not in it yet,
+//! those among them it builds on (`access::screen`). Only those: anyone can make a
+//! change under any actor, and one at a seq whose change the document holds is a fork
+//! (`forks`). So not every change needs one: a change is signed when it
 //! touches protocol data (`_continuum`) or a path the swarm lists as signed
 //! (`_continuum/access/signed`, `listed`), or when its write asks for it (`Sign`); a
 //! change left unsigned is vouched for by the node's next signed one, which, as
@@ -388,6 +391,22 @@ impl Signatures {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Whether a valid signature of `hash` is kept: it vouches for its change and the
+    /// changes of its actor it builds on.
+    pub(crate) fn signed(&self, hash: &ChangeHash) -> bool {
+        self.by_change.contains_key(hash)
+    }
+
+    /// Whether `change`, not in `doc`, forks its actor's changes: `doc` holds a change
+    /// a signature verified of that actor at a seq as late, so its real change at
+    /// `change`'s seq too. Anyone can make a change under any actor; only its node can
+    /// sign one.
+    pub(crate) fn forks(&self, doc: &Document, change: &super::Change) -> bool {
+        self.latest.get(change.actor_id()).is_some_and(|latest| {
+            latest.seq >= change.seq() && doc.get_change_meta_by_hash(&latest.hash).is_some()
+        })
+    }
+
     /// Whether a signature vouches for `actor`'s change `seq`.
     pub(crate) fn verified(&self, actor: &super::ActorId, seq: u64) -> bool {
         self.latest