Lets a client ask "is peer X currently online in network Y?" without joining that network first — a stateless O(1) lookup against the anchor's existing client registry. Scoped to (net, id) rather than a global lookup by id alone, so it can't be used as a cross-network "is this pubkey online anywhere" oracle: the caller must already know a network the peer belongs to, matching the knowledge already required to join it and observe presence the slow way via peer-join/peer-leave. Motivated by flit's known-devices list, where each pairing is its own isolated anchor network and the app holds no persistent connection while idle — today the only way to know if a device is reachable is to attempt a full connect. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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