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+'''
+Async context manager cache api testing: ``trionics.maybe_open_context():``
+
+'''
+from contextlib import asynccontextmanager as acm
+from typing import Awaitable
+
+import trio
+import tractor
+
+
+@tractor.context
+async def streamer(
+    ctx: tractor.Context,
+    seq: list[int] = list(range(1000)),
+) -> None:
+
+    await ctx.started()
+    async with ctx.open_stream() as stream:
+        for val in seq:
+            await stream.send(val)
+            await trio.sleep(0.001)
+
+
+@acm
+async def open_stream() -> Awaitable[tractor.MsgStream]:
+
+    async with tractor.open_nursery() as tn:
+        portal = await tn.start_actor('streamer', enable_modules=[__name__])
+        async with (
+            portal.open_context(streamer) as (ctx, first),
+            ctx.open_stream() as stream,
+        ):
+            yield stream
+            breakpoint()
+
+        print('CANCELLING STREAMER')
+        await portal.cancel_actor()
+
+
+@acm
+async def maybe_open_stream(taskname: str):
+    async with tractor.trionics.maybe_open_context(
+        # NOTE: all secondary tasks should cache hit on the same key
+        key='stream',
+        mngr=open_stream(),
+    ) as (cache_hit, stream):
+
+        if cache_hit:
+            print(f'{taskname} loaded from cache')
+
+            # add a new broadcast subscription for the quote stream
+            # if this feed is already allocated by the first
+            # task that entereed
+            async with stream.subscribe() as bstream:
+                yield bstream
+        else:
+            # yield the actual stream
+            yield stream
+
+
+def test_open_local_sub_to_stream():
+    '''
+    Verify a single inter-actor stream can can be fanned-out shared to
+    N local tasks using ``trionics.maybe_open_context():``.
+
+    '''
+    async def main():
+
+        full = list(range(1000))
+
+        async def get_sub_and_pull(taskname: str):
+            async with (
+                maybe_open_stream(taskname) as stream,
+            ):
+                if '0' in taskname:
+                    assert isinstance(stream, tractor.MsgStream)
+                else:
+                    assert isinstance(
+                        stream,
+                        tractor.trionics.BroadcastReceiver
+                    )
+
+                first = await stream.receive()
+                print(f'{taskname} started with value {first}')
+                seq = []
+                async for msg in stream:
+                    seq.append(msg)
+                    print(f'{taskname} received {msg}')
+
+                assert set(seq).issubset(set(full))
+                print(f'{taskname} finished')
+
+        # TODO: turns out this isn't multi-task entrant XD
+        # We probably need an indepotent entry semantic?
+        async with tractor.open_root_actor():
+            async with (
+                trio.open_nursery() as nurse,
+            ):
+                for i in range(10):
+                    nurse.start_soon(get_sub_and_pull, f'task_{i}')
+                    await trio.sleep(0.001)
+
+    trio.run(main)