rename: retire the stage1-* family for the r-family (r-sma / r-breakout / r-meanrev)

The stage1 ordinal has been dead vocabulary since the C10 reframe dropped
the two-stage research model: a 1 structurally implies a 2 that no longer
exists. The family is renamed by its live discriminator - the R yardstick -
with members named by their signal, uniform with their signal-named
siblings (sma, macd, momentum):

- selectors: stage1-r -> r-sma, stage1-breakout -> r-breakout,
  stage1-meanrev -> r-meanrev (old tokens are usage errors, exit 2 - no
  silent alias)
- identifiers: Strategy::RSma/RBreakout/RMeanRev, HarnessKind::RSma,
  r_sma_*/r_breakout_*/r_meanrev_*, wrap_r, run_signal_r, RGrid, R_SMA_*
- persisted identity: the sma_signal composite (param prefix
  sma_signal.fast.length / .slow.length; fixtures regenerated; content-ids
  shift - no test pins a literal hash, the registry parses no record names)
- e2e test files git-mv'd to r_sma_e2e / r_breakout_e2e / r_meanrev_e2e
- dead Stage-1/Stage-2 prose reworded to post-C10 vocabulary across
  rustdoc, Cargo.tomls, ledger live lines, and the glossary (historical
  entries stay; fieldtests corpus untouched)
- CLAUDE.md invariant 7 rewritten to record the ratified C10 reframe
  faithfully (the token-swap alone would have laundered the retired
  gated-currency/realistic-broker design into unmarked live prose); the
  unbacked account-mode clause dropped

Verification: cargo build/test --workspace green (51 targets), clippy
-D warnings clean, doc build clean, acceptance grep gate leaves exactly
the one resampling-stage false positive (harness.rs), smoke: --harness
r-sma runs, --harness stage1-r exits 2 with the new usage line.

Decision log: forks and rationale recorded on the issue (reconciliation
+ implementation-phase comments).

closes #174

CLAUDE.md

@@ -84,31 +84,30 @@ design decision, not a refactor, and belongs in the ledger.
    makes a live external call mid-replay. (See `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` for the
    IONOS consent rule: external LLM calls happen at the recording/live-source
    edge, with explicit per-session consent, never inside a backtest.)
-7. **Strategy output is a directional bias stream; risk-based execution and
+7. **Strategy output is a directional bias stream; risk-based execution is a
-   realistic brokers are decoupled downstream layers; signal quality is measured
+   decoupled downstream layer; signal quality is measured in R.** The DAG
-   in R.** The DAG expresses one state at t (C8: ≤1 record per `eval`), so a
+   expresses one state at t (C8: ≤1 record per `eval`), so a strategy's primary,
-   strategy's primary, backtestable output is a signed, bounded **bias** `f64 ∈
+   backtestable output is a signed, bounded **bias** `f64 ∈ [-1,+1]` per cycle —
-   [-1,+1]` per cycle — direction (sign) + conviction (magnitude, optional),
+   direction (sign) + conviction (magnitude, optional), **unsized** (not an
-   **unsized** (not an equity curve, not a position, not a size). Sizing leaves the
+   equity curve, not a position, not a size). Sizing leaves the strategy: a
-   strategy: a decoupled **risk-based execution** layer `bias → stop-rule → Sizer →
+   decoupled **risk-based execution** layer `bias → stop-rule →
-   Veto → position-management` (the **RiskExecutor** composite, per symbol, nested
+   position-management` (the **RiskExecutor** composite, per symbol; the **Veto**
-   in a Broker/Account composite) turns bias + a protective **stop** into a sized
+   an optional documented pre-trade-gate seam) turns bias + a protective **stop**
-   intent. The **stop defines the risk unit R** (1R = the loss if stopped).
+   into a managed position, in R. The **stop defines the risk unit R** (1R = the
-   **Signal quality is measured in R** (R-multiples / expectancy), the account- and
+   loss if stopped). **Signal quality is measured in R** (R-multiples /
-   instrument-agnostic yardstick — **Stage 1**: flat-1R sizing, feed-forward, no
+   expectancy), the account- and instrument-agnostic yardstick — the research
-   equity feedback, the primary research loop. **Currency P&L is Stage 2** (deploy
+   loop is **pure feed-forward**: flat-1R, gross R → net R via the composable
-   viability): fixed-fractional sizing reads equity (compounding) → realistic
+   cost-model graph (C10), no Sizer, no equity feedback, no `z⁻¹` register.
-   brokers apply real frictions → currency equity, entered only after `E[R] > 0`.
+   **Money is a live/deploy-edge concern**: currency P&L, fixed-fractional
-   The single feedback (equity → Sizer) is cut by a `z⁻¹` register on the **fill
+   sizing, and compounding are post-hoc money-management transforms of the net-R
-   edge** (mark-to-market stays a same-cycle price read), encapsulated in the
+   sequence at the deploy/account layer, and the live broker is an **I/O
-   executor composite; flat-1R vs compounding is a **structural axis** (C11). The
+   adapter** at the recording/deploy edge (C11/C13), never part of the strategy.
-   broker-independent **position-event table** (`event_ts, action[buy/sell/close],
+   The broker-independent **position-event table** (`event_ts,
-   position_id, instrument_id, volume`) remains the **decoupled, derived** Stage-2
+   action[buy/sell/close], position_id, instrument_id, volume`) survives as the
-   audit layer — the first difference of the *book* (`deal = target − book −
+   **decoupled, derived** deploy/reconciliation audit artifact — the first
-   in_flight`), a computed table (not a per-`eval` output, since one decision
+   difference of the *book* (`deal = target − book − in_flight`), a computed
-   instant may yield >1 event) — feeding realistic brokers. Brokers/executors are
+   table (not a per-`eval` output, since one decision instant may yield >1
-   ordinary downstream nodes, never part of the strategy; account mode
+   event).
-   (netting/hedging) is a composition constraint.
 8. **Deploy artifacts are frozen.** Hot-reload (cdylib) is an authoring-loop
    tool only. The live bot is a statically-linked, versioned, frozen artifact —
    never hot-swapped (audit trail: this bot = this commit).

crates/aura-analysis/src/lib.rs

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ pub struct RunMetrics {
     /// `runs.jsonl` lines still deserialise (C14/C18 back-compat).
     #[serde(alias = "exposure_sign_flips")]
     pub bias_sign_flips: u64,
-    /// Optional Stage-1 R metrics block. `None` for a pip-only run (and for legacy
+    /// Optional R metrics block. `None` for a pip-only run (and for legacy
     /// `runs.jsonl` written before this field existed — `serde(default)`); omitted from
     /// the JSON entirely when absent (`skip_serializing_if`), so the pip-only on-disk
     /// shape stays byte-unchanged (C14/C18 back-compat).
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ pub struct RunMetrics {
     pub r: Option<RMetrics>,
 }
 
-/// R-based signal-quality metrics (Stage-1), reduced from a `PositionManagement` dense
+/// R-based signal-quality metrics, reduced from a `PositionManagement` dense
 /// record stream by [`summarize_r`]. Account- and instrument-agnostic (pure R). Carries
 /// the enriched dispersion/churn fields (SQN, conviction terciles, net-of-cost).
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize)]
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ impl PartialEq for RMetrics {
 // Dense `PositionManagement` record column indices — the lockstep contract with
 // aura-std's FIELD_NAMES/RECORD_KINDS. The record crosses the crate boundary as a
 // type-erased `Scalar` vector (C4 SoA), so it is read positionally, not by importing
-// the producer's types; the layout is shared by convention and `stage1_r_e2e.rs`
+// the producer's types; the layout is shared by convention and `r_sma_e2e.rs`
 // guards that it matches.
 mod r_col {
     pub const CLOSED: usize = 0;
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ pub fn summarize_r(
 /// `summarize_r_includes_open_trade_and_matches_r_metrics_from_rs` — touch one copy
 /// without the other and that test is the sole tripwire. The
 /// fields a flat R series cannot carry are set honestly: `n_open_at_end = 0`,
-/// `net_expectancy_r = expectancy_r` (exact under the Stage-1 cost = 0 invariant),
+/// `net_expectancy_r = expectancy_r` (exact under the cost = 0 invariant),
 /// `conviction_terciles_r = [0,0,0]` (per-trade conviction is not pooled). Empty
 /// input -> a well-defined all-zero `RMetrics`.
 pub fn r_metrics_from_rs(rs: &[f64]) -> RMetrics {
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ pub fn r_metrics_from_rs(rs: &[f64]) -> RMetrics {
         n_open_at_end: 0,
         sqn,
         sqn_normalized,
-        net_expectancy_r: mean, // cost = 0 -> net == gross (Stage-1 frictionless)
+        net_expectancy_r: mean, // cost = 0 -> net == gross (frictionless)
         conviction_terciles_r: [0.0; 3],
         trade_rs: Vec::new(),
     }
@@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@ mod tests {
     #[test]
     fn r_metrics_from_rs_folds_a_flat_series() {
         // pooled across-window R series [2.0, -1.0, 1.0]: expectancy = 2/3, 2 wins of 3,
-        // profit_factor = (2+1)/1 = 3. At cost 0 (frictionless Stage-1) net == gross.
+        // profit_factor = (2+1)/1 = 3. At cost 0 (frictionless) net == gross.
         // conviction terciles are not pooled -> [0,0,0]; n_open_at_end is not a pooled
         // concept -> 0.
         let m = r_metrics_from_rs(&[2.0, -1.0, 1.0]);

crates/aura-cli/Cargo.toml

@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ path = "src/main.rs"
 [dependencies]
 aura-core = { path = "../aura-core" }
 aura-engine = { path = "../aura-engine" }
-# aura-composites: the Stage-1 RiskExecutor / vol_stop composite-builders the
+# aura-composites: the RiskExecutor / vol_stop composite-builders the
-# stage1-r harness wires (kept out of aura-engine so the engine stays domain-free).
+# r-sma harness wires (kept out of aura-engine so the engine stays domain-free).
 aura-composites = { path = "../aura-composites" }
 aura-registry = { path = "../aura-registry" }
 aura-std = { path = "../aura-std" }

crates/aura-cli/tests/fixtures/sma_signal.json

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{"format_version":1,"blueprint":{"name":"sma_signal","nodes":[{"primitive":{"type":"SMA","name":"fast","bound":[{"pos":0,"name":"length","kind":"I64","value":{"I64":2}}]}},{"primitive":{"type":"SMA","name":"slow","bound":[{"pos":0,"name":"length","kind":"I64","value":{"I64":4}}]}},{"primitive":{"type":"Sub"}},{"primitive":{"type":"Bias","name":"bias","bound":[{"pos":0,"name":"scale","kind":"F64","value":{"F64":0.5}}]}}],"edges":[{"from":0,"to":2,"slot":0,"from_field":0},{"from":1,"to":2,"slot":1,"from_field":0},{"from":2,"to":3,"slot":0,"from_field":0}],"input_roles":[{"name":"price","targets":[{"node":0,"slot":0},{"node":1,"slot":0}],"source":"F64"}],"output":[{"node":3,"field":0,"name":"bias"}]}}

crates/aura-cli/tests/fixtures/sma_signal_open.json

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{"format_version":1,"blueprint":{"name":"sma_signal","nodes":[{"primitive":{"type":"SMA","name":"fast"}},{"primitive":{"type":"SMA","name":"slow"}},{"primitive":{"type":"Sub"}},{"primitive":{"type":"Bias","name":"bias","bound":[{"pos":0,"name":"scale","kind":"F64","value":{"F64":0.5}}]}}],"edges":[{"from":0,"to":2,"slot":0,"from_field":0},{"from":1,"to":2,"slot":1,"from_field":0},{"from":2,"to":3,"slot":0,"from_field":0}],"input_roles":[{"name":"price","targets":[{"node":0,"slot":0},{"node":1,"slot":0}],"source":"F64"}],"output":[{"node":3,"field":0,"name":"bias"}]}}

crates/aura-cli/tests/fixtures/stage1_signal.json

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-{"format_version":1,"blueprint":{"name":"stage1_signal","nodes":[{"primitive":{"type":"SMA","name":"fast","bound":[{"pos":0,"name":"length","kind":"I64","value":{"I64":2}}]}},{"primitive":{"type":"SMA","name":"slow","bound":[{"pos":0,"name":"length","kind":"I64","value":{"I64":4}}]}},{"primitive":{"type":"Sub"}},{"primitive":{"type":"Bias","name":"bias","bound":[{"pos":0,"name":"scale","kind":"F64","value":{"F64":0.5}}]}}],"edges":[{"from":0,"to":2,"slot":0,"from_field":0},{"from":1,"to":2,"slot":1,"from_field":0},{"from":2,"to":3,"slot":0,"from_field":0}],"input_roles":[{"name":"price","targets":[{"node":0,"slot":0},{"node":1,"slot":0}],"source":"F64"}],"output":[{"node":3,"field":0,"name":"bias"}]}}

crates/aura-cli/tests/fixtures/stage1_signal_open.json

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-{"format_version":1,"blueprint":{"name":"stage1_signal","nodes":[{"primitive":{"type":"SMA","name":"fast"}},{"primitive":{"type":"SMA","name":"slow"}},{"primitive":{"type":"Sub"}},{"primitive":{"type":"Bias","name":"bias","bound":[{"pos":0,"name":"scale","kind":"F64","value":{"F64":0.5}}]}}],"edges":[{"from":0,"to":2,"slot":0,"from_field":0},{"from":1,"to":2,"slot":1,"from_field":0},{"from":2,"to":3,"slot":0,"from_field":0}],"input_roles":[{"name":"price","targets":[{"node":0,"slot":0},{"node":1,"slot":0}],"source":"F64"}],"output":[{"node":3,"field":0,"name":"bias"}]}}

crates/aura-cli/tests/fixtures/unknown_node.json

@@ -1 +1 @@
-{"format_version":1,"blueprint":{"name":"stage1_signal","nodes":[{"primitive":{"type":"Nope","name":"fast","bound":[{"pos":0,"name":"length","kind":"I64","value":{"I64":2}}]}},{"primitive":{"type":"SMA","name":"slow","bound":[{"pos":0,"name":"length","kind":"I64","value":{"I64":4}}]}},{"primitive":{"type":"Sub"}},{"primitive":{"type":"Bias","name":"bias","bound":[{"pos":0,"name":"scale","kind":"F64","value":{"F64":0.5}}]}}],"edges":[{"from":0,"to":2,"slot":0,"from_field":0},{"from":1,"to":2,"slot":1,"from_field":0},{"from":2,"to":3,"slot":0,"from_field":0}],"input_roles":[{"name":"price","targets":[{"node":0,"slot":0},{"node":1,"slot":0}],"source":"F64"}],"output":[{"node":3,"field":0,"name":"bias"}]}}
+{"format_version":1,"blueprint":{"name":"sma_signal","nodes":[{"primitive":{"type":"Nope","name":"fast","bound":[{"pos":0,"name":"length","kind":"I64","value":{"I64":2}}]}},{"primitive":{"type":"SMA","name":"slow","bound":[{"pos":0,"name":"length","kind":"I64","value":{"I64":4}}]}},{"primitive":{"type":"Sub"}},{"primitive":{"type":"Bias","name":"bias","bound":[{"pos":0,"name":"scale","kind":"F64","value":{"F64":0.5}}]}}],"edges":[{"from":0,"to":2,"slot":0,"from_field":0},{"from":1,"to":2,"slot":1,"from_field":0},{"from":2,"to":3,"slot":0,"from_field":0}],"input_roles":[{"name":"price","targets":[{"node":0,"slot":0},{"node":1,"slot":0}],"source":"F64"}],"output":[{"node":3,"field":0,"name":"bias"}]}}

crates/aura-cli/tests/graph_construct.rs

@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ fn graph_build_renders_role_kind_mismatch_at_finalize_by_identifier() {
 /// runs and distinct for a structurally different topology. It is the same hash `aura run`
 /// stamps as `topology_hash` (both via the one `content_id` primitive over the canonical
 /// `blueprint_to_json` bytes), so a data-authored topology has a stable, comparable content
-/// id. (Note: an op-script and the Rust `stage1_signal` builder produce *different*
+/// id. (Note: an op-script and the Rust `sma_signal` builder produce *different*
 /// canonical forms — composite debug-name, an unbound `Bias.scale` — so they are different
 /// topologies by the byte definition; content-addressing keys on the canonical form.)
 #[test]

crates/aura-composites/src/lib.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-//! `aura-composites` — reusable Stage-1 composite-builders: the volatility stop and
+//! `aura-composites` — reusable composite-builders for the feed-forward R loop: the volatility stop and
 //! the per-symbol RiskExecutor. Both are `GraphBuilder` compositions (from
 //! `aura-engine`) of `aura-std` primitives, so this crate sits *above* both and is
 //! the single place where the engine's builder and the standard nodes are wired
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ pub fn vol_stop(length: i64, k: f64) -> Composite {
 /// are `named` `stop_length` / `stop_k` so their slots surface in `param_space` under
 /// the `.stop_length.length` / `.stop_k.weights[0]` suffixes). One body, so the
 /// topology — every node, edge, and exposed role — cannot drift between the two arms;
-/// only the two knobs differ (the `Option<i64>`-knob idiom `stage1_r_graph` uses).
+/// only the two knobs differ (the `Option<i64>`-knob idiom `r_sma_graph` uses).
 fn vol_stop_inner(knobs: Option<(i64, f64)>) -> Composite {
     let mut g = GraphBuilder::new("vol_stop");
     let price = g.input_role("price");

crates/aura-composites/tests/risk_executor.rs

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-//! The `RiskExecutor` composite (Stage-1, #128): a per-symbol risk-based executor over a
+//! The `RiskExecutor` composite (#128): a per-symbol risk-based executor over a
 //! bias stream — `stop-rule -> Sizer -> position-management`, exposing the dense R-record.
 //! Proves the composite bootstraps, runs end-to-end, and folds to the SAME R-outcomes as
 //! the hand-wired iter-1 chain, and that R is invariant under the Sizer's `risk_budget`
-//! (Stage-1 feed-forward). The Veto is a DOCUMENTED SEAM, not a runtime node (a
+//! (feed-forward). The Veto is a DOCUMENTED SEAM, not a runtime node (a
 //! pass-through identity is exactly what C19/C23 DCE deletes), so it appears nowhere here.
 use aura_core::{
     Cell, Ctx, FieldSpec, Firing, Node, NodeSchema, PortSpec, PrimitiveBuilder, Scalar,
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ use aura_std::{Recorder, PM_FIELD_NAMES, PM_RECORD_KINDS};
 use std::sync::mpsc::channel;
 
 // The dense-record columns this fixture reads, named in lockstep with the sibling
-// `stage1_r_e2e.rs` (which names `REALIZED_R = 1` the same way) so the cross-crate
+// `r_sma_e2e.rs` (which names `REALIZED_R = 1` the same way) so the cross-crate
 // `PM_FIELD_NAMES` layout is never referenced by a bare literal.
 const REALIZED_R: usize = 1;
 const SIZE: usize = 10;
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ fn risk_executor_bootstraps_and_folds_to_expected_rmetric() {
     assert!((m.expectancy_r - 0.5).abs() < 1e-9, "window-end R = (105-100)/10; got {}", m.expectancy_r);
 }
 
-/// Property: R is invariant under the Sizer's `risk_budget` (Stage-1 feed-forward). The
+/// Property: R is invariant under the Sizer's `risk_budget` (feed-forward). The
 /// same price path at two budgets yields a bit-identical realised-R ledger, while the
 /// `size` column scales with the budget — proving size flows through the Sizer into PM yet
 /// never touches R.
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ fn risk_executor_r_invariant_under_risk_budget() {
 }
 
 /// Property: **a real folded `RMetrics` survives the `RunMetrics.r` serde round-trip
-/// byte-for-byte (the Stage-1 on-disk back-compat contract), driven from an actual run —
+/// byte-for-byte (the on-disk back-compat contract), driven from an actual run —
 /// not a hand-built literal.** A bootstrapped RiskExecutor run is folded by `summarize_r`
 /// and the result is attached as `RunMetrics.r = Some(..)`; serializing then
 /// deserializing must reproduce an equal value, and the `r` key must be present. The
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ fn folded_rmetrics_survives_runmetrics_serde_round_trip() {
 }
 
 /// Property: the RiskExecutor embeds the `vol_stop` composite (the new `StopRule::Vol`
-/// arm) and folds to a finite RMetric — the volatility-defined default the `stage1-r`
+/// arm) and folds to a finite RMetric — the volatility-defined default the `r-sma`
 /// harness uses. A short k·σ stop over a rising-then-falling path opens a trade and
 /// (stop or window-end) closes at least one, so the fold is non-empty and sane.
 #[test]
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ fn risk_executor_vol_open_exposes_the_two_stop_knobs_as_free_axes() {
 
 /// Property (#137): the OPEN vol-stop arm, bootstrapped at a given `(length, k)`, folds to
 /// the SAME R-outcome as the BOUND arm at the same values — the byte-equivalence the
-/// no-flags stage1-r sweep relies on to stay golden (the gridding variant only frees the
+/// no-flags r-sma sweep relies on to stay golden (the gridding variant only frees the
 /// two knobs; topology and every other constant are unchanged). The open arm's positional
 /// point is `[length, k]` in `param_space` slot order (length first, then k).
 #[test]

crates/aura-engine/Cargo.toml

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ serde_json = { workspace = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 # aura-std is a TEST-ONLY dependency: the engine's own integration tests
-# (stage1_r_e2e, random_sweep_e2e, ger40_breakout) drive real standard nodes through
+# (r_sma_e2e, random_sweep_e2e, ger40_breakout) drive real standard nodes through
 # a bootstrapped Harness. The engine's library code never names a concrete node — it
 # routes type-erased Scalar records (summarize_r reads the PositionManagement record
 # positionally, by index), so aura-std stays out of [dependencies] and the engine is

crates/aura-engine/tests/r_meanrev_e2e.rs

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 //! {Gt, Gt} -> {Latch, Latch} -> Sub = bias in {-1,0,+1}. Tests the FADE
 //! direction (price above mean+k*sigma -> short -1; below mean-k*sigma -> long
 //! +1), the latched hold, and that no fade fires on a flat series. Built
-//! straight from aura-std nodes (no CLI dependency); mirrors stage1_breakout_e2e.
+//! straight from aura-std nodes (no CLI dependency); mirrors r_breakout_e2e.
 
 use aura_core::{Scalar, Timestamp};
 use aura_engine::{GraphBuilder, Harness, Source, VecSource};

crates/aura-engine/tests/r_sma_e2e.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-//! Stage-1 R E2E: a synthetic bias+price chain through stop-rule + position-management,
+//! R E2E: a synthetic bias+price chain through stop-rule + position-management,
 //! recorded and folded by `summarize_r`. Also guards the dense-record layout contract
 //! (aura-std's `PM_FIELD_NAMES`/`PM_RECORD_KINDS` vs the column indices `summarize_r`
 //! reads).
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ fn synthetic_long_then_stop_produces_a_sane_rmetric() {
 
 /// Drive the real cross-crate chain `stop -> PositionManagement` over a `(bias, price)`
 /// path, collecting the producer's dense records (decoded by the producer's own
-/// `PM_RECORD_KINDS`, the wire contract) into a ledger — the recorded stream a Stage-1
+/// `PM_RECORD_KINDS`, the wire contract) into a ledger — the recorded stream an R-yardstick
 /// run would persist. Per-cycle bias (not constant) so a fixture can drop bias to 0 to
 /// forbid the immediate re-entry after a stop. The fold is left to the caller so the
 /// same recorded ledger can be summarized at several `round_trip_cost` values.
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ fn run_chain_ledger(stop: &mut dyn Node, path: &[(f64, f64)]) -> Vec<(Timestamp,
 
 /// Drive the real cross-crate chain `stop -> PositionManagement -> summarize_r`
 /// over a `(bias, price)` path. This is the actual producer->consumer seam,
-/// node-by-node; the resulting `RMetrics` is what a recorded Stage-1 run would report.
+/// node-by-node; the resulting `RMetrics` is what a recorded R-yardstick run would report.
 fn run_chain(stop: &mut dyn Node, path: &[(f64, f64)]) -> RMetrics {
     summarize_r(&run_chain_ledger(stop, path), &[])
 }

crates/aura-engine/tests/streaming_reduction_equivalence.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 //! Folded sink reductions are byte-for-byte equal to the raw-recorder path.
-//! Drives the folding sinks node-by-node (the `stage1_r_e2e.rs` direct-node
+//! Drives the folding sinks node-by-node (the `r_sma_e2e.rs` direct-node
 //! style) over a synthetic dense R-record + equity/exposure series, and asserts
 //! `summarize_r` over `GatedRecorder`'s emitted rows equals `summarize_r` over
 //! the full record, and a `SeriesReducer` summary equals `summarize`'s fields.

crates/aura-std/src/position_management.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-//! `PositionManagement` — the stateful heart of Stage-1 risk-based execution. Turns a
+//! `PositionManagement` — the stateful heart of feed-forward risk-based execution. Turns a
 //! bias + a protective-stop distance into a stream of realised per-trade R-outcomes.
 //! Emits ONE dense record per cycle (C8, like `SimBroker`; multi-field output on the
 //! `Resample` precedent): the trade ledger is the rows where `closed_this_cycle`, the
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ impl Node for PositionManagement {
                 } else {
                     price.max(p.stop_level)
                 };
-                // size-invariant: R is a pure stop-distance ratio (Stage-1 feed-forward).
+                // size-invariant: R is a pure stop-distance ratio (feed-forward).
                 realized = p.dir as f64 * (fill - p.entry) / p.latched_dist;
                 was_stopped = true;
                 reason = ExitReason::Stop as i64;
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ impl Node for PositionManagement {
                 closed = true;
                 self.pos = None;
             } else if bias_exit {
-                // size-invariant: R is a pure stop-distance ratio (Stage-1 feed-forward).
+                // size-invariant: R is a pure stop-distance ratio (feed-forward).
                 realized = p.dir as f64 * (price - p.entry) / p.latched_dist;
                 reason = if sign0(bias) != 0.0 {
                     ExitReason::ReversalLeg as i64
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ mod tests {
     }
 
     // (3) R-invariance under size: the Sizer's `size` flows into col 10 but never into R.
-    // Scaling size leaves every realized_r identical (the property that keeps Stage 1
+    // Scaling size leaves every realized_r identical (the property that keeps the research loop
     // feed-forward); col 10 reflects the size so we know it actually flowed end-to-end.
     #[test]
     fn realized_r_is_invariant_under_size() {

crates/aura-std/src/sizer.rs

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-//! `Sizer` — the flat-1R sizing seam (C10 Stage-1). Turns a protective-stop distance
+//! `Sizer` — the flat-1R sizing seam (C10). Turns a protective-stop distance
 //! into a position `size = risk_budget / stop_distance`: with `risk_budget = 1.0` this is
 //! true flat-1R (one risk unit per trade) and `size` is inversely proportional to the
 //! stop — NOT a constant. The `bias` input gates firing (a size is only meaningful when a
-//! strategy is taking a position) and is the Stage-2 seam: fixed-fractional sizing swaps
+//! strategy is taking a position) and is the live/deploy-edge seam: fixed-fractional
-//! `risk_budget` for `risk_fraction · equity` (an added equity input), same node shape.
+//! sizing swaps `risk_budget` for `risk_fraction · equity` (an added equity input), same
-//! R is computed SIZE-INVARIANTLY downstream, so the Sizer never contaminates signal
+//! node shape. R is computed SIZE-INVARIANTLY downstream, so the Sizer never contaminates
-//! quality — it only scales the (Stage-2) currency exposure.
+//! signal quality — it only scales the (deploy-edge) currency exposure.
 use aura_core::{
     Cell, Ctx, FieldSpec, Firing, Node, NodeSchema, ParamSpec, PortSpec, PrimitiveBuilder,
     ScalarKind,

docs/design/INDEX.md

@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ the ground truth**. The cost model *approximates*; it **never claims realism**.
 `SimBroker` (the pip-equity, unsized-exposure node) is the **pre-reframe pip
 ancestor** — with the net-R cost model it is **redundant as a quality measure** (R
 supersedes pips). It is retained as a **legacy / simple optional pip yardstick**
-(still wired in the `stage1-r` harness for an honest dual readout), **not part of
+(still wired in the `r-sma` harness for an honest dual readout), **not part of
 the new model and not to be expanded**.
 
 **Forbids.** Putting **sizing or the stop in the strategy** (bias is unsized; the
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ co-temporal cost stream (positional 1:1 join — `cost[i]` is `record[i]`'s cycl
 cost = 0 baseline on an empty stream. The headline sink is **`net_r_equity`** =
 `LinComb(4)[cum_realized_r, unrealized_r, −cum_cost_in_r, −open_cost_in_r]` → Recorder
 (C8/C18), a sibling of `r_equity`, emitted only when a cost is authored. Wired on the
-**run path** via `--cost-per-trade` (`stage1_r_graph`); sweep / walk-forward / mc pass
+**run path** via `--cost-per-trade` (`r_sma_graph`); sweep / walk-forward / mc pass
 `None` (cost on the reduce-mode sweep path and cost in OOS pooling deferred — the
 positional join holds only while one cost node fires in lockstep with PM). Deferred to
 later milestone cycles: the general `CostNode` trait + multi-node cost-graph
@@ -928,8 +928,8 @@ composite-builder (`risk_executor(StopRule, risk_budget)`) with a
 `StopRule{Fixed,Vol}` **structural axis** (C20); per the 2026-06-28 reframe its
 Sizer interior and `risk_budget` arg are dropped / vestigial, the **Veto** stays a
 documented seam, not a runtime node. The layer is operable from the CLI: `aura run
---harness <sma|macd|stage1-r>` — a compile-time selector over Rust-authored
+--harness <sma|macd|r-sma>` — a compile-time selector over Rust-authored
-harnesses (C9/C17) — folds `summarize_r` into `RunMetrics.r`, the `stage1-r`
+harnesses (C9/C17) — folds `summarize_r` into `RunMetrics.r`, the `r-sma`
 harness fanning one bias into both `SimBroker` (legacy pip) and the RiskExecutor
 (R); an `r_equity` tap charts the by-trade R-equity. Composites live in the
 dedicated `aura-composites` crate, so `aura-engine`'s runtime dependency stays
@@ -937,10 +937,10 @@ dedicated `aura-composites` crate, so `aura-engine`'s runtime dependency stays
 stays acyclic).
 
 **Realization (cycle 0066).** SQN is the operational single-number objective for
-ranking a Stage-1 sweep family by signal quality — C12 **axis-2 (argmax-metric)**
+ranking an r-sma sweep family by signal quality — C12 **axis-2 (argmax-metric)**
 over the C18 family store. `metric_cmp` (`aura-registry`) learns the
 higher-is-better R metrics `sqn`, `expectancy_r`, `net_expectancy_r`; a member
-with no `r` block sorts last (`NEG_INFINITY`). `aura sweep --strategy stage1-r`
+with no `r` block sorts last (`NEG_INFINITY`). `aura sweep --strategy r-sma`
 produces the rankable R family, each member folding `summarize_r` into
 `RunMetrics.r`. The default grid varies **only the signal** (`fast` / `slow` SMA
 lengths), holding the stop and sizing fixed: `risk_budget` is R-invariant and
@@ -954,8 +954,8 @@ beside the floated knobs (reproducible from its own manifest, C18).
 (`SQN_CAP = 100`), turnover-robust where raw `sqn` rewards trade count. It is an
 **opt-in** rank key (`Metric::SqnNormalized`); raw `sqn` and the default ranker
 stay byte-unchanged, and the field carries `#[serde(default)]` (C18). Below the cap
-(`n ≤ 100`) it equals raw `sqn` exactly. **#135 (stage1-r `--trace`):**
+(`n ≤ 100`) it equals raw `sqn` exactly. **#135 (r-sma `--trace`):**
-`stage1_r_sweep_family` persists each member's equity / exposure / r_equity under
+`r_sma_sweep_family` persists each member's equity / exposure / r_equity under
 `runs/traces/<n>/<member_key>/` via the same `persist_traces_r` the single run uses;
 per-member `--trace` is symmetric across all three sweep strategies.
 
@@ -1327,7 +1327,7 @@ one `content_id` primitive `topology_hash` also uses (acc 1); a Tier-1 optional
 blueprint does not use leaves the id byte-stable (acc 3, composing #156/#164).
 `serde_json/float_roundtrip` is enabled so stored f64 metrics round-trip exactly through
 `families.jsonl` — the precondition for a bit-identical compare (C1). **Signal-only this
-cycle**: the id covers the signal blueprint; the fixed Stage-1-R scaffolding stays
+cycle**: the id covers the signal blueprint; the fixed r-sma scaffolding stays
 commit-identified (it is not yet blueprint-data, C24). Whole-harness / structural-axis
 content-addressing, and whether the id should exclude the composite **debug-name** (a
 non-load-bearing symbol, invariant 11 — an op-script and the Rust builder produce
@@ -1887,7 +1887,7 @@ Tier-2 section to validate it; recorded on #156).
 **Realization (2026-06-30, cycle 0092 — runs are built FROM blueprint-data, #165).**
 `aura run <blueprint.json>` now loads a serialized **signal** blueprint
 (`blueprint_from_json` → the closed `std_vocabulary`; an unknown type fails clean as
-`UnknownNodeType`, the data-plane face of invariant 9), wraps it in the Stage-1-R run
+`UnknownNodeType`, the data-plane face of invariant 9), wraps it in the r-sma run
 scaffolding (sinks / broker / data supplied **at run**, not serialized — C24's deferred
 set), runs it, and emits a `RunReport` **bit-identical** (C1) to its Rust-built twin —
 proven by `loaded_signal_runs_bit_identical_to_rust_built`. The `RunManifest` now carries
@@ -1895,8 +1895,8 @@ a **`topology_hash`**: SHA256 of the canonical (#164) `blueprint_to_json`, the #
 reproducibility anchor, a Tier-1 optional field (#156). The hash + helper live
 research-side (`aura-cli` + `sha2`), off the frozen engine (invariant 8). This is the
 **keystone of the World/C21 milestone**: topology-as-data is now *runnable*, not only
-serializable. The harness wrap was made shareable — `stage1_r_graph()` =
+serializable. The harness wrap was made shareable — `r_sma_graph()` =
-`wrap_stage1r(stage1_signal(...))`, so the Rust path and the data path are the same seam
+`wrap_r(sma_signal(...))`, so the Rust path and the data path are the same seam
 over the same signal (a behaviour-preserving C19/C23 restructure). Scope note: the hash
 covers the **signal** only (the fixed scaffolding is identified by `commit`); a content-id
 distinguishing harness-structural variants is a #158/#166 concern once scaffolding varies.
@@ -1904,7 +1904,7 @@ distinguishing harness-structural variants is a #158/#166 concern once scaffoldi
 **Realization (2026-07-01, cycle 0093 — the World orchestrates FAMILIES from blueprint-data,
 #166).** `aura sweep <blueprint.json> --axis <name>=<csv>` loads an **open** signal blueprint,
 grids the by-name axes against its `param_space()`, builds each member through cycle-1's
-`wrap_stage1r` seam, and aggregates to a `FamilyKind::Sweep` family — byte-identical in shape
+`wrap_r` seam, and aggregates to a `FamilyKind::Sweep` family — byte-identical in shape
 to the hard-wired sweep (`append_family` / `sweep_member_reports` reused verbatim). This is the
 C21 step beyond a single run: the World now constructs and orchestrates **families** of
 harnesses from topology-data, not just one. Each member manifest carries the **shared**
@@ -1928,7 +1928,7 @@ the loaded blueprint's params over the user `--axis` grid (the #169 prefixed nam
 `select_winner` reused verbatim), runs it out-of-sample, and aggregates to a
 `FamilyKind::WalkForward` family — persisted + content-addressed + `aura reproduce` bit-identical
 (the read-side WalkForward branch rebuilds each OOS window from `manifest.window`). One
-substitution deep from the hard-wired stage1-r WF arm (the loaded blueprint via
+substitution deep from the hard-wired r-sma WF arm (the loaded blueprint via
 `blueprint_axis_probe` replaces the built-in strategy); a bad `--axis` is a clean in-closure
 exit 2, never a panic. This is Arm A (the settled direction): the loaded IS-optimizing form
 honestly carries the `walkforward` name. Reduce-mode members are R-measured (`oos_r` the
@@ -1942,11 +1942,11 @@ prints are exactly what `--axis` binds. Every listed name is **mandatory** on a
 `walkforward`: the blueprint must be fully bound before it runs, so a subset grid is refused with
 the missing knob named (`BindError::MissingKnob`) and there is no default — pin a knob you do not
 want to vary with a single-value axis (`--axis <name>=<one-value>`). A single `blueprint_axis_probe` helper now single-sources
-the wrapped probe (`wrap_stage1r(loaded_signal).param_space()`) for the sweep terminal, the MC
+the wrapped probe (`wrap_r(loaded_signal).param_space()`) for the sweep terminal, the MC
 closed-check, AND the listing (three former inline copies → one), so **listed == swept by
 construction** (and stays so across #159's harness retirement — the listing tracks whatever the
 sweep actually resolves, never a second source of truth). The names are prefixed by the current
-stage1-r wrapping (`stage1_signal.fast.length`, the nested-composite prefix), not the raw
+r-sma wrapping (`sma_signal.fast.length`, the nested-composite prefix), not the raw
 `param_space` — which is why the discovery lives on the sweep verb (it owns the wrapping), not
 `graph introspect`. Per-member trace-writing on `--trace` (#168) remains tracked debt.
 
@@ -1956,7 +1956,7 @@ content-addressed blueprint store (`aura reproduce`) shipped cycle 0094 (see C18
 Realization). What **remains** is a content-id that covers **structural-axis / whole-harness
 variants** (the scaffolding is not yet blueprint-data) and the debug-name-in-id question
 (#171/#170). Still deferred: retiring the pre-C24
-hard-wired `aura-cli` harnesses (`HarnessKind`, `run_stage1_r`, `*_sweep_family`) once
+hard-wired `aura-cli` harnesses (`HarnessKind`, `run_r_sma`, `*_sweep_family`) once
 the project-as-crate layer lands (#159, paired with #157's data-authoring surface). **Out of the first cut's round-trippable set**
 (deliberate; fails clean as `UnknownNodeType`, never a silent wrong graph): recording
 sinks (capture an `mpsc::Sender` — runtime identity, not param-generic data, C19) and

docs/glossary.md

@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ The set of harness instances produced by varying the structural axes (strategy
 
 ### exposure stream
 **Avoid:** — (superseded)
-**Superseded by `bias` (2026-06 R-reframe).** The pre-reframe primary output: a signed, bounded `f64 ∈ [-1,+1]` per cycle read as the desired fractional *position* (conflating direction + conviction + size). Reframed to `bias` (unsized direction + conviction), sizing moved downstream to the `Sizer`/`RiskExecutor`; the term and the `Exposure` node persist in pre-reframe code until the Stage-1 rename.
+**Superseded by `bias` (2026-06 R-reframe).** The pre-reframe primary output: a signed, bounded `f64 ∈ [-1,+1]` per cycle read as the desired fractional *position* (conflating direction + conviction + size). Reframed to `bias` (unsized direction + conviction), sizing moved downstream to the `Sizer`/`RiskExecutor`; the term and the `Exposure` node persisted in pre-reframe code until the r-family rename (#174).
 
 ### firing policy
 **Avoid:** —
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ System Quality Number — `√n · mean_R / stdev_R`: the dispersion- and trade-
 
 ### Stage 1 / Stage 2
 **Avoid:** — (superseded)
-**Superseded (2026-06-28 C10 reframe): there is no Stage-2 currency/compounding gate.** Research is one pure feed-forward R loop — gross R → net R via the `cost model` — with money, compounding, and a real broker living only at a separate later **live / deploy edge** (compounding is a post-hoc money-management transform of the net-R sequence, not an in-loop axis). The pre-reframe cleave gated a Stage-2 currency / fixed-fractional / realistic-broker layer behind `E[R] > 0`; **"Stage-1"** now survives only as a historical cycle / identifier name for the shipped feed-forward R chain, not one half of a two-stage gate.
+**Superseded (2026-06-28 C10 reframe): there is no Stage-2 currency/compounding gate.** Research is one pure feed-forward R loop — gross R → net R via the `cost model` — with money, compounding, and a real broker living only at a separate later **live / deploy edge** (compounding is a post-hoc money-management transform of the net-R sequence, not an in-loop axis). The pre-reframe cleave gated a Stage-2 currency / fixed-fractional / realistic-broker layer behind `E[R] > 0`; **"Stage-1"** now survives only as a historical cycle name — the shipped feed-forward R chain's identifier family was renamed to the r-family (`r-sma` / `r-breakout` / `r-meanrev`, #174) — not one half of a two-stage gate.
 
 ### strategy
 **Avoid:** —