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feat: node output is a record (composite stream), not a single scalar
Cycle 0005 (BLOCKER #1): a node's output generalizes from one scalar to a record of K >= 1 named base-scalar columns, with a scalar being the degenerate K = 1 case. A node keeps exactly one output port; its payload is now an ordered bundle of base columns (a composite stream, C7). This unblocks every multi-column producer the engine needs next -- OHLCV bars and, later, the C10 position-event table -- none of which could exist while a node emitted at most one column. Revises C8, sharpens C7 in the design ledger. Contract (aura-core): - `NodeSchema.output: ScalarKind` -> `Vec<FieldSpec>` (FieldSpec = { name: &'static str, kind }; the field position is what an Edge binds, the name is metadata for later sinks/playground, C18). - `Node::eval -> Option<Scalar>` -> `-> Option<&[Scalar]>`: a node fills a buffer it owns (sized once at construction) and returns a borrowed K-field row; `None` still means filter/not-warmed. This is the C7-faithful representation chosen with the user: zero per-cycle heap allocation on the forward path (rejected: Option<Vec<Scalar>> allocates per fire; an inline fixed [Scalar; N] bakes a width cap; engine-owned output columns invert the eval model). Scalar output is the degenerate 1-field record -- no separate scalar path. Field-wise binding (aura-engine): - `Edge` gains `from_field: usize` -- which producer column this edge forwards. Consuming a whole record is N edges; there is no "bind whole record" mechanism. - bootstrap kind-checks per field (`from.output.get(from_field)` -> BadIndex if out of range; `field.kind != slot.kind` -> KindMismatch). - the run loop copies a producer's returned row into one reused scratch buffer (resolving the borrow; no per-cycle alloc once warm) and scatters scratch[from_field] into each out-edge slot. `NodeBox.out_len` (set at bootstrap) backs a debug_assert on the returned row width. `run` returns `Vec<Option<Vec<Scalar>>>` (the observed node's full row per cycle -- a materialization-surface alloc, not the inter-node hot path). - the K fields of one record are co-fresh by construction (one eval, one timestamp), so C6 is untouched. aura-std: Sma/Sub migrate to the 1-field degenerate case (hold a [Scalar; 1] buffer; behaviour unchanged). Sub drops #[derive(Default)] (Scalar has no Default) for a manual Default. Proof (aura-engine tests, +5): an Ohlcv 5-field bundler fed by five timestamp-aligned barrier sources emits one complete bar per timestamp (ohlcv_bundles_five_field_record); a downstream Sub binds high(1)-low(2) field-wise, observed end-to-end + a determinism re-run (edge_binds_single_field_high_minus_low); a second consumer binds close(3)-open(0) on the same record (distinct_edges_read_distinct_fields); must-fail: bootstrap_rejects_from_field_out_of_range (BadIndex), bootstrap_rejects_per_field_kind_mismatch (a TwoField [f64,i64] producer, the i64 field into an f64 slot). All prior 0003/0004 tests adapted to from_field + the Vec return, expected vectors unchanged (scalar = 1-field record). Gates re-run by the orchestrator (not just the agent): cargo build/test --workspace --all-targets (36: aura-core 19 + aura-std 3 + aura-engine 14, 0 failed) / clippy --workspace --all-targets -D warnings clean; surface-purity grep (no dyn-Any / Rc / RefCell) clean. Ledger C8/C7 edits verified (Option<&[Scalar]> present, "one series per node" gone, cycle-0005 realization note added). The glossary composite/node record-reality pass is the audit-time follow-up. closes #1 refs walking-skeleton Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Brummel
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feat(engine): firing policies A/B + the k-way ingestion merge
Cycle 0004: the reactive-semantics layer. The engine now merges multiple
timestamped sources into one chronological cycle stream (C3) and gates each
node's re-evaluation by a per-input firing policy (C5/C6) — both rails shipping
together, as the user required ("must sit right from the start").
- `Firing` (aura-core) — a per-input enum on `InputSpec`, where C8 places firing:
`Any` (mode A, fire-on-any-fresh + hold / as-of join) and `Barrier(u8)` (mode B,
all-fresh barrier / synchronizing join). Default-free; Sma/Sub declare
`Firing::Any`, so under a single source ticking every cycle their behavior is
unchanged (backward compatible — the 0003 fan-out/join DAG still emits
[None,None,None,2,2,2]).
- `SourceSpec` + the k-way merge (aura-engine) — `run` takes one
`(Timestamp, Scalar)` stream per source and merges them by (timestamp, source
index) (C4 ties by declaration order). One record = one cycle. This is the
permanent ingestion core; the Source trait + data-server IO (C3/C11) are a
later orthogonal cycle (the user scoped this cycle to the reactive semantics).
- Two read clocks, both load-bearing (resolves the 0003 audit's "0004 owns
cycle_id" with no write-only field): each push stamps the input slot with
`fresh_at` (the cycle_id — freshness epoch, C5: fresh iff fresh_at == cycle_id)
and `last_ts` (the data timestamp — barrier token, C6: a barrier group is
complete iff all members carry last_ts == T). The `fires()` predicate ORs the
groups; the ">=1 member fresh this cycle" clause is the once-per-timestamp
guard. Sample-and-hold falls out of the push model: a non-firing node pushes
nothing, so consumers keep seeing the held value via window[0].
Key design call, studied against RustAst (src/ast/rtl/streams/): the barrier
token is the data *timestamp*, not cycle_id. RustAst's
last_cycle_per_input.all(== cycle_id) synchronizes one source's fan-out but
cannot synchronize independent sources — under C4 four same-timestamp sources
are four different cycle_ids, so the cycle_id barrier never fires for C6's own
OHLC example. Substituting timestamp is the minimal faithful generalization
(fires both the diamond rejoin and the multi-source bar). Mode A and the k-way
merge are both new (RustAst had neither); RustAst's total_count push counter is
aura's already-built Column::run_count.
Both rails proven on identical sources, firing-only difference:
- mode A (AsOfSum): [None,None,120,130,140,240] — holds the slow input;
- mode B (BarrierSum): [None,None,120,None,None,240] — waits for timestamp
coincidence;
- mixed A+B (MixedSum): the OR-combine fires both when the barrier pair completes
(holding the as-of input) and when the as-of input ticks (holding the pair).
Plus determinism (C1, bit-identical re-run of each rail) and the three bootstrap
rejections re-expressed on SourceSpec.
Gates green (re-run by the orchestrator, not just the agent): cargo build/test
(30: aura-core 19 + aura-std 3 + aura-engine 8) / clippy --workspace
--all-targets -D warnings clean; surface-purity grep (no dyn-Any / Rc / RefCell)
clean — the harness doc phrases RustAst's model without the literal tokens to
avoid self-match.
refs walking-skeleton
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Brummel
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feat(engine): the deterministic single-source sim loop
Cycle 0003: aura-engine's first real content — a Sim that runs a wired DAG of
nodes deterministically, cycle by cycle. First point in the project where
authored nodes execute against data, not just under a hand-fed Ctx.
- `Sim` (aura-engine) — a bootstrapped, frozen root graph: a flat Vec<NodeBox>
(each node owns its input columns, the cycle-0002 shape) + an index edge
table, topologically ordered (Kahn). `bootstrap` sizes every input column from
its node's schema, kind-checks each edge and source target, and rejects
directed cycles — C7's "type check paid once at wiring" generalized to the
whole topology (`BootstrapError::{KindMismatch, BadIndex, Cycle}`).
- `run` — the deterministic loop: per record, forward the source value into its
target slots, evaluate nodes in topo order, capture the observed node's output
at eval time, and forward each `Some` output into its consumers' input columns
(a `None` forwards nothing — the structural seed of sample-and-hold). The loop
destructures `&mut self` into disjoint field borrows and allocates nothing on
the per-cycle path. This is the flat, monomorphized sharpening of RustAst's
reference-counted, interior-mutable observer push graph (C1/C7).
- `Edge` / `Target` (aura-engine) — producer->consumer and source->consumer wiring.
- `Sub` (aura-std) — a 2-input f64-difference node, so the loop is proven on a
real fan-out + join DAG (source -> {SMA(2), SMA(4)} -> Sub), with a determinism
assertion (C1: a second identical run is bit-identical).
Engine library depends only on aura-core; a test-only dev-dependency on aura-std
lets the integration test wire real Sma/Sub nodes. Sim carries a hand-written,
node-opaque `Debug` impl (Box<dyn Node> is not Debug; the impl prints
nodes.len() + the index/topology fields, needed by the bootstrap-rejection tests'
`unwrap_err`).
Deliberately deferred (recorded as decisions): freshness-gated recompute /
sample-and-hold (C5 -> cycle 0004, with the second source that makes it testable);
the explicit monotonic cycle_id counter (its first reader is freshness, 0004);
the Source trait + data-server ingestion + k-way merge (C3/C11); the builder API
(C19); the real sink + run registry (C18/C22).
Gates green: cargo build/test (26: 18 aura-core + 3 aura-std + 5 aura-engine)/
clippy -D warnings clean; surface-purity grep (no dyn-Any / Rc / RefCell) clean.
refs walking-skeleton
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Brummel
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feat(core): the node contract — Node, schema/eval, Ctx, and a worked SMA
Cycle 0002, the second walking-skeleton slice on top of the 0001 substrate:
the interface every node forever implements (C8), proven end-to-end by a real
node with no engine present.
- `Node` (aura-core) — `schema() -> NodeSchema` declares inputs (kind +
lookback) and the single output kind; `eval(&mut self, Ctx) -> Option<Scalar>`
computes one cycle's output (`None` = filter / not-yet-warmed-up). `&mut self`
so a node may keep its own derived state.
- `Ctx<'a>` (aura-core) — a `Copy` borrow-wrapper handing `eval` zero-copy,
financial-indexed `Window`s per input (`ctx.f64_in(i)[k]`, index 0 = newest).
A kind mismatch panics ("engine bug") — wiring guarantees the kind, so a
mismatch can only mean the wiring layer is broken; this keeps node-author code
clean (`w[k]`, not `w?[k]`).
- `AnyColumn::as_f64/as_i64/as_bool/as_ts` (aura-core) — the read-side mirror of
the existing `as_*_mut`, the mechanism `Ctx` uses to get a typed window from a
type-erased edge. Closes the read-side gap the cycle-0001 audit recorded.
- `Sma` (aura-std) — the skeleton's first real block: a producer node computing
the moving mean of one f64 input, emitting `None` until warmed up. Authored in
a downstream crate (proving aura-core's contract is usable across the crate
boundary) and driven by a hand-written test that mimics exactly what the sim
loop will later generalize: push fresh input, eval, collect.
Deliberately deferred (spec 0002 "Out of scope", recorded as decisions): the
firing policies (C6 — InputSpec carries no firing field yet), the sim loop (C4)
and freshness gating (C5), schema-level tunable params (C12/C19), and the
no-output sink refinement (C8 consumer side).
Gates green: cargo build/test (20: 18 aura-core + 2 aura-std)/clippy -D warnings
all clean; surface-purity grep (no dyn-Any / Rc / RefCell) clean.
refs walking-skeleton
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docs: brokers are consumer nodes (C10), several attachable for comparable curves
Correct the broker mechanism: a broker is an ordinary downstream consumer node (C8/C9), not an external plugin/subsystem. It consumes the position-event stream + price streams and emits an equity stream; several brokers (e.g. sim-optimal pip + realistic currency) can be attached to the same position table at once, yielding directly comparable equity curves. Updates C10, CLAUDE.md invariant 7, aura-engine/aura-std crate docs, and the day-in-the-life doc. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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docs+scaffold: engine/project split (C16-C18), aura-std, usage doc
Refine the structure per interview: aura is the reusable engine, research projects are separate external repos depending on it (C16). Add aura-std (universal standard-node tier) to the workspace; remove nodes/ from the engine (project concept). Record authoring-surface = Claude Code + skills pipeline, no embedded coding-LLM (C17), and project management = one-repo-one-project + Aura-native run registry (C18). Add CLAUDE.md invariants 9-10, code_roots -> [crates], and docs/project-layout.md documenting the day-in-the-life and project repo layout. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |