End-to-end milestone fieldtest (closing gate) for the "Construction layer"
milestone (#12 composites + #13 aura graph render). Four real downstream tasks
authored against the PUBLIC interface only (ledger + doc-comments + re-exports
+ the aura CLI), under fieldtests/milestone-construction-layer/:
mc_1 — author a named sma_cross composite, build a Blueprint, compile +
bootstrap + run (12 populated equity rows);
mc_2 — correct vs fast/slow-swapped cross: labels + graph-as-data differ
observably (the headline mis-wire-visible property);
mc_3 — composite-nested-in-composite inlines and runs;
mc_4 — walk the built graph via the read-only accessors, no engine internals.
Roll-up: friction_found, NO bugs. The milestone delivers its core promise —
fractal authoring -> compile -> bootstrap -> run, introspection as graph-as-data,
and param-carrying labels that make a mis-wire readable. None of the findings
block the gate.
Findings filed to the forward queue (not fixed here):
- #28 (feature) — the headline friction: `aura graph` renders only the built-in
sample and the render adapter is CLI-private, so a consumer can't render their
OWN graph. Subsumes the reachability of #26 (the nested-render panic is
structurally unreachable until the render is parameterizable). Likely next
(consumer-project / World) milestone.
- #29 (idea) — aura-engine doesn't re-export the scalar vocabulary (ScalarKind
etc.) a graph-builder needs; one-crate ergonomics tidy.
- #16 (comment) — `aura graph` arg policy (help / unknown-arg) should unify with
the still-open `aura run` strictness question.
The fieldtester read no implementation source; all artefacts are the consumer
crate + the two live render captures (render_clustered.txt / render_compiled.txt,
byte-identical across runs).
