First fieldtest of the sum combinators. A standalone downstream-consumer crate
(fieldtests/cycle-0008-sum-combinators/) path-depends on the engine crates and
exercises the post-0008 surface from the public interface only (rustdoc + ledger
+ glossary + project-layout, never crates/*/src).
Primary axis empirically met: the north-star two-signal combine move now uses the
shipped Add (Add::new() dropped in exactly where the 0007 fixture hand-authored
an Add2) — the 0007 boilerplate is retired, end to end through SimBroker to a
deterministic recorded pip curve.
Findings: 0 bugs, 1 friction, 2 spec_gaps, 3 working.
- working ×3: Add2 retired; LinComb weighted/variadic sums exact (<1e-12);
warm-up barrier + empty-weights panic as documented.
- spec_gap: Add/LinComb per-input firing policy (Firing::Any / mode-A as-of
join) absent from the public surface — same class as the 0007 SimBroker gap.
- spec_gap: a fired combinator emits one row per *cycle*, so a heterogeneous
same-timestamp multi-source trace can carry >1 row per timestamp (correct per
C4/C5, undocumented at this surface).
- friction: nested consumer crate still needs the empty [workspace] table
(carried from 0006/0007; #9 closed the docs half; folds into aura new).
Spec feeds the next plan as reference.
First fieldtest of the signal-quality loop. A standalone downstream-consumer crate
(fieldtests/cycle-0007-signal-quality/) path-depends on the engine crates and
exercises the post-0007 surface from the public interface only (rustdoc + specs +
ledger + glossary, never crates/*/src):
1 single-signal quality backtest, end to end (SMA-cross -> Exposure -> SimBroker
-> Recorder pip curve)
2 Exposure clamp + sizing (hard ±1 saturation, sign preserved)
3 sim-optimal integration: short-on-falling pays positive pips; pip_size=2 curve
exactly halves pip_size=1
4 north-star combine-two-signals (two MA-cross spreads summed into one exposure)
Findings: 3 working (carry-on), 2 spec_gap, 2 friction.
- spec_gap: SimBroker firing policy + cold-exposure->0.0 warm-up emission shape
not on the public surface (only in the feat commit body).
- spec_gap: SimBroker input slot order (0=exposure, 1=price) only in C10 prose /
commit body; a swapped wiring is not caught at bootstrap (both f64).
- friction: the north-star "combine two signals" move needs a sum/LinComb
combinator aura-std does not ship (hand-authored Add2 in the fixture).
- friction: standalone consumer crate still needs the empty [workspace] table
(carried from cycle-0006; tracked as #9).
Spec at docs/specs/fieldtest-0007-signal-quality.md feeds the next plan.
refs #4#5
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First fieldtest of the project. A standalone downstream-consumer crate
(fieldtests/cycle-0006-substrate/) path-depends on the engine crates and
exercises the post-0006 substrate from the public interface only (rustdoc +
specs + ledger, never crates/ source):
1 custom recording node via the Node contract + Ctx::now()
2 fan-out/fan-in DAG, 3-arg bootstrap, run() -> ()
3 two interior streams recorded from one run (the cycle headline)
4 byte-identical recorded output across two runs (C1 determinism)
5 mis-wired recording edge rejected (KindMismatch) at bootstrap
Findings: 3 working (carry-on), 2 friction, 1 spec_gap.
- friction: a nested standalone consumer crate fights the workspace
resolver (needs an empty [workspace] table — Cargo's own hint).
- friction: recorder boilerplate is hand-rewritten per author (C9
deliberately ships no library sink).
- spec_gap: the public surface never states output: vec![] is THE sink
declaration, nor defines a Some return paired with empty output.
Spec at docs/specs/fieldtest-0006-substrate.md feeds the 0007 plan.
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