A second Stage-1 R strategy candidate for the edge-research milestone, a structurally
different trend mechanic than the refuted SMA-momentum: a Donchian channel breakout.
Swaps only the signal leg of the stage1-r graph —
close -> Delay(1) -> {RollingMax,RollingMin}(N) -> {Gt,Gt} -> {Latch,Latch} ->
Sub = bias in {-1,0,+1} — keeping the vol-stop R definition unchanged, so it screens
under the identical R yardstick (clean A/B vs momentum).
- aura-std: new RollingMax / RollingMin nodes (sliding-window extremum via a monotonic
deque, O(1) amortized; mirror the Sma/Delay ring-buffer shape, warm-up skip-emit,
C7/C8). The +/-1 direction latch composes from two existing Latch nodes + Sub (no new
latch type).
- aura-cli: stage1_breakout_graph + a manual-grid stage1_breakout_sweep_family
(fully-bound graph per point, sidestepping parameter-ganging since one channel length
drives both rolling nodes); --strategy stage1-breakout + --channel grid flag; usage
strings updated.
- Causality (C2): one Delay(1) on close feeds both rolling nodes, so each channel covers
close[t-N..t-1] — the current bar is excluded. Pinned by a contrastive e2e test (a
strictly rising series up-breaks every warmed bar; a window including the current bar
never could) plus a +/-1-latch-hold test.
All existing goldens byte-identical (stage1-r/sma/momentum untouched); folded-no-trace
== raw-trace metrics; workspace tests + clippy green.
refs #137
M3 machinery for BLOCKER #138: sink reductions can now fold online instead of
buffering every per-cycle row to an unbounded channel.
- aura-core: additive `Node::finalize` end-of-stream hook (default no-op) +
`SeriesFold` online accumulator (last / max_drawdown / sign_flips).
- aura-engine: `Harness::run` calls `finalize` once per node in topo order after
the source loop; `summarize` refactored to drive `SeriesFold` (byte-identical),
the now-dead `sign0` removed.
- aura-std: `GatedRecorder` (emits only gated rows + the final row on finalize)
and `SeriesReducer` (folds one f64 series, emits one summary row on finalize),
both emitting the `Recorder` channel type — no aura-engine dependency.
- Integration tests: folded reductions are byte-for-byte equal to the
raw-recorder path; the R-reduction's peak memory is O(trades), independent of
cycle count.
Ratified two off-plan fixes the implementer made in the tests (both plan defects,
not code defects): the GatedRecorder correctly flushes the final non-gated row on
finalize, so the retained count is K_TRADES + 1; and the heterogeneous PM record
needs kind-correct zero scalars (a blanket f64 zero is rejected by the kind-typed
AnyColumn::push).
Wiring these reducers into the stage1-r sweep (the actual O(cycles)->O(trades)
win) follows next. refs #138
Iteration 2 of cycle 0065 (Stage-1 R signal quality) — the node + metric layer.
Builds on iter-1's PositionManagement dense R-record + core summarize_r.
What ships:
- PositionManagement gains a 4th `size` input (slot 3 -> col 10), fed by the
Sizer. R is computed size-INVARIANTLY (pure stop-distance ratio), so size
never touches realized_r — pinned by a RED test (scaling size leaves every
realized_r unchanged) at the node and again end-to-end through the executor.
- Sizer (aura-std): `size = risk_budget / stop_distance` — flat-1R (risk_budget
1.0 => one risk unit per trade, size inversely proportional to the stop, not a
constant). Reads bias (firing/presence) + stop_distance; the Stage-2
fixed-fractional sizer slots in unchanged (swap risk_budget for
risk_fraction*equity, same node shape).
- summarize_r enrichment: SQN (sqrt(n)*mean_R/sample-stdev_R; n<2 or zero-variance
-> 0), conviction_terciles_r (E[R] by |bias_at_entry| tercile), net_expectancy_r
(gross minus one round-trip cost per trade, charged in R via the latched_dist
recovered from the entry_price/stop_price columns). summarize_r gains a
`round_trip_cost` param (price units). The net-of-cost recovery is tested
through the real producer->consumer seam, not just hand-built rows.
- RunMetrics.r: Option<RMetrics> with #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if =
"Option::is_none")] — legacy runs.jsonl (no `r` key) deserialise to None and a
pip-only run's on-disk shape stays byte-unchanged (C14/C18 back-compat). Every
RunMetrics literal threaded (report.rs, aura-registry, aura-engine/mc).
- RiskExecutor (aura-engine integration-test fixture, sibling of
vol_stop_composite): FixedStop -> Sizer -> PositionManagement behind open
bias+price input roles, price fanned to both the stop and PM, the Sizer's size
into PM. Bias is produced in-graph from the single price source (a second bias
*source* would k-way-merge into separate cycles and mark stale prices). The
Veto is a DOCUMENTED SEAM, not a runtime node (a pass-through identity is what
C19/C23 DCE deletes). Tests: the composite bootstraps + runs + folds to the
documented hand value; R invariant under risk_budget while the size column
scales; a live-folded RMetrics survives the RunMetrics serde round-trip.
The dense-record size column (10) is brought under the cross-crate layout guard
(stage1_r_e2e r_col_indices_match_producer_field_layout) so the executor
fixture's size-invariance read is drift-protected like the others.
Scope: the CLI/recording surface (#129) is sub-split into a separate iteration 3
and is NOT in this commit.
Verified: cargo build --workspace clean; cargo test --workspace 500 passed,
0 failed; cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -D warnings clean.
refs #117#127#128#129
Applies the principle the user named: a node is a primitive only if it is NOT
DAG-expressible from other primitives; a function that needs a missing primitive
gets the primitive added, not fused away.
- Remove the fused VolStop node (it was pure feed-forward arithmetic).
- The volatility stop is now a composition of primitives, vol_stop(length, k):
k * Sqrt(Ema(Mul(d,d), length)), d = Sub(price, Delay(price,1)) -- a rolling
EWMA standard deviation. Built with GraphBuilder; proven end-to-end
(bootstraps + runs + emits k*sigma) in tests/vol_stop_composite.rs.
- Migrate the one VolStop caller (stage1_r_e2e.rs) off it: the R-is-stop-defined
test now contrasts a tight vs a wide FixedStop (two constant distances still
fold to different R, the property under test).
Uses the Mul + Sqrt primitives added in the prior commit. FixedStop stays the
only stop-rule primitive (a triggered constant). Full suite + clippy green.
refs #117#119
The two genuinely-missing arithmetic primitives (Mul = two-stream f64 product,
Sqrt = one-input f64 root, negatives clamped to 0). They are the building blocks
for the volatility stop as a composition (rolling EWMA stddev), replacing the
fused VolStop node. Also corrects plan 0066 Task 3 (the VolStop removal must
migrate its stage1_r_e2e.rs caller — a false premise the implementer caught).
refs #117#119
Iteration 1 of the Stage-1 "R-based signal quality" cycle (spec 0065): a
strategy's signal quality, measured in R on its unsized bias stream, feed-forward.
New discrete-trade machinery, NOT a SimBroker extension.
What lands:
- exposure -> bias (refs #126): the Exposure node/type/file/output-field renamed to
Bias (computation unchanged: clamp(signal/scale,-1,+1); the SEMANTICS change — the
output is the unsized strategy bias, sizing leaves the strategy). Scoped to the
semantic core; behaviour-preserving cosmetics are deferred (see below).
- stop-rule nodes (refs #119): VolStop = k*EMA(|price - prev_price|) (one fused node;
the volatility that defines 1R, close-to-close — true-range ATR deferred, needs
OHLC) + FixedStop (constant, the test fixture / fixed-vs-vol structural-axis sibling).
- PositionManagement (refs #127): the stateful heart. Latches the entry-cycle stop
distance as the FROZEN R-denominator (never re-read), marks/exits no-look-ahead like
SimBroker (a position earns from the next cycle; an exit realises against the cycle's
close), and emits ONE dense per-cycle R-record (C8). Stop-outs are NOT capped at -1R
(a gap through the stop realises R < -1 — the honest loss tail); R is computed
size-invariantly (size = (exit-entry)*dir / latched_dist cancels). The trade ledger
is the rows where closed_this_cycle; the R-equity is cum_realized + unrealized; a
position open at window end is the last row (open=true) — explicit, never silent MtM.
- summarize_r + RMetrics (refs #129): the post-run fold (NOT an in-graph node —
recorders drain post-run). E[R], win-rate, profit-factor, avg win/loss R, by-trade
max R-drawdown, n_open_at_end (window-end force-close). SQN / conviction terciles /
net-of-cost / RunMetrics.r are iteration 2.
Design adversarially hardened before implementation (12-juror refute panel; decisions
on #117). Ratified implementer deviations from the plan snippet, verified by hand:
- col-4 `direction` tracks the OPEN position at cycle end (window-end synthesis; names
the reopened leg on a reversal), falling back to the closed trade's dir only when
flat. summarize_r does not read col 4; the R-metrics are unaffected.
- .named("exposure") kept on the 4 previously-unnamed Bias nodes so the auto-derived
param-path stays exposure.scale (no manifest/dir-name drift) — the unnamed nodes
would otherwise flip to bias.scale.
- intra-doc links [`Exposure`] -> [`Bias`] in sim_broker/latch + the sample-model test
pin (cosmetic, behaviour-neutral; broken intra-doc links fail cargo doc).
- the E2E drives a full bootstrapped Harness (stronger than the plan's direct-node
drive — exercises the real cross-crate producer->consumer seam).
Deferred (behaviour-preserving, separate cosmetic pass — NOT this iteration):
RunMetrics.exposure_sign_flips / Metric::ExposureSignFlips, SimBroker/LongOnly
"exposure" input ports, the "exposure" tap/trace names, and the .named("exposure")
instance labels. Iteration 2: the Sizer seam, the RiskExecutor composite (+ the Veto
documented-seam), summarize_r enrichment, RunMetrics.r, and the CLI/recording surface.
Verification (orchestrator-run, not agent-claimed):
- cargo build --workspace: clean.
- cargo test --workspace: all green, 0 failed (incl. the new bias/stop_rule/
position_management unit tests, the summarize_r arithmetic tests, and the
stage1_r_e2e capstone + layout guard).
- cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings: clean (exit 0).
- Keystone RED tests pass: no_lookahead_bias_exit_realises_the_held_move,
stop_out_is_not_capped_at_minus_one_r, no_gap_stop_is_exactly_minus_one_r,
reversal_closes_one_leg_and_reopens, open_at_window_end_is_carried_on_the_last_row.
refs #117#119#126#127#129
Generalises the #105 foot-gun: the family-member trace key was derived from two
hardcoded axis names (f{fast}s{slow}), collision-free only over the built-in SMA
grid. It is now derived from the axes that actually VARY
(SweepBinder::varying_axes) and rendered as a filesystem-conformant directory
component:
- charset restricted to [A-Za-z0-9._-] (valid on Linux/Windows/macOS, also
URL-path- and cloud-sync-safe); any other byte sanitised;
- case-less values (i64/timestamp decimal, bool true/false, f64 via Display, no
scientific notation) so two members of one family never differ only by letter
case -> no silent overwrite on case-insensitive filesystems (NTFS/APFS);
- length-capped (MAX_KEY=200) with a version-stable FNV-1a fallback for the
unbounded-grid edge.
Pinned singleton axes are omitted; the SMA sweep's member dirs change from f2s4
to signals.trend.fast.length-2_signals.trend.slow.length-4 (its --trace
integration test + the stale prose updated accordingly).
Adds the first aura-std node with a bool *param*, LongOnly (a long-only exposure
gate: enabled=true clamps short exposure to >=0, false passes through) — the
block the momentum demo strategy (next commit) sweeps to prove the key generic
over a bool axis. The engine change is one additive pure read accessor; no
existing signature changes, trace state stays out of the engine.
Self-verified: cargo build --workspace, cargo test --workspace (all green incl.
the LongOnly node tests, the member_key worked-examples corpus, the varying_axes
accessor test, and the updated SMA sweep-trace integration test), cargo clippy
--workspace --all-targets -D warnings.
refs #105
Maps ctx.now() (epoch-ns UTC) to a Frankfurt session bar index: emits
bars_since_open:i64 = (local wall-clock minutes past the 09:00 open) /
period_minutes, in tz-aware DST-correct local time. So local 09:45 reads 3 in
both CEST (UTC+2) and CET (UTC+1) — the close-instant convention (spec 0050
§4.1). Trigger is an f64 Any input (value ignored, wired from close15) so the
node fires once per completed bar. Open/tz/period are baked structural config,
not scalar params (a timezone is not a scalar, C11). Admits chrono/chrono-tz to
aura-std — vetted DST math, never hand-rolled (per-case dep policy). Last node;
build-step 7 of milestone 'Strategy node vocabulary I'.
closes#90
Aggregates a fine 4-field OHLC stream into period_minutes buckets (open=first,
high=max, low=min, close=last), emitting a completed bar ONLY on bucket rollover
(ctx.now() crossing into the next bucket) — C2: a bar is actionable only once
complete, partials are never emitted and the last partial bar is dropped (no EOF
flush). Four Barrier(0) f64 inputs, a 4-field f64 record output (the first
multi-field-output node in aura-std, mirroring the Ohlcv engine fixture). The bar
carries no timestamp; the engine stamps the close-instant. Build-step 6 of
milestone 'Strategy node vocabulary I'.
closes#89
Level-sensitive SR latch: held -> 1.0 on set, -> 0.0 on reset (reset-dominant),
sample-and-held across quiet cycles; None while both legs are cold. Emits f64
directly (1.0 long / 0.0 flat) so it feeds SimBroker's exposure slot with no
cast — the resolution of the bool->f64 seam (no separate Exposure node in the
strategy DAG). State persisted in the struct across cycles, like SimBroker.
Build-step 5 of milestone 'Strategy node vocabulary I'.
closes#88
Emits the value its series input carried 'lag' fired cycles ago, held in a
node-owned ring (lookbacks()=[1], the past in node state not the input column).
Warm-up is skip-emit (None for the first 'lag' cycles — never a fabricated
sentinel). Output is a pure function of pre-cycle state, the precondition for a
future engine to close a feedback loop (the RTL register C5 names). prevHigh15 =
Delay[1] on high15. Build-step 4 of milestone 'Strategy node vocabulary I'.
closes#87
Stateless bool x bool -> bool, out = (a && b). Computes entry = breakout &&
isBar3 in the session-breakout strategy. The bool-input twin of Gt; seed of the
logic family (Or/Not are separate node types, the operator is topology, never a
swept param). Build-step 3 of milestone 'Strategy node vocabulary I'.
closes#86
Stateless f64 x f64 -> bool, out = (a > b), STRICT: a == b emits false (a close
exactly equal to the previous bar's high is not a breakout). Computes
breakout = close15 > prevHigh15 in the session-breakout strategy. First
bool-emitting f64 comparator; the operator is topology (relational siblings are
separate types, never a swept param). Build-step 2 of milestone 'Strategy node
vocabulary I'.
closes#85
Stateless gate, out = (value == target): the i64->bool comparator the
session-breakout strategy needs to turn Session's bars_since_open into
isBar3/isBar5Close (two instances bound to 3 and 5). The operator is topology
(a concrete node type), only target is a knob (C11/C12). Build-step 1 of
milestone 'Strategy node vocabulary I'.
closes#84
Add Ema, the std-lib's first recursive/stateful producer: exponential moving average with alpha = 2/(length+1). The building block MACD (and DEMA, MACD-histogram, etc.) needs, and a worked example of a node whose param sizes its math, not its input window.
Seeding is ratified as SMA-seeded (ta-lib convention): the EMA stays silent until it has seen length samples, seeds with their SMA, then runs the recurrence. Chosen over a first-value seed for three substantive reasons -- warm-up consistency with Sma (both emit None until length samples), parity with the EMA traders expect (ta-lib MACD seeds this way), and statistical honesty (no average claimed from a single observation). A first-value seed was the proof-of-concept convenience; rejected.
Performance: recursive state means lookback = 1 (length sizes alpha, not the window); eval is O(1) time and state via ema += alpha*(x - ema), with no hot-path allocation (the output buffer is reused).
Tested: warm-up-then-smooth (a step input separates it from a plain SMA), length-1 identity, label, and factory/schema agreement.
The Walking-skeleton milestone's closing seam: a real `aura run` binary that
bootstraps a built-in sample harness, runs it deterministically, and prints the
cycle-0009 metrics+manifest report as canonical JSON to stdout — the headline
C14 "run a sim, emit structured metrics" move, end-to-end, from a binary for the
first time.
Two deliverables:
- aura-std::Recorder — a reusable recording sink node (the glossary *sink* role,
C8/C22): a pure consumer (output: vec![]) over kinds.len() input columns,
holding an mpsc::Sender<(Timestamp, Vec<Scalar>)> as its out-of-graph
destination. mpsc keeps the engine's purity invariant (C7): no Rc/RefCell.
Supports all four base scalar kinds; returns None until every column is warm.
Promotes the shape the #[cfg(test)] fixtures already proved into a shipped,
reusable block (the fixtures stay as historical snapshots; de-dup is a later
tidy).
- aura-cli `run` subcommand — synthetic_prices / sample_harness / run_sample /
main. The sample harness (synthetic source → SMA(2)/SMA(4) → Sub → Exposure →
SimBroker → two Recorder sinks) is authored in plain Rust over the raw
Harness::bootstrap(nodes, sources, edges) API (C17/C20) — the open
experiment-builder DSL thread is deliberately not committed this cycle. main
hand-parses one subcommand: `run` prints run_sample().to_json() (exit 0),
anything else prints a one-line usage to stderr (exit 2). aura-cli gains
aura-std + aura-core path deps; the workspace stays zero-(external-)dependency.
The built-in synthetic stream (7 ticks, rises then reverses) yields a non-trivial
demo trace: equity [0,0,0,0,-0.08,-0.17,-0.13] → total_pips -0.13, max_drawdown
0.17, exposure_sign_flips 1. The run_sample unit test pins the integer flip count
exactly and the two f64 metrics within 1e-9 (the real run's float dust is ~7e-15,
confirming the tolerance); determinism is pinned exactly (two runs → identical
JSON). tests/cli_run.rs drives the built binary for the observable exit/stdout
contract.
manifest.commit is filled from option_env!("AURA_COMMIT") (defaults to
"unknown"); real HEAD capture via build.rs is deferred. Non-goals untouched:
experiment-builder DSL, aura new, Aura.toml schema, the data-server source (#7).
One deviation from the plan's verbatim code: a scoped
#[allow(clippy::type_complexity)] on sample_harness (its (Harness, Receiver,
Receiver) return tuple trips the lint under -D warnings) — consistent with the
identical allow on the build_two_sink_harness fixture in aura-engine. Verified
myself: cargo test --workspace (61 green, 0 red), clippy --all-targets
-D warnings (clean), cargo doc -D warnings (clean), and both smoke runs.
closes#8
aura-std shipped Sma, Sub, Exposure, SimBroker but no sum, so the north-star
"combine one signal with another" research move (C10) could not be expressed
from shipped blocks — the cycle-0007 fieldtest had to hand-author a project-local
Add2. This adds the missing combinator(s):
- Add — two-input f64 sum (a + b), the parameterless companion to Sub. Mirrors
sub.rs modulo the operator.
- LinComb { weights } — N-input weighted sum (Σ wᵢ·xᵢ). The weights are the
node's tunable parameters (C8/C12) and fix its arity (weights.len() inputs);
this is the form the north-star "combine A and B *with weights*" reaches for.
LinComb([1,1]) is Add; LinComb([1,-1]) is Sub.
Both withhold output (None) until *all* inputs are present — consistent with Sub,
and causally clean: a cold input leg is never silently folded in as 0.0.
LinComb::new panics on empty weights (build-time param error, like Sma::new).
Both ship because each is independently reached-for: Add for readability symmetry
with Sub, LinComb for the weighted/tunable combination — mirroring the project's
already-shipped choice to keep Sub as a named node beside a general form.
Hand-driven unit tests in the established aura-std style (5 new): Add sum, the
Add == LinComb([1,1]) identity, the N>2 warm-up, and the empty-weights panic.
Verified: cargo test -p aura-std (14 passed), clippy --all-targets -D warnings
clean, RUSTDOCFLAGS="-D warnings" cargo doc -p aura-std --no-deps clean.
closes#11
Realizes the C10 reframe (cycle 0007): the strategy DAG's output is an
intent/exposure stream, and a sim-optimal broker integrates it into a synthetic
pip-equity curve that measures SIGNAL QUALITY — the project's first trading
result, and its primary research loop.
Two new aura-std nodes (plain structs; the engine stays domain-free):
- Exposure { scale }: the decision/sizing node — clamp(signal/scale, -1, +1),
one f64 exposure per fired cycle, None until warmed up. Sizing/risk live in
`scale`.
- SimBroker { pip_size }: class (a) of C10 — consumes exposure (slot 0) + price
(slot 1), integrates the return earned by the exposure HELD INTO each cycle
(prev_exposure, decided at t-1) so it is causal / look-ahead-free (C2), and
emits cumulative pips. pip_size is held reference metadata (C7/C15), never
streamed.
End-to-end proof in the aura-engine harness test module (it dev-depends on
aura-std): a SMA(2)-SMA(4) cross -> Exposure -> SimBroker -> Recorder sink wires
a full signal-quality backtest; the recorded equity matches a hand-computed pip
curve ([0,0,0,0, 0.035]) and is bit-identical across two runs (C1). The engine
itself is unchanged — pure node authoring on the frozen substrate.
Verified: cargo test --workspace green (20 core + 30 engine + 9 std; 8 new);
clippy --all-targets -D warnings clean; engine/core surface-purity grep (no
dyn Any/Rc/RefCell) clean.
Note: the plan inlined `Window::first()`, which aura-core's Window does not
expose; the shipped code uses the semantically identical `Window::get(0)`
(newest value, or 0.0 when the exposure leg is cold).
closes#4closes#5
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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
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
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.
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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>
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