Slice 5 of the #319 retirement. The scaffolder's project CLAUDE.md and the
CLI concepts help now teach only the surviving surface (exec over both
document classes, --override, graph introspect --params for discovery;
traces via exec --tap / presentation.persist_taps). Sweep vehicles moved
onto campaign documents driven by exec (project_new's starter quickstarts,
cli_broken_pipe — whose bare-sweep EPIPE probe was latently vacuous and now
streams a real 4-member campaign, project_sweep_campaign's real-data leg,
graph_construct's gang-axis parity pair as paired one-cell campaigns);
pure discovery sites became graph introspect --params, and the line-identity
test kept its literal --params expectations minus the sweep half. Help pins
rewritten; the scaffold template's in-src pin follows the new bytes.
refs #319
The #319 retirement's constructive half, slice 1: a new top-level
`exec <target>` executes a campaign document (file, register-then-run, or
64-hex content id — byte-behaviour of the retired `campaign run`, which no
longer parses) or a fully-bound signal blueprint (synthetic single run,
record line byte-identical to `aura run`'s, root-name gate migrated).
Flag discipline is per-leg: --parallel-instruments on campaign targets,
--tap on blueprint targets (refused on campaign targets with prose).
File routing peeks the document's top-level "kind" key: is_blueprint_file
alone cannot tell two .json classes apart.
--override (the #246 residue) and the measurement leg follow in later
slices; run/sweep/walkforward/mc/generalize stay alive until the removal
slice.
refs #319
Architect drift review (cycle a3785a6..b3b7115) found the cycle's raw
switch incomplete on two high items; both fixed forward here rather
than minuted as residue, since #319 builds on this namespace:
- The real/campaign executor still minted WRAPPED manifest.params and
manifest.defaults (AC2 overclaim in the feat commit body). The mint
seams now reshape to raw on every route (member.rs raw_bound_defaults,
runner.rs manifest_space mirror of the family.rs pattern); the fix
surfaced a latent regression in persist_campaign_traces, which keyed
point_from_params by exact wrapped name and is now translation-aware
(same recipe as reproduce_family_in). Old on-disk families stay
replayable (C29; reproduce reads both shapes).
- The walkforward --axis intake silently accepted wrapped names — the
silent alias fork 2 rejected. It now runs the same
refuse_wrapped_synthetic_axes preflight as the plain synthetic sweep
(new e2e: aura_walkforward_synthetic_blueprint_refuses_a_wrapped_form
_axis_name); family builders translate raw names onto wrapped
SweepBinder slots on all three entry points. C24's "retired from the
surface" claim is thereby made true instead of softened.
- Low items: stale graph_construct docstring updated; new
graph_params_and_sweep_list_axes_are_line_identical pins the two
discovery surfaces against format drift.
- Bench infra: aura-bench's campaign_sweep surface seeded wrapped axis
literals and was correctly refused by the new intake — seeds converted
to raw; full bench rerun: all 5 surfaces fingerprint OK, deltas within
load noise (report-only, no baseline update needed).
Library-unit tests calling family builders directly keep wrapped input
(valid: translation is idempotent on exact wrapped names; intake-level
refusal is the user contract). Suite + clippy verified green post-fix.
refs #328
Reconciles the sweep-axis namespace (closes#328): the raw form
<node>.<param> (splice paths keep their interior path) is now the only
user-facing axis name — printed by --list-axes, accepted by --axis on
BOTH sweep routes, recorded in the synthetic run manifest, discovered
by graph introspect --params (bound params included, default= lexicon),
and validated by campaign documents. The wrapped <blueprint>.<...> form
is retired with translation refusals on both seams.
Mechanics:
- classify_axis_intake (aura-runner axes.rs): explicit raw-first
acceptance predicate shared by both --axis intake routes. Deliberately
not built on raw_matches_wrapped, whose equality branch would have
accepted the retired form silently (skeptic finding, minuted on #328).
Wrapped hit -> translation refusal naming the raw candidate (shared
prose builder wrapped_axis_refusal, one literal for both routes).
- The synthetic route resolution moves to the raw frame the real route
(bind_axes) already uses: override_paths/wrapped_bound_overrides_of
match via raw_matches_wrapped (also removing a latent slicing panic),
blueprint_sweep_family translates raw names onto wrapped SweepBinder
slots, manifest.params records raw keys (name-only reshaping, zip is
positional). The two sweep routes now share one convention.
- reproduce translates recorded manifest names raw-or-wrapped onto the
wrapped space: old registered artifacts stay replayable (C29), new
raw manifests round-trip.
- introspect --params gains the bound default= lines via the same
render_value the --list-axes bound pass uses - the two discovery
surfaces are byte-identical by construction.
- AxisNotInParamSpace carries raw_candidate; ref_fault_prose renders
the did-you-mean iff present. Sweep-terminal bind errors
(MissingKnob/KindMismatch) render the raw knob name (render seam
only; acceptance criterion: no user-facing surface prints a wrapped
axis name).
- Downstream consequence fixes: scaffold quickstart example spoke
wrapped; ~90 wrapped test literals converted to raw across six test
files (deliberately-bogus refusal names and the untouched internal
walkforward wrapped route kept, with comments).
Fork decisions and the skeptic correction are minuted on #328
(comments 2026-07-24/25). Grounding-check PASS first attempt (12
assumptions ratified). Review (opus): translation ambiguity cleared
(uniform single prefix per blueprint), reproduce both-shapes traced;
repair pass added the synthetic-route refusal e2e + the shared prose
builder. Verified: cargo test --workspace green (99 targets, 0
failures), clippy -D warnings clean.
refs #246, refs #319, refs #331
Iteration 3 of the self-description plan, tasks 1-3 (checkpoint commit
mid-iteration; the register e2e, the op-script doc slot, and the full
gates follow):
- aura-research: DocFault::BadDescription { subject, fault }; a present
document description passes doc_gate in validate_process /
validate_campaign (absent is never a fault and stays byte-identical);
prose arm in doc_fault_prose; tests incl. content-id participation.
- aura-registry: the store boundary gates admission -- the public
put_blueprint parses the canonical bytes and walks root + named
nested composite docs (None refuses like ""), refusing via
UndescribedComposite { name, fault } / MalformedBlueprint; the raw
write survives as private put_blueprint_unchecked (store-mechanics
tests + the never-retroactive witness: doc-less pre-C29 entries stay
readable). Registry-internal seeders triaged junk-vs-real.
- authored root docs: the 4 example blueprints + their 4 open-fixture
twins, the scaffold starter template, the scaled_signal and hl_signal
inline fixtures, and the three programmatic member.rs builders
(breakout, meanrev, hl_channel) via GraphBuilder::doc -- mechanical
propagation of the authored lines.
Recovery note: the implement run's task 3 discarded tasks 1+2's edits
in three files via a file-level checkout (the issue-#23 guard shape);
the loop's boundary snapshot caught it and the content was restored
from recovery snapshot 11a6ae2, then re-verified (research 81 green,
registry 51 green, cli 58/59).
Known-open at this checkpoint: the op-script register test is red --
op-built composites have no doc surface (#125 scope cut); the op
vocabulary grows the anticipated doc slot in the next task of this
iteration (decision logged on the issue).
refs #316
closes#272
A member fault (no-data, bind, run, or a caught panic) is now a recorded
per-cell outcome instead of aborting the whole campaign and discarding every
already-computed cell. The incident that motivated this (a 22-instrument
campaign lost ~36 healthy cells ~6.7 min in because Copper had an archive gap)
now completes: the healthy cells persist, the gap cell is recorded as failed,
and the run exits 3.
Direction (owner decision 2026-07-14): run to completion and report
compromised results; no coverage preflight, no window synthesis.
Containment granularity:
- The CELL for a sweep-stage member fault (a grid hole structurally
compromises winner selection, so the whole cell fails).
- The FOLD for a walk_forward member fault (independent time windows): the
surviving folds pool into the family, failed folds are recorded as
StageRealization.window_faults, and the summary names the ratio.
- aura-registry: additive CellFault / CellFaultKind (closed:
no_data|bind|run|panic|window) / WindowFault / CellCoverage, plus
fault/coverage fields on CellRealization and window_faults on
StageRealization — all serde-default-skipped, so pre-#272 campaign_runs
lines parse and round-trip byte-identical.
- aura-campaign: run_cell returns a fault-annotated CellRealization instead of
Err (execute's accumulate-then-append-once tail is unchanged and now
persists every healthy cell + the one run record); a `contain` split keeps
ExecFault::Registry and doc-shape preflight faults global while Member/Window
become per-cell/per-fold. Member panics are caught with
catch_unwind(AssertUnwindSafe) at all three member-run sites (sweep IS/OOS)
and recorded as MemberFault::Panic — a member panic no longer aborts the
process. The wf stage partitions Registry faults (global) from Member/Window
(per-fold) and filters faulted-fold placeholders (the
"faulted-member-placeholder" broker sentinel) out of the persisted family.
- aura-cli: exec_fault_prose gains the Panic arm; CliMemberRunner::window_coverage
derives effective bounds + interior gap months from the #264 archive
primitives; present_campaign prints per-cell failure notes + a completion
summary and threads the failed-cell count; a run with >=1 failed cell exits 3
("completed with failed cells") uniformly across `aura campaign run` and the
dissolved sweep/walkforward/mc/generalize verbs (exit_on_campaign_result).
Usage stays 2, refused-before-running stays 1, clean stays 0.
Tests: the global-abort pins flip to containment (execute + the two wf fault
tests → fold-containment + all-folds-fail-the-cell); new panic-containment
tests on both the sweep path (PanicRunner) and the wf path (this commit adds
the wf mirror the loop left uncovered); a new gapped-archive e2e (one covered
cell + one gap cell → exit 3); the ~14 CLI exit-1 pins move to the exit-3
register; a pre-#272-line byte-identical round-trip guard.
Suite: cargo test --workspace green (1309 tests, 0 failed); clippy clean.
Decision log: #272 comments (fork rationale, the fold Registry/Member split,
the placeholder sentinel, uniform exit-3).
Follow-up (minor, not blocking): the plan under-scoped Task 1 to aura-registry
though the additive fields also touch aura-campaign's exec.rs literals — the
loop absorbed it mechanically; a future plan for a cross-crate additive-field
change should scope every crate's construction sites in the first task.
built_scale_project() scaffolded ~66 MB (built node crate) into a
pid-suffixed tempdir, so its wipe-before-scaffold never hit a previous
run's copy: one leaked directory per test-binary run. 159 of those
(~10 GB) filled the host's 16 GB /tmp tmpfs to 100%, breaking every
std::env::temp_dir() consumer. A fixed name under CARGO_TARGET_TMPDIR
(real disk, reclaimed by cargo clean) makes the existing wipe reclaim
the previous run — steady state is exactly one directory. Trade-off:
two concurrent cargo-test invocations over the same checkout collide
on the fixed name, the documented pre-existing caveat class for this
suite (#223).
closes#257
Task 3-4 of the bound-override cycle. The family boundary derives the
override set from the invocation's axes (override_paths: an axis in the
open space passes through, one naming a bound param re-opens it in
strategy coordinates, one matching neither is refused with a message
pointing at --list-axes) and threads it through the axis probe and every
per-member reload (blueprint_axis_probe_reopened / reopen_all), so probe
and members stay slot-identical. The 'fully bound; nothing to sweep'
refusal retires; identity stays the authored document (the topology_hash
probe reload is never re-opened).
--list-axes now prints the bound surface after the open knobs — one
'<bp>.<node>.<param>:<KIND> default=<value>' line per bound param,
unconditionally (a bound param is an equally re-openable axis regardless
of how many knobs are open beside it).
Walk-forward (blueprint_sweep_over, blueprint_walkforward_family,
run_oos_blueprint) and reproduce (reproduce_family_in plus the
campaign-side trace re-run) derive the same set silently from recorded
manifest param names (bound_overrides_of), so a family that swept an
overridden bound param re-derives bit-identically.
refs #246
- New clap family `aura nodes new <name> [--engine-path] [--namespace]`:
scaffolds a node crate as a SIBLING of the project root (Cargo.toml
with the aura-core path-dep, the parameterized Scale starter node,
roster macro, crate-scoped .gitignore + CLAUDE.md, own git repo) and
appends the `[nodes] crates = ["../<name>"]` pointer to the project's
Aura.toml. Refuses outside a project, on any existing [nodes] section
(incl. an empty crates array), and on an existing destination; joins
the load-phase bypass beside `aura new` (a scaffolder must work in an
unbuilt tree).
- The old single-tier scaffold() is gone; the crate templates live on
in scaffold_node_crate; dead-code bridges removed with their callers.
- tests/project_nodes.rs: attach + refusals + namespace override + the
full role-2 loop (scaffold, cargo build, vocabulary resolves
<ns>::Scale end to end).
- tests/project_sweep_campaign.rs fixture reworked to the two-tier
shape (aura new + aura nodes new --namespace knob_lab); the two
campaign acceptance tests are byte-unchanged and green.
refs #241
The defining loop of a genuine external project, proven end-to-end and
green on arrival: a fresh aura-new project authors an OPEN blueprint
over its own node (knob_lab::Scale, factor unbound); --list-axes shows
the axis, a real-data GER40 sweep over it yields two members whose
manifests carry the project-node binding, the family persists and
reproduces 2/2 bit-identically, and one campaign cell over the same
blueprint runs to exit 0 linking a sweep family. No implementation was
needed — the loop already worked; this pin is the previously-missing
evidence (the deepest exercised path before was a single param-less
aura run). The axis-discovery leg is un-gated so the test stays
meaningful on a data-less host.
closes#235
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