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Brummel d6f59d7a52 audit: cycle 0024 (#43, #36) — drift-clean; ledger reconciled to the pre-build signature
Architect drift review (862882b..1b39093): NO code drift, no contract weakened.
C1 (behaviour-preserving: 150 tests green, render goldens byte-identical, no
behavioural assertion altered), C8 (sink output: vec![] preserved), C9/C23
(read-only render touches no eval/build; derive_signature's Box::leak is
cold-path-only, leaked names non-load-bearing) all hold. Regression scripts:
none configured (no-op) — the architect review is the gate.

The only drift was design-ledger prose, anticipated and deferred to this audit
by the plan. Resolved here (fix path, orchestrator-applied — docwriter is barred
from the design ledger):

- docs/design/INDEX.md C8 Guarantee: rewritten — a node's signature (NodeSchema)
  is declared pre-build on the value-empty recipe; the built node implements
  lookbacks() (the one param-dependent sizing quantity) + eval(); schema() is gone.
- INDEX.md C8 cycle-0015 note: Blueprint::param_space -> Composite::param_space;
  the #36 lockstep-debt clause marked closed by 0024.
- INDEX.md: added a C8 cycle-0024 realization (signature lives once on the recipe,
  the signature/sizing split, #43/#36 closed) and a C19 cycle-0024 realization
  (struct Blueprint collapsed into the root Composite; Role.source/runnable-iff-
  bound/UnboundRootRole; FlatGraph as the named compilat). Stale symbol names in
  the dated 0016/0017 notes annotated in place with their 0024 renames.
- aura-std/src/lincomb.rs module doc: Blueprint::param_space -> Composite::param_space.

Ledger-gap (four new load-bearing invariants previously unrecorded) closed by the
two new realization notes. Green baseline re-confirmed after the edits: cargo test
--workspace 150 passed / 0 failed; cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings clean.

refs #43 #36
2026-06-09 13:02:42 +02:00
Brummel bb90c42028 audit: cycle 0022 (#46) — drift reconciled; output bindings shipped
Architect drift review (range 69d2094..HEAD), regression gate empty
(no scripts configured). Status: drift_found, all resolved here or queued.

What holds: C8/C23 intact — output_binding folds OutField.name onto the
producer label as a pure render symbol; compiled_view_golden byte-identical,
no name reaches the compilat; the drawn where: graph is now exactly the
computation DAG (false terminals + node-count inflation gone).

Resolved (doc reconciliation, this commit):
- docs/design/INDEX.md: two stale render descriptions brought current —
  the C9/0018 realization said output names render as `[out:<name>]`
  markers; the C19/0017 realization said `[in:k]`/`[out]` port markers.
  Both superseded by the `name := producer` binding form (the `[out]`
  staleness is cycle-0022's; the adjacent `[in:k]` was pre-existing drift
  from 0019/0020 and is reconciled in the same clause while here).
- docs/specs/0022: post-ship note added — its Components/Testing strategy
  under-counted the blast radius, missing the full-render golden
  blueprint_view_golden (forced re-capture, caught at implement).

Queued (not fixed): output_binding's tuple arm `(a, b) := …` is spec'd +
shipped but unexercised (no fixture re-exports >1 field from one node) —
filed as #47 (idea).

cycle 0022 drift-clean after this reconciliation (not a milestone close).
2026-06-08 17:20:18 +02:00
Brummel 3f4d756ed2 feat(aura): fan-in input distinguishability — construction constraint + source-derived render
A fan-in node (>1 input) whose colliding sources hide an unnamed configuration
axis is now illegal at construction, and the definition view renders each fan-in
input as a source-derived recursive-signature identifier instead of the
positional, meaningless #A/#B.

The root defect was sma_cross: two Sma into a Sub with unaliased length params,
rendering sma_cross() -> (cross) with two indistinguishable [SMA] and
[Sub(#A,#B)] — the author meant fast vs slow but the identity hid it. Now it
renders sma_cross(fast:i64, slow:i64) with [SMA(fast)]/[SMA(slow)] and
[Sub(#Sf,#Ss)].

Shape (single source of truth for "signature" shared by engine + CLI):
- aura-engine signature_of(): a node's recursive authoring identity — type
  initial + alias initials + each wired input's signature (recursing into
  interior leaves, stopping at named roles/composites at their initial).
- aura-cli leaf_label/fan_in_identifiers: shortest sibling-unique prefix of a
  source's signature, never below its base (type + alias initials); a role-fed
  slot renders its name verbatim (#price); equal-signature interchangeable
  inputs keep the positional letter.
- aura-engine IndistinguishableFanIn: a signature collision is a fault only when
  a colliding source carries an unaliased param (the unnamed axis); param-less
  interchangeable sources (fan_composite's Pass/Pass) stay legal.

Param-aware criterion (refined during design): keeps the blast radius to the
param-bearing alias-less fixtures (sma_cross CLI + engine, the nested fast_slow);
fan_composite and the hand-wired flat fixtures stay green.

Placement decision (deviates from the plan): the constraint runs as a structural
pre-pass (check_fan_in_distinguishability) at the head of compile_with_params,
BEFORE the param-arity gate — not inside inline_composite as the plan drafted.
Reason: the no-param compile() of a param-bearing composite would hit ParamArity
first and preempt the fault; the spec mandates a structural check needing no
param values, so the pre-pass is the spec-aligned home. Alias-validity ordering
(BadInteriorIndex before the fan-in fault) is preserved at the pre-pass head.

C23 untouched: the check is construction-phase; the compilat stays name-free
(compiled_view_golden byte-stable). Ledger C9 carries the refinement.

Known debt (non-gating): the alias-index validity check now exists in both
inline_composite and the pre-pass (the pre-pass reaches every composite first,
making inline_composite's copy effectively dead). Left for a separate tidy — a
5-line, correctness-neutral removal with its own test surface.

closes #44
2026-06-08 15:50:19 +02:00
Brummel ebe2e71349 audit: cycle 0019 (#41) — drift-clean; C9 boundary-uniform realization note
Architect drift review over 8bc429f..HEAD (spec 03f2dc4, plan c9115e3,
impl 41cbb55; plus the in-range #42 fieldtest port 241bb62). No regression
scripts configured (profile regression/architect_sweeps both empty) — the
architect is the sole gate.

Result: clean. C23 holds — Role.name / ParamAlias.name / OutField.name are
all dropped at lowering; compiled_view_golden byte-identical (untouched in
the diff); the param_space slot-order anchors green and unmodified. Param
aliasing is a pure naming overlay (relabel in place, slot order/arity/kind
unchanged), confirmed by the new relabel/unaliased/partial tests. C8/C7/C4/
C9 untouched (authoring-surface legibility only); BadInteriorIndex reused,
no new variant. The #42 port is faithful (assertions strengthened, not
gutted).

One drift item, resolved here: the 0018 C9 realization note carried a stale
"Input-role and param names ... remain index-only pending #41" sentence.
#41 has landed, so this commit replaces it with a cycle-0019 realization
note recording that all three composite-boundary edge-kinds (input roles /
params / outputs) are now uniform named projections of interior handles
(Role / ParamAlias / OutField), names non-load-bearing and dropped at
lowering — the prose now matches the shipped code.

drift-clean, not a milestone close (no milestone fieldtest run here).
2026-06-08 02:24:15 +02:00
Brummel 8bc429f367 audit: cycle 0018 (#40) — drift-clean; C9 multi-output realization note
Architect drift review over a4cfe5c..HEAD (covers the previously-unaudited
EMA node and MACD PoC plus the #40 composite multi-output cycle): status
clean. C8/C7/C4 preserved (one port, one row per eval, K co-fresh base
columns — structurally identical to OHLCV); C23 honoured (ItemLowering::
Composite.output is Vec<(usize,usize)>, no name in the compilat; the
compiled-view render stayed bit-identical). EMA and MACD PoC carry no
ledger drift.

Resolution of the three minors:
- Ledger lagged the new behaviour: added a "Realization (cycle 0018)" note
  under C9 recording that a composite's output is now a named K-field record
  (Vec<OutField>), the same arity C8 already grants a leaf, names dropped at
  lowering (C23). Amended here (ledger amendment is the audit's job).
- blueprint.rs module-doc / Composite struct-doc / new-doc still said "one
  output port" singular — updated to "output record".
- Non-workspace fieldtest From<Sma> debt is pre-existing (cycle-0016) and
  already tracked as #42; not re-filed.

No regression scripts configured (profile regression: []), so the architect
review is the sole gate. Carry-on: the next natural iteration is the #41
legibility sibling (input-role + param naming at the composite boundary).
2026-06-08 01:05:41 +02:00
Brummel a4cfe5c53f audit: cycle 0017 (#38) — render_flat dedup + ledger #38 realization note
Architect drift review of the #38 cycle (a70c5fa..cd31447) against the design
ledger. No ledger-contract drift: C23 holds (render_compilat byte-identical,
compiled_view_golden green), C9/C12 honoured (the new main-graph + where:-
definitions view renders a composite as an opaque authoring-level node with its
body defined once — a faithful blueprint/source view vs. the inlined compiled
form), the nested-composite unimplemented! is genuinely removed and tested, and no
orphaned references to the removed ItemDisplay/producer_id/consumer_ids remain in
crates/ (only frozen historical plan docs mention them).

Two debt items, both fixed here (not carried):

- [medium] crates/aura-cli/src/graph.rs — render_compilat open-coded the same
  Graph::with_mode/add_node/add_edge/render idiom the new render_flat helper wraps.
  Fixed: render_compilat now builds its edge-pairs (its Edge structs + source
  targets) and delegates to render_flat, so render_flat is the single flat-build
  point shared by all three render functions. Behaviour-preserving — same node and
  edge insertion order — verified by compiled_view_golden staying byte-identical.

- [low] the retired cluster-box blueprint-render model and its substantive cause
  (ascii-dag 0.9.1's subgraph /2 centering bug; flat-only being the fix) lived only
  in the superseded spec 0013, not in the durable contract layer. Fixed: added a
  "Realization (cycle 0017 — blueprint render = main graph + definitions)" note to
  the ledger (INDEX.md, under the C22 blueprint-view detail) recording the
  opaque-node + where:-definitions model, the authoring-vs-compiled split, the
  ascii-dag-bug rationale, the scale/render-once/nested benefits, and the #37
  playground (enter/focus) counterpart vs. #38 static CLI form.

regression: profile declares no regression scripts and no architect_sweeps — the
architect review is the sole gate. No baseline to update.

Cycle 0017 is drift-clean after these fixes. NOT a milestone close — that needs the
end-to-end milestone fieldtest, still deferred until the sweep root (#32-#33) lands.
2026-06-07 22:29:42 +02:00
Brummel a70c5faab7 audit: cycle B (0016) — ledger 0016 realization note (C8/C19), debt #36 filed
Architect drift review of the #31 cycle (2a9a141..4b64409) against the design
ledger. The feature is clean: C19/C23 realized literally (LeafFactory recipe;
compile_with_params builds-then-wires slot-by-slot in the same walk param_space()
projects — #34's dual-traversal hazard genuinely subsumed, one traversal, both
mirror tests green incl. nesting); C12 "no recompile per param-set" holds
(value-empty blueprint, vector-bound, bit-identity green); the removed
Composite::schema/BlueprintNode::schema confirmed caller-free.

ledger (fixed here):
- C8: the 0015 note's "binding a value to a slot (#31) ... deferred" line was stale
  (shipped). Updated to record #31 landed in 0016, and that the param declaration's
  authoring home moved to LeafFactory.params() (read pre-build) alongside the built
  node's schema().params (the duplication is debt #36).
- C19: added a "Realization (cycle 0016 — param-set injection)" note (the per-cycle
  pattern C8/C10 already carry for 0005/0006/0007/0015): the value-empty leaf,
  build-then-wire bootstrap_with_params/compile_with_params, the typed kind/arity
  errors, the bit-identical compilat, and the C22 blueprint-view bare-type label
  (value-bearing SMA(2) now only in the compiled view).

debt (filed, carry-on):
- Every param-bearing node declares its ParamSpecs twice (factory() and schema()),
  kept in lockstep only by a per-node test; drift compiles. Filed as #36 (sibling of
  #34's traversal-duplication concern). Not active drift — the agreement holds and
  is tested per node.

regression: profile declares no regression scripts and no architect_sweeps — the
architect review is the sole gate. No baseline to update.

Cycle B is drift-clean after these amendments. NOT a milestone close — that needs
the end-to-end milestone fieldtest, deferred until the sweep root (#32-#33) lands.
2026-06-07 21:08:49 +02:00
Brummel 2a9a141a6f audit: cycle A (0015) — ledger amendments (C8/C23), debt #34 filed
Architect drift review of the #30 cycle (561482c..931109d) against the design
ledger. Code holds: param_space() is a read-only C9 projection, compile/inline
untouched, compilat bit-identical, positional identity (C23) and topology-fixed
vector arity (C19) implemented and well-covered. Two ledger drifts + one debt item.

ledger (fixed here):
- C23 'Status' parenthetical said the sweep pass 'presupposes per-node param
  declarations (C8 — deliberately not in the schema yet)' — now stale, the
  declarations landed this cycle. Reworded to 'landed in cycle 0015 as name+kind;
  swept range still pending #32/C20'.
- C8 guarantee promises params 'typed, with ranges' but cycle 0015 shipped name+
  kind only. Added a 'Realization (cycle 0015)' note (the established per-cycle
  pattern, as C8 already carries for 0005/0006) recording what landed and the
  load-bearing refinement from the design discussion: the SEARCH-RANGE is the run's,
  not the node's (#32/C20) — the node declares the knob's existence and type, never
  its search interval; identity is positional (slot), the path-qualified name a
  non-load-bearing debug symbol.

debt (filed, carry-on):
- collect_params (blueprint.rs:217) duplicates lower_items' traversal order rather
  than sharing it (deliberate — keeps param_space a parallel projection so the
  compilat stays bit-identical). The E2E mirror guard is shape-specific (no nested-
  composite compile case). Filed as #34 to harden before #31 binds atop the
  invariant. Not active drift — the guard exists, only the shape coverage is partial.

regression: profile declares no regression scripts and no architect_sweeps — the
architect review is the sole gate. No baseline to update.

Cycle A is drift-clean after these amendments. NOT a milestone close — that needs
the end-to-end milestone fieldtest, deferred until the sweep root (#31-#33) lands.
2026-06-07 15:35:10 +02:00
Brummel 0a855c3943 feat(aura-cli): aura graph renders a wired graph as an ASCII DAG (#13)
Make a wired graph introspectable so a mis-wiring becomes visible. Two
selectable views, both authored from one built-in sample blueprint:

  aura graph             clustered blueprint view — composites drawn as named
                         ascii-dag cluster boxes (pre-inline, C9)
  aura graph --compiled  flat compilat view — composite boundaries dissolved
                         (C23); the graph the run loop actually runs

The payoff is intrinsic, param-carrying node labels: two SMAs read SMA(2) /
SMA(4), so a swapped fast/slow input reads back differently. This is realized
by a `label()` default method on the core Node trait — a non-load-bearing
render symbol the run loop never reads (wiring is by index), the symbol C23
already reserves citing #13. Recorded as a C8 refinement in the ledger.
Rejected the alternatives in brainstorm: a separate Describe trait (forces a
combined trait-object dance for a label the ledger calls non-load-bearing) and
extrinsic parallel labels (decoupled from the node, so an author can label the
slow SMA "fast" and mask the very bug the render exists to surface).

Mechanism:
- aura-core: Node::label() default method (additive, object-safe, single-line).
- aura-std: per-node overrides — SMA(n)/Exposure(s)/SimBroker(p) carry params;
  Sub/Add/LinComb/Recorder are bare (their identity is not a mis-wiring axis).
- aura-engine: Composite gains an authored `name` (cluster title; dissolves at
  inline) + read-only graph-as-data accessors on Blueprint/Composite. No
  external dependency — the engine stays dependency-pure (C16); ascii-dag lives
  only in aura-cli. The label-free index-wired compilat (C23) is unchanged.
- aura-cli: ascii-dag v0.9.1 + a graph.rs adapter (Vertical mode; labels
  materialized into an owned Vec<String> that outlives the borrow-based Graph).
  `aura run` is untouched (the sample duplication is dedup idea #14).

Tests: a concern-defining test (swapped sample renders != correct), structure
pins (cluster present in blueprint view, absent in compiled view), per-node
label disambiguation, and two frozen byte-goldens of the deterministic render.
The cycle-0012 bit-identical and run-sample non-regression tests stay green.

Verified by the orchestrator (not the agent report): cargo build --workspace
clean; cargo test --workspace all green; cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets
-D warnings clean; both views run live and render as expected.

closes #13
2026-06-05 20:56:52 +02:00
Brummel ff1dce5a9b docs(design): compilation/compilat reading of composites + C23 optimisation contract
Settle the Construction-layer milestone's design fork before any spec is written:
a composite is a blueprint fragment compiled away by inlining, not a runtime
sub-engine Node.

- C23 (new): the bootstrap is a compilation -- a param-generic, named blueprint
  is lowered to a flat, type-erased compilat wired by raw index; composites
  inline (C9). The compilat is the target of behaviour-preserving optimisation
  (C1 is the correctness invariant) on two levels: intra-compilat (CSE/DCE) and
  across the sweep family (loop-invariant prefix hoisting -- the sweep-invariant
  sub-graph computed once and shared via C11/C12). Passes are deferred follow-on;
  this milestone builds the representation only.
- C9 refined: "a composite is itself a Node" is an authoring-level identity; the
  nested Box<dyn Node> sub-engine reading is explicitly rejected (it keeps the
  interior opaque to the cross-graph optimiser and adds a runtime sub-loop the
  flat model does not need).
- C19 refined: the blueprint->instance binding is a compilation; "no recompile"
  means no Rust/cdylib rebuild -- re-deriving an instance per param-set is a
  cheap graph re-compilation, not a code recompile.
- Names are non-load-bearing debug symbols (as FieldSpec.name already is); the
  wiring resolves by raw index, names survive only for tracing/rendering.
- CLAUDE.md domain-invariant 11 pulled coherent with the compilat reading.

refs #12
2026-06-05 12:52:14 +02:00
Brummel 63ea7eb3b1 audit: cycle 0011 tidy — record the external-dependency firewall invariant
Architect drift review (f68258b..HEAD) found no code drift — the firewall is
real at the dependency-graph level (aura-core/std/engine/cli carry no external
dep; the chrono/regex/zip tree is confined to aura-ingest), and C3/C7/C1 are
faithfully realized. Four ledger-level items, all resolved here:

- [ledger-drift] The zero-external-dependency commitment — the load-bearing
  rationale for making aura-ingest a crate rather than a feature-gate — lived
  only in spec 0011. Recorded in the ledger: C16 now states the engine workspace
  is zero-external-dependency by commitment, names aura-ingest as the ingestion
  edge / external-dependency firewall, and forbids an external dep in any engine
  crate other than aura-ingest.
- [ledger-drift] C16's reuse taxonomy did not place aura-ingest. C16 now lists
  the non-node engine crates (aura-engine, aura-cli, aura-ingest).
- [ledger-debt] C12's eager-materialization-now / Arc<[T]>-sharing-later choice
  was only in the spec. C12 now carries a "Status (cycle 0011)" note recording
  the deliberate gap.
- [debt] aura-engine/Cargo.toml carried a stale comment ("data-server enters
  when the ingestion task starts") that contradicted the firewall it should
  protect. Replaced with the dependency-pure / firewall-in-aura-ingest note.

The External components data-server bullet is updated to reality (pulled in by
aura-ingest; workspace now resolves from a populated cargo cache, not fully
offline).

Regression gate: no-op (commands.regression empty); architect is the sole gate.
Cycle 0011 is drift-clean. (Drift-clean, not a milestone close — the
Walking-skeleton milestone close additionally needs its end-to-end milestone
fieldtest, a separate deliberate act.)
2026-06-04 21:56:29 +02:00
Brummel e7542864c6 audit: cycle 0007 tidy — add C10 Realization (cycle 0007) note
Architect drift review (f000373..HEAD) found one item: the C10 reframe was
amended in framing but carried no "Realization (cycle 0007)" note recording what
actually shipped — the spec's own ship gate required it (C8/C22 carry their
realization notes; C10 did not). Added: the signal-quality half realized as
Exposure { scale } + SimBroker { pip_size } on the unchanged, domain-free engine,
with the position-management half explicitly confirmed deferred.

Everything else holds: the reframe is propagated consistently across CLAUDE.md
invariant #7, the seven touched glossary entries + the new exposure-stream entry,
and project-layout.md (no stale "position table is the strategy output"
survivor); the engine stays domain-free (the only RefCell hit in aura-engine/src
is a #[cfg(test)] doc comment); C1 determinism and C2 causality are each pinned by
a behaviour test asserting observable output, not internals.

No regression scripts configured (commands.regression empty) — that gate is a
no-op; architect is the gate. Cycle 0007 is drift-clean.

refs #4 #5

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-04 17:18:14 +02:00
Brummel 0d7deb3a91 design(C10): reframe strategy output to intent/exposure stream; position table becomes a derived layer
The DAG expresses exactly one state at time t and a node emits at most one record
per eval (C8), so a *sequence* of position events — where one decision instant
(a stop-and-reverse) needs a close AND an open at the same event_ts — cannot be
the DAG's per-cycle output without violating C8. The state the DAG can express
faithfully is the desired exposure (one value per cycle); the buy/sell/close
events are its first difference, a derived consequence.

C10 is reframed accordingly: the strategy's primary, backtestable output is an
intent/exposure stream (one signed, bounded f64 in [-1,+1] per cycle). Signal
quality is measured by the sim-optimal broker integrating exposure*return into a
synthetic pip-equity curve. The broker-independent position-event table survives
as a decoupled, derivable, downstream position-management layer (computed table,
not a per-eval output) feeding realistic broker nodes for viability/deploy — no
longer the DAG output nor the signal-quality measure.

Touches the ledger contract (INDEX.md C10 + provenance/milestone/C20 ancillary),
the always-loaded summary (CLAUDE.md invariant #7), the glossary (broker, equity
stream, position table, realistic broker, signal, sim-optimal broker, strategy
reframed + new exposure-stream entry), and the north-star layout doc. Sealed
specs/plans (0001-0006) left as historical record.

refs #4 #5

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-04 17:02:33 +02:00
Brummel f000373507 docs(C8): state output:vec![] as the sink declaration + eval return-width contract
Closes the spec_gap from the cycle-0006 fieldtest
(docs/specs/fieldtest-0006-substrate.md): the public surface never stated that
an empty `output` is THE pure-consumer (sink) declaration, nor defined what a
`Some` return paired with an empty output means.

The behaviour was already principled and defended in the engine — this only
documents it (no code change):

  - `output: vec![]` is the pure-consumer declaration; there is no separate
    Sink type/trait/marker.
  - `eval` must return a row whose width equals `schema.output.len()`, so a pure
    consumer returns `None` or a zero-width `Some(&[])`; the run loop
    debug-asserts the width (harness.rs).
  - field-wise wiring resolves `Edge::from_field` against the producer's output
    at bootstrap, so no edge can bind a field of a zero-output node (it fails
    with `BadIndex`) — a sink is structurally unwireable as an in-graph
    producer; its only output is the out-of-graph side effect.

Ledger C8 gains an "Encoding & return contract" clause; aura-core node.rs
rustdoc (module, NodeSchema, Node trait) updated from the pre-0006 "1..K,
producer or transformer" wording to the three-role (producer/consumer/both)
contract.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-04 15:43:35 +02:00
Brummel 1100a60c76 feat: recording is a node role, not a type (multi-sink substrate)
Replace the engine's single observe: usize recording affordance with
recording-by-node, so one run records many streams. A recording node
reads its typed input windows + ctx.now() in eval and pushes the record
to a destination it holds as a field (a channel, a chart handle) — an
out-of-graph side effect. There is no Sink type, trait, or engine flag:
a pure-consumer node returns None, and a node may record AND return a
forwarded output in the same eval (the C8 "both" case). In-graph routing
stays engine-owned data (the edge table); the escape out of the graph is
the node's own side effect, and that boundary is the determinism /
graph-as-data boundary.

Engine surface shrinks: Ctx gains now: Timestamp + now() (C2-causal, the
present cycle's timestamp); Harness loses the observe field, its
observe >= n bootstrap check, and the per-cycle observed-row collection;
bootstrap drops its 4th param; run returns (). Recorded streams are now
sparse and timestamped (a record per fired cycle) instead of the dense
Vec<Option<row>>.

The Ctx::new signature change touched 9 call sites across three crates
(not the 3 the spec estimated) — aura-std's node tests and the engine
run loop were threaded too. The engine test suite migrated to a
test-local Recorder fixture whose read-back is an mpsc channel, never
Rc/RefCell, keeping aura-engine/src purity-clean (C7). Eight new proof
tests cover the multi-sink headline, producer-and-sink, mixed-kind
recording, all-fields tap, both recorder firing modes, determinism, and
recorder-edge kind rejection. C8/C22 gain cycle-0006 realization notes.

Gates: workspace test 45 green (core 20, std 3, engine 22), clippy
-D warnings clean, purity grep clean (only a comment names Rc/RefCell).

closes #2
2026-06-04 14:38:26 +02:00
Brummel 5228542bfd 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>
2026-06-03 15:55:20 +02:00
Brummel 9ff90b5d80 audit: cycle 0004 tidy — diamond-barrier test + ledger/glossary record-reality
Architect drift review over 02fe891..f37b2a3 (firing-policies-and-merge):
drift_found, all medium/low, no contract violation. Invariants hold: C1 (the
merge is a deterministic linear scan, strict < on (timestamp, source-index) gives
C4 tie-break by declaration order; only per-call allocs), C3 (one merge at
ingestion), C5/C6 (both rails proven with worked vectors; sample-and-hold falls
out of the push model), C7 (type-erased edges, no dyn-Any/Rc/RefCell — purity grep
clean). Resolved the 0003 forward-note: cycle_id is now a real read field (the
freshness epoch, fresh_at == cycle_id), not write-only.

Resolved [med] (test gap): the barrier's timestamp token was proven only for the
multi-source same-timestamp case; C6's within-source diamond rejoin (one source,
two unequal-latency paths rejoining at a barrier) was claimed by the spec but
untested. Added `within_source_diamond_rejoin_barrier_fires`
(source -> {SMA(2), SMA(4)} -> BarrierSum): once SMA(4) warms at cycle 4, both
paths emit each cycle at the same timestamp and the barrier fires
(15+13, 17+15, 19+17). The code was already correct — every push in a cycle
stamps last_ts = that cycle's timestamp (source pushes and produced-edge forwards
alike) — so this closes the coverage gap, not a bug.

Resolved [med] (glossary record-reality): the run-count entry claimed it "drives
freshness-gated recompute", now false — the engine's firing gate reads the
per-wiring-slot cycle epoch (fresh_at), not Column::run_count. Sharpened the entry
to record reality: run-count is the node-visible per-column push counter;
fresh_at is the engine's per-slot freshness epoch. Not redundant (different
levels); both are maintained consistently on every push.

Resolved [low] (ledger silent on the barrier token): added a C6 "Realization
(cycle 0004)" note recording the load-bearing decision — barrier token is the
timestamp not cycle_id (forced by C4's same-timestamp-tie rule), firing tagged
per input with Firing::{Any, Barrier(u8)}, a mode-A input being its own trivial
group (so "per input group" and the per-input tag coincide).

Carry-on forward notes (next-cycle owners, not fixes now):
- [low] cycle_id is materialized internally (the freshness epoch) but not yet
  surfaced in run output (run returns Vec<Option<Scalar>>). Its first observable
  consumer is a sink / clock node (C18) or a timestamped trace — materialize the
  surfacing then.
- [low] all join fixtures declare lookback 1; a test guarding C8's "a node never
  reads beyond its declared lookback" for a depth>1 join is still owed (the
  substrate already enforces it via Window bounds, so this is confirmation, not a
  hole).

Regression gate: profile regression list empty — architect is the sole gate, now
clean (31 tests: aura-core 19 + aura-std 3 + aura-engine 9; clippy -D warnings
clean; purity grep clean). Cycle 0004 is drift-clean. NOT a milestone close: the
walking-skeleton milestone still needs its end-to-end fieldtest (ingest -> signal
-> backtest -> position table -> broker -> pip-equity), of which this cycle
delivers the firing/merge layer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-03 14:27:00 +02:00
Brummel 96603cf953 docs: record data-server and RustAst as external components
The ledger named both sibling projects only conceptually; their concrete
location lived only in session memory. Add an "External components" section
so the repo is the single source of truth.

- data-server: path + Gitea URL, its role as the first data source, and the
  concrete API shape (Arc<[T]> chunks, next_chunk, stream_*_windowed). Note
  its records are AoS (M1Parsed/TickParsed), so the ingestion boundary (C3)
  transposes them into SoA columns (C7) and normalizes time_ms -> epoch-ns.
- RustAst: not just a conceptual reference but a working reference
  implementation of the streaming substrate. Map its src/ast/rtl/ layer
  (RingBuffer, ScalarValue, ScalarSeries, SoA RecordSeries, the register/
  delay node, seeded generator) to the contracts it prefigures (C4/C5/C7/
  C8/C9/C12/C19), and state how aura sharpens it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-03 11:06:27 +02:00
Brummel e2dcc7471d docs: C21/C22 — the World is the product; playground is a trace explorer
Anchor the world/playground bundle. C21 (the World: harnesses are dynamically constructible first-class objects; orchestrating families of them via the C12 axes is aura's differentiator, not the single backtest which is commodity; registry is the World's memory). C22 (the World is a program -> nothing displayable until it runs; the only durable displayable substance is the recorded trace; sinks (C8) are the recording mechanism into the registry (C18); the playground plays ANY harness and is a trace explorer / execution viewer, never a scene editor; observability is explicit/selective; samples ship with sinks). Sharpen C20 (open node vs closed harness; a harness is NOT a node, it is the closure that runs / the root scope; harnesses do not nest as nodes — the World orchestrates them as objects). Correct C14 (playground is core, not 'freely deferrable'). Foundation positioning (World = product, single-harness engine = substrate). CLAUDE.md invariant 12; project-layout day-in-the-life.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-03 10:47:16 +02:00
Brummel 9eae43d308 docs: C19/C20 — bootstrap + strategy/harness; a project is a Rust program
Anchor the implementation-design branch: C19 (construction is a bootstrap phase — param-generic blueprint -> frozen instance; recursive up to the harness; params size/configure but never change topology). C20 (strategy = reusable context-free composite blueprint with role inputs + position-event output; harness = the root sim graph and C1's disjoint unit, with structural axes = experiment matrix vs tuning params = sweep; both strategy AND experiment authored in Rust via builder APIs, not a config DSL). Extend C8 (schema declares tunable params+ranges), C16 (a project is a Rust crate: cdylib of node/strategy/experiment blueprints + static Aura.toml; hosted by aura during research, frozen to a binary for deploy), C17 (all logic is Rust — nodes/strategies/experiments; Aura.toml = static context only), C12 (frozen topology = a harness instance; structural matrix is the outer axis). Add CLAUDE.md invariant 11; refresh project-layout.md (experiments/ dir, Rust experiments, day-in-the-life).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-03 09:54:44 +02:00
Brummel 1467fcd30f 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>
2026-06-03 09:12:22 +02:00
Brummel d8ccdcd806 docs: fix three drifts found in the session audit
C8: a node is producer/consumer/both — at most one output, pure consumers (sinks: chart/equity/logger) have none; records the node-role taxonomy the substrate requires (was wrongly 'exactly one output', contradicting pure consumers and C14). C3: merge by timestamp, normalizing source-native units (data-server Unix-ms) to the canonical epoch-ns of C7. aura-engine lib doc: broker is a downstream plugin over the position table (sim-optimal pip / realistic currency), not an in-strategy 'broker/portfolio node'. Plus a provenance line-wrap nit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-03 09:02:47 +02:00
Brummel d0ebdf5210 docs: C10 — strategy result is a broker-independent position table
Supersede 'broker is part of the strategy'. A strategy outputs a time-ordered table of position events (event_ts, action[buy/sell/close], position_id, instrument_id, volume; open time = opening event's event_ts, so no open_ts; unsigned volume, direction in action). Brokers become downstream swappable plugins: a deterministic frictionless sim-optimal broker yields synthetic pip-equity for neutral comparison/optimization; realistic broker plugins add currency friction/constraints for viability/deploy. Stays within C7 (scalar columns). Updates CLAUDE.md invariant 7, the walking-skeleton line, provenance, and the day-in-the-life doc.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-03 08:58:06 +02:00
Brummel b99912ca59 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>
2026-06-03 02:04:18 +02:00
Brummel 3d33cc6fe5 docs: write the architecture design ledger (C1-C15)
Captures the rough-sketch interview as 15 discrete contracts (guarantee / forbids / why): determinism, causality, single-merge-at-ingestion, cycle granularity, freshness-gated recompute, firing policies A/B, SoA scalar payloads, node contract, fractal acyclic composition, the broker-is-part-of-strategy execution chain, generalized sources with the record-then-replay boundary, the atomic sim unit + four axes, authoring-only hot-reload, headless two-faced core, and resampling/sessions. Also corrects the tracker repo name to Brummel/Aura.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-03 01:33:06 +02:00
Brummel 744c2f31a8 chore: scaffold aura workspace and wire the skills dev-cycle
Cargo workspace aura-core -> aura-engine -> aura-cli (bin `aura`) plus nodes/ for hot-reloadable cdylib node crates. Crate bodies are intentionally API-free; types arrive from the first spec. Adds the skills profile (.claude/dev-cycle-profile.yml), the project CLAUDE.md with the eight domain invariants, and the design-ledger skeleton.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-03 01:31:14 +02:00