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Binary-only milestone fieldtest for milestone 36 (self-description): a
fieldtester agent bootstrapped from the release binary (d26f0c8) alone —
no engine sources, no repo docs, no bootstrap card — and drove five
end-to-end scenarios: cold bootstrap -> author -> validate (green,
synthetic + real EURUSD, 3944 trades), execution semantics +
latch/edge-pulse idiom (green), vocabulary breadth (33 nodes / 7 folds /
17 metrics / 6+6 blocks, every entry with a meaning), document ramp from
a bare {} (green, 3 members), trace/measurement path (dead-ends,
tracked).
Verdict: the bootstrap card (#267, closed as superseded) is empirically
redundant for the bootstrap->author->validate spine. Two seams keep the
promise short of end-to-end, both tracked outside M1: the declared-tap
drop on the registration path (#327, the missing mechanism of #312/M6)
and the sugar<->document axis namespace (#328, prerequisite of the #319
retirement). Friction routed: #329 #330 #331; evidence comments on #312
and #324. Milestone 36 closed with this adjudication; the fieldtest spec
remains the usual git-ignored working file.
refs #267, refs #312, refs #319
s1 — cold bootstrap → author → validate
Protected property: starting from aura --help alone (no repo, no docs), a
downstream agent can scaffold a project, author a new strategy over the
discovered op-grammar vocabulary, and drive it to a green backtest — using only
what the binary emits.
Trail (binary-only)
aura --help— states what aura is, the two-layer model, and the execution model (bias in [-1,+1], held as target position, stop = R).aura new demo-strat— scaffoldsAura.toml,blueprints/signal.json, and a machine-writtenCLAUDE.mdbootstrap card.aura graph build --help— the op-list authoring grammar (one line of meaning per op).aura graph introspect --vocabulary/--node <T>— node types and port schemas.- Author
ema_cross.oplist.json(this dir); build it:aura graph build < ema_cross.oplist.json > blueprints/ema_cross.json - Validate green:
- synthetic:
aura run blueprints/ema_cross.json→ exit 0 (18-cycle synthetic stream → 0 trades; all-zero metrics, no note that the stream is tiny). - real:
aura run blueprints/ema_cross.json --real EURUSD --from 1577836800000 --to 1583020800000→ 3944 trades, valid metrics JSON, exit 0.
- synthetic:
ema_cross.blueprint.json is the built artefact graph build emitted.
Notes
- The harness auto-wraps the bias with
sim-optimal+risk-executorand reports R metrics even though the blueprint emits only a bias — confirming the documented execution model without any extra authoring. - Minor friction:
graph buildhas no op to set the blueprint name; it defaults tograph, and that name leaks into the sweep axis namespace (graph.fast.length).