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C6 — Firing policy A and B, per input group
Guarantee. A node declares, per input group, one of two firing policies: A fire-on-any-fresh + hold (latest / as-of join — e.g. tick × held daily-bias); B all-fresh barrier (synchronizing join — e.g. O/H/L/C from four separate 15m sources: the candle is complete only when all four are fresh). A single node may mix an A input and a B group, and it fires when any of its input groups fires (OR over groups).
Forbids. A single global firing mode; forcing per-node-only granularity.
Why. Both are genuinely needed; RustAst, the retired predecessor, implemented only B. Per-input-group granularity is required by the OHLC-plus-bias case where one node needs both an A input and a B group at once.
Current state
Firing is tagged per input — Firing::{Any, Barrier(u8)}
(crates/aura-core/src/node.rs) carried on each input's PortSpec.firing, not a
separate group object. Inputs sharing a Barrier id form a group; a mode-A input
is its own trivial group, so "per input group" and the per-input tag coincide.
The barrier's synchronization token is the cycle timestamp, not the
cycle_id: under C4 four same-timestamp sources are four distinct cycles, so a
cycle_id-equality barrier could never fire across them — the token has to be the
data timestamp of the push.
Firing is evaluated by fires() in crates/aura-engine/src/harness.rs: a mode-A
input fires the node when it is fresh this cycle (fresh_at == cycle_id), a stale
input contributing its held value; a barrier group fires when ≥1 member is fresh
this cycle and every member's last push carries the current cycle's timestamp.
The "≥1 fresh" guard is what stops a group completed in a prior cycle from
re-firing. This one rule fires both the multi-source bar and the within-source
diamond rejoin (C3), since every push in a cycle carries that cycle's timestamp.
See also
- C3 — the one-merge boundary; the within-source diamond rejoin the barrier also completes
- C4 — cycle/timestamp granularity that forces the barrier token to be a timestamp
- C5 — freshness-gated recompute and sample-and-hold (mode A's hold semantics)
- C8 — the node signature declares each input's firing group
History: c06-firing-policy.history.md