Slice 8, closing the #319 retirement's prose and bench debt. Bench argv rides exec (fixed_cost single-run probe, campaign surfaces, and the seed helper that still called the retired sweep at runtime — caught by the bench run itself); all five fingerprints unchanged against the committed baselines, confirming record-line parity through the retirement. Live docs (README, authoring guide, project layout, glossary) describe only exec + campaign documents + graph introspect --params; three glossary entries explicitly mark their verb retired. Ledger amendments per the C29 discipline — C25's executor-verb-set re-settled (exec + the --override residue), C14's dual grammar reduced to the one dispatch, C24's document-built runs/families + gated-intake route list (lockstep with the code comment), C12's override clause and identity anchor repointed to the runner-layer hash computation, C18/C22/C27/C01 mention rewrites — superseded sentences moved verbatim to the history sidecars (c25's created). Stale dual-grammar doc comment on is_blueprint_file rewritten. refs #319
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C12 — The atomic sim unit and the four orchestration axes: history
FROZEN HISTORICAL RECORD. Each block below was true as of its cycle/date stamp and may be superseded; this file is NOT current truth and NOT a grounding surface. Current contract: c12-atomic-sim-unit.md.
Realization (cycles 0028, 0049). Axis 1 (param-sweep) is built. GridSpace
(0028) enumerates a cartesian lattice over discrete per-slot value-lists;
RandomSpace (0049) draws N seeded points over typed continuous ParamRanges
(I64 inclusive [lo,hi], F64 half-open [lo,hi)), validated against the
param-space before any run. Both implement the Space trait the disjoint
sweep / run_indexed core is generic over, so either enumeration runs through
one execution path (C1: results in enumeration order, not completion order). The
seeded sampler reuses the bit-stable SplitMix64 as a code-path-disjoint
instance from the data-edge seed RNG (the source-seam firewall, #52/#71: they
share only the u64 type, never a path).
Realization (cycle 0041). The eager ingestion of cycle 0011 is no longer the
only path. Harness::run is re-typed to a producer seam — a Source trait
(peek/next, object-safe) the k-way merge drives — and a streaming
M1FieldSource (aura-ingest) pulls a data-server window lazily, borrowing
one Arc<[M1Parsed]> chunk per pull (zero-copy within a source) and
decoding each Scalar on demand: the source ring is resident O(one chunk),
not O(window length) — the measured resident_records() predicate, a per-source
bound, not whole-process RSS. (Data-server's FileCache retains each window's
parsed chunks read-only for the pass — ~56 B/record — so process residency is
O(records-touched); that is the replay-many sharing C12 wants — one window
parsed once across a sweep family — not a leak. The single-pass cost is tracked as
#95.) The eager load_m1_window/close_stream path is kept for bounded loads (the
gap closes by a streaming path existing, not by deleting the eager one). Realized
(2026-06-29, family cycles shipped). cross-sim Arc<[T]> sharing — one window shared
zero-copy across many disjoint sweep sims — is now in force: the sweep / Monte-Carlo /
walk-forward families (axes 2–4 above) build their members over one shared
Arc<DataServer> (one FileCache), so a window is parsed once and every member's
M1FieldSource borrows the same cached Arc<[M1Parsed]> chunks
(crates/aura-ingest/src/lib.rs:316). The single-pass parse cost stays tracked as #95.
Current-state bound-override + identity-anchor clause (superseded by the
#319 sugar retirement, 2026-07-25): "so axis 1 (param-sweep) may name a
bound param — the family boundary re-opens it on the probe and on every
member reload, and the axis binds it per cell; run/mc still require
every param resolved (a truly open param refuses). Identity is untouched:
content_id_of (crates/aura-research/src/lib.rs) and topology_hash
(crates/aura-cli/src/main.rs) read the authored document, never a
re-opened probe, and each member manifest records its per-cell bindings
(#246, ratified 2026-07-12; the restriction this amends — axes bind only
open knobs — was an implementation consequence of bind() shrinking the
param surface, not a recorded decision)."