The single-file ledger had grown to 2968 lines / ~42k tokens, mixing current design law with accreted history: 59 cycle-stamped realization blocks, 18 [HISTORY] passages, 22 supersession markers, and the C10 / C22 / C24 reframe sagas layered several supersessions deep. A code-grounding audit (31 agents, adversarially verified) confirmed 11 defects stated as current truth: stale crate homes from the C28 #288 roster split (cost nodes, PositionManagement, PositionEvent, Session), the renamed InputSpec->PortSpec, the pre-#241 project model in C16 and the open-threads section, a stale HarnessKind retirement deferral in C24, and three C28-internal inconsistencies. New shape, per the ailang precedent: - INDEX.md stays the sole addressable entry point: foundation, external components, a C-id-keyed contract map (one line per contract), and only the genuinely open architectural threads. - contracts/cNN-<slug>.md carries each contract's current truth only: Guarantee / Forbids / Why with ratified refinements integrated, plus a code-anchored Current state. All confirmed defects are fixed here; crate anchors were re-verified against the tree. - contracts/cNN-<slug>.history.md (18 sidecars) and INDEX.history.md preserve every superseded block verbatim, stamps and issue refs intact, under a frozen-record banner. Nothing was deleted: superseded design intent remains an addressable working-tree artifact, off the per-cycle audit walk. - Ledger discipline is now stated in INDEX.md: live files are edited in place at cycle close, superseded text moves verbatim to the sidecar, and a supersession marker in a live file is itself an audit finding. Every contract file was verified against its old text by an independent zero-loss pass (statement-by-statement) plus a code-accuracy spot check; C-ids and contract titles are unchanged, so existing C-id citations in code, tests, and issues resolve as before.
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C3 — One merge, at ingestion only
Guarantee. Heterogeneous timestamped sources are k-way-merged by timestamp
into one chronological cycle stream at the ingestion boundary; source-native
time units (e.g. data-server's Unix-time_ms) are normalized there to the
canonical epoch-ns timestamp of C7.
Forbids. Any merge / as-of join inside the graph.
Why. A single ordered timeline is the mechanism that makes heterogeneous-rate sources (news daily-bias + M5 + ticks) causally combinable without leaking the future. Keeping the merge at one boundary keeps the graph semantics simple.
Current state
The k-way merge is Harness::run's per-cycle pick of the live source head with
the smallest (timestamp, source index) (crates/aura-engine/src/harness.rs).
Each Source yields records in ascending timestamp order — the ingestion
precondition the merge relies on — and there is no merge or as-of join anywhere
inside the DAG; the engine only routes in-graph edges.
The ms→epoch-ns normalization is a single seam, aura_ingest::unix_ms_to_epoch_ns
(crates/aura-ingest/src/lib.rs): the data-source ingestion edge transposes the
data-server's Array-of-Structs M1Parsed records into aura's Structure-of-Arrays
base columns (C7) and normalizes their Unix-millisecond time to the canonical
epoch-ns Timestamp at this one boundary. Both the eager load_m1_window
transpose and the lazy streaming M1FieldSource route through that same seam.