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C11 — Generalized sources; record-then-replay determinism boundary

Guarantee. A source is anything that produces timestamped scalar streams — market data (the data-server) and non-financial sources (e.g. a news-agent node emitting a bias) are treated identically. Anything nondeterministic, external, or slow (LLM/news/web) is materialized into a recorded, timestamped stream before it enters the engine; a backtest replays the recording, live computes fresh in real time and records it for future backtests. A bias enters as a value held until the next event (firing policy A, C6).

Forbids. Any live external call inside a backtest replay.

Why. It is the only model compatible with reproducible backtests (C1) — LLM calls are nondeterministic and far too slow per-cycle. External LLM (IONOS) calls happen only at the recording/live-source edge, with explicit per-session consent, never inside a sim (the IONOS consent rule lives in ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md).

Current state

The producer seam that makes "a source is anything" concrete is the object-safe Source trait (crates/aura-engine/src/harness.rs), driven by the single k-way ingestion merge (C3); the seam itself is detailed in C12. The realized side is the market-data replay path: DataServer (the external data-server git-dependency crate, re-exported through crates/aura-ingest) parses an archived M1 window and streaming M1FieldSource producers (crates/aura-ingest/src/lib.rs) replay it deterministically into the merge. The recording direction — a live source materialized into a timestamped stream for later replay — and generalized non-price recorded sources (a news-agent bias) are design law that rides the same Source seam (the #71 source seam) but has not yet landed. The held-until-next-event semantics of a sparse recorded source are the firing-policy-A / sample-and-hold mechanism already realized under C5/C6. At the opposite edge the live broker is an I/O adapter at the recording/deploy boundary, never part of the strategy (C13; domain invariant 7).

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