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Brummel f3cd2e1320 fieldtest: cycle-0007 — 4 examples, 7 findings
First fieldtest of the signal-quality loop. A standalone downstream-consumer crate
(fieldtests/cycle-0007-signal-quality/) path-depends on the engine crates and
exercises the post-0007 surface from the public interface only (rustdoc + specs +
ledger + glossary, never crates/*/src):

  1 single-signal quality backtest, end to end (SMA-cross -> Exposure -> SimBroker
    -> Recorder pip curve)
  2 Exposure clamp + sizing (hard ±1 saturation, sign preserved)
  3 sim-optimal integration: short-on-falling pays positive pips; pip_size=2 curve
    exactly halves pip_size=1
  4 north-star combine-two-signals (two MA-cross spreads summed into one exposure)

Findings: 3 working (carry-on), 2 spec_gap, 2 friction.
  - spec_gap: SimBroker firing policy + cold-exposure->0.0 warm-up emission shape
    not on the public surface (only in the feat commit body).
  - spec_gap: SimBroker input slot order (0=exposure, 1=price) only in C10 prose /
    commit body; a swapped wiring is not caught at bootstrap (both f64).
  - friction: the north-star "combine two signals" move needs a sum/LinComb
    combinator aura-std does not ship (hand-authored Add2 in the fixture).
  - friction: standalone consumer crate still needs the empty [workspace] table
    (carried from cycle-0006; tracked as #9).

Spec at docs/specs/fieldtest-0007-signal-quality.md feeds the next plan.

refs #4 #5

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-04 17:30:13 +02:00

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//! Fieldtest c0007 #1 — a single-signal quality backtest, end to end.
//!
//! Axis: "composition into an end-to-end signal-quality harness + recording the
//! equity curve" — the project's primary research loop (docs/design INDEX C10,
//! project-layout.md "A day in the life" step 3).
//!
//! The chain a downstream researcher wires to ask "does this SMA-cross signal,
//! held as exposure over time, make pips?":
//!
//! price ----+--> SMA(2) --\
//! | Sub(fast - slow) --> Exposure(scale) --\
//! +--> SMA(4) --/ |
//! | v
//! +-------------------------------> SimBroker(pip_size, exposure, price)
//! |
//! v
//! Recorder (equity curve)
//!
//! Public-surface facts used:
//! - aura_std::Exposure::new(scale) = clamp(signal/scale, -1, +1), None until warm
//! (rustdoc struct.Exposure).
//! - aura_std::SimBroker::new(pip_size) integrates exposure*price-return -> pips,
//! pip_size held metadata (rustdoc struct.SimBroker).
//! - SimBroker input slot order: exposure = slot 0, price = slot 1
//! (design ledger C10 "Realization (cycle 0007)" + the feat commit body;
//! the rustdoc itself does NOT state the slot order — recorded as a spec_gap).
//! - integration is prev_exposure * (price - prev_price) / pip_size, cumulative
//! (ledger C10 Realization).
use std::sync::mpsc::{self, Sender};
use aura_core::{Ctx, Firing, InputSpec, Node, NodeSchema, Scalar, ScalarKind, Timestamp};
use aura_engine::{Edge, Harness, SourceSpec, Target};
use aura_std::{Exposure, SimBroker, Sma, Sub};
struct Recorder {
tx: Sender<(Timestamp, f64)>,
}
impl Node for Recorder {
fn schema(&self) -> NodeSchema {
NodeSchema {
inputs: vec![InputSpec { kind: ScalarKind::F64, lookback: 1, firing: Firing::Any }],
output: vec![],
}
}
fn eval(&mut self, ctx: Ctx<'_>) -> Option<&[Scalar]> {
let w = ctx.f64_in(0);
if w.is_empty() {
return None;
}
let _ = self.tx.send((ctx.now(), w[0]));
None
}
}
fn f64_stream(pairs: &[(i64, f64)]) -> Vec<(Timestamp, Scalar)> {
pairs.iter().map(|&(t, v)| (Timestamp(t), Scalar::F64(v))).collect()
}
fn main() {
let (tx, rx) = mpsc::channel();
// nodes: 0=SMA(2) fast, 1=SMA(4) slow, 2=Sub(fast-slow), 3=Exposure(scale=4),
// 4=SimBroker(pip_size=1.0), 5=Recorder taps broker equity.
let mut h = Harness::bootstrap(
vec![
Box::new(Sma::new(2)),
Box::new(Sma::new(4)),
Box::new(Sub::new()),
Box::new(Exposure::new(4.0)),
Box::new(SimBroker::new(1.0)),
Box::new(Recorder { tx }),
],
vec![SourceSpec {
kind: ScalarKind::F64,
// price fans into both SMAs AND the broker's price slot (slot 1).
targets: vec![
Target { node: 0, slot: 0 },
Target { node: 1, slot: 0 },
Target { node: 4, slot: 1 },
],
}],
vec![
Edge { from: 0, to: 2, slot: 0, from_field: 0 }, // SMA2 -> Sub.in0 (fast)
Edge { from: 1, to: 2, slot: 1, from_field: 0 }, // SMA4 -> Sub.in1 (slow)
Edge { from: 2, to: 3, slot: 0, from_field: 0 }, // Sub -> Exposure
Edge { from: 3, to: 4, slot: 0, from_field: 0 }, // Exposure -> SimBroker.in0
Edge { from: 4, to: 5, slot: 0, from_field: 0 }, // SimBroker -> Recorder
],
)
.expect("valid signal-quality DAG");
// A steadily-rising price: the fast SMA leads, spread positive => long exposure,
// and the rising price then pays that long exposure positive pips.
let prices: &[(i64, f64)] = &[
(1, 100.0),
(2, 102.0),
(3, 104.0),
(4, 106.0),
(5, 108.0),
(6, 110.0),
(7, 112.0),
];
h.run(vec![f64_stream(prices)]);
let equity: Vec<(Timestamp, f64)> = rx.try_iter().collect();
println!("recorded pip-equity curve = {equity:?}");
// What I FIRST predicted (public-surface model, Exposure-warm-gated):
// SMA4 warms at t=4, so the spread/exposure exists only from t=4 on; I
// expected the broker to emit ONLY from t=4 (its exposure leg's first warm
// cycle), giving 4 rows starting at t=4.
// t=4: prev_exp=0 (cold) -> +0 -> cum 0.0
// t=5: prev_exp=0.5, dprice=2 -> +1.0 -> cum 1.0
// t=6: prev_exp=0.5, dprice=2 -> +1.0 -> cum 2.0
// t=7: prev_exp=0.5, dprice=2 -> +1.0 -> cum 3.0
let predicted = vec![
(Timestamp(4), 0.0),
(Timestamp(5), 1.0),
(Timestamp(6), 2.0),
(Timestamp(7), 3.0),
];
// What ACTUALLY happens: the broker emits a row on EVERY price-fresh cycle
// (firing policy A on its price leg), starting at t=1 — long before the
// exposure leg warms. Cold exposure is treated as 0.0 (no position held), so
// those leading rows are cum 0.0. The pip VALUES from t=4 on are identical to
// my prediction; only the WARM-UP EMISSION SHAPE differs (3 extra leading
// 0.0 rows at t=1,2,3). The rustdoc for SimBroker states neither its firing
// policy nor this leading-zero emission — recorded as a spec_gap.
let actual_observed = vec![
(Timestamp(1), 0.0),
(Timestamp(2), 0.0),
(Timestamp(3), 0.0),
(Timestamp(4), 0.0),
(Timestamp(5), 1.0),
(Timestamp(6), 2.0),
(Timestamp(7), 3.0),
];
println!("first prediction (warm-gated) = {predicted:?}");
println!("actual (price-fresh fires) = {actual_observed:?}");
// The pip values where exposure is warm match the prediction exactly:
let warm: Vec<_> = equity.iter().filter(|(t, _)| t.0 >= 4).cloned().collect();
assert_eq!(warm, predicted, "warm-region pip values match the hand model");
assert_eq!(equity, actual_observed, "full recorded curve incl. leading zeros");
println!("c0007_1 OK: SMA-cross -> Exposure -> SimBroker -> Recorder pip curve");
}