feat: generation fact log — after-image commit records, dual-written at every commit point

Every committed generation now also appends a FACT — an after-image
commit record (what each touched entity/relationship became, or a
body-less tombstone for a removal) — to an append-only, crc32c-framed
segment log under _generations/facts/. The before-image history and the
canonical tree remain authoritative; the fact log gives consumers ONE
sequential, self-verifying stream (index heals, incremental replays)
in place of a per-entity directory walk.

- Wire format: positional msgpack facts [generation, timestamp, ops,
  meta, blobHashes]; op = [kind u8, id bin16, record | nil tombstone];
  32-byte segment header (magic, formatVersion, firstGeneration,
  zeroed+verified reserved); length+crc32c frame per fact; zero-padded
  segment names so lexicographic order == generation order; JSON
  manifest with an atomic rename flip, manifest-first rotation.
- Commit protocol: facts append+fsync BEFORE the commit point inside
  the existing durability window, so a crash can only leave the log
  AHEAD of committed truth — open() truncates back (torn tails detected
  by CRC). Absent generation = never committed; a scan can never see an
  uncommitted fact. transact() facts are durable-on-return; single-op
  facts ride the group-commit flush exactly like buffered history. A
  fact-append failure fails the write, loudly — a silent gap would be a
  lie a later replay discovers.
- New public surface: brain.scanFacts() (sequential batches with heal
  telemetry: head/segments/approx up front, per-batch generation range
  + bytes + segment id, loud abort on gaps, summary cross-check) and
  brain.factSegmentPaths() (immutable sealed segments for zero-copy
  consumers; the mutable tail excluded). Exported types CommitFact,
  FactOp, FactScanBatch, FactScanHandle.
- Storage: optional binary raw-byte primitives (appendRawBytes,
  readRawBytes, writeRawBytes, rawByteSize) on StorageAdapter —
  feature-detected; filesystem + memory adapters implement them; an
  adapter without them hosts no fact log. Fact segments are byte-copied
  (never hard-linked) into snapshots. The _generations/facts/ namespace
  is registered as a protected family (rebuildable: false): no sweeper
  or GC may delete under it.
- New crc32c (Castagnoli) utility with RFC known-answer tests.
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David Snelling 2026-07-15 10:49:02 -07:00
parent 92299f27be
commit 38b0041464
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@ -423,6 +423,22 @@ export interface GenerationStorage {
/** Read all lines of `_system/tx-log.jsonl` (empty array if absent). */
readTxLogLines(): Promise<string[]>
/**
* OPTIONAL binary raw-byte primitives the substrate for the generation
* fact log's append-only CRC-framed segments. Feature-detected: a storage
* layer that omits them hosts no fact log (dual-write is skipped; readers
* fall back to canonical enumeration). Paths are used VERBATIM (no
* suffixing). Append durability rides `syncRawObjects` at the commit
* barrier, exactly like the staged history files.
*/
appendRawBytes?(path: string, bytes: Uint8Array): Promise<void>
/** Read a raw binary file whole; absent → null; a real fault throws. */
readRawBytes?(path: string): Promise<Uint8Array | null>
/** Replace a raw binary file atomically (tmp → fsync → rename). */
writeRawBytes?(path: string, bytes: Uint8Array): Promise<void>
/** Byte size of a raw binary file, or null when absent. */
rawByteSize?(path: string): Promise<number | null>
/**
* OPTIONAL temporal-blob contract (implemented by blob-aware storage; the
* generation store treats the hashes as opaque strings). Extract the