A canonical row persisted with vector: [] (a system row, a deferred embed
not yet landed, or any other legitimately-unvectored record) is a normal,
enumerable row -- but rebuild()'s storage walk had no guard against it.
storage.getVectorIndexData() derives its answer from the row's own record,
so it returns non-null for any existing noun whether or not that noun was
ever actually indexed -- rebuild() admitted such rows into the live graph
with a length-0 vector. A vector-less node could become the entry point (or
occupy any graph position); the next real insert then ran a distance
calculation against it and blew up with a dimension mismatch.
Fix at two layers in src/hnsw/hnswIndex.ts:
- rebuild() now skips any row whose vector.length === 0 before it ever
becomes a graph node (one summary count line, never per-row spam), and
restores the pinned dimension from the first real vector it loads --
previously the pin stayed null across a restart, since addItem/updateItem
are the only sites that set it and rebuild() never goes through either.
- addItem/updateItem now refuse a length-0 vector with a typed
EmptyVectorIndexError instead of ever pinning dimension to 0 or storing a
vector-less node, so no future fill/rebuild/load path can poison the index
silently. getVectorSafe's lazy-load "not found" check also missed that an
empty array is truthy -- tightened to catch it.
IndexOperations.ts's ReplaceInVectorIndexOperation rollback paths now skip
re-adding an oldVector of length 0 (never a legal index member) instead of
attempting an illegal empty re-insert on rollback.
biography.test.ts's final ledger-exactness assertion assumed every noun the
lane creates is vectored, including the VFS root counted in
vfsBaselineNouns -- but the root is deliberately persisted unvectored.
Corrected the expected formula to exclude it.
Adds tests/integration/index-skips-unvectored.test.ts pinning: rebuild()
indexes only vectored rows with the dimension pinned correctly; clear()
then real adds never trip a dimension mismatch; addItem/updateItem refuse a
length-0 vector; and a crash/repair cycle stays dimension-consistent.
The noun/verb pagination walks (getNounsWithPagination,
getNounIdsWithPagination, getVerbsWithPagination) listed shard contents by
filtering for vectors.json, while the canonical count ledger has always
counted a row by its metadata.json presence alone. A row with metadata and
no vector file was therefore counted by the ledger but never yielded by the
walk — a permanent "counted but invisible" phantom for any downstream
consumer that iterates the walk to account for the ledger's total.
Nouns now enumerate by metadata.json and hydrate the vector leg optionally,
yielding the sanctioned unvectored shape (vector: []) when it's absent.
Verbs enumerate the same way, but a metadata-only verb row can only be fully
reconstructed when sourceId/targetId happen to be recoverable from metadata
(never true for a current production write — those fields live only in the
vector leg); otherwise the row is counted but loudly skipped rather than
fabricated, since a phantom edge with fake endpoints would be worse than the
original defect.
Separately, GenerationStore's recovery-fold replay (replayFact) now applies
preserve-if-absent: a metadata-only after-image replayed over an already-
vectored row carries the existing vector forward instead of deleting it via
writeNounRaw/writeVerbRaw's exact-restore null-means-delete contract (which
must stay exact for transaction-abort rollback). A genuine tombstone still
removes both legs.
A zero-norm vector is lawful inside brainy (cosine distance scores it at
maximum, never a false top hit) but a false attractor for a downstream
engine serving squared-euclidean distance, which cannot tell a real
all-zero vector apart from a legitimate origin point.
- The VFS root now persists with vector [] (the existing "unvectored"
shape) instead of a real all-zero 384-dim placeholder, and is never
routed into the deferred-embed pipeline.
- A one-time migration in the root-init path detects a pre-fix store's
all-zero placeholder root (by norm, not length) and rewrites it to []
through a new sanctioned Brainy method that keeps the canonical
vectored-noun ledger honest and removes the row from the vector index.
- The vector-index write seam (AddToVectorIndexOperation,
ReplaceInVectorIndexOperation, and the generation materializer's direct
insert) now refuses any real all-zero vector before it reaches a
provider, loudly naming the entity, while the canonical write still
lands.
- add()'s dimension-pinning and HNSW-insert gates, and the add-params
validator, now treat any empty vector as carrying no dimension
information, closing a latent trap where an explicit `vector: []`
would have pinned dimensions to 0.
Two builds of the same source tree could publish different artifacts
because buildEmbeddedPatterns.ts and buildTypeEmbeddings.ts stamped
their generated output with new Date().toISOString(). Route both
generators' "Generated:" header and the generatedAt runtime field
through a shared resolver: newest git commit time among the
generator's inputs (script + source data), falling back to the stamp
already present in the previous output when git is unavailable (e.g.
a published tarball build), and finally to a fixed epoch value. Every
fallback logs to stderr so degradation is never silent.
Regenerated both committed output files once so the tree carries
deterministic stamps; no other content changed.
Two cures from the pair's first production adoption, both measured live.
THE READ GATE IS PER-FAMILY. The report-driven gate refused on ANY
provider's not-ready verdict at every read choke point — so a pure
metadata find({ where }) was refused because the VECTOR leg was not
serving, and a deployment's badge reads returned errors for a verdict that
had nothing to do with them. A read may only be refused by the family it
actually consults: metadata reads by the metadata leg (plus graph for a
`connected` filter), vector search by the vector leg, traversal by the
graph leg. Callers name what they need; the existing narration-once-per-
generation and typed-refusal laws are unchanged within a family.
NO RE-EMBED ON UNCHANGED DATA. update() — and its transact() planner —
treated any write that carried `data` as a data change: with
deferEmbedding it queued a landing, and the worker re-embedded and re-landed
a vector for content that had not changed. A host heartbeat re-writing an
unchanged row every few seconds therefore fed a live index-row loop on a
production store. A write carrying the row's current data (structural
compare, key order normalized) is now not a data change: no re-embed, no
deferred landing, no vector rewrite; the metadata write itself still
commits. A real change re-embeds exactly as before.
Pinned in tests/integration/read-gate-scope-and-no-reembed.test.ts — both
pins red-proved against the unfixed code with the production shapes
verbatim. Two health-gate pins that encoded the old brain-global scope are
re-pointed to the family their reads consult.
The coverage denominator the health-by-accounting ratification named for
the vector family — never built until now, and its absence was measured as
the exact outage class it existed to prevent: a migrated store with
canonical vectors and no derived index opened with the vector leg EMPTY,
served [] from vector search with no error, and the report-driven read gate
had nothing to refuse on (the provider's coverage invariant was honestly
unledgered — the denominator was ours to supply).
- getCanonicalCounts() gains vectors: { all } — the count of canonical
nouns holding a REAL vector. Incremented where a vector lands (the
isNew-gated metadata seam for explicit vectors — the same discipline that
keeps HNSW neighbor-link re-saves from inflating counts; a narrow
noteVectorLanded hook for the deferred-embed landing, gated on the
worker's own pre-embed read). Decremented on a proven delete of a
vectored noun; a vector-uncertain delete marks the ledger suspect rather
than guessing (no new reads on the delete path). Recounted by the
sanctioned recount; legacy counts.json derives it once (a deferred noun's
vector file exists with an empty vector, so presence requires one
content read at derivation — never on the hot path).
- The open gate's vector leg: when a health-reporting provider claims
serving while the index holds zero nodes and the ledger proves vectored
canonical rows exist, open BUILDS (narrated) — routed through the
provider's idempotent fillFromCanonical() when exposed (the joint door;
a partial shortfall stays repair()'s operator business), the JS rebuild
otherwise — or fails typed pre-serve. Scoped exactly: bare isReady()
providers, migrating providers, and white-box size stubs open as before.
Pinned end-to-end from the partner gate's probe shape (store with vectored
canonical rows, no derived index, reopen → search serves N, never []),
red-proved against the pre-fix path; the inverse (zero vectored rows) opens
without building and serves [] honestly.
resolveVerbEndpointInts mirrors the resolved u64 endpoint ints onto the
verb object itself as BigInt (verb.sourceInt/targetInt) for the graph legs'
own params. The live verb path's delete legs then reused that same object
as the metadata-index crossing — and the seam's metadata is JSON-safe by
contract (a native provider serializes it; u64 as Number corrupts above
2^53), so JSON.stringify threw and the whole transaction aborted. Found by
the first joint pair gate; four downstream suites red from one crossing.
The crossing now routes through a JSON-safe view that drops BigInt-valued
top-level keys — endpoint ints ride their own op params on the graph legs,
exactly as designed, and never the metadata crossing. Applied at the
retraction helper (cascade + unrelate + transact mirrors) and
updateRelation's remove leg.
Pinned by driving the exact shape (relate resolves ints, remove cascades
the same object) through a provider shim enforcing the JSON contract —
red-proved against the unfixed path (the joint gate's verbatim error),
green with the fix.
repairIndex() acted only on heal:'rebuild' — an invariant asking for the
INCREMENTAL heal (re-post exactly what the ledger names, O(missing), never
a store-sized rebuild) did nothing on brainy's side. A failing 'repair'
verdict now routes to the provider's feature-detected repair(); the
post-heal RE-READ of the report decides success (the acceptance meta-pin's
law — run the named heal once, re-read, nothing may still fail the same
way), and a repair that does not converge is recorded with the escalation
named: repairIndex({ rebuild: [family] }).
The factory loudly rejects every REMOVED pre-8.0 path key, but an unknown
nested `config` object (e.g. `storage: { config: { baseDir } }` — a shape
that was never supported) fell through SILENTLY to the zero-config default
directory. Every instance constructed with such a shape wrote to ONE shared
on-disk root while its caller believed each had its own — found live when
two integration tests' brains shared a store across an entire
single-process CI run and a health probe refused on the foreign edges it
sampled. A nested `config` carrying any path-shaped key now throws the same
loud migration error, naming the canonical `path` rename. The two tests are
repaired to the supported shape (and now actually test isolated stores, for
the first time since 8.0).
validateAddParams() treated '' as falsy and rejected it with "Missing
required field 'data'" — so a legitimate empty file's first write always
failed. Only null/undefined data (with no vector either) is genuinely
absent; '' is real content. Fixed the check, plus the identical bug in
validateUpdateParams() (truncating a file to empty via overwrite hit the
same falsy check) and in update()/transact()'s update planner, where a
plain `Boolean(params.data)`/truthy check on the resolved vector would have
silently skipped both the deferred-embed marker and the eager re-embed for
an emptied value — a stale vector with no path to ever correct itself.
Verified end-to-end: vfs.writeFile('/empty.txt', '') now succeeds,
readFile() returns '', the file lists, and stat() reports size 0; the
existing "should reject empty string as data" tests (unit + integration)
asserted the old buggy behavior and are updated to assert the fixed
contract instead.
vfs.readdir()'s ReaddirOptions.recursive was typed but silently ignored: a
recursive request behaved identically to a non-recursive one. Implemented
properly: recursive listing walks every descendant (files and directories,
any depth) via the same graph-traversal + one-batch-fetch path
getTreeStructure()/getDescendants() already use, and reports each entry as
a path relative to the queried directory (Node's fs.readdir(dir,
{ recursive: true }) convention) — 'sub/file.txt', not just 'file.txt'.
With withFileTypes: true, each VFSDirent.name carries that same relative
path when recursive (matching the string-array form byte for byte);
VFSDirent.path stays the absolute VFS path either way, so no information is
lost. Filter/sort/pagination compose unchanged, now over the full recursive
set. Non-recursive behavior (direct children, named by basename) is
unchanged.
A production restart storm measured 90,017ms for a single brain init vs
1,117ms quiet (~80x contention multiplier), traced to performInit() eagerly
awaiting the process-global WASM embedding engine before the VFS root even
existed. Every writer's open() queued on the one throttled model compile
(90-140s on throttled CPUs).
- VirtualFileSystem.doInitializeRoot() no longer embeds '/'. The root is
system-tier plumbing nothing ever searches; when the default WASM engine
is active it now gets an explicit all-zero placeholder vector
(cosineDistance returns max distance for a zero vector, so it never ranks
ahead of real content). deferEmbedding was considered and rejected: its
landing path kicks the embed worker synchronously right after commit,
which would still force the cold compile within milliseconds — just off
the awaited path, not avoided. A registered native 'embeddings' provider
(no cold-start cost, possibly a different dimension) still embeds the
root for real, via the new Brainy.usesDefaultWasmEmbedder() seam.
- performInit()'s eager-embedding step now only STARTS the WASM engine warm
in the background instead of awaiting it inline. embed()/embeddingManager
already serialize concurrent callers on one shared init promise, so the
first real embed() converges correctly either way; a failed warm narrates
loudly instead of surfacing as a silent latency spike or an unhandled
rejection. eagerEmbeddings: false still means no warm at all.
- FileSystemStorage.init() batches its ~8 independent bootstrap mkdirs
(each creates its own full subtree via recursive:true, so none depend on
the others existing) into one Promise.all. The restore-completion step
and initializeCounts() stay strictly sequential — they have real order
dependencies on rootDir and systemDir respectively.
- performInit() now times five phases (storage init / generation-store
open+fold / index init+gate / VFS bootstrap / embedding-warm-started) and
logs one warning with the per-phase breakdown when total open exceeds
2000ms; silent otherwise.
The auto-detection "not installed" heuristic accepted any resolution failure
whose message merely CONTAINED the package name, unterminated — so a missing
platform-binary sibling package (what a deploy replacing node_modules
mid-restart leaves behind) read as "the accelerator is not installed", and
brainy silently served the default WASM engines with zero journal lines. A
production restart storm paid 90 seconds of throttled WASM compile behind
exactly that hole. The name must now terminate where it ends (quote,
whitespace, punctuation, end) — a sibling package, an inner file path, or a
dependency failure is a broken install and init() throws, as the guard's own
law always stated.
Second door: activate() returning false (the documented graceful decline)
warned on console.warn, which `silent: true` patches away — an invisible
degrade. The decline now narrates via the always-on channel.
Also exports CanonicalCounts from the public surface (the coverage-ledger
denominator type consumers read through getCanonicalCounts()).
Pinned in tests/unit/plugin-activation-loudness.test.ts (five error shapes;
the decline warn under silent: true).
Three cures on the JS metadata index, one seam:
- THE CATCHUP WIRING. The index computed its three-way watermark verdict at
open and nothing consumed it — after a crash + adopt reopen, find() served
the pre-crash index while canonical reads and counts recovered (caught by
the lifecycle lane's first run). The open path now consumes the verdict:
'adopt' is a no-op, 'catchup' folds the fact window (stamped, committed]
through the index legs — nouns and verbs, remove-then-add, one mechanism
for add and update — and 'rescan' runs the explicit rebuild, each narrated.
The lane's Ch4–6 release-blocking marker comes off: the contract holds.
Bonus root-cause: close() never stamped the projection watermarks (only
flush() did), so any close without a prior flush verdicted a needless
'rescan' on reopen — both doors now stamp.
- THE LIVE VERB PATH. Verb rows entered the metadata index only via rebuild
walks, so every rebuilt store minted phantom/stale verb postings from its
first live relate(). relate()/unrelate()/updateRelation() and remove()'s
cascade now post/retract the verb's row in the same commit as the graph
leg — transact() planners mirror identically — using the exact record
shape the rebuild walk uses, so live and rebuilt populations agree.
- THE ONLINE REBUILD. rebuild() was clear-then-walk — every metadata read
empty for the duration. rebuildMetadataIndexOnline builds a fresh manager
beside the serving one (shared identity, in-memory build, dual-write via
a shadow seam with zero call-site changes), atomically swaps the
reference, and persists exactly once post-swap. A find() polled ~200x
during a 2k-noun rebuild never dropped below its baseline.
repairIndex({ rebuild: ['metadata'] }) uses it automatically.
The read gate stops consulting the unnamed isReady() boolean: every provider
may expose healthReport() (sync, O(1), composed from exact ledgers —
HealthReport with a monotonic generation, per-invariant source
ledger|deep|unledgered, missing {count, sample}), and one readiness
authority (assessProviderHealth) derives the verdict. Unledgered families
are UNKNOWN — never healthy, never broken; a report that throws is a loud
not-ready, never a shrug. Reads at the four index choke points refuse with
the typed NotReady errors, narrated once per (provider, generation) — a
read NEVER starts a store walk:
- the first-read lazy build retires (open builds instead, regardless of
size — the ≥10k deferral and the "lazy loading on first query" branch go;
disableAutoRebuild is re-meant honestly in its docs);
- the verify*Live read-path rebuild triggers retire (refuse-or-serve);
- the read-time consistency probe that could launch a dark rebuild from an
ordinary find() retires;
- repairIndex({ rebuild: ['metadata'|'graph'|'vector'] | 'all' }) is the
one explicit door: rebuilds the named leg unconditionally and reports
rebuilt per family; bare repairIndex() stays report-driven.
test(lifecycle): the biography lane — a store's whole life, refereed
tests/lifecycle/: an independent shadow model referees every read after
every chapter (founding, a working day, clean restart, crash, repair,
second life). Chapters 1-3 green. Chapters 4-6 assert the true contract and
are marked .fails as a release-blocking finding (the kill-matrix
convention): after a crash + adopt reopen the metadata index computes its
'catchup' watermark verdict and nothing consumes it — find() serves the
pre-crash index while canonical and counts recover. The catchup wiring is
the cure; a passing .fails will force the marker's removal. The lane runs
in the integration gate (config + coverage guard).
A validateInvariants() that threw was re-synthesized by the host's catch as
heal:'rebuild' with serving:false — a rebuild lever one transient exception
away, while the native provider's own composer reports the same event as
heal:'none'. Two components disagreeing on what a thrown check means is how
a flaky probe becomes an outage. Both now agree: the report is named
('validate-invariants-threw'), loud (healthy:false, the error in detail),
unverified — and it never buys a rebuild and never withholds serving; the
provider's serving verdict is the provider's to compose, not inferred from a
probe that failed to run. The synthesized report also carries the provider's
name instead of 'unknown'.
RepairFamilyReport gains `missing: {count, sample}` (an exact count plus a
capped id sample — a verdict, not a dump), `rebuilt` (a full generational
rebuild ran, as opposed to an incremental heal) and `reason`, aligning the
receipt's shape with the provider-side health report.
Pinned in tests/unit/validate-invariants-delegation.test.ts.
The storage-level unfiltered getNouns()/getVerbs() walks enumerate every
tier, but their totalCount reported the user-facing scalar, which skips
system/internal records on the write path — so a derived-index coverage
ledger comparing its posted count against that total would read
"over-posted by N" on every store with a VFS. This adds the ledger's real
denominators:
- totalNounCountAll / totalVerbCountAll: +1 for every new canonical record
regardless of tier, −1 for every PROVEN delete (record read, or the
caller's prior image), persisted in counts.json beside the counted
scalars, recomputed by the sanctioned recount (rebuildTypeCounts).
- The unfiltered storage-level totalCount is now the ALL scalar and is
never clamped: Math.max(scalar, scanned) could only move a scalar up, so
an inflated counter hid forever; a divergence is now visible and healed
by repairIndex().
- A delete that cannot prove the record existed never decrements on faith:
it marks the ledger SUSPECT (persisted, narrated once per session) and
the recount clears the flag with proof.
- getCanonicalCounts() on StorageAdapter (optional) exposes {counted, all}
per family plus the suspect flag — O(1), no I/O.
- A counts.json written before the ledger existed derives both scalars
once from the canonical id tree at open and persists them; absent keys
are a legacy file, never a zero.
User-facing getNounCount()/getVerbCount() are unchanged.
Pinned in tests/integration/canonical-count-ledger.test.ts (5 laws).
remove() guarded its index legs with 'if (metadata)': a row whose canonical
metadata was unreadable at delete time kept its postings forever, silently
(the leak class a partner audit confirmed at this exact site). Closed at
all three provider shapes: a provider exposing the id-keyed removal
contract (removeEntityById, arriving with the accelerator's next minor)
gets exact per-entity retraction; the JS index gets id-keyed cleanup
(deleted bitmap + id mapper — field stats reconcile at rebuild), narrated;
a native provider without the contract is NEVER called metadata-omitted
(that path walks the store's value space) — its skip is narrated and
tracked in the degraded set for repairIndex, never silent. The pre-reads
are torn-tolerant: a torn record is deletable (the delete is the cure).
Pinned: a metadata-less row with live postings deletes cleanly and leaves
the query universe; the delete-family suites stay green alongside.
repairIndex() now returns a RepairReport: one row per repair family
(orphaned containers, count rollups, VFS containment, metadata corruption,
write quarantine, each provider's invariant pass, degraded-read state) with
checked / healed counts and an explicit skip reason for anything not run —
no silent rows. A summary line narrates families checked and heals applied.
This is the receipts half of the graph-trust program's ask: a repair that
cannot show its work per store is a repair nobody can audit. Pinned: a
healthy store yields a complete zero-heal receipt with every family
accounted; a manufactured pre-8.3.1 ghost container appears in the receipt
as a counted heal. Additive: void-callers are unaffected.
A production store acked writes while readback served empty for fifteen
minutes. The brainy half: the lazy readiness gate had exactly one caller —
find() — while related() and every VFS path served straight from providers
that init had deferred (disableAutoRebuild on a large store). A false
health verdict from the accelerator pulled the trigger; the unguarded read
surfaces were the gun.
Every index read funnels through three helpers; the gate now lives at those
choke points, so any first read on a cold instance waits for the build and
then serves truth — the fast path after the latch is one boolean. The lazy
build's start is narrated through the production logger, never the
silent-suppressible console: fifteen silent minutes taught that line.
Pinned with the production shape: related() as the first-ever read on a
fresh lazy instance serves the relation; a filtered find serves the row.
A production brain's first process boot after a live authority flip looked
hung and was restarted three times mid-recovery — three defects with one
scene. (1) THE FOLD MATERIALIZED THE LOG: peekFactsAbove(0) decoded every
fact into one array (GBs of after-images on a ~7k-fact log, a GC storm, a
starved write lane). The fold now STREAMS one segment-batch at a time —
memory is one segment at any log size — with structural ordering asserted
loudly. (2) THE FOLD WAS SILENT UNTIL DONE: minutes of boot work with zero
narration is what invited the restarts. It now announces itself BEFORE the
work ('do not restart, the fold is finite') and prints progress every
thousand facts. (3) THE CHAIN COULD ONLY ARM AT A CRASH: a live mid-session
flip left the fold checkpoint unfounded, so the brain's first unclean boot
paid a whole-log fold. Adoption now founds the checkpoint AT THE FLIP — one
paged full canonical barrier (bounded memory), then the stamp — so bounded
recovery holds from minute zero for every store that flips, at any size.
Pinned: a non-fresh flip stamps immediately; the first post-flip unclean
boot folds bounded (an unflushed at-ack fact above the checkpoint is
restored; a barrier-covered row below it is outside the fold). Kill matrix
and both adoption suites green alongside.
The plant's integration lane caught it twice: the fence's startedAt-strict
comparison turned the documented same-process warn-and-take-over path (two
instances in one Node process — the server-restart test pattern, and the
shared-default-store pattern across test files) into a flush-killer: the
first instance's background flushes latched dead while its own process held
the lock ('PID N no longer holds the lock — it is now held by PID N').
Ownership is per-process: pid + hostname. startedAt stays in the lock for
observability but not in the fence — it protects nothing (a pid-recycled
successor's victim is a dead process that runs no fence checks) and it
convicted the innocent. Pinned: a same-process re-open leaves both
instances' flushes working; the cross-process eviction pins unchanged.
Verified under the lane's exact command: 102/102 files, 850 passed, exit 0.
The production dev-store split-brain (two live writers alternating a store's
id-mapper between two internally-consistent truths), cured at all three of
its roots. (1) STALENESS REQUIRES PID-DEATH: the old rule evicted on
heartbeat age alone, so a >60s event-loop stall (debugger pause, GC, heavy
sync work) handed the lock to a second opener while the first kept writing;
a live process is now never auto-evicted — a wedged-but-alive holder is the
operator's call via {force:true}, and the heartbeat stays for observability.
(2) THE CLAIM IS ATOMIC: writeFile(wx)'s open→write→close left an empty-file
window a concurrent opener could read as torn, unlink a LIVE claim, and take
the lock; the claim is now tmp-write + hard-link — the lock appears with its
full contents in one step. (3) THE FENCE: every flush commit and transact
barrier verifies lock ownership first (one small read per window) — a
forced-out or lock-deleted writer fails typed (BRAINY_WRITER_FENCED) before
a single staged byte or manifest advance, instead of writing on unaware.
Pinned: live-with-ancient-heartbeat refuses typed; dead-PID self-clears
narrated; a forced-out writer's flush and transact both fence, advancing
nothing. Requested by a downstream team as single-writer guard or loud
lockout — this is both.
Two consumer-driven cures sharing one stamp. (1) TX-LOG ORIGIN: engine-
originated commits stamp an optional origin on their tx-log entry AND the
commit fact's meta — 'system:embed-landing' (the deferred vector landing),
'system:adoption-backfill' (baseline re-commits), 'system:reconcile'. A
downstream activity feed showed a double tick because the landing commit was
indistinguishable from a user save, and the consumer rightly refused a
time-window collapse as a quiet loss; feeds now filter on fact. User writes
stay unstamped — absent origin is the user shape, every existing consumer
unchanged. (2) reconcileLogDivergence(id, {attest}): the human's door for
log-live-canonical-absent, the one class adoption refuses by design because
a lost-tombstone deletion is indistinguishable from canonical loss.
'deleted' mints the missing tombstone (history keeps the earlier live
record); 'restore' folds the log's only copy back into canonical; wrong-
class calls refuse typed with nothing written. Loud, narrated, single-row,
origin-stamped. From a production adoption's one surviving divergence.
A production brain with a 12.7k-row pre-log baseline advanced exactly 800
rows per adoptLogAuthority() call (a five-pass ceiling × the oracle's
200-row listing cap), refused the flip, and sat tree-authoritative for
hours across restarts. The bound was sized for drift, never for a baseline.
Now: the adoption path runs the oracle uncapped so ONE scan yields the
ENTIRE curable set, every pass cures all of it, and the loop runs to
completion with the no-progress guard as its only stop. Pace rides the
write path (one full-brain scan amortizes over thousands of cures, not two
hundred): 1,000 drifted rows adopt green in one call in ~10s. Progress is
narrated for a live operator. The wire report keeps its 200-row cap.
Pinned: a baseline above the old ceiling adopts green in a single call.
Two defects with one root, found by the fold-checkpoint work's first
integration gate. (1) THE RACE: restore() never quiesced the generation
store, so a background flush could write into _system/ while the swap was
removing it — observed as ENOTEMPTY mid-swap when a checkpoint stamp landed
between readdir and rmdir. The swap now runs inside the store's exclusive
section (runStateReplacement): flush timer disarmed, pending tier and
checkpoint accumulator discarded BEFORE any directory moves. (2) THE
INHERITED ASSERTION: a snapshot carries its source brain's clean-shutdown
marker and fold checkpoint, but the restored files were bulk-copied without
per-file fsync — the inherited stamps would suppress exactly the recovery
fold that cures a post-restore power cut. reopenAfterRestore now deletes
both stamps before reopening: the open treats the store as uncleanly shut,
folds the restored log into canonical, barrier-syncs what it re-applied,
and stamps fresh — the restored state is durably founded at restore time
instead of borrowing assertions about bytes this disk never synced.
Pinned: restore under in-flight traffic completes; the pre-restore stamp
does not survive; the post-restore stamp is the reopen fold's own, at the
restored watermark.
The fold checkpoint (_system/fold-checkpoint.json) is stamped strictly after
a canonical-sync barrier over every live entity touched since the last stamp
(syncEntityCanonical: ids → canonical paths → fsync; an absent file fsyncs
its parent directory so deletes are as durable as writes). An unclean open
under log authority now folds only (checkpoint, head]; the chain bootstraps
at an empty brain's adoption (three-phase hooks around adoptLogAuthority) or
at a brain's first whole-log fold — existing brains converge at their first
crash with zero regression. Rollback restores sync immediately; abort paths
feed the barrier; a failed barrier retains the old bound (bigger fold later,
never a lost write). Five structural pins including boundedness itself.
Also: the production-shaped write-flow gate leg (mixed traffic racing
flushes, crash mid-traffic, every ack survives — from a consumer-reported
gate miss), and two release-ceremony cures (tag-first push so the publish
never queues behind the release commit's CI run; raw-curl npmjs shasum
probe with propagation grace instead of a one-shot false divergence).
An adopter's full suite found two v2 write-path defects on fresh brains,
reproduced with stacks; both cured and both pinned with their exact
production shapes:
1. PAD-FRAME CONSTRUCTIBILITY: a single msgpack bin filler steps its
header by one byte at each size class (bin8→bin16→bin32), leaving one
unreachable payload size per boundary — the sealer requested a
291-byte pad, the encoder threw 'not constructible', and sync() died
whole. Construction is now TOTAL: the class-boundary holes bridge with
a trailing fixint beside the bin ({bin(n)} ∪ {bin(n)+fixint} covers
every size ≥ minimum). Pinned exhaustively: every size from the
minimum through a full sector plus boundary spill constructs
byte-exact and decodes as reader-invisible filler.
2. THE NON-MONOTONIC REFUSAL LOOP: the append-failure compensation
rewound the generation counter on ANY throw — including a covering
SYNC failure after a SUCCESSFUL append. The log carried generation N
while the counter re-minted N, and every later append refused
'non-monotonic (N ≤ head N)' — the write path wedged in a refusal
loop through deferred-embed retries and flush backoff. The
compensation now splits by phase: an append failure (log never took
the fact) fully compensates — un-buffer and rewind; a sync failure
after append earns the rewind ONLY if the appended fact is provably
dropped, otherwise the generation stays consumed and buffered — the
counter never re-mints a number the log may carry. Pinned: an
injected one-shot sync failure fails its write loudly and the very
next write mints fresh and succeeds, with the log scanning strictly
ascending end to end.
Also probed against the adopter's carried report: the 9.0 vfs.rename
stale-ghost shape does NOT reproduce on this head (old path cleanly
unresolvable on exists/stat/readdir after rename).
Gates: unit 2067/2067 (160 files) · integration 833 (97 files) ·
conformance 36/36.
A first adopter's namespace migration went 341 red on one class: the
never-carried-field refusal firing on CORRECT filters against fresh and
sparse stores — a freshly provisioned tenant refused its own first
filtered read, with the did-you-mean built for typos firing hardest on
day-one stores where nothing is wrong.
The ruled cut: a WHERE filter naming a field no row carries is SERVED
OPERATOR-TRUTHFULLY — eq/in/range/contains answer [] (nothing carries
it, nothing matches); ne and exists:false answer ALL rows (the equally
true complement — a blanket empty here would be silently wrong, which is
why the simpler cut was rejected); exists:true answers []. Served from
the field registry, with the did-you-mean demoted to a once-per-field
WARN. orderBy and genuinely ambiguous addresses KEEP their hard typed
refusals: no truthful order exists over an uncarried field, and
ambiguity is a contract error while absence is data.
Mechanics: the negative operator absorbs the FIELD_NOT_INDEXED throw as
its empty exclude set (the clause-level catch correctly zeroes positive
operators only); the egress matcher already agreed. Plus the
provider-seam belt: a field refusal thrown by a replacement metadata
manager is normalized to THIS package's UnresolvableFieldError at every
filter call site — one class identity for consumers, instanceof works
(a first adopter's cross-package finding).
Conformance: tests/conformance/sparse-store-cut.test.ts — the shared
operator rows both engines run (positive-empty, negative-all,
fresh-tenant day-one, orderBy refusal kept, compound composition).
Gates: unit 2065/2065 · integration 832 · conformance 36/36.
The last rung of the default-flip ruling: with the sentinel exemption in,
real production-shaped brains still refused adoption over state-differs
mismatches the backfill could not cure — rows written before the
hydration law carry denormalized wrapper fields that disagree with their
own metadata leg, and the previous as-is identity re-commit PRESERVED
that drift, so the oracle re-flagged it every pass and the flip never
happened. In practice the crash-safe default reached zero existing
brains: the exact outcome the hold ruling forbade.
The cure: the backfill now rewrites canonical in the LAW SHAPE — exactly
the wrapper the log's reconstruction produces (denormalized enumeration
fields derived from the metadata leg, which is their authority under the
field-addressing law; the embedding floats ride through byte-identical;
adjacency residue keeps its own rebuild path). The oracle then verifies
the rewrite before the flip — the same safety, no operator chore.
Log-ahead divergence classes (a log the witness denies) still refuse
loudly, exactly as before.
Classification note for the record: the flagged uuid-v7 rows postdate the
fact log's introduction, so they classify as state-differs (in-log,
drift-shaped) rather than pre-log — both classes ride the same backfill.
Pins: a manufactured depot-shape drifted wrapper adopts green with floats
preserved and metadata intact; log-ahead still refuses typed.
Gates: unit 2065/2065 · integration 832 · conformance 31/31.
The release-holding finding from the joint gate's six real depot brains:
the adoption path's positive-int mint check false-flagged the reserved
VFS-root sentinel (the all-zeros UUID, minted int 0 BY CONSTRUCTION at
genesis on existing brains) as a corrupt mint — so every existing brain
refused log-authority adoption and stayed on the old lossy-under-power-cut
durability, defeating the release's headline crash-safety exactly where
it matters most.
The exemption, at both mint seams (the host's minter thunk and the fact
log's encoder guard): int 0 is legal iff the id is the reserved root;
zero for ANY other id remains a corrupt-mint refusal naming the reserved
exception. The codec's u64 layer already tolerated 0 — only the guards
over-refused.
Pins: adoption goes green on a brain whose VFS root carries int 0 (the
depot-brain shape, previously refused) · a non-root zero still refuses
typed at the mint seam — held at the seam itself because a full write
SELF-HEALS a poisoned zero (the index cycle re-mints before the fact is
written, which is the correct outcome and was verified in the pinning).
Gates: unit 2065/2065 · integration 830 · conformance 31/31.
The quiet-loss cure regressed recovery: the new typed torn-record error
was correct at identity-read time but threw inside init-time recovery
walks, killing opens that previously survived. The boundary, redrawn:
- IDENTITY READS (get-by-id of a specific record, CAS blob point-get):
typed TornRecordError, unchanged — a caller who asked for THAT record
can act on the answer.
- SET-SHAPED READS AND WALKS (enumeration, pagination, batch hydration —
the paths recovery rebuilds and finds page over): HEAL PAST the torn
victim. The adapter's loud floor (error log + counted gauge) fires at
the encounter; the walk serves the remaining rows. One crash casualty
can no longer kill every query on its shard — or the open itself.
- WRITES OVER TORN RECORDS ARE THE CURE: the save path's read-merge, the
commit path's before-image capture, and the operations' rollback
captures all treat a torn prior as the create sentinel, narrated — the
incoming bytes replace the unreadable ones, and history for the id
honestly restarts at that generation. Corruption can never block its
own heal.
- THE NaN SOURCE: torn mapper state (nextId/entries carrying garbage)
discards with narration and re-derives via the existing rebuild path;
the mint gains a source guard healing a non-integer counter from the
live map. The reopen and first-write RangeError shapes are dead at the
source, both authority branches.
Pinned with the exact fault-injection scenarios: a torn entity record
(including the VFS root) no longer kills the open — walks heal past it,
the keeper rows serve, and the identity read of the victim itself is
typed-or-healed; a torn mapper reopens and mints sanely on the first
post-recovery write.
Gates: tsc 0 · unit 2065/2065 · integration 828 · conformance 31/31.
THE DEFAULT FLIP (ruled on proven evidence — at-ack survived 301/301
acked-writes-through-power-cut in block-layer fault injection; deferred
tree authority demonstrably loses flush-covered acks): a brain with NO
stored authority artifact now ADOPTS LOG AUTHORITY AT OPEN. The oracle
gates the flip exactly as the guarded adoption path always did — curable
divergences baseline-backfilled, the flip lands ONLY on a green verdict —
and a brain that cannot verify STAYS tree-authoritative loudly, with the
refusal recorded on the switch artifact so subsequent opens are cheap.
config logAuthority: 'defer' is the explicit documented opt-out (no
automatic adoption; declared flush-window loss; adoptLogAuthority() flips
later). A stored artifact always wins. RELEASES.md carries the posture.
Two standing .fails debt pins FLIP TO HOLDING under the default: the
at-ack crash-survival gap and the ack-at-log durability target — both now
permanent asserted truths, not aspirations.
POWER-CUT THROW SITES (fault-injection findings, brainy-alone config):
- A manifest-listed-but-unloadable column segment QUARANTINES at
discovery (loud once, counted always, quarantinedSegments() exposed for
the heal) and the field serves its remaining segments DEGRADED — never
a raw throw killing every query on the field. Real storage faults still
propagate untouched.
- Torn generation artifacts (NaN/garbage in manifest or counter) DISCARD
with narration at the store's open and recovery re-derives — plus a
defensive finite-integer guard at the init consumer. Never a RangeError
killing an open.
THE LOUD TORN-RECORD CONTRACT: an existing-but-unparseable stored record
now surfaces as a typed, counted TornRecordError on every entity-read
surface (including fifteen previously-blind per-item batch catches);
ENOENT stays clean-absent; artifact readers with designed absent-recovery
keep null-tolerance behind the loud floor. Disk corruption can no longer
read as silent data invisibility.
Suite migration: the default's pins inverted deliberately, generation
baselines made relative, quarantine-contract pins rewritten to the ruled
behavior.
Gates: tsc 0 · unit 2065/2065 (159 files) · integration 826 (93 files) ·
conformance 31/31 · kill-matrix 15/15 · torn-open guards 2/2.
An internal cross-engine fault-injection run (frozen-platter power-loss
capture) surfaced three release-gating findings; each cured in its owning
layer, each pinned:
1. WHOLE-LOG REPLAY ON UNCLEAN OPEN (the big one): log-authority replay
only covered facts ABOVE the manifest — but live canonical entity
writes are tmp+rename without per-file fsync, and the group-commit
flush syncs staging + manifest, never the live tree. Power loss could
therefore vaporize acked canonical bytes BELOW the manifest while the
log held every fact scan-clean (measured: 299 of 301 acks lost).
Now: a clean close stamps a clean-shutdown marker (fsynced, written
last); every open consumes it; an UNCLEAN open under log authority
folds the ENTIRE log into canonical — whole-entity after-images make
the re-apply idempotent and byte-safe. Zero cost on the happy path;
crash recovery pays one narrated fold. Recovery is replay: a crash is
just bigger lag.
2. TORN WRITER LOCK: power loss legally leaves the lock file present but
empty; the parse failure read as 'no holder' while the O_EXCL claim
EEXISTed forever — a PERMANENT lockout no staleness check could clear.
An unparseable lock is stale by definition (no live holder has one):
unlink loudly and re-loop; a racer rewriting a valid lock first wins.
3. PAIR GUARD: flush() called metadataIndex.stampWatermark unguarded;
a replacement metadata provider without the method killed the pair at
first flush. All three stamp calls are optional-chained — a missing
stamp is a verdict-side rescan, never a flush crash.
Pins: whole-log fold restores rows vanished below the manifest ·
clean-shutdown marker lifecycle (stamp/consume/re-stamp) · torn-lock
recovery with a fresh write after · stampless-provider flush.
Gates: unit 2055/2055 · integration 824 · kill-matrix 15/15.
An internal report from cross-engine write-path instrumentation: with
individual writes slower than the idle window (a contended disk), every
inter-write gap looked idle and fired a background full flush — 15 extra
flushes during 100 contended adds, amplifying the very pressure that
slowed the writes. The law now: an idle fire landing within the spacing
floor of the last flush DEFERS to the floor boundary instead of flushing;
the floor is min(interval, 10× the CONFIGURED idle window) — scaled to
caller intent (a tiny idle window keeps fast idle-driven durability;
default 2s/30s config gets a 20s floor), derived from the configured
idle, never from a deferred re-arm delay (which would compound into
runaway deferral). Deferred is never dropped: a lone write on a
then-quiet store still persists at the floor without any further write
arriving.
Pins: the contended-shape pin (six slow-spaced writes fire ≤2 idle
flushes, not one per gap; then still persist) + the original quiet-store
idle pin unchanged. Unit 2055/2055.
The generic reprojection engine (pure TS; the twin of the native
implementation — same frozen contract, one shared conformance intent):
register any ProjectionAdapter; advance(family, {budgetMs}) folds facts
from the adapter's own watermark to the head in installments ≤50ms with
real macrotask yields; foreground door traffic bumps the DoorSignal and
an in-flight advance yields within one installment ('preempted');
advanceAll round-robins families fairly. swap(family, buildAdapter) is
the doors-open migration primitive: the OLD projection keeps serving
while the new one builds beside it, the flip is atomic at parity, and a
concurrent second swap refuses typed. A fact the fold cannot apply
(typed ProjectionApplyError) is QUARANTINED — skipped, ledgered,
narrated per-doubling, exposed for refuse-affected-reads — the service
class law's fourth answer: never a wedged rebuild, never a silent skip.
The engine never writes stamps: each adapter owns its durability and its
stamp-after-data discipline. Upgrade, heal, and rebuild are now the same
machinery behind open doors.
FactLogSource wires any host's fact scan in one line
(factSourceFromHost(brain)); window-contract violations are loud.
Pins: 23 unit (budget resume without refold · preemption within one
installment · round-robin fairness under a skewed backlog · build-beside
visibility mid-swap · atomic flip · single-flight refusal · quarantine
skip/ledger/doubling · non-typed throw aborts · losing adapter
discarded) + 3 integration on a real brain (fold matches ground truth ·
doors answer mid-fold with the preemption path exercised · crash
mid-fold resumes from the stamp, never refolds).
Gates: unit 2054/2054 (157 files) · integration 820 (93 files) ·
conformance 31/31.
The private recovery discipline, applied to its own machinery: pending-
embed markers stop being sidecar files and become first-class log records
riding the write's OWN commit fact — embed.pending lands in the same
atomic append as its after-image (a marker can never be orphaned from its
write, or vice versa; in durable-at-ack mode it shares the write's
covering fsync — zero extra syncs), and the worker's landing commit rides
embed.landed with the inline vector. Crash recovery is now a FOLD of the
log (pending without a matching landed = recovered), skipped wholesale on
brains with no v2 history; the one-time legacy bridge folds existing
sidecar files in, migrates them as one fact, and deletes them —
idempotent under a crash mid-bridge. No code path writes the sidecar
again.
Plus the ENTITY-TRUTH digest law, found by this train's own pins:
canonical vector wrappers denormalize HNSW residue (connections + the
randomly-assigned node level) that the log deliberately does not carry —
the verification oracle digested it and would have reported false
state-differs on ~any nonzero-level node (a ~15% flake in the cutover pin
was the symptom). Both sides of every oracle comparison now normalize to
entity truth (nounEntityTruth); index residue has its own rebuild path
and is not entity state.
Pins: embed-markers-in-log 5/5 (same-generation marker, landed+fold-to-
zero, crash recovery via the log with the sidecar prefix EMPTY on disk,
legacy bridge, VFS hung-embedder ack) · deferred-embedding 5/5 unchanged
(the contract outlived its mechanism) · kill-matrix 11/11 · cutover 5/5
×10 runs (flake dead) · unit 2031/2031.
One deterministic v2 log (nine facts covering every fold-relevant behavior:
genesis, after-images with minted ints, a deferred embed pending→landed,
a sameAsGeneration vector ref, a verb, a tombstone, and an all-deduped
empty commit) whose ENCODED BYTES and FOLDED STATE are both pinned by
sha256 literals. The fixture (tests/fixtures/golden-log-v2.bin, 4128 B,
byte-verified against the encoder on every run) is the shared artifact a
second reader implementation consumes — it must reproduce the identical
fold digest; the pair is normative on disagreement. The fold law is
stated in prose beside the code: generation-ordered latest-per-id,
tombstone masking, embed.landed vector application, single-hop ref
resolution, key-sorted digest.
Also: decodeGroupV2 discriminated pad filler by RECORD COUNT, silently
swallowing legitimate empty commits (an all-deduped batch at a real
generation). Pads carry generation 0 — which writers can never mint — so
the generation is the honest discriminator; empty commits stay visible.
Pins: 4/4 (encode-exact, fixture-identical, fold-exact, human-readable
spot checks beside the hashes).
- Watermark stamping fans out at flush: all three projections stamped
with the committed generation before their flushes persist.
- waitForIndexed(path?, {generation, timeoutMs}) — the one honest read
barrier for write-then-recall consumers; typed timeout error carries
the pending count and names the gauge; getIndexStatus() gains
per-projection gauges. awaitPendingEmbeds() unchanged underneath.
- adoptLogAuthority() self-backfills curable divergences (pre-log
records, witness drift) by identity re-commit before flipping — a
fresh brain flips clean; log-ahead divergences still refuse loudly.
- The verification oracle gains VERB legs (all four divergence classes;
unwired = honest verbsChecked: 0, never a scope claim).
- find({where: {}}) match-all serves (was silent-empty, warm AND cold;
same fix in count/streaming/subgraph seeding); removeMany({where:{}})
refuses typed — a match-all bulk delete must be explicit.
- Aggregation native envelope stamped via noteSourceGeneration before
serializeState; the native-blob restore gates through the same
adoption verdict as caller-side state (the unconditional adopt dies).
- LC8 pinned: a wholesale directory move opens and serves identically
across all three intelligences, with history traveling.
Gates: unit 2031/2031 (156 files) · integration 812 (91 files) ·
conformance 27/27.
Every persisted projection artifact (metadata field indexes + column
segments, HNSW node records, graph adjacency LSM trees) now carries a
stamp asserting 'this state reflects every committed generation ≤ W,
atomically' — written LAST in each owner's flush (stamp-after-data: a
crash between data and stamp = unstamped = rescan, never trust). At load,
each owner computes the three-way verdict: stamped==committed → adopt
(zero work) · behind → catchup (gap reported) · above/unstamped → RESCAN,
loudly. Legacy artifacts re-derive once, then are stamped forever. Shared
law in projectionWatermark.ts (the aggregation verdict machinery,
generalized); vector artifacts carry model dimensions. Verdicts are
computed and exposed (watermark()/watermarkVerdict()/watermarkGap());
rebuild triggers unchanged — acting on 'catchup' is the fold train.
Pins: 22 unit (7 metadata · 8 hnsw · 7 graph, incl. spy-order
stamp-after-data) + the end-to-end reopen-adopts pin.
The cutover: new tail segments write format v2 (per-record [type, version,
cipherFlag, keyId] envelope; noun/verb after-images carry dense ints
MINTED AT APPEND from the id mapper — a rebuilt mapper reproduces
assignments exactly; log.genesis opens every new log with the id-space
width + a minted brain id; sync() seals to the header-declared sector
boundary with reader-invisible pad frames). Existing v1 segments are
never rewritten — per-segment decoder dispatch reads both formats and v2
facts map to the exact CommitFact shape all consumers already read.
Cutover on a live v1 log: an empty v1 tail re-heads in place; a non-empty
one is sealed by rotation, byte-identical. Records reserve the encryption
fields (cipherFlag 0 / keyId nil are the only legal values; anything else
refuses typed naming the needed newer reader) — crypto-ready with no
future bump on the compat surface. Empty-records facts are legal (an
all-deduped batch is a real generation — v1 semantics preserved; the
refusal there tore a column-store flush mid-commit in the full suite, the
consistency guard caught it loudly, and the root is fixed).
Golden byte vectors pinned for the second (native) reader implementation.
Pins: cutover 5/5 · codec 54 · kill-matrix stays 11/11.
Two release-blocking findings from the durability kill-matrix, both fixed
in the owning layer:
1. LOG-AUTHORITY REPLAY AT OPEN: durable-at-ack fsynced the fact before
the ack, but open() truncated every fact above the manifest — after a
power loss that takes the un-fsynced tmp+rename canonical bytes, the
acked write's ONLY durable copy was discarded. Now: under 'log'
authority, open() REPLAYS intact facts above the manifest into
canonical (FactLog.peekFactsAbove — CRC-gated, order-sorted) and
advances the manifest to cover them; tree-authority brains keep the
truncate contract they were promised. Pinned end to end: the power-loss
row constructs the exact disk state (fsynced log, vanished canonical
rename) and the acked write lives.
2. NO SILENT COMMIT: commitSingleOp buffered the generation BEFORE the
fact append; an append failure (ENOSPC) rejected the caller but the
next flush durably committed the generation with NO fact — a permanent
silent log gap. Now the failure path un-buffers and returns the counter
reservation: nothing commits, the log stays gap-free, and the canonical
execute-residue orphan is the documented crash-equivalent.
Plus: the kill-matrix itself (11 rows — every commit-path fault point ×
reopen-as-crash recovery contract, at-ack variants, disk-full row; five
new zero-cost faultPoint sites), the log-authority pin suite (oracle
green/red/state-differs, flip refusal, switch survives reopen, 9/9), and
the group-commit covering pins (5/5).
Gates: unit 2002/2002 (152 files) · integration 785 · conformance 27/27.
The provider contract (metadata addToIndex/removeFromIndex, vector
addItem/removeItem, id-mapper getOrAssign/remove) gains an optional
trailing generation — evaluated lazily at operation execute time (the
graph surface's thunk pattern, generalized), threaded from all 17
construction sites: undefined during generation-0 bootstrap, the real
committed generation everywhere else. Optional = additive: no existing
provider or caller breaks; native delta logs that stamped literal zero
start hearing truth. JS twins accept the parameter with parity notes.
Pins: provider doubles capture and assert nonzero monotonic generations
across add/update/remove on both surfaces.
The two-implementation contract surface as one pure module (no I/O):
segment header v2 (formatVersion 2 + sealSize in the reserved bytes),
per-record [type u8, version u8] envelope killing the unknown-kind
misclassification trap, the 12-type registry (after-images with minted
ints, tombstones, batch.meta, embed.pending/landed, blob.manifest,
projection.note, bootstrap.baseline, log.genesis with id-space width and
TYPED width-mismatch refusal), vectorLeg inline|{sameAsGeneration} with
writer-enforced single-hop, sector-sealed groups with pad frames, torn-tail
discipline, and GOLDEN BYTE VECTORS pinned so a second (native) reader
implementation can conform byte-for-byte. 50 format pins + a
fault-injecting storage wrapper (tear/drop-sync/fail-append) with 13
self-tests. v1 segments remain readable; nothing writes v2 yet — the
live-format cutover is its own commit.
