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Three pre-registered probes from the temporal-architecture recovery, plus their STATUS_BOARD rows and the index regeneration the gate requires. No source changes — tests and board only.

Why

An earlier pass in this session measured VersionedGraph/NodeSchema (node_id:u32 + planes + seals) and reported it as the addressed architecture. That was the wrong store, and promoting an older secondary representation into the architecture is the failure mode this PR exists to correct with measurements.

The canonical temporal store is graph/cycle_sink.rs (PR #911, 8a5be505), whose birth commit states the invariant directly — "one detached cycle batch → ONE official Lance commit → exactly one real DatasetVersion base+1" — with EPISODIC_WITNESS_BYTES = 512 and payload: FixedSizeBinary(512) documented as key(16) | edges(16) | value(480).

D-TEMPORAL-1 — canonical identity through the cycle store

NodeGuid → NodeRow → NodeRowPacket::as_le_bytes
  → cycle commit → drop writer → LanceCycleWriter::open (fresh) → scan_image

GREEN on both tails: payload bytes byte-exact across two cycles and a reopen; payload[0..16] == G.as_bytes(); the value slab travels too, so the equality is not a degenerate zero-match; each cycle mints exactly base + 1; head recovered after restart.

Keys are minted through mint_for(classid_read_mode(c).tail_variant, …), never a hardcoded constructor, so the fixture cannot silently test only the deprecated V1 tail. V1 (CLASSID_OSINT) is a read-side legacy control only; no new unit is minted V1.

Two Arrow claims are kept apart deliberately: the schema's column 0 is kind, not an address. The address claim is about the first 16 bytes of the FixedSizeBinary(512) payload blob.

D-TEMPORAL-1a — the pinned false-green

256 V3 addresses varying only in leaf:

view distinct
raw 16-byte keys 256
to_hex_v2() 256 full routing address
identity() 1 defect — a V1 lens on a V3 key
local_key_v2() 1 correct — basin-local address

The third row is the defect being pinned: byte fidelity does not imply address fidelity. The fourth is not a defect and is pinned so nobody "fixes" it — leaf is a routing tier (bytes 10..12), part of the addressing prefix, deliberately outside the basin-local key (bytes 12..16).

So "use the V3 accessor" is under-specified: V3 has two valid projections (full routing address, basin-local address) and neither should be corrected into the other. Both assertions carry a note not to update the numbers if they break, but to re-audit the call sites.

D-V3-MINT-1 — a gate asymmetry, checked rather than assumed

mint_for's V2/V3 arm is gated on guid-v2-tail, not in default; the registry's V3 entries are gated on guid-v3-tail, which is. Two different features, so premise and conclusion can come apart — and mint_for's doc justifies its V1 fallback as dead code on exactly that premise.

No defect. guid-v3-tail = ["guid-v2-tail"] (Cargo.toml:69), so the implication holds. Measured, not inferred: tail_variant=V3 guid-v3-tail=true guid-v2-tail=true leaf_is_live=true, key bytes showing the V2/V3 carving with leaf live at byte 10. The probe discriminates on leaf (the V3 arm forwards it to new_v2; the V1 fallback discards it), so it stays valid if the feature graph is ever flattened.

D-TEMPORAL-2 — the old snapshot path is the correctness oracle

V1 = {A, B, D}, V2 = {A, B', C}. GraphDiff reports inserted = {C} and updated = {B}; it has no removed-nodes field and D appears nowhere in it. The probe recomputes removed = {D} from exactly the two seal maps diff() already materialises (versioned.rs:550-554) before discarding their difference.

The gap is an API omission, not information the store lost. Seal gate exercised two-sided (removal ⇒ Staunen, self-compare ⇒ Wisdom); unchanged A asserted absent from both sets, so "updated" cannot degenerate into "present".

Consequence: historical snapshot comparison is the correctness oracle for the changed set. Native lance delta is an optional accelerator measured against this, never a replacement.

Baseline ruling for follow-up research

This PR closes the identity/diff archaeology only:

  • Store A (cycle_sink) is the canonical temporal persistence rail; its 512-byte witness and V1/V3 NodeGuid identity survive the Lance 11 path measured here.
  • Store B (VersionedGraph / GraphBLAS snapshot) is an older projection with a locally scoped node_id:u32; this PR does not add a duplicate GUID column or invent an A↔B mapping.
  • Historical snapshot comparison remains the correctness oracle. Lance 11 native delta may be benchmarked later as an accelerator, not promoted into semantic identity.
  • Production reachability, producer scheduling, WAL choice, seal construction, and persistence-copy elimination are deliberately left untouched for separate measured work.

Runtime-topology non-claim

The #[tokio::test] annotations in these probes and in the existing cycle_sink invariant suite are test-executor scaffolding for async Lance APIs only. They are not evidence that Tokio, ractor, task scheduling, spawn, await, acknowledgement, or executor timing belongs on the 64k deterministic substrate hot path.

The source contract remains fire-and-forget producers with no acknowledgement. This PR makes no runtime-topology change and must not be cited later as authorizing an async scheduling boundary in cognition or sealing.

A separate persistence experiment may quarantine whatever async executor Lance requires behind a synchronous deterministic handoff. That question is out of scope here.

Persistence copy boundary left for the next experiment

Do not conflate temporal read-side zero-copy with the current writer boundary. cycle_sink.rs explicitly documents that LanceCycleWriter materializes frozen landings into Arrow builders, copying each artifact payload once, and that scan_* copies bytes back out. #1209 does not repair or benchmark that seam.

That leaves a clean next research question: compare the hand-rolled WAL and Lance 11 MemWAL only behind the deterministic fire-and-forget boundary, and independently test whether the seal can be composed from state already materialized by the substrate instead of forcing a full 64k × 512-byte pass.

Not landed, deliberately

The fleet also produced test_c_cycle_payload_roundtrip.rs. It is not in this PR: D-TEMPORAL-1 already proves the stronger V1/V3 byte, address, restart and version result, and a second green test of the same claim adds review cost without adding a falsifier.

Falsifiability

Every assertion here failed at least once before it passed, for a real reason. Two of those failures were bad assertions on my side (local_key_v2 was expected to separate leaf-varying keys; it must not) and are now pinned as the correct behaviour rather than deleted.

Scope — what this does NOT prove

Byte and address fidelity of the store, and the semantics of its change sets. Not production reachability: LanceCycleWriter still has zero non-test callers, as D-MW-P2 already records.

Evidence provenance — local execution vs CI

These differ and the distinction matters:

ran where
canonical_witness_identity_probe (3 tests) locally executed, GREEN
test_e_old_diff_tripartite (1 test) locally executed, GREEN
cycle_sink async invariant suite (23 tests; Tokio is only the test executor) locally executed, GREEN
v3_mint_reachability_probe (2 tests) locally GREEN and executed in CI

rust-test.yml runs lance-graph as --no-run / --lib / --doc, so the two lance-graph integration targets are compiled by CI but not executed there. Only the contract crate's integration tests run under --tests in CI. Nothing here should be read as GitHub Actions having re-run the storage probes.

Gates

cargo fmt clean; cargo clippy --no-deps -- -D warnings clean on all three targets; append_only_gate.py self-test 7/7 then GREEN on the real diff.

Board hygiene

STATUS_BOARD.md gains four rows under lance-convergence-staged-migration-v1 (1850 → 1854; append-only post-check run each time).

SUPERSESSION-INDEX.md is regenerated in this PR. An earlier revision of this description claimed it would not need to be, reasoning that a STATUS_BOARD-only change could not move it. That was wrong and CI caught it: crates/ is also an index input, and the new probe calls persist_cycle — a ruled symbol — moving its reference count from 10 to 11. Regenerated with the documented command and verified idempotent.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Tests
    • Added validation for V3 node creation, including feature-gated behavior and preservation of leaf-specific identity.
    • Added end-to-end checks confirming V3 and legacy identifiers remain stable through save, reopen, and cycle persistence.
    • Added coverage for graph version comparisons, including inserted, updated, unchanged, and removed nodes.
    • Expanded migration tracking and verification for persistence-related coverage.

…ails

Two pre-registered probes for the temporal-architecture recovery, plus their
STATUS_BOARD rows.

D-TEMPORAL-1 measures whether canonical address identity survives the cycle
store's round trip: NodeGuid -> NodeRow -> NodeRowPacket::as_le_bytes -> cycle
commit -> drop writer -> reopen -> scan_image. Green on both rails. Payload
bytes are byte-exact across two cycles and a reopen, payload[0..16] is the
submitted NodeGuid, the value slab travels too (so the equality is not a
degenerate zero-match), each cycle mints exactly base+1, and the head is
recovered after restart. Keys are minted through
mint_for(classid_read_mode(c).tail_variant, ...) rather than a hardcoded
constructor, so the fixture cannot silently test only the deprecated V1 tail.

D-TEMPORAL-1a pins the false-green that motivates the two-rail shape: 256 V3
addresses varying only in leaf present as 256 distinct keys and 256 distinct
to_hex_v2() decodes, but as ONE distinct identity() -- the V1 accessor reads
bytes 13..16 of a V3 key. The same test pins the other half, which is not a
defect: local_key_v2 also yields one across that set, because leaf is the 4th
HHTL routing tier and belongs to the addressing prefix, not the basin-local
key. Choosing the wrong V3 accessor fails the same way as choosing the V1 one.

D-V3-MINT-1 checks a gate asymmetry rather than assuming it: mint_for's V2/V3
arm is gated on guid-v2-tail, which is not in default, while the registry's V3
entries are gated on guid-v3-tail, which is. The implication holds --
guid-v3-tail = ["guid-v2-tail"] -- so a V3-registered classid does mint a V3
key by default. The probe discriminates on leaf, which the V3 arm forwards to
new_v2 and the V1 fallback discards, so it keeps working if the feature graph
is ever flattened.

Scope stated where it is recorded: these prove byte and address fidelity of the
store, not production reachability. LanceCycleWriter still has zero non-test
callers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The pull request adds probes for V3 mint reachability, canonical V3 and V1 witness identity persistence, and old-path graph diffs. It also updates migration status records and the supersession index.

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V3 mint reachability
crates/lance-graph-contract/tests/v3_mint_reachability_probe.rs, .claude/board/STATUS_BOARD.md
The tests verify feature-gated V3 registration and confirm that leaf affects generated V3 keys. The status board records the probe results.
Canonical identity persistence
crates/lance-graph/tests/canonical_witness_identity_probe.rs, .claude/board/SUPERSESSION-INDEX.md
The tests verify V3 and legacy V1 decoding, byte-preserving cycle persistence, and the difference between full V3 identity and the V1 identity() accessor. The index updates the persist_cycle reference count.
Old-path tripartite diff validation
crates/lance-graph/tests/test_e_old_diff_tripartite.rs
The test validates inserted and updated nodes, confirms that GraphDiff omits removals, and derives removals from version seals.

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The removal probe can pass without validating removal handling, and the migration ledger is out of its required audit order. Fix both before relying on this validation update.

Suggested reviewers: claude

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And guards the bytes through every cycle.
V3 leaves shine; old paths speak,
Seals reveal what diffs conceal.
The board marks green, and carrots cheer.

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The `Supersession index is current` gate went red on this branch. The cause is
this PR's own: the index counts references per ruled symbol, and the new
canonical-witness probe calls `persist_cycle`, moving its plan-reference count
from 10 to 11. Regenerated with the documented command and verified idempotent
(a second run diffs clean).

The prediction in the PR body that this gate would not fire was wrong. It read
the index's board inputs as `entries/*.md` + `EPIPHANIES.md` and concluded a
STATUS_BOARD-only change could not move it — but `crates/` is also an input,
and adding a test that calls a ruled symbol is a `crates/` change.

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TEST E asked whether store B's version-to-version comparison can produce
inserted / updated / removed without any lance delta API. It can.

With V1={A,B,D} and V2={A,B',C}, GraphDiff reports inserted={C} and
updated={B}. It has no removed-nodes field, and D appears nowhere in it — but
the probe recomputes removed={D} from exactly the two seal maps diff() already
materialises before throwing their difference away. So the gap is an API
omission, not information the store lost.

The seal gate is exercised on both sides: a removal reads Staunen, a version
compared against itself reads Wisdom. An unchanged node A is asserted to appear
in neither change set, so "updated" cannot degenerate into "present".

This makes historical snapshot comparison the correctness oracle for the
changed set. Native lance delta, wherever it works, is an accelerator measured
against this, not a replacement for it.

The companion probe test_c_cycle_payload_roundtrip.rs was written alongside
this one and is deliberately NOT landed: D-TEMPORAL-1 already proves the
stronger V1/V3 byte, address, restart and version result, and a second green
test of the same claim adds review cost without adding a falsifier.

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CodeRabbit flagged that the removal probe could pass without validating removal
handling. It was right.

graph_seal_check returns on its FIRST divergence while walking to_seals, so on
V1={A,B,D} -> V2={A,B',C} the update to B or the insert of C tripped it long
before the removal branch ran. The assertion "a removal is Staunen" would have
held identically with that branch deleted outright, which makes it a guard that
cannot distinguish what it claims to test.

Adds V3={A,B'} — V2 minus C, nothing else touched — so the Staunen arm now runs
on a transition whose only change is a removal. That reaches the removal branch
or nothing does.

The isolation also sharpens the blind spot rather than merely documenting it:
for a pure removal GraphDiff is entirely empty AND its own seal_status reads
Wisdom, while graph_seal_check calls the same version pair Staunen. The two
surfaces disagree, which is a stronger statement than "the removed set is
missing".

Also moves the four new STATUS_BOARD rows to the section's append point; they
were inserted mid-table because the patch anchored on a convenient unique
string rather than on the ordering convention. Doc comments added to the nine
undocumented test helpers, each stating a contract rather than narrating.

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The merged-PR obligation for #1209, which was not hygiene-only: it landed three
probes and a correction, so it gets both records.

LATEST_STATE carries the ruling (R4 with an R1 core) and the reason the PR
existed: an earlier pass measured VersionedGraph/NodeSchema and reported it as
the addressed architecture, having never opened cycle_sink.rs. The arc entry
carries the corrections, including the two assertions I got wrong about
local_key_v2, the CI-falsified prediction about the supersession index, the
CodeRabbit seal-confound that was real, and the CodeRabbit board-ordering
finding that was not, with the three commits that measure the convention.

The production-reachability caveat is recorded in both places and must ride
with any citation of the ruling: the architecture survived the migration; its
concrete writer still has zero non-test callers.

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