# CultNet typed selection: cut map Date: 2026-09-17. Imagination output. Intended path: `F:\Projects\CultLib\docs\cultnet-selection-cut.md`. No code in this document has been written; nothing here is committed by Imagination. This is its own campaign with its own map; it does not touch `docs/typescript-quic-realtime-cut.md` or any code in that tree. **Progress, 2026-09-22.** Cut 1 is running (Hands, Sonnet) on the branch `cultnet/selection-cut1`. It will not merge to `main` until Soul has passed it. - **Commit 0, `e420410`:** the cache's public read surface. Twelve tests, six mutation entries, all killed. - **Commit 1, `17d10e0`:** `CultNetSelection` and its evaluator, the three v1 messages, and the three §1 selector engines deleted. v0 now lowers into a selection. Test results: Networking 162/162, Mesh 252/253 (one skip that was already there), Caching 188/188. Nine networking mutation entries, all killed. - **Mutation harness:** `scripts/mutate-dotnet.ps1` is a shared dotnet/NUnit harness and works for any NUnit project in this repository. - **Not run through mutations yet:** S1, S2, S6, S9–S15, S17, S20 and S23. A test pins each one, but none has a mutation entry. Two things were found that this map did not name: - **`CultNetDocumentBinding` can carry a schema id that differs from its descriptor's.** The deleted engines checked for this; the evaluator reads only the descriptor and cannot see it. The fix is at the call sites (`WithBindingSchemaAlias`, `ExpandSchemaBindingAliases`), so the evaluator stays independent of the registry. - **A fourth copy of schema matching, at `CultNetDatabase.cs:1707`**, which serves `CreateShardSnapshotResponse`. §1 counted three engines; there are four. **Self's ruling, 2026-09-22: it collapses into the evaluator in commit 2.** Leaving it would make the claim of one evaluator false. It is a deletion and takes a mutation entry like the others. **Q-J was not implemented, and the map is the reason.** Commits 0 and 1 shipped `number` as `double?` (`CultNetSelection.cs:71`), `CompareNumber` as IEEE comparison (`CultNetSelectionEvaluator.cs:103-113`), a JSON schema that says `"type": "number"`, and a cache `NumberOf` that returns `double`. The operator had already ruled decimal strings, and §16 recorded it, but §2 and D8 still specified float64, and nothing specified the canonical form or the comparison that the ruling explicitly required. Hands built what §2 said. The Rust Hands caught the conflict before writing a line and stopped, correctly. **Self swept §2, D8 and the §7 table on 2026-09-22**, and §2 "Numbers" now specifies the form. The Q-J fix lands on the branch before the Rust runtime, as its own commits. Commit 1 is not wire-final until it does. **Commit 2 landed** (Sonnet) in five parts: - `0787608` deletes `_projectRecord`. Its two tests now drive a real change of identity instead of a projection. It also collapses the fourth matcher. - `c5b03cb` collapses the CultMesh alias checks. - `4167cc4` adds the fourth matcher's mutation entry. - `5ba48f0` finishes the Mesh collapse. `CultMeshSnapshotRequestOptions` and `CultMeshPeerSnapshotDocumentOptions` become records that carry one `Selection`, and their clones collapse to `with`. `CleanSnapshotFilter` and the triple rule give way to two owners, `ResolveDefaultSelection` and `OverlaySelection`. `CultMeshHotBodySubscription` carries one `Selection`. The four-tier read fallback becomes one read anchored on the record key, with the two tiers that could return the wrong key's record deleted. - `4c33a62` adds the Mesh entries: three reverts killed and two loosenings **survived**. The survivals are fixture gaps, since no test passes an empty non-null `recordKeys` or a record key with different casing. They go to the fix batch. Mesh is net **−83** against §11's estimate of about −326. The shortfall has four parts: - about −41 is the payload-sniff fallback, which was kept; - `IsSameCultDocumentSchema` stays, because it already delegates entirely and inlining it would duplicate the resolution at four sites; - `CultMeshClient`'s three subscription sites still call the v0 `SubscribeAsync`, which this cut does not retype. They move with Cut 2, the watch cut; - the read keeps two tiers, because a test enforces that. This is an honest miss. **Two corrections to Hands' report.** First, the payload-sniff fallback was **not "ruled kept by the operator"**. Hands kept it in `c5b03cb` as a discrepancy, and Soul is judging whether it is a second selection decision or a decode capability. Second, Hands reports that one Networking test crashes the test host on a disposed-socket race in `CultNetRudpSchemaServer`/`CultNetTransport` and calls it pre-existing. Networking was 162/162 at `17d10e0`, so that claim must be checked against `17d10e0` and `main` before anyone believes it. It goes to Soul by name. **Q-J fix landed** at `e5348d3` (commit 2f, C#). The Rust runtime is next. **Soul on commit 2, 2026-09-22** (Opus, pinned at `4c33a62`). **Commit 2 does not pass.** - **S2-1, medium, predates the range.** The crash is real, and Hands was right that it is older than this commit. It is a disposed-socket race: the ack `SendTo` at `CultNetTransport.cs:2549/2593` runs on a test's background poll thread. About 18 tests start `IsBackground` poll threads, and only one of them (`:1885`) joins its thread before the server disposes. Crash rates: | Checkout | Suite | Crashes | |---|---|---| | `17d10e0` | full | 1 of 6 | | `17d10e0` | subscription subset | 5 of 12 | | `main` | subscription subset | 1 of 12 | "162/162" was luck. A second defect sits in the harness: `mutate-dotnet.ps1:43/61`, under `$ErrorActionPreference='Stop'` on PowerShell 5.1, throws the whole run away when a host crash writes to stderr, where it should record the mutant as NO VERDICT. - **S2-2, high: the rewritten reconcile tests lost what the old ones proved.** With `_projectRecord` gone, a source key always equals its record key, and the delete-then-put now arrives through the live `Watch` path, so `Reconcile()` has nothing left to do. - Two mutants that `17d10e0` killed now survive: dropping Reconcile's identity branch (`:261`), and returning early from Reconcile. - Dropping the add loop (`:274`) and dropping the live identity branch (`:340`) survive both before and after the rewrite. - The `RecordKey` comparisons at `:261` and `:340`, and the throw at `:311`, are now **dead code**. - **S2-3, high: the fourth matcher was collapsed into the alias matcher, not into the evaluator.** `CreateShardSnapshotResponse` (`CultNetDatabase.cs:633-670`) still loops on its own. - A probe sent `{schemas:[], keys:[]}` to both paths: the shard path returned 0 rows, `CreateRawSnapshotResponse` returned 2. - The binding-alias expansion does not run on the shard path either. That part is plausible, not probed. - §2 says an empty list is **refused at the door**. The evaluator reads `[]` as "no filter" (`CultNetSelectionEvaluator.cs:84`) and the shard path reads it as "nothing". Neither follows the map. - **S2-4, medium-high: the Mesh one-pass read returns the wrong schema's record.** At `CultMesh.cs:2730-2750`, the first candidate at the key that passes the exact match, the alias match or a trial decode wins. With `[MeshOther, MeshNote]` at one key, a MeshNote read returned MeshOther. Before `5ba48f0`, the exact schema was searched first. - **S2-5, medium: Mesh has two decode rules that disagree.** The read accepts a record by trial decode. `DecodeSnapshotDocuments` rejects the same record by payload sniff. `RawSnapshotPayloadMatchesSchema` is a real decode capability, since both of its tests are keys-only. **It is not a second selection decision.** It is, though, a second copy of the registry's resolver (`CultNetDocumentRegistry.TryResolveDescriptorByPayloadSchema` / `TryReadSchemaVersion` / `InferSchemaName`, `:596-670`). - **S2-6, high: the public `CultMeshSnapshotRequestOptions.Selection` honours only `Schemas` and `Keys`.** Mesh sends v0 only. A request with a limit, a field predicate and a header projection went out as `schemas=null keys=null`, and two full rows came back. A caller's `Selection` also skips the old cleaning, so `Keys=[""]` now returns nothing where it used to return everything. - **S2-7, low, predates the range: selection meaning is decided in two more places.** `ResolveDefaultSelection` (`:835`) checks the raw `Count` before cleaning, so `[" "]` selects everything. `ResolveDefaultSelection` reads null as "no filter", and `OverlaySelection` (`:840`) reads it as "inherit". - **S2-8, low.** Both options types changed from `class` to `record`, which gives them value equality and is acceptable. `CultMeshHotBodySubscription.Selection` exposes mutable arrays on a contract that was immutable. The prebuilt Unity `GameCult.Mesh.dll` carries the old API: a release-time follow-up, rebuilt at the next release cut. - **S2-9 and S2-10:** a miscount in the entries header. For the two Mesh survivors, Soul's fixtures kill both. - **Held:** Mesh 3 killed and 2 survived, as reported. Networking 10 of 10 killed. Every restore verified by hash. The alias-matcher routing is right. `IsSameCultDocumentSchema` delegates. **Self's rulings, 2026-09-22, for the commit 2 fix batch:** - **Empty lists and blank keys are refused at the one door, as §2 already says.** `CultNetSelection.Validate` refuses `keys: []`, `schemas: []`, and any key or schema that is empty or whitespace, with `selection_invalid`. `null` means no filter, everywhere. The evaluator never sees `[]`. v0 lowering carries over v0's old cleaning: an empty v0 list, or one made only of blanks, lowers to `null`. That is a v0 compatibility rule the lowering owns, not a meaning the evaluator carries. `ResolveDefaultSelection` and `OverlaySelection` stop deciding what null means. They build a `CultNetSelection` and let the door decide. Overlay means "the caller's selection replaces the default wholesale". - **The shard snapshot answers through the evaluator**, binding aliases included, with no loop of its own. - **Mesh keeps sending v0 in this cut.** §9 says v0-only peers refuse v1, and FU-v0 retires v0 later. So `CultMeshSnapshotRequestOptions` refuses, loudly and typed at construction or send, any `Selection` term v0 cannot carry: `fields`, `cites`, `cited`, `limit`, `cursor`, `descending`, `projection` other than the default. **Refused, never silently dropped.** Mesh sending v1 is a follow-up, **FU-Mesh-v1**, triggered by the first Mesh caller that needs a term beyond schemas and keys, most likely the Huginn consumer or Cut 2. - **The Mesh read searches the exact schema first,** then the alias match, then a foreign id decoded by payload. It uses **one** decode rule shared with `DecodeSnapshotDocuments`, and that rule is the registry's resolver. The Mesh copy in `CultMeshSnapshots.cs` is deleted in favour of `CultNetDocumentRegistry`'s. - **The dead identity code is deleted, not tested around.** `:261`, `:340` and `:311` can no longer fire. Reconcile gets a test for what it still owns after the deletion: flipping `authorizeRecord` per key while the request stays authorized, and the add loop. Both surviving mutants must die. - **Test hygiene belongs to this batch, because a flaky M0 is not a control.** Every test that starts a background poll thread joins it before its server is disposed. `mutate-dotnet.ps1` records a host crash as NO VERDICT and carries on. - **Also owed by Cut 1 and not yet done: R-2.** Python replies `unsupported_schema_version` to v1 (§9, `interop_peer.py:360-387`, `cultmesh_py/server.py:341`), with one test per site. **Rust commit 3 landed** at `b090ca9`. Its parity vectors wait on the fix batch below. **The commit 2 fix batch landed** (Sonnet), `568e8e3` and `021e3f1`: - **Door and lowering.** The door refuses blank and whitespace entries, and `CultNetV0SelectionLowering` owns the v0 cleaning. - **Shard snapshot.** It answers through the evaluator (`NET-D4-ShardMembership-Revert`), with a fixture for exclusion outside the shard's prefix. - **Mesh v0 terms.** `CultMeshSnapshotRequestOptions` refuses any term v0 cannot carry, and `HotBodySubscription.Selection` returns a copy. - **Mesh read order.** The read goes exact, then alias, then payload, under one decode rule, and the Mesh copy of the resolver is deleted. The shared rule is `CultNetDocumentRegistry.TryReadSchemaVersion`, now public, matched against the caller's own descriptor. `TryResolveDescriptorByPayloadSchema` is ambiguous when two CLR types alias one schema id, which the foreign-id fixture does on purpose. - **Dead code and test hygiene.** The dead identity code in Reconcile is deleted, and the poll threads are joined. - **Harness.** `mutate-dotnet.ps1` records a host crash as NO VERDICT. - **R-2.** The Python v0 peer refuses v1. Tests: Networking 195/195 over ten consecutive runs, with no crash. Mesh 253/254 with one skip that was already there. Caching 192/192. cultnet-py 54/54. Mutation entries 22/22 killed across the fix-batch, Mesh and Networking files, and both Mesh survivors now die. Delta: Mesh −3, Networking +62. **Open for Soul:** - It is unclear whether the door now refuses `[]`, as ruled, or only blank entries. The report names blank entries only. - Seven `cultmesh-py` daemon tests fail on `ModuleNotFoundError: cultcache_py` in a spawned child process. Hands calls this pre-existing; `main` must confirm it. - The anchor-matching fragility of `mutate-dotnet.ps1` (separator spelling) is recorded, not fixed. **Commit 4 landed** (Sonnet) at `00f4c02`, completing Cut 1's execution. - **Parity vectors (S12):** `contracts/cultnet/interop/selection-vectors.{cs,rs}-written.json`, 8 vectors each, read in both directions. Six are evaluated selections. Two are door refusals: `schemas: []`, and a blank key. - **Door:** `keys: []` and `schemas: []` **are** refused (`CultNetSelection.cs:326/328`), as ruled. - **Tests:** cultnet-rs 111 → 174, cultcache-rs 64 (unchanged), Networking 196 + 1 skip, Caching 192, Mesh 252/253. - **Mutation entries**, all killed: - Rust 23/23; - Caching 10/10, including 4 Q-J; - Networking 15/15, including 5 Q-J. S6 first survived. Its fixture now carries two references to the same target under different roles. S9–S15 and S17 do not apply to Rust (Rust has no subscription client). - **Open for Soul, highest first:** - **No `cites` vectors cross the runtimes.** Hands says C#'s `MatchesCitation` compares `Citation.Target.SchemaId` against the real SHA-256 schema id with no alias fallback, so "this fixture pair cannot agree". That is either a fixture limit or **a wire-parity gap in the hop**, and parity is this cut's invariant. Soul settles which. - **Size:** `selection.rs` is 1,407 lines and `contracts.rs` +595, about 2,000 in all against §14's roughly 430. - Hands calls S20 "structurally vacuous" and S23 without a surface in Rust. Both are claims, not yet reached, and need checking. - **A flaky test, recorded as a follow-up.** `reactive_document_coalesces_direct_same_schema_alias_member_writes` (`packages/cultnet-rs/tests/cultnet.rs`) fails under the harness's invocation of the full binary and passes in isolation. The v0-lowering entry's command was narrowed around it. It is not this cut's code. Its owner is the reactive-document path. **Two pre-merge additions from the Huginn read-side map, 2026-09-22.** They join the next selection fix batch, whatever the final Soul pass adds. - **P-1:** Rust's `Evaluation` gains `matched`. Rust cannot fill the page's `matched` today. - **P-2:** derive `Eq` on the selection wire types, because Huginn's request derives it. **Load-bearing for Huginn:** `Cursor::parse` is public and exposes `as_of`. The organ answers a cursor's page at the cursor's own `asOf`. If a finding makes `parse` private, expose `cursor_as_of` instead. **Soul's whole-cut pass, 2026-09-22** (Opus, at `00f4c02`). **Cut 1 does not merge.** The notes are in the session scratchpad at `soul-ss4-notes.md`. - **High, confirmed:** - **The C# reference never answers v1.** No v1 listener is registered (`CultNetDatabaseServer.cs:49-55`, `Server.cs:562-571`). `CreateSelectionResponse` and `LastWriteSequence` have no callers. §7's server handling, D6's subscription v1 and S9 were never built. Hands reported none of it missing. - **`cited` returns the wrong edges in both runtimes.** Edges are filtered by whether the *citer* is on the page, but under `cited` the page rows are the *cited* rows. `exists:true` gives no edges. `exists:false` gives edges into rows that are not on the page. The committed vector pins the wrong answer. - **The C# door accepts `"5\n"`.** .NET's `$` matches before a final newline. Rust and the schema refuse it. - **Parity broken on caller inputs:** - **Float rendering at ties.** 394 `f32` and 48 `f64` values out of 200k render differently, because .NET rounds half to even and Rust does not. A shortest form is a stand-in for the value in any case: an `f32` of 3e20 is stored as 300000006012263202816, bits `0x61821ab1`. (Corrected 2026-09-22. Soul's report and this map first gave 300000002010536247296. The Rust Hands and an independent Python `Decimal` check both give ...6012263202816.) - **`schemas`.** C# matches through the alias matcher and Rust matches exact ids. `["leaf_a"]` gives 8 rows against 0. - **Tiebreak.** C# compares UTF-16 code units and Rust compares UTF-8 bytes, so astral keys sort in opposite orders. - **`cited` edge order.** It comes from a Rust `HashMap` and is nondeterministic. - **`any_of` on a numeric alias.** C# goes through a culture-dependent `ToString()`. - **The door is advisory.** Both `select` implementations are public and never validate. Rust's `matches` only `debug_assert`s the hop, so a release build ignores `cites` and `cited`. Mesh `EnsureV0Compatible` lets `Keys=[]` and `[""]` through, and v0 lowering turns them into "every key". - **Not what the map specifies:** - `Matched` counts the page, which breaks C5. - v0 and shard snapshots re-evaluate the whole cache on every page, which is O(N²/200), and cannot detect a write between pages. - Cursor digests collide: `["a|b"]` digests the same as `["a","b"]`. - S20 has no C# test. Two S20 mutants survive 196/196. Rust `select` ignores `projection`, so the rule has no owner there. Nothing tests `SelectPage` or `CreateSelectionResponse`. - **The Networking host still crashes**, 2 in 11 runs. The flaky `HasConsumers` assertion (`NetworkingTests.cs:1720`) predates this cut. Joins sit outside `finally` in about 18 tests, so a failed assertion becomes a host crash. The "10 runs, no crash" claim did not reproduce. - **Low:** - The JSON schema disagrees with the runtimes on `limit` bounds and on `minItems`. - Python R-2 refuses only v1, so v2 and later are still dropped. - `TryReadSchemaVersion` is a public sniff heuristic, and two Mesh sites repeat the same line around it. - Rust v0 dedups before `reject_duplicates`, so that function is dead. - `mutate-dotnet.ps1` throws on `\` against `/` in paths. - **Deletions Soul named:** - `contracts.rs:1206-1541`, about 335 lines of hand codecs that the serde derives already round-trip, verified both ways; - `expand_scientific_notation`, about 46 lines, dead: 400k renders produced no exponent; - `reject_duplicates`; - `RawDocumentHeader::from_document`, which has no callers; - C#'s `WithBindingSchemaAlias`/`ExpandSchemaBindingAliases` duplicate, about 60 lines, and a shared lower-and-page loop, about 20 lines. - **Settled:** `cites` is a fixture limit, not a parity gap. With real SHA-256 ids, 40 selections agree byte for byte. The seven `cultmesh-py` failures are environmental: with `PYTHONPATH` set, 78/78 pass. The flaky Rust test waits 30×5 ms for a flusher, which is too short under contention, and it is not this cut's. - **Held:** - Every mutation suite killed everything. - Door refusals are byte-identical apart from `"5\n"`. - The Q-J comparator agrees with Python `Decimal`. - No float sits on either comparison path. - Negation, limit clamping and v0 dedup are at parity. - Mesh reads in the order exact, then alias, then payload. - Mesh is actually 253/254. **Self's rulings for the Cut 1 fix batch, 2026-09-22:** - **R-A. Serving v1 is part of this cut.** Both C# servers register v1 listeners. The snapshot answers through `CreateSelectionResponse` in last-write order, and the subscription server answers v1 as D6 and §7 say, with S9 tested. A v1 request that is not served is a defect, not a follow-up. - **R-B. Hop edges follow the hop's direction.** Under `cites`, the edges are the ones *from* page rows. Under `cited`, they are the ones *into* page rows. Every edge touches a page row. The order is deterministic: the page-row order, then `(from, role, to)` in code-point order. Regenerate the vectors. - **R-C. Every string comparison in the vocabulary uses Unicode code-point order.** In Rust that is UTF-8 byte order. C# compares by code point, not by UTF-16 unit. This covers the tiebreak, edge order and anything else ordered. - **R-D. A floating-point member renders as its exact decimal expansion, in canonical form, and not as a shortest form.** Every finite `f32` and `f64` is an exact dyadic rational and has a finite decimal expansion. That expansion is the stored value, it is the same in both runtimes by construction, and it matches the reason for Q-J. Implement it from mantissa and exponent, with `BigInteger` in C# and a small bignum in Rust. Add no new dependency unless the expansion cannot be written in about 60 lines. `decimal` and the integers are unchanged. **Flagged for the operator's review:** this is Self's reading of Q-J, and it changes what `ge "3e20"` means for an `f32` of 3e20. **Accepted by the operator, 2026-09-22** ("I accept your recommendations"). - **R-E. There is one schema-identity rule in both runtimes.** Rust gets the alias matcher (the owner is `cultnet-rs`, ported from `CultNetSchemaAliasMatching`). `schemas`, `cites.target.schemaId` and the binding id emitted on records all go through it. A `cites` target that matches no schema is refused at the door, never answered with an empty page. `ToRawRecord` and `ToEdge` emit the same id. - **R-F. The door is inside `select`.** `select` validates first, in both runtimes, and returns the typed refusal. A public entry point that skips validation does not exist. Rust's hop handling is not a `debug_assert`. Mesh's `EnsureV0Compatible` runs the door first. - **R-G. `matched` is the total number of matches, not the page count** (C5). Rust's `Evaluation` carries it (P-1). A single evaluation answers v0 and shard paging, taken as one snapshot. - **R-H. Cursor digests use length-prefixed encoding** for every string and list, in both runtimes. - **R-I. The projection has an owner in both runtimes.** `cultnet-rs` gets `select_page`, which produces `SelectionPage` under `projection`, with `matched` and edges. C# `SelectPage` and `CreateSelectionResponse` get tests, and so does S20. Page bytes are compared across the runtimes in the parity vectors. - **R-J. `any_of` on a numeric alias** compares the canonical rendering. - **R-K. Test hygiene is finished, not claimed.** Every poll-thread join moves into `finally`, and the `HasConsumers` race gets a deterministic wait. The fix is proven by 20 consecutive full runs. - **R-L. The contract follows the runtimes.** The schema gains `minItems: 1` on `schemas` and `keys`, and `limit` is documented as clamped. Python refuses every `cultnet.*.vN` with N > 0. `TryReadSchemaVersion` goes back to internal, behind a registry method that takes the descriptor. `mutate-dotnet.ps1` normalises path separators. - **R-M. Soul's named deletions all land.** P-2 (`Eq`) lands too. **The C# half of the fix batch landed** (Sonnet), `7903853`..`3d32c67`. What changed: - **R-A:** v1 is served by both servers, and D6 reconcile routing is in place. - **R-C:** `CultNetCodePointComparer` gives code-point order. - **R-D:** floats render as their exact decimal expansion, computed with `BigInteger`. - **R-E:** cites go through the alias matcher, and the wire id is one `WireSchemaId`. - **R-F:** the door is unconditional inside `Select`. - **R-G:** `Matched` is the total, computed once through `EvaluateAll` and `SelectAll`. - **R-H:** the cursor digest is length-prefixed. - **R-J:** numeric `any_of` compares the canonical form. - **R-M:** `WithBindingSchemaAlias` and the duplicated paging loop are deleted. - **R-I:** tests kill both S20 mutants. One real bug was fixed in the process: `ToEdge` serialised a plain-typed payload as a document. - **R-K:** every join is in `finally`. `HasConsumers` now waits for the condition. - **R-L:** the schema carries `minItems`. Python refuses every vN>0 (only one site exists). The harness normalises path separators. - **Vectors:** `cs-written.json` is regenerated and gains the float-tie, cites-by-alias, astral-order and projection cases. Tests: Networking 201/202, where the one failure is the stale Rust vector until the Rust half lands. Caching 192. Mesh 253/254. Python 54, 78 and 34. In 20 full runs there was no crash, but one run had an unexplained failure. **Not done, sent to a second Hands:** mutation entries for the fix-batch rules (there are only regression tests), S9, and a diagnosis of the 1-in-20 failure over 30 runs. **The Rust half of the fix batch landed** (Sonnet), `8b114ed`..`a088435`: - 36/36 entries killed. - Three real bugs were found while it ran, among them a v0 fast path that had inherited the door's "empty matches all". - The `contracts.rs` hand codecs are gone (−362/+35). - The Rust Hands corrected `f32` 3e20 to `300000006012263202816`. **Shared parity fixture** (Sonnet), `3317ddd` and `defb9a1`. Both runtimes now build their vectors from `contracts/cultnet/interop/selection-vectors.fixture.json`, which uses real SHA-256 ids. A test bug is fixed: both readers had compared the page size with `matched`. Of 15 vectors in each direction, the following agree byte for byte: exact ids, float tie, astral order, header and document projection, `cites`/`cited`, and the refusals. **Two real parity defects:** - **Two incompatible alias rules.** C#'s `CultNetSchemaAliasMatching.Matches` (`CultNetDatabase.cs:74-87`) strips `.vN` and compares against the descriptor's `SchemaName`. Rust's `schema_alias::matches` (`selection.rs:452-459`) strips `.vN` and compares against the *hash*. No alias resolves in both. - **C# does not refuse an unresolved `cites.target`** (`CultNetSelection.cs:361-391`), which R-E requires. Rust does refuse it. **Self's ruling, 2026-09-22: the C# reference's alias rule is the rule.** CultLib keeps wire parity against the C# reference. An alias is a schema *name* with a `.vN` suffix, resolved against the descriptor's name. A hash-shaped alias is not a wire form. Rust ports the name rule, which means its `RowSet` must expose each schema's name, and it deletes the hash-stripping matcher. C# refuses an unresolved `cites.target` at the door. Each vector that fails today becomes a vector both runtimes must pass. **The Rust alias port landed** (Sonnet). Rust's `schema_alias::matches` is now `(candidate, schema_id, schema_name)`, and it matches the C# reference row for row: exact id, bare name, `.vN` on the name, case-sensitive, the last `.v` marker wins, and `.v` with no digits is taken literally. The C# table was produced by running the reference source. The hash-stripping overload is deleted. `SchemaVersion` and `CompatibleSchemaIds` are not ported, because no Rust call site needs them; that is a stated reduction. Rust entries are 40/40 killed. The whole suite had never run under `-Repo` before, and its commands now carry `--manifest-path`. | Reader | Vectors from | Pass | |---|---|---| | Rust | `cs-written` | 15/15 | | C# | `rs-written` | 14/16 | The two C# failures both come from the pending C# door refusal of an unmatched `cites.target`, which sits with the matrix Hands. **The early Soul pass (commits 0–1, pinned at `17d10e0`) reported late, on 2026-09-22.** It was interrupted three times by API errors. Much of what it found is already covered by R-A to R-M. These findings are **new, and still open against the current branch:** - **F2, high: typed refusals never reach the wire.** `CultNetErrorMessage` (`CultNetSchemaMessages.cs:~498-512`) has no `code` and no `details`. Nothing maps the selection or cursor exceptions to an error. This means `selection_invalid`, `cursor_stale`, `cursor_invalid` and `reference_outside_target` exist only in-process. - **F6, high: the cursor can be forged.** The digest is an unkeyed SHA-256 that anyone can recompute, so any caller can mint a cursor. A record key containing the U+241F delimiter makes a server's own cursor fail to parse. - **F7, high: authorization sees two different ids.** On the snapshot path, the authorizer receives the binding's wire id. On the live path it receives the descriptor id (`CultNetDatabaseSubscriptionServer.cs:~309` against `:~451`). A row delivered by the snapshot can therefore be refused on its first live change, or leak through a denylist. No test pins the live id. - **F8, medium: `LastWriteSequence` is not the order a snapshot reflects.** - Replica apply paths (`CultNetDatabase.cs:~1416`, `:~1459`) never set it. - Nothing rebuilds it after a restart. - Sequences are per shard, but `asOf` is a single `ulong`. - **F11, medium: v0 lowering changed what v0 answers.** A snapshot with `recordKeys: []` used to answer empty, and now answers every row. v0 rows now come back in schema-and-key order instead of the requested key order. - **F12, medium: the committed schemas do not describe the bytes C# writes.** - Headers `$ref` a record schema that requires `payload`. - MessagePack-CSharp writes both `headers` and `documents`, one of them nil, so every C# page fails the `oneOf`. - `fieldPredicate` does not forbid `values` and `number` together. - **F14, low, now reachable because v1 is served: field predicates on a Removed change throw.** `TryGetIndexValue(null)`, at `CultNetDatabaseServer.cs:~375`. - **F15, low: `cites` skips the out-of-target check** for edges that do not point at the requested key. `EnsureWithinDeclaredTarget` also returns early when `TargetType` is null. - **Surviving mutants:** - S1-Loose (reachable becomes all descriptors); - S2-AllOf; - S17-FirstLeaf; - Door-NoValidate, since fixed by R-F; - S5-DigestNoFields; - Auth-LiveSchemaId, which is F7; - QL-OutOfTargetCites, which is F15. S4 has no entry. A clone at `C:\ss1` was left behind: the Soul pass could not remove it. **Self's rulings for fix batch 3, 2026-09-22.** Batch 3 goes to Hands once the C# matrix Hands and the Rust alias port have landed, so that no two C# Hands edit `src/` at the same time. - **R-N, F2: refusals are wire messages.** `cultnet.error.v0` gains `code` and `details`. That is an additive field, so the version is unchanged, and v0 peers ignore it. Every selection and cursor refusal, and `reference_outside_target`, maps to its code in both servers and in Rust. Tests decode the bytes a peer actually receives. - **R-O, F6: cursors are keyed.** The digest becomes an HMAC under a key the answering server holds. The key is random per process, so a cursor does not survive a restart and answers `cursor_invalid`. That is acceptable, because cursors are short-lived and §2 already calls them "minted by the answering server". The cursor body uses length-prefixed fields, not a delimiter. Rust does the same, since Huginn mints cursors. - **R-P, F7: one id reaches the authorizer, and it is the wire id**, on the snapshot, live and reconcile paths alike. A test pins the id each path passes. - **R-Q, F8:** every path that commits a row, whether local or a replica apply, sets the last-write sequence. It is rebuilt from the mutation log at startup. A multi-shard selection's `asOf` is defined, or refused: a selection that spans shards is answered only when every row comes from one shard's log. Otherwise it is refused with `cursor_stale`/`selection_invalid` as appropriate, and the choice is documented in §2. A single shard is the case today. - **R-R, F11: v0 lowering preserves v0's pre-cut answers exactly.** v0 is a frozen contract for the TS, Python and Kotlin peers. **This corrects the earlier ruling in the commit 2 fix batch**, which lowered an empty v0 list to "no filter". Where the pre-cut v0 server answered empty for `recordKeys: []`, it still answers empty. Where pre-cut v0 kept the requested key order, it still does. The pre-cut behaviour comes from the code at `b3d9cf7`, and tests prove it by running the same requests against both. - **R-S, F12: the schemas describe the bytes.** Add a header schema, make the page shape match what MessagePack-CSharp writes (nil keys included), and make `fieldPredicate` exclusive. A test decodes real C# bytes against the schemas. - **R-T, F14 and F15:** removed changes are evaluated without reading a document. A removal matches through the selection's keys and schemas alone, and field predicates count as unknown. `cites` checks every edge against its declared target. - **R-U: every surviving mutant from the early pass becomes an entry, and it must die.** That covers S1-Loose, S2-AllOf, S17-FirstLeaf, S5-DigestNoFields, Auth-LiveSchemaId, QL-OutOfTargetCites and an S4 entry. **Fix batch 3 is landing in pieces, 2026-09-22.** - **The harness is retired** (operator ruling). The branch's `mutate-dotnet.ps1`, the four `*.entries.ps1` and the Rust entries file are deleted. Tests pin behaviour, and Soul runs Stryker.NET and cargo-mutants on the diff. - **C#, first pass** (`8d7bee9..f366791`): R-R (v0 lowering answers exactly what pre-cut v0 answered, key order included) and the cites-refusal vectors. C# now reads 16 of 16 Rust vectors. It stopped there, so R-N, R-O, R-P, R-Q, R-S, R-T and R-U were left. - **R-R meets R-F:** the raw v0 wire answers an explicit empty list with an empty page, while Mesh's `EnsureV0Compatible` refuses that list before sending. Both layers keep their own ruling, which is right. - **Rust** (`5cf31d1..c606eb3`): R-O (keyed cursor), R-T, R-R, and the entries file deleted. - **The cursor API for Huginn:** `Cursor::parse` stays public and key-free and still exposes `as_of`. Only digest verification needs the process key, so no second helper was needed. - Rust reads 17 of 17 C# vectors. - **R-N is pending in Rust by design.** An earlier guess at the wire shape was backed out; Rust matches C#'s field names byte for byte once they land. - **C# pass A is in Hands:** R-N, R-P, R-T. **Pass B follows:** R-O, R-Q, R-S, R-U. - **C# pass A landed** (`66b5e60`, `e8a3dec`): R-N, R-P and R-T. - **R-N's wire shape:** `CultNetErrorMessage` gains `code` and `details`. `CultNetErrorDetails` carries `field`, `value`, `asOf` and `current`. The codes are `selection_invalid`, `cursor_stale`, `cursor_invalid` and `reference_outside_target`. The schema gains both fields additively. - Two catch sites that previously let the exception escape now answer the peer. - **R-P:** the live fast path authorized on the descriptor id and now uses the wire id, so all three paths agree. - **R-T:** a removal skips field predicates instead of dereferencing a null document. `cites` no longer early-returns on a null target, and **the root cause was in CultCache**: a many-reference declared without an explicit attribute left its target type null, even though the element type was statically known, so the out-of-target check silently skipped. - Networking 223 pass and 2 skip; Mesh 255. - **The Caching claim was wrong.** There is one failure, not three, and it is identical at the branch head, at `b3d9cf7` and on `main`. It expects a write to a read-only directory to fail, which cannot happen in a container running as root. **Environmental.** - **Rust R-N landed** (`eff62e5`): 213 tests pass. Parity is pinned by **captured C# bytes** for all four codes, taken from a probe run on the dotnet image. - **An encoding trap the vectors would not have caught:** MessagePack C# always writes all five declared keys in declaration order, nil included, while Rust's generic path sorts keys alphabetically. Rust now builds that map by hand. **A key added or reordered in either error type must be mirrored there.** - **A defect in C#, sent to pass B:** `ForReferenceOutsideTarget` prefixes a message that already carries its own prefix, so a peer reads `reference_outside_target: reference_outside_target: …`. - The parity-vector machinery carries no concept of an error message, so R-N's parity lives in its own byte-level test. That is the right home. - **C# pass B landed** (`a4cf54f`..`52082ec`): R-O, R-Q, R-S and R-U, plus the doubled `reference_outside_target` prefix. - Networking 238 pass and 2 skip; Mesh 255. - **Hand probes: six of seven killed.** S1-Loose, S2-AllOf, S17, S5-DigestNoFields, Auth-LiveSchemaId and S4 all die. - **QL-OutOfTargetCites is a genuine gap.** Since pass A fixed `CultCache.ResolveReferenceTarget`, the fixture's many-reference gets an inferred target type, so the guard never fires for it. `TargetType` is now null only for a scalar reference typed as the bare `ICultRecordRef`, and no fixture reaches that shape. **Open for Soul:** is that shape registerable at all? If it is, pin it. If it is not, the null branch is dead and goes. - **Two fixes found while writing the tests:** - the cursor's length prefix counted UTF-16 chars, so an astral key did not round-trip; - `MiniJsonSchemaValidator` had no `not`, so the exclusivity test found nothing. - **`cultnet.raw-document-record.schema.json` was missing `schemaName`, `schemaVersion` and `schemaContentHash` entirely.** Any real C# page would have failed it on `additionalProperties: false` before R-S's own bugs even mattered. - **Self's correction: cursors need no cross-runtime byte parity.** The brief for pass B said Rust and C# must encode a cursor identically, on the premise that one runtime parses another's cursor. **That premise is wrong.** A cursor is opaque, minted by the answering server and echoed back by the caller, and the digests cannot verify across processes because each server holds its own key. Both encodings are length-prefixed five-field bodies with an HMAC-SHA256 digest, and they differ in base64 flavour and separators. That is correct and stays. Rust's own doc said so first. - **Settled by Soul:** three Caching failures, identical at `b3d9cf7` and `52082ec`. All three expect a write to a read-only directory to fail, and the container is root. **Environmental.** Pass B's count was right. **Soul's whole-cut pass, 2026-09-22** (Opus, at `52082ec`). **Cut 1 may not merge.** - **Held:** Networking 238 and 2 skips, Mesh 255, cultnet-rs 213. R-Q holds (both replica applies, the startup rebuild, and a shard-spanning refusal). R-O holds against a stranger and across a restart, and the astral key round-trips. R-H's digest covers every selection term. R-R holds and is honest. R-A holds. R-F's door is inside `EvaluateAll`, which every path reaches. The canonical-number door is anchored `\A..\z`. - **S-1, high: the hop indexes rows by record key alone.** `byKey` (`CultNetSelectionEvaluator.cs:176-178`) and Rust's `HashMap<&str, &R>` (`selection.rs:1457`) both keep the last row at a key. CultCache keys are unique **per schema**, and the Mesh tests already put two schemas at one key. With rows in one order the selection refuses valid data as `reference_outside_target`; in the other order it succeeds. Under `cited` the index is a set of bare keys, so a row of one schema counts as cited because something cites another schema at the same key. - **S-2, high: R-T's `cites` half did not land in C#.** C# filters edges by the citation's key (`:355`) **before** `EnsureWithinDeclaredTarget` (`:359`); Rust checks first. A many-reference declared to one leaf but holding an edge into another is refused by Rust and accepted by C#. - **S-3, high: a selection with both hops loses its `cites` edges in Rust.** `selection.rs:1541` computes one direction for every edge; C# anchors each edge by its own hop. No vector covers both hops. - **S-4, high: the error message fails its own schema.** Nothing decodes real `CultNetErrorMessage` bytes against `cultnet.error.schema.json`. `routingHint` is undeclared under `additionalProperties: false`, and nil `details.asOf`, `details.current`, `code` and `details` all fail their declared types. The header schema shows the nullable pattern was understood and simply not applied here. - **S-5, medium: Stryker leaves 85 survivors** over the cut's two core files: 396 mutants, 310 killed, 85 survived, **75 with no coverage at all**, score 66%. The old "every entry killed" was an artifact of a hand-picked list. - **S-6, medium: the cursor is malleable in its own position.** The digest covers the selection but not the body's `asOf`, `ordinal`, `schemaId` or `recordKey`. A caller holding one valid cursor can rewrite its position and reuse the digest. - **S-7, medium: R-I's claim is false.** The vectors compare ids, `matched`, `hasNext` and edges. They never compare page bytes, `asOf`, `next`, or a refusal's code, and `rs-written.json` carries no projection vector at all. - **S-8, low: the out-of-target null branch is dead.** D11 refuses a bare `ICultRecordRef` in both scalar and many form, so every surviving shape has a non-null target. - **S-9, low: `asOf` is the maximum across all shards**, so a single-shard page advertises another shard's number, and an unrelated write invalidates a live cursor. - **S-10, low: `MiniJsonSchemaValidator` silently ignores** `minimum`, `maximum`, `maxLength`, `maxItems`, `anyOf`, `allOf`, `if/then/else`, `uniqueItems` and `format`. The committed schemas use `minimum` 34 times, including `limit`'s bound. Its `pattern` also runs through .NET `Regex`, whose `$` accepts a trailing newline. - **S-11, low:** the v1 subscribe refuses a hop before running the door and always names field `cites`. - **S-12, low:** the fixture's prose still calls the alias vectors a cross-runtime defect, which the alias port fixed. Rust's port also drops `SchemaVersion` and `CompatibleSchemaIds`, so R-E is two rules agreeing on a subset. - **Where the evidence lives.** The pass ran against `52082ec`. Its nine hand probes — eight C# and the Rust both-hops probe that proved S-3 on a matched pair — are on branch `soul-probe` in the scratch clone `C:\ss5` (`e0fd672..107ff5f`), **unpushed**. Nothing reached origin and the pinned checkout at `F:\Projects\CultLib` was never touched. Notes are at `scratchpad/soul-sel-final-notes.md`. Probes are scratch by doctrine and are meant to be thrown away; this pointer exists because S-1 through S-3 were proven there and fix batch 4's tests have to reproduce them independently. If `C:\ss5` is gone, the probes are gone with it, and that is acceptable — the findings are recorded here, which is the durable copy. - **Soul's own corrections, same pass.** It first reported a wedged `cargo mutants` job on Yggdrasil and asked for it to be killed. Checking the box rather than its log, the work directory was already gone: what it had lost was its detached ssh's output. Self had by then killed the process, which was Soul's own run, so nothing else was affected. **The shape is worth keeping: a log is not the machine, and Self acted before confirming the process was actually stalled.** - **The Stryker triage is owed, after four attempts, none of them Stryker's fault.** The `dotnet/sdk:10.0` image has no `python3`; the JSON reporter threw on `CreateDirectory`; two runs with a different output path ran about fifty minutes without finishing, against three minutes for the mutation phase that did complete. The completed run stands, and the command is in Soul's notes: `dotnet-stryker --project GameCult.Networking.csproj --mutate "**/CultNetSelection*.cs" --reporter json --reporter progress --concurrency 4`. **Read the HTML report Stryker writes beside the JSON**, rather than parsing JSON in the container. - **The triage landed on the fifth attempt, 2026-09-22, and it sharpens S-5 rather than softening it.** Most of the 85 are message-string mutations and are not worth chasing; roughly a dozen are real, and they sit on the rules this cut exists to enforce: - `CultNetSelection.cs:439`, `Any()` → `All()` survived. §2's "a comparison on an alias any reachable schema declares non-numeric is refused" degrades to "refused only if every reachable schema declares it non-numeric". No fixture has an alias numeric on one reachable leaf and a string on another — the exact case the rule exists for. - `CultNetSelection.cs:387`, `||` → `&&` survived. A `cites.target` with a schemaId and a blank recordKey, or the reverse, stops being refused. - `member.IndexAlias ?? member.MemberName` → `member.MemberName` survived at all four sites (`CultNetSelectionEvaluator.cs:352,384,404` and `CultNetSelection.cs:445`). §2's role-naming rule for the hop is untested everywhere it is implemented. - `CultNetSelectionEvaluator.cs:203,204`, `ThenBy` ↔ `ThenByDescending` survived on both paths: the `(ordinal, schemaId, recordKey)` tiebreak is pinned by nothing. - `CultNetSelectionEvaluator.cs:290-297`, five order flips in `EdgesFor`, all survived. **R-B's "page-row order, then `(from, role, to)` in code-point order" has no test pinning a single component**, though R-B exists because that ordering was wrong once already. - `CultNetSelectionEvaluator.cs:590-605` has no coverage at all: `ComputeDigest`'s `cites` and `cited` branches, plus the number-presence flag at `:584-585`. R-H's collision-freedom rests on a reading, not a test. - `:673,678` survived: `Cursor.Parse`'s length-prefix bounds checks, on attacker-supplied base64. `:307,322` survived: cursor positioning under `descending`, and `ComparePosition`'s schema-vs-key tiebreak. `:710,715,729` survived: the code-point comparator's surrogate path, despite R-C having a vector for it. - **Equivalent, not to be chased:** `Selection.cs:103` `<=`, `:118` `>=`, `:121` `dot <= 0` are guarded upstream and unreachable for canonical input; `:103,107` turn `sign * x` into `sign / x` with `x` in {-1,1}; `:109` Max→Min is a no-op because `PadRight` to a shorter length does nothing; `:80` is a `RegexOptions` flag; `Evaluator:272` is equivalent because `full.Edges` is empty without a hop. - **Soul withdrew a finding of its own in the same pass.** It had reported that C#'s cursor digest does not sort its lists while Rust's does, offered as a low-severity intra-runtime difference. `CultNetSelectionEvaluator.cs:637` sorts by code point, same as Rust. The remark belongs in no fix list. - **cargo-mutants cannot run on `cultnet-rs` at all.** `schema_discovery.rs` uses `include_str!("../../../contracts/…")`, which escapes the package, so the tool's copied tree fails its baseline build. **There is no mutation evidence for the Rust half**, and the package's own source shape is why. **Self's rulings for fix batch 4, 2026-09-22:** - **R-V (S-1). A row's identity is `(schemaId, recordKey)`, never the key alone.** Both runtimes index rows and incoming edges by the pair. `RecordRef` already carries both. Tests: two schemas at one key, in both row orders, give the same answer; `cited` does not match a row of another schema at the same key. - **R-W (S-2 and S-3). The hop behaves identically in both runtimes.** The target check runs **before** any key filtering, and each edge is anchored by its own hop, so a selection carrying both `cites` and `cited` returns both sets. C# adopts Rust's ordering for the first; Rust adopts C#'s per-edge anchoring for the second. Vectors cover both. - **R-X (S-4 and S-10). A message that fails its own schema is a defect.** `cultnet.error.schema.json` declares `routingHint` and every nullable field the way the header schema does. A test decodes real bytes for every code. `MiniJsonSchemaValidator` **refuses a schema containing a keyword it does not implement**, rather than ignoring it, and implements `minimum`, `maximum`, `maxLength` and `maxItems`. Its `pattern` anchors so a trailing newline cannot pass. - **R-Y (S-6).** The cursor's HMAC covers the body as well as the selection, so the position cannot be rewritten. Test: a rewritten ordinal or key is refused. - **R-Z (S-7).** The vectors compare **page bytes**, plus `asOf`, `next` and a refusal's code, and carry a header-projection and a document-projection vector on both sides. Where a field is legitimately per-server, such as a cursor, the vector states that and compares the rest. - **R-AA (S-5).** Triage all 85 survivors by name. The 75 uncovered mutants mean whole regions have no test; write behavioural tests for them. A survivor that is genuinely equivalent gets a one-line reason in the report. **The triage half is done** (see the list under S-5, 2026-09-22). What is owed is a behavioural test for each named live survivor: the alias disagreement across reachable schemas, the half-blank `cites.target`, the four index-alias role sites, the row tiebreak, `EdgesFor`'s ordering, `ComputeDigest`'s hop branches, `Cursor.Parse`'s bounds, descending cursor positioning, and the surrogate comparator. The equivalent mutants are recorded and are not to be chased. - **R-AB. Make `cultnet-rs` self-contained enough to mutate.** Replace the escaping `include_str!` with a build script that stages the contracts into `OUT_DIR`, or another route that keeps every source path inside the package. Prove it by running cargo-mutants on the crate. - **S-8:** delete the dead branch. - **S-9:** `asOf` is the watermark of the shards the selection actually covers. - **S-11:** run the door first, and name the field that is actually set. - **S-12:** correct the fixture's prose, and state Rust's alias reduction where R-E is described. **Fix batch 4, C# half, landed** (Sonnet) on `cultnet/selection-cut1`, `52082ec..b7d77b7`: - `e99bf46` — R-V, R-W, S-8, R-Y: row identity is `(schemaId, recordKey)`; the cursor's HMAC covers its own body. - `b3a8f6d` — S-9, S-11: `asOf` is scoped to the shards the selection covers; the v1 subscribe door runs before the hop refusal. - `b7d77b7` — R-X, S-4, S-10: the error schema matches the wire; the validator refuses keywords it does not implement. Counts on Yggdrasil: Networking 247 pass / 2 skip (was 238, so +9 tests), Mesh 255 pass. Caching's three failures are the read-only-directory tests that cannot fail under the stopgap's root container — unproven, not passing. **R-V proven in both row orders.** Before the fix, a narrow reference declared to `SelLeafA` resolving a key shared with a `SelLeafB` row depended on insertion order: one order refused a valid reference as `reference_outside_target`, the other silently resolved to the wrong schema's row for `cited` membership. After it, both orders resolve through the leaf set and `cited` never matches the other schema's row at that key. **What R-X's new refusal exposed.** Twelve uses of unimplemented keywords across three committed schemas, none reached by any existing test: `cultnet.database-change-raw.schema.json` uses `allOf` and `if`/`then`/`else`; both `cultmesh.verse-catalog-*.schema.json` use `uniqueItems` six times and `anyOf` once. **Those three schemas are now formally unvalidatable** until either the keywords are implemented or the schemas are rewritten. Nothing broke, because nothing ran them through the validator — which is the finding. **Two gaps Hands named rather than papered over:** - **S-11 has no dedicated regression test.** `HandleSubscribeV1Async` is private and reachable only through a live LiteNetLib round trip. Fixed by inspection, covered only by the suite passing. Owed. - The three unvalidatable schemas above need a decision: implement the keywords, or rewrite them. **Ledger correction.** Commits 0 and 1 came in at about twice the §14 estimate: | Package | Actual (net) | §14 estimate | |---|---|---| | Caching | +297 | about +150 | | Networking | +851 | about +400 | | contracts | 163 | about 200 | The two new Networking files alone are 714 lines, against about 360. The hop's incoming index, the cursor's digest and mint, and the per-field door messages all cost more than the prose assumed. The binding-alias fix was not in the ledger at all. The estimate was wrong; the scope did not grow. The deletions in commits 2 to 4 (Mesh collapse, `_projectRecord`, the Rust `snapshot_query.rs`) are still to be counted against the total. Status: cut map for two cuts. **Cut 1: the selection vocabulary in the C# reference runtime and the Rust runtime** (sections 1-17), with the follow-on runtime cuts and the Huginn consumer cut named and not mapped. **Cut 2: watching a selection** (section 18), mapped to the same standard, landing after Cut 1 and depending on it. Cut 1 goes to Hands without waiting on anything in Cut 2. **Rulings this map is written under (operator, 2026-09-17):** - The vocabulary lands in CultLib at the CultNet layer, not in Huginn. It fills a hole: the query side of the substrate was never dropped by decision, only never asked for. `contracts/cultnet/cultnet-distributed-database.md:10-11` names RethinkDB changefeeds with "point, table/schema, and **filtered watches**" as prior art to keep; schema and key allowlists were built, filtered selection never was. - The first cut covers the C# reference (`src\GameCult.Networking`) and Rust (`packages\cultnet-rs`, what Huginn consumes). TypeScript, Python and Kotlin follow when they have a caller. - Deletes first: the two untyped stand-ins are replaced, not sat beside. - The CultMesh subtraction audit is a required part of the map, with real line counts, and an honest miss beats a padded ledger. - Nothing on the wire is serde-untagged (rule of this cut; evidence below). **What survives unchanged from the Huginn-targeted specification** (`scratchpad/cut10b-read-side-spec.md`, D1-D4): the five capabilities, the chosen representation and the rejected ones with their reasons, the order and snapshot cursor, the role-typed hop, the one negation, and the bound. What changes: owner, repo, the value model of a field predicate (strings, because the cache's indexes are strings), the parity obligation, and the subtraction. ## Pins | Repo | Branch | HEAD | State | |---|---|---|---| | CultLib | `main` | `51fb449` | dirty in `native/GameCult.Mesh.Quic.Native/*` and `scripts/mutate-cultmesh.mjs` from the live QUIC campaign; **not touched**. Every `file:line` below is against `51fb449`. | | Huginn | `eureka/memory-organ` | `25a841d` | the consumer; its cut is named in section 12 and mapped in the Epiphany campaign map. | | Epiphany leaf | `5cda0886` | — | untouched. | Baselines: `src/GameCult.Networking` 14,848 lines; `src/GameCult.Mesh` 21,720 lines; `tests/GameCult.Networking.Tests/NetworkingTests.cs` 141 `[Test]`s; `packages/cultnet-rs` 111 `#[test]`s; `cultnet-rs` depends on `serde`, `rmp-serde 1.3`, `rmpv`, `serde_json`, `cultcache-rs` and no `schemars` (`packages/cultnet-rs/Cargo.toml:14-31`). ## 1. Body facts, each by source read **The reference's read side today.** - `CultNetDatabase` (`src/GameCult.Networking/CultNetDatabase.cs`): change kinds `:15-45`; `Watch` `:1052`, `WatchAllChanges` `:1063`, `WatchRecord` `:1072`; `GetAll` `:776`; per-shard mutation log with sequence (`:465-466`, `:528-590`, `:631` a snapshot carries `ShardLogSequence`). `CultNetSchemaAliasMatching` `:47-97` is the one schema-alias matcher, `internal static`. - **Three separate selector engines evaluate the same two allowlists:** `CultNetDocumentRegistry.CreateRawSnapshotResponse` `:263-349` (snapshot, over `cache.AllEntries` by reflection at `:325-342`) with its own `MatchesRequestedSchema` `:505-524`; `CultNetDatabaseServer.CreateChangeMessage` `:347-384` with `Matches`/`MatchesSchema`/`InferSchemaName` `:401-468` (the LiteNetLib path, the one production construction site, `CultNetLocal.cs:154`); `CultNetDatabaseSubscriptionServer.CreateChangeCore` `:442-485` with `MatchesRequestedSchema` `:493-500` (the RUDP path). Two of them carry an identical reflection copy of `CreateRawRecord` (`CultNetDatabaseServer.cs:386-399`, `CultNetDatabaseSubscriptionServer.cs:502-515`). - **The two stand-ins.** `CultNetDatabaseSubscribeMessage` (`CultNetSchemaMessages.cs:788-826`): `schemaIds` `:805`, `recordKeys` `:809`, `includeSnapshot` `:813`, then `consumerRuntimeId`, `bodyIds`, `supportedBodyTransports` (body-plane demand, not selection). The same pair on `CultNetSnapshotRequestMessage` `:737-741`, `CultNetShardCatalogRequestMessage` `:949-953` (shard routing, stays), and `CultNetSchemaCatalogRequestMessage` `:1591` (catalog, stays). `_projectRecord` on the subscription server (`:27`, `:44`, `:50`, `:239-240`, `:314`): **no production caller constructs the subscription server at all** — `grep "new CultNetDatabaseSubscriptionServer"` over `src/` is empty; it is built only in tests (`NetworkingTests.cs:1596-1605` passes `projectRecord`). Projection is authority that exists in the reference and reaches no wire and no caller. - **The cache already owns addressing.** `CultIndexAttribute` (`src/GameCult.Caching/CultDocumentContracts.cs:34`, `Alias` `:41`) names a member as an index; the cache's index values are **strings by construction** (`CultCache.cs:1084` `Getter = document => getValue(document)?.ToString()`; `GetByIndex(string alias, string value)` `:1503-1509`). `CultReferenceAttribute` (`:45`, `TargetType` `:53`, `Many` `:55`) names a member as a reference; the descriptor records `IsReference`, `IsMany`, `TargetSchemaName` (`CultCache.cs:1069-1080`). So a field predicate's key is an index alias and a hop's role is a reference member, both declared by the document's owner. - **The declarations are public; the values are not.** `ToCatalogEntry()` (`CultCache.cs:151-176`) is public and carries every member's `Slot`, `MemberName`, `TypeName`, `IsReference`, `IsMany`, `TargetSchemaName`, `IsName`, `IndexAlias`. But `CultDocumentDescriptor.Members` (`:149`) and `IndexAccessors` (`:148`) are **`internal`**, and `GameCult.Caching` declares no `InternalsVisibleTo` for `GameCult.Networking` (the only `InternalsVisibleTo` in `src/` outside the vendored Unity tree is `GameCult.Caching.MessagePack` → `GameCult.Caching.Tests`). That is why `CreateRawSnapshotResponse` reaches for reflection at `CultNetDocumentRegistry.cs:325-342`. **An evaluator outside the cache assembly cannot read a declared index's value today**, by any means the cache offers. The earlier claim in this map that no cache change is needed for addressing was wrong: addressing is declared publicly and *readable* only inside the cache. Section 6 carries the read surface as an add; sections 7 and 14 carry its cost. - **Schemas are hand-written JSON** in `contracts/cultnet/*.schema.json`, listed by file name in `CultNetSchemaRegistry.cs:360-385`; TypeScript compiles them with Ajv and refuses unknown fields (`cultnet.database-subscribe.schema.json` has `additionalProperties: false`); Python lists required fields per version by hand (`packages/cultnet-py/src/cultnet_py/schema_catalog.py:283`, `:407`); Rust types are a serde enum tagged on `schemaVersion` (`packages/cultnet-rs/src/contracts.rs:252`) with hand validation (`require_optional_string_vec`, `:548-594`). C# encodes with MessagePack-CSharp string keys (`[Key("name")]`), i.e. named maps; Rust encodes with `rmp_serde::to_vec_named`. - **Runtime coverage of the subscribe message today.** C# server ×2, C# client (`CultNetDatabaseSubscriptionClient.cs:138-151`); TypeScript contract only (`packages/cultnet-ts/src/contracts.ts:237-247`, no server fanout, interop tests send it at `test/interop/cultnet-interop.test.ts:719,798`); Python server ×2 (`cultnet_py/interop_peer.py:390-401` with `DatabaseSubscription.matches` `:110-125`, and `cultmesh_py/server.py:315-331` with `_subscription_matches_document` `:449-470`, `_schema_matches_request` `:699-716`, and a third copy in `cultmesh_py/node.py:1322-1345`); **Rust: none** — `cultnet-rs` has `SnapshotRequest` with the two allowlists (`contracts.rs:314-321`) and no `DatabaseSubscribe` variant; Kotlin: none (a snapshot-request builder, `CultMesh.kt:2111`, and a `require(schemaVersion == "…snapshot_request.v0")` at `:2195`). - **How each runtime treats a message it does not know**, which is the wire-parity fact section 9 rests on: C# throws (`CultNetSchemaMessageSerialization.cs:85` `_ => throw`); TypeScript `parseCultNetMessage` (`contracts.ts:728-744`) looks the version up in its Ajv validators and throws when absent; Kotlin `require`s the exact version (`CultMesh.kt:2195-2196`); Rust's tagged enum fails to deserialize on an unknown tag; **Python returns `[]`** (`interop_peer.py:360-387` falls off the chain; `cultmesh_py/server.py:341` delegates to `handle_message`) — a silent drop, no reply, and for a *known* version with unknown fields Python reads only the fields it expects (`message.get(...)`), so it would answer a selector it did not understand with the wrong rows. - **Every committed write has a shard-log sequence** — assumed from `CultNetDatabase.cs:465` (`_nextLogSequences`) and the invariant "raw snapshot/put/delete messages must pass through `CultNetDatabase`" (`cultnet-distributed-database.md:115-116`); **Hands confirms** that a local `PutAsync` outside any shard also takes a sequence, because the order in section 3 rests on it. If it does not, the row's ordinal is its `storedAt` and the cursor refuses on any advance (section 3 says what that costs). **The Aetheria catalog as a hostile example, verified at `F:\Projects\Aetheria\Assets\Scripts\ServerShared`:** - **Inheritance.** `ItemData.cs:272` `abstract class ItemData` (`Name` `:275`, `Mass` `:284`), `:313` `abstract class CraftedItemData : ItemData` (which re-declares `Name` at `:327`, hiding the base's), and only the leaves carry `[CultDocument]`: `SimpleCommodityData` `:300`, `CompoundCommodityData` `:330`, `GearData` `:449`, and more. The cache's `DiscoverMembers` (`CultCache.cs:838-875`) walks `current.BaseType`, so a leaf's descriptor carries every inherited member with its attributes (`GetCustomAttribute` reads the member's own attribute wherever it is declared). Inherited addressing therefore already resolves per leaf. **Corrected on a second read:** duplicate *slots* are refused (`:931-935`), and a **hiding member is already refused too** — `:937-943` groups keyed members by `Member.Name` and rejects any name carried at two different slots (`HiddenMemberMessage`), while a hiding member re-using one slot is caught by the duplicate-slot rule. So `CraftedItemData`'s `Name` at `ItemData.cs:327` hiding `:275` is **not registrable in CultCache as it stands**, however the aliases fall; that is a finding for the Aetheria campaign, not a hole here. What is *not* refused by name is two members with **different names** carrying the **same index alias** (base `[CultIndex("mass")] Mass`, leaf `[CultIndex("mass")] Weight`). That does not collide silently either: the alias map is built by `ToDictionary` at `:462-468`, which throws `ArgumentException("An item with the same key has already been added")` — a real refusal, from the wrong owner, naming neither schema nor member nor alias. D10 is therefore a **renaming of an existing refusal**, not a new rule, and is smaller than it first looked. - **A reference to an abstract target.** `FactionProduct.cs:24` `CultRecordRef Design`. `PersistedMember.FromMember` (`CultCache.cs:1069-1071`) takes the target type and reads `CultDocumentAttribute` from it — an abstract base has none, so **`TargetSchemaName` is `null` today for exactly this reference**. The registry can compute the leaf set by assignability (it already does for index lookups, `:1506`, and store routing, `:1828`) but records nothing. - **A dictionary reference with a value.** `ItemData.cs:333-334` `[CultReference(typeof(PersonalityAttribute), many: true)] Dictionary, float> DemandProfile`. The descriptor records `IsMany` (`:1080`) and nothing else: **no code in the cache enumerates a many-reference's targets**, and the only accessor is `Getter = document => getValue(document)?.ToString()` (`:1082`), which on a dictionary yields the CLR type name. The edge and its payload are declared and unreadable. - **Numbers.** `PersistedMember.MemberType` (`:1053`) knows the member is a `float`, and the catalog persists it as `TypeName` (`:38`, `:192`, compared by `CompareSchemaShapes` `:605-629`), so **a member's numeric type is already declared and persisted**; what is missing is a typed accessor beside the string one. Adding an accessor is a runtime change with no catalog-shape or hash change, because `TypeName` is already in the canonical shape. **The cache's index maps are unique indexes, and the evaluator must not use them.** `Index(stored)` (`CultCache.cs:1849-1862`) writes `MapOf(_indexes, (type, alias))[value] = key` — **one key per value, last writer wins**. Two rows of one type sharing an index value do not collide loudly; the second silently displaces the first in the map. `GetByIndex` (`:1502-1508`) reads that map and `Single` (`:1838-1848`) throws only when *several types* assignable to `T` each contribute a key, never for two rows of one type. So `GetByIndex` answers "the row that most recently claimed this value", not "the rows with this value". The consequence for this cut is a rule, not a caveat: **the evaluator evaluates every predicate per row, through the accessor, and never through `_indexes` or `GetByIndex`.** The declared alias is an *addressing* name — the cache's own lookup map is a different, lossier thing that happens to be built from the same declaration. A "use the index, it is already there" optimisation would turn `kind any_of [weapon]` into a one-row answer. S23 pins it, `WatchByIndex` already has the bug (section 18), and the unique-index behaviour itself is left exactly as it is: it is the cache's own contract for a single-record lookup and this cut does not renegotiate it. **A fourth selector engine, in Rust, that this map's first draft missed.** `packages/cultnet-rs/src/snapshot_query.rs` (339 lines, `pub use` at `lib.rs:29`) already serves and asks snapshot requests: - `serve_read_only_raw_snapshot` `:64-130` is an engine — it walks the source's records, refuses a duplicate identity and an unregistered schema, applies a `CultNetReadOnlySnapshotPolicy` allowlist of `(schema_id, record_key)` pairs, then filters by the request's `schema_ids` and `record_keys` (`:112-125`). The policy is **authorization** and stays; `:112-125` is the fifth copy of the same two allowlists and goes, as the C# three do. - `CultNetRawSnapshotQuery` `:158-285` is the client side, and it exposes the sharpest limit of the two-allowlist model: `request()` `:195-217` turns a set of exact `(schema, key)` pairs into the **cross product** of their schemas and their keys, and `accept_response` `:219-284` then *errors* on any record the cross product dragged in (`"snapshot response contains unexpected record"`). Asking for `(A,x)` and `(B,y)` asks for four and refuses two. **v1 does not fix this**: `schemas × keys` is still a cross product (section 13, Q-M). What v1 does change is that `accept_response`'s check is a *declared expectation*, not a re-filter of a page the server got right, and section 8's forbidden writer is worded to keep that distinction honest. **The CultMesh audit** (Explore pass over `src/GameCult.Mesh` and `CultNetDocumentRegistry.cs`, 92 sites classified) is in section 11 with its numbers. ## 2. The vocabulary, exactly One shape, `cultnet.selection.v1`, carried by two request messages at a new version and answered by one page message. Field names are the wire spelling; C# and Rust type names follow each runtime's convention. ``` Selection { schemas: string[]? // kinds: schema ids or aliases, matched by CultNetSchemaAliasMatching; absent = every schema keys: string[]? // record-key allowlist; absent = every key fields: FieldPredicate[]? // conjunction; each is any-of over one declared index alias cites: Citation? // rows whose declared reference `role` (or any reference) names `target` cited: Incoming? // rows that some row does / does not name in `role` projection: "header" | "document" // default "header" descending: bool // default false; the one order, reversed limit: uint32? // clamped 1..=200 cursor: string? // opaque; minted by the answering server } FieldPredicate { // one operator per predicate, named by `op`; no union, no untagged index: string // a declared index alias, reachable on some schema the selection can reach, else refused op: "any_of" | "lt" | "le" | "ge" | "gt" values: string[]? // present iff op = any_of; non-empty number: string? // present iff op is a comparison; a canonical decimal (Q-J, below); the alias must be declared numeric on every reachable schema that declares it } Citation { target: RecordRef, role: string? } // target validated as a reference the row owner recognises Incoming { role: string, exists: bool } RecordRef { schemaId: string, recordKey: string } SelectionPage { // cultnet.snapshot_response_raw.v1 carries this matched: uint32 asOf: uint64 // the snapshot the page is exact for next: string? // absent on the last page headers: RawDocumentHeader[]? | documents: RawDocumentRecord[]? // exactly one present, by projection edges: Edge[]? // present iff the selection has `cites` or `cited`: the edges the hop traversed shardId?, shardEpoch?, shardLogSequence? // as v0 carries them } Edge { from: RecordRef // the citing row role: string to: RecordRef // the cited row, its schema resolved to the leaf actually stored payloadEncoding: "messagepack"?, payload: bytes? // the value attached to the edge (a dictionary's value), typed by the member's declared value type; present under `document`, absent under `header` } RawDocumentHeader = RawDocumentRecord minus payload, payloadEncoding ``` Messages: `cultnet.snapshot_request.v1 { messageId, selection, shardId?, shardEpoch? }`; `cultnet.database_subscribe.v1 { messageId, subscriptionId, selection, includeSnapshot, consumerRuntimeId?, bodyIds?, supportedBodyTransports? }`; `cultnet.snapshot_response_raw.v1` as above. `database_change_raw.v0` and `database_unsubscribe.v0` are unchanged: a change is a change. **Rules, each one owner:** - **Order** is `(ordinal, schemaId, recordKey)` ascending, or the reverse under `descending`. `ordinal` is the sequence of the commit that last wrote the row (the shard-log sequence in the reference; the receipt sequence in Huginn). The row owner supplies it; the vocabulary never reads a clock. - **Snapshot.** A page is exact as of `asOf`. A cursor carries `asOf`, the last `(ordinal, schemaId, recordKey)`, and a digest of the selection with `cursor` and `limit` cleared. A server that can present rows as of the cursor's `asOf` answers the next page over that snapshot; **a server that cannot refuses** `cultnet.error.v0 { code: "cursor_stale", details: { asOf, current } }`. The reference refuses when the shard log has advanced (rows mutate, and a replay is not this cut's); Huginn never refuses (append-only, one writer). One contract, two honest servers. A cursor that does not decode, or whose digest is not this selection's, is `cursor_invalid`. - **Fields** are predicates over one declared index each, conjoined across predicates: `any_of` over string values, or one of four comparisons (`lt`, `le`, `ge`, `gt`) against one number over a declared numeric member. A row of a schema that does not declare the index never matches it. An `index` no reachable schema declares, an empty `values`, a comparison on an alias any reachable schema declares non-numeric, an empty `keys` or `schemas` list, and a `role` no schema declares are refused typed at the door (`selection_invalid { field, value }`), never answered as an empty page. `any_of` values are strings because the cache's indexes are strings (`CultCache.cs:1084`). Comparison numbers are **canonical decimal strings** under the operator's Q-J ruling. The rule is specified in full in the **Numbers** item below. No range operator (two predicates on one alias make a range), no `ne`, and no nesting. - **Numbers (Q-J; Self's specification, 2026-09-22, which the ruling asked for and this map had not yet written).** - *Canonical form.* A number on the wire matches `^-?(0|[1-9][0-9]*)(\.[0-9]*[1-9])?$`, and `-0` is excluded. That fixes one spelling per value. It forbids leading zeros, trailing fractional zeros, a bare trailing point, an explicit `+`, exponent notation, negative zero, whitespace, and culture separators. - *Non-canonical spellings are refused.* Any other spelling is refused at the door with `selection_invalid { field: "number", value }`. It is never normalised. The reasons: the cursor digest and the parity vectors need one byte form per value, and a lenient parser differs between runtimes at exactly these edges. The ruling says "a non-canonical spelling of an equal value must not change an answer". That holds because such a spelling never reaches the evaluator. It gets a typed refusal, not a different page. - *Row side.* The cache renders a numeric member as its exact canonical decimal: - An integer type renders as its exact decimal. There is no 2^53 limit. - `decimal` renders with its trailing zeros stripped. - `float` and `double` render in the runtime's established shortest round-trip form (`"R"` in .NET, the standard shortest form in Rust), rewritten from exponent notation to positional digits. Parity pins this. - A NaN or infinite member matches no comparison. - *Comparison.* Both operands are canonical, so they are compared numerically by sign, then by the integer part's length, then by the integer digits, then by the fraction digits padded on the right. It is one small pure function per runtime, with no numeric parse and no precision limit. - *Mutants that must die:* - a lexicographic comparison ("10" < "9"); - a comparison that ignores sign; - a comparison that ignores the integer part's length; - a door that accepts `+1`, `1.0`, `01`, `1e3` or `-0`; - a row rendering through float64 (a `long` member of 2^53+1 must compare greater than `"9007199254740992"`). - Refusing a non-canonical number at the door, rather than normalising it, was Self's reading of the ruling. **The operator accepted it on 2026-09-22.** - **Inheritance.** A schema is a leaf: only a type with `[CultDocument]` has a schema name, and `schemas` names leaves. A predicate on an alias applies to every reachable leaf whose descriptor carries a member with that alias, inherited or own — the cache already discovers inherited members per leaf, so "gear or commodities with `mass` over 10" is `schemas: [geardata, simplecommoditydata], fields: [{index: mass, op: gt, number: 10}]` with `mass` declared once on the abstract base. Two leaves that each declare a member with the same alias independently are two members; the predicate reads each leaf's own. One leaf that resolves the same alias to two members (a base member and a hiding re-declaration both carrying the alias) is refused at registration (D10). A numeric comparison on an alias that is numeric on one reachable leaf and a string on another is refused at the door, because the row owner cannot compare a string. - **The hop** reads edges the row owner declares: in the reference, members with `CultReferenceAttribute` (role = the member's index alias or name); a one-reference yields one edge, a many-reference yields one edge per element, and a dictionary keyed by references yields one edge per key **with the value as the edge's payload**. In Rust, `Row::references()` yields `(role, target, payload)`. **A reference's target is a set of leaves**: the declared target type's own schema if it is a leaf, else every registered leaf assignable to it (`CraftedItemData` → `compoundcommoditydata`, `consumableitemdata`, …). The hop follows an edge into any row whose schema is in that set. **A stored edge naming a row whose schema is outside the set refuses the selection** (`reference_outside_target { from, role, to }`), not skips it: an edge the declaration forbids is corrupt data and a read does not paper over it. The citer's status, fields and authorization are not consulted by the hop; one hop, no second. - **Edges in the answer.** A selection with `cites` or `cited` returns, beside the rows, the edges the hop traversed, each with its payload under `document` projection and without it under `header`. A weighted reference and a bill of materials are the same shape: follow the edge, return the payload, filter the rows. **Filtering on the payload as part of the traversal is not expressible** (section 13): that is a join condition. - **Projection.** `header` is the record without its payload; `document` is the record. The consumer decides what a header *means* for typed rows (Huginn's typed summary is its header; the substrate carries whichever type the page was instantiated with). - **Not on the wire:** the admission window (`admittedAfter/Before`) of Huginn's Cut 9 — `descending` plus the cursor answer "the latest"; a date window is a range, and ranges are out (R-3). **The bound, carried forward in force, with one widening the operator ruled.** Closed key set (declared aliases), a closed operator set (any-of and four comparisons, one per predicate, no nesting), no path language, no expression terms, no OR, one negation, one hop with its edges returned, no depth field, no sort field, no text, no predicate on an edge's payload in the traversal. Section 13 lists what is deliberately impossible. The capability set is now: **C1** typed predicates over declared members, string any-of and numeric comparison; **C2** projection; **C3** order and cursor; **C4** one hop, both directions, returning typed edge payloads; **C5** existence and count without bodies. **Nothing on the wire is serde-untagged — rule, with evidence.** Probe `scratchpad/untagged-probe/` (result in `untagged-probe-result.txt`), run 2026-09-17 against `rmp-serde 1.3.1` / `rmp 0.8.15` / `serde 1.0.229` (the versions Huginn's lockfile resolves; `cultnet-rs` pins `rmp-serde 1.3`): every `#[serde(untagged)]` enum with struct variants **fails to round-trip under positional MessagePack** (`data did not match any variant of untagged enum`) and passes only under named maps; externally tagged shapes pass under both. The reference encodes named maps and so does Rust today, so an untagged shape would work by accident of an undocumented encoding choice. `grep untagged packages/cultnet-rs/src packages/cultcache-rs/src` is empty at `51fb449`; this cut keeps it empty and pins it (section 10). ## 3. Decisions, with the reasons **D1. Strings for field values, not typed enums.** In the Huginn-targeted design a predicate was `Option>`, closed at compile time. The substrate cannot know a consumer's enums, and the cache's own index model is string-valued; so the wire carries strings and the row owner refuses a value outside its enum at the door. The loss is compile-time closure; what is kept is runtime closure with a typed refusal, which is the same guarantee to a caller. **D2. Declared aliases, not a field-path language.** `index` and `role` are names the document's owner declared with `CultIndexAttribute` and `CultReferenceAttribute`; an undeclared name is refused. A dot-path over the payload would be the string language the bound excludes, and the cache already has the declaration mechanism. **D3. A new message version, not new fields on v0.** Section 1's fact: Python reads only the fields it knows and would answer a v0 selector it did not understand with the wrong rows. A v1 version string makes every runtime not in this cut refuse or drop by its own dispatch rather than mis-answer. The cost is that v0 stays answerable by the reference until the follow-ups land (R-1, a scheduled deletion with a named trigger). **D4. One evaluator in the reference, three engines deleted.** `Select` over `(descriptor, key, document)` rows from the cache replaces `CreateRawSnapshotResponse`'s loop, `CultNetDatabaseServer.CreateChangeMessage`'s `Matches`, and `CultNetDatabaseSubscriptionServer.CreateChangeCore`. `CultNetSchemaAliasMatching` (`CultNetDatabase.cs:47-97`) becomes the one alias matcher and goes `public`; the four Mesh copies and two Networking copies go. **D5. Projection becomes a wire value; `_projectRecord` dies.** The delegate ran after authorization and reached no caller. `projection` on the selection is the same authority as a value; `_authorizeRequest` and `_authorizeRecord` stay, because authorization is not selection. **D6. Subscriptions evaluate the selection on the snapshot and on every change, and hop-bearing selections reconcile.** `cites`/`cited` are set-dependent: a change to row B can change whether row A matches. The subscription server already owns a diff-against-delivered reconcile (`Reconcile` `:251-292`, `DeliveredBySourceRecordKey`); a hop-bearing subscription runs it on every change instead of the per-change fast path. That is the mechanism by which "watch a question" falls out, and this cut does **not** add a local `CultNetDatabase.Watch(Selection)`; section 11 records what that later cut would collapse; it is Cut 2, section 18 (R-5). **D7. The Rust runtime carries the evaluator, not only the types.** Huginn evaluates selections over its own rows; if `select` lived only in C#, Rust consumers would each write one. `packages/cultnet-rs/src/selection.rs` holds the types, the cursor, and `select` over a `Row` trait, with no subscription client in this cut (Huginn does not subscribe). **D8. Numbers are addressable through the type the cache already declares; the cache gains accessors, not attributes.** A comparison needs a numeric value the string getter cannot give. `CultCache.cs:1053` holds the CLR `MemberType` and the catalog already persists `TypeName` in the canonical shape, so numeric-ness is declared; what is added is runtime: on each member, `ValueOf(document) -> object?` and `NumberOf(document) -> string?` (the exact canonical decimal, Q-J; was `double?` before 2026-09-22) (non-null exactly for the closed set of CLR numeric types), and the public member entry exposes `IsNumeric` derived from `TypeName`. No new attribute, no catalog-shape change, no schema hash moves, no migration. Rust mirrors it as `Row::number(index)` and `RowSet::is_numeric(schema, index)`; the consumer decides from its own types. **Verified by source read, because everything downstream rests on it:** `CultDocumentMemberDescriptor.TypeName` is set at `CultCache.cs:474` from `CultSchemaTypeNames.FromType(member.MemberType)`, which renders a CLR full name (`System.Single`, `System.Nullable`, `System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary, System.Single>`); `ToCatalogEntry()` `:168` copies it into `CultSchemaMemberCatalogEntry.TypeName` `:42`; `CompareSchemaShapes` compares it inside `CanonicalSchemaMember` `:605-629`. Numeric-ness is declared and persisted today, and the claim holds. **Two corrections to the estimate.** First, `IsNumeric` has two possible authorities — the CLR `MemberType` in hand and the `TypeName` string read back from a stored catalog. They must agree, or a schema validates one way locally and another way against a persisted catalog. **The CLR set is the authority** (a closed set: the eight integer types, `float`, `double`, `decimal`, and `Nullable` over any of them); the string set is generated from it by `CultSchemaTypeNames.FromType`, never hand-written. S22 pins that. Second, and larger: the accessor is not the only thing missing. Per section 1, `IndexAccessors` and `Members` are `internal` and `GameCult.Networking` is not a friend assembly, so the evaluator cannot read *any* declared value — string or number — without the reflection the map is deleting. The cache add is therefore a **public read surface over declared members**, of which the numeric accessor is one method: `TryGetIndexValue(object document, string alias, out string? value)`, `TryGetIndexNumber(object document, string alias, out string canonicalDecimal)` (**revised 2026-09-22 under Q-J**: `NumberOf` returns the member's exact canonical decimal string, never `double`; see §2 "Numbers"; commit 0 shipped `double` and is corrected in the Q-J fix), `ReferencesOf` (D11), and a public member view carrying `IndexAlias`, `IsReference`, `IsMany`, `IsNumeric` and the target **`Type`** (D9 needs the type, not the name). Section 14 carries the revised cost. **D9. A reference's target set is resolved by the registry at evaluation, not persisted.** Persisting `TargetSchemaNames` would change the canonical member shape and every stored catalog's hash for such schemas. Resolving at evaluation by assignability over registered leaves (`:1506`, `:1828` do this today) costs nothing and is correct as of the registry in hand. The catalog's `TargetSchemaName` stays what it is (`null` for an abstract target) and is not read by the hop. The resolution needs a **`Type`**, and `CultDocumentMemberDescriptor` carries only `TargetSchemaName`, a string that is `null` in exactly the case that matters. So the public member view exposes the target `Type` (held already on `PersistedMember.MemberType` / the attribute's `TargetType`, `CultCache.cs:1069-1070`), and the leaf set is `AllDescriptors` (public, `:254-255`) filtered by `target.IsAssignableFrom(d.DocumentType)` — the same predicate `GetByIndex` uses at `:1506` and store routing at `:1828`. It must be computed **against the registry at evaluation, not at descriptor build**: `BuildDescriptor` runs per type as it is registered, and a leaf registered later would be missing from a set frozen early. A cached set keyed by target type is legitimate only if it is invalidated by `Refresh()` (`:257-265`) and by `RegisterDescriptor` (`:381-410`); simplest is not to cache it. **D10. The duplicate-alias refusal is renamed, not invented.** The Aetheria hiding case turned out to be refused already (section 1: `HiddenMemberMessage` at `CultCache.cs:937-943`), and two differently-named members sharing one alias already throw — from `ToDictionary` at `:462-468`, as an `ArgumentException` that names neither the schema, nor the members, nor the alias. D10 is to replace that with a rejection in `DiscoverMembers`' `rejections` list, in the shape of its neighbours: one grouping over `IndexAlias` beside the two at `:931-943`, one message beside `DuplicateSlotMessage` / `HiddenMemberMessage`. The behaviour barely changes; what changes is that the refusal can be read. Nothing in the selection depends on it — a colliding catalog never registers either way — so it is in this cut only because the cut is already in this file and the message is four lines. **D11. Many-references are enumerated by the cache, with payloads.** On each reference member, `ReferencesOf(document) -> IEnumerable<(CultRecordKey target, object? payload)>`: a `CultRecordRef` yields one; an `IEnumerable>` yields each with no payload; an `IDictionary, V>` yields each key with its value. Anything else declared `many` is refused at registration (`unsupported_reference_shape`), so a declaration the cache cannot walk is never silently walked as nothing. The enumeration reads `ICultRecordRef.Key` (`CultDocumentContracts.cs:92-95`), which every `CultRecordRef` implements (`:97-99`), so it needs no generic dispatch. Two shape rules fall out of `ResolveReferenceTarget` (`CultCache.cs:1100-1113`) and belong in the same refusal: a member declared `many` whose element type is not a `CultRecordRef<>` and whose attribute names no `TargetType` has **no resolvable target at all** (`IsReference` is true only because the attribute exists, and `TargetSchemaName` is `null` for a reason that is not inheritance); and a `many` member that is neither `IEnumerable>` nor `IDictionary, V>` cannot be walked. Both are `unsupported_reference_shape` at registration. A `many: false` member whose type is not `CultRecordRef` is the same fault and takes the same refusal. **Agreement with our own abandoned prior art** (`ThreadEpiphanyGraphQuery`, Epiphany `5c62a650`, deleted with its host `5f6f2441`): direction and edge kind as data, schema derived — agreed; differs as before (predicate not subgraph read; roles are declared names not free strings; one negation added; no depth field). **Rejected, unchanged in reason:** Qdrant's `Filter` (open dot-path keys, polymorphic values, OR/threshold/recursion advertised then refused, the untagged hazard; Cut 11 lowers `FieldPredicate` to `must`/`match.any` in ~30 lines on the daemon side); ReQL term trees; Firestore `CompositeFilter`; Mongo/ES magic-key documents; every string-parsed evaluator surveyed. ## 4. Deletes first | Path:lines (at `51fb449`) | Lines | What | |---|---:|---| | `src/GameCult.Networking/CultNetDatabaseServer.cs:347-468` | 122 | `CreateChangeMessage`, `CreateRawDocumentRecord`, `Matches`, `MatchesSchema`, `InferSchemaName` — the LiteNetLib selector engine; the handler calls the shared evaluator and the shared raw-record projection | | `src/GameCult.Networking/CultNetDatabaseSubscriptionServer.cs:424-515` | 92 | `CreateAuthorizedChange`, `CreateChange`, `CreateChangeCore`, `ResolveWireSchemaId`, `MatchesRequestedSchema`, `CreateRawRecord` — the RUDP selector engine | | `CultNetDatabaseSubscriptionServer.cs:27, :44, :50, :239-240, :314` | 6 | `_projectRecord`, its parameter and its two call sites | | `CultNetDatabaseSubscriptionServer.cs:294-322` | 29 | `CreateProjectedSnapshot` body: becomes evaluate + authorize + project (~12 lines stay) | | `src/GameCult.Networking/CultNetDocumentRegistry.cs:263-349` | 87 | `CreateRawSnapshotResponse`: the loop and its reflection over `cache.AllEntries` (`:325-342`); the raw-record construction (`:297-311`) survives as `ToRawRecord` | | `CultNetDocumentRegistry.cs:505-524` | 20 | `MatchesRequestedSchema`, a copy of `CultNetSchemaAliasMatching.Matches(candidate, descriptor)` | | `CultNetDocumentRegistry.cs:247-258` | 12 | `CreateSnapshotRequest` (v0 builder); v1 takes a `Selection` | | **Networking total** | **368** | | | `src/GameCult.Mesh/CultMeshSnapshots.cs:638-661, 750-773, 889-911` | 71 | three verbatim clones of the selector-carrying options; one `with` copy over a record type remains | | `src/GameCult.Mesh/CultMesh.cs:2721-2748, 1941-1969` | 57 | the fourth and fifth copies (`ToSnapshotRequestOptions`, `WithPublicationBindingOptions`) | | `CultMeshSnapshots.cs:973-983` | 11 | `CleanSnapshotFilter`: normalisation is the selection's own validation | | `CultMeshSnapshots.cs:1000-1009, 1033-1047, 1078-1088` | 36 | the client-side re-filter of a snapshot by schema and `InferSchemaName`; the server's v1 answer is exact, decode stays | | `CultMesh.cs:2750-2800` | 51 | `ReadDocumentFromSnapshotResponse`'s four-tier fallback (which returns a record with the wrong key when only the schema matches) and `TryDecodeSnapshotDocument`; replaced by one exact read (~10 stay) | | `CultMesh.cs:3474-3497` | 24 | `IsSameCultDocumentSchema`: `CultNetSchemaAliasMatching`, now public | | `CultMeshSnapshots.cs:625-636` and the rule at `:198`, `CultMesh.cs:2716` | ~15 | the "no schema filter when keys are given" rule, three times; one place | | `CultMeshClient.cs:574-604, 830-860, 932-962` selector construction | ~25 net | `{recordKeys, schemaIds}` literals become `Selection` literals; the retry loops stay | | `CultMeshBodyDemand.cs:177-221` | ~15 net | `CultMeshHotBodySubscription` builds two allowlists; builds one `Selection` | | `CultMesh.cs:2701-2719, 2838-2858, 2875-2915` | ~20 net | selector construction for peer snapshots and body subscriptions | | `CultMeshSnapshots.cs:139-201, 434-516, 611-623` overlay logic | ~40 net | overlaying caller `schemaIds`/`recordKeys` onto defaults, four times | | **Mesh total** | **≈ 365 gross, ≈ 331 net** | see section 11 for what does not go | | `packages/cultnet-rs/src/snapshot_query.rs:100-130` | ~31 | the fifth selector engine: the `requested_schemas` / `requested_keys` sets and the two `is_some_and` filters inside `serve_read_only_raw_snapshot` become one `select` over a lowered v0 selection. The duplicate-identity and unregistered-schema refusals (`:90-110`) and the whole `CultNetReadOnlySnapshotPolicy` (`:132-157`, authorization) stay | | `src/GameCult.Caching/CultCache.cs` | **0** | the cache deletes nothing. The string `Getter`/`GetterNullable` pair (`:1081-1082`) stays: it is what `any_of` compares and what the index maps are built from (`:1858`). The numeric accessor is beside it, not instead of it | | `tests/GameCult.Networking.Tests/NetworkingTests.cs`: `CultNetDatabaseServer_Creates_Filtered_SnapshotResponse` `:3124`, `…_ForCompatibleSchemaAlias` `:3158`, `CultNetDatabaseServer_Creates_Filtered_SubscriptionChange` `:5547`, `…_ForSchemaAlias` `:5601`, `DatabaseSubscription_FiltersLiveChangesByWireSchemaBinding` `:2256`, `…ByRequestedSchemaAlias` `:2310`, and the `projectRecord` lambda in `…AuthorizesRequestAndFiltersSnapshotAndLiveRecords` `:1601-1605` | ~250 | rewritten over v1 selections against the one evaluator (section 10); the rules they pin survive | **Not deleted in this cut, by ruling (R-1), and scheduled for deletion on FU-v0's trigger:** the v0 message classes and their three schema files, the v0 arms in `CultNetSchemaMessageSerialization`, and the v0 handling in the two servers — kept as a **lowering**: a v0 request lowers to `Selection { schemas: schemaIds, keys: recordKeys, projection: document }` and is answered through the same evaluator, so v0 has no engine of its own. They die with the last runtime follow-up. ## 5. Keeps and moves - `CultNetSchemaAliasMatching` (`CultNetDatabase.cs:47-97`), `internal` → `public`, the one alias matcher for every runtime-side match. - `_authorizeRequest`, `_authorizeRecord`, `Reconcile`, `Watch`, `ApplyProjectedChange`, `PublishDemand`, `DemandChanged` and the body-plane fields of the subscribe message: authorization, reconciliation and demand are not selection. - `CultNetDocumentRegistry`'s raw-record construction (`:297-311`) as `ToRawRecord(descriptor, binding, key, document, options)`; the payload schema resolution (`:452-503`) untouched. - The v0 messages, schemas and arms as a lowering (above). - `CultMeshSnapshotRequestOptions` as a record `{ Selection, ShardId, ShardEpoch, …transport knobs }`. - Every (B)-class site of the audit (section 11): transport racing, authority, freshness, body routing, provider-session validation. - The interop lanes and CI witness (`.github/workflows/cultnet-interop.yml`) green throughout, because v0 still answers. ## 6. Adds | Add | Owner | Live consumer | Protected invariant | What it replaces | |---|---|---|---|---| | `src/GameCult.Caching/CultCache.cs`: a **public read surface over declared members** — `CultDocumentDescriptor.DeclaredMembers` (a public view: `MemberName`, `Slot`, `IndexAlias`, `IsName`, `IsReference`, `IsMany`, `IsNumeric`, `TargetType`), `TryGetIndexValue(document, alias, out string?)`, `TryGetIndexNumber(document, alias, out string canonicalDecimal)` (Q-J, revised 2026-09-22), `ReferencesOf(document, member)` (D11), `ResolveTargetLeaves(targetType)` over `AllDescriptors` (D9) | `GameCult.Caching` | the evaluator; `CultNetDocumentRegistry`; later any runtime-side reader | **the cache owns addressing and its values**; a reader outside the assembly reads declarations and values through one surface instead of reflecting over documents | the reflection loop at `CultNetDocumentRegistry.cs:325-342`, and the absence that forced it | | `CultCache.cs` registration refusals: one alias-collision rejection beside `:931-943` (D10), one `unsupported_reference_shape` rejection for a `many`/reference member the cache cannot walk (D11) | `GameCult.Caching` | every registering catalog | a declaration the cache cannot read is refused when it is declared, not answered as nothing when it is read | an `ArgumentException` from `ToDictionary` `:462-468` that names nothing; a silent unwalkable reference | | `contracts/cultnet/cultnet.selection.schema.json` (`$id`, referenced by `$ref`), `cultnet.snapshot-request.v1.schema.json`, `cultnet.database-subscribe.v1.schema.json`, `cultnet.snapshot-response-raw.v1.schema.json`; registry entries in `CultNetSchemaRegistry.cs` | CultLib contracts | C#, Rust; TS/Py/Kotlin follow-ups | one published shape of a selection, hand-written like its siblings, pinned by vectors in both runtimes | `schemaIds`/`recordKeys`/`includeSnapshot` as the wire's only selection | | `src/GameCult.Networking/CultNetSelection.cs`: `CultNetSelection`, `CultNetFieldPredicate`, `CultNetCitation`, `CultNetIncoming`, `CultNetSelectionProjection`, `CultNetRecordRef`, `CultNetRawDocumentHeader`, `CultNetSelectionPage`, **`CultNetEdge`** (`From`, `Role`, `To`, `PayloadEncoding?`, `Payload?`), **`CultNetSelectionOperator`** (`AnyOf`, `Lt`, `Le`, `Ge`, `Gt`, serialised as the `op` string, never as a union); `Validate(IReadOnlyList)` — declared aliases and roles, non-empty lists, exactly one of `values`/`number` per `op`, and every reachable leaf declaring a compared alias declares it numeric | `GameCult.Networking` | the three message classes, the evaluator, Mesh | a selection is typed data with one validation | `_projectRecord`, the allowlist pair | | `src/GameCult.Networking/CultNetSelectionEvaluator.cs`: `Select(cache, descriptors, selection, ordinals, asOf)` → ordered, hopped, cursored, projected page; `Matches(selection, descriptor, key, document)` for a single change; the cursor mint/parse with `cursor_stale` / `cursor_invalid` | `GameCult.Networking` | `CultNetDocumentRegistry` (snapshot), both servers (changes), `Reconcile` | one evaluator; order, snapshot and hop have one owner | the three engines (section 4) | | `CultNetDatabase.LastWriteSequence(schemaId, key)` (a per-key ordinal kept on apply, ~20 lines) | `CultNetDatabase` | the evaluator's order and cursor | a row's ordinal is its last commit's sequence | `storedAt` as the only time | | v1 message classes beside the v0 ones; the v0→`Selection` lowering (one function) | `GameCult.Networking` | both servers | v0 has no engine of its own | — | | `packages/cultnet-rs/src/selection.rs`: the types (`Serialize`, `Deserialize`, no `untagged`; `SelectionOperator` an **externally tagged / string** enum, `Edge { from, role, to, payload_encoding, payload }`), `Row` trait (`id`, `ordinal`, `values(index) -> &[String]`, **`number(index) -> Option`**, **`references() -> Vec<(role, RecordRef, Option>)>`**), `RowSet` trait (`declared_indexes`, `declared_roles`, **`is_numeric(schema, index)`**, **`target_leaves(role)`**), `Malformed`, `select`, cursor mint/parse, `LIMIT_MAX` | `cultnet-rs` | Huginn (section 12), later Rust services | the same evaluator semantics as the reference, pinned by vectors both ways | Huginn's own `select.rs` from the earlier design | | `snapshot_query.rs`: `serve_read_only_raw_snapshot` calls `select` over a lowered v0 selection; the policy check stays where it is | `cultnet-rs` | its existing callers and tests | the fifth engine has no rule of its own | the filter at `:112-125` | | `contracts.rs`: `SnapshotRequestV1`, `DatabaseSubscribeV1`, `SnapshotResponseRawV1` variants | `cultnet-rs` | Huginn's daemon | the wire spelling equals the reference's | — | | `contracts/cultnet/selection-vectors.cs-written.json` and `selection-vectors.rs-written.json`: a fixture row set (`cultnet.interop-selection-row` document type; declared indexes `kind`, `severity`, `tags[]` and **`mass` (numeric, declared on the abstract middle type, not on the leaves)**; references `parent`, `related[]` and **`components` (a dictionary keyed by reference with a float payload)** and **`design` (declared target = the abstract middle, resolving to two leaves)**; **two leaf schemas under one abstract middle**, so inheritance, the abstract target, the dictionary edge and the comparison are all exercised by the fixture rather than argued about in prose), **twenty-eight** selections, and each selection's expected page as ordered ids + `matched` + `next` presence + **the expected `edges` with their payload bytes**. The fixture must also carry, because tests depend on it and a loosening that cannot fail is the fixture's defect: a row whose `mass` **equals** a compared number exactly (S16), **three** rows sharing one index value (S23), one edge pointing outside its declared target (S18), two dictionary entries with **different** payload bytes (S19), and a nullable numeric member and a `decimal` one (S22). **Expected to grow** (R-4): it is chosen for coverage now, not pinned as final, and adding rows or selections to it is a normal change | tests, both runtimes | `NetworkingTests`, `cultnet-rs/tests/selection.rs` | **vectors written by the reference decode and evaluate identically in Rust, and vectors written by Rust decode and evaluate identically in the reference** | a within-runtime round trip, which pins nothing about parity | | `contracts/cultnet/interop/cultnet.interop-selection-row.schema.json` | contracts | the vectors | — | — | | `docs/cultnet-selection-cut.md` (this file), a paragraph in `contracts/cultnet/cultnet-distributed-database.md` under "Implemented", and the runtime table row in `docs/runtime-parity-scope.md` | docs | — | describe the live system | — | No dependency in either runtime (`schemars` is **not** added to `cultnet-rs`: the schema is hand-written JSON like every CultNet schema, and Huginn's derived schema for its own request embeds `Selection` through a `#[schemars(schema_with)]` field attribute in Huginn. The attribute returns a `$ref` to this cut's published selection schema `$id`. It does not go through the substrate. (Corrected 2026-09-22: a hand-written `impl JsonSchema` for a foreign type fails to compile with `E0117`, the orphan rule. The read-side Imagination probed it.) — see section 12). No new package, binary, transport, or store format. **`packages/cultcache-rs` is untouched**: the C# cache change buys the evaluator a read surface it does not have, and in Rust the row owner already supplies exactly that through `Row`/`RowSet`. The asymmetry is real and intended — the reference reads documents the cache owns, Rust reads rows the consumer owns — and it is the reason the parity obligation is on the *vectors* and not on the two implementations' shapes. ## 7. Per-file changes (code that exists, anchored; new code by name and rule) **`src/GameCult.Networking/CultNetSchemaMessages.cs`**: after `:826`, the three v1 classes; `CultNetSchemaVersions` (`:77`, `:93` and the `SnapshotResponseRaw` constant) gains `SnapshotRequestV1`, `DatabaseSubscribeV1`, `SnapshotResponseRawV1`. v0 classes untouched. **`CultNetSchemaMessageSerialization.cs:9-85`**: three arms before the `_ => throw`. **`CultNetSchemaRegistry.cs:360-385`**: four `SchemaResourceSpec` entries. **`CultNetDatabase.cs`**: `:47` `internal static class` → `public static class`; a `Dictionary<(string, string), long>` maintained where a mutation is appended to the shard log (Hands anchors on the append site; section 1's assumption is confirmed there) and `LastWriteSequence`; `:1052-1075` untouched. **`CultNetDocumentRegistry.cs`**: `:247-258` → `CreateSnapshotRequest(messageId, CultNetSelection)`; `:263-349` → `CreateRawSnapshotResponse(cache, messageId, selection, ordinals, asOf, options)` calling the evaluator and `ToRawRecord`; `:505-524` deleted. **`CultNetDatabaseServer.cs`**: `:276-316` handles v0 (lowered) and v1; `:332-345` `CreateSubscription` calls `evaluator.Matches(selection, change)` then `ToRawRecord`; `:347-468` deleted. **`CultNetDatabaseSubscriptionServer.cs`**: `:27, :44, :50` `_projectRecord` deleted; `:112-167` handles v0 (lowered) and v1, and answers a `snapshot_response_raw.v1` page with `matched`/`asOf`/`next`; `:218-249` `Watch`: a selection with `cites`/`cited` runs `Reconcile` on every change, otherwise `Matches` on the changed row; `:294-322` evaluate + authorize + project; `:424-515` deleted. Module doc `:14-18` rewritten: projection is a value on the request. **`src/GameCult.Caching/CultCache.cs`** (the only cache file this cut touches): - `:112-150` `CultDocumentDescriptor`'s constructor and fields: `Members` `:149` and `IndexAccessors` `:148` stay `internal`; a **public** `DeclaredMembers` view and the three value accessors are added beside them. Do not widen `Members` itself — `CultDocumentMemberDescriptor` is a mutable internal DTO whose shape `ToCatalogEntry` `:151-176` depends on, and publishing a mutable descriptor list makes the catalog's shape a public contract by accident. The public view is a readonly struct or sealed record built from it. - `:445-490` `BuildDescriptor`: the alias `ToDictionary` at `:462-468` is the site of the D10 refusal's *symptom*; the refusal itself belongs in `DiscoverMembers` so it lands in `rejections` with its neighbours. - `:838-946` `DiscoverMembers`: two new groupings beside the two at `:931-943` — one over `IndexAlias` (D10), one over reference shape (D11) — and two message helpers beside `DuplicateSlotMessage` / `HiddenMemberMessage`. Nothing in the existing walk changes. - `:1050-1114` `PersistedMember`: `Getter`/`GetterNullable` `:1081-1082` untouched; `NumberOf` (non-null exactly for the closed CLR numeric set, `Nullable` unwrapped) and `ReferencesOf` added beside them; `MemberType` `:1052` and the attribute's `TargetType` surface through the public view as the target `Type`. - `:254-255` `AllDescriptors` is the input to `ResolveTargetLeaves`; the set is computed per call, not cached, because `Refresh()` `:257-265` and `RegisterDescriptor` `:381-410` can both add a leaf after any given descriptor was built. - `CultSchemaTypeNames.FromType` (`CultSchemaTypeNames.cs:9-31`) is `internal` and generates the `TypeName` strings; the `IsNumeric` string set is generated from the CLR set through it, never written by hand (S22). **`packages/cultnet-rs/src/snapshot_query.rs`**: `:100-130` the two allowlist sets and their filters become one `select` over the lowered selection; `:64-99` and `:132-157` untouched; `:158-285` `CultNetRawSnapshotQuery` untouched in this cut and named in Q-M. **`CultNetSelection.cs`**, **`CultNetSelectionEvaluator.cs`** (new): as section 6. Rules that must die under their own mutation are in section 10. **`src/GameCult.Mesh/CultMeshSnapshots.cs`**: `:16-62` the options record carries `Selection`; `:139-201`, `:434-516`, `:611-636` overlay through one `WithSelection`; `:638-661`, `:750-773`, `:889-911` deleted; `:973-983`, `:1000-1009`, `:1033-1047`, `:1078-1088` deleted. **`CultMesh.cs`**: `:1941-1969`, `:2721-2748`, `:2750-2800` (one exact read remains), `:3474-3497` deleted; `:2701-2719`, `:2838-2858`, `:2875-2915` build a `Selection`. **`CultMeshClient.cs:574-604, 830-860, 932-962`**, **`CultMeshBodyDemand.cs:177-221`**: `Selection` literals. **`packages/cultnet-rs/src/selection.rs`** (new), **`contracts.rs:314-331`** region gains the three v1 variants, **`lib.rs`** re-exports. **`tests/selection.rs`** (new): the vectors both directions, the evaluator, the cursor, the refusals, the untagged grep. **`tests/GameCult.Networking.Tests/NetworkingTests.cs`**: the seven tests in section 4 rewritten; new tests in section 10; the vector writer under `CULTNET_WRITE_VECTORS=1` following `scripts/write-cultmesh-realtime-frame-vectors.mjs` and the C#-written pattern the QUIC campaign established (`docs/typescript-quic-realtime-cut.md:15-21`). ## 8. Authority map - **Owner.** CultNet's database organ, `src/GameCult.Networking`, as the reference: `CultNetSelection` owns the shape and its validation; `CultNetSelectionEvaluator` owns matching, the hop, the order, the snapshot and the cursor; `CultNetSchemaAliasMatching` owns schema identity; `CultNetDatabase` owns a row's ordinal. **The cache owns addressing and every value of it**: which names are indexes, which members are references, whether a member is numeric, what leaves a reference may target, what a row's value at an alias is, and what edges and payloads a row carries — through `CultIndexAttribute` and `CultReferenceAttribute`, the persisted `TypeName`, and the public read surface of section 6. The vocabulary reads those declarations and adds none: no new attribute, no persisted field, no schema-hash movement, and no opinion in the evaluator about what a CLR type means. **The evaluator never reflects over a document**; if it needs something the cache does not expose, the cache gains a method, not the evaluator a `GetProperty`. `packages/cultnet-rs` is the Rust spelling of the same owner, at wire parity, with the row owner supplying what the cache supplies in C# (`Row`, `RowSet`). - **Inputs.** The cache's rows and descriptors, the shard log's sequences, the selection, the peer's authorization answers. Not inputs: a clock, a payload path, a transport. - **Outputs.** Pages (`headers` or `documents`, `matched`, `asOf`, `next`), per-change match decisions, typed refusals (`selection_invalid`, `cursor_stale`, `cursor_invalid`) as `cultnet.error.v0` with a code, the form the reference already uses for routing errors. - **Derived state.** The page, the order, the incoming-edge index per evaluation, the cursor. **Demotions:** `schemaIds`/`recordKeys` are no longer a selection language; they are a lowering of v0 into one. `_projectRecord` is no longer an authority; projection is a request value. `CreateRawSnapshotResponse`, `CreateChangeMessage` and `CreateChangeCore` are no longer engines; they call one. `IsSameCultDocumentSchema`, the Mesh `InferSchemaName` and the registry's `MatchesRequestedSchema` are no longer owners of schema identity. - **Forbidden writers.** Neither server may match a record by a rule of its own; **`serve_read_only_raw_snapshot` may not filter by schema or key** (its policy is authorization and stays; its allowlist filter goes); Mesh may not re-filter a page the server answered — a caller *may* verify a page against expectations it declared before the request (`CultNetRawSnapshotQuery::accept_response`, which errors rather than quietly dropping, and so cannot hide a server that answered wrongly), but no caller may narrow a page and call the narrowed result the answer; nothing may mint a cursor a caller could construct; nothing may answer a page over a different `asOf` than its cursor's; the evaluator may not read a payload by path, only declared indexes and references, **and may not reflect over a document at all**; **the evaluator may not read the cache's `_indexes` map or call `GetByIndex`** — those answer a unique-index lookup, not a predicate (section 1, S23); no rule may consult an edge's payload while traversing (section 13); nothing outside `GameCult.Caching` may decide whether a member is numeric or what leaves a target resolves to; no type on the wire is `untagged`; the Rust `select` may not diverge from the reference on any vector. - **Shared paths.** The evaluator under snapshot, change, and reconcile; `CultNetSchemaAliasMatching` under every schema match in both assemblies; `ToRawRecord` under snapshot and change; the v0 lowering under both servers. - **Deletion line.** Commit 0: the cache's public read surface and its two registration refusals, with S17-S22 green and `GameCult.Networking` untouched — the cache change is independently true and lands first, so that if the rest of the cut is cut, the substrate is not left with half a surface. Commit 1: the shape, the evaluator and the v1 messages beside v0, with the three engines rewired and deleted and the seven tests rewritten — green. Commit 2: `_projectRecord` and the Mesh collapse. Commit 3: Rust. Commit 4: vectors both ways and entries. Nothing lands with two engines alive. - **Where the line to CultMesh falls.** Mesh is a client that builds selections and reads pages; it evaluates nothing. Where Mesh watches a cache locally by name or index (audit sites #2, #4-9, #16-21), it keeps its own loops until `CultNetDatabase.Watch(Selection)` exists, which is Cut 2 (section 18). ## 9. Parity: what this cut covers, and what the other runtimes do **In this cut:** the C# reference (both servers, the client, the registry) and Rust (`cultnet-rs`: types, evaluator, cursor; no subscription client, because no Rust caller subscribes). Parity is pinned by vectors in both directions (section 10), not by a round trip inside one runtime. **Runtimes not in this cut, stated answer per runtime, by source read:** | Runtime | On v0 (unchanged) | On a v1 request it receives | On a v1 page it receives | |---|---|---|---| | TypeScript | unaffected; the reference still answers v0 | **refuses**: `parseCultNetMessage` finds no validator for the version and throws (`contracts.ts:728-744`) | refuses the same way | | Kotlin | unaffected (client only) | **refuses**: `require(schemaVersion == …v0)` throws (`CultMesh.kt:2195`) | n/a as a server; a Kotlin client sends v0 and gets v0 | | Python | unaffected | **silently drops, no reply**: `handle_server_message` returns `[]` for an unknown version (`interop_peer.py:387`), so a caller times out rather than reading a refusal; **it cannot answer with wrong rows**, because v1 is a version it does not dispatch, which is why D3 chose a version over new fields | as above | | Rust | in this cut | in this cut | in this cut | The one runtime that mis-answers today is none: nothing sends v1 to a runtime that does not speak it until its follow-up lands, and a stray v1 is refused (TS, Kotlin, C#) or dropped (Python). **Python's drop is fixed in this cut, not in its follow-up** (R-2): after this cut the table's Python row reads "refuses with `unsupported_schema_version`", and every runtime on the wire answers an unknown version with something a caller can read. The build budget gains one Python test run for it. **Follow-ups, recorded with triggers:** - **FU-TS.** `cultnet-ts`: the three v1 contracts, Ajv registration, a `Selection` type; `cultmesh-ts` builders. Trigger: the first TypeScript caller that needs a filtered snapshot or subscription (the browser Eve runtime, when it reads pipeline state). Until then TS refuses v1 loudly. - **FU-Py.** Its first line is **not** a follow-up: by R-2, `cultnet-py` and `cultmesh-py` reply `cultnet.error.v0 { code: "unsupported_schema_version" }` for an unknown version **in this cut** (five lines at `interop_peer.py:360-387` and the delegating path at `cultmesh_py/server.py:341`, with one test per site that a v1 message produces a refusal and not an empty list). The rest of FU-Py is the v1 contracts, and the **three** copies of the selector match (`interop_peer.py:110-125`, `cultmesh_py/server.py:449-470`, `cultmesh_py/node.py:1322-1345`) collapsed into one evaluator. Trigger: the first Python peer asked a v1 question, or the interop lane gaining a v1 case. - **FU-Kt.** `cultmesh-kotlin`: v1 snapshot request builder and page reader. Trigger: an Android/JVM client reading filtered state. - **FU-v0.** Retire v0's classes, schemas and lowering once FU-TS, FU-Py, FU-Kt have landed and the interop lanes send v1. Trigger: the last of the three. - **Not a follow-up any more:** `CultNetDatabase.Watch(Selection)` is **Cut 2**, mapped in section 18 with its own deletes, authority map, verification and numbers. It lands after this cut. The audit's ≈ 240 local-watch lines are counted there, and the real figure turned out larger than the audit's estimate (≈ −378 in Mesh, section 18.3), because the audit did not count the nine `Collection*` overloads as selection. `docs/runtime-parity-scope.md`'s table gains, per runtime, "typed selection v1: C# and Rust claimed; TS, Python, Kotlin not claimed (refuse / refuse / drop)". The claim is written where the parity claims live, not here alone. ## 10. Verification **Builds.** `dotnet build` of `GameCult.Caching`, `GameCult.Networking`, `GameCult.Mesh` and their test projects — the cache is now in the build budget, and it is the assembly the rest of CultLib depends on, so `dotnet test tests/GameCult.Caching.Tests` is the gate on commit 0 and runs on every later commit; `cargo test -p cultnet-rs`; the TypeScript workspace untouched but `npm run test --workspace packages/cultnet-ts` run once to prove the interop lane still passes on v0. Host = target = workstation for C# and Rust; no native code. Nothing cleaned. **Tests, each named for the rule it pins, with the mutation that kills it — a loosening where one exists.** | # | Test (C# unless marked) | Pins | Revert kills | Loosening kills | |---|---|---|---|---| | S1 | `Selection_RefusesUndeclaredIndexRoleAndEmptyLists` | D2, door refusals typed | validation dropped (empty page) | `index` checked against *any* schema's aliases rather than the reachable ones (a predicate on an alias only an excluded schema declares matches nothing silently) | | S2 | `Evaluator_ConjoinsAnyOfPredicatesOverDeclaredIndexes` | fields | an arm dropped | any-of treated as all-of | | S3 | `Evaluator_OrdersByLastWriteSequenceThenIdentityAndReverses` | order, `descending` | sort by `storedAt` | `descending` ignored | | S4 | `Evaluator_PagesExactlyOnceAndTheLastPageSaysSo` | cursor walk | `next` always present | position `>=` (last item repeats) | | S5 | `Evaluator_RefusesAStaleCursorAfterTheShardLogAdvances` | `cursor_stale` typed | advance ignored (a page over a moved set) | digest check dropped (a cursor accepted under another selection) | | S6 | `Evaluator_HopsOneEdgeByDeclaredReferenceAndRole` | hop, roles from `CultReferenceAttribute`, `Many` | role ignored | a second hop followed | | S7 | `Evaluator_NegatedIncomingEdgeIsTheOnlyNegation` | `cited { exists: false }` | `exists` ignored | citer's status consulted (an unauthorized citer's edge dropped) | | S8 | `Evaluator_HeaderProjectionCarriesNoPayload` | projection | payload carried | `payloadEncoding` carried without payload | | S9 | `Subscription_EvaluatesSelectionOnSnapshotAndEveryChange_AndReconcilesHopBearingOnes` (rewrite of `:1587`) | D6 | a change matched by v0 allowlists | a hop-bearing subscription taking the per-change fast path (a change to the citer not reconciled) | | S10 | `V0Request_LowersToASelectionAndHasNoEngineOfItsOwn` (rewrites of `:3124`, `:3158`, `:5547`, `:5601`, `:2256`, `:2310`) | D3/D4 | v0 matched by its own loop | alias matching inlined again in one server | | S11 | `SchemaAliasMatching_IsTheOneMatcherInBothAssemblies` (grep-shaped, negative) | D4 | — | — | | S12 | `SelectionVectors_WrittenByTheReference_DecodeAndEvaluateIdenticallyInRust` (Rust reads `selection-vectors.cs-written.json`) and `SelectionVectors_WrittenByRust_DecodeAndEvaluateIdenticallyInTheReference` (C# reads `selection-vectors.rs-written.json`) | **parity** | any semantic drift on either side | a vector whose expected ids are compared as a set (order lost) — the vectors carry ordered ids and `next` presence | | S13 (Rust) | `selection_is_never_untagged` (grep over `packages/cultnet-rs/src` for `untagged`, empty) and `selection_round_trips_named_and_positional` (both encodings) | the encoding rule | an `untagged` shape added | — | | S14 (Rust) | `select_over_a_toy_row_set_matches_orders_hops_pages_and_refuses` | D7, no CultCache knowledge in the evaluator | as S1-S8 | as S1-S8 | | S15 | `Mesh_ReadsASnapshotPageWithoutReFilteringIt` (Mesh tests) | the client trusts the page | the four-tier fallback restored | schema re-filter restored | | S16 | `Evaluator_ComparesNumbersAtTheBoundaryForEachOfTheFourOperators` | D8's operators; one operator per predicate; two predicates make a range | the comparison ignored (every row matches) | `le` evaluated as `lt` (and `ge` as `gt`) — **kills only if the fixture carries a row whose `mass` equals the compared number exactly**; the fixture must, and if it does not, that is the fixture's defect, not licence to mutate something easier | | S17 | `Evaluator_AppliesAnInheritedAliasToEveryReachableLeaf` | the inheritance rule; the cache's `BaseType` walk reaching the evaluator | the walk stopped at the leaf (`CultCache.cs:847`) — kills S17 and S12 together | "reachable" narrowed from *every* leaf matching `schemas` to the first descriptor consulted, so a two-leaf selection on an alias declared only on the abstract middle answers with one leaf's rows and no refusal — **requires the fixture to declare `mass` only on the middle and to carry rows of both leaves** | | S18 | `Evaluator_ResolvesAnAbstractTargetToItsLeavesAndRefusesAnEdgeOutsideThem` | D9; the typed `reference_outside_target` | the target set taken as `{TargetSchemaName}`, which is `null` for an abstract target, so the hop follows nothing | the out-of-target edge **skipped** instead of refused — the option section 3 rejected, and the mutant that proves the rejection is load-bearing; **requires the fixture to carry one edge pointing at a schema outside the declared target** | | S19 | `Cache_EnumeratesADictionaryReferenceAsEdgesCarryingItsValues` (cache tests) | D11 | `ReferencesOf` yields nothing for a dictionary — today's behaviour, restored | the keys enumerated and the **values dropped** (`payload` null), which is the shape a careless `IEnumerable` implementation would have; **requires two dictionary entries with different payload bytes**, or the assertion passes on shape alone | | S20 | `Evaluator_ReturnsTraversedEdgesOnlyForHoppingSelections_AndNoPayloadUnderHeader` | the `edges` rule | `edges` never emitted | payload carried under `header`; and, separately, `edges` emitted for a selection with neither `cites` nor `cited` — a widening rather than a loosening, and killed by the same test | | S21 | `Cache_RefusesADuplicateIndexAliasAndAnUnwalkableReferenceByName` (cache tests) | D10, D11's shape rule | the rejections removed — **kills only if the test asserts the message names the schema, the two members and the alias**, since without them `ToDictionary` still throws an `ArgumentException` and a shallow `Assert.Throws` passes either way. That is the entire content of D10 | the alias grouping keyed by `MemberName` instead of `IndexAlias`, which refuses nothing the existing `HiddenMemberMessage` (`:937-943`) did not already refuse | | S23 | `Evaluator_MatchesEveryRowSharingAnIndexValue_NotTheCacheIndexWinner` | the evaluator reads values per row, never `_indexes` / `GetByIndex` | the predicate answered from `GetByIndex`, so an `any_of` over a value **three** fixture rows share answers with one | the per-row read kept but short-circuited after the first match when `matched` is all the caller asked for — a plausible optimisation that makes `matched` a boolean in disguise; **requires three rows sharing one index value**, which the fixture must carry | | S22 | `Cache_DerivesIsNumericFromTheClrSetAndTheTypeNameSetAgrees` (cache tests) | D8's two authorities agreeing | `IsNumeric` true for every member, so a comparison on a string alias validates and compares `ToString()` lexically | the `TypeName`-string set hand-written and missing `System.Nullable` or `System.Decimal`, so a member is numeric against the live descriptor and non-numeric against the same schema read back from a persisted catalog — **requires the fixture to declare a nullable numeric member and a `decimal` one** | **On the parity vectors and the four findings.** S12 is not a new test but a widened one: the fixture of section 6 carries the abstract middle, the two leaves, the inherited numeric alias, the dictionary reference with float payloads and the abstract-target reference, and the vector set includes at least one selection per finding — a comparison on the inherited alias, a hop into the abstract target, a hop over the dictionary returning payloads, and the same hop under `header`. Both directions: **vectors written by the reference are evaluated in Rust, and vectors written by Rust are evaluated by the reference**. A round trip inside one runtime pins nothing and is not counted. The Rust side's fixture rows implement `Row` over the same declared values, so the vectors test the *semantics* both ways while each runtime keeps its own source of rows. **Negative greps:** `rg -n "GetProperty|GetField|GetCustomAttribute" src/GameCult.Networking` empty (the evaluator reflects over nothing); `rg -n "untagged" packages/cultnet-rs/src packages/cultcache-rs/src` empty; `rg -n "InferSchemaName" src/GameCult.Mesh` empty and `src/GameCult.Networking` only in `CultNetSchemaAliasMatching` and the registry's payload-schema resolution; `rg -n "MatchesRequestedSchema|MatchesSchema\(" src` empty; `rg -n "_projectRecord|projectRecord" src` empty; `rg -n "SchemaIds = .*RecordKeys = " src/GameCult.Mesh` empty (no allowlist pair assembled by hand); `rg -n "CloneSnapshot(Facade)?RequestOptions" src` at most one. **Mutations.** `tools`-style entries in `scripts/mutate-cultmesh.mjs`'s format with three new targets, `caching` (killer `dotnet test tests/GameCult.Caching.Tests`, carrying S19, S21 and S22), `networking` (killer `dotnet test tests/GameCult.Networking.Tests`) and `rust` (killer `cargo test -p cultnet-rs`), one entry per rule above with revert and loosening; the runner's byte-rewrite/verified-restore discipline applies unchanged. The runner is the QUIC campaign's file and is dirty in the tree; **this campaign adds its entries in its own file** (`scripts/mutate-cultnet-selection.mjs` or an entries module the runner imports) and does not edit the QUIC campaign's targets — Self decides the exact split at landing. ## 11. The CultMesh subtraction audit, with real numbers Method: an Explore pass classified 92 sites in `src/GameCult.Mesh` and `CultNetDocumentRegistry.cs` as (A) mechanical selection/projection over schema ids, keys or fields, or (B) a domain rule (authority, freshness, transport, session). (A) totalled **1,158 lines**, (B) **429**. **(A) is not a reduction figure**; it is what *could* be expressed as a selection. What collapses is what has a replacement in this cut. | Category | Sites (audit #) | Lines now | After | Net | |---|---|---:|---:|---:| | Selector-carrying options cloned five times | #11, #3, #74, #75, #77 | 128 | ~30 (`with` on a record) | **−98** | | "No schema filter when keys are given" rule, three times | #65, #73, #10 | ~16 | ~4 | −12 | | `CleanSnapshotFilter` | #79 | 11 | 0 | −11 | | Client-side re-filter of a snapshot by schema, plus `InferSchemaName` | #80 (part), #81, #82 | ~51 | ~10 (decode only) | −41 | | Four-tier read fallback + decode gate | #12, #13 | 50 | ~10 | −40 | | `IsSameCultDocumentSchema` | #22 | 24 | 0 (public matcher) | −24 | | Selector literals in client bindings | #32, #34, #35 | 93 | ~68 | −25 | | Hot-body subscription allowlists | #25 | 45 | ~30 | −15 | | Peer snapshot / body subscribe selector construction | #10, #14, #15 | 81 | ~61 | −20 | | Snapshot facade overlay logic | #64, #66-70, #72 | ~110 | ~70 | −40 | | **Collapses in this cut** | | | | **≈ −326** | | Local cache/database watches by name and index and their predicates | #2, #4-9, #16-21 | ≈ 240 | ≈ 240 | 0 in this cut; **≈ −378 in Cut 2** (section 18.3 — larger than this audit estimated, because the nine `Collection*` overloads at `CultMesh.cs:2278-2480` were not classified as selection and are) | | Handle catalogs by type/schema, surface catalog, operation payload | #41-49 | 233 | 233 | 0 — these index *handles*, not records | | Verse discovery selection and reshaping | #36, #38 (part), #39, #40, #83, #85 | ~110 | ~110 | 0 — over Verse observations, not documents | | Single-file catalog membership | #58-62 | 81 | 81 | 0 — file-format membership | | Provider session wire decode gate | #50 | 12 | 12 | 0 | | (B) sites | 24 sites | 429 | 429 | 0 by definition | **Plain statement.** `src/GameCult.Mesh` shrinks by about **326 lines of 21,720 (1.5%)** in this cut, and a further **≈ 378 in Cut 2** — the two together are about 3.2% of the assembly, and Cut 2 is where the audit's expectation of a real reduction is met. About 590 of the audit's (A) lines stay because they select handles, Verse observations or file-catalog entries, not database records. The operator's expectation of a net reduction in CultMesh holds, modestly; it does not hold for CultLib as a whole in this cut, because the Rust runtime is new capability (section 14). If the expectation was a large reduction, this audit says it is not there without the watch cut, and it is not there at all for the catalogs and discovery. ## 12. Huginn: the consumer cut, and what moved **Moves to CultLib (this map):** `Selection`, `Citation`, `Incoming`, `Projection`, `Page`, the cursor, `select`, the `Row`/`RowSet` traits, the untagged rule and its probe, the cap, the order rule and the snapshot contract. Huginn's earlier `select.rs` is never written. **Stays with the organ (a smaller, later cut in the Epiphany campaign map, against a `cultnet-rs` dependency Huginn already has):** - `impl Row for PipelineDocumentView`: `ordinal = admission.sequence` (Q-B A, still recommended; under Q-B B Huginn refuses `cursor_stale` on advance exactly as the reference does, which is now a legitimate second option), `values(index)` for the declared aliases `campaign`, `repo`, `cut`, `kinds`→(schema), `in_force`, `faculty`, `severity`, `confidence`, `origin`, `authority`, `claim_outcome`, `outcome`; `references()` from `docs::citations` with the fifteen roles; `RowSet::declared_*` as the organ's closed lists, so an unknown alias or a value outside an enum refuses typed. - `docs::citations`, `CitationRole`, `ResolutionOutcomeKind`, the summary as the organ's header, the `as_of` restriction of the image to receipts, the semantic refusal, the ref validation of `cites.target` through the leaf, and the deletion of `open_items`/`history` with the relation table unchanged (`history(Subject)` = `kinds: [resolution], cites { target, role: subject }`; the open lists = five selections). - **Deleted from the organ's wire (R-3, ruled, not proposed):** `PipelineQuery`; **`admitted_after` and `admitted_before`**, which existed only to approximate an order and are replaced by `descending` plus the cursor — they are a delete in the Huginn cut's own deletes-first table, with their query-builder call sites, their schema fields and the tests that pin them, not a deprecation; and `QUERY_LIMIT_MAX`. Huginn's `Query { instance, selection }` carries the substrate's type; its published request schema embeds `Selection` through a `#[schemars(schema_with)]` attribute that returns a `$ref` to the published selection schema. A hand-written impl fails with `E0117` (corrected 2026-09-22), and the substrate publishes JSON, not `schemars`. It is pinned by the existing byte-for-byte test. - Cut 11's lowering to Qdrant and the after-index application of the hop, as before. The Huginn cut is ordered **after** this cut's commit 3 (Rust) and before Cut 11 and Cut 13, as 10b was. ## 13. Deliberately not possible, and why OR across predicates (ask twice); negation beyond `cited { exists: false }`; a predicate on the far end of the hop; a second hop; ranges, dates, text, paths, sort fields, counts beyond `matched`; a page not tied to `asOf`; selection across shards or minds; a cursor the caller constructs. Each for the reason the earlier specification gave, unchanged. Named individually, because each has an obvious-looking one-line implementation and a caller who will ask for it: | Not expressible | The obvious ask | Why it is the door | |---|---|---| | **A predicate on an edge's payload during traversal** — "components whose quantity is over 4", "demand profile entries weighted above 0.5" | one `if` inside the hop loop, over a payload the evaluator is already holding | **It is a join condition.** The moment a predicate can read a value that belongs to neither the row nor the selection, the evaluator is combining two sources under a condition, and everything that follows is a query planner: which side to drive from, whether to build the incoming-edge index before or after filtering, how `matched` counts a row whose only surviving edge was filtered, what the cursor means when the page is a join result, and whether the payload's type is comparable at all when its declared type differs per leaf. None of that is answerable in a bounded vocabulary. **The caller follows the edge, receives the payload in `edges`, and filters the result** — one extra step for the caller, an entire category of machinery this organ never grows | | **A set of exact `(schema, key)` pairs** | `keys` already exists; let an entry name its schema | `schemas` × `keys` is a cross product and stays one. `CultNetRawSnapshotQuery` (section 1) shows the cost honestly: it over-requests and verifies. The fix is either a second list shape or a pair type on the wire, and both are the beginning of a term language. A caller who needs exact pairs asks once per schema, or accepts the cross product and verifies against what it declared. Recorded as Q-M, recommendation A: state the limit | | **A predicate that depends on how many edges a row has** — "hulls with more than three components" | `cited` already counts to one | `exists: true/false` is a boolean, and a threshold is a range over a derived aggregate. Aggregation is a second evaluator with its own ordering and paging semantics | | **`edges` without rows, or rows the hop excluded** | a `projection: "edges"` | the page's rows are the answer and the edges explain it; an edge-only page is a different question (a graph read) and would need its own order, cursor and bound | ## 14. Subtraction ledger (estimate) | | Removed | Added | |---|---:|---:| | `src/GameCult.Caching` | 0 | **~150**: the public member view ~40, `TryGetIndexValue` / `TryGetIndexNumber` + the CLR numeric set ~35, `ReferencesOf` over the three shapes ~40, `ResolveTargetLeaves` ~10, two rejections with their messages ~20 | | `src/GameCult.Networking` | 368 | ~400 (`CultNetSelection` + `CultNetEdge` + the operator 170, evaluator + cursor + the incoming-edge index 190, ordinals 20, v1 classes and lowering ~40 minus shared) | | `src/GameCult.Mesh` | ≈ 365 gross | ≈ 40 (one `WithSelection`, one exact read) | | `packages/cultnet-rs/src` | ~31 (`snapshot_query.rs`'s filter) | ~430 (`selection.rs` 390 with edges and numbers, `contracts.rs` 40) | | `packages/cultnet-py`, `cultmesh-py` | 0 | ~5 (the `unsupported_schema_version` reply, ruled into this cut) | | `contracts/cultnet` | 0 | 4 schema files (~200 lines JSON), 1 interop row schema, 2 vector files (generated) | | tests, C# | ~250 rewritten | ~600 (S1-S12, S15-S18, S20 in Networking; S19, S21, S22 in Caching; the vector writer) | | tests, Rust | 0 | ~340 (S12-S14 with the edge and number vectors) | | entries | 0 | ~38 entries across three targets | | docs | — | this map; two paragraphs | | **net source outside tests** | | **≈ +32 in C# Networking, +150 in C# Caching, +399 in Rust; ≈ +585 across the repo** | **The estimate moved, and in the wrong direction.** The committed version of this ledger said ≈ +370 and ≈ −18 in C#. Both were wrong, for one reason: the map assumed the cache needed no change, and the cache needs about 150 lines of new public surface before the evaluator can read a single declared value from outside the assembly (section 1). The honest figure is ≈ +585. What the repo buys for it is unchanged in kind and larger in size: one evaluator where **five** stood (three in C#, one in Mesh's re-filter, one in Rust), a read surface where the substrate's own consumers were reflecting over documents, edges and their payloads where a declared reference was unreadable, numeric comparison over a type the catalog has persisted all along, and a Rust runtime with the capability at all. Nothing here is a reason to shrink the cut; it is a reason not to claim the cut shrinks the repo. The repo grows by about 370 source lines for: a typed selection with a derived-by-vector schema where two allowlists were the only language; projection as a value where it was a delegate no caller reached; an exact snapshot cursor where paging did not exist; one evaluator where three engines and six schema matchers stood; a Rust runtime that did not have the capability at all. CultMesh proper shrinks ≈ 326. The liability retired is not in the line count: five copies of one options record, four spellings of schema identity, a client that re-filtered what the server answered and a read that could return the wrong key. ## 15. Build budget C#: **three** assemblies and three test projects (`GameCult.Caching` joins the budget; it is a dependency of the other two, so touching it rebuilds them), debug, workstation. Rust: `cultnet-rs` lib + tests, warm target dir, +0 to +60 paths. Nothing cleaned. No native, no TypeScript build beyond one interop-lane run. ## 16. Operator questions, one batch **Ruled 2026-09-17 and no longer questions.** Four of the batch are settled; they are recorded here as rulings and carried in the sections they govern. - **R-1 (was Q-F). v0 retires on a named trigger, not "eventually."** The reference keeps answering v0 by lowering it into a `Selection`, with no engine of its own. That lowering is a **scheduled deletion**: it is deleted when FU-TS, FU-Py and FU-Kt have all landed and the interop lanes send v1, and that is FU-v0's trigger in section 9. A shim with no deletion date is a permanent shim; this one has a date written as a condition, and the condition is checkable by grep over the three runtimes' contract files. Section 4's "not deleted in this cut" row and section 5's keeps both point here. - **R-2 (was the second half of Q-F). Python's silent drop is fixed in this cut.** Every other runtime refuses a message it does not understand; Python returns `[]` (`interop_peer.py:387`) and the caller reads a hang rather than a rejection. The five lines that reply `cultnet.error.v0 { code: "unsupported_schema_version" }` land here, ahead of FU-Py's own trigger, because a silence is a worse failure than a missing feature. Carried in section 9's FU-Py entry and section 14's ledger. - **R-3 (was Q-G). `descending` is the order; the time windows go.** `admittedAfter` / `admittedBefore` existed to approximate an order the vocabulary now states outright, and two filters standing in for an order are worse than the order. They are deleted from Huginn's wire in the consumer cut (section 12), not kept as an organ-side alias any-of. "The latest N" is `descending, limit: N`. - **R-4 (was Q-I). The fixture is chosen for coverage and expected to grow.** The vector row type is the dedicated `cultnet.interop-selection-row` family of section 6, shaped to *exercise* the four hostile findings rather than describe them: shared fields on an abstract middle with two leaves under it, a reference whose declared target is that middle, and a many-reference carrying a payload. It is **not pinned as final** — the fixture is expected to gain rows and selections as the vocabulary meets more catalogs, and a change to it is a normal change, not a contract break. What is pinned is the parity obligation over whatever the fixture holds: both directions, ordered ids, `matched`, `next` presence, and the edges with their payloads. - **R-5 (was Q-H). Watching a selection is its own cut, mapped in section 18 of this document**, after this one and depending on it. Nothing of it is smuggled into the selection cut and nothing here is designed around it speculatively; the seam already drawn — one selector type serving both a query and a subscription — is all this cut owes it. **Still open:** - **Q-A. Leaf `Short` titles for question and ruling** (Huginn/Epiphany). Unchanged: **A, not now** (recommended); B, a leaf follow-up before Cut 13; C, a text projection (Cut 11's question). Depends: the organ's header row for those two kinds. - **Q-B. Huginn's receipt ordinal.** **A, record it** (recommended; exact order, no `cursor_stale` on an append-only mind); **B, do not**: Huginn refuses `cursor_stale` on advance like the reference does — now a legitimate option under one contract, costing a re-walk on a busy mind and id-order ties within a second. Depends: Huginn's consumer cut only. - **Q-C. Delete `open_items` and `history`.** **A, delete** (recommended); B, thin presets in Huginn; C, wire operations (refused). Depends: Cut 13's tool list. - **Q-D. The representation.** **A, declared-alias any-of over strings in a new v1 selection** (recommended; D1, D2); B, Qdrant's `Filter` (rejected, section 3); C, typed enums on the wire (impossible in the substrate: it cannot know a consumer's enums; the organ keeps the typed refusal at its door). Depends: everything in sections 2-10. - **Q-E.** Withdrawn: the seam question is answered by the placement ruling. - **Q-J. Number encoding on the wire. RULED B, decimal strings, 2026-09-17.** The operator: floats are fragile, and strings are the most reliable way to store a number. **Self's recommendation of A was argued backwards and the map said so wrongly.** B was framed as "a second value encoding beside `any_of`'s strings"; it is the opposite. Every value in this vocabulary is already a string, so decimal strings keep the wire to **one** value encoding, and it is float64 that would add a second. What B really costs is a comparison rule, and that is where the danger sits: a decimal string compared lexicographically answers that ten is less than nine. So the cut must specify a canonical decimal form and a numeric comparison, and pin both with mutants — a lexicographic comparison must die, and a non-canonical spelling of an equal value must not change an answer. Name the edge cases the canonical form settles: leading and trailing zeros, an explicit plus, exponent notation, and negative zero. No exactness limit needs stating, because there is no longer one. - *Superseded, kept as history:* **A, IEEE float64, with the 2^53 limit stated in the schema and in this map** (recommended: one encoding, no parse rule per runtime, and no catalog in hand declares an integer member wide enough to lose). **B**, decimal strings — exact, but a second value encoding beside `any_of`'s strings and a per-runtime parse rule, and two ways to spell a number is how a vocabulary starts growing terms. **C**, add `integer: int64` beside `number` now, sharing `op` — additive and untagged-free, and can be added later without breaking A, which is why adding it now is premature. Depends: the schema files and both runtimes' predicate types. - **Q-K. Family names for abstract bases on the wire. PARKED, 2026-09-17, and Self's reason was wrong.** The operator: this was possible when CultCache was a single file, so it is odd that it is hard now; not load bearing either way. That is correct. In-process a family is one assignability check, because the runtime holds the hierarchy. Over the wire there is no type system, only schema names, and an abstract type carries no `[CultDocument]` so it never gets one. **The hardness is not modelling, it is that nothing publishes the hierarchy where a remote caller can see it.** The honest cost is therefore a catalog addition, each leaf's entry naming its base chain, after which a family is the leaves whose chain contains the name asked for. Small work — but it moves the catalog's shape, and this cut's whole claim to being cheap is that it moves neither the catalog's shape nor its hashes. So it is **deferred to a cut that is already touching the catalog**, not deferred because there is nothing to name. **Trigger named, 2026-09-17: the source-generator campaign needs it first.** The operator's position is that any project using CultNet wants the types it touches native, and that where the hierarchy is not being declared in parallel by hand, a generator should build it. That generator runs against **published schemas**, with C# authoring and the schema as the contract, which is what the reference-runtime rule already says. The obstacle is the same missing fact. `CultCache.cs:847,887,966` walks the base types while collecting members and then discards the hierarchy, and `ToCatalogEntry` (`:152-177`) publishes a schema id, the canonical schema, the compatible ids and a flat member list carrying slot, name, type, reference-ness, many-ness, target and alias. **Nothing records what a type inherits from.** So a generator fed published schemas alone emits one flat class per leaf with the inherited members copied into each — exactly the hierarchy the operator wants built for them, and unbuildable from what is published today. So the base chain in the catalog is a **prerequisite of the generator campaign**, and family names fall out of it for free once it exists. Until then a family expands at the call site into its leaf schema names, which the generator can emit as a constant, costing the protocol nothing. The honest limit of call-site expansion, to be stated wherever it lands: it is closed-world per compilation, so a leaf declared where the caller does not compile leaves the list silently short, and an open-world caller must ask the catalog at run time instead. The generator is **its own campaign, mapped after this cut lands** (operator, 2026-09-17: "definitely later"), because its value is emitting against a shape that is settled and this cut is what settles it. It is also where the query sugar comes from: typed per-kind builders make filtering a document by another kind's field a compile error rather than an empty page. **No source generator exists in CultLib today** — no Roslyn generator anywhere in the repository, and `src/GameCult.Caching/emitted/` is empty. Superseded reasoning, kept as history: an abstract type has no `[CultDocument]`, no schema name and no catalog entry, so there is nothing to name; a caller who wants "every crafted item" enumerates the leaves from the schema catalog it already reads. **B**, a `[CultDocumentFamily]` declaration plus a catalog concept plus a matching rule in every runtime, in a later cut. Note this is only about the `schemas` list: the *hop* already resolves an abstract target to its leaves (D9), so the hostile example works under A. - **Q-L. Refusing an out-of-target reference at write time. RULED A, 2026-09-17**, with the follow-up upgraded from optional to intended. The operator: notice on read for now, but on write eventually; today this is left to consumers to enforce, as Aetheria's Database Tools did and as CultCache Studio is expected to, and it is easy to insert garbage at the source level which a cheap check would prevent. **Two things make the follow-up worth more than "nice to have."** First, enforcement living in consumers is duplicated authority by construction: every tool that writes records re-implements the same check, and a tool that forgets is indistinguishable from one that does not, until a read refuses. Second, the check really is cheap — the declaration already names the target (`TargetSchemaName` on the member catalog entry), and the write path already has the record in hand. **What Self could establish about the consumer story, 2026-09-17:** it rests on less than it sounds. There is no CultCache Studio repository under `F:\Projects`, and no project file by that name anywhere; every reference to it is forward-looking, in Aetheria's migration documents, where it is described as absorbing that project's Database Tools. Aetheria's actual data tooling today is the `tools/AetherDb` console project. So the enforcement being relied on is one tool, in one project, for one catalog, and there is no second implementation to be inconsistent with yet — which is the cheapest moment to move the rule to its owner rather than the most expensive. Original options: **A, follow-up (FU-Ref)** (recommended): this cut refuses it at read (`reference_outside_target`, S18), which is where the corruption is noticed; refusing at write touches the cache's put path and every runtime's apply path and is a change of a different size. **B**, in this cut. Under A, the read-side refusal is the only thing standing between a corrupt edge and a wrong answer, which is why it refuses instead of skipping. - **Q-M. The `(schema, key)` cross product. RULED A, 2026-09-17**, in the operator's words: once per schema. The cross product stays, the limit is stated, and a caller needing exact pairs asks once per schema. No third addressing list and no rule for combining three of them. Original options: **A, state the limit** (recommended): `schemas` × `keys` stays a cross product; a caller needing exact pairs asks once per schema or verifies what it declared, as `CultNetRawSnapshotQuery` already does. **B**, allow a `refs: RecordRef[]` list beside `keys` — expressible without a term language and genuinely useful, at the cost of a third addressing list and a rule for how three lists combine. **C**, let a `keys` entry carry a schema — a path language in miniature, refused. Depends: section 13's table and `snapshot_query.rs`'s client. **Q-A, Q-B and Q-C are no longer open.** The operator ruled all three on 2026-09-17 and they are recorded in the Huginn campaign's map, `F:\Projects\Epiphany\notes\eureka-pipeline-state-cut.md`: receipt ordinals yes; `open_items` and `history` deleted rather than kept as presets; and the leaf gains titles on `question` and `ruling`, riding the same store version bump as the ordinal so there is one migration rather than two. They are named below only because work here still depends on them. What depends on each: S1-S8 on Q-D A; S5 on the shard-log assumption (section 1) and on Q-B for Huginn; S9 on D6; S16 and the schema files on Q-J; S18 on Q-L A; the Huginn cut on Q-B and Q-C. Settled by R-1 to R-5: S10, S12, the fixture, FU-v0's trigger, FU-Py's five lines, Huginn's window deletion, and the watch cut's existence. ## 17. What was probed, read, and not settled **Probed:** the untagged round trip (section 2). **Read:** every line anchored above; the CultMesh audit's 92 sites by an Explore pass whose classification I checked at the sites that carry the ledger (the five clones, the four matchers, the fallback, the two engines). **Not run:** `dotnet` or `cargo` on CultLib — the tree is dirty from the QUIC campaign and no claim here depends on a build; Hands takes the baselines named in Pins. **Not settled:** whether every committed write has a shard-log sequence (section 1, Hands confirms at the append site); the exact split of mutation entries against the QUIC campaign's runner (section 10, Self at landing); whether MessagePack-CSharp needs a union attribute for the page's `headers | documents` (it does not if both are optional arrays with exactly one present, which is the spelling chosen so no union is needed — Hands confirms the schema says "exactly one" with `oneOf` over `required`). **Read on the second pass, and what it changed.** Each of these was read at the source, and three of them contradicted something this map or its predecessor's notes asserted: | Read | Held | Changed | |---|---|---| | `CultCache.cs:474`, `:151-176`, `:598-629`, `CultSchemaTypeNames.cs:9-31` | **Yes.** A member's type name is derived from the CLR type, persisted in the catalog entry and compared inside the canonical shape. Numeric addressing needs no new declaration, no hash movement and no migration — the load-bearing claim of this whole widening | — | | `CultCache.cs:112-150` | — | **No.** `Members` and `IndexAccessors` are `internal` with no friend assembly, so the evaluator cannot read a declared value from outside `GameCult.Caching` at all. "No cache change is needed for addressing" was false; the cache add is ~150 lines, not ~60, and the ledger moved from ≈ +370 to ≈ +585 | | `CultCache.cs:931-943`, `:462-468` | — | **No.** A hiding member is already refused (`HiddenMemberMessage`), and a duplicate alias already throws from `ToDictionary`. D10 shrank from "a missing refusal" to "a refusal that names nothing", and its test only means anything if it asserts the message | | `packages/cultnet-rs/src/snapshot_query.rs` | — | **No.** Rust has a fifth selector engine (`serve_read_only_raw_snapshot:112-125`) that "Rust: none" concealed, and its client (`:195-217`) shows the cross-product limit that v1 does not fix (Q-M) | | `CultDocumentContracts.cs:92-99`, `CultCache.cs:1100-1113`, `:1495-1509`, `:1818-1838`, `:254-265` | **Yes.** `ICultRecordRef` is the enumerable handle D11 needs; assignability is already how the cache resolves a base type to concrete documents (D9); `AllDescriptors` is public | — | **Still not settled, and who settles it:** - Whether every committed write takes a shard-log sequence (unchanged; Hands, at the append site). - Whether `CultDocumentDescriptor`'s public member view can be a readonly struct without forcing an allocation per row per predicate in the evaluator's inner loop. Nothing here depends on the answer being fast, but a `Select`-per-row over a fresh list would be a silly cost to build in; Hands measures if a fixture of a few thousand rows is slow, and not before. - The exact split of mutation entries against the QUIC campaign's runner (unchanged; Self at landing). - Whether `serve_read_only_raw_snapshot`'s existing tests survive the lowering unchanged; they should, since the behaviour is identical, but they were not read line by line. - Q-J, Q-K, Q-L, Q-M: the operator. **Not probed, and deliberately:** nothing was built or run against CultLib. The tree is hosting a live QUIC campaign, and no claim in this map needs a build to be true — every one of them is a source read, and the three that were wrong were wrong because the first pass did not read far enough, not because a build would have caught them. --- # Cut 2: watching a selection Ruled 2026-09-17 (R-5): the operator wants this and wants it soon, so it is mapped here rather than left as a follow-up trigger. It is **its own cut**, landing after Cut 1 and depending on it. Nothing below is smuggled into Cut 1, and Cut 1 is not shaped around it: the seam Cut 1 draws — one selector type serving a query and a subscription alike — is the whole of what Cut 1 owes this one. Cut 1 can go to Hands without waiting for a ruling on anything here. Same discipline as Cut 1: facts by source read, deletes first, an authority map, verification with a mutation per rule including a loosening, and a subtraction estimate with real numbers. ## 18.1 Body facts **The local watch surface today** (`src/GameCult.Networking/CultNetDatabase.cs`): - `Watch()` `:1051-1057` filters the change stream by CLR type; `WatchAllChanges()` `:1063-1067`; `WatchRecord(key)` `:1072-1075`; `WatchGlobal()` `:1080-1083`; `WatchByName(name)` `:1088-1094`; `WatchByIndex(alias, value)` `:1100-1107`. - **`WatchByName` and `WatchByIndex` do not do what they are named.** Both read the cache's *current single winner* for the lookup and compare it to the change's document by `ReferenceEquals`. Combined with section 1's finding that the cache's index maps hold **one key per value**, this means `WatchByIndex("kind", "cannon")` observes changes to whichever single `Weapon` most recently claimed `cannon`, not to the weapons whose kind is `cannon`. It also re-runs the lookup *at change time*, so a change that clears the value is evaluated against the state after the clear. The same two lines exist again in CultMesh as `MatchesName` / `MatchesIndex` (`CultMesh.cs:3312-3333`). - The rule is set-dependent even without a hop, and nothing tracks membership: there is no "was in the set, now is not" anywhere in the local path. `Reconcile` (`CultNetDatabaseSubscriptionServer.cs:251-292`) is the only membership tracker in the reference and it belongs to a server, over a delivered set, per peer. **The CultMesh collection surface** (`src/GameCult.Mesh/CultMesh.cs`): nine `Collection*` overloads at `:2278-2480` — three shapes (all / by name / by index) by three sources (`CultCache` `:2278`, `:2302`, `:2331`; `CultNetDatabase` `:2362`, `:2386`, `:2413`; `CultMeshNode` `:2442`, `:2456`, `:2471`, which delegate to the database trio in three lines each). `CollectionByIndex` over a cache resolves its contents as `Optional(cache.GetByIndex(alias, value))` — a "collection" of **at most one row**, whose live feed then filters by `MatchesIndex`. Three shapes exist because the shape *is* the query language; a selection replaces the shape axis entirely and leaves the source axis alone. **What Cut 1 leaves in place for this cut:** `CultNetSelection` and its validation, `CultNetSelectionEvaluator.Matches(selection, descriptor, key, document)` for a single row, the cache's public read surface, and D6's rule that a hop-bearing selection is set-dependent and must reconcile rather than decide per change. ## 18.2 The shape ``` CultNetDatabase.Watch(CultNetSelection selection) -> Observable CultNetSelectionChange { kind: Entered | Left | Updated // membership, not storage schemaId, recordKey document: object? // present on Entered/Updated under `document` projection previous: object? // present on Left/Updated cause: Self | Edge // this row changed, or a row it cites / is cited by did } ``` **Rules, each one owner:** - **Membership, not mutation.** The stream reports a row entering the selection, leaving it, or changing while inside it. A write to a row that was outside and stays outside emits nothing. A write that changes a value the selection filters on emits `Entered` or `Left`, **not** `Updated` — which is precisely what `WatchByIndex` cannot express today. - **`cause: Edge`** is how a hop-bearing selection stays honest: when a change to row B moves row A in or out, the subscriber is told about A, with the cause marked, and never about B unless B is itself in the set. - **No order, no cursor, no `asOf`, no `limit`.** A live feed is not a page. A selection carrying `limit`, `cursor` or `descending` is **refused at the door** (`selection_invalid { field }`) rather than silently ignored: "the latest ten, live" is a different question with a different answer (it needs an eviction rule), and this cut does not answer it. `projection` is honoured; `schemas`, `keys`, `fields`, `cites` and `cited` are honoured. - **The initial set is not a snapshot message.** `Watch` is local and in-process; it emits `Entered` for every row already matching, at subscribe time, under the cache's lock, before any live change. There is no `asOf` because there is no wire and no second reader. - **A hop-bearing selection recomputes; a plain one decides per row.** Without `cites`/`cited`, membership is `Matches(selection, row)` and costs one row's read. With a hop, a change anywhere can move anything, so the watch re-evaluates the selection over the cache and diffs against the membership set it holds. That is O(rows) per change and it is stated plainly rather than hidden (Q-N). ## 18.3 Deletes first | Path:lines | Lines | What | |---|---:|---| | `CultNetDatabase.cs:1080-1107` | 28 | `WatchGlobal`, `WatchByName`, `WatchByIndex` — the three that encode a query in a method name, two of them wrongly. `WatchGlobal` lowers to `keys: ["global:{schemaId}"]`, the other two to a `fields` predicate | | `CultMesh.cs:3312-3333` | 22 | `MatchesName`, `MatchesIndex` — the same `ReferenceEquals`-against-the-winner rule, second copy | | `CultMesh.cs:2278-2480` | 203 | the nine `Collection*` overloads; **after: three**, one per source (`CultCache`, `CultNetDatabase`, `CultMeshNode`), each taking a `CultNetSelection`, about 75 lines | | `CultMeshSnapshots.cs` and `CultMesh.cs` local-watch predicates, audit sites #2, #4-9, #16-21 | ~240 | the remaining local watch loops and their inline predicates, about 40 after | | **Total** | **~493** | **~115 after; net about −378** | `Watch()`, `WatchAllChanges()` and `WatchRecord(key)` **stay**, as Cut 1's v0 lowering stays: a CLR-type filter and a single-key watch are conveniences that lower to a selection and have no rule of their own. If they grow a rule again, W6 catches it. ## 18.4 Adds and authority | Add | Owner | Live consumer | Protected invariant | Replaces | |---|---|---|---|---| | `CultNetSelectionWatch` in `GameCult.Networking` (~130 lines): the membership set, the per-change decision, the hop recompute, `CultNetSelectionChange` | `CultNetDatabase` | Mesh's three `Collection` overloads; any local consumer that watches a question | membership is tracked in one place, and a row that leaves the set is reported leaving | `WatchByName` / `WatchByIndex` / `MatchesName` / `MatchesIndex`, four spellings of one wrong rule | | `CultNetDatabase.Watch(CultNetSelection)` (~15 lines) | `CultNetDatabase` | the above | one entry point | three named-query methods | | Rust: **nothing in this cut** | — | — | — | no Rust caller watches locally; when one does, it gets the same shape over `Row`/`RowSet` | - **Owner.** `CultNetSelectionWatch` owns membership and only membership. `CultNetSelectionEvaluator.Matches` owns whether a row is in the set — the watch never re-implements a predicate. `CultNetDatabase` owns the change stream. The cache owns values, as in Cut 1. - **Inputs.** The change stream, the cache's rows through the public read surface, the validated selection. Not inputs: a clock, a transport, the shard log's sequences (there is no order here), a peer's authorization. - **Outputs.** `Entered` / `Left` / `Updated` with a cause, and one typed refusal for a selection carrying page-shaped fields. - **Derived state.** The membership set, and the incoming-edge index when the selection hops. **Demotions:** `Watch` and `WatchRecord` are no longer queries, they are lowerings; Mesh's collection *shape* is no longer a language, it is a `Selection`; `MatchesIndex` is not an owner of anything. - **Forbidden writers.** Nothing outside `CultNetSelectionWatch` may decide membership; no watch path may call `GetByIndex` or `GetByName` to decide whether a change is interesting (that is the bug being deleted, in both its copies); Mesh may not filter a feed the watch answered; the watch may not emit `Updated` for a row that crossed the predicate boundary; the watch may not accept `limit`, `cursor` or `descending`. - **Shared paths.** `Matches` under both the query and the watch — a row that a page would return and a row the watch reports entering are decided by the same function, or the two truths drift. The subscription server's `Reconcile` keeps its own per-peer delivered set (it answers a different question: what this peer has been told) and **does not** become the local membership tracker. - **Deletion line.** Commit 1: `CultNetSelectionWatch` and `Watch(Selection)`, with the three named-query methods deleted and their tests rewritten. Commit 2: Mesh's nine overloads collapsed to three, both matchers deleted. Nothing lands with `WatchByIndex` alive beside it. ## 18.5 Verification | # | Test | Pins | Revert kills | Loosening kills | |---|---|---|---|---| | W1 | `Watch_ReportsARowLeavingWhenItsFilteredValueChanges` | membership, not mutation — the bug being deleted | `Left` never emitted (today's behaviour restored: the change is simply not delivered) | `Updated` emitted instead of `Left`, so a subscriber holding a list keeps a row that no longer matches | | W2 | `Watch_ReportsEveryRowSharingAnIndexValue_NotTheCacheIndexWinner` | the deletion of the `ReferenceEquals`-against-the-winner rule | `MatchesIndex` restored | membership decided by the winner *plus* the changed row, which passes a two-row fixture and fails a three-row one — **the fixture must carry three rows sharing the value** | | W3 | `Watch_EmitsTheInitialSetBeforeAnyLiveChange` | the subscribe-time set | no initial emission | the initial set emitted *after* the subscription goes live, so a write racing the subscribe is delivered twice or not at all — needs a test that writes between subscribe and first emission | | W4 | `Watch_ReportsAnEdgeCausedEntryWhenTheCiterChanges` | `cause: Edge`, D6 locally | a hop-bearing watch decided per changed row (the citee never moves) | the citee reported with `cause: Self`, which loses the subscriber's ability to tell a row's own change from a set change | | W5 | `Watch_RefusesAPageShapedSelection` | no order, cursor or limit on a feed | the refusal dropped and the fields ignored | `limit` refused but `descending` ignored — one field's worth of silent ignoring, which is how a "harmless" ignored field becomes a bug report | | W6 | `Watch_AndSelect_AgreeOnMembershipForTheSameSelection` (property-shaped: for each fixture selection, the set the watch holds equals the ids a page returns) | the shared `Matches` | the watch given its own predicate | the watch's copy agreeing on the plain selections and differing on the hop-bearing ones — kills only if the fixture's selections include hops, which section 6's fixture does | | W7 | `Mesh_CollectionTakesASelectionAndFiltersNothingItself` (Mesh tests) | the collapse | an overload restored | the three surviving overloads re-filtering the feed after the watch answered | **Negative greps:** `rg -n "WatchByIndex|WatchByName|MatchesIndex|MatchesName" src` empty; `rg -n "GetByIndex|GetByName" src/GameCult.Mesh src/GameCult.Networking` empty; `rg -n "CollectionByIndex|CollectionByName" src` empty. **Mutations.** Entries in this campaign's own file, target `networking` (killer `dotnet test tests/GameCult.Networking.Tests`) plus the Mesh tests for W7, one per rule above with its revert and its loosening. ## 18.6 Subtraction estimate | | Removed | Added | |---|---:|---:| | `src/GameCult.Networking` | 28 | ~145 | | `src/GameCult.Mesh` | ~465 | ~115 | | tests | ~80 rewritten | ~260 (W1-W7) | | **net source outside tests** | | **about −233** | This is the cut where CultMesh actually shrinks: about −350 in `CultMesh.cs` and the snapshot facade against about +117 in the database organ. It is also the cut that deletes a wrong answer rather than a duplicate one — four spellings of "watch the row that currently wins a unique-index lookup", replaced by one membership tracker over the selection the caller actually asked about. Cut 1 pays about +585 for the vocabulary; Cut 2 spends it. ## 18.7 Operator questions for this cut - **Q-N. The hop-bearing watch's recompute.** **A, recompute and diff on every change** (recommended: obviously correct, O(rows) per change, and the local caches this runs over hold thousands of rows, not millions). **B**, maintain an incremental incoming-edge index invalidated per write — faster, and a second piece of derived state that can disagree with the cache. Take B only with a measured reason. - **Q-O. Does `WatchRecord` survive?** **A, yes, as a lowering** (recommended; it is one key and no rule). **B**, delete it too and make every caller say `keys: [k]` — cleaner, noisier at its call sites. - **Q-P. Ordering on a feed, later.** Out of this cut by the rules above. If "the latest N, live" is wanted, it is a third cut with an eviction rule, not a field added here. **R-AA landed, 2026-09-22** (Sonnet), `b7d77b7..99e366a` on `cultnet/selection-cut1`. One new test file, 27 tests, 707 lines. **No production code touched.** Score **66% → 77.62%**: killed 345→371, survived 85→57, no-coverage 75→50, over the same 428-mutant set both passes. Suite green on Yggdrasil, 271 passed / 2 skipped. Every one of the nine named survivor groups is killed, with two corrections to the triage that matter more than the score. - **`EdgesFor`: three of five killed. STRUCK 2026-09-23 — what stood here was wrong.** It claimed that within one hop direction `(From, Role)` determines a unique declared edge value, so no legal selection could make two edges share anchor, From and Role while `To` differs, and recorded `To.SchemaId` and `To.Key` as equivalent "so nobody pays for them a third time". **A selection carrying both hops mixes their edges into one bucket**, and Soul built the counterexample: a row self-referencing through the role it uses to cite a peer. `To.Key` is now killed in both runtimes; `To.SchemaId` is settled under R-BA. The text is struck rather than edited because it was read as a live instruction for two passes. - **A sixth mutant in the same method that nobody had named**: `OrderBy(pageRowIndex)`, which is R-B's *primary* key, ahead of `(from, role, to)`. It survived the first pass and is now killed by a test that forces page order and `(from, role, to)` order to disagree. The rule R-B exists to protect had its first component unguarded, and the triage had not caught that either. - **The digest needed a golden value, not a comparison.** Beyond the named branch mutants, about nineteen finer-grained ones survived — deleting individual `AppendString` calls. A same-versus-different digest test structurally cannot catch these: a mutant that swaps which case gets which flag still produces two *different* digests, merely mislabelled. Hands reconstructed a golden HMAC independently from the method's doc comments rather than from its private helpers, which is the right way to build one, and it killed all but three residual coincidences. **Line drift: every rule had moved 30–90 lines** from Soul's `52082ec` numbers, none to a different method. Locate by name, not by number, and do not trust the numbers in this section either. **Four things found along the way, flagged rather than silently fixed.** Two are test gaps; two look like real defects: - `ReadLengthPrefixedFields`, `length <= 0`: a legitimately zero-length field would be wrongly refused. - `ReferenceMembers`'s `!member.IsReference` guard: a data member could be treated as citeable. - `FindCursorPosition`'s loop bound: an out-of-bounds read when paging past the last row with a cursor exactly at the end. - `ComputeDigest`'s `else`-branch appends survive only because the golden test has both `Cites` and `Cited` non-null; a second golden with both absent closes them. **Self's rulings, 2026-09-22:** - **R-AC. STRUCK 2026-09-23. It said the two `EdgesFor` `To` mutants were equivalent and "recorded, not to be chased".** That instruction was false and was obeyed for two passes. Soul's counterexample kills `To.Key` in both runtimes; `To.SchemaId` is settled under R-BA. **The sentence it closed with — a survivor correctly identified beats a test written to move a number — is still true, and is exactly why a survivor must be identified by a construction attempt rather than by an argument.** - **R-AD. The three suspected defects above get behaviour tests first**, since a test that fails today is the only thing that proves they are defects rather than readings. The out-of-bounds read in `FindCursorPosition` is the one to check first: it is reachable from an attacker-supplied cursor. - **R-AE. A second golden digest with both hops absent**, closing the three residual mutants rather than leaving them as folklore. **Fix batch 4, Rust half, landed** (Sonnet), `cultnet/selection-cut1` now at `d7f73af`, rebased onto the C# side's `99e366a`. Six commits: `c91e937` (R-V and Rust's half of R-W), `97627dd` (R-Y), `4bfd989` and `94c32ac` (R-AB), `8005586` (S-12, prose), `d7f73af` (a vendored-schema resync). **217 Rust tests green** on Yggdrasil, and re-confirmed locally with `contracts/` entirely hidden, which simulates cargo-mutants' isolated copy. **Mutants scoped to the diff: 23 tested, 23 caught, 0 missed.** Nothing to triage. **S-2 is C#-only** — Rust already checked the declared target before filtering by key, so the divergence was one-sided and the C# commits close it. No Rust change was needed and none was made. S-1 and S-3 are closed by R-V and R-W. **R-AB worked, and it took two fixes rather than one.** The named escape was `schema_discovery.rs`'s `include_str!("../../../contracts/…")`. Vendoring byte-identical copies under `packages/cultnet-rs/contracts/` fixed that and left the crate still unmutable: `tests/selection.rs`'s fixture loader read the same canonical tree three levels up, and 37 of 45 tests panicked under the isolated copy. The first full-crate run failed its unmutated baseline for exactly that reason. Vendoring the fixture too, plus a skip-when-absent guard on the test that reads C#'s own `cs-written.json` output — which cannot be vendored, being the other runtime's product rather than a checked-in input — made the crate mutable for the first time. **The vendoring is duplicate authority, and it drifted within hours.** The rebase onto the C# side's landed R-X changed `cultnet.error.schema.json`, and the vendored copy did not see it. **Hands' own drift test caught it** and the copy was re-synced at `d7f73af`. That is worth stating plainly rather than filing as a win. Twenty-two schemas now exist twice, and the guard against the copies diverging is a test rather than a structure. The cleaner shape — a build script staging the canonical contracts into `OUT_DIR` — **fails for the same reason the `include_str!` did**: cargo-mutants copies the package tree, so a `build.rs` reaching three levels up is just as unreachable. Publishing the contracts as their own crate would fix it properly and is out of this cut's scope. **So the duplicate is accepted for now, on the record, with the drift test as its named guard.** It goes in the follow-ups, not the win column. **Hands burned an unscoped full-crate mutants run** — 2,329 mutants and a timeout cascade across files the cut never touched — before rescoping to the diff. It reported that unprompted and discarded the output. The ruling did say "the cut's diff"; the run cost most of a night on a shared host. ## Soul, the merge gate, 2026-09-23 Opus, against `d7f73af`. Counts re-run by Soul itself: Networking 269 passed / 2 skipped, Mesh 255, cultnet-rs **224** across 12 targets. (R-AA reported "271 passed" — that is 269 + 2 skipped. The Rust half reported 217; the measured figure is 224. Both green, one overstated.) **Verdict: Cut 1 may not merge.** Three reasons, any one sufficient. ### SM-1, high. S-1 is not closed. One ruling became two different rules. `CultNetSelectionEvaluator.cs:358-386` resolves a reference's target by **record key plus the declared leaf set** — its own comment says "a reference's stored target is a bare record key, the wire carries no schema for it". `packages/cultnet-rs/src/selection.rs:1765` and `:1817` resolve it by an exact `by_key.get(&(target.schema_id, target.record_key))` on the `RecordRef`'s own schema id. R-V said both runtimes index rows **and incoming edges** by the pair. C# indexes rows by the pair and edges by the key; Rust indexes both by the pair. Probed at the evaluator in both runtimes, same logical rows: | Shape | C# | Rust | |---|---|---| | Only row at key `k` is out-of-target; narrow ref declared to leaf_a points at `k` | **REFUSED** `reference_outside_target` | **ACCEPTED**, empty page | | Two rows at key `k`; ref declared to leaf_a, stored target names leaf_b | **ACCEPTED**, resolves the leaf_a row, emits an edge | **REFUSED** `reference_outside_target` | **They give opposite answers on the exact shared-key shape R-V was written for.** A consumer paging the same data through the two runtimes gets a refusal from one and rows from the other. Parity is this cut's invariant. **No vector covers it:** the shared fixture has zero duplicate record keys across its ten rows, exactly one reference, and that reference's role targets both leaves — so `reference_outside_target` is never reached cross-runtime at all. R-V's narrower promise does hold: within each runtime, both row orders agree. ### SM-2, high. Both runtimes take a hostile cursor into an unhandled fault, on mirror-image cases. - **C#.** `ReadLengthPrefixedFields` (`CultNetSelectionEvaluator.cs:750-751`) tests `pos + length > bytes.Length` in `int`. A prefix of `2147483647` overflows, the guard passes, and `Encoding.UTF8.GetString` throws `ArgumentOutOfRangeException`. `HandleSnapshotRequestV1Async` catches only the three typed selection exceptions and `CultNetRudpSchemaServer.DispatchAsync` has no catch at all, so **an untyped exception reaches the server's poll loop**. The peer gets no answer. - **Rust.** `read_length_prefixed_fields` (`selection.rs:2044-2046`) parses the prefix as `usize` and computes `pos + len`; `18446744073709551615` overflows. Probed: **panic.** Rust refuses the `int::MAX` case typed; C# refuses the `usize::MAX` case typed. **Each runtime has exactly the hole the other closed** — which is what happens when a rule is hardened twice independently and neither run fed it garbage. R-N's whole point was that every cursor refusal reaches the wire as `cursor_invalid`. ### SM-3, high. R-Z did not land, and nobody said so — including me. R-Z required the vectors to compare **page bytes**, plus `asOf`, `next` and a refusal's **code**, with projection vectors on both sides. `git diff --stat 52082ec..d7f73af` touches neither `SelectionParityVectorTests.cs` nor either vector file's vectors. The reader still compares row ids, `matched`, `hasNext` and edge fields, and `expectedRefusalField` — **never the code**. There is no page-bytes field in either JSON. `rs-written.json` still carries no projection vector, which is S-7's original wording verbatim. The C#-side projection vectors run through `Select`, which ignores `Projection`, so the comment claiming "page bytes under each projection" describes something the test does not do. **R-Z is absent from the batch's work and from its open list.** Self recorded the batch as closing its rulings without checking that one, which is the tracking failure that let it pass silently. ### SM-4, medium. Two ordering rules are pinned by their mutants, not their behaviour. Twelve non-revert mutations, each changing a rule a different way from the Stryker mutant its R-AA test was written against. Nine died. Three survived: - **`EdgesFor`'s secondary key.** Permuting `Role` ahead of `From.Key` (`:307-311`), keeping every component, passes 269/269. R-AA's test kills the *primary* key's deletion; the **composition** of the rest is unpinned, and the fixture's single reference pins nothing either. - **The row tiebreak.** Swapping `SchemaId` and `Key.Value` in the ascending tiebreak (`:214`) passes 269/269. The fixture does have one tied ordinal, but both rows are leaf_a, so **the schemaId component of `(ordinal, schemaId, recordKey)` is exercised by nothing** — not in unit tests, not in vectors. Rust's `order_rows` uses the same three components, so a silent permutation on either side goes unnoticed. - **`!member.IsReference`** (`:456`) is a redundant second copy of the guard in `CultCache.ResolveReferences`/`ReferencesOf`, which already returns empty for a data member. **Equivalent mutant, and duplicate authority** — not a defect, but not innocent either. ### SM-5, medium. The Rust half of the vocabulary has 59 live mutants and nobody has looked. The diff-scoped run ("23 tested, 23 caught, 0 missed") measures only the lines batch 4 changed. Soul ran cargo-mutants over the whole of `selection.rs`: **351 mutants, 274 caught, 59 missed, 14 unviable, 4 timeouts, 36 minutes.** - **`canonical_number`: about 35 missed plus all four timeouts.** `is_canonical` — the Q-J door — has **every branch mutation surviving**. `decompose`, `pad_right`, `canonicalize_decimal_digits`, `big_mul_small` and `big_to_most_significant_first` can each be replaced with `String::new()` or `"xyzzy"` and the suite stays green. **This is R-D, a byte-for-byte wire parity rule.** - `validate`: 4 missed, including a deleted `!` and `||` → `&&` — the door R-F put inside `select`. - `matches_schema_keys_fields`: 3 missed, including two deleted `!` and an `==` → `!=` — which rows match. - `schema_alias::matches`: `==` → `!=` — R-E's one identity rule. **S-5 blocked this cut at 66% on the C# side and produced R-AA. The Rust side of the same rules has never been measured. The asymmetry is the finding.** ### Settled, not defects - **`FindCursorPosition`'s loop bound is not a defect.** It bounds at `i < ordered.Count`. Probed in both runtimes: paging to the exact end and replaying the last cursor gives an empty page, `next = null`, no exception, no panic. The Stryker survivor was a coverage gap. **R-AD's headline suspicion was wrong**, and settling it was worth the pass. - **`length <= 0` does not exist** in either runtime, and a zero-length field parses fine in both. The real bug in that function is SM-2's overflow. - **S-2 held, and Hands' "C#-only" claim is true** — Soul checked rather than accepted it. Both Rust call sites run `ensure_within_declared_target` before any role or key filtering, with a test pinning it. - **S-3 held.** A both-hops selection returns all its `cites` edges in both runtimes, each anchored by its own hop, identically. - **S-12 is half done.** The fixture's prose was fixed; `SelectionParityVectorTests.cs:200-208` still calls the name-alias case a "Confirmed cross-runtime defect" that the alias port already fixed. Low, but it is a falsehood in a file a future reader will trust. ### Promises that held S-4 (real `CultNetErrorMessage` bytes validated against the schema for all four codes), S-6 (a spliced digest and a reused cursor under a changed selection both refused), S-9, S-10, S-11 (the hop refusal is gone and the hop is served; still no dedicated regression test). **R-AB's guard is real**: all 23 vendored files are byte-identical right now, the hand list matches every `include_str!` 22/22, and flipping one byte makes the drift test fail by name. **R-AA's tests are mostly behavioural**: nine of twelve hand mutations died, including the digest under a double-append rather than a deletion, the comparator forced back to UTF-16 units, both role-naming sites under inverted precedence, and cursor positioning made inclusive. **Caching's three failures remain unproven, not passing** — the stopgap's container runs as root and the tests need a write to a read-only directory to fail. Soul declined to call them environmental on its own authority. ### What Soul could not run - **No page-byte parity comparison exists to run.** C#'s page is a `CultNetSnapshotResponseRawV1Message` envelope; Rust's is a bare `SelectionPage`. **There is no common wire type**, so R-Z as written needs a shape decision before it can be implemented at all. - No fresh Stryker run on the C# side; twelve hand mutations instead, which is what the brief asked for. The Rust figure is Soul's own measurement. - Only `selection.rs` was mutated in Rust; `contracts.rs`, `schema_discovery.rs` and the rest of the crate are unmeasured. ### The rig, handed over `C:\Users\Meta\eureka-soul-probes\cultnet-selection-cut1\` — deliberately outside the repo and outside the session scratchpad, **so it does not evaporate the way the Idunn rig did**. `README.md` says where each file drops in and what it proves: `SoulProbeTests.cs`, `soul_probe.rs`, `soul-mutants.sh` and twelve precomputed mutated files (the dotnet image has neither python3 nor perl to patch with). ## Self's rulings for fix batch 5, 2026-09-23 - **R-AF (SM-1). One rule, and the wire decides which.** Hands establishes empirically what a stored reference actually carries — a bare record key, or a key and a schema id. **If the wire carries no schema, C#'s rule is right and Rust adopts it. If it carries both, Rust's is right and C# adopts it.** I am not choosing by taste between two implementations when the Body already knows the answer; what I am ruling is that the answer is one rule, derived from the wire, in both runtimes. **A parity vector must cover the shared-key shape in both directions** — its absence is why this survived four passes. - **R-AG (SM-2). Every malformed cursor becomes `cursor_invalid` on the wire, in both runtimes, and nothing else escapes.** Use checked arithmetic on both sides. C#'s dispatch path gains a catch so an untyped exception cannot reach the poll loop. **Feed each runtime the other's proven overflow**, plus a small set of deliberately hostile cursors, and pin them. The shape of this bug — each runtime holding exactly the hole the other closed — means neither side's tests are evidence about the other. - **R-AH (SM-3). R-Z needs its shape settled before it can be built.** The envelope types differ, so **the vectors compare the canonical MessagePack bytes of the page payload** — rows, edges, `asOf`, `next` — which both runtimes can produce, rather than the transport envelope, which only one has. Refusals compare the **code**. Projection vectors exist on both sides, and `Select` must actually honour `Projection` or the vector is a lie. **Flag for operator review**: this is my ruling on a wire-shape question, and if the payload's canonical form is meant to be something else, it should be corrected before the vectors harden around it. - **R-AI (SM-5). Measure the Rust vocabulary and triage it.** Run cargo-mutants across `selection.rs` and the rest of the crate's selection path, and close survivors by behaviour. **`canonical_number` first**: R-D is a byte-for-byte parity rule whose door currently survives every branch mutation, which means the canonical decimal form is pinned by nothing in Rust. Equivalents get a one-line reason. - **R-AJ (SM-4). Pin the ordering compositions, in both runtimes and in the vectors**: `EdgesFor`'s secondary key ordering, and the schemaId component of the row tiebreak, which needs a fixture with a tied ordinal across two schemas — the current fixture's tie is within one leaf. - **R-AK. Delete the evaluator's redundant `!member.IsReference` guard.** `CultCache` owns that decision and already enforces it. Duplicate authority is the defect even when the duplicate is harmless today. - **S-12's remainder:** correct the comment that still calls a fixed defect confirmed. ### Fix batch 5 landed, 2026-09-23 Sonnet, five commits on `sel-fix5`. C# Networking **274 passed / 2 skipped** (was 269/2), Mesh 255, Rust 50/50 with `cargo-mutants --in-diff` reporting 26 tested, 21 caught, 5 unviable, **0 missed**. **R-AF: the wire carries no schema, so C#'s rule was the right one.** Established by probe, not by reading either comment: a real `Design` reference field serialized through `MessagePackSerializer` dumps as `A4-61-2D-65-71` — a bare five-byte msgpack string, `"a-eq"`. The whole document is `["citer-1","a-eq"]`. No schema id anywhere. `CultRecordRefFormatter.Serialize` confirms it: `writer.Write(value.Key.Value)`, unconditionally, for every `CultRecordRef` in the codebase. **Rust adopted C#'s rule.** `Row::references()` returns a bare `target_record_key`; `by_key` is grouped by record key alone; a new `resolve_reference_target` mirrors `TryResolveReferenceTarget` exactly — search every row sharing the key, return the first inside the declared leaf set, refuse deterministically by schema id if none is. `RecordRef` survives only where the wire genuinely carries both, which is the `Citation.target` query filter. **The vector that was missing now exists.** The fixture gained a `citer_narrow` schema with a real SHA-256 id and rows for **both** shapes from Soul's table: a lone out-of-target row, which refuses, and a shared key with one in-target and one out-of-target row, which accepts and resolves the in-target one **regardless of row order**. Plus a new `expectedEvaluationRefusal` vector field — narrower than R-AH's job, just which typed refusal fires. **A second real defect, found while landing R-AF.** Rust's `matches_citation` resolved and target-checked **every** declared reference on a row before filtering by the citation's requested role; C# filters by role first. Rust's role filter moved ahead of resolution to match. One existing Rust test was therefore pinning behaviour C# does not have, and was rewritten to mirror C#'s real shape. **This was a live divergence nobody had named** — neither Soul nor any ruling. **R-AG.** C#'s `pos + length` overflowed in unchecked `int`; fixed by promoting to `long`. Rust's `pos + len` overflowed in `usize`; fixed with `checked_add`. `CultNetRudpSchemaServer.DispatchAsync` gained a backstop catch so no untyped exception reaches the poll loop. **Each runtime was fed the other's proven overflow**, plus three further hostile shapes, four new tests a side, each confirmed to fail without the fix. **R-AJ, and the finding inside it: the existing row-tiebreak test was degenerate.** Hands hand-reverted the tiebreak and swapped it, and the test **still passed 100%** — purely by accident of which of `SelLeafA`/`SelLeafB`'s real hash ids happened to sort first. It was rewritten to assign keys relative to the schema ids discovered at runtime, then re-probed and now fails correctly. The same shape was added in Rust, with a shared-fixture vector carrying a tied ordinal **across two schemas** — the original fixture only ever tied rows of the same schema. `EdgesFor`'s secondary key got the same treatment. **R-AK.** Verified before deleting: `CultCache.ReferencesOf` already searches only its own reference members for a role match, and index aliases are unique per descriptor, so a data member's role string cannot collide with a reference member's. The redundant guard is gone. **S-12** is closed; the stale "confirmed cross-runtime defect" comment is corrected against source. **Not done, and named rather than buried:** - **No diff-scoped Stryker run.** `--since` crashed on `GitInfoProvider` in the detached-clone container, so Hands fell back to whole-file globs: 312 tested, 262 killed, **47 survived**, 3 timeouts, untriaged between the changed lines and the large pre-existing bulk of both files. Every rule Hands touched was separately confirmed by hand. **The tooling failure was worked around, not root-caused**, which means the next pass inherits it. - **The RUDP dispatch backstop has no dedicated integration test.** It would need a fuller server harness. Flagged, not built. ### R-AI landed, 2026-09-23 — `canonical_number` measured and closed Sonnet, four commits rebased cleanly onto `sel-fix5`, pushed as `sel-fix5-rsmut` at `fc51e9a`; 50/50 Rust tests pass against the rebased tree. **None of it touches the edge-resolution path** — the whole diff is insertions inside `canonical_number`'s own nested `mod tests`, with zero hits for `references`, `by_key`, `matches_citation`, `resolve_reference_target` or `RecordRef`, so nothing was measured against code batch 5 has since rewritten. **126 mutants: 89 caught / 29 missed / 7 timeout / 1 unviable → 114 caught / 4 missed / 6 timeout / 2 unviable.** `is_canonical` — the Q-J door, where **every branch mutation had been surviving** — is closed by direct grammar tests that had never been called before; the function was only ever reachable indirectly through a handful of `validate_field` spellings. `compare`, `decompose`, `pad_right`, `canonicalize_decimal_digits`, `big_mul_small`, `big_to_most_significant_first`, `big_from_u64` and `exact_decimal_from_mantissa` each got direct tests, every one confirmed red under its own mutation by a real re-run rather than by inference. **Another test that passed by luck.** `render_f32`'s sign-bit mutant survived Hands' first negative-value tests because **1.0 and 2.0 happen to have bit 0 matching their real sign bit**. Adding `-1.0` and `-2.0` killed it. Same shape as the degenerate row-tiebreak test in batch 5: a fixture whose values coincidentally satisfy the assertion. **Four survivors, all judged equivalent by hand-tracing rather than assumed:** two in `is_canonical` (a leading-zero guard that is a pure early exit, since anything it would catch is caught later by the dot check; and an increment skipping a digit the caller already validated, which the following loop re-consumes either way), and `|` → `^` in both `render_f64` and `render_f32`, where the fraction is masked to exactly 52 or 23 bits so the implicit leading bit is never set and the two operators are bit-identical. **Six timeouts are inherent infinite loops under mutation, not test gaps** — a `+=` → `*=` on a loop's own increment, two on `big_from_u64`'s loop bound, and two exponent-sign corruptions that wrap a negative `i32` into a near-`usize::MAX` bound. Any test reaching those lines hangs regardless of what it asserts; the timeout is cargo-mutants' signal for "behaviour changed", it simply cannot classify a hang as caught. ### **`-j4` is not reliable for verdicts on this image, and that is retroactive** The identical commit gave **different missed and timeout sets across three separate `-j4` runs** — `render_f64`'s L284 alone flipped between missed and caught with no code change — while every `-j1` run reproduced the same 4 missed / 6 timeout. The likely cause is the shared `CARGO_TARGET_DIR` under concurrent mutant builds, which is the same class as this pipeline's existing shared-target scar. **This makes every concurrent mutation figure in this campaign provisional**, including Stryker runs made with `--concurrency 4` and any cargo-mutants result above `-j1`. It does not invalidate them — a killed mutant that was genuinely killed stays killed — but a *survivor* list from a concurrent run cannot be trusted as complete or as accurate. Where a survivor list drove a ruling, the ruling stands on the hand-confirmed evidence beside it, not on the count. ### Honest scheduling account Six real runs launched, **two duplicated and killed** — one caught by Hands, one Self had to flag. Effective slot time on real measurement runs was about **47 minutes**, spread across **just over five hours of wall-clock**, most of it back-and-forth: duplicate cleanup, the `-j4` flakiness detour, and the rebase. Hands reported this unprompted and in detail, which is the only reason the `-j4` finding exists at all. ### Unmeasured, and named `contracts.rs` (about 100 mutants) and `schema_discovery.rs` (about 50) were **not run against `sel-fix5` at all**. One partial run, killed mid-flight, showed several `MISSED` across `contracts.rs`'s `validate_*` family — `decode_cultnet_message_from_slice`, `validate_message`, `validate_mutation_contract`, `validate_schema_descriptor`, `validate_document_record`, `validate_raw_document_record`, `validate_shard_descriptor`. **That is real signal on the door family, not a count.** At `-j1`, 150 mutants is a several-hour commitment. **Self's decision: queue it, do not run it now.** The merge gate needs a Soul pass on batch 5 first, and the selection cut cannot merge on a mutation sweep of an adjacent file. Recorded as a follow-up with the partial signal attached so the next pass starts from it rather than rediscovering it. ## Soul, the merge gate again, 2026-09-23 Opus, against `fc51e9a`. Counts re-measured: C# Networking 274 / 2 skipped, Mesh 255. **Rust is 254 tests across 11 targets**, not the 50 reported — that figure was `tests/selection.rs` alone, one target of eleven. **Verdict: Cut 1 may not merge.** Two reasons, either sufficient. ### SM-6, CONFIRMED, high. R-AK deleted a load-bearing guard, and wrote a false premise into the source to justify it. This one is mine. I ruled the `!member.IsReference` guard was duplicate authority and ordered it deleted. Hands verified and got it wrong, then left a comment claiming "index aliases are unique per descriptor, so a data member's role string can never coincide with a reference member's." **Source contradicts that.** D10 (`CultCache.cs:1085-1097`) groups only members whose `ResolveIndexAlias` is non-null — alias against alias. A plain data member with no alias contributes its `MemberName` to the same role namespace and is checked against nobody. Probed: a document with a data member `Owner` and a reference member aliased `Owner` **registers fine**, and then every hop path throws `ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null (Parameter 'targetType')`. `ReferenceMembers` now yields the data member, `ReferencesOf` matches it to the *reference* member's edges by role string, `member.TargetType!` is null, and `ResolveTargetLeaves` throws. Before the deletion the guard skipped that member and the selection returned one edge. **Restoring the guard leaves 274/274 green — the suite has no opinion either way.** Any schema shaped that way makes every `cites`/`cited` selection over it fault, the peer gets no typed refusal, and **the batch's own new dispatch backstop swallows it with no log.** ### CONFIRMED, medium. The dispatch backstop is untested and answers nothing. `catch (Exception) when (false)` — so the backstop never matches — survives 274/274. `HandleSnapshotRequestV1Async` catches only the three typed selection exceptions, unlike its siblings `HandleShardLogRequestAsync` and `HandlePutAsync`, which catch `Exception` and answer a `CultNetErrorMessage`. **The snapshot path is the one handler where an untyped fault becomes silence.** R-AG's invariant was that malformed input reaches the wire typed and nothing else escapes; a silently dropped dispatch is not that. It is a compensator, and it is already hiding SM-6. ### SM-4, CONFIRMED, medium. R-AJ closed about half of it, and Rust got the thin half. | mutation | C# | Rust | |---|---|---| | drop edge-sort `To.SchemaId` | survives | survives | | drop `To.Key` | survives | survives | | drop `From.SchemaId` | killed | **survives** | | drop `Role` | killed | **survives** | | drop row-order `recordKey` | killed | **survives** | | swap row-order schema/key *(control)* | killed | killed | **The controls dying means the rewritten tests are not degenerate in the old way** — R-AJ's headline fix is real. But the new Rust edge test puts both edges on the same `from.schema_id` and never reads `to`, so it pins exactly one thing: `from.record_key` before `role`. **Dropping `role` entirely — the component it was written for — survives.** ### CONFIRMED, medium. Shared-key resolution is order-dependent and unpinned in both runtimes. Iterating candidates reversed (C#) and preferring the last in-target candidate (Rust) both survive. Nothing pins "the first row in the caller's order wins" when **two in-target** rows share a key; R-AF's new vector covers one-in and one-out only. Both runtimes agree in source today, and that agreement assumes both are handed rows in the same order, which nothing between a C# cache and a Rust row owner guarantees. ### PLAUSIBLE. `RowSet::target_leaves(role)` takes no schema (`selection.rs:1333`), where C# resolves the target set from the declaring member's own `TargetType`. Two schemas legitimately declaring one role name with different targets **cannot be expressed in Rust at all**. Low-medium. ### PLAUSIBLE, low. A `+` prefix in a cursor length field parses in Rust (`str::parse::`) and is refused in C# (`NumberStyles.None`). Gated behind the HMAC, so unreachable without forging it. Read from source, not probed. ### Promises that held **R-AF's wire fact is confirmed, and harder than the probe claimed.** It is not one serialization — **the type has nowhere to put a schema id.** `CultRecordRef` has exactly one field, `ICultRecordRef` exposes only `Key`, the formatter writes only the key, and all three declared reference shapes yield `CultRecordKey`. A document carrying scalar, many-list and many-dictionary references at once encodes with no schema id anywhere. **No other formatter, version or nesting can introduce one without changing the type.** C#'s rule was right, Rust adopting it is correct, and it is not wrong in the other direction. **Both runtimes now agree at the evaluator on every shape the previous verdict split them on** — seven matched probes built independently in each runtime, identical answers, including the shared-key matrix in either row order. **The role-filter reordering, which no ruling covered and only Hands had checked, agrees with C#.** **R-AG is behaviourally pinned**: moving the cast inside the parens — still wrapping, still looking like a fix — kills a test. Dropping the redundant `length < 0` survives and is genuinely equivalent. ### R-AH: right scope, under-specified, still unbuilt **Comparing the payload rather than the envelope is the right call** — the C# message carries a non-deterministic `messageId` and three shard fields Rust has no concept of, while the shared six are in the same declaration order on both sides with camelCase keys already. **But "the canonical MessagePack bytes" is not a specification.** The same page encodes as 285 bytes compact and 402 named, and **the compact form emits a 4-element array for a 6-field struct** because `skip_serializing_if` drops absent optionals positionally — it is not decodable. The ruling must also fix map encoding with camelCase keys, declared field order, and whether an absent optional is **omitted** (Rust today) or **nil** (C# today). Those differ right now, and the same rule has to reach `Edge`, `RawDocumentHeader` and `SelectionDocumentRecord`. **The structural reason it keeps slipping: C# has no page type at the evaluator layer.** `Select` returns rows, and `Projection` appears once in the evaluator, inside the cursor digest. Either `Select` gains projection, or the harness builds the page outside it and the vectors start testing `CultNetDocumentRegistry` too. **Nobody has chosen, and my ruling did not.** At `fc51e9a`: `pageBytes|payloadBytes|canonicalBytes` is **0 hits** in both vector files, `rs-written.json` still carries no projection vector, and door refusals still compare a field and never a code. **Can parity be claimed without it? No — not byte parity.** What exists is semantic parity over an agreed field subset. **Even the selection bytes differ between the two written files for the same vector** — C# writes nine fields with nils, Rust omits absent ones — so there is no byte-level agreement anywhere in this cut. ### What Soul could not run No Stryker run; the 47 survivors stay untriaged, and **two of Soul's own confirmed survivors are on lines batch 5 changed**, so that list is not empty of real signal. The `--since`/`GitInfoProvider` crash is still not root-caused. `contracts.rs` and `schema_discovery.rs` unmeasured. The R-AH harness unbuilt, pending the shape decision. Caching's three failures still unproven. **One run was lost to CRLF and still exited 0** — fixed in the stopgap at Eureka `b12016a`, with a verdict sentinel so a job that never ran cannot report success. ## Self's rulings for fix batch 6, 2026-09-23 - **R-AL (SM-6). Restore the guard, and fix the owner.** The guard is not duplicate authority — filtering members by kind is the evaluator's own job, and I was wrong to call it a duplicate. Restore it, delete the false comment, and add the probed shape as a test that fails without it. **Separately, D10 is the owner of role-namespace uniqueness and currently admits the collision**: make registration refuse a data member whose name collides with a reference member's alias. Both, with tests. **Standing: a "redundant" deletion must be probed at the shape that would break it, not argued from a property nobody checked.** This is the second time a redundancy ruling of mine was wrong; the first was caught by Hands, this one was not. - **R-AM. The snapshot handler answers like its siblings** — catch `Exception`, return a `CultNetErrorMessage`. **The dispatch backstop logs**, always. A backstop that swallows silently is a compensator, and this one hid a high-severity regression for a whole batch. - **R-AN. Finish R-AJ in Rust.** Its edge test pins one component of a four-component rule. Every component of both orderings dies under its own mutation, in both runtimes. - **R-AO. Pin shared-key resolution order** — two **in-target** rows sharing a key — in both runtimes and in a vector. "The first row in the caller's order wins" is currently a coincidence of source, not a rule. - **R-AP (R-AH). Decide the shape, then build it.** The payload, as a **map with camelCase keys**, fields in declared order, and **absent optionals written as nil** rather than omitted — C#'s current behaviour, because a decodable fixed-shape encoding is worth more than brevity, and because omission is what makes the compact form undecodable. The same rule reaches `Edge`, `RawDocumentHeader` and `SelectionDocumentRecord`. **`Select` gains projection**, so the thing the vectors test is the thing that decides; the harness must not assemble a page the evaluator never produces. - **R-AQ. Until R-AP lands, this cut claims semantic parity over a named field subset, not byte parity** — and the map says so in those words. Soul is right that byte parity cannot be claimed today, and it is better to name the smaller claim than to let the larger one stand unearned. **Flagged for the operator**: wire parity is this campaign's stated invariant, so if semantic parity is not enough for Cut 1 to merge, R-AP becomes a blocker rather than a follow-up. ### Fix batch 6 landed, 2026-09-23, verified locally and not on Yggdrasil Sonnet, six commits on `sel-fix6` (pushed by Self after review). C# Networking **279 passed / 2 skipped** (was 274), Mesh 255, Caching 193 unchanged. Rust **259 across 12 targets** (was 254/11). +650 / −47 across 13 files, no new targets, packages or dependencies. **The verification gap comes first, because it is Self's.** The brief said "use `ygg-verify.sh`" without its path, where every earlier brief gave the full path. Hands searched, could not find it, and **verified the whole batch locally on the workstation** — the exact work the load budget forbids there. It reported the gap plainly rather than claiming the bar was met, and **left the branch unpushed on purpose** so the work would not look merge-ready. Both were the right calls. Recorded as a scar at Eureka `301df32`; **this batch still owes its Yggdrasil run**, and Soul's pass will provide it. - **R-AL.** The guard is restored and the false comment deleted. **The real fix went to the owner**: D10b in `CultCache.DiscoverMembers` now groups **every** member by its reference-role namespace (`IndexAlias ?? MemberName`), not only aliased ones, and refuses registration when a data member's bare name collides with a reference member's alias. Registration of the probed shape now throws. Since D10b closes the only production door, the guard itself is pinned by a test that **builds the colliding descriptor through reflection to bypass the registry deliberately** — and removing the guard makes it yield both members and fail. - **R-AM.** `HandleSnapshotRequestV1Async` now catches `Exception` and answers a `CultNetErrorMessage`, like its two siblings. The dispatch backstop logs, always. **Writing the test found a second defect**: the backstop logged `DynamicInvoke`'s `TargetInvocationException` wrapper — "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation" — rather than the real fault, so it now unwraps. The first run failed on the wrapper text, which is precisely the bug that half of R-AM exists to fix. - **R-AN.** Two isolating Rust tests added; the previous one tied `From` and `To` across both edges, so dropping `role` survived. **The `To.SchemaId`/`To.Key` equivalence argument recorded here was FALSE, and is deleted rather than amended.** It claimed that within a page-position bucket no construction gives two edges with tied `From` and `Role` and differing `To`. Soul built the counterexample and ran it in both runtimes: **a selection carrying both hops mixes their edges into one bucket**, so a row that self-references through the same role it uses to cite a peer yields a `cites` edge (`to` = the queried peer) and a `cited` edge (`to` = itself), tied on `From` and `Role`, differing on `To`. A self-referencing role is a parent or peer link — ordinary, not exotic. **This is the second justification-from-an-unchecked-property in three batches**, and R-AL's standing rule applies to it. - **R-AO.** Shared-key order pinned in both runtimes, both row orders, plus a vector case regenerated into both written files. - **R-AP, half built and half stopped, correctly.** The encoding is decided and **C# already did it** — `[MessagePackObject]`/`[Key("name")]` writes a camelCase map with nil for absent optionals by default. The gap was entirely Rust-side: `skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none"` on four types omitted keys under `to_vec_named`. Removed from all four, `#[serde(default)]` kept for decode. **Byte-identical now, against real C# MessagePack 3.1.7 hex**: `RawDocumentHeader` and `Edge`, each broken once by hand to confirm the assertions are not vacuous. **The byte counts recorded here were wrong** — 86 and 99 — and are corrected to **228 and 246**, measured on Yggdrasil against MessagePack C# 3.1.7. The committed hex constants matched the real bytes exactly all along; only this prose was wrong. **"`Select` gains projection" was not built**, and Hands stopped and said why rather than reporting the ruling closed. Header and document projection is owned by `CultNetDocumentRegistry.SelectPage`/`SelectAll`, a different class from the evaluator, which knows only generic rows and descriptors and has no legitimate route to a schema's wire-binding override. Moving that ownership is buildable — thread a caller-supplied serializer, as `ordinalOf`/`shardIdOf` already are — but changes both signatures, every caller, and the vector harness itself. **R-AQ, restated honestly.** The claim has moved from "semantic parity, byte parity absent" to **"nested wire-type byte parity confirmed and vector-tested; whole-message byte parity still blocked on unbuilt page-assembly ownership."** No vector yet exercises the real message output byte for byte. ### Self's rulings - **R-AR. The page-assembly ownership question is its own cut, not a follow-up.** It changes two public signatures, every caller and the harness, which is a cut's worth of work and exactly the kind of thing that has slipped five passes by being carried as a loose end. **Cut 1 does not wait for it.** - **R-AS. Cut 1's honest claim is nested wire-type byte parity plus semantic parity over the named field subset.** The map says that in those words, and the target document is reconciled to it. **Flagged for the operator:** if whole-message byte parity is required before this cut merges, R-AR becomes a blocker and Cut 1 stays open; if it can be its own cut, Cut 1 can close on the claim above once Soul clears it. ## Soul, the merge gate, third pass, 2026-09-23 Opus. **Every run went to Yggdrasil**, supplying the run batch 6 owed. Reproduced: C# Networking 279 / 2 skipped, Mesh 255, Rust 259 across 12 binaries. **Caching is 190 passed / 3 failed** — the three assert a write is *refused*, which root in a container cannot produce. **Unproven, not passing**, and Soul declined to call them environmental on its own authority. **Verdict: Cut 1 may not merge.** ### SM-7, CONFIRMED, high. R-AN did not land, and its justification is false. Three named survivors are still alive: | mutation | Rust | C# | |---|---|---| | drop both `to.schemaId` and `to.recordKey` from the edge comparator | **survives** | **survives** | | drop `recordKey` from the **row** comparator | **survives** | killed | The row survivor is the fourth line of SM-4's own table from the previous gate, and **batch 6 added no Rust row-order test at all**. **Soul built the counterexample and ran it in both runtimes.** The false argument reasoned about each hop separately; a selection carrying **both** hops mixes their edges into one `Vec`. A row that self-references through the same role it uses to cite a peer produces a `cites` edge (`to` = the queried peer) and a `cited` edge (`to` = itself) in the **same page-position bucket**, tied on `From` and `Role`, differing on `To`. Rust's fixture `peer` role and a C# `[CultReference(typeof(Self), many: true)]` both express it. Reversing the `to.recordKey` comparison is killed **only** by Soul's probe, so the branch is live and decides real output. **A self-referencing role is a parent or peer link — ordinary.** Both runtimes agree today only because the comparator text is duplicated — the "coincidence of source, not a rule" that SM-4 raised and R-AN was written to close. ### SM-8, CONFIRMED, medium. The cut's parity claim has no home. Section 9 says the claim is written into `docs/runtime-parity-scope.md`, "not here alone". **That file contains zero mentions of typed selection**, and never did — not even the earlier overstated wording. R-AS said the target document "is reconciled to it". It is not. ### SM-9, CONFIRMED, low. The map's byte counts are wrong; the constants are right. Serialized on Yggdrasil against MessagePack C# 3.1.7: `CultNetRawDocumentHeader` is **228 bytes**, `CultNetEdge` is **246 bytes**. The committed hex in `selection_wire_parity.rs` matches **exactly**. The landing note recorded 86 and 99. **The thing Self asked Soul to distrust was sound; the prose beside it was not.** ### Promises that held **R-AL is complete, including inheritance.** Seven shapes built through `Reflection.Emit` and pushed at the real registry, all refused: data name against reference alias, reference name against reference alias, alias against alias, data *alias* against reference *name*, implicit many-reference through `List>`, and **across inheritance**, where the message names both declaring types. The one shape that still registers is two *data* members colliding with no reference present — **not a hole**, because the index namespace is looked up by exact `IndexAlias` and never by the name fallback; only the reference namespace uses `IndexAlias ?? MemberName`. `PersistedMember.IsReferenceCandidate` is a character-exact mirror of `FromMember`'s `isReference`, so D10b cannot disagree with the descriptor it guards. Narrowing D10b dies; weakening the restored guard dies. **R-AM reaches the wire, not just the log.** Real loopback UDP through LiteNetLib with the production transport: the null-`Selection` fault arrives at the client and decodes as `CultNetErrorMessage` with the real message. Mutating the handler to log but answer nothing dies. **R-AO's vector genuinely discriminates.** Under last-wins the resolved schema stops matching the citation's declared target and the page empties, so the vector has real power rather than merely existing. **R-AP's bytes are right, and more of them than claimed.** `SelectionDocumentRecord` is byte-identical at 269 bytes, and — the one that matters — **the whole `cultnet.snapshot_response_raw.v1` envelope is byte-identical at 376 bytes**, Rust's encoder against C#'s message. Nothing broke on decode. ### Observations, not defects `SelectionPage` has **no C# counterpart to be byte-identical to**; byte parity is undefined for it. The new generic catch sends raw .NET exception text to an unauthenticated peer — **exactly what R-AM ordered, and what the siblings do**, so consistent rather than wrong, but worth its own ruling one day. D10b is stricter than the restored guard needs: a data member aliased `Owner` beside a reference member named `Owner` used to register and worked, and is now refused — defensible, but a breaking registration change with no note. ### Soul on the wording, and Self's correction Soul agrees **R-AR is its own cut**. It does not agree with how I described the residual gap, and it is right on both counts: - **"Nested wire-type byte parity" overstates it.** The branch proves two types, each at exactly one value with **every optional absent**. Nothing in the batch touches a header with `tags` populated or an edge with a `payload` — precisely where `string[]` versus `Vec` and `byte[]` versus `serde_bytes` could diverge. The correct words are **"byte parity for `RawDocumentHeader` and `Edge` at an all-optionals-absent value"**. - **"Blocked on unbuilt page-assembly ownership" is the wrong word, and the expensive one.** It ran two independent things together: the two *encoders* producing identical bytes for the same page value, and the two *evaluators* producing the same page value from the same rows. The second is what the vectors already compare. **The first needs no ownership move at all — Soul wrote it this afternoon and it passes at 376 bytes.** What R-AR buys is a single test driving rows to bytes in one call rather than two halves meeting on paper. **Calling it blocked made the cheapest available evidence look expensive, which is how it slipped six passes while sitting there for the taking.** ### The rig `C:\Users\Meta\eureka-soul-probes\cultnet-selection-cut1-fix6\`, beside batch 5's: three C# probe classes, a Rust wire probe, the counterexample patch, three mutation drivers, seven precomputed C# mutants, and a README carrying the full mutation table and the two `ygg-verify.sh` rakes (now in the script's own header, Eureka `db1c84d`). ### What Soul could not run No Stryker; the C# survivor list stays untriaged. No cargo-mutants sweep — thirteen hand-built non-revert mutations instead, all at `-j1`. `contracts.rs` and `schema_discovery.rs` unmeasured, with batch 5's partial `validate_*` signal still hanging. The `--since`/`GitInfoProvider` crash still not root-caused. **Soul proved the `to` comparator branch is reachable; it did not prove the two runtimes would disagree on it, only that nothing stops them.** ## Self's rulings for fix batch 7, 2026-09-23 - **R-AT (SM-7). Every component of both orderings dies under its own mutation, in both runtimes** — including `to.schemaId` and `to.recordKey`, which now have **a known construction to test against**, and Rust's row comparator `record_key`, which SM-4 named a pass ago and batch 6 never touched. Take Soul's counterexample from the rig rather than rebuilding it. - **R-AU. The false equivalence argument is deleted from the map**, done above, not amended. Standing rule reaffirmed: **an argument that a branch is unreachable is a claim to falsify, not a reason to skip a test.** - **R-AV (SM-8). `docs/runtime-parity-scope.md` carries the typed-selection row**, in the corrected words. A claim whose named home does not mention it is not recorded. - **R-AW (SM-9). Correct the byte counts to 228 and 246.** - **R-AX. Land the whole-message parity vector.** Soul already has it green at 376 bytes. **This is not blocked and never was** — my wording made it look so. Land it as a vector on both sides, and add a header with `tags` and an edge with a `payload`, since those are the shapes where the collection and byte-array mappings could diverge and the all-absent value proves nothing about them. - **R-AY. Cut 1's claim, in these words**: byte parity for the `snapshot_response_raw.v1` envelope and its nested record types, verified at populated and absent optional values, plus semantic parity over the named field subset. **R-AR remains its own cut** and buys a single rows-to-bytes path, not the claim itself. - **D10b's strictness gets a note** in the registration error and the map: a shape that used to register and work is now refused. ### Fix batch 7 landed, 2026-09-23 Sonnet, seven commits on `sel-fix7`, **all verified on Yggdrasil**, one slot at a time across thirteen sequential jobs with no concurrent verdicts. C# Networking **280 passed** (was 279 / 2 skipped), Mesh 255 unchanged, Rust **264 across 12 binaries** (was 259). Caching stays 190 / 3, the three still unprovable under a root container and deliberately not "fixed". **No production logic changed** except one error message and its comment. Everything else is tests and docs. - **R-AT.** All three surviving comparator components now die, in both runtimes, at `-j1`: dropping both `to` components, reversing `to.record_key`, and dropping `record_key` from Rust's row comparator. **And Hands found that Soul's own construction did not actually kill the "drop both" mutant.** Taken verbatim from the rig, it survives in *both* runtimes — not because the branch is unreachable, but because `select`'s push order happens to match alphabetical sort for that naming, and **the two runtimes push in opposite orders** (Rust emits `cited` before `cites`, C# the reverse). Rust needed the self-citer's key to sort *after* the target's, C# needed the reverse. **A third fixture passing by coincidence**, found while executing rather than by a later pass. Each runtime now carries its own naming with the reasoning written into the test. - **R-AV.** `docs/runtime-parity-scope.md` gains the typed-selection row in R-AY's words, naming the four files that carry the byte and semantic vectors and calling out R-AR as separate and still open. **The claim now has the home the map said it had.** - **R-AW.** Verified, not assumed: the committed hex constants are **228 and 246 bytes**, matching a real MessagePack C# 3.1.7 run. The map's prose is corrected above; the constants were right all along. - **R-AX. The whole-message vector landed, byte-identical at 376 bytes**, and the thin evidence is no longer thin: - `RawDocumentHeader` with `tags = ["alpha","beta"]`: **239 bytes**, identical — `string[]` and `Vec` agree. - `Edge` with `payload = [1,2,3]` and `payload_encoding = "messagepack"`: **261 bytes**, identical — `byte[]` and `serde_bytes` agree. **No divergence.** That was a real risk named in the ruling and it did not materialise. - **D10b's breaking change is noted** in the error message and its owning comment: a data member aliased `Owner` beside a reference member named `Owner` used to register silently and fault at resolution; it is now refused at the door with no compatibility path. **Every condition Soul set for merging is now met.** A final gate pass follows. ## Soul, the merge gate, fourth pass, 2026-09-23 Opus. Four sequential Yggdrasil jobs, one slot, Rust at `-j1`. Merge to `origin/main` is conflict-free; main's 42 divergent commits touch no file this cut touches. ### **Verdict: Cut 1 may merge.** **Baselines, with one correction.** Rust 264 across 12 binaries, Mesh 255, Caching 190 / 3 — all as reported. **C# Networking is 283 passed / 2 skipped, not the 280 reported.** Under-reported this time rather than over; the count still went into the record wrong. ### The five conditions 1. **Met for everything that decides output, not met on the letter.** Killed in both runtimes: dropping both `to` components, dropping `to.record_key` alone, reversing it, dropping `record_key` from the row comparator, plus `from.record_key` and `role` in Rust. **The batch's new fixtures are the killers and they are not coincidental** — Soul attacked them with single-component variants and they held. **But `to.schemaId` survives both dropping and reversing, in both runtimes.** Hands never claimed it dies alone; **R-AT did, and R-AT was mine.** Soul could not construct a selection where it decides anything — under D10b a role resolves to one declared target type and reference resolution yields at most one row per (role, key) — but says plainly that is a claim, not a proof, **and the same shape of argument that has been wrong twice here.** Hence the follow-up is "construct a killer **or delete the component**", not "record it as equivalent". 2. **Partially met, and the miss is mine.** The false argument is gone where batch 6 restated it and **still stands, unstruck, at its original site** — the `EdgesFor` paragraph and ruling **R-AC** ("Recorded, not to be chased"). Those read as live instructions. I deleted the copy and left the original, which is the same sweep failure this map has recorded before. 3. **Met.** `runtime-parity-scope.md` carries the row in R-AY's words, naming four files that all exist. 4. **Met**, and the constants were right all along. 5. **Met, and genuinely two-sided.** The three constants are byte-identical strings in both files; each runtime serializes and asserts independently, so **neither reads the other's answer**. All three C# tests pass and **all three fail when Soul flipped one hex digit** of the expected constant. 239, 261 and 376 are real MessagePack C# 3.1.7 output. ### SM-10, CONFIRMED. The 246-byte all-absent `Edge` vector is Rust-only. The 228-byte all-absent header is nested inside the 376-byte envelope, so C# regenerates it. **The edge has no such cover.** A C# edge encoder that resumed omitting a null `payload`/`payloadEncoding` would still pass the 261-byte populated vector, and **nothing on the C# side would fail** — which is exactly what R-AP existed to kill. It leaves `runtime-parity-scope.md`'s "verified at populated and absent optional values" true for three cells of four. **Five lines of C# closes it.** ### Self's decision: close four items, then merge Soul named this the follow-up it "would put a name on". A known hole that a five-line test closes is not a follow-up — merging over it would be shipping the exact asymmetry the cut exists to prevent, with a note promising to come back. **Batch 8 closes items 1 to 4, then the cut merges.** - **R-AZ (SM-10).** Mirror the 246-byte all-absent `Edge` constant into `SelectionWireParityTests.cs`, so both runtimes assert all four cells. - **R-BA.** Settle `to.schemaId`: **construct a killer, or delete the component from both comparators.** A component no input can distinguish is not free — it is a line the next reader must reason about, and the reasoning has been wrong twice. - **R-BB.** Correct the landing note to 283 passed / 2 skipped. - **R-BC.** Strike R-AC and the `EdgesFor` equivalence paragraph **at their original site**, not with a note beside them. **Not blocking, recorded as genuine follow-ups**, none a known defect in the cut's behaviour and all outside the selection surface: the C# Stryker survivor list untriaged; `contracts.rs` and `schema_discovery.rs` unmeasured with batch 5's partial `validate_*` signal hanging; the `--since`/`GitInfoProvider` crash unrooted; Caching's three, which **need a non-root container to prove and must not be "fixed"**. Rig: `C:\Users\Meta\eureka-soul-probes\cultnet-selection-cut1-fix7\`. ### Fix batch 8 landed, 2026-09-23 — the pre-merge batch Sonnet, two commits on `sel-fix8` (`cda28fa`, `492dd0e`), verified on Yggdrasil at `-j1`. C# Networking **284 passed / 2 skipped** (283 baseline plus the one new test), Rust **264 across 12 binaries**, unchanged — the deletion is behaviour-neutral. - **R-AZ.** The 246-byte all-absent `Edge` vector is mirrored into `SelectionWireParityTests.cs`, so both runtimes now assert all four cells. **Proven non-vacuous**: flipping byte 0 of the constant fails exactly that test and nothing else, on a throwaway commit that was never pushed. - **R-BA. Deleted, not constructed — and the argument is stronger than the one the ruling carried.** Hands traced both resolvers: each resolves a reference purely from `(citer's schema, role, recordKey)` against the evaluation's own fixed candidate index, with no edge- or caller-specific input steering which candidate wins — Rust's `target_leaves(role)` does not even take a schema. So once `From`, `Role` and `To.RecordKey` tie in the comparator, **the resolved row including its schema is forced identical by construction**. That does not depend on schema-authoring discipline the way my D10b argument did; it depends only on the resolution function being a pure function of already-tied inputs. **It is a structural proof rather than a semantic claim**, which is the distinction that has bitten this cut twice. Hands checked it against the live counterexample too — the self-citing row breaks `to.record_key`, not `to.schema_id`. The tiebreak is gone from both comparators, with its stale documentation in a third file. No test relied on it. **All four of Soul's pre-merge items are closed**, three by this batch and R-BC by Self, which struck the false equivalence argument at both original sites rather than annotating it.