@hviana/sema 0.2.4 → 0.2.6

package/dist/src/mind/match.d.ts

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-import { Vec } from "../vec.js";
-import type { Hit } from "../store.js";
-import type { MindContext } from "./types.js";
-import type { Site } from "./graph-search.js";
-/** The graded LOCATE ladder: find `needle` in `haystack` starting at
- *  `fromPos`, strictest matcher first, relaxing only when the stricter one
- *  fails.  This is the read-out matcher skill extraction locates exemplar
- *  frames with.
- *
- *  1. exact    — literal byte match (the fast path).
- *  2. halo     — the needle's distributional role matches a recognised query
- *                form (gate: conceptThreshold).
- *  3. gist     — the needle's perceived gist matches a query segment
- *                (gate: identityBar — scale-aware).
- *
- *  Returns the absolute byte position, or −1. */
-export declare function locate(ctx: MindContext, haystack: Uint8Array, needle: Uint8Array, fromPos: number, sites?: ReadonlyArray<Site>): number;
-/** The ALIGNED matcher: maximal literal matching runs between `query` and
- *  `ct` (a learned context's bytes), by seed-and-extend over
- *  `space.maxGroup`-sized n-gram seeds.  Where locate() finds ONE position of
- *  a short frame, this finds EVERY run two whole structures share — the
- *  matcher CAST detects a woven query with.  Returns non-overlapping runs
- *  sorted by query position. */
-export declare function alignRuns(ctx: MindContext, query: Uint8Array, ct: Uint8Array): Array<{
-    qs: number;
-    qe: number;
-    cs: number;
-}>;
-/** A run from {@link alignGraded} — the ALIGNED matcher extended with the
- *  same graded-evidence ladder as {@link locate}.  Literal runs carry
- *  `weight = 1` (exact match is full evidence); halo-matched site runs carry
- *  `weight = cosine` (measured evidence — the halo similarity itself).
- *  `cs` is the structural byte position in the context regardless of run
- *  kind, so the substitution/redirection schemas work unchanged on conceptual
- *  alignment. */
-export interface GradedRun {
-    qs: number;
-    qe: number;
-    cs: number;
-    weight: number;
-}
-/** The GRADED alignment matcher: extends literal W-gram alignment
- *  ({@link alignRuns}) with halo-matched recognised sites in query regions
- *  that have no literal coverage.  Same ladder as {@link locate}: literal
- *  first, then distributional role (halo-matched sites, gate:
- *  conceptThreshold, enforced by {@link bestHaloMate}).  Returns weighted
- *  runs sorted by query position.
- *
- *  `querySites` are the pre-computed recognition sites for the query
- *  (optional — when absent, only literal alignment fires and graded degrades
- *  to the original behaviour).  Context sites are recognised internally. */
-export declare function alignGraded(ctx: MindContext, query: Uint8Array, contextBytes: Uint8Array, querySites?: ReadonlyArray<Site>): GradedRun[];
-/** The IN-LIST halo matcher: the best halo-mate for `halo` among EXPLICIT
- *  candidates, above the concept threshold — the list counterpart of
- *  {@link haloSiblings}, which asks the halo INDEX for candidates instead.
- *  Behind locate()'s halo step and articulation's voice matching; a third
- *  "best halo among these" decision must come here, not inline. */
-export declare function bestHaloMate<T>(ctx: MindContext, halo: Vec, items: Iterable<T>, haloOf: (item: T) => Vec | null | undefined): {
-    item: T;
-    score: number;
-} | null;
-export declare function haloSiblings(ctx: MindContext, id: number, halo?: Vec | null, bar?: number): Promise<Hit[]>;
-/** The DISTRIBUTIONAL matcher between two nodes: mutual-nearest-neighbour
- *  strength, not a pick.  Returns the direct halo cosine, or failing that the
- *  highest mutual-halo-sibling min-score (second-order analogy), or failing
- *  that the SHARED-FRAME strength (below) — the gate CAST's comparison
- *  schema validates genuine analogs with (bar: significanceBar).
- *
- *  The result names its TIER alongside the score: `halo: true` means the
- *  score cleared a significanceBar-gated HALO tier (direct company cosine
- *  or mutual-sibling) — genuine distributional evidence; `halo: false`
- *  means only the structural shared-frame fallback matched, a coverage
- *  fraction with no bar of its own.  CAST's comparison gate treats the two
- *  differently (see cast.ts): halo evidence stands alone, frame evidence
- *  needs the query to have named the analog or the climb root to be
- *  trusted. */
-export interface AnalogyEvidence {
-    score: number;
-    halo: boolean;
-}
-export declare function analogyStrength(ctx: MindContext, a: number, b: number): Promise<AnalogyEvidence>;
-/** The STRUCTURAL analogy tier: two nodes are analogs when their byte
- *  streams share a LEARNT frame — a content-addressed flat form of at least
- *  one full river window (W bytes, the perception quantum) that occurs in
- *  BOTH.  This is what "playing the same role" means structurally: "Ice is
- *  cold" and "Steel is hard" share the learnt " is " frame even though they
- *  keep disjoint distributional company.  Halos measure company by IDENTITY
- *  (company signatures — see sema.ts), so unrelated-company analogs must be
- *  validated by the frame itself, not by content leaking through halo
- *  vectors.  Strength is the shared learnt coverage of the SHORTER side —
- *  a fraction, comparable to the cosine tiers above.  Derived: the window
- *  is maxGroup, the same quantum differsByOneWindow and canonicalChunkId
- *  measure by; no tuned constants. */
-export declare function sharedFrameStrength(ctx: MindContext, a: number, b: number): number;
-/** FORWARD through a synonym: the continuation an edge-less node borrows from
- *  a concept (halo) sibling — resonate the node's halo, take the first
- *  sibling above the concept threshold that itself has a direct edge. */
-export declare function conceptHop(ctx: MindContext, id: number): Promise<number | null>;
-/** FORWARD projection: follow continuation edges from a node to its fixpoint.
- *  The first hop may cross a concept (halo) link — a synonym.  The rest
- *  follow direct edges.  Convergence is intrinsic: the seen set guards
- *  against cycles.  `guide` disambiguates multi-continuation nodes by
- *  resonance. */
-export declare function follow(ctx: MindContext, id: number, guide?: Vec | null): Promise<Uint8Array | null>;
-/** REVERSE projection: the context a learnt continuation follows, voiced as
- *  bytes.  A common continuation ("Yes.") follows MANY contexts; with a
- *  `guide` the context whose gist resonates with the query wins (seat
- *  symmetry) — without one, the most-corroborated context wins (poured halo
- *  MASS, the direct measure of how many episodes established it), falling
- *  back to first-learnt on equal mass.  Among many predecessors RECIPROCAL
- *  ones (mutual edges) are preferred when any exist (RC5).  Callers that
- *  HAVE a query gist must pass it, or they silently change disambiguation
- *  regime.
- *
- *  `rev`, when the caller has already materialised prevOf (one read per
- *  relation — a hub's reverse fan-in is corpus-sized), is reused instead of
- *  refetched.  Returns null when there is no predecessor or the picked
- *  context reads empty (a zero-length context is no grounding: an empty
- *  Uint8Array is truthy, and returning it would flow a hollow "answer"
- *  onward). */
-export declare function reverseContext(ctx: MindContext, id: number, guide?: Vec | null, rev?: readonly number[]): Uint8Array | null;
-/** THE projection: ground a matched node to answer bytes — FORWARD to its
- *  continuation fixpoint (which may cross a concept hop), else REVERSE to
- *  the context it follows.  This is the direction ladder every mechanism's
- *  final grounding step reduces to. */
-export declare function project(ctx: MindContext, id: number, guide?: Vec | null): Promise<Uint8Array | null>;

package/dist/src/mind/match.js

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-// match.ts — the ONE elementary operation behind every generalising mechanism:
-// MATCH a learned structure against bytes, then PROJECT along a learned
-// relation, gated by a derived threshold.
-//
-// Every grounding/generalisation mechanism in the mind is a configuration of
-// this single (matcher, direction, gate) operation:
-//
-//   mechanism           matcher                        direction     gate
-//   ─────────────────── ────────────────────────────── ───────────── ────────────────
-//   cover follow-edge   exact (content-addressed)      forward       —
-//   concept hop         halo sibling                   forward       conceptThreshold
-//   recall tier 0–1     identity / whole-query gist    fwd/reverse   identityBar
-//   skill extraction    locate() ladder (exact→halo→   read-out      per-step gates
-//                       gist) on the exemplar's frames
-//   CAST substitution   alignGraded() (graded ladder:  insert        frame shapes
-//                       literal W-grams → halo sites)
-//   CAST comparison     analogyStrength() (halo,       juxtapose     significanceBar
-//                       direct or mutual-sibling)
-//   multi-hop pivot     byte containment               forward       —
-//   articulation        halo sibling                   substitute    conceptThreshold
-//
-// This module holds the shared vocabulary those configurations are built
-// from — the MATCHERS (locate, alignRuns, alignGraded, analogyStrength) and
-// the PROJECTIONS (follow, conceptHop, reverseContext, project) — so each
-// mechanism file states only its configuration, never its own copy of the
-// machinery.  The gates all live in geometry.ts (derived, never tuned).
-import { cosine } from "../vec.js";
-import { conceptThreshold, identityBar, significanceBar } from "../geometry.js";
-import { indexOf } from "../bytes.js";
-import { leafIdRun } from "./canonical.js";
-import { gistOf, read, resolve } from "./primitives.js";
-import { argmaxCosine, chooseAmong, chooseNext, guidedFirst, hubBound, hubCap, } from "./traverse.js";
-import { recognise, segment } from "./recognition.js";
-// ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
-// MATCHERS — locating learned structure in/against bytes, by graded strictness
-// ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
-/** The graded LOCATE ladder: find `needle` in `haystack` starting at
- *  `fromPos`, strictest matcher first, relaxing only when the stricter one
- *  fails.  This is the read-out matcher skill extraction locates exemplar
- *  frames with.
- *
- *  1. exact    — literal byte match (the fast path).
- *  2. halo     — the needle's distributional role matches a recognised query
- *                form (gate: conceptThreshold).
- *  3. gist     — the needle's perceived gist matches a query segment
- *                (gate: identityBar — scale-aware).
- *
- *  Returns the absolute byte position, or −1. */
-export function locate(ctx, haystack, needle, fromPos, sites) {
-    // 1. Exact match — fast, preserves backward compatibility.
-    const exact = indexOf(haystack.subarray(fromPos), needle, 0);
-    if (exact >= 0)
-        return fromPos + exact;
-    // 2. Halo-based: the frame bytes' distributional role matches a query form.
-    if (sites && sites.length > 0) {
-        const frameId = resolve(ctx, needle);
-        if (frameId !== null) {
-            const frameHalo = ctx.store.halo(frameId);
-            if (frameHalo) {
-                const bestSite = bestHaloMate(ctx, frameHalo, sites.filter((s) => s.start >= fromPos), (s) => ctx.store.halo(s.payload));
-                if (bestSite !== null)
-                    return bestSite.item.start;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-    // 3. Gist resonance: the frame's perceived gist against query segments.
-    const frameGist = gistOf(ctx, needle);
-    const segments = segment(ctx, haystack.subarray(fromPos));
-    // The gist tier claims the WHOLE needle appears as a segment — an
-    // identity claim over `needle.length` bytes, so its bar is the
-    // scale-aware {@link identityBar} (one river window of tolerated foreign
-    // bytes), not the fixed estimator floor.  For quantum-sized frames the
-    // two coincide; for long needles the fixed bar accepted segments that
-    // differed by whole windows.
-    const bestSeg = argmaxCosine(frameGist, segments, (s) => s.v, identityBar(ctx.store.D, ctx.space.maxGroup, needle.length), true);
-    if (bestSeg !== null)
-        return fromPos + bestSeg.item.start;
-    return -1;
-}
-/** The ALIGNED matcher: maximal literal matching runs between `query` and
- *  `ct` (a learned context's bytes), by seed-and-extend over
- *  `space.maxGroup`-sized n-gram seeds.  Where locate() finds ONE position of
- *  a short frame, this finds EVERY run two whole structures share — the
- *  matcher CAST detects a woven query with.  Returns non-overlapping runs
- *  sorted by query position. */
-export function alignRuns(ctx, query, ct) {
-    const quantum = Math.min(ctx.space.maxGroup, ct.length);
-    if (quantum < 1 || query.length < quantum)
-        return [];
-    const gram = (b, at) => {
-        let s = "";
-        for (let i = 0; i < quantum; i++)
-            s += String.fromCharCode(b[at + i]);
-        return s;
-    };
-    const seeds = new Map();
-    for (let i = 0; i + quantum <= query.length; i++) {
-        const k2 = gram(query, i);
-        const bucket = seeds.get(k2);
-        if (bucket === undefined)
-            seeds.set(k2, [i]);
-        else
-            bucket.push(i);
-    }
-    const found = [];
-    for (let j = 0; j + quantum <= ct.length; j++) {
-        const bucket = seeds.get(gram(ct, j));
-        if (bucket === undefined)
-            continue;
-        for (const i of bucket) {
-            if (i > 0 && j > 0 && query[i - 1] === ct[j - 1])
-                continue;
-            let len = quantum;
-            while (i + len < query.length && j + len < ct.length &&
-                query[i + len] === ct[j + len])
-                len++;
-            found.push({ qs: i, qe: i + len, cs: j, len });
-        }
-    }
-    found.sort((a, b) => b.len - a.len);
-    const runs = [];
-    for (const r of found) {
-        const clash = runs.some((o) => (r.qs < o.qe && o.qs < r.qe) ||
-            (r.cs < o.cs + (o.qe - o.qs) && o.cs < r.cs + r.len));
-        if (!clash)
-            runs.push({ qs: r.qs, qe: r.qe, cs: r.cs });
-    }
-    return runs.sort((a, b) => a.qs - b.qs);
-}
-/** The GRADED alignment matcher: extends literal W-gram alignment
- *  ({@link alignRuns}) with halo-matched recognised sites in query regions
- *  that have no literal coverage.  Same ladder as {@link locate}: literal
- *  first, then distributional role (halo-matched sites, gate:
- *  conceptThreshold, enforced by {@link bestHaloMate}).  Returns weighted
- *  runs sorted by query position.
- *
- *  `querySites` are the pre-computed recognition sites for the query
- *  (optional — when absent, only literal alignment fires and graded degrades
- *  to the original behaviour).  Context sites are recognised internally. */
-export function alignGraded(ctx, query, contextBytes, querySites) {
-    const lit = alignRuns(ctx, query, contextBytes);
-    const out = lit.map((r) => ({ ...r, weight: 1 }));
-    if (!querySites || querySites.length === 0)
-        return out;
-    // Mark query positions ALREADY covered by literal runs — halo fills gaps.
-    // If literal coverage is already complete, skip the halo step entirely
-    // (recognise is O(|ctx|·W) — wasted when every byte is accounted for).
-    const covered = new Uint8Array(query.length);
-    let gaps = false;
-    for (const r of lit) {
-        for (let i = r.qs; i < r.qe; i++)
-            covered[i] = 1;
-    }
-    for (let i = 0; i < query.length; i++) {
-        if (!covered[i]) {
-            gaps = true;
-            break;
-        }
-    }
-    if (!gaps)
-        return out;
-    // Recognise sites in the exemplar context — structural positions for halo
-    // matching.  (Circular import with recognition.ts is safe: recognise() is
-    // called lazily, never at module load — the same pattern `segment` uses.)
-    const ctxSites = recognise(ctx, contextBytes).sites;
-    if (ctxSites.length === 0)
-        return out;
-    // Context sites with halos, hoisted: the same set serves every query site.
-    const ctxCands = ctxSites.filter((cs) => ctx.store.hasHalo(cs.payload));
-    if (ctxCands.length === 0)
-        return out;
-    // Candidate halos, also hoisted (lazily, first query site that needs them):
-    // bestHaloMate consults every candidate's halo PER QUERY SITE, and sites
-    // share the candidate set — without this memo the same few dozen halos were
-    // re-fetched thousands of times per response.  Distinct payloads can repeat
-    // across sites, hence the map by payload id.
-    const ctxHalos = new Map();
-    const ctxHaloOf = (cs) => {
-        let h = ctxHalos.get(cs.payload);
-        if (h === undefined) {
-            h = ctx.store.halo(cs.payload);
-            ctxHalos.set(cs.payload, h);
-        }
-        return h;
-    };
-    for (const qs of querySites) {
-        // Only sites that overlap UNCOVERED query regions add new evidence.
-        let touchesGap = false;
-        for (let i = qs.start; i < qs.end; i++) {
-            if (!covered[i]) {
-                touchesGap = true;
-                break;
-            }
-        }
-        if (!touchesGap)
-            continue;
-        const qHalo = ctx.store.halo(qs.payload);
-        if (!qHalo)
-            continue;
-        // bestHaloMate already gates at conceptThreshold — no second check needed.
-        const match = bestHaloMate(ctx, qHalo, ctxCands, ctxHaloOf);
-        if (match === null)
-            continue;
-        out.push({
-            qs: qs.start,
-            qe: qs.end,
-            cs: match.item.start,
-            weight: match.score,
-        });
-    }
-    out.sort((a, b) => a.qs - b.qs);
-    return out;
-}
-/** The IN-LIST halo matcher: the best halo-mate for `halo` among EXPLICIT
- *  candidates, above the concept threshold — the list counterpart of
- *  {@link haloSiblings}, which asks the halo INDEX for candidates instead.
- *  Behind locate()'s halo step and articulation's voice matching; a third
- *  "best halo among these" decision must come here, not inline. */
-export function bestHaloMate(ctx, halo, items, haloOf) {
-    return argmaxCosine(halo, items, haloOf, conceptThreshold(ctx.store.D));
-}
-/** The HALO-SIBLING matcher: the nodes that keep the same distributional
- *  company as `id`, nearest first — `resonateHalo` filtered to exclude the
- *  node itself and everything below `bar` (default: the concept threshold).
- *  `halo`, when the caller has already read the node's halo row, is reused
- *  instead of refetched (one read per relation).  Returns [] for a node with
- *  no halo.  The one sibling enumeration behind the concept hop, the
- *  reasoning stage's synonym expansion, and the analogy matcher below. */
-const haloSiblingMemo = new WeakMap();
-export async function haloSiblings(ctx, id, halo, bar = conceptThreshold(ctx.store.D)) {
-    // Per-response memo for the DEFAULT-ARGUMENT reading (the one the concept
-    // hop, the bridge's synonym tier, and reasoning's synonym expansion all
-    // use): the same node's siblings are asked for repeatedly within one
-    // response (bridge pairs share sides), each a full halo-ANN query, and the
-    // store is read-only while a response is in flight.  Keyed by the response
-    // lifecycle object (ctx.climbMemo — fresh per respond, nulled after).
-    // Calls with an explicit halo or bar (analogyStrength's gated reading)
-    // bypass the memo — their filter differs.
-    const memoable = halo === undefined &&
-        bar === conceptThreshold(ctx.store.D) && ctx.climbMemo !== null;
-    let memo;
-    if (memoable) {
-        memo = haloSiblingMemo.get(ctx.climbMemo);
-        if (memo === undefined) {
-            haloSiblingMemo.set(ctx.climbMemo, memo = new Map());
-        }
-        const hit = memo.get(id);
-        if (hit !== undefined)
-            return hit;
-    }
-    const h = halo ?? ctx.store.halo(id);
-    const out = h
-        ? (await ctx.store.resonateHalo(h, ctx.cfg.haloQueryK))
-            .filter((sib) => sib.id !== id && sib.score >= bar)
-        : [];
-    if (memo !== undefined)
-        memo.set(id, out);
-    return out;
-}
-export async function analogyStrength(ctx, a, b) {
-    const ha = ctx.store.halo(a);
-    const hb = ctx.store.halo(b);
-    if (ha && hb) {
-        const bar = significanceBar(ctx.store.D);
-        const direct = cosine(ha, hb);
-        if (direct >= bar)
-            return { score: direct, halo: true };
-        const sibsA = await haloSiblings(ctx, a, ha, bar);
-        const sibsB = await haloSiblings(ctx, b, hb, bar);
-        let best = 0;
-        for (const x of sibsA) {
-            if (x.id === b)
-                continue;
-            const y = sibsB.find((s) => s.id === x.id);
-            if (y !== undefined) {
-                best = Math.max(best, Math.min(x.score, y.score));
-            }
-        }
-        if (best > 0)
-            return { score: best, halo: true };
-    }
-    return { score: sharedFrameStrength(ctx, a, b), halo: false };
-}
-/** The STRUCTURAL analogy tier: two nodes are analogs when their byte
- *  streams share a LEARNT frame — a content-addressed flat form of at least
- *  one full river window (W bytes, the perception quantum) that occurs in
- *  BOTH.  This is what "playing the same role" means structurally: "Ice is
- *  cold" and "Steel is hard" share the learnt " is " frame even though they
- *  keep disjoint distributional company.  Halos measure company by IDENTITY
- *  (company signatures — see sema.ts), so unrelated-company analogs must be
- *  validated by the frame itself, not by content leaking through halo
- *  vectors.  Strength is the shared learnt coverage of the SHORTER side —
- *  a fraction, comparable to the cosine tiers above.  Derived: the window
- *  is maxGroup, the same quantum differsByOneWindow and canonicalChunkId
- *  measure by; no tuned constants. */
-export function sharedFrameStrength(ctx, a, b) {
-    const W = ctx.space.maxGroup;
-    const A = read(ctx, a);
-    const B = read(ctx, b);
-    if (A.length < W || B.length < W)
-        return 0;
-    // Mark every byte of the shorter side covered by a learnt W-window that
-    // also occurs in the longer side.
-    const [s, l] = A.length <= B.length ? [A, B] : [B, A];
-    const covered = new Uint8Array(s.length);
-    for (let off = 0; off + W <= s.length; off++) {
-        const win = s.subarray(off, off + W);
-        // Learnt: the window resolves as a content-addressed flat form.
-        const ids = leafIdRun(ctx, s, off, off + W);
-        if (ids === null || ctx.store.findBranch(ids) === null)
-            continue;
-        if (indexOf(l, win, 0) < 0)
-            continue;
-        covered.fill(1, off, off + W);
-    }
-    let n = 0;
-    for (let i = 0; i < s.length; i++)
-        n += covered[i];
-    return n >= W ? n / s.length : 0;
-}
-// ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
-// PROJECTIONS — what a matched node is projected ALONG (the direction)
-// ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
-/** FORWARD through a synonym: the continuation an edge-less node borrows from
- *  a concept (halo) sibling — resonate the node's halo, take the first
- *  sibling above the concept threshold that itself has a direct edge. */
-export async function conceptHop(ctx, id) {
-    for (const sib of await haloSiblings(ctx, id)) {
-        const hop = guidedFirst(ctx, sib.id);
-        if (hop !== undefined)
-            return hop;
-    }
-    return null;
-}
-/** FORWARD projection: follow continuation edges from a node to its fixpoint.
- *  The first hop may cross a concept (halo) link — a synonym.  The rest
- *  follow direct edges.  Convergence is intrinsic: the seen set guards
- *  against cycles.  `guide` disambiguates multi-continuation nodes by
- *  resonance. */
-export async function follow(ctx, id, guide) {
-    const seen = new Set([id]);
-    // First hop: a direct edge, else a concept sibling's edge (the synonym).
-    let next = chooseNext(ctx, id, guide);
-    if (next === undefined) {
-        const hop = await conceptHop(ctx, id);
-        if (hop === null)
-            return null;
-        next = hop;
-    }
-    // Direct successors to the fixpoint.  Only the FIXPOINT's bytes are
-    // returned, so the walk tracks node ids and reads bytes exactly once at
-    // the end — a K-hop chain used to pay K full reconstructions and discard
-    // K−1 of them.
-    while (!seen.has(next)) {
-        seen.add(next);
-        const fwd = chooseNext(ctx, next, guide);
-        if (fwd === undefined || seen.has(fwd))
-            break;
-        next = fwd;
-    }
-    return read(ctx, next);
-}
-/** REVERSE projection: the context a learnt continuation follows, voiced as
- *  bytes.  A common continuation ("Yes.") follows MANY contexts; with a
- *  `guide` the context whose gist resonates with the query wins (seat
- *  symmetry) — without one, the most-corroborated context wins (poured halo
- *  MASS, the direct measure of how many episodes established it), falling
- *  back to first-learnt on equal mass.  Among many predecessors RECIPROCAL
- *  ones (mutual edges) are preferred when any exist (RC5).  Callers that
- *  HAVE a query gist must pass it, or they silently change disambiguation
- *  regime.
- *
- *  `rev`, when the caller has already materialised prevOf (one read per
- *  relation — a hub's reverse fan-in is corpus-sized), is reused instead of
- *  refetched.  Returns null when there is no predecessor or the picked
- *  context reads empty (a zero-length context is no grounding: an empty
- *  Uint8Array is truthy, and returning it would flow a hollow "answer"
- *  onward). */
-export function reverseContext(ctx, id, guide, rev) {
-    // CAPPED default read: only the first √N predecessors are ever candidates
-    // (hubCap below / in chooseAmong), so only they are read.  hubBound ≥ 2
-    // keeps the single-predecessor shortcut exact.
-    const candidates = rev ?? ctx.store.prevFirst(id, hubBound(ctx));
-    if (candidates.length === 0)
-        return null;
-    // RECIPROCAL PREFERENCE: among many predecessors, one that `id` also
-    // continues TO (cand → id AND id → cand both learnt) is a mutually
-    // established pairing — the strongest structural evidence a predecessor
-    // can carry (bidirectional training deposits both directions of a genuine
-    // pair).  A bare predecessor is one episode's adjacency; guide-resonance
-    // over bare predecessors favours whichever stored document merely
-    // CONTAINS the query's bytes (the linear fold's cosine is byte overlap —
-    // the observed "merci → unrelated French document" failure).  One capped
-    // forward read decides; when no reciprocal exists, behaviour is unchanged
-    // — bare predecessors ARE the honest answer for a shared deposited
-    // continuation (two questions → one answer; audited by 31-audit C1), and
-    // this arm serves every mechanism's reverse projection, so abstaining
-    // here starves far more than the one containment failure it would fix.
-    let pool = candidates;
-    if (candidates.length > 1) {
-        const fwd = new Set(ctx.store.nextFirst(id, hubBound(ctx)));
-        if (fwd.size > 0) {
-            const mutual = candidates.filter((c) => fwd.has(c));
-            if (mutual.length > 0)
-                pool = mutual;
-        }
-    }
-    const pick = pool.length === 1
-        ? pool[0]
-        : guide
-            ? chooseAmong(ctx, pool, guide).id
-            : pickByMass(ctx, pool);
-    const g = read(ctx, pick);
-    return g.length > 0 ? g : null;
-}
-/** The most-corroborated candidate by poured halo mass (first-seen wins a
- *  tie).  Capped at √N candidates by insertion order — the same hub bound
- *  every fan-out walk uses. */
-function pickByMass(ctx, ids) {
-    const capped = hubCap(ctx, ids);
-    let best = capped[0];
-    let bestMass = ctx.store.haloMass(best);
-    for (let i = 1; i < capped.length; i++) {
-        const mass = ctx.store.haloMass(capped[i]);
-        if (mass > bestMass) {
-            best = capped[i];
-            bestMass = mass;
-        }
-    }
-    return best;
-}
-/** THE projection: ground a matched node to answer bytes — FORWARD to its
- *  continuation fixpoint (which may cross a concept hop), else REVERSE to
- *  the context it follows.  This is the direction ladder every mechanism's
- *  final grounding step reduces to. */
-export async function project(ctx, id, guide) {
-    const fc = await follow(ctx, id, guide);
-    if (fc)
-        return fc;
-    return reverseContext(ctx, id, guide);
-}

package/dist/src/mind/mechanisms/alu.d.ts

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-import type { Alu } from "../../alu/src/alu.js";
-import type { PipelineMechanism } from "../pipeline-mechanism.js";
-/** Wrap the ALU as a {@link PipelineMechanism}. */
-export declare function aluToMechanism(alu: Alu): PipelineMechanism;

package/dist/src/mind/mechanisms/alu.js

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-// mechanisms/alu.ts — the ALU wrapped as an ordinary PipelineMechanism.
-//
-// The ALU is a self-contained sublibrary (src/alu) that knows nothing about
-// the pipeline; this adapter is the whole coupling.  Its `parse` populates
-// `pre.computed` before the grounding loop; the cover mechanism handles
-// masking (see mechanisms/cover.ts).  The ALU's own trace steps
-// (`evalComputation`) are emitted inside its `parse()`.  A user extension
-// joins the same way — see MindOptions.mechanismFactories.
-import { STEP } from "../graph-search.js";
-import { unexplainedLabel } from "../rationale.js";
-/** Wrap the ALU as a {@link PipelineMechanism}. */
-export function aluToMechanism(alu) {
-    return {
-        name: "alu",
-        // Not a cover derivation: cover.ts composes an answer by walking
-        // recognised query STRUCTURE; the ALU evaluates a recognised expression
-        // to its authoritative result and hands the bytes back untouched. It
-        // shares cover's near-zero floor (computation always wins, masked into
-        // cover's own search — see mechanisms/cover.ts), but the candidate this
-        // produces is not one of cover's derivations, so it carries its own
-        // honest label, the same way extract/cast/recall each carry theirs.
-        provenance: "alu",
-        parse: (query) => alu.parse(query),
-        async floor(_ctx, _query, pre, _worthRunning) {
-            return pre.computed.length > 0 ? 0 : null;
-        },
-        async run(_ctx, query, pre) {
-            return pre.computed.map((u) => ({
-                bytes: u.bytes,
-                accounted: [[u.i, u.j]],
-                moves: STEP,
-                unexplained: unexplainedLabel(query, [[u.i, u.j]]),
-            }));
-        },
-    };
-}