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package/dist/src/mind/traverse.js

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-// traverse.ts — Traverse primitives + disambiguation (Sections 1 & 6 of the mind).
-//
-//   Traverse — node → nodes   (edgeAncestors, nextOf, prevOf, contains,
-//                               guidedNext, chooseNext, chooseAmong, hubCap)
-//
-// The PROJECTIONS built on these walks (follow, conceptHop, reverseContext,
-// project) live in match.ts — the elementary match-and-project operation.
-import { cosine } from "../vec.js";
-import { gistOf, read } from "./primitives.js";
-const structCaches = new WeakMap();
-// ── The shared ancestor-reach memo ──────────────────────────────────────
-//
-// `edgeAncestors` is a pure function of (node, N) over a read-only store —
-// asking never writes — so its result is reusable for as long as the store
-// is not written to.  There used to be TWO memos and they never met: the
-// climb built a private one per call (computeAttention), while
-// `Precomputed.reachMemo` — documented as "one response-scoped memo serves
-// every mechanism that prices commonality" — was reached only by confluence.
-// The climb is by far the biggest consumer.
-//
-// Keyed off `ctx.climbMemo`'s OBJECT IDENTITY, exactly like the struct cache
-// above, which buys the right lifetime for free: a plain respond() has a
-// fresh climbMemo, so the memo is response-scoped; a conversation turn has
-// the conversation's persistent one, so it is conversation-scoped.  That
-// matters — the stable-prefix fold makes each turn's subtree independent of
-// what follows, so 59–70% of a later turn's climb regions are byte-identical
-// repeats of an earlier turn's (measured on a 4-turn session), and every one
-// of them used to re-climb from cold.
-//
-// Budgeted, not unbounded (AGENTS §2.12): past the cap the whole map is
-// dropped and re-derived, costing a cold climb and never a wrong answer.
-const REACH_MEMO_MAX = 100_000;
-const reachCaches = new WeakMap();
-/** The reach memo this response should use — see the note above.
- *
- *  A TRACED response always gets a fresh, empty one.  `AncestorReach`'s
- *  `visited`/`maxDepth`/`saturation` fields are populated only when a trace
- *  is attached, so an entry deposited by an untraced earlier turn would
- *  silently black out the reach detail of a later traced one; and the trace's
- *  reach payload is serialised by ITERATING this map, which must therefore
- *  hold what THIS climb consulted, not the whole conversation's history.
- *  Consistent with AGENTS §2.11: a traced response is a different machine —
- *  never benchmark with a trace attached. */
-export function sharedReachMemo(ctx) {
-    if (ctx.trace !== null || ctx.climbMemo === null)
-        return new Map();
-    let m = reachCaches.get(ctx.climbMemo);
-    if (m === undefined)
-        reachCaches.set(ctx.climbMemo, m = new Map());
-    else if (m.size >= REACH_MEMO_MAX)
-        m.clear();
-    return m;
-}
-function getStructCache(ctx) {
-    if (ctx.climbMemo === null)
-        return null;
-    let c = structCaches.get(ctx.climbMemo);
-    if (c === undefined) {
-        structCaches.set(ctx.climbMemo, c = {
-            hasNext: new Map(),
-            prevCount: new Map(),
-            hasParents: new Map(),
-        });
-    }
-    return c;
-}
-/** Cached {@link Store.hasNext} — pure during one respond(). */
-function cachedHasNext(ctx, id, cache) {
-    if (cache === null)
-        return ctx.store.hasNext(id);
-    let v = cache.hasNext.get(id);
-    if (v === undefined) {
-        v = ctx.store.hasNext(id);
-        cache.hasNext.set(id, v);
-    }
-    return v;
-}
-/** Cached {@link Store.prevCount} — pure during one respond(). */
-function cachedPrevCount(ctx, id, cache) {
-    if (cache === null)
-        return ctx.store.prevCount(id);
-    let v = cache.prevCount.get(id);
-    if (v === undefined) {
-        v = ctx.store.prevCount(id);
-        cache.prevCount.set(id, v);
-    }
-    return v;
-}
-/** Cached {@link Store.hasParents} — pure during one respond(). */
-function cachedHasParents(ctx, id, cache) {
-    if (cache === null)
-        return ctx.store.hasParents(id);
-    let v = cache.hasParents.get(id);
-    if (v === undefined) {
-        v = ctx.store.hasParents(id);
-        cache.hasParents.set(id, v);
-    }
-    return v;
-}
-// ── Graph climbing ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-/** Climb the structural DAG from a node to its edge-bearing ancestor contexts.
- *  Ascent stops at hub nodes (parents > √N) — their reach is non-discriminative.
- *  When the start node has no structural parents, climbs from containment parents
- *  (sub-span flat branches inheriting their chunks' context).
- *
- *  `memo`, when given, caches whole climbs by start id for the duration of ONE
- *  query (the store is read-only while a query is in flight, so a climb is a
- *  pure function of the id).  The consensus pipeline climbs the SAME anchors
- *  repeatedly — regions sharing a chunk, and canonicalChunkId probing each
- *  chunk's prefixes — so without the memo every repeat re-pays the full
- *  fan-out reads. */
-export function edgeAncestors(ctx, id, contextCount, memo) {
-    const hit = memo?.get(id);
-    if (hit !== undefined)
-        return hit;
-    // BYTE-ATOM COMMONALITY.  A single-byte leaf (implicit negative id) has no
-    // structural parents BY CONSTRUCTION — atoms are never linked into the kid
-    // or contain tables — so this climb cannot observe its containment at all.
-    // The walk below would see only the atom's own direct edges and report
-    // contextsReached ≈ 1, turning the MOST common content in the store into
-    // the MOST discriminative voter (observed on a 325K-context store: every
-    // recognised single-letter site voted full ln N for the one fact whose
-    // continuation is that letter, and their pooled sum out-voted every
-    // genuine anchor).  An unmeasurable containment must not default to
-    // "maximally rare": it is bounded below by the uniform expectation over
-    // the byte alphabet — N contexts, each at least one chunk of up to W of
-    // the 256 possible atoms, reach ≥ N·W/256 contexts per atom on average
-    // (see {@link atomReach}).  When that floor itself exceeds the hub bound
-    // √N the atom is a hub at this corpus scale and the climb abstains
-    // (saturated) — the atom's own edges remain fully traversable (tier-0
-    // exact recall, chooseNext, project); only its say as a consensus voter
-    // is withdrawn.  On a small store the floor stays ≤ √N and the atom
-    // climbs exactly as before, so single-letter facts keep working.
-    if (id < 0 && atomIsHub(ctx, contextCount)) {
-        const bound0 = boundFor(contextCount);
-        const reach = {
-            roots: [],
-            contextsReached: 0,
-            saturated: true,
-            ...(ctx.trace
-                ? {
-                    saturation: {
-                        reason: "byte-atom-commonality",
-                        node: id,
-                        observed: atomReach(ctx, contextCount),
-                        limit: bound0,
-                    },
-                    visited: 0,
-                    maxDepth: 0,
-                }
-                : {}),
-        };
-        memo?.set(id, reach);
-        return reach;
-    }
-    const bound = boundFor(contextCount);
-    const roots = [];
-    const seen = new Set([id]);
-    const ctxSeen = new Set();
-    let saturated = false;
-    // Provenance of the FIRST decision that saturated this climb — allocated
-    // only when a trace is requested (see AncestorReach.saturation's doc); the
-    // climb itself never reads it back.
-    let satStop;
-    // EXPAND-UNTIL-DECIDED: a reach is consumed either as a VOTE (which needs
-    // contextsReached exactly, and only while ≤ √N — beyond that the region is
-    // non-discriminative) or as an ABSTENTION (saturated — whose roots and
-    // counts no consumer reads).  So the climb may STOP the moment the answer
-    // is decided:
-    //   • a node whose prev fan-in alone exceeds √N decides it (its
-    //     predecessors are √N+ distinct contexts) — no read needed, prevCount
-    //     is an indexed O(1);
-    //   • distinct contexts crossing √N decides it;
-    //   • a node with more than √N parents decides its own expansion (the
-    //     classic hub guard; the walk aborts rather than continue, which no
-    //     consumer can distinguish — saturated reaches are never voted).
-    // Below every decision threshold the walk is EXACT — identical roots and
-    // contexts to the unbounded climb — because prevFirst(√N) IS the full prev
-    // list and parentsFirst(√N+1) IS the full parent list whenever they do not
-    // decide.  Work is bounded by √N contexts × the climb's local structure,
-    // never by the corpus.
-    const structCache = getStructCache(ctx);
-    // LATERAL-BRANCH ACCOUNT — the cumulative dual of the per-node hub guard.
-    // Within one deposit the ascent is a CHAIN (each node's first parent);
-    // every parent BEYOND a node's first is an entry into another containing
-    // structure (hash-consing: a shared subtree's extra parents are other
-    // deposits' chunks).  The per-node guard already declares a node with more
-    // than √N parents non-discriminative; a climb whose ACCUMULATED lateral
-    // entries exceed √N has spread across just as many distinct containing
-    // structures — the same commonness, distributed along the cone instead of
-    // concentrated at one node — and is decided: saturated.  A deep chain in
-    // ONE structure accrues no laterals, so legitimate deep scaffolding (a
-    // fragment far down a long cumulative context) still climbs to its root
-    // at any depth; what dies is the cross-structure drift that visited tens
-    // of thousands of edge-free interiors (profiled on a 17.7M-node store:
-    // ~20K distinct nodes per climb family, >95% unique — not memoisable)
-    // while the context account never decided.
-    let lateral = 0;
-    // CLIMB READ-OUT (pure instrumentation, same contract as satStop): the
-    // parallel `depths` stack mirrors every push/pop of `stack`, so a node's
-    // ascent distance is known at its pop.  Allocated only when a trace is
-    // requested; the climb itself never reads any of these back.
-    const depths = ctx.trace ? [] : null;
-    let curDepth = 0;
-    let visitedCount = 0;
-    let maxDepth = 0;
-    const visit = (x) => {
-        if (ctx.meter)
-            ctx.meter.ancestorVisits++;
-        if (depths) {
-            visitedCount++;
-            if (curDepth > maxDepth)
-                maxDepth = curDepth;
-        }
-        const hasNx = cachedHasNext(ctx, x, structCache);
-        const pc = cachedPrevCount(ctx, x, structCache);
-        if (hasNx || pc > 0) {
-            roots.push(x);
-            if (hasNx)
-                ctxSeen.add(x);
-            if (pc > bound) {
-                // decided: ≥ pc > √N distinct contexts
-                if (ctx.trace) {
-                    satStop = {
-                        reason: "predecessor-fan-in",
-                        node: x,
-                        observed: pc,
-                        limit: bound,
-                    };
-                }
-                return false;
-            }
-            for (const p of ctx.store.prevFirst(x, bound))
-                ctxSeen.add(p);
-            if (ctxSeen.size > bound) {
-                // decided
-                if (ctx.trace) {
-                    satStop = {
-                        reason: "distinct-context-limit",
-                        node: x,
-                        observed: ctxSeen.size,
-                        limit: bound,
-                    };
-                }
-                return false;
-            }
-        }
-        const parents = ctx.store.parentsFirst(x, bound + 1);
-        if (parents.length > bound) {
-            // decided: hub
-            if (ctx.trace) {
-                satStop = {
-                    reason: "parent-fan-out",
-                    node: x,
-                    observed: parents.length,
-                    limit: bound,
-                };
-            }
-            return false;
-        }
-        let fresh = 0;
-        for (const p of parents) {
-            if (!seen.has(p)) {
-                seen.add(p);
-                stack.push(p);
-                depths?.push(curDepth + 1);
-                fresh++;
-            }
-        }
-        if (fresh > 1) {
-            lateral += fresh - 1;
-            if (lateral > bound) {
-                // decided: cone-wide hub
-                if (ctx.trace) {
-                    satStop = {
-                        reason: "lateral-cone-limit",
-                        node: x,
-                        observed: lateral,
-                        limit: bound,
-                    };
-                }
-                return false;
-            }
-        }
-        return true;
-    };
-    const stack = [];
-    const containment = !cachedHasParents(ctx, id, structCache);
-    if (!containment) {
-        stack.push(id);
-        depths?.push(0);
-    }
-    // The containment seed is STREAMED in pages of √N: a distinctive window's
-    // containers (which converge on one or two contexts, however many chunks
-    // of one deposit repeat it) are walked IN FULL — exact — while a common
-    // window's corpus-sized container list is abandoned at the first decision
-    // above, after O(√N) pages at most (each page adds containers whose climbs
-    // add contexts; √N distinct contexts decide).
-    let containerOff = 0;
-    let containersExhausted = !containment;
-    climb: for (;;) {
-        if (stack.length === 0) {
-            if (containersExhausted)
-                break;
-            const page = ctx.store.containersSlice(id, containerOff, bound);
-            containerOff += page.length;
-            if (page.length < bound)
-                containersExhausted = true;
-            for (const c of page) {
-                if (!seen.has(c)) {
-                    seen.add(c);
-                    stack.push(c);
-                    depths?.push(1);
-                }
-            }
-            if (stack.length === 0) {
-                if (containerOff === 0) {
-                    stack.push(id); // no containers at all
-                    depths?.push(0);
-                }
-                else
-                    break;
-            }
-        }
-        while (stack.length > 0) {
-            let x = stack.pop();
-            if (depths)
-                curDepth = depths.pop();
-            // TRANSPARENT-CHAIN HOP: a node with no edges in or out and exactly one
-            // parent contributes nothing here — no root, no context, no lateral
-            // entry — so the run to its first non-transparent ancestor is skipped
-            // in ONE store read (Store.chainRun) instead of three probes per node.
-            // The interior nodes still enter `seen`, exactly as a node-at-a-time
-            // ascent would have recorded them at push time, so sibling entries into
-            // the same chain keep identical fresh/lateral accounting; and if the
-            // terminal was already seen (another chain merged into this one first),
-            // it is not visited twice — the same dedup the push-time seen-check
-            // used to provide.
-            const run = ctx.store.chainRun(x);
-            if (run.length > 1) {
-                const top = run[run.length - 1];
-                const dup = seen.has(top);
-                for (let i = 1; i < run.length; i++)
-                    seen.add(run[i]);
-                if (dup)
-                    continue;
-                x = top;
-                // The chain's interior hops are part of the terminal's ascent
-                // distance — count them exactly as a node-at-a-time ascent would.
-                if (depths)
-                    curDepth += run.length - 1;
-            }
-            if (!visit(x)) {
-                saturated = true;
-                break climb;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-    const reach = {
-        roots,
-        contextsReached: ctxSeen.size,
-        saturated,
-        ...(saturated && satStop ? { saturation: satStop } : {}),
-        ...(depths ? { visited: visitedCount, maxDepth } : {}),
-    };
-    memo?.set(id, reach);
-    return reach;
-}
-/** Convenience: forward edges of a node. */
-export function nextOf(ctx, id) {
-    return ctx.store.next(id);
-}
-/** Convenience: reverse edges of a node. */
-export function prevOf(ctx, id) {
-    return ctx.store.prev(id);
-}
-/** The uniform-expectation floor on a byte atom's corpus commonality: N
- *  learnt contexts, each at least one perception chunk of up to W of the 256
- *  possible byte values, contain a given atom in ≥ N·W/256 contexts on
- *  average.  An atom's TRUE containment is unmeasurable (atoms carry no
- *  kid/contain links by construction), so this floor is the honest stand-in:
- *  derived entirely from the corpus scale N, the perception window W, and
- *  the alphabet size — never tuned. */
-export function atomReach(ctx, contextCount) {
-    return Math.max(1, Math.ceil((contextCount * ctx.space.maxGroup) / 256));
-}
-/** Whether a byte atom is a hub at this corpus scale — its commonality floor
- *  {@link atomReach} exceeds the hub bound √N.  Below it (small stores) an
- *  atom votes and is recognised exactly as any stored form; above it the
- *  alphabet is scaffolding everywhere and abstains. */
-export function atomIsHub(ctx, contextCount) {
-    return atomReach(ctx, contextCount) > boundFor(contextCount);
-}
-/** Whether a node LEADS SOMEWHERE — it bears a continuation edge or a halo.
- *  The admission predicate recognition filters sites with (HOW_IT_WORKS
- *  §15.3): a form that leads nowhere contributes nothing to any derivation.
- *  Runs once per candidate span on the recognition hot path — `hasNext` is
- *  cached per response (the same flat-branch ids are probed across prefix
- *  variants by canonicalChunkId).  `hasHalo` is not cached: it's a single
- *  indexed point probe per candidate, and the candidates that reach this
- *  check have already been filtered by hasNext above in edgeAncestors. */
-export function leadsSomewhere(ctx, id) {
-    const memo = getStructCache(ctx);
-    if (cachedHasNext(ctx, id, memo))
-        return true;
-    return ctx.store.hasHalo(id);
-}
-/** The structural IDF read of ONE node: how many distinct learnt contexts
- *  its containment/edge climb reaches, or Infinity when it reaches none or
- *  saturates (no usable identity evidence).  The number every
- *  discriminative-vs-scaffolding decision derives from — paired with the
- *  half-dominance convention (geometry.dominates(reach, N)): content
- *  reaching a corpus MINORITY of contexts discriminates (an entity, a
- *  filler); content reaching a majority is frame scaffolding. */
-export function reachOf(ctx, id, contextCount, memo) {
-    const r = edgeAncestors(ctx, id, contextCount, memo);
-    if (r.saturated || r.roots.length === 0)
-        return Infinity;
-    return Math.max(1, r.contextsReached);
-}
-/** The corpus scale N — the count of DISTINCT learnt contexts, floored at 2
- *  so its derived readings (ln N in the consensus floor, √N in the hub bound)
- *  stay meaningful on a near-empty store.  The one definition every consumer
- *  of "how big is this corpus?" reads. */
-export function corpusN(ctx) {
-    return Math.max(2, ctx.store.edgeSourceCount());
-}
-/** The hub bound √N itself (≥ 2 always, since N is floored at 2) — for
- *  consumers that pass it to the store's LIMITed reads instead of capping a
- *  materialised list.  {@link hubCap} is the list-side reading of the same
- *  convention. */
-export function hubBound(ctx) {
-    return boundFor(corpusN(ctx));
-}
-/** √N for an EXPLICIT context count — the ctx-free reading of {@link
- *  hubBound}, for the callers inside this module that are handed a count
- *  rather than a context ({@link edgeAncestors}, {@link atomIsHub}).  The
- *  floor at 2 matches {@link corpusN}'s, so both readings agree for every
- *  input: the two used to be spelled out inline, once WITH the floor and
- *  once without, in the same function. */
-function boundFor(contextCount) {
-    return Math.ceil(Math.sqrt(Math.max(2, contextCount)));
-}
-/** Cap a candidate list at the hub bound √N (insertion order) — the ONE
- *  fan-out convention every walk and disambiguation uses (see HOW_IT_WORKS
- *  §8.6).  A node connected to more than √N others is a hub whose individual
- *  connections carry ~no discriminative information; materialising or scoring
- *  them all would make single decisions scale with the corpus. */
-export function hubCap(ctx, ids) {
-    const bound = hubBound(ctx);
-    return ids.length > bound ? ids.slice(0, bound) : ids;
-}
-/** Whether `descendant` lies within `ancestor`'s subtree — a structural DAG
- *  relation read off the hash-consed `kids` lists, by a bounded explicit-stack
- *  descent.  Used by articulation to keep a voice from revoicing a fragment
- *  OF that voice. */
-export function contains(ctx, ancestor, descendant) {
-    if (ancestor === descendant)
-        return true;
-    const seen = new Set([ancestor]);
-    const stack = [ancestor];
-    while (stack.length > 0) {
-        const rec = ctx.store.get(stack.pop());
-        if (!rec?.kids)
-            continue;
-        for (const k of rec.kids) {
-            if (k === descendant)
-                return true;
-            if (!seen.has(k)) {
-                seen.add(k);
-                stack.push(k);
-            }
-        }
-    }
-    return false;
-}
-// ── Edge disambiguation (Section 6) ──────────────────────────────────────
-/** The best-scoring item by cosine against `query`, among items scoring at
- *  or above `threshold` — the shared arg-max every Pattern-A "which of these
- *  resonates best" decision reduces to.  `strict` picks the tie-break a
- *  caller needs: `true` keeps the first-seen leader on a tie (`>`), the
- *  default lets a later equal score take it (`>=`). */
-export function argmaxBy(items, scoreOf, threshold, strict = false) {
-    let best = null;
-    for (const item of items) {
-        const score = scoreOf(item);
-        const bar = best?.score ?? threshold;
-        if (strict ? score > bar : score >= bar)
-            best = { item, score };
-    }
-    return best;
-}
-export function argmaxCosine(query, items, vecOf, threshold, strict = false) {
-    return argmaxBy(items, (item) => {
-        const v = vecOf(item);
-        return v ? cosine(query, v) : -Infinity;
-    }, threshold, strict);
-}
-/** The guided-or-first continuation of a node, as answer-shaped bytes source:
- *  chooseNext under the response guide, falling back to the FIRST-inserted
- *  edge — the one no-guide convention chooseNext, project() and the search's
- *  formRules all share.  undefined when the node has no continuation. */
-export function guidedFirst(ctx, id) {
-    const pick = guidedNext(ctx, id);
-    if (pick !== undefined)
-        return pick;
-    // No guide in flight (or nothing chosen): the first-inserted edge, read
-    // with LIMIT 1 — never the full fan-out.
-    const nx = ctx.store.nextFirst(id, 1);
-    return nx.length > 0 ? nx[0] : undefined;
-}
-export function guidedNext(ctx, node) {
-    if (ctx._edgeGuide === null)
-        return undefined;
-    // The pick memo is BYPASSED while a rationale trace is attached — the same
-    // policy climbMemo and recogniseMemo follow (every mechanism must emit its
-    // own steps; a memo hit would swallow the repeat's `disambiguate` step).
-    // Consistency does not need the memo: chooseNext is a pure function of the
-    // (read-only) store and the guide, so recomputation yields the same pick.
-    if (!ctx.trace) {
-        const memo = ctx._edgeChoice.get(node);
-        if (memo !== undefined)
-            return memo === -1 ? undefined : memo;
-    }
-    const pick = chooseNext(ctx, node, ctx._edgeGuide);
-    if (!ctx.trace)
-        ctx._edgeChoice.set(node, pick ?? -1);
-    return pick;
-}
-/** Disambiguate among a node's learnt continuations by distributional
- *  support.  NOTE the `guide` contract: its VALUE is deliberately unused —
- *  only its PRESENCE gates disambiguation (a null guide means no query is in
- *  flight, so structural walkers keep plain first-edge behaviour).  The
- *  gist-cosine of short answer candidates against a query guide is dominated
- *  by accidental byte-pattern correlations, not semantic relatedness, so the
- *  evidence consulted is structural: each candidate's reverse-edge support
- *  count (see below).  Contrast {@link chooseAmong}, the REVERSE-direction
- *  disambiguator, whose candidates are whole learnt contexts — long enough
- *  that their perceived gists ARE semantically meaningful — and which
- *  therefore scores by guide cosine.  The two directions consult different
- *  halves of the evidence on purpose. */
-export function chooseNext(ctx, id, guide) {
-    // CAPPED read: only the first √N continuations are ever candidates (the
-    // documented hub trade), so only they are read — a hub context's full
-    // fan-out is corpus-sized and must never be materialised.  hubBound ≥ 2,
-    // so the single-continuation fast path below stays exact.
-    const nx = ctx.store.nextFirst(id, hubBound(ctx));
-    if (nx.length === 0)
-        return undefined;
-    if (nx.length === 1 || !guide)
-        return nx[0];
-    // Cap candidates at √N — the same bound the original chooseAmong used.
-    // A hub context can accumulate thousands of continuations; the best-fit
-    // one is among the first √N by insertion order (edges are never deleted,
-    // so the oldest are the most established).  A strongly-supported edge
-    // inserted beyond the cap is invisible here — the deliberate trade
-    // against paying O(fan-out) count reads on every disambiguation.
-    const capped = nx; // already the hub-capped prefix, by the read above
-    // Distributional-evidence disambiguation, consulting BOTH read-outs of the
-    // evidence the training poured:
-    //   1. prevCount — how many DISTINCT contexts predict this candidate (one
-    //      indexed COUNT; never a materialisation — a common continuation's
-    //      reverse fan-in is corpus-sized).  Diversity of independent evidence
-    //      is the primary signal: three different formulations agreeing beat
-    //      one formulation repeated.
-    //   2. haloMass — how many episode signatures were poured into the
-    //      candidate's halo (repetition counts).  The tie-break among equally
-    //      diverse candidates: a fact reinforced across many episodes is more
-    //      corroborated than one seen once, and this is the DIRECT measure of
-    //      that — consulting only the structural count would leave poured
-    //      evidence on the table.
-    // When both are equal, first-inserted wins (backward compatible).
-    let best = capped[0];
-    let bestSupport = ctx.store.prevCount(best);
-    let bestMass = ctx.store.haloMass(best);
-    for (let i = 1; i < capped.length; i++) {
-        const support = ctx.store.prevCount(capped[i]);
-        if (support < bestSupport)
-            continue;
-        const mass = ctx.store.haloMass(capped[i]);
-        if (support > bestSupport || mass > bestMass) {
-            best = capped[i];
-            bestSupport = support;
-            bestMass = mass;
-        }
-    }
-    // NO consensusFloor gate here (tried and reverted — see
-    // test/40-choosenext-scale-guard.test.mjs): that floor is calibrated for
-    // POOLED, IDF-weighted CLIMB VOTES (recallByResonance, commitVotes), where
-    // each corroborating region contributes at most ln N and the floor grows
-    // with N exactly as that per-region ceiling does (HOW_IT_WORKS.md §8.6).
-    // `bestSupport` here is a different kind of quantity — a raw prevCount of
-    // how many training contexts predicted ONE destination, bounded by how
-    // often that specific fact was retold, never by corpus size N.  Gating an
-    // N-invariant count against an N-growing threshold guarantees failure
-    // once N is large enough, discarding genuinely, structurally dominant
-    // edges (observed: a fact corroborated 2-to-1-1-1 refused at N≈325K,
-    // falling back to a noisy concept-hop).  The loop above already IS the
-    // "genuinely competing" test: a tie leaves first-inserted as the pick
-    // (test/30's own pinned behaviour); a strict winner is real evidence
-    // regardless of corpus scale.  Matches HOW_IT_WORKS.md §25's own
-    // chooseNext pseudocode, which has no such floor.
-    // Trace is built lazily — the filter + map below only execute when a
-    // trace listener is attached, so the common (no-trace) path pays only
-    // for the prevCount calls in the loop above, never for extra rItemShort
-    // byte-reads.
-    if (ctx.trace) {
-        const others = capped.filter((c) => c !== best);
-        ctx.trace.step("disambiguate", [rItemShort(ctx, best, "halo-evidence", bestSupport)], others.map((c) => rItemShort(ctx, c, "candidate", ctx.store.prevCount(c))), `${capped.length} continuations — distributional evidence selects ` +
-            `the most corroborated (distinct contexts ${bestSupport}, ` +
-            `poured mass ${bestMass})`);
-    }
-    return best;
-}
-/** The perceived gist of a candidate node, through the session gist cache.
- *  Re-gisting a candidate is a full river fold of its bytes — the measured
- *  recall bottleneck (a hub context offers up to √N continuations, EACH
- *  re-perceived per pick).  A node's bytes are immutable and perception is
- *  pure, so the cached gist is valid for the store's lifetime.  Exported for
- *  every "score node ids against a guide" decision (chooseAmong here, the
- *  bridge's junction pick) so they share ONE cache and one convention. */
-export function candidateGist(ctx, c) {
-    const hit = ctx._gistCache.get(c);
-    if (hit !== undefined)
-        return hit;
-    const b = read(ctx, c);
-    if (b.length === 0)
-        return null;
-    const g = gistOf(ctx, b);
-    ctx._gistCache.set(c, g);
-    return g;
-}
-export function chooseAmong(ctx, candidates, guide) {
-    const capped = hubCap(ctx, candidates);
-    const found = argmaxCosine(guide, capped, (c) => candidateGist(ctx, c), -Infinity, true);
-    return found
-        ? { id: found.item, score: found.score }
-        : { id: candidates[0], score: -Infinity };
-}
-// ── Trace shim (used by chooseNext before trace module is loaded) ────────
-import { decodeText } from "./rationale.js";
-function rItemShort(ctx, id, role, score) {
-    return {
-        text: decodeText(read(ctx, id)),
-        node: id,
-        role,
-        score,
-    };
-}