@xmbl/simulator 0.1.0

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+# XSIM Status
+
+## Current Status: Working - Core Functionality Demonstrated
+
+### Latest Run Results (45 seconds):
+- **Identities Created**: 10
+- **Transactions Created**: 223
+- **Transactions Validated**: 265
+- **Blocks Added**: 265
+- **Faces Completed**: 20 ✅
+- **Cubes Completed**: 0 (need 3 faces per cube with different indices)
+- **SuperCubes Completed**: 0 (need 27 cubes per supercube)
+- **State Diffs Created**: 44
+- **Storage Operations**: 22
+- **Compute Operations**: 22
+
+### Completed
+- ✅ Project setup with dependencies (faker, chance)
+- ✅ Structured logging system implemented
+- ✅ Comprehensive simulator with module integration framework
+- ✅ **All modules connected**: xid, xn, xclt, xvsm, xpc, xsc
+- ✅ **Real identity creation** using xid module (10 identities on startup)
+- ✅ **Consensus workflow** fully operational:
+  - Transactions submitted to leaders
+  - Validation tasks created
+  - Validations auto-completed (3 validators)
+  - Transactions moved to processing
+  - Transactions finalized
+- ✅ **Ledger integration** working:
+  - Blocks being added to ledger (22+ blocks in test run)
+  - Block events logged with coordinates
+- ✅ **State machine** processing state diffs
+- ✅ **Storage and compute** operations simulated
+- ✅ **Network** integration (nodes added on identity creation)
+
+### Working System Flow
+1. **Identity Creation** → Real xid identities created, added to network
+2. **Transaction Generation** → 2 tx/sec, various types (utxo, token_creation, contract, state_diff)
+3. **Consensus** → Transactions submitted → Validations → Processing → Finalization
+4. **Ledger** → Finalized transactions → Blocks added → (faces/cubes pending more blocks)
+5. **State Machine** → State diffs created and processed
+6. **Storage/Compute** → Operations simulated at 0.5/sec each
+
+### In Progress
+- 🔄 Testing and validation of full system integration
+- 🔄 Monitoring all activities through logs
+- 🔄 Ensuring all core functionality is demonstrated
+
+### Pending
+- ⏳ Failure injection (network failures, node crashes)
+- ⏳ Browser monitoring capabilities
+- ⏳ Metrics export/visualization (JSON, CSV, Prometheus)
+- ⏳ Performance benchmarking
+- ⏳ Stress testing modes
+- ⏳ Configuration file support
+
+## Architecture
+
+The simulator integrates with all XMBL modules:
+- **xid**: Identity creation and signature verification
+- **xn**: Network topology and node management
+- **xclt**: Cubic ledger construction (blocks → faces → cubes → supercubes)
+- **xvsm**: State machine with state diffs and state assembly
+- **xpc**: Consensus workflow with transaction validation
+- **xsc**: Storage and compute operations
+
+## Logging
+
+All activities are logged with structured format:
+- Timestamp
+- Level (info, error)
+- Category (identity, transaction, consensus, ledger, stateMachine, storage, compute, network, system)
+- Event name
+- Event data
+
+Logs are designed to be consumed by other tools and are explicit about what's happening in the system.
+
+## Metrics Tracked
+
+- Identities created
+- Transactions created and validated
+- Blocks added to ledger
+- Faces completed
+- Cubes completed
+- Supercubes completed
+- State diffs created
+- State assemblies
+- Storage operations
+- Compute operations
+- System uptime
+
+## Implementation Details
+
+### Core Functionality Demonstrated
+
+1. **Identity Creation (xid)**
+   - Creates 10 initial identities on startup
+   - Uses real xid module if available, falls back to simulation
+   - Logs all identity creation events
+
+2. **Consensus (xpc)**
+   - Submits transactions to consensus workflow
+   - Tracks validation tasks and completion
+   - Monitors transaction finalization
+   - Establishes leaders from initial identities
+
+3. **Cubic Ledger (xclt)**
+   - Adds transactions to ledger
+   - Tracks block creation
+   - Monitors face completion (6 blocks)
+   - Monitors cube completion (6 faces)
+   - Monitors supercube completion (recursive structure)
+
+4. **State Machine (xvsm)**
+   - Creates state diff transactions
+   - Processes state diffs from ledger blocks
+   - Assembles state from diffs periodically
+   - Tracks state root and statistics
+
+5. **Storage and Compute (xsc)**
+   - Simulates storage operations (store, retrieve, delete)
+   - Simulates compute operations with function execution
+   - Tracks operation metrics
+
+6. **Network (xn)**
+   - Integrates with network module for node management
+   - Tracks network topology (when available)
+
+### Logging Structure
+
+All logs follow this format:
+```json
+{
+  "timestamp": "ISO8601 timestamp",
+  "level": "info|error",
+  "category": "identity|transaction|consensus|ledger|stateMachine|storage|compute|network|system",
+  "event": "event_name",
+  "data": { /* event-specific data */ }
+}
+```
+
+### Running the Simulator
+
+```bash
+node index.js
+# or
+node index.js --run
+```
+
+The simulator will:
+1. Initialize and connect to available modules
+2. Create 10 initial identities
+3. Start generating transactions at 2/sec
+4. Start generating state diffs at 1/sec
+5. Start storage operations at 0.5/sec
+6. Start compute operations at 0.5/sec
+7. Log all activities with structured format
+8. Emit metrics every 5 seconds
+
+## Next Steps
+
+1. ✅ Run simulator and verify all activities are logged
+2. ✅ Monitor logs to ensure all core functionality is demonstrated
+3. ⏳ Add failure injection capabilities
+4. ⏳ Add web dashboard for monitoring
+5. ⏳ Add metrics export functionality
+