epiphany/crates/epiphany-ops
Levi Neuwirth 6369d331f1 A transposition moves the authored spelling; recording Propagated is not enough
Audit finding 2, reproduced and fixed. The Propagated attachment met the letter
of req:opcat:transpose-interval-spelling and none of its purpose.

The repro: a C4 the author deliberately spelled "C", sharpened to C#4. Both
attachments present -- the stale UserChosen and the new Propagated -- and
resolve_spelling returns Authored(UserChosen) with accidentals []. The notehead
draws a C natural for a pitch sounding C#. The accidental vanishes. Default
precedence ranks UserChosen and Imported above Propagated, so the attachment
this operation writes is always outranked exactly when it is needed.

Per the ratified call, authored spellings are MOVED, not left and not
discarded. A spelling moves by its NOMINAL, because the nominal is what carries
the author's enharmonic decision: someone who wrote B#3 rather than C4 chose
the letter B, so a perfect fifth up is F##4, not G. The accidental is then
whatever the transposed pitch requires at that staff position -- the chromatic
component never touches the spelling except through the pitch. Source,
priority, and layer are preserved: a transposed UserChosen spelling is still
the user's choice. Imported moves too; import fidelity is a property of the
file on disk, which a transposition does not touch.

An authored spelling that cannot be written at the transposed position refuses
the whole operation (TranspositionOutOfRange), resolved before anything is
written, like every other refusal. The two application passes are ordered so
that every index-addressed rewrite lands before the propagated upsert can push
and shift the indices.

The Propagated attachment keeps its purpose: it is the record for pitches with
no authored spelling, where the pre-pass would otherwise re-infer.

Three mutations verified. One of them, S2, SURVIVED the first version of the
enharmonic test and exposed it as a false lock: I had spelled a C#4 pitch as
"C#", so the authored nominal coincided with the pitch's own, and re-inferring
from the pitch gave the same answer. The test proved nothing about keeping the
author's choice. Rewritten around B#3-sounding-C4, where moving the nominal
gives F##4 and re-inference gives G, it now fails under S2 as it must.

Gate: fmt clean, clippy 0, 30 targets / 990 passed / 0 failed, docs 0 under
-D warnings, conformance 8/8, zero golden churn, catalog rebuilds clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-09 16:40:06 -04:00
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examples A B C D F 2026-06-19 12:42:31 -04:00
src A transposition moves the authored spelling; recording Propagated is not enough 2026-07-09 16:40:06 -04:00
tests Schema major 2 Phase B: snapshot side + honest stamps (data-model fills) 2026-07-07 16:30:07 -04:00
Cargo.toml A B C D F 2026-06-19 12:42:31 -04:00
DECISIONS.md TransposeInterval: the faithful transpose, and the frozen one it replaces 2026-07-09 15:46:43 -04:00
README.md Land M1 + M2 (Agent C): framework edge fixes and real-Score graph integration 2026-06-21 16:37:51 -04:00

README.md

epiphany-ops

The Epiphany concurrent semantics: the operations through which the score graph becomes a live model, and the deterministic reduction by which a set of operations becomes a materialized score state. Implements the normative requirements of Chapter 6 (Semantic Operations and Concurrent Reduction) of the core specification (spec/core_spec.pdf). This is Agent C's crate per spec/QUICKSTART.md, building on Agent A's epiphany-determinism and Agent B's epiphany-core.

A score's state is defined by the set of operations committed to it. Any materialized graph is a deterministic reduction of that set; caches, snapshots, and partial reductions are acceleration structures, never the source of truth. — Chapter 6, Design Principles

The thesis in one paragraph

The replicated operation set is a grow-only CRDT: replicas accumulate envelopes and converge on the same set. The materialized graph is not a CRDT — it is the deterministic reduction of that set in a single canonical order (causal-first, then the HLC tuple). Any permutation of the same envelopes reduces to byte-identical materialized state. That property is the determinism heart of the architecture, and the reduction fuzzer is its tripwire.

What's here

Area Items Spec
Stamps HybridLogicalClock, OperationStamp, the reduction & monotonicity tuples Ch. 6 §"Operation Identity and Stamps"
Causal context CausalContext (dotted version vector), covers, the missing-predecessor signal Ch. 6 §6.2
Payloads OperationKind, the discriminator-only OperationKindTag, OperationPayload, the §6.10 representative ops Ch. 6 §"Operation Envelopes", §6.10
Envelopes OperationEnvelope, EnvelopeHash (MUSCENVH), well_formed (incl. stamp.id == id) Ch. 6 §6.4
Slots OperationSlot::{Single, Equivocated}, the order-independent (Pass-10) transitions Ch. 6 §6.5
Anomalies AnomalousReplicaSegment, IntegrityAnomaly/Kind, the HLC-monotonicity detector Ch. 6 §6.6; Ch. 5 §"System-Derived Counter Collisions"
Effects OperationEffect, NoOpReason, the typed PreconditionFailureReason, RepairRecord/RepairKind Ch. 6 §6.3.2, §6.5
Conflicts ConflictRecord, ConflictKind, content-derived ConflictId (derive_conflict_id), the registry, resolution Ch. 6 §6.4
Transactions / undo TransactionDescriptor with the causal-prior-descriptor rule, UndoTransactionPayload / UndoPolicy Ch. 6 §6.6, §6.8
Operation set OperationSet: accept pipeline (well-formedness → slot → causal), grow-only Ch. 6 §"Envelope Acceptance"
Reduction canonical_reduction_order (single function), MaterializedState, the reduction driver Ch. 6 §6.3

The determinism this crate enforces

  1. A single reduction-order function. canonical_reduction_order performs deterministic causal topological ordering, using the intrinsic stamp tuple (physical, logical, replica, counter) only among ready operations.
  2. Order-independent equivocation. A duplicate OperationId with different canonical bytes transitions its slot to Equivocated regardless of which envelope arrived first (Pass 10). Equivocated slots contribute nothing to reduction; dependents are held pending.
  3. Content-derived facts. ConflictId and IntegrityAnomalyId are derived from content, so two replicas reducing the same set agree on every conflict and anomaly id — the conflict registry and anomaly register are deterministic materialized facts, not local bookkeeping.
  4. Byte-identical materialized state. MaterializedState::canonical_bytes serializes the effect log, conflict registry, anomaly register, object existence, spellings, and LWW fields in their normative orders.
  5. Real graph materialization. OperationSet::reduce_onto(&base_score) returns GraphMaterialization { state, score }. The graph is mutated in the same canonical order and compares by canonical event identity, independent of arena storage order.

Hand-off gates

Run the gate harnesses (QUICKSTART, Agent C):

cargo test -p epiphany-ops
cargo run --release -p epiphany-ops --example fuzz_reduction          # 10k iters, seed 0
cargo run --release -p epiphany-ops --example fuzz_reduction 100000 7 # soak, seed 7
  • Reduction determinism — every randomized envelope set reduces to byte-identical materialized state under any acceptance order (v0 acceptance criteria 1 and 5).
  • Equivocation order-independence — every duplicate-id-with-different-bytes scenario equivocates regardless of arrival order (v0 acceptance criterion 3).

The integration tests (tests/concurrent_reduction.rs) exercise these plus transaction atomicity, descriptor precedence, anomaly exclusion, and forward undo through the public API.

Scope and decisions

Chapter 6 specifies the framework and a representative selection of operations; the full ~6080-primitive catalog is an explicit open question (§6.11) deferred to the Operation Catalog companion. This crate implements the framework in full and the representative operations, which is sufficient to exercise every reduction discipline. The representative operations can also reduce onto an epiphany_core::Score: insert/delete, voice promotion, supported cross-cutting structures, system breaks, migration checks, transaction rollback, and undo mutate the real graph while preserving Agent B's invariants. reduce() remains the base-free CRDT/bookkeeping API; reduce_onto() is the graph-aware editing path. See DECISIONS.md for remaining payload boundaries.

Per QUICKSTART "Don't do these": undo is the spec's forward compensating operation, never inverse-based; unsafe is forbidden; everything is sync.