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33 files, +7793/−47. ABI minor 11 plus the PR4 arc: plan_eval stops being a second evaluator and lowers onto the one shared floor (lance-graph-mask-risc for sequencing, ndarray::simd for every op), with the ABI wire unchanged.

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area change
native/lgj-abi/src/kernels.rs (+1184) the ndarray masking facade reaches the ABI; no kernel re-implements an op
native/lgj-abi/src/exports.rs (+1315) minor-11 symbols; plan_eval routed through the shared lowering
native/lgj-abi/src/plan_lower.rs (new) the lowering, pinned equal to quack's by a differential
5 new Rust test files seed / matrix / equivalence / dst-reuse / lowering-convergence falsifiers
tests/plan_eval_no_alloc.rs per-call allocation is independent of row count
tests/c_one_evaluator.rs there is exactly one evaluator, not two
Java side Mask, RowStore, View, Lens, NativePattern + internal/ffm wiring
docs/abi.md (+364) normative, updated for minor 11

Gates — run in the configuration CI actually uses

CI checks the siblings out at their default branches, so I built against exactly that (ndarray@origin/master, lance-graph@origin/main) rather than against my local branches:

  • cargo test --all-targets — 187 passed, 0 failed
  • cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings — clean
  • cargo fmt -- --check — clean
  • Java AllTests — ALL PASSED (409 checks) across all 16 suites, against abi 0.11, simd ndarray::simd avx512, profile release

Two things worth flagging to a reviewer

This PR has no cross-repo ordering constraint, and that was verified rather than assumed. A symbol-level check said lgj-abi uses no branch-only ndarray symbol — but a symbol check is the wrong instrument for "does the crate exist", so I rebuilt with both siblings detached at their true remote defaults. That run is the evidence. (My first attempt at it was itself wrong: git checkout main takes the local ref, which was 71 commits stale here and made lance-graph-quack look absent from main. It is not absent; the checkout was.)

The Java half is verified, where earlier commits in this branch say it could not be. Two commit subjects here still read UNVERIFIED: JDK 26 not available in this sandbox. That is false: Ubuntu's own archive serves openjdk-25 (Panama FFM is final since 22), and JDK 26 is one extra apt source away via Adoptium. 409/409 passes identically on both. The recipe, the stale-index trap that made it look impossible, and the one remaining non-apt piece (the Valhalla EA arm, which is a measurement arm and not a gate) are now documented in CLAUDE.md so the claim cannot recur.


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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added ABI minor 11 support for ternary mask logic, facet matching, and 32-bit sum/min/max reductions.
    • Added Java APIs for mask ternary operations, facet-register matching, and min/max projections.
    • Added empty-result handling for min/max and validation for unsupported layouts, operands, and immediates.
  • Documentation

    • Updated ABI references, supported operations, compatibility requirements, and JDK setup guidance.
  • Tests

    • Expanded native and Java coverage for masking, reductions, compatibility, tail handling, allocation behavior, and evaluation correctness.

AdaWorldAPI and others added 18 commits September 14, 2026 14:28
…bols

Every ndarray::simd mask primitive now has a kernels.rs wrapper. New
symbols: lgj_mask_ternlog (runtime u8 immediate dispatching to the
const-generic facade; xor/not/maj3 ride it), lgj_op_ternary_match (the
TCAM / prefix-ancestry op, the one genuinely new operand), lgj_reduce_i32
(op-coded sum/min/max per abi.md section 15's pre-commitment). The i32
compare family lands as op-codes 3-8 on the existing compare symbol.
26 -> 29 exported symbols measured by nm -D. Non-exports with revisit
conditions: mask_any/all, blend_i32, ternary_match_u64. Seven disable
runs recorded, two re-done after proving vacuous. Java facade untouched
(follow-up: Downcalls.Minor11 + Engine wrappers behind requireMinor(11)).

Gates in native/lgj-abi: cargo test 164+3, clippy -D warnings, fmt.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
…sandbox

Downcalls.Minor11 lazy holder, Engine wrappers behind requireMinor(11)
first, Mask.ternlog, RowStore.maskOfFacetTernaryMatch, View/Lens
minOf/maxOf as OptionalLong, MaskingOpCompletionTest + three
OldAbiCompatTest gates. No FFM types in public signatures.

Verification: compiles with 0 errors under JDK 21 in a scratch copy
(three pre-existing JDK-22+ Arena.allocate overloads patched there only);
the documented JDK 26 is not installed, and the JDK 21 runtime fails in
the untouched SmokeTest at Engine.rowCount, so no Java test in this
change has been RUN. Recorded in LATEST_STATE; the next JDK 26 session
runs AllTests before citing this as done.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
…st's fence to project-declared members

Full AllTests green with the documented JDK 26 commands against the
rebuilt abi 0.11 library. The 11 ApiSurfaceTest failures on the first
run reproduce on origin/main's own java tree: Throwable.getStackTrace/
getSuppressed on five exception types and the enum-generated
Carving.values() were being held to the materialize*/import* naming law.
The fence now exempts JDK-declared members and enum values(); disable
run in a scratch copy (rename materializeRows -> rows) still reports
exactly one breach.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
Three read-only Opus passes over the proposed PR4 (replace plan_eval_impl's
allocating opcode loop with the shared mask-risc floor). None wrote code;
none ran cargo. Two of them found blockers the framing did not anticipate.

The ABI-membrane ruling: the body swap is surface-neutral (no new extern "C"
symbol, no LgjOpDesc layout change, no manifest change, no minor bump), and
a path dep on lance-graph-mask-risc is permitted — that crate's only
dependency is ndarray at byte-identical coordinates to ours. But mask-risc's
MaskOp has no Fill/Const op, so abi.md §7's normative "the accumulator starts
as all rows set" has no representation in the IR. The tempting rewrite (start
from ops[0] instead) is correct only when ops[0].combine == AND, and no test
anywhere puts OR first — the one rewrite most likely to be reached for is the
one the suite cannot falsify.

It also rules against hanging scratch off the resource: Payload::Pattern is
lock-free today precisely because no ABI path mutates it, so mutable scratch
there introduces this ABI's first same-resource serialization point.

The kernel-membrane ruling: mask-risc is a T2 composer, not a second T1, and
the card's T2 row needs splitting into composer and membrane roles rather
than growing a rung. On the duplicate ternlog table it goes further than the
TECH_DEBT entry did: both tables exist because ndarray exports only the
const-generic form, so every consumer holding a runtime immediate is forced
into a 256-way fan-out. The one table belongs upstream, and the migration is
additive in three commits.

The falsifier plan's central point is that mask-risc's own oracle cannot
settle PR4's equivalence claim: the lowering sits ABOVE both execute and
reference_execute, so a bug in it produces the same wrong Program for both
and the best differential in either repo stays green. The oracle has to be a
frozen copy of the old loop.

It also finds the allocation goal unreachable with today's Scratch API —
execute requires exactly-sized words, so a cache keyed by row count allocates
on first sight of each n, which is precisely the property the gate denies.
A gate warmed over the same sweep it measures would be green while false.

Nine vacuity traps named before any fixture is written, fifteen disable rows
each naming which test must redden, and a commit order whose first gate is
that every new test passes against the OLD implementation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
…l exports

The kernel-membrane ruling attributes both duplicate 256-arm dispatch tables
to one cause: ndarray exports the const-generic ternlog form alone, so any
consumer holding a runtime immediate is forced to fan out. Checked rather
than trusted — `mask_ternlog` and `mask_ternlog_assign` are both
`<const IMM: i32>`, and they are the only two names the facade re-exports.
No `_dyn` form exists at any level.

That makes the ruling's three-commit migration sound and its first step
genuinely additive. Not started: it is PR4-scope, and #1226 was mid-landing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
… missing op

`abi.md` §7's `acc_0 = ALL` looked like it needed a `Fill`/`Const` variant in
the mask-risc IR. It does not. `ALL & p = p` and `ALL | p = ALL`, so the seed
is decidable at lowering time: find the first AND-combined op, drop everything
before it, and let that op write its predicate directly.

The half that needed checking rather than asserting is that dropping those ops
cannot change ERROR behaviour. It cannot, by construction: after
`validate_plan` returns Ok, `eval_predicate` is infallible for every op in the
plan — its only error arms are LANE_KIND_MISMATCH and UNKNOWN_OPCODE, both of
which `validate_plan` already rejects for every op up front, and the kernels
beneath it return `()` rather than `Result`.

Names the trap: `k == 0` for every plan the Java facade can build, because
`View` exposes no `or` and `COMBINE_OR` is unreachable from it. The simple
"op 0 writes directly" rewrite therefore passes every existing test and is
wrong for a C caller, which `validate_plan` permits to send OR in any
position. The falsifier has to be built at the ABI level.

Also records that OQ-1 is narrower than written: `n_rows` is immutable per
pattern resource, so there is one row count per pattern and no per-n cache is
needed — what stays open is only where a per-pattern scratch lives and how
concurrent calls on one handle share it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
…d outright

Two findings, one negative and one that removes work.

The negative one: "cache the scratch on the pattern resource" is the obvious
answer and it is wrong. registry.rs is explicit that a pattern's fixture
buffer is immutable for the resource's whole life and takes no lock, which is
what lets N threads evaluate N plans against one pattern without contending;
masks carry a per-resource RwLock precisely so bulk ops on distinct masks do
not serialize. Hanging mutable scratch off ResourceEntry would need its own
lock and would make two concurrent plan_eval calls on the same pattern block
each other. Trading a per-call allocation for a per-call lock on the hot path
is not an optimisation. Remaining candidates are a thread-local keyed by word
count, or a scratch resource with its own handle.

The one that removes work: plan_eval allocates two buffers, and the second
(`acc`) exists only so "an error at any point leaves dst_mask byte-for-byte
as it was". Per the OQ-5 finding, that set of points is EMPTY — after
validate_plan returns Ok there is no error path left, because eval_predicate
is infallible for every op in the plan and the kernels return () not Result.
The loop can accumulate straight into the dst_mask words under their existing
write guard: one allocation gone, no new storage, no new lock, no ABI change.

Leaves a single buffer to home rather than two, and owes one falsifier — that
every remaining error still leaves dst_mask untouched, which is now a
load-bearing ordering rather than an incidental one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
…a are orthogonal

Operator correction, and it names the source of a confabulation this session
committed an hour ago.

The table pairs `cfg dispatch (polyfill)` with `Valhalla + Panama`. There is
no such analog. ndarray IS the SIMD polyfill; there is exactly one
implementation of every word and it is in Rust, so there is nothing on this
side to dispatch. Read as an analogy the row invites treating Panama as a
dispatch or compute layer — which is exactly what happened: a "T0 owns
backend realization" tier story, invented to justify putting
`mask_ternlog_dyn` in ndarray, when the real argument is that ndarray is the
polyfill and a const generic cannot take a runtime immediate. Missing export,
no tiers.

The two are ORTHOGONAL GUARANTEES, not a pair and not a layer:

  Panama  — computation never lives in Java (the crossing mechanism; E1).
  Valhalla — storage never lives in Java (value classes carry shape without
             identity or heap storage; the one-copy law, the `materialize*`
             naming rule and java-surface-warden's no-hydrated-elements rule
             all enforce this axis from different directions).

Stated positively, which is what the table was reaching for and missed: Java
is the low-code thin surface over zero-copy, with methods that look natural
and still compute in lance-graph — Java thinks it is on steroids without
knowing why. The fluency is real, the work and the data are both elsewhere,
and zero-copy is what makes the naturalness honest instead of a disguise.

The row is annotated, not rewritten: the original stays visible above the
correction, since a future session hitting the same table needs to see what
the misreading looked like.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
…is not enough

PR4 routes `plan_eval_impl` through `lance_graph_mask_risc::execute`. That
introduces a component which did not exist before — the lowering
`&[LgjOpDesc] -> mask_risc::Program` — and it sits ABOVE both `execute` and
mask-risc's `reference_execute`. A bug there (a swapped opcode, a dropped
all-ones seed, a mis-packed TCAM operand) produces the same wrong Program for
both, both evaluate it faithfully, and mask-risc's differential stays green.

Only an oracle that never sees the Program catches that. `legacy_plan_eval_impl`
is that oracle: a byte-for-byte copy of today's evaluation loop, pinned to
b78c4f3, in its own file so the freeze is a
file boundary rather than a convention inside a 2000-line module.

The validation prologue is deliberately SHARED, not duplicated — PR4 does not
change it, and a private copy would mean the differential could not see a
regression in the one part both paths genuinely have in common. What is frozen
is the evaluation core, which calls only `kernels::{eval_predicate,
combine_into, popcount}` and `clear_tail_bits`.

Ordering is the load-bearing part: everything in this file is written against
the OLD implementation, still in place, and is green before any implementation
change. A test red here has found a pre-existing defect in the old loop —
report it, never fix it silently in the same PR, because a silently fixed old
bug changes what "equivalent to the old" means.

`assert_agrees` gives each side its OWN destination mask. Sharing one would let
a path that accumulates INTO its destination agree with one that overwrites,
since the second run would start from the first's answer — and that is exactly
the allocation saving PR4 is most tempted by.

Seed arm only; the matrix follows in this commit's successors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
OQ-2 read as a trade and is not one. The property `kernels.rs` names as "the
entire value of lgj_plan_eval_scalar" is independence from ndarray — and
mask-risc's `reference.rs` has MORE of it, enforced by a grep test (law L4)
rather than by the discipline of living beside the SIMD wrappers and not
calling them. Fork A strengthens the property the symbol exists for, and
upgrades the comparison from kernel-vs-kernel to evaluator-vs-evaluator.

Its two costs are recorded rather than absorbed: `reference_scratch`
allocates by design, so the allocation gate is scoped to `lgj_plan_eval` and
must name its symbol (D9); and `simd_and_scalar_plans_agree_bit_for_bit` stops
being a backend-parity test and must be renamed, because a test whose name
claims coverage it no longer has is worse than no test.

The consequence worth keeping: both symbols now share the lowering, so no
ABI-level differential between them can see a lowering bug. The frozen oracle
is therefore not PR4 scaffolding — it is the only remaining independent check
on the lowering, and it stays after the merge.

OQ-1 closes on the substrate step landing: `Scratch::over` is on lance-graph
main, so what was left was only where the buffer lives. A thread-local growing
arena has no lock to contend and makes allocation a function of the maximum
row count rather than the history — which is what makes the unseen-999 arm
pass rather than be warmed into passing. `acc` is deleted outright.

OQ-4: the G11 fence covers contract MODULES and says nothing about crates, so
a new crate dep passes it silently. Given that fence's own history of being
prose while already false, the crate allowlist lands in the same commit as the
dep.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
…s too weak

C1's rule is that every new test is green BEFORE any implementation
change, so this commit adds only tests; `plan_eval_impl` is still the
old loop, byte-for-byte the frozen copy in `pr4_equivalence.rs`.

`pr4_seed.rs` (5 tests) covers the prefix rewrite's premise directly:
an accumulator that starts all-ones and is only ever OR-ed cannot
shrink, so a leading OR returns every row whatever its predicate says,
an all-OR plan does too however many ops it has, and an OR-then-AND
plan reduces to the AND predicate alone. The word-boundary arm sweeps
n over 1/63/65/127/128/999/4097 so the tail law is checked where a
tail actually exists.

`pr4_matrix.rs` (4 tests) is the opcode x position product the single
two-op example could never reach: every opcode at every position in a
plan (a mis-map scoped to the gated arm passes at position 0, where a
one-op AND against an all-ones accumulator IS the predicate); the TCAM
operand's two halves, which are invisible whenever pattern == care;
non-degeneracy at every PREFIX, so a plan that bottoms out partway
leaves its later ops unexercised behind an ordinary-looking final
count; and the full {AND, OR}^n combine product.

Two changes to what the matrix pass left behind.

The measurement scaffold is deleted. It panicked on purpose to surface
counts through the failure message — `cargo test` captures stdout on a
passing test — and its own comment said it goes before the file is
final. Its numbers are now in the file as the comment they were
collected for.

And its numbers immediately paid for themselves, which is the real
content here. The combine sweep's anti-vacuity bound was
`non_degenerate > 0`: it passes when ELEVEN of twelve sweeps have gone
degenerate, i.e. exactly the state where the oracle comparisons have
stopped comparing anything. Measured, the fixture gives 9 of 12
non-degenerate, and two of the three degenerate ones are degenerate by
CONSTRUCTION rather than by fixture — an all-OR vector saturates at n
no matter what the predicates select, which two separate structural
assertions already pin. So the sweep's real discriminating power is 9,
and that is now the bound, with the full measured table beside it and
an instruction to re-measure rather than re-pin blind.

10 tests green against the unchanged implementation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
…ing a second one

`plan_eval_impl` held its own accumulate-and-combine loop over
`kernels::` — a second evaluator standing beside the one in
lance-graph, each free to drift from the other. It now lowers
`&[LgjOpDesc]` to a `mask_risc::Program` and runs it: `execute` on the
SIMD path, `reference_execute` on the scalar one.

`ndarray` is still the only source of SIMD here. mask-risc names no ISA
at all — a grep test in that crate enforces it — and delegates every op
to the same `ndarray::simd` facade `kernels.rs` uses. What moved is who
sequences the ops.

THE LOWERING. Let k be the least index whose combine is AND. The old
loop seeded an all-ones accumulator, so an `|=` before the first AND
cannot shrink it and `all_ones & p == p`: every op in `0..k` is dead.
Ops `0..k` are dropped; op k becomes a bare `Pred` writing slot 0 — it
IS the accumulator, so no seed is needed; each later op writes slot 1
and folds into slot 0. With no AND anywhere the answer is every row and
no program is built at all. The prefix rewrite is not an optimisation
bolted on afterwards: it is what lets this work without a fill/constant
op, which the mask-RISC deliberately does not have.

THE ASYMMETRY, which is the whole correctness question. A later
AND-combined op is gated `under` slot 0 — `acc & p` depends on `p` only
where `acc` already survives. A later OR-combined op is NOT gated:
`acc | p` depends on `p` exactly where `acc` is ZERO, so gating it would
discard precisely the bits that matter and quietly answer `acc`. The
full {AND, OR}^n sweep against the frozen oracle is what holds it.

ALLOCATION. The per-call `acc` and `scratch` vecs — 2 * n_words * 8
bytes, 16 KiB at 65,536 rows — are gone. The accumulator lives in a
thread-local arena grown monotonically, so a smaller call carves a
strict prefix and allocation follows a thread's maximum row count, never
its history. `acc` is deleted rather than kept: after `validate_plan`
returns Ok there is no error path left before the single write, so the
copy-then-publish dance was guarding an empty set of points. Both
properties it bought survive anyway — `dst_mask` written exactly once,
every error returning before `publish`.

FORK A, and the rename it forces.
`lgj_plan_eval_scalar` runs the row-at-a-time oracle rather than
`kernels::scalar_*`, so `simd_and_scalar_plans_agree_bit_for_bit` is now
`the_executor_and_the_row_oracle_agree_bit_for_bit`. Under the old
implementation that name was accurate — two backends of one evaluator.
It is not any more: the comparison is executor-against-oracle, which is
strictly stronger and a different claim. Backend parity is
`ndarray::simd`'s business and an ABI-level test could only reach it
through a proxy. A name that claims a property the body no longer checks
is worse than no test, because the next session reads the name.

TWO GUARDS. Three `const _` assertions pin the fixture's lane ids to
0/1/2, because the lowering uses `lane_id` directly as an index into
`Planes::lanes` — renumber them and every predicate silently reads a
different column, of the right kind, on a plan the validator accepts.
And `Planes::masks` is empty on purpose: passing `dst_mask` in as an
input plane would turn a caller's dirty prior tail into a spurious
`PlaneTail` error on a destination about to be overwritten wholesale.

The error map is documented as unreachable rather than implied
falsifiable. `validate_plan` gets there first for every caller-caused
error; what is left would be a bug in this file. It exists to make such
a bug a status instead of a panic, and the doc says so, so nobody hunts
for the disable run that pins each arm.

174/174 lib tests; clippy -D warnings and fmt clean. The 10 C1
falsifiers, written against the old loop and green before this change,
pass unchanged — that is the equivalence claim.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
Eleven arms against the new implementation; nine load-bearing.

Two of the plan's own rows came back GREEN — D5 (publish accumulating
with `|=` instead of overwriting) and D15 (`out_count` written above the
error check). Neither is a weak guard. Every test that exists today
publishes into a freshly created EMPTY mask, and `|=` into an all-zero
destination is exactly `copy_from_slice`; nothing triggers an error and
then reads the 12345 sentinel. D5's own trap note in the table predicted
this in advance — "this row proves the fresh-mask tests were never
evidence for this property" — and the run is the measurement that
confirms it.

Both arms are reddened by `pr4_dst_reuse.rs`, C1's last owed file. That
is the point of running the table before it lands rather than after: the
gap is now measured rather than assumed, and re-running D5/D15 once the
file arrives turns a prediction into a red-then-green receipt. A green
result there afterwards would be the real defect.

D3 has nothing left to disable, and that is a finding. It names the seed
tail clear; the prefix rewrite means there IS no seed — op k writes the
accumulator directly — so the quantity the row guards does not exist in
the new path. The surviving `clear_tail_bits` is the AllRows arm, which
is D4, and D4 is red.

Two arms added beyond the table, covering the decisions C2 actually had
to make: gating an OR-combined op under the accumulator (red — the
asymmetry the lowering documents is now measured, not argued), and
shifting the lane index inside `pred_of` (red across 17 tests, covering
the direction the compile-time lane-id assertions cannot reach).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
…g its own property

Two integration binaries.

`plan_eval_no_alloc.rs` measures what `lgj_plan_eval` allocates per
call with a counting global allocator — Rust-side, because this repo's
other allocation gates read `getThreadAllocatedBytes`, which is the JAVA
heap and cannot see a Rust vec at all. Citing them here would have been
an overclaim.

Measured: 160 B per call at 64, 999, 1000, 8192 and 65536 rows —
identical — against the old loop's 2 * n_words * 8, which was 16 KiB at
65536 and grew with the population. The claim is therefore not "zero":
the lowering's own Vec<MaskOp> is real and scales with the OP count. It
is the honest one, per-call allocation is independent of n_rows, and the
32-op arm (2016 B) is what stops "identical across row counts" from
passing for a counter that never increments.

THE GATE HAD THE DEFECT ITS OWN PLAN PREDICTED. `measure()` did one
un-measured warm-up call per row count, and with that in place,
replacing the monotonic resize with a per-size reallocation — a cache
keyed by row count, exactly what C-ALLOC denies — left the whole thing
GREEN. The warm-up absorbed the first call at each size, which is the
only place such a cache allocates. The plan had written down that shape
in advance and the gate walked into it anyway. Fixed: one global warm-up
at the largest row count, every arm measured cold, including an UNSEEN
smaller size. D9/D10/D11 then all redden.

D9 deserves its own note: pointed at lgj_plan_eval_scalar the gate goes
592 -> 278848 B across the sweep. That is Fork A's cost made visible —
the row oracle allocates one bool per row per slot by design, which is
what lets it falsify a bit-packing bug — and it is why the gate names
one symbol and says so in its failure message.

`c_one_evaluator.rs` is the structural guard that one evaluator stays
one. The invariant is an allowlist over MODULES: only abi.rs, exports.rs
and plan_lower.rs may name LgjOpDesc in code. Three narrower rules were
tried against the tree and rejected, each recorded with its
counter-example — "only plan_lower may call eval_predicate" is false,
the unfused single-predicate exports do and correctly; "the opcode must
be a literal" fires on lgj_mask_combine's runtime combine; "nothing may
iterate &[LgjOpDesc]" is the right property and needs a type checker.

Both of its scanner defects were caught by its own assertions rather
than by review. Splitting at the first #[cfg(test)] discarded most of
exports.rs, because that file and registry.rs carry test-only items long
before their test module — so the split anchors on the trailing test
MODULE and brace-matches to prove it is really last. And scanning raw
text flagged kernels.rs, which names the type four times in prose and
never touches it; allowlisting it would have been the wrong repair,
since kernels is precisely where a second evaluator would grow, so
comments are stripped instead.

D12a (a second module holding plan ops) red; D12b (widening the
allowlist to a module that does not hold them) red, so it is a real
equality rather than the permissive bound the plan warned about; D12c
(the type renamed out from under the scanner) red on anti-vacuity.

174 lib + 5 integration tests; clippy -D warnings and fmt clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
… aimed at an unreachable line

`pr4_dst_reuse.rs` was a five-line placeholder. It now owns F-PR4-DST
and F-PR4-REUSE: the same plan into four destinations (fresh-empty,
fresh-all, one holding a provably disjoint prior population, and one
poisoned with u64::MAX) must produce identical status, count and words;
a poisoned tail must publish clean at every row count with a real tail;
a dirty destination must not be read as an input plane; an error at any
position in a 4-op plan must leave both the destination and the count
sentinel untouched; and scratch left dense by one call must not leak
into the next, in both orders and at two fixture shapes.

That closes the two arms the C2 disable table recorded VACUOUS, and the
closing is the point of having run the table early: the prediction was
made before the file existed, and both ends are now measured.

D5 — RED. `publish` changed from copy_from_slice to `|=` reddens three
of the new tests. Every test that existed before published into a
freshly created empty mask, where `|=` and copy are the same operation,
so the property genuinely had no evidence until now.

D15 — still green as the table spells it, and the defect is in the
DISABLE rather than the code. The row says "move the write above the
error check". Under the old loop the write and the checks shared a
function; under C2 they do not. `out_count` is written in exactly one
place and that place is reached only after every error has returned, so
moving the write inside it cannot break anything — on a failing plan it
is never called. Re-targeted at `validate_plan`, which is the error
check that is actually reachable, both directions redden: writing the
count before it, and zeroing the destination before it.

So the property holds and is load-bearing; what moved is where its guard
lives. The general form is worth keeping: a disable written against the
old structure can pass against the new one for reasons that have nothing
to do with the guard, so a green disable is a prompt to find out why,
never a verdict that the guard is inert.

179 lib + 5 integration tests; clippy -D warnings and fmt clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
`plan_lower` lowers a FLAT OP LIST (a left fold seeded with all-ones) to a
`mask_risc::Program`. `lance-graph-quack`'s `lower` lowers a Boolean TREE to
the same `Program`. They implement one law twice — the accumulator gate, the
AND/OR gating asymmetry, the drop of ops before the first AND — and nothing
compared them, because each has its own oracle: this crate's is
`pr4_equivalence.rs`'s frozen pre-PR4 loop, quack's is a per-row reading in
its own crate that has never heard of `plan_lower`. Neither can see the
other drift.

`src/exports/tests/lowering_convergence.rs` closes that. Three tests:
the 28-vector combine sweep, the `AllRows` shortcut, and the nine opcodes at
position 0 and behind a real accumulator, plus the TCAM half-swap.

## The prefix rewrite is not a special case

`fold_to_tree` reads the op list as the tree it denotes. `all_ones & p == p`
makes the first AND the accumulator; `all_ones | p == all_ones` means an OR
before that first AND never becomes a node at all. `plan_lower` reaches the
identical answer by scanning for the least AND index — same predicate, two
routes, and `the_all_rows_shortcut_is_the_same_condition_on_both_sides`
pins it two-sided (3 of 28 vectors are `AllRows`, 25 are not).

## A differential, deliberately NOT a delegation

`lance-graph-quack` is a DEV-dependency. The membrane — the cdylib Java's
`Linker` loads — must not depend on a CONSUMER of the IR it serves. Sharing
the LAW between two independent implementations is the point; sharing a
runtime dependency in that direction would invert the layering.

## Both anti-vacuity bounds were floors, and both were hiding a dead fixture

Written as `>= 15` of 28 and `>= 7` of 9. Measured, both passed EXACTLY at
their bound — which is what a floor looks like when the fixture is dead:

- the arity-4 arm appended `LT_I32(500)` against a values lane of
  `-150..=361`, so the op was always-true. The 16-vector arm collapsed to
  eight saturated 1000s plus eight verbatim copies of the arity-3 row: zero
  additional discriminating power, clearing the floor by sitting on it.
  `LT_I32(200)` (676 of 1000) takes it 15 -> 21.
- `LT_I32`/`LE_I32` had `500` in the per-opcode arm too, so both selected
  every row. Two arms agreeing that EVERY row survives cannot separate
  `LtI32` from `LeI32` from any other always-true reading — the swap this
  file exists to catch would have passed there. `LT_I32(200)` /
  `LE_I32(300)` takes it 7 of 9 -> 9 of 9, and the four ordered comparisons
  now carry distinct counts on purpose: a mis-map is visible only when it
  moves ONE arm's count, so two opcodes selecting the same number of rows
  would hide a swap between exactly those two.

Both are `assert_eq!` now, measured, with the incident recorded at the
assertion. No `TODO` left in the file.

Measured (`--nocapture`): seeds 65/935/2/998/498/676/866/500/65; sweep
n=2 39,498,524,1000 and n=3 0,40,40,73,112,531,557,1000 — both identical to
`pr4_matrix.rs`'s recorded figures, which is the cross-reference the shared
(n=1000, seed=33) fixture buys — and n=4 0,20,20,53,64,207,233,676,676,
696,696,696,724,1000,1000,1000.

182 lib tests (179 + 3), every integration binary green, clippy
`-D warnings` and fmt clean. Board: LATEST_STATE 2026-09-14 (6).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
Follow-up to the file it amends. The disable table ran five arms and all
five are red, but one of them settles a claim the previous commit only
asserted: that replacing the tautological `LE_I32(500)` operand mattered.

Mis-mapping `LGJ_OP_LE_I32` to `Pred::LtI32` in `plan_lower` — one token,
and the exact defect class `lowering_convergence.rs` exists to catch — is:

  operand 300 (shipped):  RED   `LeI32(300)` = 866, `LtI32(300)` = 865
  operand 500 (pre-fix):  GREEN both select all 1000

So at the operand the spec originally used, a real mis-map is INVISIBLE:
the two arms agree on an answer neither of them computed correctly. Two of
the nine opcodes would have shipped untested while the file read as
covering all nine.

Recorded where the claim lives — in `OPCODE_CASES`'s doc comment, beside
the measurement that chose the operand, with an explicit instruction not to
move it back under the "the domain doc says 361, so 500 is safely past it"
reasoning that put it there.

Disable table, all five red: the AND/OR asymmetry (an OR gated on the
accumulator); the prefix rewrite (`k := 0`); the one-opcode mis-map above;
the fold's OR node (flattened into the enclosing AND); the fold's dead
prefix (an OR before the first AND becoming a leaf).

182 lib tests, every integration binary green, clippy `-D warnings` + fmt
clean. Board: LATEST_STATE 2026-09-14 (6) amended with the table.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
…again

Operator ruling: document JDK + Panama access so no future session runs
without Panama entirely.

This repo's own history carries commits titled "UNVERIFIED: JDK 26 not
available in this sandbox". Measured today, that is false twice over:

* Ubuntu noble's stock archive serves `openjdk-25-jdk-headless`, and
  Panama FFM has been FINAL since 22, so the whole `internal/ffm`
  membrane runs on it.
* JDK 26 itself -- the exact version those commits wanted -- is one
  EXTRA APT SOURCE away. Adoptium's noble repo carries 8 through 26;
  add the key + list, `apt-get update`, `apt-get install temurin-26-jdk`.

`ALL PASSED (409 checks)` across all 16 suites on BOTH JDKs, identical,
against `abi 0.11, simd ndarray::simd avx512, profile release`.

The trap that made it look impossible is recorded too, because it reads
as the opposite of what it is: the pre-seeded apt index named
`openjdk-25 25.0.2+10-1~24.04`, a version already withdrawn from the
pool, so the install died on a bare `404 Not Found` -- which reads as
"no such package" rather than "your index is stale". `apt-get update`
moved the candidate to `25.0.4+7-1~24.04` and it installed immediately.
Same shape as this workspace's other freshness traps: a cached view
reporting ABSENCE is not evidence of absence.

Also documented: the full build+run recipe (there is no build tool --
`AllTests` is a plain main with meaningful 0/1/2 exit codes, the third
being "native artifact absent so nothing ran", because a missing library
reported as a failure sends the reader hunting a bug that is not there);
why `-Dlgj.library` refuses to fall back to a search path; and the
runtime line the suite prints, which is what proves the run exercised the
artifact you meant.

The honest boundary, narrowed to what it actually is: only the Valhalla
EA arm (`valhalla-lab/src/valhalla`, `value record`) needs a non-apt
fetch. Adoptium stops at 26 and mainline 27 would not help, since
`value record` is a Valhalla EA feature rather than a mainline one --
but `jdk.java.net/valhalla` is reachable through the proxy (HTTP 200),
so it is a download rather than a blocker, and it is a measurement arm,
not a gate.

Consequence stated explicitly: "the Java side could not be verified" is
no longer an acceptable status line for this repo. Both halves run here,
and a PR claiming otherwise is claiming something that takes about four
minutes to falsify.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
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ABI minor 11 adds ternary mask logic, ternary facet matching, parameterized I32 reductions, and related predicates. Java bindings expose these operations. Native plan evaluation now uses lowered mask-RISC programs with reusable scratch and expanded validation.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Native ABI operations and contracts
docs/abi.md, native/lgj-abi/src/abi.rs, native/lgj-abi/src/kernels.rs, native/lgj-abi/src/exports.rs
The ABI increases to minor 11 with 29 symbols. Native code adds ternary mask logic, ternary matching, signed comparisons, and SUM/MIN/MAX reductions.
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native/lgj-abi/src/plan_lower.rs, native/lgj-abi/src/exports.rs, native/lgj-abi/Cargo.toml
Plans lower to mask-RISC programs. SIMD execution uses reusable thread-local scratch. Scalar execution uses the reference executor.
Native equivalence and resource validation
native/lgj-abi/src/exports/tests/*, native/lgj-abi/tests/*
Tests compare live and frozen evaluators, cover OR and AND combinations, destination reuse, tail clearing, scratch reuse, allocation behavior, lowering convergence, and evaluator ownership.

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Java API and FFM bindings
java/src/main/java/com/adaworldapi/lancegraph/{Mask,RowStore,View,Lens,NativePattern}.java, java/src/main/java/com/adaworldapi/lancegraph/internal/ffm/*
Java adds ternary mask operations, AoS facet matching, and optional min/max results. Downcalls marshal minor-11 arguments and map native status and presence values.
Java validation and implementation records
java/src/test/java/com/adaworldapi/lancegraph/*, .claude/board/*, CLAUDE.md
Tests cover truth tables, aliasing, layout checks, empty reductions, and ABI compatibility. Documentation records JDK setup and 409 passing checks.

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  NativeABI-->>Engine: return status and output
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In `@docs/abi.md`:
- Line 550: Reorder the ABI documentation so the lgj_hop description and its
graph-traversal details remain contiguous, then place the “Row-store register
predicate” section and ternary-match content after lgj_hop. Preserve the
existing headings and text while correcting only their section order.

In `@java/src/main/java/com/adaworldapi/lancegraph/Mask.java`:
- Around line 137-138: Update the Mask ternary operation around
Engine.maskTernlog and RowStore around Engine.ternaryMatch so each newly
allocated native destination mask is closed when the native call throws,
including UNSUPPORTED_LAYOUT. Preserve the original exception and attach any
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the surrounding operation methods as the symbol anchors.

In `@java/src/test/java/com/adaworldapi/lancegraph/OldAbiCompatTest.java`:
- Around line 177-185: Move the “View.minOf/maxOf” gate using NativePattern
outside the loaded >= 2 conditional so it runs for ABI minor 1 as well as newer
libraries. Preserve the existing gate logic and ensure the minor-1 compatibility
run validates eager resolution of lgj_reduce_i32.

In `@native/lgj-abi/src/exports/tests/pr4_dst_reuse.rs`:
- Line 347: Replace the single all-OR predicate in the test plan with a
multi-operation AND plan whose predicates select every row. Ensure execution
uses the path that writes both reusable scratch slots densely before the
subsequent selective call, covering the dense-to-selective and sparse-to-dense
transitions.

In `@native/lgj-abi/src/plan_lower.rs`:
- Line 75: Update the lowering path around program_ops in lgj_plan_eval so plans
containing AND operations do not allocate a new Vec per call; reuse an operation
buffer, use bounded inline storage, or introduce a borrowing Program
representation, and ensure the allocation gate covers lowering as well as
execute.

In `@native/lgj-abi/tests/plan_eval_no_alloc.rs`:
- Line 208: Update the unseen measurement in the test around measure and
unseen_bytes to assert that the measured allocation count is divisible by REPS
before performing integer division, matching the existing sweep-arm checks and
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… own fix

Operator asked for .claude/agents + knowledge covering the Java toolchain
workaround. Writing it surfaced that the workaround was largely
unnecessary, which is the more useful finding.

**`/opt/jdks/jdk-26.0.2` was present the whole time.** 26.0.2.1, and the
suite runs ALL PASSED (409 checks) on it. `.claude/knowledge/
jdk-toolchain-facts.md` had ALREADY named that exact path as the pinned
production path. The session that shipped two "UNVERIFIED: JDK 26 not
available in this sandbox" commits looked at `java -version` and
`/usr/lib/jvm` -- neither of which sees `/opt/jdks` -- and inferred
absence. So did the section I wrote earlier today, which led with apt and
is corrected here in place.

The generalizable defect is in the SHAPE of what the knowledge doc
recorded, not its accuracy. It recorded a LOCATION. A location is
environment-specific, evaporates on a container rebuild, and leaves a
reader who does not find it with no next move. A METHOD survives. So the
doc now carries a four-rung ACQUISITION LADDER instead:

  1. /opt/jdks            -- pre-provisioned; the rung that was missed
  2. /usr/lib/jvm         -- system
  3. apt                  -- Ubuntu openjdk-25; Adoptium temurin-26
  4. jdk.java.net/valhalla -- the JEP 401 EA build

Verified by execution, all three of 1/2/3 give 409/409: /opt/jdks/
jdk-26.0.2, openjdk 25.0.4, temurin 26.0.2.1. Rung 4 is the one that IS
now genuinely needed -- `/opt/jdks/jdk-27`, the Valhalla EA build the doc's
table names for `value class`/`value record`, is GONE from this container
and no apt rung replaces it (Adoptium stops at 26; mainline 27 would not
help, since `value record` is an EA feature).

Two failure shapes recorded, because both recur and both are one rung of
the same mistake: absence inferred from the wrong instrument (`which java`
answers "what is on PATH", never "what is installed"), and a cached view
reporting absence (the apt index named a withdrawn openjdk-25, so the
install died on a bare 404 that reads as "no such package" rather than
"your index is stale").

New agent card `jdk-toolchain-warden` fires before any status line, commit
message, PR body or board entry claims the Java side is unverified --
because that claim is falsifiable by `ls /opt/jdks`, and in this container
it has always been false. Verdicts VERIFIABLE-NOW / NEEDS-FETCH (Valhalla
only) / GENUINELY-ABSENT, the last never yet observed.

Also folded in the operator's architecture ruling, since it is what makes
the Java half worth guarding at all: java is the low-code intake GLOVE
around the lance-graph spine, offering the MENU TO THE TABLE in a pleasing
way using masking ops -- 5 star for the price of a blink. The menu is the
product; it is honest rather than a disguise only because the work and the
data genuinely never cross. Thinking lives in lance-graph behind Panama,
SIMD in ndarray behind the ndarray::simd facade, storage in lance-graph
behind Valhalla -- two orthogonal membranes over the same home, which is
precisely why the isomorphism table's middle row is marked wrong.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
Operator ruling: Java does not use masking ops — lance-graph does.
Mask.minus() and RowStore.hop() are named as the wrong shape: the
substrate's population algebra standing on the Java side of the wall.
The Java surface is the boring call a developer already knows, handed
down zero-copy, with the polyfill relation to sql() exactly a consumer
crate's relation to ndarray::simd — the caller does not know why it is
there, only that it is, and closing a gap is the Rust side's job.

Consequences recorded: nobody optimizes Java except to make it more
boring; a billion-row op crosses as a name and returns a scalar, so
every public call is O(1) in rows and the one materialize* terminal is
what makes "never" auditable; a mask concept on a public Java signature
is a defect regardless of how well it works. The endgame that makes
this non-negotiable rather than stylistic: low-code "bring your own
software", where novel API is lock-in-by-learning-curve.

Re-audited the materialization site list the rule depends on: it
claimed five sites and the tree has seven. View.where()'s predicate
copy and NativePattern.plan() were never listed. Both are legitimate
and the reason sharpens the rule — they are bounded by the query the
developer typed, not by the data, so the invariant is "nothing
proportional to rows", not "no allocation".

Also lands the four leak-on-throw fixes: Mask.ternlog, Mask.minus,
RowStore.maskOfFacetTernaryMatch and RowStore.hop each moved their
requireMinor ahead of allocation and now close the destination handle
when the native op throws, via one shared package-private helper. No
public signature changed.

Gates: lgj-abi cargo test green, Java suite 409/409 against abi 0.11,
ndarray::simd avx512, release.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X6y3drwKSE2zSgoexheLFX
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AdaWorldAPI merged commit 2afaa4c into main Sep 16, 2026
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