- _expandChainSteps: a logical/defeasible evidence referenced by a chain step
is now a condition step ({ rule, conditionStep }) at ANY position. As the
FINAL step the engine verifies it at (intermediate, object); as an
INTERMEDIATE step the engine expands it from the current node (rule-based
reachability: base edges' destinations filtered by the rule's
defeaters/requirements) and continues traversal from each discovered node.
- buildPredicateRule / buildDirectRule: unary predicate calls whose subject
entity IS the evidence's object parameter (trusted(other) inside
peer_trusted(user, other)) are marked _subjectIsObject (was: only subject-var
calls got _subjectAsObject). Requires @arbiter/core@^1.0.4.
Tests: ChainConditionStep intermediate expansion; oracle campaign gains a
chain_intermediate_condition construct (oracle = min(peer*(1-trusted), read)).
A chain's FINAL (object-side) step may now reference a defeasible/logical
evidence. The compiler lowers it to a condition step
({ rule: <config>, conditionStep: true }) that the engine verifies at
(intermediate, object) instead of traversing an edge. Requires
@arbiter/core@^1.0.3 (ChainRule condition-step support).
- _expandChainSteps: a logical/defeasible/comparator evidence is expressible
as a final condition step; non-final such steps remain a compile error
(a condition cannot discover intermediate nodes).
- Dependency collection (generator + DSLRuntime) descends into condition-step
rule configs, so partial-graph requirements reach through them.
Tests: ChainConditionStep (defeasible + ALWAYS steps, independent checkability,
parallel aggregation), oracle campaign chain_condition_step construct
(oracle = min(pm, pv*(1-pb))), DSLRuntime transitive required facts through a
condition step.
Lowering fixes (validate/lower/compile into known-correct core structures):
- tuple_to_userset: structural classification by object-side predicate
(owner(*g, doc) { member_of(user, g) } -> tuple_to_userset with direction
'in'/'out'); the old heuristic routed every outer-wildcard to chain.
- relational_comparator: operands now lower to real direct-rule configs
(evaluateFrom derived from evidence param positions; expectedValue for
literal args) instead of raw AST nodes the engine could not evaluate.
- defeasible: multi-level bodies (NEVER/REQUIRES/ALWAYS/WHEN/UNLESS) merge
into one five-level rule instead of ANDed level-only rules that always
resolved 0; nested PatternMatches flatten to N-step chains; unary predicate
calls mark _subjectAsObject (subject-as-object semantics).
- validation: reject duplicate fact/evidence definitions.
DSLRuntime (higher-order DSL+Core wrapper):
- typed addNode/updateNodeData/addRelation/updateRelation against the DSL
schema (known types, relation params, field types, value-carrying facts);
- check() derives the evidence's injectable partial-graph requirements,
retrieves missing facts through caller data callbacks, injects them, and
delegates, returning requiredFacts/providedFacts/missingFacts.
js-rigor campaigns:
- generative oracle: generate legal DSL per construct and compare every
verdict against an independent hand-computed oracle (8 constructs x P grid)
plus an exhaustive deterministic sweep;
- illegal mutations: one-flaw perturbations of a valid program must be
reliably rejected (duplicate evidence/fact, arity/type mismatches, reserved
built-ins, malformed syntax), with a control that must compile.
Depends on @arbiter/core@^1.0.2 (reason codes + _subjectAsObject).
The Evidence DSL (ADR-000) is a thin declarative layer that compiles to
engine rule types. It has zero runtime coupling to the core engine
(DSLCompiler takes an arbiter as a duck-typed argument; the only shared
code was the ip-utils helpers, now local). Extracting it into its own
package keeps the core artifact free of the DSL surface.
- @arbiter/evidence-dsl depends on @arbiter/core (config formats are the
compilation target)
- deep-path exports for the compiler, parser, generator, validation,
and built-in functions (the surface the core's DSL tests consume)
- tests moved alongside; generate-parser script + peggy devDep local
- CI: test on push, publish on v* tags
John Dvorak