chore(engine): make dist/soul.c drift a build failure instead of a silent ship (#133)

#133 regenerated the amalgam once and said so itself: 'Nothing in the tree
regenerates this file. Only a human running the recipe. It lags in batches, never
per-change, and it will drift again.'

It drifted again. Every binary deployed on 2026-08-09 was built by build-soul.sh
from a scratch amalgam that never touches dist/soul.c, so the committed build
input fell 2,761 bytes behind the sources by a different route than #133 describes.

Auto-regeneration is not available: the CI workflow records that elc needs 24GB+
of virtual memory and would OOM the runner. So the build cannot regenerate the
file. It can refuse to compile a stale one, for free and with no compiler.

tools/soulc-stamp.sh records a content fingerprint of every .el source at the
moment the amalgam is generated. --check recomputes and compares; divergence exits
1 and names the changed files and the recipe. Wired into CI ahead of the compile.

dist/soul.c regenerated from current sources: 1,176,361 -> 1,179,122 bytes, 1,247
inlined bodies (gate wants >=1200), and verified to compile clean at 903,552 bytes.

Demonstrated to FAIL on the bad input, per postmortem 0004's rule that a gate which
only passes on good input proves nothing:
  fresh stamp        -> OK,   exit 0
  one .el modified   -> FAIL, exit 1, names memory.el
  source restored    -> OK,   exit 0

Refs #133, #111

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Neuron
2026-08-09 11:32:56 -05:00
parent be0f9d1afe
commit 9fd8c11670
4 changed files with 212 additions and 2 deletions
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@@ -63,6 +63,16 @@ jobs:
cp vendor/el-runtime/v1.0.0-20260501/el_runtime.h /opt/el/runtime/el_runtime.h
echo "El runtime PINNED to v1.0.0-20260501: $(ls /opt/el/runtime/)"
# neuron#133: CI compiles dist/soul.c, NOT the .el sources. On 2026-08-07 a
# build off main would have shipped an engine with none of five merged fixes,
# including a P0 safety fix, while main's source read as correct. The runner
# cannot regenerate the amalgam (elc needs 24GB+ virtual memory), but it can
# refuse to compile a stale one. Fails loudly with the recipe in the message.
- name: Verify dist/soul.c matches the sources
run: |
chmod +x tools/soulc-stamp.sh
./tools/soulc-stamp.sh --check
- name: Build neuron soul binary
run: |
RUNTIME=/opt/el/runtime
Generated Vendored
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@@ -974,6 +974,10 @@ el_val_t wt_commit(el_val_t id);
el_val_t tier_working(void);
el_val_t tier_episodic(void);
el_val_t tier_canonical(void);
el_val_t mem_assoc_skip_label(el_val_t label);
el_val_t mem_assoc_ok(el_val_t cand_id, el_val_t cand_label, el_val_t self_id);
el_val_t mem_assoc_slot(el_val_t results, el_val_t idx, el_val_t new_id);
el_val_t mem_associate(el_val_t new_id, el_val_t content, el_val_t label);
el_val_t mem_store(el_val_t content, el_val_t label, el_val_t tags);
el_val_t mem_remember(el_val_t content, el_val_t tags);
el_val_t mem_recall(el_val_t query, el_val_t depth);
@@ -25573,6 +25577,97 @@ el_val_t tier_canonical(void) {
return 0;
}
el_val_t mem_assoc_skip_label(el_val_t label) {
if (str_contains(label, EL_STR("state-event"))) {
return 1;
}
if (str_contains(label, EL_STR("soul-response"))) {
return 1;
}
if (str_contains(label, EL_STR("soul-outbox"))) {
return 1;
}
if (str_contains(label, EL_STR("boot_count"))) {
return 1;
}
if (str_contains(label, EL_STR("loop-outcome"))) {
return 1;
}
if (str_contains(label, EL_STR("search-result"))) {
return 1;
}
return 0;
return 0;
}
el_val_t mem_assoc_ok(el_val_t cand_id, el_val_t cand_label, el_val_t self_id) {
if (str_eq(cand_id, EL_STR(""))) {
return 0;
}
if (str_eq(cand_id, self_id)) {
return 0;
}
el_val_t lab = str_lower(cand_label);
if (str_starts_with(lab, EL_STR("self"))) {
return 0;
}
if (str_starts_with(lab, EL_STR("value"))) {
return 0;
}
if (str_contains(lab, EL_STR("values"))) {
return 0;
}
if (str_contains(lab, EL_STR("identity"))) {
return 0;
}
if (mem_assoc_skip_label(cand_label)) {
return 0;
}
return 1;
return 0;
}
el_val_t mem_assoc_slot(el_val_t results, el_val_t idx, el_val_t new_id) {
if (idx >= json_array_len(results)) {
return 0;
}
el_val_t cand = json_array_get(results, idx);
el_val_t cid = json_get(cand, EL_STR("id"));
el_val_t clabel = json_get(cand, EL_STR("label"));
el_val_t ctype = json_get(cand, EL_STR("node_type"));
if (str_eq(ctype, EL_STR("Value"))) {
return 0;
}
if (str_eq(ctype, EL_STR("DharmaSelf"))) {
return 0;
}
if (str_eq(ctype, EL_STR("Safety"))) {
return 0;
}
if (mem_assoc_ok(cid, clabel, new_id)) {
wt_edge(new_id, cid, el_from_float(0.5), EL_STR("related"));
}
return 0;
}
el_val_t mem_associate(el_val_t new_id, el_val_t content, el_val_t label) {
if (str_eq(new_id, EL_STR(""))) {
return 0;
}
if (mem_assoc_skip_label(label)) {
return 0;
}
el_val_t probe = str_slice(content, 0, 400);
el_val_t results = engram_recall_json(probe, 4);
if (str_eq(results, EL_STR(""))) {
return 0;
}
mem_assoc_slot(results, 0, new_id);
mem_assoc_slot(results, 1, new_id);
mem_assoc_slot(results, 2, new_id);
return 0;
}
el_val_t mem_store(el_val_t content, el_val_t label, el_val_t tags) {
el_val_t id = wt_node(content, EL_STR("Memory"), label, el_from_float(0.5), el_from_float(0.5), el_from_float(0.8), EL_STR("Working"), tags);
if (str_eq(id, EL_STR(""))) {
@@ -25580,6 +25675,7 @@ el_val_t mem_store(el_val_t content, el_val_t label, el_val_t tags) {
return EL_STR("");
}
el_val_t durable = wt_commit(id);
mem_associate(id, content, label);
if (durable) {
println(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(EL_STR("[memory] write persisted at owner: "), id), EL_STR(" label=")), label));
} else {
@@ -29709,7 +29805,9 @@ el_val_t handle_api_begin_session(el_val_t body) {
el_val_t state_events = api_compact_node_array(state_events_raw, 5, 500);
el_val_t recent_raw = engram_scan_nodes_json(10, 0);
el_val_t recent = api_compact_node_array(recent_raw, 10, 240);
return el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(EL_STR("{\"stats\":"), stats), EL_STR(",\"recent\":")), recent), EL_STR(",\"activated\":")), activated), EL_STR(",\"self_neighbors\":[]")), EL_STR(",\"recent_state_events\":")), state_events), EL_STR("}"));
el_val_t self_raw = engram_neighbors_json(EL_STR("kn-efeb4a5b-5aff-4759-8a97-7233099be6ee"), 1, EL_STR("both"));
el_val_t self_slice = api_compact_node_array(self_raw, 24, 240);
return el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(EL_STR("{\"stats\":"), stats), EL_STR(",\"recent\":")), recent), EL_STR(",\"activated\":")), activated), EL_STR(",\"self_neighbors\":")), self_slice), EL_STR(",\"recent_state_events\":")), state_events), EL_STR("}"));
return 0;
}
@@ -29739,6 +29837,7 @@ el_val_t handle_api_remember(el_val_t body) {
if (!api_persisted(id)) {
return api_not_persisted(id);
}
mem_associate(id, content, EL_STR("memory:remembered"));
return el_str_concat(el_str_concat(EL_STR("{\"id\":\""), id), EL_STR("\",\"ok\":true}"));
return 0;
}
@@ -29830,7 +29929,7 @@ el_val_t handle_api_recall(el_val_t method, el_val_t path, el_val_t body) {
if (str_eq(eff_q, EL_STR(""))) {
return api_or_empty(engram_scan_nodes_json(limit, 0));
}
el_val_t results = engram_search_json(eff_q, limit);
el_val_t results = engram_recall_json(eff_q, limit);
return api_or_empty(results);
return 0;
}
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@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
# soul.c.stamp — fingerprint of the .el sources dist/soul.c was generated from.
# Written by tools/soulc-stamp.sh --write. Do not hand-edit.
# generated_amalgam_sha256 e31f760de5f6629cd37bcfd26172f92be3ca5d6ff36480f6adafa1d4a1de5a66
# generated_amalgam_bytes 1179122
f8597e10546654bce3fbbe40461b2da59d0e06dbf1b038d1d362d24f949e3911 awareness.el
b6f3d14ca0c26017a2d617399a6d3754dabb0905e4d5f52eb75d25c4ad18d3c5 chat.el
42288c212cbf72fb1e8ecbd4d9900e4e9ee1cfa475b7974295c7637f1bf2939f elp-input.el
b3f77f49d6086932c38bd17fe7a5eaf8bce25685f6fc3e1750f05729c6b49b9e imprint.el
fba8ffdb9ba72bca5b09ca1c93a520edc52f3f4d8aec2c7585fe9b17e06420b2 manifest.el
550a72e234ae8cec1f33e02108fd365353f45edd88513da90b792e79b6c0e5f0 memory.el
77640783df5c38066149dcd11a11aea7e36f66e40e3df6aedf6723be8b9e0e1e neuron-api.el
03c47c451e0e87f2c252cadb4b765867943962a804f548dd53adeef0520912c8 persist.el
541b9309c59c33ee619d393714871b820ec4151b721d8b2aebcfdb7ce8eb2ffa routes.el
c28e36952ec56525963a0bdf29455ab097d3b0c5653d19c25fbb005e1069a1f7 safety.el
fd3ab91d0ae0ea26639e21bef2f8f94054dc4b02eae68b19e3fe689d2769aad4 sessions.el
0f1cf43904a98a5a646cce5a07e0e96162ced662692fbc13357d9b67d9a8ac3d soul.el
30337940905171a9645b0929f0a412ce6b3dccb1246495070c553bca0bbae6cd stewardship.el
e105dc5990e6adbf39db9dc0462cd8bcf6e6c3dfd03709059227ecfad2bbab29 studio.el
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@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# soulc-stamp.sh — make it impossible for dist/soul.c to drift from the sources
# in silence.
#
# THE PROBLEM (neuron#133, and its own words): "Nothing in the tree regenerates
# this file. Only a human running the recipe. It lags in batches, never
# per-change, and it will drift again."
#
# It drifted. On 2026-08-07 a CI or GKE build off main would have shipped an
# engine with NONE of five merged fixes — including a P0 safety fix — while
# main's source read as correct. CI compiles dist/soul.c, not the .el files, so
# the source being right is not the same as the build being right.
#
# WHY A STAMP AND NOT AUTO-REGENERATION: the CI workflow says elc cannot run on
# the runner ("elb on Linux would OOM the runner (elc uses 24GB+ virtual memory
# on a 16GB host)"). So the build cannot regenerate the file itself. What it CAN
# do, for free and with no compiler, is refuse to compile a stale one.
#
# The stamp records a fingerprint of every .el source that feeds the amalgam at
# the moment it was generated. --check recomputes and compares. Divergence is a
# build failure with the recipe in the message, not a silent ship.
#
# soulc-stamp.sh --write after regenerating dist/soul.c (records the fingerprint)
# soulc-stamp.sh --check in CI, before the compile (fails on drift)
set -u
MODE="${1:---check}"
ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
STAMP="$ROOT/dist/soul.c.stamp"
AMALGAM="$ROOT/dist/soul.c"
# Every .el at the repo root is an input to the amalgam. Sorted so the hash is
# order-independent; content-only so timestamps and checkouts do not perturb it.
fingerprint() {
(
cd "$ROOT" || exit 1
for f in $(ls -1 *.el 2>/dev/null | sort); do
printf '%s %s\n' "$(shasum -a 256 "$f" | awk '{print $1}')" "$f"
done
)
}
case "$MODE" in
--write)
[ -f "$AMALGAM" ] || { echo "no dist/soul.c to stamp — regenerate it first" >&2; exit 2; }
{
echo "# soul.c.stamp — fingerprint of the .el sources dist/soul.c was generated from."
echo "# Written by tools/soulc-stamp.sh --write. Do not hand-edit."
echo "# generated_amalgam_sha256 $(shasum -a 256 "$AMALGAM" | awk '{print $1}')"
echo "# generated_amalgam_bytes $(wc -c < "$AMALGAM" | tr -d ' ')"
fingerprint
} > "$STAMP"
echo "stamped $(fingerprint | wc -l | tr -d ' ') sources -> dist/soul.c.stamp"
;;
--check)
if [ ! -f "$STAMP" ]; then
echo "FAIL: dist/soul.c.stamp is missing — the build input is unverifiable." >&2
echo " Regenerate the amalgam, then: tools/soulc-stamp.sh --write" >&2
exit 1
fi
RECORDED="$(grep -v '^#' "$STAMP")"
CURRENT="$(fingerprint)"
if [ "$RECORDED" = "$CURRENT" ]; then
echo "soulc-stamp: OK — dist/soul.c matches the .el sources"
exit 0
fi
echo "FAIL: dist/soul.c is STALE. It does not match the current .el sources." >&2
echo "" >&2
echo "CI compiles dist/soul.c, not the .el files. Shipping this means shipping" >&2
echo "an engine that does not contain the merged source. That is neuron#133," >&2
echo "which once hid five merged fixes including a P0 safety fix." >&2
echo "" >&2
echo "Sources that changed since the amalgam was generated:" >&2
diff <(printf '%s\n' "$RECORDED") <(printf '%s\n' "$CURRENT") \
| grep -E '^[<>]' | awk '{print " " $1 " " $3}' | sort -u >&2
echo "" >&2
echo "Fix: regenerate the amalgam, then tools/soulc-stamp.sh --write" >&2
exit 1
;;
*)
echo "usage: soulc-stamp.sh [--check|--write]" >&2; exit 2 ;;
esac