Today's sidecar drop (lakehouse ba928b1) changed Rust's embed
transport from gateway → sidecar → Ollama (2 hops) to gateway →
Ollama directly. Go's embedd has always been direct. A drift here
would mean: same query, different vector → different HNSW top-K →
different staffing recommendations. This probe is the regression
gate for that surface.
Fixtures cover staffing-domain shapes (forklift, welder, OSHA,
dental, CNC) plus stress shapes (unicode "Café résumé ⭐ 你好",
single char "x", 200-word long fixture).
Match metric: cosine similarity ≥ 0.99999. Byte-equal isn't
expected — Go round-trips through []float32 internally while Rust
stays at Vec<f64>, so JSON serialization introduces small float
drift. What matters operationally is vector direction (HNSW uses
cosine distance), and both runtimes preserve it when calling the
same Ollama with the same model.
Result: **8/8 fixtures match** including the long + unicode cases.
Sidecar drop didn't disturb the embed surface. The probe also
forces both endpoints to use `nomic-embed-text` so the v1-vs-v2-moe
default difference doesn't pollute the comparison.
5th cross-runtime parity probe joining the family:
- validator_parity (6/6)
- extract_json_parity (12/12)
- session_log_parity (4/4)
- materializer_parity (2/2)
- embed_parity (8/8) — this commit
Cumulative: 32/32 parity assertions across 5 probes covering
HTTP shape (validator, embed), CLI output (materializer), unit
behavior (extract_json), and persisted shape (session_log).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Companion to lakehouse 98b6647. Architecture comparison decisions
tracker now captures:
- Go validatord direct header read (fixes 6847bbc): closes the
case where Langfuse-off middleware passthrough silently dropped
forwarded X-Lakehouse-Trace-Id
- Rust IterateResponse trace_id echo (fixes 98b6647): closes the
asymmetry where Go's response carried the join key and Rust's
didn't
- Unified longitudinal log demonstrated end-to-end: both daemons
co-writing /tmp/lakehouse-validator/sessions.jsonl, distinct
daemon tags, one DuckDB query covers both
24/24 parity assertions (validator 6/6, extract_json 12/12,
session_log 4/4, materializer 2/2) hold against live :3100 + :4110.
Both runtimes deployed with today's full stack.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Surfaced during the 2026-05-02 deploy + reality wave: the persistent
Go stack runs without LANGFUSE_URL/PUBLIC_KEY/SECRET_KEY env, so
shared.langfuseMiddleware operates as a passthrough — never minting
a trace id, never stashing it on the request context. Result:
session_id was empty on every JSONL row, breaking correlation across
the longitudinal log + replay_runs.jsonl + future Langfuse traces.
The fix: validatord falls back to a locally-generated time-ordered
hex id when both the X-Lakehouse-Trace-Id header AND the middleware
context are empty. Same shape Langfuse accepts, so a future deploy
that turns Langfuse on doesn't break correlation — already-emitted
session_ids stay valid as Langfuse trace ids.
Verified post-deploy by driving 9 /v1/iterate sessions through the
persistent stack at :4110:
- 6 accepted on iter 0 (qwen2.5:latest first-shot 75%)
- 2 max_iter_exhausted (no_json on prose-y prompts)
- 1 infra_error (chatd cold-start probe timed out at 5s)
Latest row's session_id: "18abbabdc2306a83-c2306aa9" (was: "")
Probe re-runs (validator_parity, session_log_parity) included as
post-deploy artifacts; both 6/6 + 4/4 with the freshly-restarted
persistent gateway+validatord binaries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Companion to lakehouse commit 57bde63 (Rust gateway gains
trace-id propagation + coordinator session JSONL). The
cross-runtime parity probe is the regression gate that prevents
silent schema drift between the two runtimes.
scripts/cutover/parity/session_log_parity.sh:
- 4 fixtures (accepted_grounded, max_iter_exhausted, infra_error,
unicode_in_prompt) feed identical input to both helpers
- jq -e validity gate + non-trivial-equal guard prevents the
"both sides fail identically → spurious match" failure mode
(caught one IFS='||' bug during initial authoring — recorded
in the script comment)
- normalize() strips timestamp + daemon (legitimate per-producer
differences); everything else must be byte-equal
- Result: 4/4 fixtures match, including unicode
scripts/cutover/parity/session_log_helper/main.go:
- Tiny stdin/stdout Go helper that round-trips a fixture
through validator.SessionRecord serde
- Counterpart to crates/gateway/src/bin/parity_session_log.rs
docs/ARCHITECTURE_COMPARISON.md decisions tracker:
- "Rust observability parity" row added (DONE 2026-05-02)
- Cross-runtime probe documented as reusable gate
STATE_OF_PLAY refreshed.
Both observability pieces (trace-id propagation, session JSONL)
now exist on both runtimes. Operators who point Rust gateway and
Go validatord at the same session-log path get a unified
longitudinal stream queryable via DuckDB.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes the 2026-05-02 parity finding: validator_parity probe found
5/6 body shapes diverging because Go emitted {"Kind":"...","Field":"...","Reason":"..."}
while Rust emits the externally-tagged-enum {"Schema":{"field":"...","reason":"..."}}.
A caller parsing the error envelope would break silently in cutover.
## Changes
internal/validator/types.go:
- Custom MarshalJSON emits the Rust shape:
Schema: {"Schema": {"field":"x","reason":"y"}}
Completeness: {"Completeness":{"reason":"y"}}
Consistency: {"Consistency": {"reason":"y"}}
Policy: {"Policy": {"reason":"y"}}
- Custom UnmarshalJSON accepts BOTH the new Rust shape AND the legacy
flat shape (migration safety for any persisted error rows).
- Unknown variants (e.g. a future Rust addition Go hasn't learned)
surface as an Unmarshal error, not a silent default.
internal/validator/types_test.go:
- 4 pinning tests anchor the wire format. Failing them = wire-format
drift; the parity probe is the secondary line of defense.
scripts/validatord_smoke.sh:
- Updated probes to read the new variant-name shape (jq keys[0],
.Schema.field) instead of legacy .Kind/.Field.
## Verification
- internal/validator unit tests: PASS (4 new + all existing).
- cmd/validatord HTTP tests: PASS (UnmarshalJSON falls through to flat
shape so existing tests reading ValidationError still work).
- validatord_smoke.sh: 5/5 PASS through gateway :3110.
- validator parity probe re-run: **6/6 match** (was 1/6).
## Pattern
Per architecture_comparison's "use the dual-implementation as a
measurement instrument" thesis: a parity probe surfaced this gap;
50 LOC of MarshalJSON closed it; 4 pinning tests prevent regression;
the probe is the longitudinal gate. Cutover-friendly direction (Go
matches Rust) chosen because Rust is the existing production
contract.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two new cross-runtime parity probes joining the validator probe from
the gauntlet wave. Pattern: feed identical input through Rust and Go;
diff outputs. Each probe surfaced a different signal.
## Materializer parity probe
scripts/cutover/parity/materializer_parity.sh runs Bun + Go
materializer against an identical synthetic data/_kb/ root, diffs the
resulting evidence/ JSONL byte-equivalent (modulo provenance.recorded_at).
**First run: 0/2 match.** Real finding: Go's Provenance.LineOffset
had `json:"line_offset,omitempty"` which strips the field when value
is 0. Line offset 0 is the FIRST ROW of every source file — a real
semantic value, not absent. Bun side always emits it.
Fix: drop `omitempty` on Provenance.LineOffset. Updated comment
explaining why.
**Re-run: 2/2 match.** On-wire JSON parity holds.
## extract_json parity probe
scripts/cutover/parity/extract_json_parity.sh feeds 12 fixture
strings through both runtimes' extract_json:
- fenced ```json``` blocks
- unfenced ``` blocks
- bare braces with prose around
- first-balanced-of-many
- nested objects
- unicode in string values
- escaped quotes
- empty object
- top-level array (both return first inner object)
- no JSON
- depth-balanced but invalid syntax
- trailing garbage
Substrate gate: cargo test -p gateway extract_json PASS before probe.
**Result: 12/12 match.** Algorithms genuinely equivalent.
## scripts/cutover/parity/extract_json_helper/main.go
Tiny Go binary that reads stdin, calls validator.ExtractJSON, prints
{matched, value} JSON. Counterpart to the Rust parity_extract_json
binary in golangLAKEHOUSE's sibling lakehouse repo (separate commit).
## Pattern crystallized
Every cross-runtime port should land with a parity probe. Three
probes now exist:
- validator (5/6 wire-format gap captured 2026-05-02)
- materializer (caught + fixed real bug 2026-05-02)
- extract_json (12/12 match 2026-05-02)
The instrument is reusable — each new shared HTTP/CLI surface gets
a probe row added.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Production-readiness gauntlet exploiting the dual Rust/Go
implementation as a measurement instrument.
## Phase 1 — Full smoke chain
21/21 PASS in ~60s. Substrate intact across the full service surface.
## Phase 2 — Per-component scrum (token-volume fix)
Prior wave (165KB diff): Kimi 62 tokens out, Qwen 297 → no useful
analysis. This wave splits today's commits into 4 focused bundles
(36-71KB each):
c1 validatord (46KB) → 0 convergent / 11 distinct
c2 vectord substrate (36KB) → 0 convergent / 10 distinct
c3 materializer (71KB) → 0 convergent / 6 distinct (Opus emitted
a BLOCK then self-retracted in same response)
c4 replay (45KB) → 0 convergent / 10 distinct
Reviewer engagement vs prior wave: Kimi went 62 → ~250 tokens out
once bundles dropped below 60KB.
scripts/scrum_review.sh hardening:
* Diff-size guard (warn >60KB, hard-fail >100KB,
SCRUM_FORCE_OVERSIZE=1 override)
* Tightened prompt — file path must appear EXACTLY as in diff
so post-processor can grep WHERE: lines reliably
* Auto-tally step dedupes by (reviewer, location); convergence
counts distinct lineages (closes the prior `opus+opus+opus`
false-convergence bug)
## Phase 3 — Cross-runtime validator parity probe (the headline finding)
scripts/cutover/parity/validator_parity.sh sends 6 identical
/v1/validate cases to Rust :3100 AND Go :4110, compares status+body.
Result: **6/6 status codes match · 5/6 body shapes diverge.**
Rust returns serde-tagged enum: {"Schema":{"field":"x","reason":"y"}}
Go returns flat exported-fields: {"Kind":"schema","Field":"x","Reason":"y"}
Both round-trip inside their own runtime; a caller swapping one for
the other would break parsing silently. Captured as new _open_ row
in docs/ARCHITECTURE_COMPARISON.md decisions tracker.
This is the "use the dual-implementation as a measurement instrument"
return — single-repo scrums can't catch this class of cross-runtime
drift.
## Phase 4 — Production assessment
ship-with-known-gap. Validator wire-format gap is documented, not
regressed. ~50 LOC future fix on Go side (custom MarshalJSON on
ValidationError to match Rust's serde shape).
Persistent stack config (/tmp/lakehouse-persistent.toml) gains
validatord on :3221 + persistent-validatord binary so operators
bringing up the persistent stack get the new daemon automatically.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
