open-standards/jouleclaw/jouleclaw-rs/crates/jouleclaw-elicitor/conformance/README.md
Transaction Science 0055f59b3c jouleclaw: conformance vectors for the triangle's four primitives
JCR-1 ships ten conformance vectors with three independent verifier
implementations byte-equal. The triangle primitives (conservation,
cone, oracle, elicitor) had no equivalent — implementers in other
languages had to read the Rust source to know what "compliant" means.

This commit closes that gap. Each primitive gets:

  conformance/vectors.json — the canonical fixture set
  conformance/README.md    — the conformance contract spec
  tests/conformance.rs     — Rust verifier wired into cargo test

Vectors:

  conservation/1  — 5 vectors: conforming, below_spec, hallucination,
                    missing_delta, plus a multi-finding case
  cone/1          — 6 vectors: every datum_default band entry,
                    jouleclaw_cascade_default L0, escalate-lut-to-
                    formulaic, escalate-from-apex (refused)
  oracle/1        — 5 vectors: always_pass, always_fail, composite
                    all-pass with chain dedup, composite short-
                    circuit on first fail, empty-composite trivial-
                    pass
  elicitor/1      — 5 vectors: empty-walker-done, single-required-
                    ask, two-required-fill-first-ask-second, fully-
                    filled-done, optional-slot-never-asked

Each verifier asserts byte-equality between the reference impl's
serde_json output and the vector's `expected_*`. Adding a vector
extends the conformance contract for every implementer.

The Python and Go reference verifiers (the JCR-1 multi-language
pattern) are roadmap, not part of this commit — the vectors are
language-neutral so other-language verifiers can be added without
changing the contract.

4 new tests, one per primitive — all green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <[email protected]>
2026-06-04 03:32:06 -04:00

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elicitor/1 — conformance

Test vectors for any implementation claiming to drive the JouleClaw deterministic structured-intake state machine. The reference [SlotWalker] in this crate passes every vector; any other implementation is conformant iff it produces the same final ElicitorStep (byte-equal under serde_json) after processing the given submit sequence for every input fixture.

Files

  • vectors.json — the canonical fixture set. 5 vectors covering empty-slot-list, single-required-slot-unanswered, two-slot fill- first-ask-second, two-slot fully filled, and the optional-slot- never-asked case.

Verifier

cargo test -p jouleclaw-elicitor --test conformance

Other-language verifiers MUST construct a walker over the slot list, apply the submit sequence in order, and compare the final step to expected_final_step. ElicitorStep serializes with a kind tag (ask | done); the field set per variant is fixed.

Adding a vector

Add an entry to vectors, bump vector_count, and re-run the verifier.