…oard + critical-path map — spec v2.73.0 → v2.74.0 (#1087)

Session-end snapshot consolidating today's 10-PR cascade into a
single source-of-truth for next session.

The goal: ship two models to HF, both built end-to-end on the
in-tree Sovereign AI Stack.

Coverage scoreboard EOD 2026-04-27:
| Category    | DISCHARGED | PARTIAL | Total | %D  |
|-------------|-----------:|--------:|------:|----:|
| MODEL-1     |          5 |       5 |    10 | 50% |
| MODEL-2     |          3 |       9 |    12 | 25% |
| GPUTRAIN    |          7 |       0 |     7 |100% |
| Ship Gates  |          - |      12 |    12 |  0% |
| Falsifiers  |          - |       7 |     7 |  0% |
| Sum         |         15 |      33 |    48 | 31% |

Critical path — MODEL-1: PR E (replace helpers::f32_matmul with
Q4K-fused dispatch) discharges 5 PARTIALs at one fix site.
~150-300 LOC.

Critical path — MODEL-2: P1.1 (apr pull dataset extension) →
P1.4 (corpus pull) → P2 (100K-step training) discharges 9
PARTIALs.

10-PR session cascade (6 merged, 4 open + this):
- #1076-#1080: spec + contract foundation (MERGED)
- #1081: P3 PR A scaffold (MERGED)
- #1082-#1083: P3 PR B+C wiring (OPEN, stacked)
- #1084-#1085: §27/§28 binding criterion + root cause (OPEN)
- #1086: PR D forward-parity contract (OPEN)

Falsification chain (complete, root-reached):
§15.4 → §16 → §17 → §23 → §27 → §28 → PR D contract → PR E (next)
"forward path" → ... → "APR F32 vs GGUF Q4K matmul precision"
                            → "binding criterion as durable spec"
                            → "fix at mod_apr_transformer.rs:138-140"

Methodology preserved: zero eprintln!, zero route-arounds, apr
canonical, contract-first, lambda-labs pre-authorized, 5-whys
reaches root.

Next session: PR E first (5 ACs), then P1.1 + P1.4 + P2
(9 ACs).

Spec v2.73.0 → v2.74.0. No coverage flip at amendment — §29 is
a scoreboard, not a discharge.

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…irmed APR-side at inference.rs:160-164 — spec v2.71.0 → v2.72.0 (#1084)

Live evidence on noah-Lambda-Vector RTX 4090 2026-04-27.
Built apr from PR #1083 branch (commits 77c016b + c657968
+ f249464 from PR A+B+C cascade). Ran `apr trace --payload`
on canonical 7B teacher in BOTH formats with identical prompt
+ tokenizer.

Result:
| Layer | APR ffn_swigl std | GGUF ffn_swigl std | Ratio |
|------:|------------------:|-------------------:|------:|
| 3     | 1.2216            | 0.0670             | 18.23x |

§26.4 binding criterion threshold: ≥10x → APR-side bug.
**Observed 18.23x — 8x past the threshold, decisive verdict.**

The investigation chain that started in §15.4 (GPU GQA
elimination) has reached its conclusion at §27:

§15.4 → §16 → §17 → §23 → §27 (this)
"Whole forward path" → "GPU eliminated" → "(layer=3, FFN sub-block)"
→ "(layer=3, ffn_swigl)" → "**APR-side at inference.rs:160-164**"

Cascade-damping signature confirmed:
- Layers 0-2: ratio ~1.1x (normal)
- Layer 3: 18.23x (anomaly)
- Layers 4-5: 3.3-4.5x (cascade)
- Layer 6+: ~1x (recovered)

This is consistent with a localized perturbation (off-by-one,
buffer aliasing, or F32-vs-Q4K dequant defect at layer-3-
specifically) rather than persistent residual-stream corruption.

Per §17.5, SHIP-007 fix discharges 5 MODEL-1 PARTIALs at once
(SHIP-002/005/006/007/008). §26.5 expected coverage flip: 33+12
→ 28+17 when fix lands.

§27 does NOT discharge by itself — it locates the bug for fixing.
Next investigation reads `inference.rs:160-164` and tests 4 hypotheses:
1. Off-by-one slice indexing
2. Buffer aliasing (scratch reuse pattern)
3. F32-vs-Q4K dequant defect at layer-3 input range
4. Activation overflow (SiLU saturation amplifies multiply)

Methodology held throughout: zero eprintln!, zero route-arounds,
apr is canonical (§26.8), all instrumentation via `apr trace
--payload`. Lambda-labs lane pre-authorized.

Evidence persisted to evidence/ship-007-apr-vs-gguf-2026-04-27/:
- apr-trace.txt (13.5 KB)
- gguf-trace.txt (13.7 KB)
- binding-criterion-summary.json

Note: §27 reproduction requires PR #1081 + #1082 + #1083
cascade to merge first (the apr trace --payload <gguf> wiring
is in PR C). Evidence was generated with a local build of PR
#1083 branch.

Spec v2.71.0 → v2.72.0. Coverage flip pending fix.

Spec: SPEC-SHIP-TWO-001 §26.4 P3 verdict
References:
- §15.4 (PR #1062) — GPU GQA eliminated
- §16 (PR #1063) — APR CPU isolated
- §17 (PR #1064) — layer-3 FFN sub-block
- §23 (PR #1075) — layer-3 ffn_swigl named
- §26.8 (PR #1079) — apr-is-canonical methodology rule
- PR #1081 (P3 PR A scaffold)
- PR #1082 (P3 PR B sub-FFN populate)
- PR #1083 (P3 PR C CLI wiring)

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… — v2.80 → v2.81

Landmark section in plain prose for readers who don't want to chase the
§15→§35 hypothesis chain. Each model is blocked by a single concrete
problem.

MODEL-1: numerical bug at layer 3 of FFN. 18× std anomaly vs GGUF reference.
Three theories tested+refuted today (matmul kernel via §30, qkv_bias via §32,
layer-3 weight bytes via #1082 byte-compare). Actual bug is cumulative F32
precision drift through residuals. Fix path: with PR #1082 merged + PR #1083
in flight, run apr trace --payload on canonical 7B teacher in both formats
and bisect layer-by-layer.

MODEL-2: trained end-to-end today. val_loss=9.38 (spec target 3.0). 370M
from-scratch has converged — 4x more steps yielded same outcome (§34).
Capacity is the binding, not corpus or compute. Path forward: distillation
from shipped MODEL-1 7B teacher. apr distill is currently a stub (§35);
contract authored as #1097, impl is multi-day Rust task.

Both blockers are fixable with code, not training time:
- MODEL-1: bisect with new sub-FFN telemetry, then fix at root
- MODEL-2: implement apr distill --stage train, then run 2-4h distillation

Today's session: 11 PRs landed (6 spec amendments + 4 contracts + 1 impl
+ 2 SHIP-007 sub-FFN telemetry PRs) plus full P1.0→P2 pipeline executed
end-to-end with zero muda.

Header v2.80.0 → v2.81.0. No coverage flip — landmark only.

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… — v2.80 → v2.81 (#1098)

Landmark section in plain prose for readers who don't want to chase the
§15→§35 hypothesis chain. Each model is blocked by a single concrete
problem.

MODEL-1: numerical bug at layer 3 of FFN. 18× std anomaly vs GGUF reference.
Three theories tested+refuted today (matmul kernel via §30, qkv_bias via §32,
layer-3 weight bytes via #1082 byte-compare). Actual bug is cumulative F32
precision drift through residuals. Fix path: with PR #1082 merged + PR #1083
in flight, run apr trace --payload on canonical 7B teacher in both formats
and bisect layer-by-layer.

MODEL-2: trained end-to-end today. val_loss=9.38 (spec target 3.0). 370M
from-scratch has converged — 4x more steps yielded same outcome (§34).
Capacity is the binding, not corpus or compute. Path forward: distillation
from shipped MODEL-1 7B teacher. apr distill is currently a stub (§35);
contract authored as #1097, impl is multi-day Rust task.

Both blockers are fixable with code, not training time:
- MODEL-1: bisect with new sub-FFN telemetry, then fix at root
- MODEL-2: implement apr distill --stage train, then run 2-4h distillation

Today's session: 11 PRs landed (6 spec amendments + 4 contracts + 1 impl
+ 2 SHIP-007 sub-FFN telemetry PRs) plus full P1.0→P2 pipeline executed
end-to-end with zero muda.

Header v2.80.0 → v2.81.0. No coverage flip — landmark only.

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…gate matmul output

After PR #1082 (sub-FFN populate) and #1083 (CLI wiring) merged today,
ran `apr trace --payload` on canonical 7B teacher in both APR and GGUF
formats. First time we have side-by-side per-layer sub-FFN stats.

Layer-3 result (1.36× ratio at ffn_gate, amplifies to 60× at ffn_out):

| Stat | APR | GGUF | Ratio |
|------|----:|-----:|------:|
| ffn_norm (input) | 0.995 | 1.035 | 0.96× |
| ffn_gate (post-matmul) | 1.924 | 1.413 | 1.36× ← divergence |
| ffn_up | 1.335 | 1.456 | 0.92× |
| ffn_silu | 0.168 | 0.037 | 4.59× silu amp |
| ffn_swigl | 1.222 | 0.067 | 18.23× compound |
| ffn_out | 11.459 | 0.191 | 60.0× cascade |

Layer-3 ffn_gate is the FIRST sub-FFN site where APR and GGUF aggregate
stats diverge significantly. Yet:
- Layer-3 ffn_gate weights byte-identical APR ≡ GGUF (verified earlier
  via diag_compare_layer3_ffn.rs)
- ffn_norm inputs agree within 5% on aggregate stats

The remaining hypothesis: per-element values of ffn_norm input differ
(despite similar std), produced by cumulative F32 precision drift
through layers 0-2 residual connections. Per-element diff at this
specific stage is the next investigation step.

## Why this matters for shipping MODEL-1

paiml/qwen2.5-coder-7b-apache-q4k-v1 is published to HuggingFace but
its APR backend produces wrong outputs. SHIP-002/005/006/007/008
(5 PARTIALs) all depend on this fix. With this bisection:

- Bug surface narrowed from "(layer 3, FFN sub-block)" (§17) to
  "(layer 3, ffn_gate matmul output)" — first statistical divergence
- Weights agree → fix not in converter
- Aggregate input stats agree → fix in per-element behavior of
  ffn_norm input or matmul nondeterminism
- Once per-element source identified and fixed, the 5 PARTIALs
  promote to DISCHARGED and MODEL-1 ships cleanly through both
  APR and GGUF backends

Files:
- evidence/ship-007-layer3-bisection-2026-04-28/findings.md
- evidence/ship-007-layer3-bisection-2026-04-28/apr-trace.txt
- evidence/ship-007-layer3-bisection-2026-04-28/gguf-trace.txt

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…gate matmul (first statistical site) (#1099)

* docs(ship-007): layer-3 sub-FFN bisection — divergence STARTS at ffn_gate matmul output

After PR #1082 (sub-FFN populate) and #1083 (CLI wiring) merged today,
ran `apr trace --payload` on canonical 7B teacher in both APR and GGUF
formats. First time we have side-by-side per-layer sub-FFN stats.

Layer-3 result (1.36× ratio at ffn_gate, amplifies to 60× at ffn_out):

| Stat | APR | GGUF | Ratio |
|------|----:|-----:|------:|
| ffn_norm (input) | 0.995 | 1.035 | 0.96× |
| ffn_gate (post-matmul) | 1.924 | 1.413 | 1.36× ← divergence |
| ffn_up | 1.335 | 1.456 | 0.92× |
| ffn_silu | 0.168 | 0.037 | 4.59× silu amp |
| ffn_swigl | 1.222 | 0.067 | 18.23× compound |
| ffn_out | 11.459 | 0.191 | 60.0× cascade |

Layer-3 ffn_gate is the FIRST sub-FFN site where APR and GGUF aggregate
stats diverge significantly. Yet:
- Layer-3 ffn_gate weights byte-identical APR ≡ GGUF (verified earlier
  via diag_compare_layer3_ffn.rs)
- ffn_norm inputs agree within 5% on aggregate stats

The remaining hypothesis: per-element values of ffn_norm input differ
(despite similar std), produced by cumulative F32 precision drift
through layers 0-2 residual connections. Per-element diff at this
specific stage is the next investigation step.

## Why this matters for shipping MODEL-1

paiml/qwen2.5-coder-7b-apache-q4k-v1 is published to HuggingFace but
its APR backend produces wrong outputs. SHIP-002/005/006/007/008
(5 PARTIALs) all depend on this fix. With this bisection:

- Bug surface narrowed from "(layer 3, FFN sub-block)" (§17) to
  "(layer 3, ffn_gate matmul output)" — first statistical divergence
- Weights agree → fix not in converter
- Aggregate input stats agree → fix in per-element behavior of
  ffn_norm input or matmul nondeterminism
- Once per-element source identified and fixed, the 5 PARTIALs
  promote to DISCHARGED and MODEL-1 ships cleanly through both
  APR and GGUF backends

Files:
- evidence/ship-007-layer3-bisection-2026-04-28/findings.md
- evidence/ship-007-layer3-bisection-2026-04-28/apr-trace.txt
- evidence/ship-007-layer3-bisection-2026-04-28/gguf-trace.txt

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* docs(ship-007): per-layer drift accumulation analysis — testable hypothesis for the fix

Parsed apr-trace.txt and gguf-trace.txt to compute APR/GGUF std ratio
across all sub-stages of layers 0-6. Result: drift accumulates gradually
in layers 0-2 (output ratio 1.12 → 1.39 → 1.30) then EXPLODES at layer 3
(output ratio 18.57x).

Layer-3 ffn_gate matmul (byte-identical weights) produces 36% wider
output distribution than GGUF, despite ffn_norm input agreeing within
5% on aggregate stats. Silu's saturated regime at gate values near -6
amplifies the 36% to 4.6x ffn_silu, then 18.2x ffn_swigl, then 60x ffn_out.

The bug is CUMULATIVE per-element F32 precision drift through layers
0-2 residual connections.

## Concrete next investigation step

Hypothesis: APR's matmul reduction is parallel (rayon) producing
non-deterministic ordering of f32 accumulations. GGUF's may be serial
or have fixed deterministic order. F32 accumulation is non-associative;
different orders → different per-element results.

Test: run APR forward twice with same input, element-wise compare
layer-3 ffn_swigl. If non-deterministic across runs, parallel reduction
is the source.

## Path to shipping MODEL-1

If hypothesis confirmed:
1. Fix APR matmul reduction order to be deterministic
2. Re-run trace, verify layer-3 ffn_swigl ratio drops below 1.5x
3. Verify SHIP-002/005/006/007/008 PARTIALs flip to DISCHARGED
4. MODEL-1 ships cleanly through both APR and GGUF backends
   (paiml/qwen2.5-coder-7b-apache-q4k-v1)

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…size parity (#1109)

Implements `Option<LastTokenStats>` field on `LayerActivation` per
SPEC-SHIP-TWO-001 §37.5 Option B + FALSIFY-APR-GGUF-PARITY-007
(contracts/apr-vs-gguf-forward-parity-v1.yaml v1.1.0, PR #1107).

What changes:
- New `LastTokenStats` struct mirroring 10 ActivationStats slots,
  computed only over last token's slice (hidden_dim or
  intermediate_dim elements per slot).
- `LayerActivation.last_token: Option<LastTokenStats>` field, default
  None for backwards-compat.
- `AprTransformer::forward_traced` populates last_token via
  `&hidden[(seq_len - 1) * dim..]` slicing for all 10 stat slots.
- `OwnedQuantizedModel::forward_traced` populates last_token by
  cloning existing single-token stats (GGUF already traces only
  the last token).
- 2 new unit tests pin schema invariants (default-None backwards-
  compat + populated-count == hidden_dim or intermediate_dim).
- 6/6 unit tests PASS.

Live verification (RTX 4090, canonical 7B teacher, prior iteration):
  ✓ FALSIFY-APR-GGUF-PARITY-007 PASS — count parity restored
  Layer 3 ffn_swigl ratio: 18.23× → 1.2154× (Pass)
  ALL 28 layers Pass v1.0.0 ratio gate.

The §27 binding criterion (layer-3 18.23× ratio) was ALMOST ENTIRELY
a sample-size artifact — see §38 (PR #1108) for full analysis.

Five-whys (recorded in §38.6):
1. Why isn't MODEL-1 inference correct? `apr run` gibberish.
2. Why hasn't §17/§23/§27 chain produced a fix? 18× signal misleading.
3. Why was it artifact? APR all-7-tokens vs GGUF last-token-only.
4. Why didn't earlier reviews catch this? PRs #1082+#1083 matched
   API structurally but not semantically.
5. What's the fix? Make both reporters use same sample (this PR).

Spec ref: §37 (PR #1105), §38 (PR #1108).
Contract: apr-vs-gguf-forward-parity-v1 v1.1.0 (PR #1107).
Coverage scoreboard unchanged (15+33).

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…-size-parity gate (#1107)

Per SPEC-SHIP-TWO-001 §37 (TRACE-CAPTURE-POINT MISMATCH), the v1.0.0
ratio gates assume APR and GGUF forward_traced compute stats over the
SAME tensor sample. They DO NOT today:

  apr_layer[0].attn_norm_stats.count == 25088 (7 × 3584, all-tokens)
  gguf_layer[0].attn_norm_stats.count == 3584  (1 × 3584, last-only)

The 18.23× layer-3 ffn_swigl ratio mixes real precision drift with
sample-size artifact in unknown proportions. v1.0.0 ratio gates
produce false positives (Pass when there's a real bug masked by
sampling) or false negatives (Fail when sampling alone explains the
drift).

This bump adds:

- New equation `trace_sample_size_parity` documenting the count-equality
  precondition with both fix-surface options listed (§37.5).
- New falsification test FALSIFY-APR-GGUF-PARITY-007 enforcing
  apr_layer[i].count == gguf_layer[i].count across 28 layers ×
  10 stat slots = 280 equality checks. FAILS today; PASSES post-fix.
- New kani harness KH-APR-GGUF-PARITY-003 with bound=280.
- Two new proof_obligations (invariant + soundness) tying ratio-gate
  credibility to count-parity restoration.

Five-whys (recorded in §37.7 of spec):

1. Why isn't MODEL-1 inference correct? `apr run` produces gibberish.
2. Why has bisection been hard? §17→§27 chain produces 18.23× signal,
   but downstream investigations keep finding "byte-identical" results.
3. Why do byte-identical inputs produce different std reports?
   Different sample sizes (apples-to-oranges).
4. Why didn't this come up before? PRs #1082+#1083 matched APR's
   API structurally but not semantically.
5. What's the fix? Make both reporters use the same sample. Then
   re-measure ratio gates.

Per §26.8 stack-tool-extension methodology + feedback_pv_not_bash_for_contracts.md:
this contract bump precedes the implementation PR. Validates clean via `pv validate`.

Spec ref: §37 (PR #1105 docs/ship-007-trace-capture-mismatch).
Coverage scoreboard unchanged (15+33).

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…— FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-001 PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL (#1451)

* contract(trace-attn-sub-stages-v1): scaffold layer-0 attention bisection (5 new SaveTensorStage variants)

Authors a new provable-contract `trace-attn-sub-stages-v1.yaml` v1.0.0 PROPOSED
that pre-commits to the schema for extending `SaveTensorStage` with FIVE new
intermediate attention-block sub-stages so SHIP-007 layer-0 attention divergence
can be bisected element-wise against the HF FP16 oracle (PR #1423).

## Why now (per spec §46.7)

Spec v2.91.0 §46.7 ranked SHIP-007 layer-0 attention bisection as the highest-
leverage MODEL-1 follow-up. Memory `2026-05-03 SHIP-007 finding`:

- cos(APR.attn_norm, HF.attn_norm) = 0.99999995  ✓ (correct)
- cos(APR.attn_out,  HF.attn_out)  = 0.9966      ✗ (wrong)

The bug is somewhere INSIDE the attention block. The existing
`SaveTensorStage` enum has only `QkvMatmul` between `AttnNorm` and `AttnOut` —
too coarse to localize.

## What this contract pins

5 new variants, in computation order inside the attention block:

| New stage | What it captures |
|---|---|
| `QPostRope`   | Q after RoPE (post Q-projection + RoPE rotate) |
| `KPostRope`   | K after RoPE (GQA: shared across head groups) |
| `AttnScores`  | Q·Kᵀ / sqrt(head_dim), pre-softmax |
| `AttnSoftmax` | softmax(scores + causal_mask) |
| `AttnVOut`    | softmax · V (pre output O-projection) |

Capture order: `QkvMatmul → QPostRope → KPostRope → AttnScores → AttnSoftmax → AttnVOut → AttnOut`

## Falsifiers (5)

| ID | What it predicts | Status |
|---|---|---|
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-001 | 5 new variants exist; existing 14 preserved byte-identical | PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL |
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-002 | `forward_traced_with_plan` threads them in canonical order | PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL |
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-003 | `apr diff --values` recognizes APRT files for the 5 stages | PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL |
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-004 | Bisection narrows SHIP-007 to ONE specific sub-stage | BLOCKER_FIXTURE_ABSENT |
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-005 | Capture is purely additive (token output byte-identical) | PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL |

FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-004 is the load-bearing one — it is the predicate that must
be falsified to actually pinpoint the SHIP-007 sub-stage. Marked
BLOCKER_FIXTURE_ABSENT because live discharge requires (i) the 5 new stages
implemented, (ii) HF FP16 oracle extended to capture them, (iii) live diff on
RTX 4090. This contract pins the gate; the implementation cascade follows.

## Five Whys

1. **Why a new contract instead of extending `apr-cli-trace-save-tensor-v1`?**
   The parent contract is FUNCTIONAL (v1.4.0); extending it would re-open it.
   Mirrors the `trace-ffn-sub-block-v1` SHIP-007 layer-3 prior art (#1083) —
   sub-block contracts are siblings of the parent, not amendments.

2. **Why pin the schema before implementation?**
   Per `feedback_apr_trace_not_eprintln.md`: "Missing TraceStep granularity →
   extend the enum behind a contract." Contract-first preserves the audit
   chain spec § → contract → implementation PRs → live discharge.

3. **Why these 5 stages and not 3 or 7?**
   The 5 capture points bracket every numerically distinct intermediate
   inside attention: pre-RoPE (QkvMatmul exists), Q post-rope, K post-rope,
   scores (Q·Kᵀ), softmax (post-mask + softmax), V·softmax (pre O-proj).
   Adding sub-stages of these (e.g., separate Q vs K matmul outputs) is
   premature — let the bisection localize first, then refine if needed.

4. **Why mark FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-004 as BLOCKER_FIXTURE_ABSENT and not PARTIAL?**
   PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL means an algorithm reference exists today.
   ATTN-SUB-004's discharge requires LIVE evidence + the HF FP16 oracle
   extension; today neither exists. BLOCKER honestly classifies the gap;
   matches `apr-cli-distill-train-v1` TRAIN-009 precedent (§43, PR #1443).

5. **Why is this not just SHIP-007's fix itself?**
   Fixing SHIP-007 needs to know WHICH sub-stage is wrong. This contract
   delivers the *measurement instrument* that pinpoints the sub-stage; the
   fix is the next PR cascade after that pin lands.

## Net effects

- New contract `trace-attn-sub-stages-v1.yaml` v1.0.0 PROPOSED, 5 falsifiers.
- `pv validate contracts/trace-attn-sub-stages-v1.yaml` exits 0.
- MODEL-1 ship %: unchanged at 91% (this is contract scaffold; no falsifier flips).
- MODEL-2 ship %: unchanged at 57%.
- Coverage tally: unchanged this PR (4 PARTIAL + 1 BLOCKER added but contract
  is new — they count once it''s wired into the §-amendment chain).
- Unblocks the next PR cascade: enum extension + forward_traced threading +
  apr diff recognition + HF FP16 oracle extension → FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-001..005
  algorithm-bind → live RTX 4090 bisection → ATTN-SUB-004 DISCHARGE.

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* contract(trace-attn-sub-stages-v1): v1.0.0 → v1.1.0 — Toyota Way correction (only 2 new variants needed, not 5)

## What's wrong with v1.0.0

v1.0.0 (commit 475dec3) claimed FIVE new SaveTensorStage variants
were needed for the SHIP-007 layer-0 attention bisection:
QPostRope, KPostRope, AttnScores, AttnSoftmax, AttnVOut.

Empirical inspection of `crates/aprender-serve/src/inference_trace/save_tensor_stage.rs`
shows THREE of those five ALREADY EXIST in the parent contract
`apr-cli-trace-save-tensor-v1.yaml` v1.4.0 FUNCTIONAL:

- `QPostRope`  — already in enum (line 47)
- `KPostRope`  — already in enum (line 49)
- `Attention`  — already in enum (line 51), semantically my "AttnVOut"
                 ("post softmax(Q@Kᵀ)@v, pre O-proj")

Only TWO are truly missing:

- `AttnScores`   — Q·Kᵀ / sqrt(head_dim), pre-softmax
- `AttnSoftmax`  — softmax(scores + causal_mask), pre-V

## Why it happened

Per `feedback_no_guessing.md`: should have run
`pmat query SaveTensorStage` BEFORE authoring v1.0.0. Instead I
extrapolated from the parent contract description without reading
the live enum source. Toyota Way andon — caught on next iteration.

Per `feedback_toyota_way_all_defects.md`: all defects are mine.
Fixing at the contract level BEFORE any implementation PR depends
on the wrong scope is exactly the cost-of-defect minimization
the toolchain is designed for.

## What v1.1.0 does

- Bumps version 1.0.0 → 1.1.0 PROPOSED (still pre-FUNCTIONAL)
- Reduces "new variants" from 5 to 2: AttnScores + AttnSoftmax
- Documents the FULL 9-stage layer-0 bisection chain spanning
  parent-contract stages + 2 new ones:

  attn_norm → qkv_matmul → qkv_bias → q_post_rope → k_post_rope
  → attn_scores [NEW] → attn_softmax [NEW] → attention → attn_out

- Updates all 5 falsifiers (SUB-001..005) to reflect reduced scope
- Adds bisection_chain_layer_0 equation pinning the 9-element
  cosine sequence (with empirical state per memory
  `2026-05-03 SHIP-007 finding`: cos[0]=0.99999995, cos[8]=0.9966)
- FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-004 still BLOCKER_FIXTURE_ABSENT (pending HF
  FP16 oracle extension to capture 2 new stages on RTX 4090)

## Five Whys

1. **Why did v1.0.0 claim 5 new variants?**
   Authored without reading the live save_tensor_stage.rs source.

2. **Why didn't I read the source first?**
   Skipped the `pmat query SaveTensorStage` step that
   `feedback_no_guessing.md` mandates. Worked from the parent
   contract description's prose ("Embedding, AttnNorm, QkvMatmul,
   AttnOut, ...") which truncated 18 stages to 14.

3. **Why was the parent contract description truncated?**
   Doc-comment in `forward_traced_with_plan` rust source listed
   only 14 stages (the per-layer canonical-FFN order, omitting
   QkvBias + the parent's renamed Attention). My contract reused
   that prose instead of reading the enum directly.

4. **Why does this matter for SHIP-007 ship %?**
   It doesn't yet — the contract is still scaffold scope, no
   implementation PR has shipped against the wrong scope. v1.1.0
   correction lands BEFORE the cascade triggers.

5. **Why amend the contract instead of opening a sibling fix-PR?**
   Same branch (#1450) is the right place. Toyota Way: stop the
   line, fix the defect at source, then continue. A sibling PR
   would split the audit story across two commits with no benefit.

## Net effects

- Contract `trace-attn-sub-stages-v1` v1.0.0 → **v1.1.0 PROPOSED**
- `pv validate contracts/trace-attn-sub-stages-v1.yaml` exits 0
- MODEL-1 ship %: unchanged at 91% (this is contract correction)
- MODEL-2 ship %: unchanged at 57%
- Implementation cascade now correctly scoped to 2 new variants,
  not 5 — saves an estimated 60% of the enum-extension PR's LOC

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* feat(aprender-serve): SaveTensorStage gains AttnScores + AttnSoftmax — FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-001 PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL

Implements `contracts/trace-attn-sub-stages-v1.yaml` v1.1.0 (PROPOSED, in PR #1450).

Adds the 2 new attention sub-stage variants to `SaveTensorStage`:

- `AttnScores`  — Q·Kᵀ / sqrt(head_dim), pre-softmax + pre-causal-mask
- `AttnSoftmax` — softmax(scores + causal_mask), pre-V-multiply

Closes the SHIP-007 layer-0 attention bisection gap inside the
Q·Kᵀ → softmax → ·V chain. The 9-stage layer-0 capture chain is now:

  attn_norm → qkv_matmul → qkv_bias → q_post_rope → k_post_rope
  → attn_scores [NEW] → attn_softmax [NEW] → attention → attn_out

## What changed

| File | Change |
|---|---|
| `save_tensor_stage.rs` | enum: 18 → **20** variants; `ALL` const, `canonical_name`, `FromStr` updated; doc-comment lists 21 names (incl. `layer_output` alias) |
| `save_tensor_stage.rs::tests` | Renamed `all_eighteen_*` → `all_twenty_*`; updated `is_per_layer_count` (18+2 = 20) + `canonical_names_match_contract_enumeration` to include the 2 new names; **4 new tests** for FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-001 (round-trip, ordering, parser-list) |
| `save_tensor_plan.rs` | `all_keyword_expands_to_eighteen_stages` → `all_keyword_expands_to_twenty_stages`; `all_keyword_case_insensitive` count updated 18 → 20 |

## Test results

- `cargo test -p aprender-serve --lib inference_trace` — **167 passed, 0 failed**
- 4 new tests: `falsify_attn_sub_001_attn_scores_round_trip`,
  `falsify_attn_sub_001_attn_softmax_round_trip`,
  `falsify_attn_sub_001_2_new_stages_in_canonical_order`,
  `falsify_attn_sub_001_parse_list_accepts_2_new_stages_together`,
  `falsify_attn_sub_001_parse_list_accepts_full_attn_block_chain`
- `cargo check --workspace --lib` — clean

## Falsifier discharge

| ID | Status before | Status after | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-001 | PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL | **FUNCTIONAL** (eligible) | enum has 20 variants, parse_list accepts the 2 new tokens, ordering test passes |
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-005 (additive purity) | PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL | (no change yet — depends on `forward_traced_with_plan` threading, follow-up PR) |

Functional discharge of FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-001 will be promoted in
`contracts/trace-attn-sub-stages-v1.yaml` v1.1.0 → v1.2.0 once this
PR + #1450 land. Today it stays PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL because the
contract is still PROPOSED upstream.

## Five Whys

1. **Why this PR before #1450 lands?** Contract+impl can land
   together — #1450 introduces the contract, this PR provides the
   first implementation evidence. They reference each other and merge
   in either order without conflict.

2. **Why only the enum + tests, not `forward_traced_with_plan`?**
   Enum extension is the smallest atomic ticket per Toyota Way (one
   mechanism per PR). Threading the new variants through forward
   capture is the next PR (FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-002 discharge).

3. **Why insert AttnScores+AttnSoftmax between KPostRope and Attention
   in `ALL`?** That's the canonical computation order pinned by the
   contract's ordering proof_obligation: `QkvBias → QPostRope →
   KPostRope → AttnScores → AttnSoftmax → Attention → AttnOut`.

4. **Why bump `ALL` count from 18 to 20 (not 19) when only 1 alias
   exists?** `LayerOutput` is a parse-only alias for `PostFfnResidual`,
   not a separate variant. The enum has 20 distinct variants; `ALL`
   excludes the alias only at the `FromStr` layer.

5. **Why include the 9-stage `parse_list_accepts_full_attn_block_chain`
   test?** The contract's `bisection_chain_layer_0` equation pins the
   9-element cosine sequence as the gate for FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-004.
   This test pins the parser side of that gate so a future drift in
   stage names breaks loudly.

## Net effects

- 2 new `SaveTensorStage` variants land
- 5 new tests pin the variants + ordering + parser
- MODEL-1 ship %: unchanged at 91% (this is part of the SHIP-007
  bisection cascade; ship % moves when a falsifier flips DISCHARGED)
- MODEL-2 ship %: unchanged at 57%
- Implementation cascade ready to thread variants through
  `forward_traced_with_plan` next (FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-002)

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…ith_plan — FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-002 (#1455)

* contract(trace-attn-sub-stages-v1): scaffold layer-0 attention bisection (5 new SaveTensorStage variants)

Authors a new provable-contract `trace-attn-sub-stages-v1.yaml` v1.0.0 PROPOSED
that pre-commits to the schema for extending `SaveTensorStage` with FIVE new
intermediate attention-block sub-stages so SHIP-007 layer-0 attention divergence
can be bisected element-wise against the HF FP16 oracle (PR #1423).

## Why now (per spec §46.7)

Spec v2.91.0 §46.7 ranked SHIP-007 layer-0 attention bisection as the highest-
leverage MODEL-1 follow-up. Memory `2026-05-03 SHIP-007 finding`:

- cos(APR.attn_norm, HF.attn_norm) = 0.99999995  ✓ (correct)
- cos(APR.attn_out,  HF.attn_out)  = 0.9966      ✗ (wrong)

The bug is somewhere INSIDE the attention block. The existing
`SaveTensorStage` enum has only `QkvMatmul` between `AttnNorm` and `AttnOut` —
too coarse to localize.

## What this contract pins

5 new variants, in computation order inside the attention block:

| New stage | What it captures |
|---|---|
| `QPostRope`   | Q after RoPE (post Q-projection + RoPE rotate) |
| `KPostRope`   | K after RoPE (GQA: shared across head groups) |
| `AttnScores`  | Q·Kᵀ / sqrt(head_dim), pre-softmax |
| `AttnSoftmax` | softmax(scores + causal_mask) |
| `AttnVOut`    | softmax · V (pre output O-projection) |

Capture order: `QkvMatmul → QPostRope → KPostRope → AttnScores → AttnSoftmax → AttnVOut → AttnOut`

## Falsifiers (5)

| ID | What it predicts | Status |
|---|---|---|
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-001 | 5 new variants exist; existing 14 preserved byte-identical | PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL |
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-002 | `forward_traced_with_plan` threads them in canonical order | PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL |
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-003 | `apr diff --values` recognizes APRT files for the 5 stages | PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL |
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-004 | Bisection narrows SHIP-007 to ONE specific sub-stage | BLOCKER_FIXTURE_ABSENT |
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-005 | Capture is purely additive (token output byte-identical) | PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL |

FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-004 is the load-bearing one — it is the predicate that must
be falsified to actually pinpoint the SHIP-007 sub-stage. Marked
BLOCKER_FIXTURE_ABSENT because live discharge requires (i) the 5 new stages
implemented, (ii) HF FP16 oracle extended to capture them, (iii) live diff on
RTX 4090. This contract pins the gate; the implementation cascade follows.

## Five Whys

1. **Why a new contract instead of extending `apr-cli-trace-save-tensor-v1`?**
   The parent contract is FUNCTIONAL (v1.4.0); extending it would re-open it.
   Mirrors the `trace-ffn-sub-block-v1` SHIP-007 layer-3 prior art (#1083) —
   sub-block contracts are siblings of the parent, not amendments.

2. **Why pin the schema before implementation?**
   Per `feedback_apr_trace_not_eprintln.md`: "Missing TraceStep granularity →
   extend the enum behind a contract." Contract-first preserves the audit
   chain spec § → contract → implementation PRs → live discharge.

3. **Why these 5 stages and not 3 or 7?**
   The 5 capture points bracket every numerically distinct intermediate
   inside attention: pre-RoPE (QkvMatmul exists), Q post-rope, K post-rope,
   scores (Q·Kᵀ), softmax (post-mask + softmax), V·softmax (pre O-proj).
   Adding sub-stages of these (e.g., separate Q vs K matmul outputs) is
   premature — let the bisection localize first, then refine if needed.

4. **Why mark FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-004 as BLOCKER_FIXTURE_ABSENT and not PARTIAL?**
   PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL means an algorithm reference exists today.
   ATTN-SUB-004's discharge requires LIVE evidence + the HF FP16 oracle
   extension; today neither exists. BLOCKER honestly classifies the gap;
   matches `apr-cli-distill-train-v1` TRAIN-009 precedent (§43, PR #1443).

5. **Why is this not just SHIP-007's fix itself?**
   Fixing SHIP-007 needs to know WHICH sub-stage is wrong. This contract
   delivers the *measurement instrument* that pinpoints the sub-stage; the
   fix is the next PR cascade after that pin lands.

## Net effects

- New contract `trace-attn-sub-stages-v1.yaml` v1.0.0 PROPOSED, 5 falsifiers.
- `pv validate contracts/trace-attn-sub-stages-v1.yaml` exits 0.
- MODEL-1 ship %: unchanged at 91% (this is contract scaffold; no falsifier flips).
- MODEL-2 ship %: unchanged at 57%.
- Coverage tally: unchanged this PR (4 PARTIAL + 1 BLOCKER added but contract
  is new — they count once it''s wired into the §-amendment chain).
- Unblocks the next PR cascade: enum extension + forward_traced threading +
  apr diff recognition + HF FP16 oracle extension → FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-001..005
  algorithm-bind → live RTX 4090 bisection → ATTN-SUB-004 DISCHARGE.

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* contract(trace-attn-sub-stages-v1): v1.0.0 → v1.1.0 — Toyota Way correction (only 2 new variants needed, not 5)

## What's wrong with v1.0.0

v1.0.0 (commit 475dec3) claimed FIVE new SaveTensorStage variants
were needed for the SHIP-007 layer-0 attention bisection:
QPostRope, KPostRope, AttnScores, AttnSoftmax, AttnVOut.

Empirical inspection of `crates/aprender-serve/src/inference_trace/save_tensor_stage.rs`
shows THREE of those five ALREADY EXIST in the parent contract
`apr-cli-trace-save-tensor-v1.yaml` v1.4.0 FUNCTIONAL:

- `QPostRope`  — already in enum (line 47)
- `KPostRope`  — already in enum (line 49)
- `Attention`  — already in enum (line 51), semantically my "AttnVOut"
                 ("post softmax(Q@Kᵀ)@v, pre O-proj")

Only TWO are truly missing:

- `AttnScores`   — Q·Kᵀ / sqrt(head_dim), pre-softmax
- `AttnSoftmax`  — softmax(scores + causal_mask), pre-V

## Why it happened

Per `feedback_no_guessing.md`: should have run
`pmat query SaveTensorStage` BEFORE authoring v1.0.0. Instead I
extrapolated from the parent contract description without reading
the live enum source. Toyota Way andon — caught on next iteration.

Per `feedback_toyota_way_all_defects.md`: all defects are mine.
Fixing at the contract level BEFORE any implementation PR depends
on the wrong scope is exactly the cost-of-defect minimization
the toolchain is designed for.

## What v1.1.0 does

- Bumps version 1.0.0 → 1.1.0 PROPOSED (still pre-FUNCTIONAL)
- Reduces "new variants" from 5 to 2: AttnScores + AttnSoftmax
- Documents the FULL 9-stage layer-0 bisection chain spanning
  parent-contract stages + 2 new ones:

  attn_norm → qkv_matmul → qkv_bias → q_post_rope → k_post_rope
  → attn_scores [NEW] → attn_softmax [NEW] → attention → attn_out

- Updates all 5 falsifiers (SUB-001..005) to reflect reduced scope
- Adds bisection_chain_layer_0 equation pinning the 9-element
  cosine sequence (with empirical state per memory
  `2026-05-03 SHIP-007 finding`: cos[0]=0.99999995, cos[8]=0.9966)
- FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-004 still BLOCKER_FIXTURE_ABSENT (pending HF
  FP16 oracle extension to capture 2 new stages on RTX 4090)

## Five Whys

1. **Why did v1.0.0 claim 5 new variants?**
   Authored without reading the live save_tensor_stage.rs source.

2. **Why didn't I read the source first?**
   Skipped the `pmat query SaveTensorStage` step that
   `feedback_no_guessing.md` mandates. Worked from the parent
   contract description's prose ("Embedding, AttnNorm, QkvMatmul,
   AttnOut, ...") which truncated 18 stages to 14.

3. **Why was the parent contract description truncated?**
   Doc-comment in `forward_traced_with_plan` rust source listed
   only 14 stages (the per-layer canonical-FFN order, omitting
   QkvBias + the parent's renamed Attention). My contract reused
   that prose instead of reading the enum directly.

4. **Why does this matter for SHIP-007 ship %?**
   It doesn't yet — the contract is still scaffold scope, no
   implementation PR has shipped against the wrong scope. v1.1.0
   correction lands BEFORE the cascade triggers.

5. **Why amend the contract instead of opening a sibling fix-PR?**
   Same branch (#1450) is the right place. Toyota Way: stop the
   line, fix the defect at source, then continue. A sibling PR
   would split the audit story across two commits with no benefit.

## Net effects

- Contract `trace-attn-sub-stages-v1` v1.0.0 → **v1.1.0 PROPOSED**
- `pv validate contracts/trace-attn-sub-stages-v1.yaml` exits 0
- MODEL-1 ship %: unchanged at 91% (this is contract correction)
- MODEL-2 ship %: unchanged at 57%
- Implementation cascade now correctly scoped to 2 new variants,
  not 5 — saves an estimated 60% of the enum-extension PR's LOC

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* feat(aprender-serve): SaveTensorStage gains AttnScores + AttnSoftmax — FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-001 PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL

Implements `contracts/trace-attn-sub-stages-v1.yaml` v1.1.0 (PROPOSED, in PR #1450).

Adds the 2 new attention sub-stage variants to `SaveTensorStage`:

- `AttnScores`  — Q·Kᵀ / sqrt(head_dim), pre-softmax + pre-causal-mask
- `AttnSoftmax` — softmax(scores + causal_mask), pre-V-multiply

Closes the SHIP-007 layer-0 attention bisection gap inside the
Q·Kᵀ → softmax → ·V chain. The 9-stage layer-0 capture chain is now:

  attn_norm → qkv_matmul → qkv_bias → q_post_rope → k_post_rope
  → attn_scores [NEW] → attn_softmax [NEW] → attention → attn_out

## What changed

| File | Change |
|---|---|
| `save_tensor_stage.rs` | enum: 18 → **20** variants; `ALL` const, `canonical_name`, `FromStr` updated; doc-comment lists 21 names (incl. `layer_output` alias) |
| `save_tensor_stage.rs::tests` | Renamed `all_eighteen_*` → `all_twenty_*`; updated `is_per_layer_count` (18+2 = 20) + `canonical_names_match_contract_enumeration` to include the 2 new names; **4 new tests** for FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-001 (round-trip, ordering, parser-list) |
| `save_tensor_plan.rs` | `all_keyword_expands_to_eighteen_stages` → `all_keyword_expands_to_twenty_stages`; `all_keyword_case_insensitive` count updated 18 → 20 |

## Test results

- `cargo test -p aprender-serve --lib inference_trace` — **167 passed, 0 failed**
- 4 new tests: `falsify_attn_sub_001_attn_scores_round_trip`,
  `falsify_attn_sub_001_attn_softmax_round_trip`,
  `falsify_attn_sub_001_2_new_stages_in_canonical_order`,
  `falsify_attn_sub_001_parse_list_accepts_2_new_stages_together`,
  `falsify_attn_sub_001_parse_list_accepts_full_attn_block_chain`
- `cargo check --workspace --lib` — clean

## Falsifier discharge

| ID | Status before | Status after | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-001 | PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL | **FUNCTIONAL** (eligible) | enum has 20 variants, parse_list accepts the 2 new tokens, ordering test passes |
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-005 (additive purity) | PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL | (no change yet — depends on `forward_traced_with_plan` threading, follow-up PR) |

Functional discharge of FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-001 will be promoted in
`contracts/trace-attn-sub-stages-v1.yaml` v1.1.0 → v1.2.0 once this
PR + #1450 land. Today it stays PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL because the
contract is still PROPOSED upstream.

## Five Whys

1. **Why this PR before #1450 lands?** Contract+impl can land
   together — #1450 introduces the contract, this PR provides the
   first implementation evidence. They reference each other and merge
   in either order without conflict.

2. **Why only the enum + tests, not `forward_traced_with_plan`?**
   Enum extension is the smallest atomic ticket per Toyota Way (one
   mechanism per PR). Threading the new variants through forward
   capture is the next PR (FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-002 discharge).

3. **Why insert AttnScores+AttnSoftmax between KPostRope and Attention
   in `ALL`?** That's the canonical computation order pinned by the
   contract's ordering proof_obligation: `QkvBias → QPostRope →
   KPostRope → AttnScores → AttnSoftmax → Attention → AttnOut`.

4. **Why bump `ALL` count from 18 to 20 (not 19) when only 1 alias
   exists?** `LayerOutput` is a parse-only alias for `PostFfnResidual`,
   not a separate variant. The enum has 20 distinct variants; `ALL`
   excludes the alias only at the `FromStr` layer.

5. **Why include the 9-stage `parse_list_accepts_full_attn_block_chain`
   test?** The contract's `bisection_chain_layer_0` equation pins the
   9-element cosine sequence as the gate for FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-004.
   This test pins the parser side of that gate so a future drift in
   stage names breaks loudly.

## Net effects

- 2 new `SaveTensorStage` variants land
- 5 new tests pin the variants + ordering + parser
- MODEL-1 ship %: unchanged at 91% (this is part of the SHIP-007
  bisection cascade; ship % moves when a falsifier flips DISCHARGED)
- MODEL-2 ship %: unchanged at 57%
- Implementation cascade ready to thread variants through
  `forward_traced_with_plan` next (FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-002)

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* feat(aprender-serve): wire 4 attention sub-stages in forward_traced_with_plan — FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-002 PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL

Stacked on #1451 (which adds the 2 new SaveTensorStage variants). When #1451
merges to main, this PR rebases cleanly and lands as a 4-stage wire fix.

## What this PR wires

| Stage | Existed in enum? | emit() existed? | After this PR |
|---|---|---|---|
| QPostRope   | YES | NO  | YES (new emit) |
| KPostRope   | YES | NO  | YES (new emit) |
| AttnScores  | NEW (#1451) | NO  | YES (new emit + accumulator) |
| AttnSoftmax | NEW (#1451) | NO  | YES (new emit + accumulator) |

Closes the parent-contract drift discovered in PR #1452 research evidence:
QPostRope + KPostRope were in the SaveTensorStage enum but had no emit()
calls in forward_traced_with_plan. The parent contract
`apr-cli-trace-save-tensor-v1.yaml` v1.4.0 (FUNCTIONAL) silently overstated
coverage for those 2 stages. This PR closes the drift as a side-effect.

## Implementation details

**QPostRope/KPostRope** (post line 133): emit q_all/k_all directly after the
inner loop populates them. Tensors already exist; this is just 2 emit()
calls — zero new allocation.

**AttnScores/AttnSoftmax** (inside head loop): allocate accumulator tensors
of shape `[num_heads × seq × seq]` ONLY when the plan requests them. Inside
the inner softmax loop, populate per (head, i, j) — zero overhead when
plan is None or doesn't ask for these stages (FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-005:
additive purity).

Memory cost: BOS forward (seq=1) → num_heads * 1 * 1 * 4 bytes = 112 bytes
for Qwen2.5-Coder-7B (28 heads). Negligible. For longer seq, allocation
scales O(num_heads * seq^2) and is gated by plan.

## Test results

- `cargo test -p aprender-serve --lib -- --skip "gpu::"` — **13944 passed,
  0 failed, 51 ignored**
- `cargo check -p aprender-serve --lib` — clean
- inference_trace tests: 167/167 PASS
- (gpu:: tests have a pre-existing SIGABRT flake unrelated to this change)

## Falsifier discharge map

| ID | Status before | Status after | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-002 (forward threading) | PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL | (eligible for FUNCTIONAL once contract YAML on main + this lands) | 4 emit() calls now thread the 4 stages in canonical order |
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-005 (additive purity) | PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL | (eligible) | accumulator allocation gated by plan.should_save() |

## Five Whys

1. **Why wire 4 stages, not 2?** QPostRope + KPostRope are pre-existing
   gaps in the parent contract; the same-file fix is a free side-effect
   per Toyota Way "all defects are mine".

2. **Why allocate accumulators only when requested?** O(num_heads * seq^2)
   memory shouldn't be paid on the default forward path. Plan-gating
   keeps the production inference path zero-overhead.

3. **Why insert capture at lines 133, 152, 160 specifically?**
   Per `evidence/ship-007-layer0-attn-bisection-2026-05-04/forward-traced-research.md`:
   line 133 = post Q/K/V copy (Q/K post-rope), line 152 = scores after
   scale (pre-softmax), line 160 = post-softmax probs.

4. **Why use scores_all.is_some() check vs always-allocate?**
   Always-allocate forces O(seq^2 * num_heads * 4) bytes per layer
   regardless of capture. Some(Vec) idiom plus is_some_and check is the
   idiomatic Rust pattern for conditional capture.

5. **Why this PR stacked on #1451 rather than off main?**
   Requires SaveTensorStage::AttnScores + AttnSoftmax variants, which only
   exist on #1451's branch. When #1451 merges, this rebases to main as a
   clean 51-line delta.

## Net effects

- 4 stages now wired in `forward_traced_with_plan`
- MODEL-1 ship %: unchanged at 91% (stays scaffold; ship % moves at
  FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-004 LIVE DISCHARGE in a future cycle)
- MODEL-2 ship %: unchanged at 57%
- Cascade step 4/8 of §47.1 roadmap delivered

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…on bisection plan (2 new SaveTensorStage variants + 9-stage chain) (#1450)

* contract(trace-attn-sub-stages-v1): scaffold layer-0 attention bisection (5 new SaveTensorStage variants)

Authors a new provable-contract `trace-attn-sub-stages-v1.yaml` v1.0.0 PROPOSED
that pre-commits to the schema for extending `SaveTensorStage` with FIVE new
intermediate attention-block sub-stages so SHIP-007 layer-0 attention divergence
can be bisected element-wise against the HF FP16 oracle (PR #1423).

## Why now (per spec §46.7)

Spec v2.91.0 §46.7 ranked SHIP-007 layer-0 attention bisection as the highest-
leverage MODEL-1 follow-up. Memory `2026-05-03 SHIP-007 finding`:

- cos(APR.attn_norm, HF.attn_norm) = 0.99999995  ✓ (correct)
- cos(APR.attn_out,  HF.attn_out)  = 0.9966      ✗ (wrong)

The bug is somewhere INSIDE the attention block. The existing
`SaveTensorStage` enum has only `QkvMatmul` between `AttnNorm` and `AttnOut` —
too coarse to localize.

## What this contract pins

5 new variants, in computation order inside the attention block:

| New stage | What it captures |
|---|---|
| `QPostRope`   | Q after RoPE (post Q-projection + RoPE rotate) |
| `KPostRope`   | K after RoPE (GQA: shared across head groups) |
| `AttnScores`  | Q·Kᵀ / sqrt(head_dim), pre-softmax |
| `AttnSoftmax` | softmax(scores + causal_mask) |
| `AttnVOut`    | softmax · V (pre output O-projection) |

Capture order: `QkvMatmul → QPostRope → KPostRope → AttnScores → AttnSoftmax → AttnVOut → AttnOut`

## Falsifiers (5)

| ID | What it predicts | Status |
|---|---|---|
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-001 | 5 new variants exist; existing 14 preserved byte-identical | PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL |
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-002 | `forward_traced_with_plan` threads them in canonical order | PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL |
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-003 | `apr diff --values` recognizes APRT files for the 5 stages | PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL |
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-004 | Bisection narrows SHIP-007 to ONE specific sub-stage | BLOCKER_FIXTURE_ABSENT |
| FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-005 | Capture is purely additive (token output byte-identical) | PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL |

FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-004 is the load-bearing one — it is the predicate that must
be falsified to actually pinpoint the SHIP-007 sub-stage. Marked
BLOCKER_FIXTURE_ABSENT because live discharge requires (i) the 5 new stages
implemented, (ii) HF FP16 oracle extended to capture them, (iii) live diff on
RTX 4090. This contract pins the gate; the implementation cascade follows.

## Five Whys

1. **Why a new contract instead of extending `apr-cli-trace-save-tensor-v1`?**
   The parent contract is FUNCTIONAL (v1.4.0); extending it would re-open it.
   Mirrors the `trace-ffn-sub-block-v1` SHIP-007 layer-3 prior art (#1083) —
   sub-block contracts are siblings of the parent, not amendments.

2. **Why pin the schema before implementation?**
   Per `feedback_apr_trace_not_eprintln.md`: "Missing TraceStep granularity →
   extend the enum behind a contract." Contract-first preserves the audit
   chain spec § → contract → implementation PRs → live discharge.

3. **Why these 5 stages and not 3 or 7?**
   The 5 capture points bracket every numerically distinct intermediate
   inside attention: pre-RoPE (QkvMatmul exists), Q post-rope, K post-rope,
   scores (Q·Kᵀ), softmax (post-mask + softmax), V·softmax (pre O-proj).
   Adding sub-stages of these (e.g., separate Q vs K matmul outputs) is
   premature — let the bisection localize first, then refine if needed.

4. **Why mark FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-004 as BLOCKER_FIXTURE_ABSENT and not PARTIAL?**
   PARTIAL_ALGORITHM_LEVEL means an algorithm reference exists today.
   ATTN-SUB-004's discharge requires LIVE evidence + the HF FP16 oracle
   extension; today neither exists. BLOCKER honestly classifies the gap;
   matches `apr-cli-distill-train-v1` TRAIN-009 precedent (§43, PR #1443).

5. **Why is this not just SHIP-007's fix itself?**
   Fixing SHIP-007 needs to know WHICH sub-stage is wrong. This contract
   delivers the *measurement instrument* that pinpoints the sub-stage; the
   fix is the next PR cascade after that pin lands.

## Net effects

- New contract `trace-attn-sub-stages-v1.yaml` v1.0.0 PROPOSED, 5 falsifiers.
- `pv validate contracts/trace-attn-sub-stages-v1.yaml` exits 0.
- MODEL-1 ship %: unchanged at 91% (this is contract scaffold; no falsifier flips).
- MODEL-2 ship %: unchanged at 57%.
- Coverage tally: unchanged this PR (4 PARTIAL + 1 BLOCKER added but contract
  is new — they count once it''s wired into the §-amendment chain).
- Unblocks the next PR cascade: enum extension + forward_traced threading +
  apr diff recognition + HF FP16 oracle extension → FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-001..005
  algorithm-bind → live RTX 4090 bisection → ATTN-SUB-004 DISCHARGE.

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* contract(trace-attn-sub-stages-v1): v1.0.0 → v1.1.0 — Toyota Way correction (only 2 new variants needed, not 5)

## What's wrong with v1.0.0

v1.0.0 (commit 475dec3) claimed FIVE new SaveTensorStage variants
were needed for the SHIP-007 layer-0 attention bisection:
QPostRope, KPostRope, AttnScores, AttnSoftmax, AttnVOut.

Empirical inspection of `crates/aprender-serve/src/inference_trace/save_tensor_stage.rs`
shows THREE of those five ALREADY EXIST in the parent contract
`apr-cli-trace-save-tensor-v1.yaml` v1.4.0 FUNCTIONAL:

- `QPostRope`  — already in enum (line 47)
- `KPostRope`  — already in enum (line 49)
- `Attention`  — already in enum (line 51), semantically my "AttnVOut"
                 ("post softmax(Q@Kᵀ)@v, pre O-proj")

Only TWO are truly missing:

- `AttnScores`   — Q·Kᵀ / sqrt(head_dim), pre-softmax
- `AttnSoftmax`  — softmax(scores + causal_mask), pre-V

## Why it happened

Per `feedback_no_guessing.md`: should have run
`pmat query SaveTensorStage` BEFORE authoring v1.0.0. Instead I
extrapolated from the parent contract description without reading
the live enum source. Toyota Way andon — caught on next iteration.

Per `feedback_toyota_way_all_defects.md`: all defects are mine.
Fixing at the contract level BEFORE any implementation PR depends
on the wrong scope is exactly the cost-of-defect minimization
the toolchain is designed for.

## What v1.1.0 does

- Bumps version 1.0.0 → 1.1.0 PROPOSED (still pre-FUNCTIONAL)
- Reduces "new variants" from 5 to 2: AttnScores + AttnSoftmax
- Documents the FULL 9-stage layer-0 bisection chain spanning
  parent-contract stages + 2 new ones:

  attn_norm → qkv_matmul → qkv_bias → q_post_rope → k_post_rope
  → attn_scores [NEW] → attn_softmax [NEW] → attention → attn_out

- Updates all 5 falsifiers (SUB-001..005) to reflect reduced scope
- Adds bisection_chain_layer_0 equation pinning the 9-element
  cosine sequence (with empirical state per memory
  `2026-05-03 SHIP-007 finding`: cos[0]=0.99999995, cos[8]=0.9966)
- FALSIFY-ATTN-SUB-004 still BLOCKER_FIXTURE_ABSENT (pending HF
  FP16 oracle extension to capture 2 new stages on RTX 4090)

## Five Whys

1. **Why did v1.0.0 claim 5 new variants?**
   Authored without reading the live save_tensor_stage.rs source.

2. **Why didn't I read the source first?**
   Skipped the `pmat query SaveTensorStage` step that
   `feedback_no_guessing.md` mandates. Worked from the parent
   contract description's prose ("Embedding, AttnNorm, QkvMatmul,
   AttnOut, ...") which truncated 18 stages to 14.

3. **Why was the parent contract description truncated?**
   Doc-comment in `forward_traced_with_plan` rust source listed
   only 14 stages (the per-layer canonical-FFN order, omitting
   QkvBias + the parent's renamed Attention). My contract reused
   that prose instead of reading the enum directly.

4. **Why does this matter for SHIP-007 ship %?**
   It doesn't yet — the contract is still scaffold scope, no
   implementation PR has shipped against the wrong scope. v1.1.0
   correction lands BEFORE the cascade triggers.

5. **Why amend the contract instead of opening a sibling fix-PR?**
   Same branch (#1450) is the right place. Toyota Way: stop the
   line, fix the defect at source, then continue. A sibling PR
   would split the audit story across two commits with no benefit.

## Net effects

- Contract `trace-attn-sub-stages-v1` v1.0.0 → **v1.1.0 PROPOSED**
- `pv validate contracts/trace-attn-sub-stages-v1.yaml` exits 0
- MODEL-1 ship %: unchanged at 91% (this is contract correction)
- MODEL-2 ship %: unchanged at 57%
- Implementation cascade now correctly scoped to 2 new variants,
  not 5 — saves an estimated 60% of the enum-extension PR's LOC

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… integrated, M-FFN-GGUF-3 DISCHARGED (#1534)

Same-day post-M88+M89 follow-up: ship-two-models-spec.md v2.72.0
§27 records that the H1/H2 bisection has ALREADY been LIVE-run on
noah-Lambda-Vector RTX 4090 on 2026-04-27 (built `apr` from PR
#1083 branch + commits 77c016b + c657968 + f249464):

  APR layer-3 ffn_swigl std  = 1.2216
  GGUF layer-3 ffn_swigl std = 0.0670
  Ratio                       = 18.23×
  Verdict                     = H2 CONFIRMED (APR-side bug)

This far exceeds the §26.4 ≥10× threshold by 8× absolute.

Status promotions in v1.1.0:
- M-FFN-GGUF-3 implementation_stage: ALGORITHM_LEVEL_DISCHARGED → DISCHARGED
- FALSIFY-FFN-GGUF-003: PROPOSED → DISCHARGED
- contract metadata.status: PROPOSED → ACTIVE_ALGORITHM_LEVEL

The M89 PR #1533 harness (falsify_ffn_gguf_003_layer_3_swigl_h1_h2_bisection)
adds regression-test coverage for any future re-run; the §27 data
remains the canonical operator-dispatched discharge proof.

Only M-FFN-GGUF-4 (SHIP-007 fix PR) remains PENDING — gated on
engineering investigation of `inference.rs` SwiGLU site (line
shifted to 298-302 post sub-FFN telemetry from §22 spec authoring
at :160-164).

3 candidate hypotheses for the layer-3-specific behavior within
the SwiGLU block authored in v1.1.0 amendment for M-FFN-GGUF-4
investigation:
- H2a: Buffer aliasing / scratch-buffer corruption in APR multi-token
- H2b: Layer-3-specific upstream divergence (gate or up at L3 only)
- H2c: Quantization dequant alignment differs at certain layer configs

YAML-only — production hot paths byte-unchanged (this amendment
records pre-existing §27 evidence + corrects status drift).

Methodology lesson #2 firing in retrospect: had I grep'd the spec
for §22 / §27 BEFORE authoring M88's contract scaffold, the
M-FFN-GGUF-3 status would have been DISCHARGED at v1.0.0 instead
of needing this v1.1.0 follow-up amendment.

`pv validate` 0/0.

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…/6 sweep

Algorithm-level PARTIAL discharge for FALSIFY-APR-GGUF-PARITY-002
through 006 per `contracts/apr-vs-gguf-forward-parity-v1.yaml`.
Combined with PARITY-001 (already bound), this closes 6/6.

## ✅ Closes 6/6 apr-vs-gguf-forward-parity-v1 sweep

**Twelve contract families now fully algorithm-bound at PARTIAL:**
- `dataset-thestack-python-v1` (7/7)
- `tokenizer-bpe-v1` (7/7)
- `apr-cli-publish-v1` (4/4)
- `apr-cli-qa-v1` (10/10)
- `apr-cli-coverage-v1` (1/1)
- `apr-cli-operations-v1` (7/7)
- `apr-cli-command-safety-v1` (4/4)
- `apr-cli-publish-extra-v1` (10/10)
- `apr-cli-dep-migration-v1` (2/2)
- `apr-cli-distill-train-v1` (9/9)
- `apr-cli-pull-dataset-v1` (8/8)
- `apr-vs-gguf-forward-parity-v1` (6/6) ← this PR

## Why this matters for SHIP-007 / MODEL-1 ship

The SHIP-007 dispatch-layer bug is the actual blocker for
MODEL-1 GPU ship (per `feedback_model_1_ships_gpu_only`). This
contract pins the parity gates the eventual fix must satisfy:

- PARITY-002: layer-3 ffn_swigl ratio in `[0.5, 2.0]` (the
  18.23× ratio observed in `2026-04-26 SHIP-007 narrowing`
  session would Fail).
- PARITY-003: layer-3 ffn_gate ratio in `[0.7, 1.4]` (tighter
  band — gate matmul is the pinned root cause per §28).
- PARITY-004 + 005: contract validity + non-Q4K regression.
- PARITY-006: 28-layer ffn_swigl trace coverage (regression
  guard for PR cascade #1081/#1082/#1083).

When the SHIP-007 fix lands, all 6 verdicts must Pass. This
verdict pin gives the fix a concrete acceptance criterion at
algorithm level.

## Verdict shapes

- 002, 003: bounded-ratio with finite-check (catches NaN/±∞).
- 004, 005: shared exit-code-zero verdict.
- 006: count-threshold (≥ 28).

## Five-Whys

1. Why bind these now? — Closes 6/6 sweep; pins SHIP-007
   acceptance criterion at algorithm level.
2. Why distinct ratio bands for 002 + 003? — 003 (gate matmul)
   is the pinned root cause; tighter band means more sensitive
   regression detection at the bisected location.
3. Why share verdict for 004+005? — Identical exit-code-zero
   reduction.
4. Why pin 28-line min for 006? — Canonical 28-layer
   Qwen2.5-Coder-7B teacher; PR cascade regression guard.
5. Why 24 tests across 4 verdict sections? — Pass band +
   boundary + below/above + NaN/Inf + provenance per ratio
   verdict; minimal exit-code coverage; min-line boundary.

## Cross-reference

PARITY-002's `p002_fail_18_23x_ship_007_baseline` test
explicitly captures the observed regression value from
`2026-04-26 session SHIP-007 narrowing` memory — provides a
named regression-class sentinel for any future SHIP-007 work.

## Tests

24 unit tests, all green.