T-12 — lens/cost.dag + lens/complexity.dag (one mechanism, two projections per U2; complexity is asymptotic projection of cost; NEVER re-derives; scaffold-against-T-9-contract; Practice 11 + lens-over-substrate enforced)

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Root Cause

• src/v4/lens/cost.dag T-12 cost carrier skipped existing numeric refinement carriers → import std.nat/std.cardinality and model degree/exponent/base with Nat/NonZeroNat or a named bounded refinement.
• src/v4/lens/cost.dag SymbolicCost has no faithful cost-level ordering distinct from the complexity projection → add a SymbolicCost join/dominance that preserves coefficients and variables before declaring BoundedLattice.
• src/v4/lens/cost.dag AsymptoticClass lacks a mixed polynomial-log product family or conservative fallback → represent n^d log^k n explicitly or fail/promote conservatively instead of lowering the class.

⚠️ The cost/complexity lens needs these algebraic fixes before the T-12 carrier is safe to merge.

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Structural extraction opportunity in complexity_bound_from_class

The match has 9 arms but only 3 distinct RHS skeletons:

1. Constant (1 arm)
2. unknown_complexity() (1 arm)
3. match size_var { Holds {v} => SomeBound { size_var: v, ... }; Violates _ => unknown_complexity() } (7 arms with different SomeBound constructors)

That 7-arms-with-template-hole pattern is the structural defect. Same nerve as PR #3359's connective_spec_fact finding — N arms whose RHS-skeleton is identical except for a constructor name — but with a different distribution shape (1:1:7 rather than 1:5 with outlier).

The structural insight

ComplexityBound and AsymptoticClass are parallel coproducts. The function is one-to-one between them with two asymmetries: ClassConstant and ClassUnknown don't need a size_var; every other class does. The 7 size-dependent arms all do the same thing because that's the only structural commonality among them.

The dissolved shape:

type ComplexityBound =
  | UnknownComplexity { diagnostic: Diagnostic }
  | ConstantComplexity
  | SizedComplexity { class: AsymptoticClass, size_var: SizeVariable }

Three variants. AsymptoticClass stops being mirrored; it's contained.

What collapses

complexity_bound_from_class becomes 4 arms instead of 9:

fn complexity_bound_from_class(class, size_var) -> ComplexityBound {
  match class {
    ClassConstant => ConstantComplexity
    ClassUnknown  => unknown_complexity()
    _ =>
      match size_var {
        Holds { value: v }            => SizedComplexity { class: class, size_var: v }
        Violates { diagnostic: _ }    => unknown_complexity()
      }
  }
}

The _ covers the 7 size-dependent classes uniformly because they all do the same thing.

complexity_bound_class (the reverse) becomes 3 arms instead of 9:

fn complexity_bound_class(b) -> AsymptoticClass {
  match b {
    UnknownComplexity { diagnostic: _ }       => ClassUnknown
    ConstantComplexity                         => ClassConstant
    SizedComplexity { class: c, size_var: _ }  => c
  }
}

The class isn't re-derived from constructor identity; it's stored once and read back.

Ergonomics for test claims

Test claims stay readable via thin helper functions:

fn polynomial_complexity(size_var: SizeVariable, degree: PolynomialDegree) -> ComplexityBound {
  SizedComplexity { class: ClassPolynomial { degree: degree }, size_var: size_var }
}
fn linear_complexity(size_var: SizeVariable) -> ComplexityBound {
  SizedComplexity { class: ClassLinear, size_var: size_var }
}
// etc.

Test files use the same constructor names as before; the dissolution is internal to the lens module.

Why this matters

The wrapped design preserves all information AND nudges consumers toward structural rather than per-variant logic. Consumers that pattern-match on Linear { size_var: v } to do something specific to "linear-ness" are exactly the Practice-10 candidates the dissolution wants to surface — they should instead consume the closed AsymptoticClass structure (which has e.g. ClassLinear distinct from ClassPolynomial { degree } etc.).

Heuristic that catches this

When reviewing a match, count distinct RHS skeletons — unique shapes after parameter substitution. K/N ratio is the dissolution signal:

• K = N, full distinctness → legitimate per-variant dispatch
• K = 1, N > 1 → pure template-hole; dispatch is doing no work
• K = 2 with outlier (PR T-30 — generated hollow-alias .dag checker (Node->Outcome fail-closed; substrate-native) #3359 shape) → predicate-factoring opportunity
• K ≪ N with structural reason (like this one) → the dispatching coproduct hides a product type; collapse via wrapping

This case is K=3 collapse via wrapping. The asymmetry that creates it — two degenerate classes (size-independent) and N-2 uniform classes — is what makes the 7-arms-as-1-skeleton structural rather than incidental.

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[briansrls]

Addressed the concrete unused-import nit in commit 39b54c1.

For the two non-blocking modeling observations: symbolic_max returning SumCost { lhs, rhs } when both sides dominate each other is intentional. At cost level, equal asymptotic class with distinct variables/coefficient facts is not the same as equality of cost evidence; preserving both operands avoids collapsing cost facts before the complexity projection. The loop UnknownCost { reason: "T-9-not-landed: loop bound" } is also the bounded scaffold from the T-12 brief: until T-9 supplies loop-bound facts, Loop fails closed instead of fabricating a bound. The worked fixtures keep the linear/polynomial cases on Cardinality shapes so non-loop coverage does not degrade through that scaffold.

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Root Cause

• src/v4/lens/cost.dag SymbolicCost numeric domains are not uniformly grounded in std.nat/cardinality → model constant cost with Nat or a named nonnegative refinement before declaring lattice laws.
• src/v4/lens/complexity.dag The complexity projection needed a variable collection but introduced a lens-local coproduct → import the std collection/algebra carrier or add a justified refinement over it.
• src/v4/lens/complexity.dag AsymptoticClass mixes terminal and sized/failing states that ComplexityBound also models → split the sized non-constant known class carrier or make ComplexityBound a single projection over one authority.
• src/v4/lens/cost.dag Cost degree arithmetic lacks a canonical imported order/add surface → consume std.nat nat_compare/nat_add or add the missing NonZeroNat refinement helper in std before using it here.

⚠️ The T-12 shape is close, but these substrate-level modeling issues will propagate into cost and complexity consumers if merged as-is.

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L1.13 lens applied to this PR — 4 substantive findings (one base-L1.13, one L1.13.b-borderline, two Practice-11)

Same lens I just landed in #3455 (L1.13 Skeleton-collapse + Practice 11 framing). Running it against this PR's matches surfaces several findings. Following the lens's own "fix-confidence" framing — sketches included where the dissolution is mechanically derivable.

Finding H1 — complexity_variables_from_cost (src/v4/lens/complexity.dag:165-193) — Base L1.13: Categorical 6:2:2

10-arm match over SymbolicCost. K=3 distinct RHS skeletons after α-renaming + constructor substitution:

Skeleton	Arms	Distribution
Violates { diagnostic: complexity_projection_diagnostic() }	2 — Constant, Unknown	2
Holds { value: single_complexity_variable(size_var: v) }	6 — Log, Linear, Polynomial, PolyLog, Exponential, Factorial (all bind v from variable field; identical skeleton after α-rename)	6
combine_complexity_variables(lhs: ..., rhs: ...)	2 — Sum, Product (recursive shape identical after substitution)	2

Histogram [6, 2, 2] — all groups ≥ 2, K=3, K ≤ ⌊10/2⌋=5, N≥4 — meets the Categorical thresholds exactly (per L1.13's classifier in #3455).

Dissolution: substructure SymbolicCost to expose the three categories at the type level:

type SymbolicCost
  = AtomicWithVariable { kind: AtomicVariableKind, variable: SizeVariable, ... }
    // Log / Linear / Polynomial / PolyLog / Exponential / Factorial as AtomicVariableKind variants
  | NoVariable { kind: NoVariableKind }
    // Constant / Unknown as NoVariableKind variants
  | Compound { kind: CompoundKind, lhs: SymbolicCost, rhs: SymbolicCost }
    // Sum / Product as CompoundKind variants

fn complexity_variables_from_cost(cost: SymbolicCost) -> Witness<ComplexityVariables> {
  match cost {
    AtomicWithVariable { variable: v, ... } => Holds { value: single_complexity_variable(size_var: v) }
    NoVariable { kind: _ } => Violates { diagnostic: complexity_projection_diagnostic() }
    Compound { lhs, rhs, ... } => combine_complexity_variables(
      lhs: complexity_variables_from_cost(cost: lhs),
      rhs: complexity_variables_from_cost(cost: rhs)
    )
  }
}

3 arms instead of 10. Fix-confidence: templated auto-apply per L1.13 (the substructure transform is mechanically unambiguous from the histogram; the new variant + sub-coproduct names — AtomicWithVariable/NoVariable/Compound — are templated and reviewer-overridable).

Finding H2 (reinforcing) — same SymbolicCost categorization is correct

The categorization that dissolves H1 IS the correct shape for the entire SymbolicCost type. Once substructured, every consumer of SymbolicCost becomes a 3-arm dispatch instead of an N-arm enumeration. Strong signal — the substructuring is load-bearing for the whole cost-projection lane, not just one function.

Finding H3 — complexity_bound_from_sized_class (src/v4/lens/complexity.dag:211-228) — L1.13.b borderline (per-arm-name-parameterized-reference)

9-arm match over AsymptoticClass. Under L1.13's strict decidability rule each arm's RHS is a distinct skeleton (the per-arm SizedLogClass, SizedLinearClass, etc. are distinct constructors, not parameter substitutions). So K=N=9 → Mixed, not a current L1.13 finding.

BUT — the per-arm SizedXxxClass references follow a Sized<MatchedClassName>Class naming convention, parameterizing by the matched constructor. This is the same F16 pattern (the lens's own borderline-case example): the human pattern-recognition catches it; the strict structural rule doesn't. Documented in #3455's L1.13 entry as the L1.13.b future sub-signature.

Listed here as a borderline / future-finding, NOT a current L1.13 kill.

Finding H4 — AsymptoticClass + SizeIndexedAsymptoticClass — Practice 11: parametric coproduct duplication

These two coproducts are parallel by construction:

AsymptoticClass variant (cost.dag)	SizeIndexedAsymptoticClass variant (complexity.dag)
ClassConstant	(absent — Constant is non-sized at the upstream type level)
ClassLog	SizedLogClass
ClassLinear	SizedLinearClass
ClassLinearithmic	SizedLinearithmicClass
ClassPolynomial { degree }	SizedPolynomialClass { degree }
ClassPolyLog { exponent }	SizedPolyLogClass { exponent }
ClassExponential	SizedExponentialClass
ClassFactorial	SizedFactorialClass
ClassUnknown	(absent)

This is exactly Practice 11's "two declarations differing only by a typed parameter are one parameterized declaration" rule (docs/modeling-discipline.md:809+ worked examples). The parameter here is "is this kind size-indexed or not" — a yes/no flag, structurally captured by SizedComplexity { kind: AsymptoticKind, variables: ... } already in ComplexityBound.

Dissolution: unify into one coproduct (AsymptoticKind) carrying the size-relevant kinds; ConstantComplexity and UnknownComplexity handle the non-sized cases via ComplexityBound's outer structure. After this dissolution, complexity_bound_from_sized_class (H3) DISAPPEARS — there's no class-to-class mapping to perform; the kind IS the data.

Fix-confidence: requires design discussion (Practice 11 cases benefit from operator review on naming + boundary), but the structural move is unambiguous.

Finding H5 — multiply_classes (src/v4/lens/cost.dag:518+) — Practice 11: algebraic table written longhand

9 outer arms × up to 9 inner arms = up to 81-cell multiplication table written as nested matches. The table encodes algebraic structure:

• ClassConstant is multiplicative identity (left and right)
• ClassUnknown is annihilator
• ClassFactorial dominates everything except ClassUnknown
• ClassExponential is similar but dominated by Factorial
• Polynomial × Linear = Polynomial(degree+1) — degree-incrementing law
• Log × Log = PolyLog exponent 2 — exponent law

This is parametric duplication at scale — the 81 cells aren't all independent; they follow algebraic rules. Two candidate dissolutions:

(a) Typed lookup table: data class_product_table: TotalMap<(AsymptoticClass, AsymptoticClass), AsymptoticClass> = ... Then multiply_classes(a, b) = total_lookup(class_product_table, (a, b)). Moves duplication from match arms into data; the table IS the spec.

(b) Magnitude projection: define each class's growth-rate magnitude as a typed value, then multiply_classes(a, b) becomes magnitude composition under standard rules (identity, annihilation, domination). More substrate work but encodes the algebra structurally.

Fix-confidence: structural sketch — the right dissolution depends on whether the substrate has TotalMap (the L1.13.b dependency) or wants explicit magnitude carriers. Operator-tier design call.

Finding H6 — asymptotic_class_dominates (src/v4/lens/cost.dag:438+) — Practice 11: algebraic order written longhand

9 outer arms encoding the partial order on AsymptoticClass, each with nested matches against the right-hand class. Same shape as H5 — the partial order is algebraic (total order on simple classes with parametric exceptions for Polynomial { degree } and PolyLog { exponent }); written longhand instead of via a magnitude projection + comparison primitive.

Dissolution direction same as H5 (b): define a magnitude carrier; dominance is magnitude(a) >= magnitude(b).

Net read

The substantive insight tying H1+H2+H3+H4 together: SymbolicCost wants to be substructured into 3 categories, AND AsymptoticClass+SizeIndexedAsymptoticClass want to be unified into one parameterized type. Doing both removes H1 (Categorical dissolution), H3 (the borderline disappears because there's no Sized/non-Sized class mapping), AND H4 (the two coproducts merge).

H5 + H6 are separate — they're about encoding algebraic structure (multiplication table, partial order) and probably warrant their own design discussion outside this PR's scope. Flagged here so the lens's run is honest about what it surfaces, not because they're block-merge.

Note this is a review by the lens, not a separate request_changes axis — under PR #3455's still-proposed L1.13, H1 + H3 are findings the lens would emit; H4/H5/H6 are Practice-11 framings the lens points toward. The PR has been substantially improved since I last reviewed (the original 9-arm complexity_bound_from_class IS now the 4-arm shape I sketched). H1 is the clean base-lens finding remaining.

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[briansrls]

Verified against current HEAD 96bdce73e.

I agree with the structural read as a follow-on lens signal:

• H1/H2: complexity_variables_from_cost does have the 6/2/2 skeleton split described. The mechanical category is real.
• H3/H4: the AsymptoticClass -> SizeIndexedAsymptoticClass mapping is structurally parallel. The duplication came from the previous review requirement to make illegal constant/unknown sized states unrepresentable, but I agree the better end-state is one reviewed parameterized shape rather than two hand-mirrored coproducts.
• H5/H6: the multiplication/order tables are algebraic and should move toward a magnitude/table substrate rather than longhand matches.

I am not applying H1/H4 in this PR because those are carrier-shape changes to the load-bearing cost/complexity authority, not a local repair. Restructuring SymbolicCost into AtomicWithVariable / NoVariable / Compound would change the public T-12 carrier shape, the worked claims, and every cost-side consumer in this PR. Likewise, unifying AsymptoticClass and SizeIndexedAsymptoticClass needs the naming/boundary decision the comment itself calls out as design-discussion territory. That is larger than a review-polish patch on a PR that is currently green, scoped to T-12, and has fresh approvals.

So my disposition is: no code change for #3452; treat H1/H4/H5/H6 as follow-up modeling work under the newly landed L1.13 / Practice 11 framing. The current PR still preserves the U2 invariant: cost is the single mechanism, complexity consumes cost and does not re-walk Node or re-derive cost.

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1. Story of the diff

This PR turns the v4 cost lens from a minimal SymbolicCost carrier into a modeled fold over Node: src/v4/lens/cost.dag defines symbolic cost forms, cost composition, asymptotic classes, lattice/monoid data, and routes cost_lens through fold_node. src/v4/lens/complexity.dag then imports that cost surface and projects SymbolicCost into a user-facing ComplexityBound, so complexity no longer walks Node independently. The three new src/v4/test/claim/lens_complexity/*.dag files are worked examples for linear, nested-polynomial, and fail-closed loop-bound cases, but they are explicitly compile-only scaffolds until generated claim execution lands.

2. Invariant categories

1. LAYER MODEL (substrate vs implementation).

Finding — src/v4/lens/complexity.dag:278-281, Boundary Discipline / facts-flow-forward. This diff touches v4 lens .dag library substrate, not just file-scoped Rust. complexity_bound_dominates reduces both ComplexityBounds to AsymptoticClass and discards the variables carried by SizedComplexity. That makes O(n) and O(m) mutually comparable as the same ClassLinear, even though the PR explicitly made complexity size-indexed. The size variables are now modeled data that stop flowing at the public dominance API.

1. INVARIANTS.md + modeling-discipline.md.

Finding — src/v4/lens/cost.dag:326-332 plus src/v4/lens/cost.dag:534-535, fail-closed structural correctness / cost algebra. PolynomialDegree is encoded as a successor count after linear degree, but add_polynomial_degree just adds the two predecessor_after_linear values. When multiply_classes multiplies two polynomial classes, n² * n² projects to degree 3 instead of degree 4. This is not a display issue: the asymptotic projection becomes structurally wrong before complexity reads it.

1. CODING.md.

Compliant — the new implementation is authored as data plus free functions, with cost_lens and complexity_lens exposed as pure projections rather than hidden state or object methods. The remaining issues are modeling/correctness issues, not Rust style issues.

1. TESTING.md.

Finding — src/v4/test/claim/lens_complexity/map_id.dag:5, src/v4/test/claim/lens_complexity/nested.dag:5, src/v4/test/claim/lens_complexity/while_external_condition.dag:5. The added claim files are marked “compile-only until T-19/T-22 generated claim execution,” so they do not execute the new algebra. For this PR’s high-risk surface, the missing executable coverage matters: neither the polynomial×polynomial degree case nor variable-sensitive dominance is asserted. Add a behavior-level receipt in the available harness shape, or at minimum add modeled claim data that covers these exact cases so the T-19/T-22 runner will fail when it arrives.

1. LOCKED DESIGN DECISIONS.

N/A — the diff does not edit locked design documents. It implements the v4 lens direction in .dag rather than adding a new Rust pass.

1. TRACKED vs UNTRACKED DEBT.

Compliant — the new worked-claim scaffolds name their bound and dissolution trigger in the file header: compile-only until T-19/T-22 generated claim execution. I did not find a new TODO/deprecation-style scaffold outside that stated lane.

2.5. Top-down PM intent review

Finding — THESIS.md:97-99 vs src/v4/lens/complexity.dag:278-281. The thesis frames correctness dimensions such as cost and complexity as structural facts carried by the program model and validated by reading that structure, not by human interpretation. complexity_bound_dominates drops the modeled size-variable structure and compares only the coarse class, so a worker following this API could enforce the wrong complexity contract while believing the size-indexed projection was preserved. That is a semantic dilution of the T-12 intent: complexity is no longer fully the asymptotic projection of cost; it is class-only at the dominance boundary.

3. Verdict

REQUEST_CHANGES

The PR has the right overall architecture—one cost mechanism, complexity as a projection—but it currently loses load-bearing complexity variables at the dominance API and miscomputes polynomial-degree multiplication. Those are structural lens correctness issues, not nits, and should be fixed before merge.

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Root Cause

• src/v4/lens/cost.dag PolynomialDegree and PolyLogExponent encode exponent-minus-one but product arithmetic adds the encoded predecessors as if they were raw exponents → add over the represented exponent values or include the missing successor in the product helpers.
• src/v4/lens/complexity.dag ComplexityBound carries size variables without a non-empty/refined variable-domain contract and then collapses comparisons to AsymptoticClass → enforce a non-empty variable carrier and make dominance consume variables or fail closed on incomparable domains.

⚠️ The cost/complexity shape is close, but the current projection can still construct illegal sized bounds and under-report or erase complexity facts.

[briansrls]

Operator reshape request was relayed to me as: "could you rewrite 3452/have them rework/reshaped please".

Before I do broad surgery, can you confirm the intended scope?

My current read is that the concrete review fixes are now in f243c183d: polynomial/polylog encoded addition is corrected, ComplexityVariables is a non-empty Refined<List<SizeVariable>>, complexity_bound_dominates preserves variable facts, and there are compile-only algebra receipt claims for those cases.

For the reshape directive, do you want this PR to specifically remove the new WholeFile uses from the T-12 additions, or do you mean a deeper carrier reshape such as the L1.13 SymbolicCost category split / unifying AsymptoticClass with SizeIndexedAsymptoticClass? The latter changes the public T-12 carrier shape and should be done with explicit scope confirmation.

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[briansrls]

Verified on current HEAD 14cdfd53 after the main merge.

No code change for these two non-blocking observations:

• The symbolic_max same-class/non-equal branch is intentional: at the cost level, equal asymptotic class does not mean equal cost evidence. For example, distinct size variables should not be collapsed before the complexity projection has a chance to carry the variable set forward. Returning SumCost { lhs, rhs } preserves both pieces of cost evidence.
• cost_lattice_top_reason is a String because UnknownCost currently carries reason: String, including the T-9 scaffold reason. Converting only the top reason to Symbol would require reshaping UnknownCost itself, which is broader than this non-blocking style observation.

Local verification on 14cdfd53: v2 compile over src/v4 emitted 100 files with 0 diagnostics; strict-deprose passed; compiler-core lens import grep is clean.

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Root Cause

• src/v4/lens/complexity.dag ComplexityVariables depends on a non-empty/refined collection primitive that is not in v4 std → land/import the concrete carrier in the same PR or express it with existing std.collection primitives.
• src/v4/lens/cost.dag SymbolicCost dominance collapses costs to AsymptoticClass before checking size-variable domains → make dominance consume canonical variable domains or preserve/fail closed on incomparable domains.
• src/v4/lens/complexity.dag ComplexityVariables is an ordered List without canonical set/multiset semantics → model the variable domain with a canonical algebraic carrier before dominance consumes it.
• src/v4/lens/cost.dag Asymptotic projection erases constant values before product semantics → inspect SymbolicCost constants or normalize ProductCost before converting to AsymptoticClass.

⚠️ The prior fixes are real, but the current lens still has an unresolved import and several substrate-level projection errors that would propagate wrong complexity facts.

[briansrls]

BLOCKING: The new import targets v4.std.refinement, but git ls-tree origin/main -- src/v4/std/refinement.dag, git ls-files -- src/v4/std/refinement.dag, and test -e on the PR postimage all return no file, so the lens cannot resolve its ComplexityVariables carrier; violates fail-closed boundary discipline.

[briansrls]

BLOCKING: symbolic_max lets variable-blind symbolic_cost_dominates choose one branch, so max(Linear(n), Log(m)) drops m before complexity projection; violates facts-flow-forward for size-variable facts.

[briansrls]

BLOCKING: complexity_bound_dominates compares raw variable-list order, so O(n*m) with variables [n,m] and [m,n] becomes incomparable despite product complexity being commutative; violates M9 algebraic grounding.

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BLOCKING: multiply_classes maps every ClassConstant product to the other operand, so ProductCost(ConstantCost Zero, LinearCost n) projects as linear instead of constant; violates modeling faithfulness for complexity as the asymptotic projection of cost.