lance-graph-nal: NAL queries as NodeGuid apertures over the fold path (D-NALP-1/2)

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What

New crate crates/lance-graph-nal. It is excluded from the workspace and has its own workspace root, like lance-graph-r2il. It implements the first NAL operations from .claude/plans/nal-polyfill-v1.md in the typed nal::{Op} form described in §4 G.

• The NodeGuid is the address and the distinguished name. A belief's key is its NodeGuid in the reading nal-statement-v1: [classid, S, copula, P, id]. The truth values f and c are not part of the name. They are value lanes written in the key's sealed order, so key row i and truth row i are always the same belief.

• A selection is the 16-byte key minus an aperture. Aperture { key, bytes } fixes the first bytes bytes and leaves the rest free. On the witnessed HHTL order, the matching rows form one range, which the contract's SealedFacetLane::bound_aperture finds:

  cared bytes	selects
  4	the whole class
  6	one subject
  10	one statement

  No foreign keys are involved.

• Bind once, then run the kept program. nal::{Question, TruthAtLeast, Choice} run their R2IL procedure (NalOp::lower) over FoldDialect once, when binding, and keep the mask-risc Program it produces. Each later call only runs execute_compiled. The aperture's range is passed as the execution extent, so the confidence predicate and the MAX fold read only the rows in that range.

• No new opcode: FN = None for every operation.

Measured

examples/nal_cost.rs: release build, AVX-512, median of 101 runs, each answer checked against the row loop before timing. n = 1,048,576.

operation	ns
Question (statement or subject)	19–20
TruthAtLeast, one statement	81
TruthAtLeast, 245-row subject	127
Choice (max confidence), subject	248
bind (aperture search + procedure)	274
row loop	495,000–559,000

Passing the subject range as an ANDed mask instead of as the extent took 195 µs.

Tests

tests/w2.rs has 7 tests that compare against a row-at-a-time oracle over the unsorted input. They include the aperture-width test (class ⊃ subject ⊃ statement, a different class selects nothing), the empty and the full population, and a stale witness.

I broke each guard once on purpose (disable runs); all 7 runs went red:

• statement aperture too narrow
• aperture one byte short
• threshold off by one
• threshold without its extent
• choice reads f instead of c
• truth lanes misaligned with the keys
• witness not validated

Open

• R2IL RANGE (arity 0) takes its bounds from two u8 immediates, so through that byte it cannot name a range past row 255. The procedures use FoldDialect::emit_pred(Pred::Range) instead. This needs a change in ogar-r2il; nothing is minted here.
• No argmax fold yet: Choice returns the maximum confidence, not which belief holds it.
• The rest of D-NALP-1 (the ClassView WideFieldMask projection and the binder mask) and everything from W3 (revision) on are still to do.

Board: STATUS_BOARD rows D-NALP-1/2, the plan status note, entry 2026-10-12-nal-coordinate-queries.md.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added NAL belief queries to count beliefs by statement or subject, filter by minimum confidence, and find the highest confidence in a selected range.
  • Added support for binding queries to a belief population and validating results against that population.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved Rust build caching across different runner CPU features to prevent incompatible artifacts from being reused.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance for resolving native Rust compiler flags and documented the new query capabilities and their current limitations.

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• crates/lance-graph-mask-risc/tests/compiled_program.rs
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• crates/lance-graph-nal/examples/nal_cost.rs
• crates/lance-graph-nal/src/lib.rs
• crates/lance-graph-nal/src/nal.rs
• crates/lance-graph-nal/tests/w2.rs

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This change adds a standalone NAL crate for sealed belief populations and compiled aperture queries. It also adds an owning compiled-program wrapper and updates selected CI workflows to resolve runner-specific Rust flags and include their hash in cache keys.

Changes: NAL Coordinate Queries

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cached compiled programs crates/lance-graph-mask-risc/src/ir.rs, crates/lance-graph-mask-risc/src/lib.rs, crates/lance-graph-mask-risc/tests/compiled_program.rs	Adds CompiledProgram, which owns a Program and its recognized lowering, and exposes a borrowed compiled view. A test compares its execution with Program::compile.
Belief keys and aperture ranges crates/lance-graph-nal/Cargo.toml, Cargo.toml, crates/lance-graph-nal/src/lib.rs, .claude/plans/nal-polyfill-v1.md	Adds NAL belief and statement types, NodeGuid keys, byte-prefix apertures, sorted sealed truth lanes, and witness-checked binding. The plan records the key layout, term width, and aperture selection rules.
Prepared queries and validation crates/lance-graph-nal/src/nal.rs, crates/lance-graph-nal/tests/w2.rs, crates/lance-graph-nal/examples/nal_cost.rs, .claude/board/*	Adds Question, TruthAtLeast, and Choice operations that retain compiled programs and execute over selected ranges. Tests compare results with row-wise oracles and check witness and population errors. The example reports timings and compares query results with row loops; board records document measurements and listed limitations.

CPU-Specific Rust Cache Keys

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Runner CPU flags in cache keys .github/scripts/resolve-native-rustflags.sh, .github/workflows/dir-sim-persist.yml, .github/workflows/identity.yml, .cargo/config.toml	Adds a script that resolves native Rust flags from the runner. Selected workflows export those flags and include their hash in cache keys. The Cargo configuration comments describe the workflow-specific flags and local resolver command.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Question
  participant Bound
  participant Prepared
  participant MaskRisc
  Question->>Bound: Resolve aperture range
  Question->>Prepared: Lower operation and retain compiled program
  Prepared->>Bound: Execute query over prepared extent
  Bound->>MaskRisc: Run compiled program over frequency and confidence lanes
  MaskRisc-->>Bound: Return scalar result

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dir-sim log in Lance fails here, and it is not this PR's failure. The build script of lance-graph-contract dies with SIGILL before anything from this PR compiles. main fails the same way since 10325b3.

Cause: .cargo/config.toml builds with -Ctarget-cpu=native. dir-sim-persist.yml sets no RUSTFLAGS, and Swatinem/rust-cache restores target/ with a "full match". Cargo fingerprints the flag text, which is the same on every runner. So an artifact built on a runner with AVX-512 is reused on one without and hits an illegal instruction. Whether it fails depends on which runner the job lands on, which is why the check was green on 253eee9.

No fix exists in the tree yet. One candidate is a hash of the runner's CPU flags in the cache key; that is waiting on a decision, so I have not ported anything here. A re-run only passes if the job lands on a runner with a matching CPU.

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