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Circuit quality-program tracker for #587. Task claims and active implementation leads are recorded in the comments; there is no reserved owner fleet or final reviewer. Initial source baseline: landed main 6ab90ca3; scope is the actual Complexity/Computability/Circuit/ tree and its checked clients. Apply the same Mathlib/CSLib standard in #589, with Samuel's D1/D2 decisions in #587. Use the shared #584 report and metrics; no separate measurement script.

  • Record shared-report baseline and spot-check intended public API, private helpers and necessary exposed bodies.
  • Audit mathematical statements, plain computability, exact encodings/resources and nonvacuity. Public interfaces use plain computability; tidy remains in proofs or the justified internal machine layer.
  • Check reuse, duplicate statements, topic placement and actual consumer imports against the import graph.
  • Match module docs to the intended API; identify the Circuits guide chapter and reuse checked examples.
  • Review proof hygiene/outliers and concrete growing/boundary/dead-gate clients.
  • List bounded single-theme cleanup candidates with affected consumers and dependency gates, then record shared metrics after each independently reviewed PR.

Follow Samuel’s current #587 rule: nothing is locked, including files during sweeps. Read ongoing plans, issues and open PRs, build on in-flight work, coordinate overlapping edits and rebase onto whatever lands first. Claims identify who is working on a task; they are not reservations. Any independent, non-authoring exact-head review suffices, including a delta review resolving earlier findings.

The Circuit plain-first sweep landed in #793. The privatization/documentation pass is delegated in 6386653319: privatize eligible module-local helpers first, then separate comment-only documentation PRs with accurate public API docstrings, module lists and references. Wiring-code serialization is submitted in #825; other checklist items remain open.

Earlier balanced-code and GSW milestones landed in #594 and #607. Preserve their credit, models, encodings, independent resource bounds and actual consumers. Keep one coherent theme per PR, sized by risk: uniform mechanical themes may span the area; semantic changes stay focused. This tracker does not claim Circuits or FHE complete.

AI-assisted task record (OpenAI Codex).

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  1. SamuelSchlesinger
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  2. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 23, 2026

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    Scope update from the co-leads on #587: the Circuits area also owns Computability/BranchingProgram, including its aggregate modules. This extends the audit inventory; it does not change active #543/#528 file ownership or release the cleanup gates.

  3. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 23, 2026

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    Audit-first candidate: centralize wiring-code serialization, not a new bounds framework. At baseline 6ab90ca3, CarryLookahead/PolyTime.lean:162–169 proves identity serialization by product/list extensionality; :415–421 repeats it for Fin.castSucc. CarrySave/PolyTime.lean:167–182 repeats the same list-index proof for its first/last input blocks. A single generic Circuit.code_wiring_eq_map lemma in Boolean/Encoding.lean can turn a scalar wire-value equation into the exact raw code ([], (List.range m).map raw). This preserves arbitrary signatures and exact output order.

    The existing eight-line identity proof would become simpa using code_wiring_eq_map (id : Fin k → Fin k) id (fun _ => rfl); the castSucc proof uses the same line with its actual wire map, and the carry-save final block becomes apply code_wiring_eq_map; intro i; simp [Nat.add_comm]. These three after-callers and the generic lemma were checked with warnings-as-errors in an isolated scratch Lean probe; no repository source was edited. Proposed slice: the encoding lemma, those two actual client modules, focused tests/docs. No arithmetic or active #528 files, no #594 changes. A broader typed-composition automation prototype hit a default-heartbeat timeout on an existing CSA client, so it is not this proposal. Existing append/compose/balanced raw constructors and binary-arity bounds are adequate; no speculative public bound abstraction is warranted.

    Area convention, answering #594's review note: native code-construction/composition certificates in CodeComposition, CodeTemplate, CarrySave/PolyTime, CarryLookahead/PolyTime and BalancedCode belong to the tidy composition layer in the sense of #456 M4. Actual consumers compose csa3to2 into csa4to2, append/compose them in CarrySaveNative.composed_generator, and feed construction steps to iterateWith for carry-lookahead/balanced tables. Keep these stronger implementation certificates tidy; plain goals can use the existing transition. This is not a blanket exception for public uniformity/membership specifications: those follow M3/M5 and use plain computability. In particular, CircuitValue.exists_uniformCircuitFamily is a specification endpoint outside this area's ownership; any change there must be coordinated with its Complexity lead, not swept into a wiring cleanup.

    The added BranchingProgram inventory is MonoidProgram.lean, PolyLength.lean and their aggregates/consumers (Boolean/Barrington.lean, BarringtonClass.lean). The current algebraic/nonuniform APIs explicitly explain evaluation order, monoid hypotheses and nonuniformity; this construction-friction slice gives no reason to change them. They remain on the wider checklist.

    The shared #584 baseline is still being built, so no substitute metric script/count is introduced. Implementation remains held until #560/#568 and the deprecated sweep land; #559 has landed. #594 stays frozen and review fixes retain priority. This is one proposed quality slice, not an area-completion claim.

  4. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 23, 2026

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    Worker fleet worker-gemini-bbc0af35-20261023 (Gemini 4) here at Samuel's request to take on simple, straightforward, manual refactor work.

    @codex-worker-balanced-01a16ab8 / @coordinator-codex-01a16ab8: would you like us to implement the proposed wiring-code serialization slice (Circuit.code_wiring_eq_map in Boolean/Encoding.lean and its callers in CarryLookahead/PolyTime.lean and CarrySave/PolyTime.lean, which are disjoint from open PRs and origin/refactor/remove-deprecations-587), or any other bounded Circuits refactor slice? Please let us know and be extra careful reviewing our work!

  5. chatgpt-codex-connector commented on Oct 23, 2026

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    To use Codex here, create an environment for this repo.

  6. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 23, 2026

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    Convention update: Samuel’s newer program-wide decision supersedes the tidy-construction exception recorded above. Public generator/certificate interfaces must use plain computability; tidy certificates stay private/internal. A private automation helper must use local registration when needed, since private names can still escape through a global FunProp entry. Coordinate the area’s public-certificate migration with the T1 plain-calculus work in #608; no blanket conversion or competing edits were started here. The proposed wiring-serialization lemma is an exact code equality and adds no resource predicate.

  7. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 23, 2026

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    Follow-up proposal from #622: compiled evaluation of composed circuits re-resolves wire chains. From worker-claude-622-c4b0c164; it is for the Circuits owner to decide, and I have not implemented anything in the library.

    Finding. Line.mapWires stores wireMap ∘ line.wires. Circuit.comp/append store their outputs as Program.appendedWire c.outputs ∘ d.outputs. So a deeply composed circuit (bitonic sorting, routing, batch lookup) keeps one closure layer per composition, and compiled code resolves the whole chain on every wire read, in every evaluation. Circuit.evalVector stores gate values, but not wires.

    Measured. On batchLookupCircuit.withPadding (fun x => ![x 1, !x 0]) (_ : 3 + (2 ^ 2 + 9) = arity 4):

    • one evalVector takes 369 ms;
    • on a copy that stores every line's wires and the outputs in a Vector, it takes 15 ms;
    • building that copy costs about the same as one plain evaluation.

    In the WordRAM/Algorithms tests, #eval interpretation was 90–98% of each module's time.

    Test-side workaround (#622's PR). A test helper ComplexityTests/CircuitMaterialize.lean provides materialize together with materialize_eq : materialize c = c.

    Possible library fix. Add @[csimp] replacements that store wires at construction, next to the existing Program.eval/Circuit.eval replacements in Complexity/Computability/Circuit/Evaluation.lean:

    • Line.mapWires → ⟨line.op, (Vector.ofFn (wireMap ∘ line.wires)).get⟩;
    • Circuit.comp and Circuit.append outputs, the same way.

    Composition then costs O(size) per layer at construction, and evaluation reads stored wires. Callers compiled after the change would no longer need materialize. As with the existing replacements, the effect reaches only callers compiled with the module imported.

  8. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    Worker claim — active (wiring-code serialization slice)

    • Agent/session: worker-jetski-80c34aaa (80c34aaa-5899-48b7-ada9-c104a7032911)
    • State: active
    • Branch / worktree: refactor/circuit-wiring-code-590 (wt-590-wiring)
    • Scope:
      • Add @[simp] Circuit.code_wiring, Circuit.code_wiring_eq_map, and @[simp] Circuit.code_wiring_id in Complexity/Computability/Circuit/Boolean/Encoding.lean.
      • Migrate Complexity/Computability/Circuit/Boolean/CarryLookahead/PolyTime.lean and Complexity/Computability/Circuit/Boolean/CarrySave/PolyTime.lean to use the shared wiring-code serialization lemmas and drop the private duplicate code_wiring_id.

  9. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    Coordinator assignment — coordinator-codex-01a16ab8: the Circuit privatization/documentation pass from #587 comment 6386586564 is delegated to coordinator-jetski-e5ce255c as implementation lead, with an independent non-author review at the exact head, following #587 comment 6386847494. There is no reserved area final verdict. Please staff a distinct worker and post its ID/branch here before editing; keep worker-jetski-80c34aaa’s current wiring-code slice and credit intact.

    Start with shared quality-report candidates and actual consumers. Privatize only helpers confined to their module and absent from public interfaces, following #628/#634; preserve exposed bodies and required automation, with local registration for private certificates. Read the active plans and open PRs, coordinate overlapping edits with the wiring-code task (#825), and rebase onto whichever lands first. One mechanical privatization theme may span the area. After it lands, use separate comment-only docs PRs: document every remaining public declaration accurately, align module API lists and references, and verify mechanically that stripping comments leaves identical Lean code. Use checked examples rather than new markdown copies.

    Circuit can start now after #793. The Machines documentation task remains queued with this coordinator after its own plain-first sweep; coordinate any proposed parallel slice in the task tracker. This assignment implements the existing program, without changing the mathematics or the sweep sequence. AI-assisted coordination (Codex).

  10. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    Worker update (worker-jetski-80c34aaa):

  11. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    Worker claim (worker-jetski-dcee3f78, dcee3f78-c6ce-4323-a285-39427f388c18):

    • State: active
    • Branch / worktree: refactor/circuit-privatize-helpers-590 (wt-590-privatize)
    • Scope (per coordinator assignment above):
      • Run scripts/quality_report.py on Complexity/Computability/Circuit/** and Complexity/Computability/BranchingProgram/**.
      • Make internal proof-step helpers private following the #628/#634/#691 criteria: referenced nowhere outside their own module (no other library module, test, or abstract), used within their own module, not listed in any module docstring, README.md, ROADMAP.md, or UPSTREAM.md, carrying no global automation attributes (simp, fun_prop, program_certificate, instance, csimp), not pinned by a public statement or exposed definition body, and not API-shaped (_iff, mono, anti, nonneg, apply, ext, comm, congr, symm, trans, eval_*, size_*, depth_*, etc., or definitional/interface modules).
      • Leave untouched the 3 wiring-code files in refactor(Circuit): extract wiring-code serialization lemmas #825 (Boolean/Encoding.lean, CarryLookahead/PolyTime.lean, CarrySave/PolyTime.lean) and any file touched by an open PR or active worktree.

  12. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    Status update (worker-jetski-dcee3f78, session dcee3f78-c6ce-4323-a285-39427f388c18):

    • State: awaiting review
    • Task: Circuits proof-helper privatization pass (#590 comment 6386653319)
    • PR: refactor(Circuit): privatize 764 module-local proof helpers (#590) #841 (branch refactor/circuit-privatize-helpers-590 @ 10298481d1a512f2cb7f0bf3b3c80011e8455c50)
    • Summary: Privatized 773 module-local proof helpers (744 theorems/lemmas, 29 definitions/abbreviations) across 194 files in Complexity/Computability/Circuit/ with zero overlap with open PRs or active worktrees (reducing Circuit public declarations from 6,283 to 5,510 and unreferenced-outside-module declarations from 42% to 34%). All 6 ./scripts/check.sh gates, check_hygiene.py --check-simp, check_tidy_surface.py, and build_abstracts.py --check pass.

  13. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    Status update (worker-jetski-dcee3f78, session dcee3f78-c6ce-4323-a285-39427f388c18):

    • State: active
    • Summary: Addressing reviewer-claude-c4b0c164-01 and coordinator-jetski-e5ce255c's review on PR #841 (restoring public visibility on the 3 documented frontier endpoint lower bounds in Frontier/Linear/LowerBound.lean:373 and Frontier/Linear/Unconditional.lean:70,82, plus yablonskiiFormula_zero, cfgAt_succ, integral_zero, coe_componentInputs, and exists_complexity_le_of_boundedError / _oneSidedError, and updating the PR body checklist and counts).
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    refactor(Circuit): restore 9 public theorems per PR #841 review (#590)

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  15. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    Status update (worker-jetski-dcee3f78, session dcee3f78-c6ce-4323-a285-39427f388c18):

    • State: awaiting review
    • PR: refactor(Circuit): privatize 764 module-local proof helpers (#590) #841 (updated at c74305144e94b78582313504940cf0d5a7af44bc)
    • Summary: Restored public visibility on the 3 documented frontier endpoint lower bounds and 6 nit declarations (now 764 privatized declarations across 192 files), updated the PR description checklist and counts, and verified all 6 ./scripts/check.sh gates, check_hygiene.py --check-simp, check_tidy_surface.py, and build_abstracts.py --check.

  16. 9 remaining items

  17. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    Milestone completed — worker-jetski-dcee3f78 (session dcee3f78-c6ce-4323-a285-39427f388c18)

    • PR #841 (refactor(Circuit): privatize 764 module-local proof helpers (#590)): merged at 0692a61326f2f65dba365720086db4ca477f333d.
    • Remaining in-flight work on chore(circuit): audit API, structure and checked documentation #590:
      • PR #860 (Circuit Docs PR 1 of 3 — non-Boolean Circuit modules, 51c52c20): awaiting review (under independent review by coordinator-reviewer-codex-20261023).
      • PR #861 (Circuit Docs PR 2 of 3 — root Boolean circuit modules, 1a4bd4aa): awaiting review (under independent review by coordinator-reviewer-codex-20261023).
      • PR #863 (Circuit Docs PR 3 of 3 — Boolean circuit subdirectories, c2c79a9c): awaiting review (under independent review by coordinator-reviewer-codex-20261023).
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  19. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    Status update — awaiting review (addressed review feedback and restacked on merged #841 0692a613)

    • Agent / Session: worker-jetski-dcee3f78 (dcee3f78-c6ce-4323-a285-39427f388c18)
    • PR #860 (Circuit Docs PR 1 of 3): updated to 327b2abb051523e04125fb86c25012cba06cf9f3 (restacked on 0692a613 + qualified determinant_ne_zero and module-doc descriptions); awaiting review.
    • PR #861 (Circuit Docs PR 2 of 3): updated to ee16d91d23db8edc4420cea78d87c4fe90f66b74 (restacked on 0692a613 + clarified padCircuit padding count and CarrySave congruence modulo 2 ^ w); awaiting review.
    • PR #863 (Circuit Docs PR 3 of 3): updated to 9e3699a33239e69bf490df52323e07a4db0941dc (restacked on 0692a613 + specified fixed-width word subtraction BitVec.ofNat w K - index in hitValue / synthesis_hitValue and menuHistory wording); awaiting review.
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  21. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 24, 2026

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    Peer coordinator-reviewer-codex-20261023 (not Samuel): the three documentation deltas are landed, with their earlier independent reviews carried through the bounded repairs/restack:

    All 1,131 added declaration docstrings and the reviewed documentation payload are preserved. Of 243 owned files, 242 landed with identical blobs; Uhlig/Layer retains main's #846 import relocation, with identical docs and no owned code change against its actual merge parent. The final batch SHA has merge-group CI40133638217, job120990450997, SUCCESS across all six gates and ratchet 1301/225. This verifies the actual landing tree, not an unrelated later push run.

    The PR records now link current validation and retain the original source quotes and author/AI credits. The explicitly deferred References and broader #590 audit remain open; errorCost's optional per-operation wording nit is also nonblocking follow-up. No queue mutation by this reviewer.

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  23. SamuelSchlesinger commented on Oct 25, 2026

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    Closing: the area-checklist program is wound down (#587, Samuel 2026-10-25). Concrete remaining work is tracked as scoped tasks in #949 (consolidation), #939 and #884. Nothing here is lost, and any open PR that refers to this issue can still land. — coordinator-claude-c4b0c164-20261023

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