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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013kj58Jugkic783b8ZrtTVZ
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type: guidelines
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# Contract guidelines
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## 1. `signals.json` is the single source for a signal's identity
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- Topic name and the envelope's `unit` are both **derived** from a registry entry.
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Neither is authored by hand anywhere else.
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- ⚠ **The unit appears in both the topic name and the payload, so they can
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contradict each other.** Generating both from one entry is what stops that; a
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hand-written `"unit"` reintroduces the failure it was meant to prevent.
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- Signal names carry their unit (`vehicle_speed_kph`, `coolant_temp_c`), so a unit
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mismatch is visible at the call site rather than one registry lookup away.
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## 2. Two clocks, and they answer different questions
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- `monotonic` is authoritative for **ordering and intervals**. It cannot step.
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- `timestamp` is the **absolute reference** and can step: the car boots with no
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network, LTE connects several minutes in, and NTP corrects the clock mid-drive.
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- ⚠ **Never derive a duration from `timestamp`.** A step lands inside the interval
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and the result is silently wrong, most likely during exactly the drive worth
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keeping. Durations come from `monotonic`.
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## 3. Raw CAN is not the envelope
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- `yukart/can/raw` is binary. A four-key JSON object at 1000–3000 frames/sec is
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not a reasonable encoding.
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- The envelope is for decoded signals, which are low-rate by comparison.
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## 4. Absent means default
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- `quality` is omitted when `ok`; `mock` is omitted when false. A consumer treats
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absence as the default, never as an error.
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## 5. This repo is versioned by git tag
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- There is no version in any topic or payload. A recorded session names the
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contracts tag it was captured under, which is what keeps old captures readable.
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## 6. To be added
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