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Claude 9aae7f04ff feat(ruview-unified): native frame contract + programmable perception (ADR-279..282)
Second increment of the unified RF spatial world model, applying the
architectural correction that the 56-bin canonical tensor must not be
the authoritative format, and moving the control plane from passive
sensing to programmable perception.

- RfFrameV2 (ADR-279): authoritative native RF record — native complex
  IQ preserved (proven byte-untouched by the derived view), explicit
  validity masks, declared PhaseState, TX/RX poses + antenna geometry,
  calibration/quality state, and construction-time provenance rules:
  Synthetic ⇒ L0Simulation, Measured ⇒ ≥ L1CapturedReplay (the L0–L5
  evidence ladder is now a type). Canonical tensor demoted to a
  mask-aware derived view through the shared adapter normalization.
  New modalities: WifiCir, WifiBfReport, FmcwRangeAzimuth,
  FmcwDopplerAzimuth. IEEE P3162 synthetic-aperture import profile.
- Active sensing control plane (ADR-280, control.rs): SensingTask
  admission (raw export always refused; identity requires consent),
  SensingAction/InformationGoal, age-of-information planner with
  measured 95% sensing-traffic reduction vs uniform refresh,
  fail-closed CoherentSensorGroup fusion (time/phase/geometry bounds,
  five denial paths tested), policy-authorized RIS actuation receipts,
  purpose-scoped TaskSufficientRepresentation leakage validation.
- BLE Channel Sounding (ADR-281): adapter + ble_cs_range with
  phase-slope and RTT as separate cross-validated evidence — exact
  recovery on synthetic tones, relay-style divergence flagged instead
  of averaged. Delay-Doppler-native FieldAxis + delay_doppler_map
  (unit-peak tone test).
- Factorized pose (ADR-281, RePos): relative skeleton on the content
  representation, root on the geometry-conditioned one, calibrated
  per-joint uncertainties; room-shortcut leakage experiment: held-out
  MPJPE 0.0003 m vs 0.2534 m monolithic; 740 params (<2% structured
  budget). Age gate input now log(1+age_ms); gradient check re-proven.
- Gaussian primitives: first_seen_ns, doppler_variance, bounded
  source_receipts lineage merged on fusion. PartitionKey gains a
  session dimension; SplitManifest certifies disjointness across all
  seven leakage dimensions.
- ADR-282: ecosystem positioning — RuView as the edge RF perception
  runtime under RuField/RuVector/MetaHarness; evidence-ladder policy.

Validation: ruview-unified 84 unit + 3 acceptance tests, 0 failed,
clippy-clean; workspace 3,789 passed 0 failed (--exclude
wifi-densepose-desktop, GTK headers unavailable in container); Python
proof VERDICT PASS. Docker images unaffected: no shipped binary
consumes this crate yet (Dockerfile.rust builds sensing-server /
cog-ha-matter / homecore-server only; Dockerfile.python builds
untouched archive/v1).

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Q1R5zhz6sSfXGRXpgBwpFX
2026-07-26 19:29:18 +00:00
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Architecture Decision Records

Latest proposed decisions:

This folder contains 193 Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) that document every significant technical choice in the RuView / WiFi-DensePose project. (The index tables below list a curated subset per domain; see the directory listing for the full set.)

Why ADRs?

Building a system that turns WiFi signals into human pose estimation involves hundreds of non-obvious decisions: which signal processing algorithms to use, how to bridge ESP32 firmware to a Rust pipeline, whether to run inference on-device or on a server, how to handle multi-person separation with limited subcarriers.

ADRs capture the context, options considered, decision made, and consequences for each of these choices. They serve three purposes:

  1. Institutional memory — Six months from now, anyone (human or AI) can read why we chose IIR bandpass filters over FIR for vital sign extraction, not just see the code.

  2. AI-assisted development — When an AI agent works on this codebase, ADRs give it the constraints and rationale it needs to make changes that align with the existing architecture. Without them, AI-generated code tends to drift — reinventing patterns that already exist, contradicting earlier decisions, or optimizing for the wrong tradeoffs.

  3. Review checkpoints — Each ADR is a reviewable artifact. When a proposed change touches the architecture, the ADR forces the author to articulate tradeoffs before writing code, not after.

ADRs and Domain-Driven Design

The project uses Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to organize code into bounded contexts — each with its own language, types, and responsibilities. ADRs and DDD work together:

  • ADRs define boundaries: ADR-029 (RuvSense) established multistatic sensing as a separate bounded context from single-node CSI. ADR-042 (CHCI) defined a new aggregate root for coherent channel imaging.
  • DDD models define the language: The RuvSense domain model defines terms like "coherence gate", "dwell time", and "TDM slot" that ADRs reference precisely.
  • Together they prevent drift: An AI agent reading ADR-039 knows that edge processing tiers are configured via NVS keys, not compile-time flags — because the ADR says so. The DDD model tells it which aggregate owns that configuration.

How ADRs are structured

Each ADR follows a consistent format:

  • Context — What problem or gap prompted this decision
  • Decision — What we chose to do and how
  • Consequences — What improved, what got harder, and what risks remain
  • References — Related ADRs, papers, and code paths

Statuses: Proposed (under discussion), Accepted (approved and/or implemented), Superseded (replaced by a later ADR).


ADR Index

Hardware and firmware

ADR Title Status
ADR-012 ESP32 CSI Sensor Mesh for Distributed Sensing Accepted (partial)
ADR-018 ESP32 Development Implementation Path Proposed
ADR-028 ESP32 Capability Audit and Witness Record Accepted
ADR-029 RuvSense Multistatic Sensing Mode (TDM, channel hopping) Proposed
ADR-032 Multistatic Mesh Security Hardening Accepted
ADR-039 ESP32-S3 Edge Intelligence Pipeline (on-device vitals) Accepted (hardware-validated)
ADR-040 WASM Programmable Sensing (Tier 3) Accepted
ADR-041 WASM Module Collection (65 edge modules) Accepted (hardware-validated)
ADR-044 Provisioning Tool Enhancements Proposed
ADR-110 ESP32-C6 firmware extension — Wi-Fi 6 / 802.15.4 / TWT / LP-core Accepted, P1-P10 complete, firmware-side substrate closed at v0.7.0-esp32. Companion docs: WITNESS-LOG-110 (13 §A0.x entries · 99.56 % cross-board RX · 104.1 µs smoothed sync stdev · ≤100 µs target met), ADR-110-REVIEW-GUIDE (one-page reviewer tour), ADR-110-BRANCH-STATE (coordination map vs feat/adr-115-ha-mqtt-matter). Host decoders + tests: Python SyncPacketParser (10) + Rust wifi_densepose_hardware::SyncPacket (15), cross-language hex pin gates drift.

Signal processing and sensing

ADR Title Status
ADR-013 Feature-Level Sensing on Commodity Gear Accepted
ADR-014 SOTA Signal Processing Algorithms Accepted
ADR-021 Vital Sign Detection (breathing, heart rate) Partial
ADR-030 Persistent Field Model and Drift Detection Proposed
ADR-033 CRV Signal Line Sensing Integration Proposed
ADR-037 Multi-Person Pose Detection from Single ESP32 Proposed
ADR-042 Coherent Human Channel Imaging (beyond CSI) Proposed
ADR-134 First-Class Channel Impulse Response (CIR) Support Proposed
ADR-135 Empty-Room Baseline Calibration (per-subcarrier Welford statistics) Proposed

Machine learning and training

ADR Title Status
ADR-005 SONA Self-Learning for Pose Estimation Partial
ADR-006 GNN-Enhanced CSI Pattern Recognition Partial
ADR-015 Public Dataset Strategy (MM-Fi, Wi-Pose) Accepted
ADR-016 RuVector Training Pipeline Integration Accepted
ADR-017 RuVector Signal + MAT Integration Proposed
ADR-020 Migrate AI Inference to Rust (ONNX Runtime) Accepted
ADR-023 Trained DensePose Model with RuVector Pipeline Proposed
ADR-024 Project AETHER: Contrastive CSI Embeddings Required
ADR-027 Project MERIDIAN: Cross-Environment Generalization Proposed
ADR-149 AetherArena: public spatial-intelligence benchmark on Hugging Face Proposed
ADR-150 RF Foundation Encoder: pose-preserving, subject/room/device-invariant CSI embedding Proposed
ADR-151 Per-Room Calibration & Specialized Model Training (room-first → bank of small ruVector specialists) Proposed
ADR-152 WiFi-Pose SOTA 2026 Intake: geometry-conditioned calibration, external benchmarks, foundation-encoder recipe Proposed

Platform and UI

ADR Title Status
ADR-019 Sensing-Only UI with Gaussian Splats Accepted
ADR-022 Windows WiFi Enhanced Fidelity (multi-BSSID) Partial
ADR-025 macOS CoreWLAN WiFi Sensing Proposed
ADR-031 RuView Sensing-First RF Mode Proposed
ADR-034 Expo React Native Mobile App Accepted
ADR-035 Live Sensing UI Accuracy and Data Transparency Accepted
ADR-036 Training Pipeline UI Integration Proposed
ADR-043 Sensing Server UI API Completion (14 endpoints) Accepted
ADR-115 Home Assistant integration via MQTT auto-discovery + Matter bridge (HA-DISCO + HA-FABRIC + HA-MIND) Accepted (MQTT track) / Proposed (Matter SDK P8b)
ADR-169 adam-mode — light theme toggle for the three.js realtime demo Proposed
ADR-170 yoga-mode — yoga pose detection, classification, and scoring for the three.js realtime demo Proposed

Architecture and infrastructure

ADR Title Status
ADR-001 WiFi-Mat Disaster Detection Architecture Accepted
ADR-002 RuVector RVF Integration Strategy Superseded
ADR-003 RVF Cognitive Containers for CSI Proposed
ADR-004 HNSW Vector Search for Fingerprinting Partial
ADR-007 Post-Quantum Cryptography for Sensing Proposed
ADR-008 Distributed Consensus for Multi-AP Proposed
ADR-009 RVF WASM Runtime for Edge Deployment Proposed
ADR-010 Witness Chains for Audit Trail Integrity Proposed
ADR-011 Proof-of-Reality and Mock Elimination Proposed
ADR-026 Survivor Track Lifecycle (MAT crate) Accepted
ADR-038 Sublinear GOAP for Roadmap Optimization Proposed
ADR-095 rvCSI — Edge RF Sensing Runtime Platform Proposed
ADR-096 rvCSI — Crate Topology, the napi-c Shim, and the napi-rs Node Surface Proposed
ADR-097 Adopt rvCSI as RuView's primary CSI runtime (phased adoption) Proposed
ADR-098 Evaluate ruvnet/midstream for RuView's CSI / WebSocket / mesh pipeline Rejected
ADR-099 Adopt midstream as RuView's real-time introspection + low-latency tap Proposed
ADR-263 @ruvnet/ruview npm harness — deep review + optimization strategy Proposed
ADR-264 @ruvnet/rvagent MCP server + @ruv/ruview-cli — deep review + optimization strategy Proposed
ADR-265 RuView npm distribution strategy — CI gate, provenance, version single-sourcing, namespace Proposed
ADR-273 Unified RF spatial world model — umbrella, anti-leakage protocol, acceptance gates Accepted (P1 implemented)
ADR-274 Universal RF foundation encoder + hardware adapter registry Accepted (P1 implemented)
ADR-275 RF-aware Gaussian spatial memory Accepted (P1 implemented)
ADR-276 Physics-guided synthetic RF world generator Accepted (P1 implemented)
ADR-277 Edge sensing control plane (802.11bf / ETSI ISAC aligned) Accepted (P1 implemented)
ADR-278 Radar inverse rendering + differentiable RF SLAM research program Proposed
ADR-279 Native RF frame contract — RfFrameV2 authoritative, canonical tensor derived Accepted (implemented)
ADR-280 Active sensing & programmable perception control plane Accepted (implemented)
ADR-281 BLE Channel Sounding, delay-Doppler tensors, P3162 import, factorized pose Accepted (implemented)
ADR-282 Ecosystem positioning + mandatory L0L5 evidence ladder Accepted

  • DDD Domain Models — Bounded context definitions, aggregate roots, and ubiquitous language
  • User Guide — Setup, API reference, and hardware instructions
  • Build Guide — Building from source