{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp09_archetype_breadth150_20260804","research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp09_light_prior_art_20260804","cell_id":"context_keyed_representation_switching__computer_science","search_lanes":{"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"queries":["telemetry event decoder build version schema historical events wrong decoder","versioned decoder maps telemetry artifact digest schema epoch","telemetry historical logs wrong schema decoder event ID reused version"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"no_result_note":null},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"queries":["schema evolution binary event logs reader writer schema resolution","event tracing manifest version decoder historical ETW"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null},"products_practices_and_standards":{"queries":["OpenTelemetry schema URL telemetry schema transformations version","Confluent Schema Registry schema ID wire format historical data","ETW event metadata manifest binary payload decoding"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null},"component_combination":{"queries":["immutable schema registry version ID decode historical messages raw fallback","build ID event manifest decoder version trace logs","versioned decoder registry immutable map build ID telemetry"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null}},"sources":[{"source_id":"SRC1","title":"Telemetry Schemas","publisher":"OpenTelemetry","url":"https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/schemas/","source_type":"OFFICIAL_STANDARD","claims_supported":["Different telemetry sources may simultaneously emit data conforming to different schema versions, and consumers need to identify and interpret those versions.","Emitted telemetry can carry a version-unique Schema URL; published schema files are immutable and may be cached permanently.","Consumers may transform received telemetry from its source schema version to a target version during storage or query."]},{"source_id":"SRC2","title":"Schema Formats for Schema Registry on Confluent Platform","publisher":"Confluent","url":"https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/schema-registry/fundamentals/serdes-develop/overview.html","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","claims_supported":["Confluent serialization can place a schema identifier in each message's wire-format prefix or header.","Deserializers fetch the schema corresponding to the message's schema identifier, providing record-specific routing to retained schema definitions.","The documented latest-version option does not eliminate attempts to retrieve the schema identified by a message."]},{"source_id":"SRC3","title":"Event Metadata Overview","publisher":"Microsoft","url":"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/etw/event-metadata-overview","source_type":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","claims_supported":["ETW binary event payloads are unintelligible without matching event metadata and become decodable when re-associated with it.","WPP metadata is generated during the software build and retained in PDB or TMF artifacts; manifest-based decoding requires separately installed metadata resources.","TraceLogging avoids external-manifest ambiguity by transmitting self-describing metadata with the payload."]},{"source_id":"SRC4","title":"Apache Avro 1.12.0 Specification","publisher":"Apache Software Foundation","url":"https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.12.0/specification/","source_type":"OFFICIAL_STANDARD","claims_supported":["Compact Avro binary data omits field names and type information, making correct reading dependent on the writer's schema.","Files and systems storing Avro data should retain the writer schema, and readers should use that schema when deserializing.","Avro defines writer-to-reader schema resolution for controlled evolution and signals errors for incompatible mappings."]}],"problem_evidence":{"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED","finding":"The problem mechanism is visible: official telemetry guidance recognizes coexisting schema versions, ETW requires build- or provider-associated metadata to interpret binary payloads, and Avro states that compact bytes depend on the writer schema. Confluent demonstrates exact per-message schema selection instead of decoding everything with the latest definition. None of the retained sources directly measures the proposed baseline failure in which a mutable service-wide decoder silently changes historical labels, units, or enums after event-code reuse, so its prevalence and operational consequence remain unverified.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"closest_prior_art":[{"name":"Confluent Schema Registry record-specific deserialization","source_ids":["SRC2"],"overlap":"A compact record carries a schema identifier, and a shared consumer retrieves the matching registered schema rather than blindly applying the latest schema. This closely matches context-to-map routing and preservation of historical interpretations.","remaining_difference":"The retained documentation does not specify authenticated build-manifest keys, per-row display and export of the selected decoder, raw-only abstention for conflicting context evidence, atomic snapshot pinning during registry changes, or frozen-corpus re-entry tests."},{"name":"OpenTelemetry versioned immutable schemas and Schema URLs","source_ids":["SRC1"],"overlap":"Telemetry carries a version-specific schema identifier; different versions may coexist; consumers interpret or transform data according to that identifier; published schema files are immutable.","remaining_difference":"Schema URLs identify telemetry-schema versions directly rather than validating build-digest-to-decoder bindings. The source does not specify decoder-map isolation, visible routing provenance per rendered row, raw fallback for unresolved keys, or atomic switching."},{"name":"ETW build-associated and self-describing event metadata","source_ids":["SRC3"],"overlap":"Compact telemetry payloads are decoded with separate provider metadata, some of which is generated with the instrumented build; self-describing TraceLogging instead transmits decoding metadata with each event.","remaining_difference":"The overview does not describe an immutable bank selected by authenticated artifact digest, protection from later manifest replacement, explicit decoder provenance in query results, or abstention and re-entry invariance controls."},{"name":"Apache Avro writer-schema retention and schema resolution","source_ids":["SRC4"],"overlap":"Historical compact records retain or reference their writer schema and are read using that schema, with explicit resolution against a reader schema instead of global reinterpretation through only the newest definition.","remaining_difference":"It is a general serialization standard, not a telemetry explorer control scheme with build-key routing, row-level active-map indicators, shadow activation, atomic decoder pinning, and constrained raw fallback."}],"prior_art_disposition":"ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART","contrastive_claim_remaining":"For telemetry in which the same compact event code legitimately changes meaning across retained builds, authenticated build-manifest and schema-epoch evidence can select and pin exactly one immutable decoder snapshot at interpretation time while exposing that snapshot in row and export provenance; conflicting or absent evidence causes constrained raw-only abstention, and updating another epoch cannot change a frozen historical result. The retained prior art establishes most underlying schema-selection principles but not this complete telemetry-specific control combination.","contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The contrast disappears if a public product, standard, or publication already specifies this combined behavior for telemetry. Operationally, it is falsified if an offline two-epoch replay shows any valid build key selecting the wrong map, an update to one map changing another epoch's output, one record observing mixed decoder state, output omitting the selected snapshot, unresolved context receiving confident decoded semantics, or older-epoch output failing semantic identity on re-entry.","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The search covered the proposal directly, schema-evolution and historical terminology, relevant telemetry and registry products and standards, and combinations of build metadata, schema identifiers, immutable versions, and decoding. Exactly four opened sources from four publishers were retained.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Official sources support coexisting telemetry schemas and the dependence of compact payload interpretation on matching schema or build-associated metadata. The exact mutable-decoder incident pattern is only indirectly supported, warranting PARTLY_SUPPORTED rather than full support.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"distinct_testable_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Existing systems cover exact schema identifiers, immutable versions, writer-schema retention, and build-associated event metadata, but the retained sources do not show the full authenticated build routing, visible per-result provenance, isolation, atomic pinning, and raw-abstention combination. Its remaining difference has observable failure conditions.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"bounded_next_test":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"A copied offline corpus containing two known build epochs, colliding codes, swapped and missing keys, a shadow update, and return to the older epoch can test routing, isolation, provenance, fallback, atomicity, and re-entry without changing producers or production systems.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The proposed first step is read-only, offline, preserves raw records, excludes production alerting and remediation, and reserves binding approval for the service schema owner. Any historical decoder containing executable behavior must be sandboxed or replaced with declarative parsing before replay.","source_ids":["SRC3"]}},"screen_survival":true,"world_novelty_boundary":"This bounded four-source screen cannot establish world novelty, patentability, market size, expert acceptance, prevalence, or realized value. It found established adjacent practices for record-specific schema lookup, immutable telemetry schemas, writer-schema retention, and build-associated event metadata, but no retained source clearly disclosed the proposal's entire control combination."}