Harmograms Backend Standard

Version: 0.1 Date: 2026-06-14 Status: admitted for bounded transport Scope: public backend standard for caller-supplied harmogram vector, intensity-spectrum, projection, and trace products

1. Computational Ownership

The admitted backend owner is moira.harmograms.

Admitted engine entrypoints:

• point_set_harmonic_vector
• zero_aries_parts_harmonic_vector
• intensity_function_spectrum
• project_harmogram_strength
• harmogram_trace

The REST server is a transport adapter only. It must not reimplement Fourier components, intensity sampling, Zero-Aries parts construction, projection terms, or trace series.

2. Input Ownership

P-GAP-06 accepts caller-supplied named longitudes and caller-supplied trace samples.

It does not:

• construct natal charts
• generate dynamic ephemeris samples
• derive transit, directed, or progressed positions
• apply ayanamsa or house policy
• infer body identities from a catalogue

Every longitude is a finite ecliptic degree value owned by the caller and normalized by the engine.

3. Admitted Products

Admitted products:

• point-set harmonic vectors
• Zero-Aries-parts harmonic vectors
• intensity-function spectra for admitted harmonic aspect families
• projections of source vectors onto intensity spectra
• bounded harmogram traces over explicit time samples

Trace families admitted at transport:

• dynamic_zero_aries_parts
• transit_to_natal_zero_aries_parts
• directed_to_natal_zero_aries_parts
• progressed_to_natal_zero_aries_parts

The route family exposes computation, not interpretation. Strength values, components, phases, projection terms, and provenance are returned; judgement, advice, recommendation language, and doctrine scoring are not.

4. Policy Semantics

The transport boundary admits only policy combinations that map directly to existing engine policy vessels.

Intensity family determines orb mode:

• cosine_bell_harmonic_aspects -> cosine_bell
• top_hat_harmonic_aspects -> top_hat
• triangular_harmonic_aspects -> triangular
• gaussian_harmonic_aspects -> gaussian

Conjunction inclusion determines symmetry:

• include_conjunction=true -> star_symmetric
• include_conjunction=false -> conjunction_excluded

Trace family determines chart domain:

• dynamic_zero_aries_parts -> dynamic_sky_only_trace
• transit_to_natal_zero_aries_parts -> transit_to_natal_trace
• directed_to_natal_zero_aries_parts -> directed_or_progressed_trace
• progressed_to_natal_zero_aries_parts -> directed_or_progressed_trace

The point-set policy and intensity policy must share the same harmonic domain.

5. Bounds

Public transport must be synchronous and bounded.

Admitted limits:

• maximum point-set positions: 32
• maximum relational positions per side: 24
• maximum harmonic number: 128
• maximum harmonic-domain width: 32
• minimum intensity sample count: 256
• maximum intensity sample count: 8192
• maximum orb width: 90 degrees
• maximum trace samples: 64
• maximum trace cells, defined as len(samples) * len(harmonic_numbers): 256

The server must reject requests that exceed these limits with the standard validation envelope.

6. Response Truth

Responses must expose:

• source vector kind
• vector policy and harmonic domain
• source/body names
• harmonic-zero amplitude
• harmonic components
• intensity policy and realization mode
• projection terms and total strength
• trace sample times and series strengths
• provenance naming moira.harmograms and the exact engine entrypoint

Trace responses may use compact serialization, but must preserve the sample source vector and projection terms for each sample.

7. Non-Goals

This standard does not admit:

• chart-backed harmogram generation
• ephemeris-backed dynamic sampling
• arbitrary user-defined intensity functions
• unbounded sweeps
• async jobs
• dense rendering meshes
• harmonic interpretation text
• recommendation language
• chart condition profiles or electional scoring

Future chart-backed or rendering surfaces require separate admission work.