Move #5 — flagship: the memory contract on the real E. coli genome

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 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
 in the Software without restriction...
 
-[Full MIT license text]
+[Full MIT license text]
+# Flagship demo: regenerated by scripts/flagship_ecoli_demo.sh (not committed).
+/results/

README.md

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 - **A contract, honored.** `rosalind plan` predicts the peak *before you commit a byte*; `--enforce` honors the budget — refusing up front (exit 3) or failing loud (exit 4) rather than silently OOM-killing you; `rosalind verify` re-checks the receipt without re-running. Without `--enforce`, the budget is record-only. The full story: [the memory contract](CONTRACT.md).
 - **Reproducible + auditable.** Identical inputs produce a byte-identical VCF; a BLAKE3 manifest records the index, the BAM, the output, and the memory used.
 
+**Proof — the contract on a real genome.** On the real *E. coli* K-12 MG1655 chromosome (4,641,652 bp, 30× simulated reads), a declared **256 MiB** budget *fits* — `plan` → `variants --enforce` → `verify: OK`, **realized peak 22 MiB** — while an **8 MiB** budget is *refused up front* (exit 3, no work). The contract honored both ways; the claim is memory, not calling accuracy. Full numbers + one-command reproduction (`bash scripts/flagship_ecoli_demo.sh`): [`docs/findings/2026-06-01-flagship-ecoli-contract.md`](docs/findings/2026-06-01-flagship-ecoli-contract.md).
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 ## What it does today

docs/findings/2026-06-01-flagship-ecoli-contract.md

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+# The memory contract on a real genome — E. coli K-12 MG1655
+
+**2026-06-01.** A reproducible demonstration that Rosalind's memory contract holds on a **real** genome:
+on the *Escherichia coli* K-12 MG1655 chromosome (**4,641,652 bp**), a declared **256 MiB** budget *fits*
+— `plan` → `variants --enforce` → `verify: OK`, realized peak **22 MiB** — while an **8 MiB** budget is
+*refused up front* (exit 3, no work). The contract, honored both ways, on a real 4.6 Mbp genome.
+
+Reproduce with one command: `bash scripts/flagship_ecoli_demo.sh` (knobs: `COVERAGE`, `FIT_MB`,
+`REFUSE_MB`, `REF_URL`).
+
+## What this shows — and what it does not
+
+- ✅ **Real genome, real scale.** The reference is the actual NCBI RefSeq assembly **GCF_000005845.2**
+  (accession **NC_000913.3**), 4.64 Mbp — not a toy.
+- ✅ **The memory contract is real.** A declared budget is *predicted* before the run, *honored* during it
+  (fits cleanly, or refuses cleanly), and *verified* against a deterministic receipt afterward.
+- ⚠️ **The reads are simulated** (deterministic, 30×, seed 1337) from the real reference. There is no
+  short-read archive tooling in the build environment, and — importantly — the contract claim is
+  **read-realism-independent**: peak memory is governed by the reference size and the depth cap, not by
+  whether the reads are real. The numbers below would not change with real reads.
+- ❌ **This is not an accuracy benchmark.** Rosalind uses exact-match alignment + a basic diploid
+  genotype-likelihood caller; there is no GATK/DeepVariant comparison here. This is a **memory +
+  reproducibility** result.
+
+## Setup
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| Reference | *E. coli* K-12 MG1655, NCBI RefSeq GCF_000005845.2 (NC_000913.3), **4,641,652 bp**, single chromosome |
+| Reads | **simulated**, 30× paired, 150 bp, seed 1337 (`scripts/generate_toy_data.py --reference`) |
+| Pipeline | `rosalind index` → `rosalind align` (single-contig) → `rosalind sort` → the contract verbs |
+| Index | `index_bytes` = 9,203,308 (~8.8 MiB on disk); build peak RSS **185 MiB** (see note below) |
+
+## (a) A 256 MiB budget — fits
+
+```
+$ rosalind plan --index ecoli.idx --max-depth 1000 --budget-mb 256
+plan: predicted peak RSS (upper bound)
+  process baseline (measured):        7 MiB
+  reference decode (largest contig):  4 MiB
+  active set @ max-depth 1000:           4 MiB
+  engine overhead:                    0 MiB
+  -------------------------------------------------
+  predicted peak: ~16 MiB / budget 256 MiB  [FITS]
+
+$ rosalind variants --index ecoli.idx --alignments ecoli.sorted.bam \
+    --memory-budget-mb 256 --enforce -o ecoli.vcf
+memory: peak RSS 22 MiB; max pileup working set 4838 KiB
+contract: OK — realized peak 22 MiB within declared 256 MiB
+
+$ rosalind verify --manifest ecoli.vcf.manifest.json
+verify: peak 22 MiB within budget 256 MiB
+verify: OK — 2 input(s), 1 output(s) match
+```
+
+The run emitted **5,924** germline variant rows. Realized peak RSS was **23,134,208 B (22 MiB)** and the
+max pileup working set **4,954,240 B (4.7 MiB)** — comfortably inside the 256 MiB budget. The committed
+receipt is [`ecoli.vcf.manifest.json`](ecoli.vcf.manifest.json) (`contract_verdict: within`,
+`peak_rss_bytes: 23134208`, `max_working_set_bytes: 4954240`, `memory_budget_mb: 256`).
+
+## (b) An 8 MiB budget — refused, up front
+
+```
+$ rosalind variants --index ecoli.idx --alignments ecoli.sorted.bam \
+    --memory-budget-mb 8 --enforce -o ecoli_refused.vcf
+contract: REFUSE — declared 8 MiB, predicted peak ~16 MiB (largest contig 4 MiB +
+  active @ max-depth 1000 / max-read-len 250 atop a 8 MiB baseline). Raise
+  --memory-budget-mb, lower --max-depth, or drop --enforce.
+# exit code 3; no VCF written.
+```
+
+The job declines *before doing any work* and tells you exactly why — it does not start, run for a while,
+and then get OOM-killed.
+
+## The bound holds independent of coverage
+
+The same run at **2× coverage** produced a realized peak of **21 MiB**; at **30×**, **22 MiB**. Depth
+went up 15×; peak memory did not — because the working set is bounded by the reference (one contig) plus a
+depth-capped active set, not by the number of reads. That is the whole promise: *peak memory is a property
+of the genome and your declared budget, not of your data volume.*
+
+## Honest notes
+
+- **Predicted vs. realized.** The pre-run prediction (~16 MiB) is a deliberately coarse envelope (a
+  measured process baseline + a modeled working set); the realized peak (22 MiB) is the truth. Both sit far
+  inside the 256 MiB budget. When the two could diverge near the budget edge, the **post-run check is the
+  backstop** — `--enforce` fails loud (exit 4) if the realized peak ever exceeds the budget, so you are
+  never silently over.
+- **Reproducibility.** The VCF and the receipt's BLAKE3 content hashes are byte-reproducible across
+  machines (deterministic reference download + deterministic read simulation + deterministic engine). The
+  realized `peak_rss_bytes` is machine-dependent — but always ≤ the declared budget, which is the
+  guarantee that matters.
+- **The build is the frontier.** Building the index used **185 MiB** of RAM (O(reference)) while *calling*
+  used **22 MiB**. The bounded contract today covers the streaming call path; extending it to the index
+  *build* (so a constrained device can index a genome that doesn't fit in RAM) is the Phase-D research
+  direction — the `~√t` sublinear-space construction work in [`../OPEN_PROBLEMS.md`](../OPEN_PROBLEMS.md).
+
+## Reproduce
+
+```bash
+bash scripts/flagship_ecoli_demo.sh          # 30× by default takes ~80s end-to-end
+COVERAGE=2 bash scripts/flagship_ecoli_demo.sh   # faster; same contract numbers
+```
+
+The script fetches the reference from NCBI (cached after the first run), simulates reads, runs the
+in-house pipeline, and asserts every gate (`[FITS]`, `verify: OK`, refuse exit 3). Generated data lands in
+`results/flagship-ecoli/` (gitignored).

docs/findings/ecoli.vcf.manifest.json

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+{"inputs":[{"blake3":"b494a6bb3e751fc30f854bc3764f8c6dc818d6284c3c3ca19f277c5ecd490ed6","path":"/Users/logannye/rosalind/results/flagship-ecoli/ecoli.idx"},{"blake3":"8b8f136384bdb894e360152314be83b125154e923a8ca8af7604ed04f97fe46f","path":"/Users/logannye/rosalind/results/flagship-ecoli/ecoli.sorted.bam"}],"outputs":[{"blake3":"9e9d5dee69d558cdb7d2a1e878dd011ca64756743e7aa9a8ea014b41dd1594a0","path":"/Users/logannye/rosalind/results/flagship-ecoli/ecoli.vcf"}],"params":{"contract_verdict":"within","enforced":"true","mapq_threshold":"0","max_depth":"1000","max_read_len":"250","max_working_set_bytes":"4954240","memory_budget_mb":"256","min_qual":"10","peak_rss_bytes":"23134208"},"subcommand":"variants","tool_version":"0.1.0"}