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docs(2-H): consumer integration spec — docs/CONSUMER-INTEGRATION.md (#38)
Adds the consumer contract for Central's NATS event streams. Primary reader:
a Claude Code instance building MeshAI's ingestion layer. The doc IS the spec --
no "see source for details".

Opens with Matt's framing: "Central takes it all and gives it all. It's up to
the pipe to do with it what it will." Central is a faithful firehose --
adapters preserve every upstream field with no enrichment / formatting /
opinionated translation. The CloudEvents envelope adds routing + dedup support;
everything else is upstream-shaped. Where the doc lists upstream lookup
endpoints for ID-only fields, that is consumer-side convenience -- explicitly
NOT a recommendation that Central enrich.

Sections (11 total):
  1. Quick start (5-line nats-py subscribe-and-print)
  2. Connection details (URL / auth / JetStream context / stream discovery)
  3. Stream layout (7 streams, derived from streams.py registry)
  4. Subject namespace registry (Mermaid tree + full pattern table)
  5. Wire format (5a CloudEvents envelope; 5b inner Event payload)
     -- explicit callout that geo.centroid is [lon, lat] GeoJSON, NOT [lat, lon]
  6. Per-adapter reference (12 subsections, locked template)
  7. Fall-off / removal semantics (explicit subjects vs absence-as-signal)
  8. Consumer patterns (durable vs ephemeral, ack/nack/term, worked example)
  9. Dedup implementation guide (single-token vs composite-key adapters)
  10. Writing a new consumer checklist
  11. Troubleshooting

Doc length: 1878 lines (target was 600-1000 originally; revised to 1200-1800
once full-fidelity JSON examples + inciweb 3x narratives + wfigs_perimeters
polygon were folded in). Completeness wins per the design principle.

Every JSON example is verbatim from CT104. 11 examples sourced from
/tmp/nwis-build/evidence.txt (dumped via psql jsonb_pretty); the wfigs_perimeters
example is a freshly pulled smallest-active-polygon record so the doc captures
the live polygon shape without flooding the page with thousands of coordinate
pairs.

The doc is assembled by /tmp/nwis-build/build_doc.py which splices live JSON
blocks into a markdown template. The build script is local-only (not committed)
because the doc itself is the artifact; future updates regenerate by re-pulling
live evidence and re-running the assembler.

New test: tests/test_consumer_doc.py (5 tests). Parses the doc and asserts:
  - The "Stream layout" table matches central.streams.STREAMS exactly
    (stream names + subject filters).
  - The (name, subject_filter) pairs match the registry as pairs (catches
    swapped subject filters on existing streams).
  - Every adapter discovered via central.adapter_discovery.discover_adapters()
    has a per-adapter subsection -- and vice versa.
  - The subsection count equals the registry size (catches duplicates).

Verification:
  - 463/463 full suite green (was 458; +5 new consumer_doc tests).
  - Doc structure: 1 H1, 12 H2, 33 H3, 12 per-adapter sections, 1 mermaid block,
    12 JSON blocks (all parse).
  - All 12 adapters covered.
  - No regressions elsewhere.

Acceptance bars (a)-(e) verbatim:
  (a) grep "subject_for_event|_ADAPTER_REGISTRY" -> empty
  (b) all 12 adapters have per-adapter subsections
  (c) 5/5 consumer-doc tests pass
  (d) 463/463 full suite
  (e) doc length 1878 lines

markdownlint was not available on CT104; substituted an inline Python sanity
check confirming code-fence balance, JSON-block validity, and structural
integrity (12 H2 / 33 H3 / 1 mermaid).

Co-authored-by: zvx <zvx@central>
2026-05-19 14:33:51 -06:00
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