Module contract 

Tolerant normalization helpers for external adapter state.

Adapter protocols are external state: catalogs can be reordered or replaced, and capability fields may be absent or malformed. Normalize those values at the core boundary before feeding them to the reducer. These helpers intentionally discard invalid entries rather than allowing a single bad catalog item to poison a session.

Functions

equivalent_traces

Compare protocol-specific traces after normalization has occurred. The event vocabulary is the compatibility boundary, so equivalent ACP/native traces must replay to equal state.

normalize_capabilities

Normalize a protocol capability object. Unknown, omitted, or non-boolean fields resolve to false; a malformed object therefore behaves like an adapter with no optional capabilities.

normalize_modes

Normalize a mode catalog from either a bare array or an ACP-style object containing availableModes. Invalid entries and duplicate IDs are dropped while preserving the adapter’s remaining order.

replay_trace

Replay a normalized trace through the deterministic core reducer.