Show & Tell: Phase 17.5 TemporalOrchestrator — Unified Temporal Control Plane + Phase 17 COMPLETE 🎉

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TemporalOrchestrator — Phase 17 Capstone Architecture

Phase 17 introduced four temporal reasoning sub-systems. TemporalOrchestrator (17.5) unifies them all into a single orchestration loop, completing the Temporal Reasoning & Predictive Cognition phase of ASI-Build.

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Full Phase 17 Pipeline

CognitiveCycle
    │
    ▼
TemporalOrchestrator ─────────────────────────────────────┐
    │   phase: INGESTING                                   │
    ├─► EventSequencer.drain()                             │
    │        │  windows[]                                  │
    │        ▼                                             │
    │   phase: GRAPHING                                    │
    ├─► TemporalGraph.add_node()  ◄── TemporalNode         │
    │        │  node_count++                               │
    │        ▼                                             │
    │   phase: PREDICTING                                  │
    ├─► PredictiveEngine.train() + predict()               │
    │        │  Prediction{confidence, predicted_start_ns} │
    │        ▼  (confidence ≥ 0.8 only)                    │
    │   phase: SCHEDULING                                  │
    ├─► SchedulerCortex.enqueue() + run_tick()             │
    │        │  ready: list[ScheduledTask]                 │
    │        ▼                                             │
    │   phase: TICKING                                     │
    └─► _dispatch(task) → CognitiveCycle executor ─────────┘
              │
    phase: SNAPSHOT (periodic)
              ▼
       OrchestratorSnapshot{latency_ms, graph_nodes, ...}

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OrchestratorPhase — 7-State Lifecycle

Phase	Trigger	Duration	Next
IDLE	cycle start / stop resume	indefinite	INGESTING
INGESTING	run_cycle() call	drain latency	GRAPHING
GRAPHING	drain complete	O(windows)	PREDICTING
PREDICTING	graph updated	O(modules)	SCHEDULING
SCHEDULING	predictions ready	O(tasks)	TICKING
TICKING	schedule ready	O(ready_tasks)	SNAPSHOT
SNAPSHOT	every snapshot_interval_s	instant	IDLE

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Phase 17 Complete Sub-Phase Summary

Sub-Phase	Component	Role	Issue	Wiki
17.1	TemporalGraph	Stores time-ordered events with Allen relations	#434	✅
17.2	EventSequencer	Ingests + windows cognitive events	#437	✅
17.3	PredictiveEngine	EMA + ensemble prediction per module	#440	✅
17.4	SchedulerCortex	EDF/priority task scheduler with preemption	#443	✅
17.5	TemporalOrchestrator	Unified control plane	#446	✅

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CognitiveCycle Integration — _temporal_step()

class CognitiveCycle:
    def __init__(self, orchestrator: TemporalOrchestrator) -> None:
        self._orch = orchestrator

    async def _run_step(self, event: CognitiveEvent) -> None:
        snap = await self._orch.run_cycle()  # full pipeline in one call
        logger.info(
            "temporal cycle: latency=%.1fms predictions=%d scheduled=%d",
            snap.cycle_latency_ms, snap.predictions_made, snap.scheduled_tasks
        )

A single run_cycle() call handles all four sub-systems — CognitiveCycle has no direct dependency on EventSequencer, TemporalGraph, PredictiveEngine, or SchedulerCortex.

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Cross-Phase Integration Map

Phase 10 GoalRegistry    ──► goal.deadline_ns → ScheduledTask.deadline_ns
Phase 13 WorldModel      ──► WorldModel.update() triggers ingest_event()
Phase 16 ReflectionCycle ◄── OrchestratorSnapshot as profiler input
Phase 17 TemporalOrchestrator ──► all of the above unified

Key integration: OrchestratorSnapshot maps to PerformanceProfiler input (Phase 16.1), feeding the ReflectionCycle (Phase 16.5) via SchedulerCortex load metrics.

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Prometheus Metrics + PromQL

Metric	Type	PromQL Example
asibuild_orchestration_cycles_total	Counter	rate(asibuild_orchestration_cycles_total[5m])
asibuild_cycle_latency_seconds	Histogram	histogram_quantile(0.99, rate(asibuild_cycle_latency_seconds_bucket[5m]))
asibuild_predictions_acted_on_total	Counter	increase(asibuild_predictions_acted_on_total[1h])
asibuild_temporal_graph_nodes_gauge	Gauge	asibuild_temporal_graph_nodes_gauge > 10000 → prune alert
asibuild_schedule_queue_depth_gauge	Gauge	asibuild_schedule_queue_depth_gauge > 500 → backpressure alert

# Grafana alert: cycle latency SLO breach
- alert: TemporalCycleLatencyHigh
  expr: histogram_quantile(0.99, rate(asibuild_cycle_latency_seconds_bucket[5m])) > 0.5
  for: 2m
  annotations:
    summary: "Temporal orchestration p99 latency > 500ms"

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Open Questions — Phase 18 Hints

1. Distributed temporal reasoning: how does TemporalOrchestrator coordinate across federated nodes (Phase 9)? Do we need a FederatedTemporalGraph that merges event timelines across agents?

2. Multi-horizon prediction: PredictiveEngine currently predicts one step ahead. Phase 18 could introduce multi-horizon forecasting (t+1, t+5, t+10 windows) — how should TemporalOrchestrator expose this to SchedulerCortex?

3. Temporal memory consolidation: TemporalGraph nodes are pruned by wall-clock age. A Phase 18 TemporalMemoryConsolidator could compress old graph regions into summary nodes, preserving causal structure without unbounded growth.

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Resources: Issue #446 · Wiki: Phase-17-Temporal-Orchestrator · Phase 17 discussions: #433 #435 #436 #438 #439 #441 #442 #444 #445 #447 #448