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 Proposals for shared-contract review:
 
+- [Offline ERP planning: physical selection to deployment](offline-erp-plan-selection.md)
+  proposes one-shot planning from offline profiles and workload inputs, with
+  global physical selection and existing deployment artifacts, without replanning.
 - [ASAPPlanner integration architecture](asapplanner-integration.md) proposes
   the Planner/backend responsibility boundary, shared semantic DAG workflow,
   and high-level consolidation milestones.
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+# Offline ERP planning: physical selection to deployment
+
+Status: proposed. Audience: Planner and backend designers and implementers.
+This proposal describes a new planning path; it does not claim that the current
+backend implements it or replace the canonical cross-component contracts.
+
+## Decision and scope
+
+Accept a fixed query workload, data workload, offline error–resource–performance
+profiles, and deployment constraints. Select one executable physical plan, then
+produce its deployment plan through the existing publication contracts.
+
+ERP retains its existing Error–Resource Profile name. Its measurements include
+accuracy, memory, and operation performance. Profiles are produced offline;
+planning neither benchmarks sketches nor requires live runtime observations.
+
+There is no automatic replanning, drift-triggered selection, runtime profile
+refresh, migration optimizer, or feedback loop in this version. A later explicit
+planning request is a separate invocation. Existing observation and replanning
+paths are not removed, but are not dependencies of this path. Ordinary query
+execution and maintenance continue after installation.
+
+The result is one plan, not a Pareto frontier. The initial objective is minimum
+modeled steady-state CPU under explicit accuracy and deployment constraints.
+
+```mermaid
+flowchart TD
+    Q[QueryWorkload and DataWorkload] --> C[Control plane: validate immutable inputs]
+    E[Offline ERP profiles] --> C
+    D[Deployment constraints and capabilities] --> C
+    C --> P[Planner: legal semantic alternatives]
+    P --> B[Backend: executable physical realizations and cost coefficients]
+    B --> M[Global selection: configurations, windows, sharing]
+    M --> F[One validated physical plan]
+    F --> A[Deployment artifacts through existing publication contracts]
+    A --> I[Explicit installation and activation]
+```
+
+Candidate generation and feasibility checking may involve both Planner and
+backend. The diagram is a responsibility boundary, not a requirement to fully
+enumerate complete plans or commit to one semantic alternative before costing.
+
+## Current behavior and proposed change
+
+The backend already accepts ERP inputs, selects empirical parameters with
+theoretical/exact fallback, compiles physical alternatives, and compares priced
+workload candidates. Relevant implementation anchors are
+[the ERP adapter](../../control_plane/src/physical/erp.rs),
+[physical compilation](../../control_plane/src/physical/compiler.rs),
+[workload pricing and selection](../../control_plane/src/physical/workload_cost.rs),
+and [publication conversion](../../control_plane/src/physical/publication.rs).
+
+Today, ERP parameter selection returns one preferred configuration for a
+selection context. The current backend-local path also requires workload cost
+evidence and compares a bounded inventory of compiled alternatives. Supplying
+atomic ERP measurements alone does not price every physical component.
+
+[sketch-bench PR #129](https://github.com/ProjectASAP/sketch-bench/pull/129)
+provides a useful MILP starting point: choose one deployment per repeating query,
+charge a shared deployment's ingestion once, and avoid enumerating all query to
+deployment assignments. The reviewed implementation is revision `82ca7a5`.
+
+This proposal preserves multiple admissible configurations and physical
+realizations until global selection. The MILP is a selection mechanism within
+the existing Planner/backend boundary, not a replacement for semantic legality,
+accuracy propagation, executable binding, or publication validation. It does
+not become a second authoritative selector after another stage has discarded
+the alternatives it needs.
+
+## Immutable inputs and outputs
+
+Each invocation binds the following inputs to a reproducible planning snapshot:
+
+| Input | Required meaning |
+| --- | --- |
+| QueryWorkload | Query semantics, accuracy requirements, recurrence, lookback, and evaluation phase |
+| DataWorkload | Source identity, population partitioning, aggregate arrival rates, group counts, and offline distribution descriptors or supported shape evidence |
+| Offline profiles | Artifact/version and record IDs, algorithm/implementation/configuration, accuracy metric and measurement scope, resource costs, units, and measurement provenance |
+| Deployment context | Backend-local or collector target, runtime capabilities, retention policy, exact-execution availability, and requested resource bounds |
+| Planning policy | Accuracy/fallback mode, CPU objective, common costing horizon, solver limits, and evidence applicability policy |
+
+Missing rates, cardinalities, or component prices remain unknown; they are not
+silently zero. Group count means physical populations, not distinct sketch item
+keys. Source descriptors and shape evidence are supplied offline and remain
+fixed for the invocation. Profile applicability includes implementation and
+measurement environment compatibility, trial sufficiency, data shape/volume,
+and any declared validity constraints. Offline does not mean universally valid.
+
+Output contains the selected physical plan, validated deployment artifacts, and
+a selection report. The report records snapshot/profile IDs, input and model
+versions, configuration and realization identities, sharing, CPU breakdown,
+memory scope, accuracy evidence, fallback reasons, and solver status/gap. Store
+the selected mapping so a tied optimum can be audited without assuming identical
+solver tie-breaking across versions.
+
+This is a logical contract, not a new HTTP schema or a replacement workload
+type. Reuse the existing canonical workload and publication types; specify
+necessary request extensions during implementation.
+
+## Candidate construction and evidence
+
+1. Planner produces legal semantic alternatives, including permitted exact or
+   mixed execution. Do not map arbitrary query text directly to the PR's four
+   capability enum values.
+2. The ERP adapter exposes all admissible configurations for the relevant
+   readout, reusing its existing matching and runtime checks. Retain typed
+   parameters and evidence IDs through selection. Choosing the cheapest
+   configuration separately for each query can lose a better shared solution.
+3. Backend derives executable window/layout alternatives from recurrence,
+   evaluation phase, retention requirements, and deployment capabilities.
+4. Construct assignment eligibility and resource coefficients for these
+   alternatives. Prune only when replacement preserves every consumer's
+   semantics, evidence, feasibility, and all modeled costs and constraints.
+
+ERP resource fields map naturally to the prototype's atomic costs:
+
+| ERP field | Prototype field |
+| --- | --- |
+| `memory_bytes` | `mem_bytes_per_instance` |
+| `update_cpu_seconds` | `insert_cpu_secs` |
+| `merge_cpu_seconds` | `merge_cpu_secs` |
+| `query_cpu_seconds` | `query_cpu_secs` |
+
+This projection does not replace the ERP record. Its distribution, implementation,
+readout units, trial counts, and evidence provenance remain authoritative.
+For example, the prototype's KLL example checks `mean_rank_err`; the backend's
+KLL ERP readout uses `max_rank_err`. These are not interchangeable. Empirical
+error magnitudes do not establish an explicit failure probability.
+
+Accuracy must apply to the final readout, including the selected data volume and
+merge topology. Single-instance measurements are insufficient evidence for an
+unvalidated merged result. Use applicable merged-result evidence or a supported
+compositional/theoretical contract; otherwise exclude that approximate candidate.
+
+Sharing requires compatible source, filters/update expression, population
+partitioning, retained labels, sketch configuration, window alignment and phase,
+and runtime policy. Reuse backend semantic/materialization identities. Equal
+capability and label names alone, as in the prototype's grouping, are insufficient.
+
+## Global physical selection
+
+For the initial supported independent-readout subset, let `z[i,d]` choose an
+eligible deployment for readout `i` and `u[d]` activate deployment `d`:
+
+```text
+sum_d z[i,d] = 1
+z[i,d] <= u[d]
+u[d] <= sum_i z[i,d]
+minimize sum_d u[d] * ingest_cpu[d]
+       + sum_i,d z[i,d] * read_and_merge_cpu[i,d]
+       + CPU of other selected required physical components
+```
+
+Steady-state terms use CPU-seconds per wall-second. Multiply by a common horizon
+only when adapting to horizon-based quotes. Ingestion is charged once per
+activated physical deployment; query work is charged at each consumer's cadence.
+Do not reuse ERP's already aggregated selection cost and charge the same work
+again. Exact/residual costs must use the same workload and units. Query-result
+reuse is out of scope; sharing sketch state does not waive readout work.
+
+For general Planner DAGs, assignment variables must also preserve alternative
+exclusivity and component dependencies. The prototype's one-deployment-per-RQE
+constraint is not sufficient for arbitrary mixed DAGs. Unsupported structures
+remain on an explicitly reported existing planning path, or are rejected under
+a strict policy; do not claim a global optimum over them.
+
+All hard constraints apply before a plan is called selected. A requested total
+deployment memory cap must include retained states, overlap, merge buffers, and
+the specified concurrency model. The prototype's maximum single-query working
+set is not this cap. CPU-derived query latency is labeled as a modeled bound,
+not measured end-to-end latency. If evidence cannot establish a requested bound,
+the candidate is unavailable under that bound.
+
+The initial objective does not optimize network/storage or deployment build
+cost. Account for their feasibility and any explicit limits using backend
+evidence, and report them separately. Missing required evidence is not a free
+component. Preserve workload manifest/pricing checks; adapting ERP costs must
+not bypass them or cause another selector to silently choose a different plan.
+
+Solver infeasibility produces a structured no-plan result. On a solver limit,
+an explicitly allowed feasible incumbent may be returned with its gap and
+non-optimal status; otherwise return no plan. Report candidate coverage and
+claim optimality only within the encoded feasible inventory. Final compilation
+failure is a planning failure, not permission to publish or silently substitute.
+
+## Window realization and deployment compilation
+
+The prototype models sketch window `x`, slide `y`, query lookback `S`, and
+interval `T`, with `x % y == 0`, `S % x == 0`, and `T % y == 0`.
+An overlapping deployment updates `x / y` states per arrival and merges `S / x`
+non-overlapping instances per query. Backend eligibility must additionally
+validate time units, phase, coverage, supported layout, and target capabilities.
+
+Do not copy `x` into `WindowRealizationCandidate.window_secs`: current backend
+validation requires that field to equal the query lookback. A shorter sketch
+window must be represented through a supported physical layout and its read
+composition. Initially admit only layouts that the current executor can realize;
+the prototype's overlap support does not prove runtime support.
+
+After selection, physical compilation preserves the chosen parameters, layout,
+sharing, and evidence identities. Validation may reject a mismatch, but must not
+rerun local ERP selection and overwrite the winner.
+
+Here, deployment plan means the existing publication/install artifacts:
+`SummaryCatalog`, `PrecomputePlan`, target-specific `CollectorPlan` entries,
+`TransmissionPlan`, and `QueryPlan`, with storage routing handled by the existing
+install contract. Backend-local deployments do not invent collector plans.
+Use `CompiledPhysicalPlan::to_publication_artifact()` and existing installation
+validation rather than introducing a parallel deployment schema.
+
+Planning returns artifacts; installation is an explicit subsequent action.
+Activation, materialization readiness, completeness, and exact routing retain
+their existing runtime contracts. Neither planning nor installation starts an
+automatic optimization feedback loop.
+
+## Fallback policy
+
+Fallback is decided during this invocation. In empirical mode an ERP miss may
+choose permitted exact execution. Hybrid mode may also admit supported
+theoretical configurations. Alternatives require valid cost evidence and must
+satisfy the query and deployment constraints. If no allowed alternative exists,
+return no plan with the failed requirements. No mode labels theoretical sizing
+as empirical evidence. Runtime exact routing already encoded in the chosen plan
+is execution behavior, not replanning.
+
+## Example and acceptance criteria
+
+Consider same-source, same-filter KLL queries over one hour and one day, each
+evaluated every minute at a common phase. Offline profiles offer several KLL
+configurations; offline data facts supply rates and population counts. Planner
+validates readout semantics, ERP filters applicable evidence, and backend offers
+supported shared and separate layouts. Global selection chooses the lowest-CPU
+feasible combination and compilation emits the corresponding maintenance and
+query plans. Without evidence for the merged readouts, that shared alternative
+is excluded. No live observation is needed and no later rate change triggers
+replanning.
+
+Implementation acceptance requires:
+
+- A fixed offline snapshot produces one physical plan, deployment artifacts,
+  and an auditable report without any runtime-samples/observer dependency.
+- On a small inventory, MILP cost agrees with exhaustive search, including a
+  case where global sharing wins over individually cheapest configurations.
+- Incompatible sources, filters, partitioning, or phases cannot share state.
+- Accuracy metric mismatch, unsupported merge evidence, explicit delta without
+  sufficient evidence, and ERP misses follow the declared fallback policy.
+- Requested bounds and missing component prices fail closed; unknown costs do
+  not win. Solver-limit and infeasible outcomes are reported distinctly.
+- Selected parameters and sharing survive compilation/publication unchanged.
+  An installed finite-input test checks results against an exact oracle and
+  verifies the selected maintenance/read paths, including window boundaries.
+- Deployment does not register a replan trigger; a subsequent runtime observation
+  does not alter the selected generation through this path.
+
+Land the implementation in stages: preserve ERP alternatives and provenance;
+adapt a restricted aligned recurring-query subset to executable realizations;
+integrate MILP and physical cost validation; then validate publication and
+execution end to end. An offline comparison harness can validate the selector
+during development, but the intended deliverable includes deployment artifacts.
+
+## Related contracts
+
+- [Planner integration architecture](asapplanner-integration.md)
+- [Summary Catalog and SDS architecture](summary-catalog-sds-architecture.md)
+- [Existing ERP deployment adapter](../../control_plane/docs/design-erp-deployment.md)
+- [Planning terminology and architecture](../developer_docs/control-plane/planning-terminology.md)
+- [Shape-aware ERP](shape-aware-erp-v1.md), an existing live-observation path that
+  this offline proposal does not require