NTE: Engine Hardening & LadybugDB Evaluation

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The Insight

The engine must be correct and observable — mutations never silently corrupt state, errors always surface meaningful information, and operations are traceable through logging.

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What This Is

NTE (Network Topology Engine) is a Rust-based graph topology engine with Python bindings via PyO3, used as the backend for ank_pydantic. It provides a 14-crate Cargo workspace built on petgraph StableDiGraph with pluggable datastores (Polars, DuckDB, Lite). This project covers two milestones: first hardening the existing engine for production reliability, then evaluating LadybugDB as a potential backend replacement.