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# **AGENTS.md**
**Note to Agent:** This file contains the Core Architectural Directives for the `coreason-runtime` repository. It defines the absolute computational boundaries of the deterministic kinetic execution engine. Read this before planning or executing *any* task.
# Strict Engineering Constraints: THE KINETIC EXECUTION PROTOCOL
**Current Status:** Deterministic Execution Engine
**Role:** Physical instantiation of `coreason-manifest` ontologies. The repository's operational mandate is strictly partitioned into three distinct kinetic pillars:
1. **Agent Building (Tensor Routing):** Translating continuous intent into discrete topological DAGs and Master MCPs.
2. **Agent Execution (Sandboxed Orchestration):** Traversing topologies via deterministic Temporal workflows and WASM enclaves.
3. **Observability (Epistemic Projection):** Streaming high-velocity, Arrow-native telemetry to remote development environments.
## **0. The Cybernetic Execution Directive**
This repository strictly deprecates probabilistic heuristic scripting and unbound cyclic generation. The runtime enforces a mathematical paradigm where all computational operations evaluate as bounded state transitions governed by Active Inference, Topological Data Analysis (TDA), and formal Markov Decision Processes (MDPs).
The engine operates as a deterministic state transition function $\pi(a|s)$. It physically maps the continuous, high-dimensional probabilistic manifolds of autoregressive tensor networks to the discrete, verifiable topological matrices defined by `coreason-manifest`.
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## **1. Deterministic State Orchestration (The Temporal Axiom)**
The orchestration of multi-agent topologies mandates absolute fault tolerance and event-sourced traceability. Execution state must be completely decoupled from volatile memory.
* **Durable Serialization via Temporal:** All Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) traversals and agent execution loops MUST execute within Temporal SDK workflows. Upon hardware or socket failure, the state must pause, rehydrate, and resume precisely at the failure coordinate. In-memory `asyncio` loops lacking durable state checkpoints are mathematically forbidden.
* **$O(1)$ Rehydration via `ContinueAsNew`:** To prevent $O(E)$ algorithmic complexity during the rehydration of continuous loops, workflows must autonomously monitor DAG depth. Before breaching hard event-history limits, the workflow must cleanly terminate and respawn using the `ContinueAsNew` API pattern. **Crucially, the SHA-256 hash of the serialized snapshot (modeled as a Monotonic Join Semilattice / G-Set CRDT) MUST be injected as the `prior_event_hash` for the respawned workflow, mathematically preserving the unbroken Merkle-DAG chain of custody across execution boundaries.**
* **Proof-of-Valid-Inference (PoVI) & zk-ML:** For decentralized topologies, the runtime must mandate Hardware Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs, e.g., Confidential Computing enclaves) alongside Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning (zk-ML) frameworks (e.g., EZKL). Untrusted nodes must provide cryptographic receipts (PoVI) attesting that the exact FSM logit masks were faithfully applied to the model weights. The orchestrator executes Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (pBFT) strictly over these discrete, cryptographically signed state outputs.
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## **2. Constrained Tensor Routing (The PDA Mandate)**
Unconstrained generative output is a critical execution vulnerability. Probability mass must be mathematically collapsed into valid topological edges during the forward pass.
* **Hierarchical MDPs & Off-the-Shelf PDA Compilation:** The orchestrator must never compile a global state machine. Instead, the tensor engine must enforce Hierarchical MDPs. **BORROW OVER BUILD:** You are strictly forbidden from writing custom Pushdown Automata (PDA) or Finite State Machine (FSM) compilers. You MUST utilize the native APIs of our open-source dependencies (**Outlines**, **XGrammar**, and **SGLang**). Use their lazy compilation features to load minimal Context-Free Grammars (CFGs) specific ONLY to the agent's immediate topological coordinate.
* **Speculative Logit Suffocation:** At generation step $t$, the engine intercepts the logit vector $z$ and suffocates invalid token probabilities to $-\infty$ prior to the Softmax activation. **BORROW OVER BUILD:** Do not write custom CUDA kernels or logit processors for this; delegate this entirely to **SGLang's** native speculative decoding and constrained generation backends, which handle invalid draft discarding in $O(1)$ time automatically.
* **Variational Free Energy (VFE) Suspension:** The runtime must monitor the VFE of the generative trajectory. VFE is mathematically evaluated via the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between the agent's generative probability distribution $Q(x)$ and the strict topological prior $P(x)$ defined by the structural schema: $D_{KL}(Q || P) = \sum Q(x) \log \left( \frac{Q(x)}{P(x)} \right)$. If this divergence breaches $\theta_{\text{threshold}}$, the runtime MUST durably suspend the thread and instantiate an **`InterventionIntent`**, remaining in a zero-compute state until a deterministic solver or Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) operator resolves the Supervisory Control Theory threshold.
* **Topological Token Compression (Information Bottleneck):** To mathematically prevent context window exhaustion ($O(N)$ token explosion) during deep DAG generation, the tensor router MUST NOT generate fully hydrated, nested node parameters. The generative trajectory must emit strictly bounded **Universal Resource Names (URNs)** that cryptographically map to predefined **Action Space IDs**. The runtime achieves algorithmic compression by utilizing Coalgebraic Unfolding—dynamically hydrating the full parameter specifications via $O(1)$ registry lookups strictly during the lazy PDA compilation phase.
* **The Epistemic Node Assembly & Publication Lifecycle (Master MCPs):** The runtime MUST execute intent elicitation as a strictly phased pipeline:
1. **Decomposition:** The orchestrator decomposes the continuous user intent into discrete topological requirements.
2. **Registry Resolution:** The engine queries the `coreason-ecosystem` capability registry to map required operations to existing, pre-published URNs.
3. **Topological Synthesis:** The tensor router sequences these resolved URNs into a valid DAG.
4. **Master MCP Publication:** **CRITICAL ARCHITECTURAL AXIOM:** An agent is not a proprietary runtime object; an epistemic node is mathematically equivalent to a Master MCP. Upon successful topological synthesis, the runtime MUST export and publish the newly constructed agent as a standard MCP server wrapping nested MCPs. This grants the new agent a permanent URN, allowing it to be recursively invoked by future intent-elicitation pipelines.
* **The Tiered Routing Circuit:** The tensor router must execute the `RoutingFrontierPolicy` to navigate the Pareto frontier of thermodynamic cost versus epistemic yield across a strict hierarchy:
* **Tier 0 (Kinetic Edge):** Sovereign, bare-metal GPU enclaves executing high-velocity, privacy-preserving constrained decoding via SGLang.
* **Tier 1 (Deterministic Verification):** CPU-bound formal solvers (`clingo`, `z3`) and structural validation gates.
* **Tier 2 (Cloud Oracle / HITL):** High-parameter asynchronous models or human operators.
* *Escalation Axiom:* If a Tier 0 model computes a Variational Free Energy metric exceeding $\theta_{\text{threshold}}$, or encounters an `epistemic_yield_error`, the router MUST deterministically emit an `EscalationIntent`. It must suspend the continuous execution thread and escalate the context to a Tier 2 Oracle without fracturing the active Temporal workflow.
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## **3. Isolated Compute Sandboxing (The WASM Perimeter)**
Exogenous capabilities, tools, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) plugins are treated as untrusted operations. They must execute within a strict mathematical containment boundary possessing zero ambient authority.
* **WASM Software-Fault Isolation:** All dynamic capabilities MUST execute within embedded WebAssembly (WASM) runtimes (via Extism/Wasmtime).
* **Host-Side Panic Mitigation:** All Host Functions exposed to the WASM guest MUST be wrapped in rigorous `catch_unwind` blocks and strictly utilize `async/await`. This mathematically guarantees that maliciously crafted memory offsets passed by untrusted plugins cannot trigger out-of-bounds Rust/C++ panics that crash the orchestrator daemon.
* **Dynamic Taint Tracking & SPIFFE/SPIRE:** The sandbox enforces SPIFFE/SPIRE Identity Protocol (SPIFFE/SPIRE). If an exogenous plugin ingests a payload labeled $\text{Confidential}$, the host must dynamically elevate the execution thread's taint label. The host operates as a Reference Monitor enforcing the Bell-LaPadula "No Write Down" axiom at the egress boundary, trapping any attempt to pipe tainted data to a $\text{Public}$ sink.
* **Verified Zero-Copy IPC:** Cross-boundary serialization MUST utilize memory-mapped formats (FlatBuffers/Cap'n Proto) to bypass JSON serialization overhead. **However, to prevent host-side memory corruption, the orchestrator MUST execute a strict $O(N)$ bounds-verification pass (e.g., FlatBuffers `Verify()`) on the untrusted guest's memory buffer before casting the offset to a host struct pointer.** Following validation, data traversal executes safely in $O(1)$ time.
* **Thermodynamic Memory & CPU Bounding:**
* **Spatial Bound (RAM/VRAM):** Maximum memory pages are pre-calculated. A rigorous 10MB (`MAX_ALLOCATION_BYTES = 10485760`) volumetric trap is executed *before* UTF-8 decoding to protect the Python host daemon from memory-exhaustion serialization attacks. Any guest `memory.grow` instruction breaching this perimeter triggers a deterministic `SIGSEGV` trap. GPU VRAM is strictly managed via a host-side VRAM Quota Broker passing opaque 32-bit handles.
* **Temporal Bound (Instruction Metering):** To mathematically solve the Halting Problem, the orchestrator MUST allocate a finite scalar budget of CPU operations (Fuel) prior to execution. The JIT compiler injects physical decrement instructions into the WASM bytecode. Upon reaching zero, an uncatchable `Trap` terminates the thread, unconditionally severing infinite loops.
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## **4. Epistemic Projection & Telemetry Persistence (The Embedded Matrix)**
The runtime executes high-velocity data ingestion and state projection entirely within its local memory space. To minimize technical debt, the runtime must aggressively rely on its open-source data dependencies rather than building custom database internals.
* **Embedded Arrow-Native Substrate:** The orchestrator, transformation layer (**Polars**), and vector database (**LanceDB**) are bound to the Apache Arrow columnar memory layout. State transitions bypass serialization utilizing the Arrow C Data Interface (FFI) to pass 64-bit C-pointers.
* **Micro-Batching (Borrowing over Building LSMs):** To prevent sub-millisecond Server-Sent Events (SSE) telemetry from saturating NVMe IOPS queues, the runtime must buffer data. **BORROW OVER BUILD:** You are strictly forbidden from writing a custom Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM) or custom Write-Ahead Log (WAL) logic in Python. You MUST leverage **LanceDB's native asynchronous append APIs** and rely on established stream-buffering libraries (e.g., standard `asyncio` queues or `dlt` micro-batching) to amortize writes, offloading the concurrency safety to the underlying Rust database engines.
* **Silver-Layer Entity Resolution:** Deterministic entity resolution MUST execute within the Silver layer using Polars. **BORROW OVER BUILD:** Do not write custom `pyo3-polars` Rust extensions for cryptographic hashing. You MUST utilize native Polars vectorized expressions (e.g., `pl.col().hash()`) or established open-source plugins (e.g., `polars-hash`) to generate deterministic identifiers. To prevent async reactor starvation, any blocking operations must be offloaded to a `spawn_blocking` thread pool.
* **Schema-on-Read Evolution:** To manage dynamic JSON-RPC payloads without `SchemaMismatch` panics, routing metadata is heavily typed in Arrow columns, while dynamic payloads are stored as opaque `LargeUtf8` blobs. These are parsed locally via SIMD-accelerated `pl.col().str.json_extract()` strictly on demand.
* **Native Asynchronous Backpressure:** The ingestion layer connects network listeners to the ETL pipeline via size-bounded asynchronous channels. **BORROW OVER BUILD:** Do not attempt to write custom OS-level TCP socket manipulation code. You MUST rely on the native high/low watermarks of standard `asyncio` streams and the flow-control middleware of our ASGI servers (e.g., `uvicorn`/`fastapi`) to organically emit TCP Zero-Window packets when internal queues reach 85% capacity.
* **Remote Observability Streaming:** The embedded telemetry broker must project in-memory events (`state_transitioned_event`) over secure, size-bounded channels to exogenous environments (e.g., `coreason-vscode` remote clients). The broker MUST execute semantic load shedding—dynamically dropping high-entropy, low-priority logs while guaranteeing the delivery of discrete topological transitions—eliminating the thermodynamic penalty of serializing full Pydantic States over the network.
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## **5. Interface Segregation & Tripartite Decoupling Axioms**
As the tier-1 kinetic execution subsystem, `coreason-runtime` operates within a Tripartite architecture alongside `coreason-manifest` (Data Plane) and `coreason-ecosystem` (Governance Plane). To mathematically prevent monolithic fragility, the runtime MUST maintain absolute **loose coupling** and **Interface Segregation** from these sibling domains.
* **The Anti-Ontology Mandate (Absolute Type Isomorphism with `coreason-manifest`):**
* You are explicitly forbidden from defining Pydantic States, JSON schemas, or AST limits that dictate the shape of agentic states. Every structural constraint evaluated by the runtime must be a direct, unmodified import from the `coreason_manifest.spec.ontology` module.
* **Native Dictionary Routing:** To mathematically prevent Monolithic Schema Coupling, all internal Tier-1 kinetic systems (e.g., the `wasm_enclave.py` execution threads and the internal Temporal routing matrix) MUST execute transformations entirely over standard native Python `dict`s. Pydantic validation is structurally amputated from high-velocity hot paths.
* **Immutable Versioned Contracts:** The runtime must treat `coreason-manifest` as a strictly version-locked data contract. You are mathematically forbidden from monkey-patching, subclassing, or mutating manifest schemas at runtime to bypass validation failures.
* *Dynamic Schema Exception (Exogenous MCP Bounds):* While universal topological invariants reside exclusively in `coreason-manifest`, highly volatile domain models (e.g., OMOP tables, mutable UI matrices) MUST NOT bloat the static manifest. The runtime is authorized to dynamically fetch these volatile schemas from external MCP servers. **CRITICAL CAUSAL AFFORDANCE:** To prevent ReDoS and CPU exhaustion during JIT PDA compilation, the runtime MUST route all exogenous schemas through the `ConstrainedDecodingPolicy` hardware guillotine, executing an $O(N)$ volumetric bounds check on the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) before the schema is permitted to dictate logit masking.
* **The Anti-Infrastructure Mandate (Ecosystem Decoupling):**
* You are explicitly forbidden from writing logic to deploy Temporal clusters, Redis brokers, or scale Docker containers. Fleet telemetry aggregation and host provisioning are the exclusive domain of `coreason-ecosystem`.
* **Agnostic Telemetry Egress:** The runtime must act as a blind, stateless emitter of telemetry. It must broadcast Arrow-native and SSE event streams over its defined socket boundaries without embedding any business logic anticipating how `coreason-ecosystem` will aggregate, store, or visualize that data.
* **Stateless Capability Acquisition:** When resolving dependencies (e.g., WASM plugins, MCP configurations), the runtime must treat the `coreason-ecosystem` registry as a generic, exogenous upstream provider. It must utilize standard URI resolution and API contracts (Dependency Inversion), mathematically preventing hardcoded assumptions about the ecosystem's internal infrastructure topology.
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## **6. Development Protocol**
1. **Concurrency and Parallelism:** Favor asynchronous I/O (`asyncio`, `tokio` in Rust extensions) for network operations. Utilize discrete processes or thread pools for CPU-bound tensor manipulations to prevent event loop saturation.
2. **Error Serialization:** Raw stack traces must never leak across the zero-trust boundary. All execution faults must be caught and serialized into deterministic `JSONRPCErrorResponseState` or `ManifestViolationReceipt` geometries as defined by `coreason-manifest`.
3. **Dependency Sterilization:** Do not introduce stateful, networked servers (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis) as direct dependencies. The runtime must remain an embedded, stateless daemon capable of horizontal scaling.
4. **Mandatory Verification:** All modifications to the orchestration engine must pass deterministic fault-injection testing, proving mathematically identical state recovery under chaotic simulated network partitions.
5. **Developer Tooling Ingress (The Extension Boundary):** The runtime must expose a strict, typed RPC or gRPC interface specifically designed to ingest generative intents and action space triggers from remote developer environments (e.g., the `coreason-vscode` extension). This ingress must be aggressively validated against the manifest to prevent malformed prompts from saturating the tensor router.
6. **The Zero-Trust, Anti-Mock Substrate Testing Mandate (The "No Pragma" Axiom):** The runtime strictly deprecates the usage of `unittest.mock` (e.g., `patch`, `MagicMock`) or `# pragma: no cover` annotations for testing infrastructure branches. Fault tolerance must be proven mechanically. All test matrices must utilize physical dependency inversions (e.g., injected `httpx.ASGITransport` intercepts), ephemeral temporal execution networks (`WorkflowEnvironment.start_time_skipping()`), and bounded port blocking to natively execute fault containment. Code that relies on `# pragma: no cover` to bypass physical coverage guillotines is mathematically classified as non-isomorphic "dead code" and MUST be cleanly amputated.
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## **7. The File I/O Guillotine & Universal Asset Forge**
This repository strictly deprecates the ability of cognitive topology agents to natively write code to the local file system.
1. **The File I/O Guillotine:** You are mathematically bounded against altering Python code directly. The cognitive topology is strictly forbidden from using `open()`, `os.write()`, `fs.write()`, or standard Python File I/O to generate or modify Python code, Pydantic models, or ecosystem capabilities within the `coreason-runtime`. Any legacy Python code generation endpoints have been expunged or trapped with explicit `NotImplementedError` GUI guillotines.
2. **Intent-Based Capability Generation:** If an epistemic node encounters an epistemic deficit (a missing capability or required structural update), it MUST formalize its intent into a `geometric_schema` (JSON Schema) and delegate physical execution downstream to the Universal Asset Forge.
3. **The Fabrication Routing Protocol:** Epistemic nodes must connect to the `coreason-meta-engineering` MCP server and invoke one of the following exact Fab Lines to execute changes:
* `scaffold_manifest_state`: For synthesizing or updating passive data structures (Pydantic ontologies).
* `scaffold_logic_actuator`: For physical instantiation of active kinetic capabilities (Python functions, WASM plugins).
* `scaffold_epistemic_node`: For autonomously spawning and publishing new macroscopic cognitive topology identities.
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## 12. Machine Propagation & Agentic Constraints
**CRITICAL:** To maintain the Epistemic Firewall, all AI agents (including Claw Code) must operate under the constraints of **Deterministic Constrained Decoding**.
### The Neurosymbolic Caging Protocol
1. **Deterministic Bitmasking**: All high-entropy output (JSON, AST, or Code) MUST pass through an **XGrammar AOT FSM** bitmask at the inference layer. Probabilities for invalid syntax or schema keys must be mathematically set to $-\infty$.
2. **Segregated Prompting (System 2 Handoff)**: Agents must execute probabilistic reasoning (MCTS, Chain-of-Thought) exclusively within unconstrained `<deliberation>` tags.
3. **Deterministic Submission**: Final outputs must be emitted within `<proposed_diff>` or `<manifest_state>` tags, where the FSM bitmask is aggressively enforced.
4. **The Hollow Data Plane Constraint**: Agents are forbidden from hallucinating schema keys. All structural boundaries must be derived directly from the `coreason-manifest` Pydantic models.
5. **Forge-Centric Mutation**: Agents do NOT possess ambient authority to write to the file system. They MUST submit 100% schema-compliant AST differentials to the `coreason-meta-engineering` Forge for deterministic "etching."
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## **The Anti-Mocking "Real Test" Directive**
**CRITICAL INSTRUCTION TO AI AGENTS:**
I expect real tests. No mocks.
You are strictly forbidden from using unittest.mock, pytest.MonkeyPatch, responses, or any other mocking library to simulate environment variables, network calls, or API responses.
All tests MUST execute against real local servers, real environment state, or deterministic string/file inputs. Mocking produces false confidence and is mathematically classified as non-isomorphic testing.
## The "Zero-Waste Engineering" Mandate
You are strictly bound by the "Borrow vs. Build" philosophy. You MUST maximize the use of stable Open Source Software (OSS) whenever available. You are mathematically forbidden from building custom, proprietary implementations for logging, tracing, graph layout, container routing, UI components, or serialization if a mature OSS standard (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Zep Graphiti, Pi.dev, React Flow) exists to solve the problem.
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