memstead_schema/types.rs
1//! Schema-as-artifact type format.
2//!
3//! Serde-based, YAML-authorable type definitions.
4
5use indexmap::IndexMap;
6use schemars::JsonSchema;
7use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
8
9/// Complete type definition — serde/schemars-based, authored in YAML.
10/// `skip_serializing_if` helper for default-false flags.
11fn is_false(b: &bool) -> bool {
12 !*b
13}
14
15#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
16#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
17pub struct TypeDefinition {
18 pub name: String,
19 pub description: String,
20 pub when_to_use: String,
21 #[serde(default)]
22 pub boundaries: Vec<String>,
23 /// One canonical, ENGINE-VALIDATED exemplar entity for this type
24 /// (agent-trust plan 09) — the few-shot material an authoring
25 /// agent actually learns from. Validated against this very type
26 /// through the real create path (`dry_run`) at schema
27 /// install/seal time: a package whose exemplar does not conform
28 /// refuses with a typed error naming the type and the defect —
29 /// there is no warn-and-carry mode, so an exemplar can never
30 /// drift into teaching the wrong shape. Served at
31 /// `verbosity: full` only (the lite skeleton stays unchanged).
32 /// Optional per type; the built-in reference schemas are complete.
33 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
34 pub exemplar: Option<Exemplar>,
35 /// Legacy-key sentinel for the retired `examples:` list — a field
36 /// that promised few-shot teaching but was never validated nor
37 /// served by any surface (dead vocabulary). Authoring contexts
38 /// refuse it with a typed error naming `exemplar`; sealed
39 /// contexts tolerate and drop it. Never serialized.
40 #[serde(default, rename = "examples", skip_serializing)]
41 #[schemars(skip)]
42 pub legacy_examples: Option<serde_yaml_ng::Value>,
43 #[serde(default)]
44 pub system_message: Option<String>,
45 pub sections: Vec<SectionDef>,
46 pub metadata_fields: Vec<MetadataFieldDef>,
47 pub title_weight: f32,
48 pub text_fields: Vec<String>,
49 pub hierarchy_relationship: String,
50 #[serde(default)]
51 pub edge_weight_overrides: IndexMap<String, f32>,
52 /// Rel-types on which `memstead_relate` refuses a SELF-LOOP
53 /// (from == to) when this type is the source. That refusal is this
54 /// field's ONLY effect — it propagates nothing, implies no
55 /// evidence obligation (real impact propagation is the
56 /// `status_propagation` constraint). Renamed from the misleading
57 /// `propagating_relationships` (agent-trust plan 06): the old key
58 /// refuses at authoring/install load with a typed error naming
59 /// this one; sealed content (built-ins, installed refs) loads
60 /// with the old key translated.
61 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
62 pub no_self_loop_relationships: Vec<String>,
63 /// Legacy-key sentinel: captures a `propagating_relationships:`
64 /// value during deserialization so the loader can refuse (strict
65 /// authoring contexts) or translate (sealed contexts). Never
66 /// serialized; never part of the payload surface.
67 #[serde(default, rename = "propagating_relationships", skip_serializing)]
68 #[schemars(skip)]
69 pub legacy_propagating_relationships: Option<Vec<String>>,
70 /// Terminal-by-construction marker: entities of this type are
71 /// leaves — they carry no edges BY DESIGN, so health's orphan
72 /// axis exempts their edge-less entities and reports them as a
73 /// separate leaf population instead (visible, never vanished).
74 /// Leaf means "no edges required", not "edges forbidden": a
75 /// leaf-typed entity WITH edges stays legal, and every other
76 /// health axis, search, and traversal treats leaf entities
77 /// exactly like any other. Declarative per-type flag (the sixth
78 /// declarative form the agent-toolbox constraint vocabulary
79 /// anticipated), served at both schema verbosity levels.
80 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "is_false")]
81 pub leaf: bool,
82 pub updatable_fields: Vec<String>,
83 pub health_required_fields: Vec<String>,
84 pub staleness_threshold_days: u32,
85 pub write_rules: Vec<String>,
86 /// Outgoing-edge invariants the schema asserts for this type.
87 /// Each entry names a list of relationship names plus a cardinality
88 /// constraint. The engine evaluates these on every `memstead_create` /
89 /// `memstead_update` (post-application of inline `relations:` / patches)
90 /// and surfaces unsatisfied blocks as a single
91 /// `MISSING_REQUIRED_OUTGOING` warning per entity. Tier-2 (warn,
92 /// never block). Empty default — types without `required_outgoing`
93 /// keep current behaviour.
94 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
95 pub required_outgoing: Vec<RequiredOutgoing>,
96 /// Declared reachability obligations (see [`MustReach`]): entities
97 /// of this type must reach at least one entity of a named terminal
98 /// type, following edges of a named relation set in a named
99 /// direction, within an optional maximum depth. Health-path only,
100 /// always warn-tier (the loader refuses `block`: a transitive
101 /// property is established by writes on OTHER entities, so a
102 /// write-time refusal would punish the wrong mutation). Empty
103 /// default keeps current behaviour.
104 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
105 pub must_reach: Vec<MustReach>,
106 /// Declared aggregate signals (see [`SignalDef`]): exact,
107 /// parameter-free counts with declared thresholds, computed at
108 /// read time and served with their evidence — never scored,
109 /// never blocking, never stored. Empty default keeps every
110 /// response byte-identical.
111 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
112 pub signals: Vec<SignalDef>,
113 /// Declared keep-health constraints (the constraint vocabulary —
114 /// see [`ConstraintDef`]). Empty default: a schema declaring no
115 /// constraints behaves byte-identically to before the vocabulary
116 /// existed.
117 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
118 pub constraints: Vec<ConstraintDef>,
119 /// The type's declared due axis (see [`DueAxis`]) — absent for
120 /// types without deadline semantics; a schema without any `due:`
121 /// declaration behaves byte-identically to before the axis
122 /// existed.
123 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
124 pub due: Option<DueAxis>,
125 // Populated by loader from schema-level defaults merged with
126 // edge_weight_overrides. Skipped during serialization so the on-disk
127 // form round-trips.
128 #[serde(skip)]
129 pub edge_weights: IndexMap<String, f32>,
130 /// Raw author-declared metadata-field keys, recorded by the loader
131 /// BEFORE the base-metadata merge injects the engine fields
132 /// (`type`, `created_date`, `last_modified`, `tags`). The
133 /// install-path reserved-key check
134 /// ([`crate::loader::check_reserved_metadata_keys`]) reads this
135 /// list so it can refuse an author-declared reserved key without
136 /// false-positives on the injected ones. Skipped during
137 /// serialization so the on-disk form round-trips.
138 #[serde(skip)]
139 pub declared_metadata_keys: Vec<String>,
140}
141
142/// One outgoing-edge requirement block on a type definition. Lists one
143/// or more relationship names and a cardinality constraint they must
144/// jointly satisfy. The schema author groups multiple alternative
145/// relationships into a single block when "any of these" satisfies the
146/// rule (e.g. `[CHOSEN, REJECTED]` together with `at_least_one` would
147/// require at least one outgoing edge across both names — but the
148/// planning schema lists each as its own block instead, so each block
149/// gets its own warning entry).
150#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
151#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
152pub struct RequiredOutgoing {
153 /// Edge names the rule applies to. Loader validates each against
154 /// the schema's declared relationship vocabulary; unknown names
155 /// raise `SchemaLoadError::UndeclaredRelationship`.
156 pub relationships: Vec<String>,
157 pub cardinality: RequiredCardinality,
158 /// Constraint severity (form 4 of the constraint vocabulary):
159 /// `warn` (the historical default — health finding +
160 /// `MISSING_REQUIRED_OUTGOING` write-time warning) or `block`
161 /// (write-time refusal when a create/update would land, or a
162 /// relate-remove would leave, the entity below cardinality).
163 #[serde(default)]
164 pub severity: ConstraintSeverity,
165 /// Optional condition: the block applies only when this metadata
166 /// field of the entity holds `when_value`. The same two keys
167 /// `requires_when` uses — one vocabulary for one idea. The loader
168 /// requires the pair to appear together, `when_field` to name a
169 /// declared metadata field of this type carrying `enum_values`,
170 /// and `when_value` to be a member. Absent pair = unconditional
171 /// block = long-standing behaviour.
172 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
173 pub when_field: Option<String>,
174 /// The triggering value (see `when_field`).
175 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
176 pub when_value: Option<String>,
177}
178
179/// One reachability obligation on a type definition. The obligated
180/// entity must reach at least one non-stub entity whose type is in
181/// `terminal_types`, walking edges whose rel-type is in
182/// `relationships` (an inline relation set), in `direction`, within
183/// `max_depth` hops when bounded. Evaluated on the health sweep only
184/// (`constraints` axis), never on the write path — no single write
185/// completes a transitive absence. The incoming direction with
186/// `max_depth: 1` covers the required-incoming-edge case.
187#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
188#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
189pub struct MustReach {
190 /// Edge names the walk follows — any name in the set continues the
191 /// path. Loader validates each against the schema's relationship
192 /// vocabulary.
193 pub relationships: Vec<String>,
194 /// `out` follows edges pointing away from the walked entity, `in`
195 /// follows edges pointing at it — the same vocabulary the store
196 /// and `memstead_search` speak.
197 pub direction: ReachDirection,
198 /// Type names that satisfy the obligation when reached. Loader
199 /// validates each against the schema's declared types.
200 pub terminal_types: Vec<String>,
201 /// Maximum number of hops a conforming path may take. Absent =
202 /// unbounded. Zero refuses at load (nothing is reachable in zero
203 /// hops).
204 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
205 pub max_depth: Option<u32>,
206 /// Always `warn` — the loader refuses `block` on this form.
207 #[serde(default)]
208 pub severity: ConstraintSeverity,
209}
210
211/// One declared aggregate signal on a type definition. This wave
212/// ships one kind, `edge_load`: count the edges of a named rel-type
213/// set, in a named direction, on entities of this type, optionally
214/// restricted to edges whose counterpart entity holds a named enum
215/// value. Thresholds map counts to levels; below the first threshold
216/// the served level is `none`. Values are computed at read time in
217/// O(degree), never stored, never part of `_hash`; a signal may not
218/// reference another signal, and nothing multiplies, averages, or
219/// decays — a count and a threshold are the whole vocabulary.
220#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
221#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
222pub struct SignalDef {
223 /// Unique per type, `[a-z][a-z0-9_]*` — the stable name prose
224 /// and consumers bind guidance to.
225 pub name: String,
226 /// Closed kind enum — one member in this wave.
227 pub kind: SignalKind,
228 /// Edge names the count covers (inline relation set; loader
229 /// validates each against the vocabulary).
230 pub relationships: Vec<String>,
231 /// `in` counts edges pointing at the entity, `out` edges pointing
232 /// away — the same vocabulary the store and search speak.
233 pub direction: ReachDirection,
234 /// Optional counterpart filter, whole or not at all: count only
235 /// edges whose counterpart entity holds `neighbour_value` in
236 /// `neighbour_field`. A counterpart lacking the field or holding
237 /// another value simply does not count.
238 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
239 pub neighbour_field: Option<String>,
240 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
241 pub neighbour_value: Option<String>,
242 /// Non-empty, strictly increasing `at_least` values.
243 pub thresholds: Vec<SignalThreshold>,
244}
245
246impl SignalDef {
247 /// The served level for a count: the highest threshold whose
248 /// `at_least` the count meets, `None` below the first (wire level
249 /// `none`).
250 pub fn level_for(&self, count: u64) -> Option<SignalLevel> {
251 self.thresholds
252 .iter()
253 .rev()
254 .find(|t| count >= t.at_least)
255 .map(|t| t.level)
256 }
257}
258
259/// Closed signal-kind vocabulary. Adding a member is a
260/// format-generation event.
261#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
262#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
263pub enum SignalKind {
264 EdgeLoad,
265}
266
267/// One threshold step of a signal declaration.
268#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
269#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
270pub struct SignalThreshold {
271 pub at_least: u64,
272 pub level: SignalLevel,
273}
274
275/// Signal levels — deliberately NOT [`ConstraintSeverity`]: a signal
276/// level is the output of a threshold, not the severity of a
277/// violation. `warn` participates in `health --strict` like a
278/// warn-tier constraint finding; `notice` never does — that is the
279/// whole difference between the two.
280#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
281#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
282pub enum SignalLevel {
283 Notice,
284 Warn,
285}
286
287impl std::fmt::Display for SignalLevel {
288 fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
289 f.write_str(match self {
290 SignalLevel::Notice => "notice",
291 SignalLevel::Warn => "warn",
292 })
293 }
294}
295
296/// Walk direction for [`MustReach`] — wire literals `out` / `in`,
297/// matching the store's relationship rendering and `memstead_search`'s
298/// `direction` parameter.
299#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
300#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
301pub enum ReachDirection {
302 Out,
303 In,
304}
305
306impl std::fmt::Display for ReachDirection {
307 fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
308 f.write_str(match self {
309 ReachDirection::Out => "out",
310 ReachDirection::In => "in",
311 })
312 }
313}
314
315/// Uniform severity for the constraint vocabulary — one model across
316/// every constraint form, never five ad-hoc ones. `warn` produces a
317/// health finding only; `block` additionally refuses at write time
318/// (and still surfaces pre-existing violations in health). Severity
319/// applies to every write surface uniformly — operator-mode bypasses
320/// allowlists, never validation.
321#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Default, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
322#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
323pub enum ConstraintSeverity {
324 /// Health finding only (and, where a write-time warning exists,
325 /// that warning). The default for every form except uniqueness.
326 #[default]
327 Warn,
328 /// Write-time refusal plus health finding for pre-existing
329 /// violations.
330 Block,
331}
332
333impl ConstraintSeverity {
334 /// Serde default for forms whose default tier is `block`
335 /// (uniqueness — plenum 4's 37 duplicates are the evidence).
336 pub fn block() -> Self {
337 Self::Block
338 }
339}
340
341/// One declared keep-health constraint on a type — the constraint
342/// vocabulary (agent-toolbox plan 07). Declarations travel sealed with
343/// the schema package and are rendered on the `memstead_schema`
344/// response at BOTH verbosity levels (a hidden legality condition is a
345/// defect class of its own). The `kind` tag is closed: an unknown kind
346/// fails deserialization, so no declaration can load and be silently
347/// ignored. Forms land vertically — a form is only declarable once the
348/// engine evaluates it.
349#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
350#[serde(tag = "kind", rename_all = "snake_case", deny_unknown_fields)]
351pub enum ConstraintDef {
352 /// Form 1 — conditional requirement: `field` (a metadata field or
353 /// section key of this type) is required whenever `when_field`
354 /// holds `when_value` ("`status: checked` requires `checked_by`").
355 RequiresWhen {
356 /// The field or section that becomes required.
357 field: String,
358 /// The metadata field whose value triggers the requirement.
359 when_field: String,
360 /// The triggering value (validated against `when_field`'s
361 /// enum, when it declares one).
362 when_value: String,
363 #[serde(default)]
364 severity: ConstraintSeverity,
365 },
366 /// Form 2 — uniqueness: the tuple of metadata-field values named
367 /// in `fields` is unique among entities of this type within one
368 /// mem. Entities missing any of the fields carry no tuple and are
369 /// not compared. Defaults to `block` — the whole point of the
370 /// declaration is preventing the duplicate at write time.
371 Unique {
372 /// The metadata fields forming the unique tuple (each must be
373 /// a declared metadata field of this type).
374 fields: Vec<String>,
375 #[serde(default = "ConstraintSeverity::block")]
376 severity: ConstraintSeverity,
377 },
378 /// Form 3 — enum-from-neighbour: the legal values of `field` are
379 /// the bullet-list entries (`- value` lines) of the `section`
380 /// section on the entity reached from this one via a `rel_type`
381 /// edge. A set value with no backing entry in any reached
382 /// neighbour's section — including the no-neighbour and
383 /// missing-section cases, where nothing can back it — is a
384 /// violation.
385 EnumFromNeighbour {
386 /// The metadata field whose values the neighbour enumerates.
387 field: String,
388 /// The outgoing rel-type that reaches the enumerating entity.
389 rel_type: String,
390 /// The section key on the reached entity whose bullet entries
391 /// are the legal values.
392 section: String,
393 #[serde(default)]
394 severity: ConstraintSeverity,
395 },
396 /// Form 5 — status propagation: when `field` on an entity of this
397 /// type holds `value` (the terminal value), every entity reaching
398 /// it — transitively — via `rel_type` edges in `direction` is
399 /// tainted; tainted entities surface as health findings naming
400 /// their tainting ancestor. Always warn-tier: the taint arises
401 /// from the ancestor's *later* change, so it can never refuse the
402 /// descendant's historical write (the loader refuses a `block`
403 /// declaration on this form rather than accepting a promise the
404 /// engine will not keep).
405 StatusPropagation {
406 /// The status metadata field on this (the tainting) type.
407 field: String,
408 /// The terminal value that starts the taint (validated
409 /// against `field`'s enum, when it declares one).
410 value: String,
411 /// The single rel-type the taint travels along. Exactly one
412 /// of `rel_type` / `rel_types` per declaration — the loader
413 /// refuses both-present and neither-present.
414 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
415 rel_type: Option<String>,
416 /// The relation SET the taint travels along — the union
417 /// subgraph, so a taint crosses rel-type boundaries. Inline
418 /// list of declared names, per the bundle-wide convention.
419 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
420 rel_types: Option<Vec<String>>,
421 /// Which direction reaches the dependents: `incoming` taints
422 /// the entities whose edges point at the terminal entity (and
423 /// their dependents, transitively); `outgoing` the entities
424 /// the terminal entity points at.
425 direction: PropagationDirection,
426 #[serde(default)]
427 severity: ConstraintSeverity,
428 },
429}
430
431impl ConstraintDef {
432 /// The effective relation set of a `status_propagation`
433 /// declaration: the single `rel_type` as a one-element list, or
434 /// the declared `rel_types`. The loader guarantees exactly one of
435 /// the two is present. Returns `None` for other constraint forms.
436 pub fn propagation_rel_types(&self) -> Option<Vec<String>> {
437 match self {
438 ConstraintDef::StatusPropagation {
439 rel_type,
440 rel_types,
441 ..
442 } => match (rel_type, rel_types) {
443 (Some(single), None) => Some(vec![single.clone()]),
444 (None, Some(set)) => Some(set.clone()),
445 // Loader-refused shapes; empty keeps callers total.
446 _ => Some(Vec::new()),
447 },
448 _ => None,
449 }
450 }
451}
452
453/// Traversal direction for [`ConstraintDef::StatusPropagation`].
454#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
455#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
456pub enum PropagationDirection {
457 Incoming,
458 Outgoing,
459}
460
461/// Required-cardinality variants. `AtLeastOne` is the only variant
462/// shipped initially; `ExactlyOne` is the obvious next variant but is
463/// not yet wired.
464#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
465#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
466pub enum RequiredCardinality {
467 AtLeastOne,
468}
469
470impl std::fmt::Display for RequiredCardinality {
471 fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
472 f.write_str(match self {
473 RequiredCardinality::AtLeastOne => "at_least_one",
474 })
475 }
476}
477
478impl RequiredOutgoing {
479 /// Returns `true` iff `outgoing_count` of edges across the block's
480 /// `relationships` list satisfies the declared cardinality.
481 pub fn admits(&self, outgoing_count: usize) -> bool {
482 match self.cardinality {
483 RequiredCardinality::AtLeastOne => outgoing_count >= 1,
484 }
485 }
486}
487
488impl TypeDefinition {
489 /// Look up an edge weight by relationship name. Falls back to `_default`
490 /// when the relationship is unknown; returns `1.0` only if `_default`
491 /// itself is missing (the loader normally guarantees it exists).
492 pub fn edge_weight(&self, rel: &str) -> f32 {
493 if let Some(&w) = self.edge_weights.get(rel) {
494 return w;
495 }
496 if let Some(&w) = self.edge_weights.get("_default") {
497 return w;
498 }
499 1.0
500 }
501
502 pub fn section(&self, key: &str) -> Option<&SectionDef> {
503 self.sections.iter().find(|s| s.key == key)
504 }
505
506 pub fn catch_all_section(&self) -> Option<&SectionDef> {
507 self.sections.iter().find(|s| s.catch_all)
508 }
509
510 pub fn metadata_field(&self, key: &str) -> Option<&MetadataFieldDef> {
511 self.metadata_fields.iter().find(|f| f.key == key)
512 }
513
514 /// Closest declared metadata-field key for a typo, used by the CRUD layer
515 /// to build a "did you mean ..." hint when rejecting an unknown key.
516 pub fn suggest_metadata_field(&self, key: &str) -> Option<String> {
517 crate::schema::closest_match(key, self.metadata_fields.iter().map(|f| f.key.as_str()))
518 }
519
520 /// Closest declared section key for a typo. Used by the CRUD layer to
521 /// build the `UNKNOWN_SECTION` envelope's `suggestion` field on inbound
522 /// create/update writes.
523 pub fn suggest_section(&self, key: &str) -> Option<String> {
524 crate::schema::closest_match(key, self.sections.iter().map(|s| s.key.as_str()))
525 }
526
527 /// Required sections in declaration order.
528 pub fn required_sections(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = &SectionDef> {
529 self.sections.iter().filter(|s| s.required)
530 }
531
532 /// Optional sections in declaration order.
533 pub fn optional_sections(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = &SectionDef> {
534 self.sections.iter().filter(|s| !s.required)
535 }
536
537 /// System message as a string — empty if unset.
538 pub fn system_message_str(&self) -> &str {
539 self.system_message.as_deref().unwrap_or("")
540 }
541}
542
543/// One canonical exemplar entity for a type — a complete entity in the
544/// mem markdown shape: title, metadata overrides, section bodies, and
545/// relationship entries with placeholder targets. Engine-validated at
546/// schema install/seal through the real create path, so it can never
547/// teach a shape the validator would refuse.
548#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
549#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
550pub struct Exemplar {
551 /// The exemplar entity's title (drives the id slug exactly as a
552 /// real create would).
553 pub title: String,
554 /// Metadata overrides, keyed by declared field key — validated
555 /// like a real create's metadata (enums included). Engine-stamped
556 /// fields (`created_date`, …) are omitted; the engine fills them.
557 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "IndexMap::is_empty")]
558 pub metadata: IndexMap<String, String>,
559 /// Section bodies keyed by section key. Required sections must all
560 /// be present — the validator enforces it like any create.
561 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "IndexMap::is_empty")]
562 pub sections: IndexMap<String, String>,
563 /// Relationship entries with PLACEHOLDER targets: each `to` is a
564 /// bare slug (no `mem--` prefix — an exemplar lives outside any
565 /// mem); validation checks rel-type legality and shape, never
566 /// target existence.
567 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
568 pub relations: Vec<ExemplarRelation>,
569}
570
571/// One relationship entry on an [`Exemplar`].
572#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
573#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
574pub struct ExemplarRelation {
575 /// Placeholder target: a bare slug, scoped to the exemplar's own
576 /// (virtual) mem at validation time.
577 pub to: String,
578 /// Relationship type (UPPER_SNAKE_CASE; validated against the
579 /// schema's declared vocabulary).
580 #[serde(rename = "type")]
581 pub rel_type: String,
582 /// Optional per-edge description — validated against the
583 /// rel-type's `per_edge_description` posture.
584 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
585 pub description: Option<String>,
586}
587
588/// Derive the storage key a `## Heading` line resolves to.
589///
590/// The single owner of the heading→key mapping: the entity parser uses it
591/// to place parsed section content, and the schema loader's round-trip
592/// check uses it to refuse schemas whose declared headings could never
593/// find their way back to their declared keys. A second copy of this
594/// logic is how silent section forks return — both sides must call this
595/// function.
596///
597/// The mapping is deliberately narrow: lowercase the heading, replace
598/// spaces with underscores. Anything looser (slugging punctuation,
599/// folding diacritics) would let two distinct declared sections collide
600/// on one key, trading a visible refusal for an invisible content merge.
601pub fn derive_section_key(heading: &str) -> String {
602 heading.to_lowercase().replace(' ', "_")
603}
604
605/// A section within an entity (e.g. "Claim", "Evidence").
606#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
607#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
608pub struct SectionDef {
609 pub key: String,
610 pub heading: String,
611 /// Whether an entity must carry this section — **absence means
612 /// optional**, the same rule metadata fields follow. `required:
613 /// true` refuses a create without the section
614 /// (`MISSING_REQUIRED_SECTION`).
615 #[serde(default)]
616 pub required: bool,
617 /// Whether this section is **load-bearing** for the entity's claim:
618 /// the part of the entity a dependent conclusion rests on, as
619 /// opposed to notes, context, or bookkeeping. Consumed by the
620 /// `entity-load-bearing` preparation (`memstead-base::preparation`):
621 /// an entity-grain anchor's prepared form is the stable
622 /// serialization of the type's load-bearing sections, so a notes-only
623 /// edit never breaks a dependent's prepared hash while a load-bearing
624 /// edit always does. **Absence means undeclared**: when NO section of
625 /// a type declares this flag, the type's required sections are its
626 /// load-bearing set (and a type with no required sections falls back
627 /// to every section). Declaring `load_bearing: false` on a required
628 /// section is legal and excludes it once any section of the type
629 /// declares the flag.
630 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
631 pub load_bearing: Option<bool>,
632 pub search_weight: f32,
633 #[serde(default)]
634 pub catch_all: bool,
635 #[serde(default)]
636 pub write_rules: Vec<String>,
637 #[serde(default)]
638 pub description: Option<String>,
639 /// Declared markdown shape (section-format vocabulary, plan 08):
640 /// a flat content expression over the mdast block vocabulary —
641 /// see [`crate::content_expr::ContentExpr`]. Absent = free-form,
642 /// exactly the pre-declaration behavior. Validated and compiled
643 /// at schema load ([`SectionDef::compiled_content`]).
644 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
645 pub content: Option<String>,
646 /// Regex applied to the repeating unit of the declared `content`
647 /// (list items with lazy continuation joined; paragraph source
648 /// lines). Implicitly anchored `^…$`; named capture groups name
649 /// the parts in refusal payloads. Legal only when `content`
650 /// contains exactly one of `list` / `paragraph`.
651 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
652 pub item_pattern: Option<String>,
653 /// Table contract — only legal when `content` contains `table`.
654 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
655 pub table: Option<TableFormat>,
656 /// One conforming snippet, echoed verbatim in every format
657 /// refusal — for an agent, a conforming example outperforms any
658 /// grammar string.
659 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
660 pub example: Option<String>,
661 /// Severity of format violations (plan 07's uniform model).
662 /// Default `block`: a shape violation is deterministic and
663 /// one-round-trip repairable (the enum-value analogy) — `warn`
664 /// stays available per section.
665 #[serde(
666 default = "ConstraintSeverity::block",
667 skip_serializing_if = "severity_is_block"
668 )]
669 pub format_severity: ConstraintSeverity,
670 /// The compiled `content` expression — populated by the loader
671 /// (parse once, match per write). Skipped in serialization so the
672 /// on-disk form round-trips. `None` when no format is declared OR
673 /// the declaration is defective (see `format_problems`).
674 #[serde(skip)]
675 pub compiled_content: Option<crate::content_expr::ContentExpr>,
676 /// Problems the loader found in this section's format declaration.
677 /// Same posture as the reserved-metadata-key check: install and
678 /// strict validation refuse on these
679 /// ([`crate::loader::check_section_formats`]); boot and
680 /// sealed-schema loads do NOT — a sealed schema carrying a bad
681 /// declaration keeps loading (refusing at boot would brick the
682 /// workspace) and the defect surfaces as a health finding. A
683 /// defective declaration is never enforced (`compiled_content`
684 /// stays `None`).
685 #[serde(skip)]
686 pub format_problems: Vec<String>,
687}
688
689fn severity_is_block(s: &ConstraintSeverity) -> bool {
690 *s == ConstraintSeverity::Block
691}
692
693/// The table contract of a format-declared section: `columns` pins
694/// header names and order; `column_patterns` maps column name → regex
695/// per cell (implicitly anchored). Column-count enforcement is ours by
696/// decision — GFM silently pads/truncates short or long rows, so a
697/// row with the wrong cell count is *our* refusal, not the parser's.
698#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
699#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
700pub struct TableFormat {
701 pub columns: Vec<String>,
702 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "IndexMap::is_empty")]
703 pub column_patterns: IndexMap<String, String>,
704}
705
706/// A type's declared **due axis** (first-author-path plan 08): which
707/// of its fields carry deadline semantics, so the engine's due-brief
708/// (`memstead due`) can render "what is due next" without knowing any
709/// domain vocabulary. Validated at schema load: `date_field` must be
710/// a date-typed metadata field of the type, `status_field` an
711/// enum-typed one, every `open_values` entry a member of that enum,
712/// and `lead_section` (optional — rendered as "what must happen
713/// first") a declared section key. The axis is rendering-only: it
714/// never enforces anything (constraints own enforcement) and the
715/// engine never advances a date (the agent loop is the runtime).
716#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
717#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
718pub struct DueAxis {
719 /// Date-typed metadata field holding the deadline.
720 pub date_field: String,
721 /// Enum-typed metadata field holding the lifecycle status.
722 pub status_field: String,
723 /// The `status_field` values under which the entity counts as
724 /// still open (due-relevant). Every entry must be declared in the
725 /// field's `enum_values`.
726 pub open_values: Vec<String>,
727 /// Optional section key whose content renders with each entry as
728 /// "what must happen first".
729 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
730 pub lead_section: Option<String>,
731}
732
733/// A metadata (frontmatter) field.
734#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
735#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
736pub struct MetadataFieldDef {
737 pub key: String,
738 pub description: String,
739 pub field_type: FieldType,
740 #[serde(default)]
741 pub default_value: Option<String>,
742 #[serde(default)]
743 pub enum_values: Option<Vec<String>>,
744 /// Whether an entity must carry this field — **absence means
745 /// optional**, the same rule sections follow. `required: true`
746 /// refuses a create that leaves the field unset
747 /// (`REQUIRED_FIELD_UNSET`); a required field with a
748 /// `default_value` (or an `init_timestamp`) is auto-filled and
749 /// therefore never refused — required-with-default means "always
750 /// present", not "caller must type it". Replaces the retired
751 /// `optional:` key (opposite polarity): sealed schemas carrying
752 /// `optional` keep loading with inverted-but-equivalent
753 /// semantics; authoring refuses it naming this key.
754 #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
755 pub required: Option<bool>,
756 /// The retired `optional:` key, captured raw so sealed content
757 /// keeps loading (inverted) while authoring refuses it. Never
758 /// serialized, never part of the authoring language.
759 #[serde(default, rename = "optional", skip_serializing)]
760 #[schemars(skip)]
761 pub legacy_optional: Option<bool>,
762 /// Resolved requiredness — computed at load from `required`,
763 /// the retired `optional`, and the package's format generation
764 /// (an unmarked sealed package reads absence as required, the
765 /// legacy meaning; everything else reads absence as optional).
766 /// Read via [`Self::is_required`]; never parsed from YAML.
767 #[serde(skip)]
768 #[schemars(skip)]
769 pub required_resolved: bool,
770 #[serde(default)]
771 pub init_timestamp: bool,
772 #[serde(default)]
773 pub auto_timestamp: bool,
774 #[serde(default)]
775 pub serialization: Serialization,
776 #[serde(default)]
777 pub filterable: Filterable,
778}
779
780impl MetadataFieldDef {
781 /// Whether an entity must carry this field, after the load-time
782 /// polarity resolution. The single read every validator and
783 /// projection uses — `required`/`legacy_optional` are raw parse
784 /// captures, not behaviour.
785 pub fn is_required(&self) -> bool {
786 self.required_resolved
787 }
788}
789
790#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
791#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
792pub enum FieldType {
793 String,
794 Number,
795 Date,
796 Boolean,
797}
798
799#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema, Default)]
800#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
801pub enum Serialization {
802 #[default]
803 Default,
804 CsvArray,
805 OmitWhenFalsy,
806}
807
808#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema, Default)]
809#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
810pub enum Filterable {
811 #[default]
812 None,
813 Equality,
814 Range,
815}
816
817impl Filterable {
818 /// Agent-facing wire token for this posture, or `None` when the field
819 /// is not filterable. Single source of truth for the string both MCP
820 /// schema projections (`memstead_schema`) emit so an agent reads a field's
821 /// `filters` / `range_filters` eligibility straight from the schema
822 /// body instead of trial-and-error against filter warnings.
823 pub fn as_wire_str(self) -> Option<&'static str> {
824 match self {
825 Filterable::None => None,
826 Filterable::Equality => Some("equality"),
827 Filterable::Range => Some("range"),
828 }
829 }
830}