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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    /// The schema's last-resort type: the catch-all an author falls
51    /// back to when no more specific type fits (`spec` in the software
52    /// schemas' own prose). A declaration, so a reader of the model can
53    /// count how much of a cluster sits on it (the `vital_signs` health
54    /// axis) without guessing from names; at most one type per schema
55    /// may declare it (`MultipleLastResortTypes` at load). Default
56    /// false.
57    #[serde(default)]
58    pub last_resort: bool,
59    #[serde(default)]
60    pub edge_weight_overrides: IndexMap<String, f32>,
61    /// Rel-types on which `memstead_relate` refuses a SELF-LOOP
62    /// (from == to) when this type is the source. That refusal is this
63    /// field's ONLY effect — it propagates nothing, implies no
64    /// evidence obligation (real impact propagation is the
65    /// `status_propagation` constraint). Renamed from the misleading
66    /// `propagating_relationships` (agent-trust plan 06): the old key
67    /// refuses at authoring/install load with a typed error naming
68    /// this one; sealed content (built-ins, installed refs) loads
69    /// with the old key translated.
70    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
71    pub no_self_loop_relationships: Vec<String>,
72    /// Legacy-key sentinel: captures a `propagating_relationships:`
73    /// value during deserialization so the loader can refuse (strict
74    /// authoring contexts) or translate (sealed contexts). Never
75    /// serialized; never part of the payload surface.
76    #[serde(default, rename = "propagating_relationships", skip_serializing)]
77    #[schemars(skip)]
78    pub legacy_propagating_relationships: Option<Vec<String>>,
79    /// Terminal-by-construction marker: entities of this type are
80    /// leaves — they carry no edges BY DESIGN, so health's orphan
81    /// axis exempts their edge-less entities and reports them as a
82    /// separate leaf population instead (visible, never vanished).
83    /// Leaf means "no edges required", not "edges forbidden": a
84    /// leaf-typed entity WITH edges stays legal, and every other
85    /// health axis, search, and traversal treats leaf entities
86    /// exactly like any other. Declarative per-type flag (the sixth
87    /// declarative form the agent-toolbox constraint vocabulary
88    /// anticipated), served at both schema verbosity levels.
89    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "is_false")]
90    pub leaf: bool,
91    pub updatable_fields: Vec<String>,
92    pub health_required_fields: Vec<String>,
93    pub staleness_threshold_days: u32,
94    pub write_rules: Vec<String>,
95    /// Outgoing-edge invariants the schema asserts for this type.
96    /// Each entry names a list of relationship names plus a cardinality
97    /// constraint. The engine evaluates these on every `memstead_create` /
98    /// `memstead_update` (post-application of inline `relations:` / patches)
99    /// and surfaces unsatisfied blocks as a single
100    /// `MISSING_REQUIRED_OUTGOING` warning per entity. Tier-2 (warn,
101    /// never block). Empty default — types without `required_outgoing`
102    /// keep current behaviour.
103    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
104    pub required_outgoing: Vec<RequiredOutgoing>,
105    /// Declared reachability obligations (see [`MustReach`]): entities
106    /// of this type must reach at least one entity of a named terminal
107    /// type, following edges of a named relation set in a named
108    /// direction, within an optional maximum depth. Health-path only,
109    /// always warn-tier (the loader refuses `block`: a transitive
110    /// property is established by writes on OTHER entities, so a
111    /// write-time refusal would punish the wrong mutation). Empty
112    /// default keeps current behaviour.
113    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
114    pub must_reach: Vec<MustReach>,
115    /// Declared aggregate signals (see [`SignalDef`]): exact,
116    /// parameter-free counts with declared thresholds, computed at
117    /// read time and served with their evidence — never scored,
118    /// never blocking, never stored. Empty default keeps every
119    /// response byte-identical.
120    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
121    pub signals: Vec<SignalDef>,
122    /// Declared keep-health constraints (the constraint vocabulary —
123    /// see [`ConstraintDef`]). Empty default: a schema declaring no
124    /// constraints behaves byte-identically to before the vocabulary
125    /// existed.
126    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
127    pub constraints: Vec<ConstraintDef>,
128    /// The type's declared due axis (see [`DueAxis`]) — absent for
129    /// types without deadline semantics; a schema without any `due:`
130    /// declaration behaves byte-identically to before the axis
131    /// existed.
132    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
133    pub due: Option<DueAxis>,
134    // Populated by loader from schema-level defaults merged with
135    // edge_weight_overrides. Skipped during serialization so the on-disk
136    // form round-trips.
137    #[serde(skip)]
138    pub edge_weights: IndexMap<String, f32>,
139    /// Raw author-declared metadata-field keys, recorded by the loader
140    /// BEFORE the base-metadata merge injects the engine fields
141    /// (`type`, `created_date`, `last_modified`, `tags`). The
142    /// install-path reserved-key check
143    /// ([`crate::loader::check_reserved_metadata_keys`]) reads this
144    /// list so it can refuse an author-declared reserved key without
145    /// false-positives on the injected ones. Skipped during
146    /// serialization so the on-disk form round-trips.
147    #[serde(skip)]
148    pub declared_metadata_keys: Vec<String>,
149}
150
151/// One outgoing-edge requirement block on a type definition. Lists one
152/// or more relationship names and a cardinality constraint they must
153/// jointly satisfy. The schema author groups multiple alternative
154/// relationships into a single block when "any of these" satisfies the
155/// rule (e.g. `[CHOSEN, REJECTED]` together with `at_least_one` would
156/// require at least one outgoing edge across both names — but the
157/// planning schema lists each as its own block instead, so each block
158/// gets its own warning entry).
159#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
160#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
161pub struct RequiredOutgoing {
162    /// Edge names the rule applies to. Loader validates each against
163    /// the schema's declared relationship vocabulary; unknown names
164    /// raise `SchemaLoadError::UndeclaredRelationship`.
165    pub relationships: Vec<String>,
166    pub cardinality: RequiredCardinality,
167    /// Constraint severity (form 4 of the constraint vocabulary):
168    /// `warn` (the historical default — health finding +
169    /// `MISSING_REQUIRED_OUTGOING` write-time warning) or `block`
170    /// (write-time refusal when a create/update would land, or a
171    /// relate-remove would leave, the entity below cardinality).
172    #[serde(default)]
173    pub severity: ConstraintSeverity,
174    /// Optional condition: the block applies only when this metadata
175    /// field of the entity holds `when_value`. The same two keys
176    /// `requires_when` uses — one vocabulary for one idea. The loader
177    /// requires the pair to appear together, `when_field` to name a
178    /// declared metadata field of this type carrying `enum_values`,
179    /// and `when_value` to be a member. Absent pair = unconditional
180    /// block = long-standing behaviour.
181    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
182    pub when_field: Option<String>,
183    /// The triggering value (see `when_field`).
184    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
185    pub when_value: Option<String>,
186}
187
188/// One reachability obligation on a type definition. The obligated
189/// entity must reach at least one non-stub entity whose type is in
190/// `terminal_types`, walking edges whose rel-type is in
191/// `relationships` (an inline relation set), in `direction`, within
192/// `max_depth` hops when bounded. Evaluated on the health sweep only
193/// (`constraints` axis), never on the write path — no single write
194/// completes a transitive absence. The incoming direction with
195/// `max_depth: 1` covers the required-incoming-edge case.
196#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
197#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
198pub struct MustReach {
199    /// Edge names the walk follows — any name in the set continues the
200    /// path. Loader validates each against the schema's relationship
201    /// vocabulary.
202    pub relationships: Vec<String>,
203    /// `out` follows edges pointing away from the walked entity, `in`
204    /// follows edges pointing at it — the same vocabulary the store
205    /// and `memstead_search` speak.
206    pub direction: ReachDirection,
207    /// Type names that satisfy the obligation when reached. Loader
208    /// validates each against the schema's declared types.
209    pub terminal_types: Vec<String>,
210    /// Maximum number of hops a conforming path may take. Absent =
211    /// unbounded. Zero refuses at load (nothing is reachable in zero
212    /// hops).
213    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
214    pub max_depth: Option<u32>,
215    /// Always `warn` — the loader refuses `block` on this form.
216    #[serde(default)]
217    pub severity: ConstraintSeverity,
218}
219
220/// One declared aggregate signal on a type definition. This wave
221/// ships one kind, `edge_load`: count the edges of a named rel-type
222/// set, in a named direction, on entities of this type, optionally
223/// restricted to edges whose counterpart entity holds a named enum
224/// value. Thresholds map counts to levels; below the first threshold
225/// the served level is `none`. Values are computed at read time in
226/// O(degree), never stored, never part of `_hash`; a signal may not
227/// reference another signal, and nothing multiplies, averages, or
228/// decays — a count and a threshold are the whole vocabulary.
229#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
230#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
231pub struct SignalDef {
232    /// Unique per type, `[a-z][a-z0-9_]*` — the stable name prose
233    /// and consumers bind guidance to.
234    pub name: String,
235    /// Closed kind enum — one member in this wave.
236    pub kind: SignalKind,
237    /// Edge names the count covers (inline relation set; loader
238    /// validates each against the vocabulary).
239    pub relationships: Vec<String>,
240    /// `in` counts edges pointing at the entity, `out` edges pointing
241    /// away — the same vocabulary the store and search speak.
242    pub direction: ReachDirection,
243    /// Optional counterpart filter, whole or not at all: count only
244    /// edges whose counterpart entity holds `neighbour_value` in
245    /// `neighbour_field`. A counterpart lacking the field or holding
246    /// another value simply does not count.
247    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
248    pub neighbour_field: Option<String>,
249    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
250    pub neighbour_value: Option<String>,
251    /// Non-empty, strictly increasing `at_least` values.
252    pub thresholds: Vec<SignalThreshold>,
253}
254
255impl SignalDef {
256    /// The served level for a count: the highest threshold whose
257    /// `at_least` the count meets, `None` below the first (wire level
258    /// `none`).
259    pub fn level_for(&self, count: u64) -> Option<SignalLevel> {
260        self.thresholds
261            .iter()
262            .rev()
263            .find(|t| count >= t.at_least)
264            .map(|t| t.level)
265    }
266}
267
268/// Closed signal-kind vocabulary. Adding a member is a
269/// format-generation event.
270#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
271#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
272pub enum SignalKind {
273    EdgeLoad,
274}
275
276/// One threshold step of a signal declaration.
277#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
278#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
279pub struct SignalThreshold {
280    pub at_least: u64,
281    pub level: SignalLevel,
282}
283
284/// Signal levels — deliberately NOT [`ConstraintSeverity`]: a signal
285/// level is the output of a threshold, not the severity of a
286/// violation. `warn` participates in `health --strict` like a
287/// warn-tier constraint finding; `notice` never does — that is the
288/// whole difference between the two.
289#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
290#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
291pub enum SignalLevel {
292    Notice,
293    Warn,
294}
295
296impl std::fmt::Display for SignalLevel {
297    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
298        f.write_str(match self {
299            SignalLevel::Notice => "notice",
300            SignalLevel::Warn => "warn",
301        })
302    }
303}
304
305/// Walk direction for [`MustReach`] — wire literals `out` / `in`,
306/// matching the store's relationship rendering and `memstead_search`'s
307/// `direction` parameter.
308#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
309#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
310pub enum ReachDirection {
311    Out,
312    In,
313}
314
315impl std::fmt::Display for ReachDirection {
316    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
317        f.write_str(match self {
318            ReachDirection::Out => "out",
319            ReachDirection::In => "in",
320        })
321    }
322}
323
324/// Uniform severity for the constraint vocabulary — one model across
325/// every constraint form, never five ad-hoc ones. `warn` produces a
326/// health finding only; `block` additionally refuses at write time
327/// (and still surfaces pre-existing violations in health). Severity
328/// applies to every write surface uniformly — operator-mode bypasses
329/// allowlists, never validation.
330#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Default, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
331#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
332pub enum ConstraintSeverity {
333    /// Health finding only (and, where a write-time warning exists,
334    /// that warning). The default for every form except uniqueness.
335    #[default]
336    Warn,
337    /// Write-time refusal plus health finding for pre-existing
338    /// violations.
339    Block,
340}
341
342impl ConstraintSeverity {
343    /// Serde default for forms whose default tier is `block`
344    /// (uniqueness — plenum 4's 37 duplicates are the evidence).
345    pub fn block() -> Self {
346        Self::Block
347    }
348}
349
350/// One declared keep-health constraint on a type — the constraint
351/// vocabulary (agent-toolbox plan 07). Declarations travel sealed with
352/// the schema package and are rendered on the `memstead_schema`
353/// response at BOTH verbosity levels (a hidden legality condition is a
354/// defect class of its own). The `kind` tag is closed: an unknown kind
355/// fails deserialization, so no declaration can load and be silently
356/// ignored. Forms land vertically — a form is only declarable once the
357/// engine evaluates it.
358#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
359#[serde(tag = "kind", rename_all = "snake_case", deny_unknown_fields)]
360pub enum ConstraintDef {
361    /// Form 1 — conditional requirement: `field` (a metadata field or
362    /// section key of this type) is required whenever `when_field`
363    /// holds `when_value` ("`status: checked` requires `checked_by`").
364    RequiresWhen {
365        /// The field or section that becomes required.
366        field: String,
367        /// The metadata field whose value triggers the requirement.
368        when_field: String,
369        /// The triggering value (validated against `when_field`'s
370        /// enum, when it declares one).
371        when_value: String,
372        #[serde(default)]
373        severity: ConstraintSeverity,
374    },
375    /// Form 2 — uniqueness: the tuple of metadata-field values named
376    /// in `fields` is unique among entities of this type within one
377    /// mem. Entities missing any of the fields carry no tuple and are
378    /// not compared. Defaults to `block` — the whole point of the
379    /// declaration is preventing the duplicate at write time.
380    Unique {
381        /// The metadata fields forming the unique tuple (each must be
382        /// a declared metadata field of this type).
383        fields: Vec<String>,
384        #[serde(default = "ConstraintSeverity::block")]
385        severity: ConstraintSeverity,
386    },
387    /// Form 3 — enum-from-neighbour: the legal values of `field` are
388    /// the bullet-list entries (`- value` lines) of the `section`
389    /// section on the entity reached from this one via a `rel_type`
390    /// edge. A set value with no backing entry in any reached
391    /// neighbour's section — including the no-neighbour and
392    /// missing-section cases, where nothing can back it — is a
393    /// violation.
394    EnumFromNeighbour {
395        /// The metadata field whose values the neighbour enumerates.
396        field: String,
397        /// The outgoing rel-type that reaches the enumerating entity.
398        rel_type: String,
399        /// The section key on the reached entity whose bullet entries
400        /// are the legal values.
401        section: String,
402        #[serde(default)]
403        severity: ConstraintSeverity,
404    },
405    /// Form 5 — status propagation: when `field` on an entity of this
406    /// type holds `value` (the terminal value), every entity reaching
407    /// it — transitively — via `rel_type` edges in `direction` is
408    /// tainted; tainted entities surface as health findings naming
409    /// their tainting ancestor. Always warn-tier: the taint arises
410    /// from the ancestor's *later* change, so it can never refuse the
411    /// descendant's historical write (the loader refuses a `block`
412    /// declaration on this form rather than accepting a promise the
413    /// engine will not keep).
414    StatusPropagation {
415        /// The status metadata field on this (the tainting) type.
416        field: String,
417        /// The terminal value that starts the taint (validated
418        /// against `field`'s enum, when it declares one).
419        value: String,
420        /// The single rel-type the taint travels along. Exactly one
421        /// of `rel_type` / `rel_types` per declaration — the loader
422        /// refuses both-present and neither-present.
423        #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
424        rel_type: Option<String>,
425        /// The relation SET the taint travels along — the union
426        /// subgraph, so a taint crosses rel-type boundaries. Inline
427        /// list of declared names, per the bundle-wide convention.
428        #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
429        rel_types: Option<Vec<String>>,
430        /// Which direction reaches the dependents: `incoming` taints
431        /// the entities whose edges point at the terminal entity (and
432        /// their dependents, transitively); `outgoing` the entities
433        /// the terminal entity points at.
434        direction: PropagationDirection,
435        #[serde(default)]
436        severity: ConstraintSeverity,
437    },
438    /// Form 6 — gated transition: a write that lands `field` holding
439    /// `to_value` requires every entity related via `relationships`
440    /// edges in `direction` to carry a fresh confirming check record
441    /// (derived verification state `checked_ok` — the engine's checks
442    /// substrate; a stale or failed check does not confirm). Generic
443    /// by construction: any schema, any enum field, any relation set —
444    /// no type semantics baked in. Evaluated at write time in the
445    /// shared declared-constraints pass (block refuses, warn warns)
446    /// and reported by the health `constraints` include as a standing
447    /// violation when a check goes stale after the transition. An
448    /// empty related set satisfies the rule (universal quantification
449    /// over nothing); pair with `required_outgoing` where at least one
450    /// related entity must exist. On an engine without a check ledger
451    /// (no workspace root) every related entity derives
452    /// `never_checked`, so a declared gate refuses rather than
453    /// silently passing.
454    TransitionRequiresChecks {
455        /// The metadata field whose value gates (must declare
456        /// `enum_values`; validated by the loader).
457        field: String,
458        /// The gated value — landing it requires the checks.
459        to_value: String,
460        /// Edge names whose related entities must be checked (each
461        /// validated against the relationship vocabulary).
462        relationships: Vec<String>,
463        /// Which side of the edges holds the entities to check:
464        /// `incoming` — entities whose edges point at this one;
465        /// `outgoing` — entities this one points at.
466        direction: PropagationDirection,
467        /// Defaults to `block` — the declaration exists to refuse the
468        /// unverified transition at write time.
469        #[serde(default = "ConstraintSeverity::block")]
470        severity: ConstraintSeverity,
471    },
472}
473
474impl ConstraintDef {
475    /// The effective relation set of a `status_propagation`
476    /// declaration: the single `rel_type` as a one-element list, or
477    /// the declared `rel_types`. The loader guarantees exactly one of
478    /// the two is present. Returns `None` for other constraint forms.
479    pub fn propagation_rel_types(&self) -> Option<Vec<String>> {
480        match self {
481            ConstraintDef::StatusPropagation {
482                rel_type,
483                rel_types,
484                ..
485            } => match (rel_type, rel_types) {
486                (Some(single), None) => Some(vec![single.clone()]),
487                (None, Some(set)) => Some(set.clone()),
488                // Loader-refused shapes; empty keeps callers total.
489                _ => Some(Vec::new()),
490            },
491            _ => None,
492        }
493    }
494}
495
496/// Traversal direction for [`ConstraintDef::StatusPropagation`].
497#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
498#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
499pub enum PropagationDirection {
500    Incoming,
501    Outgoing,
502}
503
504/// Required-cardinality variants. `AtLeastOne` is the only variant
505/// shipped initially; `ExactlyOne` is the obvious next variant but is
506/// not yet wired.
507#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
508#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
509pub enum RequiredCardinality {
510    AtLeastOne,
511}
512
513impl std::fmt::Display for RequiredCardinality {
514    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
515        f.write_str(match self {
516            RequiredCardinality::AtLeastOne => "at_least_one",
517        })
518    }
519}
520
521impl RequiredOutgoing {
522    /// Returns `true` iff `outgoing_count` of edges across the block's
523    /// `relationships` list satisfies the declared cardinality.
524    pub fn admits(&self, outgoing_count: usize) -> bool {
525        match self.cardinality {
526            RequiredCardinality::AtLeastOne => outgoing_count >= 1,
527        }
528    }
529}
530
531impl TypeDefinition {
532    /// Look up an edge weight by relationship name. Falls back to `_default`
533    /// when the relationship is unknown; returns `1.0` only if `_default`
534    /// itself is missing (the loader normally guarantees it exists).
535    pub fn edge_weight(&self, rel: &str) -> f32 {
536        if let Some(&w) = self.edge_weights.get(rel) {
537            return w;
538        }
539        if let Some(&w) = self.edge_weights.get("_default") {
540            return w;
541        }
542        1.0
543    }
544
545    pub fn section(&self, key: &str) -> Option<&SectionDef> {
546        self.sections.iter().find(|s| s.key == key)
547    }
548
549    pub fn catch_all_section(&self) -> Option<&SectionDef> {
550        self.sections.iter().find(|s| s.catch_all)
551    }
552
553    pub fn metadata_field(&self, key: &str) -> Option<&MetadataFieldDef> {
554        self.metadata_fields.iter().find(|f| f.key == key)
555    }
556
557    /// Closest declared metadata-field key for a typo, used by the CRUD layer
558    /// to build a "did you mean ..." hint when rejecting an unknown key.
559    pub fn suggest_metadata_field(&self, key: &str) -> Option<String> {
560        crate::schema::closest_match(key, self.metadata_fields.iter().map(|f| f.key.as_str()))
561    }
562
563    /// Closest declared section key for a typo. Used by the CRUD layer to
564    /// build the `UNKNOWN_SECTION` envelope's `suggestion` field on inbound
565    /// create/update writes.
566    pub fn suggest_section(&self, key: &str) -> Option<String> {
567        crate::schema::closest_match(key, self.sections.iter().map(|s| s.key.as_str()))
568    }
569
570    /// Required sections in declaration order.
571    pub fn required_sections(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = &SectionDef> {
572        self.sections.iter().filter(|s| s.required)
573    }
574
575    /// Optional sections in declaration order.
576    pub fn optional_sections(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = &SectionDef> {
577        self.sections.iter().filter(|s| !s.required)
578    }
579
580    /// System message as a string — empty if unset.
581    pub fn system_message_str(&self) -> &str {
582        self.system_message.as_deref().unwrap_or("")
583    }
584}
585
586/// One canonical exemplar entity for a type — a complete entity in the
587/// mem markdown shape: title, metadata overrides, section bodies, and
588/// relationship entries with placeholder targets. Engine-validated at
589/// schema install/seal through the real create path, so it can never
590/// teach a shape the validator would refuse.
591#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
592#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
593pub struct Exemplar {
594    /// The exemplar entity's title (drives the id slug exactly as a
595    /// real create would).
596    pub title: String,
597    /// Metadata overrides, keyed by declared field key — validated
598    /// like a real create's metadata (enums included). Engine-stamped
599    /// fields (`created_date`, …) are omitted; the engine fills them.
600    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "IndexMap::is_empty")]
601    pub metadata: IndexMap<String, String>,
602    /// Section bodies keyed by section key. Required sections must all
603    /// be present — the validator enforces it like any create.
604    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "IndexMap::is_empty")]
605    pub sections: IndexMap<String, String>,
606    /// Relationship entries with PLACEHOLDER targets: each `target` is
607    /// a bare slug (no `mem--` prefix — an exemplar lives outside any
608    /// mem); validation checks rel-type legality and shape, never
609    /// target existence.
610    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")]
611    pub relations: Vec<ExemplarRelation>,
612}
613
614/// One relationship entry on an [`Exemplar`].
615///
616/// Authored in the mutation vocabulary (`target:` / `rel_type:`) so the
617/// exemplar an agent reads is byte-for-byte the shape `memstead_create`
618/// accepts. The retired authoring spelling (`to:` / `type:`) is
619/// captured into the `legacy_*` sentinels for the loader's legality
620/// gate: authoring contexts refuse it with a rename pointer, sealed
621/// content (built-ins, installed refs) is translated so shipped
622/// versions keep loading — install-time strict, sealed-tolerant.
623#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
624#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
625pub struct ExemplarRelation {
626    /// Placeholder target: a bare slug, scoped to the exemplar's own
627    /// (virtual) mem at validation time. `Option` only for the sealed
628    /// translate path — the loader guarantees `Some` on every loaded
629    /// schema.
630    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
631    pub target: Option<String>,
632    /// Relationship type (UPPER_SNAKE_CASE; validated against the
633    /// schema's declared vocabulary). `Option` only for the sealed
634    /// translate path — the loader guarantees `Some` on every loaded
635    /// schema.
636    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
637    pub rel_type: Option<String>,
638    /// Retired spelling of `target:` — loader-gate sentinel, never
639    /// populated on a loaded schema.
640    #[serde(default, rename = "to", skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
641    #[schemars(skip)]
642    pub legacy_to: Option<String>,
643    /// Retired spelling of `rel_type:` — loader-gate sentinel, never
644    /// populated on a loaded schema.
645    #[serde(default, rename = "type", skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
646    #[schemars(skip)]
647    pub legacy_type: Option<String>,
648    /// Optional per-edge description — validated against the
649    /// rel-type's `per_edge_description` posture.
650    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
651    pub description: Option<String>,
652}
653
654impl ExemplarRelation {
655    /// The resolved placeholder target. Loader-guaranteed present on
656    /// any loaded schema; empty string only on a hand-built value that
657    /// bypassed the loader.
658    pub fn target_slug(&self) -> &str {
659        self.target.as_deref().unwrap_or_default()
660    }
661
662    /// The resolved rel-type name. Loader-guaranteed present on any
663    /// loaded schema.
664    pub fn rel_type_name(&self) -> &str {
665        self.rel_type.as_deref().unwrap_or_default()
666    }
667}
668
669/// Derive the storage key a `## Heading` line resolves to.
670///
671/// The single owner of the heading→key mapping: the entity parser uses it
672/// to place parsed section content, and the schema loader's round-trip
673/// check uses it to refuse schemas whose declared headings could never
674/// find their way back to their declared keys. A second copy of this
675/// logic is how silent section forks return — both sides must call this
676/// function.
677///
678/// The mapping is deliberately narrow: lowercase the heading, replace
679/// spaces with underscores. Anything looser (slugging punctuation,
680/// folding diacritics) would let two distinct declared sections collide
681/// on one key, trading a visible refusal for an invisible content merge.
682pub fn derive_section_key(heading: &str) -> String {
683    heading.to_lowercase().replace(' ', "_")
684}
685
686/// A section within an entity (e.g. "Claim", "Evidence").
687#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
688#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
689pub struct SectionDef {
690    pub key: String,
691    pub heading: String,
692    /// Whether an entity must carry this section — **absence means
693    /// optional**, the same rule metadata fields follow. `required:
694    /// true` refuses a create without the section
695    /// (`MISSING_REQUIRED_SECTION`).
696    #[serde(default)]
697    pub required: bool,
698    /// Whether this section is **load-bearing** for the entity's claim:
699    /// the part of the entity a dependent conclusion rests on, as
700    /// opposed to notes, context, or bookkeeping. Consumed by the
701    /// `entity-load-bearing` preparation (`memstead-base::preparation`):
702    /// an entity-grain anchor's prepared form is the stable
703    /// serialization of the type's load-bearing sections, so a notes-only
704    /// edit never breaks a dependent's prepared hash while a load-bearing
705    /// edit always does. **Absence means undeclared**: when NO section of
706    /// a type declares this flag, the type's required sections are its
707    /// load-bearing set (and a type with no required sections falls back
708    /// to every section). Declaring `load_bearing: false` on a required
709    /// section is legal and excludes it once any section of the type
710    /// declares the flag.
711    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
712    pub load_bearing: Option<bool>,
713    pub search_weight: f32,
714    #[serde(default)]
715    pub catch_all: bool,
716    #[serde(default)]
717    pub write_rules: Vec<String>,
718    #[serde(default)]
719    pub description: Option<String>,
720    /// Declared markdown shape (section-format vocabulary, plan 08):
721    /// a flat content expression over the mdast block vocabulary —
722    /// see [`crate::content_expr::ContentExpr`]. Absent = free-form,
723    /// exactly the pre-declaration behavior. Validated and compiled
724    /// at schema load ([`SectionDef::compiled_content`]).
725    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
726    pub content: Option<String>,
727    /// Regex applied to the repeating unit of the declared `content`
728    /// (list items with lazy continuation joined; paragraph source
729    /// lines). Implicitly anchored `^…$`; named capture groups name
730    /// the parts in refusal payloads. Legal only when `content`
731    /// contains exactly one of `list` / `paragraph`.
732    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
733    pub item_pattern: Option<String>,
734    /// Table contract — only legal when `content` contains `table`.
735    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
736    pub table: Option<TableFormat>,
737    /// One conforming snippet, echoed verbatim in every format
738    /// refusal — for an agent, a conforming example outperforms any
739    /// grammar string.
740    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
741    pub example: Option<String>,
742    /// Severity of format violations (plan 07's uniform model).
743    /// Default `block`: a shape violation is deterministic and
744    /// one-round-trip repairable (the enum-value analogy) — `warn`
745    /// stays available per section.
746    #[serde(
747        default = "ConstraintSeverity::block",
748        skip_serializing_if = "severity_is_block"
749    )]
750    pub format_severity: ConstraintSeverity,
751    /// The compiled `content` expression — populated by the loader
752    /// (parse once, match per write). Skipped in serialization so the
753    /// on-disk form round-trips. `None` when no format is declared OR
754    /// the declaration is defective (see `format_problems`).
755    #[serde(skip)]
756    pub compiled_content: Option<crate::content_expr::ContentExpr>,
757    /// Problems the loader found in this section's format declaration.
758    /// Same posture as the reserved-metadata-key check: install and
759    /// strict validation refuse on these
760    /// ([`crate::loader::check_section_formats`]); boot and
761    /// sealed-schema loads do NOT — a sealed schema carrying a bad
762    /// declaration keeps loading (refusing at boot would brick the
763    /// workspace) and the defect surfaces as a health finding. A
764    /// defective declaration is never enforced (`compiled_content`
765    /// stays `None`).
766    #[serde(skip)]
767    pub format_problems: Vec<String>,
768}
769
770fn severity_is_block(s: &ConstraintSeverity) -> bool {
771    *s == ConstraintSeverity::Block
772}
773
774/// The table contract of a format-declared section: `columns` pins
775/// header names and order; `column_patterns` maps column name → regex
776/// per cell (implicitly anchored). Column-count enforcement is ours by
777/// decision — GFM silently pads/truncates short or long rows, so a
778/// row with the wrong cell count is *our* refusal, not the parser's.
779#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
780#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
781pub struct TableFormat {
782    pub columns: Vec<String>,
783    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "IndexMap::is_empty")]
784    pub column_patterns: IndexMap<String, String>,
785}
786
787/// A type's declared **due axis** (first-author-path plan 08): which
788/// of its fields carry deadline semantics, so the engine's due-brief
789/// (`memstead due`) can render "what is due next" without knowing any
790/// domain vocabulary. Validated at schema load: `date_field` must be
791/// a date-typed metadata field of the type, `status_field` an
792/// enum-typed one, every `open_values` entry a member of that enum,
793/// and `lead_section` (optional — rendered as "what must happen
794/// first") a declared section key. The axis is rendering-only: it
795/// never enforces anything (constraints own enforcement) and the
796/// engine never advances a date (the agent loop is the runtime).
797#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
798#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
799pub struct DueAxis {
800    /// Date-typed metadata field holding the deadline.
801    pub date_field: String,
802    /// Enum-typed metadata field holding the lifecycle status.
803    pub status_field: String,
804    /// The `status_field` values under which the entity counts as
805    /// still open (due-relevant). Every entry must be declared in the
806    /// field's `enum_values`.
807    pub open_values: Vec<String>,
808    /// Optional section key whose content renders with each entry as
809    /// "what must happen first".
810    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
811    pub lead_section: Option<String>,
812}
813
814/// A metadata (frontmatter) field.
815#[derive(Debug, Clone, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
816#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)]
817pub struct MetadataFieldDef {
818    pub key: String,
819    pub description: String,
820    pub field_type: FieldType,
821    #[serde(default)]
822    pub default_value: Option<String>,
823    #[serde(default)]
824    pub enum_values: Option<Vec<String>>,
825    /// Whether an entity must carry this field — **absence means
826    /// optional**, the same rule sections follow. `required: true`
827    /// refuses a create that leaves the field unset
828    /// (`REQUIRED_FIELD_UNSET`); a required field with a
829    /// `default_value` (or an `init_timestamp`) is auto-filled and
830    /// therefore never refused — required-with-default means "always
831    /// present", not "caller must type it". Replaces the retired
832    /// `optional:` key (opposite polarity): sealed schemas carrying
833    /// `optional` keep loading with inverted-but-equivalent
834    /// semantics; authoring refuses it naming this key.
835    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
836    pub required: Option<bool>,
837    /// The retired `optional:` key, captured raw so sealed content
838    /// keeps loading (inverted) while authoring refuses it. Never
839    /// serialized, never part of the authoring language.
840    #[serde(default, rename = "optional", skip_serializing)]
841    #[schemars(skip)]
842    pub legacy_optional: Option<bool>,
843    /// Resolved requiredness — computed at load from `required`,
844    /// the retired `optional`, and the package's format generation
845    /// (an unmarked sealed package reads absence as required, the
846    /// legacy meaning; everything else reads absence as optional).
847    /// Read via [`Self::is_required`]; never parsed from YAML.
848    #[serde(skip)]
849    #[schemars(skip)]
850    pub required_resolved: bool,
851    #[serde(default)]
852    pub init_timestamp: bool,
853    #[serde(default)]
854    pub auto_timestamp: bool,
855    #[serde(default)]
856    pub serialization: Serialization,
857    #[serde(default)]
858    pub filterable: Filterable,
859}
860
861impl MetadataFieldDef {
862    /// Whether an entity must carry this field, after the load-time
863    /// polarity resolution. The single read every validator and
864    /// projection uses — `required`/`legacy_optional` are raw parse
865    /// captures, not behaviour.
866    pub fn is_required(&self) -> bool {
867        self.required_resolved
868    }
869}
870
871#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema)]
872#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
873pub enum FieldType {
874    String,
875    Number,
876    Date,
877    Boolean,
878}
879
880#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema, Default)]
881#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
882pub enum Serialization {
883    #[default]
884    Default,
885    CsvArray,
886    OmitWhenFalsy,
887}
888
889#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Deserialize, Serialize, JsonSchema, Default)]
890#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
891pub enum Filterable {
892    #[default]
893    None,
894    Equality,
895    Range,
896}
897
898impl Filterable {
899    /// Agent-facing wire token for this posture, or `None` when the field
900    /// is not filterable. Single source of truth for the string both MCP
901    /// schema projections (`memstead_schema`) emit so an agent reads a field's
902    /// `filters` / `range_filters` eligibility straight from the schema
903    /// body instead of trial-and-error against filter warnings.
904    pub fn as_wire_str(self) -> Option<&'static str> {
905        match self {
906            Filterable::None => None,
907            Filterable::Equality => Some("equality"),
908            Filterable::Range => Some("range"),
909        }
910    }
911}