core-component-00/ — CC-00 LLM Engineering Laboratory

Entry point for the Core Component 00 applied research laboratory. Read this before any CC-00 work.

What This Is

CC-00 is the organisation's centralised LLM engineering laboratory and the foundational dependency for every agent-powered system built here. It houses five engineering modules plus a governing meta-layer (ASGF), production-grade Python implementations, and active research programmes.

core-component-00/ holds the stack's reference implementations and the MCP servers.

Laboratory Director & Crew

As of FY2026 Q3, the lab is staffed beyond the Director: 4 Research Engineer FTEs cover the four production-grade modules (Context, Harness, RAG, Multi-Agent). Full roster and activation protocol: crew/README.md and crew/CLAUDE.md.

The Five-Module Engineering Stack

ASGF (Agent Systems Governance Framework) is the meta-layer above all five — not a sixth module. See framework/00-agent-systems-governance-framework/.

Key Production Implementations

All paths relative to core-component-00/:

Running Tests (PowerShell)

Run tests per-module from the module folder to avoid duplicate-package import collisions:

# From core-component-00/
pytest framework/02-context-engineering/testing/ -v
pytest framework/03-harness-engineering/testing/ -v
pytest framework/04-retrieval-augmented-generation/testing/ -v
pytest framework/05-multi-agent-engineering/testing/ -v

Do NOT run all modules together with a single root-level pytest . — this causes import conflicts.

Parallel workers: pytest -n <N> — keep N ≤ 10 on this machine (i9-13900H, 14 cores).

Environment Notes (Windows)

• RAG's requirements.txt is aspirational, for architecture its fundamentals//patterns/ document but implementations/ does not yet build — install from it only when actually implementing one of those pieces, not to run RAG's existing test suite (that only needs the module's own pyproject.toml, pytest-only):

  pip install -r framework/04-retrieval-augmented-generation/requirements.txt
  python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

• GPU: RTX 4060 (8 GB GDDR6) supports CUDA — always verify torch.cuda.is_available() before assuming GPU is available.
• Import path: Tests use from implementations.<module> after inserting the module root on sys.path. Run from the module folder, not the workspace root.

ASGF Governance (Mandatory)

All LLM-powered systems built in this workspace are bound by the ASGF framework — ratified via ADR-ASGF-001. Build new systems on CC-00 patterns; do not invent ad-hoc approaches.

Governing documents: framework/00-agent-systems-governance-framework/governance/

Layout note: All five engineering modules plus ASGF now live under framework/, numbered 00–05 (00-agent-systems-governance-framework/ through 05-multi-agent-engineering/). MCP servers, maintenance records, benchmarks, and remediation live under platform/ (unnumbered).

Where to Look