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# orrery -- full LLM context digest
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========================================================================
FILE: README.md
========================================================================
# Orrery
The coordinating root for **Proveo's agent projects** — a constellation of independent applications,
each attached as a Git submodule, orbiting a shared `_spec/` learning surface that maps how agent/LLM
systems are built.
> An orrery is a clockwork model of a system of orbiting bodies — the bodies *and* the map that places
> them, in one instrument you read and operate. This repo is that for Proveo: each `projects/*` is its
> own world; the root holds the map — the **capability ladder** and the sourced study-cases of the
> agentic field.
## What's here
- **`_spec/` — the learning surface.** A vendor-neutral, *sourced* map of the agent/LLM field: a
7-level **capability ladder** (two views — a demand-side funnel and a build-side study map), plus
**study-cases** of canonical techniques and products, each tied to a primary source.
- **`projects/` — the constellation.** Five independent apps, each a Git submodule tracking its own
`main`. There is no root workspace and no cross-project task graph — `cd` in and use that project's
own tooling.
## Layout
```
_spec/ Shared learning surface (the root owns this)
overview/ The two ladder diagrams: business-needs-funnel.puml + study-map.vega.json → .svg
study-cases/ The field, organized by capability level (3-meta-prompt-loops/ … 6-post-training/, _substrate/)
themes/ Vendored proveo identity themes (Mermaid, Vega-Lite); PlantUML is remote-included
CONTRIBUTING.md Diagram + sourcing conventions
skills/spec/ Agent Skill (SKILL.md) for proveo diagram authoring — also linked from .agents/skills/spec
projects/ Independent applications, attached as Git submodules (see "Projects")
llms.txt Curated LLM index ([llmstxt.org](https://llmstxt.org/) layout)
llms-full.txt Pre-expanded digest of the learning surface (regenerated by scripts/build-llm-context.sh)
AGENTS.md Team/agent workflow for working in this repo (mirrored as CLAUDE.md)
```
## Consume as context
This repo is meant to be ingested by agents, not only browsed by humans.
### 1. Repo scraping (`llms.txt`)
| Artifact | Use |
| --- | --- |
| [`llms.txt`](llms.txt) | Curated map — start here; follow links (prefer `.puml` / `.md` / `.vega.json` over `.svg`) |
| [`llms-full.txt`](llms-full.txt) | Single-file digest when the consumer cannot chase links |
| [`AGENTS.md`](AGENTS.md) | Operating rules when an agent is working *inside* a checkout |
```bash
# curated index
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/orrery/main/llms.txt
# or the full digest
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/orrery/main/llms-full.txt
# or a whole-repo scrape (e.g. gitingest) filtered to _spec/ + the files above
```
After editing study-cases, regenerate the index and digest:
```bash
bash scripts/build-llm-context.sh
```
### 2. Agent Skills (`npx skills`)
The **spec** skill teaches how to author and render proveo `_spec/` diagrams (PlantUML / Mermaid / Vega-Lite). Install into another project:
```bash
npx skills add proveo-ca/orrery --skill spec
# equivalent upstream package:
npx skills add proveo-ca/spec --skill spec
```
That ships procedural conventions — not the curriculum itself. Pair it with `llms.txt` / `llms-full.txt` (or a checkout of `_spec/`) when the agent needs the capability ladder and study-cases.
## The capability ladder
`_spec/` organizes the field by **at what level a business request should be solved** — from a human
baseline up to a custom-trained model. Full write-up in
[`_spec/study-cases/README.md`](_spec/study-cases/README.md); the two views:
| View | What it answers | Diagram |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Demand-side funnel** | "which rung do we build/buy?" — business needs walk a request down from the aspirational top to the rung that clears the bar | [`business-needs-funnel.svg`](_spec/overview/business-needs-funnel.svg) |
| **Build-side study map** | "what do I go learn, and how do the tiers differ?" — the same tiers on a 2D plane: **encoding depth × autonomy** | [`study-map.svg`](_spec/overview/study-map.svg) |
## Projects
| Project | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| [`aphelion`](projects/aphelion) | Audit/evidence-based personal AI agent runtime (Go) — capability/effect authorization, a typed evidence ledger, face/governor privilege separation |
| [`omnigent`](projects/omnigent) | Vendor-neutral meta-harness — runs agents across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode… behind one executor protocol |
| [`chess-coach`](projects/chess-coach) | Multi-engine chess tutor — human-like Maia + optimal Stockfish + an LLM explainer; web + Android |
| [`nightfall`](projects/nightfall) | WebGL first-person horror game (React / Three.js) with reactive, FSM-driven AI |
| [`agents-of-empires`](projects/agents-of-empires) | LLM-driven RTS where agents compete for real host hardware (Docker containers as units) |
## Reference harnesses & agent tooling (external, public)
Trending third-party projects studied here — **not** Proveo code and **not** submodules; each maps to a study-case under `_spec/study-cases/4-harness/`.
| Project | What it is | Repo | Study-case |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **opencode** | Open-source terminal coding agent, multi-provider (MIT) | [sst/opencode](https://github.com/sst/opencode) · [opencode.ai](https://opencode.ai) | [`anti-framework/opencode.puml`](_spec/study-cases/4-harness/anti-framework/opencode.puml) |
| **browser-use** | Computer-use / web-automation harness (YC W25) | [browser-use/browser-use](https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use) · [browser-use.com](https://browser-use.com) | [`applied/computer-use/browser-use.puml`](_spec/study-cases/4-harness/applied/computer-use/browser-use.puml) |
| **Dify** | Visual agentic-workflow platform | [langgenius/dify](https://github.com/langgenius/dify) · [dify.ai](https://dify.ai) | [`framework/dify.puml`](_spec/study-cases/4-harness/framework/dify.puml) |
| **Serena** | LSP-backed semantic-code MCP toolkit — symbol-level retrieval, editing & refactoring across 40+ languages; plugs into Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, JetBrains (MIT) | [oraios/serena](https://github.com/oraios/serena) | [`applied/software/lsp-symbolic-code-toolkit.puml`](_spec/study-cases/4-harness/applied/software/lsp-symbolic-code-toolkit.puml) |
| **Hermes Agent** | Self-improving personal agent (formerly OpenClaw) — closed learning loop, self-authored skills, cross-session memory; model-agnostic, multi-channel (MIT) | [NousResearch/hermes-agent](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent) | [`self-improving/skill-library-flywheel.puml`](_spec/study-cases/4-harness/self-improving/skill-library-flywheel.puml) ✳ |
> **✳ Hermes maps to several new cases.** It surfaced patterns the map didn't track, now authored: the [skill-library flywheel](_spec/study-cases/4-harness/self-improving/skill-library-flywheel.puml) (an L4 loop that fills the empty L2 "skills" rung, via [agentskills.io](https://agentskills.io)), a [cross-session user model](_spec/study-cases/4-harness/self-improving/cross-session-user-model.puml) (Honcho/MemGPT personalization memory), and [code-mode / executable-code actions](_spec/study-cases/4-harness/meta-orchestration/code-mode-executable-actions.puml) (CodeAct). Serena's [LSP symbolic toolkit](_spec/study-cases/4-harness/applied/software/lsp-symbolic-code-toolkit.puml) case (which also folds in its portable-MCP-server angle) was authored the same way. Two thinner-sourced patterns were also added (each flags its sourcing caveat in-file): the [harness trajectory flywheel](_spec/study-cases/6-post-training/harness-trajectory-flywheel.puml) (L4→L6 data flywheel; anchored by FireAct) and the [multi-channel agent gateway](_spec/study-cases/_substrate/serving/multi-channel-agent-gateway.puml) serving substrate.
## Conventions
- **Each project is self-contained.** `cd projects/<name>` and use that project's own commands. No root
`package.json`, no root workspace, no cross-project task graph.
- **The root owns `_spec/`** — the shared learning surface, *not* per-project specs (those live inside
each submodule). Authoring follows [`_spec/CONTRIBUTING.md`](_spec/CONTRIBUTING.md): the proveo
identity theme, role stereotypes, a `' Level:` header per file, and a confirmed source on every
study-case.
## Submodules
Projects are Git submodules tracking their `main` branches; the root preserves the centralized `_spec/`
for cross-project architectural alignment.
```bash
git clone git@github.com:proveo-ca/orrery.git
cd orrery
git submodule update --init --recursive # pull every project
git submodule update --remote --merge # later: track each project's upstream main
```
========================================================================
FILE: AGENTS.md
========================================================================
# AGENTS.md — OpenCode Team Workflow
This is a loose harness repository: each application under `projects/*` is independent and integrated via Git submodules; the root owns the shared `_spec/` learning surface.
You are the lead of a software engineering team. Your job is to coordinate subagents, enforce review loops, and keep the human in the loop for risky decisions. Optimize for small, correct changes with explicit verification.
## Team Structure
- **plan** — read-only planner. Produces specs and step lists. Never edits.
- **build** — primary implementer. Can edit; bash requires human approval.
- **@architect** — designs before code. Must be consulted for non-trivial work.
- **@backend / @frontend / @devops** — domain specialists.
- **@adversarial-reviewer** — finds every problem in a diff. No fixes on first pass.
- **@security-reviewer** — security-focused review.
- **@spec-keeper** — maintains `_spec/` and contracts.
- **@sre / @systems-design / @monorepo-coordinator** — cross-cutting concerns.
## Mandatory Workflow
1. Classify the task before editing: trivial, contained, non-trivial, security-sensitive, infrastructure, frontend, backend, spec-impacting, monorepo-impacting.
2. For any non-trivial task, invoke `@architect` before implementation.
3. Delegate domain work to the most specific agent: `@backend`, `@frontend`, `@devops`, `@sre`, `@systems-design`, or `@monorepo-coordinator`.
4. Implement with the smallest change that satisfies the accepted plan.
5. Run detected verification commands before review whenever feasible.
6. Invoke `@adversarial-reviewer` after implementation. Invoke `@security-reviewer` when auth, secrets, network, dependency, sandbox, permissions, payments, user data, or serialization are touched.
7. If `_spec/`, planning docs, architecture boundaries, or harness contracts change, invoke `@spec-keeper`.
8. Only report completion when verification has passed or the reason for skipping verification is explicit.
## Routing Matrix
- API, database, workers, services: `@backend`.
- React, UI, CSS, accessibility, client routing: `@frontend`.
- Docker, CI, package managers, deployment, runtime images: `@devops`.
- Observability, production failure modes, SLOs, runbooks: `@sre`.
- Distributed systems, scaling, consistency, queues, caches: `@systems-design`.
- Workspace structure, shared dependencies, cross-package changes: `@monorepo-coordinator`.
- `_spec/`, diagrams, PLANs, contracts: `@spec-keeper`.
- Security-sensitive changes: `@security-reviewer`.
- Final diff quality gate: `@adversarial-reviewer`.
## Review Gates
- `@adversarial-reviewer` findings marked `[BLOCKER]` or `[HIGH]` must be addressed before completion.
- `@security-reviewer` findings marked `[BLOCKER]` or `[HIGH]` must be addressed before completion.
- Reviewers must be read-only; do not ask them to edit on the first pass.
- A reviewer saying `READY TO MERGE: no` means the lead must either fix the issue or explicitly ask the human to accept the risk.
## HITL Rules
- Ask for human approval before risky bash commands, migrations, destructive operations, external publishing, credential handling, or network/security posture changes.
- Do not commit, amend, push, publish, deploy, or change secrets unless the human explicitly asks.
- Prefer one precise question when requirements are ambiguous.
## Context & Drift
- Use context compaction and summarization features.
- Re-read key files after long sessions.
- Surface available subagents at the start of major tasks.
- If the task changes direction, restate the new goal and re-run the routing decision.
========================================================================
FILE: _spec/CONTRIBUTING.md
========================================================================
# Contributing to `_spec/` — the study-cases learning surface
This `_spec/` tree is the harness's **shared learning surface**: a curated, sourced map of how
agent/LLM systems are built — reasoning architectures, harness shapes, governance models, deployment
patterns — distilled into diagrams. It is *not* coupled to any one project's code; it documents the
**field**, and our own `projects/*` are treated as reference implementations of patterns that also
exist in the literature.
Authoring and rendering follow the **`spec` skill** (`skills/spec/`, also linked from
`.agents/skills/spec/`): proveo identity theme, six `<<role>>` stereotypes, intent-carrying `ARROW_*`
macros, explicit naming, current-state truth, and `plantuml -checkonly` before commit. Install into
another checkout with `npx skills add proveo-ca/orrery --skill spec`. Read it first. This file adds
the rules that are specific to the **study-cases** surface — chiefly: **every file is sourced.**
After adding or renaming study-case sources, regenerate the scraper index and digest from the repo
root: `bash scripts/build-llm-context.sh` (updates `llms.txt` and `llms-full.txt`). Verify with
`bash scripts/test-build-llm-context.sh`.
---
## 1. The sourcing rule — never sourceless, arXiv is *conditional*
> **Every study-case file MUST carry a citation to its primary source.** A diagram with no source is
> incomplete and must not be committed. Confirm the identifier against the real abstract/venue page —
> we do not cite from memory.
The *kind* of source is **conditional on what the file documents**. arXiv is the preferred source —
**but only when the file documents a published research method.** Otherwise the canonical source for
that kind of artifact supersedes arXiv:
| If the file documents… | Cite | Example |
| --- | --- | --- |
| a **research method / technique** (reasoning architecture, retrieval/verification strategy, learning algorithm) | **arXiv abstract URL** — `https://arxiv.org/abs/XXXX.XXXXX` | `arXiv:2210.03629` (ReAct) |
| a method published **only in a venue with no arXiv** (Science, SOSP, CACM, KDD…) | the **DOI / venue page** | CICERO → `science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097` |
| a **shipping product / tool / framework** | the **canonical product or repo URL** | `https://aider.chat/`, GitHub repo |
| a **protocol / standard / RFC** | the **official spec page** | MCP → `modelcontextprotocol.io`; PROV → `w3.org/TR/prov-overview/` |
| a **foundational CS concept** (capability security, leases, sagas, event sourcing) | the **canonical paper / author page** (usually pre-arXiv — cite DOI or author site) | Saltzer & Schroeder → `web.mit.edu/Saltzer/...` |
So: **arXiv when it's a paper that's on arXiv; the canonical artifact source otherwise; always
something.** Don't force a product into an arXiv citation, and don't downgrade a real paper to a blog
link.
### Header form
Place the source at the top of the file, right after the theme `!include`, by the `title`. This is the
established convention (see `study-cases/3-meta-prompt-loops/react.puml`):
```puml
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title ReAct Architecture (Reason + Act)
' Paper: ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03629
' Level: 3
```
- `' Paper:` — the title line. Use it for research-method files; omit for bare product/standard files.
- `' URL:` — **required on every file.** The arXiv/DOI/product/spec link per the table above.
- `' Level:` — **required on every file.** The capability-ladder tier `1`–`7`, or `n/a (substrate)` —
see [`study-cases/README.md`](./study-cases/README.md). The file's directory must agree (e.g. a file
in `4-harness/governance/` declares `Level: 4`).
- Products use `' URL:` alone (see `study-cases/4-harness/anti-framework/aider.puml`).
- In Markdown study-cases, use the per-entry `*Abstract:* … *URL:* …` form (see
`study-cases/context-and-retrieval.md`).
### Provenance — tie abstract patterns back to our reference implementations
When a study-case **generalizes a pattern we actually built** in `projects/*`, add a provenance line.
It is **additive** — it never replaces the external citation:
```puml
' Provenance: projects/aphelion · effectauth/effectauth.go (capability/effect authorization)
```
### Multiple or competing sources
List the **primary first**, then alternates — comma-separated or one `' URL:` per line. (E.g.
multi-agent debate has two canonical papers, Du et al. `arXiv:2305.14325` and Liang et al.
`arXiv:2305.19118`; cite the one your diagram models, note the other.)
---
## 2. Study-cases *invert* the SPEC back-reference rule
The `spec` skill requires every project `.puml` to be linked from a source file via a `// SPEC:`
comment, so diagrams stay honest when code changes. **Study-cases are exempt from that rule** — they
describe the field, not our repo, so there is usually no source file to anchor them to.
Instead, the **external citation is the anchor** (plus optional provenance). The honesty invariant is
preserved, just inverted:
- **Project specs point _into_ the repo** (a `SPEC:` comment on the code they describe).
- **Study-cases point _out_ to the literature** (the `' URL:` source they distill).
A study-case with neither a citation nor provenance is the study-case equivalent of an unreferenced
project diagram: it doesn't belong.
---
## 3. Other good practices
- **Format choice** (per the skill): PlantUML `.puml` is the default (architecture/sequence/state);
Mermaid `.mmd` for flow that should render inline in Markdown; Vega-Lite `.vega.json` for data
charts. Most study-cases are PlantUML.
- **Theme & identity:** new files `!include …/proveo.puml` and tag nodes with `<<role>>` stereotypes +
`ARROW_*` macros chosen by intent. Legacy study-cases still use `!includeurl …/proveo.iuml` with the
old `COLOR_*`/`PATH_*` macros — **leave them as-is; modernize only a file you're already editing.**
- **Organize by level (then topic).** The tree is **level-first**: top-level `N-name/` dirs
(`1-human-expert/`, `2-single-prompts/`, `3-meta-prompt-loops/`, `4-harness/`, `5-fine-tuned/`,
`6-post-training/`), with topic subfolders inside `1-human-expert/` (`computer-science/`, `rag/`),
`2-single-prompts/` (`discovery/`), and the large `4-harness/` tier (`governance/`,
`meta-orchestration/`, `self-improving/`, `applied/`, …). A self-improving system with **frozen
weights** is an L4 self-improving harness; one that **updates weights** against a reward/eval loop
is L6 post-training (above L5 supervised fine-tuning, which adapts to a fixed dataset). Substrate
that's orthogonal to the ladder lives under `_substrate/`. The capability ladder and the full level
map are in [`study-cases/README.md`](./study-cases/README.md).
- **One concept per file.** Give each topic subfolder an `_essentials.puml` that summarizes it (see
`4-harness/anti-framework/_essentials.puml`). Cross-cutting narrative goes in a root-level `.md`
(`summary.md`, `context-and-retrieval.md`).
- **Index files are source-exempt.** `README.md`, `_essentials.puml`, and other summary/index files
synthesize their already-sourced children, so they need no `' URL:` of their own (they may still
carry a `' Level:`). The no-sourceless rule in §1 applies to *content* study-cases.
- **Naming:** kebab-case filenames; explicit node names (`apps/api Session Routes`, not `Backend`).
- **Validate before commit:** `plantuml -checkonly file.puml` (empty output + exit 0 = clean).
- **Staleness — append, don't silently rewrite.** Study-cases drift as the field moves. Cite the
dated paper version you read. When a study-case is superseded, add a note or mark it `OUTDATED`
rather than deleting it or quietly editing the architecture out from under the citation. (Mirrors
the skill's diagram lifecycle.)
---
## 4. Author checklist
Before committing a new study-case:
- [ ] One concept, in the right **level** directory (`N-name/…`), kebab-case filename.
- [ ] **`' Level:` header present** and matching the directory.
- [ ] Theme included; nodes tagged by `<<role>>`; arrows chosen by intent (`ARROW_*`).
- [ ] **`' URL:` source present** and verified against the real abstract/venue/product page.
- [ ] Source *kind* matches the conditional table in §1 (arXiv only for on-arXiv research methods).
- [ ] `' Provenance:` line added if it generalizes a `projects/*` pattern.
- [ ] `plantuml -checkonly` passes.
---
## 5. The study-cases are authored
The original sourced backlog (`TODO.md`) has been **fully consumed** — every suggested study-case is
now an authored, rendered `.puml` under `study-cases/<level>/…` (see
[`study-cases/README.md`](./study-cases/README.md) for the level map). Add new study-cases directly in
the right level dir, following the rules above: one concept per file, `' Level:` + `' URL:` headers, a
confirmed source, and `plantuml -checkonly` clean.
========================================================================
FILE: _spec/study-cases/README.md
========================================================================
# Study-cases — the capability ladder
The study-cases learning surface maps how agent/LLM systems are built. Its organizing axis is a
**7-level capability ladder** for deciding *at what level a business request should be solved*. Two
views share the same seven tiers:
- **The funnel (demand-side)** — how business needs force a *supplier* down from the aspirational top
(a custom model) to whatever rung actually clears the bar. A decision procedure.
- **The study map (build-side)** — the same tiers on a 2D plane: *encoding depth* (prompt → scaffold →
weights) × *autonomy* (baseline → HITL → supervised → autonomous). A learning map.
> **Layout.** The tree is organized **by level**: top-level `N-name/` dirs — including the Level-1
> floor `1-human-expert/` (`computer-science/` primers, `rag/` strategy map) and Level-2
> `2-single-prompts/` (`discovery/` — how to reach market prompt/skill leaderboards) — with topic
> subfolders inside the large `4-harness/` tier (`governance/`, `evidence-and-durability/`,
> `meta-orchestration/`, `self-improving/`, `applied/`, plus the migrated `anti-framework/` and
> `framework/`), and `_substrate/` for substrate that's orthogonal to the ladder. Cross-cutting
> overviews (`summary.md`, `_essentials.puml`, `context-and-retrieval.md`) stay at the root; the two
> ladder diagrams live in [`../overview/`](../overview/). Each file also declares its tier in a
> `' Level:` header (see [`../CONTRIBUTING.md`](../CONTRIBUTING.md)).
## The funnel (demand-side)
Read top-down. Start by asking whether the most capable, most-owned approach can one-shot the request;
at each **deterministic checkpoint**, the named shortfall pushes you down one level, until a level
clears the bar — or you hit the human floor.
*Diagram source: [`business-needs-funnel.puml`](../overview/business-needs-funnel.puml) — render with `plantuml -tsvg`.*
## The study map (build-side)
A 2D plane: **encoding depth** on X (prompt → scaffold → weights) × **autonomy** on Y — **baseline**
(human runs it) → **HITL** (per-step human approval) → **supervised** (human oversees) → **autonomous**
(unattended). Tiers cluster along depth — autonomy is the orthogonal dial: the same depth can sit at
different autonomy (L4 supervised vs L4·SI autonomous share the scaffold column). What you **edit
deepens** left→right: the **prompt** (workflow frozen) → the **workflow** at L4 (tools, orchestration;
weights still frozen) → the **weights** at L5+. The decisive line is **L4 → L5** — where you first
change the *weights*.
*Diagram source: [`study-map.vega.json`](../overview/study-map.vega.json) — render with `vl2svg study-map.vega.json study-map.svg` (theme: `_spec/themes/proveo.vega.json`).*
## The levels
| Level | Name | What it is | Generic market baseline | Boundary below it | Dir |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **7** | Custom model | Train the neural network from scratch; you own the data and the architecture | Frontier foundation models trained from scratch (Opus- / GLM-class) | _entry: "can the model one-shot it?"_ | — |
| **6** | RL post-training | Update weights against a **reward / eval loop you own** — RLVR, RFT, or SFT on loop-generated data | OpenAI RFT; DeepSeek-R1; Tülu 3 | needs cheaper / faster / safer / more accurate | `6-post-training/` |
| **5** | Supervised fine-tuning | Adapt open weights to a **fixed dataset you own** (LoRA / SFT) | Domain models on HuggingFace; Med-PaLM; FinGPT | a reward loop is overkill — a labeled dataset suffices | `5-fine-tuned/` |
| **4** | Harness (workflow orchestration) | **Ground the model in tools / data / integrations**, own authority + evidence, orchestrate multi-step work — incl. **self-improving harnesses** (frozen weights) | Claude Cowork; Copilot Studio + Agent 365; AgentKit; LangGraph; Devin / Factory (coding) | don't retrain — ground & orchestrate a frozen model | `4-harness/` (`governance/`, `evidence-and-durability/`, `meta-orchestration/`, `self-improving/`, `applied/`, `anti-framework/`, `framework/`) |
| **3** | Meta-prompt loops | Augment the base prompt with reasoning / iteration loops (no tools, no weight change) | General chat assistants that augment the base prompt (ChatGPT) | no tools or integrations — self-contained reasoning | `3-meta-prompt-loops/` (CoT, ReAct, Reflexion, ToT, MAD); much of `context-and-retrieval.md` |
| **2** | Single prompts (skills) | A crafted system prompt / reusable skill, one-shot | Shared system-prompt & skill libraries (community & vendor repos) | single-shot — no reasoning loop needed | `2-single-prompts/` (`discovery/`) |
| **1** | Human expert | A person does — or signs off — the work | Domain experts (financial analysts, clinicians, attorneys, SREs) | must be signed-off by a human | `1-human-expert/` (`computer-science/`, `rag/`) |
**L4 → L5 is the frozen→trained line.** Everything at L1–L4 leaves the base model's weights untouched
(you change prompts, tools, orchestration); L5 is where you first change the weights. It's the single
most consequential boundary on the ladder — both diagrams mark it.
**Tools & retrieval grounding** isn't a separate rung — it's the defining capability of **Level 4**
(the "integrations + evidence" in its definition) and the boundary between L4 and L3. **Evaluation**
(rubrics/scores/benchmarks) is the substance of **Level 6** and, more broadly, the cross-cutting signal
that licenses every climb; **authority/HITL** is the study map's Y axis and intensifies upward.
**Orthogonal to the ladder.** Some study-cases describe *deployment / control substrate* rather than a
capability tier — `_substrate/edge-and-p2p/` (on-device inference, P2P transport, embedded servers,
liveness), `_substrate/reactive-control/` (classical `steering-behaviors`, `behavior-trees-and-fsm`),
and the migrated `_substrate/web-llm/` and `_substrate/nets/`. These are tagged
`' Level: n/a (substrate)`.
## Where the focus is
The harness's own projects cluster at **Level 4** (aphelion's authority/evidence, omnigent's
orchestration, plus the frozen-weight self-improvers in `4-harness/self-improving/`) — so `4-harness/`
is the richest tier. **Level 6** (`6-post-training/`) is the deliberately-expanded tier: weight updates
driven by a reward/eval loop. Every study-case is authored as a rendered `.puml` (+ `.svg`) under its
level dir; see [`../CONTRIBUTING.md`](../CONTRIBUTING.md) for the authoring + sourcing rules.
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# Agent Harness Summary: Architecture & Prompting
## 1. The Harness Dichotomy
Modern AI agents generally fall into one of two architectural patterns, depending on their target environment and performance requirements.
### The Anti-Framework Harness (Vertical Performance)
* **Best For:** Deeply specialized tasks like Coding (Aider, OpenCode) or Creative Writing.
* **Architecture:** A robust `while(true)` loop. It eschews complex graph abstractions for direct control over state transitions.
* **Key Traits:**
* **Direct IO:** Uses raw PTY/Shell/File access rather than generic "Tools".
* **Stateful Memory:** Maintains strict objects for "Active Files" or "Current Plan".
* **Loop Control:** Hard-coded logic for token limits and iteration counts.
* **Easy Evals:** Leverages deterministic feedback (exit codes, linter errors) for reliable self-correction.
### The Framework-Based Harness (Horizontal Integration)
* **Best For:** Enterprise operations, compliance, and multi-modal workflows (Microsoft Copilot, Glean).
* **Architecture:** A stack of abstractions (RAG pipelines, Trust Boundaries, Model Gateways).
* **Key Traits:**
* **Compliance:** Built-in "Trust Boundaries" for PII stripping and ACL checks.
* **Orchestration:** Uses standard protocols (like LangGraph or Semantic Kernel) to coordinate multiple specialized agents.
* **Abstraction:** Normalizes 100+ SaaS APIs into a uniform interface.
## 2. Cognitive Architectures (The Brain)
While the Harness manages the *flow*, the Prompting Architecture manages the *reasoning*.
* **ReAct (Reason + Act):** The industry standard for tool use. The model must "Think" before it "Acts", and observe the result before continuing. This loop corrects course dynamically.
* **Plan-and-Solve:** Separates "Architecting" from "Building". A Planner agent defines the steps upfront, and an Executor agent blindly follows them. Essential for preventing rabbit holes in complex tasks.
* **Reflexion:** A self-healing loop. The agent attempts a task, evaluates failure, writes a "lesson learned" to memory, and retries. This mimics human learning.
## 3. Context Engineering (The Fuel)
Managing the Context Window is the hardest engineering challenge. It is not just about "fitting more in"; it is about **Context Steering**.
### Ingestion vs. Selection
* **Tree-sitter (Structure):** Used by coding agents (Aider) to understand the *skeleton* of code (classes, functions) without reading every line.
* **Vector Search (Semantics):** Used by enterprise search (Glean) to find relevant documents based on meaning.
### Context Steering & Pruning
* **The Problem:** Large context windows (1M+ tokens) suffer from "Lost in the Middle" phenomena and high latency.
* **The Solution (Pruning):**
* **Sliding Window:** Keep the last $N$ turns raw, summarize the rest.
* **Active Set:** Explicitly track which files/docs are "Open" and prune everything else.
* **Relevance Ranking:** Use PageRank (graph analysis) to determine which files are actually important to the current problem, discarding 90% of the codebase to focus on the critical 10%.
### High-Precision Context (Finance/Legal)
For domains requiring 100% accuracy, standard chunking fails.
* **Proposition Retrieval:** Instead of retrieving paragraphs, retrieve atomic "facts" (propositions). See *Dense X Retrieval* (https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06648).
* **Chain-of-Verification (CoVe):** The model must generate a verification plan against the context before answering. See *CoVe* (https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11495).
## 4. Evaluation & Verification (The Guardrails)
Trust is the currency of agents. Whether controlling a character in a game or making a business decision, harnesses must implement "Run-Time Evals" to measure confidence before acting.
* **Evaluation Without Execution (Dry-Run Verification):** When the agent cannot test its plan against a real-world environment (e.g., executing a trade or signing a contract).
### Verification Strategies
* **LLMs as Formalizers:** Constrain the LLM to output a formal, machine-readable representation of its plan (e.g., PDDL, JSON schema).
* **Deterministic Solvers:** Pass the formal representation to traditional constraint solvers or rule engines to verify the state transitions do not violate business logic, guaranteeing correctness before reaching the user.
### Handling Non-Deterministic Scenarios (Probabilistic Risk)
Pure LLM frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, OpenClaw) cannot natively assert probabilistic risks or calculate true mathematical confidence levels because LLMs are text predictors, not statistical engines. To handle non-deterministic scenarios (e.g., supply chain disruptions, complex physics):
* **The Solution:** Integrate the agent harness with a **Probabilistic Programming Language (PPL)** or statistical simulation engine (e.g., **PyMC, Stan, Pyro, or Monte Carlo simulators**).
* **The Workflow:**
1. **The Formalizer:** The LLM does *not* guess the answer. It writes a Python script (e.g., using PyMC) that models the scenario, defines knowns, and exposes unknown variables as probability distributions.
2. **The Hands (Harness):** The harness executes the script locally.
3. **The Result:** The PPL engine runs the simulation and outputs hard math (e.g., *"Most probable scenario: Outcome A. Confidence level: 89.4%."*).
4. **The Response:** The harness feeds this mathematical truth back to the LLM to summarize for the user.
* **Deterministic vs. Probabilistic:**
* **Anti-Framework (Deterministic):** "Did the test pass?" The harness checks the exit code. This is why coding agents are more autonomous; they have a ground-truth signal.
* **Framework (Probabilistic):** "Is this answer polite?" The harness must use a secondary LLM (Evaluator) or human feedback to judge quality, which is slower and less reliable.
* **Run-Time Confidence:**
* **Logprobs/Entropy:** Monitoring the raw probability of the model's choices. High entropy (uncertainty) during a critical decision (e.g., "Attack" vs "Defend") should trigger a fallback or user confirmation.
* **Self-Critique:** A secondary loop where the model asks, "Does this action align with my current goal/persona?" (See *Reflexion*).
* **Multi-Agent Debate (MAD):** For high-stakes environments, a single model self-critiquing risks confirmation bias. An adversarial architecture uses specialized agents (e.g., a "Drafter" and a "Red-Team Judge") debating the plan to surface loopholes and reduce hallucinations without execution.
* **Verified Sources (Grounding):**
* **Framework Approach:** Systems enforce "Citation". Every claim or decision must link back to a retrieved fact or rule. If the similarity score is low, the harness flags the action as "Low Confidence".
* **Simulation/Prediction:** In decision-making or games, the harness can simulate the outcome (e.g., "If I move here, will I die?") before committing the action.
### Evals (Offline vs. Online)
* **Offline Evals (Benchmarks):** Running the agent against a static dataset of known scenarios (e.g., "Scenario A: accurate diagnosis", "Scenario B: correct pathfinding") to measure success rates.
* **Online Evals (Feedback):** Tracking "User Acceptance Rate" or "Reward Signals" (e.g., did the user accept the suggestion? Did the game score increase?).
## 5. Interaction Patterns (The Collaboration)
An agent is not a "fire and forget" missile; it is a collaborator. The harness must support patterns that allow humans to steer, interrupt, and approve actions.
### Human-in-the-Loop Strategies
* **Permission Gates & The "Proposal" Pattern:**
* **Binary Gates:** High-risk tools (`delete_file`, `deploy_prod`) flagged as "RequiresApproval" pause the loop for a `y/n` signal.
* **Draft-and-Diff (Beyond y/n):** In complex domains (legal, finance), binary gates fail. The harness must yield a "Proposal Artifact" (a JSON patch, diff, or inline-commented document).
* **Node-Level Editability:** The gate allows the human to edit the proposed plan at the node level. The harness then resumes, treating the human-edited plan as the new ground truth.
* **Silent vs. Loud:** Read-only tools (search, grep) run silently. Write/Proposal tools run loudly.
* **Interruptibility:**
* **The "Stop" Button:** Users must be able to halt a runaway loop or infinite reasoning chain immediately.
* **Injection:** Users should be able to inject new context mid-task ("Wait, I forgot to mention, use the V2 API") without restarting the entire session.
* **Clarification Loops:**
* **Ambiguity Detection:** If a user request is vague ("Fix the bug"), the agent should be prompted to ask clarifying questions ("Which bug? Can you paste the error?") instead of guessing.
## 6. Applied Examples: Mapping Theory to Tools
### Anti-Framework Implementations
* **Aider (Code):**
* *Eval:* **Linter-First.** It runs code analysis *before* showing the user.
* *Interaction:* **Commit-Review.** The "Accept" button is a Git Commit.
* **Sweep (Async):**
* *Eval:* **CI/CD.** Relies on external GitHub Actions to verify correctness.
* *Interaction:* **Comment-Driven.** Uses issue comments for feedback loops.
* **"Hands" Approach (ZeroClaw, OpenClaw, OpenFang):**
* *Eval:* **Deterministic Handoff.** Relies on executing generated formal representations (e.g., math/physics simulations) in deterministic engines to verify confidence in non-deterministic scenarios.
* *Interaction:* **Direct I/O.** Prioritizes raw tool execution and direct environment manipulation over complex graph orchestration.
### Framework Implementations
* **Microsoft Copilot:**
* *Eval:* **Trust Boundary.** A rigid compliance layer that filters output before the user sees it.
* *Interaction:* **App-Host.** Uses "Ghost Text" (Tab-to-complete) as a low-friction permission gate.
* **Typeface (Marketing):**
* *Eval:* **Brand Guard.** A specialized model checks style guidelines.
* *Interaction:* **Rich UI.** Uses sliders and templates to constrain the model's freedom *before* prompting.
## 7. Conclusion: The Modern Stack
The future likely isn't "Framework vs Anti-Framework", but a hybrid structure:
1. **Inner Loop (The Agent):** Uses an **Anti-Framework** architecture (ReAct/While Loop) for maximum vertical performance, deterministic evals, and tool mastery.
2. **Outer Scope (The Environment):** Encased in a **Framework** layer (LangGraph/Semantic Kernel) to handle horizontal concerns like RBAC, Auth, and Compliance.
3. **The Interface (The Gate):** Controlled by a **Tight User Gate** (App-Host/Confirmation) to ensure that the autonomous inner loop doesn't violate the safety constraints of the outer scope.
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# Context Engineering & Retrieval Architectures
This document tracks key research papers and strategies for managing the Context Window and ensuring high-precision retrieval — moving from inference-time prompting and pipelines through to systems that train or self-evolve their own retrieval.
> **Level-1 RAG map (Jul 2026).** Architecture selection diagrams (vector, GraphRAG, LightRAG, HippoRAG/2, PathRAG, RAPTOR, PageIndex, CRAG, KET-RAG, LazyGraphRAG, OG-RAG, adaptive routing) live under [`1-human-expert/rag/`](./1-human-expert/rag/). Foundational CS primers distilled from [proveo-ca/computer-science](https://github.com/proveo-ca/computer-science) are in [`1-human-expert/computer-science/`](./1-human-expert/computer-science/).
## 1. Context Window Management
Strategies for dealing with massive context limits (100k - 1M+ tokens) and the "Lost in the Middle" phenomenon.
* **Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts**
* *Abstract:* Performance degrades when relevant information is in the middle of a long context window. Models are best at using info at the start/end.
* *URL:* https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172
* **Thread of Thought: Unraveling Chaotic Contexts**
* *Abstract:* Techniques to segment context to prevent confusion when multiple topics are present.
* *URL:* https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08734
* **LongLoRA: Efficient Fine-tuning of Long-Context Large Language Models**
* *Abstract:* Architecture for shifting attention in massive context windows.
* *URL:* https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12307
## 2. High-Precision Retrieval (Finance / Legal)
Strategies for domains where hallucinations are unacceptable and retrieval needs to be atomic.
* **Dual-Channel Retrieval (Fact vs. Rule RAG):**
* *Concept:* Maintains two distinct context pipelines: Pipeline A retrieves factual state (e.g., client financial history), while Pipeline B retrieves systemic constraints (e.g., SEC regulations or legal statutes).
* *Implementation:* Constraints from Pipeline B are injected into the system prompt as absolute, overriding directives (hard prompt guardrails) rather than appended as standard conversational context, enforcing compliance during generation.
* **Dense X Retrieval: What Retrieval Granularity Should We Use?**
* *Abstract:* Argues for "Proposition Retrieval" (atomic facts) over document/paragraph retrieval to minimize noise and improve accuracy.
* *URL:* https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06648
* **RAG vs. Long Context: The "Needle in a Haystack" Analysis**
* *Abstract:* A comparative analysis showing RAG often outperforms massive context windows for specific fact retrieval.
* *URL:* https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13249
## 3. Verification & Anti-Hallucination
* **Chain-of-Verification (CoVe): Reducing Hallucination in Large Language Models**
* *Abstract:* A prompting pattern where the model generates a plan to verify its own answers against retrieved context.
* *URL:* https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11495
* **Self-RAG: Learning to Retrieve, Generate, and Critique through Self-Reflection** (Oct 2023)
* *Abstract:* A framework where the model learns to output special tokens to critique its own retrieval quality and generation accuracy during inference.
* *URL:* https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11511
* **Corrective RAG (CRAG): Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation** (Jan 2024)
* *Abstract:* Introduces a lightweight "retrieval evaluator" to assess the quality of retrieved documents. If quality is low, it falls back to a web search to correct the context.
* *URL:* https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15884
* **Localizing and Correcting Errors for LLM-based Planners (L-ICL)** (Feb 2026)
* *Abstract:* Proposes iteratively augmenting instructions with targeted corrections for specific failing steps (minimal input-output examples) rather than full trajectories. Shows that localized corrections are more effective and sample-efficient than retrieval-based ICL for planning tasks.
* *URL:* https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00276
* **ChatEval: Towards Better LLM-based Evaluators through Multi-Agent Debate** (Aug 2023)
* *Abstract:* Explores using multiple LLM instances (a "Drafter" and a "Red-Team Judge") to debate a response, significantly improving evaluation quality and bridging the gap to human-level evaluation without real-world execution.
* *URL:* https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07201
* **On the Limit of Language Models as Planning Formalizers** (Dec 2024)
* *Abstract:* Demonstrates that LLMs struggle to create executable plans autonomously, but excel at generating formal representations (e.g., PDDL) that can be deterministically solved to verify correctness in non-executable environments.
* *URL:* https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09879
## 4. Learned & Self-Improving Retrieval
Where §1–§3 engineer context at *inference* time — prompting and pipelines around a fixed model — these systems instead **train the search/retrieval policy** or **self-evolve the context** against a reward or eval signal. Retrieval stops being plumbing and becomes something the model learns.
* **Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with Reinforcement Learning** (Mar 2025)
* *Abstract:* Trains an LLM end-to-end with RL to interleave reasoning with live search-engine calls, learning *when* and *what* to retrieve from outcome rewards — replacing a fixed RAG pipeline with a learned retrieval policy.
* *URL:* https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09516
* **DeepRetrieval: Hacking Real Search Engines and Retrievers with LLMs via Reinforcement Learning** (Mar 2025)
* *Abstract:* Treats query generation as an RL policy optimized directly against real search engines/retrievers; the model learns to write queries that maximize retrieval quality, with no labeled query–document pairs.
* *URL:* https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00223
* **ReSearch: Learning to Reason with Search for LLMs via Reinforcement Learning** (NeurIPS 2025)
* *Abstract:* RL makes search an integral step of the reasoning chain; self-correction and reflection emerge from the reward. Peer-reviewed anchor for RL-reasoning-with-search.
* *URL:* https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19470
* **R1-Searcher++: Incentivizing the Dynamic Knowledge Acquisition of LLMs via Reinforcement Learning** (May 2025)
* *Abstract:* RL for *dynamic* retrieval plus a memorization mechanism that assimilates retrieved facts into the model's internal knowledge — a self-improving memory loop. (Successor to R1-Searcher, https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05592.)
* *URL:* https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17005
* **Agentic Context Engineering (ACE): Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models** (ICLR 2026)
* *Abstract:* Self-improves the *context/playbook itself* via a generate → reflect → curate loop driven by execution feedback — gradient-free context evolution: no weight updates, but a reward-shaped self-improvement loop.
* *URL:* https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04618
> **Bridge from §3.** *Self-RAG* (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11511) sits between the two halves of this document: its self-critique is a **learned** behavior — the model is *trained* to emit reflection tokens (Retrieve / IsRel / IsSup / IsUse) rather than prompted to — yet that training is supervised fine-tuning / distillation, **not** RL. A learned, but not reward-optimized, self-reflection.
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# How to query L2 popularity surfaces
Recipes only — run these when you need a *current* snapshot. Do not bake install tables into study-cases.
## A. Agent skills — [skills.sh](https://skills.sh)
**What it ranks:** packages installable with `npx skills add …`, by anonymous install telemetry
([docs](https://skills.sh/docs)). Index entry requires real installs — there is no GitHub crawler.
### Leaderboard (browse)
```text
https://skills.sh/
```
Homepage leaderboard = all-time install ranking (UI). No public “dump entire board” API is
documented; treat the HTML/RSC homepage as the canonical full ranking.
### Search API (HTTP)
```bash
# Fuzzy search; results include installs, sorted by popularity in the CLI client
curl -sL 'https://skills.sh/api/search?q=frontend&limit=10'
# Scope to a GitHub owner
curl -sL 'https://skills.sh/api/search?q=pdf&limit=10&owner=anthropics'
```
Response shape (fields): `query`, `skills[]` with `id`, `skillId`, `name`, `installs`, `source`,
plus `count`.
### CLI (same search, install path)
```bash
npx skills find frontend # interactive / agent search
npx skills find pdf --owner anthropics
npx skills add anthropics/skills@frontend-design
npx skills list # local installs
```
CLI source: [vercel-labs/skills](https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills). Discovery skill:
[`find-skills`](https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills/blob/main/skills/find-skills/SKILL.md).
### Install-count badge (per repo)
```markdown
[](https://skills.sh/anthropics/skills)
```
```text
https://skills.sh/b/{owner}/{repo}
https://skills.sh/{owner}/{repo}
https://skills.sh/{owner}/{repo}/{skill}
```
## B. First-party Agent Skills — Anthropic + standard
| Reach | How |
| --- | --- |
| Format standard | https://agentskills.io |
| Reference repo | https://github.com/anthropics/skills |
| Claude Code marketplace | `/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills` then Browse / `/plugin install …@anthropic-agent-skills` |
| GitHub stars sort (any org) | `https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=topic:agent-skills&sort=stars&order=desc` |
```bash
# List top public repos tagged agent-skills (stars ≠ install popularity)
curl -sL 'https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=topic:agent-skills&sort=stars&order=desc&per_page=10' \
| jq -r '.items[] | "\(.stargazers_count)\t\(.full_name)"'
```
## C. Classic one-shot prompts — [prompts.chat](https://prompts.chat)
Formerly *Awesome ChatGPT Prompts* — [f/prompts.chat](https://github.com/f/prompts.chat) on GitHub.
| Fetch | URL / command |
| --- | --- |
| Browse UI | https://prompts.chat/prompts |
| Raw markdown dump | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/f/prompts.chat/main/PROMPTS.md |
| CSV | https://github.com/f/prompts.chat/blob/main/prompts.csv |
| Hugging Face dataset | https://huggingface.co/datasets/fka/prompts.chat |
| Skills plugin path | `/plugin marketplace add f/prompts.chat` |
Stars on the GitHub repo remain the classic popularity proxy for this genre.
## D. Vendor system-prompt archives (product baselines)
Extracted product prompts — not authored libraries. Rank by **stars + last-commit freshness**, then
open the vendor folder you care about.
| Archive | URL |
| --- | --- |
| Multi-vendor chat / IDE | https://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks |
| Coding-agent teardown | https://github.com/x1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools |
| Claude Code (versioned) | https://github.com/Piebald-AI/claude-code-system-prompts |
```bash
# Discover similar archives by stars (tune the query)
curl -sL 'https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=system+prompts+in:name,description&sort=stars&order=desc&per_page=10' \
| jq -r '.items[] | "\(.stargazers_count)\t\(.full_name)\t\(.html_url)"'
```
Clone or raw-fetch a single file (example pattern):
```bash
# raw file from an archive path — replace owner/repo/path
curl -sL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks/main/README.md' | head
```
## Ranking hygiene (for study-cases)
1. Prefer **skills.sh installs** when the artifact is a `SKILL.md` package.
2. Prefer **vendor marketplace / official repo** for first-party document skills.
3. Prefer **prompts.chat / HF** for persona one-shots.
4. Prefer **dated archive commits** for “what Cursor/Claude/ChatGPT actually ship.”
5. Never cite an install table without a fetch date — leaderboards move daily.
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---
name: spec
description: >-
Conventions and rendering for proveo architecture/spec diagrams. Use this skill
whenever working under a `_spec/` directory; authoring or editing PlantUML (`.puml`),
Mermaid (`.mmd`/`.mermaid`), or Vega-Lite (`.vega.json`) diagrams; adding or maintaining
`// SPEC:` / `# SPEC:` source references; or when the user asks about proveo diagram
conventions, the proveo identity color palette/theme, role stereotypes, semantic arrows,
or how to validate and render diagrams. Covers hybrid theme delivery (remote PlantUML
include + vendored Mermaid/Vega themes in `_spec/themes/`), the SPEC reference lifecycle,
and native rendering with `plantuml`, `mmdc`, and `vl2svg`.
version: 1.0.0
license: MIT
---
# spec
Author and render the diagrams that document a proveo codebase. Specifications live under a
project's `_spec/` directory and are linked from the code they describe via `SPEC:` comments,
so a reader can jump from a source file to the diagram of how it works — and so diagrams are
caught when the code they describe changes.
Three diagram formats share one identity (the proveo palette + role semantics):
| Format | Extension | Reach for it when |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **PlantUML** | `.puml` | Architecture, component, deployment, sequence, and state diagrams. The default — and the only format that has no native renderer, so it must be rendered/validated explicitly. |
| **Mermaid** | `.mmd` | Lightweight flow/state/topology diagrams that should render inline in GitHub, IDEs, and Markdown without a build step. |
| **Vega-Lite** | `.vega.json` | Data charts (bars, lines, heatmaps) — metrics, distributions, anything quantitative. |
This skill is the entry point. Depth lives in `references/` — load the file for the format you're
working in rather than reading everything:
- `references/plantuml.md` — full PlantUML conventions: stereotypes, arrows, Creole text, layout, validation gotchas.
- `references/mermaid.md` — Mermaid theming and role classes.
- `references/vega-lite.md` — Vega-Lite config theming and color ranges.
- `references/rendering.md` — install + validate + render commands for all three.
## The identity (applies to all three formats)
One palette, six semantic **roles**. Tag a node by role; the color follows. Intent on edges is
carried by line **style** (bold/dotted/dashed) as well as color, so it survives greyscale and
color-blind viewing.
| Role | Meaning | Color |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `app` | first-party app / runtime service | `#005F7F` teal |
| `async` | queue / event-driven / background | `#CBDB2A` lime |
| `host` | host / platform / operator boundary | `#00BAC6` cyan |
| `cloud` | external / third-party / vendor | `#585858` slate |
| `db` | persistence / state store | `#E5E4E4` light |
| `error` | failure / destructive / dangerous | `#CB2000` red |
In PlantUML these are `<<app>>` … `<<error>>` stereotypes; in Mermaid they are `:::app` … `:::error`
class names; in Vega-Lite they are the ordered `category` range. Same colors, same names everywhere.
## Theme delivery — hybrid
PlantUML can pull its theme over the network; Mermaid and Vega-Lite cannot, so they are **vendored**
into the consuming project's `_spec/themes/`. Run this once per project (or whenever you add the first
Mermaid/Vega diagram):
```bash
# from the project root — copies proveo.mermaid + the two vega configs into ./_spec/themes/
bash <path-to-skill>/scripts/fetch-themes.sh
```
Then:
- **PlantUML** — include the theme remotely (auto-tracks the upstream palette):
```puml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
' dark canvas: proveo-dark.puml
```
- **Mermaid** — prepend the `%%{init}%%` block from `_spec/themes/proveo.mermaid` to each `.mmd`.
- **Vega-Lite** — set the spec's `"config"` to the contents of `_spec/themes/proveo.vega.json`
(or `proveo-dark.vega.json`).
## Authoring workflow
1. **Pick the format** using the table above (PlantUML unless it's inline-rendered flow → Mermaid, or data → Vega-Lite).
2. **Apply the theme** per the hybrid rules above.
3. **Tag nodes by role** (`<<app>>` / `:::app` / category) and **choose arrows by intent**, not decoration.
4. **Name things explicitly** — `apps/api Session Routes`, not `Backend`. Prefer current-state truth; keep future direction in notes.
5. **Reference the diagram from code** — every new `.puml` MUST be linked from at least one source file (see SPEC lifecycle below). Mermaid/Vega that render inline in docs are exempt.
6. **Validate and render** — see `references/rendering.md`. For PlantUML always run `plantuml -checkonly` before committing.
### PlantUML quick form
```puml
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
component "apps/api Gateway" as API <<app>>
queue "Event Bus" as BUS <<async>>
database "Postgres" as PG <<db>>
cloud "LLM Vendor" as LLM <<cloud>>
API ARROW_QUEUE BUS : enqueue
API ARROW_CLOUD LLM : call model
API ARROW_MAIN PG : persist
API ARROW_ERROR PG : on failure
@enduml
```
Arrow macros: `ARROW_MAIN` (primary/sync happy path), `ARROW_OPTIONAL` (alt/retry/resume, dotted),
`ARROW_QUEUE` (internal async hand-off, lime), `ARROW_CLOUD` (crosses to an external system, dashed),
`ARROW_ERROR` (failure/cancel, red). One macro per edge, chosen by intent. Full detail in `references/plantuml.md`.
> Legacy diagrams use `!includeurl …/proveo.iuml` with `COLOR_MAIN` / `PATH_MAIN` / `errorLabel()` macros.
> Those macros still resolve as aliases inside `proveo.puml`, so old files keep working — but author **new**
> diagrams with the stereotype + `ARROW_*` system above.
## SPEC reference lifecycle (the rules that keep diagrams honest)
Source files link to their spec on a single top-line comment; multiple diagrams are comma-separated on one line:
```ts
// SPEC: _spec/apps/web/model-grid/row-loading-lifecycle.puml
```
```sh
# SPEC: _spec/defs/claudecode/claudecode-topology.puml, _spec/defs/claudecode/claudecode-egress-topology.puml
```
- **Every new `.puml` must be referenced** from at least one source file. If the natural source is generated, attach the reference to the upstream definition (schema/config) that drives the generator. Cross-cutting invariants attach to every file that enforces them.
- **Source deleted/renamed** → don't delete the `.puml`; move the `SPEC:` comment to the file(s) that replaced the behavior.
- **Only delete a `.puml`** when the whole feature is gone. If a feature was reimplemented on different tech, mark the diagram `OUTDATED` rather than deleting it.
- **Refactor moves logic** → move the `SPEC:` comment and update the diagram if the architecture changed.
- `_spec/_refactors/` holds frozen historical snapshots — exempt from referencing, and don't lint/validate them against current code.
## Out of the box
Render and validate locally:
- PlantUML — `brew install plantuml`; `plantuml -checkonly f.puml`; `plantuml -tsvg f.puml`.
- Mermaid — `npm i -g @mermaid-js/mermaid-cli`; `mmdc -i f.mmd -o f.svg`.
- Vega-Lite — `npm i -g vega-cli vega-lite`; `vl2svg f.vega.json f.svg`.
See `references/rendering.md` for flags, dark-mode, headless-Chromium notes, and CI usage.
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FILE: _spec/overview/study-map.vega.json
========================================================================
{
"$schema": "https://vega.github.io/schema/vega-lite/v5.json",
"$comment": "Study map — capability tiers on a 2D plane: encoding depth (X) x autonomy (Y). Build-side companion to business-needs-funnel.puml. The scaffold|weights column split is the L4->L5 jump: below it the base model is frozen; at L5 the weights start changing. Render: vl2svg study-map.vega.json study-map.svg",
"title": {
"text": "Study Map — capability by encoding depth × autonomy",
"subtitle": "build-side companion to the funnel · the scaffold→weights split (L4→L5) is where the model's weights start changing",
"subtitleColor": "#585858",
"subtitleFontSize": 12
},
"width": 540,
"height": 340,
"resolve": { "scale": { "color": "independent" } },
"layer": [
{
"data": { "values": [
{ "depth": "prompt", "zone": "frozen workflow" },
{ "depth": "scaffold", "zone": "workflows change here" },
{ "depth": "weights change", "zone": "weights change here" }
] },
"mark": { "type": "rect", "opacity": 0.16 },
"encoding": {
"x": {
"field": "depth", "type": "ordinal",
"sort": ["prompt", "scaffold", "weights change"],
"axis": { "title": "encoding depth →", "labelAngle": 0, "orient": "bottom", "labelFontWeight": 600 }
},
"color": {
"field": "zone", "type": "nominal",
"scale": { "domain": ["frozen workflow", "workflows change here", "weights change here"], "range": ["#585858", "#00BAC6", "#005F7F"] },
"legend": null
}
}
},
{
"data": { "values": [
{ "tier": "L1", "depth": "prompt", "autonomy": "baseline", "role": "host", "label": "L1" },
{ "tier": "L2", "depth": "prompt", "autonomy": "HITL", "role": "app", "label": "L2" },
{ "tier": "L3", "depth": "prompt", "autonomy": "supervised", "role": "app", "label": "L3" },
{ "tier": "L4", "depth": "scaffold", "autonomy": "supervised", "role": "app", "label": "L4" },
{ "tier": "L4-SI", "depth": "scaffold", "autonomy": "autonomous", "role": "app", "label": "L4·SI" },
{ "tier": "L5", "depth": "weights change", "autonomy": "HITL", "role": "app", "label": "L5" },
{ "tier": "L6", "depth": "weights change", "autonomy": "supervised", "role": "app", "label": "L6" },
{ "tier": "L7", "depth": "weights change", "autonomy": "autonomous", "role": "cloud", "label": "L7" }
] },
"mark": { "type": "rect", "stroke": "#FAFAFA", "strokeWidth": 2.5, "cornerRadius": 3 },
"encoding": {
"x": { "field": "depth", "type": "ordinal", "sort": ["prompt", "scaffold", "weights change"] },
"y": {
"field": "autonomy", "type": "ordinal",
"sort": ["autonomous", "supervised", "HITL", "baseline"],
"axis": { "title": "autonomy →", "labelFontWeight": 600 }
},
"color": {
"field": "role", "type": "nominal",
"scale": { "domain": ["app", "host", "cloud"], "range": ["#005F7F", "#00BAC6", "#585858"] },
"legend": null
}
}
},
{
"data": { "values": [
{ "depth": "prompt", "autonomy": "baseline", "label": "L1", "role": "host" },
{ "depth": "prompt", "autonomy": "HITL", "label": "L2", "role": "app" },
{ "depth": "prompt", "autonomy": "supervised", "label": "L3", "role": "app" },
{ "depth": "scaffold", "autonomy": "supervised", "label": "L4", "role": "app" },
{ "depth": "scaffold", "autonomy": "autonomous", "label": "L4·SI", "role": "app" },
{ "depth": "weights change", "autonomy": "HITL", "label": "L5", "role": "app" },
{ "depth": "weights change", "autonomy": "supervised", "label": "L6", "role": "app" },
{ "depth": "weights change", "autonomy": "autonomous", "label": "L7", "role": "cloud" }
] },
"mark": { "type": "text", "fontWeight": "bold", "fontSize": 13 },
"encoding": {
"x": { "field": "depth", "type": "ordinal", "sort": ["prompt", "scaffold", "weights change"] },
"y": { "field": "autonomy", "type": "ordinal", "sort": ["autonomous", "supervised", "HITL", "baseline"] },
"text": { "field": "label" },
"color": {
"condition": { "test": "datum.role == 'host'", "value": "#06303a" },
"value": "#FFFFFF"
}
}
},
{
"data": { "values": [
{ "depth": "prompt", "z": "frozen workflow" },
{ "depth": "scaffold", "z": "workflows change here" },
{ "depth": "weights change", "z": "weights change here" }
] },
"mark": { "type": "text", "fontWeight": 600, "fontSize": 11, "baseline": "bottom", "dy": -7 },
"encoding": {
"x": { "field": "depth", "type": "ordinal", "sort": ["prompt", "scaffold", "weights change"] },
"y": { "value": 0 },
"text": { "field": "z" },
"color": {
"field": "z", "type": "nominal",
"scale": { "domain": ["frozen workflow", "workflows change here", "weights change here"], "range": ["#585858", "#00BAC6", "#005F7F"] },
"legend": null
}
}
}
],
"config": {
"background": "#FAFAFA",
"title": { "color": "#005F7F", "subtitleColor": "#585858", "fontSize": 16, "subtitleFontSize": 12, "anchor": "start", "fontWeight": 700 },
"view": { "stroke": "transparent" },
"axis": { "domainColor": "#B4B3B3", "gridColor": "#E5E4E4", "tickColor": "#B4B3B3", "labelColor": "#181818", "titleColor": "#181818", "labelFontSize": 12, "titleFontSize": 13, "titleFontWeight": 600 },
"legend": { "labelColor": "#181818", "titleColor": "#181818", "labelFontSize": 12, "symbolType": "square" }
}
}
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FILE: skills/spec/references/plantuml.md
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# PlantUML conventions (proveo)
PlantUML is the default spec format: architecture, component, deployment, sequence, and state
diagrams. Specs optimize for **architectural communication**, **current-state accuracy**, **visual
consistency**, and **separation of critical vs secondary paths**.
## Theme include
Pull the identity theme remotely — it's the single source of truth for color across every proveo
project, so changing it upstream updates every diagram:
```puml
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
' dark canvas (same macros, same role colors):
' !include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo-dark.puml
```
Diagram-specific settings (`skinparam linetype polyline`, `!pragma layout smetana`,
`skinparam defaultFontSize 11`, …) go after the `!include` in the individual file.
> **Legacy.** Older diagrams use `!includeurl …/proveo.iuml` with `COLOR_MAIN` / `PATH_MAIN` /
> `errorLabel()` macros. Those macros are kept as aliases inside `proveo.puml`, so legacy files keep
> rendering — but author **new** diagrams with the stereotype + `ARROW_*` system below.
## Roles via stereotypes
Color is **semantic**, driven by six roles. Pick the PlantUML **keyword** for the shape/semantics,
then tag the node with the matching `<<role>>` **stereotype** for its canonical color. The stereotype
sets the fill across `\n` line breaks (inline `<color:..>` Creole does not), reads as intent at the
use site, and restyles from one place.
| Stereotype | Use for | Color |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `<<app>>` | first-party application / runtime service (web, API, worker, orchestrator) | `#005F7F` teal |
| `<<async>>` | queue / event bus / scheduler / background / eventual-consistency boundary | `#CBDB2A` lime |
| `<<host>>` | host machine / platform boundary / operator-controlled runtime | `#00BAC6` cyan |
| `<<cloud>>` | external SaaS / vendor API / third-party auth or messaging / cloud platform | `#585858` slate |
| `<<db>>` | relational schema / cache / object store / state store | `#E5E4E4` light |
| `<<error>>` | destructive / failure / dangerous / security-sensitive component | `#CB2000` red |
### Keyword → role pairing
Choose the keyword that matches the role; add the stereotype for the color:
```puml
component "apps/web Dashboard" as WEB <<app>>
component "apps/api Gateway" as API <<app>>
queue "Event Bus" as BUS <<async>>
node "Operator Host" as HOST <<host>>
database "Postgres" as PG <<db>>
cloud "LLM Vendor" as LLM <<cloud>>
component "Dead Letter Queue" as DLQ <<error>>
actor "Operator" as OP
```
- `component` — first-party apps/services (frontends, API servers, workers, orchestration runtimes, background compute).
- `queue` — eventing/async systems.
- `node` — host / platform / deployment substrate for owned infra.
- `database` — persistence.
- `cloud` — systems you don't own.
- `actor` — human users / external initiators.
- `frame` / `package` (teal border) and `folder` (cyan border) — groupings / bounded contexts.
The element keywords also carry sensible default colors, so an untagged `component` already reads as
an app — but prefer the explicit stereotype so the role is legible and the canonical fill is applied
(e.g. `<<cloud>>` is slate, distinct from a bare `cloud`'s cyan-bordered outline).
## Arrows — intent by macro
Intent is carried by line **style** (bold/dotted/dashed) as well as color, so it survives greyscale
and color-blind viewing. Use one macro per edge, chosen by what the edge *means*:
| Macro | Use for | Renders |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `ARROW_MAIN` | primary / synchronous happy path | bold |
| `ARROW_OPTIONAL` | alt / re-run / resume / retry / optional dependency | dotted |
| `ARROW_QUEUE` | internal async hand-off (background task, event bus) | bold, lime |
| `ARROW_CLOUD` | edge that crosses a boundary to an external system | dashed, bold |
| `ARROW_ERROR` | failure / cancel / destructive transition | bold, red |
```puml
OP ARROW_MAIN WEB : opens
WEB ARROW_MAIN API : " ""POST /jobs"" "
API ARROW_QUEUE BUS : enqueue
BUS ARROW_QUEUE WK : consume
WK ARROW_CLOUD LLM : call model
WK ARROW_MAIN PG : persist
API ARROW_OPTIONAL PG : cache read
WK ARROW_ERROR DLQ : on failure
```
Rules of thumb:
- Pick the color/style by edge **intent** — don't paint a happy-path edge red just because it ends at a sad-path node.
- Reserve `ARROW_CLOUD` for edges whose trigger is an external system (vendor response, webhook); a background task that stays in-process is `ARROW_QUEUE`.
- Don't make every dependency primary. Default: primary user/runtime/control path = `ARROW_MAIN`; supporting integrations, metadata lookups, validators, optional subsystems = `ARROW_OPTIONAL`.
- Mixing plain `-->` / `..>` with the macros is fine when raw arrows already carry the meaning (e.g. component diagrams where color lives on the nodes).
**Legacy aliases** (still available from `proveo.puml`): `PATH_MAIN` (`thickness=3`) and `PATH_COMMON`
(`thickness=1`) for hand-rolled colored arrows like `-[#005F7F,PATH_MAIN]->`. Prefer the `ARROW_*`
macros for new work.
## Label macros
Three colored-text macros for arrow labels and notes (also from the theme):
| Macro | Renders | Use for |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `errorLabel(x)` | bold red | failure / rejection annotations |
| `successLabel(x)` | bold green | success / completion annotations |
| `dbLabel(x)` | bold gray | persistence / state annotations |
```puml
A ARROW_MAIN B : successLabel(committed)
B ARROW_ERROR C : errorLabel(rejected)
```
## Text formatting (Creole)
PlantUML labels/notes accept a subset of Creole. Use it to distinguish prose from code references.
| Markup | Renders | Use for |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `**bold**` | bold | section labels inside notes, callouts |
| `//italic//` | italic | conceptual emphasis, never code |
| `""monospaced""` | monospaced | code identifiers: functions, classes, RPCs, constants, fields, file paths, env vars |
| `__underline__` | underline | rare — only when bold is taken |
| `--strike--` / `~~strike~~` | strikethrough | deprecated paths in transitional diagrams |
Block-level (legal inside notes): headers via `<size:N>…</size>` or `**Title**` lines; color via
`<color:#CB2000>text</color>`; background via `<back:#585858>text</back>`; lists with `* item` / `# item`;
horizontal rule via a line of `====` or `----`; inline images via `<img:url>`.
### Single quotes for string literals
`""` (two double-quotes) is the Creole monospace delimiter, so a literal `"` inside a label miscounts
the quote pairs. When a label references a string-literal value from code (enum value, kwarg, header
name), **use single quotes**:
```puml
A --> B : ""StopSession(action='pause')""\n[""session.status"" == 'executing']
```
Single quotes are only special at the start of a logical line, so they're safe inside labels/notes.
Reserve `""…""` for the surrounding identifier. `"` works but is noisy and grep-hostile — avoid it.
### What to wrap in `""…""`
Wrap when the reader benefits from "this is the exact name in code": function/method calls
(`""updateStatus(sessionId, orgId)""`), class/RPC/type names (`""SessionOrchestrator""`), constants
(`""MAX_CONCURRENT_WORKERS""`), fields/columns/JSON keys (`""plan_json""`, `""session.status""`), file
paths (`""apps/web/src/lib/model-grid.ts""`), env vars / channel formats (`""DATABASE_URL""`,
`""org:{orgId}:{resource}:{id}""`).
Do **not** wrap: plain prose ("session", "executing", "the orchestrator"); node IDs that already appear
as styled boxes; numbers, units, or natural-language verbs.
## Naming
Prefer explicit names over generic boxes. Good: `apps/web Model Grid UI`, `apps/api Session Routes`,
`apps/worker Background Processor`. Less good: `Frontend`, `Backend`, `Service Layer`.
## Current state vs future direction
Default to **current implementation truth**. If future direction matters, keep it in notes; do not
rename current components to future-state abstractions or imply systems exist before they do. A note
saying "current architecture is a stepping stone toward X" is fine; labeling a current relational
schema as the future service abstraction is not.
## Historical diagrams
`_spec/_refactors/` holds frozen before/after and migration snapshots. They do **not** follow the
current theme/conventions — ignore them by default; don't update, lint, or validate them against
current source. They are also exempt from the SPEC referencing rule.
## Layout hints
Auto-layout clusters awkwardly; use **hidden arrows** (no arrowhead) to space elements. Wrap them in a
clearly marked block so agents/editors skip them, use `-[hidden]-` (never `-[hidden]->`), and keep them
in one place:
```puml
' --- IGNORE: layout hints (do not edit) ---
web -[hidden]- worker ' horizontal spacing within a container
DEPLOY -down[hidden]-- INFRA ' push infra below deploy
GH -right[hidden]- BUILD ' place build phase beside trigger
' --- END IGNORE ---
```
## Validation gotchas
Run `plantuml -checkonly file.puml` on every new/edited `.puml` (empty stdout + exit 0 = clean). Common
parser errors:
- **Mixing diagram types.** A file opening with `class …` is parsed as a class diagram and rejects component primitives (`cloud`, `database`, `folder`, `component`). Convert to `class "name" as X <<stereotype>> #color`.
- **Nested `[ ]` in `component [...]` labels.** Type annotations like `dict[str, Fact]` collide with the bracket-form parser — move the detail to a `note`, or use `rectangle "label" as X`.
- **Nested `""…""` inside quoted declarations.** `participant "…"`, `actor "…"`, `database "…"`, `component "…"` use the first inner `"` as the closing delimiter. Drop the monospace in the declaration label, or use the bracket form `[...]`.
- **Deprecated `#color:text;` activity-node prefix.** New form is `:text; <<#color>>`.
- **Arrow labels that are entirely `""…""` lose formatting.** When the label after `:` starts with the Creole double-quote pair, PlantUML treats it as a quoted string and strips the inner content. Wrap the whole label in outer quotes:
```puml
' Wrong — renders plain or breaks:
EX --> FR : ""registry.add(fact)""
' Right — outer "" keeps the inner ""…"" monospaced:
EX --> FR : " ""registry.add(fact)"" "
```
Only needed when the entire label is monospace; mixed prose like `: invokes ""add(fact)""` is fine.
## Rule of thumb
Each diagram should clearly answer one of: What's the primary runtime path? What is state vs compute
vs orchestration? Which dependencies are core vs supporting? What is current reality vs future intent?
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FILE: skills/spec/references/mermaid.md
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# Mermaid conventions (proveo)
Reach for Mermaid when a flow / state / topology diagram should render **inline** — in GitHub, IDE
previewers, and Markdown — without a build step. For richer architecture/deployment/sequence work, or
anything that must be validated and rendered to a versioned SVG, prefer PlantUML (`plantuml.md`).
## Theme
Mermaid has no remote include, so the theme is **vendored** into `_spec/themes/proveo.mermaid` (run
`scripts/fetch-themes.sh`). It is a `%%{init}%%` block that maps the proveo palette onto Mermaid's
theme variables. Prepend that block to the top of each `.mmd` file (above the diagram declaration),
then attach role classes to nodes.
The block also ships the six role `classDef`s mirroring the PlantUML stereotypes:
```
classDef app fill:#005F7F,stroke:#00BAC6,color:#FAFAFA;
classDef async fill:#00BAC6,stroke:#006B70,color:#181818;
classDef host fill:#CBDB2A,stroke:#818D00,color:#181818;
classDef cloud fill:#585858,stroke:#585858,color:#FAFAFA;
classDef db fill:#E5E4E4,stroke:#585858,color:#181818;
classDef error fill:#CB2000,stroke:#CB2000,color:#FAFAFA;
```
> Note: the shipped `classDef` palette assigns `app`→teal, `async`→cyan, `host`→lime — the same six
> brand colors as PlantUML, with `async`/`host` swapped between cyan and lime. Use the class names by
> **role** (the name is the contract), and keep them consistent within a diagram.
## Roles → node syntax
Tag every node with a role class via `:::class`. Pair the role with a shape that reads at a glance:
| Role | Class | Suggested shape | Example |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| first-party app/service | `:::app` | rectangle `[...]` | `WEB[apps/web Dashboard]:::app` |
| queue / event / async | `:::async` | stadium `([...])` | `BUS([Event Bus]):::async` |
| host / operator | `:::host` | stadium `([...])` | `OP([Operator]):::host` |
| external / vendor | `:::cloud` | hexagon `{{...}}` | `LLM{{LLM Vendor}}:::cloud` |
| persistence | `:::db` | cylinder `[(...)]` | `PG[(Postgres)]:::db` |
| failure / dead path | `:::error` | rectangle `[...]` | `DLQ[Dead Letter Queue]:::error` |
## Arrows
Mermaid carries less edge semantics than PlantUML's `ARROW_*` macros, so lean on solid vs dotted and
clear labels:
- `-->|label|` — primary / synchronous path.
- `-.->|label|` — async / optional / supporting edge.
## Full example
```mermaid
%%{init:{ "theme":"base", "themeVariables":{ ...from _spec/themes/proveo.mermaid... } }}%%
flowchart TD
OP([Operator]):::host
WEB[apps/web Dashboard]:::app
API[apps/api Gateway]:::app
BUS([Event Bus]):::async
PG[(Postgres)]:::db
LLM{{LLM Vendor}}:::cloud
DLQ[Dead Letter Queue]:::error
OP -->|opens| WEB
WEB -->|POST /jobs| API
API -.->|enqueue| BUS
BUS -->|consume| API
API -->|persist| PG
API -->|call model| LLM
API -->|on failure| DLQ
classDef app fill:#005F7F,stroke:#00BAC6,color:#FAFAFA;
classDef async fill:#00BAC6,stroke:#006B70,color:#181818;
classDef host fill:#CBDB2A,stroke:#818D00,color:#181818;
classDef cloud fill:#585858,stroke:#585858,color:#FAFAFA;
classDef db fill:#E5E4E4,stroke:#585858,color:#181818;
classDef error fill:#CB2000,stroke:#CB2000,color:#FAFAFA;
```
(The `classDef` lines and the `%%{init}%%` block both come from `_spec/themes/proveo.mermaid` — copy
the whole file's content in, or keep the file as the canonical source and paste the block per diagram.)
## Rendering
Mermaid renders inline almost everywhere, so a CLI is only needed for static export. See
`rendering.md` for `mmdc` install and the headless-Chromium notes.
========================================================================
FILE: skills/spec/references/vega-lite.md
========================================================================
# Vega-Lite conventions (proveo)
Reach for Vega-Lite for **data charts** — bars, lines, areas, heatmaps, distributions, anything
quantitative. For structural/architecture diagrams use PlantUML or Mermaid instead.
## Theme
Vega-Lite has no remote include, so the theme is **vendored** into `_spec/themes/proveo.vega.json`
(light) and `_spec/themes/proveo-dark.vega.json` (dark) — run `scripts/fetch-themes.sh`. Each is a
Vega-Lite **config** object carrying the proveo palette, plus axis / legend / title / mark defaults.
Two ways to apply it:
- **Embed** — pass it as the `config` argument:
```js
import spec from "./chart.vega.json" with { type: "json" };
import config from "./_spec/themes/proveo.vega.json" with { type: "json" };
vegaEmbed("#chart", spec, { config });
```
- **Inline** — set the spec's `"config"` key to the theme's contents (`{ ...spec, "config": <proveo.vega.json> }`).
This is the form to use for files rendered by the CLI (`vl2svg`), since the config travels with the spec.
## Color ranges (roles → category order)
The palette is exposed as Vega's scale ranges:
- `category` — `["#005F7F", "#00BAC6", "#CBDB2A", "#00769D", "#818D00", "#585858", "#009532", "#CB2000"]`
— the brand roles in order (app, host/alt, async, … cloud, success, error). Categorical encodings
pick these up automatically, so a `service` field colors web→teal, api→cyan, worker→lime, and so on.
- `ordinal` / `ramp` / `heatmap` — light→dark teal ramp `["#E5E4E4", "#00BAC6", "#00769D", "#005F7F", "#003445"]` for sequential/continuous scales.
- `diverging` — `["#6E1100", "#CB2000", "#E5E4E4", "#00769D", "#005F7F"]` (red ↔ teal) for signed data.
Single-series marks (`bar`, `line`, `point`, `area`, …) default to teal `#005F7F`; titles are teal,
axes/labels slate/ink on the `#FAFAFA` canvas.
## Example
```json
{
"$schema": "https://vega.github.io/schema/vega-lite/v5.json",
"title": "Events by service",
"width": 380,
"height": 240,
"data": { "values": [
{ "service": "web", "events": 320 },
{ "service": "api", "events": 280 },
{ "service": "worker", "events": 190 }
]},
"mark": "bar",
"encoding": {
"x": { "field": "service", "type": "nominal", "sort": "-y", "axis": { "labelAngle": 0 }, "title": null },
"y": { "field": "events", "type": "quantitative", "title": "events / min" },
"color": { "field": "service", "type": "nominal", "legend": null }
},
"config": { "...": "contents of _spec/themes/proveo.vega.json" }
}
```
For a dark dashboard, swap the inlined config for `_spec/themes/proveo-dark.vega.json`.
## Rendering
Charts render in the browser via `vega-embed`. For static export use `vl2svg` / `vl2png`; see
`rendering.md` for install and the node-canvas native-library notes (PNG only).
========================================================================
FILE: skills/spec/references/rendering.md
========================================================================
# Rendering & validating proveo diagrams
Install the renderer, apply the theme (hybrid: PlantUML remote, Mermaid/Vega vendored), then
validate and render. Commands are macOS-first (Homebrew) with Linux notes.
## PlantUML (`.puml`)
PlantUML has **no native renderer anywhere** (GitHub/IDEs won't draw it), so it must be rendered
explicitly — this is the format the toolchain exists for.
Install:
```bash
brew install plantuml # macOS (pulls graphviz + a JRE)
# Debian/Ubuntu: apt install plantuml graphviz default-jre
# or: download the jar and alias plantuml='java -jar /path/to/plantuml.jar'
```
Theme — remote include (auto-tracks the upstream palette; no local file):
```puml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
' dark canvas:
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo-dark.puml
```
Validate (do this before committing any new/edited `.puml`):
```bash
plantuml -checkonly path/to/file.puml # empty stdout + exit 0 = clean
```
Sweep a tree:
```bash
for f in _spec/**/*.puml; do
out=$(plantuml -checkonly "$f" 2>&1)
[ -n "$out" ] && echo "FAIL: $f"$'\n'"$out" || echo "ok: $f"
done
```
Render:
```bash
plantuml -tsvg path/to/file.puml # SVG next to the source (preferred, version-controlled)
plantuml -tpng -Sdpi=160 path/to/file.puml # crisp PNG for docs
```
Remote includes require network access at render time — the first render fetches `proveo.puml`.
## Mermaid (`.mmd`)
Mermaid renders **inline** in GitHub, most IDEs, and Markdown previewers, so you often don't need a
CLI at all. Install the CLI only when you need static SVG/PNG export (docs, CI artifacts).
Install:
```bash
npm i -g @mermaid-js/mermaid-cli # provides `mmdc`
```
`mmdc` drives headless Chromium via Puppeteer. On a normal desktop the first run just works (Puppeteer
fetches a Chromium). In CI / as root / in containers, point it at a system Chromium and disable the
sandbox:
```bash
# puppeteer.json
{ "args": ["--no-sandbox", "--disable-setuid-sandbox"] }
```
```bash
mmdc -p puppeteer.json -i f.mmd -o f.svg
# in a container, also: export PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH=/usr/bin/chromium
```
Theme — Mermaid has no remote include. Prepend the `%%{init}%%` block from
`_spec/themes/proveo.mermaid` (vendored via `scripts/fetch-themes.sh`) to the top of each `.mmd`, then
tag nodes with the role classes (`:::app`, `:::async`, `:::host`, `:::cloud`, `:::db`, `:::error`).
See `mermaid.md`.
Render:
```bash
mmdc -i path/to/file.mmd -o path/to/file.svg
mmdc -i path/to/file.mmd -o path/to/file.png -s 2 # 2x scale PNG
```
## Vega-Lite (`.vega.json`)
Vega-Lite renders in the browser via `vega-embed`. Use the CLI for static export.
Install:
```bash
npm i -g vega-cli vega-lite # provides `vl2svg`, `vl2png`, `vl2pdf`
```
`vega-cli` depends on **node-canvas**. SVG output (`vl2svg`) is the light path. PNG/PDF output needs
canvas's native libs:
```bash
# macOS: brew install pkg-config cairo pango libpng jpeg giflib librsvg
# Debian/Ubuntu: apt install libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev librsvg2-dev
```
Theme — Vega-Lite has no remote include. Set the spec's `"config"` to the contents of
`_spec/themes/proveo.vega.json` (light) or `proveo-dark.vega.json` (dark) — vendored via
`scripts/fetch-themes.sh`. See `vega-lite.md`.
Render:
```bash
vl2svg path/to/chart.vega.json path/to/chart.svg
vl2png path/to/chart.vega.json path/to/chart.png # needs node-canvas native libs
```
## Summary
| Format | Install | Validate | Render | Theme delivery |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PlantUML | `brew install plantuml` | `plantuml -checkonly f.puml` | `plantuml -tsvg f.puml` | remote `!include` |
| Mermaid | `npm i -g @mermaid-js/mermaid-cli` | (renders inline; no checker) | `mmdc -i f.mmd -o f.svg` | vendored `%%{init}%%` |
| Vega-Lite | `npm i -g vega-cli vega-lite` | (JSON schema) | `vl2svg f.vega.json f.svg` | vendored `config` |
========================================================================
FILE: _spec/overview/business-needs-funnel.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title Capability Ladder — a business request walked through deterministic checkpoints
skinparam componentStyle rectangle
component "Business request" as REQ <<host>>
component "Level 7 — Custom model" as L7 <<app>>
component "Level 6 — RL post-training (reward loop)" as L6 <<app>>
component "Level 5 — Supervised fine-tuning (SFT)" as L5 <<app>>
component "Level 4 — Harness (workflow orchestration)" as L4 <<app>>
component "Level 3 — Meta-prompt loops" as L3 <<app>>
component "Level 2 — Single prompts (skills)" as L2 <<app>>
component "Level 1 — Human expert" as L1 <<host>>
REQ ARROW_MAIN L7 : can the model one-shot it?
L7 ARROW_OPTIONAL L6 : needs cheaper / faster / safer / more accurate outcomes
L6 ARROW_OPTIONAL L5 : a reward loop is overkill — a labeled dataset suffices
L5 ARROW_OPTIONAL L4 : don't retrain — ground & orchestrate a frozen model
L4 ARROW_OPTIONAL L3 : no tools or integrations — self-contained reasoning
L3 ARROW_OPTIONAL L2 : no reasoning loop needed
L2 ARROW_OPTIONAL L1 : must be signed-off by a human
note right of L7
**Market baseline:** frontier foundation models
trained from scratch (Opus- / GLM-class)
end note
note right of L6
**Market baseline:** RL / eval-loop post-training —
own the reward functions (OpenAI RFT, DeepSeek-R1)
end note
note right of L5
**Market baseline:** domain LoRA / fine-tuning on a
fixed owned dataset (HuggingFace domain models, Med-PaLM)
end note
note right of L4
**Market baseline:** agentic work platforms that own
integrations + authority + evidence (Claude Cowork,
Copilot Studio + Agent 365, AgentKit, LangGraph)
end note
note right of L3
**Market baseline:** general chat assistants that
augment the base prompt (ChatGPT)
end note
note right of L2
**Market baseline:** shared system-prompt / skill
libraries (community & vendor skill repos)
end note
note right of L1
**Market baseline:** domain experts
(financial analysts, clinicians, attorneys, SREs)
end note
@enduml
========================================================================
FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/computer-science/_essentials.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title Level-1 Computer Science Essentials — ADTs ↔ Algorithm Families
' Source: proveo-ca/computer-science primers (datatypes + algorithms)
' URL: https://github.com/proveo-ca/computer-science/blob/main/libs/datatypes/PRIMER.md
' URL: https://github.com/proveo-ca/computer-science/blob/main/libs/algorithms/PRIMER.md
' Level: 1
actor "Human expert" as H
folder "libs/datatypes" as DT {
component "Linear ADTs\narray · list · stack · queue" as LIN <<app>>
component "Trees\nBST · heap · AVL · trie" as TREE <<app>>
component "Graphs\nvertices · edges · DFS/BFS" as G <<app>>
}
folder "libs/algorithms" as ALG {
component "Primitives-based\nhash · bits · regex · buffers" as PRIM <<host>>
component "Array-based\nwindow · two-pointer · backtrack" as ARR <<host>>
component "Tree/graph-based\nsearch · DP · pathing · sort" as TGA <<host>>
}
component "apps/cache-strategies\nLRU · LFU · ARC · TinyLFU …" as CACHE <<async>>
H ARROW_MAIN DT : applies ADTs
H ARROW_MAIN ALG : selects paradigm
LIN ARROW_OPTIONAL ARR : containers
TREE ARROW_OPTIONAL TGA : search structure
G ARROW_OPTIONAL TGA : connectivity
PRIM ARROW_OPTIONAL CACHE : hashing + heaps
ARR ARROW_OPTIONAL CACHE : lists / windows
note bottom of H
**Level 1 = human expert floor.** Foundational CS is
signed-off craft: pick the right structure and
algorithm family before any LLM/agent scaffolding.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/computer-science/algorithms-array.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title Algorithms ↔ Data Types — Array-Based
' Primer: Algorithms (array family)
' URL: https://github.com/proveo-ca/computer-science/blob/main/libs/algorithms/_docs/ARRAY_BASED_ALGORITHMS.puml
' Level: 1
package "Data types" {
component "Array" as A <<db>>
component "String" as S <<db>>
component "Stack" as ST <<db>>
component "Deque" as DQ <<db>>
component "Map / Set" as M <<db>>
}
package "Array-based algorithms" {
component "Array Processing" as AP <<app>>
component "Backtracking" as BT <<app>>
component "Sliding Window" as SW <<app>>
component "String Processing" as SP <<app>>
component "Two Pointer" as TP <<app>>
component "Two Pointer Greedy" as TPG <<app>>
}
A ARROW_MAIN AP
A ARROW_MAIN BT
A ARROW_MAIN TP
A ARROW_OPTIONAL SP
S ARROW_MAIN TP
ST ARROW_MAIN BT : recursion / path
M ARROW_OPTIONAL SP : freq / decode
M ARROW_OPTIONAL SW : freq-count variant
DQ ARROW_OPTIONAL SW : window max/min
ST ARROW_OPTIONAL SP : parentheses decode
TP ARROW_OPTIONAL SW : builds on pointers
TP ARROW_OPTIONAL TPG : greedy variant
TPG ARROW_OPTIONAL SW : shrink/grow strategy
SW ARROW_OPTIONAL SP : anagram window
note bottom of SW
Maintain a [L,R] interval; grow/shrink with
invariant checks (unique chars, sum, freq).
end note
@enduml
========================================================================
FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/computer-science/algorithms-primitives.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title Algorithms ↔ Data Types — Primitives-Based
' Primer: Algorithms (primitives family + nested primers)
' URL: https://github.com/proveo-ca/computer-science/blob/main/libs/algorithms/PRIMER.md
' URL: https://github.com/proveo-ca/computer-science/blob/main/libs/algorithms/_docs/PRIMITIVES_BASED_ALGORITHMS.puml
' Level: 1
package "Data types" {
component "Array" as A <<db>>
component "String" as S <<db>>
component "Stack" as ST <<db>>
component "Map / Set\n(hash-table)" as M <<db>>
component "IntegerBits\nbit vectors" as B <<db>>
}
package "Primitives-based algorithms" {
component "Bit Manipulation" as BIT <<app>>
component "Buffers\n(JS↔C++ slabs)" as BUF <<app>>
component "Hashing" as HASH <<app>>
component "Math: Geometry (simple)" as GEO <<app>>
component "Math: Number Theory" as NUM <<app>>
component "Regex" as RE <<app>>
}
B ARROW_MAIN BIT : word ops
A ARROW_OPTIONAL BUF : byte slabs
S ARROW_OPTIONAL BUF : encode/decode
M ARROW_MAIN HASH : buckets
A ARROW_OPTIONAL GEO : coordinate arrays
A ARROW_OPTIONAL NUM : tables
B ARROW_OPTIONAL NUM : modular bits
S ARROW_MAIN RE : pattern text
ST ARROW_OPTIONAL RE : balanced brackets
note bottom of BUF
Node buffers / ArrayBuffer / SharedArrayBuffer
are C++ backing stores — zero-copy across the
JS↔native boundary (libuv / N-API).
Nested primer: libs/algorithms/src/buffers/PRIMER.md
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/computer-science/algorithms-tree-graph.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title Algorithms ↔ Data Types — Tree / Graph-Based
' Primer: Algorithms (tree/graph family + DP nested primer)
' URL: https://github.com/proveo-ca/computer-science/blob/main/libs/algorithms/_docs/TREE_GRAPH_BASED_ALGORITHMS.puml
' URL: https://github.com/proveo-ca/computer-science/blob/main/libs/algorithms/src/dynamic-programming/PRIMER.md
' Level: 1
package "Containers" {
component "Array" as A <<db>>
component "Map" as M <<db>>
component "Stack" as ST <<db>>
component "Queue" as Q <<db>>
component "Graph" as G <<db>>
component "Heap" as H <<db>>
component "Union-Find" as UF <<db>>
}
package "Core paradigms" {
component "Binary Search" as BS <<host>>
component "Divide & Conquer" as DC <<host>>
component "Dynamic Programming" as DP <<host>>
component "Jump Search" as JS <<host>>
}
package "Tree/graph algorithms" {
component "Graphing" as GR <<app>>
component "Pathing / Dijkstra" as PATH <<app>>
component "Priority / top-K" as PRI <<app>>
component "Sorting" as SORT <<app>>
component "Topological Sort" as TOPO <<app>>
}
A ARROW_MAIN BS
A ARROW_MAIN JS
A ARROW_MAIN SORT
M ARROW_OPTIONAL DP : memo table
ST ARROW_OPTIONAL DC : recursion stack
UF ARROW_OPTIONAL DC : DSU-on-tree
G ARROW_MAIN GR
G ARROW_MAIN PATH
Q ARROW_OPTIONAL PATH : BFS shortest
H ARROW_MAIN PRI
UF ARROW_OPTIONAL PRI : Kruskal MST
Q ARROW_OPTIONAL TOPO : Kahn
ST ARROW_OPTIONAL TOPO : DFS sort
DC ARROW_OPTIONAL BS : subdivide space
DC ARROW_OPTIONAL SORT : merge/quick
DC ARROW_OPTIONAL DP : overlap + memo
JS ARROW_OPTIONAL BS : skip then seek
PATH ARROW_MAIN GR
PRI ARROW_OPTIONAL PATH : Dijkstra PQ
SORT ARROW_OPTIONAL TOPO
TOPO ARROW_OPTIONAL GR
note bottom of DP
1) classify (overlap + optimal substructure)
2) minimal state params
3) transition relation
4) tabulation or memoization
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/computer-science/cache-strategies.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title Cache Strategies ↔ Supporting Algorithm Families
' Primer / diagram: apps/cache-strategies
' URL: https://github.com/proveo-ca/computer-science/blob/main/apps/cache-strategies/_docs/CACHE_STRATEGIES_ALGORITHMS.puml
' Level: 1
package "Algorithm building blocks" {
component "array_processing\nlist · queue · deque" as AP <<app>>
component "hashing\nmap / set" as HASH <<app>>
component "priority\nheap / top-K" as PRI <<app>>
component "sliding_window" as SW <<app>>
}
package "Classic policies" {
component "FIFO" as FIFO <<db>>
component "LRU" as LRU <<db>>
component "MRU" as MRU <<db>>
component "LFU" as LFU <<db>>
component "ARC" as ARC <<db>>
component "RandomReplace" as RR <<db>>
}
package "Modern policies" {
component "CLOCK / CLOCK-Pro" as CLK <<host>>
component "TwoQ" as TQ <<host>>
component "LIRS" as LIRS <<host>>
component "TinyLFU" as TLFU <<host>>
component "GDSF" as GDSF <<host>>
}
AP ARROW_MAIN FIFO : ring queue
AP ARROW_MAIN LRU : DLL + map
HASH ARROW_MAIN LRU
AP ARROW_MAIN MRU
HASH ARROW_MAIN MRU
AP ARROW_MAIN ARC : 2 LRUs + ghosts
HASH ARROW_MAIN ARC
HASH ARROW_MAIN LFU
PRI ARROW_MAIN LFU
HASH ARROW_OPTIONAL RR
AP ARROW_MAIN CLK : second-chance ring
AP ARROW_MAIN TQ
HASH ARROW_MAIN TQ
AP ARROW_MAIN LIRS
HASH ARROW_MAIN LIRS
HASH ARROW_MAIN TLFU : CM-sketch
PRI ARROW_OPTIONAL TLFU
SW ARROW_OPTIONAL TLFU : admission window
HASH ARROW_MAIN GDSF
PRI ARROW_MAIN GDSF : cost/size heap
note bottom of TLFU
TinyLFU: frequency sketch filters
admissions into a small window LRU.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/computer-science/datatypes.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title Data Structures / Abstract Data Types
' Primer: Proveo's Data Structures / Abstract Data Types
' URL: https://github.com/proveo-ca/computer-science/blob/main/libs/datatypes/PRIMER.md
' URL: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dsa/lmns-data-structures/
' Level: 1
package "Linear" {
component "Array\nn-dim contiguous" as ARR <<db>>
component "Linked List\nsingly · doubly · circular" as LL <<db>>
component "Stack\nLIFO" as STK <<db>>
component "Queue\nFIFO · circular · priority · deque" as Q <<db>>
}
package "Trees" {
component "Binary / BST\nleft < root < right" as BST <<db>>
component "Balanced\nAVL · Red-Black" as BAL <<db>>
component "Heap\nmin / max priority" as HEAP <<db>>
component "Trie\nstring / prefix" as TRIE <<db>>
component "N-ary / General" as NARY <<db>>
}
package "Graphs" {
component "Graph\nV + E" as G <<db>>
component "DFS\nstack / recursion" as DFS <<app>>
component "BFS\nqueue / levels" as BFS <<app>>
}
package "Tree traversal" {
component "Inorder\nL-Root-R" as IN <<host>>
component "Preorder\nRoot-L-R" as PRE <<host>>
component "Postorder\nL-R-Root" as POST <<host>>
component "Level-order\nBFS" as LVL <<host>>
}
ARR ARROW_OPTIONAL LL : vs dynamic links
STK ARROW_MAIN ARR : often on array
Q ARROW_MAIN ARR : ring / list
BST ARROW_MAIN BAL : self-balance when skewed
HEAP ARROW_OPTIONAL Q : implements priority queue
G ARROW_MAIN DFS : deep first
G ARROW_MAIN BFS : breadth first
BST ARROW_OPTIONAL IN : ASC on BST
LVL ARROW_MAIN BFS : same pattern
note right of BAL
Balance factor |hL−hR| ≤ 1 (AVL).
Ops target O(log n) vs O(n) skewed.
end note
@enduml
========================================================================
FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/computer-science/hashing.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title Hashing — Keys, Buckets, Collision Resolution
' Primer: Algorithms § Hashing
' URL: https://github.com/proveo-ca/computer-science/blob/main/libs/algorithms/PRIMER.md
' Level: 1
component "Key" as K <<app>>
component "Hash function\nh(key) → fixed-size code" as HF <<host>>
database "Hash table\nbuckets · load factor" as HT <<db>>
component "Chaining\nbucket → linked list" as CH <<async>>
component "Open addressing\nprobe for empty slot" as OA <<async>>
component "Linear probing\n(h+i) % n" as LP <<cloud>>
component "Quadratic probing\n(h+i²) % n" as QP <<cloud>>
component "Double hashing\n(h1 + i·h2) % n" as DH <<cloud>>
component "Collision" as COL <<error>>
K ARROW_MAIN HF : input
HF ARROW_MAIN HT : place / lookup
HT ARROW_ERROR COL : same bucket
COL ARROW_OPTIONAL CH : resolve via list
COL ARROW_OPTIONAL OA : resolve via probe
OA ARROW_MAIN LP
OA ARROW_OPTIONAL QP
OA ARROW_OPTIONAL DH
note bottom of HT
**Load factor** = #elements / table size.
High load → more collisions → slower lookups.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/rag/_essentials.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title RAG Strategies (July 2026) — Selection Map
' Synthesis of current RAG design space: vector → tree → graph → vectorless → adaptive
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05690
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10997
' Level: 1
actor "Human expert\n(query + corpus shape)" as H
component "Query router\n(complexity / structure)" as R <<app>>
package "Simple / factual" {
component "Dense vector RAG\n(+ rerank)" as V <<db>>
component "CRAG\nevaluator → correct" as CRAG <<async>>
}
package "Structural / long doc" {
component "RAPTOR\nrecursive summary tree" as RAP <<host>>
component "PageIndex\nvectorless tree nav" as PI <<host>>
}
package "Relational / multi-hop" {
component "GraphRAG\ncommunity summaries" as GR <<cloud>>
component "LightRAG\ndual-level + incremental" as LR <<cloud>>
component "HippoRAG(2)\nPPR associative memory" as HR <<cloud>>
component "PathRAG\nflow-pruned paths" as PR <<cloud>>
component "KET-RAG\ncheap multi-granular index" as KET <<cloud>>
component "LazyGraphRAG\nquery-time graph" as LZ <<cloud>>
}
H ARROW_MAIN R : classify need
R ARROW_MAIN V : fact lookup
R ARROW_OPTIONAL CRAG : weak retrieval
R ARROW_MAIN RAP : long hierarchical text
R ARROW_MAIN PI : structured filings / ToC
R ARROW_OPTIONAL GR : global synthesis
R ARROW_OPTIONAL LR : light multi-hop
R ARROW_OPTIONAL HR : associativity + facts
R ARROW_OPTIONAL PR : cut redundant context
R ARROW_OPTIONAL KET : cost-bound graph index
R ARROW_OPTIONAL LZ : one-off / explore
note bottom of R
**Jul 2026 consensus:** graphs are not default —
route simple queries to vector RAG; reserve graph /
tree / vectorless for multi-hop, global, or
structure-preserving workloads (arXiv:2506.05690).
end note
@enduml
========================================================================
FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/rag/adaptive-routing.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title Adaptive / Routed RAG — Match Strategy to Query Complexity
' Paper: Adaptive-RAG: Learning to Adapt Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models through Question Complexity
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14403
' Paper: When to use Graphs in RAG: A Comprehensive Analysis for Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05690
' Level: 1
actor "Query" as Q
component "Complexity classifier\n(no / single / multi-hop)" as CLS <<app>>
component "No retrieval\n(parametric only)" as NONE <<host>>
component "Single-step vector RAG" as ONE <<db>>
component "Multi-step / graph RAG" as MULTI <<cloud>>
component "Answer" as A <<app>>
component "Always-graph tax\n(latency · noise)" as TAX <<error>>
Q ARROW_MAIN CLS
CLS ARROW_MAIN NONE : trivial
CLS ARROW_MAIN ONE : factual
CLS ARROW_CLOUD MULTI : relational / global
NONE ARROW_MAIN A
ONE ARROW_MAIN A
MULTI ARROW_MAIN A
MULTI ARROW_ERROR TAX : if mis-routed simple Q
note bottom of CLS
Empirical 2025–26 finding: basic RAG (+rerank)
often wins pure fact retrieval; graphs help
complex reasoning / synthesis — **route**,
don't default to GraphRAG.
end note
@enduml
========================================================================
FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/rag/crag.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title Corrective RAG (CRAG) — Retrieve, Evaluate, Correct
' Paper: Corrective Retrieval Augmented Generation
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15884
' Level: 1
component "Initial retrieval" as RET <<app>>
component "Retrieval evaluator\n(relevance quality)" as EVAL <<host>>
database "Knowledge base" as KB <<db>>
cloud "Web / fallback search" as WEB <<cloud>>
component "Knowledge refinement\nstrip noise" as REF <<async>>
cloud "LLM generator" as LLM <<cloud>>
component "Low-confidence path" as BAD <<error>>
KB ARROW_MAIN RET : top-k
RET ARROW_MAIN EVAL : score docs
EVAL ARROW_MAIN REF : Correct / Ambiguous
EVAL ARROW_ERROR BAD : Incorrect
BAD ARROW_CLOUD WEB : correct via external
WEB ARROW_MAIN REF : supplemental docs
REF ARROW_CLOUD LLM : cleaned context
note bottom of EVAL
Lightweight evaluator gates generation:
trust local KB, mix, or abandon and search.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/rag/hipporag.puml
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@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title HippoRAG / HippoRAG 2 — Associative Memory via Personalized PageRank
' Paper: HippoRAG: Neurobiologically Inspired Long-Term Memory for Large Language Models
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14831
' Paper: From RAG to Memory: Non-Parametric Continual Learning for Large Language Models (HippoRAG 2)
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14802
' Level: 1
component "Passages / triples" as P <<app>>
database "Open KG\nphrase + passage nodes" as KG <<db>>
component "Query → seed nodes\n(linking)" as SEED <<host>>
component "Recognition memory\n(LLM filter; HippoRAG 2)" as REC <<async>>
component "Personalized PageRank" as PPR <<app>>
component "Top passages" as TOP <<db>>
cloud "QA reader LLM" as LLM <<cloud>>
P ARROW_MAIN KG : offline index
SEED ARROW_MAIN KG : online seeds
SEED ARROW_OPTIONAL REC : keep relevant triples
REC ARROW_MAIN PPR : filtered seeds
SEED ARROW_OPTIONAL PPR : (HippoRAG 1 path)
KG ARROW_MAIN PPR : graph walk
PPR ARROW_MAIN TOP : ranked passages
TOP ARROW_CLOUD LLM : answer
note bottom of PPR
Hippocampal-indexing inspiration: PPR as
associative recall. HippoRAG 2 adds denser
passage integration so multi-hop gains do
**not** tax simple factual RAG.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/rag/ket-rag.puml
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@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title KET-RAG — Cost-Efficient Multi-Granular Graph Index
' Paper: KET-RAG: A Cost-Efficient Multi-Granular Indexing Framework for Graph-RAG
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09304
' Level: 1
component "Corpus" as C <<app>>
component "Skeleton / selective\nKG extraction" as SKEL <<async>>
component "Multi-granular index\n(coarse + fine)" as IDX <<db>>
component "Query-time retrieve" as RET <<host>>
cloud "LLM" as LLM <<cloud>>
component "Full GraphRAG index\n(all chunks → LLM)" as FULL <<error>>
C ARROW_ERROR FULL : $$$$ offline
C ARROW_MAIN SKEL : index hot subset / skeleton
SKEL ARROW_MAIN IDX : cheap multi-grain store
IDX ARROW_MAIN RET
RET ARROW_CLOUD LLM
note bottom of SKEL
Targets GraphRAG's indexing tax: build
rich structure where it pays off; keep
cheaper granules elsewhere (KDD'25 line).
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/rag/lazy-graphrag.puml
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@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title LazyGraphRAG — Defer Graph Work to Query Time
' Product / research blog: Microsoft LazyGraphRAG
' URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lazygraphrag-setting-a-new-standard-for-quality-and-cost/
' Level: 1
component "Lightweight index\n(minimal upfront LLM)" as IDX <<db>>
component "Query arrives" as Q <<app>>
component "Best-first + BFS\nrelevance expansion" as EXP <<async>>
component "Relevance-test budget\n(quality ↔ cost dial)" as BUD <<host>>
cloud "LLM claims / answers" as LLM <<cloud>>
Q ARROW_MAIN IDX : start sparse
IDX ARROW_QUEUE EXP : grow subgraph on demand
BUD ARROW_OPTIONAL EXP : cap LLM tests
EXP ARROW_CLOUD LLM : answer from induced graph
note bottom of BUD
Contrasts eager GraphRAG indexing: pay for
structure **per query**, useful for one-off /
exploratory analytics on large corpora.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/rag/lightrag.puml
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@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title LightRAG — Dual-Level Graph + Incremental Index
' Paper: LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05779
' Level: 1
component "New / updated chunks" as C <<app>>
cloud "LLM extract\nentities + relations\n(single pass)" as EX <<cloud>>
database "Graph + vectors\n(entities · edges · text)" as STORE <<db>>
component "Low-level retrieval\nentity / detail match" as LOW <<host>>
component "High-level retrieval\ntheme / topic match" as HIGH <<host>>
component "Merge dual context" as MIX <<app>>
cloud "LLM generator" as LLM <<cloud>>
C ARROW_CLOUD EX : incremental update
EX ARROW_MAIN STORE : upsert
STORE ARROW_MAIN LOW : local facts
STORE ARROW_MAIN HIGH : abstract themes
LOW ARROW_MAIN MIX
HIGH ARROW_MAIN MIX
MIX ARROW_CLOUD LLM : dual-level pack
note bottom of STORE
Removes GraphRAG's heavy community
summarization; favors fast indexing,
developer UX, and incremental inserts.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/rag/microsoft-graphrag.puml
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@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title Microsoft GraphRAG — Local → Global Summarization
' Paper: From Local to Global: A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16130
' URL: https://github.com/microsoft/graphrag
' Level: 1
component "Corpus chunks" as C <<app>>
component "LLM entity/relation\nextraction" as EX <<cloud>>
database "Knowledge graph\nnodes + edges" as KG <<db>>
component "Leiden communities" as COM <<async>>
database "Community reports\n(hierarchical summaries)" as SUM <<db>>
component "Local search\nentity neighborhood" as LOC <<host>>
component "Global search\nmap-reduce over reports" as GLOB <<host>>
cloud "LLM answer" as LLM <<cloud>>
C ARROW_CLOUD EX : index
EX ARROW_MAIN KG : write KG
KG ARROW_QUEUE COM : cluster
COM ARROW_MAIN SUM : community reports
KG ARROW_OPTIONAL LOC : entity-centric
SUM ARROW_MAIN GLOB : corpus-wide themes
LOC ARROW_CLOUD LLM
GLOB ARROW_CLOUD LLM
note bottom of SUM
Strength: global / thematic queries.
Cost: expensive LLM indexing; later work
(LightRAG, LazyGraphRAG, KET-RAG) cuts that bill.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/rag/og-rag.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title OG-RAG — Ontology-Grounded Hypergraph Retrieval
' Paper: OG-RAG: Ontology-Grounded Retrieval-Augmented Generation For Large Language Models
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15235
' Level: 1
database "Domain ontology\n(schema constraints)" as ONT <<db>>
component "Ontology-guided\nextraction" as EX <<app>>
database "Hypergraph facts\n(schema-bound)" as HG <<db>>
component "Constrained retrieval" as RET <<host>>
cloud "LLM generator" as LLM <<cloud>>
component "Ungrounded free extract" as HALL <<error>>
ONT ARROW_MAIN EX : allow types/relations
EX ARROW_MAIN HG : write facts
EX ARROW_ERROR HALL : off-schema claims blocked
HG ARROW_MAIN RET : retrieve hyperedges
RET ARROW_CLOUD LLM : high-precision domain QA
note bottom of ONT
Best when a **known schema** exists (medical,
regulatory, enterprise taxonomy). Trades
discovery flexibility for factual discipline.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/rag/pageindex.puml
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@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title PageIndex — Vectorless, Reasoning-Based Tree RAG
' Product: PageIndex (VectifyAI) — hierarchical ToC + LLM tree search
' URL: https://pageindex.ai/blog/pageindex-intro
' URL: https://github.com/VectifyAI/PageIndex
' Level: 1
component "Structured document\n(PDF / HTML / filing)" as DOC <<app>>
component "Hierarchical tree index\n(titles · summaries · pages)" as TREE <<db>>
cloud "LLM tree search\nreason where to look" as SEARCH <<cloud>>
component "Selected node IDs\n(+ trace)" as NODES <<host>>
component "Fetch node text" as FETCH <<app>>
cloud "LLM answer\nwith section citations" as LLM <<cloud>>
DOC ARROW_MAIN TREE : parse structure\n(no embeddings)
TREE ARROW_CLOUD SEARCH : tree metadata only
SEARCH ARROW_MAIN NODES : choose sections
NODES ARROW_MAIN FETCH : materialize text
FETCH ARROW_CLOUD LLM : generate
note bottom of SEARCH
**Vectorless:** no ANN index. LLM navigates
like a human ToC for legal/finance PDFs
(FinanceBench SOTA claims in product lit).
Hybrid often: vector for discovery, PageIndex
for precise section retrieval.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/rag/pathrag.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title PathRAG — Flow-Based Relational Path Pruning
' Paper: PathRAG: Pruning Graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation with Relational Paths
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14902
' Level: 1
database "Indexing graph" as KG <<db>>
component "Retrieve candidate\nrelational paths" as CAND <<app>>
component "Flow-based pruning\nkeep reliable paths" as PRUNE <<async>>
component "Path-based prompting\n(ordered text paths)" as PROMPT <<host>>
cloud "LLM generator" as LLM <<cloud>>
component "Redundant neighbor dump" as NOISE <<error>>
KG ARROW_MAIN CAND : query nodes
CAND ARROW_ERROR NOISE : unpruned neighbors
CAND ARROW_MAIN PRUNE : score flow
PRUNE ARROW_MAIN PROMPT : sparse paths
PROMPT ARROW_CLOUD LLM : coherent multi-hop context
note bottom of PRUNE
Thesis: graph RAG fails from **redundancy**,
not from missing edges. Prune paths → ~40%+
less context while holding accuracy.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/rag/raptor.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title RAPTOR — Recursive Abstractive Tree Retrieval
' Paper: RAPTOR: Recursive Abstractive Processing for Tree-Organized Retrieval
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.18059
' Level: 1
component "Leaf chunks" as L <<app>>
cloud "Cluster + abstract\nsummarize" as SUM <<cloud>>
database "Summary tree\ncoarse → fine layers" as TREE <<db>>
component "Collapsed tree search\n(any layer)" as RET <<host>>
cloud "LLM generator" as LLM <<cloud>>
L ARROW_CLOUD SUM : recursive
SUM ARROW_MAIN TREE : build layers
TREE ARROW_MAIN RET : retrieve nodes
RET ARROW_CLOUD LLM : multi-granularity context
note bottom of TREE
Tree RAG for long documents: upper nodes
for thematic / sense-making queries; leaves
for local detail. Complementary to entity KGs.
end note
@enduml
========================================================================
FILE: _spec/study-cases/1-human-expert/rag/vector-dense-rag.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title Dense / Vector RAG (baseline pipeline)
' Paper: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10997
' Level: 1
actor "User query" as U
component "Embedder" as E <<app>>
database "Vector index\n(chunk embeddings)" as IX <<db>>
component "Retriever\ntop-k ANN" as RET <<app>>
component "Optional reranker" as RR <<async>>
cloud "LLM generator" as LLM <<cloud>>
component "Answer + citations" as OUT <<host>>
U ARROW_MAIN E : embed query
E ARROW_MAIN RET : q-vector
IX ARROW_MAIN RET : nearest chunks
RET ARROW_OPTIONAL RR : score
RR ARROW_CLOUD LLM : context pack
RET ARROW_CLOUD LLM : (if no rerank)
LLM ARROW_MAIN OUT : generate grounded answer
note bottom of IX
Baseline Jul 2026 fact-retrieval default.
Fast; weak on multi-hop / global themes
unless augmented (graph, tree, router).
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/2-single-prompts/discovery/_essentials.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title L2 Discovery Map — Where to Find Popular Prompts / Skills
' Level: 2
' Index of discovery channels; recipes in how-to-query.md
actor "Human expert\n(needs current L2 baseline)" as H
package "1. Agent skills (SKILL.md)" {
cloud "skills.sh\ninstall leaderboard" as SH <<cloud>>
component "npx skills find/add\n+ GET /api/search" as CLI <<app>>
component "anthropics/skills\n+ agentskills.io" as ANT <<host>>
}
package "2. Classic one-shots" {
cloud "prompts.chat\n(+ PROMPTS.md / CSV / HF)" as PC <<cloud>>
}
package "3. Product system prompts" {
database "Leak / extract archives\n(system_prompts_leaks, …)" as ARCH <<db>>
}
H ARROW_MAIN SH : browse all-time installs
H ARROW_MAIN CLI : query / install
CLI ARROW_CLOUD SH : telemetry index
H ARROW_OPTIONAL ANT : first-party + format
H ARROW_OPTIONAL PC : persona libraries
H ARROW_OPTIONAL ARCH : vendor baselines
note bottom of SH
**Correct popularity proxy for skills** =
install counts (anonymous CLI telemetry),
not GitHub stars alone.
end note
note bottom of ARCH
Extracted product prompts — cite archive URL;
freshness > star count for "what ships today."
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/2-single-prompts/discovery/first-party-skills.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title First-Party Agent Skills — Standard + Anthropic Marketplace
' Standard: Agent Skills (SKILL.md)
' URL: https://agentskills.io
' URL: https://github.com/anthropics/skills
' Level: 2
actor "Author / operator" as OP
cloud "agentskills.io\n(format standard)" as STD <<cloud>>
component "anthropics/skills\n(reference + document skills)" as REPO <<host>>
component "Claude Code plugin marketplace" as MKT <<app>>
component "GitHub Search API\ntopic:agent-skills&sort=stars" as GH <<cloud>>
component "SKILL.md package\n(folder + frontmatter)" as SK <<db>>
STD ARROW_OPTIONAL SK : schema / conventions
REPO ARROW_MAIN SK : ships examples
OP ARROW_MAIN MKT : "/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills"
MKT ARROW_OPTIONAL REPO : browse / install plugins
OP ARROW_CLOUD GH : discover by stars
GH ARROW_OPTIONAL REPO : among results
note bottom of MKT
Install path:
/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
Stars measure repo attention; installs
still checked via skills.sh when available.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/2-single-prompts/discovery/prompts-chat.puml
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@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title prompts.chat — Classic One-Shot Prompt Library
' Product: prompts.chat (formerly Awesome ChatGPT Prompts)
' URL: https://prompts.chat
' URL: https://github.com/f/prompts.chat
' Level: 2
actor "Prompt consumer" as U
cloud "prompts.chat/prompts\n(browse UI)" as UI <<cloud>>
database "PROMPTS.md" as MD <<db>>
database "prompts.csv" as CSV <<db>>
cloud "Hugging Face\ndatasets/fka/prompts.chat" as HF <<cloud>>
component "Claude plugin path\nf/prompts.chat" as PLUG <<app>>
component "GitHub stars\n(genre popularity proxy)" as STARS <<host>>
U ARROW_CLOUD UI : discover personas
U ARROW_MAIN MD : curl raw dump
U ARROW_OPTIONAL CSV : tabular export
U ARROW_CLOUD HF : dataset pull
U ARROW_OPTIONAL PLUG : marketplace install
STARS ARROW_OPTIONAL UI : attention signal
note bottom of MD
Fetch:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/f/prompts.chat/main/PROMPTS.md
Use for ChatGPT-era one-shots — not a
substitute for skills.sh install ranks.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/2-single-prompts/discovery/skills-sh.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title skills.sh — Leaderboard Reach & Query Surface
' Product: Vercel skills.sh open agent skills registry
' URL: https://skills.sh/
' URL: https://skills.sh/docs
' URL: https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills
' Level: 2
actor "Consumer / agent" as U
cloud "skills.sh homepage\n(all-time leaderboard UI)" as HOME <<cloud>>
cloud "GET /api/search?q=&limit=&owner=" as API <<cloud>>
component "npx skills find|add|list" as CLI <<app>>
queue "Anonymous install telemetry\n(npx skills add → index)" as TEL <<async>>
database "Install-ranked skill index" as IX <<db>>
component "Badge\nGET /b/{owner}/{repo}" as BADGE <<host>>
U ARROW_CLOUD HOME : browse ranking
U ARROW_MAIN CLI : find / add
CLI ARROW_CLOUD API : search JSON
API ARROW_MAIN IX : fuzzy + installs
CLI ARROW_QUEUE TEL : on successful add
TEL ARROW_MAIN IX : aggregate popularity
U ARROW_OPTIONAL BADGE : README shield
BADGE ARROW_MAIN IX : count
note bottom of API
Example:
curl -sL 'https://skills.sh/api/search?q=frontend&limit=10'
→ skills[].{id, skillId, name, installs, source}
No documented full-dump API — homepage is the board.
end note
note bottom of TEL
Skills enter the index **only** via install
telemetry — not a GitHub crawler.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/2-single-prompts/discovery/vendor-prompt-archives.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title Vendor System-Prompt Archives — Product Baselines
' Archives of extracted product system prompts (not authored libraries)
' URL: https://github.com/asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks
' URL: https://github.com/x1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools
' URL: https://github.com/Piebald-AI/claude-code-system-prompts
' Level: 2
actor "Analyst" as A
cloud "GitHub Search API\nsort=stars" as GH <<cloud>>
database "system_prompts_leaks\n(multi-vendor chat/IDE)" as SPL <<db>>
database "system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools\n(coding agents)" as X1 <<db>>
database "claude-code-system-prompts\n(versioned npm extracts)" as PB <<db>>
component "raw.githubusercontent.com\n/{owner}/{repo}/{path}" as RAW <<host>>
component "Stale extract" as STALE <<error>>
A ARROW_CLOUD GH : find archive repos
GH ARROW_OPTIONAL SPL
GH ARROW_OPTIONAL X1
GH ARROW_OPTIONAL PB
A ARROW_MAIN RAW : fetch single prompt file
SPL ARROW_MAIN RAW
X1 ARROW_MAIN RAW
PB ARROW_MAIN RAW
RAW ARROW_ERROR STALE : if last_commit ≪ today
note bottom of PB
Prefer dated, version-pinned extracts
(e.g. Claude Code changelog per release)
when reconstructing "what ships."
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/3-meta-prompt-loops/cot.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!includeurl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/refs/heads/main/proveo.iuml
title Chain of Thought (CoT)
' Paper: Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903
start
:Input Question;
:LLM: Start Generation;
note right
Model produces intermediate
reasoning steps before answer.
end note
:Step 1: Reasoning;
:Step 2: Reasoning;
:Step 3: Reasoning;
:LLM: Final Answer;
stop
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/3-meta-prompt-loops/mad.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!includeurl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/refs/heads/main/proveo.iuml
title Multi-Agent Debate (MAD)
' Concept: Reducing Hallucinations via Adversarial Debate without Execution
' Context: ChatEval and High-Precision Domains
start
:Input Task;
:Drafter Agent: Generate Initial Plan/Draft;
:Red-Team Judge: Critique Draft (Find Loopholes/Violations);
repeat
:Drafter Agent: Revise Plan based on Critique;
:Red-Team Judge: Evaluate Revised Plan;
repeat while (Judge Approved? or Max Loops Reached?) is (No)
if (Approved by Judge?) then (yes)
:Output Proposal Artifact;
else (no)
:Fallback / Ask Human for Clarification;
endif
stop
note right
Provides run-time confidence
without executing real-world
actions (Dry-Run Verification).
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/3-meta-prompt-loops/plan_and_solve.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!includeurl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/refs/heads/main/proveo.iuml
title Plan-and-Solve (Planner-Executor)
' Paper: Plan-and-Solve Prompting: Improving Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought Reasoning by Large Language Models
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04091
actor User
participant "Planner Agent" as PLAN
participant "Executor Agent" as EXEC
participant "Tool Set" as TOOLS
User -> PLAN : Input Task
activate PLAN
PLAN -> PLAN : Break down task\n(Generate Step 1, 2, 3...)
PLAN -> EXEC : Submit Plan (List of Steps)
deactivate PLAN
activate EXEC
loop Execution Loop (or Dry-Run)
EXEC -> TOOLS : Execute Step N (or Verify State Transition)
activate TOOLS
TOOLS --> EXEC : Result
deactivate TOOLS
end
EXEC -> User : Final Result
deactivate EXEC
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/3-meta-prompt-loops/react.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!includeurl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/refs/heads/main/proveo.iuml
title ReAct Architecture (Reason + Act)
' Paper: ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03629
start
:Input Task;
repeat
:LLM: "Thought" (Reasoning);
:LLM: "Action" (Tool Call);
if (Tool Call?) then (yes)
:Tool: Execute Action;
:Tool: "Observation" (Output);
else (no)
:LLM: Final Answer;
stop
endif
repeat while (Task not done?)
stop
@enduml
========================================================================
FILE: _spec/study-cases/3-meta-prompt-loops/reflexion.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!includeurl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/refs/heads/main/proveo.iuml
title Reflexion (Self-Correction Loop)
' Paper: Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11366
start
:Input Task;
:Attempt 1;
repeat
:Execute Task;
:Evaluate Result (Success/Fail);
if (Success?) then (yes)
:Final Answer;
stop
else (no)
:Reflect (Self-Critique);
note right
"I failed because X.
Next time I will do Y."
end note
:Store Reflection in Memory;
:Retry (Attempt N+1) with Memory;
endif
repeat while (Retries < Max?)
:Failure;
stop
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/3-meta-prompt-loops/tot.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!includeurl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/refs/heads/main/proveo.iuml
title Tree of Thoughts (ToT)
' Paper: Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10601
state "Problem Input" as Input
state "Branch A" as A
state "Branch B" as B
state "Branch C" as C
state "Evaluation" as Eval
state "Final Solution" as Final
[*] --> Input
Input --> A : Generate
Input --> B : Generate
Input --> C : Generate
A --> Eval : Evaluate
B --> Eval : Evaluate
C --> Eval : Evaluate
state Eval {
state "Select Best Score" as Select
}
Eval --> Final : Highest Score
Final --> [*]
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/anti-framework/_essentials.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!includeurl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/refs/heads/main/proveo.iuml
package "The Anti-Framework Harness" {
[Orchestrator\n(The Infinite Loop)] as ORCH
[Context Manager\n(Tree-sitter/Ranking)] as CTX
[IO Layer\n(FS/Shell/Git Wrapper)] as IO
[Eval/Gate\n(Test/Linter OR Deterministic Solver)] as EVAL
[Model Layer\n(Unified API + Token Count)] as MDL
[State/Scratchpad\n(Active Files/Plan)] as STATE
}
USER -> ORCH : "Chat / Intent"
ORCH --> STATE : "Read/Write State"
ORCH -> CTX : "Fetch Relevant Context"
ORCH --> MDL : "Send Prompt"
MDL ---> ORCH : "Stream Thoughts/Calls"
ORCH --> EVAL : "Check Safety/Conf (Multi-Agent Debate)"
EVAL --> IO : "Execute (if Safe)"
IO --> ORCH : "Tool Output"
ORCH -> USER : "Stream Response\n/ Proposal Artifact"
note top of ORCH
A simple while loop.
Not a complex graph.
end note
note bottom of IO
Standard OS ops wrapped
in safe JSON/XML API.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/anti-framework/aider.puml
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@startuml
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' Product: Aider
' URL: https://aider.chat/
package "Aider Architecture" {
[Coder (BaseCoder)\n(The Loop)] as CODER
[Repo Map\n(Tree-sitter + PageRank)] as MAP
[File/Git Access\n(IO Layer)] as GIT
[Model Registry\n(litellm abstraction)] as MODELS
[Active Context\n(abs_fnames)] as MEM
[Linter/Test\n(Verification)] as EVAL
}
CODER -> MEM : "Track Edited Files"
CODER --> MAP : "Get Repo Context"
CODER ---> MODELS : "Chat Completion"
CODER --> GIT : "Read/Write/Commit"
GIT --> EVAL : "Verify Edit"
EVAL --> CODER : "Pass/Fail Feedback"
note bottom of MAP
Compresses massive codebases
into a system prompt map.
end note
note bottom of GIT
Deep integration allows
undoing AI mistakes.
Commit = User Gate.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/anti-framework/continue.puml
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@startuml
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' Product: Continue
' URL: https://www.continue.dev/
package "Continue (IDE Extension)" {
[Core Logic\n(Harness)] as CORE
[IDE State\n(VSCode/JetBrains)] as GUI
[Context Providers\n(Index/Docs/Diffs)] as CTX
[LLM Gateway] as LLM
}
GUI <--> CORE : "Sync State"
CORE --> CTX : "Query Indexes"
CORE --> LLM : "Generate"
note right of CORE
Separates GUI state from
LLM logic strictly.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/anti-framework/hands.puml
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@startuml
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' Product: OpenClaw
' URL: https://openclaw.ai/
package "OpenClaw Architecture (Hands Approach)" {
[Chat Interface\n(Slack/Gmail/Browser/HuggingFace)] as UI
[OpenClaw Core\n(Persistent Memory & Loop)] as CORE
[LLM Provider\n(Anthropic/OpenAI/Local)] as LLM
[Skills & Plugins\n(Hackable/Self-Writing)] as SKILLS
[System Access\n(Bash/Files/Browser)] as IO
}
actor User
User <--> UI : "Natural Language Command"
UI <--> CORE : "Message Stream"
CORE <--> LLM : "Reasoning & Tool Selection"
CORE <--> SKILLS : "Load/Generate Skills"
CORE --> IO : "Direct Environment Manipulation"
note bottom of IO
"Eyes and hands at a desk."
Executes real commands on the
host machine (Mac/Win/Linux).
end note
IO --> CORE : "Observation / Result"
note right of CORE
Runs locally.
Maintains 24/7 context.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/anti-framework/mentat.puml
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@startuml
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' Product: Mentat
' URL: https://www.mentat.ai/
package "Mentat Architecture" {
[Conversation Manager] as MGR
[Code Context] as CTX
[LLM API] as API
[Git Interface] as GIT
[Parser/Diff Engine] as DIFF
}
MGR --> CTX : "Prune Context (Token Limit)"
MGR ---> API : "Stream Response"
MGR --> GIT : "Apply Changes"
CTX --> DIFF : "Parse/Rank Files"
note right of MGR
Dynamically prunes context
based on token limits.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/anti-framework/opencode.puml
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@startuml
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title opencode — open-source terminal coding agent
' Product: opencode (SST / Anomaly) — open-source, MIT, multi-provider terminal coding agent
' URL: https://opencode.ai
' URL: https://github.com/sst/opencode
' Level: 4
' Note: replaces the earlier OpenCodeInterpreter study-case (a different, 2023 project)
component "Terminal UI (TUI)" as TUI <<app>>
component "opencode server\n(client/server core · agent loop)" as SRV <<app>>
component "Tools\n(edit · read · run/PTY · LSP)" as TOOLS <<app>>
database "Session store (SQLite)" as DB <<db>>
database "Workspace (repo)" as REPO <<db>>
cloud "75+ model providers\n(any LLM · hot-swap)" as LLM <<cloud>>
TUI ARROW_MAIN SRV : drive session
SRV ARROW_CLOUD LLM : provider-agnostic calls
SRV ARROW_MAIN TOOLS : tool calls
TOOLS ARROW_MAIN REPO : edit / run / read
SRV ARROW_MAIN DB : persist state
note bottom of SRV
Anti-framework coding agent: a client/server terminal agent wired to
**any** model provider (75+, hot-swappable), with direct file / LSP /
real-shell (PTY) tools. MIT, ~160k★ — a top-starred coding harness.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/anti-framework/sweep.puml
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@startuml
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' Product: Sweep
' URL: https://sweep.dev/
package "Sweep (Async Worker)" {
[GitHub Webhook Handler] as HOOK
[Search Engine\n(Vector + Lexical)] as SEARCH
[Planner] as PLAN
[Pull Request Generator] as PR
[CI/CD\n(GitHub Actions)] as EVAL
}
HOOK --> SEARCH : "Issue -> Code Search"
SEARCH --> PLAN : "Relevant Files"
PLAN --> PR : "Generate Code & PR"
PR --> EVAL : "Run Tests"
EVAL --> PLAN : "Fix Failures"
note right of HOOK
Stateless between events.
Driven by Issue comments.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/applied/computer-use/browser-use.puml
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@startuml
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title browser-use — computer-use / web-automation harness
' Product: browser-use (YC W25) — open-source browser agent harness
' URL: https://browser-use.com
' URL: https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use
' Level: 4
cloud "LLM agent" as LLM <<cloud>>
component "browser-use harness" as BU <<app>>
component "Page → machine-readable\n(interactive elements / a11y tree)" as DOM <<app>>
node "Browser (Playwright)" as BR <<host>>
component "Web page" as WEB <<app>>
BR ARROW_MAIN DOM : capture DOM / a11y tree
DOM ARROW_MAIN LLM : structured page state
LLM ARROW_CLOUD BU : choose action (click / type / navigate)
BU ARROW_MAIN BR : execute
BR ARROW_MAIN WEB : navigate (loop)
note bottom of DOM
Turns a web page into **machine-readable** interactive elements so an
LLM can reliably click / type / navigate — the canonical open-source
computer-use harness (~100k★, YC W25).
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/applied/finance/dual-channel-fact-vs-rule-rag.puml
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@startuml
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title Dual-Channel RAG — fact vs rule
' Paper: Dense X Retrieval (proposition retrieval), arXiv:2312.06648
' Ref: study-cases/context-and-retrieval.md §2
' Level: 4
' Provenance: domain: finance
component "Query" as Q <<app>>
database "Pipeline A — facts\n(client state · history)" as FA <<db>>
database "Pipeline B — rules\n(SEC / statutes)" as FR <<db>>
cloud "LLM" as LLM <<cloud>>
component "Compliant answer" as ANS <<app>>
Q ARROW_MAIN FA : retrieve facts
Q ARROW_MAIN FR : retrieve rules
FA ARROW_MAIN LLM : conversational context
FR ARROW_ERROR LLM : hard guardrails (system prompt)
LLM ARROW_CLOUD ANS : generate
note bottom of FR
Two channels: **facts** as context, **rules/constraints** injected as
absolute system-prompt guardrails — enforcing compliance during
generation, not appended as ordinary context.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/applied/finance/probabilistic-risk-formalizer.puml
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@startuml
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title Probabilistic Risk — LLM as Formalizer
' Paper: On the Limit of Language Models as Planning Formalizers, arXiv:2412.09879
' Ref: study-cases/summary.md §4 (PPL / PyMC)
' Level: 4
' Provenance: domain: finance
cloud "LLM (formalizer)" as LLM <<cloud>>
component "Formal model\n(PPL / PyMC script)" as MOD <<app>>
component "Deterministic engine\n(runs the simulation)" as ENG <<app>>
component "Risk result\n(confidence %)" as RES <<app>>
LLM ARROW_CLOUD MOD : write model (not guess)
MOD ARROW_MAIN ENG : execute
ENG ARROW_MAIN RES : hard numbers
RES ARROW_OPTIONAL LLM : summarize for user
note bottom of ENG
The LLM **doesn't guess** the risk — it writes a probabilistic model,
a deterministic engine computes it, and the result is fed back for the
LLM to explain.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/applied/games/generative-competitive-agents.puml
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@startuml
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title Generative Competitive Agents
' Paper: Park et al., Generative Agents — Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior, arXiv:2304.03442
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/agents-of-empires · agent/, denier/, stalker/
component "Simulated world" as W <<app>>
component "Worker (economy)" as WK <<app>>
component "Stalker (recon)" as ST <<app>>
component "Denier (attack)" as DN <<app>>
W ARROW_MAIN WK : perceive
W ARROW_MAIN ST : perceive
W ARROW_MAIN DN : perceive
WK ARROW_QUEUE W : gather
ST ARROW_OPTIONAL W : scout
DN ARROW_ERROR W : attack
note bottom of W
Many **role-specialized agents** (worker, stalker, denier) perceive and
act in a shared simulated world — competing and cooperating to win.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/applied/games/llm-strategy-agents.puml
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@startuml
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title LLM Strategy Agents — RTS Commander
' Paper: CICERO — Human-level play in Diplomacy, Science 2022 (DOI 10.1126/science.ade9097)
' Paper: Voyager — An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with LLMs, arXiv:2305.16291
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/agents-of-empires · brain/, engine/
component "World state\n(resources · map · units)" as W <<app>>
cloud "LLM commander" as CMD <<cloud>>
component "Strategy + allocation" as PLAN <<app>>
component "Unit actions" as ACT <<app>>
W ARROW_CLOUD CMD : observe
CMD ARROW_MAIN PLAN : strategy
PLAN ARROW_MAIN ACT : allocate + command
ACT ARROW_MAIN W : act (loop)
note bottom of CMD
An LLM "commander" reads world state and generates strategy, resource
allocation, and per-unit actions in a real-time strategy world.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/applied/games/multi-engine-ensemble.puml
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@startuml
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title Multi-Engine Ensemble — human-like + optimal + explainer
' Paper: McIlroy-Young et al., Maia — Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior, KDD 2020, arXiv:2006.01855
' Paper: AlphaZero, arXiv:1712.01815
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/chess-coach · Orchestrator.ts, EngineBridge.ts, packages/engine-core
component "Position" as POS <<app>>
component "Maia (lc0)\nhuman-like move" as MAIA <<app>>
component "Stockfish\noptimal eval" as SF <<app>>
cloud "LLM explainer" as LLM <<cloud>>
component "Grounded commentary" as OUT <<app>>
POS ARROW_MAIN MAIA : predict human move
POS ARROW_MAIN SF : evaluate
MAIA ARROW_MAIN LLM : move
SF ARROW_MAIN LLM : eval delta
LLM ARROW_CLOUD OUT : explain (grounded)
note bottom of LLM
Three engines, one tutor: **Maia** plays like a human at a target Elo,
**Stockfish** says what's optimal, and the **LLM explains the gap** —
grounded on engine eval, not free-form.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/applied/health/clinical-rag-with-citations.puml
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@startuml
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title Clinical RAG with Citations
' Paper: Almanac — Retrieval-Augmented LMs for Clinical Medicine, NEJM AI 2024 (DOI 10.1056/AIoa2300068)
' Level: 4
' Provenance: domain: health (HITL ≈ aphelion governor)
component "Clinical question" as Q <<app>>
database "Guidelines / literature" as KB <<db>>
cloud "LLM" as LLM <<cloud>>
component "Answer + mandatory citations" as ANS <<app>>
component "Clinician sign-off" as DOC <<host>>
Q ARROW_MAIN KB : retrieve
KB ARROW_MAIN LLM : grounded context
Q ARROW_CLOUD LLM : ask
LLM ARROW_MAIN ANS : answer (cite-or-refuse)
ANS ARROW_MAIN DOC : review
note bottom of ANS
Every claim **links to a retrieved source** (cite-or-refuse), and a
clinician signs off. Grounding + HITL, not free generation.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/applied/law/citation-grounded-drafting.puml
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@startuml
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title Citation-Grounded Legal Drafting
' Paper: Large Legal Fictions — Profiling Legal Hallucinations in LLMs, arXiv:2401.01301
' Ref: study-cases/summary.md §5 (draft-and-diff)
' Level: 4
' Provenance: domain: law
component "Drafting request" as Q <<app>>
database "Statutes / precedent" as KB <<db>>
cloud "LLM" as LLM <<cloud>>
component "Draft + linked citations\n(hallucination-gated)" as DR <<app>>
component "Redline\n(node-level edit)" as RL <<app>>
actor "Attorney" as AT
Q ARROW_MAIN KB : retrieve authorities
KB ARROW_MAIN LLM : grounded
LLM ARROW_MAIN DR : draft (cite or refuse)
DR ARROW_MAIN RL : draft-and-diff
RL ARROW_MAIN AT : edit at node level
note bottom of DR
Mandatory citation linking + hallucination guardrails (the fabricated-
citation problem). Output is a draft-and-diff the attorney edits at the
clause / node level.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/applied/law/legal-reasoning-benchmark.puml
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@startuml
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title Legal-Reasoning Benchmark
' Paper: LegalBench — Measuring Legal Reasoning in LLMs, arXiv:2308.11462
' Paper: CaseHOLD — When Does Pretraining Help?, ICAIL 2021, arXiv:2104.08671
' Level: 4
' Provenance: domain: law (eval artifact)
component "Task taxonomy\n(issue · rule · holding)" as TAX <<app>>
database "Benchmark dataset\n(LegalBench · CaseHOLD)" as DS <<db>>
cloud "LLM under test" as LLM <<cloud>>
component "Scored reasoning\n(holding / precedent class)" as SC <<app>>
TAX ARROW_MAIN DS : define tasks
DS ARROW_CLOUD LLM : evaluate
LLM ARROW_MAIN SC : classify
SC ARROW_OPTIONAL TAX : measure by task
note bottom of DS
A collaboratively-built taxonomy of legal-reasoning tasks (holding
selection, precedent classification) — the **eval** that says whether
a legal agent actually reasons.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/applied/science/autonomous-research-agent.puml
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@startuml
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title Autonomous Research Agent
' Paper: Coscientist — Autonomous chemical research with LLMs, Nature 2023 (DOI 10.1038/s41586-023-06792-0)
' Paper: ChemCrow — Augmenting LLMs with chemistry tools, arXiv:2304.05376
' Level: 4
' Provenance: domain: science (a domain ReAct loop)
cloud "LLM (planner)" as LLM <<cloud>>
component "Tools\n(lab robot · simulation · search)" as TOOL <<app>>
queue "Observation" as OBS <<async>>
component "Hypothesis / result" as RES <<app>>
LLM ARROW_CLOUD TOOL : plan + act
TOOL ARROW_QUEUE OBS : measure
OBS ARROW_MAIN LLM : observe (ReAct loop)
LLM ARROW_MAIN RES : conclude
note bottom of LLM
A domain ReAct loop: plan → act through real tools (lab robotics,
simulation, literature) → observe → iterate toward a result.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/applied/security/autonomous-offensive-agent.puml
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@startuml
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title Autonomous Offensive Agent (sandboxed)
' Paper: LLM Agents can Autonomously Hack Websites, arXiv:2402.06664
' Paper: PentestGPT, USENIX Security 2024, arXiv:2308.06782
' Level: 4
' Provenance: domain: security (≈ omnigent sandbox / egress)
cloud "LLM agent" as LLM <<cloud>>
node "Sandbox (egress-gated)" as SBX <<host>>
component "Recon → exploit tools" as TOOL <<app>>
component "Target\n(authorized scope)" as TGT <<error>>
LLM ARROW_CLOUD TOOL : plan + invoke
SBX ARROW_MAIN TOOL : contain
TOOL ARROW_ERROR TGT : recon / exploit
TGT ARROW_QUEUE LLM : observation (loop)
note bottom of SBX
An LLM agent runs recon/exploit **inside a sandbox with egress gating**
(authorized scope only) — the offensive analog of the harness's
sandbox + egress controls.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/applied/software/lsp-symbolic-code-toolkit.puml
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@startuml
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title Serena — LSP symbolic code toolkit
' Product: Serena — semantic code-retrieval & editing toolkit for coding agents (MIT)
' URL: https://github.com/oraios/serena
' URL: https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/ (Language Server Protocol)
' Level: 4
component "Harness + agent\n(Claude Code · Codex · OpenCode · Cursor · JetBrains)" as HOST <<host>>
component "Serena toolkit\n(one MCP server, mounted by many harnesses)" as SERENA <<app>>
cloud "LSP language servers\n(40+ languages)" as LSP <<cloud>>
database "Repository (workspace)" as REPO <<db>>
database "Project memories\n(.serena/memories)" as MEM <<db>>
HOST ARROW_MAIN SERENA : symbol-level tool calls (MCP)
SERENA ARROW_CLOUD LSP : LSP queries — find symbol,\nreferencing symbols, type hierarchy
LSP ARROW_MAIN REPO : parse & index
SERENA ARROW_MAIN REPO : symbolic edits — replace body,\ninsert after symbol, rename / move
SERENA ARROW_OPTIONAL MEM : onboard · recall
note bottom of SERENA
A **semantic** agent-computer interface: the agent operates on the
live **LSP symbol graph** (definitions, references, type hierarchy)
and edits at **symbol granularity**, not text ranges — distinct from
the tracked tree-sitter static repo-map (Aider). One portable MCP
server is reused across many harnesses; the **tool layer** is the
portable unit — the inverse of the vendor-neutral //harness// adapter.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/applied/software/swe-agent-computer-interface.puml
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@startuml
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title SWE-Agent — Agent-Computer Interface
' Paper: SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06770
' Paper: SWE-agent: Agent-Computer Interfaces Enable Automated Software Engineering
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15793
' Level: 4
component "GitHub issue\n(natural-language bug)" as ISSUE <<host>>
component "Agent (LLM)" as AGENT <<app>>
component "Agent-Computer Interface\n(view · edit · search · run)" as ACI <<app>>
database "Repository (sandbox)" as REPO <<db>>
component "Test suite / CI" as CI <<app>>
queue "Patch (diff)" as PATCH <<async>>
ISSUE ARROW_MAIN AGENT : task
AGENT ARROW_MAIN ACI : structured commands
ACI ARROW_MAIN REPO : edit files
ACI ARROW_MAIN CI : run tests
CI ARROW_QUEUE AGENT : pass / fail observation
AGENT ARROW_MAIN PATCH : propose fix
CI ARROW_ERROR AGENT : on failure — iterate
note bottom of ACI
The interface is built **for the agent** (compact,
error-tolerant commands), and the test suite is the
ground-truth reward — verifiable, like SWE-bench.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/evidence-and-durability/continuation-recovery.puml
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@startuml
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title Continuation Recovery
' Paper: Ongaro & Ousterhout, Raft (replicated durable log), USENIX ATC 2014
' URL: https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/aphelion · session/ (continuation), interpretation/service.go
database "Durable log + evidence" as LOG <<db>>
component "Evidence hydration" as HY <<app>>
component "Recovery transition graph\n(typed states)" as RTG <<app>>
component "Operator approval\n(if consequential)" as OP <<async>>
component "Resumed turn" as RES <<app>>
LOG ARROW_MAIN HY : rehydrate
HY ARROW_MAIN RTG : reconstruct state
RTG ARROW_OPTIONAL OP : gate risky resume
RTG ARROW_MAIN RES : continue
RES ARROW_QUEUE LOG : append (loop)
note bottom of RTG
Long-horizon work resumes **deterministically** from the durable log
+ hydrated evidence, walking a typed recovery transition graph —
not free-form re-prompting.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/evidence-and-durability/dead-letter-bounded-replay.puml
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@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title Dead-Letter + Bounded Replay
' Pattern: Hohpe & Woolf, Dead Letter Channel (Enterprise Integration Patterns)
' URL: https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/patterns/messaging/DeadLetterChannel.html
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/omnigent · _native_post_delivery.py
component "Forwarder\n(POST mirror item)" as FWD <<app>>
cloud "Coordinator server" as SRV <<cloud>>
database "dead_letter.jsonl\n(50 MB rolling)" as DLQ <<error>>
component "Startup replay\n(proven-undelivered only)" as RPL <<app>>
FWD ARROW_CLOUD SRV : deliver
FWD ARROW_ERROR DLQ : on failure / ambiguous
RPL ARROW_MAIN DLQ : read on startup
RPL ARROW_CLOUD SRV : replay (dedup-safe)
note bottom of DLQ
Undeliverable POSTs are persisted, not lost. On restart only
**proven-undelivered** records replay — a delivery-ambiguity
classifier prevents duplicates.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/evidence-and-durability/durable-children-zero-trust-identity.puml
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@startuml
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title Durable Children — Zero-Trust Workload Identity
' Paper: Donenfeld, WireGuard, NDSS 2017 — https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard.pdf
' Std: SPIFFE/SPIRE — https://spiffe.io/ ; SLSA — https://slsa.dev/
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/aphelion · durableagent/, tailnet/
component "Parent agent" as P <<app>>
node "Authenticated overlay\n(Tailscale / WireGuard)" as NET <<host>>
component "Durable child\n(derived envelope)" as C <<app>>
component "Signed control plane" as CP <<app>>
database "Child state (durable)" as ST <<db>>
P ARROW_CLOUD NET : provision over overlay
NET ARROW_MAIN C : enroll (own identity)
CP ARROW_MAIN C : signed policy / relay
C ARROW_MAIN ST : persist
note bottom of C
A child's permission envelope is **derived, not ambiently inherited**.
Identity is the workload's own (zero-trust); a child's reports are
evidence until authority grants them agency.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/evidence-and-durability/effect-attempt-lifecycle.puml
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@startuml
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title Effect-Attempt Lifecycle
' Paper: Garcia-Molina & Salem, Sagas, ACM SIGMOD 1987 (DOI 10.1145/38713.38742)
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/aphelion · session/types_effect_attempt.go
component "attempted" as A <<app>>
component "executed" as E <<app>>
component "verified" as V <<app>>
component "rejected" as R <<error>>
component "superseded" as S <<async>>
A ARROW_MAIN E : run side effect
E ARROW_MAIN V : verification passes
E ARROW_ERROR R : verification fails
R ARROW_OPTIONAL A : retry (only after verify clears)
A ARROW_OPTIONAL S : replaced by a newer attempt
note bottom of V
At-least-once **plus verification**, not exactly-once: a side effect
isn't "done" until verified, and retries are **blocked** until the
prior attempt is verified or superseded.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/evidence-and-durability/provenance-evidence-ledger.puml
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@startuml
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title Provenance / Evidence Ledger
' Standard: W3C PROV-Overview — https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-overview/
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/aphelion · session/types_evidence.go, evidence_redaction.go
component "Observation\n(tool output · model claim)" as OBS <<app>>
database "Evidence snapshot\nsource-kind · epistemic-status\npayload-hash · redaction" as EV <<db>>
component "Hydration\n(rebuild context from evidence)" as HY <<app>>
component "Transcript\n(presentation)" as TR <<app>>
OBS ARROW_MAIN EV : record (immutable)
EV ARROW_MAIN HY : rehydrate
EV ARROW_OPTIONAL TR : render
HY ARROW_MAIN TR : grounded view
note bottom of EV
Every claim is a **typed, immutable snapshot** with provenance —
who/what generated it, how sure, a payload hash, a redaction policy.
The ledger is truth; the transcript is presentation.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/evidence-and-durability/typed-execution-events-ledger.puml
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@startuml
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title Typed Execution-Events Ledger
' Ref: Fowler, Event Sourcing — https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html
' Ref: Fowler, CQRS — https://martinfowler.com/bliki/CQRS.html
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/aphelion · session/store.go, types_runtime_records.go
component "Turn / tool / effect events" as EV <<async>>
database "execution_events\nappend-only · monotonic seq" as LOG <<db>>
component "Projections\n(transcript · views)" as PROJ <<app>>
actor "Reader / audit" as R
EV ARROW_QUEUE LOG : append (never mutate)
LOG ARROW_MAIN PROJ : replay / fold
PROJ ARROW_MAIN R : present
LOG ARROW_OPTIONAL R : canonical order
note bottom of LOG
The **log is the truth**; the transcript is a *projection* of it.
A monotonic per-session seq fixes execution order for audit & replay.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/framework/_essentials.puml
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@startuml
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package "The Framework-Based Harness" {
[Adaptive UI\n(Chat/Search/Templates)] as UI
[Orchestrator / Engine\n(RAG/Semantic Kernel)] as ORCH
[Integration Layer\n(Connectors/Graph)] as INTEG
[Compliance / Safety\n(Trust Boundary / Eval)] as SAFE
[Fact Data\n(SaaS/Docs/DBs)] as FACTS
[Rule Data\n(Policies/Regulations)] as RULES
[Model Gateway] as LLM
}
UI --> ORCH : "User Intent"
ORCH --> INTEG : "Retrieve Context (Dual-Channel)"
INTEG <.. FACTS : "Sync Facts"
INTEG <.. RULES : "Sync Rules"
ORCH --> SAFE : "Pre-flight Check"
SAFE --> LLM : "Prompt"
LLM --> SAFE : "Content Filter / Eval"
SAFE --> ORCH : "Validated Response"
ORCH --> UI : "Proposal Artifact (Draft-and-Diff)"
note right of SAFE
Critical layer for
enterprise adoption.
end note
note bottom of INTEG
Abstracts away API
complexity of SaaS.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/framework/cohere_coral.puml
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@startuml
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' Product: Cohere Coral / Command
' URL: https://cohere.com/coral
package "Cohere Coral" {
[Chat Interface\n(Citations)] as UI
[Orchestrator\n(Grounded QA)] as ORCH
[Retrieval Engine\n(Embeddings)] as RET
[Knowledge Base\n(Documents/Wiki)] as KB
[Command Model\n(Instruction Tuned)] as MDL
}
UI --> ORCH : "Question"
ORCH --> RET : "Search"
RET --> KB : "Fetch Chunks"
ORCH --> MDL : "Generate w/ Citations"
MDL --> UI : "Answer + Links"
note right of UI
UI emphasizes citations
linking back to source.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/framework/dify.puml
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@startuml
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title Dify — agentic-workflow platform
' Product: Dify (LangGenius) — open-source LLM app / agent platform
' URL: https://dify.ai
' URL: https://github.com/langgenius/dify
' Level: 4
actor "Builder" as B
component "Visual workflow canvas" as CANVAS <<app>>
component "Agent + tools" as AGENT <<app>>
database "Knowledge / RAG" as KB <<db>>
cloud "Model gateway\n(many providers)" as LLM <<cloud>>
queue "Observability\n(trace · eval)" as OBS <<async>>
B ARROW_MAIN CANVAS : compose visually
CANVAS ARROW_MAIN AGENT : orchestrate
AGENT ARROW_MAIN KB : retrieve (RAG)
AGENT ARROW_CLOUD LLM : call model
AGENT ARROW_QUEUE OBS : trace / eval
note bottom of CANVAS
Framework-tier platform: a **visual canvas** over RAG, tools, agents, a
model gateway, and observability — build/deploy agentic workflows
without wiring it all by hand (~140k★).
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/framework/dust.puml
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@startuml
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' Product: Dust
' URL: https://dust.tt/
package "Dust Platform" {
[Front-End\n(Chat Interface)] as UI
[Assistant Registry\n(Custom Agents)] as REG
[Block Orchestrator\n(XP1 Runtime)] as ORCH
[Data Sources\n(Notion, GitHub, Slack)] as DATA
[Model Providers\n(OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral)] as MODELS
}
UI -> REG : "Select Assistant"
REG --> ORCH : "Load Config"
ORCH --> DATA : "Retrieve Context"
ORCH --> MODELS : "Execute Logic"
MODELS --> UI : "Stream Result"
note right of REG
Users define custom assistants
shared via workspace.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/framework/glean.puml
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@startuml
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' Product: Glean
' URL: https://www.glean.com/
package "Glean Architecture" {
[Unified Search UI\n(Chat + Search)] as UI
[Knowledge Graph\n(People/Docs/Tickets)] as KG
[Connectors\n(Jira, Slack, GDrive)] as CONN
[RAG Engine\n(Deep Learning Search)] as RAG
[Citation Check\n(Eval)] as EVAL
[LLM Service] as LLM
}
UI -> RAG : "Query"
RAG --> KG : "Semantic Search"
KG <.. CONN : "Ingest & Index"
RAG --> LLM : "Summarize Context"
LLM --> EVAL : "Verify Claims"
EVAL ----> UI : "Verified Answer + Links"
note bottom of CONN
Connects 100+ SaaS apps
with strict permission sync.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/framework/microsoft_copilot.puml
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@startuml
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' Product: Microsoft Copilot (M365)
' URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot
package "Microsoft Copilot Stack" {
[App Host\n(Word, Excel, Teams)] as APP
[User Gate\n(Ghost Text / Tab)] as GATE
[Copilot Orchestrator\n(Semantic Kernel)] as ORCH
[Microsoft Graph\n(Email, Files, Calendar)] as GRAPH
[LLM Gateway\n(Azure OpenAI)] as AI
[Trust Boundary\n(Compliance/Safety)] as SAFE
}
APP -> ORCH : "User Prompt + Context"
ORCH --> GRAPH : "Grounding (RAG)"
GRAPH --> ORCH : "Enterprise Data"
ORCH --> SAFE : "Pre-Processing"
SAFE --> AI : "Filtered Prompt"
AI --> SAFE : "Raw Generation"
SAFE ---> ORCH : "Post-Processing"
ORCH --> GATE : "Suggestion"
GATE ---> APP : "Insert (if Tab)"
note right of GRAPH
Data retrieval respects
user permissions (ACLs).
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/framework/typeface.puml
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@startuml
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' Product: Typeface
' URL: https://www.typeface.ai/
package "Typeface Architecture" {
[Adaptive UI\n(Templates/Sliders)] as UI
[Brand Guard\n(Tone/Style Check)] as GUARD
[Asset Manager\n(DAM Integration)] as ASSETS
[Multimodal Flow\n(Text + Image Gen)] as FLOW
[Generative Models] as GEN
}
UI -> FLOW : "Campaign Intent"
FLOW --> ASSETS : "Fetch Brand Assets"
FLOW --> GEN : "Generate Content"
GEN --> GUARD : "Safety Check"
GUARD ----> UI : "Draft Content"
note right of GUARD
Eval: Ensures output matches
corporate brand voice.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/governance/capability-effect-authorization.puml
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@startuml
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title Capability / Effect Authorization
' Paper: Miller, Robust Composition — Object-Capability Model (JHU 2006)
' URL: http://www.erights.org/talks/thesis/markm-thesis.pdf
' Paper: Saltzer & Schroeder, The Protection of Information in Computer Systems, 1975
' URL: https://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/protection/
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/aphelion · effectauth/effectauth.go, commandeffect/plan.go
cloud "Model proposal\n(command / action)" as M <<cloud>>
component "Command-effect classifier" as CLS <<app>>
component "Capability check\n(granted work-mode)" as GATE <<app>>
component "Capability grant\n(scope · work-mode · expiry)" as CAP <<db>>
component "Effect executed" as EXE <<app>>
component "Denied" as DEN <<error>>
M ARROW_CLOUD CLS : proposes
CLS ARROW_MAIN GATE : effect kind
CAP ARROW_OPTIONAL GATE : active grant
GATE ARROW_MAIN EXE : within granted work-mode
GATE ARROW_ERROR DEN : exceeds capability
note bottom of CAP
Work-mode ladder: read_only < workspace_write < commit < deploy.
Authority is a **first-class object** — auditable, expirable,
narrowable; the proposal never widens it (least privilege).
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/governance/leases-and-grants.puml
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@startuml
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title Leases & Grants
' Paper: Gray & Cheriton, Leases — Fault-Tolerant Distributed Cache Consistency, SOSP 1989
' URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/74850.74870
' Paper: Burrows, The Chubby Lock Service, OSDI 2006
' URL: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi-06/chubby-lock-service-loosely-coupled-distributed-systems
' Spec: OAuth 2.0 (scoped delegation), RFC 6749
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/aphelion · session/types_continuation.go, capability_store.go
component "Proposal\n(model asks)" as PROP <<app>>
actor "Operator approval" as OP
component "Lease\n(scope · TTL · turn-budget)" as LEASE <<db>>
component "Per-turn consumption" as USE <<app>>
component "Expired / spent" as EXP <<error>>
PROP ARROW_MAIN OP : request
OP ARROW_MAIN LEASE : grant (bounded)
LEASE ARROW_MAIN USE : consume one turn
USE ARROW_OPTIONAL LEASE : decrement budget
LEASE ARROW_ERROR EXP : TTL elapsed / budget 0
note bottom of LEASE
A grant is **consumable, time-bounded, non-self-renewing** —
spent per turn, never a blank check. Re-grant needs a new approval.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/governance/policy-engine-allow-ask-deny.puml
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@startuml
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title Policy Engine — allow / ask / deny
' Paper: Saltzer & Schroeder (complete mediation / least privilege), 1975
' URL: https://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/protection/
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/omnigent · policies/, runtime/policies/ ; aphelion · effectauth
component "Action\n(every tool call)" as ACT <<app>>
component "Policy stack\nsession → agent → server\n(first match wins)" as PS <<app>>
component "Allow" as AL <<app>>
component "Ask (human gate)" as AK <<async>>
component "Deny" as DN <<error>>
ACT ARROW_MAIN PS : check
PS ARROW_MAIN AL : allow
PS ARROW_QUEUE AK : ask
PS ARROW_ERROR DN : deny
note bottom of PS
**Complete mediation** — every action is checked. Three layers
(session → agent → server defaults) resolve to one verdict;
session rules win first.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/governance/privilege-separation-face-governor.puml
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@startuml
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title Privilege Separation — Face / Governor
' Paper: Provos, Friedl, Honeyman, Preventing Privilege Escalation, USENIX Security 2003
' URL: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sec03/tech/full_papers/provos_et_al/provos_et_al.pdf
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/aphelion · pipeline/, governorauth/, governorbackend/
component "Face\n(unprivileged · conversational)" as FACE <<app>>
component "Governor\n(privileged · authority)" as GOV <<error>>
component "Effect / grant\n(governor-only)" as EFF <<app>>
FACE ARROW_MAIN GOV : propose action
GOV ARROW_MAIN EFF : decide & issue
GOV ARROW_OPTIONAL FACE : verdict / record
FACE ARROW_ERROR EFF : blocked — import-guard boundary
note bottom of FACE
The face **cannot grant itself** authority. Enforced by a process
split + compile-time import guards (qmail / OpenSSH privsep), not
by discipline.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/meta-orchestration/code-mode-executable-actions.puml
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@startuml
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title Code-mode — executable-code action space (CodeAct)
' Paper: Executable Code Actions Elicit Better LLM Agents (CodeAct), ICML 2024
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01030
' URL: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent (embodiment — tools via RPC from a script)
' Level: 4
component "Agent (LLM)" as AGENT <<app>>
component "Code action\n(one Python script)" as CODE <<app>>
component "Interpreter / sandbox" as EXEC <<app>>
component "Tools\n(called via RPC, in-loop)" as TOOLS <<app>>
database "Context window" as CTX <<db>>
AGENT ARROW_MAIN CODE : emit executable action
CODE ARROW_MAIN EXEC : run
EXEC ARROW_MAIN TOOLS : RPC calls — loops & branches;\nintermediate results stay local
TOOLS ARROW_MAIN EXEC : results
EXEC ARROW_QUEUE CTX : final result only
CTX ARROW_MAIN AGENT : observe (one turn)
note bottom of EXEC
A unified **code** action space instead of per-call JSON/text tool
invocations. A whole multi-step pipeline runs inside one script, so
intermediate results never re-enter the window — "zero-context-cost"
turns. Context **avoidance via code**, distinct from the tracked
context //pruning// (sliding window · active set · PageRank).
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/meta-orchestration/control-execution-plane-split.puml
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@startuml
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title Control / Execution Plane Split
' Paper: McKeown et al., OpenFlow, SIGCOMM CCR 2008 (DOI 10.1145/1355734.1355746)
' Paper: Feamster, Rexford, Zegura, The Road to SDN, 2014
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/omnigent · server/ ↔ runner/
component "Coordinator server\n(control plane · no agent state, no LLM)" as SRV <<app>>
database "Stores\n(sessions · policies · artifacts)" as DB <<db>>
component "Runner\n(execution plane · spawns harness, runs turns)" as RUN <<app>>
cloud "LLM / tools" as LLM <<cloud>>
SRV ARROW_MAIN DB : persist (truth)
RUN ARROW_QUEUE SRV : outbound-only WS tunnel
RUN ARROW_CLOUD LLM : run turn
note bottom of SRV
The server holds **no agent state and runs no LLM code**; runners are
stateless against it (truth lives in stores). They meet only over an
**outbound-only** WS tunnel — no inbound ports on the runner.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/meta-orchestration/cross-vendor-debate-review.puml
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@startuml
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title Cross-Vendor Debate / Review
' Paper: Du et al., Improving Factuality & Reasoning via Multiagent Debate, arXiv:2305.14325
' Paper: Liang et al., Encouraging Divergent Thinking via Multi-Agent Debate, arXiv:2305.19118
' Paper: ChatEval, arXiv:2308.07201
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/omnigent · examples/debby/
component "Question" as Q <<app>>
cloud "Vendor A (Claude)" as A <<cloud>>
cloud "Vendor B (GPT)" as B <<cloud>>
component "Debate / critique" as DBT <<app>>
component "Synthesis" as SYN <<app>>
Q ARROW_CLOUD A : ask
Q ARROW_CLOUD B : ask
A ARROW_MAIN DBT : answer
B ARROW_MAIN DBT : answer
DBT ARROW_OPTIONAL A : rebut / refine
DBT ARROW_OPTIONAL B : rebut / refine
DBT ARROW_MAIN SYN : converge
note bottom of DBT
Fan one question to **independent vendor models**, then have them
debate / critique each other — surfacing errors a single model's
self-critique would miss (confirmation bias).
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/meta-orchestration/multi-agent-delegation.puml
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@startuml
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title Multi-Agent Delegation
' Paper: AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08155
' Paper: MetaGPT: Meta Programming for A Multi-Agent Collaborative Framework
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00352
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/omnigent · examples/polly/
actor "Operator" as OP
component "Orchestrator\n(plans · delegates · writes no code)" as ORCH <<app>>
component "Sub-agent A\n(git worktree)" as A <<app>>
component "Sub-agent B\n(git worktree)" as B <<app>>
component "Cross-vendor reviewer" as REV <<app>>
cloud "Vendor models\n(Claude · GPT · …)" as LLM <<cloud>>
queue "Pull requests" as PR <<async>>
OP ARROW_MAIN ORCH : goal
ORCH ARROW_QUEUE A : delegate task
ORCH ARROW_QUEUE B : delegate task
A ARROW_CLOUD LLM : drive
B ARROW_CLOUD LLM : drive
A ARROW_MAIN PR : open PR
B ARROW_MAIN PR : open PR
PR ARROW_MAIN REV : review
REV ARROW_OPTIONAL ORCH : request changes
PR ARROW_MAIN OP : human merges
note bottom of ORCH
The orchestrator writes no code — it decomposes work,
dispatches to parallel worktrees, and gates on cross-vendor
review; the human merges.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/meta-orchestration/native-cli-forwarder-transcript-mirroring.puml
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@startuml
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title Native-CLI Forwarder + Transcript Mirroring
' Pattern: Evans, Domain-Driven Design — Anticorruption Layer (2003)
' URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/architecture/patterns/anti-corruption-layer
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/omnigent · *_native_forwarder.py
cloud "Vendor CLI (untouched)\nwrapped in tmux" as CLI <<cloud>>
component "Forwarder\n(tail JSONL / events)" as FWD <<app>>
component "Anti-corruption layer\n(map to framework items)" as ACL <<app>>
cloud "Coordinator server" as SRV <<cloud>>
CLI ARROW_MAIN FWD : emit transcript
FWD ARROW_MAIN ACL : normalize
ACL ARROW_CLOUD SRV : mirror as external_conversation_item POSTs
note bottom of ACL
The vendor CLI is **never modified**. A forwarder tails its output; an
anti-corruption layer maps it to framework items — bridging a foreign
agent into the platform without touching it.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/meta-orchestration/sandbox-egress-secretless-credentials.puml
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@startuml
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title Sandbox + Egress + Secretless Credentials
' Tool: bubblewrap — https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap ; cgroup v2 — https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html
' Paper: Saltzer & Schroeder (least privilege), 1975
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/omnigent · sandbox/, inner/egress/proxy.py, inner/credential_proxy.py
node "OS sandbox\n(bwrap / seatbelt / Job Object)" as SBX <<host>>
component "Agent\n(no real secrets)" as AG <<app>>
component "L7 egress proxy\n(MITM · rule filter)" as EGR <<error>>
component "Credential proxy\n(inject on access)" as CRED <<app>>
cloud "External hosts / APIs" as EXT <<cloud>>
SBX ARROW_MAIN AG : isolate (OS + cgroups)
AG ARROW_MAIN EGR : all egress
EGR ARROW_CLOUD EXT : allowed hosts only
CRED ARROW_OPTIONAL EGR : inject real secret at the boundary
note bottom of EGR
The agent runs OS-isolated; **all egress** passes a filtering MITM
proxy. Real secrets never enter the sandbox — the credential proxy
injects them at the egress boundary (secretless).
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/meta-orchestration/session-resumption-snapshot-live-tail.puml
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@startuml
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title Session Resumption — Snapshot + Live Tail
' Standard: WHATWG Server-Sent Events (text/event-stream, Last-Event-ID)
' URL: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/server-sent-events.html
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/omnigent · server/routes/sessions.py
component "Client (stateless)" as CL <<app>>
component "Snapshot\n(GET items so far)" as SNAP <<app>>
queue "Live SSE stream\n(text/event-stream)" as SSE <<async>>
component "Dedup by id" as DD <<app>>
database "Session store" as DB <<db>>
CL ARROW_MAIN SNAP : reconnect
SNAP ARROW_MAIN DB : read items
CL ARROW_QUEUE SSE : open live tail
SNAP ARROW_MAIN DD : merge
SSE ARROW_QUEUE DD : merge
DD ARROW_OPTIONAL CL : in-order, no dupes
note bottom of DD
Reconnect = a snapshot for catch-up **plus** a live SSE tail,
deduplicated by item id. Clients stay stateless; durable state lives
in the store.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/meta-orchestration/vendor-neutral-harness-adapter.puml
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@startuml
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title Vendor-Neutral Harness Adapter
' Pattern: Adapter — Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides, Design Patterns (1994), ISBN 978-0201633610
' Protocol: Model Context Protocol (tool layer)
' URL: https://modelcontextprotocol.io
' Level: 4
' Provenance: projects/omnigent · inner/executor.py, runtime/harnesses/
component "Runtime\n(agent loop)" as RT <<app>>
component "Executor protocol\nExecutorEvent · ToolCallRequest · TurnComplete" as PROTO <<app>>
cloud "Claude Code backend" as B1 <<cloud>>
cloud "Codex backend" as B2 <<cloud>>
cloud "Cursor · OpenCode · Gemini · … (20+)" as B3 <<cloud>>
cloud "MCP tool servers" as MCP <<cloud>>
RT ARROW_MAIN PROTO : drive one turn
PROTO ARROW_CLOUD B1 : adapt
PROTO ARROW_CLOUD B2 : adapt
PROTO ARROW_CLOUD B3 : adapt
RT ARROW_CLOUD MCP : tool calls
note bottom of PROTO
**One protocol, many vendors.** Backends plug in identically
(Adapter pattern); adding a vendor leaves the runtime unchanged.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/self-improving/agentic-context-engineering.puml
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@startuml
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title Agentic Context Engineering (ACE)
' Paper: ACE — Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models, ICLR 2026, arXiv:2510.04618
' Level: 4 (self-improving harness — weights frozen; the context/playbook evolves)
database "Context / playbook" as CTX <<db>>
component "Generate\n(act with current context)" as GEN <<app>>
queue "Execution feedback" as FB <<async>>
component "Reflect\n(critique the trace)" as REF <<app>>
component "Curate\n(update the playbook)" as CUR <<app>>
CTX ARROW_MAIN GEN : load
GEN ARROW_QUEUE FB : run → outcome
FB ARROW_MAIN REF : signal
REF ARROW_MAIN CUR : lessons
CUR ARROW_MAIN CTX : evolve (loop)
note bottom of CTX
Self-improvement with **frozen weights**: a generate → reflect →
curate loop evolves the *context/playbook* from execution feedback —
no gradient updates.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/self-improving/cross-session-user-model.puml
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@startuml
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title Cross-session user model (personalization memory)
' Product: Honcho (Plastic Labs) — theory-of-mind user modeling for agents
' URL: https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho
' Paper: MemGPT — Towards LLMs as Operating Systems (tiered long-term memory)
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08560
' URL: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent (embodiment — Honcho + FTS5 recall)
' Level: 4 (self-improving harness — weights frozen; the user model deepens)
component "Agent\n(frozen weights)" as AGENT <<app>>
component "Sessions over time\n(multi-channel)" as SESS <<host>>
database "Episodic store\n(FTS5 sessions + LLM summaries)" as EPI <<db>>
component "Background reasoning\n(build the user model)" as REASON <<app>>
database "User model\n(peer representation · theory of mind)" as MODEL <<db>>
AGENT ARROW_MAIN SESS : converse
SESS ARROW_MAIN EPI : log messages & events
EPI ARROW_QUEUE REASON : background distill
REASON ARROW_MAIN MODEL : update representation
MODEL ARROW_MAIN AGENT : personalize next session (loop)
EPI ARROW_OPTIONAL AGENT : episodic recall — search + summarize
note bottom of MODEL
A distinct memory axis: not execution evidence (evidence-and-durability)
nor task-capability self-improvement, but a durable model of **the user**
that deepens across sessions and channels — observer→observed peer
representations — with weights frozen.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/self-improving/reflective-prompt-optimization.puml
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@startuml
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title Reflective Prompt and Program Optimization
' Paper: DSPy: Compiling Declarative Language Model Calls into Self-Improving Pipelines
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03714
' Paper: GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19457
' Level: 4 (self-improving harness — weights frozen; prompts/program evolve)
component "LM program\n(frozen model + declarative modules)" as PROG <<app>>
database "Trainset + metric" as DATA <<db>>
component "Reflective optimizer\n(DSPy compile · GEPA evolve)" as OPT <<app>>
component "Reflection over traces\n(natural-language critique)" as REFLECT <<app>>
queue "Candidate prompts / demos\n(Pareto frontier)" as CANDS <<async>>
PROG ARROW_MAIN DATA : run + score
DATA ARROW_QUEUE OPT : metric + failing traces
OPT ARROW_MAIN REFLECT : critique failures
REFLECT ARROW_MAIN CANDS : proposed edits
CANDS ARROW_MAIN PROG : recompile (loop)
note bottom of PROG
**Weights frozen.** Only the prompts, few-shot demonstrations,
and program structure change — gradient-free self-improvement
that can rival RL on small budgets.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/self-improving/self-improving-coding-agent.puml
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@startuml
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title Self-Improving Coding Agent
' Paper: Darwin Gödel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22954
' Paper: AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13131
' Paper: A Self-Improving Coding Agent
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15228
' Level: 4 (self-improving harness — weights frozen; the agent evolves its own code)
database "Archive of variants\n(open-ended, branching)" as ARCHIVE <<db>>
component "Agent scaffold\n(prompts + tools + control code)" as AGENT <<app>>
component "Self-modification\n(agent rewrites its own code)" as MUTATE <<app>>
component "Benchmark harness\n(SWE-bench / Polyglot)" as BENCH <<app>>
component "Selection\n(keep iff measured score rises)" as SELECT <<app>>
ARCHIVE ARROW_MAIN AGENT : pick a parent variant
AGENT ARROW_MAIN MUTATE : propose self-edit
MUTATE ARROW_MAIN BENCH : run modified agent
BENCH ARROW_QUEUE SELECT : measured task success
SELECT ARROW_MAIN ARCHIVE : add improved variant (loop)
SELECT ARROW_ERROR MUTATE : discard regression
note bottom of BENCH
**The benchmark is the reward.** A self-edit is kept only if
a measured eval score rises — no learned reward model, and
no human in the inner loop.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/4-harness/self-improving/skill-library-flywheel.puml
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title Skill-library flywheel
' Product: Hermes Agent (Nous Research) — self-authored, self-improving skills (MIT)
' URL: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent
' URL: https://agentskills.io (open skill interoperability standard)
' Level: 4 (self-improving harness — weights frozen; the skill library grows)
component "Agent\n(frozen weights)" as AGENT <<app>>
component "Task run\n(act with loaded skills)" as RUN <<app>>
component "Skill authoring\n(after a complex task)" as AUTH <<app>>
database "Skill library\n(procedural memory)" as LIB <<db>>
cloud "Skills Hub\n(agentskills.io open standard)" as HUB <<cloud>>
AGENT ARROW_MAIN RUN : act
RUN ARROW_MAIN AUTH : distill a reusable skill
AUTH ARROW_MAIN LIB : write · version
LIB ARROW_MAIN AGENT : load on future tasks (loop)
RUN ARROW_OPTIONAL LIB : refine skill in use
LIB ARROW_CLOUD HUB : publish · import
note bottom of LIB
Frozen-weight self-improvement: capability accrues as durable, named,
**shareable skills** (procedural memory), not gradients. Sibling to
ACE, which evolves a single //playbook// — here the artifact is a
reusable **skill library** plus an **interop standard**, giving the
otherwise-empty L2 "skills" rung an L4 flywheel that produces it.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/5-fine-tuned/finance/financial-domain-llm.puml
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title Financial-Domain LLM
' Paper: BloombergGPT: A Large Language Model for Finance
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17564
' Paper: FinGPT: Open-Source Financial Large Language Models
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06031
' Level: 5
database "Financial corpus\n(filings · news · market data)" as FIN <<db>>
database "General corpus" as GEN <<db>>
component "Base / open weights" as BASE <<app>>
component "Domain training\n(mixed pretrain — BloombergGPT · LoRA — FinGPT)" as TRAIN <<app>>
component "Financial-domain LLM" as FLM <<app>>
component "Finance tasks\n(sentiment · NER · QA · classification)" as TASK <<app>>
FIN ARROW_MAIN TRAIN : domain signal
GEN ARROW_OPTIONAL TRAIN : retain general ability
BASE ARROW_MAIN TRAIN : adapt
TRAIN ARROW_MAIN FLM : domain model
FLM ARROW_MAIN TASK : serve
note bottom of TRAIN
Two routes, same tier: from-scratch mixed-corpus pretraining
(BloombergGPT) or parameter-efficient LoRA on open weights
(FinGPT). Either way the capability is in the weights.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/5-fine-tuned/health/clinical-knowledge-llm.puml
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@startuml
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title Clinical-Knowledge LLM
' Paper: Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge (Med-PaLM)
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.13138
' Paper: Towards Expert-Level Medical Question Answering with LLMs (Med-PaLM 2)
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09617
' Paper: Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13375
' Level: 5
component "Base LLM\n(open weights)" as BASE <<app>>
database "MultiMedQA\n(medical Q&A + instruction data)" as DATA <<db>>
component "Domain fine-tuning\n(instruction tuning · LoRA)" as FT <<app>>
component "Clinical-knowledge LLM" as CLIN <<app>>
component "Medical-challenge eval\n(USMLE-style)" as EVAL <<app>>
component "Clinician sign-off" as DOC <<host>>
DATA ARROW_MAIN FT : supervised signal
BASE ARROW_MAIN FT : adapt weights
FT ARROW_MAIN CLIN : produce domain model
CLIN ARROW_MAIN EVAL : score accuracy + safety
EVAL ARROW_OPTIONAL FT : iterate
CLIN ARROW_MAIN DOC : answer (HITL backstop)
note bottom of CLIN
**Level 6:** capability lives in the adapted weights.
Eval measures accuracy **and** safety; a clinician
remains the final arbiter.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/6-post-training/harness-trajectory-flywheel.puml
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title Harness trajectory flywheel (L4 → L6)
' Paper: FireAct — Toward Language Agent Fine-tuning (fine-tune LMs on agent trajectories)
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05915
' URL: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent (embodiment — batch trajectory generation + compression)
' Level: 6
' Note: Sourcing is partly awkward. The core — agent trajectories → fine-tuning — is cleanly
' anchored by FireAct. The continuous "harness-as-data-source" flywheel and the trajectory
' *compression* step are Hermes-product-specific and composite: a stated capability of the
' repo, not a documented architecture, with no single canonical source.
component "Harness (L4)\n(agent runs tasks with tools)" as HARNESS <<app>>
database "Trajectory store\n(recorded tool-use runs)" as TRAJ <<db>>
component "Batch-generate + compress\n(curate · dedup · distill)" as CURATE <<app>>
component "Post-training (L6)\n(SFT / RFT on trajectories)" as TRAIN <<app>>
component "Next-gen tool-calling model\n(updated weights)" as MODEL <<app>>
HARNESS ARROW_MAIN TRAJ : record trajectories
TRAJ ARROW_QUEUE CURATE : batch · compress
CURATE ARROW_MAIN TRAIN : training set
TRAIN ARROW_MAIN MODEL : fine-tune weights
MODEL ARROW_MAIN HARNESS : deploy back as new base (flywheel)
note bottom of CURATE
The **L4 → L5/L6 bridge**: the frozen-weight harness is the //data source//
for post-training. Each model generation is trained on the previous
generation's tool-use trajectories — this is where weights start
changing (unlike the L4 self-improving loops, which stay frozen).
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/6-post-training/reinforcement-fine-tuning-pipeline.puml
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title Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Pipeline (RFT)
' Doc: OpenAI RFT — https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/reinforcement-fine-tuning
' Paper: Fin-R1 (finance instance), arXiv:2503.16252
' Level: 6
' Provenance: industry baseline
database "Task prompts" as P <<db>>
component "Base model" as M <<app>>
component "Grader functions\n(code-based + LLM-judge)" as GR <<app>>
component "RL optimizer" as RL <<app>>
component "Post-trained model" as OUT <<app>>
P ARROW_MAIN M : sample rollouts
M ARROW_MAIN GR : score
GR ARROW_QUEUE RL : reward
RL ARROW_MAIN M : update weights (loop)
M ARROW_OPTIONAL OUT : converged
note bottom of GR
Productized RL post-training: you supply **grader functions** (code
checks + LLM-judge); the pipeline optimizes the base model's weights
against them.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/6-post-training/rl-verifiable-rewards.puml
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title RL with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR)
' Paper: Tülu 3: Pushing Frontiers in Open Language Model Post-Training (RLVR term origin)
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15124
' Paper: DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
' URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948
' Level: 6
database "Prompt set\n(math · code · verifiable tasks)" as PROMPTS <<db>>
component "Policy LLM\n(current weights)" as POLICY <<app>>
component "Rollout sampler\n(K completions per prompt)" as SAMPLER <<app>>
component "Verifier\n(unit tests · math checker · exact-match)" as VERIFIER <<app>>
component "RL optimizer\n(GRPO / PPO)" as RL <<app>>
PROMPTS ARROW_MAIN SAMPLER : draw batch
POLICY ARROW_MAIN SAMPLER : sample K rollouts
SAMPLER ARROW_MAIN VERIFIER : completions
VERIFIER ARROW_QUEUE RL : verifiable reward (1 / 0)
RL ARROW_MAIN POLICY : gradient update (loop)
note bottom of VERIFIER
**No learned reward model.** The environment grades the
answer deterministically — removing the reward-hacking
surface, but limiting RLVR to checkable domains.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/6-post-training/self-adapting-model.puml
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title Self-Adapting Model (SEAL)
' Paper: SEAL — Self-Adapting Language Models, arXiv:2506.10943
' Level: 6
' Provenance: industry baseline
component "Model" as M <<app>>
component "Self-edit\n(emit finetune data / directives)" as SE <<app>>
component "Inner update\n(fine-tune on self-edit)" as UPD <<app>>
component "Downstream eval" as EV <<async>>
component "RL outer loop\n(reward = eval gain)" as RL <<app>>
M ARROW_MAIN SE : propose self-edit
SE ARROW_MAIN UPD : apply
UPD ARROW_MAIN EV : measure
EV ARROW_QUEUE RL : reward
RL ARROW_MAIN M : reinforce self-edits (loop)
note bottom of M
The model emits its **own finetune data / directives**; an inner update
applies them and an **RL outer loop** rewards the self-edits that raise
downstream eval — the model adapts its own weights.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/6-post-training/self-rewarding-eval-loop.puml
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@startuml
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title Self-Rewarding Eval Loop
' Paper: Self-Rewarding Language Models, ICML 2024, arXiv:2401.10020
' Paper: Rubrics as Rewards, arXiv:2507.17746 ; Meta-Rewarding, arXiv:2407.19594
' Level: 6
' Provenance: industry baseline
component "Model\n(generator + judge)" as M <<app>>
component "Self-generated responses" as RSP <<app>>
component "Self-judged reward\n(rubric / preference)" as J <<async>>
component "Preference optimization\n(DPO / RL)" as OPT <<app>>
M ARROW_MAIN RSP : generate candidates
M ARROW_MAIN J : judge own outputs
RSP ARROW_MAIN J : score
J ARROW_QUEUE OPT : reward signal
OPT ARROW_MAIN M : update weights (loop)
note bottom of M
The model produces **its own reward** — judging its outputs against a
rubric — and optimizes its weights on that signal, iterating without a
separate reward model.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/6-post-training/test-time-rl.puml
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@startuml
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title Test-Time RL (TTRL)
' Paper: TTRL — Test-Time Reinforcement Learning, NeurIPS 2025, arXiv:2504.16084
' Level: 6
' Provenance: industry baseline
component "Unlabeled test input" as X <<app>>
component "Model" as M <<app>>
component "Sampled answers (k)" as S <<app>>
component "Consistency reward\n(majority vote)" as R <<async>>
X ARROW_MAIN M : prompt
M ARROW_MAIN S : sample k answers
S ARROW_QUEUE R : majority-vote pseudo-label
R ARROW_MAIN M : RL update at inference (loop)
note bottom of R
No labels at test time: a **majority-vote / consistency reward** over
sampled answers drives an RL update on the fly — the model improves on
the very inputs it's solving.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/_essentials.puml
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@startuml
skinparam componentStyle rectangle
skinparam padding 5
title AI Agent Harness Architecture
package "1. The Interface (The Gate)" {
[Human-in-the-Loop (HITL)] as HITL
[Permission Gates\n(Binary / Draft-and-Diff)] as Gates
[Interruptibility & Clarification] as Interrupt
HITL --> Gates
HITL --> Interrupt
}
package "2. Outer Scope (Framework Layer)" {
[Orchestration\n(LangGraph, Semantic Kernel)] as Orchestration
[Compliance & Trust Boundaries\n(PII, ACL)] as Compliance
package "Context Engineering (The Fuel)" {
[Ingestion\n(Tree-sitter, Vector Search)] as Ingestion
[Steering & Pruning\n(Active Set, PageRank)] as Pruning
[High-Precision\n(Proposition Retrieval, CoVe)] as HighPrecision
}
Orchestration --> Compliance
Orchestration --> Ingestion
}
package "3. Inner Loop (Anti-Framework Agent)" {
[Stateful Memory\n(Active Files, Plan)] as Memory
[Direct I/O\n(PTY, Shell, File Access)] as DirectIO
package "Cognitive Architecture (The Brain)" {
[ReAct / Plan-and-Solve / Reflexion] as Brain
}
Brain <--> Memory
Brain --> DirectIO
}
package "4. Evaluation & Verification (Guardrails)" {
[Deterministic Solvers\n(Exit codes, Linters)] as Deterministic
[Probabilistic Engines\n(PPL, Monte Carlo)] as Probabilistic
[Run-Time Confidence\n(Logprobs, MAD, Self-Critique)] as Confidence
}
' Connections
Gates --> Orchestration : "Approved Actions"
Interrupt --> Brain : "Steer / Inject Context"
Compliance --> Brain : "Sanitized Context"
Pruning --> Brain : "Optimized Context Window"
DirectIO ----> Deterministic : "Test Execution"
Brain <---> Probabilistic : "Formalized Models (PyMC) \nMathematical Confidence"
Brain --> Confidence : "Evaluate Risk"
Deterministic --> Brain : "Ground-truth Signal"
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/_substrate/edge-and-p2p/constrained-llm-parallelism.puml
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@startuml
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title Constrained LLM Parallelism
' Paper: Kwon et al., vLLM / PagedAttention — Efficient Memory Mgmt for LLM Serving, SOSP 2023, arXiv:2309.06180
' Level: n/a (substrate)
' Provenance: projects/agents-of-empires · brain/, MINIMUM_SPECS.md
component "Many small agents\n(bounded context)" as AG <<app>>
component "Large commander model" as CMD <<app>>
node "Shared GPU\n(KV-cache budget)" as GPU <<host>>
database "Paged KV cache" as KV <<db>>
AG ARROW_MAIN GPU : small-model inference
CMD ARROW_MAIN GPU : strategic calls
GPU ARROW_OPTIONAL KV : page blocks (avoid thrash)
note bottom of GPU
A fleet of small agents + one large commander share a GPU. Bounded
context windows + a paged KV cache keep the cache from thrashing under
many concurrent agents.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/_substrate/edge-and-p2p/docker-as-simulation-substrate.puml
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@startuml
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title Docker-as-Simulation Substrate
' Ref: Petazzoni, "…Docker-in-Docker… Think twice" — https://jpetazzo.github.io/2015/09/03/do-not-use-docker-in-docker-for-ci/
' Ref: Linux cgroup v2 — https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html
' Level: n/a (substrate)
' Provenance: projects/agents-of-empires · engine/, net/
node "Host hardware\n(CPU · RAM · disk)" as HW <<host>>
component "Engine (privileged)\nmounts docker.sock" as ENG <<app>>
component "Unit containers\n(spawned siblings)" as U <<app>>
component "cgroup limits\n= game resources" as CG <<app>>
HW ARROW_MAIN ENG : Docker-out-of-Docker
ENG ARROW_QUEUE U : spawn / kill units
CG ARROW_OPTIONAL U : enforce CPU / RAM caps
U ARROW_MAIN HW : consume hardware
note bottom of ENG
Host hardware **is** the game board: the engine mounts the Docker
socket to spawn sibling unit containers; cgroup limits become the
game's resource mechanics.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/_substrate/edge-and-p2p/embedded-thinserver-wasm-webview.puml
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@startuml
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title Embedded Thin-Server + WASM WebView
' Paper: WireGuard / Tailscale tsnet, NDSS 2017 — https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard.pdf
' Std: WebRTC — https://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc/
' Level: n/a (substrate)
' Provenance: projects/chess-coach · android/gomobile/thinserver/
node "Android foreground service" as SVC <<host>>
component "Embedded Go tsnet server" as GO <<app>>
component "WebView\n(WASM build over localhost)" as WV <<app>>
component "COOP / COEP headers\n(SharedArrayBuffer)" as HDR <<app>>
SVC ARROW_MAIN GO : own lifecycle
GO ARROW_MAIN WV : serve over 127.0.0.1
HDR ARROW_OPTIONAL WV : enable threaded WASM
WV ARROW_MAIN GO : engine / P2P calls
note bottom of GO
An embedded `tsnet` server serves the WASM UI over `localhost`; COOP /
COEP headers unlock `SharedArrayBuffer` for threaded WASM. State
survives WebView / Activity recreation.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/_substrate/edge-and-p2p/heartbeat-liveness-protocol.puml
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@startuml
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title Heartbeat Liveness Protocol
' Paper: Chandra & Toueg, Unreliable Failure Detectors for Reliable Distributed Systems, JACM 1996 (DOI 10.1145/226643.226647)
' Level: n/a (substrate)
' Provenance: projects/agents-of-empires · nexus/
component "Unit" as U <<app>>
component "Nexus (monitor)" as NX <<app>>
component "Dead\n(>1000 ms silent)" as D <<error>>
component "Respawn (penalty)" as RS <<app>>
U ARROW_QUEUE NX : heartbeat every 100 ms
NX ARROW_ERROR D : 1000 ms timeout
D ARROW_OPTIONAL RS : respawn with penalty
RS ARROW_MAIN U : new unit
note bottom of NX
Liveness by **periodic heartbeat + timeout** (a failure detector):
units report every 100 ms; silence past 1000 ms marks them dead and
triggers a penalized respawn.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/_substrate/edge-and-p2p/serverless-p2p-tailscale-webrtc.puml
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@startuml
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title Serverless P2P — Tailscale + WebRTC
' Paper: Donenfeld, WireGuard, NDSS 2017 — https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard.pdf
' Std: WebRTC — https://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc/
' Level: n/a (substrate)
' Provenance: projects/chess-coach · services/p2p.ts
component "Host peer\n(room authority)" as H <<app>>
component "Guest peer" as G <<app>>
node "Tailscale overlay\n(100.x · WireGuard)" as NET <<host>>
queue "WebRTC data channel" as DC <<async>>
H ARROW_CLOUD NET : join tailnet
G ARROW_CLOUD NET : join tailnet
NET ARROW_MAIN DC : direct reachability (no STUN/TURN)
H ARROW_QUEUE DC : board state + moves
DC ARROW_QUEUE G : sync
note bottom of NET
No backend: Tailscale gives direct `100.x` reachability, so peers open a
**WebRTC data channel** directly (no STUN/TURN/relay). The host is the
room authority.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/_substrate/edge-and-p2p/webgpu-on-device-llm.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
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title WebGPU On-Device LLM
' Paper: WebLLM — A High-Performance In-Browser LLM Inference Engine, arXiv:2412.15803
' Level: n/a (substrate)
' Provenance: projects/chess-coach · engine/WebLlmClient.ts (cross-links _substrate/web-llm/mlc.puml)
component "Browser tab" as BR <<app>>
node "WebGPU (VRAM)" as GPU <<host>>
component "WASM runtime\n(MLC / WebLLM)" as RT <<app>>
database "Model weights\n(quantized · f32 fallback)" as W <<db>>
BR ARROW_MAIN RT : prompt
W ARROW_MAIN RT : warm-load
RT ARROW_MAIN GPU : compile + run
GPU ARROW_MAIN BR : tokens
note bottom of GPU
A quantized model runs **entirely in the browser** on WebGPU — no
server. f32 fallback where f16 is unsupported; weights warm-loaded.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/_substrate/nets/flow.puml
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@startuml
!theme plain
autonumber
title Generic LLM Asset Loading Flow
actor User
participant "Browser\n(Main Thread)" as Main
participant "LLM Engine\n(Web Worker)" as Worker
participant "CDN / Static Server" as Server
User -> Main : Initialize Chat
Main -> Worker : Load Model (model_id)
activate Worker
Worker -> Server : GET /{model_id}/model-webgpu.wasm
Server --> Worker : 200 OK (application/wasm)
Worker -> Server : GET /{model_id}/mlc-chat-config.json
Server --> Worker : 200 OK (JSON)
note right of Worker: Reads context window,\nvocab size, and architecture.
Worker -> Server : GET /{model_id}/ndarray-cache.json
Server --> Worker : 200 OK (JSON)
loop For each weight shard (Parallelized)
Worker -> Server : GET /{model_id}/params_shard_X.bin
Server --> Worker : 200 OK (ArrayBuffer)
Worker -> Worker : Transfer to WebGPU VRAM
Worker -> Main : Progress Update (X%)
end
Worker -> Main : Engine Ready
deactivate Worker
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/_substrate/nets/neural.puml
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@startuml
!includeurl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/refs/heads/main/proveo.iuml
title Neural Network Inference Flow (WebLLM)
actor User
component "Tokenizer" as Tokenizer
component "Prefill Phase\n(Process Prompt)" as Prefill
component "Decode Phase\n(Generate Tokens)" as Decode
component "Detokenizer" as Detokenizer
User -> Tokenizer : Raw Text Prompt
Tokenizer -> Prefill : Token IDs
Prefill -> Decode : KV Cache & Context
Decode -> Decode : Autoregressive Generation\n(Token by Token)
Decode -> Detokenizer : New Token ID
Detokenizer -> User : Streamed Text
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/_substrate/nets/weights.puml
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@startuml
!includeurl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/refs/heads/main/proveo.iuml
title WebLLM Weights Loading & Sharding
node "Browser Memory" {
component "WebLLM Engine" as Engine
component "WebGPU VRAM" as VRAM
}
node "Static Server" {
artifact "tensor-cache.json" as CacheMap
artifact "params_shard_0.bin" as Shard0
artifact "params_shard_1.bin" as Shard1
artifact "params_shard_N.bin" as ShardN
}
Engine --> CacheMap : 1. Fetch mapping
note right of CacheMap: Maps tensor names to byte offsets\nand specific shard files.
Engine --> Shard0 : 2. Fetch Shard 0
Engine --> Shard1 : 2. Fetch Shard 1
Engine --> ShardN : 2. Fetch Shard N
Engine --> VRAM : 3. Load Tensors into GPU
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/_substrate/reactive-control/behavior-trees-and-fsm.puml
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@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title Behavior Trees & FSM
' Paper: Colledanchise & Ögren, Behavior Trees in Robotics and AI: An Introduction, arXiv:1709.00084
' Level: n/a (substrate)
' Provenance: projects/nightfall · cats/catFSM.ts
component "Discriminated-union state\n(stalking · hiding · fleeing …)" as ST <<app>>
component "Pure transition fn\n(side-effect-free)" as TR <<app>>
component "Per-state behavior" as BH <<app>>
component "Hysteresis\n(anti-jitter)" as HY <<async>>
ST ARROW_MAIN TR : evaluate
TR ARROW_MAIN ST : next state
ST ARROW_MAIN BH : execute
HY ARROW_OPTIONAL TR : damp rapid toggling
note bottom of TR
A side-effect-free FSM over a discriminated-union state; transitions
are pure and testable. Hysteresis suppresses per-frame state chatter.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/_substrate/reactive-control/steering-behaviors.puml
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@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title Steering Behaviors
' Paper: Reynolds, Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters, GDC 1999 — https://www.red3d.com/cwr/papers/1999/gdc99steer.html
' Level: n/a (substrate)
' Provenance: projects/nightfall · cats/behaviors/*
component "Agent (character)" as A <<app>>
component "Seek / flee / arrival" as SF <<app>>
component "Separation\n(avoid clumping)" as SEP <<app>>
component "Steering force → velocity" as V <<app>>
A ARROW_MAIN SF : desired direction
A ARROW_MAIN SEP : neighbor avoidance
SF ARROW_MAIN V : combine
SEP ARROW_MAIN V : combine
V ARROW_MAIN A : move (per frame)
note bottom of V
Reactive, frame-by-frame control: simple **steering behaviors** (seek,
flee, arrival, separation) sum into a steering force — no planner, no
LLM.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/_substrate/serving/multi-channel-agent-gateway.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!include https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/main/proveo.puml
title Multi-channel agent gateway + serverless hibernation
' Product: Hermes Agent (Nous Research) — single-gateway multi-channel serving, scale-to-zero (MIT)
' URL: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent
' URL: https://modal.com (serverless scale-to-zero backend exemplar)
' Level: n/a (substrate)
' Note: Sourcing is awkward. This is an engineering-composite deployment pattern — chat-platform
' fan-in + scale-to-zero serverless + cross-channel session continuity — documented only by
' the Hermes product (a stated capability), with no canonical spec or research paper. Included
' as substrate for completeness; lower architectural novelty than the other Hermes cases.
cloud "Channels\n(Telegram · Discord · Slack · WhatsApp · Signal · CLI)" as CHAN <<cloud>>
component "Gateway (single process)\n(fan-in · cross-channel continuity)" as GW <<app>>
component "Agent core" as AGENT <<app>>
database "Conversation store\n(per-user, cross-channel)" as CONV <<db>>
cloud "Serverless runtime\n(Modal / Daytona — scale-to-zero, hibernates idle)" as SRV <<cloud>>
component "Execution backends\n(local · Docker · SSH · Singularity · Modal / Daytona)" as EXEC <<app>>
CHAN ARROW_CLOUD GW : inbound messages
GW ARROW_MAIN AGENT : route to one session
GW ARROW_OPTIONAL CHAN : replies
AGENT ARROW_MAIN CONV : persist · resume across channels
AGENT ARROW_CLOUD SRV : hosted on (hibernates when idle)
AGENT ARROW_MAIN EXEC : run tools / code
note bottom of AGENT
One always-on agent reachable from any channel: a single gateway fans in
many chat platforms with cross-channel conversation continuity, over a
serverless runtime that scales to zero when idle. A serving / access
substrate, orthogonal to the capability ladder.
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/_substrate/web-llm/architecture.puml
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@startuml
!theme plain
skinparam componentStyle rectangle
title Open-Weight LLM Browser Architecture
package "Offline Preparation (MLC-LLM)" {
component "Model Compiler" as Compiler
artifact "HuggingFace Weights\n(PyTorch/Safetensors)" as HF
HF --> Compiler : Input
Compiler --> "Quantized Weights (.bin)" : Output 1
Compiler --> "WebGPU Shader Engine (.wasm)" : Output 2
}
package "Runtime Environment (Browser)" {
component "Application UI" as UI
component "LLM JavaScript API" as JS_API
node "Browser APIs" {
component "WebAssembly (WASM)" as WASM
component "WebGPU" as WebGPU
}
node "Local Hardware" {
component "GPU" as GPU
}
UI <--> JS_API : Prompt / Stream
JS_API --> WASM : Executes Engine Logic
JS_API --> WebGPU : Dispatches Compute Shaders
WebGPU --> GPU : Matrix Multiplication
}
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/_substrate/web-llm/components.puml
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@startuml
!includeurl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/refs/heads/main/proveo.iuml
title WebLLM Component Architecture
package "Web Application" {
component "UI Thread" as UI
component "Web Worker" as Worker {
component "WebLLM JS Runtime" as WebLLM
component "MLC Engine" as MLC
}
}
package "Browser APIs" {
component "WebGPU API" as WebGPU
}
package "Hardware" {
node "GPU (Discrete/Integrated)" as GPU
}
UI <--> WebLLM : Chat Messages / Stream
WebLLM <--> MLC : Tokenization & Task Prep
MLC <--> WebGPU : Shader Dispatch
WebGPU <--> GPU : Hardware Execution
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/_substrate/web-llm/deploy.puml
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@startuml
!includeurl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/refs/heads/main/proveo.iuml
title Generic WebLLM Deployment Architecture
cloud "Static Hosting (S3, GitHub Pages, Cloudflare)" as Host {
folder "Web Application" {
artifact "index.html"
artifact "app.bundle.js"
}
folder "Model Repository (e.g., Llama-3-8B-Instruct-q4f16_1-MLC)" {
artifact "model-webgpu.wasm" as Wasm
artifact "mlc-chat-config.json" as Config
artifact "ndarray-cache.json" as Cache
artifact "params_shard_0.bin ... N.bin" as Weights
}
}
node "Client Device (Browser)" as Browser {
component "WebLLM Runtime" as Runtime
component "IndexedDB Cache" as IDB
component "GPU Memory" as VRAM
}
Runtime --> Host : Fetch Assets
Runtime --> IDB : Cache Weights (Avoid re-download)
Runtime --> VRAM : Load for Inference
note bottom of Host
WebLLM requires zero backend compute.
All files are served as static assets (GET requests).
end note
@enduml
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FILE: _spec/study-cases/_substrate/web-llm/mlc.puml
========================================================================
@startuml
!includeurl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/proveo-ca/identity/refs/heads/main/proveo.iuml
title MLC-LLM Compilation Pipeline
node "HuggingFace / Local" {
artifact "Raw Model Weights\n(FP16/FP32)" as RawModel
}
node "MLC-LLM Build Tools" {
component "Quantizer" as Quantizer
component "TVM Compiler" as TVM
}
node "Compiled Assets" {
artifact "Quantized Weights\n(e.g., q4f32_1)" as QuantWeights
artifact "WebGPU Engine\n(.wasm)" as WasmEngine
}
RawModel --> Quantizer
Quantizer --> QuantWeights : mlc_llm convert_weight
RawModel --> TVM : Model Architecture
TVM --> WasmEngine : mlc_llm compile\n(Injects wasm_runtime.bc)
@enduml
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