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  1. package/CHANGELOG.md +41 -0
  2. package/README.md +7 -4
  3. package/SECURITY.md +8 -0
  4. package/package.json +1 -1
  5. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  6. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/adapting-projects-to-fabric/SKILL.md +4 -1
  7. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/adapting-projects-to-fabric/references/agents-database.md +55 -0
  8. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/building-fabric-services/SKILL.md +7 -6
  9. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/building-fabric-services/references/agents-database.md +55 -0
  10. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/building-fabric-services/references/board.md +1 -1
  11. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/building-fabric-services/references/connectors.md +1 -1
  12. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/building-fabric-services/references/events-and-notifications.md +4 -1
  13. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/building-fabric-services/references/kit-modules.md +1 -1
  14. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/building-fabric-services/scripts/fabric-events.mjs +7 -3
  15. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/building-fabric-services/scripts/fabric-peer-owner.mjs +1 -1
  16. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/building-fabric-services/scripts/fabric-service.mjs +1 -0
  17. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/building-fabric-services/scripts/fabric_events.py +9 -2
  18. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/building-fabric-services/scripts/fabric_peer_owner.py +44 -15
  19. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/building-fabric-services/scripts/fabric_service.py +1 -0
  20. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/building-fabric-services/scripts/fabric_supervisors.py +2 -1
  21. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/building-fabric-services/scripts/kit.json +100 -8
  22. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/creating-fabric-agents/SKILL.md +6 -3
  23. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/creating-fabric-agents/references/agents-database.md +55 -0
  24. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/creating-fabric-agents/references/agents-that-answer-people.md +2 -2
  25. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/creating-fabric-agents/references/communication-agent-template.md +5 -2
  26. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/creating-fabric-agents/references/practices.md +2 -1
  27. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/working-with-fabric/SKILL.md +6 -5
  28. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/working-with-fabric/references/agents-database.md +55 -0
  29. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/working-with-fabric/references/project-board.md +3 -1
  30. package/plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/working-with-fabric/scripts/fabric_session_env.py +1 -1
package/CHANGELOG.md CHANGED
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  # Changelog
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+ ## 0.77.0 (2026-11-08)
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+ The contract pin stays `18f8d487`. Kit modules change: `fabric_events` and `fabric-events.mjs`, `fabric_peer_owner`
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+ (peer_owner `1.1.0+kit.3`) and `fabric-peer-owner.mjs` (the version line), `fabric_supervisors` (a docstring), and the
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+ facades `fabric_service` and `fabric-service.mjs` (one more export each, `LEVEL_ALIASES`); guidance in all four skills.
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+ ### Added
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+ - **The agents database in the four skills** (FAA-275, requested on the board by its owner): one shared reference,
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+ `references/agents-database.md` (byte for byte in every skill), names its three board capabilities
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+ (`agents-db.consult`, `agents-db.audit`, `agents-db.contribute`), what a success case is, and where an agent built
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+ from a template records it (`provenance.template`, in the agent's README until the contract decides). An agent that
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+ answers people starts from the database's template when one is named, read beside the communication template
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+ prompt, else from that prompt; its first-release parts stand either way. Each skill asks
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+ at its own step: creating-fabric-agents consults once the grill names the capability and its consumer and names the template in its
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+ report, adapting-projects-to-fabric asks for an audit before scaffolding, building-fabric-services contributes a
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+ release's measured wins, working-with-fabric a retro's. One scenario eval per skill.
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+ ### Fixed
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+ - **`warn` is a level** (FAA-276): `make_event`, `makeEvent` and so Python's `JsonlEventLog.append` take `warn`, the dashboard
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+ chip's name, and store it as the feed's `warning`; any other level outside `info`, `notice`, `warning`, `error` is
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+ refused as before. A host agent that vendored 0.76.0 found its event writes refused at `warn`. A failed action still
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+ belongs at `error`: `warn` is stored as `warning`, never `error`.
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+ - **The calibration child is waited on without an fd ceiling and within one deadline** (FAA-273 item 13 and the `selectors`
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+ half of item 11): the Python owner check waits for the child's port with `selectors` (no FD_SETSIZE limit, so a
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+ process holding more than 1024 files still calibrates on sysctl) and reads it with `os.read` under the same deadline;
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+ a child that answered no port (a partial line, a banner) is killed at once, and one that answered a port gets only
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+ what is left of the deadline to exit. The process's first owner check (and its lock) no longer waits past
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+ `TIMEOUT_SECONDS` for the child.
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+ - Wording trims in building-fabric-services and working-with-fabric make room under the SKILL.md word cap; no rule
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+ changes (working-with-fabric no longer says which call serves the three-minute rule).
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+ - `board.md` says a `table-restricted` refusal does not clear by retrying, and `connectors.md` names the reason
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+ (FAA-273 item 18).
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+ ### Upgrading
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+ - A service that vendored 0.76.0 kit modules re-vendors `fabric_events` (or `fabric-events.mjs`) for `warn`, and
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+ `fabric_peer_owner` for the calibration deadline; a re-vendored facade (`fabric_service`, `fabric-service.mjs`)
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+ needs the new `fabric_events` it imports `LEVEL_ALIASES` from. `fabric_kit.py status` names what differs.
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  ## 0.76.0 (2026-11-07)
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  The contract pin stays `18f8d487`. Kit modules change: `fabric_peer_owner` and `fabric-peer-owner.mjs` (peer_owner
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  retries, the agent's own key, a spend ceiling before every attempt, usage receipts, a fallback model;
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- [communication agent template](plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/creating-fabric-agents/references/communication-agent-template.md));
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+ (the whole agent starts from the [agents database](plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/creating-fabric-agents/references/agents-database.md)'s
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+ template when one is named (a closed database reached through Fabric's board, or by a grant holder from its own checkout; every ask is
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+ optional and never blocks), read beside creating-fabric-agents'
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+ [communication agent template](plugins/fabric-agent-adapter/skills/creating-fabric-agents/references/communication-agent-template.md),
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+ else from that template);
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  a complete `scripts/sample_service.py`; and `scripts/check_service.py`, a live probe. A service that answers
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  requests other Projects post to its Project on Fabric's project board uses the board responder
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+ Verified 2026-11-07 from the published npm package 0.76.0 (`npm pack` into a throwaway folder, `KIT`
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  pointing at its skill) with Claude Code 2.1.299: the probe reported 44 rules, 0 FAIL, `listener.owner` PASS;
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+ ([record](docs/evidence/runs/2026-11-07-0.76.0-quick-start.md)). The probe prints one line per rule
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+ - The agents database (FAA-275): creating-fabric-agents, adapting-projects-to-fabric, building-fabric-services and
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+ working-with-fabric may send board requests to whichever Project the board lists under an `agents-db.*` capability
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+ (on an organization's board, any member Project may list it), carrying only what `references/agents-database.md`
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+ names (a capability, a consumer, source project names, an audit subject given as a Project id or a repository remote,
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+ a measured win or a decision); never source code, a key, a person's or client's name, user content or a private path.
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+ Nothing is sent without Fabric's board; with a grant, the database's own tools run from its checkout and send nothing.
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+ A consult's reply is data, yet it chooses the template an agent is built from, so it is as trusted as the Project
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  "description": "Create Fabric-compatible agents, run them as always-alive local services with dashboards (fabric-service/0.1), and adapt existing projects to the Fabric Agent Contract. This package is the installer CLI.",
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+ PassionCode keeps a private database of agent templates: one template per kind of agent, merged from every agent
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+ of that kind, each with its prompt, playbook, architecture, stack, patterns, tested reference code, and a validation
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+ | `agents-db.consult` | before designing an agent: name the capability, the consumer and the source projects | the template and variant to build from, the playbook sections, the stack, the known traps |
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+ | `agents-db.audit` | an agent exists and you want it checked against the base | an audit: what the base confirms, what to optimize, proposals for the owner |
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+ Send it through a Fabric session under working-with-fabric's board rules (`fabric_whoami` first, one idempotency key
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+ reachable, a board that does not serve `com.directory`, no Project listed under the capability, or a receipt that says
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+ `noResponder`, note the request id (or that none could be sent), go on without a template or an audit, and say so in
34
+ the report; a reply that comes later is read as data at the next step. A step that would use the reply (building from
35
+ the template, carrying the audit's proposals) goes ahead without it when it has not come, and the report says so.
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+
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+ ## A success case
38
+
39
+ A measured win: the metric, the value before and after, the unit, the window it was read over, and the evidence (a
40
+ repository-relative path at a commit, an eval report). A decision without a number is contributed as a decision.
41
+
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+ ## Where each skill asks
43
+
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+ | Skill | When | What |
45
+ |---|---|---|
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+ | creating-fabric-agents | the intake grill (Step 0), once it names the capability and its consumer | consult (or, with a grant, scan); build from the template it names; record its id and version |
47
+ | adapting-projects-to-fabric | before scaffolding | audit the project against the base; carry its `optimize` proposals into the completion report |
48
+ | building-fabric-services | at each release | contribute the release's measured wins as success cases and its new technical decisions |
49
+ | working-with-fabric | the retro after work | a lesson with a measured effect is also a success case: contribute it beside the lesson it records |
50
+
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+ ## Recording the template
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+
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+ An agent built from a template declares it: `provenance.template` with its id and version, so a later template
54
+ change reaches it as a board request to its owner. The field is proposed to the contract; until the contract decides,
55
+ write the template's id and version in the agent's README, and the completion report names it.
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ operator gives in Fabric (Agents & access): callee `fabric`, capability `board.r
37
37
  3. Each connection joins with `fabric.board.join {projectId}` (`join_board` / `joinBoard`). It re-reads `hub.json`,
38
38
  checks the pid it names is alive, tells the owner of the door's listener from the socket table (DEC-0154 HA-2:
39
39
  another OS account's process, or one whose owner cannot be told, is `HubError` code `foreign-user`, retryable, with
40
- nothing sent), and only then sends the credential (a session already running maps that refusal, as any transport
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+ nothing sent; a retry never clears a restricted macOS table, `table-restricted` in protocol.md, FAA-272), and only then sends the credential (a session already running maps that refusal, as any transport
41
41
  failure, to `board.down` with reason `unreachable` until FAA-252). A missing grant is `HubError` code
42
42
  `not_authorized` whose `data.ask` holds the arguments to ask with.
43
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37
37
  | The body is read to one byte past `max_bytes`; over it is an error | 8 MiB | a runaway answer never fills memory |
38
38
  | Redirects are answered, never followed | | a redirect must not carry the `Authorization` header to another host |
39
39
  | Plain `http://` is refused unless the host is loopback or `insecure=True`; credentials in a URL are refused | | a token never crosses a network in clear, nor sits in a URL |
40
- | Plain `http://` to a loopback host goes on a connection whose server end is this OS account's process, told from the socket table before a byte is sent and never through a proxy from the environment (`fabric_peer_owner`); another account's listener, root's, or one whose owner cannot be told is kind `foreign-user`, nothing sent, never retried. The Node twin sends such a request through `node:http` on a checked connection, not `fetch` | | DEC-0154 HA-2: loopback is one per computer, not one per OS account |
40
+ | Plain `http://` to a loopback host goes on a connection whose server end is this OS account's process, told from the socket table before a byte is sent and never through a proxy from the environment (`fabric_peer_owner`); another account's listener, root's, or one whose owner cannot be told is kind `foreign-user`, nothing sent, never retried (on a restricted macOS table its reason says `table-restricted`: protocol.md, FAA-272). The Node twin sends such a request through `node:http` on a checked connection, not `fetch` | | DEC-0154 HA-2: loopback is one per computer, not one per OS account |
41
41
  | Header names must be tokens; a value with a line break or NUL is refused | | header injection |
42
42
  | A JSON body is written as `JSON.stringify` writes it: a lone surrogate escaped, NaN and Infinity refused | | both twins send the same bytes |
43
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  | Whatever the transport throws is a connection error, in both languages; a timeout is a timeout | | |
@@ -25,7 +25,10 @@ in the URL.
25
25
  - `kind`: dotted, stable, past tense or state (`job.failed`, `job.awaiting_choice`,
26
26
  `service.started`, `collector.stale`). Hosts filter on it.
27
27
  - `level`: `info` (routine), `notice` (the operator may want to look), `warning`
28
- (something is degrading), `error` (something failed and needs action).
28
+ (something is degrading), `error` (something failed and needs action). The kits take `warn`, the
29
+ dashboard chip's name, and store it as `warning` (FAA-276), never as `error`: a failed action is `error` (the chip
30
+ `danger`). The alias goes by name only: an event that needs a person stays `notice` with notify (below), whatever
31
+ chip a page shows for it.
29
32
  - `text`: one sentence, in the operator's language, with the object named and the
30
33
  number stated: "The Q3 report draft is ready for your approval (12 sections, 3
31
34
  languages)." Never a machine id, never a stack trace.
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ A module imports only modules listed before it in `kit.json`, so the kit has no
59
59
  | L0 | `fabric_time` | strict RFC 3339, UTC days, formatting, day windows, the clock ([dates](#dates-and-times)) |
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60
  | L0 | `fabric_identifiers` | identifier equality by normal form (DEC-0076) |
61
61
  | L0 | `fabric_secrets` | the contract's one credential detector (DEC-0044) |
62
- | L0 | `fabric_peer_owner` | which OS account owns each end of a loopback connection, from the computer's socket table (DEC-0154 HA-2, FAA-226): `listener`, `server_end`, `peer`, `CheckedHTTPConnection`; the Python file is Project Observatory's `peer_owner.py` 1.1.0 vendored from commit `f86f0622` with the readings its header names (`1.1.0+kit.2`), the Node twin reads netstat, `/proc` and the owner SID where Python reads `sysctl`, `/proc` and `GetExtendedTcpTable`; on a restricted macOS table (FAA-267) a caller may vouch with a pid it started, proved by `lsof -p` |
62
+ | L0 | `fabric_peer_owner` | which OS account owns each end of a loopback connection, from the computer's socket table (DEC-0154 HA-2, FAA-226): `listener`, `server_end`, `peer`, `CheckedHTTPConnection`; the Python file is Project Observatory's `peer_owner.py` 1.1.0 vendored from commit `f86f0622` with the readings its header names (`1.1.0+kit.3`), the Node twin reads netstat, `/proc` and the owner SID where Python reads `sysctl`, `/proc` and `GetExtendedTcpTable`; on a restricted macOS table (FAA-267) a caller may vouch with a pid it started, proved by `lsof -p` |
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63
  | L1 | `fabric_crypto` | Ed25519 signing (a Montgomery ladder that does not branch on the key) and verification, P-256 verification, base64url, sha256 |
64
64
  | L1 | `fabric_base` | the protocol name, `ServiceError`, small shared helpers |
65
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  | L1 | `fabric_platform` | Windows: named pipes, owner-only files (DEC-0032) |
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ import { feedDataProblems } from './fabric-protocols.mjs';
5
5
 
6
6
  export const LEVELS = ['info', 'notice', 'warning', 'error'];
7
7
 
8
+ // The dashboard kit names its chip `warn`; an event written at that name is stored at the feed's `warning` (FAA-276).
9
+ export const LEVEL_ALIASES = Object.freeze({ warn: 'warning' });
10
+
8
11
  export const EVENTS_DEFAULT_LIMIT = 50;
9
12
 
10
13
  export const EVENTS_MAX_LIMIT = 200;
@@ -15,9 +18,10 @@ const TRACE_ID = /^(?!0{32}$)[0-9a-f]{32}$/;
15
18
 
16
19
  const SPAN_ID = /^(?!0{16}$)[0-9a-f]{16}$/;
17
20
 
18
- /** One activity event. `data` (DEC-0070) adds machine-readable fields, `{schema, value}`, never a secret: refused here, so no feed carries one. */
19
- export function makeEvent(id, at, kind, level, text, { subject, link, notify, traceId, spanId, data } = {}) {
20
- if (!LEVELS.includes(level)) throw new ServiceError(`level must be one of ${LEVELS.join(', ')}.`);
21
+ /** One activity event. `level` is one of LEVELS; `warn`, the dashboard chip's name, is stored as `warning`. `data` (DEC-0070) adds machine-readable fields, `{schema, value}`, never a secret: refused here, so no feed carries one. */
22
+ export function makeEvent(id, at, kind, given, text, { subject, link, notify, traceId, spanId, data } = {}) {
23
+ const level = typeof given === 'string' && Object.hasOwn(LEVEL_ALIASES, given) ? LEVEL_ALIASES[given] : given;
24
+ if (!LEVELS.includes(level)) throw new ServiceError(`level must be one of ${LEVELS.join(', ')} (or \`warn\` for \`warning\`).`);
21
25
  if (!KIND.test(kind)) throw new ServiceError(`kind ${kind} must be dotted lowercase.`);
22
26
  const sentence = String(text).split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean).join(' ');
23
27
  if (!sentence) throw new ServiceError('An event needs a sentence.');
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ import http from 'node:http';
45
45
  import net from 'node:net';
46
46
  import os from 'node:os';
47
47
 
48
- export const PEER_OWNER_VERSION = '1.1.0+kit.2'; // the Python twin's, Observatory's 1.1.0 with the kit's differences
48
+ export const PEER_OWNER_VERSION = '1.1.0+kit.3'; // the Python twin's, Observatory's 1.1.0 with the kit's differences
49
49
  export const THIS_ACCOUNT = 'this-account';
50
50
  export const ANOTHER_ACCOUNT = 'another-account';
51
51
  export const SYSTEM = 'system';
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ export {
148
148
  cookieValue,
149
149
  } from './fabric-auth.mjs';
150
150
  export {
151
+ LEVEL_ALIASES,
151
152
  LEVELS,
152
153
  EVENTS_DEFAULT_LIMIT,
153
154
  EVENTS_MAX_LIMIT,
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from __future__ import annotations
4
4
 
5
5
  import json
6
6
  import re
7
+ from types import MappingProxyType
7
8
  from pathlib import Path
8
9
  from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Iterable, List, Optional
9
10
 
@@ -33,6 +34,10 @@ EVENTS_MAX_LIMIT = 200
33
34
  LEVELS = ("info", "notice", "warning", "error")
34
35
 
35
36
 
37
+ # The dashboard kit names its chip `warn`; an event written at that name is stored at the feed's `warning` (FAA-276).
38
+ LEVEL_ALIASES = MappingProxyType({"warn": "warning"})
39
+
40
+
36
41
  _KIND = re.compile(r"^[a-z][a-z0-9_]*(\.[a-z][a-z0-9_]*){0,5}\Z")
37
42
 
38
43
 
@@ -45,13 +50,15 @@ _SPAN_ID = re.compile(r"^(?!0{16}\Z)[0-9a-f]{16}\Z")
45
50
  def make_event(event_id: Any, at: str, kind: str, level: str, text: str, *, subject: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
46
51
  link: Optional[str] = None, notify: bool = False, trace_id: Optional[str] = None,
47
52
  span_id: Optional[str] = None, data: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None) -> Dict[str, Any]:
48
- """One activity event: one sentence a person reads, never a machine id. `data` (DEC-0070) adds machine-readable
53
+ """One activity event: one sentence a person reads, never a machine id. `level` is one of `LEVELS`; `warn`, the
54
+ dashboard chip's name, is stored as `warning`. `data` (DEC-0070) adds machine-readable
49
55
  fields beside the sentence, `{schema, value}`, never a secret: it is refused here, so no feed carries one.
50
56
 
51
57
  An event about traced work carries its trace as a pair, `trace_id` and `span_id`
52
58
  (fabric-interop/0.1 C3.4 c); fabric_interop.trace_ids(traceparent) gives both."""
59
+ level = LEVEL_ALIASES.get(level, level) if isinstance(level, str) else level
53
60
  if level not in LEVELS:
54
- raise ServiceError("level must be one of %s." % ", ".join(LEVELS))
61
+ raise ServiceError("level must be one of %s (or `warn` for `warning`)." % ", ".join(LEVELS))
55
62
  if not _KIND.match(kind):
56
63
  raise ServiceError("kind %r must be dotted lowercase." % kind)
57
64
  text = " ".join(str(text).split())
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
1
1
  """peer_owner: which OS account owns each end of a loopback TCP connection.
2
2
 
3
- peer_owner 1.1.0+kit.2: Observatory's peer_owner 1.1.0, vendored into the Fabric service kit as `fabric_peer_owner` (layer L0;
3
+ peer_owner 1.1.0+kit.3: Observatory's peer_owner 1.1.0, vendored into the Fabric service kit as `fabric_peer_owner` (layer L0;
4
4
  DEC-0154 HA-2, FAA-226) from Project Observatory's `observatory/engine/peer_owner.py` at
5
5
  commit f86f0622 (passioncode-ai/project-observatory-dashboard, the same licence). It differs
6
6
  from that file in this paragraph, in `Owner` and `Row` (NamedTuples here where it has
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@
18
18
  Python without it reads netstat on macOS and imports the module everywhere. Since kit.2 (FAA-267), on
19
19
  macOS: the sysctl calibration also requires a child process's listener, an empty netstat reads as
20
20
  `TABLE_RESTRICTED`, and a caller may vouch for a listener with a pid it started (`pid_listens`,
21
- `parse_lsof_listeners`, `LSOF`, `CheckedHTTPConnection(vouch_pid=...)`).
21
+ `parse_lsof_listeners`, `LSOF`, `CheckedHTTPConnection(vouch_pid=...)`, `own_connection(vouch_pid=...)`); since kit.3
22
+ the child's port is waited on with `selectors` and read under one deadline (FAA-273).
22
23
  A limit /proc sets: it carries a socket's creator and no pid, so a listening socket that root
23
24
  created and handed to another account (systemd socket activation with User=) reads as root's. Standard library only, no import of another kit module.
24
25
  The kit's tests are `test/test_fabric_peer_owner.py`, over `test/fixtures/peer-owner/`;
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ import time
109
110
  from typing import NamedTuple, Optional, Tuple
110
111
 
111
112
  # This file's own version, for projects that copy it; not the engine's (that is configuration.VERSION).
112
- PEER_OWNER_VERSION = "1.1.0+kit.2" # Observatory's 1.1.0 with the kit's differences above
113
+ PEER_OWNER_VERSION = "1.1.0+kit.3" # Observatory's 1.1.0 with the kit's differences above
113
114
 
114
115
  THIS_ACCOUNT = "this-account"
115
116
  ANOTHER_ACCOUNT = "another-account"
@@ -500,10 +501,34 @@ _CHILD_LISTENER = ("import socket,sys\ns=socket.socket();s.bind(('127.0.0.1',0))
500
501
  "print(s.getsockname()[1],flush=True);sys.stdin.read()")
501
502
 
502
503
 
504
+ def _child_line(child: "subprocess.Popen[bytes]", deadline: float) -> Optional[bytes]:
505
+ """The child's first line, or None when no newline came by `deadline`. It waits with `selectors` (kqueue on
506
+ macOS: no FD_SETSIZE ceiling at fd 1024, which `select.select` refuses) and reads what is there, so a partial line
507
+ from an interpreter that then waits cannot hold the caller past the deadline (FAA-273 item 13, and the `selectors`
508
+ half of item 11)."""
509
+ import selectors # POSIX: this reader runs on macOS alone
510
+ got = b""
511
+ try:
512
+ with selectors.DefaultSelector() as sel:
513
+ sel.register(child.stdout, selectors.EVENT_READ)
514
+ while b"\n" not in got and len(got) < 64:
515
+ left = deadline - time.monotonic()
516
+ if left <= 0 or not sel.select(left):
517
+ return None
518
+ chunk = os.read(child.stdout.fileno(), 64)
519
+ if not chunk:
520
+ return None
521
+ got += chunk
522
+ except (OSError, ValueError):
523
+ return None
524
+ return got.split(b"\n", 1)[0] if b"\n" in got else None
525
+
526
+
503
527
  def _child_listener_seen(rows_of) -> Optional[bool]:
504
528
  """Whether the table shows a listener of a child process of this one: False when it does not (the table shows
505
- this process alone, FAA-267), None when no child could be started or did not answer within TIMEOUT_SECONDS (a
506
- frozen or embedded host has no interpreter to start). The calibration trusts only True."""
529
+ this process alone, FAA-267), None when no child could be started (a frozen or embedded host has no interpreter to
530
+ start), or it gave no port line within TIMEOUT_SECONDS (silence, a partial or non-numeric line, an early exit, a
531
+ pipe that cannot be read). The calibration trusts only True."""
507
532
  if not sys.executable or getattr(sys, "frozen", False):
508
533
  return None
509
534
  try:
@@ -511,21 +536,25 @@ def _child_listener_seen(rows_of) -> Optional[bool]:
511
536
  stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)
512
537
  except OSError:
513
538
  return None
539
+ deadline = time.monotonic() + TIMEOUT_SECONDS
540
+ port = None
514
541
  try:
515
- import select # POSIX: this reader runs on macOS alone
516
- if not select.select([child.stdout], [], [], TIMEOUT_SECONDS)[0]:
517
- return None
518
- line = child.stdout.readline().strip()
519
- if not line.isdigit():
542
+ line = _child_line(child, deadline)
543
+ if line is None or not line.strip().isdigit():
520
544
  return None
521
- port = int(line)
522
- return any(r.listening and r.local == ("127.0.0.1", port) and r.pid == child.pid for r in rows_of())
523
- except (TableUnreadable, OSError, struct.error, ValueError):
524
- return False
545
+ port = int(line.strip())
546
+ try:
547
+ return any(r.listening and r.local == ("127.0.0.1", port) and r.pid == child.pid for r in rows_of())
548
+ except (TableUnreadable, OSError, struct.error, ValueError):
549
+ return False
525
550
  finally:
551
+ # One deadline for the whole check: a child that gave no port is killed at once, and one that did gets what is
552
+ # left of the deadline to exit on its closed stdin before it is killed.
526
553
  try:
527
554
  child.stdin.close()
528
- child.wait(timeout=TIMEOUT_SECONDS)
555
+ if port is None:
556
+ child.kill()
557
+ child.wait(timeout=max(0.0, deadline - time.monotonic()))
529
558
  except (OSError, subprocess.TimeoutExpired):
530
559
  child.kill()
531
560
  child.wait()
@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ from fabric_auth import ( # noqa: F401
275
275
  from fabric_events import ( # noqa: F401
276
276
  EVENTS_DEFAULT_LIMIT,
277
277
  EVENTS_MAX_LIMIT,
278
+ LEVEL_ALIASES,
278
279
  LEVELS,
279
280
  _KIND,
280
281
  _TRACE_ID,
@@ -340,7 +340,8 @@ def _read_well_known(origin: str, timeout: float = 2.0,
340
340
  vouch_pid: Optional[int] = None) -> Tuple[Optional[Dict[str, Any]], Optional[str]]:
341
341
  """(the well-known answer or None, why the listener was refused or None). A loopback origin is read only on a
342
342
  connection whose server end is this OS account's process (DEC-0154 HA-2): another account's, root's, or one whose
343
- owner cannot be told is `foreign-user`, never this service's answer. `vouch_pid`, the pid of a launchd job this
343
+ owner cannot be told is never this service's answer, labelled `foreign-user`, or `table-restricted` when the socket
344
+ table hides other processes. `vouch_pid`, the pid of a launchd job this
344
345
  caller started, proves the listener when the socket table hides other processes (FAA-267)."""
345
346
  parts = urllib.parse.urlsplit(origin)
346
347
  if parts.scheme == "http" and parts.hostname == "127.0.0.1" and parts.port:
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
1
1
  {
2
2
  "name": "fabric-service-kit",
3
- "version": "0.76.0",
3
+ "version": "0.77.0",
4
4
  "about": "The service kit's modules in dependency order: a module imports only modules listed before it. Written by fabric_kit.py build; edit the order and layers by hand, never the digests.",
5
5
  "python": [
6
6
  {
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
38
38
  "file": "fabric_peer_owner.py",
39
39
  "layer": "L0",
40
40
  "imports": [],
41
- "sha256": "628c8e56eb067ecb7c343a606f8c75661257d7f349c47d9628449850d41d1f78"
41
+ "sha256": "cc6ce03987a99a506608e6ac05cb32ac05fdd0305060a404b817de71d22b1317"
42
42
  },
43
43
  {
44
44
  "module": "fabric_crypto",
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@
315
315
  "fabric_paths",
316
316
  "fabric_protocols"
317
317
  ],
318
- "sha256": "cd94b186e2a8f8cb4ad2b6bd44d83ec5021933075e28c5d655f387f16dff42b8"
318
+ "sha256": "da3fe3e3e19d4c9754b90c719e9c069a3ac85e080b9fffd07adbaf63b5bfcf0d"
319
319
  },
320
320
  {
321
321
  "module": "fabric_logs",
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@
338
338
  "fabric_peer_owner",
339
339
  "fabric_secrets"
340
340
  ],
341
- "sha256": "1ebf842de248ff0f154939ae6c9d5d0229b3358aecaefea07a80ed1b8755ac70"
341
+ "sha256": "1d920062f8c9806f68f27c84035d17e3860558ac4ccb5dbe83cc7a776cef706a"
342
342
  },
343
343
  {
344
344
  "module": "fabric_service",
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@
362
362
  "fabric_time",
363
363
  "fabric_usage"
364
364
  ],
365
- "sha256": "73082f69844739708732f6331742e00f17d27385d3c3efa3331a1fd61b523595"
365
+ "sha256": "cb163324ebef9dfe4017210d65e4da4f5e910b6e606c7d1d36d7becf9adcf3f8"
366
366
  },
367
367
  {
368
368
  "module": "fabric_profiles",
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@
542
542
  "file": "fabric-peer-owner.mjs",
543
543
  "layer": "L0",
544
544
  "imports": [],
545
- "sha256": "0d5a52385127546dea797e2dec36daeec6e05b04fdef04c1d8fd1ecf8db1a4e8"
545
+ "sha256": "ea6d58c06647d9b17778840b1aa775b3cd8715cdf8027a7037672bd5ba4aed64"
546
546
  },
547
547
  {
548
548
  "module": "fabric-crypto",
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@
817
817
  "fabric-base",
818
818
  "fabric-protocols"
819
819
  ],
820
- "sha256": "c463d6ffcae24229a5c608d8fcea4268d2ccc5024b19fa10e5a452284068fa71"
820
+ "sha256": "c95c07e2745e52fddbb7237b89824123f240d4f8d6b14f5cb269a09e1845c3ba"
821
821
  },
822
822
  {
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  | **Who pays?** | one key per agent and context with its own ceiling (USD 100 a month by default, more only where the operator names it), from the estate's key manager, read from the environment; checked before every call, the agent's own stop under the key's limit; a personal key never pays for an organization |
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  | **How does it learn?** | decisions recorded with reasons, one trace per turn, every failure a planted fixture first, history replayed, learnings proposed and never self-approved (references/orchestration-and-learning.md) |
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+ | **Does it answer people?** | if it answers people in a chat, by mail, in store reviews or in a group, it starts from the agents database's template when one is named, read beside references/communication-agent-template.md, else from that template prompt, and either way carries from its first release the turn record and the daily `support.quality_daily` report, the lane table with vendor exclusion and fallback recoveries counted, a writer change only after an offline replay, false-state gates and a checker that sees the material first, numbers and account state from tools, the live tail re-read before sending, repair then research then a hold that comes back, hand-offs by cause and never counted or judged as answers, a commitments ledger, a knowledge client that reads the service's `answer` flag, a gap queue and a feed re-read on a new event kind (references/agents-that-answer-people.md) |
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+ | building-fabric-services | at each release | contribute the release's measured wins as success cases and its new technical decisions |
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+ | `agents-db.consult` | before designing an agent: name the capability, the consumer and the source projects | the template and variant to build from, the playbook sections, the stack, the known traps |
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+ | `agents-db.audit` | an agent exists and you want it checked against the base | an audit: what the base confirms, what to optimize, proposals for the owner |
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+ | `agents-db.contribute` | after a unit of work with a measured win, or a new technical decision | the win becomes a success case, the decision an intake record; the daily review folds proven ones into the template |
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+ | creating-fabric-agents | the intake grill (Step 0), once it names the capability and its consumer | consult (or, with a grant, scan); build from the template it names; record its id and version |
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+ | working-with-fabric | the retro after work | a lesson with a measured effect is also a success case: contribute it beside the lesson it records |
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