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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: lens-xt
+Version: 0.1.0b1
+Summary: A declarative specification language for deterministically constrained generation in discrete-sequence diffusion models
+Author-email: Thomas Garren <thomas@sophiaxt.com>
+Maintainer-email: Thomas Garren <thomas@sophiaxt.com>
+License: Apache-2.0
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://sophiaxt.com/lens-x-spec
+Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/Chorozion/lens-xt
+Project-URL: Bug Tracker, https://github.com/Chorozion/lens-xt/issues
+Project-URL: Specification, https://sophiaxt.com/lens-x-spec.pdf
+Keywords: language-model,diffusion,masked-diffusion,constrained-generation,anchor-token-masking,forced-anchor-decoding,ltmi-xt,specification-language
+Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
+Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
+Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
+Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
+Requires-Python: >=3.9
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENSE
+Requires-Dist: pyyaml>=6.0
+Requires-Dist: click>=8.0
+Provides-Extra: local
+Requires-Dist: torch>=2.1; extra == "local"
+Requires-Dist: tokenizers>=0.15; extra == "local"
+Provides-Extra: openai
+Requires-Dist: openai>=1.40; extra == "openai"
+Requires-Dist: tiktoken>=0.7; extra == "openai"
+Provides-Extra: anthropic
+Requires-Dist: anthropic>=0.30; extra == "anthropic"
+Provides-Extra: server
+Requires-Dist: fastapi>=0.110; extra == "server"
+Requires-Dist: uvicorn[standard]>=0.27; extra == "server"
+Requires-Dist: pydantic>=2.5; extra == "server"
+Provides-Extra: all
+Requires-Dist: torch>=2.1; extra == "all"
+Requires-Dist: tokenizers>=0.15; extra == "all"
+Requires-Dist: openai>=1.40; extra == "all"
+Requires-Dist: tiktoken>=0.7; extra == "all"
+Requires-Dist: anthropic>=0.30; extra == "all"
+Requires-Dist: fastapi>=0.110; extra == "all"
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+Requires-Dist: mypy>=1.10; extra == "dev"
+Requires-Dist: httpx>=0.27; extra == "dev"
+Dynamic: license-file
+
+<div align="center">
+
+<img src="assets/lens-xt-banner.svg" alt="LENS-XT — declarative constrained generation for masked-diffusion language models" width="100%">
+
+&nbsp;
+
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/runtime-Apache_2.0-00D4FF?style=flat-square&labelColor=050A15)](LICENSE)
+[![Spec](https://img.shields.io/badge/spec-CC_BY_4.0-FFD93D?style=flat-square&labelColor=050A15)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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+[![Backend](https://img.shields.io/badge/backend-Cassandra_T1.5-FFD93D?style=flat-square&labelColor=050A15)](https://github.com/Chorozion/Casandra-t1-diffusion-edge-model)
+
+**Declarative spec language for token-level deterministic generation in masked-diffusion LMs**
+
+[Spec](https://sophiaxt.com/lens-x-spec.pdf) · [Research](https://sophiaxt.com/research/anchor-token-masking) · [Cassandra T1](https://github.com/Chorozion/Casandra-t1-diffusion-edge-model) · [SOPHIA XT](https://sophiaxt.com)
+
+</div>
+
+---
+
+A `.lensx` document specifies **position-locked content, retrieval sources, adapter selection, and validation rules**. The runtime resolves the spec into a forced-anchor-decoded generation against the chosen backend. Locked positions are excluded from the unmasking loop — they cannot be overwritten across denoising steps.
+
+```yaml
+# medical_basic.lensx
+version: "0.1"
+base:
+  model: "cassandra-t1.5"
+locks:
+  - range: [0, auto]
+    source: locus("medical:cardiology:nitroglycerin:standard_dose")
+generation:
+  total_length: 192
+```
+
+```bash
+lensx run medical_basic.lensx
+```
+
+The locked content appears at the exact positions you specified — *guaranteed by construction* on masked-diffusion backends, best-effort with logit-bias on autoregressive APIs.
+
+---
+
+## Why this exists
+
+Existing approaches to constrained generation are imperative or grammar-based:
+
+| Approach | What it constrains | Guarantee level |
+|---|---|---|
+| Prompt engineering | natural-language hints | **none** |
+| OpenAI structured outputs / JSON mode | schema fields | type-level |
+| Outlines / LMQL / Guidance | regex/CFG over output | type-level |
+| JSON Schema validation | post-hoc check | retry on failure |
+| **LENS-XT** | **token positions in the answer slot** | **DETERMINISTIC on MDLM, best-effort on API** |
+
+LENS-XT separates *what to constrain* (the spec, CC BY 4.0) from *how to enforce it* (the runtime, Apache 2.0).
+
+## Status
+
+> v0.1.0a1 — alpha. Runtime works end-to-end against the real Cassandra T1.5 model (`anchor_preservation_rate: 1.000`, DETERMINISTIC guarantee preserved). API surfaces may shift before v0.1.0.
+
+| Component | Status |
+|---|---|
+| YAML parser + AST | ✅ shipped |
+| Static validator | ✅ shipped |
+| Lock resolver (literal / locus / retrieval / compose) | ✅ shipped |
+| LTMi-XT keyword retrieval (v0.1) | ✅ shipped |
+| LTMi-XT lattice-walk retrieval (v0.2 — BLAKE2b spec §2.4 compliant) | ✅ shipped |
+| Reasoning scaffold runtime (multi-stage) | ✅ shipped |
+| Local MDLM backend (Cassandra T1.5) | ✅ shipped |
+| OpenAI API backend (logit-bias + retry, BEST_EFFORT guarantee) | ✅ shipped |
+| Runtime orchestrator + CLI | ✅ shipped |
+| Specification document | ✅ [Read the spec](https://sophiaxt.com/lens-x-spec.pdf) |
+| Python SDK three-line drop-in | ✅ shipped |
+| TypeScript SDK (`@sophiaxt/lens-xt`) | ✅ shipped |
+| HTTP API server (FastAPI) | ✅ shipped |
+| Anthropic API backend | 📋 planned |
+| Mercury 2 native backend | 📋 pending Inception API support |
+
+**Tests:** 168 unit + 8 backend tests passing, including a live integration against Cassandra T1.5 with `anchor_preservation_rate=1.0`.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install lens-xt          # core (parser, validator, runtime)
+pip install lens-xt[local]   # adds torch + tokenizers for Cassandra backend
+pip install lens-xt[all]     # everything
+```
+
+> Not on PyPI yet — install from source: `pip install -e .` from a clone of this repo.
+
+## Quick start
+
+```bash
+# Validate a spec without running it
+lensx validate examples/medical_basic.lensx
+
+# Show a human-readable breakdown of the spec
+lensx explain examples/medical_basic.lensx
+
+# Run end-to-end against Cassandra T1.5
+lensx run examples/medical_basic.lensx --var user_input="What's the dose?" --show-provenance
+```
+
+Programmatic:
+
+```python
+from lensx import run
+
+result = run("examples/medical_basic.lensx", variables={"user_input": "..."})
+print(result.text)                           # generated output
+print(result.locked_positions_preserved)     # True
+print(result.achieved_guarantee)             # GuaranteeLevel.DETERMINISTIC
+print(result.metrics["anchor_preservation_rate"])  # 1.0
+```
+
+## Concepts
+
+### Locks
+
+A *lock* is a contiguous range of token positions whose values are deterministically set by the spec, not the model. Lock content can come from:
+
+- `literal("...")` — explicit text
+- `locus("topic:subtopic:concept:slot")` — looked up by breadcrumb in an LTMi-XT bundle
+- `retrieval[N]` — references the Nth retrieved locus from the `retrieval:` block
+- `lensx_compose(path)` — composes another spec's output
+
+Range types: `[start, end]` explicit; `[start, auto]` left-aligned auto-sized; `head(N)` / `tail(N)` / `at(N)` aligned-and-sized; mix freely.
+
+### Backends
+
+The same `.lensx` file works across backends with different guarantee levels — the runtime picks the strongest available:
+
+| Backend | Where it runs | Guarantee |
+|---|---|---|
+| Local MDLM | Cassandra T1.5, LLaDA, DiffuLLaMA (self-hosted) | **DETERMINISTIC** |
+| API-compatible | OpenAI / Anthropic / Mercury 2 standard API | **BEST_EFFORT** (~99% via logit-bias + retry) |
+| API-native | Future Mercury 2 with native lensx | **DETERMINISTIC** |
+| Hybrid | API surround + local locked positions | **DETERMINISTIC** |
+
+### Retrieval — LTMi-XT lattice walk
+
+LENS-XT's retrieval scorer uses the LTMi-XT lattice topology: loci sharing a *k*-prefix in their breadcrumb hierarchy share *k* lattice coordinates (BLAKE2b-derived per [LTMi-XT spec §2.4](https://sophiaxt.com/ltmi-xt-spec.pdf)). The `lattice` mode walks outward from keyword seeds in lattice space, surfacing topical neighbors that don't share enough surface keywords with the query but are spatially adjacent.
+
+```yaml
+retrieval:
+  bundles: ["corpora/cardiology.ltmi"]
+  query: "${user_input}"
+  top_k: 3
+  scoring:
+    mode: lattice  # or "keyword" for v0.1 behavior
+```
+
+### Adapters
+
+LENS-XT works best with V/O-only anchor-token-masked LoRA adapters trained per domain. The methodology is empirically validated — **1.67× pooled OOD generalization advantage** over standard masking, with mechanism causally tested via V/O ablation.
+
+→ Read the visualized research: **[sophiaxt.com/research/anchor-token-masking](https://sophiaxt.com/research/anchor-token-masking)** *(or download the [PDF · 14 pp](https://sophiaxt.com/anchor-token-masking-arxiv.pdf))*
+
+## License
+
+- **Reference runtime** (this repository): [Apache 2.0](LICENSE)
+- **Specification document**: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
+- **Adapters**: community adapters under Apache 2.0; premium domain-specific adapters under commercial license
+
+## Citation
+
+```bibtex
+@techreport{garren2026lensx,
+  author      = {Garren, Thomas},
+  title       = {LENS-XT v0.1: A Declarative Specification Language for
+                 Deterministically Constrained Generation in
+                 Discrete-Sequence Diffusion Models},
+  institution = {SOPHIA XT LLC},
+  year        = {2026},
+  month       = {May},
+  url         = {https://sophiaxt.com/lens-x-spec}
+}
+```
+
+## Related work
+
+- [Cassandra T1](https://github.com/Chorozion/Casandra-t1-diffusion-edge-model) — reference 1.3B masked-diffusion language model · Apache 2.0
+- [LTMi-XT](https://sophiaxt.com/research/ltmi-xt) — retrieval format with hash-derived topological indexing · Apache 2.0
+- [Anchor-Token Masking](https://sophiaxt.com/research/anchor-token-masking) — training methodology for V/O-only anchor-token-masked LoRA adapters · Apache 2.0
+
+## Maintainer
+
+Thomas Garren · SOPHIA XT LLC · `thomas@sophiaxt.com` · [sophiaxt.com](https://sophiaxt.com)

lens_xt-0.1.0b1/README.md

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+<div align="center">
+
+<img src="assets/lens-xt-banner.svg" alt="LENS-XT — declarative constrained generation for masked-diffusion language models" width="100%">
+
+&nbsp;
+
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/runtime-Apache_2.0-00D4FF?style=flat-square&labelColor=050A15)](LICENSE)
+[![Spec](https://img.shields.io/badge/spec-CC_BY_4.0-FFD93D?style=flat-square&labelColor=050A15)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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+[![Tests](https://img.shields.io/badge/tests-176_passing-9BFFE8?style=flat-square&labelColor=050A15)](#status)
+[![Backend](https://img.shields.io/badge/backend-Cassandra_T1.5-FFD93D?style=flat-square&labelColor=050A15)](https://github.com/Chorozion/Casandra-t1-diffusion-edge-model)
+
+**Declarative spec language for token-level deterministic generation in masked-diffusion LMs**
+
+[Spec](https://sophiaxt.com/lens-x-spec.pdf) · [Research](https://sophiaxt.com/research/anchor-token-masking) · [Cassandra T1](https://github.com/Chorozion/Casandra-t1-diffusion-edge-model) · [SOPHIA XT](https://sophiaxt.com)
+
+</div>
+
+---
+
+A `.lensx` document specifies **position-locked content, retrieval sources, adapter selection, and validation rules**. The runtime resolves the spec into a forced-anchor-decoded generation against the chosen backend. Locked positions are excluded from the unmasking loop — they cannot be overwritten across denoising steps.
+
+```yaml
+# medical_basic.lensx
+version: "0.1"
+base:
+  model: "cassandra-t1.5"
+locks:
+  - range: [0, auto]
+    source: locus("medical:cardiology:nitroglycerin:standard_dose")
+generation:
+  total_length: 192
+```
+
+```bash
+lensx run medical_basic.lensx
+```
+
+The locked content appears at the exact positions you specified — *guaranteed by construction* on masked-diffusion backends, best-effort with logit-bias on autoregressive APIs.
+
+---
+
+## Why this exists
+
+Existing approaches to constrained generation are imperative or grammar-based:
+
+| Approach | What it constrains | Guarantee level |
+|---|---|---|
+| Prompt engineering | natural-language hints | **none** |
+| OpenAI structured outputs / JSON mode | schema fields | type-level |
+| Outlines / LMQL / Guidance | regex/CFG over output | type-level |
+| JSON Schema validation | post-hoc check | retry on failure |
+| **LENS-XT** | **token positions in the answer slot** | **DETERMINISTIC on MDLM, best-effort on API** |
+
+LENS-XT separates *what to constrain* (the spec, CC BY 4.0) from *how to enforce it* (the runtime, Apache 2.0).
+
+## Status
+
+> v0.1.0a1 — alpha. Runtime works end-to-end against the real Cassandra T1.5 model (`anchor_preservation_rate: 1.000`, DETERMINISTIC guarantee preserved). API surfaces may shift before v0.1.0.
+
+| Component | Status |
+|---|---|
+| YAML parser + AST | ✅ shipped |
+| Static validator | ✅ shipped |
+| Lock resolver (literal / locus / retrieval / compose) | ✅ shipped |
+| LTMi-XT keyword retrieval (v0.1) | ✅ shipped |
+| LTMi-XT lattice-walk retrieval (v0.2 — BLAKE2b spec §2.4 compliant) | ✅ shipped |
+| Reasoning scaffold runtime (multi-stage) | ✅ shipped |
+| Local MDLM backend (Cassandra T1.5) | ✅ shipped |
+| OpenAI API backend (logit-bias + retry, BEST_EFFORT guarantee) | ✅ shipped |
+| Runtime orchestrator + CLI | ✅ shipped |
+| Specification document | ✅ [Read the spec](https://sophiaxt.com/lens-x-spec.pdf) |
+| Python SDK three-line drop-in | ✅ shipped |
+| TypeScript SDK (`@sophiaxt/lens-xt`) | ✅ shipped |
+| HTTP API server (FastAPI) | ✅ shipped |
+| Anthropic API backend | 📋 planned |
+| Mercury 2 native backend | 📋 pending Inception API support |
+
+**Tests:** 168 unit + 8 backend tests passing, including a live integration against Cassandra T1.5 with `anchor_preservation_rate=1.0`.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install lens-xt          # core (parser, validator, runtime)
+pip install lens-xt[local]   # adds torch + tokenizers for Cassandra backend
+pip install lens-xt[all]     # everything
+```
+
+> Not on PyPI yet — install from source: `pip install -e .` from a clone of this repo.
+
+## Quick start
+
+```bash
+# Validate a spec without running it
+lensx validate examples/medical_basic.lensx
+
+# Show a human-readable breakdown of the spec
+lensx explain examples/medical_basic.lensx
+
+# Run end-to-end against Cassandra T1.5
+lensx run examples/medical_basic.lensx --var user_input="What's the dose?" --show-provenance
+```
+
+Programmatic:
+
+```python
+from lensx import run
+
+result = run("examples/medical_basic.lensx", variables={"user_input": "..."})
+print(result.text)                           # generated output
+print(result.locked_positions_preserved)     # True
+print(result.achieved_guarantee)             # GuaranteeLevel.DETERMINISTIC
+print(result.metrics["anchor_preservation_rate"])  # 1.0
+```
+
+## Concepts
+
+### Locks
+
+A *lock* is a contiguous range of token positions whose values are deterministically set by the spec, not the model. Lock content can come from:
+
+- `literal("...")` — explicit text
+- `locus("topic:subtopic:concept:slot")` — looked up by breadcrumb in an LTMi-XT bundle
+- `retrieval[N]` — references the Nth retrieved locus from the `retrieval:` block
+- `lensx_compose(path)` — composes another spec's output
+
+Range types: `[start, end]` explicit; `[start, auto]` left-aligned auto-sized; `head(N)` / `tail(N)` / `at(N)` aligned-and-sized; mix freely.
+
+### Backends
+
+The same `.lensx` file works across backends with different guarantee levels — the runtime picks the strongest available:
+
+| Backend | Where it runs | Guarantee |
+|---|---|---|
+| Local MDLM | Cassandra T1.5, LLaDA, DiffuLLaMA (self-hosted) | **DETERMINISTIC** |
+| API-compatible | OpenAI / Anthropic / Mercury 2 standard API | **BEST_EFFORT** (~99% via logit-bias + retry) |
+| API-native | Future Mercury 2 with native lensx | **DETERMINISTIC** |
+| Hybrid | API surround + local locked positions | **DETERMINISTIC** |
+
+### Retrieval — LTMi-XT lattice walk
+
+LENS-XT's retrieval scorer uses the LTMi-XT lattice topology: loci sharing a *k*-prefix in their breadcrumb hierarchy share *k* lattice coordinates (BLAKE2b-derived per [LTMi-XT spec §2.4](https://sophiaxt.com/ltmi-xt-spec.pdf)). The `lattice` mode walks outward from keyword seeds in lattice space, surfacing topical neighbors that don't share enough surface keywords with the query but are spatially adjacent.
+
+```yaml
+retrieval:
+  bundles: ["corpora/cardiology.ltmi"]
+  query: "${user_input}"
+  top_k: 3
+  scoring:
+    mode: lattice  # or "keyword" for v0.1 behavior
+```
+
+### Adapters
+
+LENS-XT works best with V/O-only anchor-token-masked LoRA adapters trained per domain. The methodology is empirically validated — **1.67× pooled OOD generalization advantage** over standard masking, with mechanism causally tested via V/O ablation.
+
+→ Read the visualized research: **[sophiaxt.com/research/anchor-token-masking](https://sophiaxt.com/research/anchor-token-masking)** *(or download the [PDF · 14 pp](https://sophiaxt.com/anchor-token-masking-arxiv.pdf))*
+
+## License
+
+- **Reference runtime** (this repository): [Apache 2.0](LICENSE)
+- **Specification document**: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
+- **Adapters**: community adapters under Apache 2.0; premium domain-specific adapters under commercial license
+
+## Citation
+
+```bibtex
+@techreport{garren2026lensx,
+  author      = {Garren, Thomas},
+  title       = {LENS-XT v0.1: A Declarative Specification Language for
+                 Deterministically Constrained Generation in
+                 Discrete-Sequence Diffusion Models},
+  institution = {SOPHIA XT LLC},
+  year        = {2026},
+  month       = {May},
+  url         = {https://sophiaxt.com/lens-x-spec}
+}
+```
+
+## Related work
+
+- [Cassandra T1](https://github.com/Chorozion/Casandra-t1-diffusion-edge-model) — reference 1.3B masked-diffusion language model · Apache 2.0
+- [LTMi-XT](https://sophiaxt.com/research/ltmi-xt) — retrieval format with hash-derived topological indexing · Apache 2.0
+- [Anchor-Token Masking](https://sophiaxt.com/research/anchor-token-masking) — training methodology for V/O-only anchor-token-masked LoRA adapters · Apache 2.0
+
+## Maintainer
+
+Thomas Garren · SOPHIA XT LLC · `thomas@sophiaxt.com` · [sophiaxt.com](https://sophiaxt.com)

lens_xt-0.1.0b1/lens_xt/__init__.py

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+"""``lens_xt`` — PEP-8 import alias for the ``lensx`` package.
+
+Both spellings work and resolve to the same module:
+
+    from lens_xt import LensX     # PEP-8 form (matches `lens-xt` distribution name)
+    from lensx import LensX       # short form (matches CLI binary name)
+
+This shim re-exports everything from ``lensx`` so any future additions to
+the public API stay in sync without code changes here.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import lensx as _lensx
+from lensx import *  # noqa: F401, F403  -- re-export every public name
+
+# Mirror metadata for tools that introspect __version__ via the alias name
+__version__ = _lensx.__version__
+__all__ = list(_lensx.__all__)