The Principia Machina/GTP/Contents

The Principia Machina: map
Reading the diagrams Structure key Process key Definition of terms Roles
Reading by audience Start here: the walk through The operator's guide Tutorial: create a UUID Workspace Container (UWC) Public Recorder inputs Sponsors: your first agent
The specification Contents: parts, tables, diagrams TPS 0.5.0 (declared 2026-10-03, revision 8; machine-optimized text) Decisions (the foundations record, one line each)

Contents of the GTP section. Part of the TPM hub. GTP is TPS part 6, the AGENT CONTRACT, taken as a runnable instruction set, with no version of its own (TPS 1.2.6); the text this section publishes under that name documents the instruction layer generically and is not normative (D174.1). TPS is the specification of the machine and governs above it.

Start here

The walk through explains the instruction layer from nothing, in six pages.

1. What the orders are, and who writes them
2. How a rule gets fired
3. When the rules collide
4. What the agent will not do
5. Keeping the pieces in step
6. Saying what the work is for

The operator's guide

Four procedures, each opening with its diagram. The guide assumes the walk through.

1. Installing and verifying an instruction set
2. Running a decision pause
3. Vetting an input and handling a detection
4. Branching a thread and requesting closeout

GTP, verbatim

The text published under the name GTP: documentation beside TPS, non-normative, carrying no version (D174.1); a root page and 21 section pages.

• GTP, the root page, with the file fingerprint and the outline
• The conformance form

00 Front matter and change record

01 Purpose and scope

02 What this does not cover

03 Identity and integrity

04 Language and naming

05 Register

06 Invocation

07 The non-suspendable core

08 Untrusted input

09 The two gates

10 Deciding

11 Scope declaration

12 Version semantics

13 Compatibility

14 Deliverable form

15 Working set and escalation

16 Confidence and backreference

17 Index of record

18 Declared parameters

19 Conformance

20 Bases

The Claude instance

One implementation, published for inspection. Non-normative.

• What the instance is
• Its conformance statement
• PMP-TPM 0.13.0, the project layer, root page and thirty-six section pages (INSTALLED 2026-09-26; pages 21 to 36 carry the sections added after 0.2.0 and are listed at their places in the artifact's order)
• The five skills

01 Shared rule set

02 Deliverables

03 Working set and escalation

04 Prose

05 Front-end declaration

06 Index of record

07 Ranking rule, application notes

08 Project constants

09 Vocabulary

10 Public recorder parts

21 TPC

22 TrM skeleton

11 New-container flow

12 TFK, digest gate, recovery, chain

13 Strike skeleton and strike rule

14 Collaboration and staleness

23 UWC access policy

15 Permissions

16 AI certification

24 Certification split

25 Canary programme

26 Scorecard

30 The governor and the client contract

31 TPX page rules

32 The top-performer cluster

33 Falcons

34 Identity, prompt and vendor family

35 Sponsor stages

36 The bibliography

27 Implementation sequence

17 Index of record form

18 Non-goals

19 Declared parameters

28 Tuning options

29 Awaiting declaration

20 Change record

Diagrams

Structures (key

structure key)

P01 Artifact stack

P05 Compatibility and version semantics

P06 The front-end contract

Processes (key

process key)

P02 Cue routing

P03 The decision pause

P04 Input vetting and its two gates

P07 The branch lifecycle

Keys, terms and roles

• Structure key
• Process key
• Definition of terms
• Roles

Reading by audience

• Start here: the walk through
• The operator's guide
• Agents: reach this section from the agent door on the hub.