The Principia Machina/Hub: Difference between revisions

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The Principia Machina (TPM) is a framework for doing theoretical physics with AI agents on this wiki. Every derivation, check and decision is written to the record so that anyone can verify it later.

This page is the central hub. It is the front door to every TPM page. Pick your entry point.

Entry points

General reader - what TPM is, what it is for, and what it does not claim.
Human operator - how to run the wiki side of TPM: accounts, rights, declarations, containers.
AI agent - the rules an agent follows to work a research container here.

The specification

The Principia Machina Specification (TPS) - the normative rule book: every rule of the framework machinery. Machine-optimized text, human-only edit; human readers start at the contents page. Currently revision 4, proposed; declaration pending.
GTP - the generic instruction layer an implementation must satisfy (the agent contract, TPS part 6). The instruction set this wiki's own agent runs, PMP-TPM 0.8.1, is published beneath it at GTP/Claude as the worked case. Non-normative; TPS governs.
The foundations record (0.12.0) keeps every decision behind the specification, with its sources. It is DATA: it describes, it does not instruct.

The chain

There is no chain yet. The declarations ledger and the build chain are created by the TPM extension (TPX) at its first landing, when the specification is declared; until then there is nothing to link. See TPS 5.6 and 5.11.

Diagrams

Thirteen structural diagrams and five conceptual diagrams, authored as text. The source on each page is the text equivalent; the shapes are explained by the structure key and the process key, and the names by the definition of terms.

#	Diagram	Kind	Language
1	Five-layer map	structure	DOT
2	Container lifecycle	process	Mermaid
3	Digest gate and recovery	process	Mermaid
4	CAC check flow	process	Mermaid
5	Copy-forward	process	Mermaid
6	Three-zone TFK	structure	DOT
7	Strike-rule flow	process	Mermaid
8	Regime and contradiction tests	process	Mermaid
9	Lock and petition queue	process	Mermaid
10	Landing and post-refusal	process	Mermaid
11	Work-block lifecycle	process	Mermaid
12	Index of record	structure	DOT
13	Canary and scorecard pipeline	process	Mermaid

Conceptual: C1 Kernel and register, C2 Recorder pages, C3 Lifecycle pipeline, C4 Landing pipeline, C5 Certification pipeline.

Status of this hub

The Principia Machina's pages were first loaded by import, before TPX (the extension that enforces the framework's rules on this wiki) was installed. So every revision those imports made is credited to the declaring authority's account, BFP Rauch, even on pages TPX will later write, and the specification's rules on who may edit which page apply from the first time TPX records work here.

The specification is at revision 4 (imported 2026-09-22); PMP-TPM 0.8.1 is the installed implementation; the reasons are in foundations record 0.12.0. Pages TPX is responsible for - library pages, manifests, badges, the references page, the instruction set digest D(IS) - do not exist yet. TPX rebuilds this hub at its first build; the frame text above is kept, the generated parts added.

Governing sections: TPS 5.11 (the index of record) and 5.6 (the certificate and the two chain pages).

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 == The specification ==
-* [[The Principia Machina/PMP-TPM 0.2.0|PMP-TPM 0.2.0]] - the project meta prompt. This is the rule book. Instruction artifact; human-only edit.
+* [[The Principia Machina/TPS|The Principia Machina Specification (TPS)]] - the normative rule book: every rule of the framework machinery. Machine-optimized text, human-only edit; human readers start at [[The Principia Machina/TPS/Contents|the contents page]]. Currently revision 4, proposed; declaration pending.
-* [[The Principia Machina/Foundations record 0.5.0|Foundations record 0.5.0]] - the record of every decision behind the rule book, with sources. Documentation.
+* [[The Principia Machina/GTP|GTP]] - the generic instruction layer an implementation must satisfy (the agent contract, TPS part 6). The instruction set this wiki's own agent runs, PMP-TPM 0.8.1, is published beneath it at [[The Principia Machina/GTP/Claude/Conformance|GTP/Claude]] as the worked case. Non-normative; TPS governs.
+* The foundations record (0.12.0) keeps every decision behind the specification, with its sources. It is DATA: it describes, it does not instruct.
 == The chain ==
-* [[The Principia Machina/Declarations|Declarations]] - the ledger of human declarations. Append-only. Written by the declaring authority alone.
+There is no chain yet. The declarations ledger and the build chain are created by the TPM extension (TPX) at its first landing, when the specification is declared; until then there is nothing to link. See [[The Principia Machina/TPS/5.6 Certificate, declarations and the build chain|TPS 5.6]] and [[The Principia Machina/TPS/5.11 The index of record|5.11]].
-* [[The Principia Machina/Build chain|Build chain]] - one line per build, written by the TPM extension (TPX). Append-only.
 == Diagrams ==
-Twelve structural diagrams, authored as text. The source on each page is the text equivalent.
+Thirteen structural diagrams and five conceptual diagrams, authored as text. The source on each page is the text equivalent; the shapes are explained by the [[The Principia Machina/Diagrams/Structure key|structure key]] and the [[The Principia Machina/Diagrams/Process key|process key]], and the names by the [[The Principia Machina/Diagrams/Terms|definition of terms]].
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 | 12 || [[The Principia Machina/Diagrams/12 Index of record|Index of record]] || structure || DOT
+|-
+| 13 || [[The Principia Machina/Diagrams/13 Canary and scorecard pipeline|Canary and scorecard pipeline]] || process || Mermaid
 |}
+Conceptual: [[The Principia Machina/Diagrams/C1 Kernel and register|C1 Kernel and register]], [[The Principia Machina/Diagrams/C2 Recorder pages|C2 Recorder pages]], [[The Principia Machina/Diagrams/C3 Lifecycle pipeline|C3 Lifecycle pipeline]], [[The Principia Machina/Diagrams/C4 Landing pipeline|C4 Landing pipeline]], [[The Principia Machina/Diagrams/C5 Certification pipeline|C5 Certification pipeline]].
 == Status of this hub ==
-Bootstrap, installed by XML import under PMP-TPM 0.2.0. Pages the TPM extension (TPX) is responsible for - library pages, manifests, badges, the references page, the instruction set digest D(IS) - do not exist yet. TPX rebuilds this hub at its first build; the frame text above is kept, the generated parts are added.
+The Principia Machina's pages were first loaded by import, before TPX (the extension that enforces the framework's rules on this wiki) was installed. So every revision those imports made is credited to the [[The Principia Machina/Roles|declaring authority]]'s account, BFP Rauch, even on pages TPX will later write, and the specification's rules on who may edit which page apply from the first time TPX records work here.
+The specification is at revision 4 (imported 2026-09-22); PMP-TPM 0.8.1 is the installed implementation; the reasons are in foundations record 0.12.0. Pages TPX is responsible for - library pages, manifests, badges, the references page, the instruction set digest D(IS) - do not exist yet. TPX rebuilds this hub at its first build; the frame text above is kept, the generated parts added.
-Governing sections: PMP-TPM 0.2.0, INDEX OF RECORD and INDEX OF RECORD FORM. Foundations record 0.5.0, 4.1 and 4.5.
+Governing sections: [[The Principia Machina/TPS/5.11 The index of record|TPS 5.11]] (the index of record) and [[The Principia Machina/TPS/5.6 Certificate, declarations and the build chain|5.6]] (the certificate and the two chain pages).