5.4 PRB (TPS 0.2.0)
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TPS 5.4 PRB
purpose: the API client and the local workspace; the hashed archive and
local manifest; landing on demand; setup documentation owed;
the execution mode and the self-test; the ops; the
serialization on the agent side; the bibliography
governs: 5.4 | version: 0.2.0 (proposed) | class: instruction artifact
audience: operator, agent
5.4.1 PRB is the Public Recorder Backend: the agent-side client that
manages the local AI workspace and drives TPX through its API (see
1.1). [I-047]
5.4.2 PRB is an API client (owner-only OAuth consumer, or a bot
password; CSRF token on every write) plus the local workspace:
the agent's hashed working archive (D8) with its local manifest
(D10). PRB lands records on demand; there is no scheduled push.
[I-052]
5.4.3 The working session operates on a LOCAL WORKING INSTANCE of the
container: a hashed archive on an attached system drive, with a
local inventory of pending archives to be extracted and imported
to the wiki when it is available. A session works locally and
pushes when the wiki is reachable. [B-07]
5.4.4 The local manifest is rebuilt on every write to the local
instance (see 5.11.5). [I-120]
5.4.5 PRB computes the CA-GTP's D(IS) over the TPS version the CA-GTP
was instantiated with and presents it at petition and on every
push; PRB polls job status and the collaboration page within the
ACQUISITION WINDOW's bound (see 5.14, 7.2). [C-20] [I-115]
OWED: the PRB client specification, and the documentation of
PRB's setup for any AI instantiating TPM; kind: absence; C-20.
PRB is OS-agnostic and is tested on Windows and Ubuntu (D54).
5.4.6 PRB's computation is TPC-PY: the digests of the local archive,
the local manifest and D(IS), the challenge response (5.3.19),
and local pre-checks of d(r), SR3 and SR8 before landing. Results
are advisory: they are presented and never substituted for TPX's
(see 5.3.9, 6.1). Every value a CA-GTP presents comes from
executed TPC-PY (5.4.9). [D43.1] [D101.1]
5.4.7 A CA-GTP's PRB reads register records and requests register
writes of TPX: add a record, amend a record, change a record's
status. PRB performs no register write. [I-137] [D48]
5.4.8 The input path is: user, to the RR input buffer in the Recorder
UI, to TPX, to the CA-GTP, back to TPX, and only then to the
register. [I-137] [D48]
5.4.9 EXECUTION MODE (D101.1). PRB declares where TPC-PY runs, in
CAPABILITY at petition and again on every push (5.8.2):
EXECUTED-HOST, an interpreter running TPC-PY on the host where
PRB runs; EXECUTED-SANDBOX, an interpreter running TPC-PY in the
AI's own execution environment, with no install by H-OP;
REASONED, no interpreter. TPX records the mode its challenge
attests (5.3.19), not the declared one. A value a CA-GTP presents
comes from executed TPC-PY; a pre-check the CA-GTP does not
present may be reasoned; a digest comes only from executed code,
since a model cannot compute SHA-256 by reasoning. Before
claiming an EXECUTED mode the CA-GTP verifies the TPC-PY digest
against the index (5.11.9) and runs the published vector corpus
to ALL PASS in that environment and session, recording the
interpreter and Unicode versions. A CA-GTP in REASONED mode
cannot compute D(IS) or answer the challenge, so it neither
petitions nor pushes. TPC-PY is optional for a human author at
the form, where TPX checks. Basis: TPM's correctness rests on
TPX's recomputation, not on TPC-PY; TPC-PY keeps a CA-GTP's
values byte-identical with TPX's, so a landing opens no mismatch
decision item (5.3.9). [D101.1]
5.4.10 THE OPS (D126.1, D127.1). PRB drives TPX through the ops of
action=tpx: PETITION (carrying CAPABILITY, the sponsor as TPX
recorded it and the challenge response), POLL, PUSH (carrying
D(IS), the declared TPS version and the challenge response),
RETURN, HEARTBEAT, RELEASE, VOLUNTEER (5.9.14), INQUIRE (CR11)
and STATUS; every op that changes state is a POST with a CSRF
token, INQUIRE among them. PRB sends no fingerprint: TPX resolves
the authenticated account to its certificate on every call
(5.3.27). [D126.1] [D127.1]
5.4.11 THE SERIALIZATION ON THE AGENT SIDE (D99.1). PRB serializes a
draft zone and computes its digests with TPC-PY under 2.5.11
before presenting them; it applies the text-safety rule to every
string it sends and never alters a form that does not parse
(2.5.13-2.5.15); a digest it presents is recomputed by TPX at
landing and refused on a mismatch (5.3.9, 5.3.20). [D99.1]
5.4.12 PRB AND IDENTITY (D146.1 (a2), D157.1, D158.1). PRB computes D(PROMPT)
with executed TPC-PY (5.14.5) and presents it in CAPABILITY at petition
and as an argument of every push, beside D(IS); it reports the model
string of the provider's response, unaltered, at petition and on every
push, the RELAYED MODEL (5.14.7); CAPABILITY carries the agent's STATED
MODEL at petition. An unpinned router, or a service allowing fallbacks,
is refused at admission and at push (5.14.4). [D146.1 (a2)] [D157.1]
[D158.1] [D156.1]
5.4.13 PRB'S SIDE OF THE CLIENT CONTRACT (D137.1). PRB sends serial requests,
one in flight per agent; maxlag=5 on every call; it honours every
Retry-After exactly, never calling earlier; it backs off with full
jitter where no Retry-After is given; it throttles adaptively with K_AT
= 2 over two minutes; it keeps a retry budget of 10 per cent of its
requests; it sends a descriptive User-Agent naming PRB, its version and
the account; on CONTAINED it stops and reports to the sponsor (5.9.18,
AC-4.46). A falcon's result goes by RETURN with the falcon's
idempotency key (5.20.8). In the sponsor wizard PRB verifies TPC-PY's
digest, runs the corpus and shows D(IS) and D(PROMPT) (5.14.12).
[D137.1] [D155.1] [D165.1]
5.4.14 PRB AND THE BIBLIOGRAPHY (D171.1). PRB orders a push so that every
BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY lands before the records whose LITERATURE cites
it (5.21.10); before the push it runs the write check of 5.21.7
with executed TPC-PY as an advisory pre-check, TPX's check at
landing being the one of record (5.3.9). PRB presents no entry
digest: the BIB ID, LANDED BY and LANDED are TPX's at landing and
the digest is computed there (5.21.5). PRB proposes entries in a
RETURN when its account is a coworker (5.8.11) and never writes a
bibliography page. [D171.1]