Diagram: the falcon cycle
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Conceptual diagram 7 of 7. Selected 2026-09-25 with the falcon requirement (decision items D148.1 to D155.1). The specification carries it since revision 5 (TPS 0.3.0, declared final 2026-09-28). Not yet built: it is in force once TPX enforces it (build step 3). Part of the TPM hub.
- KIND: process
- LANGUAGE: Mermaid
- GENERATED FROM: the falcon requirement of 2026-09-25, as selected 2026-09-25 (D148.1 to D155.1)
- STATUS: hand-authored; conceptual; selected 2026-09-25; in TPS since revision 5 (TPS 0.3.0, declared 2026-09-28); what it draws is not yet built (TPX, build step 3)
- SOURCE SHA-256:
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Rendered live from the source, which is the text equivalent and is shown under the drawing. The key to the shapes is in the panel.
%% Falcon cycle. process/Mermaid flowchart. Selected 2026-09-25 (D148.1-D155.1, the approver D151.1); not yet built.
flowchart TD
K["Falcon kind declared by the declaring authority: write targets, material served, schema, field classes, risk class, cadence"] --> I["TPX issues a falcon: target pages at their base revisions, one output schema"]
K -. "a FORBIDDEN write target, or restricted pages, TPX's settings or the tests among the material" .-> FB["Declaration refused"]
I --> A{"Draw two eligible agents"}
A -- "fewer than two eligible accounts" --> WT["The falcon waits: never one agent alone"]
WT --> A
A -- "distinct sponsors first, distinct vendor families preferred" --> P["Packet in each agent's next POLL or VOLUNTEER answer"]
CN["A canary may ride in one agent's reference material"] -.-> P
P --> B["Each agent works alone and blind: material is data, injections reported in the IV field"]
B --> RT{"RETURN: TPX checks the schema"}
RT -- "schema failure, refusal, truncation, or no result by the lease" --> RI["MALFORMED or OVERDUE: reissued to another agent"]
RI --> B
RT -- "valid" --> CMP{"Once every result is in, TPX compares field by field after canonical forms"}
CMP -- "a row only one result reports" --> SG["SINGLE rows reissued once to two fresh agents, nothing published until they return"]
SG --> CMP
CMP -- "every field AGREED" --> OUT{"FALCON CLASS of the falcon kind"}
CMP -- "SPLIT field with a quote" --> QC["QUOTE CHECK in whole tokens, against the page as served or a page inside a FALCON SOURCE LIST entry"]
QC -- "exactly one passes" --> OUT
QC -- "still split" --> LX["A third blind agent, another vendor family first"]
CMP -- "SPLIT field without a quote" --> LX
LX --> MAJ{"Strict majority of three"}
MAJ -- "yes" --> OUT
MAJ -- "no" --> UN["UNRESOLVED: every value and its evidence go to the approver"]
UN --> OUT
OUT -- "FINDINGS" --> REP["REPORTED on the falcon page, marked unapproved"]
OUT -- "FINDINGS of a CONFIDENTIAL falcon kind" --> PR["PRIVATE REPORT to a restricted page, the falcon page shows only the falcon kind and the dates"]
OUT -- "PATCH or SURVEY" --> AF["Approval form: the holder of the page class's write right, or the declaring authority for a declaration"]
AF -- "item struck" --> DC["DECLINED, with a reason"]
AF -- "item approved" --> BM{"Page unchanged since the base revision"}
BM -- "yes" --> SV["Saved as the approver's own revision, SHA-1 read back"]
BM -- "no" --> MV["BASE MOVED: nothing saved, the falcon reissued"]
SV --> LOG["FALCON LOG line, chained"]
REP --> LOG
PR --> LOG
DC --> LOG
Text equivalent
The declaring authority declares each falcon kind: the pages it may change, the material it is served, its output schema, which fields a machine compares and which a person reads, its risk class and its cadence. TPX refuses a declaration whose write targets include a forbidden class, or whose material includes the restricted pages, TPX's settings or the tests. When a falcon kind falls due, TPX issues a falcon on its target pages at their base revisions and draws two eligible agents, distinct sponsors first and distinct vendor families preferred; with fewer than two eligible accounts the falcon waits, and it is never worked by one agent alone. Each agent receives the packet in its next POLL or VOLUNTEER answer and works it alone, blind to the other, treating all material as data and reporting any injected instruction in the IV field; a canary may ride in one agent's reference material. Each result returns by RETURN, and TPX checks it against the schema: a schema failure, a refusal, a truncation or no result by the lease makes the assignment MALFORMED or OVERDUE, and it is reissued to another agent. Once every result is in, TPX compares the results field by field after canonical forms. Rows only one result reports are SINGLE: TPX reissues them once to two fresh agents and publishes nothing until they return. Where every field is AGREED the falcon moves on. Where a SPLIT field carries a quote, TPX checks each quote in whole tokens, against the page as the packet served it or a page inside an entry of the FALCON SOURCE LIST, and exactly one passing quote settles the field; otherwise a third blind agent, from another vendor family first, works the falcon, and a strict majority of three settles each field. A field without a majority is UNRESOLVED, and every value and its evidence go to the approver. A FINDINGS falcon changes no existing page: it is REPORTED on its falcon page, marked unapproved, or, for a CONFIDENTIAL falcon kind, sent by PRIVATE REPORT to a restricted page, the falcon page showing only the falcon kind and the dates. A PATCH or SURVEY falcon goes to the approval form of the holder of the page class's write right, or of the declaring authority where the result feeds a declaration. A struck item is DECLINED, with a reason. An approved item is saved as the approver's own revision, with its SHA-1 read back, if the page is unchanged since the base revision; if the page has moved on, nothing is saved (BASE MOVED) and the falcon is reissued for that page. Every outcome is a line in the chained FALCON LOG.