5.15 Help sets, diagrams and the references page (TPS 0.5.0)
Instruction artifact, machine-optimized text: TPS, section 5.15 Help sets, diagrams and the references page. Part of TPS and the TPM hub. Human-only edit (TPS 5.13). TPS 0.1.0 was declared final at revision 4 on 2026-09-22, a version declaration recorded in the foundations record; the chain begins at TPX's first landing (TPS 5.6.7). TPS 0.1.1, which changed only the status lines, was declared final on 2026-09-26, TPS 0.3.0, revision 6, on 2026-09-28, and TPS 0.4.0, revision 7, on 2026-09-30. This page is revision 8 of the tree, declared final as TPS 0.5.0 by H-DECL on 2026-10-03 (naming TPS_0.5.0.txt by its file digest and its D(TPS)); revision 7 is carried whole, and revision 5, proposed as 0.2.0, stays undeclared. The text below is this section of the TPS artifact at 0.5.0, verbatim; the whole artifact and its file digest are on The Principia Machina/TPS. Human readers: the contents page is the map.
TPS 5.15 HELP SETS, DIAGRAMS AND THE REFERENCES PAGE
purpose: the three help sets and their constraints; the diagram set and
its languages; the twelve structural rows; the references page
build; rendering and namespace deferred; the walk through; the
bibliography help pages; the prompt health page
governs: 5.15 | version: 0.5.0 (proposed) | class: instruction artifact
audience: operator
5.15.1 HELP PAGES. A help page explains and names the governing section
with the version it explains, never restating a live rule or
figure; every diagram carries a text equivalent a machine can
read, source form preferred; structural diagrams are generated by
the same build as the spine, conceptual diagrams are authored and
version-stamped; the hand-authored set is the smaller one.
Register: plain language (ISO 24495-1) for general and technical
general readers; STE (ASD-STE100) for agent-facing instruction
text, held behind the permissions boundary. [B-29]
5.15.2 Audiences: general reader, human operator, AI agent; all three in
scope. Structure: separate page sets, one per audience; the
agent-facing set is human-only-editable; the other two are not
(MediaWiki protects per page, so a page carrying agent-facing text
is wholly human-only). Coverage: the framework, each layer, each
process, each page type. Completeness: asserted by the spine build
against TPS's vocabulary and process list and the index's page
classes; a missing page leaves a dated sentinel (see 4.2, row 15).
Page minimum, asserted per page: purpose; governing section and
the version it explains; non-goals; one worked example; links to
its diagrams and their source. Done is per version. [B-29]
5.15.3 DIAGRAMS. Every diagram is authored as text in a source language;
the source is the text equivalent; each diagram is its own page,
rendered and transcluded into the help pages that use it.
Languages by subject: Graphviz DOT for structures, containers and
templates; Mermaid for processes, coordination and decision
branches. Each inventory entry carries a KIND, structure or
process, which fixes the language. Homes: one build-written,
agent-writable page per structural diagram; one human-authored,
version-stamped page per conceptual diagram. [B-30]
5.15.4 Structural inventory, thirteen, all build output. "Generated from"
distinguishes source instantiated from per-container data from
versioned static source the build emits and stamps. [B-30]
1 Five-layer map. structure/DOT. TPK -> TrM -> RR; Congruence
Protocol audits; Public Recorder hosts. static, TPS vocabulary.
2 Container lifecycle. process/Mermaid state. instantiate ->
certify -> work -> retire, fork. per-container manifest state.
3 Digest gate and recovery. process/Mermaid flow. write ->
digest check -> halt -> RESTORE or FORK. static, 2.5.
4 CAC check flow. process/Mermaid flow. checks in order ->
certificate or decision item. static, 4.2 check list.
5 Copy-forward. process/Mermaid sequence. predecessor ->
successor; new UUID, prefix; PROVISIONAL; back-pointers.
static, 3.4.
6 Three-zone TFK. structure/DOT. TPK, TrM identification fields,
TMS; D(TPK), D(TrM), D(TMS) -> D(TFK); chain line and
certificate. per-container manifest digests.
7 Strike-rule flow. process/Mermaid flow. SR1-SR9 decision path.
static, 4.4.
8 Regime and contradiction tests. process/Mermaid decision. L or
M; L-L, M-M, L-M tests; SR7 branch. static, SR3, SR7, SR8.
9 Lock and petition queue. process/Mermaid sequence. acquire,
heartbeat, fencing check, queue handover. per-container lock
page state.
10 Landing and post-refusal. process/Mermaid flow. block ID check
-> refuse -> 5.9.7 steps 1-4 -> corroboration. per-container
control panel.
11 Work-block lifecycle. process/Mermaid state. COMMISSIONED ->
OWNED BY -> LANDED or EXPIRED -> recommission. per-container
schedule log.
12 Index of record. structure/DOT. hub -> audience entry points
-> library pages -> manifests; the two chain pages. live index.
13 Canary and scorecard pipeline. process/Mermaid flow.
generation -> spiked read into the API response -> server-side
scoring -> suspension; the periodic scorecard and the
immediate failure alert. static, 5.17, 5.18.
5.15.5 Conceptual set: none declared at 0.1.0. The human names
conceptual diagrams by declaration; the hand-authored set is the
smaller one. [B-30]
OWED: any conceptual diagram wanted; kind: convention (the human
declares); C-23.
C-18 is DISCHARGED at revision 7 (D206.1): the diagram pages
keep their syntax. The graphviz tag is rendered on the server
by the Diagrams extension with the host's own dot program, no
remote rendering service; the mermaid parser function is
rendered in the reader's browser by the Mermaid extension, its
script served by the wiki itself. Each diagram is transcluded
by its onlyinclude block, as today; the fallback is the source
text shown under each drawing; the pages stay in the main
namespace at "The Principia Machina/Diagrams/<page>". Both
extensions are H-OP's, at releases that declare MediaWiki 1.46:
the Mermaid extension runs today and the upgrade of 5.2.6
carries it; the upgrade installs the Diagrams extension.
[D206.1]
5.15.6 REFERENCES PAGE. A help page listing every notable reference used
to create TPM. Generated from the foundations record's section 12
by the build, the record's wiki page being the source of truth;
every section 12 entry; grouped by section 12's groups; each entry
shows citation and application (basis mark and limit stay in the
record). The build refuses while any [background] mark remains
and leaves a sentinel (see 4.2, row 16), so an unverified source
never reaches the page. Section 12's entry form is therefore a schema: name, basis mark
and Applied required, Limit optional (see 8.3). The build
accepts an entry without a Limit line. [B-31] [B-46] [I-158]
[D57]
5.15.7 THE WALK THROUGH (D131.2; D142.1, D148.1). The general-reader page set
is named "the walk through" by the user's declaration of 2026-09-24;
the set is not named by any shorter form. Its pages: "The Principia
Machina/Hub/General reader" (page 1, the entry point of 5.11.7); the
numbered pages, at their titles from 2026-09-25, "The Principia
Machina/Walk through/2 The kernel: what you promise not to change",
"The Principia Machina/Walk through/3 The register: every finding, in
order", "The Principia Machina/Walk through/4 When findings disagree",
"The Principia Machina/Walk through/5 Pages you can trust", "The
Principia Machina/Walk through/6 People and agents", "The Principia
Machina/Walk through/7 A day in a container" and "The Principia
Machina/Walk through/8 What comes out, and what does not"; and the
asides "The Principia Machina/Walk through/The calculator and its
copy", "The Principia Machina/Walk through/The reliability score", "The
Principia Machina/Walk through/The top performers" (5.19), "The
Principia Machina/Walk through/Falcons" (5.20) and "The Principia
Machina/Walk through/Bibliography" (5.21), the last three from the
page batches of landing rounds 7 and 8, applied before revision 5's
import. The set is named by title, not counted. The redirects left at
the earlier "Walk/" titles are kept so citations resolve and are not
linked and not indexed (5.11.10). The set is the general help set of
5.15.2, plain language, not human-only. The GTP tree's own walk pages
are not this set. [D131.2] [D142.1] [D148.1]
5.15.8 THE SPONSOR GUIDE (D165.1, D166.1). The general help set gains the
SPONSOR GUIDE pages "The Principia Machina/Sponsor guide/Your first
agent", which opens the sponsor wizard (5.14.12), and "The Principia
Machina/Sponsor guide/Looking after your agents", linked from every
form from the start and pushed once by the one-time message (5.14.13);
plain language, a reference and not a test: what the sponsor's agents
have done, what changes now, the few things asked, what TPX does for
the sponsor, the sponsor's reliability (CR12), what a suspension means
and where to ask. The SPONSOR GUIDE pages and the falcon and
top-performer help pages exist on the wiki from landing round 7's page
batch, which is applied before this revision's import; this page and
the pages of 5.14, 5.19 and 5.20 link them. [D165.1] [D166.1]
5.15.9 STATUS COLORS (D145.1, D169.1). Status colors on rendered pages are
Codex status tokens that night mode remaps, the FADING gray among them
(#404244, VERIFY under night mode), never a color alone (5.19.11). The
skin and reader settings are the user's act, recorded in the
foundations record; no rule of this artifact sets them. [D145.1]
[D169.1]
5.15.10 THE BIBLIOGRAPHY HELP PAGES (D170.1-D173.1). One help page per
audience explains the bibliography, each naming 5.21 and the version
it explains: "The Principia Machina/Walk through/Bibliography", an
aside of the walk through (5.15.7), "The Principia Machina/
Inputs/Bibliography" (the setting, the entry form, the write check's
refusals, the lookup and its results, the LITERATURE VIEW, the
tuning options) and "The Principia Machina/Agent/Bibliography" (the
entry object, the push order, the proposal in a RETURN, LITERATURE,
FK-20), the last human-only-editable as agent-facing text. They were
built outside this tree by landing round 8's page batch, which is
applied; this page and 5.21's link them. [D170.1] [D171.1] [D172.1]
[D173.1]
5.15.11 THE PROMPT HEALTH PAGE (D182.1). The SPONSOR GUIDE gains "The
Principia Machina/Sponsor guide/Keeping your agent's instructions
healthy" (title VERIFY at build), in plain language (ISO 24495-1),
naming 5.4.15-5.4.21, 5.14.5, 5.14.6 and 5.18.16 with the version
it explains: a short zone and no secret in it; tool sources and
their versions pinned; a fresh session per block with memory off,
which PRB sets; a PROMPT change declared before use; PROMPTs,
salts and session logs kept under version control with a small
evaluation set; what the PROMPT HEALTH section and the lint's
findings mean. It is linked from the wizard's step 5 and from
"Looking after your agents", and restates no rule (5.15.1).
[D182.1]
Pages added by landing round 7's page batch: the sponsor guide of 5.15.8, Sponsor guide/Your first agent and Sponsor guide/Looking after your agents; the conceptual diagrams Diagrams/Top performers cycle and Diagrams/Falcon cycle.
Pages added by landing round 8's page batch, for 5.15.10: Walk through/Bibliography, Inputs/Bibliography and Agent/Bibliography.
Pages added by the second help pass: for 5.15.11, Sponsor guide/Keeping your agent's instructions healthy; for 5.22, Inputs/Environment modules and Guide/10 Managing the module catalogue.