ModelConnector/README.md
Meta Vens c23d91391d connector-contract-v3: the v3 wire - named MessagePack documents over a CultNet operation carriage
Ids become gamecult.model.*.v3. Every document is encoded by one named
MessagePack codec in contract.rs with unknown fields refused, and publishes a
JSON Schema generated from its type (schemas/). The envelope's ciphertext is
binary. Each frame is a cultnet.operation_request.v0 / operation_response.v0
for service gamecult.model.connector, operation invoke, its message_id the
request id, its payload the base64 of the sealed envelope; the carriage is
checked before any decryption. frame_bytes_for_payload and
payload_bytes_for_frame measure the carriage. Golden v3 fixtures and their
generator (tests/wire_golden_v3.rs) pin drift. The test debt of the kit lift
(each identity field, each contract_refusal arm, request ids measured in bytes)
is paid in the rewritten code.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-28 11:21:11 +01:00

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# ModelConnector
The connector kit for GameCult minds: one typed, encrypted, replay-safe contract
between a caller that needs a model turn and a daemon that holds the provider
credential, so no project wires its own provider calls.
Status: the `model-connector` crate is live. No connector binary exists yet
(the Claude connector is first, then an OpenAI-compatible one).
## Entry points
Crate `crates/model-connector`:
- `src/contract.rs` - the v3 wire contract (`gamecult.model.*.v3`): `ProviderRequest`, `TransportInvocation`,
`TransportResult`, `TransportReceipt`, the typed `StopReason`, `FailureKind` and `Refusal`,
and the canonical byte and digest functions that bind a result to its request. Every
document is named MessagePack with unknown fields refused.
- `src/envelope.rs` - the AES-256-GCM `TransportEnvelope` (binary ciphertext), its
identity-binding AAD, the length-prefixed framing, and the CultNet carriage: each frame is a
`cultnet.operation_request.v0` / `operation_response.v0` for service
`gamecult.model.connector`, operation `invoke`, its `message_id` the request id and its
payload the base64 of the sealed envelope.
- `schemas/` - one JSON Schema per v3 document, generated from the types.
- `src/client.rs` - `ConnectorClient`, the one-request caller side.
- `src/service.rs` (feature `daemon`) - `TransportService`: caller admission, durable
replay (a retried request is answered byte-identically and the provider runs once),
in-flight and capacity refusals.
- `src/serve.rs` (feature `daemon`) - `serve()`, the loopback accept loop, over the
`ProviderBackend` trait. A connector binary implements `ProviderBackend` for its
provider and calls `serve`; the kit names no provider.
Frame arithmetic is public in `src/envelope.rs`, measured on the carriage frame: `frame_bytes_for_payload(n)` is the frame a
caller payload bound of `n` needs, `payload_bytes_for_frame(frame)` is the largest payload bound
a frame allows, and `MAX_IDENTITY_BYTES` (256) bounds caller ids, request ids and model names.
`serve` refuses a frame/payload pair that violates them (`ServeError::FrameBound` states the frame
needed); the smallest legal frame is `frame_bytes_for_payload(MIN_PAYLOAD_BYTES)`. A request id past
the bound is refused on the wire as `Refusal::Malformed`, the reply echoing the id (the connection is dropped only if that reply cannot fit the frame); `ConnectorClient` refuses such an id locally with `RequestIdTooLong`.
The default feature set compiles contract, envelope and client only. The kit speaks v3
only: a v2 frame gets no answer.
## Verify
```
cargo test --locked --workspace
cargo test --locked --workspace --features model-connector/daemon
```
`crates/model-connector/tests/wire_golden_v3.rs` pins the v3 documents and one sealed carriage
frame to the fixtures in `crates/model-connector/tests/fixtures/wire_v3` (regenerate with
`WIRE_V3_REGENERATE=1`; see the fixtures' README), and
`crates/model-connector/tests/published_schemas.rs` fails when `schemas/` differs from the types
(`MODEL_CONNECTOR_REGENERATE_SCHEMAS=1` rewrites it).
## Provenance and license
AGPL-3.0-only. See `LICENSE`.
The contract, envelope, client, replay service and serve loop were lifted from
[CodexConnector](https://github.com/GameCult/CodexConnector) at fd7cec4, formerly
PolyForm Noncommercial. Its sole copyright holder relicensed the lifted material as
AGPL-3.0-only for this repository.