logicsrc/packages/schemas/schemas/logicsrc-opencontext-decision.schema.json
Anthony Ettinger 3ab8a4b38b
Add the LogicSRC OpenContext specification (#132)
* Add the LogicSRC OpenContext specification

OpenContext is an open specification for durable, portable, permissioned,
provenance-aware context shared between humans and AI agents. It defines how
organizational knowledge is described, authorized, versioned, resolved,
audited, and handed between replaceable workers without losing institutional
state.

Follows the OpenPRD/OpenOntology pattern already in the repo: self-contained
JSON Schemas in @logicsrc/schemas, a reference implementation package, CLI
subcommands, docs, examples, and an OpenPRD record.

Schemas (8, all self-contained so a third party can fetch one file and
validate against it with no further resolution):
  manifest, object, bundle, role, provenance, decision, diagnostic,
  audit-event — registered in @logicsrc/validators and schemas:validate.

Reference implementation (@logicsrc/opencontext):
  loader with upward manifest discovery, the full resolution pipeline,
  authority/supersession, permissions, redaction, lifecycle, provenance,
  deterministic digests, doctor, search, graph, history/diff, guarded writes,
  audit events, and file/http/git/sqlite adapters.

CLI: all 15 specified commands, as a standalone `opencontext` binary and as
`logicsrc context`, sharing one implementation so the two cannot drift.

Design decisions worth noting:

- Supersession is declared, never inferred from version numbers. Inferring it
  would hide the governance failure it represents and make
  multiple-active-versions and duplicate-canonical impossible to detect.

- The bundle digest identifies the resolved context, not the moment it was
  computed, so generated_at/bundle_id/digest/as_of are excluded while objects,
  lifecycle states, exclusions and warnings are covered. That is what lets a
  decision record cite exactly the context that produced it.

- A role's own max_classification beats an inherited one, so a ceiling on a
  shared base role cannot silently cap a role deliberately granted more;
  requesting several roles at once still takes the lowest, so combining roles
  never escalates.

- Scope wildcards match whole dotted segments only. A trailing .* covers a
  subtree; an interior * matches exactly one segment. Substring matching here
  would be an access-control bug.

- --include narrows an existing scope and is applied after it, never merged
  into it, so a request can never widen what a role holds.

Verified: 226 tests across core primitives, permissions/redaction, the
resolution pipeline, security, the published conformance fixtures (13 valid,
35 invalid, 8 resolution scenarios), project behaviour, and the five shipped
examples — which are held to --strict and a 100% health score. Benchmarks meet
every published budget (resolve 1,000 objects in ~33ms against a 2s target).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Point install docs at @logicsrc/opencontext; record the npm name collision

The unscoped `opencontext` name is already published on npm by an unrelated
third party (federicodeponte/opencontext, 2.0.0), so `npx opencontext` would
install a stranger's package. Docs now use `npx @logicsrc/opencontext`; the bin
stays named `opencontext` so the command reads as the PRD specifies once
installed.

Recorded in PRD 0003 as a blocker to resolve before any publication, along with
the fact that no @logicsrc spec package has ever been published, so there is no
existing release path to slot into.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Advance the logicsrc-mcp next-PRD-id assertion to 0004

standards.test.ts asserts prd_next_id against the live prd/ directory, so
adding PRD 0003 makes the next free id 0004. The test's own comment
anticipates this: "advances with every PRD added".

Caught by CI, not locally — the earlier verification ran per-package tests for
the packages this branch touches, and logicsrc-mcp is coupled to the PRD
directory without importing from it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09 11:46:11 -07:00

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{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"$id": "https://logicsrc.com/schemas/opencontext/decision.schema.json",
"title": "OpenContext Decision Record",
"description": "A context object recording a decision that was made, why, by whom, and on what context. A decision record is what turns a resolution into organizational history: by citing the digest of the Context Bundle it was made from, it stays reproducible after the agent that made it is gone, the model is replaced, and the underlying policies have moved on. Decision records are ordinary context objects with type 'decision', so everything true of an object — authority, permissions, supersession, provenance — is also true here.",
"type": "object",
"required": ["id", "type", "title", "decision"],
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*(\\.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*)*$",
"description": "Stable id. Convention is decision.<date>-<slug>, e.g. decision.2026-08-09-model-provider, which sorts chronologically and never collides."
},
"type": { "type": "string", "const": "decision" },
"layer": {
"type": "string",
"enum": ["L0", "L1", "L2", "L3", "L4", "L5"],
"default": "L5",
"description": "Decisions are usually L5 operational when fresh; a decision that becomes standing policy is better superseded by an L3 policy object than silently re-labelled."
},
"title": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1, "description": "What was decided, in one line." },
"status": {
"type": "string",
"enum": ["proposed", "accepted", "rejected", "superseded", "deprecated"],
"description": "Where the decision stands. Only accepted decisions are resolved into bundles by default."
},
"decision": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"description": "The decision itself, stated as a commitment rather than a discussion, e.g. 'Use provider X as the default runtime.'"
},
"rationale": {
"anyOf": [
{ "type": "string" },
{ "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 } }
],
"description": "Why. A list of drivers (latency, cost, reliability) or a paragraph. This is the part that survives usefully once the people who were in the room have moved on."
},
"alternatives": {
"type": "array",
"description": "Options considered and not taken. Recording these stops the same option being relitigated every six months.",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"required": ["option"],
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"option": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 },
"rejected_because": { "type": "string" }
}
}
},
"consequences": {
"anyOf": [
{ "type": "string" },
{ "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 } }
],
"description": "What this commits the organization to, including the costs accepted."
},
"authority": {
"type": "string",
"enum": ["canonical", "approved", "reference", "observed", "inferred", "historical"],
"description": "Usually approved once a decision is accepted. A decision an agent proposed is inferred until a human approves it."
},
"owner": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1, "description": "Role or identity accountable for the decision." },
"approved_by": {
"type": "array",
"description": "Who signed off. An accepted decision with no approvals is reported by doctor.",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"anyOf": [
{ "required": ["role"], "properties": { "role": { "type": "string" } } },
{ "required": ["id"], "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" } } }
],
"properties": {
"role": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 },
"id": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 },
"at": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" }
}
}
},
"decided_by": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "The consumer that made the decision — a human, or the agent that proposed it. Recorded so a decision made by an agent is never indistinguishable from one made by a person.",
"properties": {
"type": { "type": "string", "enum": ["agent", "human", "role", "service"] },
"id": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 }
}
},
"bundle": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "The Context Bundle this decision was made from. Citing the digest makes the decision auditable: a reader can prove which context was and was not in front of the decider.",
"properties": {
"bundle_id": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^ocb_[a-z0-9_-]+$" },
"digest": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^sha256:[0-9a-f]{64}$" },
"generated_at": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" },
"uri": { "type": "string", "description": "Where the bundle itself was archived, if it was." }
}
},
"created": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" },
"updated": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" },
"valid_from": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" },
"expires": { "anyOf": [{ "type": "string", "format": "date-time" }, { "type": "null" }] },
"ttl": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^\\d+(ms|s|m|h|d|w|y)$",
"description": "Staleness window. A decision that has not been revisited inside it is reported stale — decisions rot like any other context."
},
"review": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"interval": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^\\d+(ms|s|m|h|d|w|y)$" },
"required_approvers": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1 },
"next_review": { "type": "string", "format": "date" },
"last_review": { "type": "string", "format": "date" }
}
},
"applies_to": {
"type": "array",
"uniqueItems": true,
"items": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 },
"description": "Roles, agents, products, or scopes this decision governs."
},
"depends_on": {
"type": "array",
"uniqueItems": true,
"items": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*(\\.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*)*(@\\d+)?$" },
"description": "Context that must resolve alongside this decision for it to make sense."
},
"conflicts_with": {
"type": "array",
"uniqueItems": true,
"items": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*(\\.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*)*(@\\d+)?$" },
"description": "Decisions or policies known to contradict this one."
},
"confidence": { "type": "number", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 1 },
"language": { "type": "string" },
"approval": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"required": { "type": "boolean" },
"roles": { "type": "array", "uniqueItems": true, "items": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 } },
"minimum": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1 },
"approved_by": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"role": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 },
"id": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 },
"at": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" }
}
}
}
}
},
"redact": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"required": ["path"],
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"path": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 },
"mode": { "type": "string", "enum": ["remove", "mask", "hash"] },
"replacement": { "type": "string" },
"reason": { "type": "string" }
}
}
},
"content_uri": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 },
"durability": { "type": "string", "enum": ["ephemeral", "session", "operational", "long-lived", "permanent"] },
"classification": { "type": "string", "enum": ["public", "internal", "confidential", "restricted"] },
"trust": { "type": "string", "enum": ["trusted", "verified", "untrusted"] },
"permissions": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"read": { "type": "array", "uniqueItems": true, "items": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 } },
"write": { "type": "array", "uniqueItems": true, "items": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 } },
"deny": { "type": "array", "uniqueItems": true, "items": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 } }
}
},
"supersedes": {
"type": "array",
"uniqueItems": true,
"items": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*(\\.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*)*(@\\d+)?$" },
"description": "Earlier decisions this one replaces. Reversing a decision supersedes it; it does not delete it."
},
"superseded_by": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*(\\.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*)*(@\\d+)?$" },
"references": {
"type": "array",
"uniqueItems": true,
"items": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*(\\.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*)*(@\\d+)?$" },
"description": "Context this decision depends on — the policies, products, or prior decisions it was reasoning about."
},
"version": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1 },
"sources": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"required": ["uri"],
"additionalProperties": true,
"properties": {
"uri": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 },
"type": { "type": "string" },
"retrieved_at": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" },
"digest": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^(sha256):[0-9a-f]{64}$" }
}
}
},
"canonical_source": { "type": "boolean" },
"tags": { "type": "array", "uniqueItems": true, "items": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 } },
"content": { "anyOf": [{ "type": "string" }, { "type": "object" }, { "type": "array" }] },
"content_type": { "type": "string" },
"summary": { "type": "string" },
"extensions": {
"type": "object",
"propertyNames": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^[a-z0-9]+(\\.[a-z0-9-]+)+$" },
"additionalProperties": true
}
}
}