NomosOpen-Core Architecture Specifications
Canonical design-time contracts synchronized from the Apache 2.0 mgantlett/nomos repository.
Every specification defines deterministic state invariants, CLI interfaces, and verification test vectors.
Core Governance & CLI Contracts
30 specsPhase state machines, Tier 1 indirect control adapters, hermetic Git worktrees, CapBAC leases, and CLI command contracts.
CORE v4.0.0
Actionable JIT Contextual Learning & Interactive Triage Worktrees
CORE v4.1.0
Agent Tiers & Indirect Control: The Open-Core Charter Architectural Specification
CORE v4.0.0
Anti-Stub Invariants, Empirical Verification, and Contract Boundaries Specification
CORE v4.0.0
CLI and Flag Surface Parity Contract Expansion Specification
CORE v4.1.0
Commit Schema Invariant Gate Specification
CORE v4.1.0
Full 42 DoD Gate Suite and Polyglot Verification Architecture Specification
CORE v4.0.0
Gate Integrity & Invariant Attestation Specification (Mutation Sensitivity, Metamorphic Invariance, AST Anti-Vacuity)
CORE v4.1.0
Hermetic Git Hooks, Task Commit, and Staged Boundary Enforcement Specification
CORE v4.0.0
Hermetic Worktree and Git Hygiene Specification
CORE v4.0.0
Invisible Harness Asset Embedding & Ambient Hook Parity Specification
CORE v4.0.0
Just-In-Time (JIT) Handshake Dynamic Injection and Session Journal Distillation Specification
CORE v4.0.0
Nomos Controlled Technical English (NCTE-100) Architectural Specification
CORE v4.0.0
Nomos CUE Singularity Policy Engine Specification
CORE v4.0.0
Nomos Declarative DoD Quality Gate Pipeline Specification
CORE v4.0.0
Nomos Intent Traceability Specification
CORE v4.0.0
Nomos Launchpad: Invisible Harness & Intent Activity Telemetry Specification
CORE v4.0.0
Nomos Mneme Episodic and Semantic Memory Subsystem Specification
CORE v4.0.0
Nomos Software Physics Engine - Kinematics, Continuous Collision Detection & Phase Ballistics Specification
CORE v4.1.1
Nomos Task Contract & Universal 3-Section Backlog Card Specification
CORE v4.0.0
Nomos Upgrade Subsystem Specification (Cryptographic Supply Chain & Atomic Swap)
CORE v4.0.0
Open-Core License, IP Boundary, and Release Readiness Specification
CORE v4.0.0
Open-Core Terminal UI Architecture & Totem CLI Ergonomics
CORE v4.0.0
Pure-Go SQLite Persistence and Task State Store Specification
CORE v4.0.0
Strongly-Typed Actionable Error Framework Specification
CORE v4.1.0
Task Lifecycle CLI and Workspace State Transition Specification
CORE v4.0.0
The Seven Laws of Deterministic Engineering and the 7x3 Canonical Gate Matrix Specification
CORE v4.0.0
Tier 1 Agent Adapter Contract & Projection Registry Specification
CORE v4.0.0
Tier 1 Indirect-Control Multipliers & Nomos Learn: Episodic Trap Distillation Specification
CORE v4.1.0
TraceTrial-Bench 7-Pillar Harness Reliability & Fail-Closed Stress Specification
CORE v4.0.0
Zero-Source Downstream Developer Experience & Agentic HATEOAS Specification
Substrate, AST & Persistence Contracts
7 specsPolyglot Tree-sitter AST validation, Definition of Done quality gates, SQLite WAL state encapsulation, and Git Notes provenance.
SUBSTRATE v4.0.0
Nomos Polyglot Workspace Ergonomics, Dynamic Lock Hygiene, and Agent Remediation Invariants
SUBSTRATE v4.0.0
Nomos Trunk Lockout & Hermetic Worktree Enforcement Specification
SUBSTRATE v4.1.0
Polyglot AST Validation & Language-Agnostic Gating Architecture
SUBSTRATE v4.0.0
Polyglot Source Roots Config Expansion
SUBSTRATE v4.0.0
Strict DoD Coverage and Threshold Integrity Lock Specification
SUBSTRATE v4.0.0
Tree-sitter AST Gate Engine to Replace Legacy Gen 2 Regex Gates
SUBSTRATE v4.0.0