Canonical specs and shared contracts for the Weaver Stack.
Part of the Weaver Stack
Repo Role weaver-spec Canonical specs + contracts contextweaver Context compilation + routing agent-kernel Execution + firewalling + audit ChainWeaver Flow orchestration New here? Start with What Is the Weaver Stack?.
This repository is the single source of truth for the vocabulary, invariants, responsibility boundaries, versioning rules, and language-agnostic contract schemas that keep the Weaver ecosystem composable and compatible.
What This Repo Is For
weaver-spec is documentation + contracts, not a runtime library. It defines the interfaces that the Weaver repositories share. Each repo can be adopted independently; weaver-spec defines the contracts that make them interoperable when used together.
Ecosystem map
| Repo | Role | Layer (ARCHITECTURE.md) |
|---|---|---|
| contextweaver | Context compilation, tool routing, ChoiceCard generation. | Routing |
| agent-kernel | Capability authZ/authN, execution, firewalling, audit. | Execution |
| ChainWeaver | Deterministic DAG / flow orchestration. | Orchestration |
| AgentFence | External policy firewall / proxy for tool calls. Optional; complements (does not replace) the agent-kernel firewall. | Adjacent — policy edge |
| vibeguard | Pre-merge checks for AI-generated code risks. Adjacent to the runtime stack; not on the request path. | Adjacent — dev workflow |
Only the first three repos are on the runtime request path. AgentFence and vibeguard are adjacent tools that share contracts and conventions but are not required for a working Weaver stack.
For the full boundary map (owns / consumes / emits per project, plus an end-to-end lifecycle), see docs/ECOSYSTEM.md.
Adoption paths
Pick the path that matches what you are integrating today. None requires adopting the full stack.
| Goal | Adopt | Read first |
|---|---|---|
| Smarter, bounded tool routing for an LLM you already host. | contextweaver alone. Provide your own execution layer that returns a Frame. |
docs/ADOPTION_GUIDE.md, docs/LIFECYCLE.md phase 1. |
| Add capability authorization, firewalling, and audit to an existing tool runner. | agent-kernel alone. Provide your own routing that returns a RoutingDecision. |
docs/BOUNDARIES.md, docs/LIFECYCLE.md phases 2–3. |
| Deterministic multi-step flows over any safe execution backend. | ChainWeaver alone, against any backend that honors the CapabilityToken + RoutingDecision contracts. |
docs/LIFECYCLE.md phase 5, examples/multi_agent_orchestration.md. |
| Read or pin the shared contracts without adopting any sibling repo. | Reference the JSON Schemas in contracts/json/ directly, or pip install weaver_contracts for Python types. |
docs/QUICKSTART.md, contracts/json/. |
| Propose a Core contract change. | Open an issue, then follow the ADR process. | CONTRIBUTING.md, docs/VERSIONING.md. |
This repo is the contract layer for all of the above. You do not need to adopt every sibling to benefit; you do need to honor the contracts at any boundary you cross.
Quick Navigation
| What you need | Where to look |
|---|---|
| What is the Weaver Stack? (explainer) | docs/WEAVER_STACK.md |
| Ecosystem overview | docs/VISION.md |
| Ecosystem boundary map | docs/ECOSYSTEM.md |
| Ecosystem launch post (draft) | docs/WEAVER_STACK_LAUNCH.md |
| Quick-start (Python + JS/TS) | docs/QUICKSTART.md |
| Contract field reference | docs/CONTRACT_REFERENCE.md |
| Layer architecture | docs/ARCHITECTURE.md |
| Responsibility boundaries | docs/BOUNDARIES.md |
| Non-negotiable invariants | docs/INVARIANTS.md |
| End-to-end lifecycle | docs/LIFECYCLE.md |
| Cross-repo integration map | docs/INTEGRATION_MAP.md |
| Cross-project artifact contracts | docs/ARTIFACT_CONTRACTS.md |
| Selection ↔ execution boundary | docs/EXECUTION_BOUNDARY.md |
| Term definitions | docs/GLOSSARY.md |
| Sequence diagrams | docs/SEQUENCE_DIAGRAMS.md |
| Versioning rules | docs/VERSIONING.md |
| Adoption guide | docs/ADOPTION_GUIDE.md |
| FAQ | docs/FAQ.md |
| Contract artifact coverage | contracts/COVERAGE.md |
| Governance and roles | CHARTER.md |
| Security framework alignment | docs/SECURITY_MAPPING.md |
| Deprecation register | docs/DEPRECATIONS.md |
| Schema hosting policy | docs/SCHEMA_HOSTING.md |
| Doc markup conventions | docs/DOCS_CONVENTIONS.md |
| Content-addressed schema index | well-known/contracts.json |
| JSON Schemas | contracts/json/ |
| Python package | contracts/python/ |
| End-to-end examples | examples/ |
| Minimal interoperability examples | examples/interoperability/ |
| Runnable reference implementation | examples/reference_impl/ |
| Conformance suite | docs/CONFORMANCE.md |
| "Weaver-compatible" badge | docs/SELF_CERTIFICATION.md |
| Public conformance scoreboard | docs/SCOREBOARD.md |
How Contracts Are Structured
Contracts are split into two tiers:
- Core — minimal, stable, required by all adopters. Changes require a major version bump and an ADR.
- Extended — optional metadata (telemetry, UI hints, risk levels). Evolves faster; backward-compatible within a minor series.
How to Propose Spec Changes
- Open an issue describing the problem and proposed change.
- For breaking contract changes, follow the lightweight ADR process in CONTRIBUTING.md: issue → PR → contract version bump.
- For doc-only or additive changes, a PR with a clear description is sufficient.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for full guidelines.
Note
Throughout the docs, > [!IMPORTANT] callouts mark binding requirements, > [!NOTE] callouts mark informative guidance, and fenced code blocks contain illustrative examples. See docs/DOCS_CONVENTIONS.md for the full markup convention.
Where Contracts Live
contracts/
json/ JSON Schemas (language-agnostic)
python/ weaver_contracts Python package (stdlib dataclasses)
examples/
sample_payloads/ Example JSON payloads validated against schemas
Contract Versioning
The spec and contracts follow semantic versioning. See docs/VERSIONING.md for the full compatibility promise.
Current contract version: 0.7.0
License
Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.