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  • Runtime option vocabularies differ per implementation, so a shared field set on the agent definition would either restrict which runtimes the platform can host or force adapters to pretend they share one configuration language.
  • Skill, memory, tool, and variable resources have meaning the platform owns, and without an explicit boundary each adapter would become a second authority over their lifecycle and authorization.
  • Review and governance only mean something if the artifact that was reviewed is the artifact that runs, so revision identity has to commit to the runtime binding, its settings, and every revision-owned declaration together.
  • Recording this now keeps the drafted agent ADRs and the in-design proto contracts consistent before any adapter or enforcement work starts.

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Documentation and draft wire contracts only, but they redefine revision digests, session admission, and model-route preconditions—implementations must adopt the new ownership and v1alpha1 shapes consistently.

Overview
Introduces draft ADR#0062 and rewrites ADR#0025, 0031, 0032, and 0043 so agent behavior is one immutable artifact: AgentConfiguration binds an exact runtime, a single validated settings Any, and typed platform declarations (skills, tools, delegates, memory, variables). Platform-owned model/instruction fields on the configuration are removed; managed-model ModelSelection and routes become an adapter-derived capability from native settings, not a second authored config.

Replaces the minimal agents/v1 protos with an in-design v1alpha1 contract: content-addressed StoredAgentConfiguration / digest refs, registry commands and events (provision, annotate, archive, AgentRevisionActivated, revert), identity (Ed25519 / did:key), structured dependencies and variable schema, and a separate proposals package with verified configuration differences and charter vs learned-layer classification.

Architecture, glossary, and research docs are updated to match; buf.gen.yaml still excludes agent proto codegen while the design is active.

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  • docs/adr/0025-agent-definition-data-ownership.md
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  • docs/architecture/agent-platform.md
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  • docs/research/agent-platform/contract-impact-agents-api.md
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  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1alpha1/annotate_agent.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1alpha1/archive_agent.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1alpha1/configuration_artifact.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1alpha1/dependencies.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1alpha1/digest.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1alpha1/events.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1alpha1/identity.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1alpha1/implementation.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1alpha1/model_selection.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1alpha1/provision_agent.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1alpha1/revert_agent_revision.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1alpha1/variables.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/proposals/v1alpha1/configuration_difference.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/proposals/v1alpha1/events.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/proposals/v1alpha1/open_proposal.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/proposals/v1alpha1/proposal.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/proposals/v1alpha1/proposal_opened.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/proposals/v1alpha1/proposal_verdict_recorded.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/proposals/v1alpha1/proposal_withdrawn.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/proposals/v1alpha1/record_proposal_verdict.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/proposals/v1alpha1/withdraw_proposal.proto

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The PR adds Agent and Proposal protobuf contracts, restructures configuration around pinned runtime-owned settings, defines platform declarations and validation schemas, and updates architecture records and ADRs for capability-scoped admission and revision governance.

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Runtime ownership and admission

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime ownership and admission model
docs/adr/*, docs/architecture/*, docs/glossary/*
The documentation defines one pinned runtime, one typed Any settings payload, platform declarations, adapter capabilities, derived model selections, and admission rules.
Configuration and runtime contracts
proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1/agent.proto, configuration_artifact.proto, implementation.proto, model_selection.proto, identity.proto, digest.proto
The protobuf contracts define versioned runtime bindings, required settings, configuration artifacts, implementation references, identities, digests, and model-selection projections.
Dependencies and caller variables
proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1/dependencies.proto, variables.proto
The schemas define pinned skills, tools, delegates, memories, caller-variable types, requirements, bindings, and validation constraints.
Configuration differences and proposals
proto/trogonai/agents/proposals/v1/*
The proposal contracts define verified configuration differences, change classification, evidence, judgments, verdicts, and proposal events.
Agent provisioning and revision lifecycle
proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1/*
The contracts define provisioning, annotations, archival, revision sources, activation, reverts, lifecycle records, and activated-revision events.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 699e0

The agent configuration contract remains ambiguous in places that producers and reviewers need to construct and verify immutable revisions. Define canonical digest bytes and correct the invalid examples before relying on these contracts.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: making agent behavior reviewable through one immutable artifact. It is concise and directly related to the runtime, configuration, revision, and ownership…
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the runtime-specific configuration boundary, platform-owned resources, immutable revision identity, and alignment of ADRs with protobuf contracts. It is directly related to th…
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In `@docs/adr/0025-agent-definition-data-ownership.md`:
- Around line 518-519: Define the canonical adapter path for runtime instruction
differences in the ADR: either change the proposal to use settings.instructions
with a documented adapter mapping, or explicitly document how runtime_settings
maps to the AgentConfiguration.settings google.protobuf.Any envelope. Ensure the
chosen path reliably resolves to the typed settings field.
- Around line 381-386: The runtime examples around implementation_version_ref
use an invalid managed/kind shape. Update both runtime blocks to use the
contract-defined AgentImplementation.platform_harness oneof arm with its nested
version, removing implementation_version_ref.kind and preserving each example’s
intended version values.

In `@docs/adr/0031-agent-implementation-and-session-plan.md`:
- Around line 157-159: Update ADR-0031 to align configuration_digest ownership
with ADR-0025: define it as owned by AgentRevision, exclude it from the logical
AgentConfiguration, and specify the canonical bytes used to compute it so the
digest cannot include itself or create circular construction.
- Around line 275-278: Clarify the ADR’s treatment of
ImplementationConfigurationSchemaMismatch and
ImplementationConfigurationContractUnsupported by explicitly identifying them as
internal failure categories or mapping each to the boundary error reason. Keep
the runtime settings contract and validation requirements unchanged.

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  • docs/adr/0043-agent-instructions-ownership-and-shape.md
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  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1/annotate_agent.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1/archive_agent.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1/configuration_artifact.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1/dependencies.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1/digest.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1/events.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1/identity.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1/implementation.proto
  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1/model_selection.proto
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  • proto/trogonai/agents/agents/v1/revert_agent_revision.proto
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  • proto/trogonai/agents/proposals/v1/configuration_difference.proto
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Runtime option vocabularies differ per implementation, so a shared field set would either restrict which runtimes the platform can host or leave platform-owned resources without a stable owner.

Signed-off-by: Yordis Prieto <yordis.prieto@gmail.com>
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In `@docs/architecture/agent-platform.md`:
- Line 384: Update the “Draft ADR details” list to retain ADRs 0025, 0031, 0032,
0035, 0043, and 0061, and add ADR 0062 as a draft.

In `@docs/glossary/agentconfiguration.md`:
- Line 14: Update the configuration digest definition in the glossary to
explicitly enumerate all three inputs: the selected runtime binding’s
implementation release and definition digest, its native settings, and every
revision-owned platform declaration. Replace the vague “both” wording while
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Signed-off-by: Yordis Prieto <yordis.prieto@gmail.com>
The pin-versus-declaration distinction lives in the element types, so repeating it in the field names only made the collections read unevenly against every other repeated field in the module.

Signed-off-by: Yordis Prieto <yordis.prieto@gmail.com>
Nothing durable was ever written against these shapes, so preserving numbers for readers that do not exist only left the messages harder to read than the contract they encode.

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@yordis yordis added the buf:skip:breaking Skip the Buf breaking change check label Sep 11, 2026
The shape is still being decided, and calling it v1 promised a stability the design has not earned; the alpha spelling is what lets it keep changing without misleading anyone who reads the package name.

Also resolves review feedback on the draft records: the implementation kind vocabulary, the digest inputs, and the status of the internal failure category names.

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@yordis yordis removed the buf:skip:breaking Skip the Buf breaking change check label Sep 11, 2026
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