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AI-Perceivable Core

Build once, invoke by Code or AI. Every call validated, authorized, and evidenced.

A governed runtime for agent-callable capabilities — schema, ACL, approval, and audit enforced at every call.

apcore is an AI-Perceivable module standard that makes every interface naturally perceivable and understandable by AI through enforced Schema definitions and behavioral annotations. It provides schema validation, access control, middleware pipelines, and observability built in.

Features

  • Schema-driven modules — Define input/output schemas with TypeBox for runtime validation
  • Executor pipeline — Secured execution lifecycle: context → call chain guard → lookup → ACL → approval gate → middleware before → validation → execute → output validation → middleware after → return
  • Registry system — File-based module discovery with metadata, dependencies, and topological ordering; multi-class discovery from a single file
  • Binding loader — YAML-based module registration for no-code integration
  • Access control (ACL) — Pattern-based rules with identity types, roles, and call-depth conditions
  • Approval system — Pluggable approval gate in the executor pipeline with sync and async (polling) flows, built-in handlers, and tracing integration
  • Middleware — Onion-model middleware with before/after/onError hooks and error recovery; built-in CircuitBreakerMiddleware (CLOSED/OPEN/HALF_OPEN); tracing is provided by the observability TracingMiddleware
  • Observability — Tracing (spans + BatchSpanProcessor + exporters), metrics (counters + histograms + Prometheus export with /metrics//healthz//readyz), structured logging with RedactionConfig
  • System modules — Built-in system.* modules for AI bidirectional introspection: health, manifest, usage, and runtime control (update_config, reload_module, toggle_feature). Audit trail via AuditStore, config persistence via overridesPath, usage metrics in Prometheus, bulk reload via path_filter glob
  • Event systemEventEmitter with subscriber-level CircuitBreakerWrapper, built-in FileSubscriber, StdoutSubscriber, FilterSubscriber, and pluggable custom types
  • Async tasksAsyncTaskManager with injectable TaskStore (bring your own Redis/Postgres backend), RetryConfig with exponential backoff, and opt-in background reaper
  • Schema export — JSON/YAML schema export with strict and compact modes
  • Caching & pagination annotationscacheable, cacheTtl, cacheKeyFields for result caching; paginated, paginationStyle for paginated modules
  • Config Bus — Namespace-based configuration registry with typed access, env prefix dispatch, hot-reload, and external config mounting (Config.registerNamespace(), config.namespace(), config.bind<T>(), config.mount())

What's New in v0.26.0

  • ExecutionPolicy / PolicyRule execution-time governance (#76) — An external policy can force or exempt approval on already-registered modules by ID pattern, make a destructive annotation imply approval via gateDestructive, and fail closed with strict: true when a gated module has no ApprovalHandler. The most specific matching rule wins; on a tie the more restrictive one does. See Execution policy and examples/execution-policy.ts.
  • Governance events (#77) — apcore.approval.decision and apcore.policy.override are published on the event bus alongside the existing apcore.acl.denied.

What's New in v0.25.0

  • Config-driven ACL discovery (#74, D-64) — ACL.discover(config) resolves acl.root (default ./acl) relative to the config file's own directory and loads an ACL only if that path exists; a missing path attaches no ACL rather than synthesizing a default-deny. Auto-wired in the APCore constructor. See examples/acl-config-driven.ts.

What's New in v0.24.0

  • Per-instance ToggleState isolation (#71) — each APCore instance owns one ToggleState (new APCore({ toggleState? }), read-only via client.toggleState) threaded into both the write path (system.control.toggle_feature) and the read path (Executor → module lookup), so disabling a module on one instance no longer affects another in the same process.
  • Agent-governance conformance coverage (#72) — drivers for the canonical toggle_state_isolation.json and acl_agent_scoping.json fixtures lock the AI-agent tool-governance scenario as a cross-language contract.

What's New in v0.23.0

  • AI error-recovery metadata at the source (#70) — Framework errors now carry a default userFixable resolved per error code (USER_FIXABLE_BY_CODE), plus filled aiGuidance defaults, so the recovery contract flows to every surface (MCP/CLI/A2A) from one module/error definition instead of being backfilled per adapter. At parity with apcore-python / apcore-rust 0.23.0, locked by the shared error_recovery_metadata.json conformance fixture.

What's New in v0.22.0

  • ContextKey<T> typed context state (#63) — Type-safe accessor for Context.data slots with get/set/delete/exists/scoped; also available via the apcore-js/context-keys subpath import for tree-shakeable consumers.
  • StreamingModule interface (#62) — Formal streaming contract via STREAMING_MARKER symbol; isStreamingModule() detects implementations and emits StreamingInterfaceError when contract is violated.
  • Middleware duplicate detection (#64) — MiddlewareManager.add(mw, { allowDuplicate, identityKey }) rejects accidental double-registration; opt-out and custom identity keys supported for explicit duplicates.
  • Event retry + DLQ (#61) — EventSubscriber now exposes a retry config field (max attempts + exponential backoff) and an optional onFailure(event, error, attemptCount) hook acting as a per-subscriber dead-letter queue.
  • Registry async deferred-publish (#65) — Registry.register() returns a Promise<void>; modules with an async onLoad() stay hidden from get()/has() until load completes, and apcore.registry.module_load_failed is emitted on rejection.
  • Reserved-namespace query API (#60) — Config.reservedNamespaces static getter and top-level RESERVED_NAMESPACES export let callers pre-validate namespace names before calling Config.registerNamespace().

See examples/v022-tour.ts for a runnable tour of each surface.

Documentation

For full documentation, including Quick Start guides and API reference, visit: https://aiperceivable.github.io/apcore/getting-started/

Requirements

  • Node.js >= 20.0.0
  • TypeScript >= 5.5

Installation

npm install apcore-js

Note: The npm package is published as apcore-js (the apcore name is reserved on npm). Python uses apcore, Rust uses the apcore crate.

Browser support

apcore-js ships dual entry points via package.json conditional exports:

  • Node (default): ./dist/index.js — the full surface.
  • Browser: ./dist/browser/index.js — auto-selected by tree-shaking bundlers (Vite, Webpack, esbuild, Rollup) through the "browser" exports condition.

The browser bundle excludes Node-only surfaces:

  • Config class, BindingLoader, SchemaLoader (filesystem-bound)
  • All system.* sys-modules (control, manifest, health, usage, audit)
  • Events runtime: EventEmitter, all built-in subscribers, AsyncTaskManager, TaskStatus
  • Observability runtime: TracingMiddleware, MetricsCollector, exporters, PrometheusExporter
  • RESERVED_NAMESPACES, StreamingInterfaceError, DuplicateModuleIdError

ACL.load(yamlPath) throws ACLRuleError in the browser because the filesystem is unavailable; ACL programmatic construction still works.

Available in the browser: Registry programmatic register/get/list/iter/unregister, Executor, ACL programmatic, Context, middleware pipeline, schema validation, all error classes, and the utility helpers.

Quick Start

Simplified Client (Recommended)

The APCore client provides a unified entry point that manages Registry and Executor for you:

import { Type } from '@sinclair/typebox';
import { APCore } from 'apcore-js';

const client = new APCore();

// Register a module
client.module({
  id: 'math.add',
  description: 'Add two numbers',
  inputSchema: Type.Object({ a: Type.Number(), b: Type.Number() }),
  outputSchema: Type.Object({ sum: Type.Number() }),
  execute: (inputs) => ({ sum: (inputs.a as number) + (inputs.b as number) }),
});

// Call, validate, stream — all from one client
const result = await client.call('math.add', { a: 10, b: 5 });
// => { sum: 15 }

const preflight = await client.validate('math.add', { a: 10, b: 5 });
// => { valid: true, checks: [...], requiresApproval: false, errors: [] }

Enabling sys_modules for control/events APIs

APCore.disable, APCore.enable, APCore.on, and APCore.off are gated on the optional system-modules subsystem. They require a Config instance with sys_modules.enabled: true to be passed into the APCore constructor — otherwise the calls throw with a clear "sys_modules must be enabled" message.

import { APCore, Config } from 'apcore-js';

// Inline config (equivalent to writing the same YAML and calling Config.load):
const config = new Config({
  sys_modules: {
    enabled: true,
    // Optional sub-systems:
    events: { enabled: true },     // required for on/off (event emitter)
    control: { enabled: true },    // required for disable/enable (toggle)
  },
});

const client = new APCore({ config });

// Now safe to call:
await client.disable('math.add');
await client.enable('math.add');
// Enabling/disabling a module fires the canonical apcore.module.toggled event;
// read event.data.enabled to see the new state (see examples/events.ts).
client.on('apcore.module.toggled', (event) => {
  console.log('Toggled:', event.data.module_id, 'enabled:', event.data.enabled);
});

If you do not need these control/events APIs, omit the Config entirely (as in the basic Quick Start above).

Advanced: Manual Registry + Executor

import { Type } from '@sinclair/typebox';
import { FunctionModule, Registry, Executor } from 'apcore-js';

const greet = new FunctionModule({
  execute: (inputs) => ({ greeting: `Hello, ${inputs.name}!` }),
  moduleId: 'example.greet',
  inputSchema: Type.Object({ name: Type.String() }),
  outputSchema: Type.Object({ greeting: Type.String() }),
  description: 'Greet a user',
});

const registry = new Registry();
registry.register('example.greet', greet);

const executor = new Executor({ registry });
const result = await executor.call('example.greet', { name: 'World' });
// => { greeting: 'Hello, World!' }

API Overview

Class Description
APCore High-level client — register modules, call, stream, validate, listModules, describe, on/off, disable/enable. Note: disable, enable, on, and off require sys_modules.enabled: true in the Config passed to APCore (see Quick Start: Enabling sys_modules).
Registry Module storage — discover, register, get, list, watch
Executor Execution engine — call with middleware pipeline, ACL, approval
Context Request context — trace ID, identity, call chain, cancel token
Config Configuration — load from YAML, namespace bus, get/set/bind values
ACL Access control — rule-based caller/target authorization
ExecutionPolicy / PolicyRule Execution-time governance overrides (#76) — force/exempt approval by ID pattern, gateDestructive, strict fail-closed
Middleware Pipeline hooks — before/after/onError interception
CircuitBreakerMiddleware Per-(module, caller) circuit breaker — CLOSED/OPEN/HALF_OPEN with configurable threshold and cooldown
TracingMiddleware Span tracing — apcore.module.execute spans kept as a stack in _apcore.mw.tracing.spans with parent_span_id links; self-contained, no runtime @opentelemetry/* dependency
EventEmitter Event system — subscribe, emit, flush
CircuitBreakerWrapper Subscriber-level circuit breaker — protects EventEmitter subscribers from cascading failures
AsyncTaskManager Background task execution — injectable store, retry with backoff, opt-in reaper
PrometheusExporter HTTP metrics server — /metrics, /healthz, /readyz; optional usageCollector for usage gauges
InMemoryAuditStore Control module audit log — records actor, action, before/after change for every control call

Configuration

Config Bus

Config acts as an ecosystem-level Config Bus. Any package can register a namespace with optional JSON Schema validation, environment variable prefix, and defaults.

import { Config } from 'apcore-js';

// Register a namespace (class-level, shared across all Config instances).
// registerNamespace takes a single options object; `name` is a field on it.
Config.registerNamespace({
  name: 'myPlugin',
  envPrefix: 'MY_PLUGIN',
  defaults: { timeout: 5000, retries: 3 },
  schema: {
    type: 'object',
    properties: {
      timeout: { type: 'number' },
      retries: { type: 'number' },
    },
  },
});

const config = Config.load('apcore.yaml');

// Dot-path access with namespace resolution
const timeout = config.get('myPlugin.timeout');   // 5000 (or env override)

// Full namespace subtree
const pluginConfig = config.namespace('myPlugin');

// Typed access — pass a class constructor; its constructor receives the namespace dict
class MyPluginConfig {
  timeout: number;
  retries: number;
  constructor(data: Record<string, unknown>) {
    this.timeout = (data['timeout'] as number) ?? 5000;
    this.retries = (data['retries'] as number) ?? 3;
  }
}
const typed = config.bind('myPlugin', MyPluginConfig);

// Mount an external config source (e.g. an existing config file)
config.mount('myPlugin', { fromFile: './my-plugin.yaml' });
// Or from an in-memory object:
config.mount('myPlugin', { fromDict: { timeout: 10000 } });

// Introspect registered namespaces
// => Array<{ name: string; envPrefix: string | null; hasSchema: boolean }>
const namespaces = Config.registeredNamespaces();

Environment Variable Overrides

Merge priority (highest wins): environment variables > config file > namespace defaults.

Two prefix conventions are supported:

Convention Applies to Example
APCORE_ + KEY_PATH Legacy flat keys APCORE_EXECUTOR_DEFAULT__TIMEOUT=5000
APCORE_ + namespace prefix apcore sub-package namespaces APCORE_OBSERVABILITY_TRACING_ENABLED=true

Within the suffix, a single _ maps to . (a path separator) and __ maps to a literal _. So APCORE_EXECUTOR_DEFAULT__TIMEOUT sets executor.default_timeout — writing APCORE_EXECUTOR_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT would instead target the key executor.default.timeout, which does not exist. This matches apcore-python and apcore-rust.

Legacy APCORE_* overrides apply in namespace mode too: they are merged into the apcore namespace (PROTOCOL_SPEC §9.6.2), so the example above also resolves via config.get('apcore.executor.default_timeout').

apcore pre-registers the following namespaces and env prefixes:

Namespace Env prefix Wraps
observability APCORE_OBSERVABILITY observability.* — tracing, metrics, logging, error_history, platform_notify
obs APCORE_OBS obs.redaction.*sensitive_keys, regex_patterns, replacement
sys_modules APCORE_SYS sys_modules.* — health, manifest, usage, control, events

Namespace names are snake_case, matching apcore-python and the YAML config keys: use config.namespace('sys_modules'), not 'sysModules'.

Sub-packages use their own APCORE_ prefixed name (e.g. APCORE_MCP for apcore-mcp). The longest-prefix-match dispatch algorithm disambiguates correctly (APCORE_OBS_* vs APCORE_OBSERVABILITY_*).

Hot Reload

config.reload() re-reads the source YAML, re-detects legacy/namespace mode, re-applies all namespace defaults and env overrides, re-validates, and re-reads any mounted files.

const config = Config.load('apcore.yaml');
// ... runtime config change on disk ...
config.reload(); // picks up all changes

YAML File Format

Configuration files support two modes. Legacy mode (no apcore: key) is fully backward compatible. Namespace mode is activated when an apcore: top-level key is present; each namespace occupies its own top-level section. The _config reserved namespace controls validation behavior.

# Namespace mode
apcore:
  version: "0.26.0"

_config:
  strict: true

observability:
  tracing:
    enabled: true
    samplingRate: 1.0

myPlugin:
  timeout: 10000
  retries: 5

System Modules

registerSysModules() auto-registers the built-in system.* modules that let AI agents query, monitor, and control the apcore runtime. Enable them via sys_modules.enabled: true in config, and pass the optional hardening options for production use:

import { registerSysModules, InMemoryAuditStore } from 'apcore-js';

const auditStore = new InMemoryAuditStore();

registerSysModules(registry, executor, config, null, {
  failOnError: true,              // throw on any registration failure (default: false)
  overridesPath: '/etc/apcore/overrides.yaml',  // persist runtime changes across restarts
  auditStore,                     // record every control-module action with actor + change
});

// Available system modules:
// system.health.summary / system.health.module     — health status + error rates
// system.manifest.module / system.manifest.full    — module introspection
// system.usage.summary / system.usage.module       — call counts + latency trends
// system.control.update_config                     — hot-patch config values
// system.control.reload_module                     — hot-reload from disk; supports path_filter glob
// system.control.toggle_feature                    — disable/enable modules at runtime

// Query the audit log after control calls:
const entries = auditStore.query({ moduleId: 'system.control.update_config' });
// entries[0] = { timestamp, action, targetModuleId, actorId, actorType, traceId, change }

Prometheus usage metrics — wire PrometheusExporter with the UsageCollector returned by registerSysModules:

import { PrometheusExporter, MetricsCollector } from 'apcore-js';

const ctx = registerSysModules(registry, executor, config);
const exporter = new PrometheusExporter({
  collector: new MetricsCollector(),
  usageCollector: ctx.usageCollector,  // adds apcore_usage_* metrics to /metrics
});
exporter.start({ port: 9090 });
// GET /metrics now includes:
//   apcore_usage_calls_total{module_id="math.add",status="success"} 5000
//   apcore_usage_error_rate{module_id="math.add"} 0.0004
//   apcore_usage_p99_latency_ms{module_id="math.add"} 45.0

Bindings

BindingLoader registers modules from a YAML file instead of code — the no-code integration path.

# format-date.binding.yaml
spec_version: "1.0"
bindings:
  - module_id: "utils.format_date"
    # "<module path>:<exported symbol>". The module path goes to Node's
    # `import()` verbatim, so it must be a package specifier or an absolute
    # path — a bare relative name is NOT resolved against the YAML file.
    target: "/abs/path/to/format-date.ts:formatDateString"
    description: "Format a date string into a specified format"
    version: "1.0.0"
    auto_schema: true
import { BindingLoader, Executor, Registry } from 'apcore-js';

const registry = new Registry();
const loader = new BindingLoader();
await loader.loadBindings('./format-date.binding.yaml', registry);
// Or every *.binding.yaml in a directory:
// await loader.loadBindingDir('./bindings', registry);

const executor = new Executor({ registry });
await executor.call('utils.format_date', {
  dateString: '2024-01-15',
  outputFormat: '%B %d, %Y',
});

The target is invoked as func(inputs, context). Schemas come from one of four mutually exclusive modes: inline input_schema / output_schema, an external schema_ref, auto_schema (infers from the target module's exported inputSchema / outputSchema), or — with none specified — a permissive fallback. Pass new BindingLoader({ trustedPackagePrefixes: [...] }) to refuse importing any target outside an allowlist.

See examples/bindings/format-date/ for a runnable end-to-end binding.

Execution policy

ExecutionPolicy (with PolicyRule) applies governance to already-registered modules at execution time, without touching their code or annotations. It is consulted by the approval gate (pipeline step 5).

import { APCore, ExecutionPolicy, PolicyRule } from 'apcore-js';

const policy = new ExecutionPolicy(
  [
    new PolicyRule('orders.delete_*', {
      requiresApproval: true,
      reason: 'destructive order ops need human sign-off',
    }),
    // A rule can also exempt: requiresApproval: false.
    new PolicyRule('orders.read_*', { requiresApproval: false }),
  ],
  {
    // Any module annotated destructive: true also needs approval.
    gateDestructive: true,
    // A module that needs approval but has no ApprovalHandler fails CLOSED
    // (ApprovalDeniedError) instead of silently executing.
    strict: true,
  },
);

const client = new APCore({ policy, approvalHandler });
// Runtime swap: executor.setPolicy(otherPolicy)

Pattern matching reuses the ACL wildcard semantics (Algorithm A08) and specificity scoring (A10): the most specific matching rule wins, and on a tie the more restrictive rule does.

An operator-authored YAML/JSON governance document loads via ExecutionPolicy.fromObject(parsed):

gate_destructive: true
strict: true
rules:
  - pattern: "orders.delete_*"
    requires_approval: true
    reason: "destructive order operations need human sign-off"

Parsing is strict: unknown keys throw, and gate_destructive / strict must be real booleans — a typo or a "false" string cannot silently disable a control.

See examples/execution-policy.ts for a runnable end-to-end demo of all three behaviours.

Error Codes

New error codes added in v0.15.0:

Code Description
CONFIG_NAMESPACE_DUPLICATE Config.registerNamespace() called with an already-registered name
CONFIG_NAMESPACE_RESERVED Config.registerNamespace() called with a reserved name (e.g. _config)
CONFIG_ENV_PREFIX_CONFLICT Two namespaces declare the same envPrefix
CONFIG_MOUNT_ERROR config.mount() cannot read or parse the external source
CONFIG_BIND_ERROR config.bind<T>() or config.getTyped<T>() type guard fails
ERROR_FORMATTER_DUPLICATE ErrorFormatterRegistry.register() called for an already-registered surface

New error codes added in v0.20.0:

Code Description
CIRCUIT_BREAKER_OPEN CircuitBreakerMiddleware short-circuited a call because the circuit is OPEN
MODULE_RELOAD_CONFLICT Both module_id and path_filter supplied to system.control.reload_module
SYS_MODULE_REGISTRATION_FAILED registerSysModules() with failOnError: true and a module failed to register
MODULE_ID_CONFLICT Two classes in the same file produce the same module ID segment (discoverMultiClass)
INVALID_SEGMENT A derived class segment does not match ^[a-z][a-z0-9_]*$
ID_TOO_LONG A derived module ID exceeds 192 characters

Event Type Canonical Names

apcore 0.15.0 resolved two event-type collisions in favor of dot-namespaced canonical names. The legacy short-form aliases (module_health_changed, config_changed) were emitted during the 0.15.x transition and have been removed as of 0.18.0.

Event name Meaning
"apcore.module.toggled" Module enabled/disabled toggle
"apcore.health.recovered" Error-rate recovery after spike
"apcore.config.updated" Config key updated at runtime
"apcore.module.reloaded" Module reloaded from disk

Naming convention: apcore.* is reserved for core events. Adapter packages use their own prefix (apcore-mcp.*, apcore-a2a.*, apcore-cli.*).


Examples

The examples/ directory contains runnable demos:


simple-client — APCore client with module registration and calls

Initializes an APCore client, registers modules inline, and calls them.

import { Type } from '@sinclair/typebox';
import { APCore } from 'apcore-js';

const client = new APCore();

client.module({
  id: 'math.add',
  description: 'Add two integers',
  inputSchema: Type.Object({ a: Type.Number(), b: Type.Number() }),
  outputSchema: Type.Object({ sum: Type.Number() }),
  execute: (inputs) => ({ sum: (inputs.a as number) + (inputs.b as number) }),
});

client.module({
  id: 'greet',
  description: 'Greet a user by name',
  inputSchema: Type.Object({
    name: Type.String(),
    greeting: Type.Optional(Type.String()),
  }),
  outputSchema: Type.Object({ message: Type.String() }),
  execute: (inputs) => ({
    message: `${(inputs.greeting as string) || 'Hello'}, ${inputs.name}!`,
  }),
});

const result = await client.call('math.add', { a: 10, b: 5 });
console.log(result); // { sum: 15 }

const greetResult = await client.call('greet', { name: 'Alice' });
console.log(greetResult); // { message: 'Hello, Alice!' }

greet — Minimal FunctionModule

Demonstrates the core FunctionModule structure with TypeBox schemas.

import { Type } from '@sinclair/typebox';
import { FunctionModule } from 'apcore-js';

export const greetModule = new FunctionModule({
  moduleId: 'greet',
  description: 'Greet a user by name',
  inputSchema: Type.Object({ name: Type.String() }),
  outputSchema: Type.Object({ message: Type.String() }),
  execute: (inputs) => ({ message: `Hello, ${inputs.name}!` }),
});

get-user — Readonly + idempotent annotations

Shows behavioral annotations and simulated database lookup.

import { Type } from '@sinclair/typebox';
import { FunctionModule, createAnnotations } from 'apcore-js';

const users: Record<string, { id: string; name: string; email: string }> = {
  'user-1': { id: 'user-1', name: 'Alice', email: 'alice@example.com' },
  'user-2': { id: 'user-2', name: 'Bob', email: 'bob@example.com' },
};

export const getUserModule = new FunctionModule({
  moduleId: 'user.get',
  description: 'Get user details by ID',
  inputSchema: Type.Object({ userId: Type.String() }),
  outputSchema: Type.Object({
    id: Type.String(),
    name: Type.String(),
    email: Type.String(),
  }),
  // `ModuleAnnotations` is a total interface — `createAnnotations()` fills the
  // rest (cacheable, cacheTtl, cacheKeyFields, paginated, paginationStyle,
  // extra) from `DEFAULT_ANNOTATIONS`. A partial object literal will not
  // compile.
  annotations: createAnnotations({
    readonly: true,
    destructive: false,
    idempotent: true,
    requiresApproval: false,
    openWorld: true,
    streaming: false,
  }),
  execute: (inputs) => {
    const user = users[inputs.userId as string];
    if (!user) {
      return { id: inputs.userId as string, name: 'Unknown', email: 'unknown@example.com' };
    }
    return { ...user };
  },
});

send-email — Full-featured: annotations, examples, metadata, ContextLogger

Demonstrates destructive annotations, ModuleExample for AI-perceivable documentation, metadata, and ContextLogger usage.

import { Type } from '@sinclair/typebox';
import { FunctionModule, ContextLogger, createAnnotations } from 'apcore-js';
import type { Context } from 'apcore-js';

export const sendEmailModule = new FunctionModule({
  moduleId: 'email.send',
  description: 'Send an email message',
  inputSchema: Type.Object({
    to: Type.String(),
    subject: Type.String(),
    body: Type.String(),
    // `x-sensitive: true` (or a `_secret_` field-name prefix) is what makes the
    // executor redact the value in captured inputs/outputs and logs.
    apiKey: Type.String({ 'x-sensitive': true }),
  }),
  outputSchema: Type.Object({
    status: Type.String(),
    messageId: Type.String(),
  }),
  tags: ['email', 'communication', 'external'],
  version: '1.2.0',
  metadata: { provider: 'example-smtp', maxRetries: 3 },
  annotations: createAnnotations({
    readonly: false,
    destructive: true,
    idempotent: false,
    requiresApproval: false,
    openWorld: true,
    streaming: false,
  }),
  examples: [
    {
      title: 'Send a welcome email',
      inputs: { to: 'user@example.com', subject: 'Welcome!', body: '...', apiKey: 'sk-xxx' },
      output: { status: 'sent', messageId: 'msg-12345' },
      description: 'Sends a welcome email to a new user.',
    },
  ],
  execute: (inputs, context: Context) => {
    const logger = ContextLogger.fromContext(context, 'send_email');
    logger.info('Sending email', { to: inputs.to as string, subject: inputs.subject as string });
    const hash = Math.abs(
      (inputs.to as string).split('').reduce((a, c) => a + c.charCodeAt(0), 0) % 100000,
    );
    const messageId = `msg-${String(hash).padStart(5, '0')}`;
    logger.info('Email sent successfully', { messageId });
    return { status: 'sent', messageId };
  },
});

decorated-addmodule() function for creating modules

import { Type } from '@sinclair/typebox';
import { module } from 'apcore-js';

export const addModule = module({
  id: 'math.add',
  description: 'Add two integers',
  inputSchema: Type.Object({ a: Type.Number(), b: Type.Number() }),
  outputSchema: Type.Object({ sum: Type.Number() }),
  execute: (inputs) => ({ sum: (inputs.a as number) + (inputs.b as number) }),
});

Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Type check
npm run typecheck

# Run tests
npm test

# Run tests in watch mode
npm run test:watch

# Build
npm run build

Testing

  • Core executor pipeline
  • Schema validation (strict mode, type coercion)
  • Middleware chain (ordering, transforms, error recovery, circuit breaker)
  • ACL enforcement (patterns, conditions, identity types)
  • Registry system (scanner, metadata, entry points, dependencies, multi-class discovery)
  • Binding loader (YAML loading, target resolution, schema modes)
  • Observability (tracing, BatchSpanProcessor, metrics, Prometheus export, structured logging with redaction)
  • Event system (circuit breaker wrapper, subscriber types, filter/file/stdout)
  • System modules (health, manifest, usage, control, audit trail, overrides persistence, Prometheus usage metrics)
  • Async tasks (pluggable store, retry backoff, reaper)
  • Cross-language conformance suite (tests/conformance.test.ts) — canonical JSON fixtures from apcore/conformance/fixtures/ run identically across Python, TypeScript, and Rust SDKs

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Apache-2.0

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