arborist/docs/_source
russell@unturf.com 0a2e347f9c
qa: math/logic π* reach the user — arborist canon + query preflight
`make query Q="0.1 + 0.2"` used to return `no_sources` because
arithmetic-shaped input has no FTS5 hits in any text shard. Two
surfaces close that gap.

**`arborist canon <key> "<input>"`** — direct π* call, no shards,
no LLM, no audit chain. Pure projection:

    $ arborist canon arithmetic@v1 "0.1 + 0.2"      → 3/10
    $ arborist canon logic-kernel@v1 "A IMPL B"     → (NOT A OR B)
    $ arborist canon --list                         → registry contents
    $ arborist canon --json arithmetic@v1 "0.1+0.2" → SHA-256 envelope

**Math/logic preflight in `arborist query`** — pure-arithmetic and
pure-propositional questions short-circuit RAG and answer through
arithmetic@v1 / logic-kernel@v1 directly. Synthetic
`audit_mode=CANONICAL_PROJECTION`, renders as
`CANONICAL · via <pi_star_ref>`:

    $ arborist query "0.1 + 0.2"
    0.1 + 0.2
      CANONICAL · via arithmetic@v1   0.0s   (projected)
    3/10

    $ arborist query "(NOT B) IMPL (NOT A)"
    (NOT B) IMPL (NOT A)
      CANONICAL · via logic-kernel@v1   0.0s   (projected)
    (NOT A OR B)

Sniff is conservative: pure-arithmetic shape (digits + ops, no
letters) or pure-propositional shape (uppercase atoms + reserved
keywords only). Natural-language wrapping ("what is 0.1+0.2?")
falls through to RAG. PiStarError on a shape match also falls
through — preflight is best-effort, never blocking.

Disable per-call: `--no-canonical-preflight` flag,
`policy["canonical_projection_preflight"]=False`.

No schema changes: CANONICAL_PROJECTION is a render-layer audit_mode
token. No providence_cache writes, no audit_events, no
governance_policy_hash bump. The canonical bytes ARE the answer;
SHA-256 of the bytes is the equivalence-class identity (already
committed via the π* registry).

Side housekeeping: arborist/pi_star/__init__.py docstring caught up
with reality — six concrete π*'s ship today, only tabular-pinned@v1
remains as a stub.

31 new tests (preflight sniff + dispatch, query short-circuit,
contrapositive equivalence-class collapse, CLI subcommand exit codes
and JSON envelope, --no-canonical-preflight policy gate). Full
suite: 1300 passed, 36 skipped.
2026-05-08 12:18:28 -04:00
..
_ext aborist/arborist 2026-05-07 09:31:49 -04:00
_static docs: add Read the Docs configuration 2026-05-04 08:17:24 -04:00
api docs: open ticket #000022 (adapter LossReport) + federation doc-discoverability fix 2026-05-07 16:36:13 -04:00
bench.rst pi_star: time-series-quantized@v1 graduates + Substrate docs section 2026-05-08 09:33:19 -04:00
concepts.rst docs: open ticket #000022 (adapter LossReport) + federation doc-discoverability fix 2026-05-07 16:36:13 -04:00
conf.py docs: footer attribution → russell@unturf./foxhop/TimeHexOn/legallydav1dpro unturf permacomputers 2026 2026-05-07 14:53:33 -04:00
cookbook.rst aborist/arborist 2026-05-07 09:31:49 -04:00
diagrams trim Makefile (-6 redundant targets) + better RTD docs 2026-05-04 09:03:03 -04:00
index.rst pi_star: time-series-quantized@v1 graduates + Substrate docs section 2026-05-08 09:33:19 -04:00
license.rst aborist/arborist 2026-05-07 09:31:49 -04:00
Makefile docs: add Sphinx API reference generation from docstrings 2026-05-04 07:55:34 -04:00
pi-star.rst qa: math/logic π* reach the user — arborist canon + query preflight 2026-05-08 12:18:28 -04:00
quickstart.rst aborist/arborist 2026-05-07 09:31:49 -04:00
README.md aborist/arborist 2026-05-07 09:31:49 -04:00
requirements.txt docs: switch to sphinx-book-theme for unified right-side project TOC 2026-05-04 09:13:14 -04:00
v8-fork-score.rst pi_star: time-series-quantized@v1 graduates + Substrate docs section 2026-05-08 09:33:19 -04:00

Arborist API Reference (Sphinx)

This directory contains Sphinx configuration to generate API documentation from docstrings.

Build

cd docs/_source
make html           # Generate HTML (output: _build/html/)
make text           # Generate text (output: _build/text/)
make clean          # Remove build artifacts

Or directly:

sphinx-build -b html . _build/html

View

After building, open _build/html/index.html in a browser.

Structure

  • conf.py — Sphinx configuration
  • index.rst — Main table of contents
  • api/ — Module documentation (one .rst per module category)
    • substrate.rst — Core data structures (merkle, document, wikitext)
    • storage.rst — SQLite schema (store, ingest, evict)
    • retrieval.rst — FTS5 search (search, sources, concepts)
    • qa.rst — Q&A pipeline (runner, query, verify, evidence, etc.)
    • distill.rst — Distillation (surface→core)
    • mesh.rst — Federation (gossip-based sync)
    • cli.rst — Command-line interface

What it replaces

This generated documentation replaces docs/modules.md (1200+ lines of static API reference). The docstrings in code are the source of truth; Sphinx extracts them automatically.

Adding new modules

  1. Add a docstring to the module (module-level docstring at the top of module.py)
  2. Add an .rst file in api/ that includes the module with automodule directive
  3. Reference it in index.rst
  4. Rebuild with make html

Theme

Uses furo theme (modern, responsive, search-enabled).

Autodoc directives

The .rst files use Sphinx automodule to extract:

  • Module docstrings
  • Class docstrings + members
  • Function signatures + docstrings
  • Source code links (:viewcode: extension)

See Sphinx autodoc docs.