# PromptKit v0.5 Implementation Plan

## Objective

Implement the target state in
[PromptKit v0.5 Integration And LLM Profile Policy](promptkit.md). Each numbered
stage is intended to be one implementation prompt for a GPT-5.6-Terra coding
agent. Complete stages in order and leave the repository buildable, tested, and
internally coherent after every stage.

Follow [Architecture](../policy/architecture.md),
[Testing Policy](../policy/testing.md), and
[Documentation Policy](../policy/documentation.md) throughout. Preserve
unrelated user changes. Use `apply_patch` for source and documentation edits,
run `gofmt` on changed Go files, and add only tests that protect the behaviors
and risks assigned to that stage.

Do not implement the separate deterministic session-ID or default-concurrency
roadmap items as part of this plan. Do not perform paid or credentialed LLM
calls.

## Background Summary

Notarius currently pins PromptKit v0.3.0, calls `Prepare` and then `Run` for one
completion, validates profiles through a synthetic prompt, has no application
fallback profile source, and accepts LLM profiles only at individual bindings
or through the run-wide CLI override. PromptKit v0.5.0 is source-compatible
with the current tree; a temporary v0.5.0 module override has already passed
`go test ./...`.

The implementation must nevertheless treat the upstream optional-parameter
change as intentional: unset `temperature`, `max_tokens`, and `top_p` remain
unset and are omitted from compatible provider requests. Do not restore the old
implicit `top_p: 1` default.

## Stage 1: Upgrade The PromptKit Dependency

### Goal

Establish a clean PromptKit v0.5.0 baseline before adopting its new APIs.

### Work

- Update `go.mod` and `go.sum` from PromptKit v0.3.0 to v0.5.0 and run
  `go mod tidy`.
- Change the PromptKit built-in profile-catalog marker in
  `internal/framework/llm/promptkit_profile_fingerprint.go` to identify
  v0.5.0. This deliberately invalidates LLM checkpoints tied to the prior
  catalog identity.
- Review PromptKit-facing compile errors or test failures against the v0.4.0
  and v0.5.0 release guides. Do not adopt prepared execution, inspection, or
  fallback profiles in this stage.
- Replace the existing test assertion for one exact built-in fingerprint hash
  with durable assertions that the fingerprint is deterministic, non-empty,
  non-secret, and changes when a semantic profile source changes. Do not add a
  new version-constant or exact-hash change detector.
- Update `docs/integrations/pkg-promptkit.md` to pin and link v0.5.0 and state
  the implemented dependency-level behavior: unset optional sampling controls
  are provider defaults. Do not document later stages as implemented.
- Update any other canonical text that explicitly claims the dependency is
  v0.3.0, but defer descriptions of unimplemented v0.5 APIs.

### Tests And Validation

- `go test ./internal/framework/llm ./internal/cli`
- `go test ./...`
- `go vet ./...`
- `go build ./cmd/notarius`
- `rg -n 'promptkit v0\.3\.0|promptkit@v0\.3\.0|PromptKit v0\.3\.0' .`
- `git diff --check`

### Completion Criteria

- The repository directly pins v0.5.0 and all default offline checks pass.
- The profile-source fingerprint identifies the new upstream catalog without a
  brittle literal-hash test.
- Current documentation no longer identifies v0.3.0 as the supported version.

## Stage 2: Execute One Frozen Prepared Snapshot

### Goal

Make Notarius debug details and generation use one exact PromptKit preparation.

### Work

- Refactor `PromptKitClient.CompleteStructured` to call
  `PrepareExecution`, immediately defer `Discard`, obtain a caller-owned
  `Details` value, and execute with `RunPrepared`.
- Preserve the existing Notarius request mapping, cancellation precedence,
  validation classification, raw structured bytes, response decoding,
  profile recording, usage reporting, and credential redaction.
- Ensure every preparation, execution, validation, empty-result, and decode
  error retains useful Notarius prompt context without exposing prepared handle
  state or secrets.
- Use `errors.As` to obtain `*promptkit.CapacityError` on admission rejection.
  Preserve `contracts.ErrLLMCapacityExceeded` as the stable classification and
  add a nonblank backend ID only to safe application-owned diagnostic context.
  Do not expose `promptkit.CapacityError` outside the LLM adapter.
- Update `docs/internal/llm.md` and the implemented-mechanics portion of
  `docs/integrations/pkg-promptkit.md` to describe the single frozen execution
  snapshot and structured capacity adaptation.

### Tests And Validation

- Adapt existing PromptKit client tests to the prepared-execution path.
- Retain or add one behavioral test proving that the debug prompt details match
  the request actually passed to generation when a backing prompt source could
  otherwise change between independent preparations. Test the resulting
  snapshot consistency, not a private helper call count.
- Retain capacity tests proving `errors.Is` reaches
  `contracts.ErrLLMCapacityExceeded`, the selected backend can appear in safe
  diagnostic context, and provider calls are not made after rejected
  admission.
- Run `go test ./internal/framework/llm` and
  `go test -race ./internal/framework/llm`.
- Run `go test ./...` and `git diff --check`.

### Completion Criteria

- `CompleteStructured` no longer calls independent `Prepare` and `Run`
  operations for one request.
- Debug prompt material and generation result originate from the same frozen
  PromptKit snapshot.
- Capacity remains a provider-neutral Notarius error classification.

## Stage 3: Replace Synthetic Profile Validation With Inspection

### Goal

Validate profiles through PromptKit's exact profile-inspection boundary and
centralize engine profile-source construction.

### Work

- Introduce a small provider-adapter-owned profile inspection or validation
  function in `internal/framework/llm`. Its public internal signature must use
  Notarius-owned configuration and result/error types rather than returning
  PromptKit types to the CLI.
- Share the code that applies `profile_dir`, `profile_file`, and registered
  backend options between the production PromptKit engine and the inspection
  engine. Preserve the mutual-exclusion and local-backend rules.
- Change CLI explicit-profile preflight to use `Engine.InspectProfile` through
  that LLM boundary.
- Remove `profileCheckPromptID`, `profileCheckPromptFS`, the `testing/fstest`
  production dependency, and the synthetic `Prepare` request.
- Preserve distinct, useful errors for an absent profile, invalid profile,
  unknown backend registration, cancellation, and invalid profile source.
- Do not require `api_key_env` to be populated during configuration validation.
  Inspection may report credential requirements internally, but actual
  preparation remains responsible for credential availability before a model
  call.
- Update current-behavior sections in `docs/internal/cli.md` and
  `docs/internal/llm.md`. Keep field definitions in `docs/config.md`.

### Tests And Validation

- Replace synthetic-prompt tests with profile inspection tests covering:
  configured local backend success; missing local backend failure; absent
  profile; malformed profile; and an otherwise valid profile whose credential
  environment variable is intentionally unset.
- Prove validation performs no provider HTTP call and remains offline.
- Run `go test ./internal/framework/llm ./internal/cli` and `go test ./...`.
- Run `git diff --check`.

### Completion Criteria

- No production synthetic profile-check prompt remains.
- Profile validation uses the same ordinary profile source and backend
  registrations as execution.
- Configuration validation succeeds for structurally valid profiles without
  reading credential values.

## Stage 4: Add Application Fallback Profile Asset Plumbing

### Goal

Allow module families to register application-owned fallback profile YAML
without placing domain policy in generic LLM code.

### Work

- Extend `internal/framework/llm.AssetRegistry` with a separate fallback
  profile source collection, registration method, flattened filesystem, and
  safe content digest.
- Reuse the existing asset-source path validation and flattening behavior where
  appropriate. Reject invalid roots, unreadable assets, and duplicate flattened
  paths. Do not parse PromptKit profile YAML in Notarius.
- Add `promptkit.WithFallbackProfileFS` to production engine options only when
  at least one fallback profile source is registered.
- Supply the identical assembled fallback source to the profile-inspection
  engine. Adjust CLI composition so pipeline-aware profile validation can use
  the production LLM asset registry without exposing PromptKit types.
- Extend profile-source checkpoint identity to include the exact fallback
  profile asset digest in addition to the PromptKit catalog marker and operator
  source. Keep the resulting fingerprint hash-only and path/content/credential
  free.
- Keep operator source precedence owned by PromptKit. Do not implement profile
  merging or duplicate PromptKit source resolution in Notarius.
- Update `docs/internal/llm.md` only for the new implemented generic asset and
  fingerprint mechanics. No domain fallback exists until Stage 5.

### Tests And Validation

- Add focused AssetRegistry tests for successful flattening, invalid roots,
  duplicate paths, and hash changes when fallback bytes change.
- Add adapter-level tests showing that the fallback filesystem reaches both
  execution construction and inspection construction.
- Extend checkpoint tests to prove fallback content changes profile-source
  identity without exposing raw YAML or paths. Use relational comparisons, not
  a fixed hash literal.
- Run `go test ./internal/framework/llm ./internal/cli` and `go test ./...`.
- Run `git diff --check`.

### Completion Criteria

- Generic plumbing can carry application fallback profiles while remaining
  unaware of D&D IDs or model settings.
- Inspection, execution, and checkpoint identity use the same fallback asset
  source.

## Stage 5: Adopt The D&D `dnd-extraction` Fallback

### Goal

Give the D&D module family one stable embedded workload profile that operators
can replace.

### Work

- Add a D&D-owned embedded PromptKit profile asset with ID `dnd-extraction`
  under `internal/modules/dnd`. Use the exact baseline defined in
  `promptkit.md`: OpenRouter, `openai/gpt-5.6-luna`, no explicit reasoning
  effort, a 240-second timeout, flex service tier, and no selected temperature,
  token limit, or `top_p`. The omitted reasoning value intentionally allows
  OpenAI's backend to apply its `medium` default.
- Register the profile filesystem from the D&D registrar through the generic
  fallback profile asset boundary. Keep D&D policy out of
  `internal/framework/llm` and the CLI composition root.
- Change every maintained D&D LLM prompt definition—including scene chunking,
  all D&D extractors, and NPC normalization—from the model-named default to
  `default_profile: dnd-extraction`.
- Add an integration-level profile-resolution test proving that:
  - the fallback resolves when no operator source defines the ID;
  - a valid operator profile with the same ID wins completely; and
  - an invalid matching operator profile fails rather than falling through.
- Test through Notarius's assembled production assets and PromptKit boundary;
  do not duplicate every upstream source-precedence case.
- Update the implemented profile ownership and prompt-default behavior in
  `docs/internal/dnd.md`, `docs/internal/llm.md`, and
  `docs/integrations/pkg-promptkit.md`. Defer the complete operator walkthrough
  and examples to Stage 10.

### Tests And Validation

- Run focused D&D prompt preparation tests and the production composition
  tests.
- Run `go test ./internal/modules/dnd/... ./internal/framework/llm
  ./internal/cli`.
- Run `go test ./...`.
- Verify `rg -n 'default_profile: gemini-2-flash' internal/modules/dnd`
  returns no matches.
- Run `git diff --check`.

### Completion Criteria

- All maintained D&D prompts use the application-owned logical profile ID.
- The fallback works without an operator profile and remains authoritatively
  overridable by a matching valid operator definition.

## Stage 6: Introduce Module Execution-Class Metadata

### Goal

Make each production module's ability to use an LLM statically discoverable
without yet changing profile inheritance.

### Work

- Add `ExecutionClass contracts.ExecutionClass` to `pipeline.ModuleSpec` and
  preserve it through normalization, cloning, catalogs, registries, JSON/debug
  views, and lookup helpers.
- In this transitional stage only, allow an omitted execution class to
  normalize to deterministic so existing test-only fixtures can be migrated in
  Stage 7 without breaking the repository midway.
- Explicitly classify every production module:
  - D&D scene chunking, every D&D extractor, and D&D NPC normalization as
    `llm_backed`;
  - all other current production input, chunk, merge, normalize, and output
    modules as `deterministic`.
- Update production module specification tests and production catalog tests to
  assert the semantic class alongside stage, artifact kind, and capabilities.
- Add catalog lookup support needed by later resolution to retrieve a selected
  module's execution class by stage and key without constructing it.
- Do not implement pipeline-level profile inheritance or reject deterministic
  profiles yet.
- Update `docs/internal/modules.md` and `docs/internal/dnd.md` to identify
  execution class as registered module metadata, while noting only implemented
  uses.

### Tests And Validation

- Run module registration/spec tests across generic, Seriatim, and D&D
  families.
- Run `go test ./internal/framework/pipeline ./internal/modules/...`.
- Run `go test ./...` and `git diff --check`.

### Completion Criteria

- Every production module has an explicit correct execution class.
- Catalog consumers can retrieve that class without a concrete module
  instance.
- Test-only omitted classes remain the only temporary compatibility behavior.

## Stage 7: Enforce Execution Metadata And Remove Runtime Probing

### Goal

Finish the execution-class contract so missing metadata cannot cause future
profile drift.

### Work

- Update every framework, CLI, and integration test module specification to
  declare an explicit execution class appropriate to the fake behavior.
- Change module-spec validation so an empty or unsupported execution class is a
  registration error. Remove the transitional deterministic default from
  Stage 6.
- Replace the chunk runner's special `ChunkExecutionClassProvider` probe with
  specification-derived behavior. Remove the now-redundant provider interface,
  implementation methods, and tests when they have no remaining consumer.
- Ensure chunk producer provenance remains unchanged: it records a non-empty
  effective binding profile for an LLM-backed chunker, while a deterministic
  chunker records no profile. A profile selected only through the prompt
  default remains represented by PromptKit's actual-profile manifest rather
  than being invented as an explicit chunk binding.
- Review helper constructors and fixtures for opportunities to set execution
  class once without obscuring the class under test. Do not introduce an
  elaborate test-spec framework.
- Update internal documentation if the removal changes any described runtime
  mechanics.

### Tests And Validation

- Add or retain focused registration tests for missing and invalid execution
  classes.
- Retain chunk-plan provenance tests for LLM-backed and deterministic
  chunkers.
- Run `go test ./internal/framework/pipeline ./internal/modules/...`.
- Run `go test ./...`, `go vet ./...`, and `git diff --check`.

### Completion Criteria

- No registered module specification relies on an implicit execution class.
- Pipeline metadata, not a concrete runtime type assertion, owns module
  execution classification.

## Stage 8: Resolve Programmatic Pipeline Profile Defaults

### Goal

Implement profile inheritance and precedence inside the pipeline resolver
before exposing the field through YAML configuration.

### Work

- Add an optional trimmed `LLMProfile` field to
  `pipeline.PipelineProfile`. Add a non-empty runtime override field to
  `pipeline.ResolveOptions` so all precedence decisions occur in the resolver
  rather than through pre-resolution mutation.
- After module selection, `--only` filtering, default validator-chain
  selection, and validator compatibility resolution, apply effective profiles
  to every selected input, chunk, extract, merge, normalize, output, and
  validator binding according to the precedence in `promptkit.md`.
- Apply profiles only when the selected module or validator execution class is
  `llm_backed`.
- Reject a binding-specific `llm_profile` on any deterministic module or
  validator. Do not reject or inspect an unused pipeline default when no
  selected LLM-backed binding consumes it.
- Leave an LLM-backed binding empty when no CLI, binding, or pipeline profile is
  selected so PromptKit can use the prompt's `default_profile`.
- Store the effective values on resolved bindings before digest construction.
  Do not add a second inheritance decision to execution.
- Ensure semantically equivalent repeated binding profiles and one inherited
  default produce the same resolved pipeline digest. Ensure any changed
  effective profile changes the digest.
- Do not modify file configuration or CLI parsing in this stage.

### Tests And Validation

- Add pipeline package tests for the complete precedence matrix:
  runtime override; binding-specific exception; pipeline default; prompt
  fallback; and deterministic bindings.
- Cover default and explicitly configured validator chains, all relevant stage
  categories, `--only` lane selection, unused defaults, deterministic-profile
  rejection, and semantic digest equivalence.
- Prefer table-driven package-level tests over assertions on private traversal
  helpers.
- Run `go test ./internal/framework/pipeline` and `go test ./...`.
- Run `git diff --check`.

### Completion Criteria

- Programmatic pipelines resolve one canonical effective profile policy.
- Only LLM-backed resolved bindings can contain a profile.
- Runtime override, binding, pipeline, and prompt precedence is unambiguous and
  digest-stable.

## Stage 9: Expose Pipeline Defaults Through Configuration And CLI

### Goal

Make the profile-default workflow available to operators while preserving
validation and override behavior.

### Work

- Add optional `pipelines.<id>.llm_profile` support to the version 4 file
  configuration model. Use presence-aware decoding so an explicitly set blank
  value is rejected, while omission remains valid.
- Preserve the field through file application, configuration cloning,
  effective configuration, and programmatic profile copies without aliasing or
  trimming drift.
- Remove `applyLLMProfileOverride`. Pass the CLI override through the resolver's
  runtime-override input so deterministic bindings are never populated.
- Update effective profile-ID collection to cover every selected LLM-backed
  module stage and LLM-backed validator, including future LLM-backed input and
  output modules. Do not inspect deterministic or unselected profiles.
- Ensure `run`, `config validate --pipeline`, resume/checkpoint identity, and
  relevant dry preflight paths all use the same resolved effective profiles.
- Preserve `--llm-profile` as the highest-precedence non-empty run-wide
  override and preserve binding-specific profiles as exceptions when no CLI
  override is present.
- Do not increment the configuration version.
- Update current configuration and CLI contracts in `docs/config.md` and
  `docs/cli.md` in the same stage. Link to operations for the deployment
  workflow rather than duplicating it prematurely.

### Tests And Validation

- Add file-config tests for omission, trimming, explicit blank rejection,
  unknown-key behavior, cloning, and round-trip application.
- Add effective-config and CLI contract tests for precedence, LLM-only
  application, inherited-profile inspection failure before factory execution,
  `--only`, and digest changes.
- Retain offline operation and do not require credentials for
  `config validate --pipeline`.
- Run `go test ./internal/core/config ./internal/framework/pipeline
  ./internal/cli`.
- Run `go test ./...`, `go vet ./...`, and `git diff --check`.

### Completion Criteria

- Operators can select `dnd-extraction` once per pipeline.
- Configuration and CLI paths share the resolver's precedence policy.
- Unknown effective profiles fail preflight, while deterministic and unused
  profiles do not cause spurious inspection.

## Stage 10: Complete Operator Documentation, Examples, And Decision Record

### Goal

Make the implemented workflow understandable, copyable, and maintainable
without duplicating canonical facts.

### Work

- Create an ADR using the next sequential number for the durable decision to
  use workload-oriented pipeline defaults with operator-overridable application
  fallback profiles. Record context, decision, alternatives, and consequences;
  do not turn the ADR into a field reference or implementation log.
- Complete `docs/config.md` as the canonical owner of profile-source fields,
  `pipelines.<id>.llm_profile`, validation, and precedence.
- Complete `docs/operations.md` with an operator workflow that distinguishes
  Notarius embedded prompts, Notarius fallback profiles, PromptKit built-ins,
  and deployment filesystem profiles. Include production/development/local use
  of the same `dnd-extraction` ID, credential handling, absolute-path guidance,
  and the fact that current relative profile paths use the process working
  directory rather than the configuration file's directory.
- Complete `docs/integrations/pkg-promptkit.md` with the v0.5.0 boundary,
  prepared execution, inspection, fallback and ordinary source precedence,
  optional provider controls, capacity adaptation, and compatibility policy.
- Update `docs/internal/configuration.md`, `docs/internal/pipeline.md`,
  `docs/internal/cli.md`, `docs/internal/llm.md`, `docs/internal/modules.md`, and
  `docs/internal/dnd.md` only for their owned implementation details. Link to
  canonical configuration, operations, and upstream format contracts rather
  than restating them.
- Keep exactly the existing two D&D configuration examples. Add
  `llm_profile: dnd-extraction` to the minimal and complete pipelines and remove
  the now-redundant model-named binding override from the complete example.
- Add one secret-free maintained operator profile at
  `examples/profiles/dnd-extraction.yml`. It should be a complete valid profile
  for the same logical ID and may mirror the embedded baseline; its purpose is
  to demonstrate file ownership and format, not claim automatic environment
  detection. Link it from the configuration and operations documentation.
- If the complete example selects the external profile file, use a path that
  is valid for the documented repository-root invocation and explicitly note
  the working-directory rule. Keep the minimal example dependent only on the
  embedded fallback.
- Add or extend maintained-example validation so both configuration examples
  and the profile YAML are checked without generation or credentials.
- Remove the now-implemented `Pipeline-Level LLM Profile Defaults` section from
  `docs/roadmap/future.md`. Preserve the unrelated deterministic session and
  concurrency items.
- Do not delete `promptkit.md` or this implementation plan during the feature
  implementation; retire them only after post-implementation review.

### Tests And Validation

- Run maintained example/configuration tests and relevant CLI help/parser
  tests.
- Run `go test ./...`.
- Run `rg -n 'gemini-2-flash' examples docs` and review every remaining match
  for intentional model-policy or historical context.
- Run `rg -n 'v0\.3\.0|profileCheckPrompt|applyLLMProfileOverride' .` and resolve
  stale production or current-documentation matches.
- Verify all new links and `git diff --check`.

### Completion Criteria

- Every current fact has one canonical documentation owner.
- Operators can distinguish and deploy all profile layers without reading Go
  source.
- Both maintained configurations and the maintained external profile are valid,
  secret-free, and tested offline.
- Implemented profile work no longer remains in `future.md`.

## Stage 11: Final Verification And Quality Review

### Goal

Verify the complete migration as one integrated change and correct only defects
or omissions found during that review.

### Work

- Review the final diff against every acceptance criterion in `promptkit.md`.
- Confirm provider-specific PromptKit types remain inside the LLM integration
  boundary and D&D policy remains inside the D&D module family.
- Confirm execution and inspection receive identical ordinary, fallback, and
  backend configuration.
- Confirm no paths, profile YAML, endpoints, credentials, or prepared handle
  state leak into fingerprints or ordinary diagnostics.
- Confirm all production module specs have explicit correct execution classes
  and every resolved deterministic binding is profile-free.
- Confirm prompt default, pipeline default, binding override, and CLI override
  behavior through representative assembled configurations.
- Review tests for redundancy and remove obsolete synthetic-prompt,
  runtime-probe, exact-hash, or duplicated upstream-behavior tests superseded by
  stronger contract tests.
- Perform an optional manual D&D quality comparison if credentials and an
  evaluation transcript are deliberately supplied. Record no private input or
  credential material, and do not make this comparison a completion gate.

### Validation Commands

```sh
gofmt -w <changed-go-files>
go test ./...
go test -race ./internal/framework/llm ./internal/core/config ./internal/framework/pipeline ./internal/cli
go vet ./...
go build ./cmd/notarius
git diff --check
```

Also run focused stale-contract searches:

```sh
rg -n 'gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit v0\.3\.0|PromptKit v0\.3\.0' .
rg -n 'default_profile: gemini-2-flash|profileCheckPrompt|applyLLMProfileOverride' internal docs examples
```

Review any matches rather than deleting intentional historical references
blindly.

### Completion Criteria

- All automated checks pass offline and without real credentials.
- The implemented behavior matches `promptkit.md` with no known architecture,
  provenance, checkpoint, profile-precedence, or documentation gap.
- Any optional live evaluation is clearly separate from correctness testing.

## Open Questions

None. The roadmap decisions are sufficient to implement every stage without an
additional product or architecture choice.