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# LLM Runtime Internals
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`internal/framework/llm` is Notarius’s provider-independent structured
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completion boundary. It adapts framework requests to PromptKit, bounds
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provider calls, assembles registered prompt and schema assets, records selected
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profiles, and redacts provider errors. The architectural boundary is defined in
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[Architecture](../policy/architecture.md#llm-boundary); profile sources,
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credentials, and concurrency settings belong in
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[Configuration](../config.md#promptkit-profiles) and
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[Configuration](../config.md#concurrency-output-cache-and-debug).
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## Structured Completion Boundary
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Modules and LLM-backed validators depend only on
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`contracts.StructuredLLMClient`. A completion request supplies a prompt ID and
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version, optional profile and session IDs, named input material, variables, and
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a caller-owned decode target. The successful response returns the validated raw
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structured bytes together with non-secret provider, model, profile, and token
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metadata.
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The caller owns the domain behavior: it chooses the prompt, prepares inputs,
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selects the private response schema, and interprets the decoded result. The
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adapter does not own source evidence, artifact conversion, normalization, or
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durable schemas. Those responsibilities remain with the module and its
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[integration contract](../integrations/).
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`PromptKitClient` validates the request target and prompt identity, maps each
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named material to a PromptKit inline artifact while preserving its origin URI,
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maps the request session to the existing `session_id` prompt variable, forwards
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profile selection, then prepares and runs the prompt. PromptKit v0.1.0 has no
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direct request-level session field. The adapter returns PromptKit’s validated
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raw bytes rather than re-encoding the decoded target. An empty optional
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material is represented as one space so its named input is retained by
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PromptKit.
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An empty request profile lets the prompt select its configured default. The CLI
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prepares every explicitly selected binding profile before a run begins, so a
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missing explicit profile fails before stage execution. Calls record the profile
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actually selected by PromptKit; the recorder deduplicates non-secret profile
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identity, provider, and model values for manifest use. Successful completion
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responses and recorded profile manifests identify the adapter provider as
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`promptkit`.
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Before execution, the adapter also contributes a non-secret checkpoint
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fingerprint for the effective PromptKit profile source. It combines the
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identity of PromptKit's compiled-in profile catalog with a deterministic digest
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of every YAML profile in the configured profile directory, or of the configured
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profile file. The fingerprint contains neither profile content nor source
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paths. It covers both explicit binding profiles and prompt-selected defaults,
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so changing a model or other profile setting cannot reuse checkpoints created
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under the prior profile source. This cache identity is independent of durable
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profile provenance: run manifests continue to list only profiles actually
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observed during LLM calls.
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## Shared Provider-Call Limit
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Production construction creates one PromptKit client and wraps it in one
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scheduled client. The scheduler has a fixed, positive permit limit, serves
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queued calls in FIFO order, and removes a queued call when its context is
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cancelled. A granted permit is released exactly once on every completion path.
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The scheduled wrapper surrounds every `CompleteStructured` call, so concurrent
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lanes, pipeline retries, and LLM-backed validators share the same provider-call
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ceiling. This ceiling is independent of pipeline worker concurrency; changing
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worker counts cannot exceed the configured LLM limit. The configuration field
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and its effective default are owned by
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[Configuration](../config.md#concurrency-output-cache-and-debug).
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## Prompt And Schema Assets
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An `AssetRegistry` collects prompt and schema filesystems from production module
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families. It flattens registered roots into the PromptKit filesystems and
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rejects invalid roots, unreadable assets, duplicate paths, and missing prompt
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or schema files during preparation. The framework’s `promptfs` helper combines
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module-owned prompt files with reusable domain fragments without making the
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framework depend on D&D content.
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Each LLM-backed module owns its prompt declaration, package-specific assets,
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and private response schema. Shared D&D wording is owned by the D&D shared
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asset package; the detailed D&D conventions are in
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[D&D Module Internals](dnd.md). The mounted prompt assets used by a module also
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determine its prompt fingerprint. Schema loaders validate JSON, attach identity
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and digest metadata, make defensive copies, and expose diagnostics without raw
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schema bytes.
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Private response schemas validate a model transport envelope. They are not the
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durable artifact schema and should not be documented as an external wire
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contract. Durable formats and compatibility rules remain in the
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[integration contracts](../integrations/).
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## Prompt Maintenance And Backend Caching
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Prompt message order and shared asset bytes are runtime behavior. Backend cache
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reuse depends on identical preceding roles, rendered bytes, and cache-control
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metadata—not merely equivalent meaning. Keep reusable shared assets
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byte-identical and preserve each prompt’s declared ordering and cache controls
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when editing it.
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For sibling prompts that can reuse the same source material, order universal
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shared context first, request source material next, and module-specific
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suffixes last. Put a cache boundary at a reusable prefix that is useful to the
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backend. Redundant intermediate cache boundaries do not extend that reusable
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prefix and add no value.
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Prompt-family owners may choose a different sequence when their inputs and
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reuse pattern differ. The D&D family’s extraction, scene-chunking, and NPC
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normalization policies are maintained in [D&D Module Internals](dnd.md#prompt-construction).
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Do not add tests that enforce prompt prose; prompt tests should verify the
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meaningful input placement and cache controls of the prompt being changed.
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## Validation, Repair, And Retries
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PromptKit performs prompt rendering, provider execution, and the prompt’s
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structured-output validation. The adapter reports an empty result, validation
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failure, empty structured body, or decode failure as
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`ErrInvalidStructuredOutput`, while retaining the returned raw bytes and debug
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material when they exist. Provider failures remain operational errors rather
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than output-validation failures.
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Prompt-declared repair is executed within PromptKit’s structured-output flow.
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The current production D&D prompt manifests set repair attempts to zero. That
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setting does not replace pipeline retry behavior: a binding’s configured retry
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count reruns its stage attempt after an error or rejection, and an exhausted
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rejection is a recorded output rather than a provider error. The pipeline owns
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attempt lifecycle, validation chains, and retry diagnostics; see
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[Pipeline Internals](pipeline.md#validation-retries-and-output) and the
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[binding reference](../config.md#module-bindings-and-validators).
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## Timeout Ownership
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The caller context remains the outer cancellation authority. PromptKit applies
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a positive effective generation timeout as an inner request deadline; an
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explicit zero disables only that generation deadline. The HTTP client timeout
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is a separate transport-wide cap. Notarius forwards the caller context and
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does not install another timeout wrapper around PromptKit.
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The selected PromptKit profile owns generation settings. Notarius binding
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retries remain outside the adapter and repeat the complete module operation
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and validation chain. PromptKit v0.1.0 does not add a provider retry loop.
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Operator-facing behavior is summarized in
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[Operations](../operations.md#operational-limits), and the pinned upstream
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contract is identified in
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[PromptKit Integration](../integrations/pkg-promptkit.md).
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## Observability And Redaction
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When debug recording is enabled, the pipeline decorates the shared client. The
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wrapper records prepared prompt and response material, timing, selected profile
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and model, and call identifiers in the run’s debug bundle, including material
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available from a failed structured completion. For a successful completion, a
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debug-write failure is surfaced; when the completion already failed, its call
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error remains the result. Debug-bundle location, retention, and handling are
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operational concerns documented in [Operations](../operations.md#debug-bundles).
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Run manifests receive selected profile summaries and component identities, not
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prompt, schema, source, reference, or response content. Provider error text is
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wrapped with prompt context and bearer credentials are redacted before it
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crosses the runtime boundary. Known-secret redaction is available to other
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runtime collaborators; it does not make prompt or response contents safe for
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general logging.
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## Failure Boundaries
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- Construction fails for missing asset registries, mutually exclusive profile
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sources, invalid asset registration, or a non-positive scheduler limit.
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- Preparation failures, unavailable explicit profiles, provider failures, and
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context cancellation propagate to the calling stage with context.
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- Malformed or schema-invalid provider output is classified separately as
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invalid structured output so the module or pipeline can apply its own retry
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and rejection policy.
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- Domain semantic checks, evidence decisions, and deterministic normalization
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run outside the provider adapter.
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## Focused Verification
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Read the LLM adapter, scheduler, asset registry, schema loader, and redaction
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tests when changing this boundary. Prompt changes also require the owning
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module’s asset tests, and retry or debug changes require focused pipeline or
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CLI coverage. The focused runtime and D&D checks are:
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~~~sh
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go test ./internal/framework/llm/... ./internal/modules/dnd/...
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~~~
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