promptkit/docs/internal/overview.md

# Internal Component Overview

## Purpose

This document inventories Promptkit's implemented components for contributors.
The [architecture policy](../policy/architecture.md) owns durable boundary and
dependency rules. See the [development guide](../development.md) for
contributor workflow and validation.

## Implemented Components

| Component | Implemented responsibility | References |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Root `promptkit` package | Provides the supported engine facade, ConfigKit source helpers, profile and backend mapping conveniences, injection options, public requests and results, prompt/profile/requirement inspection and identity listing, concrete-request validation, explicit smoke diagnostics, observation values, opaque prepared-execution handles, value conversion, redacted formatting, and typed capacity and generation error mapping. | [Package GoDoc](../../doc.go), [observations](../../observations.go), [prepared execution](../../prepared_execution.go), [backend API](../../backends.go), [engine facade](../../engine.go), [smoke diagnostics](../../smoke_diagnostics.go), [identity listing](../../listing.go), [requirement facade](../../requirements.go) |
| `examples/go-library/prepare` | Demonstrates offline preparation and explicit configuration inspection with a prompt file, programmatic profile, and inline input. It is not a public library package. | [Example program](../../examples/go-library/prepare/main.go) |
| `examples/go-library/run` | Demonstrates an offline downstream consumer using a prompt file, programmatic profile, inline input, an injected deterministic model client, and `Run`. It is not a public library package. | [Example program](../../examples/go-library/run/main.go) |
| `examples/go-library/observe` | Demonstrates offline built-in HTTP retry and synchronous metadata observation across structured proposal and assessment runs using embedded sources, two profiles on one finite backend, and an application decision. It is not a public library package. | [Example program](../../examples/go-library/observe/main.go) |
| `internal/backend` | Holds a defensive, immutable lookup of final backend definitions, including diagnostic metadata, plus capacity policies validated by the configuration adapter. | [Backend registry](../../internal/backend/registry.go) |
| `internal/configuration` | Loads keyed backend, profile, and prompt configuration through ConfigKit; records effective field presence, validates final values including optional diagnostic metadata, captures indexed prompt definitions, referenced message content, compiled templates, input metadata snapshots, sorted identity-only profile and prompt inventories, backend and presence-aware profile snapshots, and an explicit read-only inspection view. | [Typed loader](../../internal/configuration/load.go), [identity listing](../../internal/configuration/listing.go), [internal sources](sources.md#typed-configuration-loading) |
| `internal/capacity` | Owns engine-local bounded execution admission and FIFO model-generation permits for limited backend IDs, including cancellation-safe waiter removal and client wrapping. | [Internal capacity management](capacity.md) |
| `internal/domain` | Defines internal framework values for requests, artifacts, prompt definitions, requirement inspection, profiles, execution targets, rendering, generation, validation, and source-neutral smoke diagnostics, and owns source-neutral invariants for shared execution settings, OpenAI-compatible base endpoints, session identifiers, output contracts, and resource-identity syntax and qualification. Source parsing, required fields, other source-specific normalization, defaulting, and boundary-specific error classification remain with their callers. | [Domain declarations](../../internal/domain/domain.go), [requirement values](../../internal/domain/requirements.go), [endpoint invariant](../../internal/domain/endpoint.go) |
| `internal/engine` | Assembles caller-selected configuration into one snapshot, then constructs shared capacity, rendering, validation, generation, repair, the ordinary runner, and the smoke tester for each engine. Built-in engines provide the diagnostic HTTP collaborator; injected-client engines do not. It delegates identity listing directly to the captured configuration inventory rather than the runner. | [Engine assembly](../../internal/engine/engine.go), [internal sources](sources.md#typed-configuration-loading), [internal runner](runner.md) |
| `internal/generation` | Coordinates frozen built-in HTTP attempts and one-shot injected calls through active backend permits, including bounded status retries, cancellable backoff, ordinary attempt observations, and invocation-local evidence for diagnostics. | [Internal generation coordination](generation.md) |
| `internal/defaults` | Defines application-neutral framework constants and constructs the default execution target. It contains no CLI, server, or inbound HTTP limits. | [Framework defaults](../../internal/defaults/defaults.go) |
| `internal/filecatalog` | Provides deterministic YAML discovery and path helpers for operating-system filesystems and `fs.FS` sources. | [File catalog](../../internal/filecatalog/catalog.go) |
| `internal/jsonvalue` | Validates and deeply copies bounded JSON-compatible extra-parameter and prepared-schema trees while preserving supported concrete value types and rejecting cycles or excessive depth and work. | [JSON values](../../internal/jsonvalue/jsonvalue.go) |
| `internal/promptdef` | Provides a narrow captured-prompt lookup contract, not-found identity, and execution-ready definition hash. | [Prompt lookup](../../internal/promptdef/repository.go), [framework formats](../formats.md) |
| `internal/profile` | Provides a narrow captured-profile lookup contract and not-found identity. | [Profile lookup](../../internal/profile/repository.go), [framework formats](../formats.md) |
| `internal/prompt` | Renders prompt messages from Go templates with artifact, variable, session, and cache-control data, and conservatively enumerates dependencies from captured template syntax. | [Go-template renderer](../../internal/prompt/go_renderer.go), [requirement discovery](../../internal/prompt/requirements.go) |
| `internal/artifact` | Resolves ordinary inline and unrestricted caller-selected file references into copied artifacts with metadata and hashes. | [Internal sources and validation](sources.md) |
| `internal/validate` | Validates basic, JSON, and JSON Schema output using operating-system filesystem or `fs.FS` schema sources and creates operation-local validation plans with canonical contained schema resources. | [Framework formats](../formats.md#schemas), [internal sources and validation](sources.md) |
| `internal/llm` | Defines the internal generation boundary and implements outbound OpenAI-compatible chat requests from resolved execution targets, including bounded response decoding, authentication, deadline handling, per-invocation HTTP evidence and built-in diagnostic probes, and ownership of the OpenAI-compatible reserved request-field policy. | [Internal model client](llm.md) |
| `internal/observation` | Owns invocation-local run IDs, presence-aware usage and phase accounting, and synchronous metadata event delivery for ordinary and claimed prepared runs and generation attempts; smoke diagnostics keep their private evidence outside ordinary observer events. | [Internal execution observation](observation.md) |
| `internal/usecase` | Selects captured prompts and profiles, enumerates requirements from captured prompt syntax, applies request overrides and completion checks, coordinates ordinary and single-claim prepared execution across rendering, artifact loading, operation-local validation plans, generation, capacity, and bounded repair, and runs explicit smoke diagnostics with private cases, shared generation/capacity, and optional built-in HTTP probes. | [Internal runner](runner.md), [requirement inspection](../../internal/usecase/requirements_inspection.go), [prepared-execution implementation](../../internal/usecase/prepared_execution.go) |

The internal engine assembles these internal components without exposing their
representations. Consumers depend only on the root facade.

## Maintenance

Update this inventory as implementation adds packages or changes component
responsibilities. List only implemented components; proposed package
boundaries belong in temporary planning documents until their implementation
lands.