Use when a host needs current Telos workbench readiness and next actions. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON action envelope.

Use before demos, listings, or agent runs to check local Telos operator-spine health. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns JSON check results.

Use when an agent needs the current five-flagship room summary before routing work. Read-only and zero-auth. Requires the sibling gather, crucible, index, and forum source checkouts next to this repo plus a local python interpreter; without them it returns an UNVERIFIABLE envelope naming the missing dependency rather than a live summary. Returns a JSON action envelope.

Use when validating the local five-flagship golden workflow from source checkouts. Read-only and zero-auth, no external side effects beyond local subprocess reads. Requires the sibling gather, crucible, index, and forum source checkouts next to this repo plus a local python interpreter; without them it returns an UNVERIFIABLE envelope naming the missing dependency rather than running the workflow. Returns JSON receipts and verdict counts.

Use when a host needs the provider-neutral catalog of Project Telos MCP tools and next actions. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON catalog.

Use when configuring MCP clients for gather, index, forum, crucible, and telos source checkouts. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON server manifest.

Use when a host must compare loaded MCP servers against expected versions, tools, and probes. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns JSON MATCH, DRIFT, or UNVERIFIABLE freshness receipts.

Use when a host needs GitHub Actions runtime, action-major, and latest five-flagship CI compatibility receipts. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON CI doctor register.

Use when a host needs to separate fatal GitHub Actions gate failures from Node runtime migration warnings before routing remediation. Read-only, no external side effects, and no external writes. Supports zero-auth offline fixture packets and live gh run intake through the CLI using local gh auth when required. Returns JSON MATCH, DRIFT, or UNVERIFIABLE CI triage receipts.

Use when a host needs five-flagship README, changelog, and brand-asset presentation parity receipts. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns JSON MATCH, DRIFT, or UNVERIFIABLE presentation receipts.

Use when a host needs static HTML accessibility, reduced-motion, keyboard, and canvas-fallback receipts for Telos Studio surfaces. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns JSON MATCH, DRIFT, or UNVERIFIABLE accessibility receipts.

Use when a host needs static Studio performance, efficiency, asset-budget, and embedding receipts. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns JSON MATCH, DRIFT, or UNVERIFIABLE performance receipts.

Use when a host needs CLI, MCP, protocol, manifest, and integration compatibility receipts. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns JSON MATCH, DRIFT, or UNVERIFIABLE compatibility receipts.

Use when a host needs README, status, catalog, manifest, CI, and current-state discoverability receipts for the Telos operator surface. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns JSON MATCH, DRIFT, or UNVERIFIABLE operator receipts.

Use when designing trace fields that keep action admission separate from verification verdicts. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON telemetry convention.

Use when large-workspace context needs readable source refs, budgets, and receipt chains. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON context-envelope convention.

Use when preparing a bounded handoff packet for large-codebase agent work. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a validated JSON context pack with hashes and verdicts.

Use when modeling proposed action, admission, execution, review, and compensation records. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON action-receipt interface.

Use when an agent loop needs durable state across fresh contexts and bounded scheduled runs. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON loop-ledger convention.

Use when checking whether proxy metrics are drifting away from real agent or build objectives. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns JSON objective-monitor signals.

Use when planning model-foundry work across hosted, local, open-weight, post-training, and verifier gates. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON model-foundry contract.

Use when video, channel, paper, and benchmark leads need to become receipt-backed learning labs before synthesis. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON Learning Forge packet.

Use when Learning Forge source leads need executable lab contracts with measurements, failure cases, and five-flagship ownership. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON Learning Forge labs packet.

Use when terse research notes need source-backed seed packets before synthesis. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns JSON research seeds with provenance status.

Use when exploring thermodynamic or stochastic AI-chip research through public transcript evidence. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON research receipt with verification labels.

Use when collecting rendering leads for clustered-forward, Gaussian splatting, creative coding, and graphics demos. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns JSON research seeds.

Use when a host must choose WebGPU, WebGL, canvas, or static rendering fallbacks for Studio surfaces. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON renderer capability contract.

Use when visual, splat, lighting, dither, audio, uncertainty, or frame-budget evidence needs meters. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns JSON measurement layers.

Use when presenting the Telos Creative Engine across generative art, sound, typography, media, CGI, math, and physics lanes. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON creative-engine manifest.

Use when deterministic creative primitives are needed for dithering, pixel sorting, plotter paths, or clustered-light bins. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns JSON creative kernels.

Use when deciding which older, siloed, or frozen local tools should be promoted into flagship lanes. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON revival registry.

Use when assessing public-safe second-level flagship candidates before registry promotion. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON second-level flagship queue.

Use when a host needs public-safe aggregate intake for local workstation repositories and private/local lane families. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON workstation substrate register.

Use when display, color, ICC/LUT, artifact refs, or measurement gates need a non-mutating calibration contract. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON display-calibration contract.

Use when a host needs the Telos native background-control capability catalog for browser (Chrome DevTools Protocol) and native-app (Windows UI Automation) actuation. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON capability and verb catalog.

Use when a host needs the synthetic browser evidence fixture for contract inspection. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns a JSON browser-evidence packet marked unredacted; URL and title context is retained.

Use when a host needs fixture-backed OSS Proof Showcase candidate rankings before public patch work. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects. Returns JSON scout results.

Use when a host needs the fixture-backed agent-action proof packet joining source refs, context refs, route, admission, side effects, output digests, verifier checks, and the Emet witness stage. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects beyond local subprocess reads. Returns a JSON agent-action proof packet.

Use when a host needs the fixture-backed research-claim proof packet joining source provenance, a bounded claim, a required negative control fixture, attempt records, recomputed source digests, and a promotion rung the verifier derives rather than trusts. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects beyond local subprocess reads. Returns a JSON research-claim proof packet.

Use when a host needs the fixture-backed visual-truth proof packet whose color and luminance measurements are recomputed from the artifact's own embedded sRGB samples, with a read-only boundary and no physical-calibration overclaim. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects beyond local subprocess reads. Returns a JSON visual-truth proof packet.

Use when a host needs the fixture-backed build scientific-runtime proof packet whose conserved-quantity invariant and conservation drift are recomputed from the run's own embedded samples with stdlib math, checked within bounded tolerances, and controlled by a required negative fixture that must break the invariant. Read-only, zero-auth, no external side effects beyond local subprocess reads. Returns a JSON build proof packet.