PROOF MACHINE: run the ARIF Conformance Spine against the live kernel. Returns earned pass/fail verdicts for transport, session, and governance checks.

Lightweight liveness probe — confirms kernel reachability.

CANARY: Echo back what the client sent plus server's interpretation. Zero-floor transport diagnostic. Call with any payload and receive it back alongside the server's view. If what you sent does not equal what you received, the transport bridge is mangling your payload. No session, no actor, no governance.

CANARY: Return every transport-level detail the server observed: headers, protocol, source, transport hint. Zero-floor diagnostic. Use to debug why a specific client can connect while another cannot. No session, no actor, no governance.

Start or resume a governed constitutional session. Call this FIRST before any other tool in a new conversation. Modes: init (full binding, ~60s) | light (<1s bootstrap with tool pointers).

Search the web, ingest URLs, check system vitals, or map a repository. Use for gathering real-world data and grounding queries in reality. Modes: search | ingest | compass | atlas | entropy_dS | vitals | repo_map.

Fetch and preserve external evidence with source citations. Use when a claim needs verified backing or factual grounding.

Multi-step reasoning, planning, and reflection with confidence labeling. Use for complex analysis, hypothesis evaluation, plan generation, and decision preparation. Modes: reason | reflect | verify | critique | plan | plan_review | plan_approve | refactor_plan | metabolize.

Assess ethical risks and human impact before acting. Use before irreversible, sensitive, or dignity-affecting actions. Modes: critique | simulate | empathize | redteam | maruah | deescalate | instruction_scan.

Route intent to the correct tool or federation organ. Use when unsure which tool to call next or how to delegate. Modes: route | stage | lane | list | status | surface_drift.

Canonical intent router. Routes a natural-language intent to the correct federation organ (GEOX, WEALTH, WELL, A-FORGE) or kernel tool. Use when you know what you want but not which tool to call.

Constitutional preflight check. Returns kernel status, current holds, and the correct lane for a proposed action before execution.

Kernel telemetry and discovery. Query live health, tool registry, and predictive readiness across the federation surface.

Low-level direct organ tool call. Bypasses intent routing — caller must specify organ and tool_name. Use only when both are known ahead of time. Canonical name follows arif__ convention (bridge=organ bridge, connect=verb).

[DEPRECATED — use arif_bridge_connect] Low-level direct organ tool call. Bypasses intent routing — caller must specify organ and tool_name. Retained for backward compatibility. Same implementation as arif_bridge_connect.

Live organ attestation. Verify identity, tool surface, and constitutional binding for one or all federation organs.

Lightweight kernel liveness probe. Returns reachability and constitutional runtime status with zero ceremony.

Compose the final response for the user. Call this LAST, after reasoning and judgment are complete. Modes: compose | style | cite | summary | format | nudge | repo_answer.

Search past sessions, assets, sealed events, or repositories. Use for retrieving historical context, prior decisions, and codebase knowledge. Modes: recall | store | get | list | context | repo_ingest | repo_search | manage (snapshot|consolidate|forget|replay|restore — EUREKA-A KernelState OS resource manager).

Bridge to other federation agents (GEOX, WEALTH, WELL, A-FORGE, AAA, APEX, cn-organ). Use for cross-organ tasks and multi-agent coordination.

Render final constitutional verdict on a proposed action. Use when a decision is ready for arbitration and binding judgment. Modes: judge | compare | history | explain | floor_status | witness_consensus.

Seal a verdict or outcome to the immutable audit ledger. Use for final, irreversible records that must be preserved forever.

Execute approved builds, deployments, or system changes. Use ONLY after arif_judge_deliberate has issued a SEAL verdict.

Check system health, thermodynamic state, and resource metrics. Use for operational status and metabolic monitoring. Modes: health | vitals | cost | predict | topology | drift | stack_health | budget.

CANARY: Return MCP protocol version, supported versions, and dialect hints. Zero-floor version probe. Use to detect version-dialect drift before attempting a full session init. No session, no actor, no governance.

CANARY: Test MCP initialize/initialized handshake without constitutional ceremony. Simulates protocol version negotiation per MCP spec 2025-11-25. Returns what a proper initialize response would look like. Use AFTER ping passes but BEFORE arif_session_init. If this works but session_init does not, the problem is in the session init schema, not transport. No session, no actor, no governance.