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tegwick 5f47da8036 CANP-WP-0006 T03: read API
Search, versions, manifests, archives and the index, over HTTP.

The route shape is the decision worth recording. Package ids contain `/`, so
the obvious /packages/{id}/{version} is ambiguous under a greedy path
parameter. Rather than invent an HTTP-specific identifier, the routes speak the
format's own <registry>:<id>@<version> syntax and parse it — `:` and `@` are
both legal in a path segment, and each route keeps a distinct prefix so
greediness cannot swallow a neighbouring one. The API therefore exercises
section 3.2's reference notation instead of working around it.

A bare id present in more than one registry returns 409 with the candidates,
never a guess. 409 rather than 300 because the request is answerable once the
caller says which registry they meant. Omitting a version applies section
17.1's selector rules, so a prerelease is never chosen implicitly.

Validation is delegated to reference/, installed into the service environment
rather than reimplemented. One validator means the service and the CLI cannot
disagree about what a valid package is; a service accepting something the CLI
rejects would be the divergence this project exists to prevent. Importing it is
not changing it — reference/ stays the dependency-light conformance witness.

Storage keeps the format's distinctions: an immutable package version, its
files as content rather than parsed rows, and an index entry recording arrival.
Only reserved paths and manifest-referenced files are stored (section 2), and a
re-publish of identical content is accepted while different content under the
same id@version is a conflict (section 17).

Handles a real test-vs-production difference: SQLite autoincrements INTEGER
PRIMARY KEY only, never BIGINT, so the SQLite-backed tests could not insert a
row. BigInteger().with_variant(Integer, "sqlite") keeps BIGINT on PostgreSQL
while letting the tests exercise the same models and migration.

Verified live against a seeded store holding this repo's examples and four
helix-forge prompt packages. Service tests 11 -> 22.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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---
id: CANP-WP-0006
type: workplan
title: "Hosted registry and index service"
domain: agents
repo: canned-prompts
status: active
owner: codex
topic_slug: practice
created: "2026-09-06"
updated: "2026-09-06"
state_hub_workstream_id: "70c069e9-7abe-569a-aee2-ffcd15e8970d"
---
# Hosted registry and index service
Toward a production deployment on railiance01 as `rapp-canned-prompts`.
**Sequencing finding.** A `rapp-*` repo packages and operates a deployable its
`ownership_repo` already produces — `declarations/rapp.yaml` pins
`upstream_components.version` to a container digest. `canned-prompts` has no
deployable: a CLI module with no HTTP surface, no image, no database. A rapp
whose `upstream_components` points at nothing is a stub that tells the fleet's
tooling a deployment exists when none does. The service comes first.
**Decisions (operator, 2026-09-06):**
- *Hosted registry plus index* is the v1 surface. § 20 already permits an HTTP
registry and § 20.3's index is the query surface, so this validates INTENT
principle 10's "registry-ready" claim rather than inventing a new concept.
- *The service lives in `canned-prompts`*, so `rapp.yaml` gets
`ownership_repo: canned-prompts` — the `sbom-nexus` shape, where product
ownership stays out of the operations repo.
- *Platform service, tenant-keyed regardless.* Deployed as a platform service
like `sbom-nexus`, but all owned data is keyed by tenant from the first
migration. `business-app-service-contract_v0.1` § 1.3 makes that mandatory so
a later consolidation is a data-copy rather than a rewrite; a collaborative
prompting platform will need it, and retrofitting is the expensive path.
- *Service first, rapp when there is a digest to pin.*
**Stack**, matching `state-hub` and `sbom-nexus`: FastAPI, uvicorn, SQLAlchemy,
Alembic, Pydantic, PostgreSQL. `RailianceAppDeploymentGuide.md` additionally
requires unauthenticated `/healthz` and `/readyz`.
**Boundary.** The service hosts packages; it does not become an agent runtime.
`INTENT.md`'s deliberate boundary still holds — no model execution, no
orchestration. Rendering stays deterministic, and `derive` stays a declaration
the service does not satisfy.
## Service skeleton and health surface
```task
id: CANP-WP-0006-T01
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "6e4178f0-a431-59de-8bd1-fb5b2de95302"
```
A `service/` package inside this repo: FastAPI application factory, settings
via pydantic-settings, and the health surface the deployment guide requires —
unauthenticated `/healthz` and `/readyz`, plus `/state/health` for consistency
with `state-hub` and `sbom-nexus`.
`/readyz` must actually check the database, not return 200 unconditionally. A
readiness probe that cannot fail is a liveness probe with a misleading name.
Keep `reference/` untouched. It is the format's conformance witness and must
stay dependency-light; the service is a separate consumer of the same package
semantics.
**Done.** `service/` with a FastAPI factory, pydantic-settings config, and the
three endpoints. `CANNED_PROMPTS_DATABASE_URL` has no default, so a
misconfigured service refuses to start rather than quietly using a local
database.
**Bug found by its own test.** `check_readiness` first caught every failure in
one `except` and reported "database unreachable". An unmigrated but perfectly
reachable database therefore reported a connection problem — sending an
operator to credentials and networking when the fix was `alembic upgrade`.
Connectivity and schema are now checked separately.
## Tenant-keyed schema and first migration
```task
id: CANP-WP-0006-T02
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "bc0e4a49-63b1-5fa1-9ec9-5ed0f505baa1"
```
Alembic migration `0001` creating the store. Every table holding owned data
carries a tenant key from this migration onward — packages, versions, and index
entries — per the service contract § 1.3. No business logic may assume it is
the only tenant (§ 1.4).
Model the three things the format already distinguishes, and do not conflate
them:
- **package version** — immutable content addressed by `<id>@<version>`
(§ 17), scoped to a registry because identity is registry-scoped (§ 3.2);
- **index entry** — how a version arrived in this store (§ 20.3): source,
method, `included_at` which is never overwritten, `last_seen_at`;
- **manifest fields** worth indexing for discovery — name, summary, tags,
license, type.
Store package files as content, not as rows per file.
**Done.** Migration `0001` creates `package_versions`, `package_files` and
`index_entries`; a test asserts every table in the metadata carries `tenant`, so
adding an unkeyed table fails the suite rather than being noticed at
consolidation time. Uniqueness is `(tenant, registry, package_id, version)`.
## Read API
```task
id: CANP-WP-0006-T03
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "0ae11e65-68b0-543c-b8fa-f3188a4d239a"
```
`GET /packages` (search over id, name, summary, tags), `GET /packages/{id}`
(versions), `GET /packages/{id}/{version}` (manifest),
`GET /packages/{id}/{version}/archive` (the package files), and
`GET /index` (§ 20.3 entries).
Ambiguity is reported, never guessed (§ 3.2): a bare id matching packages from
more than one registry returns the candidates, not a choice.
**Done**, with the route shape worth recording. Package ids contain `/`, so the
obvious `/packages/{id}/{version}` is ambiguous under a greedy path parameter.
Rather than invent an HTTP-specific identifier, the routes speak the format's
own `<registry>:<id>@<version>` syntax and parse it — `:` and `@` are both legal
in a path segment, each route keeps a distinct prefix, and the API therefore
tests § 3.2's reference notation rather than working around it.
Ambiguity returns **409 with the candidates**, not 300: the request is
answerable once the caller says which registry they meant. Omitting a version
applies § 17.1's selectors, so a prerelease is never chosen implicitly.
Validation is delegated to `reference/`, installed into the service
environment rather than reimplemented. One validator means the service and the
CLI cannot disagree about what a valid package is — a service accepting
something the CLI rejects would be exactly the divergence this project exists to
prevent. Importing it is not changing it; `reference/` stays the
dependency-light conformance witness.
**Test-vs-production difference found and handled.** SQLite autoincrements
`INTEGER PRIMARY KEY` only, never `BIGINT`, so the SQLite-backed tests could not
insert a row. `BigInteger().with_variant(Integer, "sqlite")` keeps `BIGINT` on
PostgreSQL, where this actually runs, while letting the tests exercise the same
models and the same migration.
## Publish API
```task
id: CANP-WP-0006-T04
status: todo
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "929932b6-931b-5409-a648-b6814f07f0b4"
```
`POST /packages` accepting a package, validating it with the same rules as the
CLI, and refusing a re-publish of an existing `<id>@<version>` with different
content (§ 17). Strict packaging applies: reserved paths and manifest-referenced
files only (§ 2).
Namespace policy (§ 20.1) is enforced here rather than advised, because unlike a
filesystem registry a service *can* authenticate a publisher. Note what identity
mechanism it uses; if there is none yet, say so and refuse writes rather than
accepting anonymous publishes into a closed namespace.
## HTTP registry in the reference CLI
```task
id: CANP-WP-0006-T05
status: todo
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "8dacbb68-aaa2-5f91-942d-a0667f1f1fc7"
```
Teach `--registry` to accept an `https://` URL, so `publish` and `install` work
against the service. § 20 already allows an HTTP registry; this is the first
implementation of one, and the first real test of whether package semantics
survive a transport change unmodified — which is what INTENT principle 10
claims.
If they do not survive it, that is a finding about the format, not a bug to
paper over in the client.
## Image and smoke contract
```task
id: CANP-WP-0006-T06
status: todo
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "3c008ebe-bf07-5cee-8678-7b1ed27283ef"
```
Dockerfile and a published image, plus the checks a `rapp` smoke contract will
assert: health ok, migration at head, private service only, image digest match.
Completing this produces the digest that `rapp-canned-prompts` needs to pin, at
which point that repo can be created against something real.