# SCOPE

> Boundary for agents and contributors working in Core Hub.

## One-Liner

Core Hub is the 3rd-generation production interaction framework for Coulomb / Helixforge.

## Core Idea

Core Hub is the contract-first Python/FastAPI/Postgres framework that replaced
the Haskell/IHP Inter-Hub implementation for cross-domain state, agent
coordination, evidence, registry facts, workplans, and operator interaction
surfaces.

## In Scope

- Core Hub intent, research, specs, and implementation workplans
- Contract/IR definition for hubs, manifests, widgets, events, tasks, progress, messages, decisions, and registry facts
- FastAPI/Postgres implementation planning and eventual service code
- Maintaining the production `/api/v2` compatibility contract inherited from
  Inter-Hub
- Relocating the current Core Hub runtime across production hosts without
  coupling continuity to future framework consolidation
- Operator UI and whynot-design aligned component/adaptor planning
- Evidence-preserving maintenance of the completed Inter-Hub migration and
  Haskell/IHP retirement record

## Out of Scope

- Continuing to act as a generic repo template
- Owning every downstream domain hub implementation
- Storing or vending secrets directly
- Rewriting unrelated consumers before the Core Hub compatibility contract exists
- Reintroducing the retired Inter-Hub runtime as an active production path

## Ecosystem position

| Repo | Boundary |
| --- | --- |
| `hub-core` | Shared library today; any permanent host is an explicit future architecture decision |
| `state-hub` | Dev coordination canonical owner for workplans/tasks until ADR says otherwise |
| `core-hub` | This repo — `/api/v2`, framework tables, operator console |

See `/home/worsch/the-custodian/docs/hub-ecosystem-architecture.md`.

## Non-Goals

- Recreate IHP abstractions in Python
- Bind the UI contract to React or any single frontend framework
- Make State Hub disappear before Core Hub proves a compatible replacement path
- Duplicating hub-core router factories or dev-hub workplan tables locally
- Making the unresolved hub-core library-vs-thin-host decision merely to meet
  a host-decommission deadline