---
id: FLUID-WP-0003
type: workplan
title: "Deterministic data plane (Blueprint Phase A)"
domain: infotech
repo: fluid-core
status: active
owner: worsch
topic_slug: fluid-core
created: "2026-09-04"
updated: "2026-09-04"
planning_priority: high
planning_order: 2
depends_on:
  - FLUID-WP-0002
---

# FLUID-WP-0003 - Deterministic data plane

The production request path. No AI, no analysis, no dependency on the control
plane. Blueprint §5 and §34: the gateway must keep serving when everything
above it is dead.

## T01 - Edge gateway

```task
id: FLUID-WP-0003-T01
status: todo
priority: high
```

Transport termination, correlation IDs, coarse rate limiting, request size and
shape limits. Blueprint §5.1 — the gateway must not invent interface semantics.

## T02 - Revision resolver

```task
id: FLUID-WP-0003-T02
status: todo
priority: high
```

The §5.2 precedence chain: explicit revision, bound client contract, experiment
assignment, stable default. Every resolution records its reason; resolution
without an auditable reason is a defect.

## T03 - Revision router

```task
id: FLUID-WP-0003-T03
status: todo
priority: high
```

Map a resolved revision to an adapter upstream. Reject unpublished, failed,
ineligible and retired revisions (§5.3). Allocation rules are deterministic and
read from routing policy the router does not author.

## T04 - Contract validator

```task
id: FLUID-WP-0003-T04
status: todo
priority: high
```

OpenAPI 3.1 request and response validation (§5.4). The contract digest is part
of the revision artifact and is content-addressed.

## T05 - Backend connector layer

```task
id: FLUID-WP-0003-T05
status: todo
priority: high
```

Timeout, retry, circuit breaker, error mapping, tenant propagation (§5.6). The
adapter is an upstream process reached over HTTP — this is where the
language-agnostic promise is kept.

## T06 - Response policy

```task
id: FLUID-WP-0003-T06
status: todo
priority: medium
```

Structured errors carrying a FLUID correlation reference, leaking no backend
detail (§5.7).

## T07 - Telemetry emitter

```task
id: FLUID-WP-0003-T07
status: todo
priority: high
```

Fire-and-forget emission. Blueprint §34.2 is a hard invariant: telemetry
backpressure must never block or slow a request. Test it under a stalled sink.

## T08 - Evidence store

```task
id: FLUID-WP-0003-T08
status: todo
priority: high
```

Append-only event storage, SQLite for development and Postgres-ready. Mutable
summaries exist only as derived views (§26).

## T09 - Intent store

```task
id: FLUID-WP-0003-T09
status: todo
priority: high
```

Bind every revision to an `InterfaceEvolutionIntent` version (§27), so audit can
later answer whether a change was valid under the intent that existed when it
was made.

## T10 - Operator CLI, first commands

```task
id: FLUID-WP-0003-T10
status: todo
priority: medium
```

`fluid revision create|publish|list`, `fluid intent show`, `fluid events tail`.