Mail Address Semantics is a voluntary convention for naming people, actors and functions, and for addressing resources, facets, and optional interaction preferences through ordinary email addresses while keeping classification, authority, authentication, equivalence, and delivery implementation explicit and external to the address syntax.
- EmailMode slave role: master-issued case ids, events to the master, sends only on instruction or autonomous policy, transfers blocked or to a primed webhook, timeouts left to the master; principle 10 refusals reported back. - conformance/flows.json (13 flows) + mas_modes.runner; mas test runs the mode corpus (172/172). - SCP-8 / v0.2 section 7.1: !MODE requests a handoff defined by the mode contract. docs/reuse-surface.md. - Deploy image copies mas_modes (ticket service imports its mailer). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Assistant: claude-code Assistant-Model: opus Assistant-Process: 5787@bnt-lap001 Assistant-Session: 5db26b82-138b-40cc-9856-4d5eb0f752fd |
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| deploy/railiance | ||
| docs | ||
| examples | ||
| experiments/postfix-probe | ||
| integrations | ||
| mas-modes-v0.1-spec | ||
| mas-v0.1-spec | ||
| mas-v0.2-spec | ||
| mas_cli | ||
| mas_conformance | ||
| mas_core | ||
| mas_gateway | ||
| mas_modes | ||
| tests | ||
| workplans | ||
| .custodian-brief.md | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| AGENTS.md | ||
| INTENT.md | ||
| pyproject.toml | ||
| README.md | ||
| SCOPE.md | ||
| WORK-RECORDS.md | ||
mail-address-semantics
Mail Address Semantics is a voluntary convention for naming people, actors and functions, and for addressing resources, facets, and optional interaction preferences through ordinary email addresses while keeping classification, authority, authentication, equivalence, and delivery implementation explicit and external to the address syntax.
This repo holds the normative MAS v0.1 bundle (mas-v0.1-spec/) and a Python
reference experiment (see INTENT.md and workplans/MAS-WP-0002-*).
Parsing is local and deterministic. Discovery is networked. Policy is pure. Delivery remains external.
Layout
| Path | Role |
|---|---|
mas_core/ |
parser, model, generator, statute (schema + semantic lint + inheritance), discovery, policy |
mas_conformance/ |
Shared corpus: spec fixtures (vendored, drift-tested), property cases, statute cases |
mas_cli/ |
mas parse / explain / discover / compose / lint-statute / test |
mas_gateway/ |
Generic inbound mail → MAS event → HTTP (pipe for MTAs, webhook for providers) |
mas_modes/ |
Mode contract v0.1: email side as master or slave (email_mode), callback stub, stub outside master, flow runner |
mas-modes-v0.1-spec/ |
Mode contract bundle: CONTRACT.md, schemas (contract + gateway event), conformance flows |
examples/statute/ |
Static /.well-known/mas for great-service.example + tiny server |
examples/ticket_service/ |
Reference app proving create / correlate / closed / unknown |
docs/experiment-review.md |
Milestone 9 findings |
docs/reuse-surface.md |
What a multimodal framework can depend on |
Quick start
uv venv && uv pip install -e '.[test]'
.venv/bin/pytest # full suite, offline (Postfix probe needs Docker)
.venv/bin/mas test # conformance corpus
.venv/bin/mas explain 'ticket!callback@great-service.example' \
--statute examples/statute/great-service.example/.well-known/mas
.venv/bin/mas lint-statute examples/statute/great-service.example/.well-known/mas
.venv/bin/mas compose mas.coulomb.social ticket=GS-1 --facet comments --for google-groups \
--statute examples/statute/mas.coulomb.social/.well-known/mas # canonical + forwarder-safe
Local end-to-end run:
python examples/ticket_service/ticket_service.py --db /tmp/t.sqlite3 & # :8025
mas-gateway --statute examples/statute/great-service.example/.well-known/mas \
pipe --recipient 'ticket!callback@great-service.example' \
--app-url http://127.0.0.1:8025/mas-events < message.eml
curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8025/outbox