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.
conformance/FLOWS.md defines setup, steps, captures and expectations, all observable at the contract boundary. flows.json carries setups (peer ids), fixed test keys, statute, scenario and explicit assign steps; scenarios.json holds the callback scenarios (the stub loads them). CONTRACT.md defines the case.assign response. Runner reads only the bundle and rejects undefined keys; new flow s-006 (held over cap). 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 |
||
|---|---|---|
| deploy/railiance | ||
| docs | ||
| examples | ||
| experiments/postfix-probe | ||
| history | ||
| 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