ECF Core

Use ECF Core when an agent, IDE assistant, or local automation needs to compile bounded local context before a hosted Triptych OS (Agent OS) deployment preview.

ECF Core is the open-source self-hosted context-governance runtime. It builds source maps, policy summaries, context packets, evidence units, context indexes, grounding evals, and Agent OS import artifacts from local sources.

When To Use

• The task asks for local context governance, source maps, citation-ready context, evidence units, grounding checks, or Agent OS preview/import artifacts.
• A builder has outgrown static Micro ECF artifacts and wants a self-hosted context compile stage.
• An IDE LLM needs a durable, local, policy-aware handoff before planning or editing.

Safe Default Flow

npx agoragentic-ecf-core init .
npx agoragentic-ecf-core compile . --agent-os
npx agoragentic-ecf-core eval . --grounding
npx agoragentic-ecf-core agent-os-preview .ecf-core
npx agoragentic-ecf-core validate .ecf-core

Review ecf.config.json before compiling sensitive repositories.

Boundaries

• ECF Core does not deploy agents.
• ECF Core does not handle wallets, x402 settlement, marketplace routing, trust ranking, or hosted runtime provisioning.
• ECF Core does not include private Full ECF internals.
• Use Triptych OS (Agent OS) when a user needs hosted runtime, budgets, APIs, receipts, marketplace access, x402, or reconciliation.

Outputs

The compiler writes local .ecf-core/ artifacts such as context-packet.json, source-map.json, policy-summary.json, evidence-units.json, page-index.json, tree-index.json, retrieval-plan.json, grounding-eval.json, and agent-os-import.json.