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Adds versioned profiles for pluggable trajectory processing. Profiles select built-in or third-party processors and their configuration. Latest-following callers pick up updates at the next trajectory; in-flight work and pinned plans retain their captured settings. Applications decide how profiles map to namespaces, agents, or users.

Python, REST, MCP, and CLI share an in-process ProcessingManager. Existing ingestion remains supported. The built-in GuidelineProcessor handles standard and fast/accurate consistency guidelines.

See the annotated diffs for the four architectural decisions and the generic runner, discovery, and built-in execution.

Key constraints:

  • Phoenix profile sync commits output and its completion marker atomically on filesystem/PostgreSQL. Other backends must implement the transaction capability. Locks span processing, including model calls; filesystem locks cover the data directory, PostgreSQL locks the namespace table. Direct processing/MCP calls do not automatically open transactions; external plugin/hook side effects are outside their scope.
  • Scope bindings are application-owned. Profiles use the existing configured database: PostgreSQL for PostgreSQL backends, otherwise Evolve’s SQLite metadata database. CLI/REST/MCP clients configured for the same database share revisions. Deployment hooks remain process-global.

Validation: 824 unit tests and 5 E2E tests passed, including CLI plugin discovery and live PostgreSQL tests for shared profile storage, revision conflicts, and processing rollback/concurrency. Filesystem tests cover crashes and retries. Full-project type checking, Ruff, and applicable pre-commit checks passed.

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Adds versioned trajectory processing with validated profiles, built-in and plugin processors, SQLite persistence, REST/MCP/CLI interfaces, Phoenix integration, provenance propagation, and configurable guideline runtime settings.

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Processing profiles

Layer / File(s) Summary
Processing contracts and runtime configuration
altk_evolve/processing/*, altk_evolve/config/guideline_runtime.py, altk_evolve/llm/guidelines/*
Adds processing models, processor contracts, built-in guideline processing, and injectable runtime options.
Profile storage and execution service
altk_evolve/processing/registry.py, altk_evolve/processing/repository.py, altk_evolve/processing/service.py
Adds processor discovery, revisioned repositories, profile validation, immutable plans, and trajectory execution.
Client and transport integrations
altk_evolve/frontend/*, altk_evolve/cli/*, altk_evolve/sync/phoenix_sync.py, altk_evolve/config/evolve.py
Adds processing to the client, REST, MCP, CLI, Phoenix sync, and configurable SQLite storage.
Conflict settings and provenance propagation
altk_evolve/backend/*, altk_evolve/llm/conflict_resolution/*
Forwards conflict settings and records processing provenance in entity updates.
Documentation, plugin example, and validation
docs/*, examples/processing_plugin/*, tests/*
Documents the feature, adds a word-count plugin example, and tests revisions, discovery, processing, and persistence.

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  participant Client
  participant ProcessingService
  participant ProfileRepository
  participant ProcessorRegistry
  participant EntityBackend
  Client->>ProcessingService: select profile and process trajectory
  ProcessingService->>ProfileRepository: resolve profile revision
  ProcessingService->>ProcessorRegistry: resolve configured processors
  ProcessingService->>EntityBackend: persist processed entities and provenance
  EntityBackend-->>Client: return processing updates
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@illeatmyhat illeatmyhat changed the title docs(processing): propose pluggable runtime processing profiles feat(processing): add pluggable versioned trajectory profiles Sep 11, 2026
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Assert the failure reason for negative cases.

Line 58 only checks the sign of the exit code. The stale-revision case at line 72 therefore passes for any nonzero exit, including an import error or a CLI usage error. The test then no longer proves stale-write rejection.

Add an expected message check for the failure path.

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-    def run(*args, success=True):
+    def run(*args, success=True, expect_error=None):
         result = subprocess.run(
             [sys.executable, "-m", "altk_evolve.cli.cli", *args], cwd=tmp_path, env=env, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=60
         )
-        assert (result.returncode == 0) == success, result.stdout + result.stderr
+        output = result.stdout + result.stderr
+        assert (result.returncode == 0) == success, output
+        if expect_error is not None:
+            assert expect_error in output, output
         return result.stdout

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In `@altk_evolve/cli/cli.py`:
- Line 586: Move PhoenixSync construction into the existing try block in
sync_phoenix, or otherwise catch ProfileNotFound from its pinned-profile
resolution and emit the same “Sync failed” output used for sync errors. Preserve
the current sync behavior after successful construction.

In `@altk_evolve/frontend/api/processing.py`:
- Line 58: Update the handler containing service().put to require an
authenticated principal and enforce the profile-editor policy before writing the
supplied profile_id; keep If-Match/expected_revision for concurrency control,
but do not treat it as authorization.
- Around line 77-79: In the request handler around
get_client().process_trajectory, authorize request.namespace_id for the current
principal before invoking processing. Reuse the existing namespace authorization
mechanism and reject unauthorized requests before any processing or writes
occur, while preserving the existing call for authorized namespaces.

In `@altk_evolve/frontend/mcp/mcp_server.py`:
- Line 609: Update the processing readback branch around the trajectory search
to build readback_filters before the branch, including the supplied
effective_user_id and session_id identity constraints alongside task_id, and
pass those filters to get_client().search_entities. Add a regression test
covering two identities that reuse the same task ID and verify each readback
returns only its own trajectory.

In `@altk_evolve/llm/guidelines/guidelines.py`:
- Around line 167-170: Restore per-call JSON-schema validation by adding
enable_json_schema_validation=constrained_decoding_supported to every listed
completion() call: both sites in altk_evolve/llm/guidelines/guidelines.py, all
four sites in altk_evolve/llm/guidelines/consistency_guidelines.py, and both
sites in altk_evolve/llm/guidelines/segmentation.py. Keep the existing
completion arguments and response handling unchanged.

In `@altk_evolve/processing/registry.py`:
- Around line 39-41: Update _check() to validate the processor descriptor’s
expected version and require that process is callable before registration
succeeds, while preserving the existing id and config_model validation. Add a
unit test covering a descriptor without process and assert that registration
rejects it with the established processing error.

In `@altk_evolve/sync/phoenix_sync.py`:
- Line 826: Make profile persistence and the trajectory write in
PhoenixSync._process_trajectory retry-safe by using a shared transaction where
supported or applying a stable trace/profile idempotency key to both writes.
Ensure a failed trajectory write followed by retrying the same trace does not
duplicate profile entities, and add a unit test covering this failure-and-retry
sequence.

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In `@tests/e2e/test_processing_profiles.py`:
- Around line 54-59: Update the local run helper in the e2e test to accept an
expected failure message and assert it appears in the captured output when
success is false. Pass the stale-revision conflict text through the apply(...,
success=False) call so the negative case verifies stale-write rejection rather
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class Processor(Protocol):
"""A plugin owns construction from validated config and execution on that instance."""

id: ClassVar[str]
api_version: ClassVar[int]
version: ClassVar[str]
config_model: ClassVar[type[BaseModel]]

@classmethod
def from_config(cls, config: BaseModel) -> Self: ...

def process(self, trajectory: Trajectory, *, context: ProcessorContext) -> ProcessorResult: ...

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Architectural change: make trajectory processing the extension point.

The core API now accepts processors with plugin-owned configuration and construction. Guideline generation and consistency are implemented behind this same contract in processing/builtin.py; a third-party processing use case can be added without introducing another first-party argument or branch in the runner.

The important boundary here is synchronous Trajectory → ProcessorResult, where the result contains entities and diagnostics. This supports independently configurable entity-producing processors. It does not currently define asynchronous execution, resource cleanup, or arbitrary artifact outputs; those are the constraints to evaluate when assessing its suitability for third-party plugins.

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def resolve(self, reference: ProfileReference | str, *, revision: int | None = None) -> ProcessingPlan:
if isinstance(reference, str):
reference = ProfileReference(id=reference, revision=revision)
record = self.get(reference.id, reference.revision)
manifest = record["manifest"]
for item in manifest["processors"]:
descriptor = self.registry.get(item["plugin"])
if descriptor.version != item["version"] or descriptor.api_version != item["api_version"]:
raise ProcessingError(f"Processor version changed: {item['plugin']}; publish a new profile revision")
plan = self.validate(
{"processors": [{k: p[k] for k in ("id", "plugin", "config")} for p in manifest["processors"]]},
conflict_settings=manifest["conflict_resolution"],
)
if plan.manifest() != manifest:
raise ProcessingError("Stored profile no longer resolves identically; publish a new revision")
return replace(plan, profile_id=reference.id, revision=record["revision"])

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Architectural change: separate publishing configuration from executing work.

put() publishes a fully validated revision; this method resolves one stored revision into an execution snapshot and rejects changes in installed plugin versions or resolved configuration. The runner uses that captured plan for the trajectory. Existing generation helpers were also refactored to receive explicit runtime settings, so the guarantee reaches the model calls rather than stopping at the profile store.

Latest-following callers resolve again for the next trajectory; callers retaining a plan stay pinned. The key review question is whether every setting that affects execution follows this boundary. Serialized configuration and revalidation are the mechanisms chosen here, with the cost of maintaining a separate profile definition, stored manifest, and executable plan.

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if plan is None and processing_profile is None and self._processing_selector is not None:
selected = self._processing_selector(context)
if isinstance(selected, ProcessingPlan):
plan = selected
else:
processing_profile = selected
if plan is None:
plan = self.processing.resolve(processing_profile) if processing_profile is not None else self.processing.default_plan()
return self.processing.process(trajectory, plan=plan, client=self, namespace_id=namespace_id or self.config.namespace_id)

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Architectural change: separate application scope from processing selection and storage.

The application can select a profile directly or inject a selector over its own context. The namespace passed to the runner remains the storage destination. This accommodates namespace-level policy in one application and agent/user-level policy in another without imposing that hierarchy on Evolve’s profile schema.

This selector is a Python integration point. REST, MCP and CLI accept explicit profile references; they do not automatically persist or resolve application-owned scope bindings. Selection also does not establish authorization or constrain conflict-resolution searches. Those distinctions matter when evaluating whether an application’s scope requirements are actually supported.

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for processor_type, spec in zip(plan.processor_types, manifest["processors"], strict=True):
config = processor_type.config_model.model_validate_json(_encode(spec["config"]))
processor = processor_type.from_config(config)
result = ProcessorResult.model_validate(processor.process(trajectory.model_copy(deep=True), context=context))
diagnostics[spec["id"]] = result.diagnostics
stamp = {**provenance, "processor_id": spec["id"]}
for entity in result.entities:
entity.metadata = {**entity.metadata, "processing": stamp}
entities.extend(result.entities)
batches.append((result, stamp))
updates: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
if client is not None:
# All processors complete before writes. Backends can still fail partway through persistence.
for result, stamp in batches:
groups = defaultdict(list)
for entity in result.entities:
groups[entity.type].append(entity)
for group in groups.values():
written = client.update_entities(
namespace_id,
group,
enable_conflict_resolution=result.enable_conflict_resolution,
conflict_settings=LLMSettings(**json.loads(plan.conflict_settings_json)),
processing_provenance=stamp,
)
updates.extend(item.model_dump(mode="json") for item in written)

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Architectural change: the runner owns persistence of processor output.

Processors receive fresh configuration and isolated trajectory copies, then return proposed entities. The runner collects their results before writing, records the effective configuration as provenance, groups entities by type, and invokes the existing persistence/conflict-resolution path.

This is a consequential division of responsibility: processors define how knowledge is produced, while Evolve defines how returned entities are stored. Steps execute in order against copies of the original trajectory; they do not consume previous steps’ outputs. Conflict resolution is selected per processor result, but its model/provider settings are captured centrally. Review whether that entity-oriented boundary and shared persistence policy fit the intended plugins, rather than treating this loop as an arbitrary processing graph.

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def process(
self, trajectory: Trajectory | dict, *, plan: ProcessingPlan, client: Any = None, namespace_id: str | None = None
) -> ProcessingResult:
if client is not None and namespace_id is None:
raise ProcessingError("namespace_id is required for persistence")
trajectory = Trajectory.model_validate(trajectory)
if client is not None:
client.get_namespace_details(namespace_id)
operation_id = str(uuid.uuid4())
context = ProcessorContext(operation_id)
manifest = plan.manifest()
provenance = {
"operation_id": operation_id,
"profile_id": plan.profile_id,
"revision": plan.revision,
"digest": hashlib.sha256(plan.manifest_json.encode()).hexdigest(),
"manifest": manifest,
}
batches = []
diagnostics = {}
entities = []
for processor_type, spec in zip(plan.processor_types, manifest["processors"], strict=True):
config = processor_type.config_model.model_validate_json(_encode(spec["config"]))
processor = processor_type.from_config(config)
result = ProcessorResult.model_validate(processor.process(trajectory.model_copy(deep=True), context=context))
diagnostics[spec["id"]] = result.diagnostics
stamp = {**provenance, "processor_id": spec["id"]}
for entity in result.entities:
entity.metadata = {**entity.metadata, "processing": stamp}
entities.extend(result.entities)
batches.append((result, stamp))
updates: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
if client is not None:
# All processors complete before writes. Backends can still fail partway through persistence.
for result, stamp in batches:
groups = defaultdict(list)
for entity in result.entities:
groups[entity.type].append(entity)
for group in groups.values():
written = client.update_entities(
namespace_id,
group,
enable_conflict_resolution=result.enable_conflict_resolution,
conflict_settings=LLMSettings(**json.loads(plan.conflict_settings_json)),
processing_provenance=stamp,
)
updates.extend(item.model_dump(mode="json") for item in written)
return ProcessingResult(operation_id=operation_id, manifest=manifest, entities=entities, updates=updates, diagnostics=diagnostics)

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1. ProcessingManager.process(): the processor-agnostic runner. Start here.

This method executes the selected plan. For each processor class, it validates that plugin's configuration, calls its from_config() factory, and invokes the resulting instance's process() with an isolated trajectory copy.

The plugin returns a ProcessorResult containing its own entities and diagnostics. The manager attaches processing provenance and groups persistence calls by each entity's declared type. It never chooses type="guideline" or branches on guideline/consistency modes; a third-party processor can return other entity types or no entities.

The following annotations show how discovery supplies those classes, then use the built-in GuidelineProcessor as one concrete implementation. Its process() is a different method with guideline-specific responsibilities.

Comment on lines +18 to +30
@classmethod
def discover(cls, *, include_builtins: bool = True, installed: bool = True):
registry = cls()
if include_builtins:
from altk_evolve.processing.builtin import GuidelineProcessor

registry.register(GuidelineProcessor)
if installed:
for entry in entry_points(group="altk_evolve.processors"):
if entry.name in registry._entries or entry.name in registry._processors:
raise ProcessingError(f"Duplicate processor: {entry.name}")
registry._entries[entry.name] = entry
return registry

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2. ProcessorRegistry.discover(): supply available processor classes.

This is the built-in inventory: GuidelineProcessor is registered as evolve.guidelines. Installed plugins are discovered alongside it through the altk_evolve.processors entry-point group. Registration exposes classes for selection; it does not instantiate a processor or run generation.

For a selected profile, the runner constructs the class with from_config(). The built-in factory decides which guideline generation steps that instance will execute.

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def __init__(self, steps: tuple[tuple[str, Callable[[Trajectory], list[GuidelineGenerationResult]]], ...]):
self._steps = steps

@classmethod
def from_config(cls, config: BaseModel) -> Self:
"""Select generation steps once using this trajectory's resolved settings."""
from altk_evolve.llm.guidelines.guidelines import generate_guidelines
from altk_evolve.llm.guidelines.consistency_guidelines import generate_consistency_guidelines, generate_consistency_guidelines_fast

config = GuidelineConfig.model_validate(config)
options = GuidelineRuntime.model_validate(config.model_dump(include=set(GuidelineRuntime.model_fields)))
steps: list[tuple[str, Callable[[Trajectory], list[GuidelineGenerationResult]]]] = []
if config.guidelines_mode in ("standard", "all"):
steps.append(("standard", lambda trajectory: generate_guidelines(trajectory.messages, options=options)))
if config.guidelines_mode in ("consistency", "all"):
method, generate = (
("consistency-fast", generate_consistency_guidelines_fast)
if config.consistency_method == "fast"
else ("consistency", generate_consistency_guidelines)
)
steps.append((method, lambda trajectory: generate(trajectory.model_dump(), options=options)))
return cls(tuple(steps))

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3. GuidelineProcessor.from_config(): construct this particular built-in plugin.

This is where guidelines_mode and consistency_method take effect. The factory selects standard generation, fast/accurate consistency, or their combination. The small callables capture the resolved runtime options and adapt each function's input shape: standard receives messages; consistency receives the trajectory dictionary. No generation runs during construction.

An admin publishes a new profile revision to change these choices. The next latest-following trajectory resolves that revision and constructs fresh processors; existing instances and pinned plans keep their prior selection. The factory returns an ordered tuple that execution can simply run.

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def process(self, trajectory: Trajectory, *, context: ProcessorContext) -> ProcessorResult:
batches = [(method, generate(trajectory)) for method, generate in self._steps]
entities = [
Entity(
type="guideline",
content=guideline.content,
metadata={
**trajectory.metadata,
"source_task_id": trajectory.trace_id or context.operation_id,
"task_description": result.task_description,
"support": 1,
**guideline.model_dump(exclude={"content"}),
"generation_method": method,
},
)
for method, results in batches
for result in results
for guideline in result.guidelines
]
return ProcessorResult(entities=entities, enable_conflict_resolution=True)

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4. GuidelineProcessor.process(): the guideline-specific plugin, not the generic runner.

GuidelineProcessor.process() runs the functions selected by the factory, then converts their results into entities with the appropriate generation-method metadata. It neither branches on guideline/consistency modes nor reloads settings.

This preserves one combined built-in processor while separating configuration decisions from execution. Tests switch fast → accurate consistency while a trajectory is paused in its standard step: the running trajectory still finishes with fast consistency, the next latest-following trajectory uses accurate consistency, and a pinned plan continues using fast consistency.

The full body below shows the remaining responsibility: flatten the generation batches into guideline entities, retain trajectory and guideline metadata, attach the selected generation-method label, and request conflict resolution when the runner persists them. All mode selection and runtime-option capture have already happened in the factory.

Entity(type="guideline", ...) belongs to this built-in implementation. Other plugins implement their own process() and choose their own entity types; they do not execute this method.

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Applying profiles at deployment, user, or agent level

The configuration lives in a versioned profile. The application chooses which profile applies to each trajectory; Evolve does not require a profile or a long-lived plan for every user/agent. Multiple users or agents can share one profile.

The following examples use the APIs in this PR. The user/agent lookup dictionaries are illustrative application-owned bindings, not new Evolve tables or APIs.

Shared setup: publish profiles

from altk_evolve.frontend.client.evolve_client import EvolveClient

# Uses the existing backend database: PostgreSQL for PostgreSQL entities,
# or Evolve's existing SQLite metadata database for filesystem/Milvus.
client = EvolveClient()

def guideline_profile(mode, method="fast"):
    return {
        "processors": [{
            "id": "guidelines",
            "plugin": "evolve.guidelines",
            "config": {
                "guidelines_mode": mode,
                "consistency_method": method,
            },
        }],
    }

# Initial provisioning: expected_revision=0 means create-only.
client.processing.put("deployment-default", guideline_profile("standard"), expected_revision=0)
client.processing.put("user-consistency", guideline_profile("consistency", "fast"), expected_revision=0)
client.processing.put("agent-research", guideline_profile("all", "accurate"), expected_revision=0)

trajectory = {"messages": [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Investigate the failed deployment."},
    {"role": "assistant", "content": "The deployment failed because its health check timed out."},
]}

These are complete profiles, not field-level overrides that are automatically merged with a deployment profile. File/environment defaults fill omitted settings when a profile is published; subsequent changes to those defaults do not rewrite stored revisions.

Deployment-level selection

Configure this application's client to select the same profile for every trajectory:

client = EvolveClient(
    processing_selector=lambda _: "deployment-default",
)
client.ensure_namespace("deployment-memories")
client.process_trajectory(trajectory, namespace_id="deployment-memories")

An admin can change that profile from standard generation to fast consistency:

current = client.processing.get("deployment-default")
client.processing.put(
    "deployment-default",
    guideline_profile("consistency", "fast"),
    expected_revision=current["revision"],
)

The next call selects the same profile name and reads its new revision. Setting this selector is what makes it the application's default; naming a profile deployment-default alone has no special effect in Evolve.

User-level selection

# Application data. In production, query the application's binding store here.
user_profiles = {"alice": "user-consistency"}

def select_for_user(context):
    return user_profiles.get(context["user_id"], "deployment-default")

client = EvolveClient(processing_selector=select_for_user)
client.ensure_namespace("alice-memories")
client.process_trajectory(
    trajectory,
    namespace_id="alice-memories",
    context={"user_id": "alice"},
)

# Change Alice's selection for subsequent trajectories:
user_profiles["alice"] = "deployment-default"

An admin can instead update user-consistency using get()/put() as above. That affects every user selecting that profile. To change only one user's settings, publish a separate profile and change that user's binding. The lookup must read current application data on each invocation for binding changes to be observed across processes.

Agent-level selection

agent_profiles = {"researcher": "agent-research"}

def select_for_agent(context):
    return agent_profiles.get(context["agent_id"], "deployment-default")

client = EvolveClient(processing_selector=select_for_agent)
client.ensure_namespace("researcher-memories")
client.process_trajectory(
    trajectory,
    namespace_id="researcher-memories",
    context={"agent_id": "researcher"},
)

# Change this agent's subsequent processing to fast consistency:
agent_profiles["researcher"] = "user-consistency"

The user and agent selectors above are alternative examples. If an application combines both, it defines precedence itself—for example agent selection, then user selection, then deployment default. Neither profile selection nor the context dictionary establishes authorization or automatically copies identity fields into output metadata. Namespace selection remains a separate storage decision.

REST, MCP, and CLI

The Python selector is application code. The current REST/MCP/CLI interfaces accept the resulting profile explicitly; they do not expose a user/agent-binding API. For example, after the host looks up agent-research, a REST request is:

POST /api/trajectories
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "namespace_id": "researcher-memories",
  "trajectory": {"messages": [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Investigate the failed deployment."},
    {"role": "assistant", "content": "The health check timed out."}
  ]},
  "processing_profile": {"id": "agent-research"}
}

The equivalent MCP tool arguments are:

{
  "trajectory": {"messages": [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Investigate the failed deployment."},
    {"role": "assistant", "content": "The health check timed out."}
  ]},
  "namespace_id": "researcher-memories",
  "processing_profile": "agent-research"
}

Pass those arguments to the process_trajectory MCP tool. With the trajectory object saved as trajectory.json, the CLI equivalent is:

evolve processing run --file trajectory.json \
  --namespace researcher-memories --processing-profile agent-research

An admin publishes definitions through Python client.processing.put(), REST PUT /api/processing-profiles/{id} with If-Match: "revision" (or If-None-Match: * for creation), MCP set_processing_profile, or CLI processing-profiles apply --file ... --expected-revision ... with the profile name. All use the same revision-checking behavior.

Runtime behavior: omitting a revision follows latest at each trajectory boundary. Running trajectories keep their captured settings. Explicit revisions and reused ProcessingPlan objects remain pinned. An explicit profile or plan bypasses the Python selector. With no selection or selector, the client uses deployment guideline defaults rather than automatically discovering an admin-designated profile.

Database requirement: the admin and consumer must use the same configured database. EvolveClient automatically stores profiles in a processing_profiles table in the existing PostgreSQL database for PostgreSQL backends, or in Evolve's existing SQLite metadata database for filesystem/Milvus. No separate profile-database setting or repository construction is required. Each client creates its own processing manager; clients with the same backend/database configuration see the same saved profiles. Sharing a Python manager instance is unnecessary. CLI uses its backend connection settings, including PostgreSQL; it does not contact REST/MCP implicitly. Cross-process application bindings likewise require shared application storage, not separate in-memory dictionaries.

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