Stable JSON contracts

colibri-contracts holds the stable, language-agnostic wire shapes shared between Colibri (Rust) and Clawdie agents (TypeScript). It owns schemas and (De)serialize, not business logic.

Why a separate contracts crate

• Prevent duplicated definitions between Rust and TypeScript lanes.
• Keep committed manifests in manifests/ parseable by both sides.
• Centralize schema strings, field renaming aliases, and backward-compat defaults.

Active schemas

Schema	Rust struct	Purpose
clawdie.interagent.run-manifest.v1	RunManifest	Records a build/test run — role, agent, artifacts, summary.
clawdie.runtime-version-inventory.v1	RuntimeInventory	Host runtime snapshot — OS, package versions, npm/node/zot/pi.
clawdie.provider-smoke.result.v1	ProviderSmokeResult	DeepSeek cache-hit probe result and token accounting.

Schema constants and structs live in crates/colibri-contracts/src/lib.rs.

Evolution rules

• The crate carries no logic — only serde structs and schema constants.
• New fields are normally optional with #[serde(default)] so old manifests still parse.
• RuntimeInventory.pi is optional because not every host installs pi or zot.
• HostStatus.raw is a catch-all serde_json::Value so hostile collector output can be captured without forcing a schema bump.

Golden tests

crates/colibri-contracts/tests/golden.rs parses every committed manifest in manifests/ and asserts round-trip equality. The fixtures are intended to be cross-platform — if a manifest produced on Linux differs from one produced on FreeBSD 15, the difference must be understood and documented before it is merged.

See also

• cost-model — how the provider-smoke result feeds cache-hit metering.
• runtime-inventory — where the runtime inventory is produced.