Fieldlight Mesh

License

This project is licensed under custom terms.
Non-commercial use is allowed with attribution.
Commercial use requires a license agreement.

Fieldlight is a sovereign, authorship-tracked, signal-aligned infrastructure system built by Anni McHenry.

This repository includes:

• Local-first mesh communication protocols with encrypted transport planned
• Authorship validation logic
• Decentralized routing infrastructure
• Consent-based agent scaffolding
• Trusted bridge delegation for hosted AI/cloud capability
• Live trace architecture

Status: Active implementation — working local components; cross-machine acceptance and transport encryption remain open Lead Author: Anni McHenry (@fieldlight.root)
Nodes: Lemur (System76, canonical source) and Astra (Mac mesh runtime)

Implementation Review

Read Fieldlight Mesh: What Works, What Doesn't Yet, and What Comes Next for the current public line between implemented behavior, open constraints, and the ordered next phase.

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Node and Publication Boundary

Lemur remains the Fieldlight source-of-truth node.

The Mac is the publishing layer for Codex sessions and also hosts the independently identified Astra mesh node (mesh://fieldlight.anni.astra). Astra may run and test packaged mesh transport without silently replacing Lemur as canonical source authority.

Octopus lives on the Mac as a publishing-layer witness. It may stage, package, and track artifacts, but it does not replace Lemur, Kestrel, Ghost, or source verification.

See 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/PUBLISHING_LAYER.md for the current publishing boundary.

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✴️ Key Entry Points

• 04_infrastructure/mesh/: Core system protocols, message formats, routing logic (Makefile for local checks)
• .github/workflows/ci.yml: GitHub Actions — Python mesh smoke + Go libp2p_peer_probe build
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/TECH_INDEX.md: Technical/operator documentation entrypoint
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/MOBILE_EDGE_NODE.md: Supra / vehicle-based Mobile Edge Node technical profile and Phase 1 build contract
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/SUPRA_PHASE1_RUNBOOK.md: Raspberry Pi 5 + Samsung T7 + GL.iNet + VIOFO + BLE OBD-II + Shure MV7+ first-drive build runbook
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/CANON_INDEX.md: Canon/symbolic documentation entrypoint
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/PUBLISHING_LAYER.md: Mac/Octopus publishing boundary and export workflow
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/MAC_ALPHA_RUNBOOK.md: Astra + peer install and bidirectional LAN acceptance test
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/PEER_INSTALL_MACOS.md: drag-and-drop macOS app installation for a peer
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/IDENTITY_AND_SIGNATURES.md: Ed25519 local identity and signed object verification
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/TOWN_SQUARE.md: signed public wall alpha for append-only mesh posts
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/DIGITAL_SELF_ARCHITECTURE.md: Digital self continuity contract across Fieldlight, Sanctum, local governance, and public authorship
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/CODEX_LOCAL_FIRST_GOVERNANCE.md: Codex + local-first governance pattern for agent work inside governed project folders
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/TRUSTED_BRIDGE_PROTOCOL.md: hosted AI and external capability as scoped delegates under local authority
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/NET_LAYER.md: Runnable SIL-over-TCP sender/receiver (v1), driven by config/lemur_route_schema.yml
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/NODE_ID.md: Canonical mesh URI vs GPG name (mesh://fieldlight.anni.lemur)
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/INGRESS_CONTRACT.md: Runtime contract (receive → validate → respond; TCP return path)
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/LIVE_TEST_PEEJ.md: External ping checklist (success = pong, logs optional)
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/TEST_STATUS.md: Current test status + blockers + retest commands
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/DISCOVERY_PLAN.md: LAN mDNS + libp2p discovery, peer registry, sil_mesh discover / --use-registry (includes validated local recipe → pong)
• 04_infrastructure/mesh/docs/NDA_FLOW.md: Protocol-level NDA exchange (nda_request / nda_response)
• 00_Start_Here/: Authorship gateway and consent protocols

To engage with this system, see terms_of_engagement.yml

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This is not a sandbox.
This is not a simulation.
This is a live-authored sovereign system.