anchor

Typed mission invariants + drift-checked working state + Merkle-chained provenance for agent runs.

anchor is a single daemon (anchord) that sits next to any agent runtime (Claude Code, LangGraph, a bare LLM loop) and gives it three things that ephemeral memory can't:

1. A stable mission envelope — the agent's objective, deliverables, constraints, and assumptions, signed by canonical-JSON Merkle hash and versioned by parent chain.
2. A drift-checked working state — six typed checks (subgoal_detached, deliverable_loss, constraint_drop, assumption_conflict, branch_irrelevant, semantic_drift) running on a schedule tied to tool-call count and event class.
3. PROV-O provenance on every item — every memory, decision, assumption, and finding carries source, recorded_at, confidence, and hash so contradictions surface at retrieval time, not after.

All of it keyed on mission_hash, which doubles as the Langfuse trace id — so https://us.cloud.langfuse.com/trace/<mission_hash> opens the full span tree for the run.

Status

v0.1.0 — built for AGI House Agent Harness Build Day 2026-04-18.

Quickstart

git clone https://github.com/LamaSu/anchor ~/anchor
cd ~/anchor
pip install -e ".[all]"

# Run the daemon (stdlib http.server on localhost:3458)
python -m anchord

# In another shell:
curl -fsS http://localhost:3458/healthz

Environment variables (optional — anchor works offline without any of them):

# Telemetry — LangFuse traces keyed on mission_hash
export LANGFUSE_PUBLIC_KEY=pk-...
export LANGFUSE_SECRET_KEY=sk-...
export LANGFUSE_HOST=https://us.cloud.langfuse.com

# Mission extractor — falls back to a template extractor if unset
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...
export ANCHOR_EXTRACT_MODEL=claude-haiku-4-5-20251001

# Semantic substrate — falls back to deterministic rules if unset
export INTENTION_ENGINE_URL=http://localhost:8080

HTTP API (localhost:3458)

Method	Path	Purpose
GET	/healthz	Liveness probe + ANCHOR_HOME
GET	/missions	List all agents with a current mission
POST	/mission/new	Extract MissionSpec from raw prompt; returns envelope + trace URL
GET	/mission/{agent_id}	Current mission envelope
PATCH	/mission/{agent_id}	Amend assumption/constraint/deliverable/subgoal/objective; writes child envelope
POST	/state/append	Append decision/assumption/open_question (wrapped with provenance)
GET	/state/{agent_id}	Current WorkingState
POST	/tool-call	Record a tool call; may trigger drift tick
GET	/findings/{agent_id}	Drift findings log
GET	/findings/stream?agent_id=X	SSE: high-severity findings (≥ 0.6) live
POST	/memory/check	Retrieval-time contradiction check (< 50ms target)
POST	/compact/snapshot	PreCompact hook writes a compaction envelope
GET	/compact/resume/{agent_id}	Post-compact rehydration digest

Architecture

Three layers, one daemon, thin adapters:

    agent prompt  ───►  anchord daemon  ───►  LangFuse trace
                          │                      ▲
                          ├── mission envelope   │
                          ├── working state      │
                          ├── drift checks  ─────┘
                          └── PROV-O findings
                                  │
                          intention-engine
                          (optional semantic substrate)

See docs/ARCHITECTURE.md for full detail. Design brief lives in the companion doc anchor-brief.md.

What this is not

• Not an orchestrator. anchord doesn't schedule agents; it observes them.
• Not a memory store. It holds typed invariants, not chat history.
• Not a vector DB. Semantic scoring for drift checks 5–6 is delegated to intention-engine when present.

Integration with Claude Code

Two hooks wire anchord into the Claude Code harness (hooks/pre-compact.sh, hooks/tool-call.sh). Add to ~/.claude/settings.json:

{
  "hooks": {
    "PreCompact": [{"matcher": "*", "hooks": [{"type": "command", "command": "bash ~/anchor/hooks/pre-compact.sh"}]}],
    "PostToolUse": [{"matcher": "*", "hooks": [{"type": "command", "command": "bash ~/anchor/hooks/tool-call.sh"}]}]
  }
}

Then use the client:

anchor status                                    # daemon health + mission list
anchor mission new sonnet-alpha "<prompt>"       # pin a mission
anchor mission show sonnet-alpha                 # current envelope + lineage
anchor state show sonnet-alpha                   # decisions + assumptions + open questions
anchor findings sonnet-alpha                     # drift findings
anchor snapshot sonnet-alpha                     # compaction envelope
anchor resume sonnet-alpha                       # post-compact digest

The skill at skills/anchor/SKILL.md can be copied into ~/.claude/skills/ so /anchor works inline.

Benchmarks

bench/ is a 6-suite benchmark that runs against a fresh daemon in an isolated ANCHOR_HOME, writes a JSON results file, renders an HTML dashboard, and gates regressions with SLO thresholds.

pip install -e ".[dev]"

python -m bench.main           # full suite: HTTP + lifecycle + drift + concurrent + ablation + SLO
python -m bench.main --quick   # faster — fewer iters, smaller loads
python -m bench.demo           # scripted 30-turn session + HTML dashboard
python -m bench.report         # (re)render bench/report.html from latest results

The SLO gate in bench/slo.py exits non-zero on p95 regressions, so it can plug straight into CI. The ablation bench (bench/ablation.py) runs the same 30-turn scripted mission twice — once with anchor, once with a naive "last-500-chars" compaction — and reports:

metric	baseline	anchor
contradiction catch rate	0%	100% (2/2 caught via /memory/check)
drift warnings on off-mission turns	0	3 (via /tool-call scheduler + drift engine)
post-compact constraint fidelity	60%	80% (structured constraints survive /compact/snapshot)

See bench/report.html (rendered after any python -m bench.main run) for per-endpoint latency charts, drift-load scaling curves, and concurrency throughput/tail-latency over 1–32 parallel agents.

License

MIT.

Part of the Physical Capability Cloud

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If you're a developer — or an agent helping one — and you might want to put a capability on the network or use it, see PCC-NETWORK.md or the live front door at https://capability.network/start. Machine-readable pointer: pcc.json.

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