Tracking: glimmer.science service architecture rewrite (blocks roadmap v0.7)

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What this tracks

The glimmer.science service architecture rewrite — rearchitecting the backend so the Glimmer CLI stops being local-only and becomes the client to a hosted research-object service. This is the dependency that blocks roadmap v0.7 (Hosted service: CLI ↔ glimmer.science), added in #5.

Today the CLI builds, validates, and traverses a file-tree RO-KB on disk. The rewrite is what lets it auth login, provision storage/compute, and query/modify a hosted RO-KB. Capturing the rewrite as its own tracking issue so the CLI surface (v0.7) is designed against the service rather than retrofitted later.

Scope (the v0.7 surface this must support)

• glimmer auth login — authenticate the CLI to glimmer.science, bind to a project created there.
• Resource provisioning — request/manage a project's backing resources from the CLI: storage (dataset hosting / DataLad remotes) and compute (run a method/pipeline remotely).
• Remote research-object operations — push nodes/edges, fetch a subgraph, run a query against the hosted graph.
• Identity & provenance — operations signed by the authenticated researcher identity (ties into v0.6 federation + Holonym-style verifiable identity).

Available design context / progress

The rewrite is currently at the design + decision-record stage; implementation deferred to a dedicated "glimmer-platform session." No backend implementation has started.

• Storage & archival as a first-class part of the Glimmer model (v0.3.1) + multi-tenant self-provisioning of bares #6 — Storage & archival as a first-class part of the Glimmer model + multi-tenant self-provisioning of bares. This is the storage half of the rewrite. Multi-tenant self-provisioning (users provision their own tenants + bares at dataset init) is the first platform feature; ads-glimmer is the first consumer and migrates onto it once it lands.
• Full design doc: ads-glimmer/docs/data/INFORMATION-ARCHITECTURE.md (status: DESIGN — implementation deferred). Covers commit-tracking bare topology (Hetzner cloud bare / sentia cortex / local MBP bare; numcopies 3 irreplaceable / 2 generated), typed storage fields on derivative/dataset nodes, archive-on-emit, enforcement via config+hooks, and first-class glimmer report/status.
• Roadmap v0.7: docs/roadmap.md (added in schema: domain profile library (curated + local, multi-type augments) #5) — the CLI-side surface this blocks.

Relationship to other work

• Blocks: roadmap v0.7 (schema: domain profile library (curated + local, multi-type augments) #5).
• Subsumes / coordinates: Storage & archival as a first-class part of the Glimmer model (v0.3.1) + multi-tenant self-provisioning of bares #6 (storage + multi-tenant provisioning — the storage layer of the rewrite).
• Connects to: roadmap v0.6 (federation, signed identity).

Status

• Design / decision record written (INFORMATION-ARCHITECTURE.md)
• Storage-layer design tracked (Storage & archival as a first-class part of the Glimmer model (v0.3.1) + multi-tenant self-provisioning of bares #6)
• Service architecture rewrite scoped end-to-end (auth, provisioning, remote RO ops, identity)
• Multi-tenant self-provisioning implemented
• CLI v0.7 surface built against the service

Refs #5, #6.