The 10 Particles
Every service in the Field is modeled after a physics particle. The name encodes what it does — and what it must never do.
Canonical Flow
Every event follows this path. No step may be skipped.
Core Particles 6
The 6 particles in the canonical pipeline — every event passes through them in order.
Boson
Ingress & CanonicalizationForce carrier — mediates interactions between systems
Accepts external inputs (webhooks, API calls, scheduled triggers), validates identity, wraps payloads into canonical EventEnvelopes with CorrelationId and HMAC signatures. Returns 202 immediately — never blocks on downstream processing.
Fermion
Decisioning & OrchestrationMatter particle — gives the system its structure
Core routing engine. Evaluates pipeline rules against incoming EventEnvelopes, consults Higgs for policy evaluation, produces ActionPlans — ordered, declared lists of Actions. Dispatches to Photon for execution. Supports dry-run mode as a first-class concept.
Higgs
Governance BrainThe Higgs field gives particles mass — defines observable properties
Owns tenant configuration, evaluates policy rules: allow/deny/filter for any proposed action, connector, model, or target. Operates on allowlists by default. Provides redaction transforms and data classification.
Hadron
Durability & State MachinesComposite particle — durable, structured, persistent
Durable job store persisting workflow state across restarts. Manages step state machines (pending → dispatched → executing → succeeded/failed), retry logic with exponential backoff, dead letter queues, and persistent idempotency.
Photon
Connectors & EgressCarries electromagnetic force to the outside world
Typed connectors to external systems — HTTP APIs, message queues, LLM providers, SaaS platforms. Resolves credentials from vault at execution time. Classifies errors as transient, permanent, or rate-limited.
Neutrino
Audit, Observability & ExplainabilityPasses through matter without interacting — observes but does not change outcomes
Append-only audit ledger recording the full processing chain for every event. Provides cost/latency accounting, decision explainability, trace views, and queryable event history.
Supporting Particles 4
Specialized services that extend the pipeline without violating its boundaries.
Quark
Domain ObjectsFundamental building block — typed constituents inside composite structures
Parses raw event payloads into typed domain events (PR, Ticket, Invoice, LLMRequest). Provides shared vocabulary for pipeline matching. Purely interpretation and typing.
Gluon
Workflow CompositionThe strong force that binds quarks into hadrons — composition and binding
Workflow graph / DSL with fan-out, fan-in, conditional branching, and compensation logic. Workflows are declared, serializable, and versioned data, not embedded code.
Graviton
Time & SchedulingMediates gravity — the force defined by spacetime
Cron triggers, delays, SLA timers, polling schedules. All time-derived events re-enter the field through the canonical path as EventEnvelopes.
Muon
Sandbox ExecutionHeavier cousin of the electron — exists briefly, does work, decays
Safe execution of user-defined transforms and logic within strict sandbox boundaries. Resource-limited, no network access by default, deterministic execution.