FIG 1.5
Photon
Connectors & Egress
Carries 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.
Outputs
ConnectorResult (success/failure + response + error classification + latency)
Must Never
Decide policy or orchestration, evaluate tenant entitlements, hold workflow state
Pipeline Position