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Foundational walk through the iris project. Read top to bottom if you're new; no prior context assumed.
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Use when: explaining IRIS to a new teammate; onboarding onto the iris-hq organisation; pitching the project to a non-technical stakeholder
Use when: explaining the deployment model; deciding which tier to integrate with; onboarding a platform engineer
Use when: creating or validating a new sprite; understanding the JSON Schema structure; debugging fingerprint mismatches
Use when: creating a new council; understanding gate authority rules; designing governance rules for a domain
Use when: designing a new chain; debugging chain execution failures; understanding step-to-step data flow
Use when: designing gate conditions; debugging unexpected vetoes; understanding fail-open vs fail-closed behaviour
Use when: implementing or debugging fingerprint computation; cross-system identity verification; understanding the STRATT-compatible hash pipeline
Use when: designing chain execution logic; debugging vetoed or failed chains; understanding the synchronous execution model
Use when: integrating with the sprite registry; understanding sprite lifecycle endpoints; implementing a client for iris-service
Use when: creating a council via the API; executing chains programmatically; debugging 409 GATE_VETO responses
Use when: integrating IRIS with Claude or other MCP clients; understanding MCP tool delegation; deploying the MCP server to Cloudflare Workers
Use when: bridging IRIS sprites into MERIDIAN; understanding cross-system federation; implementing gRPC clients for the adapter
Use when: designing authorization for cross-system sprite access; understanding token lifecycle and revocation; implementing capability-based security
Use when: verifying sprite identity across IRIS and MERIDIAN; debugging fingerprint mismatches in federation; understanding the 5-stage verification pipeline
Use when: assigning roles to new sprites; designing council governance structures; understanding decision-making authority
Use when: understanding why IRIS is built the way it is; arguing for or against a design change; onboarding architects onto the project
Use when: deploying iris-service locally or in production; understanding the full infrastructure stack; debugging observability issues
Use when: adding observability to iris-service code; understanding what metrics are collected; configuring trace sampling
Use when: writing Python scripts that interact with IRIS; using the CLI to validate sprites; computing fingerprints from the command line
Use when: building web apps that interact with IRIS; understanding the zero-dependency SDK; comparing Python and TypeScript client patterns
Use when: validating sprite/council/chain definitions; understanding schema structure and $defs; extending the IRIS schema
Use when: understanding how iris-service stores data; debugging registry behaviour; planning the PostgreSQL migration
Use when: understanding the planned database schema; migrating from in-memory registries to PostgreSQL; writing raw SQL or SQLAlchemy queries
Use when: understanding cross-system identity mapping; implementing namespace resolution; debugging mapping conflicts
Use when: tracing a chain execution through the entire system; debugging performance bottlenecks; understanding the full request lifecycle
Use when: understanding the build process; making cross-repo changes; setting up local development
Use when: writing the IRIS homepage hero or one-line description; explaining IRIS to someone who already builds with LLMs
Use when: qualifying a lead as the right or wrong fit for IRIS; deciding which channel or community to launch into
Use when: writing the IRIS homepage above-the-fold; drafting a one-paragraph description for a directory listing
Use when: explaining what IRIS has shipped versus what is still ahead; writing a launch post or changelog summary
Use when: responding to 'couldn't you do this in LangChain or CrewAI?'; comparing IRIS against generic agent frameworks