Ferment¶

Ferment is an optional development and experimentation tool that supports protocol testing, simulation, evaluation, and model-adjacent work around Orbiplex. It is not a required runtime component for protocol conformance.

Purpose¶

Ferment exists to help developers and researchers:

simulate protocol flows,
run evaluation or training support workflows,
inspect artifacts outside live production paths,
accelerate iteration without turning the production Node into an overloaded dev shell.

Scope¶

This document defines solution-level responsibilities of the Ferment component.

It does not define:

mandatory protocol behavior,
canonical Node persistence,
public protocol conformance requirements.

May Implement¶

Scenario Runner¶

Based on:

doc/project/30-stories/story-001-swarm-node-onboarding.md
doc/project/30-stories/story-002-federated-peer-learning.md
doc/project/30-stories/story-003-remote-memory-preservation.md

Related schemas:

question-envelope.v1
response-envelope.v1
learning-outcome.v1
archival-package.v1

Responsibilities:

replay realistic protocol scenarios,
generate deterministic test fixtures,
support protocol-level smoke flows without coupling them to a specific UI.

Status:

todo

Evaluation and Training Support¶