Addresses recommendations from the UX developer's agent experience report.
Adds provenance predicates, DAG structure changes, error resilience, and
a published OWL ontology.
Explainability additions:
- Tool candidates: tg:toolCandidate on Analysis events lists the tools
visible to the LLM for each iteration (names only, descriptions in config)
- Termination reason: tg:terminationReason on Conclusion/Synthesis events
(final-answer, plan-complete, subagents-complete)
- Step counter: tg:stepNumber on iteration events
- Pattern decision: new tg:PatternDecision entity in the DAG between
session and first iteration, carrying tg:pattern and tg:taskType
- Latency: tg:llmDurationMs on Analysis events, tg:toolDurationMs on
Observation events
- Token counts on events: tg:inToken/tg:outToken/tg:llmModel on
Grounding, Focus, Synthesis, and Analysis events
- Tool/parse errors: tg:toolError on Observation events with tg:Error
mixin type. Parse failures return as error observations instead of
crashing the agent, giving it a chance to retry.
Envelope unification:
- Rename chunk_type to message_type across AgentResponse schema,
translator, SDK types, socket clients, CLI, and all tests.
Agent and RAG services now both use message_type on the wire.
Ontology:
- specs/ontology/trustgraph.ttl — OWL vocabulary covering all 26 classes,
7 object properties, and 36+ datatype properties including new predicates.
DAG structure tests:
- tests/unit/test_provenance/test_dag_structure.py verifies the
wasDerivedFrom chain for GraphRAG, DocumentRAG, and all three agent
patterns (react, plan, supervisor) including the pattern-decision link.
Expose LLM token usage (in_token, out_token, model) across all
service layers
Propagate token counts from LLM services through the prompt,
text-completion, graph-RAG, document-RAG, and agent orchestrator
pipelines to the API gateway and Python SDK. All fields are Optional
— None means "not available", distinguishing from a real zero count.
Key changes:
- Schema: Add in_token/out_token/model to TextCompletionResponse,
PromptResponse, GraphRagResponse, DocumentRagResponse,
AgentResponse
- TextCompletionClient: New TextCompletionResult return type. Split
into text_completion() (non-streaming) and
text_completion_stream() (streaming with per-chunk handler
callback)
- PromptClient: New PromptResult with response_type
(text/json/jsonl), typed fields (text/object/objects), and token
usage. All callers updated.
- RAG services: Accumulate token usage across all prompt calls
(extract-concepts, edge-scoring, edge-reasoning,
synthesis). Non-streaming path sends single combined response
instead of chunk + end_of_session.
- Agent orchestrator: UsageTracker accumulates tokens across
meta-router, pattern prompt calls, and react reasoning. Attached
to end_of_dialog.
- Translators: Encode token fields when not None (is not None, not truthy)
- Python SDK: RAG and text-completion methods return
TextCompletionResult (non-streaming) or RAGChunk/AgentAnswer with
token fields (streaming)
- CLI: --show-usage flag on tg-invoke-llm, tg-invoke-prompt,
tg-invoke-graph-rag, tg-invoke-document-rag, tg-invoke-agent
Provenance triples are now included directly in explain messages from
GraphRAG, DocumentRAG, and Agent services, eliminating the need for
follow-up knowledge graph queries to retrieve explainability details.
Each explain message in the response stream now carries:
- explain_id: root URI for this provenance step (unchanged)
- explain_graph: named graph where triples are stored (unchanged)
- explain_triples: the actual provenance triples for this step (new)
Changes across the stack:
- Schema: added explain_triples field to GraphRagResponse,
DocumentRagResponse, and AgentResponse
- Services: all explain message call sites pass triples through
(graph_rag, document_rag, agent react, agent orchestrator)
- Translators: encode explain_triples via TripleTranslator for
gateway wire format
- Python SDK: ProvenanceEvent now includes parsed ExplainEntity
and raw triples; expanded event_type detection
- CLI: invoke_graph_rag, invoke_agent, invoke_document_rag use
inline entity when available, fall back to graph query
- Tech specs updated
Additional explainability test
SPARQL 1.1 query service wrapping pub/sub triples interface
Add a backend-agnostic SPARQL query service that parses SPARQL
queries using rdflib, decomposes them into triple pattern lookups
via the existing TriplesClient pub/sub interface, and performs
in-memory joins, filters, and projections.
Includes:
- SPARQL parser, algebra evaluator, expression evaluator, solution
sequence operations (BGP, JOIN, OPTIONAL, UNION, FILTER, BIND,
VALUES, GROUP BY, ORDER BY, LIMIT/OFFSET, DISTINCT, aggregates)
- FlowProcessor service with TriplesClientSpec
- Gateway dispatcher, request/response translators, API spec
- Python SDK method (FlowInstance.sparql_query)
- CLI command (tg-invoke-sparql-query)
- Tech spec (docs/tech-specs/sparql-query.md)
New unit tests for SPARQL query
Adds a RabbitMQ backend as an alternative to Pulsar, selectable via
PUBSUB_BACKEND=rabbitmq. Both backends implement the same PubSubBackend
protocol — no application code changes needed to switch.
RabbitMQ topology:
- Single topic exchange per topicspace (e.g. 'tg')
- Routing key derived from queue class and topic name
- Shared consumers: named queue bound to exchange (competing, round-robin)
- Exclusive consumers: anonymous auto-delete queue (broadcast, each gets
every message). Used by Subscriber and config push consumer.
- Thread-local producer connections (pika is not thread-safe)
- Push-based consumption via basic_consume with process_data_events
for heartbeat processing
Consumer model changes:
- Consumer class creates one backend consumer per concurrent task
(required for pika thread safety, harmless for Pulsar)
- Consumer class accepts consumer_type parameter
- Subscriber passes consumer_type='exclusive' for broadcast semantics
- Config push consumer uses consumer_type='exclusive' so every
processor instance receives config updates
- handle_one_from_queue receives consumer as parameter for correct
per-connection ack/nack
LibrarianClient:
- New shared client class replacing duplicated librarian request-response
code across 6+ services (chunking, decoders, RAG, etc.)
- Uses stream-document instead of get-document-content for fetching
document content in 1MB chunks (avoids broker message size limits)
- Standalone object (self.librarian = LibrarianClient(...)) not a mixin
- get-document-content marked deprecated in schema and OpenAPI spec
Serialisation:
- Extracted dataclass_to_dict/dict_to_dataclass to shared
serialization.py (used by both Pulsar and RabbitMQ backends)
Librarian queues:
- Changed from flow class (persistent) back to request/response class
now that stream-document eliminates large single messages
- API upload chunk size reduced from 5MB to 3MB to stay under broker
limits after base64 encoding
Factory and CLI:
- get_pubsub() handles 'rabbitmq' backend with RabbitMQ connection params
- add_pubsub_args() includes RabbitMQ options (host, port, credentials)
- add_pubsub_args(standalone=True) defaults to localhost for CLI tools
- init_trustgraph skips Pulsar admin setup for non-Pulsar backends
- tg-dump-queues and tg-monitor-prompts use backend abstraction
- BaseClient and ConfigClient accept generic pubsub config
Wire message_id on all answer chunks, fix DAG structure message_id:
- Add message_id to AgentAnswer dataclass and propagate in
socket_client._parse_chunk
- Wire message_id into answer callbacks and send_final_response
for all three patterns (react, plan-then-execute, supervisor)
- Supervisor decomposition thought and synthesis answer chunks
now carry message_id
DAG structure fixes:
- Observation derives from sub-trace Synthesis (not Analysis)
when a tool produces a sub-trace; tracked via
last_sub_explain_uri on context
- Subagent sessions derive from parent's Decomposition via
parent_uri on agent_session_triples
- Findings derive from subagent Conclusions (not Decomposition)
- Synthesis derives from all findings (multiple wasDerivedFrom)
ensuring single terminal node
- agent_synthesis_triples accepts list of parent URIs
- Explainability chain walker follows from sub-trace terminal
to find downstream Observation
Emit Analysis before tool execution:
- Add on_action callback to react() in agent_manager.py, called
after reason() but before tool invocation
- Orchestrator and old service emit Analysis+ToolUse triples via
on_action so sub-traces appear after their parent in the stream
Refactor agent provenance so that the decision (thought + tool
selection) and the result (observation) are separate DAG entities:
Question ← Analysis+ToolUse ← Observation ← ... ← Conclusion
Analysis gains tg:ToolUse as a mixin RDF type and is emitted
before tool execution via an on_action callback in react().
This ensures sub-traces (e.g. GraphRAG) appear after their
parent Analysis in the streaming event order.
Observation becomes a standalone prov:Entity with tg:Observation
type, emitted after tool execution. The linear DAG chain runs
through Observation — subsequent iterations and the Conclusion
derive from it, not from the Analysis.
message_id is populated on streaming AgentResponse for thought
and observation chunks, using the provenance URI of the entity
being built. This lets clients group streamed chunks by entity.
Wire changes:
- provenance/agent.py: Add ToolUse type, new
agent_observation_triples(), remove observation from iteration
- agent_manager.py: Add on_action callback between reason() and
tool execution
- orchestrator/pattern_base.py: Split emit, wire message_id,
chain through observation URIs
- orchestrator/react_pattern.py: Emit Analysis via on_action
before tool runs
- agent/react/service.py: Same for non-orchestrator path
- api/explainability.py: New Observation class, updated dispatch
and chain walker
- api/types.py: Add message_id to AgentThought/AgentObservation
- cli: Render Observation separately, [analysis: tool] labels
Tidy agent-orchestrator logs
Added CLI support for selecting the pattern...
tg-invoke-agent -q "What is the document about?" -p supervisor -v
tg-invoke-agent -q "What is the document about?" -p plan-then-execute -v
tg-invoke-agent -q "What is the document about?" -p react -v
Added new event types to tg-show-explain-trace
agent-orchestrator: add explainability provenance for all agent
patterns
Extend the provenance/explainability system to provide
human-readable reasoning traces for the orchestrator's three
agent patterns. Previously only ReAct emitted provenance
(session, iteration, conclusion). Now each pattern records its
cognitive steps as typed RDF entities in the knowledge graph,
using composable mixin types (e.g. Finding + Answer).
New provenance chains:
- Supervisor: Question → Decomposition → Finding ×N → Synthesis
- Plan-then-Execute: Question → Plan → StepResult ×N → Synthesis
- ReAct: Question → Analysis ×N → Conclusion (unchanged)
New RDF types: Decomposition, Finding, Plan, StepResult.
New predicates: tg:subagentGoal, tg:planStep.
Reuses existing Synthesis + Answer mixin for final answers.
Provenance library (trustgraph-base):
- Triple builders, URI generators, vocabulary labels for new types
- Client dataclasses with from_triples() dispatch
- fetch_agent_trace() follows branching provenance chains
- API exports updated
Orchestrator (trustgraph-flow):
- PatternBase emit methods for decomposition, finding, plan, step result, and synthesis
- SupervisorPattern emits decomposition during fan-out
- PlanThenExecutePattern emits plan and step results
- Service emits finding triples on subagent completion
- Synthesis provenance replaces generic final triples
CLI (trustgraph-cli):
- invoke_agent -x displays new entity types inline
Introduce an agent orchestrator service that supports three
execution patterns (ReAct, plan-then-execute, supervisor) with
LLM-based meta-routing to select the appropriate pattern and task
type per request. Update the agent schema to support
orchestration fields (correlation, sub-agents, plan steps) and
remove legacy response fields (answer, thought, observation).
Replace per-request websocket connections in SocketClient and
AsyncSocketClient with a single persistent connection that
multiplexes requests by ID via a background reader task. This
eliminates repeated TCP+WS handshakes which caused significant
latency over proxies.
Convert show_flows, show_flow_blueprints, and
show_parameter_types CLI tools from sequential HTTP requests to
concurrent websocket requests using AsyncSocketClient, reducing
round trips from O(N) sequential to a small number of parallel
batches.
Also fix describe_interfaces bug in show_flows where response
queue was reading the request field instead of the response
field.
Embed edge descriptions and compute cosine similarity against grounding
concepts to reduce the number of edges sent to expensive LLM scoring.
Controlled by edge_score_limit parameter (default 30), skipped when edge
count is already below the limit.
Also plumbs edge_score_limit and edge_limit parameters end-to-end:
- CLI args (--edge-score-limit, --edge-limit) in both invoke and service
- Socket client: fix parameter mapping to use hyphenated wire-format keys
- Flow API, message translator, gateway all pass through correctly
- Explainable code path (_question_explainable_api) now forwards all params
- Default edge_score_limit changed from 50 to 30 based on typical subgraph
sizes
Add unified explainability support and librarian storage for all retrieval engines
Implements consistent explainability/provenance tracking
across GraphRAG, DocumentRAG, and Agent retrieval
engines. All large content (answers, thoughts, observations)
is now stored in librarian rather than as inline literals in
the knowledge graph.
Explainability API:
- New explainability.py module with entity classes (Question,
Exploration, Focus, Synthesis, Analysis, Conclusion) and
ExplainabilityClient
- Quiescence-based eventual consistency handling for trace
fetching
- Content fetching from librarian with retry logic
CLI updates:
- tg-invoke-graph-rag -x/--explainable flag returns
explain_id
- tg-invoke-document-rag -x/--explainable flag returns
explain_id
- tg-invoke-agent -x/--explainable flag returns explain_id
- tg-list-explain-traces uses new explainability API
- tg-show-explain-trace handles all three trace types
Agent provenance:
- Records session, iterations (think/act/observe), and conclusion
- Stores thoughts and observations in librarian with document
references
- New predicates: tg:thoughtDocument, tg:observationDocument
DocumentRAG provenance:
- Records question, exploration (chunk retrieval), and synthesis
- Stores answers in librarian with document references
Schema changes:
- AgentResponse: added explain_id, explain_graph fields
- RetrievalResponse: added explain_id, explain_graph fields
- agent_iteration_triples: supports thought_document_id,
observation_document_id
Update tests.
Base Service (trustgraph-base/trustgraph/base/embeddings_service.py):
- Changed on_request to use request.texts
FastEmbed Processor
(trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/embeddings/fastembed/processor.py):
- on_embeddings(texts, model=None) now processes full batch efficiently
- Returns [[v.tolist()] for v in vecs] - list of vector sets
Ollama Processor (trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/embeddings/ollama/processor.py):
- on_embeddings(texts, model=None) passes list directly to Ollama
- Returns [[embedding] for embedding in embeds.embeddings]
EmbeddingsClient (trustgraph-base/trustgraph/base/embeddings_client.py):
- embed(texts, timeout=300) accepts list of texts
Tests Updated:
- test_fastembed_dynamic_model.py - 4 tests updated for new interface
- test_ollama_dynamic_model.py - 4 tests updated for new interface
Updated CLI, SDK and APIs
Quoted triple fixes, including...
1. Updated triple_provenance_triples() in triples.py:
- Now accepts a Triple object directly
- Creates the reification triple using TRIPLE term type: stmt_uri tg:reifies
<<extracted_triple>>
- Includes it in the returned provenance triples
2. Updated definitions extractor:
- Added imports for provenance functions and component version
- Added ParameterSpec for optional llm-model and ontology flow parameters
- For each definition triple, generates provenance with reification
3. Updated relationships extractor:
- Same changes as definitions extractor
Tech spec
BlobStore (trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/librarian/blob_store.py):
- get_stream() - yields document content in chunks for streaming retrieval
- create_multipart_upload() - initializes S3 multipart upload, returns
upload_id
- upload_part() - uploads a single part, returns etag
- complete_multipart_upload() - finalizes upload with part etags
- abort_multipart_upload() - cancels and cleans up
Cassandra schema (trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/tables/library.py):
- New upload_session table with 24-hour TTL
- Index on user for listing sessions
- Prepared statements for all operations
- Methods: create_upload_session(), get_upload_session(),
update_upload_session_chunk(), delete_upload_session(),
list_upload_sessions()
- Schema extended with UploadSession, UploadProgress, and new
request/response fields
- Librarian methods: begin_upload, upload_chunk, complete_upload,
abort_upload, get_upload_status, list_uploads
- Service routing for all new operations
- Python SDK with transparent chunked upload:
- add_document() auto-switches to chunked for files > 10MB
- Progress callback support (on_progress)
- get_pending_uploads(), get_upload_status(), abort_upload(),
resume_upload()
- Document table: Added parent_id and document_type columns with index
- Document schema (knowledge/document.py): Added document_id field for
streaming retrieval
- Librarian operations:
- add-child-document for extracted PDF pages
- list-children to get child documents
- stream-document for chunked content retrieval
- Cascade delete removes children when parent is deleted
- list-documents filters children by default
- PDF decoder (decoding/pdf/pdf_decoder.py): Updated to stream large
documents from librarian API to temp file
- Librarian service (librarian/service.py): Sends document_id instead of
content for large PDFs (>2MB)
- Deprecated tools (load_pdf.py, load_text.py): Added deprecation
warnings directing users to tg-add-library-document +
tg-start-library-processing
Remove load_pdf and load_text utils
Move chunker/librarian comms to base class
Updating tests
* CLI tools for tg-invoke-graph-embeddings, tg-invoke-document-embeddings,
and tg-invoke-embeddings. Just useful for diagnostics.
* Fix tg-load-knowledge
* Changed schema for Value -> Term, majorly breaking change
* Following the schema change, Value -> Term into all processing
* Updated Cassandra for g, p, s, o index patterns (7 indexes)
* Reviewed and updated all tests
* Neo4j, Memgraph and FalkorDB remain broken, will look at once settled down
* Plugin architecture for messaging fabric
* Schemas use a technology neutral expression
* Schemas strictness has uncovered some incorrect schema use which is fixed
* Tech spec
* Python CLI utilities updated to use the API including streaming features
* Added type safety to Python API
* Completed missing auth token support in CLI
* Tweak the structured query schema
* Structure query service
* Gateway support for nlp-query and structured-query
* API support
* Added CLI
* Update tests
* More tests
Key Features
- MCP Tool Integration: Added core MCP tool support with ToolClientSpec and ToolClient classes
- API Enhancement: New mcp_tool method for flow-specific tool invocation
- CLI Tooling: New tg-invoke-mcp-tool command for testing MCP integration
- React Agent Enhancement: Fixed and improved multi-tool invocation capabilities
- Tool Management: Enhanced CLI for tool configuration and management
Changes
- Added MCP tool invocation to API with flow-specific integration
- Implemented ToolClientSpec and ToolClient for tool call handling
- Updated agent-manager-react to invoke MCP tools with configurable types
- Enhanced CLI with new commands and improved help text
- Added comprehensive documentation for new CLI commands
- Improved tool configuration management
Testing
- Added tg-invoke-mcp-tool CLI command for isolated MCP integration testing
- Enhanced agent capability to invoke multiple tools simultaneously
