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
- Fix agent react and orchestrator services appending bare methods
to config_handlers instead of using register_config_handler() —
caused 'method object is not subscriptable' on config notify
- Add exc_info to config fetch retry logging for proper tracebacks
- Remove debug print statements from collection management
dispatcher and translator
- Disable RabbitMQ heartbeats (heartbeat=0) to prevent broker
closing idle producer connections that can't process heartbeat
frames from BlockingConnection
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
Remove Pulsar-specific concepts from application code so that
the pub/sub backend is swappable via configuration.
Rename translators:
- to_pulsar/from_pulsar → decode/encode across all translator
classes, dispatch handlers, and tests (55+ files)
- from_response_with_completion → encode_with_completion
- Remove pulsar.schema.Record from translator base class
Queue naming (CLASS:TOPICSPACE:TOPIC):
- Replace topic() helper with queue() using new format:
flow:tg:name, request:tg:name, response:tg:name, state:tg:name
- Queue class implies persistence/TTL (no QoS in names)
- Update Pulsar backend map_topic() to parse new format
- Librarian queues use flow class (persistent, for chunking)
- Config push uses state class (persistent, last-value)
- Remove 15 dead topic imports from schema files
- Update init_trustgraph.py namespace: config → state
Confine Pulsar to pulsar_backend.py:
- Delete legacy PulsarClient class from pubsub.py
- Move add_args to add_pubsub_args() with standalone flag
for CLI tools (defaults to localhost)
- PulsarBackendConsumer.receive() catches _pulsar.Timeout,
raises standard TimeoutError
- Remove Pulsar imports from: async_processor, flow_processor,
log_level, all 11 client files, 4 storage writers, gateway
service, gateway config receiver
- Remove log_level/LoggerLevel from client API
- Rewrite tg-monitor-prompts to use backend abstraction
- Update tg-dump-queues to use add_pubsub_args
Also: pubsub-abstraction.md tech spec covering problem statement,
design goals, as-is requirements, candidate broker assessment,
approach, and implementation order.
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).
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.
The id field in pipeline Metadata was being overwritten at each processing
stage (document → page → chunk), causing knowledge storage to create
separate cores per chunk instead of grouping by document.
Add a root field that:
- Is set by librarian to the original document ID
- Is copied unchanged through PDF decoder, chunkers, and extractors
- Is used by knowledge storage for document_id grouping (with fallback to id)
Changes:
- Add root field to Metadata schema with empty string default
- Set root=document.id in librarian when initiating document processing
- Copy root through PDF decoder, recursive chunker, and all extractors
- Update knowledge storage to use root (or id as fallback) for grouping
- Add root handling to translators and gateway serialization
- Update test mock Metadata class to include root parameter
The metadata field (list of triples) in the pipeline Metadata class
was redundant. Document metadata triples already flow directly from
librarian to triple-store via emit_document_provenance() - they don't
need to pass through the extraction pipeline.
Additionally, chunker and PDF decoder were overwriting metadata to []
anyway, so any metadata passed through the pipeline was being
discarded.
Changes:
- Remove metadata field from Metadata dataclass
(schema/core/metadata.py)
- Update all Metadata instantiations to remove metadata=[]
parameter
- Remove metadata handling from translators (document_loading,
knowledge)
- Remove metadata consumption from extractors (ontology, agent)
- Update gateway serializers and import handlers
- Update all unit, integration, and contract tests
Terminology Rename, and named-graphs for explainability data
Changed terminology:
- session -> question
- retrieval -> exploration
- selection -> focus
- answer -> synthesis
- uris.py: Renamed query_session_uri → question_uri,
retrieval_uri → exploration_uri, selection_uri → focus_uri,
answer_uri → synthesis_uri
- triples.py: Renamed corresponding triple generation functions with
updated labels ("GraphRAG question", "Exploration", "Focus",
"Synthesis")
- namespaces.py: Added named graph constants GRAPH_DEFAULT,
GRAPH_SOURCE, GRAPH_RETRIEVAL
- init.py: Updated exports
- graph_rag.py: Updated to use new terminology
- invoke_graph_rag.py: Updated CLI to display new stage names
(Question, Exploration, Focus, Synthesis)
Query-Time Explainability → Named Graph
- triples.py: Added set_graph() helper function to set named graph
on triples
- graph_rag.py: All explainability triples now use GRAPH_RETRIEVAL
named graph
- rag.py: Explainability triples stored in user's collection (not
separate collection) with named graph
Extraction Provenance → Named Graph
- relationships/extract.py: Provenance triples use GRAPH_SOURCE
named graph
- definitions/extract.py: Provenance triples use GRAPH_SOURCE
named graph
- chunker.py: Provenance triples use GRAPH_SOURCE named graph
- pdf_decoder.py: Provenance triples use GRAPH_SOURCE named graph
CLI Updates
- show_graph.py: Added -g/--graph option to filter by named graph and
--show-graph to display graph column
Also:
- Fix knowledge core schemas
Knowledge core fixed:
- trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/tables/knowledge.py - v.vector, v.chunk_id
- trustgraph-base/trustgraph/messaging/translators/document_loading.py -
chunk.vector
- trustgraph-base/trustgraph/messaging/translators/knowledge.py -
entity.vector
- trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/gateway/dispatch/serialize.py - entity.vector,
chunk.vector
Test fixtures fixed:
- tests/unit/test_storage/conftest.py - All mock entities/chunks use vector
- tests/unit/test_query/conftest.py - All mock requests use vector
- tests/unit/test_query/test_doc_embeddings_pinecone_query.py - All mock
messages use vector
These changes align with commit f2ae0e86 which changed the schema from
vectors: list[list[float]] to vector: list[float].
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
* 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
* Tidy up duplicate tech specs in doc directory
* Streaming LLM text-completion service tech spec.
* text-completion and prompt interfaces
* streaming change applied to all LLMs, so far tested with VertexAI
* Skip Pinecone unit tests, upstream module issue is affecting things, tests are passing again
* Added agent streaming, not working and has broken tests
* Tweak the structured query schema
* Structure query service
* Gateway support for nlp-query and structured-query
* API support
* Added CLI
* Update tests
* More tests
