mgf-standard

The Magogi Foundation's engineering-standards corpus, federation contract, and library registry — the single source of truth for the mgf-* federation.

Conformance: L2 per its own docs/standards/ (one documented CFM-04 carve-out — see docs/inprogress/MGF_STANDARDS_CONFORMANCE.md). Audience: every Magogi project (humans + AI agents). If you depend on mgf-common or any mgf-* sibling, the rules you follow live here.

What this repo is

mgf-standard is the standards leaf of the Magogi Foundation. It carries, as the canonical version-controlled source of truth:

• The engineering-standards corpus (docs/standards/) — the AP / CF / EH / LG / SC / TS / DP / DOC / … rule families every federation project conforms to, with a master index + per-topic Rules boxes.
• The federation contract (FEDERATION.md) — what you owe by depending on the federation, and what it gives you. Every other repo (including the mgf-common cornerstone) ships a pointer stub to this copy (DOC-17).
• The library registry (MGF_LIBRARIES.md) — the always-current map of every federation library, kept honest by the REL-13 consistency gate (scripts/gen_mgf_libraries.py).
• Foundation-level design + process docs — the federation-pattern architecture paper (docs/design/federation.md) and the federation-operations recipes (docs/recipes/: cohort releases, sibling renames, the sync prompt, and the pointer-stub / adoption / conformance templates).

Why it's a separate repo (and a tiny package)

The standards used to live inside mgf-common. They were extracted so the rules version independently of the implementation: mgf-common is the reference implementation + the CLI front door; mgf-standard is the specification. mgf-common now depends on mgf-standard.

The repo ships a tiny, zero-dependency data package, mgf.standard, that carries the corpus as wheel data and exposes a typed resolver:

import mgf.standard as std

std.standards_dir()           # Path to the corpus directory
std.list_standards()          # ['API_DESIGN', 'CONFIGURATION', 'LOGGING', ...]
std.read_standard("LOGGING")  # the full LOGGING.md text

std.recipes_dir()             # Path to the federation-operations recipes
std.list_recipes()            # ['cohort-release-wave', 'federation-sync-prompt', ...]
std.read_recipe("federation-sync-prompt")  # the /sync prompt text

std.libraries()               # the federation registry (roster + dep graph)

It depends on nothing in the mgf.* namespace — it is the federation leaf-of-leaves, sitting below mgf-common in the dependency graph (mgf-standard ← mgf-common ← every sibling ← every consumer), so the runtime graph stays acyclic.

How to read the standards

You almost never read this repo directly — you read it through mgf-common's CLI, which is installed in every federation project:

mgf-common standards            # list all topics
mgf-common standards LOGGING    # print one
mgf-common agents               # the canonical AI-agent briefing

Those commands resolve this package's corpus via mgf.standard.standards_dir(). Reading the rules never requires a checkout of this repo.

Repo layout

Federation links

• Cornerstone / CLI: mgf-common
• Contract: FEDERATION.md · Registry: MGF_LIBRARIES.md
• Feedback (standards proposals + cross-cutting rules): FEEDBACK.md
• Onboarding: STARTHERE.md · Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md

License

MIT — see LICENSE.