refactor: move the reference implementation to src/paperspec

The oracle had two import names, `tools.oracle` for the tools and
`paperspec` for other repositories, which could load the same code twice
in one process and needed a gate keyed on the module name. It now lives
in the standard src layout under its one name.

- git mv tools/oracle -> src/paperspec; the 22 rule modules are unchanged.
- The tools import `paperspec`. `tools/__init__.py` now holds the Python
  3.14 and cryptography/jsonschema check and puts src/ first on sys.path,
  so the tools run this checkout's code with or without pixi. The
  package's own __init__ checks nothing and exposes __version__.
- pyproject.toml: version from git tags via setuptools-scm
  (guess-next-dev, node-and-timestamp, src/paperspec/_version.py,
  gitignored). The packages stay listed rather than found because
  schemas/, sql/ and vectors/ stay at the root: the spec links to them and
  the site serves the schemas at their $id URLs.
- pixi.toml: a `dev` feature and environment with setuptools,
  setuptools-scm and python-build, and `pixi run -e dev wheel`.
- check.py scans src/paperspec for rule IDs; README, CONTRIBUTING, the
  FAQ, the overview, the vectors and tools READMEs and the changelog point
  at the new path. The FAQ no longer says the oracle is not a library.

pixi.lock is not re-solved in this commit: with a dynamic version, pixi
builds the package metadata to lock, which needs the conda environment
installed. Run `pixi lock` and commit the result before pushing; the site
workflow installs with --locked.

pixi run check passes; no computed value, vector, fixture, schema or SQL
file changed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ A fixture is an example file or package under `fixtures/`.
| `load.py` | Validates packages, folders or zipped, then loads them into a SQLite database with the tables of `sql/`: `python3 tools/load.py --sqlite lab.db PACKAGE [PACKAGE ...]`. With `--bundle --built-from REV` it builds a new bundle instead, with the full-text search index ([spec/13 §13.5](../spec/13-database.md#135-the-bundle)). |
| `site.py` | Builds the website into `_site/`: every file of the repository at its own path, and each Markdown file rendered as a page beside it, with a vocabulary page, folder listings and a search index. It uses only the standard library. `pixi run check` builds it into a temporary folder and checks every link ([deploy/](../deploy/README.md)). |
| `stress.py` | Stresses the oracle with random inputs from a seeded generator: `python3 tools/stress.py [--seed N] [--rounds N]`. It checks the invariants the chapters state rather than the vectors' values, such as canonical JSON round trips, corrections keeping the five values consistent with a full recomputation, anchors always resolving to one of the five outcomes, the zip reader never writing outside its folder, and a mutated package always being refused. |
| `oracle/` | A compact implementation of every rule. `build.py` uses it to compute expected values, and `check.py` uses it to recompute them. |
| [src/paperspec/](../src/paperspec/) | The oracle: a compact implementation of every rule, and the Python package `paperspec`. `build.py` uses it to compute expected values, and `check.py` uses it to recompute them. The programs put `src/` first on the path, so they run this checkout's code with or without pixi. |
## When to run what
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Each program prints its options with `--help` and refuses options it does not kn
`build.py` rebuilds `fixtures/` and `vectors/` in place unless you pass `--out`.
Run `pixi run check` before every commit.
Run `pixi run build` after you change a fixture source, a rule in `oracle/` or a case in `build.py`, and commit the regenerated files with the change.
Run `pixi run build` after you change a fixture source, a rule in `src/paperspec/` or a case in `build.py`, and commit the regenerated files with the change.
The check rebuilds into a temporary folder and compares every file byte for byte, so it fails on out-of-date files.
## About the oracle
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ The oracle exists so that no expected value in this repository is typed by hand.
It favors clarity, and leaves the cryptography and schema validation to established packages.
Ed25519 (a digital signature scheme) and HKDF come from `cryptography`, and JSON Schema (a format that describes the shape of JSON data) validation from `jsonschema`.
The VRF of RFC 9381 (`oracle/vrf.py`) and ML-DSA-65 of FIPS 204 (`oracle/mldsa.py`) are written out in plain Python, slow and clear, and checked against the standards' own test vectors.
The VRF of RFC 9381 (`src/paperspec/vrf.py`) and ML-DSA-65 of FIPS 204 (`src/paperspec/mldsa.py`) are written out in plain Python, slow and clear, and checked against the standards' own test vectors.
The oracle still refuses any schema that uses a keyword outside the subset the schemas are restricted to.
Canonical JSON goes through Python's built-in JSON encoder, and falls back to an exact RFC 8785 serializer for the values that encoder writes differently: floating-point numbers, integers beyond 2^53 and some non-ASCII member names.
@@ -67,8 +67,9 @@ Hashes are kept incrementally.
A node's five values depend only on its own subtree, so after a correction the oracle rehashes only the nodes that changed and their ancestors, and a container's projections are its children's cached projections joined.
`check.py` compares the result after every correction with a slow computation that projects each node from its whole subtree.
Other repositories of the project do not reimplement the specification: they install this repository as the Python package `paperspec` (`pip install .`, or a git pin) and import the oracle, so that every key, identifier, canonical JSON string, package check and database form comes from one piece of code.
Other repositories of the project do not reimplement the specification: they install this repository as the Python package `paperspec` (`pip install .`, or a git pin) and import the oracle from it, so that every key, identifier, canonical JSON string, package check and database form comes from one piece of code.
The library surface they use is `keys`, `text`, `jcs`, `package`, `db`, `schema` and `rights`, with the schemas, SQL and vectors as package data (`importlib.resources.files("paperspec") / "sql" / "doc.sql"`).
Those modules run on Python 3.12 with the standard library alone, except that `schema` needs `paperspec[schema]` (`jsonschema` and `referencing`) and the HKDF and Ed25519 functions of `crypto` need `paperspec[crypto]`; `paperspec[tools]` installs both.
The package version comes from git tags through setuptools-scm, and `pixi run -e dev wheel` builds the wheel into `dist/`.
When `scienting-core` exists it takes this role behind the same vectors, and the import changes without any computed value changing.
Independent implementations follow the [specification](../spec/README.md) and test themselves against the [vectors](../vectors/README.md).