Publishing
- .gitea/workflows/publish.yml publishes paperspec to the instance's PyPI
registry (/api/packages/infra/pypi) when a v* tag is pushed: it checks
the repository, builds the sdist and wheel, refuses to upload unless the
built version equals the tag, runs twine check --strict, and uploads
with the secrets PACKAGE_USER and PACKAGE_TOKEN (--skip-existing, so a
rerun on the same tag is safe). Run by hand, it refuses anything but a
tag.
- pixi dev environment: twine >= 6.1 (the first that reads Metadata 2.4),
and `dist` (sdist and wheel) replaces the `wheel` task.
- deploy/README.md: how to set up the secrets, release a version, and
install from the registry with pixi, uv or pip, tying paperspec to the
registry where the installer allows it.
- CONTRIBUTING.md "Releasing": a tag versions the package; a format
change takes the new format version as the top CHANGELOG heading, and a
code-only release takes the next patch as a subsection, as 0.1.1 does.
- pyproject: fallback_version 0+unknown for source trees without git; the
license expression is Apache-2.0 AND CC0-1.0, for the code and the data
the wheel carries.
Cleanup (from an audit of every reference to the package)
- spec/00 lists src/ (the package) and tools/ (how to run it), and no
longer says the reference implementation is not a library.
- Stale explanations fixed in pixi.toml, .gitignore, the Caddyfile, the
vectors, context, sql and tools READMEs, docs/examples.md, docs/faq.md,
spec/01, docs/rationale.md and docs/comparison.md: the commands, what
they need (the tools extra), the fixture folder hale2026harmonic-damb,
and three lines that held two sentences.
- tools/README.md counts all six commands, says what needs which extra
(package.validate and corrections.gate need [schema]), and that the
vectors ship but the fixtures they name do not.
- The CLI's install and clone hints point at the registry instructions and
an https clone URL; schema.py raises an ImportError naming
paperspec[schema], as crypto.py does for [crypto].
- check's Unicode check now guards the package's pinned constant.
- site skips build/, dist/ and *.egg-info.
- CHANGELOG 0.1.1 describes the final state.
pixi run check passes (as `python -m paperspec check`); the rebuild is
byte-identical. pixi.lock needs `pixi lock` for twine before pushing: the
publish workflow installs with --locked.
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- hashing.algorithm names the hash function in every document; a consumer refuses one it does not implement (doc.hash.algorithm)
- ML-DSA-65 (FIPS 204) is an implemented signature scheme: pure-Python reference in tools/oracle/mldsa.py checked against NIST ACVP vectors, a receipt signed by the new roster key dana, and signature vectors for key generation and a deterministic signature
- roster keys may carry a did:key, which the validator checks against the public key (doc.roster.did), and a witness purpose for parties that cosign log checkpoints
- model provenance: a correction's author and an annotation's generator name the model with provider, version and the hashes of its weights, prompt and parameters, and where it ran
- the transparency log gains the tlog-tiles static layout (fixtures/records/log/), a project settings.log with origin, witnesses and threshold, and an acceptance rule; the fixture checkpoint is cosigned by a witness
- store.sql: roster_keys accepts cose and ml-dsa-65 and gains a did column
- spec chapters 01, 08, 11, 18, 20 and 23, the rationale, glossary, fixture, vector and tool guides updated; stress harness covers ML-DSA
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Keys (spec/02 §2.4), the rule paperstack settled on:
- A work key is a Scholar-style citation key, a hyphen and the first four
Crockford base32 characters of SHA-256("scienting-key/1:" + identity),
where the identity is the first of doi, arxiv, isbn, pmid, pmcid and
openalex in same_as, else the folded title, year and family name. A
collision lengthens the later key by two characters; a key is minted
once and never recomputed. A document key adds .si, .v<seq> or .<type>
for versions other than the version of record.
- Every fixture key is now minted (hale2026harmonic-damb,
okafor2025solvent-acth, writer2027fixed-ynr7.v3, tiny2026tiny-j4qm), so
every node and record ID was re-minted and the docs rewritten to match.
The validator checks the document key against the work key and version
(doc.key.work) and the hash part against the identifier (doc.key.suffix).
vectors/keys.jsonl pins the cases paperstack's tests pin.
Review:
- Spot-check seeds are ECVRF-EDWARDS25519-SHA512-TAI proofs (RFC 9381),
implemented in tools/oracle/vrf.py in plain Python and reproduced
against the RFC's Example 16; the sample ranks by the VRF output. The
earlier Ed25519 seed could be ground by a dishonest checker.
- RFC 9162 inclusion and consistency proofs (crypto.inclusion_path,
verify_inclusion, consistency_proof, verify_consistency) with
scienting-proof/1, vectors/proofs.jsonl and two fixture records.
- document.json carries `history`, the root over the corrections, with
the empty-tree hash for none (spec/11 §11.5, rule doc.history).
- A provisional transparency log (spec/23): log entries, signed-note
checkpoints with key hashes as transparency logs share them, the rule
that a logged revocation beats a self-asserted time, and vectors.
- Reserved signature schemes cose and ml-dsa-65 (spec/08 §8.4).
Identifiers and text:
- urn:scienting: becomes tag:scient.ing,2026: (RFC 4151), since the URN
namespace was never registered.
- Unicode 16.0 is pinned for normalization and categories (spec/01 §1.4);
the checker refuses another version.
Checking:
- check.py: keys, proofs, VRF and checkpoint vectors; the proof and
checkpoint records; a check that every ID and hash the prose quotes
exists in the fixtures or vectors; three more broken packages
(history-wrong, key-suffix, key-work).
- stress.py: key, VRF, proof and checkpoint properties.
- Docs: a keys section in the concepts and FAQ, rationale entries for
keys, VRF, proofs, tag URIs and the Unicode pin, a "Looking ahead"
section, media-type registration and OCI distribution notes.
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