Contract Spec v1

Pipeline Lock is designed to enforce that inference requests cannot silently diverge from your declared input and preprocessing contract.

Documentation

Spec, examples, and reference implementations in the repo.

  • Spec v1 — Schema rules, feature contract, violation codes
  • Examples — Text, tabular, RAG, agent configs
  • Runtime enforcement checklist — Pre-production checklist

Path: docs/contracts/

Templates

Starter templates for FastAPI, Node.js, and agent use cases.

  • FastAPI — Python REST API, text-prompt contract
  • Node — Express, text-prompt contract
  • Agent — Messages/tools, warn mode

Path: templates/

Enforced contracts

  • Request schema (JSON Schema draft-07 subset)
  • Feature contract (tabular or text, ordering)
  • Preprocessing artifact integrity (checksums)
  • No coercion — values must match declared types

APIs

  • POST /run — Inference (validated)
  • POST /contract/validate — Validate config (CI)
  • POST /deployments/{id}/validate — Dry-run input
  • GET /deployments/{id}/schema-stats — Observed keys, violations
Contract Spec v1 — Quantlix — Quantlix