Kernel & Packs Architecture

The Factory kernel provides planning, approval, execution, artifact, and verification primitives.

Packs add data-only agent definitions, pinned prompts and schemas, event routes, edges, and schedules. They do not ship executable adapters or hooks; those belong in operator-installed extensions.

factory/
├── event-runtime/         # Kernel, workers, API, and web UI
└── packs/
    ├── example-hello/     # Smallest complete reference pack
    └── ops-disk/          # Read-only disk telemetry analysis loop

Packs are never auto-discovered. Scaffold and validate one, then add its exact path to packs: in config/policy.yaml:

factory pack init my-loop
factory pack validate packs/my-loop