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Beam

This longform module page is the manufacturer-docs entry point for the module. It uses the product overview when that surface is admitted and falls back to the first safe versioned detail page when the overview is still blocked. Use it first; drop into the versioned product pages only when you need deeper surface detail or channel-specific reference.

  • Canonical module key: beam
  • Source repo: JaddaHelpifyr/jhf-beam
  • Preferred versioned channel today: stable

Versioned product docs​

Use these direct entry points when you need exact product behavior, operations, or reference detail:

Tool / Contract Summary​

jhf-beam is the Helpifyr safety, upgrade, rollback, and verification repository. It is not a product runtime service and not a Fabric runtime member. It owns verification contracts, evidence contracts, and operational governance for issue-driven certification waves.

When To Use Beam​

Use Beam when a change wave needs independent certification, rollback posture, evidence integrity, or staged upgrade verification across owner repositories. Beam is the right module when the question is whether a change is safe, repeatable, and sufficiently evidenced, not when the question is where runtime or business truth lives.

What Beam Owns​

  • Certification standards, promotion contracts, and verification wave structure.
  • Repo-owned evidence, verdict, lock, and maintenance governance contracts.
  • Read-only validation of upstream truth surfaces needed for safety and certification decisions.

What Beam Does Not Own​

  • Runtime truth for product services or shared hosts.
  • Fabric contract authoring or canonical business/domain truth.
  • Deployment orchestration truth for foreign repositories.
  • Public docs publishing or downstream materialization ownership.

Business Value​

  • Turns change risk into explicit, auditable evidence.
  • Keeps runtime truth with owner repos while Beam provides independent safety validation.
  • Standardizes full validation, bulletproof rerun, upgrade certification, and monitoring-trigger certification waves.
  • Preserves the shared-service-boundary so shared context does not silently become tool-owned runtime or storage truth.

Current Verified State​

  • Implemented OpenClaw path: 2026.3.13 -> 2026.3.24 with reproducible evidence and compatibility export.
  • Generic upgrade-suite structure is present and schema/policy verifiable.
  • Fabric combination and contract-family truth is consumed read-only and validated in repo and live-readback modes.
  • Stage-3 promotion bridge, lock evidence, idempotency guards, and host-readback paths are implemented.

Available now​

  • Installation and configuration docs for the v1.6 docs platform baseline.
  • Certification standards under docs/testing/.
  • Machine-readable contracts under maintenance/ and schemas/.
  • Verification scripts under maintenance/, ops/host/, and scripts/testing/.
  • Packaging contracts and reproducible source-bundle build/publish scripts.

Optional / Extended​

  • External-installation baseline (preflight/postflight/supportability/package policy) via docs/testing/ and maintenance artifacts.
  • Host timer and artifact sync operations for bounded maintenance tasks.

Planned / Not in current scope​

  • No Beam-owned runtime API service.
  • No Beam-owned deployment control plane.
  • No local second source of truth for Fabric contract families or bundle detection.
  • jhf-beam-light consumption path is prepared but remains planned.

Public Surfaces​

  • Repo artifacts:
    • README.md
    • docs/INSTALL.md
    • docs/CONFIGURATION.md
    • docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md
    • docs/RELEASE_NOTES.md
    • docs/CAPABILITIES.md
    • maintenance/*.json
    • upgrade-runs/
  • Read-only external surfaces:
    • GET /api/v1/combinations/profiles
    • GET /api/v1/contracts/matrix
    • GET /api/v1/contracts/docs-standard
    • GET /api/v1/voice/contracts/events

Contract Families​

  • upgrade-suite contracts
  • promotion/live-feedback contracts
  • Fabric docs-standard and voice-events consumer contracts

Producer-/Consumer-Zuordnung​

  • Producer: helpifyr-fabric (contract/bundle truth)
  • Producer: jhf-deployment (stage-2 promotion payload/evidence)
  • Consumer/validator: jhf-beam

Compatibility Window​

  • maintenance/compatibility-windows.json
  • maintenance/latest-known-good.json

Lifecycle Status​

  • Stable: repository governance and verification model.
  • Transitional: external-installation packaging/distribution depth.

Readiness / Drift / Monitoring​

  • Inventory and drift generation:
    • maintenance/pull_oss_inventory.py
    • maintenance/runtime-drift-*.json
  • Readiness verification:
    • maintenance/verify-upgrade-suite.py
    • maintenance/verify-fabric-combination-safety.py
    • maintenance/verify-voice-governance.py

Deployment / Verify​

  • Stage 1: repo-level verify
  • Stage 2: deployment-owned staging verification
  • Stage 3: Beam host-bound live verify and issue feedback publish

How To Verify The Current Repo-Owned Source Truth​

  • python3 maintenance/verify-docs-inventory-adoption.py
  • python3 maintenance/verify-maintenance-contracts.py
  • python3 maintenance/verify-beam-terminology.py
  • python <local-workspace-redacted>/helpifyr-fabric/scripts/docs/validate_repo_docs_skeleton.py --repo <local-workspace-redacted>/_worktrees/jhf-beam/234-wave6-public-docs-source-curation

These checks validate the current public-safe source docs and Beam-owned governance surfaces without claiming ownership over live runtime behavior in other repositories.

Known Limits​

  • No Beam-owned service runtime to monitor directly.
  • No write-back to Fabric truth surfaces.
  • Multi-tool deep execution coverage is partial and owner-dependent.

Exceptions / Waivers​

  • Exceptions are issue-driven and must be explicitly referenced in run evidence or maintenance artifacts.
  • jhf-beam#89
  • jhf-beam#119
  • jhf-beam#120
  • jhf-beam#126
  • jhf-beam#138

License​

AGPLv3. See ../LICENSE (LICENSE).

Learn more at helpifyr.com.