MACE Design Document

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Design Goals
  • Terms
  • Organization
• Architecture
  • Stages
  • Control Flow
  • Loop Options
  • Package Boundary
• Planner
  • Prompt
  • Directive Lines
  • Validation
  • Task Kinds
  • Thinking Cap
• Parallel Task Execution
  • Checkouts and Placement
  • Dispatch
  • Per-Task Configuration
  • RTL Tasks
  • Unit-Test Tasks
• Directed Tests
  • The test task
  • The agent’s tool
  • Attempts
  • Tests in later tasks
  • Records
  • What is left out
• Integration and Verification
  • Dependency Order
  • Build
  • Run
  • Verdict
  • Pass Criteria
• Failure Analysis
  • Triage
  • Diagnostic Tools
  • Replanning
  • Post-Mortem
• Fixed Checks
  • Plan Check
  • Raw Evidence
  • Narrowing
  • Fast Path
  • Gate Pass and Carried Edits
• Budgets and Replay
  • Budget
  • Gate-Workload Checksums
  • Run Status
  • Deterministic Replay