ToolUp.Facts.Core 0.22.0

ToolUp.Facts

A bitemporal, content-addressed fact store for ToolUp.Platform — the typed memory tier that numeric answers quote verbatim. Companion package (Phase 520); a deployment that composes no fact store pays zero runtime cost.

What this is

A fact is a verified assertion about a (subject, metric, period): a value, with provenance, produced by deterministic computation, asserted by a human, or imported from a peer. The model is deliberately small and every guarantee is decidable:

• Content-addressed — FactId = hash(subject, metric, period, method, inputHashes). Re-asserting an identical tuple is idempotent (the store converges under replay); a changed input yields a new fact whose supersession edge is derived, never declared.
• Bitemporal — Period is valid time, AsOf is transaction time. "The fact base as of May 3" is a first-class query. A forecast is simply a fact whose valid time extends beyond its transaction time — no flag; the timestamps carry it.
• Append-only — a correction is a supersession (a new fact with a later AsOf), never a mutation.
• Disclosure-classified at birth — every fact carries a Disclosure (Surfaceable / Internal / Restricted policy) from its first assertion. Egress enforcement is a later phase; the field lands here.

Why a companion, not core SDK

A fact base is a grounding capability, not platform substrate. Nothing else in the SDK depends on IFactStore; analytics-only or CRUD-only deployments never need it. Same rationale as ToolUp.AI / ToolUp.RAG not living in ToolUp.Platform.

The companion is a consumer of substrate (IBlobStorage for storage, IEventStore for the GP 6 audit trail under the reserved _facts source module), not substrate itself.

How to use

open ToolUp.Facts

let store = BlobFactStore.create blobStorage eventStore

let! asserted =
    store.Assert(
        scopeId,
        { Subject = { Hierarchy = "geography"; Path = [ "uk" ] }
          Metric = MetricRef "revenue"
          Value = Scalar 1_250_000m
          Period = { From = q2Start; To = q2End; Label = Some "Q2-2026" }
          Method = Computed("sales.rollup", "1", paramHash)
          Evidence = { ResultRef = Some resultId; InputHashes = [ dataHash ]; TriggerRef = None }
          Confidence = None
          Disclosure = Surfaceable }
    )

// Reconstruct what we knew at a past transaction time (law L4):
let! asOfMay3 = store.Query(scopeId, FactQuery.forSubjectMetric subject metric |> FactQuery.asOf may3)

ServerConfig.FactStore (default NoFactStore) is the composition slot the introspection manifest reports; BlobFactStore.create composes the store directly today.

See also

• docs/platform/facts.md — the fact model, and what belongs in a fact vs a result vs a model artifact.
• docs/platform/metric-registry.md — the metric & subject registry a fact references (Phase 519).