@bendscript/core

Reference parser, validator, and round-trip harness for the BendScript Protocol v0.1 — a graph-first document format with typed inline link facets, for agent-native systems.

Status: v0.1 alpha (sections 0–6 of the spec). API may shift before 0.1.0 final.

What is BendScript?

BendScript is a JSON document format that treats prose, structure, and a knowledge graph as one thing. Every document is content-addressable, every inline link can carry a typed predicate, and every typed link expands into a deterministic graph edge.

• bend: URI scheme — content-addressable doc ids, span-addressable edges
• Five reserved vocabularies — core, memory, argument, spec, runefort
• §2.5.1 link-mark expansion — typed inline link facets become first-class graph edges
• §8.1.1 strict round-trip — parse(serialize(parse(d))) === parse(d) for every conforming document

The full spec lives at https://bendscript.com and in docs/spec/.

Install

npm install @bendscript/core

Requires Node 20+.

Usage

import {
  parse,
  parseAndNormalize,
  serialize,
  serializeCanonical,
  validate,
  expandLinkMarks,
  computeDocumentId,
} from "@bendscript/core";

const text = `{
  "version": "bendscript/0.1",
  "id": "bafy...",
  "vocabulary": "core",
  "blocks": [
    { "id": "blk-1", "kind": "paragraph", "spans": [{ "id": "spn-1", "text": "Hello." }] }
  ]
}`;

const doc = parseAndNormalize(text);
validate(doc);                         // throws ValidationError on structural errors
const id = await computeDocumentId(doc);
const edges = expandLinkMarks(doc);    // typed link marks → graph edges
const canonical = serializeCanonical(doc);

Round-trip / drift harness

The harness used by the spec's §8 LLM round-trip evaluation is exposed as a subpath import:

import {
  MockModel,
  loadCorpus,
  runHarness,
  computeDrift,
  median,
  p95,
} from "@bendscript/core/harness";

Bring your own ModelClient to evaluate any model against the BendScript corpus, or use MockModel for harness-mechanic tests with no API costs.

API surface

Main entry (@bendscript/core)

• parse(text), normalize(doc), parseAndNormalize(text)
• serialize(doc), serializeCanonical(doc)
• canonicalize(value) — RFC 8785 (JCS) wrapper
• computeDocumentId(doc), expectedDocumentId(doc), canonicalHashInput(doc)
• expandLinkMarks(doc) — §2.5.1 link-mark → edge expansion (idempotent, dedup'd)
• validate(doc), ValidationError, isBendUri(s)
• Types: Document, NormalizedDocument, Block, Span, Edge, Mark, LinkMark, MarkKind, Predicate, ProtocolVersion

Harness subpath (@bendscript/core/harness)

• runHarness({ corpus, models, classes }), runOne(...)
• loadCorpus(dir), buildPrompt(...)
• computeDrift(before, after), median(arr), p95(arr), aggregate(...)
• MockModel(name, { mode }), MockMode
• THRESHOLDS, DRIFT_WEIGHTS
• Types: CorpusEntry, DriftScore, DriftComponents, ModelClient, RunReport, Transcript, TaskClass

License

MIT © Travis Burandt — see LICENSE.