Participant Edge Plane · Reference provider: Cloudflare

Persistent infrastructure owned by the participant.

Cloudflare is the first implementation target for an optional edge cell between the intermittently reachable local Torsion Node and the central coordination surface. It is a provider binding, not Torsionfield identity, authority, or semantic truth.

BOUNDED PILOTNOT REQUIRED FOR LOCAL USENO HIDDEN QUOTA POOLING
The role

Centralized constitution, distributed execution, cryptographically partitioned knowledge.

Superfluid Nexus

Namespace, membership, project topology, routing, official release channels, and governance.

Participant Edge Cell

Stable gateway, encrypted buffering, endpoints, diagnostics, release state, export, and health.

Local Runtime

Root identity, browser sessions, provider credentials, plaintext work, local files, and high authority.

Governed source

Git revisions, tests, accepted release artifacts, migrations, canaries, and rollback.

Five authorities

OAuth is infrastructure authority only.

Infrastructure authority

May create or modify provider resources such as Workers, D1, routes, and deployments.

Capability authority

May publish endpoints, accept project tasks, store objects, or participate in Torsionfield projects.

Decryption authority

May read protected project or task content.

Release authority

May accept a software revision for deployment.

Acceptance authority

May rely on an exact result or deployment for a declared purpose.

First bounded pilot

One cell, one complete path.

  1. Gateway Worker and static diagnostics.
  2. D1 storage for encrypted objects and operational metadata.
  3. Cell identity and health endpoints.
  4. Signed-message receipt and replay protection.
  5. Local-node inbox and handoff.
  6. Provider-independent export.
  7. Signed deployment declaration and rollback reference.
PORTABLE CAPABILITIES
cap.edge.identity/1
cap.edge.endpoint/1
cap.edge.object-store/1
cap.edge.message-buffer/1
cap.edge.presence/1
cap.edge.static-interface/1
cap.edge.project-index/1
cap.edge.release-state/1
cap.edge.export/1
cap.edge.health/1
What the cell never receives by default

The network can organize a cell without owning the participant.

No provider passwords or global keys

Authorization uses the smallest OAuth scope required by the selected cell profile.

No root identity keys

Root and high-authority keys remain in the signed client or local node.

No model cookies or credentials

Authenticated model execution remains participant-owned and local.

No hidden workload pooling

Shared work requires an explicit active WorkOffer and visible budget.

No trusted-execution claim

Provider hosting and signatures do not establish semantic correctness.

No permanent Cloudflare dependency

Portable contracts and export must not depend on Cloudflare identifiers.

Read normative Participant Edge requirementsImplementation guide