lab-provider

Agent Building

Add or maintain libcrafter lab provider adapters, capability contracts, provider matrix tests, and documentation for substrate-independent oracle and probe execution.

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Lab Provider

Use this skill when adding, changing, or reviewing a provider adapter under tools/lab/engine/providers/. A lab provider owns substrate mechanics only: planning roles, exposing capabilities, creating endpoints, normalizing endpoint manifests, validating sessions, collecting artifacts, and cleanup.

Oracle and probe workload semantics must stay outside lab. The provider should not know oracle packet cases or probe service behavior.

Provider Contract

Every lab provider must implement the adapter protocol in tools/lab/engine/providers/base.py and be registered through the lab provider registry. Keep these contracts provider-neutral:

provider name, endpoint provider, and exposure
credential or prerequisite availability
default and normalized provider capabilities
role planning and deterministic address defaults
dry-run infrastructure metadata
provider workflow command records
endpoint planning/creation
endpoint normalization
request/session validation
appliance runtime metadata for endpoint-backed execution

Capability names should describe substrate behavior, such as IPv4 unicast, controlled services, provider MAC knowledge, broadcast support, and controlled router support. Workload-specific capability derivation belongs in oracle or probe boundary modules.

Provider adapters should report coarse appliance runtime profiles rather than protocol-specific execution promises. Use wan-raw, lan-raw, whad-serial, or dot11-monitor when the provider can place that role, and keep host or VM preparation details such as Docker readiness, USB passthrough, serial access, monitor-mode interfaces, and artifact roots in provider or endpoint metadata. Prepared dongle VMs should be exposed through persistent asset leases so multiple agent sessions do not use the same hardware concurrently.

Validation

For provider changes, run focused tests first, then the matrix:

python3 -m unittest tools.lab.tests.test_provider_registry
python3 -m unittest tools.lab.tests.test_provider_matrix
provider-specific tests under tools/lab/tests/
oracle/probe dry-run matrix tests when the provider contract changes

Dry-run behavior must be deterministic and must not create infrastructure. Live behavior must use explicit confirmation and best-effort cleanup on every failure path.

Documentation

Update provider docs when the provider contract, prerequisites, credentials, capabilities, or artifact shape changes. Keep agent operating guidance in .agents/docs/ or repo-local skills, and user-facing tool documentation in docs/ or the relevant tool README.