P11 · Host knowledge node

Connector and external-action plane

Reuse broad provider catalogues and OAuth/action mechanics while Actionist owns tenant-scoped connections, authority and side-effect receipts.

Problem boundary

What this subsystem owns and what it must hand to the rest of Actionist.

What it owns

Provider/action/trigger catalogue
OAuth and credential setup
Tenant connection store
Retries, idempotency and rate limits
Approval and action receipts

What research already found

OpenConnector: 1,445 providers and 15,156 generated actions
Activepieces: mature pieces and connect-account UI
Nango and Jentic add provider/spec breadth
OpenConnector global connection storage failed tenancy requirements

Open first-principles questions

Canonical provider/action schema?
Which popular providers need scripted setup?
How does browser operation fit?
What is the authority/approval model for side effects?

Inputs

Provider definitions
Tenant authority
Secrets

Outputs

ConnectorContract
Connection
ActionReceipt

Connected knowledge nodes

P01 · Client intelligence and discovery P02 · Outcome and product specification P10 · Identity, settings and navigation host P12 · Deterministic composition planner P14 · Runtime, verification and release

Scientific research protocol

Every research owner uses the same evidence funnel. No padding is allowed when a denominator is inapplicable or evidence is unavailable.

Prior evidence auditRead the canonical spine, all domain-linked artifacts, the 17-industry catalogue and existing contradictions before searching again.

Commercial 100 → 10Define a denominator, map approximately 100 companies/products, and produce first-party dossiers for the strongest 10.

GitHub 100 → 10Search and dedupe approximately 100 relevant OSS projects, then deeply inspect the strongest 10 at the capability and architecture level.

Local estate joinInspect AutoSaaS, Great Library, SISOCRM, 21st stores and other domain-specific precedents already on the laptop.

Innovation 100 → 10Generate a wide divergent idea register, score it against the problem and retain the 10 strongest falsifiable innovations.

First-principles synthesisDecompose the irreducible problem, challenge inherited assumptions, reconcile contradictions and state the minimum sufficient design.

Contracts and experimentsReturn the proposed contract, dependency edges, unknowns, falsifiers, experiments, stop rules and decisions.

Independent verificationA separate verifier checks counts, links, source claims, overlap, contradictions and unsupported conclusions before promotion.

Evidence and agent outputs

Existing research remains source evidence. New agent packets are written to one owned workstream directory and linked here after verification.

Artifact	Location	State
Connector research summary	`research/actionmodel-builder-research-2026-08-26/phase-8/external-opus-inputs/connectors/connector-research-summary.md`	existing
OpenConnector spike	`research/openconnector-spike-2026-08-27.md`	existing
Connectors report	`research/connectors-licensing-2026-08-27.md`	existing
Future verified agent packet	`research/workstreams/P11-connector-and-external-action-plane/runs/<run-id>/`	planned