# Architecture: Contract Compliance Multi-Agent Team
This document describes the executable architecture in the repo today. The live demo is a local cross-language system:
- Browser cockpit served by Python at `/live-compliance/`
- Python FastAPI service on `127.0.0.1:8000`
- Go A2A compliance service on `:8888`
- ADK `RemoteA2aAgent` handoff through the Go Agent Card and A2A JSON-RPC `SendMessage`
The Go service is deterministic by design. It is not an LLM agent; it enforces policy thresholds that need repeatable audit behavior.
## Runtime Flow
```mermaid
flowchart LR
UI["Browser Cockpit
/live-compliance/"]
API["Python FastAPI
/api/compliance/upload"]
EXTRACT["Deterministic Extraction
tools.py"]
ADK["ADK RemoteA2aAgent
fast_api_app.py"]
CARD["Go Agent Card
/.well-known/agent.json"]
RPC["Go JSON-RPC
SendMessage"]
CHECK["Policy Checker
checker.go"]
ART["Case + HTML Artifacts
live_compliance.py"]
UI -->|"sample text + policy + simulator state"| API
API --> EXTRACT
EXTRACT --> ADK
ADK -->|"GET Agent Card"| CARD
ADK -->|"POST JSON-RPC SendMessage"| RPC
RPC --> CHECK
CHECK -->|"passed / violations / timestamp"| RPC
RPC --> ADK
ADK --> API
API --> ART
ART --> UI
```
## Live Request Path
1. The browser selects a bundled contract fixture from `sample-contracts/`.
2. The browser fetches fixture text from `/api/compliance/sample-contracts/{filename}`.
3. The browser posts the text, active policy values, and simulator settings to `/api/compliance/upload`.
4. Python extracts contract fields with deterministic parsing in `tools.py`.
5. Python classifies risk and builds an A2A data payload.
6. Python creates a focused `RemoteA2aAgent` in `fast_api_app.py`.
7. ADK resolves the Go Agent Card from `GO_AGENT_CARD_URL`.
8. ADK sends A2A JSON-RPC `SendMessage` to the Go service.
9. Go decodes the data part, applies deterministic policy checks, and returns a completed A2A task.
10. Python stores the case state, generates HTML artifacts, and returns the UI-visible payload.
## A2A Payload Shape
Python builds the UI-visible request envelope in `build_go_message_payload(...)`:
```json
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": "case-{case_id}",
"method": "SendMessage",
"params": {
"metadata": {
"task_id": "{case_id}"
},
"message": {
"messageId": "case-{case_id}-request",
"taskId": "{case_id}",
"role": "ROLE_USER",
"parts": [
{
"data": {
"schema_version": "contract-compliance.a2a.v1",
"case_id": "{case_id}",
"contract": {
"contract_value": 250000.0,
"contractor_name": "ACME CLOUD SOLUTIONS",
"insurance_coverage": 2000000.0,
"liability_limit": "$1,000,000.00",
"term_length_years": 2,
"auto_renewal": false,
"has_termination_clause": true
},
"policy": {
"max_contract_value": 500000.0,
"required_insurance_minimum": 1000000.0,
"max_term_years": 5,
"required_termination_clause": true,
"prohibited_clauses": ["unlimited liability", "auto-renewal > 3yr"]
}
},
"mediaType": "application/json"
}
]
}
}
}
```
Go returns a completed A2A task whose status message contains a data part:
```json
{
"passed": false,
"violations": [
"Contract value $850000.00 exceeds company framework limit of $500000.00"
],
"verdict_timestamp": "2026-06-03T00:00:00Z"
}
```
## State Outcomes
The live cockpit maps Go results into three visible outcomes:
| Outcome | Trigger |
|:---|:---|
| `APPROVED` | Go returns `passed: true`. |
| `REVIEW_READY` | Go returns `passed: false` with policy violations. |
| `MANUAL_REVIEW` | Go is unavailable or simulator mode is `Crashed (503)`. |
The richer enum in `state_schema.py` still includes intermediate states used by the fuller ADK reference path, but the cockpit completes the healthy path in one API call.
## Trust Boundaries
Browser:
- Chooses bundled sample contracts.
- Sends policy override values.
- Never calls the Go service directly.
Python service:
- Enforces file extension and 5MB upload limits.
- Rejects binary PDF uploads; bundled `.pdf` files are text fixtures.
- Resolves sample and artifact paths with basename and root-bound checks.
- Calls only the configured Go Agent Card URL.
- Fails closed to `MANUAL_REVIEW` when the Go handoff fails.
Go service:
- Serves an Agent Card at `/.well-known/agent.json`.
- Accepts JSON-RPC POST requests.
- Handles current `SendMessage` plus legacy `tasks/send` and `tasks/get`.
- Applies deterministic policy rules from `default_policy.json` or request policy overrides.
## Key Files
| File | Role |
|:---|:---|
| `python-extraction-agent/app/static/live-compliance/index.html` | Browser cockpit. |
| `python-extraction-agent/app/fast_api_app.py` | API routes, ADK handoff, case response. |
| `python-extraction-agent/app/tools.py` | Deterministic extraction and risk classification. |
| `python-extraction-agent/app/live_compliance.py` | Case state, events, artifact generation. |
| `python-extraction-agent/app/agent.py` | Fuller ADK `SequentialAgent` reference. |
| `go-compliance-agent/internal/agentcard/card.go` | Agent Card. |
| `go-compliance-agent/internal/handler/task_handler.go` | A2A JSON-RPC handler. |
| `go-compliance-agent/internal/compliance/checker.go` | Deterministic policy checker. |
| `go-compliance-agent/internal/policies/default_policy.json` | Default policy thresholds. |