hivellm-thunder

⚡ The HiveLLM binary RPC protocol for Python — wire v1 (frozen), one configurable standard, sync + async multiplexed clients

Thunder is the shared home of the HiveLLM binary RPC standard: a length-prefixed MessagePack protocol (u32 LE length + body) multiplexing concurrent requests over one persistent TCP connection. This package is the Python implementation — import name thunder_rpc, one runtime dependency (msgpack), conformance-tested against the language-neutral golden-vector corpus in conformance/.

Install

pip install hivellm-thunder

Quickstart — sync

from thunder_rpc import Client, ClientConfig, Config, Credentials, Value

# Your application's identity on top of the family standard.
config = Config.standard().with_scheme("myapp").with_port(9000)

client_config = ClientConfig(credentials=Credentials.api_key("secret-key"))
with Client.connect("myapp://localhost", config, client_config) as client:
    pong = client.call("PING")
    assert pong.as_str() == "PONG"

    hits = client.call("SEARCH", [Value.str("docs"), Value.bytes(embedding)], timeout=5.0)

Quickstart — async

from thunder_rpc import AsyncClient, Config

config = Config.standard().with_scheme("myapp").with_port(9000)

async with await AsyncClient.connect("myapp://localhost", config) as client:
    pong = await client.call("PING")
    assert pong.as_str() == "PONG"

Both clients implement the identical SPEC-003 contract: pipelined out-of-order completion, monotonic u32 ids (skipping PUSH_ID), serialized writes, max_in_flight backpressure, per-call timeouts (default 30 s), lazy 2-attempt reconnect with re-handshake, typed errors, and push-frame routing. The asyncio client additionally honors task cancellation by removing the pending entry (CLT-021).

One standard, zero product knowledge

Thunder is a protocol library, not a product catalogue: there is no registry of named configurations, because a library that must serve implementations which do not exist yet cannot ship a hardcoded list of the ones that did. Instead Config.standard() is the family standard (data, not behavior — SPEC-002), pinned to conformance/standard.yaml by the test suite so all four language implementations agree on what "standard" means:

scheme and default_port are deliberately not part of the standard: identity is your application's, and Thunder has no opinion about it. An application that matches the standard writes its identity and nothing else:

config = Config.standard().with_scheme("myapp").with_port(9000)

An application that still diverges says so in its own repository, where that knowledge belongs — every dimension is a with_* override returning a new frozen Config (plain Config(...) construction works too):

config = (
    Config.standard()
    .with_scheme("legacy")
    .with_port(15501)
    .with_handshake(Handshake.AUTH_COMMAND)   # AUTH-command auth, no HELLO handler
    .with_hello_style(HelloStyle.NOT_USED)
    .with_push(PushPolicy.ENABLED)            # ships a push-producing command
)

Convergence is then visible and per-application: delete overrides until only identity remains. Nobody waits on a Thunder release for a row in a registry (PRO-020).

Endpoints accept scheme://host[:port] — where the scheme is your config.scheme — or bare host:port; http(s):// is rejected (Thunder is RPC-only).

Error classes

All errors derive from thunder_rpc.ThunderError; branch on the class and code, never on message text (CLT-052):

Wire layer

thunder_rpc.wire is pure (no sockets): encode_frame, decode_request, decode_response over the 8-variant Value model (Null | Bool | Int | Float | Bytes | Str | Array | Map). Canonical bytes are pinned by the corpus: Bytes emits as MessagePack bin, floats always pack as f64 bit-exact, structs are array-encoded; legacy int-array Bytes and map-shaped Request decode but are never re-emitted.

Development

pip install -e .[dev]
python -m pytest          # includes the conformance corpus — never skipped
ruff check .

Specs

• SPEC-001 Wire format
• SPEC-002 Protocol configuration
• SPEC-003 Client contract
• SPEC-005 Conformance
• SPEC-006 Packaging

Apache-2.0 — part of the Thunder monorepo release train.

Typing

The package is typed (PEP 561): it ships a py.typed marker, so mypy, pyright and friends read the annotations directly. Nothing to configure — and if you added an ignore_missing_imports override for thunder_rpc to silence the "missing library stubs or py.typed marker" error, you can drop it. That override also suppressed real type mismatches against Thunder, so dropping it is worth doing.