ssot-codegen 0.2.26.dev1

Generators for SSOT contract, CLI, and TUI artifacts.

🔷 ssot-codegen

Development-time generators for SSOT contract-side metadata artifacts.

ssot-codegen contains generators for SSOT contract-side metadata artifacts.

It is a development-oriented package used to materialize generated JSON and Python outputs from the canonical contract layer. It is not the main runtime entry point for end users.

What this package owns

• The ssot-codegen console command
• Generation of Python-side metadata artifacts derived from ssot-contracts
• Development-time regeneration of CLI and TUI metadata outputs

When to use this package

Use ssot-codegen when you want:

• to regenerate packaged metadata artifacts during development
• to inspect the current generated contract index, CLI metadata, or TUI metadata
• a small development utility around the canonical contract package

Use another package when you want:

• ssot-cli for the main user-facing CLI
• ssot-registry for the core runtime and Python APIs
• ssot-contracts for the packaged artifacts themselves
• ssot-tui for terminal UI access
• ssot-views for report and graph builders

Install

python -m pip install ssot-codegen

For local development from this repository:

python -m pip install -e pkgs/ssot-codegen

Command-line usage

The current command surface is intentionally small:

ssot-codegen --help
ssot-codegen --output-root .tmp_codegen

--output-root controls the directory where generated files are written. If omitted, the command writes to a .tmp_codegen directory under the current working directory.

Generated outputs

generate_python_artifacts() currently writes:

• contracts.index.json
• cli.metadata.json
• tui.metadata.json
• enums.py
• cli_metadata.py
• tui_metadata.py

Example:

ssot-codegen --output-root .tmp_codegen

Typical output files and purpose:

• contracts.index.json: schema version and packaged ADR/spec manifest identifiers
• cli.metadata.json: output formats and entity sections used by CLI-facing tooling
• tui.metadata.json: entity sections used by TUI-facing tooling
• enums.py: generated Python constants derived from CONTRACT_DATA

Programmatic usage

from ssot_codegen.generator import generate_python_artifacts

written = generate_python_artifacts(".tmp_codegen")
for path in written:
    print(path.as_posix())

Package relationships

• Package type: development/code-generation package
• Depends on: ssot-contracts, ssot-views
• Consumed by: maintainers and release tooling that regenerate derived metadata artifacts

If you are using SSOT as an application or library, you usually do not need this package directly. It is primarily for maintainers working on the SSOT workspace itself.