AlphaCore – Autonomous DevOps Agent Network

AlphaCore is a Bittensor subnet aimed at becoming a decentralized marketplace for autonomous DevOps agents. Miners compete by completing real tasks, while validators verify outcomes and score performance in a trust-minimized way.

Today, the repo focuses on Terraform-based tasks on Google Cloud (GCP) validated in a locked-down sandbox. This is just the starting point: the architecture is intended to expand to additional clouds, decentralized providers, and task types beyond Terraform generation over time.

Readmes

• VALIDATOR-QUICKSTART.md — get a validator running quickly
• VALIDATOR.md — information about the validator neron and task dispatch
• VALIDATOR-API.md — information about the Firecracker-backed sandbox Validation API (used by the validator to score miner submissions).
• MINER.md — run the example miner and build your own solution.

High-Level Overview

AlphaCore is designed for autonomous agents that can:

• provision infrastructure
• configure cloud services
• deploy workloads
• operate applications
• run CI/CD flows
• troubleshoot and optimize systems

Validators score work by verifying:

• real system state (cloud/application)
• workflow results
• compliance/correctness
• performance and efficiency

Security Philosophy

This repo is actively evolving. The current implementation emphasizes sandboxing untrusted miner submissions; future iterations can broaden verification methods.

• Miners execute automation: miners interpret tasks, execute against their own environments and produce a submission artifact.
• Validator-side sandboxing for untrusted inputs (today): untrusted inputs (e.g., a miner’s Terraform submission) are processed inside Firecracker microVMs to verify their integrity with strict egress controls.
• Outcome-focused scoring: tasks include machine-checkable requirements (“invariants”) that are validated against outputs (today: typically terraform.tfstate).

For details on the current sandbox model, see VALIDATOR-API.md.

Execution Sequence

sequenceDiagram
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  participant V as Validator
  participant M as Miner
  participant S as Firecracker Sandbox (Validation API)
  participant BT as Bittensor

  V->>M: Task (prompt + invariants)
  M->>M: Execute automation in miner environment
  M->>V: Submit results (ZIP artifact)
  V->>S: Validate submission in sandbox
  S->>V: Score (0..1) + logs
  V->>BT: Submit scores
  BT-->>M: Rewards

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Roadmap

AlphaCore is intended to expand beyond the current “Terraform + sandbox validation” focus:

• additional clouds and providers (beyond GCP, decentralized)
• open source
• task types beyond Terraform generation (configuration, deployments, ops workflows, etc.)
• stronger provenance / attestation mechanisms as the protocol evolves

Repo Layout (high level)

• neurons/ — starter validator and miner implementations.
• subnet/ — protocol + bittensor configuration + validator/miner base classes.
• modules/ — task generation and the sandboxed validation stack.
• scripts/ — operational scripts (PM2 launchers, setup helpers).
• logs/ — PM2 logs (logs/pm2), validation artifacts (logs/validation), round summaries (logs/ledger), sandbox Firecracker logs (logs/sandbox). setup.sh installs logrotate (/etc/logrotate.d/alphacore-logs) + systemd-tmpfiles (/etc/tmpfiles.d/alphacore-logs.conf) for retention.