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Chronos
PromptOpsSRE IMPACT 10/10APACHE 2.0 OPEN-SPECOTEL NATIVE

Chronos

Prompt Version Control: Automated Prompt Regression Testing & Continuous CI/CD Evaluator

Target Environment:Google Cloud Run / GKE / Self-Hosted Docker
Runtime License & Deployment Tier
Open-Core Developer SDK • Dedicated Enterprise SLA
Active Spec v2.4
$npm install @planetjdigital/chronos
GitHub
Sub-5ms In-Memory Overhead • Zero Data Retention (ZDR) Compliant
🛡️

Autonomous Multi-Model Adversarial Fuzzing Certified

Continuous stress-testing against prompt injections, cyclic parameter drift, and upstream rate limits via Llama 3.3 70B & DeepSeek-R1 (Autonomous Fuzzing).

Robustness Score98/100 PASSED
01Developer Quickstart • Integration Interface

Production Runtime Specification (Chronos)

Direct integration contract for Chronos. Deployable as a native microservice or imported directly into your agent runtime.

"""
Chronos: Git-Backed Prompt Version Control & CI/CD Regression Guard
"""
from typing import Dict, Any, List
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field

class PromptCommit(BaseModel):
    version: str
    commit_sha: str
    template: str
    required_variables: List[str]

class CanaryGateResult(BaseModel):
    promoted: bool
    regression_score: float
    output_drift_pct: float
    active_version: str

class ChronosPromptManager:
    def __init__(self, baseline_version: str = "v1.4.0"):
        self.baseline_version = baseline_version

    def evaluate_candidate(self, commit: PromptCommit, golden_test_outputs: List[str], baseline_outputs: List[str]) -> CanaryGateResult:
        # Check variable AST completeness
        for var in commit.required_variables:
            if f"{{{var}}}" not in commit.template:
                return CanaryGateResult(promoted=False, regression_score=1.0, output_drift_pct=100.0, active_version=self.baseline_version)

        # Statistical drift comparison against golden dataset
        drift_count = sum(1 for c, b in zip(golden_test_outputs, baseline_outputs) if len(c) != len(b))
        drift_pct = (drift_count / max(1, len(golden_test_outputs))) * 100.0

        if drift_pct > 15.0:
            return CanaryGateResult(promoted=False, regression_score=0.85, output_drift_pct=drift_pct, active_version=self.baseline_version)

        return CanaryGateResult(promoted=True, regression_score=0.02, output_drift_pct=drift_pct, active_version=commit.version)
02The Problem & Impact

Production Failure Modes Addressed

⚠️ The Unaddressed Failure Mode

System prompts degrade over time due to minor edits causing unexpected behavioral regressions in unrelated downstream tasks.

⚡ Why Brittle Retries Fail

Manually testing prompts across dozens of test cases or tracking variations inside basic text files.

💎 The Deterministic Resolution

Chronos binds prompt templates to an immutable Git-backed version ledger with automated regression test matrices. Any prompt modification is evaluated against golden datasets in CI/CD before staging deployment, preventing unexpected schema drift in production.

03System Architecture

Autonomous State Machine & OTel Telemetry

Interactive trace visualizer showing ingress gating, in-memory state transition, and OTel emission.

Chronos• Visual Runtime State Machine
Prompt Commit Inbound
Git Commit SHA • Template Diff • Parameter Registry
INGRESS
AST Template Linter
Variable Substitution Guard
AST CLEAN
Harness Pre-Flight
50-Test Golden Battery
GOLDEN SET
CORE RESOLUTION STAGEBENCHMARK < 4.2ms
Chronos
Diffing prompt semver AST & comparing cost/latency benchmark distributions...
Semver: v2.4.1
Output Drift: < 0.2%
Golden Suite: 100%
Promoted to Production
Canary Traffic Injected (5%)
Automated Rollback Breaker
Revert to Previous SHA
GitOps Webhook Dispatch
ArgoCD Prompt Registry Sync
COMMITTED
1. Ingress Gate

GitOps Commit SHA & AST Variable Linter

2. Core Processing

Golden Dataset CI Evaluation Harness

3. Egress Enforcer

Canary Traffic Shifter & Statistical Drift Monitor

4. OpenTelemetry

Automated Instant-Rollback Webhook Dispatcher

04Enterprise Readiness

Enterprise Runtime Specifications & SLA

Zero Data Retention (ZDR) Architecture

Operates strictly in-memory. Prompts and tool arguments are zeroized immediately following circuit evaluation.

VPC & Google Cloud Run Topologies

Deployable as an ephemeral sidecar, containerized Cloud Run microservice, or in-process Python/TS library.

Deterministic Circuit Breaker SLA

99.95% production uptime commitment with automatic graceful degradation on upstream LLM provider outages.

Open-Spec Code Ownership

Full Apache-2.0 core licensing. You maintain absolute ownership of your deployed infrastructure and workflows.

05Verification & Telemetry

Production Benchmark Telemetry

Empirical test telemetry from continuous integration regression suites.

< 3.2ms
P95 Ingress Overhead
100%
Cycle Interception
0 B
Disk State Persisted
99.95%
Service SLA Target

Deploy Chronos to Your Production Cluster

Explore the open-source specification on GitHub or connect with our engineering team to deploy a private, dedicated sandbox cluster on Google Cloud.