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# StellaOps Excititor
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Excititor converts heterogeneous VEX feeds into raw observations and linksets that honour the Aggregation-Only Contract.
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## Responsibilities
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- Fetch OpenVEX/CSAF/CycloneDX statements via restart-only connectors.
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- Store immutable VEX observations with full provenance.
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- Publish linksets and events that drive policy suppression decisions.
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- Provide deterministic exports for Offline Kit and downstream tooling.
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## Key components
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- `StellaOps.Excititor.WebService` scheduler/API host.
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- Connector libraries under `StellaOps.Excititor.Connector.*`.
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- Normalization helpers and exporters in `StellaOps.Excititor.*`.
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## Integrations & dependencies
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- Policy Engine for evidence queries.
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- UI/CLI for conflict visibility and explanation.
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- Notify for VEX-driven alerts.
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## Operational notes
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- MongoDB for observation storage and job metadata.
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- Offline kit packaging aligned with Concelier merges.
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- Connector-specific runbooks (see `docs/modules/concelier/operations/connectors`).
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## Backlog references
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- DOCS-LNM-22-006 / DOCS-LNM-22-007 (shared with Concelier).
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- CLI-EXC-25-001..002 follow-up for CLI parity.
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## Epic alignment
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- **Epic 1 – AOC enforcement:** maintain immutable VEX observations, provenance, and AOC verifier coverage.
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- **Epic 7 – VEX Consensus Lens:** supply trustworthy raw inputs, trust metadata, and consensus hooks for the lens computations.
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- **Epic 8 – Advisory AI:** expose citation-ready VEX payloads for the advisory assistant pipeline.
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