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