Core Runtime

EngineNet.Core is the runtime layer behind all interfaces. It provides loading, context assembly, placeholder resolution, and operation execution.

Core Responsibilities

• Track runtime state shared by CLI, TUI, and GUI.
• Discover modules from registries and game directories.
• Load operation manifests from operations.toml or operations.json.
• Collect prompt answers and combine with defaults.
• Build execution context from engine config, module metadata, and config.toml placeholders.
• Resolve placeholders recursively in operation payloads.
• Dispatch operations to built-in handlers and script engines.

Runtime Area Map

• Engine/: operation execution entry points
• Services/: operation loading, command execution, launcher, and registry services
• Data/: runtime models
• Utils/: execution context and placeholder resolvers
• Shared/: TOML, JSON, and YAML parsing helpers and document-model conversion utilities
• ExternalTools/: tool acquisition and resolution support

The reusable serialization helpers live in the sibling Shared library and are referenced by Core instead of being owned by it.

Interface Boundary

Interfaces call into core through a narrowed contract exposed by Interface.Main. This protects UI layers from direct deep coupling to runtime internals.

Related Docs

• shared-library.md
• execution-flow.md
• script-engines.md