Buff

Direction

Buff is evolving into a crypto futures R&D platform with:

• Mandatory online data ingestion
• Deterministic artifact-driven decision and analysis workflows
• Realistic paper-live futures simulation as the primary runtime mode
• Deferred execution connector scope until proven by shadow/reconciliation evidence

Stage Source

Current stage is defined only in docs/PROJECT_STATE.md.

Development Docs

• Development path: docs/MASTER_DEVELOPMENT_PATH.md
• Canonical docs index: docs/README.md

Invariants & Non-Goals

• Deterministic, artifact-first behavior is mandatory for comparable research outcomes.
• Non-goals include discretionary runtime drift, hidden mutable state, and unverifiable outputs.
• No prediction claims: Buff is an R&D and simulation platform, not a guaranteed forecasting engine.

Active Docs

• docs/README.md
• docs/PROJECT_STATE.md
• docs/02_ARCHITECTURE_BOUNDARIES.md
• docs/03_CONTRACTS_AND_SCHEMAS.md
• docs/05_RUNBOOK_DEV_WORKFLOW.md
• docs/06_DATA_PLANE_ONLINE.md
• docs/07_PAPER_LIVE_FUTURES.md
• docs/08_RESEARCH_LOOP.md
• docs/09_EXECUTION_FUTURE.md

Governance

• SECURITY.md
• GITHUB_SETTINGS_CHECKLIST.md