adaptive-multi-protocol-browser/docs/architecture.md

Architecture

Status: draft | Updated 2026-07-05 | Applies to: AMPB contributors and integrators

AMPB is a browser orchestration layer for privacy and alternate-network transports. It keeps the routing, transport management, and profile isolation decisions outside the browser engine until those contracts are stable.

Operating Model

1. Normalize the requested URL.
2. Select a transport from scheme and host rules.
3. Inspect whether the required local transport is already running.
4. Adopt healthy existing transports.
5. If the selected transport is missing, show a first-use prompt before setup.
6. Start or install managed transports only after user consent.
7. Open the URL with the matching isolated profile.

Main Components

• ampbrowser.routing: deterministic URL-to-transport rules.
• ampbrowser.adapters: transport ownership, setup, inspection, and health contracts.
• ampbrowser.transports: local readiness checks for Tor, I2P, Reticulum, and Gemini.
• ampbrowser.plan: dry-run action planner for browser launches.
• ampbrowser.launch: side-effect-free launch specs and first-use consent state.
• ampbrowser.platforms: platform capability matrix for desktop, Android, and iOS.
• ampbrowser.candidates: evaluated transport candidates before active adapter support.
• ampbrowser.docsgen: generated public documentation from code-owned metadata.

Browser Strategy

The first implementation should be a launcher and profile manager, not a browser-engine fork. Tor Browser, Mullvad Browser, Firefox profiles, Chromium profiles, terminal Gemini clients, and future Reticulum-native viewers can all sit behind the same route and transport contracts.

The long-term browser can become more integrated once the orchestration surface is boring: profile isolation is reliable, transport adoption is predictable, and generated fixtures from AMPG can be opened without manual proxy setup.

Relationship To AMPG

AMPG publishes protocol-specific site variants. AMPB opens those variants with the right transport and profile. Wownero is the shared fixture for static publishing, while interactive targets exercise sessions, dynamic assets, forms, and script policy.