Environment Specification

This page describes the PRISM environment modality at a high level.

Scope

The environment modality captures contextual environmental information that can be linked to recordings or sessions (for example weather- or site-related context in a privacy-safe form).

Position in PRISM

• PRISM (model) defines the structure and metadata expectations for environment sidecars and tables.

• PRISM Studio (software) executes environment workflows (generation, validation runs, and exports where applicable).

Typical Artifacts

• Environment TSV tables with contextual variables.

• Matching JSON sidecars describing fields, units, and provenance.

Validation

Environment files are validated by PRISM Studio/CLI against the environment schema used by your selected schema version.

Notes

Use environment data as contextual metadata. Avoid storing direct identifying temporal/location details unless your governance and privacy policy explicitly allow it.