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doc: fix bare (class Eq) → (class prelude.Eq) in operator-routing-eq-ord spec north-star
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fieldtest: operator-routing-eq-ord — 5 examples, 6 findings (4 working, 1 friction, 1 spec_gap)
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audit + close: operator-routing-eq-ord — drift_found → post-audit tidy applied inline; CLEAN
Single-iter milestone closing Gitea #1. Architect surfaced 4 honesty-rule drift items (2 high, 2 medium) — all post-Task-13 documentation drift, no codegen behaviour shift. Bench all three scripts exit 0. Inline tidy applied under the CLAUDE.md trivial- mechanical carve-out (4 documentation/comment edits on architect- pre-named sites; no code surface change). No separate tidy iter. Architect: drift_found → CLEAN-after-tidy. The architect walked design/INDEX.md, the contracts touched by the milestone (float-semantics, prelude-classes, str-abi, scope-boundaries, authoring-surface, typeclasses, method-dispatch), `git log 86dd7d7..HEAD --format=full` for the three milestone commits (spec |
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iter operator-routing-eq-ord.1 (DONE 13/13): drop comparator builtins, route through Eq/Ord
Closes Gitea #1. Realises the "P2 follow-up" called out in examples/prelude.ail:9 — removes the surface comparator names `==` / `!=` / `<` / `<=` / `>` / `>=` from the language entirely, routes the LLM-author's `(app eq …)` / `(app compare …)` / `(app ne|lt|le|gt|ge …)` through prelude.Eq / prelude.Ord class- dispatch, ships six named Float-comparison fns (`float_eq`/`float_ne`/`float_lt`/`float_le`/`float_gt`/`float_ge`) so Float keeps comparability without an Eq/Ord instance, and emits primitive instance bodies with `alwaysinline` so the -O0 IR shape stays at one instruction per comparison. Plan-task journal (13 tasks, single atomic iter per Approach A): Task 1 — Bootstrap: 4 new fixtures (eq_user_adt_smoke.ail, eq_float_must_fail.ail, float_compare_smoke.ail, operator_unbound_check.ail) + 5 new E2E/pin tests as RED starting state. All 5 confirmed RED at start: north-star fixed `NoInstance Eq Unit` (preserved by Unit-eq opening line intentionally added in plan-self-review); float_compare unknown `float_eq`; operator-name typechecked (== still polymorphic); must-fail diagnostic lacked `float_eq`; alwaysinline absent from IR. Task 2 — Codegen alwaysinline + intercept arms: introduced `intercept_emit_wants_alwaysinline` allowlist + appended ` alwaysinline` between `)` and `{` of the `define` line in `emit_fn`; added 9 new intercept arms to `try_emit_primitive_instance_body` — `eq__Int`/`eq__Bool`/ `eq__Unit` + the six `float_*` arms. Task 3 — Prelude reshape: `instance Eq Unit` added; Eq Int/Bool bodies become placeholder-`false` (intercept overrides); six `float_*` free fns added; line-9 P2-follow-up comment removed. Lockstep hash re-pins: prelude_module_hash_pin (3abe0d3fa3c11c99 → new), mono_hash_stability six body-hash literals (eq__Int/Bool/Str + compare__Int/Bool/Str all shifted because placeholder body changes the canonical hash). IR-snapshot regen (hello/list/max3/sum/ws_main) rolled forward into this task at orchestrator's pragmatic call — prelude shift forces the snapshots immediately. Task 4 — Fixture migration: 58 .ail fixtures rewritten (`(app == …)` → `(app eq …)`, etc.; Float-typed operand sites to `(app float_eq …)` / `(app float_lt …)`). eq_ord_user_adt.ail:21 inner `==` → `eq` migration with lockstep eq_ord_e2e.rs:134 body-hash re-pin (3c4cf040cb4e8bb2 → new). Two prose snapshots accepted; deps test + 5 hash_pin literals updated as cascading consequences. Task 5 — Test-scaffold migration: all 8 in-source `#[cfg(test)] mod tests` AST-literal sites threaded (desugar.rs:2414, check/lib.rs:5656/6092/6220, codegen/lib.rs sites). 7 obsolete in-source tests deleted (5 eq_typechecks + 2 lower_eq ADT/Fn rejection — coverage moves to E2E eq_user_adt_smoke + eq_float_must_fail). 2 additional letrec tests deleted (single-module check env can't resolve eq/ge without prelude auto-import; covered by workspace E2E). Task 6 — Lit-pattern desugar: build_eq emits `Term::Var { name: "eq" }` instead of `"=="` at desugar.rs:1109; doc-comment rewritten to describe class-dispatch. Task 7 — Dead-machinery deletion sweep (compile-gated): typchecker builtins (install + list comparator entries deleted); codegen builtin_binop_typed (10 comparator arms deleted from synth.rs, table reduced to arithmetic core); lower_eq fn entirely deleted; `==` short-circuit in lower_app deleted; `is_static_callee` `==` clause deleted; `is_arithmetic_or_comparison_op` renamed to `is_arithmetic_op` + caller-update at codegen/lib.rs:2152 + :2529. Dead `poly_a_a_to_bool` helpers also removed. Workspace build green after compile gate — every caller of the deleted surface was migrated by Tasks 4-6. Task 8 — Float-aware NoInstance diagnostic: check/lib.rs:856-880 addendum extended to name `float_eq` / `float_lt` as the explicit alternative for Eq/Ord at Float; eq_float_noinstance.rs:32-44 assertion extended. Task 9 — IR snapshot regen: subsumed by Task 3 (prelude shift forced immediate snapshot regen; deferring to Task 9 would have left the workspace red between tasks). Task 10 — Prose-projection cleanup: 6 comparator arms deleted from binop_info; 3 in-source mod-tests updated/deleted (comparator-infix rendering would be dishonest now that the operators are no longer language identifiers). Task 11 — Contract updates: 5 design files rewritten to the class-dispatch present — float-semantics.md (arithmetic guarantees retained on +/-/*/; comparison guarantees transferred from ==/!=/< to float_eq/float_ne/float_lt/etc.); prelude-classes.md (Eq Unit added to instance list; new paragraph on six float_* fns; Float-no-Eq/Ord clause gains `→ use float_eq` cross-reference); str-abi.md (clause "REMAIN primitive operators" rewritten to describe class-method dispatch); scope-boundaries.md (multiple operator-name and Pattern::Lit-desugar clauses rewritten); authoring-surface.md (==, <= dropped from operator-example list). Task 12 — Initial acceptance gate: workspace 638/0 GREEN; bench/compile_check + cross_lang 0 regressed; bench/check.py flagged 4 regressions on bench_closure_chain (+29% bump_s, +47% rc_s, +29% bump_rss_kb, +48% rc_rss_kb). Orchestrator initially classified as DONE-with-concerns; Boss reclassified as PARTIAL-via-acceptance-#8-fail after independent re-run, extended iter scope to Task 13. Task 13 — Direct icmp intercept arms (Boss-extension): try_emit_primitive_instance_body gains direct-icmp arms for lt__Int / le__Int / gt__Int / ge__Int / ne__Int, bypassing the compare__Int → Ordering → match indirection that allocated one Ordering ctor per call in tight loops. Each new arm inherits `alwaysinline` via the existing allowlist (extended accordingly). New IR pin test `ord_int_intercept_ir_pin.rs` + smoke fixture `ord_int_intercept_smoke.ail` ratify the optimization — opt -O2 -S confirms zero `call @ail_prelude_lt__Int` in optimized IR; the icmp folds directly at every use site. Bool variants (lt__Bool/etc.) deliberately NOT added — no bench/example calls Ord at Bool; spec-extension permits skipping if unreachable at bench level. Family can be extended symmetrically when first Bool-ordered perf workload appears. Bench-gate post-Task-13: bench_closure_chain bump_s -6.05%, rc_s -2.67%, bump_rss_kb -0.77%, rc_rss_kb +0.46% — all four previously-regressed metrics back inside tolerance. Full bench corpus: 36 metrics, 0 regressed, 0 improved beyond tolerance, 36 stable. bench/check.py exit 0 ✓; bench/compile_check.py exit 0 ✓; bench/cross_lang.py exit 0 ✓. Workspace: 640 passed, 0 failed across all binaries (delta vs. milestone start: +5 new E2E/pin tests added in Task 1 + 1 IR pin added in Task 13 − 9 in-source mod tests deleted as obsolete net ≈ −3). The eq_user_adt_smoke fixture's Unit-opening line was the deliberate RED-first device added in planner self-review so the north-star wouldn't accidentally GREEN at start (user-ADT-Eq on Point with hand-written instance was already operable today; the milestone's actual delivery is operator-name death + Eq Unit + Float-named-fns + cleanup of the two-pathy primitive comparator machinery). Net delta: 96 files changed, 1760 insertions, 1101 deletions; 12 net-new files (6 new fixtures, 5 new E2E/pin tests, 1 stats file). main passes-test-count: 640 (was 633 pre-iter, accounting for the deletions). Spec-vs-acceptance addendum: spec §Testing strategy anticipated the bench-gate-regression case with two recovery paths (`alwaysinline` investigation or "spec needs revisiting toward α"). Task 13 is the third path — direct intercept arms for `lt`/etc. that bypass the compare→match path entirely. The spec's contingency clause was thus generous enough to absorb Task 13 without spec revision, but a future iter that hits a class-method primitive where the body shape introduces a similar codegen cost (Ordering allocation, RC tax, deferred-init) should expect a parallel extension. The pattern is "primitive instance whose canonical body indirects through other class methods that allocate" → add a direct-emit intercept arm + alwaysinline + IR-shape pin. Concerns absorbed: - Codegen lower_app / resolve_top_level_fn gained a prelude-fallback lookup so bare monomorphic prelude fns (`float_eq` etc.) resolve from non-prelude modules without explicit `prelude.float_eq` qualifier. Mirrors the typechecker's implicit prelude import — not in plan but necessary infra for the named-fn surface to be callable. - Recon's "≈10 fixtures" estimate was 6× too low — 58 actual. Mechanical migration; no design impact. - Recon caught 4 in-source AST-literal sites the spec missed (lib.rs:5656 `>=` site + three codegen/lib.rs sites); Task 5 covered all. - Recon caught 2 contract files outside the spec's update set that directly contradicted the milestone (str-abi.md + scope-boundaries.md "REMAIN primitive operators" / "Pattern::Lit desugar to ==" clauses); Task 11 covered all 5. Stats file: `bench/orchestrator-stats/2026-05-21-iter-operator-routing-eq-ord.1.json`. closes #1 |
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plan: operator-routing-eq-ord.1 — atomic single-iter execution layout
Decomposes the operator-routing-eq-ord spec (
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spec: operator-routing-eq-ord — drop comparator builtins, route through Eq/Ord
Resolves Gitea #1. Realises the "P2 follow-up" called out in examples/prelude.ail line 9. Approach A (single-iter atomic milestone): one cohesive cut across seven layers in one iter, plus the regenerated prelude module hash pin. Three design forks resolved with the user via brainstorm Q&A: (1) Operator-name surface: `==` `!=` `<` `<=` `>` `>=` die from the language. The LLM-author writes only the class-method names `eq` `ne` `lt` `le` `gt` `ge` `compare`. One mental model: AILang has class-dispatch, operators are not a separate concept. Option 2 (keep names as surface aliases) was rejected because it adds a second spelling for an identical operation — the redundancy the milestone is supposed to remove gets reintroduced syntactically. Option 3 (two-track: primitive Built-in for Int/Bool/Str/Unit, class for user-types) was rejected because the two-pathy state is precisely what this milestone exists to dismantle. (2) Float comparison surface: Float keeps comparison capability via six named prelude fns (`float_eq` `float_ne` `float_lt` `float_le` `float_gt` `float_ge`), no `Eq Float` / `Ord Float` instance. Motivation: all three feature-acceptance clauses simultaneously satisfied — clause 1 (LLM-natural via Library-Convention-Pattern like Python's `math.isclose` or Rust's `approx`-crates), clause 2 (within the polymorphic surface there is one path; Float is honestly stamped "non-polymorphic"), clause 3 (the NaN-comparison anti-pattern stays visible in code as `float_eq` rather than hiding behind `eq`). Option A (Float loses all comparison) was rejected as overstretch — workarounds via `is_nan` + arithmetic are more bug-prone than a named fn that emits the right fcmp directly. Option C (Eq Float with IEEE semantics) was rejected as clause-3 violation — it would reintroduce the silent NaN-comparison bug class that the existing Float-no-Eq/Ord design exists to prevent. (3) Codegen mechanism for primitive Eq/Ord instances: option β (always-call through dispatch, with `alwaysinline` attribute on intercept-emitted bodies as pre-emptive `-O0` mitigation, and option α — call-site intercept — held as the bench-gate fallback if measurements show real regression). Motivation: semantic honesty (class methods ARE calls, optimiser folds primitives uniformly at Int and User-Point alike), parity with `Show` (which is also full-call today with no intercept), smaller IR-shape contract for the existing pins. Under `-O2` the inliner deterministically collapses 2- instruction bodies; bench corpus runs `-O2`. Under `-O0` `alwaysinline` overrides the no-inline default, giving the same per-call IR shape as today. α was the initial-framed Recommendation but was scrutinised in user pushback ("spricht irgendwas FÜR β?") and after substantive re-balancing β came out coherent. Grounding-check (ailang-grounding-check) PASS on re-dispatch — 11 load-bearing assumptions ratified by: `crates/ail/tests/e2e.rs::eq_demo` + `::lit_pat_demo`, `crates/ail/tests/eq_ord_e2e.rs::eq_ord_polymorphic_runs_end_to_end` + `::eq_ord_user_adt_runs_end_to_end` + `::eq_ord_user_adt_eq_intbox_hash_stable`, `crates/ail/tests/eq_float_noinstance.rs::eq_at_float_fires_float_aware_noinstance`, `crates/ail/tests/prelude_free_fns.rs::ne_at_int_produces_mono_symbol` (+4 siblings), `crates/ailang-surface/tests/prelude_module_hash_pin.rs::prelude_parse_yields_canonical_hash`, plus in-source `#[cfg(test)] mod tests` ratifiers in `crates/ailang-check/src/lib.rs` (`eq_typechecks_at_int/bool/str/unit`, `mq2_env_method_to_candidate_classes_built`) and `crates/ailang-codegen/src/lib.rs` (`lower_eq_str_calls_strcmp_with_bytes_pointer`). The `alwaysinline` LLVM attribute is correctly classified as new feature-work commitment (no live occurrences today), not as a load-bearing assumption about present state. First grounding-check pass BLOCKED on one spec defect — the spec mischaracterised `crates/ailang-core/src/desugar.rs:2414` as "a separate desugar pass" when it is in fact a `#[cfg(test)] mod tests` AST-literal scaffold. Fixed inline: §Architecture and §Components/4 now enumerate only `build_eq` (desugar.rs:1099) as the sole production desugar site; `desugar.rs:2414`, `lib.rs:6092`, `lib.rs:6220` are framed as test-scaffold migrations alongside the production change, not as desugar-pass work. Re-dispatch PASS. Out of scope (tracked separately): - Deriving for Eq/Ord — `typeclasses.md:177` "No deriving" stands; instance bodies remain hand-written. - Parameterised-ADT instances (`instance Eq (List a)` etc.) — requires constraint-propagation infrastructure, belongs to Gitea #2 ("22c typeclass corpus expansion"). - Eq/Ord for the `Ordering` ADT itself — no use case; consumed via match, not compared. - `and` / `or` as Builtins — north-star fixture uses `(if … … false)` for short-circuit conjunction; separate concern. refs #1 |
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audit + close: boehm-retirement CLEAN milestone close (no drift, bench 0/0/0, no tidy)
Single-iter milestone closing Gitea #4. Architect (drift review) and the three bench-regression scripts all green. Architect: CLEAN. The architect walked design/INDEX.md and the relevant contracts (memory-model, language-constraints, embedding-abi, honesty-rule, frozen-value-layout, str-abi), read git log 7a42989..HEAD --format=full for the three milestone commits, and inspected the full diff. Specific scrutiny items reported clean: - All four by-design Boehm-grep exceptions are doing distinct load-bearing work, none is residual drift hiding behind a justification: (a) `crates/ailang-core/tests/docs_honesty_pin.rs` lines 73-80 — the four absence-pins name the Boehm-zombie strings as scan targets; the pin cannot exist without naming what it forbids; (b) `crates/ail/tests/boehm_retirement_pin.rs` — the milestone-pin must literally invoke `--alloc=gc` to assert its CLI rejection; (c) `crates/ail/tests/embed_staticlib_alloc_guard.rs:3-5` — file-level doc-comment historical anchor explaining why the test's gc-arm went away (the rejection moved upstream to CLI parsing); (d) `design/contracts/embedding-abi.md:44-45` — contract historical clause naming the Boehm-retirement iter, which is the honesty-rule-compliant form for "this used to be a staticlib-guard rejection, see the milestone". - The 1.3× reframe in `design/models/rc-uniqueness.md` (the sentence in `## Memory model` plus the closure-chain ±15% block) is internally consistent: the regression gate is a *quantitative band*, scoped to the linear/tree/poly-ADT corpus with closure-chain on its own ±15% band. The RC-as-canonical commitment in `design/contracts/memory-model.md` is unchanged; no contract surface was softened. - No `ratifying-test` link in `design/INDEX.md` was orphaned by the test churn. All 21 referenced files exist; `e2e.rs` still exercises the Str-path, Eq/Ord, and the staticlib-bump-rejection substring pin that the `embedding-abi` and `str-abi` rows depend on. - Architect sweeps 1-5 all exit 0; the four-string absence-pin (`transitional Boehm`, `parity oracle`, `GC_malloc`, `libgc`) is the durable invariant that catches any future Boehm-narrative regrowth in the ledger. Architect recommendation: carry on as planned. Bench: 0/0/0. - bench/check.py exit 0 — 36 metrics, 0 regressed (throughput + latency). RC-over-bump ratios stable: bench_list_sum 2.74, bench_tree_walk 2.52, bench_closure_chain 4.23 (within the ±15% closure-chain band), bench_hof_pipeline 2.74, bench_compute_collatz 1.00, bench_list_sum_explicit 2.96. Latency: explicit @ rc median 217 µs / p99 245 µs; implicit @ rc median 306 µs / p99 477 µs. - bench/compile_check.py exit 0 — 24 metrics, 0 regressed. All `check_ms.*` (~2 ms) and `build_O0_ms.*` (~100 ms) workloads within tolerance vs. the baseline frozen by the prior milestone close. - bench/cross_lang.py exit 0 — 25 metrics, 0 regressed. RC-over-C ratios: bench_list_sum 1.48×, bench_tree_walk 2.62×, bench_compute_collatz 0.98×, bench_list_sum_explicit 1.30× — all within tolerance against the C reference corpus. No baseline updates needed; no `--update-baseline` invoked. The baseline regenerated *during* the iter (via the post-retirement bench/run.sh column-shape change) was the source-of-truth here, and the freshly-captured run matches it within self-comparison range. The closing-audit bench is the steady-state confirmation. Pipeline this milestone followed: brainstorm (one-question-at-a-time Q&A, three design forks resolved: bump survives, differential tests deleted, 1.3× reframed; grounding-check PASS over the spec's seven load-bearing assumptions) -> planner (recon DONE_WITH_CONCERNS; nine open questions absorbed inline; self-review caught a bench/check.py header-sentinel + col-count planner-defect that was paired into Task 5) -> implement (DONE 10/10; orchestrator end-report flagged five concerns all absorbed into iter commit body: clap-allowlist corollary, iter17a witness update, baseline write_new_baseline gc-fallback, spec §6 grep wording-vs-reality drift, bench per-run variance ±1-5%) -> audit (CLEAN, no tidy, no [low]-priority forward-fix) Closing Gitea #4. The `closes #4` trailer lives on the iter commit `14a91f0` and fires on push. Spec: docs/specs/2026-05-20-boehm-retirement.md Plan: docs/plans/boehm-retirement.1.md |
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iter boehm-retirement.1 (DONE 10/10): retire the transitional Boehm GC backend
Closes Gitea #4. Removes the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative GC backend wholesale across six layers in one atomic iteration. After this iter, `AllocStrategy` has two variants (`Rc`, `Bump`), `--alloc=gc` is rejected at CLI parse with `unknown --alloc value`, the libgc link arm is gone, and the design ledger describes RC (canonical) + bump (raw-alloc bench-floor) as the only allocators. Layer-by-layer summary: CLI surface — `crates/ail/src/main.rs`: `parse_alloc_strategy` arm `"gc" => Ok(AllocStrategy::Gc)` removed; error wording updated to `(expected `rc` or `bump`)`; clap-derive `value_parser = ["gc","bump","rc"]` allowlist on BOTH `Build` and `Run` subcommands DROPPED so that `parse_alloc_strategy` remains the sole gatekeeper for the unknown-value diagnostic (otherwise clap shadows the runtime diagnostic with `invalid value 'gc' for '--alloc'`, which would miss the milestone-pin's stderr substring check). The `default_value = "rc"` stays. Codegen — `crates/ailang-codegen/src/lib.rs`: `AllocStrategy::Gc` variant + `Default` derive removed (no caller of `AllocStrategy::default()` existed in the workspace, so the trait derivation was dead). `fn_name` (spec called it `runtime_alloc_fn` loosely; actual identifier is `fn_name`) drops the `Gc => "GC_malloc"` arm. `lower_workspace` and `lower_workspace_staticlib` defaults flip from `Gc` to `Rc`. In-source negative-complement codegen test (mod tests, lib.rs:3571ff) retargets from `AllocStrategy::Gc` to `AllocStrategy::Bump` (bump also doesn't emit per-type drop fns; the test's semantic "no drop fns under non-RC" is preserved). Link branch — `crates/ail/src/main.rs:2389ff`: The `match strategy { AllocStrategy::Gc => { ... cmd.arg("-lgc"); ... } }` arm and its libgc-link block are entirely gone. The surviving match exhausts on `Bump` and `Rc` (Rust's exhaustiveness check confirms; no `error[E0004]`). Staticlib-guard diagnostic rewritten to drop the "shared Boehm collector" phrasing while preserving the prefix `staticlib (swarm) artefact is RC-only` verbatim (the surviving `staticlib_bump_is_rejected` test depends on that substring). Test suite — 3 pure-differential e2e tests deleted (`gc_handles_recursive_list_construction`, `alloc_rc_produces_same_stdout_as_gc`, `alloc_rc_matches_gc_on_std_list_demo`); 9 RC-feature tests stripped of their `stdout_gc` build call and differential `assert_eq!(stdout_gc, stdout_rc, ...)` (absolute `assert_eq!(stdout_rc.trim(), "<n>")` pin retained as correctness oracle); `staticlib_gc_is_rejected` deleted; new milestone-pin `crates/ail/tests/boehm_retirement_pin.rs` asserts `ail build --alloc=gc` exits ≠ 0 with stderr containing `unknown --alloc value` and `\`gc\``; `examples/gc_stress.ail` fixture deleted (no remaining references). Implementer expansion (not in plan): `iter17a_local_box_alloca` (in `e2e.rs`) carried an IR-shape assertion against `@GC_malloc`-absence as the witness for non-escaping allocation. After the Task-2 codegen default flip, the witness shifts to `@ailang_rc_alloc`-absence in escape-targeted positions; assertion + doc-comment updated. Property protected ("no heap allocation in non-escaping contexts") is unchanged; only the named allocator shifts. Bench harness — `bench/run.sh` 9→6 column compaction (workload + bump(s) + rc(s) + rc/bump + bump RSS + rc RSS); gc-arm `bench_latency_implicit_gc` build call + harness invocation dropped from latency block; header comment reframed from "GC-overhead bench harness" to "RC-overhead bench harness"; "Decision 10's Boehm-retirement target (1.3x)" rewording to "RC-overhead-vs-bump bench-health regression gate". `bench/check.py:62` header-sentinel changes from `"gc(s)" in line` to `"bump(s)" in line`; column-count check at `:72` flips from `!= 9` to `!= 6`; per-workload field set drops `gc_s`/`gc_over_bump`/`gc_rss_kb`; `ARM_LABEL_TO_KEY` drops the `"implicit @ gc": "implicit_at_gc"` entry. `bench/baseline.json` regenerated via `--update-baseline`. Implementer note (planner-defect): `write_new_baseline` iterated over the *existing* baseline's metric list when emitting the regenerated file, so even after parser-level `gc_*` removal, the fallback emitted them back into the JSON. Scrubbed post-update; the cleaner fix (have `write_new_baseline` emit only keys present in `parsed_throughput[workload]`) is a follow-up if the script becomes load-bearing for further allocator changes. Design ledger — `design/models/rc-uniqueness.md` excises the `## Dual allocator — RC canonical, Boehm parity oracle` section and the `Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative GC` choice block + rationale + trade-offs; the per-fn-alloca section generalises Boehm-specific language to allocator-agnostic; the memory-model section's `## Choice.` paragraph reframes the 1.3× target from "Boehm-retirement gate" to "bench-health regression gate". `design/models/pipeline.md` drops the `--alloc=gc → links libgc` arm of the pipeline diagram and replaces it with `--alloc=bump → links bump-floor`; the accompanying prose rewrites accordingly. `design/contracts/scope-boundaries.md` rewrites the "Memory management via Boehm conservative GC" bullet to describe RC + per-fn-arena present-tense; the dead reference to `examples/gc_stress.ail.json` (file never existed; the fixture only ever had a `.ail` form, deleted by this iter) is dropped along with the `examples/std_list_stress.ail.json` reference whose purpose was Boehm-only soak testing. `:67`'s `@printf` / `@GC_malloc` parenthetical updated. `design/contracts/memory-model.md:232` drops the "leaks like the pre-Boehm era" phrase; the RC inc/dec instrumentation is wired up, so the "until then" conditional that referenced pre-Boehm is closed. `design/contracts/embedding-abi.md:42-44` rewrites the staticlib-guard prose to drop the `--alloc=gc` clause (gc is now a CLI-parser-level unknown-value, not a staticlib-guard rejection) and reframe the swarm-safety justification around `--alloc=bump` (leak-only bench instrument) rather than the historical Boehm collector. Honesty pin — `crates/ailang-core/tests/docs_honesty_pin.rs` inverts the polarity: the present-tense Boehm-anchor assertion on `pipeline.md` (`:116-117`) is deleted, and four absence-pins are added to `design_md_has_no_wunschdenken` against the Boehm-zombie strings `transitional Boehm`, `parity oracle`, `GC_malloc`, `libgc`. The `design_corpus()` already includes `rc-uniqueness.md` so no path-list change was needed for the new pins to scan. `crates/ailang-core/tests/design_index_pin.rs:166` drops the `"pre-Boehm"` token from the protected-exception comment list (the phrase no longer appears in `memory-model.md` after this iter, so the exception is dead). Runtime docs — `runtime/bump.c`, `runtime/rc.c`, `runtime/str.c` header comments scrubbed of Boehm/`GC_malloc`/`libgc` references. `bump.c`'s function signature description still documents `void *bump_malloc(size_t)` as the bench-floor allocator interface, but no longer cross-references libgc. Example fixtures — `examples/bench_latency_implicit.ail`, `bench_latency_explicit.ail`, `escape_local_demo.ail`, `reuse_as_demo.ail`, `rc_pin_recurse_implicit.ail` doc-comment headers scrubbed of `--alloc=gc` / Boehm references. The `.ail` surface (AST) is untouched in every case; round-trip invariant holds (`cargo test -p ailang-surface --test round_trip` green). Skill / agent prompts — `skills/audit/agents/ailang-bencher.md` rewritten to use an RC-vs-bump worked example pattern for the hypothesis-driven bench tutorial, replacing the recurring "RC vs Boehm under heap pressure" example. `skills/implement/agents/ailang-implementer.md` Decision-10 / Boehm references replaced with present-tense RC-commitment framing. IR snapshots — the 5 checked-in snapshots (`crates/ail/tests/snapshots/{hello,list,max3,sum,ws_main}.ll`) regenerated via `UPDATE_SNAPSHOTS=1 cargo test -p ail --test ir_snapshot`. Each previously contained `declare ptr @GC_malloc(i64)` and (for `list.ll`) a `call ptr @GC_malloc(...)` invocation; post-flip the snapshots contain `declare ptr @ailang_rc_alloc(i64)` plus the rc inc/dec runtime declarations. Spec-vs-acceptance addendum (caught at orchestrator end-report, absorbed here rather than in a follow-up spec edit): spec §6 acceptance criteria said "Boehm-grep returns matches ONLY in docs_honesty_pin.rs". The plan itself prescribed historical Boehm references in 3 additional files: (a) the new milestone-pin `boehm_retirement_pin.rs` (must literally invoke `--alloc=gc` to assert its rejection), (b) `embed_staticlib_alloc_guard.rs` file doc-comment historical note ("`--alloc=gc` no longer exists as a CLI value"), (c) `embedding-abi.md:44-45` contract historical clause ("see the Boehm-retirement iter"). All three are prescribed; the spec's grep wording was too narrow. The four absence-pins in `docs_honesty_pin.rs` catch the actual zombies (Boehm-narrative re-emerging in the design ledger), which is the substantive intent the spec was aiming at — the four extra documented-by-design exceptions are the cost of having an explicit milestone-pin and contract-level historical anchors. Net delta: - 32 files modified, 2 new (boehm_retirement_pin.rs + stats), 1 deleted (gc_stress.ail); - workspace tests: every binary `0 failed`. Pass-count delta: -3 net (4 e2e tests deleted, 1 new milestone-pin test added); - boehm-grep state: hits only in the four by-design exceptions documented above; - `bench/check.py` exit 0 against regenerated baseline; - CLI must-fail fixture: `ail build --alloc=gc examples/hello.ail` exits non-zero with stderr containing `unknown --alloc value` and `\`gc\``; - design ledger present-tense honest (Boehm-narrative gone from `rc-uniqueness.md` + `pipeline.md`; the few historical references in `embedding-abi.md` / `boehm_retirement_pin.rs` / `embed_staticlib_alloc_guard.rs` are explicit milestone-pins or contract anchors, not silent ledger residue). Bench measurement variance noted: closure-chain and hof-pipeline are ±1-5% jittery between runs; one regeneration flagged 2 metrics as `regressed` before a second run returned 0. The captured baseline is within self-comparison range. Existing per-metric tolerances absorb the jitter. 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spec: boehm-retirement — drop the transitional Boehm GC path
Resolves Gitea #4. Approach A (atomic single iteration). Six layers in one cohesive cut: CLI `--alloc=gc` arm removed; codegen `AllocStrategy::Gc` variant deleted with the default flipped to `Rc`; libgc link branch removed; ~3 pure-differential e2e tests plus the `gc_stress.ail` fixture deleted; ~9 RC-feature tests that used GC-stdout as backstop lose only the differential assertion (absolute fixed-stdout pin retained); M2 staticlib alloc-guard drops its gc-arm (bump-arm preserved); design/models/rc-uniqueness excises the Boehm-parity-oracle narrative; pipeline.md drops the libgc pipeline-diagram arm; docs_honesty_pin flips from Boehm-present-tense anchor to four absence-pins against Boehm-zombie strings. Three design forks were resolved with the user via brainstorm Q&A: (1) bump survives as bench-floor — `AllocStrategy::Bump`, the `--alloc=bump` CLI flag, and `runtime/bump.c` all stay; the enum keeps two variants (Rc, Bump); the codegen negative-complement test retargets from `AllocStrategy::Gc` to `AllocStrategy::Bump`. Bump's standing role is the raw-alloc bench-floor for RC-overhead measurement, not a production target. (2) the ~12 RC-vs-GC differential e2e tests are NOT all deleted wholesale — pure-differential ones (test name literally `*_matches_gc_*` or `*_same_stdout_as_gc`) are deleted; the RC-feature tests with GC as backstop keep their absolute stdout pin (`assert_eq!(stdout_rc.trim(), "<n>")`) and only lose the differential assertion. This nuance was added at spec time on top of the user's "delete the differential pattern" answer, because the differential was incidental to tests like `rc_box_drop` / `rc_list_drop_borrow` that pin drop-fn correctness under RC and would lose unrelated coverage if deleted entirely. (3) the 1.3× RC-over-bump number is retained in design/models/rc-uniqueness.md but reframed as a bench-health regression gate (not a Boehm-retirement gate); the closure-chain ±15% wider band is preserved analogously. Grounding-check (ailang-grounding-check) PASS — 7 load-bearing assumptions ratified, all spec-named paths and line numbers verified (±2 lines), all proposed-for-removal strings present at the spec-named locations. Assumption #7 (codegen default currently Gc) is structurally self-evident: removing the variant forces the default onto a surviving one by construction. Out of scope, tracked separately: - Gitea #3 "Closure-pair slab / pool" — would tighten the closure-chain ±15% band; not blocked by retirement. - Any further `AllocStrategy::Bump` rework — still a single-variant bench instrument. refs #4 |
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iter nullary-app.1 (DONE 5/5): accept (app f) as canonical zero-arg call
Resolves Gitea #12 — the design fork from the 2026-05-20 /boss session, surfaced independently by two prior fieldtests (mut-local F3 + loop-recur `run_forever`). Mechanics, layer by layer: Parser — `crates/ailang-surface/src/parse.rs:1322-1331` drops the 4-line `expected at least one argument` guard in `parse_app_body`. Grammar comments at file top change `term+` to `term*` on both `app-term` and `tail-app-term`; doc comment on `parse_app_body` changes `1+ args` to `0+ args`. Inline comment cites #12 and notes which layers below already accept empty args. Serde — `crates/ailang-core/src/ast.rs:419-425` annotates `Term::App.args` with `#[serde(default)]`, mirroring `Term::Ctor.args`'s *actual* attrs verbatim (no `skip_serializing_if`). Write behaviour unchanged — canonical JSON still emits `"args":[]` for nullary calls; only read behaviour gains tolerance for the `args` key being absent. Verified hash-impact-free at plan time: `grep -rn '"args":\[\]' examples/*.ail.json` returns zero matches, so no existing fixture's canonical bytes shift. Doc-honesty — `design/contracts/data-model.md`: (a) the `app` jsonc shape gains an explicit "args may be empty / read-tolerant" note; (b) the existing `ctor` comment claiming "args omitted when empty" was factually false (Ctor.args has no `skip_serializing_if`; a serde probe at plan time confirmed writes always emit `"args":[]`). Rewritten to describe the actual write/read asymmetry, with a cross-reference to the new `app` note. E2E pin — `crates/ail/tests/nullary_app_e2e.rs` + `examples/nullary_app_smoke.ail`. Defines `greet : fn() -> Unit !IO` and calls it as `(app greet)`; asserts stdout `"hello\n"`. RED→GREEN pin for the parser change AND the milestone-protecting E2E for nullary call surface going forward. Fixture literal is `"hello"` (no `\n`) because `io/print_str` lowers via `puts` which appends a newline — the plan body had a `"hello\n"` literal which would have yielded `"hello\n\n"`; the implementer caught and aligned to the canonical pattern in `examples/hello.ail` while writing the fixture, fix scoped to that single file. Layers below parser untouched: typechecker's arity check at `crates/ailang-check/src/lib.rs:3300` is `args.len() != params.len()` which is `0 != 0 → false` for nullary; codegen's `args.iter().zip(sig.params.iter())` at `crates/ailang-codegen/src/lib.rs:2410` is an empty loop; LLVM `call @ail_<mod>_<name>()` with empty arglist is valid; surface printer's arg-emit loop at `crates/ailang-surface/src/print.rs:430-434` writes nothing for empty args, producing exactly `(app f)`. Verification: full workspace `cargo test --workspace --quiet` green (0 failed across all crates); drift pins `design_index_pin 5/5` + `design_schema_drift 8/8`; round-trip `2/2`; new `nullary_app_e2e 1/1`. Stats file: `bench/orchestrator-stats/2026-05-20-iter-nullary-app.1.json`. closes #12 |
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plan: nullary-app.1 — accept (app f) as canonical zero-arg call form
Resolves the design fork in Gitea #12 (the bounce-back from the 2026-05-20 /boss session). User accepted both half-decisions: (a) the surface form `(app f)` becomes the canonical nullary call shape, dropping the "expected at least one argument" parser guard in `parse_app_body`; (b) `Term::App.args` mirrors the *actual* serde attrs of `Term::Ctor.args` — `#[serde(default)]` for read-tolerance, no `skip_serializing_if`, so writes always emit `"args":[]`. The plan covers five small tasks: a RED→GREEN E2E (nullary user fn called as `(app greet)`), the four-line parser-guard removal, the one-attribute serde edit, and a doc-honesty fix on `design/contracts/data-model.md` — the current "args omitted when empty" comment on `Term::Ctor` is factually false relative to the code (verified by a serde probe at plan time) and gets rewritten to describe actual write/read behaviour while we are in the same jsonc block. `design/contracts/honesty-rule.md` enforcement folded into the same iter because leaving a stale comment behind in the block we're modifying would be the exact failure mode the rule names. Hash-impact verified at plan time: `grep -rn '"args":\[\]' examples/*.ail.json` returns zero matches, so the new `#[serde(default)]` on `App.args` is read-only behaviour change — write side is unchanged, no existing fixture hash mutates. The plan documents this explicitly under Task 3.2. Two prior fieldtest specs already supplied the LLM-natural shape evidence — `docs/specs/2026-05-15-fieldtest-mut-local.md` F3 (mut-local) and `docs/specs/2026-05-18-fieldtest-loop-recur.md` spec_gap (`run_forever`) — so the feature-acceptance gate in `design/contracts/feature-acceptance.md` is already passed; no brainstorm phase needed for this iter. refs #12 |
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workflow(plan-recon): require compile-driven enumeration + existence table
Tightens `skills/planner/agents/ailang-plan-recon.md` against two recon-contract failure modes documented in Gitea #9: (a) For signature-change / enum-variant-add-remove / public-symbol- removal scopes, hand-listing of call sites or match arms has under-counted the blast radius four times across two milestones, each through a different site type (loop-recur.1 walker arms, loop-recur.2 cross-module synth callers, loop-recur.tidy implicit, remove-mut-var-assign.1 in-source `mod tests` fns + drift pin + `.ail.json` carve-outs + a non-enumerated E0599). The recon now MUST report a compile-driven enumeration (cargo check after a stub / exhaustive `git grep -nE` / `cargo expand`) as the authoritative code-site set; hand-listing is explicitly labelled "advisory". The compile-driven channel only covers compile-checked sites, so a separate sweep for drift pins, `.ail`/`.ail.json` fixtures, and design-doc references is required and reported under a "Non-compile-checked sites" section. (b) Every path the spec names is now `ls`-verified before propagation into the brief. An existence claim feeding a recon is itself load-bearing — one prior recon brief inherited an unverified "X does not exist" claim (form_a.md, remove-mut-var-assign.1) and was caught only at milestone-close audit. The new "Spec-named path existence table" is mandatory for every dispatch (regardless of scope class); entries marked "not exists" must carry the exact `ls` / `git ls-files` command run, and only verified-not-exists entries may feed "Anchors not yet present". Three new Common Rationalisations and three new Red Flags calibrate against the named failure modes. The "Compile-driven site set" / "Non-compile-checked sites" output sections may be omitted for iterations that do not involve a signature / variant / removal scope; the existence table is always required. No language change; no code change. Agent-definition discipline fix only. closes #9 |
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fix(runtime): mirror surface .0-fallback in ailang_float_to_str
`runtime/str.c::ailang_float_to_str` now applies the `.0`-fallback
already enforced by the surface printer's `write_float_lit`
(crates/ailang-surface/src/print.rs lines 624-637): after the
existing `%g` snprintf, if `x` is finite and the rendered buffer
contains neither `.` nor `e`/`E`, append `.0` so a whole-valued
Float renders with Float-shaped text. The `isfinite(x)` fence
keeps `nan`/`inf`/`-inf` from matching the predicate and turning
into `nan.0`/`inf.0`. The 64-byte stack buffer's truncation guard
is extended by 2 bytes for the fallback path so the defensive
`abort()` discipline holds.
The alternative (document `%g`-without-fallback in the design/
ledger as a deliberate human-friendly contract) was rejected: the
language's stated ethos is machine-readability and round-trip
identity; the surface printer is the reference, runtime drift
from it is a defect not a feature.
Golden updates flow from the contract change. Three fixtures
encoded the old Int-shaped output for Float values:
- `crates/ail/tests/floats_e2e.rs`: `"4\n42\n-1.5\n"` →
`"4.0\n42.0\n-1.5\n"` (1.5+2.5=4.0, int_to_float(42)=42.0).
- `crates/ail/tests/e2e.rs::mut_sum_floats_prints_55`: `"55"` →
`"55.0"`. The accompanying doc comment used to canonicalise the
bug ("`%g` strips the trailing `.0` — so the canonical stdout
for Float 55.0 is `55`"); rewritten to reflect the new contract.
- `examples/mut_sum_floats.ail` docstring: same correction.
Two doc comments are updated where the post-fix contract differs
from the old text but the fixture golden does not change:
- `examples/float_to_str_smoke.ail` docstring (3.5 still renders
as `3.5` because `.` is already present — the fallback does not
fire).
- `crates/ail/tests/e2e.rs::float_to_str_smoke` doc comment (same
observation, made explicit so the trip-wire's intent is clear).
Verified: `cargo test -p ail --test print_float_whole_e2e` green
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test(runtime): RED — whole-valued Float must render with .0 suffix
Adds `examples/print_float_whole_smoke.ail` (single `(app print
2.0)`) and `crates/ail/tests/print_float_whole_e2e.rs`. The test
builds and runs the fixture through the public `ail build` CLI
and asserts stdout is `"2.0\n"`.
Currently FAILS with `left: "2\n"`, `right: "2.0\n"` — runtime
`ailang_float_to_str` uses libc `snprintf("%g", x)` which strips
trailing zeros, so a whole-valued Float prints as Int-shaped
text. The surface printer at
`crates/ailang-surface/src/print.rs::write_float_lit` (lines
624-637) already enforces the `.0`-fallback property; the runtime
drifts. This RED pins the desired symmetry.
The GREEN side will mirror the surface fallback in
`runtime/str.c::ailang_float_to_str` and update the
`floats_e2e.rs` golden (`"4\n42\n-1.5\n"` → `"4.0\n42.0\n-1.5\n"`)
plus the doc comments at `crates/ail/tests/e2e.rs` and in the
runtime/example files that documented the previous `%g`-without-
fallback contract.
The alternative (document `%g`-behaviour in design/ ledger §Float
semantics as a deliberate human-friendly contract) was rejected:
the language's stated ethos is machine-readability + round-trip
identity (CLAUDE.md §"AILang — a language for LLM authors"); the
surface printer is the reference, runtime drift from it is a
defect not a feature.
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fix(drift): scope anchor-presence check to jsonc fenced blocks
Adds `anchor_in_jsonc_block(md, anchor) -> bool` to
`design_schema_drift.rs` — a line-walking helper that toggles on
``` / ~~~ fence markers (any info-string: jsonc, json, or
unspecified — all count) and returns true only if the anchor
appears inside fenced content. Re-routes the seven
`DATA_MODEL.contains(anchor)` assertion sites in the file
(Term, Pattern, Type, Literal, Def, ParamMode, nested struct
keys) onto it.
The carrier from `debug` named six sites; in the implement phase
the orchestrator flagged a seventh — `design_md_anchors_nested_
struct_keys` — that exhibited the identical scope-widening bug and
was structurally identical to the named six. Routing it uniformly
is the cohesive shape of the fix; leaving it as `.contains()`
would have preserved a known false-positive surface inside the
same file the fix targets. The "minimal fix, no surrounding
cleanup" constraint blocks opportunistic refactor, not the
uniform application of the named one-line substitution.
Verified: 8/8 in `design_schema_drift` green (was 7 + 1 compile-
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test(drift): RED — anchor-presence must scope to jsonc fenced blocks
Adds `anchor_presence_check_is_scoped_to_jsonc_blocks` to
`design_schema_drift.rs`. The test pins the property in two
directions: an anchor mentioned only in prose must report ABSENT
under the scoped helper; an anchor inside a ```jsonc``` block must
report PRESENT; the live `design/contracts/data-model.md` must
remain PRESENT (anti-over-narrowing guard).
The helper `anchor_in_jsonc_block` does not yet exist — this test
compile-blocks the entire `design_schema_drift` file, which is the
intended contract pressure: the GREEN side must introduce the
helper for any drift test to run.
Pre-rolesplit the audit framed this as "anchors live in Decision 11
instead of §Data model"; the role-split iter (
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Consolidate Gitea issue tracking information into CLAUDE.md and simplify its references in skills/boss/SKILL.md. The Gitea issue tracker section was removed from CLAUDE.md as it was redundant and the information is now more clearly presented in skills/boss/SKILL.md. |
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audit + close: bench-harness-recalibration CLEAN milestone close (no drift, bench 0/0/0, no tidy)
Single-iter milestone, single-artefact data update. Architect:
CLEAN — no design-ledger drift, no contract touched, no Rust source
touched. The `verification` contract (design/INDEX.md line 100)
ratifying-test (`bench/architect_sweeps.sh`) exits 0 on HEAD; the
script itself was not modified, only its input data
(`bench/baseline.json`). `jq`-keys-grep confirms zero
`max_us`/`p99_9_us` residue, matching the spec's acceptance check.
The `note` field reads as honest current-state with rationale
pointer to `docs/specs/2026-05-20-bench-harness-recalibration.md`
— no JOURNAL refs, no Wunschdenken anchors.
Bench: 0/0/0 after one stochastic-spike clarification.
- `bench/check.py` exit 0 — 57 metrics, 0 regressed (post-recapture).
- `bench/compile_check.py` exit 0 — clean.
- `bench/cross_lang.py` first run exit 1 with one borderline
REGRESSION (`bench_compute_intsum.ail_rc_s` +37.94% vs 35% tol on
the sub-millisecond intsum workload — 0.5ms total, dominated by
syscall/IO startup not algorithmic work). Bencher-pattern re-run:
exit 0, same metric at +14.90% (23-percentage-point swing across
two byte-identical-binary runs = classic single-sample jitter on
the smallest workload, not drift). No baseline change to
`bench/baseline_cross_lang.json`; the existing tolerances are
fine.
Resolution: carry-on. No tidy iteration. No baseline change in
this audit-close commit (the iter commit `21cfccf` already wrote
the `bench/baseline.json` recapture per the iter's `--update-
baseline` step). No --update-baseline run on `cross_lang.py` (the
intsum flicker is jitter, not drift; the second-run clean exit
proves the baselines hold).
Architect drift item, [low], commit-prose correction:
The iter commit `21cfccf`'s "Follow-up noted" paragraph claims
`skills/implement/agents/ailang-implement-orchestrator.md`
references a Phase-4 per-iter journal write. That claim is wrong.
`grep -n "journal" skills/implement/agents/ailang-implement-
orchestrator.md` returns zero hits; Phase 4 of the orchestrator-
agent is `BLOCKED.md` (line 214: `### Phase 4 — On PARTIAL/BLOCKED,
write BLOCKED.md`). The orchestrator-agent's own end-report carried
the same factual error into the iter commit body. Forward-fix
recorded here: there is no orchestrator-agent staleness to chase;
no follow-up tidy iter is needed for this. main HEAD is sacrosanct
— the
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One-artefact iter on `bench/baseline.json`. Closes Gitea #15 + #16 as documented in the spec commit `a97aaeb`. Changes: - `note` field rewritten forward-looking: drops the retired-JOURNAL workflow reference (Journal system deleted in |
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plan: bench-harness-recalibration.1 — drop 6 latency entries + recapture
One terminal iteration covering the whole spec. Four tasks, all on `bench/baseline.json`: - Task 1: pre-recapture JSON edit — drop `max_us` + `p99_9_us` × 3 latency arms (6 entries) and rewrite the `note` field forward- looking. The 6 entries must go before `--update-baseline` runs because `write_new_baseline` faithfully re-baselines anything left in the file (recon Open Q). The note rewrite is folded in here because `--update-baseline` preserves the existing note as- is, so any change has to happen before recapture (or as a separate post-recapture edit; one-edit is cleaner). - Task 2: `bench/check.py --update-baseline` regenerates every remaining `baseline` value from a fresh `bench/run.sh -n 5`, updating `captured` → 2026-05-20 and `captured_via`. - Task 3: acceptance §1 — fresh-HEAD replay → exit 0, 0 regressed, 57 metrics in summary (= pre-edit 63 minus the 6 drops). - Task 4: acceptance §2 — synthetic injection (halve `bench_list_sum.bump_s.baseline` via `jq`) → exit 1 + REGRESSION row on that metric, then restore via `jq` and confirm a final exit-0 replay. Recon adjudications: - Replay-source (recon Open Q1): fresh `bench/run.sh -n 5` for replay, not the same output that produced the recapture. Realistic acceptance scenario; with 10% throughput tolerance vs. ~1-2% measured run-to-run variance on the affected metrics (run-1 / run-2 reproduction data in spec body), there is ample margin. - Note rewrite (recon Open Q2): forward-looking — drop stale refs (JOURNAL workflow retired 8e586f4; the `*.max_us` tolerance convention is now moot since the metric is gone), replace with pointer to docs/specs/2026-05-20-bench-harness- recalibration.md + closed issues #15 / #16. Spec lives where the rationale lives; the note carries the gate-policy one-liner only. No Rust crate touched. `bench/check.py` / `bench/run.sh` / `bench/latency_harness.py` unmodified. Plan self-review (all 8 checklist items): clean. Step granularity checked; Task 3 collapsed from two `bench/check.py` runs to one (single 3-minute run captures both summary and exit code). Ready for handoff to `skills/implement`. |
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spec: bench-harness-recalibration — degate max_us/p99_9, recapture baselines
One-iteration infra milestone closing Gitea #15 + #16. Two issues framed distinct symptoms; reproduction on 2026-05-20 HEAD via two back-to-back `bench/check.py -n 5` runs collapses them onto a single picture: - #15 ("*.bump_s stale") is wider than the issue framed. Drift reproduces deterministically on `bench_list_sum.bump_s` (+13.91% / +15.56%) AND on `bench_hof_pipeline.gc_s` (+10.60% / +10.94%) — not just the bump_s family. Drift correlates with memory pressure: `bench_tree_walk` and `bench_compute_collatz` are clean across both runs. - #16 ("*.max_us structural false-positive") has matured. The "vanishes on rerun" pattern the issue documented from 2026-05-16 / 2026-05-18 audits is gone: today `implicit_at_rc.max_us` reproduces at +47.20% / +49.42%, and `implicit_at_rc.p99_9_us` at +27.79% / +41.92%. Same arm only (`implicit @ rc`); the other two latency arms are clean. The metrics are now drift-elevated AND structurally jitter- prone — both reasons to retire them from the gate. Decision: one cohesive change, all in `bench/baseline.json`. Drop the six unreliable entries (`max_us` + `p99_9_us` × 3 latency arms), then `bench/check.py --update-baseline` from current HEAD to absorb the environmental drift in one honest cut. No code change to `check.py` / `run.sh` / `latency_harness.py` — the harness already iterates only entries present in `baseline.json`, so the schema mechanics work as-is. Alternatives considered and rejected: - Adding a `gated: bool` field per metric to keep `max_us` / `p99_9_us` measured-but-not-gated. Pure speculative infrastructure: today's pathology is drift, not jitter, and the diagnostic value of `max_us` in the `check.py` report is hypothetical (it's already in `run.sh` output upstream). User push-back ("was soll 1?") was correct. - Tolerance widening on the drifted metrics. Hides the drift under a wider band; a real +10% codegen regress would slip through. - `-n` raise for tail metrics. Doesn't address the structural problem (max-of-distribution is OS-jitter-dominated regardless of N); blows up bench wall time ~10x. - cpuset / `isolcpus=` pinning. Sysadmin-layer fix that doesn't survive CI move or a new dev machine. - Histogram-based latency methodology rework (Gitea #19). The proper long-term fix, but a separate brainstorm; this milestone is the stop-gap that buys back the noise floor in the meantime. Grounding-check (Step 7.5): PASS, trivial-spec path — no Rust compiler / checker / codegen / schema / runtime claims (all load-bearing claims are about the out-of-tree Python harness, and are covered by the spec's own replay-pass + synthetic-injection acceptance checks). |
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workflow: add BLOCKER Gitea label — preempts everything in /boss
New label for "core functionality broken" — the only category with a hard precedence rule baked into the skill system, not a judgement call. No issues carry it today; the label and the skills must know about it so that the first time one is filed, the orchestrator handles it without a one-off "what now?" exchange. In-tree changes: - CLAUDE.md: Gitea-issues bullet introduces a "precedence order matters" note and lists `BLOCKER` first. - skills/boss/SKILL.md: Step 1 gains a dedicated `BLOCKER` precedence paragraph — every queue read starts with `tea issues ls --labels BLOCKER --state open`; if hit, it's the next dispatch (RED-first via skills/debug), preempting whatever else is in flight. The "finish the current agent call first, don't strand a working tree mid-edit" caveat is written in. - skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md: Step 7.5 tea-create template flags that BLOCKER can stack on top of the kind label. Universal bug-fix mechanics (RED-first TDD via skills/debug) are unchanged — BLOCKER is a precedence tag, not a new workflow. The /boss "Direction freedom" section continues to gate cross-milestone hops; BLOCKER is an in-milestone preempt that doesn't bounce back to the user (it has the orchestrator's implicit authority by definition). Verification: cargo test --workspace 647/0/2, architect_sweeps exit 0. |
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workflow: add bug Gitea label + tag 6 existing bugs
New label for observable misbehaviour distinct from additive-feature work and clean-up tasks. The /boss pickup order treats a bug differently from a feature (a bug typically gets RED-first TDD via skills/debug, a feature goes through brainstorm), so the label earns its keep. Tagged in Gitea (6 of 24 issues): - #7 io/print_float always-emit-.0 (surface vs runtime printer inconsistent) - #9 ailang-plan-recon site-undercount (tool under-counted 4× across two milestones) - #10 design_schema_drift.rs fidelity widening (test produces false negatives on §"Data model" gaps) - #12 Zero-arg `(app f)` rejected at parse (parser disagrees with the AST schema) - #15 *.bump_s throughput baseline stale (bench false-positive on environmental drift) - #16 check.py RC-latency *.max_us (bench false-positive: 3-of-3 null changes) Borderline cases left unlabelled (diagnostic usability, load_workspace limitation, dormant constraint-drop, advisory Sweep-5 wart) — they aren't observable wrong behaviour, just suboptimal. In-tree changes: - CLAUDE.md: Gitea-issues bullet adds `bug` to the label set with the same description string Gitea carries. - skills/boss/SKILL.md: Step 1 filter snippet includes `bug`. - skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md: Step 7.5 tea-create template --labels choice set includes `bug`. Distribution after tagging: 3 feature + 6 bug + 5 idea + 10 unlabelled = 24 open issues. Verification: cargo test --workspace 647/0/2, architect_sweeps exit 0. |
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workflow: retire milestone label — Gitea milestone container IS the concept
The `milestone` label was a dead duplicate of Gitea's first-class milestone container. Zero issues carried it (the three actual big-chunks — Flat array, Iteration-totality, Stateful islands — live as Gitea milestone containers, not as labelled issues). Same pattern as `prio:p1`: a slot that never gets used because the concept it tries to label lives somewhere else. Label deleted in Gitea. Remaining labels: `feature`, `idea`, `in-progress` (three, all semantic, no taxonomy noise). Big- chunk work continues to live as Gitea milestone containers (reached via `tea milestones ls --repo Brummel/AILang`). In-tree changes: - CLAUDE.md: Gitea-issues bullet describes the three-label shape; explicit note that milestone is a Gitea container, not a label. - skills/boss/SKILL.md: Step 1 filter set drops `milestone`, adds `tea milestones ls` for the container view; direction- freedom "new milestone" trigger reworded around the container, not the label. - skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md: Step 7.5 tea-create template drops `milestone` from the choice set; adds a note that spec-needing deferred work should be filed as a Gitea milestone container via `tea milestones create` instead. Verification: cargo test --workspace 647/0/2, architect_sweeps exit 0, zero residual `milestone`-as-label refs in live docs (grep skip-listed legitimate "Gitea milestone (container)" prose). |
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workflow: retire todo label — unlabelled IS the default bucket
`todo` and `feature` were semantically near-identical ("do it, no
spec needed") and the boss-pickup decision treated both the same.
Collapsing the larger one into "no label" cuts the tag-noise on
16 of 24 issues; the 3 `feature` issues retain the label as a
deliberate "substantive but no full spec" marker against the
unlabelled bucket of mechanical follow-ups.
Label `todo` deleted in Gitea (Tea removed it from the 16
issues automatically). Remaining labels: `milestone`, `feature`,
`idea`, `in-progress`.
In-tree changes:
- CLAUDE.md: Gitea-issues bullet describes the new shape —
three semantic labels + unlabelled-default-bucket.
- skills/boss/SKILL.md: Step 1 filter-snippet and direction-
freedom commentary updated.
- skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md: Step 7.5 tea-create template
drops `todo` from the choice set and notes that omitting
`--labels` is the default-bucket path.
Verification: cargo test --workspace 647/0/2, architect_sweeps
exit 0, zero residual `todo`-as-label refs in live docs.
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workflow: drop kind:/state: prefixes from Gitea labels
Labels renamed in Gitea (Tea propagated the rename to all 24 issues automatically): - kind:milestone → milestone - kind:feature → feature - kind:todo → todo - kind:idea → idea - state:in-progress → in-progress Five live labels total; no semantic ambiguity since milestone, feature, todo, idea are all "class" and in-progress is the only "state" — the prefixes were carrying zero distinguishing weight. In-tree changes: - CLAUDE.md: Gitea-issues bullet uses the bare label names. - skills/boss/SKILL.md: Step 1 filter snippets + direction- freedom new-milestone trigger drop the prefixes. - skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md: Step 7.5 tea-issues-create template drops the prefix on the --labels argument. Verification: cargo test --workspace 647/0/2, architect_sweeps exit 0, zero residual `kind:*` / `state:*` refs outside docs/specs/ and docs/plans/. |
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workflow: retire prio:p1/p2/p3 labels — kind:* alone classifies
Empirical observation after one day of running with the Gitea
backlog: P1 was permanently empty (same pattern as the old
docs/roadmap.md — anything that becomes "next-up" instantly
moves to in-progress, never sits in P1), and P3 was 6-of-8
identical to `kind:idea`. Three prio-stages were theatre; the
real distinction is "ja, irgendwann" vs "may be cut", and
`kind:idea` already carries the latter.
`prio:p1` / `prio:p2` / `prio:p3` deleted from Gitea (Tea
auto-removed them from all 24 issues). Remaining labels:
`kind:{milestone,feature,todo,idea}` + `state:in-progress`.
Issue distribution: 3 feature + 16 todo + 5 idea = 24.
In-tree changes:
- CLAUDE.md (project): Gitea-issues bullet rewritten — no
formal priority axis, "what's next" is orchestrator
judgement per session, `kind:idea` flagged as the
may-be-cut marker.
- skills/boss/SKILL.md: Step 1 rewritten — `tea issues ls
--state open` walks every open issue; selection is by
orchestrator judgement, not by reading prio:p1 first.
Cross-references "Queue:" updated to match.
- skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md: Step 7.5 no-override BLOCK
template drops `prio:p2` from the `tea issues create`
--labels argument.
Why not keep one stage (e.g. `prio:next`): no in-flight need;
a `pinned` boolean label can be added later if "next-up" ever
becomes a real distinct state. The cost of adding a label
later is one `tea labels create`; the cost of carrying dead
labels is constant cognitive load on every new issue.
Verification: cargo test --workspace 647/0/2, architect_sweeps
exit 0, zero residual prio:p* refs outside docs/specs/ and
docs/plans/ (historical, unchanged per the JOURNAL-cut
precedent).
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workflow: replace docs/roadmap.md with Gitea issue backlog
The forward queue moves out of the in-tree markdown file and into Gitea issues at http://192.168.178.103:3000/Brummel/AILang/issues. Labels: kind:{milestone,feature,todo,idea} + prio:{p1,p2,p3} + state:in-progress. Big chunks live as Gitea milestones (containers) with full prose in the description; smaller items are standalone issues. Browse-and-filter scales constant against growing item count; the previous markdown file was 1059 lines, of which ~850 were already-closed-entry verlauf (the same failure class the JOURNAL cut removed). Sync-drift Code<>Tracker mitigation: Soft-convention `closes #N` / `refs #N` in commit bodies — Gitea auto-closes the issue on push. Captured in user-level CLAUDE.md (~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, not in this commit) as the durable rule; no hook enforcement. In-repo changes: - docs/roadmap.md deleted. - CLAUDE.md (project): Code-layout drops roadmap; /boss gating retargeted; Roles section rewritten with a new "Gitea issues" bullet (URL + tea-CLI snippet) and the closes-#N trailer note. - skills/boss/SKILL.md: 10 sites retargeted, plus Step 1 now prescribes `tea issues ls --labels prio:p1` as the queue read. - skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md: Step 7.5 no-override BLOCK now files a Gitea issue via `tea issues create` instead of appending a roadmap entry; spec deletion stays. - skills/audit/SKILL.md + ailang-architect.md: deferral requirement and debt-heuristic retargeted; forward-intent belongs in the Gitea backlog. - skills/fieldtest/SKILL.md, skills/docwriter/SKILL.md + ailang-docwriter.md: roadmap → backlog. - design/contracts/honesty-rule.md: forward intent lives in the Gitea backlog (pinned phrases unchanged). - design/INDEX.md: Docs bullet drops roadmap, adds the backlog URL. - crates/ailang-core/tests/docs_honesty_pin.rs: two assert messages retargeted (assertion bodies unchanged). - bench/architect_sweeps.sh: Sweep-4 TABU extended with `docs/roadmap\.md` so the deleted path cannot quietly regrow as a cross-reference in design/contracts/. Verification: - cargo build --workspace clean. - cargo test --workspace: 647 passed, 0 failed, 2 ignored. - bench/architect_sweeps.sh exit 0 (all five sweeps clean, incl. new TABU). - grep over the live tree (excluding docs/specs/, docs/plans/) shows zero residual docs/roadmap.md refs. Not touched: ~55 historical files under docs/specs/ and docs/plans/ that mention docs/roadmap.md. Snapshot-character, analogous to the JOURNAL-cut precedent — historical specs are not mass-edited just because a live file was retired; their mentions were correct at write time. |
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workflow: scrub residual JOURNAL/journal refs missed in the first sweep
A re-grep found 15 live references (excluding docs/specs/ and
docs/plans/, which stay historical) the previous two commits
missed — all in source comments, doctests, bench helpers, and one
agent file.
Per-file:
- crates/ail/src/main.rs: typeclass-coherence diagnostic comment
pointed at "the JOURNAL queue's wording" — points at
design/contracts/typeclasses.md alone.
- crates/ailang-prose/src/lib.rs: `//!` header referred to
docs/JOURNAL.md "Pinned: human-readable prose surface" —
retargeted to design/contracts/authoring-surface.md.
- crates/ailang-check/src/lib.rs: bugfix tag + "see iter
method-dispatch-refactor journal" prose collapsed to a clean
rationale paragraph; the canonical shape is stated inline.
- crates/ailang-surface/tests/prelude_decouple_carve_out_pin.rs:
"(d) record the rationale in a per-iter journal" →
"(d) record the rationale in the commit body".
- crates/ailang-surface/tests/prelude_module_hash_pin.rs: header
collapsed (pd.2/pd.3 milestone narrative dropped — the test's
purpose is self-evident from its body); both "per-iter journal"
drift-instructions point at the commit body.
- runtime/rc.c: "bench numbers in JOURNAL 18f.2" →
"original profiling bench numbers".
- bench/run.sh: two "JOURNAL entry" comments → "commit body".
- bench/architect_sweeps.sh: header rewritten (cross-ref to the
design-md-consolidation milestone commits, not a JOURNAL entry).
Sweep-4 extended with two new anti-regrowth phrases
("see the per-iter journal", "in a per-iter journal") so journal
prose can't grow back into design/contracts/ silently.
- skills/audit/agents/ailang-architect.md: "unlike a journal it
lives on main" → "since it lives on main".
- ail-embed/src/bin/timeshard_runner.rs: "records it in the
close-out journal" → "prints it to stderr".
- ail-embed/tests/timeshard.rs: two "journal-only friction timing"
→ "stderr-only friction timing".
Verification (after the edit):
- `grep -rin '\bjournal\b'` against live tree returns exactly two
hits: the Sweep-4 regex itself (intentional — TABU phrases that
prevent regrowth) and the PHRASES array in design_index_pin.rs
(intentional — the same regrowth guard at test level). Both are
load-bearing negative assertions.
- `bash bench/architect_sweeps.sh` exits 0 ("All five sweeps
clean") — no design/-side regrowth.
- `cargo build --workspace` green; `cargo test --workspace` green.
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workflow: delete docs/journals/ and docs/journal-archive.md
Strict application of the "Future-Use, not Verlauf" criterion to the
two remaining journal artefacts:
- `docs/journals/` (110 files): the per-iter and audit journals from
2026-05-11 onward. Pure history; no live reader after the previous
sweep. Entire directory removed.
- `docs/journals/2026-05-19-design-decision-records.md`: the one file
that had live readers (`docs_honesty_pin.rs:108`, `parse.rs:80`,
`duplicate_ctor_pin.rs:8`, three roadmap.md mentions) and was framed
as a "relitigation guard". On re-examination its three asserted
pinned phrases ("Regions were considered and rejected", the
"demands annotations *because*" rationale, the prose-render
placeholder statement) are rationale-prose, not load-bearing
invariants — the test pinned itself, not a system property. Any
Decision that still holds lives in the code, `design/contracts/`,
or `design/models/`. Removed with the rest.
- `docs/journal-archive.md` (pre-2026-05-11 history): content-frozen
long-tail history with no live reader. Removed; if anyone ever
needs the pre-cutoff rationale they can `git log --before=2026-05-11
--grep=<keyword>`.
Live-file consequences:
- `docs_honesty_pin.rs` `design_md_present_tense_anchors_present`:
the three `records.*` assertions and the `read("docs/journals/…")`
are dropped; the contract/model anchor pins remain.
- `duplicate_ctor_pin.rs`: the "why-two-overlays rationale lives in
docs/journals/…" comment is replaced with the rationale inline.
- `parse.rs`: the "form-refinement rationale lives in docs/journals/…"
comment is dropped (the rule body already states the refinement).
- `roadmap.md`: the decision-records mention in the DESIGN.md →
design/ entry's body is dropped; the journal-archive.md `context:`
pointers across ~12 closed entries are either rephrased to point
at the relevant iter/audit (no path), or simplified to a one-line
comment when the iter name alone carries the story.
- `CLAUDE.md` Roles section: the `docs/journal-archive.md` slot is
removed; vocabulary note rephrased.
- `design/INDEX.md`: the Docs bullet drops `journal-archive.md`.
- `skills/README.md` bootstrap-rationale pointer rephrased.
`docs/specs/` and `docs/plans/` (per-milestone specs and per-iteration
plans) are unaffected — they remain the structured-design artefacts
they were before this sweep.
Workspace builds, full test suite green.
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workflow: replace per-iter journal system with git log + BLOCKED.md
The per-iter journal under docs/journals/ duplicated the iter commit body's substance and accumulated as Verlauf-Doku with no Future-Use. Sweep across all live control documents: CLAUDE.md, the 7 SKILL.md files, the 11 agent files, design/INDEX.md and the contracts/models that referenced journals, docs/roadmap.md, and the handful of source comments + tests that pointed at journal files for rationale. Mechanism changes: - Standing-reading-lists in every agent now read `git log -N --format=full` for recent project state, never per-iter journal files. The architect reads `git log <prev-milestone-close>..HEAD --format=full` for audit scope. - implement-orchestrator no longer writes a journal file. DONE outcomes emit just code + stats; the end-report is the per-task summary the Boss uses to write the commit body. PARTIAL/BLOCKED outcomes emit BLOCKED.md at the repo root — uncommitted by convention, Boss removes on repair or discard. New iron-law line + four-rationalisation row + red-flag bullet codify it. - audit ratify mechanic: --update-baseline is now paired with an explicit ratify paragraph in the audit-close commit body, not a separate JOURNAL ratify entry. - design/contracts/honesty-rule.md: "history and rationale lives in docs/journals/" → "lives in git log (iter and audit commit bodies)". Pinned phrase preserved verbatim. - CLAUDE.md "Roles of …" section reframed: design/, git log, journal-archive.md (content-frozen), roadmap.md, specs/, plans/. No docs/journals/ slot anymore. - roadmap.md context-lines that pointed at per-iter journals are dropped where the spec/commit already carries the rationale, or rephrased to "shipped in the <iter> iter commit" / "docs/journal- archive.md (<date> entry)" for pre-2026-05-11 references. What stays (this commit): - docs/journals/ directory and contents are NOT touched. Removing the contents is a separate follow-up. - docs/journals/2026-05-19-design-decision-records.md still has live readers (docs_honesty_pin.rs Z 108 + parse.rs + duplicate_ctor_pin.rs + 3 roadmap mentions) — also follow-up. - docs/journal-archive.md still exists; its self-pointer header has been updated to drop the "see docs/journals/INDEX.md" mention. Workspace builds, full test suite green. |
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workflow: drop docs/WhatsNew.md (Notify carries done-state on its own)
WhatsNew.md duplicated the Notify text into a file the only reader (the user) does not consult. Removed the file and trimmed every reference in the live control docs (CLAUDE.md, skills/boss, skills/implement). The editorial rules (no internals, telegram-pragmatic, factual) are preserved in skills/boss as notify-text discipline. Historical specs/plans/journals are not rewritten — they show the contemporaneous state. |
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design/ + source rustdoc: replace opaque shorthand with content phrases + links
Reader-facing prose and rustdoc carried opaque shorthand like
"Decision 10", "clause-5", "mq.1", "ct.1", "eob.1", "rpe.1",
"post-mq.3", and "Iter 22b.1:" with no in-repo definition the reader
could follow. This commit replaces every such occurrence in the
durable tier the reader is most likely to land on (design/ ledger +
source //! module headers + the central /// public-item rustdoc) with
an inline content phrase plus, where applicable, a Markdown link to
the file that defines the referenced concept.
design/ ledger — 16 files:
Definition-site headings demoted from "Decision N: <title>" to
"<title>": authoring-surface, tail-calls, memory-model section in
rc-uniqueness.md, dual-allocator section, typeclass design,
effects "pure core + algebraic effects".
Cross-reference sites: "Decision 1" -> canonical-schema principle
(data-model); "Decision 3/4" -> effects + scope-boundaries; "Decision
6" -> authoring-surface; "Decision 8" -> tail-calls; "Decision 9" ->
rc-uniqueness (dual-allocator); "Decision 10" -> memory-model;
"Decision 11" -> typeclasses (model). "clause-5" -> body-link
durability gate. "clause-3" (in language-constraints) ->
bug-class-reintroduction discriminator. "mq.1/2/3", "ct.1/4",
"eob.1", "rpe.1" -> the canonical-form rule / the type-driven
dispatch / the Str carve-out / etc. "post-mq.3" -> "type-driven".
design/contracts/feature-acceptance.md: file-local "clauses 1/2/3"
-> "criteria 1/2/3" (sprachliche Kohärenz mit der File-Überschrift
"Feature-acceptance criterion"); "the clause-3 mechanism" -> "the
bug-class-reintroduction discriminator".
Source //! module headers — 24 files:
Stripped "Iter X.Y:" prefixes and "(Decision N)" / "(mq.X)" tags
from spec_drift, uniqueness, reuse_shape, migrate_canonical_types,
typeclass_22b{2,3,c}, suppress_filter, lift, mono, linearity,
diagnostic, method_dispatch_pin, method_collision_pin,
no_per_type_print_ops, mq3_multi_class_e2e, print_mono_body_shape,
print_no_leak_pin, cli_diag_human_workspace_load_error,
ct1_check_cli, prose snapshot, unbound_in_instance_method_pin,
mono_xmod_ctor_pattern, desugar.
Central /// public-item rustdoc:
ast.rs (full sweep — every "Iter X" + "Decision N" prefix
reformulated; mode/Type::Fn rustdoc now points at memory-model.md;
Constraint / SuperclassRef / InstanceDef / ClassDef rustdoc points
at typeclasses contract).
diagnostic.rs (all "(Iter X)" / "(mq.X)" tags on diagnostic codes
removed).
lib.rs (FORM_A_SPEC rustdoc points at authoring-surface.md
instead of "Decision 6").
canonical.rs (type_hash + Float-literal rustdoc).
Still outstanding (for a follow-up commit): ~500 inline `//`
code-body comments with `Iter X.Y` markers across the workspace, and
a handful of `///` rustdoc items in hash_pin / workspace_pin / lift /
mono / suppress_filter test-pin and internal-function bodies. Code
identifiers (test filenames like `mq3_multi_class_e2e.rs`, function
names like `iter18e_drop_iterative_default_preserves_hashes`) stay
verbatim per the user's "code identifiers stay verbatim" rule.
Tests: design_index_pin 5/5 + docs_honesty_pin 5/5; workspace builds
clean; full `cargo test --workspace` previously green (every
`test result: ok` line, no FAILED line).
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design/ ledger: prose-bridges for in-fence §-refs in data-model.md
Five §"..." cross-refs survived the main sweep because they live
inside jsonc Schema-comments — clause-5 fence-skip would treat any
[label](path) there as literal text, not as a navigable link.
Instead of touching the schema-comment style (it is self-documenting
where it sits, against the field it qualifies), this commit adds
prose paragraphs just outside the fence that turn the same
cross-references into real links:
- Before the Def jsonc block: pointer to memory-model.md
(canonical-form rule for cross-module class/type names) and
embedding-abi.md (exported fn surface).
- Before the Type jsonc block: pointer to memory-model.md for
Type::Con.name scoping and Type::Fn parameter-mode metadata.
Also re-phrases an intra-file §"Str ABI" self-reference in
str-abi.md to "the Str ABI table below" — file-only granularity
makes a self-link sense-less; the reader wants intra-file
direction, which prose carries fine without a link.
Tests: design_index_pin (5/5) + docs_honesty_pin (5/5) stay green.
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design/ ledger: dense cross-linking via three topical splits + 88-link sweep
The first formal-links milestone shipped clause-5 + 8 links across the
existing file layout. Browsing surfaced that file-only granularity is
only as precise as the file boundaries — three files mixed two or
three navigation targets under one address, so the 8 links could not
multiply without ambiguity. This commit fixes the substrate, then
applies the sweep the original milestone deferred.
Splits (each extracts an already-self-contained section into its own
file so links land on the topic, not the parent doc's TOC):
contracts/typeclasses.md
→ +contracts/prelude-classes.md (Eq/Ord/Show ships, polymorphic `print`)
→ +contracts/method-dispatch.md (5-step dispatch rule, candidate index)
contracts/memory-model.md
→ +contracts/language-constraints.md (the 4 binding constraints
making RC sound without a
cycle collector)
models/authoring-surface.md
→ +models/prose-projection.md (Form-B / `ail prose` / merge-prose)
Each new file enters design/INDEX.md as its own row (three contracts
share show_no_instance_e2e.rs / uniqueness.rs as ratifying tests;
prose-projection is a model). Two pre-existing links rebind to the
new topic-files (memory-model.md → method-dispatch.md;
float-semantics.md → prelude-classes.md).
Link sweep: 8 → 88 formal Markdown links over 23 files. Every file
in design/contracts/ + design/models/ now has at least one outgoing
link; the tree is fully connected. Links are file-relative
`[label](path)` per the established convention, fenced code blocks
are skipped (a `](` inside ```jsonc``` is literal text), the durable
tier (design/ + crates/ + runtime/) is enforced by clause-5.
Tests:
- design_index_pin.rs (5/5 clauses): clean-cut, INDEX resolution,
ratifying-test resolution, no decision-record prose in contracts/,
body links durable + resolving.
- docs_honesty_pin.rs (5/5): one assertion rebinds from typeclasses.md
to prelude-classes.md (where the gated sentence now lives);
design_corpus widens to include the 4 new files so the Wunschdenken
/ doc-archaeology sweeps continue to cover everything that used to
live in the parents.
No spec/plan/journal for this batch — interactive collaboration after
the milestone closed; the user gated the splits explicitly before the
sweep.
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audit + close: design-ledger-formal-links CLEAN milestone close (no drift, bench 0/0/0, no tidy)
Cleanest close pattern in recent project history. Architect: zero drift -- every commitment + invariant verified positively (clause-5 implements all 4 predicates incl. fence-skip, 8 link tokens match the closed convert-set exactly, disposition-(b) applied to the 2 homeless pointers, honesty-rule positive-half pin-safe, commitments 4/7 byte-unchanged, composition invariant clause-3 ∧ clause-5 GREEN simultaneously, out-of-scope set untouched incl. the 5 in-fence data-model annotations, no commitment-2 violation in any reading list, architect_sweeps clean). Bench: check.py exit 0 (63/0/0/63), compile_check exit 0 (24/0/0/24), cross_lang exit 0 (25/0/0/25); baseline pristine, no --update-baseline, no paired ratify. The two spec amendments (clause-6 + cross-ref definition; clause-5 fence-skip + closed convert-set enumeration) were the discipline working: planner-recon and plan-corpus-fetch surfaced gaps the brainstorm-sample missed; the spec was corpus-grounded *before* any byte moved (grounding-check PASS x3); implementation then ran clean 5/5 with one non-blocking concern (planner self-review-item-8 arithmetic miss on the //! header line count -- substantive assertion unaffected; recorded as lesson). No tidy iteration. No fieldtest -- zero authoring-surface change (no .ail, no language construct, no compiler/checker/codegen path) is the spec-stated reasoned exclusion, audit-confirmed. This commit ratifies the milestone close: - audit journal: docs/journals/2026-05-19-audit-design-ledger-formal-links.md - journals/INDEX.md: audit pointer appended - roadmap.md: [~] -> [x] CLOSED 2026-05-19 with full pipeline record - WhatsNew.md: user-facing done-state entry (verbatim with notify) Spec: docs/specs/2026-05-19-design-ledger-formal-links.md Plan: docs/plans/design-ledger-formal-links.1.md Iter journal: docs/journals/2026-05-19-iter-design-ledger-formal-links.1.md Pipeline: brainstorm (PASS x3) -> planner (recon + plan + self-review 8/8) -> implement (DONE 5/5, Boss-verified independently) -> audit (CLEAN, no tidy). |
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iter design-ledger-formal-links.1 (DONE 5/5): clause-5 hard gate + 7 prose-ref conversions + 2 disposition-(b) homeless removals + honesty-rule positive-half (whole milestone in one iter)
Positive-half completion of the DESIGN.md -> design/ split: design/
body cross-references are now formal, file-relative Markdown links
into the durable tier (design/ or source), and a new in-tree hard
gate (design_index_pin.rs clause-5,
design_body_links_are_durable_and_resolve) walks every
design/contracts/*.md + design/models/*.md, strips fenced code
(strip_fences toggles on ```/~~~ lines so a ]( inside a fence is not
treated as a link), extracts every ](path), and asserts the target
resolves file-relative to a real file under design/-or-crates/-or-
runtime/; never docs/, never an in-file #anchor.
RED-first via identity-stubbed strip_fences (four embedded synthetic
vectors -- first one FAILS); replacing the stub with the real
toggle-on-fence impl turns the test GREEN. clause-5 composes with
clause-3 into the complete invariant the milestone establishes:
every contract cross-reference is EITHER a resolving durable
file-link OR clause-3-forbidden decision-record prose.
Conversions (recon-and-corpus-verified closed set):
Task 2 (7 prose refs, 8 link tokens):
float-semantics.md:69 Prelude classes -> [..](typeclasses.md)
float-semantics.md:100 bare-path -> [Str ABI](str-abi.md)
embedding-abi.md:45 "Frozen value layout" -> [..](frozen-value-layout.md) (drop stale "below")
memory-model.md:44 Data model -> [..](data-model.md)
memory-model.md:105-106 Method dispatch -> [..](typeclasses.md) (drop stale "below"; the target heading lives in typeclasses.md:227, not in this file)
scope-boundaries.md:48 Str ABI -> [..](str-abi.md)
scope-boundaries.md:88 mixed split: ailang-core::desugar -> source link + Pipeline -> ../models/pipeline.md (drop stale "above")
Task 3 (2 disposition-(b) homeless removals):
pipeline.md:60-61 (see docs/PROSE_ROUNDTRIP.md) pointer removed, CLI prose preserved
authoring-surface.md:178-181 cross-tier pointer clause removed, ail merge-prose sentence preserved
Task 4: honesty-rule.md positive-half paragraph inserted between L14 and the existing L15-blank-L16; both docs_honesty_pin.rs-pinned phrases byte-identical at L14/L19 (now shifted to L19 -> L25 by the +6 lines).
Out of scope, preserved (asserted independently): every intra-file
"above/below"; embedding-abi.md:51 "frozen value layout below
specifies" (no quoted title, no (see) form); data-model.md
38/66/79/206/226 (in-fence ```jsonc schema annotations -- the inline
analog of the nominal-mention carve-out). INDEX.md and the
decision-records journal byte-unchanged; clauses 1-4 of
design_index_pin.rs source byte-unchanged (the only `-` lines in
the diff are the two-line //! header rewrite Task 1 Step 5 itself
delivers).
Boss-verified independently (not on agent report alone):
cargo test --workspace 647 passed / 0 failed
(+1 vs pre-milestone 646:
the new clause-5)
cargo test --test design_index_pin 5 / 5 passed
cargo test --test docs_honesty_pin 5 / 5 passed (additive
paragraph is pin-safe)
grep ](.../docs/.../) under design/ zero
grep ](#) under design/ zero
](-link count under design/ 8 (closed convert-set)
git diff --quiet design/INDEX.md ok
git diff --quiet decision-records ok
embedding-abi.md:48 pinned phrase byte-identical
One Concerns item: Task-5 Step-7's plan-predicted "`-` line count = 1"
was actually 2 because Task 1 Step 5 rewrote the //! header 5 -> 8
lines (removing the original L4 + L5, not just L5). Planner self-
review-item-8 miss on my part -- a verification-arithmetic error in
the plan, NOT an implementation defect. The substantive assertion
(clauses 1-4 source byte-unchanged) is fully satisfied; the
implementer correctly flagged it and proceeded. The plan stands as
written; the assertion's `1` should have been `2`. Lesson noted for
future header-rewrite tasks.
Spec: docs/specs/2026-05-19-design-ledger-formal-links.md
(grounding-check PASS x3 across two corpus-grounded amendments --
clause-6 + cross-ref definition; clause-5 fence-skip + closed
convert-set enumeration).
Next: mandatory milestone-close audit (no fieldtest -- zero
authoring-surface change, reasoned exclusion).
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plan: design-ledger-formal-links.1 — clause-5 + 7 conversions + 2 disposition-(b) + honesty-rule positive-half
Single iteration covering the whole milestone (same shape as
rolesplit.1; spec is small, no build-atomicity issue — clause-5 is
isolated additive code, prose edits don't affect compilation).
Five tasks, each at task-level review granularity:
Task 1: clause-5 added to design_index_pin.rs RED-first via
identity-stubbed strip_fences (synthetic vector FAILS) →
correct toggle-on-fence impl (GREEN); module //!-header
extended to name clause-5. Test count 4 → 5.
Task 2: 7 prose-ref conversions to file-relative Markdown links
(float-semantics:69/100, embedding-abi:45, memory-model:44/
105, scope-boundaries:48/88 with the source+Pipeline split).
Exact verbatim before→after for every line. clause-5 stays
GREEN by construction (every introduced link resolves
durable).
Task 3: 2 disposition-(b) homeless-ref removals (pipeline:60-61
in-fence CLI block + authoring-surface:178-181 prose).
Pointer dropped, behavioural prose preserved.
Task 4: honesty-rule.md pin-safe positive-half paragraph between
L14 and the existing L15-blank (the two docs_honesty_pin
phrases at L14/L19 each stay verbatim on their physical
line; the additive insertion splits neither). The new
paragraph names design_index_pin.rs clause-5 by name
(nominal mention, not a link — consistent with the
existing 'Ratified by:' footer style and with §Scope).
Task 5: Whole-suite gate (646 → 647) + 5 grep+diff verifications
(no docs/ link, no #fragment, link count = 8, in-fence
schema-annotations intact, INDEX.md + decision-records
journal + clauses 1-4 byte-unchanged).
Self-review 8/8: spec coverage complete; zero placeholders; names
consistent; bite-sized; no commit steps; pin contiguity verified
(L14 + L19 stay verbatim on their physical lines, replacement body
shows L14 contiguous); no signature change ⇒ no compile-gate
ordering issue; every cargo-test filter substring is a real test
name + unfiltered runs have explicit count assertions.
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spec: design-ledger-formal-links — corpus-grounded amendment (clause-5 fence-skip + closed enumeration)
Plan-time corpus verification surfaced a third distinct gap the brainstorm-sample missed: data-model.md:38/66/79/206/226 are 'see §"..."' annotations inside fenced jsonc code blocks (verified: fences at 30-87 and 203-228; the 5 refs fall inside), where a Markdown link is literal text — not a navigable link on any renderer. Per the "two+ surfaced ⇒ ground the spec properly once, don't iter-patch" discipline: amendment 2 is the definitive corpus-grounded pass, not a fourth-patch returning later. Every convert-set ref's prose-vs-fence status + exact bytes personally verified before amending. - clause-5 (Concrete a): adds a strip_fences helper toggling on triple-backtick / tilde lines; the per-file scan runs targets(&strip_fences(&raw)); the RED-first synthetic vector gains two fence-skip assertions (identity-stub of strip_fences ⇒ first assert fails ⇒ genuine RED). Contract grows from 3 to 4 predicates (+ fenced-code-not-scanned). - Scope section: third out-of-scope carve-out — a 'see §"..."' inside a fenced code block is schema-example documentation = the inline- annotation analog of the nominal-mention carve-out (a // comment in a code example is code documentation, not a 'go browse there' pointer). Clean extension of the converged navigational-vs-nominal principle. - Acceptance 3: convert-set CLOSED and exhaustive — 8 prose refs (float-semantics:69/100, embedding-abi:45, memory-model:44/105, scope-boundaries:48/88), 2 disposition-(b) homeless removals (pipeline:61, authoring-surface:180), 6 stay-prose (data-model in-fence x5, embedding-abi:51). Iter-provenance suffixes stripped on conversion. scope-boundaries:88 splits into a source link plus a Pipeline cross-file link. grounding-check third dispatch on the amended bytes: PASS, all 8 assumptions ratified (incl. corpus-state-verified A4-A7 per the rolesplit precedent for text-enumeration claims). |
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spec: design-ledger-formal-links — recon-driven amendment (clause-6 + cross-ref definition)
Planner Step-2 recon (ailang-plan-recon) surfaced two spec defects;
forward-fix amendment (
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spec: design-ledger-formal-links — formal cross-links in the design/ ledger
Positive completion of the DESIGN.md -> design/ split: informal prose cross-references become formal file-relative Markdown links, gated by a new RED-first design_index_pin.rs clause-5 (every design/ body link resolves into the durable tier or fails the build). INDEX spine stays repo-root-relative (registry tier, clause-1 unchanged). No authoring surface. Eight converged commitments + the user-decided INDEX sub-fork; grounding-check PASS 7/7. roadmap [~] in-flight. |
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iter design-md-rolesplit.tidy (DONE 7/7): resolve milestone-close audit drift
Gate-first TDD: widened design_index_pin.rs clause-3 to a hand-rolled
FAITHFUL Sweep-1 superset (case-sensitive digit-anchored line anchors
+ Sweep-1's ^[^/]* path-excluded date + the audit-named
decision-record phrases, case-insensitive); no regex dep; the blanket
iter-detector rejected as unworkable. Sentence-level strip of
faithfully-migrated history/decision-record prose out of 5 contract
files (the audit's 3 spot-checked + roundtrip-invariant.md +
data-model.md the exhaustive scan found) into the decision-record
journal, each replaced by its present-tense contract equivalent;
float-semantics.md stale 'see Str ABI below' -> str-abi.md;
architect_sweeps honesty sweeps re-scoped to design/contracts only
(models/ is the narrative tier) + ailang-architect.md lockstep.
Invariant: clause-3 GREEN => Sweep-1 clean in contracts/.
The prior dispatch correctly BLOCKED on a real plan defect (iso_date
lacked Sweep-1's path-exclusion, over-firing on legit
docs/specs/2026-.. citations); per the two+-defects-in-one-iteration
discipline the audit Resolution mechanism+scope were corrected
upstream in lockstep (
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plan+audit: design-md-rolesplit.tidy re-derived on planning-time evidence (mechanism + scope corrected)
The tidy's gate-first Task 1 RED-verification + Boss independent
verification surfaced two defects in the audit Resolution as first
written — caught exactly where the planner->Boss loop is designed to,
before any contract byte moved. Per the 'two+ defects in one
iteration => fix the upstream artifact, do not patch a third time'
discipline, the audit Resolution is corrected in lockstep with the
plan re-derivation:
- Mechanism (Resolution-4): the 'case-insensitive iter-code regex'
clause-3 design is REJECTED as unworkable — a blanket
iter/milestone detector conflates the memory-model rule-names
'Iter A'/'Iter B' and ordinary words 'pre-existing'/'pre-set'/
'pre-Boehm' with provenance, over-firing on legit present-tense
contract prose (4 no-strip files). Replaced by a FAITHFUL Sweep-1
superset: case-sensitive digit-anchored Sweep-1 line anchors
(confirmed ZERO across all contracts) + Sweep-1's ^[^/]*
path-excluded date (so docs/specs/2026-.. citations are not
flagged — repairs the iso_date over-fire the implement
orchestrator correctly BLOCKED on) + the audit-named
decision-record phrases (case-insensitive). No regex dep. The
load-bearing invariant (clause-3 GREEN => Sweep-1 clean) is
preserved; it never required the blanket detector.
- Scope (Resolution-1): the architect's [medium] was a 3-file
spot-check; the exhaustive scan found roundtrip-invariant.md:73
('at iter form-a.1') and data-model.md:149,161 ('loop-recur iter
1:') also carry lowercase provenance. True strip set = 5 files;
plan Task 5b adds the 2 (spirit-cleanup, not gate-blocking).
Plan self-review 8/8 re-run; clause-3 = hand-rolled faithful Sweep-1
superset, no regex dep, no blanket iter detector.
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plan: design-md-rolesplit.tidy — audit drift fix (history->journal, sweep re-scope, clause-3 widen)
7 tasks executing the audit Resolution's 5 points: (1) gate-first RED — widen design_index_pin.rs clause-3 to a hand-rolled PROVABLE SUPERSET of architect_sweeps Sweep-1 over design/contracts/ (no regex dep; subsumption proof inline), verify RED vs the un-stripped tree; (2-4) sentence-level strip the faithfully-migrated history/decision-record prose out of typeclasses.md / str-abi.md / scope-boundaries.md into the decision-record journal, per recon's per-sentence contract-residue map, each docs_honesty_pin pinned run guarded contiguous; (5) fix float-semantics.md stale 'see Str ABI below' -> str-abi.md; (6) re-scope architect_sweeps DESIGN_GLOB to design/contracts only (models/ is the narrative tier) + lockstep ailang-architect.md; (7) whole-tree GREEN gate (clause-3 RED->GREEN, 4/4, sweep exit 0, suite >=646/0, acceptance grep CLEAN). Self-review 8/8. |
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audit design-md-rolesplit (milestone close): DRIFT (one tidy iter) + bench causally-exonerated (baseline pristine)
Architect: relocation byte-faithful; one [medium] spirit-finding —
faithfully-migrated decision-record/history prose in
design/contracts/{typeclasses,str-abi,scope-boundaries}.md dodges the
6 literal clause-3 markers but is the relitigation content the
split's spirit sends to journals; [low] float-semantics.md
stale-direction 'see Str ABI below'. Both routed items: tidy not
ratify (the str-abi.md:23 advisory Sweep-1 exit-1 correctly
diagnoses real pre-existing history residue, byte-identical
DESIGN.md@deeffb1 — faithfully migrated, not split-introduced).
Bencher: causally-exonerated, DECISIVE on byte-evidence — emitted IR
AND final -O2 binaries byte-identical
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iter design-md-rolesplit.1 (DONE 9/9): DESIGN.md -> design/ ledger role-split
The 3020-line docs/DESIGN.md is replaced by the design/ ledger:
design/INDEX.md (sole addressable spine, typed Contracts+Models tables,
polymorphic links — prose file OR authoritative source //!), 14
design/contracts/*.md test-linked invariants + 3 source-link-only
contracts (mangling/env-construction/qualified-xref, no prose file —
code is SoT), 5 design/models/*.md whitepapers, and
docs/journals/2026-05-19-design-decision-records.md (the
relitigation-guard archive — every why/rejected/does-not-do/rollback/
empirical ### moved out at ###-granularity). Clean cut: git rm
docs/DESIGN.md, no stub.
RED-first crates/ailang-core/tests/design_index_pin.rs — the 4-clause
anti-regrowth spine (DESIGN.md-gone / every-INDEX-link-resolves /
every-contract-names-a-resolvable-ratifier /
contracts-carry-no-decision-record-prose) — demonstrably RED before,
GREEN after. Build-atomic by task ordering: design_schema_drift.rs's
include_str! (the only compile-time consumer) retargeted to
design/contracts/data-model.md BEFORE the deletion; its
## Data model/## Pipeline slicer dropped (a simplification the split
enables). 2 NoInstance diagnostics + 2 lockstep E2Es retargeted to
design/contracts/{float-semantics,typeclasses}.md. ~12 agent reading
lists + 5 SKILL bodies + CLAUDE.md + skills/README.md + ~25
code/C/.ail/spec comment xrefs retargeted; OQ7 dangling 'Iter 13b'
cite deleted (no forward target — a pointer would be fiction).
honesty-rule.md rewritten so the rule names the new home
(rationale->journals), resolving the recon-found internal
contradiction; the two docs_honesty_pin.rs:70,72 pinned phrases kept
verbatim+contiguous.
Boss-verified independently: cargo test --workspace 646 passed /
0 failed; design_index_pin 4/4; acceptance grep CLEAN of live
DESIGN.md refs (residuals = only the spec-mandated clause-4
deletion-enforcer). 2 DONE_WITH_CONCERNS routed to the mandatory
milestone-close audit: (a) str-abi.md:23 '(iter str-concat,
2026-05-13)' provenance stamp trips advisory architect_sweeps Sweep-1
— Boss-confirmed byte-identical to DESIGN.md@deeffb1:2062-2065, a
faithfully-migrated PRE-EXISTING anchor (regexes verbatim, only path
retargeted), NOT split-introduced — RATIFY-or-tidy at audit; (b) a
now stale-direction intra-prose 'see Str ABI below' cross-ref in
float-semantics.md — audit-adjudication candidate. Plan defect noted:
Task 9 Step 4's verbatim acceptance grep used a ^./ anchor not
matching the system's grep -rIn output; substance re-verified CLEAN.
Spec grounding-check PASS x2. Journals INDEX + decision-records
pointer appended (Boss-only).
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