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Brummel 8e586f493f 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.

2026-05-20 11:21:37 +02:00

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AILang Design — Index

The sole addressable entry point. Every contract and model is reached from here. A contract is a prescriptive, test-linked invariant; a model is a whitepaper narrative. ratifying-test names the green test that proves a contract still holds. link is polymorphic: a design/ file, or the authoritative source //! header when the code is the single source of truth.

Project framing

Goal

AILang is a programming language for LLM authors. It compiles to LLVM IR. Performance: native, no GC for the MVP.

Optimised for:

Machine readability over human ergonomics. The source is structured.
Local reasoning. Every definition carries its full type and effects.
Provability. Pure core language, explicit effects, optional refinements.
Robustness against hallucinations. Symbols are hashable; tools can verify existence without spending context window.

Project ecosystem

AILang is not just a language but an ecosystem. The language on its own is only valuable when its surroundings make it usable, checkable, and extensible for its target user (LLM authors). The repo therefore contains several equally important components — none of them optional, all of them evolving in lockstep with the language:

Language core (crates/ailang-core, crates/ailang-check, crates/ailang-codegen): AST, type system, codegen.
Surface forms (crates/ailang-surface, crates/ailang-prose): the LLM-facing renderings of a module. ailang-surface is the lossless Form-A printer/parser — the canonical authoring surface, with a round-trip property parse ∘ print = id gating every release. ailang-prose is the lossy Form-B projection — human-readable prose for review and edit, with no parser; re-integration goes through the LLM-mediator round-trip documented in docs/PROSE_ROUNDTRIP.md.
CLI (crates/ail): toolchain for tooling consumers — manifest, describe, deps, check, build, parse, render, prose, merge-prose, etc., preferably with --json for machine consumption.
Examples (examples/): canonical .ail.json programs. They are specification anchors, not demos — the E2E suite hangs off them.
Skills (skills/): specialised disciplines (brainstorm, planner, implement, audit, debug, fieldtest) plus the agent rosters they dispatch (skills/<name>/agents/). They form the project's own development methodology and are versioned with the codebase. See skills/README.md.
Design ledger (design/): design/INDEX.md (this file — the sole addressable spine for canonical state), design/contracts/ (test-linked invariants), design/models/ (onboarding whitepapers).
Docs (docs/): docs/journal-archive.md (archived monolith for pre-2026-05-11 history, content-frozen), roadmap.md (forward queue), specs/ (per-milestone design specs), plans/ (per- iteration implementation plans). Current iter / audit history lives in git log.
Tests: unit tests per crate plus E2E in crates/ail/tests/e2e.rs. Every new compiler path needs a test, otherwise the feature does not count as done.

Project language: English

All in-tree content is written in English: source code (identifiers, comments, string literals, CLI help), design documents, agent prompts, READMEs, commit messages, examples, and CLAUDE.md. The live conversation between user and me stays German for ergonomic reasons; everything that lands in git is English. This keeps diffs and tooling output uniform and matches the audience for AILang (LLM authors), for whom English is the default.

Contracts

id	consumer / lifetime	ratifying-test	link
feature-acceptance	brainstorm-gate / stable	skills/brainstorm/SKILL.md	design/contracts/feature-acceptance.md
authoring-surface	LLM author / stable	crates/ailang-surface/tests/round_trip.rs	design/contracts/authoring-surface.md
roundtrip-invariant	every release / stable	crates/ailang-surface/tests/round_trip.rs	design/contracts/roundtrip-invariant.md
language-constraints	LLM author / stable	crates/ailang-check/src/uniqueness.rs (in-source mod tests)	design/contracts/language-constraints.md
memory-model	LLM author / stable	crates/ailang-check/src/uniqueness.rs (in-source mod tests)	design/contracts/memory-model.md
data-model	LLM author / stable	crates/ailang-core/tests/design_schema_drift.rs	design/contracts/data-model.md
mangling	codegen / stable	crates/ail/tests/eq_ord_e2e.rs	crates/ailang-codegen/src/lib.rs //!
env-construction	codegen / stable	crates/ailang-check/tests/duplicate_ctor_pin.rs	crates/ailang-codegen/src/lib.rs //!
qualified-xref	codegen / stable	crates/ail/tests/codegen_import_map_fallback_pin.rs	crates/ail/src/main.rs //!
frozen-value-layout	embedding ABI / one-way-frozen	crates/ailang-codegen/tests/embed_record_layout_pin.rs	design/contracts/frozen-value-layout.md + runtime/rc.c §layout
float-semantics	LLM author / stable	crates/ail/tests/eq_float_noinstance.rs	design/contracts/float-semantics.md
typeclasses	LLM author / stable	crates/ail/tests/show_no_instance_e2e.rs	design/contracts/typeclasses.md
method-dispatch	LLM author / stable	crates/ail/tests/show_no_instance_e2e.rs	design/contracts/method-dispatch.md
prelude-classes	LLM author / stable	crates/ail/tests/show_no_instance_e2e.rs	design/contracts/prelude-classes.md
str-abi	runtime ABI / stable	crates/ail/tests/e2e.rs (Str path)	design/contracts/str-abi.md + runtime/str.c §heap-Str
tail-calls	codegen / stable	crates/ailang-check/src/lib.rs (in-source tail_call_in_non_tail_position_is_rejected)	design/contracts/tail-calls.md
honesty-rule	architect+grounding / stable	crates/ailang-core/tests/docs_honesty_pin.rs	design/contracts/honesty-rule.md
embedding-abi	embedding host / stable	crates/ailang-codegen/tests/embed_record_layout_pin.rs	design/contracts/embedding-abi.md
scope-boundaries	architect+author / stable	crates/ailang-core/tests/effect_doc_honesty_pin.rs	design/contracts/scope-boundaries.md
verification	architect / stable	bench/architect_sweeps.sh	design/contracts/verification.md

Models

id	consumer / lifetime	link
rc-uniqueness	onboarding / evolves	design/models/rc-uniqueness.md
typeclasses	onboarding / evolves	design/models/typeclasses.md
effects	onboarding / evolves	design/models/effects.md
authoring-surface	onboarding / evolves	design/models/authoring-surface.md
prose-projection	onboarding / evolves	design/models/prose-projection.md
pipeline	onboarding / evolves	design/models/pipeline.md

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