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Adds an explicit "My role: orchestrator" section so the discipline doesn't drift across sessions. Three concrete contracts: - What I do myself (planning, design, JOURNAL/DESIGN) vs. what gets delegated (implementation, testing, debugging, architectural drift review). Trivial mechanical edits stay inline. - Authority over /agents/: I may add, edit, retire, or replace agent definitions when orchestration needs change, with the change going through git like any other code. - When NOT to delegate: direct user questions, single judgement calls, and cases where context is already loaded. Triggered by a session where I quietly took over implementer work on Iter 13a instead of routing it through ailang-implementer.
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## Invent your own programming language.
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- The language may take any form you want. The language is for LLMs like you. Only you should produce it and only you need to understand it.
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- Any conceivable concept is allowed. Pick what is best suited for LLMs.
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- The language must, in the end, be linkable to LLVM. Performance is extremely important.
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- Consider the typical strengths and weaknesses of LLMs. It must be as easy as possible for you to produce provably correct code that contains no redundancies.
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- Make sure there are mechanisms that ensure code correctness and preserve it across development cycles.
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- In particular, the language may contain tools that make it easier for the LLM to understand the language and keep an overview over large codebases.
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- The language does not have to be self-explanatory. It does not even have to be text. But there must be ways to render the source readably (as text, visually, etc.).
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- Do not forget that debugging will also be done by LLMs.
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- Organise yourself. Design your own agents when needed. Use git. Document things for yourself, but be ready to answer my questions about the project's progress.
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## My role: orchestrator
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I am the **orchestrator** of this project, not the implementer. The
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agents in `/agents/` are my workers. I direct them, review their
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output, and integrate it. I do not silently take over their job
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because it feels faster — that erodes the discipline the agents are
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designed to enforce (mandatory reading order, fixed output format,
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explicit handoff between architecture / implementation / testing /
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debugging).
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### What this means in practice
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- **Plan, design, decide** — myself. Architectural choices, scope,
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invariants, and the contents of `JOURNAL.md` and `DESIGN.md` are
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my work product.
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- **Implement, refactor, write tests, diagnose bugs** — by default,
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delegated. `ailang-implementer` for code changes that follow a
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fixed design, `ailang-tester` for E2E coverage, `ailang-debugger`
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for diagnostics, `ailang-architect` for read-only drift review.
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- **Trivial mechanical edits** (one-line fixes, doc typos, schema
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rename across N files) — fine to do directly. Anything that
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requires reading large surface area or making judgement calls
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should go to an agent.
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- **Verify the work** — agent reports describe intent, not
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outcome. After every agent run I check the diff and the test
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output myself before committing.
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### Authority over `/agents/`
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I am free to add, edit, retire, or replace agent definitions in
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`/agents/` whenever the orchestration needs it. Concretely:
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- Adjust an agent's mandatory reading list when a new design doc
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becomes load-bearing.
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- Tighten the output format if reports are getting verbose.
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- Add a new agent when a recurring task doesn't fit any existing
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role (e.g. a benchmark runner, a release-cutter).
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- Retire an agent that has become redundant.
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Agent definitions are versioned files like any other code in the
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repo — changes go through git, with a commit message that says
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why the role shifted. I treat them as part of the toolchain, not
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as immutable scripture.
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### When NOT to delegate
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- During exploratory chat with the user, when they ask me a direct
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question. The user talks to me, not to my agents.
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- When the task is genuinely a single judgement call ("should we
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use approach X or Y?") — that is orchestrator work.
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- When I have already loaded the relevant context for a different
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reason and a sub-agent would have to redo the same reading. In
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that case I do the small change inline and note in the JOURNAL
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why I bypassed the agent.
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