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Milestone "Cross-model authoring-form test" closed. Live IONOS run against Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next executed at temperature=0, max-turns=5, token-budget=500000. Raw dataset under runs/2026-05-12-df7531/: RUN_STATUS=ok, scores.csv with 8 rows (4 tasks × 2 cohorts), summary.md, plus 156 per-turn raw artefacts (request/response/program/ stderr/stdout) preserved for any future analysis. Headline numbers: - AILX cohort: 2/4 green, 1/4 first-attempt, ~95k prompt + ~2.6k completion - JSON cohort: 1/4 green, 0/4 first-attempt, ~192k prompt + ~15k completion - Only first-attempt success was AILX on t3_main_prints (~5 lines of tagged s-expr vs ~23 lines of structured JSON for the JSON cohort's turn-1 attempt that needed correction). - Per spec, single subject + single deterministic run = data point, not verdict. DESIGN.md §"Decision 6: authoring surface" gains an "Empirical addendum (2026-05-12)" subsection: 6-row metric table, illustrative t3 contrast, explicit single-subject scope note pointing at the roadmap follow-up entry for multi-subject expansion. Roadmap: P2 entry "Cross-model authoring-form test" removed (this journal is the convention's one-line mirror); P3 entry "Multi-subject expansion (cross-model authoring-form follow-up)" added with the run dir named as baseline. Milestone artefacts span three iters (cma.1 master mini-spec + renderer; cma.2 harness + tasks + reference solutions; cma.3 this live run + DESIGN.md addendum + close).
Cross-model authoring-form test
Empirical measurement of whether .ail.json or .ailx is the form a
foreign LLM author reaches for and succeeds with. Single subject for
v1: Qwen3-Coder-Next via IONOS. Two blind cohorts; same four tasks.
Parent spec: docs/specs/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring-form-test.md.
Layout
master/spec.md— canonical mini-spec source (form-agnostic prose +{form-only: X}blocks +{example: id}markers).master/examples/*.ail.json— AST source-of-truth; each example prints to either form via the existing roundtrip machinery.master/tasks/*.task.json— task definitions consumed by the harness. Authored in cma.2, not cma.1.render/— standalone Cargo crate, outside the root workspace, builds the renderer binary.rendered/json.md,rendered/ailx.md— projected mini-specs, checked into the repo for review.harness/— Authored in cma.2.runs/<date>-<hash>/— populated byharnessduring a live run.
Running the renderer
cargo run --manifest-path experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/render/Cargo.toml -- \
--master experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/master \
--rendered experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/rendered
Running the tests
cargo test --manifest-path experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/render/Cargo.toml
Three integration tests: example_roundtrip (each example loads,
prints to AILX, reparses to the same canonical bytes), spec_completeness
(every AST variant in ailang_core::ast is exercised by at least
one example), token_balance (form-only blocks balanced within ±5%
across the two rendered files).
Running the harness
Live mode (one full eight-run sweep, ~480k tokens budget by default):
export IONOS_API_TOKEN="<token>" # see roadmap entry for token provenance
cargo run --manifest-path experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/harness/Cargo.toml -- \
--rendered experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/rendered \
--tasks experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/master/tasks \
--out experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/runs \
--model Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next
The harness pre-flights ail --version and clang --version before
the first API call. Set AIL_BIN if ail is not on PATH.
Mock mode (offline; CI-friendly; bypasses the IONOS API):
cargo run --manifest-path experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/harness/Cargo.toml -- \
--rendered experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/rendered \
--tasks experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/master/tasks \
--out /tmp/mock-runs \
--model mock \
--mock experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/harness/tests/fixtures/mock_full_run.json
Tests:
cargo test --manifest-path experiments/2026-05-12-cross-model-authoring/harness/Cargo.toml
Four test suites: strip_locations (5), verify_references (1),
mock_full_run (1), budget_abort (1). Total 8 passed.