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+{
+  "track_id": "intent_dsl_survey_20260612",
+  "name": "Intent-Based Scripting Languages Survey",
+  "created": "2026-06-12",
+  "priority": "A (research)",
+  "status": "active",
+  "type": "research-only",
+  "domain": "Meta-Tooling",
+  "blocked_by": [],
+  "deliverable": "docs/ideation/2026-06-12-intent-based-scripting-languages.md",
+  "consumed_by": [
+    "nagent v2.2 (Future-Track Candidate #4: Intent-based DSL)",
+    "intent_dsl_for_meta_tooling_20260608_PLACEHOLDER (per mcp_architecture_refactor_20260606/spec.md §12.1)",
+    "future interpreter prototype (follow-up B track)"
+  ],
+  "estimated_size": "3500-5000 lines",
+  "time_sensitive": "Hard boundary for when user can start the next nagent track",
+  "spec_commit": "b389f1be",
+  "spec_path": "conductor/tracks/intent_dsl_survey_20260612/spec.md",
+  "plan_commit": "5ef68a00",
+  "plan_path": "conductor/tracks/intent_dsl_survey_20260612/plan.md",
+  "state_path": "conductor/tracks/intent_dsl_survey_20260612/state.toml",
+  "research_dir": "conductor/tracks/intent_dsl_survey_20260612/research/"
+}
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+# Track state for intent_dsl_survey_20260612
+# Updated by Tier 1 Orchestrator as tasks complete
+
+[meta]
+track_id = "intent_dsl_survey_20260612"
+name = "Intent-Based Scripting Languages Survey"
+status = "active"
+current_phase = 0
+last_updated = "2026-06-12"
+
+[blocked_by]
+# No blockers. Track is independent.
+
+[phases]
+phase_1 = { status = "pending", checkpointsha = "", name = "Source gathering + outline" }
+phase_2 = { status = "pending", checkpointsha = "", name = "Write sections 1, 2, 3" }
+phase_3 = { status = "pending", checkpointsha = "", name = "Write sections 4, 5, 6, 7" }
+phase_4 = { status = "pending", checkpointsha = "", name = "Self-review + user review + commit" }
+
+[tasks]
+t1_1 = { status = "completed", commit_sha = "", description = "Read all 8 prior-art sources end-to-end" }
+t1_2 = { status = "in_progress", commit_sha = "", description = "Create state.toml + metadata.json" }
+t1_3 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Write 7-section outline stub" }
+t1_4 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Phase 1 checkpoint commit" }
+t2_1 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Write section 1 (philosophy)" }
+t2_2 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Write section 2 cluster 0 (O'Donnell)" }
+t2_3 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Write section 2 cluster 1 (Concatenative)" }
+t2_4 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Write section 2 cluster 2 (Array)" }
+t2_5 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Write section 2 cluster 3 (Intent-mapping)" }
+t2_6 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Write section 2 cluster 4 (Meta-Tooling DSLs)" }
+t2_7 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Write section 2 cluster 5 (SSDL)" }
+t2_8 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Write section 2 cluster 6 (Command Palette)" }
+t2_9 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Write section 2 cluster 7 (Result)" }
+t2_10 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Write section 3 (grammar)" }
+t2_11 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Phase 2 checkpoint commit" }
+t3_1 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Write section 4 Tier 1 (math)" }
+t3_2 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Write section 4 Tier 2 (data pipeline)" }
+t3_3 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Write section 4 Tier 3 (shell)" }
+t3_4 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Write section 4 Tier 4 (AI-fuzzing tolerance)" }
+t3_5 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Write section 5 (hardware mapping)" }
+t3_6 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Write section 6 (AI-agent properties)" }
+t3_7 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Write section 7 (open questions)" }
+t3_8 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Phase 3 checkpoint commit" }
+t4_1 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Self-review per brainstorming skill" }
+t4_2 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "User review" }
+t4_3 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Apply user feedback (if any)" }
+t4_4 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Final commit + git note" }
+t4_5 = { status = "pending", commit_sha = "", description = "Update tracks.md to register track as completed" }
+
+[verification]
+phase_1_complete = false
+phase_2_complete = false
+phase_3_complete = false
+phase_4_complete = false
+all_7_sections_present = false
+all_prior_art_cited = false
+all_4_tier_verbs_complete = false
+hardware_mapping_referenced = false
+ai_agent_properties_referenced = false
+section_7_has_6_open_questions = false
+self_review_complete = false
+user_approved = false
+git_note_attached = false
+tracks_md_registered = false
diff --git a/docs/ideation/2026-06-12-intent-based-scripting-languages.md b/docs/ideation/2026-06-12-intent-based-scripting-languages.md
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+# Intent-Based Scripting Languages
+
+**Track:** `intent_dsl_survey_20260612` (initialized 2026-06-12)
+**Date:** 2026-06-12
+**Author:** Tier 1 Orchestrator (sections 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Appendix); Tier 2 sub-agents (section 2 clusters 0, 1, 2, 3, 4)
+**Status:** Outline draft (phase 1 of 4)
+
+> **What this is.** A survey of intent-based scripting languages as a design philosophy, plus a proposed vocabulary (~40 verbs across 4 tiers) for a Meta-Tooling-facing intent DSL. The report is the foundation document for the user's nagent v2.2 (its "Future-Track Candidate #4" section) and for the future interpreter prototype (follow-up B track).
+>
+> **What this is NOT.** Not an interpreter, not a bridge script, not Application-side function-calling, not XML/JSON record formats. The DSL is Meta-Tooling-side per `docs/guide_meta_boundary.md` — the format external agents (Gemini CLI, OpenCode) emit when invoking `mcp_client.py` tools.
+
+---
+
+## 1. The "Intent-Based" Design Philosophy
+
+*[STUB: 4 anchor claims — O'Donnell immediate-mode as the philosophical anchor; Onat/Lottes hardware-pipeline model as the truth the verbs must map to; CoSy open-vocabulary culture as the user-surface principle; Jofito intent-mapping as the framing that names the design philosophy. ~2-3 pages.]*
+
+## 2. Prior Art Survey (8 Clusters)
+
+This section surveys the design lineage across 8 clusters. Each entry: 2-3 sentences on the design idea, 2-3 sentences on what we take from it (or, in cluster 3, what we explicitly reject). Every entry cites a specific source.
+
+### Cluster 0 — Immediate-Mode Paradigm (philosophical anchor)
+*[STUB: John O'Donnell's IMGUI/MVC essays. ~0.5-1 page.]*
+
+### Cluster 1 — Concatenative (Forth family)
+*[STUB: Forth, ColorForth, KYRA/Onat, x68/Lottes, Joy, CoSy. ~1-1.5 pages.]*
+
+### Cluster 2 — Array
+*[STUB: APL, K, BQN, Uiua. ~0.5 page.]*
+
+### Cluster 3 — Intent-Mapping
+*[STUB: Jofito, jq, nagent's tag protocol (REJECTED as a model — we take the structured-protocol idea but not the XML angle brackets), Wasm. ~0.5-1 page.]*
+
+### Cluster 4 — Meta-Tooling DSLs and Agent-Facing Languages
+*[STUB: mcp_dsl_20260606 placeholder, nagent's Bridge DSL, OpenAI function-calling, Anthropic tool-use. ~0.5 page.]*
+
+### Cluster 5 — SSDL Shape Primitives
+*[STUB: 6 primitives + 7 modifiers per `docs/reports/computational_shapes_ssdl_digest_20260608.md` §1. The meta-vocabulary used to annotate the verbs in section 4. ~0.25 page.]*
+
+### Cluster 6 — Project's Own Command DSL Precedents
+*[STUB: the 33 Command Palette commands per `docs/guide_command_palette.md` and `src/commands.py`. The DSL is a richer superset; "Everything" mode is a near-term use case. ~0.25 page.]*
+
+### Cluster 7 — Data-Oriented Error Handling Convention
+*[STUB: `Result[T]` + `ErrorInfo` per `conductor/tracks/data_oriented_error_handling_20260606/spec.md` §3.3. The DSL's `try`/`recover`/`sandbox`/`didyoumean` verbs return `Result[T]`. ~0.25 page.]*
+
+## 3. The Grammar
+
+*[STUB: 14 primitives formalized from the user's math pseudocode (`determinate`/`minor`/`matrix-transpose` snippets). Each primitive: symbol, name, signature, one-line semantics, example, "borrowed from" note. Plus 3 known ambiguity flags (`proc` placement, `++` → `+= 1`, `m[row][column]` → `m[row, col]`). Plus precedence rules (left-to-right for `->` chains, `()` for grouping) and AI-fuzzing tolerance rules (CoSy-style modulo indexing, structured recovery anchors via `{}`, line/offset independence). Plus the error envelope (`try { ... } recover { ... }` returns `Result[T]`). ~2-3 pages.]*
+
+## 4. The 4-Tier Vocab (~40 Verbs)
+
+Each verb: symbol, name, signature, one-line semantics, one example, "borrowed from" note, SSDL shape tag. Tier 2 and Tier 3 verbs also have a "maps to mcp_client tool" column.
+
+### Tier 1 — Math (~10 verbs)
+*[STUB: from the user's pseudocode. `:=`, `stack { }`, `for x .. n`, `+`, `-`, `*`, `/`, `^`, `sum`, `product`, `a[i,j]`, `if/then`.]*
+
+### Tier 2 — Data-Oriented Pipeline (~12 verbs)
+*[STUB: Onat/Lottes/Jofito lineage. `scan`, `select`, `filter`, `map`, `fold`, `sort`, `group`, `dedupe`, `arena { }`, `scatter`, `gather`, `pipe`. The verbs that wrap the existing 45+ MCP tools.]*
+
+### Tier 3 — Shell (~10 verbs)
+*[STUB: the OS surface. `exec`, `open`, `read`, `write`, `close`, `path`, `env`, `wait`, `poll`, `cwd`.]*
+
+### Tier 4 — AI-Fuzzing Tolerance (~8 verbs — the novel contribution)
+*[STUB: the verbs that make the DSL work for AI agents that may fuzz verb names, indent inconsistently, or offset line references. `fuzzy`, `try { ... } recover { ... }`, `sandbox { ... }`, `audit`, `didyoumean`, `span`, `offset`, `assumewide`. The `sandbox` verb is O'Donnell's IEventTarget pattern applied to the DSL; the `audit` verb is the IEventTarget itself.]*
+
+## 5. Hardware Mapping (4 Anchor Claims)
+
+*[STUB: 4 anchor claims tying the vocab to actual hardware/software stages.*
+
+1. **Onat/Lottes, hardware:** the 2-register stack + magenta pipe + basic blocks + lambdas + preemptive scatter (per `C:\projects\forth\bootslop\references\kyra_in-depth.md`, `forth_day_2020_in-depth.md`, `neokineogfx_in-depth.md`, `X.com - Onat & Lottes Interaction 1.png.ocr.md`) → our `->`, `[ ]`, `arena { }`, `scatter`/`gather`.
+2. **O'Donnell, paradigm:** the DSL's pipeline is *immediate-mode in pipeline composition*. Per `https://johno.se/book/imgui.html`. The `->` chain has no "pipeline object" you can query, name, or pass around.
+3. **Forth/CoSy, syntax:** concatenative syntax is immediate-mode in tokenization (whitespace-delimited, no precedence), evaluation (each verb pops args, pushes results), and parsing (no AST object retained after parse).
+4. **APL/K, data:** array languages are immediate-mode in data representation. The DSL's `for x .. n` + `result[row, col]` inherits the "no array object" property.
+
+*~1-2 pages.]*
+
+## 6. AI-Agent Properties (10 Claims)
+
+*[STUB: 10 claims tying the DSL to the existing project's architecture so future tracks can build on it without re-deriving the design.*
+
+1. Domain = Meta-Tooling (per `docs/guide_meta_boundary.md`).
+2. Runtime path = external agent → DSL text → bridge script → MCP → optional Hook API approval (per `docs/guide_meta_boundary.md` §"The Inter-Domain Bridges").
+3. 3-layer security (per `docs/guide_tools.md` §"The MCP Bridge"): the parser rejects DSL statements that target tools outside the allowlist.
+4. 4 memory dimensions (per `conductor/tracks/nagent_review_20260608/nagent_review_v2_1_20260612.md` §2.1): the DSL does not replace any memory dimension.
+5. Stable-to-volatile cache ordering (per nagent v2.1 §2.2): the DSL's `arena { }` blocks are cache-friendly.
+6. `Result[T]` envelope (per `conductor/tracks/data_oriented_error_handling_20260606/spec.md`): `try`/`recover` verbs return `Result[T]`.
+7. Command Palette 33 commands (per `docs/guide_command_palette.md`): the DSL is a richer superset; "Everything" mode is a near-term use case.
+8. Hook API state fields (per `docs/guide_state_lifecycle.md` §"Hook API Surface"): DSL verbs route through `_predefined_callbacks` and `_gettable_fields`.
+9. O'Donnell's IEventTarget pattern as the `sandbox` verb (per `https://johno.se/book/mvc.html` §"Writing to Model state").
+10. O'Donnell's "reads are free" claim (per `https://johno.se/book/mvc.html` §"Reading Model state"): Tier 2 verbs are read-only and re-evaluable.
+
+*~2-3 pages.]*
+
+## 7. Open Questions for Follow-up B (≥6)
+
+*[STUB: open questions that the follow-up B track (interpreter prototype) must answer, plus the connection block to the `intent_dsl_for_meta_tooling_20260608_PLACEHOLDER`.*
+
+1. How does `arena { }` map to Onat's preemptive scatter? Block-as-tape vs wrapper-allocates-tape?
+2. Where does "intent resolution" live? Per-verb option, per-block modifier, or global parser mode?
+3. How does `audit` interact with Manual Slop's existing `comms.log`? Separate JSON-L or merged?
+4. Does `sandbox` produce `Result[T, ErrorInfo]` (Fleury pattern)?
+5. `didyoumean` recovery: parser feature or user-facing verb?
+6. How does `for x .. n` interact with Tier 2's `filter`/`map`? Sugar or distinct?
+7. How does `sandbox` map to Manual Slop's `pre_tool_callback` flow? New audit log or fold into existing?
+8. Connection to `intent_dsl_for_meta_tooling_20260608_PLACEHOLDER`: minimum vocab subset for one round-trip end-to-end?
+
+*~1-2 pages.]*
+
+---
+
+## Appendix: Bibliography
+
+*[STUB: full file:line / URL references for all 8 prior-art clusters + the project's own references. Grouped by cluster. Each entry: 1 line with the source identifier and the file:line or URL.]*