Three files updated to close out the track:
1. state.toml — all 28 tasks marked completed with their commit SHAs;
current_phase = complete; all 14 verification flags = true; added
deliverable_summary section pointing at report_v1.1.md, reportreview.md,
and the 5 research/ sub-reports.
2. metadata.json — status: complete; added deliverable_v1_0, review,
and final_commit fields.
3. tracks.md — track #23 heading now reads 'COMPLETE: c7e92896';
added a 'Status: 2026-06-12 — COMPLETE' line summarizing the
v1.1 deliverable (1301 lines, 7 sections + 9-subsection appendix,
42-verb vocab, 8 prior-art clusters, 14-grammar primitives, 4
hardware anchor claims, 10 AI-agent properties, 8 open questions).
This is the final bookkeeping for the track. nagent v2.2 can now
reference the report's Section 6 (AI-Agent Properties) and Section 7
(Open Questions) for its 'Future-Track Candidate #4: Intent-based
DSL' planning.
Two files:
1. reportreview.md (154 lines) — the final secondary review pass.
- Verified 29+ load-bearing claims across 5 sub-reports against
their actual sources (johno.se URLs, Onat/Lottes refs, Jofito
codeberg README, nagent docs, mcp_architecture spec, etc.)
- 28 claims confirmed accurate; 1 inaccuracy found: the user's
XML/JSON rejection quote was cited as decisions.md:50 but
that line doesn't contain it (the quote is from the brainstorming
session, not a project file)
- Recommendation: write report_v1.1.md with the citation fix and
a few optional small improvements (OCR-restored Lottes quote,
softened Wasm streaming-parse inference, Uiua open-source
onboarding already in main report)
2. report_v1.1.md (1301 lines, +883 over report.md) — the v1.1 report
with:
(a) The v1.0 corrections:
- Fixed XML/JSON rejection citation (now points to the
brainstorming session, not a project file)
- OCR-restored the Lottes X.com quote ('actually' added)
- Softened the Wasm streaming-parse inference
(b) A substantially expanded Appendix (Deep-Dives):
- A.1 Section 1 Deep-Dive: 4 anchor claims in detail
- A.2 Section 2 Deep-Dive: full text of all prior-art entries
(O'Donnell's 4 anchor claims with full context; all 6
Concatenative entries; all 4 Array entries; all 4
Intent-Mapping entries; all 4 Meta-Tooling entries; full
SSDL table; full 33 Command Palette commands; full Result
convention details)
- A.3 Section 3 Deep-Dive: formal EBNF grammar spec
- A.4 Section 4 Deep-Dive: full vocab reference for all 42
verbs (with signatures, semantics, examples, edge cases)
- A.5 Section 5 Deep-Dive: register allocation + memory
layout + FFI bridge
- A.6 Section 6 Deep-Dive: implementation notes per claim
- A.7 Section 7 Deep-Dive: open questions with proposed
solutions and trade-offs
- A.8 Glossary
- A.9 Expanded Bibliography (4 categories with 1-line
descriptions and key-claim summaries)
This is the final deliverable for the intent_dsl_survey_20260612
track. v1.1.md is what nagent v2.2 will reference for its
'Future-Track Candidate #4: Intent-based DSL' section.
Per user instruction: the report is too closely related to the track
to live in the general docs/ideation/ folder. It's the track's main
deliverable, not a general ideation doc. The existing convention for
track reports is the track folder (e.g., nagent_review_20260608/report.md).
This commit is the phase 2+3 work:
- Adds the integrated report (417 lines, 8 ## headings, 40 ###)
to conductor/tracks/intent_dsl_survey_20260612/report.md
- Adds 5 Tier 2 sub-reports (1319 lines combined) to
conductor/tracks/intent_dsl_survey_20260612/research/
- Removes the old docs/ideation/ location (moved, not duplicated)
- Updates spec.md, plan.md, metadata.json, tracks.md to point at
the new location
Report structure:
Section 1: 4 anchor claims (O'Donnell, Onat/Lottes, CoSy, Jofito)
Section 2: 8 prior-art clusters (with sub-report references)
Section 3: 14-primitive grammar + ambiguity flags
Section 4: 4-tier vocab (12+12+10+8 = 42 verbs)
Section 5: 4 hardware-mapping anchor claims
Section 6: 10 AI-agent properties
Section 7: 8 open questions for follow-up B
Appendix: bibliography (external, project, sub-reports)
The sub-reports contain the deep analysis with citations; the main
report is the ejecutiva summary. Tier 2 sub-agents handled the heavy
research (5 cluster sub-reports in research/); Tier 1 focused on
integration and writing the simpler sections inline.
Time-sensitive: report must complete before nagent v2.2.
Executable plan for the report. 28 tasks across 4 phases:
- Phase 1 (Tasks 1-3): source gathering + state/metadata + outline stub
- Phase 2 (Tasks 4-14): write sections 1, 2 (8 clusters), 3
- Phase 3 (Tasks 15-23): write sections 4 (4 tiers), 5, 6, 7 + Appendix
- Phase 4 (Tasks 24-28): self-review + user review + final commit + tracks.md
Each task has file:line references, exact commands, and expected
output. Self-review confirms all 21 spec requirements are covered;
no placeholders; type-consistent.
The track is research-only, so the plan recommends inline execution
by a single Tier 2 Tech Lead. Subagent-driven per task is also an
option if context isolation is preferred.
Time-sensitive: report must complete before nagent v2.2.
Foundation research track. Produces a single markdown report at
docs/ideation/2026-06-12-intent-based-scripting-languages.md surveying
intent-based scripting languages and proposing a 4-tier vocab (~40
verbs) for a Meta-Tooling-facing intent DSL.
The report's 7 sections:
1. The 'intent-based' design philosophy (O'Donnell immediate-mode,
Onat/Lottes hardware, CoSy open-vocab, Jofito intent-mapping)
2. Prior art across 8 clusters (0: IMGUI, 1: Concatenative,
2: Array, 3: Intent-mapping, 4: Meta-Tooling, 5: SSDL shapes,
6: Command Palette, 7: Result error handling)
3. The grammar (14 primitives formalized from user's pseudocode)
4. The 4-tier vocab (math, data pipeline, shell, AI-fuzzing tolerance)
5. Hardware mapping (4 anchor claims to Onat/Lottes/O'Donnell/APL-K)
6. AI-agent properties (10 claims tying to existing project
architecture: Meta-Tooling domain, 3-layer security, 4 memory
dimensions, stable-to-volatile cache, Result envelope,
Command Palette 33 commands, Hook API, IEventTarget/sandbox,
'reads are free')
7. Open questions for follow-up interpreter prototype + connection
to intent_dsl_for_meta_tooling_20260608_PLACEHOLDER
Time-sensitive: report must complete before user's nagent v2.2.
No new src/ code, no new tests, no pyproject.toml changes.
Pure research deliverable.
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