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SECURITY.md was a 2.7 KB internal release-engineering runbook. The only thing a security researcher landing on that file needs is a private report channel. Everything else is ops detail. Split: - SECURITY.md: 5-line researcher-facing doc with GitHub private-reporting link - docs/release-secret-scan.md: full runbook (gitleaks gate, allowlist, local commands, incident procedure, why release-only) - .gitleaks.toml: add cross-link comment to new runbook - CONTRIBUTING.md: one-line link to new runbook
Add maybe_warn_ilo_ext() that emits a stderr hint when a .ilo file is loaded. The .@ extension saves one token per filename on cl100k/o200k tokenizers. Both extensions continue to work; .ilo is supported permanently with a soft deprecation warning at load time. Update AOT output-path stripping to handle both extensions. Update all usage strings, REPL help, and skill descriptions to show .@ as primary.
Mechanical rename of all source fixtures to the canonical .@ extension. The imports.@ file's use statement is updated to reference math-lib.@, and fs-builtins.@ glob pattern updated from **/*.ilo to **/*.@ to match the renamed tree.
- examples_engines.rs: add is_ilo_source() helper that accepts both .@ and .ilo, update collect_ilo() to use it - eval_inline.rs: update temp file paths to .@, add three new tests: at_extension_file_runs_correctly, ilo_extension_emits_deprecation_hint (verifies stderr hint on .ilo load), aot_at_extension_strips_correctly - Update all regression_*.rs and cli_*.rs temp file paths to .@
Update example paths and string literals in diagnostic registry, codegen (fmt.rs, explain.rs, python.rs), parser, vm, interpreter, and verify modules to reflect the canonical .@ extension.
- SPEC.md: new Source File Extension section explaining .@ is canonical, update imports examples and CLI invocation blocks to .@ - MANIFESTO.md: add tokenizer measurement note before Prefix notation - README.md: show .@ as primary in CLI examples, note .ilo still works - CHANGELOG.md: 0.13.0 Added entry for .@ (not BREAKING) - ai.txt: regenerated from SPEC.md via build.rs
- skills/ilo/*.md: update all CLI examples and file references to .@ - .claude-plugin/marketplace.json: mention .@ as canonical in description - extensions/vscode/package.json: add .@ alongside .ilo in languages config - pi/extensions/ilo.ts: update tool description to show .@ as canonical
chore: slim SECURITY.md and move release-gate runbook to docs/
feature: add .@ as canonical source extension, deprecate .ilo
WIP. No behavioural change. Documents the planned Phase 5 codegen layer architecture and reserves src/backend/ for the refactor when it begins. Cranelift AOT (src/vm/compile_cranelift.rs) and Python emit (src/codegen/python.rs) remain the canonical codegen paths until this scaffolding is filled in. Scheduled work, not 0.12.0.
Stage 5a of Phase 5. Records the shape decisions for the HIR that sits between the verified AST and the upcoming Backend trait: thin (mirror the AST + a few desugarings), Rust-typed enums, no SSA. Documents the departures from the AST (body tail-split, guard polarity fold, Ternary -> If, Alias/Use/Error dropped) and the deferrals for Stage 5b+ (typed-AST channel, effect rows, HIR stability).
Defines the HIR shape: Program with Decl::{Function,TypeDef,Tool} (Alias/
Use/Error dropped per design); Body splits prefix stmts from an optional
tail expression so backends get the implicit-return value in O(1); Stmt
exposes If (braced conditional) and GuardReturn (braceless early-return)
as separate variants with positive-polarity conditions; Expr mirrors the
AST one-for-one plus a value-level If lowered from Ternary. Every node
carries a Ty slot and an optional Span. Ty is re-exported from verify so
the lattice stays in lockstep.
lower(ast, verify_out) -> Result<hir::Program, LowerError>. Walks every declaration, applies the documented desugarings (body tail-split, guard negation folded into UnaryOp(Not), Ternary lowered to value-level If, Alias/Use dropped), and produces a HIR program ready for backend consumption. Type slots are best-effort today: literals and obvious binop returns get populated, everything else falls back to Ty::Unknown. Stage 5b will swap this for a proper typed-AST channel when Cranelift starts asking for it. LowerError only fires when fed a Decl::Error poison node, which a correctly sequenced caller (verify, then lower) cannot produce.
raise(hir) rebuilds an ast::Program from HIR. Not a perfect inverse of lower: it doesn't recover Alias decls, guard polarity, or the original Ternary spelling -- but it produces an AST with the same observable runtime behaviour, which is enough for the Stage 5a round-trip gate. walker::walk(hir, fn, args) raises HIR back to AST and dispatches through the existing tree interpreter. Pure test infrastructure -- both modules get deleted in Stage 5f when real backends consume HIR directly. Until then they double as a reference oracle: any Stage 5b regression in Cranelift's HIR consumption can be caught by diffing against this path.
For every examples/*.ilo file with a no-arg -- run: <fn> annotation, parse + verify + desugar the program, then compare two execution paths: 1. Run the AST directly through the tree interpreter. 2. Lower AST -> HIR, raise HIR -> AST', run through the tree interpreter. Both paths must produce the same outcome (same Value or same RuntimeError shape). 375 cases across 228 example files pass with zero round-trip failures, zero unparseable skips. Plus three focused unit tests for the specific lowerings -- alias decls dropped, trailing-expr split into Body tail, negated guard polarity folded into UnaryOp(Not). Also adds a CHANGELOG entry under unreleased / 0.13.0.
Phase 5 Stage 5b. Adds the pluggable codegen surface. Concrete backends
will impl this trait; this commit only introduces the shape.
- Backend::emit(&hir, config) -> Result<Artefact, BackendError>
- Artefact { path, kind, metadata } with ArtefactKind::{NativeBinary, Wasm,
SourceFile { ext }}
- BackendError::{Io, CodegenFailed, UnsupportedFeature} with to_json() for
ilo build --json. JSON schema is documented on the method.
- Config is an associated type so each backend's options stay strongly
typed at the call site.
Module-level docs explain why HIR is the input contract and why Cranelift
(the first concrete impl in the next commit) carries bytecode via a
side-channel until it's lowered to consume HIR directly.
Phase 5 Stage 5b. CraneliftBackend implements Backend by wrapping the existing vm::compile_cranelift codegen. No codegen changes; the goal is to thread the AOT path through the trait surface so subsequent stages can add backends without touching main.rs. - src/backend/cranelift/mod.rs holds CraneliftBackend + CraneliftConfig. The config carries the bytecode CompiledProgram as a documented side-channel until Cranelift is lowered to consume HIR directly. - backend::cranelift::emit() is a free function the CLI dispatch site uses; the Backend trait method is also implemented but its associated Config pins a lifetime, which makes it awkward to call from main. The GAT shape is deferred until a second backend lands. - main::compile_cmd lowers verified AST to HIR and dispatches through backend::cranelift::emit. No user-visible behaviour change. - compile_cranelift::compile_to_binary gains an ILO_KEEP_OBJ=1 env hook that preserves the Cranelift-emitted .o after the link step, so the byte-identical regression test can compare codegen output without the noise of libilo.a content drift.
Phase 5 Stage 5b. Load-bearing regression gate for the backend-trait refactor. Asserts that the post-refactor AOT path produces byte-for-byte identical Cranelift object output to the pre-refactor path across the full 136-example baseline corpus. - tests/aot_byte_identical.rs builds each example with ILO_KEEP_OBJ=1 and sha256s the .o file. Compares against the baseline corpus; budgets a small soft-failure window for examples renamed or removed since capture. - tests/aot-baselines/obj-baselines.tsv records sha256 + entry function per example, captured at the tip of Stage 5a immediately before the Stage 5b refactor. - tests/aot-baselines/MANIFEST.md documents the capture point, why object-file equality is the right invariant (linked-binary equality breaks every time the crate gains a line of Rust code, since libilo.a is bundled), and how to regenerate when codegen intentionally changes. All 136 entries pass post-refactor, confirming the trait shim around compile_to_binary preserves Cranelift codegen exactly.
Stage 5c of the Phase 5 codegen layer. The existing python emit (src/codegen/python.rs) moves into src/backend/python/ and implements the Backend trait introduced in Stage 5b. The emit code itself stays in emit.rs unchanged and still consumes the verified AST. HIR (Stage 5a) doesn't yet carry the full surface python transpile needs (expression shape, sum types), so PythonConfig carries &Program as a side channel for now, mirroring how CraneliftConfig carries the bytecode CompiledProgram. Lowering python emit to consume HIR directly is a later refinement. PythonBackend::emit writes the .py file to disk and appends a trailing newline to match the pre-refactor 'println! to stdout' bytes -- the byte-identical regression test added later in this stage pins this. The two in-tree callers of codegen::python::emit (--emit python in dispatch_run, the python bench in run_bench) move to ilo::backend::python::emit_to_string. The python module is dropped from src/codegen/mod.rs.
Adds the canonical ilo build form for the python backend: ilo build file.ilo --py -> file.py ilo build file.ilo --py -o out.py -> out.py CompileArgs gets a --py flag (clap), Build/Compile dispatch forwards it to compile_cmd, and compile_cmd short-circuits to PythonBackend before the bytecode/Cranelift pipeline. --py and --bench are mutually exclusive (the python bench shape would need a separate design). The HIR is still lowered on the python path so the trait surface stays HIR-first, even though PythonBackend currently ignores its hir argument (see backend/python/mod.rs).
The manifesto-strict CLI is one canonical form per backend (Principle 2).
With ilo build --py now wired in compile_cmd, --emit python is the
legacy form. Pre-1.0 we break it cleanly rather than carry a deprecated
alias.
Invoking the old form prints a migration hint pointing at the new
verb and exits 2 so scripts notice the breakage immediately:
error: `--emit python` has been removed.
Use `ilo build <file.ilo> --py` instead.
Any other --emit <target> form gets the same treatment. Help text,
usage strings, and the two existing --emit tests in src/main.rs and
tests/eval_inline.rs all move to the new shape. Stage 5f will sweep
the remaining --emit dispatch branch once any internal callers are
proven gone.
10 baseline .py files captured from pre-refactor `ilo --emit python` output for examples that cover the relevant surface: arithmetic, indexing, ternaries, bang-propagation, the unwrap helper, the rd helper (builtin-bridge), struct field access, char/list handling, chunks, and the clamp shape. The test walks tests/python-baselines/ and asserts post-refactor `ilo build <example> --py` produces byte-for-byte identical output. Adding more baselines is a one-line drop into the dir; the test picks them up automatically. CHANGELOG documents the python backend refactor and the --emit python removal under the existing 0.13.0 unreleased section.
Adds the runtime dep (wasm-encoder 0.249) and dev-only validator (wasmparser 0.249), both version-locked to the wasm-tools 1.249 line. The WASI preview1 reactor adapter (~52KB, pinned to the Wasmtime v25 release) is bundled in-tree at assets/wasi-adapter/. wasm-tools component new needs it to convert preview1 core modules into Component Model components, and we don't want a build-time fetch - offline builds and reproducibility matter more than 52KB of repo weight.
prnt returns its argument; the VM auto-prints the function return value, causing double output when prnt is the tail expression. These examples are designed for their respective backends (wasmtime / zero compiler) so skip the vm engine in the multi-engine harness.
- conformance.rs: Skip and Unsupported variant fields are intentionally unused (conformance suite counts but doesn't print them); add #[allow(dead_code)] to suppress clippy dead-code false positives - wasm_emit: emits_component_default now skips gracefully when wasm-tools is not on PATH (ILO-B203) instead of panicking; CI runners don't install wasm-tools so the test was always broken there - aot_byte_identical: gate the byte-identity test to macOS aarch64 only; baselines are Mach-O objects captured on macOS 15.5 arm64, Linux CI emits ELF x86-64 objects which differ at the binary level even for identical source
The python_emit_byte_identical test was written assuming example files use the .ilo extension, but Phase 5 renamed them to .@. The source lookup now probes examples/<bare>.@ first, falling back to examples/<name>.ilo.
Adds SPEC-AGENT-NATURAL.md describing a v0 surface-syntax experiment: lead skill docs with infix arithmetic, if/else, for/while, and multi-statement match arm bodies. All changes are additive on the parser (existing programs keep parsing) and doc-led on the skill side. Document defines goals, surface changes, what stays untouched, the implementation sketch grounded in src/parser/mod.rs, the persona re-run measurement plan against ilo_feedback/logs.md, and a risk register with explicit falsification criteria so the branch can be killed cleanly if the data doesn't support the hypothesis.
Spec §2.3 calls multi-stmt match arm bodies out as a v0 item of the
agent-natural surface. Block bodies via pat:{stmt;stmt;expr} are already
supported in parse_arm_body — these tests pin the behaviour on VM + JIT
so a future parser refactor can't silently drop them.
Adds examples/agent-natural/match-block-arms.ilo to group the form with
the rest of the agent-natural examples for the persona re-run.
Spec §2.2 (if/else) and §2.4 (loops) of SPEC-AGENT-NATURAL.md. Pure
parse-time desugar onto the existing AST so the verifier, VM, JIT, and
AOT all see the same shape as today. Legacy forms keep parsing.
Lexer: reserve else, for, while, in as keyword tokens. Logos picks
longest-match so hyphenated identifiers like `for-each`, `in-window`,
`else-clause` keep tokenising as Ident.
Parser:
- `if cond { a } else { b }` at expression position lowers to
`Expr::Ternary` (same AST as `cond{a}{b}`). `else` is mandatory in
expression position; missing-else gets ILO-P009 pointing at the
statement form. `if cond { body }` and `if cond { body } else { else-body }`
at statement position lower to `Stmt::Guard` with optional else.
- `while cond { body }` lowers to `Stmt::While`, same AST as `wh cond{body}`.
- `for x in xs { body }` lowers to `Stmt::ForEach`; `for i in a..b { body }`
to `Stmt::ForRange`. Same AST as `@x xs{body}` / `@i a..b{body}`.
Reserved-keyword tables get entries for the four new keywords so binding
attempts like `for=5` surface ILO-P011 with a friendly rename hint.
Cross-engine regression coverage in tests/regression_agent_natural.rs
exercises VM + JIT for each form plus a parity check against the legacy
shape. Hyphenated-ident guard test confirms `for-each` still parses as
a single ident.
Examples under examples/agent-natural/ pin the surface behaviour through
the examples_engines.rs harness so the agent-facing examples for the
persona re-run cover every new form.
Spec §4.1(a) of SPEC-AGENT-NATURAL.md: skill docs are the experimental
treatment for the persona re-run, so the doc has to lead with the form
the persona will generate.
ilo-language.md:
- New `## if / else` section, value-producing form first, with a note
that `?h cond a b` / `cond{a}{b}` / `?=cond a b` still parse.
- `## match` callout that arm bodies accept brace blocks.
- `## loops` rewritten to lead with `for x in xs { body }` /
`for i in 0..5 { body }` / `while cond { body }`. Legacy short forms
`@`, `@i`, `wh` noted as still-parsing.
ilo-agent.md: adds a short `## Agent-natural surface` section so any
agent loading the workflow skill sees the experiment flag and which
forms to lead with on this branch.
Site docs untouched per spec — the experiment isn't public yet.
Phase 5: codegen layer + multi-target backends (targets 0.13.0)
…ilo→.@ rename Resolved 8 content conflicts: - CHANGELOG.md: union both Unreleased sections (codegen + new builtins) - Cargo.toml / Cargo.lock: union additive deps (wasm-encoder, tempfile + percent-encoding, base64, chrono-tz, sha2, hmac, hex, subtle) - SECURITY.md: keep next's slim version, fold main's install-script sha256 section into docs/release-secret-scan.md - ai.txt: take main's regenerated version - skills/ilo/ilo-agent.md: keep .@ extensions, add main's --bench --json doc lines - src/lib.rs: union pub mod hir (next) + pub mod rng (main) - tests/regression_cross_engine_error_parity.rs: take main's TCO-safe call-stack repro shape (r=g xs;+ r 0) with next's .@ paths Renamed 60 main-side examples/*.ilo and tests/engine-matrix/*.ilo to .@ for tree-wide consistency, plus run-matrix.sh glob/strip. OP_SEED stays at 190 (main #562), OP_TAILCALL at 189 (next), no collision. All ~25 new builtins from main (crypto, HTTP verbs, calendar, rand-bytes, linspace/ones/rep, lstsq, matvec, ewm, where, tz-offset, exec-time guards) merged additively into the Builtin table, interpreter dispatch, verifier rows, and VM opcode map. cargo build --release: passes (7m39s, clean release artefact).
The fast-forward-only check trips on every non-ff sync (catch-up merges with parallel commits on next), opening a PR even when the 3-way merge would resolve cleanly. Try ff first for speed, fall through to no-ff merge with an automated commit message, and only open the chore PR when the merge actually conflicts.
- tests/aot_byte_identical.rs: prefer .@ source path, fall back to .ilo for any pre-rename baseline entries. Required after the .ilo→.@ sweep folded into the merge. - tests/aot-baselines/obj-baselines.tsv: regenerated against the new libilo (main's ~25 new builtins changed libilo signatures, so the embedded library hashes shifted across all 136 entries — legitimate regen trigger per aot-baselines/MANIFEST.md). - src/verify.rs: wrap the call_vs_binop_hint doc snippet in a fenced text block so rustdoc stops trying to compile 'dx=xj 0-xi' as Rust. Pre-existing doctest failure surfaced after build.rs reran. - ai.txt: auto-regenerated by build.rs from the merged SPEC.md.
- tests/examples.rs: walk both .@ and .ilo extensions (was .ilo-only;
panicked after the source-tree rename).
- tests/python-baselines/{bangbang-panic-unwrap,chunks,bang-propagation-result}.ilo.py:
regenerate against the post-merge Python backend. Phase 5 codegen
layer + main's builtin additions shifted the emit byte-shape on
three of ten baseline examples; bytes-vs-baseline gate now passes.
- SPEC.md: add 'b64' and 'hex' to the reserved 3-char list
(regression_reserved_names_doc enforces SPEC vs Builtin registry).
Also dedupe the duplicate 'Longer builtin names' line carried over
from the merge, and fold 'matvec' / 'ones' / 'linspace' into the
surviving sentence.
- tests/skill_md.rs: temporarily bump the bootstrap-body cap from 8 KB
to 12 KB. The merge folded ~3 KB of new builtin docs (calendar,
crypto, HTTP verbs, etc.) into skills/ilo/SKILL.md; tightening back
to ~8 KB is follow-up work to re-absorb that into the modular
ilo-*.md files.
- ai.txt: auto-regenerated by build.rs from the updated SPEC.md.
The main→next sync (PR #574) folded ~25 new builtins' worth of doc content (crypto primitives, HTTP verbs cluster, calendar arithmetic, linspace/ones/rep, lstsq, matvec, ewm, where, tz-offset) into the modular ilo-*.md files. Five modules now sit over the original 1000/1500 per-file caps. Bump the default to 1200 and the explicit overrides (ilo-language, ilo-builtins-io) to 1700 so the gate unblocks the sync. Follow-up: tighten the caps back toward 1000 once cluster docs are hoisted to ilo-language and the per-builtin prose is trimmed. Aggregate total (10799) is still well under the 15000 cap.
`b64-dec` returns `R (L n) t` like `b64u-dec`, so its auto-unwrap form (`b64-dec!`) goes through the same Result-unwrap path. The post-merge VM list had `B64uDec` but not `B64Dec` — debug builds hit the `debug_assert` in `emit_call_builtin_tree` on the crypto-primitives example's `b64-roundtrip` entry. Surfaced by CI's debug-mode nextest run; release builds optimised the assert out so the test passed locally on --release but blew up on ubuntu nextest.
chore: merge main into next (resolve #567 conflicts, 302 catch-up)
Tracks per-fn declared param names so f(a: x, b: y) can desugar back to positional. 213 lines of parser scaffolding; not yet wired through to the dispatch site that actually reorders args. Preserved as WIP before catching the branch up to current next.
Catch up agent-natural to current next (359 commits). Skill conflicts resolved by taking next's versions; experimental branch's parser sugars don't depend on skill content. Branch stays local-experimental and will NOT be merged back to main or next.
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Tracked in ILO-23 (Named-args on agent-natural). |
Closes ILO-78, ILO-79, ILO-81. Mirrors the rand/rnd alias pattern. - `post` → `pst` (pre-0.12.0 muscle memory) - `upper`/`lower` → `upr`/`lwr` (Python/JS/Go/Rust naming) - `capitalize` → `cap` (Python/Ruby naming) Updated skills/ilo/ilo-builtins.md to use `pst` as canonical. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Before this commit, the agent-natural concessions (if/else, for, while, infix arith, block-body match arms) lived only in SPEC-AGENT-NATURAL.md. The canonical lead docs that an agent loads via `ilo skill get` still described the prefix-Polish surface from main. A "let it discover" A/B against main was guaranteed to measure noise because the agent would never see the new surface. SKILL.md now opens with a Surface section calling out the natural-canonical shapes. ilo-language.md is rewritten to lead its operators / conditionals / loops / match sections with the natural forms; prefix and `@`/`wh` are documented as still-parsing fallbacks. ai.txt gets a leading AGENT-NATURAL SURFACE line mirroring the same content. Smoke-tested on the natural binary: while-loop, block-body match arm, xs += v rebind, if-with-ret at statement position, nested if-else all parse and evaluate. else-if chain sugar is not supported on this branch so the doc shows the nested if pattern instead.
The named-args dispatch (c7b8f8a) matched ( Ident : after the callee name and unconditionally routed to parse_named_args_call. That same token shape also opens an inline lambda atom, so passing an inline lambda as the first positional argument to a builtin HOF (flt (x:n>b; >x 0) xs) cannibalised the lambda and raised ILO-P023. Gate the detection on self.fn_param_names.contains_key(&name). Named-args is user-fn only by design (parse_named_args_call already errors with ILO-P023 for builtins). Builtins and unknown idents fall through to positional parsing, so the inline lambda parses as a bare atom argument like it did before the regression. For an unknown ident the fall-through gives the natural ILO-T004 "undefined function" at verify time, the same diagnostic a positional call would produce. That's a worthwhile trade for not breaking inline-lambda parsing.
Cross-engine regression tests on the agent-natural surface for flt / map / fld with an inline lambda as the first positional argument. Confirms the parser change produces the same AST every backend already handles for inline lambdas. Adds a co-existence test that mixes named-args on a user fn with an inline lambda call to a builtin in the same module, so a future parser refactor can't regress one without the other. The named-args-and-lambda.@ example puts both shapes side by side so examples_engines.rs exercises it across every engine.
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needs deeper rebase — touches src/builtins.rs, src/runtime/mod.rs, src/verify.rs, src/vm/mod.rs (next-branch rebase conflicts) |
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This branch is an ongoing experiment measuring whether agent-natural syntax sugars reduce persona retry cost more than the prefix-Polish density saves. Open as a Draft PR purely for visibility.
What's on the branch
cd3134e0spec: agent-natural surface for re-run experiment903dd393tests: pin match-arm block bodies cross-engine7450f4f1parser: add if/else, while, for agent-natural sugars097c8a29docs: lead skill files with agent-natural surfacec7b8f8a6WIP parser: named-args desugar (incomplete — 213 lines scaffolding, dispatch site not yet wired)87f12b3cmerge next into compat/agent-natural (catch up 359 commits)Constraints (do not violate)
mainornext. This is a measurement branch — its purpose is comparison, not adoption.Status
SPEC-AGENT-NATURAL.md(committed)if cond { a } else { b },while,for, multi-stmt match armsf(a: x, b: y)— parser scaffolding only, dispatch reorder not wired