G-024 - kit mapping converted to toml (tomlish-parsed), same-day activation->achieved:
- src/runtime/mapvfs.toml: [kit.<name>] / [group.<name>] / [scheme.<name>] tables
(header comment = user-facing spec). All 12 active line-format mappings migrated
(order preserved - identical bakelist rows vs the legacy parse); historical
comments carried over; mapvfs.config deleted here AND in the project-0.1 layout
(converted to mapvfs.toml there).
- make.tcl reader family under the unchanged G-121 model surface: mapvfs_locate
(toml > legacy; PUNK_MAPVFS_CONFIG env override = characterization seam),
mapvfs_parse dispatching on extension, strict mapvfs_parse_toml, deprecated
mapvfs_parse_config fallback (un-migrated generated projects keep baking, with a
NOTE; toml wins when both files exist). Shared toml helpers hoisted to
punkboot::lib (inline toml_untag copies removed).
- Strict entry-named validation: unknown keys/types/schemes, conflicting targets,
duplicate outputs, parse failures fatal (exit 3 pre-build). Full-bake
unresolvables split by nature: missing vfs folder (repo content) fatal per
entry; missing runtime file (environment - part-populated stores are legitimate)
entry-named recapped BUILD-WARNING + skip.
- Groups: @<group> selection in bake/bakelist, group/default/scheme notes columns
+ detail lines, groups listed in errors and argdoc choices. verify-ix86 wraps
the G-129 kits; bake_default=false excludes entries from full bakes.
- G-023 versioned scheme declared live ([scheme.punk8]/[scheme.punk9], group
versioned, bake_default=false pending G-023 activation): parse-time expansion
from punkproject.toml to punk<gen>-<version> / punk<gen>-dev / release-gated
punk<gen>; kit loop creates the plain name when absent and never overwrites it
on a normal bake. punk9-dev baked end-to-end; punk9 gate skip demonstrated.
- Consumer dedupe fix: several entries may share one runtime on one vfs -
kit-output enumeration and the kit-loop runtimes list process each distinct
runtime once (latent multiplication in the legacy format, unreachable there).
G-115 - declarative .vfs composition with drop-in preservation, same-day
activation->achieved:
- Sibling declarations src/vfs/<name>.vfs.toml ([payload.<name>]: source,
source_root src|packages, target, supersedes, replace) materialized by the new
VFSPAYLOAD phase (bakehouse/bake/vfslibs; selective bakes narrow; strict
entry-named errors). Drop-in-wins precedence via punkcheck -overwrite
synced-targets: undeclared or modified-since-install files preserved and
reported (changed-but-preserved NOTE = files_skipped minus sources_unchanged);
supersedes/replace are the explicit exceptions; an undeclared .vfs is untouched.
- vendorlib_vfs.toml relationship settled: folded/superseded - all six install
entries migrated into per-.vfs files for the 13 participating folders (first
materialization run reproduced every payload with zero tracked-content change);
file deleted; a leftover copy warns and is ignored.
- Demonstration kit punkdeclare (group declare-demo, bake_default=false,
smokerequire udp+tcllibc): VCS carries only the boot fauxlink; the whole
lib_tcl9 payload (tcludp vendor tree + tcllibc consent-gated packages tier)
rematerializes from the declaration - clean-tree rebuild smokes pass in-kit,
and drop-in survival was proven live (a foreign pkgIndex.tcl and an undeclared
note both survived; the foreign file genuinely won until removed, caught by the
G-133 smoke probe as designed). Payload ignored in both VCS (.gitignore +
derived ignore-glob; ignore-sync verification clean).
- Docs: src/vfs/README.md (format + precedence spec), src/vfs + src/runtime +
src + bin AGENTS.md, ARCHITECTURE.md (+lint clean), workflow text and
summaries/helptexts/argdoc; layout store seeds the convention (vfs README +
mapvfs.toml; machinery travels via the established make.tcl sync).
Verification: legacy-vs-toml identical kit rows; punkluck86 force-rebuilt under
both formats content-identical (identical 1.73MB runtime+stamp prefix, identical
2993-member payloads; whole-artifact byte identity is not a pipeline property -
consecutive same-config rebuilds differ in zip timestamp metadata, pre-existing);
punkexe suite 98 tests 0 failures incl. 5 new G-024 characterizations
(maketclbakelist.test: @group filter + PUNK_MAPVFS_CONFIG fixture tests) and
updated pins (payloadcheck declared list + punkdeclare; platform detail wording).
Goals: both flipped achieved 2026-07-31 with evidence in the detail files;
GOALS.md entries moved to GOALS-archive.md; live-tier reference sweep applied
(G-004/G-019/G-023/G-025/G-026/G-035/G-065/G-127/G-131/G-137/G-141) including
the G-127 mapvfs-seam retirement note (PUNK_MAPVFS_CONFIG) and a direct
G-137<->G-127 bridge replacing the archived G-024 one. Detail files move to
goals/archive/ in the follow-up pure-rename commit.
Also included as found: the developer's concurrent G-142 goal addition (GOALS.md
entry + goals/G-142-punkbin-listing-manifests.md), committed unmodified for
git/fossil coherence - not agent-authored.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
The whole pipeline now lives in the zig recipe; Tcl remains the tool exactly
where a tclsh is guaranteed to exist - run by the FRESHLY BUILT suite shell
as build steps:
- New steps (native-host builds): smoke (static shell patchlevel; zip shell
patchlevel + attached tzdata/autoload), tklib / tcllib (their own installers,
batch, -pkg-path as a cached output dir installed into the prefix, + package
smokes incl withdrawn-Tk tooltip), tcllibc (critcl driving zig cc via the
tracked critcl_zig.config, module list parsed from tcllib's version.tcl,
pinned-zig dir prepended to PATH, + accel smoke), test-gate (tools/
test_gate.tcl - the parsed-totals gate vs expected_test_failures.txt,
-Dtestargs passthrough).
- Package landing moves into the recipe proper: thread pkgIndex.tcl
(build_tclthread), tk pkgIndex.tcl (build_tk), and the tclvfs script package
incl .in-template substitution + dll (build_tclvfs_shared
install_tclvfs_package) - all hooked to the install step.
- Step scripts: tools/test_gate.tcl, tools/suite_smoke.tcl, tools/pkg_smoke.tcl
(run under the built shell; assertions live in Tcl).
- Two windows-childproofing findings encoded: built-shell Runs execute the
CACHED artifact (no ../lib/tcl9.0 beside it) so each such Run gets
TCL_LIBRARY pointed at the source tree's script library (the zip smoke
deliberately excluded - its attached library is the thing under test); and
cached (non-side-effect) Runs spawn with stdout IGNORED, leaving the tcl
child without a stdout channel ('can not find channel named "stdout"',
critcl's logging) - such runs capture stdout to give the child a real pipe
while keeping caching.
- suite.tcl: thinned to the fossil dev flow - fetch live checkouts (git kind
now handled in the main loop for critcl's pin), stage the recipe, delegate
to the staged steps (run_zig_steps; 'test' delegates to test-gate). Default
-steps and the bootstrap default grow to the full pipeline short of
test-gate. critcl_zig.config + expected_test_failures.txt join both staging
lists. Docs updated (README two-flow section, sources.config two-surface
header, overlay section); .gitignore learns .zig-cache/ and zig-pkg/ (zig
0.16 extracts fetched packages into zig-pkg/ beside the manifest).
Verified (fossil flow): full pipeline PASS - suite_smoke static+zip, tklib
tooltip:2.0.4 under withdrawn Tk, tcllib md5/sha1/cmdline, tcllibc:2.0 with
md5-critcl-accel:1; 'suite.tcl test -testargs {-file http.test}' delegates to
the gate step (528/519/9/0 GATE PASS).
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Blanket /src/buildsuites ignores removed from .gitignore and
.fossil-settings/ignore-glob; retired /vendorbuilds/ ignores removed with
them. src/buildsuites/_build remains ignored via the existing _build globs.
samplesuite1 sketch marked as such, buildprefix moved to the _build
convention (vendorbuild concept retired per user decision 2026-07-20).
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
punk::ns 0.9.0: cmdhelp (i) gains -return text - plain-text argument
documentation for machine/LLM consumption: no ANSI, no table layout, the
argument section of every command form rendered in one output under a common
header ('i -return text after' shows all six forms), G-041 form selection
still honoured when argument words are supplied, no advisory-parse error
preamble (-return dict remains the parse-status surface). Implementation
delegates resolution to the -return dict recursion and renders per-form via
the string renderer.
punk::args 0.12.6 (user direction; string-form layout explicitly not frozen -
no external consumers yet):
- arg_error renders the error message + per-form match detail exactly once,
BELOW the usage display (was above and below); bottom append suppressed for
empty messages.
- string renderer argument rows are single-line
'name TYPE:type(constraints) ?DEFAULT:'val'? ?MULTI:yes?' - type
constraints parenthesize onto the base type instead of line-breaking
mid-row; empty DEFAULT/MULTI labels and whitespace-only help blocks omitted.
- choices render as markdown-subset bullets '- `choice` - label' with label
continuations at a fixed deeper indent - choice names are now
machine-distinguishable from label text without ANSI. Structural contract:
column-0 lines bearing TYPE: are argument rows, indented lines are
documentation, backticked bullets are choices. Table cells unchanged.
New scriptlib/developer/whatis.tcl (runtime command introspection for
agents): resolved name, subcommand-chain resolution via punk::ns::cmdinfo
('whatis string is'), kind, providing package + loaded version, origin file,
proc definition file:line, punk::args synopsis; -body appends the runtime
body with file-relative line numbers, -doc the full plain-text argdoc via
cmdhelp -return text (with fallback for older punk::ns). Backing the
cross-framework tcl-whatis agent skill: canonical .agents/skills/tcl-whatis/
(Agent Skills standard - pi/OpenCode/Codex) with byte-identical copy in
.claude/skills/ for Claude Code; .gitignore gains !.claude/skills/ with the
fossil ignore-glob comment + exception-set docs updated per the dual-VCS
contract (fossil adds staged). Root AGENTS.md: .agents/skills index entry,
whatis pointer in Repo-wide Notes, scriptlib/developer example.
Tests: new pins cmdhelp_return_text_all_forms/_argword_form_selection/
_single_form_plain_marker (cmdhelp.test), rendering_stringmode_singleline_argrows
+ rendering_stringmode_choice_bullets (rendering.test); deliberate-change pin
updates: errorselection.test message matches gained leading * and cmdhelp.test
message pins sample the last line (message placement). Full source-tree suite
963/979 pass, sole failure the pre-existing exec-14.3 baseline; make.tcl
modules clean.
Project version 0.12.42 -> 0.13.0 with CHANGELOG.md entry.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
Stock tclsh treats any leading-dash arg other than -encoding as argv for an
interactive/stdin session: on a console it hangs at a prompt, with piped stdin
it exits 0 silently ignoring the supposed one-liner. Agents habitually reach
for -e (perl/python/node reflex), wasting time waiting on hung processes.
- root AGENTS.md User Preferences: document the misparse, the correct patterns
(temp .tcl file or script via stdin) and the defensive stdin-redirect habit
- .claude/settings.json: PreToolUse hook denying Bash/PowerShell invocations
of tclsh with -e, anchored to command position (start/pipe/semicolon/paren)
so prose mentions in commit messages or grep args do not false-positive;
corrective guidance returned to the agent
- .gitignore: narrow the .claude ignore so shared settings.json is tracked
while session-local files stay ignored
- .fossil-settings: ignore-glob hand-derived per the no-negation rule
(.claude/* wholesale + explicit fossil add of settings.json), exception set
in AGENTS.md updated; fossil extras under-ignore check verified empty
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
git tracked fossil's generated checkout artifacts (manifest, manifest.tags,
manifest.uuid - regenerated on every fossil checkin/checkout per the
versioned 'manifest' setting value 'rut'), which would churn as soon as
fossil commits begin. They are now untracked and git-ignored with
root-anchored patterns (nested manifest-named files elsewhere are real
content and stay tracked). Fossil control files (.fslckout/_FOSSIL_/
*.fossil) were already correctly git-ignored, and .fossil-settings/
.fossil-custom correctly git-tracked.
New .fossil-settings/AGENTS.md is the canonical home of the git+fossil
contract: which files each system must not track, the ignore-glob
derivation rules (no negation -> wholesale-ignore + explicit fossil add of
tracked exceptions; directory pruning; * crossing /; */ variants for
match-anywhere patterns; default dotfile skipping), and the verification
procedure any future "sync the ignores" request must follow (fossil extras
against git check-ignore, and a tracked-set comparison bounded to the
documented exceptions). The ignore-glob header now points there instead of
duplicating the rules; root AGENTS.md Child DOX Index gains the entry.
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
The dash-delimited launch package modes of built punk shells (dev/os/src/
internal, implemented in src/vfs/_config/punk_main.tcl) had no agent-facing
record. bin/AGENTS.md now documents the mode grammar and, in operational
terms, the src mode that matters for verifying working-tree changes:
exe-location-based project-root discovery, the source module paths it
prepends, package prefer latest (dev 999999.0a1.0 modules beating
kit-stamped snapshots), and how 'package present' distinguishes a src-mode
session from a plain kit launch. Also records the both-Tcl-generations
interactive verification convention (a Tcl 8.6-based shell plus the current
Tcl 9-based incarnation, deliberately not version-pinned) and the role of
the plain runtime kits under bin/runtime/ for punk-free probes.
Root AGENTS.md Child DOX Index gains the bin/ entry, and .gitignore gains
a !/bin/AGENTS.md negation alongside the other source-controlled bin items
(the /bin/* ignore is why no doc lived there before).
Assisted-by: harness=claude; primary-model=claude-fable-5; api-location=anthropic.com
