The cancelid and info forms' id argument is typed
stringstartswith(<prefix>) with the prefix harvested from the running
interpreter at define time (safe create+cancel probe; after# on 8.6.11
and 9.0.3) - substituted via a build-time %AFTERIDPREFIX% string map
because tstr placeholders in non-display fields are not expanded for
plain PUNKARGS definitions (G-046 defers display fields only; noted in
G-055 for the regeneration workflow). -typesynopsis id keeps the
synopsis as the man page's 'id'; both ids gain man-page-derived help.
Effect under G-041 form candidacy: 'i after cancel someid' resolves
cleanly to the cancelscript form, matching real Tcl's silent
script-match no-op; 'after info <non-id>' is model-rejected where real
errors at runtime (parity-true). An id-SHAPED word after cancel stays
truthfully ambiguous (cancelid+cancelscript) - real Tcl resolves that
junction by id liveness at runtime, which no static type expresses.
Dead-id over-acceptance on 'after info' recorded as the accepted
runtime-liveness boundary.
Tests: three parity pins added in tclcoreparity.test (id-shape harvest
agreement with live ids, cancel discrimination incl the liveness
ambiguity witness, info error-vs-ok parity + accepted dead-id
divergence). punk::args 201/202 (1 pre-existing skip), punk::ns 57/57.
Live-verified on punk902z src ('i after cancel someid' renders info
scheme).
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Acceptance reviewed clause-by-clause in the detail file: auto-selection
on a unique clean match (forms.test GAPs flipped), candidate-naming
noformmatch/multipleformmatches errors, -form list restriction across
get_dict/parse/parse_status/arg_error, doc surface presenting the
best-matching form(s) ('i after cancel <id>' presents the cancel form;
's after cancel someid' underlines the matching synopsis lines),
explicit single -form unchanged, full punk::args/punk::ns suites pass
(full tree 822/836 with only the exec-14.3 baseline failure).
Flip edits: index entry to GOALS-archive.md (achieved 2026-07-13),
detail Status flipped with acceptance review and live-verification
record, reference sweep updates G-044 (candidacy API now available -
parse_status formstatus), G-055 backlink, G-072 backlink. Detail-file
move to goals/archive/ follows as a pure rename; goals_lint transiently
unclean between the two commits.
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cmdhelp ('i'): the -form option defaults to * (was 0) with parse's
list semantics, and both render sites present the form the advisory
parse selected - 'i after cancel <id>' presents the cancel form's
argument table with its synopsis line underlined; 'i lseq 0 10 2'
presents the range form info-scheme. When no form matches, the ranked
candidates are passed to arg_error (best candidate's table, all
candidates marked, message naming each form's failure); when several
forms match, all matching forms are marked under the ambiguity message.
punk::ns::synopsis ('s'): trailing argument words after a multiform
command path underline the form(s) they match - matching forms from the
advisory parse's formstatus, or the best candidate when none fully
matches ('s after cancel someid' marks both cancel forms; 's lseq
0 10 2' marks the range form). Ordinal line position maps lines to
declaration-order forms in both full and summary renders; marking is
skipped under alias-currying excess or an explicit -form.
punk::args 0.11.0: the documented @form -synopsis override now renders
in punk::args::synopsis full and summary output (arg_error honoured it
already) - the adjacent forms.test GAP flipped
(forms_form_synopsis_override_rendered). Candidate ranking extended:
form_literal_affinity treats required RESTRICTED-choice arguments as
discriminators via choiceword_match (the tclcore models express
subcommand words as -choices), so 'after cancel' ranks the cancel
forms first instead of falling back to declaration order.
Real-model findings recorded in the goal detail: 'after cancel someid'
is genuinely ambiguous in the doc-faithful model (cancelid vs
cancelscript - real Tcl disambiguates semantically); 'lseq 1 count 5'
ambiguity traces to the expr-typed operands (noted in G-055 as a
model-tightening candidate alongside TIP 746).
Tests: cmdhelp.test gains the multiform doc-surface pins (autoselected
form presented, noformmatch best-candidate table + candidate naming,
synopsis marking present/absent). punk::ns 57/57, punk::args 198/199
(1 pre-existing skip); full source-tree suite in the detail record.
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Probing (punk902z kit, Tcl 9.0.2) of the tclcore moduledoc models against
the real builtins, driven by user concerns about variable-length clauses
with optional elements before G-041 activation. Findings recorded in the
G-041 detail file (auto-selection evidence on real commands, the
allocator prerequisite, parse_status -form gap) and the G-055 detail file
(modelability over-acceptance list: try compound handler types,
reserved-word clause allocation, "-" fallthrough constraints, switch
two-argument option suppression, unvalidated -type expr, TIP 746
version-conditionality for lseq operands; plus the user doc-direction
guidance that definitions split into @form entries where source docs
simplify).
Key result: the per-form models are doc-faithful (lseq.n synopsis maps
1:1; switch separate/block parse correctly under explicit -form; try
mixed on/trap interleaving and finally positioning all agree with the
real command) - but the value allocator mishandles an optional
single-word choice value followed by a required value plus trailing
optional-member clause, so lseq range arglists without the ../to noise
word ("0 10 2", "0 10 by 2") fail in-form. No lseq form accepts them, so
G-041 form selection alone cannot fix "i lseq 0 10 2" - allocator fix
flagged as a candidate prerequisite goal.
Fix included (punk::args 0.8.2): unconditional debug puts on the clause
type-check path (get_dict_can_assign_value) commented, companion to the
0.2.3 find. Full punk::args suite 186 pass / 1 pre-existing skip / 0 fail.
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Finalises the G-062 achieved flip staged by the prior session (punkshell
0.12.1): LICENSE.txt (BSD-2-Clause, Julian Marcel Noble 2023-2026) at the
repo root, README/punkproject.toml/AGENTS.md license declarations, index
record to GOALS-archive.md and detail file to goals/archive/.
Archive-loss prevention, from the G-015 incident (its achieved-status
verification parenthetical was silently dropped by the 2026-07-11 two-tier
restructure's Status-line normalisation; the text is restored to the G-015
archive file's Notes with provenance):
- root AGENTS.md 'Doc Restructures': deleted-line conservation check before
committing bulk doc migrations, structured-field-normalisation hazard
(relocate prose to body sections first), moves separated from edits
- goals/AGENTS.md: lintable header field grammar (one line per field, bare
Status values), flip-time verification evidence recorded in the body, the
archive move content-identical, and a new archive-time reference sweep:
pending-tense mentions of the archived goal updated in the live tier, and
actionable archived notes pointed to from the affected live goal's Notes
- GOALS.md maintenance rules: achieved-flip clause extended to require the
evidence write-up and the reference sweep
Retroactive reference sweep over all 12 archived goals (25 live detail
files): pending-tense fixes (G-002 G-008 G-013 G-016 G-017 G-021 G-022
G-031 G-042 G-044 G-050 - G-017's Goal/Acceptance annotated as
gate-satisfied, contract meaning unchanged), forward pointers pushed from
archived notes (G-062 license-seeding follow-on -> G-012/G-027, G-037
vendorlib/vfs drift semantics -> G-024, G-058 static-baseline mechanism ->
G-005), and one 'Archived-goal references' Notes bullet per remaining
referencing file so every live mention of an archived goal is resolvable
without consulting the archive index.
scriptlib/developer/goals_lint.tcl (new, plain tclsh): validates detail-file
header grammar, strict status values in both tiers, orphan rules in both
directions, Status/Scope mirror consistency, plus an informational (never
fatal) warning for live files referencing an archived goal with no
achieved/archive marker - baseline now zero warnings. Root AGENTS.md
scriptlib/developer ownership note widened to cover developer utilities.
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- GOALS.md collapsed to summary entries (ID/status/title/Scope/detail pointer): 104.6KB -> 23KB so a full read stays cheap; Scope lines kept verbatim so path-grep goal discovery still works
- canonicality split: index canonical for ID/status/title/Scope, detail file canonical for Goal:/Acceptance:; all 61 detail-file headers reconciled from the index (fixes stale copies, e.g. G-036 detail acceptance predated the achieved rework), bodies preserved untouched
- detail files created for the three index-only goals G-017, G-034, G-054; every goal now has one
- 10 achieved goals (G-007 G-015 G-036 G-037 G-040 G-046 G-049 G-054 G-058 G-059) archived: summary records appended to GOALS-archive.md, detail files moved to goals/archive/; archive-on-flip replaces the ~30-achieved-entries trigger
- GOALS.md preamble/rules reworked: read workflow (read index in full, then detail files of scope-intersecting goals before editing), contract spans both tiers with proposal-first unchanged, next-free-ID counts the archive, achieved flip judged against the detail-file Acceptance and includes archiving
- progress convention codified from G-001 increment-1 practice: index entries carry status only, never progress; incremental progress lives in the detail file's ## Progress section (landed/remaining); achieved flip requires the remaining-work list resolved - a partial increment never flips a goal
- goals/AGENTS.md rewritten for the split (required 4-field header, one detail file per goal, orphan rules covering archive/); root AGENTS.md Child DOX Index + Repo-wide Notes updated; GOALS-archive.md preamble updated
- stale detail-file paths updated to goals/archive/ in src/lib/app-punkscript/punkscript.tcl (comment), runtimebash_wsl.test, wslprobe.tcl and the G-042 detail file; propagated copies (root lib/, src/vfs/_vfscommon.vfs, src/_build) left to refresh via normal build steps
- no project version bump: governance docs and source comments only, no user-visible shell behaviour
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- G-049 flipped to achieved 2026-07-10 (acceptance verified on Tcl 9.0.3 + 8.7); detail file records the shipped design, the incomplete-vs-invalid classification judgement call, and verification results
- G-054 [proposed]: ::tcl::string::is class choices harvested from the running interpreter at define time + cross-version behavioural parity pins (probing showed the static 9.0 list wrongly accepts dict on 8.6 - the real Tcl 8 target - and the hand model is otherwise behaviourally accurate incl the last-word-is-str C semantics)
- G-055 [proposed]: agent-driven tclcore moduledoc regeneration workflow - Tcl source tree + version as input (TEMP_REFERENCE/tcl9 interim; retrieval deferred to buildsuites toml/G-005 era), verbatim text policy with two exceptions (synopsis notation translated to punkshell syntax; line re-folding while punk::args lacks word wrapping), real-vs-model parity probe as the verification gate, provenance recording, modelability gap scan; proving set = whole ::string ensemble + selected others incl multi-form ::after; tkcore (shared-section reuse a la tk_standardoptions) and core.tcl-lang.org projects (tcludp) to follow later
- G-056 [proposed]: display-time word wrapping for punk::args help content (split-only never-join, ANSI/grapheme/double-width aware, paramindent-aligned continuations) - retires the G-055 folding exception for new work when shipped
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Julian Noble