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Summary

  • make the jim.core package authored from Jim.edict the application mind and active observer in canonical Jedit architecture;
  • assign editor personality and command meaning to jim.core, reusable text contracts and private rope law to application-owned jedit.text, compiler and verifier authority to Edict, and generic runtime authority to Echo;
  • pin command meaning to an exact JimRelease and require one Echo authority realm and epoch for every mutable commit-time dependency;
  • require combined Jim-and-buffer settlement, durable candidate rejection, and one coherent causal projection;
  • restrict Jedit/Bijou/native code and generated clients to canonical event I/O, bootstrap, transport, external adapters, and disposable rendering;
  • distinguish schema, oracle, authored source, compiler package, installed release, runtime evidence, and external-effect certainty;
  • preserve Wesley/Rust walkthroughs as explicitly labeled compatibility evidence.

Current status

  • Architecture: published and frozen in this review candidate.
  • Executable migration: 0/4.
  • Current gate: exact-head CI green and all seven review threads resolved; historical CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews remain untouched.

Roadmap impact

Jedit #296 owns the first real ReplaceRange.edict source and compiler-pressure witness. #297 owns the remaining jedit.text laws. Realm and command-settlement protocol work must become executable enough to begin #301 honestly; #301 owns the smallest real jim.core observer and canonical-event cutover. Echo #684 owns only generic interpretation of real compiler-produced bounded Edict programs.

Validation

  • npm run check — 794 tests, 782 passed, 12 intentional RED skips, 0 failed;
  • npm run quality — no regressions;
  • targeted architecture policy tests — 22 passed, 0 failed;
  • all 10 changed Mermaid blocks rendered successfully;
  • targeted markdownlint-cli2 across all changed documents — clean;
  • git diff --check — clean;
  • exact-head GitHub CI — green.

Non-claims

This change does not author ReplaceRange.edict, implement text semantics in Echo, host jim.core, provide a multi-process authority realm, or prove the final event-to-observer production corridor. It freezes the target/current boundary and routes those executable proofs to their named gates.

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  • Documentation

    • Clarified editor architecture, component ownership, and runtime responsibilities.
    • Documented the target flow from canonical events through application operations, execution, observations, and rendering.
    • Identified compatibility paths as transitional and fail-closed for unsupported operations.
    • Added comprehensive ownership, migration, verification, and integration guidance.
  • Tests

    • Updated architecture and hosting-guide checks to enforce revised authority and boundary rules.

Walkthrough

The documentation defines Jim.edict as the application authority, Edict as the compiler and verifier, Echo as the generic runtime, and adapters as the I/O and rendering boundary. Specifications now enforce these ownership and compatibility rules.

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Architecture correction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Authority and artifact boundaries
ARCHITECTURE.md, docs/BEARING.md, docs/data-model.md, docs/echo-application-hosting-guide.md, docs/stack-map.md, docs/technical-teardown.md, docs/jim-component-ownership.md
The documents assign application semantics to Jim.edict and Edict lawpacks, generic execution to Echo, and I/O and projections to adapters. They define settlement, external-effect, realm, evidence, and projection rules.
Active-observer execution flow
ARCHITECTURE.md, docs/design/*, docs/echo-application-hosting-guide.md, docs/jedit-echo-end-to-end.md, docs/releases/v0.1.0/quickstart.md
The target flow sends canonical events to Jim.edict, derives intents through Jim-owned lawpacks, executes verified generic programs in Echo, and returns outcomes and readings to Jim.edict.
Compatibility corridor and migration path
docs/BEARING.md, docs/data-model.md, docs/design/0149-graph-backed-rope-runtime-discovery.md, docs/echo-application-hosting-guide.md, docs/jedit-echo-end-to-end.md, docs/stack-map.md
The compatibility path remains narrow and transitional. Migration steps add ReplaceRange.edict, TextWindow.edict, canonical event delivery, and removal of bespoke orchestration and semantic protocol glue.
Architecture policy validation
docs/design/0151-causal-rope-text-authority-inventory.md, spec/design-cycle-policy.spec.mjs, spec/echo-application-hosting-guide.spec.mjs
The specifications assert the active-observer boundary, transport-only generated clients, oracle limits, and the prohibition of editor-specific semantics in Echo production code.
Ownership closure and verification roadmap
docs/jim-component-ownership.md
The new ownership document defines settlement states, external effects, authority realms, recovery, semantic undo and redo, coherent projections, normative causal clauses, evidence gaps, and verification milestones.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a46e6

This PR changes the canonical ownership and event-boundary contracts, but the current documentation still contains a terminal-versus-retry contradiction and a crash-recovery rule that can authorize an unsafe retry; additional ownership, checkpoint, and event-flow contradictions remain. These inconsistencies can misdirect the next implementation slices, so the PR is not merge-ready until they are corrected or explicitly accepted.

Poem

Jim reads the event,
Edict shapes the lawful work,
Echo runs it clean.
Adapters paint the view,
Old corridors fade away.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely summarizes the primary architectural change: making Jim.edict the application boundary.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the ownership model, architecture changes, validation, roadmap, and explicit non-claims covered by the changeset.

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Inline comments:
In `@ARCHITECTURE.md`:
- Around line 118-120: Reconcile the checkpoint capability statements with the
actual behavior of RopeCheckpointDeclared: verify whether checkpoint operations
are fail-closed or admitted, scheduled, persisted, and returned with receipt
identities, then update the relevant capability lists and tests consistently to
reflect that single behavior.
- Around line 122-136: Define one opaque canonical-event contract across
ARCHITECTURE.md (lines 122-136), docs/BEARING.md (lines 80-92),
docs/echo-application-hosting-guide.md (lines 133-155), and
docs/jedit-echo-end-to-end.md (lines 3-26): the adapter decodes terminal bytes,
Echo forwards one opaque event envelope without inspecting Jim or Jedit fields,
and only Jim.edict interprets the event; update each cited sequence to state
this consistently.

In `@docs/design/0151-causal-rope-text-authority-inventory.md`:
- Around line 61-66: Update the inventory classifications for
workspace-text-commands.ts, workspace-text-edit-planner.ts, and
workspace-text-position.ts so their active transitional command, range, and
coordinate semantics are explicitly classified as compatibility authority rather
than only migration/import; either add that classification or clearly define
migration/import to include active transitional authority, while leaving purely
import-related paths unchanged.

In `@docs/design/text-edit-algebra.md`:
- Around line 5-11: Update the ownership language in
docs/design/text-edit-algebra.md lines 5-11 to make Jim.edict and Jim-owned
Edict lawpacks the explicit owners, rewriting later jedit ownership bullets or
marking them compatibility-era. In docs/design/jedit-echo-graph-model.md lines
60-65, replace the broader interpretation owner with Jim.edict. In
docs/design/0149-graph-backed-rope-runtime-discovery.md lines 15-24, identify
Jim-owned Edict lawpacks as the text and rope contract owner.

In `@spec/design-cycle-policy.spec.mjs`:
- Around line 256-262: Replace whole-document regex checks in
spec/design-cycle-policy.spec.mjs lines 256-262 with assertions scoped to the
canonical BEARING Jim.edict/Echo boundary, including verification that the
ReplaceRange exception remains test-only. In
spec/echo-application-hosting-guide.spec.mjs lines 13-22, scope assertions to
the “Target Active-Observer Boundary” section and validate the complete
authority contract there.
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[style] ~155-~155: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Consider rewording the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
Context: ...ty package as the final Edict design. - Do not put ReplaceRange, rope operations...

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- Around line 918-923: Separate the later Jim resolver Tick into mutually
exclusive retry and refusal branches: the retry branch must consume O1, keep CB
unresolved, and request new evidence without emitting CommandSettled; the
refusal branch must transition JBpending to JBstale and emit the terminal
CommandSettled(CB, Obstructed(StaleBasis(H0, H1))) outcome.
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retaining the expected prior fingerprint as NotAppliedObserved based on the
fingerprint alone. Update the corresponding recovery-observation row to require
provider-backed causal evidence for non-application; otherwise classify the
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[style] ~70-~70: The words ‘observes’ and ‘observations’ are quite similar. Consider replacing ‘observes’ with a different word.
Context: ...ions | | Optic | A bounded program that observes a selected view of state without becomi...

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Context: ...prose grouped rope law under “Jim-owned lawpacks” | Separate jim.core editor semantics ...

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[style] ~1243-~1243: Consider removing “of” to be more concise
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