README.md

Instlang design workspace #

This directory records the design and implementation of the bounded reference interpreter. The source brief is institutional-language-plan.md.

Current status #

The reference core, authored source subset, replay/version machinery, dynamic mandates, institution chartering and dissolution, addressed interaction, and generic fungible host ledger are implemented and tested. Nomurgy exercises these layers through the Founding and Corporate Market scenarios. Economancy's Scarcity Case remains a sibling application and finite-analysis exercise. Constitutional proposals, targets, electorates, quorums, and ballots cross bounded typed artifact envelopes; dynamic definition code and Stage 4 economic action variants remain at explicit reviewed Json boundaries.

Formal proof and unbounded model checking remain unclaimed. Further language work should be driven by a concrete mutable policy, while broader game and host work is still exploratory.

Reading order #

  1. Language primer
  2. Instlang source-language reference — normative grammar, typing and admission rules, plus the exact founding@1 laws
  3. Complete institution-language examples
  4. Semantic kernel and ownership boundary
  5. Authority, chartering, and institution interaction
  6. Constitutional amendment
  7. Paper exercises
  8. Economancy Scarcity Case
  9. Nomurgy Founding Workbench
  10. Nomurgy Corporate Market Workbench

Stage 2.5 is the playable Nomurgy integration layer. Stage 3 adds bounded institution interaction through explicit request and delivery; immutable request authorship is distinct from the administrative deliverer. Stage 4 adds the isolated corporate-market@1 economic scenario and generic fungible host ledger. Stage 5 constitutional analysis remains proposed. Economancy remains an unchanged sibling scenario and future integration target.

The documents use “v1” for the smallest reference language described by institutional-language-plan.md. Names used in host examples are not core keywords.