docs: story frontmatter + Dataview board views

- 28 story files gain YAML frontmatter: iteration id, status
  (mirrors folder), chain position (7 files, positions 1-6)
- board-views.md: Dataview queries (not-done, by-status lanes,
  chain order, active); Kanban caveat — view only, frontmatter
  is source of truth, folder move + status key change together
- board points at the views

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

docs/stories/00-status.md

@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ rejection in [`discarded.md`](../plan/discarded.md) with its reason.
 
 Statuses: ✅ **done** · 🔄 **in progress** · ⬜ **pending** · ⏸ **hold**
 
+Story files carry YAML frontmatter (`iteration`/`status`/`chain`) — the
+machine-readable truth behind this board; live Obsidian Dataview views:
+[`board-views.md`](board-views.md) (Kanban = view only, never edits status).
+
 ---
 
 ## ▶ NEXT PLAN

docs/stories/board-views.md

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# Live board views (Obsidian Dataview)
+
+Every story iteration file carries YAML frontmatter — **the frontmatter
+is the source of truth**:
+
+```yaml
+---
+iteration: "8"        # immutable id (string: "7b", "9b" exist)
+status: in-progress   # done | in-progress | refine | hold — mirrors its folder
+chain: 1              # concurrency-chain position, chain stories only (1–6)
+---
+```
+
+The folder move IS the status change: moving a story between `done/`,
+`in-progress/`, `refine/`, `hold/` must update its `status:` in the same
+change — the two never disagree. The prose board
+([`00-status.md`](00-status.md)) stays the standup narrative; these
+queries are the live views over the same facts.
+
+Adjust the `FROM` path to your vault root (queries below assume the
+vault opens at the repo root).
+
+## Everything not done, chain order first
+
+```dataview
+TABLE iteration, status, chain
+FROM "docs/stories/language-runtime-database"
+WHERE status != "done"
+SORT chain ASC, iteration ASC
+```
+
+## Grouped by status (the kanban lanes, as data)
+
+```dataview
+TABLE rows.file.link AS story, rows.iteration AS iteration
+FROM "docs/stories/language-runtime-database"
+WHERE status != "done"
+GROUP BY status
+```
+
+## The concurrency chain, in execution order
+
+```dataview
+TABLE iteration, status
+FROM "docs/stories/language-runtime-database"
+WHERE chain
+SORT chain ASC
+```
+
+## Active right now
+
+```dataview
+LIST
+FROM "docs/stories/language-runtime-database"
+WHERE status = "in-progress"
+```
+
+## Kanban caveat
+
+The Kanban plugin stores board state in its own markdown file — a
+second copy of status. To keep frontmatter the single source of truth:
+**use Dataview for querying; treat any Kanban board as a VIEW, never
+the place status is edited.** Status changes happen by moving the story
+file between folders + updating its `status:` key (one commit); a
+Kanban card drag that only rewrites the Kanban file is a lie the next
+query won't see.

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/done/01-principles-doc.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "1"
+status: done
+---
+
 # Iteration 1 — the principles doc
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/done/02-vm-core.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "2"
+status: done
+---
+
 # Iteration 2 — VM core (`wovm`)
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/done/03-compiler-front.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "3"
+status: done
+---
+
 # Iteration 3 — compiler front (`woc`)
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/done/04-single-binary-e2e.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "4"
+status: done
+---
+
 # Iteration 4 — single binary end-to-end
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/done/05-language-surface.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "5"
+status: done
+---
+
 # Iteration 5 — language surface (Haxe-parity adoptions)
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/done/06-program-mode-stdlib.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "6"
+status: done
+---
+
 # Iteration 6 — program mode + systems stdlib
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/done/07-logwatcher-proof.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "7"
+status: done
+---
+
 # Iteration 7 — log-watcher proof workload
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/done/07b-inferred-gc-mark-sweep.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "7b"
+status: done
+---
+
 # Iteration 7b — inferred GC + incremental mark-sweep
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/done/09-database-engine.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "9"
+status: done
+---
+
 # Iteration 9 — database engine
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/done/09b-table-relations-query.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "9b"
+status: done
+---
+
 # Iteration 9b — `@table`, relations, and language-integrated query
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/done/15-deps-package-manager.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "15"
+status: done
+---
+
 # Iteration 15 — dependencies: `wo.toml [deps]`, git fetch, `wo.lock`
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/done/16-web-framework.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "16"
+status: done
+---
+
 # Iteration 16 — the web framework: a `.wo` library, HTTP/1.1 behind a proxy
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/done/17-library-projects-internal.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "17"
+status: done
+---
+
 # Iteration 17 — library projects and dependency privacy (`kind`, `internal/`)
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/done/19-missing-scalar-types.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "19"
+status: done
+---
+
 # Iteration 19 — the missing scalar types: Float and Bytes
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/hold/18-memory-db-features.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "18"
+status: hold
+---
+
 # Iteration 18 — framework v2: memory-rich features over the embedded database
 
 > **Scope label (2026-08-20): this iteration is FRAMEWORK V2.** Framework

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/hold/20-cross-program-tables.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "20"
+status: hold
+---
+
 # Iteration 20 — cross-program tables: attach to a running program's database
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/hold/21-keypair-attach-auth.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "21"
+status: hold
+---
+
 # Iteration 21 — keypair authentication for cross-program attach
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/hold/26-blue-green-deploy.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "26"
+status: hold
+---
+
 # Iteration 26 — blue-green in-runtime deployment
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/hold/27-query-grammar-corpus.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "27"
+status: hold
+---
+
 # Iteration 27 — query grammar, driven by real embedded-DB corpora
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/hold/28-skillhost-host-workload.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "28"
+status: hold
+---
+
 # Iteration 28 — skillhost: a host-shaped workload, and the capability gaps it exposes
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/hold/29-compile-time-metaprogramming.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+---
+iteration: "29"
+status: hold
+---
+
 # Iteration 29 — compile-time metaprogramming (derive from the class table)
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/in-progress/08-shard-actor-runtime.md

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+---
+iteration: "8"
+status: in-progress
+chain: 1
+---
+
 # Iteration 8 — shard-actor runtime (the 8+11 concurrency arc, part 1)
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/in-progress/11-fibers.md

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+---
+iteration: "11"
+status: in-progress
+chain: 1
+---
+
 # Iteration 11 — fibers (the 8+11 concurrency arc, part 2)
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/refine/22-durability-throughput-scale.md

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+---
+iteration: "22"
+status: refine
+chain: 2
+---
+
 # Iteration 22 — durability proof, throughput, and scale under load
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/refine/23-io-uring-commit.md

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+---
+iteration: "23"
+status: refine
+chain: 5
+---
+
 # Iteration 23 — io_uring group-commit write path
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/refine/24-chat-websocket-workload.md

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+---
+iteration: "24"
+status: refine
+chain: 4
+---
+
 # Iteration 24 — chat: the WebSocket pub/sub driving workload
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/refine/31-actor-lifecycle.md

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+---
+iteration: "31"
+status: refine
+chain: 3
+---
+
 # Iteration 31 — actor lifecycle: request/response, backpressure, death, timers
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of

docs/stories/language-runtime-database/refine/32-wal-checkpoint.md

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+---
+iteration: "32"
+status: refine
+chain: 6
+---
+
 # Iteration 32 — WAL checkpoint: disk space reclamation and bounded replay
 
 > Format: `product/story-iteration-template`. Part of