# Status board — what is done, what is next The single place to learn where this project stands. Organised in six buckets: **stories** (the narrative arc), **in progress**, **done**, **pending**, **discarded**, **learnings**. The buckets are **sections of this board, not folders** — a doc stays where it was authored when its work lands; only its banner and this board change. Every plan and phase doc opens with a `> **Status:**` banner linking back here; normative contracts (`plan/oop-vm/`), exploration studies, reference docs and the discarded/learnings registers carry none by design. Update this board in the same change that finishes work — move the item to done with _what actually landed_, set the next in-progress item, and record any rejection in [`discarded.md`](plan/discarded.md) with its reason. Statuses: ✅ **done** · 🔄 **in progress** · ⬜ **pending** · ⏸ **hold** --- ## ▶ NEXT PLAN **Framework v1 — a polished micro-framework (routing, middleware, `Req`/`Resp`), nothing MVC-scale.** Directive 2026-08-20: iteration 17 (library kind + `internal/`) is **parked** — spec + plan approved and ready on branch `library-internal` — and the framework itself is the work. The v1-polish slice landed the same day (branch `framework-v1`): registration helpers `get/post/put/delete_` (the take-Handler shape, probe-proven), 405 + `Allow` on wrong-method hits, HEAD served as GET with the body suppressed, a `Logging` middleware, `set_header`; `just web-app` grew to 16/0. En route it exposed and fixed a real emitter bug: a Text-typed single-segment interpolation of a place (`"${r.method}"`, `r` a loop borrow) crossed `let`/assignment boundaries uncopied — aliased the field, crashed the release build; `copy_place_text` now sees through `Interp` exactly as `drop_fresh_text` does, pinned by `tests/corpus/run/interp-borrowed-field`. **Auth-in-core landed 2026-08-20** (same branch): `http/auth.wo` — header parsing, pure-`.wo` base64, constant-time `ct_eq`, `req.principal` as the blessed principal slot (Middleware.before takes `mut req`), `BearerAuth` + `BasicAuth` middlewares; policy stays app-side. Probe matrix 26/26 ASan-clean; web-app dogfoods BearerAuth. The framework README carries the core checklist (✅ / candidate / parked-by-design rows). **Form-encoded bodies landed 2026-08-20** (same branch): `media_type(req)` + `form_values(req)` (nil on any other content-type; '+'/%XX decoded); CreateProduct accepts form OR JSON into one insert path. **Multipart landed 2026-08-20** (same branch): `http/multipart.wo` — RFC 7578 fields + file parts, strict malformed-is-nil, `part_named`; whole-body within BODY_MAX (streaming parks behind 8/11). CreateProduct takes multipart/form/JSON; `just web-app` **21/0**. Surfaced + fixed the RETURN flavor of the interp-of-borrowed-place emitter bug (emit_return now sees through Interp; same corpus pin). Body-parsing hooks: all three ✅. Next: **iteration 18** (memory-rich framework features — TTL cache, @table flags, durable job queue with drain-on-request, `transaction { }` over the WAL's staged batch; forks settled 2026-08-20, brainstormed the same day) — spec, then plan, then implementation on approval. After 18, the order resumes at 9c/9d. --- ### Landed 2026-08-15 — the executable milestone (the previous NEXT PLAN) "Make log-watcher executable" — the difference between "it runs" and "you can leave it running". Every item came from a measurement on the sample itself, and all six landed: 1. ~~The ownership pass does not know what the stdlib returns~~ — **done 2026-08-14**. The root cause was deeper than the table: `Text` was classified Copy, so no Text local was ever dropped. `Text` is now an owned heap value that is **copied at every ownership boundary** (container, field, return, binding, loop cursor), the ownership pass reads the stdlib, builtin and static tables, and `fs.read_all`/`net.read` no longer mis-size a short read's buffer. Measured: `run` **1 051 040 B → 2 112 B**, `watch` **128 B → 64 B**; what remains is items 2 and 3 below, by stack. 2. ~~A projected temporary is never dropped~~ — **done 2026-08-14**. The projection was one of six shapes with no owner: a call result compared against `nil`, an argument the callee only borrows, a container read's copy, a loop's iterable, a projected record, and any of those escaped by a `return` from inside the statement that built them. Measured: `run` **2 112 B → 64 B** and flat from 8 s to 20 s, the full MCP mix **21 312 B / 63 → 64 B / 1**, every handler flat from 2 to 6 requests. The 64 bytes left are item 3, on every path. 3. ~~The runtime leaks its own argv container~~ — **done 2026-08-14**. The entry only borrows its arguments, so `main.c` releases the container it built, after the entry returns and after a trap alike. **All three modes now report ZERO leaks under ASan** — `watch`, `run`, and the full MCP mix — which is the clean baseline item 6's soak needs to read against. 4. ~~A stopping program does not stop~~ — **done 2026-08-14**. A blocking call that parks (`net.accept`, socket read/write, `time.sleep`, a child wait) now ends the program when it is interrupted with the stop flag set, instead of restarting the syscall. A stop is not a trap: `try` cannot swallow it, and the stack unwinds through the same drop machinery, so the exit is clean and leak-free in every mode. It also uncovered a real double-free: an **assignment** of a Text place was a move, not a copy, so `api_key = j.mcp.apiKey` aliased the record — `let` copied, assignment now does too. `just log-watcher` is 7 checks; the seventh is the stop. 5. ~~The MCP server never closes an accepted connection~~ — **done 2026-08-15**. `net.close` on every path out of a serve iteration (and the listener on stop). Measured: 4 → 4 descriptors across 200 requests, was one leaked per request. 6. ~~Nothing soaks~~ — **done 2026-08-15**. `LW_SOAK=` drives all three modes under load and fails on resident growth past 256 KiB or any descriptor growth. The soak immediately caught what every seconds-long check missed: ~1.6 MiB/min of **in-arena** leaks the ASan report cannot see (the arena is one allocation to LeakSanitizer). Five bugs fell out: json decode's worst-case string sizing (free lists poisoned by relabeled lengths), `!=` never dropping fresh operands, Int interpolation segments mistaken for borrows, `json.encode(Ctor{...})`'s unowned argument, and discarded statement results (`pop(lines);`). After: release soak 30 s per mode — watch 0, run 0, mcp +20 KiB, descriptors flat; ASan build flat at 14 600 KiB across 601 686 requests in 90 s once past its ~1200-request quarantine warm-up. Plan: [`plan/compiler/2026-08-14-logwatcher-executable.md`](plan/compiler/2026-08-14-logwatcher-executable.md) · Story slice: [`docs/stories/language-runtime-database/07-logwatcher-proof.md`](stories/language-runtime-database/07-logwatcher-proof.md) **Deferred by name, with the measurement that says so:** - Iteration 5's *strictness* half — **`?T` forced handling landed 2026-08-18** (WO-E211/212/213 + local narrowing; the samples were updated to the bind-then-narrow idiom and stay green), **reject rows landed 2026-08-18** (WO-E105 doctrine diagnostics — `super.f()` used to compile clean). Still open: `pub(read)` write enforcement, `using`, `#if`. Plan 8 stays open. - Everything `@gc`: iteration 7b, `set`'s `@gc` retention gap, iteration 4's `gc/held-cycle` leak. The sample declares **no `@gc` class** — 35 classes, none with the gc flag, 0 `RC_INC`/`RC_DEC` against 78 `DROP`s — so none of it can affect this workload. - Iterations 8–12 (shard-actor runtime, database engine, `@table`/query, HTTP layer, fibers, blue-green): unchanged, and unblocked by this plan. The **language track**'s first goal — iterations 3 → 4 → 5 → 6 → 7, _compile and run log-watcher_ — is met; the database engine (9/9b), deps (15), and the web framework (16) landed on top of it. The goal is now the framework as a polished micro-framework (17 parked; see the NEXT PLAN above and "Implementation order" under Pending). (The prior Rust `wo` runtime was removed from the repo 2026-08-18 — see [`discarded.md`](plan/discarded.md).) --- ## Stories [`docs/stories/language-runtime-database/`](stories/language-runtime-database/00-story.md) — one language, one runtime, one database, one binary. Twelve iterations, each an unsplittable slice with Given/When/Then acceptance and a pointer to the plan that sequences its tasks. Read one, approve, then the next starts. | # | Iteration | State | | --- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------- | ---- | | 1 | [Principles doc](stories/language-runtime-database/01-principles-doc.md) | ✅ | | 2 | [VM core (`wovm`)](stories/language-runtime-database/02-vm-core.md) | ✅ | | 3 | [Compiler front (`woc`)](stories/language-runtime-database/03-compiler-front.md) | ✅ (known gaps below) | | 4 | [Single binary end-to-end](stories/language-runtime-database/04-single-binary-e2e.md) | ✅ (known gaps below) | | 5 | [Language surface](stories/language-runtime-database/05-language-surface.md) | 🔄 grammar done; **`?T` forced handling ✅ + reject rows ✅ + WO-E205 ✅ (2026-08-18)**; `pub(read)`/`using`/`#if` still ⏸ | | 6 | [Program mode + stdlib](stories/language-runtime-database/06-program-mode-stdlib.md) | ✅ (the surface log-watcher uses) | | 7 | [log-watcher proof](stories/language-runtime-database/07-logwatcher-proof.md) | ✅ **landed 2026-08-15** — executable, not merely compilable: zero ASan leaks in all three modes, SIGTERM ends parked syscalls, fds flat, `LW_SOAK` gate; `just log-watcher` 7/0 | | 7b | [Inferred GC + mark-sweep](stories/language-runtime-database/07b-inferred-gc-mark-sweep.md) | ✅ **landed 2026-08-18** — `@gc` gone (WO-E104), GC-ness inferred, RC replaced by incremental mark-sweep, `.wob` v4; supersedes iteration 2's RC memory model | | 8 | [Shard-actor runtime](stories/language-runtime-database/08-shard-actor-runtime.md) | ⬜ | | 9 | [Database engine](stories/language-runtime-database/09-database-engine.md) | 🔄 engine complete (storage/WAL/indexes/insert-update-delete); reads land with 9b | | 9b | [`@table`, relations, query](stories/language-runtime-database/09b-table-relations-query.md) | 🔄 query surface + relations + FK done (branch query-surface); group-by parked | | 9c | [Cross-program tables](stories/language-runtime-database/09c-cross-program-tables.md) | 🔄 channel done (branch ipc-attach); manifest+binding pending | | 9d | [Keypair attach auth](stories/language-runtime-database/09d-keypair-attach-auth.md) | 🔄 crypto+handshake done (branch keypair-auth); manifest pending | | 9e | [Durability, throughput, scale](stories/language-runtime-database/09e-durability-throughput-scale.md) | ⬜ needs a spec first | | 9f | [io_uring group-commit](stories/language-runtime-database/09f-io-uring-commit.md) | ⬜ after 8 + 9e | | 9g | [Query grammar corpus](stories/language-runtime-database/09g-query-grammar-corpus.md) | ⬜ needs a spec first | | 10 | [HTTP service layer](stories/language-runtime-database/10-http-service.md) | ⬜ | Hold | | 11 | [Fibers](stories/language-runtime-database/11-fibers.md) | ⬜ | Hold | | 12 | [Blue-green deploy](stories/language-runtime-database/12-blue-green-deploy.md) | ⬜ | Hold | | 13 | [Compile-time metaprogramming](stories/language-runtime-database/13-compile-time-metaprogramming.md) | ⬜ needs a spec first | | 14 | [skillhost host workload](stories/language-runtime-database/14-skillhost-host-workload.md) | ⬜ gaps recorded (branch query-grammar found skillhost needs no new query grammar); each gap a candidate iteration | | 15 | [deps: `wo.toml [deps]`](stories/language-runtime-database/15-deps-package-manager.md) | ✅ **landed 2026-08-18** (branch web-framework): [deps] inline tables, git-binary fetch, wo.lock pinning, offline-when-locked, --update-deps, WO-E106/E107; `just deps-accept` 8/0 | | 16 | [web framework](stories/language-runtime-database/16-web-framework.md) | ✅ **landed 2026-08-19** — writeonce-framework (HTTP/1.1 + router + Handler/Middleware) consumed by web-app through [deps]; h2c parked (§C) behind 8/9f/11. **v1 polish landed 2026-08-20** (branch framework-v1): get/post/put/delete_ helpers, 405+Allow, HEAD, Logging middleware, set_header; `just web-app` 16/0; fixed the interp-borrowed-field emitter crash en route. **Auth-in-core landed 2026-08-20**: http/auth.wo (Bearer/Basic, ct_eq, req.principal), web-app dogfoods BearerAuth, gate 17/0 | | 17 | [library projects + `internal/`](stories/language-runtime-database/17-library-projects-internal.md) | ⏸ **PARKED 2026-08-20** (developer directive; framework v1 first) — forks settled, spec + plan approved and ready on branch `library-internal`: kind = "library" key; Go internal/ rule, dep-boundary-only; lib+bin dual; VM/GC untouched by design | | 18 | [memory-rich framework features](stories/language-runtime-database/18-memory-db-features.md) | ⬜ **forks settled 2026-08-20, awaiting spec/plan**: TTL cache + @table flags + durable job queue (drain-on-request, idle-drains-nothing disclosed) + `transaction { }` over the WAL's existing staged batch; pub/sub REJECTED until 8/11 | --- ## In progress | Track | Item | Where | | -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | | Language | nothing active — the framework v1-polish slice landed 2026-08-20 (branch framework-v1, awaiting merge); next per the order: brainstorm 9c/9d's forks | [order](#implementation-order-re-sequenced-2026-08-20--framework-goal) | Off-goal work is parked; the goal (2026-08-20) is the web framework as a polished micro-framework v1 — iteration 17 (library kind + `internal/`) is parked with its spec + plan ready on branch `library-internal`. ### Landed 2026-08-14 — the compile-and-run milestone One session, driven end to end by compiling `docs/examples/log-watcher` and watching its diagnostic count fall (481 → 0). In order: - **let annotations, container literals, statics, `pub(read)`** — `let x: multi Text = []`, `map`, `?T`; `[]`/`[a, b]`/`{}` as expressions; `static const`/`static fn` with `Cls.fn(...)` calls; a `;` ends a statement so one-line guard bodies parse. - **try/catch over the trap system** (plan 8 Task 5) — VM catch frames (`TRY`/`ENDTRY`), unwind-to-handler with the try region's own values released, `err_fill` for the `{code, line, method, msg}` record, expression and block catch arms. Uncaught traps unchanged. - **`nil` + 23 text/container builtins** — len, byte_at, print_err, starts_with/ends_with, index_of/last_index_of, substr, trim, to_lower, char_of, parse_int, split/split_ws, join, slice, pop/shift, sort, reverse, remove, key_at/val_at, multi_set. - **`for k, v in m`** over a map, and `m[i] = v` for a `multi`. - **the systems stdlib's OS half** (`runtime/src/sysio.c`) — fs, time, env, net, proc behind the reserved module names, with predeclared `Stat`, `TimeParts` and `Proc` records and the new `WO_T_IO` trap. - **json** (`runtime/src/json.c`) + **`.wob` v2** — per-field names, referenced classes and element kinds in the class table, so encode/decode are one metadata-driven implementation; `json.decode(t) as T` is the language's only cast, yielding `?T`. - **program mode** — `fn main(args: multi Text) -> Int`, argv delivered by the runtime, return value as the exit code. - **two safety fixes found by running it**: `+` on `Text` was lowering to ADD on two heap pointers (now WO-E201 pointing at `..`; seven sites in the sample were corrected), and `x == nil` was lowering to EQS, which dereferences the zero word (now EQ). Gates at the end of that session: corpus 71/0, `woc` runtest 565/0, every `wovm` unit gate green in both dispatch flavors. --- ## Done ### Language track — compiler + VM (OOP track) | Status | Item | Doc | What actually landed | | ------ | ------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | ✅ | Principles | [`../00-principles.md`](00-principles.md) | 13 principles, each with a why and a link to the doc that enforces it | | ✅ | `wovm` VM core | [plan 1](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-wob-format-and-vm-core.md) | `.wob` v1 loader with full static validation, register interpreter (computed-goto + ISO-C fallback), arena with size-class free lists, borrow word, RC + budgeted Bacon–Rajan cycle collector, drop-map trap unwinding, containers, builtins, ICALL, CLI. 13 suites × 2 dispatch flavors + CLI smoke, ASan/UBSan clean | | ✅ | `.wob` format contract | [`oop-vm/00-wob-format.md`](plan/oop-vm/00-wob-format.md) | Normative; twinned with `runtime/src/wob.h` | | ✅ | `woc` compiler front | [plan 2](plan/compiler/2026-08-01-woc-compiler-front.md) | Tasks 1–8: dune scaffold, `diag` (WO-E codes, two-site related errors, ordered dedup), newline-significant lexer at rt parity, declaration + statement/expression parser with skip-on-block and multi-error recovery, typechecker (field kinds, `?T` plumbing, W201, E225, E214), MVS ownership pass with the four emitter tables, driver with directory discovery + cross-file programs. 14 + 264 checks | | ✅ | Error catalog | [`oop-vm/01-error-catalog.md`](plan/oop-vm/01-error-catalog.md) | 14 emitted codes + 10 reserved, each with the reason it is not yet emitted | | ✅ | log-watcher `.wo` sample | [`../examples/log-watcher/`](examples/log-watcher/README.md) | Eight-file port authored docs-first with its `.hx` mapping table; compiles for real in iteration 7 | | ✅ | Scalar cleanup | [`discarded.md`](plan/discarded.md) | `Money`/`SKU`/`Float` and the abstract allowlist removed; `abstract` flipped adopt → reject | | ✅ | `woc` emitter, corpus, single binary | [plan 3](plan/compiler/2026-08-01-wob-emit-e2e-single-binary.md) | Tasks 1–6 + 8 (Task 7, a parity harness against the Rust runtime, **deferred by explicit user decision** — the two stacks diverge by design). Bytecode emitter (`emit.ml`) + disassembler (`disasm.ml`, `--dump-bc`); three-kind conformance harness (`scripts/oop-e2e.sh`, `just oop-e2e`) over `tests/corpus/{run,compile-fail,trap,gc}`; pricing-demo + ownership/trap corpora (19 fixtures); `@gc` cycle collector's post-exit pump (`WO_GC_BUDGET`/`WO_GC_TRACE`) + 2 gc fixtures (`gc/held-cycle` retired — see criterion-3 closure below); `woc build` single-binary output + relocation/corrupt-trailer smoke; `WO-E405` closing criterion 3's ASan leak (entry must return `Int`); `just oop-accept` wiring all five spec criteria + both unit gates into one command. 14 + 399 compiler checks; `oop-e2e` 25/25 against the release `wovm`. **Milestone-1 acceptance gate is fully green — all five criteria met** (see the dated acceptance note in `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-01-oop-compiler-vm-design.md`) | **Known gaps carried out of iteration 3** — recorded, not silently owed: - **`?T` is plumbed but unenforced.** Lexer/token/AST/parser/dump all handle `?T`; the semantics do not exist (`WO-E211`/`E212`/`E213` declared, never emitted — a probe returning `?Int` as `Int` exits 0). Owned by iteration 5, plan 8 Task 6, which is that iteration's first task because it blocks the log-watcher port. See [`compiler/nullable-types-implementation.md`](plan/compiler/nullable-types-implementation.md). - **Structural interface satisfaction is not checked** (`WO-E205` dead), along with type mismatch, bad arity, and unknown-fn (`E201`/`E203`/`E204`) — all named in plan 2 Task 6's own must-fail list. Gaps in shipped work, catalogued as reserved. - Six further narrowings (W201 heuristic, E225 reach, dead code after `return`, unresolved-callee drops, RC table ordering, residual b-side role) are listed in the plan-2 SDD ledger and in the affected files' own comments. **Known gaps carried out of iteration 4** — recorded, not silently owed: - ~~`WO-E205` (unsatisfied interface) reachable but unenforced~~ — **closed 2026-08-18** (branch `type-enforcement`): structural satisfaction is checked at call arguments, annotated `let`s, and returns; the pinned fixture moved to `compile-fail/unsatisfied-interface` with `fixture.code WO-E205` in the same change, as its comment demanded. The hybrid boundary is restored. - **`set(m, k, v)`'s `@gc` retention gap on map keys/values is open** — the twin of the `push` bug Task 5 fixed for `multi`. `set` has no equivalent special case in `owner.ml`'s `analyze_call`, so a `@gc` key or value handed to `set` is under-counted and the collector can free it while the map still points at it. Nothing in the corpus exercises this yet. See [`oop-vm/08-builtin-surface.md`](plan/oop-vm/08-builtin-surface.md). **Known gaps carried out of the 2026-08-14 compile-and-run milestone** — recorded, not silently owed: - **Optionals are lenient.** `?T` has its representation (the zero word) and its comparisons, but `WO-E211`–`E213` are still dead: a `?T` may be used where `T` is required, and nothing narrows inside an `if x != nil` branch. The workload leans on that leniency today. - **`pub(read)` is parsed, not enforced.** The marker rides on the field (`Ast.field.pub_read`); no check refuses a write from outside the declaring class yet. - **`using` extensions and `#if` build flags are absent**, and the reject rows (`extends`/`cast`/`Dynamic`/…) still have no doctrine-citing diagnostics — plan 8 Tasks 7–8's remainder. - ~~A borrowed non-constant Text pushed into a container is a double-free hazard~~ — **closed 2026-08-14 by copy-on-push**: `push`/`set`/`m[i] = v` copy a TEXT element, key or value into the container, and the compiler drops a *freshly built* Text right after the call (a value read out of a place keeps its owner). The failure it fixed was real: a `tools/call` of `tail_log` used to answer `{"isError":true,"text":"tool failed: not a text value"}`; all four MCP tools now return `isError:false` with correct payloads. `OWNED`/`GCREF` elements still move, and `set`'s `@gc` retention gap is still open (see [`oop-vm/08-builtin-surface.md`](plan/oop-vm/08-builtin-surface.md)). - **A blocking `accept`/`read` swallows SIGTERM.** `env.stopping()` installs a handler that only sets a flag, and `net.accept`/`net.read` retry on `EINTR`, so a server parked in `accept` never observes it: a plain TERM does not stop the process (`timeout -k` / `kill -9` does). Graceful shutdown needs an interruptible wait — the shard-actor runtime's event loop (iteration 8) is where that belongs, not a patch to the blocking calls. - **A temporary record whose field is iterated is never dropped** — `for e in parse_dir(dir).entries` keeps the entries alive (good) but leaks the `ParseResult` shell (its drop is recorded for no register). Found in the same disassembly; a leak, not a corruption. - ~~json's two documented limits~~ — **closed 2026-08-18** (branch `json-fidelity`): a `Bool` field encodes `true`/`false` (WOB_FIELD_BOOL / WOB_FIELD_NIL_BOOL in the field metadata), and a fraction/exponent is malformed for an Int field — the checked decode yields nil instead of truncating (floats stay representable via a raw `json.Value` field). - **`net` fd lifetime is the program's problem.** `net.close` exists; the sample's MCP server never calls it, so a long-running `mcp` session leaks descriptors. That is the sample's bug to fix, not the runtime's. - **The workload has never run under ASan**, and iteration 4's `gc/held-cycle` leak (above) is still open. The corpus itself stays ASan-clean. - ~~`json.encode` Bool/nil-scalar asymmetry~~ — **closed 2026-08-18** with the same change: `Bool` encodes `true`/`false`, `?Bool` nil encodes `null`. - **No corpus fixtures cover the new surface.** By explicit direction (2026-08-14) the acceptance for this work is the log-watcher program itself, not fixture pairs; `tests/corpus/` still gates every pre-existing behavior (71 checks, 0 failures). - **E201/E203 and seven other `WO-E2xx` codes remain declared but unemitted** — see [`oop-vm/01-error-catalog.md`](plan/oop-vm/01-error-catalog.md). - **CLOSED — milestone-1's ASan gate (`just oop-accept`) failing on `gc/held-cycle`.** Root cause (Task 8's finding, restated): `main.c`'s entry-method return value (`uint64_t ret`, `src/main.c:158`) is stored but never released, so `gc/held-cycle`'s "permanent external hold" was actually a permanent refcount inflation — LeakSanitizer's "definite leak" (1184 bytes / 3 allocations) was correctly reporting exactly that, not a false positive. Fixing it by releasing `ret` was rejected: the `.wob` method table carries no return-type/kind metadata, so `main.c` has no way to know `ret` is a pointer rather than a scalar, and adding that metadata is a format change out of scope here. Fixed instead at the source: the systems-track spec already requires the entry to return `Int` (its return value is the process exit code), so a class-returning `main` was never legal — `WO-E405` (`compiler/src/emit.ml`, `01-error-catalog.md`) now rejects it at compile time, and `gc/held-cycle` is retired because its premise (an externally-held cycle survives a _post-exit_ pump) is no longer expressible — see `oop-vm/02-corpus.md`'s "Retired" note for why, and for where the scenario it meant to cover is actually proven (`runtime/test/test_cycle.c`, plus a proper in-flight fixture scheduled for story iteration 7b). Spec success criterion 3 is now **MET**; `just oop-accept` passes all five criteria. The C proving-ground work (`exploration/c-runtime/`, phases A–F: 859k reads/s, 618k durable commits/s) fed the current C runtime and remains as an [exploration study](plan/exploration/c-runtime/00-plan.md). --- ## Pending ### Implementation order (re-sequenced 2026-08-20 — framework goal) The goal is the web framework as a first-class library, so the framework line leads and the workload-driven extras (14, 9g) demote behind it. Dependency rules that force the shape: 9f explicitly after 8 + 9e; 9c "precedes iteration 10"; 9d's plan folds into 9c's; 12 only after 9 + 10 (catalog to diff, HTTP to build on); 11 rides 8's shard scheduler; h2c parked behind 8/9f/11; the post-12 parked list stays parked by the 2026-08-08 scope directive. (Iteration 7 dropped from this list — landed 2026-08-15.) 1. ~~**17**~~ — **PARKED 2026-08-20** (developer directive: framework v1 first); spec + plan approved, ready on branch `library-internal` for whenever it unparks. The framework v1-polish slice took its place and landed the same day (branch framework-v1, `just web-app` 16/0). 2. **9c then 9d** — finish the half-done branches (ipc-attach: manifest + binding; keypair-auth: manifest) before they rot; 9d folds into 9c's plan; both must precede 10. 3. **9e** — the measurement backbone; baseline single-shard BEFORE the runtime restructure so 8/9f/11 sign against real numbers. 4. **8** — shard-actor; the framework's multi-core serving story; unblocks 9f, 11, h2c. 5. **9f** — io_uring group-commit; explicitly after 8 + 9e. 6. **11** — fibers; retires the framework's disclosed keep-alive limit (an idle connection starving accept forced close-when-idle in iteration 16 — parked fds fix it properly); with 8 + 9f done, **h2c unparks** (spec §C) as the framework's HTTP/2 slice. 7. **10** — HTTP service layer; after 9c by its own precedence note; `service` blocks lower onto the framework instead of a parallel stack. 8. **12** — blue-green; prerequisites 9 + 10 now exist; completes the framework's deploy story. 9. **14 and 9g** — demoted with the goal shift: skillhost is no longer the driving workload; 9g likely collapses to "confirm `len(query)` + add `exists`" and precedes 14 when they run. 10. **13 + parked drain** — metaprogramming (spec first), then group-by, `pub(read)`/`using`/`#if`, ADT roster, WO-E225 — held behind 12 by the scope directive. ### Language track — sequenced, on the critical path | # | Item | Plan | | --- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 5 | Haxe-parity language surface — **`?T` forced handling first**, then switch expressions, records, enum payloads, try/catch, statics, `using`, modules, `is`, `pub(read)`, `#if` | [plan 8](plan/compiler/2026-08-01-haxe-parity-language.md) | | 6 | Program mode + systems stdlib — `fn main`, exit codes, `fs`/`proc`/`net`/`time`/`json` | [plan 9](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-program-mode-stdlib.md) | | 7 | log-watcher proof — the sample compiles and detects a silent death live | [plan 10](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-log-watcher-sample.md) | | 8 | Shard-actor runtime | [plan 4](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-shard-actor-vm-runtime.md) | | 9 | Database engine binding | [plan 5](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-db-engine-binding.md) | | 9b | `@table` + relations + language-integrated query — comprehension queries, `ref`/`backlink` navigation, GroupBy aggregates; acceptance: new `docs/examples/employee` sample | [spec](superpowers/specs/2026-08-15-table-relations-query-design.md) · [plan](plan/compiler/2026-08-15-employee-relations-query.md) | | 9c | Cross-program tables — attach to a running program's database (IPC string in wo.toml, manifest-granted rights, owner stays the single writer) | **no spec yet** — four open forks recorded in the iteration; brainstorm before planning | | 9d | Keypair attach auth — mutual challenge–response, grants name public keys, uid superseded | **no spec yet** — four forks recorded; plan folds into 9c's | | 9e | Durability + throughput + scale — restart-persistence, read/write benchmark, ~1M rows; the gate every later optimization re-runs | **no spec yet** — four forks recorded; the measurement backbone | | 9f | io_uring group-commit write path — batched durability overlapped on shard threads, fsync fallback | **no spec yet** — brainstorm after iterations 8 + 9e | | 9g | Query grammar from real embedded-DB corpora — whole-query count + correlated exists, driven by the skillhost SQL catalogue; add only what a corpus uses | **no spec yet** — three forks; may collapse to "confirm len(query) + add exists" | | 14 | skillhost host workload — port skillhost (MCP host + confined script runner) to writeonce; drives the missing host capabilities into the open (bounded subprocess, stdin/stdout transport, fs metadata, FFI-vs-out-of-process) | **no spec yet** — gaps recorded in the iteration; each gap brainstormed on demand, bounded-subprocess first | | 17 | library projects + dependency privacy — `wo.toml` kind = "library" (checkable without entry, dual lib+bin) + Go-style `internal/` at the [deps] boundary; framework reorg demonstrates both | **forks settled 2026-08-20** — decisions + framework/compiler/VM/GC impact in the iteration; spec/plan next | | 10 | HTTP service layer | [plan 6](superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-http-service-layer.md) | | 11 | Fibers | vision §3, [blue-green exploration](plan/exploration/blue-green-vm/00-vision.md) | | 12 | Blue-green deploy | [spec](superpowers/specs/2026-08-03-blue-green-vm-design.md) — plan authored after iterations 9–10 | ### Language track — parked until after iteration 12 Recorded 2026-08-08 by scope directive; nothing here lands before the log-watcher proof. - `WO-W201` `@gc`-suggestion refinement beyond the self-reference heuristic - `WO-E225` broadened to `ref`/`multi`/`map` element types and fn signatures - ADT container roster adoption (Stack, Queue, Set, Tree, Graph, …) — see the roster in [`compiler/nullable-types-implementation.md`](plan/compiler/nullable-types-implementation.md) - Web framework as a `.wo` library; UI (`##ui` SSR + live patches); script-based destructive migrations; MCP/agent wrapper over the management plane - `throw` (explicit raise) — cut 2026-08-10, 0 uses in the driving workload (log-watcher); catch frames ship without it - `time.mono` — cut 2026-08-10, 0 uses in the driving workload; returns when a workload needs monotonic math - `is` — cut 2026-08-10, 0 uses in the driving workload; emptied plan 8's old Task 7, which is deleted rather than deferred ### Frontend — removed as stale (2026-08-17) The `##ui` / `.htmlx` LiveView frontend track — 13d pricing UI, the 14-MVC-UI implementation plan, the 7-of-7 `ui-htmlx-live` plan, and the 9-doc `plan/exploration/ui/` design set — was **removed**. It was built entirely on the non-advancing Rust runtime (`.dev/reference/crates/wo-htmlx`, `cargo run`, WebSocket live-patches) and contradicts the current woc/wovm direction. Recorded in [`discarded.md`](plan/discarded.md). --- ## Discarded Settled rejections with their reasons live in [`discarded.md`](plan/discarded.md) — inheritance, `abstract` newtypes, `Money`/`SKU`/`Float`, `Dynamic`/`cast`/ `macro`/`extern`, AOT-to-C, Menhir, shared mutable engine state, external deployer daemon, destructive migrations in v1, and more. Argue against the recorded reason rather than re-opening an entry as new. ## Learnings What attempts taught, shipped or not, in [`learnings.md`](plan/learnings.md) — plumbed-is-not-enforced, vacuously-passing goldens, exit-0-with-wrong-output, the malloc-path ASan trick, deferred checks that never reach the runtime, validate-once-at-the-boundary, and reference-implement-in-C-first.