- resolved 9g's forks EMPIRICALLY against the running compiler:
- count(<query>) and len(<query>) already work (fork 2 collapses to
zero code)
- skillhost's correlated NOT EXISTS is a backlink emptiness in
writeonce (`where len(x.children) == 0`), using only 9b machinery
(fork 1) — verified on a self-referential ?ref/backlink table
=> corpus #1 forces NO new grammar; per the method ("add only what a
corpus uses"), exists/not-exists was NOT built
- docs/examples/skill-catalog: mirrors skillhost's `skills` table
(name @unique, description/location/root, parent ?ref Skill, children
backlink) and translates all five of its SQL statements 1:1
(insert+dup-trap, get-by-name, list, roots via backlink-emptiness,
count); scripts/skill-catalog-accept.sh 7/0, WAL-durable, dup trap
persists across restart
- fixture run/db-query-corpus (count(query) + backlink NOT EXISTS);
just skill-catalog module; target/ gitignored
- general exists/not-exists left unbuilt and recorded as "enters when a
corpus forces a non-relation correlation"
- gates: oop-e2e 80/0, woc-test 566/0, skill-catalog 7/0; story + board
record the finding
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 4c82461634d45f11eca1a252702031c03d999c7f)
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skill-catalog — the query grammar corpus (iteration 9g)
Corpus #1 for the query-grammar method (story 09g): take a real application backed by an embedded SQL database, translate its every statement to the writeonce query surface, and add only the grammar it forces. The application is
~/projects/skillhost(a C++ MCP host whose in-memory SQLite holds its skill catalog).
Result: skillhost forced no new grammar. Its entire SQL footprint — one
table, a single-row INSERT, and four SELECTs (whose only non-trivial
features are COUNT(*) and a correlated NOT EXISTS) — is expressible on the
surface iteration 9b already shipped. The five statements, translated:
skillhost SQL (src/catalog/catalog.cpp) |
writeonce | mode |
|---|---|---|
INSERT INTO skills (…) VALUES (?,…) + SQLITE_CONSTRAINT dup check |
insert Skill { … } + try…catch on the @unique trap |
seed |
SELECT … WHERE name = ? |
from x in Skill where x.name == n take 1 select x |
get <name> |
SELECT … ORDER BY name |
from x in Skill order by x.name select x |
list |
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM skills |
count(from x in Skill select x) |
count |
SELECT … WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM skills c WHERE c.parent = s.name) ORDER BY name |
from x in Skill where len(x.children) == 0 order by x.name select x |
roots |
The one translation choice: skillhost's correlated NOT EXISTS (skills that
are nobody's parent) becomes a backlink emptiness — Skill.children is the
inverse of parent, and len(x.children) == 0 is the childless test. No
subquery construct is needed; the general exists/not exists is deferred
until a corpus uses a correlation a backlink cannot express.
skill-catalog seed | list | roots | count | get <name>, WAL-durable under
WO_DATA. Acceptance: scripts/skill-catalog-accept.sh.