Grammar Rules

Ordering (canonical precedences)#

Purpose  →  Context  →  Understanding  →  Contribution
        →  Decision  →  Continuity     →  Posterity

Rules are declared as direct precedences. Transitive orderings are derived by transitivePrecedence(). orderingIsAcyclic() proves the graph is a DAG — a cycle would mean the grammar contradicts itself.

Composition invariants#

Standing constraints that hold regardless of order:

1. Rationale beside decision. Rationale belongs beside decisions. Never separated from them.
2. Questions open understanding. Questions are never treated as failure.
3. Memory is preserved understanding. Memory is not storage.
4. Continuity survives interruption. Every experience must anticipate interruption.
5. Capability is the outcome. The purpose of every experience is increased capability.
6. Posterity is capability across time.

Relationships (non-ordering)#

Nine support / produces / belongs-with edges connect elements outside strict precedence — for example, rationale belongs-with decision, and understanding produces capability.

Location: src/platform/stewardship/grammar/grammar-rules.ts and grammar-registry.ts.