Pattern Language Audit
Pattern Language Conformance Audit
An audit run turned the pattern interpreter from driver smoke coverage into contract evidence.
4 milestones 25 tasks 52 agents
10 plan 28 execute 33 review
201k peak context
122k median execute
5h 5m total 8m 37s per task
4m 35s plan 3h 2m execute 50m 5s review
198 edits 1.7k commands
codex harness
This run audited Gantry's pattern language as a public contract rather than a collection of bundled driver habits. It started by deriving an inventory from the implementation, made the fake world honest enough for focused interpreter tests, then kept splitting world-effect work until production adapters had per-promise evidence instead of broad citations. The durable result is still visible in the tree as audit TOML, mutation documentation, and a large interpreter conformance suite. Some early plan-era files and adapter-specific modules have since moved or disappeared, but the surviving evidence records the language surface, the world contracts, and the guards that keep new accepted syntax from arriving without coverage.
How this walkthrough is structured
Feature
What did the run build and ship?
The tree now carries a machine-readable conformance inventory, a world-contract matrix, mutation sentinels, and interpreter tests that make pattern semantics observable beyond bundled driver smoke tests.
Build
How did Gantry structure the work?
The run cut a broad language audit into inventory, interpreter coverage, drift guards, and world-contract closure, with replans concentrated where production effects had to become executable evidence.
Milestone 1
Source Inventory
3 tasks 10 agents 38m 3s wall time 147k peak context
The current audit inventory still says it was derived from the implementation, and the interpreter tests still expose a typed ScriptedWorld. That standing foundation lets later tests assert calls, parameters, failure paths, and halt reasons directly instead of inferring behavior from opaque fake responses.
This milestone was asked to make later conformance work possible by naming the language surface and making the scripted world stop hiding arguments. Its sprints stayed inside a foundation boundary a fresh agent could hold: inventory first, typed observations next, injectable failures after that. The ledger and run facts show a green pass through that foundation, with only repeated gate checks rather than a repair loop.
Source Inventory
2 agents 6m 48s wall time 114k peak context
The surviving inventory under the audit docs still enumerates schema, interpreter, and world entries with terminal states. It is no longer the exact first artifact from the run, but the current file preserves the run's main product: later coverage work updates one shared contract instead of private checklists.
This sprint carried the inventory contract by itself: derive the accepted surface from schema, evaluator, bundled patterns, and world seams. That was a good isolated cut because it did not ask the worker to settle semantics, only to name every line and give each one a status for later agents. The boundary held cleanly.
World Observations
2 agents 8m 47s wall time 142k peak context
ScriptedWorld still records the arguments that conformance cases inspect, including agent hints, predicates, task paths, channel reads, counters, and nested handoffs. That observable fake is the reason the interpreter tests can name language behavior instead of matching incidental debug text.
This sprint made the fake world record language-relevant inputs, turning hidden interpreter calls into typed observations. The work depended on the inventory's list of observability needs and could stay narrow because it did not need to add the full conformance matrix. It completed without recorded recovery.
Halt Foundation
2 agents 9m 36s wall time 147k peak context
The interpreter test world still has configured error paths and assertions for halted operations. Current tests can target a specific fallible call, inspect the preserved arguments, and verify that the halt is an interpreter result rather than a production side effect.
This sprint added the negative half of the same fake-world contract: failures had to be injectable at the operation that caused them. The brief kept production effects out of scope and asked only for honest halt reachability, which left a clear testing boundary. It landed green.
Milestone 2
Interpreter Conformance
16 tasks 47 agents 3h 37m wall time 201k peak context
Most of the run's durable code is now in the pattern interpreter tests and the audit TOML that those tests cite. Earlier driver-specific files from the run have been removed or refactored, but their contract claims survive in the generic production-world evidence and matrix rows.
This milestone carried the largest body of work: convert the inventory into focused language tests and then extend the boundary out toward world effects. The early interpreter slices stayed green, but shared world contracts were too broad in their first form and forced retries and replans. The later briefs show the response: split the work by harness, goal world, matrix indexing, production adapter family, map world, and final guards.
Case Registry
2 agents 4m 7s wall time 81k peak context
The interpreter test module still has a conformance case registry section, and the audit inventory cites named cases as evidence. That standing registry is what lets coverage rows be checked as contract claims rather than prose promises.
This sprint turned the passive inventory into an executable registry shape. Its charge was small but structural: give later workers a naming, assembly, and reconciliation pattern before they started adding cases. The cut completed cleanly.
Primitive Outcomes
2 agents 7m 32s wall time 115k peak context
The inventory still names primitive step cases for verdicts, git operations, validation results, and terminating dispositions. Those cases establish baseline interpreter behavior that later loop and fan-out tests can use without restating it.
This sprint covered deterministic steps before orchestration-heavy constructs entered the picture. The brief kept the worker on gate, goal check, git, map-spec validation, and termination outcomes, so failures would point to primitive semantics rather than surrounding flow. It passed without recovery.
Policy Matrix
2 agents 7m 10s wall time 113k peak context
The current inventory records the agent outcome contract and points to focused tests for policy products, declared outputs, degraded values, and modifier ordering. Later tests can use agent steps as fixtures because the policy surface is already covered as language semantics.
This sprint isolated the agent-step matrix: result, failure policy, produced output, degraded defaults, grounding, and modifiers. That was the right unit because agent results are reused inside almost every larger pattern shape. The run facts show it stayed green.
Rules And Counters
2 agents 9m 58s wall time 136k peak context
The audit inventory still cites rule, condition, outcome, and counter cases as conformance evidence. Those entries mean later control-flow behavior can be tested for its own dispatch shape rather than for every condition truth table again.
This sprint separated the rule language from the constructs that invoke it. It was asked to cover matching, conditions, counters, qualifiers, and run-block resumption before loops or fan-out leaned on those decisions. The boundary held with a green finish.
Loop Semantics
2 agents 8m 53s wall time 105k peak context
The standing inventory names loop and work-list cases for static and directory sources, empty-list handling, counters, completion, and corrupt outcomes. The current interpreter tests still exercise these constructs through synthetic patterns rather than bundled build scenarios.
This sprint gave sequential loop and work-list behavior its own proof surface. It had an extra gate pass but no recorded repair, which marks validation pressure rather than a changed plan. The brief kept rule semantics as inherited evidence and focused the worker on loop state.
Fan-Out Control
2 agents 7m 59s wall time 122k peak context
Fan-out semantics remain represented in the conformance inventory and interpreter tests, including task classes, task faults, pool width, side-loop cadence, finalizer precedence, and completion-order counter folding. Existing driver tests are still only smoke evidence for those meanings.
This sprint handled fan-out as a primitive rather than a loop variant. The brief gave a large but coherent control-flow surface: classification, admission, worker bodies, counters, side loops, finalizers, and drain behavior. It completed without a retry.
Inner Unit Ops
2 agents 8m 27s wall time 137k peak context
The current inventory still lists inner-unit contract, channel, runtime, operation, and halt evidence. The interpreter tests preserve coverage for absent and degraded values, cached reads, resumed notes, completion predicates, and operation failures.
This sprint isolated the newest inner-unit language surface so it did not remain driver-shaped. It had another repeated gate check, but the task stayed inside channel, cache, operation, predicate, and halt semantics. No recovery was recorded.
Subpattern Entry
2 agents 9m 44s wall time 135k peak context
Sub-pattern and substitution behavior remains visible in the inventory and interpreter tests. The current tree distinguishes fields that accept parameters from structural names that deliberately do not, which is the language boundary this sprint was asked to prove.
This sprint focused on the boundary between patterns: invocation, parameter passing, substitution, structural identity, nested counters, and run entry state. The brief was medium-sized because it avoided the surrounding rule and world-effect matrices. It landed as part of the green milestone ledger.
Load Validation
1 agents 6m 41s wall time 76k peak context
The loader surface is still represented in the inventory through validation, reference, cycle, parameter, and rejection entries. Accepted syntax is either covered, rejected, deleted, deferred to world contracts, or given a narrow rationale instead of being silently ignored.
This sprint closed the loader and compatibility leftovers after the earlier semantic slices had exposed disputed surface. The run facts show it as a clean continuation under a replanned milestone shape. Its job was adjudication, not broad new runtime behavior.
Shared World Contracts
5 agents 18m 27s wall time 131k peak context 1 replan
The world-contract matrix now has shared rows for journal durability, output presence, gate verdict mapping, and counter persistence. Those rows cite executable contract tests against the scripted world and a production generic world rather than relying on existing scenario names.
This is where the cut first visibly fought back. The brief says an earlier attempt was too broad and had produced matrix-like citations rather than executable shared contracts, so the sprint was narrowed and replanned around a small harness slice. The recovery record belongs here because the difficulty was proving world effects, not interpreter syntax.
Shared Contract Finish
7 agents 40m 50s wall time 122k peak context 1 replan
The matrix and inventory now index goal-world promises such as goal-check mapping, amber output carry-forward, build-cycle handoff, cycle predicates, and rejection of the wrong sub-pattern name. The evidence is tied to executable world-contract tests over the generic production world.
This sprint also hit the same pressure point: the previous scope had tried to close too many production worlds at once. The replanned brief kept the identifier but reduced the deliverable to the goal-world contract slice, and the run record shows both retry and replan activity before it settled. The final boundary was a concrete production adapter, not all remaining runtime effects.
Exhaustiveness Guards
7 agents 30m 25s wall time 97k peak context 1 replan
The current world-contract matrix is per-promise rather than per-adapter prose. Covered rows must cite executable world-contract evidence, while broad production rows stay out of the covered state until each promise has its own row or rationale.
This sprint was renamed by reality before it could become the final guard sprint. The brief records that production-world coverage was still too unsettled, so the work became a per-promise evidence index for the shared and goal slices. Its retry and replan history shows the review forcing granularity before more coverage was added.
Gated Task Contracts
2 agents 11m 7s wall time 201k peak context
The inventory now points gated task set promises to matrix rows and executable contract evidence. The surviving matrix covers gate mappings, scoped repository effects, inner-unit completion, roster state, latches, and explicit one-world-only boundaries for unreachable methods.
This sprint moved from generic shared contracts into the gated task set production world. The brief gave it a full but single-adapter surface: gates, scoped git, modifier tokens, inner-unit effects, rosters, latches, and unsupported promises. It ran cleanly after the matrix index existed.
Loop Production Contracts
1 agents 12m 39s wall time 79k peak context
The current matrix has loop-style rows for build, design, and loop production promises. It records executable evidence for planner seams, roster and ledger state, nested sub-pattern dispatch, disposition mapping, side files, agent prompt mapping, and unsupported modifier boundaries.
This sprint grouped the loop-style production adapters after the gated task set was indexed. The scope was still high, but it excluded map fan-out and final guards, giving a fresh agent a coherent family of worlds with nested-work behavior. The run facts show no recovery on this slice.
Map Production Contracts
2 agents 12m 7s wall time 181k peak context
Map production promises are now represented in the matrix with rows for setup validation, roster sourcing, pool width, classification, worker path scoping, ledger skips, checkpoint sampling, finalizer flow mapping, latches, and token behavior. Dirty-worktree resume is recorded as production-owned outside interpreter syntax.
This sprint saved the fan-out adapter for its own pass because map semantics combine pool dispatch, classification, checkpoints, artifacts, finalizers, and production tokens. By this point the evidence-index rules were already in place, so the worker could add rows instead of designing the matrix again. It completed without a recorded repair.
Exhaustiveness Guards
2 agents 9m 21s wall time 164k peak context
The current tree contains exhaustiveness checks and scoped mutation hooks in the pattern language and interpreter modules. The mutation manifest records representative perturbations, and the conformance tests assert that those changes are caught by language-specific cases rather than driver smoke tests.
This sprint finally took the guard work after the world contracts had been split and closed. The brief depended on the completed registry and matrix, which made the task a durable enforcement pass rather than another coverage expansion. It landed green once the broad production placeholders were gone.
Milestone 3
Exhaustiveness Guards
3 tasks 14 agents 29m 26s wall time 129k peak context
The live audit docs still expose the coverage declaration and mutation manifest, and the interpreter tests still contain the guard hooks they describe. This milestone's contribution is now folded into the broader conformance state rather than isolated as a separate feature surface.
This milestone repeated the guard theme as a focused audit over coverage declaration, mutation sensitivity, and acceptance drift. Its run facts show retries at the ledger level and failed planning attempts before the last sprint could proceed, so the stress was in getting the acceptance state coherent. The work stayed limited to enforcement and reconciliation, not new production adapter coverage.
Coverage Surface
2 agents 7m 17s wall time 129k peak context
The inventory now describes allowed evidence states and names exhaustiveness checks for schema-shaped and enum-shaped categories. A new accepted construct is meant to break the conformance gate until the registry, matrix, or inventory accounts for it.
This sprint turned registry and inventory data into a machine-checkable coverage surface. The brief asked for drift to become visible when a new accepted construct appears without evidence, a narrow task because it depended on already-authored coverage. It finished through the retry-shaped milestone ledger without a recorded recovery entry.
Mutation Sentinels
2 agents 10m 38s wall time 94k peak context
The mutation manifest still names perturbations for rule routing, condition comparison, failure policy, modifier effects, and substitution. The current Rust modules include scoped mutation toggles that the conformance tests enable to prove those semantic changes fail.
This sprint sampled whether the conformance suite actually observes semantics. It was not a new mutation product; the brief asked for ordinary test hooks that perturb meaningful interpreter behavior and then disappear after each test. The boundary was small enough to fit after the coverage declaration.
Acceptance Drift
5 agents 4m 37s wall time 76k peak context
The current inventory, registry references, world matrix, and mutation manifest agree on terminal evidence states. Where behavior is rejected, deleted, production-owned, or narrowly exempt, the audit files record that as a decision instead of leaving accepted surface in a parsed-but-ignored state.
This sprint reconciled the evidence artifacts after guard work, and the run facts show failed planning attempts before it found the right shape. Its task was to remove stale exemptions, over-broad claims, and temporary proof edits rather than expand the language. The final row finished green.
Milestone 4
Shared World Contracts
4 tasks 9 agents 23m 31s wall time 126k peak context
The live world-contract matrix now has an empty gap list and a runtime decision ledger, with rows for scripted, generic production, goal, milestone, build, loop, and map promises. The production-world work is still visible through matrix rows and generic production-world tests even though earlier adapter-specific files from the run no longer stand as separate modules.
This milestone closed the audit by revisiting shared world contracts as first-class evidence. The run facts show repeated gate checks and a final sprint that was recorded as already satisfied, which matches the briefs: index the evidence, close production gaps, then reconcile the acceptance bar. It was a cleanup and proof milestone after the hard splits in the interpreter milestone.
Evidence Index
2 agents 5m 47s wall time 93k peak context
The world-contract matrix now has row-level promises and an explicit gap-list state. Covered rows cite executable contract tests, while rationale rows explain why a promise is production-only, one-world-only, rejected, deleted, or narrowly exempt.
This sprint audited the world-contract evidence as an index instead of a loose set of examples. It was asked to name every promise, its worlds, its required observable behavior, and the terminal state still needed. The gate repeated after execution, but no replan was recorded.
Production Gap Closure
2 agents 5m 53s wall time 112k peak context
The current matrix records production effects through executable generic production-world tests and a runtime surface decision ledger. It distinguishes interpreter syntax from behavior owned by run setup, production adapters, or explicit unsupported boundaries.
This sprint consumed the gap list and closed the remaining production world-effect promises. The brief made it responsible for executable evidence or defensible terminal rationale across repository state, gates, snapshots, restores, nested dispatch, resume behavior, task state, fan-out, and latches. It completed through the retry-shaped milestone ledger.
Acceptance Bar Reconciliation
1 agents 1m 47s wall time 73k peak context
The finished audit docs now present a coherent acceptance state: every accepted construct and world-effect promise has a terminal classification. The matrix and inventory guards keep covered claims paired with executable evidence or a recorded rationale.
This sprint was the closeout pass, and the ledger says the bar was already satisfied when it ran. Its work was to reconcile inventory, registry, matrix, mutation manifest, spec obligations, and compatibility decisions into a final acceptance state. That made it a verification boundary rather than another feature slice.