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Status: Draft 1.0 — Forward-looking specification and gap analysis.
This document is not a reverse-engineering report and is not a claim that the reference implementation already satisfies every requirement. It defines the target architecture for a production-grade, provider-neutral Semantic Execution System (SES), identifies the capabilities that remain to be specified or developed, and gives concrete acceptance criteria for future implementations.
The reference implementation may be used as an informative experiment, but the standard is the authority. Where the implementation and this specification differ, the implementation is considered incomplete until it is brought into conformance or the standard is deliberately amended.
Normative terms MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, RECOMMENDED, and MAY have their usual standards meaning.
Ahead-of-time generation can move stable semantic knowledge from runtime into compile-time artifacts, improving startup, memory, determinism, and deployment characteristics. It MUST NOT create a second semantic truth.
Generated artifacts MUST have:
The difficult problem is not code generation itself; it is semantic drift between generated and live metadata. The future standard must specify what happens when source models, policies, providers, or generated artifacts are out of sync.
Generated metadata MUST also be prevented from inferring authorization solely from storage shape.
Define a generated-artifact manifest, reproducible-build profile, source-to-artifact dependency graph, stale-artifact detection, generator compatibility protocol, and runtime/generated differential suite.
Generated and runtime semantic models MUST produce identical identities and equivalent operation graphs for the same source contract, or execution MUST be rejected.
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