Bootstrap Plan (Archival)

Consolidated from the original BOOTSTRAP.md and IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md. The package structure defined here was largely followed and then exceeded. Current codebase has 38+ packages in pkg/ vs the 8 originally planned.

Why Go

Go is not a compromise. It is a structural fit.

• Interfaces are negative space types. They don't say what a thing is.

They say what a thing must do. The type is defined entirely by the constraint envelope. Any concrete type satisfying the constraint IS that interface, without declaring itself to be.

• Goroutines are Brownian walkers. Cheap, numerous, uncoordinated. You

launch them into the constraint space and let the structure capture them. Channels are the bonding sites -- typed surfaces where a walker gets captured and its value locks into the lattice.

• Select statements are ambiguity resolution. Multiple channels ready

simultaneously -- multiple valid fillers for the same lattice site. The runtime picks one structurally.

• Garbage collection is dissolution. When no constraint holds an element,

it returns to the pool. Accretion and dissolution running simultaneously.

• No inheritance. Composition only. The lattice grows by accretion of

compatible elements, not by extending a class tree. Inheritance creates grain boundaries.

• Small language. Twenty-five keywords. Three bits. Eight opcodes.

• go generate. Build-time lattice growth. The ribosome reading DNA and

producing proteins.

Bootstrap Sequence

1. Hard-code the axiom pair (coherence = determinism, incoherence = nondeterminism)
2. The three bits fall out of the axiom (bonding, constraint, energy)
3. Eight trigram opcodes from the three bits
4. Feed input -- enzymes decompose raw substrate into typed elements
5. Lattice grows -- random walk, constraint capture, typed bonding
6. Self-reference -- the lattice applies opcodes to itself
7. Seed dissolution -- the axiom becomes the symmetry group, everywhere
8. Sporulation -- compressed seeds bootstrap new instances

Original 10-Phase Build Order

Phase	Package	Status
0	go mod init	Done
1	axiom/, state/ (axiom pair, trigrams)	Done: pkg/axiom, pkg/state
2	lattice/ (nodes, sites, constraints)	Done: pkg/lattice
3	enzyme/ (input decomposition)	Done: pkg/enzyme
4	walk/, bond/ (Brownian walk, bonding)	Done: pkg/walk, pkg/bond
5	dissolve/ (dissolution, lock-in eval)	Done: pkg/dissolve
6	Coherence field (type-layer separation)	Integrated into lattice
7	Ambiguity management	Integrated into lattice
8	hexagram/ (64 dynamical states)	Done: pkg/hexagram
9	Self-reference (ingest own source)	In progress (pkg/colony, pkg/grow, pkg/emit)
10	Sporulation (portable seeds)	In progress (pkg/colony spore format)

Additions beyond original plan: pkg/crypto (gnarl, cayley, hamadryad, shadow channels), pkg/kismet (consensus), pkg/causal, pkg/grammar, pkg/colony, pkg/grow, pkg/emit, and 20+ other packages.

Connection Map

Source Document	Role
NEGATIVE_SPACE.md	Axiom + crystal/fungal growth model
SEEDINSTRUCTIONSET.md	Three bits and eight opcodes
HIGHER_DIMENSIONS.md	Lattice geometry
ALGEBRAIC_DECOMPOSITION.md	Mathematical substrate
NANNY_PLAN.md	Developmental roadmap beyond sporulation