The composition DAG is not a content mechanism; render is fold #1. The same structure
(content-addressed objects + ordered labelled forks + seq/par/alt/each) is interpreted by a
different fold per domain: content=render, behaviour=execute (flow-on-sx), query=eval
(Datalog), pipeline=reduce (artdag, literally a content-addressed composition DAG),
types=extent (and/or = intersection/union). "Relations just a fork" generalises: relation
kind + fold = domain. The X-on-sx loops already ARE these folds — the composition DAG is the
fleet convergence point. Payoff: build composition once, reuse per domain via interpreters;
the block editor + metamodel UI generalise to every fold (author a workflow like a document).
System collapses to four ideas: content-addressed objects + composition algebra + per-domain
folds + decidable-core predicates. Roadmap +2: prove universality with a second (execute)
fold over the same seq/alt/each; then factor out the shared compose core.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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