Design Proposals
Proposals for language and VM design changes. Not spec — these are
desires documented for future consideration.
Each proposal is a standalone markdown file. Status is tracked in the
frontmatter.
Proposals
| proposal |
status |
what |
| noun-types |
draft |
why nox drops cell? and what Trident does instead |
| polynomial-target |
draft |
polynomial noun lowering for nox |
| five-algebras |
draft |
type-driven regime dispatch: BitVec, RingElement, Tropical, Curve types + 4 new std modules |
| warrior-architecture |
draft |
core vs tooling vs warriors: workspace split, nox+native in core, stack/gpu/quantum opt-in |
| cyber-stack-adoption |
draft |
nebu + hemera + nox + zheng integration, AST→Noun path, 14 sessions |
| switch-to-hemera |
draft |
replace blake3 + custom poseidon2 with hemera, ContentHash 32→64 bytes |
| trident-on-evm |
draft |
EvmLowering + os.ethereum.* + verifier-codegen — six capabilities Solidity/Fe can't deliver, 15 sessions |
Status values
| Status |
Meaning |
draft |
Idea captured, open for discussion |
accepted |
Approved — ready to implement and move to spec |
rejected |
Decided against, kept for rationale |
implemented |
Done — migrated to the relevant reference/ spec file |
Homonyms
soft3/roadmap
roadmap
soft3/hemera/roadmap
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cyb/optica/ROADMAP
roadmap optica is a static-site publisher for markdown knowledge graphs. the rendering pipeline (markdown → HTML → templates → CSS + minimal JS) is constrained by the web platform — DOM, Canvas, CSS. that ceiling is acceptable for documents up to ~10⁴ nodes. high-performance interactive graph…
cyb/reference/roadmap
Roadmap: project cleanup and improvements 1. Commit and clean up current changes [ ] Commit pending uncommitted changes (error handling, analytics API update, CSS fix) [ ] Find real code duplications and extract into shared utilities [ ] Fix pre-existing TS error (`reflect-metadata` in tsconfig) 2.…
neural/trident/reference/roadmap
Roadmap Trident exists to write [CORE](https://cyber.page/core-spec/) — Conserved Observable Reduction Equilibrium, a self-verifying substrate for planetary collective intelligence. 16 reduction patterns, field-first arithmetic, BBG state, focus dynamics — all written in Trident, all provable.…