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 |
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 |
Dimensions
roadmap
short term bugfixing cyb: clear a lot of technical debt and make it more reliable and usable offchain inference: generative model built from cybergraph skill for openclaw: agents can talk using decentralized social & cybergraph universal hash: agents can mine tokens on cpu learning rewards main…
hemera/roadmap
hemera roadmap hemera is specified: x⁻¹ partial S-box, 16 partial rounds, 32-byte output, ~736 constraints per permutation. these proposals are OPTIMIZATIONS on top of the current spec — reducing constraint count further and shifting hemera's role from "hash for everything" to "trust anchor."…
zheng/roadmap
zheng roadmap open proposals not yet in canonical spec. all other proposals are now in reference/ as canonical features. proposals | proposal | status | target | |----------|--------|--------| | gpu-prover | draft | full pipeline in VRAM — 45-100x throughput on commodity GPU | | ring-aware-fhe |…
bbg/roadmap
bbg roadmap only unfinished proposals remain here. executed proposals have moved to: **reference/** — the spec (WHAT and HOW) **docs/explanation/** — the rationale (WHY) remaining proposals | proposal | in reference? | what's missing | |----------|--------------|----------------| | storage-proofs |…
year/54/roadmap
in this post, i will outline a short-term roadmap with a clear purpose title:: year/54/roadmap for recovering from chernobyl: the bug introduced in the recent update as well as actions needed to address the price crisis the main goal is to deliver short, impactful changes to shift swap price…
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.…