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README.md<br>Outline<br>WML — Workflow Map Language
An engineering-grade grammar for declaring AI software workflows as maps.
The pitch
WML lets you declare AI software as a workflow map (the "what") instead<br>of prompting an agent to generate it (the "how"). The map is the<br>application; source code is a derived, ephemeral artifact.
A workflow map composes fifteen versioned primitives (call_llm,<br>read_file, loop, if, assert, …) connected by frozen contracts.<br>The runner executes the map deterministically. If the map parses and the<br>primitives are wired correctly, the generation behavior follows from the<br>grammar — not from the mood of the model.
The argument in one page
Most AI-coding tools treat the model as the substrate: the model is<br>asked to generate code, reason about code, and decide what to do next,<br>all in free-form character space. This conflates model with<br>infrastructure and produces three structural failure modes:<br>nondeterministic memory, non-restartable execution, non-auditable<br>reasoning.
WML inverts this. The model becomes one primitive (call_llm) among<br>fifteen. Control flow lives in the map, not in prompts. Every action is<br>versioned, timed out, and audited. The runner enforces the grammar, not<br>hope.
Where to start
Start here: CLAIMS.md — the argument in 2 minutes
Read the article: the-map-is-the-app.md
See also:
White Paper
Technical Specifications
Addendum
implementation Plan
What Makes WML a Formal Language
Relationship to the Symbol Grounding Framework (SGF)
WML is one component of its broader parent project, the Symbol Grounding Framework (SGF) .
SGF is a multi-layer architecture for grounded machine meaning. It defines:
Core Lexicon of sense-disambiguated concepts grounded in ~65 semantic primes
Synapses: hub-and-spoke event structures with 15 fixed semantic roles
Wire protocol – a versioned, machine‑to‑machine message format that lets services exchange grounded semantics without prior integration contracts.
HFF: a wire format for sealed, signed, provenance-tracked meaning
AFP: an act protocol (INFORM, QUERY, COMMAND, etc.) with receiver sovereignty
Omega : a formal governance grammar with 13 primitives and a deterministic Safety Kernel
WML is a workflow-map language for composing AI software from primitives.
See also:
Main repo for SGF
Formal RFC specification for SGF
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