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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

Read the RFC: RFC_WORKFLOW_MAP_LANGUAGE.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 stack of languages, grammars, and protocols for grounded machine meaning:

Core Lexicon of sense-disambiguated concepts grounded in ~65 semantic primes

Synapses : hub-and-spoke event structures with 15 fixed semantic roles for representing who did what to whom

HFF Wire protocol : a versioned, machine‑to‑machine message format that lets services exchange grounded semantics without prior integration contracts.

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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