_pathroot

A global marker file protocol for modular devtools environments.

Table of Contents

• What this is
• Quick start
• What you get
• Repository map
• Where to go next
• Licence

What this is

_pathroot is a global marker file protocol for modular devtools environments.

Quick start

# 1. Create a repo from this template (or clone it), then from the repo root:
just init                # interactive bootstrap: fills every {{PLACEHOLDER}}

# 2. See the available tasks:
just                     # lists all phases (build, test, validate, audit, ...)

# 3. Check the repo still satisfies the RSR shape:
just validate            # structure + metadata checks

just init prompts for the project name, owner, author, licence contact, and the other values listed in .machine_readable/ai/PLACEHOLDERS.adoc, substitutes them across the tree, validates the result, and (if available) runs the k9-svc checks.

What you get

• Machine-readable metadata (.machine_readable/descriptiles/) — STATE, META, ECOSYSTEM, PLAYBOOK, AGENTIC, NEUROSYM, CLADE, and anchors/ANCHOR, in a2ml, so tools and agents can read the project’s state and boundaries.

• AI gatekeeper protocol — 0-AI-MANIFEST.a2ml is the universal entry point that tells an AI agent how to work in this repo before it touches anything.

• Typed ABI/FFI seam — src/interface/Abi/ (Idris2 type + layout proofs) over src/interface/ffi/ (Zig implementation), with generated C headers.

• CI/CD — GitHub Actions for quality, security (CodeQL, Scorecard, secret scanning), multi-forge mirroring, and RSR anti-pattern enforcement.

• Supply-chain & reproducibility — container layering (stapeln), Guix shells, SBOM, and signing hooks.

• Governance — GOVERNANCE.adoc, MAINTAINERS.adoc, .github/ community health files, and a release AUDIT.adoc gate.

Repository map

Path	What lives there
0-AI-MANIFEST.a2ml	Universal entry point for AI agents (read first).
.machine_readable/	Project metadata, policies, contractiles, AI configs.
docs/	Onboarding, status, governance, practice, decisions.
build/, Justfile	Task orchestration (just phases delegate to build/just/*.just).
.github/	Workflows + community health files.
tests/, benches/	Test suites and benchmarks.

Where to go next

• EXPLAINME.adoc — the engineering deep-dive: how the pieces actually work.

• AFFIRMATION.adoc — the dated, signed honesty snapshot of the repo’s true state.

• AUDIT.adoc — the release audit gate.

• .machine_readable/ai/PLACEHOLDERS.adoc — the full placeholder reference.

Licence

Code, configuration and scripts are Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0); prose documentation is CC-BY-SA-4.0. Both texts live in LICENSES/, and per-file SPDX-License-Identifier headers are authoritative. The GitHub-detected licence is MPL-2.0 (the root LICENSE.txt). Long-term attribution uses Quantum-Safe Provenance — see the Quantum-Safe Provenance exhibit.