Weksa

Weksa is a procedural language engine for alien grammars grounded in concept, culture, and constraint.

The project starts from a blunt rule: English words are not the source of truth. Meaning is decomposed into an ontology, passed through a worldview, constrained by grammar, shaped by phonology, distorted by history, and only then rendered as surface text.

Ownership Model

• Ontology owns meaning.
• Grammar owns required expression.
• Phonology owns sound shape.
• Diachrony owns historical distortion.
• Renderer owns surface text.
• Persistent state owns durable maps, constraints, decisions, and evidence.

If a future module cannot state what it owns and what invariant it protects, it does not get to exist. Harsh, but the alternative is a language generator with a clipboard and delusions of nationhood.

Scaffold

• state/map.yaml: canonical working map.
• state/scratch.md: disposable workbench.
• schemas/: human-facing state contract receipts.
• docs/: architecture, language model, and roadmap.
• settings/: setting-specific proving grounds for language projects.

Start with Best Modern Approach for the core design doctrine: ontology, roots, morphology, syntax, semantics, interlingua, diachrony, and model-assisted consistency.

See Project Model for the engine / language project / setting split, and Runtime and Authoring Split for the LLM-free hot path.

See Interlingua Standard for the shared meaning-packet contract Weksa clients should target.

See Verse Service Contract for the daemon contract: Weksa owns typed conversational intent, pronunciation plans, utterance handoffs, and the Eve/CultMesh surfaces that make those documents inspectable.

See Multilingual Utterance Lowering for the shared lowering target: interlingua projected through speaker state into English, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, and later target-language dialogue. Flavored English Lowering remains the target-specific English receipt.

See Target-Language Cultural Ontology Profiles for the reviewable address, register, politeness, idiom, metaphor, and script distinctions that target lowerers must inspect before producing output.

For the first AquaSynth speech-training handoff, see Tiny PanPhon v0.1 Speech Curriculum. Those packets are emitted by tools/emit_tiny_panphon_handoffs.py and provide the crawl-stage artifact for simple IPA sounds. Validate the checked contract with tools/validate_tiny_panphon_handoffs.py before handing the batch to AquaSynth or expanding pronunciation coverage.

Implementation Status

The first committed artifact is the persistent state spine: map, scratch, schemas, docs, examples, and a read-only provider advertisement fixture. The daemon runtime still needs implementation, but its authority is no longer ambiguous: writing and agent state enter Weksa as intent pressure, and typed utterance documents leave for AquaSynth.

Eusocial Interbeing / Zyphos is the current higher-priority setting target. Rust to Dust is preserved as an earlier proving ground, not engine doctrine.