SpecChat Documentation

Theory

• Enquiry Into Specification as Meaningful Struggle

  Why specification is the site where durable human capability must now be built, and what the specification medium must carry.

• Citations and references

  Supporting citations for the Enquiry.

Specification

• SpecChat Overview

  Motivation, design rationale, and overview of the SpecChat system.

• SpecLang Specification

  Language definition: constructs, semantics, the five registers of specification.

• SpecLang Grammar

  Formal EBNF grammar: lexer tokens, productions, ambiguity resolution.

• The Standard Extension — Overview

  Opt-in extension that encodes the architectural rules of Hassan Habib's The Standard.

• The Standard Extension — Specification
• The Standard Extension — Grammar

Examples

• Blazor Harness — system spec manifest

  Canonical small sample: a Blazor analytics harness, complete in two files.

• Global Corp — narrative architecture document · architecture spec · manifest

  Scale exemplar: a fictional BTABOK-complete enterprise (Global Corp Inc.) shown both as a long-form narrative architecture document and as the corresponding spec collection (~22 files). The narrative is the human entry point; the spec files are authoritative.

Related

• The Multiplier and the Mirror

  The parent paper: formal foundations for specification as meaningful struggle.