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From: "Jonathan D.A. Jewell" <6759885+hyperpolymath@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 19:04:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docs(spec): stamp RECORD-DIALECT-SPEC as SUPERSEDED by DEED
 grammar v0.1.0
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Owner ruling, 2026-09-08: the record dialect is superseded, and the file is
kept as history rather than withdrawn.

The record dialect specified a TOML-family surface — `[section]` headers and
`key = value` entries — for the seven descriptiles. The DEED grammar has no
`key = value` production and no `[section]` production; the only bracket is
`(`. The two cannot both be normative for the same files.

The document is retained unaltered below the notice. It was an honest record:
it stated plainly that 435 estate files conformed to a grammar that "existed
only by imitation". Measured across all 35,884 legacy .a2ml files, the
descriptile family had reached 0.2% conformance to the actual grammar (10
correct against 5,424 TOML-shaped) — this document is evidence of how that
happened, so deleting it would destroy the provenance.

Changes: :status: Draft -> SUPERSEDED, plus :superseded-by: and
:superseded-date:, and a WARNING notice ahead of the abstract. No change to
the specification text itself.

Superseded by: DEED-GRAMMAR-SPEC.adoc v0.1.0, hyperpolymath/standards
deed/spec/ (PR #752).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QNjWX2B4FffG7zqMBMui6v
---
 RECORD-DIALECT-SPEC.adoc | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/RECORD-DIALECT-SPEC.adoc b/RECORD-DIALECT-SPEC.adoc
index e7f723e..470e342 100644
--- a/RECORD-DIALECT-SPEC.adoc
+++ b/RECORD-DIALECT-SPEC.adoc
@@ -2,13 +2,37 @@
 = A2ML Record Dialect v1.0.0 Specification
 :version: 1.0.0
 :date: 2026-07-03
-:status: Draft
+:status: SUPERSEDED
+:superseded-by: DEED-GRAMMAR-SPEC v0.1.0
+:superseded-date: 2026-09-08
 :era: v1
 :toc: left
 :toclevels: 3
 :icons: font
 :sectnums:
 
+[WARNING]
+====
+*This document is HISTORY. It is SUPERSEDED by `DEED-GRAMMAR-SPEC.adoc` v0.1.0
+(`hyperpolymath/standards`, `deed/spec/`), 2026-09-08.*
+
+The record dialect specified below — the TOML-family surface of `[section]`
+headers and `key = value` entries — is *NOT part of `.deed`*. The DEED grammar
+has no `key = value` production and no `[section]` production. The only bracket
+is `(`. A file using `=` as a field separator is not a deed.
+
+This document is retained *unaltered below this notice* because it is the
+honest record of a real state of affairs: when it was written, 435 estate files
+did conform to the surface it describes, and it said so plainly — "the surface
+was *used* but never *specified*". What it documented was drift, and
+documenting the drift is how the drift became citable. Measured across all
+35,884 legacy `.a2ml` files, the descriptile family had reached *0.2%*
+conformance to the actual grammar (10 correct against 5,424 TOML-shaped).
+
+*Do not implement from this document.* Implement from the DEED grammar
+specification. Do not cite it as normative for any new work.
+====
+
 [abstract]
 == Abstract