SEED

Plant the intent. Grow the system.

SEED is a DSL-based brief compactor that compresses prose project intentions into dense token chains for LLMs — and generates .dna files for 3D visualization in FORGE.

Why

A typical project brief sent to an LLM is 200+ words of prose, which:

• Wastes tokens (cost + latency)
• Carries ambiguity (synonyms, fluff, filler)
• Is hard to version (diff a paragraph vs diff a structured chain)

SEED transforms:

"j'aimerais un programme qui filtre mes mails par ordre de pertinence et les enregistre, puis m'alerte sur Slack" (~30 words)

into:

filtrer <mail> <pertinence> → enregistrer <db> & alerter <slack>

(~12 tokens — ~10× compression)

Status

🌱 v0.1.0 — Engine ready (2026-04-25)

The engine library is complete and tested. Six units (TokenDB, Composer, Parser, Transpiler, Compressor, Storage) compile a CLI-grammar project intent into:

• A compressed DSL string (sent to LLMs — measured ≥ 2× compression on real prose)
• A canonical .dna JSON file (consumed by FORGE for 3D viz, separate plan)

Test coverage: 47 tests, all green (dotnet test).

Build:

dotnet build      # builds Seed.Engine class library (.NET 8)
dotnet test       # runs full test suite

Next: FORGE integration plan (Godot panel UI + 3D renderer adapter that consumes .dna files).

Documents

• Design : docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-25-seed-design.md
• Plan : docs/superpowers/plans/2026-04-25-seed-engine-plan.md
• Visual library catalog : docs/visual-library/icon-catalog.md

Architecture

• Engine (src/Seed.Engine/) — pure C# .NET 8 class library, no UI/host deps :
  • TokenDb — embedded JSON registry, verb/modifier validation
  • Composer — UI choices → DSL string
  • Parser — DSL string → typed AST + errors
  • Transpiler — AST → canonical .dna JSON
  • Compressor — .dna → minimal DSL for LLM (strips comments, normalizes whitespace)
  • Storage — CRUD on .dna files (JSON file storage; SQLite alternative later if needed)
• Host A (palier 1) : module inside FORGE — composer UI + 3D rendering of .dna (separate plan)
• Host B (palier 2) : standalone web SPA via Blazor Wasm — same engine, browser host

License

Private repo for now. Open-source release planned for v2 under Apache 2.0 (open-core model — engine + spec free, FORGE integration + SaaS commercial).

Author

bui1 (Simon Cantin) — designed in collaboration with Claude (Anthropic).

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Method

Architecture-first, AI-paired. Designed and shipped in a single April 2026 sprint with Claude (Opus 4.6) as paired implementation and audit partner. Each commit cross-audited: code review, dependency check, test-coverage gate. v0.1.0 ships with 47 passing tests across the six engine units (TokenDB, Composer, Parser, Transpiler, Compressor, Storage).

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