Worldant runs filesystem-authored application functions and durable processes. worldant serve checks the source tree, stages an immutable journal snapshot, activates it, and serves that snapshot instead of executing the working tree directly.

Worldant has two public callable concepts:

• Command: immediate, non-durable application function.
• Workflow: durable deterministic orchestration.

Workflow Steps are internal IO checkpoints. They are not public callables.

Removed concepts are not part of the current model: Query, Mutation, Reactive/Rule, Goal, and generic Action.

World Shape

worldant init creates one bounded source root. The configured application and world determine runtime identity; declarations determine artifacts, and directories only organize source:

todo/
  worldant.ts
  src/
    main.ts
  generated/

"worldant::command", "worldant::workflow", and "worldant::step" declare artifacts. Their defineCommand(), defineWorkflow(), and defineStep() wrappers are equivalent. A module may mix those declarations with presentation code and helpers; the compiler emits role-pure outputs.

Core Rule

PostgreSQL is the durable truth and the authorization boundary. Commands and Steps perform supported IO. Workflows orchestrate deterministic durable progress.