Summary

This repo was scaffolded from rsr-template-repo and never instantiated: literal {{PLACEHOLDER}} tokens survived throughout, including in the .zig FFI sources, so the Zig genuinely did not parse.

Real identity substituted across ~85 files:

• Name: recon-silly-ation / recon_silly_ation (identifier form)
• Owner/forge: hyperpolymath / github.com
• Licence: MPL-2.0 (code) / CC-BY-SA-4.0 (docs), two-line SPDX convention
• Purpose: WASM document reconciliation (ReconForth VM) — sourced from reposystem/config/tools.ncl's registration of this repo (role = 'interop, actions = ["reconcile"]), the only authoritative description of this repo's purpose found anywhere in the estate.

Bugs the disease was masking

• .github/settings.yml had name: "{{REPO}}" — an unsubstituted probot self-rename landmine. Now a safe no-op self-affirmation.
• src/interface/ffi/src/main.zig: fixed {{project}}_init() etc. to real identifiers, plus two real bugs the placeholders were hiding — an opaque type declared with fields (illegal in Zig) and std.heap.c_allocator used without linking libc. Both fixed for real (opaque/impl split + page_allocator).
• src/interface/ffi/build.zig defined no build/test steps at all — zig build test failed with no step named 'test'. Added a real static-library step plus a test step wiring up both main.zig's unit tests and test/integration_test.zig.
• Justfile / build/just/*.just: replaced echo "TODO" / fake-success stubs with real commands this repo can back (zig build, zig fmt, zig build test, idris2 --typecheck); deleted recipes with nothing to back them (run, run-verbose, bench, readiness, test-smoke — this is an FFI/WASM library, not a standalone executable, and no bench/readiness suites exist).
• .machine_readable/contractiles/Justfile was a stale, diverged copy of the root Justfile even though the repo's own Dustfile hygiene check requires it be a hardlink ("Only one Justfile"). Re-linked for real.
• Several .machine_readable/contractiles/*.a2ml files (Bustfile, Intentfile, Mustfile, Trustfile) still described themselves as being rsr-template-repo, "the canonical template" — fixed self-identity and dropped template-only failure modes/checks that don't apply to an instantiated consumer repo (including one permanently-broken check grepping for a marker string that was never present).
• CLADE.a2ml carried the template's own UUID verbatim, which would have collided with it in the gv-clade-index registry — regenerated.

Verification (real toolchain, zig 0.16.0)

zig fmt --check src/interface/ffi   -> exit 0
zig build                           -> exit 0
zig build test                      -> exit 0 (4/4 tests pass)

Removed

Template-only machinery that no longer applies now the repo is instantiated: scripts/validate-template.sh, tests/e2e/template_instantiation_test.sh, benches/template_bench.sh. Confirmed no workflow, Justfile, or script invoked any of the three — no workflow surgery needed.

Left untouched, on purpose

docs-template/, machine-readable-design/, docs/decisions/0000-template.adoc, docs/governance/CRG-AUDIT-TEMPLATE.adoc, docs/governance/TEMPLATE-STANDARDS-AUDIT.adoc, docs/RSR_OUTLINE.adoc, and the K9 component templates under .machine_readable/self-validating/ — all intentional reusable seed kits or per-instance templates (their own text says "copy this file and customize"), not this repo's own identity. Also untouched: flake.nix, .tool-versions, .editorconfig, .gitattributes, .gitignore.

Test plan

• zig fmt --check src/interface/ffi exits 0
• zig build exits 0
• zig build test exits 0, 4/4 tests pass
• grep -rE '\{\{[A-Za-z_]+\}\}' sweep confirms no unsubstituted identity placeholders remain outside the deliberately-generic seed kits
• No workflow references the three deleted template-machinery scripts
• Owner review of purpose/description text against reposystem's registration

🤖 Generated with Claude Code