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-# Sesi Language - Complete Implementation Summary
-
-## 📋 Overview
-
-**Sesi** is a high-performance **Systems Language** designed for building resilient, stateful applications. It provides first-class primitives for process management and filesystem orchestration, while integrating reasoning as a first-class execution primitive. Unlike traditional languages that rely on external SDKs for AI interaction, Sesi treats reasoning as a native language construct, enabling developers to build context-aware systems with minimal boilerplate.
-
-## 🎯 Design Philosophy
-
-Sesi follows these core principles:
-
-1. **Reasoning as a Primitive**: Reasoning calls aren't library functions—they're language constructs with dedicated syntax. This allows for deep integration with the interpreter's environment and type system.
-2. **Practical Over Perfect**: Focus on what developers actually need, not theoretical completeness.
-3. **Transparency Over Magic**: Explicit reasoning calls with clear costs and latency.
-4. **Simplicity First**: Tree-walking interpreter for clarity and maintainability.
-5. **Type Safety with Flexibility**: Static types for normal code, runtime checking for reasoning outputs.
-
-## 📁 Complete Project Structure
-
-```
-sesi-programming-lang/
-├── SKILLS.md                        # Workspace context and repo guardrails
-├── index.html                       # Sesi-generated systems landing page
-├── eslint.config.mjs                # ESLint configuration
-├── example.js                        # Helper script to run basic examples
-├── example-ai.js                     # Helper script to run reasoning examples
-├── README.md                         # Project overview
-├── QUICKSTART.md                     # Getting started guide
-├── package.json                      # Dependencies & scripts
-├── tsconfig.json                     # TypeScript configuration
-├── dist/                             # Compiled TypeScript output
-│
-├── src/                              # Source code
-│   ├── types.ts                      # Type definitions & AST nodes (400+ lines)
-│   ├── lexer.ts                      # Tokenization (350+ lines)
-│   ├── parser.ts                     # Recursive descent parser (700+ lines)
-│   ├── interpreter.ts                # Tree-walking interpreter (600+ lines)
-│   ├── builtins.ts                   # Built-in functions (250+ lines)
-│   ├── ai-runtime.ts                 # Integrated reasoning integration (120+ lines)
-│   └── index.ts                      # Entry point (30+ lines)
-│
-├── bin/
-│   └── sesi.js                       # CLI executable
-│
-├── main/                             # Playgrounds & debugging
-│   ├── playground.sesi               # Main playground script
-│   ├── start.sesi                    # Beginner script
-│   ├── build_website.sesi            # Sesi-powered systems site generator
-│   └── tests/                        # Additional syntax validation scripts
-│
-├── docs/
-│   ├── SPECIFICATION.md              # Complete language spec (600+ lines)
-│   ├── ARCHITECTURE.md               # Runtime & system design (400+ lines)
-│   ├── BUILTINS.md                   # Built-in functions reference (450+ lines)
-|   ├── IMAGE_GENERATION.md           # Image generation guide (>100 lines)
-│   ├── SYSTEMS_REASONING.md          # Integrated reasoning guide (500+ lines)
-|.  ├── DISTRIBUTED_SYSTEMS.md        # Swarm & coordination guide (>100 lines)
-│   └── ROADMAP.md                    # V2-V4+ development plan (400+ lines)
-│
-├── examples/
-│   ├── 01_hello.sesi                 # Hello World
-│   ├── 02_variables.sesi             # Variables & operations
-│   ├── 03_functions.sesi             # Functions with parameters
-│   ├── 04_conditionals.sesi          # If/else control flow
-│   ├── 05_loops.sesi                 # While, for, for-in loops
-│   ├── 06_arrays_objects.sesi        # Collections
-│   ├── 07_prompts.sesi               # Reasoning blocks
-│   ├── 08_model_call.sesi            # Basic reasoning calls
-│   ├── 09_structured_output.sesi     # Type-safe reasoning responses
-│   ├── 10_code_generation.sesi       # Systems logic generation
-│   ├── 11_memory_conversation.sesi   # Multi-turn stateful reasoning
-│   ├── 12_classification.sesi        # Systems classification loop
-│   ├── 13_data_pipeline.sesi         # Complete systems pipeline
-│   ├── 14_folder_explainer.sesi      # Directory parsing & reasoning
-│   └── 15_image_generation.sesi      # Image generation API test
-│
-└── tests/
-    └── basic.test.ts                 # Test suite
-```
-
-## 🔧 Technology Stack
-
-| Component | Technology               | Rationale                                |
-| --------- | ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------- |
-| Language  | TypeScript               | Type safety, IDE support, easy debugging |
-| Runtime   | Node.js 18+              | Wide availability, async support         |
-| Reasoning | Gemini 3.1               | Latest models, 1M token context, fast    |
-| SDK       | @google/genai            | Official, well-maintained, async-first   |
-| Parser    | Recursive descent        | Simple, readable, extensible             |
-| Execution | Tree-walking interpreter | Easy to understand and modify            |
-| Testing   | Typescript               | Standard Node.js test framework          |
-
-**Why this stack?**
-
-- **Tree-walking interpreter over bytecode**: Easier to understand, modify, and debug. No premature optimization.
-- **TypeScript over JavaScript**: Catch errors early, better IDE support, self-documenting code.
-- **Recursive descent over other parsers**: Handles the grammar perfectly, easy to add language features.
-- **Gemini over other models**: Excellent instruction following, function calling support, cost-effective.
-
-## 🌟 Language Features (V1)
-
-### Core Language ✅
-
-**Variables & Bindings**
-
-```sesi
-let x = 10
-let PI = 3.14159
-let y  // null initially
-```
-
-**Functions**
-
-```sesi
-fn add(a: number, b: number) -> number {return a + b}
-
-fn greet(name: string = "World") {print "Hello, " + name}
-```
-
-**Control Flow**
-
-```sesi
-if condition { ... } else { ... }
-while condition { ... }
-for x = 0 to 10 { ... }
-for item in array { ... }
-try { ... } catch (e) { ... }
-```
-
-**Operators**
-
-- Arithmetic: `+`, `-`, `*`, `/`, `%`
-- Comparison: `==`, `!=`, `<`, `>`, `<=`, `>=`
-- Logical: `&&`, `||`, `!`
-- Assignment: `=`
-
-**Data Types**
-
-- Primitives: `number`, `string`, `bool`, `null`
-- Collections: `array<T>`, `object<T>`
-- Functions: First-class values
-- Union types: `T | U`
-- Optional: `T?`
-
-**Scoping**
-
-- Lexical scoping with environment chain
-- Block scope for loops/conditionals
-- Closure support
-
-### Integrated Reasoning Features ✅
-
-**Prompt Blocks**
-
-```sesi
-prompt greeting {"Hello, " name "!"}
-```
-
-**Reasoning Calls**
-
-```sesi
-let response = model("gemini-3-flash-preview") {"temperature": 0.7, "max_tokens": 1000} {"Your prompt here"}
-```
-
-**Structured Output**
-
-```sesi
-let result = structured_output({field1: string, field2: number})(model("gemini-3.1-flash-lite") {"Your prompt here"})
-```
-
-**Image Generation**
-
-```sesi
-let logo = image("gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview") {"ratio": '1:1', "size": 512} {"Your prompt here"}
-write_image("logo.png", logo)
-```
-
-**Temporal Context Injection** ✅
-
-Every reasoning call automatically includes the current UTC date and time in its context, providing the system with a native sense of "now."
-
-**Implicit Statement Termination** ✅
-
-Expressions ending in `}` (such as prompt blocks or reasoning calls) no longer strictly require a newline or semicolon to terminate, allowing for cleaner one-liner syntax.
-
-**Async Polling for MAX_TOKENS** ✅
-
-The AI runtime natively polls the model if it hits a `MAX_TOKENS` finish reasoning block, automatically appending previous chunks and prompting the model to continue exactly where it left off, seamlessly synthesizing long responses.
-
-**Tool Calling**
-
-```sesi
-let result = tool_call(functionName)(model(gemini-3.1-flash-lite) {"Your prompt here"})
-```
-
-**Memory**
-
-```sesi
-memory conversation {"Initial context"}
-conversation = conversation + "User: How are you?"
-print("Current Conversation Memory:")
-print(conversation)
-
-// Demonstrate using the memory in a model call
-print("Calling model with memory context...")
-let response = model("gemini-3-flash-preview") {conversation}
-print("Reasoning Response:", response)
-```
-
-## 🛠️ Built-in Functions
-
-### I/O
-
-- `print(...args)` - Output to stdout
-- `read_file(path)` - Read file contents
-- `write_file(path, content)` - Write file contents
-- `write_image(path, content)` - Write base64 image data to file
-- `list_dir(path)` - List directory contents
-- `spawn(path)` - Launch concurrent background process
-- `exec(command)` - Synchronous shell execution
-- `time()` - Unix timestamp (ms)
-- `random()` - Random number (0-1)
-
-### Type Functions
-
-- `type(value)` - Get type name
-- `str(value)` - Convert to string
-- `num(value)` - Convert to number
-- `bool(value)` - Convert to boolean
-
-### Collection Functions
-
-- `len(collection)` - Get length
-- `push(array, value)` - Add element
-- `pop(array)` - Remove element
-- `join(array, sep)` - Join to string
-- `split(string, sep)` - Split to array
-- `keys(object)` - Get keys
-- `values(object)` - Get values
-- `range(n)` - Create range array
-
-## 📊 Implementation Statistics
-
-| Metric              | Value  |
-| ------------------- | ------ |
-| Total lines of code | ~3,000 |
-| Source files        | 7      |
-| Documentation pages | 5      |
-| Example programs    | 15     |
-| Built-in functions  | 23     |
-| Supported operators | 20+    |
-| AST node types      | 30+    |
-| Token types         | 50+    |
-
-## 🚀 Getting Started
-
-### Run Example
-
-```bash
-sesi examples/01_hello.sesi
-```
-
-### Run with Reasoning
-
-```bash
-sesi examples/08_model_call.sesi
-```
-
-### Run Tests
-
-```bash
-npm test
-```
-
-## 💡 Key Implementation Details
-
-### Lexer Design
-
-- Character-by-character scanning
-- Keyword recognition
-- String/number literal parsing
-- Comment stripping
-- Position tracking for error messages
-
-### Parser Design
-
-- Recursive descent parsing
-- Expression precedence (11 levels)
-- Error recovery via synchronization
-- Full AST construction
-- Support for all language constructs
-
-### Interpreter Design
-
-- Tree-walking evaluation
-- Environment chain for scoping
-- Async support for reasoning calls
-- Control flow exceptions (return, break, continue)
-- Built-in function dispatch
-
-### Reasoning Runtime Design
-
-- Async Gemini API calls (via @google/genai)
-- Response parsing and validation
-- Memory buffer management
-- Structured output JSON extraction with automatic schema simplification
-- Automatic injection of current UTC date/time context
-- Graceful error handling
-
-## 📚 Documentation Coverage
-
-✅ **SPECIFICATION.md** (600+ lines)
-
-- Complete language grammar
-- All language constructs
-- Type system details
-- Built-in functions
-- Runtime semantics
-- Module system design
-
-✅ **ARCHITECTURE.md** (400+ lines)
-
-- Component stack diagram
-- Execution flow explanation
-- Scope management
-- Type system details
-- Reasoning integration flow
-- Error handling strategy
-- Performance characteristics
-
-✅ **BUILTINS.md** (450+ lines)
-
-- Complete function reference
-- Usage examples
-- Return value documentation
-- Performance notes
-- Standard library plans
-
-✅ **SYSTEMS_REASONING.md** (500+ lines)
-
-- Systems reasoning overview
-- Prompt blocks explained
-- Model call configuration
-- Structured output guide
-- Memory system details
-- Practical patterns
-- Error handling
-- Performance tips
-
-✅ **ROADMAP.md** (400+ lines)
-
-- V1.0 features (Complete)
-- V1.1 improvements (Complete)
-- V2.0 async & advanced reasoning (Q3-Q4 2026)
-- V3.0 systems framework
-- V4.0+ vision
-- Community involvement
-- Backwards compatibility
-
-## 🎓 Example Programs
-
-| File                        | Demonstrates                    |
-| --------------------------- | ------------------------------- |
-| 01_hello.sesi               | Basic print                     |
-| 02_variables.sesi           | Variables and operations        |
-| 03_functions.sesi           | Functions, parameters, defaults |
-| 04_conditionals.sesi        | If/else logic                   |
-| 05_loops.sesi               | While, for, for-in              |
-| 06_arrays_objects.sesi      | Collections and indexing        |
-| 07_prompts.sesi             | Reasoning blocks                |
-| 08_model_call.sesi          | Basic reasoning calls           |
-| 09_structured_output.sesi   | Schema-guided output            |
-| 10_code_generation.sesi     | Reasoning code generation       |
-| 11_memory_conversation.sesi | Multi-turn with memory          |
-| 12_classification.sesi      | Reasoning classification loop   |
-| 13_data_pipeline.sesi       | Complete pipeline               |
-| 14_folder_explainer.sesi    | Directory parsing & reasoning   |
-
-## ✨ Unique Features
-
-1. **First-class Reasoning Integration**: Not a library, but language syntax
-2. **Prompt Blocks**: Composable, type-checked message templates
-3. **Structured Output**: Get typed responses from models
-4. **Memory Construct**: Native multi-turn conversation support
-5. **Simple Yet Complete**: All core features in ~3K lines of code
-6. **Well Documented**: 2000+ lines of documentation
-7. **Production Ready (for v1)**: Error handling, examples, tests
-
-## 🔮 Future Directions
-
-### V2: Async & Advanced Logic
-
-- Async/await for concurrent reasoning calls
-- Streaming responses
-- Extended thinking/reasoning
-- Advanced memory with embeddings
-- finally blocks, custom error types, retry policies, timeout handling, and structured Reasoning error recovery
-
-### V3: Systems Framework
-
-- System state machines
-- Multi-process collaboration
-- Knowledge base integration
-- RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
-
-### V4+: Scale & Optimization
-
-- Bytecode compilation
-- JIT compilation
-- Distributed execution
-- Cross-model orchestration
-
-## 🧪 Testing Strategy
-
-**Component Testing**
-
-- Lexer: Token stream correctness
-- Parser: AST structure correctness
-- Interpreter: Evaluation correctness
-
-**Integration Testing**
-
-- Example programs run successfully
-- Reasoning features work with real API
-- Error handling is graceful
-
-**Example Coverage**
-
-- 15 complete example programs
-- Covers all major language features
-- Demonstrates reasoning integration
-- Real-world use cases
-
-## 🎯 Design Decisions Explained
-
-### Why a tree-walking interpreter?
-
-- **Simplicity**: Easy to understand, modify, extend
-- **Debugging**: Can print AST and execution steps
-- **Iteration**: No compilation overhead, fast development
-- **Good enough**: Performance is adequate for v1
-
-### Why recursive descent parser?
-
-- **Clarity**: Each grammar rule is a function
-- **Flexibility**: Easy to add new constructs
-- **Error recovery**: Can synchronize after errors
-- **No dependencies**: No external parser generators
-
-### Why Gemini specifically?
-
-- **Instruction following**: Excellent at understanding prompts
-- **Function calling**: Built-in tool use support
-- **Context window**: 1M tokens for long documents
-- **Cost**: Competitive pricing
-- **Availability**: Easy to use via official SDK
-
-### Why no module system in v1?
-
-- **Scope**: Keep v1 focused and simple
-- **Feasibility**: Single-file programs first
-- **Future**: Clean architecture for v2
-
-### Why no async in v1?
-
-- **Simplicity**: Single-threaded is easier to understand
-- **Blocking is OK**: Reasoning calls are already slow (2-5s)
-- **v2 ready**: Architecture supports async extension
-
-## 📖 Learning Path
-
-1. **Start**: [QUICKSTART.md](QUICKSTART.md) - Get running in 5 minutes
-2. **Basics**: examples/01-06 - Core language features
-3. **Prompts**: examples/07 - Prompt blocks
-4. **Reasoning**: examples/08-12 - Reasoning feature exploration
-5. **Specification**: [SPECIFICATION.md](SPECIFICATION.md) - Complete grammar
-6. **Advanced**: [SYSTEMS_REASONING.md](SYSTEMS_REASONING.md) - Patterns and best practices
-7. **Builtins**: [BUILTINS.md](BUILTINS.md) - Built-in functions
-8. **Image Generation**: [IMAGE_GENERATION.md](IMAGE_GENERATION.md) examples/15 - Generating images natively
-9. **Architecture**: [ARCHITECTURE.md](ARCHITECTURE.md) - How it works
-10. **Roadmap**: [ROADMAP.md](ROADMAP.md) - Future vision
-
-## 🤝 Contributing Path (Future)
-
-When open source:
-
-1. Report bugs with minimal examples
-2. Suggest language features via RFCs
-3. Add built-in functions
-4. Improve documentation
-5. Submit example programs
-6. Help with test coverage
-
-## 🎁 What's Included
-
-- ✅ Complete interpreter (3000+ lines of TypeScript)
-- ✅ Full language specification (600+ lines)
-- ✅ Architecture documentation (400+ lines)
-- ✅ API reference (450+ lines)
-- ✅ Systems reasoning guide (500+ lines)
-- ✅ Development roadmap (400+ lines)
-- ✅ 15 example programs
-- ✅ CLI executable
-- ✅ Test suite
-- ✅ Quick start guide
-
-## 📝 Next Steps
-
-1. **Build and install**: `npm install && npm run build && npm install -g .`
-2. **Try examples**: `sesi examples/01_hello.sesi`
-3. **Set up Reasoning**: Set GEMINI_API_KEY in `.env`
-4. **Explore Reasoning**: `sesi examples/08_model_call.sesi`
-5. **Read docs**: Start with SPECIFICATION.md
-6. **Write programs**: Create your own .sesi files
-7. **Check roadmap**: See where language is headed
-
-## 🚀 Philosophy
-
-> "Sesi demonstrates that systems-level logic and integrated reasoning can be unified into a single, elegant language primitive, eliminating the boilerplate of traditional AI development."
-
-The language is designed to evolve. V1 provides a solid foundation. V2+ adds power. The architecture supports this gracefully without breaking existing programs.
-
----
-
-**Status**: ✅ Complete V1.1 implementation  
-**Ready for**: Distributed systems orchestration and prototypes  
-**Not ready for**: Massive-scale production (until v2.0 bytecode)  
-**Next milestone**: V2.0 (Async & advanced reasoning)
-
-Sesi is an experiment in language design. Use it to learn, explore, and evolve what integrated reasoning will become.
-
----
-
-For more information, see more of the documentation in this folder and examples in `examples/`.
+# Sesi Language - Complete Implementation Summary
+
+## 📋 Overview
+
+**Sesi** is a high-performance **Systems Language** designed for building resilient, stateful applications. It provides first-class primitives for process management and filesystem orchestration, while integrating reasoning as a first-class execution primitive. Unlike traditional languages that rely on external SDKs for AI interaction, Sesi treats reasoning as a native language construct, enabling developers to build context-aware systems with minimal boilerplate.
+
+## 🎯 Design Philosophy
+
+Sesi follows these core principles:
+
+1. **Reasoning as a Primitive**: Reasoning calls aren't library functions—they're language constructs with dedicated syntax. This allows for deep integration with the interpreter's environment and type system.
+2. **Practical Over Perfect**: Focus on what developers actually need, not theoretical completeness.
+3. **Transparency Over Magic**: Explicit reasoning calls with clear costs and latency.
+4. **Simplicity First**: Tree-walking interpreter for clarity and maintainability.
+5. **Type Safety with Flexibility**: Static types for normal code, runtime checking for reasoning outputs.
+
+## 📁 Complete Project Structure
+
+```
+Sesi/
+├── SKILLS.md                        # Workspace context and repo guardrails
+├── index.html                       # Sesi-generated systems landing page
+├── eslint.config.mjs                # ESLint configuration
+├── example.js                        # Helper script to run basic examples
+├── example-ai.js                     # Helper script to run reasoning examples
+├── README.md                         # Project overview
+├── QUICKSTART.md                     # Getting started guide
+├── package.json                      # Dependencies & scripts
+├── tsconfig.json                     # TypeScript configuration
+├── dist/                             # Compiled TypeScript output
+│
+├── src/                              # Source code
+│   ├── types.ts                      # Type definitions & AST nodes (400+ lines)
+│   ├── lexer.ts                      # Tokenization (350+ lines)
+│   ├── parser.ts                     # Recursive descent parser (700+ lines)
+│   ├── interpreter.ts                # Tree-walking interpreter (600+ lines)
+│   ├── builtins.ts                   # Built-in functions (250+ lines)
+│   ├── ai-runtime.ts                 # Integrated reasoning integration (120+ lines)
+│   └── index.ts                      # Entry point (30+ lines)
+│
+├── bin/
+│   └── sesi.js                       # CLI executable
+│
+├── main/                             # Playgrounds & debugging
+│   ├── playground.sesi               # Main playground script
+│   ├── start.sesi                    # Beginner script
+│   ├── build_website.sesi            # Sesi-powered systems site generator
+│   └── tests/                        # Additional syntax validation scripts
+│
+├── docs/
+│   ├── SPECIFICATION.md              # Complete language spec (600+ lines)
+│   ├── ARCHITECTURE.md               # Runtime & system design (400+ lines)
+│   ├── BUILTINS.md                   # Built-in functions reference (450+ lines)
+│   ├── IMAGE_GENERATION.md           # Image generation guide (>100 lines)
+│   ├── SYSTEMS_REASONING.md          # Integrated reasoning guide (500+ lines)
+│   ├── DISTRIBUTED_SYSTEMS.md        # Swarm & coordination guide (>100 lines)
+│   └── ROADMAP.md                    # V2-V4+ development plan (400+ lines)
+│
+├── examples/
+│   ├── 01_hello.sesi                 # Hello World
+│   ├── 02_variables.sesi             # Variables & operations
+│   ├── 03_functions.sesi             # Functions with parameters
+│   ├── 04_conditionals.sesi          # If/else control flow
+│   ├── 05_loops.sesi                 # While, for, for-in loops
+│   ├── 06_arrays_objects.sesi        # Collections
+│   ├── 07_prompts.sesi               # Reasoning blocks
+│   ├── 08_model_call.sesi            # Basic reasoning calls
+│   ├── 09_structured_output.sesi     # Type-safe reasoning responses
+│   ├── 10_code_generation.sesi       # Systems logic generation
+│   ├── 11_memory_conversation.sesi   # Multi-turn stateful reasoning
+│   ├── 12_classification.sesi        # Systems classification loop
+│   ├── 13_data_pipeline.sesi         # Complete systems pipeline
+│   ├── 14_folder_explainer.sesi      # Directory parsing & reasoning
+│   ├── 15_image_generation.sesi      # Image generation API test
+│   ├── 16_modules.sesi               # Modules & std library namespaces
+│   ├── 17_http_client.sesi           # Network GET/POST client
+│   └── 18_parallel_requests.sesi     # Parallel requests concurrency
+│
+└── tests/
+    └── basic.test.ts                 # Test suite
+```
+
+## 🔧 Technology Stack
+
+| Component | Technology               | Rationale                                |
+| --------- | ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------- |
+| Language  | TypeScript               | Type safety, IDE support, easy debugging |
+| Runtime   | Node.js 18+              | Wide availability, async support         |
+| Reasoning | Gemini 3.1               | Latest models, 1M token context, fast    |
+| SDK       | @google/genai            | Official, well-maintained, async-first   |
+| Parser    | Recursive descent        | Simple, readable, extensible             |
+| Execution | Tree-walking interpreter | Easy to understand and modify            |
+| Testing   | Typescript               | Standard Node.js test framework          |
+
+**Why this stack?**
+
+- **Tree-walking interpreter over bytecode**: Easier to understand, modify, and debug. No premature optimization.
+- **TypeScript over JavaScript**: Catch errors early, better IDE support, self-documenting code.
+- **Recursive descent over other parsers**: Handles the grammar perfectly, easy to add language features.
+- **Gemini over other models**: Excellent instruction following, function calling support, cost-effective.
+
+## 🌟 Language Features (V1)
+
+### Core Language ✅
+
+**Variables & Bindings**
+
+```sesi
+let x = 10
+let PI = 3.14159
+let y  // null initially
+```
+
+**Functions**
+
+```sesi
+fn add(a: number, b: number) -> number {return a + b}
+
+fn greet(name: string = "World") {print "Hello, " + name}
+```
+
+**Control Flow**
+
+```sesi
+if condition { ... } else { ... }
+while condition { ... }
+for x = 0 to 10 { ... }
+for item in array { ... }
+try { ... } catch (e) { ... }
+```
+
+**Operators**
+
+- Arithmetic: `+`, `-`, `*`, `/`, `%`
+- Comparison: `==`, `!=`, `<`, `>`, `<=`, `>=`
+- Logical: `&&`, `||`, `!`
+- Assignment: `=`
+
+**Data Types**
+
+- Primitives: `number`, `string`, `bool`, `null`
+- Collections: `array<T>`, `object<T>`
+- Functions: First-class values
+- Union types: `T | U`
+- Optional: `T?`
+
+**Scoping**
+
+- Lexical scoping with environment chain
+- Block scope for loops/conditionals
+- Closure support
+
+### Integrated Reasoning Features ✅
+
+**Prompt Blocks**
+
+```sesi
+prompt greeting {"Hello, " name "!"}
+```
+
+**Reasoning Calls**
+
+```sesi
+let response = model("gemini-3-flash-preview") {"temperature": 0.7, "max_tokens": 1000} {"Your prompt here"}
+```
+
+**Structured Output**
+
+```sesi
+let result = structured_output({field1: string, field2: number})(model("gemini-3.1-flash-lite") {"Your prompt here"})
+```
+
+**Image Generation**
+
+```sesi
+let logo = image("gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview") {"ratio": '1:1', "size": 512} {"Your prompt here"}
+write_image("logo.png", logo)
+```
+
+**Temporal Context Injection** ✅
+
+Every reasoning call automatically includes the current UTC date and time in its context, providing the system with a native sense of "now."
+
+**Implicit Statement Termination** ✅
+
+Expressions ending in `}` (such as prompt blocks or reasoning calls) no longer strictly require a newline or semicolon to terminate, allowing for cleaner one-liner syntax.
+
+**Async Polling for MAX_TOKENS** ✅
+
+The AI runtime natively polls the model if it hits a `MAX_TOKENS` finish reasoning block, automatically appending previous chunks and prompting the model to continue exactly where it left off, seamlessly synthesizing long responses.
+
+**Tool Calling**
+
+```sesi
+let result = tool_call(functionName)(model(gemini-3.1-flash-lite) {"Your prompt here"})
+```
+
+**Memory**
+
+```sesi
+memory conversation {"Initial context"}
+conversation = conversation + "User: How are you?"
+print("Current Conversation Memory:")
+print(conversation)
+
+// Demonstrate using the memory in a model call
+print("Calling model with memory context...")
+let response = model("gemini-3-flash-preview") {conversation}
+print("Reasoning Response:", response)
+```
+
+## 🛠️ Built-in Functions
+
+### I/O
+
+- `print(...args)` - Output to stdout
+- `read_file(path)` - Read file contents
+- `write_file(path, content)` - Write file contents
+- `write_image(path, content)` - Write base64 image data to file
+- `list_dir(path)` - List directory contents
+- `spawn(path)` - Launch concurrent background process
+- `exec(command)` - Synchronous shell execution
+- `time()` - Unix timestamp (ms)
+- `random()` - Random number (0-1)
+
+### Type Functions
+
+- `type(value)` - Get type name
+- `str(value)` - Convert to string
+- `num(value)` - Convert to number
+- `bool(value)` - Convert to boolean
+
+### Collection Functions
+
+- `len(collection)` - Get length
+- `push(array, value)` - Add element
+- `pop(array)` - Remove element
+- `join(array, sep)` - Join to string
+- `split(string, sep)` - Split to array
+- `keys(object)` - Get keys
+- `values(object)` - Get values
+- `range(n)` - Create range array
+
+### Network
+
+- `web_get(url, headers)` - Perform HTTP GET request
+- `web_send(url, body, headers)` - Perform HTTP POST request
+
+### Concurrency
+
+- `multi_req(fns)` - Concurrently execute multiple closures/functions
+
+## 📊 Implementation Statistics
+
+| Metric              | Value  |
+| ------------------- | ------ |
+| Total lines of code | ~3,000 |
+| Source files        | 7      |
+| Documentation pages | 5      |
+| Example programs    | 15     |
+| Built-in functions  | 23     |
+| Supported operators | 20+    |
+| AST node types      | 30+    |
+| Token types         | 50+    |
+
+## 🚀 Getting Started
+
+### Run Example
+
+```bash
+sesi examples/01_hello.sesi
+```
+
+### Run with Reasoning
+
+```bash
+sesi examples/08_model_call.sesi
+```
+
+### Run Tests
+
+```bash
+npm test
+```
+
+## 💡 Key Implementation Details
+
+### Lexer Design
+
+- Character-by-character scanning
+- Keyword recognition
+- String/number literal parsing
+- Comment stripping
+- Position tracking for error messages
+
+### Parser Design
+
+- Recursive descent parsing
+- Expression precedence (11 levels)
+- Error recovery via synchronization
+- Full AST construction
+- Support for all language constructs
+
+### Interpreter Design
+
+- Tree-walking evaluation
+- Environment chain for scoping
+- Async support for reasoning calls
+- Control flow exceptions (return, break, continue)
+- Built-in function dispatch
+
+### Reasoning Runtime Design
+
+- Async Gemini API calls (via @google/genai)
+- Response parsing and validation
+- Memory buffer management
+- Structured output JSON extraction with automatic schema simplification
+- Automatic injection of current UTC date/time context
+- Graceful error handling
+
+## 📚 Documentation Coverage
+
+✅ **SPECIFICATION.md** (600+ lines)
+
+- Complete language grammar
+- All language constructs
+- Type system details
+- Built-in functions
+- Runtime semantics
+- Module system design
+
+✅ **ARCHITECTURE.md** (400+ lines)
+
+- Component stack diagram
+- Execution flow explanation
+- Scope management
+- Type system details
+- Reasoning integration flow
+- Error handling strategy
+- Performance characteristics
+
+✅ **BUILTINS.md** (450+ lines)
+
+- Complete function reference
+- Usage examples
+- Return value documentation
+- Performance notes
+- Standard library plans
+
+✅ **SYSTEMS_REASONING.md** (500+ lines)
+
+- Systems reasoning overview
+- Prompt blocks explained
+- Model call configuration
+- Structured output guide
+- Memory system details
+- Practical patterns
+- Error handling
+- Performance tips
+
+✅ **ROADMAP.md** (400+ lines)
+
+- V1.0 features (Complete)
+- V1.1 improvements (Complete)
+- V2.0 async & advanced reasoning (Q3-Q4 2026)
+- V3.0 systems framework
+- V4.0+ vision
+- Community involvement
+- Backwards compatibility
+
+## 🎓 Example Programs
+
+| File                        | Demonstrates                    |
+| --------------------------- | ------------------------------- |
+| 01_hello.sesi               | Basic print                     |
+| 02_variables.sesi           | Variables and operations        |
+| 03_functions.sesi           | Functions, parameters, defaults |
+| 04_conditionals.sesi        | If/else logic                   |
+| 05_loops.sesi               | While, for, for-in              |
+| 06_arrays_objects.sesi      | Collections and indexing        |
+| 07_prompts.sesi             | Reasoning blocks                |
+| 08_model_call.sesi          | Basic reasoning calls           |
+| 09_structured_output.sesi   | Schema-guided output            |
+| 10_code_generation.sesi     | Reasoning code generation       |
+| 11_memory_conversation.sesi | Multi-turn with memory          |
+| 12_classification.sesi      | Reasoning classification loop   |
+| 13_data_pipeline.sesi       | Complete pipeline               |
+| 14_folder_explainer.sesi    | Directory parsing & reasoning   |
+| 15_image_generation.sesi    | Image generation API test      |
+| 16_modules.sesi             | Imports/exports & std namespaces|
+| 17_http_client.sesi         | HTTP GET and POST operations    |
+| 18_parallel_requests.sesi   | Parallel request concurrency    |
+
+## ✨ Unique Features
+
+1. **First-class Reasoning Integration**: Not a library, but language syntax
+2. **Prompt Blocks**: Composable, type-checked message templates
+3. **Structured Output**: Get typed responses from models
+4. **Memory Construct**: Native multi-turn conversation support
+5. **Simple Yet Complete**: All core features in ~3K lines of code
+6. **Well Documented**: 2000+ lines of documentation
+7. **Production Ready (for v1)**: Error handling, examples, tests
+
+## 🔮 Future Directions
+
+### V2: Async & Advanced Logic
+
+- Async/await for concurrent reasoning calls
+- Streaming responses
+- Advanced memory with embeddings
+- finally blocks, custom error types, retry policies, timeout handling, and structured Reasoning error recovery
+
+### V3: Systems Framework
+
+- System state machines
+- Multi-process collaboration
+- Knowledge base integration
+- RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
+
+### V4+: Scale & Optimization
+
+- Bytecode compilation
+- JIT compilation
+- Distributed execution
+- Cross-model orchestration
+
+## 🧪 Testing Strategy
+
+**Component Testing**
+
+- Lexer: Token stream correctness
+- Parser: AST structure correctness
+- Interpreter: Evaluation correctness
+
+**Integration Testing**
+
+- Example programs run successfully
+- Reasoning features work with real API
+- Error handling is graceful
+
+**Example Coverage**
+
+- 15 complete example programs
+- Covers all major language features
+- Demonstrates reasoning integration
+- Real-world use cases
+
+## 🎯 Design Decisions Explained
+
+### Why a tree-walking interpreter?
+
+- **Simplicity**: Easy to understand, modify, extend
+- **Debugging**: Can print AST and execution steps
+- **Iteration**: No compilation overhead, fast development
+- **Good enough**: Performance is adequate for v1
+
+### Why recursive descent parser?
+
+- **Clarity**: Each grammar rule is a function
+- **Flexibility**: Easy to add new constructs
+- **Error recovery**: Can synchronize after errors
+- **No dependencies**: No external parser generators
+
+### Why Gemini specifically?
+
+- **Instruction following**: Excellent at understanding prompts
+- **Function calling**: Built-in tool use support
+- **Context window**: 1M tokens for long documents
+- **Cost**: Competitive pricing
+- **Availability**: Easy to use via official SDK
+
+### Why does v1.1.2 support a module system?
+
+- **Organization**: As Sesi programs grew, having a single-file system became limiting. Local module imports/exports and standard libraries (`std/math`, `std/time`, `std/json`) are natively supported in v1.1.2.
+
+### Why does v1.1.2 support parallel execution?
+
+- **Concurrency**: While the interpreter remains tree-walking and single-threaded for simplicity, native concurrency is supported via the parallel request executor `multi_req(array<function>)`, executing asynchronous operations physically in parallel.
+
+## 📖 Learning Path
+
+1. **Start**: [QUICKSTART.md](QUICKSTART.md) - Get running in 5 minutes
+2. **Basics**: examples/01-06 - Core language features
+3. **Prompts**: examples/07 - Prompt blocks
+4. **Reasoning**: examples/08-12 - Reasoning feature exploration
+5. **Specification**: [SPECIFICATION.md](SPECIFICATION.md) - Complete grammar
+6. **Advanced**: [SYSTEMS_REASONING.md](SYSTEMS_REASONING.md) - Patterns and best practices
+7. **Builtins**: [BUILTINS.md](BUILTINS.md) - Built-in functions
+8. **Image Generation**: [IMAGE_GENERATION.md](IMAGE_GENERATION.md) examples/15 - Generating images natively
+9. **Architecture**: [ARCHITECTURE.md](ARCHITECTURE.md) - How it works
+10. **Roadmap**: [ROADMAP.md](ROADMAP.md) - Future vision
+
+## 🤝 Contributing Path (Future)
+
+When open source:
+
+1. Report bugs with minimal examples
+2. Suggest language features via RFCs
+3. Add built-in functions
+4. Improve documentation
+5. Submit example programs
+6. Help with test coverage
+
+## 🎁 What's Included
+
+- ✅ Complete interpreter (3000+ lines of TypeScript)
+- ✅ Full language specification (600+ lines)
+- ✅ Architecture documentation (400+ lines)
+- ✅ API reference (450+ lines)
+- ✅ Systems reasoning guide (500+ lines)
+- ✅ Development roadmap (400+ lines)
+- ✅ 15 example programs
+- ✅ CLI executable
+- ✅ Test suite
+- ✅ Quick start guide
+
+## 📝 Next Steps
+
+1. **Build and install**: `npm install && npm run build && npm install -g .`
+2. **Try examples**: `sesi examples/01_hello.sesi`
+3. **Set up Reasoning**: Set GEMINI_API_KEY in `.env`
+4. **Explore Reasoning**: `sesi examples/08_model_call.sesi`
+5. **Read docs**: Start with SPECIFICATION.md
+6. **Write programs**: Create your own .sesi files
+7. **Check roadmap**: See where language is headed
+
+## 🚀 Philosophy
+
+> "Sesi demonstrates that systems-level logic and integrated reasoning can be unified into a single, elegant language primitive, eliminating the boilerplate of traditional AI development."
+
+The language is designed to evolve. V1 provides a solid foundation. V2+ adds power. The architecture supports this gracefully without breaking existing programs.
+
+---
+
+**Status**: ✅ Complete V1.1 implementation  
+**Ready for**: Distributed systems orchestration and prototypes  
+**Not ready for**: Massive-scale production (until v2.0 bytecode)  
+**Next milestone**: V2.0 (Async & advanced reasoning)
+
+Sesi is an experiment in language design. Use it to learn, explore, and evolve what integrated reasoning will become.
+
+---
+
+For more information, see more of the documentation in this folder and examples in `examples/`.